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Five: Shipwright F. A. W. Bennett, Royal Navy, who was killed when H.M.S. Seagull was in collision with another ship in the Firth of Clyde in September 1918
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (F. A. W. Bennett, Car. Crew. H.M.S. Pearl.); 1914-15 Star (344302. F. A. W. Bennett. Shpt. 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (344302. F. A. W. Bennett. Shpt. 1. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G. C., G.V.R., 1st issue (344302. F. A. W. Bennett. Shpt. 1Cl. H.M.S. Seagull.) good very fine or better (5)
£200-£240 Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2008.
Frederick Albert William Bennett was born in Plymouth on 11 February 1878. A Carpenter by occupation, he entered the Royal Navy as Carpenters Crew based at Vivid II on 3 July 1901. Posted then to the cruiser Pearl, he served aboard her from December 1901 to November 1904, qualifying for the Q.S.A. Medal without clasp (189 awarded) and being advanced to Shipwright in April 1903. He was promoted to Leading Shipwright in October 1905 when on the Blake and Shipwright 1st Class in August 1914 when on the Warrior. Serving aboard the minesweeper Seagull from October 1915, he was accidentally killed on 30 September 1918, when the Seagull was sunk in a collision, probably with the steamship Corrib, in the Clyde. His name is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. Sold with copied record of service and copied newspaper extract with obituary.
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Pair: Chief Cook W. H. S. Land, Royal Navy
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (W. H. S. Land. Sh. Cook. H.M.S. Rambler.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C.,
E.VII.R. (W. H. S. Land, Ch. Cook. H.M.S. Terror.) contact marks, very fine (2)
£160-£200
William Henry Spencer Land was born at Portsmouth on 21 August 1870, and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Second Class Cook’s Mate on 17 January 1890. Advanced Cook’s Mate on 1 July 1892, his first ship was the despatch vessel H.M.S. Mercury from 30 November 1892 to 20 March 1896, in which he was advanced to 2nd Class Ship’s Cook. He joined the surveying ship H.M.S. Rambler on 17 November 1897, and was advanced Acting Ship’s Cook on 8 October 1899, and Ship’s Cook on 28 February 1900. He served in Rambler during the Boer War, before joining H.M.S. Terror, the base ship at Bermuda, on 3 April 1904, being advanced to Chief Cook on 1 November 1904. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 25 May 1905, and after further service in the cruisers H.M.S. Furious, Forte, Vindictive, and Ariadne, he was discharged to pension on 15 January 1912. He saw further service in the Great War as a Chief Cook in the armoured cruiser H.M.S. King Alfred for two months from 2 August 1914, and then in the cruiser H. M.S. Fearless, from 25 September 1916 until his demobilisation on 8 May 1919.
Sold with copied research.
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Six: Sergeant R. Bell, 10th Hussars, later Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (3268 Pte. R. Bell, 10th Hussars); 1914 Star, with copy slide clasp (15837 Sjt. R. Bell. 10/Hrs:) unit number corrected; British War and Victory Medals (15837 Sjt. R. Bell. 10-Hrs.) ‘Victory’ with official correction to unit; Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C,
E.VII.R. (3268 L. Sjt. R. Bell 10/Hrs.) mounted as worn, edge bruising and contact marks, fine and better (6)
£400-£440
Richard Bell was born in Barnard Castle, Co. Durham. A labourer by occupation and a member of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion Durham Light Infantry, he attested for the 10th Hussars on 5 January 1893. With the unit he served in South Africa, November 1899-February 1901; India, September 1906-November 1912 and South Africa, November 1912-January 1914. Awarded both the Delhi Durbar and Army L.S. & G.C. in 1911. Discharged at Gosport on 29 January 1914 at the expiration of the second period of engagement. With the start of the Great War he re-engaged with the 10th Hussars and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 6 October 1914 (Clasp confirmed. Star returned for amendment in October 1919). On 12 November 1914 he was wounded during the first battle of Ypres. In March 1917, Bell along with many other members of the regiment were transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and later, in November 1918, to the Royal Air Force. Appointed Flight Sergeant in October 1917 and Acting Sergeant-Major in August 1918, his employment is shown as Regimental/R.A.F. police during the later years of his service. He was discharged on 30 April 1920. He was ‘Mentioned for Valuable Service’ in Air Ministry Orders of 22 January 1919 and earned a ‘Mark of Distinction’ in a despatch dated 18 April 1921.
With copied service papers and m.i.c.
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