CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 707
Five: Stoker Petty Officer G. L. White, Royal Navy, killed when H.M.S. Bittern was in collision with S.S. Kenilworth, 4 April 1918
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (Sto., H.M.S. Terpsichore) impressed naming; 1914-15 STAR (285168 S.P.O., R. N.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (285168 S.P.O., R.N.); ROYALNAVY L.S.&G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (285168 Sto. P.O., H. M.S. Vivid); MEMORIAL PLAQUE (George Lambert White) extremely fine (6)
£300-400
George Lambert White was born in Harberton, Devon on 9 January 1878. A Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 3 May 1897, being advanced to Stoker in March 1898 when on Nile. He served on Terpsichore, February 1901-April 1904, during which time he served off the coast of South Africa. White was promoted to Stoker 1st Class in July 1906 when on Cambrian, to Leading Stoker in October 1912 when on Magnificent and attained the rank of Stoker Petty Officer in November 1915 when on Blenheim. He was based on Vivid II and serving on the destroyer Bittern from July 1916.
He was on board the vessel when in April 1917 the Bittern, with others, rendered assistance to the S.S. Clan Sutherland which had been torpedoed by the UC-66 12 miles E.S.E. of Start Point. A party from the Bittern boarded the ship in an attempt to save the vessel. Eventually the Clan Sutherland was beached at Dartmouth where it was found that the vessel had been looted. The men from the Bittern were blamed and as punishment their salvage reward was forfeited whether they had boarded the stricken ship or not.
Stoker Petty Officer White was killed whilst on duty when the Bittern was sunk in a collision with the S.S. Kenilworth off Portland Bill in thick fog on 4 April 1918. The Court of Inquiry found that the captain of the Kenilworth had been negligent in that he had failed to follow the prescribed route, showing no lights and sounding no fog horn.
With original named scroll mounted on card; slip to accompany the Memorial Plaque, and extensive copied research including photographs of the Bittern and one of the Harberton War Memorial bearing White’s name.
708
Pair: Private J. Thomas, Namaqualand Town Guard
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, no clasp (32 Pte. J. Thomas, Namaqualand T.G.) official correction to one letter of unit; CAPE COPPER COMPANY MEDAL FOR THE DEFENCE OF OOKIEP, bronze issue (J. Thomas) first with edge bruise, good very fine and better (2)
£1400-1800
Confirmed on the roll of the Namaqualand Town Guard as having engaged the enemy at Ookiep. His home address was ‘5 Kirby Grove, Shotton, Flintshire.
709
Six: Able Seaman M. Phillips, Royal Navy
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Ord., H.M.S. Terrible) impressed naming; CHINA 1900, no clasp (Ord., H.M.S. Bonaventure); 1914-15 STAR (201878 A.B., R.N.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (201878 A.B., R.N.); ROYAL FLEET RESERVE L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (201878 (Po.B.1352) A.B., R.F.R.) very fine (6)
£350-400 Listed in the published roll as being entitled to the Q.S.A. with no clasp.
710
Six: Sergeant R. G. Fletcher, Middlesex Regiment and Royal Air Force
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (1168 Cpl. R. G. Fletcher, Middlesex Regt.); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1168 Corpl. R. G. Fletcher, Middlesex Regt.); 1914-15 STAR (2965 Sjt. R. G. Fletcher, Middx. R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (405229 Sjt. R. G. Fletcher, R.A.F.), in their card boxes of issue; DEFENCEMEDAL 1939-45, in its named card forwarding box with Army Council slip, together with I.D. disc and Middlesex badges (4), possible official correction to initials on the fifth, good very fine and better (11) £200-250
Fletcher first entered the Mediterranean theatre of war on 18 July 1915, presumably as a member of the 2/10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Territorial Force), which unit landed at Suvla, Gallipoli in the following month and was decimated in subsequent fighting around Chocolate and Scimitar Hills. He subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, and thence to the Royal Air Force.
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