Campaign Groups and Pairs 470 Pair: Private H. Woodcock, Cheshire Yeomanry
Victory Medal 1914-19 (774 Pte. H. Woodcock. Ches. Yeo.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (774 Pte. H. Woodcock. Ches. Yeo.) extremely fine (2)
£200-£240 Harry Woodcock served in No. 3 Troop, ‘A’ Squadron, Cheshire Yeomanry.
471
Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel F. R. Dickinson, Madras Pioneers
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Lieut. F. R. Dickinson.) rank officially corrected; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Capt. F. R. Dickinson, 2-1 M. Prs.) edge bruise to IGS, light contact marks, nearly very fine (2)
£160-£200
Frederick Richard Dickinson was born in Agra, India, on 4 June 1898, the son of Frederick John Dickinson, Esq., who worked for the Revenue Department in India,and was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 12 September 1917. He was appointed to the 81 Pioneers on 22 December 1917, before transferring to the 20th Horse in March 1918; the 155th Pioneers in November 1918; the 61 Pioneers in June 1919; and the 12th Pioneers in August 1920, with whom he served in Iraq.
Dickinson transferred to the 1st Sapper and Miners in March 1921; to the 10th Pioneers in June 1923; and then to the 2-1st Pioneers on 18 October 1923, with whom he served in Waziristan as a Company Commanding Officer. He was posted to the 2nd Madras Pioneers on 11 May 1929, and then to the 3-7th Rajput Regiment. He latterly served as Adjutant, before transferring to the Supplementary Unemployed List on 1 November 1935, and was promoted Major on 1 August 1938.
Dickinson was commissioned Flight Lieutenant in the General Duties Branch, Royal Air Force Reserve, on 21 September 1938, and served briefly in the Second World War with the 7th Rajputs, before reverting back to the S.U.L., with the honorary rank of Lieutenant- Colonel, on 17 November 1942. He retired on 4 June 1948, and died on 10 May 1957.
Sold with copied research including his Great War Medal Index Card, which states that he was issued with a British War Medal by the Government of India (although not entitled to a Victory Medal).
472
Pair: Captain S. C. Davies, M.B.E., Military Accounts Department, late Simla Rifles
India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Capt. S. C. Davies. M.A.D.) area of erasure before rank; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Voltr. S. C. Davies, 4/Simla Rfls. I.D.F.) edge bruising, very fine, first scarce to unit (2)
£180-£220
M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1932: Stanley Clifford Davies, Esq., Deputy Assistant Controller of Military Accounts, Eastern Command, Meerut, United Provinces.
Stanley Clifford Davies was born in Simla, India, on 24 April 1878, and was awarded his Volunteer Forces Long Service Medal on 16 December 1919 per Indian Army Order No. 981 of 1919, for service with the 4th Simla Rifles, Indian Defence Force He subsequently served as a Captain with the Military Accounts Departments, and was placed on the Indian Army Reserve of Officers List with the rank of Captain on 1 January 1922.
473
Seven: Captain A. D. Lenox-Conyngham, Royal Navy, who commanded H.M.S. Jamaica during the Suez operations, covering the landings at Port Said during Operation Musketeer
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Near East (Capt A. D. Lenox-Conyngham R.N.); Coronation 1953, mounted as worn, light contact marks, the last two with traces of lacquer, otherwise very fine (7)
£340-£380
Alwyn Douglas Lenox-Conyngham was born in Edinburgh in 1907, the youngest of four children of the Reverend George Lenox- Conyngham and his wife Barbara. His mother and two elder siblings were passengers in the R.M.S. Titanic’s maiden voyage from Southampton, but wisely decided to disembark at Cherbourg. Lenox-Conyngham entered the Royal Navy as a Cadet at Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth in May 1921. He passed out as a Midshipman in September 1925 and completed the Long (S) course at H.M. S. Victory as a Lieutenant in 1932. Promoted Lieutenant Commander on 1 October 1937, at the outbreak of the Second World War he was just finishing the Royal Navy Staff Course. Appointed W/T Officer on the Staff of Admiral Sir Wilfred French, Officer Commanding Orkneys and Shetland, he would have been on the Admiral’s Staff when he was forced to retire when blamed for allowing U-47 to penetrate the Scapa Flow defences and sink H.M.S. Royal Oak on 14 October 1939. Towards the end of 1940, Lenox-Conyngham was appointed to the Staff of Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, serving in H.M.S. Warspite from November 1940 and H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth in 1942. Returning to the UK in January 1943, he was appointed to the Ferret Royal Navy base in Londonderry at the end of that month. Promoted Commander on 31 December 1943, he spent the rest of the War at the Admiralty Signal Establishment. Promoted Captain on 31 December 1948, he was appointed to the Command of H.M.S. Mermaid in 1952 and as Director of the Signal Division of the Admiralty in September 1953. His final seagoing appointment was to the command of H.M.S. Jamaica on 8 March 1956. Assigned to 1st Cruiser Squadron, Jamaica played a leading role in the Suez operations later that year and was part of the force that covered the landings at Port Said during Operation Musketeer. Captain Lenox-Conyngham retired from the Royal Navy on 7 January 1958 and died in 1990.
Sold with a CD of research.
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