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Three: Private R. Spence, Coldstream Guards 1914 Star, with clasp (4949. Pte. R. Spence....
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Three: Private R. Spence, Coldstream Guards 1914 Star, with clasp (4949. Pte. R. Spence. C. Gds:); British War and Victory Medals (4949 Pte. R. Spence. C. Gds.) mounted as worn, light contact marks and wear throughout, nearly very fine (3) £100-£140 --- Robert Spence was born in Thornaby, Yorkshire, in 1883, and attested for the Coldstream Guards at Stockton on Tees on 3 January 1903. Posted to the 1st Battalion, his Army Service Record notes repeated discipline infringement including over 20 entries in the Regimental Defaulter Book for absence, breaking into barracks, drunkenness and making improper remarks; on at least two occasions he was fortunate to just be confined to barracks following major altercations in Knightsbridge where he ‘violently resisted’ the military police. Other instances involved ‘staggering about the road [Sloane Square] having a bruised face.’ The 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards were posted to France on 13 August 1914, being amongst the first troops of the British Expeditionary Force to land at Le Havre. They fought at the Battle of Mons and subsequent retreat, the Battle of the Marne, the Battle of the Aisne and the First Battle of Ypres. Granted leave on 29 December 1915, Spence returned to the 1st Battalion on 17 December 1916, but was once again in trouble with his superiors: ‘Awarded 4 days F.P. No. 2 15.2.17 for hesitating to clean the manure from stables when ordered by an N.C.O.’ Spence survived the war - one of a very small band of ‘Old Contemptibles’ from the original Coldstream Guards muster of August 1914. Sold with two brass Regimental badges and copied record of service.
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Three: Private R. Spence, Coldstream Guards 1914 Star, with clasp (4949. Pte. R. Spence. C. Gds:); British War and Victory Medals (4949 Pte. R. Spence. C. Gds.) mounted as worn, light contact marks and wear throughout, nearly very fine (3) £100-£140 --- Robert Spence was born in Thornaby, Yorkshire, in 1883, and attested for the Coldstream Guards at Stockton on Tees on 3 January 1903. Posted to the 1st Battalion, his Army Service Record notes repeated discipline infringement including over 20 entries in the Regimental Defaulter Book for absence, breaking into barracks, drunkenness and making improper remarks; on at least two occasions he was fortunate to just be confined to barracks following major altercations in Knightsbridge where he ‘violently resisted’ the military police. Other instances involved ‘staggering about the road [Sloane Square] having a bruised face.’ The 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards were posted to France on 13 August 1914, being amongst the first troops of the British Expeditionary Force to land at Le Havre. They fought at the Battle of Mons and subsequent retreat, the Battle of the Marne, the Battle of the Aisne and the First Battle of Ypres. Granted leave on 29 December 1915, Spence returned to the 1st Battalion on 17 December 1916, but was once again in trouble with his superiors: ‘Awarded 4 days F.P. No. 2 15.2.17 for hesitating to clean the manure from stables when ordered by an N.C.O.’ Spence survived the war - one of a very small band of ‘Old Contemptibles’ from the original Coldstream Guards muster of August 1914. Sold with two brass Regimental badges and copied record of service.
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