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Pair: Captain R. S. Dudley, Indian Army Reserve of Officers British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. R. S. Dudley.) mounted for display purposes with a partially erased 1914-15 Star, edge bruise to BWM, very fine
British War Medal 1914-20 (210892 A. Sjt. F. G. Smith. 98-Can. Inf.) together with two collar titles and lapel badge; Victory Medal 1914-19 (147918 Sjt. W. E. Jones. 78-Can. Inf.) BWM polished and cleaned, therefore good fine, the VM better (5)
£70-£90 M.I.D. London Gazette 12 March 1918: ‘Dudley, Lt. R.S., I.A.R.O. ‘For distinguished and gallant services and devotion to duty with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force.’
Fred George Smith was born in London on 1 January 1888, and having emigrated to Canada joined the 44th Regiment, Canadian Militia. He attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 9 November 1915, and served with the 98th Lincoln and Welland Battalion overseas during the Great War. He was discharged at Toronto on 23 December 1918. Sold with copied service records.
William Edward Jones attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force, and served with the 78th Battalion overseas during the Great War. He was killed in action on the Western Front on 11 August 1918; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial, France.
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Six: Lieutenant R. N. W. Jeff, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, who flew as a Bristol F.2b Observer with 48 (Fighter) Squadron, and was forced to land behind enemy lines on the Western Front, 11 August 1917, where he and his pilot were taken prisoner of war by the Germans.
British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. N. W. Jeff. R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; South Africa Medal for War Service, last four officially impressed ‘87554 R. N. W. Jeff’, mounted as originally worn, with frayed ribands, generally very fine or better (6)
£300-£400 Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2010.
Robert Nimmo Williamson Jeff was born in Linlithgow, Scotland in 1898, and was educated at Rochester Mathematical School and Sheffield Central Secondary School. Jeff then studied at Sheffield and Liverpool Universities, and subsequently resided in ‘Danesfield’, New Ferry, Cheshire. He enlisted in the Artists Rifles in October 1916, before joining the Royal Flying Corps as a Cadet in December of the same year. Jeff was commissioned Second Lieutenant in April 1917, and after training as an Observer was posted for operational flying with 48 Squadron (Bristol F.2b’s) from Bellevue in May 1917.
On 20 May 1917, as a 2nd Lieutenant and Observer, serving with No. 48 Squadron, his Bristol F.2b, flown by Captain R. Raymond- Barker, was in combat with a German Albatros D.III which was last seen going down out of control over Brebières.
On 11 August 1917, as a 2nd Lieutenant and Observer, serving with No. 48 Squadron, his Bristol F.2b, piloted by 2nd Lieutenant G. College, on a photo-reconnaissance flight to Ostende, was forced to land on enemy held territory and the two were made prisoners-of- war. Jeff was held in a POW camp in Germany, was repatriated 14 December 1918, and demobilised in May 1919.
After the war Jeff was employed by the Hydraulic Engineer Company Ltd Chester. Lieutenant Jeff later saw service with South African Forces during the Second World War.
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Pair: Aircraftman 3rd Class A. Leng, Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (51928. 3.A.M. A. Leng. R.A.F.) light contact marks, nearly very fine
Victory Medal 1914-19 (103115. 1.A.M. E. E. Garr. R.A.F.) good very fine (3) 291 Pair: Corporal H. F. Habner, 25th Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force
British War and Victory Medals (419 Cpl. H. F. Habner. 25 MG. Coy. A.I.F.) together with two gold tribute medals, the first shield shaped with monogram HFH, the reverse inscribed ‘For duty bravely done - from Y.K.S.’; the second circular, inscribed within a wreath ‘Cpl. H. F. Habner, 5th Machine Gun Coy’, the reverse inscribed ‘In Recognition of 3 Years Active Service Abroad in the Great World War 1914-1919 from Dublin Friends’, both marked 9-carat and with small rings for suspension, nearly extremely fine (4)
£200-£260
Harold Frederick Habner was born at Dublin, South Australia, and enlisted into the 8th M.G. Coy. at Adelaide, South Australia, on 3 June 1916, aged 28 years 9 months, a packer by trade. He embarked at Melbourne per the T.S. Port Lincoln on 20 October 1916. In England he was transferred to 5th Division M.G. Coy. and proceeded overseas to France on 7 September 1917.
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Pair: Orderly A. Vandyke, French Red Cross, later Royal West Kent Regiment, who was wounded at the Battle of Flers- Courcelette on 15 September 1916
British War and Victory Medals (A. Vandyke.) very fine (2) Sold with copied Medal Index Card and medal roll extract. 293 Pair: Leading Stewart A. Williams, Royal Navy
British War Medal 1914-20 (L. 11278 A. Williams. B. Svt. R.N.); Royal Navy. L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (L. 11278 S. Williams. L. Std. H.M.S. Frobisher.) minor edge bruise to first, very fine (2)
£50-£70
Alfred Williams, who was born in Denbigh on 11 July 1902, remained in naval service after the Great War and was a Petty Officer (Steward) on H.M.S. Wildfire from 4 August 1939; Pembroke 2 from 4 May 1940 and Carlisle from 4 June 1941. He was invalided on 5 October 1945.
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Albert Vandyke joined the French Red Cross and served with them during the Great War in France from March 1915 (not entitled to a 1914-15 Star). He subsequently attested for the Royal West Kent Regiment and served with both the 11th and 10th Battalions, being wounded at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on 15 September 1916.
£40-£50
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