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Three: Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st Class V. Sands, Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy
1914-15 STAR (268445 C.E.R.A. 2, R.N.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (268445 C.E.R.A. 2, R.N.) good very fine (3)
£70-90
Valentine Sands was born in Portadown, Armagh, on 7 February 1874. A Turner and Fitter by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal
Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class in March 1895. Confirmed in that rank in February 1897 when on Vivid II, he was
advanced to E.R.A. 3 in August 1898 when on Pigeon, E.R.A. 2 in June 1903 when on Melampus, and E.R.A. 1 in August 1907 when
on Pelorus. Sands was rated as Acting C.E.R.A. 2 in September 1910 when on Gibraltar and was confirmed in that rank in September
1911 when aboard the Challenger. Sands was transferred to the Challenger’s sister ship Encounter in June 1912 and served aboard her
until April 1919, being twice rated as C.E.R.A. 1. As such he served as a member of the Royal Australian Navy, the ship being
transferred to the R.A.N. in 1912.
Following the outbreak of war, H.M.A.S. Encounter was part of the force which occupied German New Guinea - capturing the steamer
Zambezi on 12 August 1914, bombarding the Toma Ridge in support of Australian forces, 14 September, and covering the landing at
Madang on 24 December 1914. The remainder of her war was spent on patrol in the Pacific Ocean and the waters around the East
Indies. C.E.R.A.1 Sands was demobilised in January 1920. With copied service paper and research concerning H.M.S. Encounter.
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Three: Captain Hugh Frederic North, 4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment, killed in action at the battle of Umm-el-
Hanna, 21 January 1916
1914-15 STAR (Capt., Hamps. R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Capt.) in fitted leather case, extremely fine (3)
£400-500
Hugh Frederic North was born in Wroxton, Oxfordshire, on 23 August 1887. Educated at Summerfields, Oxford and Wellington
College, where he was in the college shooting eight, he joined the 4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment (Territorials) as a 2nd Lieutenant
on 25 March 1910 and was promoted to Lieutenant in November 1911. Placed on the reserve of Officers, he was then employed in
North Rhodesia for three years, serving in the Surveyor’s Department of the B.S.A. Company and latterly as an Assistant Native
Commissioner. With the outbreak of war, he returned home and rejoined his old battalion, being gazetted a Temporary Captain in
December 1914. He was sent with the 2nd/4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment to Quetta, India, going from there to Mesopotamia in
October 1915. Captain North was killed in action on 21 January 1916 at the battle of Umm-el-Hanna, being killed by shrapnel whilst
leading his men in an attack on Turkish trenches. Sold with a number of copied service papers and other copied research.
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Three: Serjeant R. MacIntosh, 7th Battalion London Regiment
1914-15 STAR (1415 Cpl., 7-Lond. R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (1415 Sjt., 7-Lond. R.) very fine (3) £40-60
529
Three: Private D. J. Fraser, Royal Army Medical Corps
1914-15 STAR (9288 Pte., R.A.M.C.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (9288 Pte., R.A.M.C.); MEMORIAL PLAQUE (Donald Jack
Fraser); together with SILVER WAR BADGES (2) (24275; RN32115) extremely fine (6) £120-160
Private Donald Fraser, Royal Army Medical Corps, entered the Balkans theatre of war on 30 July 1915. He was discharged on 30
November 1915 and awarded the Silver War Badge.
Together with a named memorial scroll and a photograph; all mounted on card. With copied m.i.c.
530
Three: Private W. T. Williams, Royal Army Medical Corps
1914-15 STAR (2270 Pte., R.A.M.C.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (2270 Pte., R.A.M.C.)
Three: Driver C. Harris, Royal Engineers
1914-15 STAR (347 Dvr., R.E.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (347 Dvr., R.E.) these with some edge bruising, some marks
from adhesive, very fine (6) £50-70
With a note stating Williams served in 1/2 Welsh Field Ambulance.
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Three: Serjeant F. W. Yerks, Canadian Engineers, late Canadian Cavalry
1914-15 STAR (112165 Tpr., Can. Cav.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALs (112165 Sjt., C.E.) mounted as worn; together with
a CANADIAN LEGION BADGE, gilt and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘F. W. Yerks, Br. 216 Petrolia 1942-45’, with enamelled ‘Past
President - Branch’ brooch bar; C.E.F. ‘SERVICE AT THE FRONT’ lapel badge, enamelled; and a mounted pair of miniatures:
British War and Victory Medals, good very fine (7) £140-180
Francis William Yerks enlisted in the 7th Canadian Mounted Rifles for the Canadian Expeditionary Force at London, Ontario, on 14
May 1915. He served in France with the Canadian Light Horse and Canadian Engineers. Discharged as ‘medically unfit’ at London,
Ontario, on 23 December 1918. With riband bar and original Discharge Certificate.
532
Three: Private W. H. Watkins, Army Service Corps
1914-15 STAR (M2-081862 Pte., A.S.C.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (M2-081862 Pte., A.S.C.) extremely fine (lot)
£60-80
William Henry Watkins was born in 1881. He enlisted into the Army Service Corps on 3 May 1915 and was transferred to Class Z
Reserve on 5 March 1919.
Sold with recipient’s ‘Certificate of Service’ and ‘Certificate of Transfer to Reserve’; ‘Protection Certificate and Certificate of Identity’,
dated February 1918, and two ‘Leave or Duty Ration Books’ - these all mounted on card. Together with three identity disks; an A.S.C.
lapel badge and another A.S.C. lapel badge, with enamelled, with four blue enamelled overseas service stripes.
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