Single Campaign Medals 610
British War Medal 1914-20 (2. Lieut. C. A. Lely.) middle initial officially corrected; Victory Medal 1914-19 (106445 Sjt. W. D. MacLeod. 1-C.M.R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46, unnamed as issued to Indian personnel, nearly very fine and better (10)
£60-£80
Cyril Allan Lely was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the the Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) on 26 April 1917, and served with the 1st/6th Battalion (Territorial Force) during the Great War on the Western Front.
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An interesting British War Medal awarded to Captain N. A. Rew, Royal Engineers, who post-War designed over 40 War Cemeteries for the Imperial (later Commonwealth) War Graves Commission
British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. N. A. Rew.) very fine £60-£80
Noel Ackroyd Rew was born in Streatham, South London, in 1880 and was educated at Berkhamsted School and the Slade School of Fine Art. An architect by profession, he attested for the Inns of Court O.T.C. on 7 February 1916, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 21 October 1916. He served with the 93rd Field Company during the Great War on the Western Front, was appointed Adjutant (with the rank of acting Captain), and was gassed at Armentières, being removed to No. 7 General Hospital. Relinquisihing his commission on account of his wounds (the effects of gas had temporarily blinded him), he resumed his Architectural career, and was employed by the Imperial War Graves Commission.
From 1919-28 Rew designed a total of 42 War Cemeteries in France and Belgium, including Hooge Crater Cemetery in Belgium, and Rancourt Military cemetery on the Somme. One of his best-known designs was for Orchard Dump cemetery in France, where he chose an attractive local stone for a rubble wall linking two shelter features. He died in 1971.
Sold with copied research including details of the various C.W.G.C. Cemeteries that he designed. 612 x613
British War Medal 1914-20 (St. J. R. B. Blake. B.R.C. & St. J. J.) edge bruising and contact marks, therefore nearly very fine
£20-£30
The British War Medal awarded to Private R. Tansey, 42nd Canadian Infantry, who was killed in action in October 1916
British War Medal 1914-20 (418304 Pte. R. Tansey. 42-Can. Inf.) surname re-impressed; together with Canadian Memorial Cross (418304 Pte R. Tansey) brooch fitting to reverse, good very fine (2)
£60-£80 Reginald Tansey was killed in action on 7 October 1916. x614
The Victory Medal awarded to Captain C. I. Prowse, Royal Navy, commanding officer of H.M.S. Queen Mary who was killed at the battle of Jutland when a German shell ignited Queen Mary’s magazines
Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt. C. I. Prowse. R.N.) extremely fine £200-£300
Cyril Irby Prowse was appointed Captain of the battle cruiser Queen Mary on 13 October 1914. During the battle of Jutland she engaged the Derfflinger, putting one of her turrets out of action, and then scored four hits on SMS Seydlitz. The German battlecruiser hit back striking ´Q´ turret before sending more 12 inch shells to hit near ´A´ and ´B´ turrets before scoring another hit on ´Q´ turret. Queen Mary´s forward magazine exploded, the ship listed to port and began to sink amid more explosions with the loss of 1,245 men. There were just 18 survivors.
Prowse's younger brother, Brigadier-General Charles Bertie Prowse, C.B., D.S.O., was killed a month later on 1 July during the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He had decided to move his 11th Brigade headquarters into the captured German front line, and while assembling men of the Seaforth Highlanders in the British trenches he was shot in the back by machine gun fire.
The brothers are remembered on the Prowse window at St John the Baptist Parish Church, Yeovil, Somerset, and by a memorial tablet at St Mary Magdalene Church, Taunton, Somerset.
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Bilingual Victory 1914-19 (2nd C/W O. J. A. Eaton. S.A.S.C.); 1939-45 Star (2); Atlantic Star, clasp, France & Germany; Defence Medal (2); War Medal 1939-45; B.R.C.S. Medal for War Service 1914-18; French Croix de Guerre 1914-18, named in reverse centre ‘265727 S. Stirland’, good very fine or better (9)
£50-£70 x616
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (PO.10092. Pte. W. Bacon, R.M.L.I., H.M.S. Karanja.) very fine and rare
£140-£180 29 clasps issued European recipients on the armed launch H.M.S. Karanja, including 7 to R.M.L.I.
Walter Bacon was born in the Parish of St Gregory, Sudbury, Suffolk, on 12 August 1879, and joined the Royal Marines as a Private at the Recruit Depot, Deal, on 10 December 1898. He was assigned to the Portsmouth Division on 5 October 1899 and thereafter saw much service afloat in various battleships and other vessels of the fleet. He served for most of the year in 1910 aboard the armed launch H.M.S. Karanja, engaged in anti gun running operations in the Persian Gulf. He was discharged on 11 January 1911, having completed his period of service of 12 years.
x617
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (PLY.13777. Pte. J. T. Wright, R.M.L.I. H.M.S. Redbreast.) good very fine
£100-£120
John Thomas Wright was born on 20 October 1875, and joined the Plymouth Division of the Royal Marine Light Infantry on 30 July 1907. He was embarked in Redbreast from March 1908 until March 1910. He served at Ostend in 1914 (Star) and was afterwards embarked in H.M.S. Caesar for the remainder of the war. He was demobilised on 27 March 1919.
Sold with copied record of service. 618
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Minesweeping 1945-51 (P/JX.335824 E. L. Hayes. A.B. R.N.) minor official correction after rate, nearly extremely fine
£100-£140
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