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Campaign Groups and Pairs 106 Pair: Private T. Cummings, Seaforth Highlanders


Afghanistan 1878-80, 3 clasps, Charasia, Kabul, Kandahar (1250 Pte. T. Cummings, 72nd. Highrs.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (1250. Pte. T. Cummings, 1/Sea: Highrs:) light contact marks and some pitting, nearly very fine (2)


£300-£400 107


Three: The Reverend A. P. Hill, Royal Navy


Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (Rev: A. P. Hill, H.M.S. “Inflexible.”); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Rev: A. P. Hill. B.A., R.N.) engraved naming; Khedive’s Star 1882, reverse engraved ‘Rev. A. P. Hill.’, light pitting and contact marks, nearly very fine and better and believed to be a unique combination to a Royal Naval Chaplain (3)


£700-£900


The Reverend Arthur Price Hill was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was ordained Deacon in 1878, and Priest in 1879. He was appointed a Royal Naval Chaplain on 14 December 1880, and served initially in H.M.S. Defence, before transferring to H.M.S. Inflexible in 1881. He served in her at the Bombardment of Alexandria on 11 July 1882, and during the subsequent Egyptian War. Between 1884 and 1893 he saw further service in H.M. Ships Neptune, Repulse, Rupert, Monarch, Flora, Penelope, Northumberland, and Alexandra.


Appointed to R.N. Hospital Haslar in 1893, Hill served as Chaplain there for three years before being posted to the Royal Dockyard, Cape of Good Hope, in 1896 and saw active service during the Boer War. After further appointments at the Royal Marine Artillery Barracks at Eastney (1901-05), and H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth (1905-10), he was appointed Chaplain to H.M. Embassy at Vienna on 1 September 1910, and was still serving there at the start of the Great War. Returning to Vienna following the cessation of hostilities, he died there on 28 November 1924, aged 70.


Sold with copied medal roll extracts; a photographic image of the recipient; and other research.


108


Pair: Petty Officer Second Class W. J. Vincent, Royal Navy, later H.M. Coast Guard, who received a specially-struck silver medal for his bravery in the rescue of the crew of the Danish ship St. Alexei on 4 January 1894


Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (W. J. Vincent. A.B. H.M.S. “Mosquito”); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, light pitting and edge bruise to first, nearly very fine (2)


£160-£200


William John Vincent was born at St. Austell, Cornwall, on 15 October 1860 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 13 May 1876. Advanced Able Seaman on 3 February 1881, he served in H.M.S. Mosquito from 1 July 1881 to 7 November 1882, and saw active service during the Egyptian Campaign of 1882. Advanced Petty Officer Second Class on 18 May 1887, he transferred to the Coast Guard on 9 May 1889, and served at the Clacton-on-Sea Station from 1 February 1891 to 6 March 1896. Whilst at Clacton he was presented with a specially-struck silver medal by the Countess of Warwick in commemoration of his bravery in the rescue of the crew of the Danish ship St. Alexei on 4 January 1894. Transferring to the Harwich Station, he was advanced Commissioned Boatman on 11 July 1896, and was pensioned on 30 September 1899.


Sold with copied record of service and other research. www.dnw.co.uk all lots are illustrated on our website and are subject to buyers’ premium at 24% (+VAT where applicable)


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