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Orders and Decorations for Gallantry or Distinguished Service ..............

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Medals to the Ormsby Family .................................................................... 17- 19 British Orders and Single Awards .............................................................. 20- 37 Campaign Groups and Pairs ...................................................................... 38-119 Single Campaign Medals .......................................................................... 120-383 A Collection of Great War Bronze Memorial Plaques and Associated Medals .......................................................................... 384-438 Foreign Orders, Decorations and Medals ................................................ 439-502 Coronation, Jubilee, Meritorious, Long Service and Efficiency Decorations and Medals ...................................................... 503-547 Life Saving Medals .................................................................................... 548-549 Miscellaneous ............................................................................................ 550-554 Militaria .................................................................................................... 555-565 Miniature Awards .................................................................................... 566-568

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THURSDAY 25 APRIL 2013 Commencing at 10.00 a.m.

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GROUPS AND PAIRS WITH ORDERS AND DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY OR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE x1 The Second War C.B., Great War D.S.O., M.C. Group of Ten to Major-General T.N.F. Wilson, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, Later A.D.C. to H.M. the King a) The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, Military Division, Companion’s (C.B.) neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel b) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, obverse centre slightly depressed, with integral top riband bar c) Military Cross, G.V.R. d) 1914-15 Star (Lieut: T.N.F. Wilson, K.R. Rif: C.) e) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Major T.N.F. Wilson) f) 1939-1945 Star g) Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaf h) Coronation 1953, generally good very fine, mounted court-style as worn, with the recipient’s related miniature awards, and the following Bestowal Documents &c.: - Commission appointing Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson a Second Lieutenant, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, dated 11.11.1914 - Bestowal Document for the Order of the Bath, C.B., dated 13.6.1946, together with a copy of the Statutes of the Order, and Central Chancery letter - Bestowal Document for the D.S.O., dated 3.6.1919 - Mentioned in Despatches Certificate, dated 16.3.1919 - Various copy photographs of the recipient (lot) £2,800-3,200 C.B. London Gazette 13.6.1946 Major-General (temporary) Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson, D.S.O., M.C. (8864), late Infantry.

D.S.O. London Gazette 3.6.1919 Capt. Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson, M.C., 1st Bn., K.R. Rif. C. ‘For distinguished service in connection with Military Operations in France and Flanders.’

M.C. London Gazette 13.2.1917 Lt. (actg. Capt.) Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson, K.R.R.C. ‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. He reorganised a few men and led them forward with great gallantry, capturing an enemy trench together with 60 prisoners.’

Major-General Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., born March 1896, and educated at Winchester College and R.M.C. Sandhurst; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 11.11.1914; served with the Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from February 1915 (wounded); promoted

Major-General T.N.F. Wilson Captain, February 1917, and held the rank of Acting Major and Adjutant, M.G.C., April to September 1918. During the period December 1917 - April 1918 he was employed as an Instructor in the 5th Army Infantry School. For his wartime services he was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, awarded the Military Cross and Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 9.7.1919). Employed as G.S.O.3 in the War Office, January 1931 to March 1932; Commander of the Company of Gentleman Cadets, R.M.C., March 1932 to January 1935; D.A.A.G. War Office, February 1936 to January 1938, during which time he received the brevet of Major, January 1932; promoted Major, July 1932; received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel, January 1936; and promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, August 1938. Commanding the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. during 1938-39, promoted Colonel, January 1939; served as a Brigadier Commanding in the British Expeditionary Force and Northern Command, December 1939 to December 1940 (Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 20.12.1940). Served on the General Staff Home Forces, December 1940 to July 1941, and then on the General Staff in Washington, July 1941 to March 1943. For his wartime services Wilson was Appointed Aide-de-Camp to H.M. the King, February 1946, and created a Companion of the Order of the Bath; retired with the honorary rank of Major-General, April 1946, and died in May 1961.

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2 2 A Good ‘Crimea’ C.B. Group of Six to Colonel H.C.C. Owen, Royal Engineers, Who Lost a Leg as a Result of a Wound Received in the Trenches in Front of the Redan, Sebastopol, 19.4.1855 a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion’s (C.B.) breast Badge, gold (indistinct Hallmarks for London) and enamel, 1st 1815 wide suspension type, with swivel ring, maker’s initials ‘IN’ on suspension loop, with its integral gold riband buckle b) South Africa 1834-53 (2nd Capt. H.C.C. Owen, Rl. Engrs.), edge bruising c) Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued, foliate suspension ends smoothed, possibly to facilitate mounting d) France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast Badge, silver, gold centres, and enamel, enamel damage e) Turkey, Order of the Medjidieh, Fifth Class breast Badge, silver, gold, and enamel, minor enamel damage, with additional contemporary silver riband buckle f) Turkish Crimea, British Die, neatly plugged with ring and ball suspension, light contact marks overall, nearly very fine or better, with several photographic images of recipient (lot) £3,500-4,500 Colonel Henry Charles Cunliffe Owen, C.B., (1821-67), born Lausanne, Switzerland, son of Captain C.C. Owen, R.N.; educated privately and at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich; commissioned Second Lieutenant Royal Engineers, 1839; Lieutenant 1841; embarked for the Cape of Good Hope for service in the Kaffir War of 1846-47, where he supervised the construction of the boat bridge over the Fish River (thanked for his services in General Orders by Sir P. Maitland and Sir G. Pechels); Second Captain 1847; permitted by the Commander-in-Chief to accept an appointment under the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 as computer of space for the United Kingdom, and later as superintendent of the Foreign Departments, and finally, after the Exhibition was opened, as its General Superintendent; appointed Inspector of Art Schools, Department of Practical Art, Board of Trade; elected as an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1852; with the outbreak of the Crimean War Owen joined the British forces before Sebastopol, where he was wounded by a musketball (19.4.1855 London Gazette 1.5.1855), when engaged in the trenches directing his men to turn some rifle-pits in front of the Redan, which had just been captured from the Russians; he lost his leg and was invalided home (C.B.; Mentioned in Lord Raglan’s Despatches; Legion of Honour; Medjidieh; given pension of £100 per annum); the History of the Corps of Royal Engineers by Whitworth Porter gives the following, ‘On the night of April 19th two large rifle-pits which had been constructed by the Russians,

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Colonel H.C.C. Owen well in front of their post at the Quarries, and which, owing to the advance of our trenches on the left of our right attack, had become perilously close, were assaulted. For the purpose of the attack 600 men of the 77th Regiment under Colonel Egerton were brought into the trenches, and Lieutenant Colonel Tylden, R.E., in charge of the right attack, explained the proposed course of proceeding. At 9.30pm the dash was made, the enemy driven out after a sharp resistance, and the working party brought forward to make the necessary lodgement. This consisted of 150 men, who were in the charge of Captain Owen, R.E., and Lieutenant Baynes, R.E., with a brigade of Sappers. The nearest rifle-pit was promptly reversed, so as to give cover from the Quarries, and connected on its left with our advanced boyeau, whilst on the right it was prolonged to form a more extended lodgement. The enemy returned repeatedly to the attack during the night, and a very heavy fire was kept up on the working party. The British were, however, not to be dislodged, and the pit from that moment became part of our advanced attack. Unfortunately, this success was not secured without heavy loss, Colonel Egerton, who led the assault, was killed, and both of the Engineers, Owen and Baynes, wounded, the latter mortally; Captain Own had his leg shattered by a grape shot, necessitating amputation’; Brevet Major July 1855; appointed Assistant Inspector-General of Fortifications at the War Office, October 1855; served as Deputy Inspector-General of Fortifications under Sir John Fax Burgoyne, 1856-60; Commanding Royal Engineer of the Western District; advanced Brevet Colonel, 1862; died as a result of a chill contracted whilst working, buried in Plymouth Cemetery and a stained-glass window was erected to his memory in the Chancel of St. James’s Church, Plymouth.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 3 The Outstanding ‘Battle of France’ 1940 D.S.O., 1940 D.F.C. Group of Five to Hurricane Ace, Wing Commander J.S. Dewar, 87 Squadron, Royal Air Force, Who, Despite Flying With a Broken Shoulder, Was Accredited With At Least 5 Victories in 12 Days Over France; He Bagged Another 2 and 1 Probable on the Second Day of the Battle of Britain; Before Adding Another Ju 88, A Probable and a Shared Before the End of August 1940; Dewar Was Killed, 12.9.1940, ‘He Had Set Out For Tangmere, But Had Failed to Arrive. For Some Time His Fate Was Unknown; Then His Body, Riddled With Shot, Was Washed Up On The Coast a) Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., silver-gilt and enamel, reverse of suspension bar officially dated ‘1940’, with integral top riband bar b) Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1940’ c) 1939-1945 Star, with Battle of Britain Bar d) Air Crew Europe Star e) War Medal, M.I.D. Oak Leaf, good very fine, with the following contemporary related items and documents: - Memorial Scroll, named to ‘Wing Commander J.S. Dewar, D.S.O., D.F.C., Royal Air Force’, glazed and framed - Bestowal Document for the Distinguished Service Order, dated 31.5.1940, signed by Anthony Eden, glazed and framed - M.I.D. Certificate, dated 25.5.1940, glazed and framed, glass cracked - Three R.A.F. Swimming Prize Medals, engraved ‘1930 100 Yards, 2nd’; ‘1930 220 Yards, 2nd’ and ‘Relay Race 1932, 2nd’ respectively; Running Prize Medal, engraved ‘R.A.F. Thorney Island, 2nd 1939’ - Assorted Shoulder Titles and buttons - Pocket Watch, 9ct gold, by Bruford & Son Ltd., Exeter, reverse engraved ‘Presented S/Ldr J.S. Dewar, D.S.O., D.F.C. By N.C.O.s and Men of 87 Squadron 1939-BEF-1940’, in case - Presentation Cigarette Box, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1937), lid engraved ‘F/Lt. J.S. Dewar R.A.F. From The Officers Of “A” Flight A.T. Section A&A.E.E. Martlesham Heath 10th July, 1937’, additionally engraved with five officers names - R.A.F. Sweetheart’s Brooch, 9ct gold, in Gieves Ltd. case - Napkin Ring, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1905), engraved ‘J.S.D. 1907’, in leather case, embossed ‘J.S.D. 1907’ - Commemorative Battle of Britain Tankard, pewter Two Wooden wall plaques for 87 Squadron, and the Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment; Trunk Suitcase with the initials ‘J.S.D.’ - Model wooden ship, with plaque engraved, ‘To F/Lt J.S. Dewar from the N.C.O.’s and Men of A Flight A.T. Section July 10th 1937’

Wing Commander J.S. Dewar - Sir William Rothenstein Portrait Print of the recipient as illustrated in Men of the R.A.F.; with a copy of the former publication, inscribed ‘To Mum, wishing her many happy returns of her birthday, from Kay [Dewar], May 1942’ - Order of Service for The Unveiling and Dedication of The Battle of Britain Chapel in Westminster Abbey, dated 10.7.1947; Order of Service for Unveiling of the Battle of Britain Memorial, Westminster Abbey, 10.7.1947 - Oxford & Cambridge Schools Examination Board Schools Certificate; Officer Training Corps Certificate, dated 20.5.1924; Squadron Leader Dewar’s Calling Card - Charcoal sketch of Dewar, glazed and framed - Photograph album mainly covering his service with 13 (Army Co-operation) Squadron, Andover, from December 1927, and his Wedding through to his funeral; with a number of family photographs (lot) £18,000-22,000

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA D.S.O. London Gazette 31.5.1940 Squadron Leader John Scatliff Dewar, D.F.C. (26029) The Recommendation, dated 25.5.1940, states: ‘Before intensive operations started this officer injured his right shoulder in a severe flying accident. Despite this, he flew regularly and led his squadron with skill and dash, more than 60 enemy aircraft being destroyed by them. He remained in command of the squadron throughout the operations, in spite of the injured shoulder, trained his new pilots well and continued throughout to be a very efficient commander, inculcating an excellent spirit in his squadron.’

Covering Remarks by No 14 Group Commander: ‘Squadron Leader Dewar was in the Saar area when intensive operations started. He had had a severe flying accident on May 7th, which incapacitated his right shoulder. In spite of this he flew consistently and led his squadron with skill and dash. Under his leadership No 87 Squadron accounted for more than 60 enemy aircraft. He remained in command of his squadron until the evacuation, in spite of his injured shoulder, he trained his new pilots well, and throughout continued to be a very efficient commander. I cannot speak too highly of the spirit he inculcated in his squadron. I recommend the immediate award of the Distinguished Service Order.’

D.F.C. London Gazette 31.5.1940 Squadron Leader John Scatliff Dewar (26029) ‘This officer has shot down five enemy aircraft and led many patrols with courage and skill.’

Wing Commander John Scatliff Dewar, D.S.O., D.F.C., born Mussori, Lahore Province, India, 1907; educated at King’s School, Canterbury; entered Cranwell as a Cadet, January 1926, where he excelled and graduated with ‘Exceptional’ ratings; posted as Pilot to 13 (Army Co-operation) Squadron (Avro Ansons), Andover, December 1927; posted as Flying Officer to the School of Naval Cooperation, Lee-on-Solent, July 1929; joined 822 Squadron on H.M.S. Furious (Carrier), May 1933, and stayed aboard her as Flight Lieutenant with 801 (Fleet Fighter) Squadron, July 1934; whilst serving on the Furious Dewar was washed overboard during a gale in the Bay of Biscay, fortunately he was quickly rescued; posted as a test pilot to the Aircraft & Armament Experimental Establishment, Martlesham Heath, June 1936, before taking up a position as Squadron Leader at SHQ Thorney Island, March 1938.

The Battle of France - 12 days, 1 Arm and 5 Victories Dewar undertook a refresher course at 11 Group Pool, St. Athan, before being posted to 60 Wing in France, 25.11.1939; at the start of the following month he took command of 87 Squadron (Hurricanes), Lille/Seclin, France; Dewar’s squadron, along with her sister squadron No. 85, formed 60 Wing of the Air Component of the B.E.F.; during the early part of 1940 they carried out front line patrols, but with the advent of the Battle of France in May, they were at the forefront of the defensive fighting; on the 7th May Dewar broke his right shoulder in a flying accident - despite being severely incapacitated for flying he still led his squadron to claim over 60 enemy aircraft, 5 of which he claimed himself, during 12 days of intensive fighting; the squadron was evacuated back to Debden to refit (having lost their records during the evacuation), and upon his return to England Dewar was one of the first four officers to receive the double award of D.S.O. and D.F.C.; the celebration of this award is taken up by Sir William Rothenstein in Men of the RAF, ‘When I returned during June I found fresh squadrons, among them one, under Wing Commander Dewar, which had done Homeric work in France during the retreat. But I heard nothing of self-glory in the stories they told of their exploits. ‘In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.’ Our young airmen do not dramatize themselves, scarcely, indeed see anything dramatic in their daily or nightly adventures... Nor did I see a wink or a glance exchanged between the officers and the attractive young W.A.A.F.’s waiting at their tables.

The men’s amusements and dissipations were simple enough - to foregather in some country pub, to drive to the nearest town, there to have a drink or two, or to visit the local cinema or a theatre. I have in mind an occasion when, the D.S.O. having been given to Squadron Leader Dewar, D.F.C.s were awarded to three other pilots of the squadron. The event must be fitly celebrated: they insisted on my joining in the jubilation. A lorry was requisitioned, wherein we drove to an inn some miles away, much frequented by airmen, where, in a

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crowded taproom, we drank lukewarm beer, each of my new firends treating in turn. To my amusement the proprietress came from behind the bar and placing a plump hand on my shoulder said: ‘I do love you boys coming round to us!’ To me, approaching the end of my seventh decade! An airman from the Station, sitting with a brighthaired lady, invited my friends to go on with them to another place, what kind of place I failed to gather. He would lead the way in his car.

It was a dark and starless night; no one knew where we were going, nor was it easy to keep in the track of the swifter car. We were uneasily seated on narrow benches; and at each turning the lorry swung and swerved. At last, after driving many miles, we followed the car through wide-open gates into the grounds of a Georgian mansion. As we turned in there was a loud report, a front tyre had burst. Alas, no jack or repairing outfit could be found in the lorry. What a dilemma!

Then, to my surprise and amusement, I found myself in a Georgian interior, transformed into a gaudy night club, with cubist decorations.

Our friend had settled down at a table with his attractive lady, and begged us to join them. But our party was preoccupied with the burst tyre; I sat down to a glass of wine. A jazz band was playing the usual dance tunes. At a table nearby three or four elderly military officers, the only guests at the club, sat with some stout, middle-aged ladies.

From time to time a couple rose, to gyrate round the room. It was not a Rabelaisian sight; far from it... Somehow my friends had managed to get a fresh tyre - it was now too late to linger, we must get back to the Station. Getting back proved a risky affair. Our driver had but a vague notion of the route. There was no car, and no signposts to guide us. And even warm beer is not ineffective.

When at last we reached the Station gates and were challenged by the sentries, none of my friends had their identity cards with them, and all were taken to the Guard Room, to explain themselves. No, not a Rabelaisian evening!’

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Commander and made Station Commander at Exeter; despite his new role he continued to fly occasional operational sorties during the height of the battle - often ‘borrowing’ a Hurricane from his old squadron; on 13.8.1940 he shared a Ju 88 20 miles south of Bognor, and on the 25th August he recorded another Ju 88 shot down and a probable Bf 109E both near Lulworth; on 12.9.1940 he borrowed another Hurricane (this time V 7306 from 213 Squadron), Rothenstein takes up the narrative, ‘Dewar wrote that he had been moved to Exeter; from there he had set out for Tangmere, but had failed to arrive. For some time his fate was unknown; then his body, riddled with shot, was washed up on the coast. It was thought he had

The Battle of Britain At the start of June Dewar took 87 Squadron to Church Fenton, Yorkshire; it became operational again on the 21st, however given the geography of where it was based there was little action; the squadron moved to Exeter, 5.7.1940, and carried out its first combat over the UK, 11.7.1940 (the second day of the Battle of Britain); on the latter date the squadron claimed 4 Bf 110’s and 1 probably destroyed - of this total Dewar was responsible for 2 of the destroyed aircraft and the probable; the first being shot down 16 miles east of Weymouth, the second 4 miles east of Shambles and the last over Portland-Grange Heath; the following day Dewar was promoted to Acting Wing

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Dewar ‘at the wheel’ got entangled in a scrap, and was shot down over the sea.’; an airman based at Exeter gives the following, ‘Then one afternoon we lost our Station Commander, Johnny. He had borrowed one of our machines to fly to Tangmere for a conference. He was in excellent spirits when he took off. Just after he had left, Opps told us that there was a blitz in that sector. They warned Johnny on the R.T. He gave the usual

answer, “Message received and understood.” Then nothing more.

Johnny’s body was washed up, riddled with bullets, five [sic] days later. We lost a grand Station Commander, and our friend’; Dewar’s body washed ashore at Kingston Gorse, Sussex, eighteen days after he had been reported missing; Wing Commander Dewar is buried in St. John the Baptist churchyard, North Baddesley, Hampshire.

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x4 A Great War ‘1916’ Western Front D.S.O. Group of Six to Major R. Mitchell, Royal Engineers a) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, centre depressed, with integral top riband bar b) 1914-15 Star (Major R. Mitchell. R.E.) c) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Major R. Mitchell.) d) Coronation 1902, silver e) Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver (Hallmarks for London 1918), with integral top riband bar, all sometime mounted for display purposes, generally good very fine (6) £800-1,000 D.S.O. London Gazette 14.1.1916 Captain (temporary Major) Robert Mitchell, 2nd Highland Field Company, Royal Engineers, Territorial Force.

T.D. London Gazette 30.5.1919 Major Robert Mitchell, D.S.O., Highland Division, Royal Engineers Major Robert Mitchell, D.S.O., T.D., born Aberdeen, June 1873; educated at Gymnasium, Old Aberdeen and Aberdeen University; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 1st Aberdeenshire (Royal Engineers) Volunteers, November 1900; advanced Captain and served during the Great War on the Western Front form 1915; Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 1.1.1916), and promoted Major; died June 1939.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 5 The Outstanding Second War ‘P.O.W. and Partisan’s’ M.B.E., 1940 ‘Retreat to Dunkirk’ M.C., and Commando’s 1941 ‘Litani River Raid’ Second Award Bar Group of Nine to Lieutenant E.F. Garland, York and Lancaster Regiment, attached ‘C’ Battalion, ‘Layforce’ (11th Scottish Commando); Who Was The First to Cross the Litani River, Where He Undertook a Personal Duel With a Sniper and a 75mm Gun. Having Joined the Royal Air Force as a Pilot, His Spitfire Was Shot Down Over the Cassino Battle Area, 4.5.1944; Garland Was Taken P.O.W., and Despite Suffering Burns to His Hands and a Wound to His Leg, He Escaped From a Hospital Train Bound For Germany; Evading Recapture He Joined The Partizans and Fought With Them at Vasto di Sotto, Before Returning to Allied Lines in January 1945 a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Military Division, Member’s (M.B.E.) breast Badge, silver b) Military Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1940’, with Second Award Bar, reverse officially dated ‘1941’ c) 1939-1945 Star d) Africa Star, with North Africa 1942-43 bar e) Italy Star f) Defence and War Medals g) Africa General Service 1902-56, E.II.R., one clasp, Kenya (NE.5424 C.I. (R). E.F. Garland.) h) Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., with ‘Territorial’ scroll suspension (F/Lt. E.F. Garland. M.B.E. M.C. R.A.F.), generally good very fine, with the following contemporary related items: - R.A.F Pilot’s Flying Log Book, covering the period 27.3.1942 - 31.8.1952 - Scrap Book, leather bound, compiled by the recipient, containing photographs, newspaper cuttings; a congratulatory letter from Admiral Sir Walter Henry ‘Tich’ Cowan, dated 5.9.1941; two Air Ministry Letters relating to Garland being ‘Missing in Action’; Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel J.P.D. Blaauw, Officer Commanding 208 Squadron to recipient’s father, dated 7.5.1944; Buckingham Palace Condolence Enclosure on the ‘Death’ of recipient, addressed to his father; Letter from Captain J.H. Bevan, Royal Artillery to Garland’s parents, dated 27.4.1945; Air Ministry Letter informing recipient’s father that Garland has been found alive, dated 10.5.1945 (lot) £25,000-30,000 M.B.E. London Gazette 7.1.1947 Flight Lieutenant Eric Francis Garland, M.C. (47293), Royal Air Force, No 208 Squadron ‘Flight Lieutenant Garland’s aircraft was shot down over Frosinone in Italy on 4th May, 1944. He was immediately captured and sent to a hospital at Acre. In spite of his wounds, this officer made three attempts to escape from a hospital at Mantova in May, 1944. He collected a store of medical materials and retrieved his battledress. Twice he was caught by sentries while climbing through a window. The third time, after sliding down a laundry chute, he was captured while trying to saw through a door. In June, 1944, Flight Lieutenant Garland jumped from a hospital train near Verona. After two days he made contact with some friendly Italians, with whom he stayed for two months. In August,

Lieutenant E.F. Garland, 11th (Scottish) Commando 1944, he set out with the intention of joining some Italian partizans. He walked for three days, but owing to a leg injury he was forced to take refuge with another Italian family. In January, 1945, Flight Lieutenant Garland left these people, his leg having finally healed, and reached the American lines at Solarolo in the Po Valley.’

M.C. London Gazette 20.12.1940 Second Lieutenant Eric Francis Garland, The York and Lancaster Regiment The Recommendation states: ‘At Watou on May 28 1940 during a very intense bombing raid showed conspicuous bravery by entering a bombed and burning house while the raid was at its height and carried out 4750206 Private Nicholson to a place of safety. He at once returned and rescued two military policemen who had been wounded, and bound up their wounds. Private Nicholson died shortly afterwards. Heavy bombing was taking place while Second Lieutenant Garland was engaged in this rescue work.

The previous day this same officer carried out a reconnaissance under machine gun fire on a motor cycle at Wormhoudt and was able to guide his unit transport on a safe route.’

M.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 21.10.1941 Lieutenant Eric Francis Garland, M.C. (105605), The York and Lancaster Regiment The Recommendation (originally for a D.S.O.), given by Colonel Laycock, states: ‘Litani River (Syria) 9-10 June 1941. Lieutenant Garland displayed throughout the action cool and clear-headed leadership and complete disregard for his own personal safety. He was the first individual to cross the river and personally led the party which cut out the enemy wire on the far side under heavy fire. On one occasion by deliberately exposing himself he personally drew the fire of a sniper who was causing severe casualties and, on locating the enemy position, Lieutenant Garland manned one of his Bren Guns and shot the sniper. Lieutenant Garland also put out of action a 75 Gun, which was covering the river, by accurate fire from a captured anti Tank Gun.’

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5 the ‘Glen’ ships had been specially converted to accommodate the amphibious role of the commandos, with the Glengyle capable of carrying 700 military personnel as well as 12 Assault Landing Craft and 2 Motor Landing Craft; the commandos arrived in the Middle East at Geneifa on the Great Bitter Lake, 11.3.1941; stationed at the latter they carried out mock raids in desert conditions and received a visit from General Wavell (G.O.C. Middle East); C Battalion was initially lined up with A Battalion to take part in the Bardia Raid, however much to Pedder’s men’s disappointment they were to miss out and ‘on 24th April Laycock informed Pedder that C Battalion were being deployed to Cyprus to carry out Garrison duties before being used independently for up and coming operations in Syria; it was on that same day the unit resumed its original title: No. 11 (Scottish Commando)’ (ibid); Garland arrived at Famagusta, Cyprus, 30.4.1941, and with individuals such as “Paddy” Mayne continued to train for imminent operations.

Flight Lieutenant Eric Francis Garland, M.B.E., M.C., born London, 1920; educated at Whitgift School; joined 163 O.C.T.U., 2.9.1939, and initially served in the Artists Rifles; commissioned Second Lieutenant, 6th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, 18.11.1939; served with the regiment as part of the 138th Infantry Brigade, 46th Infantry Division, B.E.F. in France, and was present during the retreat to Dunkirk; Garland distinguished himself at Wormhoudt, on the Dunkirk to Cassel road, 27.5.1940, and at Watou where he rescued three men from a burning ammunition store (not a burning house, as listed in M.C. citation), 28.5.1940; on the 31st May the 6th Battalion were tasked with holding three bridges over the Canal des Moëres at Teteghem; Second Lieutenants Garland, Nelson and Milne were each given a bridge to defend with the orders that they were to ‘be held at all costs’; Garland held his position until late into the evening of the 2nd June; he then retreated with his men to the beaches of Dunkirk, and was one of the last to be evacuated on the Medway Queen (paddle steamer), 3.6.1940; one of her paddles broke during the voyage, and it took her seven hours to reach Ramsgate.

Action At Last On the 31st May Pedder and two other officers from the unit received urgent orders to proceed by air to Palestine, ‘After reporting to Palestine Force HQ they checked into their hotels before attending a conference at 1800hrs, where Pedder was briefed by the Commander of the Australian 21 Infantry Brigade on the part that the Commando was to play in the forthcoming operation. On the 3rd June while Pedder was still in Palestine, a coded message was sent to the Commando in Cyprus, ordering them to prepare on two destroyers at Famagusta at 0300hrs on the 4th June... On receipt of the news Captain Robin Farmiloe burst into a cafe where some of the officers were having tea and shouted at them to get their men ready to embark within four hours...

Assembled at the quay from 0100hrs on the morning of 4th June the commandos, trying to grab some sleep where ever they could, waited impatiently for the two destroyers to dock in the port. Eventually at 0540hrs, and just back from the evacuation of Crete, the bombed and battered Destroyers Rex and Hotspur were docked... By 0625hrs, after Captain Farmiloe had ensured that all 25 officers and 431 other ranks were aboard; the officers and men of No. 11 (Scottish) Commando under the Command of Geoffrey Keyes left the shores of Cyprus’ (ibid).

11th (Scottish Commando) - Pedder, Keyes, Mayne et al Shortly after returning from Dunkirk, Garland volunteered for service with the newly formed No. 11 (Scottish) Commando; after undergoing rigorous training in the wilds of Scotland under the command of Dick Pedder, ‘No. 11 (Scottish) Commando, No. 7 Commando and No. 8 Commando set sail from the Isle of Arran [31.1.1941] on board the three ‘Glen’ ships; H.M.S. Glenearn, H.M.S. Glenroy and H.M.S. Glengyle. Five Troops from No. 11 (Scottish) Commando were on board the Glenroy with Dick Pedder, and were accompanied by No. 8 Commando. The remaining five Troops were aboard the Glengyle under the command of Geoffrey Keyes and accompanied by No. 7 Commando... The three Commando units aboard the Glengyle and the Glenroy were combined together into what was known as Force “Z”, under the command of Lt. Col. R.E. Laycock, Royal Horse Guards, who prior to his appointment had been the commanding officer of No. 8 Commando. For security reasons the three commando units Nos. 7, 8 and 11 were renamed A, B, and C Battalions, “Layforce” respectively’ (Litani River, by I. McHarg refers);

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA Operation Exporter Pedder rejoined his men at Port Said, 5.6.1941, having received orders to take part in the invasion of Vichy controlled Syria and Lebanon; the invading force included the 7th Australian Division, 5th Indian Infantry Brigade Group and the 1st Free French Division; operating as part of the 7th Division, No. 11 (Scottish) Commando were formed up with the 21st Australian Infantry Brigade; the latter under the command of Brigadier Stevens was to cross the frontier in the early hours of the 8th June and to advance and capture the coastal city of Tyre, ‘For the first phase of the operation Steven’s sector ran from the sea at Ras en Naquora eastwards for 25 miles following a line of lofty, rugged hills into which the only entrance for motor vehicles was the coast road.

Steven’s problem in the coastal sector was also greatly complicated by the likelihood that the defenders would demolish the roads and bridges ahead of him; particularly the road a few miles north of Ras en Naquora, and the Qasmiye Bridge over the Litani River. The enemy was known to be holding the line of the Litani River which runs south before turning west into the Mediterranean.’

Battle of the Litani River The Commandos were to ‘co-ordinate with the 21st Brigade’s attack on the river position by carrying out an amphibious assault landing from the sea near the mouth of the river. Once ashore their task was to secure the north and south banks of the river, and prevent the demolition of the Qasmiye Bridge that crossed it, allowing Steven’s Brigade to advance towards Beirut engaging the enemy in the process.

The advancing forces were to be supported by gunfire from naval vessels offshore, including the anti-aircraft cruiser H.M.S. Coventry and the destroyers Ilex, Isis, Hotspur and Hero. Air support was provided by a number of air force squadrons’; the Commando embarked on the Glengyle on the 6th of June, and set sail with escort from Port Said the following day; Pedder had not been provided with intelligence on the proposed beach landing sites and there was a serious lack of well scaled maps on the coast, ‘this lack of intelligence caused the Senior Naval Officer to send his Senior Beach Master, Lt. Potter, RN to Haifa in H.M.S. Hero, to obtain information on the landing site. Aboard the motor-boat Gadwell, Lt. Potter and Sub-Lt. F.H. Colenut, RNR, carried out a reconnaissance of the coast in the early hours of the 7th June. This reconnaissance showed that heavy surf was running at an average distance of 300 yards from the beach as a result of ground swell, and that during the next two days the prospect of landing without considerable loss was not good. It was however, decided to make an attempt the following morning, 8th June.’

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The Glengyle arrived in the early hours of the 8th June four miles west of the Litani River mouth, ‘Eleven Amphibious Landing Craft were lowered into the water with the commandos packed into them. As the last of the men were boarding the craft, Potter and Colenut arrived... Potter expressed that in his opinion the surf was so bad that the flat bottomed landing craft would roll over if they attempted to make a beaching... The Senior Naval Officer had delegated overall responsibility as to whether the boats could be beached or not, to Captain Petrie RN of the Glengyle... Petrie decided that because the ALCs that were being used were not suitable to be used in surf and would capsize before reaching the beach, the operation could not be undertaken. This view was not shared by Dick Pedder who argued that the risk was worth taking in order to maintain the element of surprise, especially as the Glengyle was visible in the moonlight and that the enemy would be aware of its presence. Nevertheless, Petrie had overall control of the situation, and no sooner had the men got settled into the ALCs than they were given the

order to disembark. With some difficulty, due to the ship moving around in the swell, the craft were re-hoisted back on the Glengyle. With all safely embarked the ship and its cargo of disgruntled commandos set sail back to Port Said. Arriving at 1500hrs later that day, the men stayed on board while Pedder and More went straight to a conference aboard H.M.S. Rex. Within an hour they were back on board and the operation was back on. To the disbelief of most on board, the Glengyle set sail at once at 1615hrs.’

Plan of Attack The Commando was to land from the Glengyle at dawn and attack the enemy position from the flank; for this purpose three parties were formed and ALCs allotted to them: “X” Party - to be the Forward Troops, comprising of Nos. 2, 3 (of which Garland was a member) and 9 Troops under the command of Major G.C.T. Keyes; “Y” Party - Reserve Troops, comprising of Nos. 1, 7 and 8 Troops under the command of Lt. Col. R.R.N. Pedder and “Z” Party Additional Reserve, comprising of 4 and 10 Troops under the command of Captain G.R.M.H. More; whilst the commandos were travelling back the Australian advance was well under way, and they had captured the city of Tyre by 5pm 8th June; the Glengyle arrived at 0300hrs 9/10th June, ‘with the full moon silhouetting the Glengyle on the horizon, “X” Party... were formed up in four landing craft by 0325hrs.

Keyes had received orders from Dick Pedder to attack the positions and barracks due east of Aitenyie Farm and hold the enemy on as wide a front as possible. The party set for the shore under the command of the Royal Navy’s Lt. Collar.

With the morning sun due to rise to their fronts Collar had the responsibility of getting the party to the correct landing point on the shore. However, with day break more than an hour away, and a lack of aerial photographs showing the mouth of the river of the coastline, Collar soon experienced difficulties in finding the correct landing site, resulting in the party being landed at 0450hrs, approximately a mile to the south of the desired landing point, and on the wrong side of the river’ (ibid); fortunately the landing was unopposed, and Keyes records their next steps, ‘By then it was light enough to see the masts of the feluccas in the river mouth, and I realised that we were south of the river, I at once issued orders to advance with “A” Section, No. 2 Troop, under Lt. T.I. Robinson, Gordon Highlanders, leading, with the river as the first objective. We advanced along the beach, deployed just below the crest and passed through “C” Company, 2/16 Australian Infantry Battalion, who were waiting to support the attack north of the river. The Company Commander was very surprised to see us, but said he would lend me some of his seven boats, which he had moved up with some of his men and with my reserve.’

Advance To The River - Hot Work As the advanced troops reached the river bank at about 0510hrs, ‘a red Verey Light, signalling S.O.S., was fired from a redoubt on the far bank. Immediately the entire beach from where they had landed, right up to within yards of the river came under heavy and sustained fire from 75mm guns, mortars and heavy machine guns, from the direction of the main ridge to the north-east. As heavy fire rained down on the party they were pinned to the ground, and several casualties were taken, mainly by accurate sniper fire from a knoll on the opposite bank and from enemy positions to the north. A Section of No. 3 Troop under Captain George Highland and Lt. Eric Garland succeeded in working forward on the right of No. 2 Troop before getting held up again.

The area on the approach to the river from the south side was flat and open ground which offered very little cover for the advancing commandos making progress not only slow but extremely treacherous’; Keyes’ Diary offers further insight, ‘We all go to ground, as 75mm guns, 81mm mortars, and

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out of action with only 7 rounds... The Australians continued to cross the river and take up positions around the redoubt, and at 1800hrs Keyes handed over responsibility for its defence to C Company of 2/16 Infantry Battalion, the whole of which was across the river by 1900hrs.’ Keyes reported the closing stages of the operation thus, ‘next morning the 10th we saw through our glasses the French in Aiteniye surrender... and at 1200hrs I was ordered to withdraw leaving the redoubt to the Australians’; the Commando headed south and by 2300hrs they were concentrated in the transit camp at Haifa, ‘as Operation Exporter continued and the Allies advanced north towards Beirut, the Commando set sail for Cyprus at 1850hrs on 14th June, arriving in Famagusta at 0700hrs the following morning. Of the 456 men who had assembled on the same quay eleven days earlier, 130 had been killed or wounded in just over 29 hours of fighting’; despite suffering heavy casualties, including Pedder who was killed leading his men, the Commando had achieved their overall objective of seizing and holding the enemy position long enough for the Australian Brigade to cross the river and pass through the position; with the death of Pedder, Keyes became the unit’s commanding officer; the 11th (Scottish) Commando returned to Cyprus; both Keyes and Laycock asked Garland to stay on to take part in the proposed Rommel Raid (which would cost Keyes his life and lead to the award of a posthumous V.C.); however in the meantime Garland had applied to join the Royal Air Force; wishing to become a fighter pilot his papers came through and he transferred for training.

A Duel With A Sniper & First Across The River Whilst the commandos progress ground to a halt men of the 2/16 AIB brought a boat forward to the south bank for the commandos to use for the river crossing; Keyes took over 30 minutes to advance by a mixture of crawling and sprinting to reach Highland’s position, and ‘upon reaching their position he found George Highland and Eric Garland engaged in a high risk method of drawing sniper’s fire, which was inflicting many casualties. Garland, exposing himself to the sniper, drew his fire, and once located, shot him with his Bren gun... with the sniper taken care off and during a brief lull in the firing Eric Garland, Cpl Southall, Sig. Reed, Pte. Hughes and three other men from No. 3 Troop, climbed into the boat that had been brought forward by LCpl Dilworth and his men from C Company. With the boat positioned out of the line of sight of the redoubt LCpl. Dilworth and Pte. Archibald coolly ferried the commandos across the fast flowing river, which was approximately 30-40 yards wide’; Keyes continues ‘No. 3 Troop were still 200 yards from the river until about 0930hrs when our artillery ranged onto the redoubt. This allowed me to move with Captain Highland and Lt. Garland, about 20 men of Nos. 2 and 3 Troops, and the boat, to the rushes of the south bank. There seemed to be a lull, and we were out of sight of the redoubt, Lt. Garland and six of his men, and two Australians got across the river at approximately 1000hrs, and the Australians brought back the boat. We were pinned down for one and a half hours by MG fire and what we thought to be a mortar fire. Actually it was later found to be a 75mm gun on the high ground’; on the north side of the river Garland and his men were engaged in cutting the wire surrounding the redoubt in preparation for a direct attack on the position, ‘sensing an attack was imminent the enemy soon indicated that they were willing to surrender to the advancing commandos... With Garland and Highland’s party securing the ground around the redoubt and tentatively taking up positions on the north side of the river... At about 1300hrs... Garland and Highland’s men clearing the enemy position on the north side. However, despite the success of crossing the river and taking the redoubt, the job was far from done and this was emphasised to Keyes by men from No. 2 Troop as they came forward to cross the river. As they approached they informed him that Sgt. Burton, LCpl Lang and Cohen were all dead on the river bank to the left, and that several of the Troop were wounded... In the process of taking the redoubt, six enemy soldiers were killed and thirty-five prisoners were taken, and fearing a counter-attack, Highland did not waste any time in organising the defence of the position... With no significant advance being made by the Australians, Geoffrey Keyes took all his remaining men over the river using the boat, sending it back with the prisoners captured in the redoubt. Efforts to take the enemy position had resulted in considerable casualties for the party. As many of the Bren guns and their crews had been lost on the south bank of the river, Keyes made full use of the weapons captured in the heavily fortified redoubt... among the captured weapons and ammunition were a 25mm anti-tank gun and limber; a 37.5mm Pack mountain gun; two heavy Hotchkiss machine guns; six light machine guns; about forty rifles and several thousand rounds... By about 1330hrs “X” Party had located the gun that was firing down the river, and using the 25mm anti-tank gun captured in the redoubt, Lt. Garland turned it around and fired at the enemy’s position, putting the offending gun

Fighter Pilot - Per Ardua Ad Astra Garland was posted for pilot training to No. 26 Elementary F.T.S., Southern , March 1942; during this time he carried out his training with Ian Smith (later Prime Minister of Rhodesia); Garland carried out further training at No. 22 S.F.T.S., Thornhill, gaining his ‘Wings’ in August 1942; posted for conversion to Hurricanes to No. 74 O.T.U., Aqir, Palestine, February 1943; having converted he was posted for operational flying to 237 (Rhodesia) Squadron (Hurricanes), Egypt, April 1943; the squadron carried out operations over the Western Desert, primarily shipping patrols and interceptions; within the first week of flying, 12.4.1943, he had to carry out a forced landing due to ‘Engine Failure’ (Log Book refers); posted to 208 Squadron (Hurricanes), Iraq, June 1943; flew on tactical reconnaissance sorties throughout the desert fighting; Flight Lieutenant 24.11.1943.

POW And Partisan The squadron re-equipped with Spitfires, January 1944, and Garland moved with it to Italy, March 1944; throughout March and April he carried out Sweeps and Tactical Reconnaissances, including 4.4.1944, ‘Two targets recorded straffed gun in position’, 17.4.1944, ‘Two targets recorded one gunpit hit large explosion. 88’s located and apple pied’ and 21.4.1944, ‘20 + 109s and F.W.’s bombed Lancino causing 300 casualties. Passed us on way back’; he carried out reconnaissances of the Battle area of Cassino before being shot down, 4.5.1944, ‘Cassino, Sore, Frosinone. Shot Down Over Frosinone. Hit By 20mm, Fuel System. Aircraft Caught Fire, Bailed Out 300ft. Taken Prisoner By The Germans.

Sustained Wound Left Leg. Splintered Tibia. Slight Burns Hands and Face’ his Log Book continues, ‘July 27th Jumped Hospital Train At Night Enroute Munich, Walked From Verona To Lake Garda (3 Days) Lived With Italians. Aug 10th Attempted To Get Back Through Lines Walked From Lake Garda To Cremona. On River Po. Wound Became Infected. Found Refuge With Italians. April ‘45 Joined Partisans. Took Part In One Action At Vasto Di Sotto, 77 Germans Killed, Captured, Wounded, Own Casualties, 3 Killed 2 Wounded. May 2 Rejoined Squadron at Villafranca’;

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No.26 Elementary F.T.S., Southern Rhodesia, 1942, Garland (front row, fourth from right), next to Ian Smith (third from right) Garland’s C.O. wrote the following to his parents, ‘Your son had to bale out, and it is established by the evidence of the pilot who was flying another aircraft with him that your son’s parachute opened successfully, and was seen descending slowly, unfortunately behind enemy lines.

Your son had just taken over a Flight and I had the fullest confidence in him as a Flight Commander and as a pilot. His steadiness, professional ability, unassuming leadership and courage were a great asset to me, and to the whole Squadron.

His fine Army record is one of which, with you, we are all very proud. There is no more popular member of the Mess than your son, and each one of us shares in some respect at least in your anxiety. It is my earnest hope that such anxiety will be speedily allayed, and again I assure you that anything learned will be notified to you in the quickest possible manner’; having gone through the allotted period of time and hearing no further information with regard to Garland the Air Ministry informed his father that he was to be declared dead; Garland, however, had other ideas and penned the following 9.8.1944: ‘Dear Mother & Father, Here is a brief account of what has happened during the past three months. I was brought down by anti-aircraft fire on the Cassino front just before the push on May 4th. A 20mm shell hit some part of the fuel system and the plane caught fire immediately and I had to bale out some 40 miles over the line.

My hands were burnt and my left leg hit by a splinter making a fairly large flesh wound on my left shin. I was taken prisoner immediately on reaching the ground and spent 7 weeks in hospital at Mantover. I made three unsuccessful attempts to escape from there, but finally managed to escape from the hospital train to Germany on June 17th by jumping out of the window at night, the sentry was dozing. From then until

‘Spits at Last’

now I have been hiding in the Verona area near Lake di Garda waiting for my leg to heal, my hands are quite ok. I have lived most of the time in the open; the Italian people have been extremely kind and helpful in providing food, civilian clothing, etc., and a Doctor has attended me in spite of the death penalty.

I change to the present tense now. Tonight I am setting out across the Po Valley to Parma and from there I shall make my way through the mountains towards the front and when the line breaks I shall get through somehow. The front at the

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Flight Lieutenant E.F. Garland

moment is the line of the Arno River, Pisa, Florence, Arezzo.

Switzerland is out and I am in an exposed position here.

In case I have the misfortune to be recaptured I am writing this letter so that you will know my movements. An Italian is going to bury it in a bottle to give to an Allied Soldier when they arrive. I am also giving letters addressed to AMGOT to the people who helped me so it should be possible to keep track of me. If you don’t hear from me for some time don’t worry, I shall be giving the Jerries a pain in the neck wherever I am.

Your loving son, Eric’ Extraordinarily this letter found its way into the hands of Captain J.H. Bevan, 8/22 Battery, Royal Artillery some 8 months later, and he duly forwarded it to Garland’s parents with the following accompanying letter: ‘Dear Mr. & Mrs. Garland, We have just arrived in this area and one of the local Italians gave me this letter. He also gave me one which your son wrote to the AMGOT authorities saying how well treated and cared for he had been whilst staying with this Italian

family. I don’t suppose we shall be staying here long as the chase is still on, and it’s quite exciting but I shall ensure that this letter reaches AMGOT.’ True to his word Garland fought his way through and reached American lines at Solarolo, January 1945 reporting back to his unit, on the 2nd May 1945; his family was informed of his re-appearance 8 days later; Garland returned to the UK, and was posted to 17 S.F.T.S., Spitalgate, April 1946; he undertook a refresher course at Coleby Grange, August 1946, before being posted as Flight Commander to 691 Squadron (Spitfires and Martinets), Exeter, October 1946; whilst serving with the latter, 28.1.1947, ‘Practice Escort For Royal Family Sailing Aboard H.M.S. Vanguard To South Africa’ and 24.8.1947, ‘Last Trip In My Own Spit’ (Log Book refers); after the War he joined British European Airways (BEA) as a commercial pilot, and moved to Kenya in 1948; Garland was based here at the start of the Mau Mau Rebellion and immediately joined the Air Wing of the Police Force; he flew Rapide, Messenger and Bonanza aircraft; he later became a pilot for Manx Airlines, before retiring in 1985, at the age of 65.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 6 A Good 1948 ‘Palestine’ M.B.E., Second War 1944 ‘Pathfinder Force’ D.F.M. Group of Eight to Wing Commander M. Scholes, Royal Air Force, Reputedly the Oldest Person Ever to Fly in a Tornado Mission, As a ‘Spin’ to Celebrate His 65th Birthday Turned Into a Two and A Half Hour Sortie Over the North Sea After The Pilot Was Radioed to Investigate a Russian Trawler That Was Close to British Territorial Waters a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Military Division, Member’s (M.B.E.) breast Badge, silver, with Royal Mint case of issue b) Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (1768237.

Act. F/Sgt. M. Scholes. R.A.F.) c) 1939-1945 Star d) Air Crew Europe Star, with France and Germany Bar e) Defence and War Medals f) General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Act. Flt. Lt. M. Scholes. R.A.F.) g) Coronation 1953, generally nearly extremely fine, mounted court style as originally worn, in fitted case, with the following related items: - The recipient’s Flight Engineers Flying Log Book, covering the period 7.9.1943-16.2.1947 - Pilot’s and Flight Engineer’s Notes for the Lancaster - The recipient’s Pathfinder Association Membership Card and cloth badge - Named Buckingham Palace enclosure for the M.B.E. (8) £2,800-3,200 M.B.E. London Gazette 29.6.1948 Flying Officer Malcolm Scholes, D.F.M. (184769), Royal Air Force ‘For distinguished service in Palestine’ D.F.M. London Gazette 17.11.1944 Acting Flight Sergeant 1768237 Malcolm Scholes, R.A.F.V.R., 35 Sqn The Recommendation, dated 21.8.1944, states: ‘This N.C.O. is a Flight Engineer who has, for a long period, operated as a visual Bomb Aimer. Through his keenness and efficiency he has attained a very high standard of accuracy and there is little doubt that his crew is one of the most reliable in the squadron. Flight Sergeant Scholes has set an example of tenacity and enthusiasm to the squadron and in recognition he is recommended for the non-immediate award of the Distinguished Flying Medal.’

Remarks by Station Commander: ‘Strongly recommended.

An exceptionally keen and capable member of aircrew, he has set a fine example to the rest of the squadron.’

Wing Commander Malcolm Scholes, M.B.E., D.F.M., was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire on the 17th October 1924, and educated at Wakefield Technical College, joining the Royal Air Force on his 18th birthday. After just 60 hours of flying experience as a flight engineer, he joined No.35 (Pathfinder) Squadron (Halifaxes), based at Graveley. His first operational sortie was on the 11th November 1943, to bomb the marshalling yards at Cannes, on the main coastal

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railway to Italy- his plane was badly damaged by flak and only just managed to return to England, where it was forced to crash-land. Over the next eleven months he completed a further 54 sorties, the majority of these in Lancasters (the Squadron having converted to them by February 1944), in which his aircraft was hit by flak 11 times: targets including Manheim; Berlin (3); Leipzig; Magdeburg; Stuttgart (6); Sweinfort, 24.2.1944- ‘R/G shot down enemy fighter’ (Log Book refers); Augsburg; Nuremburg, 30.4.1944- the night when Bomber Command suffered its worst casualties of the war, when 95 bombers, each with a crew of seven, were lost; Cologne; Friedrichshafen; Kiel; Bremen; and Saarbrucken.

Having qualified as a bomb-aimer in March 1944, in the runup to D-Day he also performed this role when Bomber Command shifted their targets to northern France in preparation for the Allied Invasion. On the night of the 5th6th June 1944 he attacked the Longues Gunsite, when the order was ‘this target has to be destroyed at all costs’. His final mission with No.35 Squadron was an attack on Saarbrucken on the 5th October 1944, 12 days before his 20th birthday.

