A Collection of British Groups with Foreign Awards 637
A rare Great War D.S.M. group of five awarded to Able Seaman R. C. Trevithick, Royal Navy, also a recipient of the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, 8th Class
DISTINGUISHED SERVICEMEDAL, G.V.R. (224420 R. C. Trevithick, A.B., Mediterranean Station, 1917); 1914-15 STAR (224420 R. C. Trevithick, A.B., R.N.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (224420 R. C. Trevithick, A.B., R.N.); JAPAN, ORDER OF THE RISING SUN, 8th Class breast badge, silver, somewhat polished, nearly very fine or better (5)
£800-1000
D.S.M. London Gazette 17 May 1917. Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, 8th Class London Gazette 6 April 1918.
Richard Charles Trevithick was born in St. Ives, Cornwall in January 1886 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in January 1903. Advanced to Able Seaman in August 1906, he was serving in the battle cruiser H.M.S. Indefatigable on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, and remained similarly employed until coming ashore to Vivid I in October 1915. Returning to sea with an appointment in the sloop Gladiolus from January to November 1916, he removed to the Ribola on the Mediterranean Station in the following month, in which ship he was awarded his D.S.M. and served until joining the destroyer Acheron in July 1917. Having then ended the War in the Acheron, he was demobilised in April 1919, but served in the Royal Fleet Reserve until June 1921; sold with copied service record and other research.
638
An impressive Great War M.M. group of nine awarded to Corporal R. Taylor, Royal Artillery
MILITARYMEDAL,
G.VI.R. (30493 Cpl. R. Taylor, ‘Q’ By. R.H.A.); QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (30493 Tprt. R. Taylor, 88th Bty. R.F.A.); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (30493 Tptr. R. Taylor, R.F.A.): 1914 STAR, WITH CLASP (30493 Bmbr. R. Taylor, R.H.A.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (30493 Cpl. R. Taylor, R.A.); DELHIDURBAR 1903; ARMY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (30493 Cpl. R. Taylor, R.H.A.); FRANCE, CROIX DE GUERRE 1914-1917, with bronze palm, the Boer War pair with contact marks and polished, fine, the remainder generally very fine or better (9)
£500-600 M.M. London Gazette 27 October 1916.
Ralph Taylor served in 88th Battery, Royal Field Artillery in the Boer War and first entered the French theatre of war as a Bombardier in Q Battery, Royal Horse Artillery on 11 November 1914 - although his MIC entry states ‘ineligible for 14 clasp’. Subsequently awarded the M.M., most probably for the Somme offensive; he received his L.S. & G.C. Medal in AO 125 of April 1917; sold with copied Medal & clasp roll confirmation.
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