Campaign Groups and Pairs 352 Pair: Private W. H. Titterton, Army Service Corps, who died of wounds in France on 21 April 1918
British War and Victory Medals (DN2-230519 Pte. W. H. Titterton. A.S.C.); Memorial Plaque (William Hugh Titterton) extremely fine (3)
£80-£120
William Hugh Titterton served in Mechanical Transport, Army Service Corps, attached 216th Army Troops Company, Royal Engineers, and died of wounds in France on 21 April 1918. According to an accompanying letter from a comrade to his sister, ‘Your brother was wounded by a flying fragment of shell about 4 o’clock in the afternoon and died about 6 p.m. the same evening.’ He is buried in Camon Communal Cemetery
Sold with various school certificates, a good quantity of correspondence regarding his death, Imperial War Graves Commission photograph of his grave, and memorial card.
For the medals awarded to the recipient’s father, Private F. Titterton, Gordon Highlanders, see Lot 128. 353 Family group:
Pair: Private D. H. Torbell, Army Ordnance Corps, later South Staffordshire Regiment, who died on the Western Front on 17 July 1917 British War and Victory Medals (O6150 Pte. D. H. Torbell. A.O.C.); Memorial Plaque (Douglas Herbert Torbell), this polished, with original identity tags, good very fine
Pair: Private W. G. Torbell, Army Ordnance Corps British War and Victory Medals (O6151 Pte. W. G. Torbell. A.O.C.), with original identity tag, very fine (5) £100-£140
Douglas Herbert Torbell, who was born in Eye, Suffolk, died on 17 July 1917, while serving with the 9th Battalion (Pioneers), South Staffordshire Regiment, and was buried at Dickebusch New Military Cemetery Extension.
354 Pair: Forewoman E. B. Buesden, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps
British War and Victory Medals (41 A-Fwn. E. B. Buesden. Q.M.A.A.C.) in named card box of issue, nearly extremely fine (2)
£50-£70 355
Family group: Pair: Private H. J. Le Cheminant, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
British War and Victory Medals (1685 Pte H. J. Le Cheminant. R. Guernsey L.I.), mounted as worn, good very fine
Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue ([W]illiam R. Le. Cheminant); together with a States of Guernsey Liberation Medal, bronze, good very fine (4)
£160-£200 H. J. Le Cheminant enlisted at St Peter Port for service with the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry. 356 A rare Great War campaign group of five awarded to Corporal Doris Moody, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
British War and Victory Medals (D. Moody F.A.N.Y.C.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-18, with bronze star emblem on riband; Belgium, Kingdom, Medaille de la Reine Elisabeth, bronze; France, Third Republic, Medaille de Secours aux Blesses Militaries, mounted as worn, generally good fine (5)
£220-£260
Doris Moody served during the Great War in France from April 1916; she was one of 17 members of her Corps to be awarded the Croix de Guerre with bronze star, one of 38 awarded the Medaille de la Reine Elisabeth, and one of 20 awarded the Medaille de Secours aux Blesses Militaries.
357 Pair: Miss V. L. Darley, Voluntary Aid Detachment
British War and Victory Medals (V. L. Darley. V.A.D.); together with Dublin St John Ambulance War Service badge and related insignia, including identity tags, nearly extremely fine (2)
£60-£80 Sold with an original photograph of a Red Cross hospital. 358 Three: Mr. R. G. Levy, who served as a Driver with the French Red Cross on the Western Front
British War and Victory Medals (R. G. Levy.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914 -1918, with bronze star emblem on riband, good very fine (3)
£80-£120 Reuben G. Levy served in France from December 1915, as a Driver with the French Red Cross. 359 Family group:
Five: Dr. S. Rendall, French Red Cross British War and Victory Medals (S. M. Rendall.); France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, minor enamel damage; Belgium, Kingdom, Civic Decoration, 1st class, with 1914-18 clasp; France, Association of French Ladies Red Cross Medal 1914-18, bronze, unnamed, good very fine
Pair: Mrs. C. L. Rendall, French Red Cross British War and Victory Medals (C. L. Rendall.) good very fine (7)
www.dnw.co.uk all lots are illustrated on our website and are subject to buyers’ premium at 24% (+VAT where applicable) £180-£220
Stanley Rendall was the author of A Short Account of the French Red Cross Hospital "Entente Cordiale, Hôpital Auxiliaire, N° 222", Mentone, which was published in 1918.
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