CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 760
Five: Sergeant T. B. Clark, Royal Army Medical Corps, late St. John Ambulance Brigade, who served aboard the American hospital ship the S.S. Maine during both the Boer War and the Boxer Rebellion
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Private. T. B. Clark, 1136. St. Johns. Amb. Bde.) re-engraved naming; CHINA 1900, no clasp (1136 Pte. T. B. Clark. St. John Amb: Bde:); BRITISHWAR MEDAL 1914-20, naming erased; VICTORYMEDAL 1914-19 (25554 A.S. Sjt. T. B. Clark. R.A.M.C.); ST. JOHNMEDAL FOR SOUTHAFRICA 1899-1902 (1136. Pte. T. B. Clark. Nelson Corps.); together with the recipient’s ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION RE-EXAMINATION CROSS, bronze (No. Thomas B. Clark 83449); and a
S.S.MAINE AMERICAN LADIES’HOSPITAL SHIP FUND COMMEMORATIVEMEDALLION 1899, 44mm, white metal, unnamed, in fitted case, very fine (7)
£800-1200
Thomas Bryan Clark served with the St. John Ambulance Brigade on the staff of the American Hospital Ship the S.S. Maine during both the Boer War in South Africa and subsequently the Boxer Rebellion in China, landing at Wei-Hei-Wei on 6 September 1900, and arriving at Taku on 27 September of that year. He subsequently served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War.
The S.S. Maine was originally the Atlantic Transport Line steamer Swansea, renamed in 1899 and lent to the British Government as a hospital ship for use in the Boer War and later off China during the Boxer Rebellion. Fitted out as a hospital ship in London by Messrs. Fletcher & Son and Fearnall Ltd., the costs were met by the American Ladies Hospital Ship Fund, under the Chairmanship of Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of the future Prime Minister, who struck the above medallion to help with their fund raising.
11 Queen’s South Africa Medals and 14 China Medals were awarded to members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade for service in the American hospital ship the S.S. Maine, the majority of whom received both medals.
Sold with copied medal rolls for the Q.S.A., China Medal, and British War and Victory Medals, which confirms his entitlement to all of the above medals, and other research.
761 Family Group:
Five: Captain C. C. G. Gordon, Royal Engineers QUEEN’S SOUTHAFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (23121 S. Sjt: C. C. G. Gordon. R.E.); KING’S SOUTHAFRICA 1901-02, 2 clasps (23121 S. Serjt: C. C. G. Gordon. R.E.); BRITISHWAR MEDAL 1914-20 (Q.M. & Lieut. C. C. G. Gordon.); DEFENCE MEDAL; ARMY L.S. & G.C.,
E.VII.R. (23121 F. of W. Q.M.S. C. C. G. Gordon. R.E.); together with an ARMY TEMPERANCE ASSOCIATION:HOME 1 YEARMEDAL, silver (C. Gordon. R.E. 1897); and the recipient’s related miniature awards, excluding the Defence Medal, the miniature QSA with clasp Natal instead of Cape Colony, overall generally good very fine
Three: Draftsman Sergeant S. F. G. Gordon, Royal Engineers BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (11175 Cpl. S. F. G. Gordon. R.E.; IMPERIAL SERVICE MEDAL, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Stewart Frank Glennie Gordon) in Royal Mint case of issue; ARMY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (11175 E.C. & D. Sjt. S. F. G. Gordon. R.E.); together with three MASONIC MEDALS, good very fine (lot)
£300-400
Cosmo Charles Glennie Gordon was born in Alverstoke, Hampshire, in 1872 and attested for the Royal Engineers. Advanced Foreman of Works Quartermaster Sergeant, he was appointed Quartermaster on 14 January 1915, and granted the honorary rank of Captain on 14 January 1918.
Stewart Frank Glennie Gordon attested for the Royal Engineers on 17 June 1902 and served during the Great War in Singapore, where he took part in the operations against the Mutineers in February to March 1915, and in the subsequent Expedition to quell the Native Uprising in the Malay State of Kelantan, 2-17 May 1915 (entitled to a British War Medal only). Appointed an Engineering Clerk and Draftsman, he was advanced Quartermaster Sergeant on 8 January 1925. He was discharge in 1927, and subsequently served as an Architectural Assistant at the War Office, being awarded his Imperial Service Medal in 1959 (London Gazette 24 November 1959).
Sold with two Princess Mary Christmas Boxes 1914, with Christmas card and Bullet Pencil; a Royal Engineers cap badge; a British and Foreign Sailors’ Society Silver Cross; Royal British Legion lapel badge and tie pin; S. F. G. Gordon’s ‘Small Book’; and various original documents; letters; and copied research.
762 Three: Battery Quartermaster Sergeant R. E. Stanford, Royal Artillery, late South Staffordshire Regiment
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (5753 Serjt: R. E. Stanford. S. Staff: Regt.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (61751 A.B.Q.M. Sjt. R. E. Stanford. R.A.) edge bruise to QSA, very fine (3)
£80-120
Richard Edgar Stanford was born in Tipton, Staffordshire, on 5 February 1883, and served with the 1st Battalion (from 3rd (Militia) Battalion), South Staffordshire Regiment in South Africa during the Boer War. Following the outbreak of the Great War he re-attested in the Royal Garrison Artillery at Dudley on 2 November 1915, and served with the 146th Siege Battery R.G.A. on the Western Front from 17 August 1916; he also saw service with the 102nd Siege Battery and received one wound stripe for when he had been mildly gassed during active service on 26 March 1918. Following the cessation of hostilities he volunteered for service with the army of occupation in Germany for one year, and was discharged with the rank of Battery Quartermaster Sergeant on 26 November 1919.
Sold with copied research.
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