A Great War O.B.E. group of four awarded to Captain A. Smith, King’s Own Royal Royal Lancaster Regiment, who served as Member of Parliament for Clitheroe, Nelson and Colne The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Capt. A. Smith, R. Lanc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. A. Smith) gilding almost all rubbed from OBE, light contact marks, otherwise very fine (4) £200-£240 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 12 December 1919. Albert Smith was born on 15 June 1867, and was first employed as a Mill boy at the age of 8. ‘From 1902 to 1912 he served on the Nelson Town Council and was Mayor of the Town from 1908 to 1910. In 1910 he succeeded Sir David J. Shackleton as M.P. for Clitheroe Division; however, his Parliamentary experience was interrupted by his voluntary enlistment in the Army in the first year of the Great War, and he had the distinction during the first few weeks of the war of being the only member of the Labour Party in Parliament to hold a commission in H.M. Forces. He saw active service as a Captain with the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Gallipoli, from where he was invalided home. For a time during the last war he was military representative in the Burnley Nelson and Colne area, but in 1917 he rejoined his battalion and finally left the Army on his completion of three years service. When the parliamentary borough of Nelson and Colne was formed in 1918, Captain Smith became its first M.P. He resigned in 1920, and subsequently served as a a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Lancashire for a good many years. He died at Nelson, Lancashire, in April 1942.’ (the recipient’s obituary from the Regimental Journal The Lion and the Rose, May 1942, refers). Sold with copied research.
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Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Talavera (Hugh Cumming, Lieut. 3rd Dgn. Gds.) contained in named card box of issue, this a little squashed and reinforced with sellotape, small edge bruise, otherwise very fine £1,400-£1,800 --- Provenance: Hayward, March 1977. Nine medals issued to the regiment with this single clasp, including three officers. Hugh Cumming was commissioned Cornet in the 3rd Dragoon Guards on 30 July 1807, and promoted to Lieutenant on 2 November 1809. He served in the Peninsula from April 1809 until November 1810, including the battle of Talavera on 27/28 July 1809. He resigned his commission in December 1810. The 3rd Dragoon Guards landed at Lisbon on 26th/27th April 1809 as part of Fane’s cavalry brigade. On 4 May they marched north to join Wellington’s army and took part at the battle of Talavera on 27th/28th July. On the 28th the 3rd Dragoon Guards and 4th Light Dragoons, having moved into the plain to the left, advanced to charge a column of the enemy’s infantry, but the attack was countermanded, and the two regiments, after supporting the charge of Major-General Anson’s brigade, were ordered to resume their former position.
A Great War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel K. C. Raikes, Monmouthshire Regiment, who served on the staff of S.H.A.E.F. in the Second World War, and was thanked for his contribution to the planning of the Operation Torch landings in North Africa The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1918; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. K. C. Raikes, Mon. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. K. C. Raikes); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated 1946, with integral top riband bar, mounted as worn, the M.B.E. still with the 1st type riband, light contact marks to first and third otherwise very fine (8) £600-£800 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919. Kenneth Cochrane Raikes was born at Malpas, Monmouthshire on 9 May 1889, and was educated at Shrewsbury School and Oxford, serving in both Officer Training Corps. He joined the Royal Fusiliers on 15 September 1914, and was rapidly promoted to a commission in 1st Battalion the Monmouthshire Regiment on 20 October 1914. He served with the Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 February 1915, and was slightly wounded by gunshot later that year; he is also recorded as having been Company Commander of D Company. Appointed to be Staff Captain G.H.Q. France in February 1918, and D.A.Q.M.G., G.H.Q. France, in February 1919, he was promoted Captain in December 1921. For his services during the Great War he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 9 April 1917 and 8 November 1918), and his service records indicate a brief period of three weeks’ service in Egypt during the Great War. Raikes saw further service during the Second World War in France from 10 September 1939 to 17 June 1940, and was promoted Major in June 1940. He subsequently served with No. 1 Movement Control Group, and in December 1941 was appointed to Western Command Movement Area Home Movement Control Group. A letter to the recipient from Major-General N. G. Holmes, dated 16 November 1942, itself forwarding on a letter of congratulations from the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, congratulated him on a brilliant piece of staff work in the movement and loading of ships for the Operation Torch landings. In 1943 he served as D.A.Q.M.G., Abergavenny, followed by the same post in Chester 1944. In January 1945 he was appointed D.A.Q.M.G. to S.H.A.E.F., and was promoted Acting Lieutenant Colonel in June 1945. Awarded the Efficiency Decoration the following year (London Gazette 14 March 1946), he relinquished his commission on account of age on 19 August 1948. Raikes was a keen cricketer, playing the occasional First Class match for the Marylebone Cricket Club, and Minor Counties Cricket for Monmouthshire from 1908 to 1934, making 116 appearances for the county. He died at Welwyn, Hertfordshire, on 29 November 1973. Sold together with the recipient’s Bestowal Document for the O.B.E.; two Mention in Despatches Certificates (these both mounted on card); and extensive copied research, including First and Second World War Service papers; letter of thanks for his ‘brilliant piece of staff work’, for Operation Torch; and an original group photograph taken in front of the Pyramids, in Egypt, believed to include Raikes.
