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Four: Brevet Colonel F. V. Whittall, Cheshire Regiment and East Yorkshire Regiment, late Indian Army.
CHINA 1900, no clasp (Major, 1st Infy. Hybd. Contgt.) ‘1st’ re-engraved; 1914-15 STAR (Bt. Col., Ches. R.); BRITISH WAR AND
VICTORY MEDALS (Bt. Col.) minor contact marks, good very fine (4) £400-500
M.I.D. London Gazette 13 September 1901 (China).
Francis Vaughan Whittal was born on 23 March 1861. He was first commissioned into the Leinster Regiment in January 1881 before
being appointed to the Indian Army in August 1883. He served in the Burmese Expedition, 1887-88, for which he was awarded the
India General Service Medal with two clasps, and a Special Service Officer serving in the China War of 1900 for which he was
mentioned in despatches. During 1903-04 he was employed in Aden in operations in the interior. Whittal attained the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1904. Having retired from the Indian Army and being granted the brevet rank of Colonel, he served in the
Great War, firstly with the Cheshire Regiment and latterly in command of the 2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion East Yorkshire
Regiment.
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Three: Gunner T. E. Jennings, Royal Artillery, late Vickers-Maxim Battery
CHINA 1900, no clasp (1773 Gnr., Vickers-Maxim Bty.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (188966 Gnr., R.A.) good very fine
(3) £180-220
With copied m.i.c.
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Six: Serjeant W. H. Kerr, Royal Field Artillery
CHINA 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (2024 Gunner (?) 12th By. R.F. Arty.); 1914 STAR, with clasp (99950 Sjt., R.F.A.);
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (99950 Sjt., R.F.A.); CORONATION 1911, unnamed; ARMY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (2024
Sjt., R.F.A.) first and last with edge bruising and contact marks, good fine; others good very fine (6) £400-460
505
Five: Petty Officer H. J. Lee, Royal Navy
AFRICA GENERAL SERVICE 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (A.B., H.M.S. Highflyer); 1914-15 STAR (191728 P.O., R.N.);
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (191728 P.O., R.N.); ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (191728
P.O., H.M.S. Hecla) first with edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine; others good very fine and better (5)
£180-220
Harry James Lee was born in Roehampton, Surrey, on 1 October 1881. A Porter by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a
Boy 2nd Class on 21 January 1897, being advanced to Boy 1st Class in October the same year. He was promoted to Ordinary Seaman
when on Galatea in October 1899, Able Seaman when on Magdala in June 1901, and Leading Seaman when on St. George in May
1911. At the beginning of the war he was on the Cadmus, being advanced to Petty Officer in August 1914. During the war he was on
Pembroke I and Calypso and was pensioned ashore from the Hecla in December 1919. With copied service paper.
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Six: Captain T. V. Power, Supply and Transport Corps
TIBET 1903-04, no clasp (Staff Sergt, S.T.C.) renamed; 1914-15 STAR (Sub. Condr., S. & T. Corps.); BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914
-20 (Condr., S.T.C.); VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (Capt.); DELHI DURBAR 1911 (Sub Conductor, S. & T. Corps); ARMY L.S. & G.C.,
G.V.R., 1st issue (Sub Condtr., S. & T. Corps) mounted for display, good very fine (6) £180-220
507
Ten: Lieutenant-Colonel G. T. Tait, Indian Army, late Royal Air Force and Northumberland Fusiliers
1914 STAR, with clasp (2 Lieut.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt., R.A.F.); 1939-45 STAR; PACIFIC STAR;
DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf; JUBILEE 1935; CORONATION 1937, these unnamed; VOLUNTEER FORCE LONG SERVICE, G.V.
R. (Capt., E.B. Ry. Bn., A.F.I.) impressed naming, mounted court style as worn, very fine and better (10) £350-450
Gerald George Wynne Trevredyn Tait was born on 10 May 1891. He was commissioned a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant in the
Northumberland Fusiliers in September 1914, employed as an Interpreter, and was appointed a Temporary Captain in September 1915.
In May 1916 he was appointed a General Staff Officer Grade 3 and transferred to the General List but was transferred back to the
Northumberland Fusiliers with the rank of Captain in August the same year. In January 1917 he was specially appointed a Staff
Lieutenant 2nd Class and transferred to the General List. In March 1918 he relinquished his special appointment and was appointed a
General Staff Officer Grade III for liaison duties with the French Army. In May 1918 he was appointed a Staff Officer 3rd Class with the
Royal Air Force with the rank of Captain.
Captain Tait was placed on the Unemployed List in 1919 and in the following year was appointed a Captain in the Bengal Nagpur
Railway Regiment, attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1929. He transferred to the General List in 1933 with the rank of
Honorary Colonel. With the onset of war he obtained an Emergency Commission in the Indian Army and was ranked as a Temporary
Captain in September 1941. Captain Tait served as a Staff Officer with the 11th Indian Division and on 15 February 1942 was captured
by the Japanese in Malaya. For his wartime services in Italy he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 19 July 1945). Colonel
Tait died in Crediton, Devon on 13 February 1954. With copied research. Great War M.I.D. not confirmed.
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Four: Private J. G. R. Hill, Rifle Brigade
1914 STAR, with clasp (813 Pte., 3/Rif. Brig.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (813 Pte., Rif. Brig.); IMPERIAL SERVICE MEDAL, G.
VI.R., 1st issue (Joseph George Reginald Hill) good very fine and better (lot) £180-220
Together with two identity disks and a plate from an identity bracelet - showing service in both the Rifle Brigade and Royal Engineers;
cap badges (2) for the Rifle Brigade and Royal Engineers; and cloth overseas service stripes - one red (1914) and three blue (1915-16
-17).
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