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Commissioned Pilot Officer, 29.8.1944, Scholes served until the end of the War as an instructor at the Pathfinder Force Training Unit, where he was promoted Flying Officer, 1.5.1945. In July 1947 he was posted as the Adjutant to the R.A.F. airfield at Ein Shemer in Palestine, where he was much involved in the arrangements for the total evacuation of the unit ahead of the expiry of the British Mandate, and the subsequent creation of the Israeli state in May 1948. On the 25th April 1948 he led the final convoy of 110 vehicles for evacuation to Egypt and Cyprus- for his work over the past year he was awarded the M.B.E. ‘For distinguished services in Palestine...his devotion to duty has been far and above the normal requirements of the service.’

Promoted Flight Lieutenant, 4.12.1952; and subsequently advanced Squadron Leader, 1.7.1960, Scholes served on bomber stations before being appointed the last commander of the R.A.F. garrison in Tobruk, where he made numerous

forays into the desert with Army patrols also based there, so much so that by the time he relinquished his post in June 1967 they had given him the nickname ‘the Blue Major’.

Promoted Wing Commander the following month, 1.7.1967, he served as Station Commander at R.A.F. Biggin Hill between 1970 and 1973, and then at the R.A.F. Regiment Depot at Catterick, before taking up a recruiting post at the Ministry of Defence. He took to the skies for the last time on his 65th birthday- his last day in uniform17.10.1989, in a Tornado fighter from R.A.F. Leeming.

However, his brief ‘spin’ turned into a two and a half hour sortie over the North Sea after the pilot was radioed to investigate a Russian trawler that was close to British territorial waters, making him reputedly the oldest person ever to fly in a Tornado mission. Wing Commander Scholes died on the 11th November 2008.

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7 The Great War M.C. and Bar Group of Eight to Major C.L. Fox, Royal Engineers; Consul at Falmouth, and High Sheriff of Cornwall a) Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar b) British War and Victory Medals (Major C.L. Fox) c) Italy, Kingdom, Order of the Crown of Italy, Knight’s breast Badge, 37mm, gold and enamel d) Belgium, Kingdom, Order of Leopold, Civil Division, Knight’s breast Badge, 69mm including crown suspension x 40mm, silver and enamel, French motto, minor enamel damage to wreath e) Belgium, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, 64mm including wreath suspension x 44mm, silver and enamel f) Norway, Kingdom, Order of St. Olav, Knight First Class breast Badge, 62mm x 41mm, gold and enamel g) Belgium, Kingdom, Civic Decoration, First Class, gilt and enamel, good very fine, mounted as originally worn, with the recipient’s related miniature awards, these housed in a Gaunt, London, fitted leather case (8) £1,400-1,800 M.C. London Gazette 1.1.1918 Lt (A /Maj ) Cuthbert Lloyd Fox, R.E. M.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 2.12.1918 Lt. (A./Maj.) Cuthbert Lloyd Fox, M.C., 502nd Wessex Fld. Coy., R.E., T.F. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He made a daylight reconnaissance under heavy rifle and machine-gun fire, proceeding forward over 400 yards in advance of the furthest post held by the brigade. He brought back most valuable information, which was urgently required owing to the tactical situation.’

Major Cuthbert Lloyd Fox, M.C., of Glendurgan, Falmouth, Cornwall; born July 1885; Appointed Consul of Belgium at Falmouth, May 1912; served during the Great War with the Royal Engineers on the Western Front from February 1917; married Moyra Sulivan, April 1920; Appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall, 1946; died 1972.

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fitted case; a selection of related lapel rosettes; and the following bestowal documents &c.: - Commission appointing Philip Hamilton Fox to be Honorary Consul of the King of Sweden at Falmouth, dated 19.2.1981; together with Official French translation and Official Approval Document, dated 26.5.1981 - Bestowal Document for the Dutch Order of OrangeNassau, dated 18.4.1963; together with a copy of the Statutes of the Order; Permission to Wear Document; and accompanying letter - Bestowal Document for the Swedish Order of Vasa, dated 9.5.1967; together with accompanying letter; and Permission to Wear Document - Bestowal Document for the Norwegian Order of St. Olav, dated 15.8.1973, in presentation folder - Bestowal Document for the Danish Order of the Dannebrog, Knight, dated 10.12.1979 - Bestowal Document for the Danish Order of the Dannebrog, Officer, dated 12.12.1989; together with Permission to Wear letter - Bestowal Document for the Swedish Order of the North Star, dated 12.9.1983 - Bestowal Document for the Norwegian Order of Merit, dated 27.3.1987, in presentation folder - Bestowal Document for the Spanish Order of Merit, dated 6.12.1993 (lot) £2,500-3,000

8 A Second War Group of Eleven to Lieutenant P.H. Fox, Royal Artillery; Consul at Falmouth, and High Sheriff of Cornwall a) 1939-1945 Star b) France and Germany Star c) Defence and War Medals d) Netherlands, Kingdom, Order of Orange-Nassau, Officer’s breast Badge, 68mm including crown suspension x 42mm, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband e) Sweden, Kingdom, Order of Vasa, Knight’s breast Badge, 63mm including crown suspension x 40mm, silver-gilt and enamel f) Norway, Kingdom, Order of St. Olav, Knight’s breast Badge, 61mm including crown suspension x 43mm, silver and enamel g) Denmark, Kingdom, Order of the Dannebrog, Officer’s breast Badge, M.R. (1972-), 61mm including crown suspension x 29mm, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband h) Sweden, Kingdom, Order of the North Star, Knight’s breast Badge, 60mm including crown suspension x 40mm, silver-gilt and enamel i) Norway, Kingdom, Norway, Royal Norwegian Order of Merit, Knight’s breast Badge, by Tostrop, Oslo, 44mm, silver-gilt and enamel, maker’s cartouche on reverse j) Spain, Kingdom, Order of Merit, Civil Division, Commander’s neck Badge, 72mm including wreath suspension x 49mm, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband, generally nearly extremely fine or better, mounted court-style as worn, the last in Cejalvo, Madrid, case of issue, with the recipient’s related miniature awards, these housed in a Spink, London,

Lieutenant Philip Hamilton Fox, born May 1922, the son of Major C.L. Fox, M.C.; educated at Harrow and Magdalene College, Cambridge; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, 10.4.1943, and served with the Artillery during the Second World War; appointed Consul of Sweden at Falmouth; Vice-Consul for the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, and Spain; Appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall 1973; died October 2005.

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9 A Particularly Fine 1941 ‘Desert Rat’s’ M.C., and 1945 North West Europe ‘Final Push to Hamburg’ Second Award Bar Group of Eight to LieutenantColonel J.A.N. Crankshaw, 11th Hussars, A Veteran of Almost 5 Years Continuous Fighting, From the Western Desert Through Italy, France, Belgium, Holland and into the Heart of Germany a) Military Cross, G.VI.R., reverse dated ‘1941’, with Second Award Bar, reverse dated ‘1945’ b) General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., two clasps, Palestine, Malaya 2nd clasp loose on riband, as issued (2-Lieut. J.A.N. Crankshaw. 11-H.) c) 1939-1945 Star d) Africa Star, with 8th Army Bar e) Italy Star f) France and Germany Star g) Defence and War Medals, lacquered, generally very fine £3,500-4,000 M.C. London Gazette 25.4.1941 Lieutenant John Anthony Norman Crankshaw (77589), Royal Armoured Corps (Hussars) The Recommendation, dated 18.12.1940, states: ‘On December 10th 2/Lieut. Crankshaw reconnoitred the enemy position at Alam El Rimth. He successfully located the Eastern Flank, also a Camp and the accurate position and the numbers of enemy Guns. He then proceeded through the enemy lines in between this position and that at Azzaziya and though under considerable Artillery and A/T Gun fire worked round behind and got further reliable information of enemy dispositions and of the Buq Buq - Barrani Road. He then located another defended camp. His task was rendered most difficult by a bad sand storm and the extremely bad going for Armoured Cars. Later that evening from the only available view point, though under concentrated Artillery fire, he continued to report on 2 Camps and further locate enemy gun positions.

On December 11th he attacked the enemy and captured 119 prisoners.

On December 14th when his Sqn was heavily attacked from the air by 12 fighters all 3 of his cars were hit. His own car was set on fire but he managed to extinguish it though the whole back was ablaze. Both his other two car commanders were wounded and their cars immobile but he quickly made one runner out of the two. He organised the wounded and quite soon had his troop of two cars in some degree capable of further action. 2/Lt. Crankshaw’s personal example of bravery, cool headedness imperturbability and outstanding devotion to duty under extremely severe conditions was an inspiration to his whole Troop and worthy of the highest praise.

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April 25, 2013 - LONDON 2/Lt. Crankshaw has throughout the past 7 months shown outstanding ability and in particular in late September carried out two most excellent reconnaissances, gaining very valuable information of the location of Sofafi and Rabia Camps and the positions of guns and A/T Guns. I recommend most strongly that he be awarded the Military Cross.’

M.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 2.8.1945 Major (temporary) John Anthony Norman Crankshaw, M.C. (77589), 11th Hussars (Prince Albert’s Own), Royal Armoured Corps (London, S.W.3.)

The Recommendation (originally for an Immediate D.S.O.), dated 12.5.1945, states: ‘On 21 Apr 45, Major Crankshaw’s Sqn was ordered to reconnoitre Buxtehude. The place was believed to contain valuable German naval papers. A full scale attack to capture the town was to be put in later when information of the enemy dispositions had been gained. Major Crankshaw disposed his troops to reconnoitre the approaches to the town, from the South, South East, and South West. This owing to the country and enemy opposition proved too difficult, but Major Crankshaw immediately saw there was a chance of getting close to the town from the South and South East. On his own initiative he transferred his main effort there. The approaches were covered by men in the woods with bazookas and also an antitank gun. Major Crankshaw got a troop into position to watch the enemy and at the same time passed another troop along a track through the woods to get behind the enemy. This move was entirely successful. The anti-tank gun was knocked out from behind, twenty enemy infantry captured and also a staff car full of bazookas. By this time it was too dark to continue but the following day Major Crankshaw sent his troops down the same roads and the town surrendered without a fight. One Admiral, forty officers and 450 ORs captured.

The success of this operation was due to the initiative and bold action taken by Major Crankshaw. His handling of his troops was beyond praise and the capture of the town was due to the successful outflanking of the enemy position.’

Lieutenant-Colonel John Anthony Norman Crankshaw, M.C., born 1918; commissioned Second Lieutenant, 11th Hussars, 25.8.1938, and joined the Regiment in Palestine; the 11th Hussars were stationed in Egypt when Italy declared War on Britain and France, June 1940; in September the Italians invaded Egypt; the 11th Hussars, as part of the 7th Armoured Division, harrassed the Italian advance leading to slow progress; in the middle of September the Italians stopped their advance and decided to consolidate their position by creating a line of fortified camps around Sidi Barrani; the defensive line ran from Maktila to Sofafi; on 10.12.1940 Crankshaw was involved in the early part of the “Battle of the Camps” as part of Operation Compass; the 7th Armoured Division moved to cut off supply routes to Sidi Barrani from the west whilst the remainder of the British forces moved on Sidi Barrani itself; on the 11th December the 7th Armoured Division moved into the Buq Buq area with great success capturing large amounts of troops and guns - Crankshaw’s Squadron captured 119 prisoners; with the expulsion of the Italian forces from Egypt the 7th Armoured Division moved on to be involved in a further series of battles including Bardia, the Capture of Tobruk and Beda Fomm; by February 1941 the Allied forces had advanced approximately 800 kilometres and the Italian Tenth Army had been decimated; Lieutenant 1.1.1941; after a refit in Egypt the 11th Husars returned to the Western Desert to take part in the attempt to lift the siege of Tobruk, May 1941; the 7th Armoured Division were forced out of the line due to suffering heavy casualties and did not return to the front until November, when they were in time to take part in the equally bloody battle at Sidi Rezegh; Temporary Captain 3.7.1942-12.3.1944; Adjutant 5.9.1942-23.2.1943; in 1942 Crankshaw’s regiment were heavily involved with the battle of the First Alamein, Alam Halfa and the British offensive of El Alamein in October; Temporary Major 13.3.1944-31.5.1948; in early 1943 the Division took part in the final push to expel the Axis forces from North Africa, and on the 7th May the 11th Hussars captured Tunis; the 7th Armoured Division were rested for the invasion of Sicily but did land in Italy and took part in the assault across the River Volturno; the Division returned to England in late 1943 for a well earned rest and to re-equip for the Normandy Landings; prior to the Normandy Landings the 11th Hussars transferred to VIII Corps, and served with them throughout the Normandy Campaign including at Villers Bocage and the Battle of Brigade Box (the second week of June 1944); Crankshaw’s regiment took part in Operation Goodwood before returning to the 7th Armoured Division in the first week of August; they were to serve with the 7th Armoured Division for the remainder of the War; fighting at Mont Picon and breaking out of Normandy into Belgium and on into Holland; on the 27th March 1945 the 11th Hussars led the Division across the Rhine; having fought across Germany from the Tuetoberger Wald to the River Weser their final objective was to capture Hamburg; arriving in the outer suburbs by the second week of April the 11th Hussars were often involved in house to house fighting; Crankshaw found himself in the thick of it at Buxtehude on the outskirts of Hamburg (see Recommendation to M.C. Second Award Bar above), 21.4.1945; Hamburg surrendered on the 3rd of May, with the 11th Hussars leading the 7th Armoured Division into the city; Major 25.8.1951; Lieutenant-Colonel 19.10.1958; retired 31.3.1962.

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10 A Fine ‘Maiwand’ D.C.M. Group of Four to Driver J. Bishop, “E” Battery “B” Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery a) Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (3426. Driv: J. Bishop. R.H.A.) b) Afghanistan 1878-80, one clasp, Kandahar (3426. Driv: J. Bishop. E. Batt: B. Bde. R.H.A.) c) India General Service 1854-95, two clasps, Burma 188992, Chin-Lushai 1889-90 (Sergt. J. Bishop Comt. Dept.) d) Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (Sergt. J. Bishop Comt.

Transpt. Dept.), last locally impressed, as issued from India, light contact marks throughout, therefore very fine or better (4) £10,000-12,000 D.C.M. Recommendation submitted to the Queen 1.2.1881, award approved 5.3.1881: ‘For conspicuously gallant conduct during the action at Maiwand and subsequent retreat to Kandahar on 27th and 28th July last.’

For services in Afghanistan ‘E’ Battery R.H.A. received the special thanks of the Viceroy and Commander-in-Chief in General Orders, ‘and the following officers, non-commissioned officers, and men were decorated: Captain Slade, with a Companionship of the Bath; Sergeant Mulane and Gunner Collis, with the Victoria Cross; Sergeant-Major Paton, Quartermaster-Sergeant Munroe, Sergeant Burridge, Corporal Thorogood, Bombadier Payne, Gunner Tighe, Driver Bishop, and Trumpeter Jones, with the medal for distinguished conduct in the field’ (WO 100/54; WO 146/1; and The Afghan Campaign of 1878-1880, Shadbolt, refers).

PROVENANCE:

Brian Ritchie Collection, September 2004

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11 A Scarce Great War D.C.M. Group of Eight to Sergeant A.C.W. Woodhouse, Howitzer Brigade, Royal Marine Artillery a) Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (RMA-11074 Sjt: A.C.W. Woodhouse. No.5 Gun Howz: Bde: R.M.A.) b) 1914 Star, with Bar (R.M.A. 11074. Corpl. A.C.W. Woodhouse R.M. Brigade.) c) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (R.M.A. 11074 Sgt. A.C.W. Woodhouse) d) Defence and War Medals e) Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Admiral’s bust’ type (RMA/11074. A.C.W. Woodhouse. Sergt. R.M.A.) f) Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R. (PO.211074. O.M.S. A.C.W. Woodhouse. D.C.M. 28.2.1951.), very fine or better, mounted court-style as worn (8) £3,500-4,000 D.C.M. London Gazette 21.10.1918 R.M.A./11074 Sjt. A. C. W. Woodhouse, R.M.A. (Southsea) ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He has rendered good service in the field during two and a-half years, showing gallantry and coolness under fire and encouraging his detachment by the example of his disregard of danger. On one occasion, when the casualties were extremely heavy, he showed unremitting devotion to duty in helping the wounded and despatching them to the dressing station.’

The Royal Marine Artillery Howitzer Brigade was equipped with 15 inch howitzers that fired massive shells in support of infantry attacks.

Number 5 Gun went to France in December 1915 and saw service throughout the campaign on the Somme and in the Flanders offensive. During the retreat after the battle of Messines in April 1918, No. 5 Gun became bogged in a sunken road and had to be abandoned, the breech being salved and the gun blown up.

Approximately 11 D.C.M’s awarded to the R.M.A. during the Great War.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 12 The Second War 1942 ‘Retreat from Myitkyina’ K.P.M. for Gallantry Group of Five to ‘LastDitcher’ Major G.J.K. Stapleton, Burma Frontier Force a) King’s Police and Fire Service Medal, for Gallantry, G.VI.R. (Capt. G.J. Stapleton. I.A., Burma Frontier Force) b) 1939-1945 Star c) Burma Star d) Defence and War Medals, nearly extremely fine, mounted as worn, with the following related items: - The recipient’s related miniature awards; 1st Kumaon Rifles gold lapel badge; and belt buckle - The recipient’s hip flask, carried by him during the Retreat - Portrait photograph of the recipient - ‘Retreat from Myitkyina’, the recipient’s account of his time in Burma (5) £800-1,000 K.P.M. for Gallantry London Gazette 1.1.1943 Captain Gregory Joseph Stapleton, Indian Army, Burma Frontier Force.

The recommendation states: ‘Captain Stapleton was on active service with a unit of the Frontier Forces in Minbu, where he was wounded. He refused to be evacuated to India and arrived in Myitkyina at the beginning of May [1942]. When Myitkyina was bombed on the 6th and 7th May he did excellent work in assisting to remove refugees to the hospital, and then made his way to the Hukawng Valley.

On arrival in the Hukawng Valley, Captain Stapleton, who had no men of his own under his command, collected nearly 300 Chin members of the Frontier Force who were stragglers and formed them into a disciplined body and inspired them with his own devotion to duty. With their aid he was able to clean up camps and villages along the refugee route; he disposed of corpses, protected civil officers collecting and distributing rations, and rendered aid to the sick and dying along the road; he also enforced order and discipline among the refugees generally. By this devotion to duty and voluntary assistance to the civil administration he and his men were delayed in their journey to India until after the monsoon had broken in full force, the streams had risen, and the chances of contracting a fatal disease greatly increased. He thereby jeopardised his own chance of reaching India safely. Owing to a fortunate break in the weather he was able to continue his journey and he and his men continued to preserve order along the route from which the forward camps of the Assam refugee organisation had been forced to withdraw.

Captain Stapleton’s action did much to restore confidence among the local villagers living near the route thus enabling civil officers to enlist the services of these villagers later in assisting refugees. Captain Stapleton’s devotion to duty is all the more praiseworthy since he had not fully recovered from the effects of his wound and at no time was he really fit.’

Major Gregory Joseph Kenneth Stapleton, K.P.M., born 1.9.1908, the son of Commander Gregory Stapleton, R.N.; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Indian Army, 7.2.1936; promoted Lieutenant, 1.3.1936; Captain, 18.3.1939; served with the Burma Frontier Force during the Second War, and took part in the final evacuation of Burma.

Major G.J.K. Stapleton

Retreat from Myitkyina ‘By the 6th May 1942 Burma had been lost. Far up in the north one aerodrome remained in our hands at Myitkyina.

From this the Governor of Burma, Sir Reginald DormanSmith, on direct orders from Churchill, had lately been flown out, and from it transport planes were trying to get out as many sick and wounded refugees as possible. I arrived in Myitkyina in the middle of an air alarm on the last train to run under British Command in Burma for many a long day. The road leading out of the town was choked with a mass of refugees, many driving bullock carts. Nowhere was there any sign of discipline. It was a complete and utter rout, the very dregs of our defeat. I had a flesh wound in my leg so I could only keep going, riding a pony, which was impossible on small paths and game tracks. Three days later the track crossed a steep range of hills winding among Kachin villages.

Not surprisingly, there was little sign of the inhabitants. We were heading for Maingkwan which lay to the west, but had no idea if that place was in Jap hands or not. That evening we arrived in Maingkwan which, except for refugees, was quite empty. It was a sizable town and was the centre of the jade trade before the War. By now the question of food was getting worrying. We had enough rice and flour for a few days but certainly not enough to get us to India. The only thing was to press on. On the road leading north out of Maingkwan we encountered the long line of dead and dying which was to last till we came to safety in Assam, weeks later.

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where they had lain to rest, and with this terrible, macabre, heartrending line came the stench of corpses. At night we generally found a village abandoned by the inhabitants, but every sleeping place taken up, with here and there a miserable smoking fire. At one village, called cholera camp, everywhere we looked we saw the dead and dying from this terrible sickness. There was a hut in the village full of rice in bags, but on the bags were corpses, so few would take the food.

A day or two later we reached the Cindwin River which was in full spate and, at the place we came to, perhaps half a mile wide. After crossing the river by canoe, a journey rendered extremely hazardous by the enormous trees which were continuously being carried down past us and which we could only pray would not ram us, we continued north. We were now out of the swamp area and the paths were much drier, though the stream of dead and dying grew every day more terrible. After two days we reached a village where there was a food dump but, as usual, there were corpses in it and under it. Worst of all, right in under the piles set, perhaps four feet apart, was a bullock, very dead indeed- and one fully appreciated that even the starving felt no enthusiasm for drawing rations from the store. A rope was soon found abandoned in a hut with which to try and remove the bullock, but it was obvious that I was expected to set the example by tying the first knot to the animal. The bullock was a long way in among the piles, and one whiff would have made anyone sick- the sight of it nearly accomplished that alone. However, I managed to get a knot on somehow, and we extracted the bullock and made a huge bonfire of it, and other unpleasant remains round about.

After issuing the food in the hut we went on our way, and after two more days we reached Shwinbwiyang. Here we found a big area of dry paddy fields near which there was a village. Aircraft from India had contacted this place and were dropping supplies daily while the weather was fine. Here we

found that a Major, who was pretty relieved when I told him that I had a force with me, and that I would take over so that he could try and get on himself. The first thing we did after taking over was to pass round orders to the great number of refugees collected here- about three thousand- that anyone touching stores dropped from the air would be shot on sight, and no one was to go on the dropping ground during a drop until all stores were collected. We were forced to take this rather high-handed action as the people were fighting amongst themselves for the food and the sick, women, and children were getting a very bad deal. Some of the stronger and better armed, particularly Sikhs, were cornering large quantities of food and setting up shop, selling at exorbitant prices. Soon we had a good organization of issuing stores in full swing. We made a hospital from a large hut so that, at least, the sick could get food and water. We could do little more that this for them. A medical orderly called Katz had joined up with us and helped a lot in this. Every day we carried out the dead and burnt them. Many of the patients had cholera, but believing I had had an anti-cholera injection shortly before, I had no fear of contracting the disease. Later on, going through my records, I discovered that the injection had been for something quite different!

A few days later the rains broke and the men could not be asked to stay on here any longer, so we decided to go, taking enough food for one good meal a day for five days. Katz the medical orderly volunteered to stay on until he might be rescued until after the rains were over. This was an extremely brave act as the chances of his survival were at least ten to one against. In the event he did survive and was rescued by a column some months later. For this he was awarded the George Medal- an award, in my opinion, sadly insufficient.

We set off at dawn and were soon winding through terrible jungle along a narrow twisting path. About mid-day we came to the first stream, already at least six foot deep and fast

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From now on the way led ever upwards into the Pat Kai Range and grew nightly colder. All the time we went through the same terrible scenes of death which had preceded Shwinbwiyang. My job was now to see that a sufficient distance was done each day and to find a suitable place to camp for the next night. This was not easy as we had to find water and many streams were fouled by the dead lying in them. After some days we came to a village where aeroplanes were dropping supplies. We camped above the village for the night. In the morning there was an air drop and I went down to see what was happening. The scene was indescribable chaos. As the bags fell the bigger and stronger rushed to get what they could. Armed gangs threatened anyone weak enough and seized what food they might have. Shops were set up which enabled those with money to get somethingthe thousands of weak and sick did without. We succeeded in restoring order though it was first necessary to shoot. As there were, we d, some three thousand people in this place, of whom perhaps seven hundred were armed, our maintenance of order was a complete bluff. The rains, accompanied by mist, now set in hard and though we heard planes overhead several times, they could not find us. Five days went by and the situation became desperate. At the village below was the river cutting us off from going forward.

According to reports it was two hundred yards wide and in full flood, and a Major and one hundred and fifty people had been drowned trying to cross. We lived there for five days on a maize cob per man per day until even these, found in a village field, ran out. Every day more and more people died.

We found a gang of sweepers, complete with leather helmets which had been part of their uniform, and got them to collect the dead daily and cast them down a deep ravine. It was reminiscent of the great plague as this gang went from house to house each morning, calling “Bring out your dead.”

On the sixth day the clouds cleared somewhat but the planes still failed to see us. Walking by the stream thinking of some method of attracting attention, I saw some clothing a woman had washed and left here. We issued an order that every white article of clothing must be washed and produced. A large collection came in and with these we wrote on the hillside: “3,000 SICK STARVING S.O.S.” The planes saw it. Down

came the drop, five planes on that day alone and many after.

Now we had some food the next thing was to try and get on, so I took twelve Lushai down with me to the river. The ford was, as we had heard, many feet deep, at least two hundred yards across, and coming down in a raging torrent. The only hope lay in a narrower gorge which we found lower down.

We found a suitable spot and making a rope from parachute lines wound together produced a rather hazardous means of getting across. The Lushai are magnificent in mountain streams, and we were lucky to have them. Hastening back to camp I was met by a messenger to say that a plane had dropped a message from General Wood in India. It stated that the way forward was quite impossible, and that the only hope was to try to get back to Shwinbwiyang. We went into conference. Shwinbwiyang was unthinkable, but was there an alternative route? We decided to push on, in the hope that new dropping points might be opened or elephants sent out to rescue us. After crossing the river there was a terrible climb which proved too much for many. But now and again there occurred something of a break in the rains so, in spite of General Wood’s warning, the rest of the way was no worse than what we had previously gone through. After several days we met the first of the camps pushed out from India by the Tea Planters Association of Assam. After that, though there were several days more, it was only walking from camp to camp. At last we reached the little town of Margarita [a name shared by Stapleton’s fiancée], so named by the Italian engineers who built the railway line for the coal mines nearby.

It seemed a good omen! On arriving in Ledo, without having lost a single weapon, there followed a long spell in hospital. I weighed seven stone instead of my usual eleven, and peering at my hospital card one day I saw “Malignant malaria, benign malaria, suspected typhoid, semi-starvation, and influenza.”

It seemed enough for one man.’ (Abridged version of Retreat from Myitkyina refers).

For his gallantry in the retreat through Burma as one of the real “last-ditchers”, Stapleton was awarded the King’s Police Medal; his two senior G.C.O.’s received the Burma Police Medal; and every man who served under him for the duration was either promoted or granted a month’s extra pay.

Subsequently promoted Major, Stapleton married Margarita Chamberlayne in 1945; he died in 1982.

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13 A Great War ‘Zeebrugge Raid’ D.S.M. Group of Eight to Chief Petty Officer T.E. Crust, Royal Navy a) Distinguished Service Medal (J.2018. T.E. Crust. P.O. Zeebrugge-Ostend 22-... April. 1918.) b) 1914-15 Star (J.2018, T.E. Crust, L.S., R.N.) c) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaf [sic] (J2018 T.E. Crust. P.O. R.N.) d) 1939-1945 Star e) Atlantic Star f) War Medal, the Second War awards contemporarily engraved ‘J.2018 T.E. Crust. D.S.M. R.N.’ g) Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R. 1st ‘Admiral’s bust’ type (J.2018 T.E. Crust. P.O. H.M.S. Vulcan.), contact marks overall, generally nearly very fine (8) £800-1,200 D.S.M. London Gazette 23.7.1918 P.O. Thomas Edward Crust, O.N. J.2018 (Ch.) ‘in recognition of distinguished services during the operations against Zeebrugge and Ostend on the night of the 22nd-23rd April, 1918’ (Picket Boats, Motor Launches and Motor Boats) Chief Petty Officer Thomas Edward Crust, D.S.M., born Chatham, Kent, 1892; enlisted Royal Navy as Boy, May 1908; service during the Great War included in H.M.S. Agamemnon (Battleship) and H.M.S. Centaur; he served at H.M.S. Pembroke and volunteered to take part in the Zeebrugge Raid as part of the Picket Boats, Motor Launches and Motor Boats section; (L.S. & G.C. 1926); was still serving at H.M.S. Pembroke when he died, 21.12.1947; Chief Petty Officer Crust is buried in Gillingham (Woodlands) Cemetery, Kent.

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14 The Dieppe Raid D.S.M. Group of Five to Leading Stoker A. Woods, Royal Navy, For His Courage and Repair Work Whilst Under Heavy Fire From the Air and Shore, in H.M.S. Calpe, the H.Q. and Fighter Direction Ship for the Raid. When She Was Holed Beneath the Waterline in the Steering Compartment Woods Saved the Steering Gear and Thus Enabled the Ship and Her Complement to Return Home a) Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (KX.91619 A. Woods. A/L. Sto.) b) 1939-1945 Star c) Atlantic Star d) Defence and War Medals, very fine or better (5) £3,000-3,500 D.S.M. London Gazette 2.10.1942 Acting Leading Stoker Arthur Woods, C/KX.91619. (H.M.S. Calpe) ‘For gallantry, daring and skill in the combined attack on Dieppe’ The Recommendation, dated 22.8.1942, states: ‘Untiring devotion to duty and coolness under fire during the whole operations, and in particular when rigging pumping appliances to the steering compartment which had been holed below the waterline and was in danger of flooding, thus putting the steering gear out of action.’

C/KX 91619 Leading Stoker Arthur Woods, D.S.M., served in H.M.S. Calpe for the Commando Raid on Dieppe, 19.8.1942; H.M.S. Calpe was a ‘Hunt’ Class Destroyer launched and completed by the end of 1941; she was converted for use specifically for the Dieppe Raid as a HQ and Fighter Direction Ship, July 1942, ‘the Jubilee command and control set-up was put in place at this time and their posts during the Raid decided. The Naval and Ground Force Commanders [Captain] Hughes-Hallett and Major-

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H.M.S. Fernie was set up to duplicate the Calpe in case she was sunk during the raid.

During the early hours of the 19th August Calpe helped to lay the smokescreen prior to the beach assaults, subsequently taking up a position with the Fernie from which the Raid Commanders could co-ordinate the proceedings; as it turned out communications between land and sea forces failed with devastating results to the extent that rather than acting as the hub of the operations the Calpe doubled up as a hospital ship, ‘the complement, the crew of H.M.S. Calpe numbered fewer than one hundred men. By 0700hrs [an hour and a half into the raid] the decks of this little destroyer were crammed with some two hundred wounded and dying Canadian soldiers brought off every landing beach and delivered to Calpe in the hope of finding doctors. Nor was this all: off Calpe other landing craft were bobbing about their works riddled by shell and machinegun fire, their decks running with blood, and they too had wounded men in urgent need of assistance.’ (Ibid).

This was the chaotic scene that greeted Lord Lovat upon returning from his successful part of the raid, ‘Lovat wanted to report his success personally to the two Force Commanders and transfer his severely wounded men onto the destroyer, so he directed his craft to head for the Command ship. However, when they arrived alongside H.M.S. Calpe they found boat loads of wounded men on the same errand and the decks of the destroyer already covered with stretchers bearing dead or wounded. This was Lovat’s first intimation that other parts of Operation Jubilee had not gone as well as his own attack at Varengeville. ‘We put seven or eight of our wounded on Calpe, which was a mistake’, he wrote later, ‘because she was already full of wounded men and very lucky not to be sunk.’

This rendezvous would have been sometime after 0900hrs... The No. 4 Commando LCAs circled H.M.S. Calpe for about ten minutes, keeping constantly on the move as German fighters and medium bombers were starting to appear off the beaches, bombing and strafing.’ (Ibid).

The Calpe and the little fleet that she was now accumulating around her were proving to be an attractive target for both the Luftwaffe and the German shore batteries; as the raid unravelled Roberts gave the order from the Calpe for the general withdrawal, by ‘12.20 the officer in charge of the evacuation reported that no more could be done; ten minutes later he withdrew the surviving landing craft.

They had, under conditions of utmost difficulty and danger, rescued over 1,000 men. When one considers the tornado of fire that was being directed at the beaches, their accomplishment appears all the more astonishing. At 12.40 the Calpe closed the shore to see if there was any possibility of further rescue. She too came under heavy fire; and no troops could then be seen in a position from which they might be picked up. At about 1pm a general withdrawal of the surviving ships and craft began. German air attacks were now almost continuous. The destroyer Berkeley was so damaged that she had to be sunk by our forces, and the Calpe also was hit.’ (The War at Sea, Vol II, Captain S.W. Roskill, D.S.C., R.N., refers).

It was when the Calpe was hit that Woods came to the fore; heavily laden down with wounded and under continual fire from both the shore and the air she nearly shared the fate of her sister ship the Berkeley when one hit holed the steering compartment below the waterline threatening to flood the area and put the steering gear out of action; Woods acted quickly, rigging the pumps and keeping the rushing water at bay, as a consequence she eventually made good her escape. She was the last ship to leave the Dieppe Coast and was under continuous enemy fire virtually all the way back to Portsmouth.

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15 A Great War M.M. Group of Three to Lance-Corporal F.W. Cooke, Royal Engineers a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (149073 L.Cpl. F.W. Cooke.

R.E.) b) British War and Victory Medals (149073 Spr. F.W. Cooke. R.E.), nearly extremely fine (3) £180-220 M.M. London Gazette 21.10.1918 149073 L./C. F.W. Cooke, R.E. (East Grinstead) 149073 Corporal Frederick William Cooke, M.M., born 1896; enlisted in the Royal Engineers, December 1915; served with the Corps during the Great War on the Western Front; promoted Lance Corporal, 1.6.1918.

16 A Great War M.M. Group of Three to Sergeant R. Taylor, Royal West Kent Regiment a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (7622 Pte. -A.L.Sjt.- R. Taylor.

8/R.W. Kent R.) b) British War and Victory Medals (GS-7622 A. Sgt. R. Taylor. R.W. Kent R.), good very fine £200-240 M.M. London Gazette 14.5.1919 7622 Pte. (A./L./Sjt.) Taylor, R., 8th Bn., Royal West Kent Regiment (Tunbridge Wells).

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17 A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. Group of Seven to Colonel G.J.A. Ormsby, Royal Army Medical Corps a) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral topriband bar b) Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, Cape Colony, unofficial rivets between 4th and 5th clasps (Capt. G.J.A. Ormsby. R.A.M.C.), rank officially corrected c) King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (Capt. G.J.A. Ormsby. M.D. R.A.M.C.) d) 1914 Star, with copy Bar (Major G.J.A. Ormsby. R.A.M.C.) e) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Col. G.J.A. Ormsby.) f) General Service 1918-62, G.V.R., one clasp, Iraq (Bt. Col. G.J.A. Ormsby.), light contact marks, therefore generally very fine or better, mounted for wear, with the recipient’s related miniature awards, all housed in a Spink & Son leather case, this slightly distressed, surmounted with a small metal plate engraved ‘G.J.A.O.’ (lot) £1,400-1,800 D.S.O. London Gazette 18.2.1915 Gilbert John Anthony Ormsby, M.D., Major, Royal Army Medical Corps ‘For services in connection with operations in the field.’

Colonel Gilbert John Anthony Ormsby, D.S.O., M.D., born Dublin,1876, the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Lambert H. Ormsby, Kt, Honorary Consulting Surgeon of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force; commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps, 28.1.1899; served during the Second Boer War, and was present in actions including Colenso and Spion Kop (‘Cape Colony’ clasp unconfirmed); Captain 28.1.1902; Major 28.1.1911; served during the Great War on the Western Front, from 16.8.1914; Lieutenant-Colonel 1.3.1915, and was Temporary Colonel whilst serving as Assistant Director of Medical Services, July 1917-May 1918 (D.S.O.; M.I.D. London Gazette 17.2.1915, 24.12.1917, 25.5.1918 and 30.12.1918; Wounded); Brevet Colonel 3.6.1918, and served as A.D.M.S. (Acting Colonel) 34th Division, British Armies in France, 13.11.1918-28.10.1919; after serving in Mesopotamia was appointed A.D.M.S. HQ Basrah District, 1920; served in India 1922-1924.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 18 The Fine Second War D.S.O., D.S.C. Group of Eight, Which Reflects A Most Interesting Career, to Captain G.A.G. Ormsby, Royal Navy: A Qualified Anti-Submarine Officer Who, in H.M.S. Afridi, October 1939, Was Commended For His Conduct In Combatting Three U-Boats Over Five Days; He Was Later Present In H.M.S. Cossack During Her Historical Interception, Boarding, and Capture of the German ‘Prison Ship’ Altmark, Used by the Graf Spee to Store Its Prisoners EnRoute For Germany. After Altmark’s Capture, ‘Any British Down There?’ Was Shouted Down To The Prisoners- ‘Yes, We’re All British’ Came The Answer. ‘Come On Up Then’ Came The Reply, to Which Were Added The Immortal Words That Made The History Books: ‘The Navy’s Here!’

Ormsby Served Three Tough Years in the Atlantic as Escort Captain and Led the 10th Support Group on Anti-Submarine Operations in the Western Approaches From H.M.S. Spey; On 18.2.1944 He Sank The U.406 In Which A Group of Radar-Counter-Measure Scientists Were Numbered Among the Survivors, From Whom The Allies Gained Valuable Information On German Progress In That Field; On The Following Day Ormsby Sank The U.386, Which Prompted The C-in-C Western Approaches to Report: ‘This Is How Things Should Be Done.’ a) Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., silver-gilt and enamel, reverse of suspension bar dated ‘1944’, with integral top-riband bar b) Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., silver (Hallmarks for London 1939), reverse dated ‘1940’ c) Naval General Service 1915-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (Lt. Cdr. G.A.G. Ormsby. R.N.) d) 1939-1945 Star e) Atlantic Star f) Burma Star g) War Medal, M.I.D. Oak Leaf h) Coronation 1953 i) Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (unsuccessful) (Lt. Comdr. Gerald A.G. Ormsby.

D.S.C., R.N. 16th Feb. 1940.), with integral bronze top-riband buckle, generally very fine or better, mounted as originally worn with the exception of the last, which is loose; with The Royal Life Saving Society Award of Merit medal, silver, engraved ‘G.A. Ormsby.

1924’, all housed in a Gieves Ltd leather case, embossed with the initials ‘G.A.G.O.’, with the following related contemporary items and documents: - Captain’s Peaked Hat - Bicorne Hat together with Dress Epaulettes, all by Gieves, in original fitted velvet tin case, named to ‘G.A.G. Ormsby, R.N.’ - Four sets of Shoulder Boards, various ranks - Uniform including Jacket with full medal ribands; and evening Dress Jacket, Trousers (2) - Pair of Zeiss Binoculars (7x50), in initialled leather case - Bestowal Document for the Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal, named to ‘Lieut-Commander Gerald A.G. Ormsby, D.S.C., Royal Navy’, dated 10.9.1940, in embossed scroll holder - Several Photographs and newspaper cuttings (lot) £8,000-10,000

Captain G.A.G. Ormsby

D.S.O. London Gazette 6.6.1944 Commander Gerald Anthony Gore Ormsby, D.S.C., Royal Navy (Richmond) ‘For outstanding leadership, skill and devotion to duty in H.M. Ships...Spey...in successful actions with U-Boats, while on convoy escort duty in the Atlantic.’

D.S.C. London Gazette 1.1.1940 Lieutenant-Commander Gerald Anthony Gore Ormsby, R.N., H.M.S. Afridi ‘For outstanding zeal, proficiency, skill and energy in successfully combating enemy submarines.’

Ormsby is jointly commended with Leading Seamen P.J. Coan (awarded a D.S.M. for the same action) and A.B. Wyatt in The Captain of 4th Destroyer Flotilla Confidential Report, 24.10.1939, which includes the following detail ‘H.M.S. Afridi, Gurkha, Hastings, Woolston and Valorous. Attacks on German U-Boats on the 13th, 16th and 18th October 1939...Assessment Committee consider that attacks were carried out on a U-Boat, that was probably sunk.

On 13th October off Beachy Head several tons of oil was released.

On 16th October there was much oil, but darkness curtailed further observation.

On 18th October the quantity of oil was small, 5 or 6 acres, but the supply was from a fixed point continuous and increasing.

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18 In September 1933 he broke the law of the Territory by ordering a white man to be flogged after a dispute concerning a native woman with whom the white man had been living.

The High Commissioner was on leave, and the Acting High Commissioner, the C-in-C Africa station, Adml. Sir Edward Evans (Evans of the Broke) dispatched what amounted to a Naval Brigade on the Victorian Navy pattern.

Nine officers, including Ormsby, and 150 sailors and marines from Carlisle, with three howitzers, six Lewis guns, 100 rifles and supplies for three weeks, travelled 1,100 miles up country by train, lorry and finally on foot.

Evans himself arrived in state to hold a formal hearing under a fig tree, attended by a contingent of tribesmen, who were over-awed by the regal trappings of the Royal Marines. The tribesmen had been relieved of their guns by Carlisle’s sailors, who gave them all a cloakroom ticket so that they could reclaim their firearms later. Khama was deposed, but later reinstated’ (Obituary included in lot refers); served at H.M.S. Osprey (Anti-Submarine Training Establishment), Portland, from 1937; qualified as Anti-Submarine Officer, and with the outbreak of the Second War was posted to H.M.S. Afridi (Destroyer); the latter formed part of the 4th Destroyer Flotilla and was assigned for service with the Humber Force in the North Sea; Ormsby was quickly into action in October, and was involved in attacks on three U-boats over the course of five days, one of which is believed to have been sunk (D.S.C.); Ormsby was appointed Lieutenant-Commander and Anti-Submarine Officer to the Afridi’s sister ship H.M.S. Cossack, January 1940.

I desire to bring to your notice that these successes arise directly from the skill and zeal of my Anti-Submarine Officer, Lieutenant-Commander G.A.G. Ormsby, and are the good results of his careful training of the A/S ratings.

Leading Seaman P.J. Coan (H.S.D.), P/J. 56312, is a very experienced and zealous operator, and his knowledge and experience played an essential part in the attacks on these three U-Boats.

The first contact on 13th October off Beachy Head was obtained at 2300 yards at 22.5 knots by Able Seaman A. Wyatt (S.D.), P/SS.X.19962, 1st Operator, and Leading Seaman Coan, 2nd Operator, and I consider that the detection, classification and holding of the contact without hesitation was a notable achievement: Any hesitation would almost certainly have caused it to have been passed as one of the numerous wrecks in the vicinity.

In the attack on 16th October in the Firth of Forth and on 18th October off St. Abbs Head contacts were obtained by Wyatt and Coan respectively, and with a confidence and lack of hesitation which is essential to A/S operations, but not always available.

The wrecks of the last war which litter our coastal waters demand extra skill in quick classification of contacts, or else the service on which the ship is employed would be continuously delayed and the U-boats left more free.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 13.2.1945 Commander Gerald Anthony Gore Ormsby, D.S.O., D.S.C., Royal Navy (H.M.S. Taff) ‘For courage, leadership and determination in anti U-boat operations.’

The Altmark Incident Ormsby’s first action in his new ship was on the night of 16.2.1940; commanded by Captain Philip Vian, R.N. she intercepted the tanker Altmark enroute for Germany carrying 300 prisoners of war who had been picked up from ships sunk by the Graf Spee; travelling through the neutral waters of Norway the Altmark sought refuge in Josing Fjord; Cossack followed her in, however the Norwegian naval escorts positioned themselves to block any attempt to board the German ship; given the sensitivity of the neutrality aspect Vian had to wait for Admiralty orders before deciding upon

Captain Gerald Anthony Gore Ormsby, D.S.O., D.S.C., born Dublin, 1909; entered the Royal Navy as Cadet at Dartmouth, 1923; appointed Midshipman H.M.S. Kent (Cruiser), on the China station before being posted to the cruiser Carlisle, ‘for service on the African station, where he was involved in an affair which caused something of a stir.

Tshekedi Khama, the Regent of the Bamangwato tribe of the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana), was an African chieftain of rather too independent views to suit the British colonial authorities.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA a course of action; he received the following from the then First Sea Lord Winston Churchill: ‘Unless Norwegian torpedo-boat undertakes to convoy Altmark to Bergen with a joint Anglo-Norwegian guard on board, and a joint escort, you should board Altmark, liberate the prisoners, and take possession of the ship pending further instructions. If Norwegian torpedo-boat interferes, you should warn her to stand off. If she fires upon you, you should not reply unless attack is serious, in which case you should defend yourself, using no more force than is necessary, and ceasing fire when she desists.’

Armed with these instructions Vian acted decisively, as his account of the action shows: ‘Having placed Cossack in a position from which our pompoms could play upon Norwegian decks, whilst their torpedo tubes were no instant menace to us, I said we could parley no longer, and must board and search the Altmark forthwith, whether we fought them or not. Kjell’s captain decided that honour was served by submitting to superior force, and withdrew. On rounding the bend in the fjord, Altmark at last came into view. She lay bows inshore, encased in ice, her great bulk standing black against the snow-clad mountains.

Thoughts of the six-inch guns with which the Altmark was said to be armed were naturally in our minds. Though our own guns were manned we were obviously an easy target, and the enemy’s first shots might well immobilise us at once.

There was nothing for it, however, but to go ahead and get to grips as quickly as possible.

The Altmark Captain was determined to resist being boarded. On sighting Cossack, he trained his searchlight on our bridge to blind the command, and came astern at full power through the channel which his entry into the ice had made. His idea was to ram us. Unless something was done very quickly the great mass of the tanker’s counter was going to crash heavily into Cossack’s port bow.

There followed a period of manoeuvring in which disaster, as serious collision must have entailed, was avoided by the skill of my imperturable navigator, McLean, and by the speed with which the main engine manoeuvring valves were operated by their artificers.

Lieutenant Bradwell Turner, the leader of the boarding party, anticipated Cossack’s arrival alongside Altmark with a leap which became famous. Petty Officer Atkins, who followed him, fell short, and hung by his hands until Turner heaved him on deck. The two quickly made fast a hemp hawser from Cossack’s fo’c’s’le, and the rest of the party scrambled across.

When Turner arrived on Altmark’s bridge he found the engine telegraphs set to full speed in an endeavour to force Cossack ashore. On Turner’s appearance, the captain and others surrendered, except the third officer, who interfered with the telegraphs, which Turner had set to stop. Turner forbore to shoot him.

It was now clear that as a result of her manoeuvres Altmark would ground by the stern, which she did, but not before Cossack, the boarding party all being transferred, had cast off, to avoid the same fate.

It was expected, with the surrender of the German captain, that the release of our prisoners would be a drawing-room affair. That this was not so was due to the action of a member of the armed guard which Graf Spee had put aboard. He

gratuitously shot Gunner Smith, of the boarding party, in an alleyway. This invoked retaliation, upon which the armed guard decamped; they fled across the ice, and began to snipe the boarding party from an eminence on shore. Silhouetted against the snow they made easy targets, and their fire was quickly silenced by Turner and his men.

In the end German casualties were few, six killed and six badly wounded. The boarding party had none, save unlucky Gunner Smith, and even he was not fatally wounded.

Resistance overcome, Turner was able to turn to the business of the day. The prisoners were under locked hatches in the holds; when these had been broken open Turner hailed the men below with the words: ‘Any British down there?’ He was greeted with a tremendous yell of ‘Yes! We’re all British!’

‘Come on up then,’ said Turner, ‘The Navy’s here!’

While the boarding party were in the process of securing the Altmark Ormsby was involved in an incident himself, ‘While Vian watched and wondered a lamp on the Altmark began to flash a message. Among the boarding party was a young signalman named Donald Davies, lent for the raid by H.M.S. Afridi. Davies had fitted up his lamp and had already signalled that the operation was going well. But now he had a serious, frightening message. “Altmark captured and now in our charge,” the officers on Cossack’s bridge read from the flashes. “Reported due to blow up at midnight.”

The officers looked at each other with dismay. The message bore the hallmark of truth. “Just the sort of thing Jerry would do,” said Hector MacLean. “And if he blows her up, trust him to do it at precisely midnight.”

It was clear to Vian that the whole action must be speeded up. Even without a hitch, it was doubtful whether the boarding party could liberate the prisoners by midnight, but they would have to try. He looked around at the Norwegian gun-boats, but could see no sign of activity. Of the ships in the fjord, only they were quiet. It was improbable that they would interfere now that the boarding had taken place. Vian gave the order: “Back to the Altmark.”

The tanker loomed large and black against the white snowy background and Vian was almost alongside when a shout went up.

“Man overboard.”

“Who on earth is it?” demanded Vian. Now that every minute counted, a mishap of this sort could jeopardize his own ship and all the prisoners.

“Man from 14 Mess, sir,” a petty officer caller back.

“How can you tell that?” snapped Vian.

“Officers have recognized him, sir.”

Get him with grappling irons!” Vian shouted instantly.

“Nobody is to go over the side after him.”

His order was too late. Already Tony Ormsby, LieutenantCommander and Anti-Submarine Officer, and Lieutenant Burkett, had dived into the icy water and were swimming strongly towards the unfortunate seaman. Each took a hold on the man and propelled him back towards the Cossack.

Ratings threw down lines and hauled the three men up; the sailor was unconscious, the officers shivering.

“Blimey,” a petty officer called out as he bent over the rescued man. He examined the identity disc which said: A. Berndsen, Altmark. “This isn’t one of our blokes. It’s one of theirs.” It was a German sailor who had jumped overboard

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Both Ormsby and Burkett were awarded the Royal Humane Society’s bronze medal for their heroic efforts in the freezing water.

night. At daylight Walker decided to sweep back along the convoy track to seek enemies whose presence had been detected earlier. At 10am the Woodpecker obtained a contact, and after a seven-hour hunt she and the Starling forced U264 to surface and abandon ship...That same afternoon the 10th Escort Group, which was on its way to join ON224, added to the score by sinking U386.’

