CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 1007 Family Group:
Three: Private C. E. Jennings, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, killed in action on 14 November 1914 1914 STAR, with copy clasp (10789 Pte. C. E. Jennings. 2/K.R. Rif: C.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (10789 Pte. C. E. Jennings. K.R. Rif. C.) good very fine or better
Pair: Private W. R. Jennings, King’s Royal Rifle Corps and Wiltshire Regiment BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (R-27558 Pte. W. R. Jennings. K.R. Rif. C.) nearly extremely fine (5)
£160-200
Charles Edgar Jennings was born in Marylebone, Middlesex in 1894, son of William and Elizabeth Jennings, and was a fish porter before enlisting in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914 and was killed in action on 14 November 1914. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
William Richard Jennings was born in Marylebone, Middlesex in 1881. He served during the Great War with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and later the 6th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment. He was discharged 27 March 1919.
1008 Three: Private R. H. Jacobs, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was twice wounded on the Western Front
1914 STAR, with clasp (9793 Pte R. H. Jacobs. 1/R. Berks. R.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (7384 Pte. R. H. Jacobs. R. Berks. R.) clasp struck off-centre, very fine (3)
£100-140
Raymond Henry Jacobs was born in Hitcham, Buckinghamshire, on 27 March 1895. He enlisted on 20 June 1912 and served with the 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914. He was wounded in December 1914 and again in June 1916, being discharged on 11 October 1916 and awarded a Silver War Badge (No. 95238). He died in Salisbury in 1990.
The Reading Mercury reported on 2 January 1915 (reporting on December 1914 casualties): ‘Roll of Honour – 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment – Wounded… R. Jacobs, 9793’; and again on 26 June 1915: ‘Raymond Jacobs of the 1st Battalion Royal Berks Regiment (son of Mr Jacobs of Reform Road), has been wounded for the second time and is now suffering from nervous debility.’
1009 Three: Private J. Doolan, Leinster Regiment
1914 STAR, with copy clasp (4140 Pte J. Doolan. Leins: R.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (4140 Pte. J. Doolan. Leins. R.) very fine (3)
£100-140
John Doolan was born in Clonmel, Tipperary, and attested for the Leinster Regiment on 22 January 1894. He served in South Africa with the 2nd Battalion, Leinster Regiment from December 1901 to August 1902 and during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 September 1914. He was wounded in the right arm in November 1914 and returned home on 22 November 1914. He transferred to the 6th Battalion, Leinster Regiment and landed at Anzac Cove as part of the 29th Brigade in the 10th (Irish) Division in August 1915 and moved to Salonika in September 1915. He returned home on 11 April 1916 and was discharged having completed his second period of engagement.
1010 Three: Corporal D. E. Hurrell, Rifle Brigade, later Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force
1914 STAR, with clasp (7003 Pte D. Hurrell. 3/Rif: Brig.); BRITISHWAR ANDVICTORYMEDALS (7003 Pte. D. E. Hurrell. Rif. Brig.) mounted as worn, dark staining to rim of VM almost obscuring surname, nearly very fine and better (3)
£100-140
David Edward Hurrell was born in Norwich on 10 January 1883, and attested for the Rifle Brigade on 30 October 1899, but did not serve in South Africa. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 30 October 1911, but was re-called to the Colours on the outbreak of the Great War and served on the Western Front from 10 September 1914. He was sent to hospital at St. Omer with a fractured right scapula (accidental) and returned to Edmonton Military Hospital on 8 January 1916. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps on 21 July 1916, and was posted to No. 50 Squadron, being promoted to Corporal on 1 October 1917. He served at Seaplane Base, Malta, from 6 July 1919 until 29 December 1919, and was discharged as temporary Sergeant (Fitter) on 23 March 1920. He died in Norwich in 1953.
1011 Family Group:
Four: Gunner H. Glover, Royal Field Artillery, killed in action in the First Battle of the Aisne, 14 September 1914 1914 STAR (50355 Gnr: H. Glover. R.F.A.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (50355 Gnr. H. Glover. R.A.), with transmittal envelope addressed to ‘Mr J Glover, Great Gidding, Peterborough’; MEMORIAL PLAQUE (Horace Glover) extremely fine
Pair: Gunner W. Glover, Royal Artillery BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (111986 Gnr. W. Glover. R.A.) in named card boxes of issue, together with transmittal envelopes addressed to ‘Gnr. W Glover, Gt Gidding, Hunts’ and to ‘Mr W. Glover, c/o Mr L. Glover, Tongue End, Near Spalding’, nearly extremely fine (6)
£240-280
Horace Glover was born in 1889, the son of John and Mary Ann Glover, of Great Gidding, Peterborough, Huntingdonshire. A groom, living in Filgrave, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, formerly of Lutton, near Oundle, Northamptonshire and Great Gidding, he joined the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment in December 1904, aged 17. He joined the regular army, Northamptonshire Regiment on 2 February 1905. By 1911, he had returned to Great Gidding as a groom, living at Mill Lane Cottages. He enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery in Northampton and served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 49th Battery, 40th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, as part of the Third Division, from 19 August 1914. He was killed in action on 14 September 1914 during the First Battle of the Aisne, aged 25. He has no known grave and is commemorated on La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France. He is also commemorated on the War Memorial and Rolls of Honour, St. Michael’s Church, Great Gidding and the War Memorial, St. Peter’s-at-Gowts, Lincoln.
On 14 September 1914, 40th Brigade R.F.A. crossed the Aisne at the canal bridge at Pont-Arcy. The bridge was heavily shelled with high explosive during the crossing and casualties amounted to 1 Officer killed, 1 Officer wounded, 6-8 men killed and 20-30 horses killed.
Walter Glover was one of Horace Glover’s younger brothers and was born in 1891 in Great Gidding. By 1911, he was living in Deeping St. Nicholas, Lincolnshire. He served on the Western Front post 1915.
The Rolls of Honour, St. Michael’s Church, Great Gidding, list six members of the ‘Glover’ family, including Horace and Walter, as having served during the Great War. Horace Glover is noted as one of seven parishioners of the church who died during the war.
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