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A German Third Reich army dagger, the 25.5cm double edged blade inscribed "Wer night hat frevd am blanken schwert am falkenflvg am stolzen fperd am schoenen weib der hat kein richtig herz im leib", having a silvered cross guard, orange plastic grip and oak leaf pommel, in a silvered sheath with two suspension rings and hanging straps, 39.5cm overall.
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Oberleutnant Albrecht Bischof signed RAF AD39 Shuttleworth collection cover. Variant by Hans Rossbach. No 11 of 15. Born 7-5-1896. Pioneer and WW1 pilot. From 1916-1917 he was a crew member of army airships LZ72, LZ93, LZ113 and LZ120 ( Lehmann) in 1918 he was trained as a pilot. Includes 3 photos , of which one is a portrait, 1 taken before WW1 on his glider at Rhon 1913 and other showing him behind his machine gun on the defence platform of LZ120. Good condition Est. £10-15
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RFM Lachhiman Gurung VC, 4th Battalion 8th Ghurka Rifles Indian Army Signed, Brooklet Card # 36 50th Anniversary Ww-2 FDC. Twice He Hurled The Japanese Grenades Back At Them. The Third Exploded And Blew Off His Hand And Blinded Him In The Right Eye. Despite His Wounds He Kept Firing His Rifle And Was Personally Responsible For The Death Of 30 Of The Enemy. He Had To Use L.M.N.G. VC. As His Signature. Good Condition Est £20-36
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Signed RAF cover collection 2: Collection of over 60 RAF, Navy and other Military covers, a few celebrity signed but almost all signed, we note several RAF official FDC’s cat £10-15 each and notable names such as Rantzen, Holden, Berlin Airlift, Battle of Britain signed, Sir Alan Outram, RAF Falcons and a large number of senior RAF/Army officers!-EST £25-50
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Henry Hardinge 1837 free font. British soldier and administrator. (30 March 1785-24 September 1856) was a British Army officer and politician. After serving in the Peninsula War and the Waterloo Campaign he became Secretary at War in Wellington's ministry. After a tour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1830 he became Secretary at War again in Sir Robert Peel's cabinet. He went on to be Governor-general of India at the time of the First Anglo-Sikh War and then Commander-in-Chief of the Forces during the Crimean War. Good condition Est £10-15
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Frederic Thesiger Chelmsford signature piece. (31 May 1827-9 April 1905) was a British Army officer best known for his commanding role during the Anglo-Zulu war. The centre column of his forces was defeated at the Battle of Isandlwana, an unanticipated victory for the Zulu and the British army's worst ever defeat from a technologically inferior indigenous force. He would avenge his defeat at the Battle of Ulundi which ended the Zulu campaign. Good condition Est £5-10
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BUSBY BABES Six programmes for representative games in which Busby Babes were selected, Army v FA XI 04/11/1953 at Newcastle (Byrne), FA XI v Army 03/11/1954 at Hillsborough (Taylor, Viollet), FA XI v RAF 10/10/1956 at Hillsborough (Colman), The Army v Ireland 20/11/1957 at Leeds (Charlton), Football League v League of Ireland 12/11/1958 at Anfield (McGuinness) and Football League v League of Ireland 04/11/1959 at Blackburn (Viollet). some minor faults. Generally good
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WARTIME PROGRAMME 1946 Scarce single sheet programme, Combined Services (Germany) v Norwegian Army, 20/10/1946 at Dusseldorf Stadium. Autographed by both teams and the Combined Services team who won 6-0 included Cowan (Morton), Martin (St Mirren), Mills (Huddersfield), Rickaby (Middlesbrough), Parsons (West Ham), Baily (Spurs), and Billy Steele who scored four of the six goals, Baily got the others. All 22 players plus a few others have signed the programme. Good
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WARTIME PROGRAMME Single sheet programme/schedule for the Inter Allied Football Competition held in Germany. Participants consisted of Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, USA, France and The Netherlands. The teams were divided into mini-Leagues with the winners of the four groups advancing to a Semi-Final knock out stage, the Final to be held in Berlin. The sheet is signed by the Danish Army team (14 signatures). Folds. Generally good
