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A 19TH CENTURY FRENCH CHAMPLEVE ENAMEL MANTEL CLOCK with turned finials and striking mechanism, the movement stamped 'Mougin', 11 1/2" high x 2 5/8" dial diameter

A FRENCH MARBLE AND GILT METAL CLOCK GARNITURE DE CHEMINEE, the enamel dial marked ‘A la pomme d’or’ – A Martin, 64 Boulevard Sebastopol, Paris, on later giltwood bases, 15 ½” high

Four: Private J. C. Collett, King’s Royal Rifle Corps 1914-15 Star (A-1357 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (A-1357 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.); France, Medaille Militaire, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, obv. re-enamelled; rev. with enamel damage, other medals good very fine (4) £50-70 Private Joseph C. Collett entered the France/Flanders theatre of war with the K.R.R.C. on 8 June 1915. He later served with the Machine Gun Corps and was discharged and awarded the Silver War Badge. Medaille Militaire not confirmed. Sold with copied m.i.c. £50-£70

Five: Colour Sergeant W. Phillips, King’s Royal Rifle Corps and M.O.D. Police, captured by the Germans at Calais 1940 general Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6843855 Cpl., K.R.R.C.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (6843855 Sjt., K.R.R.C.), mounted court style for wear; Police Long Service, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Const. William E. Phillips) minor contact marks, good very fine and better (6) £180-220 sergeant William E. Phillips, K.R.R.C., was captured by the Germans at Calais and was held as a prisoner-of-war at Lamsdorf. sold with some biographical details and copied photographs. Also with an ‘Indian Football Association Calcutta’ Medal, silver and enamel, rev. inscribed, ‘1933’. £180-£220

The Second World War C.B. and Great War` D.S.O., M.C. group of ten awarded to Major-General T. N. F. Wilson, King’s Royal Rifle Corps the Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar, obv. centre a little depressed; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Major); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf; Coronation 1953, unnamed, all except first mounted court style as worn; together with a mounted group of ten miniature dress medals, generally good very fine (20) £3000-3500 d.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘Captain, 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps’. m.C. London Gazette 13 February 1917. ‘Lieut. (Acting Captain), K.R.R.C. ‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. He reorganised a few men and led them forward with great gallantry, capturing an enemy trench together with 60 prisoners.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 9 July 1919, 20 December 1940. thomas Needham Furnival Wilson was born on 20 March 1896 and educated at West Downs, Winchester; Winchester College and R.M.C. Sandhurst. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 11 November 1914. Wilson served in the France / Flanders theatre of war, February - May 1915 and October 1915 - November 1918 and was wounded. He was promoted Captain in February 1917 and held the rank of Acting Major in September 1917 and Adjutant, M.G.C., April - September 1918. During the period December 1917 - April 1918 he was employed as an Instructor in the 5th Army Infantry School. For his wartime services he was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, awarded the Military Cross and Mentioned in Despatches. Wilson was employed as G.S.O.3 in the War Office, January 1931 - March 1932, Commander of the Company of Gentleman Cadets, R.M.C., March 1932 - January 1935, D.A.A.G. War Office, February 1936 - January 1938, during which time he received the brevet of Major, January 1932, was promoted Major, July 1932, received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel, January 1936 and was promoted to that rank in August 1938. Commanding the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. during 1938-39, he gained the rank of Colonel in January 1939 and as Acting Brigadier, December 1939 - June 1940 he served as a Brigadier Commanding in the British Expeditionary Force and Northern Command, December 1939 - December 1940 for which he was mentioned in Despatches. wilson served on the General Staff Home Forces, December 1940 - July 1941 and then on the General Staff in Washington, July 1941 - March 1943. During this time he held the rank of Temporary Brigadier, June 1940 - March 1944, Acting Major-General, March 1943 - March 1944 and attained the rank of Temporary Major-General in March 1944. For his wartime servives he was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1946. He retired from the Army with the Honorary rank of Major-General on 1 April 1946 and died on 15 May 1961. sold with the recipient’s commission document appointing him 2nd Lieutenant in the K.R.R.C., dated 11 November 1914; M.I.D. document dated 16 March 1919; D.S.O. bestowal document, dated 3 June 1919; a copy of the D.S.O. statutes; C.B. bestowal document and accompanying letter, dated 10 June 1946; together with copied research and photographs. £3000-£3500

A Great War C.M.G. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. J. Long, King’s Royal Rifle Corps the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, rev. centre slightly depressed; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Lushai 1889-92 (2d Lieut., 4th Bn. K. Rl. Rif. Corps); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, Orange Free State, Cape Colony (Captain, K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Capt., K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (Major, K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed, mounted for wear, first three medals with some contact marks, nearly very fine and better (8) £1200-1400 wilfred James ‘Linger’ Long was born in 1871, the son of Rear-Admiral Samuel Long. He was educated at Winchester. Commissioned into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, he served in the Burmese Expedition of 1891-92, including operations in the Chin Hills with the Lushai column (One company of the 4th Battalion K.R.R.C. present). As a Captain he saw fighting in the Second Boer War, being present in the relief of Ladysmith, the actions at Tugela Heights, Pieter’s Hill, Laing’s Nek, Belfast and Lydenberg. For his services he was twice mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901, 29 July 1902) and awarded the Queen’s medal with six clasps and the King’s medal with two. In the Great War, he commanded the 3rd Battalion K.R.R.C. in Salonika, for which, in 1916, he was awarded the C.M.G. In June 1918 he was placed in command of the 1st Battalion in France, and on 23 June he suffered from the effects of a gas attack at Quesnoy Farm. For his services during the war he was three times mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 22 Jue 1915, 1 January 1916, 21 July 1917) and received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was placed on Retired Pay in 1920. Latterly living at Maytree, Josephine Avenue, Lower Kingswood, Surrey; he died on 24 May 1954. in an obituary, a brother officer wrote, ‘‘Linger’ was a sound and practical soldier. He was never afraid of expressing his opinion, however unpopular, preferably to those in authority over him; and he was usually right. He was never very particular about his appearance or dress, which was rarely according to regulations. ....’Linger’ played no games, never shot, rode very seldom, never seemed particularly genial, yet was always extremely popular, especially with us younger officers. ...’ sold with copied research including several extracts written by Long for the K.R.R.C. Chronicle. £1200-£1400

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel G. K. Priaulx, 11th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who, having been seriously wounded in 1914 and in 1915, was killed in action leading his battalion, 24 March 1918 distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Capt. K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Capt., K.R.R.C.); 1914 Star with clasp (Capt., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.), mounted on pad for display; Memorial Plaque (George Kendall Priaulx), in card envelope, Q.S.A. and K.S.A. with contact marks, very fine; others extremely fine (7) £2400-2800 d.S.O. London Gazette 18 June 1917. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when in command of his battalion. With the utmost confidence and determination he fought his battalion through the village, overcoming all obstacles and gaining his objectives. He set a magnificent example throughout’. m.I.D. London Gazette 10 September 1901, 23 June 1902; 21 December 1917. george Kendall Priaulx was born on 15 September 1877 and educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the 60th Rifles on 22 February 1898 and promoted to Lieutenant on 21 October 1899 and Captain on 22 January 1902. Serving in the Boer War, he was present at the relief of Ladysmith, the battles of Colenso, Spion Kop, Tugela Heights and Laing’s Nek. After peace was declared he served with the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. in India. With the onset of the Great War, he went to France in August 1914 and was dangerously wounded during the battle of the Marne in September 1914. Recovering, he returned to France, and in command of the 2nd Battalion he was again severely wounded at the battle of Loos in September 1915. In 1916, he was in command of the 11th Battalion, which captured the village of Metz and he was present at the operations near Langemarck, CrevecÏur and Cambrai. He was killed in action on 24 March 1918, aged 40 years, at Voyennes in the St. Quentin offensive, being first shot through the shoulder and then killed by a shell. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial. a Staff Officer at the H.Q. 18th Corps wrote, ‘On March 24th, 1918, when we were particularly hard pressed, his Battalion was making a very plucky stand at Voyennes, near St. Quentin; he was hit throught the shoulder and a few minutes later was killed by a shell. I need hardly tell you what a tremendous loss he was to the Division. His Battalion loved him and would have followed him anywhere. A splendid C.O. .... he did not seem to know what fear was’. sold with copied research and copied photographs. £2400-£2800

A Great War C.B.E. group of eight awarded to the Rev. Canon J. G. W. Tuckey, late Chaplain 1st Class to the Forces and Honorary Chaplain to the King the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (Rev., C. to F.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Rev., C. to F.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Rev., A.C.D.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Rev.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, together with a set of related dress miniature medals, the first with slightly chipped enamel work, the Boer War awards with officially re-impressed naming, the 1914 Star gilded, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise generally very fine (16) £800-1000 C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. mention in despatches London Gazette 16 April 1901 (South Africa); 19 October 1914; 22 June 1915 and 1 January 1916. james Grove White Tuckey was born in June 1864, the second son of Dr. Charles Caulfeild Tuckey, and was educated at King’s School, Canterbury and Trinity College, Oxford, and later studied at Heidelberg. A lecturer at Durham University from 1893 to 1895, he was ordained in the same period and appointed Chaplain of University College and of St. Margaret’s, Durham. in 1895, however, he became a Chaplain to the Forces, serving first at Aldershot and then at York, whence he was embarked for South Africa on the outbreak of hostilities in October 1899. Subsequently one of just five Chaplains present at Elandslaagte, Lombard’s Kop and the defence of Ladysmith, and afterwards in the actions at Laing’s Nek, Belfast and Lydenburg, he was advanced to Chaplain 3rd Class and mentioned in despatches. Then from 1902-04 he did duty at Middleberg in the Transvaal, before coming home to an appointment at Caterham. Senior Chaplain at Woolwich Garrison by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he quickly went out to France as Senior Chaplain, 4th Division, shortly thereafter transferring to III Corps and thence to the 2nd Army in 1915. Appointed Assistant Chaplain-General, Rouen Area, in 1916, later in the year he returned home to Southern Command, in which capacity he was still employed at the War’s end. He was thrice mentioned in despatches, awarded the C.B.E. and appointed Honorary Chaplain to the King. having then been placed on the Retired List as a Chaplain 1st Class in 1923, Tuckey briefly served as Honorary Chaplain to the Bishop of Salisbury before being appointed Church of England Representative on the Interdenomination Advisory Committee at the War Office in 1935. He had, meanwhile, also been appointed Canon Residentiary of Ripon, in which capacity he remained employed until 1945. He died in October 1947, leaving a daughter, his wife having pre-deceased him and his only son John having been killed in action on the Somme as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 13th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment in August 1916. £800-£1000

Four: Surgeon W. Y. Jeeves, Royal Artillery, late 38th Foot crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, these two both unnamed as issued; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Asst. Surgn. W. Y. Jeeves, 11th Bde. Rl. Art.); Legion of Honour, Knight’s 5th class breast badge, silver, gold and enamels, all fitted with silver ribbon buckles and mounted in a contemporary carved wood frame, the last with enamel damage, otherwise toned, good very fine (4) £1000-1200 sold with 3 original commissions as Assistant Surgeon to the Forces (1 August 1856), Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Artillery (9 January 1857), and Surgeon to the Forces (21 November 1864); two letters of thanks for services in the Crimea, one signed by Sir John Hall, Inspector General of Medical services in the Crimea; and three portraits of the recipient’s father, John Jeeves of Sheffield, one particularly fine in oils on card and contained in a contemporary carved wood frame. william Younge Jeeves was born at Sharrow Grange, Yorkshire, in February 1829, and was appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the 38th Foot on 7 April 1854. He served in the Eastern Campaign of 1854-55, including the battles of Alma, Inkermann and siege of Sebastopol, seeing service in the trenches, and also took part in the assault and capture of the cemetery, 18 June 1855, for which he was mentioned in despatches (Medal and three clasps, Turkish Medal, and Knight of the Legion of Honour). major-General Eyre’s despatch stated ‘Assistant Surgeon Jeeves of the 38th, whilst exposed to a most galling fire, having exerted himself in the field in attending to the wounded in so zealous and humane a manner as to call forth special notice’. jeeves was appointed on the Staff in August 1856, and to the Royal Artillery in January 1857, subsequently seeing service with the 11th Brigade R.A. during the Indian Mutiny. He became Surgeon in November 1864, was appointed to the 2/25th Foot in 1865, and retired on half-pay in 1872. Surgeon William Jeeves died at Northallerton, Yorkshire, on 7 March 1875. £1000-£1200

Five: Private W. J. Carr, Army Ordnance Corps, late Imperial Yeomanry queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (32584 Corpl., 101st Coy. Imp. Yeo.); 1914-15 Star (O4998 Pte., A.O.C.); British War and Victory Medals (O4998 Pte., A.O.C.); together with a French, Medaille Militaire, silver, this lacking any enamel, very fine (5) £140-180 Medaille Militaire not confirmed to Carr. £140-£180

Seven: Leading Seaman A. E. Wright, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (J. 22192 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J. 22192 A.B., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; War Medal 1939-45, together with a R.A.O.B. badge, gilt and enamel, the reverse named and dated May 1923, heavily lacquered, otherwise generally very fine (8) £40-60 Albert Edwin Wright was born in Tenbury in July 1895 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in January 1913. An Ordinary Seaman serving aboard the battleship H.M.S. Ajax by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he came ashore to an appointment in Vivid I in May 1915 and removed to the cruiser Duke of Edinburgh in September of the latter year. He was subsequently present at Jutland, when the Duke of Edinburgh was the only ship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron to survive the battle. Having then returned to another shore appointment in August 1918, he remained in the service after the War and transferred to submarines in November 1926. His service record further confirms his entitlement to the L.S. & G.C. £40-£60

Four: Sergeant H. G. Lang, Devonshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (7715 L. Cpl., Devon R.); British War and Victory Medals (7715 Sjt., Devon R.); French Medaille Militaire, reverse of suspension neatly inscribed ‘7715 Sergt. H. G. Lang’, mounted as worn, some enamel damage to last, otherwise very fine or better (4) £200-250 French Medaille Militaire London Gazette 15 December 1919. herbert George Lang first served in the French theatre of war on 2 February 1915 and was discharged in consequence of wounds on 13 September 1918. £200-£250

