MM (GV)
Named: 137544 Gnr. R. Wilson 95/ Sge. By. RGA - TF
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Gunner R. Wilson served in 95 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, Territorial Force.

95th Siege Battery went out to the Western Front in May 1916 and joined the 35th HAG (Heavy Artillery Group) on 23 May 16. It transferred to the 46th HAG on 5 Jul 16; to 28th HAG on 25 Jul 16; 31st HAG on 5 Oct 16; 6th HAG on 28 Oct 16; 18th HAG on 3 Dec 16; 70th HAG on 6 Feb 17; 50th HAG on 27 Feb 17; 87th HAG on 20 Apr 17; 88th HAG on 30 May 17; 57th HAG on 13 Jun 17; 90th HAG on 19 Jun 17; 70th HAG on 24 Jun 17; 59th HAG on 8 Sep 17; 58th HAG on 28 Sep 17; 90th HAG on 24 Oct 17; 71st HAG on 17 Nov 17; 90th HAG on 26 Nov 17; 71st HAG on 30 Nov 17 and finally 90th HAB (Heavy Artillery Brigade) on 3 Dec 17 with which it remained for the remainder of the war.

150 GBP

MM (GV)
Named: 61293 Sgt. A.H. Price RFA
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Nice to a senior NCO.

150 GBP

Plaque named Thomas Fryer 

Name scratched but clear.  Several possible including a Canadian DCM winner and a first day of the Somme casualty.

EG:  3/8311 Sjt T. Fryer  (Leeds), DCM

”For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during a withdrawal, when he rallied a large portion of his company after they had been bombed out of a position on the left flank, and led them forward, retaking the lost position and thereby preventing the enemy from getting in behind the battalion.  Later
he was wounded.”  (LG, 3.9.18)

50 GBP

British War Medal (GV)
Named: Lt. Col. J.F. MacLaren

Son of Dr John MacLaren and Jane Craige Clark, Kirkmichael, Blairgowrie, Scotland (I believe that this is near Perth).  Born 22 Oct. 1854.  MB CM Ed. 1877.  Surg. 2 April 1881.  SM 2 April 1893.  Lt-Col 2 April 1901.  S. List 15 Oct. 1908.  Reserves 24 June 1911.  Recalled for Great War.

From 1920 "War Service of Officers of the Army etc":

MacLaren JF (Lt-Col. ret. Indian Medical Service).  Served Sudan Expedition 1885 - Suakin.  Action of Hasheen and operations at Tamai.  Medal with clasps; bronze star.

From "The History of Blairgowrie" (John A.R. Macdonald, 1899)

George G. MacLaren - a distinguished military surgeon, served over 22 years in India; for many years Medical Supervisor of the important Civil Station of Dehra Doon, NW Province, who performed in 1880 a successful operation on the right eye of Yakoob Khan, ex-Ameer of Afghanistan; retired on a pension with honorary rant of Lt-Colonel.

James F. MacLaren (brother of the above) - appointed 1881, Surgeon to HM 2nd (PWO) Goorkha regiment, permanently stationed during the peace at Dehra Doon, NW Province.  (It was this regiment who so markedly distinguished itself along with the 92nd Highlanders, at the battle of Candahar, under Sir F. Roberts, during the Afrghan War.).

Awarded Volunteer Decoration 21 June 1901.

MIC confirms WW1 service as BWM only.  Issued by the Govt. of India.

EF

75 GBP

BWM (GV)
Named: Lt A. Theobald

Lt Arnold Theobald served with the 7th Battalion Royal Scots. His MIC (copy supplied) shows that he was commissioned into the Royal Scots on 23.1.16 although he had already served in France from 19.12.1915 as a Private. Formerly Officer Training Corps (Inns of Court? It is difficult to read this on the MIC - ed).

MC Citation: 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in leading a daylight raid. He entered the enemy's trench and secured a prisoner at the point of a bayonet, shooting two of the enemy himself. Afterwards he coolly rallied his party and sent them back, while he and two other ranks covered their withdrawal. Hw showed a splendid example of courage and leadership.'

