Single Campaign Medals 431
British War Medal 1914-20 (G-13668 Sjt. W. H. Cox. E. Surr. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (11735 Pte. F. C. W. Bass. E. Surr. R.; 13955 A.Cpl. R. Cornelius. E. Surr. R.; 17178 Pte. A. C. Rummery. E. Surr. R.) very fine (4)
£120-£160
Frederick Charles William Bass was born in Mitcham, Surrey, and attested for the East Surrey Regiment at Kingston-on-Thames. He served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916. On this date the Battalion, as part of 55th Brigade, 18th Division, was tasked with attacking from the front line between Talus Boisé and Carnoy-Montauban Road towards Montauban Ridge: ‘Symbolic of the first day of the Battle of the Somme and the way that the men went forward in brave, confident, and well disciplined order is the kicking of footballs into No Man’s Land by men of the 8th East Surrey Regiment. “B” Company on the left was led by Captain W. P. Nevill who had provided each platoon with a football. Special permission to kick footballs into action had been obtained; however, there was a proviso that proper formation and distance had to be kept. The first ball was kicked by Captain Nevill and his 2 leading platoons moved forwards towards the enemy’s Breslau Trench some 400 yards ahead at 7:27 a.m. Soon machine gun fire from craters to the left would cut down the leading waves; Captain Nevill’s body, along with two footballs, would later be found just outside the German wire.’ (British Battalions on the Somme, by Ray Westlake refers). The Objective was reached at 12:22 p.m., but the Battalion had suffered total casualties of 446. Bass was amongst those killed; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Robert Cornelius was born in Clapham, Surrey, and attested for the East Surrey Regiment at Wandsworth, Surrey. He served with the 13th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 24 April 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Alfred Charles Rummery was born in Rotherhithe, Kent, and attested for the East Surrey Regiment at Deptford, Kent. He served with the 12th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and died of wounds on 20 September 1917. He is buried in Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, France.
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The British War Medal awarded to Private S. E. Pilbrow, Middlesex Regiment and Manchester Regiment, attached 20 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, who was awarded the Military Medal for shooting down four enemy aircraft - three in one day - and was killed in aerial combat by the German Ace Werner Voss on 15 August 1917
British War Medal 1914-20 (2381 Pte. S. E. Pilbrow. Midd’x R.) nearly extremely fine M.M. London Gazette 28 September 1917.
£300-£400
Stanley Edward Pilbrow was born in Battersea, London, and attested for the Middlesex Regiment. Transferring to the Manchester Regiment, he served with the 22nd Battalion during the Great War, before being attached to 20 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. He was killed in action in aerial combat on 15 August 1917- ‘September Evening: The Life and Final Combat of the German World War One Ace Werner Voss’ takes up the story: ‘On the afternoon of 15 August a patrol of FE2bs from 20 Squadon was circling over Ypres when they ran into elements of Jasta 10. In the dogfight that followed Voss latched onto the FE of Second Lieutenant Charles Cameron, a 21-year-old Canadian volunteer from Ottawa. He first disabled the engine with a telling burst of fire from his twin Spandau machine guns, and on his second pass killed Private Stanley Pilbrow, Cameron’s observer/gunner. Pilbrow had been in the R.F.C. for less than a month but was already credited with shooting down four enemy machines- three of these in one day. For this action he had been awarded the Military Medal, but after encountering Voss he never lived to receive it.’
Pilbrow is buried in The Huts Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium. Sold with a copy of the book ‘Winged Sabres’, by R. A. Sellwood, which mentions the recipient; and copied research.
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British War Medal 1914-20 (266408 Pte. G. P. Wright. Kent Cyc. Bn.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (G-13241 Pte. F. Beaumont R.W. Kent R.; G-20625 Pte. G. Turvill. R.W. Kent R.; 202377 Pte. L. Weiner. R.W. Kent R.) second heavily corroded, generally nearly very fine and better (4)
£60-£80
Frederick Beaumont was born in Kirton, Suffolk, and attested for the Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment at Bury St Edmunds. He served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and died of wounds on 30 May 1917. He is buried in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, France.
George Turvill was born in Crondall, Hampsire, and attested for the Royal Sussex Regiment at Hounslow, Middlesex. He transferred to the Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment and served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. Taken Prisoner of War, he died in captivity on 3 July 1918, and is buried in Berlin South-Western Cemetery, Germany.
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The Victory Medal awarded to Stoker 1st Class F. G. Stubbington, Royal Navy, who was interned in Denmark after the submarine E13 ran aground off the German coast in August 1915 and was attacked by a German torpedo boat
Victory Medal 1914-19 (304560 F. G. Stubbington. Sto. 1. R.N.) very fine £50-£70
Francis George Stubbington was born at Soberton, Hampshire, on 20 August 1883, and was a miller when he joined the Royal Navy on 27 July 1903. He transferred to the submarine service in early 1913, and was serving aboard submarine E13 when she ran aground on the sandbanks of Saltholm just outside Copenhagen on the night of 18/19 August 1915. The next morning she was attacked by German torpedo boat destroyers which caused the loss of 15 petty officers and men before the remainder abandoned ship and spent the remainder of the war interned in Denmark. Stubbington was repatriated in December 1918 and received his Naval L.S. & G.C. medal in February 1919. Also entitled to 1914-15 Star and British War Medal.
Sold with copied record of service and other research.
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