A Fine Collection of Medals to the South Wales Borderers 122 British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. W. M. Mason) very fine £50-£70


William Miles Mason was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers in October 1914. He advanced to Lieutenant in April 1915, and served with the Battalion in Gallipoli from 24 September 1915.


Mason served with the Battalion as part of the 87th Brigade, 29th Division on the Somme, July - November 1916. He was wounded in action during the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, when the Battalion was engaged in the attack on Beaumont-Hamel, ‘Objective Y Ravine - left start positions as zero - soon cut down by machine gun bullets, most in leaving waves would not get much further than their own wire. Those that did reach German line were quickly killed. Casualties - 372.’ (British Battalions on the Somme by R. Westlake refers).


The Regimental History gives:


‘The 2nd S.W.B. had not been the heaviest hit battalion in the Division, yet its casualty list included 15 of the 21 officers and 384 of the 578 men engaged in the attack, 235 of them killed and missing. There was little chance that any “missing” might later be reported as prisoners; scarce one had reached the enemy’s lines, and “missing” merely meant that a man had fallen too far out for his body to be recovered. Of the officers, Captains Blake, Hughes and McLaren, Lieutenant H. P. Evans, Second Lieutenants Bowyer, Don, Karran, Murray, Rice, Robinson and Wells had been killed. Captain Somerville and Lieutenant Fowkes, Kelly and Mason could be reckoned fortunate in being merely wounded.’


123


India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (3908055 Pte. W. T. Gibbs. S. Wales Bord.) very fine


£100-£140


W. T. Gibbs originally served with the South Wales Borderers before transferring to the 1st Battalion, Dorset Regiment. He served during the Second War and was wounded in action in Sicily, 8 September 1943. Gibbs leg was amputated as a consequence of his wounds.


For the recipient’s father’s medals, see Lot 92.


124


General Service 1962-2007, 3 clasps, Borneo, South Arabia, Northern Ireland (24040983 Pte. D. J. Rousen. SWB.) last two clasps loose on riband as issued, very fine


£160-£200


D. J. Rousen served with ‘D’ Company, 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers in 1965, with ‘B’ Company the following year, and with ‘C’ Company the year after that. He had advanced to Lance-Corporal by 1972.


Sold with photocopies from Regimental Journal in which the recipient is listed.


125


Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (Capt. W. A. Sewell. S.W.B.) good very fine


£80-£120


Wilfred Alexander Sewell was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the South Wales Borderers in September 1940. He advanced to Captain in January 1943, and to Major in June 1944.


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