A Collection of Medals to the South Wales Borderers 971 1914 Star (9404 Pte. G. Morris. S. Wales Bord.) good very fine £80-£120


George Morris was born in Bristol and attested for the South Wales Borderers in Pontypridd in 1906. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914, and was killed in action at Vendresse on 26 September 1914.


In late September 1914 at the Battle of the Aisne, the South Wales Borderers had come to a halt at Vendresse. Here a period of heavy fighting had seen the battalion withdraw to a ridge overlooking the Chivy Valley where woods offered cover for the Germans to mass for attacks. On 26 September 1914 the Germans launched a heavy, sustained assault on the Borderers lines leading at times even to hand-to-hand fighting. Losses on both sides were heavy with 4 Officers and 86 other ranks killed, 3 Officers and 95 other ranks wounded, and 12 other ranks missing.


Morris has no known grave and is commemorated on La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France. Sold with copied Medal Index Card and other research.


972


1914 Star (3) (7436 Pte. F. Lewis. S. Wales Bord.; 9084 Pte. A. Harper. S. Wales Bord.; 11196 Pte. R. O’Neill. S. Wales Bord.); together with a South Wales Borderers Cap Badge, light attempt to obliterate name on last, otherwise very fine (3)


£100-£140


Frederick Lewis attested for the South Wales Borderers in 1902 and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914.


His original entry on the 1914 Star medal roll states ‘No medal. Re-enlisted A.S.C. No. T/4/141401. Convicted of theft 14.2.16. Resubmitted on page 268.’ His Star is confirmed on a later roll entry, date stamped 25 February 1921, stating ‘Discharged T of E. 10.9.15. Re-enlisted in R.Fus. 26.1.20. No. 141576. Originally forfeited S.W.B. Roll 81. “Correct as now shown”. Particulars of re-enlistment omitted from Original Roll.’


Albert Harper attested for the South Wales Borderers in 1906 and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914. He later transferred to the 2nd Battalion where he was attached to 29th Division HQ, and was listed as either sick or wounded while he was attached to the 2nd Battalion.


Richard O’Neill attested for the South Wales Borderers and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 September 1914. He later transferred to the Labour Corps.


Sold with copied Medal Index Card and other research. 973 1914 Star (2) (7339 Pte. G. W. Mileham. S. Wales Bord.; 13237 Pte. F. Jones. S. Wales Bord.) good very fine (2) £100-£140


George William Mileham was born in Leeds, Yorkshire in 1886, and attested for the South Wales Borderers in York on 22 July 1902, giving his age as 18 years and 5 months. He was posted to South Africa with the 2nd Battalion, serving there from 8 November 1902 to 19 March 1904, and then on to India from 20 March 1904 to 8 February 1905 after which he transferred to the Army Reserve. Following the outbreak of the Great War he was recalled to the Colours on 5 August 1914, and served with the 1st Battalion on the Western Front from 22 September 1914, being severely wounded in the left forearm at Vendresse, the Aisne, on 3 October 1914. He returned to England on 11 November 1914 and was discharged on 8 November 1916 as no longer fit for war duty. He died in Leeds in 1968.


Frederick Jones was born in Leominster, Herefordshire, in 1878, and attested for the South Wales Borderers at Newport on 26 August 1914, having previously served with the Royal Scots from 1897 to 1904, although no Boer War medal entitlement has been found in the rolls. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 18 September 1914, and received a gun- shot wound to the left ankle on 3 November 1914. At this stage during the First Battle of Ypres, the 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers, having just endured Gheluvelt, had been tasked with recovering the trenches lost beyond the Herenthage Woods. Jones was with ‘A’ Company and the Regimental History describes the only casualties for this time as follows: ‘Lieutenant Salmon, who with half of “A” Company had taken part in the attack, the remainder being back in reserve, was wounded in the arm and several of his men were hit.’


Jones was transferred to Boulogne Hospital on 6 November 1914 and from there to 2nd Western General Hospital, Lancaster on 15 November 1914. He remained in England until a medical assessment approved him capable of light duties and on 23 May 1915 he arrived in Gibraltar where he spent the remainder of the war serving with the 1st Garrison Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was discharged to the class Z reserve on 27 March 1919.


Sold with copied Medal Index Cards and service papers. 974


One: Private A. Gilmore, 11th (2nd Gwent) Battalion, South Wales Borderers, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 16 July 1916


1914-15 Star (22688 Pte. A. Gilmore. S. Wales Bord:); Memorial Plaque (Arthur Gilmore) good very fine (2) £60-£80


Arthur Edward Gilmore was born in Cardiff in 1889, and attested for the South Wales Borderers. He served with the 11th (2nd Gwent) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and died of wounds on 16 July 1916, received most probably in the fighting for Mametz Wood between 7 and 12 July 1916, which cost the 11th Battalion over 70 men killed or missing and over 150 men wounded. He is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France.


Sold with copied Medal Index Card and a damaged photograph of the recipient. 975


1914-15 Star (13062 Pte. G. D. Shea. S. Wales Bord:) good very fine M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919.


£70-£90


George Dennis Shea was born in Neath, Glamorgan in 1893 and attested for the South Wales Borderers in Tonypandy on 20 August 1914, initially being posted to the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion. On 25 May 1915 he arrived with the 2nd Battalion as part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Gallipoli. He left Gallipoli on 25 September 1915 and later embarked for France, arriving 6 December 1915, where he was awarded the Military Medal while serving with the 1st Battalion. He was still serving with the 1st Battalion on 10 October 1918 when he suffered a wound to his right leg caused by a bomb explosion. He transferred to the Special Reserve on 9 February 1919 and finally left the reserve in 1931.


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