Family group: four: Gunner R. Aveley, Royal Marine Artillery 1914-15 Star (R.M.A. 6320 Gr.); British War and Victory Medals (R.M.A. 6320 Gr.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (6320 Gunner, R.M.A.) four: Corps Superintendent R. J. Aveley, St. John Ambulance Brigade order of St. John, Officer, silver base metal and enamel, some enamel damage; Order of St. John, Serving Brother, silver and enamel; South Africa Medal for War Service 1939-45, unnamed; St. John Service Medal, 3 clasps (S.A.58R. J. Aveley, 1949), silvered base metal, very fine and better (8) £140-180 Robert Aveley was born in Baldock, Hertfordshire on 19 October 1878. A Harness Maker by occupation, he enlisted into the R.M.A. at Bedgord on 12 October 1896. During the Great War he served as a Gunner aboard the battleship Erin, August 1914-September 1917, being present on the ship at the battle of Jutland. Sold with copied service paper. robert Joseph Aveley joined the Port Elizabeth branch of the S.J.A.B. on 29 June 1936. He was awarded the Service Medal in 1949, with clasps for 1954, 1959 and 1964. He was admitted to the Order of St. John as a Serving Brother on 22 May 1957 and promoted to Officer on 10 June 1964. Aveley was appointed Divisional Officer of the 1st Port Elizabeth City Ambulance on 17 August 1955, Divisional Superintendent on 7 December 1955 and Corps Superintendent on 4 January 1959. Sold with copied service papers. £140-£180

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel R. H. James, Northern Pioneers british War and Victory Medals (T. Capt.); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R. (Major R. H. James, N. Prs.), complete with brooch bar, in Royal Mint case of issue; Canadian War Service Badge, (159199), bronze and enamel screw-backed badge, extremely fine (4) £220-260 Sold with Canadian Certificate of Military Qualification, dated 21 & 22 April 1915, having passed the prescribed examination for the rank of Captain; Warrant, appointing Reginald Heler James to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Northern Pioneers; War Service Badge Certificate, confirming badge ‘159199’ to ‘R. H. James’ of the ‘C.R.T.D.’; a medal forwarding slip; riband bar, and with a section of The Northern News, of Kirkland Lake, Ontario, dated 6 August 1937, in which a speech given by Colonel Jameson on the history of markets ‘from the time of Adam’ is recorded. £220-£260

Pair: Bombardier T. E. Shubart, Royal Garrison Artillery general Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Iraq, N.W. Persia (219951 Gnr., R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (1414841 Bmbr., R.A.); Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Badge, gilt and enamel (T. E. Shubart), with ‘Egypt’ top bar, first fine; others good very fine (3) £100-140 Sold with copied m.i.c. £100-£140

A rare Great War Egypt and Palestine operations C.B., C.M.G., Boer War ‘Edward VII’ D.S.O. group of twelve awarded to Major-General Sir Michael Bowman-Manifold, Royal Engineers, whose distinguished career spanned extensive service in the Sudan campaigns 1896-98 as Staff Officer Telegraphs and one of Kitchener’s R.E. ‘Band of Boys’ - and having his horse shot from under at Firket - through to senior command in the Great War as a Director of Signals of both the Mediterranean and Egyptian Expeditionary Forces, which latter appointments included active service in Gallipoli and Palestine: other than the fact his private journals and letters of the Sudan period are extensively quoted in relevant histories, he published his own account of the campaigns in Egypt & Palestine 1914-18, in which he acknowledges the assistance given him by Lawrence of Arabia the Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G. Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, E.VII.R., silver-gilt and enamel; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Lieut. M. G. E. Manifold, R.E.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Capt. M. G. E. Bowman-Manifold, D.S.O., R.E.); 1914 star, with clasp (Major M. G. E. Bowman-Manifold, D.S.O., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Brig. Gen. M. G. E. Bowman-Manifold); Turkish Order of Osmanieh, 4th class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Turkish Order of Medjidie, 4th class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; French Legion of Honour, Officer’s breast badge, gold and enamel; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 5 clasps, Firket, Hafir, Sudan 1897, The Atbara, Khartoum (Lieut. M. G. E. Manifold, R.E., Dongola 1896) original mounting as worn, enamel work chipped in places, severely so on the Osmanieh badge, otherwise generally very fine (12) £8000-10000 C.B. London Gazette 4 June 1917: ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with Military operations in the Field’. c.M.G. London Gazette 11 April 1918: ‘For distinguished services in the field in connection with Military operations culminating in the capture of Jerusalem.’ D.S.O. London Gazette 27 September 1901: ‘For services during the recent operations in South Africa’. michael Graham Egerton Bowman-Manifold was born in June 1871, the son of a Surgeon-General, and was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in February 1891. the Dongola Expedition 1896 advanced to Lieutenant in February 1894, he commenced a lengthy span of service in Egypt and the Sudan, on attachment to the Egyptian Army, in November 1895, and served as Staff Officer of Telegraphs in the Dongola Expedition of 1896, when, as one of eight R.E. subalterns present at the commencement of operations, he became one of ‘Kitchener’s Band of Boys’ - indeed his subsequent services are the subject of frequent mention in Colonel E. W. C. Sandes’ famous history of these R.E. operations: ‘The story of how a few subalterns of the Royal Engineers carried a railway and telegraph up the Nile towards Dongola in 1896 is a record of many dangers and hardships and most strenuous endeavour ... They had youth, courage and endurance, and to these they added unswerving devotion to their work and unstinted admiration of their leader, Kitchener, both as a soldier and an engineer ... Manifold played a lone hand in Telegraphs. Buoyed up by enthusiasm, and untrammelled by red tape, the ‘band of Boys’ accomplished, time after time, the seemingly impossible.’ One of Manifold’s first actions was to rapidly extend the telegraph to Akasha, which place was taken in March 1896, an exercise that henceforth included suitable collaboration with the R.E’s railway construction parties, a point noted by Winston Churchill in his classic, The River War: ‘As the railway had been made, the telegraph-wire had, of course, followed it. Every consignment of rails and sleepers had been accompanied by its proportion of telegraph-poles, insulators, and wire. Another subaltern of Engineers, Lieutenant Manifold, who managed this part of the military operations against the Arabs, had also laid a line from Merawi to Abu Hamed, so that immediate correspondence was effected round the entire circle of rail and river.’ Yet if normal engineer duties were the order of the day, Kitchener ensured his eight-strong R.E. ‘Band of Boys’ reverted to a military role in the case of operational forays, acting as gallopers to Brigade Commanders, forays that became known to them as ‘weekends at the front’. And in Bowman-Manifold’s case, his first weekender proved to be the storming and capture of Firket on 7 June, an action which he later recorded for posterity’s sake, and one in which his horse was shot from under him: ‘The long, snaky column of troops crawled along until 4.30 a.m., when we got on to a plain about three-quarters of a mile wide. Firkey Mountain, a very scarped rock, was on our left, and the Nile on our right ... I had plenty of hard riding, some of it very difficult. At first we moved along very quietly. Then a horse neighed and I heard Hunter say, ‘That’s given the show away,’ but apparently it did not alarm the outposts for another ten minutes elasped before we were fired on ... Men and horsemen were running about, waving flags and firing. The rattle of fire from both sides was deafening, and soon our men began to get hit ... Houses in the village were soon ablaze, and the Egyptians kept advancing continuously ... All along the river was a thick grove of palm-trees with houses under them, and here very heavy fighting took place. My horse was hit at about 250 yards range. A party of horsemen attempted to charge out from behind the houses, but never reached more than 50 yards ... I started back at 5 p.m. with Stevenson and Polwhele and rode into Akasha early next morning. There I got 30 camels and began my return journey to Firket at 2 p.m., laying the telegraph line, and having halted by the river at night, pushed into the Sirdar’s camp on June 9th.’ By early July, Bowman-Manifold was able to write in his journal: ‘I have a complete set of telephones from station to station all along the railway between Wadi Halfa and Akasha, 87 miles, eight stations. They work beautifully, and all the telegraphs are also in good working order. The great anxiety now is cholera. To-day, there is a case at Wadi Halfa. It is pretty warm here - 118 degrees in my tent.’ While in September - Kitchener being ‘ever mindful of his chosen ‘Band of Brothers’ ‘ - He found himself acting as a galloper in the action at Hafir, although on this occasion he remained unscathed, most of the fighting being carried out by our artillery and gunboats. He was, nonetheless, mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 3 November 1896 refers) and awarded the 4th class Order of Medjidie, his remarkable accomplishments being described at length by Sandes - anxious exchanges with Kitchener were commonplace, so too temperatures upto 130 degrees, the whole compounded by a shortage of qualified engineers and suitable equipment. Colonel Sandes concludes: ‘The total length of the telegraph lines erected along the Nile during 1896 was 630 miles. Manifold had to travel far and fast to supervise the work of his partially trained men. Indeed, between March 1896 and his departure on leave in January 1897, he covered more than 5,000 miles by land and water. His trials were many and varied; but, in the end, he had the satisfaction of knowing that, through his wanderings in the wilderness, he had succeeded in providing an efficient line of telegraphic communication in the reconquered province of Dongola.’ The Atbara and Omdurman back from his leave, Bowman-Manifold extended the telegraph yet further, hot on the heels of General Hunter’s push to Abu Hamed in August 1897, ‘unwinding

Sold by Order of a Direct Descendant the Proceeds to Benefit a Regimental Charity a fine Great War C.B., C.M.G., Boer War D.S.O. group of eight awarded to Brigadier-General J. S. Ollivant, Royal Artillery: first decorated for his services in ‘Chestnut Troop’, R.H.A. and 5th Brigade, R.F.A. in South Africa, he displayed courage of a high order as a Battery Commander at Ypres in October 1914 - in his famous history of that campaign Conan Doyle describes how the village that Ollivant was defending was ‘furiously assailed’, so much so that when he finally reported back to our lines, everyone was amazed to see him, his battery long since having been written off the Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G. Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (Capt. & Adjt. J. S. Ollivant, D.S.O., R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt. & Adjt. J. S. Ollivant, D.S.O., R.F.A.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Major J. S. Ollivant, D.S.O., R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Brig. Gen. J. S. Ollivant), the whole contained within an old glazed display frame, the fourth with minor official correction to unit, enamel work slightly chipped in places, generally very fine or better (8) £2500-3000 c.B. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For military operations in France and Flanders.’ C.M.G. London Gazette 1 January 1917: ‘For services rendered in connection with military operations in the Field.’ D.S.O. London Gazette 27 September 1901: ‘In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa’. mention in despatches London Gazette 10 September 1901; 17 February 1915; 4 January, 15 May and 11 December 1917; 20 December 1918 and 5 July 1919. john Spencer Ollivant was born in July 1872, the son of Colonel E. A. Ollivant of Nuthurst, Sussex, and was educated at Rugby and the R.M.A. Woolwich. Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in October 1892, he went out to India at the end of 1904, where, stationed in the Central Provinces with 17th Battery, R.F.A., he was advanced to Lieutenant in October 1895. transferred to ‘A’ Battery, R.H.A. (a.k.a. the ‘Chesnut Troop’), in 1897, he witnessed active service in the same unit in the Boer War, initially with Buller’s relief of Ladysmith column, including the operations of the 5-7 February 1900 and the action at Vaal Kranz, when over 14 days his battery expended 565 rounds in anger. advanced to Captain in April 1900, Ollivant subsequently participated in operations in the Transvaal from June to November of the same year, latterly as Divisional Adjutant, 5th Brigade, R.A., which comprised 63, 64 and 73 Batteries, R.F.A., and in which role he acted until December 1901; so, too, in the Orange River Colony from January to March, and May 1902. He was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901 refers), and awarded the D.S.O., which insignia he received from the King at an investiture in October 1902. having then served again in India, he returned to the U.K. to take up appointment as a Staff Captain at the War Office in October 1904, in which capacity he remained employed until November 1908. Advanced to Major in October of the following year, he assumed command of ‘F’ Battery, R.H.A., in 1911, and took it to France in October 1914. Here, then, the opening chapter to a most gallant and distinguished wartime career, best summarised by a fellow gunner, General Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., who wrote to The Times on Ollivant’s death: ‘It was not till the War that he had the opportunity to single himself out from among his fellows as the born leader, the really high-class gunner, and most gallant officer that he undoubtedly was. It is sufficient to mention his command of ‘F’ Battery, R.H.A., with the 7th Division at the opening of the battle of Ypres. In the village of Kruiseik he was shot out of his O.Ps over and over again, but, half buried in bricks and beams around him, he gave an example of calmness and confidence which had far-reaching effects. He never for one moment relaxed his search for those targets the destruction of which would assist the infantry he was supporting. After the battle he showed me with pride the note he had received from those infantry (the Guards, 20th Brigade) thanking him for the very effective support he had given’. an indication of the ferocity of the fighting at Kruiseik may be gleaned from Conan Doyle’s The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1914, in which he states the village and crossroads were ‘furiously assailed’. No wonder then that Ollivant discovered on his return from the battle that his battery had been ‘written off’ some days ago as destroyed or captured. 2nd Lieutenant T. H. Sebag-Montefiore, one of his subalterns, concluded, ‘This first week of active fighting in which ‘F’ Battery took part was remarkable for the fact that for practically the whole period the front line was never more than 600 yards from the guns and that the Battery was for most of the time under rifle and machine-gun fire’; see Major Tyndale-Biscoe’s history of ‘F’ Battery for full details. mentioned in despatches, Ollivant remained in command of the Battery until appointed C.O. of 35 Brigade, R.F.A., as a Lieutenant-Colonel, in August 1915, the intervening period having seen his guns once more in action at Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert and Givenchy. A few weeks later, he took over 3 Brigade, R.H.A. and, in July 1916, became Brigadier-General, C.R.A. 3rd Division. To begin with his relations with the Divisional G.O.C. were strained, and it was only following the arrival of General (afterwards Field Marshal) Deverell that he was able to put in place vital improvements, among them the policy of making alternative gun positions for each of his batteries. Thus, with the advent of the German Spring Offensive, all of the Division’s guns were moved at short notice, thereby denying the enemy an early opportunity to engage our artillery. In the words of Major Sir Edward Chadwyck-Healey, Bt., M.C., who was then Ollivant’s A.D.C., such tactics proved vital in providing one of the major turning points of the War: ‘The result of this [successful movement of batteries] was that the Third Division became the hinge of the German penetration. South of us there was a complete void until most of the Guards Division was marched across our rear to form a defensive flank to us. I think there is little doubt that if the Third Division had given way, the B.E.F. in France would have been divided in two, one half rolled back on to Calais and Dunkirk, the other left in the air with no communications to the coast except possibly through Le Havre. This feat of the Third Division was widely acclaimed at the time by the High Command, both French and British, and indeed German, and in the Press at home.’ Given the Brevets of Lieutenant-Colonel (London Gazette 18 February 1915 refers) and Colonel (London Gazette 1 January 1918 refers), Ollivant was five more times mentioned in despatches and awarded the C.B. and C.M.G. the General, who possessed ‘a character as straight as the line he took to hounds’, died at his residence in Winchester in October 1937. £2500-£3000

