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A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Private F. Simcoe, East Surrey Regiment, who was killed in action in August 1917 - as a member of the 8th Battalion, it is worth speculating whether he had earlier survived that unit’s famous ‘football advance ‘over No Man’s Land on the 1 July 1916 Military Medal, G.V.R. (5523 Pte., 8/E. Surr. R.); 1914-15 Star (5523 L. Cpl., E. Surr. R.); British War and Victory Medals (5523 Pte., E. Surr. R.), nearly extremely fine (4) £400-500 M.M. London Gazette 26 May 1917. Frederick Simcoe, who was born in Bedford and enlisted in the East Surreys at Northampton, first entered the French theatre of war in July 1915. Subsequently awarded his M.M. for services in the 8th Battalion, he was killed in action on 7 August 1917, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.

A rare Great War M.M. pair awarded to Lance-Corporal T. Simm, Royal Marines Medical Unit, attached 63rd Royal Naval Division Military Medal, G.V.R. (S-3337 Pte. T. Simm, Med. Unit R.M.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Deal 3337 - S - L. Cpl., R.M.), one or two edge bruises, otherwise very fine and better (2) £450-500 M.M. London Gazette 26 March 1917. The original recommendation states: ‘For conspicuous courage in attending to, and bringing in wounded under heavy fire in a forward area in operations north of the River Ancre on 7 February 1917.’ Thomas Simms, a coal miner from Edmondsley, Durham, who was born in February 1886, enlisted in the Royal Marines at Crystal Palace in January 1915. Embarked for France as a Medic in the following month, he appears to have remained on active service right through until the end of hostilities, and was awarded his M.M. for gallant services in the 2nd (R.N.) Field Ambulance, 63rd Royal Naval Division. Simm was demobilised in January 1919.

The Great War M.M. awarded posthumously to Lance-Corporal A. E. Nelson, 14th Battalion (Young Citizen Volunteers), Royal Irish Rifles, who was killed in action at Thiepval Wood on the first day of the battle of the Somme Military Medal, G.V.R. (6322 L. Cpl. A. E. Nelson, 14/R. Ir. Rif.) nearly extremely fine £500-600 M.M. London Gazette 11 November 1916. Lance-Corporal Albert Ernest Nelson, 14th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, was killed in action on 1 July 1916, and is buried in the Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval. He was aged 21, son of Albert Edward and Mary Nelson, of Bryson Street, Belfast. Private William McFadzean, of the 14th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for throwing himself on top of a box of bombs which had overturned in a crowded trench, two of which exploded, their pins having fallen out, killing him instantly. This occurred early on the morning of 1 July 1916, whilst the bombs were being distributed to the bombers previous to the famous advance from Thiepval Wood.

A rare Great War German East Africa operations M.M. awarded to Private Angoma, 1/2 King’s African Rifles, who was wounded on the occasion he won his decoration at Mahiwa in October 1917 Military Medal, G.V.R. (1575 Pte. Angoma, 1/2 K.A.R.), severe edge bruising and heavily polished, thus fair £250-300 M.M. East African Force G.R.O. No. 1192, dated 17 October 1917. Angoma, a native of the Nyanja Tribe from the Dedza District, enlisted in the King’s African Rifles in October 1915. Winning his M.M. for the action fought at Mahiwa on 17 October 1917, when he was wounded in the left thigh, he was advanced to Lance-Corporal in December 1917 and discharged in May 1919.

A fine Second World War battle of Sidi Rezegh M.M. group of six awarded to Major T. V. H. Margesson, 4th (Rhodesian) Anti-Tank Regiment, attached 102nd (Northumberland Hussars) Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Horse Artillery: an old Harrovian aged about 40 years at the time of winning his immediate M.M. as a Bombardier, his gun was credited with ‘brewing up ‘several enemy tanks - so, too, with working closely alongside V.C. winner Brigadier ‘Jock ‘Campbell in his armoured control vehicle Military Medal, G.VI.R. (1095701 Bmbr., R.A.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, extremely fine (6) £1200-1500 M.M. London Gazette 24 February 1942. The original recommendation states: ‘During the attack on the 1st South African Brigade near Sidi Rezegh on 22-23 November 1941, Bombardier Margesson’s section was protecting the 22nd Armoured Brigade H.Q. When the Brigade H.Q. withdrew south his two guns were continuously in action keeping off the German tanks. They knocked out two Mk. IIIs and one Mk. IV. In negotiating a soft patch one portee was bogged down and in trying to get it out the other stuck. In this position they were attacked by tanks but beat them off, knocking out three at 400 yards range. Bombardier Margesson’s guns were then extricated but were again attacked and knocked out one more Mk. IV tank. Throughout the action Bombardier Margesson showed extreme coolness and contempt for danger. His determined bearing was an example to all about him.’ Thomas Vere Hobart Margesson was born in July 1902, the younger son of Sir Mortimer and Lady Isabel Margesson - she was the sister of the 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire and his older brother became the 1st Viscount Margesson, a wartime Cabinet Minister. Like his father before him, Thomas was educated at Harrow, following which, in 1929, he settled in Rhodesia. Enlisting in the newly formed Rhodesia Light Artillery Battery in May 1940, he was advanced to Acting Sergeant that October, and was posted to the 4th (Rhodesian) Anti-Tank Regiment. In June 1941, however, he reverted to the rank of Bombardier on attachment to the 102nd (Northumberland Hussars) Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, in North Africa, and it was in this latter capacity that he won his immediate M.M. at Sidi Rezegh in November of the same year, while serving in Lieutenant Savory’s Troop: ‘Lieutenant Savory’s Troop was attached to the 7th Motor Brigade during the actual battle of Sidi Rezegh and it was not till the 22nd of November that they operated again with the 22nd Armoured Brigade. Bombardier Margesson’s gun came in for most of the fun during the first two days of this battle. He was usually near Brigadier ‘Jock ‘Campbell’s armoured control vehicle, and where ‘Jock ‘was there was sure to be action. On one occasion, when his Headquarters was attacked by enemy tanks, the two anti-tank guns became heavily involved in the ensuing tank battles. One portee [one of the unit’s gun-carrying trucks] was hit during the early stages of the battle and had to withdraw and resort to long-range firing, but the other gun, commanded by Bombardier Margesson, with his crew, Gunners Roselt, Edwards, Muller and McArthur, moved forward to close contact and did considerable damage to the enemy, and were definitely credited with four ‘Brew-ups ‘, two of which were Mark IV tanks. Lieutenant Savory’s Troop was also allotted two or three individual tasks investigating unidentified columns. One of these forays nearly led to disaster. Two guns had been detached, and, in their ‘swanning ‘, drove into a soft salt pan and were completely bogged down in a few minutes. Fortunately, some Honey tanks were close by, and assisted in winching these two portees out. Whilst in the process of towing them out, twelve Italian M13 tanks suddenly appeared and engaged them. Things looked nasty and, had it not been for Lieutenant Savory, who jumped into one of the layer’s seats with Gunner Roselt and knocked out eight of the Italian tanks, one gun at least would surely have been lost. As a result of these actions, Bombardier Margesson received the immediate award of the Military Medal, whilst Lieutenant Savory received a periodical award of the Military Cross, and Gunner L. Roselt the Military Medal’ (The history of the 4th Rhodesian Anti-Tank Battery refers). Nor was this the last close encounter experienced by Margesson prior to him being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in March 1942, for, on 25 January, while acting in support of Crusader tanks of the Queen’s Bays at Antelat, his portee was hit by one of five ‘half-track German gun-towers’ that closed to 600 yards range in defence of a larger enemy force - indeed such was the ferocity of this close range action that several of Margesson’s comrades were wounded (see the history of the 4th Rhodesian Anti-Tank Regiment for further details). Posted to 4th Battery, R.H.A. in April 1942, the recently commissioned Margesson served in the same capacity until joining H.Q., 7th Motor Brigade in February 1943. And he saw further action in Italy 1943-44 as C.O. of 76th Anti-Tank Regiment and 199 Battery, R.A. in the rank of Temporary Major, prior to being demobilised at the end of 1945.

A Second World War ‘North Africa’ M.M. awarded to Lance-Serjeant Edward Maher, Irish Guards, who was killed in action in Italy on 26 October 1943 Military Medal, G.VI.R. (2721745 L. Sjt., Ir. Gds.) good very fine £2500-3000 M.M. London Gazette 23 September 1943. Recommendation reads, ‘1st Bn. Irish Guards, 24th Gds. Bde., 1st British Division’. ‘Tunisia .. Patrol - Banana Ridge, 20/21 April, 1943. L/Sgt. Maher was in No.3 Coy. of this Bn. which was in the 5th Bn. Grenadier Guards area on Banana Ridge on 20 April 1943. He was sent out on a mixed patrol of I.I.G., and 5 G.G., on the night of 20 April to discover routes to the various positions which his Coy. was going to hold as a covering force on the night the Bde was to put in its attack. While on its way back, the party contacted the Germans, who opened fire and killed the Grenadier officer. L/Sgt. Maher, a Corpl. of this Bn., and an officer of the RTC managed to lie low. L/Sgt. Maher had strict instructions not to open fire under any circumstances, as it was extremely desirable that the Germans should not know that anything out of the ordinary was going to happen. The Patrol was then in enemy territory but L/Sgt. Maher managed with great coolness to extricate himself and his party, of which he took charge, as the RTC Officer had only just arrived in this country, and had no experience of Infantry patrol work. Having hidden themselves all night and the next day L/Sgt. Maher brought his party back through our lines the following evening, shortly before the Germans put in an attack. This N.C.O. showed throughout great calmness and power of command in emergency and it is doubtful whether without him the party would have got back. He secured the information he had set out to obtain and obeyed his orders to the last letter. He is an exceptionally fine type of N.C.O. and has proved himself on every occasion he has been committed to battle’. Serjeant Edward Maher was killed in action in Italy on 26 October 1943. His name is commemorated on the Cassino Memorial. He was the son of Patrick J. and Elizabeth Maher. A photocopied newspaper cutting with the group states that Maher was from Kilbrogan Hill, Bandon, Co. Cork, and that his M.M. was presented to his brother and sister at a Buckingham Palace investiture.

