Campaign Groups and Pairs 220 Four: Chief Yeoman of Signals H. Field, Royal Navy


Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (H. Field. Sign. 2 Cl., H.M.S. “Seahorse”); British War Medal 1914-20 (104441 H. Field. C.Y.S., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (104441 Henry Field, Ch. Yeo. Sigs., H.M.S. Research.); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, light pitting to first, very fine and better (4)


£300-£400 Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2012.


Henry Field was born in Berwick, Northumberland, on 17 December 1862, and was educated at Greenwich School. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 4 April 1878, and was advanced Signalman 3rd Class on his 18th birthday. He joined H.M.S. Seahorse on 26 January 19881, and was advanced Signalman 2nd Class on 1 July of that year. He served in her during the Egyptian campaign, before joining the Royal Yacht Osborne on 2 March 1884, and remained in her until 19 April 1886. He was advanced Signalman (1st Class) on 20 April 1886, and served in H.M.S. Sapphire from 11 May 1886 to 25 September 1889, during which he was advanced to Yeoman of Signals on 20 December 1888. He joined H.M.S. Inflexible on 31 October 1896, and was promoted to his ultimate rank of Chief Yeoman of Signals on 18 November 1896.


Field was shore pensioned on 4 January 1901, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve on 22 May 1906. Mobilised for service during the Great War, he served for the majority of the conflict in Auxiliary Patrol ships at Portland, whilst borne on the books of her depot ship at Portland, H.M.S. Research, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 5 September 1917. He was finally demobilised on 5 September 1917.


x221 Pair: Coxswain of the Cutter W. Grand, Royal Navy


Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, Alexandria 11th July, Tel-El-Kebir (W. Grand, Coxn. Cutter, H.M.S. “Superb”); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed, toned, very fine and scarce (2)


£300-£360


Of 5350 Alexandra clasps awarded, 623 were to H.M.S Superb; However, only 33 Tel-El-Kebir clasps were awarded to the ship, and overall just 161 of this pairing to the Navy (M. J. Cook, O.M.R.S., Spring 1974, p. 22 refers). H.M.S. Superb, built by the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, as the Hamidieh for the Turkish Navy, compulsorily purchased and completed in 1880. Served in the Mediterranean, firing 310 rounds at Alexandria. Broken-up 1906.


x222 Pair: Private J. Wallace, Gordon Highlanders


Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, El-Teb-Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85 (291, Pte. J. Wallace, 1/Gord: Highrs.); Khedive’s Star 1884, unnamed as issued, contact marks and pitting, nearly very fine (2)


£240-£280


John Wallace was born in Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire in 1862. He attested for the Gordon Highlanders at Aberdeen on 29 November 1881 and embarked with them for Malta in March of the following year. He served in Egypt and the Sudan with the 1st Battalion from 7 November 1882 until 30 June 1885, taking part in the Campaign in Eastern Sudan in 1884 and serving with the Nile Expeditionary Force of 1884-85. He returned to Malta via the Cape in September 1885, remaining there for the next three years before further embarking for Ceylon in November 1888. Wallace returned to England in November 1889 and was discharged on 28 November 1893.


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Three: Trooper J. M. ‘Johnnie’ Werrett, British South Africa Company Police, later Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts and Canadian Scouts


British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse undated, 2 clasps, Mashonaland 1890, Rhodesia 1896 (Tpr. Werrett, J. M. - B.S.A.C.P.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Rhodesia, Relief of Mafeking, Orange Free State, Transvaal (1170 S.S. Maj: J. M. Werrett. Kitchener’s F.S.); official corrections to rank; King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (S.S. Major: J. M. Werrett. Canadian Scouts.) rank re-engraved, remainder officially impressed, contact marks, otherwise very fine and rare (3)


£1,800-£2,200


John Mark Werrett - ‘Known as “Johnnie”, he had been a ringmaster in a circus. He attested on 7 February 1890 and served in D Troop. He had a beautiful singing voice, and at a troop concert visibly moved the audience with the rendering of his tenor song, “The Song that Reached My Heart”. He was discharged from D Troop on 17 September 1891, and later became a partner of Napier Bros. in a trading concern. The map of Matabeleland in F. C. Selous’ Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia, shows Werrett’s Store near the right bank of the Shangani River on the main road from Gwelo to Bulawayo. He served in the forces in the 1896 Matabele Rebellion, and in 1927 was living in Shangani.’ (Men Who Made Rhodesia, by Colonel A. S. Hickman, refers)


Werrett served as a Trooper in the Gwelo Volunteer Corps during the Matabele Rebellion of 1896. He was likewise a Trooper in “E” Squadron of the Rhodesia Regiment in Rhodesia, at the relief of Mafeking and in the Transval. The medal roll notes that he also served in the Commander-in-Chief’s Body Guard, Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts, and the Canadian Scouts, and that his clasp for Orange Free State appears to have been issued from one of these rolls.


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