The Crimea Medal awarded to Private John Brown, 8th Hussars, who was severely wounded in the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava and subsequently died of his wounds Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (J. Brown, 8th Hussars.) officially impressed naming, suspension claw neatly re-affixed, light edge bruising and field marks, otherwise good very fine £5,000-£7,000 --- John Brown was born in Antrim, Ireland, and was a servant prior to enlistment into the 8th Hussars on 13 March 1845. He embarked for the East in the Hired Transport Shooting Star on 25 April 1854, and was at Varna from June to September 1854. He was severely wounded at Balaklava on 25 October 1854 (London Gazette 16 December 1854 refers) and died from his wounds at Scutari Hospital on 17 December 1854. Sold with copied medal roll extracts and relevant muster rolls.
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (W. J. Nunnerley. 1st. Cl. 2nd. Master “Berenice”) very fine, rare to ship £400-£500 --- Wright Jebb Nunnerley was born in Cheshire in 1829 and served as a First Class Commissioned Officer in the H.E.I.C.’s steam vessel Berenice during the Burmese War of 1852-54; he took part in the capture of the fort at Pegu, for which he received not only his medal but also a considerable amount of prize money. His younger brother served as a Sergeant Major of the 17th Lancers, and rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. Sold with copied research.
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (1539 Pte. W. Grimbly, 3 Bn Rif. Bde.) some edge bruising, light contact marks, very fine £240-£280 --- Provenance: Hayward & Hall, April 1970. William Grimley (note Grimly on medal) was born in the Parish of Stanford, Nottinghamshire, and attested for the 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade at Westminster on 5 July 1855, aged 18. He served with the regiment at the capture of Lucknow (Medal with clasp), and in December 1863 and January 1864 served on the punitive expedition sent out after a small uprising and attack on the fort at Shabkaader on the North West Frontier (Medal with clasp). He was recommended for a medical discharge in October 1865 having contracted ophthalmia in February 1863 ‘while the Bn. was marching as Governor General’s Escort’. He duly returned Home where he was discharged from the service at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netly, on 22 May 1866. Sold with copied discharge papers and a printed roll of officers and other ranks of the 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade who were awarded the clasp, ‘North West Frontier’.
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (D. C. Roberts, Clerk, R.N. H.M.S. Bacchante.) traces of lacquer, light pitting, very fine £240-£280 --- Desmond Carrington Roberts was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, on 9 September 1865 and joined the Royal Navy as an Assistant Clerk on 15 July 1882. He served in H.M.S. Alexandra and H.M.S. Superb during the Egyptian campaign of 1882, and passed for Clerk on 15 July 1883. He saw further service in H.M.S. Bacchante in the East Indies from November 1885 to April 90, and took charge of victualling in eight days’ march against Dacoits in Chendwin District in Burma in 1185, being Mentioned in Commander Barlow’s Despatch of 26 February 1886 for being ‘of great assistance.’ Roberts was advanced Assistant Paymaster on 9 September 1886, and was promoted Paymaster on 1 April 1899, and Fleet Paymaster on 1 April 1907. He relinquished his commission on 24 February 1912- his testimonials almost uniformly praise him for being a zealous officer.
