Campaign Groups and Pairs 406 Four: Stoker W. Seager, Royal Naval Reserve
1914-15 Star (U.972, W. Seager, Sto., R.N.R.) attempt to obliterate surname; British War and Victory Medals (972U. W. Seager. Sto. R.N.R.); Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (U.972. W. Seager. Sto. R.N.R.) BWM partially officially corrected, very fine (4)
£60-£80
William Seager was born in Portsmouth on 8 October 1866. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal whilst serving in H.M.S. Agincourt on 29 March 1917.
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Three: Corporal A. Sherman, Royal Marine Light Infantry, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Invincible was sunk at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916
1914-15 Star (PO. 14465. Cpl. A. Sherman. R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (PO. 14465 Cpl. A. Sherman. R. M.L.I.) in named card boxes of issue with Admiralty forwarding letter, extremely fine (3)
£240-£280
Arthur Sherman was born in Andover, Hampshire, in 1888 and joined the Royal Marine Light Infantry in Southampton on 29 May 1906 aged 17 years and 5 months. He served in the pre-dreadnought Battleships H.M.S. Jupiter and H.M.S. Exmouth between February 1908 and June 1911 and then in the armoured cruiser H.M.S. Minotaur from May 1912 to March 1914. He was promoted Corporal on 19 May 1913 and was posted to serve in the battlecruiser H.M.S. Invincible on 3 August 1914, one day before Great Britain declared war on Germany.
Sherman would have been present at Invincible’s successes in 1914 at the battle of Heligoland Bight, where she played a minor role, and at the Battle of the Falkland Islands, where she and her sister ship, Inflexible, sank the armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau almost without loss to themselves.
Sherman was killed in action at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, when the armour of one of Invincible’s gun turrets was penetrated, causing her to be blown in half by a magazine explosion amidships and sink within 90 seconds with the loss of all but six of her crew of 1,032 officers and ratings. Like the vast majority of the crew Sherman is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
408 Three: Corporal F. A. Cook, Royal Field Artillery
1914-15 Star (87427. Cpl. F. A. Cook, R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (87427 Cpl. F. A. Cook. R.A.) generally very fine or better (3)
£60-£80
M.I.D. London Gazette 4 January 1917. F. A. Cook served during the Great War with the Royal Field Artillery in the French theatre of war from 27 July 1915.
409 Three: Sapper T. Reynolds, Royal Engineers
1914-15 Star (42646 Spr: T. Reynolds. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (42646 Spr. T. Reynolds. R.E.) very fine Pair: Sapper A. Mills, Royal Engineers
British War and Victory Medals (275294 Spr. A. Mills. R.E.) nearly very fine
Three: Warrant Officer Class II H. Rogers, 3rd South African Horse, late South African Service Corps 1914-15 Star (2nd C/W.O. H. Rogers. S.A.S.C.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (2nd C/W.O. H. Rogers. 3rd S. A.H.) very fine (8)
£80-£120 Thomas Reynolds attested for the Royal Engineers, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 10 July 1915. 410 Three: Private Thomas Hall, Irish Guards, who was killed in action in the battle of Loos in October 1915
1914-15 Star (7633. Pte. T. Hall. I. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (7633 Pte. T. Hall. Ir. Gds.) nearly extremely fine (3)
£160-£200
Thomas Hall served in France with the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, from 1 September 1915, and was killed in action during the battle of Loos on 6 October 1915. He was the son of John and Ellen Hall, of Skibbereen, County Cork, and is buried in St Mary’s A.D.S. Cemetery, Haisnes, Pas de Calais, France. He was aged 23.
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Three: Private G. Cooper, Royal Lancashire Regiment 1914-15 Star (240097 Pte. G. Cooper. R. Lanc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (1207 Pte. G. Cooper. R. Lanc. R.) good very fine
Three: Corporal T. Talmage, South Lancashire Regiment 1914-15 Star (14308 Cpl. T. Talmage. S. Lan. R.); British War and Victory Medals (14308 Pte. T. Talmage. S. Lan. R.) good very fine
Three: Private H. M. Bowers, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and Machine Gun Corps 1914-15 Star (8894 Pte. H. M. Bowers. L.N. Lan. R.); British War and Victory Medals (8894 Pte. H. M. Bowers. L.N. Lan. R.) very fine (9)
£120-£160
Gordon Cooper attested for the Royal Lancashire Regiment, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 February 1915.
Thomas Talmage attested for the South Lancashire Regiment, and served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 28 September 1915.
Henry M. Bowers attested for the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, and served with them during the Great War in the East Africa theatre of War from 5 November 1914. He subsequently transferred to the Machine Gun Corps.
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