Single Campaign Medals 481
The Victory Medal awarded to Private F. C. S. Bradley, 7th Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment, who was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, on which date his battalion suffered over 500 casualties
Victory Medal 1914-19 (G-1237 Pte. F. C. S. Bradley. The Queen’s R.) in named card box of issue; Memorial Plaque (Frederick Charles Sidney Bradley) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure, and outer OHMS transmission addressed to ‘Mr. C. W. Bradley, 86 Gloucester Road, Croydon, Surrey’; Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. Frederick Charles Sidney Bradley, Royal W. Surrey Regt.’, extremely fine (3) £240-£280
Frederick Charles Sidney Bradley was born in Croydon, Surrey, and attested there for the Royal West Surrey Regiment. He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 July 1915, and was killed in action on the first day of the battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, on which date the Battalion was involved in an attack at Montauban, and after twelve hours’ fighting along a 200 yard front had suffered 532 casualties. He is buried in Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France.
Sold together with named Record Office enclosures for the British War and Victory Medals; a postcard photograph of the recipient; and other ephemera.
482 Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lt. Col. C. P. Marten) extremely fine £70-£90
Charles Peter Marten was born in Canterbury on 12 September 1880, the eldest son of Captain Stephen W. Marten, East Kent Militia, and was educated at Tonbridge School and Clare College, Cambridge. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own) on 4 December 1901, and was promoted Lieutenant on 3 October 1906. Appointed Adjutant of the 1st Battalion in 1907, he served with them during the Mohmand Expedition of 1908. Promoted Captain in January 1911, he was appointed Adjutant of the 3rd Battalion in 1912, and was promoted Major in 1916.
Appointed Second in Command of the 32nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, Marten served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 4 May 1916, before being given the command of the 18th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, on 24 June 1916. He was killed in action on the Somme on 15 September 1916, on which date the Battalion was ordered to attack Flers, and to ‘push home their attack with the utmost vigour. Just before zero hour, one shell hit the Battalion killing their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel C. P. Marten, his Adjutant, and two other Officers. Nevertheless, the attack went on, with the Battalion doing all that was asked of it, and suffering total casualties of over 350.’ (British Battalions on the Somme, by Ray Westlake refers).
Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 4 January 1917) for his ‘gallant and distinguished services in the Field’, his Brigadier- General wrote of him: ‘He has done splendid work out here.’ The Commanding Officer of his parent unit, the West Yorkshire Regiment, wrote: ‘As an all-round sportsman, whether in the hunting field, in polo, cricket, or as a soldier, the loss to the Regiment and the Army at large cannot be overestimated. He was a fine rider, and always in the first flight in the hunting field. The old XIV has lost one of its most popular officers, one who endeared himself to all by his cheerfulness, sportsmanship, and his high sense of duty.’ Other officers wrote: ‘It is no easy task to take command of a battalion of another regiment, where one knows nobody; but to show with what success he did it, I need only say that he was universally popular with both officers and men. The battalion had the most complete confidence in him, and his death can only be a terrible loss... His influence was a great power in the battalion, and his past work in all probability largely contributed to the success which we were able to win last week. The battalion has lost a fine soldier and one of the best of men; all ranks were proud to be led into action by such a leader.’ (The Roll of Honour, Volume III refers).
Marten is buried in Serre Road Cemetery, Somme, France. 483
Joseph Hallmark served in ‘B’ Battery, 93rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery, and is also entitled to the British War and Victory Medals. Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (168157 Dvr. J. Hallmark. R.A.) nearly extremely fine
484 £100-£140
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (Ply.12260. Pte. A. Tait, R.M.L.I. H.M.S. Perseus.) good very fine
£140-£180
Alexander Tait was born in Glasgow on 7 December 1883 and enlisted into the Plymouth Division of the Royal Marine Light Infantry in Liverpool on 15 July 1903. He served in H.M.S. Perseus from 24 February to 19 September 1913, and during the first year of the Great War in H.M.S. Active. He was discharged on 1 January 1920, his character rated ‘Fair’.
Sold with copied medal roll extract. 485 General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (292313 Gnr. A. E. Luck R.A.) light polishing, nearly very fine £60-£80
Albert Edward Luck is confirmed on the medal roll as entitled to the G.S.M. with clasp for Iraq, and his Medal Index Card shows no entitlement to any Great War medals. He is noted on the roll as Signaller, also having service number 292315, for service with the Royal Field Artillery.
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