CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
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Five: Lance-Corporal L. P. Walter, 23rd Battalion London Regiment
1914-15 STAR (2662 L-Cpl., 23-Lond. R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (2662 Pte., 23-Lond. R.); DEFENCE MEDAL,
unnamed; SPECIAL CONSTABULARY LONG SERVICE, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Sub-Inspr. Lionel P. Walter) mounted as worn, good very
fine (5) £60-80
Lance-Corporal Lionel P. Walter, 23rd (County of London) Battalion London Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on
14 March 1915. Post-war he served as a Sub-Inspector in the Special Constabulary. With copied m.i.c.
606
Four: Chief Stoker J. W. Greenaway, Royal Navy
1914-15 STAR (142475 J. W. Greenaway, Ch. Sto., R.N.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (142475 J. W. Greenaway, Ch.
Sto., R.N.); ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (J. W. Greenaway, Ch. Sto., H.M.S. Aboukir), together with related Silver War
Badge, the reverse officially numbered, ‘R.N. 26830’, the first three in their original card boxes of issue, extremely fine
(4) £100-120
John William Greenaway was born in Chichester in January 1869 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in September
1887. Having then been awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in 1904, he was pensioned ashore as a Chief Stoker in October 1909, when he
enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve. Recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he held an appointment in Europa II in the
Dardanelles from August to December 1915, and on returning to the U.K. took up employment at the Portsmouth training
establishment Fisgard, from which establishment he was invalided as a consequence of illness in June 1918.
607
Three: 2nd Lieutenant H. R. Gilbert, Royal Artillery, late 3rd County of London (Sharpshooters)
1914-15 STAR (923 Pte. H. R. Gilbert, 3rd Co. of Lond. Y.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (2 Lieut. H. R. Gilbert), the first
with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine (3) £80-100
Henry Rimington Gilbert, who first entered the Egyptian theatre of war as a Private in the 3rd City of London (Sharpshooters) in April
1915, would have served in Gallipoli later in the same year and, most probably, in Egypt, Salonika and Palestine 1916-17. He was
commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery in March 1918.
608
Six: Master at Arms E. T. Boone, Royal Navy, late Royal Marine Light Infantry
1914-15 STAR (Ply. 14527 Cpl. E. T. Boone, R.M.L.I.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Ply. 14527 Sgt. E. T. Boone, R.M.L.I);
DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45; ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue (M. 35494 E. T. Boone, M.A.A., H.M.S.
Defiance), mounted as worn, heavily polished and contact marks, thus fine or better (6) £100-120
Ebenezer Thomas Boone was born in Stonehouse, Devon in April 1895 and transferred to the Royal Navy from the Royal Marine
Artillery in September 1920, following active service in the R.M.L.I. in the Great War. Advanced to Master at Arms in October 1926, he
was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in May 1928.
609
Three: Lieutenant W. Thomas, Royal Army Medical Corps
1914-15 STAR (Lieut. W. Thomas, R.A.M.C.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Lieut. W. Thomas, R.A.M.C.), very fine and
better (3) £80-100
William Thomas, a native of Wallasey, Cheshire first entered the French theatre of war in December 1915 (His MIC entry refers).
610
Three: Sapper W. G. Lucas, Royal Engineers
1914-15 STAR (1479 Spr. W. G. Lucas, R.E.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (1479 Spr. W. G. Lucas, R.E.), good very fine
Pair: Sapper J. Brewer, Royal Engineers
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (3833 Spr. J. Brewer, R.E.), extremely fine (5)
611
Three: Driver C. Harris, Royal Engineers
1914-15 STAR (347 Dvr., R.E.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (347 Dvr., R.E.) edge bruising, about very fine (3) £30-40
612
Three: Leading Seaman W. Thompson, Royal Navy
1914-15 STAR (224453 A.B., R.N.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (224453 L.S., R.N.) very fine (3) £60-80
William Thompson was born in Liverpool on 26 August 1887. He entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 7 January 1903 and
was advanced to Boy 1st Class in October the same year. Thompson was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in August 1905 when on the
Illustrious, and was advanced to Able Seaman in October 1906 when on the Aboukir. Being pensioned ashore in February 1912, he
joined the Chatham R.F.R. in February 1912. Recalled for service in the Great War, he served on Euryalus, August 1914-August 1917,
seeing action at the battle of Heligoland Bight, 28 August 1914. After serving at Pembroke, August-October 1917, he was posted to the
Manxman in October 1917, attaining the rank of Leading Seaman in April 1918. Leading Seaman Thompson was demobilised on 30
May 1919.
With original R.N. Service Papers; R.F.R. Certificate of Identity; and a (fragmentary) letter confirming service on the Black Prince, 1910
-12, signed by ‘H. R. Crooke, Commander’; together with Princess Mary’s Christmas Tin 1914 (empty) and a small group photograph;
medals in glass-fronted case.
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