A People’s Republic of China group of seven China, People’s Republic, Order of August 1st, Star, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘05907’, with pin-back suspension and riband bar; Order of Independence and Freedom, Star, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘10718’, with pin-back suspension and riband bar, in damaged case of issue; Order of Liberation, Star, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘43336’, with pin-back suspension and riband bar; Military Medal, bronze and enamel, reverse officially dated ‘1954.2.17’, with riband suspension; Liberation of North China Campaign Medal 1950, bronze and enamel, with riband suspension; Liberation of Central and Southern China Campaign Medal 1950, silvered and enamel, with pin-back suspension; Friendship with the Soviet Union Badge, bronze and enamel, with pin-back suspension, enamel damage in places, especially to last, nearly very fine or better, scarce (7) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Sotheby’s, December 1990.
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Croatia, Republic, Order of the Croatian Morning Star, for Culture, breast Star, silvered with gilt centre, with Marki Marulic at centre, in fitted case of issue, with riband bar but lacking miniature award, nearly extremely fine Romania, Socialist Republic, Order of Military Merit, Second Class breast badge, for 20 Years’ Service, silvered and enamel, with riband bar, in fitted case of issue; together with the Bestowal Document named to Lieutenant-Colonel Iulia I. Szirmai, and dated 1968, in scroll holder, good very fine Yugoslavia, Federal People’s Republic, Order of Labour (2), First Class breast Star with Gold Wreath, silver with gilt centre; Second Class breast Star with Silver Wreath, silver with gilt hammer and sickle, retaining pins of both stamped ‘Zin-Kovnica’ (Belgrade Mint), both in cases of issue, nearly extremely fine (4) £60-£80 --- Sold together with a German Third Reich badge for the German Army in Corsica, silvered base metal and enamel, unmarked, with original pin.
France, Republic, Order of the Academic Palms, Knight’s breast badge, 38mm x 27mm, silver and enamel; Medaille Militaire (7), silver-gilt and enamel, all with trophy of arms suspension, significant enamel damage throughout; French Foreign Legion Medal of National Defence, gilt, 1 clasp, Mission D’Assistance Exterieure (2); Medal of Honour for French Railway Workers, silvered, the reverse inscribed ‘Mle. M. Paris, 1943’; Medal of Honour for the French Railways (2), silvered, the reverse inscribed ‘M. Millot 1967’; gilt, the reverse inscribed ‘M. Millot 1977’; together with a number of miscellaneous mainly European medals, badges, and buttons, including an Austrian commemorative medal for the Great War; a Belgian Decoration for Industry and Agriculture; a British War Medal 1914-20 (94515 Pte. C. E .Thompson. Sea. Highrs.); an Allied Victory Medal 1914-19 (29614 Pte. J. Mutimer. Dorset. R.); and a European Union Veterans’ Medal, gilt and enamel, generally very fine and better (lot) £60-£80
Germany, Third Reich, Iron Cross 1939, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, silver frame split in angles; War Merit Cross 1939, Second Class breast badge (3), bronze, one with crossed swords, two without; Long Service Medal, Fourth Class, for 4 Years’ Service, silvered, with eagle emblem on riband; Faithful Service Decoration, Second Class, for 25 Years’ service, silver, in card box of issue; Police Long Service Cross, Second Class, for 18 Years’ service, silver, with original embroidered riband; Winter Campaign Medal 1941-42, zinc; Cross of Honour of the German Mother (3), First Class, 2nd type, gilt and enamel (2), one in case of issue; Third Class, 2nd type, bronze and enamel, generally good very fine (11) £140-£180 --- Sold together with a display of Third Reich Badges, some of which are reproductions, comprising Hitler Youth Sports Award Badge dated 1938; Hitler Youth Jugundfest Badge 1937; a Labour Say Badge 1939; a Military Assault Badge; a Gautag Stuttgart Badge June 1937; two N.S.D.A.P. lapel badges; ansd a D.V.G. Westmark Badge.
