A Collection of Medals to the 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps 991 Five: Corporal J. G. Halsey, 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps


British War and Victory Medals (13096 Pte. J. G. Halsey, K.R. Rif. C.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6838686 Cpl. J. Halsey. K.R.R.C.); Defence Medal; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (6838686 Cpl. J. G. Halsey. K.R.R.C.) contact marks, nearly very fine or better (5)


£140-£180


John George Halsey was born in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, on 19 June 1898. Prior to the Great War he lived briefly in Cork, Ireland and then at Brickwall Lodge, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, where his father was employed as a gamekeeper. He served in the Great War with the 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, and remained with the Regiment, subsequently serving with the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. in Palestine, before being discharged on 17 April 1937.


992 Three: Sergeant H. M. Rawson, 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps


British War and Victory Medals (C-12561 A. Sjt. H. M. Rawson. K. R. Rif. C.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (C-12561 Cpl H.M. Rawson. 21/ K. R. Rif. C.) nearly extremely fine (3)


£140-£180 M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders.’


Harold Rawson was born in Hull, Yorkshire on 16 June 1895, and prior to the Great War he lived in the Hessle district of Hull where he worked as a clerk for a firm of importers. He married Violet Normansell in 1924 and then lived in Southampton where he died in 1975.


993


Charles Hope Family group:


Pair: Private C. A. Hope, 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who was killed in action during operations in the Somme battles on the Western Front on 17 September 1916 British War and Victory Medals (R-19483 Pte. C. Hope. K. R. Rif. C.) with named Record Office enclosure; Memorial Plaque (Charles Hope) in card envelope with Buckingham Palace enclosure, nearly extremely fine


Pair: Lance Corporal A. W. Hope, Yorkshire Regiment, formerly Yorkshire Hussars, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 10 October 1917 British War and Victory Medals (5720 Pte. A. W. Hope. York. Hrs.); Memorial Plaque (Alfred William Hope) in card envelope; Memorial Scroll ‘L/Cpl. Alfred William Hope, Yorkshire Regt.’, nearly extremely fine (6)


£400-£500


Charles Agar Hope was born in York in 1892, the second son of Henry, a lock keeper, and Sarah Ann Hope of Naburn Locks, York. He served with the 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 17 September 1916, just two days after the Yeoman Rifles memorable attack from Delville Wood on the enemy position to the East of Flers, carrying three lines of trenches and holding the captured ground until relieved. He is buried in the Guards Cemetery, Lesboeufs, France and commemorated by name on the 1914-18 War Memorial at the church of St. Matthew, Naburn.


Included with the lot are copies of the anguished correspondence (partially burnt) which took place between Sarah Ann Hope, the Regimental H.Q., No. 1 London General Hospital Medical Officers and a certain Corporal Baker in which Sarah Hope tries to establish clarity over her son’s status as a casualty and the possibility of him being a P.O.W.


One letter from Sarah Hope, dated 15 November 1916 following receipt of her son’s identity disc asks: ‘If possible will you please say,


1. If, without doubt, the disc was taken off the body or out of the kit bag belonging to the above, if the former, 2. Where is he buried and when, and,


3. If the pocket book and photographs which he always carried may be returned?’


She wrote again requesting the address of a Corporal J. E. Baker (13018) who had been a friend of her son and she believed had been with him. Baker was listed as wounded. Correspondence between K.R.R.C. H.Q. and the medical staff attending to Baker led to Corporal Baker’s regretful handwritten reply. ‘19483 Rfn C Hope, 21st Battn King’s Royal Rifles, was known to me but I am unable to give any information concerning him as D Company to which Hope was attached was separated from the rest of the Battalion two days before our action on Sept 15th 1916 and I have not seen him since that separation. Although I am in D Company I was attached to the Battn Hdqrs Signal Section. C 13018 JE Baker Corpl. 21st King’s Royal Rifle C.’


Alfred William Hope was born in York in 1886, the eldest son of Henry and Sarah Ann Hope of Naburn Locks, York. He served with the Yorkshire Hussars and the Yorkshire Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 10 October 1917. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium, and also on the 1914-18 War Memorial at the church of St. Matthew, Naburn.


Sold with original photographs of both recipients; two card identity tags and original photograph of youngest and surviving brother Harold Henry Hope, who saw service with the Royal Irish Rifles and the Royal Warwickshire Regiment; and a large quantity of copied research.


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