Cross of Sacrifice (copy of page supplied) confirms the award of the Military Cross and that he died (probably of wounds received - ed) on 29.6.1918. Buried at the LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Son of Mrs. E. Theobald and the late Rev. G. A. Theobald. Born at Pietermaritzburg, Natal.

The 7th (Service) Battalion was formed at Ayr in September 1914 and attached to the 45th Brigade, 15 (Scottish) Division. At Quintinshill in 1915 the train carrying the 7^th Battalion Royal Scots derailed and almost completely decimated the battalion – there were 226 killed and 246 injured. The accident occurred near Gretna Green and, to this day, it remains the worst rail accident in Britain.

75 GBP

BWM (GV)
Named: Lieut. H. Knight

Naming is with serifs which indicates a non-British officer.  Unresearched.  No ribbon. 
NVF

25 GBP

BWM (GV)
Named:  Rev. S. Band

NVF.  Toned dark.  Unresearched.

50 GBP

Victory Medal (GV)
Named:  Capt. J. Hamilton

Unresearched.  NVF.

15 GBP

King South Africa Medal, usual two bars
Named: 3778 PTE A. MURRAY, INNIS: DRGNS.

Private (3778) Alfred George Murray served with the Inniskilling Dragoons in the Boer War and with the same unit (renamed the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons) in the Great War. He and his unit formed part of the original BEF.

He was KIA on 31 October 1914 in the First Battle of Ypres. Comes with CWGC confirmation. Otherwise unresearched.
NVF

150 GBP

RN LSGC (GV -coinage head (E) issued from 1931-1936)
Named: J74008 A.G. Brinton L.S. HMS Glorious

HMS Glorious started life as a light battle-cruiser. Laid down on the 1st May 1915 at the Harland and Wolff shipyards. and launched on the 20th April 1916. and completed on the 14th October 1916. This Battle Cruiser only saw one action during world war one at Heligoland bight on the 17th November 1917. It was then that a weakness to the ships decking was found when HMS Glorious had fired its main armament of four 15-inch guns (mounted in pairs ) one pair forward and pair aft. the firing actually caused the structural damage. Probably due to this weakness HMS Glorious and her sister ship HMS Courageous were placed in the Royal naval reserve fleet in February 1919, at Devonport, Plymouth

HMS Glorious and HMS Courageous were converted into aircraft carriers. HMS Glorious was converted in 1930. (an interesting fact, was that there main armament of 15inch guns were stored and finally re used for the last battleship of the Royal navy, HMS Vanguard - HMS Glorious four 15-inch guns were mounted aft, and Courageous guns mounted forward on HMS Vanguard.). While an aircraft carrier she housed, amongst others, Fairey Swordfish aircraft. Brinton would have served on her while she was an aircraft carrier.

On the afternoon of Saturday the eighth of June, 1940, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent were intercepted in the Norwegian Sea by the German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst. The three British ships were sunk by gunfire in a little over two hours, with the loss of over 1500 officers and men of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, and Royal Air Force.

Medal unresearched.

VF

42 GBP

BWM (GV)
Named: Rev. W.K. White
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50 GBP

With research with shows Robert Ernest Jarvis was a Domestic Third Class - Officer's Steward First Class. Born Cornworthy, Devon in 1879, served in the RN from 1898-1907 and again from 1910-1922. MIC confirms only entitled to BWM (not VM) for WW1 but also entitled to the LSGC medal (GV issued in 1916).

Served on the following ships / stations: Vivid I, Blake, Royal Arthur, Katoomba, Royal Arthur, Vivid, Highflyer, Vivid, Trafalgar, Argyll, Aboukir, Vivid I, Mutine, Andromedia, Sirius, Vivid I, Foresight, Vivid, Foresight, Vivid, New Zealand, Vivid III, Columbine (Voyage), Vivid III.

He was paid a war gratuity aboard "HMS Vivid III" (List 7). He was invalided to the RN Hospital Plymouth on 8/2/22.

20 GBP

Victory Medal (GV)
Named: Lieut. H.O.A. Demierre R.N.R.

Unresearched

25 GBP

Victory Medal (GV)
Named: 2 Lieut. H.A. Brown
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Unresearched

15 GBP

10 GBP

10 GBP