Medals from the Collection of Brigadier Brian Parritt, C.B.E.

British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (Lt. Col. R. W.Oppenheim; Lieut. E. Cremieu-Javal; Capt. H. C. Jackson) very fine and better (3) £70-90

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Robert William Oppenheim was born in Park Lane, London on 5 May 1880. He was commissioned into the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards on 20 January 1900 and was promoted Lieutenant on 14 December 1901. On 26 March 1902 he transferred into the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards as a 2nd Lieutenant. In 1911, after a tour in South Africa, he became Adjutant of the 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons) and was promoted Captain on 3 August 1912. When war broke out in 1914, the Westminster Dragoons were attending their annual camp and were immediately mobilised. After training and reorganising they sailed to Egypt in January 1915 and became part of the Yeomanry Mounted Brigade. On 14 January they sailed from Alexandria and landed at Sulva Bay on 18 August to become part of 5th Mounted Brigade, 2nd Mounted Division. They moved from “A” Beach to Lala Baba on the 20th and then forward to Chocolate Hill. As dismounted troops they took part in the attacks on Scimitar Hill and Hill 112, where they suffered heavy casualties. Throughout September and October the Dragoons carried out tours in the Forward Areas of the Carter's House Sector, finally sailing back to Mudros on 31 October. Captain Robert Oppenheim served as Adjutant during this campaign in Gallipoli. He was then posted to Flanders to be an D.A.A. & Q.M.G. in the Machine Gun Corps and did ‘Invaluable work in the raising of the tank formations which fought at Cambrai’. He then returned to the Middle East to be an A.A. & Q.M.G. in the 53rd Welsh Division for the final campaign led by General Allenby. Oppenheim was made a Temporary Lieutenant Colonel on 8 September 1917 and confirmed as Brevet Major on 1 January 1918. For his wartime services he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 5 June 1919), awarded the O.B.E. and Order of the Nile, 4th Class. He retired from the Army on 24 April 1921 because of ill health, and joined the Metropolitan Special Constabulary, eventually becoming Commandant of “A” Division. He died on 13 December 1941 aged 62 years.

Lieutenant E. Cremieu-Javal, a Railway Traffic Officer.

Several ‘J. H. Jacksons’ in 1918 Army List. Only one with the rank of captain - Captain J. H. Jackson, 7th Battalion Royal Fusiliers. In the regimental history it records, ‘On the 9th September 1914 there was a sharp engagement. Five men were killed and twenty-nine were wounded including Lieut J.H. Jackson ...’