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November 24, 2011- London

Order of Sale Thursday 24 November 2011 At 10.00 a.m.

Lots Groups and Pairs with Orders or Decorations for Gallantry or Distinguished Service ........................................................

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Honours and Awards Bestowed Upon Field Marshal The Lord Grenfell ...................................................................... 26 - 35 British Orders and Single Awards

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A Comprehensive Collection of Medals Relating to H.M.S. Powerful, For the Defence of Ladysmith

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Campaign Groups and Pairs Single Campaign Medals

A Collection of French Awards “The Property of a Gentleman�

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Foreign Orders, Decorations and Medals Miniature Awards

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Coronation, Jubilee, Meritorious, Efficiency and Long Service Decorations and Medals ........................................................ 280 - 335 Miscellaneous

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Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria

THURSDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2011 Commencing at 10.00 a.m.

All Sales are subject to the Conditions of Business printed at the back of this catalogue Estimates The estimated selling price of each lot is printed below the lot description and does not include the Buyer’s Premium.

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GROUPS AND PAIRS WITH ORDERS OR DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY OR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE 1 A Great War 1918 C.B., Scarce Campaign Combination Group of Six to Brigadier-General H.F. Kays, Highland Light Infantry, Mentioned in Despatches for the Miranzai Expedition, 1891, He Commanded the 2nd Battalion H.L.I., 1908-1912 a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companions (C.B.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, minor green enamel damage b) India General Service 1854-95, two clasps, Hazara 1891, Samana 1891 (Lieut. H.F. Kays 2d. Bn High L.I.) c) Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Transvaal (Capt: H.F. Kays, 1/High: L.I.) d) King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (Maj. H.F. Kays High. L.I.) e) British War Medal, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Brig. Gen. H.F. Kays.), officially re-impressed f) Coronation 1911, engraved in sans-serif upright capitals, ‘Lt. Col. H.F. Kays. Comdg. 2nd Bn. Highd.

L.I.’, back-straps removed from top clasps for mounting purposes, toned, generally very fine, campaign awards mounted as originally worn, with a photographic image of recipient (6) £1,400-1,800 C.B. London Gazette 3.6.1918 Col. (T./Brig.-Gen.) Horace Francis Kays ‘For services in connection with the War.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 6.7.1918 Kays, Col. (T./Brig.-Gen.) H. F. ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with the War.’ Brigadier-General Horace Francis Kays, C.B. (18611945); educated at Harrow; commissioned Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry, 1883; the previous year his elder brother, Dudley Kays, had been killed in action at Tel-el-Kebir, whilst serving with the same battalion; took part in the Hazara Expedition 1891, as Assistant Superintendent of Signalling (1 of 8 ‘Hazara 1891’ clasps to the regiment) and in the same year he served as Superintendent of Signalling on the Miranzai Expedition (1 of 7 ‘Samana 1891’ clasps to the regiment); during the latter expedition he was mentioned in Brigadier-General Sir W.S.A. Lockhart’s Despatches, ‘Lieutenant H.F. Kays, Highland Infantry, has superintended the signalling of the force since its concentration. I wish to record my high appreciation of the work done by all ranks of signallers, who have been by far the hardest worked men in the force’; Captain 1892; Adjutant 9th (Lanark) Volunteer Battalion, 1895-1899; served with the Regiment during the Second Boer War, briefly being sent home to recuperate from Enteric Fever, before returning to South Africa as Commandant at Barkley East, from July 1901; Major 29.10.1902; served as Lieutenant-Colonel,

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Brigadier-General H.F. Kays Officer Commanding, 2nd Battalion, 1908-1912; retired 1913 and during his Farewell Dinner, ‘A record gathering of Officers marked the celebration of St. Andrew’s Night at Mullingar, though one could wish that the occasion of a record attendance had not been that for many of those present it was the last opportunity of greeting Colonel Kays as Officer Commanding the Battalion. Colonel Kays was the guest of the evening, and twenty-five of his brother Officers were present to honour their guest. After reading various telegrams of greeting Major A.A. Wolfe-Murray said that, though he knew it was not the custom to make speeches at Mess, he felt sure that the Officers would wish him to propose the health of Colonel Kays. Colonel Kays had served in the Regiment for 29 years, and he was confident that he was voicing the feelings of all when he said that his approaching departure was deplored, not only by every Officer but also by every Non-Commissioned Officer and man in the Battalion. He wished Colonel Kays, in the name of all present, “Good luck in the future, and a speedy return to harness”’; appointed command of the Lothian Territorial Brigade, Edinburgh, 1.10.1913; Temporary BrigadierGeneral, August 1914; appointed to the command of a 2nd Line Territorial Brigade, consisting of the 2/5th, 2/6th, 2/7th and 2/9th Battalions Highland Light Infantry, 1916.

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2 The Great War 1916 ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. Group of Six to Lieutenant-Colonel J.L. Grinlinton, Royal Artillery and Royal Air Force a) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar b) China 1900, no clasp (2d. Lieut. J.L. Grinlinton R.A.), minor official correction to surname c) India General Service 1895-1902, E.VII.R., one clasp, Waziristan 1901-02 (Lt. J.L. Grinlinton. R.A.) d) 1914-15 Star (Capt: J.L. Grinlinton. R.G.A.) e) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Major J.L. Grinlinton.), generally good very fine or better, mounted as originally worn, with the following photographs &c.: - Five photographs of 31 Wing Headquarters and Mess, Baghdad, 1917 - Group Photograph of the Officers of 31 Wing HQ - Pencil drawing of the recipient (6) £1,400-1,800 D.S.O. London Gazette 26.9.1916 Maj. John Liesching Grinlinton, R.G.A. ‘For conspicuous gallantry during several days of operations. As Forward Observation Officer he sent back invaluable information. He was twice knocked over by shell-bursts, and his pluck and cheerfulness exercised great influence on his battery.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 15.6.1916 Grinlinton, Maj. J. L., Royal Garrison Artillery M.I.D. London Gazette 4.1.1917 Grinlinton, Maj. J. L., D.S.O., Royal Garrison Artillery M.I.D. London Gazette 27.8.1918 Grinlinton, Maj. J. L., D.S.O., Royal Air Force (frmly. R.G.A.) Lieutenant-Colonel John Liesching Grinlinton, D.S.O., born January 1880 Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 1st Volunteer Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, December 1898; transferred Royal Garrison Artillery, 10.1.1900; served with the Native Mountain Artillery, India, from 15.1.1901, and present during the operations in Waziristan, 1901-02; promoted Lieutenant, 3.4.1901; Appointed Assistant Instructor in Gunnery, Aden, 17.1.1910; Captain, 28.1.1911; served during the Great War on the Western Front from 23.4.1915 to 11.12.1916 (Twice Mentioned in Despatches and Awarded the D.S.O.); Major, 16.10.1915; served with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force from 1.2.1917 (Mentioned in Despatches whilst serving with the Royal Air Force); Lieutenant-Colonel, 31.1.1927; retired, 3.7.1931.

Throughout the 1920s Lieutenant-Colonel Grinlinton spent many years working for the Geological Survey of India, and in 1928 had published The former glaciation of the East Lidar Valley, Kashmir.

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31st Wing H.Q., Baghdad 1917 (Lieutenant-Colonel J.L. Grinlinton seated far right)

3 A Great War 1918 Egyptian Theatre ‘Cavalry’ D.S.O. Group of Six to Major D.H. McNeile, 19th Lancers, Indian Army a) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top-riband bar b) India General Service 1908-35, E.VII.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (Captn.

D.H. Mcneile. 19th Lancers.) c) 1914 Star (Maj. D.H. Mcneile, 19/Lncrs.) d) British War and Victory Medals, naming details erased e) Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, generally very fine or better (6) £800-1,200 D.S.O. London Gazette 8.3.1919 Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Hugh McNeile, 19th Lancers, Indian Army (EGYPT) ‘On the 19th-20th Sept. 1918, he, with his regiment, covered a distance of some 90 miles from Selmeh to Jisr Mujamia, within 48 hours, during which he seized and prepared for the demolition of the bridge at Jisr Mujamia by daylight. This performance included two consecutive all-night marches over difficult country, and during the whole period there was practically no rest for man or horse. He did fine work.’

Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Hugh McNeile, D.S.O., born 1871; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Artillery, 1891; transferred Captain, 19th Lancers, Indian Army, 10.7.1901; qualified as a Russian Interpreter the following year; Major 13.2.1909; served during the Great War as second in command of the regiment, from August 1915; Lieutenant-Colonel 13.2.1917; promoted to the command of the Regiment in 1918 (M.I.D. London Gazette 14.1.1917 and 11.6.1920); retired 1.6.1920; after the war resided at ‘The Laurels’, Sunbury Common, Middlesex.

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Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria 4 A Fine 1919 ‘Paris Peace Conference’ Military Division O.B.E., and Rare Airship Pilot’s A.F.C. Group of Five to Major J.E.M. Pritchard, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force, An Authority on Airships, He Was Admiralty Observer, and Photographer in R34 For One of the Great Feats of British Aviation - The First Return Atlantic Crossing By Air, July 1919. He Also Made History When He Parachuted Down From R34, Thus Making the First Airborne Landing on US Soil By A Foreigner. Pritchard Was Tragically Killed in the R38 Disaster, ‘When She Suddenly Buckled, Went Into a Slow Nose Dive and Then Broke Into Three Pieces, Spilling Men, Parts and Debris Into the River Humber’, 24.8.1921 a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, Officer’s (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for 1919) b) Air Force Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued c) 1914-15 Star (Ft. S. Lt. J.E.M. Pritchard. R.N.A.S.) d) British War and Victory Medals (Flt. Cr. J.E.M. Pritchard. R.N.A.S), generally very fine or better, with the following related items and documents: - The recipient’s miniature awards - Cases of issue for the O.B.E. and A.F.C. - Piece of the ‘cloth’ frame of R34, in a small glazed wooden frame - Bestowal Document for the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Military Division, O.B.E., dated 3.6.1919 - A small number of original photographs of the R34 taken from the ground at different angles - Original copies of The Daily Mirror, dated 14.7.1919; The New York Times, dated 7.7.1919; and the Springfield Republican, dated 7.7.1919, all headlining the story of the flight of R34; and The Day, dated 24.8.1921, and The New York Times, headlining the crash of the R38 - Five extremely comprehensive files of research, replete with copies of articles, letters and reports relating to the recipient and the R34 and R38, and several photographic images of the recipient (lot) £4,000-6,000 O.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1919 Capt. (A./Maj.) John Edward Maddock Pritchard A.F.C. London Gazette 22.12.1919 Flight Lieutenant (A./Squadron Leader) John Edward Maddock Pritchard, O.B.E. ‘In recognition of distinguished services rendered during the War and since the close of hostilities.’

Major Edward Maddock Pritchard, O.B.E., A.F.C., born Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, 1889; his father was of Welsh origin, but was born in the United States, and fought during the Civil War; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and the Royal School of Mines; made a Fellow of the Geological Society; commissioned Flight Sub Lieutenant, Royal Naval Air Service, 24.5.1915; graduated in practical ballooning and as an Airship Pilot, 1915; service during the Great War as an Airship Pilot, mainly flying sea patrols, included at R.N.A.S. Airship Station Polegate, where he was in command of S.S. (blimp) 9, from September 1915 and at Mudros, Eastern Mediterranean, where he was in command of S.S. 3, from April 1916; Flight Lieutenant 31.12.1916; advancing to Flight Commander the following year he went on to command C.24 whilst based at East Fortune and P.6 at

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Howden; posted to Admiralty Airship Department, as a Rigid Acceptance Pilot for Technical Flying Duties, September 1917; over the following year and a half Pritchard compiled various reports on German Zeppelin activity from a constructional, operational and technical flying point of view obtained by personal inspection of German Rigid Airships brought down over France, questioning German Rigid Airship Prisoners (in conjunction with the Air Intelligence Department, at Rouen) and translating captured note-books and log-books; appointed Technical Airship Officer, InterAllied Armistice Commission to Germany, under Admiral Browning, December 1918; appointed Admiralty Airship Representative to the Peace Conference, Paris (awarded O.B.E.), January 1919; in early 1919 he became involved in what was to be the highpoint of his career and one of the great feats of British aviation.

R34 - The First Return Atlantic Crossing By Air The R34, or ‘Tiny’ as her crew nicknamed her, was the biggest rigid airship in the British Fleet; constructed by William Beardmore & Company in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, Scotland, between 1918-1919, R34 made her maiden flight to her service base at East Fortune, East Lothian, 14.3.1919; from nose to tail she was 643 feet (almost three times the length of a Boeing 747 ‘Jumbo’ jet) and 92 feet high; approximately £242,000 (at the time) had been invested in the production of her to enable Britain to leapfrog the rest of the world in the ‘aviation race’; having carried out her first endurance flight of 56 hours over the Baltic, 17th-20th June, it was declared that the R34 would attempt to undertake not only the first East-to-West crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by air, but also the first return Atlantic crossing by air; if the flight were to succeed this would also constitute the longest flight ever by any aircraft and the longest time an airship had spent in the air, ‘flying an airship all the way across the Atlantic in the year 1919 was nothing to smile about. No one knew if it could be done... Aerial navigation was in its infancy.

During the war one seasoned Zeppelin skipper who set out to bomb Edinburgh found himself being forced down in Norway.... an airship... was subject to downdraughts and updraughts as well as headwinds, following winds and cross winds. No one knew what perils lurked in the upper air above the Atlantic..... No one had the means to study the high atmosphere for the direction of speed of the winds... From the R34’s crew of 30 (31 in the event- including a stowaway) the trans-Atlantic flight required faith in the technology, patience, a high degree of skill and a talent for improvisation.

Plus an ability to rough it on minimal rations in a chilly interior that reeked of petrol and vibrated ceaselessly to five unsynchronised aero engines. They had to try to snatch some sleep between four hour watches in narrow hammocks that were swaying between the girders. All this had to be suffered for days on end without even the comfort of a cigarette (most were smokers). And with the ever-present prospect that they might have to ‘ditch’ in the Atlantic and hope (rather than expect) to be rescued’ (Flight of the Titan, The Story of the R34, by G. Rose, refers); Pritchard was a member of the crew of 30, which with the exception of the American Observer present, had been with the R34 since her maiden flight, ‘The R34’s Captain, Major George Scott, had joined the RNAS at the outbreak of war in 1914, had skippered Britain’s first rigid airship and then commanded the (German built) nonrigid Parseval P4. Under Scott were his second officer, Captain Geoffrey Greenland, third officer Lieutenant Harold Luck, engineering officer Lieutenant John Shotter, navigating officer Major Gilbert Cooke, radio officer Lieutenant Ronald Durrant, and meteorological officer Lieutenant Guy Harris. Also on board were BrigadierGeneral Edward Maitland (observer for the Air Ministry), Major John Pritchard (observer for the Admiralty) and Lieutenant-Commander Zachery Lansdowne (observer for the U.S. Navy). Non-commissioned officers and other ranks comprised three coxswains, two wireless operators, eleven engineers (two for each engine and one specialising in petrol

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Major J.E.M. Pritchard supply) and four riggers’ (Ibid); given that this was such a massive undertaking with far reaching public interest on both sides of the Atlantic Maitland was placed in charge of press and public relations, writing a day-by-day narrative of the journeys, and Pritchard was equipped with a camera (the only one allowed onboard) to record not only aspects of technical interest in furthering airship research but also in an effort to control and strategically release pictures for publicity purposes at a later date by the Air Ministry.

Outward Bound The R34 took off from East Fortune in the early hours of 2.7.1919; along with supplies and fuel 112 pounds of mail and parcels were stowed aboard, including letters from King George V and the Prime Minister, for delivery to the President of the United States upon arrival; Maitland, who’s daily narrative survives, records Pritchard as taking part in the ‘first watch’ in the control car for the start of the Atlantic journey; this is one of many occasions that Pritchard is recorded in Maitland’s log including being constantly active with his camera on the first day of the trip, ‘passing over oil steamer going up the Clyde - the crew wave us a greeting.

Sunrise over lowest point of Bute. Very big storm over mainland on port beam and very dirty looking weather ahead.... Major Pritchard begins to get active with the camera’; basic conditions, including the only means of cooking food being a plate welded to the engine exhaust pipe, were made worse by the arrival of poor weather on the second day of the journey, ‘the rain is driving through the roof of the fore car in many places, and there is a thin film of water over the chart table. The wind is roaring to such an extent that we have to shout to make ourselves heard’; however, days 3-4 of the journey were to prove the most trying for all concerned - especially due to poor engine performance, increasingly worse weather and a rapidly diminishing supply of petrol; the latter gave particular cause for concern given that by day 3 they had used 75% of their

petrol supply with well over a 1,000 miles still to go to reach their landing site on Long Island; however, as Maitland records, they all mucked in to help the skipper and his engineers, ‘Having burnt a lot of petrol, the ship is so light, so Scott has to force her down on the elevators to get her into the cloud bank. We are now over a large ice-field - masses of broken ice floating on the surface in every direction. Take a turn with Pritchard of pumping petrol, which is a laborious and most unpleasant proceeding, and must be avoided in future ships’; by day four, having started with 5 engines the airship was down to 3, and it now encountered the worst weather of the trip going over the Bay of Fundy on the Atlantic coast of North America, ‘she was to be battered by head winds, threatened by thunderstorms, sent reeling by bizarre shifts in air pressure and jolted by atmospheric electricity. It went on for most of the day and into the evening, forcing the crew into their parachutes and to hang on grimly to anything they could find... there were times that Saturday when they feared for their lives. More than once it looked as if the R34 would meet its end over the islands of the Western Atlantic...... What made the pitching and tossing of the R34 over the Bay of Fundy so alarming and dangerous was the fact that some of the engines were stopping and then flaring back to life in bursts of flame. The possibility of a spark igniting a slight leakage of hydrogen, and then the petrol, was always present’ (Flight of the Titan, The Story of the R34, G. Rosie, refers); however by a combination of luck, and sheer bloody mindedness the R34 arrived over its intended landing place (the Roosevelt Field, Mineola, Long Island) at approximately 9.30am on the morning of 6th July 1919, as the correspondent for The Times describes, ‘With the band playing ‘God Save the King’ and thousands of spectators standing bareheaded, the R34 dipped groundwards and dropped anchor at 10 o’clock this morning after a voyage which up to last night even experts feared might end in disaster’; however, there was still one more problem to resolve - when it had appeared that the airship may have to

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Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria land elsewhere due to the shortage of petrol, ‘the 12-man British advance crew who had been trained to usher the airship back to earth had made a dash from Washington to Boston to be ready... they were still in Massachusetts when Scott decided that he had enough fuel to see the R34 to New York. Which meant that the US Army troops at Mineola were left to secure the R34 without instruction’; this could not be left to chance and it was decided that someone from the crew would have to parachute down to show the soldiers how to land and secure the ship, ‘Pritchard climbed out of his flying suit and into his best uniform, was helped out of one of the control car’s windows, and parachuted down from the R34 to make the first airborne landing on US soil by a foreigner. The New York Times described Pritchard’s jump as ‘Parachute Brings First Air Pilgrim to American Soil’. The ‘air pilgrim’ did his job, the American soldiers did theirs and at 09.54 (local time) the R34, trailing a Union flag and with a Lion Rampant of Scotland emblazoned on her nose, settled down onto Roosevelt Field. It was the triumphant conclusion of the first-ever east-west flight across the Atlantic and, at 108 hours 12 minutes, the longest any aircraft had been airborne. All the drinking water and most of the food had gone and there were only 140 gallons left in the R34’s petrol tanks, roughly enough for an hour’s flying. It had been touch and go, a very close run thing.’ (Flight of the Titan, The Story of the R34, G. Rosie, refers) Living the High Life Upon landing the crew were hit by a barrage of press and greeted by thousands of well-wishers; they received the following telegraph from the King, ‘Your flight marks the beginning of an era in which the English-speaking peoples, already drawn together in war, will be more closely united in peace’; the wave of enthusiasm and general euphoria surrounding the flight continued for the next four days as the crew were treated like celebrities, with the officers being put up in the Ritz Carlton, and being wined and dined by the ‘great and good’ culminating for some of them in meeting the President.

Homeward Bound With extensive repairs carried out, supplies replenished and a larger store of petrol taken on board the R34 took off at 23.54 hours, 10th July, ‘it was like something from another world. A huge stream-lined, silvery-blue shape caught in the crossbeams of powerful searchlights, prowling slowly over the Manhattan skyscrapers. In the early hours.... hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers rushed out onto the streets and rooftops and gaped up into the sky as the great ship, hundreds of feet long, rolled slowly across the city.

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the crew the return trip was to be much less eventful, the only real controversy was that the landing site was moved by the Air Ministry at the last minute from East Fortune to Pulham, Norfolk; this was to be a great disappointment for the crew as their loved ones were not there to greet them upon their return; in fact it was speculated that the Air Ministry did this in an attempt to carefully control and stage the release of details of the flight to the press - the Air Ministry later came in for heavy criticism for not giving the R34 the welcome home it deserved; the ‘Time of landing, 6.57am. Total time of return journey from Long Island, New York to Pulham, Norfolk, is therefore 75 hours and 3 minutes or 3 days, 3 hours and 3 minutes’ (Maitland’s log refers).

R38 Disaster Pritchard was posted as Acceptance Pilot & Technical Flying duties, Airship Experimental & Research Division, Air Ministry, 22.10.1919; made an Associate Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society, 1920, with whom he lectured upon Rigid Airships; as a Technical Expert he continued to work with Maitland and was employed as the airship trials officer for the R38, ‘on a fine evening on Wednesday, 24.8.1921, thousands of people in Hull flocked to the banks of the Humber to watch the stately progress of Britain’s newest airship, the R38. Bigger and more advanced than the R34, the R38 had been built by the Royal Airship works at Cardington..... and was due to be sold to the US Navy.

Manned by a crew of British and American airmen and a dozen or so engineers and observers, the R38 had completed two days of trials and was heading for the airship base at Howden, where she was to overnight before returning to Pulham in Norfolk. The airship had flown over Hull and was cruising at around 1,000 feet over the Humber when she suddenly buckled, went into a slow nose dive and then broke into three pieces, spilling men, parts and debris into the river.

The horrified crowd watched as the ship was racked by two explosions that shattered windows all over the city. Then the R38’s hydrogen and petrol bloomed into flame and the burning remains settled on the Humber, where the spilled fuel generated a barrage of flames. The last wireless message received from the R38 was terse: ‘Ship broken, falling.’ of the 51 men aboard the R38 only five survived..... Among the airmen killed that summer evening were three who had battled their way across the Atlantic in the R34’ (Flight of the Titan, The Story of the R34, G. Rosie, refers); two of those men were Maitland and Pritchard; the R38 had been designed with a structure that was too weak to withstand the pressures that would be placed upon its hull; something that Pritchard had highlighted in his reports on the test flights, protesting to the highest authorities, but to the cost of his life and many others, his protestations were ignored. Pritchard’s body was never recovered; he is commemorated on the Hull Western Cemetery Memorial.

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November 24, 2011- London 5 The 1937 ‘Shanghai Emergency’ Military Division M.B.E., Extremely Rare ‘R34’ A.F.C. Group of Nine to Second Lieutenant, Later Major-General, J.D.E. Shotter, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force; The Engineer Officer For R34’s Epic Flights Over the Atlantic in July 1919 - The First Return Atlantic Crossing By Air. Hailed as ‘The Hero of the Flight’ Shotter Went on to Have a Very Colourful Career that Spanned Five Decades and Four Continents, Including as A Technical Advisor to Chiang Kai-shek a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Military Division, Member’s (M.B.E.) breast Badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue b) Air Force Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued c) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (2/Lieut. J.D.E. Shotter. R.A.F.) d) War Medal (V143810 J.D.E. Shotter) e) Australia Service Medal (V143810 J.D.E. Shotter) f) Shanghai Municipal Council Emergency Medal 1937 g) Japan, Empire, China Incident 1937 Medal h) United States of America, Army Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, reverse engraved in sans-serif capitals, ‘John D. Shotter’, light contact marks overall, generally very fine, with the following related items and documents: - Menu from R34 Commemorative Lunch, Sponsored by the American Bosch ARMA Corporation, and held at the Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, 15.12.1958 - Original copies of The Atlanta Constitution, dated 2.7.1919, 3.7.1919, and 7.7.1919; The Boston Post, dated 10.7.1919, all headlining the story of the flight of R34 - Five extremely comprehensive files of research, replete with copies of articles, letters and reports relating to the recipient and R34, and several photographic images of recipient (lot) £3,500-4,500 M.B.E. London Gazette 9.6.1938 Captain John Denham Shotter, A.F.C., Shanghai Volunteer Corps.

A.F.C. London Gazette 23.8.1919 2nd Lieutenant John Durham [sic] Shotter ‘In recognition of distinguished services rendered to Aviation, in the successful voyages of Airship R.34 from the United Kingdom to the United States of America and back :Outward journey. Left East Fortune at 1.42am, 2nd July, 1919, and arrived at Hazelhurst Field [sic], Long Island, at 1.54pm (G.M.T.), 6th July, 1919. (Duration, 108 hours 12 minutes). Homeward journey. Left Long Island 3.54am (G.M.T.), 10th July, 1919, and arrived at Pulham, Norfolk, at 6.57am, 13th July, 1919. (Duration, 75 hours 3 minutes.)

Major-General John Denham Erwin Shotter, M.B.E., A.F.C. (1890-1974), born Freshwater, Isle of Wight; educated at Buxton College; employed as an Engineer at Vickers Ltd, Birmingham, 1912-1915; enlisted Royal Naval Air Service as a Petty Officer Mechanic, 12.11.1915; service during the Great War included at H.M.S. President II, November 1915-January 1917, and at the following Airship Stations: R.N.A.S. Longside, Aberdeen; R.N.A.S. Pulham, Norfolk and R.N.A.S. Howden, Yorkshire; commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Air Force, 1.4.1918; posted as Engineer Officer to Inchinnan, Scotland, to help with the construction of R34, October 1918; having seen the huge airship riveted together piece by piece Shotter obviously

knew the R34 inside out, and as such was perfectly placed to be Major George Scott’s (the Skipper of R34) right-hand man and the Engineering Officer for the airship’s attempt at the first return Atlantic crossing by air.

To America and Back - An Engineers’ View Shotter was a member of the very seasoned crew that embarked upon R34’s epic flight over the Atlantic in the early hours of 2.7.1919; the conditions are well known to have been rough for all of the crew as were the stresses involved during the flight, however, the constant strain placed upon Shotter to keep R34 airborne was a greater physical burden than placed upon anybody else during the flights (perhaps with the exception of the Skipper); by day 2 of the voyage Maitland records (in the daily log that he kept), ‘Lieutenant Shotter, Engineer Officer, who, through many causes has been prevented from getting his fair share of sleep, is beginning to feel rather exhausted, and is dosed with aspirin

by Luck, who is our amateur doctor for the voyage in addition to his duties as Third Officer’; the main issue for Shotter was his constant battle with the five Sunbeam engines that were to power the huge Rigid Airship; their deficiencies and Shotter’s ingenuity became apparent with almost immediate effect, ‘trouble with starboard amidships engine.

Engine stopped. No details yet. Engine restarted. A small screw on water jacket had worked loose, and this has been made secure with a piece of copper sheeting and the entire supply of the crew’s chewing gum (which was hastily chewed first by Engineer Officer and two engineers!’ (Ibid); days 3-4 were to be the most tortuous of the journey for Shotter - the weather worsened which meant petrol consumption increased as the engine productivity decreased; by day 3 they had used 75% of their petrol supply with well over a 1,000 miles still to go to reach their landing site on Long Island, ‘as the flight went on, John Shotter grew increasingly anxious about the petrol supply. The Sunbeam ‘Maori’ engines in his charge were drinking petrol at a faster rate than had been expected. Every time R34 ran into a westerly wind her fuel consumption shot up alarmingly. With Guy Harris, the R34’s meteorologist, predicting strong winds off the American continent, Shotter had good reason to be worried’ (Flight of the Titan, The Story of the R34, G. Rosie, refers); by day 4, having started with 5 engines the airship was down to 3, and it now encountered the worst weather of the trip going over the Bay of Fundy on the Atlantic coast of North America, ‘We are just getting into Fundy Bay. The petrol supply is distinctly serious. Shotter has been totalling up our available resources with ever-increasing anxiety. We cannot now afford to run all five engines at once, as they would eat up too much petrol. We have 500 miles yet to go to New York, and if we don’t get any wind or bad weather against us can do it alright on three engines, assisted occasionally by a fourth’ but as Maitland then goes on to record later the weather was not as they would have hoped for, ‘It is difficult to the size of these storms, but as the squalls which hit the ship were about 50 miles from the storm itself, the area covered must have been many thousands of square miles.... Shotter happened to be lying full length alongside drogue hatch when the last squall hit us and, when ship’s nose first went down, would have slid through hatch into sea if he had not hooked a girder with his foot!’; with their goal so close and yet looking so desperately unreachable, Shotter pulled out all the stops to reach Mineola and thus make history, ‘In the early hours of Sunday morning John Shotter whistled up a squad of engineers and riggers equipped with cups, pots, jars and anything else that could hold liquid, to scoop every last drop of petrol from the dregs of the petrol tanks and pump it into the feed tanks to the R34’s five engines. It worked, but only just. By 07.20 the R34 was over Montauk with no need to land. By 08.00 it was clear they had enough fuel to Mineola’; by 09.30, 6.7.1919, the crew were staring down at the gathering crowds waiting to welcome them at Roosevelt Field, Mineola, Long Island, ‘It is a bright clear morning, and we can see a long line of motorcars of every sort and size streaming out from New

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Lieutenant Shotter (left) with General Maitland York to see us comein. There is a large motor enclosure half a mile long, where cars are standing - already six deep. I find myself mechanically counting the rows - an enormous multitude of people are gazing up at us, and a military band is playing in front of a grandstand erected for the occasion’ (Maitland refers); the first ever east-to-west flight across the Atlantic had taken 108 hours and 12 minutes, with most supplies gone and more tellingly only enough petrol left for approximately one hours’ flying.

Burning the Candle at Both Ends As the crew marched out of the airship to the cheers of thousands of well-wishers they became instant celebrities something for which a lot of them were totally unprepared for; one of the photographs ‘published by the New York Times shows seven of the R34’s officers standing awkwardly in line and the only one that looks like he’s enjoying the attention is Maitland. In his white flying suit and with the brass on his peaked hat gleaming, he stands out among the dowdier uniforms. By contrast John Shotter, the hero of the flight, looks downright scruffy’ (Flight of the Titan, The Story of the R34, G. Rosie, refers); with the media whipped up into a frenzy the crew were rushed off to various functions over the course of the next few days, with barely a moment to themselves or more importantly to rest, ‘By the time we reached Boston I had been without sleep for almost 80 hours and on landing at Mineola I passed out...... As the Engineer Officer of the ship on her journey across the Atlantic, I soon discovered many technical shortcomings that it had been impossible to anticipate, and which imposed a considerable strain on the engineering section of the crew, even during the brief rest periods. And of course there were accidents such as when a rigger allowed the lid of a stewpan to fly off in the slipstream, where it was caught by the propeller and thrown against the envelope. In order to inspect the damage, I had

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to crawl out into the slipstream over the roof of the starboard gondola - not a pleasant job, with nothing else between me and the Atlantic 3,000 ft. below...... I was taken to the Ritz Carlton in New York where - still rather dizzy - I was besieged by reporters in my room on the sixteenth floor.

Apparently I had staggered as I looked down over Broadway, for my photograph appeared in the morning newspaper over the caption ‘Gallant Englishman flies the Atlantic and faints at the sight of height.’ (Foreword provided by Shotter in Atlantic Airship, by P. Abbot, refers).

Here We Go Again R34’s ‘sojourn in the USA was not all wining and dining, at least not for everyone. There was work to be done. In the four days the airship had spent over the Atlantic it had taken quite a hammering. There were rents in the outer fabric to be repaired, some minor leaks in the hydrogen bags and the troublesome Sunbeam engines had to be stripped down, overhauled and parts replaced. Shotter and the engineers were kept busy cleaning carburettors and magnetos’ (Flight of the Titan, The Story of R34, G. Rosie, refers); it must have been to Shotter’s great relief when an increased petrol load was taken onboard for the return leg of R34’s trip; thankfully for him the strains of the 10th-13th July were not a repeat of those experienced on the east-to-west flight of a few days earlier; apart from the customary engine failure Shotter arrived at Pulham, Norfolk a relieved man; in the days following his return Shotter produced a detailed report for the Air Ministry on the machinery of R34, ‘On Monday, 25 August, the press announced the awards for the R34’s crew...

There was a C.B.E. (Military Division) for Scott, Air Force Crosses for Maitland, Cooke, Harris and Shotter and Air Force Medals for five Other Ranks - Gent, Mayes, Robinson, Ripley and Scull.’ (Ibid)

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Major-General J.D.E. Shotter (right) Now to Explore the Other Side of the World Having been discharged in 1922 Shotter travelled to China in the 1930’s where he was employed as Chief Engineer and Traffic Manager of the China General Omnibus Company in Shanghai; he was appointed Officer Commanding The Transport Company, Shanghai Volunteer Corps, 1.1.1936; he moved to Australia for service during the Second World War, where he was commissioned Major, Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, November 1941; transferred to the Reserve of Officers, 16.4.1946; in later life, after a very varied and well travelled career, Shotter went on to make several claims about his life as illustrated in an interview that he gave to the Washington D.C. based Star Magazine: ‘Although his pioneering exploits have been obscured by time and the obliterating roar of jets, John D. Shotter can claim a fat share of “firsts” in aviation history.

Examples: - First man to step on American soil from a trans-Atlantic flight.

- First sender and deliverer of trans-Atlantic air mail.

- First Englishman to land an airplane on a ship deck.

- First engineer of the first passenger airship.

- And a developer of Australia’s first bomber and first major air force.

A deceptively youthful 68, Mr. Shotter is anchored to a desk today as a civilian executive in the Amry’s transportation centre here. A quiet reserved man, he looks back unemotionally on a many-sided career that has spanned five decades and four continents. In addition to his aerial achievements, he was a long-time technical adviser to China’s Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, a rehabilitator of Japan’s automotive Industry after World War II, a leading defender of Shanghai’s international settlement against both Chinese

and Japanese assaults in 1937..... He was engineer commander of the British Dirigible R34, the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic both ways....”I didn’t expect to get home again, to tell the truth,” Mr. Shotter admits. “The R34 was virtually untested when we took off from East Fortune, Scotland, on short notice. Britain, at the time, was anxious to cement relations with America, and our flight was planned hurriedly to express this feeling and to demonstrate the commercial possibilities of airships. We carried messages between King George V and President Wilson. Being first off the ship, I delivered the first trans-Atlantic air mail. I also dropped the first air-mail postcard. Above Newfoundland, I addressed it to my wife, then tossed it over. I learned later it lodged in a tree, where a trapper found it. He took it to his postmaster, and it arrived at my home about four months later. I still have it.”...... Following his service aboard the R34, he was assigned to the R36, the first passenger airship.

“I flew in her about a year,” he said. “She crashed in 1921, and I was one of the few aboard lucky enough not to be killed.”....... When Great Britain entered World War II, he went to Australia and joined that country’s Aircraft Production Commission....... “After the war, I ..... went to Japan to help rehabilitate the automotive industry there. In Japan, I met Gen. (Frank S.) Besson, now Chief of Transportation for the Army. He sponsored me, as an alien, into your civil service, and in 1954 brought me and my wife to Fort Eustis. “I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to America and Gen. Besson. I love my work. I’m Deputy Civilian Chief of the Combat Development Group, which forecasts all Transportation Corps material needs. It’s my kind of work - up in Cloud 9 all day.”’ Returning closer to home, Shotter lived out the rest of his life on Sark, Channel Islands.

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6 A Great War ‘Egyptian Theatre’ O.B.E. Group of Four to Major W.W. Forbes, Royal Army Medical Corps a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, Officer’s (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1919) b) 1914-15 Star (Lieut. W.W. Forbes. R.A.M.C.) c) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Major W.W. Forbes.), nearly extremely fine, together with a photograph of the Aberdonian (4) £200-250 O.B.E. London Gazette 1.1.1919 T./Capt. William Wood Forbes, R.A.M.C. ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Egypt.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 22.1.1919 Forbes, T./Capt. W.W., O.B.E., Army Medical Service and Royal Army Medical Corps ‘For his service during the period from 16th March, 1918, to 18th September, 1918.’

Major William Wood Forbes, O.B.E., (1867-1926), born Stoke Damerel, Devon; educated at Edinburgh University; Commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps, 10.10.1914; served with the Medical Corps during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre from 15.3.1915, on the staff of H.M. Hospital Ship Aberdonian; promoted Captain, 10.10.1915; Major, 29.5.1918

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7 A Post-War 1966 M.B.E. Group of Eight to Commander C. Hills, Royal Navy a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Military Division, Member’s (M.B.E.) breast Badge, silver b) 1939-1945 Star c) Atlantic Star d) Africa Star, with North Africa 1942-43 Bar e) Burma Star f) War Medal, M.I.D. Oakleaf g) Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (C.E.O. (L).

C. Hills R.N.) h) United Nations Medal for Korea, good very fine or better, with the recipient’s full and miniature width riband bars; and a photograph of the recipient being presented to H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (8) £350-450 M.B.E. London Gazette 11.6.1966 Electrical Lieutenant Commander (L) Claude Hills, Royal Navy.

