Campaign Groups and Pairs 316


Pair: Private W. W. F. Nash, Royal Berkshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (23141 Pte. W. W. F. Nash. R. Berks. R.) very fine


Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (22891230 Pte. T. P. Tait. R.A.O.C.); War Medal 1939-45, very fine (4) £80-£120


317 Three: Acting Corporal R. J. Smith, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, later Norfolk Regiment


British War and Victory Medals (44657 Pte. R. J. Smith. K.R.R.C.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (5765385 A-Cpl. R. J. Smith. Norf R.) light contact marks, otherwise very fine (3)


£80-£120


Robert John Smith, a native of Hillington, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and served with the 12th Battalion during the Great War prior to transferring to the Norfolk Regiment.


318 Pair: Private V. Richards, Monmouthshire Regiment


British War and Victory Medals (61014 Pte. V. Richards. Monmouth. R.); together with a Llandebie Tribute Medal 1914 -19, silver and enamel (hallmarks for Birmingham 1921), the reverse inscribed ‘Presented by the People of Llanderbie to Pre. V. Richards K.S.L.I.’, minor enamel damage to last, generally very fine, the last rare (3)


£140-£180


Vincent Richards was born in Llandebie, Carmarthenshire, on 27 November 1898 and attested for the Monmouthshire Regiment at Carmarthen on 27 October 1916. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 October 1918, transferring to the 1st Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry on 29 October 1918, and was demobilised on 4 February 1919. He died on 21 September 1994, aged 95.


Sold with copied research. 319 Pair: Forewoman Barbara A. Shaw, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches


British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (380 Fwn. B. A. Shaw. Q.M.A.A.C.) mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, the miniatures lacking M.I.D. oak leaves, good very fine (2)


£100-£140 M.I.D. London Gazette 10 July 1919.


Miss Barbara Alison Shaw served as a Forewoman with the Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 June 1917 until the cessation of hostilities, and was Mentioned in Despatches.


Sold together with two British Red Cross Society lapel badges; a Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps lapel badge; and copied research.


320 Six: Squadron Leader D. H. Prosser, Royal Air Force


British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. D. H. Prosser. R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45 very fine and better (6)


£100-£140


David Harry Prosser was born in Glasgow on 4 August 1899 and attested for the Royal Flying Corps on 19 July 1917. Commissioned Second Lieutenant on 19 January 1918, he served during the Great War in an Observation Balloon in 108 Squadron, before transferring to the unemployed list on 14 June 1919.


Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War Prosser was commissioned Flying Officer in 946 (City of Glasgow) (Balloon) Squadron on 18 April 1939, and transferred to the Balloon Branch on 27 March 1940. Promoted Flight Lieutenant on 16 March 1941, he was advanced Squadron Leader on 1 January 1944, and finally relinquished his commission on 17 August 1954. He died in Dunbarton on 11 August 1969.


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Pair: Lieutenant R. J. Scott, Royal Air Force, who died of wounds following an aeroplane accident in Palestine on 7 May 1918


British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. J. Scott. R.A.F.) nearly extremely fine (2) £100-£140


Reginald Jacob Scott was born in Brandon, Manitoba, on 5 December 1896 and attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Winnipeg on 12 February 1916. Posted to the Canadian Army Service Corps, he served with them during the Great War from 1 April 1916, before being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps on 30 August 1917. He served with 111 Squadron in Palestine and died of wounds received following an aeroplane accident on 7 May 1918.


Sold with copied research. 322 Pair: Second Lieutenant C. N. Crofton-Sleigh, Royal Air Force


British War and Victory Medals (Lieut C. N. Crogton-Sleigh. R.A.F.) ‘2nd’ neatly erased before rank on both, otherwise very fine (2)


£70-£90


Charles Norman Crofton-Sleigh was born in Malta on 28 December 1893 and was educated at the University of Malta where he studied Electrical Engineering. He entered the Air Service at Roehampton Kite Balloon Station as a temporary probationary Flight Officer on 11 February 1918, and was commissioned temporary Second Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force as a Kite Balloon Officer on 7 May 1918. Appearing before a medical board in August 1918, he was declared permanently unfit on 30 September 1918, and resigned his commission on account of ill-health contracted on active service on 19 October 1918, being granted the honorary rank of Second Lieutenant.


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