Single Campaign Medals 549
The 1914-15 Star awarded to Gunner T. Burke, Royal Marine Artillery, a veteran of the Battle of Dogger Bank, who was killed in action whilst serving with H.M.S. Lion at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916
1914-15 Star (R.M.A. 8487 Gr. T. Burke.) extremely fine £60-£80
Thomas Burke was born in Oxford in May 1880. He enlisted in the Royal Marine Artillery at Hull in October 1899. Burke advanced to Gunner in October 1900, and served with H.M.S. Lion, from 13 December 1913. He was present at the Battle of Dogger Bank, 24 January 1915; and the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, where the Lion served as the flagship of Admiral Beatty’s Battlecruiser Fleet - she was hit a total of 14 times during the battle, including sustaining near-catastrophic damage to Q-turret, and suffered 99 dead and 51 wounded. Although mortally wounded, Major Francis Harvey, Royal Marines, the Q-turret gun commander, ordered the magazine and turret to be flooded, which although costing him his life saved the magazine from exploding, which would undoubtedly have sunk the ship; for his bravery and self sacrifice he was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. Gunner Burke was killed in action at Jutland, and is commemorated on the Porstmouth Naval Memorial.
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1914-15 Star (1259 Pte. T. W. Horne. Ceylon Plr. R.C.) very fine, scarce to unit
£100-£140
Thomas Wardlaw Horne was born in May 1886 and was educated at Harrow. He served during the Great War with the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps in the Egyptian theatre of War from 17 November 1914, before being commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders. The Harrow School Roll of Honour states: ‘Second Lieutenant T. W. Horne, the only surviving son of Thomas Horne, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh, and a cousin of General Lord Horne, was rubber planting in Ceylon when the War broke out. He was a member of the Ceylon Planters’ Rifles and immediately volunteered for active service, and accompanied his Regiment to Egypt, where he was present at the attack on the Suez Canal. In April 1915 he was sent to Gallipoli, landing at Anzac Cove, and serving in the Peninsula till he was severely wounded in the following August. In 1916 he was given a Commission in the Seaforth Highlanders and served with them in Flanders, until fever caused his return to England. He then acted for some time as Musketry Instructor in Ireland, but returned to France in August 1917, and had only been a few days with his Regiment when he fell, leading his Platoon in the first wave of than attack near Ypres, on 22 August 1917. There were no survivors of his Company, which got to the enemy second line and was then surrounded.’
Horne was attached to the 8th Battalion when he was killed in action. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient. 551 1914-15 Star (7401 Sjt. G. Sharp. E. Afr. P. Guard.) very fine, rare to unit £80-£120
George Sharp enlisted as a Sergeant in the East African Prison Guards on 28 August 1914 and served during the Great War in the East African theatre of War from that date. Subsequently transferring to the East African Unattached List, he was advanced Warrant Officer Class II.
Sold with copied Medal Index Card and full medal roll for the East African Prison Guards, which confirms that only 19 1914-15 Stars were awarded to this unit.
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1914-15 Star (Sagh George Eff Ekmekjian. Med: Corps E.A.) minor official corrections, very fine, rare to unit £80-£120 M.C. London Gazette 23 November 1916.
George Effendi Ekmekjian served during the Great War as a Saghkolaghasi (the equivalent of a Captain) in the Egyptian Army’s Medical Corps, attached to the Intelligence Branch, in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 21 May 1915. For his services with the Intelligence Branch he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 25 September 1916) and was awarded the Military Cross.
Sold with copied research. Note: The name ‘Effendi’ is more of an honorific, and means a man of high education and social standing.
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British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (40424 Pte. J. Borland. E. York. R.; T2-12440 Dvr. J. Brush. A.S.C); Memorial Plaque (Alfred Albert Willard), with remnants of nail on reverse, generally good very fine or better (3)
£70-£90
James Borland died on 23 February 1919, while serving with the 204th Field Company Royal Engineers; he was buried in the Glasgow Western Necropolis.
John Brush served during the Great War on the Western Front from 4 September 1915, and was awarded the Military Medal (London Gazette 27 October 1916).
Alfred Albert Willard, who was from St Peter’s, Kent, enlisted in Maidstone, and served during the Great War with the Army Service Corps. He died on 3 July 1917 in the Balkan theatre of war, while serving with the 20th Stationery Hospital, and is buried in the Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery.
554 British War Medal 1914-20 (B-549 W.O. Cl.II. J. C. R. Whiddington. S. of M.) nearly extremely fine, rare to unit £80-£120
John Chilvers Reginald Whiddington was born on 19 November 1876 and served during the Great War as Company Sergeant Major (Instructor) in the Corps of the School of Musketry. He proceeded to France on an Inspecting Tour in June 1918, for which he was entitled only to the British War Medal (not entitled to the Victory Medal). He died in London in 1953.
Sold with copied research including Medal Index card which confirms that this is his sole entitlement.
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