M.I.D. London Gazette 1.1.1946 Chief Electrical Artificer Claude Hills, P/MX.49535.

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x8 A Good Great War 1917 Western Front ‘Casualty’ M.C. Group of Five to Second Lieutenant E.H. Sherman, Essex Regiment a) Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse privately inscribed ‘Awarded by H.M. George V to 2/Lt. E.H. Sherman.

13th. Essex Buckingham Palace 23/3/18.’ b) 1914-15 Star (13003 Cpl. E. Sherman. Essex R.) c) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (2. Lieut E.H. Sherman.) d) Defence Medal, very fine or better (5) £900-1,100 M.C. London Gazette 26.7.1917 Temp. 2nd Lt. Ernest Henry Sherman, Essex R. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when in charge of an advanced observation post. He remained at his post sending back valuable information to Battalion Headquarters, until all his post were killed or wounded, and he was wounded himself.’

Second Lieutenant Ernest Henry Sherman, M.C., served with the 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 27.7.1915; Commissioned temporary Second Lieutenant, 13th Battalion, Essex Regiment, 24.7.1916; relinquished his commission on account of ill-health caused by wounds, 14.2.1918.

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9 A Great War 1917 Western Front M.C. Group of Four to Lieutenant C.A. Trimm, Royal Field Artillery a) Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse privately engraved ‘Awarded to Lieut C.A. Trimm R.F.A. Sept. 1917.

Presented by King George V. July 31st. 1919.’ b) British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C.A. Trimm.) c) Defence Medal, extremely fine (4) £600-800 M.C. London Gazette 18.10.1917 2nd Lt. Charles Algernon Trimm, R.F.A., Spec. Res. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when the battery position was being heavily shelled. The camouflage of two guns caught fire, and this officer at once ran out and, filling buckets from adjacent shell holes, succeeded, in extinguishing the fire, although the sandbags around the guns had caught alight. After he had got under over he saw that an ammunition dump had been hit and was alight, and he, accompanied by a gunner, again went out to extinguish the fire.’

Lieutenant Charles Algernon Trimm, M.C., Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery Special Reserve, 23.12.1916; served with the Artillery in France from 30.3.1917; awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in September 1917; promoted Lieutenant, 23.6.1918. During the Second World War Lieutenant Trimm served with the Surrey Army Cadet Force as part of the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers.

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10 A Superb Second War 1945 ‘Immediate’ Italian Theatre M.C. Group of Six to Jemadar Amir Shah, 12th Frontier Force Regiment, Indian Army, For His ‘Magnificent Leadership and Contempt For Danger in the Decisive Defeat of a Bold and Well Organised Enemy Raid’ a) Military Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1945’ b) India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (9742 Sep. Amir Shah, 1-12 F.F.R.) c) 1939-1945 Star d) Italy Star e) Defence and War Medals, generally very fine or better (6) £1,500-2,000 M.C. London Gazette 5.7.1945 Jemadar Amir Shah (47732 IO), 12th Frontier Force Regiment, Indian Army ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy.’

The recommendation, dated 31.3.1945, states: ‘On 24 March 1945, Jemadar Amir Shah’s platoon was holding a position on the east floodbank of the river Senio near Bagnacavallo, with section posts on the bank and in houses just behind. The enemy held positions on the west floodbank, and also had further positions on the same floodbank which enabled him to cover the platoon from both flanks. The platoon was harassed continually by mortars, grenades, and snipers. At 09:00 hours, supported by mortars, medium guns, and rockets on neighbouring localities, and by Spandaus from the flanks, the enemy launched a sudden raid.Rushing to the top of the bank, preceded by a shower of high explosives and smoke grenades, and firing Bazookas, the enemy demolished two posts, killing two men and wounding a third. Jemadar Amir Shah, disregarding the hail of bullets and grenades, ran forward to the threatened section and with a Thompson sub-machine gun and grenades killed two enemy and forced the remainder to withdraw. He then ran from post to post encouraging his men and hurling grenades until the attack had been completely smashed. Seven enemy were killed on the bank and other casualties were certainly inflicted but covering fire from the far bank prevented a detailed count. The magnificent leadership and contempt for danger of this V.C.O. were the major factors in the decisive defeat of this bold and well organised enemy raid.’

Jemadar Amir Shah, M.C., enlisted in the 12th Frontier Force Regiment, 27.10.1929; Commissioned Jemadar, 26.2.1944.

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11 A Second War ‘1944’ Halifax Air-Gunner’s D.F.C. Group of Five to Rear Gunner Flight Lieutenant R. Peters, Royal Air Force a) Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1944’ and privately engraved ‘F/Lt R. Peters’ b) 1939-1945 Star c) Air Crew Europe Star, with France and Germany Bar d) Defence and War Medals, nearly extremely fine, mounted as originally worn, with the following related items: - Royal Mint case of issue for the D.F.C. - The recipient’s Flying Log Book, covering the period 14.11.1942 - 27.8.1945 - Royal Air Force Sweetheart’s Brooch, in the form of the R.A.F. eagle, with crown above and the initials ‘R.A.F.’ within wreath, bronze and enamel - Photograph of the recipient - Copy of the Bolton Evening News interview with the recipient, 4.6.2004, to mark the 60th Anniversary of D-Day, and copies of various other newspaper cuttings (5) £1,800-2,200 D.F.C. London Gazette 6.6.1944 Pilot Officer Ronald Peters (54270), Royal Air Force, No. 78 Squadron.

The recommendation, dated 12.3.1944, states: ‘This Officer has now completed his first operational tour consisting of 25 sorties. His work has always been of a very high order. On operations which have often been against the most heavily defended targets he has proved himself to be most courageous and efficient. His watchfulness and skill have undoubtedly contributed much towards the success of his crew which was one of the best in the Squadron. For his devotion to duty, and coolness in face of the enemy, he is most strongly recommended for the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross.’

Remarks by Station Commander: ‘This Officer has now completed an operational tour during which some of the enemy’s most heavily defended targets have been effectively attacked. Pilot Officer Peters has proved himself to be a most efficient air gunner and has always shown coolness and courage in the face of danger. He has largely contributed to the successful completion of his crew’s operational tour. I strongly recommend that this Officer’s good record should be recognised by the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross.’

Remarks by Air Officer Commanding: ‘This Air Gunner has proved his courage and skill on operations and I strongly recommend the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross.’

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Flight Lieutenant Ronald Peters, D.F.C., was born in Deane, Lancashire, in June 1920, and was educated at White Bank Central School. On leaving school he worked for the engineering firm of Hick, Hargreaves and Co. Ltd., and on the outbreak of the Second World War, despite working in a reserved occupation, enlisted in the Royal Air Force, serving initially as a member of the ground crew which helped direct Spitfire and Hurricane fighters during the Battle of Britain. In November 1942 he took to the skies for the first time in a Botha, training as an Air Gunner, and joined 78 Squadron (Halifaxes) at the end of June 1943 as a Rear Gunner. His first mission with his new Squadron was on the 13th July 1943 on a raid over Aachen; over the next six months he took part in a further 24 missions, including raids over Essen, 25.7.1943; Hamburg, 27.7 and 2.8.1943; Milan, 12.8.1943; Hannover, 22.9.1943 ‘ME.109 Destroyed’ (Log Book refers); Dusseldorf, 3.11.1943; Frankfurt, 25.1.1943 ‘ME.110 Probable’ (ibid); and Berlin, 29.12.1943. Throughout he and his crew had to put up with a lot of anti-aircraft flak from

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the enemy on the ground: ‘It wasn’t a business trip by any stretch of the imagination. I lost a lot of good friends and colleagues through the anti-aircraft fire. I suppose I was fortunate to survive.’ (Interview with the recipient, reported in the Bolton Evening News, 4.6.2004, refers). Commissioned a Pilot Officer in January 1944, by the time D-Day arrived he was serving as a gunner instructor in Scotland, but he was soon back in action with 35 Squadron (Lancasters), Path Finder Force: ‘I never thought that the D-Day landings would bring about an end to the War- I just had to keep on going every day, trying to survive’ (ibid). Promoted Flying Officer, 16.7.1944, he took part, amongst other operations, in subsequent missions over Hamburg, 8.3.1945; Essen, 11.3.1945; Dortmund, 12.3.1945; and Kiel, 9.4.1945, and was promoted to Flight Lieutenant, 16.1.1946.

Flight Lieutenant Peters was invested with his Distinguished Flying Cross by H.M. the King at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, on the 21st September 1944.

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12 A Rare 1966 ‘Borneo’ D.F.C. Pair to Helicopter Pilot, Flight Lieutenant, Later Squadron Leader, D.A.W. Todman, 110 Squadron Royal Air Force; Previously A Jet Fighter Pilot Todman Increased His Range To Whirlwinds and Sycamores and Developed into A Helicopter Jungle Flying Specialist; Making Sorties Out of R.A.F. Seletar, He Carried Out S.A.S. Ground Support Missions and V.I.P. Flights Including ‘H.R.H. Prince Philip’, 1965. Returning to the UK He Spent Several Years With 22 (Search and Rescue) Squadron, Flying a Large Number of Air to Sea Rescues and Culminating in Being Presented with the Wilkinson Sword of Peace, on Behalf of the Squadron, July 1969 a) Distinguished Flying Cross, E.II.R., reverse dated ‘1966’ b) General Service 1962-2007, two clasps, Borneo, Malay Peninsula last clasp loose on riband as issued (Flt. Lt. D.A.W. Todman. R.A.F.), light contact marks to campaign medal, otherwise very fine or better, mounted court-style as originally worn, with the following related items and documents: - 110 (Hyderabad) Squadron Shield, slightly damaged - Three Royal Air Force Pilots Flying Log Books (covering the periods 20.5.1953-31.10.1955, 1.11.1955-8.5.1962 and 5.6.1962-10.6.1978 respectively) - Commission appointing D.A.W. Todman as Acting Pilot Officer, with effect from 13.5.1953, dated 2.9.1953

- Commission appointing D.A.W. Todman as Flying Officer, with effect from 1.10.1956, dated 26.2.1957 - Four Congratulatory telegrams upon the award of the D.F.C. and six letters to the same effect, including from Air Vice-Marshal C.N. Foxley-Norris, G.C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E. - Portrait photograph of recipient in uniform and two photographic images - Named Investiture Invitation, dated 27.6.1966; Programme for the Consecration and Presentation of the Squadron Standard (110 Sqn), dated 3.12.1965; and a copy of the London Gazette, dated 20.5.1966 (lot) £12,000-16,000 D.F.C. London Gazette 24.5.1966 Flight Lieutenant David Arthur Warren Todman (4115150), Royal Air Force ‘In recognition of distinguished service in the Borneo Territories’ Squadron Leader David Arthur Warren Todman, D.F.C., born 1930; commissioned Acting Pilot Officer, Royal Air Force, May 1953; posted to No. 1. F.T.S. Moreton-inMarsh, later that month, he carried out Pilot training in Prentices and Harvards; posted to 211 F.T.S. to undertake jet fighter training in Meteors, June 1954; after further training at the Central Navigation and Control School at Shawbury he was posted for training in Vampires at No. 4 F.T.S., R.A.F. Middleton St. George, June 1955; after flight time in Hunter Jets Todman was posted as Pilot to 98 Squadron (Hunters), Jever, Germany, 25.11.1955; Jever operated as a N.A.T.O. main Fighter Base; stayed with the squadron until it was disbanded in July 1957, when he was posted to H.Q. 2nd T.A.F. and was still serving in that capacity when it was redesignated R.A.F. Germany in 1959; returned to the UK and

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Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria carried out training in Canberras before being posted to 58 (Photo Reconnaisance) Squadron (Canberras), Wyton, May 1961; after nine years flying jets Todman was posted to C.F.S. Ternhill for conversion to Helicopters, where he flew Sycamores and Whirlwinds, from May 1963; posted 110 Squadron (Whirlwinds), Kuala Lumpur, October 1963; Todman was appointed Officer Commanding B Flight; the squadron flew in support of operations against Indonesian terrorists infiltrating into Malaysia and North Borneo, involving troops and freight lifting, communications and casualty evacuation; flying on frequent trips to Kuching, Brunei and Labuan the squadron also provided a search and rescue service for the Singapore area - 19.12.1963, ‘Rescue of Fg. Off. Norsworthy’ (Log Book refers) and the following day ‘Search for crashed Sabre’ (Ibid); in January 1964 Todman moved with the squadron to R.A.F. Seletar and continued to fly a mixture of V.I.P. Flights, 28.1.1964, ‘V.I.P. Lift to H.M.S. Dufton’; 29.8.1964, ‘V.I.P. Dep. P.M.’ and ground support of Malaysian and British troops in Borneo and Malaya including: 1.4.1964, ‘Paratroop Dropping - Changi’; 13.7.1964, ‘Bareo - Mission 05, 35 Troops, 3,300lbs’; 20.7.1964, ‘Trooplift - 1/10GR. No.40 Commo.’; 6.6.1964, ‘Photo Recce of S.A.M. Site’; 22.10.1964, ‘S.A.S. Trooplift - Duran’; and on 9.11.1964, when Todman was Commended by the Air Officer Commanding No. 224 Group, Air Vice-Marshal C.N. Foxley-Norris, ‘In recognition of his outstanding skill in landing his aircraft in most difficult circumstances.

‘Flight Lieutenant D.A.W. Todman, on the 9th November 1964, was flying Whirlwind MK 10 XK 968 from Seletar to Terendak. Whilst flying straight and level at 1,000 feet near Batu Phat the engine noise faded, the gas generator revolution suddenly decreased and the power turbine inlet temperature rose to 700 degrees centigrade. Flight Lieutenant Todman selected the computer out and attempted to restore the engine revolutions by using the manual throttle; this had no beneficial effect and the PTIT reading rose above 750 degrees centigrade.

Flight Lieutenant Todman stopped the engine, transmitted a “Mayday” call and warned his two passengers that he was making an engine off landing. There was only one patch clear of secondary jungle within the aircraft’s autorotative range and he made an approach into this. The landing run was short, but unfortunately, the ground was so soft that the fuselage pitched forward and the consequent flapback of the blades sheared the aircraft’s tail cone and one rotor blade came off. Neither Flight Todman or his passengers were injured and only a small amount of damage was caused to a young crop in the clearing.

Flight Lieutenant Todman displayed a high standard of airmanship and acted calmly and competently throughout this emergency. The nature of the landing surface unfortunately robbed him of a perfect forced landing, but through his skilful handling of the situation he saved the lives of his passengers and preserved the aircraft from irreparable damage’ (Commendation included in lot refers).

Todman’s high work load of ground support for specialist units and V.I.P. flights continued into the new year, 12.1.1965 ‘S.A.S. Recce’; 18.1.1965 ‘Gen. Sir James Cassels - PA Main’; 2.3.1965 ‘H.R.H. Prince Philip, Muara Brunei’; 22.4.1965 ‘S.A.S. - Resupply of Lost Patrol’; as the year progressed so too did the number of trooplifts and casevacs carried out; December 1965 was mostly spent doing ‘Border Recces’ and in support of S.A.S. ground units, 19.12.1965 ‘Oasis - 272 - S.A.S. Patrol’ and 23.12.1965 ‘Oasis - 051 - S.A.S.’; he spent the following four months with the squadron in a similar capacity before being posted back to the UK, July 1966, after nearly three years of continual jungle flying; Squadron Leader 1.7.1966; invested with his D.F.C. by the Queen at Buckingham Palace, 12.7.1966; posted to 22 (Search and Rescue) Squadron (Whirlwinds), St. Mawgan, Cornwall, July 1966; over the next two years Todman carried out numerous rescue missions

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Squadron Leader D.A.W. Todman having received the Wilkinson Sword of Peace on behalf of 22 Squadron, July 1969

including: 17.8.1966 ‘Woolacombe - N.D.1 Drowned Man’; two in one day 31.8.1966 ‘Cliff Rescue - Hangman’s Point’ and ‘Capsized Boat, River Tor’; 15.9.1967 ‘Ops. Drowning Boy’; subsequent postings included to H.Q. No. 19 Group and with the 3rd International Helicopter Project before returning to 22 Squadron, July 1969, where he was presented with the Wilkinson Sword of Peace on behalf of the Squadron; in June of the following year, having left the R.A.F., he obtained a commercial helicopter pilot’s licence and joined the British Executive Air Services Limited flying light two seater helicopters like the Brantly B2B and the Bell 47G; between 1972 and 1982 Todman undertook Gas Line patrols and patrols for the West Mercia Constabulary on a self-employed basis; police patrols included: 4.6.1976 ‘Police Search - Armed Robbery’ and 6.6.1976 ‘Police Patrol - 3 suspects caught’ (Log Book refers); in 1982 he formed his own company called Air 80, and undertook private commissions including work for Pinewood Studios.

1 of 11 D.F.C.’s awarded for Borneo.

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13 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 1889-92, 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 £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, noncommissioned 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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14 14 An 1898 Sudan D.C.M. Group of Four to Private A. Cameron, Seaforth Highlanders a) Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Pte. A. Cameron. Sea: Higrs.) b) India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., one clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (4663 Pte. A. Cameron 2nd Bn. Seaforth Highrs.) c) Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (4663. Pte A. Cameron.

1/Sea Hrs.), suspension claw slack d) Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, two clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum, top lugs filled with retaining rod (4663 Pte. A. Cameron 1st “Sea” Highrs”), light contact marks overall, therefore very fine (4) £4,500-5,500 D.C.M. Recommendation submitted to the Queen 6.4.1899, and published in Army Order 153/99, September 1899.

1 of 8 D.C.M.’s awarded to the regiment for the Campaign.

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15 15 A Great War 1917 Battle of Cambrai ‘V.C. Action’ D.C.M. Group of Four to Bombardier F.C. Gould, Royal Artillery a) Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (60701 L. Bmbr: F.C. Gould. C. 63/Bde: R.F.A.) b) 1914-15 Star (60701 Gnr: F.C. Gould. R.F.A.) c) British War and Victory Medals (60701 Bmbr. F.C. Gould. R.A.), toned, generally good very fine or better with three newspaper cuttings (4) £800-1,000 D.C.M. London Gazette 28.3.1918 60701 L./Bombr. F.C. Gould, R.F.A. (Chelsea), ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during an enemy advance when he formed one of a detachment under an N.C.O. He helped to man one of two guns, whichever was most suitable for the task, for over two hours. The enemy appeared at different points within and around the battery, which fired at close ranges, and was all the time under heavy machine gun and rifle fire.

His courage and tenacity was worthy of high praise.’

60701 Bombardier F.C. Gould, D.C.M. served during the Great War with “C” Battery, 63rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front, and was present with them and Lieutenant S.T.D. Wallace (later awarded the Victoria Cross for the following action), ‘when the German counter-stroke at Cambrai broke our line on the morning of November 30, 1917, “C” Battery was in action behind the village of Gonnelieu, south of the Cambrai road.

Heavily shelled from daylight onwards [including attack from German aircraft], the guns thundered steadily in reply. But as the Germans advanced the battery came under machine-gun fire, and officers and men began to fall fast. Hostile infantry were seen in the rear of the guns, but Lieutenant Wallace

turned a gun completely round and shelled them out of sight.

Soon the battery commander fell mortally wounded; five out of the six senior non-commissioned officers were down.

Lieutenant Wallace, now in command, had only sufficient men left to keep two guns in action.’

Soon the Germans were passing within 300 yards of Gould, and Wallace’s position was totally surrounded, ‘At last only one officer and five men were left. The officer was Lieutenant Sam Wallace. The other five survivors, Sergeant W. Howard, Bombardier W. Coyles, Gunners F.C. Gould, J.W. Mantle and A. Burgess. It is to these men that Samuel Wallace gives the credit for what happened next. “If it hadn’t been for them I couldn’t have done a thing,” he told me. What happened in a nutshell was that the six stayed and saw the thing through. Six men could not fight all the guns. So the trails of three of them on the right flank were swung round close together so that the men could run from gun to gun, firing each in turn. They saw the glint of German helmets on the roof of the chateau at Gonnelieu and sent their wearers scuttling to cover. A party of 100 Germans in close formation marched down upon them they aimed a shrapnel burst at point-blank range - the sortie withered away.

So for eight hours C Battery went on hitting back at the enemy wherever he showed himself - except in the air.

Against the aircraft they were helpless.... the ammunition was set on fire. Snipers menaced them as the enemy closedin. But they never reached the guns. And when the Irish Guards came up to relieve them, the indomitable six marched back, taking their sights and breech-blocks with them so that - if the worst happened - the enemy could never use their guns.

And even as they withdrew, Gunner Burgess was wounded by a sniper.

It was for this day’s work that Sam Wallace won his V.C. To each of the five who fought with him to the last went a D.C.M.’ (Scottish Daily Mail, 27.1.1956, refers).

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16 A Great War ‘Western Front’ 1918 D.C.M. Pair to Corporal S.G. Powell, Royal Fusiliers a) Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (G-9715 Cpl. S.G. Powell. 10/R.Fus:) b) 1914-15 Star (G-9715 Pte. S.G. Powell. R.Fus:), pitting from Star, nearly very fine (2) £500-700 D.C.M. London Gazette 28.3.1918 G/9715 Cpl. S. G. Powell, R. Fus. (New Denham) ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When in command of the scouts leading a raiding party on an enemy machine gun post, he led the party most skilfully by the best route, although a machine gun opened fire on them at close range from the flank. During the struggle he and another N.C.O. overpowered one of the enemy and brought him in as a prisoner. His conduct contributed largely to the success of the operation, throughout which he showed great courage and resource.’

G-9715 Corporal Sydney G. Powell, D.C.M., of New Denham, Buckinghamshire; enlisted in the 13th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, 18.11.1914; served with the Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 30.7.1915; transferred as Corporal to the 10th Battalion; discharged as a result of wounds, 26.1.1919.

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17 Family Group: A Good Second War 1945 G.M. Group of Five to Sergeant C. McGee, Royal Engineers, For Saving Life at Sea Following an Explosion in Bari Harbour a) George Medal, G.VI.R. (2002278 Sgt. Charles McGee, R.E.) b) 1939-1945 Star c) Africa Star d) Italy Star e) War Medal, extremely fine, with the following related items: - Army Council Enclosure for the Second War awards - Card boxes of issue for the George Medal and Second War awards, the latter addressed to Mr. C. McGee, 16 Cliff Road, Fairfield, Buxton - The recipient’s riband bar - The recipient’s Seaman’s Record Book and Continuous Certificate of Discharge - The recipient’s Passport, issued 22.4.1947 - Two photographs of the recipient, including one with his parents outside Buckingham Palace after receiving his George Medal - Two Buckingham Palace Investiture ticket stubs, dated 12.3.1946 - Various newspaper cuttings regarding the award of the George Medal - Buxton Silver Jubilee Medal 1935; and three lapel badges Pair: Sapper A.O. McGee, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (284423 Spr. A.O. McGee. R.E.), nearly very fine Pair: Attributed to Air-Fitter G. McGee, Fleet Air Arm

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Sergeant C. McGee (right) following his George Medal Investiture, Buckingham Palace, 12th March 1946

Pacific Star; War Medal, extremely fine, with Admiralty Enclosure and named card box of issue, addressed to Mr. G. McGee, 16 Cliff Road, Fairfield, Buxton, Derbyshire (9) £2,400-2,800 G.M. London Gazette 9.11.1945 No. 2002278 Sergeant Charles McGee, Corps of Royal Engineers (Fairfield, Buxton) [in a joint citation with No. 892090 Sergeant William Taylor Dalgarno, Corps of Royal Engineers, and No. 1877511 Sergeant Frederick Charles Hodgson, Corps of Royal Engineers] ‘In recognition of conspicuous gallantry in carrying out hazardous work in a very brave manner.’

The Recommendation states: ‘At Bari, on April 9, 1945, the S.S. Charles Henderson, containing about 2,300 tons of bombs, exploded whilst being discharged at the berth. The force of the explosion forced the fore-end of the ship through the water and partly submerged it some 10 feet away from the quay. The Fire Fighting Service was unable to cope with the resulting fire which occurred. Sergeant McGee, therefore, secured a ladder and placed it across the water gap and got a hose on board. Sergeants Dalgarno and Hodgson quickly followed Sergeant McGee’s lead, the latter directing water onto the fire from the hose, although he was well aware that

No.1 hold contained a quantity of 500lb. bombs. Being a Stevedore, he fully appreciated the danger involved, and after taking the lead in extinguishing the fire, he heard cries for help from below. Without hesitation, these three Sergeants descended the ladder into the lower hold and succeeded in extricating two injured Italian Stevedores, who were fortunately still alive. By this time the dock water was studded with patches of burning oil and debris, and within the immediate vicinity of the petrol ship and three other ships containing ammunition, which were burning.

The courage of these three N.C.O.s in getting to the seat of the fire undoubtedly prevented a further explosion and further casualties. Although Sergeant McGee was the instigator and organiser of this joint action, this does not diminish the courage of Sergeants Dalgarno and Hodgson, who promptly and voluntarily followed his lead.’

2002278 Sergeant Charles McGee, G.M., born Buxton, Derbyshire, 17.10.1919, the eldest son of Sapper A.O. McGee, Royal Engineers; served with the Royal Engineers during the Second World War; after the War he served as a Ship’s Steward on the Cunard liner R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth.

Charles McGee’s younger brother, George McGee, served during the Second World War with the Fleet Air Arm in Australia.

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18 A Great War 1916 ‘French Theatre’ M.M. and 1917 Bar Group of Four to Bombardier H.S. Swan, Royal Artillery a) Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (19424 A.Bmbr. H.S. Swan. R.F.A.) b) 1914-15 Star (19424 A.Bmbr: H.S. Swan. R.F.A.) c) British War and Victory Medals (19424 Bmbr. H.S. Swan.

R.A.), very fine (4) £550-650 M.M. London Gazette 21.9.1916 19424 Actg. Bombr. H. S. Swan, R.F.A. M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 12.12.1917 19424 Bomdr. H.S. Swan, R.F.A. (West Hartlepool).

19424 Bombardier Henry S. Swan, M.M. served with the Royal Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 8.9.1915.

19 A Great War 1918 ‘Western Front’ M.M. Group of Four to Driver H. Semmins, Royal Engineers a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (90190 Dvr: H. Semmens. 73/ Fd: Coy. R.E.), surname partially officially corrected b) 1914-15 Star (90190, Dvr. H. Semmens, R.E.) c) British War and Victory Medals (90190 Dvr. H. Semmens. R.E.), generally good very fine (4) £200-240 M.M. London Gazette 7.10.1918 90190 Dvr. H. Semmens, R.E. (Middlesbrough) 90190 Driver Herbert Semmens, M.M. served with the 73rd Field Company, Royal Engineers during the Great War on the Western Front from 6.9.1915.

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20 A Great War 1918 ‘Western Front’ M.M. Group of Four to Sergeant A.G. Jackson, Royal Fusiliers a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (51156 Pte. A.G. Jackson.

23/R.Fus:) b) British War and Victory Medals (GS-51156 Sjt. A.G. Jackson. R.Fus.) c) Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R. (Alfred G. Jackson), nearly extremely fine (4) £240-280 M.M. London Gazette 16.7.1918 51156 Pte. A.G. Jackson, R. Fus. (Towcester).

21 A Great War 1918 ‘Battle of the Selle’ M.M. Group of Three to Guardsman T.W. Davis, Grenadier Guards a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (28294 Pte. T.W. Davis.

2/G.Gds:), Battalion number officially corrected b) British War and Victory Medals (28294 Pte. T. Davis.

G.Gds.), extremely fine, all housed in a fitted leather case, with a newspaper cutting detailing the award and containing a photograph of the recipient; and a fragment of the recipient’s discharge papers (3) £200-250 M.M. London Gazette 17.6.1919 28294 Pte. Davis, T. W., 2nd Bn. Grenadier Guards (Birmingham).

28294 Guardsman Thomas Walter Davis, M.M., a native of Stockland Green, Birmingham; born 1898; served with the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards during the Great War; awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field on 19.10.1918 (The Birmingham Mail, 31.12.1918 refers), on which date the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards were in action during the Battle of the Selle; transferred to the Army Reserve, 16.10.1919.

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22 A Great War 1917 ‘Western Front’ M.M. Group of Three to Corporal E.H. Waters, Royal Fusiliers a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (19757 L.Cpl. E.H. Waters. 26/R.Fus:) b) British War and Victory Medals (B-19757 Cpl. E.H. Waters. R.Fus.), nearly extremely fine (3) £200-240 M.M. London Gazette 16.8.1917 19757 L./C. E.H. Waters, R. Fus. B-19757 Private Edwin H. Waters, M.M. served with the 26th (Bankers’) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers during the Great War.

23 A Great War M.M. Group of Three to Private M. McManus, Royal Army Medical Corps a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (21352 Pte. M. Mc.Manus. R.A.M.C.) b) British War and Victory Medals (21352 Pte. M. Mc Manus. R.A.M.C.), edge bruising to BWM, very fine, with the recipient’s St. John Ambulance Association First Aid ReExamination Medallion, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘234128 Michael McManus’, with ‘1918’ suspension bar (3) £160-200 M.M. London Gazette 23.7.1919 21352 Pte. McManus, M. 36th Fd. Amb. (Sth. Shields).

21352 Private Michael McManus, M.M. served with the 36th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War in the Egyptian theatre from 8.10.1915.

x24 A Great War M.M. Group of Three to Sergeant W. Moir, Canadian Infantry a) Military Medal, G.V.R. (859087 Pte. W. Moir 43/Can: Inf.) b) British War and Victory Medals (859087 A.Sjt. W. Moir. 43-Can. Inf.), worn, nearly very fine (3) £200-240 M.M. London Gazette 13.3.1919 859087 Pte. Moir, W., 43rd Can. Inf. Bn. 859087 Sergeant W. Moir, M.M., served with the 43rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force in Canada, Britain, and France from 6.9.1915.

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25 The 1943 North Africa ‘Attack on Djebel’ Second War M.M. Group of Six to Guardsman W.S. Davies, Grenadier Guards a) Military Medal, G.VI.R. (2620979 Gdmn. W.S. Davies. G.Gds.) b) 1939-1945 Star c) Africa Star d) Italy Star e) Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves, extremely fine (6) £1,400-1,600 M.M. London Gazette 23.9.1943 No. 2620979 Guardsman William Stanley Davies, Grenadier Guards (Watford) ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North Africa’ The recommendation, dated 19.5.1943, states: ‘This Guardsman has consistently displayed courage and devotion to duty of a high order throughout the period (27th April to 6th May 1943) during which the Battalion has occupied the western ridge of Djebel Bou Aoukaz. His constant readiness to volunteer for all tasks in connection with his duties as a signaller has been an inspiration to his whole Platoon. He has twice spent about two hours repairing lines in the open in daylight under heavy and accurately placed mortar and Artillery fire with no regard to his personal safety. He asked to be allowed to accompany the leading Company in the attack on Djebel, during which his courageous behaviour under very heavy shell and Machine-gun fire had a most inspiring effect on all with whom he came in contact.’

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HONOURS AND AWARDS BESTOWED UPON FIELD MARSHAL THE LORD GRENFELL 26 The Historically Important G.C.B., G.C.M.G. Group of Ten to Field Marshal The Lord Grenfell, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Army, 1886-92, Which He Led With Distinction at the Battles of Gemaizah and Toski; Aide-de-Camp to H.M. Queen Victoria; Governor of Malta, 1899-1903; Gold Stick to H.M. King Edward VII and H.M. King George V; and Commander of the Forces in Ireland, 1904-08 a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Knight Grand Cross (G.C.B.) set of Insignia, sash Badge, 82mm, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1897) and enamel; Star, 98mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, with gold retaining pin, with short length of sash riband for display purposes b) The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight Grand Cross (G.C.M.G.) set of Insignia, Collar Chain, comprising of 24 medallions made up out of six English lions, eight Maltese crosses, minor enamel damage to one arm of one, four ‘SM’ cyphers, four ‘SG’ cyphers, and two pairs of winged lions, one pair surmounted by a crown, 1080mm, silver-gilt and enamel, with screw-ring suspension from crown medallion to support Badge Appendant; sash Badge, 117mm including crown suspension x 89mm, silver-gilt and enamel, minor enamel damage to obverse motto; Star, 86mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, red enamel damage to one arm of cross, with gold retaining pin, with short length of sash riband for display purposes c) South Africa 1877-79, one clasp, 1877-8-9 (Major F.W. Grenfell. 60th. Rifles.) d) Egypt 1882-89, four clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, The Nile 1884-85, Gemaizah 1888, Toski 1889 (Lt. Col: F.W. Grenfell. A.A.G.) e) Jubilee 1887, with 1897 Bar f) Coronation 1902, silver g) Coronation 1911 h) France, Republic, Order of the Academic Palmes, Officer’s breast Badge, 36mm x 29mm, silver-gilt and enamel, minor enamel damage, with rosette on riband i) Austria, Empire, Jubilee Medal 1908, gold j) Khedive’s Star 1884-6, traces of lacquer, slight contact marks overall, generally very fine (13) Illustrated on Back Cover £12,000-15,000 G.C.B. London Gazette 15.11.1898 Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Wallace Grenfell, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., Commanding the Force in Egypt ‘In recognition of services in Egypt and the Sudan, including the Battles of Atbara and Khartoum.’

K.C.B. London Gazette 26.11.1886 Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Francis Wallace Grenfell, C.B., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, on Half-Pay List.

C.B. London Gazette 25.8.1885 Colonel Francis Wallace Grenfell, A.D.C., the King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

G.C.M.G. London Gazette 25.5.1892 Major-General Sir Francis Wallace Grenfell, K.C.B. ‘For services rendered in Egypt.’

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Field Marshal Francis Wallace, 1st Baron Grenfell, G.C.B., G.C.M.G. (1841-1925), the son of Pascoe St. Leger Grenfell, M.P.; educated at Milton Abbas School, Dorset and by the Reverend Warner, Torquay in preparation for the Army; commissioned Second Lieutenant, 60th Rifles, 1859, and joined the 1st Battalion at Dover, recently returned from the Indian Mutiny; after a posting to Ireland, he left for Malta with the battalion in H.M.S. Simoom, March 1866; whilst stationed in Malta, ‘I had an alarming adventure which nearly cost me my life. I was training for a swimming match, and the trial was arranged to take place at night, so that the opponents could not take the time in which I did the distance. I jumped off a rock, and swam to a boat which had a lantern in the bows. When I had completed half the course I was seized by an enormous octopus. The weight and the horror were so great that I sank. I rose again, however, and yelled for the boat, fighting the monster, and tearing great pieces off it. I was nearly beat when the boat reached me, and I was so exhausted that I could not get into it. When a boat with a lantern approached, the creature flopped off and disappeared, leaving a number of torn tentacles round my body… I was towed into land and taken to Floriana Barracks, where I was very ill for three days with fever and exhaustion’ (Memoirs of Lord Grenfell, refers); posted with the battalion to Canada, September 1867; invalided home just before the Red River Expedition, after contracting severe rheumatism in the eyes as a consequence of a sledding expedition; having taken medical advice Grenfell sought a transfer to a warmer climate, and exchanged with Captain Morris into the 2nd Battalion, then stationed at Benares, India; arrived in India in 1869, ‘After some months at Benares, I left for Calcutta for the inauguration of the Order of the Star of India which took place there in the winter of 1870. The great Independent Princes, Rajahs and men of eminence - European and native - collected to receive their decorations. The Duke of Edinburgh was charged by the Queen with the duty of holding a Durbar of Investiture on the Maidan at Calcutta, Lord Mayo being Viceroy, Lord Sandhurst Commander-inChief, and I was fortunate enough to be appointed extra A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief for the ceremony... The scene was a remarkable one, hundreds of decorated elephants, thousands of natives: troops, European and native, lining the road from the river to Government House. On the day of the installation, Lord Marcus Beresford (7th Hussars) and I were told off as pages to Scindia, a very unpleasant and highly scented potentate. Our remarks, I fear, were not complimentary as we marched behind him with drawn swords, and we regretted to learn afterwards that he understood English thoroughly’ (Ibid); returned to Benares after three months in Calcutta, before being posted to Darjeeling; whilst taking part in a hunting expedition Grenfell contracted fever and was invalided back to the England; he was posted to the 4th Battalion at Winchester in 1871 and, ‘in 1873 having been twelve years a subaltern, and seeing no prospects of either promotion or active service, I had determined, with my father’s approval, to leave the Service. I had sadly left my battalion at Portland; I had given away my uniform to my brother officers, and had been on leave for about a month, when I received an offer to accompany General Sir Arthur Cunynghame to South Africa as his A.D.C.’ South Africa in the ’Seventies Grenfell embarked for Cape Town in S.S. Teuton, October 1873; however, he was plagued by his eye problem over the next two years, having to return to England twice during that period; on the last occasion Grenfell again considered a return to civilian life, but the thought of active service in the increasing turbulent area carried the day, ‘and so against all

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Field Marshal the Lord Grenfell advice, especially of my family, I decided I must start. I had been eighteen years in the Army and had never seen active service, and I felt that my destiny was now in my own hands.

I ran down to Nottingham and said good-bye to my father, whom I was never to see again, and left by the Dunrobin Castle. At St. Helena the news was decidedly warlike, and when I landed at Cape Town, I heard that Kreli, Chief of the Galekas, was on the war-path. A column was ordered into his country and I received orders to join it as a Staff Officer.

My presentiment was true. This was the tide which led (if not to fortune) at least to active service in the Galeka, Gaika, and Zulu Campaigns, the Transvaal Expedition, and the Egyptian Campaign including Tel-El-Kebir and the capture of Cairo.

