CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
Able Seaman George Wright was one of twenty petty officers and ratings awarded the Cross of St. George by White Russian General Dobrolsky on 16 July 1919, in recognition of services in the rescue of the Royal Family and subsequent operations ashore near Odessa, although permission was not granted by the Admiralty for recipients to accept and wear their awards and no official entry was made on service records. However, his award is confirmed in Alexander Rudichenko’s Russian Imperial Awards of the Civil War Period (Moscow, 2007); sold with copied service paper and a small (damaged) photograph of the recipient in uniform.
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Three: Private H. Clift, Army Service Corps 1914-15 STAR (SS-14264 Pte., A.S.C.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (SS-14264 Pte., A.S.C.) nearly extremely fine (3)
£40-50
Private Henry Clift, Army Service Corps entered the France and Flanders theatre of war on 19 August 1915. He later served in the Royal Engineers and Labour Corps. With copied m.i.c.
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Three: Corporal H. J. Mortlock, 12th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, who died of wounds, France/Flanders, 6 July 1916
1914-15 STAR (5248 Cpl., North’d. Fus.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (5249 Cpl., North’d. Fus.) nearly extremely fine (3)
£80-100
Henry James Mortlock was born in and enlisted at Middlesborough. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 9 September 1915. Serving as a Corporal in the 12th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, he died of wounds on 6 July 1916, aged 24 years - wounds probably received during the early days of the battle of the Somme. He was buried in the Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France. He was the son of Thomas and Mary Ann Mortlock of 75 Surrey Street, South Bank, Yorkshire. With Northumberland Fusiliers cap badge and copied research.
775 Three: Private W. E. Harrison, Honourable Artillery Company-Infantry, killed in action, Gavrelle, 28 April 1917
1914-15 STAR (3477 Pte., H.A.C.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (3477 Pte., H.A.C.-Inf.) mounted court style for wear, nearly extremely fine (3)
£120-160
William Ewart Harrison lived at Goodmayes, Essex and enlisted at Armourt House. With the H.A.C. he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 18 August 1915. During the course of his active service he was twice wounded. Serving with “A” Company, 1st Battalion H.A.C. Infantry, he was killed in action at Gavrelle on 28 April 1917, aged 20 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. He was the son of George and Florence Harrison, of 119 Castleton Road, Goodmayes, Essex.
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1914-15 STAR ANDVICTORYMEDAL PAIRS (5) (17360 Dvr/Bmbr. C. Bennett, R.F.A./R.A.; L-10029 Sdlr Cpl./A. Sjt. P. Maguire, R.F.A./R.A.; 114636 Pnr. W. Morrison, R.E.; 40682 Spr. J. Richards, R.E.; 89393 Gnr. R. Winship, R.F.A./R.A.)
BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (275564 Spr. J. T. Charlton, R.E.) the B.W.M. lacking suspension and with brooch fitting to obverse, nearly very fine and better (12)
£120-160 777
Six: Captain A. E. Oxley, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
1914-15 STAR (10336 Pte. A. E. Oxley, Glouc. R.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (2 Lieut. A. E. Oxley); DEFENCE ANDWAR MEDALS; GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya,
G.VI.R. (Capt. A. E. Oxley, R.A.O.C.), generally good very fine and a most unusual span of active service (6)
£400-500
Alfred Edward Oxley first entered the Balkans theatre of war as a Lance-Corporal in the Gloucestershire Regiment in June 1915, seeing service in Gallipoli until the end of September 1915 and then in France until the end of October 1916. He was commissioned in the Bedfordshire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant in July 1917 and served again in France from September to 7 November 1917. He attended the Royal Air Force School of Instruction from February to June 1918, was then attached to 3rd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment at Felixtowe until February 1919 and was demobilised on 22 June 1919.Oxley served with the Royal Australian Air Force from 25 June 1922 to 27 March 1930. Granted an Emergency Commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in December 1940. He left the U.K. for Singapore in May 1946, returning in April 1948 and finally relinquished his commission in November 1953, when he was granted the honorary rank of Captain. Sold with Officer’s Record of Service (Army Book 439) and Military Identity Card with photograph.
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