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An early ‘Northern Ireland’ Q.G.M. group of four awarded to Lance Corporal P. B. J. Broome, 3rd Battalion, The Light Infantry, for his gallantry during an ambush on his patrol in the Lower Falls area of Belfast, 21 May 1974. Broome rescued his wounded patrol commander whilst under fire, and forced the ambush to break up as a result of his accurate return fire - the latter wounding the IRA gunman, and forcing him to retreat within the gathering large civilian crowd Queen’s Gallantry Medal (24246502 Pte. Paul B. J. Broome, L.I.); General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24246502 Pte. P. B. J. Broome LI.); Jubilee 2002, unnamed as issued; Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (Const Paul B Broome) mounted as originally worn, and housed in custom made wooden case, with regimental emblem and recipient’s details embossed on lid, cleaned, very fine or better (4) £5,000-£6,000 --- Q.G.M. London Gazette 6 January 1975: ‘In recognition of services in Northern Ireland during the period 1 May 1974 to 31 July 1974.’ The following extract from a letter of congratulation upon the award of the Q.GM. to the recipient, written by Lieutenant General Sir Jack Harman, K.C.B., O.B.E., M.C., adds the following: ‘Your presence of mind and coolness in the face of considerable danger in the Lower Falls on 21 May 1974 were an example to us all.’ The recipient’s account of the above incident adds: ‘The award was issued following an ambush in the Lower Falls area of Belfast in May 1974 by the IRA upon a patrol in which l was a private soldier. Hand grenades were used on a covert observation post during which a soldier was seriously injured. The patrol l was part of came across the ambush and challenged a gunman who fired and wounded the patrol commander who fell in to the street in direct line of fire of the gunman. I ran into the street and managed to get the wounded NCO back into cover under fire from the gunman. I then returned fire and hit the gunman who was taken away by a large crowd that gathered and substantially outnumbered the soldiers on the ground. In the ensuing follow up no trace was located of the gunman as was common at that time.’ Paul Brian James Broome served with the 3rd Battalion, The Light Infantry in Northern Ireland. After leaving the army, he served as a Police Constable. Sold with the following related documents: Letter of congratulation from Lieutenant General Sir Jack Harman, K.C.B., O.B.E., M.C., Headquarters 1st British Corps, dated 3 January 1975; Letter to the same effect from General Sir Harry Tuzo, G.C.B., O.B.E., M.C., Commander-In-Chief British Army of The Rhine, dated 6 January 1975; Copy of Commanding Officer’s Orders [Lieutenant Colonel J. D. G. Pank, 3rd Battalion, The Light Infantry] announcing award, dated 6 January 1975; 2 photographs of recipient in uniform serving in Northern Ireland, including one which was taken a few days prior to the ambush and shows the recipient and the soldier that he rescued.
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Three: Lieutenant C. G. B. Edwards, Royal Field Artillery and Honourable Artillery Company 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut. C. G. B. Edwards. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. G. B. Edwards.) light contact marks, good very fine (3) £70-£90 --- Cedric George Billson Edwards was born in Ross, Hertfordshire, on 18 June 1894, and served as a Second Lieutenant in France from 4 December 1915. He subsequently attested for the H.A.C. as a Driver at Finsbury on 14 March 1921, and is recorded in 1939 as manager of the ‘Bell Hotel’ in Thetford, Norfolk.
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Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (1027787 W.O. Cl.II. B. K. Kendall. D.C.M. R.A.) light contact marks, good very fine £50-£70 --- B. K. Kendall was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 150 of 1927. No trace has been found of a Distinguished Conduct Medal being awarded to this man; however, the naming on the medal is entirely correct.
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Four: Warrant Officer Class I R. J. Newson, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (110728 Dvr R. J. Newson. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (1040086 Sjt. R. J. Newson. R.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (1040086 W.O. Cl.1. R. J. Newson. R.A.) the first three mounted as worn, the last in named card box of issue, light contact marks, very fine, the MSM extremely fine (4) £140-£180
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A Crimean War C.B. group od seven awarded to Vice Admiral Arthur Parry Eardley-Wilmot, C.B., Royal Navy The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1815, maker’s mark ‘TD’ over ‘HD’ for Thomas and Henry Davies, fitted with later silver-gilt ribbon buckle; Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (A. P. E. Wilmot, Lieut. R.N.); Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 3rd Class neck badge converted for breast wear, silver, gold and enamel; St. Jean d’Acre 1840, silver-gilt; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, the first with one or two very minor blemishes to enamel, light contact marks but generally good very fine (7) £4,000-£5,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Arthur Parry Eardley-Wilmot was born in April 1815, the fourth son of Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, Bart., M.P. for Warwickshire, and Governor of Van Diemen's Land, and entered the Royal Naval College in 1828. He joined H.M.S. Wolf, fitting for the East Indies, in 1830 as a 1st Class Volunteer, and subsequently saw active service against the Malay Pirates and in the blockade of the fortress of Quedah. In 1832 he was at Canton when the Chinese 'first displayed the symptoms of insolence and aggression'. He returned to England in October of the latter year as Midshipman in the Crocodile, and next joined Sir William Parker's Flagship, Asia, at Lisbon where he witnessed the expulsion of Don Miguel from Portugal during the Civil War with Don Pedro. Having passed for Mate in 1833, he visited 'the South Sea Islands, protecting British interests in the Sandwich Islands, the missionary interests at Marquesas, and the peace and good order in the Rio de la Plata'. During this latter commission a group of islands was discovered and named after the Actaeon. Promoted Lieutenant in July 1840, he was appointed to the Powerful the following November, and, under Commodore Sir Charles Napier, served off Syria and in the blockade of Alexandria. In the Wolverine he sailed for China, and was employed at the close of the Opium War in the blockade of the Canton River. He then served as Flag-Lieutenant to William Parker in the Cornwallis on the East Indies Station and in the Hibernia in the same capacity in the Mediterranean. Advanced to Commander in 1847 he was nominated acting Captain of the Spartan off the coast of Syria and then second Captain of the Superb. In 1851 he was appointed Commander of the Brig Harlequin, and, as there was no standard uniform for sailors at that time, he followed the lead of other Captains who dressed their crew, particularly the crew of the gig boats, according to their own taste. Wilmot's gig, manned by 'multi-coloured Harlequins', was consequently never hard to make out. In the Harlequin Wilmot distinguished himself in anti-slavery operations on the coast of West Africa, where he made several treaties, and subsequently received from the King of Dahomey, as 'a tribute of esteem and friendship', an ornamental purple velvet Cap and Silver Staff in the form of an alligator Fetish. In December 1853 The Illustrated London News wrote of this prize, 'The Staff is an emblem of high rank, and gives to the possessor the title of Great Chief. Whenever the person carrying the Staff is seen, the natives fall prostrate upon the ground, and, according to the homage paid to Royalty, throw dirt over their heads ...' Promoted Captain in 1854, Wilmot went aboard the Royal William (Captain Kingcome) as a volunteer for operations in the Baltic ending with the capture of Bomarsund. At Fort Nott, 'owing to the truce having expired', he was taken prisoner but the Russians chivalrously agreed to release him and he returned home in the Royal William to take command of the Paddle Steamer Sphinx, destined, with a cargo of ammunition and explosives, for Sebastopol. Commended in numerous despatches and created a C.B. for services in the Crimea, especially for organising the expedition to Kertch and superintending the landing of the Turkish army at Eupatoria. He was appointed in 1862 Captain of the wooden Corvette Rattlesnake, in which he was instructed to hoist the Broad Pennant of Commodore on the West Coast of Africa, where he spent the next four years stamping out the slave trade. On his return to England he was nominated a Naval A.D.C. and appointed Superintendent of Deptford Dockyard until his promotion to Rear-Admiral in 1870. On 2 October of that year he was appointed Second-in-Command of the Channel Fleet under Admiral Wellesley and hoisted his flag on board the Agincourt. In 1871 during a visit to Gibraltar, the Agincourt, leading the inshore Squadron, ran on the Pearl Rock and became stranded, causing considerable comment and controversy at the time. The mishap proved 'a deathblow' to Wilmot's seagoing career, and he retired as Vice-Admiral on 18 June 1876. He was author of The Midshipman’s Friend, or Hints from the Cockpit, 1845; Manning the Navy, 1849; and Complete and Universal Dictionary of Signals, 1849. He died at Torquay on 2 April 1886.
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Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R. (L.84718 Pte. E. Poulin) with Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry cap badge, very fine £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Eugene Poulin served during the Second World War with Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. He died on active service, 17 September 1944, and is buried in the Coriano Ridge War Cemetery, Italy.
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Five: Warrant Officer Class I J. Reidy, Northumberland Fusiliers, late Durham Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia), who was Mentioned in Despatches during the Boer War and served a remarkable 32 Years with the British Army Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Natal, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (29620 Rl: Sgt. Maj: J. Reidy. Durham R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (24-62 W.O. Cl.1. J. Reidy. North’d Fus.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (S Mjr J Reidy RA); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (29620. Q.M. Sgt. J. Reidy. R.A.) light contact marks to first, generally very fine (5) £200-£240 --- James Reidy was born in Deptford, Kent, in 1858. He attested for the Royal Artillery on 23 March 1876 and re-engaged at Cork on 21 January 1886 for further service as Battery Sergeant Major. Awarded his Long Service ands Good Conduct Medal in 1894, he served in South Africa from 22 March 1900 to 28 November 1901, and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901). Remaining with the Colours, the U.K. Military Campaign and Award Roll for South Africa adds: ‘At present serving on P.S. [Permanent Staff], Northumberland R.G.A. (Militia)’. Discharged at the age of 50 years on 23 September 1908, Reidy returned to service with the Tyneside Irish during the Great War, his papers stating ‘Max 55/’, and ‘over age 2/11’. Reidy was eventually discharged for a second time due to arthritis on 11 January 1919 and was later awarded an annuity M.S.M.