Family group: the inter-war C.M.G., O.B.E. group of three awarded to H. M. G. Jackson, Chief Native Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia, late Lieutenant, Gifford’s Horse the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; British South Africa Company’s Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (Lieut. H. M. G. Jackson, Gifford’s Horse), enamel slightly chipped on motto on first, otherwise generally good very fine the Great War campaign service pair awarded to Private H. G. Jackson, Rhodesian Regiment, attached 1st South African Infantry Brigade, who was taken P.O.W. in March 1918 british War and Victory Medals, bi-lingual issue (Pte. H. G. Jackson, Rhodns. 1st S.A.I. Bgde.), officially impressed later issues, extremely fine the post-war M.B.E. awarded to Miss Natalie Jackson, Southern Rhodesia Civil Service the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil), Member’s 2nd type breast badge, on Lady’s riband bow in its Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine (6) £1700-1900 Ex A. A. Upfill-Brown collection, 4 December 1991 (Lot 208). c.M.G. London Gazette 3 June 1930. o.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1924. hugh Marrison Gower Jackson was born in Natal in September 1870, the son of John Otter Jackson, a J.P. and Regional Magistrate, and was educated at Ardingly College, Sussex. Returning to South Africa, he joined the Natal Native Department, becoming conversant with the language and cultural customs of the Zulu nation and earning himself the nickname ‘Matshayisikoba’ - The Owl Slayer. In 1895, at the invitation of the newly appointed Chief Native Commissioner in Rhodesia, Jackson became Assistant Native Commissioner at Umzingwane in Matabeleland, making his way to Bulawayo via Port Shepstone and Pretoria in the famous ‘Zeederburg Coach’. soon after his arrival in Matabeleland, he was warned by a former warrior, Sikwaba, a survivor of the Imbizo Regiment, which body had been corporately sentenced to death for disobedience by King Lobengula, that he had had a vision in which the latter unleashed ‘supernatural forces’ on the European settlers - a vision that found credence by way of the rebellion that erupted a few months later. Jackson and a small party were cut off deep in the Matabele stronghold, the Matopos Hills, when the rebellion broke out, and, in the absence of any news, it was reported that he had been killed - luckily, as it transpired, he made good his escape and reached Bulawayo. quickly enlisting in Gifford’s Horse, he was appointed a Lieutenant in ‘B’ Troop, commanded by Captain H. P. Flynn, a fellow Native Commissioner, and boasting among its number a future Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, Howard Moffat. The unit had been raised by the Rt. Hon. Captain (afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel) Maurice Gifford, who was severely wounded in the action at Fonseca’s Farm on 6 April 1896, wounds that resulted in the amputation of his right arm. Nonetheless, Gifford’s Horse continued to lend valuable service with regular patrol work until a peace settlement was negotiated by Cecil Rhodes that August. having in 1900 been appointed a J.P., Jackson enjoyed a spate of appointments over the coming years, among them Assistant Magistrate for the Bulawayo District, as Superintendent of Gwelo, Selukwe, Insiza and Belingwe, and, in 1908, as a Native Commissioner and Additional Magistrate at Gwelo. Then in 1913, he became Native Commissioner and Superintendent of Natives for Bulawayo District, while in 1921 he was appointed Acting Chief Native Commissioner in Salisbury. awarded the O.B.E. in 1924, in which year he was advanced to Assistant Chief Native Commissioner, Jackson was given the portfolio of Chief Native Commissioner and Head of the Southern Rhodesia Native Department in 1928, on the retirement of Sir Herbert Taylor. And in 1930, the year of his own retirement, he also served as Chairman of the Native Affairs Committee and as Government Representative on the Board of the Native Labour Bureau. He was appointed C.M.G. jackson, who retained the ‘keenest interest in all matters affecting natives and native welfare’, and who was blessed with a ‘fantastic sense of humour’, died at his residence in Borrowdale in November 1934; sold with a large file of related research and several evocative (copy) photographs from his time as a young officer in Gifford’s Horse, so, too, with a long list of archive references to articles he published in his lifetime. hugh Gower Jackson was born in August 1898, soon after his father had returned to his duties as a Native Commissioner following service in Gifford’s Horse. Educated at Lancing College in Sussex, young Hugh returned home and enlisted in the Southern Rhodesia Volunteers in June 1916, aged 17 years. Standing a little under six feet, he was posted to the 2nd Battalion, Rhodesia Regiment, and attached to the 1st South African Infantry Brigade in France, where he was taken P.O.W. in March 1918. According to one family source, he was very badly treated during captivity, as a result of which his health suffered terribly, and he died in July 1944; sold with further details. natalie Kate Jackson was born in February 1900, about the time her father was appointed a J.P., and, having obtained a degree at Cape Town University, joined the Southern Rhodesia Civil Service in 1923. And she remained employed in a similar capacity until her retirement in 1955, the year in which she was awarded her M.B.E., and by which stage she had risen to the office of Women Inspector and Senior Women Officer on the Public Services Board. She died in December 1992; sold with portrait photographs and a file of related research. £1700-£1900

An important Rhodesian pioneer’s C.M.G. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Marshall Hole, onetime Private Secretary to Dr. Leander Jameson, and a friend of Cecil Rhodes, who described him ‘as one of the best and most loyal servants the Charter has had the good fortune to employ’: an acclaimed author, too, he wrote a definitive history of the ‘Jameson Raid’ in addition to his classic - The Making of Rhodesia the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, converted from breast wear, silver-gilt and enamel; British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (Lieut. & Adjt. H. Marshall Hole, S.F.F.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Rhodesia (Lieut. H. Marshall-Hole, S. Rhoda. Vol.); Coronation 1902, silver, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise generally very fine (4) £3000-3500 ex A. A. Upfill-Brown collection, December 1991. c.M.G. London Gazette 1 January 1924. hugh Marshall Hole was born in Tiverton, Devon in May 1865 and was educated at Blundell’s School and Balliol College, Oxford. Having then failed to gain entry to the Chinese Consular Service, he sailed for South Africa, where, in 1889, he found employment in a Kimberley law firm. As it transpired, the same firm represented Cecil Rhodes and Dr. Leander Jameson, and, in the following year, on gaining their confidence, he became the first member of clerical staff to be appointed to the newly formed British South Africa Company. moving from the Cape to the company’s Mashonaland office in Salisbury in 1891, he was appointed Private Secretary to Jameson, while in 1893 he achieved another ‘first’ when he became a Civil Commissioner and Justice of the Peace for Salisbury District. However, on news of the Matabele raid on Victoria in July of the latter year, Jameson refused Hole permission to accompany the Mashonaland Horse, of which he was a member, instead insisting that he remain in Salisbury as Magistrate. But as Hole would later recall in his unpublished memoirs, this latter post actually led to his own chapter of ‘active service’: ‘Then came the Wilson disaster at Shangani. Just before Christmas 1893, the natives in Lomagunda District became troublesome, and had a fracas with some white men, in which one - Arthur Stanford - was fatally wounded. As Magistrate I was sent out to investigate, and in view of the disturbed condition of the country a detachment of 25 men, under Lieutenant Randolph Nesbitt (Now Major Nesbitt, V.C.), with a maxim gun, was sent as my escort. The wet season was on, and the country was in a fearful condition. I outstripped my escort and had finished my enquiry - including the dying deposition of young Stanford - before they joined me ... We were returning when we got information of the Shangani fight, and orders to proceed towards the Zambesi, in which direction it was thought that King Lobengula was fleeing with Wilson in pursuit. Nesbitt and I picked out 10 or 12 of the best mounted men in the escort and turned back. We spent many days in fruitless search, and among the Lomagunda natives, all of whom were panicky, and who gave us a lot of false information to get rid of us. The weather was awful, and for two weeks we could get nothing but kaffir food, and marched through, and slept, in mud. We had to swim rivers. Eventually, I got back to Salisbury, after three weeks of the roughest experience I have ever endured. I left on Christmas Eve and returned on 17 January. I gained nothing except a bad dose of fever; but I made a life-long chum in Randolph Nesbitt.’ Following his experiences in the troubles of 1893, and a period back in the U.K. to recover from his fever, Hole remained actively employed in Salisbury in the period leading up to, and including, the ill-fated ‘Jameson Raid’ of December 1895, a period about which, as a result of his first hand knowledge, he later wrote his much acclaimed history - as he put it in his private memoirs, ‘Rhodes was constantly in and out of our offices, and Jameson was there in the intervals between his rapid trips to the North.’ It was, however, in the following year, that he himself officially witnessed military service, for in March 1896, on the outbreak of rebellion, he attested for the Salisbury Field Force (S.F.F.): ‘On the outbreak of the rebellion, I was at once promoted from Trooper to Lieutenant in the Rhodesia Horse, and shortly afterwards, when the Salisbury Field Force was formed, I was made Adjutant of the left wing. I took part in a good many patrols at the outset and had my first experience of being under fire ... I remember one little expedition in which Colonel Alderson, my wife Ethel (mounted on one of his horses), the Judge and I went to visit some rebel villages about eight miles out ... Alderson’s action in allowing a lady to go beyond the town limits were severely criticised in the local press!’ Following further leave back in England, Hole was appointed Secretary of the company’s offices in Bulawayo in 1898, while in August of the following year he joined the newly formed Southern Rhodesia Volunteers (S.R.V.). And with the advent of hostilities a few weeks later, he departed with two S.R.V. squadrons and some B.S.A.P. to the Bechuanaland line to guard the border. Struck down by dysentery at the end of the year, he was invalided back to Bulawayo, but afterwards served as a Transport Officer for Carrington’s Field Force (The Bushmen Corps), before returning to civilian employ as Government Secretary for Matabeleland in the course of 1900. residing in Bulawayo, it was his responsibility to find a way around the great currency shortage then being experienced as a result of the war. Holding large stocks of postage stamps, he introduced his now famous ‘Money Cards’, bearing on one side his signature and the stamp of the Administrator’s Office, and on the other side a B.S.A. postage stamp of varying denominations - sold with this lot is an original example of a one shilling card. another of his duties in the Boer War was to administer native labour, and to that end he was invited to carry out talks with the new Transvaal Government at Johannesburg, in order to establish a mutual arrangement for recruitment: ‘Johannesburg was in military occupation and the war was at its height. At Wolve Hoek we were held up in the train for some hours, and were eye-witness of a big drive intended to round up General de Wet, but although a large number of Boers were captured, de Wet was not among them. Lord Kitchener was there and seemed much annoyed. Our journey to and from Johannesburg took a fearful time owing to the numerous stoppages and delays due to military operations. At one time near Mafeking, our train was shelled by Boers but they were turned by fire from the armoured train which escorted us.’ In April 1901, at Kimberley, Hole had one of his last meetings with Cecil Rhodes: ‘I was a good deal shocked at his appearance, which had altered for the worse since I had last seen him, shortly after the relief of Mafeking. Dr. Jameson was staying with him and also General Pretyman. I had some long talks with Rhodes, about the native labour question in Rhodesia mainly. We played bridge every evening and I lost £5 to Rhodes, at which he was greatly pleased, though it didn’t amuse me so much!’ Rhodes died in early 1902, following Hole’s trip to Aden, at Rhodes’ behest, in order to bring back 200 Arab coolies: ‘I was placed in charge of the arrangements for the national funeral in the Matopo Hills, and had a good deal of responsibility. For this duty I received the thanks of the Administrator, the Chartered Company and the Rhodes Trustees.’ Returning to the U.K. on leave, Hole was offered a place in the Rhodesian Coronation Contingent: ‘At once I went to the Colonial Camp at Alexandra Palace. The Contingent was composed of the B.S.A.P. and the same number of my own regiment

A rare Great War East Africa operations C.M.G. group of nine awarded to Colonel C. U. Price, Indian Army, C.O. of Jacob’s Rifles and a successful Column Commander whose forces captured Dar-es-Salaam in September 1916 the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; East and Central Africa 1897-99, 1 clasp, Uganda 1897-98 (Lieut., 3/Baluch L.I.); China 1900, no clasp (Captain, 30/Baluch L.I.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col., 1/130 Baluchis); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Col.); Delhi Durbar 1903, impressed naming, ‘Colonel C. V. Price, 130th Baluchis’; Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed as issued; Russian Order of St. Anne, 3rd class breast badge, with swords, by Osipov, St. Petersburg, gold and enamel, manufacturer’s initials on reverse, ‘56’ zolotnik mark for 1909-17 on eyelet, and other stamp marks on sword hilts, generally good very fine (9) £3500-4000 c.M.G. London Gazette 26 June 1916. mention in despatches London Gazette 30 June 1916, 7 March 1918 and 6 August 1918 (all East Africa). russian Order of St. Anne London Gazette 15 February 1917. charles Uvedale Price was born in May 1868 and was educated at the United Services College, Westward Ho! and the R.M.C., Sandhurst. Originally commissioned into the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in February 1888, he transferred to the Indian Army in January 1890 and served in the Zhob Valley on the North West Frontier in the same year, afterwards gaining an appointment as a Wing Officer in the 30th Regiment of Bombay Infantry (3rd Baluchis). in January 1897, however, he was attached to the 27th Bombay Infantry (1st Baluchis) as Adjutant, and went on to win his first campaign medal with them in the Uganda operations of 1897-98. During this latter campaign he was engaged against the Sudanese mutineers, including the operations at Jeruba and Kijangute, and in Budda and Ankoli, gaining a mention in despatches. shortly afterwards he sailed for China, and served as a Captain in the course of the Boxer Rebellion. Then in 1903, back in India, Price attended the Delhi Durbar, attached as a Political Officer to His Highness the Mir of Khairpur. He was advanced to Major in February 1906. appointed a Double Company Commander in the 130th K.G.O. Baluchis (Jacob’s Rifles) in October 1911, Price assumed command of the regiment in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1915, and went on to serve with distinction in the operations in East Africa. in July 1915, in the fighting in the Mbuyuni region, he was appointed to the command of the flanking column, comprising Jacob’s Rifles, the 4th K.A.R. and Cole’s Scouts, sent by Brigadier-General Malleson to envelop the enemy’s left. Carrying out a well timed circuitous night march, Price attacked at daybreak on the 14th, but by 8 a.m. his force was checked by strong enemy resistance, and it became necessary to await more positive news from the main attacking force to the Germans’ front. This initiative, however, also lost momentum, and by the time Malleson’s order to call off the assault reached Price, his force had been under a lively hostile fire for at least an hour. Unperturbed, Price disengaged and ‘brought away his force in a steady and well-executed withdrawal, with slight loss’ (Official history refers). in early July 1916, as C.O. of a 500-strong force, comprising the 5th Light Infantry and a company of the 101st Grenadiers, Price was given the task of capturing Tanga. Carrying out a successful landing on the southern shore of Manza Bay on the 5th, he moved his force inland towards Amboni, ‘which was reached next day after disposing of some slight resistance on the way’. And on the 7th, he and his men crossed the Zigi River, the final natural barrier between them and their goal. Tanga, however, was found to have been deserted by the enemy, although some had remained behind in the surrounding bush from where they sniped at the British with good effect. Flushing out such opposition by means of frequent patrolling, Price moved on to Kange on the 17th. then in early August, he was given overall command of two columns, numbering in total some 1400 men, to secure the crossings of the Wami River. This he successfully accomplished in little more than a week, thereby assisting in opening up the way forward to attack Dar-es-Salaam. For the final advance on the seat of government and principal port of German East Africa, Price’s force was bolstered in strength by some 500 men and equipped with 20 machine-guns. The whole was assembled at Bagamoyo at the end of the month, and on the 31st, in two columns, it advanced on Dar-es-Salaam, while two smaller parties penetrated north to secure the railway line and some important bridges. Just four days later, having encountered little opposition, Price’s main force was assembled on the heights near Mabibo, from which the port could be seen less than three miles away. And early on that morning, after the Royal Navy had despatched a delegation aboard the Echo with a formal summons to surrender, the 129th Baluchis, which had acted as Price’s advanced guard throughout the operation, entered and took over the town. Once again, the Germans had made a hasty retreat, leaving behind 80 hospital patients and 370 non-combatants. for his part in some of the above related operations in German East Africa, Price was awarded the C.M.G and mentioned in despatches, in addition to gaining appointment to the Russian Order of St Anne. And in the later operations of that theatre of war between 1917-18, he again distinguished himself and was twice more the recipient of a ‘mention’. The Colonel, who retired to South Africa, died in May 1956. £3500-£4000

