The Collection of Medals to the Coldstream Guards, R.F.C., R.N.A.S. and R.A.F. formed by the late Tom Baugh 251
Seven: Serjeant H. H. Davis, Coldstream Guards, late Cameronians, wounded by a V-1 flying bomb at the Guards Chapel, 18 June 1944 1939-45 STAR; FRANCE ANDGERMANY STAR;DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS; CORONATION 1937, these unnamed; ARMY L.S. & G.C., G.V. R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (323374 Musician, C. Gds.); ARMYMERITORIOUS SERVICEMEDAL,
G.VI.R., 3rd issue (323374 Sjt., Coldm. Gds.); together with cap badges of the Cameronians and Coldstream Guards, contact marks, nearly very fine (9) £180-220
Herbert Henry Davis was born in Newcastle-under-Lyne on 27 December 1903. He enlisted at Burslem as a Boy on 22 July 1918, serving with the Cameronians. Attended course of instruction at Kneller Hall School of Music, March 1921-March 1922. Discharged as a Bandsman into the Army Reserve on 19 March 1928. Enlisted into the Coldstream Guards as a Musician on 20 March 1928. Awarded the Long Service Medal in 1937. Davis served in the U.S.A., April-June 1939 and N.W. Europe, December 1944-January 1945. On 18 June 1944 while on duty in the Guards Chapel, London, he was wounded by enemy action when a German V-1 flying bomb scored a direct hit - he sustained head injuries, lacerations to the face, hands and left elbow, with a contused lumbar, spine and ribs. Awarded the M.S.M. in 1951, he was discharged as permanently unfit due to tuberculosis on 16 February 1954. With copied service papers.
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Three: Guardsman P. M. Ainsley, Coldstream Guards GULF 1990-91, 1 clasp, 16 Jan to 28 Feb 1991 (24889940 Gdsm., Coldm. Gds.); GENERAL SERVICE 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24889940 Gdsm.,
Coldm.Gds); U.N. MEDAL, UNPROFOR ribbon, unnamed; together with Coldstream Guards cap badge, extremely fine (4)
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Hawker, seated centre, with members of the B.R.C.S. during the Balkans War 1912-13
An unusual Great War Mesopotamia operations C.M.G., C.B.E. group of eleven awarded to Brigadier-General C. J. Hawker, Coldstream Guards THEMOST DISTINGUISHEDORDER OF ST.MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; THE MOST EXCELLENTORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; 1914 -15 STAR (Col. C. J. Hawker, C. Gds.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf (Brig. Gen. C. J. Hawker); JUBILEE 1897; CORONATION 1911; KHEDIVE’S SUDAN 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Sudan 1899, unnamed; TURKEY, ORDER OF THE MEDJIDIE, Third Class neck badge, silver, gold and enamel; TURKEY, ORDER OF OSMANIEH, Third Class neck badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY’SMEDAL FOR THE BALKANWAR 1912-13, clasp, Turkey, and upper bar ‘Balkan War 1912-13’, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse officially inscribed, ‘Col. C. J. Hawker’, enamel damage to the Osmanieh and B.R.C. S. Medal, and minor official corrections to naming on the British War Medal, otherwise generally good very fine (11) £1200-1500
C.M.G. London Gazette 1 January 1918:
‘For services rendered in connection with military operations in Mesopotamia.’ C.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919:
‘For services rendered in connection with military operations in Mesopotamia.’
Claude Julian Hawker was born in January 1867 and was educated at Cheam School and Eton. Commissioned in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, in March 1887, he gained appointment as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards in May 1892 and was awarded the Jubilee Medal in 1897 as a Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion.
Advanced to Captain in September 1898, he was attached to the Egyptian Army from January 1899 until January 1909, in which period he participated in the Sudan operations of 1899 (Khedive’s Sudan Medal & clasp), commanded the Camel Corps from 1904-05 (Order of Medjidie, 3rd Class London Gazette 10 February 1905), served as Governor of Suakin in 1906, and commanded the Red Sea Military District 1907-09, latterly in the rank of Major.
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