At the close of 1878 I was still a Captain, in September 1882 I was a full Colonel, and Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, whereas, had I hesitated to return, another officer would have gone in my place, and I might have missed the campaign and lost my promotion to Brevet-Major, I should not then have received my Lieutenant-Colonelcy at the close of the Zulu War.’ Operations Against the Galekas and the Gaikas, 1877-78 On the 18th December 1877 Grenfell left King William’s Town for the Transkei, and arrived at Ibeka (Cunynghame’s HQ), two days later; Fingoes and a small force of Frontier Armed and Mounted Police had fought the Galekas on the site, ‘I went over the ground covered with unburied bodies.

Feldtman, the Fingo Chief, exhibited with pride to the General the head of the female witch, which he kept in a sack’; there were no pitched battles until the New Year, when Kreli’s Galekas joined forced with Sandilli’s Gaikas and attacked the fortified supply depot at Quintana in Galekaland;

Grenfell had been despatched at the last minute by Cunynghame to assume command of the defence, ‘when I got into camp in the early morning, I found the garrison at their posts, mounted men saddled up, and the Gaikas and Galekas reported about four miles out. Our total force was four hundred white men and five hundred and sixty Fingoes.

I was in a difficult position. I was aware that the General had sent me because he thought an officer senior to those with the small force should command… At the same time, I had only just arrived. I had not reconnoitered the ground, and the attack was almost in progress. So I decided under the circumstances, I would not assume command, and told Captain Upcher of the 24th I would serve under him. He then desired me to take command of the mounted men - the Frontier Horse under Carrington, the Mounted Police, and a detached company of the 24th, to work on the flank of the enemy... I venture to say there is no reminiscence so vivid as that of the first time of going into action... My little force galloped up to the left flank of the enemy’s advance, and by my order, dismounted, and fired at the advancing Kaffirs, who came on with loud shouts, some in the open, some creeping up the kloofs, taking advantage of the long grass and the rocks; Sandilli’s men attacked on the right, Kreli’s on the left, meeting us with the discharge of motley weapons - rifles, blunderbusses, sporting guns, with slugs, potlegs, and bullets as ammunition; many armed with spears and assegais came pluckily on; but my object was not to stop the advance, but to bring the rebels under the infantry fire; so having inflicted severe punishment, we retired on the camp followed by hundreds of the enemy... The Kaffirs advanced steadily, singing their war song, constantly reinforced by fresh men

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Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria who swarmed up the hill and through the bush. Their total strength was about four thousand men.

When well in the open and committed to the attack, the guns, a Naval Rocket Tube and entrenched infantry opened fire on them; many fell, and the others, after a plucky rush, broke and retired, throwing off their blankets, pursued by my men, the Fingo levy and the guns. About three hundred were found dead on the ground, while our loss was insignificant.

Thus ended my first action... From this defeat the Galekas never recovered’ The following was addressed by Cunynghame to the Secretary of State for War, ‘Captain Grenfell, 60th Rifles, my Senior A.D.C., has rendered during my command in S. Africa constant good service. In this war he has exerted himself most zealously: he has performed various duties - Commissary of Ordnance, and Staff Officer to Col. Glyn during his late successful campaign in Galekaland he has accompanied the various columns for the last 3 months, and has commanded many useful Patrols. In the late decisive battle of Quintana he commanded the Cavalry, in pursuit - and contributed materially to the great success of the engagement. I beg most strongly to recommend him for a brevet Majority.’

Grenfell was promoted Major; reinforcements arrived and with them came Cunynghame’s replacement - Lieutenant General the Hon. F. Thesiger; in March 1878, ’the Staff of the new General consisted of Colonel North Crealock as his Military Secretary, Captains Gosset and Molyneux as A.D.C.’s, Evelyn Wood and Redvers Buller and others as Special Service Officers - the former to command his regiment, the 90th, the latter to raise the celebrated Frontier Light Horse which commanded in the Zulu war. I heard to my great joy from Buller that my services were to be retained in South Africa, and that I was to join the Headquarters Staff as D.A.A.G.’; and he was present for the drive of the Gaikas from the Gwili Gwili Mountains, April 1878; by the end of the following month the Gaikas were completely broken up, with Sandilli and most of the leading Chiefs killed.

Zulu War 1879 Having spent most of the summer of 1878 being occupied with the growing tensions emanating from Cetewayo’s Zulus, Thesiger (now Lord Chelmsford) moved British forces into Zululand, 11.1.1879; three columns were intended to effect a junction at the royal capital Ulundi, while two other bodies were positioned to prevent Zulu incursions into Natal and the Transvaal; Grenfell, in his capacity as D.A.A.G., ‘was detained on the Headquarters Staff at Pietermaritzburg to forward all the troops as they landed to join their several columns’; the disaster at Isandhlwana occurred, 22.1.1879, and ‘some three months after, when I was sent to accompany the first party which returned to Isandhlwana after the reorganisation of the force at Pietermaritzburg, I found dead bodies of about two companies of the 24th, lying with hundreds of cartridge cases around them, and their officers, who were then perfectly recognisable, lying with them... At the time this dreadful tragedy occurred, I, who had been left to bring up the last remnants of the force from Pietermaritzburg, having fulfilled my duty, had started on the 19th with orders to join Lord Chelmsford’s Headquarters Staff wherever they might be... It was about 80 miles from Pietermaritzburg to Help Makaar, which was the first place where I could hope to rest. When I had got about half way, one of my horses fell lame; this delayed me for some time and I did not get to my destination till the evening after the defeat of our forces at Isandhlwana had taken place... The delay caused by my horse breaking down probably saved my life, as if it had been sound, I calculated I should have arrived at the camp of Isandhlwana after Lord Chelmsford’s force had started, and before the Zulu attack in the morning…. On the 23rd January, having heard of the attack and gallant defence of Rorke’s Drift, I rode with about two or three companies, which were all that could be spared from Help Makaar, towards Rorke’s Drift.’

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Death of the Prince Imperial Having rejoined Lord Chelmsford Staff, Grenfell moved with the latter ‘on May 24th… to Landmansdrift, and on June 1st the whole Division, under Lord Chelmsford, crossed the Blood River and marched to the Itelizi Hill, on this, practically first day of our advance into Zululand, occurred the dreadful tragedy of the death of the Prince Imperial. On March 27th the Prince Imperial joined the Force at Ladysmith, and I soon became fairly well acquainted with him... Reserved, self-restrained, yet longing for his chance, proud, brave and reckless, the blue blood of the Montijos was strongly developed… His craving for effect was shown in various ways. He seldom used his stirrup to mount his horse, but generally vaulted into the saddle, a practice which in all probability caused his death… In a reconnaissance with Buller’s Horse, the Zulus gathered, and a fight seemed imminent, but when, on the advance of the detachment, they dispersed he charged them at full gallop. Buller, having reported this recklessness, refused to be responsible for him in future; he was therefore detailed to work with the Quartermaster-General, Colonel Harrison, who received a written order that the Prince should not be permitted to quit the camp without the express orders of the Commander-inChief… On the morning of June 1st the Prince begged Colonel Harrison to give him an escort and allow him to make a sketching expedition beyond the ground covered by the cavalry… For the escort six white men and six Basutos were told off, and placed (according to Colonel Harrison) under the command of Lieutenant Carey. That morning I had ridden with Colonel Harrison to the Itelizi and marked out the camp. After completing this duty, I was about to return to meet the advancing column, when I saw the Prince and Lieutenant Carey, accompanied by the escort of white men; Colonel Harrison had told me that there were also Basuto scouts, and I concluded that they were far away covering the party. As my work for the morning was over until the arrival of the column, which would not take place for some two or three hours, I told the Prince I would ride with him part of the way and look at the position of the camp in the Ityotyozi Valley, and we rode away - the Prince and I together, Carey behind. We rode seven or eight miles on a ridge which runs out into the Valley… We had a long talk, and before reaching the crest of the hill descending into the Ityotyozi Valley I thought I could hear the whips of the teams approaching the camp we had just left, I therefore said “Good-bye” to the Prince, and turned my horse round to return to the camp. The last words I said were “Take care of yourself, Prince, and don’t get shot.” He replied, pointing to Carey, “Oh no! he will take very good care that nothing happens to me.”

What happened then is well known. There was no Basuto escort, the Prince having refused to wait for it; there were only a few white men, none of them English, and Carey with the Prince.’ The Prince insisted on inspecting some seemingly deserted kraals, hidden within which were approximately 40 Zulu warriors who attacked the small party, ’what happened then is doubtful, two men were killed on the spot, and there is little doubt that Carey and the remainder mounted their horses and fled. The Prince must have got to his horse, as it came in in the evening with one holster torn and hanging. He had evidently attempted to vault into the saddle, and the holsters had ripped, and he fell to the ground… Orders were given that the next morning a strong cavalry escort should leave at dawn to recover the body. I joined General Fred Marshall, who was in command of the cavalry, and rode over the same road that I had gone over the day before. As the scene of the tragedy approached, I advanced with General Marshall… we saw in the distance a white object on the ground. We rode to it, and it was the Prince Imperial lying in a donga. He had been stripped of everything except one sock, and a broken spur lay by his side… He was assegaied in seventeen places, his arms were crossed over his chest, and his face which was beautiful in death, was disfigured by the

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November 24, 2011- London destruction of the right eye from an assegai wound… His body was raised from the ground, wrapped in a cavalry cloak, and carried by the officers up the hill to the ambulance.’

Ulundi Most of June was occupied with the advance on the Zulu capital and by the 3rd of July Ulundi was in sight, ’the Zulu Sharpshooters opened fire on our watering parties, and I, who had taken a bucket to the river to have a wash, had to retire ignominiously behind a tree, leaving my clothes temporarily on the ground, till Buller, with the Frontier Light Horse, crossed the river and drove the Zulus away… An attack was expected, there were two or three alarms, native pickets running in, horses and cattle getting loose, and Lane and I were up nearly all night. I only got about an hours’ rest and at daylight the force started to ford the river… At 7.30 we formed a huge square, the native contingent, ammunition and tool carts inside, the 17th Lancers and Buller’s Horse covering the square… As I belonged to the QuartermasterGeneral’s department, I was riding in advance of the square and came suddenly on the body of one of Buller’s men, Private Peacock, who had been taken prisoner the day before and horribly mutilated. It was not an encouraging spectacle for men just going into action, so I sent back to ask Lord Chelmsford to send me a chaplain, which he did; as the body lay near a wall, we pushed the loose stones of the wall on to it, the chaplain read a few lines of the Burial Service and the column resumed its march, the general direction being north-east, passing the Great Nodwengu Kraal and halting on the position which had been selected by Buller, Ulundi being about a mile to the east.

The Zulus now appeared in great numbers on all sides of us and soon came into collision with our mounted men who, after firing a few volleys, retired rapidly into the square. The Zulus (who numbered about twenty thousand) following them up came within range of the guns, which did great execution, but did not check them, and they soon came under musketry fire. It was a dramatic sight, the small square of under four thousand men with the Zulus closing in on it, the great Amatola Mountains in the distance and the Zulu army manoeuvring in different regiments… had any panic occurred, we should have been lost, but the men stood well up to their rifles and their well sustained fire, supported by the guns and gatlings, soon told… falling in heaps, the Zulus began to falter… At about 9.30 the Zulus were sullenly retiring from all sides of the square.’ After the battle of Ulundi Sir Garnet Wolseley replaced Lord Chelmsford, Redvers Buller and I both received very kind offers to remain on Sir Garnet Wolseley’s Staff and complete the operations, but we neither of us anticipated the chance of any further fighting, and we had both been very hard worked, living in the open for the last two years, so we decided to return home, and obtaining leave to do so we rode down to Durban.’

Grenfell was a Brigade Major at Shorncliffe when the disaster at Majuba occurred in February 1881; he immediately volunteered for active service and found himself back in Cape Town by April; he was appointed to Sir Evelyn Wood’s Staff as D.A.Q.M.G., however much to his and Wood’s disgust, terms were arranged with the Boers in June 1881, ‘on the signing of the Convention and the breakup of the camp at Newcastle, I was ordered to Durban to conduct the embarkations, but before doing so, I made a long ride with Buller, and Donald Browne into Zululand to see our old fighting ground at Ulundi. When we arrived, we found the old track across the Umfolozi River where the grass had grown up very high on the place where our square had stood.

I stood at the place, which was still marked by the cartridges, at the corner of the square where the Zulus had made their last attack. I told Buller that I had seen a Zulu Induna shot in the head by Owen’s machine-guns, of which there were two at this corner. He was leading his men on and got as close as eighteen yards from the square, for I had measured it after the action. I again paced the eighteen yards and came to

my old friend, a splendid skeleton, his bones perfectly white, his flesh eaten off by the white ants. I felt I could not part with him, so I put his skull into my forage bag, and brought it home with me. It now adorns a case in my collection of curiosities.’

Egypt and the Soudan Grenfell returned to his parent regiment for the first time in several years and ‘in July 1882 I accompanied H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge to a service at St. Anne’s, Soho, a church H.R.H. was very fond of attending. Colonel Lane was with him as his A.D.C. The First Lesson ended with the words: “And now I will send thee into Egypt.” This mandate was obeyed, as within a fortnight Lane and I, who at the time had known nothing of our chances of joining the Expedition, were sailing away to Alexandria, he was A.D.C. to the Duke of Connaught, commanding the Guards Brigade, and I as A.A.G. on Sir Garnet Wolseley’s Staff, to remain in Egypt for over 12 years, first as second-in-command of the new Egyptian Army, and afterwards as Sirdar, and then with an interval of five years at the War Office in England, to return to Cairo for two years, commanding British troops in Egypt at the base during the expedition to Khartoum, which ended in the recon quest of the Soudan.’

Grenfell landed at Alexandria in August 1882, and was present at the battle of Tel-El-Kebir on the 13th September; he took part in the occupation of Cairo and the restoration of the Khedive to the capital, ‘when the greater part of the Army had left Egypt, I remained behind as Assistant AdjutantGeneral on the Staff of Sir Archibald Alison, who commanded the troops who were left in the country’; Alison was commanding officer of the British troops and ‘Evelyn Wood in command of 6,000 Egyptian troops. I accepted service under him and was second-in-command of the new army’; in 1883 the Egyptian Army was hit by an epidemic of Cholera, ‘the Khedive showed the greatest courage and sympathy, in visiting, not only the soldiers, but also the civilians, and it fell to my lot to conduct him round the wards, where numerous men were dying. The astonishment at his presence, and alarm for the safety of his person that his dying officers and men showed, were very remarkable’; nearly 100,000 died during the epidemic and in September of the same year Sir Evelyn Baring arrived and began to organise the regeneration of Egypt.

The Nile Expedition 1884 Two expeditions, under the joint command of Sir Garnet Wolseley, were ordered to advance towards Khartoum in an effort to relieve Gordon; one, accompanied by Wolseley, advanced up the Nile; the second operated from Suakin; Grenfell ‘was ordered to Assouan to superintend the transit of men and stores to Wady Halfa. As Assouan was to be my headquarters for an indefinite time, and there were no houses available, I hired a dahabieh, the Ounas, and in it I spent the best part of the next two years. On the 23rd September, my old friend Lord Charles Beresford arrived at Assouan and was very valuable in improving the working of the water transport and other matters connected with the naval part of the Expedition. He stayed a few days and then went on to Wady Halfa.

On the 3rd October Lord Wolseley arrived at Wady Halfa, Redvers Buller and Evelyn Wood, who was in charge of the communications, preceding him. On October 9th Colonel Butler with first Nile boats arrived at the foot of the Cataract.

The launch Iris took them in tow… My work for many weeks was devoted to passing steamers, dahabiehs and whalers over the Cataract, with stores for the expedition, via narrow-gauge railway which ran to Philae from Assouan. About the middle of December, all the boats and most of the stores had passed Assouan which was the neck of the bottle, and I received orders to move onto Wady Halfa, which I did with joy, after having spent nearly five months at Assouan. The work had been very hard and the heat great, and the prospect of getting

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Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria on towards the front was very agreeable.’ Grenfell reported to Wolseley at Halfa in February 1885, ‘He was having a very anxious time. Buller had been sent over the Desert to bring back the force which, after the battle of Abu Klea, was in camp at Metammeh, I took up position of Chief Acting Staff Officer. We had received the sad news of the failure of the small force sent up in steamers, commanded by Lord Charles Beresford, to relieve Gordon. News had also arrived of the dramatic incident of their arrival and finding the British flag no longer flying over the Palace, and of their marvellous escapes on their return up the Nile. Wolseley was naturally worried. He was sleepless and used to pass many hours of the night in pacing up and down the lines, generally smoking a cigar, and gradually his health began to suffer. His friend and medical adviser told him that he feared that smoking was doing him a great deal of harm, one morning he called me to his tent and gave me two boxes of excellent cigars, saying: “Take them away, Grenfell, I shall smoke no more.” And from that day he never did. While I was with Lord Wolseley, Gordon’s diaries arrived by a messenger, and I had the opportunity of reading hem in the original. Curious little pictures illustrated some of the pages, and they were characterised by a tone of apparent indifference to his own fate, but anxiety for his dependents and severe criticism of the British Government. After the failure of the Nile Expedition, the force was ordered back, and it was my duty, as General of Communications, to take over from General Brackenbury the last troops of that ill-fated force. I evacuated my station at Abri (between Sarras and Dongola) and returned to Wady Halfa. I strongly recommended that the frontier should be fixed at some distance up the Nile from Wady Halfa, Firket or Sarras being recommended, but the government decided to go right back and insisted on Wady Halfa being the frontier, Suakin being the only other garrison retained in the Eastern Soudan. Berber, Sennaar and Gedaref had fallen: Kassala was shortly to fall, most of the garrisons being massacred. The latest position to be evacuated was Dongola.

A frontier force was established, with headquarters at Assouan, under my command, General Sir William Butler commanding the advance brigade of it at Wady Halfa, and on our joint report the retirement to Wady Halfa was cancelled and we were permitted to occupy outposts at Koshey, about forty-two miles south of the railway terminus at Akasha.’

Battle of Ginnis The Mahdi died of small pox in June 1885, and following the withdrawal of the Nile Expedition sporadic fighting continued along the Soudan Egypt border; the latter culminated in the battle of Ginnis, when a force of 4,500 British and Egyptian troops defeated 6,000 Sudanese, ’On December 30th, 1885, at Ginnis, between Dongola and Wady Halfa, a large force of Dervishes under Osman Azrak had pressed forward towards Wady Halfa. The small garrison at Ginnis was surrounded, but the Nile afforded communications with Wady Halfa. The Cameron Highlanders and one black battalion were cut off and an expedition became necessary to relieve them. Under the command of General Stephenson this was now organised. I commanded a Division, General Butler and Colonel Woodhouse Brigades. Before the arrival of General Stephenson on the 19th December, I had visited the various posts and had had several conferences with Butler, and proposals for attack were ready to submit to the General on his arrival. These he accepted… Before dawn on the 30th, the force moved out into the Desert, under a waning moon… and silently took up the positions assigned to them. No sound but the barking of dogs was heard in the village, and the Arabs seemed wholly unaware of the coming attack.

The General and staff took up their position on rising ground, opposite the village, from whence the whole panorama of action was visible… Groups of Dervish horse, camel-men and spearmen streaming out in the khors and rocks, to dispute the high ground with Butler’s Brigade…

The Brigade succeeded in gaining the position just in time…

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The English Screw Gun Battery opened from a crest about one thousand two hundred yards from the enemy’s position between Koshey Fort and Ginnis, supported by the 2nd Brigade formed up directly opposite the village of Koshey…

While viewing the fight from the Signal Station, Colonel Ardagh, with whom I was standing, was watching the Arab advance through a large telescope. He asked me to look through the telescope at a large creeping up a deep khor. I bent my head down till our helmets were nearly touching, when a stray bullet passed through his helmet, and unpleasantly near my head. It grazed his ear. He continued to direct me to pick out the khor, with his telescope, up which the Arabs were advancing, and when I had found them coolly took off his helmet and showed me the hole the bullet had passed through - a quarter of an inch nearer would have ended his career. It was the closest shave I ever saw. The village cleared, and Butler having repelled the attack on his Brigade, the Arabs fled by the right flank of the 1st Brigade towards Atab, and soon the whole force was in full retreat.’

Sirdarship of the Egyptian Army On the departure of the Sirdar, ‘Sir Evelyn Wood, for England, and on his relinquishing the Command of the Egyptian Army on the 19th April [1886], I was appointed Sirdar, and received a very kind letter from the Khedive saying that he entirely concurred in the appointment, and that he would do his best to assist me in the command of the Egyptian Army. This was a great promotion for me, then in my forty-fifth year. Though I was still only a Colonel and a Brigadier-General in the English Army, my rank in the Egyptian Army was a very high one. The Sultan, being Suzerain over Egypt, all the brevets of the commissions of the senior officers of the Army were obtained from Constantinople, and mine was that of “Ferrik”, which ranks with a full General in the Army.’

Now based in Cairo, Grenfell received from the Khedive the Grand Cordon of the Mejedieh for his services in the Nile Campaign and at the battle of Ginnis; as A.D.C. to the Queen he returned to England in the Jubilee year of 1887, however, ’in January 1888 Osman Digna was giving great trouble round Suakin… I was home in July and had a long interview with Mr. Stanhope, Minister of War. I pointed out the difficult situation which existed in Egypt and that very shortly the Army would be called upon to repel a serious Dervish advance, besides raids on Suakin and the Eastern Soudan… Disturbances on the frontier and at Suakin necessitated my return to Egypt, where the situation was becoming serious.’

Gemaizah and Toski Grenfell arrived with reinforcements at Suakin in December 1888; the position was under threat by Osman Digna again, and to combat this Grenfell made a sortie from Suakin and met with Digna’s force at Gemaizah, 20.12.1888, ’on the day of my arrival at Suakin I found that Colonel Holled Smith had arranged for a reconnaissance of the right flank of the trenches with Soudanese mounted infantry, a couple of companies of infantry and the horse battery. I told him to carry on, and I would come out as a spectator. His information was that the Arabs had no mounted men. I followed him into the bush, accompanied by Captain Paget, R.N., of H.M.S. Starling, and Captain Maxwell, and without escort. The guns were in action, firing at the trench, and we were covered by the mounted infantry. Osman had, however, received a reinforcement of horsemen in the night, who charged the mounted infantry, whom we saw retiring.

Suddenly, when I was giving directions for the retirement of a gun, we were charged by about a dozen mounted Arabs and had to make an ignominious retreat. The ground was very bad with high tussocks and low thorn bushes; on our left we could see the mounted infantry horses falling, the men being immediately speared by the Dervishes. I called my Staff to “go slow”, and we cantered away with the Arabs on each side of us. It was a most unpleasant situation. A horse in the gun

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team preceding us fell, and the men jumped off the gun; the Arabs, thinking the gun was coming into action, pulled up for a moment. “Now gallop!” said I, and we were soon out of danger; but several Soudanese mounted infantrymen who fell off their horses were speared, their bodies being brought in by their Soudanese comrades, who gallantly went back into the bush for them. We attacked the Dervish trenches on December 20th. The Dervish guns were taken and they lost heavily in the retreat, as, according to their usual custom, they walked leisurely away under a murderous fire, cavalry and mounted infantry following them up. Four Zaribas were hastily made and four small redoubts commenced. The 20th Hussars, in charging the enemy, got into difficulties in a donga, losing a few men killed and wounded, but the whole casualties on our side were under 50 killed and wounded, whereas the enemy’s loss was estimated at four hundred. We spent a cheerful Christmas Day at Suakin, and returned a few days afterwards to Cairo.’

Having effectively dealt with Osman Digna, Grenfell’s attention was next turned to Wad-el-Nejumi in August of the following year; the latter lead approximately 6,000 men over the Egyptian border; Grenfell met the Dervish at Toski, 3.8.1889; with the aid of a squadron of the 20th Hussars he routed the Dervishes and Wad-el-Nejumi was killed whilst trying to rally his men; this battle effectively ended the Mahdist threat to Egypt. The next three years were eventful for Grenfell, with a promotion to Major-General, and two royal audiences, firstly with Empress Eugenie and then with the Empress Frederick; in January 1891 Tokar was captured bringing about the entire collapse of Mahdists in the Suakin area; of greatest impact to Grenfell, however, was the death

of the Khedive in January of the following year, ‘I few weeks later I received a telegram from the War Office offering me the Deputy Adjutant-Generalship of the Reserve Forces, and I had to make up my mind whether to remain in my present position in Egypt, in command of the Army, or to return to England. I had now been ten years in the Egyptian Army, and though I was very loath to leave, I felt it would be for my future advantage to see the working of the great army machine from Headquarters. I had many friends there, and the Duke of Cambridge, the Commander-in-Chief, had always received me with great kindness. After careful consideration I determined to accept and telegraphed in that sense to the Military Secretary, accompanying my telegram with a letter to my old friend Redvers Buller, as I felt sure that it was his influence that had obtained this appointment for me.’

The War Office Deputy Adjutant-General of Reserve Forces In 1892 Grenfell took over the command of the Yeomanry, the Militia and the Volunteers, all of which were in decline and in need of drastic reform; in July 1894 he also took charge of the Recruiting Department, ‘the recruiting centres had seldom been visited by the Inspector-General, and I made it my duty to travel a great deal in the provinces and to acquaint myself personally with the recruiting officers, many of whom I found quite unfit for their position, many of the staff being too old and lethargic. In the first year, with the concurrence of the Adjutant-General, I got rid of a large number and appointed more efficient men in their places.

This resulted in an increase of recruits in the next year, and after two year’s work the Departments greatly improved.’

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Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria The Tsar’s Coronation in Moscow Grenfell described this as the greatest spectacle that he had seen (and indeed offers a very descriptive narrative of MayJune 1896 in his Memoirs), ‘the great event of 1896 for me was my visit to Moscow for the coronation of Tsar Nicholas.

The Duke of Connaught represented the Queen and I was selected to represent the Army’; he had an audience at the Petrovski Palace, where ‘the Emperor wore the undress uniform of one of the regiments of the Guards… He reminded me of a parade I had for him of the Egyptian Army, and asked a good deal about the expedition and its prospects…. The Duke of Connaught had invested the Emperor with the Grand Cross of the Victorian Order, and he now presented a very fine silver-gilt cup as a present from the Queen. The confounded cup stuck in its case, and we all had to pull and tug and (mentally) swear at it before it would come out, at which the Royalties were amused.’

This was not to be only comical investiture that Grenfell was involved in, ‘we were wonderfully well done in Moscow, I had five rooms, a carriage to myself, two pairs of horses, and a royal footman always ready to leap on the box… I received the… Order of the “White Eagle”. After my tub, I was sitting in a bath towel dressing-gown, when in marched Prince Galitzin and two other Russian officers in full uniform with the decoration. I could not get up to thank the Prince, having to conceal my legs, and the situation was a somewhat difficult one. I was most grateful for the honour, but I feel sure that I am the only knight of the Order that has received it in a bath towel. The situation was such a ridiculous one, and my attempts to assume a dignified attitude so impossible that we all collapsed into roars of laughter. I produced cigarettes, and passed quite a pleasant half-hour.’ Having returned to England on the 17th June, ‘I received a command to proceed to Balmoral… The Queen asked me a great many questions about the Coronation… The Queen congratulated me on the success of the Egyptian Army… We dined at 9.15. The Queen sat between Princess Christian and Princess Leiningen, ten in all, and the dinner was very simple and good… After dinner on Sunday the Queen spoke to me about Egypt, the Soudan and Gordon. I told her I had dined with him and seen the last of him when he started for Khartoum. I thought Her Majesty had formed a very accurate estimate of his character.’

A Return to Egypt Still employed at the War Office, Grenfell was informed 11.6.1897, ‘that the Secretary of State wished me to go to Egypt in command of the British troops to assist Kitchener in the campaign which had already been commenced… I again communicated with Coleridge Grove and told him that I was prepared to go to Egypt whenever the Government desired me to take up my duties. On the 22nd I rode in the Diamond Jubilee procession. We were not far from the Queen and the tremendous enthusiasm of the crowd was quite remarkable.

We halted for the service at St. Paul’s and, starting again, rode across the river and round by Southwark, back to the palace. The Queen passed us in entering the palace and looked quite well and cheerful, bowing right and left. The cheering was absolutely continuous and the enthusiasm extraordinary. On July 2nd I gave over my duties at the War Office and left without much regret, as I infinitely preferred an active command such as that of the troops in Egypt.’

Having spent five years at the War Office, Grenfell found himself back in Cairo in October 1897, ‘early in January [1898] the Khartoum expedition was definitely settled and the greater part of the winter was taken up with arrangements I had to make at the base, receiving and forwarding troops, and so on. It was necessary to make an inspection of the various depots, and in the middle of February I proceeded with my staff to Assouan, and then on to Wady Halfa, where, after an inspection of stores at the railway head, and having a conference with the officer commanding and his staff, I returned to Cairo… As in the summer no more English

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troops were to be forwarded, I left for England, returning to Egypt in July for the contemplated advance on Khartoum in the autumn… On September 3rd I received news of the destruction of the forts at Omdurman. I read the telegram with joy and turning the page saw my nephew Robert’s name among the killed… On the 25th I was in Khartoum. I dined with Kitchener to meet the Brigadiers. A very interesting evening, as we made out Gordon’s rooms and the stairs at the head of which he died. Kitchener paraded the troops in my honour. It was very affecting to see my old command passing, I saw many of the Egyptian officers whom I had promoted and who had done well in the service.’

Further Commands in Malta and Ireland In October 1898 Grenfell accepted the Governorship of Malta and took up the position at the start of the following year, ‘in the early summer of 1902 I left Malta for the Coronation and arrived home on June 12th…. To my great astonishment I received two letters, one from Lord Salisbury, another from Mr. Chamberlain, announcing the fact that the King had been graciously pleased to confer a peerage on me.’

Grenfell received a private audience with King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace the day after the Coronation.

In 1903 Grenfell’s term as Governor of Malta came to an end and on April 1st he took command of the 4th Army Corps; this appointment was relatively short lived as on ‘February 11th [1904], Lord Esher came to see me at my office. He said he had called to tell me that the King desired that I should succeed the Duke of Connaught in Ireland… I was gazette General in April and took over the Irish Command in May. My duties in Ireland were somewhat interfered with occasionally by my appointment as Gold Stick to the King and also from my being a member of the Selection Board at the War Office; both these caused me frequently to cross the water.’

An Audience with the Pope In December 1904 Grenfell accompanied Prince Arthur of Connaught to Rome for the baptism of the King of Italy’s eldest son, ‘we had received orders from King Edward that we were to ask for an audience with the Pope and to give him a kindly message from the King… His Holiness welcomed the Prince, and thanked him for his visit to this “povera persona”, spoke kindly of the King and his people, and expressed his gratitude for the full liberty of worship which in England was accorded to his Roman Catholic subjects. He said the dominions of our King were so great that he might be considered “il re de mondo”. The prince then read the message. Luckily I had worked it up in Italian and was able to repeat it in this language to the Pope, who was surprised and smiled, and said: “Parlate Italiano, Generale?” And then in conversation with me he told me that he recalled with interest the fact that I had been connected with the two great strongholds of the faith, as Governor of Malta, and commanding, as I then was, in Ireland.’

In June 1906, ‘I made my debut as Gold Stick at the first June Court. Before the Court began, I had an audience of the King and Queen and received the sacred gold stick of the 2nd Life Guards from his hands, and kissed hands on my appointment to the regiment. Then we walked in procession to the large drawing-room in Buckingham Palace where the Court was held, and I stood for an hour and a half in awful tight Life Guard’s boots, close behind the King, which was my place.’ Having returned to Ireland Grenfell received a Royal Visit from the King in July 1907, shortly afterwards strike riots occurred in Belfast, during which the troops had to be called out. They behaved remarkably well, very temperate and quiet under, sometimes, great provocation.

On the day of the worst riot, it was found necessary to fire on the mob, three people being killed, all of them, however, leading rioters – the woman who was shot being one of the worst characters in Belfast.’ Grenfell retired from the Irish Command on April 29th 1908 and returned to London

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where he had become Governor and Commandant of the Church Lads’ Brigade, ‘1908 was a very happy year. We had now three children and although I had retired from the Army, by being made this year Field Marshal I was still on the active list.’

The Death of a King Grenfell once again ‘represented the Army in the suite that accompanied King Edward and Queen Alexandra to Berlin in February 1909… Decorations had been distributed to all of us, I receiving the Grand Cordon of the Red Eagle, and I wore that noble bird at the State banquet. The Emperor sent for me to consult me as to his dress as a British Field Marshal.

As he insisted on carrying a baton, I had to condemn him to wear long boots, that being our rule. Before the end of the visit, I had a private conversation with the Emperor. He talked for half an hour to me about the British Army.’

During the State Visit King Edward had suffered a serious health scare, and he ‘died in May 1910… having received orders from the Lord Chamberlain to accompany the funeral cortege for the removal of the body of the King from Buckingham Palace to Westminster, I went to the palace at 10.45 on May 17th, being on duty as Gold Stick. Queen Alexandra, followed by the King and Queen Mary, arriving, the body was placed on a gun-carriage by men of the Grenadier Guards, with the Crown and Orb placed on the coffin. The procession was formed and started at 11.30, I walking with Lord Dundonald and Admirals of the Fleet Seymour and Fremantle, just behind the great Officers of State, The silence and reverence of the crowd were very remarkable, all in black and uncovered… On arrival at Westminster the Queen Mother and the King and Queen… passed through us. As Gold Stick I had to accompany the King and stand near him as he knelt in front of the coffin.

The interior of Westminster Hall was a remarkable sight, the Lords all gathered on the West side, the Commons on the east… It was a deeply impressive service and beautifully carried out in every way.’

The Great War and New Commitments In September 1910 Grenfell, ‘went with Rosebery to Vienna officially to announce the accession of King George to the Emperor’, at the end of the trip, ‘Rosebery and I visited the Emperor to say good bye. He said to me: “I am glad to have entertained in my palace a brother Field Marshal of the British Army – an Army which we Austrians have always considered as our hereditary comrades!” Then came 1914.’

With the advent of war Grenfell found himself busily employed on the Red Cross Council, and also became Chairman of the Royal Benevolent Association, but perhaps what gave him the greatest source of pride was arranging ‘to raise a battalion of ex-members of the Church Lads’ Brigade… In February [1915] the Archbishop of Canterbury inspected the battalion which I had raised… The battalion, camped at Denham, turned out one thousand one hundred strong… I and Lieutenant-Colonel Kindersley, late Coldstream Guards, who was in command of the battalion met the Archbishop, who was received with a salute. The battalion was now the 16th Service Battalion of the K.R.R. Corps… I felt that my labours had not been thrown away, and that by this ceremony the battalion was ready when properly armed and when accoutrements had been received for all the men, and it would be a most creditable addition to the forces which were shortly to take their place alongside the army in France.’

Grenfell resigned his duties as Gold Stick in 1920, but, was still actively involved in his parent regiment, as Colonel Commandant of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, right up until his death in 1925, ‘the Public Funeral accorded to him in London by the Nation surely testified to the affection in which he was held by his relatives and friends, as also to the high opinion formed of his public career by hundreds who perhaps knew him only by name. By all his intimate and numberless friends in the Army he was known as “Dear Old G.”, showing the esteem and affection in which he was held.’

(Major-General Sir Ronald Lane, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., refers).

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27 Germany, Prussia, Order of the Red Eagle, Civil Division, Knight Grand Cross set of Insignia, by Wagner, Berlin, sash Badge, 81mm, gold and enamel, maker’s mark on base; Star, 89mm, silver-gilt and enamel, maker’s mark on pin hinge, extremely fine, with short length of sash riband for display purposes (2) £6,000-8,000 Awarded to Lord Grenfell on the occasion of H.M. King Edward VII’s State Visit to Berlin, February 1909.

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28 Italy, Kingdom, Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, Knight Grand Cross set of Insignia, sash Badge, 106mm including crown suspension x 66mm, silvergilt and enamel, maker’s mark on base; Star, 88mm, silver, gold, and enamel, lacking reverse cartouche, enamel damage to St. Lazarus’ Cross on Star, therefore nearly very fine or better, with short length of sash riband for display purposes (2) £400-500 Awarded to Lord Grenfell on the occasion of the Baptism of the King Victor Emmanuel III’s eldest son Umberto, Rome, December 1904.

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29 Russia, Imperial, Order of the White Eagle, Civil Division, set of Insignia, by Keibel, St. Petersburg, sash Badge, 90mm including crown suspension x 60mm, gold (56 zolotniki) and enamel, manufacturer’s mark, 1865-1896 assay office mark, and court stamp on eagle’s claws, manufacturer’s mark and court stamp on suspension loop; Star, 90mm, silver-gilt (84 zolotniki) and enamel, manufacturer’s name, 1865-96 assay office mark, and court stamp on reverse and on pin, blue enamel damage to crown tassels, otherwise extremely fine, with short length of sash riband for display purposes (2) £40,000-60,000 Awarded to Sir Francis Grenfell on the occasion of the Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, 26.5.1896.

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31 Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania, First Class set of Insignia, sash Badge, 85mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 68mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel; Star, 93mm, silver and enamel, mint mark and silver mark on reverse, some enamel damage to reverse of badge, good very fine, with short length of sash riband for display purposes (2) ÂŁ800-1,000 Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania First Class London Gazette 26.7.1892 Major-General Sir Francis Wallace Grenfell, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.

