A Collection of Medals to the South Wales Borderers 954 Three: Lieutenant H. A. Hannay, 7th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, later Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force


1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. H. A. Hannay. S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H. A. Hannay.) nearly extremely fine (3)


£140-£180


Hubert Arthur Hannay was born in Peckham, London, on 13 August 1888 and was a private secretary by way of civil employment. He served in the 1st Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps from 1904 until 1908 when he transferred to the 9th County of London Territorials in which he served until 31 March 1910.


Following the outbreak of the Great War he attested for the 17th (Empire) Battalion Royal Fusiliers on 9th September 1914 and after 152 days of Home Service he was discharged to a commission in the 7th Battalion, South Wales Borderers on 4 February 1915. As a Second Lieutenant he was one of the 7th Battalion’s original officers who went out to France in September 1915. They spent about six weeks in the lines near the Somme before heading to the Balkans, arriving in Salonika in mid November 1915.


Throughout the Salonika campaign the arduous conditions and poor diet took its toll on many and Hannay was admitted to the 28th General Hospital in Salonika with dysentery in the summer of 1916. He left the 7th Battalion on 16 February 1917 and travelled back to England via Malta on the Llandovery Castle, arriving in Avonmouth on 6 September 1917 still suffering from dysentery, furunculosis, and debility.


Now attached to the 3rd Battalion, South Wales Borderers in Hightown, Liverpool he received a letter copied to his regimental address on 15 January 1918 from the Commandant of the Cadet Brigade, R.F.C. at Hastings containing the following: ‘Owing to the serious shortage of Squadron Officers for duty with the R.F.C. Cadet Wings, the services of this officer are specially applied for. If there is no objection, will A.G4 issue orders for him to report to Headquarters, Cadet Brigade, Hastings, forthwith, for duty as a Squadron Officer.’ Signed by the Commandant, Hastings.’


Why Hannay’s services were so specifically solicited for this role isn’t clear but on 24 January 1918 he joined the Royal Flying Corps as a Squadron Officer with the Cadet Wing, transferring to the Cadet Wing of the Royal Air Force on its formation on 1 April 1918. Cadet Wings were the training establishments for officer cadets where they got a grounding in R.A.F. history, drill &c.before moving on to various schools of instruction.


Hubert Hannay died in Battersea, London, in 1963.


Sold with a file of copied research including the recipient’s Medal Index Card, attestation papers, a commission recommendation letter, and other service papers.


955


Three: Warrant Officer Class II F. J. Mitchell, South Wales Borderers, who served with the 2nd Battalion in the Boer War and the 7th Battalion in the Great War


1914-15 Star (14070 Sjt. F. J. Mitchell. S. Wales Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (14070 W. O. Cl. 2. F. J. Mitchell. S. Wales Bord.) good very fine (3)


£50-£70


Frederick John Mitchell was born in West Down, Devon in 1876. He was a grocer by occupation and, having already served in the Kent Artillery Militia, he attested on 11 August 1897 for a minimum of seven years service with the South Wales Borderers (service number 5714) and five years with the Army Reserve. He served during the Boer War, arriving in South Africa with the rank of Corporal in the 2nd Battalion on 13 January 1900. He was promoted Sergeant on 4 December 1901 and later posted with the same rank to the 1st Battalion on 26 April 02. He received the Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps Johannesburg, Cape Colony and Orange Free State and the King’s South Africa Medal with both clasps. He then went on to serve in India from 25 April 1902 until 15 December 1905 before returning to England and finally completing twelve years service upon his discharge on 10 August 1909.


After the outbreak of the Great War, Mitchell attested once again for his former regiment and joined the 7th (Service) Battalion on its formation on 3 September 1914. He proceeded to France with this new Battalion, arriving 6 September 1915, and after short period in the front lines was posted as part of XII Corps to Salonika in the Balkans. In September 1916 he was appointed Colour Sergeant-Major and promoted Warrant Officer Class II the following month. He was discharged, no longer fit for war service, on 29 October 1918 suffering from neurasthenia (shell-shock) and boarded at 4th Southern General Hospital, Exeter for a time. He died in Barnstaple, Devon, in 1956, aged 80.


Sold with copied Medal Index Card.


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Four: Private T. Price, 8th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, who contracted chronic malaria and was wounded in the Balkans on 27 May 1918


1914-15 Star (16313 Pte. T. Price. S. Wales Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (16313 Pte. T. Price. S. Wales Bord.); Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial (3952550 Pte. T. Price. 5-Welch R.) nearly very fine (4)


£70-£90


Thomas Price was born in Merthyr, Glamorgan in 1895 and attested for the South Wales Borderers on 4 September 1914. He served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 September 1915, before embarking from Marseille on 30 October 1915 to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Salonika. On 10 July 1916 he was first diagnosed with malaria and admitted to the 26th General Hospital in Salonika. He was later transferred to St. David’s Hospital on Malta, then on to a convalescent camp and then finally to the divisional base in Alexandria. He rejoined his battalion in the field on 8 September 1916, but still suffering from recurrent bouts of malaria he spent the remainder of 1916 and 1917 in Salonika either in the field with his battalion or convalescing. On 27 May 1918 he was injured by a gun shot wound to the left leg, returning to his battalion in the field on 18 July 1918.


He was transferred to the ‘Class Z’ Army Reserve upon his demobilisation on 8 January 1919 and was later awarded the Territorial Efficiency Medal while serving with the 5th Battalion, Welch Regiment.


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