An inter-War O.B.E. group of eleven awarded to Captain T. G. Harrison, Royal Navy, together with a remarkable photograph and documentary archive The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1933; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. T. G. Harrison, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. T. G. Harrison, R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, Greece, Kingdom, Order of George I, Military Division, Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband, in Spink, London case of issue, minor chipping to red enamel centre on last, generally very fine and better (11) £700-£900 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1935. Greek Order of George I London Gazette 15 April 1947: ‘For valuable services rendered to the Royal Hellenic Navy.’ Thomas Garland Harrison was born on 19 December 1891 and joined the Royal Navy as a Naval Cadet in January 1904, attending the Royal Naval Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth for four years. His first posting at sea was to the training cruiser, H.M.S. Cornwall for 6 months, in the Mediterranean and West Indies from January to June 1908. In July 1908 he was appointed to the battleship H.M.S. Canopus as Midshipman, serving in the Mediterranean for 18 months, and for the remainder of his six months as a Midshipman he served in various ships including H.M.S. Exe, H.M.S. Natal, H.M.S. Drake and H.M.S. Good Hope; he had also served in H.M.S. Cornwall and H.M.S. Superb during his period as a Cadet between 1908 and 1912. He was promoted Sub Lieutenant in September 1911 and to Lieutenant in October 1912. He subsequently served in H.M.S. Achilles, H.M.S. Magnificent and H.M.S. Exmouth from October 1911 to January 1914. In January 1914 Harrison joined H.M.S. Ajax, in the 2nd Battle Squadron of the Home Fleet, and was serving in her when War was declared in August 1914. He was present in H.M.S. Ajax at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, and left Ajax in May 1917 to attend a specialist gunnery course at Portsmouth. He returned to sea in January 1918 and served for the remainder of the war in light cruisers in the 7th Light Cruiser Squadron, H.M.S. Aurora and H.M.S. Penelope, which were employed as scouts for the main battle fleet and also as convoy escorts between Greenland and the North Cape, for Russia. After the conclusion of the Great War he joined H.M.S. Birmingham, flagship of the Africa Squadron as Gunnery Officer. Promoted Lieutenant-Commander in October 1920, the following July he joined the cruiser H.M.S. Canterbury as First Lieutenant and Gunner Officer, employed as a firing ship for seaman gunnery classes. In November 1922 Harrison joined the cruiser H.M.S. Curlew as First Lieutenant and Gunnery Officer, on the North America and West Indies station. He then proceeded to the Pacific and was employed as guard ship at the Eagle Oil (Aguila) refinery in Southern Mexico, up to the Coatzcoalcos River, to prevent interference in the refinery by the combatants in the Mexican Civil War. In August 1925, he joined H.M.S. Valiant, in the Mediterranean as First Gunnery Officer. Promoted to Commander in August 1926, he left H.M.S. Valiant and joined the Admiralty (Operations Division). His next Sea appointment was in H.M.S. Calcutta as Commander, the Flagship of Africa station, from June 1928. In 1931 he joined H.M.S. Vivid as Drafting Commander, and then H.M.S. Montrose, in command of Reserve Destroyers, in 1934. Promoted to Captain, he retired the following year, being appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1935 New Year’s Honours’ List. Harrison was recalled from the Reserve in June 1939 and appointed Chief of Staff Africa Squadron in H.M.S. Neptune. On declaration of War the Africa Squadron was split up and ships took station in various patrol areas. The Commander in Chief and Staff landed and took over in Sierra Leone where Harrison became ‘Naval Officer in Charge’ and ‘King’s Harbour Master’. After 18 months he was relieved and sent to Alexandria to command landing craft, escort vessels and minesweepers in Mediterranean Command. He saw little action beyond fairly heavy bombing whereby several escort vessels were sunk. He remained at Alexandria until the end of war. He was, however, Commended by the Lords of the Admiralty ‘for good work in refloating H.T. Aquitania, which grounded’, and was awarded the Greek Order for rendering valuable services to the Greek Navy. He died on 4 January 1982. Sold together with extensive original paperwork and award certificates, including Bestowal Documents for the O.B.E., the Greek Order of George I, and the 1935 Jubilee Medal; original Admiralty letter granting unrestricted permission to wear the Greek award; and numerous photographs, many contained in two large half leather bound, gilt blocked photograph albums providing an almost complete history of his naval service both at war and at peace including several photographs taken on a goodwill tour to the U.S.A. one of which features Hollywood star, Tom Mix. The photographs and papers document voyages and tours of duty to Malta, the Americas, Scandinavia, Canada, Caribbean, Mediterranean, North Africa, West Africa and Turkey, including several photos of the aftermath of the earthquake at Messina. Also included are numerous group photos, individual portrait photographs and photographs of naval vessels, taken at different stages of his naval career, the whole forming a fascinating and historic archive of his naval service.