Ormsby initially engaged U386 with depth charges, forcing her to the surface about 800 yards from his frigate, ‘As H.M.S. Spey altered course to close and opened fire with all guns, the U-boat started to proceed ahead. At the same time the enemy returned the frigate’s fire, until a shallow pattern of depth charges, fired by H.M.S. Spey, straddled the U-boat.

Soon afterwards, several members of the crew were seen abandoning ship. Meanwhile, the enemy, which was down by the stern and badly damaged by the frigate’s gunfire, continued to go ahead.

H.M.S. Spey obtained many more hits with her 4in. guns and close-range armament. A few minutes later another party of men emerged from the conning-tower hatch of the U-boat and jumped into the sea. Shortly afterwards the bows of the U-boat reared out of the water and the enemy sank stern first.

Commander Ormsby commented that the crew of the second U-boat “showed considerable courage in attempting to man their guns in the face of a hail of Oerlikon and pom-pom fire and several 4in. hits” (Newspaper cutting included in lot refers); Admiral Sir Max Horton, the C-in-C Western Approaches wrote on Ormsby’s report of proceedings: “This is how things should be done”, and Ormsby was awarded the D.S.O.

U-boat Hunter Ormsby joined the Anti-Submarine Warfare Division in the Admiralty, before being appointed Anti-Submarine Officer to H.M.S. Warspite (battleship), Mediterranean station,1941; appointed to the command of H.M.S. Pheasant (Sloop converted into a specialised convoy defence vessel, with antiaircraft and anti-submarine capability), and ‘then served three extremely hard years as an escort captain in the Atlantic.

During that time he had no leave and, when at sea, never a complete night’s sleep, snatching an hour when he could in a hammock in the chart-house’ (Obituary refers); appointed to the command of H.M.S. Spey (Frigate) and in her led the 10th Support Group on anti-submarine operations in the Western Approaches; his expertise on submarines came to the fore when leading his group in the defence of the outward bound Atlantic convoy ONS29, on the evening of the 18/19th February 1944; Roskill offers the following in The War at Sea, ‘Late on the 15th [February] another outward bound convoy, actually OS68 though the enemy believed it to be ON224, was reported by aircraft off north-west Ireland.

No less than twenty U-boats were ordered to close towards it; but, as had happened so often before, the Luftwaffe found it impossible to keep in constant touch with their quarry. The first two Ju.290s to be sent out on the 16th were shot down

by Fleet Air Arm fighters and Coastal Command’s interception patrols, and the result was that the convoy was not reported again until late in the afternoon. The enemy thereupon decided to attack during the night of the 17th18th and concentrated a score of U-boats in lines three deep across its path. As, however, their night air reconnaissance failed, the U-boats did not receive the expected homing signals. In fact there were two convoys approaching the enemy concentration, for ONS29 was about 150 miles southwest of ON224, and the latter was overtaking the former. The threat to them both had not gone unobserved in London; strong air cover was being continuously provided by Coastal Command, and three escort group had been diverted.... the 2nd and 7th Escort Groups, with Walker in command, were sent to reinforce ON224, while the 10th Group joined up with ONS29. The former convoy was also diverted further to the south during the night of the 17th-18th; but all this remained hidden from the enemy until late on the 18th, because his air searches had once again failed. When the German wireless-interception revealed ON224’s diversion on the afternoon of the 18th, they sent the U-boats in pursuit.

At 3.20 the 10th Escort Group obtained contact near ONS29, and the frigate Spey sank U406. Among the forty-five survivors was a party of scientists embarked to investigate radar counter-measures, and from them we gained valuable information on enemy progress in that technique.

By the small hours of the 19th the two convoys ON224 and ONS29 were not far apart, and the U-boats were still pursuing them. Liberators forced several of them down that

The Indian Ocean - A New Hunting Ground Ormsby was appointed to the command of H.M.S. Taff (frigate), May 1944; from her he commanded the 60th Escort Group as part of the East Indies Fleet; the latter was involved in the sinking of U198, off the Seychelles, 12.8.1944; Ormsby was Mentioned in Despatches for this before taking part in the rescue of the crew of the merchantman Troilus, 10.9.1944; the day before the Troilus had been torpedoed and sunk by U859 300 miles north-east of Socotra Island; working in conjunction with H.M.S. Nadder 95 survivors of the attack were rescued; Ormsby relinquished his command of the Taff in June 1945, and qualified as a Torpedo Anti-Submarine (TAS) Officer; he served at the Anti-Submarine Warfare Division of the Admiralty before commanding H.M.S. St. Kitts (Destroyer), 1950-1951; in 1954 ‘he joined the NATO Staff at Fontainebleu, near Paris. His final appointment before his retirement in 1959 was as employment development officer, with the task of finding suitable jobs in commerce and industry for the numerous officers who were leaving the Navy under the “Golden Bowler” scheme. Ormsby then became Director of Studies at Greenlands Administrative Staff College, at Henley on Thames. In 1977 he was a member of the working party which set up the Sue Ryder home in the house at Nettlebed, Oxon, formerly owned by Peter Fleming and Celia Johnson. In 1979 he became its first Administrator and Chairman of the house committee’ (Obituary refers).

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19 19 A Second World War Ship’s Bell from H.M.S. Spey A fine-quality large brass Ship’s Bell, engraved ‘H.M.S. Spey 1942’, 310mm in height, 320mm in diameter, complete with top support hangers, but lacking clapper £600-800 H.M.S. Spey (1,371 tons), a River-class frigate, and the sixth ship of the Royal Navy to bear this name, was built on the Tees by Smiths Dock Company in 1941, and Commissioned on the 19th May 1942. She served during the Second World War in anti-submarine convoy escorts in the North Atlantic, and amongst her notable achievements was the sinking of the German submarines U.406 and U.368, 1819.2.1944. In 1945 she joined the Eastern Fleet, and was employed in convoy defence and support in the Bay of Bengal. Following the Surrender of Japan she returned to home waters and was paid-off into the reserve, before being sold to the Egyptian Navy in 1948 and renamed Rasheid; she remained in service with them until 1990.

In 1985 a seventh H.M.S. Spey was launched, a River-class Minesweeper based in Faslane and assigned to the Northern Ireland Squadron, where she patrolled the Province’s waterways and participated in counter-terrorist operations in support of the Army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Between 1996 and 1998, when she was sold to the Brazilian Navy, the Seventh H.M.S. Spey carried aboard the Ship’s Bell from her Second World War predecessor, on loan from the present owner.

Note: In view of the size and weight of this lot, the buyer will be responsible for its collection.

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20 22 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Civil Division, Officer’s (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt, extremely fine, in Royal Mint case of issue, with a related miniature award £70-90

20 The Royal Victorian Order, Knight Commander’s (K.C.V.O.) set of Insignia, neck Badge, 50mm, silvergilt and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘970’; Star, 71mm, silver and enamel, with gold retaining pin, reverse officially numbered ‘970’, nearly extremely fine, with neck riband, in Collingwood, London, case of issue (2) £1,000-1,200

23 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Civil Division, Officer’s (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt, very fine, with related miniature award £70-90

21 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Military Division, Officer’s (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt, extremely fine, in Royal Mint case of issue, with related miniature award The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Civil Division, Member’s (M.B.E.) breast Badge, silver, extremely fine, in Toye, Kenning & Spencer, London, case of issue (2) £120-150

24 Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.) Badge, G.V.R., silver and enamel, good very fine £80-120

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25 A Good Great War 1918 D.C.M. to Corporal T. Coombs, Royal Field Artillery Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (125833 Cpl. T. Coombs. R.F.A.), traces of lacquer, good very fine, together with a portrait photograph of the recipient £500-600 D.C.M. London Gazette 3.10.1918 125833 Cpl. T. Coombs, R.F.A. (India).

‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. During a heavy bombardment a direct hit set fire to an ammunition recess. He at once went to the recess and commenced throwing out the unignited ammunition, and continued to do this, although he was twice thrown out by exploding bombs, the second time being also wounded in the head. He was eventually dragged away just before the remaining ammunition exploded. His particularly gallant action undoubtedly saved the fire from spreading to an adjacent ammunition recess.’

26 The Highly Emotive Edward Medal for Mines to Pit Overman W. Graham, Who Helped With the Attempted Rescue of Miners Trapped by a Terrible Fire in the Wellington Pit, Whitehaven, 11.5.1910; Of the Original Shift of 143 Miners Only 7 Survived Edward Medal (Mines), E.VII.R., bronze (Wilson Graham), nearly extremely fine, with original hook suspension £1,000-1,400 E.M. London Gazette 22.7.1910 Wilson Graham, Overman (William Pit) ‘On the 11th May, 1910, a terrible fire occurred in the Wellington Pit, Whitehaven, at a point about 4,500 yards from the shafts. Various rescue parties, with great courage and self-devotion and at considerable risk, descended the mine and endeavoured to extinguish the fire and penetrate to the persons in the workings beyond the same. Thorne andand Littlewood, fitted with breathing apparatus, reached within a distance of 150 yards of the fire, but were driven back by the great heat and effusion of gases. The others got to within about 300 yards of the fire, working in the smoke

backing from the fire. It was found impossible to penetrate to the scene of the fire or to rescue any of the entombed miners.

Had an explosion occurred - a by no means unlikely eventuality, seeing that the mine is a very gassy one - they would undoubtedly all have been killed. Special gallantry was shown by John Henry Thorne, to whom the Edward Medal of the First Class has already been awarded, and by James Littlewood.’

For this action John Henry Thorne and James Littlewood were awarded silver Edward Medals (the award to Thorne being a Second Award bar); and 64 men, including Graham, were awarded bronze Edward Medals, the greatest number of Edward Medals ever to be given for one incident.

The Wellington Pit Disaster ‘The first indication something was wrong reached the shaft top about eight o’clock on the evening of Wednesday, 11th May, 1910. An exploration party was dispatched down the shaft and news quickly spread around the town. A large party of police was almost immediately on the spot but there was no issue of keeping order - the huge crowds, which soon grew to thousands, stood quietly on the clear, starlit night. A terrible explosion involving a large loss of life was feared.

An entire shift of men, numbering 143, had entered the mine the previous evening. Only seven had managed to escape immediately after the explosion, leaving 136 men still unaccounted for.

Right through the night and all the next day, rescue parties were at work trying to reach the workings where the missing men were entombed, but it was extremely difficult, the atmosphere dense. Some of the timbering in the mine was on fire while the only means of ventilating the portion of the pit where the men were trapped was entirely cut off. At the pithead there were heart-rending scenes. Women, with children, in pain and anxiety waited for news of their loved ones. Many of them stayed at the pithead all night and the whole of the following day refusing to leave for rest or refreshment and a number collapsed, worn out by their vigil.

As the day wore on and successive rescue parties reported the stupendous difficulties underground, hopes of saving the imprisoned men diminished and the distress of the crowd grew more acute. The demonstration of grief was extreme.

Weeping women and children would not leave as it became extremely doubtful any further lives would be saved. The mine was on fire, many fire extinguishers and other fire appliances had been sent to the scene. In Whitehaven itself business was at a standstill. The fishermen and dock labourers

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Mr. J.B. Atkinson, H.M. Chief Inspector of Mines for the Northern District, arrived at four o’clock in the afternoon, accompanied by Mr. H.A. Abbott, Inspector of Mines for the North-Eastern District, and they were briefed on the situation. They both then descended the shaft to inspect the progress that had been made. The fire by now had taken hold at the friction gear. With the risk to the rescue teams and the possibility of a further explosion, Mr. Atkinson ordered the mine be cleared of all men. He stated it would be impossible for anyone to be alive on the other side of the fire and ordered every man to proceed to the surface. Some of the rescue party, concerned for trapped men, needed to be forcibly dragged away.

A conference was held at the pit top at nine o’clock that Thursday evening between the Inspectors and Colliery Officials. It was decided to wait until special rescue teams arrived from Armstrong Whitworth and Co. at Elswick, and The Sheffield Mining Company.

The teams arrived around eleven o’clock that evening and proceeded to enter the shaft with their special breathing apparatus.

The Sheffield men, John Thorne and James Littlewood, were well known in mining circles as the two most experienced men available.

The party descended the shaft at 11:25pm, accompanied by the Inspectors, Colliery officials, and a party of the best miners that they could find. On reaching the bottom, they walked for just under three miles before stopping to set their equipment. Thorne and Littlewood then set off on their own in an attempt to pass the fire and get into the workings beyond, to check the air there. After battling ahead for 170 yards the smoke was so thick that they could not see their torches. Thorne, who led, with Littlewood a few steps behind, tripped over some fallen telegraph wires which were so hot they badly burned his legs. On reaching the brattice cloth, he put his hand around the side and described it “like putting your hand inside an oven”. They could hear the crackling of the fire but could see nothing for the smoke. The heat was so intense that the soldered name plates on the helmets were melted and caused a blister on each of the men’s faces. Reluctantly, they decided to turn back after twenty minutes, no longer able to stand the heat and fearing for another explosion. On arrival back at the shaft top, it was realised that nothing further could be done for the trapped men. Mr. Atkinson made the decision to build a two foot thick stopping in the main passageway in an attempt to starve the oxygen of fire. This was achieved by Friday morning.

On Friday morning a large congregation of around 3,000 miners assembled in the Market Place demanding to be allowed to continue the search for their trapped comrades. A telegram had already been sent, by the miners, to the Home Secretary, the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, asking for such permission.

On Sunday morning, a party of seven entered the mine hoping to reach the seat of the fire by the return airway. About one and a half miles in, the doors separating the intake from the outtake were opened and four men entered with breathing apparatus. Mr. Steel, the Mine Manager; Mr. Blair, the Assistant Manager; Mr. Henry, the Under Manager; and John Thorne had travelled about 190 yards when their canary fell from its perch. Further on, their safety lamps went out. Undaunted, they continued over many falls until the heat was 85 degrees Fahrenheit and they could no longer see their electric lamps for the smoke. They had reached a point 500 yards beyond the stopping in the intake and within 400 yards of the fire. They reluctantly came to the decision that no one could make it past the fire and all beyond must be long since dead. It was decided to build another stopping in the return and a further stopping in the intake as the only possible course to put the fire out.’

(Whitehaven News, 12-17.5.1910 refers).

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x27 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (PO.6416.

Sergt. A.B. Cox, R.M.L.I. H.M.S. Princess Margaret. 1917.), good very fine £500-600 D.S.M. London Gazette 1.10.1917 Sergt. Alfred Benjamin Cox, R.M.L.I., No. Po./6416.

The award of the Distinguished Service Medal was in recognition of good services and devotion to duty whilst serving in the Minelayer H.M.S. Princess Margaret. In December 1914 the Princess Margaret was taken up from Merchant Service and converted to a Minelayer, with a mine carrying capacity of 500 mines. She was one of the largest Minelayers used by the Royal Navy.

28 A Great War 1916 ‘French Theatre’ M.M. to Sergeant W. Moore, Royal Engineers Military Medal, G.V.R. (147125 Sjt: W. Moore.

1/Spec: Bde: R.E.), nearly extremely fine £140-180 M.M. London Gazette 9.12.1916 147125 Sjt. W. Moore, R.E.

The first of the bodies were recovered from the pit on the 27th September, and a mass funeral took place with an estimated 10,000 people attending. Many families had lost more than one family member, with the McAllister family losing seven members to the fire.

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31 A Good Great War ‘French Theatre’ M.M. to Sergeant D.O. James, Welsh Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (33247 Sjt: D.O. James.

10/Welsh R.), good very fine £140-180

M.M. London Gazette 22.1.1917 113609 Actg. Cpl. E. Bell.

R.E.

30 A Great War 1916 ‘French Theatre’ M.M. to Company Sergeant Major D.J. Strickland, Gloucestershire Regiment, Killed in Action 17.7.1916 Military Medal, G.V.R. (186 A.C.S.Mjr. D.J. Strickland. 1/4 Glouc: R.-T.F.), good very fine £300-350 M.M. London Gazette 11.11.1916 186 Actg. Coy. S./M. D.J. Strickland, Glouc. R. 186 Company Sergeant Major Denis Joseph Strickland, M.M., born Weston-super-Mare; served during the Great War with the 1/4th (City of Bristol) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, Territorial Force; he was killed in action, 17.7.1916; on the latter date the 1/4th Battalion were heavily engaged in action west and north-west of the village of Ovillers, Somme; Strickland is buried in Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuille Wood, Somme, France.

M.M. London Gazette 23.2.1918 33247 Sjt. D. O. James, Welsh R. (Caerau, Maesteg).

33247 Sergeant David Owen James, served with the 10th Battalion Welsh Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 3.12.1915; awarded the Military Medal for Gallantry in the Boutillerie sub-sector: ‘Sergeant D.O. James (D Company) and Private Edgar Lewis (A Company) awarded the Military Medal for Gallantry on the morning of 9th November 1917. One of our patrols consisting of 1 Officer and 8 men were fired upon by enemy Machine Gun fire- the Officer was killed and 2 men were wounded. Two men of this patrol remained with the officer all night and as they did not return by 9:00am Sergeant James and the other rank went across No Man’s Land in Daylight and brought the 2 men back to our lines, who had lost their way.’ (Battalion War Diary refers).

32 Military Medal, G.V.R. (25396 Pte. R. Morgans.

18/Welsh R.), edge bruising, nearly very fine £120-160 M.M. London Gazette 21.10.1918 25396 Pte. R. Morgans, Welsh R. (Sheffield).

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x36 British Empire Medal, Civil Division, E.II.R. (Charles Salter), nearly extremely fine £200-240

M.M. London Gazette 14.1.1918 241409 Pte. R. Tyrer, N. Lan. R. (Bolton).

B.E.M. London Gazette 10.6.1954 Charles Slater, Donkeyman-Greaser, S.S. “Paparoa”, New Zealand Shipping Company, Ltd. (East Ham, E6)

34 Military Medal, G.V.R. (250225 Sjt: A.L. Walters.

6/Durh:L.I.), pawn broker’s marks to edge at 10 o’clock, good very fine £160-200

37 King’s Medal for Courage in the Cause of Freedom, unnamed as issued, extremely fine, on ladies bow riband, in Royal Mint case of issue £200-240

M.M. London Gazette 13.9.1918 250225 Sjt. A.L. Walters, Dur. L.I. (Spennymoor).

35 Military Medal, G.V.R. (57841 Sjt: C.J.H. Davies.

141/F.A. R.A.M.C.), nearly extremely fine £100-140 M.M. London Gazette 14.11.1916 57841 Sjt. C. J. H. Davies, R.A.M.C.

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38 38 A Fine M.G.S. and Waterloo Pair to Private S. Marsh, 4th Foot, Wounded in the Right Thigh in the Peninsula at Nive, 10.12.1813, and in the Left Thigh in North America at New Orleans, 8.1.1815 Military General Service 1793-1814, one clasp, Salamanca (Saml. Marsh, 4th. Foot.); Waterloo 1815 (Samuel Marsh, 1st Batt. 4th Reg. Foot.), with contemporary silver clip and straight bar suspender, contact marks to latter, the Waterloo nearly very fine, the MGS good very fine (2) £3,500-4,000 Private Samuel Marsh, born Botesdale, near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk c. 1784; served with the Chatham Division, Royal Marines, January 1803 to July 1805; enlisted in the 4th (King’s Own) Foot, March 1806; served with the Regiment in the Peninsula, and present at the Battles of Salamanca, Valencia, Vittoria, St. Sebastian, and Nive, 10.12.1813, where he suffered a gun shot wound to the right thigh; sailed with the Regiment to North America, and present at the Battle of Bladensburg, 24.8.1814; the subsequent capture and burning of the public buildings in Washington, D.C., including the Capitol and the White House- ‘the greatest disgrace every dealt to American arms’; and the Battles of Baltimore, and New Orleans, 8.1.1815, where he suffered two gun shot wounds to the left thigh, one in the right ankle, and a contusion in the loins- total British casualties were 291 killed, 1,262 wounded, and 484 missing; finally served during the Waterloo Campaign, as part of Captain Erskine’s No.4 Company, 16-18.6.1815, when the Regiment suffered 12 men killed and 8 officers and 113 men wounded; discharged, September 1818, after 16 years and 218 days with the Colours, and died in Botesdale, near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, June 1859.

PROVENANCE:

J.B. Hayward, 1975 Spink, December 1997.

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39 Pair: Surgeon G.D. Maclaren, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Syria (Geo. D. Maclaren, Surgn.); St. John d’Acre 1840, silver, pierced for ring suspension as issued, generally very fine or better (2) £1,000-1,200

40 Pair: Assistant Surgeon G.T.M. Martin, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Syria (G.T.M. Martin, Asst. Surgn.); St. John d’Acre 1840, silver, pierced for ring suspension as issued, with contemporary silver eyelet and straight bar suspension, minor edge nicks, otherwise good very fine (2) £900-1,100

George D. Maclaren served as Surgeon in H.M.S. Magicienne during operations on and off the coast of Syria, 1840.

G.T.M. Martin served as Assistant Surgeon in H.M.S. Hastings during operations on and off the coast of Syria, 1840.

PROVENANCE:

Sotheby, June 1898 Christie, November 1986

Gilbert Thrift Meldrum Martin entered the Royal Navy as Assistant Surgeon, 1838; served in H.M.S. Hastings, 18381841; appointed Surgeon, H.M.S. Electra, 1842; subsequent service included in H.M.S. Eurydice.

PROVENANCE:

Sotheby, June 1971

41 Pair: F. Granville, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Syria (Fredk. Granville.); St. John d’Acre 1840, bronze, pierced for ring suspension as issued, contact marks, very fine (2) £550-650 Frederick Granville served as Boy in H.M.S. Wasp during operations on and off the coast of Syria, 1840.

PROVENANCE:

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44 Pair: Sergeant J. Fitzgerald, 84th Foot Indian Mutiny 1857-58, two clasps, Defence of Lucknow, Lucknow (Corpl. John Fitzgerald, 84th.

Regt.); Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (2801. Sergt.

John Fitzgerald 84th. Regt.), minor contact marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £750-850

1262 Private John Mitchell, born Bradford, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 1820; enlisted in the 28th Foot, July 1838; served with the Regiment in New South Wales; India; and in the Crimea; awarded L.S. & G.C., June 1857; discharged, November 1859, after 21 years and 109 days with the Colours.

2801 Sergeant John Fitzgerald, born Doneraile, Co. Cork, 1826; enlisted in the 84th Foot, November 1849; served with the Regiment in India during the Great Sepoy Mutiny at Lucknow as part of the 1st Relief Force under Sir Henry Havelock; promoted Corporal, July 1857; Sergeant, October 1859; awarded L.S.&G.C., November 1869; discharged, August 1870, after 21 years and 213 days with the Colours.

The 84th Foot’s services during the Indian Mutiny are particularly unusual, with a small detachment massacred at Cawnpore, another small detachment of 50 men under Major David O’Brien being present in the original garrison at Lucknow, whilst the main body of the regiment participated in the first relief of Lucknow and subsequent defence of the city. A small number of men were also detached for service with Barrow’s Volunteer Cavalry during the first relief operations.

43 Pair: Private F. Simmonds, Royal Scots Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Sebastopol (3803 Fredrick Simmonds 1st. Royals), regimentally impressed; Turkish Crimea, British die (3803 Fredrick.

Simmonds. Royal Regiment), contemporarily impressed in large serif capitals, plugged with silver straight bar suspension, contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £160-200 3803 Private Frederick Simmonds, born Caversham, near Reading, May 1837; enlisted in the 1st Foot, September 1854; served with the Regiment in the Crimea, June 1855 to July 1856; discharged, April 1866, after 10 years and 339 days with the Colours.

PROVENANCE:

Sotheby, February 1894 Glendining, March 1914 Spink, 1994.

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45 45 Three: Carpenter W. Weeks, Royal Navy Ashantee 1873-74, one clasp, Coomassie (W. Weeks. Car: Mate. H.M.S. Amethyst. 73-74); Egypt 1882-89, dated, no clasp (W. Weeks, Carpr. R.N., H.M.S. “Thalia”); Khedive’s Star 1882, generally very fine or better (3) £450-500 William Weeks born Ireland Island, Bermuda, 1842; joined Royal Navy as Shipwright, 1869; Carpenter’s Mate 1872; served in H.M.S. Amethyst, September 1873 - March 1874; Carpenter (Warrant Officer) 1877; served in H.M.S. Thalia, January 1882 July 1883; discharged 1897.

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46 46 Four: Private J. Allan, 72nd Highlanders Afghanistan 1878-80, one clasp, Kandahar (58B/1988 Pte. J. Allan, 72nd Highrs.); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (58B/1988 Private Js. Allan 72nd Highlanders); Egypt 1882-89, dated, one clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (378 Pte. J. Allan 1/Sea: Highrs.); Khedive’s Star 1882, reverse engraved in sloping sans-serif capitals ‘378 Pte. J. Allan 1/Sea: Hrs.’, contact marks overall, nearly very fine (4) £500-600 378 Private James Allan born Arbroath, Scotland; enlisted 72nd Highlanders, 1878; served with the regiment in Afghanistan, December 1879 - August 1882 and in Egypt, August 1882 November 1882; discharged 1892.

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47 47 Three: Major S.E.O’B. Kevill-Davies, Gordon Highlanders Egypt 1882-89, dated, four clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, El-Teb-Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85 (Capt: S.E.O’B. KevillDavies. 1/Gord: Highrs), light pitting from Star; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Medjidieh, Fourth Class breast Badge, 75mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 60mm, silver, gold applique and enamel, enamel damage; Khedive’s Star 1882, unless otherwise stated, generally very fine (3) £900-1,100 Major Somerset Edward O’Brien Kevill-Davies (1851-1935), the second son of the Reverend T. Kevill-Davies, of Croft Castle and Wigmore Hall, who was JP, DL and High Sheriff of Herefordshire; commissioned Lieutenant, Gordon Highlanders, 1873; Captain 1881, he took part in the Egyptian war of 1882 with the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, and was present at the battle of Tel-El-Kebir, served in the Soudan expedition in 1884 and was present in the engagements at El Teb and Tamaai (Order of the Medjidieh, 4th Class London Gazette 6.10.1885); he served with the River Column under Major-General Earle during the Nile expedition of 1884-85; Major 1891, retired in May 1899.

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48 Six: Regimental Sergeant Major W. Johnson, Royal Horse Artillery Egypt 1882-89, dated, one clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (12232. Sergt. W. Johnson 1/2... R.A.), contact marks; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, six clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (12232 S.Major. W. Johnson, R.H.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (12232 Sergt:-Maj: W. Johnson. R.H.A.); Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (12232. By. S. Maj: W. Johnson. R.A.); Army Meritorious Service, G.V.R., ‘fixed suspension’ type (S-M. W. Johnson.

R.H.A.); Khedive’s Star 1882, reverse engraved ‘12232 Sgt. Mor [sic] W. Johnson 1-2 R.A. 1882’, light contact marks overall, generally very fine, unless otherwise stated (6) £550-650 12232 Regimental Sergeant Major William Johnson (1857-1948), born Aldington, Kent, 1857; attested for the Royal Artillery at Shorncliffe Camp in March 1875; served in Egypt with ‘I’ Battery 2 Brigade and was present at the battle of Tel-El-Kebir; advanced Battery Sergeant Major, August 1883; awarded his L.S. & G.C. April 1893, and promoted to Sergeant Major, 1895; served in South Africa with 13 Brigade Divisional Staff, Royal Horse Artillery, and was discharged after 27 years’ service at Woolwich on 26.3.1902, where he was serving as Regimental Sergeant Major; died at Weedon, Northamptonshire.

49 Pair: Quarter Master G. Monument, Royal Navy Egypt 1882-89, dated, one clasp, Suakin 1885 (G. Monument. Qr. Mr. H.M.S. “Eclipse.”); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, light pitting, otherwise very fine (2) £200-250 50 Pair: Boatman W.T. MacKenny, Royal Navy Egypt 1882-89, dated, no clasp (W.T. MacKenny. Stkr. H.M.S. “Ruby”.); Khedive’s Star 1882, light pitting from Star, good very fine (2) £120-160 110925 Boatman William Thomas MacKenny, born Underwood, Plympton, Devon, November 1859; enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Stoker, serving in H.M.S. Indus, February 1880; transferred to H.M.S. Ruby, May 1880, and served in her during operations in Egypt; promoted Boatman, May 1889; discharged, February 1900.

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51 Pair: Private A. Bowker, West Riding Regiment British South Africa Company’s Medal 1890-97, for Rhodesia, no clasp (3509 Pte. Arthur. J. Bowker.

2/W. Rid Regt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (3508 Pte. A. Bowker. W. Riding Regt.), light contact marks to first, otherwise generally very fine or better (2) £300-350

53 Pair: Sergeant Major H. Lee, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers East and West Africa 1887-1900, one clasp, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (3238 C.Sgt. H. Lee, West Africa Regt.); Coronation 1902, bronze, contact marks to first, good very fine (2) £200-240 3238 Sergeant Major Henry Lee, born Ackerton, Limerick, 1870; enlisted in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, May 1890; promoted Corporal, May 1891; Sergeant, July 1894; Colour Sergeant, March 1897; posted to the West Africa Regiment for service in Sierra Leone, April 1898; served in West Africa, December 1898 to December 1901; re-engaged with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at Freetown, Sierra Leone, July 1899; awarded Coronation Medal 1902; promoted Sergeant Major, December 1903; awarded L.S. & G.C., 1909; discharged, February 1909, after 18 years and 275 days with the Colours.

3509 Private Arthur James Bowker, born York; enlisted in the West Riding Regiment, 1892; served with the Regiment in South Africa, July 1894 to January 1898, and March 1902 to August 1902; discharged 21.10.1904.

52 Pair: Private J.H. Lowth, Grenadier Guards Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (5715 Pte J.H. Lowth 1/Gren: Gds:); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, one clasp, Khartoum (Pte. J.H. Lowth, Gren. Gds.), contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £280-320

54 Pair: Gunner W. Daldry, Royal Field Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (82987 Gnr. W. Daldry, 74th. Bty., R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (82987 Gnr: W. Daldry.

R.F.A.), top lugs removed on KSA, edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £100-140 82987 Gunner Walter Daldry, born Ipswich, Suffolk, 1873; enlisted in the Royal Artillery, January 1891; served with the Artillery in South Africa, November 1899 to September 1902; discharged, 14.1.1903, after 12 years’ service.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 55 Pair: Private H. Bailey, Wiltshire Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (1851 Pte. H. Bailey, 2nd. Wilts: Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (1851 Pte. H. Bailey. Wilts: Regt.), good very fine (2) £140-180 1851 Private Henry Bailey, born Calne, Wiltshire, 1869; enlisted in the Wiltshire Regiment, April 1887; served with the Regiment in South Africa, 19.3.1900 - 20.8.1902; discharged, 21.4.1903, after 16 years with the Colours.

56 Six: Sub-Conductor G.J. Somerfield, Indian Miscellaneous List, Late 12th Lancers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between clasps (5412. Pte. J. Somerfield 12th. Royal Lancers), renamed in small sans-serif capitals; 1914 Star (S-Sgt. G.J. Somerfield. I.M.L.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (S-Condr. G.J. Somerfield. I.M.L.); Army Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Field Marshal’s bust’ type (Sub-Condr.

G.J. Somerfield, I.M.L.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (S-Sgt. G.J. Somerfield, I.M.L.), nearly very fine or better (6) £250-300 M.S.M. London Gazette 16.8.1917 S./Sjt. G. J. Somerfield, Ind. Mis. List, Indian Army ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered with the Armies in the Field during the present war.’

M.I.D. Unconfirmed

57 Pair: Private W.G. Smith, Grenadier Guards Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, six clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (5703 Pte. W.G. Smith, Gren: Gds:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (5703 Pte. W. Smith. Grenadier Guards.), suspension slack on last, edge bruising, nearly very fine or better (2) £140-180 5703 Private William Goodburn Smith, born Stockton, Durham; enlisted 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, 1896; served with the regiment in South Africa, 4.10.1899 21.7.1902; discharged 10.2.1908.

59 Pair: Private H.W.J. Hall, Royal West Surrey Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Orange Free State, Laing’s Nek, unofficial rivets between third and fourth clasps (2789 Pte. H.W.J. Hall, Rl. W. Surrey Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (2789 Pte. H. Hall. The Queen’s), good very fine (2) £140-180 2789 Private Horace Walter James Hall, born London, 1871; enlisted in The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), September 1889; served with the Regiment in South Africa, October 1899 to March 1902; discharged, 5.7.1902, after 12 years and 289 days with the Colours.

60 Pair: Private F. Brewer, Devonshire Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (4089 Pte. F. Brewer. Devon: Regt.), initial officially corrected; King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (4089 Pte. F. Brewer. Devon: Regt.), good very fine (2) £120-140 4089 Private Frederick Brewer, born Lapford, Crediton, Devon, 1876; enlisted in the Devonshire Regiment, November 1894; served with the Regiment in South Africa, October 1899 to October 1902; discharged, 18.11.1906, after 12 years with the Colours.

61 Pair: Warrant Officer Class II R.J. Sly, West Riding Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal (4216 Serjt: R.J. Sly. W. Riding Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (4216 Serjt: R. Sly. W. Riding Regt.), edge bruising, light contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £120-160 4216 Warrant Officer Class II Robert James Sly, born Portsmouth, 1870; enlisted in the West Riding Regiment, July 1894; promoted Corporal, September 1895; Sergeant, September 1899; served with the Regiment in South Africa, December 1899 to October 1902; promoted Quarter Master Sergeant, 25.1.1907; served during the Great War in India; promoted Warrant Officer Class II, 29.1.1915; discharged 30.3.1920, after 25 years and 257 days with the Colours.

58 Pair: Private A.J. Hadfield, Coldstream Guards Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, six clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (2038 Pte. A.J. Hadfield, Cldstm: Gds:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (2038 Pte. A.J. Hadfield. Coldstream Guards.), edge bruising, very fine (2) £160-200

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62 Pair: Nursing Sister M. Hay Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. Hay.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. Hay.), good very fine or better (2) £400-450

65 Three: Private T. Goodey, Rifle Brigade 1914 Star, with Bar (1269 Pte. T. Goodey. 1/Rif: Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (1269 Pte. T. Goodey. Rif. Brig.), nearly very fine or better (3) £70-90 1269 Private Thomas Goodey, served with the Rifle Brigade during the Great War on the Western Front from 23.8.1914.

63 Six: Stoker Petty Officer R. Fraser, Royal Navy Africa General Service 1902-56, E.VII.R., one clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (308318. R. Fraser, Sto. 1Cl. H.M.S. Hyacinth.); Naval General Service 1916-62, G.V.R., one clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (308318.

R. Fraser, Act. Lg. Sto. H.M.S. Hyacinth.); 1914-15 Star (308318, R. Fraser, S.P.O. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (308318 R. Fraser. S.P.O. R.N.); Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Admiral’s bust’ type (308318. Robert Fraser, S.P.O. H.M.S. Triad.), ship officially corrected on last, edge bruising, worn, good fine or better (6) £200-250

66 Three: Private S. Hook, Rifle Brigade 1914 Star, with Bar (440 Pte. S. Hook. 1/Rif: Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (440 Pte. S. Hook.

Rif. Brig.), good very fine or better (3) £80-100 440 Private Sidney Hook, enlisted in the Rifle Brigade, 25.4.1904; served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 24.8.1914; discharged on account of wounds received, 21.4.1915.

A Duplicate Africa General Service Medal and Naval General Service Medal was issued in 1917.

64 Three: Private J. Grealey, Worcestershire Regiment 1914 Star, with Bar (7209 Pte. J. Grealey. 3/Worc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (7209 Pte. J. Grealey. Worc. R.), minor edge bruise to last, nearly very fine (3) £120-150 7209 Private Joseph Grealey, born Birmingham; served with the 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 12.8.1914; killed in action, 25.8.1916- the previous day the 3rd Battalion had attacked the Hindenburg Trench with bomb and bayonet, and held the captured positions overnight into the 25th under a tremendous bombardment. Grealey is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 67 Family Group: Five: Captain L.F. Browne, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914 Star (Lieut: L.F. Browne. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. L.F. Browne); Defence and War Medals, extremely fine, mounted as worn, with the recipient’s related miniature awards and Army Council enclosure Pair: Warrant Officer Class II J.C. Browne, Honourable Artillery Company British War and Victory Medals (805 A.W.O. Cl 2 J.C. Browne. H.A.C. -Inf.-), extremely fine, with lid of named card box of issue, and Record Office condolence enclosure (7) £180-220 805 Warrant Officer Class II John Corbet Browne, born Bishopwearmouth; served with the Honourable Artillery Company during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 2.6.1915, and is buried in Voormezeele Enclosure, Belgium.

68 Three: Driver J.T. Briggs, Royal Field Artillery 1914 Star (792 Dvr: J.T. Briggs. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (792 Dvr. J.T. Briggs. R.A.), VM renamed, good very fine Three: Driver D. Bissett, Royal Field Artillery 1914 Star (67478 Dvr: D. Bissett. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (67478 Dvr. D. Bissett. R.A.), nearly very fine or better (6) £90-120

69 Three: Sapper G. Mills, Royal Engineers 1914 Star (28210 Sapr: G. Mills. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (26210 Dvr. G. Mills. R.E.), nearly very fine Three: Sergeant G.W. Gould, Royal Engineers 1914-15 Star (1181. Spr. G.W. Gould. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (1181 Sjt. G.W. Gould.

R.E.), very fine Three: Pioneer W. Bellwood, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (214383 Pnr. W. Bellwood. R.E.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R. (William Bellwood), good very fine, together with a related small gold medal (9ct.), the reverse engraved ‘Toft Hill, Etherley & Phoenix Row War Medal 1914-1918 Pioneer W. Bellwood.’ (9) £180-220

70 Pair: Private A. Miller, Wiltshire Regiment 1914 Star (8378 Pte. A. Miller. 2/Wilts: R.); British War Medal (8378 Pte. A. Miller. Wilts. R.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Private W. Mills, Somerset Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (18491 Pte. W. Mills.

Som. L.I.), good very fine Pair: Private F. Dycer, Worcestershire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (36833 Pte. F. Dycer.

Worc. R.), edge nicks, good very fine Pair: Private I.W.V. Toney, Worcestershire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (34997 Pte. I.W.V. Toney. Worc. R.), extremely fine Pair: Private W.T. Sparkes, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (18491 Pte. W. Mills.

Som. L.I.), good very fine Pair: Private A. Frizzell, Dorsetshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (17707 Pte. A. Frizzell. Dorset. R.), very fine Pair: Private W.A. Langley, Dorsetshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (19661 Pte. W.A. Langley. Dorset. R.), good very fine (14) £140-180 19661 Private William Alfred Langley, born Aberystwyth; served with the 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 15.4.1917, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

71 Pair: Private F.W. Dent, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914 Star (4064 Pte. F.W. Dent. R.A.M.C.); British War Medal (4064 Pte. F.W. Dent. R.A.M.C.), nearly very fine, with named envelopes of issue, addressed to ‘119 Oaklands Road, Hanwell, London W7’ Three: Private W. Skinner, Army Veterinary Corps 1914-15 Star (SE-11145 Pte. W. Skinner. A.V.C.); British War and Victory Medals (SE-11145 Pte. W. Skinner. A.V.C.), traces of verdigris, good very fine Pair: Private S.J. Smith, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914-15 Star (65188. Pte. S.J. Smith, R.A.M.C.); Victory Medal (65188 Pte. S.J. Smith. R.A.M.C.), good very fine Pair: Private E. Green, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (92362 Pte. E. Green.

R.A.M.C.), very fine (9) £140-180 SE-11145 Private William Skinner served with the Army Veterinary Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 16.9.1915

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April 25, 2013 - LONDON 72 Pair: Private J.W. Hutchins, King’s Royal Rifle Corps 1914 Star (6179 Pte. J.W. Hutchins, 2/K.R.Rif:C.); Delhi Durbar 1911, engraved in upright sans-serif capitals ‘6179 Rfn. J. Hutchins KRRC’, generally very fine 1914 Star (15840 Dvr: F. Scott. R.F.A.), good very fine (3) £80-120

76 Family Group: Three: Corporal F. Mansbridge, Coldstream Guards 1914-15 Star (12679 Pte. F. Mansbridge. C.Gds:); British War and Victory Medals (12679 Cpl. F. Mansbridge. C.Gds.), nearly very fine, with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, lacking pin, the reverse impressed ‘134699’ Coronation (Metropolitan Police) 1902, bronze (P.C. G. Mansbridge. T. Div.), nearly very fine (4) £100-140

73 Eight: Ordinary Seaman J. Agius, Royal Navy, Later Malta Police 1914-15 Star (362460. J. Agaus [sic]. O.S.2., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (362460 J. Agaus [sic]. O.S.2 R.N.); 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals; Colonial Police Long Service & G.C., G.VI.R. (74 1/P.S. John Agius), in Royal Mint case of issue, good very fine or better (8) £180-220

77 Three: Chief Gunner C.T. Twine, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (Gnr. C.T. Twine. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch. Gnr. C.T. Twine. R.N.), very fine Three: Leading Seaman W.G. Stringer, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (J.15781. W.G. Stringer. A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.15781 W.G. Stringer. L.S. R.N.), very fine Three: Leading Telegraphist P.A. King, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (J.27192, P.A. King, O.Tel., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.27192 P.A. King.

L.Tel. R.N.), nearly very fine Three: Able Seaman E.W. Griffin, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (SS.5636. E.W. Griffin. A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (S.S.5636 E.W. Griffin. A.B. R.N.), good very fine (12) £200-250

74 Four: Chief Petty Officer W.G. Keeping. C.P.O. R.N. 1914-15 Star (160771, W.G. Keeping. C.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (160771 W.G. Keeping. C.P.O. R.N.); Naval Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (160771 W.G. Keeping. C.P.O, H.M.S. Hyacinth.), traces of lacquer, good very fine (4) £100-140 160771 Chief Petty Officer William George Keeping, born Lambeth, Surrey, July 1875; enlisted in the Royal Navy, as Boy 2nd Class, serving in H.M.S. Boscawen, May 1891; transferred to H.M.S. Hyacinth, 7.2.1907; advanced Chief Petty Officer, 13.3.1908; awarded L.S.& G.C., 14.8.1908; served during the Great War; discharged, 3.1.1920.

78 Three: Leading Stoker J. Dowling, Royal Naval Reserve 1914-15 Star (U.2287, J. Dowling, Sto., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (2287U. J. Dowling.

L.Sto. R.N.R.), very fine Pair: Mr. W. Evans, Merchant Navy British War Medal (William Evans); Mercantile Marine War Medal (William Evans), good very fine Pair: Mr. J.W. Nicholson, Merchant Navy British War Medal (John W. Nicholson); Mercantile Marine War Medal (John W. Nicholson), good very fine Pair: Mr. W.McC. Stevenson, Merchant Navy British War Medal (William Mc C. Stevenson); Mercantile Marine War Medal (William Mc.C. Stevenson), good very fine Three: Signalman D.G. Jones, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve British War and Victory Medals (W.Z.4661 D.G. Jones. Sig. R.N.V.R.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Douglas G. Jones), good very fine or better Pair: Signalman L. Jefford, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve British War and Victory Medals (B.Z.3067 L. Jefford.

Sig. R.N.V.R.), nearly very fine (14) £180-220

75 Three: Private A. Johnston, King’s Own Scottish Borderers 1914-15 Star (20934 Pte. A. Johnston, K.O. Sco. Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (20934 Pte. A. Johnston. K.O. Sco. Bord.), extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Arthur Johnstone [sic]), and K.O.S.B. cap Badge (3) £120-150 20934 Private Arthur Johnston, born Leeds; served with the 7th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 30.11.1915, and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 79 Three: Driver H.R. Harling, Royal Marine Artillery 1914-15 Star (R.M.A. 468,-S- Dr. H.R. Harling.); British War and Victory Medals (R.M.A. 468-S- Dr. H.R. Harling), good very fine Pair: Stoker 2nd Class F.H. Comley, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals (K.30967 F.H. Comley. Sto.2. R.N.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Stoker 2nd Class W.E. Francis, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals (K.46716 W.E. Francis. Sto.2. R.N.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Stoker 1st Class C. Scott, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals (K.40574 C. Scott.

Sto.1. R.N.), good very fine Pair: Private G. Adams, Royal Marine Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (Po.2167 (S) Pte. G. Adams. R.M.L.I.), very fine Pair: Leading Boatman F.G. Rickard, Royal Navy British War Medal (160240 F.G. Rickard. Lg. Btn. R.N.); Naval Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (160240 F.G. Rickard, Boatn., H.M. Coast Guard.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Private S. Fulbrook, Royal Marine Light Infantry and Royal Fleet Reserve British War Medal (Po.15095 Pte. S. Fulbrook.

R.M.L.I.); Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Admiral’s bust’ type (Po.15095 (B.1739) S. Fulbrook. Pte. R.F.R.), contact marks, nearly very fine (15) £200-240 K.30967 Stoker 2nd Class Frederick Harold Comley served in the Royal Navy during the Great War in H.M.S. Indefatigable; killed in action at the Battle of Jutland, 31.5.1916, when Indefatigable suffered a number of direct hits to the magazine area and sank quickly with the loss of all but three of its 1,017 crew, and is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

15095 Private Sidney Fulbrook, born Winchfield, Hampshire, March 1888; enlisted in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, 22.10.1907; transferred to the Royal Fleet Reserve; awarded L.S.& G.C., 1.12.1922.

80 Three: Gunner W.G. Stagg, Royal Field Artillery 1914-15 Star (27215 Gnr. W.G. Stagg, R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (27215 Gnr. W.G. Stagg. R.A.), good very fine Three: Sergeant D. Greenslade, East Africa Volunteer Corps 1914-15 Star (5028 Cpl. D. Greenslade. E. Afr. V.C.); British War and Victory Medals (5028 Sjt. D. Greenslade. E. Afr. V.C.), very fine (6) £80-120 81 Three: Battery Quarter-Master Sergeant C. Allen, Royal Garrison Artillery 1914-15 Star (42430. Cpl. C. Allen. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (42430 B.Q.M.Sjt. C. Allen.

R.A.), very fine Pair: Bombardier W. Newell, Royal Field Artillery 1914-15 Star (19559 Bmbr: W. Newell. R.F.A.); Victory Medal (19559 Bmbr. W. Newell. R.A.), nearly very fine

Four: Gunner C. Waterson, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (184189 Gnr. C. Waterson.

R.A.); Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., with Long Service 1949 and Long Service 1956 Bars, very fine, together with the recipient’s riband bars Three: Bombardier A.A. Preece, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (48154 Bmbr. A.A. Preece. R.A.); War Medal, nearly very fine Three: Warrant Officer Class 1 J.H. Woodward, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (26517 Sjt. J.H. Woodward. R.A.); Army Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Field Marshal’s bust’ type (1403197 W.O.Cl.1 J.H. Woodward. R.A.), very fine Pair: Gunner J.R. Beck, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (104566 Gnr. J.R. Beck. R.A.), nearly extremely fine, with named card box of issue (17) £200-240 82 Three: Private A. Anscombe, East Kent Regiment 1914-15 Star (1115 Pte. A. Anscombe. E. Kent R.); British War and Victory Medals (1115 Pte. A. Anscombe. E. Kent R.), very fine Three: Private J.L. Almond, South Staffordshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (204249 Pte. J.L. Almond. S. Staff. R.); Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R. (James Lewis Almond), very fine or better, last in Royal Mint case of issue, with the Bestowal Document for the Imperial Service Medal, dated 24.9.1957; the recipient’s Comrades of the Great War lapel badge; and a Football prize medal, silver and gold, named ‘J.L. Almond York Schools F.A. 1910-11’ Pair: Private G.A. Gaskell, Grenadier Guards British War and Victory Medals (30071 Pte. G.A. Gaskell. G.Gds.), good very fine Pair: Private J. Mercer, Royal West Surrey Regiment British War and Victory Medals (265588 Pte. J. Mercer. The Queen’s R.), extremely fine, with named card box of issue Pair: Private H. Lund, Lincolnshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (35760 Pte. H. Lund, Linc. R.), nearly extremely fine, with named card box of issue Pair: Private R. Foot, Hampshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (21348 Pte. R. Foot.

Hamps. R.), good very fine Pair: Private H.V. Wells, Northamptonshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (26969 Pte. H.V. Wells. North’n. R.), good very fine Pair: Private W.D. Windo, Royal Berkshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (30873 Pte. W.D. Windo. R. Berks. R.), nearly extremely fine, with named card box of issue Pair: Private F.H. Foot, North Staffordshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (50755 Pte. F.H. Foot. N. Staff. R.), very fine (20) £250-300

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April 25, 2013 - LONDON 83 Three: Private R.T. Holland, Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (11750 Pte. R.T. Holland. R.War. R.); British War and Victory Medals (11750 Pte. R.T. Holland. R.War. R.), good very fine Three: Private M. Wassell, Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (9328 L.Cpl. M. Wassell. R.War: R.); British War and Victory Medals (9328 Pte. M. Wassell.

R.War. R.), nearly very fine Three: Private S. Weaver, Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (11535 Pte. S. Weaver. R.War. R.); British War and Victory Medals (11535 Pte. S. Weaver. R.War. R.), good very fine Pair: Private J.E. Link, Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (10720 Pte. J.E. Link. R.War. R.); British War Medal (10720 Pte. J.E. Link. R.War. R.), very fine Pair: Private A. Leggett, Royal Warwickshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (20673 Pte. A. Leggett. R.War. R.), good very fine, with the recipient’s related miniature awards; and three identity tags Pair: Private T.H. Rough, Royal Warwickshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (267973 Pte. T.H. Rough. R.War. R.), good very fine (15) £200-240

85 Three: Private P.E. Taylor, Royal Highlanders 1914-15 Star (S-10459. Pte. P.E. Taylor. R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (S-10459 Pte. P.E. Taylor. R. Highrs.), good very fine Three: Private A.D. Watson, Royal Highlanders 1914-15 Star (S-9881. Pte. A.D. Watson. R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (S-9881 Pte. A.D. Watson. R. Highrs.), extremely fine Pair: Private N. Dain, Royal Scots British War and Victory Medals (203321 Pte. N. Dain.