A fine Second World War North-West Europe operations C.B.E., Great War M.C. group of twelve awarded to Brigadier W. A. S. Turner, Royal Artillery: having seen almost four years of continuous active service in the 1914-18 War, he was gassed and evacuated with shell-shock, but rose to senior rank in the 1939-45 War as Deputy Chief of Public Relations at S.H.A.E.F., when he was credited with master-minding the success of the Allied Film and Photographic Sections in North-West Europe 1944-45 the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved, ‘Major W. A. S. Turner, R.H.A., 3rd June 1918’; 1914 Star, with clasp (2 Lieut., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, these four privately engraved, ‘Brig. W. A. S. Turner’; U.S.A., Legion of Merit, Officer’s breast badge, gilt and enamels, the reverse engraved, ‘W. A. S. Turner’; French Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, gilt and enamels; French Croix de Guerre 1939, with palm, mounted court-style as worn, in Spink & Son Ltd. leather box, the lid gilt inscribed, ‘Brig. W. A. S. Turner’, very fine and better (12) £1800-2200 c.B.E. London Gazette 2 August 1945. The original recommendation states: ‘Since its inception, Brigadier Turner has served as senior British representative in the Public Relations Division, S.H.A.E.F., first as Assistant Chief and then as Deputy Chief of the Division. In addition to his general Public Relations duties Brigadier Turner has had particular charge of the Film and Photographic Section. brigadier Turner’s work has throughout been of a very high order of excellence. Not only has he been outstandingly successful in maintaining harmony among all sorts and conditions of British correspondents but he has managed over a long period to compose the many and varied international differences inevitable in a Public Relations organisation of the nature of that set up for the recent campaign in North-West Europe. his untiring efforts and unfailing imperturbability have earned the respect of all with whom he has come in contact. The undoubted success of the Public Relations aspect of the operations can be attributed in large measure to Brigadier Turner’s devoted efforts.’ M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918. american Legion of Merit London Gazette 8 November 1945. The White House citation, signed by Harry Truman, states: ‘Brigadier W. A. S. Turner, British Army, served from May 1944 to May 1946 as Assistant to the Director, and later as Deputy Director of the Public Relations Division, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force. He was instrumental in the preliminary planning for Public Relations activities in the invasion of North-West France and later organised and supervised the operation of film and photographic coverage of the campaigns in Western Europe. Through his tact, ingenuity and meticulous spirit of abnegation, he played an exemplary role in composing the many nationalistic difficulties in the allocation of war correspondents to ensure proportional representation and the establishment of equitable quotas throughout operations on the Continent. He contributed immeasurably to the efficient operations of the Public Relations Division and to the successful conclusion of the war against Germany.’ French Legion of Honour 30 October 1945 (Register No. 53003 refers). william Arthur Scales Turner was born in January 1890, the son of William Henry Turner of Leicestershire, and was educated at the Leys School and Trinity College, Cambridge. commissioned in the Royal Artillery in December 1911, he went out to France on 7 August 1914, where he served in ‘I’ Battery, R.H.A. until transferring to 2/’A’ Battery, H.A.C. at Langemarck in November 1917. Gassed during a heavy enemy bombardment near Loos on 6 April 1918, he was evacuated with three officers and 60 other ranks, but he returned to duty in the following month, when he resumed command of the Battery as an Acting Major near Mazingarbe. But the effects of almost four years continuous active service were beginning to surface, and a few weeks later he was invalided home suffering from shell-shock. He was awarded the M.C., his unit’s history stating that it was ‘difficult adequately to express the admiration of all ranks of the Battery, and indeed of the Brigade, for this officer.’ Between the wars, Turner held a succession of staff appointments, was appointed Assistant Adjutant-General in February 1935 and was placed on the Retired List as a full Colonel in 1937. Quickly re-employed at the Public Relations Department of the War Office, he was appointed a Deputy Director in 1941, and served in a similar capacity at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force 1943-45, work that was rewarded with a C.B.E., American Legion of Merit and French Legion of Honour and Croix de Guerre in 1945, following the successful conclusion of the North-West Europe operations. sold with original certificate of award and White House citation for the recipient’s Legion of Merit, both signed by Harry Truman, and the warrant for his Legion of Merit, dated at Paris on 30 October 1945. £1800-£2200

A post-war C.B.E. group of six awarded to Lionel Powys-Jones, Chief Native Commissioner of Southern Rhodesia, late Rhodesia Regiment and King’s Royal Rifle Corps, in which latter regiment he was wounded as a young subaltern in the Great War the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. L. Powys-Jones); Southern Rhodesia Medal for War Service 1939-45; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, surname officially corrected on the third, generally good very fine (6) £600-800 ex A. A. Upfill-Brown collection. c.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1954. lionel Powys-Jones was born in July 1894, the son of Llewellyn Powys-Jones, a Resident Magistrate in Bulawayo, and was educated at Blundell’s School, Tiverton, Victoria College, Jersey and Oriel College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Returning home to Rhodesia, he joined the Native Affairs Department, and in 1916 enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Rhodesia Regiment. Subsequently commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, he was wounded in 1918. back in the service of the Native Affairs Department by 1919, he went on to enjoy a long and distinguished career, ultimately gaining appointment as Secretary for Native Affairs and Chief Native Commissioner in 1947. he had, meanwhile, joined the Southern Rhodesia Volunteers, and attended assorted musketry courses in the period leading upto the 1939-45 War. Placed on the Reserve of Officers in March 1940, he served in a Concession Platoon from August of that year until April 1942, and is a verified recipient of the Southern Rhodesia Medal for War Service, the relevant roll stating, ‘Jones, L., X8610, Army’, which corresponds with his Q. & R. card in the archives in Harare; this award has accordingly been added to his Honours and Awards for display purposes. powys-Jones finally retired in 1954, in which year he was awarded his C.B.E. A keen tennis player who onetime represented Rhodesia, he settled in Somerset West, Cape Province, where he died in November 1966. £600-£800

A Great War Period M.B.E., Kaisar-I-Hind pair awarded to Lady Margaret Bhore, the wife of Sir Joseph Bhore, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., C.B.E., Indian Civil Service the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type breast badge, hallmarks for London, 1919, on Lady’s riband bow, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; Kaisar-I-Hind, G.V.R., 1st class, 2nd type, gold, complete with upper brooch-bar for wearing, in its fitted case of issue, together with Delhi Durbar 1911, and an attractive gold and enamel brooch of the central design of the Arms of the State of Bhopal, by Cooke & Kelvey of Calcutta, in its red leather presentation case, good very fine and better (4) £600-800 m.B.E. London Gazette 8 January 1919. kaisar-I-Hind London Gazette 1 January 1934. also sold with an attractive presentation trowel, silver-plated, with ivory handle, in its fitted case, the front of the blade engraved, ‘Presented to Sir Joseph Bhore, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., C.B.E., I.C.S., By the Delhi Y.M.C.A. Committee on the Occasion of the Laying of the Foundation Stone of the New Delhi Y.M.C.A. Hostel, March 21st, 1935, As a Small Token of Appreciation’, the reverse of the blade with the engraved names of the Committee Members. margaret Wilkie Stott married Joseph Bhore in 1911. A doctor by profession, she was elevated to O.B.E. on 1 January 1944 (relevant London Gazettes refer), and died in the following year. Sir Joseph, a long served Indian Civil Servant, was onetime Dewan (Prime Minister) of the State of Cochin, and rose to be a Member of the Governor-General’s Executive Council in the 1930s - it was for services in Cochin that his wife received her Kaisar-I-Hind. Created a C.B.E. in 1920 and a C.I.E. in 1923, he was elevated to K.C.I.E. in 1930 and appointed K.C.S.I. in 1933. One of his final duties was to represent India at the Jubilee celebrations in London in 1935. He died in August 1960. £600-£800

‘It was my great good fortune to be appointed General Staff Officer to the Arab Forces in the early part of 1918. From then throughout the final phase of the Arab revolt on till Damascus, I worked, travelled, and fought alongside Lawrence. Night after night we lay wrapped in our blankets under the cold stars of the desert. At these times one learns much of a man. Lawrence took the limelight from those of us professional soldiers who were fortunate enough to serve with him, but never once have I heard even a whisper of jealousy. We sensed that we were serving with a man immeasurably our superior ... In my considered opinion, Lawrence was the greatest genius whom England has produced in the last two centuries, and I do not believe that there is anyone who had known him who will not agree with me. If ever a genius, a scholar, an artist and an imp of Shaitan were rolled into one personality, it was Lawrence.’ Colonel W. F. Stirling, D.S.O., M.C., from his autobiography, Safety Last. the important Boer War and Great War Palestine operations D.S.O. and Bar, M.C. group of fourteen awarded to Colonel W. F. Stirling, Chief of Staff to Lawrence of Arabia and Advisor to Emir Feisal in Damascus in 1918, late Royal Dublin Fusiliers and Royal Flying Corps distinguished Service Order, E.VII.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with Second Award Bar; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (Lieut., R. Dub. Fus.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., R. Dub. Fus.); 1914-15 Star (Capt., R. Dub. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge, silver and enamel; Italy, Order of the Crown, 5th Class breast badge, gold and enamel; Syria, Order of Merit, breast badge, gilt metal and enamel; Hedjaz, Order of El Nahda, a rare first type 2nd Class set, comprising neck badge and breast badge, in silver, gold and enamels, complete with original plaited neck cord; Albania, Order of Scanderbeg, a scarce first type Grand Cross set of insignia by Cravanzola, Roma, comprising sash badge, silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star, silver, gilt and enamels, complete with full dress sash, minor official correction to surname on the Boer War awards, reverse centre lacking on the Italian piece, enamel work chipped in places but otherwise generally very fine or better (12) £25000-30000 d.S.O. London Gazette 28 January 1902: ‘For skill and gallantry in action at Kaffirspruit, 19 December 1901.’ Bar to D.S.O. London Gazette 8 March 1919: ‘For gallant service rendered rendered during the operations resulting in the occupation of Damascus by Arab Forces. By his example and personal courage whilst leading the Arabs he, in conjunction with another officer, was mainly instrumental in securing the successful occupation of the town and the establishment, without grave disorder, of the Arab Military Authorities therein.’ The other officer referred to in the above citation is almost certainly Lawrence. m.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918. walter Francis Stirling was born on 31 January 1880, the son of Captain Francis Stirling, R.N., who was last heard of having left Bermuda on that same day in command of the training frigate Atalanta, and was presumed lost at sea with all hands shortly afterwards - one of the notorious ‘Bermuda Triangle’ mysteries. Young Walter spent much of his early life at Hampton Court Palace where Queen Victoria had set aside a wing for widows of Naval officers who died in the course of duty, was educated at Sandhurst and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in 1889. actively engaged in South Africa with the 4th Division Mounted Infantry in Dundonald’s Brigade, Natal Field Force, and afterwards as Adjutant, 14th Mounted Infantry, he took part in operations which included the Relief of Ladysmith and the actions at Laing’s Nek, Belfast and Kafferspruit. sterling’s service with the Mounted Infantry during the latter part of the War mostly involved long drives against the blockhouses, operations which, he later noted in his autobiography, Safety Last, ‘entailed dividing the countryside into huge triangles, marked out at every six or eight hundred yards with armoured blockhouses interconnected with double barbed-wire fences. It was a laborious process but profitable, for once a Boer Commando got into one of the triangles, our mounted troops could then line up and sweep the whole country, driving the enemy up against one of the blockhouse lines where they either had to surrender or else fight their way out ... on my return from one of these drives I received two telegrams. One was from Lord Kitchener and said: ‘Congratulate you on immediate award in the field of the D.S.O. for skill and gallantry in action at the affair of Kaffirspruit.’ ‘ After further service with the Dublin Fusiliers at Malta and in Egypt, Stirling transferred to the Egyptian Army in 1906, and served with the 11th Sudanese Regiment engaged in patrols throughout the Sudan 1907-12. Promoted to Captain in 1908, he retired in 1912 and lived in Canada for a time, before returning to Egypt to run the Sporting Club in Alexandria. after the outbreak of hostilties in 1914, he served temporarily with the Gordon Highlanders in the Censorship Office, Egypt, and later in 1914 transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and trained as an Observer at Ismalia, where he was then detailed to patrol and reconnoitre the Sinai Desert. On one patrol in search of Turkish troop movements Stirling and his pilot, Grall - ‘an extraordinarily nice Breton naval quartermaster’ - crash landed in the desert. The latter broke his collarbone and three ribs in the process, but the pair evaded capture by Turks and Bedouin to arrive safely back in Akaba. Grall was awarded the D.C.M. for this feat. upon hearing of the disaster that had befallen his regiment aboard the River Clyde in the landings at Gallipoli, however, Stirling at once requested permission to rejoin his regiment in the peninsula, where only one officer remained unwounded. Thus he served as second in command of the 1st Battalion, Dublin Fusiliers, for three months until he ‘got buried by a shell which burst on the parapet of the trench’ above his head and had to be evacuated. the Palestine Campaign 1915-18 upon his return to Egypt, late in 1915, he was posted as G.2 Intelligence to General Sir Archibald Murray’s G.H.Q. in Ismailia. Here he very soon met T. E. Lawrence, then a young subaltern who had arrived out from England in December 1914 as G.3 Intelligence. Lawrence was then ordered to Basra with additional instructions to make a report on anything he saw there which could be of interest to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. ‘The document that he produced for us on his return was an amazing document, considering its author was only a 2nd Lieutenant. It was a violent criticism of the mental capacity of the draughtsmen and map-makers, of the quality of the stone used in their lithography, of the disposal of the cranes on the quayside, of the system of mooring the barges and of the shunting operations on the railway, of the medical arrangements, particularly of the provision for the wounded, and even of the tactical dispositions of the commanders in the field and of the general strategical conception of the campaign. We dared not show it to the C.-in-C., but had to water it down till it was considered fit for the great man’s perusal. I have regretted ever since that I never kept a copy of the original; it was Lawrence at his best’ (Stirling’s autobiography refers). stirling was active throughout the Palestine campaign, taking part in the fall of Gaza, the operations in and around Jerusalem, and the night attack across the river Auja. Shortly afterwards he was posted