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WARTIME DINNER Six page paper Football Dinner menu note for the FA XI v Rhine Army XI, Hannover, 13/11/1946 at 125 Transit Camp. Signed by the players from both sides, signatures include Ted Bates (Southampton), Mullen (Wolves), Spencer (Chelsea), Lewis (Cardiff), Parsons (West Ham), Rickaby (Middlesbrough) , Powell (QPR) etc. Slight folds. Generally good
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ARMY INTERNATIONAL Scotland v England played at Hampden Park 28 Oct 1944 in aid of Army Charities. Very rarely were war time matches played at Hampden. Four page issue, number written in ink on front, scores/scorers noted in pencil on line-up page. England team included Swift and Sproston of Man City, Mercer and Lawton of Everton, Elliott and Kinsell of WBA etc. The Scotland team included Busby and Fagan of Liverpool, Macaulay of West Ham etc. Generally good
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WAR TIME FOOTBALL Representative match played 5 Feb 1944, British Army v Civil Defence, at Baseball Ground, Derby. Four page issue, horizontal fold, slight marks, number written on front cover. Noted players include Dix, Hagan, Mullen, Leslie Compton, Carter, Worrall etc. Fair/Generally good
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WAR TIME FOOTBALL Four page programme for Representative match, F.A XI v The Army, 9 Dec 1944, played at Bradford Park Avenue, players included Busby, Mercer, Barnes, Shackleton, Broome, Smith, Foss etc. The game ended 1-1. Folds, number written on front, team changes/scorers noted, slight marks. Fair
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SCOTTISH 1960s Collection of 150 plus Scottish club programmes, all 60s, wide variety of clubs including Celtic, Rangers, Hibs, Motherwell, Aberdeen, Dunfermline etc. Programmes are spread throughout the decade and examples include, Celtic-Rangers XI v Moscow Dynamo 65/6, Hibs v Third Lanark 64/5, Airdrie v Third Lanark 65/6, Morton v Metz 64/5, Brechin v Hibs 62/3 (Cup) and v Dundee 63/4 (Cup), Dundee v Motherwell 60/61, Hearts v British Army 61/2, and v Celtic 61/2 (Cup), Dundee v Rangers 60/61 (Cup), Hibs v Rangers 62/3 (SLC) and Berwick v Rangers 66/7 (Cup). Condition varies from Fair to good, some folds, scores etc. Fair-generally good
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AN ANGKOR WAT HEAD OF A DEITY, PROBABLY VISHNU Cambodia, second half 11th century grey sandstone, wearing elaborate flared crown and conical headdress, the decoration and face with incised details, mounted on Welsh slate stand 22cm high excluding standFor a complete figure in closely related style from Siem Riep, see Madelein Giteau, Khmer Sculpture, Thames and Hudson, London, pl.37 Provenance Bruckmann Collection, London, Acquired in 1960s. (A valuation of this sculpture for insurance purposes prepared by Spink and Son in June 1969 on behalf of Mr. Bruckmann is included with this lot) Collection of the Late Bruno Cooper 2011-2012 Thence by descent (See footnote to lot 138) Peter Bruckmann was born in 1918. After university he joined the army and was dispatched to Shanghai, but in 1942 he was captured by the Japanese and held as a POW for the remainder of the war, although he was later awarded the rank of Captain for distinguished service.He took great interest in art and antiques and in fact was related to the Kroller Muller family in Holland, whose collection is now housed in a world renowned museum. His first purchases of Indian, South East Asian, and New Guinea objects date back to the early 1960s and he was frequently in touch with Philip Goldman (Gallery 42), Phillip Wengraf (the Arcade gallery) and the flamboyant collector and defrocked priest, Dominique de Grunne. Peter enjoyed collecting and visiting the salerooms and he became a patron to several contemporary artists. He was a highly successful businessman, running a brickworks until his retirement in the 1980s. His house in Spain was filled with paintings and sculpture, and he lived there with his partner, Coralie until his death on the 10th June 2010 aged 92.
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Hilliard Collection of ephemera, medals etc Hilliard (David Thomas George, of Royal Army Ordnance Corps ) Collection of ephemera, medals etc. relating to service in the Great War and the Second World War, ephemera including: Soldier's Service and Pay Book, 1944; Handbook of the Austin W.D.3 Ton Lorry, n.d. ; For Your Guidance: What To Do on Leaving the Service, n.d. [1940s], medals including: The France and Germany Star; The 1939-1945 Star etc.; and a quantity of others, including an enamelled ?match case (unopened) with the insignia of the RAOC, some silk souvenir scarves, all housed in a Victorian wooden box, brass plaque "Helene" on upper cover, lock and key present, 2 pieces of wood broken off, some wear, v.s., v.d., 1919-40s (qty).
