CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 830 Three: Sister Miss Cecily G. Woodman, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
1914-15 STAR (Sister C. G. Woodman, Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Sister C. G. Woodman) extremely fine (3)
£240-280 M.I.D. London Gazette 30 May 1918.
Miss Cecily Grace Woodman was born in South Africa and served during the Great War in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve from September 1914 to April 1918, being Mentioned in General Sir Herbert Plumer’s Despatch of 18 April 1918. After the War she married her cousin Dr. Theodore Whittington in 1919. She died in 1974.
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Three: Private H. W. Fawley, 3rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, killed in action at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, between 7 and 12 August 1915
1914-15 STAR (1528 Pte. H. W. Fawley. 3/Bn. A.I.F.); BRITISHWAR ANDVICTORYMEDALS (1528 Pte. H. W. Fawley. 3 Bn A.I.F.) extremely fine (3)
£360-400
Henry Wilfred Fawley was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, and enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in August 1914. He was killed in action fighting with the 3rd Battalion, Australian Infantry at Gallipoli between the 7th and 12th of August, 1915.
The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac. On 6 August, further landings were made at Suvla, just north of Anzac, and the climax of the campaign came in early August when simultaneous assaults were launched on all three fronts. Lone Pine was a strategically important plateau in the southern part of Anzac which was briefly in the hands of Australian forces following the landings on 25 April. It became a Turkish strong point from May to July, when it was known by them as ‘Kanli Sirt’ (Bloody Ridge). The Australians pushed mines towards the plateau from the end of May to the beginning of August and on the afternoon of 6 August, after mine explosions and bombardment from land and sea, the position was stormed by the 1st Australian Brigade. By 10 August, the Turkish counter-attacks had failed and the position was consolidated. It was held by the 1st Australian Division until 12 September, and then by the 2nd, until evacuation of the peninsula in December.
Private Fawley has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli. 832
Pair: Second Lieutenant J. R. S. Proud, 27 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, late Royal West Kent Regiment, who, as a Pilot of a Martinsyde G.100 ‘Elephant’, was shot down and died of wounds, 6 April 1917
1914-15 STAR (2. Lieut. J. R. S. Proud. R. W. Kent. R.); VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (2. Lieut. J. R. S. Proud) extremely fine (2)
£300-340 Provenance: DNW, June 2009.
John Reginald Stanhope Proud was born in January 1895, the only son of Mr and Mrs T. Proud, of Parkfield, Grove Park, Lee, London. He was educated at Quernmore School, Bromley, Kent, at Merchant Taylors’, 1908-13, and at St. John’s College, Oxford. He was in the O.T.C. at both Merchant Taylors’ and university. Volunteering for service when war was declared, he was commissioned into the Royal West Kent Regiment on 16 October 1914. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war in July 1915 and was wounded in January 1916. Shortly after his return to duty he volunteered for the R.F.C. He gained his ‘wings’ in January 1917 and proceeded to France in March.
Serving in 27 Squadron, he was a pilot of a Martinsyde G.100 ‘Elephant’. On 6 April 1917, in two sorties, the squadron was detailed to attack the railway stations at Aulnoye and Ath. Both sorties were met with enemy aircraft in the form of Halberstadts and Albatross scouts of Jagdstaffel 30. In the two actions, four ‘Elephants’ and two Halberstadts were shot down. Lieutenant Proud, pilot of one of the four ‘downed’ British aircraft, was taken prisoner by the Germans but subsequently died of his wounds. Three of the four ‘Elephants’ were shot down by Leutnant Joachim von Bertrab. He was to gain one more victory (his 5th) before being shot down and wounded on 12 August 1917 by Second Lieutenant E. ‘Mick’ Mannock, of No. 40 Squadron.
Second Lieutenant Proud, R.F.C., was buried in the Tournai Communal Cemetery Allied Extension. Sold with copied photograph and research.
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Ten: Leading Signalman R. E. W. Browning, Royal Navy
BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (J.88748 R. E. W. Browning Sig. Boy. R.N.); 1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA STAR; BURMA STAR; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS 1939-45; ROYAL NAVY L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (J.88748 R. E. W. Browning. Sig. H.M.S. Victory.) the Great War awards worn, these fair, the rest good very fine (10)
£140-180
Robert Edward William Browning was born in Brighton on 7 September 1902 and joined the Royal Navy on 16 April 1918, serving in the last few months of the Great War as a Boy Signalman. Advanced Signalman, he passed examinations in Gunnery, Seamanship, Anti-gas, and Pistol, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 20 March 1936. He continued to serve during the Second World War, and was injured in H.M.S. Camito on 8 January 1941 when he fell from a Jacob’s ladder 20 feet causing injury to his elbow and severe contusion on his right thigh; his injury was sufficient to cause his removal from Camito, and thus he avoided being in her when she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-97 whilst on escort duty in the Atlantic Ocean on 6 May 1941. Promoted Leading Signalman on 28 July 1943, whilst serving in H.M.S. Warspite, he was shore pensioned on 11 October 1945.
Sold with the recipient’s original Parchment Certificate of Service; Parchment Certificate for Wounds and Hurts, together with an authorised Copy Certificate; the recipient’s Signal History Sheet; and a letter to the recipient on his release from Service.
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