CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 798 Three: Private A. Reid, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), who was killed in action in July 1917
BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (82693 Pte. A. Reid, M.G.C.), together with related MEMORIAL PLAQUE 1914-18 (Alfred Reid), good very fine and better (3)
£100-120
Alfred Reid, who was born in Waterside, Ayrshire, and formerly a member of the Scottish Rifles, was killed in action on 29 July 1917, while serving in 228th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). The son of William and Mary Reid of Dunaskin, Ayshire, and the husband of Christina Reid of Grantly Gardens, Shawlands, Glasgow, he was 30 years of age, has no known grave and is commemorated on a memorial at Essex Farm Cemetery.
799
Family group:
Three: Police Constable W. Dawson, Metropolitan Police JUBILEE 1887, clasp, 1897, Metropolitan Police issue, bronze (P.C. W. Dawson, S Divn.); CORONATION 1902, Metropolitan Police issue, bronze (P.C. W. Dawson, T Div.); CORONATION 1911, Metropolitan Police issue (P.C. W. Dawson), occasional edge bruise, generally good very fine
Pair: Private W. A. Dawson, 1/15th Battalion, London Regiment BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (3635 Pte. W. A. Dawson, 15-Lond. R.), together with related MEMORIAL PLAQUE 1914-18 (William Albert Dawson), and Buckingham Palace scroll, mounted on card, good very fine or better (6)
£180-220
William Dawson joined the Metropolitan Police in December 1882, as a Police Constable in S (Hampstead) Division, afterwards transferred to T (Hammersmith) Division, and was pensioned in December 1907. Dawson then briefly rejoined (as a pensioner) for the Coronation in 1911, serving in B (Chelsea) Division.
William Albert Dawson, who was from Fulham, London, was killed in action on 22 March 1918, while serving in the 1/15th Battalion (The Prince of Wales’ Own Civil Service Rifles), London Regiment. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial; sold with copied MIC entry confirming entitlement to only the British War and Victory Medals.
800
Three: Private W. H. Robinson, Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment
BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (35965 Pte. W. H. Robinson, Notts. & Derby. R.), together with related MEMORIAL PLAQUE 1914-18 (Wilfred Henry Robinson), good very fine and better (3)
£100-120
Wilfred Henry Robinson, who was born in New Basford, Nottinghamshire, was killed in action on 15 July 1916, while serving in the 1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
801
Pair: Stoker 1st Class P. B. Jones, Royal Navy BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (K.43761 Sto. 1, R.N.) good very fine (2)
£40-50
Percy Beauford Jones was born in Crouch Hill, London on 27 December 1888. A Coal Merchant by occupation, living at Riversdale, Angel Road, Thames Ditton, Surrey, he volunteered for service in the Royal Navy on 5 July 1917. He served as a Stoker 2nd Class at Vivid, July-November 1917 and on Berwick, November 1917-August 1918, and was promoted to Stoker 1st Class in June 1918. He served out the remainder of the war at Pembroke, on Berwick and at Vivid. He was discharged to shore on 3 July 1919.
With original Certificate of Service; Qualifications in Stoker Ratings Certificate; Protection and Identity Certificate; registered envelope addressed to Mr P. B. Jones of 52 Layfield Road, Gillingham, Kent - these last two mounted on card; together with a postcard of H.M.S. Berwick sent by Percy to his Aunt, dated November 1918.
802
Pair: Seaman John Bradley, Mercantile Marine, who died 21 March 1917 BRITISH WAR AND MERCANTILE MARINE WAR MEDALS (John Bradley) nearly extremely fine (2)
Seaman John Bradley of the S.S. Acton, died on 21 March 1917. His name is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial.
The S.S. Acton was a Q Ship (Q.34), used by the Royal Navy, 15 February 1917-26 March 1919. On 20 August 1917 the Acton sank the German submarine UC-72 in the Bay of Biscay.
With four group photographs, two with the names of those featured (do not include the recipient) - one referring to the men as ‘late H. M.S. Acton’.
803
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDAL PAIRS (2) (145778 Gnr. W. H. Berry, R.A.; M2-073609 Pte. G. H. Brewer, A.S.C.) VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (21899 Pte. W. Smith, K.O. Sco. Bord.) good very fine and better (5)
Medals to Brewer with ‘A.S.C.’ badges (2).
Medal to Smith with forwarding slip addressed to ‘Mr W. F. Smith, 26 Ascot Terr., Pontefract Lane, Leeds’. Medal and slip in glass- fronted case.
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£50-70
£50-60
Medals to Brewer with two identity disks; Protection Certificate and Certificate of Identity (mounted on card); named lid to card medal box of issue; envelope addressed to Mr W. H. Berry, 61 Peperharrow Road, Godalming, Surrey.
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