The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Four: Corporal D. G. Brodie, 19th Middlesex (St. Giles’ and St. George’s Bloomsbury) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Sergeant, Wellington Infantry Regiment, who was killed in action at Gallipoli with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force on 24 November 1915

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (236 Cpl. D. G. Brodie, C.I.V.); 1914-15 Star, naming erased; British War and Victory Medals (10/2488 Sjt. G. Brodie. N.Z.E.F.); Memorial Plaque (Gordon Brodie); together with a set of five regimental sporting medals, silver and bronze, four of which are named to the recipient and dated 1893 to 1897, edge bruise to first, otherwise very fine or better (10) £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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David Gordon Brodie was born in Edinburgh in 1874. In the 1881 census he is recorded as Gordon Brodie, 7 years old, living with his parents David, a leather trunk maker, and Agnes Brodie, at St. George’s, Bloomsbury, London. He joined the Bloomsbury Rifles on 3 November 1891 and served with their detachment in South Africa during the Boer War as a Corporal in the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers, returning to England, sick, in August 1900. On his C.I.V. attestation form Brodie gives his occupation also as trunk maker.

During the Great War, still using the name Gordon Brodie, he attested for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force on 15 March 1915, stating his employer as Murray Roberts, Napier and his current address as the the Clarendon Hotel, Napier, also giving his place and date of birth as Edinburgh, November 1876 and, his previous service as 14 years in the Rifle Brigade and South Africa. Also confirmed are his next of kin, D. Brodie (Father) deceased and Mrs A. Brodie. (mother), 67 Foreland Rd, Whitchurch, Cardiff.

Brodie sailed with the N.Z.E.F. from New Zealand on 14 August 1915, arriving at Mudros and reverting to the ranks, on 30 September 1915. He was advanced Sergeant the following day and was killed in action in Gallipoli, on 24 November 1915, whilst serving with the 9th Hawke’s Bay Company, Wellington Infantry Battalion. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Embarkation Pier Cemetery Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.