CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 307 Six: Leading Seaman P. Smith, Royal Naval Reserve
1914-15 STAR (A. 7020. P. Smith. Smn., R.N.R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (7020A. [sic] P. Smith. Smn. R.N.R.); DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45; ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension, with Second Award Bar (5082 D. P. Smith, L.S. R.N.R.), mounted for wear, generally very fine (6)
£120-160
Patrick Smith was born in Ardrossan, Ayshire, Scotland, in October 1891. A Merchant Seaman by trade he joined the Royal Naval Reserve, 8 December 1914. His service during the Great War included in H.M.S. Tyne, who at the outbreak of the war served as one of two depot ships for the 8th Patrol Flotilla, based on the Nore, which was equipped with 23 torpedo boats.
After the war Smith remained in the R.N.R., returning to employment with the Merchant Navy. He service included in S.S Edna, and he was present when she was wrecked just south of Port Logan on the Mull of Galloway, 27 February 1933. She ran aground in a snow blizzard and a north easterly gale of force 9 or 10. In later life Smith was employed as a Rigger at Ardrossan Harbour.
Smith was awarded the R.N.R. L.S. & G.C., 6 March 1930, and the Second Award Bar, 3 February 1943.
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Seven: Major B. Haywood, Cadet Forces, late Driver, Royal Army Service Corps
1914-15 STAR (T-193 Dvr. B. Haywood, A.S.C.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (T-193 Dvr. B. Haywood. A.S.C.); DEFENCE MEDAL; TERRITORIAL FORCE EFFICIENCYMEDAL, G.V.R. (T4-246142 Dvr. B. Haywood. R.A.S.C.); SPECIAL CONSTABULARY LONG SERVICE MEDAL,
G.VI.R., 1st issue (Sergt. Basil Haywood); CADET FORCES MEDAL,
G.VI.R. (Major B. Haywood.), mounted as worn, but lacking retaining pin, generally very fine (7)
£180-220
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Four: Private W. F. Spraggon, 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons 1914-15 STAR (D-1855 L. Cpl. W. F. Spraggon. 6th. Dns); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (D-1855 A. Sjt. W. F. Spraggon. 6-Dns.); WAR MEDAL 1939-45, good very fine
Pair: Trooper E. Town, 1st Life Guards BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (2213 Tpr. E. Town. 1-L. Gds.) rank on VM officially corrected, good very fine
Pair: Private H. A. Leeds, Suffolk Yeomanry BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (3571 Pte. H A. Leeds. Suff. Yeo.) good very fine (8)
£80-120
William Frederick Spraggon was born in Chiswick, Middlesex, in 1886, and was educated at Saint Dunstan's Road School, Fulham. He attested for the 6th Dragoons in 1908 and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 December 1914. He was discharged from 4th Reserve Regiment of Dragoons, on account of wounds, on 5 April 1919 (entitled to the Silver War Badge). He died in Exeter in 1967.
Herbert Allatson Leeds was born in Mutford, Suffolk, in 1897, and served during the Great War with the 1st Suffolk Yeomanry and, after the unit was converted to infantry in January 1917, with the 15th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. In civilian life he was employed as a railway porter at Thorney Station, Suffolk. He died on 19 August 1954.
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Three: Second Lieutenant E. R. Kelly, Border Regiment attached 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, who as a “boy soldier” was killed in action at Pilkem Ridge, 7-8 July 1915, aged 17
1914-15 STAR (
2.Lieut. E. R. Kelly. Bord. R.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (
2.Lieut. E. R. Kelly.); MEMORIAL PLAQUE (Edward Rowley Kelly) this housed in a solid oak frame; MEMORIAL SCROLL (2nd. Lt. Edward Rowley Kelly The Border Regiment), extremely fine (5)
£300-400
Edward Rowley Kelly was born on 18 September 1897 in South Stoneham, Southampton, Hampshire, the only son of the late Lieutenant Edward Rowley Kelly, Royal Navy, and was educated at Hitchin Grammar School, Hertfordshire, and St. John’s College, Leatherhead, where he represented the school at football. In December 1914, he won an exhibition in history to Merton College, Oxford, but never took up his place there. He volunteered underage at the end of the Winter term in 1914, was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 27 January 1915, and was posted to 3rd Battalion Border Regiment. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 June 1915 and was posted on attachment to the 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, joining his unit on 15 June 1915. He was killed in action on 7-8 July 1915 at Pilkem Ridge, repelling a German counter-attack. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. He is also commemorated on Hitchin Grammar School’s War Memorial Window, St. John’s College, Leatherhead, War Memorial, the Merton College, Oxford, War Memorial, Carshalton War Memorial and All Saints Carshalton War Memorial. According to Major W. Bowes, commanding the 2nd Battalion, “I have made enquiries from the N.C.O.s and men of his platoon and from what I can gather he was killed by a shell and buried in the hole made by the shell that struck him…He was such a cheery youth and we all liked him immensely, and he got on well with the men. He was very young and boyish – too young in fact for this work, but he was very plucky and did his work well.”
The 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers War Diary refers: “Owing to very severe fighting in the last three days and the heavy casualties among officers and men, no connected narrative is to hand. Casualties on these three days were officers killed - 7 (including E.R. Kelly), wounded – 10. Other ranks killed – 79, wounded – 201, missing – 19.”
One of Edward Kelly’s last letters home refers: “The chief drawbacks to the trench system are the lack of sleep (one is lucky to get three or four hours at a stretch, and I hate sleeping on and off) and the lack of washing accommodation. I got two washes and one shave in four days and was the envy of the company for getting so' much. However, it is a jolly fine life and I feel fitter than ever I did. I had my platoon-serjeant killed on Tuesday morning; it was my first case and I can't say I felt very cheery about it. The sight of death is all right, but it was the hour between the time he was hit and the time he died that was rather trying We have just come out of the trenches and are now in dug- outs about a mile away from the firing-line. We are not by any means out of range, as some of our men have found to their cost. I suffered my first scar in the campaign this morning when I cut myself while shaving, but am otherwise 'all present' and more or less 'correct’.”
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