Single Campaign Medals 608


British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (1784 T-Sjt. C. H. Goode. 42 Bn. A.I.F.; 42601 Pte. A. Tuffen. N.Z.E.F.) latter officially re-impressed, generally very fine (2)


£80-£120


Cyril Hazlewood Goode attested for the Australian Imperial Force on 7 January 1916, initially with the 11th Depot Battalion before eventually joining the 2/42nd Battalion of the A.I.F. Having been promoted to Corporal (with rank of Acting Sergeant) he proceeded overseas, arriving in Southampton on 18 September 1917, and thence to France on 16 January 1918. He was reported missing on 12 August 1918 in the aftermath of the Battle of Amiens in which the 42 Battalion played a crucial role. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneax Memorial, France.


Robert Brooks (alias Arthur Tuffen) was born on 21 July 1878 in London. He attested for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Dunedin on 19 December (year left blank assumed 1916) and was posted overseas to Walton on Thames with the 1st Otago Regiment on 15 October 1917. He then moved to Hornchurch three days later and on to Codford on 16 November 1917. He was posted to France on 19 February 1918 and two weeks later joined the 1st Battalion, being posted to 4th Company. He received a head wound in action at La Signy Farm on 5 April. The Regimental History for this date states: ‘At 5 o'clock on the morning of April 5th the enemy commenced an artillery bombardment which must rank as one of the heaviest and most sustained the Regiment ever experienced. It extended along the whole Divisional front; and from guns of all calibres shells were poured down over the forward, support and rear positions as far back as Bus-Ies-Artois and Bertrancourt, almost without interruption from early morning until the late afternoon. It furiously searched every known and likely forward position, and in the back areas batteries and villages and roadways were pounded by guns of the heaviest calibres. Its extraordinary depth and intensity indicated an attempt by the enemy to renew the progress which had been so abruptly stayed a few days previously. It was not long before these attacks developed. At 8.15 a.m. reports were received from the 3rd Brigade that the enemy was attacking from the right of the Serre Road to the left boundary south of the Quarries. The attack was beaten off; but when renewed at 10 a.m. the enemy succeeded in capturing a short length of trench east of La Signy Farm, and the Farm itself, the small garrison of three sections of Rifle Brigade troops who comprised this advanced post being overwhelmed. At no other point did the enemy make any progress, and he suffered very severely from our artillery and machine gun fire, his casualties being estimated at 500 killed. Prisoners captured on the front of the left Brigade stated that their ultimate objective was Colincamps, also that many new batteries had been brought up for the attack. At 2 p.m. an attack was made against the right of the Divisional sector, but similarly failed, the only party of Germans who reached our line being taken prisoners. Under cover of this sustained bombardment attacks were launched by the enemy during the day along the whole Army front; but nowhere did he achieve more than very local successes. This may be said to have signalled the termination of the great German drive in the Battle of St. Quentin. The positions occupied by the Regiment in support had to weather the storm of this extraordinary and relentless artillery bombardment, and a large number of casualties were sustained among both officers and men. During the afternoon an enemy two-seater aeroplane was brought down by Lewis gun fire directed from one of the posts occupied by 4th Company of the 1st Battalion, and the pilot and observer made prisoners. Rain commenced to fall late in the afternoon, after which the situation became comparatively quiet.’


Having been treated in the field, Tuffen was transported to England and was in hospital at Walton for over a month. He was then transferred to Hornchurch and back to Codford shortly after that. By August he was deemed fit enough to return to duty and was posted to the Reserve Brigade at Sling Camp, heading back to France on 10 October 1918 and joining his unit on 30 October. He was returned to the UK in February 1919 and departed for home in May aboard S.S Chupra, arriving back in New Zealand on 28 July 1919. He was discharged on 25 August 1919 and was to die, on 29 December 1919, as a result of the wounds he received the year before. He is buried in Dunedin (Anderson’s Bay) Cemetery.


Tuffen’s service papers indicate that he had lost the second finger of his right hand through an accident at some point but otherwise he was classified as “Fit Class A”. Also indicated is the fact that Arthur Tuffen was actually an alias, with his real name being Robert Brooks. He lists his parents as being Robert Tuffen and Mary Ann Tuffen, although his sister is listed as Miss Ellen Brooks.


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Victory Medal 1914-19 (4) (305945 E. Coombes. Sto. 1. R.N.; 236455 E. W. Hancock. Sig. R.N.; J.21931 A. H.Holt. Boy 1 R.N.; 203605 C. Macarthur. L.S. R.N.) very fine or better (4)


£70-£90


Edwin Coombes,of Torquay, Devon was born on 28 January 1885 and first joined the Royal Navy in 1904. He served at H.M.S. Vivid II (Devonport) initially and then went to sea in H.M.S. Monmouth. He was on board H.M.S. Amphion, flotilla leader defending the eastern approaches of the English Channel, when she struck a mine on 6 August 1914 off the Thames Estuary, thus becoming the first Royal Navy ship to be sunk during the Great War. The mine had previously been laid by the SMS Königin Luise which the Amphion had engaged the day before. The Amphion’s Captain Cecil Fox wrongly believed that the Königin Luise had been laying mines further east; tragically he was mistaken and at 6.35am his vessel struck one of the mines, going down in 15 minutes with the loss of 132 crew. Coombes was amongst those killed, and is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.


Ernest William Hancock, a grocer’s assistant from Chelsea, was born on 1 November 1889 and enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1907 serving at a variety of training and shore establishments before going to sea in H.M.S. Black Prince. He was on board the cruiser H.M.S. Cressy when she was struck by a torpedo launched by Submarine U-9 on 22 September 1914 in an attack that saw Cressy and her two sister ships Aboukir and Hogue sunk when they were patrolling in the “Broad Fourteens” without their destroyer escort which had been forced to shelter due to bad weather. In total over 1,450 British sailors were lost including 560 from Cressy. Hancock was amongst those killed and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.


Arthur Horace Holt, of Brighton, was born on 4 November 1897 and enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1913. He was serving in H.M.S. Bulwark from November of that year until she was sunk on 26 November 1914. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.


Christopher MacArthur was born in Govan in Lanarkshire on 6 August 1881 and first enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1899, re-enlisting in 1911. He was serving in H.M.S. Bulwark when she was sunk on 26 November 1914 and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.


H.M.S. Bulwark was with the 5th Battle Squadron based at Portland, Dorset at the start of the Great War. She 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 of which only 30 or so were recovered for burial. 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.


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