Single Campaign Medals 540
The British War Medal awarded to Sir Norman Strathie, K.C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, who served during the Great War as a Corporal in the Southern Provinces Mounted Rifles, Indian Defence Force
British War Medal 1914-20 (593 Cpl. D. N. Strathie, S. Prov. M. Rif. I.D.F.) good very fine, rare to unit £70-£90
K.C.I.E. London Gazette 1 January 1944: David Norman Strathie, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Madras.
C.I.E. London Gazette 2 January 1939: David Norman Strathie, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Member, Board of Revenue, Madras.
Sir (David) Norman Strathie was born in Glasgow on 31 October 1886 and was educated at Glasgow Academy and Balliol College, Oxford. He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1911 and served initially as Under Secretary in the Revenue, Judicial, and Public Departments, Madras. He served during the Great War with the Southern Provinces Mounted Rifles, Indian Defence Force, from November 1917 to February 1918 (entitled to British War Medal only). Thereafter he was Commissioner of Income Tax, Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Inspector of Local Boards, and Adviser to the Government of Madras. He served as Commissioned of Income Tax for Palestine, and became Chief Civil Representative with the Southern Army in India. During the Second World War he returned to the U.K. and served in the Home Guard in London.
Appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1944, for his services as tax expert and adviser to the Governor of Madras, he retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1946, and subsequently served as Financial Secretary of Jamaica from 1946 to 1949. He died on 3 August 1959.
Strathie was evidently an accomplished Baritone, as he entertained the listeners of Madras Radio on one occasion with a medley of songs (appearing on the programme just after a Violin Recital given by Yehudi Menuhin).
Sold with copied research. 541
The British War Medal awarded to Private J. R. Henderson, 10th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 23 April 1915
British War Medal 1914-20 (20778 Pte. J. R. Henderson. 10-Can. Inf.); Memorial Plaque (John Reid Henderson); Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. John Reid Henderson, Canadian Infantry Bn.’, very fine (3)
£120-£160
John Reid Henderson was born in Dalmuir, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, on 10 April 1889 and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Valcartier on 23 September 1914. He served with the 10th Battalion (Alberta Regiment), Canadian Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 23 April 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Sold together with a letter of condolence from the Minister of Militia and Defence for Canada; the recipient’s Canadian Expeditionary Force Death Certificate; and Minister of National Defence enclosure.
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British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (258405 A.Cpl. J. A. Johnston. C.R.T.; 306629 Gnr. H. Kent. C.F.A.; 504624 Spr. W. Elliot. C.E.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (799139 Pte. J.
Mc.Naulty. Can. Labr. Bn.; 3162204 Pte. M. Parrot 87th Bn: Can: Inf.) the first gilded, the second renamed; India Service Medal 1939-45 (2), both unnamed as issued, generally very fine or better (7)
£50-£70 543
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (213274. A. E. Smith, Lg. Sea. H.M.S. Sphinx.) pitting from Star, nearly very fine
£80-£120
Arthur Ernest Smith was born in Hastings, Sussex, on 27 March 1887 and commenced his naval service as a Boy Second Class on 2 October 1904. He saw further service during the Great War and was awarded a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1924, whilst holding the rate of Petty Officer. He was discharged to pension on 7 April 1925, but rejoined the Royal Fleet Reserve the following day and continued service in the R.F.R. until discharged to shore medically unfit on 7 December 1939.
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Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (KX.87345 W. S. Rittey. Sto.1. R.N.) nearly extremely fine
£70-£90 Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Malaya,
G.VI.R. (C/JX.409227 T. E. Sharpin A.B. R.N.) extremely fine £140-£180
Thomas E. Sharpin was amongst 15 crew members of H.M. Motor Launch 2582 who were killed on 6 June 1952 when a Dutch Thunderjet, executing a sham attack during a combined exercise by British, Dutch, and Belgian forces, struck the mast of the motor launch and crashed on the deck. The crash occurred in the Marsdiep, between the northern tip of Holland the Isle of Texel, two miles off the coast. Both the Thunderjet and the launch burst into flames and soon sank; the Dutch pilot and 15 of the motor launch’s crew of 16 were killed. There was only one survivor, Leading Stoker Mechanic W. J. Johnson, who was thrown into the water and was able to stay afloat until he was rescued by some fishermen who had seen the accident from the shore and had set out in their boats.
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Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Near East (D/J.938203 G. T. Tomkins. Ord. R.N.) mounted as worn, good very fine
£60-£80
General Service 1918-62 (2), 1 clasp, Iraq (1044836 Bmbr. R. P. C. Kelly. R.A.); 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46, unnamed, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2)
£50-£70
General Service 1918-62 (2), 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (22933335 Gnr. J. M. Farry. R.A.); 1 clasp, Brunei (23847060 Gnr. W. S. Magee. RA.) nearly very fine (2)
£80-£100
1939-45 Star (6); Atlantic Star (5); Africa Star (4); Pacific Star (5); Burma Star (6); Italy Star (4); France and Germany Star (4), generally very fine and better (34)
£160-£200
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