Medals from the Rob Campbell Collection relating to Clevedon, Somerset 697
Six: Captain (Honorary Major) A. L. Ganniclifft, 7th (Service) Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, later 42nd Deoli Regiment, 2/20th Burma Rifles and 1st East African Pioneers
British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. A. L. Ganniclifft.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (2. Lieut. A. L. Ganniclifft. Som. L.I.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted for display, last nearly very fine, remainder nearly extremely fine (6)
£300-£400 M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1919 (Egypt).
Albert Leslie Ganniclifft was born in Clevedon in April 1894, and served with the 2nd S.W.M.B.F.A. (T.F.) from December 1912. He was embodied in August 1914, and commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry in May 1915. Ganniclifft served with the Battalion on the Western Front from May 1916, and was present during operations on the Ypres Salient and the Somme. He advanced to Lieutenant in February 1917, and was wounded in action on the Ypres Salient in May of the same year.
Ganniclift was attached to the Indian Army, and served with the 2/42nd Deoli Regiment from July 1917. He served under Major- General Wapshaw as part of the Marri Field Force in operations against the Marri Tribe in Baluchistan, 18 February - 8 March 1918, and then as a Company Commander in operations with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 13 May - 31 October 1918.
Ganniclifft was posted to the Prisoner of War Camp at Sumerpur, Rajputana in April 1919, and transferred as Captain to the 2/20th Burma Rifles in February 1920. He continued to serve with the Regiment in the Federated Malay States, and was primarily engaged with the Training Battalion at Maymyo. Ganniclifft served during the Second War with the 1st East African Pioneers at the East Africa Base Depot. He relinquished his commission from the Regular Army Reserve of Officers, 1 August 1948, retaining the rank of Captain (Honorary Major).
Sold with the following related items and documents: riband bars and miniature awards; recipient’s Great War Identity Tag; recipient’s Record of Services Officers, Indian Services; a number of recipient’s Visiting Cards - as a Captain in the 20th Burma Rifles; pamphlets concerning Court Martial procedures and POWs, with his name stamped on them, a damaged monocle and other ephemera.
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Pair: Second Lieutenant A. H. Nelson-Wright, 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, killed in action on the Western Front, 2 September 1918 - aged 19, and just 11 days after joining the Battalion on the front line
British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. A. H. N. Wright.); Memorial Plaque (Aislabie Harcourt Nelson Wright), last in card envelope of issue, nearly extremely fine (3)
£200-£300
Aislabie Harcourt Nelson-Wright was born in Kew, London, in May 1899, and was the son of H. Nelson-Wright, a District Judge of the Indian Civil Service, whose residence was Firwood, Clevedon. Nelson-Wright was educated at Eton and Sandhurst, and commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Somerset Light Infantry, 23 April 1918. He served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion on the Western Front from 23 August 1918.
Second Lieutenant Nelson-Wright was killed in action, 2 September 1918, aged 19. On the latter date the Battalion was serving as part of the 11th Brigade, 4th Division, during the attack on the Drocourt-Quéant Line:
‘At 11.45pm, on September 1st, the Battalion marched off to a position of assembly in P13 central, guides having been previously sent on ahead to reconnoitre the route. It arrived in position at 2.30 am on the 2nd, and at once proceeded to dig in.
Almost immediately and before the men had obtained cover, a heavy burst of shelling took place, and some twenty casualties were sustained.
Sec.-Lieut. A. M. [sic] Wright was killed, and Lieut. F. J. Clark wounded.’ (Regimental History refers). Second Lieutenant Nelson-Wright is commemorated on the Vis-En-Artois Memorial, France.
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