Campaign Groups and Pairs 346 Three: Able Seaman T. Tassell, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (237735, T. Tassell, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (237735 T. Tassell. A.B. R.N.) very fine
Pair: Electrical Artificer First Class R. C. Tassell, Royal Navy British War Medal 1914-20 (M.28977 R. C. Tassell. E.A.4 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (M.28977 R. C. Tassell. E.A. 1, H.M.S. Cornwall.) light contact marks, very fine or better (5)
£80-£120
Thomas Tassell was born in Hastings, Sussex in September 1890 and enlisted into the Royal Navy in November 1906 as a Boy Second Class. In the Great War he saw operational service aboard the pre-dreadnought battleship H.M.S. Agamemnon and was in her crew at the time of the ship’s heavy engagement during the Dardanelles campaign of 1915. In February 1918, Tassell was posted to the battlecruiser H.M.S. Inflexible and was present at Scapa Flow for the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet on 21 November 1918. He joined the Royal Fleet Reserve in January 1920 and was recalled between April and June 1921 for service at the shore establishment
H.MS. Pembroke.
Reginald Clive Tassell was born in Rushden, Northamptonshire in October 1891 and enlisted into the Royal Navy in January 1918 as an Electrical Artificer Fifth Class, serving the remainder of the Great War at the shore establishment H.M.S. Vernon. After a posting aboard the dreadnought battleship H.M.S. Monarch, he was transferred to the icebreaker H.M.S. Alexander in October 1919, at the time it was handed over to the White Russians. Between 1925 and 1928, Tassell was attached to the Fleet Air Arm serving aboard the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Furious and at R.A.F. Gosport. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in June 1933 while on the crew of the heavy cruiser H.M.S. Cornwall, having attained the rate of Electrical Artificer First Class. Tassell saw active service during the Second World War aboard the depot ship H.M.S. Sandhurst. He was admitted to the Royal Naval Auxiliary Hospital Barrow Gurney in September 1940 and was invalided out of the service in November 1945.
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Three: Able Seaman A. H. T. Vizard, Drake Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was killed in action in Gallipoli on 15 June 1915
1914-15 Star (LZ-32 A. H. T. Vizard, A.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (L.Z. 32 A. H. T. Vizard. A.B. R.N.V.R.) ‘z’ in surname unofficially corrected on BWM & VM, good very fine (3)
£80-£120
Arthur Henry Thomas Vizard volunteered for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in September 1914 and was posted to the Drake Battalion, Royal Naval Division. He served with the during the Great War in Gallipoli from April 1915, and was killed in action at Cape Helles on 15 June 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.
Sold with a photographic image of the recipient. For the recipient’s brother’s medals, see Lot 367.
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Three: Signaller J. Sexton, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who survived the torpedoing and sinking of H.M.S. Triumph by U-21 on 25 May 1915
1914-15 Star (S.4-208. J. Sexton. Sig., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (S.4-208 J. Sexton. Sig. R.N.V.R.) very fine (3)
£50-£70
John Sexton was born on 5 August 1895 and joined the Sussex Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 24 June 1913. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. Triumph, and was present in her when she was torpedoed and sunk off Gaba Tepe by the German submarine U-21 on 25 May 1915, whilst serving in the Dardanelles campaign, with the loss of 78 lives.
Sexton saw further service, both afloat and at various shore based establishments, and was shore demobilised on 3 March 1919. Sold with the recipient’s riband bar and copied research.
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Three: Ordinary Signalman J. Holden, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Hampshire was sunk off Orkney, 5 June 1916
1914-15 Star (J.36105, J. Holden, Sig. Boy., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.36105 J. Holden.
O.Sig. R.N.) in named card boxes of issue, extremely fine (3)
£240-£280
John Holden was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, on 26 May 1898 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 2 March 1915. He joined H.M.S. Hampshire on 17 September 1915, and was advanced Ordinary Signalman on his 18th birthday, 26 May 1916. He was killed in action when the Hampshire, conveying Field Marshal Lord Kitchener on a diplomatic mission to Russia, struck a German- mine off Orkney on 5 June 1916 and sank within 15 minutes with the loss of 737 lives. There were only 12 survivors. Holden is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial
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Three: Major G. H. Bailey, Royal Army Service Corps, Commandant of No. 2 Camel Remount Depot in Egypt, late Petty Officer, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
1914-15 Star (LZ. 912. G. H. Bailey, P.O., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major G. H. Bailey.) heavy staining to the last otherwise good very fine (3)
£120-£160
Gilbert Howard Bailey was a solicitor with Cooper Sons, Marsh & Bailey, of Manchester, before the outbreak of war in 1914. He enlisted in November 1914 as an Ordinary Seaman in the R.N.V.R. and was later promoted to Acting Chief Petty Officer. He transferred to the Army in May 1916 and was granted a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps.He served with the Egyptian Camel Transport Corps from May to November 1916 in Egypt and Sinai and then transferred to the Remount Service and was appointed Adjutant of a Camel Remount Depot at Suez, was promoted to Captain and later made Commandant of No. 2 Camel Remount Depot, Egypt. He served in Gallipoli, Egypt and Sinai, and was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 14 June 1918).
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