Single Campaign Medals x580
India General Service 1908-35 (2), 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (2129 Gnr. Dadu Khan, 22/Mtn. Batty.); 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (10096 Sep. Nahar Singh, 2-11 Sikh R.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945 -46 (11588 Rfn. Autar Singh Panwar, 1 Bn., R. Garh. Rif.) minor official correction to unit; India General Service 1936 -39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (212 Sepoy Kala, 1 Rd. Constn. Bn.) good very fine and better (4) £80-£120
581
India General Service 1908-35 (2), 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (26194 Dvr. Banka Khan, 6 P. Bty.); 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (MT-500043 Dvr. Bahadur Khan. I.M.T.) nearly very fine (2)
£70-£90 582 1914 Star (8451 Pte J. Capstick. R. Lanc: R.) good very fine £60-£80
James Capstick was born in Lancaster. He served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion, Royal Lancaster Regiment in the French theatre of war from 23 August 1914. Capstick subsequently transferred to the 6th (Service) Battalion, and was killed in action whilst serving with them in Mespotamia, 5 April 1916. Private Capstick is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.
583
1914 Star (Lieut: C. R. Ripley. York: & Lanc: R.) overall pitting, therefore good fine M.I.D. London Gazette 7 April 1915.
£100-£150
Lieutenant Charles Roger Ripley, 3rd (attd. 2nd) Battn. York and Lancaster Regiment, who was killed in action near Lille on the 22nd October, 1914, was the son of the late Sir Frederick Ripley, Bart., and Katherine Lady Ripley, of Earl’s Avenue, Folkestone, and a grandson of Sir Henry Ripley, Bedstone Court, Shropshire. He was born at Scarborough on the 13th November, 1888. Educated at Farnborough School and Cheltenham College, he entered the Army as 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment in June, 1910, becoming Lieutenant in June, 1913, and joined the 2nd Battalion for active service at the commencement of the war. Lieutenant Ripley was mentioned for his services in the Great War in Sir John French’s Despatch of the 14th January, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. (Bond of Sacrifice refers).
x584
1914 Star (No. 15 Lascar Bahadar Khan, Rawalpindi Arsenal.); 1914-15 Star (A. Thomson, Ch. Bkr., M.F.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (67437 Pte. J. Smith. Ches. R.) officially re-impressed naming; Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914 -18 (John Kershaw); Victory Medal (284179 Spr. H. Williams. R.E.); Bilingual Victory Medal 1914-19 (Gnr. A. O Phillipson S.A.F.A.) re-impressed naming; Territorial Force War Medal 1914-18 (454917 Sps [sic] W. P. Sohubnell. R.E.) renamed; edge cut to MMWM, generally nearly very fine (7)
£100-£140 585
British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (201282 W. P. Moyse. L.S. R.N.; J.33615 E. Munday. Boy 1 R.N.) first with fragments of named card box of issue, good very fine (2)
£70-£90
William Philip Moyse, of Jersey, joined the Royal Navy and was killed in action when H.M.S. Black Prince was sunk with all hands during a heavy bombardment by up to five German ships during the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Edward Munday, of Chobham, Surrey, joined the Royal Navy and was just 17 years old when he was killed in action when H.M.S. Indefatigable was hit and sunk during the “Run to the South” in the opening phase of the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. Indefatigable was the first ship sunk during the battle, and 1,017 men were lost with her. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
586
British War Medal 1914-20 (5) (J. 19714 E. Brown. Boy. 1. R.N.; J.88552. E. R. Lawton. Ord. R.N.; K. 21398. E. C. Marsh. L. Sto. R.N.; 2802T.S. J. W. Morrice Tr. R.N.R.; A.A. 233 C. Derry. A.B. R.N.V.R.) last in named card box of issue, generally very fine or better (5)
£70-£90
Edward Brown, of Haselbury, near Crewkerne in Somerset, was just 17 when he was serving on board H.M.S. Bulwark in 1914. Bulwark was with the 5th Battle Squadron based at Portland, Dorset at the start of the Great War, and was assigned to the reformed Channel Fleet to defend the English Channel and oversee the British Expeditionary Force en route to France in August 1914. In November of that year the 5th Battle Squadron transferred to Sheerness because of fears that German invasion of Britain was imminent. At just before 8.00am on 26 November 1914 a huge explosion ripped through Bulwark whilst she was moored near Kenthole Reach in the Medway Estuary, destroying the ship entirely with the loss of 741 men. A naval enquiry held two days later ruled out enemy action, either through torpedo or mine, as there was no evidence of an explosion against the outer hull. It was concluded that cordite charges, which were being re-stowed, were probably placed near boiler room bulkheads when the ship’s company was called for breakfast at 7.45am. These bulkheads then increased in temperature when the boilers were fired up, igniting the charges which, in turn, detonated nearby shells which then spread to the aft twelve-inch magazine which exploded ripping the ship apart. Brown was amongst those killed, and he is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Edward Lawton was born on 11 April 1900 in Portsmouth. He enlisted in the Royal Navy in May 1918 serving in H.M.S. Victory I (Portsmouth Barracks) until 11 November 1918, and then in H.M.S. Agincourt until 1 March 1919.
Edward Marsh of Sturry in Kent was on board H.M.S. Africa when she was attached to the 9th Cruiser Squadron for service in the Atlantic Patrol for convoy escort duties, accompanying ships between Sierra Leone and Cape Town in South Africa. It was whilst based in Sierra Leone in September 1918 that an Influenza epidemic struck the ship. On 9 September 476 men were reported as sick and one crew member died of pneumonia. Over the next few days a further 13 had died and on September 14 alone ten men died. Burial parties were being regularly sent ashore with the dead being buried in Freetown (King Tom) Cemetery. Such was the extent of the sickness that the only option was to quarantine the ship. By the time the quarantine was lifted over 50 crewmen had lost their lives including Edward Marsh who died on 15 September 1918.
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