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Thos. Coultrup 14th. Hussars.) traces of having been held in a mount, with damage to naming at 5 and 7 o’clock, suspension claw re-affixed, very fine £140-£180 --- Thomas Coultrup attested for the 14th (King’s) Light Dragoons, and served with them in Persia, and subsequently in India during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, where he was present at numerous actions, including those at Jahansi, Calpee, Morar, and Gwalior. Note: The recipient’s India General Service Medal with clasp Central India is currently held by the Museum of Lancashire in Preston.
Canada General Service 1866-70, 2 clasps, Fenian Raid 1866, Fenian Raid 1870 (1024 Corl. H. Upson, Rifle Bde:) impressed naming, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine £700-£900 --- Provenance: Michael Haines Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2002; Dix Noonan Webb, September 2014. Corporal Upson served in Canada with the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade.
South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8-9 (W. Ellard, Pte. R.M, H.M.S. “Active”) light contact marks, nearly very fine £1,800-£2,200 --- William Ellard was born at Brackley, Southampton, on 30 August 1848, enlisted into the Royal Marines at Southampton on 30 August 1866, and re-engaged on 9 December 1876. He was embarked aboard the following ships during his service: Liffey, September 1863 to November 1868; Chanticleer, November 1868 to March 1872; Boscawen, October 1872 to March 1875; Alert, April 1875 to December 1876; Active, April 1877 to October 1879; Victory, March 1880 to October 1882; and Osborne, February 1882 to September 1887. A Private throughout, he was discharged due to length of service on 4 October 1887. Whilst serving in H.M.S. Alert he took part in the expedition to find a passage to the North Pole. A note on his record of service states ‘Absent from “Alert” on Arctic Sledging 55 days’. For this service he received the Arctic Medal 1875-76. In January 1877 he also received the L.S. & G.C. medal. During his service in H.M.S. Active he served in South Africa. There are two notes on his record for this period: (i) ‘Landed with Naval Brigade for operations against Kaffirs from 16th December 1877 until 13th March 1878.’ (ii) ‘Landed with Naval Brigade in Zulu War from 19th November 1878 until 31st July 1879.’ For these services he received the South Africa medal with clasp. Sold with copied record of service and other research.
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (J. Polkinghorn. Carps. Crew, H.M.S .”Tourmaline.”) light pitting, very fine £80-£120 --- John Polkinghorn was born in Sheerness, Kent, on 19 March 1859 and joined the Royal Navy as Carpenter’s Crew on 11 February 1878. He served in H.M.S. Tourmaline from 25 September 1880 to 23 September 1883, and was advanced Carpenter’s Mate on 12 September 1885. He was discharged, time expired, on 14 April 1888. Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extract.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (A. M. Ferrier, Ord. H.M.S. Monarch) light contact marks, very fine £80-£120 --- Alexander McDougall Ferrier was born in Edinburgh in November 1881. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in April 1898, and advanced to Able Seaman in November 1901. Ferrier served with H.M.S. Monarch, October 1900 - December 1902. He ‘deserted’ in April 1908, and was recovered from desertion in October 1910. Ferrier was not retained for service.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (8553 Pte. S. Barge. Hampshire Regt.) light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £100-£140 --- Sidney Barge was born in Sydney, Australia, and attested for the Hampshire Militia on 6 September 1898, being then resident in Gosport, Hampshire, a painter by trade, aged 18 years 11 months. In June 1900 he was called up for permanent duty with the Regular Forces and served with the 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, in South Africa 1900-1902. He was killed in a railway accident near Barberton, South Africa, on 30 March 1902. Also entitled to K.S.A. and sold with copied medal roll extracts for both medals.
China 1900, no clasp (J. F. Lawson, A.B., H.M.S. Endymion.) light cut to edge, good very fine £180-£220 --- Joseph Frederick Lawson was born in Dartmouth on 21 August 1872 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 5 September 1887. He was advanced Able Seaman in H.M.S. Emerald on 21 December 1890, and was posted to H.M.S. Endymion on 1 July 1900, serving in her during the Boxer Rebellion. He was shore pensioned on 30 September 1912, joining the Royal Fleet Reserve the following day, but was recalled for service during the Great War on 2 August 1914, serving in H.M.S. Severn during operations off the East African coast, and was present at the sinking of the Konigsberg in July 1915. He was finally discharged on 3 March 1919. Sold with copied research.
Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Gambia (188344 A.B. J. H. Littlejohns. H.M.S. Forte.) light contact marks, nearly very fine, rare £200-£240 --- Only 29 clasps awarded to H.M.S. Forte. John Stanley Littlejohns was born in Cornwall on 16 October 1878 and joined he Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 15 April 1896. Advanced Able Seaman on 2 December 1897, he joined H.M.S. Forte on 4 April 1899, and served in her during the initial stages of the Boer War (entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal with claps Natal), and the operations on and off the coast of Gambia, January to March 1901. He was shore invalided on 8 May 1903. Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.
The 1914 Star awarded to Private T. Murley, Somerset Light Infantry, who was wounded and taken Prisoner of War at Ligny on 28 August 1914 1914 Star (6689 Pte. T. Murley. 1/Som: L.I.) good very fine £120-£160 --- Thomas Murley attested for the Somerset Light Infantry and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 August 1914. He was wounded in the neck and was taken Prisoner of War at Ligny on 28 August 1914, and spent the rest of the War in captivity, being repatriated via Holland in 1918. Sold with copied research.
1914 Star, with clasp (8692 Pte. A. Fiddler. Yorks: L.I.) very fine £140-£180 --- Arthur Fiddler, a native of Sheffield, attested for the Yorkshire Light Infantry and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 September 1914. He was captured and taken Prisoner of War at Ypres on 1 November 1914.
1914-15 Star (864 Pte. W. T. Davies. 10/L.H. Rgt. A.I.F.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (1514 Pte. F. Pond. 4-L.H. A.I.F.) minor edge bruising to latter, very fine (2) £70-£90 --- William Thomas Davies attested for the Australian Imperial Force on 13 January 1915, and served with the 10th Light Horse at Gallipoli. Fred Pond was born in Shaftesbury, Dorset, and having emigrated to Australia attested for the Australian Imperial Force at Ballarat, Victoria, on 9 July 1915. He served with the 4th Light Horse, and later with the 13th Infantry Battalion, and was killed in action on the Western Front on 7 October 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France. Sold with copied service papers.
A Great War 1918 ‘Battle of the Sambre’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private J. P. Lloyd, 14th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who was previously wounded at the Third Battle of Ypres Military Medal, G.V.R. (37565 Pte. J. P. Lloyd. 14/R.W. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (37565 Pte. J. P. Lloyd R.W.Fus.) light contact marks otherwise very fine (3) £300-£400 --- M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919. Joseph Phillip Lloyd was born in Tonyrefail, Glamorgan in 1893. He served with the 14th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front and is recorded as having been wounded in action at the Third Battle of Ypres in the War Office Weekly Casualty List dated 29 August 1917. He was awarded the Military Medal for his gallantry during the Battle of the Sambre on 8 November 1918. The Battalion War Diary records the Battalion attacked at 3:15 a.m., the first objective being gained fairly quickly, the second objective obtained in the afternoon due to determined defence with machine gun fire. Germans in positions beyond the captured second objective were seen to retire during the night. This was the Battalion’s last action before the Armistice.
A Great War ‘Salonika’ M.C. group of five awarded to Temporary 2nd Lieutenant H. B. Willis, 12th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, attached Somerset Light Infantry, late Canadian Army Service Corps Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse engraved ‘Lieut. H. B. Willis 1917’; 1914-15 Star (1414 Sjt. H. B. Willis. Can: A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H. B. Willis.); France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour with Swords, silver-gilt, named on the reverse ‘Lieut. H. B. Willis. M.C.’, mounted court-style, together with companion set of five mounted miniatures, good very fine (6) £800-£1,200 --- M.C. London Gazette 18 February 1918; citation London Gazette 18 July 1918: ‘T/2nd Lt. Henry Barrington Willis, attd. Som. L.I. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led a party into the enemy’s lines, rushed an enemy post from the rear, and captured the garrison. He showed splendid leadership and resource.’ French Medal of Honour, ‘avec Glaives en Vermeil’, London Gazette 21 July 1919: ‘Temporary Lieutenant Henry Barrington Willis, M.C., Hampshire Regiment.’ Sold with original framed certificate for French Medal of Honour named to ‘Monsieur Willis, Henry Barrington, Lieutenant, 12th Hampshire Regiment.’
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Thos. Perdew. Capn. of the Aft. Gd. H.M.S. Vulture 24Ys.) light scratches to obverse field, better than very fine £500-£700 --- Thomas Perdew joined the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class on 29 October 1826, serving in H.M.S. Thetis. Advanced Captain of the After Guard in H.M.S. Vulture on 3 December 1852, he was shore pensioned on 14 May 1856, after 24 years and 5 months’ man service, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Sold with copied record of service.
