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A Collection of Medals The Property of a Gentleman
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Seven: Warrant Officer Class 2 J. Campbell, Cameron Highlanders of
Ottawa (Machine Gun Regiment)
1939-45 STAR; FRANCE AND GERMANY STAR; DEFENCE MEDAL 1939-45, silver
issue; CANADIAN VOLUNTEER SERVICE MEDAL 1939-45, with overseas clasp; WAR
MEDAL 1939-45, silver issue; EFFICIENCY MEDAL, G.VI.R., 1st issue Canada
(Cpl. J. Campbell, C.H. of O. (M.G.)); CANADIAN FORCES DECORATION, E.II.R.,
with Bar (Q.M.S. (W.O. 2) J. Campbell), contact marks, cleaned and
lacquered, nearly very fine and better (7) £120-150
John Campbell, who was born in Montreal in March 1915, joined the Cameron
Highlanders of Ottawa in May 1931 and was still serving in that capacity at the
outbreak of hostilities in September 1939, when he was drafted to the Canadian
Active Service Force. Subsequently embarked for the U.K., he chiefly served as a
Regimental and Physical Training Instructor but he went out to France in August
1944, and no doubt shared in some of his regiment’s battle honours. Having then
been invalided home with a broken hip, he remained in the Canadian Army right
up until his death in 1966. His service record - copies included - notes his
Efficiency Medal was awarded in December 1942.
Lifesaving Awards
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A rare Tayleur Fund Medal group of three awarded to Chief Boatman in Charge R. Twohig, Coast Guard, late Royal
Navy
BALTIC 1854-55, unnamed; ROYAL NAVY L.S.&G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Richd. Twohig, Cd. Boatn., H.M. Coast Gd.);
TAYLEUR FUND MEDAL, silver, the reverse officially engraved, ‘Presented to Richard Twohig, Coast Guard, for prompt
courage in saving life from the wreck of the Ada at Portrane, 2nd Febry. 1873’, the last with re-pinned suspension claw,
occasional edge bruising, otherwise good very fine (3) £800-1000
Just 37 Tayleur Fund Medals were awarded in silver, prior to the Fund’s transfer to the care of the R.N.L.I.
Richard Twohig was born in Middleton, Cork in 1835, and entered the Coast Guard after service in the Royal Navy in January 1873,
when he was appointed a Commissioned Boatman at Portrane. Barely a month later, on 2 February, he won his Tayleur Fund Medal for
gallantry in manning a boat sent to the rescue of the Ada of Liverpool, which vessel had been swept on to the rocks off the beach at
Portrane.
The Ada had departed Liverpool for Dublin on 1 February 1873, with a cargo of superphosphate manure. The following day, after
being caught in a savage storm, she was sighted by the Portrane Coast Guard drifting out of control towards the rocky shore. The ship
struck and the Coast Guard immediately gathered rocket apparatus equipment to rescue the crew. The rockets failed to reach the
stricken vessel and she began to break up, forcing the crew into the rigging. With further efforts to reach the ship by rocket failing, it
was decided by the Coast Guard to wait until the tide went out to enable the apparatus to be brought closer to the wreck. This having
been done, the rockets still fell short and with the gale still blowing, the Coast Guard adjudged it unsafe to launch a rescue by boat.
Joseph Davis, a resident of Portrane, had witnessed the continued failures of the rescue attempts by rocket and had decided he would
make a rescue attempt by boat. With his brothers, John and William, together with Charles Smart and Coast Guard volunteer, Richard
Twohig, they went out into the still stormy sea. Reaching the remains of the Ada, they cut down the men that had tied themselves to the
rigging and taking them into the boat brought them to shore. The men, who had been clinging to the rigging for some seven hours,
were all suffering from exposure; sadly, one of them, the Captain’s 14 year-old son had died.
To reward the gallantry of Twohig and his companions, the Committee of the Tayleur Fund bestowed their Silver Medal on each of
them. This was the fourth rescue for which medals of the Fund were issued.
Twohig was advanced to Chief Boatman in April 1879 and to Chief Boatman in Charge in May 1882, and was finally pensioned ashore
from H.M. Coast Guard Station at Arthurstown in September 1886; sold with a file of research, including assorted eye-witness accounts
of the Ada incident.
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