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32 Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania, Third Class neck Badge, 84mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 61mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, about extremely fine, with short length of neck riband for display purposes £400-500 Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmania Third Class London Gazette 27.5.1886 Major-General Francis Wallace Grenfell, C.B., A.D.C., Sirdar of the Egyptian Army ‘In recognition of his services whilst actually and entirely employed beyond Her Majesty’s dominions in the service of His Highness the Khedive of Egypt.’

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33 Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, First Class set of Insignia, by Kretly, Paris, sash Badge, 80mm including Crescent suspension x 62mm, silver, gold applique, and enamel, maker’s cartouche on reverse, the star lacking from the suspension; Star, 94mm x 89mm, silver, gold applique, and enamel, maker’s cartouche on reverse, minor enamel damage, one retaining pin re-affixed, nearly very fine, with short length of sash riband for display purposes (2) £800-1,000 Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh First Class London Gazette 18.5.1888 Colonel Sir Francis Wallace Grenfell, K.C.B. (holding local rank of Major-General whilst employed as Sirdar of the Egyptian Army).

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34 Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, Second Class set of Insignia, neck Badge, 78mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 62mm, silver, silver-gilt, gold applique, and enamel, mint mark on reverse; Star, 94mm x 89mm, silver, gold applique, and enamel, mint mark on reverse, minor enamel damage, otherwise good very fine, with short length of neck riband for display purposes (2) ÂŁ600-800 Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh Second Class London Gazette 27.5.1886 Major-General Francis Wallace Grenfell, C.B., A.D.C., Sirdar of the Egyptian Army.

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35 Field Marshal’s Baton, 540mm, gold (18 carat, Hallmarks for London 1907) top and bottom mounts, the main baton covered in Imperial purple velvet and studded with eighteen gold lions, the base inscribed ‘From His Majesty Edward VII King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to Field Marshal the Rt. Hon. The Lord Grenfell, G.C.B., G.C.M.G. 1908.’, surmounted by a superbly modelled gold equestrian figure of St. George slaying the Dragon, the velvet worn in parts, slight damage to St. George’s lance, and the equestrian figure slightly loose, otherwise extremely fine £35,000-45,000

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BRITISH ORDERS AND SINGLE AWARDS x36 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Civil Division, Commander’s (C.B.E.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, extremely fine, with neck riband £200-240 37 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Civil Division, Commander’s (C.B.E.) Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, enamel damage to top arm of Cross, otherwise extremely fine, on Lady’s bow riband, in Fattorini, Birmingham, case of issue, with miniature width neck riband £160-200 38 The Great War M.B.E. Attributed to Mr. H. Topham, Assistant Inspector of Steel, Admiralty The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Civil Division, Member’s (M.B.E.) breast Badge, silver (Hallmarks for London 1917), extremely fine, in Garrard, London, case of issue, with the following prize medals: - Sir Joseph Whitworth, Bt., Scholarship Medal, by A. Wyon, bronze, the obverse featuring a bust portrait of Sir Joseph Whitworth, Bt.; the reverse featuring a high powered calliper machine, able to measure to the nearest one millionth of an inch, the edge inscribed ‘Harry Topham, 1901.’, in fitted case of issue - Bradford Mechanics Institute Brown’s Prize Medal, silver, the obverse featuring a portrait of Henry Brown, Esq., the reverse inscribed ‘Bradford Mechanics Institute Presented to Harry Topham by the Council of the above Institute for Excellence in Higher Mathematics. Sep. 24. 1901.’, in fitted case of issue - Two South Kensington Board of Education Science Proficiency Medals, by G.W. de Saulles, bronze, the obverse featuring a crowned bust portrait of Edward VII, the edges inscribed ‘Harry Topham. Practical Plane & Solid Geometry, 1905.’ and ‘Harry Topham.

Steam, 1905.’ respectively, both in fitted cases of issue (5) £120-150 M.B.E. London Gazette 7.6.1918 Harry Topham, Esq., Assistant Inspector of Steel, Admiralty.

Mr. Harry Topham, M.B.E., (1881-1950), born Horton, Bradford; appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services in connection with the War, June 1918, and received his award from H.M. the King at Buckingham Palace, 17.12.1918.

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41 A Great War 1917 ‘French Theatre’ I.D.S.M. to Dafadar Sham Singh, 19th Lancers (Fane’s Horse) India Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (2788 Dfdr. Sham Singh, 19/Lcrs.), nearly extremely fine £700-900 I.D.S.M. London Gazette 4.6.1917 2788 Dafadar Sham Singh, Cavalry ‘For gallantry and distinguished service in the Field.’

42 A Scarce 1920 ‘Aden Field Force’ I.D.S.M. to Private Nayanar, 75th Carnatic Infantry, Indian Army Indian Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (Pte Nayanar, 75 C. Infy), heavy edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £550-650 I.D.S.M. Indian Government General Order 89 1919 Nayanar, 3705 Pte., 75th Carnatic Infantry (Aden).

M.I.D. London Gazette 23.7.1920 Nayanar, 3705 Pte., 75th Carnatic Inf., I.A. ‘For valuable and distinguished service rendered in connection with Military Operations in the Aden Field Force, during the period 1st June, 1918, to 30th April, 1919.’

Approximately 67 I.D.S.M.s awarded for Aden during the period 1914-1922.

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x43 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (D. Mc.Kenzie, Greasr. (M.M.) H.M.S. Princess Margaret. 19156.), lacquered, good very fine £550-750 D.S.M. London Gazette 25.10.1916 Greaser Duncan McKenzie, Mercantile Rating.

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.

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x44 Military Medal, G.V.R. (1057175 L.Cpl. Thompson. 14/Can: Inf:), nearly extremely fine

J. £160-200

M.M. London Gazette 13.3.1919 Thompson, J., 14th Can. Inf. Bn.

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x45 Military Medal, G.V.R. (210669 Pte. R. Mc.C. Mac Donald. 58/Can: Inf:), lacquered, good very fine £160-200 M.M. London Gazette 13.3.1919 210669 Pte. MacDonald, R. M., 58th Can. Inf. Bn.

x46 King’s Medal for Courage in the Cause of Freedom, unnamed as issued, extremely fine £150-200

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A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF MEDALS RELATING TO H.M.S. POWERFUL, FOR THE DEFENCE OF LADYSMITH 47 The Important K.C.B., C.M.G., M.V.O. Group of Fourteen to Admiral Sir Michael Hodges, Royal Navy, Who as a Young Lieutenant Commanded One of H.M.S. Powerful’s 4.7. inch Naval Guns During the Defence of Ladysmith; Hodges Commanded the Battlecruisers Indomitable and Renown During the Great War, Before Being Appointed Chief of Staff to Admiral Sir Charles Madden; After the War Hodges was Appointed Second Sea Lord and Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet a) The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, Military Division, Knight Commander’s (K.C.B.) set of insignia, neck Badge, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel; Star, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, minor green enamel damage to Star b) The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion’s (C.M.G.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel c) The Royal Victorian Order, Member 4th Class (M.V.O.) breast Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘914’, enamel flaked on top arm d) Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (Lieut: M. H. Hodges, R.N. H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming e) 1914-15 Star (Capt. M. H. Hodges, M.V.O. R.N.) f) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Commre. 2 Cl. M. H. Hodges, R.N.) g) Defence and War Medals h) Coronation 1902, silver i) Coronation 1911 j) France, Republic, Legion of Honour, Officer’s breast badge, gold and enamel, minor blue enamel damage, with rosette on riband k) Japan, Empire, Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd Class neck Badge, silver-gilt, enamel, and red cabochon in centre l) Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (Unsuccessful) (Commander M. H. Hodges, R.N. 2nd Oct. 1904) complete with bronze top riband buckle, generally good very fine (14) £6,000-8,000 Admiral Sir Michael Henry Hodges, K.C.B., C.M.G., M.V.O. (1874-1951), entered Royal Navy as a Cadet aboard the Training Ship Britannia, 1887; appointed as Midshipman to H.M.S. Swiftsure, 1889 and to H.M.S. Warspite in June the following year; promoted Acting Sub Lieutenant whilst serving with H.M.S. Boscawen, 1893, and later confirmed in this rank with the same seniority; subsequent service included with the Excellent, Tribune and Gleaner, before being appointed to the Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert in July 1895 and promoted to Lieutenant on 28 August 1895; served as Lieutenant in H.M. Ships Volage and Powerful; whilst serving with the latter Hodges was landed in South Africa as a member of the ship’s Naval Brigade sent to defend the town of Ladysmith; he was mentioned in Captain H. Lambton’s Despatch of 11.1.1900, as ‘being in Command of a 4.7 inch gun at Cove Redoubt and Junction Hill and fought it with great skill and coolness, under, at times, a very accurate and plunging crossfire from the enemy’s guns of much heavier calibre, during the first fortnight of the siege’; he was also mentioned in General Sir George White’s Despatch of 2.12.1899, ‘The following Naval Officers have been brought to notice by General Officers Commanding or Officers Commanding units... Lieutenant M. Hodges, R.N...... to be noted for early promotion to Commander’; he was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s Testimonial on Vellum, as Lieutenant of Powerful, 19.5.1899, for jumping overboard in Manilla Bay, and with assistance saving a seaman who had fallen from the ship; in recognition of his services in South Africa Hodges was, in July 1900, granted the Freedom of the Borough of Dorchester, and presented with binoculars and a silver inkstand; he held command of Flint and Crane, before being appointed as 1st Lieutenant of H.M.S Caledonia; promoted to Commander, 26.6.1902, and in connection with the Coronation Fleet Review was appointed to the Enchantress; he next joined President, for R.N. College Greenwich, Hermes and Prince George; whilst in Hermes, he was awarded the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society for gallantly attempting to save Commander Melvill, who was drowned at Portland on 2.10.1904, on a very dark night, with a rough sea on; Hodges returned to College for Senior Officer’s Gunnery Course in June 1905, and then took command of H.M.S. Sappho; he received the thanks of the Colonial Office for assistance rendered by the Sappho during the riots in British Guyana in 1905-06, and was specially promoted to Captain on 31.12.1908, in recognition of services rendered during the disturbances at Iquique; appointed to the command of H.M.S. Doris, July 1910, and to the command of H.M.S. Cornwall in December of the following year; appointed Naval Attaché in Paris prior to the outbreak of the Great. War (made M.V.O. on the occasion of the King’s Visit to Paris in April 1914, and for his services as Naval Attaché received the Legion of Honour from the French Government); he also received the thanks of the War Office for his services while acting for the Military Attaché in connection with the purchase of aeronautical material in France; during the early stages of the War he was utilised as Divisional Naval Transport Officer at Salonika; a week after the battle of Jutland, he was appointed to command H.M.S. Indomitable, in the Second Battle Cruiser Squadron, Grand Fleet; appointed to the Command of the new battle cruiser Renown, the following year, and in 1918 he was posted as Commodore 2nd Class, Chief of Staff to Admiral Sir Charles Madden, Second in Command of the Grand Fleet; on the dispersal of the Grand Fleet in 1919 and the appointment of Sir Charles Madden as Commander in Chief, Atlantic Fleet, Hodges accompanied him to the Queen Elizabeth as Chief of Staff, and was promoted to Commodore 1st Class (C.B. and C.M.G. 1919; Russia, Order of St Anne, 2nd class, 1916; and Japan, Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class, 1917); after the War he was appointed Rear-Admiral Commanding the Destroyer Flotillas of the Atlantic Fleet and in 1923 he was appointed Naval Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty; whilst in the latter post Hodges was promoted to Vice-Admiral; early in 1925 he hoisted his flag in the Iron Duke as Second in Command on the Mediterranean Station, transferring it later to the Barham (K.C.B.); after two years’ service in Command of the Barham he returned home and was appointed Second Sea Lord; he held this post until 1930, and was meanwhile promoted to Admiral in 1929; from the Admiralty he went direct to be Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet with his flag in Nelson; an attack of pleurisy in the course of the next year caused him to relinquish his command before his time and he retired in 1932; reemployed during the 1939-45 war in shore appointments as Resident Naval Officer at Folkestone and Teignmouth, and as Flag Officer in Charge, Trinidad, West Indies.

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48 Five: Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st Class G. Hatch, Royal Navy Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, one clasp, Suakin 1885 (G. Hatch, E.R.A. 4 Cl. H.M.S. Condor); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (122691 Ch: E:R:A: G. Hatch, H.M.S. Powerful), officially re-impressed naming; Coronation 1902, bronze; Naval Long Service & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (George Hatch, Ch. E.R.A. 2nd Cl., H.M.S. Nile), officially re-impressed; Khedive’s Star 1884-6, last with bruised arm point, contact marks and minor edge bruising elsewhere, generally very fine or better and a rare combination of awards and clasps (5) £1,200-1,400

49 A Scarce Campaign Combination Group of Six to Chief Gunner J. Egan, Royal Navy East and West Africa 1887-1900, one clasp, Gambia 1894 (J. Egan, A.B., H.M.S. Raleigh.), minor official correction to 1st ‘H’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (148889 Lg-Sm: J. Egan, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming; Naval General Service 1915-62, G.V.R., one clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (Gunr. J. Egan, R.N. H.M.S. Fox.), minor official correction to surname; 1914-15 Star (Gnr. J. Egan, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch. Gnr. J. Egan. R.N.), first two with contact marks, otherwise good very fine, with contemporary miniature awards for first two medals (lot) £800-900

122691 Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st Class George Hatch, born Landport, Hampshire, 1861; joined Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer, 1883; subsequently witnessed active service out in Egypt, being landed from H.M.S. Condor on secondment to the Naval Brigade during the Suakin operations of 1885, and again in South Africa in the Boer War, when he was landed from the Powerful and served in the Naval Brigade at the defence of Ladysmith; advanced to Chief Engine Room Artificer ‘in recognition of his services in South Africa’ (service record refers); awarded L.S. & G.C. Medal, January 1894, and added the Coronation 1902 Medal to his Honours and Awards for his services in the royal yacht Victoria & Albert; ‘Pensioned Ashore’, April 1905.

Chief Gunner James Egan, born Melcombe Regis, Dorset, 1873; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1891; served in H.M.S. Raleigh, 28.7.1891-23.2.1895; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 4.9.1897-8.6.1900, advancing to Petty Officer 2nd Class whilst serving with her; promoted Acting Gunner 19.9.1905, and posted to H.M.S. Endymion (Gunnery Training Ship), 12.12.1905; service during the Great War as Gunner (Torpedo) included at Stokes Bay Experimental Station, H.M.S. Vernon (Torpedo School); promoted Commissioned Gunner, 13.9.1918.

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50 50 A Rare and Unusual Boer War Naval Brigade Group of Six to Lieutenant Instructor in Cookery W.Y. Henderson, Royal Navy, A Veteran of Both the Siege of Ladysmith and the Battle of Jutland, He Also Served as Ships Cook on the Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (340267 2: Sh: Ck: W.Y. Henderson, Powerful), impressed naming; 1914-15 Star (340267 W.Y. Henderson, Ch. Sh. Ck., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Inst.

Cky. W.Y. Henderson. R.N.); Jubilee 1911; Naval Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (340267 W.Y. Henderson, Ch. Cook, H.M.Y. Victoria & Albert.), minor official correction to last, otherwise generally very fine or better, mounted for wear, with the following contemporary 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, W. Henderson. Act. 2nd. Corp.., H.M.S. Powerful’, the movement inscribed ‘S. Smith & Son, 9 Strand, Swiss made, London, Watchmakers to the Admiralty’, movement in working order, hairline cracks to watch face, otherwise good condition - 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’ below (lot) £1,200-1,600 Lieutenant Instructor in Cookery William Young Henderson, born Landport, Hampshire, 1874; joined Royal Navy as Acting 2nd Cook’s Mate, 1894; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897-8.6.1900; served as Ships Cook in H.M.Y. Victoria & Albert. 9.7.19035.10.1903; served during the Great War as Chief Ships Cook in H.M.S. Agincourt (dreadnought), 4.8.1914-31.1.1918, during which time she took part in the Battle of Jutland, 31st May-1st June 1916; commissioned Instructor in Cookery, 1.1.1920; retired 4.9.1929.

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51 Five: Chief Petty Officer G.H. Groves, Royal Navy Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (124261 P-O: G.H. Groves, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming; 1914-15 Star (124261, G.H. Groves, C.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (124261 G.H. Groves. C.P.O. R.N.); Naval Long Service & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (G.H. Groves, C.P.O. H.M.S. Excellent.), contact marks overall, therefore nearly very fine or better (5) £550-650 124261 Chief Petty Officer George Henry Groves, born Canada, 1868; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1883; Petty Officer 1st Class, 1897; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897-8.6.1900; served during the Great War at H.M.S. Fisgard and in H.M.S. Canada (battleship), 10.8.19153.9.1917; during which time she participated in the Battle of Jutland, 31 May - 1st June 1916; discharged 20.2.1919.

52 Five: Petty Officer F.G. Capron, Royal Navy Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (185864 A-B: F.G. Capron, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming; 1914-15 Star (185864 F.G. Capron, P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (185864 F.G. Capron.

R.N.); Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Admiral’s bust’ type (185864 F.G. Capron, Ldg. Sean. H.M.S. Royal Arthur), remnants of lacquer, nearly very fine or better, mounted as originally worn together with a British War Medal on N.G.S. riband (19295 Pte. E.F. Watts. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.), and with the following related item: - H.M.S. Powerful ‘Siege of Ladysmith’ Hunter Pocket Watch, silver case, the outer front cover inscribed ‘Siege of Ladysmith, 118 Days, 1899-1900, A. Capron. Ord. Sea. Bugler., H.M.S. Powerful’, with an unmarked replacement movement, this in working order, face cracked, case re-hinged, with a silver fob and Chinese coin attached to this (lot) £550-650 185864 Petty Officer Frederick George Capron, born Acton, Middlesex, 1880; joined Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class, Bugler, 1895; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.18978.6.1900, during which time he advanced to Able Seaman; subsequent service included in H.M.S. Black Prince, 27.3.1906-30.3.1908; H.M.S. Lord Nelson, 5.1.190911.1.1911 and H.M.S. Royal Arthur, 1.4.1913-31.5.1913 (Capron does not appear on the N.G.S. 1915-62 roll); service during the Great War included in H.M.S. Wallington (M.I.D. London Gazette 8.3.1918); ‘Shore Pensioned’, 12.5.1920.

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53 Four: Shipwright Lieutenant S.T. Sadler, Royal Navy Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (148053 Carp-Mate: S.T. Sadler, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming; 1914-15 Star (Ch. Carpr. S.T. Sadler, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Cd. Shpt. S.T. Sadler. R.N.), light contact marks, therefore very fine or better (4) £500-700 Shipwright Lieutenant Samuel Thomas Sadler (18661947) born Gosport, Hampshire; joined Royal Navy as a Shipwright, 1889; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.18976.6.1900; indeed it is interesting to speculate whether Sadler’s advancement to Carpenter in June 1900 was in recognition of special services during the defence of Ladysmith; Sadler was serving in H.M.S. St. Vincent (battleship) at the outbreak of the Great War, and having been advanced to Chief Carpenter (Commissioned Shipwright) in June 1915, was present in her at the Battle of Jutland, 31st May-1st June 1916; ended the War with an appointment in the submarine depot ship Maidstone and was advanced to Shipwright Lieutenant on his retirement in February 1920; he was granted a Greenwich Hospital Pension in March 1943.

54 Four: Able Seaman E. Wise, Royal Navy Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (145287 E. Wise. A.B. R.N. (Replacement)), an officially impressed replacement medal; 1914-15 Star (145287, E. Wise, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (145287 E. Wise. A.B. R.N.), nearly extremely fine (4) £240-280 145287 Able Seaman Edward Wise, born Henley, Oxford, 1873; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1891; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 9.9.1897-8.6.1900; service during the Great War included in H.M.S Europa (cruiser), August 1914-August 1915 and H.M.S. Blenheim (cruiser), July 1915-October 1917; Shore Pensioned April 1921.

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55 55 Four: Cooper R.R. Hogg, Royal Navy Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (R.R. Hogg, Car: Cr: H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming; British War and Victory Medals (340625 R.R. Hogg. Cpr. 1. R.N.); Naval Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (340625 R.R. Hogg, Cooper, H.M.S. Latona.), contact marks overall, therefore nearly very fine, mounted as originally worn (4) £180-220 340625 Cooper Robert Rutherford Hogg, born Melrose, Scotland, 1876; a carpenter by trade prior to joining the Royal Navy, he naturally enlisted as Carpenter’s Crew, 1895; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897-8.6.1900 (published transcription of roll gives entitlement to a no clasp Q.S.A.); served in H.M.S. Latona, 16.9.1909-8.4.1911; service during the Great War included in H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth (battleship), 8.3.1916-15.4.1919.

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56 56 Three: Stoker 1st Class J.C. Blake, Royal Navy Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (283367 Sto: J.C. Blake, H.MS. Powerful), impressed naming; British War and Victory Medals (283367 J.C. Blake. Sto.1 R.N.), nearly extremely 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, J.E. [sic] Blake. Stoker, H.M.S. Powerful’, the movement inscribed ‘S. Smith & Son, 9 Strand, Swiss made, London, Watchmakers to the Admiralty’, movement not in working order, otherwise good condition - 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’ below and additionally engraved ‘J.C. Blake, H.M.S. Powerful, this with several dents and slightly polished (lot) £800-1,000 283367 Stoker 1st Class James Charles Blake, born Deptford, Kent, 1877; joined Royal Navy as Stoker 2nd Class, 1896; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 17.9.1897-5.1.1898; served during the Great War in H.M.S. Venus, 20.3.1916-31.10.1917, and H.M.S. Euryalus, 1.11.1917-20.12.1917; subsequent service included in H.M.S. Glory IV (a Russian ship formerly known as Askold, which was seized by the Royal Navy in 1918 after the Russian Revolution), 25.7.1918-30.4.1919.

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57 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 uninscribed, 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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58 Pair: Chief Petty Officer P.C.C. Gerhold, Royal Navy Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (114734. P.O. 1Cl. P.C.C. Gerhold.

H.M.S. Powerful), engraved naming; Naval Long Service & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (P.C.C. Gerhold, Ldg. Sea., H.M.S. Sans Pareil.), part of ship on last officially corrected, nearly extremely fine, mounted for wear (2) £400-500

59 Pair: Petty Officer 2nd Class E.E. Foley, Royal Navy Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (173512 A-B: E.E. Foley, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming; Naval Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (173512 E.E. Foley, P.O. 2Cl, H.M.S. Hecla.), contact marks, therefore nearly very fine or better (2) £400-500

114734 Chief Petty Officer Philip Chapman Coe Gerhold, born Kingston, Hampshire, 1865; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1881; served in H.M.S. Sans Pareil, 9.2.1892-17.4.1895 (L.S. & G.C. August 1893), and H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897-10.6.1900; pensioned as Chief Petty Officer, September 1903.

173512 Petty Officer 2nd Class Edward Ernest Foley, born Portsea, Hampshire, 1877; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1895; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.18978.6.1900, advancing to Able Seaman whilst serving with her; Petty Officer 2nd Class, 1906; served during the Great War in H.M.S. Prince of Wales (battleship), 3.11.1912-5.4.1917, during which time she was engaged in the Dardanelles Campaign and supported the landings of the 3rd Brigade, Australian Army at Gapa Tepe and at Anzac Cove, 25.4.1915; demobilised 30.10.1919.

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60 60 Pair: Chief Stoker H.T. Hipperson, Royal Navy Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (158054 Sto: H.T. Hipperson, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming, partially officially renamed; Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Admiral’s bust’ type (158054. H.T. Hipperson, Ch. Sto., H.M.S. Galatea.), good very fine (2) £300-400 158054 Chief Stoker Henry Thomas Hipperson, born Gosport, Hampshire, 1871; joined Royal Navy as Stoker 2nd Class, 1890; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897-8.6.1900; served during the Great War in H.M.S. Galatea (light cruiser), 21.12.1914-30.6.1918, during which time she was initially assigned as the leader to the 2nd Destroyer Squadron of the Harwich Force, guarding the eastern approaches to the English Channel; in the latter capacity, she took part in the shooting down of Zeppelin L 7, 4.5.1916; she later took part in the Battle of Jutland, 31 May - 1st June 1916, where she was the flagship of the First Light Cruiser Squadron under Commodore E.S. Alexander-Sinclair; Galatea was the first ship to report the presence of German ships, triggering the battle, and she was also the first to receive a hit by the German light cruiser Elbing; Hipperson was demobilised 11.2.1919.

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61 Five: Private A.E. Lampard, Royal Marine Light Infantry Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Belmont, Modder River, unofficial rivets (8516 Pte. A.E. Lampard, R.M., H.M.S. Powerful), engraved naming, light contact marks; 1914-15 Star (PO.8516, Pte. A.E. Lampard, R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (PO.8516 Pte. A.E. Lampard. R.M.L.I.); Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Admiral’s bust’ type (PO.8516 A. 1055 A.E. Lampard. Mne. R.F.R.), otherwise good very fine (5) £350-450 8516 Private Albert Edward Lampard, born Salisbury, 1878; enlisted Royal Marines as Private, 1896; attached for service with H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897-9.3.1900, ‘19.10.1899 landed with the Naval Brigade attached to Kimberley relief force in the Boer War. Took part in all actions (4) fought by that force Belmont, Enslin, Modder River & Magersfontein’ (service papers refer); service during the Great War included in H.M.S. Barham (battleship), 19.8.1915-12.1.1919, during which time she took part in the Battle of Jutland, 31st May-1st June 1916, where she received five direct hits; discharged with Pension, 22.1.1922.

Approximately 10 two clasp medals of this combination awarded to H.M.S. Powerful, and 13 two clasp medals awarded to the ship in total.

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Commander C.R. Sharp 62 A Particularly Fine ‘Defence of Ladysmith’ Naval Brigade Officer’s Q.S.A. to Midshipman, Later Commander, C.R. Sharp, Royal Navy, Who Was the Youngest Member of Lambton’s Brigade, and Was Mentioned in Despatches For His Services During the Defence. Sold With Comprehensive and Important Primary Source Archive Material Relating to the Naval Brigade’s Role, and Daily Actions During the Defence of Ladysmith - As a Consequence Extremely Rare, and Unusual to be in Private Ownership Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (Mid: C.R. Sharp, R.N. H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming, light contact marks, good very fine, with the following important primary source archive material of Naval and Boer War interest, formerly used as a research resource by Gerald Sharp, son of Midshipman C. R. Sharp, for his book The Siege of Ladysmith, published by Macdonald & Jane’s, 1976, a copy of which accompanies this lot: - Midshipman C. Reynolds Sharp’s large format Defence of Ladysmith Diary, titled by the author H.M.S. Powerful, Naval Brigade Journal of The Siege of Ladysmith 1899-1900, hard covers under contemporary cloth jacket decorated on front board with an H.M.S. Powerful cap tally band, the contents comprising approximately 54 pages (of approx.

100pp.) filled with manuscript, day by day entries, detailing military events and personal commentary on the 119 day defence; also includes a competent pen and ink plan of the Defence and Siege, and a frontispiece watercolour plan of a ‘12 pounder 12 cwt gun mounting for field service’. Volume size approx.

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several Boers had got right up to the sangars and opened fire at the same time shozuting ‘Retire’. About 3pm Rifleman’s Ridge opened fire on Waggon Hill and raked it with shrapnel the Boers made another attack later in the evening .... Our casualties mount up to about 250 killed and wounded. The Boers must have lost enormously ...’

- Queen’s Regulation Log Book of Midshipman C. R. Sharp, hard covers under contemporary cloth jacket decorated on front cover with H.M.S. cap tally bands for Terrible, Powerful, Resolution and Gibraltar, approximately 55 pages of manuscript entries, technical drawings, pen and ink charts and crosssections, compiled during service 1899-1901 in the aforementioned ships, Volume size approx. 320mm x 215mm - Boer War period letters written by Midshipman C. R. Sharp, including one penned during the Defence of Ladysmith.

- Conduct Certificates of C. R. Sharp, including one signed by Captain Hon Hedworth Lambton, R.N., H.M.S. Powerful, who commanded the naval brigade in Ladysmith, and one signed by Captain Sir Percy Scott, R.N., H.M.S. Terrible., who designed naval mountings for use ashore in South Africa, and during the First World War played a leading role in antiZeppelin measures.

- Aural archive material, comprising a CD (two copies) and one audio cassette recording C. R. Sharp’s reminiscences of life in the Victorian Navy and during the Defence of Ladysmith, with typescript; together with two further audio cassettes and original documents relating to Sharp’s experiences in early submarines and during the First World War whilst King’s Harbour Master at Berehaven, Bantry Bay, Ireland; together with C. R. Sharp’s 1899 pocket book with pencil diary entries, and a small pocket diary, brief entries, for 1903.

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Recently rebound and titled, contents good. Together with a quantity (approx. 130) of original related correspondence, including signed letters from Lord Roberts, Lord Milner, Sir Ian Hamilton, Sir Percy Marling, V.C., Sir Hubert Gough, siege correspondent Henry Nevinson, and Jan Smuts; officially printed list of officers present during the Siege of Ladysmith; two club secretary’s address books; nine typescript invitation envelopes addressed to officers who were discovered to have been killed in South Africa; a signed 1937 Ladysmith Dinner menu; two original reunion dinner photographs, circa 1951; a signed 1937 Ladysmith dinner menu; a large studio quality souvenir group photograph from the 1928 Ladysmith Dinner, with participants named; two original reunion dinner photographs, circa 1951 and a number of modern photographic reproductions of Ladysmith dinners and negatives - A quantity of modern photographic reproductions and negatives of the Naval Brigade and Gordon Highlanders in South Africa and at Ladysmith during the Boer War; a quantity of related copy photographic material collected by Gerald Sharp; together with a quantity of original and copy photographic images of C. R. Sharp, including some fine studio portraits, generally good condition (lot) £5,000-7,000 17 officers served with Lambton’s Naval Brigade for the Defence of Ladysmith. Predominantly picked from the crew of H.M.S. Powerful, there were also two young midshipmen from the Terrible, Edward George Chichester and Charles Reynolds Sharp, both aged sixteen.

Commander Charles Reynolds Sharp (1883-1966); educated as a chorister at Magdalen College School, Oxford; entered H.M.S. Britannia as a Cadet, 1898; passed out in August the following year, and on appointment to H.M.S. Orlando on the China station, he was directed to take passage in the heavy cruiser Terrible sailing from Portsmouth; with the outbreak of hostilities imminent in South Africa, H.M.S. Terrible was ordered to rendezvous with her homeward bound sister ship H.M.S. Powerful at Simonstown; having arrived Sharp transferred to H.M.S. Powerful (Captain Hedworth Lambton), 26.9.1899; Lambton proceeded in the

Powerful to Durban in answer to an urgent request for naval guns from Sir George White in Ladysmith; from Durban, Sharp as part of Lambton’s 266-strong naval brigade, proceeded by rail on the last train to reach Ladysmith before the Boers cut the line and besieged the town; At sixteen Sharp was the junior midshipman and youngest member of Lambton’s naval brigade, ‘From 1 November to 5 December, 1899, 3,264 Boer shells were recorded as falling in Ladysmith, killing thirty-one civilians and wounding 145.

Ladysmith Town Hall, which was being used as a hospital, was badly damaged, despite the Red Cross flag flying over it...

Young Midshipman Sharp managed to purloin one of the stone balls that fell from the Town Hall clock tower following its rude assault from ‘Long Tom’. It is indicative of the lad’s youthful determination that he even managed to carry the unwieldy object home, where it sits to this day on a special plinth in a lovely Cornish garden, with a plaque beneath it proclaiming its historical significance. It is believed, on the basis of information received from a reliable South African informant, that the civic authorities in Ladysmith would appreciate its return.’ (Field Gun Jack versus the Boers, The Royal Navy in South Africa 1899-1900, Tony Bridgland, refers); Sharp was mentioned in despatches for his service at Ladysmith and was recommended for early promotion on qualification for the rank of Lieutenant (1903); upon their return to England, the officers and men of Powerful’s Ladysmith Brigade were invited to an inspection by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle, May 1900, ‘Midshipman Sharp had been the youngest and most junior officer present. He was therefore the last to be presented and stood quite close to the Queen while waiting his turn. Recalling the experience, in the mid-1960s at over eighty years of age, he said that for the rest of his life he had always remembered her voice very clearly. Indeed, in those days of pre-radio, he was one of the few commoners to have heard it.’ (Ibid).

Appointed Lieutenant H.M.S. Resolution (battleship), July 1900; transferred to the newly formed, and at the time, secretive submarine branch, 1904; served in the Hollandclass submarines, the first submarines built for the Royal Navy; he commanded Holland 2 before he was given command of A10, at Plymouth - ‘a devil of a boat - you had to have your hair parted in the middle to keep her afloat’; and in 1907 Sharp received command of C2 , conversely, ‘a magnificent boat’; during the Great War he was stationed at Berehaven, Ireland, where he combined the duties of King’s Harbour Master, Chief Examination Officer and Coaling Officer, and was involved in the salvaging of ships torpedoed

by U-boats; retired 1922, and was re-employed for service during the Second War in Naval Control work based in the U.K. and in Stockholm; for fifty years Commander Sharp was a stalwart of the annual Ladysmith reunion dinner held on the anniversary of the relief (28 February); from 1935 Sharp acted as secretary to the gathering until the final dinner at Claridges in 1951 by which time it was concurred ‘we were getting too old to assemble in London in mid-winter.’

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63 A Well Documented and Rare Naval Brigade Officer’s Q.S.A. to Midshipman, Later Lieutenant, the Hon. I.L.A. Carnegie, Royal Navy, Who Was Wounded and Twice Mentioned in Despatches for His Command of A Naval Brigade Gun During the Defence of Ladysmith Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (Mid: Hon: I.L.A. Carnegie, RN, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming, toned, good very fine, with the following small series of rare original Boer War ‘on active service’ letters written by Midshipman Hon. I.L.A. Carnegie, Royal Navy: - A letter addressed to his brother, Douglas, the envelope with assorted postmarks and dates 30.10.1899 to 27.11.1899 - Four letters to his mother, the envelopes all addressed to ‘The Dow. Countess of Northesk, 6 Hans Crescent, London S.W.’ and with assorted postmarks, including ‘Ladysmith, Natal’ and ‘Simonstown’, and differing dates in March 1900 - A letter to a friend, Lewin, without envelope, dated at ‘Wagon Hill, 14th Feb. 1900’; and an old handwritten copy of a letter sent to a Mr. Rawnesley, this having been dated at ‘The Lady Helen Battery, Caesar’s Camp, Jan. 17th 00’, and describing his first experience of enemy shellfire; the whole contained in an old envelope with outer ink inscription, ‘Ian’s letters from South Africa 1899 & 1900’ (lot) £2,000-3,000 Lieutenant The Hon. Ian Ludovic Andrew Carnegie, a younger son of the 9th Earl of Northesk; joined Royal Navy as Cadet, May 1897; appointed Midshipman, July 1897, and served in H.M.S. Powerful; landed with the Naval Brigade for the Defence of Ladysmith during the war in South Africa, and was wounded during the campaign, ‘I am just off to the

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front. I don’t like to tell mother but in case I do get shot Asst.

Eng. Shirwell, H.M.S. Powerful, is looking out for my gear ...

We are going up tonight in armoured trains and I believe we are going through to Ladysmith. The Boers have cut off the wires and we may have to fight our way through ... I am off in half an hour, Goodbye’ (letter to his brother included in lot refers); upon arrival in Ladysmith he was given a hot reception ‘We arrived at Ladysmith about 10 a.m. on Monday and were greeted by three 6-inch 94-pound shells which came over one after another and landed about 200 yards from us’ (copy of a letter written from ‘The Lady Helen Battery, Caesar’s Camp, Jan. 17th 00’, describing his first experience of enemy shellfire refers); a letter written at ‘Caesar’s Camp, Friday Feb. 23rd Feb.’ gives further insight into his responsibilities during the defence, ‘I am in command of a 12-pounder 12-cwt. gun and am detached from the rest of the Navy who are on the other side of the town. I have travelled about a good deal with my gun on this hill and Wagon Hill which is next to it and have always been near to Buller’s people when they have tried to comein. I came here three days ago to stop the Boers working on the river. We cannot quite make out what they are doing but it looks like the beginning of a bridge or a dam. They cannot show their noses there now as we give them a few shells when we see them work. It is rather fun as the Boer 6-inch ‘Long Tom’ is only 5000 yards from here, which is quite a short distance for him and he fires at us when we fire, so we have to be very quick getting under cover, but we are quite safe as he has hit the gun pit several times and cannot make any impression as there is quite 15 feet of earth and sandbags and stones between us and him’; Carnegie was Mentioned in Captain Lambton’s Despatch of 11.1.1900: ‘Mr Carnegie has had charge of a 12 pr. gun at Caesar’s Camp since Nov. 27th 1899, which he has fought successfully under, at times, a hot fire’; he was also mentioned in Sir George White’s Despatch of 2.12.1899, and noted for early promotion, becoming SubLieutenant on 151.1901, and Lieutenant on 15.7.1902. He received his medal for the Defence of Ladysmith personally from the hands of the King.

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67 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (188182 A-B: W. Barnaby, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming, good very fine £380-420

Listed on latest published transcription of medal roll as being entitled to a no clasp medal.