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O., M.C. and Second World War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Major H. D. Denison-Pender, 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; 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 Star, with clasp (Lieut., 2/Dns.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Bt-Major), War Medal with minor correction to surname; Jubilee 1935, unnamed; Coronation 1953, unnamed, mounted court style as worn, in fitted wooden glass-fronted case good very fine (8) £2800-3200 d.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918. o.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1942. ‘Major, D.S.O., M.C., J.P.’ ‘Deputy Chief Censor, Telegraph Censorship Branch, Ministry of Information’. m.C. London Gazette 18 February 1915. ‘Lieutenant (temporary Captain), 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)’. m.I.D. London Gazette 17 February 1915; 4 January 1917; 11 December 1917. Henry Denison Denison-Pender was born on 2 April 1884, the 2nd son of Sir John Denison-Pender, G.B.E., K.C.M.G. He was educated at Eton and was commissioned into the 15th Hussars in May 1907, transferring to the Royal Scots Greys in June the same year. Promoted to Lieutenant in April 1911, he served in the Scottish Cavalry Depot at Dunbar, 1913-14. During the Great War he served in France/Flanders, August-November 1914 and May 1915-March 1918. Appointed a Temporary Captain in November 1914, he was promoted to that rank in May 1915. Denison-Pender was appointed G.S.O.3 with the 6th Division in December 1915; Brigade Major with the 6th Infantry Brigade in June 1916; G.S.O.2 with the 33rd Division in July 1917, and G.S.O.2 with the 51st Division in January 1919. For his wartime services he was three times mentioned in despatches, was awarded the D.S.O. and M.C., and in November 1917 was granted the brevet of Major. He retired from the Army in 1919 (London Gazette 1 July 1919). Postwar he was Director of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co. Ltd., 1921-59. He was appointed J.P. for Dorset in 1929 and High Sheriff of Dorsetshire in 1935. During the Second World War he was employed as Deputy Chief Telegraph Censor at the Central Telegraph Office, 1939-42, for which he was awarded the O.B.E. He was in addition, Chairman of the Sturminster Rural District Council, 1949-53; Member of Council of the Bath and West Agricultural Society, 1929-50; Member of Council of the Royal Agricultural Society, 1943-53; President of the Yeovil Agricultural Society, 1936-37; Life Honorary Member of the Hunters Improvement and Light Horse Breeding Society, 1953; and Master of the Portman Hunt. He was married in 1913 to Doris Louise Sydney, the eldest daughter of Sydney Fisher of Amington Hall, Tamworth, Staffordshire, with whom he had three daughters. Latterly living at Hartletts in Hook, Hampshire; he died on 16 February 1967. £2800-£3200

A good Great War D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Colonel A. N. R. McNeill, Royal Army Medical Corps distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; 1914 Star (Capt., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (Col., D.S.O., R.A.M.C.); War Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1937, generally good very fine (7) £1600-1800 d.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1918. mention in despatches London Gazette 25 May 1918. arthur Norman Roy McNeill, was born in Glasgow in April 1886, was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in August 1908, and was advanced to Captain in February 1912, while stationed in Mauritius. Back in the U.K. by the outbreak of hostilities, he first entered the French theatre of War in October 1914, and remained actively employed there until the end of hostilities, latterly as an Acting Lieutenant-Colonel and C.O. of No. 7 Cavalry Field Ambulance. Subsequently employed out in Ind a 1923-28, in Malaya 1930-31, and again out in India from 1936-41, he commanded the British Military Hospitals at Mhow and Rawalpindi, in addition to a posting as A.D.M.S. H.Q., 1 Division, Waziristan in 1937, thereby gaining entitlement to his India General Service Medal. Having then been advanced to full Colonel, and served as A.D.M.S. H.Q. Bombay, he returned to the U.K. in 1941 and was A.D.M.S. H.Q. Devon and Cornwall, until that June, when he was placed on the Retired List. He died in London in February 1947. £1600-£1800

An extremely rare Second World War D.S.O. and Bar, inter-war O.B.E. group of ten awarded to Captain G. F. Stevens-Guille, Royal Navy, who won his first D.S.O. for services as Senior Officer of an Escort Group in 1939, and a Bar for his command of the destroyer Codrington at Dunkirk, thereby becoming the Navy’s first ‘Double D.S.O.’ of the War - among those he embarked in the course of operation ‘Dynamo’ was a certain Major-General B. L. Montgomery distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., 1st issue, with Second Award Bar, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse of the lower suspension bar officially dated ‘1939’ and the reverse of the Bar ‘1940’; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1930; 1914-15 Star (Mid. G. F. Stevens-Guille, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (S. Lt. G. F. Stevens-Guille, R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, together with a set of related Great War period dress miniatures (4), generally good very fine or better (14) £6000-8000 d.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1940: ‘For faithful devotion to the hazardous duty of escorting and protecting other ships from the violence of the enemy.’ Bar to D.S.O. London Gazette 7 June 1940: ‘For good services in the withdrawal of the Allied Armies from the beaches of Dunkirk.’ The original recommendation states: ‘During the period 28 May-3 June 1940, H.M.S. Codrington made seven trips to Dunkirk, five being to the beaches, and brought home a total of about 6175 troops. Although several times attacked by aircraft and on several occasions under gun fire from shore batteries, Codrington was not hit and suffered no damage.’ O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1931. mention in despatches London Gazette 23 January 1945. ‘For distinguished service in the planning and execution of amphibious operations in the Mediterranean.’ george Frederick Stevens-Guille, who was born in December 1898, the son of a clergyman from Guernsey, entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in September 1911 and was appointed a Midshipman in the battleship Glory in October 1914. Removing to the Royal Oak in April 1916, in which battleship he was present at Jutland, and advanced to Sub. Lieutenant in March 1917, he joined the torpedo boat destroyer Ferret in June of the latter year, in which capacity he served until the end of the War. Shortly thereafter he attended a course at Cambridge University, but was admitted to the R.N.H. Plymouth with gunshot wounds to his right arm in January 1919 - luckily not of too serious nature for he was back at sea in the Marksman by August of the same year. advanced to Lieutenant-Commander in February 1927 and to Commander in December 1931, shortly after being awarded his O.B.E., he was serving as Senior Officer of the 1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla at Portland on the renewal of hostilities, in command of the sloop H.M.S. Bittern. quickly ordered to Rosyth, home of the 15th Destroyer Flotilla, he was actively engaged in a spate of coastal convoys between September and November 1939, gallant and demanding work that won him his first D.S.O. Thus convoys F.S. 5 and F.N. 6 in September, when Bittern stopped to pick-up survivors from the mined City of Paris and delivered a depth-charge attack on the 17th; convoy F.S. 20 in mid-October, when Bittern engaged enemy aircraft and delivered further depth-charge attacks; convoys F.S. 24 and F.N. 25 in late October, with further action being taken by Bittern against enemy bombers; convoys F.S. 29 and F.N. 30, and F.N. 32 and F.N. 33, in early November, the latter witnessing at least one engagement with a prowling Dornier; convoys F.S. 37 and F.N. 38 in mid-November, and convoys F.S. 40 and F.N. 41 at the end of that month, the latter witnessing the mining of the S.S. Hookwood on the 23rd, and Bittern once more stopping to pick up survivors. stevens-Guille was advanced to Captain in December 1939 and received his D.S.O. at an investiture held on 5 March 1940 - one of the very first such decorations of the entire War, just a dozen or so other R.N. recipients having been gazetted beforehand in December 1939. A brief period of command ensued in the destroyer Duncan, but in mid-May 1940 he removed to the flotilla leader Codrington, in which ship he would quickly win a Bar to his D.S.O., the relevant operations commencing on the 28th, when he oversaw the rescue of 32 survivors from the torpedoed Aboukir in the North Sea, following which Codrington proceeded to Dunkirk’s East Mole. Thereafter, over the coming week, she carried out a punishing agenda of return trips to Dover, eventually bringing back over 6,000 troops, among them Major-General B. L. Montgomery: ‘Saturday 1 June: Secured alongside eastern pier, Dunkirk, at 0525 hours. Embarked about 500 troops, including Major-General B. L. Montgomery, temporarily commanding a corps. The latter informed me that embarkation at Braye had been very difficult due to the pier being unsuitable. While in Dunkirk harbour low cloud persisted and several low bombing attacks took place ... one Heinkel was brought down apparently by the fire of Codrington and another destroyer’ (Stevens-Guille’s official operation ‘Dynamo’ report referes). he was awarded a Bar to his D.S.O., thereby becoming the Navy’s first ‘Double D.S.O.’ of the War. codrington having then been bombed and sunk off Dover in the following month, he came ashore to take up an appointment in Victory, with effect from August 1940, about the time he attended his second Buckingham Palace investiture. returning to sea with command of the cruiser Cardiff in February 1942, he removed to the Durban that September and thence to the Algiers base Hannibal in December 1943. Then in the following year he joined the staff of Byrsa, the R.N. base at Bougie, North Africa, which establishment removed to Naples at the end of 1943 - an appointment that would have witnessed him planning amphibious operations in the Mediterranean, not least for the Sicily and South of France landings, for which he won his ‘mention’. from June 1946, Stevens-Guille commanded the training establishment Raleigh, and he was placed on the Retired List in January 1949, having latterly been appointed an A.D.C. to H.M. the King - original letter of notification, dated in August 1948, refers. sold with a small quantity of other original documentation, including the recipient’s original M.I.D. certificate, in the name of ‘Captain George Frederick Stevens-Guille, D.S.O., O.B.E., R.N., H.M.S. Byrsa’ and dated 23 January 1945, together with his 1939-45 War campaign award forwarding slip and a quantity of his calling cards; and one or two items of uniform, including a fine pair of Captain, R.N’s full-dress epaulettes, by Gieves. £6000-£8000

An extremely rare Second World War Malta convoys D.S.O., M.B.E. group of nine awarded to Captain G. B. Pinkney, Merchant Navy: decorated for his services as Chief Officer and then Master of the Port Chalmers in operations ‘Halberd’ and Pedestal’, his D.S.O. was among the first gazetted to a Merchant Officer following a change of policy by the Admiralty’s Honours & Awards Committee distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse of the suspension bar officially dated ‘1942’; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; British War and Mercantile Marine Medals 1914-18 (Henry G. B. Pinkney); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted as worn, the fourth with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine or better (9) £4000-5000 d.S.O. London Gazette 10 November 1942: ‘For bravery and dauntless resolution when an important convoy was fought through to Malta in the face of relentless attacks by day and night from enemy submarines, aircraft and surface forces.’ M.B.E. London Gazette 9 June 1942. Joint citation with his Master and Chief Engineer: ‘The ship was frequently attacked by enemy aircraft. The Master showed courage and good seamanship and it was due to his handling of the vessel that she was brought safely to port. The Chief Officer’s organisation of the defences was outstanding and the Chief Engineer proved equal to all demands made on his department.’ Henry George Bacon Pinkney, who was born in Auckland, New Zealand in November 1898, passed his examination for 2nd Mate in October 1919, shortly after active service in the Mercantile Marine in the Great War, latterly in the S.S. Port Lincoln. Gaining his 1st Mate’s certificate in February 1922, and qualifying as a Master (Steamships) in November 1926, he was employed by the Port Line on the Australia run between the Wars, and joined the Port Fairy shortly after the renewal of hostilities. removing to the Port Chalmers in March 1941, as Chief Officer, he found himself rapidly employed on the Malta run, initially in operation ‘Substance’ that July, but it was for his subsequent deeds in ‘Halberd’ in September, when his ship, and the City of Pretoria, made the passage from Malta to Gibraltar unescorted, that he was awarded the M.B.E. The official report submitted by the Flag Officer Commanding Force ‘H’ states: ‘Port Chalmers and the City of Pretoria were reported by Italian aircraft at 1200 hours on the 27th, shortly after leaving Malta. No enemy surface craft or aircraft were seen until 2320, when what was believed to be an E-Boat was sighted by Port Chalmers, who was following in the wake of the City of Pretoria. he enemy craft first sighted by Port Chalmers was lying stopped 3-400 yards on the port beam of City of Pretoria, who saw nothing except gunfire from her consort. Port Chalmers sheered off to starboard and 10 minutes after the first sighting heard E-Boat engines approaching from the port quarter; she turned to starboard to bring the enemy astern, and opened fire with her 4-inch gun at the enemy’s bow wave. The enemy opened fire at Port Chalmers with her machine-guns, but scored no hits, and after Port Chalmers had fired six rounds of 4-inch, the enemy crossed astern and made off. Port Chalmers then resumed her station astern of City of Pretoria. This action took place 15 miles S.S.W. of Pantellaria.’ Here then evidence of Pinkney’s outstanding organisation of his ship’s defences, which was just as well for Port Chalmers was regularly visited by enemy aircraft during the same trip. As it is, Gibraltar was reached on the 30th, his Master and Chief Engineer receiving O.B.Es and himself the M.B.E. ‘Pedestal’ But a far greater challenge awaited him in August 1942, by which stage he had been appointed Master of the Port Chalmers - namely the most important Malta convoy of them all - operation ‘Pedestal’: of the 14 merchantmen that set out, nine were sunk and three damaged, while the Senior Service lost an aircraft carrier, two cruisers and one destroyer, as well as having another half a dozen ships damaged. given such grim statistics, it is rare to be able to relate that the Port Chalmers was one of four merchantmen to reach Malta, and one of just two that arrived undamaged, testament indeed to the seamanship of her Master - also aboard was Commander A. J. Venables, R.N. (Retd.), the Convoy’s Commodore, who later reported that the ship’s company ‘deserved the highest praise for their magnificent conduct and coolness under most trying circumstances, as the continual air bombing, always most accurate, was a great test for high morale, especially when the enemy had the sky to himself. The evening of the 12th was a severe trial to all, as the escort afloat had completely vanished at a critical moment after the disaster at the entrance to Skerki Channel ... ‘ A view shared by Pinkney, who, in recommending his Chief Enginer and 2nd Officer for decorations, stated, ‘Enemy action commenced on the 11th August and was almost continuous until noon on the 13th ... by submarine, bombing and torpedo bombing’. And so it was, from the moment the convoy arrived in the Straits of Gibraltar, an early victim to torpedo attack being the aircraft carrier Eagle - she went down in 15 minutes. And then as related by Venables, further disaster struck at the entrance of the Skerki Channel - Port Chalmers was following the cruiser Cairo, and very nearly rammed her when she slowed after a torpedo hit, Pinkney just managing to get enough power astern before sliding past. While on the 13th, ‘Port Chalmers experienced extraordinary good fortune in just missing the bombs time after time’, so too a torpedo: ‘Pathfinder’s vigorous and spirited action had thrown the Italian pilots completely out of their stride and most of their torpedoes missed the ships well clear. Only one was accurate and this became entangled by its fin in the starboard paravane of Port Chalmers’ minesweeping gear. This left Captain Pinkney in an unenviable position with the live torpedo tied close to his side and threatening to swing in and detonate against her thin plates at any moment. Somewhat at a loss at this unexpected situation, Pinkney flashed the nearest escorts for advice. Commander Gibbs suggested that he should cut the paravane wire and swing the helm hard over. In the end the clump of chain for’ard was unshackled and let go and the derrick was then let go. Their dangerous companion then sank quickly as the Port Chalmers drew clear. Some minutes later it exploded on the bottom - in about 400 fathoms - and although the ship was well clear Captain Pinkney described the uplift of the explosion as tremendous.’ Pinkney was awarded an immediate D.S.O. and, in addition to D.S.Cs to his Chief Engineer and 2nd Officer, his crew also won seven D.S.Ms and three ‘mentions’. In May 1943, he removed to the Port Campbell, aboard which ship he served for the remainder of the War, and he retired from the service in May 1953; sold with his original D.S.O. warrant. £4000-£5000

A Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Captain C. Jackson, Royal Garrison Artillery military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued, in case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1953; together with corresponding miniatures; silver and enamel medal, inscribed on obverse ‘The Municipal Tramways and Transport Association Inc.’, reverse engraved ‘C. Jackson, President 1940-41’, suspended from a neck ribbon and contained in its case of issue; a small head quarter length photograph of recipient contained in a silver frame, generally nearly extremely fine (12) £600-800 M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918. also included with the lot is a fine leather bound testimonial on vellum, inscribed in illuminated ink ‘The Municipal Passenger Transport Association (Incorporated) to Clement Jackson, Esquire, M.I.A.E., M. Inst. T. We have pleasure in informing you that the following resolution was carried unanimously at the Annual General Meeting of the Association on July 11th 1941. That the members of the Association assembled at the 40th Annual General Meeting, place on record their high appreciation of the devoted services of Clement Jackson, Esquire, in the office of President during the year 1940-41 and express to him their grateful recognition of the application of his time and abilities to the interests of the Association under very trying circumstances created by the war.’ Clement Jackson was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery (North Midland (Staffordshire) from the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps on 7 October 1915. In 1939 he was working as a General Manager and Engineer with the City of Plymouth Transport Department, Milehouse, Plymouth. £600-£800

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Private H. Hall, Royal West Kent Regiment and Royal Fusiliers military Medal, G.V.R. (G-21048 Pte., 10/R. W. Kent R.); British War and Victory Medals (4691 Pte., R. Fus.); together with Royal West Kent Regiment cap badge; Royal Fusiliers shoulder badge; two General Service buttons; B.R.C.S. ‘East Lancs’ brass and enamel medal; and a spent bullet, nearly extremely fine (3) £350-400 M.M. London Gazette 9 December 1916. sold with a photograph of recipient in later life and a contemporary newspaper cutting entitled ‘For Bravery in The Field’, which includes a photograph of recipient in uniform and which states: ‘Private Henry Hall, Royal Fusiliers (attached Royal West Kent Regiment), has been awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous bravery in conveying messages under heavy shell fire. Private Hall is a member of the Manchester Branch, and prior to enlistment was employed as a compositor at the office of Percy Gill, Tib-lane, Manchester.’ £350-£400

A rare Fall of France 1940 D.F.M. group of four awarded to Flight Lieutenant L. S. Pilkington, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who was credited with 5 ‘kills’ as a Hurricane pilot in No. 73 Squadron prior to transferring to Spitfires of No. 111 Squadron and being killed in action on a Channel offensive sweep in September 1941: he was to have been married just six days later distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (741935 Sgt. L. S. Pilkington, R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, together with related dress miniature for the first, generally extremely fine (5) £5000-6000 d.F.M. London Gazette 16 July 1940: ‘For exceptional gallantry and devotion to duty in the air from January 1940, and especially from the 10-15 May 1940, during which period this airman pilot displayed unflagging zeal and courage in the face of superior forces of the enemy. He has shot down five enemy aircraft.’ Lionel Sanderson Pilkington, a native of Hull, entered the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1938, qualified as a Sergeant Pilot and was posted to No. 73 Squadron, a Hurricane unit, and a component of 67 Wing, Advanced Air Striking Force, in early 1940 - records reveal him embroiled in a combat in Flight Lieutenant E. J. ‘Cobber’ Kain’s red section as early as 25 January. another followed on 26 March, when he fired all of his ammunition in a protracted dogfight with Me. 110s and Dorniers, one of the former hitting his propeller with return fire and causing him to drop 10,000 feet with a ‘spluttering engine’; so, too, on 21 April, when he got in a brace of attacks on 109s, one of them rolling over on its back. but it was after the ‘Phoney War’, on the advent of the German invasion of the Low Countries in May 1940, that No. 73 embarked upon a period of constant action, Pilkington noting in his diary as early as the 11th how he had to dive for cover at Reims-Champagne airfield, two bombs having landed yards from his quarters. Indeed his diary is extensively quoted in Twelve Days in May, by Brian Cull and Bruce Lander, with Heinrich Weiss (Grub Street, London, 1995): ‘[May 11] I get a Messerschmitt 110 but one also gets me! A cannon shot in the tailplane passes through the fuselage and out the other side! Bullets in the engine, shot away throttle control; cannot close throttle and bullet hits in cockpit, beside rudder bar. Land on [Rouvres] ‘drome by cutting switches, rudder control wire practically sheared.’ This action took place over Mourmelon, Pilkington flying Hurricane P2569/D - his victim was an aircraft from II/KG53, while ‘Cobber’ Kain also claimed a Bf. 110 on the same occasion. at first light on the 13 May, with the war correspondent Charles Gardner on hand to record events, Pilkington added a shared Do. 17 to his tally, in company with fellow pilots P./Os R. F. ‘Dickie’ Martin and D. S. ‘Don’ Scott, but the enemy aircraft’s rear-gunner was a good shot - ‘We all came back very riddled’. Again in combat that evening, this time against a brace of Heinkels near Vouziers, Pilkington saw one of them downed by Squadron Leader J. W. C. More - the crew managed to bale out but were lined up and shot by French troops on landing, or certainly according to Gardner. the very next day, in an early morning patrol over the Sedan battlefront, Pilkington and Flying Officer ‘Fanny’ Orton both seriously damaged Do. 17’s of 3/KG76, the former noting that large pieces came away from his Dornier’s starboard engine before his windscreen was covered in oil - ‘Also damage port engine and get the gunner ... Shots in my plane and I fly home as I cannot use my gunsight owing to the oil.’ The Dornier made it back to base, but with three of its crew wounded. later on the 14th, as one of six 73-pilots on a similar patrol, he engaged seven Stukas of I/StG76 over Malmy, his particular target diving into the ground and exploding, but then 73’s Hurricanes were jumped by 109s of III/JG53 and Pilkington’s fellow Sergeant Pilots, Basil Pyne and George Dibden, were both shot down and killed: ‘This is a hell of a blow to me. Hell!’ Notwithstanding such losses, 73’s punishing agenda continued apace, Pilkington sharing a claim for a Do. 17 with his C.O. on the following day: ‘Panic take-off. First off, chase some Heinkels but do not catch them. Come back to base and chase five Dorniers. Get starboard engine then jettison bombs. Crossfire gets me in oil and patrol tanks, also glycol. Get back to drome, glycol tank melted and run into engine. Face slightly burnt and eyes sore from glycol. C.O. says a good show.’ And in the air battles over Lille on the 19 May, again witnessed by the war correspondent Charles Gardner, he added another ‘probable’ to his tally - but as a result of damage caused by return fire was compelled to make a force-landing: ‘Think I got a He. 111 but one of the rear-gunners gets my oil tank and I fly back. See three He. 111s doing dive-bombing 200 yards away; also run into 15 Me. 110s. Fly back in cloud and land at French bomber drome. Given a fine lunch. Ken calls in a Maggie for me in the afternoon.’ His He. 111 was in fact most likely a Ju. 88 of KG51. at the end of the month, the first of 73 Squadron’s pilots were recalled to the U.K., but in common with No. 1 Squadron, their gallant part in the defence of France had been recorded for posterity by Noel Monks, another war correspondent who had followed their story from late 1939, and who subsequently published Squadrons Up! with such valuable combat experience under his belt, Pilkington was posted to No. 7 Operational Training Unit (O.T.U.) at Hawarden, Cheshire that July - and survived a prang with a student pilot in a Miles Master on the 17th. Far more unusually, he is credited with bringing down a Ju. 88, even though still based with No. 7 O.T.U., that September - an accompanying Tangmere Military Aviation Museum letter refers. sometime thereafter joining No. 111 Squadron, most probably in early 1941, when it commenced cross-Channel offensive patrols and escorts, he was shot down and killed by Me. 109s in a sortie to Hazebrouck in Spitfire AB-962 on 20 September 1941 - as Flight Lieutenant Keller concluded in his combat report for that date, ‘The Me. 109s on this occasion seemed to me to be making a far more concerted effort than usual and were present in greater numbers than hitherto’. Pilkington, by then a 22-year old Flight Lieutenant, was due to have been married on the 26th. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. sold with a quantity of original documentation, including Buckingham Palace condolence message; four wartime photographs, one a framed portrait, and another of a page in his Flying Log Book, carrying an endorsement from his 73 C.O., ‘Has proved himself a gallant and successful Fighter Pilot’, in addition to details of a claim for an He. 111 above; an R.A.F. permanent pass, for St. Athan, No. 11 Group, in the name of ‘741935 Sgt. L. S. Pilkington’, dated 21 November 1939; together with the remnants of his embroidered cap badge, his uniform ‘Wings’ and, most poignantly, his fiancee’s R.A.F. sweetheart’s brooch, gold and enamel. £5000-£6000

The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel M. W. R. de Courcy, Indian Army, 34th Baron Kingsale and Premier Baron of Ireland distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel, complete with top bar; Tibet 1903-04, no clasp; India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Abor 1911-12, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1921-24; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver; Serbia, Order of the White Eagle, 5th Class badge with swords, silver, gold and enamel, mounted court style as worn, in Spink, London leather case, second fine, others very fine and better (7) £300-350 Michael William Robert de Courcy was born on 26 September 1882, the eldest son of Michael Constantine de Courcy, the 33rd Baron Kingsale (created 1223) and Baron of Ringrone. He was educated at Dulwich College; Kelly College, Tavistock, and Sandhurst. In the latter he passed out first and was awarded the King’s Medal and the Anson Memorial Sword. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Connaught Rangers in October 1902. Transferring to the Indian Army in August 1904 and serving with the 32nd Sikh Pioneers, he was promoted to Lieutenant in January 1905; Captain in October 1911 and Major in October 1917. He served in the latter part of the Tibet Expedition, 1904, then in the Abor Expedition, 1911-12, for which he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 16 July 1912). Serving during the Great War, 1915-18, he was Brigade-Major of the 6th Infantry Brigade in Mesopotamia. For his services he was three times mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 19 October 1916, 14 November 1916 and 15 August 1917) and awarded the D.S.O. (London Gazette 25 August 1917) and the Serbian Order of the White Eagle, 5th Class with swords. Major de Courcy then served in the Marri Operations for which he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 18 May 1920), the Afghan War of 1919 for which he was again mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 3 August 1920), and the Waziristan Campaign of 1921-24. In 1922 he was appointed D.A.Q.M.G. Eastern Command, India. He retired from the Indian Army as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1931 and in the same year succeeded his father as the 34th Baron (by some reckonings 29th Baron) Kingsale, Baron of Ringrone and the Premier Baron of Ireland. Baron Kingsale died on 21 October 1965 and was succeeded by his only surviving grandson, John. Sold with some copied research. £300-£350

