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Three: Private A. G. Trowbridge, Royal Sussex Regiment, who was twice wounded in action by gun shot during the Great War
1914-15 Star (4-2226 Pte. A. G. Trowbridge. R. Suss: R.); British War and Victory Medals (2226 Pte. A. G. Trowbridge. R. Suss. R.) together with the slightly damaged lid of the card box of issue for the BWM and VM named to ‘Pte. A. G. Trowbridge, R. Suss. R.’ and outer OHMS transmission envelope addressed to ‘Mr. A. G. Trowbridge, 5 Lawn Road, Beckenham, Kent’ good very fine (3)
£60-£80
Albert George Trowbridge served with the 1/4th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment (Territorial Force) during the Great War in the Dardanelles from 8 August 1915. Landing at Suvla Bay, the Battalion was engaged in various actions during the Gallipoli Campaign and was evacuated to Egypt in December 1915 after suffering heavy casualties from combat, disease and severe weather conditions. They then fought in the Palestine Campaign, notably seeing action in 1916 at the Battle of Romani, during 1917 at the Second and Third Battles of Gaza, the Capture and Defence of Jerusalem and in 1918 at the Battle of Tell’Asur. Trowbridge was wounded in action at Abu Tellul on 22 March 1918 and was admitted to Cairo Hospital six days later with a gun shot wound to his left side. On recovering he was then wounded in action on 29 July 1918 and admitted to hospital on 31 August 1918, with a gunshot wound to the head. He returned to England and was posted to the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion at Newhaven before being disembodied on demobilisation on 25 February 1919.
Sold together with an empty Princess Mary Christmas 1914 Tin and uniform button. 187 Eight: Captain H. C. Mackenzie, 2/7 Rajputs, late South Lancashire Regiment
1914-15 Star (Lieut. H. C. Mackenzie. S. Lan. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lieut. H. C. Mackenzie.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Capt. H. C. Mackenzie, 2-7 Rajput R.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Capt. H. C. Mackenzie.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration,
G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, the reverse officially dated ‘1947’, mounted as worn, very fine (8) £300-£400
M.I.D. London Gazette 28 November 1917 (Salonika).
Herbert Cedric Mackenzie was admitted to the Indian Army on 13 February 1918, but ranking from 11 August 1916 (London Gazette 14 February 1919 refers). Sold with copied Medal Index Card which shows B.W.M. and V.M. issued from India.
188 Six: Private H. Taylor, Northamptonshire Regiment, later Royal Engineers and Kettering Fire Brigade
1914-15 Star (606 Pte. H. Taylor. North’n. R.); British War and Victory Medals (606 Pte. H. Taylor. North’n. R.); Jubilee 1935; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (526310 Spr: H. Taylor. R.E.); National Fire Brigades Association, silver medal for long service, with top suspension bar for ‘Twenty Years’ and three bars for ‘Five Years’, unnamed, very fine (6)
£100-£140
Harry Taylor was born at Kettering,Northamptonshire, and enlisted into the 4th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment on 1 April 1908, and re-engaged for a further 4 years on 1 April 1912. He served at Gallipoli from 15 August 1915, and later transferred to the Royal Engineers. Sold with copied service papers and Medal Index Card, together with a newspaper obituary cutting from 28 February 1964, which states:
‘Mr Harry Taylor, of 73 Green Lane, Kettering, died last week - on the day of his wife’s funeral. Mrs Charlotte Taylor died aged 73. He was 85. Mr Taylor worked as a bricklayer for Kettering Co-operative Society building department for many years. He was a member of Kettering Fire Brigade for 35 years, serving in the days of the old steam fire appliances, and also a member of the United Trades Club for sixty years and a keen Poppies supporter.’
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Three: Private W. McKay, Highland Light Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on the first day of the Battle of Loos, 25 September 1915, on which date his Battalion suffered over 500 casualties
1914-15 Star (18159 Pte. W. McKay. High: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (18159 Pte. W McKay. High. L.I.); Memorial Plaque (William McKay) extremely fine (4)
£160-£200
William McKay was born in Durnock, Sutherland, in May 1890 and emigrated to Canada in July 1909. Residing in Winnipeg, he returned to the U.K. following the outbreak of the Great War and attested for the Highland Light Infantry. He served with the 12th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 July 1915, and was killed in action on 25 September 1915, during the Battalion’s attack on Hill 70, on the first day of the Battle of Loos, on which date the Battalion suffered over 500 casualties. He is buried in St. Mary’s A.D.S. Cemetery, Haisnes, France.
Sold together with the named Record Office enclosures for the 1914-15 Star and the British War Medal; and copied research. x190 Four: Acting Corporal A. E. Taylor, Seaforth Highlanders
1914-15 Star (2005. Pte. -A-Cpl-. A. E. Taylor. Sea. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (2005 A. Cpl. A. E. Taylor. Sea. Highrs.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917, very fine (4)
£50-£70
Albert Edward Taylor attested for the Seaforth Highlanders and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 December 1915.
M.I.D. and French Croix de Guerre unconfirmed. x191 Three: Private J. Shiels, Gordon Highlanders, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 14 November 1916
1914-15 Star (S-9439. Pte. J. Shiels, Gord. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (S-9439 Pte. J. Shiels. Gordons.); Memorial Plaque (James Shiels) nearly extremely fine (4)
£160-£200
James Shiels was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, and attested for the Gordon Highlanders in Glasgow. He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 July 1915, and was killed in action on the Somme on 14 November 1916, on which date the Battalion was involved in an attack on ‘Station Road’, the sunken roadway running between Beaumont Hamel and Beaucourt Station, where they suffered over 300 casualties. Shiels has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Sold with copied research.
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