Italy, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Knight’s breast badge, gold and enamel, good very fine Spain, Kingdom, Order of Naval Merit, Star, 67mm, gilt and enamel, white cross with surmounted anchor, with retaining pin and two additional support hooks; minor enamel damage to anchor, very fine (2) £80-£120
Poland, Republic, 6th Kaniowski Lancers Regiment Jetton, silver and enamel; 59th Wielkopolski Infantry Regiment Jetton, silver and enamel; Warrant Officer’s Reserve Cavalry School Jetton, silver and enamel; together with a post-Great War Polish Jetton, silver, generally very fine (4) £140-£180
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Order of the Patriotic War, Second Class, 3rd ‘1985 issue’ type, silver and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘1252900’, with Monetny Dvor mint mark and screwback suspension; Capture of Budapest Medal, bronze-gilt; Capture of Koenigsburg Medal, bronze-gilt; Capture of Vienna Medal, bronze-gilt; Capture of Berlin Medal, bronze-gilt; Liberation of Belgrade Medal, bronze-gilt; Liberation of Warsaw Medal, bronze-gilt; Liberation of Prague Medal, bronze-gilt; Medal for Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45, bronze-gilt; Medal for Victory over Japan 1945, bronze-gilt; Medal for Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45, bronze, minor traces of verdigris, generally very fine, the Belgrade medal scarce (11) £200-£300
International, Royal, Celestial, and Military Order of Our Lady of Mercy, breast Star, 89mm, silver and enamel, unmarked, with retaining hook and two additional support hooks; together with the breast star of an ephemeral Religious Order, 67mm, silver and enamel, unmarked, with retaining hook; and four filigree jewellery silver brooches based on the Cross of the Order of Malta, minor red enamel damage to centres of both Stars, otherwise generally very fine (6) £100-£140
A Second War Knight Bachelor’s group of five awarded to Captain Sir Ernest H. Thornton, R.D., R.N.R., Commodore of the Union-Castle Line 1941-47 Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1947, in its Royal Mint case of issue; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. E. H. Thornton. R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. E. H. Thornton. R.N.R.); Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1928, gilt rather worn on the first, very fine, otherwise nearly extremely fine (5) £600-£800 --- Captain Sir Ernest Hugh Thornton, R.D., R.N.R., a former commodore Commander of the Union-Castle Line, died in Kenya at the age of 67, on 24 November 1951. Born in 1884, he went to sea as an apprentice in 1900 in the four-masted barque, Matterhorn. Later he served in the ss. Vinebranch, and upon attaining his certificate as first mate, he joined the Union-Castle Line as fifth officer in the Norman in 1906. During the 1914-18 war he served as a lieutenant, R.N.R., and was in the battles of the Heligoland Bight, the Dogger Bank, and Jutland in the battle-cruiser Lion. In 1919 he rejoined the Union-Castle Line and was appointed to the Balmoral Castle. After serving in various ships of the company as chief officer he was appointed to the command of the cargo steamer Hansa in 1929. Five years later found him in command of one of the intermediate passenger ships and late in 1937 he was appointed to the mail service. His last ship was the Capetown Castle, of 27,000 tons, in which he served from January, 1939, to July, 1946. During this period, in February, 1941, he was promoted to Commodore of the Union-Castle Line fleet, and in 1944 he received the honour of a knighthood for meritorious sea service in the Merchant Navy. He retired in January, 1947, at the age of 63 and in the course of the next year went to settle at N’gong, near Nairobi, on account of his health. He leaves a widow and two daughters. (Obituary refers) Sold with research including confirmation of entitlement to Second War medals including Atlantic, Pacific and Italy Stars.
A Second War C.I.E. group of four awarded to Captain G. L. Vivian, C.S.I., Indian Army Reserve of Officers and Indian Civil Service The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel, with neck riband, minor red enamel damage to extremity of one petal, otherwise nearly extremely fine; British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. G. L. Vivian, I.A.R.O. Attd. 12 Cav.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, very fine and better unless otherwise stated (4) £800-£1,000 --- C.I.E. London Gazette 1 January 1944: ‘Graham Linsell Vivian, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Officiating Chief Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces, and lately Commissioner, Allahabad Division, United Provinces.’ C.S.I. London Gazette 13 June 1946: ‘Graham Linsel Vivian Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, lately Advisor to His Excellency the Governor of the United Provinces.’ Graham Linsell Vivian was born on 1 August 1887, the son of Richard Thomas Vivian of Roseville, Winchmore Hill North. He was educated at Epsom College, from where he won a open classical scholarship to Selwyn College Cambridge. Appointed after examination to the Indian Civil Service in 1910, he arrived in India, 25 November 1911, and served in the United Provinces as Assistant Magistrate and Collector and Assistant Settlement Officer in October 1916 and Joint Magistrate in June 1917. He then took leave from the civil service while serving as a Captain in the Cavalry Branch of the Indian Army Reserve of Officers from 13 September 1917 (London Gazette 25 January 1918). Vivian returned to the Indian Civil Service in the United Provinces in 1919 following military service and was assigned special duties at Lucknow from October 1922 to February 1923. Appointed Settlement Officer in October 1923, he served for one year until appointed Officiating Magistrate and Collector in October 1924. Confirmed in July 1928. Vivian was briefly appointed Officiating President, Court of Wards, from February to November 1935, and was appointed Commissioner, Allahabad Division, United Provinces from 1941 to 1943. He was Officiating Chief Secretary to the Governor of the United Provinces, 1943-44, receiving recognition in 1944 when he was created a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire. He served as Advisor to the Governor of the United Provinces until retirement in 1946 for which services he was further rewarded, this time as a Companion of the Star of India. He died at Hastings on 18 February 1978 at the age of 91. Sold together with an Epsom College Propert Prize Medal, 1867, a bronze award medal by J. S. & A. B. Wyon, bust of John Propert left, rev. legend in and around wreath, 57mm, edge impressed (G. L. Vivian, 1906.)
