SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS 219 MERCANTILE MARINE WAR MEDAL 1914-18 (Ernest E. Bonner) extremely fine £70-90
Ernest Edward Bonner was Master of the 1,527 ton cargo ship S.S. Djerv. which was sunk off Anglesey on 20 February 1918 by the German submarine U-86, commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Helmut Patzig. The ship was en route from Heysham, Lancashire to Newport, Monmouthshire when she was torpedoed and sunk 12 miles N.N.E. off the Skerries, Anglesey. Captain Bonner was killed in the attack together with one other crew member - the rest of the crew survived. Bonner, aged 38 years, was the son of Emma and the late Henry Bonner of 122 Etherington Road, Beverley High Road, Hull. His name is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial.
The remaining crew of the Djerv were unaware of how lucky they were to survive, as only a few months later, on 27 June 1918, one of the worst atrocities of the war at sea occurred. The U-86, still under the command of Patzig, against international law and the standing orders of the Imperial German Navy, sank the hospital ship Llandovery Castle. Then, not satisfied with sinking a clearly marked hospital ship, he ordered his U-boat to ram the lifeboats and shoot at the survivors. Of the Llandovery Castle’s 258 crew members (of whom 94 were medical officers and nurses of the Canadian Medical Service) only 24 survived.
After the war, Patzig and his watch officers were indicted for this war crime. Patzig, who could not be found, was tried in his absence; his officers were tried by a court in Leipzig, found guilty and sentenced to four years imprisonment - however they ‘escaped’ on their way to a labour camp. Patzig reappeared during the Second World War, in command of a former Dutch submarine but took part in no war patrols and served in a staff position until his retirement in May 1945.
With copy Birth Certificate; copied naval certificates, service papers and some research re. Patzig. 220 221
With some notes on H.M.S. Highflyer. NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (218425 W. K. Sunderland, A.B., H.M.S. Highflyer)
good fine £80-100
NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (184859. F. Gill, P.O. 1CL. H.M.S. Redbreast) nearly extremely fine
£100-140
Francis Gill was born at Thurlstone, Devon, on 21 September 1877. He joined the Navy on 16 July 1895, and served aboard Redbreast from March 1908 to March 1910, including arms traffic operations in the Persian Gulf. He received his L.S. & G.C. medal in January 1911. During the Great War he served aboard the newly commissioned battleship Benbow from 7 October 1914 until 30 June 1915, and thereafter he is on the books of Vivid I and Vivid II for the remainder of the war, being demobilized on 22 April 1920.
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NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1915-62, 1 clasp, Yangtze 1949 (D/KX 92137 E. Hodkin. P.O.S.M. R.N.) very fine £600-700
NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1915-62 (2)
G.VI.R., with suspension but without clasp (J.109185 C. H. Wheeler, A.B., R.N.); another, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R., unnamed specimen, good very fine and better (2)
£80-100
224 NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1915-62, 1 clasp, Near East (C/MX.908366 R. J. Wickens, E.M.1, R.N.) good very fine £80-100 Naval Airman.
226 225 NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1915-62, 1 clasp, Near East (L/FX.935382 C. A. Smith, N.A. R.N.) nearly extremely fine £100-140
NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1915-62, 1 clasp, Bomb & Mine Clearance 1945 -53, unnamed, nearly extremely fine
£200-300
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GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (532 Dmr. Arjan Singh, 1-11-Sikh R.); INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (14584 Bugler Sukh Ram, 4-13 F.F. Rif.) nearly very fine and better (2)
GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (79345 Pte. S. Longbottom, North’d. Fus.) edge bruise, very fine
£50-70 £50-70
GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62 (2), 1 clasp, Iraq (59752 Pte. J. W. Sparkes, Rif. Brig.); another, 1 clasp, N.W. Persia (S-8922 Pte. T. Mansell, R.A.O.C.) this last worn, fine; first good very fine (2)
£100-140
GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (01281 Pte. W. E. Sanders, D.C.L.I.) contact marks; GENERAL SERVICE 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24139469 Fus. M. G. Shepherd, 2 RRF.)
Pair: Chief Technician A. Paley, Royal Air Force GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (4004878 Cpl., R.A.F.); ROYAL AIR FORCE L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (4004878 Ch. Tech., R.A.F.) nearly very fine and better (4)
231 GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (4270259 Fsr. J. Baird, North’d. Fus.) good very fine
£140-180 £50-70
232 GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (3528585 Pte. J. Henniker, Manch.) some contact marks, very fine £140-180
Private James Henniker, 1st Battalion Manchester Regiment, died as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese, on 17 September 1943, aged 26 years. He was buried in the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand.
233 GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (1975 B/Const L Hayward, Pal Police) good very fine
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