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (Willm. Radmore. Caulker H.M.S. Asia) light contact marks, very fine £100-£140 --- William Radmore was born in Plymouth in 1845 and joined the Royal Navy as a Caulker’s Mate on 11 June 1870. He was advanced Caulker on 28 August 1875, and served in H.M.S. Asia from 15 February 1879 to 18 October 1880, being awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 17 August 1880. He was shore pensioned on 29 April 1887.
Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), E.VII.R. (Captn. H. D. Marshall. Surma Valley Lt. Horse.) nearly extremely fine £160-£200 --- Hannath Douglas Marshall was an old Rugbeian who went out to India at the age of 17 and later became a tea planter in Assam. He was an officer in the Surma Valley Light Horse and served with the 2nd S.V.L.H. on the punitive expedition in Assam and Burma against the Kuki tribes in 1918-19 (Despatches, O.B.E. Military). He was appointed Commandant of the S.V.L.H. in 1924 and was created C.I.E. upon his retirement as Commandant in 1927. Lieutenant-Colonel H. D. Marshall, C.I.E., O.B.E., V.D. retired to Church Stretton, Shropshire, where he died on 23 October 1944.
Militia L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (4524 Pte. R. Ayers. 4th. Glouc: Regt. Mil.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (6205867 Pte. A. D. Elliott. A.C.C.) light contact marks to first, very fine and better (2) £300-£400 --- R. Ayres was awarded his Militia Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in February 1905. One of only 15 Militia Long Service and Good Conduct Medals awarded to the 4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment.
Memorial Plaque (Henry John Trigg) very fine £60-£80 --- Henry John Trigg attested for the Royal Marine Light Infantry and served with the 1st Royal Marine Battalion during the Great War with both the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and with the British Expeditionary Force- his service history with the Royal Naval Division states: ‘Draft for MEF 18.8.15, joined 1st RM Battalion 2.9.15 - 2.10.15 to Works Dept. Lancashire Landing, rejoined 1st RM Battalion 3.1.16 to 7.9.16 Discharged Dead.’ Trigg was killed in actin on the Western Front on 7 September 1916 when an enemy 5.9” shell fell amongst the 1st Royal Marine Battalion whilst they were coming out of the front line at around 9:00 a.m., killing a total of seven other ranks. He is buried in Tranchée de Mecknes Cemetery, Aix-Noulette, France.
Memorial Plaque (Daniel Rockall) a few minor spots of verdigris, good very fine £60-£80 --- M.M. London Gazette 24 January 1919. Daniel Rockall was born in Gret Milton, Oxfordshire, and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Oxford. He served with them during the Great War in the Balkan theatre of War from 16 October 1915, before transferring to the Royal Munster Fusiliers, and was awarded the Military Medal whilst serving with the 6th Battalion, Royal Munsters, in Salonika. Proceeding with the 2nd Battalion to the Western Front, he was killed in action on 14 October 1918, and is buried in Maurois Communal Cemetery, France.
The mounted group of eight miniature dress medals attributed to Major-General C. J. Wallace, C.B., Highland Light Infantry Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar, reverse central medallion missing; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type badge, silver-gilt, on 2nd type Military riband, gilding almost all rubbed from obverse; Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914 Star; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; Coronation 1937; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated ‘1914-1918’, with bronze palm emblem on riband, mounted as worn and housed in a Garrard, London fitted case, good very fine (8) £200-£240 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918. O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919. M.C. London Gazette 23 June 1915. French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 14 July 1919. Charles John Wallace was born on 6 February 1890, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel H. R. Wallace, and was educated at Charterhouse. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry on 5 October 1910, he was promoted Lieutenant on 19 March 1913, and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from August 1914, being present during the operations at Mons and at the Battle of Loos. Promoted Captain on 17 May 1915, he subsequently served as Brigade Major of the 68th Brigade, and was promoted Brevet Major on 1 January 1917, at the early age of just 26. For his services during the Great War he was awarded the D.S.O., O.B.E., and M.C., as well as the French Croix de Guerre, and was Mentioned in Despatches five times (London Gazettes 22 June 1915, 1 January 1916, 4 January 1917, 11 December 1917, and 20 December 1918). Post-War, Wallace was nominated for the Staff College, and served as Adjutant of the 1st Battalion in Egypt. Further appointments included Assistant Adjutant and Quarter Master General of the 1st Division at Aldershot from 1935-38, and Commander of the 3rd (Jhelum) Infantry Brigade in India from 1939. Advanced Major-General, he served as Aide-de-Camp to H.M. the King from 1938-40, and was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1941 New Year’s Honours’ List (London Gazette 1 January 1941). He died on 20 December 1943. Sold together with the recipient’s riband bar for the first four awards.
