A Collection of Medals to recipients of the 1914 Star, Part 3 175
Three: Acting Chief Petty Officer F. C. Olding, Drake Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was wounded by shell-fire and awarded the G.O.C.’s certificate for ‘zeal and devotion to duty’ at Gallipoli in December 1915
1914 Star, with later clasp (104694. F. Olding, Sto. 1 Cl. Drake Bttn. R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (SS. 104694 F. C. Olding. Sto. 1 R.N.) good very fine (3)
£200-£240
Frederick Charles Olding was born at Ipswich, Suffolk in 1887 and, having joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker Class II on 12 March 1907, served in a succession of Royal Navy cruisers until transferred to the Royal Fleet Reserve at Portsmouth on 10 March 1912.
Olding was recalled to serve in the Drake Battalion of the Royal Naval Division on 2 August 1914 and was present with the Machine Gun Section in the operations around Antwerp in the autumn of 1914. Advanced to Acting Petty Officer on 18 February 1915, he embarked with the Drake Battalion the following month to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and was concussed by shell-fire in the operations against the Dardanelles in December 1915. Hospitalised on Malta from 1 January 1916, he was awarded a Certificate by the G.O.C. for ‘Zeal and Devotion to Duty’ on 9 March 1916, granted entitlement to wear a wound stripe and proceeded to Portsmouth for transfer to the Home Establishment. He subsequently served in the scout cruiser H.M.S. Fearless from January 1917 to August 1918 and was demobilised on 29 March 1919. His 1914 Star was sent to ‘Ganges’ on 5 February 1919 and the clasp issued on 14 April 1936.
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Three: Able Seaman L. Chester, Hawke Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was interned in Holland after the fall of Antwerp, October 1914
1914 Star, with copy clasp (L2/2888. L. Chester, A.B. R.N.V.R. Hawke. Bttn. R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (L.2-2888 L. Chester. A.B. R.N.V.R.) very fine (3)
£200-£240
Leslie Chester was born in 1895 and joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 27 February 1913. During the Great War he was posted to the Hawke Battalion, 1st Royal Naval Brigade on 22 August 1914 and embarked with them to defend Antwerp where, in early October, having belatedly received the order to withdraw, Chester was one of approximately 1,600 men of the Hawke, Benbow, and Collingwood Battalions of the 1st Brigade who were forced to take refuge in neutral Holland in order to prevent unnecessary casualties or capture by the enemy. He was interned under International Law on 9 October 1914 and housed in barracks in Groningen where, other than periods of leave from Holland from 6 October 1916 to 3 November 1916 and from 17 April 1918 to 26 May 1918, he was so detained for the duration of the war. He was discharged on 20 April 1919.
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Three: Able Seaman L. H. G. Young, Benbow Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was wounded and taken Prisoner of War at Antwerp on 10 October 1914
1914 Star, with copy clasp (B.2 1159. L.H.G. Young, A.B. R.N.V.R. Benbow Bttn. R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (B.2 -1159 L. H. Young. Act. A.B. R.N.V.R.) nearly very fine (3)
£200-£240
Leonard Henry George Young was born at Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire on 2 January 1895. He served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 2nd (Benbow) Battalion, 1st Brigade, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and was wounded and captured by the Germans on 10 October 1914 Exearde, near St. Nicholas, outside Antwerp: ‘I formed part of a force which was retiring from Antwerp. We boarded a train which contained refugees. After travelling some little distance the train was derailed and we were attacked by Germans. We defended ourselves, but in the fighting I was shot in the head and rendered insensible. When I came to I found myself a prisoner in a church, where we were kept for 3 days. We were then marched to Termonde, and entrained some 8 to 900 of us in cattle trucks, 30 to 40 in each truck. We were jeered at by the people at the stations. On the journey we were given some soup, sausage and a piece of black bread. At Hanover I asked the guard for some water. He called a Red Cross nurse to bring some, which she did, but finding it was wanted for me, she threw it in my face. We were 3 days in the train, and finally arrived at Döberitz. This was the main camp for the British and French.’ (extract from Young’s debrief examination, 2 May 1918).
At Gefangerenlager, Döberitz he was intermittently sent on working party commandos and occasionally hospitalised with bouts of epilepsy resulting from his head wound. In December 1917 he was given a medical certificate to the effect that he was unfit for work and was exchanged to England on 2 May 1918, following which, on 10 July 1918, he was discharged as unserviceable, suffering from neurasthenia.
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Three: Able Seaman T. H. Hanson, Collingwood Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was taken Prisoner of War at Antwerp, 9 October 1914
1914 Star, with clasp (KW. 887. T. Hanson, Ord. Sea. R.N.V.R. Collingwood Bttn. R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (K.W. 887 T. H. Hanson. A.B. R.N.V.R.) nearly very fine (3)
£200-£240
Thomas Henry Hanson was born at Sandhill, Rotherham, Yorkshire in 1894 and enlisted into the York and Lancaster Regiment on 31 August 1914 before joining the Royal Naval Division on 8 September 1914. He served with the Collingwood Battalion at the defence of Antwerp where he was captured by the Germans on 9 October 1914, spending the remainder of the war as a prisoner in Germany. He was repatriated to England on 28 December 1918 and discharged on 25 March 1919.
179 Three: Shipwright 3rd Class A. Johnson, Nelson Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
1914 Star, with copy clasp (MY3/191. A. Johnson, A.B. R.N.V.R. Nelson Bttn. R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (M.3-191 A. Johnson. Shpt.3 R.N.V.R.) contact marks, polished, nearly very fine (3)
£180-£220
Arthur Johnson was born in 1894. A carpenter by occupation, he enrolled in the Mersey Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 15 July 1912 and served as an Ordinary Seaman in the Dreadnought Class battleships Thunderer and Ajax between August 1913 and July 1914. During the Great War he served with the Nelson Battalion of the Royal Naval Division on the Western Front from 22 August 1914, almost certainly in the failed expedition to defend Antwerp, and returned to Devonport on 28 October. Appointed Shipwright in 1915, Johnson returned to sea in 1917, serving in the cruisers Edgar and Endymion, and after the war, on 7 May 1919, he transferred to the Royal Navy for Continuous Service as Shipwright 3rd Class.
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