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Germany, Third Reich, mounted group of six: Iron Cross 1939 Second Class, War Merit Cross Second Class, Fire Service Decoration Second Class, Air Defence Medal, Faithful Service Crosses (2) , First and Second Classes,, mounted for wearing, very fine; together with a Pair, comprising Army Long Service type 1 Third and Fourth Class medals, also mounted for wearing, extremely fine (8)
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U.S.A., Purple Heart and Bronze Star Group of Eleven awarded to Specialist 5th Class David R. Hoyt, 52nd Signal Battalion U.S. Army, comprising Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Army Commendation Medal with four oak leaf clusters, Humanitarian Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Achievement Medal with two oak clusters, Defense Medal with Star, Vietnam Service Medal with 2 bronze stars, Good Conduct Medal with bar, South Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, with laurel leaf, and South Vietnam campaign medal, first in case of issue with related lapel fitting, very fine and better; together with the recipient’s , discharge papers, three original certificates for the Purple Heart, Bronze Star and Army Commendation Medal, two Signal Battalion badges and 30 photographs taken by and of him during his tour of duty in Vietnam (lot)
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*Peninsular War: a contemporary copy of a gold clasp for the Battle of Orthes for attachment to the Army Gold Medal or the Peninsular Gold Cross, good very fine; together with an oval card portrait of a British officer, early 19th Century style and wearing a Baronet of Nova Scotia badge, in a gilt and glazed frame (2)
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*Waterloo 1815, an Honorary Waterloo medal presented to H.R.H. Prince Frederick, Duke of York who, though not personally present at the Battle was Commander-in-Chief of the Army in 1815, officially impressed (The Master of the Mint to H.R.H. The Comm. in Chief), steel clip and split ring suspension, numerous surface and edge marks and pits and perhaps fire-damaged, about very fine. A number of Honorary Waterloo medals are known, generally with naming citing The Master of the Mint and usually without suspension, although the steel clip on the Duke of York’s example appears to be original and might perhaps have been specified in the C-in-C’s case. The Master of the Mint was the energetic William Wellesley Pole, the Duke of Wellington’s elder brother, who supervised the enormous task of preparing over 36,000 silver medals which were, for the first time, individually named using a specially-adapted machine previously used for coinage. PRINCE FREDERICK, DUKE OF YORK AND OF ALBANY, EARL OF ULSTER, K.G., G.C.B., G.C.H. was the second son of George III and, until his death in 1827, heir to the throne of his brother George IV. During a long and, in a number of respects, distinguished military career there were also unsuccessful campaigns, personal setbacks and scandals. Popularly the ubiquitous Grand Old Duke of York… nursery rhyme is said to have been created (or, more probably, re-created) in mockery of his command in the Flanders Campaign of 1793-4, and he was later afflicted by omnipresent gambling debts. He resigned his post as Commander-in-Chief in 1809 before being reinstated (by his brother, the Prince Regent) in 1811 and his statue, at least, was accorded a place in Waterloo Place in London, where it still stands. Formerly ex John Tamplin Collection, Dix, Noonan & Webb, 20 Sept. 2002 (lot 13).
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Great War Medals to two brothers: (i) Alexander Sandilands, East Yorkshire Regiment attached South Wales Borderers, 1914-15 Star trio (590 Pte. A. Sandilands. E. York. R.) and Memorial Plaque (Alexander Sandilands); (ii) George Henry Sandilands, Royal Engineers, B.W.M. and Victory pair (36733 Sapr. G.H. Sandilands. R.E.); together with a Borough of Kingston Upon Hull white metal Coronation medal 1902, extremely fine or better (7). ALEXANDER SANDILANDS was killed on 9 June 1917 and is buried in Fins New British Cemetery. Offered with the lot are a Memorial Scroll and Buckingham Palace slip, Army form B104-82 notifying Alexander’s mother of his death, forwarding slips for Alexander’s 1914-15 Star and British War and Victory medals, Fins New British Cemetery and Thiepval Memorial poster, Imperial War Graves Commission letters (3), including one containing a photograph of the original Battlefield Cross, newspaper obituary, recent photographs of the cemetery and grave, Certificate of Transfer to Reserve for George Henry Sandilands and a P.O.W. letter sent from Gustrow camp by Lance Corporal George Richardson, 11th East Yorkshire Regiment, who later married into the family.
