CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
586
Pair: Lieutenant B. K. Sheppard, Someset Light Infantry and 1/1st Gurkha Rifles, late North Somerset Yeomanry
1914 STAR (450 Pte., 1/1 N. Som. Yeo.); BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (2 Lieut.) some contact marks, very fine (2) £80-100
Private Bertram Kingston Sheppard, 1/1st Battalion Somerset Yeomanry, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 2 November
1914. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant and then promoted to Lieutenant in July 1917, he served with the 1/1st King George V Gurkha
Rifles and the 4th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry. With copied m.i.c. which shows entitlement to clasp to 1914 Star.
587
Pair: Corporal A. E. Cook, North Somerset Yeomanry
1914 STAR (582 Pte., 1/1 N. Som. Yeo.); VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (582 Cpl., N. Som. Yeo.) extremely fine (2) £70-90
588
Pair: Lieutenant G. D. Abbott, 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers, killed in action, at Laventie, during the battle of
Messines, 2 November 1914
1914 STAR (Lieut., Conn. Rang.); VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (Lieut.) very fine (2) £200-250
Geoffrey Dyett Abbott was born at Srinagar, India, on 12 October 1891, the son
of Colonel Frank Abbott, 37th Lancers and a grandson of Lieutenant-General H.
D. Abbott, C.B., and of Major-General J. C. Berkeley, C.I.E. He was educated at
Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was gazetted
to the Connaught Rangers in March 1911 and served with the 1st Battalion in
India. Promoted to Lieutenant in June 1914, he entered the France/Flanders
theatre of war on 26 September 1914. He was killed in action at Laventie,
France, on 2 November 1914. His company commander sent the following
account of the circumstances:‘On the 2nd instant (November, 1914) we went to
relieve the 2nd Gurkhas and came under rather heavy fire crossing an open
place. It was in the above open place he was killed.’ Lieutenant Abbott was
buried in the Royal Irish Rifles Graveyard at Laventie. With copied research,
including m.i.c. which shows entitlement to the clasp to the 1914 Star.
589
Pair: Lieutenant E. St. Vincent-Ryan, Royal Marines, died 2 February 1917
1914 STAR (2nd Lieut. E. St. V. Ryan, R.M. Brigade); VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (Lieut. E. St. V. St. Vincent-Ryan, R.M.) note
variation in name and initials, good very fine (2) £160-200
Ex Jack Webb Collection, D.N.W. 16 December 2003.
2nd Lieutenant E. St.V. Ryan, Portsmouth Battalion R.M.L.I., served with the R.M. Brigade in Ostend and the Dardanelles. He was
promoted Lieutenant on 9 August 1915. Taken ill whilst on the strength of H.M.S. Barham, he died of disease (heart failure and
pneumonia) aboard H.M. Hospital Ship China on 2 February 1917. He was buried in the Edinburgh (Morningside) Cemetery. He was
the son of Colonel and Mrs St. Vincent-Ryan of 9 Colehill Gardens, Fulham, London.
590
Three: Private P. Leslie, Devonshire Regiment
1914 STAR (8814 Pte. P. Leslie, 2/Devon R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (8814 Pte. P. Leslie, Devon R.), generally very
fine (3) £120-150
Philip Leslie first entered the French theatre of war with the 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment in early November 1914,his unit
having been recalled from Egypt on the outbreak of hostilities. And between then and the end of the year it fought alongside the 2nd
Scottish Rifles, sustaining casualties of around 120 men in an attack on the Moated Grange feature on the La Bassee road in mid-
December. The Battalion was afterwards among those to witness the famous “Christmas Truce”, its men exchanging cigarettes and
good wishes in No Man’s Land on the 25th. Leslie later served in the Labour Corps and Royal Fusiliers (His MIC entry refers).
591
Three: Colour-Sergeant S. J. Smale, Royal Marine Light Infantry
1914 STAR (Ply. 5518 Col. Sergt. S. J. Smale, R.M. Brigade); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Ply. 5518 Cr. Sgt. S. J. Smale,
R.M.L.I.), good very fine and better (3) £180-220
Posted to the Deal Detachment, R.M.L.I. on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, Smale served in the Antwerp operations and was
accordingly entitled to the clasp.
592
Three: Second Lieutenant B. O. Denham, Labour Corps, late 14th Battalion London Regiment, murdered by terrorists
in Palestine, 26 April 1948.
1914 STAR (1802 Pte., 14/Lond. R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (2 Lieut.) good very fine and better (3) £200-300
Private Bertram Owen Denham, 14th Battalion London Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 15 September 1914.
After later serving with the Army Ordnance Corps he was commissioned into the labour Corps on 18 October 1917. A Jewish Member
of the Freemasons, being a member of the Lodge of King Solomon’s Temple 4611, he assisted in the dedication of the Temporary
Masonic Hall at Bezalel Street, Jerusalem, on 7 October 1937. He was also present in the last meeting of his Lodge in Jerusalem on 13
March 1948, before it was transferred back to London following the end of the British Palestine Mandate. Denham, in the Master’s
Chair, was the only member present who had also been at the first meeting and consecration. He was a Founder of the Lodge and the
first Junior Deacon of the Lodge. Denham was murdered by terrorists in Palestine on 26 April 1948.
An extract from The Times, 28 April 1948, reads, ‘.... Commander Leggatt was the second British civilian shot dead in Jerusalem in 24
hours. Near the Jerusalem Sports Club last night, Mr B. O. Denham, of the Public Works Depertment, who had been in Palestine since
the first world war, was found dead. ....’
With copied m.i.c., extract from The Times, and masonic lodge history details.
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