Campaign Groups and Pairs x333 Four: Major C. E. Norris, Royal Air Force, late Assistant Paymaster, Royal Naval Reserve
1914-15 Star (Asst. Payr. C. E. Norris. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Major C. E. Norris. R.A.F.); Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, G.V.R., reverse hallmarked London 1928, mounted as worn, good very fine (4)
£180-£220
Clarence Edgar Norris was appointed Assistant Paymaster in the Royal Naval Reserve on 29 November 1904, and was serving in this rank when mobilised on the outbreak of war. He was posted for service with the Royal Naval Air Service on 20 June 1916, and then saw service at Dunkirk, being promoted to Staff Paymaster with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 7 May 1917. He then transferred to the Royal Air Force upon its formation in April 1918 as a Major with the Administrative Branch, and was eventually transferred to the Unemployed List on 8 March 1919. He was awarded the Royal Naval Reserve Decoration in the London Gazette of 9 January 1920.
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Four: Artificer Engineer A. J. Daniels, Royal Navy, who survived the sinking of H.M.S. Warrior at the Battle of Jutland, 1 June 1916
1914-15 Star (Art. Eng. A. J. Daniells. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Art. Eng. A. J. Daniells. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (269428 A. J. Daniells, C.E.R.A. 2Cl, H.M.S. Antrim:) good very fine (4)
£140-£180
A. J. Daniells was appointed Artificer Engineer in H.M.S. Black Prince on 2 January 1914, and transferred to H.M.S. Warrior on 27 October 1914. He served in Warrior during the Great War, and was present at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. At Jutland the armoured cruisers H.M.S. Defence and Warrior, part of the 1st Cruiser Squadron, were closing with the disabled German light cruiser Wiesbaden, when they came under concentrated fire from the battlecruiser Derfflinger and four battleships at less than 8,000 yards. Defence blew up and Warrior was heavily damaged and was only saved from from further punishment when the German ships switched their fire to the more tempting target in the form of the battleship Warspite whose steering had become jammed. Badly damaged, Warrior was able to make her way out of the battle zone and was eventually taken in tow by the seaplane carrier Engadine who took off her surviving crew. However, the ship could not be saved and she was abandoned the next day and subsequently foundered, with the loss of 70 lives. Daniells was one of the survivors- he subsequently served as an Artificer Engineer in H.M.S. Ossory, before being appointed Warrant Artificer in H.M.S. Midge in October 1919.
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Four: Master at Arms G. E. Williams, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (310535, G. E. Williams, S.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (310535 G. E. Williams. S.P.O. R. N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (310535. G.E. Williams, R.P.O. H.M.S. Victory.) contact marks, fine or better (4)
£100-£140
George Edwin Williams was born at Portsea, Hampshire in April 1888 and enlisted into the Royal Navy in August 1906 as a Stoker Second Class. He served with numerous ships including H.M.S. Nelson, Gladiator, Argonaut and Glasgow. During the Great War, he saw operational service aboard the destroyer H.M.S. Greyhound, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in August 1921 while serving as a Regulating Petty Officer at the shore establishment, H.M.S. Victory. He was discharged with a pension in August 1928, having attained the rate of Master at Arms.
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Four: Chief Petty Officer 1st Class E. Keene, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. Butterfly with the Tigris Gunboat Flotilla during the Great War
1914-15 Star (157966 E. Keene. C.P.O. 1, R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (157966 E. Keene. C.P.O. 1 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C.,
E.VII.R. (157966 Edward Keene, P.O.1 Cl, H.M.S. Achilles.); Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Edward Keene H.M.S. “Albion” Oct: 17, 1903) very fine and better (4)
£300-£400
R.H.S. Bronze Medal (Case No. 33062): Edward Keene, Petty Officer 1st Class RN, saved a stoker from drowning off Genson, on the 17th October 1903.
The Hampshire Telegraph, 23 January 1904, gives further details: ‘The Humane Society have awarded a medal to Edward Keene, Petty Officer, H.M.S. Albion, for plunging overboard at sea on October 17th and saving a stoker who was washed overboard from a picket boat.’
Edward Keene was born on 22 June 1875 at Chertsey, Surrey and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 21 October 1890. He served in the battleships H.M.S. Anson, May 1892 to September 1893, and H.M.S. Empress of India September 1893 to May 1895, advancing to Able Seaman on 1 August 1894. At the time of his valiant lifesaving action in 1903 he was serving in the pre-dreadnought battleship H.M.S. Albion and he was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 23 June 1908 while he was in the armoured cruiser H.M.S.
Achilles.Keene received promotion to Chief Petty Officer 1st Class on 10 October 1911 and was on the East Indies Station during the Great War. Borne on the books of the Persian Gulf base ships H.M.S. Alert and H.M.S. Dalhousie, he served from 22 November 1915 to 22 July 1917 on H.M. Gunboat Butterfly, a small but well armed Fly-class river gunboat designed specifically to patrol the Tigris during the Mesopotamian Campaign. He was shore demobilised on 3 March 1919.
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Six: Supply Chief Petty Officer H. A. Blackman, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (M.6045, H. A. Blackman. S.S.A., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.6045 H. A. Blackman. L.V.A.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, unnamed as issued, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. H. A. Blackman, 58 Meadowview Rd., Sompting, Worthing, Sussex.’ with Admiralty enclosure slip; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.6045 H. A. Blackman. S.C.P.O. H.M.S. Fisguard,) the Great War and Long Service awards heavily polished, therefore fine or better, the Second War awards nearly extremely fine (6)
£80-£120
Horace Archibald Blackman was born at Kilmuckridge, Ireland in 1894 and joined the Royal Navy as a Ship Steward’s Assistant on 9 June 1913. He was advanced Leading Victualling Assistant on 28 February 1918 and Supply Chief Petty Officer while in H.M.S. Lupin on 14 January 1926. His Long Service and Good Conduct Medal was issued to H.M.S. Fisguard on 25 July 1928.
Sold together with a 1940 Jan Smuts ‘Greetings from South Africa / Groete van Suid Afrika’ Chocolate Tin.
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