Single Campaign Medals 563 564
Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04, bronze issue (Imam Ali. 18/(P.W.O.) Tiwana Lrs.) nearly very fine and scarce
£180-£220
Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (200320 W. C. Patton, A.B. H.M.S. Hyacinth:) good very fine
£200-£240
William Campbell Patton was born in Fulwood, Lancashire, on 18 May 1883 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 30 June 1898. Advanced Able Seaman on 1 June 1902, he served aboard various warships as a qualified Gunner, before joining the cruiser H. M.S. Hyacinth on 27 March 1909, seeing active service during the operations on and off the coast of Somaliland against the ‘Mad Mullah’. He saw further service in the anti-gun smuggling operations in the Persian Gulf from 19 October 1909 until 2 June 1911 (also entitled to a Naval General Service Medal with clasp Persian Gulf), before joining the Royal Naval Reserve on 7 June 1913.
Patton was recalled to the Service on 5 August 1914, and was posted to the Destroyer H.M.S. Albacore, proceeding in her to Scapa Flow to join the local patrol flotilla protecting the anchorage of the Grand Fleet. He was killed in action on 9 March 1917, when Albacore struck a mine laid by the German submarine UC-44 off Kirkwall, which resulted in her bow being blown off with the loss of 17 lives. Patton is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
Sold with copied record of service; a photographic image of H.M.S. Albacore after the explosion; and copied research. 565 566 x567 568 x569 Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (2788 Pte. Mir Ahmad. 127 Baluch L.I.) very fine £60-£80
Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1920 (Srvt. Asmani Saidi 6-K.A. Rif.) two edge bruises, otherwise good very fine
£160-£200 Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (22957452. Pte. D. Dennis. Devon.) edge bruising, nearly very fine £70-£90 Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (22604783 Pte. G. Scott. B.W.) edge bruise, otherwise very fine £60-£80
Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (Chief Officer. F. H. Illet.) first initial and surname officially corrected; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (19751 Sgt. G A Monro, S&T) latter with officially re- impressed naming; scratch to obverse field of first; edge bruise to latter, otherwise good very fine (2)
£60-£80 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (T.P.R. Stanley Karii.) good very fine Tibet 1903-04, no clasp, bronze issue (Cooly Bahadur Chettri. S & T. Corps) nearly extremely fine Tibet 1903-04, no clasp, bronze issue (Cooly Dhanman Rai S & T Corps) nearly extremely fine £50-£70 £100-£120 £100-£120
Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (2660 Lance Naick Ponnusami 12 Co. 2nd Q.O. S. & M.) official correction to unit, otherwise nearly extremely fine
£300-£360 Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (977 Sepoy Gul Mir 2d M.P.) nearly very fine Natal 1906, no clasp (Pte: W. H. Smithers, Lr. Tugela Mil. Res.) nearly extremely fine Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Pte. W. Heath, Natal Rangers.) very fine £280-£320 £80-£100 £140-£180
India General Service 1908-35 (2), 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (1176 H. Mohamed Hussain 7th Mule Corps); 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (M-096063 Dvr. Kaim Din. 58 M.C.) nearly very fine (2)
£80-£100
India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Abor 1911-12, bronze issue (476 Cooly Saharman Limbu No 1 Gurkhali Carr. Corps.) good very fine
£180-£220
India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (40836 Pte G. R. Virgo, Hamps. R.) light contact marks, very fine
£200-£300 M.M. London Gazette 15 January 1920 (India).
George Richard Virgo was a native of Aldershot. He served during the Great War with the Hampshire Regiment (entitled to BWM and VM). Virgo served with 1/6th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment attached 1st Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment as part of the Baluchistan Force on the North West Frontier, May - September 1919. Virgo distinguished himself and was awarded one of 42 Military Medals for the Third Afghan War, his being unique to the Hampshire Regiment.
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