188182 Ship’s Corporal William Barnaby, born Hampshire, 1880; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1898; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 26.8.1897-8.6.1900; served during the Great War in H.M.S. Glory (battleship), 2.8.1914-11.9.1916; H.M.S. Renown (battlecruiser) and in H.M.S. Iron Duke (battleship), 31.1.1917-8.2.1919.

65 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (186778 A-B: J.F. Annett, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming, last two letters of ship officially corrected, very fine £340-380 186778 Petty Officer John Frederick Annett, born Eltham, Kent, 1879; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1897; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897-9.3.1900 and 24.4.1900-8.6.1900, advancing to Able Seaman whilst serving with her; Petty Officer 25.3.1913; served during the Great War in H.M.S. Sentinel, July 1914-July 1918.

68 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (175256 A-B: A.W. Benton, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming, nearly extremely fine £400-450 175256 Able Seaman A.W. Benton served in H.M.S. Powerful, and died of disease at Ladysmith, 3.2.1900.

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66 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (187369 A-B: E.A. Archer, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming, extremely fine, a Scarce Casualty £500-600 187369 Able Seaman Ernest Alfred Archer, born Wandsworth, London, 1880; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1896; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.189713.12.1899; promoted Ordinary Seaman, March 1898, he died of wounds received in action whilst serving with the Naval Brigade during the defence of Ladysmith, 13.12.1899; Archer died at Intombi Camp Military Hospital, Ladysmith, and was buried in the military cemetery nearby.

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69 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (186793 A-B: R.S. Bone, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming, toned, good very fine £380-420 186793 Able Seaman Robert Seymour Bone, born St. Giles, London, 1879; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1897; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897- 9.3.1900 and in H.M.S. Doris, 10.3.1900-10.6.1900; subsequent service included in H.M.S. Berwick (armoured cruiser), 20.11.190315.11.1905, when on the latter date his service papers give ‘Run New York’.

70 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (126651 A-B: J. Bradford, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming, good very fine £380-420 126651 Able Seaman John Bradford, born Lewisham, Kent, 1868; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1884; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897-9.3.1900 and in H.M.S. Doris, 10.3.1900-10.6.1900; Bradford was invalided to Haslar, 13.8.1900.

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71 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (131345 A.B. J. McNulty. H.M.S. Powerful.), engraved naming, minor edge bruise, good very fine £380-420 131345 Able Seaman John McNulty, born Darlington, 1869; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1885; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 1.9.1899-8.5.1900; service during the Great War included in H.M.S. Juno (cruiser), 2.8.191413.9.1915 and H.M.S. Brilliant (mine-layer), 28.12.191715.2.1918; demobilised 4.6.1921.

72 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.

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73 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (163366. A.B. M. Wells. H.M.S. Powerful.), engraved naming, good very fine £380-420 163366 Able Seaman Montague Wells, born Alton, Hampshire, 1876; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1894; Able Seaman 1895; served in H.M.S. Powerful, June 1897-June 1900; served in H.M.S. Australia, 1.10.19013.1.1902, on the latter date Wells was ‘Shore Invalided.’

74 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (282698. Sto. H.W.G. Gardner.

H.M.S. Powerful.), engraved naming, minor edge bruise, very fine £400-450 282698 Stoker Harry William George Gardner, born Rotherhithe, Surrey, 1877; joined Royal Navy as Stoker 2nd Class, 1896; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897-1.3.1900, on the latter date he died of Enteric Fever, at Ladysmith.

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76 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (282672 Sto: W.E. Harriss, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming, very fine £380-420 282672 Stoker William Ernest Harriss, born Camberwell, London, 1874; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.18978.6.1900, during which period he had 2 stints in the cells; Harriss deserted from H.M.S. Camperdown in August 1902 only to be recovered in August 1914.

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77 77 Family Group: Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (282980 Sto. A. W. Pariser, H.M.S. Powerful), engraved naming, minor official correction to surname, nearly very fine, with the following items and documents: - A Rare and Original document for the banquet given by the Corporation and inhabitants of the Borough of Portsmouth to the ‘Officers and Men of the Naval Brigade in honour and appreciation of the Splendid Services rendered by them to their Queen and Country during the War in South Africa, 1899-1900’, named to ‘Alfred W. Pariser, Stoker’ and dated 24.4.1900; this in a damaged glass-fronted gilded frame - Facsimile of the document addressed to Captain The Honourable Hedworth Lambton, C.B., Officers and Men of the Naval Brigade of H.M.S. Powerful from the inhabitants of Simon’s Town, this in a slightly damaged glass-fronted wooden frame - A ‘Vanity Fair’ Print of Captain The Honourable Hedworth Lambton, entitled ‘H.M.S. Powerful’, with a picture of the ship inset at the top right, dated ‘June 28th 1900’, print and border approx. 373 x 227mm www.spink.com

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showing, contained in a gilded and glass-fronted frame, approximately 525 x 372mm Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., circular type, 2nd ‘Coronation robes’ type (Arthur Mitchel Pariser), in case of issue, good very fine (lot) £600-800 282980 Stoker Petty Officer Alfred William Pariser (published transcription of roll gives ‘Parrisey’), born Old Ford, London, 1877; joined Royal Navy as Stoker 2nd Class, 1896; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897-8.6.1900; ‘Invalided for Pension’, 22.11.1906.

78 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (175748 Ord: A. Caldwell, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming, good very fine £400-450 175748 Ordinary Seaman Albert Caldwell, born Belfast, 1877; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1895; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 1.2.1898-14.12.1899; on the latter date he died of Enteric Fever, at Ladysmith.

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H.M.S. Powerful.), engraved naming, good very fine £400-450 186287 Ordinary Seaman H.W. Pannifer served in H.M.S. Powerful, and died of disease at Ladysmith, 10.3.1900.

80 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (181688. Ord: H. Passmore. H.M.S. Powerful.), engraved naming, good very fine £380-420 181688 Able Seaman Henry Passmore, born Tradeston, Lanarkshire, 1879; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1897; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897-8.6.1900; ‘Shore Expired’, June 1909.

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81 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Belmont (6426 Pte. J.E. Coldrick, R.M., H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming, edge bruising, very fine £340-380 Approximately 31 single clasp ‘Belmont’ medals awarded to H.M.S. Powerful 6426 Sergeant James Edward Coldrick, born Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1875; enlisted Royal Marines as a Private, 1893; served attached to H.M.S. Powerful, 15.9.18998.6.1900, ‘landed with Naval Brigade attached to Kimberley Relief Force in the Boer War. Was present in actions at Belmont and Gras Pan [sic]. Wounded in action at Gras Pan, 25.11.1899’ (Service Papers refer); Sergeant, 10.1.1907 (L.S. & G.C. 13.3.1910); discharged 12.1.1920.

82 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein (178059 A-B: J.H. Branton, H.M.S. Powerful), impressed naming, contact marks, therefore nearly very fine £600-800 Approximately 19 five clasp awards to H.M.S. Powerful.

178059 Chief Petty Officer John Henry Branton, born Monkleigh, Devon, 1878; joined Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1896; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897-8.6.1900; Petty Officer, 1.4.1904; service during the Great War included in H.M.S. Berwick (armoured cruiser), 17.6.191619.8.1918.

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84 Borough of Portsmouth Tribute Medal 1899-1900, obverse, shield, ‘Borough of Portsmouth’, reverse engraved, ‘Naval Brigade, South Africa 1899-1900; North China 1900’, unnamed, 27mm, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1902) and enamel (Hibbard A21, type 2), good very fine £200-250

85 Borough of Portsmouth Tribute Medal 1899-1900, obverse, shield, ‘Borough of Portsmouth’, reverse engraved, ‘Naval Brigade, South Africa 1899-1900; North China 1900’, unnamed, 27mm, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1902) and enamel (Hibbard A21, type 2), altered to be worn as a broach, very fine £140-180

86 86 A Superb Photograph Album of a Naval Officer Who Was Besieged in Ladysmith A 20 page (40 sides) album (31cm. by 41cm.), with red leather covers inscribed ‘A.W.H.’ in gold-tooled letters, relating to Lieutenant, Later Admiral, A.W. Heneage, containing some 125 photographs, the majority with captions, of topographical and military interest, 39 showing wartime activities of Royal Naval personnel at Ladysmith and elsewhere in South Africa, plus many views of the Philippines, and one of a Scouts group in 1925 including Baden-Powell, spine restored, otherwise in good condition £1,200-1,400 Admiral Algernon Walker Heneage, C.B., M.V.O., born 1871, the son of Major C.W. Heneage, V.C.; joined the Royal Navy in 1886; served as Lieutenant in H.M.S. Powerful, and was mentioned in Captain Lambton’s Despatch for the Defence of Ladysmith, ‘Lieutenant Heneage has conducted the duties of Senior Executive Officer entirely to my satisfaction’ and also mentioned in Sir George White’s despatch of 2.12.1899, specially promoted to Commander for this service, May 1900; commanded H.M.S. Spartan as escort ship to Queen Alexandra during her Majesty’s visit to Norway and Denmark, 1904 (M.V.O.); commanded the 1st Squadron Minelayers, August 1910 to August 1912; service during the Great War included in command of the battleship H.M.S. Albion (C.B. 1916; twice M.I.D.; France, Legion of Honour; Japan, Order of the Rising Son, 2nd Class).

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87 An H.M.S. Powerful ‘Siege of Ladysmith’ Hunter Pocket Watch A watch contained in a silver case, the outer front cover inscribed ‘Siege of Ladysmith, 118 Days, 18991900, P. McCarthy, L.S., H.M.S. Powerful’, the movement inscribed ‘S. Smith & Son, 9 Strand, Swiss made, London, Watchmakers to the Admiralty’, movement in working order, a little polished, otherwise good condition, scarce £400-500 These pocket watches were presented by Lloyds of London to each member of the crew of H.M.S. Powerful who was present during the Siege of Ladysmith.

161769 Chief Petty Officer Patrick McCarthy, born Kinsale, 1876; joined the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class, 1894; Able Seaman, 1895; served in H.M.S. Powerful, 8.6.1897-8.6.1900, advancing to Petty Officer 2nd Class whilst serving with her; Chief Petty Officer, 29.9.1906; subsequent service included in the battleships H.M.S. King Edward VII and during the Great War in H.M.S. Dominion.

88 H.M.S. Powerful Curios A Boer War commemorative moulded clay pipe, with bowl in the form of a sailor’s head, with cap-tally inscribed H.M.S. Powerful A small cast bronze dog, painted and posed as a ship’s mascot, smoking a pipe and dressed in sailor’s uniform, with cap-tally inscribed H.M.S. Powerful, slight chipping to paint (2) £140-180 PROVENANCE:

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90 A Naval Brigade Memento A circular silver (Hallmarks for London 1898) ash-tray

by H.M. Emanuel & Son, Portsea, in the shape of a sailor’s straw hat, with ribbons, 90mm in diameter, good condition £200-300 PROVENANCE:

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91 A Boer War Silver Teaspoon A scarce example by M. Bros (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1899), the shank terminating in the figure of a sailor in the Naval Brigade, also ornamented with scroll to front, “Jack’s the boy for work”, reverse “South Africa 1900”, slightly worn, otherwise in good condition £60-80

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92 The First Burma War and Capture of Ghuznee Pair to Major-General B. Bygrave, Paymaster of the Kabul Army, One of the Few Survivors of the Massacre in the Jugdulluck Pass During the Retreat From Kabul Who, After Days Walking Through the Mountains Suffering From Frostbite, Became the Last European Prisoner of Akbar Khan Army of India 1799-1826, short hyphen reverse die type, one clasp, Ava (Lieut. B. Bygrave, Pionrs.), officially engraved in serif capitals, India; Ghuznee 1839 (Captain B. Bygrave, 5th Regt. N.I.), reverse engraved in running script, very fine or better (2) £5,000-6,000 Major-General Bulstrode Bygrave, was born at Newport, Isle of Wight, in October 1802, the son of George Augustus Bygrave, Barrack Master on the Isle of Wight, and was commissioned Ensign in the Bengal Infantry with the 3rd Native infantry in June 1821. Promoted Lieutenant in 1823, he was posted to the 1/2nd Native Infantry, and served in the First Burma War as Adjutant of the Native Pioneers, being present during operations on the Sylhet Frontier and in the Arakan. In July 1828 he was appointed Paymaster to the Native Pensioners and Adjutant of the Native Invalids at Allahabad.

In late 1838 Bygrave was appointed Paymaster to the Army of the Indus and was subsequently present at the storming of Ghuznee, 23.7.1839, taking a share in the Ghuznee Prize, and receiving the Order of the Dooranee Empire, 3rd Class.

After nearly two years’ service as Paymaster General at Kabul, he volunteered to rejoin his regiment and took part in Colonel Oliver’s punitive expedition to Zurmat in September and October 1841. Returning to Kabul in late 1841, Bygrave was present during the final, fateful months of the British occupation under the command of Major-General W.

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Elphinstone. During the period of insurrection following the murder of the British Envoy Sir William MacNaghten, Bygrave was appointed to the command of the South East Bastion and angle of the Kabul cantonment and ‘never slept away from his post (the battery near his house) for a single night and took his full share of fatigue without adverting to his staff appointment...the clothes never off his back, out in all weathers with his men and at all hours night and day.’

(Journal of an Afghanistan Prisoner, by Lieutenant V. Eyre refers).

Retreat from Kabul On the 6th January 1842 General Elphinstone, with Bygrave in close attendance, led the British garrison out from the cantonment to begin its disorderly and disastrous retreat to India. The Kabul Army, comprising 690 British infantry, 2840 native infantry, 970 native cavalry, and approximately 10,000 camp followers, was attacked as soon as it left the cantonment, the Afghans closing in on the rear-guard and killing more than fifty men. That night the column, having travelled barely five miles from the city, camped without the benefit of shelter. ‘All scraped away the snow as best they might to make a place to lie down on’ wrote Lady Sale, ‘... there was no food for man or beast procurable ... At daylight we found several men frozen to death ... numbers of men, women and children are left on the roadside to perish.’ Next day, the Afghans continued to harass the struggling column, charging their horses into the throng, slaying and plundering indiscriminately. On the morning of the 8th, the 5th Native Infantry were thrown into confusion by a surging mass of camp followers at Boodhak. Bygrave, however, extricated the regiment and despite being under enemy fire managed to restore order and bring the sepoys to face the Afghan skirmishers. For his presence of mind on this occasion he received the thanks of ‘every company officer’.

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November 24, 2011- London unfortunates’ recorded Lady Sale, ‘have dropped, benumbed with the cold; to be massacred by the enemy: yet so bigoted are our rulers that we are still told that ... Akbar Khan is our friend!’ By the end of the third day, Major Eldred Pottinger, the Hero of Herat and now MacNaughten’s successor as Political Agent, and two other officers had been handed over to Akbar as hostages, and the British wives and children had been placed under his ‘protection’. The menfolk struggled on and, having lost five of seven guns in a rear-guard action in the Khoord-Kabul Pass, suffered severe casualties from the Afghan tribesmen ranged on the mountains above them.

Soon only seventy men of the 44th Regiment, a hundred sowars, and one detachment of horse artillery were left. After the destruction of the native corps on the 10th January, Bygrave attached himself to the 44th Foot and bivouacked with the remnants of the half-starved column in the ruins of Jugdulluck on the following afternoon. A lull in the constant fusillade then heralded the arrival of Akbar who took Elphinstone and his second-in-command, Brigadier Shelton, hostage, and gave his assurance that the column would now be allowed to proceed unmolested to the Indian frontier. No sooner than he had departed, the Afghans redoubled their fire. Collecting 16 or 18 men of the 44th, Bygrave placed himself at their head and led a sally which was completely successful in temporarily driving off the enemy. But the little party was soon recalled to the main body, which again retired behind the ruined walls; and again the enemy returned to pour upon them a destructive fire of their jezails.

On the morning of the 12th January, Bygrave led another sally with a small party of the 44th who by his own account ‘did their work well, readily and most cheerfully’, and dislodged the enemy. At nightfall ‘... we gave three hearty cheers, one for our country, one for our Queen and one for Her Majesty’s 44th Foot [who] went to the rear, at this period the post of danger, and [I] told the men that I would stay with them to the last if only they would keep together and obey orders. This last, I had ever found them willing to do, but alas, the poor fellows foot-sore, tired and starved were at length unable to turn about and defend themselves, the Afghans having completed their work of blood and blunder at the Barriers [of holly-oak blocking the pass] began to dot the road in our rear, three came up close to me. I shot one, on which the other two fell back when I ordered the rear rank to face about and fire, but I now saw to my sorrow that these brave fellows could scarcely get one leg before another, much more turn to resist an attack, or to defend themselves.’

At this point, Bygrave, foreseeing the inevitable destruction of the force, decided to strike out on his own and reach Jalalabad by way of the mountains. He was joined in this hazardous trek by an enterprising Delhi merchant named Baness who had been caught up in the misfortunes of the British at Kabul, and who was equally anxious to put some distance between himself and the pursuing Ghilzai tribesmen.

Surviving on a diet of dried coffee grains which Baness brought with him, supplemented by the occasional piece of wild liquorice root, they travelled by night and hid by day in the long rushes of the mountain streams or under the thick evergreen shrubs that dotted the snow-capped peaks.

Steering a course in the dark soon proved extremely difficult and at one turn they found themselves on a high mountain road where they came upon the freshly despatched and mangled corpse of a European soldier, forcing them to laboriously retrace their steps for many miles. After four tortuous days and nights, Bygrave ‘with frost bitten feet, and worn-out shoes’ collapsed, telling Baness that he could go no further. He suggested that they should find the nearest village and throw themselves on the mercy of the local chief, but Baness, thinking this a reckless course, declared that ‘for the sake of his large family’ he must go on alone to Jalalabad.

Shortly after setting out on his own, Baness was assailed by pangs of guilt and twice returned desperate to urge Bygrave on. His efforts were in vain, and ultimately he reached Jalalabad alone, only to collapse himself and expire.

Prisoner Awaking from a ‘prolonged slumber’, Bygrave summoned sufficient strength to reach the village of Kutch Soorkab on the night of the 18th, the second since Baness left him. At daybreak he gave himself up and was taken to the local chief, Nizam Khan, who ultimately handed him over on 15 February to Akbar then encamped at Charbagh and preparing to join the Afghan forces besieging Sir Robert Sale’s garrison at Jalalabad. In an ‘extremely weak and debilitated state’, Bygrave joined Akbar’s other European prisoners held in the fort at Buddeeabad on the 23rd and at last received some rudimentary treatment for his frost-bitten toes from Surgeon McGrath of the 37th, who himself had been wounded in the Khoord-Kabul Pass. McGrath afterwards reported: ‘On first seeing him mortification had separated the three centre toes of the left foot, and the other two were in such a state that I immediately removed the first joint of the great toe, and the entire of the little one - the foot was very much swollen and inflamed and his sufferings were intense. During his entire stay at Buddehabad - or from the 10th April - Captain Bygrave was totally unable to move from his couch without assistance. After the 10th April the foot became less painful and the sores [began] to heal gradually, and with the aid of a stick which he is still obliged to use he was enabled to move about a little - Captain Bygrave is of course lame and will continue so through his life.’

From the 11th April, a few days after Sale’s garrison broke out from Jalalabad, the prisoners were obliged to follow Akbar in his movements, and it occurred to the Khan that Bygrave might be of use to him in the inevitable negotiation of terms. Accordingly Bygrave exchanged places as a potential hostage with Major Pottinger, who was allowed to rejoin the other prisoners on 25th August. On the evening of 11th September he was duly summoned with Captain Troup of H.M’s 44th to an ‘earnest consultation’ with Akbar. The British officers assured their captor that his defeat was certain, to which the Khan replied ‘ ‘I know that I have everything to lose; but it is too late to recede.’ He declared that he was indifferent as to the result. The issue of the contest was in the hands of God, and it little mattered to him who was the victor.’ By the 15th September, General Pollock had established a camp on the Kabul race course and within a week all of the European prisoners, save Bygrave, had been released. The Afghan chiefs were now desperate to sue for peace and Akbar ‘perceiving that the further detention of his sole prisoner served no good purpose restored him to his liberty’. Akbar ‘would no longer make war upon a single man, and upon one, too, whom he personally respected and esteemed with the respect and esteem due to a man of such fine qualities as Bygrave. So he sent the last remaining prisoner safely into Pollock’s camp; and with him sent a letter of conciliation and an agent commissioned to treat for him’.

Bygrave finally reached safety on the morning of the 27th, and having endured, what Elphinstone termed ‘trials and difficulties almost unprecedented’, he was ordered to proceed to Calcutta to settle the accounts of troops employed in Afghanistan.

In 1843 Bygrave was granted a special pension equal to that awarded for the loss of a limb, receiving £80 per annum back dated to the fateful 6th of January 1842. He continued as Paymaster until 1853 when he transferred from the list of the 5th Native Infantry to the newly raised 3rd Bengal European Regiment. Promoted Major in July 1848, and Brevet Colonel in November 1854, he attained the rank of Major-General on his retirement in December 1861, and returned to London, where he died in October 1873.

PROVENANCE:

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93 A Fine Crimea ‘Al Valore Militare’ Group of Four to Staff Surgeon G. Mason, H.M.S. Albion, Royal Naval Brigade Crimea 1854-56, two clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Asst.

Surgeon. Geo. Mason M.D., H.M.S. Albion.), contemporarily engraved in upright serif capitals, suspension claw loose; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Fifth Class breast Badge, 72mm including star and crescent suspension x 49mm, silver, gold applique and enamel, minor enamel damage; Turkish Crimea, British die, unnamed as issued, pierced for ring suspension; Sardinia, Al Valore Militare, silver, reverse ‘Spedizione D’Oriente 1855 1856’, ‘F.G.’ below the wreath, reverse officially engraved ‘Mr. George Mason M.D. Naval Brigde.’, very fine, mounted as originally worn and housed in custom made frame £1,000-1,400 Staff Surgeon George Mason, appointed Assistant Surgeon, Haslar Hospital, 1849; posted to Plymouth Naval Hospital, March 1850, prior to being appointed for service with H.M.S. Albion in June of the same year; commended for ‘zeal... in care of wounded at Sinope’, December 1853; served with the Albion (Captain S. Lushington) during the Crimean War, and was ‘promoted with seniority 18 Nov. 1854 for service at Inkermann, Sebastopol’ (service papers refer); having returned home in the Royal Albert subsequent postings included in H.M. Ships Lion and Black Prince; Staff Surgeon 1870.

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94 Pair: Shoeing Smith W. Hicks, Royal Artillery Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Sebastopol (W. Hicks. Gr. & Dr. 3rd. Btn. Rl. Arty.), officially impressed; Indian Mutiny 1857-58, no clasp (Sg. Smith Wr. Hicks, 3rd. Bn. Rl. Art.), suspension loose on latter, nearly very fine (2) £300-340 95 Pair: Private F. Tasker, Royal Fusiliers, Late 26th Foot Abyssinia 1867-68 (1012 F. Tasker 26th Regt.), suspension re-affixed; Afghanistan 1878-80, one clasp, Kandahar (721, Pte. F. Tasker, 2/7th. Foot), contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £380-420 721 Private Frederick Tasker, born Marlborough, Wiltshire, 1845; enlisted in the 26th Foot, March 1865; served with the Regiment in Abyssinia, March to May 1868; transferred to the Royal Fusiliers, July 1874; served with the Regiment in Afghanistan from February 1880, and present at the Siege and Battle of Kandahar, 1.9.1880; discharged May 1886, after 21 years and 15 days with the Colours.

96 Pair: Stoker J.T. Moore, Royal Navy Egypt 1882-89, dated, one clasp, Alexandria 11th July (J.T. Moore. Stkr. H.M.S. “Invincible.”), light pitting from Star; Khedive’s Star 1882, therefore very fine or better (2) £200-250 Leading Stoker Joseph Thomas Moore, born Stafford, 1850; joined Royal Navy as Stoker 2nd Class, 1874; service included in H.M.S. Invincible (Admiral Sir Frederick Beauchamp Seymour’s flagship for the bombardment of Alexandria), March 1882-March 1884.

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97 Pair: Private A. Clements, 19th Hussars Egypt 1882-89, undated, one clasp, El-Teb_Tamaai (1716 Pte. A. Clements. 19th Hussars.), edge bruise; Khedive’s Star 1884, otherwise generally good very fine (2) £250-300 98 Pair: Private R. Haggart, 20th Hussars Egypt 1882-89, undated, two clasps, Gemaizah 1888, Toski 1889 (2265. Pte. R. Haggart. 20th Husrs.), light pitting from Star; Khedive’s Star 1884-6, otherwise good very fine (2) £350-400 2265 Private Robert Haggart, born Scone, Perth; enlisted 20th Hussars, 1884; discharged 1896, after 12 years with the Colours, including 5 years in Egypt.

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99 Family Group: Pair: Private T. Miles, 21st Lancers, a Member of ‘D’ Squadron, Who Was Killed in Action During the Charge at Omdurman Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (4014 P’te T. Miles 21/L’crs); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, one clasp, Khartoum (4014 Pte. T. Miles. 21st Lrs), generally very fine or better Four: Driver A. Miles, Royal Field Artillery 1914 Star, with Bar (24120 Dvr: A. Miles. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (24120 Dvr. A. Miles. R.A.); Army Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Field Marshal’s bust’ type (24120 Dvr: A. Miles. R.F.A.), generally very fine or better (6) £4,000-5,000 4014 Private T. Miles served in Captain Eadon’s ‘D’ Squadron, 21st Lancers, which formed the centre of the charge at Omdurman, where he was killed in action; ‘D’ Squadron sustained the highest number of casualties during the charge, with 11 killed and 13 wounded.

24120 Driver Arthur Miles served during the Great War with 14th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, on the Western Front, from 23.8.1914.

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100 Pair: Private J. Robson, Royal Fusiliers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (2412 Pte. J. Robson, 2nd. Rl: Fus:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (4212 [sic] Pte. J. Robson. Rl: Fusiliers.), nearly extremely fine (2) £120-160 2412 Private John Robson, born Poplar, London, 1865; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, April 1892.

101 Four: Captain M.C. Hamilton, South Staffordshire Regiment, Late Imperial Yeomanry Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (20748 Pte. M.C. Hamilton.

8th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:); 1914-15 Star (Lieut: M.C. Hamilton. S.Staff: R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. M.C. Hamilton.), good very fine (4) £150-180 Captain M.C. Hamilton, served during the Boer War with the 8th (Derbyshire) Company, 4th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 6th (Service) Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment; promoted Captain, 1.1.1917; appointed Assistant Embarkation Staff Officer, 6.9.1918.

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102 Three: Staff Sergeant F. Waller, Royal Army Medical Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (7721 Sgt. F. Waller, R.A.M.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (7721 S.Serjt: F. Waller. R.A.M.C.); Army Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (7721 S.Sjt: F. Waller.

R.A.M.C.), minor contact marks, very fine (3) £130-160

103 Pair: Private W. Leggett, 6th Dragoon Guards Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (3637, Pte. W. Leggett, 6/Drgn. Gds.); King’s South Africa 190102, two clasps (3637 Pte. W. Leggett. 6th. Drgn: Gds:), nearly extremely fine (2) £120-150

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104 104 Six: Lieutenant-Colonel A.G. Farr, Australian Army Pay Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Cape Colony (307 S.Serjt: A.G. Farr. A.P.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (307 S.Qr:-Mr:-Serjt. A.G. Farr. A.P.C.); 1914-15 Star (Major. A.G. Farr. Pay. Cps A.I.F.); British War and Victory Medals (LieutCol. A.G. Farr A.I.F.), officially re-impressed; Army Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (307. S.Q.M.Serjt: A.G. Farr. A.P.C.), contact marks, traces of lacquer, very fine or better (6) £400-500 M.I.D. London Gazette 23.6.1916 Lieutenant-Colonel Albert George Farr, Army Pay Corps, Administration in Egypt.

Lieutenant-Colonel Albert George Farr, (1868-1937), born Droitwich, Worcestershire; served in the Army Pay Corps for 18 years; Appointed Staff Paymaster, Australian Imperial Force, with the rank of Major, 21.9.1914; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, 21.9.1915; served with the Australian Imperial Force in Egypt; retired, 30.9.1916.

105 Six: Sergeant P. Thomson, Royal Horse Artillery, Late Gordon Highlanders Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (6571 Pte. P. Thomson, Gordon Highrs:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (6571 Pte. P. Thomson. Gordon Highrs:); 1914 Star (24130 Ftr: Cpl. P. Thomson, R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals (24130 Sjt. P. Thomson. R.A.); Army Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Field Marshal’s bust’ type (24130 Ftr: Cpl. P. Thomson. R.H.A.), contact marks to QSA and KSA, nearly very fine, the Great War awards extremely fine (6) £300-350

106 Pair: Driver R. Miller, Royal Horse Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (38544 Dvr: R. Miller, R Bty., R.H.A.), number partially officially corrected; Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (38544 Dvr: R. Miller. R.H.A.), minor contact marks, very fine (2) £160-200 38544 Driver Robert Miller, born Prickwillow, Ely, Cambridgeshire, 1861; enlisted in the Royal Artillery, July 1883; served with the Artillery in India, October 1884 to April 1887, and in South Africa, October 1899 to January 1901 (awarded a War gratuity of £5); awarded Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, 2.2.1902; discharged July 1904, after 21 years with the Colours.

Clasps confirmed.

107 Four: Private J.W. Martin, Royal Fusiliers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (8696 Pte. J. Martin. Rl: Fus: M.I.); 1914 Star (L8692 Pte. J. Martin. 1/R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (L-8696 Pte. J.W. Martin. R.Fus.), very fine or better (4) £140-180

24130 Sergeant Peter Thomson, served with the 9th Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 15.8.1914; died, 26.2.1919, and is buried in St. Marie Cemetery, France.

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Devon: Regt.); 1914-15 Star (GS-17784 Pte. A.W. Player. R.Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (GS17784 A.Cpl. A.W. Player. R.Fus.), minor contact marks, very fine or better (5) £180-220 GS-17784 Corporal Albert William Player, served with the 3rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front from 5.10.1915; transferred to the reserve, 24.2.1919.

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109 109 Pair: Captain L.T.L. Jones, Royal Navy Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Lieut. L.T.L. Jones, R.N., H.M.S. “Thrush”.); British War Medal (Capt. L.T.L. Jones. R.N.), nearly extremely fine (2) £350-450 Captain Lewis Tobias Loftus Jones, Commissioned Sub Lieutenant, Royal Navy, April 1898; promoted Lieutenant, 1.7.1900; served during the Great War only in Britain (not entitled to a Victory Medal); retired with the rank of Captain, 1.12.1924.

Captain Jones’ brother, Commander Loftus William Jones, Royal Navy, was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for gallantry at the Battle of Jutland, 31.5.1916.

V.C. London Gazette 6.3.1917 Commander Loftus William Jones, R.N. (killed in action) ‘On the afternoon of the 31st May, 1916, during the Battle of Jutland, Commander Jones in H.M.S. “Shark,” Torpedo Boat Destroyer, led a division of Destroyers to attack the enemy Battle Cruiser Squadron. In the course of this attack a shell hit the “Shark’s” bridge, putting the steering gear out of order, and very shortly afterwards another shell disabled the main engines, leaving the vessel helpless.

The Commanding Officer of another Destroyer, seeing the “Shark’s” plight, came between her and the enemy and offered assistance, but was warned by Commander Jones not to run the risk of being almost certainly sunk in trying to help him. Commander Jones, though wounded in the leg, went aft to help connect and man the after wheel. Meanwhile the forecastle gun with its crew had been blown away, and the same fate soon afterwards befell the after gun and crew. Commander Jones then went to the midship and only remaining gun, and personally assisted in keeping it in action. All this time the “Shark” was subjected to very heavy fire from enemy light cruisers and destroyers at short range. The gun’s crew of the midship gun was reduced to three, of whom an Able Seaman was soon badly wounded in the leg. A few minutes later Commander Jones was hit by a shell, which took off his leg above the knee, but he continued to give orders to his gun’s crew, while a Chief Stoker improvised a tourniquet round his thigh. Noticing that the Ensign was not properly hoisted, he gave orders for another to be hoisted. Soon afterwards, seeing that the ship could not survive much longer, and as a German Destroyer was closing, he gave orders for the surviving members of the crew to put on lifebelts. Almost immediately after this order had been given, the “Shark” was struck by a torpedo and sank. Commander Jones was unfortunately not amongst the few survivors from the “Shark,” who were picked up by a neutral vessel in the night.’

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110 Four: Private H. Moorton, Royal Fusiliers 1914 Star with Bar (L-11348 Pte. H. Moorton.

1/R.Fus); British War and Victory Medals (11348 Pte. H. Moorton R.Fus.); Delhi Durbar 1911 (Pte. H. Moorton. No.4348 2nd Batt., Royal Fus.), very fine (4) £140-180 L-11348 Private Henry Moorton, born Stratford, London, 1883; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, 9.5.1905; served with the Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 20.9.1914; received shrapnel wound to back and right leg at Albert, 10.7.1916; transferred to the Bedfordshire Regiment, 17.2.1917; transferred to the Military Foot Police, 16.4.1917; discharged due to the effects of tear shell gas, 6.11.1918.

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111 An Unusual Campaign Combination Group of Nine to Lieutenant G.E.T. Treneary, Indian Army, Late Sapper, Royal Naval Division 1914-15 Star (Deal 1483-S- Spr. G.E.T. Treneary R.M.); British War and Victory Medals (236159 Spr. G.E.T. Trencary [sic] R.E.); India General Service 1936-39, two clasps, North West Frontier 1936-37, North West Frontier 1937-39 (M-1858827 S-Sgt. G.E.T. Treneary, I.A.O.C.), partially officially renamed; 1939-1945 Star; Burma Star; War Medal; India Service Medal; Army Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., with ‘India’ bar suspension (S-Sjt. G.E.T. Treneary, I.A.S.C.), generally nearly very fine (9) £180-220 Lieutenant George Edward Thomas Treneary, born Hightown, St. Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, 1897, the eldest of five brothers from a well-known family on the Isles, one of whom was Prime Minister Wilson’s personal taxi driver every time he visited the Isles; served during the Great War with the Royal Naval Division and the Royal Engineers in the Gallipoli theatre of War, August 1915 to November 1915, and on the Western Front, August 1916 to November 1918; transferred Royal Army Service Corps (M.T.), 2.2.1923; transferred Indian Army Service Corps, and advanced Sergeant, 1930; awarded Long Service & Good Conduct Medal 1935; transferred Indian Army Ordnance Corps, 1.12.1939; Conductor 1.11.1941; Lieutenant 10.8.1942; died 29.12.1969: ‘Mr. George Treneary died at his home at Treverhan estate, Hayle, on December 29. The eldest brother he served as a regular soldier for some years, rising to the rank of Captain. After taking part in the landing at the Dardenelles he was sent to France during the first war. At one time he was in the same trenches as his father, then the oldest islander in the armed forces. This was against orders and father and son were quickly separated. Mr. Treneary spent 24 years in the Indian Army and retired during the last war.’

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112 Four: Captain K.J. Bunting, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, Late Royal Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (PS-2475 Cpl. K.J. Bunting. R.Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. K.J. Bunting.); Defence Medal, edge bruise to BWM, generally very fine (4) £100-140

113 Four: Corporal A. Howell, Royal Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (8144 Pte. A. Howell. R.Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (GS-8144 Cpl. A. Howell.

R.Fus.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st ‘Field Marshal’s bust’ type (G-8144 Cpl. A. Howell, 11/R.Fus:), very fine or better (4) £160-200

Captain Kenneth James Bunting, born Derby, 1886; enlisted in the 21st (Public Schools) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, 15.9.1914; promoted Corporal, 13.4.1915; served with the Regiment on the Western Front from 14.11.1915; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, 5.8.1916; promoted Lieutenant, 5.2.1918; Appointed Adjutant and Acting Captain, 26th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 11.8.1918; relinquished his Commission with the rank of Captain, 16.7.1920.

M.S.M. London Gazette 18.1.1919 G/8144 Cpl. Howell, A., 11th Bn. Royal Fusiliers (Mortlake) ‘For valuable service in France and Flanders.’

GS-8144 Corporal Alfred Howell enlisted in the 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, 5.9.1914; served with the Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 26.7.1915; discharged as a result of wounds, 22.5.1919.

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Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria 114 A Great War Casualty Group of Three to Company Sergeant Major F.H. Powell, [M.M.], Royal Fusiliers, Killed in Action at the Battle of Poelcapelle, 9.10.1917, During which Sergeant Molyneux, of the Same Battalion, was Awarded the Victoria Cross 1914-15 Star (607 Sjt. F. Powell. R.Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (SR-607 W.O. Cl.2. F.H. Powell.

R.Fus.), extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Frederick Henry Powell) (3) £250-300 M.M. London Gazette 9.7.1917 607 Sjt. F.H. Powell, R.Fus. SR-607 Company Sergeant Major Frederick Henry Powell, M.M., born Westminster, February 1878; lived in Harrow, Middlesex; enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, September 1914; served during the Great War at Gallipoli from 25.9.1915 (wounded); served on the Western Front from March 1917, and awarded the Military Medal; killed in action at the Battle of Poelcapelle, 9.10.1917, during the 2nd Battalion’s advance on Conde House- ‘...a filthy advance; it was costly; it was unsatisfactory. The Battalion had advanced according to plan, but apparently no one else had. There was no obvious landmark to stake out the day’s work and round off their ordeal’ (The Royal Fusiliers in the Great War by H.C. O’Neill refers); and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

V.C. London Gazette 26.11.1917 No. 1817 Sjt. John Molyneux, R. Fus. (St. Helens) ‘For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty. During an attack, which was held up by machine-gun fire which caused many casualties, Sergeant Molyneux instantly organised a bombing party to clear the trench in front of a house. Many enemy were killed and a machine-gun captured.