R. Scots.), minor edge bruising, very fine Pair: Private J. Thornton, Royal Scots British War and Victory Medals (2866 Pte. J. Thornton. R. Scots.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Corporal W. Sillars, Royal Scots Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (52987 Cpl. W. Sillars. R.S. Fus.), extremely fine, in named card box of issue Pair: Private W.T. Creighton, Royal Scots Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (266277 Pte. W.T. Creighton. R.S. Fus.), good very fine Pair: Private J.R. McMellon, King’s Own Scottish Borderers British War and Victory Medals (12612 Pte. J.R. Mc Mellon. K.O. Sco. Bord.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Sergeant S.A. Richardson, Royal Highlanders British War and Victory Medals (S-11421 Sjt. S.A. Richardson. R. Highrs.), good very fine (18) £220-260 S-9881 Private A.D. Watson, served with the Royal Highlanders during the Great War; died at home, 3.12.1917, and is buried in Thornaby-on-Tees Cemetery, Yorkshire.

11535 Private Stephen Weaver, served with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of war from 11.12.1915.

10720 Private James Edwin Link, born Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire; served with the 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 1.6.1915; killed in action on the Western Front, 11.4.1917, and is buried in Athies Communal Cemetery, France.

86 Three: Private T.C. Morgan, Shropshire Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (12708 Pte. T.C. Morgan. Shrops: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (12708. Pte. T.C. Morgan. Shrops. L.I.), good very fine Three: Private R.J. Brown, Middlesex Regiment 1914-15 Star (8815 Pte. R.J. Brown, Midd’x R.); British War and Victory Medals (8815 Pte. R. Brown.

Midd’x R.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Airman 3rd Class J. Crowther, Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (107616. 3.A.M. J. Crowther. R.A.F.), light contact marks, nearly very fine (8) £100-140

84 Three: Private W. Chandler, Gloucestershire Regiment and Machine Gun Corps 1914-15 Star (2331 Pte. W. Chandler. Glouc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2331 Pte. W. Chandler. Glouc. R.), good very fine Three: Private H. Ellery, Gloucestershire Regiment 1914-15 Star (21184 Pte. H. Ellery. Glouc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (21184 Pte. H. Ellery.

Glouc. R.), very fine Three: Private B. Webb, Gloucestershire Regiment 1914-15 Star (13400 Pte. B. Webb. Glouc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (13400 Pte. B. Webb.

Glouc. R.), nearly very fine (9) £150-200

12708 Private Thomas C. Morgan, served with the 8th Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front from 6.9.1915.

2331 Private W. Chandler served with the Gloucestershire Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 29.3.1915; transferred as 2419 Private, Machine Gun Corps.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 87 Three: Sergeant A. Hughes, Manchester Regiment 1914-15 Star (2472 Pte. A. Hughes, Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2472 Sjt. A. Hughes.

Manch. R.), nearly very fine Pair: R. Hughes, Mercantile Marine British War Medal (Robert Hughes); Mercantile Marine War Medal (Robert Hughes), nearly extremely fine Seven: Bombardier D. Hughes, Royal Artillery 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., with ‘Territorial’ scroll suspension (91460 Bdr. D. Hughes. R.A.), suspension broken and crudely re-affixed on last, otherwise very fine, together with the recipient’s riband bars (12) £120-150 2472 Sergeant Andrew Hughes, served with the 8th Battalion Manchester Regiment during the Great War in the Egyptian theatre of War from 25.9.1914.

88 Three: Driver C.W. Sutton, Army Service Corps 1914-15 Star (T2-9909 Dvr. C. Sutton. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (T2-9909 Dvr. C.W. Sutton. A.S.C.), good very fine 1914-15 Star (19700 Pte. J. Campbell. R. Lanc.

R.), good very fine British War Medal (16708 Cpl. C. Muir.

Durh.L.I.), good very fine Coronation (Metropolitan Police) 1911 (P.C. F. Mansbridge.), good very fine (6) £70-90 89 Three: Staff Sergeant J. Burrows, Australian Imperial Force 1914-15 Star (3247 S/Sgt. J. Burrows. 15/Bn. A.I.F.), rank neatly altered; British War and Victory Medals (3247 T/S/Sjt. J. Burrows 15 Bn. A.I.F.), VM renamed, very fine (3) £60-80 90 Pair: Private C.E. Millard, Gloucestershire Regiment 1914-15 Star (15271 Pte. C.E. Millard. Glouc: R.); British War Medal (15271 Pte. C.E. Millard. Glouc.

R.), very fine Pair: Private A.J. Brickham, Gloucestershire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (8287 Pte. A.J. Brickham. Glouc. R.), nearly extremely fine, with two named card boxes of issue Pair: Private W.G. Panting, Gloucestershire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (3766 Pte. W.G. Panting. Glouc. R.), good very fine Pair: Private W.G. Partridge, Gloucestershire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (29557 Pte. W.G. Partridge. Glouc. R.), nearly extremely fine

Pair: Private A. Tovey, Gloucestershire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (51604 Pte. A. Tovey.

Glouc. R.), very fine Pair: Private S.F.J. Walby, Gloucestershire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (8410 Pte. S.F.J. Walby. Glouc. R.), good very fine Family Group: Pair: Private J.G. Christmas, Gloucestershire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (5325 Pte. J. Christmas. Glouc. R.), good very fine Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R. (Joseph George Christmas), extremely fine, in Spink, London, case of issue, with the recipient’s Second War Certificate of Transfer and Release Leave Certificate, and related Ration Book (15) £180-220 15271 Private Charles Edwin Millard, born Thornbury, Gloucestershire; served with the 8th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 18.11.1916, on which date the Battalion was on the front line near Schwaben Redoubt, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

5325 Private Joseph Christmas, served with the 1st/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 5.9.1916, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

Mr. Joseph George Christmas worked for the Post Office, where he was often busy over the festive period.

91 Pair: Private E.T. Richards, Royal Welsh Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (14474 Pte. E.T. Richards. R.W. Fus.); Victory Medal (14474 Pte. E.T. Richards. R.W. Fus.), very fine Pair: Private T.S. Harvey, Royal Welsh Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (204714 Pte. T.S. Harvey. R.W. Fus.), one initial officially corrected on BWM, good very fine Pair: Private J. Bassett, South Wales Borderers British War and Victory Medals (27638 Pte. J. Bassett.

S. Wales Bord.), good very fine Pair: Private G. Dobbs, South Wales Borderers British War and Victory Medals (21419 Pte. G. Dobbs. S. Wales Bord.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Private W.L. Jones, South Wales Borderers British War and Victory Medals (12996 Pte. W.L. Jones. S. Wales Bord.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Private T.J. Cheshire, Welsh Regiment British War and Victory Medals (28817 Pte. T.J. Cheshire. Welsh R.), good very fine Pair: Private J.J. Ellis, Welsh Regiment British War and Victory Medals (1892 Pte. J.J. Ellis.

Welsh R.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Private J. Owens, Monmouthshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (227763 Pte. J. Owens. Monmouth. R.), good very fine (16) £220-260 21419 Private George Dobbs, born Goytre, Monmouthshire; served with the 10th Battalion South Wales Borderers during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 26.7.1916, on which date the Battalion were in the trenches in front of Courcelles-au-Bois, and is buried in Sucrerie Military Cemetery, France.

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April 25, 2013 - LONDON 12996 Private William Llewellyn Jones, born Caldecott, Monmouthshire; served with the 4th Battalion South Wales Borderers during the Great War; killed in action at Gallipoli, 10.8.1915, and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.

93 Three: Gunner A.E. Gaches, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (1580 Gnr. A.E. Gaches. R.A.); Territorial Force War Medal (1580 Gnr. A.E. Gaches. R.A.), very fine or better (3) £120-150

1892 Private John James Ellis, born Sidenham, Monmouthshire; served with the 7th Battalion Welsh Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 31.8.1916, and is buried in Essex Farm Cemetery, Belgium.

94 Three: Corporal D. Mitchell, Royal Tank Corps, Late Royal Naval Reserve British War and Victory Medals (1666E.A. D. Mitchell. E.R.A. R.N.R.); India General Service 190835, G.V.R., one clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (7874598 Cpl. D. Mitchell. R. Tank Corps), light contact marks, nearly extremely fine (3) £90-120

92 Pair: Private J.A. Turner, Rifle Brigade 1914-15 Star (S-1226 Pte. J.A. Turner. Rif: Brig:); Victory Medal (S-1226 Pte. J.A. Turner. Rif. Brig.), very fine Pair: Private H. Blakelidge, King’s Royal Rifle Corps British War and Victory Medals (1404 Pte. H. Blakelidge. K.R. Rif. C.), nearly extremely fine, with named card box lid, and parchment Reserve Certificate Pair: Private E.S. Dobson, King’s Royal Rifle Corps British War and Victory Medals (R-35732 Pte. E.S. Dobson. K.R. Rif. C.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Private R.G. Earle, King’s Royal Rifle Corps British War and Victory Medals (R-32969 Pte. R.G. Earle. K.R. Rif. C.), nearly very fine Pair: Corporal J.H. Jessup, Rifle Brigade British War and Victory Medals (S-24121 Cpl. J.H. Jessup. Rif. Brig.), good very fine Pair: Private F.W. Wall, Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals (86048 Pte. F.W. Wall. M.G.C.), very fine Pair: Private F.G. Warner, Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals (64620 Pte. F.G. Warner. M.G.C.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Corporal A. Weaver, Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals (15680 Cpl. A. Weaver. M.G.C.), very fine (16) £180-220

7874598 Corporal Donald Mitchell, born Gateshead, Co. Durham, April 1884; enlisted in the Royal Naval Reserve, 21.1.1915; served during the Great War with the Royal Naval Reserve from 1916; discharged for civil employment, 30.5.1916; enlisted in the Royal Tank Corps, 18.11.1921; served with the 9th Armoured Car Company in Waziristan; discharged, 21.5.1923.

95 Eight: Lieutenant-Colonel W.L. Beck, Royal Signals, Late Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (2/Lieut. W.L. Beck.

R.A.F.), VM neatly erased; 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., reverse dated ‘1944’, with integral top ‘Territorial’ riband bar, generally good very fine or better, last in Royal Mint case of issue, together with the recipient’s related miniature awards (8) £120-150 T.D. London Gazette 17.8.1944 Maj. (T/Lt.-Col) W.L. Beck (35580), Royal Corps of Signals.

S-1266 Private John A. Turner served with the Rifle Brigade during the Great War on the Western Front from 21.7.1915.

Lieutenant-Colonel William Llewellyn Beck, born Wolverhampton, April 1899; enlisted in the Royal Air Force, 6.6.1918; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 7.10.1918, and served during the Great War with No.110 Squadron in France from 11.10.1918; transferred to the unemployed list, 25.10.1919; appointed to 54th (East Anglian) Divisional Signals, Territorial Army, 31.7.1926; promoted Lieutenant, 31.7.1929; Captain, 1.3.1932; Major, 13.5.1939; served during the Second War and advanced Temporary LieutenantColonel, 1.3.1943; retired, October 1945.

R-32969 Private Robert George Earle, born Chelsea, Middlesex; served with the 10th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps during the Great War; died of wounds on the Western Front, 20.9.1917, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

1404 Private Herbert Blakelidge, born Blackburn, Lancashire, 1880; enlisted in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, December 1898.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 96 Four: Sapper R.H. Lambert, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (172658 Spr. R.H. Lambert. R.E.); Defence Medal; Imperial Service Medal (Reginald Hammersly Lambert), good very fine, last in Royal Mint case of issue, with an unofficial bronze 1937 Coronation commemorative medal Pair: Sapper A.R. Beazer, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (104856 Spr. A.R. Beazer. R.E.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Driver F. Dobbs, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (8459 Dvr. F. Dobbs.

R.E.), good very fine, both with top riband bars, with the recipient’s identity tags; Football medal, silver, the reverse engraved ‘W.T. Cup 1924-5 F. Dobbs’; and a silver matchbox, engraved ‘F.E.D.’ Pair: Pioneer G.W. Harris, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (194543 Pnr. G.W. Harris. R.E.), good very fine Pair: Pioneer J.T. Hickman, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (129437 Pnr. J.T. Hickman. R.E.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Sapper E.C. Watson, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (133387 Spr. E.C. Watson. R.E.), very fine Pair: Driver J.D. Fair, Royal Engineer British War and Victory Medals (93721 Dvr. J.D. Fair.

R.E.), heavy contact marks, nearly very fine, with the recipient’s identity tag; and the identity tag, H.L.I. Cap Badge, and named card box of issue for his son’s medals (16) £160-200 93721 Driver John Dodds Fair, born Kingston, Surrey, 1867; served during the Great War with the Royal Engineers.

His son, 1802 Private William Fair, born Newcastle-uponTyne, 1895; enlisted in the Highland Light Infantry, 28.4.1913; served during the Great War with the 9th on the Western Front from 5.11.1914; severely wounded by gunshot to the neck, 31.12.1914; discharged, 4.4.1915, after 1 year and 342 days with the Colours.

97 Three: Sick Berth Steward G. Ellery, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals (351406 G. Ellery.

S.B.S. R.N.); Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Admiral’s bust’ type (351406 George Ellery, S.B.S. H.M.S. Centurion.), very fine Pair: Private E. Kent, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (M2-149516 Pte. E. Kent. A.S.C.), very fine Pair: Private B.E. Wright, South African Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals, bi-lingual reverse (Pte. B.E. Wright. S.A.M.C.), good very fine 1914 Star (T2-14259 Dvr J.H. Taylor, A.S.C.), very fine British War Medal (J.F. Vaz.), good very fine Mercantile Marine War Medal (Hasson Abdool Rahiman.), silvered, therefore good fine Victory Medal (2) (25003 C.A. Wilson, Meso. Rys.; 10731 Carp, Nanda Singh, Wks. Dte.), one letter over-struck on latter, nearly very fine Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (237962 Pte. A. Harrold), good very fine (13) £160-200

237962 Private A. Harrold, served with the 54th Battalion Canadian Infantry during the Great War; died, 20.8.1918, and is buried in Hillside Cemetery Le Quesnel, France.

98 Pair: Private W. Cook, South Lancashire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (37026 Pte. W. Cook.

S. Lan. R.), toned, extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (William Cook) (2) £70-90 37026 Private William Cook, born Manchester; served with the 9th Battalion Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) during the Great War; died of wounds at Salonika, 21.1.1917; and is buried in Karasouli Military Cemetery, Greece.

99 Pair: Lance Corporal A. Young, Manchester Regiment British War and Victory Medals (15738 Pte. A. Young.

Manch. R.), nearly extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Albert Young) (2) £70-90 15738 Lance Corporal Albert Young, born Manchester; served with the 11th Battalion Manchester Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 7.7.1916; and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

100 Pair: Gunner G. Bayliss, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (261758 Gnr. G. Bayliss. R.A.), good very fine Pair: Gunner J. McFadyen, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (78509 Gnr. J. Mc Fadyen. R.A.), good very fine Pair: Gunner A.E. Howell, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (105868 Gnr. A.E. Howell. R.A.), good very fine Pair: Gunner L.J. Rowland, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (374507 Gnr. L.J. Rowland. R.A.), very fine Pair: Gunner A. Thompson, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (741216 Gnr. A. Thompson. R.A.), good very fine Pair: Gunner T.A. Vowles, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (135485 Gnr. T.A. Vowles. R.A.), extremely fine Pair: Gunner F. Wainhouse, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (111816 Gnr. F. Wainhouse. R.A.), good very fine (14) £140-180 101 Pair: Private B. Barlow, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment British War and Victory Medals (25309 Pte. B. Barlow. R. Lanc. R.), good very fine Pair: Warrant Officer Class 2 H.R.S. Preston, Liverpool Regiment British War and Victory Medals (16283 W.O. Cl.2 H.R.S. Preston. L’pool R.), very fine, with two named card boxes of issue, and Record Office enclosure

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April 25, 2013 - LONDON Pair: Private W.H. Tottey, Liverpool Regiment British War and Victory Medals (109717 Pte. W.H. Tottey. L’pool R.), toned, extremely fine, in named card box of issue Pair: Private G. Litchfield, Lancashire Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (243661 Pte. G. Litchfield. Lan. Fus.), traces of lacquer, nearly very fine Pair: Private P. Kelly, Cheshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (32044 Pte. P. Kelly.

Ches. R.), good very fine Pair: Warrant Officer Class 2 J. Harrop, Manchester Regiment British War and Victory Medals (275251 W.O. Cl.2 J. Harrop. Manch. R.), good very fine (12) £120-150

Pair: Private M. Jackson, Middlesex Regiment British War and Victory Medals (5971 Pte. M. Jackson. Midd’x R.), traces of verdigris to VM, otherwise nearly extremely fine Pair: Private H. Lewis, Middlesex Regiment British War and Victory Medals (51676 Pte. H. Lewis.

Midd’x R.), nearly extremely fine, with named card box lid Pair: Private W.J. McNaughten, London Regiment British War and Victory Medals (7564 Pte. W.J. Mc Naughten. 16-Lond. R.), good very fine Pair: Private B. Howson, London Regiment British War and Victory Medals (652546 Pte. B. Howson. 21-Lond. R.), good very fine (16) £160-200

25309 Private Benjamin Barlow, born Helmshore, Lancashire, c.1887; enlisted in the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 10.4.1916; served with the Regiment in Mesopotamia from 16.12.1916; discharged, 12.5.1919.

Captain Leslie Arthur Higson, born May 1893; educated at Cambridge; served with the Middlesex Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 17.8.1915; wounded by shrapnel to the leg, 8.10.1916

104 Pair: Private G. Davies, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (A-406973 Pte. G. Davies. A.S.C.), unit partially officially corrected on VM, toned, mint condition, in named card box of issue Pair: Private L.V. Furness, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (DM2-171924 Pte. L.V. Furness. A.S.C.), nearly very fine Pair: Private M.L. Head, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (DM2-179479 Pte. M.L. Head. A.S.C.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Private A. Lamb, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (M-412993 Pte. A. Lamb. A.S.C.), nearly extremely fine, in named card box of issue Pair: Staff Sergeant A. Radford, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (TS-7413 S.Sjt. A. Radford. A.S.C.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Private J.J. Rolfe, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (M-295607 Pte. J.J. Rolfe. A.S.C.), very fine Pair: Private E. Knight, Labour Corps British War and Victory Medals (128431 Pte. E. Knight. Labour Corps.), good very fine Pair: Private A. Pearson, Labour Corps British War and Victory Medals (272676 Pte. A. Pearson. Labour Corps.), good very fine (16) £120-150

102 Pair: Private H. Cooper, Northumberland Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (27355 Pte. H. Cooper. North’d Fus.), nearly very fine Pair: Private E.B. Hanson, West Yorkshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (56393 Pte. E.B. Hanson. W. York. R.), good very fine Pair: Corporal A. Yates, West Riding Regiment British War and Victory Medals (268051 Cpl. A. Yates. W. Rid. R.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Private R.O. Richard, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (44304 Pte. R.O. Richard. K.O.Y.L.I.), nearly very fine Pair: Private G. Thompson, Durham Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (7-2967 Pte. G. Thompson. Durh. L.I.), nearly extremely fine (10) £100-140 7-2967 Private George Thompson, born Sunderland; served with the 7th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 15.9.1916, on which date the Battalion were involved at Fricourt, and is buried in Peak Wood Cemetery, France.

103 Pair: Private H.S. Biggs, Royal Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (GS-52252 Pte. H.S. Biggs. R.Fus.), nearly extremely fine, in named card box of issue Pair: Private J. Goodbourn, Royal Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (G-41655 Pte. J. Goodbourn. R.Fus.), extremely fine, in named card box of issue Pair: Captain L.A. Higson, Middlesex Regiment British War and Victory Medals (Capt. L.A. Higson.), very fine Pair: Private G. Hawkesley, Middlesex Regiment British War and Victory Medals (4539 Pte. G. Hawkesley. Midd’x R.), nearly extremely fine

105 Pair: Corporal J.H. Adlam, Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (213365. Cpl. J.H. Adlam. R.A.F.), very fine Pair: Airman 2nd Class J.W. Dobbs, Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (77416. 2.A.M. J.W. Dobbs. R.A.F.), good very fine Pair: Airman 1st Class F.G. Randall, Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (62778. 1.A.M. F.G. Randall. R.A.F.), nearly very fine (6) £80-120 63

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107 Three: Attributed to Aircraftman First Class P.T. Jones, Royal Air Force 1939-1945 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal, nearly extremely fine, with named Air Council condolence slip (3) £180-220 540554 Aircraftman First Class Peter Thomas Jones, served during the Second World War with No.37 Squadron (Wellingtons); killed in action over Heligoland Bight, 18.12.1939, when a force of 22 Wellington Bombers sweeping the waters under orders to attack any German warships discovered at sea came into engagement with about 50 Me.109s, and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.

As a result of this disastrous action, which saw No.37 Squadron lose 5 of their 6 Wellingtons, bombers were subsequently barred from approaching the shores of Germany by day un-escorted.

108 Eight: Shipwright Artificer H. Arbuthnott, Royal New Zealand Navy 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (H. Arbuthnott. Shpt. Art. 2.C. NZ.13734); United Nations Medal for Korea (H. Arbuthnott. Shpt. Art. 2.C. NZ.13734); Naval Long Service & G.C., E.II.R. (H. Arbuthnott. NZ.13734 . Shpt. Art. 1.

H.M.N.Z.S. Royalist.), nearly very fine, mounted as originally worn (8) £200-250

109 Four: Mr. F.N.F. Cundle 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, extremely fine, with Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘22, Sydenham Avenue, Sefton Park, Liverpool, 17.’

Four: Mr. S.R. Edwards 1939-1945 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, extremely fine, with Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘49 Broome Manor Lane, Swindon, Wiltshire’ Pair: Flying Officer A.P. Richards, Royal Air Force Defence and War Medals, extremely fine, with Air Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘22, West Broadway, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, 9.’

Pair: Mr. B.F. Standing Defence and War Medals, extremely fine, with Air Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘77, Lakey Lane, Hall Green, Birmingham, 28.’

One: Mrs. B. Cundle War Medal, extremely fine, with Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘22, Sydenham Avenue, Sefton Park, Liverpool, 17.’

(13) £80-100 110 Five: Corporal G.F. Dunnill, Northumberland Fusiliers and Green Howards 1939-1945 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Malaya (4397288 Cpl. G.F. Dunnill, Green Howards), slight contact marks, good very fine, with the recipient’s Northumberland Fusiliers and Green Howards cap Badges, and 21st Army Badge, all housed in a wooden display box (5) £70-90 4397288 Corporal G.T. Dunnill, enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers, 1940; subsequently transferred ot the Green Howards; discharged 1952, after 12 years with the Colours.

111 Six: Flight Lieutenant W.G. Randall, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 1939-1945 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R. (Walter George Randall); Cadet Forces Medal, E.II.R. (Act. Flt. Lt. W.G. Randall. R.A.F.V.R. (T)), good very fine (6) £140-180 112 Four: Guardsman O.G. Evans, Welsh Guards France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (14676683 Gdsm, O.G. Evans. W.G.), light contact marks, good very fine, with two named card boxes of issue, for the Second World War Medals and GSM (4) £80-120 113 Pair: Senior Aircraftman B.S. Hobbs, Royal Air Force General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Malaya (4074795 A.C.1. B.S. Hobbs. R.A.F.); Royal Air Force Long Service & G.C., E.II.R. (H 4074795 SAC. B.S. Hobbs. R.A.F.), good very fine, mounted as worn (2) £80-120 114 Pair: Sapper A.E. Smith, Royal Engineers Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (19047952 Spr. A.E. Smith, R.E.), number partially officially corrected; United Nations Medal for Korea, very fine (2) £100-140

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119 115 Pair: Private E. Long, Gloucestershire Regiment Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (22373839 Pte. E. Long. Glosters.); United Nations Medal for Korea, good very fine (2) £300-400

117 Pair: Gunner P.J. Yates, Royal Artillery Korea 1950-53, 2nd ‘Dei Gratia’ type (22639273 Gnr. P.J. Yates. R.A.); United Nations Medal for Korea, nearly extremely fine, in named card box of issue, with named Army Medal Office enclosure, dated 27.1.1960; and the recipient’s cap badge (2) £100-140

116 Pair: Private D. Heaton, Army Catering Corps Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn’ type (22194508.

Pte. D. Heaton A.C.C.), partially officially corrected; United Nations Medal for Korea, edge bruise, nearly very fine (2) £70-90

118 Pair: Petty Officer P.J. Whyte, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1915-62, E.II.R., one clasp, Near East (D/SSX.890165 P.J. Whyte. A.B. R.N.); Naval Long Service & G.C., E.II.R. (JX.890165 P.J. Whyte. P.O. H.M.S. Raleigh.), very fine (2) £100-140

119 Five: Sea-King Air Engineering Mechanic J.T.B. Elliott, Royal Navy General Service 1962-2007, two clasp, Gulf, Air Operations Iraq, second clasp loose on riband as issued (AB(R) J T B Elliott D204894G RN); Operational Service Medal for Sierra Leone, no rosette (AEM1 J T B Elliott D204894G RN); Iraq 2003-11, one clasp, 19 Mar to 28 Apr 2003 (AEM1 J T B Elliott D204894G RN); Jubilee 2002; Naval Long Service & G.C., E.II.R. (AEM1 J T B Elliott D204894G RN), nearly extremely fine, mounted court style as originally worn (5) £1,200-1,400 D204894G Air Engineering Mechanic Joe T.B. Elliott, joined the Royal Navy, March 1985; advanced Air Engineering Mechanic, working predominantly on the Westland Sea King helicopter, and served in this capacity during operations in Sierra Leona and Iraq; discharged February 2007, after 22 years’ service.

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120 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Trafalgar (Philip Devine.), minor edge bruise, very fine £4,500-5,500

122 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, 23 Nov Boat Service 1810 (Geo. Hill.), minor edge nicks, therefore very fine £1,400-1,600

Philip Devine served as Landsman in H.M.S. Spartiate during the major fleet action off Cape Trafalgar between the British fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson and the Franco-Spanish fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral P.C. de Villeneuve, 21.10.1805. At Trafalgar the Spartiate was in the weather column and ‘she fought under Sir Francis Laforey... her losses amounting to five killed and twenty wounded... The Minotaur and Spartiate... exchanged broadsides with several of the combined fleet.

They managed to cut off the Spanish 84-gun ship Neptune, of which they contrived to get alongside, and which, after a fight of over an hour, surrendered. The Spartiate had her foretopsail yard shot away, and her masts, yards, and rigging in general were a good deal damaged.’ (The Trafalgar Roll, The Officers, The Men, The Ships, Colonel R.H. Mackenzie refers).

George Hill served as Able Seaman in H.M.S. Milford when the bomb-vessels H.M.S. Devastation, Thunder, and Aetna, together with a number of English and Spanish mortar and gunboats under the command of Captain R. Hall, attacked a French flotilla of gunboats at Port St. Mary, Cadiz, 23.11.1810. Some hundreds of shells were thrown amongst the enemy causing much damage; three other men of this name appear on the Admiralty Claimants’ List, two of which are for Syria.

Approximately 40 clasps issued for this action.

PROVENANCE:

Cheylesmore Collection, July 1930 Spink, June 1975 Seaby 1978

PROVENANCE:

Sotheby, July 1981 Spink, July 1994

121 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Guadaloupe (Alexr. Willding [sic], Midshipman.), heavy contact marks, good fine £600-800 Alexander Wilding served as Midshipman in H.M.S. Aurora for the combined naval and military operations commanded

by Vice Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Cochrane and Lieutenant-General Sir George Beckwith which culminated in the capture of the French-held island of Guadaloupe, January-February 1810.

PROVENANCE:

Glendining, September 1923 Spink, May 1971

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123 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Java (James Cock.), toned, good very fine £700-900

125 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Navarino (G.J. Gibbon, Volr.), very fine £1,000-1,200

Although ‘James Cock’ does not appear on the latest published transcription of the medal roll, he is listed on the original Admiralty Claimants’ List as serving as an Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Psyche for Java.

George J. Gibbon served as Volunteer in H.M.S. Asia during the Battle of Navarino in which the combined fleets of Britain, France, and Russia engaged and routed the Turkish fleet, 20.10.1827.

124 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Navarino (Windham [sic] B. Portman, Lieut. R.N.), edge bruising, therefore very fine £1,200-1,600

George J. Gibbon acquired the rank of Second-Master, August 1832; served as Acting-Master in H.M.S. Alert (Captain C.J. Bosanquet), on the coast of Africa, from August 1843; the following year served in H.M.S. Collingwood (flagship of Sir George Seymour) on the Pacific station; appointed Master whilst serving in H.M.S. Modeste, on the same station; employed by the Coast Guard from June 1850, ‘at first St. Alban’s Head, and then at Cornhill - next, to the Imaum receiving-ship Jamaica, whence he returned in July, 1856 - and 10 Aug., 1857, to the Contract Mail service as Admiralty Agent.’ (O’Byrne refers).

W.B. Portman served as Lieutenant in H.M.S. Talbot during the battle of Navarino in which the combined fleets of Britain, France and Russia engaged and routed the Turkish fleet, 20.10.1827.

PROVENANCE:

Glendining, January 1931

Lieutenant Wyndham Berkeley Portman, R.N., born 1804, third son of Edward Berkeley Portman, Esquire, of Bryanston, Dorset, and brother of Edward Portman, 1st Viscount Portman; joined the Royal Navy, August 1817; passed his examination, 1823, and appointed Lieutenant, H.M.S. Brisk (Captain the Hon. Anson), on the Mediterranean station, January 1826; appointed in the same rank to H.M.S. Talbot, 1827.

PROVENANCE:

Glendining, July 1943

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126 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Navarino (Thomas Rose.), minor edge nicks, good very fine £600-700 Thomas Rose served as Able Seaman in H.M.S. Rose during the Battle of Navarino in which the combined fleets of Britain, France, and Russia engaged and routed the Turkish fleet, 20.10.1827; four other men of this name appear on the Admiralty Claimants’ List, all for scarcer clasps than Navarino.

PROVENANCE:

Glendining, December 1912

127 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Navarino (John Millcock.), minor edge nicks, otherwise good very fine £700-900 John Millcock served as Private, Royal Marines in H.M.S. Genoa during the battle of Navarino in which the combined fleets of Britain, France, and Russia engaged and routed the Turkish fleet, 20.10.1827.

PROVENANCE:

Glendining, February 1925 Spink, December 1974

128 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Syria (E.W. Bridge, Midshipman.), minor edge nicks, good very fine £700-900 E.W. Bridge served as Midshipman in H.M.S. Pique during operations on and off the coast of Syria, 1840.

PROVENANCE:

Glendining, November 1951

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129 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Syria (A.B. Cutfield, Asst. Surgn.), good very fine £750-850 Alfred B. Cutfield served as Assistant Surgeon in H.M.S. Edinburgh during operations on and off the coast of Syria, 1840.

PROVENANCE:

Glendining, March 1935 Spink, December 1975

130 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Syria (Robert L. Bailey.), darkly toned, very fine £400-500 Robert L. Bailey served as Able Seaman in H.M.S. Rodney during operations on and off the coast of Syria, 1840.

PROVENANCE:

Spink, June 1974

131 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Syria (James Browning.), very fine £400-500 James Browning served as Able Seaman in H.M.S. Bellerophon during operations on and off the coast of Syria, 1840.

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132 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Syria (Thos. Mead.), pawnbroker’s mark in obverse field, very fine £400-500 Thomas Mead served as a Stoker in H.M.S. Gorgon during operations on and off the coast of Syria, 1840.

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134 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Syria (Joseph Rounsfell.), light contact marks, very fine £500-550 Joseph Rounsfell (listed as ‘Roundsfell’ on latest published transcription of medal roll) served as Boy in H.M.S. Thunderer during operations on and off the coast of Syria, 1840

Glendining, March 1923

133 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Syria (George Durndell.), nearly very fine £400-500 George Durndell served as Boy in H.M.S. Revenge during operations on and off the coast of Syria, 1840.

135 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Syria (Richard Adlam.), suspension re-affixed and reconstituted, right-hand side of clasp facing sprung, pawn broker’s marks, very fine £150-200 Richard Adlam served as Private, Royal Marines in H.M.S. Benbow during operations on and off the coast of Syria, 1840.

PROVENANCE:

Glendining, March 1929

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136 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Syria (Conl. Halissy.), contact marks, edge bruise, nearly very fine £350-400

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138 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Syria (Geo. Mason.), lacquered, nearly extremely fine £300-350 George Mason served during operations on and off the coast of Syria, 1840; four other men of this name appear on the Admiralty Claimants’ List, two of which are for Syria.

Cornelius Halissy served as Private, Royal Marines in H.M.S. Vesuvius during operations on and off the coast of Syria, 1840.

PROVENANCE:

Glendining, November 1921

137 Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Syria (John Long.), contact marks, edge bruise, nearly very fine £280-320 John Long served during operations on and off the coast of Syria, 1840; five other men of this name appear on the Admiralty Claimants’ List, two of which are for Syria.

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139 Naval General Service 1793-1840, two clasps, 1 June 1794, St. Vincent (William Houghton.), very fine £4,500-5,000

140 Naval General Service 1793-1840, two clasps, Lowestoffe 24 June 1795, Egypt (Gilbert White.), nearly extremely fine and unique £10,000-15,000

William Houghton served as Landsman in H.M.S. Defence for the fleet action that became known as ‘The Glorious First of June’. A total of seven Large Naval Gold Medals and 15 Small Naval Gold Medals were awarded for this action; Houghton served as Able Seaman in H.M.S. Excellent during the defeat of the Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent, 14.2.1797. Six Large Naval Gold Medals and 14 Small Naval Gold Medals were awarded for this action.

Gilbert White served as Able Seaman in H.M.S. Lowestoffe (32-guns) when, together with H.M.S. Dido (28-guns), she engaged the French frigates Minerve (40-guns) and Artemise (36-guns) off Toulon, 24.6.1795; early in the action the Minerve savaged the Dido; however, the Lowestoffe came to the aid of the smaller British vessel just in time and after a heated exchange forced the French frigate to surrender; White served as Able Seaman in H.M.S. Foudroyant for services in co-operation with the Army on and off the coast of Egypt, 1801.

6 ‘Lowestoffe 24 June 1795’ clasps issued, and unique in this combination PROVENANCE:

Lord Cheylesmore Collection, July 1930 Spink Numismatic Circular, January 1974

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141 Naval General Service 1793-1840, two clasps, Martinique, Pompee 17 June 1809 (Thos. Mitchell.), light contact marks, very fine £3,000-3,500

142 Naval General Service 1793-1840, two clasps, 1 Nov Boat Service 1809, 2 May Boat Service 1813 (James Young.), contact marks, therefore nearly very fine £2,000-3,000

Thomas Mitchell served as Landsman in H.M.S. Pompee as part of the combined naval and military assault and capture of the French-held island of Martinique in the Caribbean Sea, 24.2.1809; he served as the same rate and in the same vessel for the chase of three French ships of the line and the capture of one, the 74-gun d’Hautpoul, by H.M. Ships Pompee, Castor and the brig Recruit; engaging in a running fight which began off Vieux-Fort, Guadeloupe, 14.4.1809, and ended in sight of Cape Roxo, Puerto Rico, 17.4.1809, the d’Hautpoul was finally forced to strike her colours having suffered over 80 killed and wounded. The G.H. Roll gives Mitchell’s additional entitlement to ‘Guadaloupe’, and the Douglas-Morris roll gives recipient as being ‘Verified aboard not on roll’ in H.M.S. Pompee for the latter clasp. The original Admiralty Claimants’ List, however, gives Mitchell’s full entitlement as the medal appears.

James Young served as Armourer in H.M.S. Volontaire, when boats from Captain B. Hallowell’s squadron, including from the Volontaire, under the orders of Lieutenant J. Tailour of the Tigre, captured or destroyed a French convoy which consisted of five warships and a number of merchant vessels in Rosas Bay, off the north-east coast of Spain, 1.11.1809; Young served in the same capacity and in the same vessel’s boats, when on 2.5.1813 the marines from the Volontaire, Repulse and Undaunted under Captain M. Ennis, R.M., were landed and destroyed some newly erected works in the vicinity of Morgiou, near Toulon. The boats from the same ships, under the orders of Lieutenant I. Shaw of the Volontaire, covered by launches and by H.M.S. Redwing brought out six laden merchant vessels. There are several men of the same name listed on the Admiralty Claimants’ List, however, the medal appears entirely as issued.

Approximately 21 ‘Pompee 17 June 1809’ clasps issued.

PROVENANCE:

PROVENANCE:

Glendining, July 1921 Spink, October 1984

Glendining, May 1921 and September 1961

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143 Naval General Service 1793-1840, three clasps, 4 Novr. 1805, Basque Roads 1809, Algiers (Thomas Follett.), minor edge bruise, good very fine £2,800-3,200

144 Military General Service 1793-1814, one clasp, Egypt (M. Munro, 42nd. Foot), minor edge knock and bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine £1,200-1,500

Thomas Follett served as Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Caesar as part of Commodore Sir Richard Strachan’s squadron, when he captured four French ships of the line, off Ferrol on the north coast of Gallicia, Spain, 4.11.1805. Four Small Naval Gold Medals were awarded for this action; Follett is given on the Muster List for the same ship as being borne as Able Seaman, when the Caesar took part in Lord Cochrane’s successful destruction of a number of French ships, including four ships of the line, in the Basque Roads, off St. Nazaire, 11-12.4.1809; his name, however, does not appear on the latest published transcription of the medal roll for this clasp.

It is of course a possibility that correspondence was undertaken at a later date between the recipient and the Admiralty with regard to his claim and as a consequence a correction was made. Unfortunately such letters have not survived; Follett served as Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Queen Charlotte (Lord Exmouth’s flag ship) when the combined English and Dutch fleets attacked the heavily fortified town of Algiers, 27.8.1816.

Private Murdoch Munro, born Dingwall, Ross-shire 1757; enlisted in the 42nd Highlanders, March 1785; served with the Regiment during operations on and off the coast of Egypt 1801- the Black Watch were part of the initial assault force and had to withstand both an infantry and a cavalry attack soon after going ashore: ‘Battalions that were exposed to the attack of the French cavalry suffered terribly. Among these the 42nd stands pre-eminent for a gallantry and steadfastness which would be difficult to match in the history of any army.

The battalion had embarked about 800 strong. It lost 8 officers and 169 men in the disembarkation of the 8th March; three Officers and 13 men on the 13th; and 4 Officers and 48 men killed, and 8 Officers and 253 men wounded on the 21st March. And these losses were not those of rout and demoralisation, but of persistent and victorious fighting; for the regiment repulsed two attacks of infantry and though broken by two furious charges of Roize’s cavalry, took a principal part in the annihilation of those rash and daring horsemen’ (Fortescue refers). The Regiment as a whole suffered a total casualty rate of 63% during the campaign, by far the greatest of all the British troops involved; Munro was wounded in the shoulder, 21.3.1801, and subsequently transferred to the Edinburgh Invalids as a result of his wounds, March 1802; transferred 6th Battalion, Royal Veteran Regiment, December 1802; finally discharged, August 1812, after 27 years and 145 days with the Colours.

Private Munro received his M.G.S. in 1850 at the age of 92.

The medal appears entirely as issued.

PROVENANCE:

Sotheby, April 1902 Spink, November 1975

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145 Military General Service 1793-1814, one clasp, Maida (Robt. McKay, 78th Foot.), edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £800-1,000

147 A Fine M.G.S. for Martinique to Private J. Higgins, 8th Foot, Who Served With the Regiment During the American War 1812-14, Where He Was Wounded During the Attack on Sackett’s Harbor, 29.5.1813, and Taken Prisoner of War Military General Service 1793-1814, one clasp, Martinique (J. Higgins, 8th Foot.), nearly extremely fine £3,000-4,000

Private Robert McKay (listed as ‘MacKay’ on published transcription of medal roll), born Thurso, Scotland; was ‘severely wounded’ at Maida. 4.7.1806.

Private James Higgins, born Donaghmaker, Tyrone, c.1783; served with the Banff Fencibles, November 1799 to February 1802; enlisted in the 8th (King’s) Foot, February 1802; served with the Regiment in the West Indies, and was present at the capture of Martinique, February 1809; served with the Regiment in Canada, where they played a major part, along the line of the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence river, in the War of 1812-14 against the United States; wounded in the right groin during the attack on Sackett’s Harbor, an American naval base at the extreme eastern end of Lake Ontario, 29.5.1813: ‘The King’s had five private soldiers killed in this enterprise, one Officer died of wounds; three Officers and seven rank and file were wounded and left as Prisoners of War; and two Officers and 63 rank and file were wounded’ (Regimental history refers). British casualties as a whole amounted to 48 Officers and men killed, and 211 wounded. Higgins was taken Prisoner of War, and held at Pittsfield, Maryland, until June 1814, when he was given leave to march to Canada; discharged April 1821, after 21 years and 168 days with the Colours.

146 Military General Service 1793-1814, one clasp, Corunna (John Easton, Gunr. Royal Arty.), worn, nearly very fine £300-350 Gunner John Easton, born Forfar, Scotland; enlisted Royal Artillery, 1798; discharged ‘in consequence of intermittent fever and chronic rheumatism’, October 1816.

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148 Military General Service 1793-1814, one clasp, Salamanca (George Masters, 11th. Light Dragoons.), good very fine £1,200-1,400

149 A Good ‘American’ M.G.S. for Fort Detroit to Private T. Glass, 41st Foot, Who Was Taken Prisoner of War at the Battle of Lake Erie, 10.9.1812, and Subsequently Escaped Military General Service 1793-1814, one clasp, Fort Detroit (T. Glass, 41st. Foot), nearly extremely fine £4,500-5,000

Private George Masters, born Bridgewater, Somerset c.1784; enlisted in the 11th Light Dragoons, April 1806; served with the Regiment in the Peninsula from May 1811; took part in the action near Campo Mayor, 22.6.1811, where he was severely wounded and taken Prisoner of War- the Regiment as a whole suffered eight men killed; one Officer and 21 men wounded; and two Officers and 75 men taken prisoner; re-joined the Regiment, probably having been exchanged on account of his wounds, and took part in the Battle of Salamanca, 22.7.1812. Served during the Waterloo campaign as part of Captain James Bourchier’s Troop, 1618.6.1815, discharged, March 1819, after 14 years and 335 days with the Colours; died West London, August 1861.

Private Thomas Glass, born c.1786; enlisted in the 41st Foot, July 1809; served with the 1st Battalion in Upper Canada, and present at the capture of Fort Detroit, 16.8.1812; taken Prisoner of War at the Battle of Lake Erie, 10.9.1812, and subsequently escaped; discharged, August 1816; died January 1866.

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Glendining, July 1962 Spink, July 1994

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150 Military General Service 1793-1814, one clasp, Chrystler’s Farm (Thos. Ward, Serjt. 89th. Foot), minor edge bruise, good very fine £4,000-5,000

151 Military General Service 1793-1814, two clasps, Martinique, Guadaloupe (Alexr. Ross, Serjt. 25th.

Foot), nearly extremely fine £1,200-1,400

Sergeant Thomas Ward, born St. Paul’s, Dublin c.1791; enlisted in the 89th Foot, November 1811; served with the Regiment in North America, and present at the Battles of Chrystler’s Farm, 11.11.1813, and Lundy’s Lane, 25.7.1814- despite not allowed as a clasp to the M.G.S., the later battle was a much larger and harder-fought affair between a British force approximately 2,800 strong and an American force approximately 3,800 strong, in which the 89th played a major part: ‘Trophies were almost evenly divided, the Americans carrying off one British gun, which they mistook for one of their own, and leaving two of their own behind them. The brunt of the action fell on the 89th, which went into action about four hundred strong and lost two hundred and seventeen killed and wounded, and upon the Royal Scots. Altogether it was a stout little fight, honourable alike to Americans and British’ (Fortescue refers).

Ward sailed with the Regiment to India in July 1817, advanced Sergeant, April 1823; served with the 89th during the First Burma War 1824-26 (entitled to Army of India Medal with clasp Ava); discharged, June 1827, after 15 years and 221 days with the Colours; died at home in Nottingham, March 1872.

Sergeant Alexander Ross, born Greyfriars, Edinburgh c.1781; enlisted as a Boy Drummer in the 25th Foot, April 1793; served with the Regiment in the West Indies, and present at the Capture of Martinique in 1809 and Guadaloupe the following year; advanced Drum-Major (ranking as Sergeant), August 1811; discharged August 1821 after 28 years and 132 days with the Colours.

PROVENANCE:

Glendining, May 1904 Glendining, May 1965 Spink, November 1994.

PROVENANCE:

Glendining, November 1992.

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152 152 A Superb M.G.S. to Private J. King, 4th Foot, Who Served in Eleven Actions With the Regiment; Was Wounded Six Times, on the Peninsula and in North America; and Taken Prisoner of War Military General Service 1793-1814, three clasps, Badajoz, Salamanca, St. Sebastian (John King, 4th. Foot.), nearly extremely fine £2,800-3,200 Private John King, born Lambeth, Surrey, 1789; enlisted in the 4th (King’s Own) Foot, April 1809; served with the 1st Battalion in the Peninsula, and present at the Battle of Badajoz, 6.4.1812 (suffered a bayonet wound to the left shoulder and gunshot wound to the back)- the Battalion as a whole suffered 4 Officers and 40 men killed and 15 Officers and 173 men wounded; at Salamanca; and at the assault on St. Sebastian, 31.8.1813 (wounded from a fall off the breach)- the 4th suffered terrible losses: 5 Officers and 117 men killed and 6 Officers and 170 men wounded at the breaches; subsequently served in the force investing Bayonne, December 1813, where he suffered a sword wound, and a gunshot wound to the left knee. In 1814 King sailed with the 4th Foot to America, present with the Regiment at the Battle of Bladensberg, 24.8.1814, and taken Prisoner of War- it is possible that he had volunteered to stay behind to help take care of the wounded, as the list of British prisoners in American hands gives his rank as ‘orderly’; released shortly afterwards, he re-joined the regiment in time for the Battle of New Orleans and was present at the capture of Fort Bowyer during the attack on Mobile Bay, 10.2.1815, where he received his sixth and final wound, by gun-shot, with what was one of the last shots of the War, for two days later news of the Peace treaty signed the previous year arrived from England. Injuries prevented King from serving with the Regiment at Waterloo; he was discharged in June 1817, after 8 years and 65 days with the Colours, and died in Limehouse, London, June 1857.

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153 153 An M.G.S. to Corporal J. Burke, Grenadier Guards, Who Served With the Regiment in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, But Later, When In Liquor, Was Found Guilty of Mutinous Conduct and Sentenced to 700 Lashes Military General Service 1793-1814, three clasps, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive (John Burke, Corpl. 1st. Foot Gds.), minor edge bruise, good very fine £1,200-1,500 Corporal John Burke, born Caterland, Co. Kerry c. 1787; enlisted in the 1st Foot Guards, August 1812; served with the 1st Battalion in the Peninsula from Autumn 1812, and present as one of 40 volunteers from the Battalion at the siege and capture of St. Sebastian, 31.8.1813; subsequently served with the 3rd Battalion, in Lieutenant-Colonel H. D’Oyly’s Company, during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.6.1815 - as part of the 1st Guards Brigade the Battalion was heavily involved in the fighting at Quatre Bras, 16.6.1815; and distinguished themselves on the day of the Great Battle by defeating the Imperial Guard.

As a result of their heroism and the significance of their contribution to the Battle the 1st Foot Guards were re-styled the Grenadier Guards, a unique occasion in the history of the British Army of a title being won on the battlefield. The 3rd Battalion in particular sustained 59% casualties, including their Commanding Officer.

700 Lashes In November 1823, Burke was part of the detachment tasked with guarding the Bank of England. At a General Court Martial held at the Tower of London, 17.11.1823, the following charges were read out: Charge 1: For being in liquor when for the Bank Piquet on the afternoon of Friday the 7th day of November 1823.

Charge 2: For highly unsoldierly and mutinous conduct in fixing his bayonet and coming to the charge with it on Sergeant Andrew McFarlane and threatening to run him through the body if he approached him.

Charge 3: For highly unsoldierly and mutinous conduct in refusing to go to the Guard Room when ordered by Drill Sergeant Charles Graves of Lieutenant-Colonel Higginson’s company and coming to the charge on the said Drill Sergeant Charles Graves with his bayonet fixed and defying the said Drill Sergeant to confine him, declaring that he would not be confined but by an officer.

Charge 4: For resisting the escort sent from the Main Guard to secure him and threatening to use violence towards them.

Burke was found guilty on all charges and sentenced to 700 lashes. The sentence was approved and carried out in full.

Burke was discharged in September 1829, after 19 years and 84 days with the Colours, and subsequently emigrated to Montreal, Canada. In 1850 he applied for an increase in pension on the grounds of age and infirmity, stating that he had been severely wounded at Waterloo. The Board’s decision was ‘Nil. Character indifferent. No mention of wound.’

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Sotheby, February 1912 Glendining, March 1969

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154 Military General Service 1793-1814, three clasps, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive (Chas. Shone, 85th. Foot), lacquered, minor edge bruising, good very fine £1,600-1,800

155 Military General Service 1793-1814, four clasps, Vimiera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Toulouse (W. Lemon, Serjt. 40th. Foot.), edge bruise, good very fine £1,200-1,400

Private Charles Shone, born Chester c.1788; enlisted in the 85th King’s Light Infantry, April 1813; served with the Regiment in the Peninsula from July 1813; and in North America; present with the Regiment at the Battle of Bladensberg, 24.8.1814, and taken Prisoner of War- it is possible that he had volunteered to stay behind to help take care of the wounded, as the list of British prisoners in American hands gives his rank as ‘orderly’; released, October 1814, he re-joined the regiment in time for the Battle of New Orleans- although a failure, the 85th were completely successful in their task of clearing the west bank of the Mississippi and capturing an American artillery position; discharged, August 1827, after 14 years and 136 days with the Colours.

