CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 163 Family Group:
Three: The Reverend A. M. Nelson, Church of Scotland, Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Rev. A. M. Nelson.); DELHI DURBAR 1911, silver, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, together with the related miniature awards, good very fine
Three: Hospital Orderly Miss Anne L. Merrylees, later Mrs. Nelson, Scottish Women’s Hospital, Royaumont, and French Red Cross BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (A. L. Merrylees.); France, Third Republic, MEDAL OF HONOUR, Ministry of War, Devovement-Épidémies, bronze, the reverse embossed ‘Miss A. Merrylees 1917’, in case of issue, the lid similarly embossed; together with the related miniature awards, good very fine (6)
£400-500
The Reverend Alan Manson Nelson was ordained into the Church of Scotland and was appointed to the Bengal Ecclesiastical Department in 1903. He was Commissioned Junior Chaplain on 24 March 1904, and was attached to the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders at Cawnpore. Promoted Senior Chaplain on 24 March 1914, he served during the Great War, and was appointed Presidency Senior Chaplain, Church of Scotland, in Lahore on 1 July 1921. He was posted on leave from the Indian Army on 18 October 1922, and retired in 1924.
Anne Louis Nelson, née Merrylees, served during the Great War in France as an Orderly with Dr Elsie Inglis’ Unit (Scottish Women’s Hospital) at Royaumont from 31 August 1915 to 15 September 1917 (not entitled to a 1914-15 Star). For her work in France, under the auspices of the French Red Cross, she was awarded the Medal of Honour in bronze; as with the majority of such awards it was not Gazetted. After the War she married the Reverend A. M. Nelson, and worked at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London as a masseuse for 20 years.
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Three: Chief Mechanic F. E. Gordon, Royal Air Force
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (313744. Sgt. F. E. Gordon. R.A.F.); ROYAL AIR FORCE MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL, G.V.R. (233397 Ch: Mec: F. E. Gordon. R.A.F.) good very fine (3)
£380-420 M.S.M. London Gazette 1 January 1919: ‘This N.C.O. has rendered valuable services, both as N.C.O. in charge of Flight and in general duties.’
Frank Edwin Gordon was born in Islington, London, in January 1889. He joined the Navy as Boy Second Class in February 1905, and advanced to Able Seaman in May 1908. Gordon was re-classified as an Air Mechanic in the Royal Naval Air Service, 1 July 1914, and served as Petty Officer Mechanic at Crystal Palace, March 1916 - January 1918, and at Dunkirk, February - March 1918. The following month, with his transfer to the Royal Air Force, he was posted to 210 Squadron (Camels), when it formed from 10 (Naval) Squadron at Treizennes. Gordon advanced to Chief Mechanic i/c Flight whilst serving with 5 Group, R.A.F. in France.
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Three: Able Seaman J. Rowe, Royal Navy
BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (SS.5517 J. Rowe. A.B. R.N.); ROYAL FLEET RESERVE L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue (SS.5517 (PO. B. 11237) J. Rowe, A.B. R.F.R.) good very fine (3)
£60-80
James Rowe was born in Preston, Lancashire, on 30 April 1895, and joined the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seaman on 3 March 1915. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. Spanker, and was advanced Able Seaman on 1 April 1916. He subsequently served in the Yangtze River Gunboat H.M.S. Bee from 28 July to 7 September 1919, and was shore demobilised on 7 April 1920, joining the Royal Fleet Reserve the following day.
Sold together with a typed copy of H.M.S. Bee’s Ship’s Log covering the period that Rowe was serving in her.
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