A rare Second World War East Africa 1940-41 operations D.F.M. group of five awarded to Squadron Leader J. F. S. Lawley, Royal Air Force, who was decorated for his services as a Navigator in Wellesleys of No. 47 Squadron during numerous operational sorties in the Eritrean and Abyssinian campaigns Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (564281 Sgt. J. F. S. Lawley, R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, loose suspension on the first with signs of attempted tightening to rivet, generally very fine or better (5) £2400-2800 D.F.M. London Gazette 7 March 1941. The original recommendation states: ‘This airman has participated in over 20 operational missions over Eritrea and Abyssinia as Air Observer. He has always displayed the finest qualities of courage and endurance and has successfully navigated the formations over long distances in mountainous country. His aptitude finding new targets despite unreliable maps and adverse weather has been most marked. On one occasion as Air Observer in the leader’s aircraft, he navigated a flight of 11 bombers to the heavily defended town of Danglia in Northern Abyssinia. He has played an important part in the successes obtained by the Squadron.’ Joseph Frank Stephenson Lawley, who was born in September 1913 and enlisted in the Royal Air Force in January 1930, was decorated for his services as a Navigator in Wellesley bombers of No. 47 Squadron in the East Africa operations of 1940-41 - see Dust Clouds in the Middle East, by Christopher Shores, for frequent mention of the Squadron in action. In brief, No. 47 was based at Khartoum on the outbreak of hostilities, under Wing Commander J. G. Elton, A.F.C., but moved to Erkowit in May 1940 and mounted its first attack on 11 June - against the airfield at Asmara, the Eritrean capital - the day after Italy entered the War, one Wellesley being brought down by accurate anti-aircraft fire. Other enemy airfields would be attacked over the coming weeks and months, so, too, enemy troop positions and communications, the latter including strikes against the railway station west of Gash River on 30 July - all of the Wellesleys involved were hit by ground fire and one Air Gunner wounded - and, in the face of particularly vicious A.A. fire, installations on Sheik Said Island - one aircraft was badly shot up by prowling CR. 42s; while in an attack on Gura in early August, Italian fighters badly damaged another Wellesley. Meanwhile, the Italians begun to hit back at our own airfields, disaster striking No. 47 on Friday 16 October 1940, when nine CR. 42s strafed and totally destroyed eight Wellesleys on the ground. Replacement aircraft having arrived, some of them via No. 14 Squadron which was re-equipping with Blenheims, No. 47 was quickly back in action, but lost another Wellesley to CR. 42s during a raid on the village and fort of Burie. With the tide of war turning in favour of the Allied forces come the New Year, No. 47, now operating out of advanced airstrips at ‘Blackdown ‘and ‘Sarum ‘, moved forward to hammer such targets as Barentu and Agordat airfields and, in late January 1941, coveyed Haile Selassie to the border of Sudan and Ethiopia - Orde Wingate would receive similar conveyance in the following month. Agordat would eventually be taken over by No. 47 - and renamed ‘Wellesley Burial Ground ‘due to mounting losses. It was about this time that Lawley was recommended for his D.F.M., his ‘Kiwi ‘pilot, afterwards Air Vice-Marshal Graham ‘Digger ‘Magill, C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C., later describing him as ‘a truly solid citizen, competent, cheerful, unflappable and of unquestioned loyalty - strangely enough he had a slight impediment in his speech which showed up occasionally on the ground but, as is not unusual, never in the air.’ Magill further observed: On the ‘opposition ‘: ‘Very briefly, we didn’t think all that much of the bulk of those who attacked us, not that they were not dangerous enough. But many tended to engage at relatively long range with apparent reluctance to close too much against our return fire, such as it was. But, to our considerable discomfort, there were notable exceptions who pressed home their attacks with the determination we would expect of our own chaps .. I cannot vouch for the number of fighters that took exception to us - but there were enough! If I remember correctly on this occasion [a raid on Massawa] we disengaged by slowly climbing into medium cloud and gratefully for there was little enough of that commodity about in those parts at that time of year.’ On navigational difficulties: ‘In these days of high-technology it is not possible to equate his ability as a Navigator. In the old Wellesley, and the Vincent before that, navigational equipment was virtually non-existent, or minimal to over-state the case. A drift reading or two, perhaps a very occasional W./T. fix, lots of eye-balling with maps of very doubtful accuracy, close co-operation with the chap up front and the W.O./A.G. at the back, and the sixth sense of experience and local knowledge was the recipe for success. I can humbly claim that that was our good fortune together.’ Lawley remained actively employed in the subsequent Keren operations, most probably through to the capture of Addis Ababa, and returned home about the time his D.F.M. was gazetted. Commissioned as a Pilot Officer in April 1941, he appears to have remained employed in the U.K. for the remainder of the War, onetime being based at R.A.F. Waddington, and attained the rank of Acting Squadron Leader in August 1944. As, however, confirmed by accompanying documentation, he remained on the Reserve of Officers after the War, and was granted the substantive rank of Squadron Leader prior to being placed on the Retired List. Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including the recipient’s Abyssinia campaign ‘Blood Chit ‘, the outer cover inscribed, ‘564281 Sgt. Lawley, R.A.F.’; wartime period photographs (9), including the recipient in uniform and scenes from East Africa; a carbon copy Air Ministry statement of services, dated 6 October 1945; his R.A.F. identity card, dated 16 September 1952, as a Flight Lieutenant in the Reserve of Officers, with portrait photograph; and two Christmas cards and two letters from Air Vice-Marshal Graham ‘Digger ‘Magill, C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C., his old pilot, these addressed to a previous owner of Lawley’s awards.

A rare and impressive East Africa 1941 operations immediate D.F.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant J. G. P. Burl, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve: in the unenvious position of being a Lysander air gunner under attack - and having had two or three bullets pass through one of his hands - he managed to force down an Italian CA. 133 and damage a CR. 42, following which his own aircraft crash-landed after serious damage inflicted by Italian fighter ace Maresciallo Soffritti - still under attack, he then proceeded to drag his unconscious pilot clear of the Lysander’s wreckage before leading him through difficult terrain to the safety of a Sudan Defence Force camp Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (776358 Sgt. J. G. P. Gurl, R.A.F.), note surname spelling; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, generally good very fine (6) £2500-3000 D.F.M. London Gazette 1 April 1941. The original recommendation states: ‘On 2 February 1941, while on reconnaissance patrol off the Scipitale-Tole road in Lysander N. 1206, three CA. 133 aircraft were encountered. After a careful search which failed to locate escorting fighters, Flying Officer Johnson attacked the formation. As a result of this attack, one CA. 133 was forced to land but crashed in doing so. Flying Officer Johnson was then attacked himself by three CR. 42s which had evidently been ‘sitting in the sun ‘. In the first attack, Sergeant J. G. P. Burl, the Air Gunner, was wounded in the hand by two or three bullets which passed through it. However, in spite of this, he succeeded in firing off three pans of ammunition and evidently caused some damage to one of the enemy fighters as it was seen to break off its attack with smoke emanating from the engine area. Enemy fire caused the destruction of the flying controls of the Lysander and the pilot was forced to attempt a landing by increasing the engine revolutions and momentarily he succeeded in clearing a ridge ahead of him, although the elevators were ineffective, and throttled back to effect a landing on the other side. By a combination of wing dropping, which could not be corrected as the ailerons were not under control and an obstruction in the landing path, the aircraft crashed on landing and Flying Officer Johnson was rendered unconscious. He was extricated from the wreckage by Sergeant Burl. While this was being done, one CR. 42 continued the attack. The engagement occurred in the hills to the end of Tole and, when Flying Officer Johnson recovered, the crew set off on foot in a northerly direction in order to avoid possible Italian forces withdrawing along the road. The country was difficult and after a few miles, Sergeant Burl found it necessary to give Flying Officer Johnson considerable assistance in addition to carrying a three gallon water tank which he had removed from the aircraft. Later, they met some natives who put them on donkeys and led them into a Sudan Defence Force H.Q. camp where they received first aid attention and they were subsequently sent back by ambulance.’ John Graham Ponsonby Burl was serving in No. 237 Squadron at the time of the above deeds, the subsequent award of his immediate D.F.M. being erroneously announced in the London Gazette under the surname ‘Gurl’. His pilot, Flying Officer Miles Johnson, was awarded the D.F.C. No. 237 Squadron was formed from No. 1 Squadron, Southern Rhodesia Air Force, in April 1940 and went operational against the Italians in East Africa in June 1940, flying out of Nairobi, Kenya. Thus ensued a busy round of operations against enemy positions, troops and transport, in addition to Army co-operation work alongside such units as the King’s African Rifles, an agenda that gathered pace with the Squadron’s move to the Sudan that September - Burl’s brother, Alan, was also serving as an Air Gunner in 237 and became the Squadron’s first fatality when killed in a combat against CR. 42s on 27 November. In early 1941, 237 lent valuable support to the ground offensive against the Italians at Kassala and Keren, and it was in a related mission on 2 February that Burl won his immediate D.F.M. - in addition to the remarkable engagement recounted above, it is worth noting from the Squadron’s history that a Daily Express correspondent was on hand to witness Burl and Johnson stagger back into their base: ‘He reported that Burl, though in great pain and suffering from loss of blood, had carried the pilot a considerable distance on his shoulders. It had taken the men two days to reach British lines.’ In March 1941, the Squadron was re-equipped with Gladiators and remained actively engaged until that May, so it is probable that Burl witnessed further action in the intervening period - certainly 12 accompanying original photographs include images of Gladiators, in addition to wrecked Italian aircraft.

