Single Campaign Medals 603
British War Medal 1914-20 (5) (3102 Pte. H. A. Fish. 5-Lond. R.; 3266 Pte. R. F. Steward. 5-Lond. R.; 1730 Pte. G. W. Gullock 6-Lond. R.; 1945 Sjt. W. E. Rattee. 6-Lond. R.; 4938 Pte. R. W. Bridewell. 8-Lond. R.) suspension broken on Gullock’s medal; attempted erasure of last, therefore good fine or better (5)
£70-£90
Harold Arthur Fish, of Highbury, London, originally attested for the 5th Battalion London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade), before transferring to the 2/16th Battalion (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) with numbers 8548 and 554442. He was killed in action whilst serving with this latter unit in Greece on 18 March 1917, and is buried in the Karasouli Military Cemetery, Greece.
Reginald Frank Steward, of Herne Hill, London, attested for the 5th Battalion London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade), and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front. He died of wounds on 23 August 1917 and is buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France.
George W. Gullock attested for the 6th Battalion London Regiment (City of London Rifles) and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 18 March 1915. He would have served with them at Loos, on the Vimy Ridge, and on the Somme. It was on the Ypres Salient on 20 February 1917 that the battalion, along with sappers from the 520 Company Royal Engineers and the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company, mounted a large trench. The raid was, by and large, a great success: it secured a record number of prisoners and numerous dugouts and emplacements were destroyed. Gullock, however, never made it back and he was listed as ‘presumed dead’. His body was never recovered and, having no known grave, he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Walter Edward Rattee attested for the 1/6th Battalion London Regiment (City of London Rifles) and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 18 March 1915. He was killed in action on the Somme, whilst with the 47th Division attacking High Wood during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, on 15 September 1916. On that day the 1/6th attacked at 8.20am in the third wave, they were tasked with taking the Flers line; however, the failure of the previous waves to clear High Wood meant that a German machine gun was able to rake across the 1/6th and ‘whole waves of men were mown down in line’. Although a few men reached the Flers Line it could not be held, with the survivors (just two officers and 100 men, half of whom had come up from the transport lines) had to consolidate a position known as the Cough Drop, a group of German trenches in a valley west of Flers. Rattee was amongst those killed in action; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Robert William Bridewell, from Devizes, Wiltshire, attested for the 8th Battalion, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles), and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 15 September 1916, on which date the Post Office Rifles were with the 47th Division and in the second wave of the attack on High Wood during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette; whilst they did manage to reach the German lines they were met with heavy machine gun fire and suffered significant casualties. Bridewell has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
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British War Medal 1914-20 (5) (5178. Pte. A. W. Clarke 20-Lond. R.; 3039 Pte. D. W. Dickinson. 20-Lond. R.; 5961 Pte. A. H. Paige. 20-Lond. R.; 6828 Pte. W. C. Hayward. 21-Lond. R.; R. 3588 Pte. I. Pile. 21-Lond. R.) nearly very fine and better (5)
£100-£140
Arthur William Clarke, of New Cross, London, was killed in action on the Somme on 1 October 1916 whilst serving with the 1/20th (Blackheath and Woolwich) Battalion, London Regiment on the Somme during the capture of Eaucourt l'Abbaye. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
David William Dickinson, of Plumstead, London, landed in France on 9 March 1915 with the 1/20th (Blackheath and Woolwich) Battalion, London Regiment as part of the 5th London Brigade, and was killed in action on 28 May 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, France.
Alfred Henry Paige, of Croydon, Surrey was killed in action on 15 September 1916 whilst serving with the 1/20th (Blackheath and Woolwich) Battalion, London Regiment, on the opening day of the battle of Flers-Courcelette on the Somme, where the 47th Division, of which the 1/20th were a part, were tasked with the Capture of High Wood, an operation which saw the division suffer over 4,500 casualties. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Walter Cyril Hayward enlisted on 9 March 1914 and served with the 1/21st (East Surrey Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment during the Great War. He was discharged, wounded, on 12 April 1919, and received a Silver War Badge no. 453190.
Ivor Pile, originally of Neath, Glamorgan, attested for the Territorial Force on 21 April 1915 to serve with the 1/21st (East Surrey Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment. He sailed for France with them on 9 October 1915 and was killed in action during the Battle of Vimy Ridge on 23 May 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.
605
British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (Capt. A. D. Makins. R.A.F.; 2. Lieut G. Jennings. R.A.F.; 212076 Cpl. T. C. Taylor. R.A. F.) generally very fine (3)
£100-£140
Arthur Makins first served as a Corporal (number 1522) with the 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons) and sailed with them to Egypt on 29 September 1914 arriving on 5 November 1914 (entitled to the 1914-15 Star as Corporal). He would have served with them at Gallipoli and at some point was promoted to Staff Quarter Master Sergeant with regimental number 115056. He was commissioned into the 3/1st Hertfordshire Yeomanry on 28 July 1916, and joined the Royal Flying Corps on 17 February 1917 when the Hertfordshire Yeomanry was absorbed into the 6th Reserve Cavalry Regiment at Tidworth; he subsequently rose to the rank of Captain with the Royal Air Force.
Thomas Cyril Taylor of Meltham, near Huddersfield in Yorkshire was born on 9 August 1892 joining the Royal Navy on 17 February 1916 as an Air Mechanic 1st Grade with the Royal Naval Air Service, and served during the Great War at a variety of shore establishments including H.M.S. Daedalus (the R.N.A.S. Air Station at Lee-on-Solent). He was promoted to Leading Mechanic on 1 February 1918 and then discharged from the Royal Navy on 31 March 1918 to join the newly formed Royal Air Force the following day, being promoted to Corporal Mechanic and serving first with 4 Squadron and then with 6 Squadron. He was to die whilst on leave on 29 November 1918 and is commemorated on a special memorial in the Meltham Methodist Chapel Yard.
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