A Collection of Medals to recipients of the 1914 Star, Part 3 186 1914 Star, with clasp (14.(S) Driver A. MacDonald. R.M. Brigade.) good very fine £80-£120
Arthur MacDonald was born in Cork, Ireland in 1882. A motor driver by trade, he enlisted in the Royal Marine Artillery in London on 1 October 1914 and proceeded with them to Dunkirk, serving there as a Motor Transport Driver from 7 to 18 October. He was discharged - services no longer required for the war - on 1 September 1915, and subsequently made an application for a Silver War Badge in 1917.
187 Three: Private F. H. Thorne, Royal Marine Light Infantry
1914 Star (PO.4656. Pte. F. H. Thorne, R.M.L.I. Transport Staff.); British War and Victory Medals (PO.4656 Pte. F. H. Thorne. R.M.L.I.) good very fine (3)
£80-£120
Frank Herbert Thorne joined the Royal Marine Light Infantry, Portsmouth Division, on 18 March 1889. His 1914 Star was sent to the Divisional Naval Transport Officer, Rouen on 31 January 1919.
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Three: Musician C. J. Allingham, Royal Marines, who was present at the Defence of Antwerp, October 1914 and ‘behaved in a gallant and courageous manner in action at Cape Helles, 17 May to 31 July 1915’
1914 Star with copy clasp (1978. Muscn. C. J. Allingham Staff 1st. Bde. R.N. Div.); British War and Victory Medals (R.M. B. 1978 Mus. C. J. Allingham.) heavy pitting, therefore fine (3)
£140-£180
Charlie Jones Allingham was born at Cheltenham, Gloucester on 3 October 1896 and enrolled as a Band Boy in the Royal Marines at Eastney on 16 February 1912, being promoted to Musician in 1914. He was present with the 1st Brigade, Royal Naval Division at the Defence of Antwerp (1914 clasp) and also at Gallipoli, his service record stating that he ‘behaved in a gallant and courageous manner in action at Cape Helles, 17 May to 31 July 1915’.
Having returned to the Royal Naval School of Music at Eastney on 7 November 1915, Allingham spent the remainder of the War and the inter-War period at various shore bases before being posted to the cruiser H.M.S. Danae on 1 August 1939. Mobilised in April 1940, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with gratuity in August 1940 and served in Danae until 13 October 1941, finally being demobilised in October 1946.
189 A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant S. Ives, Royal Field Artillery
Military Medal, G.V.R. (29032 A. Sjt: S. Ives. 8 A.A. By. R.F.A.); 1914 Star, with clasp (29032 Gnr: S. Ives. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (29032 Sjt. S. Ives. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (1038564 Sjt. S. Ives. M.M. R.F.A.) mounted as worn, very fine (5)
£300-£400 M.M. London Gazette 9 December 1916
Sidney Ives was born at Burton on Trent, Staffordshire in 1885 and attested for the Royal Artillery in 1903. He served in India from 1905 to 1913 and with the 27th Brigade Royal Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 August 1914. He was awarded the Military Medal for gallantry with the 8th Anti Aircraft Battery in 1916, most likely a Somme award, was advanced Sergeant, and transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery on 13 December 1917.
On 14 January 1919, Ives attested again, in the field, for the Royal Artillery and was awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal under Army Order 145 of April 1922. He was finally discharged on 6 December 1923, his character being described as exemplary.
190 Three: Gunner H. W. Forest, Royal Garrison Artillery who died at home on 11 April 1917
1914 Star, with clasp (30786 Gnr. H. W. Forest. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (30786 Gnr. H. W. Forest. R. A.) nearly very fine (3)
£80-£120
Henry William Forest was born at Southsea, Hampshire in 1892 and enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery at Winchester. He served with the 6th, 8th and 17th Siege Batteries as a Gunner during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 October 1914 and, having contracted bronchitis on active service, died at home on 11 April 1917. He is buried in Portsmouth (Highland Road) Cemetery.
191 Three: Sapper D. O’Connor, 1st Siege Company, Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Special Reserve)
1914 Star, with clasp (385635 Sapr: D. O’ Conner. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (385635 Spr. D. O’Connor. R. E.) very fine (3)
£140-£180
Daniel O’Connor was born in St. Anne’s, Lancashire in 1884 and attested for the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Special Reserve) in 1908. He served with the 1st Siege Company during the Great War on the Western Front from 3 November 1914, and was hospitalised and repatriated to England in both 1915 and 1916. Having transferred to the Labour Corps, he was discharged, no longer physically fit for war service, on 3 January 1918 and awarded a Silver War Badge. His medal roll entries and medal index card also refer to service with the 1st Battalion, Liverpool Regiment and the Royal Army Service Corps.
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The 1914 Star awarded to Acting Staff Sergeant D. Smale, Army Service Corps, who died at sea from the effects of the Gallipoli campaign
1914 Star (S-15818 Pte. D. Smale. A.S.C.) very fine £70-£90
Dan Smale was born at Sidmouth, Devon on 6 December 1882. A butcher by occupation, he enlisted in the Army Service Corps at Aldershot in April 1900 and served with them on St. Helena during the Boer War from 3 May 1902 until 16 July 1902 (entitled to a no clasp Queen’s South Africa Medal). He next served overseas during the Great War on the Western Front from 10 August 1914 and afterwards served at Gallipoli from 23 February 1915 with the 50th Field Butchery, A.S.C., progressing to the rank of Acting Staff Sergeant in May 1915.
Smale was hospitalised at Cape Helles on 22 July 1915 and evacuated from Gallipoli to Alexandria where, on 15 September, suffering from acute dysentery, he was invalided on to the Hospital Ship ‘Egypt’. He died on board the Egypt on 19 September 1915 and was buried at sea, being commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.
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