CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS x173
Pair: Sergeant J. Graham, 28th Canadian Infantry, severely wounded at Amiens, 9 August 1918 BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (1072151 A. Sjt. J. Graham. 28-Can. Inf.) good very fine
Pair: Private R. Finlayson, 28th Canadian Infantry, killed in action 6 June 1916 BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (74326 Pte. R. Finlayson. 28-Can. Inf.) very fine (4)
£60-80
James Graham was born in Carlisle, Cumberland, on 21 September 1892, and attested for the Canadian Over-seas Expeditionary Force at Winnipeg on 4 December 1916. He served during the Great War with the 28th Battalion (Saskatchewan Regiment), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front from May 1918, and was severely wounded at Amiens on 9 August 1918 by both shrapnel and a high explosive shell. His right leg was amputated above the knee; his left leg was amputated below the knee, and his right arm was fractured. Fitted with artificial limbs, he returned to Canada and was discharged as medically unfit on 30 April 1920. He died at Qualicum Beach, British Colombia, on 12 March 1955.
Sold together with a full medical report detailing the recipient’s injuries.
Richard Finlayson was born in Edinburgh on 3 March 1890, and attested for the Canadian Over-seas Expeditionary Force at Winnipeg on 29 April 1915, having previously served for two years in the Royal Scots. He served during the Great War with the 28th Battalion (Saskatchewan Regiment), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front from 18 September 1915, and was killed in action on 6 June 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
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Pair: Miss D. Stickland, Voluntary Air Detachment BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, M.I.D Oak Leaves (D. Stickland. V.A.D.) nearly extremely fine (2) M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1919.
£70-90
Dorothy Stickland resided at Cattistock Rectory, Dorchester. She volunteered at the Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital, Weymouth, 1915-1917, before engaging as a Storekeeper with V.A.D. in January 1918. Her service included in the J. C. Hospital, Salonika, 16 January 1918 - 8 May 1919. In later life she wrote a monograph on the author Thomas Hardy’s visit to Cattistock.
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Pair: Nurse Miss Helen D. Bonnar, Voluntary Aid Detachment BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (H. D. Bonnar. V.A.D.) mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (2) M.I.D. London Gazette 10 July 1919.
£100-140
Miss Helen Dick Bonnar, later Mrs. Johnson-Smith, enrolled into the British Red Cross Society in November 1914, in the Midlothian detachment, and saw service at the Sick Children’s Hospital, the Gullam Red Cross Hospital, and the 2nd Scottish General Hospital in Edinburgh before embarking for France where she served in the 8th Stationary Hospital between 28 Marrch 1917 and 12 March 1919. Awarded two scarlet efficiency stripes on 17 February 1919, she was ‘Mentioned’ in Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatch of 16 March 1919.
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Pair: Bearer Fazal Din, Army Bearer Corps BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (2948 Br. Fazal Din. A.B. Cps.) contact marks, nearly very fine
1914-15 STAR (Jemdr. Mall Khan, 35/Scinde Horse.); BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (4) (11262 G’man Sumandar, Meso, Rys,; 6 Jem. Azizullah Khan, Swat Levies.; 6100 Spr. Saraj Din, 17 Div. Sig. Coy.; Jumba Abdulla); VICTORYMEDAL 1914 -19 (4) (10973 G’man Mota Khan, Meso. Rys.; 1575 L-Nk. Gheba, Ry. Bn. S. & M.; 280 Swr. Mohd. Husein Khan, 1. Gwal. Lrs.; 303 Rfmn. Dhana Bahadur Sunuwar, Shere.) contact marks and edge bruising, generally nearly very fine, last scarce to unit (11)
£130-160 177
Pair: H. Long, Mercantile Marine BRITISH WAR AND MERCANTILE MARINE WAR MEDALS (Harry Long.) very fine
VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (41230 Pte. J. Dalton. E. York. R.); GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (22743181 Gnr. M. T. Peters. R.A.); GENERAL SERVICE 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24129866 Pte. J. Tole BW.) traces of lacquer to last, very fine (5)
£70-90 178 Pair: Private S. Hoggard, Northumberland Fusiliers
BRITISHWARMEDAL 1914-20 (6-5813 Pte. S. Hoggard. North’d. Fus.); GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (37527 Pte. S. Hoggard. North’d Fus.) heavy edge bruising, nearly very fine (2)
£60-80 Sidney Hoggard was born in Eastrington, Yorkshire in 1899, and served with the Northumberland Fusiliers. 179 Four: Sergeant L. Gosling, Royal Artillery
BRITISHWARMEDAL 1914-20 (45306 Bmbr. L. Gosling. R.A.); DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS 1939-45; ARMY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (1410490 Sjt. L. Gosling., R.A.); together with two ROYALARTILLERY TUG O’WARMEDALS, bronze, the first engraved ‘L. Gosling 1930’, the second ‘2nd Med. Bat. R.A. 1932’, good very fine (6)
£40-50 180 Four: Company Sergeant-Major Gilbert Arthur Holdaway, Karachi Auxiliary Force and Indian Defence Force
BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (767 C-S-M. G. A. Holdaway, 4 E.E. Coy. I.D.F.); CORONATION 1937; VOLUNTEER FORCE LONG SERVICE (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Sjt. G. A. Holdaway, Karachi A.F.) impressed naming; EFFICIENCYMEDAL,
G.VI.R., 1st issue, India (Sjt. G. A. Holdaway, 2-Coy. M.G.C., A.F.I.) very fine and better (4)
£240-280 Provenance: John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2009.
Gilbert Arthur Holdaway was employed as the General Manager of the Daily Gazette Press in Karachi. He was also Senior Grand Deacon in the Grand Lodge of All Scottish Freemasonry in India. During the Great War he served as Company Sergeant-Major in No.4 E.E. Company, Indian Defence Force. Serving in the Volunteers, he was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, as a Sergeant in the Karachi Auxiliary Force, published in I.A.O. 556 of August 1929. In 1938 he was awarded the Efficiency Medal (India), as a Sergeant in No. 2 (Karachi) Company, Machine Gun Corps, listed in I.A.O. 536 of June 1938.
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