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Scottish Badges. A selection of Scottish badges including Royal Scots, Royal Scots Fusiliers, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, Cameronians, Black Watch, Highland Light Infantry, Gordon Highlanders, Cameron Highlanders, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Officer’s silvered Highland Brigade, some fixings missing, some copies, generally good condition (lot) £40-£50
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Seven: Second Lieutenant D. C. Mullen, Highland Light Infantry India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (2-Lieut. D. C. Mullen. H.L.I.); General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine, Palestine 1945-48, unnamed, with clasp carriage altered; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953, this a tailor’s copy, mounted court-style, good very fine (7) £140-£180
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A superb Second World War D.S.O. and Bar group of twelve awarded to Captain C. H. Petrie, Royal Navy, commanding H.M.S. Glengyle during the evacuation of Greece and the Battle of Crete, later on the planning staff of the Mulberry Harbour project for the invasion of Europe Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar, the reverse of the lower suspension dated ‘1941’, the reverse of the Bar dated ‘1942’, with integral top ribbon bar; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (Lieut. C. H. Petrie, R.N., H.M.S. Fox); 1914-15 Star (Lieut. C. H. Petrie R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. H. Petrie. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; France, Third Empire, Croix de Guerre 1914-1917, mounted for wearing, good very fine (12) £3,600-£4,400 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- D.S.O. London Gazette 7 November 1941: ‘For gallantry and devoted services in operations in Greek Waters.’ The recommendation for the immediate award of the D.S.O. states: ‘Christopher Henry Petrie, Acting Captain, H.M.S. Glengyle. On the occasion of the embarkation of Crete Force from Sphakia on the night 29th/30th May, Captain Petrie handled his ship with skill and determination and the embarkation arrangements in the “Glengyle” were well organised and skilfully conducted.’ D.S.O. Second Award Bar London Gazette 6 January 1942: Captain, H.M.S. Glengyle, ‘For outstanding gallantry, fortitude and resolution during the Battle of Crete.’ French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 24 March 1919. Glengyle was one of three fast ‘Glen’ Line ships specially equipped with strengthened davits to carry assault-landing craft, and earmarked for Operation ‘Workshop’, the Commando night attack on Pantellaria. In January 1941, Glengyle left Glasgow for the Middle East, in company with Glenroy and Glenearn. Already embarked in Glengyle were the commando forces of Brigadier Laycock, or ‘Layforce’ as it became, including the young Geoffrey Keyes, later to win the V.C. for the Rommel Raid. The objective of ‘Layforce’ was to effect a landing on the island of Rhodes, but this was cancelled because the Germans had landed in Greece, and the ships and craft were needed to evacuate the British and Commonwealth troops from there, and subsequently from Crete. With her specially fitted assault-landing craft, Glengyle played a significant part in these evacuations. When the Germans invaded Crete in May 1941, Laycock’s commandos were sent in and played a gallant but fruitless part in that débâcle. The majority went into the bag and ‘Layforce’ was disbanded at the end of July. The commandos were in a highly demoralised state, perhaps best summed up by some graffiti found on a troop deck in Glengyle: ‘Never in the whole history of human endeavour, have so few been buggered about by so many.’ Christopher Henry Petrie was born in Hertfordshire on 18 April 1889, and joined the Training Ship Britannia in September 1904. He took part in the operations in the Persian Gulf as Lieutenant of H.M.S. Fox, and during the Great War commanded H.M.T.B. 33, and H.M. Ships Phoenix, Skilfull and Miranda. He retired with a Gratuity in the rank of Lieutenant Commander in June 1920. Appointed Commander (Retired) in April 1929, and granted Acting Rank of Captain in November 1939, Petrie returned to active service in command of the Armed Merchant Cruiser H.M.S. Bulolo. In December 1940, he was appointed Captain of H.M.S. Glengyle, a Glen Line ship hired to the Royal Navy as a shore carrier. During the period 24-29 April 1941, Glengyle took part in Operation ‘Demon’, the evacuation from Greece in which 50,672 troops were embarked and brought to Crete. At the end of May, Glengyle embarked further troops of Crete Force during the night from Sphakia, for which Petrie was awarded his first D.S.O. Glengyle next took part in the reinforcement and eventual evacuation of Crete for which Petrie was awarded a Bar to his D.S.O. Subsequently, the ship took part in convoying heavy and light oils to Malta, especially during January 1942, when Malta was hardest pressed. After leaving Glengyle, Petrie was appointed to the planning staff for the Mulberry Harbour project for the invasion of Europe, and was specifically responsible for the construction of the artificial harbours and shelters in the British assault area. Captain Petrie retired in 1945. The Royal Navy was awarded 618 D.S.O.s and only 110 first bars during the Second World War.
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Pair: Private W. J. B. Richardson, Royal Marine Light Infantry, who was wounded in action in H.M.S. Chester during the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916; that same day his crew mate, Boy Cornwell, was awarded the Victoria Cross for his gallantry, although mortally wounded, in manning one of the Chester’s guns alone British War and Victory Medals (Ch.20053 Pte. W. J. Richardson. R.M.L.I.) good very fine (2) £80-£100 --- William John Barnard Richardson was born in Southborough, Norfolk, on 14 January 1898 and enlisted into the Royal Marines at London on 22 July 1915. He joined the crew of H.M.S. Chester on 2 May 1916, and was wounded in her at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916. Discharged to shore on account of his wounds on 2 June 1916, he rejoined the Chester on 22 July 1916, and served in that ship until the cessation of hostilities. He was invalided from the service on 24 September 1919. Sold with copied record of service.
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A Great War ‘Western Front bombing party’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private R. J. McAllister, 3rd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry; ‘although wounded, he attempted to charge the barricade, but was forced to retire, being wounded again in three places by bullets, and also injured by a bomb’ Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (10062 Pte. R. J. McAllister. 3/H.L.I.); 1914-15 Star (10062 Pte. R. J. McAllister, High. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (10062 Pte. R. J. McAllister. H.L.I.) a little polished, otherwise nearly very fine (4) £1,000-£1,400 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 14 January 1916; citation published 11 March 1916: ‘For conspicuous gallantry. Private McAllister volunteered to form one of a bombing party in an attack on the enemy’s barricade. Although wounded, he attempted to charge the barricade, but was forced to retire, being wounded again in three places by bullets, and also injured by a bomb. His bravery and devotion were most marked.’ Annotated gazette states: ‘Richebourg L’Avone, 15 June 1915.’ Robert J. McAllister served in France from 1 December 1914, initially with the 1st Battalion and later with the 3rd Battalion. He also served with the Royal Engineers and the Machine Gun Corps. Sold with copied research including gazette notices, Medal Index Cards and Battalion War Diary extracts.
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A ‘double issue’ Queen’s South Africa Medal group of three awarded to Gunner W. Hales, Royal Field Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 (2), 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (34515 Gnr: W. Hales, 39th. Bty: R.F.A.); 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (34515 Gnr: W. Hales. 38th. Bty: R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (34515 Gnr: W. Hales. R.F.A.) light contact marks, very fine and better (3) £200-£240 --- Walter Hales was born in Bow, London, in 1881. A carpenter, he initially attested for the Royal Engineers as Sapper on 11 April 1899, before transferring to the Royal Field Artillery a couple of days later. Posted to South Africa from 5 September 1900 to 4 March 1907, his Army Service Record confirms entitlement to the QSA Medal with 3 clasps.
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An extremely fine British War Medal awarded to The Reverend Major H. C. Eves, M.C. and Second Award Bar, Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, late Machine Gun Corps and Durham Light Infantry, who was twice decorated for personally capturing an enemy machine-gun and crew, and was later recognised for holding back waves of the enemy on the First Day of the German Spring Offensive. Devoting his later life to the study of theology and God, he became a much admired and loved personality in Newmarket, notably after suggesting Public Houses could become good recruiting grounds for the next generation of parishioners British War Medal 1914-20 (Major H. C. Eves.) attractively toned, minor edge bruise, good very fine £200-£240 --- M.C. London Gazette 4 February 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He personally captured an enemy machine gun and two of the team. On reaching the final objective he went forward in advance of the Tanks and captured two field guns. He showed great daring and initiative.’ M.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 26 July 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during an enemy attack, when he controlled his battalion under very heavy fire, and later advanced to a most advantageous position, where his guns did great execution. Finally, although partially surrounded, he fought his guns to the last until overwhelmed by enemy bombers, and when all his guns except one had been knocked out, he succeeded in retiring with it.’ Harold Cecil Eves was born in Redcar, Yorkshire, on 13 June 1894. Educated at Coatham Grammar School, he was appointed to a commission as Second Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry in the London Gazette of 9 June 1915. Posted to France on 4 June 1916, he transferred to the Machine Gun Corps and was twice decorated with the Military Cross. The Second Award Bar was later notified in The North-Eastern Daily Gazette on 9 May 1918: ‘Lieut. H. C. Eves, who was recently awarded the Military Cross, has now received a Bar to his distinction for bravery in holding up the enemy with the machine-gun during the attack on March 21st.’ Hostilities over, Eves was admitted to St. Chad’s College, Durham University, where he was awarded a theological scholarship and a prize for Hebrew in 1920. Graduating B.A. (1921) and M.A. (1924), he won an open exhibition for mathematics with £30 and represented the University at football; he also played for Stockton Football Club. Ordained at Durham Cathedral, he took appointment as Curate at Brotton Parva and Carlin Howe, followed by Wath-on-Dearne from 1926-31. The Sheffield Daily Telegraph later recorded Eves experiencing further sporting success, this time on the golf course: ‘Bishop of Sheffield and the Game for the Clergy. The Reverend H. C. Eves of Wath, is the first winner of the Cup presented by the Bishop of Sheffield for competition among the members of the newly-formed Sheffield Clergy Golfing Society. On the course of the Abbeydale Club yesterday morning, the Rev. Eves led the way with an excellent card of 89-16: 73.’ The event proved a fine success, the Bishop keen to add: ‘He could think of no finer way for the Sheffield Clergy to get together than in God’s fresh air.’ Appointed to the living of Bradfield St. George, near Bury St. Edmunds, Eves subsequently spent the full duration of the Second World War as Chaplain to the Forces. The Bury Free Press & Post of 28 September 1945, adds: ‘In the early months he was in France, and was among the last to return to this country through St. Nazaire after the fall of Dunkirk. Since that time he has served in Scotland and Bury St. Edmunds.’ Transferred to the Suffolk and Essex Home Guard, Eves later found himself looking for new ways of filling his church pews with peace returned: ‘The Pub and the Parson. The Reverend H. C. Eves, former Rector of Bradfield St. George and now rector of St Mary’s, had something to say about racehorses and “pubs” when he addressed his annual parochial meeting this week. He described his five months’ stay in Newmarket as simply wonderful, and later went on to speak of the danger of young folk losing their vision in Christ... “We must do our bit,” he said. “It is our part of the battlefield...” There was laughter when the Rector said he had hinted to the men where they could talk about it, and he added: “I think the public house can be the best friend to a Parson!”’ A married man, the Reverend Harold Eves died at Newmarket on 6 January 1979.