A rare ‘Rhodesia 1896’ D.S.O. group of nine awarded to Brigadier-General R. H. F. McCulloch, C.M.G., Royal Artillery, who remained with his gun after having been wounded in the attack on Skimbo in August 1896 Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar converted for mounting; British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (Lieut. R. H. F. McCulloch. R.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901 (Capt: R. F. H. McCulloch, D.S.O., R.G.A.) last letter of surname officially corrected; 1914 Star, with clasp (Major R. F. H. McCulloch. D.S.O. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Brig. Gen. R. F. H. McCulloch.); Italy, Kingdom, Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus, Officer’s breast badge, gold, silver-gilt, and enamel, with rosette on riband; France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Officer’s breast badge, gold and enamel, with rosette on riband; Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917, mounted court style for display, nearly extremely fine (9) £4,000-£5,000 --- One of only 7 Distinguished Service Orders awarded for this campaign, this being unique to the Royal Artillery. D.S.O. London Gazette 7 May 1897: ‘In recognition of services in the recent operations in South Africa, 1896.’ Italian Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus London Gazette 12 September 1918. French Legion of Honour London Gazette 13 February 1917. French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 17 August 1918. Robert Henry Frederick McCulloch was born in October 1869 and joined the Royal Artillery in 1888, receiving promotion to Lieutenant in 1891. He commanded a section of 10 Mountain Battery, R. A., during the Matabeleland operations of 1896, was slightly wounded, Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the D.S.O. In his report, Major-General F. Carrington stated that McCulloch ‘worked his gun with great coolness and steadiness when the enemy were in force within 50 yards of him in the attack on Sikimbo on 5 August 1896. He remained with his gun after having been wounded.’ McCulloch's section had been operating in co-ordination with a force of men raised by the British South Africa Company. He had already witnessed a great deal of fighting during the advance on Bulawayo, which culminated with the capture of the Matabele strong holds in the Matoppo Hills. The incident referred to in Major-General Carrington’s report was probably the biggest of the campaign, five Impis being attacked by a combined Imperial Force of 800 men. The enemy were completely routed. However, at the outset of the action, when McCulloch and another gunner subaltern were ordered to detach themselves from the main force, and set up position on a ridge, the fast moving Matabele swept in for the kill, creeping up gullies under the cover of the bush. But for the prompt actions of McCulloch and his compatriot, it is probable the detachment would have been wiped out. Promoted to Captain in 1899, McCulloch served throughout most of the Boer War as D.A.A.G. on the lines of communication in Cape Colony. He afterwards became a Divisional and Militia Adjutant and held the rank of Major by the outbreak of hostilities in 1914. Picked out for command of heavy artillery, he held several senior positions, ultimately as Brigadier-General, Heavy Artillery, 11 Army Corps, France. He was created a C.M.G. in 1918, was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 15 June 1916 and 30 May 1918) and was decorated by the French and Italians. He retired in 1921 and died in Hayling Island, Hampshire, on 16 October 1946.
