CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 901 Five: Serjeant L. P. Wilkinson, Royal Engineers
1914-15 STAR (722 2 Cpl., R.E.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (722 Sjt., R.E/); DEFENCEMEDAL, unnamed; TERRITORIAL FORCE EFFICIENCY MEDAL, G.V.R. (534024 Sjt., R.E.) mounted for wear, very fine and better (5)
£70-90 902
Four: Able Seaman W. Driscoll, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary 1914-15 STAR (A.B., M.F.A.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (A.B., M.F.A.); MERCANTILEMARINEWARMEDAL 1914-18 (William Driscoll) mounted for wear
Six: Boy Artificer A. B. S. Rowell, Royal Navy BRITISHWARMEDAL 1914-20 (M.18348 B. Art., R.N.); 1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR, clasp, France and Germany; BURMA STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, these unnamed, mounted as worn
Six: Petty Officer R. A. Long, Royal Navy 1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, these unnamed; ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C.,
G.VI.R., 2nd issue (JX.139261 P.O., H.M.S. Seahawk) mounted as worn, very fine and better (16)
£180-220 903 Four: Stoker Petty Officer W. R. Hanks, Royal Navy
1914-15 STAR (288570 S.P.O., R.N.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (288570 S.P.O., R.N.); ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.V. R., 1st type (288570 S.P.O., H.M.S. Tamarisk) good very fine (4)
£120-160
William Richard Hanks was born in Bristol in December 1879 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in May 1898. Advanced to Stoker Petty Officer in March 1910, he was serving aboard the destroyer depot ship H.M.S. Blake on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, and removed to a new appointment in the destroyer Comet in May 1915, in which capacity he remained actively employed until brief service in another destroyer, the Rattlesnake, in the summer of 1918. His final wartime appointment was in the Tamarisk, a Q-Ship (Q. 11) of 1,250 tons, converted from an Aubrieta type sloop. Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in January 1919, he was pensioned ashore in May 1920; sold with copied service record.
904 Four: Captain J. M. Jones, Monmouthshire Regiment
1914-15 STAR (Lieut., Monmouth R.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); FRANCE, CROIX DEGUERRE 1914 -1918, bronze palm on ribbon, very fine (4)
£200-250
M.I.D. London Gazette 1 November 1915; 1 January 1916; 15 June 1916. France, Croix de Guerre London Gazette 22 November 1918.
John Merton Jones was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment on 7 June 1913 and advanced to Lieutenant on 1 November 1914. Ranked as Temporary Captain in May 1915, he was promoted to that rank in March 1916. Captain Jones was seconded for duty with the Royal Engineers in September 1916 and as such was awarded the French Croix de Guerre. Captain Jones relinquished his commission whilst retaining his rank on 30 September 1921. With copied gazette extracts and other research; also with a copied photograph.
905 Four: Company Sergeant-Major J. McLaren, Canadian Engineers
1914-15 STAR (395 Spr., Can. Eng.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (396 A.C.S.M., C.E.); COLONIAL AUXILIARY FORCE LONG SERVICE, G.V.R. (C.S.M. (W. O. Cl.II), 4th Div. Engrs.) fine and better (4)
£140-180
James McLaren was born in Dundee, Scotland on 19 May 1881. Living in Montreal and a Machinist by occupation, he attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Montreal on 9 November 1914. With copied attestation papers and copied group photograph
906
Three: Able Seaman J. Brown, Royal Navy, killed in action on H.M.S. Warrior at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916
1914-15 STAR (J.17342 A.B., R.N.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (J.17342 A.B., R.N.); MEMORIAL PLAQUE (James Brown) good very fine (4)
£250-300
Able Seaman James Brown, R.N. was killed in action when serving aboard the armoured cruiser H.M.S. Warrior at the battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. Warrior formed part of the 1st Cruiser Squadron serving with the Grand Fleet. During the battle the armoured cruisers Defence and Warrior were closing with the crippled German light cruiser Wiesbaden, when they were surprised by heavy units of the German High Seas fleet. Under intense fire Defence blew up and Warrior was heavily damaged and only saved from a similar fate by the erratic manoeuvres of the battleship Warspite. The battleship’s steering had jammed and it made two complete circles in front of the German battle fleet, which turned every gun that could bear upon it. Able to withdraw, the Warrior made for home and was subsequently taken in tow by the seaplane carrier Engadine. However, too badly damaged to survive, Warrior foundered in the morning of 1 June. During the battle she had suffered 71 men killed and 36 wounded.
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