A fine Second World War D.F.M. awarded to Flying Officer E. Conner, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, a Mid-Upper Gunner and ‘Battle of Berlin ‘veteran who had half of his turret demolished by an incendiary dropped from another Lancaster - but who nonetheless remained at his post Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (1523357 F./Sgt. E. Conner, R.A.F.), together with original Buckingham Palace forwarding letter, in the name of ‘Flying Officer Edward Conner, D.F.M.’, and a wartime newspaper cutting, extremely fine £1800-2200 D.F.M. London Gazette 15 September 1944. The original recommendation states: ‘Since commencing his operational tour in November 1943, as Mid-Upper Gunner of a Lancaster bomber, Sergeant Conner has completed 30 operational sorties and has flown 186 hours on operations. These operations have included eight attacks on Berlin as well as attacks on many of the most heavily defended targets in Germany. Sergeant Conner has been attacked on several occasions by enemy fighters, and by his skill he has contributed greatly to the safety of his aircraft and to the many successful attacks made by his Captain. On one occasion, whilst bombing Schweinfurt a 30lb. incendiary from another aircraft tore away half his turret and made a large hole in the fuselage, and in spite of the fact he was sitting almost in the open air, and in spite of suffering from a frost bitten face due to the intense cold thus caused, Sergeant Conner stuck to his post and maintained a vigilant watch until his aircraft was safely back at base. Sergeant Conner’s fortitude and consistent coolness and devotion to duty are a magnificent example to the Squadron and I strongly recommend him for the award of the Distinguished Flying Medal.’ Edward Conner, who was born in Wallsend in 1919, enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1942, direct from the his place of work, the North-Eastern Marine Engineering Company. Trained as a Mid-Upper Gunner, he went operational in November 1943 with a brace of trips to Berlin on the 22nd and 30th, most probably in No. 103 Squadron, a Lancaster unit out of which was formed the nucleus of No. 576 Squadron at Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire in the following month. Remaining actively employed in the latter unit until June 1944, he notched up 34 sorties prior to being ‘rested ‘and commissioned as a Pilot Officer in December 1944 - in between lay no less than six more sorties to the ‘Big City ‘, four of them in succession, but undoubtedly Conner’s most hair-raising trip was that to Schweinfurt on the night of 24-25 February 1944, when, as cited above, half of his turret was destroyed by a falling 30lb. incendiary from another Lancaster; that said, another close-call was encountered on returning to Elsham Wolds from Rouen in the early morning hours of 19 April 1944, his aircraft being attacked by an enemy night fighter as it circled the airfield before landing - ‘some damage was done to the aircraft but none of the crew were hurt.’ Having then visited more heavily defended German targets, Cologne, Dusseldorf and Essen among them, Conner and his crew turned their attention to a spate of other French targets in support of the forthcoming Allied invasion, attacking enemy communications at Crisbecq on the night of 5-6 June 1944, and Vire on D-Day itself. And it was shortly after these operations that he was recommended for his D.F.M. by Wing Commander G. T. B. Clayton, D.F.C., but four more sorties ensued before he was finally ‘rested ‘, the last of them being to Domleger on 29 June 1944. Conner was advanced to Flying Officer in June 1945.

A rare Great War A.F.M. awarded to Sergeant Mechanic Observer E. L. Brown, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service, an ex-Armoured Cars’ rating who saw extended service in seaplane units 1915-18, latterly with No. 234 Squadron at Tresco in the Scillies Air Force Medal, G.V.R. (201137 Sergt. Mech. Obs. Brown, E. L., R.A.F.) lacquered, very fine £1600-1800 A.F.M. London Gazette 8 February 1919. Edmund Leigh Brown, who was born in Edmonton, London in July 1891 and a motor mechanic by trade, was appointed a Petty Officer Mechanic in the Royal Naval Air Service in October 1914 - his service record has endorsements for services in land operations and his R.A.F. record refers to him as ‘Ex-Armoured Cars’. But from September 1915 until November 1917, he was employed at the seaplane testing base on the Isle of Grain, gaining appointment as a Leading Mechanic (E.) in the same period. Having then served briefly at R.N.A.S. Eastchurch, he removed in December 1917 to the seaplane base at Tresco in the Scillies, at which establishment he was taken on the strength of No. 234 Squadron on the establishment of the Royal Air Force in April 1918, and in which capacity he served until October 1918, when temporarily granted the rank of Sergeant Mechanic Observer - 234 was charged with carrying out anti-submarine patrols in the Western Approaches. Gazetted for his A.F.M. in the New Year, Brown was transferred to the R.A.F. Reserve in March 1919 and discharged in April 1920.

Sold by Order of the Recipient A rare and outstanding ‘Special Forces’ Northern Ireland Q.G.M., Falklands M.I.D. group of four awarded to Warrant Officer K. M. James, Royal Marines, a long-served and gallant member of the Special Boat Service, who was decorated for rescuing a wounded comrade in an undercover operation in October 1978 whilst serving with 14 Intelligence Company, and subsequently mentioned in despatches for his leadership of an S.B.S. team landed on enemy occupied East Falkland Island prior to the arrival of the British Task Force in May 1982 Queen’s Gallantry Medal, E.II.R. (Cpl. Kevin M. James, PO25432M, R.M.); General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (PO25432M K. M. James, Cpl., R.M.); South Atlantic 1982, with M.I.D. oak leaf and rosette (Sgt. K. M. James, PO25432M, R.M.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (Sgt. K. M. James, PO25432M, R.M.), mounted as worn, generally good very fine (4) £25,000-30,000 Q.G.M. London Gazette 27 March 1979: ‘In recognition of service in Northern Ireland during the period 1 August 1978 to 31 October 1978.’ Under the pseudonym ‘Luke ‘, the full story of James’s extraordinary deeds as an undercover operative in Dungannon one night in October 1978 appear in Duncan Falconer’s First into Action (first published by Little, Brown and Company, 1998): ‘When several shots rang out, interrupting the cold stillness that had shrouded Dungannon all that week, no one knew where they had come from. A couple of operators reported it, but they were quickly told to leave the net free in case there was an emergency. A radio then opened up and we could hear the sound of gurgling mixed in with a few inaudible words. The Det commander tried to contact each of the operatives to eliminate them as sources, but whoever was gurgling on the net was holding down the send button preventing all transmission. Luke [James] felt certain the shots had come from the Bear Cage area and decided not to wait until the comms cleared to inform ops. He leapt out of the car and tore up the hill, gun in hand, towards the car park. The rest of us could do nothing until we found out what was going on. Some operatives suspected it might be one of ours parked up by the lake and quickly drove there, but the operative was fine. We were all unaware of Luke tearing through the town alone and in great personal danger from a number of sources. If he had encountered an Army or police patrol they would shoot him without hesitation - a man in civvies running with a gun in his hand was a legitimate target, and they would never expect him to be a British undercover operative. Then there were the gunmen themselves - they could still be around and waiting for such a reaction. Luke felt certain it was Noddy who had been hit, but he had no idea from what direction. He saw the car at the far end of the car park in the shadows and sprinted to it. When he got there he found Noddy lying slumped in his seat. The driver’s window had been shattered by bullets. Blood seeped from holes in Noddy’s face, torso and legs, but he was alive, just. Luke’s only option was to get Noddy to the hospital as soon as possible. He manhandled him over the handbrake and gear lever and into the passenger seat. There was no time to be gentle, he was oozing blood. The threat of gunmen was still at the forefront of Luke’s mind. As he sat in the driver’s seat to start the car, he could feel the pints of warm blood soaking into the arse of his trousers. He screeched out of the car park, passed the pub where O’Dilly had been standing and sped up the road. By now the RUC had sent patrol cars to investigate the shooting and the Scots Guards, the local Army unit, were also heading towards the area. As Luke made a sharp turn out of the car park an RUC patrol car appeared in his rear. They flicked on their flashing lights and pursued him. As if matters could not get any worse the RUC assumed Luke was escaping from the shooting and was, therefore, the gunman. Suddenly Luke heard shots. The RUC were trying to shoot out his tyres. A bullet hit the car. Luke was an excellent driver and although he was scared shitless, as he endlessly reminded us afterwards, he never lost control. He was driving for his friend’s life. He could not stop to surrender and explain the situation because by the time the RUC had got through their arrest procedure, Noddy would probably have been dead. Luke had no choice but to lose them. We all knew the town like the backs of our hands, and perhaps better than the police. The RUC could not compete with his driving skills, nor did they have the incentive, and in less than a minute he gave them the slip. Other police patrol cars were reacting, but they assumed he was trying to make his way out of town and so coordinated themselves on the outskirts to stop him. That was just fine by Luke because he was headed for the hospital in the centre of town. Noddy rolled around in the passenger seat while Luke continuously talked to reassure him. Suddenly, Luke’s car came under fire again, this time from the Scots Guards, and then, a few streets later, from the UDR. This was becoming ridiculous. Luke eventually screeched into the hospital car park and came to a halt outside the main entrance. He dived out of the car, gun in hand, and ran inside. He was literally covered in blood and the few people in the foyer stopped and stared with gaping mouths. A couple of civilian security guards saw him from the other side of the entrance and made their way towards him. He ignored them, grabbed a wheelchair and pushed it outside to the car. He dragged Noddy out of the passenger side and into the chair. Noddy was still alive but slipping in and out of consciousness. Luke charged up the ramp with the wheel chair and burst in through the entrance doors once again. He was just in time, because now the Scots Guards and UDR were surrounding the hospital and moving in, convinced he was a terrorist. He levelled his gun at the security guards in the foyer, who immediately backed off - they were unarmed. Luke was filled with adrenaline and shaking. The hospital was not safe ground. The majority of the staff and patients were catholics and not to be trusted. ‘Where’s a doctor? ‘Luke shouted. A couple of nurses stepped into the foyer, but froze in horror along with everyone else at the sight of these two men covered in blood, one pushing a wheelchair, wild-eyed and pointing a gun. Luke didn’t wait for an answer and charged on, pushing Noddy through swing doors and along the corridor as blood dripped from the wheelchair, leaving a trail. He paused outside every door to kick it open, gun levelled, in search of a doctor. He scared the hell out of patients and nurses as he made his way through the hospital. He finally burst into a room where two doctors were tending to a patient. Luke could not care less about anyone else. His buddy was dying. He pointed his shaking gun at them and yelled, ‘Fix him. Fix him or I’ll fucking kill you! ‘A security guard burst in and Luke aimed at him like lightning. ‘Move and I’lll fucking kill you too. ‘The guard froze in his tracks and threw his arms up. ‘I’ll kill all of you! ‘Luke left Noddy and grabbed one of the doctors and pulled him over to the chair. ‘If he dies, you die! I fucking swear it! ‘The doctors were initially frozen with fear themselves, but they pulled themselves together, their professionalism kicked in and they set to work on Noddy. The doors suddenly burst open once again and a tough-looking matron stepped in. Luke levelled the gun at her as she stood beside the security guard with his arms in the air. But this woman seemed fearless. She looked at Luke and said, ‘Put the gun down, please. ‘ ‘I’m a British soldier! ‘Luke shouted. ‘And this is a hospital. Put the gun down. ‘There was something about her calm, assertive manner that Luke latched on to. But he kept his gun aimed as she passed him

A Second World War Middle East operations B.E.M. group of seven awarded to Staff Sergeant J. H. W. Gale, Royal Engineers, late Royal Warwickshire Regiment British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (No. 1868311 Staff Sgt. John H. W. Gale); British War and Victory Medals (25010 Pte., R. War. R.), initials ‘J. H.’; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, generally good very fine (7) £300-350 B.E.M. London Gazette 14 October 1943: In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East.’ The original recommendation states: ‘This N.C.O. has shown untiring energy and devotion to duty over a long period. He has been employed on the erection and maintenance of water and petrol installations for a factory, supply depots, railway marshalling yards and convoy bivouacs. His outstanding efforts in the face of continued overwork, and technical difficulties, have proved an example to all, and have contributed in a considerable measure to the success of these operational installations in supplying the forward troops.’ John Henry William Gale, who was serving in 54 C.R.E. at the time of the above award, was also mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 24 June 1943).