Colour Sergeant William Lemon, born Combestock, near Exeter, Devon c.1771; enlisted in the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot with the rank of Corporal, July 1799; served with the Regiment during operations on and off the coast of Egypt, and suffered a wound to the right arm during the heavy fighting on the 21st March 1801, when the French Army ws finally defeated; promoted Sergeant, 1802; served with the Regiment throughout the Peninsula War, from the Battle of Vimiera, August 1808, to Toulouse, April 1814; wounded in the right hand at Badajoz, 1812, his wounds preventing him from taking part in the main assault, and from qualifying for the clasp; served with the Regiment in Captain P. Bishop’s Company during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.6.1815, and received a severe fracture to the lower jaw at Waterloo, 18.6.1815; discharged May 1817, after 19 years and 297 days with the Colours, having shown ‘much gallantry in front of the enemy.’ (Service papers refer).

Colour Sergeant Lemon died, March 1849, before he was able to claim the ‘Egypt’ clasp for his medal, which was not sanctioned until 1851.

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Spink, November 2005

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156 Military General Service 1793-1814, four clasps, Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian, Nive (J. Humphries, Corpl. 4th. Foot.), edge bruising, nearly very fine £1,800-2,200

158 Military General Service 1793-1814, five clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Talavera, Busaco, Albuhera (George Taylor, 29th. Foot), pawn broker’s mark to edge, nearly extremely fine £1,800-2,200

Corporal John Humphries, born Derryvollan, Enniskillen, Fermanagh, 1786; enlisted in the 4th (King’s Own) Foot, February 1808; served with the Regiment in the Peninsula and in America, and received a grape shot wound to the left side at New Orleans, 8.1.1815; re-enlisted in the 8th Royal Veteran Battalion, November 1819; discharged January 1821, after 11 years and 4 days with the Colours.

Private George Taylor, born Blackburn c.1785; enlisted in the 29th Foot, April 1803; served with the Regiment in the Peninsula from 1808, and present at the Battle of Roleia, 17.8.1808, where the Regiment suffered the highest number of casualties in the British force, 151, including their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Lake, who was killed; the 29th suffered even higher casualties at Talavera, 27-28.7.1809, with the loss of 183 Officers and men; present and wounded at Albuhera, 16.5.1811- the bloodiest battle of the whole War- in which the 29th suffered casualties of 324 Officers and men, which had the effect of so reducing the Regiment’s numbers that they were obliged to return to Britain to recruit; discharged, August 1812 on account of an ‘amputated leg from a wound at Albuhera’ (Service papers refer), after 9 years and 85 days with the Colours; died January 1860.

x157 Military General Service 1793-1814, four clasps, Salamanca, Vittoria, Orthes, Toulouse (R. Cunningham, R. Arty. Drivers), suspension claw and clasp facings re-affixed, minor edge bruising, good very fine £600-800

PROVENANCE:

Greg Collection 1887 Glendining, May 1992 Darwent Collection, April 2004.

Driver Robert Cunningham, born Glasgow, May 1779; enlisted in the Corps of Royal Artillery Drivers, December 1797; served with the Corps in the Peninsula, 1812-14; served during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.6.1815; discharged, January 1819, after 23 years and 123 days with the Colours.

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159 A Good M.G.S. to Corporal S. Jeffries, 4th Foot, Whose Superb Battle Record Included Service at Copenhagen; in the Peninsula, Where He Was Wounded at Badajoz; in North America Where He Was Present at the Battle of Bladensburg and the Subsequent Burning of The Capitol and The White House; and at Waterloo Military General Service 1793-1814, five clasps, Corunna, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian (S. Jeffries, Corpl. 4th. Foot.), the two clasp sections reaffixed, otherwise extremely fine £1,400-1,800

160 Military General Service 1793-1814, seven clasps, Busaco, Albuhera, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (J. Dawson, Serjt. 7th. Foot.), good very fine £2,200-2,600

Corporal Stephen Jeffries, born Throwley, near Canterbury, Kent, c.1782; enlisted in the 4th (King’s Own) Foot, May 1802; served with the Regiment at the Battle of Copenhagen 1807, to prevent the Danish fleet defecting to the Franco-Russian alliance; with the 1st Battalion in the Peninsula at the Battles of Corunna, where the 4th particularly distinguished themselves, Barba del Puerco, Rodrigo, Badajoz (wounded by a piece of shell), where the Battalion suffered 42 men killed and 188 wounded, Salamanca, Palentia, Vittoria, St. Sebastian, where the Battalion suffered 119 men killed and 159 wounded, Badasoa, and Nive; and in North America at the Battle of Bladensburg, 24.8.1814; the subsequent capture and burning of the public buildings in Washington, D.C., including the Capitol and the White House- ‘the greatest disgrace every dealt to American arms’; and the Battles of Baltimore, and New Orleans; finally served during the Waterloo Campaign, as part of Captain Shaw’s No.1 Company, 16-18.6.1815, when the Regiment suffered 12 men killed and 8 officers and 113 men wounded; discharged as a consequence of ‘being nearly worn out’, February 1819, after 18 years and 298 days with the Colours.

Colour Sergeant James Dawson, born Kendal, Westmoreland, c.1780; enlisted in the 7th Foot (Royal Fusiliers), April 1805; promoted Sergeant, August 1808; served with the 2nd Battalion in the Peninsula, and present at the Battle of Albuhera, 16.5.1811, when from a strength of 28 Officers and 540 men the Battalion suffered 2 Officers and 47 men killed and 13 Officers and 218 wounded- a casualty rate of 50%. Served with the 1st Battalion in America, and present during the action at New Orleans, 8.1.1815, in which action British casualties were 291 killed, 1,262 wounded, and 484 missing; discharged, September 1823, on account of being appointed Barrack Sergeant of Windsor Barracks, having received the following testimonial from his Commanding Officer: ‘Colour Sergeant James Dawson from his very long service and meritorious conduct as a noncommissioned officer is thoroughly recommended to the favourable consideration of the Lords Commissioners.’

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Glendining, March 1927

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161 Military General Service 1793-1814, eight clasps, Talavera, Fuentes d’Onor, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (Edward Boyett, 14th. Light Dragoons.), edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £2,400-2,800 14 Private Edward Boyett, born Catherington, near Petersfield, Hampshire, c.1782; enlisted in the 14th Light Dragoons, June 1804; served with the Regiment in the Peninsula for five and a half years, from the crossing of the Douro, May 1809, until after the Battle of Toulouse in 1814; and in America for eight months; discharged, October 1832, after 28 years and 124 days with the Colours.

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162 x162 Honourable East India Company’s Medal for Mysore 1790-92, 37mm, silver, straight grained edge, traces of lacquer, good very fine, with contemporary silver ring suspension £700-900

163 163 Alexander Davison’s Medal for the Nile 1798, 48mm, bronze, reverse double struck, otherwise good very fine, with contemporary ring suspension £180-220

164 Alexander Davison’s Medal for the Nile 1798, 48mm, bronze, edge bruising, therefore nearly very fine £120-150

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x166 Sultan’s Medal for Egypt 1801, 36mm, gold, with small gold suspension ring and gold chain, nearly extremely fine £1,400-1,800

165 Honourable East India Company’s Medal for Seringapatam 1799, 48mm, silver-gilt, Soho Mint, a slightly later striking with obverse die crack, nearly very fine, with contemporary loop suspension £350-400

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167 Waterloo 1815 (Will. Moore, Driver, Royal Horse Artillery.), contact marks, very fine, with contemporary silver clip and split ring suspension £900-1,100 Driver William Moore, born Hadleigh, Suffolk; enlisted Royal Artillery, 1812; served in Major Whingate’s (Rocket) Troop during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.6.1815.

168 Waterloo 1815 (Serj. Michael M’Manus., 3rd Bat. 1st Foot. or R. Scots.), worn, good fine, with replacement steel clip and contemporary split ring suspension £700-900 Sergeant Michael McManus served in Captain J. Mac Ra’s No. 4 Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Foot during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.6.1815. (entitled to M.G.S. 5 clasps, Busaco, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian) PROVENANCE:

Galway Foley Collection 1913

169 Candahar Ghuznee Cabul 1842 (Gunner Edwd.

German, 1st. Troop Horse Bde. Bombay Arty.), officially renamed, very fine £200-300 170 China 1842 (George Goddard, Royal Marines.), light contact marks, otherwise good very fine £500-600

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172 Punniar Star 1843 (Sergt. G.E. Patterson 9th Queens Royal Lancers), detached from replacement silver straight bar suspension, nearly very fine £250-350 173 Sutlej 1845-46, for Moodkee, two clasps, Ferozeshuhur, Sobraon (Charles Greaves 80th Regt.), edge bruising, therefore very fine £450-550 174 Punjab 1848-49, no clasp (David Harry. 53rd.

Regt.), a later issue impressed in small serif capitals, minor edge bruise, good very fine £200-240 175 Punjab 1848-49, one clasp, Mooltan (H. Payne, A.B. Ind. Flot.), minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine, rare £500-600 Henry Payne, a native of Cambridgeshire; joined the East India Company’s Bombay Marine, aged 15, February 1842; initially served as a Marine Boy in the Queen, before advancing to Ordinary Seaman, 1847; served in the Steam Tender Napier, Indus Flotilla during the Second Sikh War; he received 41 Rupees (£3-18-7) in prize money for Mooltan; subsequent service included in the Hastings, before being discharged, April 1849.

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Spink, June 1993

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176 Punjab 1848-49, two clasps, Mooltan, Goojerat (Major Thos. Miller. 10th Foot.), light contact marks, very fine £1,200-1,400

177 Punjab 1848-49, two clasps, Chilianwala, Goojerat (H. Creasy, 9th Lancers.), edge bruising, therefore nearly very fine £350-400

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Miller born Jersey, 1799; commissioned Ensign, 10th Foot, 1817; posted to India later that year before service in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; the regiment was temporarily disbanded in North America, 1819, and he transferred to the 1st West India Regiment; six years later ‘In consequence of ill-health at the recommendation of the Medical Board’, he transferred again, to the 40th Regiment; served with the regiment in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land; promoted Lieutenant, 1827, and in 1839 he participated in operations in the Lower Scinde under Brigadier Valiant, K.C.H; Captain 1841; Major 10th Foot, August 1848; he was present throughout the siege operations at Mooltan in 1848-49, and, serving as Brigade Major to the 1st Infantry Brigade, was ‘present with the troops at the repulse of the enemy’s night attack on 17 August 1848’; following the surrender of the fortress in January 1849, the besieging force joined Gough’s army, and Miller was accordingly present at the battle of Goojerat; Lieutenant-Colonel 1850, exchanged into the 81st Foot later that year; retired 1860

1045 Private Henry Creasy, 9th Lancers, died 3.7.1849.

178 South Africa 1834-53 (W. Barker 45th Regt.), edge bruising, nearly very fine £340-380 Private William Barker served with the 45th Regiment, in South Africa during the Third Kaffir War, 1850-53.

179 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Northwest Frontier (659 Pte. W. Wrighton. 7th. Hussars.), a post-1874 issue, edge bruising, very fine Miniature Award: Sutlej 1845-46, one clasp, Ferozeshuhur, nearly very fine, with contemporary top silver riband buckle (2) £160-200 659 Private W. Wrighton served with the 7th Hussars on the North West Frontier as part of the force under Colonel A.F. Macdonnell C.B., during the operations against Sultan Muhammed Khan, December 1863 to January 1864.

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186 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Sikkim 1888 (257 Pte. J. Carr 2nd Bn. Derby. R.), good very fine £200-240

181 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Umbeyla (38 Sergt. David Allan. 71 Foot.), a post 1873 issue, nearly extremely fine £120-160

187 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Hazara 1888 (253 Pte. A. Spires 2d. Bn. North’d Fus.), good very fine £180-220

182 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Bhootan (1057 J Walmsley H.M.s 55th Regt.), good very fine £200-240

188 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, ChinLushai 1889-90 (1104 Pte. W. Leadbetter 1st Bn. K.O.Sco. Bord.), good very fine £240-280

183 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Bhootan (437. J Atkinson H.M’s 80th. Regt.), minor edge bruise, toned, very fine £240-280

1104 Private William Henry Leadbetter, born Birmingham; enlisted King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 1884; discharged 17.9.1896.

184 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Bhootan (599. L Burke H.M’s 80th. Regt.), good very fine £240-280 185 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Perak (1357. Pte. J. Kettle. 80th. Foot.), edge nick, light contact marks, therefore very fine £240-280

189 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Hazara 1891 (1308 Lce. Corpl. E. Stone 1st Bn. R.W. Fus.), good very fine £160-200 190 India General Service 1854-95, two clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89, lugs on first clasp removed as issued, second clasp unofficially attached as a consequence (1699 Pte. J. Stacey 2d Bn. Som. L.I.), suspension claw loose, very fine £100-140

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191 India General Service 1854-95, two clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89, second clasp loose as issued (350 Lce. Corpl. C. Scott 1st. Bn. York L.I.), unit partially officially corrected, very fine £80-120 350 Corporal Charles Scott, born Dewsbury, Yorkshire, 1861; enlisted in the South Yorkshire Regiment, October 1882; served with the Regiment in India, September 1883 to December 1887; promoted Corporal, March 1888; transferred to the Army Reserve, March 1888; discharged, October 1894, after 12 years with the Colours.

196 Crimea 1854-56, four clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (3549. Pte. G. Jones. 1/Rif: Bde.), engraved in upright serif capitals, post 1873 issue, good very fine £200-300

192 Baltic 1854, unnamed as issued, good very fine

197 Turkish Crimea, British die (2), (4043 F.A. Wood 1st. B.R.B.), engraved in serif capitals; unnamed as issued, both pierced with ring suspension, very fine (2) £100-140

£100-140 193 Baltic 1854, unnamed as issued, light contact marks, good very fine £100-140

198 Turkish Crimea (3), British die (2), unnamed as issued, first pierced for ring suspension as issued, second with later foliate suspension; Sardinian die, unnamed as issued, pierced for ring suspension as issued, generally very fine (3) £120-160

194 Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Sebastopol (E. Jones. 11.

Hussars), privately engraved in large serif capitals, suspension claw tightened, edge bruise, very fine, together with a related contemporary miniature award with top silver riband buckle (2) £100-150

199 Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die, unnamed and pierced as issued, file mark to edge at 7 o’clock, good very fine, with contemporary silver top floriate riband bar £50-70

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200 Indian Mutiny 1857-58, no clasp (Wm. Tucker, 1st.

Bn. 8th. Regt.), light contact marks, very fine £140-180

204 Indian Mutiny 1857-58, one clasp, Central India (David Allen, 71st Highld L.I.), nearly very fine £280-320

2324 Private William Tucker, born London c.1826; enlisted in the 8th Foot, July 1845; served with the Regiment in India for 14 years; awarded L.S. & G.C., July 1866; discharged, August 1866, after 21 years and 29 days with the Colours.

201 Indian Mutiny 1857-58, no clasp (Robt. Griffin, 88th. Regt.), officially renamed, good very fine £160-200 202 Indian Mutiny 1857-58, one clasp, Lucknow (Chas.

Wilson, A.B., Shannon.), nearly very fine £600-700 203 Indian Mutiny 1857-58, one clasp, Lucknow (A. Milne, 42nd Rl. Highlanders), contact marks, nearly very fine £160-200 There are two Alexander Milne’s listed as serving in the 42nd Foot, with the same entitlement, on the published transcription of the medal roll. One of them died 12.9.1850.

205 Indian Mutiny 1857-58, one clasp, Central India (Asst. Surgn. W.C. Browne, 2nd Tp. H. Bde Bombay Arty.), nearly extremely fine £350-400 206 China 1857-60, three clasps, Fatshan 1857, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1860 (John. Arnold.), privately engraved in large serif capitals, suspension claw reaffixed, unofficial rivets between first and second clasps, therefore very fine £160-200 207 New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (3690. Pte. D. Finney. 68th. Foot.), a post-1873 issue, engraved in small serif capitals, nearly extremely fine £240-280 3690 Private David Finney, born Dalkeith, Midlothian, c.1826; enlisted in the 68th Foot, December 1854; served with the Regiment in New Zealand for two years and five months; discharged, August 1867, after 12 years and 241 days with the Colours.

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211 Abyssinia 1867-68 (1652. W. Montgomery. H.M. 45th Regt.), suspension re-affixed, edge bruising, therefore nearly very fine £220-260

208 New Zealand 1845-65, reverse dated 1860-1861 (Joseph Fox. Captn.-Of-The-Fore Top - H.M.S. Iris), suspension claw tightened, very fine £400-450 Approximately 72 New Zealand medals were awarded to H.M.S. Iris, 32 of which are recorded as known in Naval Medals 1857-1880, K. Douglas-Morris. Of this number 3 are recorded with the reverse 1860; 5 with undated reverses, and the rest with the 1860-1861 reverse.

212 Ashantee 1873-74, one clasp, Coomassie (202, Sjt. J. Smith, 2 Bn. 23. R.W. Fus: 1873-4), edge bruise, very fine £300-350

Fox’s medal was issued 16.5.1873.

Joseph Fox, born Gosport, Hampshire, 1831; joined the Royal Navy as Boy Second Class, 1847; service included in H.M.S. Iris, January 1859-August 1861.

213 South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (C.M. Jope. Painter 1. Cl: H.M.S. “Himalaya.”), minor edge bruising, good very fine £240-280

209 New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1863-1865 (D. Maitland. Gunr. R.M.A., H.M.S. Eclipse), contact marks, therefore nearly very fine £400-450

214 South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (J.A. Bricknell, Stoker, H.M.S. “Euphrates”), minor edge bruise, nearly very fine £240-280

Approximately 75 New Zealand medals were awarded to H.M.S. Eclipse, 33 of which are recorded as known in Naval Medals 1857-1880, K. Douglas-Morris. Of this 3 are recorded with 1863-1864 reverses, 1 with 1864-1866; 11 with 1865 reverse, the rest are dated 1863-1865.

100472 Chief Stoker John Alfred Bricknell, born Portsmouth, May 1857; enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Stoker, serving in H.M.S. Asia, June 1877; transferred to H.M.S. Euphrates, July 1877; promoted Leading Stoker, December 1883; Chief Stoker, May 1891; discharged, July 1897.

210 Abyssinia 1867 (J. Smart Stoker H.M.S. Spiteful), very fine £300-340

215 South Africa 1877-79, one clasp, 1879 (1985. Gunr.

G. Cooper. 7th Bde. R.A.), very fine £380-420 1985 Gunner G. Cooper served in No. 10 (Gatling Field) Battery, 7th Brigade Royal Artillery.

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216 South Africa 1877-79, one clasp, 1879 (50/1298.

Pte. D. Mahoney. 57th. Foot.), suspension claw reaffixed, pawn-broker’s mark to obverse field, good very fine £280-320 1298 Corporal Denis Mahoney, born London, 1859; enlisted in the 57th Foot (West Middlesex Regiment), March 1878; served in South Africa from February to December 1979; promoted Corporal, January 1883; discharged, March 1990, after 12 years with the Colours.

217 South Africa 1877-79, one clasp, 1879 (1089. Pte. T. Williams. 99th. Foot.), polished, good very fine £380-420

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220 Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1827. Pipe Maj: J. Simpson. 78th Foot.), very fine £200-240 221 Afghanistan 1878-80, one clasp, Ali Musjid (27B/1453, Pte. J. Mullen, 1/17th Regt.), very fine £200-240

218 Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1082. Pte. G. Tanner. 2/15th. Foot), traces of brooch mounting, suspension claw re-affixed, nearly very fine £50-70

222 Afghanistan 1878-80, one clasp, Ahmed Khel (5202, Gunr. F.W. Rooney, A/B. R.H.A.), very fine £200-240

1082 Private George Tanner, born Bath, Somerset, c.1850; enlisted in the 2nd Battalion 15th Foot, June 1859; served with the Regiment in India and Afghanistan for 6 years; discharged, July 1881, after 21 years and 208 days with the Colours.

223 Afghanistan 1878-80, two clasps, Charasia, Kabul (40.B/520. Pte. W. Thorne. 67th. Foot.), nearly very fine £220-260

219 Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (821. Pte. Wm. Shaw. 63rd Regt.), contact marks, therefore nearly very fine £70-90

224 Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (Sepoy Harakbir Thapa 5th Goorkha Regt.), very fine £150-200

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225 Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, one clasp, Basutoland (Pte. J.H. Ridgway. D.E.O.V.R.), good very fine £140-180

229 Egypt 1882-89, undated, one clasp, El-Teb (1140.

Pte. A. McCann. 1/Gord: Highrs.), nearly extremely fine £200-240 Approximately 49 ‘El-Teb’ clasps issued to the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders.

226 Egypt 1882-89, dated, one clasp, Tel-el-Kebir (14538. Driv. E. Long. F./1. Bde. R.A.), edge bruise, light pitting, good very fine £140-180

230 Egypt 1882-89, undated, one clasp, Suakin 1885 (417. Pte. G. Ashby. 2/E. Surr: R.), nearly very fine £140-180

227 Egypt 1882-89, dated, five clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, El-Teb_Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85, Kirbekan (2075 Pte. P. Ryan, 19th Hussars.), light pitting, very fine £800-1,000

231 Egypt 1882-89, undated, one clasp, Suakin 1885 (1537 Pte. A. Sweeney. 2/E. Surr: R.), rank officially corrected, nearly extremely fine £100-140

2075 Private Patrick Ryan, born Dublin; served in the Queen’s Own Royal Dublin City Militia prior to enlisting in the 19th Hussars, 1880; served with the regiment in Egypt, 10.8.1882-7.8.1885 and 9.3.1886-5.6.1886 (entitled to Khedive’s Star); discharged 1892.

232 Egypt 1882-89, undated, three clasps, ElTeb_Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (1761 Pte. M. Evans. 19th Hussars.), edge bruise, therefore very fine £600-800

228 Egypt 1882-89, undated, no clasp (H. Tomony, A.B., H.M.S. Serapis.), light pitting, otherwise good very fine £80-100

1761 Private Michael Evans, born Dublin, Ireland; enlisted 19th Hussars, 1878; served with the regiment in Egypt, February 1882 - April 1886 (entitled to Khedive’s Star); discharged 1889, having been ‘convicted by Civil Power of felony.’

87970 Able Seaman Henry Tomony, born Wigtown, April 1858; enlisted in the Royal Navy, as Boy 2nd Class, serving in H.M.S. Aurora, August 1874; promoted Able Seaman, May 1877; transferred to H.M.S. Serapis, September 1880; discharged, October 1896; subsequently joined the Royal Fleet Reserve, 18.7.1901; discharged, 25.4.1908.

233 Khedive’s Star 1882, reverse engraved ‘373 Pte. R. Barr’, good very fine £50-70 93

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234 Khedive’s Star 1882 (2), one impressed ‘675 2769’ on reverse; one unnamed as issued, good very fine (2) £80-100

238 East and West Africa 1887-1900, one clasp, Brass River 1895 (J.J. Rixen, A.B., H.M.S. St. George.), good very fine £240-280

235 Khedive’s Star 1884, unnamed as issued, good very fine King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (5478 Pte. F. Elmes. Wiltshire Regt.), contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £70-90

236 Khedive’s Star, undated, unnamed as issued, very fine £80-100

237 East and West Africa 1887-1900, one clasp, Gambia 1894 (D. Sullivan, A.B., H.M.S. Raleigh.), minor edge bruise, good very fine £240-280 Leading Seaman Daniel Sullivan, born Cork, Ireland, 1871; joined Royal Navy as Boy Second Class, 1889; service included in H.M.S. Raleigh, October 1891 - April 1894, May - June 1894 and August 1894 - February 1895; ‘Shore Pensioned’ 13.7.1911.

Able Seaman John Julius Rixen, born St. Nicholas, Heligoland, 1869; joined Royal Navy as Boy Second Class, 1887; service included in H.M.S. St. George, October 1895 March 1895 and October 1897 - February 1898, and in H.M.S. Blonde, March 1895 - October 1897; ‘Shore Pensioned’ 31.10.1909.

239 East and West Africa 1887-1900, one clasp, Benin 1897 (J. Watermann, Sto., H.M.S. Theseus.), minor edge nicks, very fine £180-220

240 British North Borneo Company’s Medal 1888-1916 (5), silver, one clasp (4), Punitive Expedition (2); Punitive Expeditions; Rundum; bronze, one clasp, Punitive Expeditions, all stamped ‘Copy’, extremely fine British North Borneo Company’s Medal 1899-1900, silver, one clasp, Tambunan, stamped ‘Copy’, extremely fine (6) £60-80

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241 Hong Kong Plague Medal 1894 (Private B. Holdbrooke, S.L.I.), very fine £900-1,100

245 India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., one clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (5206 Pte. W. Smith 1st.

Bn. Ryl. W. Surr: Regt.), good very fine £100-140

242 India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., one clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (2767 Pte. H.C.B.H. Abery.

1st. Bn. East Kent Regt.), suspension slightly loose, edge bruise, very fine £100-140

246 India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., two clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (5795 Gunner J. McGowan 57th Fd By R.A.), minor edge nicks, therefore very fine £120-160

243 India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., one clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (2121 Pte. R. Ferguson 1st.

Bn. E. Lanc: Regt.), good very fine £100-140

247 India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., two clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (4626. Pte. H. Harling. 1/D.C.L.I.), good very fine £140-180

2121 Private Robert Ferguson, born Blackburn, Lancashire, 1868; enlisted in the East Lancashire Regiment, October 1887; discharged, October 1899, after 12 years with the Colours.

4626 Private Henry Robert Harling, born Finsbury, London, July 1876; enlisted in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, October 1894; served with the 1st Battalion during operations on the North West Frontier of India, 1897-98.

244 India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., bronze issue, one clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (193 Puckali Duraisami Q.O. Madras S.&M.), very fine £60-80

248 India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., two clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (3546 Pte. A. Stewart 1st Bn. Gord. Hrs.), suspension claw slack, edge bruise, very fine £100-140

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249 India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., three clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 189798 (4688 Pte. W. Jarvies 1st Bn. Ryl. Sco: Fus:), light contact marks, otherwise good very fine £180-220

251 India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., three clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 189798 (1524 Duffdr Nand Singh 19th. Bl. Lcrs:), nearly very fine £80-120

4688 Private William Jarvies, born Glasgow, Scotland; enlisted Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1894; served with the regiment in India, September 1896 - March 1903; discharged 18.10.1906.

250 India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., three clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 189798 (3458 Lce. Corpl. W. Hayes 1st. Bn. North’n.

Regt.), unit partially officially corrected, good very fine £180-220 3458 Lance Corporal William Hayes, born Bermondsey, London, 1870; enlisted in the Northamptonshire Regiment, October 1891; served with the Regiment in the Tirah Expedition 1897-98; discharged, 8.10.197, after 16 years with the Colours.

252 India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., bronze issue, three clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (234 Multr. Mohamed Hassain C.T.Dept.), mostly officially renamed, good very fine £80-100

253 Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued, good very fine £140-180

254 Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (4588. L: Sgt H.W.S. Robinson. 1/Northd: Fus:), good very fine £220-260

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255 Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3885. Pte. W. Ford.

1/Cam: Hdrs.), light contact marks, therefore very fine £220-260

257 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 (2), no clasp (3524 Pte. H. Hatcher. W. York: Regt.); two clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (4484 Pte. H. Bellhouse, York: Regt.), good very fine (2) £110-140

3885 Private William Ford, born Arbroath, Scotland; enlisted Cameron Highlanders, 1897; served with the regiment in Egypt, October 1897 - March 1900 (entitled to Khedive’s Sudan), and in South Africa, 3.3.1900 10.10.1902 (entitled to Q.S.A. and K.S.A.); discharged 19.21909.

4484 Private Herbert Bellhouse, born Leeds c.1876; enlisted in the Rorkshire Regiment, March 1899; served with the Regiment in South Africa, March 1900 to May 1902; discharged, 5.3.1905.

256 Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, two clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (3473 Pte. A. Robertson 1st. Sea: Highrs.), engraved in large sans-serif capitals, light contact marks, nearly very fine £120-160

258 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 (2), one clasp, Natal (3252 Pte. J. Lowe, Liverpool Regt.), initial officially corrected; two clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (8860 Pte. J.T. Eccles, E. Lanc: Regt.), edge bruising to latter, generally nearly very fine or better (2) £110-140

3473 Private A. Robertson served with the 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders during the Sudan Campaign, and with the 2nd Battalion during the Boer War; wounded at Roodepoort, 28.5.1900: ‘The battalion had to hold a position on the right. They were heavily attacked from the right rear by a force which far outnumbered them, but held their own all day. Colonel Hughes-Hallett was wounded, and the Seaforths had another officer and 15 men wounded.’

(British Regiments in South Africa 1899-1902, by John Stirling refers).

259 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Pte. C. Jackson. Kimberley Town Gd:), nearly extremely fine £160-200

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260 A Very Complete and Rare ‘Defence of Ladysmith’ Naval Brigade Group of Three to Petty Officer G. Dyer, Royal Navy Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (148403 A-B: G. Dyer. H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming; British War Medal (148403 G. Dyer. P.O. R.N.), in named card box of issue; Naval Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (148403 George Dyer , Boatn., H.M. Coast Guard.), contact marks, very fine, with the following related items: - H.M.S. Powerful ‘Siege of Ladysmith’ Hunter Pocket Watch, silver case, the outer front cover inscribed ‘Siege of Ladysmith, 118 Days, 1899-1900, G.H. Dyer, A.B., H.M.S. Powerful’, the movement inscribed ‘S. Smith & Son, 9 Strand, Swiss made, London, Watchmakers to the Admiralty’, movement in working order, glass face loose, case slightly polished, otherwise in good condition, with related certificate of warranty and contained in original blue cardboard presentation box, the lid with the gilt inscription, ‘Souvenir Presented at the Banquet at Portsmouth Town Hall To the Naval Brigade April 1900 Harold R. Pink, Mayor South Africa’ - Lloyd’s circular silver presentation snuff box, by ‘H. & A.’, Hallmarks for Birmingham 1899, the lid with engraved crest and ‘Lloyd’s’ above and the date ‘7 May 1900’; an old un-inscribed, plated vesta box - a purse with embroidered Union flag and ‘Naval Brigade 1900’, slightly worn - Coast Guard cap tally and embroidered uniform badge, and a large quantity of buttons, these last contained in a Queen Mary Christmas 1914 tin, with related card and bullet-pencil, all in generally in good condition unless otherwise stated (lot) £2,000-2,500 148403 Petty Officer George Dyer born Isle of Wight, 1873; joined Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class, 1889; Able Seaman, 1892; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897-8.6.1900; shortly after his return to the UK Dyer transferred to H.M. Coast Guard, initially with an appointment as a Boatman in Northern Ireland (L.S. & G.C. October 1906); served as a Leading Boatman during the Great War and was attached to President IV with an appointment at Chichester Harbour for the duration of the War, advancing to Petty Officer (Coast Guard), May 1917; discharged to pension, April 1919.

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261 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (162528 A-B: P. Moran, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming, contact marks, therefore nearly very fine £380-420 162528 Petty Officer Peter Moran, born County Mayo, Ireland, 1876; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1894; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897-8.6.1900; transferred to H.M. Coastguard, 1903; and was ‘Discharged Dead’ from service, when he died of Pneumonia, 2.6.1915; Moran was serving as a Leading Boatman at the time, operating out of H.M. Coastguard Station Tenby; he is buried in Fishguard Church Cemetery.

266 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Transvaal (65312 Gnr: H. Figg, R.F.A.), good very fine £200-240 65312 Gunner Harry Figg, born Wallingford, Oxfordshire, 1869; enlisted in the Royal Artillery, December 1887; served with the Artillery in South Africa, 6.4 - 23.11.1900; discharged, 30.4.1901, after 13 years and 124 days’ service.

262 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps (2), Cape Colony, Orange Free State (67693 Dr: W.I. Skinner, 43: B, R.F.A.); Cape Colony, Wittebergen (29608 Bomb: J.H. Hurley, 77th. Bty., R.F.A.), nearly very fine or better (2) £120-160

267 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (31792 Corpl: T. Carney. P. of W. Lt. Horse), good very fine £70-90

29608 Bombardier James Henry Hurley, born Erith, Kent, 1877; enlisted in the Royal Artillery, August 1898; served with the Artillery in South Africa from November 1899 to July 1902; promoted Bombardier, 15.5.1901; died, 16.4.1907, after 8 years and 236 days’ service.

263 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 (2), two clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (31112 Gnr: W. Couzens, 17th. W.D., R.G.A.); three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (6948 Pte. H. Hilder, Scottish Rifles.), edge bruising, nearly very fine (2) £120-160

268 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (9118 Pte. J. Doyle. Vol: Coy. Rl: Highrs:), very fine £60-80

31112 Gunner Walter Couzens, born Haggerston, London, 1879; enlisted in the Royal Artillery, November 1898; served with the Artillery in South Africa for 7 years from 3.2.1900; discharged, 2.11.1910, after 12 years’ service.

269 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (6203 Pte. H.J.S. Burder, 58th. Coy. 15th. Imp: Yeo:), last letter of surname officially corrected, good very fine £60-80 Private H.J.S. Burder served with the 58th (Berkshire) Company 15th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War.

264 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (1422 3rd. Cl: Tpr: A.H. Waghorn. S.A.C.), surname officially corrected, good very fine King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (82646 Dvr: W. Taylor. R.F.A.), nearly very fine (2) £70-100

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270 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Rhodesia, Relief of Mafeking, Transvaal (565 Sapr. E. Barker. S: Rhod: Vols:), polished, nearly very fine £340-380

271 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4529 Pte. W. Levi. 1st L.N. Lanc. Regt.), minor edge bruising, very fine £200-240 4529 Private William Levi, born Battersea, Surrey; enlisted Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, 1894; served with the regiment in Ceylon, October 1896 - February 1899 and in South Africa, 11.2.1899 - 22.9.1902 (entitled to K.S.A.); during the Defence of Kimberley served under Captain T.H. O’Brien with “B” Company Detachment, 1st Battalion at Premier Mine; discharged 14.8.1906.

272 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Belfast, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith (3169 Pte. J. Ratcliffe, Manchester Regt.), minor edge bruising, very fine £300-350 3169 Private James Ratcliffe, born Salford, Lancashire, 1873; enlisted in the Manchester Regiment, March 1891; served with the Regiment in South Africa, August 1899 to October 1900; severely wounded at Geluk, 26.8.1900; discharged, 8.11.1905, after 12 years with the Colours.

273 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg (2716 Pte. W. Llewellyn, 2: Shrops: Lt. Infy.), edge bruising, very fine £80-100

274 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg (5767 Pte. R. Snelson, 2nd. Shropshire Lt. Infy.), good very fine £80-100

275 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (32781 Pte. W. Thompson. 71st. Coy. Imp: Yeo:), nearly very fine £70-90 32781 Private William Thompson, born Weedon, Northampton, 1866; served for 12 years in the Lancashire Fusiliers prior to enlisting in the Sharpshooters, 6.3.1901; served with the 71st (Sharpshooters) Company, 18th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, 28.3.1901 11.8.1902; discharged, 18.8.1902, after 13 years and 165 days with the Colours.

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276 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Wittebergen, Belfast (1058 Tpr: P. Donnelly. Brabant’s Horse.), partially officially renamed, good very fine £200-240

279 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Modder River, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal (2770 Pte. T. Mc’Lachlan, A. & S. Highrs:), minor edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £80-100

277 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (2177 L.Cpl. F. Compton. Manch. R.), later issue, good very fine £50-70

280 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3147 Pte. E. Lydiate, Scots Gds:), minor edge bruising, good very fine £80-120

278 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (4421 Pte. C. Mitchell, Gordon Highrs:), very fine £300-350

281 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3392 Pte. F. Barrick. Essex Regt.), minor edge nicks, otherwise good very fine £80-120

4421 Private Charles Mitchell, born Dundee, 1874; enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders, August 1892; served with the Regiment in India, 1894-99, and took part in the Chitral Relief Expedition, 1895, and during operations on the North West Frontier of India as part of the Tirah Expedition, 1897-98, where the Regiment distinguished themselves at Dargai (Medal with three clasps); served with the Regiment in South Africa, September 1899 to September 1902; discharged, 13.8.1906, after 14 years and 2 days with the Colours.

282 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (4459. Pte. L. Clarke. Rifle Bde.), edge bruises, otherwise nearly extremely fine £200-240 4459 Private L. Clarke, served with the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade in South Africa; killed in action at Welkom Farm, near Vryheid, 28.3.1901.

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287 283 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (3571 Pte. C. Morgan, Yorkshire Regt.), good very fine £100-140 284 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Talana, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (4283. Pte. A.F. Germaine, 18/Hrs:), light contact marks, nearly very fine £200-240 4823 Sergeant Alfred Frederick Germaine, born Dover, Kent, 1874; enlisted in the 18th Hussars, November 1894; served with the Regiment in South Africa, October 1898 to October 1902; promoted Corporal, 1.1.1903; served with the Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 15.8.1914; promoted Sergeant, 24.8.1914; wounded, 15.2.1915; discharged, 18.5.1915, after 20 years and 197 days with the Colours.

285 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, six clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between last two clasps (4895 Pte. J. Dowling, Rl. Warwick: Regt.), nearly very fine £120-140 4895 Private John Dowling, born Birmingham, 1875; enlisted in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, June 1893; served with the Regiment in South Africa, 1.6.1900 2.9.1901; discharged, 21.1.1902, after 8 years and 227 days with the Colours.

286 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, seven clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, South Africa 1901, top clasp a tailor’s copy (2391 Pte. D. Driscoll, Welsh Regt.), heavy edge bruising, cleaned, good fine £100-140 287 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, eight clasps, Cape Colony, Talana, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between State and date clasps (4921 Cpl. G. Smith, Rl. Dublin Fus.), good very fine £240-280 4921 Corporal G. Smith Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died at Aden 13.9.1902 (entitled to K.S.A.).

288 King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (3) (2983 Serjt: W.T. Lintott. W. York: Regt.; 4622 Pte. H. Pearson. Bedford: Regt.; 3482 Corpl: J. Cotton Worcester: Regt.), generally good very fine (3) £90-120 3482 Corporal John William Cotton, born Willenhall, Staffordshire, 1874; enlisted in the Worcestershire Regiment, December 1892; promoted Corporal, December 1895; served with the Regiment in South Africa from December 1899 to September 1902; discharged, 25.11.1903, after 10 years and 11 months with the Colours.

289 Queen’s Mediterranean 1899-1902 (4358 Pte. B. Keenan. North’d Fus:), extremely fine £200-240

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295 Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry Medal for South Africa 1901-02, 3rd Battalion (32261 Pte. T. Burke.), with official corrections, edge bruising, therefore very fine £80-100

290 Queen’s Mediterranean 1899-1902 (9985 Pte. G. Tingley. Rl. W. Kent Regt.), good very fine £200-240 291 Transport 1899-1902, one clasp, S. Africa 1899-1902 (J.K. Ritchie.), very fine £500-600

x296 South African Dekoratie Voor Trouwe Dienst (Decoration for Loyal Service) 1899-1902, unnamed, nearly extremely fine, scarce South African Angle-Boere Oorlog Medal 1899-1902, unnamed, nearly extremely fine (2) £400-500

J.K. Ritchie served as Chief Engineer of the S.S. Nile (Royal Mail).

292 Transport 1899-1902, one clasp, China 1900 (W.L. Crawford.), ‘R’ double-struck, good very fine £700-800

297 China 1900, no clasp (W. Butcher, Lg. Sto. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Dido.), light contact marks, very fine £120-160

W.L. Crawford served as Second Engineer of the S.S. Itria (British India Steam Lines).

147774 Stoker Petty Officer William Butcher, born Ipswich, Suffolk, March 1870; enlisted in the Royal Navy, as a Stoker serving in H.M.S. Pembroke, February 1889; transferred to H.M.S. Dido, May 1898; promoted Leading Stoker, May 1899; Stoker Petty Officer, 1.7.1906; discharged, 8.7.1909

293 Transport 1899-1902, two clasps, China 1900, S. Africa 1899-1902 (W. Ewing.), toned, good very fine £800-1,000 E. Ewing served as 3rd Officer of the S.S. City of Cambridge (Ellerman Line) for China, and as Auxiliary 2nd Officer in the same vessel for South Africa.

298 China 1900, no clasp (W.J. Harris, Sto., H.M.S. Aurora.), good very fine £120-160

294 Kimberley Star 1899-1900, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1900), lacking top brooch bar, good very fine £100-140

299 China 1900, one clasp, Relief of Pekin (5795 Gunr.

J. McGowan 12th By. R.F.Arty.), very fine £300-340 103

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300 China 1900, one clasp, Relief of Pekin (3784 Pte. T. Hanlon 2nd Rl: Welsh Fus:), pawn broker’s mark to edge at 9 o’clock, nearly extremely fine £340-380

301 China 1900, one clasp, Relief of Pekin (4030 Pte. P. Harris. 2nd Rl: Welsh Fus:), suspension claw repinned, nearly very fine £180-220

302 China 1900, one clasp, Relief of Pekin (4006 Pte. J. O’Neill. 2nd Rl: Welsh Fus:), good very fine £340-380

303 China 1900, two clasps, Taku Forts, Relief of Pekin (J. Thornton, Pte. R.M., H.M.S. Orlando.), pawn broker’s mark to edge at 10 o’clock, good very fine £500-600 Private John Thornton, born Sailmore, Cheshire, 1873; enlisted Royal Marines, 1892; service included in H.M.S. Orlando, 25.5.1900-22.3.1902; during the latter period he was landed in China for service on shore with the Naval Brigade, and was present at the Defence of Tiensin on 30.5.1900, the capture of the Taku Forts, the Relief of Tiensin on 17.6.1900, and at the capture of the Tiensin Arsenal on 27.6.1900; subsequent service included in H.M.S. Ocean and the Defiance; he deserted from the Defiance, 1.2.1904; he returned to ship two days later and served for a further 20 days before he was discharged from the Royal Marines and the notation on his service record that ‘the corner of his parchment certificate was to be cut off’. This was to ensure that he would not again be allowed to enter the services. Unusually his service certificate also carries the note that on 24.2.1904 he was deprived of his China Medal.

Approximately 81 two clasp medals issued to H.M.S. Orlando.

PROVENANCE:

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304 Ashanti 1900, no clasp (Sgt. R. Langburn.

W.A.F.F.), very fine £200-240

308 Africa General Service 1902-56, E.II.R., one clasp, Kenya (6287980 Cpl. J.R. Waite. Buffs.), very fine £100-140

305 Ashanti 1900, no clasp (1269 Pte. Musa-Susu. W. African Regt.), good very fine £180-220

309 Africa General Service 1902-56, E.II.R., one clasp, Kenya (22039631 Fus. K.T. Taylor. L.F.), minor edge bruising, very fine £100-140

PROVENANCE:

Spink, March 1993

310 Africa General Service 1902-56, E.II.R., one clasp, Kenya (2) (M.136 I.P.I. (R) D.A.L. Hobley.; 3120 Cpl. Kiptum Asoi.), good very fine (2) £100-140

306 Africa General Service 1902-56, E.VII.R., one clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (T.H. Nowell, Lg. Sea., H.M.S. Highflyer.), good very fine £100-140

x311 Africa General Service 1902-56, E.II.R., one clasp, Kenya (21 T.P. Kimeu, Mbai,), good very fine General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (AS.20571 Pte. M. Litseko. A.P.C.), very fine South African Medal for War Services, unnamed as issued, good very fine (3) £80-100

307 Africa General Service 1902-56, E.VII.R., one clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (7237 Pte. H. Harley. R. Warwick: Regt.), minor edge nicks, otherwise good very fine, scarce, with related miniature award £140-180 Approximately 28 ‘Somaliland 1902-04’ clasps to Regiment.

312 Natal 1906, one clasp, 1906 (Tpr: G.H. Cook, Royston’s Horse.), nearly extremely fine £100-140 105

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313 Natal 1906, one clasp, 1906 (Pte. G. Laurent, Natal Medical Corps.), minor edge nicks, good very fine £80-120

318 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp (2), Waziristan 1919-21 (5241206 Pte. A. Tandy, Worc.

R.), partially officially corrected, scarce to unit; Waziristan 1921-24 (4183648 Fsr. F. Evans R.W. Fus.), initial officially corrected, generally very fine (2) £80-120

314 India General Service 1908-35, E.VII.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (2893 Sergt. M. Moore 1st Rl. M. Fus.), good very fine £70-90 315 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp (2), Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (178359 Gnr. J.E. Stone.

R.A.); North West Frontier 1930-31 (4103961 Pte. H.R. Mills. K.S.L.I.), edge bruise to last, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £80-100 316 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp (2), Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (39079 Pte. W. Tomlinson, 1 P.W. Vols.); Waziristan 1919-21 (6076954 Pte. G.E. Cutting, The Queen’s R.), very fine or better (2) £80-100 317 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (9754 A. Sjt. T Hammond, S.& T. Corps.), very fine General Service 1918-62, G.V.R., one clasp, Iraq (W.E. Frosser. Posts & Tels.), surname partially officially corrected, good very fine, scarce to unit (2) £90-120

319 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp (4), Waziristan 1919-21 (L-68497 L-Nk. Narain Singh.

71 M.C.); Waziristan 1921-24 (2) (1166 Rfmn.

Johara Ram, 2-6 Raj. Rif.; 2743 1/2 Sep. Mahl Singh, 3-12 F.F.R.); Mohmand 1933 (11859-K Spr. Kartar Singh, Bengal S. & M.), nearly very fine (4) £80-100 320 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Malabar 1921-22 (5718991 Pte. J, Price. Dorset.

R.), good very fine, scarce £120-140 321 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (2) (4181203 Fsr. J.T. Lloyd.

R.W. Fus; 3590560 Pte. T. Leacock Bord. R.), pawn broker’s mark to edge of first, generally very fine or better (2) £70-90

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April 25, 2013 - LONDON 327 1914 Star, with Bar (2) (35917 Dvr: F. Dodds.

R.H.A.; 42604 Dvr: B. Young. R.F.A.), very fine (2) £100-140 42604 Driver Bertie Young, served with the 42nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 19.8.1914.

328 1914 Star (11972 Pte. A. Moss. 2/Worc: R.), nearly very fine British War Medal (3) (13926 Cpl. J. Tierney. Worc.

R.; 45933 Pte. E.A. Jolley. Worc. R.; 36553 Pte. W.C.H. Turvey. Worc. R.), number partially officially corrected on first, nearly very fine or better Victory Medal (3) (3307 Sjt. W. Taylor. Worc. R.; 1322 Pte. W. Jenkins. Worc. R.; 27329 Pte. F. Simpson. Worc. R.), nearly very fine (7) £100-140

329 1914 Star (6260 Pte. A. Jenkins. 2/S. Lan: R.), nearly very fine 1914-15 Star (18533 Pte. H. Lee. L.N. Lan: R.), good very fine British War Medal (4) (15261 Pte. T. Alexander. R. Lanc. R.; 87480 Pte. J. Tindall. North’d Fus.; 64857 Pte. J. Whalley. L’pool R.; 4443 Cpl. T. Dobson. W. York. R.), nearly extremely fine, the third with the recipient’s identity tags Victory Medal (9) (40342 Pte. T. Woodward.

North’d Fus.; 50944 Pte. E. Green. E. York. R.; 62515 Pte. W. Whittaker. Lan. Fus.; 36806 Pte. A. Dobson. Bord. R.; 37597 Pte. H.P. Briggs.

L.N. Lan. R.; 240506 Pte. N. Hicks. K.O.Y.L.I.; 277399 Pte. D.B. Harding. Manch. R.; 29196 Pte. F. Unsworth. Manch. R.; 375485 Pte. J. Dobson. Durh. L.I.), generally very fine or better (15) £160-200

324

322 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp (2), North West Frontier 1930-31 (6395875 Pte. W.H. Tripp. R. Suss. R.), light scratches to edge; North West Frontier 1935 (5104766 Gnr. D.G. Lees. R.A.), generally good very fine (2) £80-120

323 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (4445782 Pte. F. Brown. Durh. L.I.), minor edge nick, good very fine £50-70

6260 Private Albert Jenkins, born Worcester; served with the 2nd Battalion Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) during the Great War; died of wounds at home, 6.11.1914, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.

324 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Mohmand 1933 (794877 Gnr. J. Green, R.A.), good very fine £140-180

4443 Corporal Thomas Dobson, enlisted in the West Yorkshire Regiment, 21.7.1915; discharged, 12.3.1919.

40342 Private Thomas Woodward, born Guisborough, Yorkshire; served with the Yorkshire Regiment and ‘Y’ Company, 8th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers during the Great War; died of wounds on the Western Front, 29.9.1918, and is buried in Duisans British Cemetery, France.

325 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (5495026 Pte. P. Williams. Hamps. R.), good very fine £50-70

330 1914 Star (8362 Pte. J. Cole. 2/Conn: Rang.), very fine £50-70

326 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (2979044 Pte. J. Kelly.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 331 1914-15 Star (5) (181999, E.J. Tucker, P.O., R.N.; 343990, J. Worrall, Shpt.1, R.N.; J.27635, J. Stone, O.Tel., R.N.; S.3440, W. Brown, Sto., R.N.R.; D.A.5167, W. Watson, D.H., R.N.R.), generally very fine Mercantile Marine War Medal (William Jenkins), very fine (6) £60-80 181999 Petty Officer Ernest John Tucker, born Torquay, Devon, April 1879; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, serving in H.M.S. Impregnable, October 1894; promoted Able Seaman, November 1898; advanced Petty Officer, 1.2.1915; served during the Great War in H.M.S. Centurion; awarded L.S.& G.C., 17.4.1917; discharged, 4.6.1919.

343990 Shipwright Joseph Worrall, born Portsea, Hampshire, March 1882; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Carpenter’s Crew, 19.2.1901; advanced Shipwright, 24.10.1905; transferred to H.M.S. Neptune, 28.1.1913, and served in her during the Great War; discharged, 18.2.1923.

J.27635 Ordinary Telegraphist James Stone, of Gillingham, Kent; served in the Royal Navy during the Great War in H.M.S. Ardent; killed in action at the Battle of Jutland, 1.6.1916, when Ardent was sunk by secondary fire from the German dreadnought Westfalen with the loss of all but two of her crew, and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.

