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Campaign Groups and Pairs 287 Pair: Sergeant R. Aylott, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps


1914-15 Star (3731 2.A.M. R. Aylott. R.F.C.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (3731. Sgt. R. Aylatt [sic]. R.A.F.) good very fine (2)


£70-£90


Robert Aylott was born in Oldham, Lancashire, and attested of the Royal Flying Corps on 19 February 1915. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 October 1915 to 27 September 1916, and was advanced Acting Sergeant on 1 December 1917. He transferred to the Royal Air Force on its formation on 1 April 1918, and was promoted Corporal Mechanic on 1 September 1918. He served with the North Russian Expeditionary Force from 9 April 1919, being posted to the Seaplane Carrier H.M.S. Pegasus, based at Archangel, on 20 June 1919, finally returning to Scotland in October of that year. He transferred to the R.A.F. Reserve on 3 January 1920, and was discharged on 18 February 1923, after 8 years’ service.


Sold with copied record of service. 288


Three: Captain C. R. Prendergast, 28th and 84th Punjabis, who was killed in action during the Battle of Hanna, Mesopotamia, 21 January 1916


1914-15 Star (Lieut. C. R. Prendergast. 28/Punjabis.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. R. Prendergast.); Memorial Plaque (Charles Randolph Prendergast) generally good very fine or better (4)


£300-£400


Charles Randolph Prendergast was born in Bengal, India in April 1888, and was the son of Major General C. L. Prendergast (Colonel Commandant 28th Punjabis). He was educated at Cheltenham College and R.M.C. Sandhurst. Prendergast was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Munster Fusiliers in 1910, before transferring to the Indian Army with the outbreak of the Great War.


Prendergast advanced to Captain and initially served with his father’s old regiment the 28th Punjabis. He was subsequently attached to the 84th Punjabis, and was killed in action at the Battle of Hanna, Mesopotamia, 21 January 1916. Captain Prendergast is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq, and is also commemorated on his parents’ gravestone at Highland Road Cemetery, Portsmouth (where he is given as being killed in action at the Battle of Sheikh Saad 21 January 1916 - the latter being the date for the Battle of Hanna, with Sheikh Saad occurring 6-8 January 1916).


289


Three: Private G. Prescott, 49th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment), who died on the Western Front on 9 October 1916


1914-15 Star (432089 Pte G. Prescott. 49/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals (432089 Pte. G. Prescott. 49-Can. Inf.) very fine (3)


£60-£80


G. Prescott attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force and served with the 49th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment) during the Great War on the Western Front. He died on 9 October 1916, and is buried at Contay British Cemetery, France.


290 Four: Police Constable G. Ford, Metropolitan Police, later Mercantile Marine


British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (George Ford); Jubilee 1887, 1 clasp, 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C. G. Ford. T. Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. G. Ford. X. Divn.) last two mounted as worn, good very fine and better (4)


£70-£90


Sold with Board of Trade forwarding letter and Authority to Wear for B.W.M. and Mercantile Marine; three boxes of issue, these flattened; packets for Great War Medals and damaged O.H.M.S. envelope


291


Eight: Assistant Superintendent R. Higgins, Federation of Malaya Police, late Engine Room Artificer 4th Class, Royal Navy


British War and Victory Medals (M.11341 R. Higgins. E.R.A.4. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (A.S.P. R. Higgins. F Of M Pol.); Colonial Police Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, for Meritorious Service (Asst. Supt. Robert Higgins, Fed. Malaya Police) mounted as originally worn, generally good very fine (8)


£300-£400 C.P.M. London Gazette 9 June 1949.


Robert Higgins was born in Seattle, United States of America in April 1899. He joined the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class in January 1915, and advanced to Engine Room Artificer 4th Class. Higgins was discharged 23 April 1920. He subsequently served as Assistant Superintendent in the Federation of Malaya Police.


292 Three: Engine Room Artificer 1st Class W. E. Peach, B.E.M., Royal Navy


British War and Victory Medals (M.18510 W. E. Peach. E.R.A.4 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.18510 W. E. Peach. E.R.A.1, H.M.S. Harebell.) mounted as worn, very fine (3)


£70-£90 B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1945.


William Edgar Peach was born in Weymouth, Dorset, on 19 September 1888 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class on 30 December 1915. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. Topaze, and was advanced Engine Room Artificer 1st Class on 30 December 1927. He joined H.M.S. Harebell on 1 January 1930, in which ship he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 2 January 1931. He was shore pensioned on 29 December 1937, but was recalled to the Service on 31 July 1939, and served during the Second World War initially in H.M.S. Adventure, in which ship he was injured on 13 November 1939, receiving a Hurt Certificate the following month. He joined H.M.S. Ferret on 9 December 1940, and served in her for the rest of the War, and for his services during the Second World War he was awarded the British Empire Medal.


Sold with copied record of service, and a photograph of H.M.S. Harebell.


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