An exceptional B.E.M. and Long Service group of nine awarded to Staff Sergeant P. H. Croucher, Grenadier Guards British Empire Medal (Military) E.II.R. (2608037 A/Col.Sgt., Gren. Gds.); 1939-45 Star, France & Germany Star; Defence & War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (2608037 C/Sjt., Gren. Gds.); Coronation 1953; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army, with Long Service Bar (2608037 Sjt., G. Gds.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (2608037 S/Sgt., B.E.M. Gren. Gds.) mounted court style as worn, light contact marks but generally good very fine (9) £2000-2500 B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1954. The original recommendation states: ‘C.Q.M.S. Croucher joined the regiment as a Boy in 1921. At the outbreak of war he became a Sergeant and saw active service in France before Dunkirk. In 1941 he was promoted Colour Sergeant (C.Q.M.S.) in No. 2 Company of the 1st Battalion, an appointment he has held without break ever since. On account of his stature and for reasons of health he has been unable to gain any further promotion in the regiment. In spite of the fact that he knew this full well he never let up in his efforts to carry out his duty. He returned to Europe soon after ‘D’ Day with the Guards Armoured Division and was with the Battalion throughout their advance into Germany and until the surrender. After the war he served in Germany, England, Palestine and North Africa. C.Q.M.S. Croucher’s service in his regiment and indeed the army, has been completely outstanding. During the whole of his 31 years service he has worked for the good of others, and never spared himself to ensure that the men in his company were cared for and looked after in every possible way. His conscientiousness and devotion to duty are only equalled by his ability to handle men and get the best out of them, and indeed, there is not an officer or man who has not the most complete confidence in him. Everybody looks to the C.Q.M.S. for help and guidance and nobody has ever found him lacking in time of need. He has been a leading figure in the sporting activities of the regiment, and for years has run the football for the battalion. His leadership and inspiration has been largely responsible for the tremendous success the battalion has enjoyed in this sphere. He has been the backbone of the Sergeants’ Mess for more years than most can remember, and no social function is complete without him. Although he is by far the oldest member, his respect for his seniors is an example to all, and only matched by their respect for him. He always extends a ready welcome and helping hand to the new members. I consider that C.Q.M.S. Croucher’s service is deserving of official recognition. He is undoubtedly one of the straightest, nicest, most loyal, hardworking and unselfish men I have ever met, and, as I have described, a very great soldier.’.

An extremely rare Silver Cross of Rhodesia group of three awarded to Colour-Sergeant J. ‘Jock ‘McKelvie, Support Commando, 1st Rhodesian Light Infantry, late Royal Marine Commandos Silver Cross of Rhodesia (727700 Sgt. J. McKelvie); General Service 1962, 3 clasps, Borneo, Malay Peninsula, Northern Ireland (RM. 22353 J. McKelvie, Mne., R.M.); Rhodesia General Service (727700 Sgt. McKelvie, J.), this last an official replacement stamped ‘(R.)’, generally good very fine (3) £2500-3000 The Silver Cross of Rhodesia was awarded on just 30 occasions, four of the recipients being members of the Rhodesian Light Infantry. The official citation for McKelvie’s award, signed by Lieutenant-General J.S.V. Hickman, Commander of the Army, in July 1976, states: ‘Sergeant McKelvie was involved in 14 contacts during the period May 1976 to February 1977. In all these contacts he displayed considerable initiative, leadership and gallantry and, together with his men, accounted for over 60 terrorists. The following contacts are particularly noteworthy: On 9 November 1976, Sergeant McKelvie and seven men were dropped by helicopter into an area in which a large group of terrorists were based. The helicopter was subsequently grounded. Despite the lack of air support, Sergeant MeKelvie and his men killed 18 terrorists in the space of three hours. Sergeant McKelvie's conduct during this contact was exemplary. The success of this contact, which was enhanced by the killing of a further five terrorists and the capture of one, was due principally to Sergeant McKelvie’s personal example, gallantry and coolness in the face of determined opposition. On the 24 November 1976, Sergeant McKelvie and seven men were dropped by helicopter into an area containing a group of terrorists. Once again, through determination, aggression and first class leadership, Sergeant McKelvie and his men, who were later joined by additional men, killed 13 and captured two wounded terrorists. Throughout these and other contacts Sergeant McKelvie has inspired confidence and aggressive spirit in his men. His gallantry, example and disregard for his personal safety have been of the highest order and his professional dedication and determination have been an inspiration to all who serve with him. While in a contact in December 1976, he was severely wounded in the thigh and leg causing him to be hospitalised for two months.’ John ‘Jock ‘McKelvie was born in Glasgow in July 1946 and joined the Royal Marines in July 1963. During his 12 years with the Marines he served with 40, 41 and 42 Commando R.M., and was present in operations in Borneo, the Malay Peninsula and Northern Ireland - his official certificate of service confirms. Having been promoted Sergeant in January 1974, he took premature voluntary release in June of the following year, and, with much experience of Commando and anti-terrorist operations under his belt, was a natural candidate for the Rhodesian Army, in which he served with distinction, winning the Silver Cross of Rhodesia. Accompanying research suggests that McKelvie left Rhodesia at short notice, as a result of which he never received his Rhodesia General Service Medal. However, as confirmed by an accompanying letter, and with Lieutenant-General John Hickman’s blessing, a replacement was obtained ‘through the official manufacturer’ and mounted for display with his original Silver Cross and General Service 1962 awards in 2001. Sold with the recipient’s original Royal Marines certificate of service, together with congratulatory letters from President Wrathall, Lieutenant-General J. S. V. Hickman, and officers of the 1st Rhodesian Light Infantry, for the award of his Silver Cross; an eye-witness account of the action fought on 9 November 1976, written by one of the helicopter pilots; three official group photographs, and several other associated photographs, letters and confirmation of provenance.

A Queen’s Commendation for Brave Conduct group of five awarded to John Henry Barnes, Littlehampton Urban District Council, late Aircraftsman 1st Class, Royal Air Force and a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals; Queen’s Commendation for Brave Conduct, two silver laurel leaf sprays with pin fitting, the pair in Central Chancery, St. James’s Palace case of issue, all unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine (6) £120-160 Queen’s Commendation London Gazette 18 July 1967. ‘Electrician, Littlehampton Urban District Council’. John Henry Barnes was born on 7 August 1920. A Butcher by occupation and living at 26 Grove Crescent, Littlehampton, Sussex, he joined the Royal Air Force and became an Aircraftsman 1st Class. Serving in the Far East he was captured by the Japanese and made a prisoner-of-war. Postwar he was employed as an Electrician with the Littlehampton Urban District Council. In 1967 he was awarded the Queen’s Commendation for Brave Conduct for his part in the attempted rescue of a man who drowned in the sea at Eastbourne. Sold with copied Japanese P.O.W. record; original Buckingham Palace letter to returning P.O.W’s. of the Japanese dated September 1945; Queen’s Commendation forwarding slip and Queen’s Commendation award certificate named to ‘John Henry Barnes, Electrician, Littlehampton Urban District Council’. Also with copied gazette extract giving details of the rescue attempt for which Constable William Thomas Day, Eastbourne Police, received the B.E.M., and several other, including Barnes, received the Queen’s Commendation. .

The Small Army Gold Medal awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Clement Archer, 16th Light Dragoons, who was severely wounded in Flanders in 1794 and later commanded his regiment at Busaco and Fuentes d’Onor Field Officer’s Gold Medal 1808-14, for Fuentes de Onor (Lieut. Colonel Clement Archer) complete with gold ribbon buckle, original ribbon and contained in its red leather case of issue, extremely fine £8000-10000 Clement Archer was born in 1765 and joined the army as an Ensign in the 59th Foot in 1782. He served with that regiment at Gibraltar, but was invalided out just before the siege and retired from the service. He lived for some time at Berlin, where he passed through the Military School by permission of the King, and in 1794 was gazetted Lieutenant in the 16th Light Dragoons. He was promoted to Captain in 1795; Major, 1806; and Lieutenant-Colonel, 1810. He served during the war in Flanders in 1794-95, taking part in several actions including Beaumont on 26th April, and Willems on 10th May. In this latter action the 16th squadrons distinguished themselves by charging a battery of eight guns, which was supported by both cavalry and infantry. Captain Hawker, who led the charge, was wounded and his horse killed, whilst Lieutenant Archer was severely wounded and invalided to England. Archer served in the Peninsula from 1809, was promoted to the command of the 16th Light Dragoons on 2 April 1811, and commanded the regiment at Busaco and Fuentes d’Onor. A few days after his promotion, on 7 April, the Horse Artillery came up with the rear of the enemy, composed entirely of infantry and in the process of withdrawing from Almeida; and the left squadron of the 16th, led by Colonel Archer charged their rear of sixty-five infantry. The enemy kept their fire until the Light Dragoons were close, but were broken and all taken prisoner. ‘Throughout the northern campaign of 1811, the numbers of MassŽna’s cavalry far exceeded those of the British. In the general action of Fuentes de Onoro in early May, this discrepancy was strongly marked. At the critical moment of the battle, Wellington was forced to throw back his right wing. This entailed withdrawing two infantry divisions in face of the full weight of MassŽna's attack, including 3,500 cavalry. The British horse, consisting of the Royals, the 14th and 16th Light Dragoons and the 1st German Hussars, numbered hardly more than 1,000. Yet, on horses already wearied by earlier exertions, they covered this excessively delicate movement, charging in small bodies of one, two and sometimes three squadrons at a time, with immense gallantry and skill. ‘We were but scattered drops amid their host ‘wrote a subaltern of the 14th. At one moment, when two horse artillery guns had lingered too long in the front, they were extricated from an enveloping swarm of cavalry by a squadron of the 14th and another of the Royals, who charged back to their rescue. It is true to say, with Fortescue, that the cavalry were ‘the real heroes of Fuentes de Onoro’. But there was one unfortunate blot. Holding a conviction that cavalry, unaided, could take a battery of artillery by a frontal, rather than a flank charge, Captain Knipe, 14th Light Dragoons, put it to the test. He was killed and his squadron decimated.’ (Ref A History of the British Cavalry, The Marquess of Anglesey, Vol. 1). Lieutenant-Colonel Archer received the gold medal for Fuentes d’Onor and was invalided to England in 1812, retiring later that year. He died in November 1817.

