CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 1200


Three: Private E. L. Morris, London Regiment 1914-15 STAR (1385. Pte. E. L. Morris, 20-Lond. R.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (1385 Pte. E. L. Morris. 20-Lond. R.) very fine


Pair: Private L. Varmen, Canadian Infantry, killed in action on the Western Front, 19 April 1916 1914-15 STAR (73525 Pte. L. Varmen. 28/Can: Inf:); VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (73525 Pte. L. Varmen. 28-Can. Inf.) good very fine


Pair: Sapper G. Matthews, Royal Engineers BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (181459 Spr. G. Matthews. R.E.) good very fine


Pair: Private F. W. Green, Army Service Corps BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (M2-082839 Pte. F. W. Green. A.S.C.) very fine


VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (PS-7122 Pte. C. T. Bowling. R. Fus.) nearly very fine (10) £80-120


Lionel Varmen served with the 28th (Saskatchewan) Regiment, Canadian Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 19 April 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.


Sold together with two County of Middlesex Silver Jubilee Medals 1935, both in white metal; a Borough of Southampton Silver Jubilee Medal 1935, gilt, with top riband bar; an unofficial ‘Empire’ Silver Jubilee Medal 1935, gilt, all unnamed.


x1201


Three: Private G. Essex, Army Veterinary Corps 1914-15 STAR (SE-7907 Pte. G. Essex. A.V.C.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (SE-7907 Pte. G. Essex. A.V.C.) the Star and VM both somewhat silvered, very fine


Pair: A. H. Brown BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (A. H. Brown) good very fine


1914 STAR, with clasp (SE-699 Pte. C. J. Lawrence. A.V.C.), mounted together with erased BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS; 1914-15 STAR (1647. Pte. E. G. Probert, R.A.V.C.); BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (TT-02404 Pte. J. W. Cook. A.V.C.) naming details faint on second and heavy edge bruising to last, nearly very fine (10)


£160-200 George Essex served with the Army Veterinary Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 May 1915.


1202


Family Group:


Three: Sister Helen Waddell, Territorial Force Nursing Service 1914-15 STAR (S/Nurse H. Waddell T.F.N.S.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Sister H. Waddell) good very fine


Pair: Sergeant C. H. Watts, Army Service Corps BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (A-198997 A.Sjt. C. H. Watts. A.S.C.) good very fine (5)


£300-360


Helen Waddell (also known as Helena or Helene), was born in Sunderland in 1878, and trained at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1909-1912. Whilst a probationer nurse she was one of approximately 126 Royal Victoria Infirmary nurses who received a silver cross which were presented to each nurse ‘…through the kindness of a very generous friend of the Institution’ to commemorate the coronation of George V and Queen Mary on June 23rd 1911 (R.V.I. Annual Report 1911 refers).


Following the outbreak of the Great War Helen Waddell joined Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service on 15 July 1915 and served with the Territorial Force Nursing Service as a Staff Nurse. She was sent to No. 16 General Hospital on 29 February 1916, and was appointed as acting sister on 17 March of that year. In September 1916 she transferred to No. 34 General Hospital, and then in April 1917 moved to No. 20 General Hospital, Abbeville. From Abbeville she was sent to Etaples along with 14 other Nursing Sisters to No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station; in a summary written by the Doctor in charge, in a ten day period from 16 to 26 September 1917 the Casualty Clearing Station had 383 Admissions, 221 Evacuations to a base hospital, had 122 deaths, performed 252 operations, and had 56 post-operative deaths, indicating how busy the unit was; on 27 September the unit was closed to admissions. She worked here for one month before she became sick and was invalided home from France in November 1917. She returned to No. 2 Stationary Hospital, Abbeville on 22 January 1918. Following the Great War she continued to nurse in London, and died in London on 30 December 1949; probate was granted to her brother in law Cyril Watts, who had served in the Army Service Corps during the Great War.


Sold together with the recipient’s Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Coronation Cross 1911, silver, the obverse with Crown on upper arm, G[eorge] R[ex] M[ary] on other three arms, and date 1911 at centre, the lower arm of the reverse engraved ‘H. W.’; a Primrose League Warden’s Badge; an improvised identity tag fashioned from a French coin, the reverse engraved ‘A. Waddell. 686 Fulham Rd., London S.W.’; a Royal Air Force brooch pin; and various other ‘charms’.