The Lord Roberts Memorial Fund Stamp Album. War Portrait Stamp Album, containing 200 stamps of well known Soldiers, Statesmen, and other personalities, both British and foreign, including H.M. King George V; the Czar of Russia, the Emperor of Japan, and the Kings of Belgium, Italy, Montenegro, Serbia; Field Marshals Roberts, Kitchener, French, and Haig; Admirals Fisher, Jellicoe, and Beatty, Victoria Cross recipients Jack Cornwell, Francis Grenfell, and William Rhodes Moorhouse; Politicians Herbert Asquith, David Lloyd George, Edward Grey, and Winston Churchill; and other personalities including the Prince of Wales, Marshal Foch, and Nurse Edith Cavell, some light foxing, otherwise good condition £60-£80
A Great War M.M. awarded to Lance-Corporal A. Mitton, Shropshire Light Infantry Military Medal, G.V.R. (20117 Pte. - L.Cpl. A. Mitton. 7/Shrops. L.I.) suspension claw re-affixed, minor edge bruising, very fine £200-£240 --- M.M. London Gazette 13 March 1919. Arthur Mitton was born in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, in 1898 and attested there for the Shropshire Light Infantry. He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 25 August 1915, and was awarded the Military Medal.
Family Group: A Second War ‘Hazebrouck 1940’ M.M. group of five awarded to Warrant Officer Class III J. H. Miller, Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Military Medal, G.VI.R. (5379962 W.O. Cl.3. J. H. Miller. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (5379962 W.O. Cl.III. J. H Miller. 1-Bucks Bn. Oxf & Bucks. L.I.) good very fine Three: Sergeant J. H. Miller, Army Cyclist Corps, later Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1914-15 Star (600 Sjt. J. H. Miller. A. Cyc. Corps.); British War Medal 1914-20 (33860 Sjt. J. H. Miller. L.N. Lan. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19, erased; some staining to Star, otherwise generally very fine (8) £800-£1,200 --- M.M. London Gazette 25 October 1945: ‘For gallant and distinguished services in the Field.’ 5379962 Warrant Officer Class III John Henry Miller was born in 1913 and attested for the Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Territorial Force). He served with them during the Second World War, and was awarded the Military Medal for his gallantry at Hazebrouck, France, in May 1940 (The Bucks Herald, 3 November 1945 refers). 600 Sergeant John Henry Miller, the father of the above, initially served with the Army Cyclist Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 31 March 1915. Transferring to the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment on 22 July 1916, he was wounded in December 1917, and was discharged on 22 November 1918.
Mixed Imperial German Insignia. Comprising a set of red cuffs for the blue tunic piped Corps colour for an officers tunic; a Veterinary officers collar patch; a matched pair of Artillery officers collar patches; one Generals collar patch for the field grey uniform, light moth; and one Generals collar patch for the full dress uniform, reasonable condition (7) £140-£180
A Second War ‘Burma operations’ M.M. group of five awarded to Naik Mohammd Ashraf Khan, 3rd Bombay Grenadiers, Indian Army Military Medal, G.VI.R. (11459 Naik Mohd Ashraf Ind Gdrs.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, the MM polished and worn, and the campaign medals somewhat corroded, therefore generally good fine (5) £400-£500 --- M.M. London Gazette 17 January 1946: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Burma.’ The original Recommendation, dated 15 May 1945, states: ‘This N.C.O. during the whole campaign has been a constant source of inspiration to his comrades in his company and his bravery and dash have been the subject of conversation amongst the tank crews. On 8 March 1945 Naik Mohammed Ashraf Khan was commanding his section which was acting as tank escort to a Troop of “A” Squadron who were supporting the Royal Berkshires. The leading infantry and the tanks came under heavy fire from guns, mortars, and light automatics and were forced to withdraw. Naik Mohammed Ashraf Khan seeing that some wounded had been left behind, called to some British Other Ranks to help him recover them. These men failed to understand, so the Naik entirely on his own initiative went forward alone under heavy fire and carried one of the wounded men back to safety He then went forward again alone and under heavy fire and brought back another British Other Rank. By this Naik’s courageous action, the lives of these two men were saved and his coolness and devotion to duty under heavy fire were of the highest order. Such action has been typical of his conduct throughout the campaign. His disregard for his personal safety, devotion to duty, and determination to close with the enemy have been of the highest standard and he has proved himself a first class leader in a Company which has done extremely well throughout. His conduct has gained the admiration of the men in my regiment.’
