CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 898
Ten: Able Seaman A. V. Jackson, Royal Navy
1914-15 STAR (J. 34200 A. V. Jackson, Boy 1, R.N.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (J. 34200 A. V. Jackson, A.B., R.N.); CORONATION 1937; 1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; ITALY STAR; PACIFIC STAR;WARMEDAL 1939-45; ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., coinage bust (J. 34200 A. V. Jackson, A.B., H.M.S. Pembroke), mounted as worn in this order, the Great War awards with contact marks and polished, thus fine, the remainder generally very fine or better (10)
£160-180
Albert Victor Jackson was born in London in June 1899 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in January 1915. His subsequent wartime seagoing appointments were in H.M. Monitor Lord Clive, from July 1915 to December 1917, and in the destroyer Forward, from July 1918 until the end of April 1919.
The Lord Clive participated in numerous bombardments against enemy batteries on the Belgian coast, including Zeebrugge and Ostend - taking four hits in quick succession while attacking the latter port on 7 September 1915. And of particular interest relevant to Jackson’s time in the destroyer Forward was the occasion his ship assisted in the evacuation of Odessa in early April 1919, when she rescued, among others, the Countess Helen Tolstoy, wife of Count Dimitry Tolstoy, the Director of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg - she was conveyed to Malta with two of her children and a British nurse, Miss Simmonds. Husband and wife were later reunited and settled in France.
Jackson was still serving in the 1930s and received his Coronation Medal in 1937 aboard the royal yacht Victoria & Albert (T.N.A. ADM 171/69 refers); sold with copied service record.
899
Eight: Mechanician J. A. Richardson, Royal Navy
1914-15 STAR ((K.16539 Sto. 1, R.N.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS ((K.16539 S.P.O., R.N.); 1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS, these unnamed; ROYALNAVY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (K.16539 Mech., H. M.S. Curacoa) mounted court style for display, fine and better (8)
£100-140
John Arthur Richardson was born in Wood Green, London on 8 May 1894. A Milkman by occupation, he enlisted as a Stoker 2nd Class on Victory II on 9 October 1912. He served on H.M.S. Dreadnought, July 1913-October 1914, being promoted to Stoker 1st Class in October 1913. He served on the light cruiser H.M.S. Royalist, March 1915-January 1920 - advancing to the rate of Stoker Petty Officer in January 1918. Post-war, Richardson served on the cruiser H.M.S. Curacoa, April 1926-August 1928, attaining the rank of Mechanician in April 1927 and being awarded the Long Service medal in January 1928. Richardson served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Although serving in the Atlantic, he was not on the Curacoa when disaster befell on 2 October 1942, when the liner Queen Mary, carrying 15,000 U.S. troops accidentally rammed and cut in half her small escort.
With original W.W.2 medal forwarding box addressed to ‘Mr J. A. Richardson, The Queen Victoria, Shittisham, Kings Lynn, Norfolk’. Also with copied service paper.
900
Seven: Staff Sergeant L. E. Matthews, South African Corps of Signals, late South African Medical Corps
1914-15 STAR (Sjt., 6th F. Amb.-S.A.M.C.); BRITISH WAR AND BILINGUAL VICTORY MEDALS (S/Sjt., 6th F.A.-S.A.M.C.); 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR, clasp, 8th Army; WAR AND AFRICA SERVICEMEDALS, these four officially named (213047 L. E. Matthews) fine and better (7)
£60-80
Lawrence Edgar Matthews was born in the District of Albany on 1 December 1892. During the Great War he served as a Staff Serjeant in the South African Medical Corps - serving with the 6th Field Ambulance and Prince Albert’s Guards No. 1 Clearing Hospital. An Electrician by occupation, in June 1940 he volunteered for the Union Defence Force, aged 47 years. Served with the South African Corps of Signals in East Africa, Abyssinia and North Africa. Served for a time with No. 1 Railway Telegraph Operating Company. Returned to the Union of South Africa in 1943, being discharged in July 1943 as being no longer required. With copied W.W.2 service papers.
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