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26 & 27 September 2018

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№ 448

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26 September 2018

Hammer Price:
£180

Victory Medal 1914-19 (10) (PS 8549 Pte. W. A. Turner. R. Fus.; 22415 Pte. W. Hartley. G. Gds.; 43727 Pte. G. C. Champion. K.O.Y.L.I.; 5398 Pte. G. Loveridge. Oxf. & Bucks. L. I.; D-4229 Cpl A. T. Baldock. 2-D. Gds.; 44083 Pte. S. D. Jones. K.S.L.I.; 36549 Pte. F. Mowbray. Notts. & Derby. R.; R-40577 Pte. J. Fox. K. R. Rif. C.; 45722 Spr. C. Smith. R.E.; 56695 Gnr. E. Clarkson. R.A.) very fine or better (10) £100-140

William Arthur Turner, a resident of Manchester, originally enlisted into one of the Royal Fusiliers Public Schools Battalions, before being posted to the 28th (Reserve) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). After landing in France, he was posted to the 8th (Service) Battalion. He was killed in action on 7 October 1916, during the Battle of Le Transloy. This was the last offensive of the Fourth Army in the Battle of the Somme:
‘Just before zero hour a German machine-gun barrage began on the front trenches of the 12th Division and began an artillery bombardment. The 6th Royal West Kent on the left was stopped by the machine-gun barrage as were the 9th and 8th Royal Fusiliers of the 36th Brigade on the left, the parties of the 8th Royal Fusiliers which got into Bayonet Trench being overwhelmed.’ Turner has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

William Hartley, a native of Manchester, served on the Western Front with the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards. He was killed in action on 15 September 1916 when attacking the village of Lesboeufs, Somme. The Guards Division suffered a large number of casualties in this action. Hartley has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

George Cartwright Champion, a native of Sunderland, served on the Western Front with the 10th (Service) Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry before being posted to the 9th (Service) Battalion. He was killed in action at Guyencourt on 21 March 1918, the first day of the German Spring Offensive, when the 9th Battalion positions were subjected to artillery bombardment. Champion has no known grave and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, France.

George Loveridge, a native of Wolvercote, served on the Western Front with the 2/4th Battalion Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He was killed in action at Soyécourt on 4 April 1917 when the battalion’s forward posts were heavily shelled, killing one and wounding two others. He is buried in Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

Arthur T. Baldock served on the Western Front with the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), landing on 16 August 1914. He appears on an 18 September 1914 list of wounded men who were admitted to the Royal Victoria Hospital. It is likely that he was wounded during the 2nd Dragoon’s action in the Battle of the Aisne (12-15 September 1914).

Sidney David Jones served on the Western Front with the 7th (Service) Battalion, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. He later transferred to the 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment and then went onto serve with them in Mesopotamia during the 1920 Iraqi Revolt. For this service he was awarded the General Service Medal with ‘Iraq’ clasp. In July 1920, three companies of the 2nd Battalion were involved in the famous action at Hillah, where Captain George Stuart Henderson of the 2nd, was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.

Frederick Mowbray served on the Western Front with the 11th (Service) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment) and was later transferred to the 8th (Service) Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment. Both battalions moved to Italy in November 1917.

John Fox enlisted on 16 March 1917 and served on the Western Front with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and posted to the 2/9th (County of London) Battalion (Queen Victoria’s Rifles), London Regiment. He was discharged from the army on 23 October 1918, no longer physically fit for active service due to wounds.

Cyril Smith served on the Western Front with the Royal Engineers, landing in France on 30 August 1915.

Eric Clarkson served on the Western Front with 33rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, landing in France on 6 November 1914. He transferred to the Labour Corps on 7 October 1917.