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Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 5 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, El-Teb_Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85, Kirbekan, right hand side rivets missing between second and third clasps, and top clasp facing slightly worn (795 Pte. J. Payne. 1/R. Hrs.) scratches to obverse field and small defect to reverse field, edge bruising and light pitting, good fine £600-£800
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Four: Marine W. H. J. Jackson, Royal Marines Light Infantry 1914 Star (Ply. 16233. Pte. W. H. J. Jackson, R.M. Brigade.); British War and Victory Medals (Ply. 16233 Pte. W. H. J. Jackson, R.M.L.I.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (Ply 16233 W. H. J. Jackson. Mne. R.M.) contact marks, some staining, good fine and better (4) £120-£160 --- William Henry John Jackson, a shop assistant from Horfield, Bristol, attested into the Royal Marines Light Infantry on 9 June 1913, and served during the Great War on the Western Front with the Royal Marine Brigade from 12 September 1914 at Dunkirk and at the Defence of Antwerp from 12 October 1914; he afterwards serving afloat in H.M.S. Active including service at the Battle of Jutland. Continuing to serve post-War, he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. on 2 February 1930 and was discharged on 17 June 1935. Sold with copied service papers.
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A Second War ‘Burma operations’ M.M. group of five awarded to Rifleman Mohammed Sharif, 5th (Napier’s) Battalion, 6th Rajputana Rifles Military Medal, G.VI.R. (27852 Rfn. Mohammed. Sharif. 6 Raj. Rif.) officially engraved naming; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal, mounted as worn, edge bruising to MM, this cleaned, nearly very fine and better £500-£700 --- M.M. London Gazette 31 August 1944. The original Recommendation states: ‘On the night of 23/24 May 1944 the Jap made a very strong attack upon a position in Palel-Tamu Road, which was held by “A” and “B” Companies of 5/6 Rajputana Rifles. No 10 Platoon’s position, which was between “A” Company and the remaining 2 platoons of “B” Company was over run and occupied by about 200 Japs, and “A” Company H.Q was left open and unprotected. Under heavy fire from mortars and light machine guns, No 27852 Rifleman Mohammed Sharif and No 17206 Rifleman Zaman Ali took up a position between Company H.Q and the enemy. Their position was in the open and there was no kind of shelter anywhere near them. Throughout the night under continuous heavy mortar and small arms fire they maintained their position inflicting many casualties on the enemy. By his courage and determination, Rifleman Mohammed Sharif successfully held off the enemy, inflicted many casualties and gave him the impression that Company H.Q was heavily defended.’
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Six: Miss Maude I. Smieton, later Lady Sanderson, Scottish Women’s Hospitals British War and Victory Medals (M. I. Smieton); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1918, with bronze star on riband; Medal of the Society of Aid to Military Wounded, silver; Cross of the Society of Aid to Military Wounded 1914-19, silver; together with the recipient’s Scottish Women’s Hospitals Medal 1914, bronze, unnamed, some corrosion to CdeG, otherwise good very fine (6) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Colonel D. G. B. Riddick Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2006. Maude Isolde Smieton was employed as an Orderly, Dispenser and Nurses Aide at the auxiliary hospitals at Villers Cotterets and Royaumont, France, from July 1916 to March 1919. In the Royaumont News Letter, 1968, she recalled: ‘I remember that last week at V.C. (Villers Cotterets). It was at the end of May just before we were to leave the hospital. I was seconded to the theatre and I was to spend all the time, day and night, as orderly with Inglis and some others. We could use only candles as we were under fire. I can see Inglis holding a candle at one side of the operating table and myself at the other, trying to keep our hand steady while loud explosions went on outside. The whole place was a shambles with men lying on the floor everywhere. It was so dark ... it was difficult to know whether a man was dead or alive. ... While Miss Ivens was operating, French soldiers burst into the place and asked us why we had not left as the town had been evacuated. We eventually got away next day, only just in time, as shells were coming over. ... The Americans came to our aid and helped with the wounded. Finally our ambulances from Royaumont came to our rescue. We were glad to see them. ...’ In a letter dated 23 May 1918, Smieton wrote of the last night at Villers Cotterets, ‘I shall never forget that night as long as I live; the sights were too appalling for words. I helped in the X-ray room. Three bombs were dropped quite close to the hospital; and a munition train in the station was bombed and went on fire. ... The doctoresses were simply splendid through it all. ... Seven amputations were done that night by the light of two candles’. Miss Smieton married Harold Leslie Sanderson, D.C.M. in 1922. He subsequently served as Director of Rice, Ministry of Food, from 1941 to 1952, and was knighted in 1946. A member and official of the Royaumont and Villers Cotterets Association. Lady Sanderson died on 11 February 1974.
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Pair: Nursing Sister Margaret Walker, Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. Walker.) officially re-impressed naming as typically encountered with QSAs to Nurses; King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. Walker.); together with the related miniature awards, these mounted as worn; and the recipient’s Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service cape badge, silver, light scratches to obverse, nearly very fine (3) £300-£400 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Margaret Walker trained at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, and joined Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve as No. 201 on 10 January 1900. She served in South Africa during the Boer War at No. 13 Stationary Hospital, Pinetown Bridge.
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The ‘Maiwand survivor’ Abyssinia and Afghanistan pair awarded to Major-General C. M. Griffith, 1st Bombay Grenadiers, who took over command of his Regiment after Colonel Anderson was severely wounded; when the inexperienced Jacob’s Rifles broke and fled, Griffith was ‘Conspicuous in his Efforts to Steady his Men’ and motivate the Bombay Grenadiers to ‘Fight On’, saving his Regiment’s reputation and averting a total disaster; afterwards he reconstituted a fighting unit from the surviving Grenadiers and commanded it during the Defence of Kandahar City and the subsequent victory at the Battle of Kandahar Abyssinia 1867 (Captn. C. M. Griffith. Bombay Staff Corps); Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Kandahar (Lieut. Col. C. M. Griffith. Bo. N.I.) both fitted with contemporary silver riband buckles, nearly extremely fine (2) £4,000-£5,000 --- Charles Matthew Griffith was born at Poona on 19 October 1834, the son of Colonel Julius George Griffith, later General and Colonel Commandant, Bombay Artillery. He was educated at Cheltenham College, nominated as an HEIC Cadet, and passed the Military Committee at East India House on 4 February 1852. After being twice rejected for his weak English and Latin, he was admitted to Addiscombe on 6 August 1852, and commissioned Ensign in the Bombay Infantry on 8 June 1854, at the age of 19. He arrived in Bombay on 23 September 1854 for regimental service with the 1st Bombay Native Infantry (Grenadiers). From June 1859 he was variously employed with the Irregular Cavalry, the Sind Judicial and Police departments, and as Superintendent of Police for the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. The March to Fortress Magdala By 1868, Griffith was a Captain in the Bombay Staff Corps. He was first sent on active service during the Abyssinia Campaign, the most logistically challenging but among the best executed of the British expeditionary wars up to that time. He was given responsibility for organising and commanding ‘A’ Division Highland Transport Train, 1st Brigade of the 1st Division, Abyssinian Field Force. He also commanded the stretcher-bearers who recovered the wounded on 10 and 13 April 1868 from the battlefields of Arogee and Magdala. He was created Brevet Major on 15 August 1868 and was four times Mentioned in Despatches: London Gazette 16 June 1868: ‘The bandsmen and a party of Punjab muleteers were also organised under command of Captain Griffith and furnished with stretchers for the removal of wounded men from the field.’ London Gazette 30 June 1868: ‘Captain Griffith [and other officers] have distinguished themselves by their zeal and activity and deserve special notice.’ London Gazette 10 July 1868: ‘Captain Griffith [and other officers], Land Transport Corps, commanded the first Divisions that were raised, are strongly recommended by the Director of Transport Corps for the extent and value of their assistance.’ London Gazette 7 August 1868: ‘The working of the Train next comes into consideration, which commenced with the arrival of Captain Griffith, with the advance Brigade... The Train was divided into four divisions... and Captain Griffith commenced the formation of “A” Mules... Difficulties and disasters met these officers at every step. Mules landed without equipment in hundreds, and with muleteers of the class already spoken of. At that time these officers having no subordinates had to look to everything themselves... The pleasing task now remains of bringing to the special notice of His Excellency the names of such officers more especially deserving of his kind consideration, and whose efforts came under the personal observation of the Director, who from first to last, never failed... Captain C. M. Griffith, Bombay Staff Corps.’ Griffith was granted furlough to England from 10 October 1868 to 22 November 1870. After marrying and returning to India, he was appointed Brigade Major, Aden in November 1871, promoted Major in June 1874, and Lieutenant-Colonel in July 1877. In August 1879, at the age of 44, he was appointed officiating Second in Command of 1st Bombay Grenadiers, considered to be an elite Indian regiment smartly turned out in a uniform of red jacket, khaki turban and dark blue trousers with white gaiters. Griffith accompanied his regiment to join the South Afghanistan Field Force via the Bolan and Khojak Passes in October 1879, experiencing the hostile, anti-British environment of the Kandahar region for many months. In July 1880 a column built around Brigadier Burrows’s 1st Brigade, which included the Bombay Grenadiers, was sent west to Girishk on the Helmand river. At the disastrous battle of Maiwand on 27 July 1880, Griffith initially commanded the Grenadier’s Right Wing, and then took command of the whole Regiment at around 3pm, after Colonel Anderson was severely wounded and evacuated. Maiwand Two months later, in mid-September 1880, the British, including some officers who had survived the massacre, revisited the battlefield. They found that the European and Indian bodies had been left to disintegrate where they fell, but, learning of the British return, local Afghan villagers had hastily buried them just days before in 40 separate shallow graves at the places where they had died. The battlefield was carefully surveyed and the graves plotted on the battle map, then opened and their contents recorded. The correlation of the battlefield survey with the unsatisfactory and evasive official despatches of the force commanders was so contradictory that each surviving officer was ordered to submit a written report outlining what he had directly witnessed. Lieutenant-Colonel Griffith’s official account is quoted below, slightly abridged, while extracts of accounts given by other officers mentioning Griffith are inserted in italics. ‘On the 26th July 1880, the force under Brigadier-General Burrows [personally brave but indecisive, cautious and totally inexperienced in commanding an all-arms force], which consisted of the following troops [2,600 men], were encamped at Khushk-i-Nakhud, which is on the road from Kandahar to Girishk on the Helmand and distant from the former place about fifty miles: E-B, Royal Horse Artillery [146 men]; Detachment [260 men], 3rd Sind Horse; Detachment [315 men] 3rd Light Cavalry; Detachment [46 men] Bombay Sappers and Miners; 66th Foot [473 men]; 1st Bombay Grenadiers [649 men, the largest infantry unit in the force]; and Jacob's Rifles [624 men]. It was generally believed… that an Afghan force, consisting of about 20,000 men and 36 guns, under Ayub Khan, was not far distant; but such was the enmity against us, that neither the political officers nor our own cavalry patrols were able to obtain reliable information either as to the correct numbers or the exact position of the Afghan force. However, information was received that a few ghazis and some cavalry of Ayub Khan’s advanced guard had occupied the village of Maiwand… and during the night orders were issued for our brigade to march on Maiwand the next morning [27 July] at 6:30 a.m. The position occupied by Ayub Khan’s army at this time was unknown. Owing to the large quantity of ordnance and commissariat stores which had been stowed away within walled enclosures at Khushk-i-Nakhud, and the loading of which took a considerable time, the force did not start punctually, and the sun was well up, and the heat considerable, before we were all off the ground. The force advanced with cavalry and two guns of E-B, Royal Horse Artillery, in advance; the infantry in line of columns at deploying distance; baggage on the right flank; and the whole brought up by a rear-guard of two guns and some cavalry, each regiment of infantry ...
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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Hy Munden, Cook 1st Cl: H. M. S. Severn.) impressed naming, suspension claw re-pinned, light contact marks, very fine £80-£100 --- Henry Munden was born in Gosport, Hampshire, in May 1839. He joined the Royal Navy in May 1859, initially serving as a Sick Berth Steward with H.M.S. Duncan (entitled to Canada General Service Medal with ‘Fenian Raid 1866’ clasp), before being rated as an Acting Cook 2nd Class in January 1874. His subsequent service included with H.M. Ships Starling from August 1882 until July 1886 (entitled to Egypt Medal with ‘Suakin 1885’ clasp), and Severn from February 1889 until February 1892 (awarded L.S. & G.C. in July 1890). Munden and advanced to Chief Cook in July 1889, and was shore pensioned in January 1894. Sold with copied service papers.
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Miscellaneous Economy Plastic Cap Badges. A selection of 6 economy plastic cap badges to Line Regiments, comprising Yorkshire Regiment, Gloucestershire Regiment, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, this broken, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, Middlesex Regiment, and Durham Light Infantry; together with a scarce Parachute Regiment cap badge; and a pair of Royal Marines collar badges, all complete with fold-over tangs, very good condition (9) £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
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British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (M.33173 W. E. Heydon. 2 Ck. Mte. R.N.; Po.12685 Pte. F. H. H. Gower. R.M.L.I.; F.36828 J. Riley. Act. A.M.1. R.N.A.S.) good very fine (3) £80-£100 --- Walter Edward Heydon was born in Deptford, London, on 7 July 1900 and joined the Royal Navy for hostilities only on 25 July 1918, serving for the entirety of the War in H.M.S. Pembroke I (and therefore presumably not entitled to a Victory Medal). He was shore demobilised on 28 June 1919. Frank Henry Herbert Gower serves with the Royal Marine Light Infantry during the Great War in the armoured cruiser H.M.S. Good Hope and was killed in action serving in her at the Battle of Coronel on 1 November 1914. Early in August 1914, a force - consisting of the old armoured cruisers Good Hope and Monmouth, the light cruiser Glasgow and the armed merchant cruiser Otranto, all under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock, R.N. - was sent to protect the southern trade routes and to intercept German cruisers operating on the high seas. In October 1914 the squadron was reinforced by the addition of the old battleship Canopus, but reports of the ship’s lack of speed led the admiral to leave her behind as he searched for the German East Asiatic Squadron. The German squadron, commanded by Admiral Graf von Spee, consisted of the armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the light cruisers Leipzig, Nurnberg and Dresden. Both admirals became aware of the proximity of the other on 31 October. At 6.40 p.m. on 1 November the squadrons made contact off Coronel, Chile and at 7.04 p.m. the battle opened at a range of 11,500 yards. As the German ships had a greater number of heavier guns, Cradock’s tactics were to close the range to allow his ships’ more numerous smaller calibre guns to come into play; this however was partly negated by the rough seas and high speeds which prevented many of the British armoured cruisers’ casement guns being brought into action. The British armoured cruisers were repeatedly hit as the range was reduced. As the range reduced to 5,500 yards, the Good Hope was on fire in several places and in a bad way. Endeavouring to reduce the range even further, so as to be able to fire torpedoes in a last ditch attempt to do damage to his adversary, the ship was repeatedly hit by heavy calibre shells and at 7.53 Good Hope blew up, taking the Admiral and all hands with her. At about 9.30 the Monmouth too was hunted down and sunk; the Glasgow and Otranto were able to make their escape under the cover of darkness. Gower is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. Sold with a postcard of H.M.S. Good Hope. John Riley was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, on 20 February 1890 and joined the Royal Naval Air Service for hostilities only on 31 August 1917. He transferred to the Royal Air Force as Founder Member on 1 April 1918.
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Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (C. Gilbert. Lamptr. H.M.S. “Alexandra.”) light contact marks, nearly very fine £160-£200 --- Charles Gilbert was born in Ryde, Isle of Wight, in November 1860. He joined the Royal Navy as a Lamptrimmer in October 1879, and served with H.M.S. Alexandra from March 1880 until January 1882. Gilbert was discharged to shore in February 1883. Sold with copied service papers.
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Three: Private G. A. Wells, South Wales Borderers, who served at the siege of Tsingtao, North China, in November 1914, and was killed in action at Gallipoli the following year 1914-15 Star (8744 Pte. G. A. Wells. S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (8744 Pte. G. A. Wells. S. Wales Bord.), in named card box of issue, with original named condolence bestowal slips, and envelopes addressed to ‘Mrs. E. Wells, 5 Morley Road, Barking’, very fine (3) £260-£300 --- George Alfred Wells, a barman from East Ham, Essex, was born on 18 December 1884. He attested into the South Wales Borderers and served during the Great War. He was present from 23 September 1914 with the 2nd Battalion, stationed in China where they formed part of the international garrison at Tientsin. In September 1914 the Battalion, supported by half a Battalion of the 36th Sikhs, joined their Japanese allies in an expedition against the German-occupied territory of Kiaochow and its port of Tsingtao. On 23 September 1914, the battalion’s embarkation of 22 officers and 910 men landed at Lao Shan Bay, about 40 miles north-east of Tsingtao, and began the difficult trek to the well-fortified main German settlement on Kiaochau Bay, which was the object of the expeditionary force. Casualties were generally light, although the extremely arduous conditions and bad weather caused them great discomfort. The nights of 5 and 6 November, however, brought the battalion heavier casualties than it had yet suffered. Brigadier-General Nathaniel Barnardiston, Commanding Tsingtau Expeditionary Force, gave the following details in his third Despatch:
‘On the 5th November I was ordered to prepare a Third Position of attack on the left bank of the river. This line was to a great extent enfiladed on both flanks by No. 1 and 2 redoubts, especially the latter from which annoying machine-gun fire was experienced. The bed of the river (a small stream running over a broad bed of sand) had also to be crossed, and in doing so the working parties of the 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers suffered somewhat severely, losing 8 non-commissioned officers and men killed and 24 wounded.’ The siege was soon brought to a successful conclusion with the assistance of an assault by Japanese forces present, and the white flag went up on 7 November 1914, giving the Regiment the unique distinction of a battle honour held by no other British Regiment. The Battalion’s losses overall had been just 14 men killed or died of wounds or disease, and 2 officers and 34 men wounded. He later served at Gallipoli, landing on the first day of the campaign, at Cape Helles on 25 April 1915 and was killed in action three days later during the Battle of Krithia on 28 April 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey. His medals were sent to his sister-in-law, the widow of his brother Arthur. Sold with the recipient’s original aluminium ID disk; and copied research.
