MISCELLANEOUS 535
MEMORIAL PLAQUE 1914-18 (Edwin Victor Kitching) very fine M.M. London Gazette 21 August 1917.
£60-80
Sergeant Edwin Victor Kitching, M.M., Royal Garrison Artillery, died on 18 October 1918, aged 33 years. He was buried in Liverpool (Toxteth Park) Cemetery. He was the son of Edwin Victor and Margaret Kitching and husband of Martha Winifred Kitching, of 1 Roper Terrace, North Hill Street, Liverpool.
With copied gazette extract. 536 MEMORIAL PLAQUE 1914-18, (James Arnott Muir) in paper and card envelopes, extremely fine £40-60
Able Seaman James Arnott Muir, R.N.V.R., serving with Drake Battalion R.N. Division, was killed in action on 25 March 1918. His name is commemorated on the Arras memorial.
537 MEMORIAL PLAQUE 1914-18 (John Kempler Taylor) in card envelope, nearly extremely fine £40-60
John Kempler Taylor was born and lived in Hebburn-on-Tyne and enlisted at Sunderland. Serving with the 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, he was killed in action, France/Flanders on 17 October 1917, aged 22 years. He was buried in the Cement House Cemetery, Belgium. He was the son of Margaret Jane Taylor of 4 Station Road, Hebburn, Co. Durham and the late William Henry Taylor.
538 MEMORIAL PLAQUE 1914-18 (Bernard Horace Wright), good very fine £50-70
Bernard Horace Wright was killed in action on the Somme on 3 April 1917, while serving in the 2/5th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment - according to his entry on the register of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, ‘he was killed in a voluntary effort to carry mails to his comrades through enemy fire.’ The son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Wright of Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire, he was 20 years of age and is buried in Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Interestingly, the same source confirms that he also ‘served throughout the Irish Rebellion’, when as part of the 59th Division, the 2/5th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, was indeed ordered to Ireland.
539 CANADIAN MEMORIAL CROSS, G.V.R. (19405 Pte. C. Hancock) nearly extremely fine £70-90
Private Charles R. Hancock, 1st Battalion Canadian Infantry, died/was killed on 30 April 1915, aged 37 years. He was buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France. He was the brother of Miss C. M. Hancock of 20 Hughenden Road, Clifton, Bristol.
540 CANADIAN MEMORIAL CROSS, G.V.R. (71815 Pte. J. Jaffrey) nearly extremely fine £70-90
Private John Jaffrey, 27th Battalion Canadian Infantry, died/was killed on 29 October 1915. He was buried in the Wulverghem- Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery, Belgium.
541 542 NEW ZEALAND MEMORIAL CROSS,
G.VI.R., unnamed, extremely fine £40-50 BIRKS MEMORIAL BAR, ‘LAC A. J. Hurley, R.C.A.F. died in his country’s service 16 Aug. 1940’, extremely fine £100-150
Leading Aircraftman Andrew Joseph Hurley came from Montreal, Quebec. Serving with No. 8 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron, he was killed on 16 August 1940 when his Delta aircraft crashed. His name is commemorated on the Ottawa War Memorial. He was the son of Cornelius and Anna Mary Hurley of Montreal.
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The Caterpillar Club Badge awarded to Lieutenant M. E. S. Robinson, D.F.C., South African Air Force, who became a fighter ace in Spitfires of No. 1 (S.A.A.F.) Squadron in the Middle East in 1943
CATERPILLARCLUB BADGE, gold caterpillar with ruby eyes, the reverse officially inscribed, ‘Lt. M. E. Robinson’, extremely fine £300-350
McClellan Eric Sutton Robinson, who was born in Johannesburg in February 1919, was originally allocated to a gunner’s course on entering the South African Air Force after the outbreak of hostilities in September 1939, but was later transferred to a pilot’s course.
Duly qualified, he was posted to No. 1 (S.A.A.F.) Squadron, a Hurricane unit, in August 1942, and quickly went into action over the Western Desert, claiming a half-share in a Ju. 87 over El Alamein on 2 November. The Squadron having meanwhile been re-equipped with Spitfires, Robinson claimed a Me. 109 destroyed south-west of Tamet on 14 January 1943 and, on 25 March, over the Gabes sector, a confirmed Me. 210 and another 109 damaged. He then raised his status to fighter ace with a 109 destroyed over Tunisia on 2 April, another in the Cap Bon area on the 21st, and two more in a celebrated action on the following day, when both of his victims dived into the sea in balls of fire, while fellow pilots picked-off several giant Me. 323 transports above him.
It was about this time that Robinson won acclaim for informing the unit’s Intelligence Officer that “when I saw the 109s I peeled off onto them. Mind you, I was below the telegraph wires myself at the time.” Quite what he reported to the I.O. following events on 14 July remains unknown, but we may be confident the “Warrior” Squadron’s line-book contained some colourful language: he was shot down by an American P-38 and obliged to take to his parachute over the sea off Sicily - and was fortunate indeed to be picked up by a passing Greek destroyer.
Tour expired, and a newly elected member of the Caterpillar Club, Robinson was awarded the D.F.C. (London Gazette 28 September 1943 refers), and returned to the Union to take up employment as a flying instructor at 11 O.T.U., Waterkloof. Tragically, however, he was killed on 14 November 1944, when one of his pupils collided with his Kittyhawk. The husband of Mary Robinson of Johannesburg, he was 25 years of age, and was buried in the Thaba Tshwane (New) Military Cemetery.
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