CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 1415 Four: Mechanician J. Taylor, Royal Navy
1914-15 STAR (307057 J. Taylor, Act. Mech., R.N.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (307057 J. Taylor. Mech., R.N.); ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue), 307057 James Taylor, Mechn., H.M.S. Julius), contact marks and polished, otherwise generally good fine (4)
£100-120
James Taylor was born in Forfarshire in April 1882 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in August 1904. A Stoker Petty Officer serving in the store ship H.M.S. Tyne on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he removed to the battleship Commonwealth an an Acting Mechanician in March 1915 and remained similarly employed until coming ashore to an appointment in Pembroke II in August 1917. A few weeks later he returned to sea in the Lord Nelson, in which capacity he served out the War, and he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in November 1919, while serving in the destroyer Aberdare out of the Constantinople base Sirius. Taylor was finally pensioned ashore in August 1926; sold with copied service record.
1416 Three: Wireman 1st Class F. H. Allum, Royal Navy, who was present at Jutland in the light cruiser H.M.S. Calliope
1914-15 STAR (M. 12389 F. H. Allum, Ar. Cr., R.N.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (M. 12389 F. H. Allum, Wmn. 1, R. N.), good very fine (3)
£70-90
Frederick Henry Allum was born in Reading, Berkshire in July 1884 and entered the Royal Navy as Armourer’s Crew in March 1915. Initially employed ashore, he went to sea in the light cruiser H.M.S. Calliope in May 1915 and remained similarly employed until the War’s end, thereby being present at Jutland
Under the direct command of Commodore Le Mesurier, the Calliope acted as the flagship of the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron at Jutland and was heavily engaged throughout the battle. But it was not until the evening that she started to take her first casualties, the result of a duel with two Kaiser class battleships. The Fighting at Jutland takes up the story:
‘ ... only our speed and zigzagging saved us from annihilation. As it was, we seemed to be in the middle of splashes, and the noise of the bursting shell and flying fragments was absolutely deafening. We were hit five times in all, three of which did serious damage to personnel. One shell, bursting against the breech of the port after 4-inch gun, smashed the fittings and gun shield and killed practically all the gun’s crew, the notable exception being the sight-setter, a Corporal of Marines, who had the gun between him and the burst and only suffered a slight scalp wound.
The second hit on us burst near No. 3 4-inch gun under the bridge, disabled the gun, killing and wounding some of the crew, and fragments of this shell penetrated the deck of the lower bridge and wounded a signalman and a bugler.
The third shell penetrated the upper deck, and burst in the boys’ mess deck, almost in the middle of the after dressing station, killing some and wounding many others, including the Staff Surgeon.
For the last five minutes that we were under fire we were in sight of our own ships, although the two battle fleets were invisible to each other, and we were told afterwards that at times we were hidden in spray from the splashes. Altogether, we had 10 killed and 23 wounded, some seriously. We were ordered to take station on the port beam of the battle fleet for the night, and in the morning resumed our cruising station ahead during the search for disabled enemy ships.
On reaching Scapa afterwards, we were ordered in first, instead of waiting for the battle fleet to enter, to land our wounded. Our dead we buried at sea the morning after the action, the Commodore leaving the bridge for a few minutes to read the burial service, the one time he was ever known to leave the bridge at sea.’
Allum was demobilised ashore in March 1919; sold with copied service record. 1417
Three: Commander W. Blood, Royal Navy, a submariner who received a glowing assessment from Nasmith V.C. 1914-15 STAR (Mid. W. Blood, R.N.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Lieut. M. Blood, R.N.), very fine (3)
£150-200
Morice Blood was born in April 1897, the son of a Major in the Indian Medical Service, and entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in January 1910. Appointed a Midshipman in the cruiser H.M.S. Cornwall in July 1914, he quickly saw action off the Falklands and remained similarly employed until transferring to the submarine branch as a Sub. Lieutenant in April 1917.
He subsequently witnessed active service in the E. 31 from June 1917 to August 1918, in which period he was advanced to Lieutenant, and in the E. 45 from the latter month until March 1919, when he removed to the L. 12 - the first of several appointments in L-class submarines over the next year or two. And he was clearly making his mark, or certainly according to a report written in October 1919, Nasmith, V.C.:
‘This officer places the interests of the Service before his own. Very loyal and has plenty of self-control. Is a good example to others and possesses the power of influencing them. Has a good power of command, is firm and has good judgement in dealing with his crew. Resourceful. Has consideration for others and takes great pains with regard to the welfare of his crew. His professional skill is well above the average. Good physique. Recommended for command of a submarine.’
Blood remained in the submarine branch until early 1925 and was placed on the Retired List at his own request in January 1927, upon which he was advanced to Commander in April 1937. In the following year he attended an instructor’s course and by the renewal of hostilities he was serving in the Naval Ordnance Inspection Department, in which capacity he was still employed - at Woolwich - in 1941; sold with copied service record.
1418 Four: Warrant Skipper L. Cundy, Royal Naval Reserve, who died from injuries sustained in October 1917
1914-15 STAR (W.S.A. 1284 L. Cundy, Skr., R.N.R.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (W.S.A. 1284 L. Cundy, Skr., R.N.R.); ROYALNAVAL RESERVE L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (W.S.A. 1284 L. Cundy, Wt. Skipr., R.N.R.), this last with minor official correction to number, good very fine (4)
£80-100
Louis Cundy, who was born at Polruan in Cornwall in August 1869, served as a Skipper (later Warrant Skipper) in trawlers of the Auxiliary Patrol during the Great War, onetime, it would seem, in H.M. Trawler Offa II - she assisted in the salvaging of the Poona in December 1916, which might well tie-up with a letter sent by Lord Astor on behalf of his widow after the War, in which he claims prize money on her behalf (his service record refers).
Cundy, who had been awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in June 1917, died of injuries sustained on 8 October 1917, while serving in another trawler, the Balfour. He was 47 years of age and left a widow, Susan, of Prince Rock, Plymouth, and was buried in Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery; sold with copied service record.
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