332 1914-15 Star (2) (1409. Gnr. W. Corke, R.F.A.; 75647. Dvr. R. Meacham. R.F.A.), nearly very fine British War Medal (4) (236196 Gnr. S.H. Matthews. R.A.; 65315 Gnr. J. Millard. R.A.; 211042 Dvr. C R Risebrow R A; 86950 Dvr. W.C. Ward. R.A.), good very fine Victory Medal (6) (116280 Gnr. T. Ball. R.A.; 147424 Gnr. R. Grix. R.A.; 226683 Dvr. H. Broughton. R.A.; 228346 Dvr. J. Moss. R.A.; 2163 Dvr. W. Read. R.A.; 87098 Dvr. J. Speck.

R.A.), very fine (12) £80-120 65315 Gunner Joseph Millard, born Rockhampton, Gloucestershire; served during the Great War with 31st Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery; died on the Western Front, 27.5.1917, and is buried in City Bonjean Military Cemetery, France.

87098 Driver John Speck, born Poole, Dorset; served during the Great War with “B” Battery, 62nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery; died of wounds on the Western Front, 31.3.1918, and is buried in Hedauville Communal Cemetery, France.

333 1914-15 Star (2) (104851 Spr. A.R. Beaxer. R.E.; 58533 Spr. T.B. Myers. R.E.), good very fine British War Medal (99428 Spr. A. Readshaw. R.E.), good very fine Victory Medal (5) (203376 Spr. T. Barlow. R.E.; 602481 Spr. C.B. Griffiths. R.E.; 73932 Dvr. H. Munger. R.E.; 137154 Pnr. M. Smith. R.E.; 494930 Spr. G.E. Turner. R.E.), nearly very fine or better (8) £50-70 58533 Sapper Thomas Britton Myers, born Richmond, Yorkshire; served with the 90th Field Company Royal Engineers during the Great War on the Western Front from 13.5.1915; killed in action on the Western Front, 2.3.1916, and is buried in the London Rifle Brigade Cemetery, Belgium.

334 1914-15 Star (2) (G-4967 Pte. J.T. Friend, E. Kent R.; 1671 Pte. W.A. Veale. E. Kent R.), very fine British War Medal (4) (2540 Pte. F. Stovold. E. Kent R.; 29501 Pte. M. Batchelor. Hamps. R.; 16658 Sjt. A.W. Bowell. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; G31834 Pte. R.S. Dobbs. R.W. Kent R.), nearly very fine, the second with a related Services Rendered badge, the reverse numbered ‘413673’ Victory Medal (4) (17135 Pte. A.H. Rawlings.

R.Suss. R.; G-14370 Pte. C. Saunders. R.Suss. R.; 3-4391Pte. R. Popperwell. Hamps. R.; 517 Cpl. J. Sell. Berks. Yeo.), nearly very fine or better (10) £100-140 G-4967 Private John Thomas Friend, born East Langden, Kent; served with the 6th Battalion The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 7.10.1916, on which date the Battalion took part in the attack on Rainbow Trench: the objective was reached but the casualties sustained were so heavy they were forced to withdraw at midnight to Longueval. The Battalion came out of action just 40 strong and were led away by the Adjutant Captain Page, the only remaining Officer, having suffered total casualties of 367 Officers and men. Friend is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

2540 Private Frank Stovold, born Aldershot, 1880; enlisted in the East Kent Regiment, 9.9.1914, and served with the Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 15.6.1915; transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, 2.1.1918; discharged, 30.4.1920.

29501 Private Maurice Batchelor, born Bevois Town, Hampshire; served with the 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 24.11.1916, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

16658 Sergeant Alfred William Bowell, born Woodcote, Oxfordshire; served with the 6th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 17.3.1917, and is buried in the A.I.F. Burial Ground, France.

G-31834 Private Reginald Sidney Dobbs, born Bozeat, Northamptonshire; served with the 6th Battalion Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 21.9.1918, and is commemorated on the Vis-et-Artois Memorial, France.

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April 25, 2013 - LONDON G-14370 Private Charles Saunders, born Midhurst, Sussex; served with the 12th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 31.7.1917, on the occasion of the great Allied attack around Ypres, and is buried in New Irish Farm Cemetery, Belgium.

337 British War Medal (10) (110930 A. Barrett. Ch. St. R.N.; 7.39031 H. Hargraves. L.S. R.N.; 311974 C.H. Millman. L.Sto. R.N.; 364534 T.J. Wickens.

Act. L. Sto. R.N.; J.75919 G. Rudge. Ord. R.N.; S.S.105400 S.G. Potter. Sto.1 R.N.; J.93402 R.N. Vincent. Boy.1. R.N.; Ply.2019-S- Pte. L. Hall.

R.M.L.I.; F.33924 A. Hipwell A.C.1 R.N.A.S.; A.E. Wood), file marks to fourth, initial officially corrected on penultimate, generally nearly very fine or better (10) £70-90

3-4391 Private Rueben Popperwell, born Lambeth, London; served with the 10th Battalion Hampshire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action at Gallipoli, 10.9.1915, and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.

517 Lance Corporal William John Sell, born Faringdon, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire); served with the Berkshire Yeomanry during the Great War; killed in action in Egypt, 11.12.1915, and is buried in Alexandria Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.

364534 Leading Stoker Thomas James Wickens, of Portsmouth; served in the Royal Navy during the Great War in H.M.S. Hampshire; killed in action, 5.6.1916, when the Hampshire, which had been present at the Battle of Jutland a week earlier, was mined and sank with the loss of over 600 lives, including that of Field Marshal the Lord Kitchener, in the North Sea off Orkney whilst conveying the Secretary of State for War to Russia, and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

335 1914-15 Star (12424 Pte. W. Hobbs. R. Fus.), very fine British War Medal (5) (31393 Pte. P. Farrell. 18Hrs.; 19037 Pte. D.L. Wells. 18-Hrs.; 2957 Pte. H.P. Tarrant. 1-Lond. R.; 764596 Cpl. A.E. Harrison. 28-Lond. R.; 768988 Pte. G.N. Allen.

28-Lond. R.), good very fine Victory Medal (3) (29652 Pte. W.B. Walker.

G.Gds.; 25851 Pte. J.R. Worgan. G.Gds.; 8173 Pte. E.G. Yeo. 7-Lond. R.), traces of verdigris to last, otherwise very fine or better (9) £50-70

338 British War Medal (3) (1177 Pte. W. Sholton. R. Scots.; 6810 Pte W. Ogg. Cam’n Highrs.; 1922 Pte. A. Cameron. A. & S.H.), good very fine Victory Medal (6) (58917 Pte. D. Gradwell. R. Scots.; 377054 Pte. F. Hall. R. Scots.; 376984 Pte. C. Mc Fadyen. R. Scots.; 1911 Pte. J. Clark.

Camerons.; 41262 Pte. R. Cooke. High. L.I.; 42825 Pte. W. Dobbs. High. L.I.), good very fine (9) £70-90 1922 Private Archibald Cameron, born Kilchoan, Argyllshire; served with the 1st/7th Battalion Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) during the Great War on the Western Front from 1.5.1915; killed in action on the Western Front, 11.4.1918, when ‘with our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end’ (Sir D. Haig’s Army Order of the Day refers), and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

336 1914-15 Star (2) (S4-044194 Pte. T.A. Shepherd.

A.S.C.; 05343 Pte. C. Shergold. A.S.C.), good very fine British War Medal (7) (125724 Pte. W.C. Herbert.

M.G.C.; 81855 Pte. C.E. Simmonds. M.G.C.; 66 Pte. W.H. Warren. R.A.M.C.; M2-174844 W.O. Cl.1. W.C. Jones. A.S.C.; 203031 Pte. W. Sykes.

Labour Corps.; 11036 Rflm. A. Hickman.

N.Z.E.F.; 457395 Pte. W.H. Waight. 60-Can. Inf.), file marks to last, generally very fine Victory Medal (6) (82718 Pte. R.T. Dawe. M.G.C.; 289 Pte. J.W. Miller. A.Cyc. Corps.; M2-229862 Pte. P.J. Prest. A.S.C.; 442786 L.Cpl. F. Setter.

54-Can. Inf.; 42451 L-Sjt. J. Adam. N.Z.E.F.); bilingual reverse (Pte. G. Roberts. 8th S.A.I.), nearly very fine or better (15) £70-90

58917 Private Donald Gradwell, born Glasgow; served with the 9th Battalion Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) during the Great War; killed in action, 1.8.1918, and is buried in Raperie British Cemetery, France.

1911 Drummer James Clark, served with ‘A’ Company, 4th Battalion Cameron Highlanders during the Great War on the Western Front from 19.2.1915; wounded near Moulin de Petre, during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 16.3.1915; discharged, 16.3.1919.

42825 Private William Dobbs, born Galashiels, Selkirkshire; served with the 4th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers and 14th Battalion Highland Light Infantry during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 24.4.1917, and is buried in Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, France.

457395 Private W.B. Waight, born Portland, Dorset; served with the 60th Battalion Canadian Infantry during the Great War; died, 17.4.1917, and is buried in Bois-Carre British Cemetery, France.

82718 Private Reginald Thomas Dawe, served with the Devonshire Regiment and with 75th Battalion Machine Gun Corps during the Great War; killed in action, 23.8.1918, and is buried in Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 339 British War Medal (6) (4882 Pte. C.J. Roberts.

R.War. R.; 331211 Pte. T.D. Shirley. R.War. R.; 5067 Pte. J.H. Beer. Devon. R.; 48055 Pte. A.G. Howell Welsh R.; 7064 Pte. W. Harvey. Wilts. R.; 291516 Pte. J.T. Taylor Monmouth R.), nearly very fine or better Victory Medal (5) (16093 Pte. G.N. Dobbs. R.War. R.; 37574 Pte. F. Corbett. Devon. R.; 48018 Pte. T. Ball. S. Wales Bord.; 79802 Pte. T.A. Sanson.

Welsh R.; 36060 Pte. W. Voss. Welsh R.), generally very fine (11) £80-100 4882 Private Charles James Roberts, born London; served with the 2nd/6th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 3.10.1916, and is buried in Laventie Military Cemetery, France.

16093 Lance Corporal George Norman Dobbs, born Croydon, Surrey; served with the 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment during the Great War; 12.10.1916, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

36060 Private William Voss, born Llanbetty, Breconshire; served with South Wales Borderers and the 1st Battalion Welsh Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 1.10.1915, and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

340 British War Medal (7) (23257 Cpl. H. Dane. R.W. Fus.; 63665 Pte. C.T. Cranmer. R.W. Fus.; 67031 Pte. J. Duckworth. R.W. Fus.; 68477 Pte. E.O. Jones. R.W. Fus.; 13523 Pte. G.D. King. R.W. Fus.; 18274 Pte. E.H. Meredith. R.W. Fus.; 19098 Pte. H. Roberts. R.W. Fus.), suspension loose and edge bruising to last, otherwise good very fine or better Victory Medal (5) (3014 Sjt. A. Hanlon. R.W. Fus.; 66261 Pte. P.H. Brisbourne. R.W. Fus.; 3048 Pte. T. Griffiths. R.W. Fus.; 86840 Pte. W.R. Owen.

R.W. Fus.; 73668 Pte. G. Unsworth. R.W. Fus.), good very fine (12) £80-120 23257 Corporal Harry Dane, born Crewe; served with the 14th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 26.8.1918, on the first day of the Battle of the Scarpe, on which day the Battalion was involved in the advance on Longueval, and is buried in Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, France.

63665 Lance Corporal Charles Thomas Cranmer, born Black Torington, Devon; served with the Machine Gun Corps and the 1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the Great War; killed in action in Italy, 31.10.1918, and is buried in Tezze British Cemetery, Italy.

67031 Private James Edward Duckworth, served with the 17th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the Great War; died of wounds on the Western front, 8.10.1918, and is buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, France.

68477 Private Evan Oliver Jones, born Waenfawr, Carnarvon; served with the 2nd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 9.1.1918, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

served with the 9th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front from 19.7.1915; died of wounds on the Western Front, 27.9.1915, and is buried in Chocques Military Cemetery, France.

18274 Private Edward Henry Meredith, born Raglan, Monmouthshire; served with the 8th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 1.10.1915; died of wounds in Mesopotamia, 9.4.1916, and is buried in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.

19098 Private Henry Roberts, served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 10.7.1915; discharged, 17.1.1919.

73668 Private George Unsworth, born Liverpool; served with the 9th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 30.9.1918 and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

341 British War Medal (3) (51565 Pte. A.T. Ayers.

Glouc. R.; 7199 Pte. C.V. Lewis. Glouc. R.; 32756 Pte. H.E. Newman. Glouc. R.), good very fine or better, first in named card box of issue Victory Medal (3) (202914 Sjt. W.H. Pollard.

Glouc. R.; 11382 Pte. A.W.J. Houghton. Glouc.

R.; 22495 Pte. W.R. May. Glouc. R.), very fine (6) £50-70 7199 Private Charles Victor Lewis, born Gloucester; served with the 1st Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 13.8.1914; transferred to the 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry; died of wounds on the Western Front, 1.8.1916, and is buried in St. Sever Military Cemetery, France.

342 British War Medal (2. Lieut. C.S. Cravos.), scratch marks, therefore very fine, with photographic image of recipient £60-80 Second Lieutenant Cyril Stephen Cravos born 1895, a native of Cardiff; educated at Ampleforth, the school’s Journal for 1917 gives the following, ‘He joined the H.A.C. in February, 1915. In the following August he obtained a commission in the [21st Battalion] Welsh Regiment and last summer joined the Royal Flying Corps. He got “his wings” in December, and went to the front in January. In a letter wrote to Mr. Cravos his commanding officer wrote: I regret his loss immensely as he was very keen and could always be relied upon to carry out his duties with courage and cheerfulness. He was a very clever pilot.

That is precisely what we at Ampleforth would have expected of him. He was courageous to recklessness and buoyantly cheerful. Qualities he displayed not only in the Rugger XV but also in the boxing ring.

Cravos entered the School in May, 1908, and left in April, 1913. By nature he was a singularly generous and kindly boy, he was ever ready to play his part in every department of the school life, shirking nothing and always giving his best. Of such a character it goes without saying that he developed into

13523 Lance Corporal George Daniel King, born Oxford;

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April 25, 2013 - LONDON 343 British War Medal (5) (2649 Sgt. R. Grieveson.

R.F.C.; 20941. 2.A.M. C. Raddlesden. R.F.C.; 66255. 2.A.M. O.W. Edwards. R.A.F.; 106572.

2.A.M. V.H. Hardy. R.A.F.; 108485. Pte.1. A. Riddock. R.A.F.), very fine or better Victory Medal (2) (15196. 1.A.M. F.A. Jones.

R.F.C.; 82309. Pte.1. W. Stanmore. R.A.F.), nearly very fine (7) £80-120 15196 Airman First Class Frederick Arthur Jones, born Gloucester; enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps, 13.11.1915; served with the R.F.C. in France from 28.7.1916; promoted Airman First Class, 1.1.1917; discharged, 30.4.1920.

82309 Private 1st Class William Stanmore, enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps, 22.5.1917, and served during the Great War with the R.F.C. on the Western Front from 2.9.1917; transferred to 199th Training Squadron, Royal Air Force; died 22.12.1918, and is buried in Stannington Unitarian Chapelyard, Yorkshire.

344 Victory Medal (9) (162286 J.H. Phillips. C.P.O. R.N.; J.66700 R.W. Rowe. Ord. R.N.; J.89008. J. Talbot. Ord. R.N.; 215246 H.G. Haines. A.B. R.N.; 302043 W. Emery. Sto.1 R.N.; 280876 F. Pavitt. Sto.1 R.N.; J.91922 H Armitage Boy 1.

R.N.; B.Z.3594 J. Merriman. Sig. R.N.V.R.; W.Z. 2365 S.H. Skidmore. A.B. R.N.V.R.), generally very fine or better, with a related Royal Life Saving Society Award of Merit, silver, reverse engraved ‘Awarded to I. Talbot. 1938’ (9) £50-70

Second Lieutenant C.S. Cravos

215246 Able Seaman Henry George Haines, of Swansea; served in the Royal Navy during the Great War in H.M.S. Mersey; killed in action, 6.7.1915, on which date the Mersey was in action with the German light cruiser Königsberg at the battle of Rufiji Delta, German East Africa, and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

a fine specimen of young manhood notable for his upright and faithful adherence to all duties among which he counted not least his religion. May he rest in peace’; having been commissioned Flying Officer in November 1917, he served as a pilot with 5 Squadron in France, from 24.1.1917; carrying out mainly Artillery Reconnaissance Patrols he took off with his Observer Flight Sergeant A.G. Shepherd in B.E.2. e 7192, 2.3.1917; on the latter date they ‘Left Aerodrome at 2.30pm. Called up Aerodrome by Wireless at 2.40pm. Not heard of since’; they were reported ‘Missing’ over the Gommecourt area, and were later recorded as ‘Killed in Action’; both Pilot and Observer were buried by the Germans in Moyenneville German Cemetery, South of Arras before being relocated to Douchy-Les-Ayette British Cemetery, France.

302043 Stoker William Emery, born Brighton, July 1884; enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Stoker, 10.11.1902; discharged, 1.3.1919.

280876 Stoker 1st Class Frederick Pavitt, of Harlow, Essex; served in the Royal Navy during the Great War in H.M.S. Mary Rose; killed in action, 17.10.1917, when the Mary Rose, on convoy duties, was sunk in the North Sea by the German cruisers Brummer and Bremse, with the loss of most of her crew, and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.

J.91922 Able Seaman Harry Armitage, born Brighton, 19.4.1902; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 13.7.1918; promoted Able Seaman, 7.9.1920; discharged, 6.3.1929.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 345 Victory Medal (6) (Capt. T.G. Lloyd.; Capt. W.R. Powell.; Lieut. G.L.B. Henderson.; Lieut. G.P.B. Lailey.; Lieut. S.C. Watson.; 2. Lieut. K.H. Reah), generally good very fine or better, penultimate with named card box of issue (6) £80-100 Captain Thomas Glyn Lloyd, the son of the Ven. Thomas Lloyd, Archdeacon of St. Asaph and Vicar of Rhyl; served with the 15th Battalion Welsh Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 10.5.1918, and is buried in Martinsart British Cemetery, France.

Captain Wilfred Roderick Powell, born May 1897, the son of the Rev. Morgan Powell, Vicar of Limpley Stoke, Bath; educated at Lancing College; served with the 4th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment during the Great War as part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force; killed in action in Palestine, 9.4.1918, and is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial, Israel.

Second Lieutenant Kenneth Hudson Reah, of Castletown, Isle of Man; served with the 3rd Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps during the Great War; died 25.11.1918, and is buried in Mikra British Cemetery, Greece.

346 346 Territorial Force War Medal (47878 Pte. W.E. Cook. Welsh. R.), extremely fine £150-180

347 Silver War Badge (39) (48415; 53962; 66260; 72230; 130719; 137202; 140196; 155594; 176498; 196428; 197934; 230485; 230617; 274098; 329455; 367436; 417697; 443261; 464929; B91838; B138323; B163842; B216071; B238973; B318130; B343494; RN1694; RN2863; RN10087; RN22943; RN33760; RN40545; RN51274; RN51288; RN51388; RN51409; RN51452; RN51480; RN51504), some lacking pins or retaining hook; generally very fine, together with 8 Princess Mary Christmas 1914 boxes, these all empty (39) £100-140 348 Naval General Service 1915-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Minesweeping 1945-51 (S/KX. 98910. E.C.R. Lamberton Mech. 1. R N), nearly extremely fine £140-180

349 General Service 1918-62, G.V.R. (2), one clasp, Kurdistan (830 Hvldr. Hira Singh. 51-Sikhs.); two clasps, Khurdistan, Iraq (1709 Sepoy Laxuman Mane. 116-Mahra), unit partially erased on latter, nearly very fine (2) £60-80

350 General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp (3), Palestine (6454715 Spr. W.E. Dobbs. R.E.); Palestine 1945-48 (2) (19035996 Tpr. W. Keyte.

15/19 H.; 14759424 Pte. W. Davies. Foresters.), second in named card box of issue, edge nicks to last, nearly very fine or better (3) £120-160

351 General Service 1918-62 (2), G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (14171754 Cfn. G.L. Wright.

R.E.M.E.); E.II.R. (23487870 Gnr. P. Kilgannon.

R.A.), good very fine General Service 1962-2007, one clasp, Northern Ireland (24392007 Gnr L Cusano RA), good very fine (3) £80-100

352 General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Malaya (2) (22542961 Tpr. F. Mills. 13/18 H.; 21134549 Rfn Bhimbahadur Gurung 6 GR), good very fine (2) £60-80

353 General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Malaya (21133363 Rfn. Balbir. Gurung. 2 G R), good very fine General Service 1962-2007, one clasp, Malay Peninsula (21147846 Sig. Amritbahadur Limbu.

Gurkha Signals.), nearly very fine (2) £60-80

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April 25, 2013 - LONDON 361 Second World War Medals (10), 1939-1945 Star; Atlantic Star; Air Crew Europe Star, copy; Africa Star, with 1st Army Bar; Pacific Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal; War Medal, generally very fine or better (10) £60-80

354 General Service 1918-62, E.II.R., one clasp (3), Malaya (2) (22774467 Spr. H. Weir. RE.; 23312005 Pte. G. Bradbury. Cheshire.); Cyprus (22296106 Sgt. T.G. Mc.Greal. R. Sigs.), one digit of number officially corrected on last, minor edge bruising, very fine or better (3) £80-100

362 Second World War Medals (10), 1939-1945 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal; War Medal; India Service Medal, generally very fine or better United Nations Medal for Korea, good very fine (11) £60-80

355 General Service 1918-62, E.II.R., one clasp (2), Malaya (2291817 Cpl. G.A. Bowen. R.W.F.); Cyprus (23488471 Fus. B. Thomas. R.W.F.), very fine General Service 1962-2007, one clasp, Northern Ireland (24498312 Fus M A J White RWF), very fine (3) £120-160

363 Second World War Medals (21), 1939-1945 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; Italy Star; Defence Medal (4), one with King’s Commendation for Bravery silver laurel leaves; War Medal (5); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; India Service Medal (14329 Hav. Ganpat Singh, Raj. Rif.); Africa Service Medal (209985 M.A. van der Valt), number officially corrected; Australia Service Medal (2) (NX163315 M.L. Roberts; 424595 W C Sinclair); New Zealand War Service Medal; South African Medal for War Services, generally nearly very fine or better (21) £80-120

356 General Service 1918-62, E.II.R., one clasp (2), Malaya (572706 Sen. Tech. J.A. Styan R.A.F.); Cyprus (4195159 A.C.2 G.A. Burroughs R.A.F.), very fine (2) £50-70 357 General Service 1918-62, E.II.R. (2), one clasp, Near East (22971018 Pte. J. Black. R.S.); two clasps, Near East, Cyprus (23309227 Cpl. R. Portlock.

R.A.P.C.), generally very fine (2) £70-90

364 Second World War Medals (33), 1939-1945 Star (5); Africa Star (3); Italy Star (2); France and Germany Star (3); Defence Medal (8); War Medal (9); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with Maple Leaf clasp; Africa Service Medal (2) (133973 V.J. Conradie; V.159897 D. Potgieter), generally very fine or better (33) £100-150

358 India General Service 1936-39, one clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (521999 A.C.1 S. Gronow.

R.A.F.), good very fine £70-90 359 India General Service 1936-39 (4), one clasp (3), North West Frontier 1936-37 (Driver Amir Chand, Bagai Motor Service), partially officially corrected; North West Frontier 1937-39 (2) (12289 Sep. Sardara Singh, 3-14 Punjab R.; 14913 Sep. Lal Khan, 3-14 Punjab R.); two clasps, North West Frontier 1936-37, North West Frontier 1937-39 (20303 Spr. Umrao Khan, Bengal S. & M.), last with additional retaining rod between clasps, nearly very fine (4) £60-80

365 Air Crew Europe Star, good very fine £140-180 x366 Air Crew Europe Star, good very fine £140-180 x367 Air Crew Europe Star, good very fine £140-180

360 Second World War Medals (10), 1939-1945 Star; Atlantic Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal; War Medal, generally very fine or better (10) £180-220

368 Air Crew Europe Star, good very fine £140-180 369 Air Crew Europe Star (2), both later issues, nearly extremely fine (2) £160-200

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378

376

370 Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (22231564 Tpr. D.J.W. Bell. 5th D.G.), good very fine £160-200

377 Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (19031271 Pte. J. Farnath. K.S.L.I.), very fine £140-180

371 Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (19035215 Fus. T.R. Crispin. R.F.), very fine £120-160

378 Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (22516667 Tpr. J.H.G. Halstead. R. Tks.), nearly extremely fine £140-180

372 Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (22688886 Pte. S.R. Condon. Kings.), very fine £140-180

379 Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (22741999 Pte. D. Higgins. R.S.), number partially officially corrected, good very fine £70-90

373 Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (19172945 Cpl. V. Banham. R. Norfolk.), suspension claw repinned, number partially officially corrected, very fine £60-80

380 Korea 1950-53, 2nd ‘Dei Gratia:’ type (14472758 Cpl. T. Yates. R.N.F.), ‘Y’ of surname double-struck, good very fine £120-160

374 Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (22430524 Pte. F. Smith. R. Leicesters.), good very fine £160-200

381 Korea 1950-53, 2nd ‘Dei Gratia’ type (22634821 Pte. T.H. Chesterton. D.L.I.), good very fine £100-140

375 Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (22541993.

Pte. R.L. Brown. Welch.), officially renamed, very fine £80-120

382 General Service 1962-2007, one clasp, Borneo (2) (21134549 Cpl. Bhimbahagur Gurung. 1/6 GR.; 4202172 Jnr. Tech. J.A. Johnston R.A.F.), number partially officially corrected on last, good very fine (2) £70-90

376 Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (22573289 Pte. J. Lawrence. B.W.), good very fine £140-180

383 General Service 1962-2007, one clasp (3), South Arabia (23784165 Pte. A.P. Davey. KOYLI.); Northern Ireland (2) (25080584 Pte C D Light D & D; 24488519 Pte L Dobbs Green Howards), extremely fine (3) £90-120

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A COLLECTION OF GREAT WAR BRONZE MEMORIAL PLAQUES AND ASSOCIATED MEDALS 384 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Frederick Charles Smithson), good very fine, with card holder £60-80

389 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Victor Maloney), extremely fine £40-50

4071 Corporal Frederick Charles Smithson, born Bermondsey, London; served with the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) during the Great War on the Western Front from 16.8.1914; killed in action on the Western Front during the Second Battle of Ypres, 14.5.1915, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

170858 Bombardier Victor Maloney, served with the 1107th Battery Royal Field Artillery; died whilst serving on the North West Frontier of India, 27.10.1918, and is buried in Quetta Government Cemetery, India (now Pakistan), as well as being commemorated on the Delhi (India Gate) Memorial.

390 Pair: Gunner J.E. Cockerton, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (6876 Gnr. J.E. Cockerton. R.A.), verdigris to VM, otherwise nearly extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (John Everlent Cockerton), card holder, and Buckingham Palace enclosure (2) £60-80

385 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Edward Lacey), very fine, with the recipient’s Memorial Scroll ‘Gunner Edward Lacey Royal Horse Artillery’; card holder, and Buckingham Palace enclosure £70-90 102441 Gunner Edward Lacey, born Frimley, Hampshire; served with ‘U’ Battery Royal Horse Artillery during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 24.7.1916, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

6876 Gunner John Everlent Cockerton, born Moulton, Suffolk; served with the 152nd Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War; died at home, 31.10.1918, and is buried in Kentford (St. Mary) Churchyard, Suffolk.

386 Pair: Driver J. Dorken, Royal Field Artillery British War and Victory Medals (170779 Dvr. J. Dorken. R.A.), good very fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (John Dorken) (2) £60-80

391 Family Group: Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (2) (James Nockles; George Nockles), good very fine (2) £100-140

170779 Driver John Dorken, born Braintree, Essex; served with 35th Brigade Royal Field Artillery during the Great War; died in Italy, 19.10.1918, and is buried in Cremona Town Cemetery, Italy.

15563 Guardsman James Nockles, born Hackney, Middlesex; served with ‘B’ Company, 1st Battalion Scots Guards during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 30.1.1918, and is buried in Fampoux British Cemetery, France.

L/8356 Private George Nockles, born Hackney, Middlesex; served with ‘D’ Company, 2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) during the Great War; killed in action at Gallipoli, on the firt day of the Second Battle of Krithia, 5.6.1915, and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.

387 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Leslie Vivian Hurle Bath), extremely fine £40-50 90189 Fitter Staff Sergeant Leslie Vivian Hurle Bath, born Salisbury, Wiltshire; served with the 83rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 23.8.1917, and is buried in The Huts Cemetery, Belgium.

392 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (James Jackson Graham), good very fine £50-70 13129 Private James Jackson Graham, born Selkirk; served with the 11th Battalion Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 14.7.1916, on which date the Battalion was in action at Longueval- total casualties over three days from the 14th17th July amounted to 321. Graham is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

388 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Cecil Herbert Goodwin), extremely fine, mounted for display in a glazed frame, with the recipient’s identity tag; and a related silver presentation plaque presented to the recipient’s mother £80-100 Second Lieutenant Cecil Herbert Goodwin, of Clifton, Bristol; served with 189th Brigade Royal Field Artillery during the Great War; died of wounds on the Western Front, 13.10.1918, and is buried in Queant Communal Cemetery, France.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 393 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Francis Harry Martin), nearly extremely fine £40-50 G/6833 Private Francis Harry Martin, born Upper Norwood, Surrey; served with the 1st Battalion Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) during the Great War; died of wounds received on the Western Front, 12.10.1917, and is buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France.

394 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Henry Charles Trewin), traces of verdigris, good very fine £50-70 G/12938 Private Henry Charles Trewin, served with the 6th Battalion The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 8.4.1918, and is buried in Contay British Cemetery, France.

395 Three: Private J. Rhodes, Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-15 Star (3848 Pte. J. Rhodes. R. Lanc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (3848 Pte. J. Rhodes.

R. Lanc. R.), good very fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Joseph Rhodes), with card holder and Buckingham Palace enclosure; and the recipient’s Great War Memorial Scroll, inscribed ‘Pte. Joseph Rhodes 2 Bn. K.O.R. Lancaster’, this slightly damaged (3) £120-150 3848 Private Joseph Rhodes, born Salford, Lancashire; served with the 1st Battalion King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) during the Great War on the Western Front from 17.3.1915; killed in action on the Western Front, 27.3.1915, and is buried in Wulvergum Churchyard, Belgium.

396 Pair: Private P.A. Luker, Northumberland Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (5-5794 Pte. P.A. Luker. North’d Fus.), nearly extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Percy Alfred Luker) (2) £70-90 5-5749 Private Percy Alfred Luker, born Marylebone, London; served with the 5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 14.11.1916, and is buried in Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, France.

397 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (George Arthur Armitage), nearly extremely fine, with card holder and original envelope, named to Mrs. A. Armitage, 21 Collierly Bldgs., Brierley, Barnsley £40-50 21476 Private George Arthur Armitage, born Barnsley, Yorkshire; served with the 9th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers during the Great War; died at home of wounds received on the Western Front, 5.9.1916, and is buried in Barnsley Cemetery.

398 Pair: Private H. West, Royal Warwickshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (2994 Pte. H. West.

R.War. R.), good very fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Herbert West) (2) £60-80 2994 Private Herbert West, served with the 2nd/8th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment during the Great War; died of wounds on the Western Front, 26.6.1916, and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

399 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Arthur Henry Floyd), nearly extremely fine £50-70 1644 Private Arthur Henry Floyd, born Birmingham; served with the 16th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 26.4.1918, and is buried in Aval Wood Military Cemetery, France.

400 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Herbert John Lake Colman), extremely fine £40-50 19202 Private Herbert John Lake Colman, born Tunstead, Norfolk; served with the 2nd Battalion Norfolk Regiment during the Great War; died in Mesopotamia, 8.9.1916, and is buried in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.

401 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Ernest Charles Millman), very fine £50-70 3/6526 Private Ernest Charles Millman, born Newton Abbot; served with the 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 16.3.1917, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

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April 25, 2013 - LONDON 402 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Ernest White Francis), extremely fine £60-80

405 Victory Medal (5315 Pte. L.A. Dalton. R. Ir. Regt.), good very fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Lorenzo Antonio Dalton) £70-90

10295 Private Ernest White Francis, born Plymouth, Devon; served with the 8th Battalion Devonshire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front on the First Day of the Battle of Loos, 25.9.1915: ‘The 20th Brigade, the right of the 7th Division, was to attack the part of the front known as the Breslau Trench. Its two leading battalions, the 2nd Gordons and the 8th Devons, issued from their trenches in lines of companies punctually at 06:30 hours. The advance was at first completely enveloped in the gas cloud, and here, too, the smoke-helmets brought more curses than blessings from all ranks. After a few minutes the men, almost suffocated, had to remove them to get breath, many being subsequently incapacitated by the gas fumes. In an effort to dispel the very effective smoke cloud, the German artillery, particularly the batteries in Gun Trench, began bursting shell into it, and the assaulting battalions lost heavily from this fire whilst crosing the five hundred yards of No Man’s Land. In front of the 8th Devons only a few gaps in the wire had been made, so that the leading men were delayed, and the rear lines pressing forward caused great crowding at every passage. As a result, the Germans in Bareslau Trench were able to inflict serious damage on the Devons in a very short space of time, and the majority of their heavy casualties occurred close up to the wire entanglement.

In the 24 hours’ fighting from dawn on the 25th September to dawn on the 26th, the 8th Devons lost all 19 Officers and 600 men out of 750’ (Official History of the War refers).

Francis is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

5315 Private Lorenzo Antonio Dalton, born Carlisle, Cumberland; served with the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front on the first day of the Battle of Messines, 7.6.1917, on which date the Battalion, as part of the 49th Brigade, was involved in the successful capture of the Messines Ridge, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

406 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Edward Charles Wilcox), extremely fine £50-70 26108 Private Edward Charles Wilcox, born Shrewsbury; served with the 11th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 10.8.1917, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

407 Pair: Private A.E. Mayger, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Late Royal West Surrey Regiment British War and Victory Medals (14493 Pte. A.E. Mayger. The Queen’s R.), nearly extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Albert Edward Mayger) (2) £60-80

403 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Samuel Skelcher), good very fine, with card holder and Buckingham Palace enclosure £40-50

14493 Private Albert Edward Mayger, born Dalston, London; served with The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) and the 16th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the Great War; died of wounds on the Western Front, 8.10.1917, and is buried in Estaires Communal Cemetery, France.

14914 Sergeant Samuel Skelcher, born Banbury, Oxfordshire; served with the 6th Battalion Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry) during the Great War; died of wounds on the Western Front, 10.9.1915, and is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France.

404 British War Medal (5050 Pte. G.W. Grasby. W. York. R.), nearly extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (George William Grasby) and Memorial Scroll ‘Pte. George William Grasby W. Yorkshire Regt.’ £70-90 5050 Private George William Grasby, born Leeds; served with the 1st/5th Battalion Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) during the Great War; died of wounds received on the Western Front, 17.10.1918, and is buried in St. Sever Cemetery Extension, France.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 408 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Arthur Hadwell Symonds), minor trace of verdigris, otherwise nearly extremely fine £60-80 30333 Private Arthur Hadwell Symonds, born Merthyr, Glamorgan; served with the 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 21.11.1917, during the Battle of Cambrai, on which date the Battalion was involved in the attack on Marcoing Copse: ‘In the bend of the canal east of Marcoing the 87th Brigade was to attack at 11:00 hours. The assault was to be carried out by the 2nd South Wales Borderers and 1st K.O.S.B. More tank assistance was forthcoming than allotted, and in the end 18 tanks took part. Nine tanks assisted the South Wales Borderers on the right; everywhere the machines were received with terrific machine-gun fire, and it soon became clear that the plate of the Mark IV tank was not proof against the German armour-piercing bullet.

For more than two hours the tanks cruised among the German trenches, but they could not subdue the machinegunners who took refuge in dug-outs and seized their chance to emerge and open fire upon tanks and infantry alike. The infantry had little success in its frontal assault against wire which was mostly intact. The tanks were, in the words of one commander, “badly mauled”. Only three were lost, two by direct hits from enemy field guns, but several had been set on fire and many were holed by armour-piercing bullets’ (Official History of the War refers). The South Wales Borderers suffered heavy casualties that day; Symonds is buried in Marcoing British Cemetery, France.

412 Victory Medal (17946 Pte. J.H. Casserley. Worc.

R.), nearly extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (John Herbert Casserley) £50-70 17946 Private John Herbert Casserley, born Smethwick, Staffordshire; served with the 10th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 19.7.1915; killed in action on the Western Front, 18.11.1915, and is buried in Le Touret Military Cemetery, France.

413 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Harry Ralph Cross), good very fine £50-70 G/15382 Private Harry Ralph Cross, born New Hackleton, Northamptonshire; served with the 12th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 17.10.1916, on which date the Battalion were at the Schwaben Redoubt in the Auchonvillers North sector, Somme- the War Diary records ‘D’ Company on the left coming under attack about 22:00 hours by the enemy coming up Strasbourg Trench and using flamethrowers- ‘Attack beaten off with heavy loss to the enemy’. Cross is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

409 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Herbert Beckett), nearly extremely fine £50-70

414 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (George Denham), good very fine £50-70

18297 Private Herbert Beckett, born Newport, Monmouthshire; served with the 5th Battalion South Wales Borderers during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 16.4.1918, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

19126 Private George Denham, born Ash Vale, Surrey; served with the 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 19.8.1916, and is buried in Authuile Military Cemetery, France.

410 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Albert James Hignell), minor traces of verdigris, therefore good very fine £50-70

415 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Herbert Agustus Bence), good very fine, with card holder and Buckingham Palace enclosure; and a photograph of the recipient’s original grave £50-70

19480 Private Albert James Hignell, born Bristol; served with the 13th (Forest of Dean Pioneers) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 10.1.1917, and is buried in Ferme-Olivier Cemetery, Belgium.

54015 Private Herbert Agustus Bence, born Marden, Wiltshire; served with the 1st/5th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 19.6.1918, and is buried in Brown’s Road Military Cemetery, France.

411 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (David Fryatt), very fine, with the recipient’s Memorial Scroll ‘Pte. David Fryatt Worcestershire Regt.’, this slightly damaged, and photograph of the recipient £80-120 57787 Private David Fryatt, born Southwark, London; served with the 2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 20.5.1918, and is buried in Brandhoek New Military Cemetery, Belgium.

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April 25, 2013 - LONDON 416 Pair: Private T.W. Hards, Essex Regiment British War and Victory Medals (37001 Pte. T.W. Hards. Essex R.), extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Thomas William Hards), with card holder; named card boxes of issue and Record Office enclosures for each of the two medals; and a cutting from the Evening Despatch, dated 4.3.1918, recording the recipient’s death (2) £70-90

420 Three: Private S. Mexter, Middlesex Regiment 1914-15 Star (G-1709. Pte. S. Mexter. Middx. R.); British War and Victory Medals (G-1709 Pte. S. Mexter. Midd’x R.), extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Sydney Mexter); card holder and Buckingham Palace enclosure; named card box of issue; and two Record Office enclosures, for the Star and BWM (3) £100-140

37001 Private Thomas William Hards, born Birmingham; served with the 4th Battalion Essex Regiment during the Great War; killed in action in Palestine, 25.11.1917, and is buried in Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel.

G-1709 Private Sydney Mexter, born Poplar, Middlesex; served with the 1st Battalion Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the Great War on the Western Front from 29.12.1914; died of wounds on the Western Front, 9.3.1915, and is buried in Estaires Communal Cemetery, France.

417 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (William Alfred Pegram), very fine £40-50

421 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Benjamin Woods), traces of verdigris, very fine, with card holder; and Record Office enclosure for the recipient’s British War Medal, named to ‘No. L/13320. Pte. Woods, B., Middlesex Regiment’ £40-50

59727 Private William Alfred Pegram, born Luton, Bedfordshire; served with the 2nd/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) during the Great War; died of wounds on the Western Front, 15.4.1918, and is buried in Westoutre British Cemetery, Belgium.

L/13320 Private Benjamin Woods, born Southwark, Surrey; served with the 2nd Battalion Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the Great War; died of wounds on the Western Front, 21.2.1915, and is buried in Estaires Communal Cemetery, France.

418 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Edward Andrew Rackley), very fine £40-50

422 Pair: Company Quartermaster Sergeant H. Lord 1914-15 Star (A-110 L.Sjt. H. Lord. K.R.Rif:C.); Victory Medal, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (A-110 C.Sjt. H. Lord. K.R.Rif. C.), surname partially officially corrected on VM, nearly extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Harold Lord) (2) £80-100

201419 Private Edward Andrew Rackley, born Cookham, Berkshire; served with the 2nd Battalion Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment) during the Great War; died on the Western Front, 6.9.1917, and is buried in Tournai Communal Cemetery, Belgium.

419 Pair: Private W.J. Keynton, Royal Berkshire Regiment, Late Royal Warwickshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (26547 Pte. W.J. Keynton. R. War. R.), good very fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (William John Keyton), this with two small drill holes at 12 and 6 o’clock (2) £70-90

M.I.D. London Gazette 21.5.1918 Lord, A/110 C.Q.M.S. H. King’s Royal Rifle Corps A-110 Company Quarter Master Sergeant Harold Lord, born Manchester; served with the 12th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 19.5.1915; died at home of pneumonia, 27.10.1918, and is buried in Aston (St Peter and St Paul) Churchyard, Warwickshire.

44579 Private William John Keynton, born Woottonunder-Edge, Gloucestershire; served with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and the 8th Battalion Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment) during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front on the first day of the Battle of Amiens, 8.8.1918, and is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France.

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423 423 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Percy William Cullington), nearly extremely fine, with card holder and Buckingham Palace enclosure £60-80 R/16698 Rifleman Percy William Cullington, born Wood Green, Middlesex; served with the 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 15.9.1916, on which date the Battalion took part in the attack of Flers: ‘The 41st Division attacked with two brigades. In the 124th Brigade, on the right, the 10th Queens’ and 21st K.R.R.C. led. The attack started well, some of the men pressing on so eagerly that they were killed or wounded by the creeping barrage. At first there was little resistance, Tea Support having been so shattered by the bombardment that those of its defenders who remained alive had little heart for fighting. The Switch Line (first objective) was captured by 07:00 hours, and the consolidation of the position was put in hand. At 07:20 hours the advance to the second objective, Flers Trench, began. This was taken half an hour later after some fighting, and parties of the brigade then pushed onto the third objective. Having initially been driven back, at 15:20 hours about 200 men of the 124th Brigade- mostly 10th Queens and 21st K.R.R.C., led by the commanders of these battalions, Lieutenant-Colonels R. Oakley and the Earl of Faversham, made a fresh advance on the third objective. This advance reached the western end of Bulls Road, where Lord Faversham was killed, but attempts to advance against the Gird trenches were driven back by machine-gun fire’ (Official History of the War refers). The 21st K.R.R.C. suffered heavy casualties during the day, including the Battalion’s founder and Commanding Officer, the Earl of Faversham, two other Officers, and 54 men killed, and 10 Officers and 256 men wounded.

Lord Faversham’s body was later recovered and buried by Second Lieutenant R.A. Eden, 21st K.R.R.C., the future Prime Minister. Cullington’s body, if found, was not identified, and he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

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April 25, 2013 - LONDON 424 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Mervyn Howard Tom Green), nearly very fine, with card holder £40-50

428 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Henry Harley), extremely fine £50-70 S/21594 Rifleman Henry Harley, of Camden Town, Middlesex; served with the 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front on the first day of the Great German Spring Offensive, 21.3.1918, on which date 41 men of the Battalion were killed in the defence of the Crozat Canal, Somme sector, and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, France.

204103 Private Mervyn Howard Tom Green, born Purton, Wiltshire; served with the 6th (Wiltshire Yeomanry) Battalion Wiltshire Regiment during the Great War; died at home of wounds received on the Western Front, 16.4.1918, probably sustained during the German Spring Offensive, when at one point the 6th Wiltshires took the whole weight of the enemy offensive at Bapaume, and in a week’s fighting suffered over 500 casualties, and is buried in Purton Churchyard, Wiltshire.

429 Pair: Private A. Blackmore, Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals (170985 Pte. A. Blackmore. M.G.C.), extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Arthur Blackmore), with card holder and Buckingham Palace enclosure; cap badge; Record Office enclosure; Imperial War Graves Commission letters; Memorial Card; and a photograph of the recipient (2) £90-120

425 Pair: Private G.C. Dickens, Manchester Regiment British War and Victory Medals (50941 Pte. G.C. Dickens. Manch. R.), nearly extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (George Charles Dickens), with card holder and Buckingham Palace enclosure; named box of issue for the Medals; and a photograph of the recipient’s grave (2) £70-90

170985 Private Arthur Blackmore, born Curry Mallett, Somerset; served with the 28th Battalion Machine Gun Corps during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 7.11.1918, and is buried in St. Souplet British Cemetery, France.

50941 Private George Charles Dickens, served with the 18th Battalion Manchester Regiment during the Great War; died of wounds on the Western Front, 31.7.1917, and is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.

426 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Sidney Archibald Phillips), extremely fine £50-70 276352 Private Sidney Archibald Phillips, born Illfracombe; served with ‘B’ Company, 1st/8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 25.3.1918, during the Great German Spring Offensive, on which date the Battalion suffered heavy casualties as they were forced back, and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, France.

427 Three: Lance Corporal A. Tolmie, Highland Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (11740 L.Cpl. (A.Cpl.) A. Tolmie.

High: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (11740 Pte. A. Tolmie. High. L.I.), nearly extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Andrew Tolmie) (3) £120-150 11740 Lance Corporal Andrew Tolmie, born Portree, Inverness-shire; served with the 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front from 30.11.1914; killed in action on the Western Front, 18.3.1915, at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle- during the week 11th-18th March the Battalion suffered 8 Officers and 109 men killed, and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, France.

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April 25, 2013 - LONDON 430 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Percy John Turtle), nearly extremely fine £40-50 490711 Lance Sergeant Percy John Turtle, of Fulham, London; served with the 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battalion London Regiment during the Great War; killed in action whilst serving with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 31.10.1917, and is buried in Beersheba War Cemetery, Israel.

431 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (John Alfred Tunley), polished, nearly very fine £50-70 54887 Private John Alfred Tunley, born Radnorshire; served with the Monmouthshire Regiment, and then with the 10th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 11.4.1917, during the Battle of Arras, and is buried in Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery, France.

432 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Frederick Sheryn), good very fine £40-50 114471 Private Frederick Sheryn, born Newport, Monmouthshire; served with the 2nd Hospital Train, Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War; died in Egypt, 24.12.1917, and is buried in Ismailia War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.

433 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (James Thomas Bishop), good very fine, with a photograph of the recipient £40-50 897 Company Sergeant Major James Thomas Bishop, born Hugglescote, Leicestershire; served with the Army Service Corps during the Great War; died at home, 17.2.1916, and is buried in Coalville (Hugglescote) Cemetery, Leicestershire.

Company Sergeant Major J.T. Bishop

434 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Phillip Geoffrey Powis Hill), nearly extremely fine £120-150 Major Phillip Geoffrey Powis Hill, born Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States of America; served during the Boer War as an Assistant Remount Officer during operations in the Cape Colony, November 1900 to June 1901, and in the Orange River Colony, April to May 1902; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Worcestershire Regiment, 4.5.1901; promoted Lieutenant, 5.11.1902; emigrated to Neutral Bay, Sydney, NSW, and served during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War with the 1st Battalion Australian Infantry, A.I.F.; died of wounds received at Gallipoli, 9.6.1915, and is buried in Capuccini Naval Cemetery, Malta.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 435 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (5) (James Alexander; Andrew Cockburn; Henry Day; Edward Drew; Charles Evans), generally very fine or better (5) £100-140 There are numerous men with these names listed on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission roll.

436 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (5) (William Fair; George William Haynes; Edward Leach; Harry Page; Harry Ponting), first worn, last with traces of verdigris; otherwise generally good very fine (5) £100-140 There are 2 men with the name William Fair; 3 men with the name George William Haynes; 2 men with the name Harry Ponting; and numerous men with the names Edward Leach and Harry Page listed on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission roll.

437 Memorial Scroll (6) ‘Gunner George Harold Saunders Royal Field Artillery’; ‘Pioneer James Whelan Royal Engineers’; ‘Pte. Thomas Grint Bedfordshire Regt.’; ‘Pte. Charles Edgar Cox Welsch Regt.’; ‘L/Cpl. Sydney Wildsmith Notts. & Derby Regt.’; ‘Serjt. Leonard Morris Shropshire L.I.’, generally very fine, third mounted in a glazed frame (6) £80-120 20722 Gunner George Harold Saunders, served with ‘X’/33rd T.M. Battery, Royal Field Artillery during the Great War; died of wounds on the Western Front, 23.7.1916, and is buried in Heilly Station Cemetery, France.

118509 Pioneer James Whelan, born Greenore, Co. Louth; served with the 7th Labour Battalion Royal Engineers during the Great War; died on the Western Front, 26.12.1915, and is buried in Villers-Bocage Communal Cemetery, France.

the Great War; died of wounds on the Western Front, 30.4.1918, and is buried in Guise (La Desolation) French National Cemetery, France.

48058 Private Charles Edgar Cox, born Abergavenny, Monmouthshire; served with the 18th Battalion Welsh Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 24.11.1917, during the Battle of Cambrai, and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, France.

24433 Lance Corporal Sydney Wildsmith, born Nottingham; served with the 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 25.8.1917, and is buried in Unicorn Cemetery, France.

6342 Sergeant Leonard Morris, born Llandinabo, Herefordshire; served with ‘B’ Company, 5th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 8.4.1917, and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

438 Family Group: Pair: Lance Corporal H. Horner, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (28868 Pte. H. Horner. Yorks. L.I.), toned, good very fine, together with the recipient’s Memorial Scroll ‘L/Cpl. Henry Horner Yorkshire L.I.’, in card tube of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. J. Horner, Kirby Hill, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire’.