www.dnw.co.uk


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72  |  Page 73  |  Page 74  |  Page 75  |  Page 76  |  Page 77  |  Page 78  |  Page 79  |  Page 80  |  Page 81  |  Page 82  |  Page 83  |  Page 84  |  Page 85  |  Page 86  |  Page 87  |  Page 88  |  Page 89  |  Page 90  |  Page 91  |  Page 92  |  Page 93  |  Page 94  |  Page 95  |  Page 96  |  Page 97  |  Page 98  |  Page 99  |  Page 100  |  Page 101  |  Page 102  |  Page 103  |  Page 104  |  Page 105  |  Page 106  |  Page 107  |  Page 108  |  Page 109  |  Page 110  |  Page 111  |  Page 112  |  Page 113  |  Page 114  |  Page 115  |  Page 116  |  Page 117  |  Page 118  |  Page 119  |  Page 120  |  Page 121  |  Page 122  |  Page 123  |  Page 124  |  Page 125  |  Page 126  |  Page 127  |  Page 128  |  Page 129  |  Page 130  |  Page 131  |  Page 132  |  Page 133  |  Page 134  |  Page 135  |  Page 136  |  Page 137  |  Page 138  |  Page 139  |  Page 140  |  Page 141  |  Page 142  |  Page 143  |  Page 144  |  Page 145  |  Page 146  |  Page 147  |  Page 148  |  Page 149  |  Page 150  |  Page 151  |  Page 152  |  Page 153  |  Page 154  |  Page 155  |  Page 156  |  Page 157  |  Page 158  |  Page 159  |  Page 160  |  Page 161  |  Page 162  |  Page 163  |  Page 164  |  Page 165  |  Page 166  |  Page 167  |  Page 168  |  Page 169  |  Page 170  |  Page 171  |  Page 172  |  Page 173  |  Page 174  |  Page 175  |  Page 176  |  Page 177  |  Page 178  |  Page 179  |  Page 180  |  Page 181  |  Page 182  |  Page 183  |  Page 184  |  Page 185  |  Page 186  |  Page 187  |  Page 188  |  Page 189  |  Page 190  |  Page 191  |  Page 192  |  Page 193  |  Page 194  |  Page 195  |  Page 196  |  Page 197  |  Page 198  |  Page 199  |  Page 200  |  Page 201  |  Page 202  |  Page 203  |  Page 204  |  Page 205  |  Page 206  |  Page 207  |  Page 208  |  Page 209  |  Page 210  |  Page 211  |  Page 212  |  Page 213  |  Page 214  |  Page 215  |  Page 216  |  Page 217  |  Page 218  |  Page 219  |  Page 220  |  Page 221  |  Page 222  |  Page 223  |  Page 224  |  Page 225  |  Page 226  |  Page 227  |  Page 228  |  Page 229  |  Page 230  |  Page 231  |  Page 232  |  Page 233  |  Page 234  |  Page 235  |  Page 236  |  Page 237  |  Page 238  |  Page 239  |  Page 240  |  Page 241  |  Page 242  |  Page 243  |  Page 244  |  Page 245  |  Page 246  |  Page 247  |  Page 248  |  Page 249  |  Page 250  |  Page 251  |  Page 252  |  Page 253  |  Page 254  |  Page 255  |  Page 256  |  Page 257  |  Page 258  |  Page 259  |  Page 260  |  Page 261  |  Page 262  |  Page 263  |  Page 264  |  Page 265  |  Page 266  |  Page 267  |  Page 268  |  Page 269  |  Page 270  |  Page 271  |  Page 272  |  Page 273  |  Page 274  |  Page 275  |  Page 276  |  Page 277  |  Page 278  |  Page 279  |  Page 280  |  Page 281  |  Page 282  |  Page 283  |  Page 284  |  Page 285  |  Page 286  |  Page 287  |  Page 288  |  Page 289  |  Page 290  |  Page 291  |  Page 292  |  Page 293  |  Page 294  |  Page 295  |  Page 296  |  Page 297  |  Page 298  |  Page 299  |  Page 300  |  Page 301  |  Page 302  |  Page 303  |  Page 304  |  Page 305  |  Page 306  |  Page 307  |  Page 308  |  Page 309  |  Page 310  |  Page 311  |  Page 312  |  Page 313  |  Page 314  |  Page 315  |  Page 316  |  Page 317  |  Page 318  |  Page 319  |  Page 320  |  Page 321  |  Page 322  |  Page 323  |  Page 324  |  Page 325  |  Page 326  |  Page 327  |  Page 328  |  Page 329  |  Page 330  |  Page 331  |  Page 332  |  Page 333  |  Page 334  |  Page 335  |  Page 336  |  Page 337  |  Page 338  |  Page 339  |  Page 340  |  Page 341  |  Page 342  |  Page 343  |  Page 344  |  Page 345  |  Page 346  |  Page 347  |  Page 348  |  Page 349  |  Page 350  |  Page 351  |  Page 352  |  Page 353  |  Page 354  |  Page 355  |  Page 356  |  Page 357  |  Page 358  |  Page 359  |  Page 360  |  Page 361  |  Page 362  |  Page 363  |  Page 364  |  Page 365  |  Page 366  |  Page 367  |  Page 368  |  Page 369  |  Page 370  |  Page 371  |  Page 372  |  Page 373