Campaign Groups and Pairs 253
Three: Private D. S. Grieve, Scottish Horse 1914-15 Star (5824 Pte. D. S. Grieve. 2-Sco. H.); British War and Victory Medals (5824 Pte. D. S. Grieve. Sco. H.) very fine
Three: Lance Sergeant J. Campbell, 8th (Service), Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, who was killed in action during the first day of the Battle of Loos, 25 September 1915 1914-15 Star (S-2173. Cpl. J. Campbell. Gord. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (S-2173 Cpl. J. Campbell. Gord. Highrs.) very fine (6)
£90-£110
David S. Grieve served during the Great War with the Scottish Horse in Gallipoli from 1 September 1915. He subsequently transferred to the Machine Gun Corps.
James Campbell was born in Callander, Perthshire. He served during the Great War with the 8th (Service) Battalion, Gordon Highlanders in the French theatre of war from 10 May 1915. Campbell advanced to Lance Sergeant, and was killed in action on the Western Front, 25 September 1915. On the latter date the Battalion was engaged during the first day of the Battle of Loos. Lance Sergeant Campbell is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
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Three: Lieutenant J. P. Newbigging, Royal Garrison Artillery, late Bombardier, Royal Field Artillery, who died at home on 12 December 1918
1914-15 Star (542 Bmbr. J. P. Newbigging. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (542 Bmbr. J. P. Newbigging. R.A.) unit officially corrected on VM, and the medals all somewhat later issues; Memorial Plaque (2) (John Prentice Newbigging) all mounted for display in a large wooden display frame, good very fine and a scarce example of two Memorial Plaques being issued for the same man (5)
£140-£180
John Prentice Newbigging attested for the Royal Field Artillery and served as Bombardier during the Great War on the Western Front. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 16 March 1917, and subsequently served with them in the U.K. He died at home on 12 December 1918, and is buried in Winchester Old Cemetery, Hampshire.
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Three: Sergeant A. W. Hopkins, Royal Engineers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 10 June 1918
1914-15 Star (113499. Cpl. A. W. Hopkins, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (113499 Sjt. A. W. Hopkins. R.E.) with Record Office enclosure, in named card boxes of issue, in outer envelope addressed to ‘Mr. W. Hopkins, 56 Skeldergate, York’; Memorial Plaque (Alan Walter Hopkins) with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in card envelope and outer envelope similarly addressed; Memorial Scroll ‘Serjt Alan Walter Hopkins Royal Engineers’, extremely fine (5)
£260-£300
Alan Walter Hopkins was born in York and prior to the Great War was employed by the North Eastern Railway Company. He attested for the Northumberland Fusiliers soon after the outbreak of War, before transferring to the Royal Engineers, and served with ‘F’ Special Company on the Western Front from 14 September 1915. Advanced Sergeant, he was on the point of coming home in order to train for a commission when he was killed in action on 10 June 1918. In a letter written to his mother after his death, a comrade writes:
‘One of the men in our section became entangled in some barbed wire and was undoubtedly wounded also. At any rate he called out for help. Your son saw immediately the difficulty in which this man was placed. He did not hesitate a second, for realising the man’s danger, he ran towards him. Nothing is more certain than that your son knew full well the danger in which he was placing himself, for I assure you that to have done what he did required an extraordinary amount of courage. It was at this point your son was killed. That one could more nobly have given his life is impossible, and we realise that in the loss of your son we lose one who was at all times a man, and an excellent soldier.’
Hopkins is buried in Fosse No. 10 Communal Cemetery Extension, Sains-en-Gohelle, France.
Sold with an original letter home from the recipient, dated 4 October 1914, describing early training camp life; a letter written after his death by a fellow comrade; a large quantity of group and individual postcard photographs; and other ephemera.
256 A Great War ‘Salonika’ M.S.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant F. C. Jeffery, Royal Engineers
1914-15 Star (109689 Sjt. F. C. Jeffery. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (109689 Sjt. F. C. Jeffery. R.E.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (109689 Sjt: F. C. Jeffery. R.E.) minor official correction to surname; France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour, bronze, with crossed swords and wreath suspension, generally very fine or better (5) £140-£180
M.S.M. London Gazette 18 June 1917 (Salonika). Frederick C. Jeffery served during the Great War with the Royal Engineers in the Balkans from 18 December 1915.
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Three: Sapper E. Grimshaw, Royal Engineers, who died on the Western Front on 28 April 1917 1914-15 Star (59634 Spr. E. Grimshaw. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (59634 Spr. E. Grimshaw. R.E.) good very fine
Pair: Lieutenant A. Durst, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. Durst.) good very fine (5)
Sold with named Record Office enclosures.
Austin Durst was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 6 November 1915 and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from October 1916.
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Edward Grimshaw, of Anne’s-on-the-Sea, Lancashire, attested for the Royal Engineers and served with the 152nd Field Company during the Great War on the Western Front from 31 July 1915. He died on 28 April 1917, and is buried at Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery.
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