An Imperial German Prussian Wilhelm Order Citation. The citation for the Order awarded to Leopold Koppel measuring 470mm x 380mm, folded to the centre, attached to the folder is a 90mm cylindrical canister containing a great seal and this is attached to the velum citation with a run of Prussian black and white fleck cord. The canister has the Coat of Arms of Kaiser Wilhelm II to the face side. The citation is all hand illuminated, dated January 1906 and with a large pen signature of Kaiser Wilhelm. The citation is accompanied by another citation also to Leopold Koppel dated October 1912 awarding him the Red Eagle Order Second Class, with accompanying notification letter dated 9 January 1913; a very large format and elaborate citation to Leopold Koppel appointing him as a Grand Master of the Order of the Crown of Italy dated August 1906; plus two other unknown documents dated 1906 and 1910, light foxing but otherwise generally good condition £800-£1,200 --- Leopold Koppel was born in Dresden in October 1843. A German banker, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, he founded the private banking house of Koppel & Co and other industrial firms including the light bulb manufacturing company Osram. An extremely philanthropic man, a foundation was set up in his memory, from an endowment he made in 1911, which resulted in the founding of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electro Chemistry. He died in Berlin in August 1933.
A Second War 1940 B.E.M. awarded to Ernest Twyford, Clerk of Works, R.A.F. Station, Brize Norton, late Lieutenant, Canadian Infantry British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (Ernest Twyford) edge prepared prior to impressed naming as usual; 1914-15 Star (75098 Cpl. E. Twyford. 29/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. E. Twyford.); Defence Medal, unnamed as issued, together with set of five miniatures including M.I.D. oak leaves, both sets mounted as worn, nearly very fine (6) £200-£260 --- B.E.M. (Civil) London Gazette 24 June 1940: ‘Ernest Twyford, Clerk of Works, R.A.F. Station, Brize Norton.’ Erneat Twyford was born at Wellington, Somerset, on 1 December 1887. Prior to enlisting into the 29th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, at Vancouver B.C. on 7 November 1914, he had served for 7 years 6 months with the 5th Somerset Light Infantry, and was a carpenter by trade. He served with the 29th Battalion in France from 20 May 1915, and was wounded in action in both legs and right wrist on 26 September 1916. He was commissioned as temporary Lieutenant in the 1st reserve Battalion on 3 February 1917, serving also at the British Columbia Regimental Depot. He was discharged at his own request in the British Isles on 31 May 1919. Sold with copied research including Canadian record of service.
John Rogers and Sons blue over white zebra pattern meat platter decorated with zebra and figures in an Oriental garden with pagoda, impressed mark verso, 53 x 39 cm. Not available for in-house P&P, contact Paul O'Hea at Mailboxes on 01925 659133Condition Report: No visible damages or repair, some light crazing and areas with slight discolouration.
Pair of blue and white porcelain stands Chinese, 19th Century decorated to the centre of the top with a pond scene depicting ducks and lily pads, the exterior further decorated with floral scrolls, 7.5cm high x 27.5cm across (2) Condition: small hairline to one visible under a light, another hairline crack to the other stand, all over wear to both
Jade spray brooch designed as a foliate and wirework spray terminating with jade cabochons, stamped '14k' (jade untested for treatments) overall length 4.5cm approxCondition: Natural flaws, discolouration and imperfections. Untested for treatments. Pin slightly bent out of shape. In need of a light clean.
Group of stands and covers Chinese including a large shaped hardwood stand, 34cm x 20cm high Condition: There is one cover in this lot. The finial is missing. It is 9cm across. Many/most with minor wood chips and some splits. Signs of wear, light damages etc. Please contact us if you would like more details on specific stands.
'Egg and spinach' glazed bowl Chinese, Kangxi period (1661 - 1722) decorated to the body and sides with famille verte enamels, the tapered foot rising to a flared rim, 6cm high x 19cm across Provenance: Acquired by the current vendor's grandfather in Beijing around the 1930s while working as a junior diplomat Condition: Hairline cracks visible under a light, general wear
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