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Omani and British Group of Five awarded to Staff Sergeant J. P. Hall. 17/21st Lancers, attached Sultan of Oman’s Forces, Oman Peace Medal with crown on ribbon denoting Operational award, 15th National Day 1985, Campaign Service Medal 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24041273 Cpl. J.P. Hall 17/21 L.), U.N. Medal for Cyprus, Army Long Service and Good Conduct, Elizabeth II (Sgt.), mounted for wearing, extremely fine, offered with copied articles from the White Lancer and Vedette giving details of S. Sgt. Hall’s service in Oman (5)
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*The C.B., C.M.G. and Boer War Group awarded to Colonel R.J.S. Simpson, R.A.M.C., comprising: The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion’s neck badge, in silver-gilt and enamels; The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George, Companion’s neck badge, in silver-gilt and enamels; Order of St John, Officer’s breast badge, in plain silver; Queen’s South Africa, 3 clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, engraved (Major R.J.S. Simpson. R.A.M.C.); King’s South Africa, 2 clasps South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, engraved (Major R.J.S. Simpson. M.B., C.M.G., R.A.M.C.); Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued, good very fine to extremely fine (6). C.B.: London Gazette: 4 June 1917; C.M.G.: London Gazette: 27 September 1901; M.i.D.: London Gazette: 27 July, 1917: ‘For valuable services in connection with the War’. The lot is offered with the following original documents, photographs and other items: Commission as Surgeon in the Army Medical Department, 3 February 1883; United Grand Lodge of Freemasons, certificate on vellum, 1883; Three letters of congratulation and recommendation, 1890-91; Grant of Dignity of a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, dated 27 September 1901; Official Notice of Appointment to the Order of St Michael and St George, Downing Street, dated 20 November 1902; Grant of Dignity of a Companion of the Order of the Bath, dated 4 June 1917; Notice of Mention in Despatches (on 27 July 1917), printed date 1 July 1919; Three pairs of khaki, uniform and dress uniform epaulettes, with Order of the Bath buttons and crowns, a gilt belt buckle and cap badge; A reprint of Simpson’s Modern Hygrometry (from the R.A.M.C. Journal, May 1923); Several obituary notes, including one in a copy of the University of Edinburgh Journal, Summer 1932. ROBERT JOHN SHAW SIMPSON, M.B., C.B., C.M.G. joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1883 and was in India before becoming Assistant Surgeon at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 1891-96. From 1896-99 he served at Pietermaritzburg and on the outbreak of the Boer War organised the hospital at Wynberg, later becoming Secretary to the Principal Medical Officer. According to his obituaries he was Mentioned in Despatches for the Boer War as well as being appointed C.M.G. (in 1901). Following retirement in 1913 he rejoined on the outbreak of the Great War to take command of the Royal Herbert Hospital and was rewarded with the C.B. He died in November 1931 at the age of 73. See also following lot.
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*A Burma Distinguished Service Order Pair awarded to Major Thomas Henry des Voeux Wilkinson, 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade: Distinguished Service Order, Victoria, in gold and enamels, and India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps Burma, 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Lieut. & Adj J.H.D.V. Wilkinson, 1st Bn. Rifle Brig.), D.S.O. in case of issue, extremely fine, I.G.S. good very fine (2). D.S.O. London Gazette: 25 November 1887: ‘For services in Burma.’ Mention in Despatches: London Gazette: 2 September 1887: ‘Lieutenant Wilkinson, Rifle Brigade, has done most excellent service as Superintendent of Signalling in the 6th Brigade. His activity and energy were witnessed by his Excellency the Commander-in –Chief in India, and Brigadier Low speaks in the highest terms of the tact and courage displayed by him in working out the system of signalling station, which has been crowned with such success.’ The lot is offered with the following additional items: Rules for Army Signallers Volumes I and II, American Baptist Mission Press, Rangoon 1887, written by Wilkinson, an original studio portrait photograph, a riband bar, and the original case for the 1897 Diamond Jubilee medal (which Wilkinson was awarded on 22 June 1897, shortly before his promotion to Major on 5 September in the same year).
