Campaign Groups and Pairs 319 Four: Captain A. Simson, Cossipore Artillery Volunteers and Royal Garrison Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (Capt. A. Simson.); Defence Medal; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, privately engraved ‘Capt. A. Simson C.A.V. Decr. 17th 1911’, mounted as worn, lightly polished, good very fine (4)
£100-£140
Alaric Simson, who was born in Calcutta in 1885, served with the Cossipore Artillery Volunteers and with the Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War. He died in 1948.
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Pair: Second Lieutenant D. R. Pobjoy, Royal Garrison Artillery, who later became an important aero-engine designer and who was killed in the Northwood disaster of 1948, which was deemed to be the greatest aircraft disaster at the time to have taken place in Britain
British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. D. R. Pobjoy.) nearly very fine (2) £60-£80
Douglas Rudolf Pobjoy was born in 1894 in Bristol. He studied engineering at Bristol University but enlisted as a Private in the Army Service Corps when war broke out. He went to France in July 1915 and in due course became a Captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery. Pobjoy's Sam Browne belt played a part in saving his life, when some some shrapnel from a nearby explosion flew towards him and caused a severe dent in the brass buckle, which otherwise would have been embedded in his flesh.
After the war Pobjoy joined the Bristol Aeroplane Company. He began to design aero engines and went into the R.A.F. as an education officer at Cranwell. He piloted a Pobjoy-engined plane at trials in 1926, and in 1931 a Pobjoy-powered Comper Swift flew from London to Australia in a record-breaking 9 days 2 hours.
The Pobjoy aero-engine factory moved from Wirral to Rochester, Kent, in 1934. When the war came, however, it was big firms like De Havilland that got government grants, and Douglas worked on vital de-icing equipment. After the war he designed a revolutionary tractor, but in July 1948 the airliner in which he was returning from a sales trip to Helsinki was involved in a mid-air collision in cloud over Ruislip aerodrome. All 39 passengers were killed in what was at that time the greatest air disaster to have occurred in Britain.
321 Five: Lieutenant-Colonel H. L. Brackenbury, Royal Engineers
British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. H. L. Brackenbury); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, these impressed ‘Lt. Col. H. L. Brackenbury’; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; together with a Primrose League medal and various insignia, including the recipient’s card identity disc, good very fine (6)
£120-£160 Hubert Lincoln Brackenbury served with the Movement Control Section, Royal Engineers, during the Second World War. 322
Four: Sapper W. Maddison, Royal Engineers and Special Constabulary British War and Victory Medals (466584 Spr. W. Maddison. R.E.); Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal,
G.VI.R., 1st issue (William Maddison); together with the recipient’s card identity tag and aluminium identity bracelet (W. Maddison C of E 466584 R.E. 48th A.A.S.S.’, very fine
Four: Private J. H. Hammersley, Army Veterinary Corps and Special Constabulary British War and Victory Medals (SE-28057 Pte. J. H. Hammersley. A.V.C.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G. V.R., 2nd issue, with three additional Long Service clasps, for 1941, 1944, and 1952 (John Hammersley); Defence Medal, mounted as worn in this order, contact marks, nearly very fine
Pair: Aircraftman E. C. House, Royal Naval Air Service and Special Constabulary British War Medal 1914-20 (F. 22193 E. C. Howse. A.C.1. R.N.A.S.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Ernest Howse.) very fine (10)
£120-£160 323
Pair: 2nd Corporal C. W. Shipton, Royal Engineers, who died in an accident on the Western Front on 1 July 1916, on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme
British War and Victory Medals (2116 2 Cpl. C. W. Shipton. R.E.); Memorial Plaque (Charles William Shipton) scratch to plaque, otherwise nearly extremely fine (3)
£200-£240
Charles William Shipton was born in Bromley-by-Bow, London, in 1885, and served with the 2/2nd London Field Company,Royal Engineers (Territorial Force) during the Great War on the Western Front. He died on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, when his unit was attached to the 56th (London) Division and went over the top with the lead battalions, although it appears that Shipton died in an accident before the signal was given, and never made it to the front line. He is buried in Sailly-au-Bois Military Cemetery, France.
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Pair: Private W. J. Maskell, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 2 April 1917
British War and Victory Medals (G-22343 Pte. W. J. Maskell. The Queen's R.) good very fine
Pair: Private A. W. Woolnough, Northumberland Fusiliers, who was died on the Western Front on 27 March 1918 British War and Victory Medals (45262 Pte. A. W. Woolnough. North'd Fus.) good very fine
Pair: Corporal A. Maine, Welsh Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 26 June 1917 British War and Victory Medals (31353 A. Cpl. A. Maine. Welsh R.) edge bruising, very fine (6)
£100-£140
William John Maskell, who was born in South Nutfield, Surrey, was killed in action on 2 April 1917, while serving with the Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, and was buried at Croisilles British Cemetery.
Arthur William Woolnough, who was born in Plumstead, London, died on 27 March 1918, while serving with 1/6th (Territorial) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial.
Alfred Maine, who was born in Llantrisant, Glamorgan, was killed in action on 26 June 1917, while serving with the 19th Battalion, Welsh Regiment, and was buried at Bard Cottage Cemetery.
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