A Collection of Medals to Second World War Casualties 287
Three: Private A. W. Clapham, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who died of wounds in Burma during Operation Loincloth, the first Chindit Operation, on 14 April 1943
1939-45 STAR; BURMA STAR;WARMEDAL 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mrs. Clapham, 89 Lynton Road, Bermondsey, SE1’, extremely fine (3)
£80-120
Alfred William Clapham served with the 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment during the Second World War, and died of a gun shot wound to the abdomen in Burma on 14 April 1943, aged 22, whilst taking part in Operation Loincloth, the first Chindit Expedition of the War. On 13 February 1943 a force of some 3,000 men under the command of General Orde Wingate crossed the Chidwin River into Burma; by the end of April, when the last of the Force had re-crossed the River back into India, over 800 men had been lost, and of the nearly 2,200 who returned only 600 were found to be fit for duty. Clapham is buried in Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma.
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Four: Signalman W. D. Jones, Royal Corps of Signals, who was taken Prisoner-of-War at the fall of Singapore, 15 February 1942, and died in captivity on 10 October 1943
1939-45 STAR; PACIFIC STAR; DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. W. Jones, 5 Garden Avenue, Mitcham, Surrey’, extremely fine (4)
£100-140
William Douglas Jones was born on 23 March 1914 and served with the Royal Corps of Signals in the Singapore Fortress during the Second World War. He was taken Prisoner of War at the fall of Singapore, 15 February 1942, and was held at No. 4 Construction Camp on the Burma-Siam Railway. He died on 10 October 1943, and is buried in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand.
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Three: Company Quartermaster Sergeant S. E. Bywater, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, killed in action at Monte Cassino, 21 January 1944
1939-45 STAR; ITALY STAR;WARMEDAL 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘E. Bywater Esq., 10 Northgate Terrace, Burnaston, Derby’, extremely fine (3)
£80-120
Stanley Ellis Bywater served with the 5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) during the Second Word War, and was killed in action on Monastery Hill at Monte Cassino on 21 January 1944. He is buried in Cassino War Cemetery, Italy.
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Four: Corporal T. J. M. Bell, 5th (Scottish) Battalion, Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps, killed in action at the Sangro River, 23 January 1944
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mrs. J. Bell, Nether Gribton Cottage, Holywood, Dumfries’, extremely fine (4)
£100-140
Thomas John Murray Bell served with the 5th (Scottish) Battalion, Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps during the Second World War, and was killed in action at the Sangro River, Italy, on 23 January 1944, aged 20. Between November 1943 and March 1944 the 5th were in the Adriatic Sector where they carried out aggressive patrolling and suffered numerous casualties during the bitter Winter campaign, especially in the battle along the Sangro River, where they were involved in almost daily fighting in the long muddy battle. The river at the time of Bell’s death was in flood, and was described as being ‘the size of the Thames at Hammersmith’. He is buried in the Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy.
Sold together with a photograph of the recipient’s original cross-marked grave.
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Four: Private J. B. H. S. Scott, Royal Scots, killed in action at Kohima, 28 May 1944
1939-45 STAR; BURMA STAR; DEFENCE ANDWAR MEDALS 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mrs. J. Scott, c/o Mrs Gove, 18 Wellington Street, Montrose’, extremely fine (4)
£80-120
James Blair Hay Smith Scott served with the 1st Battalion, Royal Scots, during the Second World War, and was killed in action at the Battle of Kohima on 28 May 1944, aged 25. He is buried in Kohima War Cemetery, Burma.
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Three: Trooper N. Whittaker, 13th/18th Royal Hussars, killed in action on Sword Beach on D-Day, 6 June 1944
1939-45 STAR; FRANCE AND GERMANY STAR;WARMEDAL 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. H. Whittaker, 5 St. Nicholas Place, Hull Road, York, Yorkshire’, extremely fine (3)
£240-280
Norman Whittaker served with the 13th/18th Royal Hussars during the Second World War, and was killed in action on D-Day, 6 June 1944, aged 21. ‘A and B Squadrons of the 13th/18th Hussars were equipped with Duplex Drive (Amphibious) Tanks when they assaulted Sword Beach in their allotted section known as “Queen Beach” shortly after 07:00 hours on the morning of D-Day. They were unique that day in that they were the only Duplex Drive Squadron to be successfully launched and “swim” ashore according to plan and practically intact. They launched on the codeword “Floater”. In all 31 DD tanks reached the beach during the invasion. Their principal role was to support the assault of the 8th Infantry Brigade, which was to land seven minutes before them, on what was the extreme left of the British assault front. This front stretched from Ouistreham to Luc-sur-Mer. In fact they were fifteen minutes late in arriving due to sea conditions and strong currents. When they reached the beach their first orders were to remain at the water’s edge “sat hull down in the water, shooting at everything that caught their eye”. It was later estimated that the tanks knocked out three or four 75mm guns, four or five 50mm guns, and numerous 20m guns. Aimed fire from the Germans, other than sporadic sniper fire from the houses in Hermanville-sur-Mer was reported to have stopped twenty minutes after the tanks landed. Shortly after C Squadron and RHQ landed to move on their own objectives.’
Regimental casualties for D-Day amounted to 12 killed and 12 wounded. Whittaker is buried in Hermanville War Cemetery, France.
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