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Family Group: Queen’s South Africa, no clasp (919 Corpl. E.J. Holmes, P. Elizabeth T.G), with 40th Anniversary of the Occupation of Matabeleland bronze commemorative medal, 1933; The Reverend Cecil Frederick Joy Holmes, D.S.O., Army Chaplains Dept., Territorial Force, Distinguished Service Order, George V, in case of issue, with two Oxford University Boat Club prize medals in silver and bronze, the silver engraved Keble College Clinker Fours 1897 and with crew’s names including Holmes’s; Probationary Nurse Gertrude Eirene Holmes, M.B.E., South African Military Nursing Service (wife of C.F.J. Holmes, D.S.O.), Order of the British Empire, Civil Division, Member’s badge, in case of issue, with bow for wear by Ladies and bilingual Victory Medal (P. Nurse G.E. Holmes), with related riband bar including M.i.D., and badges; and Lieutenant Charles W. T. Holmes, R.A. (son of F.J.H. and G.E. Holmes), ribbon bar for 1939-45 and France and Germany Stars, R.A. cap badge, original Army in India Identity Card and Military Motor Vehicle Driving Licence, generally extremely fine, offered with copied research (lot). CECIL FREDERICK JOY HOLMES: D.S.O.: London Gazette: 6 September 1918: “For distinguished and gallant services rendered on the occasion of the destruction or damage by enemy action of Hospital Ships, Transports and Storeships.” Also entitled to Légion d’Honneur, Chevalier: London Gazette: 17 August 1918. GERTRUDE EIRENE HOLMES: M.B.E.: London Gazette: 14 January 1921; M.i.D.: London Gazette: 31 January 1919 (E.A.F.)
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*The C.B.E. and Burma M.C. Group awarded to Major P.H. ‘Val’ Meadows, who operated for several months behind Enemy Lines as Intelligence Officer and was additionally twice Mentioned in Despatches, Seven: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Civil Division, type 2, Commander’s neck badge in silver-gilt and enamels, by Collingwood, in case of issue with neck riband and instructions for wearing, with Warrant dated 1 January 1963; Military Cross, dated 1945, privately engraved (Major P.H. Meadows. Burma), in case of issue, with original forwarding slip, now card-backed (12th Frontier Force Regiment Indian Army); 1939-45 Star, Burma Star, Defence and War Medals, with M.i.D., with forwarding box; Singapore, Meritorious Service Medal, in silver, officially engraved (Mr. P.H. Meadows 9.8.89), in case of issue; Brunei, Order of Loyalty to the State of Brunei, Fourth Class breast badge, in bronze-gilt and enamels, by Spink & Son, in case of issue, generally extremely fine (7) Offered with the following additional items: Original recommendation for the Military Cross, from which the following is taken: 15 Nov 1944, T/Capt Percey Herbert Meadows, ARAKAN, Aug.-Nov. 1944. ‘Capt Meadows, B.I.O., has been intimately concerned with force “BOLSTER” since its inception at PONRA (PM 352284) six miles down the NAF river south of MAUNGDAW. It was designed to act as a patrol and ambush base in “no mans land”, and to restore the morale of the villagers who were suffering from Jap oppression and atrocities. The results have exceeded expectations; upwards of 120 Japs have been killed at very small cost, invaluable information has been obtained, confidence has been restored and hundreds of acres of paddy are now ready for harvesting. Capt Meadows has been largely responsible for these impressive achievements. He was responsible for coordinating the recce policy, and personally took part in many of the ambushes. A man of great personal courage and endurance he has lead small parties deep into enemy territory to obtain information, and his exploits have been many and daring causing bewilderment and uneasiness among the Japs. His personality and dealings with the villagers have had a noticeable morale raising effect, which has resulted in much more reliable and varied information being brought in, and he has made contacts that will be invaluable when operations begin. His work and initiative throughout have been outstanding, and he has shown a complete disregard for his personal safety in carrying out his task. He is fully deserving of the award for which he is recommended.’ Original Commanding Officer’s report and recommendation dated January, 1947; Karachi Aero Club ‘Wings’; Full statutes of the Order of the British Empire, with official named correspondence to accompany the C.B.E. Warrant; Several photographs and a copy of the Daily Telegraph’s obituary, 1 August 1997. PERCIVAL HERBERT MEADOWS, known during his career as both ‘Perc[e]y’ and ‘Val’, was born in 1919 and educated at Wye College (where he qualified in tropical horticulture), and later (after the war) at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and at SOAS. He worked on a coffee plantation in Kenya and a tea plantation in Ceylon before enlisting with the Lincolnshire Regiment following the outbreak of the Second World War. He won the Combined Services Welterweight Boxing Championship before being posted to India, where he received an emergency commission in July, 1941. Serving with 8th Battalion, 12th Frontier Force Regiment, initially on the Northwest Frontier, he went on to Intelligence training in Karachi while also finding time to gain his pilot’s licence in a Gypsy Moth. As Brigade Intelligence Officer with the 74th Indian Infantry Brigade he served in Arakan (see M.C. recommendation), subsequently transferring to the 3/2nd Gurkha Rifles where he commanded a detachment and also became Station Commander. His C.O. in the Gurkhas later wrote (January 1947): ‘Due to his ability in all spheres and his initiative I had complete confidence in the efficiency of the detachment at all times. Shrewd in his calculations he is a most able organiser and administrator... …this officer is outstanding and I strongly recommend him for appointment to a regular commission and in particular for employment in intelligence duties’. Following the war Meadows joined the Malayan Civil Service but volunteered for active service at the outbreak of the Emergency, when his Burma experience proved invaluable. 1949 found him in Macao from where, as Honorary British Consul, he sent back to London intelligence reports on the Chinese Revolution. His next posting was to Singapore where he became Deputy Permanent Secretary (with Special Duties) in the office of the Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew; the two became trusting and loyal friends in a valuable, sometimes moderating relationship which continued well after Independence. Meadows was appointed C.B.E. in the 1963 New Year Honours list and is also entitled to the Efficiency Medal (not found); he died in Norfolk in July 1997 at the age of 78.
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*The Sicily Military Cross Group awarded to Captain Stanley Charles ‘Bombs’ Panter, Parachute Regiment, who was later captured at Arnhem and recommended for a Bar to his M.C., Nine: Military Cross, dated 1943, privately-engraved (Capt. S.C. Panter Parachute Regt.), together with an unconfirmed and undated bar for second award; 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with 1st Army clasp, Italy Star, France and Germany Star, Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1953, privately engraved (Major S.C. Panter Royal Fusiliers); Territorial Efficiency Decoration, reverse dated 1955; with Netherlands, Battle of Arnhem bronze honorary medal, 59.5mm, engraved (Capt. S.C. Panter Para. Regt.), this in Gerritsen van Kempen card box of issue; good very fine or better, offered with much original documentation, related items and memorabilia (see below) (lot). M.C.: London Gazette: 23 December 1943: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and initiative in action. On the 14th of July 1943. The officer was in company with a part of the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment which had been dropped on the Catania Plain in Sicily, to secure the high ground South of the River Simeto. On two occasions this officer led small parties to deal with enemy machine-gun positions that were menacing the Battalion’s flank, on each occasion he succeeded in capturing the machine guns and killing or capturing the crews. Later this officer single-handed captured an enemy howitzer together with ammunition, and himself organised a gun crew from the men of the battalion and directed the fire from this weapon on to the enemy. Throughout the action he displayed great courage under heavy fire and complete contempt for danger.’ Territorial Efficiency Decoration: London Gazette: 25 February 1955. The lot is offered with the following: Two ‘dog tags’ (octagonal and circular), both named SC PANTER 165617 LIEUT CE; gun-layer’s badges (2), in gold braid and khaki; anti-tank and crown (2) badges in khaki; a trident badge; riband bar representing MC (with bar) and Panter’s first three Stars; and two (unmatched) Captain’s dress ‘stripes’; A Medjez El Bab skull-and-crossbones pennant, 1942;Sequence of photographs of the first parachute drop (by Panter) made from an American Dakota using a British parachute; Original telegrams and letters, including telegram to Fusilier Panter dated 25 August 1939 “Join 9 RF.” and various correspondence advising Mrs Panter that her husband was missing, 25 Sept. 1944 and later; Nine original personal greetings telegrams, circa 1937-41;Ticket for Buckingham Palace Investiture, 18 April 1944; Two original PoW Camp identity documents, both with photographs (one illustrated); Panter’s 112-page ‘Wartime Log’ (approx.. 