Auction Catalogue

5 April 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 574

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5 April 2006

Hammer Price:
£260

British War Medal 1914-20 (18) (45394 Gnr. J. Lorimer, R.A.; L-3285 Gnr. R. Collinson, R.A.; 118831 Pte. W. Oldfield, M.G.C.; 70582 Pte. A. A. Brown, R.A.M.C.; 2253 Pte. E. G. Weston, R.A.M.C.; MS-3212 T.W.O. Cl.1 R. Taylor, A.S.C.; 556138 Pte. M. Cohen, Labour Corps; 45711 Wkr. A. Anderson, Q.M.A.A.C.; 34051 Wkr. E. Murray, Q.M.A.A.C.; 40180 Wkr. D. Hutchins, Q.M.A.A.C.; 187207 3.A.M. F. Graham, R.A.F.; 29012 A. Cpl. H. Nice, R.A.F.; 119970 3.A.M. E. Hoyle, R.A.F.; 223071 2.A.M. A. Robinson, R.A.F.; 407524 Pte.2 T. Whiteside, R.A.F.; John Lafferty; Reginald S. Sullivan) nearly very fine and better (18) £200-260

Gunner J. Lorimer, 5th “C” Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, died on home service on 7 May 1917. He was buried in Ventnor Cemetery, Isle of Wight.

Medal to Collinson with Silver War Badge (B34874).

Arthur Alexander Brown, 29th General Hospital, R.A.M.C., died on home service on 2 January 1920. The son of Samuel Brown of 41 White Rock Street, Liverpool was buried in Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool.

Able Seaman Reginald Smith Sullivan, Mercantile Marine, was killed on 30 May 1918, aged 25 years, when the Cunard Line steamship Ausonia was topedoed and sunk by a German submarine 620 miles W by S of Fastnet. 44 lives were lost in the attack. His name is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial. He was the husband of Isabella Sullivan of Hatton Hill Cottage, Hatton Hill, Ford, Liverpool.