Campaign Groups and Pairs x132 Three: Captain E. A. Butler, Royal Field Artillery
1914 Star, with clasp (33590 Sjt. E. A. Butler. R.F.A.) in named card box of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E. A. Butler.), all in outer OHMS transmission envelope addressed to ‘Capt. E. A. Butler, 69 Gloucester Road, Malmesbury, Wilts.’, very fine (3)
£140-£180
Edward Arthur Butler attested for the Royal Field Artillery and served with the 25th Brigade during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 August 1914. Commissioned Second Lieutenant on 2 August 1915, he subsequently served with the 1/24 Heavy Trench Mortar Battery.
Sold together with the recipient’s cap badge; riband bar; and an Old Contemptibles’ Association lapel badge. 133 Seven: Sergeant O. M. Wilde, Royal Field Artillery
1914 Star, with later slide clasp (58431 Cpl. O. M. Wilde. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (58431 A-B.Q.M. Sjt. O. M. Wilde. R.A.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (58431 Sjt. O. M. Wilde. R.F.A.); Efficiency Medal,
G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (1019956. Bdr. O. M. Wilde. R.A.) mounted as worn, very fine or better (7)
£200-£260
M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1916 (France). M.S.M. London Gazette 22 September 1919: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered with the British Forces in Mesopotamia.’
Oscar M. Wilde was a native of Bradford and proceeded to France with 8th Brigade R.F.A. on 19 August 1914. He was serving in Mesopotamia attached to 1A Reserve Brigade R.F.A.
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Five: Lieutenant G. G. C. Garrard, Royal Engineers, late Honourable Artillery Company 1914 Star, with clasp (936 Pte. G. G. C. Garrard. H.A.C. (Inf)); British War and Victory Medals (936 Cpl. G. G. C. Garrard. H.A.C. (Inf.)); Defence Medal, with its named card box of issue addressed to the recipient at ‘”Braziers”, Cherry Tree Land, Ivor Heath, Bucks’; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue, 3 clasps, ‘Long Service, 1942’, ‘Long Service, 1945’, and ‘Long Service, 1952’ (George G. Garrard.), mounted as worn, together with pre-Second War group of four mounted miniatures and ribbon bar
Four: J. M. G. Garrard, Royal Signals 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, with card box of issue (no address), Army Council enclosure and R. Signals Records letter, 14 April 1947, addressed to the recipient at the same “Braziers” address and confirming medal entitlement; together with silver I.D. bracelet, three card identity discs, and ‘Acme Thunderer’ whistle, medals generally good very fine or better (9)
£100-£140
Sold with Medal Index Card for George G. C. Garrard which shows that he served in France from 18 September 1914, and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 8 August 1915. Also on ‘Refusal List SWB 8.5.17’. The Card indicates that his British War and Victory Medals should have been named ‘
2.Lt.’
x135 Three: Corporal W. A. Marsh, Royal Fusiliers, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 22 February 1915
1914 Star, with clasp (14085 Cpl. W. Marsh, 4/R. Fus.) initial officially corrected; British War and Victory Medals (L -14085 Cpl. A. W. [sic] Marsh. R. Fus.); Memorial Plaque (William Alfred Marsh) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure, very fine (4)
£180-£220
William Alfred Marsh was born in Kensington, London, and attested for the Royal Fusiliers. He served with the 4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914, and was therefore likely to have been present at the Battalion’s defence of the Nimy Railway Bridge at Mons on 23 August 1914, during which Lieutenant Maurice Dease and Private Sidney Godley, also of the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, were awarded the first two Victoria Crosses of the Great War. Marsh died of wounds on 22 February 1915, and is buried in Ramparts Cemetery (Lille Gate), Ypres, Belgium.
Sold together with a Royal Fusiliers cap badge; and copied research. 136 Three: Private T. A. Crew, Northamptonshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 9 May 1915
1914 Star, with clasp (8183 Pte. T. A. Crew. 1/North’n R.); British War and Victory Medals (8183 Pte. T. A. Crew. North’n. R.) with outer OHMS transmission envelopes addressed to ‘Mrs. A. Crew, 10 Bearwood Street, Northampton’; Memorial Plaque (Thomas Albert Crew) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. Thomas Albert Crew, Northamptonshire Regt.’, in OHMS transmission tube, similarly addressed, minor edge bruise to BWM, otherwise extremely fine (5)
£300-£400
Thomas Albert Crew was born in Saltley, Warwickshire, in 1881 and prior to the Great War served with the 4th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He served with the 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914, and was killed in action on 9 May 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, France.
Sold together with named Record Office enclosures for the three medals; the recipient’s Third Class and Second Class Certificates of Education; a portrait photograph of the recipient and other postcard photographs; and a silver-plated presentation cup, inscribed ‘Bayonet Fighting Competition 14th Infantry Brigade Curragh, May 1906 won by The 4th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regt., Lance Corporal T. Crew’, with plater’s marks to base.
137 Three: Private P. F. Edwards, Royal West Surrey Regiment
1914 Star (L-9973 Pte. P. F. Edwards. 1/The Queen’s R.); British War and Victory Medals (L-9973 Pte. P. F. Edwards. The Queen’s.) nearly very fine (3)
£100-£140
Philip F. Edwards attested for the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 2 August 1914.
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