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Four: Stoker Petty Officer E. L. Bull, Royal Navy
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (286447 Sto., H.M.S. Terrible) impressed naming; CHINA 1900, no clasp
(Sto., H.M.S. Terrible); BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (S.P.O., R.N.); ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (286447 Ldg. Sto., H.M.
S. Blake) first two with contact marks and edge bruising, good fine; other good very fine (4) £340-380
Erwin Leigh Bull was born in Shanklin, Isle of Wight, on 17 April 1877. He entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 25
November 1897. Bull served on H.M.S. Terrible, December 1898-October 1902, and was advanced to Stoker in April 1899. He was
promoted to Stoker 1st Class when on the Prince of Wales in July 1906 and to Leading Stoker on the same ship in October 1907. He
attained the rank of Stoker Petty Officer in August 1910. During the Great War he served on the Spanker, July 1914-February 1915 and
March 1915-September 1917. Stoker Petty Officer Bull was demobilised on 12 March 1919. With copied service papers.
487
Three: Leading Seaman S. L. Evans, Royal Navy
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (167411 A.B., H.M.S. Powerful); BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914
-20 (167411 L.S., R.N.); ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (167411 Lg. Sea., H.M.S. Victory), the first with minor
official correction to surname, one or two edge bruises, minor contact wear, generally very fine (3) £500-600
Samuel Lindop Evans was born at Landport, Hampshire in January 1877 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in June 1892.
Landed with the Naval Brigade in South Africa during his subsequent appointment in H.M.S. Powerful, he was present at the defence of
Ladysmith. Having then been advanced to Leading Seaman in June 1904, Evans was invalided from the service in July 1907. Recalled
on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he served at H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth until being demobilised in July 1917. He had,
meanwhile, been awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in April of the same year; also see Lot 627 for his son’s Honours & Awards.
488
Pair: Private J. H. Langley, Kimberley Town Guard
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Pte., Kimberley Town Gd.); MAYOR OF KIMBERLEY’S STAR
1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘a’, with silver brooch bar, good very fine or better (2) £250-300
489
Five: Private C. Stoker, 19th Hussars
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Belfast (4275 Pte., 19/Hrs.); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901
-02, 2 clasps (4275 Pte., 19th Hussars); 1914-15 STAR (23327 Pte., 19th Hrs.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (23327 Pte.,
19-Hrs.) good very fine (5) £180-220
490
Four: Rev. Frederick Wilmot Bennitt, who led the R.A.O.B. Memorial Service at Cardington for the dead of airship
‘R.101’
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (Rev. F. W. Bennitt) with silver brooch bar; R.
A.O.B. JEWEL, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1932, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented to Bro. The Rev.
Frederick Bennitt CP by the Swan Lodge No.6397 Certified on the 21 June 1933’, with brooch bar, inscribed, ‘Swan
Lodge No.6397’; PRIZE MEDALLIONS (2), 57mm., silver, obverse: presentation of a charter to the king, in exergue, ‘Edwardvs
Rex Lib. Schol. Brimicham Fvndator A.D. MDLII’, reverse: inscribed, in raised letters, ‘Studio Fallente Laborem,
Praemium in Gymnasio Meritum’, engraved, ‘F. W. Bennitt 1891’; another, engraved, ‘F. W. Bennitt 1892’, good very
fine (4) £500-550
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