Memorial Scroll ‘Pte. Thomas Horner Machine Gun Corps’, nearly extremely fine (2) £70-90 28868 Lance Corporal Henry Horner, born Milby, Yorkshire; served with the 9th Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 27.5.1918, and is commemorated on the Soissons Memorial, France.

180211 Private Thomas Horner, served with the Second Training Brigade, Machine Gun Corps; died at home, 20.11.1918, and is buried in Kirby-on-the-Moor Churchyard, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire.

17979 Private Thomas Grint, born Finchley, Middlesex; served with the 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment during

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439 x439 Austria, Empire, Order of the Iron Crown, A FineQuality Grand Cross Star, by Rothe, Vienna, 90mm, silver, gold, and enamel, silver marks and maker’s marks on reverse and on pin, nearly extremely fine £1,000-1,400 x440 Austria, Empire, Order of the Iron Crown, Commander’s neck Badge, 69mm including crown suspension x 33mm, silver-gilt, gilt, and enamel, with iron insert in crown and War Decoration wreath, nearly very fine £200-300 x441 Austria, Empire, Order of the Iron Crown, Commander’s breast Badge, by Rothe, Vienna, 57mm including crown suspension x 30mm, gilt and enamel, with iron insert in crown and War Decoration wreath, maker’s mark on suspension ring, nearly extremely fine, with crossed swords on riband £100-140 x442 Austria, Empire, Order of Franz Joseph, Civil Division, Knight’s breast Badge, 58mm including crown suspension x 32mm, gilt and enamel, good very fine £60-100

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA x443 Austria, Empire, Bravery Medal ‘Der Tapferkeit’, Gold Medal, by Leisek, Franz Joseph facing right, light contact marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine Austria, Empire, Bravery Medal ‘Der Tapferkeit’, large Silver Medal, Franz Joseph facing left (2), one slightly worn, the other good very fine (3) £400-500

444 Austria, Empire, Military Merit Medal ‘Signum Laudis’, C.R.I., silver, very fine Austria, Empire, Franz Joseph Golden Jubilee Medal 1898, bronze, good very fine Czechoslovakia, Republic, Commemorative Medal for the Czech Armies Abroad 1939-45, bronze with silver lion, nearly extremely fine Greece, Kingdom, Star for the Second World War, Land Operations type, bronze, good very fine Greece, Kingdom, Medal for the Second World War, Land Operations type, bronze, good very fine Italy, Kingdom, War Cross, V.E.III.R. (2), bronze, good very fine Italy, Kingdom, War Medal 1915-18, bronze, good very fine Italy, Kingdom, Medal for Volunteers in the Great War 1915-18, bronze, good very fine Italy, Kingdom, Allied Victory Medal, bronze, very fine Italy, Kingdom, Ethiopian Campaign Medal (2), bronze, good very fine, one with bronze sword emblem on riband Poland, Republic, Cross of Valour, obverse dated 1920, bronze, good very fine Poland, Republic, Cross of Merit, Second Class, silver and enamel, ‘PRL’ in central medallion, very fine Poland, Republic, Monte Cassino Cross, reverse officially numbered ‘31187’ bronze, good very fine Spain, Kingdom, Order of Military Merit, Knight’s (Combatant) breast Badge, 52mm including crown suspension x 40mm, gilt and red enamel, undated, nearly very fine Spain, Kingdom, Order of Military Merit, Knight’s (non-Combatant) breast Badge, 52mm including crown suspension x 40mm, gilt and white enamel, undated, very fine Spain, Medal for Victory in the Civil War, gilt and blackened bronze, good very fine, with top gilt riband bar (18) £140-180

445 Austria, Empire, Field Pilot’s Badge 1913, Franz Joseph, 63 x 62mm, bronze-gilt and enamel, by J. Zimbler, Vienna, reverse fitted with twin clips, nearly extremely fine, rare £600-800 PROVENANCE:

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446 Belgium, Kingdom, Order of Leopold, Military Division, Commander’s neck Badge, 102mm including crown and crossed swords suspension x 59mm, silver, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, French motto in centre, very minor damage to two tips of cross, otherwise good very fine, with neck riband, in Wolfers, Brussels, case of issue £200-250

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April 25, 2013 - LONDON 449 Belgium, Kingdom, Order of Leopold, Civil Division, Knight’s breast Badge, 66mm including crown suspension x 39mm, silver and enamel, bi-lingual motto, minor enamel flaking, therefore nearly very fine, in Fisch, Brussels, case of issue Belgium, Kingdom, Order of Leopold II, Officer’s breast Badge, 66mm including crown suspension x 41mm, silver-gilt and enamel, very fine, with rosette on riband, in Walravens, Brussels, case of issue Belgium, Kingdom, Civic Medal, First Class, gilt, good very fine Italy, Republic, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Knight’s breast Badge, 60mm including tower suspension x 43mm, gilt and enamel, verdigris to central stars, otherwise very fine (4) £80-100

447 Belgium, Kingdom, Order of Leopold, Civil Division, Commander’s neck Badge, 88mm including crown suspension x 56mm, silver-gilt and enamel, French motto, nearly extremely fine, with neck riband £150-180

448 Belgium, Kingdom, Order of Leopold, Civil Division, Knight’s breast Badge, 63mm including crown suspension x 40mm, silver and enamel, French motto, very fine Belgium, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Palmes of the Order, gilt, extremely fine Belgium, Kingdom, Order of Leopold II, Knight’s breast Badge, 60mm including crown suspension x 38mm, silver and enamel, French motto, crossed swords on riband, nearly very fine Belgium, Kingdom, Order of Leopold II, Merit Medal, Third Class, bronze, bi-lingual motto, good very fine Belgium, Kingdom, Military Decoration, First Class, A.I.R., gilt, with gilt chevron on riband, nearly extremely fine Belgium, Kingdom, Military Decoration, Second Class, A.I.R., gilt, nearly extremely fine Belgium, Kingdom, Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, nearly very fine, with bronze palm on riband Belgium, Kingdom, Yser Medal, bronze and enamel, very fine Belgium, Kingdom, Queen Elisabeth Medal, bronze, nearly very fine Belgium, Kingdom, War Medal 1914-18, bronze, nearly very fine Belgium, Kingdom, War Medal 1940-45, bronze, nearly extremely fine Belgium, Kingdom, Political Prisoners’ Cross 194045, silver and enamel, with two Bars on riband, one 5 and 1 stars respectively, nearly extremely fine Belgium, Kingdom, Medal for the Resistance Army 1940-45, bronze, very fine Belgium, Kingdom, Medal for Volunteers 1940-45 (2), bronze, nearly extremely fine Belgium, Kingdom, Colonial War Medal 1940-45, bronze, nearly extremely fine Belgium, Kingdom, Medal for Prisoners of War 194045, bronze, nearly extremely fine Belgium, Kingdom, Medal of the Military Fighter 1940-45, bronze, nearly extremely fine Belgium, Kingdom, Africa Service Medal, one bar, Madagascar, bronze, very fine Belgium, Kingdom, Commemorative Medal for the Centenary of Belgian Independence 1930, silvered, nearly extremely fine Belgium, Kingdom, Commemorative Medal for the Reign of Albert I 1909-34, bronze, nearly extremely fine Belgium, Kingdom, Civic Decoration for Industry and Agriculture (3), First Class; Second Class (2), silver, gilt, and enamel, nearly very fine (24) £120-140

450 Belgium, Kingdom, Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, very fine Belgium, Kingdom, Yser Medal (2), bronze and enamel, good very fine Belgium, Kingdom, War Medal 1914-18 (2), bronze, good very fine Belgium, Kingdom, Allied Victory Medal (2), bronze, very fine Belgium, Kingdom, War Medal 1940-45, bronze, extremely fine Belgium, Kingdom, Decoration for Industry and Agriculture (2), First Class, silver, gilt, and enamel; Second Class, silver and enamel, good very fine, both in embossed cases of issue (10) £40-60

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451 The Chinese Order of the Brilliant Jade Attributed to Commander R.N. Stopford, Royal Navy China, Republic, Order of the Brilliant Jade, Commander’s neck Badge, 62mm, silver-gilt and enamel, with blue jade at centre, Chinese inscribed cartouche on reverse, the reverse officially numbered ‘140’, nearly extremely fine, scarce, in rio-nuri lacquer case of issue £2,000-3,000 Chinese Order of the Brilliant Jade, with White Riband bordered Red and Blue London Gazette 14.2.1939 Commander Robert Neville Stopford, R.N. (retd.)

‘In recognition of valuable services rendered by him in connection with the training of Chinese Naval Cadets.’

Commander Robert Neville Stopford, born 4.7.1888; joined the Royal Navy as a Cadet, 15.9.1903; appointed to H.M.S. Formidable, 15.1.1905 and promoted Midshipman, 28.2.1905; advanced Lieutenant, 1.10.1910, and appointed to H.M.S. Vulcan ‘for Submarines’ 21.2.1911; served with the Royal Navy in submarines during the Great War; transferred to ‘Submarine H6 in Command’, 6.5.1915. Submarine H6 was on patrol off the Dutch coast, 18.1.1916, when it ran aground on the Island of Scheirmonikoog.

Attempts to pull the submarine off were not successful and it was decided to take off the crew. This was only partly achieved, the weather then deteriorated and, in all, only two Officers and ten ratings were rescued. Lieutenant Stopford and the remainder of the crew remained on board but were later taken off by the Dutch Navy and were interned in Holland for the remainder of the War. Promoted Lieutenant Commander, 1.10.1918; transferred to the Retired List with the rank of Commander, 1.10.1929; died 3.11.1949.

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April 25, 2013 - LONDON x452 France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, Officer’s breast Badge, 61mm including crown suspension x 42mm, gold and enamel, minor enamel damage to one point of arm, and tiny traces of restoration, otherwise extremely fine £300-350

453 France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast Badge, 55mm including wreath suspension x 41mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, good very fine France, Republic, National Order of Merit, Chevalier’s breast Badge, 56mm including wreath suspension x 38mm, silver and enamel, extremely fine, in case of issue France, Republic, Order of the Academic Palmes, Chevalier’s breast Badge, 40mm x 30mm, silver and enamel, enamel damage, therefore nearly very fine France, Republic, Order of Social Merit, Chevalier’s breast Badge, 40mm, silver and enamel, minor enamel damage, good very fine France, Republic, Medaille Militaire (3), silvergilt and enamel, enamel damage in parts, otherwise very fine France, Republic, Croix de Guerre (4), reverse dated ‘1914-1918’; reverse dated ‘1939’ (2); for Overseas Theatres of Operation, bronze, good fine or better France, Republic, Cross for Military Valour (2), bronze, nearly very fine, one with two silver and one bronze stars on riband France, Republic, Combatant’s Cross, bronze, nearly very fine (14) £140-180

454 France, Republic, Order of Agricultural Merit, Chevalier’s breast Badge, 42mm, silver, gold applique, and enamel, slight enamel damage to points of star, therefore nearly very fine France, Republic, Croix de Guerre, dated 1914-1917, nearly very fine, with bronze star emblem on riband France, Republic, Combatant’s Cross (2), bronze, very fine France, Republic, War Medal 1914-18 (2), bronze, good very fine France, Republic, Allied Victory Medal, bronze, nearly extremely fine (7) £50-70

455 France, Second Empire, St. Helena Medal (2), bronze, nearly very fine and good very fine France, Republic, Franco-Prussian War Medal 1870-71 (4), bronze, good very fine France, Republic, Cross for Military Volunteers (2), bronze, good very fine

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France, Republic, Commemorative Medal for the Great War 1914-18 (2), bronze, good very fine France, Republic, Allied Victory Medal, bronze, good very fine France, Republic, Evaders Medal, bronze, good very fine France, Republic, Levant Medal, bronze, good very fine France, Republic, Colonial Medal, one bar, Afrique Occidentale Francaise, silver, good very fine France, Republic, Free French Forces Medal 1940-45, silver, good very fine France, Republic War Medal 1939-45 (2), one bar, Afrique; two bars, Grande-Bretagne, Manche, bronze, nearly very fine or better France, Republic, Medal for those Deported or Interned for Acts of Resistance, bronze, good very fine France, Republic, Indo-China Campaign Medal 1945, bronze, very fine France, Republic, Korea Medal 1950-53, bronze, extremely fine France, Republic, Medal for North Africa, one bar, Algerie, bronze, good very fine France, Republic, Ministry of Public Works Medal of Honour, reverse inscribed ‘Orcel Joseph 1932’, silver, good very fine France, Republic, Ministry of Employment and Social Security Medal of Honour, reverse inscribed ‘J. Taffin 1950’, silver, good very fine (23) £80-100 129

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456 France, Second Empire, Campaign in Mexico Medal 1862-63, by Barre, Paris, silver, nearly very fine, with original embroided riband £120-150 x457 Germany, Bavaria, Order of Military Merit, Knight’s breast Badge, by Leser, Munich, 45mm including crossed swords x 40mm, silver and enamel, maker’s mark and silver mark on sword, nearly extremely fine £100-140 x458 Germany, Bavaria, Golden Military Valour Medal, Max Joseph IV, gold, minor die crease, good very fine, scarce £1,200-1,600 459 Germany, Bavaria, Military Service Cross, Third Class with Swords (2), bronze, very fine, one in J. Leser, Straubing, case of issue Germany, Bavaria, Military Service Cross, Third Class without Swords, bronze, very fine, in L.C. Lauer, Nurnberg, case of issue, this slightly damaged (3) £80-100 x460 Germany, Frankfurt am Main, Campaign Medal 1813-14, silver, nearly extremely fine £100-150

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463 Germany, Hesse, Ernst Ludwig Medal for Faithful Service, silver, very fine Germany, Hesse, Ernst Ludwig Medal for War Service, silver, nearly extremely fine Germany, Hesse, Militar-Sanitats Cross 1914-18, bronze, very fine Germany, Schaumburg-Lippe, Faithful Service Cross, bronze-gilt, very fine (4) £60-80

461 Germany, Hanseatic States, A Complete Set of the Three Hanseatic Crosses, 40mm, silver and enamel, with key central medallion for Bremen; tower central medallion for Hamburg; and double eagle central medallion for Lübeck, generally good very fine (3) £120-160 The Hanseatic Cross was a decoration of the three Hanseatic Cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, who were member states of the German Empire during World War I. Each citystate established its own version of the cross, but the design and award criteria were similar for each. It was jointly instituted by agreement of the senates of the three cities, with each senate ratifying the award on different days. The Lübeck version was established first, on 21.8.1915; the Hamburg version on 10.9.1915; and the Bremen version on 14.9.1915. The cross was awarded for merit in war, and could be awarded to civilians as well as military personnel.

When awarded for bravery or combat merit, it was the three cities’ equivalent of the Prussian Iron Cross.

464 Germany, Lippe, Cross for Distinction in the War 1914-18, gilt bronze, good very fine Germany, Saxony, Carl Edward Silver Medal for Good Service, silver, very fine Germany, Schaumburg-Lippe, Cross for Loyal Service 1914-18, gilt, good very fine Germany, Wurttemberg, William II Medal for Faithful Service, silvered, very fine (4) £80-120

The Bremen version was awarded approximately 20,000 times; the Hamburg, the largest of the Hanseatic cities, awarded its version approximately 50,000 times; and Lübeck, the smallest of the Hanseatic cities, awarded its version approximately 10,000 times.

x465 Germany, Lippe, War Honour Cross 1914, pin-back version, silver-gilt, good very fine £80-120

462 Germany, Hanseatic States, A Complete Set of the Three Hanseatic Crosses, 40mm, silver and enamel, with key central medallion for Bremen; tower central medallion for Hamburg; and double eagle central medallion for Lübeck, minor enamel damage to second, generally good very fine (3) £120-160

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA x466 Germany, Oldenburg, House and Merit Order of Peter Frederick Louis, Civil Division, Grand Cross sash Badge, 90mm including crown suspension x 56mm, gold and enamel, about extremely fine £2,400-2,800 467 A Great War German Group of Seven: Germany, Oldenburg, Friedrich August Cross, Second Class, bronze, with non-combatant riband; Austria, Empire, Military Merit Medal, C.R.I., with crowns, silvered; Germany, Weimar Republic, Silesian Eagle, Second Class, bronze; Germany, Imperial, 1914-18 Honour Cross, Combatants’ type with Swords, bronze; Germany, Prussia, Fifteen Years’ Service Cross, bronze; Austria, Republic, War Commemorative Medal 1914-18; Hungary, Republic, World War I Commemorative Medal, Combatants’ type, silvered, very fine, mounted as originally worn (7) £70-90 468 An Imperial German 1870 Iron Cross Group of Five: Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1870, Second Class breast Badge, with 1914 First Class Bar and Jubilee 25 Year Oakleaves, silver and iron centre; Germany, Prussia, Officer’s Twenty-Five Years’ Service Cross, bronze-gilt; Germany, Prussia, Faithful Service Medal, silver; Germany, Prussia, Fifteen Years’ Service Cross, bronze; Germany, Prussia, Centenary Medal 1897, gilt, good very fine, mounted as originally worn (5) £500-600

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469 469 A Prussian Great War Gallantry Group of Four to Muskatier G. Kuster, 12 Kompagnie InfanterieRegiments von Boyen Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, First Class breast Badge, convex type, silver and iron centre, with silver retaining pin marked ‘1’; Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast Badge, silver and iron centre; Germany, Imperial, Wound Badge, Third Grade, blackened metal; Germany, Imperial, 1914-18 Honour Cross, Combatants’ type with Swords, bronze, very fine or better, with a stick pin with the four miniature awards mounted together, and the following related documentation: - Bestowal Document for the Iron Cross First Class, named to ‘Muskatier Georg Kuster, 12 Kompagnie Infanterie-Regiments von Boyen’, and dated 27.1.1918 - Bestowal Document for the Iron Cross Second Class, similarly named, and dated 1.5.1917

- Bestowal Document for the Wound Badge, similarly named, and dated 5.7.1918 -The recipient’s Military Pass Book, with notes of operations from 1915-18 &c. (4) £250-300 470 A Prussian Great War Gallantry Group of Three to Unteroffizier J. Nirolaub, 29th Pioneer Regiment Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, First Class breast Badge, silver and iron centre, with silver retaining pin with maker’s mark ‘K.A.G.’; Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast Badge, silver and iron centre; Germany, Imperial, Wound Badge, Third Grade, blackened metal, very fine or better, with the recipient’s Military Pass Book, giving the date of the award of his Iron Cross Second Class as 12.4.1915; and the date of the award of his Iron Cross First Class as 12.12.1916 (3) £200-240

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 471 Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, First Class breast Badge (2), silver and iron centre, blackened centre worn in parts, therefore nearly very fine, one in slightly damaged case of issue (2) £120-140

472 A Great War ‘1918’ Iron Cross German Group of Three to Gunner L. Preller, Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast Badge, silver and iron centre; Germany, Bavaria, Military Service Cross, Third Class with Swords, zinc; Germany, Imperial, 1914-18 Honour Cross, Combatants’ type with Swords, bronze, very fine or better, mounted as originally worn, with the recipient’s riband bar, and the following related documents: - Bestowal Document for the Iron Cross Second Class, named to ‘Launfurd Preller, 6 Bayer FeldartillerieRegiments’ and dated 7.6.1918, together with a related named document £120-160

473 A German Great War Pair: Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast Badge, silver and iron centre; Germany, Bavaria, Military Service Cross, Third Class with Swords, bronze, good very fine, mounted as originally worn A German Great War Pair: Germany, Bavaria, Military Service Cross, Third Class with Swords, bronze; Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast Badge, silver and iron centre, good very fine, mounted as originally worn (4) £80-100

475 A Prussian Great War ‘1916’ Iron Cross for Gallantry to A.G.A. Mallow Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class, silver and iron centre, very fine, with the recipient’s Military Pass Book, giving the date of the award of his Iron Cross as 22.3.1916 £80-100

476 Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast Badge (3), silver and iron centre, all with different maker’s marks on rings, nearly very fine or better (3) £70-90

477 Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast Badge (3), silver and iron centre, all with different maker’s marks on rings, nearly very fine or better (3) £70-90

478 Germany, Prussia, Alsen Cross 1864, bronze, nearly very fine Germany, Prussia, Treuen Cross 1866, bronze, nearly very fine Germany, Prussia, Koniggratz Cross 1866, bronze, good very fine Germany, Prussia, Civil Honour Medal, F.W.III.R., silver, nearly extremely fine, in case of issue Germany, Saxony, Frederick August Medal 1905-18 (2), silver; bronze, extremely fine Germany, Imperial, 1914-18 Honour Cross, Combatants’ type with Swords, bronze, extremely fine, together with three Great War Veterans Awards and two related badges (12) £80-100

474 A German Great War Group of Three to W. Helving, 19th Reserve Infantry Regiment Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class, silver and iron centre; Germany, Saxony, Medal for Faithful Service, bronze, with crossed swords on riband mount; Germany, Imperial, 1914-18 Honour Cross, Combatants’ type with Swords, bronze, very fine, with the following related documents: - Bestowal Document for the Iron Cross Second Class, named to ‘Wilhelm Helving, Reserve InfanterieRegiment Nr.19’ and dated 24.12.1917 - The recipient’s Military Pass Book, with printed list of actions (3) £120-140

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480 481 Six Great War German Wound Badges Germany, Imperial, Wound Badge (6), ‘openworked’ type (3), First Class, gilt; Second Class, silvered; Third Class, blackened metal; ‘closedfield’ type (3), First Class, gilt; Second Class, silvered; Third Class, blackened metal, all hollow-struck, generally very fine, mounted for display purposes in modern case (6) £80-120 479 x479 Germany, Saxony, Saxe-Ernestine House Order, 2nd type, Military Division, Commander’s neck Badge, 90mm including crown suspension x 59mm, silver-gilt and enamel, minor enamel damage to wreath and crown on reverse, otherwise good very fine, with neck riband £500-700

x480 Germany, Saxony, Order of Albert, 2nd type, Military Division, Knight’s breast Badge, 43mm x 38mm, silver-gilt and enamel, maker’s mark ‘5’ on lower arm of cross, good very fine £300-400 135

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x482 Japan, Empire, Order of the Rising Sun, First Class set of Insignia, sash Badge, 109mm including paulownia flowers x 76mm, silver-gilt, enamel, and red cabochon in centre; Star, 90mm, silver, silver-gilt, and red cabochon in centre, extremely fine, with full sash riband, in rio-nuri lacquer case of issue (2) £1,800-2,200

United Arab Emirates, Medal for the Liberation of Kuwait, gilt, extremely fine Vietnam, Republic, Gallantry Cross (2), bronze, nearly very fine or better, both with bronze palm on riband Vietnam, Republic, South Vietnam Campaign Medal, gilt and enamel, very fine (9) £50-70

x483 Japan, Empire, Order of the Rising Sun, Third Class neck Badge, 82mm including paulownia flowers x 54mm, silver-gilt and enamel, with red cabochon in centre, dent to point of one ray of sun, otherwise extremely fine, with adjustable neck riband £200-250

485 Malta, Order of Malta, Knight of Justice’s neck Badge, 88mm including crown suspension x 48mm, silver-gilt and enamel, no trophy of arms suspension, lacking ring suspension, good very fine, with related sash riband £80-120

484 Kuwait, Emirate, Liberation Medal 1991, Fourth Class, bronze and enamel, extremely fine Oman, Sultanate, General Service Medal, with Bar, gilt, extremely fine Oman, Sultanate, Peace Medal, bronze, good very fine Saudi Arabia, Kingdom, Medal for the Liberation of Kuwait 1991 (2), gilt and silvered, extremely fine

x486 Montenegro, Kingdom, Order of Danilo, 2nd type, Commander’s neck Badge, 79mm including crown suspension x 54mm, silver-gilt and enamel, crown suspension loose, minor enamel damage to two reverse arms, good very fine, with neck riband £500-600 137

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488 487 Nepal, Kingdom, Order of the Gurkha Right Hand, Commander’s neck Badge, 61mm, silver-gilt, silver marks on reverse, nearly extremely fine, scarce, with neck riband, in case of issue, together with the following related documents: - Bestowal Document for the Commander of the Order of the Gurkha Right Hand, named (in Nepalese) to Lieutenant-Colonel Blair Stewart-Wilson, and dated 18.11.1980 - Buckingham Palace enclosure for the award, dated 17.11.1980 - Buckingham Palace Restricted Permission to wear letter, named to Lieutenant-Colonel Blair Stewart-Wilson, dated 4.6.1981, and signed ‘Philip Moore’ £240-280 Awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Blair Stewart-Wilson, Deputy Master of the Household, during the State Visit to the United Kingdom of H.M. King Birendra of Nepal, 18-21.11.1980.

488 Norway, Kingdom, Order of St. Olav, Grand Officer’s set of Insignia, by Tostrop, Oslo, neck Badge, 86mm including crown suspension x 63mm, silver-gilt and enamel, maker’s mark and silver mark on suspension ring; Star, 75mm, silver, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, maker’s cartouche on reverse, nearly extremely fine, with neck riband, in case of issue (2) £1,000-1,200 WWW.SPINK.COM

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x489 Russia, Imperial, Order of St. Anne, Second Class neck Badge, by Keibel, St. Petersburg, 43mm, gold (56 zolotniki) and enamel, marker’s mark and court stamp on reverse, 1865-96 assay office mark and gold mark on suspension ring, nearly extremely fine £700-900

x490 Russia, Imperial, Order of St. Stanislas, Second Class neck Badge, by Keibel, St. Petersburg, 46mm, gold (56 zolotniki) and enamel, maker’s mark and court stamp on reverse, 1865-96 assay office mark and gold mark on suspension ring, extremely fine £800-1,200

491 Russia, Imperial, Order of St. Stanislas, Second Class neck Badge, by Keibel, St. Petersburg, 47mm, gold (56 zolotniki) and enamel, marker’s mark and court stamp on reverse, 1865-96 assay office mark and gold mark on suspension ring, nearly extremely fine £800-1,200

x492 Russia, Imperial, Order of St. Stanislas, Third Class breast Badge, by Keibel, St. Petersburg, 39mm, gold (56 zolotniki) and enamel, marker’s mark and court stamp on reverse, 1865-96 assay office mark and gold mark on suspension ring, extremely fine £600-800

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 493 Russia, Soviet Union, Order of the Red Banner, 4th type breast Badge, with riband suspension, ‘CCCP’ obverse, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘387376’, good very fine Russia, Soviet Union, Jubilee Medal for the 100th Anniversary of Lenin’s Birth 1870-1970, for Valorous Labour (2), gilt, nearly extremely fine Russia, Soviet Union, Medal for the Defence of Leningrad, gilt, nearly very fine Russia, Soviet Union, Medal for the Defence of Stalingrad, gilt, nearly very fine Russia, Soviet Union, Medal for the Defence of Moscow, gilt, nearly very fine Russia, Soviet Union, Medal for the Defence of the Caucasus, gilt, nearly very fine Russia, Soviet Union, Medal for Victory over Germany (2), gilt, nearly very fine Russia, Soviet Union, Medal for Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45 (2), bronze, very fine Russia, Soviet Union, Commemorative Medal for the 30th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Combatant’s type, gilt, nearly very fine Russia, Soviet Union, Commemorative Medal for the 40th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (2), Combatant’s type; Labour Front type, gilt, nearly very fine Russia, Soviet Union, Medal for a Labour Veteran (3), silvered, good very fine Russia, Soviet Union, Commemorative Medal for the 30th Anniversary of the Soviet Army and Navy, gilt, very fine Russia, Soviet Union, Commemorative Medal for the 60th Anniversary of Soviet Army and Navy, gilt, very fine (19) £100-140

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494 Serbia, Kingdom, Order of St. Sava, 3rd type, Knight’s breast Badge, 67mm including crown suspension x 42mm, silver-gilt and enamel, Bishop with green robes, very fine, in Huguenin Freres, Le Locle, case of issue £80-120

x496 Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Medjidieh, Third Class neck Badge, 78mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 61mm, silver, gold applique, and enamel, suspension re-affixed by means of a gold loop, good very fine £200-300

495 Spain, Kingdom, Order of the War Cross, Grand Officer’s Star, 64mm, silver, gilt, and enamel, good very fine Spain, Kingdom, Order of Military Merit, Knight’s (Combatant) breast Badge (2), 50mm including crown suspension x 40mm, gilt and red enamel, undated, nearly very fine, both with top gilt riband bar Spain, Kingdom, Order of Military Merit, Knight’s (non-Combatant) breast Badge, 50mm including crown suspension x 40mm, gilt and white enamel, undated, very fine (4) £120-140

497 Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Medjidieh, Fourth Class breast Badge, 73mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 58mm, silver, gold applique, and enamel, with mint mark and silver marks on reverse, very minor enamel damage, good very fine £200-250 498 Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Gallipoli Star 1915, silver and enamel, reverse stamped ‘B.B.& Co.’, good very fine £70-90

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499 Vatican, Holy See, Order of St. Gregory, Grand Officer’s set of Insignia, Attributed to R.A.F. Declerck, Governor of the Province of Antwerp, neck Badge, 85mm including wreath suspension x 58mm, gilt and enamel; Star, 81mm, silver, gilt, and enamel, lacking reverse cartouche, therefore very fine, with neck riband, in Tanfani and Bertarelli, Rome, case of issue, with the following related documents: - Bestowal Document for the Order of St. Gregory, named to R. Declerck, and dated 31.9.1963 [sic] - Copy of the Statues of the Order (2) £200-300 Richard August François Declerck (1899-1986) served as Governor of the Province of Antwerp, 7.1.1946 to 31.12.1966.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 500 United States of America, Army Distinguished Service Cross, bronze, nearly extremely fine United States of America, Navy Distinguished Service Cross, bronze, good very fine United States of America, Air Force Distinguished Service Cross, bronze and enamel, good very fine United States of America, Army Distinguished Service Medal, gilt and enamel, nearly extremely fine United States of America, Navy Distinguished Service Medal, gilt and enamel, extremely fine United States of America, Defense Distinguished Service Medal, gilt and enamel, extremely fine United States of America, Silver Star, gilt and silver, extremely fine United States of America, Legion of Merit, Officer’s breast Badge, gilt and enamel, with gilt star emblem on riband, nearly extremely fine United States of America, Distinguished Flying Cross, bronze, nearly extremely fine United States of America, Army Soldiers Medal, bronze, nearly extremely fine United States of America, Coast Guard Medal, gilt, nearly extremely fine United States of America, Bronze Star, bronze, nearly extremely fine United States of America, Meritorious Service Medal, bronze, nearly extremely fine United States of America, Air Medal, bronze, nearly extremely fine United States of America, Joint Service Commendation Medal, bronze and enamel, nearly extremely fine United States of America, Army Commendation Medal, bronze, nearly extremely fine United States of America, Navy Commendation Medal, bronze, nearly extremely fine United States of America, Air Force Commendation Medal, bronze, good very fine United States of America, Navy Achievement Medal, bronze, nearly extremely fine United States of America, Army Achievement Medal, bronze, nearly extremely fine United States of America, Purple Heart, gilt and enamel, nearly extremely fine United States of America, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, bronze, nearly extremely fine United States of America, Army Good Conduct Medal (2), bronze, nearly very fine or better United States of America, Army National Guard Achievement Medal, bronze, very fine, together with approximately 45 miscellaneous American Campaign and Long Service Medals, and six related cases of issue (lot) £300-400

501 United Nations Medal (27), UN Operations in the Congo (ONUC), 1st type, with Congo Bar; UN Operations in the Congo (ONUC), 2nd type; UN Security Force in West New Guinea (UNSF) (2); UN Yemen Observation Mission (UNYOM); UN Peace Keeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP); UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) (2); UN Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan (UNGOMAP) (2), one with UNGOMAP Bar; UN Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group (UNIIMOG); UN Angola Verification Mission (UNAVEM); UN Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) (2); UN Observer Group in Central America (ONUCA) (2); UN Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission (UNIKOM) (2); UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG); UN Observer Mission in Liberia (UNOMIL); UN Mission of Observers in Tajikistan (UNMOT); UN Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia (UNCRO); UN Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP) (2); UN Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia (UNTAES); UN Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) (2), generally very fine or better Multinational Force and Observers Medal (2), very fine Miniature Award: United Nations Medal for Korea, nearly extremely fine, mounted in a glazed display frame (30) £100-140

502 NATO Medal, one Bar (9), Former Yugoslavia (2); Kosovo (2); Article 5 (2); Non Article 5; ISAF; NTMIraq, good very fine or better NATO Meritorious Service Medal, extremely fine European Community Monitoring Mission Medal, extremely fine, in case of issue, with the related miniature award; riband bar with emblem; and lapel emblem (11) £70-90

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CORONATION, JUBILEE, MERITORIOUS, LONG SERVICE AND EFFICIENCY DECORATIONS AND MEDALS 503 Imperial Service Medal (6), E.VII.R., ‘Star’ type, unnamed as issued; G.V.R., 2nd ‘Coronation robes’ type (2) (Herbert Howard.; William Edward Wells.); G.VI.R. (2) (George Henry Wigley Marriott.; David John Townsend); E.II.R. (George Harold Bishop), nearly extremely fine, the first, third, fourth, and sixth in cases of issue (6) £70-90 504 Imperial Service Medal (3), G.V.R., 2nd ‘Coinage Head’ type (William Joseph Ball); G.VI.R. (Thomas Murray.); E.II.R. (Leonard Mountford), extremely fine, first and third in cases of issue Canadian Forces Decoration (Cpl R.G.J. Mackinnon), nearly extremely fine Service Medal of the Order of St. John (2), three Bars (19000. Corpl. William Rogers, Griffithstown Div. 1938); unnamed, good very fine (6) £70-90 505 Jubilee (Metropolitan Police) 1887, with 1897 Bar (P C, H. Hopkins. W. Div:), good very fine Coronation (Metropolitan Police) 1911 (P.C., R. Seymour.), extremely fine Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed as issued, extremely fine Jubilee 1935 (C.C. Lingard), engraved in sans-serif capitals, good very fine Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, extremely fine, in card box of issue (6) £120-150

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508 Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued, good very fine Visit to Ireland 1911, unnamed as issued, very fine Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued, very fine Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, good very fine (4) £100-120

506 Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed as issued, light contact marks, good very fine Coronation 1902, silver, unnamed as issued, very fine Coronation 1911 (2), unnamed as issued, very fine Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, extremely fine Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine (6) £180-220

509 Pair: Hospital Staff Sergeant W.J. Foley, Royal Marines Royal Marines Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Ch.13519 Hos. Staff. Sgt. W.J. Foley. 28.2.1951), ‘1’ of year overstamped on a number 2; Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Admiral’s bust’ type (Ch.13519. W.J. Foley, Sergeant. R.M.L.I.), nearly extremely fine (2) £350-450

507 Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed as issued, light contact marks, good very fine Coronation 1902, silver, unnamed as issued, good very fine Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, extremely fine Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, extremely fine Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine Jubilee 1977, unnamed as issued, extremely fine, in Royal Mint box of issue (7) £350-400

13519 Hospital Staff Sergeant William John Foley (1884-1953), born Aldershot, Hampshire; enlisted Private, Royal Marines, Chatham Division, 20.8.1903; advanced Sergeant 14.9.1913; served during the Great War at H.M.S. Attentive III, Dover (entitled British War Medal); L.S. & G.C. 14.12.1917; Colour Sergeant, 24.7.1920; Hospital Staff Sergeant 1.1.1923.

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510 Army Long Service & G.C., W.IV.R. (W. Hoskin, Serjeant 4th Regiment Foot. 1836.), nearly very fine, with original steel clip and split ring suspension £1,000-1,400

512 Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (13555. S: Collar Mkr. C.H. Firkins. R.A.), rank partially officially corrected, good very fine £60-80

75 Sergeant William Hoskin, born St. Teath, near Camelford, Cornwall, 1790; enlisted in the 4th (King’s Own) Foot, December 1813; promoted Corporal, December 1813, after 11 days’ service; served with the Regiment in the Peninsula and in America, and received a gunshot wound to the thigh at New Orleans, 8.1.1815, in which action British casualties were 291 killed, 1,262 wounded, and 484 missing; served in Captain Craig’s No.5 Company during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.6.1815; promoted Sergeant, 19.6.1815, the day after the Battle of Waterloo; discharged September 1834, after 22 years and 283 days with the Colours.

13555 Sergeant Collar Maker Charles Henry Firkins, born Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, 1859; enlisted in the Royal Artillery as a Gunner, February 1879; promoted Corporal Collar Maker, June 1884; Sergeant Collar Maker, August 1888; awarded L.S.& G.C., July 1897; discharged, June 1899, after 20 years and 134 days with the Colours.

511 Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (Lewis Jones Serjeant 13th Dragoons. 1855), with contemporary silver clip and bar suspension, nearly very fine £140-180 540 Sergeant Lewis Jones, born Barmouth, Merionethshire, c.1810; enlisted in the 13th Light Dragoons, February 1830; promoted Corporal, June 1842; Sergeant, September 1848; discharged, June 1854, after 24 years and 152 days with the Colours; awarded L.S.& G.C., December 1854.

x513 Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (4126 Pte. J. Johnston 1st. Bn. 3rd. Foot), edge nicks, very fine £80-100 514 Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (2444. Pte. W. Templar. North’d Fus:), suspension post repaired, nearly very fine, with a Fusiliers badge attached to the riband £60-80 2444 Private William Templar, born London, 1848; enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers, 1868; served with the Regiment in India, 1880-87; discharged, February 1887, after 18 years and 244 days with the Colours.

515 Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (1463. Pte. G. Crawford, 1-14th. Foot), good very fine £70-90

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April 25, 2013 - LONDON 516 Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (1698. Cr. Serjt.

Alexr. Spark, 75th Foot.), suspension claw loose, minor edge bruising, very fine, with contemporary silver riband buckle £80-100

521 Naval Long Service & G.C., V.R. (S. Sherred, Ldg: Sto: H.M.S. Research.), light pitting, very fine £50-70 Samuel Sherred born Lymington, Hampshire, 1843; joined Royal Navy as Stoker 2nd Class, 1872; service included in H.M.S. Euphrates, August 1882 - February 1883 and as Leading Stoker in H.M.S. Research March 1890 - October 1892; ‘Shore Pensioned’ 1893.

517 Army Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (2) (2480 Serjt.

R. Allen. L.N. Lanc: R.; 6909 C. Sjt. Mjr. F. Curry. A.S.C.), edge bruising to first, number partially officially corrected on latter, good very fine (2) £60-80

522 Naval Long Service & G.C., V.R. (2) (J.H. Hayden, Commd. Btm: H.M. Coast Guard.; Alf. Neale.

Gunr. 7th. Co. R.M.A.), suspension re-affixed and traces of brooch mounting to latter, good very fine (2) £120-160

2480 Sergeant Robert Allen, born Newham Market, Ipswich, Suffolk, 1869; enlisted in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, April 1888; promoted Corporal, September 1899; served with the Regiment in South Africa during the Boer War (QSA and KSA); promoted Sergeant, 1.1.1904; discharged, 18.4.1909, after 21 years with the Colours, the last five spent as Master Cook.

43696 Chief Officer James Henry Hayden, born Stonehouse, Devon, August 1857; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, serving in H.M.S. Impregnable, May 1872; advanced Commanding Boatman, Shannon. April 1886; promoted Chief Officer, 30.4.1898; retired, 30.4.1905.

518 Army Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Field Marshal’s bust’ type (M-19200 Sjt. W.T. Franklin.

R.A.S.C.), nearly extremely fine Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Admiral’s bust’ type (Ply.6466 Frederick Hern, Private, R.M.L.I.), good very fine Royal Air Force Long Service & G.C., E.II.R. (B4238333 Ch Tech J A Lawrence RAF), nearly extremely fine, in named card box of issue, with enclosure letter Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Admiral’s bust’ type (J28189 (Po. B,16686) A.E. Fealey. A.B. R.F.R.), nearly very fine (4) £100-140

5205 Gunner Alfred Neale, born Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1834; enlisted in the Royal Marines, April 1855; awarded L.S.& G.C., April 1876; discharged, April 1876, after 21 years and 5 days’ service.

523 Naval Long Service & G.C. (3), E.VII.R. (164681 J.R. Bassett, Sto. P.O. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Devonshire); G.V.R., 1st ‘Admiral’s bust’ type (2) (128807.

Edward Young, M.A.A. H.M.S. Pembroke.; K.11612 H.E. Porter. S.P.O. H.M.S. Vernon.), good very fine (3) £100-140 164681 Chief Stoker John Roger Bassett, born Bermondsey, London, September 1872; enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Stoker serving in H.M.S. Vivid II, November 1891; transferred to H.M.S. Bonaventure, March 1898; promoted Leading Stoker, 25.3.1900; transferred to H.M.S. Devonshire, 24.10.1905; promoted Stoker Petty Officer, 1.7.1906; awarded L.S.& G.C., 21.11.1906; promoted Chief Stoker, 14.2.1912; discharged, 24.11.1913; joined the Royal Fleet Reserve, 7.12.1913; discharged, 28.10.1918.

B4238333 Chief Technician J.A. Lawrence was awarded his L.S. & G.C., June 1976.

519 Army Long Service & G.C. (2), G.V.R., 2nd ‘Coronation robes’ type, with ‘Regular Army’ bar suspension (S/9577 S.Sjt. J. Nicholls. R.A.S.C.); G.VI.R., with ‘Regular Army’ bar suspension (4907135 Pte A.W. Conway. S. Staff. R.), nearly extremely fine Volunteer Force Long Service & G.C., V.R. (Major A. de la Pole 3rd V.B.D.R.), nearly extremely fine (3) £100-140

128807 Master-at-Arms Edward Young, born Woolwich, Kent, May 1868; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, serving in H.M.S. Impregnable, September 1884; advanced Master-at-Arms, May 1897; awarded L.S.& G.C., 5.3.1915; discharged, 20.1.1919.

K.11612 Stoker Petty Officer Harry Edward Porter, born Oxford, May 1888; enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Stoker, 29.6.1911; awarded L.S.& G.C., 13.7.1926; discharged, 24.6.1928.

520 Naval Long Service & G.C., V.R. (Jacob Walters, C.P.O. H.M.S. Cambridge), nearly extremely fine £70-90

524 Naval Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (Samuel Harrison, Lg. Sto. 1Cl., H.M.S. Monarch.), light contact marks, good very fine Royal Naval Reserve Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (D.699 W. Quinlan, Sean. 1Cl., R.N.R.), extremely fine (2) £60-80

123579 Chief Petty Officer Jacob Walters, born Kingston, Devon, April 1868; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class service in H.M.S. Impregnable, June 1883; qualified as a diver, July 1889; advanced Chief Petty Officer, serving in H.M.S. Cambridge, 6.4.1901; awarded L.S.& G.C., 9.5.1901; discharged, 14.4.1911; joined the Royal Fleet Reserve, 15.10.1911; transferred to the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; retired, 7.4.1923.

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ORDERS, DECORATIONS, CAMPAIGN MEDALS AND MILITARIA 525 Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Admiral’s bust’ type (3) (J.17005 A.R. Marshall, A.B. H.M.S. Excellent; J.28338 H.J. Shorter. S.P.O. H.M.S. Excellent; 342042 Joseph Rodda, Shipt. 2Cl., H.M.S. Indus:), first worn, otherwise good very fine (3) £80-100 J.17005 Able Seaman Arthur Reginald Marshall, born Gosport, Hampshire, September 1895; enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class, serving in H.M.S. Impregnable, 30.3.1912; promoted Able Seaman, 1.8.1914; served during the Great War in H.M.S. King George V; awarded L.S.& G.C., 24.9.1928; discharged, 31.12.1928.

K.28338 Stoker Petty Officer Henry Jack Shorter, born Shaftesbury, Dorset, April 1896; enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Stoker, 13.10.1915; awarded L.S.& G.C., 10.2.1931.

342042 Shipwright 1st Class Joseph Rodda, born Callington, Cornwall, August 1877; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Carpenter’s Crew, April 1898; advanced Shipwright 2nd Class, 1.12.1913; awarded L.S.& G.C., 28.4.1913; promoted Shipwright 1st Class, 5.10.1918; discharged 8.5.1920.

526 Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R. (3), 1st ‘Admiral’s bust’ type (K.21215. W. Snarr. Sto.1. H.M.S. Victory); 2nd ‘coinage head’ type (2) (K.54086 H.W. Cox. S.P.O. H.M.S. Berwick.; L.13922 H.W. Dewell. O.C.2. H.M.S. Kellett.), nearly very fine (3) £80-100 K.21215 Stoker Wilfred Snarr, born Howden, Yorkshire, June 1894; enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Stoker, 29.11.1913; awarded L.S.& G.C., 10.12.1924; discharged, 28.4.1928.

527 Naval Long Service & G.C. (3), G.V.R., 2nd ‘coinage head’ type (2) (J.34209 T.J. Stretton. A.B. H.M.S. Victory; Ply. 20038 W.A. Grace. Mne. R.M.); G.VI.R. (KX. 78407 A.W.M. Loveridge. S.P.O. H.M.S. Excellent), generally nearly very fine or better (3) £70-90 J.34209 Able Seaman Thomas Jesse Stretton, born West Norwood, London, September 1898; enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class, 8.1.1915; promoted Able Seaman, 19.12.1916; awarded L.S.& G.C., 22.9.1931; discharged, 1.1.1936.

528 Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd ‘coinage head’ type (J.99467 H.S. Bayne. P.O. H.M.A.S. Sydney.), minor edge nicks, good very fine, with named Buckingham Palace enclosure letter for the D.S.M.; and Admiralty letter informing recipient of the award of his D.S.M. dated 1.1.1944 (lot) £100-150

528

529 Royal Air Force Long Service & G.C. (4), G.VI.R. (W/O. F.C. Newton. (560358) R.A.F.); E.II.R. (3) (572706 Ch. Tech. J.A. Styan. R.A.F.; 535028 F. Sgt. J.R. Jordan. R.A.F.; 64024919 Ch. Tech.

E.A. Muzzell. R.A.F.), good very fine, the last with two Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Jewels, Wickrath Lodge, silver-gilt, gilt, and enamel, the reverses engraved ‘Presented to Bro. E.A. Muzzell for Services Rendered as Secretary’ and ‘Bro. A.E. Muzzell 19-2-68’ respectively, both with integral top riband bars (4) £120-150 530 Indian Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (42 Pte. Ranuji Bedar 1st. Bo: Infy.), good very fine £70-90 531 Indian Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (830 Hav. Hira Singh, 51/Sikhs, F.F.), suspension claw loose, nearly very fine Colonial Police Long Service & G.C., E.II.R. (2038 Cpl. Kipsengecha A. Korosi, Kenya.), nearly very fine Indian Recruiting Badge, G.VI.R., reverse officially numbered ‘5803’, central portrait worn, therefore nearly very fine, with integral top riband bar (3) £120-160

D.S.M. London Gazette 1.1.1944 Bayne, Herbert Samuel C.P.O. C/J 99467 (H.M.S. Cleopatra) Chief Petty Officer Herbert Samuel Bayne, D.S.M., born Lewisham, 1903; served during the Second War in H.M.S. Cleopatra (Cruiser).

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538

539

536 Volunteer Force Long Service & G.C., V.R. (3563.

Sergt. W.G. Taylor 3rd V.B. R.Highrs.), good very fine £50-70

532 Police Long Service & G.C., G.VI.R. (Const. George Coates), good very fine Fire Brigade Long Service & G.C. (Fireman Clement C. Long), extremely fine Special Constabulary Long Service Medal (2), G.V.R., two Bars, The Great War 1914-18, Long Service 1929 (Inspr. Cornish A. Coggan); G.VI.R. (Ch Inspr Daniel W Dunn), good very fine Civil Defence Long Service Medal, British reverse, extremely fine, in Royal Mint case of issue Voluntary Medical Service Medal, unnamed as issued, good very fine Women’s Royal Voluntary Service Medal, unnamed as issued, good very fine (7) £50-70

537 Volunteer Force Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (2) (3624 Pte. J. Hughes. 2/V.B. Rl. Welsh Fus.; 65 Pte. H. Hughes. 2/V.B. Welsh Regt.), generally very fine or better (2) £80-120 538 Naval Good Shooting Medal, E.VII.R. (134306 G. Layton, P.O. 2 Cl, H.M.S. Exmouth. 1907 12 Pr. Q.F.), officially re-impressed, good very fine £60-80

533 African Police Medal for Meritorious Service, G.V.R. (Sgt. Ali. Uganda Police.), nearly very fine £180-220

134306 Petty Officer George William Layton, born Tolington, Middlesex, October 1869; enlisted in the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, serving in H.M.S. Impregnable, August 1885; promoted Able Seaman, October 1889; Leading Seaman, 1.5.1905; served during the Great War as Petty Officer Second Class in H.M.S. Pembroke; died, 22.8.1915, and is buried in Gillingham (Woodlands) Cemetery, Kent.