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Barrosa, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca (J. Walpole, Lieut. Coldst. Gds.) good very fine £1800-2200 Ex Lothian Collection. The Hon. John Walpole was born in 1788, son of Horatio, 2nd Earl of Orford, and entered the Coldstream Guards as an Ensign in February 1804, gaining advancement to Lieutenant and Captain in June 1808. Present at Barrosa, Ciudad Rodrigo and Salamanca, he was severely wounded at the siege of Burgos in October 1812. ‘The Coldstream had 3 officers killed and 3 wounded; the 3 killed were Admiral Harvey’s son, Sir Bland Burgess’s son and Mr Buckeridge. The three wounded were Lord Orford’s second son who I fear will lose his arm, Capt. Fraser who will very likely lose his leg, and Capt. Crofton slightly.’ (Ref A Guards Officer in the Peninsula - The Peninsula letters of John Rous, Coldstream Guards 1812-1814, edited by Ian Fletcher). Walpole received a Pension of £100 per annum for his wounds, commencing 19 October 1813. He was advanced to Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards in July 1814 but subsequently held the local rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, possibly in the Kent district, where he had served as Assistant Quartermaster General soon after the Peninsular war. Lieutenant-Colonel Walpole died in 1859.

An emotive Peninsular War Medal awarded to General J. H. Bainbrigge, 20th Regiment, who, having had charge of the Regimental Colours as a 17 year old Ensign in the retreat to Corunna, was seriously wounded near Pampeluna on 28 July 1813, as a result of which his left arm had to be amputated two weeks later - his extensive and colourful account of his experiences in the battles of the Pyrenees was subsequently published in the regimental history Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Vimiera, Corunna, Vittoria, Pyrenees (John Bainbrigge, Lieut., 20th Foot) original riband and buckle as worn, good very fine £3000-3500 John Hankey Bainbrigge was born in July 1791, the younger son of Colonel Philip Bainbrigge - who was mortally wounded at the head of the 20th Foot at Egmont-op-Zee in October 1799 - and was appointed an Ensign in his father’s old regiment in March 1808. Quickly seeing action at Vimiera, aged 17 years, and in the retreat to Corunna, when he had charge of the regiment’s Colours in the rear-guard, he was advanced to Lieutenant in April 1809 on his return to the U.K. Back in the Peninsula in time to see further action at Vittoria and in the Pyrenees, he was seriously wounded in the engagement at Sauroren, near Pampeluna on 28 July 1813, as a result of which his left arm had to be amputated two weeks later. Luckily for posterity’s sake, Bainbrigge wrote an account of his experiences in these operations at the request of his children some 40 years later, a colourful and entertaining account that was published in Smyth’s History of the XX Regiment (London, 1889 - see appendices for General Bainbrigge’s Narrative of Roncesvalles and Sauroren), and from which the following extracts have been taken: ‘The French army had been newly clothed and appointed since the battle of Vittoria, and though their greatcoats were worn over their uniforms, they nevertheless made a splendid appearance. Their columns swept down the valley at a rapid pace, exposed to a sharp fire from the 7th Portuguese Cacadores, under Lieutenant-Colonel O’Toole. This was an exciting time, one which I shall not readily forget. Thoughtless, no doubt, as young men normally are, yet I could not repress the idea that this day might prove my last on earth, and when the whizzing of passing bullets became more frequent, I think I fully made up my mind to be hit .. The Colonel pointed to a chapel on the hill side overlooking Sauroren; we formed into sub-divisions of companies, right in front, and closed up to half distance. Just as I expected to be ordered to halt my company, for the regiment to deploy in line, Lieutenant-Colonerl Wauchope desired me to file off the Grenadiers to the right, saying, ‘You will enter the wood, and do your best to check the advance of the enemy’s column now entering it from the other side of the valley. ‘In giving this order to me, I have always thought the Colonel committed an error; the regiment could ill-afford to spare its best company, though reduced in numbers by its exertions and losses on the 25th. On arriving at the edge of the wood, I passed through the line of our Light Company, telling Lieutenant Fitzgerald that I had instructions to proceed on and feel for the enemy. When half way down the hill, I first met the French advance party. I fancied they were taken by surprise, but soon perceived that I had to contend with old soldiers who knew their work thoroughly. We at once commenced firing, and I retired slowly up the hill, inclining to my right, files a little extended and defending every stone and tree; the enemy stretched out to his right and left, and increasing rapidly in numbers, were turning both my flanks. About this time I brought down one of the enemy myself; observing him stationed in a bush very close to me, I took a musket from the man next to me, aimed deliberately and fired; he disappeared, and I saw no more of him. I doubt whether these men were Tirailleurs, though they were acting as light infantry, for the one I fired at wore a bearskin cap, like Guards; they were some of the finest looking soldiers I ever saw. However, we still presented a bold front as we retired slowly upwards. On reaching the edge of the woods we found to our great joy not an enemy, but a strong detachment belonging to Major-General Byng’s Brigade. Here I rallied the men, and, being well together, I determined on advancing again without communicating with the supporting detachment. The enemy fell back before us .. ‘‘Shortly after this advance, I received a musket shot through the elbow of my left arm and another ball struck me in the side, lodging in my back. It is possible the same bullet did all the mischief, as both wounds were received at the same time. I continued with my men as long as I was able to stand, when, becoming faint from loss of blood, I gave over command of the company to a Sergeant; and a Corporal assisted me to the rear and placed me under the first bit of rising ground we came to, where I was sheltered from the enemy’s fire .. I lay for a considerable time on the spot to which I had been removed until a Portuguese medical officer, attached to the Commissariat, came accidentally to the same place. He was mounted on a pony and pitying my forlorn situation assented to the request that he should accompany me to the village in our rear; this kind-hearted man helped me to get into the saddle, and, leading the way, took me to the town of Villalba. I had no difficulty in procuring a quarter, the inhabitants having fled in terror, abandoning their homes for fear of a sortie from the garrison of Pampeluna. Several medical officers had established themselves in the place, and were examining and dressing the wounds of such as arrived there from the field of battle. I took possession of a room with a nice bed in it; and at night Major-General Ross came to see me. With his usual liberality, he threw his purse on the bed, desiring that I should take what money I required. This was the last time I had the happiness of seeing my much esteemed General, an officer beloved by every soldier who served under him .. Sir Philip Bainbrigge, my brother, who was in the Quarter-Master General’s Department, joined Headquarters from a reconnaissance at the close of the action; on inquiry he learnt that I was wounded, and contrived to find me out in the course of the night. He urged my speedy removal from Villalba, because another battle might be fought next day, and sorties from the fortress of Pampeluna were frequent. He provided me with a horse to carry me to the bagge camp, which was two leagues on the other side of Pampeluna, and, as I said before, General Ross sent my servant from the regiment to take care of me. Weak and suffering as I was it would have been far pleasanter to remain where I lay, but the bare idea of risking being made a prisoner, in the event of a successful sortie, enabled me to make the exertion necessary, and in the morning I commenced the journey: my shattered arm tied up in a sash, amd my servant leading the horse. The bagge was reached in the course of the same day; but as there was no surgeon to examine my wounds, I decided on proceeding to Vittoria at once, which place I reached in five days more. At Vittoria I had the satisfaction of meeting the three officers of my own company who had been wounded a few days before me. We were lodged together in the same house. My arm, from some unaccountable reason, was not amputated until the 12 August; mortification had commenced, yet through the mercy of God, the skill and unremitting attention of Staff Surgeon Berry, and aided by a naturally vigorous constitution, I recovered. By the end of September, I was enabled to mount my horse and proceeded to Bilbao and embarked in October, on board a return transport for England. My wounds opened afresh on the voyage, which proved a most tempestuous one of five weeks. There happene

Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (F. Scott, M.D., Surgn., 95th Foot) original riband, edge nicks, otherwise good very fine £1800-2200 Francis Scott, who was born in February 1784, was originally appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the 93rd Foot in May 1802, direct from a similar appointment in the Tyrone Militia. Subsequently present at the Capture of the Cape of Good Hope in 1806, and in the Walcheren expedition in 1809, he transferred to the 95th Foot as a Surgeon in January 1810, and witnessed further action in the Pyrenees and at Nivelle, Nive, Orthes and Toulouse - so, too, at Waterloo, as Surgeon to the 2nd Battalion. Scott was placed on half-pay in September 1836 and died in April 1849; interestingly, as per the relevant entry in Balmer’s Regimental & Volunteer Medals (see R562), he appears to have been awarded a 95th Regiment silver cross bearing the battle honour Vittoria.

Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Richd. Wolseley, Asst. Surn. XX Regt. 1854) contemporary engraved naming, with ornate silver brooch bar, claw tightened but slack, edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine £600-800 Richard Wolseley was born in Co. Dublin on 30 June 1834, the second son of Major Garnet Joseph Wolseley and the younger brother of Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley. He was appointed an Assistant Surgeon with the 20th Foot on 28 July 1854. With them he served with distinction in the Crimea, being present at the battles of Alma, Balaklava and Inkermann - being wounded at this latter action; and in the siege of Sebastopol, including the assaults of 18 June and 8 September 1855. At Inkermann, a detachment of the 20th Foot found itself with men of the Coldstream Guards at the Sandbag Battery. In this advanced position Assistant Surgeon Wolseley established a dressing station. Left behind, as the Guards and men of the 20th advanced, he became involved in the confused fighting which followed their repulse. In a desperate position finding themselves cut off and being the only officer around, Wolseley led a charge through the enemy lines to safety. He wrote: ‘I remained for some time in the Battery attending as well as I could to some wounded men. I also collected some ammunition from the pouches of the wounded men, for men who had exhausted their supply. After a short time .. the order was given by someone to ‘retire and keep up the hill’. The line of retreat was along the side of the hill. We had not gone more than fifty yards to the rear when we found a line of Russians drawn up, cutting off our retreat. In consequence of the thick mist they were not visible until we were within twenty or thirty yards from them. They apeared to me as a very close line of skirmishers and when first seen were firing rapidly at us. On looking round me I found I was the only officer within sight and gave the order to the men who were close to me to ‘fix bayonets, charge and keep up the hill’. We charged through the enemy, losing, I should think about half our number.’ The reported last words of the mortally wounded General Sir George Cathcart, commanding the Guards and other units in their fight for freedom was, ‘Nobly done, Twentieth’. Colour Sergeant (later Captain) P. Geraghty later wrote of Wolseley, ‘.. I may here say that Dr. Wolseley was always to be seen where there was the greatest danger, he volunteered for, and did duty in the Trenches every night his Regt. was ordered there, and by arrangement, left the Hospital duties to others’. Wolseley was appointed to the Staff in August 1856 and then to the 24th Foot in January 1857. Returning to the Staff in July 1859, he was promoted to Surgeon in March 1867 and was later ranked as Surgeon-Major in the Army Medical Department. After being advanced to Brigade Surgeon in November 1879 he served for a time in Afghanistan during 1880. He attained the rank of Deputy Surgeon General in September 1883. He died at Meerut following a fall from his horse on 22 December 1886. Sold with copied research. .

The Afghan Medal to Captain C. J. R. Fulford, 26th Bengal Native Infantry, who was shot by an assailant on 20 April 1882 Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Capt., 26th Regt. Ben. N.I.) good very fine £400-500 Cecil John Russell Fulford was born at St. Leonards-on-Sea on 8 April 1845, the eldest son of Admiral John Fulford, Royal Navy. Educated at the Royal Military Academy, he entered the Army as a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 18 July 1865. Posted to India, he continued to serve with the Artillery until September 1870 when he was appointed Second Wing Subaltern in the 26th Native Infantry on probation for the Bengal Staff Corps. In March 1871 he was advanced to First Wing Subaltern and in January 1877 became Wing Officer and Quartermaster. In November 1878 he accompanied the regiment on service with the Southern Afghanistan Field Force and for a time in December he officiated as Brigade-Major to the Second Brigade of Infantry. After service in Afghanistan, 1878-79, he was posted home and joined the Staff College at Sandhurst. On passing the College he returned to India in early 1881 and rejoined his old regiment. With them, he was appointed Quartermaster of the corps and Wing Commander. In July 1881 he was appointed Officiating Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General at the headquarters of the Rohilkhand District, and in September was additionally appointed Officiating Deputy Assistant Adjutant General. In the spring of 1882 he was transferred as D.A.Q.M.G. to the Peshawar District. On 20 April 1882, in the evening, while he was out walking along the road by the the shrine in front of the mission house in the cantonment of Peshawar, a fanatical Pathan crept up behind him and shot him in the back with a pistol loaded with a bullet and about a dozen pellets. Captain Fulford died of his injuries on 4 May 1882. The Pathan who shot Fulford was, within a few minutes of his crime, shot and bayoneted by a sepoy of the 35th N.I., while attacking Colonel Rowcroft and a soldier of the Cheshire Regiment with a knife. Sold with copied research.

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (525 Pte. A. Brace, 2/Essex R.) slight edge bruising, pitting, nearly very fine £140-180 Awarded a Testimonial of the Royal Humane Society for saving the life of Corporal William Marriott who was in imminent danger of drowning in the Nile at Keneh (ref. R.H.S. Case Book 1885) - not with lot.

A rare Matabeleland 1893 casualty’s British South Africa Company’s Medal awarded to Trooper W. A. Cary, Salisbury Horse, who died of wounds received in action at Imbembezi British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Matabeleland 1893, no clasp (Troopr. W. A. Cary, Salisbury Horse), edge bruise, nearly extremely fine £1000-1200 William Arthur Cary was born in 1872, the fourth son of Colonel Francis Cary, and accompanied his father to South Africa in 1888, when the latter commanded the 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Completing his education at the Diocesan College, Rondebosch, Capetown, where he gained a reputation for being an excellent shot - as a Sergeant-Major in the School Corps he won a challenge cup for rifle shooting with the highest score ever made at that time - young William enlisted in the British South Africa Police on the same day as his brother, Trooper C. W. Cary, in May 1891. Still a member of the Company’s Police after it had been re-titled the Mashonaland Mounted Police in the following year, he volunteered to serve in the Matabele War in 1893, when he was appointed a Trooper in Captain Heany’s Troop in the Salisbury Horse. Cary was dangerously wounded in the engagement at Imbembezi on 1 November 1893, being shot through the head and never regaining consciousness - he died about five miles from Thabas Induna on the 3rd, and was buried that morning alongside Trooper Julius Siebert who had been similarly wounded in the same action. His Commanding Officer wrote: ‘He was a general favourite, an adept at all field sports, and a clever lad all round; and his death is sincerely regretted by his comrades. He was generally anxious - being a wonderfully good shot - to make good shooting at Imbembezi, and it was in eagerly exposing himself with that object that he was hit in the head with a Martini bullet.’.

An extremely rare Queen’s South Africa Medal awarded to Trooper M. S. Thring, Steinaecker's Horse, a ‘National Scout ‘who had previously fought for the Boers in the Swaziland Commando Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Transvaal (1467 Tpr. M. S. Thring, Steinacker’s Horse) nearly extremely fine £600-800 Mark Samuel Thring had the unusual and dangerous distinction of having fought on both sides during the Boer War. First in Natal in 1899 and 1900, as a member of the Swaziland Commando at the battles of Colenso, Pieter’s Hill and Alleman’s Nek. Then, as a Trooper in Steinaecker’s Horse from March 1901 to July 1902. He was fired on by the Boer Commando that captured Bremersdorp on 23 July 1901 but unlike some of his comrades, he managed to make a fortuitous escape. There is no doubt that a violent fate would have befallen him had he been taken prisoner - of four hensoppers en joiners captured at Bremersdorp one was executed and the other three flogged. Thring was born in Stanger, Natal on 24 May 1865, part of a British family that had emigrated to South Africa in the early 1800's and established ‘Thring’s Post ‘in Natal, a trading station that featured in both the 1879 Zulu War and the 1906 Zulu Rebellion. He is recorded as being involved in Swaziland, which lay between the Eastern Transvaal and Northern Natal, as early as November 1887 when he obtained a land concession. Swaziland was an independent country with an administration provided by the South African Republic (Z.A.R.) from 1895 to October 1899 when it was withdrawn. Under Boer regulations Thring was eligible for service on Commando and when the South Africa War commenced he was called up for compulsory service in the Swaziland Commando, which was composed of resident burghers and members of the Swaziland Police. He took part with them in the invasion of Natal and fought in the early stages of the Natal campaign. On 28 October 1899, the 200 burghers of the Swaziland Commando climbed the steep face of Lubombo in the north of Zululand and attacked the police post at Kwalileni manned by a Sergeant and 17 Zululand Police with two white police. At the battle of Colenso on 15 December 1899, it was the withering fire of the Swaziland Commando, amongst three others, dug in on the other side of the Tugela River that destroyed Hart’s Irish Brigade in the loop between Bridle and Pont Drifts. It was part of the besieging force at Ladysmith and fought at the battles of Pieter’s Hill on 27 February 1900 and Alleman’s Nek on 11 June 1900. It is not known at what stage Burgher Thring extricated himself from his service with the Swaziland Commando, which was withdrawn into the Eastern Transvaal as Buller’s Natal Army continued its advance northwards in August 1900, surrendered or was captured by the British forces. A Swazi spy kept the British informed of the Boers’ movements in Swaziland, and the records show they included those of M. S. Thring. It is recorded that the Natal authorities considered him to be a Boer spy (Steinaecker’s Horsemen by Bill Woolmore and ‘Neutrality Compromised: Swaziland and the Anglo-Boer War ‘, by Huw M. Jones in the S.A.H.M.S. Military History Journal Vol. 11, No. 3/4 refer). It is probably no coincidence that Thring enlisted in Steinaecker's Horse at Koomati Poort rather than at Durban, where the majority of enlistments took place, given that the Natal authorities thought he was a spy and he would most likely have been arrested. Steinaecker’s Horse, raised and commanded by the Prussian Baron Von Steinaecker on Kitchener's instructions at the end of 1900 was Head Quartered at Koomati Poort on the border with Portugese East Africa and it was there that Thring enlisted on 14 March 1901. Though Steinaecker’s Horse was described as ‘rough lot’ by General Pole-Carew (Woolmore refers), they were an aggressive and mobile unit in an increasingly bitter and vicious guerilla war. Swaziland was an independent kingdom during the Boer War but its neutrality was not respected by either side. In late 1900/early 1901, Steinaecker's Horse started operating there. As a long standing former resident of Swaziland and fluent in Afrikaans, his knowledge of the territory would have made Thring an ideal scout. The area over which they operated was notoriously hostile, with constant threat from Boers, lions and disease, and Steinaecker’s were consequently the best paid corps in South Africa, with a daily rate of 8 shillings for Troopers compared to 5 shillings in most of the other South African Mounted Irregular Force units - the Bushveldt Carbineers, operating not far from Steinaecker's Horse, being the other exception. However, men such as Thring were derided as hensoppers en joiners by the Boers. The British called them ‘National Scouts ‘and eventually raised a unit from surrendered Burgers titled the same. They were often viewed with grave suspicion within their own units and ran risks from both sides. Such suspicion sometimes led to extreme measures, as witnessed by the shooting of Trooper Van Buuren of the Bushveldt Carbineers by Lieutenant Handcock, one of the acts for which he was subsequently executed alongside his brother officer Lieutenant ‘Breaker ‘Morant. The hatred of the Boers still serving on Commando towards these hensoppers en joiners was fierce and the risk to a captured ‘National Scout ‘was great. Retributions were reported to have ranged from summary execution to castration and flogging. At the beginning of July 1901 a detachment of 110 men of Steinaecker’s Horse under Von Steinaecker’s command was based at Bremersdorp, the former administrative capital of Swaziland. The Swazi Queen-Regent was unhappy with the British troops being there and informed Commandant-General Botha who ordered the Ermelo Commando to take the town. ‘The commando had surrounded the town during the night, only to find that the bulk of the detachment [of Steinaecker’s Horse] had moved eastwards. Scouting at daylight near the Transvaal residency on the eastern side of the town, M. S. Thring was the first to notice burgers riding up from the river. He was fired at .. ‘(Jones refers). In the fight that followed Steinaecker’s Horse suffered four killed in action and four seriously wounded, with an unknown number taken prisoner. The town of Bremersdorp was captured, looted and burned by the Boers. Assistant Commandant-General Smuts, who led the Boers at the action, reported to General Botha that he had captured four hensoppers who had previously served with the Ermelo Commando and he believed that a further sixteen former burghers with the Steinaecker’s Horse detachment had escaped. The four prisoners were taken back into the Transvaal where they were court-martialled. One was shot in front of the Ermelo Commando, one received 25 lashes, another 15 lashes and a fine, and the last 10 lashes and a fine. Thring obviously escaped from Bremersdorp and continued serving with Steinaecker's Horse until he was discharged time expired at Koomati Poort on 7 July 1902. With a precarious post-war future ahead of them, only a handful of the ‘National Scouts ‘or hensoppers en joiners ever bothered to collect their Queen’s South Africa Medals and it is doubtful, understandably, whether any applied for the Anglo-Boere Oorlog Medal on its inception in 1922. Certainly, the double award of Q.S.A, and A.B.O. has never been recorded. It has long been rumoured that Jan Smuts ordered the destruction of many of the records pertaining to these men owing to the bitterness and hostility amongst the Afrikaners caused by their actions. The Q.S.A. medal rolls and unit enlistment forms never indicate whether a man was a surrendered Burgher and therefore, it is very rare to find a Q.S.A. that can be so definitely attributed to, and with such history, to a man who fought for and against both Boer and Briton.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (159 Tpr. H. A. Van Der Linde, Western L.H.), suspension claw refixed, edge bruising and polished, otherwise good fine £300-350 Hercules Albertus Van der Linde, a Boer farmer, enlisted in the Western Light Horse at Vryburg on 1 May 1902, aged 19 years, stating that he had earlier served for three months in Cullinan’s Horse. In all probability, therefore, he was present with 64 other men from that unit when it had the ill-fortune to comprise part of Major Paris’ column, under Lord Methuen, when the General was defeated by De La Rey on 7 March 1902 - four of its men were killed and four wounded. Cullinan's Horse was a small unit that was part British, part surrendered Boer. The Western Light Horse was formed in April 1902 by Major Paris, on Lord Kitchener's orders, by bringing together Scott's Railway Guards, Cullinan's Horse, the Cape Police Specials, Hannay's Scouts and Dennison's Scouts. Major Dennison of Dennison's Scouts became its second-in-command. Its formation, soon after De La Rey's defeat and capture of Lord Methuen, was the result of discussions at Army H.Q. in Pretoria as to how best to use the units that were based in the Vryburg area and, as witnessed by the disaster to Methuen, were losing the battle to De La Rey and his "bitterenders". Initially, it had been proposed that Dennison would raise a new unit, as he related in his autobiography, A Fight to a Finish: ‘General Hamilton wrote me that it was the wish of the Commander-in-Chief that I should raise the nucleus of a corps by enrolling fifty Britishers and augmenting them from time with such of the surrendered rebels who preferred five shillings a day to a scanty subsistence .. I now had positive instructions verified officially a few days later, and in a very short time had over a hundred men enrolled, consisting of fifty Britishers, principally South Africans, and the balance of the class I was instructed to enrol, viz. surrendered rebels, whom I would much rather have met in the field as enemies than have their service; but these were my orders and I carried them out.’ Elsewhere, Dennison remarked that ‘great bitterness, of course, existed among the Boers against this class’. In the event, ‘the life of the corps was a short one, for peace soon followed, and, excepting a bit of a skirmish outside the town, practically the last of the war down west, the Western Light Horse saw no service in the field’ (A Fight to a Finish refers). It was disbanded a week after peace. Few of the Boers that fought with the British forces bothered to collect their medals after the end of the war. Often ostracised by their fellow Afrikaners (to the extent that a ‘National Scouts ‘church was formed), many preferred to forget that they had forsaken their brethren and sworn an oath of allegiance to the King. Few Queen’s South Africa Medals to Cullinan's Horse are recorded and few to the Western Light Horse, not only on account of the number of Boers that enlisted but also because the majority of Britishers had seen service with previous units (such as Scott's Railway Guards and the Cape Police Specials) and their medals were issued off the rolls of those units.

