CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 815 Eight: Warrant Officer Class 2 H. Spencer, Essex Regiment, late Royal Fusiliers
GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6455395 Pte., Essex R.); 1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; FRANCE AND GERMANY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, these unnamed, contact marks, about very fine (8)
£140-180
Harold Spencer was born on 7 September 1905. A Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Fusiliers at London on 5 August 1924. With the Fusiliers he served in India, October 1925-February 1932. Transferring to the Essex Regiment in February 1932, he served with them in Palestine, October 1936-January 1938; Egypt, January 1938-January 1940; Sudan, January 1940-January 1941; Palestine, January-May 1941; Iraq, May-October 1941; Egypt, October 1941-May 1943; and ‘Overseas’, June 1943-September 1944 and December 1944-February 1945. He was appointed an Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 (R.Q.M.S.) in June 1943. His Soldier’s Release Book testimonial records that since June 1943 he was a ‘warrant officer Class II on board H.M. Transports in charge of valuable Government Stores’. Having been appointed to that rank in July 1945 (back dated to June 1943), he was discharged from the Essex Regiment at Warwick on 27 February 1953. His Regular Army Certificate of Service lists his medals (above) and includes (incorrectly) both the France and Germany Star and Atlantic Star, together with the Army L.S. & G.C. - this last not with lot.
With Regular Army Certificate of Service; document of appointment to Warrant Officer, dated 13 July 1945; part of Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; parts of Soldier’s Release Book Class “A”.
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Seven: Major J. U. Stobbs, The Queen’s Regiment, onetime attached Chindits
GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 3 clasps, Palestine, Palestine 1945-48, Malaya,
G.VI.R. (2/Lt. J. H.(sic) Stobbs, Queens), with erasure before rank; GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine,
G.VI.R. (2/Lieut. J. U. Stobbs, The Queen’s R.), an official ‘second issue’ in its named card box of issue with related forwarding letter dated 12 April 1946; 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; BURMA STAR; DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as worn where applicable, together with a set of related dress miniature medals, the second extremely fine, the remainder with contact marks, generally very fine (13) £400-500
John Unwin Stobbs, who was born in December 1915, was gazetted as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Queen’s Regiment in January 1937, direct from the Regular Army Reserve of Officers. Having then served in the 2nd Battalion in Palestine 1938-39, and been advanced to Acting Captain in January 1940, he witnessed active service with his battalion as C.O. of ‘D’ Company in the Western Desert, including the battle of Sidi Barrani, thence the Syria campaign and later still in the Tobruk operations, gaining a “mention” (London Gazette 30 December 1941 refers).
The 2nd Battalion was next embarked for Ceylon, to carry out jungle warfare training and Stobbs, who attained the temporary rank of Major in January 1944, accompanied the unit as an advanced Air Base Officer when it was chosen to support Wingate’s Chindit operations in the latter month, gaining his second “mention” (London Gazette 26 April 1945 refers).
Remaining a regular after the War, Stobbs returned to Palestine, gained advancement to the substantive rank of Major in January 1950 and, following further active service in Malaya, was finally placed on the Retired List in May 1969; sold with the recipient’s original commission warrant for 2nd Lieutenant in the Regular Army Reserve of Officers, dated 11 June 1935, together with a pre- war photograph album (approximately 110 images), with particularly good coverage of Palestine.
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