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Three: Private W. S. Hughes, 2nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment), who died of wounds on the Western Front, 4 April 1917 1914-15 Star (8452 Pte W. S. Hughes. 2/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals (8452 Pte. W. S. Hughes. 2-Can. Inf.) in named card boxes of issue, good very fine Pair: Sergeant R. Cullen, 32nd (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (East Ham), who died of wounds on the Western Front, 7 June 1917 British War and Victory Medals (GS-53021 Sjt. R. Cullen. R. Fus.) generally very fine or better (5) £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- William Slowley Hughes was born in Taunton, Somerset in November 1884. He attested for the Somerset Light Infantry at Taunton in November 1901, having previously served in the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Posted to the 2nd Battalion, 22 July 1902, he left for South Africa, too late for the Boer War and served there until 30 April 1903. Hughes advanced to Lance Corporal in January 1903, and transferred to the Army Reserve in November 1908. He was discharged, 5 November 1913, before serving during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment). Private Hughes died of wounds (gunshot wounds scalp, chest, right hand, right knee and neck) at No. 30 Casualty Clearing Station, 4 April 1917. He is buried in Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Richard Cullen was born in Hamilton, Canada. He enlisted for the Royal Fusiliers at London, and served during the Great War with the 32nd (Service) Battalion (East Ham). Sergeant Cullen died of wounds on the Western Front, 7 June 1917, and is buried in the Mendingham Military Cemetery, Belgium.
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Pair: Driver W. Harrison, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (1335 Dvr. W. Harrison. R.A.) polished, fine Pair: Private J. Owen, Lancashire Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (54392 Pte. J. Owen. Lan. Fus.) very fine Pair: Private E. G. Wilson, York and Lancaster Regiment British War and Victory Medals (32126 Pte. E. G. Wilson Y. & L. R.) number officially corrected on VM, edge bruising, good fine Victory Medal 1914-19 (59604 Pte. K. Graham. Durh. L. I.) some staining, good fine (7) £80-£100 --- Kenneth Graham, from Benwell, Northumberland, attested into the Durham Light Infantry for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front with the 15th Battalion. He died of wounds on 19 September 1918 and is buried in Grevillers British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Sod with copied research.
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A fine Great War ‘Salonika’ M.M. group of nine awarded to Warrant Officer Class 1 W. J. H. Davis, 153rd Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery Military Medal, G.V.R. (34193 Cpl. W. J. H. Davis. R.G.A.); 1914-15 Star (34193. Gnr. W. J. Davis. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals; (34193 Cpl. W. J. H. Davis. R.A.) India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (1406053 Sjt. W. J. H. Davis. R.A.); Defence Medal; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (1406053 Sjt. W. J. H. Davis M.M., R.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (1406053 W.O. Cl. 1. W. J. H. Davis. R.A.) 5th, 6th and 9th medals loose with last in named card box of issue, remainder mounted for wear, light contact marks in places, otherwise generally very fine or better (lot) £400-£500 --- M.M. London Gazette 24 January 1919. Walter James Hollick Davis was born in 1896, and was a native of Maidstone, Kent. He enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery at Chatham in January 1911. Davis served during the Great War with the 153rd Heavy Battery, R.G.A. in Salonika from 3 July 1915 until 11 May 1918. He served with the Royal Artillery in India from 19 September 1922 to 11 May 1926, and in Aden from 12 February 1932 until 19 March 1934. Davis gained his Master Gunner’s Certificate at Woolwich between 30 March 1925 and 27 March 1926. Having advanced to Warrant Officer Class I, he was discharged on 20 May 1938, having served for 27 years and 128 days (awarded M.S.M. in 1952). Sold with the following related items and documents: R.A. Tug of War prize medal, bronze, reverse engraved ‘W. J. H. Davis 1930’; Warrant appointing recipient Warrant Officer Class I, dated 16 October 1935; Regular Army Certificate of Service; Artillery College Master Gunner’s Certificate; named enclosure for M.S.M., dated 23 April 1952, and addressed to recipient at 37 Pembury Road, Bexleyheath, Kent; group photograph (including recipient) of Master Gunners’ Course, 1925-26.
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Four: Commander A. T. Johnstone, Royal Navy, killed in action at the Battle of Jutland aboard H.M.S. Defence Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Sub. Lieut. A. T. Johnstone R.N., H.M.S. Highflyer); 1914-15 Star (Commr. A. T. Johnstone. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Commr. A. T. Johnstone. R.N.) some verdigris, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4) £800-£1,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Commander Arthur Townsend Johnstone was killed in action at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916 aboard H.M.S. Defence. At 5:30 on the afternoon of 31 March 1916, the 1st Cruiser Squadron led by Rear Admiral Sir R. Arbuthnot and his flag ship H.M.S. Defence was rapidly approaching the German ‘Scouting Force’ of battle cruisers under Admiral Von Hipper. From the westward, Admiral Beatty was approaching the same enemy at the head of his battle cruisers. 20 minutes later the Defence, followed by the Warrior, began to shell the German light cruiser Wiesbaden, which soon lay helpless and in flames between the two fleets. In an attempt to destroy this ship and to close with Hipper’s Squadron, Admiral Arbuthnot crossed the bows of the far more powerful Lion and thereby exposed himself to the concentrated fire of Von Hipper, who was making a desperate effort to protect the Wiesbaden. Both of the British Cruisers encountered a torrent of shell fire, the Defence being hit by two salvos in quick succession. She blew up with the loss of her entire compliment of 903 officers and men. The Warrior was so badly damaged that she sank the next morning. Sold with copied service papers and I.W.M. photograph of H.M.S. Defence.
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Pair: Private T. Malin, Northumberland Fusiliers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (2433 Pte. T. Malin, North’d: Fus:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2431 [sic] Pte. T. Malin. Norht’d Fus:) light contact marks, good very fine (2) £120-£160
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Four: Company Sergeant Major B. S. Mackay, 2nd South African Infantry, late Imperial Yeomanry and Natal Horse, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 12 October 1916 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal (12412 Tpr: B. Mackay, 67th Coy 18th Impl: Yeo:; 1914-15 Star (Sjt B. S. Mackay. Ntl. Light Hse.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (A/2nd C/W.O. B. S. Mackay. 2nd S.A.I.) edge digs to QSA, otherwise good very fine (4) £400-£500 --- Benjamin Sutherland Mackay was born in Kinbrace, Sutherland, around 1876. He attested into the Imperial Yeomanry for Service during the Boer War, at Frobisher Bay, Canada, on 17 February 1900 and served in South Africa with the 67th Company (Sharpshooters), 18th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry. Discharged in Johannesburg on 13 May 1901, he joined the South African Constabulary and is additionally entitled to the ‘South Africa 1901’ clasp on his QSA. He later attested into the Natal Light Horse for service during the Great War and served in the South West Africa campaign before transferring into the 2nd Battalion South African Infantry. Advanced Company Sergeant Major, he served on the Western Front and was killed in action on 12 October 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France. Sold with copied research.
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Three: Lance-Corporal C. R. Bowers, Royal Marines Light Infantry 1914 Star, with copy clasp (CH8191. Pte. C. R. Bowers. R.M. Brigade.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch. 8191 L. Cpl. C. R. Bowers. R.M.L.I.) toned, nearly extremely fine (3) £120-£160 --- Charles Richard Bowers, a milkman from Surbiton, Surrey, attested into the Royal Marines on 17 January 1895. Discharged to the Royal Fleet Reserve on 30 May 1905, he was recalled for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front at Dunkirk from 20 September 1914 until being moved to serve in the Defence of Antwerp from 3 to 9 October. He saw further service at Gallipoli in 1915 and was advanced Lance Corporal on 20 September 1915, before being invalided from the service on 13 June 1916. Sold with copied service papers.
Los 647
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Wm. King, Writer 1st Cl: H.M.S. Osprey.) impressed naming, light contact marks, therefore nearly very fine £70-£90 --- William King was born in Kingston, Portsmouth, in June 1860. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Writer in August 1875, and advanced to Chief Writer in July 1889. His service included with H.M.S. Osprey from April to November 1888 (awarded L.S. & G.C. in August 1888). King was ‘Invalided’ out of service on 10 January 1907. Sold with copied service papers.
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A Great War ‘First Day of the Somme’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Company Sergeant-Major J. Porter, King’s Royal Rifle Corps Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (R-158 C.S. Mjr: J. Porter. 7/K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (R-158 L. Sjt. J. Porter. K.R. Rif: C.); British War and Victory Medals (R-158 W.O. Cl. 2. J. Porter. K.R. Rif. C.) light contact marks, otherwise very fine and better (4) £1,200-£1,600 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 1 January 1917; citation published 13 February 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He carried up stores through a very heavy barrage and later, handled his platoon with great skill and determination. He has, on several occasions, shown a splendid example to his men.’ Annotated gazette states: ‘Roclincourt, 1 July 1916.’ John Porter was born at St Helens, Lancaster, and enlisted on 2 September 1914, aged 33, a glass grinder by trade. He was promoted to Lance-Corporal, 8 January 1915; Corporal, 2 February 1915; Lance-Sergeant, 10 March 1915; proceeded to France on 19 May 1915, where he served mainly with the 7th Battalion but also the 5th Battalion. He was wounded on 7 July 1915; promoted to Sergeant, 15 January 1916; Company Sergeant-Major, 29 September 1916; wounded a second time on 23 October 1916, grenade wound to left hand and arm. Porter was discharged to Reserve on 10 February 1919. Sold with copied research including Attestation papers and gazette notices.
