Campaign Groups and Pairs 420
Three: Driver F. Cox, Army Service Corps 1914-15 Star (T3-024355 Dvr: F. Cox. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (T3-024355 Dvr. F. Cox. A.S.C.) nearly extremely fine
Pair: Driver E. H. Batchelor, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (542214 Dvr. E. H. Batchelor. R.E.) with named card box of issue, enclosure slips for both awards and registered envelope addressed to ‘Mr E. H. Batchelor, Gattons Farm, Cliffe-at-Hoo, nr. Rochester, Kent’; together with a Royal Engineers cap badge and a pair of brass shoulder titles, extremely fine
Pair: Private S. Prestt, South Lancashire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (39420 Pte. S. Prestt. S. Lan. R.) in damaged named card box of issue with torn outer envelope addressed to ‘Mr. S. Prestt. 53 Haresfinch View, St. Helens.’, extremely fine
Pair: Private E. Knobbs, Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals (100291 Pte. E. Knobbs. M.G.C.); together with a Machine Gun Corps cap badge and uniform button, edge bruises therefore very fine (9)
£100-£140
Frederick Cox served with the Army Service Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 December 1914. He was discharged to the Class Z reserve on 7 May 1919.
Edwin Herman Batchelor was born in 1896 at Cliffe-at-Hoo, Kent and died in 1962 at Whitstable, Kent.
Samuel Prestt was born in 1879 in Dublin, Ireland but by 1891 he had moved with his family to St. Helens, Lancashire. He served during the Great War with the 1/5th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment, and died in St. Helens in 1943. Ephraim Knobbs served with the Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry) during the Great War. His unit was disembodied on 8 March 1919.
421 Five: Major P. M. Dewar, Royal Army Medical Corps
1914-15 Star (Major P. M. Dewar. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Major P. M. Dewar.); Territorial Decoration, silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919, with integral top riband bar; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Peter McK. Dewar) mounted as worn, good very fine (5)
£240-£280 T.D. London Gazette 4 November 1919.
Peter McKellar Dewar, from Glasgow, joined the Territorial Forces on 25 August 1906. During the Great War, he was commissioned into the regular Army as a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 25 February 1915, and served in the Gallipoli Theatre from 1 July 1915. Attached to the 7th Battalion Highland Light Infantry during his wartime service, he was released from military service on 24 November 1919.
Sold with copied research. 422
Three: Private M. Griffiths, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914-15 Star (20 Pte. M. Griffiths. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (20 Pte. M. Griffiths. R.A.M.C.) VM officially re-impressed, in named card boxes of issue, extremely fine
1939-45 Star (2); Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star (2); France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45 (4), one a Canadian issue in silver, good very fine and better (14)
£70-£90 423 Three: Sister Mary Clarkson, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
1914-15 Star (S/Nurse M. Clarkson Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister M. Clarkson), all in named card boxes of issue, extremely fine (3)
£100-£140
Mary Clarkson was born on 27 August 1884, in Bolton le Sands. A trained nurse, residing in St John Wood, London, she joined the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve on 12 November 1915. She entered the Egyptian Theatre on 10 December 1915 and it seems this is where she served for the duration of the War. She was demobilised in March 1919.
Sold with copied research. 424 Three: J. E. Dorey, British Red Cross Society
1914-15 Star (J. E. Dorey. B.R.C. & St. J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (J. E. Dorey. B.R.C. & St. J.J.) good very fine (3)
£80-£120 Joseph E. Dorey served with the British Red Cross Society during the Great War on the Western Front from 25 November 1914. 425
Four: Sergeant Major W. J. Thaw, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps and Army Cyclist Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Meritorious Service Medal
1914-15 Star (3572 Pte. W. Thaw. A. Cyc. Corps.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (13343. F. Sgt. W. Thaw. R.A.F.); Royal Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (13343 Sgt. Maj: W. Thaw. R.A.F.) very fine and better (4)
£500-£700 M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919 (France)
William Johnstone Thaw, a Fitter from Manchester, initially served as a Private in the Army Cyclist Corps, serving during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 July 1915. On 17 January 1916, he joined the Royal Flying Corps as 2nd Class Airman, and was advanced to Flight Sergeant on 1 January 1917 and Temporary Sergeant Major on 1 February 1918. Transferring to the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918, for his services during the Great War he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 4 January 1917) and was awarded an Immediate Meritorious Service Medal. During the Second War he served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps.
Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient in the uniform of a Lieutenant in the R.A.S.C.
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