Campaign Groups and Pairs 954
Three: Second Lieutenant J. E. V. Wheeler, Somerset Light Infantry, who was wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916
1914-15 Star (15353 Sjt. J. E. V. Wheeler. Som. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. J. E. V. Wheeler.) nearly extremely fine (3)
£140-£180
John Edward Victor Wheeler was born in Redhill, Surrey, in 1893 and attested for the 13th Reserve of Cavalry Regiment on the 7 September 1914, before transferring to the Bomb Company, 8th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry, the following month. Promoted Corporal on 1 February 1915, and Sergeant on 9 September 1915, he served during the Great War on the Western Front, and received a gunshot wound to left arm and left leg on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Taken to the 34th Casualty Clearing Station, he was repatriated back to England on 7 July 1916 to the Third Western General Hospital, from where he was released on 3 October 1916. He subsequently transferred to the 11th (Donegal and Fermanagh) Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, on 29 November 1916, and served with them on the Western Front before being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, on 31 July 1917. He was promoted Lieutenant on 6 February 1918, and relinquished his commission on 30 April 1919.
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Three: Lance-Corporal H. T. Chambers, Somerset Light Infantry, who was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of Loos, 25 September 1915
1914-15 Star (15091 L.Cpl. H. T. Chambers. Som: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (15091 Pte. H. T. Chambers. Som. L.I.) contact marks, very fine (3)
£80-£120
Henry Thomas Chambers was born in London and attested there for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. Transferring to the Somerset Light Infantry he served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 September 1915, and was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of Loos on 25 September 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.
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Three: Private Ernest Renshaw, 16th (1st Bradford Pals) Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, who was killed in action at Serre on 1st July 1916, the First Day of the battle of the Somme
1914-15 Star (16-513 Pte. E. Renshaw. W. York: R.); British War and Victory Medals (16-513 Pte. E. Renshaw. W. York. R.) together with Bronze Memorial Plaque (Ernest Renshaw), this contained in a contemporary commemorative display frame, and two small photograph lockets, nearly extremely fine (6)
£600-£800
Private Ernest Renshaw, 16th (Bradford Pals) Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, was killed in action, aged 22, at Serre on the First Day of the battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916. He is commemorated by name on the Thiepval Memorial.
x957 Three: Private T. Kane, King’s Own Scottish Borderers
1914-15 Star (10741 Pte. T. Kane. K.O. Sco: Bord:) initial officially corrected; British War and Victory Medals (10741 A. Sjt. T. Kane. K.O. Sco. Bord.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, this officially numbered ‘B276405’, minor edge bruising, very fine (3)
£50-£70
Thomas Kane attested for the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War in Gallipoli from 25 April 1915. He was discharged on 17 March 1919, and was awarded the Silver War Badge.
Sold with copied Medal Index Card which confirms the correction to the initial on the Star. x958 Seven: Private W. Lamont, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, later Corps of Military Police
1914-15 Star (9452 Pte. W. Laimont, K.O. Sco. Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (9452 Pte. W. Lamont. K.O.S.B.); Deence Medal; Delhi Durbar 1911 (Piper W. Lamont 1st. K.O.S.B. Delhi 1911); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (7681769 Pte. W. Lamont. C. of M.P.); Imperial Service Medal,
G.VI.R., 2nd issue (William Lamont) in Royal Mint case of issue, very fine (7)
£400-£500
William Lamont was born in the Parish of Kirkpatrick, Dumfries, in 1887. A Machine Cleaner by occupation, he attested for the King’s Own Scottish Borderers at Annan on 29 January 1906. He went ‘absent’, 10 October-21 November for which he earned 168 hours detention and forfeited 39 days pay. With the 1st Battalion he served overseas in Egypt and the Sudan. In Sudan he was three times entered into the defaulter’s book, being ‘absent from Parade: drunk in barracks and breaking away from the escort’. In February 1911 the Borderers embarked for India, and Lamont was present at the Durbar. Whilst in India he was appointed Piper. He returned home in November 1914 before retuning overseas once more, serving in the Dardanelles campaign, 30 June - 29 August 1915, after which he returned home, having been wounded in action on Gallipoli on 2 August 1915.
On 19 November 1915 he was posted to the 9th (Reserve) Battalion as Piper. In September 1916 he was transferred to the 3rd Battalion and in December 1915 served in France. In May 1916, the 7th and 8th Battalions were amalgamated to form the 7th/8th Battalion. Piper Lamont was posted to the 7th/8th Battalion in January 1917. In January 1919 he was appointed an Acting Corporal in the battalion. Remaining in France until 21 June 1919, he was discharged on 18 July 1919. At some later date he rejoined and served with the Military Police, being awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal by Army Order of May 1925. Later still, as a Postman with the London Postal Region, he was awarded the Imperial Service Medal (London Gazette 13 March 1953).
Sold with copied service details and copied group photographs. x959 Four: Sergeant H. G. Corfield, Manchester Regiment, later Royal Army Service Corps
1914-15 Star (350 Sjt. H. G. Corfield, Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (350 Sjt. H. G. Corfield. Manch. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (T4-245477 Dvr: H. Corfield. R.A.S.C.) very fine (4)
£60-£70
Harold Guy Corfield was born at Fallowfield, Lancaster. He first entered the war as a Sergeant in the 6th Battalion Manchester Regiment in Egypt on 25 September 1914, and transferred as a Driver to the Army Service Corps on 10 March 1915. Sold with copied record of service.
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