CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 1452 BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDAL PAIRS (2) (G-95758 Pte. S. A. Cattermole, Midd’x. R.; 48375 Pte. V. A. Telling, Wilts. R.)
BRITISHWARMEDAL 1914-20 (20973 Pte. B. C. Telling, Wilts. R.); VICTORYMEDAL 1914-19 (12407 2 A.M. A. G. Holmes, R. F.C.) very fine and better (6)
£100-140
Bert Charles Telling was born and lived in Swindon and enlisted at Devizes. Serving as a Private in the 5th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment he was killed in action in Mesopotamia, 9 April 1916. His name is commemorated on the Basra Memorial. He was the son of Albert and Caroline Telling, of 14 Whiteman Street, Gorse Hill, Swindon.
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BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDAL PAIRS (4) (3-27208 Pte. J. Lancashire, Ches. R.; 665758 Gnr. W. J. Cruikshank, R.A.; 74423 Gnr. H. Phillips, R.A.; 2821 Dvr. R. Prescott, R.A.)
Pair: Private H. Bradley, King’s Royal Rifle Corps 1914-15 STAR (R-12138 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.); VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (R-12138 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.) very fine and better (10) £150-180
Private Joe Bradley, K.R.R.C. entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 12 September 1915. He was later transferred to the Labour Corps and was discharged on 7 March 1919. All with copied m.i.c.
1454 Morgan, S. Staff. R.) last ‘Victory’ with bent suspension ring, very fine and better (6) 1455
Medal to Davis with a portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform when he was 19. He died in 1942. BRITISHWAR ANDVICTORYMEDAL PAIRS (3) (11659 Cpl. J. Murphy, Ir. Gds.; 2715 Tpr. G. Davis, Household Bn.; 20661 Pte. A.
£90-120
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDAL PAIRS (4) (465WT.S. C. F. Durrant, W.T.O., R.N.R.; 136235 2 A.M. J. Brown, R.A.F.; 121618 2 A.M. W. V. Jeans, R.A.F.; 26045 A. Sgt. R. G. Pelling, R.A.F.)
BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (Ch. Bosn. J. Cock, R.N.); VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (B.1-92 E. F. Kingston, Jr. 4, R.N.V.R.) generally nearly extremely fine (10)
£140-180 ‘W.T.O.’ = Warrant Telegraphist Officer. ‘Jr. 4’ = Joiner 4th Class.
Sold with a Discharge Certificate to Private Harry Lee, 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Lee was born in Thirsk, Yorkshire, on 26 January 1884. He enlisted on 6 December 1915, served in France, 16 July-3 November 1916, and was discharged as no longer physically fit for war service on 13 January 1917.
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Pair: William M. Tate, Master of the S.S. Sheaf Field who was commended in the London Gazette for an action against an enemy submarine, 27 February 1918
BRITISH WAR AND MERCANTILE MARINE WAR MEDALS (William M. Tate) extremely fine (2) Commendation London Gazette 26 April 1918.
£120-160
William Montgomery Tate was born in Blyth in 1882. In February 1918 he was Master of the S.S. Sheaf Field, on government service carrying 2,200 tons of coal from Barry to Stornaway. At 08.40 am. on 27 February 1918, about 12 miles E.S.E. of South Rock Lightship (E. of Cloughey, N. Ireland), the ship came under attack from an enemy submarine. Two torpedoes were fired towards the ship, one torpedo passed across the bow and the other passed under the vessel without exploding. The submarine then surfaced and was engaged by the crew of the Sheaf Field, firing their deck gun. After firing nine rounds the gun jammed. The submarine was seen to be damaged and having difficulty manoeuvring. Laying broadside on, she made a tempting target, but Tate calculated that since he had no wireless, had a jammed gun and the submarine had a working deck gun, he decided it would be prudent to leave the area unscathed. For his actions Tate was mentioned in the London Gazette as having received an expression of commendation for his services.
With copied report of the action and other research. 1457
Four: Leading Seaman J. C. Rowland, Royal Navy, a veteran of the Dardanelles who went on to serve in Q-Ships and was present on the occasion of the loss of the Tulip (a.k.a. Q-8) to the U. 61 in April 1917
NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (J. 342 J. C. Rowlands, A.B., H.M.S. Swiftsure), note surname spelling; 1914-15 STAR (J. 342 J. C. Rowland, A.B., R.N.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (J. 342 J. C. Rowland, L. S., R.N.), contact marks, therefore nearly very fine (4)
£400-500
Joseph Charles Rowland was born in Camberwell, London in January 1892 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in January 1908. Joining the cruiser H.M.S. Swiftsure as an Able Seaman in March 1913, and having seen active service in the Persian Gulf, he was similarly employed on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 and was landed for service ashore in the Suez and Dardanelles operations of 1915-16.
Coming ashore to Pembroke in May 1916, he next transferred to the clandestine world of Q-Ships, and served in the Q-12 from August 1916 until her sinking in the Atlantic on 30 April 1917, when she was torpedoed by the U. 62. Q-Ships, by Carson Ritchie, takes up the story:‘On 30 April 1917, Tulip was steaming 200 miles west of Ireland when a periscope was sighted. The commander, Norman Lewis, turned towards the submarine, intending to ram, but before the ship could answer the helm a torpedo hit her amidships, killing many of the engine room staff and wrecking the largest lifeboat. Lewis gave the order to abandon ship and threw overboard the iron box containing the confidential books. His steward, a butler in civilian life, apologised for leaving the captain’s cabin in such a terrible state as the survivors got away in the three remaining
boats.The U-boat, U. 62, commanded by Korvetten-Kapitan Hashagen, closed the life boats, and a young officer asked for the captain. Lewis raised his hand and was ordered aboard. He was taken to Hashagen who said: “Good afternoon, captain. Do you have any papers or weapons on you?” Lewis said that he did not. “Very well, “ said Hashagen, “sit down and have a drink.” Lewis was expecting a rather different reception, but as he said later: “Being of a tactful nature, I had one.” He continued to be treated well in the U-boat and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner at Freiburg. His men were left to a 200-mile row home: fortunately they were picked up the following day.’
Rowland saw out the War with appointments in the cruisers Euryalus in July-October 1917 and Sapphire from the latter month until the end of hostilities, and he was finally pensioned ashore as a Leading Seaman in September 1922; sold with copied service record.
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