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462 Three: Captain N.F.V. Rockey, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, Late 5th Mounted Rifles, Imperial Light Horse 1914-15 Star (Lt. N. Rockey 5th M.R.); British War Medal (Capt. N.F.W. Rockey. R.A.F.); Victory Medal (Lieut. N.F.W. Rockey. R.F.C.), nearly extremely fine (3) £180-220 Captain Norman Frank Vere Rockey, born 1890; educated at St. John’s College, Johannesburg; Bishop’s College, Cape Town; Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire and Transvaal University College; a British national he was employed as an engineer in the family firm Raleigh & Rockey Ltd, Johannesburg; commissioned Lieutenant, 5th Mounted Rifles, Imperial Light Horse and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in October 1915; after training he was posted as a Pilot to 11 (Fighter) Squadron (F.E. 2b’s), Izel-le- Hameau, France, September 1916; the squadron mainly flew reconnaissance operations, and when flying in one such operation over Arras, 2.12.1916, ‘this officer when flying at 10,000 feet was struck on the head by his machine gun which had been dislodged through the explosion of a shell’ (Medical Board report refers); after a period of hospitalisation he was employed with the Air Ministry; Temporary Captain 1.4.1918; Captain 1.1.1919 and discharged later that month. 463 Pair: Lieutenant H.R. Hart-Davies, 48 Squadron, Royal Air Force, Shot Down and Taken P.O.W., 19.8.1917 1914-15 Star (10364 Bmbr. H.R. Hart-Davies. R.F.A.); Victory Medal (Lieut. H.R. Hart-Davies), very fine Pair: Captain B.C. Tooke, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force, Destroyed a Submarine in the North Sea, 30.3.1916, And Shot Down and Taken P.O.W., 20.8.1916 British War and Victory Medals (Capt. B.C. Tooke. R.A.F.), very fine (4) £250-300 Lieutenant Hugh Rowland Hart-Davies, born Bristol, Gloucestershire, 1892; employed as an engineer at Vickers Ltd, Sheffield, prior to the Great War; enlisted as Gunner, Royal Field Artillery, 1.9.1914; served with the Royal Field Artillery in the Egyptian Theatre of War, from 14.7.1915; Bombardier, 7.7.1916; commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps., 6.10.1916; after training was posted as Observer to 48 (Fighter) Squadron (Bristol F. 2b’s), Bray Dunes, Dunkirk, France, 14.8.1917; five days later, whilst flying with Second Lieutenant R. Dutton, he took off in F. 2b A7171 at 5.45am, ‘whilst returning from escorting bombing squadron, attacked by three enemy planes, Pilot killed by gun fire. Crashed somewhere near Ostend, exact whereabouts unknown. Cannot remember anything after crashing’ (Repatriation Form refers); their aircraft was believed to have been shot down by Leutnant Walter Brachwitz of Jasta 17; Hart-Davies was wounded during the action, and taken Prisoner of War on the same day; he was repatriated 28.11.1918; after the war he set up Hart-Davies & Haggard Ltd (Motor Agents & Engineers), Leamington Spa. Captain Benjamin Cecil Tooke, born Leeds, Yorkshire, 1892; was employed by the White Star Line at the beginning of the Great War, and served in R.M.S. Olympic when she was employed as a Troopship; he was serving in her when ‘an endeavour was made to get Audacious in tow, off S.W. coast of Ireland November 1914 (entitled to Mercantile Marine orders, deCoratioNs, CampaigN medaLs aNd miLitaria WWW.spiNK.Com Captain B.C. Tooke (second from left), with three other R.N.A.S. inmates of Clausthal Camp War Medal); H.M.S. Audacious (battleship) had hit a German mine of Donegal; gained R.A.C. Flying Certificate (no.2035), at Central Flying School, Upavon, November 1915; posted as a Flight Sub Lieutenant, Pilot at R.N.A.S. Seaplane Station, Dunkirk, from December 1915; the Seaplane Squadron were tasked with flying day and night bombing raids on Ostend and Zeebrugge as well as flying anti-submarine patrols; an article by Norman Franks (on L.H. Slatter O.B.E., D.S.C., D.F.C.) that appeared in Cross & Cockade gives the following, ‘on the 30th March 1916 he and his usual pilot, Lt. Tooke, attacked one of four submarines they found off Ostend, dropping two 65lb bombs. The submarine was believed to have sunk. The next day they bombed another one off Zeebrugge but were then driven off by two German seaplanes. On 10th April, they attacked another submarine off Blankenburghe but without visible result’; as a consequence of the above Tooke was recommended for a promotion or gallantry award by the Station Commander, 25.4.1916; promoted Flight Lieutenant 30.6.1916; was present when the King visited the Rest Camp, 13.8.1916; seven days later whilst piloting Short Seaplane 184 9067, with Lieutenant O.H. Crowther as his Observer, he was shot down by gunfire ‘while spotting for monitor H.M.S. General Craufurd off Belgian Coast’; Crowther was killed and Tooke, wounded in both legs and his right hand, taken Prisoner of War; he was interned at Clausthal Camp, Germany; after the war he continued to be employed by the Royal Air Force, and died of illness at R.A.F. Combined Hospital, Basrah, 11.7.1924.