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O., M.C. group of five awarded to Brigadier-General F. S. Thackeray, Highland Light Infantry, attached Royal Dublin Fusiliers and West Riding Regiment, who was five times Mentioned in Despatches during the Great War, and later served as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Lincolnshire Regiment, and Commander, Shanghai Area, British Troops in China Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt: F. S. Thackeray. High: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Brig. Gen. F. S. Thackeray.) mounted court-style, light contact marks, very fine (5) £2,800-£3,200 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1917. M.C. London Gazette 23 June 1915. M.I.D. London Gazettes 17 February 1915; 22 June 1915; 4 January 1917; 24 May 1918; 28 December 1918. Frank Staniford Thackeray was born in Cardiff in 1880, the son of a stockbroker, and was educated at Charterhouse and Oriel College, Oxford, where he was also a keen golfer. He joined the University’s Officers Training Corps and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry on 4 December 1901. Advanced Captain on 18 December 1912, he served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914. Wounded in early 1915, he was twice Mentioned in Despatches within the first year of War, as well as being awarded the Military Cross, and in July 1915 he was seconded for service as Brigade Machine-gun officer. Thackeray was promoted to temporary Major, before being attached to the 9th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers as Lieutenant-Colonel in March 1916 for some eighteen months. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in the New Year's Honours’ List of 1917, and was Mentioned in Despatches a third time in February of that year. Next attached to the 7th Battalion, West Riding Regiment as Lieutenant-Colonel in November 1917, shortly afterwards he was Mentioned in Despatches for a fourth time. Subsequently attached to the 20 (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry for two months, July to August 1918, before returning to the 7/West Riding Regiment, he was a Brigadier Commander (temporary Brigadier-General) by the time the war ended, and received a fifth Mention in Despatches in December 1918. After a brief spell with the 6th and 15th Battalions, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, from April to August 1919, he was subsequently appointed Chief Instructor at the Junior Commanders School at Strensall from August to December 1919. In April 1920 Thackeray was appointed Brigadier Major, London District, a post he held until October of 1921, helping to organise the Territorial Force. He became a Colonel in 1923 enjoyed a year’s secondment in India from 1926 to 1927, before taking-up his next role as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Lincolnshire Regiment in June 1927. This he clearly enjoyed as there are many references to him in the Lincolnshire newspapers, organising and appearing at various social events. In November 1931 he was selected to command the 138th (Lincolnshire and Leicestershire) Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army. He also had his image included in the National Portrait Gallery in London in December 1931. Thackeray’s final military appointment was as Commander, Shanghai Area, British Troops in China, a posting he held from July 1933 to March 1936, and for which job he was granted the temporary rank of Brigadier and appointed an Aide de Camp to the King. He retired in August 1936, and was granted the rank of Honorary Brigadier General. He returned home and settled with his wife in Minehead in Somerset. There was clearly still a little bit of ‘commanding’ left in him, as in May 1938 he was appointed as the new Scout Commissioner for West Somerset. He died in Winchester in August 1960. Sold with a large quantity of copied research, including various photographic images of the recipient.
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel V. C. Sandilands, 2nd Battalion, Scottish Rifles Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top ribbon bar; 1914-15 Star (Capt. V. C. Sandilands. Sco: Rif:); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. V. C. Sandilands.) mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £1,200-£1,600 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1917. M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January and 15 June, 1916; 4 January 1917. Vincent Corbett Sandilands was born on the 6 February 1878, the son of Edwin Charles Sandilands and his wife Alice Faber. He was baptised at St Peter & Paul in Saltwood in Kent on the 8th March 1878. He was educated at St Andrew’s School in Bradfield, Berkshire, and was first commissioned into the Scottish Rifles on 16 February 1898; Lieutenant, 3 May 1899; Captain, 20 May 1903; Major, 1 September 1915. He served in France and Belgium with the 2nd Battalion from 17 March 1915 to 5 November 1916, from 20 February to 6 June, 1917, and from 8 October 1917 to 5 November 1918. Lieutenant-Colonel Sandilands commanded the 2nd Battalion from 18 September 1915 to 5 November 1916; was commandant Divisional School from 27 February to 25 March, 1917; again commanded the 2nd Battalion from 10 April to 6 June, 1917, and from 8 May to 5 November, 1918. Lieutenant-Colonel Sandilands retired in 1924, and died at Brighton on 1 April 1961. Sold with extracts from the regimental history with numerous mentions of Sandilands.
