Campaign Groups and Pairs 499 Six: Leading Seaman R. W. Woods, Royal Fleet Reserve
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; War Medal 1939-45, with named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. R. W. Woods, 28 Lily Gardens, Alperton, Wembley, Middx’; Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C.,
G.VI.R., 1st issue (J. 103783 (Ch. B. 23403) R. W. Woods. L.S. R.F.R.); Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Robert William Woods), with Royal Mint case of issue; Union of Soviet Socialists Republics, Commemorative Medal for the 40th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1945-85, first five mounted as worn in this order, the Soviet Award loose; together with the recipient’s ‘Arctic Star’ lapel badge, about extremely fine (7)
£100-£140
Robert William Woods was born in Hendon, London on 17 December 1904. He entered the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 30 August 1921. Initially serving on H.M.S. Ganges, during the 1920’s he further served aboard H.M.S. Cleopatra, Hawkins, Yarmouth and the battleship H.M.S. Royal Oak. He was awarded the Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 26 January 1938, and continued to serve during the Second War, presumably (given his medal entitlement) with both the Atlantic and Arctic convoys. In civilian life he was a postman, and was awarded his Imperial Service Medal in 1965 (London Gazette 30 April 1965). He died at Cantely, Norfolk in 1971.
Sold with copied research. 500 Five: Master H. W. Taylor, Mercantile Marine, who died on active service on 26 November 1943
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, all privately named ‘H. W. Taylor. Mstr. M.N.’, with named Minister of Transport condolence slip, nearly extremely fine (5) £70-£90
Horace Walker Taylor was born in Fulham, London, on 20 April 1902, and was awarded his Masters Certificate on 26 May 1930. He served during the Second War in the Mercantile Marine, and died of natural causes whilst serving as Master of the S.S. Green Ranger on 26 November 1943.
Sold with copied research. 501
Seven: Major P. J. L. Phelps, 5th (Royal Inniskilling) Dragoon Guards, who served on Intelligence duty in Burma during the Second War; with the Tochi Scouts post War; with the 5th Dragoon Guards in Korea; and with the 43rd Gurkha Brigade in Malaya
1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (Capt. P. J. L. Phelps, 5th D.G.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Malaya, Cyprus,
G.VI.R. (Major P. J. L. Phelps 5. D.G.) second clasp unofficially attached, mounted as worn, generally good very fine or better (7) £400-£500
Patrick Joseph Lecky Phelps was born in July 1921. At the outbreak of the Second War, he served in the ranks, before receiving an Emergency Commission into the Indian Army in July 1941. Serving with the 5th Battalion, 12th Frontier Force Regiment, 1941, PAIFORCE, 1941-43 and Burma from 1943, his Army List entry notes he was on Intelligence duty 1942-4. Post war he served with the Tochi Scouts, 1946-48, before transferring to the 5th Dragoon Guards in 1948. He served as Second in Command of ‘B’ Squadron from 1949, the same position in HQ Squadron in 1950, and Adjutant in 1951. The regiment served in the Korean War from late 1951 and of particular note is the part the regiment played in the Battle of ‘The Hook’ in November 1952. A November 1953 list of 5th Dragoon Guards Officers notes he was now attached to R.A.C. Depot, having lately been G502, H.Q., 43rd Gurkha Brigade in Malaya. He was given the rank of Honorary Major in 1955 and then transferred to the Royal Air Force Police, from whom he retired in 1962.
502 Five: Sergeant W. G. Pollock, 49th Reconnaissance Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, late Lincolnshire Regiment
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Efficiency Medal, G. V.R., Territorial, with 2 Additional Award Bars (4796556 Sjt. W. G. Pollock. 4 – Linc. R.) mounted as worn, good very fine (5)
£70-£90
William George Pollock was born in Rutland on 8 February 1906 and joined the 4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (Territorial Force) in 1923. Mobilised on 29 September 1939, he embarked for France with the British Expeditionary Force on 27 April 1940 but was evacuated from Dunkirk on 2 June 1940. Transferring to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on 11 April 1941 and the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers on 2 October 1942, he then joined 49th Reconnaissance Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps on 3 February 1944. On 30 June 1944 he again embarked for France, remaining with this Regiment for the duration of the War, returning home on 14 November 1945.
M.I.D. unconfirmed. 503
Four: Attributed to Trooper A. Phillips, Royal Armoured Corps, who was killed in action when the Transport Ship MV Derrycunihy was mined and sank off Juno Beach on 24 June 1944
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mrs. E L. Phillips, 13 Corporation Terrace, Bodmin, Cornwall’, nearly extremely fine (4) £80-£120
Albert Phillips was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, and served during the Second World War with the 43rd (Wessex) Regiment, Reconnaissance Corps, Royal Armoured Corps. He took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk in 1940, and embarked for North-West Europe on 18 June 1944 in the Transport Ship MV Derrycunihy, which joined a convoy off Southend-on-Sea and arrived off Sword Beach on the evening of 20 June. High seas and enemy shelling prevented unloading for three days and it was decided to move to Juno Beach for disembarkation. As the ship started engines at 07.40 hours on the morning of 24 June it detonated an acoustic mine. The mine exploded under the keel, splitting the ship in two, and the aft part, packed with men of 43rd Reconnaissance Corps, sank rapidly. Worse still, a 3-tonner ammunition lorry caught fire, and oil floating on the water was set alight. Landing craft and the gunboat H.M.S. Locust quickly came alongside and picked up survivors. Some 183 men of the regiment were killed and about 120 others wounded. 25 of the ship’s crew were also lost. Phillips was amongst those killed in action, and he is buried in Bayeux War Cemetery, France.
Sold with a newspaper cutting announcing the recipient’s death, with photograph; a photograph of the recipient’s original grave; and a small Birkenhead and Seaforth Football League silver fob shield.
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