CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 352
Three: Lieutenant E. D. Murray, Royal Highlanders, who was severely wounded at the Battle of Delville Wood, and died of his wounds two days later on 20 July 1916
1914-15 STAR (2. Lieut. E. D. Murray. R. Highrs.); BRITISHWAR ANDVICTORYMEDALS (Lieut. E. D. Murray) nearly extremely fine (3)
£200-240
Edward Douglas Murray was born in Shapwick, Dorset, in 1884, the son of the Reverend Richard Paget Murray (Vicar of Shapwick, Dorset,), a scion of the Marquesses of Atholl, and a direct descendant of the Conqueror, and was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford. A solicitor, he joined the 28th (Artists Rifles) Battalion London Regiment and was commissioned in The Black Watch prior to serving overseas. He joined the 8th Battalion Royal Highlanders on the Western Front on 7 October 1915, was severely wounded at Delville Wood / Longueval on 18 July 1916:
'At 8.00am on the 18th July, a bombardment of an unprecedented severity was opened on the wood and Longueval. Every part of the area was searched and smothered by shells until 3.30pm. The 3rd Division was expelled from the northern part of Longueval. The strong points built by the Scottish prevented the capture of the whole village by the Germans. At 6.00pm, on Highland Battalions C. O.'s initiative, all men available were gathered and the 8th Black Watch, 7th Seaforths and 5th Camerons launched a counter-attack which allowed to restore the line in the village and took contact again with the remains of the South African Brigade in Delville Wood. Many men of the 8th Black Watch reported as “missing in action” during this day were lost during an impetuous pursuit of the Germans in the wood.'
Murray died of his wounds two days later on 20 July 1916, at No 5 Casualty Clearing Station. He is buried in Corbie Communal Cemetery, Somme. He is additionally commemorated on the St Michael & All Angels Church Memorial, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, and on the Shapwick War Memorial, Shapwick, Dorset, where he is one of seven fallen. He is also commemorated on his father’s memorial in the churchyard at Shapwick. Total casualties for the 8th Battalion Black Watch during the period 8 to 20 July 1916 were 28 officers and 540 other ranks killed, wounded, or missing.
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Three: Private J. Brooks, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914-15 STAR (16785 Pte. J. Brooks. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (16785 Pte. J. Brooks. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) good very fine
BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (17347 Pte. L. Sears. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) good very fine VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (2. Lieut. C. B. Todd.) good very fine (5)
£70-90
Joseph Brooks was employed as a Porter at Waterloo Station by the London & South Western Railway Company. He attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Battersea in December 1914. He served during the Great War with the Regiment in the French theatre of war from 21 September 1915.
Leonard Sears was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at the town of his birth, in January 1915. He served during the Great War with the 6th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, in the French theatre of war from 2 September 1915 (entitled to 1914-15 trio). He was wounded, 18 June 1916, and discharged in April 1919.
Charles Bernard Todd was born in Hull, in 1889. He was educated at Hull Grammar School, and Hull Technical College. He was a Civil Engineer by trade, and was employed by the Public Work Department of British East Africa, June 1913 - January 1916. During the latter period he had served for 9 months with the Mombassa Defence Force. He attested as a Gunner for the Royal Garrison Artillery at Hull in February 1916. Todd was commissioned Second Lieutenant in August 1916. He was killed in action whilst serving with the 184th Siege Battery, R.G.A at Ypres. The Battery War Diary gives, ‘Ypres. 7.6.17. On 7th of June an attack on Wyschaete-Messines front took place commencing at 3.10am. The battery took part by engaging for the period of four hours an enemy battery.... 11.6.17. 1145pm. On 11th 2Lt. C. B. Todd was killed.’
Second Lieutenant Todd is buried at Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium.
Second Lieutenant C. B. Todd 354 Three: Private F. Goosey, Essex Regiment, wounded and discharged 19 May 1916
1914-15 STAR (14145 Pte F. Goosey. Essex R.); BRITISH WAR & VICTORY MEDALS (14145 Pte. F. Goosey. Essex R.) minor contact marks, good very fine (3)
£40-50
Frank Goosey was born in Kettering, Northants, in 1878. He attested for the Essex Regiment on 17 September 1914, and served with the 11th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 August 1915. He was discharged on account of wounds on 19 May 1916 (entitled to a Silver War Badge). He died in Kettering in 1948.
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Three: Private J. W. Giles, Middlesex Regiment, later Royal Army Medical Corps and Labour Corps
1914-15 STAR (4738 Pte. J. W. Giles. Midd’x R.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (4738 Pte. J. W. Giles. Midd’x R.) all in damaged named card boxes of issue, with outer envelopes addressed to Mr. J. W. Giles, 1 Banchory Cotts, Landsdown Rd, Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks’; together with the recipient’s SILVERWAR BADGE, the reverse numbered ‘B99302’, extremely fine (3)
£70-90
Sold together with the named enclosure for the Silver War Badge, and the recipient’s large ‘Honourably Discharged’ certificate, dated 22 January 1919.
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