Single Campaign Medals 596
British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (
2.Lieut. B. Crone; 242305 Pte. C. Bishop. Lan. Fus.; 20274 Pte. A. Bartlett. E. Lan. R.) generally very fine (3)
£60-£80
Bertram John Fenwick Crone, of Brighton, was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) and served with the 7th (Service) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He died of wounds on 13 September 1916; the Battalion had been in action throughout the summer on the Somme. He is buried in Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France.
Charles Bishop, of Liverpool, attested for the Lancashire Fusiliers and served with the 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 6 September 1917 during the third battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) when the battalion was heavily involved in the attack on Borry Farm, sustaining multiple casualties. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Albert Bartlett originally attested for the 3rd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers (number 6438) before transferring to the East Lancashire Regiment. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 28 April 1915, and was killed in action on 18 May 1915 during the Second battle of Ypres. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
597
British War Medal 1914-20 (5) (Lieut. F. L. Buttler; 31745 Pte. L. Hutchings. R. War. R.; 306198 Pte. G. C. Rose. R. War. R.; 31781 Pte. A. D. Pearson. Worc. R.; 40413 A. Sjt. S. Devon. N. Staff. R.) rank officially corrected on last, generally very fine (5)
£100-£140 Frank Leslie Buttler served during the Great War as a Lieutenant with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
Leslie Hutchings attested for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and served with them as part of the Warwickshire Brigade, South Midland Division, during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 March 1915. He was killed in action with the 1/7th Battalion on 25 June 1915 and is buried in Rifle House Cemetery, France.
George Charles Rose attested for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment at Aston in Birmingham on 14 June 1915. He served overseas with the 10th (Service) Battalion from 13 May 1917 and was killed in action on 12 April 1918 during the Battle of the Lys. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, France.
Alan Dobing Pearson, of Sheffield, was serving with the 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment when he was killed in action on 21 May 1917 during the battle of Arras. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.
Samuel Devon, of Burslem, Staffordshire, served during the Great War as an Acting Sergeant with the 8th Battalion, North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s) Regiment. He was killed in action on 19 November 1916 during the attack on Grandcourt as part of the battle of Ancre, when the 8th Battalion was cut off and most either killed or captured, and is buried at Grandcourt Road Cemetery, Grandcourt, France. Devon’s medal index card indicates that his medals were returned and then reissued with the correct rank of
A.Sjt in 1922. Sold with original named card box of issue and transmittal slip.
598
The British War Medal awarded to Private G. R. Seddon, 18th (2nd City Pals) Battalion, Liverpool Regiment, who was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916
British War Medal 1914-20 (16870 Pte. G. R. Seddon. L’pool R.) minor edge nicks, otherwise nearly extremely fine £100-£140
George Richard Seddon, a native of Fazakerley in North Liverpool, attested for the King’s (Liverpool Regiment) City Battalion (Liverpool Pals) on 1 September 1914 just two days after the Battalion was formed in Liverpool by Lord Derby, and served with the 18th (2nd City Pals) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 November 1915. He was killed in action on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, on which date the battalion suffered over 500 casualties.
As part of the 30th Division, the 18th Battalion, alongside other Liverpool Pals in the 17th and 20th Battalions, were in the first wave of attacking troops on the right of the British line at Maricourt. Having been supported by intense French artillery fire the 17th and 20th were able to move forward quite quickly and overrun their objectives with little opposition, but the 18th, faced with a German machine gun to their left at the Glatz Redoubt did not fare so well and took heavy casualties before a bombing party was able to silence it. Seddon was amongst those killed; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
599
British War Medal 1914-20 (6) (306846 Pte. W. Ellison. L’pool R.; 95095 Pte. P. Zukanckas. L’pool R.; 19030 Pte. R. Peebles. R.S. Fus.; 62420 Pte. G. T. Woodward. Ches. R.; 34699 Pte. J. Woodhouse. Manch. R.; 2236 Pte. J. Doyle. Manch. R.) attempted erasure of naming to last, suspension slack on some, otherwise generally nearly very fine (6)
£80-£120
William Ellison, of Edge Hill, Liverpool, attested for the King’s (Liverpool Regiment) ands served with the 1/7th (Territorial) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 15 April 1918, when the Battalion was heavily involved in the fighting during the Battle of the Lys, in particular at the Battle of Hazebrouck (12-15 April). He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.
Robert Peebles, of Maryhill, Glasgow, attested for the Royal Scots Fusiliers and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 10 May 1918, and is buried in the Sandpits British Cemetery, Fouquereuil, France.
George Thomas Woodward, a railway porter from Holmes Chapel in Crewe, attested for the Cheshire Regiment in April 1917, and served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from April 1918. He died during the Spanish influenza epidemic on 18 December 1918 and is buried in Dullens Communal Cemetery Extension.
James Woodhouse, of Prestwich, Lancashire, attested for the Manchester Regiment and served with the 18th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He died on 29 August 1917 and is buried in the Tournai Communal Cemetery Allied Extension.
Joseph Doyle attested for the Manchester Regiment before being posted to the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment as number 29268, and served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on April 10 1918 during the Battle of the Lys where the battalion, along with other members of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division, came under a heavy German attack that included extensive use of mustard gas. He is buried in the Croix-Du-Bac Cemetery, France.
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