100 pages filled), prepared during his time as a Prisoner-of-War and including: his interesting detailed personal account of Operation “Market” [sic], capture at Arnhem, interrogation, escape during a bombardment and subsequent recapture; “S” Company, 2nd Parachute Regimental roll and Memorial; numerous watercolours, sketches and drawings by Panter and some others, including views of Arnhem and Oflag 79; and cuttings, poems, other contributions, tickets, prison camp stamps, personal records, etc.; Memorabilia from Arnhem Commemoration and Memorial, September 1947;A 10th Bn. (T.A.) Parachute Regt. ‘Visitors Falling Plate’ runner-up medal, 1960, 38mm; International Police Association membership card with photograph, 1961; Newspaper cuttings, two pencil portraits and two portrait photographs, and photocopied research; A German photograph, taken after Panter’s capture and subsequently published in Germany, of his kit and equipment (clearly showing his name, with related 1996 correspondence). STANLEY CHARLES “BOMBS” PANTER, born in Warwickshire on 5 September 1909, joined the 9th (2nd City of London) Royal Fusiliers as a private soldier just before the outbreak of War in August, 1939, having previously been an active member of the Territorial unit based in Balham High Road, Tooting, South London. He fought in France and Belgium, was evacuated and granted an emergency commission as 2nd Lieutenant on 28 December 1940. In late 1941 Panter volunteered for the 1st Parachute Brigade shortly after its formation, and by July 1942 he was commanding an experimental airborne platoon nicknamed “Panter’s Pirates” before a formal transfer to the Parachute Regiment is recorded as having taken place on 1 August. He served in Tunisia, including Medjez El Bab, and as part of Operation Torch led a successful operational jump with parachute mortars over Tunis in December, 1942 (when he seems to have gained the sobriquet ‘Bombs’ for the first time). He was in Italy from September 1943 to 1 May 1944 before dropping with the A Company in Sicily (Operation Husky), and was awarded an immediate M.C. for Catania Plain. Panter landed near Arnhem on the afternoon of Sunday 17 September 1944 as T/Capt., Officer Commanding Support Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion and was closely involved in the capture and defence of the Arnhem Road Bridge under Frost, based at “Company HQ” to the north of the bridge where they held out until capture by the Germans on Thursday 21st. As Panter was wounded he was sent to a makeshift hospital but succeeded in obtaining boots and a revolver, and walked out of the building during Allied shellfire on the night of the 21st. Unluckily he did not get far, walking straight into a German patrol beside the river, and he was recaptured. Like many Arnhem prisoners he was sent initially to Stalag XIIA at Limburg before transfer to Oflag 79 (Brunswick), via Oflag XIIB; Oflag 79 was as it happened the former home of a German parachute regiment and was to be liberated by the U.S. Ninth Army on 12 April 1945. After the war Panter served with the Territorial Army until 1959, receiving the Territorial Efficiency Decoration in 1955, and he also joined the City of London Special Constabulary. He evidently wore an unofficial bar to his M.C. for Arnhem but it should be reiterated that although he was recommended for this by his unit it was not confirmed at Divisional - or, perhaps, ‘suits’ - level. Stan Panter died 0n 20 April, 1968.
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*Finland, Order of the Lion of Finland, Military Division, Grand Cross set of insignia, by Tillander, Helsinki, date mark 1943, comprising sash badge, in silver-gilt and enamels, width 54.5mm, and breast star, in silver-gilt and enamels, extremely fine and very rare, with sash (2).. Offered with a ticket attributing the award to LIEUTENANT-GENERAL ALAJOS BÉLDY, Hungarian Army, in 1944. According to Jani Tiainen, Suomen Kunniamerkit, only 12 Military Grand Cross sets of the Order were awarded, with the majority were bestowed upon foreign recipients.
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A pair of First World War medals, War and Victory, awarded to Captain J W Heekes of the Royal Army Medical Corps, together with indentures and certificates from pre-war positions including surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital, London, an obituary and a German Iron Cross medal stamped 1815 and 1939
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