Los 168
Four: Sergeant W. Scott, Balloon Section, Royal Engineers, who was taken Prisoner of War during the Boer War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (7 Corpl. W. Scott. R.E.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (7 2nd. Cpl. W. Scott. R.E.); British War Medal 1914-20 (7 Sjt. W. Scott. R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (7 Sjt: W. Scott. R.E.) light contact marks and minor edge bruising, very fine (4) £400-£500 --- William Scott was born in Hull, Yorkshire, in 1876 and attested for the Royal Engineers at Beverley, Yorkshire, on 13 April 1896. He served with the Balloon Section in South Africa during the Boer War from 7 March 1900 to 2 March 1902, and was captured and taken Prisoner of War, being released at Frederikstad on 19 July 1900. Advanced Sergeant, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with Gratuity per Army Order 412 of 1914, and saw further service during the Great War with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force from 15 September 1916 to 25 July 1918 (also entitled to a Victor Medal). He was finally discharged on 22 August 1918, after 22 years and 132 days’ service. Sold with copied record of service; a 101st Anniversary of the Battle of Paardeberg 1st Day Cover, dated 17 February 2021; and copied research.
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Pair: Nursing Sister Clara L. Travis, Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister C. L. Travis.) officially re-impressed naming as typically encountered with QSAs to Nurses; King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister C. L. Travis.); together with the recipient’s Maidstone Typhoid Fever Medal 1897, silver, the reverse engraved ‘C. Travis’, last lacking integral top riband bar, light contact marks, very fine, the last scarce (3) £500-£700 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Clara Louise Travis trained at the West Kent General Hospital at Maidstone, Kent, and was one of the nurses on the Maidstone Corporation Staff engaged in the town in connection with the typhoid epidemic in 1897, for which she was presented with the medal. She joined Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve as No. 291 on 2 February 1900, and sailing on the Canada on 14 April 1900 served in South Africa during the Boer War, first at No. 1 General Hospital, Wynberg; and then at No. 13 General Hospital, Johannesburg. She saw further service at home during the Great War with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service from 27 July 1916. Maidstone Typhoid Fever Medal A major epidemic of Typhoid Fever broke out in Maidstone, Kent during late August 1897. By 9 September, 117 cases had been reported, rising to 774 by the end of the month and by 9 October the number had risen to 1,200, with 42 deaths. The cause was never fully identified but the reservoir at Barming, the spring at Tutsham, and various pumping stations were all found to be contaminated - all this compounded by the poor sewage system then in operation at Maidstone. In the highly charged atmosphere of the times, irresponsibly defecating hop-pickers also were blamed for the outbreak! The Town Council also came in for some criticism in having, as an economy measure, reduced the number of times a year the water purity was tested. In response to the outbreak, suspect water supplies were cut and Barming Reservoir was chlorinated. The Town Council issued handbills to the townspeople recommending the boiling of all drinking water and a free laundry was opened for the washing of all clothes and bedding from infected households; these same houses were then thoroughly disinfected. Emergency hospitals were opened, and such was the need, that doctors and nurses from outside the area were brought in to tend to the sick and dying. A subscription to help the poorer townsfolk was also opened. By rigourous methods the epidemic was brought under control, and by the end of December it was largely over; the total number of reported cases being 1,847, with 132 deaths. Medals were awarded to the nursing staff who served in the town during the epidemic. Many were presented by the Mayor of Maidstone at a special ceremony held at the Museum and Technical School on Wednesday 8 December 1897; an account of the presentation being given in the South Eastern Gazette of 14 December 1897. Some 700 people attended the presentation, including members of the Town Council, Magistrates, Clergy and other people of note. The Mayor of Maidstone (Councillor J. Barker) gave a speech before the presentation, paraphrased by the newspaper, ‘... While they must be filled with regret for those who had been taken away ... it was a matter of congratulation to know that the epidemic which overtook them three months ago, had been stamped out thanks to the efforts of their Medical Officer, the medical men of the town, and ... through the sturdy and gallant conduct of every inhabitant of Maidstone ... and, in addition to the help received from the residents in the town and neighbourhood, they had an army of trained nurses to assist them. ... He now wished on the part of every inhabitant of the borough of Maidstone, ... to thank the nurses who had assisted them during their great trouble ... and he was going to ask them to accept a small medal as a token of esteem for the work they had done ...’
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Pair: Driver G. F. Barlow, Royal Horse Artillery, who was captured by the enemy in the latter stages of the Boer War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Mafeking, Orange Free State, Transvaal (33848 Dr. G. F. Barlow. M Bty., R.H.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (33848 Dvr: G. F. Barlow. R.H.A.) light contact marks, generally very fine (2) £120-£160 --- George Frederick Barlow was born in Oldham in 1879 and attested for the Royal Horse Artillery in February 1899. Posted to South Africa from 17 February 1900 to 6 November 1902, he witnessed service with “M” and “O” Batteries and is recorded as a prisoner of war. Released at Sweethome on 29 January 1902, he transferred to the Army Reserve on 29 March 1907 and was discharged on 23 February 1916 following 1 year and 130 days’ active service in France.
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Three: Chief Ship’s Cook J. Benson, Royal Navy Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (J. Benson. Act: Sh: Cook. 1. Cl: H.M.S. “Agincourt”); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (James Benson, Sh. Cook 1st Cl. H.M.S. Duke of Wellington.) impressed naming; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, light contact marks overall, generally very fine (3) £200-£240 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, October 1997 and April 2006. James Benson was born in Manchester, Lancashire, in October 1853. He joined the Royal Navy as Assistant Baker in September 1873, and advanced to Ship’s Cook 1st Class in August 1883. His service included with H.M.S. Agincourt between October 1880 and November 1882, and H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, between November 1882 and March 1886 (awarded L.S. & G.C. in September 1883. He advanced to Chief Ship’s Cook, and was Shore Pensioned in November 1893. Sold with copied service papers.
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Six: Chief Bosun’s Mate Charles Chapman, Royal Navy, whose outstanding campaign service included the action against the Peruvian Rebel Turret Ship Huascar in 1877 Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (C. Chapman, Ord. H.M.S. Rattlesnake. 73-74) official correction to initial; South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (”Shah” C. Chapman A.B. H.M.S.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, Alexandria 11th July, Suakin 1885 (C. Chapman. Cap: F’cle, H.M.S. “Penelope”); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (C. Chapman, Actg. Chf. Bos. Mate, H.M.S. Sphinx); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Chas. Chapman, Ch. Bos. Mte. H.M.S. Sphinx) impressed naming; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, the silver medals all cleaned bright, light contact marks but generally very fine or better, a rare and exceptional group (6) £2,000-£2,400 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Douglas-Morris Collection Part I, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996; Dix Noonan Webb, July 2001. Charles Chapman was born in Sutton, Kent on 9 October 1854. He joined the service as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Rattlesnake on 8 October 1870, advanced to Boy 1st Class on 15 November 1871, and Ordinary Seaman 2nd Class on 20 October 1872, prior to leaving Rattlesnake on 25 March 1874, after service in the Ashantte campaign. Advanced to Able Seaman in January 1875 he was drafted to H.M.S. Shah in August 1876, in which vessel he took part in the action against the Peruvian Rebel Turret Ship Huascar in 1877. He was paid off from Shah in October l879 after earning his South Africa campaign medal with clasp. He next joined H.M.S. Penelope as Petty Officer 2nd Class during January 1881 and advanced to P.O. 1st Class (Captain of Forecastle) in June 1882. He was not amongst those chosen to serve at Tel-el-Kebir aboard the armoured train. He transferred to H.M.S. Sphinx as Acting Chief Petty Officer on 19 January 1885, becoming her Chief Bosun's Mate in January 1886 and seeing service at Suakin and in Burma. He was awarded his LS & GC medal on 8 May 1886, and was pensioned during October 1892.
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Buttons. A good selection of Infantry Officers’ Mess Dress buttons, from the late 19th century to the 1960s, including a number of short-lived designs for specific battalions of The Queen’s, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Lancashire Fusiliers, Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Northamptonshire, Middlesex, York and Lancaster, and Durham Light Infantry Regiments, all different, good condition (104) £200-£240
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Three: Lance-Corporal P. E. Rollinson, 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between second and third clasps (7017 Pte. P. E. Rollinson. Essex Regt.); Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Percy Edward Rollinson); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (227 L. Cpl. P. Rollinson. 5/Essex Regt.) suspension claw on QSA re-affixed, abrasions, edge bruising, and light contact marks, nearly very fine and better (3) £140-£180 --- Percy Edward Rollinson was born in Maldon, Essex, in 1881 and served with the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Essex Regiment, from 11 January 1900. He enlisted for service in the Special Volunteer Company, 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment on 5 February 1901 and served with the 2nd Volunteer Special Service Company in South Africa during the Boer War from 23 March 1901 to 5 June 1902. He was discharged the following day, and rejoined the 2nd Volunteer Battalion. Appointed a Lance Corporal on 1 October 1907, and following the creation of the Territorial Force in 1908, he enlisted in the 5th Battalion on 1 April 1908. Present at every training before the War, Rollinson was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 216 of July 1914, and was embodied on 5 August 1914. Posted to the 2/5th Battalion, he did not serve overseas, and was discharged on the completion of his period of engagement on 31 March 1916. A postman in civilian life, he was awarded his Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement as Postman, Southminster Sub Office, Chelmsford (London Gazette 13 June 1941). He died in Colchester in 1952.
