Campaign Groups and Pairs
Irene Harriette Peach was born in Peterborough on 24 October 1888. She became a trained nurse, probably enlisting in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service several years before the First World War. She was sent to serve overseas in Egypt from August 1917, as General Allenby was demanding many extra medical resources to support his planned offensive which broke through the Turkish defence lines running east from Gaza.
Irene Peach married Cecil Guthrie in Amersham, Buckinghamshire (Qtr 1 1920 Page 1551). After the Kilmichael ambush, Cecil was posted as ‘Missing’. Extensive searches made by ‘C’ Company in December and January failed to find any trace of either Guthrie, Mitchell or Agnew. By the time these searches were completed, Irene had returned to her parents’ house in Amersham.
On 15 January 1921 Irene gave birth, prematurely, to a girl. She named her daughter Dorothy Guthrie. In June 1921 Irene’s claim for £12,000 criminal injury compensation for her husband’s death came to court in Cork. £5,200 was awarded, comprising £3,000 for Irene, £2.000 for Dorothy, and £200 for Cecil’s father.
After the end of Irish Civil War, the Guthrie family made further inquiries about the whereabouts of Cecil’s body. The I.R.A. disclosed enough information for an exhumation to occur in 1926. The family were perhaps mindful of the tradition that British soldiers killed in action were buried near where they had fallen, and it seems that the relatives were concerned that Annahalla bog might have been a secret burial site where multiple victims of I.R.A. terror were concealed, with no certainty that the body that had been dug up was that of Cecil. The family declined the costly option of repatriating the human remains to England, and they were laid to rest in the local Church of Ireland burial yard in Inchigeelagh. The simple grave is inscribed ‘In Memory of Lieut. Cecil J. Guthrie November 28 1920’.
Irene never re-married, and lived for another sixty-five years. She always wore an RAF Wings brooch that had been a present given to her by her husband. She died on 10 March 1986 at Four Winds, Bransgore, Christchurch, Dorset and was buried still wearing Cecil’s Wings brooch.
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Pair: Lieutenant W. F. R. Robinson, Royal Air Force, late 25th Canadian Infantry, a pilot serving with No. 8 Squadron who was shot down and killed in September 1918
British War and Victory Medals (Lieut W. F. R. Robinson. R.A.F.) extremely fine (2) £140-£180
William Frederick Rokeby Robinson was born at Round Hill, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, on 9 October 1894. He worked at the Cotton Manufacturing Co. in New Bedford, Massachusetts, prior to the war. He enlisted as a Private in the 25th Canadian Infantry and served in France from 15 September 1915 (entitled to 1914-15 Star). His regiment was involved in the fighting on the Somme from 15 September to 11 November 1916, and in 1917 they fought at Arras and Ypres.
He was then trained as a pilot and commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918. He was assigned to No. 8 Squadron flying Armstrong Whitworth FK8 aircraft. On 8 August 1918 he was involved in an aerial combat with a German Albatross when his plane took several hits before the German broke off the combat. He was shot down on 24 September 1918 and both he and his observer, Lieutenant J. H. Roberts, were killed. He has no known grave and is commemorated by name on the Arras Memorial, France.
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Pair: Second Lieutenant J. Ritchie, Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (2/Lieut. J. Richie R.A.F.) good very fine
Pair: Aircraftman J. S. Boast, Royal Air Force
British War and Victory Medals (167874. 3.A.M. J.
S.Boast. R.A.F.) good very fine Victory Medal 1914-19 (2/Lieut C. Guild. R.A.F.) in named card box of issue, extremely fine (5) John Stanley Boast was born in Saxmudham, Suffolk, in 1888.
£70-£90
Charles Guild served during the Great War as a Handley Page Pilot with 215 Squadron, and was taken Prisoner of War on 15 September 1918.
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Family Group:
Three: Air Mechanic 3rd Class, J. A. Anderson, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps British War and Victory Medals (25337. 2. A.M. J. Anderson. R.A.F.); Imperial Service Medal,
G.VI.R., 1st issue (James Alexander Anderson.) in card box of issue; together with the recipient’s two R.F.C. identity tags, extremely fine
War Medal 1939-1945, with Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to Miss C. Anderson, 60 Cardonald Place Rd, Cardonald, Glasgow S.W. 2’, extremely fine
Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (148273. F/Sjt. W. Wallace, R.A.F.) nearly very fine (5) £70-£90
James Alexander Anderson was born in 1881 and was a native of Cardonald, Glasgow. He attested for the Royal Flying Corps on 1 April 1916 and was serving with the 9th Kite Balloon Section when he was admitted to the 18th General Hospital on 27 August 1917. He transferred to the Reserve on 4 March 1919 and was discharged on 20 April 1920. He was previously and subsequently employed as a Sorting Clerk and Telegraphist in Glasgow and was awarded his Imperial Service Medal in 1942. (London Gazette 10 March 1942).
Miss C. Anderson is believed to be the daughter of the above, and served during the Second World War with the Auxiliary Territorial Service.
William Wallace was born in Soho, London in 1884 and was a Seaman by civilian occupation. He first attested for the British Army on 2 November 1904 and served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers from 13 August 1914. He was advanced to Sergeant before transferring to the Royal Air Force on 11 April 1918, with which he attained the rank of Flight Sergeant. He was discharged with effect from 2 November 1928.
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