Campaign Groups and Pairs 394 Six: Able Seaman A. E. Upperton, Royal Navy
British War and Victory Medals (J.57417 A. E. Upperton. Ord. R.N.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (J.57417 A. E. Upperton. A.B. R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (J.57417 A. E. Upperton. A.B. H.M.S. Bulldog.) minor official correction to ship on last, the Great War awards fine, the rest good very fine and better (6)
£160-£200
Albert Edward Upperton was born in Holloway, London, on 11 March 1900, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in the cruiser H.M.S. Powerful on 18 August 1916. Advanced Able Seaman on 3 June 1920, he specialised as a Seaman Torpedoman and became a Leading Torpedo Operator on 25 August 1930. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 30 May 1933, whilst serving in H.M.S. Bulldog, whilst based in Malta. He served during the Second World War at home, and latterly at H.M.S. Vulture, the Royal Naval Air Station at St. Merryn, Cornwall, and in April 1945 was attached to 736 Squadron based there. He was released on 13 September 1945.
Sold with copied research.
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Five: Officer’s Steward II J. S. Wood, Mercantile Marine and 23rd Battalion, London Regiment
British War Medal 1914-20 (L.10021 J. S. Wood. O.S. 2. R.N.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Joseph S. Wood) officially re-impressed naming; Victory Medal 1914-19 (L.10021 J. S. Wood. O.S. 2. R.N.); Defence Medal; Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial (6768807 Sjt. J. S. Wood. 23-Lond. R.) mounted for display, with Second War campaign medal card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr. J. S. Wood, 4 Poulton Avenue, Sutton, Surrey’, very fine (5)
£140-£180
Joseph Samuel Wood was born in Brixton, London in February 1894. He was employed as a Ship’s Steward in the Merchant Navy, and served with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve prior to the Great War. Service as an Officer’s Steward II with the Mercantile Marine included with H.M. Ships Royal Arthur (a guard ship at Scapa Flow) and the Courageous (cruiser).
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Pair: Lieutenant A. R. Wallace, General List, attached Inland Water Transport, Royal Engineers, late Royal Naval Reserve, who died of wounds in Mesopotamia on 18 January 1919
British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. R. Wallace.); Memorial Plaque (Arthur Reginald Wallace.) in card envelope of issue, plaque showing some light corrosion to reverse otherwise nearly extremely fine (3)
£100-£140
Arthur Reginald Wallace was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1875. He was commissioned Temporary Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve on 19 December 1914 and on 12 January 1915 was given command of the trawler Dale and appointed leader of a unit. On 1 August 1915 he applied for the command of a torpedo boat or for service in the Dardanelles but his application was denied due to the continuing needs of the Auxiliary Reserve Patrol and he was transferred in command of the trawler Onyx II on 2 February 1916. On 20 February 1916, Wallace was granted sick leave to undergo an operation, subsequent to which, on 6 July 1916, he was found unfit for further active service and his commission was cancelled on 21 July 1916.
Wallace’s improving health allowed him to serve once more and on 19 February 1917 he was commissioned Temporary Lieutenant, General List, attached Inland Water Transport. He served with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force from 19 May 1917 and died of wounds on 18 January 1919 in Mesopotamia. He is buried in Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq.
Wallace’s Medal Index Card and the Royal Naval Reserve medal roll both confirm that Wallace’s British War and Victory Medals were issued by the War Office and that his 1914-15 Star (not present) was to be issued by the Adjutant-General of the Navy.
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Three: Engineman J. L. Everard, Royal Naval Reserve
1914-15 Star (ES. 4028. J. L. Everard, Engn., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (4028ES. J. L. Everard. Engn. R.N. R.) nearly very fine (3)
£30-£40
John Larter Everard enrolled for the Royal Naval Reserve at Yarmouth on 14 September 1915. His first boat was the Great Yarmouth drifter J.C.P. (Admiralty No. 1877) parented at Dover by H.M.S. Attentive III. She was sunk in a collision with the patrol vessel P.27 off Folkestone early on the morning of 22 March 1918. All the crew were saved. After a brief posting to H.M.S. Victory at Portsmouth, he joined the Admiralty-owned trawler H.M.S. Christopher Dixon on 15 April 1918, based at Portland, Dorset. He was demobilised on 10 June 1919. Sold with copied R.N.R. record of service which notes that he applied for the restoration of the Queen’s and King’s South Africa medals awarded to him as No. 1361 Pte. J. Bates, Coldstream Guards, which were subsequently forfeited (result not given).
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Four: Lieutenant S. Lawson, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
British War and Victory Medals (C. Z. 8212 S. Lawson. Sig. R.N.V.R.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Cadet Forces Medal, G. VI.R. (Ty. Lt. (SP) S. Lawson. R.N.V.R.) good very fine (4)
£80-£120
Samuel Lawson was born in 1897 in Dumfermline. He served during the Great War in the Clyde Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve from 27 June 1916, and was discharged to shore on demobilisation on 11 March 1919.
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