Having cleared this obstacle, he immediately jumped out of the trench and called for someone to follow him, and rushed for the house. By the time the men arrived he was in the thick of a hand-to-hand fight; this only lasted a short time, and the enemy surrendered, and, in addition to the dead and wounded, between 20 and 30 prisoners were taken.

Apart from the personal bravery of this non-commissioned officer, his initiative and dash prevented a slight check from becoming a serious block in the advance, and undoubtedly prevented many casualties.’

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115 Three: Private H. Foster, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (1645 Pte. H. Foster. Notts: & Derby: R.); British War and Victory Medals (1645 Pte. H. Foster. Notts. & Derby. R.), nearly extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Harold Foster), this with two small drill holes at three and nine o’clock Pair: Private T. Bundy, Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals (10316 Pte. T. Bundy.

M.G.C.), extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Thomas Bundy) Family Group: Three: Private A.E. Fielder, 17th Lancers British War and Victory Medals (GS-16463 Pte. A.E. Fielder. 17-Lrs.); Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R. (Arthur Edward Fielder), extremely fine, the last in Royal Mint case of issue British War Medal (L-10588 Pte. T. Fielder. 21Lrs.), edge bruise, nearly extremely fine Pair: Sergeant A.J. Ward, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (S4-158370 Sjt. A.J. Ward. A.S.C.), extremely fine, in named card boxes of issue, together with the recipient’s Soldier’s Pay Book (11) £220-260 1645 Private Harold Foster, born Langwith, Derbyshire; served with the 1st/8th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 30.4.1915, and is buried in Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium.

10316 Private Thomas Bundy, born Alderbury, Wiltshire; enlisted as 22069 Private, Wiltshire Regiment; served with the 2nd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps during the Great War; died of wounds on the Western Front, 18.12.1916, and is buried in Brazenti-le-Petit Military Cemetery, France.

GS-16463 Private A.E. Fielder and L-10588 Private T. Fielder were brothers.

S4-158370 Sergeant Arthur James Ward, enlisted in the Army Service Corps, 26.2.1916; promoted Corporal, 28.2.1916; served with the Corps overseas from 23.4.1916; Sergeant, 12.10.1918; discharged, 29.11.1918.

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Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria 116 Three: Sergeant W.A. Dowse, Rifle Brigade 1914-15 Star S-66 Pte. W.A. Dowse, Rif: Brig:); British War and Victory Medals (S-66 Sjt. W.A. Dowse. Rif. Brig.), good very fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (William Albert Dowse); Cap Badge; and three photographs of the recipient (3) £120-150 S-66 Sergeant William Albert Dowse, born Bermondsey, London; enlisted in the Rifle Brigade, September 1914, and served with ‘A’ Company, 12th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 21.7.1915; wounded, 31.8.1916; killed in action during the Third Battle of Ypres, 20.9.1917, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

Sergeant W.A. Dowse

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117 A Very Complete ‘First Day of the Battle of Cambrai’ Casualty Group of Three to Gunner J. Wilkie, D Battalion, Tank Corps, Late Army Cyclist Corps, Killed in Action, 20.11.1917 1914-15 Star (6337 L.Cpl. J. Wilkie, A. Cyc. Corps.); British War and Victory Medals (6337 Pte. J. Wilkie.

A. Cyc. Corps.), extremely fine, with bronze Memorial Plaque ‘John Wilkie’ and Parchment Memorial Scroll, the latter named ‘Gunner John Wilkie, Tanks Corps, Killed in Action at Flesquieres near Cambrai 20th Nov. 1917’, all housed with a portrait photograph of recipient in a large glazed mahogany display frame (lot) £380-420 76300 Gunner John Wilkie, born Glasgow, Scotland; initially served during the Great War as 6337 Lance Corporal 7th Divisional Cyclist Company, Army Cyclist Corps, in the French theatre of War, from 11.9.1915; transferred to the Tank Corps and was serving in D Battalion, which along with E Battalion, had been allotted to IV Corps, 51st (Highland) Division for the start of the Battle of Cambrai, 20.11.1917, their task ‘as one tank commander expressed it, “We go straight in and sit on the Germans until the cavalry come”.....

The 1/6th Black Watch and 1/5th Gordon Highlanders of the 153rd Brigade followed the tanks of D Battalion. The machines found difficulty in crossing the Hindenburg front trench which, in this sector, was wider and deeper than elsewhere; nevertheless the Germans showed little disposition to resist. Farther on opposition stiffened, for many riflemen and machine-gunners saw that there was opportunity to take cover until the foremost tanks had passed and then to open fire upon the approaching platoons. But the Highlanders fought their way forward with rifle and bomb, obtaining assistance from a tank at some points, and by 9.45am the first objective had been reached along the whole brigade front although the Gordons had still some work to do in clearing the dug-outs in Grand Ravin. The two battalions had captured over 600 prisoners between them, whilst their combined losses were less than one hundred and twenty’ (Official History of the War, Military Operations, France and Belgium 1917, Vol. III, refers); by the end of the day ‘the losses of the tanks had been somewhat severe... The number of fighting tanks (378 were available but not all were used) put out of action was 179: 65 by direct hits, 71 by mechanical troubles, 43 by ditching or other causes. In D and E Battalions operating with the 51st Division (Flesquieres) no less than 28 tanks were hit by artillery fire (Ibid); Wilkie was killed in action, 20.11.1917, and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, France.

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118 A Great War Group of Three to Able Seaman A.F.P. Gibson, Royal Navy, a Veteran of the Battle of the Falkland Islands, 8.12.1914, Who Went on to Participate in the Famous Naval Field Gun Competition at Olympia in 1919 1914-15 Star (J. 9406, A.F.P. Gibson A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J. 9406 A.F.P. Gibson. A.B. R.N.), very fine, with related Naval Field Gun Competition Medal, silver, the reverse engraved, ‘Olympia, 1919, A. Gibson, R.N.’, this rare (4) £500-700 J.9406 Able Seaman Arthur Frederick Parsons Gibson, born Edgware, Middlesex,1893; joined Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class, August 1910; served during the Great War in H.M.S. Kent (cruiser), 3.10.1914-10.6.1918; during which time she took part in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, 8.12.1914, when the Kent fought a ‘Duel to the Death’ with the Nurnberg and was hit 38 times; however, she managed to punish her adversary even more severely, and eventually sank the German vessel; the Kent was in action again in March 1915, off the island of Juan Fernandez, this time when she pulverised the Dresden to such an extent that she blew up; for a full and vivid account of Kent’s activities in the opening months of the War, see Keble Chatterton’s Gallant Gentlemen, pp. 85-127, and Surgeon T. B. Dixon’s edited diary, The Enemy Fought Splendidly; Gibson was posted to the gunnery school Excellent in June 1918, an appointment that led to his participation in the famous Naval Field Gun Competition at Olympia in the following year, a tremendous feat of skill and strength which survives under the auspices of the Royal Tournament; surprisingly, very few participants’ medals appear on the market, or certainly ones dating back to the very origins of this famous competition; Gibson was discharged ‘time expired’, December 1922.

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119 Three: Lieutenant-Colonel G.P. Orde, Royal Marine Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (Capt. G.P. Orde, R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Maj. G.P. Orde. R.M.L.I.), good very fine (3) £140-180 Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey Philip Orde, (1884-1947); born Godfrey Philip Oppenheim, at Paddington, London, and educated at Cheltenham College; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Marine Light Infantry, 1.1.1902; promoted Lieutenant, 1.1.1903; Captain, 1.1.1913; saw service during the Great War at Gallipoli and with the Adriatic Squadron attached to the Italian Fleet; changed his name by Deed Poll to Orde, (London Gazette 16.11.1915); promoted Major, 22.2.1917; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, 1.1.1919; was part of the Naval Staff of the British Delegation at the Peace Conference in Paris, January to May 1919.

In the Second World War, following the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, Orde compiled The Dunkirk List: Operation Dynamo, 26th May to 4th June 1940, Alphabetical List of Vessels taking part with their Services, a comprehensive list of all vessels which bought even one soldier back across the Channel which today is considered the definitive list of the ‘Little Ships’.

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November 24, 2011- London 120 A Group of Three to Private A. Woodman, Royal Fusiliers, Killed in Action on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1.7.1916 1914-15 Star (9663 Pte. A. Woodman, R.Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (GS-9663 Pte. A. Woodman. R.Fus.), good very fine, with named card box of issue and envelope for the 1914-15 Star; and Record Office enclosures for the three awards (3) £250-300

123 A Somme Family Group: Three: Corporal A.J. Dore, Middlesex Regiment 1914-15 Star (G-11167. Pte. A.J. Dore, Middx. R.); British War and Victory Medals (G-11167 Cpl. A.J. Dore. Midd’x R.), good very fine Three: Private A. Dore, Middlesex Regiment 1914-15 Star (G-7337. Pte. A. Dore. Middx. R.); British War and Victory Medals (G-7337 Pte. A. Dore. Midd’x R.), good very fine (6) £250-300

GS-9663 Private Arthur Woodman, born Chiswick, London; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, November 1914, and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War in the Balkan theatre from 15.12.1915; killed in action on the Western Front, 1.7.1916, on which date the Battalion suffered 561 casualties, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

G-11167 Corporal Alfred James Dore, born Haggerston, Middlesex; served with the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 28.10.1916, during the Battalion’s attack and capture of the Rainy and Dewdrop Trenches, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

121 Three: Private T. Granger, Royal Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (9686 Pte. T. Granger, R.Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (9686 Pte. T. Granger. R.Fus.), nearly extremely fine Three: Private R.G. King, Royal Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (G-17884 Pte. R.G. King, R.Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (G17884 Pte. R.G. King. R.Fus.), nearly extremely fine (6) £90-120 9686 Private Thomas Granger, born Haddenham, Cambridgeshire; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, and served with the Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 30.6.1915; transferred to the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment; drowned, 2.11.1918, and is buried in Tezze British Cemetery, Italy.

‘On the 2nd November, 1918, the 2nd Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment was advancing on Cavolano. The bridge over the Livenza at Cavolano had been blown up by the retreating enemy, and a footbridge and a pontoon bridge had been constructed on its site by the Royal Engineers. The Battalion crossed the river by means of both bridges; unfortunately a driver and two pack animals were drowned owing to one of the latter dashing over the side of the bridge.’ (Battalion War Diary refers).

G-17884 Private Robert G. King served with the 12th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front from 6.10.1915.

122 Three: Private D. Davies, Welsh Regiment 1914-15 Star (16539 Pte. D. Davies. Welsh R.); British War and Victory Medals (16539 Pte. D. Davies. Welsh R.), good very fine (3) £50-70 16539 Private David Davies served with the Welsh Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 19.7.1915; discharged 20.7.1917.

G-7337 Private Alfred Dore, born Hackney, Middlesex; served with the 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 2.7.1916, during the Battalion’s attack at Fricourt, in which the Battalion suffered 540 casualties over three days, and is buried in Gordon Dump Cemetery, France.

124 Three: Lieutenant H.M. Hardy, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914-15 Star (Lieut. H.M. Hardy. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H.M. Hardy.), traces of lacquer, good very fine, with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse offically numbered ‘149883’ (3) £80-120 Lieutenant Horatio Minchin Hardy, born Burnley, Lancashire, the son of Dr. Horatio Nelson Hardy; educated at Guy’s Hospital, London; Commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps, 10.9.1915, and served with the Medical Corps during the Great War at the 27th General Hospital, Lemnos and Cairo, in the Egyptian theatre from 24.11.1915.

125 Pair: Captain L.H. Bainbridge-Bell, [M.C.], Royal Air Force, Late Royal Munster Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (Lieut. L.H. Bainbridge-Bell. R. Muns. Fus.); British War Medal (Capt. L.H. Bainbridge-Bell. R.A.F.), nearly extremely fine (2) £200-250 M.C. London Gazette 20.10.1916 Temp. Lt. Labouchere Hillyer Bainbridge-Bell, R. Muns. Fus. ‘For conspicuous gallantry during operations. He continually repaired breaks in the line during several days of heavy shelling, never hesitating to go out when the wires were cut. He was several times smothered in debris, and was much bruised.

Captain Labouchere Hillyer Bainbridge-Bell, M.C., Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Munster Fusiliers; served with the Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 18.12.1915; transferred, Royal Flying Corps, 1917; Lieutenant, Royal Air Force, 1.4.1918.

After the War Bainbridge-Bell pursued a career in radio research, and working alongside Robert Watson Watt as part of a five man team at the Telecommunications Research Establishment helped develop the first early warning radar system in 1935; the following year the establishment was transferred from the National Physical Laboratory to the Air Ministry. Further research and development continued up until the outbreak of War in 1939, by which time the system was sufficiently advanced to play a significant role in the Battle of Britain.

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126 Three: Gunner W.J. Elliott, Royal Field Artillery 1914-15 Star (856, Gnr. W.J. Elliott, R.F.A.); Victory Medal (856 Gnr. W.J. Elliott. R.A.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (950023 Gnr. W.J. Elliott.

R.A.), the Great War awards worn, good fine or better Three: Stoker Petty Officer E.G. Gillings, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals (K.57703 E.G. Gillings. Act. Sto.1. R.N.); Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd ‘coinage head’ type (K.57703 E.G. Gillings. S.P.O. H.M.S. Seamew.), edge bruising, good fine or better 1914-15 Star (23642 Pte. J. Maddigan. R. Innis: Fus:), good very fine Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Henry Joseph Hollies), very fine Second World War Medals (4), 1939-1945 Star (C.J. Ford AB J53105.); France and Germany Star; Defence Medal; War Medal, good very fine (12) £80-120 856 Gunner William J. Elliott, served with the Royal Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 15.3.1915.

23642 Private J. Maddigan served with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front from 5.10.1915.

1304 Corporal Henry Joseph Hollies, born Brockley, London; served with the 15th Battalion, (Prince of Wales’ Own Civil Service Rifles), London Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 18.3.1915; killed in action at High Wood, 15.9.1916, and is buried in the London Cemetery, Longueval, France.

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127 Four: Sergeant S. Leaney, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (510 Sjt. S. Leaney.

R.A.M.C.); Territorial Force War Medal (510 Sjt. S. Leaney. R.A.M.C.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (493011 Sjt: S. Leaney. R.A.M.C.), generally very fine or better (4) £180-220 510 Sergeant Sydney Leaney served with the 1st Home Counties Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War; discharged, 31.3.1920.

128 Three: Driver C. McRoberts, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (333 Dvr. C. Mc Roberts. R.A.); Territorial Force War Medal (333 Dvr. C. Mc Roberts. R.A.), traces of verdigris to reverse of last, therefore nearly very fine Pair: Sapper H.F. Ralph, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (2826 Spr. H.F. Ralph. R.E.), good very fine (5) £160-200

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129 Four: Sapper F.G. Strugnell, Royal Engineers, Later Inspector of Postmen, Bournemouth and Poole British War and Victory Medals (144026 Spr. F.G. Strugnell. R.E.); Jubilee 1935; Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., circular type, 2nd ‘Coronation robes’ type (Frederick George Strugnell), extremely fine, with Bestowal Documents for both the Jubilee and Imperial Service Medals (4) £50-70 I.S.M. London Gazette 2.8.1935 Strugnell, Frederick George, Inspector of Postmen, Bournemouth and Poole.

x130 Four: Major M.H. Morrison, Argyll Highlanders, Canadian Infantry British War and Victory Medals (Major M.H. Morrison); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1913) and silver-gilt, reverse privately impressed ‘Hon. Major H.M. Morrison 94th Regt. Argyll Highlanders’, with integral top riband bar; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Major (PMR) M.H. Morrison 94th. Regt.), good very fine £200-250

144026 Sapper Frederick George Strugnell, joined the Post Office as a telegraph messenger, June 1889; promoted Postman, May 1894; Head Postman, 1912; served during the Great War with the Royal Engineers on the Western Front; promoted Assistant Inspector, 1918; Inspector, 1924; retired 1935, after 46 years’ service.

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Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria 131 Three: Quarter Master Sergeant T.W. Smith, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (234 T.W.O.Cl.1. T.W. Smith. R.A.M.C.), second initial officially corrected on VM; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (234 S.Sjt: T.W. Smith. E.M.B. F.A. R.A.M.C.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel F.D. Saner, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (Capt. F.D. Saner.), good very fine Pair: Surgeon J. Hardy War Medal; Service Medal of the Order of St. John (Cor. Surg. J. Hardy), extremely fine, latter in card box of issue (7) £70-90 234 Quarter Master Sergeant Thomas W. Smith, served with the Eastern Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War in the Balkan theatre from 23.9.1915.

Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Donaldson Saner, born Hull, Yorkshire, August 1883; educated at Bedford Grammar School, Christ’s College, Cambridge, and Guy’s Hospital, London; Commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps, 18.6.1916, and served with the Medical Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from that date; promoted Captain, 17.6.1917; on one occasion during the War his operating tent caught fire: ‘the operation was continued but he only just managed to get his patient and assistant out before the tent was destroyed. Though the assistant was awarded the Albert Medal, the Surgeon was reprimanded for taking undue risk!’ (Royal College of Surgeons, Lives of Fellows refers). Appointed Consultant Surgeon, Army of the Rhine, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 1919.

It is probable that the Albert Medal action referred to was the following: A.M. London Gazette 25.4.1919 Miss Alice Batt, Voluntary Aid Detachment ‘On the 1st October, 1918, a fire broke out at No. 36, Casualty Clearing Station at Rousbrugge, Belgium, and quickly reached the operating theatre, where the surgeon was performing an abdominal operation. The light went out, and the theatre was quickly filled with smoke and flames, but the operation was continued by the light of an electric torch, Miss Batt continuing her work of handing instruments and threading needles with steadfast calmness, thereby enabling the surgeon to complete the operation. Miss Batt afterwards did splendid work in helping to carry men from the burning wards to places of safety.’

132 Three: Private A.H.T. Dunn, Royal Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (GS-81116 Pte. A.H.T. Dunn.

R.Fus.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R. (Alec Dunn.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Private C.A. Freeborn, Royal Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (GS-17383 Pte. C.A. Freeborn.

R.Fus.), good very fine Pair: Private A.E. Greenwood, Royal Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (GS-72436 Pte. A.E. Greenwood. R.Fus.), good very fine Pair: Private D. Judson, Royal Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (GS-130845 Pte. D. Judson.

R.Fus.), good very fine Pair: Private H.J. Kensett, Royal Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (SPTS-5388 Pte. H.J. Kensett.

R.Fus.), good very fine Pair: Private A.F. Parris, Royal Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (GS-12655 Pte. A.F. Parris.

R.Fus.), toned, nearly extremely fine Pair: Private E.A. Steadman, Royal Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (STK-836 Pte. E.A. Steadman.

R.Fus.), extremely fine, with named card box of issue (15) £180-220 GS-81116 Alexander Henry Thomas Dunn, enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, 15.4.1917; discharged as a result of wounds, 6.8.1919.

GS-17383 Private Charles Alfred Freeborn, born Kelvedon, Essex, September 1892; served with the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front from 7.12.1915; transferred to the 3rd Battalion and killed in action during the Battalion’s advance on the Richmond Copse Redoubt, Le Catelet, 4.10.1918, on which date the Battalion suffered 150 casualties, including 9 Officers killed (the greatest number in any one action of the Royal Fusiliers during the Great War), and is buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, France.

GS-72436 Private Albert Edward Greenwood served with the 7th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front from 18.1.1918.

SPTS-5388 Private Henry James Kensett, born Chiperey, Sussex; served with the 13th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front; killed in action during the attack on Orange Hill, 11.4.1917, and is buried in Orange Trench Cemetery, France.

GS-12655 Private Archibald Frank Parris, born Merton, Surrey; served with the 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front from 20.7.1915; transferred to the 4th Battalion, 19.4.1916; killed in action whilst attached to the 1st Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment, 15.7.1916, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

STK-836 Private Edward Alfred Steadman, born Walthamstow, Essex; served with the 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front from 31.7.1915; killed in action at Contalmaison, 12.7.1916, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

133 Pair: Private H.F. Garner, Canadian Infantry British War and Victory Medals (464292 Pte. H.F. Garner. 14Can. Inf.), extremely fine, with the recipient’s Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Herbert Francis Garner), in card holder; and Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (464292. Pte. H.F. Garner.), this mounted on a silver chain (4) £120-150 464292 Private Herbert Francis Garner, served with the 14th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment) during the Great War; died 6.6.1917; and is buried in Vimy Communal Cemetery, France.

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Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria 134 Pair: Private T.W. Fisher, Royal West Surrey Regiment British War and Victory Medals (243455 Pte. T.W. Fisher. The Queen’s R.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Private W.J. Brunwin, Devon Regiment British War and Victory Medals (43416 Pte. W.J. Brunwin. Devon. R.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Private F. Bilington, South Lancashire Regiment British War Medal (265632 Pte. F. Billington.

S.Lan.R.); India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (265632 Pte. F. Billington, 1 P.W.Vols.), nearly extremely fine (6) £80-100

135 Pair: Second Lieutenant C.F. Bishop, Royal Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. C.F. Bishop.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Lieutenant G.S. Dilley, Royal Fusiliers British War Medal (Q.M. & Lieut. G.S. Dilley.); Army Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Field Marshal’s bust’ type (5052 C. Sjt: G.S. Dilley. R.Fus.), nearly extremely fine (4) £100-120 Second Lieutenant Charles Frederick Bishop, born Kensington, London, May 1883; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 13th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, 22.11.1916; served with the Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 6.7.1917; killed in action at Bucquoy, 4.4.1918, and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

Lieutenant George Samuel Dilley, born Brentford, Middlesex, July 1874; enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, July 1894; promoted Corporal, April 1898; served with the 3rd Battalion, December 1898 to October 1905, in Malta, Gibraltar, Egypt, and Bermuda; Sergeant, March 1900; posted to 7th Battalion, October 1905; Colour Sergeant, December 1906; Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant, September 1914; served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 22.9.1916; Commissioned Lieutenant and Quarter Master, 7th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, 4.11.1917; retired, 9.1.1920.

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x136 Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel A.P. Allen, Argyll Light Infantry, Canadian Infantry British War Medal (Lt. Col. A.P. Allen.); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Major A.P. Allen. 15th Regt. A.L.I.), nearly extremely fine (2) £120-160 Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Percival Allen, born Stella, Ontario, March 1860; served prior to the Great War with the 15th Regiment, Argyll Light Infantry; advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel, 6.11.1916, and commanded the 254th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force in Canada and Britain (not entitled to Victory Medal); retired to Canada, 12.9.1917, and later served as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Argyll Light Infantry and of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment.

137 Three: Private P.J. Goodard, Royal Tank Corps India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (7874744 Pte. P.J. Goodard. R. Tank C.); Defence and War Medals, nearly very fine, mounted as worn (3) £70-90 The 1st Light Tank Company, Royal Tank Corps was only present during the North West Frontier Campaign of 193031, its strength being 16 vehicles and 132 Officers and Men.

138 Six: Corporal J.W. Stacey, Royal Signals 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star, with 1st Army Bar; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., with ‘Militia’ scroll suspension (2573971 Cpl. J.W. Stacey. R. Signals.), nearly extremely fine, in slightly distressed card boxes of issue Miniature Awards: An Unattributed Group of Three British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves; Defence Medal, extremely fine, mounted as worn (9) £50-70

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140 Four: Flight Lieutenant J.C.C. Almond, Royal Air Force Defence and War Medals; Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (Flt. Lt. J.C.C. Almond. R.A.F.), a slightly later issue, engraved in upright sans-serif capitals; United Nations Medal for Korea, generally very fine, mounted as originally worn (4) £300-400

Major D.E. Wells served 23 years and 95 days in the ranks before being commissioned Lieutenant (Quarter-Master), Royal Army Service Corps, 1.4.1962; Captain (QuarterMaster), Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 18.9.1964; retired Major 1971.

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141 Pair: Fusilier F. Taylor, Royal Fusiliers Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (22486592 Fus. F. Taylor. R.F.); United Nations Medal for Korea, good very fine (2) £160-200 x142 Three: Corporal J.H. Duguay, Canadian Army Korea 1950-53, Canadian type (SD 802478 H. Duguay); United Nations Medal for Korea, French language type; Canadian Forces’ Decoration, E.II.R. (Cpl J.H. Duguay), the first toned, good very fine (3) £130-160 143 Pair: Marine C.O. Gillham, Royal Marines South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (Mne1 C O Gillham PO39274B RM); United Nations Medal for Cyprus, very fine or better, with the recipient’s British Forces Identity Card and Temporary Royal Navy Identity Card, the latter stamped ‘Falklands Survivor’ (2) £600-800 PO39274B Marine Carl Owen Gillham born 24.1.1963.

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144 General Coote’s Medal for the Battle of Minden, 1759, 57mm x 43mm, silver-gilt, the obverse inscribed ‘The Very Honourable Order of the Old Deserving Soldier’ below a portrait of Colonel Sir Eyre Coote, K.B., flags of the 37th Foot either side; the reverse showing the six British Infantry Regiments and the Royal Artillery lined up at the Battle of Minden, 1.8.1759, the exergue inscribed ‘Exigui numero sed bello vivida virtus’ (Small in number, but a brave band to wage war), with ring suspension, good very fine, extremely rare £1,400-1,800 The Battle of Minden was fought on the 1st August 1759 during the Seven Years War, and resulted in victory for the Anglo-German force commanded by Field Marshal Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick against the French army. British Regiments present were the Royal Artillery, the 12th, 20th, 23rd, 25th, 37th, and 51st Regiments of Foot. Allied losses were approximately 2,800 killed or wounded; French losses approximately 10,000, including the Colonel of the Grenadiers de France the Marquis de La Fayette (and the father of the future American General). As a result of the victory the Duke of Brunswick was elected a Knight of the Garter on the 16th August, and invested in his camp on the 17th October, in full view of the defeated French army; the Regiments involved received the Battle Honour ‘Minden’, and wear ‘Minden’ roses in their caps every year on the anniversary of the battle to this day.

No official medal was granted for either the Battle of Minden, or for the Seven Years War in general, but a number of Regimental and unoffical medals were produced, of which the medal by Thomas Pingo is the most well-known (MI.ii, 702, 433). The Medal in this lot, The Very Honourable Order of the Old Deserving Soldier, was awarded by General Sir Eyre Coote, K.B., Commanding Officer of the 37th Foot 1773-83, to those members of the Regiment still serving who had particularly distinguished themselves at the Battle of Minden, in both silver and silver-gilt.

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145 Naval General Service 1793-1840, three clasps, Trafalgar, Martinique, Guadaloupe (Edward Goodlad, Midshipman), extremely fine £6,000-8,000 Edward Goodlad served as Midshipman in H.M.S. Neptune 98 guns (Captain F. Fremantle) and is verified as being aboard (The Naval General Service Medal Roll 1793-1840, Captain K.J. DouglasMorris, refers) 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 ViceAdmiral P.C. de Villeneuve, 21.10.1805. At Trafalgar the Neptune ‘was the third ship in the weather column. She got into action about 1.45pm, when she hauled up for the nearest of the enemy’s ships, and passing immediately under the stern of the French Bucentaure, delivered her broadside into it with terrible effect. She then continued under the stern and along the starboard side of the Spanish Santissima Trinidad, and luffed up to leeward of the huge four-decker, which had already suffered badly, and which she fought until the Spaniard became wholly unmanageable. The Neptune was afterward somewhat severely handled by several ships of the combined van, which raked her after they bore up. She lost forty-four killed and wounded in the battle. Her masts and her standing and running rigging were all more or less damaged, and she had nine shots between wind and water. On the following day she took the Royal Sovereign in tow, but afterwards towed the Victory to Gibraltar.’ (The Trafalgar Roll, The Officers, The Men, The Ships, Colonel R.H. Mackenzie refers); Goodlad served as the same rank and in the same vessel (Rear Admiral A. Cochrane’s flagship) 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 continued to serve as the same rank in H.M.S. Pompee (Rear Admiral A. Cochrane’s flagship) during 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.

Lieutenant Edward Goodlad, R.N., born Calcutta, India; entered the Royal Navy, as Volunteer 1st Class, March 1804, and from that year served in ‘the Neptune 98, Capts. Wm. O’Brien Drury, Sir Thos.

Williams, and Thos. Fras. Fremantle, under the latter of whom he fought, as Midshipman, at Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805’ (O’Byrne refers); served in H.M.S. St. George (Captain T. Bertie), from 1806; served under Cochrane in the Neptune and the Pompee, 1808-1810; subsequent service included in H.M. Ships Blonde, Bellona, Standard, Bulwark and Milford the latter being the flag-ship of Rear-Admiral T.F. Fremantle; Lieutenant 22.1.1814; served in that rank with H.M.S. Edinburgh (Captain Hon. G.H.L. Dundas) and ‘under the latter officer Mr. Goodlad, in 1813-14, witnessed the capture of Port d’Anzo, the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn, the reduction of the fortress of Santa Maria, and of the enemy’s other forts and defences in the Gulf of Spezia and the fall of Genoa’ (Ibid); after service in the Boyne, Queen Charlotte and the Hyacinth Goodlad was appointed to H.M.S. Cambridge (Captain T.J. Maling), for service on the South American Station, 1823; officiated as Agent for Transports Afloat, 1836-1838; died 1849.

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146 Military General Service 1793-1814, five clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Salamanca, Vittoria, Orthes (Ralph Close, 24th. Foot.), edge bruise, polished, good very fine £1,200-1,400

147 Waterloo 1815 (James Branch, 2nd Batt. Grenad.

Guards.), toned, light scratches, otherwise extremely fine, with contemporary steel clip and split ring suspension; together with France, Second Empire, St. Helena Medal, bronze, toned, nearly extremely fine (2) £1,400-1,800

17 Private Ralph Close, born Hynton, Co. Durham, 1788; enlisted in the 24th Regiment of Foot, April 1809; served with the 2nd Battalion in the Peninsula and ‘states that he was wounded in the neck on the 15th March 1811’ (service papers refer); served with the Regiment in India from July 1815, and took part in the Expedition to Nepal under Major General Sir David Ochterlony, K.C.B., January 1816; transferred to the 13th Regiment of Foot, October 1822; served with the Regiment during the Burma War 1824-26; discharged, July 1832, after serving 23 years and 100 days with the Colours, of which 16 years and 126 days were spent in India.

Private James Branch, born Essex, 1781; enlisted in the Grenadier Guards, May 1801; served with the Second Battalion in Lieutenant-Colonel R.H. Cooke’s Company during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18.6.1815; discharged, August 1817, after 18 years and 91 days with the Colours.

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148 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Umbeyla (2110 J Brian 1st. Battn. 7th. Regt.), lightly impressed naming, suspension claw tightened, very fine £200-240 2110 Private John Brian, born Cork, Ireland, 1829; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, August 1846; served with the Regiment in the Crimea and in India; discharged, October 1866, after 19 years and 241 days with the Colours, of which 11 years were spent overseas.

149 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Umbeyla (364 J. Catlin HMs., 1st., Bn., 7th., Regt.), traces of solder to suspension claw, very fine £160-200 364 Private Joseph Catlin, served with the Royal Fusiliers at Umbeyla 1863; awarded Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, October 1875.

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150 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Umbeyla (871 A Edwards HMs., 1st., Bn., 7th., Regt.), traces of lacquer, good very fine £240-280

151 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Burma 1885-7 (602 Private J. Mc. Moran 2nd. Bn. R. Muns Fus), surname partially officially corrected, good very fine £100-130

152 India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Samana 1891 (1564 Sowar Alam Sher (2) 19th. Bl. Lcrs.), light contact marks, nearly very fine £80-120

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November 24, 2011- London 153 Crimea 1854-56, no clasp (R. Henson. 7th. Regt.), officially impressed, good very fine £140-180 3689 Private Richard Henson (name also appears as Hanson on the Medal roll, but the only man with either name), born Nottingham; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, September 1854; served with the Regiment in the Crimea and severely wounded at the assault on the Quarries, 7.6.1855; died at Balaklava, 28.9.1855.

154 Crimea 1854-56, one clasp, Sebastopol (G. Smith.

7th. Regt.), officially impressed, worn, nearly very fine, housed in a presentation red leather booklet, the cover embossed ‘George Smith, 7th. Royal Fusiliers’ £120-150 3366 Private George Smith, born Ecchinswell, Newbury, Berkshire, 1836; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, May 1854, and served with the Regiment in the Crimea from November 1854; disabled by amputation of the right leg below the knee after a shell wound in the foot and ankle in the trenches before Sebastopol, 13.6.1855; wounded again on the same day on the back of the right thigh and the inside of the left leg by a piece of shell; discharged as a result of his wounds, November 1855, after 1 year and 141 days with the Colours.

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7th. Regt.), officially impressed, suspension claw reaffixed, edge bruising, nearly very fine £180-220 3489 Private Charles Whittam, born Halifax, Yorkshire; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, June 1854; served with the Regiment in the Crimea from October 1854; severely wounded in the assault on the Quarries, 7.6.1855; died of wounds, 9.6.1855.

156 Crimea 1854-56, three clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann (Henry Horn. 4th. Lt. Dragns.), officially impressed, surname double struck, minor edge nicks, nearly extremely fine £2,500-3,500 1573 Private Henry Horn, born Kennington, Ashford, Kent, 1830; enlisted in the 4th Light Dragoons, March 1850; served with the Regiment in the Crimea, and was present with the Regiment on the occasion of the Charge of the Light Brigade, 25.10.1854; sent to Scutari, 16.1.1855, and died at Scutari, 2.2.1855.

Although Private Horn’s name does appear on the list of confirmed ‘Chargers’, this does not preclude him from having taken part in the Charge of the Light Brigade. Most members of the Light Brigade entitled to the Balaklava clasp, in the absence of any evidence or status details to the contrary, took part in the Charge.

PROVENANCE:

Spink, May 1910 J.B. Hayward, December 1968.

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157 157 Crimea 1854-56, four clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol, unofficial rivets between third and fourth clasps (977. P.M.S.M. P. Horn, XIth. P.A.O. Hussars.), Regimentally impressed, nearly very fine £600-800 977 Pay-Master Sergeant Major Philip R. Horn, born London; enlisted in the 11th Light Dragoons (later 11th Hussars), March 1837; served with Regiment in the Crimea; died July 1857.

158 Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die (J. Pearce, 95th.

Regt.), engraved in large serif capitals, pierced as issued, nearly very fine Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die, a fine-quality ‘Officer’s Indulgence’ piece, with Indian Mutiny style suspension, minor edge bruise, good very fine (2) £100-120

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x159 Indian Mutiny 1857-58, one clasp, Delhi (Geo. Bell.

2nd. Eurn. Bengal Fusrs.), cleaned, very fine £160-200 160 South Africa 1877-79, one clasp, 1879 (14463.

Sapper, F. Martin. R.E.), suspension slack, very fine £400-440 14463 Sapper Frank Martin, born Windsor, Berkshire, 1858; enlisted Royal Engineers 1877; joined 5th Company R.E., 1878, one of whose officers at the time was Lieutenant J.R.M. Chard who went on to win the V.C. at Rorke’s Drift; Martin was present in Lord Chelmsford’s Square at the Battle of Ulundi, 4.7.1879; advanced Sergeant 1887; discharged in Cape Town, 1889, having married there.

161 Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (2606 Pte. F. Chap an, 2/7th. Foot), ‘m’ in surname erased, suspension tightened, nearly very fine £80-100

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162 Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (2275 Pte. S. Connell, 2/7th. Foot), nearly very fine £100-130 2275 Private Samuel Connell, served with the Royal Fusiliers in Afghanistan from July 1880; sick in Kandahar; died 5.11.1880.

163 Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1603, Pte. J. Tuffnell, 2/7th. Foot), good very fine £100-130 1603 Sergeant John Tuffnell, born Hoxton, Middlesex, 1860; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, February 1878; served with the Regiment in Afghanistan from February 1880; sick in Kandahar; promoted Lance Corporal September 1880; Sergeant, December 1883; discharged, February 1890, after 12 years with the Colours.

2606 Private Fredrick Chapman, born Hitchin, Hertfordshire, 1853; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, January 1873; served with the Regiment in Afghanistan from February 1880, and ‘distinguished himself [at the] Siege of Kandahar 1880’ (recipient’s service papers refer); discharged, April 1899, after 26 years and 102 days with the Colours.

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164 Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (2235. Pte. C. Wallace. 2/7th. Foot.), polished, nearly very fine £80-100

165 Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (B/1378, Pte. H. Lewis, 66th. Foot), edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine £1,400-1,800 B/1378 Private Henry Lewis, enlisted in the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot, September 1878; killed in action at the Battle of Maiwand, 27.7.1880.

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166 Afghanistan 1878-80, one clasp, Kandahar (1550.

Pte. W. Kew. 2/7th. Foot.), good very fine £200-240 1550 Private William Kew, born Kensington, London, 1855; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, February 1878; served with the Regiment during the Second Afghan War from February 1880, and present at the siege and Battle of Kandahar, 1.9.1880; discharged, October 1883, after 5 years and 245 days with the Colours.

