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CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS x535 Six: Petty Officer Steward S. M. Speare, Royal Navy


1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA STAR; BURMA STAR;WARMEDAL 1939-45, these unnamed; ROYALNAVY L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (L.15098 L. Std., H.M.S. Renown) mounted for wear, good very fine (6)


£90-120


Stephen May Speare was born in St. Germans, Cornwall on 26 August 1904. On 23 January 1925 he enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Sick Berth Attendant. In September that same year he changed his trade and became an Officers’ Steward 4th Class. Appointed Steward in October 1931 and Leading Steward in September 1933. Served on the battlecruiser H.M.S. Renown, August 1939-August 1940, being awarded the L.S. & G.C. in January 1940. His ship served in the Norwegian campaign and was in action with the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. He then served on the destroyer H.M.S. Isis in the Mediterranean before proceeding to the Far East in October 1941. There he had the great fortune to be drafted onto the submarine depot ship H.M.S. Lucia, January 1942, which sailed from Singapore before the surrender to the Japanese.


After serving on various vessels and bases on Ceylon, he took passage back to England aboard H.M.S. Devonshire in March 1943. Service on the minesweeper H.M.S. Rosario in the Firth of Forth was followed by service on the frigate H.M.S. Mounsey in December 1943 and service in escorting convoys across the North Atlantic. In January 1945 he attained the rank of Petty Officer Steward. Speare retired from the Royal Navy in April 1947 and died in Plymouth on 4 April 1980.


With copied service papers, death certificate and other research contained in a folder. x536 Five: Senior Commissioned Electrical Officer J. C. S. Bell, Royal Navy


1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; BURMA STAR;WAR MEDAL 1939-45, these unnamed; ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (J.107309 P.O., H.M.S. Hermes) mounted as worn, good very fine (5)


£80-100


Joseph Charles Sydney Bell was born in Devonport on 29 November 1907. He enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 29 May 1924 and was advanced to Boy 1st Class in January 1925. He was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in November 1925 when serving on the battleship H.M.S. Valiant and Able Seaman in March 1927 when serving on the submarine depot ship H.M.S. Maidstone. Serving on the light cruiser H.M.S. Delhi, October 1934-March 1937, he was promoted to Leading Seaman in May 1935; Acting Petty Officer in January 1936 and confirmed in that rank in January 1937. During this time, the ship was deployed off Spain at the time of the Spanish Civil War and was once straddled by aerial bombs and on another by gunfire from the Nationalist cruiser Canarias. The ship was later deployed off the coast of Palestine in support of military operations there and Bell was awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp for that campaign (medal not included in lot).


Bell then served on the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Hermes, July 1938-January 1942, being awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in November 1940 and being promoted to Chief Petty Officer in March 1941. In February 1942 he was advanced to the warrant rank of Acting Gunner and was later confirmed in that rank, serving mainly at or on Defiance, Eaglet and Richmond. He was appointed Gunner to the destroyer H.M.S. Comet in May 1945 and in September 1946 was granted the rank of Acting Commissioned Gunner and later Acting Commissioned Electrical Officer on the ship. In 1949 he attained the rank of Senior Commissioned Electrical Officer.


With copied service paper and other research in a folder. With a postcard photograph of H.M.S. Hermes. x537


Four: attributed to Able Seaman C. G. Glover, killed in action when serving on H.M.S. Neptune, 19 December 1941 1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, all unnamed, mounted for wear, good very fine (4)


£120-160


Charles George Glover was born in Weymouth, Dorset on 24 November 1909 and enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 13 May 1926, being advanced to Boy 1st Class in January 1926. He was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in November 1927 when on H. M.S. Durban and to Able Seaman in May 1929 when at Vivid I. Before the war he served on a number of ships including the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Eagle, May 1929-July 1931 and the battleship H.M.S. Rodney, April 1932-August 1934. On the outbreak of war he was serving on the destroyer H.M.S. Brazen, January 1939-June 1940 and took part in the Norwegian campaign. On 15 April 1940, she and another destroyer sank the German submarine U-49 near Harstad. Able Seaman Glover joined the cruiser H.M.S. Neptune in April 1941.


In May 1941 the ship escorted the Victorious and King George V in the hunt for the Bismarck, she later served extensively in the Mediterranean. She formed part of Force K, a force of cruisers and destroyers used to disrupt Axis supply lines from Italy to North Africa. In the early hours of 19 December 1941, Neptune was the lead ship of a squadron attempting to intercept an Italian convoy when she blundered into a minefield, striking three in quick succession. Two other cruisers, Aurora and Penelope also struck mines. The destroyer Kandahar was despatched to take the Neptune in tow but she too hit a mine. The Neptune then hit a fourth mine and quickly sank. Of her complement of 47 officers and 719 ratings, very few were saved.


Able Seaman Glover having no grave is commemorated on the Plymouth Memorial. He was the son of Mr & Mrs George Glover and husband of Mary Glover, of Stonehouse, Plymouth.


With original named commemorative scroll mounted on card; portrait photograph mounted on card, of Able Seaman Glover, wearing an ‘H.M.S. Rodney’ cap tally; original telegram to his wife stating that he was ‘missing’; Admiralty slip dated 25 June 1942, stating that he was now presumed dead; together with copied service papers and other research in a folder.


538 Five: Major G. H. W. White, North Staffordshire Regiment


1939-45 STAR; BURMA STAR; DEFENCE ANDWAR MEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf, these unnamed; EFFICIENCY MEDAL, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (Capt., N. Staffs.) minor official correction to unit, good very fine (5)


£300-340


M.I.D. London Gazette 10 January 1946 (Burma) ‘Maj. (temp.) G. H. W. White (140698) [N. Stafford R.]’ With copied gazette extracts.


539 Five: Warrant Officer Class 2 T. Weaver, North Stafforshire Regiment


1939-45 STAR; FRANCE ANDGERMANY STAR;DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS, these unnamed; GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (4189100 W.O. Cl. 2, N. Staffs.) minor official correction to unit, mounted as worn, very fine (5)


£100-140 ‘Malaya’ clasp rare to regiment as it was not present as a unit.


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