Medals from the Rob Campbell Collection relating to Clevedon, Somerset
Lord Teignmouth was awarded the Second Award Bar to his D.S.C. for his gallantry during various engagements in the Channel, July - August 1944 (during which time he was engaged in command of MTB 475). With the advance of the Allies in Europe, so the areas of engagement changed for the 30th Flotilla. The latter were to be heavily engaged against E-boats around the Schelde and off the Hook.
The action of 22/23 December [1944] was a complex battle involving initially seven boats of Peter Magnus’s 30th Flotilla, and a later force of destroyers, frigates and the 53rd Flotilla of Dog Boats.
Magnus’ report reveals that the 30th was ordered to make an anti-E-boat patrol off the Hook, ‘with freedom of action to attack any enemy shipping south of 52 degrees north.’ His seven boats were organised in two divisions, with 475 (SO), 473, 472 and 471 (Bradley) in the first, and 474 (Shore), 476 and 477 in the second. They were approaching their patrol position at 17 knots when Magnus’s radar detected vessels at 2,800 yards and closing, on either bow. A few seconds later six E-boats were sighted, moving across the unit’s line of advance at 30 knots. Knowing that his boats had a maximum continuous speed of only 30 knots, he deemed it essential to attack at once, and he closed to just 100 yards before opening fire and running along the enemy line. There was no reply for fifteen seconds, and when the response came it was wild and high, which seemed to indicate that the E-boats were shaken by the ferocity of the attack. The third, fourth and fifth E-boats in the line were particularly hard hit, and the fourth, which had taken many 6- pounder and Oerlikon shells, blew up with a large red explosion and clouds of black smoke. In a very short time the MTBs had run the full extent of the E-boats’ line, and Magnus sent the second division in pursuit but to no avail.
The unit resumed its patrol position and half an hour later obtained echoes at 5,000 yards. Almost immediately the MTBs were illuminated by well-aimed star shells and began to be shelled by high-calibre shells from an enemy they could not even see. After several near-misses, Magnus decided to move away, intending to return later, but he lost radar contact. 471 had been hit in the engine room and had to return to base. Intelligence later revealed that it was the E-boat S 185 which had been sunk.
Further phases of the action involved two more groups of E-boats which fell foul of the Dog Boats, Walpole, Curzon and several other frigates and destroyers. Three more E-boats were sunk, two of which were identified as S 192 and S 182. It had been a bad night for the E-boat flotillas. Peter Magnus received a Bar to his D.S.C.’ (Home Waters MTBs & MGBs At War 1939-1945, L. C. Reynolds refers)
Lord Teignmouth was invested with the Second Award Bar to his D.S.C., 27 July 1945, and subsequently served with the Department of the Chief of Naval Information, Admiralty. After the war he worked in London as a successful fashion designer, and he succeeded to the title of 7th Baron Teignmouth with the death of his father in 1964. In 1977 ‘he moved back to his family home in Kilkenny. A slightly-built, compulsively modest man, he was a superb salmon fisher - above all on the Nore where he lived - and an outstanding shot.
“Fred” Teignmouth represented the very best of the old Anglo-Irish tradition: he possessed a style, wit and courtesy that delightfully crossed St. James’s with Somerville and Ross, and a deep affection for Ireland and its people.’ (Obituary as appeared in the Daily Telegraph refers)
Lord Teignmouth died at 10 Grenville Place, Kensington, in July 1981.
Sold with a large framed oil painting of the 7th Baron Teignmouth in uniform, and extensive copied research including photographic images of the recipients.
For the medals awarded to Commander The Honourable L. H. Shore, the brother of Lieutenant the 6th Baron Teignmouth; and the uncle of both Major the Honourable L. Shore and Lieutenant the 7th Baron Teignmouth, see Lot 687.
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Miss Norton-Harper with the Clevedon ambulance - ‘Jacko’
Pair: Miss Rose Norton-Harper, who served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front with the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps
Victory Medal 1914-19 (R. N. Harper. F.A.N.Y.C.); First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Service Medal 1914-18, ribands somewhat frayed, generally very fine (2)
£140-£180
Rose Mary Norton-Harper was the daughter of Richard Norton-Harper, a chartered accountant, and was born in Richmond before moving with her family to Clevedon. She served as a civilian nurse at Oaklands Auxiliary Hospital, Clevedon, 1914-1917, before serving as a Driver with the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps on the Western Front from April 1918 (entitled to British War Medal). She is noted as being ‘Mentioned’ for her services, but this is unconfirmed. Miss Norton-Harper subsequently returned to Oaklands, and was the local ambulance driver (the ambulance being called ‘Jacko’) until 1921. A letter from her that was published in the Clevedon Mercury and Courier gives the following:
‘As late honorary driver of the above ambulance, I feel compelled to write and protest against the general opinion that this ambulance was, and still is, an encumbrance to the town. The car did a great deal of good work at the local Red Cross Hospital during the war and after my return home in 1919 I took entire charge of it until April of last year when I felt compelled to resign on account of various remarks I heard.
During that time I drove it 76 times to Bristol and various other places, including Woolwich, travelling over 2,000 miles. Two or three times I have been called out late at night and on Sundays as well. Upon several occasions the causes taken in needed no delay, and in an hour were at the BRI or BGH, which could not have been done had a Bristol ambulance been phoned for as suggested. All my journeys have been at the request of the MO’s of the town, and the cases could not have been transported by ordinary vehicle.
The ambulance failed me only once, and that was a temporary trouble upon a return journey to Clevedon. I venture to think I have had a little more experience of ambulance driving than most people living here, and I realised the need of such a car, if only to take cases to the Cottage Hospital.’
Both Miss Norton-Harper’s brother and her brother-in-law were killed during the Great War, and in later life she moved to live with her sister in Teignmouth, Devon. She died there in August 1953.
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