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Three: Driver F. Tipping, Royal Field Artillery
1914 STAR (71329 Dvr., R.F.A.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (71329 Dvr., R.A.) good very fine (5) £100-140
Sold with a Sports Medal, 39mm., bronze, inscribed, ‘No. 1 Section 49th D.A.C. v. 2nd Belgian Div. Artillery, 23-6-1918. Dr. Tipping.
F.’, in case of issue inscribed, ‘Athletic Sports of the 2nd Belgian Division 23rd June 1918’; together to a ‘home-made’ brass identity
bracelet, inscribed, ‘FC. Tipping, CE, RFA 71329, Ypres 1915, Somme 1916’.
Together with a Soldier’s Pay Book to 508381 R. G. Groom, 2/1 London Field Ambulance. With the Pay Book is a letter, dated 26
January 1916; two tickets to the ‘Alhambra, 13 Grand Place, Mons’, and a list of friends names and addresses, including that of ‘F. C.
Tipping, 16 Henley Road, Ilford.’
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Three: Acting Serjeant W. G. Withers, Royal Engineers
1914 STAR (24386 Pnr., R.E.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (24386 A-Sjt., R.E.) good fine and better (3) £60-80
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Seven: Captain Charles Frederick Spencer Chichester, Royal Engineers, late 4th Hussars
1914-15 STAR (2 Lieut., 4/Hrs.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Lieut.); DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS; CORONATION 1937, these
unnamed; ROMANIA, ORDER OF THE STAR, 1st type, 5th Class breast badge with swords, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, mounted
for wear, in Spink, London leather case, the lid bearing the initials ‘C.F.S.C.’; together with a loose ROMANIAN
COMMEMORATIVE WAR CROSS 1916-18; with a mounted set of seven miniature dress medals, in a Spink, London leather case
with lid similarly inscribed, good very fine and better (15) £250-300
Charles Frederick Spencer Chichester was born on 18 January 1893 and educated at Winchester College, 1907-10. Appointed Assistant
Military Attache at Bucharest, Romania on 6 June 1919. Awarded the Order of the Star 5th Class in 1920. From the Reserve of Officers
he served as a Lieutenant with the 4th Hussars, September 1939-July 1940. He served as Captain, Officer Commanding No. 1 Traffic
Control Company, Royal Engineers, July 1940-July 1942, and Staff Captain, ‘Q’ Movements, Royal Engineers, H.Q. Southern
Command, July 1942-November 1945. With some copied research.
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Six: Stoker 1st Class T. H. Humphreys, Royal Navy, who served aboard H.M. Ships Nestor and Onslow in the Great
War
1914-15 STAR (K.14672 Sto. 1, R.N.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, M.I.D. oakleaf (K.14672 Sto. 1, R.N.); DEFENCE MEDAL;
ROYAL FLEET RESERVE L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (K.14672 (Po.B. 15261) Sto. 1, R.F.R.); ROMANIA, MEDAL FOR HARDIHOOD AND
LOYALTY, 3rd Class with swords, bronze, unnamed, some contact marks, very fine (6) £1000-1200
M.I.D. London Gazette 14 September 1918. ‘.... for services in action with enemy submarines’.
Medal for Hardihood and Loyalty London Gazette 17 March 1919.
Thomas Henry Humphreys was born in Liverpool on 10 January 1893. An Engineer Labourer by occupation, he entered the Royal
Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 9 April 1912, being advanced to Stoker 1st Class in May 1913 when on the battleship King Edward VII.
Posted to Woolwich in December 1913, he served aboard the destroyer Nestor until 31 May 1916. Nestor was sunk in a ‘V.C. action’
at the battle of Jutland. As Humphreys does not feature in the list of Nestor’s survivors, it must be assumed that he had left the ship just
hours before the fateful engagement. Having made his lucky escape, he then joined another destroyer veteran of Jutland, joining the
Onslow in October 1916, remaining with her until March 1919. For his service aboard the vessel he was both mentioned in despatches
and awarded the Romanian Medal for Hardihood and Freedom. Both awards seem likely to have been made in connection with the
incident when Onslow was attacked by a German submarine on 25 February 1918. The ship retaliated and sank the submarine with
depth charges.
After the war Humphreys transferred to the Submarine Service at Dolphin and served on the K.14, April 1921-March 1924. Fortune
shined on him yet again as he survived duty on the ill-fated class of submarines and he joined the R.F.R. in 1924. During the Second
World War he is believed to have been an A.R.P. Warden in Liverpool. He died in April 1985. With copied service paper, gazette
extracts and other research.
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Five: Chief Steward E. Masters, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary
1914-15 STAR (....ters, Sh. .... F.A.) naming mostly erased; BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Ch. Std., M.F.A.); MERCANTILE
MARINE WAR MEDAL 1914-18 (Ernest Masters); ITALY, MESSINA EARTHQUAKE MEDAL 1908, silver (Ernest Masters) this last in case of
issue; together with a mounted set of five miniature dress medals, nearly extremely fine (10) £200-250
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