SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS
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BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (Capt. Sir J. H. Heaton) extremely fine £150-200
John Henniker Heaton was born on 19 April 1877, the son of Sir John Henniker Heaton, (1st Baronet, created 1912) and Rose, only
daughter of Samuel Bennett of New South Wales. He was educated at Eton. In the Boer War he served as a Private with the 10th
Battalion Imperial Yeomanry and was awarded the Queen’s medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal. He
succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet in 1914. In the Great War he was with the 8th Australian Light Horse in 1914 (his m.i.c. shows
‘3rd L.H. Bde. H.Q.’) and in 1916 he was a Captain in the Welsh Horse. Sir John Henniker Heaton died on 21 February 1963. With
copied medal roll extract, m.i.c. and other research.
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BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (Capt. E. J. F. Gough) suspension damaged
and part missing, otherwise good very fine £50-70
Eric John Fletcher Gough was born on 20 November 1888, the only son of Major
T. A. Gough of 9 Onslow Crescent, London, S.W.1, and was educated at
Westgate School and at Eton. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th
(Special Reserve) Battalion Rifle Brigade, in September 1906. Transferring to the
1st Battalion Irish Guards in 1909, he was promoted to Lieutenant in 1911 and
advanced to Captain in September 1914. With the Guards he landed in France
on 12 August 1914 and fought in the retreat from Mons and in the actions at
Landrecies, Etreux, Villers Cotterets and in the Battles of the Marne, Aisne and 1st
Ypres.
The Irish Guards in the Great War, by Rudyard Kipling states: ‘On the 30th
December [1914], Captain Eric Gough was killed by a stray bullet while
commanding his Company (No.1) and was buried next day in a cemetery a few
miles along the Bethune-Richebourg road. He had been Transport Officer since
the battalion left London in August but had commanded a Company since 21st
November and was an immense loss to the battalion to which he was devoted’.
Captain Gough was buried in the Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-
L’Avoue, Pas de Calais, France.
He was mentioned in Sir John French’s despatches of 31 May 1915 (London
Gazette 22 June 1915). Entitled to the 1914 Star with clasp and Victory Medal.
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VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (3-5241 Cpl. J. Henry, Gord. Highrs.) bent suspension ring, nearly extremely fine £50-70
John Henry was born and lived in Aberdeen and joined the Gordon Highlanders as a regular soldier. In 1914 the 2nd Battalion Gordon
Highlanders were serving in Egypt but rapidly returned home with the onset of hostilities and on 7 October they moved to Zeebrugge
as part of 20th Brigade, 7th Division. In October they suffered 100 casualties, but on the 16th November a draft arrived from England,
which included Corporal John Henry. This brought the strength of the Battalion up to 4 officers and 500 other ranks.
On March 1915 the 2nd Battalion Gordons took part in the Battles at Neuve Chapelle and lost 254 killed, wounded and missing and at
Loos they lost 5 officers and 150 other ranks. In June 1916 the Battalion moved to the Mametz-Fricourt area in preparation for the
Somme offensive.
In the Somme offensive, the 20th Brigade was using three battalions in the first attack with the 2nd Gordons on the right with Mametz
at its objective. At 06.25 on 1 July the final intense bombardment started and three minutes later the 2nd Gordons went ‘over the top’
with the bayonet. The Germans had turned Mametz into a fortress and the Battalion met concentrated machine gun fire but the
advance was maintained, and Mametz Station, Shrine Alley, Cemetery Trench and Orchard Alley were all taken. When the Battalion
eventual withdrew to Citadel Camp on 3 July the 2nd Gordons had taken 461 casualties. One of those killed on 1 July, the first day of
the battle of the Somme, was Corporal John Henry.
The body of Corporal John Henry was recovered and he was buried by his Regiment in a support trench together with three artillery
men who died on 9 July 1916. This support trench, just south of Mametz, subsequently became an official Commonwealth War Grave
cemetery (Gordon Cemetery, Mametz) but as the graves could not be positively identified, 93 headstones have been erected and
arranged in semi-circles around a central cross.
With copied m.i.c. and other research plus two modern photographs of the cemetery and Corporal Henry’s headstone. The m.i.c.
confirms that the recipient was entitled to the 1914 Star and clasp.
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VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (76898 Pte. G. R. Heasler, R.F.C.) nearly extremely fine £40-60
Airman 2nd Class George Richard Heasler, 9th Brigade, Royal Flying Corps, died/was killed on 26 March 1918, aged 19 years. He was
buried in the Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. He was the son of G. S. and Emily R. Heasler, of
“Eirinn”, Hillbrow Road, Esher, Surrey.
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TERRITORIAL FORCE WAR MEDAL 1914-19 (1974 Pte. J. A. Parsons, Glouc. R.), one or two edge bruises and scratches and a
little polished, otherwise very fine £120-150
Joseph Alfred Parsons enlisted in the 4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment (Territorial Force) in Bristol in March 1914, aged 17 years.
He subsequently served out in France on three separate occasions, namely from June to October 1917, when he was evacuated to
hospital with trench foot, in April 1918, when he was gassed and once more evacuated to the U.K., and finally from November 1918 to
May 1919, latterly in the Worcestershire Regiment. He was discharged in June of the latter year; sold with copied service record.
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NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (L/FX.682787 A. G. Norris, P.O.A.F. R.N.) contact marks,
minor edge bruising, nearly very fine £70-90
241
NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1915-62, 1 clasp, Minesweeping 1945-51 (KX 738527 C. F. Wright, Sto.1 RN.) nearly extremely
fine £120-160
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