A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ D.S.O. group of ten awarded to Major G. E. O. De Smidt, Indian Telegraph Department, later Royal Engineers and South African Corps of Signals Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with unofficial top suspension brooch, pin lacking; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Abor 1911-12 (Asst. Supdt. G. E. O. de Smidt Telg. Dept.); 1914-15 Star (Mr. G. E. O. Desmidt, Ind. Telgph. Dept.; British War and Victory Medals (Major G. E. O. Desmidt.); War Medal 1939-45 (289698 G. E. De Smidt) officially impressed; Africa Service Medal (289698 G. E. De Smidt) officially impressed; Delhi Durbar 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these last three unnamed as issued, the first with chips and repairs to both centres, nearly very fine or better (10) £1,200-£1,600 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 25 August 1917: ‘For distinguished service in the field in Mesopotamia. Temporary Captain Gerald Ewald Overbeek De Smidt, Royal Engineers.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 15 August 1917 and 5 June 1919. Gerald Ewald Overbeck de Smidt was born in 1885, son of Abraham de Smidt and Hermine Overbeek. He is believed to have served during the Second War as Lieutenant-Colonel with the South African Corps of Signals.
An inter-War O.B.E. group of five attributed to G. R. Storrar, Esq., Chief Engineer, Sudan Government Railways The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt hallmarks for London 1927; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, Fourth Class breast badge, silver, gold, and enamel, with silver mark and mint mark to reverse, and rosette on riband; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp, unnamed as issued; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, 2nd issue, 1 clasp, Darfur 1916, unnamed as issued, these four mounted court-style as worn and housed in a Spink, London, case; Defence Medal (Mr. G. R. Storrar.) contemporarily impressed naming, minor red enamel damage to Medjidieh, otherwise good very fine (5) £500-£700 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 4 June 1928: George Ronald Storrar, Esq., M.B.E., Chief Engineer, Sudan Government Railways. M.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918: George Ronald Storrar, Esq., Divisional Engineer, Soudan Government Railways. George Ronald Storrar served in the pre-War period as an Assistant Engineer with the Sudan Government Railway, and for his services was awarded the Ottoman Order of the Medjidieh, Fourth Class (London Gazette 9 May 1911). He remained in the service of the Sudan Government throughout the Great War, and took part in the operations against the Sultan of Darfur, for which he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 25 October 1916) and awarded the Egyptian Order of the Nile, Fourth Class (London Gazette 31 August 1917). For his services during the Great War he was also created a Member of the Order of the British Empire. Advanced Chief Engineer in the inter-War period, Storrar was advanced O.B.E. and was awarded the Egyptian Order of the Nile, Third Class (London Gazette 5 August 1925). Retiring to the U.K., he was subsequently commissioned Second Lieutenant, General List, on 11 March 1941.
A post-War O.B.E., Great War ‘Salonika’ M.C. and Serbian Order of the White Eagle group of six awarded to Second Lieutenant L. B. Greaves, South Wales Borderers, late Royal Fusiliers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (P.S.2720 Pte. L. B. Greaves, R. Fus.) middle initial officially corrected; British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. L. B. Greaves.); Serbia, Kingdom, Order of the White Eagle, 2nd type, Fifth Class breast badge, with crossed swords, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, very fine and better (6) £1,600-£2,000 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 8 June 1950: ‘For missionary educational services in the Gold Coast’. M.C. London Gazette 1 February 1919: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on 25th September 1918, during the ascent of Point 1472. He led the advance of the mountain scouts over the precipitous and thickly wooded ground, and when within 1,500 yards of the objective silenced enemy rifle and machine-gun fire with the help of Lewis guns, and continued to advance. His skill and judgement contributed greatly to any success achieved by his battalion. As battalion Intelligence Officer, he has previously done good work on patrol duty.’ Serbian Order of the White Eagle, Fifth Class with Swords London Gazette 16 January 1920. Lionel Bruce Greaves was born in Cardiff in 1895, and won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1914, but in November of that year attested for the 21st (4th Public Schools) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 November 1915, and later as a Lance-Corporal in the 17th Battalion Royal Fusiliers. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the South Wales Borderers on 4 August 1916, he served with the 8th Battalion in Salonika. After a spell in hospital with Malaria in November 1917 he recovered, and on 25 September 1918, the 8th Battalion, as part of 65th Brigade, with the 67th Brigade in support, was ordered to attack Point 1472 near Lake Doiran. Lieutenant Greaves and the battalion scouts rushed a rocky knoll which was believed to be Point 1472 but was nearly 1000 yards N.W. of it. The regimental history continues: ‘This position was quickly made good, despite considerable opposition from riflemen and machine guns, which Lieutenant Greaves’ skilful handling of his Lewis guns soon overcame’. For his bravery and leadership in action, Greaves was awarded the M.C. and Serbian Order of the White Eagle. In civilian life Greaves had a keen interest in the church and missionary work and between 1922-1932 was Vice-Principal of the Wesley College, Kumasi, (Gold Coast), Ghana. During the period he wrote many articles and several books on Faith and Central Africa. For another five years he was a supervisor at various Methodist Schools in Africa, then Educational Advisor to Non-Roman Missions in East Africa until 1947, when he returned to management of Methodist Schools. In 1946 he had survived a plane crash, when the small plane he was travelling in was forced to land in the bush and he and the other passengers and pilot had to wait several days to be rescued. Between 1947-1950 he was General Manager of Methodist Schools, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in June 1950. He returned to the UK with his family in the mid-1950’s and continued his writing and research. After living in London for some time, his family emigrated to New Zealand, where he died in 1984. Note: The recipient’s Medal Index Card notes that the recipient’s 1914-15 Star was initially issued named ‘L. V. Greaves’, and was returned in September 1921 to be corrected to ‘L. B. Greaves’. Sold with copied research.