The Queen’s South Africa Medal awarded to Lieutenant A. L. Stanley, Royal Anglesey Royal Engineers (Militia), who, as Sir Arthur Stanley, K.C.M.G., was Governor of the State of Victoria during the Great War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut. A. L. Stanley, R.E. Mil.), very fine £600-700 Arthur Lyulph, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley, K.C.M.G., was born on 14 September 1875 and educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. The Stanley family had considerable estates in Cheshire (Alderley Park) and on Anglesey and a long tradition of political involvement with the Liberal Party. His father was famous for his educational and social work and his sister, Venetia Stanley, was to earn some later notoriety for her relationship with the Liberal Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. Arthur Stanley (the Honourable from 1903, Sir Arthur from 1914 and Lord Stanley from 1925) trained as a Barrister after Oxford but interrupted his studies to serve in the Boer War. He had been commissioned in the Royal Anglesey Royal Engineers (Militia) in 1898 and promoted Lieutenant on 16 May 1900. They volunteered for service in the Boer War and Lieutenant Stanley was one of the four Royal Anglesey R.E. (Militia) officers that served in South Africa, commanding a troop in the Company that embarked on 6 June 1900. The Company took part in operations along the lines of communication and were employed on the railway in construction work, erection of blockhouses etc., before returning to England on 16 October 1901. He was promoted Captain in 1902 for his services in South Africa and resigned his Commission in 1903. Subsequently, he joined the Cheshire Yeomanry attaining the rank of Captain. Returning home from South Africa, he was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1902. Faithful to the family’s Liberal tradition, he served on London County Council from 1904 and was elected as the Member of Parliament for the Eddisbury division of Cheshire with a comfortable majority in the 1906 general election. He was immediately appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Postmaster General (Earl Buxton) and served in that capacity until he lost his seat in the 1910 general election in what was widely seen as a backlash against Lloyd George’s creation of income tax in the 1909 budget, of which budget Stanley was a ‘hardy supporter’ (his obituary in The Times 24 August 1931 refers). He was again defeated at Eddisbury in December 1910 and stood unsuccessfully for Oldham in 1911. Governor of the State of Victoria Obviously a man of talent, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Anglesey and its High Sheriff in 1913. In November 1913, the King agreed to his appointment as the Governor of the State of Victoria, whilst still only 38 years old, and in January 1914 he was knighted and created a K.C.M.G. The Prime Minister, H.H. Asquith, dined and lunched with the Stanleys before they departed for Australia. Sir Arthur Stanley’s appointment as Governor was described in his obituary as ‘warmly received’ and the Governorship itself as a successful one. His tenure in Australia lasted throughout the Great War and was extended for a further year from November 1918 at the express request of the Secretary of State for the Colonies. On his return to the United Kingdom in February 1920, he was received by the King on relinquishing his appointment. By this stage he was in ill-health, a consequence of enteric picked up whilst serving in South Africa. Sir Arthur Stanley’s time as Governor of the State of Victoria during such an important time in her history has been recorded for posterity in a memoir written in 1977 by his daughter Adelaide Lubbock titled People in Glass Houses Ð Growing up at Government House. It is a wonderfully detailed account, drawing also on Lady Stanley’s letters to Venetia Stanley, of an Edwardian heyday that disappeared with the arrival of the Great War, during which Victoria more than played her part. There is no doubt that Sir Arthur and Lady Stanley were extremely popular in Victoria and they threw themselves with vigour into the arrangements for new battalions and the war charities. In 1916, for example, Lady Stanley presented Colours to the newly formed Pioneer Battalion. It was also a time of high political tension, fermented by the Conscription Referendum of October 1916 which split the Labour Party and the industrial unrest that followed the National Party’s election to power in March 1917. On his return to the United Kingdom, Sir Arthur Stanley took up much varied work and became a member of the House of Lords in 1925 on the death of his father. He kept extremely close ties with Australia and was a Director of the National Bank of Australasia and of the Australian Mercantile, Land and Finance Company. He was the Chairman of the Council of the Royal Colonial Society 1925-28 and sat on the Select Committee on the Abeyance of Peerages. He was also President of the British-Australasian Society and Honorary Colonel of the 29th Infantry Regiment. At the time of his death, in 1931 aged only 55, he was the Chairman of the East Africa Joint Committee.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (Major J. C. P. Manuell, 7/Mtd. Inf.), minor official correction to surname, very fine £400-500 John Charles Pengelly-Manuell was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion East Lancashire Regiment on 5 August 1891 and promoted Captain on 9 April 1892. In February 1893 he transferred to the 4th (Militia) Battalion, the Border Regiment in the rank of Captain and, as such, was presented to the Prince of Wales at a levee at Buckingham Palace on 25 April 1893. On 23 January 1895 he was further appointed Honorary Major in the 1st Cadet Battalion, the Norfolk Regiment (he lived at Morningthorpe, Long Stratton, Norfolk). However, he was declared bankrupt in September 1895 and therefore resigned both his commissions. Major Pengelly-Manuell fought with the 7th Mounted Infantry in the Boer War as part of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers Company. After the first disasters in South Africa, it soon became apparent that more mounted infantry was required. This was of especial importance for Lord Roberts who started creating a South African Field Force soon after his arrival in January 1900, which would fight to and capture Bloemfontein, Johannesburg and Pretoria. He ordered that the existing mounted infantry be increased by 3,000 men by the simple process of ordering each infantry battalion to furnish a mounted infantry company. Eight additional battalions of mounted infantry, each of four companies, were raised in this fashion and the 7th Mounted Infantry was formed in February 1900 from the four regiments in Brigadier-General Chermside’s 14th Infantry Brigade that had arrived at the Cape in January 1900 as part of Tucker’s 7th Division. Thus the four companies, each approximately 150 strong, were found by the 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment and 1st Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers. It was commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Bainbridge of the Buffs. The clasps on Major Pengelly-Manuell’s medal represent the battles and engagements of Lord Roberts’ army on its victorious great flank march to Bloemfontein and beyond, in which the 7th Mounted Infantry more than played their part. After fighting at the small engagements at Wolvekraal, in defence of the convoy at Waterval Drift and with General French around Klip Drift in the middle of February, they played an important role at the battle of Paardeberg. On 18 February, Lord Kitchener ordered Colonel Hannay to take his men in the dark on to Koedoesrand Drift close to the main Boer laager. It became the prelude to the battle. Kitchener’s Horse were ambushed and a company of 7th Mounted Infantry crossed at Paardeberg Drift and engaged the Boers some two miles from the main laager. In the main battle they fought to the left of the Highland Brigade and carried on an independent fight with great determination and heavy loss against steadily increasing forces. In all, they were the heaviest sufferers proportionately to the number of men engaged and the 7th M.I. lost 30 percent of its strength in the scrub fighting on the north bank. Their sterling services continued throughout the campaign: they successfully reconnoitered the Boer positions ahead of the battle of Driefontein in March and found them in strength on Abraham’s Kraal and Damvallei kopjes. They were later engaged in classic mounted infantry work at the Battles of Doornkop and Brandwater Basin in moving with speed to cut off passes that would have allowed Boer reinforcement or escape. The 7th Mounted Infantry is especially well known, not only on account of one of its officers winning the Victoria Cross (Lieutenant G. H. B. Coulson, K.O.S.B., in May 1901), and its mention in Kipling’s poem M.I. (Mounted Infantry of the Line), but because one of its N.C.Os wrote perhaps the finest book on the campaign from a soldier’s perspective: Murray Crosby Jackson’s A Soldier’s Diary. Sergeant Jackson, of the 2nd Hampshire Regiment, joined the 7th M.I. as a reinforcement at Bloemfontein in April 1900 and fought with them for the rest of the war, being awarded the D.C.M. As he was without a parent unit, Major Pengelly-Manuell’s Queen’s South Africa Medal was uniquely named to the 7th Mounted Infantry and the roll was signed by an officer of the K.O.S.B.

