CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 1067 Three: Private A. E. Challenger, Gloucestershire Regiment, who died of wounds received on the Somme, 28 July 1916
1914-15 STAR (2629 Pte A. E. Challenger. Glouc. R.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (2629 Pte. A. E. Challenger. Glouc. R.) very fine and better (3)
£60-80
Arthur Estwick Challenger was born on 25 September 1894 at Totterdown, Bristol, son of Edward Herbert and Sarah Rosa Challenger. He was employed as a carpenter before attesting for the Gloucestershire Regiment at Cheltenham. During the Great War he served with the 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion in the French theatre of war from 29 March 1915 and died of wounds on 28 July 1916 at 9 General Hospital, Rouen. He was buried in St Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France.
1068 An extremely well documented group of three awarded to Captain W. W. Taylor, Northamptonshire Regiment
1914-15 STAR (2. Lieut: W. W. Taylor. North’n. R.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (Capt. W. W. Taylor.) nearly extremely fine (3)
£240-280
William Wynne Taylor was born in Exeter in 1888 and was educated at Dulwich College. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Northamptonshire Regiment on 22 September 1914, and served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 October 1915, following which the Battalion was heavily involved within the Ypres Salient. Hospitalised with para-typhoid in 1916, he transferred upon his recovery in October 1916 to the 2nd Garrison Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, and was posted to India with the Battalion, where he was based largely at Sialkot and Ahmednagar. After the War he worked in Nairobi as Assistant Treasurer in the Income Tax Office, and in 1940 he was re-called for service in the Second World War, where he served in the Transport Section, Royal Engineers. Taylor married twice, his second wife being Stephana Vere Benson, the well-known ornithologist, and he died in Bideford in 1974.
Sold together with two large and heavy photograph albums/ scrap books containing a wealth of documents on Taylor and his Army career, especially in India, including some original documents, the recipient’s original Commission Document, as well as various newspaper cuttings; interspersed with a range of military photographs of the 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment and the 2nd Garrison Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, the latter taken in India and serving as a rare pictorial record of that Battalion’s garrison service there, the vast majority of the photographs annotated, both volumes bound in leather with the covers embossed ‘W.W.T.’
1069 Family Group:
VOLUNTEER FORCE LONG SERVICE MEDAL,
E.VII.R. (1471 L.Cpl. I. White. 2/V.B. K.O.S.B.) the obverse nearly very fine, the reverse heavily polished, thus fair
Three: Private J. White, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who was was killed in action on ‘the fatal’ 12 July 1915 at Achi Baba, Gallipoli, on which date the 4th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers suffered 302 fatal casualties 1914-15 STAR (4436 Pte J. White. K.O Sco: Bord:); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (4436 Pte. J. White. K. O. Sco. Bord.) the obverses nearly very fine, the reverses heavily polished, thus fair
Three: Private G. White, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, died of pneumonia on 27 November 1915 1914-15 STAR (4435 Pte G. White. K.O Sco: Bord:); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (4435 Pte. G. White. K. O. Sco. Bord.) the obverses nearly very fine, the reverses heavily polished, thus fair
Pair: Lance Corporal H. White, King’s Own Scottish Borderers and Canadian Army Service Corps BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (35318 Sjt. H. White. C.A.S.C.), together with Silver War Badge, reverse numbered ‘14565’, the obverses nearly very fine, the reverses heavily polished, thus fair (9)
£340-380
Isaac White was born in 1854 and in 1902 was living in the High Street, Lauder, Berwickshire, with his wife and seven children. He was employed as a joiner on the Thirlestane Estates and served for at least 20 years and was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, per Army Order of January 1909. It was reported in the Southern Reporter of 28 October 1915 that three families in the Royal Burgh of Lauder had received letters from the King congratulating them on their patriotism, one of which was Isaac White, who was congratulated for having five sons and a son-in-law serving and one further son who had given up his position with a view to enlisting. In fact, Isaac White had six sons in service at the time of the Southern Reporter’s article, which omitted Harry White.
John White was born in 1889, in Lauder, Berwickshire, the son of Isaac and Eliza White, of Wyndhead Lodge, Lauder, Berwickshire. He served during the Great War in Gallipoli with 1/4th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers from 4 June 1915. He was killed in action on ‘the fatal’ 12 July 1915 at Achi Baba. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli. He is also commemorated on the Lauder War Memorial and St Marys Parish Church War Memorial, Lauder.
The War Record of the 4th Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers refers in great detail to the ‘Fatal 12th’, the first action of the 4th Battalion, in which it was the leading battalion in the successful attack on Turkish trenches in front of Parsons Road and Trotman Road, near Achi Baba. Having taken the first line of Turkish trenches (E10), the battalion found itself covered by machine-gun fire from the right and left as it took the second line of trenches (E11). However, the survivors of the Battalion charged on to the third line (E12) which was found to barely exist, a scratched line in the dust. Having now advanced 400-500 yards the Battalion had advanced too far and had to retire across a killing zone to the captured Turkish second line trenches (E11). Out in the open, with artillery coming from both sides, and Turkish machine-gun and rifle fire coming from all angles, with very little cover, there was a ‘bloodbath’ and the battalion became dispersed to the point that no more than two men of 4th Battalion were seen together in any one place. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Roll notes that the 4th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers suffered 302 fatal casualties in Gallipoli on 12 July 1915.
It seems reasonable to assume that John and George White, who have consecutive service numbers, not only enlisted in 1st/4th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers together but also served together until John’s death in Gallipoli.
Sold together with a photographic image of the recipient.
George White was born in 1894, in Lauder, Berwickshire, the son of Isaac and Eliza White, of Wyndhead Lodge, Lauder, Berwickshire. He served during the Great War in Gallipoli with the 1/4th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers from 4 June 1915. He died in hospital of double pneumonia on 27 November 1915. He is buried in Portianos Cemetery, Lemnos, Greece. He is also commemorated on the Lauder War Memorial and St Marys Parish Church War Memorial, Lauder.
It seems likely that George White came through the action on 12 July and counter-attacks on 13 July 1915 as referred to above, but later succumbed to pneumonia as the Winter closed in.
Harry White was born on 6 March 1883, in Lauder, Berwickshire, the son of Isaac and Eliza White, of Wyndhead Lodge, Lauder, Berwickshire. Aged 30, a harness maker, who had served for 6 years in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, he enlisted as a Bugler in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 22 September 1914. He served during the Great War on the Western Front with 14th Canadian Army Service Corps
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