Campaign Groups and Pairs 389 Three: Surgeon-Lieutenant A. S. Bissett, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
British War and Victory Medals (Surg. Prob. A. S. Bissett. R.N.V.R.); Voluntary Medical Service Medal (Dr. A. Bissett.) in named card box of issue, nearly extremely fine (3)
£70-£90
Alexander Shanks Bissett was born on Islay on 28 March 1896 and was educated at the University of Glasgow. Enlisting in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve whilst still at university, he was aboard the first ship to sail from Scapa Flow for the Battle of Jutland, the Fleet Minesweeper H.M.S. Gentian. Upon completing his medical training he joined the battleship H.M.S. Caesar in the eastern Mediterranean, and served as a temporary Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Dardanelles before being demobilised on 1 December 1919.
In civilian life Bissett became a successful medical practitioner, and died in June 1979.
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Pair: Chief Motor Mechanic R. A. Clark, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve British War and Victory Medals (M.B. 2320 R. A. Clark. C.M.M. R.N.V.R.) good very fine
Pair: Major E. L. Heywood, Middlesex Regiment British War and Victory Medals (
2.Lieut. E. L. Heywood.) edge bruising, nearly very fine
Pair: Private W. J. Grey, King’s Royal Rifle Corps and Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals (11561 Pte. W. J. Grey. K.R. Rif. C.) good very fine
Pair: Private H. W. Fisk, Rifle Brigade British War and Victory Medals (S-21934 Pte. H. W. Fisk. Rif. Brig.) with named lid of card box of issue; together with the recipient’s daughter’s L.C.C. King’s Medal, 1 clasp, 1919-20 (E. Fisk) nearly extremely fine (9)
£120-£160
Richard Augustus Clark was born on 14 October 1898 and enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 18 February 1918. He served during the Great War as a Motor Mechanic in various Motor Launches and Coastal Motor Boats, and was promoted Chief Motor Mechanic on 1 November 1918. He was shore demobilised on 14 January 1920, and died in Haringey in 1982.
Everard Lemprière Heywood was born on 26 August 1898 , the son of Lieutenant-Colonel C. C. Heywood, Royal Army Medical Corps, and was educated at Haileybury. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment on 29 August 1917, he served with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War in the Balkan theatre of War from 25 January 1918. Remaining in the Army following the cessation of hostilities, was saw further service during the Second World War, and was advanced to Major. He died in 1967.
Walter Joseph Grey attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 June 1915 (also entitled to a 1914-15 Star), subsequently transferring to the Machine Gun Corps.
Henry William Fisk was born on 25 August 1885 and attested for the Rifle Brigade on 11 December 1915. He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was discharged on 28 August 1917 due to inflammation of the kidneys aggravated by service. He was awarded a Silver War Badge, and died in Bromley on 8 September 1929. The King’s Medal was awarded to the recipient’s daughter, Ellen Fisk.
Sold with some original ephemera for the last group, and detailed copied research for all.
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Pair: Able Seaman F. Kean, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who after 16 months service and being posted to the Machine Gun Company, Royal Naval Division was discharged for underage enlistment. On being remobilised he served on the Western Front with Hawke Battalion and was wounded in action in October 1918 during the Second Battle of Cambrai
British War and Victory Medals (T.Z.5547 F. Kean. A.B. R.N.V.R.) edge bruise, nearly extremely fine (2) £70-£90
Frederick Kean was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire on 3 April 1899 and enlisted into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Royal Naval Division in June 1915 declaring his his age as 18 years, when in reality he was only 16 years and 3 months. In January 1916 he was promoted to Able Seaman and the following July he was posted to the Machine Gun Company. At the end of October 1916, after 16 months service, his true age was discovered and he was immediately demobilised due to “mis-statement as to age”.
On 11 May 1917 he was remobilised on becoming of age, but less than a month later was given 28 days detention for being in possession of a forged pass and travelling voucher. On 16 July 1918 he was posted to Hawke Battalion, Royal Naval Division, joining them in France on 28 August 1918.
On the 8 October 1918, Kean was wounded in the nose, neck and chest during his battalion’s attack on Cambrai, where they suffered 13 killed, 86 wounded and 10 missing. After being evacuated back to Britain he was admitted to Leeds War Hospital. He was demobilised in February 1919.
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Pair: Flight Sub-Lieutenant C. R. W. Hodges, 4 (Naval) Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service, who was killed when his Sopwith Camel was shot down during a dogfight on 18 August 1917
British War and Victory Medals (Flt. S. Lt. C. R. W. Hodges. R.N.A.S.) the Victory Medal officially re-impressed, extremely fine (2)
£300-£400
Charles Raymond Walker Hodges was born on 22 September 1897, and joined the Royal Naval Air Service as a temporary Flight Sub- Lieutenant on 25 June 1916. He obtained his R.A.C. Certificate No. 3439 at Eastbourne on 18 August 1916, and was posted to No. 4 (Naval) Squadron R.N.A.S. On 18 August 1917, was piloting Sopwith Camel B3938 in formation with 4 others when attacked by 20 enemy aircraft. He was apparently hit early in the fight for he got into a spin as if out of control, billowing smoke, east of Dixmude. Reported missing presumed killed. He is commemorated by name on the Arras Flying Services Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. There is also a memorial to him in the Church of St John the Baptist at Thaxted, Essex, which reads:
‘MEMORY/ OF/ FLIGHT SUB LIEUT. C. RAYMOND WALKER HODGES R.N./ AGED 19 1/2 YEARS/ ELDER SON OF MAJOR CHARLES E. WALKER HODGES RFA/ AND OF LOUIE E. WALKER HODGES/ SHOT DOWN 10 MILES/ EAST OF DIXMUDE AT/ 12000 FEET UP IN A/ FIGHT AGAINST HEAVY/ ODDS/ AFTER HIS/ FLIGHT OF FIVE PLANES/ HAD ACCOUNTED FOR/ THREE OUT OF A TOTAL/ OF TWENTY SIX ENEMY/ MACHINES, ON AUG 18TH 1917/ A MODEST HERO/ LOVED BY ALL’.
Sold with record of service and various copied combat reports for the period May to July, 1917.
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