Medals from the Collection of the late Eric Smith - Part I
William Henry Hippisley was born in 1855 and was educated at Eton. He was
gazetted Lieutenant in the Royal Berkshire Militia on 15 March 1873, but
resigned in April 1875 to join the regular army in which he was gazetted Sub-
Lieutenant on 22 May 1875, being subsequently posted to the 7th Hussars with
the same seniority. He transferred to the 2nd Dragoons on 29 January 1876 as
Lieutenant, was appointed Adjutant on 24 November 1877, promoted Captain
on 1 June 1884, Major in 1893, Lieutenant-Colonel in 1900. He was appointed
second in command on 5 July 1896, and was Commanding the Greys from
September 1900 to June 1902.
During the Zulu War of 1879 he embarked for the Cape on 27 February 1879,
with the reinforcements. He was attached as a volunteer to the 1st (King's)
Dragoon Guards, taking part in the cavalry affair at Erzungayan, and
subsequently did duty at Fort Newdigate with the squadron under Major Marter,
of the King’s Dragoon Guards (Medal with clasp).
Hippisley accompanied the reinforcements sent to South Africa during 1881 and
served as Staff Officer at Pine Town Camp. During the Nile Expedition of 1884-5,
he commanded a detachment of the Royal Scots Greys attached to the Heavy
Camel Corps, comprising two officers and 37 men, and took part in the
operations of the Desert Column, including the actions of Abu Klea and Abu Kru,
and the reconnaissance to Mettameh (Medal with two clasps and Khedive’s Star).
He served in the South African war of 1899-1902, taking part in the relief of
Kimberley and commanded the 2nd Dragoons in South Africa from March to
December 1901 (Queen's Medal with three clasps and King's Medal with two
clasps).
Major Hippisley, as he was then, was a member of the mission which waited upon the Czar of Russia when that sovereign was
appointed Colonel-in-Chief of his regiment, and was decorated with the Order of St Stanislas; he was presented with a gold cigarette
case by the Czar when that Monarch visited Great Britain on his wedding tour, and he commanded the Royal Escort of the Scots Greys
sent from Hounslow to receive his Imperial Majesty when he landed at Leith on 22 September 1896. He was also presented with a
signed photograph by the Czar.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Hippisley retired from the Army in 1902 and died on 28 June 1908.
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Pair: Labourer H. Williams
EGYPT AND SUDAN 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (Laborer (sic)); KHEDIVE’S STAR, 1884-86, unnamed, first
with slight edge bruising, good very fine (2) £180-220
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Pair: Private R. McMurray, Cameron Highlanders
QUEEN’S SUDAN 1896-98 (2543 Pte., 1/Cam. Hrs.); KHEDIVE’S SUDAN 1896-1908,2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (2543 Pte., 1
Cam. Highrs.) minor edge bruising, very fine (2) £300-350
Invalided from the Army on 3 December 1898.
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Three: Private J. Lavery, 3rd Dragoon Guards, killed in action, 6 November 1914
1914 STAR, with copy clasp (D-1906 Pte., 3-D. Gds.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (D-1906 Pte., 3-D. Gds.); MEMORIAL
PLAQUE (John Lavery) nearly extremely fine (4) £300-350
John Lavery was born in Jarrow, Co. Durham, lived in Lichfield, Staffordshire, and enlisted at Jarrow. Serving with the 3rd Dragoon
Guards, he was killed in action, France/Flanders, on 6 November 1914. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
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Three: Air Mechanic 1st Class T. A. Lewis, Royal Naval Air Service, late Anson Battalion, Royal Naval Division
1914 STAR (M5/114 A.B., R.N.V.R., Anson Bttn. R.N.D.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (F-18425 A.M.1, R.N.A.S.)
extremely fine (3) £120-160
305
Pair: Lieutenant H. S. Mawbey, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
1914STAR (L7/3145 A.B., Hawke Bttn. R.N.D.); VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (Lieut., R.N.V.R.); together with a renamed British
War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut, R.N.V.R.) very fine (3) £100-140
Harold Stanley Mawbey was born on 15 June 1894. Living at East Dulwich Grove, S.E. London, and a Bank Clerk by occupation, he
enrolled into the R.N.V.R. on 23 April 1914. Originally with Hawke Battalion, he joined Drake Battalion in August 1914. Posted to the
Dardanelles, he was wounded on 22 June 1915, suffering a shrapnel wound to the left thigh. As a result he was invalided to Mudros
and thence, in May 1916, to England. Commissioned a Temporary Sub Lieutenant in February 1917, he was posted to the minesweeper
Marsa in June. The vessel was sunk in a collision in Harwich Harbour in November 1917, after which, in December, he was posted to
the minesweeper, Totnes. Promoted to Temporary Lieutenant in February 1918, he joined the destroyer Aberdare in May 1918 and was
demobilised in 1919. With copied research.
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