A Small Collection of Awards to the 21st Lancers 436 Pair: Squadron Quarter-Master Sergeant G. Walker, 21st Lancers
BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (5476 Sq. Q.M. Sjt. G. Walker, 21-Lrs.), with original card box of issue, extremely fine (2) £120-140
George Walker was a member of No. 1 Service Squadron, 21st Lancers, which was formed at Tidworth in June 1916 and embarked for France later in the same month. By September 1917, the unit was serving in an infantry role, while in the following month it was embarked for Italy, where it served in the River Piave operations until re-embarked for France in late February 1918. Shortly thereafter, in bitter fighting at Beugny during the German Spring Offensive, most of its men were taken P.O.W.; sold with brief copied research, including the recipient’s MIC entry which reveals additional service in the Labour Corps and Royal Fusiliers.
437
KHEDIVE’S SUDAN 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum ([?]4 Pte. W. Ethering..n, 21st [?]rs.), erased but traces of original naming, very fine
£180-220
4054 Private W. Etherington, who originally appears on regimental muster rolls at Canterbury in July 1897, was killed in action while serving in ‘B’ Squadron in the charge at Omdurman on 2 September 1898, on which occasion two fellow squadron members, Lieutenant R. H. de Montmorency and Private T. Byrne, won V.Cs.
Records state that his Queen’s Sudan and Khedive’s Sudan Medals were sent to his father at 15 Lansdown Hill, West Norwood, Surrey; see Sotheby’s, 28 June 1990 (Lot 305) and Baldwin’s, 29 September 2010 (Lot 3217), for more recent appearances of his awards at auction, both catalogue entries noting an official correction to the initial on his Queen’s Sudan Medal - possibly grounds here for his Khedive’s Sudan having been returned, too, and another example issued; sold with copied research, including a small portrait of Etherington which originally appeared on an illustrated scroll (see Sotheby’s, 29 July 1996 (Lot 349)).
438 1914 STAR, WITH CLASP (3664 Pte. J. Shaw, 9/Lrs), very fine £80-100
Joseph Shaw, who was born in Runcorn, Cheshire, originally enlisted in the 21st Hussars (afterwards Lancers) in October 1893, aged 20 years, and witnessed service out in the Sudan 1896-98 (Queen’s Medal and Khedive’s Medal). Returning home in late 1899, he was placed on the Army Reserve in December 1902, but he was recalled on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, when he went out to France as a reinforcement for the 9th Lancers on 27th of that month, most probably in time to participate in the regiment’s famous charge at Moncel on 7 September. More certain is the fact he was wounded by a gunshot in his right hand on 11 November during the first battle of Ypres, but he appears to have remained on active service until early 1915. Shaw was finally discharged in October 1916, when he was awarded the Silver War Badge; sold with copied service papers and other research.
439 BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (Capt. LL. W. H. Tringham), good very fine £100-120
Llewellyn Watkin Howell Tringham was appointed to a Cornetcy in the 21st Hussars (afterwards Lancers) in April 1900 and was advanced to Lieutenant in September 1906. Glimpses of his subsequent services in the Great War may be found in the regimental journal The Vedette, in which he is described as having charge of a German officers’ prison camp in Wales in early 1915 and, by 1918, ‘charge of artillery horses, France’. So, too, of his fate on 2 November 1918, while attached to 51st Brigade H.Q., R.G.A. - ‘died of influenza following on from wounds’. One of just 12 officers of the 21st Lancers to die on active service in the Great War, he is buried in the St. Sever Cemetery Extension in Rouen; sold with copied research, including what is believed to be a portrait photograph of Tringham in uniform.
440
ARMY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (312741 W.O. Cl. II S. Lee, 21st Lrs.), together with ROYAL NAVAL AND MILITARY TOURNAMENTMEDAL, silver, the reverse officially inscribed, ‘Heads & Posts, 1909, Regulars, 1st Prize, Won By Sergt. Lee, 21st Lancers’, in its fitted box of issue, the first with officially corrected surname, good very fine (2)
£120-140
Sidney Lee was advanced to Squadron Sergeant Major, Rough Rider in October 1915, shortly after taking part in the celebrated charge of the 21st Lancers at Shabkadar (see lot 434 for further details), and was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in 1921, in addition to being entitled to a 1914-15 Star trio; sold with copied research.
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