The historically important insignia of the Order of Saint Patrick successively worn by Richard, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), Governor-General of India, by the 6th Earl of Mayo (1822-72), Viceroy of India from 1869 until his assassination in February 1872, and finally by the 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902), third Governor-General of Canada and eighth Viceroy of India the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, an important set of insignia, circa 1800-10 comprising an impressively large oval double-sided sash badge in gold and enamels, 80mm x 65mm excluding suspension, some bruising to the edge of the badge and one outer and several inner retaining pins lacking, minor enamel chip to stalk of one central shamrock and likewise to one border shamrock on each side, otherwise very fine and superb condition for age, and breast star in silver with hinged arms and gold and enamel centre, the silver backplate engraved with three successive inscriptions ‘Marquefs Wellesley / ®TAT. 83’, ‘Richard Southwell 6th Earl of Mayo / ®TAT. 50’, and ‘The Marquis of Dufferin & Ava / ®TAT. 76’, fitted with gold pin for wearing, extremely fine, the green enamel shamrock expertly restored, the two pieces contained in a mid to late 19th century fitted case, the lid with later gilt embossed inscription, ‘Order of St Patrick worn by Richard, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), Governor-General of India and afterwards The Earl of Mayo (1822-1872) Viceroy of India’, complete with full dress sash, a most important and historic set of insignia £20000-30000 provenance: Sotheby March 1995, by direct descent. ‘Wellesley was Governor-General of Bengal in 1799 at the time of the subjugation of the rebel state of Mysore under Tippoo Sultan, and the army in gratitude for his leadership, ‘caused a star and badge of the Order of St Patrick to be prepared, in which as many of the jewels as could be found suitable were taken from the Treasury of Tippoo’. He initially refused it, but subsequently accepted it from the hands of the East India Company, and was delighted to have it. ‘It is magnificently beautiful and of enormous value. I should think about 8 or 10,000 pounds sterling; it is the most superb decoration I have ever seen.’ After his resignation from the Order in 1810 to accept the Order of the Garter, he would not have been able to wear the star and badge of the Order of St Patrick again. What happened to the jewelled Patrick star and badge is unknown, but the marquess was in some financial difficulties in the last years of his life, and it may have been sold to pay his creditors, and even broken up, though his silver star and enamelled badge did survive. There appeared in The Times on 31 March 1885, the following article: ‘There have been three Irishmen - namely, Lord Wellesley, Lord Mayo, and Lord Dufferin, who have been Governors-General of India and also Knights of St Patrick. When Lord Mayo went to India the star of the Order worn by Lord Wellesley was lent to him by Mr Alfred Montgomery, and he used it during the period of his viceroyalty. After his death Mr Montgomery presented the star to Lady Mayo and when Lord Dufferin went to India, she lent it to him and he now wears it.’ The badge and star still exist, and were auctioned at Sotheby's in London in 1995.’ (Ref: The Most Illustrious Order - The Order of Saint Patrick and its Knights, Peter Galloway, London, 1999). alfred Montgomery, referred to above, was the son of Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery, a senior civil servant on the Madras establishment. Born in 1814 and educated at Charterhouse, at the age of sixteen Alfred became private secretary to the Marquess of Wellesley, the elder brother of the Duke of Wellington. Wellesley was deeply attached to Alfred's mother, and it was widely rumoured that his choice of private secretary had been influenced by his suspicion that he was in fact the boy's father. Alfred was generally believed to bear a striking similarity in appearance to Wellesley and was perhaps best known during his lifetime as a magnificent wit and entertainer, the ‘last of the Dandies’. he was granted a civil list pension of £300 in 1834, raised to £720 in 1882. He died in 1896 and Wellesley’s St Patrick insignia appears to have been bequeathed to Montgomery who took it upon himself to further the association of the Order with the high office of Governor-General, or Viceroy, of India, by lending it to his brother-in-law, Lord Mayo, upon his appointment as Viceroy in 1869. Married just three weeks after Wellesley’s death, to Fanny Wyndham, daughter of George Wyndham, Baron Leconfield, and granddaughter of George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont; their daughter Sibyl subsequently married the 8th Marquess of Queensberry, whilst Fanny’s younger sister, Blanche, a few years afterwards married Richard Southwell Bourke, later 6th Earl of Mayo (qv). richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, also called (from 1781) 2nd Earl of Mornington, Viscount Wellesley of Dangan Castle, or (from 1797) Baron Wellesley of Wellesley, was born in June 1760 at Dangan, County Meath, Ireland. A successful statesman who, as governor of Madras and governor-general of Bengal (both 1797-1805), greatly enlarged the British Empire in India and who, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland attempted to reconcile Protestants and Catholics in a bitterly divided country. He was a founder Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1783 but resigned in 1810 on appointment as a Knight of the Garter. He did, however, have further important associations with the Order of St Patrick, serving two terms as Grand Master in 1821-28 and 1833-35. a moderately liberal disciple of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, Wellesley sat successively in the Irish House of Commons, the Irish House of Lords (after inheriting his father’s Irish titles in 1781), and the British House of Commons until 1797. From 1793 he was a member of the British Privy Council and a commissioner of the India Board of Control. as governor-general in India, he used military force and diplomacy to strengthen and expand British authority. He annexed much territory from some states and contracted with other states a series of "subsidiary alliances" by which all parties recognized British preponderance. He received a barony in the British peerage in 1797 and a marquessate in the Irish peerage in 1799. on receiving a British government order to restore to France its former possessions in India, he refused to comply; his policy was vindicated when the Treaty of Amiens of 1802 was violated and Great Britain resumed war against Napoleonic France. Wellesley's annexations and the vast military expenditure that he had authorized alarmed the court of directors of the East India Company. In 1805 he was recalled and, soon afterward, was threatened with impeachment, although two years later he refused an offer of the Foreign secretaryship. In 1809 he went to Spain to make diplomatic arrangements for the Peninsular War against France and later that year became foreign secretary in Spencer Perceval's ministry. In that office he antagonized his colleagues, who considered him an indolent megalomaniac and welcomed his resignation in February 1812. as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Wellesley disappointed the anti-Catholic George IV, and he was about to be removed when Wellington was appointed Prime Minister in January 1828. Wellesley then resigned because his brother was opposed to Roman Catholic emancipation, although the duke was constrained to accept that policy as a political necessity in the following year. Wellesley’s second term as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1833-34) ended with the fall of the 2nd Earl Grey's reform government. When the Whig Party returned to power in April 1835, he was not sent back to Ireland, and in his rage he threatened to shoot the Prime Minister, the 2nd Viscount Melbourne. Despite his own great achievem

The Royal Guelphic Order, G.C.H. (Military) Knight Grand Cross breast star in silver with gold and enamel centre and gold crossed sword hilts and blades, fitted with gold pin for wearing, unsigned but identical to known stars by Hamlett, contained in contemporary circular red leather case, the lid gold embossed ‘Sir Peter Halkett G.C.H.’, small part of one letter of legend lacking, otherwise extremely fine and scarce £3500-4000 admiral Sir Peter Halkett, G.C.H., Royal Navy, 6th Baronet of Pitferran, Scotland. He commanded the Circe frigate at the battle of Camperdown in 1797, became Admiral of the Blue in 1837, and died in 1839. £3500-£4000

The Royal Guelphic Order, K.C.H. (Civil) a superb Knight Commander’s breast star in silver with gold and enamel wreath and centre, the ‘white horse’ of Hanover in silver, the reverse gilt with pin for wearing, of continental manufacture and of very fine quality, some minor enamel chips and cracks, otherwise good very fine, a most attractive piece £2500-3000 £2500-£3000

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, G.C.S.I., Knight Grand Commander’s collar badge, 110mm x 58mm, gold and enamel with a fine quality central onyx cameo of a youthful Queen Victoria, suspended from a five-pointed silver star with small gold ring for attachment to collar, a particularly good quality early badge, extremely fine and extremely rare £6000-8000 £6000-£8000

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, G.C.I.E., Knight Grand Commander’s set of insignia, comprising sash badge in gold and enamels, and breast star in silver, gold and enamel with gold retaining pin, complete with full dress sash, the set contained in its late Victorian R. & S. Garrard & Co case of issue, enamel chips to one red petal and two green leaves of badge, otherwise nearly extremely fine £3500-4000 sold with manuscript note concerning the return of insignia, initialled by and attributed to Major-General Sir Owen Tudor Burne (1837-1909), G.C.I.E. (1897), K.C.S.I. (1879), Director of the Oriental and Peninsular Steamship Co., late 20th Foot; Military Secretary to Sir Hugh Rose when Commander-in-Chief in India, 1861; Private Secretary to the Earl of Mayo, Viceroy of India, 1868-72; and to the Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India, 1876-78; Member of the Council of India, 1887-97. £3500-£4000

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, K.C.I.E., Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge in gold and enamels, and breast star in silver, gold and enamel, complete with neck cravat, the set contained in its Garrard & Co. Ltd case of issue, nearly extremely fine £1800-2200 £1800-£2200

The extremely rare badge of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert bestowed upon Blanche Julia, Dowager Countess of Mayo, upon her appointment as Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria in 1872 the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, 3rd Class badge (1880-1902) [2nd Class when awarded in 1872], comprising a shell cameo of the conjoined busts of Queen Victoria and Prince Consort, signed J. Ronca of Chelsea, surrounded by a gold border set with twenty half pearls and four diamonds, surmounted by gold and enamel crown set with rubies, emeralds and diamonds, small gold loop for suspension, mounted on Lady’s bow as worn, contained in a later case with gold blocked inscription, minor scratches to cameo, otherwise extremely fine and of the highest rarity £12000-15000 provenance: Sotheby March 1995. the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert was instituted by Queen Victoria in 1862 as a private family award to commemorate Prince Albert. A second class was added in 1864, and the Order was extended to four classes in March 1880, but limited to the Sovereign and forty-five ladies. The first two classes were reserved for Royal Ladies [the second class being specifically for those of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters who were not British princesses], the third class for the Mistress of the Robes and Ladies of the Bedchamber, and the fourth class for Women of the Bedchamber. The fourth class badge did not have a cameo portrait but comprised the entwined ciphers of VR and A, set with brilliants and half-pearls, surmounted by a gold and enamel crown set in diamonds. The Order ceased to exist in May 1902, but its members survived into the present reign. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, the last surviving member of the 1st Class, died in 1962, and Queen Victoria’s last surviving granddaughter, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, the last surviving recipient of the 2nd Class, died in 1981. approximately 34 Ladies were awarded the 2nd Class (3rd Class from 1880) of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert during the period of its existence from 1862 until the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. Insignia from this Order very rarely comes on the market and some price comparisons from three decades ago make surprising reading. A 3rd Class badge sold at Sotheby in June 1973 for £4200, whilst in the same sale the Victoria Cross group to Colonel J. C. Daunt sold for £2300 [Magor Collection, DNW July 2003, £126,500]. Another 3rd Class badge was sold by Sotheby in February 1975 for £6500, on which occasion the Victoria Cross group to Major John Cook realised £3700 [Ritchie Collection, DNW September 2004, £94,300]. the Honourable Blanche Julia Wyndham was born on 21 November 1826, daughter of the 1st Baron Leconfield. She married in 1848 to the 6th Early of Mayo, later Viceroy of India, who was assassinated in February 1872. She was appointed to the 2nd Class of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert on 11 May 1872, to coincide with her appointment as a Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen. She became an Extra Lady of the Bedchamber in 1874 and remained as such until the Queen’s death in 1901. In 1878, she was appointed one of the founding Companions of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, established to commemorate the Queen becoming Empress of India (see Lot 524). The Dowager Countess of Mayo died on 31 January 1918. £12000-£15000

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, G.B.E. (Military) Knight Grand Cross, 1st type set of insignia, comprising sash badge in silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star in silver, silver-gilt and enamel, complete with full dress sash, the set contained in its Garrard & Co. Ltd ‘G.B.E. Mily.’ case of issue, enamel flaked at point of one arm of badge, otherwise extremely fine and very scarce £2000-2500 £2000-£2500

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, G.B.E. (Civil) Knight Grand Cross, 2nd type 1936-52 period set of insignia, comprising sash badge in silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star in silver, silver-gilt and enamel, complete with full dress sash, the set contained in its Garrard & Co. Ltd case of issue, extremely fine £1600-1800 £1600-£1800

The Companion of Honour group of three awarded to Harold Arthur, Viscount Dillon, first Curator of the Tower of London Armouries, Chairman of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery, President of the Royal Archaeological Institute and of the Society of Antiquaries, Trustee of the British Museum and of the Wallace Collection, a leading authority on the history of arms and armour and medieval costume the Order of the Companions of Honour, G.V.R., neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘Harold Arthur Viscount Dillon 1921’, with length of neck ribbon; Jubilee 1897 (Harold Arthur Viscount Dillon PSA, PRIA); Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued, good very fine (3) £2500-3000 Ex Hayward’s Gazette, December 1975. harold Arthur Lee Dillon was born on 24 January 1844, and was educated at a private school at Eltham, Kent, and at Bonn University. He joined the Rifle Brigade in 1862, was promoted to Lieutenant in 1866, and served in India and Canada during the Fenian troubles of 1868-71. He left the regular army in 1874, but was promoted to Captain in the Oxfordshire Militia and eventually retired with the rank of Major in 1891. In the following year he succeeded his father as the 17th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen. on leaving the army Dillon became interested in modern military subjects such as equipment and dress, which eventually led him to the history of arms and armour and medieval costume. Dillon traced hundreds of illuminated manuscripts and illustrated works and made a series of brass rubbings. When he would enter a gallery he would focus only on those paintings with military themes, concentrating on sword hilts, armour and horse trappings, and skillfully copied them. his first works were published shortly after he left the army. These articles related to his home, Ditchley in Oxfordshire and described flint tools excavated from the area and objects from the collections in the house. He published many articles on the subjects of arms and armour and military history which appeared in academic journals such as the Archaeological Journal and Archaeologia as well as journals of popular and military general interest such as Antiquary and Colburne's United Service Magazine. He would also write on the subjects of arms and armour in pictures, on monuments and in Shakespeare, on tournaments, military equipment, soldier's arms, equipment and life. His first major undertaking was a revised edition of F. W. Fairholt's two volume Costume in England, published in 1885. Three years later he published a paper on the sections of the great 1547 Inventory of the possessions of Henry VIII. In his writings Dillon focused on the defensive and offensive characters of armour rather than as a work of art. many of his articles appeared under his own name, but he would sometimes use the pseudonym 'Armadillo.' The animal was so closely linked with Lord Dillon that the designer of a commemorative medal produced for the National Portrait Gallery used an image of an armadillo for the reverse of a medal bearing the portrait of Lord Dillon. although Dillon was associated with the Tower of London Armouries from 1892, serving as the consultant scientific expert, he was not officially appointed curator of the Armoury until 1895. He was tasked with producing an accurate and up to date catalogue of the collection. As curator he was able to reduce historic inaccuracies that had built up over the previous years. In 1827 Samuel Meyrick had brought expert knowledge to the collection, but it had then fallen into the hands of the War Office storekeepers and unfortunately most his work was lost. Labels were misplaced, and suits wrongly mounted and erroneous traditions had been established for public amusement. his research led him through the State Papers, especially those of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, in which he discovered interesting and valuable details about the making and issue of arms and armour. Dillon dismantled nearly every piece of armour in the collection to see how it was worn and the reason for certain constructional details. Most of the pieces were those of Henry VIII. Dillon even tried them on himself to see how the rivets and the joints of the harness worked and discovered that many of the suits had been wrongly assembled This exercise enabled him to rectify countless inaccuracies. He also examined the internal mechanisms of the crossbow, pistol and gunlocks. in 1910 Dillon's Illustrated Guide to the Armouries was published, being a summary catalogue of the arms and armour as he had arranged and exhibited them, and the various manuscript inventories of the collection. Dillon carried out a complete reorganisation of the collection in preparation for the new catalogue, and made a detailed examination of all the major pieces as well as identifying a number of those with important historical associations, and corrected inaccuracies. The catalogue was more in the format of a guided tour rather than a systematic catalogue. dillon considered his task to be one of preserving and studying a closed collection rather than expanding it and spreading knowledge of it outside the Tower. His two significant acquisitions for the collection were a pistol of Prince Charles, purchased in 1898 and a part visor of King Henry VII found in St James' Palace in 1906. One of his most valuable contributions was the Armourer's Album which appeared for sale in Paris and by Dillon's efforts was purchased and preserved in the Victoria & Albert Museum. The album contained a number of watercolour drawings of suits of armour of the Elizabethan period that were made at Greenwich, many of which were in the Tower, together with the names of the owners, which proved invaluable for establishing provenance and for identifying pieces in the Tower, Windsor and other private collections. lord Dillon contemplated retiring in 1909, but finally retired from his post of Curator in 1912, and handed the Armouries over to Charles Foulkes. Dillon left the Armouries on its way to becoming a modern museum. A catalogue had been completed, a programme of inspections of loans had been established, and regular inventory checks were carried out. Armour and weapons were displayed according to the techniques of the day, with labels and a guidebook describing the displays. he received an honourary degree of Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford and the Order of Companion of Honour by the King in 1921. Dillon served as a trustee to the British Museum, secretary to the Royal Commission on Westminster Abbey, President of the Royal Archaeological Institute of the Wallace Collection, Trustee and Chairman of the Board of the National Portrait Gallery, Honourary Member of the Armourers and Brasier's Company of London, Fellow of the British Academy and Antiquary of the Royal Academy. Harold Arthur Lee Dillon died on 18 December 1932. The group is sold with a ‘Souvenir Album of the Tower of London, with Historical and Descriptive Notes by The Viscount Dillon P.S.A.’ £2500-£3000

Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1926, in worn case of issue, nearly extremely fine £220-260 £220-£260

Family group: the Order of St. John insignia attributed to Mr Waynman Dixon the Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, Chevalier of Honour insignia consisting of a neck badge, 41 x 41mm., unembellished, gold and enamel, arms inscribed, ‘W.D. 24.6.1885’, swivel ring suspension, with ribbon, with gold and enamel stick-pin, in Philips Brothers & Son, London case of issue, enamel damage to both pieces, nearly very fine and rare the Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, Knight of Grace set of insignia, neck badge, 52 x 52mm. and breast star, 52 x 52mm., both embellished, silver and enamel, with neck ribbon, in Philips Bros. & Son, London case of issue, star with bent points and severe enamel damage; neck badge with minor enamel damage; with gold and enamel stick-pin, fine and better the Order of St. John insignia attributed to Mrs Waynman Dixon the Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, Lady of Grace shoulder badge, 42 x 42mm., silver and enamel, with bow ribbon, in case of issue; together with a similar miniature dress badge in case of issue, extremely fine three: Miss Betty Waynman Dixon, Voluntary Aid Detachment british War and Victory Medals (B. W. Dixon, V.A.D.); Defence, unnamed, these extremely fine (lot) £550-650 Mr Waynman Dixon was admitted as a Chevalier of Honour of the Order of St. John on 21 April 1885. He became a Knight of Grace post-1888. Mrs Anne Elfleda Dixon was admitted as a Lady of Grace on 30 April 1915. insignia to Mr Waynman Dixon sold with a letter from the Grand Priory of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, dated 11 December 1906, informing him of his appointment by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, to be a Selected member of the Chapter-General; two papers on the wearing of St. John insignia and two newspaper cuttings. attached to the lid of the insignia to Anne Elfleda, Mrs Dixon, is an old note, ‘Mrs Waynman Dixon, Decoration of The Order of St. John J. as Lady of Grace about 1906’. betty Waynman Dixon, was born in Sheffield c.1880. Believed to be the daughter of the above, she served with the V.A.D. in France, attached to the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R., 8 November 1916-17 May 1918. For her services she was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 24 December 1917). Also with an amband of ‘The St. John Ambulance Association’. £550-£650

Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R. 1st issue, officially dated ‘1945’ on suspension bar, silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar, nearly extremely fine £800-900 £800-£900

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver and enamel, reverse dated ‘1943’, on bow ribbon, in Garrard, London case of issue, extremely fine £120-160 £120-£160

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse dated, ‘1945’, on bow ribbon, in Garrard, London case of issue, extremely fine £140-180 Sold with the Second Award bar for the 1st Class, in silver and enamel. £140-£180

Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver and enamel, reverse dated ‘1946’, on bow ribbon, in Garrard, London case of issue, extremely fine £120-160 £120-£160

Six: J. Shenton, British Army, formerly a Boy Scout from Rugby 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; R.S.P.C.A. Life Saving Medal, bronze (John Shenton, March 4 1921), complete with ‘For Humanity’ brooch bar, in Spink, London case of issue; Rotary Club, Past President’s Badge, Port Talbot branch (John Shenton 1957-58), silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1957, in Toye, London plastic wallet; Primrose League Badge, gilt and enamel, pin-backed, extremely fine (8) £180-220 extract from 1921 R.S.P.C.A. Annual Report: ‘Boy Scout John Shenton, Rugby, for saving the life of a runaway horse’. with copied extract from the Rugby Advertiser of 8 March 1921 which provides further details: ‘A Plucky Scout - On Friday afternoon a Boy Scout named John Shenton, of Lawford Road, aged 16, a member of the Lower School Troop, proved the value of Scout training, combined with grit, in a highly commendable manner. He was cycling from the town in the direction of Lower Hillmorton Road; and on reaching Whitehall Road noticed a run-away heavy horse, attached to a cart, the body of which was tipped and dragging along the road. The animal was galloping madly along the Lower Road, in the direction of the town. The Scout quickly dismounted his cycle, laid it aside, and, as the horse reached him smartly put into practice the Scout method he had been taught to adopt under such circumstances, caught the horse’s rein, and soon brought the excited animal to a standstill. A small crowd of onlookers immediately gathered, whom the Scout requested to lift the body of the cart. He then put right the disarranged harness, calmed the excited horse, and led it quietly back in the direction from which it had come until he met its driver, whom the horse had knocked down and slightly hurt in breaking away. The horse and cart were the property of Mr J. Durham, of West Street. It is highly probable that through this Boy Scout’s prompt and plucky action, serious damage to either person or property in the town was averted, and his performance on this occasion is highly creditable to both him and the troop to which he belongs’. second World War Medals in card box with forwarding slip; with riband bar and copied research. £180-£220

The mounted group of four miniature dress medals attributed to Colonel E. A. Burrows, Royal Artillery order of St. Michael and St. George, gold and enamel, with gold buckle on ribbon; Jubilee 1897, silver; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Tugela Heights, Rel. of Ladysmith; Laing’s Nek, Orange Free State, Belfast, South Africa 1901, mounted as worn, first with slight enamel damage, very fine and better (4) £80-100 Edmund Augustus Burrows was born on 19 March 1855, the son of Canon Burrows of Rochester, Kent. He entered the Army in 1875 and was appointed a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1900. He was awarded the C.M.G. in 1900 and the C.B.E. in 1919. Latterly a J.P. for Buckinghamshire and living at The Manor House, Long Crendon, Thame, he died on 19 May 1927. For his son’s full-size medals, see Lot 1214. £80-£100

A mounted group of five miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel F. S. Williams-Thomas, Worcestershire Yeomanry distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel, complete with top bar, minor enamel damage; 1914-15 Star, with clasp, 5th Aug-22nd Nov. 1914; British War and Victory Medals; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., complete with top bar, mounted as worn, good very fine a mounted group of five miniature dress medals, 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps (loose), Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24; Jubilee 1935, mounted as worn, this group fine and better (10) £80-100 D.S.O. London Gazette 30 January 1920. £80-£100

A mounted group of six miniature dress medals, Order of St. Michael and St. George, silver-gilt and enamel; Military Cross, G.V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen; 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as worn a mounted group of seven miniature dress medals, Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel, complete with top bar; Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Defence; Jubilee 1935, mounted court style as worn, very fine and better (13) £100-140 £100-£140

Order of the British Empire (2), 1st type, C.B.E.+, Civil Division, silver-gilt and enamel, enamel damage; another, 1st type, M.B.E., Civil Division, silver; Military Cross, E.II.R.; Order of St. John, base silver metal and enamel; Waterloo 1815, modern striking; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24; War Medal 1939-45, silver; General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., no clasp; Army L.S. & .G.C, V.R., very fine (10) £60-80 £60-£80

Deaf Hill Lodge Welcome Home Medal, obv. a wreathed shield, rev. inscription (name engraved), ‘Presented to J. Grieves in appreciation of Services Rendered in the Great War’, 28mm., 9.33g., 9ct. gold and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1919, ring suspension, nearly extremely fine £80-100 £80-£100

Llandebie Tribute Medal 1914-19, by Vaughton, Birmingham, obv. coat-of-arms, rev. inscription (name, rank, regt. engraved), ‘Presented by the People of Llandebie to Sgt. Fred Taylor, D.C.M., M.M., R.E.’, 31mm., silver and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1921, ring suspension, very fine £80-100 D.C.M. London Gazette 18 July 1917. ‘40783 Sapper (L./Cpl.) W. J. F. Taylor, R.E.’ ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He showed great gallantry in rescuing four men from a mine gallery. On one occasion he had to wear rescue apparatus for one hour, and travelled 800 yards in a low narrow gallery’. m.M. London Gazette 16 August 1917. ‘40783 Spr. (actg. L./C.) W. J. F. Taylor, R.E.’ William J. Frederick Taylor, from Llandebie, Carmarthenshire, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 7 July 1915. He was placed in ‘Z’ Reserve on 22 January 1919. Sold with copied m.i.c. and gazette extracts. £80-£100

Parish of Great & Little Usworth Tribute Cross 1914-18, by Vaughton, Birmingham, obv. crossed pick and shovel, ‘Parish of Great & Little Usworth for Services in the War 1914-1918’, rev. engraved, ‘Geo. G. Willey’, 35 x 35mm., silver and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1919, ring suspension; St. Lawrence’s C.Y.M.S. Welcome Home Medal 1919, by Fattorini, Bradford, obv. crossed swords and angel of Victory, rev. inscribed, ‘Pte. O. Barrow, 111437 D.L.I., June 5th 1919’, 36 x 24mm., silver and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1918, ring suspension, good very fine (2) £80-100 Great and Little Usworth are situated in Co. Durham. Gunner George G. Willey served in the Royal Garrison Artillery. Sold with copied m.i.c. £80-£100

A group of five military presentation medallions awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel G. J. W. Malet, O.B.E., Royal Hussars u.S.A., Department of the Army, by Dondero Inc., obv. trophy-of-arms, rev. plain, undated, 76mm., bronze-gilt, in case of issue, inside with plaque, ‘Presented by General John A. Wickham, Jr, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army’; Portugal, Ecercito Portugus, obv. heraldic shield and helmet, rev. inscribed, ‘From General Jorge Salazar Braga, Chief of the Portuguese Army Staff, March 1985’, 90mm., bronze, in velvet covered case of issue; Brazil, Ecercito Brasileiro, obv. bust of Luis Alves de Lima e Silva, Duque de Caxias (1803-1880), undated, 70mm., silvered bronze, in velvet covered case of issue bearing gilt and enamel emblem of Brazil, inside of lid inscribed, ‘Exercito Brasileiro Presena Nacional’; France, Plaquette, bearing a shield marked, ‘E.M.A.T.’ and the inscription, ‘Offert par le General d’Armee Maurice Schmitt Chef d’Etat-Major de l’Armee de Terre Franaise au Lieutenant-Colonel G. J. Malet, Mars 1987’, 125 x 77mm., silvered metal, in Delsart, Sens case of issue; Oriental (? Vietnam), Commemorative Bronze Medal, 1927-1987, 49mm, in case of issue, all unnamed except where stated, virtually mint state (5) £80-120 O.B.E. London Gazette 31 December 1987. ‘Lieutenant Colonel, The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s Own)’. Recommendation states, ‘Lt Col Malet has been Head of the Army Section of the Foreign Liaison Section since November 1983. His duties cover maintaining a close liaison with all the foreign MilitaryAttaches in London, staffing their many requests for information, hosting representational functions, arranging and escorting Attache group visits to UK and BAOR Military establishments, coordinating programmes for foreign military visitors and planning, programme and escorting CGS’s inbound COS visitors. ...... Dealing with the representatives of foreign countries provides unlimited scope for disaster but he has always foreseen and therefore averted problems. He is held in extremely high regard by all the foreign representatives who value his friendship, direction and help. ....’ greville John Wyndham Malet was born on 6 December 1939, the son of Captain John Wyndham Malet (1910-40) and June Rosalind nee Broadley, and was a scion of the Malet Baronets. He was educated at Harrow and in July 1958, after serving in the ranks for 242 days, he gained a commission in the 10th Hussars. Following the regiment’s amalgamation with the 11th Hussars in 1969, he continued to serve with the Royal Hussars. He was appointed G.S.O.2 (Author) at the R.A.C. Tactical School, December 1971-January 1974 and held the rank of Acting-Major from December 1971 until promoted to that rank in December 1972. In July 1980 he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; was awarded the O.B.E. in 1987 and was placed on Retired Pay in February 1990. He married in 1972, the Hon. Margaret Cherry Wigram, eldest daughter of the 2nd Baron Wigram, with whom he had two children. Latterly living at the Walled House, Hathertop, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, he died on 5 September 2004. william Malet, the founder of the Malet family in England, was a companion of William the Conqueror at Hastings and was related by marriage to Rollo, 1st Duke of Normandy. Sold with copied research. £80-£120

The Great War ‘Salonika’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. Wheeler, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., complete with top bar, slight enamel damage; 1914-15 Star (Major, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medal, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.), rank officially re-impressed on ‘Victory’; Defence; Greece, War Cross 1916-17, 2nd Class, bronze star on ribbon, mounted as worn, very fine and better (6) £1600-2000 d.S.O. London Gazette 26 July 1917. ‘Temporary Major, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Although wounded, he assumed command of the battalion, which had no officer available, and organized an attack on the enemy’s second line. By his energy and courage he inspired confidence in all ranks, and remained in command for four hours until relieved’. m.I.D. London Gazette 28 November 1917 (Salonika). greek War Cross 2nd Class London Gazette 7 October 1919. ‘Temporary Major, D.S.O., 7th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry’. cordy Wheeler was born on 13 September 1884. Educated at West Buckland School, Devon, and Keble College, Oxford, he was sometime an Assistant Master at Wellington College, Berkshire, and Headmaster of the Lower School of Lawrence Sheriff, Rugby. With the 7th Battalion Oxf. & Bucks. L.I. he served in Salonika and was their 2i/c during 1917 and was wounded. Still in Salonika he was appointed to the command of the 11th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment on 19 May 1918 and was subsequently wounded for a second time. For his services during the war, he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O. and Greek War Cross 2nd Class. Postwar he had published, The Memorial Record of the 7th (S) Batt. The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. sold with D.S.O. bestowal document; D.S.O. Statutes booklet; riband bars; M.I.D. Certificate; cloth 2 wounds stripe; Salonika Reunion lapel badge, enamelled; W.W.2 Defence Medal forwarding slip, and copied research which includes extracts from the above publication. £1600-£2000

A miniature French brass and enamel carriage clock the dial and sides painted with a riverside landscape and young maidens, in leather carrying case 8cm high

A 19th century French gilt brass and marble mantel clock By Mabille, Paris the case in the form of a young girl in a flowing dress holding a serpent and leaning against the dial, the whole on a breakfront gilt brass and white marble plinth, with bun feet, the 41/2" white enamel dial with twin winding apertures marked 'Mabille a Paris', the barrel movement striking on a bell 28cm wide, 34cm high