Miscellaneous 608
Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, July 2010. Field Officer’s Small Gold Medal 1808-14, for Vittoria, naming erased, complete with integral gold riband buckle,
nearly extremely fine except where stated £4,000-£5,000 609
22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot Medal 1820, 36mm, silver, for fourteen years’ good conduct, obverse featuring George III receiving the medal from Colonel Crosbie on the terrace at Windsor, the Castle in the background, ‘Established under Royal Sanction’ above, ‘1785’ in exergue, the reverse inscribed ‘Reestablished by Col. Sir H. Gough 1st. January 1820’, with two palm branches below, ‘Order of Merit 22nd. Regiment’ around, unmounted, lightly gilded in lemon-gilt, minor edge bruise, good very fine
£50-£70 Referenced in Balmer, R.246. 610
Greenwich Hospital School Medal for Attainments and Good Conduct, silver (H. E. Green Dec. 1904) scratch to reverse, otherwise good very fine
£30-£50
Hugh Ernest Green was born at Greenwich on 2 August 1889, and was educated at the Upper Nautical School of the Greenwich Hospital School. In 1905, still in his mid-teens, he began a career in astronomy at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, as a computer in the Time and Chronometer Department, and subsequently his duties included observing with the Transit Circle and Astrographic Telescope. Consequent to a serious attack of rheumatic fever in 1907, he was unable in 1912 to pass the medical examination for appointment on the permanent establishment of the Royal Observatory. From September 1914 he was employed on the computation of tides in the Tidal Branch of the Hydrographic Department at the Admiralty until May 1918, when he resigned to join the Observatory staff at Cambridge as Second Assistant, a post he held until his death. He joined Fitzwilliam House in 1922, taking his B.A. degree in 1924 and his M.A. degree in 1927. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in March 1935, but died suddenly at Cambridge on 18 September 1944, aged 55. Sold with copied Royal Astronomical Society obituary notice.
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Memorial Plaque (George Edward Bracey Stroud) mounted for display on a wooden base with plaque inscribed ‘George Edward Bracey Stroud who was lost at sea from H.M.S. Albemarle somewhere in the North Sea November 7th 1915’, nearly extremely fine
£60-£80 Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, November 2015 (when sold alongside his campaign medals).
George Edward Bracey Stroud was born in St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex on 21 February 1887 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 22 September 1902. Advanced Able Seaman in December 1905, he served in the pre-dreadnought battleship H.M.S. Albemarle from December 1913 on into the Great War. In August 1914 the ship formed part of the 6th Battle Squadron, stationed at Portland. As part of the Channel Fleet they provided cover for the B.E.F. as it crossed over to France. In January the 6th Battle Squadron was based at the Nore before being dispersed later in the year. In October 1915 Albemarle underwent a refit at Chatham Dockyard and in November 1915 the Albemarle was ordered to move to the Mediterranean with a division of the 3rd Battle Squadron. The ships left Rosyth on 6 November but encountered extremely heavy weather that night in the Pentland Firth. Albemarle, heavily loaded with spare ammunition, suffered severe damage - her forebridge and the personnel on it were washed overboard and her conning tower and superstructure were badly damaged and she was forced to return home for repairs. Stroud is recorded as having been ‘washed overboard and drowned during storm’ on 7 November 1915, and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
x612 Memorial Plaque (Lancelot Philip Charles) nearly extremely fine £80-£120
Lancelot Philip Charles attested for the Honourable Artillery Company on 7 September 1914, and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 January 1915. Advanced Warrant Officer Class II, he was mortally wounded on 13 November 1916 during an attack on the enemy positions at Beaucourt, ‘charging, single-handed, a group of Huns who were holding a piece of trench on our left’, and died of his wounds the following day. He is buried in Varennes Military Cemetery, Somme, France.
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