CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
(vi) A photograph album entitled ‘Siberia to Blighty - by Ambulance Transport “Madras”’ and additionally inscribed ‘Capt. W. F. Richardson, 25th Middlesex Regt.’ (approximately 113 images), all hand-captioned, and once again comprising a fascinating array of subject matter from Siberia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Colombo and Egypt, and with pasted-down watercolour of Cape Guardafui to inside back cover.
(vii) A smaller format photograph album, entitled ‘Siberia 1919’ (approximately 22 images), all hand-captioned, including ‘Trans- Siberian Railway Terminal’, ‘Cossack Funeral’, ‘Jap Troops leaving for Home’, ‘No. 11 Canadian Stationary Hospital’, ‘Stronghold near Krasnoyarsk built by the Middlesex’, and the recipient standing by a train en route to Omsk.
(viii) An old typescript of the above quoted letter regarding the recipient’s fate in South Russia in February 1920, together with Imperial War Graves Commission proof of his proposed entry on the commission’s register, this last addressed to his widow in Edgbaston, Birmingham, and dated 21 May 1931.
(ix) A pair of Russian officer’s epaulettes of the 4th Vladekavkaz Battalion, one lacking the affixed letter ‘B’ for Battalion.
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Three: Miss Mona Ramsay, Voluntary Aid Detachment BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (M. Ramsay. V.A.D.); DEFENCE MEDAL, mounted as worn, good very fine (3)
£70-90
Sold with a BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY MEDAL FOR WAR SERVICE, with integral top riband bar; a BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY FOR 10 YEARS’ SERVICE LAPEL BADGE, gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘2671. E. MacSwinney’; an unofficial ‘Charles’ issue of the French ALLIED VICTORY MEDAL, bronze; and the Egyptian KING FAROUK CHOLERA RESISTANCE MEDAL 1947, gilt, this last rare.
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Three: Major J. C. Barry, Royal Garrison Artillery, attached Royal Army Ordnance Corps
BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major J. C. Barry.); ARMY L.S. & G.C.,
E.VII.R. (69050 3/Cl. Mr. Gnr. J. C. Barry. R.G.A.) nearly extremely fine (3)
£120-160 M.I.D. London Gazette 21 July 1917:
‘For distinguished service rendered with the British Salonika Force during the period October 1916 to March 1917.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1919:
‘For gallant and distinguished services with the British Salonika Force during the period from 1st October 1918 to 1st March 1919.’
James Charles Barry was born in Middleton, Cork, Ireland, in 1870, and attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery, being awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 1 January 1907 and ultimately being advanced to 2nd Class Master Gunner. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Garrison Artillery, he was promoted temporary Lieutenant whilst employed with the Army Ordnance Department on 21 August 1915, and served during the Great War with the Salonika Field Force in Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, European Turkey, and the Islands of the Ægean Sea from 12 February 1916. He was appointed acting Captain on 24 November 1916, and acting Major on 1 October 1918. For his services with the British Salonika Force he was twice Mentioned in Despatches and was promoted Brevet Major in the 1919 Birthday Honour’s List ‘for distinguished service in connection with Military Operations in the Balkans’ (London Gazette 3 June 1919). He retired on account of ill-health on 8 January 1920, and was granted the rank of Major.
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Pair: Private R. W. Perkins, Royal West Surrey Regiment, Later Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action during the Battle of the Scarpe, 23 April 1917
BRITISHWAR ANDVICTORYMEDALS (39305 Pte. R. W. Perkins. The Queen's R.); MEMORIAL PLAQUE (Raymond Perkins), extremely fine (3)
£100-140
Raymond William Perkins was born in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, in February 1861 and served with the Royal West Surrey Regiment and later the 7th Battalion Royal Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 23 April 1917, during the Battle of the Scarpe, where the 7th Battalion were engaged in the Capture of Gavrelle, 'The 190th Brigade captured the first objective, but the 7/Royal Fusiliers, held up by uncut wire and fire from the open left flank, made only a small lodgement in it'.
Perkins has no known grave and is commemorated upon the Arras Memorial, France.
Sold with the recipient's BRITISH UNITEDORDER OFODD FELLOWS EXECUTIVE COUNCIL BADGE OFOFFICE, white metal, mounted for neck wear on embroidered riband; and two portrait photographs.
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Pair: Engineer Sub-Lieutenant J. W. Johnson, Royal Naval Reserve, who was taken Prisoner of War after the ‘Q-Ship’ H.M.S. Paxton was sunk by the German submarine U-46 on 20 May 1917
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Eng. S. Lt. J. W. Johnson. R.N.R.) nearly extremely fine (2) £80-120
James Wilfrid Johnson was born in Sunderland, Co. Durham, on 26 March 1885 and was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Prior to the Great War he was employed as a Marine Engineer, and latterly as an Inspecting Engineer and Marine Surveyor. He was commissioned temporary Engineer Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve on 20 February 1917, and served as Second Engineer in the Q-Ship H.M.S. Paxton.
At about 9:00 a.m. on 20 May 1917, the Paxton was in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 90 miles west of Great Skellig, Ireland, heading west, when an unknown German submarine surfaced and shelled her with its deck gun, hitting the ship once. Paxton responded by firing back at the submarine with her stern 4 inch gun, this revealing herself as a Q-Ship. The submarine dived to escape. Continuing on a westerly course, the crew changed her disguise by painting the name of a Swedish ship on her side. At 7:15 p.m. on the same day the German submarine U-46 torpedoed her, disabling the engines. A second torpedo fired 15 minutes later broke the ship’s back, and she sank within five minutes. The surviving crew abandon the ship on two boats and two rafts. The U-46 surfaced and took the Captain, Commander George Hewett, and Johnson Prisoners of War. The bulk of the remainder of the survivors were either picked up by Allied shipping or made their way back to the U.K. In all 31 men were killed. Johnson was held initially at Karlsruhe Prisoner of War Camp. He was repatriated on 14 December 1918, and relinquished his commission on 24 June 1919.
Note: A ‘Captain J. W. Johnson, Q-Ships’ is recorded as being an internee of Holzminden Prisoner of War Camp, and is known to have attended the 20th Anniversary Reunion Dinner in 1938 to celebrate the Holzminden Tunnel Escape on 24 July 1918, in which 29 British officers escaped from the camp through a tunnel, the largest such escape in the Great War, with ten eventually making it safely back to Britain.
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