CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 984
A rare Great War campaign service group of three awarded to Able Seaman T. B. Breckenridge, Royal Navy, who served in H.M’s Armoured Train Jellicoe in support of the Royal Naval Division in Antwerp 1914 STAR, WITH CLASP (197531 T. B. Breckenridge, A.B., Armd. Trains); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (197531 T. B. Breckenridge, A.B., R.N.), minor contact marks, very fine and better (3)
£600-800
Thomas Barbour Breckenridge was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, in May 1882, and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in January 1898. But an unhappy career ensued, his service record noting a number of offences, among them a charge ‘for improperly leaving the ship and behaving with contempt to a superior officer’, conduct that was punished by a court martial sentence of one year’s hard labour. He was discharged ashore time expired as an Able Seaman in May 1912.
Recalled on the outbreak of hostilities, Breckenridge quickly found himself out in France, manning H.M’s Armoured Train Jellicoe in support of the Royal Naval Division. Skippered by Lieutenant-Commander Littlejohns, the Jellicoe was armed with three 4.7-inch guns and, a handful of R.N. and R.M. personnel aside, was manned by around 70 Belgian volunteers. And, in the company of H.M’s A.T. Deguise, lent valuable support in the Antwerp operations in October, prior to assisting in the Ypres sector. A third armoured train, the Churchill, was present at the Ostend operations.
Having then returned to the U.K., Breckenridge joined the boom defence vessel Wallington in April 1916, and remained similarly employed until coming ashore to Pembroke I in October of the same year. His final wartime seagoing appointments were in the battleship Commonwealth in February-August 1917, and in another battleship, the Lord Nelson, from September 1917 until his demobilisation in July 1919; sold with copied research.
985
A rare Great War and Second World War campaign group of eight awarded to Private A. E. Dunn, Royal Marines Light Infantry, who was attached to the R.N.A.S. Armoured Car Section at Ostend and Antwerp in August-October 1914: subsequently taken P.O.W. while serving in the R.M. Brigade, Royal Naval Division, in the German Spring Offensive, further misfortune befell him as a D.E.M.S. Sergeant in his mid-50s in July 1942, when his ship the S.S. Mundra was shelled and torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-18 1914 STAR, WITH CLASP (Ply. 13938 Pte. A. E. Dunn, R.M.L.I., Armoured Cars); BRITISHWAR ANDVICTORYMEDALS (Ply. 13938 L. Sgt. A. E. Dunn, R.M. L.I.); 1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS 1939-45; ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue (Ply. 13938 A. E. Dunn, Pte., R.M.L. I.), the earlier awards with contact marks, thus generally nearly very fine, the 1939-45 awards rather better (8)
£600-800 (Part Lot)
Alfred Edmund Dunn was born in Islington, London, in May 1886, and enlisted in the Royal Marines Light Infantry in February 1907. Posted to the Plymouth Division as a Private, he was similarly employed at the outbreak of hostilities and, on being transferred to the R.M. Brigade, was landed at Ostend on 27 August 1914
Subsequently attached to the R.N.A.S. Armoured Car Section, he was present at the defence of Antwerp in September-October. Indeed Dunn remained on active service with the R.M. Brigade in France and Flanders up until being taken P.O.W. on 30 March 1918, the interim period witnessing much fighting with the Royal Naval Division - his C.Os including Lieutenant-Colonel R. McN. Parsons, C.B. Repatriated in December 1918, Dunn signed on for a second tour of duty, and was awarded his L.S. & G.C. in May 1922 and discharged as a Corporal in February 1928, when he enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve. Recalled in his old rank on the renewal of hostilities in September 1939, he later gained advancement to the acting rank of Sergeant and was appointed to duties in Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (D.E.M.S.), his first seagoing engagement being in the S.S. Mantola from December 1939 until late May 1942, when he removed to the Mundra. A little over a month later, on 6 July, the Mundra was shelled, torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese submarine I-18 off St. Lucia Bay, Natal, 92 of her company being lost but Dunn being among the 150 or so survivors. This traumatic experience was to prove his last seagoing appointment and he returned to the U.K. in the Durban Castle in the following month.
Thereafter employed at D.E.M.S. bases in Cardiff, Southampton and Newport, he was involved in a train accident at the latter place in June 1943, and admitted to Royal Gwent Hospital suffering from a dislocated right hip and fractured ribs. And, as further verified by accompanying research, he died at St. Alban’s Hospital in March 1945; sold with copied research.
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