Single Campaign Medals 1298


1914-15 Star (2) (99735. Spr. W. Allen, R.E.; 115000. Cpl. J. Shaw, R.E.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (8) (85300 Gnr. W. Garner. R.A.; 40583 Sjt. F. Walton. R.A.; W-5652 Gnr. J. Wolstenholme. R.A.; 297588 Pnr. W. Lingard R.E.; M2 -118706 Pte. H. E. Byrns. A.S.C.; M2-152433 Pte. E. Meadows. A.S.C.; S-20428 Pte. J. J. Smith. A.S.C.; M2-221797 Pte. S. C. Woods. A.S.C.) generally very fine (10)


£100-£140


Frank Walton was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, and attested for the Royal Field Artillery at Bath, Somerset. He served as a Sergeant with ‘C’ Battery, 83rd Brigade during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 16 April 1918. He is buried in Sains-du- Nord Communal Cemetery, France.


1299


1914-15 Star (2) (15591 Pte. J. Fielden. Devon: R.; 13454 Pte. M. Solomons. R. Berks: R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (4) (5939 Pte. B. T. Duncan. The Queen’s R.; 8824 Cpl. S. Dymond. E. Surr. R.; 30009 Pte. L. Clarke. D. of Corn. L.I.; 36098 Pte. F. Witchell. Hamps. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (16808 Pte. J. Fielden. C. Gds.; 16944 Pte. J. Henderson. Dorset. R.) generally very fine or better (8)


£80-£120


Joshua Fielden was born in Littleborough, Lancashire, and attested for the Devonshire Regiment at Rochdale, Lancashire. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 June 1915, and died of wounds on 4 July 1916. He is buried in Puchevillers British Cemetery, Somme, France.


John Fielden attested for the Coldstream Guards on 27 March 1915 and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front. He was discharged on 16 April 1918, suffering from a gun shot wound, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.


1300


1914-15 Star (13722 Pte. H. Margetts: Ches: R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (4) (85472 Pte. W. Green. L’pool R.; 1766 Pte. J. Nolan. L’pool R.; 36054 Pte. E. Tabron. L’pool R.; 13730 Pte. T. Binning. Ches. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (4) (17939 Pte. J. Cadman. Ches. R.; 56429 Pte. T. Schofield. Ches. R.; 4556 Pte. A. N. Shufflebotham. Ches. R.; 57785 Pte. H. Thornton. Ches. R.) edge bruising, generally nearly very fine or better (9)


£120-£160


Joseph Cadman was born in Christchurch, Stockport, Cheshire, and attested there for the Cheshire Regiment. He served with the 11th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 12 April 1918. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.


Tom Schofield was born in Chadderton, Lancashire, in 1886, and attested for the Welch Regiment at Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. He subsequently transferred to the Cheshire Regiment, and was posted to the 21st Battalion. He died at home on 5 January 1917, and is buried in Oldham (Chadderton) Cemetery, Lancashire.


Andrew Nathaniel Shufflebotham, a native of Stockport, Cheshire, attested there for the Cheshire Regiment and served with the 1st/6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He died of wounds on 3 October 1918, and is buried in La Kreule Military Cemetery, France.


1301 1914-15 Star (2836. Pte. H. Hett, W. Rid. R.) good very fine £80-£120


D.C.M. London Gazette 3 October 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. After all his Lewis gun team had been killed or wounded, he stuck to his gun is a post single-handed, filling his empty magazines from the pouches of killed or wounded comrades, and continued to fire his gun with great effect, setting a fine example of coolness, courage, and devotion to duty. His skill and resource considerably checked the enemy advance, and enabled necessary reorganisation to take place.’


Harold Hett, a native of Oldham, Lancashire, was born in Milnsbridge, Yorkshire, and attested for the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment. He served with ‘D’ Company, 1st/7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from April 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres on 29 April 1918. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.


1302


1914-15 Star (3) (13782 Pte. J. Daly. L.N. Lan. R.; 16423 Pte. F. Mullineux. L.N. Lan. R.; 200952 Pte. R. Starkie. L.N. Lan: R.); British War Medal (3) (3310 Sjt. A. Annison. L.N. Lan. R.; 24287 Pte. L. Clark. L.N. Lan. R.; 38465 Pte. J. Greenhalgh. L.N. Lan. R.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (6)


£80-£120 1303


The 1914-15 Star awarded to Captain A. E. W. Mason, Manchester Regiment, the noted English novelist best remembered for The Four Feathers, he worked as a secret agent during the war and was a witness to the execution in Paris of the infamous spy Marta Hari in October 1916


1914-15 Star (Capt. A. E. W. Mason Manch. R.) good very fine £200-£260


Alfred Edward Woodley Mason was born on 7 May 1865, and educated at Dulwich College and Trinity College, Oxford, where he received his B.A. After a brief appearance on the stage with F. R. Benson’s Shakespeare Company and Compton’s Comedy Company, he commenced writing novels, the first of these, A Romance of Westdale, being published in 1895. His most famous novel, The Four Feathers, was published in 1907, the year after he had been elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Coventry. In 1910 he introduced the character of Hanaud, a French detective, in the novel At the Villa Rose.


During the Great War, he served in the Manchester Regiment as a Captain, and later attached to the Intelligence Division of the Admiralty with a commission as a Major in the Royal Marine Light Infantry. Mason seems to have been recruited into the Secret Service in 1915 and spent the period 1915-16 cruising about Spain and Morocco setting up counter-espionage networks. After his commission in the R.M.L.I. in 1917 he was despatched to Mexico where he carried on his intelligence work until the end of the war.


After the war his writing career continued to flourish with works like The House of Arrows in 1924, No Other Tiger, 1927, and The Prisoner in the Opal, 1929. His Fire over England, published in 1937, was a very early film starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. In 1939 The Four Feathers was made into a film by Alexander Korda, winning the best British feature film category at the Venice Film Festival. The novel has been filmed twice more, most recently on 2001. The 1960 film Sink the Bismarck was also based on one of his novels.


In 1943 Mason was elected an Honorary Fellow of Trinity, Oxford, and in 1946 became President of the Alleyn Club. He was an F.R. G.S., President of the Swiss Alpine Club (London branch) and a member of the Alpine Club and the Royal Yacht Squadron. He died on 22 November 1948.


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