Miscellaneous 786
Memorial Plaque (2) (Sydney Bone; Edward Elkin), second in original card cover and with King’s letter, the first polished and very fine, the other good very fine (2)
£70-£90
Sydney Bone died on 11 February 1920, while serving with the 22nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment, and was buried at Withington (St Paul) Churchyard.
Edward Elkin, who was born in Cheadle, Staffordshire, was killed in action in Mesopotamia on 25 January 1917, while serving with the 7th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial.
787 Memorial Plaque (Henry Charles Wiley) small drill mark to reverse at 12 o’clock, polished, nearly very fine £60-£80
Henry Charles Wiley, a native of Birmingham, was born in 1884 and attested for the Royal Flying Corps at Farnborough on 2 September 1917. He served with the Royal Flying Corps during the Great War in Egypt as an Air Mechanic 3rd Class, and was reported drowned on 31 December 1917. His body was recovered, and he is buried in Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.
Sold with copied record of service. 788
The Great War Memorial Plaque and Scroll awarded to Sergeant S. C. Smith, Royal Air Force, who died at home on 25 March 1920
Memorial Plaque (Stanley Clarence Smith) in card envelope of issue; Memorial Scroll, inscribed ‘Serjt. Mech. Stanley Clarence Smith, Royal Air Force’, good very fine (2)
£100-£140
Stanley Clarence Smith served during the Great War at the Central Flying School, Upavon, Wiltshire, and died at home on 25 March 1920. He is commemorated on the Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton.
Sold with original King's letter and various original photographs. 789
Memorial Scroll (2), inscribed ‘Private Arthur Turner, Royal Sussex Regiment; Pte. Claude Woodyard, Scottish Rifles’ both slightly damaged but in overall reasonable condition (2)
£30-£40
Arthur Turner, who was from Lewes, died of wounds on the Western Front on 27 November 1917, while serving with 'D' Company, 8th (Pioneer) Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, and is buried at Dozinghem Military Cemetery. Sold together with an original photograph of his wooden-cross grave and enclosure from the Director of Graves Registration and Enquiries; and an original photograph dated 1914
Claude Woodyard, who was born in Byfleet, Surrey, was killed in action on the Western Front on 27 September 1917, while serving with the 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
790 Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (13382 Pte. J. A. Ternent), in case of issue, nearly extremely fine £70-£90
James Allen Ternet was born on 21 July 1889 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and spent four and a half years in the Northumberland Fusiliers, before attesting for service in the 7th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, with whom he was serving when he was killed on 9 February 1918. He was buried at Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery, France. He had suffered from 'shell shock' in September 1916 (recipient's service record, refers).
791 Canadian Memorial Cross,
G.VI.R (K. 52830 Pte. A. Parry), good very fine £70-£90
Arthur Parry was killed on 5 August 1943, while serving with the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, and is buried at the Agira Canadian War Cemetery, Sicily.
x792 Canadian Memorial Cross,
G.VI.R. (Capt. R. H. French.) good very fine £70-£90
Roy Howard French, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, served with the Canadian Army Dental Corps during the Second World War, and died on 16 July 1944. He is buried in Harrogate (Stonefall) Cemetery, Yorkshire.
x793
Canadian Memorial Cross,
G.VI.R. (F.O. F. J. S. Guppy J23112) mounted from a contemporary silver brooch bar, good very fine
£70-£90
Frederick John Sydney Guppy, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Air Force, and died on 2 October 1943, when, serving with No. 23 O.T.U., his Wellington was reported to have crashed into the sea off the Pembrokeshire coast, whilst on a night training exercise. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
794
Bolton Borough Police Good Service Medal, silver, hallmarked Birmingham 1914, with silver ribbon bar inscribed ‘Over 25 Years’ (Constable 34. Joseph Burton. Appointed 29th September 1919) the reverse engraved ‘Presented by the Watch Committee November 1939’, with ribbon in case of issue, extremely fine
£100-£140 This medal was instituted in 1913 and was awarded for 25 years good service. In 1931 the qualifying period was reduced to 20 years. 795
Wigan Borough Police Good Service Medal, silver, hallmarked Birmingham 1923, the reverse engraved (Detective Constable W. W. Dutton Joined 11-2-24) with silver ribbon buckle in its Winstanley & Son, Wigan, case of issue, extremely fine
£100-£140 796
National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal, bronze with 2 bars for ‘Five Years’ and Ten Years’ (8752 Nelson Moren); together with an unidentified Fire Brigade Service Medal, silver, Birmingham hallmark but date letter indistinct, with two clasps on ribbon inscribed ‘25 Years’ and ‘30 Years’, the reverse centre engraved with a shield bearing 3 roses (Fireman J. May. April 1899.) very fine (2)
£60-£100
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