Campaign Groups and Pairs 139
Pair: Trooper W. H. Waller, Rhodesia Regiment, late Cape Town Highlanders
Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (Pte. W. H. Waller. C. T. Highdrs.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Rhodesia (357 Tpr: W. H. Waller. Rhodesia Regt.) very fine (2)
£400-£500 Approximately 111 Cape of Good Hope General Service medals with clasp Bechuanaland awarded to the Cape Town Highlanders. 140 Three: Private W. Wakefield, Northumberland Fusiliers
Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (4247. Pte. W. Wakefield. 1/Norths.: Fus:); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Orange Free State (4247 Pte. W. Wakefield, North’d: Fus:); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (4247 Pte. W. J. Wakefield. 5th. Fusers.) regimentally engraved naming, good very fine (3) £400-£500
141 Pair: Private A. Underwood, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3621. Pte. A. Underwood. 1/R. War: R.) suspension claw re-affixed; Khedive’s Sudan 1896 -1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (No. 3621 Pte. A. Underwood 1st. R. War, R. 1898.) contemporarily engraved naming, edge bruising and light contact marks, very fine (2)
£240-£280 142 Pair: Private A. Vokes, 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade
Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3032. Pte. A. Vokes. 2/R. Bde.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed as issued, good very fine (2)
£280-£320 143
Five: Engine Room Artificer R. Banks, Royal Navy, attached Royal Australian Navy, who died of disease on active service on 27 February 1915
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (R. Banks, E.R.A. H.M.S. Forte.); 1914-15 Star (268806 R. Banks, E.R.A.1 R. N.); British War and Victory Medals (268806 R. Banks. E.R.A.1 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (268806 Robert Banks, E.R.A. 1Cl, H.M.S. Ganges.); Memorial Plaque (Robert Banks) the plaque heavily polished and mounted on a wooden plinth, with screws at 3 and 9 o’clock; edge bruising and contact marks to the QSA and LS&GC, these nearly very fine, the Great War trio nearly extremely fine (6)
£240-£280
Robert Banks was born in Hull, Yorkshire, on 28 December 1872, and joined the Royal Navy as an Engine Room Artificer 4th Class on 16 July 1896. He transferred to H.M.S. Forte on 30 April 1899, and served in her during the Boer War, being promoted Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class on 9 November 1899. Advanced Engine Room Artificer 1st Class on 5 November 1908, he served during the Great War attached to the Royal Australian Navy, serving in H.M.A.S. Encounter, and died of Stoke Adams Disease at Suva on 27 February 1915. He is buried in Suva Old Cemetery, Fiji.
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Seven: Leading Seaman J. Huntlea, Royal Navy, who served with the Royal Observer Corps on the Home Front during the Second World War
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (J. Huntlea. Ord. H.M.S. Rambler); 1914-15 Star (187687, J. Huntlea, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (187687 J. Huntlea. L.S. R.N.); Defence Medal (Obs: J. Huntlea R.O.C.), privately impressed; Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (187687 (Ch. B. 3658) J. Huntlea. L.S. R.F.R.) officially re- impressed naming; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal,
G.VI.R., 1st issue (Joseph Huntlea.), edge knocks and minor contact marks, otherwise very fine and better (7)
£240-£280
Joseph Huntlea was born in Bideford, Devon, on 5 October 1880, and entered naval service as a Boy 2nd Class on 27 February 1896, serving in H.M.S. Impregnable. He served in Rambler during the Boer War, seeing promotion to Ordinary Seaman in October 1898 and Able Seaman in February 1901. Enrolling in the Royal Fleet Reserve in January 1906, he re-engaged for wartime service on 2 August 1914 as an Able Seaman in H.M.S. Aboukir; later serving in shore bases and in H.M.S. St George from 15 November 1915 to 30 April 1919, he was promoted to Leading Seaman on 27 June 1918. Demobilised in September 1919, he saw service on the Home Front during the Second War as member of the Royal Observer Corps. Initial observers were regarded as members of the Special Constabulary, which, perhaps, explains Huntlea’s Long Service Medal.
145 Three: Trooper W. G. Lockey, Imperial Yeomanry, later Mercantile Marine
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (27047 Tpr: W. G. Lockey. 41st. Coy. Imp. Yeo.); British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (William G. Lockey.) edge nick to first, very fine (3) £100-£140
William G. Lockey served with the 41st (Hampshire) Company, 12th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War.
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