Campaign Groups and Pairs x400
Pair: Second Lieutenant J. G. Leithead, 25th (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (2nd Tyneside Irish), who was severely gassed whilst in action at Armentieres, 8 April 1918
British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. J. G. Leithead) with named card box, cap badge, and portrait photograph of recipient in uniform, mounted as worn, riband frayed, good very fine (2)
£60-£80
James Grier Leithead was born in Fraserbrough, Aberdeenshire in October 1896, and resided at 8 South Terrace, Skelton-in-Cleveland. The son of a Forester, he was educated at Stanghow Lane School, Skelton-in-Cleveland. Leithead initially served as a Sergeant with the 2/4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment (T.F.), before being commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant in the 25th (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (2nd Tyneside Irish), 23 March 1917. He served during the Great War in the French theatre of war from May 1917, and was gassed whilst in action at Armentieres, 8 April 1918. Leithead was released from service, 12 May 1919.
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Pair: Captain T. A. Herd, Scottish Rifles, attached King’s African Rifles British War and Victory Medals (Capt. T. A. Herd.) very fine
Pair: Gunner W. H. Edwards, Royal Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (223996 Gnr. W. Edwards. R.A.) mounted as worn, nearly very fine Pair: Gunner J. Ross, Royal Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (345539 Gnr. J. Ross. R.A.) good very fine (6) £80-£120
Thomas Astley Herd was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Scottish Rifles, and served with them in the Gallipoli and Mudros theatres of War from 20 October 1915. Advanced Captain, he subsequently served on attachment to the King’s African Rifles.
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Pair: Lance-Corporal F. Ellis, Royal Sussex Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 27 March 1918 British War and Victory Medals (G-8809 Pte. F. Ellis. R. Suss. R.) in named card box of issue, with named Record Office enclosure addressed to ‘Miss L. E. Ellis, 8 Exeter Street, Brighton, Sussex’, extremely fine
Five: Sergeant W. Grimshaw, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, all privately engraved ‘K85412 Sgt. Wilfred Grimshaw P.P.C.L.I.’, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (7)
£70-£90
Frank Ellis was born in Brighton, Sussex, and attested there for the Royal Sussex Regiment. He served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 27 March 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, France.
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Pair: Private R. E. Riddle, Middlesex Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 15 April 1917
British War and Victory Medals (G-14511 Pte. R. E. Riddle. Midd’x R.) with named Record Office enclosure for the Victory Medal; Memorial Plaque (Robert Edward Riddle); Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. Robert Edward Riddle, Middlesex Regiment’, the scroll in two parts and sellotaped together, otherwise good very fine (4)
£140-£180
Robert Edward Riddle was born in Custom House, Middlesex, and attested for the Middlesex Regiment at Canning Town, Essex. He served with the 20th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 15 April 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Sold together with an unofficial identity disc, and copied research.
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Pair: Captain H. Coppock, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. Coppock.); together with the recipient’s riband bar, good very fine
Pair: Captain A. J. Davoren, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (Capt. A. J. Davoren.) very fine
Pair: Lieutenant R. H. Vercoe, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. H. Vercoe.) good very fine
Pair: Private R. Foreman, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (1933 Pte. R. Foreman. R.A.M.C.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘B327760’, good very fine (9)
£120-£160 Robert Foreman attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps on 9 February 1915, and was discharged on 9 June 1919.
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Three: Chaplain to the Forces Fourth Class the Rev. C. H. Mosse, Army Chaplains’ Department
British War and Victory Medals (Rev. C. H. Mosse); Defence Medal, mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s riband bar and related miniature awards, nearly extremely fine (3)
£80-£120
The Rev. Charles Herbert Mosse was born in March 1887 and was educated at St. Paul’s School, London, and Jesus College, Cambridge. He was Ordained Deacon in 1912, and Priest in 1913, and was commissioned Chaplain to the Forces Fourth Class on 28 December 1915. He served with the Army Chaplains’ Department during the Great War, and subsequently served as Vicar of Aldwick, Sussex, and Rural Dean of Selsey and Bognor Regis. He died in Hove, Sussex, in May 1970.
Sold together with the recipient’s Commission Document.
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