CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
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Family group:
Three: Major William Robert Simpson Ladell, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
THAILAND, 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF BANGKOK MEDAL 1932, silver, unnamed; CORONATION MEDAL 1925, Rama VII, silver, unnamed;
G.B., BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (Major W. R. S. Ladell) mounted as worn (B.W.M. detached); together with a Fareastern
Association of Tropical Medicine, Bangkok 1930 Badge, silver, pin-backed, with ribbon bearing the bar ‘64’
Four: attributed to J. L. Ladell, Royal Navy
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; BURMA STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, all unnamed; together with a mounted set of four miniature
dress medals, generally nearly extremely fine (lot) £100-150
Medals to Major W. R. S. Ladell with original photograph of the recipient in uniform and copied m.i.c. The British War Medal was
Ladell’s only medal for the Great War.
Medals to J. L. Ladell in card forwarding box addressed to ‘Mr J. L. Ladell, 15 Theobalds Road, London, W.C.1’ and with forwarding
slip. Also with an enamelled badge and dress miniature British War and Victory Medals.
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BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDAL PAIRS (4) (31638 Pte. A. Freer, G. Gds.; 92845 A. Cpl. G. V. Longson, Tank Corps.; 116913
Gnr, T. England, R.A.; S-368237 Pte. J. McCallum, A.S.C.) mounted court style for wear, very fine and better (8) £70-90
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Seven: Company Quartermaster Sergeant J. Tobias, Royal Signals, late Royal Engineers
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (78852 Spr., R.E.); TERRITORIAL FORCE WAR MEDAL 1914-19 (75852 Spr., R.E.); DEFENCE AND WAR
MEDALS; TERRITORIAL EFFICIENCY MEDAL, G.V.R., with Second Award bar (25544208 Cpl., R.C. of Sig.); EFFICIENCY MEDAL, G.V.R.,
Territorial (2554208 C.Q.M. Sjt., R. Signals) nearly very fine and better (7) £250-300
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Pair: Gunner Fred Campion, Royal Field Artillery, killed in action, 21 October 1917
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (232636 Gnr., R.A.); MEMORIAL PLAQUE (Fred Campion) this last in card envelope, extremely
fine (3) £100-140
Before the war Fred Campion was employed by the North Eastern Railway as a Porter at Hull. He enlisted at Hull and served in the R.F.
A. Serving with “C” Battery, 282nd Brigade R.F.A., he was killed in action on 21 October 1917. Having no known grave, his name is
commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
With North Eastern Railway Roll of Honour; framed commemorative scroll; Imperial War Graves Commission Memorial slip and an O.
H.M.S. forwarding envelope addressed to ‘G. A. Campion, 8 Villa Row, Courtney Street, Holderness Road, Hull’.
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Pair: Acting Serjeant Hugh Lewis, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, late
Montgomery Yeomanry, died of wounds, 11 March 1918
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (2077 A. Sjt., Montgom. Yeo.); GLASBURY
PARISH TRIBUTE MEDAL, 23mm., 9ct. gold, 4.79g., obverse bearing the
initials, ‘HL’, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented in Memory of H. J. Lewis for
Duty in the Great War 1914 to 1918 from Glasbury Parish’, with ring
suspension; MEMORIAL PLAQUE (Hugh Lewis) reverse fitted with a loop for
hanging, nearly extremely fine (4) £300-350
Hugh Lewis was born in Glasbury, Hay, Breconshire. A Farmer by occupation,
he attested for the Montgomery Yeomanry at Hay on 9 April 1914, aged 24 years.
The 1/1st Battalion Montgomery Yeomanry and Welsh Horse amalgamated into
the 25th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers in December 1916. As an Acting
Serjeant with the 25th (Montgomeryshire and Welsh Horse Yeomanry) Battalion
Royal Welsh Fusiliers, he died of wounds in Palestine on 11 March 1918, aged
28 years. His name is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial. His effects and
medals were sent to his parents at ‘Tregoyd Farm, Three Cocks, Brecon’.
With a quantity of copied service papers contained in a folder. An extract from
The Montgomery Yeomanry, lists him as being ‘killed’ rather than having ‘died of
wounds’ on 11 March 1918.
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