CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
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Five: Captain J. W. Grimston, Royal Naval Reserve
1914-15 STAR (Lieut., R.N.R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lieut., R.N.R.); ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE
DECORATION, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1933; FRANCE, CROIX DE GUERRE 1914-1917, star on ribbon, mounted as worn;
together with a Silver War Badge (RN37568) and a mounted set of five miniature dress medals, good very fine (11)
£400-450
M.I.D. London Gazette 20 September 1918. ‘Honours for Services in the Auxiliary Patrol, Minesweeping and Coastal Motor Boats,
between the 1st January and 30th June, 1918’
M.I.D. London Gazette 24 March 1919. ‘Honours for Services in Coastal Motor boats between 1st July and 11th November 1918’.
Recommendation states: ‘This officer is recommended for meritorious service over an extended period. He joined the C.M.B. service on
the 12 August 1917, and proceeded to Advanced Base, Dunkirk, where he remained three (?) months, returning to Dover owing to a
failure in health where he has remained to date, during which time he has carried out the duties of Navigating, Intelligence and
Instructional Officer to C.M.B. Bases Dover-Dunkirk, with unusual zeal and capability and thus done much to ensure the success of the
C.M.B. Operations, especially in the case of the blocking Operations 22-23 April 1918, and during this period he has: instructed
approximately 135 Officers ..., Examined 30 Officers R.N.V.R. .... He has 51/2 years continuous service, and previous to joining this
Base was present in H.M.S. George V (sic) at the Battle of Jutland’.
Croix de Guerre London Gazette 24 March 1919.
John William Grimston was born in Hull on 10 March 1886. He was appointed a Sub-Lieutenant in the R.N.R. in July 1913 and was
advanced to Lieutenant in July 1915. He was present at the battle of Jutland where he served aboard the King George V. Later in the
war he served with Coastal Motor Boats, based at Dover and Dunkirk. With the C.M.B. he served in the Zebrugge/Ostend raids of 23
April 1918. Being removed from the Active List, as physically unfit in March 1919, he was reinstated in November 1920. Promoted to
Lieutenant-Commander in July 1923 and Commander in December 1928, he was placed on the Retired List with the rank of Captain
(London Gazette 13 March 1936). During 1940-45 Captain Grimston served as Master of the S.S. Hopepeak; during 1946-53, he
served on a number of Board of Trade Wreck Report investigations. Captain Grimston died on 21 April 1962.
With riband bar; two postcard photographs of the battleship H.M.S. King George V and a quantity of copied research which includes
gazette extracts, recomendations, service papers, Merchant Navy Registration Card - with photograph, and W.W.2 ship movement
cards.
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Four: Private M. Collins, North Somerset Yeomanry
1914-15 STAR (1213 Pte., N. Som. Yeo.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (1213 Pte., N. Som. Yeo.); SPECIAL CONSTABULARY
LONG SERVICE, G.V.R., 1st issue (William H. Collins) very fine (4) £120-160
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Four: Private R. Shailes, North Somerset Yeomanry
1914-15 STAR (1182 Pte., N. Som. Yeo.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (1182 Pte., N. Som. Yeo.); SPECIAL CONSTABULARY
LONG SERVICE, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Robert Shailes) good very fine (4) £120-160
Private Robert Shailes, North Somerset Yeomanry, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 30 May 1915. With copied m.i.c.
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Three: Acting Corporal W. Cavenagh, Army Service Corps, who
enlisted in September 1915 at the age of 59
1914-15 STAR (SS-16592 Pte-A. Cpl., A.S.C.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY
MEDALS (SS-16592 A. Cpl., A.S.C.) extremely fine (lot) £70-90
Waring Cavenagh was born in Dublin on 17 September 1856. An Artist by
occupation, living at ‘Woodside, Mead Road, Thundersley, Essex’, he attested for
the Army Service Corps at London on 10 September 1915, giving his age as 44
years (he was actually 59!). Serving with the 29th Labour Company, A.S.C., he
was posted to the Egypt theatre of war on 15 November 1915. He was soon after
posted to Salonika where he contracted influenza and dilation of the heart.
Invalided home, he was discharged at Catterick as ‘no longer physically fit for
War Service’ on 26 May 1916. In September 1916 he was living at ‘137
Lymington Avenue, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex’.
Sold with a photograph of the recipient in uniform; Certificate of Discharge (this
gives his correct age as 59 years, 253 days); Character Certificate; National
Registration Card; Furlough Pass pending discharge; named lid from ‘British War
and Victory’ card box of issue; registered envelope for the medals, addressed to
‘Mr Waring Cavenagh, Heathfield, Clifton Grove, Leigh-on-Sea’; A.S.C. cap
badge; recipient’s identity disk; copied m.i.c. and service papers.
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Three: Private J. Davidson, 1st Australian General Hospital
1914-15 STAR (7857 Pte., 1/G. Hosp. A.I.F.); BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (7857 Pte., 1 G. Hosp. A.I.F.); VICTORY MEDAL 1914
-19 (7857 Pte., 1 A.G.H. A.I.F.), generally very fine (3) £150-200
James Davidson was born in Carlton, Victoria and enlisted in the 1st Australian General Hospital at Melbourne in June 1915, aged 18
years. Presumably having then served at his unit’s base in the ex-Palace Hotel, Heliopolis, Egypt, he returned to Australia in January
1916 and, most probably, accompanied the unit to France in the following April. Davidson was discharged as medically unfit in
November 1918; sold with original worn parchment discharge certificates (2).
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