Campaign Groups and Pairs 305
Pair: Captain S. Rogerson, West Yorkshire Regiment, the author of Twelve Days and The Last of the Ebb, which recount his experiences during the Battles of the Somme and the Aisne
British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. S. Rogerson.) very fine (2) £70-£90
Sidney Rogerson was born on 22 October 1894, the son of the Rev. S. Rogerson, and was educated at Worksop College, Nottinghamshire, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. A member of he University O.T.C., he was commissioned into the 3rd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Reserve of Officers), and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 July 1916. Posted to “B” Company, 2nd Battalion, he saw action during the latter half of the Somme campaign, and in 1933 published an account of his experiences of the final stages of the Battle during November 1916, entitled ‘Twelve Days’.
As one reviewer wrote: ‘Sidney Rogerson has created in the 172 pages of this modest volume a picture that in its way is as compelling as Journey’s End. The fascination of the narrative lies in its obvious truth and sincerity. The author is no propagandist for the purified- by-the-flame school, nor is he purveyor to the ghoulish appetite of the horror seeker. He is content to tread the middle path of reason, setting forth what he saw and felt and understood in those last days when the Somme Offensive of 1916 “was spluttering out in a sea of mud”. He found that “life in the trenches was not all ghastliness ... it was a compound of many things: fright, boredom, humour, comradeship, tragedy, weariness, courage, and despair.” Perhaps the book can best be epitomised by an extract from Mr. Liddell Hart’s appreciative foreword: “It embraces no action that history is likely to deem worth recording; no epic fact of attack or defence ... yet this narrative of an insignificant sequence of days caught my interest at the outset and held it to the end”.’
Rogerson was advanced Captain, and was demobilised in 1919. He was subsequently employed in industry, and served as Honorary Colonel of the 44th (Home Counties) Infantry Division, Signals Regiment, Territorial Army in the early 1950s. As well as Twelve Days, he published in 1937 Last of the Ebb, his account of the Battle of he Aisne in 1918.
Sold with copied research. 306
Four: Captain I. M. B. Oliphant, Lancashire Fusiliers, attached 16th Rajputs
British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. I. M. B. Oliphant); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (Capt. I. M. B. Oliphant. 16-Rajputs.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Capt. I. M. B. Oliphant, Lan. Fus) rank and regiment officially corrected; nearly extremely fine and rare to regiment (4)
£300-£360
Sold with copied medal index card which confirms all four medals and shows that Lieutenant (acting Captain) Ian Maurice Bruce Oliphant first entered the war in the South Persia theatre in May 1918, 4th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, attached 16th Rajputs.
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Pair: Private R. Phillips, Royal Welsh Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (57979 Pte. R. Phillips. R.W. Fus.); together with a Royal Medico-Psychological Association Cross for Proficiency in Mental Nursing, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘R. Phillips.’, very fine
Pair: Private G. P. Spencer, Manchester Regiment British War and Victory Medals (25347 Pte. G. P. Spencer. Manch. R.) very fine
British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (89257 Dvr. G. R. S. Sanders. RA; WR-43747 Pnr. H. J. Stow R.E.) number officially corrected on first, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (7)
£70-£90
George Richard Steadman Sanders attested for the Royal Field Artillery and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 May 1915.
Harry James Stow was born in Kent in 1876 and served with the 324 Quarrying Company, Royal Engineers during the Great War. 308 Pair: Private J. H. Hollingworth, South Wales Borderers
British War and Victory Medals (42690 Pte. J. H. Hollingworth. S. Wals Bord.) mounted as worn, very fine or better Pair: Private R. Cheshire, Welsh Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (1997 Pte. R. Cheshire. Welsh R.) edge cut to VM, nearly very fine or better Pair: Private A. G. Evans, Welsh Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (49557 Pte. A. G. Evans. Welsh R.) minor edge bruising, very fine
Pair: Private T. Lupton, Monmouthshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (291757 Pte. T. Lupton Monmouth R.) generally very fine or better (8)
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