534 Volunteer Decoration, V.R., silver and silver-gilt, gilt worn (Hallmarks for London 1892), reverse engraved ‘Major E.G. Brodrick Adjt. 1 V.B. Chesh. Regt. 6 Feby. 1863 To 12. Aug. 1883’, nearly very fine, with integral top riband bar £80-100

539 Militia Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (918 Pte. J. Strachan. 3rd Rl. Hdrs. Mil.), very fine £300-350

535 Volunteer Force Long Service & G.C., V.R. (2) (6016. Pte W. Love. 1/V.B. Scot: R.; No.1189 C.S. Maj: Williams. 2nd. Mx. V.A. 1895.), good very fine (2) £80-120

918 Private J. Strachan, awarded Militia L.S. & G.C. by Army Order February 1905.

9 Medals awarded to the 3rd Battalion Royal Highlanders (Militia).

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540 Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., with top ‘Territorial’ riband bar, reverse officially dated ‘1950’, good very fine Territorial Efficiency Medal (2) (860069 Dvr. -A. Bmbr.- M.J. Hughes. R.F.A.; 2202208 Dvr. J. Workman. R.E.), edge bruise to latter, nearly very fine or better Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., with ‘Territorial’ scroll suspension (900032. B.Q.M.S. J. Challis. R.A.), surname partially officially corrected, nearly extremely fine (4) £120-160

543 Special Reserve Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (4099 Pte. W. McMullen. 3/Rl. Irish Fus), minor edge nicks, good very fine £300-350

541 Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (467 Cpl. R.G.J. Elkin. 8/London Regt.), good very fine £70-90 542 Efficiency Medal (4), G.V.R., with ‘Territorial’ scroll suspension (2558593 Sgln. R.S. Challice, R. Signals.); G.VI.R., with ‘Territorial’ scroll suspension (2) (2065595. Bde. C.E. Astbury. R.A.; 825838 Gnr. J. Tucker. R.A.); E.II.R., with ‘Territorial’ scroll suspension (22277625 W.O. Cl.2. R.H.V. Knapp. RE.), minor official correction to last, generally good very fine, last with named card box of issue (4) £100-140

4099 Private W. McMullen, awarded Special Reserve L.S. & G.C. by Army Order April 1909.

24 Medals awarded to the 3rd Battalion, Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers).

544 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration, E.II.R., reverse officially dated ‘1965’, with Second Award Bar, nearly extremely fine £120-150 545 Royal Naval Reserve Long Service & G.C., G.VI.R. (2) (10169.S. W.T.H. Price. Eng. R.N.R.; 6207/D, A,E. Langdon. P.O. R.N.R.), nearly extremely fine Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service & G.C. (3), G.V.R., 1st ‘Admiral’s bust’ type (2) (226468 Dev. B. 7390 E.P. Voisey. A.B. R.F.R.; J.27818 (Dev. B. 13499) G.R. Dodd. L.S. R.F.R.); G.VI.R. (SSX.20799 G.S. Mitchell. Po. B. 26367 P.O. R.F.R.), minor official correction to last, good very fine (5) £100-140 226468 Able Seaman Edwin Percy Voisey, born Buckfastleigh, Devon, November 1885; enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class, serving in H.M.S. Northampton, 16.5.1903; promoted Able Seaman, 24.8.1905; transferred to the Royal Fleet Reserve, 20.4.1919.

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547 Prison Service Long Service & G.C., E.II.R. (Off J Morton LEE472), extremely fine, in Royal Mint case of issue £150-200

546 Special Constabulary Long Service (7), G.V.R. (5) (Sergt. John G. Weall; Herbert A. Bliss; Arthur G. Kidson; Frederick J. Hall; Sidney H. Cowls.), last silvered, first with The Great War 1914-18 and Long Service 1929 Bars; G.VI.R. (2) (Henry R. Butcher; Frederick J. Gribble.), generally good very fine or better, last in named card box of issue Service Medal of the Order of St. John (2) (8519 Supt. J.T. Griffiths Hartington Div. No.5 Dis. S.J.A.B. 1930; 16530. Pte. J.H. Evans. Barry Dock Div. Priory for Wales. SJAB. 1937.), first with Additional Award Bar, good very fine Voluntary Medical Service Medal (Mrs. Margaret J. Parsons), nearly extremely fine British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service, extremely fine, in card box of issue (11) £60-80

Prison Officer James Morton, born Hull, 1952; after school served in the Merchant Navy for six years; joined the British Transport Police, 1973; transferred to the Prison Service, 1975, and served at H.M.P. Leeds from 1981; retired, July 2012, after 37 years’ service.

Frederick J. Gribble served as a Special Constable in Glamorgan.

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548 x548 A Fine Royal Canadian Humane Association and Carnegie Medal Pair to Mr. H.B. Brooks, For Saving the Lives of Two Girls From Drowning, 25.6.1921 Royal Canadian Humane Association bronze Medal, reverse engraved ‘Awarded to Harry B. Brooks for rescue of Agnes Haggard & Annie Lawson from drowning, Guelph, June 1921.’, with top ‘Bravery’ riband bar; Carnegie Hero Fund Bronze Medal, reverse inscribed ‘Harry B. Brooks who saved Agnes E. Hagyard and Annie B. Lawson from Drowning, Guelph, Ont. June 25, 1921’, nearly extremely fine and scarce, the latter in embossed leather case of issue (2) £600-800

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549 Royal National Lifeboat Institution Commemorative Medal, silver-gilt and enamel, obverse featuring a rowing boat going to the rescue of a stricken vessel, the reverse engraved ‘Presented by the Royal National Life Boat Institution to The Rev. John Brown in recognition of his valuable cooperation 1901’, with crown suspension, extremely fine, rare £60-80

549

MISCELLANEOUS

552

552 Royal Tournament Prize Medal, silver (Hallmarks for London 1938), reverse engraved ‘1939 Tug of War 110 Stone Army R.A.S.C. Feltham Sgt. A. Young’, nearly extremely fine, in Mappin and Webb, London, fitted case of issue £100-150 553 Tyne Training Ship Wellesley Good Conduct Medal (F.F. Brockwell), minor edge bruise, very fine, scarce, with top silver riband buckle £60-80 550

554 Commemorative Medal for Service to the Cameronians Scottish Rifles 1689-1968 (Captain John A. Peebles. 5th. Btl. 30.4.1918), good very fine £50-70

x550 Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, V.R., an unnamed specimen, extremely fine £150-200

Captain John Adair Peebles, of Carnoustie, Forfarshire; served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 5th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles); killed in action, 30.4.1918, and is buried in Nine Elms British Cemetery, Belgium.

551 Royal Tournament Prize Medal, bronze, reverse engraved ‘R.A.F. Halton 1927 Bayt. Combats.

A.C. Brooks. Lee-on-Solent’, nearly extremely fine, in Carrington, London, fitted case of issue £80-120

The Cameronians were originally raised as the Cameronian Guard in April 1689, and renamed the 26th Foot in 1751. In 1881 they merged with the 90th Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) to form the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), and, rather than amalgamate with another Regiment, were disbanded in May 1968.

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555

555 A Royal Artillery Officer’s Dress Sword A 20th Century Royal Artillery Dress Sword, by Wilkinson, London, with etched blade and leather field service scabbard and knot, numbered ‘50398’ £100-120 556 An Infantry Officer’s Dress Sword An E.VII.R. Infantry Officer’s Dress Sword, by Samuel Brothers, London, with etched blade and leather field service scabbard, numbered ‘4649’ £100-120

557 A Naval Officer’s Sword A Royal Navy Sword, unsigned, bearing foliate decoration, crowned anchor, and Royal Arms, G.V.R., regulation guilt guard with fishskin grip and springclip retaining mechanism, this engraved ‘R.A.H. Bartley. R.N.’, and sword knot, in black leather scabbard with brass fittings £120-150

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558 558 A Fine Pair of Flintlock Pistols A Pair of early 19th Century 25-Bore Officer’s Flintlock Pistols, by ‘J. & W. Richards, Liverpool’, both stocks inscribed ‘Liut. Nicholson Lit. 83’, percussion conversions, expertly re-converted to flintlocks by ‘The Gunmakers of the Royal Armouries’, replacement ramrods and crack to fore-end of one stock, together with an unrelated fitted case and various accessories (2) £2,000-2,400 Lieutenant John Nicholson was commissioned into the 83rd Regiment in February 1807 and served with the Regiment in Portugal. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Talavera, 18.7.1807, where the Regiment suffered 50% casualties including the Commanding Officer and four out of seven Lieutenants. Most of the severely wounded of the hospital at Talavera, including Lieutenant Nicholson, fell into French hands five days after the Battle. Nicholson survived the amputation of a leg, and lived to receive his Military General Service Medal.

PROVENANCE:

Benn Hunter Collection, Bonhams, 24.2.2000

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559 A Martini Henry Rifle A Martini Henry .303 Underlever Rifle, Crownded V.R. both sides of action, ‘Enfield 1888’ to right hand of action, in working order £200-250 Sold with a Deactivation Certificate (2006)

560 A Brown Bess Flintlock Rifle A modern Indian copy of a ‘Brown Bess’ flintlock rifle, with brass furniture, in working order £100-150 Sold with a Deactivation Certificate (2002)

561 A Percussion Military Rifle An Enfield three-band percussion military rifle, Crowned ‘V.R.’ to lock plate, with brass furniture, in working order £200-250 562 A Great War Training Rifle A metal training ‘rifle’ used for bayonet training, with sprung bayonet section. Very scarce. £40-80

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563 An Early c.1816 Miniature Portrait of Field Marshal Lord Combermere A fine three-quarter length portrait miniature on ivory of General Sir Stapleton Cotton, later Field Marshal 1st Viscount Combermere, G.C.B., G.C.H., K.S.I. (1773-1865), Military Leader, Diplomat, Politician, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, Who Served with distinction under the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula War, in full military uniform wearing his Peninsula Gold Cross, and three Stars, including the Order of the Bath, and wearing the sash of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and the Sword, c.1816, 108mm x 84mm, glazed, and set in a gilt frame £500-600 Field Marshal Combermere’s Orders, Decorations, and Medals were sold at Glendinings, September 1989.

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564 The Battles of the British Army in Portugal, Spain and France A Set of 13 hand-coloured circular aquatint views of the Battles of Vimiero, Oporto, Talavera, Busaco, Albuera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pampeluna, St. Sebastian, Toulouse, and Waterloo, by Edward Orme, London, 66mm diameter, each on thin card, with an historical account of the action on the reverse, contained in a circular bronze case in form of a medallion, bust of the Duke of Wellington on obverse lid; winged muse of history seated beneath an olive tree recording on a tablet the ‘Record of British Valour’ on reverse lid, ‘Picture Medal’ inscribed below; ‘The Battles of the British Army in Portugal, Spain and France from the Year 1808 to 1814 under the Command of England’s Great Captain Arthur Duke of Wellington’ title card on inside of both lids, traces of tabs that originally held the cards together, otherwise very fine and rare £450-550 Mr. Edward Orme, of Bond Street, London, was, after Ackermann, the most important publisher of coloured aquatint prints.

British success at sea and on land was one of the staple subjects of his publishing: ‘He has omitted no opportunity of bringing forward to public admiration, by the graphic art, the principal events in which our arms have triumphed both by sea and land, publishing at various periods engravings of those great exploits most calculated to impress the mind with correct ideas of the arduous struggles which have immortalised the British name.’ (The History of Aquatint Engraving, by S.T. Prideaux refers).

It is thought that he produced over 700 of this series.

565 The Battles of the Duke of Wellington A Set of 14 double-sided circular cards listing the names and dates of the Battles of Roliea & Vimiera, Corunna, Oporto, Talavera, Busaco, Coimbra, Barrosa, Fuente de Honor, Almeida, Albuhera, Arroy del Molino, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajos, Almaraz, Salamanca, Madrid, Castalla, Vittoria, Pyrenees, St. Sebastian, Biddassoa, Pampeluna, Neive, Orthes, Toulouse, and Waterloo, 41mm diameter, each on thin card, contained in a circular bronze case in form of a medallion, bust of the Duke of Wellington on obverse lid; inscription on reverse lid, traces of tabs that originally held the cards together, otherwise very fine £60-80

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MINIATURE AWARDS 567 Miniature Awards: India General Service 1895-1902, V.R. (2), two clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-8, Tirah 1897-8; three clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-8, Tirah 1897-8; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 (4), no clasp (2); three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal; four clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902; King’s South Africa 1901-02 (2), no clasp; two clasps; Africa General Service 1902-56, G.V.R., no clasp [sic]; General Service 1918-62 (4), G.V.R., one clasp, S. Persia; G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine; E.II.R., one clasp, Malaya (2); General Service 1962-2007, one clasp, Northern Ireland (2), generally very fine or better (15) £50-70

566 Miniature Awards: An Unattributed Great War M.C. Group of Five Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves; Territorial Force War Medal, G.V.R., very fine, mounted as worn Miniature Awards: An Unattributed Great War M.M. Group of Three Military Medal, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals, very fine, mounted as worn Miniature Awards: Distinguished Service Order, E.II.R., gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Civil Division (2), Officer’s (O.B.E.) Badge, silver-gilt; Member’s (M.B.E.) Badge, silver; Military Cross, G.V.R.; Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R.; Coronation 1937; Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R.; Volunteer Force Long Service & G.C. (2), E.VII.R.; G.V.R.; Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., generally very fine or better (18) £60-80

568 Miniature Awards: 1914 Star, with Bar (2); 1914-15 Star (5); British War Medal (18); Mercantile Marine War Medal; Victory Medal (14); Territorial Force War Medal (2); 1939-1945 Star (3); Atlantic Star, with France and Germany Bar; Africa Star (2); France and Germany Star (2); Defence Medal (4); War Medal (4), two with M.I.D. Oak Leaf, generally nearly very fine or better (58) £50-70

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Thursday 25 April 2013 at 10.00 a.m.

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I request Spink, without legal obligations of any kind on its part, to bid on the following Lots up to the price given below.

I understand that if my bid is successful the Purchase Price will be the sum of the final bid and Buyer’s premium as a percentage of the final bid as well as any VAT chargeable. The Rate of Premium is 20% of the final hammer price of each lot.

All bids shall be treated as offers made on the Terms and Conditions for Buyers printed in the catalogue. I also understand that Spink provides the service of executing bids on behalf of clients for the convenience of clients and that Spink will not be held responsible for failing to execute bids. If identical commission bids are received for the same Lot, the commission bid received first by Spink will take precedence. Please note that you will not be notified if there are higher written bids received. If you require such notification then this is available on bids made via Spink live bidding service.

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PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY IN BLOCK LETTERS AND ENSURE THAT BIDS ARE IN STERLING Lot Number (in numerical order)

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BIDDING INCREMENTS Bidding generally opens below the low estimate and advances in the following order although the auctioneer may vary the bidding increments during the course of the auction. The normal bidding increments are: Up to £100 £100 to £300 £300 to £600 £600 to £1,000

by £5 by £10 £320-£350-£380-£400 etc. by £50

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VAT is chargeable on the Hammer price and the Buyer’s premium of daggered (†) and (Ω) lots at the standard rate (currently 20%), and on lots marked (x) at the reduced rate (currently 5% on the Hammer price and 20% on the Buyer’s premium). VAT on Margin Scheme lots (identified by the absence of any VAT symbol next to the lot number) is payable at 20% on the Buyer’s premium only.

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AUCTION RESULTS SALE:

Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria

SALE NO:

12004

DATE:

Thursday 22 November 2012

V ENUE:

London

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The following prices in sterling do not include the buyer’s premium and are rounded to the nearest pound. Lots which did not sell are not shown.

Spink & Son are not responsible for typographical errors or omissions.

Lot 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41

Price £70,000 £2,200 £320 £7,500 £1,400 £2,300 £1,400 £750 £3,200 £25,000 £30,000 £3,800 £380 £1,700 £3,800 £1,600 £300 £650 £3,200 £2,600 £750 £600 £3,500 £3,400 £30,000 £5,000 £1,400 £1,000 £750 £580 £1,400 £950 £350 £1,200 £2,300 £550 £650 £320 £950 £580

Lot 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82

Price £420 £220 £580 £420 £750 £500 £1,000 £270 £280 £180 £240 £1,700 £700 £450 £1,500 £350 £240 £200 £100 £140 £180 £120 £350 £110 £550 £1,100 £130 £1,200 £320 £180 £110 £160 £100 £90 £140 £150 £140 £150 £150 £160

Lot 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 92 93 94 95 96 97 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125

Price £160 £420 £320 £500 £100 £140 £140 £350 £250 £220 £130 £350 £350 £220 £240 £100 £350 £450 £380 £120 £140 £70 £320 £150 £180 £160 £160 £280 £4,500 £160 £140 £90 £150 £160 £650 £300 £420 £160 £130 £280

Lot 126 127 128 129 130 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167

Price £150 £280 £130 £240 £150 £190 £400 £120 £900 £100 £200 £400 £350 £60 £650 £750 £1,600 £480 £3,000 £2,100 £2,500 £2,000 £4,800 £2,500 £1,600 £1,000 £2,600 £4,200 £2,300 £1,800 £950 £950 £1,500 £1,300 £950 £1,000 £950 £800 £750 £600

Lot 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 202 203 204 205 206 208 209

Price £700 £650 £700 £650 £2,900 £3,000 £950 £750 £1,100 £2,000 £700 £1,400 £1,200 £1,250 £850 £2,500 £900 £1,100 £2,600 £2,800 £2,900 £3,500 £950 £750 £520 £320 £260 £300 £280 £500 £800 £450 £280 £4,000 £520 £3,600 £2,300 £2,300 £1,500 £3,800

Lot 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249

Price £2,600 £580 £420 £400 £2,600 £3,500 £320 £1,700 £1,900 £1,800 £1,300 £1,800 £3,800 £2,400 £700 £550 £520 £800 £900 £600 £1,200 £420 £1,200 £480 £800 £350 £480 £400 £380 £400 £180 £750 £160 £380 £150 £120 £1,000 £230 £150 £3,800

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Price £90 £1,000 £190 £200 £350 £210 £1,200 £240 £260 £700 £900 £900 £920 £850 £320 £300 £240 £320 £210 £520 £850 £350 £800 £650 £1,700 £800 £270 £350 £600 £350 £450 £480 £480 £400 £380 £320 £320 £260 £5,500

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Lot 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 359 360 361 362 363 366 367 368 369

Price £1,200 £240 £300 £190 £290 £700 £190 £100 £420 £200 £200 £450 £90 £130 £130 £80 £120 £150 £100 £500 £480 £110 £100 £180 £110 £110 £650 £260 £140 £20 £120 £550 £80 £1,300 £120 £160 £300 £80 £130

Lot 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 396 397 398 399 400 401 404 406 407 408 409 410 411 412

Price £200 £90 £130 £70 £110 £70 £350 £170 £250 £180 £180 £220 £140 £110 £220 £150 £130 £90 £140 £110 £110 £110 £90 £150 £140 £220 £450 £240 £270 £230 £170 £850 £180 £400 £1,000 £160 £300 £400 £400

Lot 413 415 416 417 418 419 420 422 427 430 432 433 434 435 436 437 439 440 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462

Price £380 £350 £350 £130 £1,300 £900 £350 £1,100 £160 £1,500 £1,500 £260 £5,500 £1,300 £380 £1,300 £4,200 £15,000 £500 £20,000 £34,000 £5,800 £2,700 £2,800 £5,000 £4,800 £5,500 £3,200 £3,500 £210 £900 £1,800 £1,000 £750 £420 £650 £230 £230 £270

Lot 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497

Price £500 £450 £180 £200 £250 £240 £2,200 £180 £750 £320 £300 £160 £200 £150 £150 £240 £140 £450 £420 £150 £900 £240 £270 £210 £210 £1,300 £270 £80 £225 £100 £70 £180 £350 £230 £230

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR BUYERS These conditions set out the terms on which we (Spink and Son Limited of 69 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury London WC1B 4ET (company no. 04369748)) contract with you (Buyer) either as agent on behalf of the Seller or as principal if we are the Seller. You should read these conditions carefully.

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DEFINITIONS The following definitions in this condition apply in these conditions.

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Auctioneers’ Margin Scheme

means a VAT margin scheme as defined by HM Revenue & Customs;

Buyer’s Premium

means the charge payable by you as a percentage of the Hammer Price, at the rates set out in clause 5.1 below;

Certificate of Authenticity

means a certificate issued by an Expert Committee confirming the authenticity of a Lot;

Expert Committee

means a committee of experts to whom a Lot may be sent for an extension in accordance with clause 3.4.3;

Forgery

means a Lot constituting an imitation originally conceived and executed as a whole with a fraudulent intention to deceive as to authorship, origin, age, period, culture or source where the correct description as to such matters is not reflected by the description in the catalogue and which at the date of the auction had a value materially less than it would have had if it had been in accordance with the description in the catalogue. Accordingly, no Lot shall be capable of being a Forgery by reason of any damage and/or restoration work of any kind (including re-enamelling);

Hammer Price

means the amount of the highest bid accepted by the auctioneer in relation to a Lot;

Lot

means any item deposited with us for sale at auction and, in particular, the item or items described against any Lot number in any catalogue;

Reserve

the amount below which we agree with the Seller that the Lot cannot be sold;

Seller

means the owner of the Lot being sold by us;

Spink Group

Spink and Son Limited, our subsidiaries and associated companies.

VAT

value added tax chargeable under VAT and any similar replacement or additional tax; and

VAT Symbols

means the symbols detailing the VAT status of the Lot details of which are set out at the back of the catalogue.

SPINK’S ROLE AS AGENT 2.1

All sales undertaken by us either at auction or privately are undertaken either as agent on behalf of the Seller or from time to time, as principal if we are the owner of the Lot. Please note that even if we are acting as agent on behalf of the Seller rather than as principal, we may have a financial interest in the Lot.

2.2

The contract for the sale of the Lot will be between you and the Seller.

the first session of the sale. If accepted by us, such request shall have the same effect as notice of an intention to question the genuineness or description of the Lot for the purposes of clause 5.13 (Refund in the case of Forgery) of these Terms and Conditions and the provisions of clause 5.13 (Refund in the case of Forgery) shall apply accordingly.

3.4.2 Notice of a request for an expert opinion or Certificate of Authenticity must give the reason why such opinion is required and specify the identity of your proposed expert which will be subject to agreement by us. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to refuse a request for an expert opinion or Certificate of Authenticity including (without limitation) where the proposed expert is not known to us.

BEFORE THE SALE 3.1

3.2

Examination of goods You are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which you are interested, before the auction takes place. Condition reports are usually available on request. We provide no guarantee to you other than in relation to Forgeries, as set out in clause 5.13 of these Terms and Conditions.

3.4.3 If we accept a request for an expert opinion or Certificate of Authenticity we will submit the Lot to the Expert Committee. You acknowledge and accept that the length of time taken by an Expert Committee to reach an opinion will vary depending on the circumstances and in any event is beyond our control.

Catalogue descriptions 3.2.1 Statements by us in the catalogue or condition report, or made orally or in writing elsewhere, regarding the authorship, origin, date, age, size, medium, attribution, genuineness, provenance, condition or estimated selling price of any Lot are merely statements of opinion, and are not to be relied on as statements of definitive fact. Catalogue illustrations are for guidance only, and should not be relied on either to determine the tone or colour of any item or to reveal imperfections. Estimates of the selling price should not be relied on as a statement that this price is either the price at which the Lot will sell or its value for any other purpose.

3.2.2 Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and the absence of such a reference does not imply that an item is free from defects or restoration nor does a reference to particular defects imply the absence of any others.

3.2.3 Other than as set out in clause 5.13, and in the absence of fraud, neither the Seller nor we, nor any of our employees or agents, are responsible for the correctness of any statement as to the authorship, origin, date, age, attribution, genuineness or provenance of any Lot nor for any other errors of description or for any faults or defects in any Lot.

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3.4

Your Responsibility You are responsible for satisfying yourself as to the condition of the goods and the matters referred to in the catalogue description.

Extensions – Stamps only 3.4.1 If you wish to obtain an expert opinion or Certificate of Authenticity on any Lot (other than a mixed Lot or Lot containing undescribed stamps) you must notify us in writing not less than forty-eight hours before the time fixed for the commencement of

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3.4.5 Should Spink accept a request for an extension under the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, the fact may be stated by the Auctioneer from the rostrum prior to the sale of the Lot. 3.4.6 It should be noted that any stamp accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity is sold on the basis of that Certificate only and not on the basis of any other description or warranty as to authenticity.

No request for an extension will be accepted on such a stamp and the return of such a stamp will not be accepted.

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AT THE SALE 4.1

Refusal of admission Our sales usually take place on our own premises or premises over which we have control for the sale, and we have the right, exercisable at our complete discretion, to refuse admission to the premises or attendance at an auction.

4.2

Registration before bidding You must complete and sign a registration form and provide identification before making a bid at auction. Please be aware that we usually require buyers to undergo a credit check.

Some lots may be designated, prior to the auction, as “Premium Lots”, which means a deposit may be required before placing a bid on the item for sale. Information will be posted on our website in such an event.

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Bidding as Principal When making a bid (whether such bids are made in person or by way of telephone bids operated by Spink, commission or online or email bids), you will be deemed to be acting as principal and will be accepting personal liability, unless it has been agreed in writing, at the time of registration, that you are acting as agent on behalf of a third party buyer acceptable to us.

4.4

Commission Bids If you give us instructions to bid on your behalf, by using the form provided in our catalogues or via our website, we shall use reasonable endeavours to do so, provided these instructions are received not later than 24 hours before the auction. If we receive commission bids on a particular Lot for identical amounts, and at auction these bids are the highest bids for the Lot, it will be sold to the person whose bid was received first. Commission bids are undertaken subject to other commitments at the time of the sale, and the conduct of the auction may be such that we are unable to bid as requested. Since this is undertaken as a free service to prospective buyers on the terms stated, we cannot accept liability for failure to make a commission bid. You should therefore always attend personally if you wish to be certain of bidding.

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On-line Bidding We offer internet services as a convenience to our clients. We will not be responsible for errors or failures to execute bids placed on the internet, including, without limitation, errors or failures caused by (i) a loss of internet connection by either party for whatever reason; (ii) a breakdown or problems with the online bidding software and/or (iii) a breakdown or problems with your internet connection, computer or system. Execution of on-line internet bids is a free service undertaken subject to other commitments at the time of the auction and we do not accept liability for failing to execute an online internet bid or for errors or omissions in connection with this activity.

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Telephone Bids If you make arrangements with us not less than 24 hours before the sale, we shall use reasonable endeavours to contact you to enable you to participate in bidding by telephone, but in no circumstances will we be liable to either the Seller or you as a result of failure to do so.

4.7

Currency Converter At some auctions, a currency converter will be operated, based on the one month forward rates of exchange quoted to us by Barclays Bank Plc or any other appropriate rate determined by us, at opening on the date of the auction. Bidding will take place in a currency determined by us, which is usually sterling for auctions held in London. The currency converter is not always reliable, and errors may occur beyond our control either in the accuracy of the Lot number displayed on the converter, or the foreign currency equivalent of sterling bids. We shall not be liable to you for any loss suffered as a result of you following the currency converter.

4.8

Video images At some auctions there will be a video screen. Mistakes may occur in its operation, and we cannot be liable to you regarding either the correspondence of the image to the Lot being sold or the quality of the image as a reproduction of the original.

4.9

Bidding Increments Bidding generally opens below the low estimate and advances in the following order although the auctioneer may vary the bidding increments during the course of the auction. The normal bidding increments are: Up to £100 by £5 £100 to £300 by £10 £300 to £600 £320-£350-£380-£400 etc. £600 to £1,000 by £50 £1,000 to £3,000 by £100 £3,000 to £6,000 £3,200-£3,500-£3,800-£4,000 etc. £6,000 to £20,000 by £500 £20,000 and up Auctioneer’s discretion

4.10 Bidding by Spink 4.10.1 We reserve the right to bid on Lots on the Seller’s behalf up to the amount of the Reserve (if any), which will never be above the low estimate printed in the auction catalogue.

4.10.2 The Spink Group reserves the right to bid on and purchase Lots as principal.

4.11 The Auctioneer’s Discretion The auctioneer has the right at his absolute discretion to refuse any bid to advance the bidding in such manner as he may decide to withdraw or divide any Lot, to combine any two or more Lots and, in the case of error or dispute, to put an item up for bidding again.

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4.12 Successful Bid Subject to the auctioneer’s discretion, the striking of his hammer marks the acceptance of the highest bid, provided always that such bid is higher than the Reserve (where applicable), and the conclusion of a contract for sale between you and the Seller.

4.13 After Sale Arrangements If you enter into any private sale agreements for any Lot with the Seller within 60 days of the auction, we, as exclusive agents of the Seller reserve the right to charge you the applicable Buyer’s Premium in accordance with these Terms and Conditions, and the Seller a commission in accordance with the terms of the Seller’s agreement.

4.14 Return of Lot Once your bid has been accepted for a Lot then you are liable to pay for that Lot in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. If there are any problems with a Lot then you must notify us within 7 days of receipt of the Lot, specifying the nature of the problem. We may then request that the Lot is returned to us for inspection. Save as set out in clause 5.13, the cancellation of the sale of any Lot and the refund of the corresponding purchase price is entirely at our sole discretion. We will not normally exercise that discretion if the Lot is not received by us in the same condition that it was in at the auction date.

AFTER THE AUCTION 5.1 Buyer’s Premium In addition to the Hammer Price, you must pay us the Buyer’s Premium at a rate of 20% of the final Hammer Price of each Lot. 5.2 Value Added Tax Other than in respect of Zero-rated Lots (o) VAT is chargeable on the Hammer price and the Buyer’s premium of daggered (†) and (Ω) lots at the standard rate (currently 20%), and on lots marked (x) at the reduced rate (currently 5% on the Hammer price and 20% on the Buyer’s premium). VAT on Margin scheme lots (identified by the absence of any VAT symbol next to the lot number) is payable at 20% on the Buyer’s premium only.

5.3 VAT Refunds General 5.3.1 As we remain liable to account for VAT on all Lots unless they have been exported outside the EU within 3 months of the date of sale, you will generally be asked to deposit all amounts of VAT invoiced. However, if a Spink nominated shipper is instructed, then any refundable VAT will not be collected. In all other cases credits will be made when proof of export is provided. If you export the Lot yourself you must obtain shipping documents from the Shipping Department for which a charge of £50 will be made.

5.3.2 If you export the Lot you must return the valid proof of export certificate to us within 3 months of the date of sale. If you fail to return the proof of export certificate to us within such period and you have not already accounted to us for the VAT, you will be liable to us for the full amount of the VAT due on such Lot and we shall be entitled to invoice you for this sum.

5.3.3 To apply for a refund of any VAT paid, the proof of export certificate must be sent to our Shipping Department clearly marked ‘VAT Refund’ within 3 months of the date of sale. No payment will be made where the total amount of VAT refundable is less than £50 and Spink will charge £50 for each refund processed.

VAT Refunds - Buyers from within the EU 5.3.4 VAT refunds are available on the Hammer Price and Buyer’s Premium of Daggered (†) and Investment Gold (g) Lots. You must certify that you are registered for VAT in another EU country and that the Lot is to be removed from the United Kingdom within 3 months of the date of sale.

5.3.5 Where an EU buyer purchases a Lot on which import VAT has been charged, no refund of VAT is available from us. It may be possible to apply directly for a refund on form VAT 65 to HM Revenue & Customs Overeseas Repayment Section, Londonderry.

VAT Refunds – Buyers from outside the EU 5.3.6 Where a Lot is included within the Auctioneers’ Margin Scheme and evidence of export from the EU is produced within 3 months of the date of sale, the VAT on Buyer’s Premium may be refunded.

5.3.7 Where the Lot is marked as a Daggered (†) or Investment Gold (g) Lot the VAT charged on the Hammer Price may be refunded where evidence of export from the EU is produced within 3 months of the date of sale. A refund of VAT charged on the Buyer’s Premium can also be made on receipt of proof of business as a collectibles dealer.

5.3.8 Where the Lot is marked as an Omega (Ω) Lot or an Import VAT (x) Lot and evidence of export from the EU is produced within 3 months of the date of sale, the VAT charged on both the Hammer Price and Buyer’s Premium may be refunded. Where required, we can advise you on how to export such Lots as a specific form of export evidence is required. Where we advise you on the export of the Lots, please be aware that the ultimate responsibility in respect of obtaining a valid proof of export certificate will lie with you and we will not be responsible for your failure to obtain such certificate.

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Payment 5.4.1 You must provide us with your full name and permanent address and, if so requested, details of the bank from which any payments to us will be made. You must pay the full amount due (comprising the Hammer Price, the Buyer’s Premium and any applicable VAT) within seven days after the date of the sale. This applies even if you wish to export the Lot and an export licence is (or may be) required.

5.4.2 You will not acquire title to the Lot until all amounts due have been paid in full. This includes instances where special arrangements were made for release of Lot prior to full settlement.

5.4.3 Payment should be made in sterling by one of the following methods: II(i) Direct bank transfer to our account details of which are set out on the invoice. All bank charges shall be met by you.

Please ensure that your client number is noted on the transfer. i(ii) By cheque or bank draft made payable to Spink and Son Ltd and sent to Spink at 69 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 4ET. Please note that the processing charges for payments made by cheques or bank drafts drawn on a non-U.K bank shall be met by you. Please ensure that the remittance slip printed at the bottom of the invoice is enclosed with your payment. (iii) By Visa or Mastercard. A charge of 2% will be applied.

Payments exceeding £5,000 can normally only be made by the card holder in person whilst on our premises.

5.4.4 Payments should be made by the registered buyer and not by third parties, unless it has been agreed at the time of registration that you are acting as an agent on behalf of a third party.

5.5 Invoices Invoices may consist of one or more pages and will show: Zero rated Lots (o); no symbol Lots sold under the Auctioneers’ Margin Scheme; Lots marked (g) special scheme Investment Gold; Daggered Lots (†), imported Lots marked (x) and (Ω), (e) Lots with Zero rated hammer for EU VAT registered buyers.

5.6 Collection of Purchases 5.6.1 Unless we specifically agree to the contrary, we shall retain items sold until all amounts due to us, or to the Spink Group, have been paid in full.

5.6.2 Unless we notify you to the contrary, items retained by us will be covered in accordance with our policy which is available for inspection at our offices from the date of sale for a period of seven days or until the time of collection, whichever is sooner. After seven days or from the time of collection, whichever is the earlier, the Lot will be entirely at your risk.

5.6.3 Our policy will not cover and we are unable to accept responsibility for damage caused by woodworm, changes in atmospheric conditions or acts of terrorism.

5.7 Notification We are not able to notify successful bidders by telephone. While Invoices are sent out by mail after the auction we do not accept responsibility for notifying you of the result of your bid. You are requested to contact us by telephone or in person as soon as possible after the auction to obtain details of the outcome of your bids to avoid incurring charges for late payment.

5.8 Packing and handling 5.8.1 We shall use all reasonable endeavours to take care when handling and packing a purchased Lot but remind you that after seven days or from the time of collection, whichever is sooner, the Lot is entirely at your risk. Our postage charges are set out at the back of the catalogue.

5.8.2 It is the responsibility of the Buyer to be aware of any Import Duties that may be incurred upon importation to the final destination. Spink will not accept return of any package in order to avoid these duties. The onus is also on the Buyer to be aware of any Customs import restrictions that prohibit the importation of certain collectibles. Spink will not accept return of the Lot(s) under these circumstances. Spink will not accept responsibility for Lot(s) seized or destroyed by Customs.

5.8.3 If the Buyer requires delivery of the Lot to an address other than the invoice address this will be carried out at the discretion of Spink.

5.9 Recommended packers and shippers If required our shipping department may arrange shipment as your agent. Although we may suggest carriers if specifically requested, our suggestions are made on the basis of our general experience of such parties in the past and we are not responsible to any person to whom we have made a recommendation for the acts or omissions of the third parties concerned.

5.10 Remedies for non-payment or failure to collect purchases 5.10.1 If you fail to make payment within seven days of your stipulated payment date set out in your invoice, we shall be entitled to exercise one or more of the following rights or remedies: 5.10.1.1 to charge interest at the rate of 2% per month compound interest, calculated on a daily basis, from the date the full amount is due;

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5.10.1.2 to set off against any amounts which the Spink Group may owe you in any other transaction the outstanding amount remaining unpaid by you; 5.10.1.3 we may keep hold of all or some of your Lots or other property in the possession of the Spink Group until you have paid all the amounts you owe us or the Spink Group, even if the unpaid amounts do not relate to those Lots or other property.

Following fourteen days’ notice to you of the amount outstanding and remaining unpaid, the Spink Group shall have the right to arrange the sale of such Lots or other property. We shall apply the proceeds in discharge of the amount outstanding to us or the Spink Group, and pay any balance to you; 5.10.1.4 where several amounts are owed by you to the Spink Group in respect of different transactions, to apply any amount paid to discharge any amount owed in respect of any particular transaction, whether or not you so direct; 5.10.1.5 to reject at any future auction any bids made by you or on your behalf or obtain a deposit from you before accepting any bids.

5.10.2 If you fail to make payment within thirty-five days, we shall in addition be entitled: 5.10.2.1 to cancel the sale of the Lot or any other item sold to you at the same or any other auction; 5.10.2.2 to arrange a resale of the Lot, publicly or privately, and, if this results in a lower price being obtained, claim the balance from you together with all reasonable costs including a 20% seller’s commission, expenses, damages, legal fees, commissions and premiums of whatever kind associated with both sales or otherwise, incurred in connection with your failure to make payment; or 5.10.2.3 take any other appropriate action as we deem fit.

5.11 Failure to collect Where purchases are not collected within seven days after the sale, whether or not payment has been made, you will be required to pay a storage charge of £2 per item per day plus any additional handling cost that may apply. You will not be entitled to collect the Lot until all outstanding charges are met, together with payment of all other amounts due to us.

5.12 Export Licence 5.12.1 If required we can, at our discretion, advise you on the detailed provisions of the export licensing regulations. Where we advise you in relation to export licensing regulations the ultimate responsibility in respect of any export will lie with you and we will not be responsible for your failure to apply for any necessary licences.

5.12.2 If the Lot is going to be hand carried by you, you may be required to produce a valid export licence to us or sign a waiver document stating that a licence will be applied for.

5.12.3 You should always check whether an export licence is required before exporting. Export licences are usually obtained within two or three weeks but delays can occur.

5.12.4 Unless otherwise agreed by us in writing, the fact that you wish to apply for an export licence does not affect your obligation to make payment within seven days nor our right to charge interest on late payment.

5.12.5 If you request that we apply for an export licence on your behalf, we shall be entitled to recover from you our disbursements and out of pocket expenses in relation to such application, together with any relevant VAT. 5.12.6 We will not be obliged to rescind a sale nor to refund any interest or other expenses incurred by you where payment is made by you despite the fact that an export licence is required.

5.13 Refund in the case of Forgery 5.13.1 A sale will be cancelled, and the amount paid refunded to you if a Lot (other than a miscellaneous item not described in the catalogue) sold by us proves to have been a Forgery. We shall not however be obliged to refund any amounts if either (a) the catalogue description or saleroom notice at the auction date corresponded to the generally accepted opinion of scholars or experts at that time, or fairly indicated that there was a conflict of opinions, or (b) it can be demonstrated that the Lot is a Forgery only by means of either a scientific process not generally accepted for use until after publication of the catalogue or a process which at the date of the auction was unreasonably expensive or impracticable or likely to have caused damage to the Lot. Furthermore, you should note that this refund can be obtained only if the following conditions are met: 5.13.1.1 you must notify us in writing, within seven days of the receipt of the Lot(s), that in your view the Lot concerned is a Forgery; 5.13.1.2 you must then return the item to us within fourteen days from receipt of the Lot(s), in the same condition as at the auction date; and

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5.13.1.3 as soon as possible following return of the Lot, you must produce evidence satisfactory to us that the Lot is a Forgery and that you are able to transfer good title to us, free from any third party claims.

5.13.2 In no circumstances shall we be required to pay you any more than the amount paid by you for the Lot concerned and you shall have no claim for interest.

5.13.3 The benefit of this guarantee is not capable of being transferred, and is solely for the benefit of the person to whom the original invoice was made out by us in respect of the Lot when sold and who, since the sale, has remained the owner of the Lot without disposing of any interest in it to any third party.

5.13.4 We shall be entitled to rely on any scientific or other process to establish that the Lot is not a Forgery, whether or not such process was used or in use at the date of the auction.

6 LIABILITY Nothing in these Terms and Conditions limits or excludes our liability for: 6.1 death or personal injury resulting from negligence; or 6.2 any damage or liability incurred by you as a result of our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

7 COPYRIGHT 7.1 We shall have the right (on a non-exclusive basis) to photograph, video or otherwise produce an image of the Lot. All rights in such an image will belong to us, and we shall have the right to use it in whatever way we see fit.

7.2 The copyright in all images, illustrations and written material relating to a Lot is and shall remain at all times our property and we shall have the right to use it in whatever way we see fit. You shall not use or allow anyone else to use such images, illustrations or written material without our prior written consent.

8 VAT You shall give us all relevant information about your VAT status and that of the Lot to ensure that the correct information is printed in the catalogues.

Once printed, the information cannot be changed. If we incur any unforeseen cost or expense as a result of the information being incorrect, you will reimburse to us on demand the full amount incurred.

9 NOTICES All notices given under these Terms and Conditions may be served personally, sent by 1st class post, or faxed to the address given to the sender by the other party. Any notice sent by post will be deemed to have been received on the second working day after posting or, if the addressee is overseas, on the fifth working day after posting. Any notice sent by fax or served personally will be deemed to be delivered on the first working day following despatch.

10 ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS The following provisions of this clause 10 shall apply only if you are acting for the purposes of your business.

10.1 Limitation of Liability Subject to clause 6, we shall not be liable, whether in tort (including for negligence) or breach of statutory duty, contract, misrepresentation or otherwise for any: 10.1.1 loss of profits, loss of business, depletion of goodwill and/or similar losses, loss of anticipated savings, loss of goods, loss of contract, loss of use, loss of corruption of data or information; or 10.1.2 any special, indirect, consequential or pure economic loss, costs, damages, charges or expenses.

10.2 Severability If any part of these Terms and Condition is found by any court to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that part may be discounted and the rest of the conditions shall continue to be valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.

10.3 Force majeure We shall have no liability to you if we are prevented from, or delayed in performing, our obligations under these Terms and Conditions or from carrying on our business by acts, events, omissions or accidents beyond our reasonable control, including (without limitation) strikes, lock-outs or other industrial disputes (whether involving our workforce or the workforce of any other party), failure of a utility service or transport network, act of God, war, riot, civil commotion, malicious damage, compliance with any law or governmental order, rule, regulation or direction, accident, breakdown of plant or machinery, fire, flood, storm or default of suppliers or subcontractors.

10.4 Waiver 10.4.1 A waiver of any right under these Terms and Conditions is only effective if it is in writing and it applies only to the circumstances for which it is given. No failure or delay by a party in exercising any right or remedy under these Terms and Conditions or by law shall constitute a waiver of that (or any other) right or remedy, nor preclude or restrict its further exercise. No single or partial exercise of such right or remedy shall preclude or restrict the further exercise of that (or any other) right or remedy.

10.4.2 Unless specifically provided otherwise, rights arising under these Terms and Conditions are cumulative and do not exclude rights provided by law.

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10.5 Law and Jurisdiction 10.5.1 These Terms and Conditions and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of England and Wales.

10.5.2 The parties irrevocably agree that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim that arises out of, or in connection with, Terms and Conditions or their subject matter.

Postal Charges Prices for books (items sent by this method are not covered by insurance) Weight

UK

EU

Rest of the World

Up to 1kg

£8 for any weight

£12

£15

Up to 2kg

£8 for any weight

£18

£25

Prices for all other items including postage and packaging Invoice Value

UK

EU

Rest of the World

Up to £1,500

£10

£15

£20

Above £1,501

£20

£30

£40

Shipments of more than 2kg or volumetric measurement of more than 2kg have to be sent by courier. Certain countries may incur extra charge when courier services are required by our insurance policy. For lots sent by courier please contact Auctionteam@spink.com for calculation of any further relevant cost in addition to the above charges.

Value Added Tax (VAT) Charging of (VAT) at Auction The information shown on this page sets out the way in which Spink intends to account for VAT.

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Auctioneers’ Margin Scheme 1. Where possible, we will offer Lots for sale under the Auctioneers’ Margin Scheme. Such Lots can be identified by the absence of any VAT symbol next to the Lot number in the catalogue and will not be subject to VAT on the Hammer Price.

2. Where Lots are sold using the Auctioneers’ Margin Scheme to VAT–registered businesses, the VAT included within the Buyers’ Premium is not recoverable as input tax. Upon request on sale day, we will issue invoices that show VAT separately on both the Hammer Price and the Buyer’s Premium. This will enable VAT-registered businesses to recover the VAT charged as input tax, subject to the normal rules for recovering input tax.

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Zero-Rated Lots Limited Categories of goods, such as books, are Zero-rated (o) for VAT in the United Kingdom. Such Lots are offered under the Auctioneers’ Margin Scheme. In these circumstances no VAT will be added to the Buyer’s premium.

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Daggered Lots Lots which are Daggered (†) in the catalogue are subject to VAT at 20% on both the Hammer Price and the Buyer’s Premium.

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Starred and Omega Lots Lots which are marked (x) in the catalogue are subject to VAT at 5% on the Hammer price plus 20% on the Buyer’s premium. Lots which bear the Omega symbol (Ω) are subject to VAT at 20% on the Hammer Price and on the Buyer’s Premium. Such Lots bear VAT because the Lot is liable for VAT at this rate on importation into the EU.

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Investment Gold Lots Lots marked (g) in the catalogue are exempt from VAT on the Hammer Price and are subject to VAT at 20% on the Buyer’s Premium. A refund of VAT charged on the Buyer’s Premium can also be made on receipt of proof of business as a collectibles dealer.

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Imported Lots Lots which are marked (x) and Lots which bear the Omega symbol (Ω) have VAT charged on the Hammer Price and Buyers’ Premium because they have been imported into the United Kingdom from outside the EU. In these cases we have used a temporary importation procedure, which in effect means that the point of importation is deferred until the Lot has been sold. At this point the Buyer is treated as the importer and is liable to pay the import VAT due. We will collect the VAT from you and pay it to HM Customs and Excise on your behalf.

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GROUP CHAIRMAN AND CEO Olivier D. Stocker

SALE CALENDAR 2013

YOUR SPECIALISTS STAMPS UK - Tim Hirsch Guy Croton David Parsons Nick Startup Neill Granger Paul Mathews Dominic Savastano Tom Smith USA - George Eveleth Arthur Poudrier EUROPE - Guido Craveri Fernando Martínez CHINA - Anna Lee COINS UK - Mike Veissid Paul Dawson Richard Bishop William MacKay Eleanor Charlotte Dix Tim Robson Barbara Mears John Pett USA - Stephen Goldsmith Greg Cole Normand Pepin CHINA - Mark Li BANKNOTES, BONDS & SHARES UK - Barnaby Faull Mike Veissid Andrew Pattison Tom Badley USA - Stephen Goldsmith CHINA - Mark Li ORDERS, DECORATIONS, MEDALS & MILITARIA UK - Mark Quayle Oliver Pepys BOOKS UK - Philip Skingley Annie Beadle AUTOGRAPHS USA - Stephen Goldsmith WINES CHINA - Anna Lee Guillaume Willk-Fabia YOUR EUROPE TEAM (LONDON - LUGANO) Chairman’s Office Monica Kruber Charles Blane Directors Tim Hirsch Anthony Spink Auction & Client Management Team Miroslava Adusei-Poku Luca Borgo Rita Ariete Sarah Schmitz John Winchcombe Harry Gladwin María Martínez Maurizio Schenini Finance Alison Bennet Marco Fiori Mina Bhagat Dennis Muriu Alison Kinnaird Billy Tumelty Claire Greenhill IT & Administration Berdia Qamarauli Attila Gyanyi Liz Cones Curlene Spencer Tom Robinson Cristina Dugoni Giacomo Canzi YOUR AMERICA TEAM (NEW YORK) Chairman Emeritus John Herzog Auction Administration and Marketing & Design Lori Lewin Finance & Administration Sam Qureshi Auctioneer Stephen Goldsmith YOUR ASIA TEAM (HONG KONG - SINGAPORE) Vice Chairman Anna Lee Administration Amy Yung Dennis Chan Newton Tsang Raymond Tat Gary Tan

STAMPS 15/16/17 April 17 April 19 April 19/20 April 20 April 20 April 21 May 5 June 28 June 10/11 July 15/16 August 10 September 11 September 21 September 21/22 September

The Collector’s Series Sale The “Lionheart” Collection of Great Britain and British Empire – Part I French Mail in the West Indies – The Federico Borromeo D’Adda Collection The Collector’s Series Sale, including important Chile and Portugal The Collector’s Series Sale Sicily – An International Large Gold Medal Collection The Award Winning “Medina” Collection of India, Part II Specialised Great Britain Sale The “Fordwater” Collection of Canada and BNA Colonies The Collector’s Series Sale The Collector’s Series Sale The Award Winning “Medina” Collection of India and States, Part III The Award Winning “Medina” Collection of Great Britain The Japanese Occupation Issues of South East Asia Stamps and Covers of South East Asia

London London Lugano Lugano Hong Kong Lugano London London New York London New York London London Singapore Singapore

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The Collector’s Series Sale The Collector’s Series Sale Ancient, British & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals Tibetan Coins from the Nick Rhodes Collection The Collector’s Series Sale North East Indian Coins from the Nick Rhodes Collection Ancient, British & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals Ancient, British & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals

Hong Kong New York London Hong Kong New York London London London

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World Banknotes The David Kirch Collection of Bank of England Notes Part II The David Kirch Collection of English Provincial Banknotes Part III: Wales and West Midlands The Collector’s Series Sale The Collector’s Series Sale The David Kirch Collection of English Provincial Banknotes Part IV: The North of England The Collector’s Series Sale World Banknotes The Ibrahim Salem Collection of African Banknotes World Banknotes

London London London Hong Kong New York London New York London London London

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Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria

London London London

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The Collector’s Series Sale The Collector’s Series Sale Bonds and Share Certificates of the World The Collector’s Series Sale Bonds and Share Certificates of the World

Hong Kong New York London New York London

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The Collector’s Series Sale The Collector’s Series Sale

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An Evening of Exceptional Wines An Evening of Exceptional Wines

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COINS 20 April 22/23 May 27 June 21 August 28/29 August 24 September 27 September 3 December

BANKNOTES 10/11/12 April 12 April 18 April 20 April 22/23 May 20 June 28/29 August 1/2 October 3 October 5 December

MEDALS 25 April 25 July 21 November

BONDS AND SHARES 20 April 22/23 May 7 June 28/29 August 28 November

AUTOGRAPHS 22/23 May 28/29 August

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WINES May September

The above sale dates are subject to change Spink offers the following services: – VALUATIONS FOR INSURANCE AND PROBATE FOR INDIVIDUAL ITEMS OR WHOLE COLLECTIONS – – SALES ON A COMMISSION BASIS EITHER OF INDIVIDUAL PIECES OR WHOLE COLLECTIONS –

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