167 Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (1596 Baty. Qr. Mr. Sergt. J. Kennedy 6th. Battery 8th. Bde. R.A.), good very fine £160-200 1596 Battery Quarter Master Sergeant John William Kennedy, born Limehouse, London, 1836; enlisted in the Royal Artillery, July 1861; promoted Corporal, July 1865; served with the Artillery in Canada, September 1868 to November 1870; Sergeant, July 1878; served with the Artillery in India and Afghanistan, December 1879 to May 1883, and present at the Battle of Kandahar, 1.9.1880; Quarter Master Sergeant, July 1880; discharged, July 1883, after 21 years and 120 days with the Colours.

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168 Egypt 1882-89, dated, no clasp (139 Pte. J. Jones.

2/Derby: R.), suspension re-affixed, traces of mounting to edge, contact marks, nearly very fine £50-70

171 Egypt 1882-89, undated, two clasps, Suakin 1885, Tofrek (653, Pte. F. Jennings, 1/Rl. Berks: R:), contact marks, therefore nearly very fine £240-280

169 Egypt 1882-89, dated, no clasp (2158. Pte. J. Mulholland. 2/Manch: R.), light pitting, good very fine £70-90 170 Egypt 1882-89, undated, one clasp, Suakin 1885 (81.

Interpr. Khaleel Friege.), edge nicks, good very fine £150-200

653 Private Francis Jennings, born Middlesex, London; employed as a Valet prior to enlistment in Royal Berkshire Regiment, 1882; served with the Regiment in Egypt (entitled to Khedive’s Star 1884-86); discharged 1894.

172 Khedive’s Star 1882, reverse impressed ‘2271 T.S. 1.Bks’, very fine Khedive’s Star 1884-6, reverse impressed ‘1009 Berks’, nearly very fine (2) £100-140 x173 British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, for Rhodesia 1896, no claps (Troopr. Manfield. “G” Troop B.F.F.), very fine £200-250 174 India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., one clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (1158 Sowar Chanda Singh Q.O. Corps of Guides.), minor edge bruising, nearly very fine £70-90

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179 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (15710 Gnr: T. Coulstock, 10th.

M.B., R.G.A.), nearly extremely fine £180-220

x176 Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued, very fine £140-180 177 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Cape Colony (71466 Dr. H.W. Smith, 38th. Bty., R.F.A.), nearly extremely fine King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (4316 Pte. B. Popplewell. Notts: & Derby: Regt.), good fine, together with a South African Campaign Bronze Memorial Plaque and Transvaal War National Commemorative Medal (2) £80-100 178 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Natal (6075 Pte. J. Kendall, 2nd. Rl: Fus:), edge bruising, very fine £100-140 6075 Lance Corporal James Kendall, born Cork, Ireland, 1871; served with the Royal Fusiliers during the Boer War in Natal; discharged, 23.8.1911.

Clasp confirmed.

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15710 Gunner T. Coulstock died of enteric fever at Mooi River, 3.4.1900.

180 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (2924 Pte. T. Earp, Rl. Warwick: Regt.), extremely fine £60-80 2924 Private T. Earp, died of disease at Bloemfontein, 13.6.1900

x181 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (1219 3rd Cl Tpr: A. Wilcox. S.A.C.), very fine £50-60 x182 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Defence of Mafeking, Transvaal (2588 Tpr: A.H. Jones.

B.S.A. Police), good very fine £1,000-1,200 2588 Trooper Albert Herbert Jones a native of Dartford, Kent; served during the Defence of Mafeking with the British South Africa Police, before transferring for service as 60 Corporal, Cullinan’s Horse; Jones was killed in action at Klipdrift, 7.3.1902, where the British suffered approximately 68 killed, 121 wounded and 872 taken prisoner; Lord Methuen was amongst the latter.

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183 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Talana, Defence of Ladysmith (4563 Pte. F. Smith, 1:Leic: Regt.), edge bruising, otherwise nearly extremely fine £160-200

x186 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (186 Tpr. A.V. Gross. S.A.C.), extremely fine £60-80

4563 Private Frederick Smith, born Cosby, Leicestershire, 1878; enlisted in the Leicestershire Regiment, January 1896; served with the Regiment in South Africa from February 1898 to January 1903; discharged, January 1912 after 16 years with the Colours.

184 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 (2), three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (7982 Pte. W. Yeomans. Rl: Fus:); five clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (3293 Sjt. G. Oliver. R. Fus.), the second a later, possibly replacement issue, suspension slightly loose on first, good very fine (2) £80-100 185 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Capt. R.T.O. Sheriffe, 10/Notts: Co. Impl. Yeo.), virtually mint state, housed in a fitted leather case, the case embossed ‘R.T.O.S.’ £250-300 Captain Robert Thomas Oliver Sheriffe, Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry Cavalry, March 1897; promoted Lieutenant, February 1899; served with the 3rd Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War, and was present at the actions at Spitzkop, Lindley, and Rhenoster River; Captain, 20.3.1901.

x187 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (195 Tpr: C. Holden. S.A.C.), very fine £50-70 x188 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (644 3rd Cl Tpr: W. Warnock. S.A.C.), minor edge bruising, very fine £60-80 189 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (5381 Pte. T. Smith. Rl: Fusiliers.), nearly extremely fine £60-80 5381 Private Thomas Smith, born Mile End, London, 1877; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, November 1895; served with the Regiment in South Africa, 1.3 - 21.10.1902; transferred to the Army Reserve, 13.11.1902; discharged, 12.11.1911, after 16 years’ service.

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190 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (83117 Gnr: R. Collins. 28th.

Bty: R.F.A.), pawn broker’s mark to obverse field, minor contact marks, very fine £80-120 83117 Gunner Robert Collins, born Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1873; enlisted in the Royal Artillery, January 1891; served with the Artillery in India, January 1896 to January 1899, and in South Africa, October 1899 to June 1902; discharged, January 1903 after 12 years with the Colours.

191 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (1291 Pte. J. Morgan. 1st.

Connaught Rang:), number partially officially corrected, nearly extremely fine £200-240 1291 Private J. Morgan, Missing in Action at Ladysmith, 23.2.1900, presumed Prisoner of War; later released.

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x192 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (77 1st Cl: Far: Serjt: F, Shepherd S.A.C.), unofficial rivets between State and Date clasps, good very fine £80-100 77 1st Class Farrier Sergeant Frederick Shepheard [sic], born Torquay, 1874; joined South African Constabulary as 3rd Class Trooper, 20.4.1901; 1st Class Farrier Sergeant 1.8.1901; purchased discharge 1902; re-engaged for service during the Great War as 426814 Sapper, Royal Engineers.

x193 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (487 L.Cpl. A. Horton.

S.A.C.), toned, nearly extremely fine £80-100

x194 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2161 Tpr: A.E. Gates.

S.A.C.), minor edge nicks, good very fine, with photographic image of recipient in later life £80-100

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196 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, South Africa 1901 (78335 Gnr: H.J. Fletcher, 7th.

Bty., R.F.A.), minor edge bruising, very fine £80-100 78335 Gunner Herbert John Fletcher, born Belvedene, Kent, 1872; enlisted in the Royal Artillery, March 1890; served with the Artillery in India, January 1892 to November 1897, and in South Africa, October 1899 to July 1901; discharged, April 1902, after 12 years and 23 days with the Colours.

197 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, twenty-six clasps, Cape Colony, Natal, Rhodesia, Defence of Mafeking, Defence of Kimberley, Talana, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Belmont, Modder River, Tugela Heights, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Driefontein, Wepener, Relief of Mafeking, Transvaal, Johannesburg, Laing’s Nek, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, Belfast, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, a number of clasps are tailor’s copies, the planchet has been erased, to create this medal for display purposes, very fine £200-300

198 King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (4665 Cr:Serjt: A. Saw. Rl: Fusiliers.), nearly very fine, together with a copy of the O.M.R.S. Journal for Winter 1999 featuring an article on Colour Sergeant A. Saw £40-60 4665 Colour Sergeant Arthur Edward Saw, born Uxbridge, Middlesex, 1874; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, June 1893; promoted Corporal, 1.8.1895; Sergeant, 18.4.1898; served with the Regiment in South Africa, 22.10.1899 - 21.10.1902 (Mentioned in Lord Kitchener’s Despatch, London Gazette 20.8.1901 ‘Sergeant A. Saw, Royal Fusiliers, at Dwarshoek, Cape Colony, on 20th May, 1901, for skilful and fearless working of machine gun within 1,000 yards of enemy.’; promoted Colour Sergeant, 2.2.1902; Awarded Long Service & Good Conduct Medal with a gratuity, 28.10.1911; discharged, 31.3.1912, after 18 years and 304 days with the Colours.

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Lincoln: Regt.), first worn, fine, second very fine (2) £50-70 5224 Private Herbert Packford, born Sleaford, Lincolnshire; enlisted Lincolnshire Regiment, 1898; served with the regiment in South Africa, 4.1.1900-27.4.1900 and 22.9.1900-7.3.1902 (entitled to Q.S.A. with Paardeberg, Cape Colony and Transvaal clasps); discharged 11.12.1910.

206 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (S446255 Fsr. T.W. Brown.

R.Fus.), nearly extremely fine General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine (6456331. Fsr. C.F. Baxter. R.Fus.), good very fine (2) £90-120

200 Tibet 1903-04, bronze issue, no clasp (Cooly Budhiwan Tamang. S.& T. Corps.), very fine £70-90

207 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (3) (78 Sep. Enayat Ali, 1-4 Bo. Grs.; 1140 Sep. Gulap Shah, Tochi. Scouts; 16612 Nk. Shamas Din, 10 P. Bty.), very fine (3) £70-90

201 India General Service 1908-35, E.VII.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (3026 Sowar Jiwan Singh, 19th. Lancers.), good very fine £50-70

208 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (4030800 Pte. J. Boughey. K.S.L.I.), extremely fine £60-80

202 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (2) (3622 Sepoy Garib Ram, 1/97/Infy.; 2618 L-Nk Alla Rakha, 52 Mule Cps.), very fine or better (2) £40-60

209 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (3) (11152 Sep. Bhagat Ram, 3-13 F.F.Rif.; 16181 Dvr. Ghulam Hussain, 12 Mtn. Bty; 10061 Sep. Ustara Khan.

F.C.), generally nearly very fine or better (3) £70-90

203 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (3) (5175 Sepoy Nand Ram, 1/6/Jats.; 1009 Nk. Attar Singh, 2-3 S. Prs.; 5690 Sepoy Dharam Singh, 90 Punjabis.), last partially officially corrected, edge bruising, nearly very fine or better (3) £60-80

210 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (3) (14035 Sep. Ibrahim, F.C.; MT-102306 L-Nk. Nagindar Singh, I.M.T.; 1245 Nk. Indar Snegi, 3-18 R. Garh. Rif.), very fine (3) £70-90

204 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (3) (4966 Nk. Amir Chakar Khan, 6 Camel Depot.; Carpt. Sant Ram, M.W.S.; 6110 L-Nk. Nand Ram. 2 K.Rfls.), unit partially officially corrected on first, nearly very fine or better (3) £70-90

205 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (3) (3558 L-Nk. Chander Mani. 4-1 Punjab R.; 2531 Sep. Ramzan Khan, 117 Dogra R.; 3011 Gnr. Sultan Ali, 109 P. Bty.), edge bruising, nearly very fine (3) £70-90

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211 India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., two clasps, Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24, second clasp loose as issued (1403333 Gnr. S. Harrison, R.A.), good very fine £70-90

x212 1914 Star (34926 Pte. F.E. Joseph. 2-Sta. Hosp.

C.A.M.C.), polished, very fine Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Pte. J. Delaney Governor General’s Foot Guards.), officially re-impressed, very fine £80-100

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November 24, 2011- London 213 1914-15 Star (37773. Pte. S.J. Thirkell, R.A.M.C.), nearly very fine British War Medal (7) (11531 A. Cpl. T. Sheehan R.A.M.C.; S4-094402 S.Sjt. W. Barwick. A.S.C.; R4-066816 Cpl. W.J. Newman. A.S.C.; S4128332 Cpl. G.W. Skone. A.S.C.; M2-180796 Pte. J. Cook. A.S.C.; M2-080067 Pte. C.H.W. Hall. A.S.C.; T4-1855601 Dvr. A.H. Joyce.

A.S.C.), generally very fine (8) £70-90

214 British War Medal (7) (Capt. C. Horlock.; 113940 Gnr. J.H. Badley. R.A.; 178072 Gnr. G.T. Clarke.

R.A.; SR-2308 Gnr. O. Mitchell. R.A.; 45659 Gnr. M. Mulqueen. R.A.; 1890 Dvr. F.A. Page.

R.A.; 126933 Spr. A.T. Gregg. R.E.), third officially renamed, number officially corrected on fifth, nearly very fine or better (7) £60-80 Captain C. Horlock, Commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, 31.7.1917; promoted Captain, 1.8.1918.

113940 Gunner John Henry Badley, born Norton, Lincolnshire; served with the 295th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 28.7.1917; and is buried in Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, France.

215 British War Medal (5) (25375 Pte. O.A. Morgan.

G.Gds.; G-3881 Pte. G. Colson. The Queen’s. R.; 3682 Pte. A. Elliot. Bedf. R.; 30288 Pte. G. Payne. E. Surr. R.; G-1719 Pte. C.H. Barwick. R. Suss. R.), generally good very fine (5) £60-80 G-3881 Private George Colson, born Clapham, Surrey; served with the 8th Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 13.8.1916; and is buried in Peronne Road Cemetery, France.

216 British War Medal (5) (48672 Pte. S. Badley. L’pool R.; 43827 Pte. R. Cox. Linc. R.; 30651 Pte. S. Kennedy. Linc. R.; 202211 Pte. C.S. Johnson.

Manch. R.; 10707 Pte. T. Hessey. Durh. L.I.), suspension bar damaged on second, and lacking retaining rod, otherwise very fine or better (5) £60-80 48672 Private Samuel Badley, born Bishop Norton, Lincolnshire; enlisted as 49959 Private, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment; transferred to the Liverpool Regiment, and served with the 13th Battalion, Liverpool Regiment during the Great War; died of wounds on the Western Front, 31.8.1918; and is buried in the Honourable Artillery Company Cemetery, France.

217 British War Medal (7) (190188 A.T. Bradberry. L.S. R.N.; K.26229 F. Walters. Sto.1 R.N.; 2013S D.T. Blackler D.H. R.N.R.; A-826 Pte. G.H. Masser. K.R. Rif. C.; 46309 Pte. H.C. O’Bryan.

Rif. Brig.; S-10752 Pte. P.H. Willingham. Rif. Brig.; 3886 A-Cpl. H.J. Pounds. 24 Bn. A.I.F.), generally very fine or better Victory Medal (B.W. Shepperd. Ord. M.F.A.), very fine (8) £90-120 3886 Acting Corporal Harold John Pounds, served with the 24th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force during the Great War; died on the Western Front, 24.12.1916; and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux memorial, France.

218 Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (4) (Alfred Burt; Charles Frederick Cook; Sydney Williams; Robert James Spanswick), last polished, otherwise good very fine, together with an interesting piece of Trench Art entitled ‘Comrades of the Great War’ (4) £100-140 36476 Sergeant Robert James Spanswick, born Luscombe, Berkshire; enlisted as 27779 Private, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment; served with the 9th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment during the Great War; killed in action on the Western Front, 8.6.1917, and is buried in Croisilles British Cemetery, France.

There are a number of men with the names Alfred Burt, Charles Frederick Cook, and Sydney Williams listed on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission roll, one of the latter of whom was killed at the Battle of Jutland, 31.5.1916.

x219 Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (2) (55104 C-SM. A.C. Prior; 3066 Pte. W.C. Walsh). good very fine (2) £140-180 55104 Company Sergeant Major Arthur Charles Prior, served with the 19th Battalion (Central Ontario Regiment), Canadian Infantry during the Great War; killed in action, 4.10.1916, and is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial, France.

3066 Private William Crawford Walsh served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War and has no known grave.

x220 Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (2) (818241 Pte. Wm. T. Muldowney; 220154 Pte. J. Mara), second brooch mounted, very fine or better (2) £140-180 818241 Private John Muldowney, served with the 26th Battalion (New Brunswick Regiment), Canadian Infantry during the Great War; died 8.8.1918, and is buried in Wood Cemetery, France.

220154 Private James Mara, served with the 50th Battalion (Alberta Regiment), Canadian Infantry during the Great War; died 4.11.1916, and is buried in St. Sever Cemetery Extension, France.

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x221 Naval General Service 1915-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Minesweeping 1945-51 (A/Lt. Cdr. F.P. Monckton. D.S.C. R.N.R.), nearly extremely fine £300-350

224 General Service 1918-62, G.V.R., one clasp, Iraq (2) (GS-127089 Pte. A.E. Golbourne. R.Fus.; 134419 Pte. C. Hinkins. R.Fus.), good very fine (2) £90-120

D.S.C. London Gazette 18.9.1945 Acting LieutenantCommander Francis Philip Monckton, R.N.V.R. ‘For bravery, determination and great devotion to duty in minesweeping operations in the Adriatic over a period from October, 1944, to May, 1945.’

GS-127089 Private Arthur Edwin Golbourne, served with the Royal Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front from 21.4.1915.

222 A Good N.G.S. for Malaya to Lieutenant J.B. Coop, 40 Commando, Royal Marines, Killed in Action 2.4.1951 During ‘X’ Troop’s 21 Day Patrol Around Kula Kangsar Naval General Service 1915-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Malaya (Lt. J.B. Coop. R.M.), extremely fine £1,000-1,200 Lieutenant James Barry Coop, Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 1.1.1944; promoted Lieutenant, 20.1.1946; served with 40 Commando, Royal Marines, during the Malaya Campaign, as part of ‘X’ Troop, which was given the task of controlling an area around Kuala Kangsar, Perak, to the north of the Peninsular; killed in action with Communist insurgents, 2.4.1951, during the Troop’s 21-day patrol.

223 Naval General Service 1915-62, G.VI.R., two clasps, Malaya, Near East (Ply./X 5601 G.B. Shaw Mne. R.M.), surname corrected, nearly extremely fine General Service 1918-62, E.II.R., one clasp, Cyprus (22535526 Bdr. L.A. Curtis. R.A.), nearly extremely fine (2) £90-120

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225 General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp (2), Palestine (7874896 Cpl. E.R. Pearce. R.A.O.C.); S.E. Asia 1945-46 (T/5350743 Dvr. T.A. Goldstone. R.A.S.C.), scratch in obverse field on second, otherwise good very fine or better (2) £100-140 226 India General Service 1936-39, one clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (4) (1174 Hav. Shamshersing Bisht, 1-9 G.R.; 14202 Sep. Udai Singh, 3-7 Rajut R.; 14994 Driver Bagh Ali, R.A.; Mason Allah Dad, M.E.S.), nearly very fine or better (4) £80-100 227 India General Service 1936-39, one clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (4) (8 Ck. Chulam Mohd., 5-11 Sikh R.; 6710 Nk. Dhanbahadur Thapa, 2-1 G.R.; 1227 Hav. Dalbahadur Gurung, 1-1 G.R.; Bearer Zairin, Tochi Scouts.), very fine or better (4) £80-100 228 Korea 1950-53, 1st ‘Britt: Omn:’ type (T/22667359 Dvr. D. Bamford. R.A.S.C.), one letter of surname officially corrected, nearly extremely fine £70-90

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A COLLECTION OF FRENCH AWARDS “THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN”

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x229 France, Kingdom, House of Bourbon 1589-1792, Order of St. Louis, an early Louis XVI period Chevalier’s breast Badge, 40mm x 37mm, gold and enamel, no balls to points of cross, minor enamel damage to one point of cross and reverse motto, otherwise good very fine, rare £800-1,000

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PROVENANCE:

Jeffrey R. Jacob Collection, 1985.

x230 France, Kingdom, Second Restoration 1815-30, Order of St. Louis, Officer’s breast Badge, 45mm x 37mm, gold and enamel, Hallmarked on suspension ring, balls to points of cross, minor enamel damage to motto, otherwise good very fine, with rosette on riband £600-800 PROVENANCE:

Jack Sweetman Collection, 1984.

x231 France, Kingdom, Second Restoration 1815-30, Order of St. Louis, a reduced-size Chevalier’s breast Badge, 26mm x 22mm, gold and enamel, balls to points of cross, minor enamel damage to reverse motto, otherwise good very fine £150-200

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PROVENANCE:

Spink, February 1985.

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x232 France, First Empire 1804-14, Legion of Honour, an Early ‘2nd type’ 1806 Knight’s breast Badge, 54mm including crown suspension x 36mm, silver, gold, and enamel, crown attached directly to badge, minor enamel flaking on top arm, good very fine, rare £1,400-1,800 x233 France, First Empire 1804-14, Legion of Honour, an Early ‘3rd type’ 1806-08 Knight’s breast Badge, 54mm including crown suspension x 38mm, silver, gold, and enamel, with top ‘1806’ silver plaque, Hallmarked on suspension ring, good very fine, scarce £600-800 x234 France, First Empire 1804-14, Legion of Honour, ‘3rd type’ 1806-08 Knight’s breast Badge, original central medallions replaced with Second Restoration 1815-30 medallions; 54mm including crown suspension x 38mm, silver, gold, and enamel, Hallmarked on suspension ring, good very fine £600-800 First Empire Legion of Honour badges were often converted by the recipient to conform with changes in the monarchy and consequent changes in the Legion of Honour regulations.

PROVENANCE:

Sydney B. Vernon Collection, 1984.

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x236 France, Kingdom, Second Restoration 181530, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast Badge, 65mm includig crown suspension x 45mm, silver, gold, and enamel, Hallmarked on obverse tassel, minor enamel damage to one point of arm, otherwise good very fine £500-600 PROVENANCE:

Jeffrey R. Jacob Collection, 1984.

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x235 France, Kingdom, Second Restoration 1815-30, Legion of Honour, Commander’s neck Badge, 81mm including crown suspension x 54mm, gold and enamel, Hallmarked on crown, extremely fine, with neck riband £2,000-3,000 PROVENANCE:

Sydney B. Vernon Collection, 1986.

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x237 France, Kingdom, Second Restoration 1815-30, Legion of Honour, a reduced-size Chevalier’s breast Badge, 42mm x 26mm, silver, gold, and enamel, Hallmarked on suspension ring, good very fine £180-220 PROVENANCE:

Spink, February 1985.

x238 France, Kingdom, July Monarchy 1830-48, Legion of Honour, Officer’s breast Badge, 60mm including crown suspension x 42mm, gold and enamel, Hallmarked on obverse tassel, minor enamel damage to two points of arms, otherwise nearly extremely fine, with rosette on riband £400-500 PROVENANCE:

Jeffrey R. Jacob Collection, 1987.

x239 France, Kingdom, July Monarchy 1830-48, July Cross 1830, Chevalier’s breast Badge, 50mm including tower suspension x 40mm, silver and enamel, Hallmarked on reverse wreath, nearly very fine, scarce £250-350 PROVENANCE:

Sydney B. Vernon Collection, 1984.

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x240 France, Second Republic 1848-52, Legion of Honour, Officer’s breast Badge, 43mm, gold and enamel, minor green enamel damage to wreath, otherwise extremely fine, scarce, with rosette on riband £600-800

x241 France, Second Republic, Presidency Period 1851-52, Legion of Honour, Officer’s breast Badge, 63mm including crown suspension x 43mm, gold and enamel, Hallmarked on reverse tassel, extremely fine, rare, with rosette on riband £600-800 x242 France, Second Republic, Presidency Period 1851-52, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast Badge, 66mm including crown suspension x 43mm, silver, gold, and enamel, with trenched edges to arms, extremely fine, rare £300-400 PROVENANCE:

Sydney B. Vernon Collection, 1985.

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x243 France, Third Republic 1870-1946, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast Badge, 60mm including wreath suspension x 43mm, silver, gold, and enamel, with trenched edges to arms, good very fine, with three small ‘diamonds’ set above wreath suspension £100-150

x244 France, Fourth Republic 1946-58, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast Badge, 55mm including wreath suspension x 41mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, Hallmarked on reverse tassel, good very fine £50-70

x245 France, Fifth Republic 1958-, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast Badge, 57mm including wreath suspension x 43mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, Hallmarked on reverse tassel, extremely fine £40-60

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x246 France, Vichy Government 1940-44, Francisque Gallique Badge, by Arthus Bertrand, Paris, unnumbered, 27mm x 19mm, bronze and enamel, extremely fine £40-50

x247 France, Vichy Government 1940-44, Francisque Gallique Badge, by Augis, Lyon, unnumbered, 27mm x 19mm, bronze and enamel, good very fine £40-50

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x248 Miniature Awards: A Fine Quality Pair of French Awards France, Kingdom, Second Restoration 1815-30, Order of St. Louis, Chevalier’s breast Badge, 26mm x 22mm, gold and enamel, balls to points of cross; France, Kingdom, First Restoration 1814-15, Order of the Lily, Cross type, 30mm including crown suspension x 19mm, silver and enamel, bust of Louis XVIII facing left on obverse, minor enamel damage, otherwise very fine or better, both suspended from an ornate gold bar (2) £300-400

x249 Miniature Awards: France, Kingdom, First Restoration 1814-15, Order of the Lily, 28mm including crown suspension x 15mm, silver, very fine France, Kingdom, First Restoration 1814-15, Order of the Lily, Cross type, 38mm including crown suspension x 21mm, silver and white enamel, bust of Louis XVIII facing left on obverse, minor enamel damage, therefore nearly very fine France, Kingdom, First Restoration 1814-15, Order of the Lily, Cross type, 39mm including crown suspension x 24mm, silver, blue enamel, and white enamel, bust of Louis XVIII facing right on obverse, enamel damage, therefore good fine (3) £200-300 x250 France, Third Republic 1870-1946, Legion of Honour, fitted red leather case of issue for a Grand Officer’s Star £30-40 Page 129

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252 x251 Bolivia, Republic, National Order of the Condor of the Andes, Officer’s breast Badge, 60mm including Condor suspension x 43mm, silver-gilt and enamel, extremely fine, with rosette on riband £70-90

252 Brunei, Sultanate, The Most Esteemed Family Order, 2nd type, First Class set of Insignia, by Spink, London, Collar Chain, comprising of nineteen links made up out of six lions, four medallions featuring the Crown of Brunei, four medallions featuring crossed krises, four medallions featuring a torch, and a larger central medallion featuring the Crown of Brunei, 1160mm, silver-gilt and enamel, with clip suspension from central medallion to support Badge Appendant; sash Badge, 74mm, silver-gilt and red enamel; Star, 71mm, silver-gilt and red enamel, maker’s cartouche on reverse, extremely fine, with full sash riband and miniature width neck riband, and the related miniature award with rosette and gold flashes, in slightly broken case of issue (3) £1,200-1,500 The Most Esteemed Family Order does not have a separate Collar Badge, but utilises the sash Badge for this purpose.

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253 253 Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, First Class set of Insignia, by J. Lattes, Cairo, sash Badge, 92mm including crown suspension x 63mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, maker’s name and silver marks for Cairo 1926 on reverse; Star, 94mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, maker’s name and silver marks for Cairo 1926 on reverse, nearly extremely fine, with full sash riband, in case of issue (2) £500-700 Page 131

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The Women of Royaumont, 1915 (Dr. Augusta Berry standing in the centre)

254 The Rare French Ministry of War Gold Medal For Epidemics Awarded to Dr. A. Berry, One of ‘The Women of Royaumont’ France, Republic, Medal of Honour, Ministry of War Gold Medal for Epidemics, silver-gilt, reverse embossed ‘Miss A. Berry 1917’, silver-marks to edge, good very fine, rare, with miniature rosette on riband £400-500 Dr. (Jessie) Augusta Berry, née Lewin, was born in Scotland and educated at the London School of Medicine for Women in 1894 to 1904. On the outbreak of the Great War she joined the ‘Scottish Women’s Hospital for Foreign Service’, a proposed hospital unit officered by women doctors, and staffed by fully trained nurses, equipped to nurse 100 beds. However, the Unit’s offer of work was summarily dismissed by both the War Office and the Red Cross, and so it was to the French Authorities that the Unit’s committee offered their services. This time their offer was accepted, and so, having raised £5,500, this little band of six female doctors and their nurses under the command of Dr. Frances Ivens left for France, arriving at Royaumont Abbey, their home for the duration of the War, on the 30th November 1914. For the next four years Dr. Berry remained at Royaumont, until the 7th July 1918 when her health completely broke down as a result of the strain of the previous four years: ‘A prop of the hospital from the beginning, she put her hand to everything from ward dressings and toe-nail cutting to cleaning out drains and cutting wood. She also had a fine brain and a very tender heart...she is very sweet and unselfish and would do anything on earth for the patients, and is a very skilful and devoted doctor. She has a driving sense of duty that could on occasion be puritanical. She could never rest while anything remained to be done- so she never rested.’ (The Women of Royaumont, by Eileen Crofton refers).

As well as the Ministry of War Gold Medal for Epidemics, one of only six gold medals awarded to women doctors in the whole of the Great War, Dr. Berry was awarded the French Croix de Guerre, along with 22 other members of staff at the hospital, on the 20th November 1918, ‘on prodigué à l'hôpital des Dames Ecossaises tant à Villers-Cotterets qu'à Royaumont leur science et la dévotion au blessés français et alliés, sous des bombardments répétés.’ However, as the hospital was not under the auspices of either the War Office or the Red Cross none of the Doctors or staff at the hospital qualified for any British awards.

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258 An Unattributed Pair to a German Veteran of the Franco-Prussian and Great Wars Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1870, Second Class breast Badge, silver and iron centre, on noncombatant’s riband; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Gallipoli Star 1915, very fine or better, both contained in a fitted wooden case (2) £200-250

x259 Germany, Saxony, Saxe-Ernestine House Order, 2nd type, Knight’s breast Badge, 68mm including crown suspension x 44mm, silver and enamel, nearly extremely fine £100-120

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November 24, 2011- London x260 Germany, Saxe-Weimar, Order of the White Falcon, Military Division, Knight’s breast Badge, 60mm including crown suspension x 36mm, silver and enamel, nearly extremely fine £250-300 x261 Germany, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Order of the Honour Cross, Knight’s breast Badge, silver, silvergilt, and enamel, extremely fine £150-200 x262 Malta, Order of Malta, Knight of Grace’s neck Badge, 92mm including crown and bow suspension x 41mm, silver-gilt and enamel, no enamel to top skeletal arm of Cross, good very fine, with neck riband; together with two related awards (3) £160-200 x263 Malta, Order of Malta, Commander’s neck Badge, 88mm including crown suspension x 47mm, silver-gilt and enamel, good very fine, in Tanfani & Bertarelli, Rome, case of issue, together with two Bestowal Documents named to Dr. Erich Kunze, and dated 25.12.1915 and 27.10.1917 respectively; and a copy of the Statutes of the Order £80-120 x264 Malta, Order of Malta, Grand Priory of Bohemia, Knight of Justice’s neck Badge, 124mm including crown and trophy of arms suspension x 49mm, silvergilt and enamel, two-headed eagles in arms of cross, trophy suspension with Latin Cross, minor enamel damage to shield, very fine £250-300

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265 Serbia, Kingdom, Order of St. Sava, 2nd type, Commander’s neck Badge, 82mm including crown suspension x 50mm, silver-gilt and enamel, Bishop with red robes, good very fine £220-250 x266 Yugoslavia, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Commander’s neck Badge, 76mm including wreath suspension x 55mm, silver-gilt and enamel, minor enamel damage to one arm of cross, therefore good very fine £120-150

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267 Miniature Awards: The K.C.M.G., C.I.E., O.B.E. Group of Nine Attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir B.R. Reilly, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Aden The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight Commander’s (K.C.M.G.) Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, Companion’s (C.I.E.) Badge; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, Officer’s (O.B.E.) Badge, silver-gilt; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; Delhi Durbar 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, nearly very fine or better, mounted as originally worn (9) £250-300 K.C.M.G. London Gazette 4.6.1934 Lieutenant-Colonel Bernard Rawdon Reilly, C.I.E., O.B.E., Chief Commissioner, Resident, and Commander-in-Chief, Aden.

C.I.E. London Gazette 1.1.1926 Major Bernard Rawdon Reilly, O.B.E., Indian Army, First Assistant Resident at Aden.

O.B.E. London Gazette 18.11.1918 Major Bernard Rawdon Reilly, Indian Political Department ‘For distinguished service in connection with military operations in Aden.’

Lieutenant-Colonel Bernard Rawdon Reilly, K.C.M.G., C.I.E., O.B.E., (1882-1966), Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Indian Army, 3.4.1903; promoted Lieutenant, 3.5.1904; joined the Bombay Political Department, 1908; Captain, 18.1.1911; Major, 18.1.1917; Appointed Assistant Resident of Aden, 1925; Resident, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, March 1931; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Aden, 1.4.1937.

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268 Miniature Awards: The K.C.I.E., K.C.V.O. Group of Nine Attributed to ViceAdmiral Sir E.J.W. Slade, Royal Navy The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, Knight Commander’s (K.C.I.E.) Badge, gold and enamel, with top gold riband bar; The Royal Victorian Order, Knight Commander’s (K.C.V.O.) Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Egypt 1882-89, dated, no clasp; Africa General Service 1902-56, E.VII.R., one clasp, Somaliland 1908-10; Naval General Service 1915-62, G.V.R., one clasp, Persian Gulf 19091914; British War Medal; Coronation 1911; France, Republic, Legion of Honour, Officer’s Badge, gold and enamel, with rosette on riband; Khedive’s Star 1882, extremely fine, mounted as originally worn, and housed in a fitted leather case (9) £400-500 K.C.I.E. London Gazette 2.1.1911 Rear Admiral Edmond John Warre Slade, M.V.O., Royal Navy, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies.

K.C.V.O. London Gazette Rear-Admiral Sir Edmond John Warre Slade, K.C.I.E., M.V.O. M.V.O. Fourth Class London Gazette 2.6.1903 Captain Edmond John Warre Slade, Royal Navy, commanding His Majesty’s ship “Diana.”

Vice-Admiral Sir Edmond John Warre Slade, K.C.I.E., K.C.V.O., born March 1859; entered the Royal Navy, 1872; Commissioned Lieutenant, 1879; served during the Egyptian War in H.M.S. Hecla; promoted Commander, 1894, and Captain, 1899; Appointed a Member Fourth Class of the Royal Victorian Order on the occasion of H.M. Edward VII’s visit to Malta; promoted Rear-Admiral, 1908, and was aboard H.M.S. Hyacinth during the Somaliland campaign. Appointed Commander-in-Chief, East Indies, March 1909, and introduced measures for the suppression of the contraband arms trade between Muscat and Mekran and other regions of the Persian Gulf, and was aboard H.M.S. Highflier during the campaign; Appointed K.C.I.E. and K.C.V.O. in 1911, the latter on the occasion of the voyage of the King Emperor and Queen Empress to India; promoted Vice-Admiral, April 1914; retired 1917.

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269 Miniature Awards: The C.B., C.M.G. Group of Nine Attributed to MajorGeneral S. MacDonald, Royal Army Medical Corps The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion’s (C.B.) Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion’s (C.M.G.) Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., one clasp, Tirah 1897-8; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902; 1914 Star; British War and Victory Medals; Coronation 1911; France, Republic, Croix de Guerre 1914-1916, with bronze palm on riband, good very fine, mounted as originally worn (9) £300-350 C.B. London Gazette 3.6.1918 Col. Stuart Macdonald, C.M.G., M.B., Army Med. Serv.

‘For valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in France and Flanders C.M.G. London Gazette 14.1.1916 Colonel Stuart Macdonald, M.B., Army Medical Service ‘For services rendered in connection with Military Operations in the Field.’

France, Croix de Guerre London Gazette 2.6.1917 Colonel Stuart Macdonald, C.M.G., Army Medical Service ‘For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign.’

Major-General Stuart MacDonald, C.B., C.M.G., (1861-1939), born Elgin; educated at Aberdeen University; appointed Surgeon, Army Medical Service, February 1887; served on the North West Frontier between 1897-98 when he was variously attached to the Turak and Tirah Expeditionary Forces; advanced Major, February 1899, and served in South Africa; served with the Medical Corps on the Western Front from 9.8.1914, and was Commanding Officer of No.1 General Hospital between October 1914 and April 1916; Appointed Deputy Director of Medical Services, November 1916 (five times Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 17.2.1915, 1.1.1916, 4.1.1917, 24.12.1917, and 25.5.1918). Appointed Hon. Physician to H.M. the King, 1919, and was placed on the retired list with the rank of Major-General, 1920.

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270 Miniature Awards: The Great War D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C. Group of Six Attributed to LieutenantColonel G.V. Taylor, 16th Rifle Brigade, Later Norfolk Regiment Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, Officer’s (O.B.E.) Badge, silver-gilt; Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves; General Service 1918-62, G.V.R., one clasp, Kurdistan, nearly extremely fine, mounted as originally worn, with a photographic image of the recipient (6) £140-180 D.S.O. London Gazette 3.6.1919 T./Maj. George Vere Taylor, M.C., 16th Bn., Rif. Brig.

O.B.E. London Gazette 2.6.1923 Captain George Vere Taylor, D.S.O., M.C., The Norfolk Regiment M.C. London Gazette 1.1.1918 T./Capt George Vere Taylor, Rif. Brig.

Lieutenant-Colonel George Vere Taylor, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C. born August 1887; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Rifle Brigade, 21.6.1915; Lieutenant, 20.10.1915; served with the Brigade in the Great War on the Western Front from 23.2.1916 (twice Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 4.1.1917 and 19.7.1919); Appointed Captain and Adjutant, 16th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, 4.9.1916; temporary Major, 27.2.1918; acting Lieutenant-Colonel, 15.5.1918; relinquished command, 1.9.1921; re-commissioned Captain, Norfolk Regiment, 1.1.1922; served as Staff Captain and D.A.A.Q.M.G. in Iraq, 1.10.1922 - 30.9.1926; Appointed Adjutant, Malay States Volunteer Regiment, 15.11.1928.