A post-War O.B.E. group of nine attributed to Colonel A. A. Duncan, Welsh Guards; a keen sportsman, he played First Class cricket for Glamorgan, and captained the Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup golf team in 1953 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1977, unnamed as issued; Belgium, Kingdom, Order of Leopold II, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver and enamel, French motto, with bronze palm on riband; Croix de Guerre, L.III.R., bronze, with bronze palm on riband, mounted as worn, enamel damage to motto on Leopold II, otherwise good very fine (9) £400-£500 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1959. Belgian Order of Leopold II and Croix de Guerre London Gazette 25 September 1947. The original Recommendation states: ‘Major A. A. Duncan was Brigade Major, 231 Infantry Brigade, from July 1944 to February 1945 during which time he had to issue many orders and instructions for important, fast, and long advances in face of enemy opposition which necessitated him being under fire for long periods. On 2 September 1944, the Brigade arrived at Arras, having advanced from Amiens on the same day. On arrival orders had to be got out for the advance of the Brigade Group (mechanised) to Brussels, a distance of 90 miles. This entailed a great deal of work and organisation to get all units rested and re-fulled and tactically disposed. Hardly had this been planned when the 1st Belgian Brigade Group came under command. Late at night very strenuous efforts had to be made to get sufficient supplies of all kinds (petrol, food, and ammunition) in order that the Brigade Group could carry out its task early the next morning so that both British and Belgian Groups were able to reach the outskirts of Brussels the next evening despite heavy fighting. This great triumph was greatly due to the magnificent staff-work, tack, drive, and courage of Major Duncan, who later became Brigade Major, 6th Guards, Armoured Brigade, and completed the victorious advance of this Brigade to its final objective in Germany.’ Anthony Arthur ‘Tony’ Duncan was born in Cardiff on 10 December 1914, the son of Newspaper Proprietor, John Duncan. Educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, he was a successful schoolboy batsman, scoring 58 and 94 against Marlborough at Lord’s in 1933, and played three First Class matches, two for Glamorgan, and one for Oxford University. However, it was as an amateur golfer that he made his name, and was awarded a Blue in each of his three years at Oxford, later winning the Army Golf Championship at Princes in 1937 and Muirfield in 1938. The Welsh Amateur Championships came his way, as well as a place in the international team for the annual amateur home nations championship. In May 1939 he reached the final of the British Amateur Championship at Hoylake, Liverpool, losing to Alexander Kyle of Scotland. Whilst at Oxford, Duncan joined the Officer Training Corps and at the end of his studies proceeded to Sandhurst, from where he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Welsh Guards in 1936. Initially on the outbreak of war, Duncan found himself on home duties. In 1941 he was appointed adjutant to the 2nd Armoured Brigade, Welsh Guards, later joining the 231 (Malta) Infantry Brigade in Normandy in June 1944 as a Brigade Major. In July of 1944 he was part of Operation Market Garden as part of XXX Corps, which struck from Belgium through Holland towards the bridge at Arnhem. His organisational work during the period July 1944 to February 1945 came to the notice of the Belgian allies and he was made a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold II (with palm) and awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre with palm. Duncan was in the thick of most of the actions as Brussels was retaken, then into 1945 with actions at Haversum, Kassel and Hassum amongst others before returning to the UK in March. Duncan later became Brigade Major to 116 Royal Marine Brigade, then after the war to 6/Guards Tank Brigade. Between 1947-50 he was regimental adjutant, Welsh Guards. In 1947 he commanded a parade at Windsor Castle with the 2/Welsh Guards and was advanced to Major in 1948. Duncan continued to play top-level amateur golf through the post war years and in 1953 was chosen as the captain of the Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup Golf team to play the United States of America in Massachusetts. He later acted as a judge in many major golf tournaments around his home area of Surrey, and on one occasion incurred the wrath of Jack Nicklaus. Between 1950-53 Duncan was an instructor at the Staff College, Camberley, then later became non-NATO staff officer to the chairman of the British defence staffs in Washington DC, including being secretary of