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Four: Lieutenant D. McOwan, London Regiment
1914 STAR, with clasp (8752 Sjt., 5/Lond. R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf (2 Lieut.); TERRITORIAL EFFICIENCY
MEDAL, G.V.R. (6561212 C.Q.M. Sjt., 5-Lond. R.) minor correction to naming, good very fine (4) £200-240
M.I.D. London Gazette 4 January 1917.
Serjeant Douglas McOwan, 5th Battalion London Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war in 1914. Commissioned a 2nd
Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion on 28 September 1915 and advanced to Temporary Lieutenant on 15 September 1916 and was
confirmed in that rank on 1 July 1917. He resigned his commission due to ill health on 27 June 1919. Awarded the T.E.M. in
November 1923.
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Three: Able Seaman G. C. Appleyard, Collingwood Battalion, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, taken prisoner at
Antwerp 1914
1914 STAR, with clasp (K.W.868 Ord. Sea. R.N.V.R. Collingwood Bttn. R.N.D.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY Medals (K.W.868
A.B. R.N.V.R.) nearly extremely fine (3) £200-240
George Clifford Appleyard was born on 8 September 1891. Living in Huddersfield and a Designer by occupation, he enlisted into the
York and Lancaster Regiment on 28 August 1914, before joining the Royal Naval Division on 8 September 1914. Serving with the
Collingwood Battalion, he was taken prisoner after operations around Antwerp, October 1914. He was held as a prisoner-of-war at
Doeberitz for the duration of the war. Following his release and repatriation, he was demobilised on 7 March 1919. With copied
service papers.
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Three: Able Seaman H. C. Luffingham, Collingwood Battalion, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, interned in Holland,
1914
1914 STAR, with clasp (L6/2426 Ord. Sea., R.N.V.R. Collingwood Bttn. R.N.D.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (L.S.2426
A.B., R.N.V.R.) extremely fine (3) £200-240
Harold Carr Luffingham was born on 16 September 1888. Living Brockley, London, and a Clerk by occupation, he was mobilised on 2
August 1914. Joining the Collingwood Battalion on 22 August 1914 he proceeded to Belgium. He was interned in Holland on 8
October 1914. His service papers record two periods of ’leave’ from Holland - in 1916 and again in 1918. He was repatriated on 19
November 1918 and demobilised on 9 January 1919. With original (damaged) medal card box of issue and copied service papers.
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Four: Warrant Officer Class 2 John Ryan, York and Lancaster Regiment, killed in action, 24 September 1918
1914 STAR (5525 Cpl., 2/York. & Lanc. R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (5525 W.O. Cl. 2, Y. & L. R.) the numeral ‘2’
omitted from the B.W.M.; ARMY MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL, G.V.R., 1st issue (5525 C.S. Mjr., 2/York & Lanc. R.); MEMORIAL
PLAQUE (John Ryan) nearly extremely fine (5) £380-420
M.S.M. London Gazette 17 January 1919.
John Ryan was born in Plymouth, lived in Blackpool and enlisted at Seaforth, Liverpool. As a Corporal in the 2nd Battalion York and
Lancaster Regiment, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 13 November 1914. As a Warrant Officer Class 2 with the same
battalion, he was killed in action on 24 September 1918. With copied m.i.c. which shows entitlement to clasp for 1914 Star.
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Three: Able Seaman A. St. C. Dillett, Drake Battalion, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, killed in action, 23 April 1917
1914 STAR (B1/870 A.S. R.N.V.R. Drake Bttn. R.N.D.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (B.1870 A.B. R.N.V.R.) nearly
extremely fine (3) £200-240
Arthur St. Clair Dillett was born on 9 May 1891. Living in Bedminster, Bristol, he was employed as a Printer. He entered the R.N.V.R.
in 1910 and was posted to the Drake Battalion in August 1914. Posted to the Dardanelles, he was admitted to hospital in Alexandria in
July 1915 suffering from dysentry. Invalided to Malta and thence to England where he was treated for dysentry at Haslar Hospital.
Recovering, he was posted firstly to the Anson and then the Hood Battalion, joining them in September 1916. In hospital at Calais with
impetico during December 1916 and treated for septic toes in January 1917. Returning to the front, Dillett was reported ‘Missing’ on
23 April 1917, this was later revised to ‘killed in action’ on that date. With copied service papers.
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Three: Second Lieutenant S. F. Clarke, Hampshire Regiment, late Royal
Army Medical Corps, killed in action, 7 August 1917
1914 STAR (1814 Cpl., R.A.M.C.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (2 Lieut.)
good very fine (3) £400-450
Samuel Frank Clarke was born in Havant, Hampshire and educated at Mile End
House School, Portsmouth. A Bank Clerk by occupation, he attested for the R.A.
M.C. (T.F.) on 11 March 1913. With the onset of the Great War, he served with
the B.E.F. in France, 5 November 1914-6 January 1915, entering the theatre as a
Corporal in the 26th Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. and latterly with the 3rd Wessex
Field Ambulance R.A.M.C. He was discharged to a commission in the 5th
Reserve Battalion Hampshire Regiment on 23 November 1916. Serving as a 2nd
Lieutenant with the 6th attached 11th Battalion Hampshire Regiment, he was
killed in action on 7 August 1917, aged 24 years. He was buried in the
Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Lieutenant Clarke was the brother of Mrs Gwendoline Ida Mullane of Homewell
House, Havant.
Sold with copied service papers, m.i.c. and photograph.
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