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271 Miniature Awards: The Great War D.S.O. Group of Nine Attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel G.W. Miller, Royal Army Medical Corps Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel, with integral gold top riband bar; The Most Venerable Order of St. John, Officer’s Badge, silver; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., with integral top riband bar; France, Republic, Croix de Guerre 1914-1916, with star on riband, extremely fine, mounted as originally worn (9) £120-160 D.S.O. London Gazette 1.1.1918 Maj. George Waterson Miller, R.A.M.C. Order of St. John, Officer London Gazette 21.10.1927 Colonel George Waterson Miller, D.S.O., M.B., R.A.M.C. (T.F.) T.D. London Gazette 22.5.1918 Major George W. Miller, D.S.O., M.B., Royal Army Medical Corps.

France, Croix de Guerre London Gazette 7.10.1919 Major George Waterson Miller, D.S.O., M.B., T.D., Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force).

Lieutenant-Colonel George Waterson Miller, D.S.O., T.D., born 1874; educated at Dundee High School and Edinburgh University; enlisted in the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Royal Highlanders, 1891; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 1899; promoted Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1908; appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine, St. Andrew’s University, 1909; promoted Major, 1914; served with the Medical Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 1915 (twice Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 29.5.1917 and 24.12.1917); Lieutenant-Colonel (in Command), 1918.

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272 272 Miniature Awards: The Sudan War D.S.O. Group of Five Attributed to Brigadier-General The Hon. C. Lambton, Northumberland Fusiliers Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Orange Free State, Transvaal; King’s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, one clasp, Khartoum, nearly very fine or better, mounted as originally worn, and housed in a Spink, London, fitted leather case (5) £180-220 D.S.O. London Gazette 15.11.1898 The Hon. Charles Lambton, Major, The Northumberland Fusiliers ‘In recognition of services during the recent operations in the Sudan.’

Brigadier-General The Hon. Charles Lambton, D.S.O., (1857-1949), the fourth son of the 2nd Earl of Durham; educated at Eton; gazetted to the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1876; Appointed A.D.C. to the Viceroy of Ireland, 1886; promoted Major, 1895; served in the Nile Expedition of 1898, being present at the battle of Khartoum, for which he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 30.9.1898) and created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order; served in the Boer War, in command of the 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers from 9.4.1900 to 31.5.1902. Involved in many operations, he was present in the advance on Kimberley, including actions at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein (Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 26.1.1900). He retired with the rank of Colonel in 1904; but was re-employed during the Great War as a Brigade Commander, with the rank of Brigadier-General, and from 1917 served as Commandant of the Durham Volunteer Regiment. In later life he took a keen interest in racing, and his horse Trimdon won the Ascot Gold Cup in 1931 and 1932.

Brigadier-General The Hon. C. Lambton

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274 273 Miniature Awards: The Great War D.S.O. Group of Five Attributed to Colonel A.B. Longden, 38th Dogras, Indian Army Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., two clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-8; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves, good very fine, mounted as originally worn, with the recipient’s Great War epaulettes, carrying the rank insignia of a Lieutenant-Colonel (5) £80-120 D.S.O. London Gazette 30.5.1919 Lt.-Col. Arthur Berridge Longden, 38th Dogras, I.A. Colonel Arthur Berridge Longden, D.S.O., (1868-1936), Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, February 1888; promoted Lieutenant, July 1889; transferred Indian Staff Corps, December 1891; Captain, December 1899; Major, 37th Dogras, 11.2.1905; Appointed to the Command of the 38th Dogras with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 11.2.1914; served during the Great War and Mention in Despatches (London Gazette 4.7.1916); Colonel, 11.6.1919; retired, 8.6.1920.

274 Miniature Awards: The O.B.E. Group of Eight Attributed to Major B.H. Withers, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, Late Egyptian Camel Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, Officer’s (O.B.E.) Badge, silver-gilt; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine, with M.I.D. Oakleaf; Defence Medal; Jubilee 1935; Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, Fourth Class Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband, gilding rubbed from O.B.E., otherwise very fine or better, mounted as originally worn (8) £80-120 O.B.E. London Gazette 4.6.1928 Captain Bramwell Henry Withers, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), attached Sudan Defence Force.

Egypt, Order of the Nile, Fourth Class London Gazette 3.7.1923 Captain Bramwell Henry Withers, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), Commanding 11th Sudanese, Egyptian Army ‘In recognition of good services rendered during the recent operations in Southern and Western Darfur.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 23.7.1937 Withers, Maj. B. H., O.B.E., 1st Battalion, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) (since retired) ‘In recognition of distinguished services rendered in connection with the operations in Palestine during the period, April to October, 1936.’

Major Bramwell Henry Withers, O.B.E., (1888-1968), Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, 1914; and served during the Great War in German East Africa from 3.11.1914; moved to Egypt in January 1917, advanced Major, and seconded for service with the Egyptian Army from 4.11.1918 to 16.1.1925, when he transferred to the newly formed Sudan Defence Force; served with the British Forces in Palestine and trans-Jordan, 1936; retired January 1937. During the Second World War he served with 5th Company, Lancashire Battalion Home Guard.

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275 275 Miniature Awards: The Great War D.C.M. Group of Eight Attributed to Regimental Sergeant Major J. Mathieson, Highland Light Infantry Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R.; Egypt 1882-89, dated, one clasp, Tel-elKebir; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves; Coronation 1902, bronze; Khedive’s Star 1884, good very fine, mounted as originally worn, and housed in a fitted leather case, this embossed ‘Presented to Ex R.S.M. J. Mathieson., D.C.M., By the Members of the Sergeant’s Mess 5th. Btn. H.L.I. March, 1926’ (8) £250-300 D.C.M. London Gazette 19.8.1916 1854 Actg. R.S./M. J. Mathieson, High. L.I. ‘For exceptionally good work throughout the campaign. He set a fine example to all ranks.’

Regimental Sergeant Major John Mathieson, D.C.M., served during the Great War with the 5th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry in the Gallipoli theatre from 25.5.1915, and with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force; Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 25.9.1916); retired 1926.

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276 Miniature Awards: A Crimea Pair Attributed to Captain C.B. Wilkinson, 68th Foot Crimea 1854-56, four clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol, contemporarily engraved in serif capitals ‘C. Brice Wilkinson. Capt. 68th. Lt. Infy.’; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian die, contemporarily engraved in serif capitals ‘C. Brice Wilkinson. Capt.

68th. Lt. Infy. 1854-5’, good very fine, mounted as originally worn on a Hunt and Roskell silver riband buckle bar, with a photographic image of the recipient (2) £240-280

Captain C.B. Wilkinson

Captain Christopher Brice Wilkinson, Commissioned Ensign, 68th Foot (Durham Light Infantry), October 1853; promoted Lieutenant, April 1854; Captain, January 1855; retired, February 1856.

277 Miniature Awards: A Boer War Group of Six Attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel P.C. Cooper, Honourable Artillery Company Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, six clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, contemporarily engraved in serif capitals ‘P.C. Cooper. H.A.C.’; 1914 Star, with Bar; British War and Victory Medals; Defence Medal; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., with integral top riband bar, nearly very fine or better, mounted as originally worn (6) £80-120 Lieutenant-Colonel Percie Cyril Cooper, T.D., (18741958), enlisted as a Private in No.4 Company, Honourable Artillery Company, 1897; served with the Mounted Infantry of the City Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 1901; promoted Lieutenant, 20.2.1904; Captain, 22.1.1906; served during the Great War as a Senior Company Commander with the rank of Major on the Western Front from 18.9.1914; promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, 20.5.1917.

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278 Miniature Awards: The Great War Group of Six Attributed to Cunard Liner Captain W.R.D. Irvine, Royal Naval Reserve, Who Was in Command of R.M.S. Laconia When She Was Sunk by a German U-Boat, 25.2.1917, An Act That Hastened the United States’ Declaration of War Against Germany 1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Mercantile Marine War Medal; Victory Medal; Coronation 1911; Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, G.V.R., good very fine, mounted as originally worn, with the following related items: - The recipient’s Waterman’s fountain pen, inscribed ‘W.R.D. Irvine R.D., R.N.R.’, in case - Presentation Certificate named to Commander W.R.D. Irvine, R.N.R., given to him by a party of Roman Catholic pilgrims aboard the S.S. Pannonia in appreciation of his ‘courtesy and kindness which has brightened our ocean voyage’, and signed by Augustus Van de Vyver, Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, and 121 members of his flock - Various newspaper cuttings regarding the sinking of the Laconia - Two Portrait photographs of the recipient - Various photographs and postcards of the Laconia and a page of the ship’s embossed writing paper - Various miscellaneous buttons (6) £300-400 Captain William Robert Duncan Irvine, R.D., was born in November 1863, and served in the Merchant Navy; he transferred to the Cunard Line in November 1895, and served on the Liverpool-New York run, gaining steady advancement to Chief Officer in the Caronia in February 1905, and to Master of the Veria in September of the same year. Meanwhile, in common with other Mercantile Marine officers, he had been commissioned in the Royal Naval Reserve, gaining experience on assorted R.N. courses and advancement to Lieutenant in August 1899 and to Commander in July 1910. On the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, Irvine was in command of the S.S. Laconia, which was soon converted into an Armed Merchant Cruiser.

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Captain W.R.D. Irvine

German East Africa. In July 1916, she was returned to Cunard and resumed her usual cross-Atlantic voyages, work that led to her famous demise on the 25th February 1917, when torpedoed by the U-50 some 160 miles N.W. by W. off the Fastnet - one torpedo having struck the liner at 10.33 p.m. on the starboard side just abaft the engine room, another found its mark in the engine room from point blank range about 30 minutes later, and she sank at 11.45 p.m.

The Laconia had 292 persons on board, comprising 34 First Class and 41 Second Class passengers, including women and children, in addition to Irvine and his crew, and of these 12

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died, including the American citizens Mrs. Mary Hoy and her daughter Elizabeth, from Chicago - the survivors had to pass several hours in open boats before being picked up by the sloop H.M.S. Laburnum. The death of the Hoys, as vividly reported by one of the survivors, a journalist from the Chicago Tribune, arguably acted as the final catalyst in bringing the United States of America into the War, with the account of the sinking (which made reference to Irvine’s gallant conduct) read from the floor of both houses of Congress. Five weeks later, the United States declared war on Germany.

Irvine remained with Cunard for many years, commanding among other vessels the newly launched S.S. Laconia in the 1920s.

Captain W.R.D. Irvine’s full sized medals were sold at auction in May 2011 for £3,100.

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279 Miniature Awards: An Unattributed B.E.M. Group of Eight British Empire Medal, Military Division, G.VI.R.; 1939-1945 Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf; Naval Long Service & G.C., G.VI.R., good very fine, mounted as worn Miniature Awards: A Great War Group of Five 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; General Service 1918-62, G.V.R., three clasps, Iraq, N.W. Persia, Kurdistan; Jubilee 1935, nearly very fine, mounted as worn Miniature Awards: Victoria Cross; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Civil Division, Commander’s Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Military Medal, G.V.R.; India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Burma 1889-92; Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp; 1914 Star; 1914-15 Star (2); British War Medal (5); Victory Medal (5); Territorial Force War Medal; Korea 1950-53, Canadian type, generally nearly very fine or better (33) £80-100

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280 x280 Badge of the Certificate of Honour for Nyasaland Protectorate, E.II.R., bronze neck Badge, 68mm x 50mm, good very fine £100-140

x281 Jubilee 1887, with 1897 Bar, silver, good very fine, on lady’s bow riband £140-180

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Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria x285 Jubilee 1897, silver, lacquered, good very fine £80-100 x286 Visit to Ireland Medal 1900, unnamed, nearly extremely fine £80-120

x287 Coronation 1902 (2), silver; bronze, first very fine, second good fine (2) £90-120

x288 Pair: Constable F. Jennings, Metropolitan Police Coronation 1902, bronze (P.C. F. Jennings. P. Div.); Coronation 1911 (P.C. F. Jennings.), nearly extremely fine Coronation (City of London Police) 1902, bronze (P.C.. A. Collyer), very fine Coronation (City of London Police) 1911 (P.C.. F.H. Merriman.), good very fine (4) £100-140 284 x282 Jubilee (Metropolitan Police) 1887, with 1897 Bar (PC, H. Smith. P. Divn.), good very fine Jubilee (City of London Police) 1887, with 1897 Bar (PC, 408. W. Harvey.), nearly very fine Jubilee (Metropolitan Police) 1897 (.P.C. E. Alexander. N. Divn.), last three letters partially obliterated, good very fine Jubilee (St. John Ambulance Brigade) 1897 (Private A. Hubbard), very fine (4) £130-160

283 Jubilee (Metropolitan Police) 1887 (P.C. W. Sussums.

E.Divn.), nearly very fine Delhi Durbar 1911 (2) (No. 1011 Alfred Hudson 2nd. Bn. The King’s Regt. 12.12.1911; 8030 Cpl C Carter RSR), nearly extremely fine (3) £100-140 46457 Police Constable William Sussums, joined E (Holborn) Division, Metropolitan Police, August 1865.

x289 Pair: Coachman W. Kimpton, London County Council Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Later London Fire Brigade Coronation 1902, bronze (William Kimpton); Coronation 1911 (Coachman W. Kimpton), good very fine Coronation (St. John Ambulance Brigade) 1902, bronze (N. Melliss. N.S.), good very fine (3) £80-100

x290 Hong Kong Coronation 1902, unnamed (2), first fine, second nearly very fine (2) £60-80

x291 Delhi Durbar 1903, silver, unnamed, extremely fine, lacking top riband buckle £100-140

x284 Jubilee (Mayors and Provosts) 1897, silver, extremely fine £250-300

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x296 Coronation (County & Borough Police) 1911, unnamed, nearly extremely fine Coronation (Scottish Police) 1911, unnamed, nearly extremely fine (2) £90-120 293

x293 Visit to Ireland 1903 (S.W. Collopy. R.I.C.), minor edge bruise, nearly very fine, with integral top riband bar £60-80

x294 Union of South Africa Commemoration Medal 1910, unnamed as issued, extremely fine £100-140

x295 Coronation 1911, nearly extremely fine Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed, contact marks, very fine Jubilee 1935, extremely fine Coronation 1937, extremely fine Coronation 1953, nearly extremely fine (5) £140-180

x297 Coronation (Royal Irish Constabulary) 1911, unnamed, good very fine Visit to Ireland 1911, unnamed, nearly extremely fine (2) £120-150 x298 Coronation (St. John Ambulance Brigade) 1911 (Pte. R. Savage.), nearly extremely fine Coronation (St. Andrew’s Ambulance Corps) 1911 (John Smart.), extremely fine (2) £120-150 x299 Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (SS-3895 Cpl. D.I.P. Jones. R.A.S.C.), good very fine Army Long Service & G.C., G.VI.R., with ‘Regular Army’ bar suspension (3184793 Pte. P. Sim. K.O.S.B.), good very fine (2) £120-150 M.S.M. London Gazette 3.6.1919 SS/3895 Cpl. Jones, D.I.P. (Lampeter) ‘In recognition of valuable service rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders.’

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x300 Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (John Thompson.

St. Helena Regiment. 1846.), with later loop and ring suspension, good very fine £140-180

302 Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (1571. Pte. J. Madge. 1-7th. Foot), heavy contact marks to obverse, good fine £50-70

406 Private John Thompson, born Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire, 1805; enlisted in the 25th Foot, July 1825; served with the Regiment in the West Indies for ten years; transferred to the St. Helena Regiment, May 1843; discharged, August 1846 after 21 years and 38 days with the Colours.

1571 Private Joseph Madge, born Tavistock, Devon, 1839; enlisted in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, October 1857; transferred to the 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, September 1867; awarded Long Service & Good Conduct Medal with a gratuity of £5, October 1878; discharged October 1878 after 21 years and 8 days with the Colours, of which nine years and nine months were spent in India.

x301 Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (1341, Farr: Cpl. J. Steel. Rl. Horse Gds.), extremely fine £100-140 1341 Farrier Corporal John Steel, born Bambrough, Northumberland, 1834; enlisted in the Royal Horse Guards, April 1855; promoted Farrier, April 1864; awarded Long Service & Good Conduct Medal and a gratuity, April 1876; discharged, March 1879, after 23 years and 328 days with the Colours.

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303 Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (785. Drummer F. Golding, 2-7th. Foot), minor edge nick, extremely fine £100-120 785 Drummer Frederick Golding, born Cookham, Berkshire, 1838; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, November 1857; appointed Drummer, September 1864; served with the Regiment in Canada during the Fenian uprisings 1866; awarded Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, March 1876; discharged, July 1878, after 20 years and 249 days with the Colours, of which 13 years were spent abroad, in the Mediterranean, Canada, and India.

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304 Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (210. Serjt. A. Drake, 2-7th. Foot), good very fine £100-120

x307 Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (2221, Q.M. Sergt.

R. Peffers, Rl. Sc: Fus:), good very fine £80-120

210 Sergeant Alfred Drake, born Sherborne, Dorset, July 1840; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers and served with the Regiment in Canada during the Fenian uprising, 1866; awarded Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, 1876.

2221 Quarter Master Sergeant Richard Peffers, born Wantage, Berkshire, 1853; enlisted in the 15th Foot, June 1867; promoted Corporal, June 1871; Sergeant, January 1875; transferred to the 2nd Battalion, 21st Foot (Royal Scots Fusiliers), February 1879; served with the Regiment in South Africa in the Zulu and Transvaal Wars from February 1879 to January 1882; promoted Quarter Master Sergeant, September 1882; discharged, February 1894 after 26 years and 37 days with the Colours.

305 Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (1663. Pte. J. Carrier, 2-7th. Foot), minor edge nick, nearly extremely fine £80-100 1663 Private John Carrier, awarded Long Service & Good Conduct Medal with a gratuity of £5, October 1876.

306 Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (933. Corpl. W. Bees, 2-7th. Foot), extremely fine £80-100 933 Corporal William Bees, born Compton Dando, Somerset, 1839; enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, December 1857; promoted Corporal, September 1860; awarded Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, 1878; discharged, January 1879, after 21 years and 49 days with the Colours, of which 14 years were spent abroad in Gibraltar, Malta, America, and India.

308 Army Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (2) (6247 C.Sjt: F.W. Best. Rl. Fus.; 1259 C.Sjt: J. Hook. Rl. Fus.), nearly very fine (2) £80-120 6247 Colour Sergeant Francis William Best, born Portsmouth, December 1872; enlisted as 3087 Private in the Gloucestershire Regiment, January 1891; transferred to the Royal Fusiliers, May 1898; advanced Colour Sergeant, 28.3.1905; discharged, January 1912, after 21 years with the Colours.

1259 Colour Sergeant John Hook, born Slough, Buckinghamshire, 1861; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers, March 1884; advanced Colour Sergeant, July 1893; awarded Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, 1.4.1908; discharged, 11.3.1910, after 26 years with the Colours.

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Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria x312 Indian Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st ‘Kaisar-i-Hind’ type (1029 Kot-Dfdr. Turabaz Khan. 29th. Mule Corps.), nearly very fine Indian Army Long Service & G.C., G.VI.R. (F-1477 Swpr. Imam Din, 13 F F Rif), very fine (2) £80-120

x313 Volunteer Officers’ Decoration, V.R., silver (Hallmarks for London 1892) and silver-gilt, extremely fine, lacking top riband bar £70-90

314 Volunteer Officer’s Decoration, V.R., silver (Hallmarks for London 1901) and silver-gilt, extremely fine, with integral top riband bar £80-100

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309 Army Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., with ‘Regular Army’ bar suspension (1038925 Gnr. H.W. Cross.

R.A.), minor contact marks, good very fine Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd ‘coinage head’ type (J.44724 G.R. Lovell, P.O. H.M.S. Vernon.), nearly extremely fine (2) £80-100

310 Naval Long Service & G.C. (2), G.VI.R. (J.106834 F.J. Palmer. A.B. H.M.S. Dorsetshire.); E.II.R. (JX.160416 H.F.C. Peterson. P.O. H.M.S. Daring.), one initial officially corrected, very fine or better Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd ‘coinage head’ type (J.97816 (CH.B.22718) T. Catling. L.S. R.F.R.), extremely fine (3) £70-90

x311 Indian Army Long Service & G.C. (Europeans), H.E.I.C. Arms (Segt. Major E. Carter Landour Convt. Depot G.O.C.C. 26th. July 1872.), good very fine £300-350

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x315 Volunteer Officers’ Decoration, E.VII.R., silver (Hallmarks for London 1910) and silver-gilt, extremely fine, with integral top riband bar £80-120

316 Volunteer Force Long Service & G.C. (2), V.R. (No. 978 Sergt. W. Shore 3rd. Vol. Bat. S. Staff. Regt.); E.VII.R. (4681 C. Sjt: J. Watson. 1/V.B. Rl. Fus:), good very fine (2) £100-120

x317 Volunteer Force Long Service & G.C. (2), V.R. (Sergt. F. Stewart. E.F. Ry: Volr: Rifles.); E.VII.R. (7004 Cpl. J.R. Harris. 1/Notts: V.R.C.), nearly very fine (2) £100-140

318 Volunteer Force Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (6370 Cpl. T.H. Boulter. 4/V.B. Rl. Fus.), nearly very fine Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., with ‘Territorial’ scroll suspension (Capt. P.F. Burke. R.F.), good very fine (2) £80-120 Captain P.F. Burke, Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Fusiliers, 2.11.1940; advanced Captain and Hon. Major, 26.7.1944.

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x319 Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, E.VII.R., silver and silver-gilt, nearly extremely fine, lacking integral top riband bar £120-150

x320 Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, V.R., silver (Hallmarks for London 1901) and silver-gilt, extremely fine, with integral top riband bar £180-220

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x321 Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (No. 428. Trooper Percy Penrose Miers. Ceylon Mounted Rifles.), one letter of surname officially corrected, nearly extremely fine £60-80

322 Militia Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (6522 Pte. R. Nixon. 5/Rl. Fus.), good very fine £300-350 6522 Private R. Nixon, awarded Militia L.S. & G.C. by Army Order May 1908.

7 Medals awarded to the 5th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers.

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x323 Militia Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (5821 Pte. E. Hughes. 4th. R. Dublin Fus. Mil.), nearly extremely fine £300-350

327 Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (34 Cpl. C. Bower. Derby: Yeo.), good very fine £100-120

5821 Private E. Hughes, awarded Militia L.S. & G.C. by Army Order November 1905.

x328 Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (472002 Pte.- L. Cpl.- S. Simmons. R.A.M.C.), edge bruising, worn, good fine Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (T/1156. Pte. H. Callway. A.S.C.), good very fine (2) £70-90

11 Medals awarded to the 4th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

x324 Imperial Yeomanry Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (116 Sjt: F. Allen. Staff: I.Y.), nearly extremely fine £280-320 116 Sergeant F. Allen, awarded Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C. by Army Order February 1905.

31 Medals awarded to the Staffordshire Imperial Yeomanry.

x325 Special Reserve Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (2072 Pte. J. Quiall. 5/Rl. Irish Rif.), minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £300-350 2072 Private J. Quiall, awarded Special Reserve L.S. & G.C. by Army Order April 1910.

38 Medals awarded to the 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles.

x326 Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., with top ‘Territorial’ riband bar, silver and silver-gilt, reverse officially dated ‘1966’, extremely fine £70-90

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x329 Efficiency Medal (3), G.VI.R. (2), with ‘Territorial’ scroll suspension (T-4525176 Cpl. F. Roberts.

R.A.S.C.); with ‘Militia’ scroll suspension (Capt. C. Hardcastle. R.E.); E.II.R., with ‘T.& A.V.R.’ scroll suspension (23681669 Pte. F. Gribbin RAMC.), first good very fine, others extremely fine (3) £150-200 x330 Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., with ‘India’ scroll suspension, and Second Award Bar (M-Tpr. C.W. Harvey. Chota Nag. R., A.F.I.), good very fine Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., bi-lingual reverse, with ‘Union of South Africa’ scroll suspension (Sgt. J.H.T. Dimmock Q.S.C.), two letters officially corrected, nearly extremely fine (2) £70-90

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331 Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., with ‘Gold Coast’ scroll suspension, unnamed as locally issued, good very fine £180-220 A total of 310 Efficiency Medals for the Gold Coast were awarded between 1931 and 1956.

x332 Army Emergency Reserve Decoration, E.II.R., with top ‘Army Emergency Reserve’ riband bar, silver and silver-gilt, reverse officially dated ‘1953’, with Second Award Bar, officially dated ‘1953’, extremely fine £140-180 x333 Army Emergency Reserve Efficiency Medal, E.II.R. (22236659 Spr. F.G. Timms. R.E.), extremely fine £100-140 x334 Permanent Forces of the Empire Beyond the Seas Long Service & G.C., G.V.R. (No. 45. Sergt. A.T. Aris. S.A.M.R.), good very fine £80-100

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x335 Police Long Service & G.C., G.VI.R. (Const. Robert J. Humphries), good very fine Cadet Forces Medal, G.VI.R., unnamed, extremely fine Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R. (Frank W. Jones), edge bruise, good very fine Civil Defence Long Service Medal, British type, unnamed, nearly extremely fine Service Medal of the Order of St. John (Divl. Surg F.N. Kapadia (Parsi) Div. No. 3. Dist. S.J.A.B.O. 1920.), edge bruise, very fine, scarce to unit Women’s Royal Voluntary Service Medal, unnamed, with Second Award Long Service Bar, extremely fine, in Royal Mint case of issue Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Cape Badge, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1916), nearly very fine Canadian Forces’ Decoration, E.II.R. (Sgt. G.J. Gowers), very fine (8) £140-180

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Sir Hardy Amies x336 Indian Title Badge (4), Diwan Bahadar (Muslim 1st Class), G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, unnamed as issued; Khan Bahadar (Muslim 2nd Class), G.V.R., silver-gilt, unnamed as issued; Khan Sahib (Muslim 3rd Class), G.VI.R., silver and enamel, reverse engraved ‘Sardar Muhammad Aubir Shap 1st. Jany.

1944’; Rao Sahib (Hindu 3rd Class), G.V.R., silver and enamel, unnamed as issued, enamel damage to motto and naming partially obscured on third, otherwise good very fine or better Pakistan Independence Medal 1947 (82911 A/S. Shaib Din. PAMC), good very fine Pakistan Republic Day Medal 1956, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine (6) £150-200

337 Royal Warrant Holders Association Silver Jubilee Medal 1977, suspension bar engraved ‘Hardy Amies’, extremely fine £300-400 Lieutenant-Colonel Sir (Edwin) Hardy Amies, K.C.V.O., (1909-2003), the well-known fashion designer and dress maker to H.M. The Queen, was born in London and educated at Brentwood School; after school he spent three years travelling around Europe, learning both French and German. On the outbreak of the Second World War, with his ability in languages, he was called up to serve in the Special Operations Executive, and was Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps, 15.7.1940. Posted to Belgium, he managed a number of agents in the field, rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the Crown (London Gazette 17.9.1948) for his efforts on behalf of the Belgian War effort.

In 1946, Amies established his own couture fashion house, Hardy Amies Ltd, in Savile Row. In 1950 he designed several outfits for Princess Elizabeth’s royal tour of Canada, the beginning of an association that would last for the next 40 years. In 1955, he was granted the Royal Warrant as Dressmaker to H.M. the Queen, and one of his best known creations was the gown he designed for the Queen’s official Silver Jubilee portrait in 1977. Appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order that year (London Gazette 11.6.1977), he continued as dress designer to the Queen for the next decade. Advanced to a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1989 (London Gazette 17.6.1989), Amies relinquished his Royal Warrant the following year in order that younger designers could create for the Queen.

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November 24, 2011- London 338 Photographic Society Medals Bestowed Upon Lieutenant-General Sir C.P. Keyes, K.C.B., One of the Early Pioneers of Photography in India - Bengal Photographic Society Prize Medal, by J.S. & A.B. Wyon, silver, the obverse featuring a reclining female, the reverse engraved ‘To Lieut. Col. C.P. Keyes. C.B. for the Second Best Series of Landscapes, Decr. 1864’ - Simla Fine Art Exhibition Society’s Medal for Photographers 1869, silver, the obverse featuring an artist’s brushes and pallet, the reverse engraved ‘Col. C.P. Keyes. C.B. Mds. S.C.’ - London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company Amateur Photographic Exhibition Prize Medal, bronze, the obverse featuring three cherubs in a studio, the reverse engraved ‘Maj: Gen: Sir Chas. Keys [sic]’, generally very fine or better (3) £30-50 Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Patton Keyes, K.C.B., Commissioned Ensign, April 1843; promoted Lieutenant, November 1848; commanded the 1st Punjab Infantry with the force which accompanied Sir Charles Napier into the Kohat Pass in February 1850 (received the thanks of His Excellency and the Local Government); was present with the Regiment in the relief of a body of Mooltanees in a town on the Kohat-Kotal was surrounded by the Pass Aspeedes in March 1850, on which occasion the Regiment was unaided and sustained heavy losses (received the thanks of the Government). He was on field service with the Regiment in May 1852 when they made a forced march of 70 miles into action, and was present at Prang-ghar, Tsha-kote, Errosha, and several other minor affairs in the Eusufzie and Ranazie Valleys (received the thanks of the Government); in December 1852 he took command of two companies of the Regiment in a secret expedition against the Omerzie Waziris in the Kafir Kote Hills; the following year he commanded a wing of the Regiment on field service against the mountain tribes in the Salimanee range. Appointed to the command of the Scinde Rifle Corps, 1854, and served with them in operations in the Meranzie Valley. Promoted Captain, February, 1860; Commanded the 1st Punjab Infantry in the expedition against the Waziris, April 1860 (received the special thanks of the Supreme and Local Governments, and of the Secretary of State for India; appointed Brevet Major); Major, April 1863; Commanded the 1st Punjab Infantry and Hazara Mountain Battery at Satana, August 1863; joined the Kinteyla Field Force, October 1863, and served throughout the Umbeyla Campaign (severely wounded; received the special thanks of the Commander-in-Chief and of the Supreme and Local Governments; Brevet of LieutenantColonel and C.B.); organised and commanded a secret expedition against the Bezoties, February 1869 (received the special thanks of the Supreme and Local Governments, and of the Secretary of State for India; appointed Brevet Colonel); commanded the expedition into the Dour Valley, 1870 (received the thanks of the Government of India); appointed Brigadier-General Commandant of the Punjab Frontier Force and the Kohat Column, and served with the expedition against the Jowaki Afridis, 1877-78 (Mentioned in Despatches, received the thanks of the Government of India, and advanced K.C.B.); promoted Major-General, July 1881; Lieutenant-General, December 1886.

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339 Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force Badges - Royal Flying Corps badge, bronze, with brooch pin on reverse - Royal Air Force gold Sweetheart’s Brooch, in the form of the R.A.F. eagle, with crown above and the initials ‘R.A.F.’ within wreath, gold (reverse stamped ‘9Ct.’) and enamel - Royal Air Force silver Sweetheart’s Brooch, in the form of the R.A.F. eagle, with crown above and the initials ‘R.A.F.’ within wreath, silver (reverse stamped ‘Sterling’) and enamel, generally good very fine (3) £50-70 340 Medal Cabinets Two wooden collector’s cabinets, partially made of pine, of modern assemblage, each approximately a cubic foot in volume, with ten and eleven drawers respectively, fabric inlays and brass handles, each capable of holding approximately 120 medals, the fabric inlay in one drawer adapted to hold a Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque A Collection of Buttons A selection of approximately 80 buttons, the majority mounted on card in a glazed display frame, encompassing all branches of the three Services, from the Royal Navy to the Royal Air Force, the Life Guards to the Catering Corps (lot) £40-60

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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.

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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 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 of these Terms and Conditions and the provisions of clause 5.13 shall apply accordingly.

BEFORE THE SALE 3.1

3.2

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.

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.

Catalogue descriptions 3.4.4 We will not normally accept a request for an extension on account of condition. Any Lot described in the catalogue as having faults or defects may not be returned even if an expert opinion or Certificate of Authenticity cites other faults or defects not included in the catalogue description, other than in the case of a Forgery.

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.

3.4.5 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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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. Your Responsibility You are responsible for satisfying yourself as to the condition of the goods and the matters referred to in the catalogue description.

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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.

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Extensions – Stamps only

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Currency Converter At some auctions, a currency converter will be operated, based on the one month forward rates of exchange quoted to us by Royal Bank of Scotland 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.

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AFTER THE AUCTION 5.1 Buyer’s Premium In addition to the hammer price, you must pay us the Buyer’s Premium of 20% on the final hammer price of each Lot. 5.2

Value Added Tax Other than in respect of Zero-rated Lots (o) (see VAT Symbols for details), VAT is payable on the Buyer’s Premium and on the Hammer Price, if the Lot has been marked with a sign to that effect in the catalogue (see VAT Symbols for details).

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 element included within the 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 to us have been paid in full to us, even in circumstances where we have released the Lot to you.

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 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.

5.9 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; 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; 5.4

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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 auction date, 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, in the same condition as at the auction date; and 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.

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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.

11 Law and Jurisdiction 11.1 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.

11.2 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.

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.

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LIABILITY Nothing in these Terms and Conditions limits or excludes our liability for:

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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.

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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.

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.

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

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£10

£15

£20

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£20

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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.

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Postal Charges

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.

NOTICES

Value Added Tax (VAT)

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.

The information shown on this page sets out the way in which Spink intends to account for VAT. i.

1. Where possible, we will offer Lots for sale under the Auctioneers’ Margin Scheme. Such Lots can be identified by the absence of any symbol next to the Lot number in the catalogue and will not be subject to VAT on the Hammer Price.

10 ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS The following provisions of this clause 10 shall apply only if you are acting for the purposes of your business.

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.

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

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10.2 Severability

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.

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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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Daggered Lots 1. 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 1. Lots which are marked (x) in the catalogue are subject to VAT at 5% on the Hammer Price and 20% on the Buyer’s Premium which is shown as inclusive of VAT. 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 1. 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.

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.

Zero-Rated Lots 1. 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 element will be included within the Buyer’s Premium.

10.1.2 any special, indirect, consequential or pure economic loss, costs, damages, charges or expenses.

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.

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Imported Lots 1. 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

Stamps, Coins, Banknotes, Medals, Bonds & Shares, Autographs & Books

Your Specialists Stamps Guy Croton David Parsons Nick Startup Neill Granger Paul Mathews Dominic Savastano USA - Chris Anderson George Eveleth Andrew Titley Ed Robinson EUROPE - Guido Craveri Fernando Martinez Coins Julie-Morgane Lecoindre Richard Bishop William MacKay Arthur Bryant John Pett George Champ USA - Stephen Goldsmith Matthew Orsini Normand Pepin Banknotes, Bonds & Shares UK - Barnaby Faull Mike Veissid Andrew Pattison USA - Stephen Goldsmith Matthew Orsini Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria UK - Mark Quayle Oliver Pepys Books UK - Philip Skingley Alex Smith Autographs USA - Robert Litzenberger

UK - Tim Hirsch

UK - Paul Dawson

Your Europe Team Chairman’s Office Dennis Muriu Monica Kruber Directors Tim Hirsch Anthony Spink Auction & Client Management Team Emily Johnston Miroslava Adusei-Poku Luca Borgo Phillipa Brown Finance Alison Bennet Marco Fiori Mina Bhagat Alison Kinnaird Shyam Padhiar Billy Tumelty IT & Administration Berdia Qamarauli Maria Martinez Liz Cones Curlene Spencer John Winchcombe Your America Team Chairman Emeritus John Herzog Head of Numismatic Stephen Goldsmith Finance & Operations Manager Sam Qureshi Auction Administration Rick Penko Patricia Gardner Marketing & Design James McGuire Emily Cowin Clyde Townsend Finance & Administration Ingrid Qureshi Marcy Gottberg Ed Robinson Auctioneer Tracy Shreve Your Asia Team Gary Tan

AUCTION CALENDAR 2011/2012 Stamps 9 November 9/10/11 November 18/19 November 29 November 29 November 6 December

London London New York London London

11041 11033 137 11034 11046

15 January 26 January 23/24 February 16/17 March

The “Fordwater” Collection of Mint Australian Commonwealth Autumn Collector’s Series Sale The Collector’s Series Sale The “Agathon” Collection of the First and Second Issues of Russia USSR Commemorative Issues 1963-1991 The Chartwell Collection - Great Britain King Edward VII Essays, Proofs and Issued Stamps Fine Stamps and Covers of Hong Kong and China The Winter Collector’s Series The Collector’s Series Sale The “Tito” Collection of South American Philatelic Rarieties

London Hong Kong London New York Lugano

11035 12005 12001

Banknotes 15/16 November 7/8 December 14 January

The Collector’s Series Sale World Banknotes Banknotes of Hong Kong and China

New York London Hong Kong

311 11020 12006

Bonds and Shares 15/16 November 16 November 14 January

The Collector’s Series Sale Bonds and Share Certificates of the World Bonds and Share Certificates of Hong Kong and China

New York London Hong Kong

311 11022 12007

Coins 15/16 November 13 December 14 January

The Collector’s Series Sale Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals Fine Coins of Hong Kong and China

New York London Hong Kong

311 11024 12008

Medals 24 November 19 April

Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria

London London

11011 12002

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