the British delegation to the Military Staff Committee of the United Nations. During 1956-58 he was manager for the rebuilding of the new Guards Chapel at Wellington Barracks, as well as Chelsea and Knightsbridge Barracks. He also fulfilled the role of Assistant Quarter Master General for the London District between 1957-1960, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year’s Honours’ List of 1959. Advanced Colonel in June 1960, Duncan was later Army representative to the RAF Staff college at Bracknell, and between 1968-1970 he was commandant of the Nuclear, Biological & Chemical Warfare School. He retired in 1970, but remained at the Staff College in Camberley until 1979. He died in Farnham, Surrey, on 3 January 1998. Sold together with the recipient’s Bestowal Document for the O.B.E.; Central Chancery enclosure for the O.B.E.; named Certificates for the Coronation and Jubilee Medals; the recipient’s Officers Training Corps Certificate; a group photograph and a photographic image of the recipient; a gold Staff Officer’s Baton, E.II.R.; the recipient’s riband bar and various buttons and rank insignia; various newspaper obituaries; and a large quantity of copied research, the majority dealing with his golfing exploits. For the recipient’s brother’s medals, see Lot 418.
A post-War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Matron Miss Mildred F. Hughes, President of the Royal College of Nursing 1944-46 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type badge, silver; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Voluntary Medical Services Medal, with two Additional ‘Geneva Cross’ Award Bars (Miss Mildred F. Hughes) mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s British Red Cross Society State Registered Nurse Badge, gilt and enamel, nearly extremely fine (5) £240-£280 --- Miss Mildred F. Hughes trained at the Evelian Hospital for Children, and at Guy’s Hospital, London, where she subsequently held several residential posts. She was President of the Leicester Royal Infirmary Nurses’ League, and was employed as a Matron at Leicester Royal Infirmary during the Second World War. She was President of the Royal College of Nursing from 1944 to 1946.
The Great War R.R.C. attributed to Sister Miss Dorothy Jones, Territorial Force Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue, gilding slightly rubbed, nearly extremely fine £300-£400 --- R.R.C. London Gazette 9 April 1919: Miss Dorothy Jones, Sister, T.F.N.S., 1st S. Gen. Hosp., Birmingham. Sold with a photographic image of the recipient.
Matthew Norman, a modern carriage clock: the eight-day duration movement having a platform lever escapement and striking the hours and half-hours on a bell with a push button to the top allowing a repeat of the last hour at will, the backplate stamped with the various Matthew Norman markings and serial number 1751, the white enamel dial with black Roman numerals, blued steel moon hands, a subsidiary alarm setting dial and stamped Matthew Norman, the gilded-brass corniche case with matching handle, height 18cm up, 15cm down
Charles Frodsham London, a contemporary 20th century carriage clock: the eight-day duration, timepiece movement having a platform lever escapement with the white enamel dial having black Roman numerals and signed Charles Frodsham, London, with an engraved filigree gilded mask and blued steel spade hands, the anglaise case with fluted pillars and matching handle, height 14.5cm handle up, 12.5cm handle down.
A French quarter-striking carriage clock: the eight-day duration movement having a silvered platform lever escapement and striking the hours and each quarter of an hour on two gongs with a push-button repeat sounding the last hour and quarter, the white enamel dial having black Roman numerals and blued steel cruciform hands, the brass Anglaise case with fluted columns and moulding and with a matching scroll handle, height 19cm handle up, 15cm handle down.* NOTE - this lot also includes a leather travelling case together with a key.* Notes The quarter-chiming work is not operating correctly and requires attention.
A French Victorian carriage clock: the eight-day duration movement having a platform lever escapement and striking the hours and half-hours on a gong with a push button to the top allowing a repeat of the last hour at will, with alarm, the backplate stamped with the serial number 4217 and hand setting arrow in a form used by Couaillet Frères, carriage clock makers of Saint Nicolas d'Aliermont, the white enamel dial having black Roman numerals, blued steel moon hands, a subsidiary alarm dial and signed Examd. by Webster, Queen Victoria St. London, the gilded brass corniche case variant with canted corners and a fluted handle, complete with leather case, height 17cm handle up, 14cm handle down.
