GROUPS AND SINGLE DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY
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A Great War M.C. group of six awarded to Warrant Officer Class 2 F. B. Stone, Royal Engineers
MILITARY CROSS, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘S.M. F. B. Stone, R.E., 12.8.16’; QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape
Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (4889 Sapr., R.E.); 1914-15 STAR (45850 C.Q.M. Sjt., R.E.); BRITISH WAR AND
VICTORY MEDALS (45850 W.O. Cl.2, R.E.); ARMY MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL, G.V.R., 1st issue (45850 C.S. Mjr., M.C., R.E.)
very fine and better (6) £900-1100
M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1917.
M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘90th Field Coy., R.E.’
Company Quartermaster Serjeant Frank B. Stone, Royal Engineers, came from Farnham and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war
on 12 May 1915. Awarded the Military Cross and the Meritorious Service Medal for his military services; he was later transferred to the
Class Z Reserve. With copied m.i.c.
806
A fine Western Front Royal Naval Division M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant A. P. Mecklenburg, Royal Naval
Volunteer Reserve, who escaped from internment in Belgium having been captured at Antwerp with the Benbow
Battalion in 1914, and was twice wounded when winning the M.C. with the Nelson Battalion in the operations on the
Ancre in November 1916
MILITARY CROSS, G.V.R.; 1914 STAR, with clasp (L7/3545 A. Mecklenburg, Act. A.B. R.N.V.R., Benbow Bttn. R.N.D.); BRITISH
WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Lieut. A. P. Mecklenburg, R.N.V.R.) good very fine (4) £1800-2200
M.C. London Gazette 26 January 1917:
‘Temp. Sub-Lt. Albert Paul Mecklenburg, R.N.V.R. For conspicuous gallantry in action. Although twice wounded, he rallied his men
close in front of a strongly held enemy position, and, charging right through, broke up all opposition and reached his correct objective.’
Albert Paul Mecklenburg was born in 1888 and was living in Isleworth, London, when he enlisted into the London Division of the
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Enrolled into the Benbow Battalion of the Royal Naval Division, he was present at the defence of
Antwerp until 10 October 1914, when that city fell into German hands and he was interned in Holland along with the majority of his
comrades in the battalion. Mecklenburg, however, made good his escape from Holland between 17 and 27 May, 1915, when he
reported for duty at the Depot in England. He was appointed a Temporary Second Lieutenant R.N.V.R. on 23 September 1915, and
posted to the R.N.D. Camp, Blandford, for officer training. On 5 December 1915 he was appointed to the Nelson Battalion M.E.F., and
served at Mudros from January to May 1916, when he landed at Marseilles for service in France. He was seriously wounded by a
gunshot wound in the arm during the operations North of the Ancre on 13 November 1916, winning the Military Cross for gallantry
during this same action. After recovering from his wounds in England, Mecklenburg was appointed as a Liaison Officer between the
Admiralty and the Ministry of Shipping from February 1918. He subsequently changed his name by deed poll to Mexborough. Sold
with copy record of service.
807
A rare Great War M.C. group of three awarded to Sub. Lieutenant A. M. Perry, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve,
attached Royal Naval Division, who was decorated for his bravery with Hawke Battalion at Passchendaele in
November 1917 and later taken prisoner during the German spring offensive
MILITARY CROSS, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (S. Lt. A. M. Perry, R.N.V.R.), contact marks,
very fine or better (3) £1800-2200
M.C. London Gazette 18 January 1918:
‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led his platoon in an attack on a hostile post, surprised the enemy and captured
the garrison. The success was largely due to the sound preliminary arrangements and skilful leading.’
Arthur Morson Perry, a native of Pendlebury, Manchester, who was born in March 1897, entered the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in
December 1915, when he commenced training with the Royal Naval Division in the U.K. Commissioned as a Sub. Lieutenant in April
1917, he joined Hawke Battalion in France in July 1917, and, as cited above, was decorated for his part in an attack at Passchendaele
on 1 November of the same year, an incident described in Jerrold’s history of the Royal Naval Division:
‘The actual attack was carried out by Sub. Lieutenant Perry with one and a half platoons, which advanced in three detachments
directed against the front and the flanks of the position. In the darkness there was no anger from the enemy machine-guns; the situation
was far too obscure for either side to risk firing without a target. Movement was safe, and the parties made their way forward through
the mud in good order until they came up against the enemy’s wire. Here the centre party halted, while others worked round the flanks
and rushed in with bombs. Surprised on both sides, the enemy surrendered; nine men and a machine-gun were captured and a number
more killed or wounded.’
Perry was taken prisoner at Ribecourt on 21 March 1918, during the German spring offensive, an incident described in Hawke
Battalion’s history:
‘The first waves of the attack had, indeed, found no gap in the Naval Division front, and the shock which broke our line to north and
south, and threatened the Allied cause with disaster, yielded the enemy here only a few posts in our outpost line at the junctions of
190th Brigade and ‘C’ Company of the Hawke Battalion. Here, Sub. Lieutenant Perry and some 60 men were cut off and killed or
captured, but the main line of resistance was not even reached and ‘A’ Company who held the right of Hawke outpost line, hardly lost
a post.’
Perry was repatriated on 18 December 1918 and finally demobilised in January 1919.
808
A Great War M.C. group of three awarded to Major J. G. Taylor, Durham Light Infantry
MILITARY CROSS, G.V.R., unnamed; BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Major) extremely fine (3) £600-700
M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1917. ‘Temp. 2nd Lt. John George Taylor, Durh. L.I.’
John George Taylor was commissioned a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry on 24 November 1914. He was
advanced to Temporary Captain in August 1916; Acting Captain in November 1916 and Temporary Major in November 1918. He
retired from the Army in August 1920. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 11 February 1916. His m.i.c. shows him as
Major with the 11th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. With copied m.i.c. and gazette extracts.
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