CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 792
Pair: Private T. Page, 5th Dragoon Guards BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (5DG-5370 Pte., 5-D. Gds.)
Pair: Private T. Ward, 4th Dragoon Guards BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (GS-21794 Pte., 4-D. Gds.) very fine (4)
£50-70
Private Thomas Page, 5th Dragoon Guards entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 15 August 1914 - the unit was immediately involved in the battles of Mons and Le Cateau. With copied m.i.c. showing entitlement to the 1914 Star with clasp and the Silver War Badge.
Private Thomas Ward, 4th Dragoon Guards - with copied m.i.c. 793
Pair: Air Mechanic 2nd Class E. J. Wiggin, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (10571 2 A.M. E. J. Wiggin, R.F.C.), good very fine
Pair: Air Mechanic 2nd Class R. Potter, Royal Flying Corps BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (126473 2 A.M. R. Potter, R.F.C.), good very fine and better
Pair: Air Mechanic 2nd Class H. Wakerley, Royal Flying Corps BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (28362 2 A.M. H. Wakerley, R.F.C.), in their card boxes of issue, extremely fine (6)
£80-100
Ernest John Wiggin was born in Warwick in February 1896 and enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps as an Air Mechanic 2nd Class in October 1915. He subsequently served as a Labourer in a Kite Balloon Section out in France from March 1916 until September 1917, and was demobilised in April 1920; accompanying research refers.
Robert Potter served in the Royal Fusiliers out in France from July 1916 until October 1917, when he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as an Air Mechanic 3rd Class. He was discharged in April 1920; accompanying copied service record refers.
Henry Wakerley enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps in May 1916, was embarked for France that July and was invalided home via 83 General Hospital at Wimereux in December 1917. He was discharged in April 1920; accompanying copied service record refers.
794
Pair: Flight Sergeant F. W. Dixey, Royal Air Force, late Suffolk Regiment and Royal Flying Corps BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (22787 F. Sgt. F. W. Dixey, R.A.F.), good very fine
Pair: Corporal C. Skinner, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (25318 Cpl. C. Skinner, R.A.F.), good very fine
Pair: Corporal L. C. Bird, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (11735 Cpl. L. C. Bird, R.A.F.), extremely fine (6)
£60-80
Dixey enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps from the 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment in February 1916 and served as a Fitter in No. 24 Squadron, latterly in the rank of Chief Mechanic; accompanying research refers.
Skinner enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps in April 1916, was embarked for France in the same month, and served there more or less continuously until the War’s end, his appointments including time with No. 15 and No. 50 Squadrons. He was demobilised in May 1919; accompanying research refers.
Bird enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps in October 1915, served out in France and Flanders from March 1916 until the War’s end, including appointments in No. 23 and No. 35 Squadrons, and was demobilised in April 1920; accompanying research refers.
795
Pair: Air Mechanic 2nd Class C. D. P. Brown, Royal Air Force BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (224013 2 A.M. C. D. P. Brown, R.A.F.), in their card boxes of issue, extremely fine
Pair: Private 1st Class A. C. Puckering, Royal Air Force BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (56137 Pte. 1 A. C. Puckering, R.A.F.), good very fine and better (4)
796 Pair: Private J. Gillanders, 27th Battalion Canadian Infantry
BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (71556 Pte., 27-Can. Inf.); together with an Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-el-Kebir (Pte. John Gillanders, 32nd Coy. R.M.L.I.) renamed; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein (1381 Pte. John Gillanders, 1st Gordon Hdrs.) renamed; Khedive’s Star 1882, reverse inscribed, ‘Pte. John Gillanders, 32nd Coy. R.M.L.I.’, the five mounted for wear, Egypt Medal pitted and good fine; others very fine and better (5)
£120-160
John Gillanders was born in Aberdeen, Scotland on 17 December 1872. Employed in ‘Telephone Construction’, and having previously served 12 years in the Gordon Highlanders, he attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Winnipeg, Manitoba on 16 November 1914.
With copied attestation paper. 797
Pair: Rifleman Aitasing Limbu, 2-7 Gurkha Rifles BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (3969 Rfmn., 2-7 Grks.)
BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (2) (3511 Nk. Karnasing Thapa, 1-8 Grks.; Subdr. Himbahadur Sahi, 2-9 Grks.); VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (2397 Rfmn. Kabiraj Khand, .... Grks.); GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 2 clasps, Iraq, Kurdistan (01354 Cpl. I. Scott, D.C.L.I.) suspension crudely repaired, edge bruising, contact marks, fine and better (6)
£70-90
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