An Edwardian French brass carriage clock: the eight-day duration timepiece movement having a later platform lever escapement, with alarm on a bell, the white enamel dial having black Roman numerals, blued steel spade hands and a subsidiary alarm dial, the pillared case having a three-bail handle, contained in a leather travelling case, height 11.5cm handle down, 13.5cm handle up.
Japy Freres, Paris, an ormolu mantel clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half-hours on a bell with the backplate stamped with the trademark, Japy Freres, Grande Medaille d'Honneur, Exposition 1855, the white enamel dial having black Roman numerals and blued steel hands, the ormolu case with c-scroll decoration, height 29cm.
De Lisle à Paris, a large boulle bracket clock with matching bracket: the eight-day duration movement having vase shaped pillars, a silk-suspension and striking the hours and half-hours on a bell situated within the pediment top with an outside countwheel, the backplate engraved in large flowing script De Lisle à Paris, the cast-brass decorative dial with individual enamel plaques having black Roman numerals and blued steel hands, the waisted boulle case of brown tortoiseshell with engraved brass inlay repeated to the inside door and floor, with ormolu female-head and floral mounts to the corners, nymphs at play to the front and surmounted by child with dove, the front having a glazed panel through which the sunburst pendulum bob is visible, with a matching wall bracket, height 64cm, bracket 23cm.*Notes Jean De Lisle is recorded as working in Paris in the mid-18th century, firstly at Rue du Marché-Neuf where he published 'Méthode sur la construction d'un gnomon pour réguler une pendule de soleil.'*Notes Reference Tardy Dictionairre des Horlogers Francais Paris.
A French boulle mantel clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half-hours on a bell with the backplate numbered 23180, the cast brass dial having individual white enamel plaques with blue Roman numerals and blued steel cruciform hands, the waisted boulle case of brown tortoieshell inlaid with engraved brass to the front and sides, having a glazed front aperture to view the sunburst pendulum bob and surmounted by a cast-brass finial, on c-scroll cast-brass feet, height 31cm.
A French bronze and ormolu Pendule au Sauvage mantel clock: in the style of Jean-Simon Deverberie, having an eight-day duration timepiece movement with a silk suspension, the round engine-turned gilded dial having a white enamel chapter ring with black Roman numerals and blued steel moon hands, the ormolu case having a bronze figure of a huntress holding a bow and arrow with a quiver of arrows to her back, wearing a gilded skirt and with inset glass eyes, standing beside a water flagon and dead game bird lying on a bale and with a gilded palm tree to the side, the oval base with an applied bronze floral mount to the front, height 25cm.*Notes This style of clock first came to fruition in the late-18th century and was very much influenced by the writings of authors including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and manufacture coincided with the abolition of the slave trade in France with the Convention Decrete in 1793. Various forms of this clock were produced at this time, often using the same figure, but with different themes. One example swaps the palm tree for an anchor and has the figure leaning on a bale, whereas another is known showing the figure pouring a sack of coffee into a barrel which takes the place of the bale with the more elaborate models having further bronze figural mounts with more elaborate settings.* Notes Reference Pierre Kjellberg 'Encyclopedie de la Pendule Francais' Pub. Les Editions l'Amateur Paris 1997, pages 342-359.
A set of six George V silver novelty cocktail sticks, maker James Dixon & Sons Ltd, Sheffield, 1928: with tapering stems, the terminals in the form of cockerels heads, 8cm. long, cased, together with another set of six silver and enamel cocktail sticks with cockerel terminals on tapering stems, cased (2).
James McCabe, Royal Exchange London. A silver cased, half hunter pocket watch: the chain fusee movement having a three bar balance to the lever escapement, the three quarter back plate engraved 'JAS.McCabe Royal Exchange London 17727' the white enamel dial similarly signed and with subsidiary seconds dial, case diameter approximately 43mm diameter, together with key.
A collection of antique jewellery items: to include an enamelled gold, ruby and moonstone pendant with ultramarine enamel and central moonstone drop, a gold mounted tortoiseshell cheroot holder in case, an Etruscan-style silver brooch, three various gem-set rings, fifteen various brooches, two stick-pins, a seed-pearl mounted oval pendant on seed-pearl necklace and a jade bead single-string necklace together with various jewellery boxes.
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