CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 1049
Three: Mechanician H. Phipps, Royal Navy, killed in action when H.M.S. Formidable was sunk by U-24, 1 January 1915
1914-15 STAR (295127 H. Phipps. Mech., R.N.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (295127 H. Phipps. Mech. R.N.) very fine and better (3)
£140-180
Harry Phipps was born on 15 May 1873 at Derby, son of Enoch and Annie Phipps, of Yew Cottage, Victoria Avenue, Borrowash, Derby. He was employed as a railway fireman before joining the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd class on 23 April 1900. He served in the Canopus and Orion before joining H.M.S. Formidable on 1 April 1911. He went down with his ship on 1 January 1915 and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent.
H.M.S. Formidable was the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships. In 1912, she was assigned to the 5th Battle Squadron and following the outbreak of the Great War the squadron conducted operations in the English Channel, and was based at Sheerness to guard against a possible German invasion. Despite reports of submarine activity, early in the morning of 1 January 1915, whilst on exercise in the English Channel, Formidable was sunk after being hit by two torpedoes from U-24. She was the second British battleship to be sunk by enemy action during the war, with a compliment of 780; 35 officers and 512 men perished.
1050
Three: Officers’ Cook 3rd Class E. Goard, Royal Navy 1914-15 STAR (L.5330, E. Goard, O.C.3., R.N.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (L.5330 E. Goard. O.C.3 R.N.) good very fine
Three: Able Seaman C. N. Spires, Royal Navy BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (J.46332 C. N. Spires. A.B. R.N.); DEFENCEMEDAL (C. N. Spires.) contemporarily impressed ‘Boots style’, spot of verdigris to obverse of VM, otherwise nearly extremely fine (6)
£100-140
Edward Goard was born in Plymouth, Devon, on 28 November 1895, and joined the Royal Navy as an Officers’ Cook 3rd Class on 28 April 1914. Posted to the Depot Ship Gibraltar, he remained in her until 27 November 1914, probably in the Shetlands, where she was a depot ship for the Northern Patrols, before joining H.M.S. Argyll on 11 December 1914, remaining in her until she was wrecked on Bell Rock on 28 October 1915. In January 1916 he joined the depot ship Leander, before joining the light cruiser H.M.S. Concord on 18 December 1916, remaining in her for the rest of the War. He was discharged on 26 June 1919.
Charles Neville Spires was born in Camberwell, London, on 5 August 1896 and joined the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman on 10 November 1915 for the duration of hostilities. After three weeks at H.M.S. Pembroke, he joined H.M.S. Alert on 10 December 1915 (also entitled to a 1914-15 Star), and was advanced in her to Able Seaman on 2 November 1916. Between 17 May and 30 September 1917 he was attached to the Royal Indian Marine Troopship Dalhousie, but during this period spent spells in hospital, both in Basra and Bombay. Returning to the United Kingdom, he qualified as a Seaman Gunner on 17 July 1918, and was demobilised on 11 February 1919.
1051 Family Group:
Three: Farrier Corporal R. G. Quelch, Berkshire Yeomanry, killed in action in Egypt, 11 December 1915 1914-15 STAR (1720. S. Sth. Cpl. R. G. Quelch, Berks. Yeo.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (1720 Cpl. R. G. Quelch. Berks. Yeo.) extremely fine
SPECIAL CONSTABULARY LONG SERVICE MEDAL, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Albert E. Quelch.) very fine (4) £240-280
Robert George Quelch was born in Farnborough, Berkshire, and attested for the Berkshire Yeomanry at Wantage, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). He served with Berkshire Yeomanry during the Great War, and was killed in Action in Egypt on 11 December 1915. He is buried in Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.
1052
Three: Lieutenant R. E. Chapman, Royal Field Artillery, late Honourable Artillery Company
1914-15 STAR (742 Gnr. R. E. Chapman. H.A.C.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (
2.Lieut. R. E. Chapman.) good very fine (3)
£80-120
Reginald Edward Chapman was born in Exeter in 1884, the son of Mr. Charles Edward, a Railway Superintendent. He followed his father into the Railways, as a railway clerk for the London and South West Railways from 1899 to 1908, when he resigned, having passed First Class at the London School of Economics. He then travelled from Southampton to Buenos Aires on 8 January 1909. Returning home, he enlisted in Honourable Artillery Company (Artillery), and served with them during the Great War with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Egypt, as acting Quarter Master Sergeant of ‘A’ Battery, Honourable Artillery Company (Artillery) from 21 April 1915. He was commissioned in Royal Field Artillery on 9 September 1916 and joined 126th Battery, 29th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery on the Western Front on 26 November 1916. In September 1917, he was invalided home with trench fever, before returning to duty in December 1917. He last served with 415 Battery, Royal Field Artillery, before emigrating permanently to San Christobal, Argentina, at the end of the War. He died on 5 June 1939.
1053
Three: Gunner F. Bird, Royal Field Artillery, killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 1 October 1915
1914-15 STAR (11309 Gnr: F. Bird. R.F.A.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (11309 Gnr. F. Bird. R.A.), together with three medal transmittal slips, registered envelopes and boxes of issue, all addressed to ‘Mr. T Bird, Church House, Rock, nr Bewdley, Worcs’, extremely fine (3)
£80-120
‘Fred’ Bird (Alfred Joseph Bird) was born in 1895, in Rock, Bewdley, Worcestershire, the only son of Thomas and Emma Bird of Church House or Church Cottage, Rock, Bewdley. Fred, a farm waggoner, first served during the Great War in Egypt from 1 July 1915 and was killed in action whilst serving with the 11th Divisional Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery, in Gallipoli on 1 October 1915. He is buried in Hill 10 Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula. He is also commemorated on the Rock War Memorial, St Peter and St Paul’s Church War Memorial, Rock Council School War Memorial and the ‘Bird’ family memorial in St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Rock.
Throughout his army service Fred appears to have been recorded as ‘Frederick’ and his farm employer also recorded him as ‘Frederick’ in the 1911 Census. 1901 Census notes ‘Alfred Joseph Bird’ and CWGC notes ‘Alfred Fred Bird’.
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