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Campaign Groups and Pairs 135


Four: Leading Seaman H. Wicks, Royal Navy, who was killed when the battleship H.M.S. Bulwark exploded, 26 November 1914


Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (231240. H. Wicks. A.B. H.M.S. Philomel.); 1914-15 Star (231240, H. Wichs [sic], L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (231240 H. Wicks. L.S. R.N.) mounted for display, generally good very fine (4)


£300-£340 Provenance: DNW, September 2010.


Henry Wicks was born in Shoreditch, London in January 1887. He joined the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class in July 1904, and advanced to Leading Seaman in May 1912. Wicks served with H.M.S. Philomel, July 1909 - September 1911, and with H.M.S. Bulwark, 4 June - 26 November 1914.


Wicks was killed on 26 November 1914, when the pre-dreadnaught battleship H.M.S. Bulwark blew up in unexplained circumstances on the Medway, near Sheerness, with the loss of over 700 lives. During the Great War the Royal Navy lost 4 ships to internal explosions whilst lying in harbour, the other three being, H.M. Ships Natal, Princess Irene and Vanguard. At the time there was much speculation that these losses were due to sabotage by enemy agents. However, the more likely explanation is that they were the result of the deterioration of the stocks of high explosives carried on board. Only fourteen men survived the sinking of H.M.S. Bulwark. Having no known grave, Henry Wick’s name is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.


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Five: Chief Stoker A. E. Slade, Royal Navy


Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (306..29 A. E. Slade Sto. P.O. H.M.S.....); 1914-15 Star (306729 A. E. Slade, S.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (..... A. E. Slade. Act. Ch. Sto. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (306.... A. E. Slade, Ch. Sto. H.M.S. Pembroke) mounted for display, heavy contact marks, worn, fine (5)


£160-£200


Alfred Ernest Slade was born in Hertford in September 1880. He joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in June 1904, and advanced to Chief Stoker in March 1919. Slade served with H.M.S. Pathfinder, January 1909 - January 1911, and with H.M.S. Starfish (destroyer), December 1916 - April 1918 (awarded L.S. & G.C. in July 1919). He was Shore Pensioned in June 1926.


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Six: Acting Sergeant A. C. Treble, 1st (Royal) Dragoons, Military Mounted Police, and Metropolitan Police


1914 Star, with clasp (5380 Pte. A. C. Treble. 1/Dns:); British War and Victory Medals (5380 A. Sjt. A. C. Treble. 1- Dns.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C. A. Treble.); Jubilee 1935; Portugal, Military Medal for Good Services (Copper), unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine (6)


£200-£260


Portugal Military Medal London Gazette 8 March 1920: ‘P5246 Private (Acting Serjeant) Alexander Charles Treble, Military Mounted Police (Southwark).’


Alexander Charles Treble was born at New Malden, Surrey, on 12 April 1883, and joined the Metropolitan Police Force on 24 October 1910, a carman by trade. He enlisted into the 1st Dragoons on 5 August 1914, and served in France from 15 August 1914. He latterly transferred to the Military Mounted Police and served until 28 August 1919, when he returned to the Metropolitan Police. In March 1922 he was granted £1 by the Commissioner for arresting a burglar whom he knew to be armed (with another officer). He resigned from the East Ham Division on 27 October 1935, aged 52, with 25 years 4 days service. He died on 18 February 1950.


Sold with copied research.


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Four: Lance-Corporal C. E. Gasson, alias Kenward, 9th Lancers


1914 Star, with clasp (4705 Pte. C. E. Kenward. 9/Lrs.); British War and Victory Medals (L-4705 Pte. C. E. Gasson. 9- Lrs.); Defence Medal, mounted as worn, nearly very fine (4)


£100-£140


Charles E. Gasson, alias Kenward, attested for the 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 August 1914. He was reported wounded on 4 October 1914, and was subsequently advanced Lance-Corporal.


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