CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 488 Family group:
Three: attributed to Sergeant R. Clewer, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, killed in action, 18 March 1944 1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, these unnamed
VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (8745 Pte. S. J. Bowyer, Bedf. R.); with two unofficial Jubilee 1897 bronze crosses With a mounted set of five dress miniatures: 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; together with Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire and Army Service Corps cap badges, medals good very fine and better (13)
£100-150
Medals attributed to R. Clewer with named condolence slip and in card forwarding box addressed to ‘Mrs L. Clewer, Post Office, Oakley, Bedford’. Sergeant Roland Clewer, R.A.F.V.R. was killed in action whilst serving with No. 612 Squadron of Coastal Command on 18 March 1944, aged 22 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Runnymeade Memorial. He was the son of Harry and Louisa Mary Clewer, of Oakley, Bedfordshire.
41882 Private Stanley John Bowyer, ‘A’ Company, 7th Battalion Norfolk Regiment, was killed in action on 8 August 1918, aged 28 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial. He was the son of Arthur and Emily Bowyer, of 75 Chip Hill, Oakley, Bedford. With some research suggesting that S. Bowyer Norfolk Regiment and Bedfordshire Regiment are one and the same.
Stanley John Bowyer and Louisa Mary Clewer, nee Bowyer, were brother and sister. With copied genealogical details of the Bowyer/Clewer family.
489 Six: Chief Petty Officer R. V. Willmott, Royal Navy
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR;WARMEDAL 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf, these unnamed; ROYALNAVY L.S. & G.C.,
G.VI.R., 1st issue (JX.127380 C.P.O., H.M.S. Pembroke) good very fine and better (10)
£140-180 M.I.D. London Gazette 2 May 1944.
Ronald Victor Wilmott was born in Chatham on 5 April 1911 and died in Spilsby, Lincolnshire in 1977. M.I.D. earned as C.P.O. serving on the tank landing ship H.M.S. LST 411 when she was mined on 31 December 1943. The vessel was mined and sunk off Bastia, Sardinia, Italy, on 26 January 1944.
With Arethusa Training Ship Medal, for 3 Years Service at Sea with a very Good Character, 39mm., silver, reverse named ‘R. V. Willmott’; H.M.S. Arethusa Prize Medal, 38mm., bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Winners 1927 15 Mess’; H.M.S. Kent Medal, 37mm., silvered bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘H.M.S. Kent1934 1st Cutter’; together with identity disk.
With damaged card forwarding box for the WW2 medals, addressed to ‘Mr R. V. Wilmott, 1 Beresford Crescent, Beresford Ave., Skegness, Lincs.’, with Admiralty slip; named card box of issue for the L.S. & G.C.
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A notable Second World War period campaign group of five awarded to Petty Officer J. R. Darby, who was mentioned in despatches for gallant deeds aboard the paddle steamer Glen Gower off Dunkirk and likewise for his part in post-V.E. Day minesweeping operations aboard H.M.S. Frolic - he subsequently served in the Shropshire Fire Brigade for 25 years
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR, clasp, France and Germany; WARMEDAL 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; NAVALGENERAL SERVICE 1915 -62, 1 clasp, Minesweeping 1945-51 (D/JX. 139835 J. R. Darby, P.O., R.N.); FIRE BRIGADE LONG SERVICE, E.II.R. (Fireman John R. Darby), generally good very fine (5)
£400-500
John Richard Darby was born at Ludlow, Shropshire in June 1917 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in August 1933. An Acting Leading Seaman by the outbreak of hostilities in September 1939, he was drafted to the Admiralty requisitioned paddle minesweeper Glen Gower, in which capacity he won his first mention in despatches for gallantry off Dunkirk (London Gazette 16 August 1940, refers).
The Glen Gower made two trips to Dunkirk, the first of them to La Panne on the last day of May 1940, where she was beached and embarked 530 troops before refloating and going alongside Dunkirk pier to collect further evacuees. While there, she was damaged by a German shell which pierced the upper deck and killed and wounded troops in the mess deck below - ‘thereafter, the ship, the approach road and the town were bombed at intervals of 20 minutes, shells falling all round the ship but she was not hit again ... Arrived Harwich. Disembarked 800 troops’ (her Captain’s report, refers).
On her second trip on 2 June 1940, Glen Gower’s C.O., Acting Commander M. A. C. Biddulph, R.N., reported that Dunkirk ‘appeared an inferno. Huge flames were shooting up from the fires in the town and the noise of gunfire and bursting shells was terrific.’ As a consequence, he was ordered to take his ship to the beaches at nearby St. Malo, where in fact ‘the ship was continually under fire from the shore guns and howitzers’, but nonetheless came away with 435 troops, including a Brigadier.
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