Campaign Groups and Pairs 282 Three: Sergeant Ivor Edwards, Royal Field Artillery
1914-15 Star (W-2693 Dvr: I. Edwards. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (W-2693 Sjt. I. Edwards. R.A.) together with a R.A.O.B. Founder’s jewel, silver-gilt and enamels, the reverse hallmarked Birmingham 1912, and inscribed ‘Presented to Sir Ivor Edwards from the Flower of Rhydyfelin Lodge for Valuable Services Rendered. Dec. 29. 1913’, the top suspension pin enamelled ‘Founder’, very fine or better (4)
£40-£50
Ivor Edwards was born at Llanwonno, Rhondda, Glamorgan, on 14 December 1883. He served in France as a Driver in the Royal Field Artillery from Christmas Day 1915, and was subsequently promoted to Sergeant. He was an ardent supporter of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Lodges and had a lodge named after him in Llantwit Fardre, the Sir Ivor Edwards Lodge. He was frequently mentioned in local newspapers. He was later living in Pontypridd with his wife and working as a colliery pay and cost clerk. They had two sons, one of whom won the D.F.M. in 1943. Ivor Edwards died at Pontypridd on 20 June 1942, and is buried in Glyntaff Cemetery. Sold with copied research.
For the D.F.M. group awarded to the recipient’s son, see Lot 156. 283
Three: Acting Sergeant A. J. Hillier, Royal Field Artillery, later Royal Engineers 1914-15 Star (966 Bmbr. W. Hillier, R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (966 A. Sjt. A. J. Hillier. R.A.) very fine
Three: Private G. Meyrick, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, later Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (17410 Pte. G. Meyrick. Shrops. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (17410 Pte. G. Meyrick. K.S.L.I.) minor edge bruising, very fine
Pair: Acting Sergeant G. C. Marchant, King’s Royal Rifle Corps British War and Victory Medals (R-27781
A.Sjt. G. C. Marchant. K.R.R.C.) very fine (8)
£100-£140
Walter Hillier was born in Pimlico, London, in 1897 and attested for the Royal Field Artillery. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 November 1915, later transferring to the Royal Engineers. He died in Kensington, London, on 14 February 1961.
George Meyrick was born at Clunbury, Shropshire, on 12 April 1884 and attested for the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry at Ludlow, Shropshire, on 17 February 1915. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 August 1915, before transferring to the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 16 March 1917. He was discharged class ‘Z’ Reserve on 27 April 1919, and died in 1956.
George Clifford Marchant was born in Pontypridd on 14 December 1893 and attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 8 December 1915. Advanced Acting Sergeant on 31 March 1917, he served on attachment to the Nigerian Regiment in West Africa throughout 1918, and was discharged due to a disability contracted whilst on active service on 12 October 1919. He died in October 1968.
Sold with copied research. 284
Three: Private H. Daft, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 13 October 1914
1914 Star, with clasp (717 Pte. H. Daft. R. War: R.); British War and Victory Medals (717 Pte. H. Daft. R. War. R.); Memorial Plaque (Herbert Daft) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; together with the recipient’s aluminium identity disc, ‘717 H. Daft R. War. R. C. of E.’, extremely fine (4)
£240-£280
Herbert Daft was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, and attested for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment at Birmingham. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 August 1914, and was killed in action on 13 October 1914. He is buried in Meteren Military Cemetery, France.
Sold together with a Royal Warwickshire Regiment silver sweetheart brooch; a small portrait photograph of the recipient mounted in a large ‘patriotic’ glazed frame; and copied research, including a newspaper cutting that notes that the widow was left with an infant child, born since her husband went away.
Please note that this lot is not suitable for shipping, but can be hand delivered within mainland Britain by prior arrangement with Christopher Mellor-Hill.
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Three: Private H. George, Lincolnshire Regiment, who served as a Bandsman and Stretcher Bearer on the Western Front, who recorded the daily events of 1915 in a fascinating diary
1914-15 Star (313 Pte. H. George. Linc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (313 Pte. H. George. Linc. R.) contact marks, nearly very fine (3)
£70-£90
Herbert George was born in Nettleham, Lincolnshire, on 8 August 1892, and attested for the Lincolnshire Regiment on 5 August 1914. He served with the 4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 March 1915, as a Bandsman and Stretcher-bearer, and recorded the events of 1915 in a daily diary, a full transcript of which is included with this lot. His year at the front was punctuated by a week’s leave at the end of September to enable him to get married back in Lincoln. He survived the War, but died of pneumonia at the early age of 39.
Sold with copied research, including a full transcript of the recipient’s diary and various copied photographic images; and two copies of Lincolnshire Life, March 1996, which contains a lengthy article on the recipient.
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