November 22, 2012 - LoNdoN 464 Three: Major J.W. Higgins, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, Late Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (Capt. J.W. Higgins. R.A.F.); Territorial Force War Medal (Capt. J.W. Higgins. R.A.), generally very fine or better (3) £350-400 M.I.D. London Gazette 6.7.1917 Higgins, Lt. (temp. Capt.) J.W., R.F.A. (Egpyt) M.I.D. London Gazette 30.5.1918 Higgins, Lt. and Hon. Capt. J.W. (late R.F.A.), R.A.F. Major James White Higgins, born 1885; served during the Great War with the Royal Field Artillery in the Egyptian Theatre of War, from February 1916; attached Royal Flying Corps, May 1917, and after training posted as Captain, Observer to 45 (Fighter) Squadron, Fienvillers, France 8.7.1917; eight days later whilst flying with Second Lieutenant R.H. Deakin as his pilot he forced down out of control an Albatros D3 over Polygon Wood; the squadron was gradually re-equipped with single-seater Camels, August- September 1917; as a consequence of this and a combination of casualties and postings Higgins was the last Observer left with the squadron, ‘that left Capt. J.W. Higgins as the last manin. James Higgins elected to give up flying and stay with the squadron as its Recording Officer’; he held this position until June 1918; in October 1917, ‘at about this time Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, paid a visit to France. He intimated he intended to come to 45 Squadron to see our commanding officer, who had once been his pupil. The recording officer at the time was Captain J.W. Higgins, who had been an observer in our 1 1/2 Strutter days, and previously a Territorial gunner. He was a Glaswegian and a stout Protestant. Vaucour [commanding officer] told him, banteringly, that he would have to kneel and kiss the Cardinal’s ring. Higgins protested his objection and on the day of the visit kept a watchful eye from the squadron office upon the approach to the airfield. When the Cardinal’s car appeared he bolted through the back door and fled to the shelter of the camp. No kissing of the ring for him. But Vaucour received the Cardinal outside his office and dutifully knelt and kissed the ring upon the proffered hand’; Higgins moved with the squadron to Italy, December 1917; posted to the Home Establishment, 18.6.1918; subsequent postings included to R.A.F. Station Dundee; discharged 26.2.1919. Major J.W. Higgins (centre, holding Peter the dog) 237 Second Lieutenant J.E.G. Robinson 465 Six: Second Lieutenant J.E.G. Robinson, Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (2/Lieut. J.E.G. Robinson. R.A.F.); 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, Great War awards nearly very fine, otherwise generally very fine or better, with R.F.C. bullion blazer badge (6) £80-120 Second Lieutenant James Edward Greenwood Robinson, born Hull, Yorkshire, 1899; enlisted Royal Flying Corps, as 3/A.M., 11.6.1917; commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant (On Probation) Royal Air Force, 9.1.1918; served as Lieutenant, 5th Green Howards, 11.4.1921- 6.7.1921.
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