CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 168 Family Group:
Three: Driver Miss Henrietta M. Lister, later Mrs. Burrill-Robinson, Scottish Women’s Hospital and French Red Cross BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (H. M. Lister.); Serbia, Kingdom, MEDAL OF ZEAL, bronze-gilt; together with the related miniature awards, nearly extremely fine
Three: Captain W. R. Burrill-Robinson, Yorkshire Regiment, later Commandant, North Riding of Yorkshire Special Constabulary DEFENCEMEDAL, with named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. Wm. R. Burrill-Robinson, “Elm House”, Redmire, Leyburn, Yorks N.R.’; CORONATION 1953; SPECIAL CONSTABULARY LONG SERVICEMEDAL (Comdr. William R. Burrill-Robinson), in named card box of issue, together with the related miniature awards, the Special Constabulary Medal additionally with a ‘Long Service 1953’ bar, nearly extremely fine (6)
£500-700
Henrietta Mabel Burrill-Robinson, née Lister, the daughter of Dr. Charles Lister, was a member of a dancing troupe touring Bulgaria and Serbia at the outbreak of the Great War, where she performed under the stage-name of Laretta Listakova. She served during the Great War as a driver with Dr Elsie Inglis’ Unit (the Scottish Women’s Hospital) under the auspices of the French Red Cross in Salonika in the Balkan theatre of War from March to November 1918, and returned to London on the cessation of hostilities. In the 1920s she became a motor-racing enthusiast, regularly racing her Aston Martin at Brooklands, occasionally in a team with Jack Warner, the actor who would go onto star as P.C. George Dixon in the acclaimed TV series Dixon of Dock Green. She married the North Yorkshire squire William Robinson Burrill-Robinson in 1935.
William Robinson Burrill-Robinson was born William Robinson Burrill on 9 August 1884 and was educated at Charterhouse and Clare College, Cambridge. He assumed the surname Burrill-Robinson in 1908, and served during the Great War as a Captain in the 4th battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, without apparently going overseas. He married Miss Henrietta Lister in 1935, and then settled down to the life of a country squire, living at Elm House, near Leyburn in North Yorkshire, which had a large grouse moor- on 10 August 1938 The Times reported that his grouse were in excellent condition approaching the “Twelfth”. He served as Commandant of the North Riding of Yorkshire Special Constabulary, and was later Chairman of the North Riding of Yorkshire County Council. He died on 23 December 1962.
Sold together with a photographic image of the recipient about to embark upon a day’s shooting; and various other ephemera. 169 Pair: Private H. Middleton, Lincolnshire Regiment, killed in action on the Western Front on 16 August 1917
BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (20165 Pte. H. Middleton. Linc. R.); MEMORIAL PLAQUE (Harry Middleton); together with an ANCIENTORDER OF FORESTERS SILVER STAR, silver and enamel, with integral top riband device, in fitted case of issue, good very fine (4)
£60-80
Harry Middleton attested for the Lincolnshire Regiment and served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War. Re-numbered as 40869, he was killed in action on the Western Front on 16 August 1917, and is buried in Voormezeele Enclosure No. 3, Belgium.
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Pair: Sergeant B. D. Burchnall, Royal Artillery BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (16096 Sjt. B. D. Burchnall. R.A.) minor edge bruising, very fine
Pair: Private I. Menday, Liverpool Regiment BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (73301 Pte. I. Menday. L’Pool R.) very fine
Pair: Private E. E. Wright, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (33691 Pte. E. E. Wright. K.S.L.I.) nearly very fine (6)
£50-60
Isaac Menday was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. He served during the Great War with the 17th (Labour) Battalion, Liverpool Regiment and died 27 April 1917. Private Menday is buried in Calais Southern Cemetery, France.
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Pair: Private C. G. Hill, Guards Machine Gun Regiment BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (5143 Pte. C. G. Hill. Gds. M.G.R.) good very fine (2)
Family Group:
Pair: Corporal H. Sheppard, Royal Berkshire Regiment BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (20146 Cpl. H. Sheppard. R. Berks R.) together with tops of boxes of issue with complete but separated labels, mounted as worn, good very fine
One: Attributed to David R. Sheppard, Air Raid Precautions DEFENCEMEDAL; together with two SAFEDRIVERMEDALS, one a 5 year award with clasps, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956; the other a 10 year award with top brooch bar ‘1957’, and additional riband and top brooch bar ‘15 Consecutive Years, 1962’, very fine and better (5)
£40-50
Henry Sheppard was born in Wanborough, Berkshire, and attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment on 29 December 1914. He served during the Great War with the 2nd/4th Battalion on the Western Front; was wounded; and was discharged on 15 July 1918 (entitled to a Silver War Badge). He died in Newbury, Berkshire, in 1957.
Sold together with the recipient’s cloth covered Army Small Book, including pasted-in Army Form B 2078 Mounted Infantry Certificate.
David R. Sheppard was a lorry driver for Berkshire County Council in 1939 and a member of the ARP during the Second World War. He joined the Postal Service as postman in Newbury in 1947.
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