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Three: Able Seaman J. Mallon, Howe Battalion, Royal Naval Division, taken Prisoner of War during the German Spring Offensive on 24 March 1918, and died in captivity on 29 July 1918


1914-15 STAR (TZ.5251, J. Mallon, A.B., R.N.V.R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (T.Z.5215 J. Mallon. A.B. R.N.V.R.) traces of verdigris to Star, good very fine (3)


£100-140


James Mallon was born on 9 September 1895 and enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 10 June 1915. Drafted for the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 25 October 1915, he joined the Howe Battalion, Royal Naval Division on 1 December 1915. Severely wounded in the right thumb on 13 November 1916, he was invalided to England on 6 December 1916, before being drafted for the British Expeditionary Force on 15 June 1917. He re-joined the Howe Battalion on 10 July 1917, before being attached to the 1st Royal Marine Battalion on 11 February 1918. He was taken Prisoner of War on 24 March 1918, during the German Spring Offensive, and died whilst in captivity from influenza in hospital near Hanover. He is buried in Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany.


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Pair: Able Seaman S. G. Sheppard, Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division, taken Prisoner of War during the German Spring Offensive on 24 March 1918


BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (R.420 S. G. Sheppard. A.B. R.N.V.R.), in relic of named card box of issue, extremely fine (2)


£60-80


Sidney George Sheppard was born in Leicester in 1884 and was mobilised for service in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 8 September 1917. Drafted for the British Expeditionary Force on 4 February 1918, he joined the Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division on 19 February 1918. He was taken Prisoner of War on 24 March 1918, during the German Spring Offensive, and was held at Kriegsgefangenen-Kommandantur, Wahn, Limburg-an-der-Lahn and at Gefangenlager, Parchim in Mecklenburg. He was repatriated on the cessation of hostilities, and arrived back at Dover on 29 November 1918. He was demobilised on 10 April 1919 and died in 1958.


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Three: Second Lieutenant E. W. Wells, Worcestershire Regiment, taken Prisoner of War during the German Spring Offensive, 30 March 1918


BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (2. Lieut. E. W. Wells.); DEFENCE MEDAL, nearly extremely fine (3) £60-80


Eric Wright Wells was born on 17 July 1898 and was educated at Preston Grammar School, Lancashire. He attested for the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment at Preston on 8 August 1916, and was posted to the 4th Battalion. Applying for a commission on 3 March 1917, he was posted to an Officer Cadet Battalion, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Worcestershire Regiment on 30 October 1917. He served with the 2nd/8th Battalion on the Western Front, and was taken Prisoner of War on 30 March 1918, during the German Spring Offensive. His own report of his capture states the following: ‘At 11 a.m. on 30 March 1918 I was with two other officers (Second Lieutenants Lawrence and Spencelagh) and about 10 men in an advanced position about 400 yards in front of the position occupied by the remainder of the battalion in front of the village of Marcelcave, which was held by the enemy. In consequence of the withdrawal of the units on the flanks the battalion had been compelled to evacuate both the position where I was, and the main position in the rear taken in the day, but the rear positions had been re-occupied and in spite of heavy machine gun fire I and two officers mentioned above had succeeded in re-occupying our original forward positions with a few men. About noon the enemy began to appear in scattered groups and later in larger numbers on the right of the village to our front, on the higher ground on the right, and in the railway cutting on the left. We kept him off by continuous rifle fire, aided by occasional bursts from a Lewis Gun, until about 3 p.m. when ammunition was practically exhausted. We were then subjected to a heavy bombardment with 5.9” shells. This lasted for about 20 minutes; meanwhile, the enemy had advanced well on the flanks, and was sweeping the ground between us and the position in the rear with frontal, enfilade, and reverse machine gun fire. After the bombardment had ceased a strong body of the enemy began to advance towards us from the front. We determined to try to evacuate. Lieutenant Lawrence and three men left the trench. The three men were almost immediately shot, and Lieutenant Lawrence returned and said it was absolutely impossible to get through the machine gun barrage over the 400 yards of absolutely open country which lay between us and the nearest cover. The party of the enemy attacking from the village threw out men on the flanks and surrounded our position.’


Wells was repatriated on the cessation of hostilities, and arrived back in England on Christmas Day, 1918.


Sold together with a photograph of the recipient laying a wreath at Leominster War Memorial in later life, wearing his three medals; and much copied research.


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