CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 850 Pair: Gunner C. Mew, Royal Artillery
EGYPT AND SUDAN 1882-89, 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (3314 Gnr., 1/By. 1/Bde. S. Div. R.A.) late issue with ‘Great War’ style impressed naming; KHEDIVE’S STAR, 1884-6, unnamed, mounted for wear, virtually extremely fine (2)
£120-160
Charles Mew was born in Ryde, Isle of Wight. A Labourer by occupation and a member of the Southsea V.R.C., he attested for the Royal Artillery at Newport, Isle of Wight on 30 May 1882, aged 19 years, 6 months. He served overseas in Malta, February 1883- February 1884 and in Egypt and Sudan, February 1884-October 1885. Mew was discharged at Netley as medically unfit on 9 February 1886. His papers record that he was suffering from a ‘Mania’ and that following his discharge he was treated at the County Lunatic Asylum at Knowle, Farnham, Hampshire.
With copied service papers.
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Five: Petty Officer 1st Class T. Heather, Royal Navy
EAST ANDWEST AFRICA 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (Ord., H.M.S. St. George); 1914 STAR (169382 P.O. ICL., Hawke Bttn. R.N.D.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (169382 P.O.1, R.N.); ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C.,
E.VII.R. (169382 Thomas Heather, A.B. (Rigger) H.M.Y. Victoria & Albert) very fine and better (5)
£400-460 Petty Officer 1st Class T. Heather, RN. died on 7 January 1920. With extract from published 1914 Star R.N. roll.
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Six: Staff Sergeant (Acting Sergeant-Major) G. J. Rendall, 10th Battalion (Intelligence Police) Royal Fusiliers, formerly Royal Field Artillery, who was wounded during the Defence of Ladysmith and served during the Great War with the so called ‘Hush-Hush Brigade’
INDIAGENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (79081 Corpl., 10th Fd. By., R.A.); QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (79706 Gunr., 21st Bty., R.F.A.) naming corrected, last clasp unofficially attached; 1914 STAR, with clasp (R-F-15330 S. Sjt. (A.S. Mjr.), R. Fus.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (GS-15330 S. Sjt., R. Fus.); CORONATION 1911, Metropolitan Police (P. S. G. Rendall) generally very fine and better (6)
£400-500
George J. Rendall was wounded on 6 January 1900 during the Defence of Ladysmith, whilst serving with the 21st Battery, Royal Field Artillery.
Beginning in August 1914 and continuing throughout the Great War, numbers of Metropolitan and provincial police officers, usually bilingual and often from Special Branch, enlisted into the Army for service in the Intelligence Corps. The identity of these men was treated with great secrecy and they became known to their police colleagues as the ‘Hush-Hush Brigade’, their names only ever being made public if they were either killed or decorated. These Intelligence entrants were posted (but only on paper) to the 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and this was always the regiment shown on their medals. (An article entitled The ‘Hush-Hush Brigade’, by Robert W. Gould, MBE was published in the OMRS Journal, Volume 32, No. 2).
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Four: Company Serjeant-Major G. H. Holliday, Royal West Kent Regiment
INDIAGENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (4027 Lce. Corpl., 1st Bn. Ryl. W. Kent Regt.); 1914-15 STAR (1181 C.Q.M. Sjt., R. W. Kent R.); BRITISHWAR ANDVICTORYMEDALS (1181 C.S. Mjr., R.W. Kent R.) last two with service number and rank re-engraved, nearly very fine and better (4)
£140-180
Company Quartermaster Serjeant George H. Holliday, Royal West Kent Regiment entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 1 June 1915. Later transferred to the Bedfordshire Regiment.
With copied m.i.c. showing his address to be ‘30a Swaby Rd., Earlsfield, London, S.W.18’ and that an application was made to have the inscription on his medals corrected.
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Pair: Sergeant J. Allen, Gordon Highlanders
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (3695 Pte. J. Allan, 1st Bn. Gord. Highrs.) 1st and 2nd clasps connected by wire; QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Belfast (3695 Sgt. J. Allen, Gordon Highrs.) note: variation in spelling of surname, mounted as worn in wrong order from an ornate silver brooch bar, toned, minor contact marks, good very fine (2)
£300-360 With copied roll extracts confirming all clasps - that for the Q.S.A. lists his service number as ‘3698’.
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