CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 862 Three: Private V. Guy/Grey, Worcestershire Regiment
1914 STAR, with clasp (11036 Pte. V. Guy, 1/Worc. R.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (11036 Pte. V. Grey, Worc. R.) note different surnames, good very fine (3)
£120-160
Private V. Guy, 1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 5 November 1914. With copied m.i.c. for ‘V. Guy’.
863
Pair: Private A. Collins, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914 STAR (141 Pte., R.A.M.C); VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (141 Pte., R.A.M.C.)
1914 STAR (1087 Pte. G. Wilkinson, R.A.M.C.) good very fine (3) £60-80 Private Albert Collins, R.A.M.C. entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 27 August 1914 - served with the 6th Stationary Hospital.
Private George Wilkinson, R.A.M.C. entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 20 August 1914 - served with the 8/7 Ambulance. Both with copied m.i.c.
864
Three: Lieutenant G. C. Gordon, Scottish Rifles 1914 STAR (2 Lieut., Sco. Rif.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Lieut.) good very fine (3)
£200-250
2nd Lieutenant Graham Campbell Gordon, 1st Battalion Scottish Rifles entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 14 September 1914. Later promoted to Lieutenant. With riband bar and copied m.i.c. See lot 910 for his brother’s medals.
865 Three: Private C. Oldfield, West Riding Regiment
1914 STAR (8081 Pte., 2/W. Rid. R.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (8081 Pte., W. Rid. R.) mounted as worn, minor edge bruise to B.W.M., good very fine and better (3)
£120-160
Charles Oldfield enlisted into the Army on 7 September 1904. As a Private in the 2nd Battalion West Riding Regiment he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 14 August 1914. He was discharged on 7 September 1917 due to wounds. Awarded the Silver War Badge (not with lot). With copied m.i.c. and roll extract.
866
Three: Captain A. P. Johns, 16th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, late 13th Battalion London Regiment 1914 STAR (1127 Pte., 1/13 Lond. R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (1127 Pte., 13/Lond. R.) extremely fine (lot)
£140-180
Albert Percival Johns was born in Wellesden, London on 5 February 1893. In civil life he was a Clerk/Civil Servant. As a Private in the 1/13th Battalion London Regiment he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 3 November 1914 (awarded the 1914 Star with clasp - clasp not with lot). He was discharged from the London Regiment on 6 September 1915 on the termination of his engagement. He later served as a Captain in the 16th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment.
Sold with the recipients Discharge Certificate of a Soldier of the Territorial Force; Character Certificate; Officer’s Protection Certificate; Officer’s Physical and Bayonet Training Certificate, 28 September 1917, together with a photograph of the Physical and bayonet Training H.Q. Team, September 1917; War Office letter to Captain Johns, dated 7 November 1921 concerning his demobilization, with envelope addressed to ‘Captain A. P. Johns, York & Lancaster Regt., 77 Chevening Rd., Brondesbury, N.W.6’; damaged named card medal box, with damaged registered envelope; a cap badge and cloth shoulder tab bearing three ‘pips’. With copied m.i.c.
867 Three: Private D. McDougall, Gordon Highlanders
1914 STAR (3-6992 Pte. D. McDougall, 1/Gord. Highrs.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (3-6692 Pte. D. McDougall, Gordons), together with related SILVER WAR BADGE, the reverse officially numbered ‘50332’, good very fine (4) £80-100
Duncan McDougall enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders in September 1914 and went out to France as a reinforcement for the 1st Battalion in early November, the Battalion’s war diary noting that recent drafts included men with as little as three weeks training, or, in one case, a veteran of the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir. All fought bravely in a number of costly actions in the Ypres sector over the coming weeks, the survivors mustering in ‘the worst trenches yet held’, near Kemmel, shortly after Christmas Day. Here, then, the type of conditions that resulted in McDougall’s discharge as a result of sickness in June 1915.
868 Three: Private J. Watson, 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry, killed in action, Flanders, 22 May 1915
1914 STAR (8132 Pte., 2/Durh. L.I.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (3-8132 Pte., Durh. L.I.) slight edge bruising, about very fine (3)
£180-220
Joseph Watson was born in May 1885 in the Parish of St. Bede’s, Gateshead. Immediately prior to his enlistment he lived at 63 Claremont Street, Gateshead and was employed as a Labourer with the Armstrong Engineering Company, Newcastle. Having previously served in the 5th Volunteer Battalion Durham Light Infantry, he enlisted for regular service with the D.L.I. on 3 May 1905. On 5 August 1908 he joined the Special Reserve and re-engaged in June 1914. With the 2nd Battalion D.L.I. he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 26 October 1914. Private Watson was killed in action in Flanders on 22 May 1915. He was buried in the Strand Military Cemetery, Hainaut, Belgium. With a quantity of copied service papers and other research.
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