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Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Tugela Heights, unofficial rivets between first and second, and between third and fourth clasps (727 Pte. H. J. Peake, Impl: Lt. Infy.) good very fine £100-£140 --- Herbert John Peake attested for the Imperial Light Infantry on 23 November 1899, and was discharged on 19 January 1900. He re-enlisted (for special service) in the Natal Carbineers on 21 January 1900, and served during operations at the Relief of Ladysmith, Tugela Heights and at Laing’s Nek. he was discharged on 8 September 1900, and re-enlisted on the same day into Thorneycroft’s Mounted Infantry. He saw further service during the latter stages of the Boer War in the Prince of Wales’s Light Horse; the Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Volunteer Rifles; and as a Corporal in the Transkei Mounted Rifles. He was finally discharged on 14 April 1902
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Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (G. Axworthy, Lg. Stoker. H.M.S. Bittern. 73-74.) light edge bruising and polished, otherwise nearly very fine £160-£200 --- Approximately 106 Ashantee 1873-74 no clasp medals awarded to H.M.S. Bittern.
 George Axworthy was born at Devonport, Devon, on 6 May 1840 (revised to 1838 on C.S. Engagement) and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. James Watt on 22 February 1854. He served aboard Bittern from 10 March 1870 to 6 March 1875. He was finally shore pensioned from Indus on 21 April 1879. Sold with copied Continuous Service record.
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A superb campaign group of nine awarded to First Sea Lord, Admiral Lord Hood of Avalon, G.C.B., Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (A. W. A. Hood, Midshipman.); Crimea 1854-55, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Canton 1857, Fatshan 1857, unnamed as issued; Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Captain Lord Hood of Avalon, H.M.S. Pylades) Canadian style impressed naming; Jubilee 1897, silver; Portugal, Kingdom, Military Order of Christ, breast badge, gold and enamels; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 5th class, silver, gold and enamel; St Jean d’Acre 1840, silver; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine or better (9) £4,000-£5,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Arthur William Acland Hood was born on 14 July, 1824, the younger son of Sir Alexander Hood of St. Andries, Somerset, second baronet, and grandson of Captain Alexander Hood, who was mortally wounded when in command of the Mars, in her action with the French 74-gun ship l'Hercule, and died in the moment of victory, on 21 April, 1798. The baronetcy was conferred on Captain Hood's brother Samuel, who commanded the Zealous in the battle of the Nile, and died in 1815, whilst Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies. He had no issue, and the title, by special remainder, passed to his nephew. Belonging to a family so distinguished in our naval annals, Arthur Hood's career was almost naturally shaped out for him, and he entered the Navy in August, 1836. He saw some little fighting on the north coast of Spain, where the Civil War was then raging, and afterwards on the coast of Syria, where, in 1840, he was present at the reduction of Acre. In 1844-45 he went through a course of mathematics and gunnery on board the Excellent and at the college in Portsmouth Dockyard. He then was appointed to the President, flagship of Rear-Admiral Dacres at the Cape of Good Hope, and a few months later, on 9 January, 1846, was promoted to be one of her lieutenants. He remained in the President till she was paid off in January 1849, and after a year's holiday he was appointed, in January 1850, to the Arethusa, then commissioned for the Mediterranean by Captain Symonds, afterwards very well known as Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Symonds. With Symonds, in the Arethusa, Hood continued for nearly five years, and was promoted to the rank of commander on 27 November 1854, for service with the naval brigade before Sebastopol. In 1856 he commissioned the Acorn brig for China, where he took part in the action with the junks in Fatshan Creek on 1 June 1857, and served with the naval brigade at the capture of Canton in the following December. For this he received his promotion to captain on 26 February 1858. He had now several years on shore, and it was not till December 1862, that he was appointed to the Pylades for the North America Station, where he remained for nearly four years, when he was recalled to England to take the command of the Excellent, then as now the headquarters of instruction in naval gunnery. He held this command for three years, and for the five following years was Director of Naval Ordnance, in which post he showed himself a careful, painstaking officer, though without the genius that was especially wanted at a period of great change. Irrespective of politics, Hood was by temperament a very old-fashioned conservative, and clung to the ideas of the past after they had ceased to be suitable for the present. The C.B. was conferred on him on 20 May 1871, and, in June 1874, he was appointed to command the turret ship Monarch in the Channel Fleet. On 22 March 1876, Hood was made a rear-admiral, and in January 1877, he accepted a seat at the Admiralty. From December 1879, to April 1882, he commanded the Channel Fleet, and in June 1885, he was appointed First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, in succession to Sir Cooper Key, and in the administration of Lord George Hamilton. The four years which followed were years of great change and great advance, but it was commonly supposed that Hood's efforts were mainly devoted to preventing the advance from becoming too rapid. Like his predecessor he scarcely understood the essential needs of England as a great naval Power, and several of his public declarations might be thought equivalent to an expression of belief that, useful as the Navy was, the country could get on very well without it. On 14 July 1889, having reached the age of 65, he was put on the Retired List, and at the same time resigned his post at the Admiralty. He continued, however, to take an active interest in naval affairs; and, somewhat curiously, showed in occasional letters in our columns and elsewhere a more correct appreciation of the problems of naval supremacy than he was supposed to have done during his official life. He had obtained the rank of vice-admiral on 23 July 1880, and of admiral on 18 January 1886. In December 1885, he was made a K.C.B., and a G.C.B. in September 1889. In February 1892, he was raised to the peerage as Lord Hood of Avalon. He married, in October 1855, Fanny Henrietta, third daughter of Sir Charles Fitzroy Maclean, and had issue two daughters.
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Pair: Captain W. M. Gartshore, Royal Horse Artillery, who was wounded in Palestine on 4 August 1916, and was Mentioned in Despatches British War and Victory Medals (Capt. W. M. Gartshore.) very fine Victory Medal 1914-19 (2. Lieut H. G. H. Thorp) nearly extremely fine (3) £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- William Moir Gartshore was educated at McGill University, Montreal, where he was a member of the 1911 American Football team. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Force) on 2 October 1914, and served with “A” Battery, H.A.C., during the Great War in Egypt from 10 February 1916. Wounded in Palestine on 4 August 1916, he was advanced Captain and was Mentioned in General Sir E. H. H. Allenby’s Despatch of 23 October 1918 (London Gazette 22 January 1919). A forebear, also called William Moir Gartshore, had served as a Major with the 7th Fusiliers during the North West Rebellion in 1885. Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient as part of his University Football team. Henry Guy Hanning Thorp was born in Goole, Yorkshire, on 21 January 1895 and was educated at Haileybury College. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 28 February 1915. He died of wounds received in action at No. 3 Casualty Clearing Station, Bailleul, on 13 March 1915, and is buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery, France. Sold with copied research.
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King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2) (4470 Gnr: A. Mann. R.F.A.; 4824 Corpl: J. Anderson. Northampton: Regt.) light contact marks to first, very fine and better (2) £80-£100 --- A. Mann served during the Boer War with “O” Battery, Royal Horse Artillery and was taken Prisoner of War at Uitval’s Nek on 11 July 1900. He was later released at Waterval Onder on 30 August 1900, a contemporary account stating: ‘when released, the men were half starved and quite weak.’
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Family Group: A Boer War D.C.M. group of three awarded to Battery Sergeant Major H. Golesworthy, Royal Field Artillery Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (25864 B: Sjt: Maj: H. Golesworthy. 2nd. B: R.F.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (25864 B.S. Major. H. Golesworthy, 2nd. Bty: R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (25864 B. Serjt:- Maj: H. Golesworthy. R.F.A.) QSA and KSA both partially officially corrected, minor edge bruising, nearly very fine Three: Gunner W. H. Golesworthy, Royal Artillery 1914-15 Star (47047 Gnr. W. H. Golesworthy, R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (47047 Gnr. W. H. Golesworthy. R.A.) light pitting from Star, very fine (6) £700-£900 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 27 September 1901. The recommendation states: ‘A very excellent N.C.O. who has rendered valuable services throughout the campaign. His services have been specially brought to notice by the Officer Commanding, 2nd Battery Royal Field Artillery.’ Harry Golesworthy was born in Gibraltar in 1867 and was educated at the Royal Military Asylum. He attested for the Royal Artillery on 31 December 1881, as a Boy, and was appointed a Trumpeter on 28 August 1882. Promoted Bombardier on 22 November 1887, Corporal on 2 May 1888, and Sergeant on 17 November 1891, he suffered burns on his hands and face whilst on duty, on 20 June 1890. Having served in South Africa from October 1883 until November 1885, and in India from September 1893 until December 1898, he was advanced to Battery Sergeant Major on 4 October 1897, and went with the Artillery to South Africa for service in the Boer War on 21 January 1900. He was finally discharged on 7 May 1903, after 21 years and 128 days’ service. Golesworth married Miss Matilda Twyman at St. Mary’s Northgate, Canterbury, on 6 February 1887. He died at Romsey District Hospital, Hampshire, on 27 August 1941. William Harry Golesworthy was born in London in 1892 and served with the Royal Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front. Sold with copied research.
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India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24, unofficial retaining rod between clasps (1417960 Gnr. G. Greening, R.A.) light contact marks and polishing to high relief, good fine £50-£70 --- William George Greening was born in Princetown, Devon, in 1896, and attested for the Royal Artillery at Plymouth on 30 December 1919. His service documents note previous service with the 5th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, adding that he was wounded on 24 November 1915, 16 June 1918 and on a third occasion in September 1918. He was later discharged on 12 January 1937.
