Campaign Groups and Pairs 795 Four: Wheeler Quartermaster Sergeant W. T. Lewis, Royal Field Artillery
India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (75084 Bombdr. Wheeler W. Lewis. 9th. Fd. By. R.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (75084 Sjt: Whlr: W. T. Lewis. 9th. Bty: R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (75084 Serjt:- Whlr: W. T. Lewis. R.F.A.); Army L.S. & G.C.,
E.VII.R. (75084 Whlr. Q.M. Sjt. W. T. Lewis. R.F.A.) contact marks and edge bruising, therefore nearly very fine (4)
£340-£380 Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2001.
William Thomas Lewis was born in Kamptee, India, on 14 December 1873 and attested as a Boy Soldier in the Royal Artillery at Bangalore on 14 August 1889. Posted to England in December 1891, he was appointed Bombardier on 12 May 1894, and returned to India in December of that year with 9 Field Battery, where he served as part of the Tirah Field Force. He subsequently served in South Africa during the Boer War from 28 January 1900 to 22 October 1902. Advanced Wheeler Quartermaster Sergeant on 1 August 1907, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, together with a gratuity of £5, per Army Order 77 of 1908, and was discharged on 13 August 1910, after 21 years’ service. Following the outbreak of the Great War he re-enlisted into the Royal Field Artillery on 8 November 1915.
Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts. 796
Six: Major P. N. Craigie, 6th King Edward’s Own Cavalry, Indian Army
India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (2nd. Lieut. P. N. Craigie, Unattached 2 High. L.I.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Capt. P. N. Craigie, 6/Cavy); British War and Victory Medals (Major P. N. Craigie.); Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge, by J. Lattes, Cairo, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, maker's name on reverse, with rosette on riband; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1916, with bronze palm on riband, good very fine (6)
£400-£500 Order of the Nile, 4th Class London Gazette 16 January 1920.
Patrick Neil Craigie was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant on the Unattached List, with a view to being appointed to the Indian Staff Corps, on 4 August 1897. He served on the Punjab Frontier attached to the 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, where he was present at the action at Buner, and the attack and the capture of the Tanga Pass, before taking up his appointment with the Indian Staff Corps on 20 October 1898. He was promoted Lieutenant on 4 November 1899, and Captain on 4 August 1906, and served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 6th King Edward’s Own Cavalry, Indian Army, being promoted Major on 4 August 1915.
Note: Croix de Guerre unconfirmed.
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Four: Major H. Long, Royal Engineers, late Battery Sergeant Major, Royal Artillery
India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (
...pl. H. Long. “F” By. R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Major H. Long.); Army L.S. & G.C.,
E.VII.R. (79.. B.Q.M.... H. Long. R.H.A.) attempts to obliterate number and rank on first and last, otherwise good very fine (4)
£240-£280
Herbert Long was born in Portsea, Hampshire, in 1872, the son of William Long, a Quartermaster in the Royal Artillery, and he attested for the Royal Horse Artillery at Londonderry on 20 May 1890. Posted to ‘F’ Battery, he was promoted Bombardier on 11 January 1894 and served with the Battery in India from 17 October 1895, being promoted Corporal on 1 February 1896, and Sergeant on 8 June 1898. Returning home on 28 October 1902, he transferred to ‘X’ Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, and was promoted Battery Quartermaster Sergeant on 16 February 1905. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, together with a gratuity of £5, per Army Order 101 in April 1909. On 14 December 1911 he was posted to the Permanent Staff of the 3rd Welsh Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, as Battery Sergeant Major. He was discharged on 30 January 1914, after 23 years and 256 days’ service.
Long was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 1st West Riding Field Company, West Riding Divisional Engineers on 1 February 1914, and was appointed Captain and Adjutant, Divisional Signal Company, West Riding Divisional Engineers, Royal Engineers (Territorial Force) on 3 November 1914. He was promoted Major on 1 June 1916, and subsequently served as Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal from 20 March 1919 to 5 July 1920.
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