CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
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Three: Private A. McLeod, Seaforth Highlanders, who was killed in action on the first day of the battle of Loos in
September 1915
1914-15 Star (S-1605 Pte. A. McLeod, Sea. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (S-1605 Pte. A. McLeod, ), nearly
extremely fine (3) £160-180
Arthur McLeod was killed in action on 25 September 1915, the first day of the battle of Loos, while serving in the 7th Battalion,
Seaforth Highlanders. Aged 27 years, he left a widow, Margaret, a resident of McKenzie Place, Edinburgh, and has no known grave,
being commemorated on the Loos Memorial in the Pas de Calais.
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Eight: Petty Officer A. Badcock, Royal Navy
1914-15 STAR (J.17344 A.B., R.N.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (J.17344 L.S., R.N.); 1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA
STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45; ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (J.17344 P.O. H.M.S. Witherington)
fine and better (8) £80-100
H.M.S. Witherington was an ‘Admiralty Modified W’ Class destroyer, launched in 1919; wrecked on tow to the Tyne on 29 April 1947.
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Four: Able Seaman F. Terrill, Royal Navy
1914-15 STAR (226272 A.B., R.N.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (226272 A.B., R.N.); ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R.,
2nd issue, fixed suspension (226272 Frederick Terrill, A.B., H.M.S. Courageous) edge bruising, contact marks, good fine
(4) £60-80
Frederick Terrill was born in Portsmouth on 27 September 1887. Formerly employed as an Errand Boy, he enlisted into the Royal Navy
as a Boy 2nd Class in May 1903, being advanced to Boy 1st Class in December the same year. Whilst on the Exmouth he was
promoted to Ordinary Seaman in September 1905 and to Able Seaman in August 1907. With the onset of war he was serving on the
pre-dreadnought battleship Irresistible and was serving on her in the Dardanelles when she was mined and sunk on 18 March 1915.
For the remainder of the war he served on Swiftsure, Europa and Galatea. Terrill served on the light battlecruiser Courageous during
March 1920-May 1921 and July-August 1921. He was pensioned ashore on 30 September 1927. With copied service paper.
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Three: Private W. Reid, Scottish Rifles, who was killed in action in Gallipoli in June 1915
1914-15 STAR (9562 Pte. W. Reid, Sco. Rif.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (9562 Pte. W. Reid, Sco. Rif.), together with
original Infantry Record Office transmittal letter for the 1914-15 Star, dated 7 April 1920, good very fine (3) £180-220
William Reid was born in Townhead, Glasgow and pre-war was employed in the
North British Locomotive Works at Cowlairs. Enlisting in the Scottish Rifles, he
was drafted to the 8th Battalion, which unit landed at V Beach, Cape Helles on
the night of 13 June 1915 but, a little over a fortnight later, he was among those
killed in an attack on enemy trenches on the 28th, Colonel J.M. Findlay reporting
that his men were wiped out within about five minutes. Interestingly, in his
subsequent history of the 8th Battalion, the Colonel refers to a ‘boy called Reid’
who lay near him in a sap, mortally wounded - two men from the unit with this
surname died that day:
‘By this time it cannot have been more than 11.30, though an age seemed to
have passed. Perforce I remained where I was; my senses were quite alert. It was
insufferably hot, and I recollect having a drink of water, and giving one to a boy
called Reid, who lay mortally wounded alongside me. Perhaps about an hour
afterwards, I was aroused by a young officer of the 7th Scottish Rifles (which
battalion had been in reserve), who came along and asked me what to do. I
asked how many men he had got and he replied “only my platoon.” I told him to
go back and get his Commanding Officer to push on with his whole battalion. He
went away, and we all remained lying there in that sap, sometimes conscious,
sometimes blessedly unconscious.
The heat as we lay there was appalling, but things were gradually getting quieter; what we longed for was coolness. Reid, poor lad, was
by this time in agony, he had been shot in the stomach, and all I could do for him was to give him a little more water. Sometime during
that afternoon, I heard afterwards, a scrub fire was kindled between the enemy lines and ours; it was never known whether the fire was
caused accidentally or designedly, its awful results were, however, the same - a terrible culmination of the morning’s tragedy.’
In total, the Battalion sustained casualties of 14 officers and 334 other ranks killed, wounded, missing or mortally wounded, and
another 11 officers and 114 other ranks wounded.
Aged 26 years, Reid has no know grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli; sold with research including copied
local newspaper obituary with portrait photograph.
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Four: Stoker Petty Officer J. Fountain, Royal Navy
1914-15 STAR (K.1399 Sto. 1, R.N.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (K.1399 Act. L. Sto., R.N.); ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.V.
R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (K.1399 L. Sto., H.M.S. Argus) contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £60-80
John Fountain was born in Leighton Buzzard on 2 April 1890. A Stoker by occupation, he entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class
on September 1908, being promoted to Stoker 1st Class in October 1909. For most of the Great War he was based in Hong Kong (H.M.
S. Tamar), August 1914-August 1917. He was promoted to Leading Stoker in October 1918 when based at Victory X and served on the
aircraft carrier Argus, January 1921-January 1924, during which time he was awarded the Long Service Medal. Fountain attained the
rank of Stoker Petty Officer in April 1926 and was still serving in 1929. With copied service paper.
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