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Pair: Chief Stoker Henry Palmer, H.M.S. Blanche, Mentioned in Despatches for repairing damage to the boiler of the Kenia during the Juba River Expedition East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Juba River 1893 (H. Palmer, Sto., H.M.S. Blanche); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (Henry Palmer, Ch. Sto. H.M.S. Leander.) light contact marks and a little polished, otherwise very fine (2) £3,000-£4,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- A total of 41 clasps issued for Juba River 1893, 19 as single clasp medals and 22 with Witu August 1893 in addition. Cornelius Palmer alias Henry Palmer was born at Plymouth on 10 December 1869. He joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 7 January 1890, aged 20, a fisherman by trade. He joined Blanche on 30 December 1890, and was advanced to Stoker on 1 June 1891, remaining in this ship until 22 April 1894, during which period he took part in the Juba River expedition and was mentioned in the despatch from Lieutenant P. Vaughan Lewes, commanding the Naval Force landed from Blanche in the following terms: ‘I would wish most strongly to bring to the notice of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty George T. Carey, Engine Room Artificer, 3rd Class, official number 141,577, and Alfred White, Leading Stoker, official number 114,956, and the four Stokers [including Henry Palmer] who repaired damages to the boiler of the “Kenia” on the two occasions when she was completely broken down; and serious consequences might have ensued on the second occasion had we been compelled to remain where we were. This work was performed under the enemy’s fire, and I can honestly recommend them for some mark of their Lordships’ appreciation for the zeal and skill with which the work was done.’ Palmer thereafter served aboard a variety of ships, being advanced to Chief Stoker in February 1904 and awarded his L.S. & G.C. medal in February 1905, until ‘shore pensioned on 10 January 1912. He joined the Royal Fleet Reserve on 24 February 1912, and was recalled for service on 2 August 1914 and served with the M.F.A. Zaria, Armed Patrol depot ship at Longhope (Scapa Flow) from 10 March 1915 to 28 February 1919. Entitlement to Great War medals has not been confirmed. Sold with copied record of service.
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The unique ‘Render Mines Safe’ George Medal and Great War D.S.M. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant James Balsdon, G.M., D.S.M., Royal Navy George Medal, G.VI.R. (Lt. Jas. Balsdon D.S.M. R.N.) official correction to rank and Christian name; Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (236756 J. Balsdon, P.O. H.M.S. Cameleon, Patrol Services 1915/6); 1914-15 Star (236756 J. Balsdon. P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Gnr. J. Balsdon. R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted court-style for display, nearly extremely fine (7) £4,000-£5,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Buckland Dix & Wood, October 1993. G.M., London Gazette, 8 July 1941: 'For gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty.' The recommendation states: ‘This officer is in charge of a Render Mine Safe Party and has himself dealt with over seventy mines and many explosive mine cutters. Often the mines have been in inaccessible positions and Lieutenant Balsdon has had to face more than the usual risks of this work, but has always shown coolness and devotion to duty.’ D.S.M. London Gazette 22 May 1917: 'In recognition of services in the Destroyer Patrol Flotillas and Armed Boarding Steamers during the period which ended on the 30th September 1916.' James Balsdon of Saltash joined the Royal Navy in 1906 as a Boy 2nd Class, aged 15. He was subsequently promoted Leading Seaman in 1913, Petty Officer in 1916, Warrant Gunner (Torpedo) in 1918, Commissioned Gunner (T.) in 1928, Lieutenant in 1940, and released from the Navy in October 1945. The George Medal is unique in combination with a Great War D.S.M. His award of the D.S.M. (London Gazette, 23 May 1917) appears under a general heading, but an examination of H.M.S. Cameleon's services during the previous year has pin-pointed the circumstances which probably led to his award. The ship was part of the Second Local Defence Flotilla, based at Plymouth. On 24 October 1916, she was escorting a steamer in the Western Approaches when she sighted a surfaced U-boat which had just torpedoed a collier. The Cameleon increased speed and opened fire at 3000 yards and later claimed to have sunk the submarine with her second round. Balsdon was presumably the gun-layer on this occasion (as usual with D.S.M. awards, the original recommendation has been 'weeded'). Later evidence showed that the U-boat survived the attack, but it had at least been a fine example of aggressive and accurate gunnery. Between the wars he continued to specialise in gunnery, torpedoes and mine warfare, serving at sea and as an Instructor at the shore base H.M.S. Defiance. At the outbreak of World War II, he was placed in charge of a 'Render Mine Safe Party’ responsible for dealing with mines of every type around the coastline of Devon and his native Cornwall. Apart from the conventional 'horned' mine, the Germans were laying new and unfamiliar types fitted with anti-handling devices. The pioneers in mine disposal, such as Lieutenant Balsdon, needed to learn completely new techniques when dealing with these magnetic and acoustic mines, and several of them were killed in the process. The brevity of the citation for this award of the George Medal reflected the secrecy surrounding much of his work but his recommendation quoted above throws a little more light on his activities. He continued to command the R.M.S. Party in the South West until the end of the war, and must have gone through many dangerous experiences of which no permanent record was kept. An entry in his service record states: 'Commended for great courage, coolness and skill during an operation for the recovery of a German mine on 22nd May 1944'.
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Pair: Gunner E. Hudson, Royal Field Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (10293 Gnr: E. Hudson. 14th. Bty: R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (10293 Gnr: E. Hudson. R.F.A.) minor edge nicks and light contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £100-£140 --- Edward Hudson was born in Shottisham, Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1876. He served in South Africa from 30 October 1900 to 14 October 1902, before being posted to India for a further 5 years. He was discharged on 24 May 1912.
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A rare Great War campaign group of five awarded to Ambulance Driver, Sergeant Winifred Mordaunt, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, who was amongst the very first F.A.N.Y’s in France, was twice Mentioned in Despatches, and was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for gallant conduct during an air raid 1914-15 Star (W. Mordaunt. F.A.N.Y.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (W. Mordaunt. F.A.N.Y.C.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-18, with bronze star; together with the recipient’s First Aid Nursing Yeomanry 1914-18 Service Medal, with four riband Stars denoting pre-War Service; and a Sandown Races Bronze Medal, 1882, reverse numbered ‘1088’, light contact marks, therefore generally very fine (6) £1,000-£1,400 --- Provenance: Provenance: A. Flatow Collection, Spink, November 1998; Julian Johnson Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, May 2017. M.I.D. London Gazette 24 December 1917 and 25 May 1918. Winifred Mordaunt, later Mrs John Geare was the daughter of Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet, of Walton Hall, Warwick. She served during the Great War as an Ambulance Driver for the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry on the Western Front from November 1915. She was based with the Ambulance Motor Convoy at Boulogne, and Pat Beauchamp (a contemporary of hers at Bouglone) in her book Fanny Goes To War gives the following insight: ‘It may be interesting to members of the Corps to know the names of those who formed that pioneer Convoy. They are: Lieutenant Franklin, M. Thompson (Section Leader), B. Ellis, W. Mordaunt, C. Nicholson, D. Heasman, D. Reynolds, G. Quin, M. Gamwell, H. Gamwell, B. Hutchinson, N. F. Lowson, P. B. Waddell, M. Richardson, M. Laidley, O. Mudie-Cooke, P. Mudie-Cooke and M. Lean (the last three were new members).... We arrived at Boulogne in time for lunch, and then set off for our camp thirty kilometres away, in a British Red Cross touring car borrowed from the “Christol Hotel.” We arrived there amid a deluge of rain, and the camp looked indeed a sorry spectacle with tents all awry in the hurricane that was blowing. Bell tents flanked one side of the large open space where the ambulances stood. A big store tent occupied another and the cook-house was in a shed at the extreme corner, with the Mess tent placed about as far from it as possible! We had no telephone in those days, and orderlies came up from the Casino hospital and A.D.M.S. with buff slips when ambulances were wanted. At that time the cars, Argylls, Napiers, Siddeley-Deaseys, and a Crossley, inscribed “Frank Crossley, the Pet of Poperinghe,” were just parked haphazard in the open square, some with their bonnets one way and some another - it just depended which of the two drives up to camp had been chosen. It will make some of the F.A.N.Y.’s smile to hear this, when they think of the neat rows of cars precisely parked up to the dead straight, white-washed line that ultimately became the order of things!’ Mordaunt advanced to the rank of Sergeant, and Beauchamp goes on to mention ‘Winnie’ on several occasions throughout the book. She is also mentioned in F.A.N.Y. Invicta by Irene Ward, including Mordaunt’s post-war involvement with the organisation, when she was elected as a member of the Headquarters Staff Committee: ‘From the beginning of the inter-war period rather different personalities exercised control and the whole administrative machine was overhauled. Franklin was the first Commandant. It was also agreed to establish a more regular central committee to decide on Corps policy. The Headquarters Staff Committee consisted at first of Franklin, Joynson, A. H. Gamwell, Lowson, Mordaunt, Russell-Allen, Baxter Ellis, Mosely, Peyton-Jones, Walton and Waddell (soon to become Colston and Washington).’ Mordaunt is recorded as having been awarded the Croix de Guerre for gallant conduct during an air raid, and her two M.I.D.’s are amongst just 15 to the F.A.N.Y. for the whole of the Great War.
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Buttons. A good selection of Victorian Regular Infantry large and small size Officers’ buttons of post-1881 infantry regiments, including the short-lived patterns for East Yorkshire, Lancashire Fusiliers, Border Regiment, and King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, plus 7 small size other ranks’ Victorian buttons, all different, good condition (92) £260-£300
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