CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
.Muriel Bradburn was born on 30 October 1926. Serving in the Women’s Royal Army Corps. During the course of her army career she married John Law. She was commissioned in September 1969 but died on 16 December 1970. With framed Commission Document, dated 30 September 1969; a presentation silver candelabra, inscribed, ‘301 (EA) Bn. WRAC (TA) 1959-61’ and a copied photograph of her on active duty. Also with a number of photographs of various members of the family including Muriel Law in uniform.
905 Three: Private J. H. Blinston, Royal Army Medical Corps
1914-15 STAR (10437 Pte., R.A.M.C.) note: surname spelt ‘Blinstone’; BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (10437 Pte., R.A.M. C.); together with a LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE COALOWNERS RESCUE STATIONMEDAL, silver, reverse, inscribed, ‘Awarded to James Henry Blinston’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1926, with silver brooch bar, good very fine and better (4)
£150-200 906
An unusual Great War group of six awarded to Monsieur Alexandre Franck, Belgian Army, who onetime served as an agent for British Military Intelligence
BELGIUM,ORDER OF LEOPOLD II, 5th Class breast badge, silver and enamel, with crossed sword riband fitment; BELGIUM, CROIX DEGUERRE 1914-18; BELGIUM,WARMEDAL 1914-18; BELGIUM, VICTORYMEDAL 1914-19; BELGIUM, VOLUNTEERS COMMEMORATIVEMEDAL 1914-18; GREAT BRITAIN, BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (A. Franck), good very fine and better (6)
£200-250
Alexandre Franck appears on the British War Medal roll signed by Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Wallinger of British Military Intelligence, dated in London on 7 August 1919 (T.N.A. WO 329/2356), the relevant entry stating that he had resided in the Avenue de la Chappelle, Antwerp, was deceased, and that his next of kin was his father, who resided at 32 Rue van Dyck (Parc). Added to which Franck’s MIC entry clearly states his single B.W.M. entitlement was granted under the umbrella heading of ‘Belgian Agents’ and ‘Agents 102’. The circumstances of his death remain unknown, but the following extract from Michael Occleshaw’s Armour Against Fate is not without interest:
‘There were, of course, many other organizations which, while successful to a lesser degree, nevertheless ran the same risks and penalties. Drake tells us that the number of agents employed by G.H.O. services alone was ‘roughly 6,000’, of whom 98 lost their lives - 91 executed, 4 dying in prison, 2 shot and 1 electrocuted when trying to cross the Dutch-Belgian frontier. A further 644 were imprisoned for sentences totalling 700 years (the time actually served amounted to 175 years), and 10 were deported. Major Wallinger, however, told Colonel Kirke that the total number of G.H.Q. agents in the occupied territories was 5,500 of whom 1,200 were imprisoned, serving an average of 14 months, and 200 were shot or died in prison (though in a later letter he gave a total shot or dying in prison as 120). The reason for the disparity between the two men’s figures almost certainly resides in a question of terminology, a question of what was precisely meant by the words ‘agent’ and ‘spy’. An agent is an individual directly employed by an Intelligence Service sent into a foreign country to obtain information. A spy is an individual who served in the enemy’s own ranks and, more often than not, is recruited by the agent ... the numbers employed both directly and indirectly by the British Intelligence Services was one that the Germans simply could not contain, much less control. Every sort of person was employed, ranging ‘from abbes, high officials of the Gendarmerie, a Marchioness of some 60 years of age, big industrialists and prominent barristers, down to seamstresses, poachers, smugglers, bargemen and railway officials ... ’ ’
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BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDAL PAIRS (2) (323205 Pte. E. J. Ryan, 20-Can. Inf.; 919315 Pte. W. H. Ryan, 87-Can. Inf.) BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (3187887 Pte. J. T. Ryan, N.S.R.) good fine and better (5)
£70-90
Edward John Ryan was born in Bolton, Lancashire, on 18 September 1894. A Press Photographer by occupation, he was drafted into the 1st Central Ontario Regiment at Toronto on 4 January 1918.
William Henry Ryan was born in Montreal on 1 October 1874. A Printing Pressman by occupation and a member of the 55th Irish Canadian Rangers, having previously served in No. 4 Ambulance Corps Montreal, he attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 27 April 1916.
John T. Ryan was born in Canso, Nova Scotia, on 20 September 1895. A Fisherman by occupation, he was drafted into the 1st Nova Scotia Regiment at Aldershot on 3 June 1918. All with copied service papers.
908 Three: Private T. Ryan, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
BRITISHWAR ANDVICTORYMEDALS (202857 Pte., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); TERRITORIAL FORCEWARMEDAL 1914-19 (202857 Pte., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) very fine (3)
£140-180 Later served in the Labour Corps. With copied m.i.c. - address given as ‘Lea View Bungalow, Pera Row, Tiabach, Port Talbot’.
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