Tibet 1903-04, no clasp (6062 Pte. F. Arnold, Tel. Deptt.) initial corrected, otherwise nearly very fine and scarce £400-500 62 Tibet Medals issued to Military Telegraphists, including five with the clasp for Gyantse. 6062 Private F. Arnold, 1st Bedfordshire Regiment is confirmed on the roll of Military Telegraphists for the Tibet campaign, one of five men of this regiment who joined the expedition from their station at Jhansi, India (Ref Military Telegraphists with the Tibet Mission 1903-1904, by Alan Harfield, OMRS Journal, Winter 1990).

Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (5235 Cpl. F. Charles, Tel. Deptt.) nearly very fine and very rare £700-800 62 Tibet Medals issued to Military Telegraphists, including just five with the clasp for Gyantse. 5235 Corporal F. Charles, 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment is confirmed on the roll of Military Telegraphists for the Tibet campaign, one of five men of this regiment who joined the expedition from their station at Sitapur, India. Corporal Charles was the only one to qualify for the clasp Gyantse (Ref Military Telegraphists with the Tibet Mission 1903-1904, by Alan Harfield, OMRS Journal, Winter 1990).

British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (Capt. G. Adler; Lt. W. S. Goss); Victory Medal 1914-19 (29445 Pte. G. Oxley, North’d. Fus.) Silver War Badge (2) (199488; 103681) very fine and better (5) £80-100 Gustave Adler qualified as a M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. (Eng.). He attested at Potchefstroom on 6 December 1917 and served as a Captain in the South African Medical Corps. Posted to Windhoek in December 1917 and thence to Marienthal, he died there on 14 February 1918, aged 22 years, as a result of a haemorrhage to the lungs. He was the son of Herman Adler of 13 Caroline Street, Hillbrow, Johannesburg and was buried in Johannesburg (Braamfontein) Cemetery. Sold with copied service papers. Lieutenant Walter Samuel Goss served in the South African Service Corps with the Transport Mobilisation Depot. With copied service paper. George Oxley was born in and enlisted at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He served initially as Private 29445 in the Northumberland Fusliers and then as Private 23841 in the 2nd Battalion West Riding Regiment. With them he was killed in action on 13 October 1916. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Silver War Badge No.199488 was awarded to Private Louis Glover, 10th K.L.R., who enlisted on 28 April 1915 and was discharged on 1 June 1917. Badge No.103681 was awarded to Gunner Frederick Jee, 5 ‘C ‘Reserve Brigade, who enlisted on 20 July 1915 and was discharged due to sickness on 28 December 1916. With copied roll extracts.

British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (10727 Pte. D. Jones, E. Surr. R.; 2661 Pte. J. G. Nicholson, W. York. R.), the first with card box of issue and remnants of registered envelope, generally good very fine (2) £40-60 Dudley Jones, who was born in Crowhurst, Sussex, was killed in action on the Somme during an attack on Morval on 25 September 1916, while serving in the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Southern Desert, Iraq (F./L. L. I. Hyder, R.A.F.) good very fine and scarce £600-800 Leslie Ingham Hyder, who qualified as a M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. at King’s College Hospital in London in 1923, was commissioned in the Royal Air Force as a Medical Officer in the rank of Flying Officer in July 1926. Posted to the General Hospital at Hinaidi, Iraq in December 1926, he subsequently transferred as M.O. to No. 84 Squadron, also in Iraq, in July 1928, thereby qualifying for his rare General Service Medal. Back home, he was advanced to Flight Lieutenant in August 1929, following which he was posted as M.O. to No. 6 Squadron in Ismailia, Egypt, in the rank of Squadron Leader, in January 1934, in which theatre he served until at least 1937, latterly being staioned at R.A.F. Helipolis. Ingham was still serving as a Wing Commander on the outbreak of hostilities in 1939 and was finally placed on the Retired List in July 1946. Thereafter, he appears to have returned to King’s College Hospital with an appointment as a House Surgeon in the Eye Department.

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (2716440 Gdsmn. G. Griffin, I. Gds.) extremely fine £500-600 Guardsman G. Griffin was killed in a terrorist ambush in Palestine in 1938, an incident referred to in the Irish Guards Journal: ‘Excluding the many encounters between patrols and small gangs, and the almost nightly engagements between Officers, road patrols and snipers, the Battalion fought in six actions against rebels, and perhaps an account of one, which will long be remembered by Irish Guardsmen, may not be without interest. At 4 p.m. on 18 August the Brigade Intelligence Officer was driving through the hills about twelve miles from Nablus, escorted by one armoured car and one section from the Battalion mounted in a truck. On reaching Deir Bajjala, the truck, which was the leading escort, was blown up by a mine and at the same time came under heavy fire from a gang of fity at about 80 yards range. As the immediate result, Guardsman Griffen (sic) was killed, all the remainder of the section were wounded, and the Section Commander, Sergeant Millar, who was slightly wounded in the back, received a bullet through his helmet. The machine-gun in the armoured car jammed, the Lewis gun on the truck had been put out of action by a bullet, and the only weapons in the action against the advancing Arabs were the rifles of the Brigade Intelligence Officer, the Brigade Interpreter and Sergeant Millar. The situation was now extremely serious and, although wireless calls had been sent up for air and ground assistance, no immediate reinforcements could be expected. Accurate and rapid fire from these three rifles, assisted by Guardsman Murphy, who, although badly wounded, continued to fire, did infact keep off the gang, but by the time reinforcements had arrived the Arabs had crept to within thirty yards and were being heavily engaged by Sergeant Millar with hand grenades. Two aeroplanes arrived on the scene, one of which was shot down and both the pilot and observer were killed. Shortly afterwards, two armoured cars arrived, followed by No. 4 Company’s mobile column ..’ The enemy gang was subsequently driven off, leaving behind ten killed. Sold with an original National Forces of Eire discharge certificate for ‘R103 Pte. George Griffin’, dated 25 April 1924. #500-600 276. General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (2694698 Gdsmn. R. Henderson, S. Gds.) nearly extremely fine £180-220 2694698 Gaurdsman Reginald James Henderson, 2nd Battalion Scots Guards was killed in action in North Africa on 26 September 1940, aged 24 years. He was buried in El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt.

South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (2460086 Gdsm P F Huchet WG) court mounted as worn, good very fine £600-700 Paul Huchet was born in Cardiff and joined the Welsh Guards in 1981. After initial training at the Guards Depot at Pirbright, Surrey, he joined the battalion at Elizabeth Barracks, also at Pirbright. He served in the Falklands and was aboard the Sir Galahad when it was bombed off Fitzroy and Bluff Cove on 8 June. He was fortunate to escape without injury unlike some 50 of his regiment who were killed and many more who were injured. Paul Huchet can be seen on war footage of the Falklands at the memorial service after the major hostilities had ceased. His picture also appears in the Regimental magazine, guarding Argentinian prisoners aboard the S.S. Canberra - copy with Lot together with further biographical details provided by another member of the regiment.

A rare Victoria Royal Marine M.S.M. dated ‘1848’ on obverse awarded to Serjeant J. Ford, R.M. Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, V.R., dated ‘1848’ below bust (J. Ford, Serjt., R.M. Plymouth Divn. 32 Years) officially engraved naming, contact marks and some edge bruising, nearly very fine £1400-1600 One of probably only 39 Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medals issued with the ‘1848’ dated obverse. Joseph Ford was born in the Parish of Wimborne (?) near the town of Bridgewater in Somerset in about 1804. He was 20 years of age and a Labourer by occupation when he attested for the 23rd Company, Plymouth Division, of the Royal Marines at Batcombe near Shepton Mallet, Somerset on 11 March 1824. He served as a Private until 6 December 1835 (11 years 271 days), Corporal to 29 January 1841 (5 years 54 days), and Sergeant to 13 January 1858 (16 years 349 days) for total service of 33 years 309 days. During this period he served aboard Harlequin, November 1824-January 1829; Druid, January-October 1829; Champion; St. Vincent; Alfred and Britannia, September 1832-February 1835; Comet for Spain, December 1837-August 1840 (Carlist War), and Cornwallis, April 1841-August 1843, for total service of 12 years 142 days Afloat and 21 years 167 days On Shore. He was awarded the Long Service Medal (wide suspension) with a gratuity of £15 in January 1852. It is uncertain if Ford received this medal but had to return it when he was awarded the Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal and an Annuity of £10 from 13 January 1857. He was discharged on 13 January 1858 due to length of service. Joseph Ford would have participated in the Carlist War (British Involvement, 1835-1839) aboard the Comet but he is not included among the Roll of 123 Royal Marine N.C.Os and Men who received the Silver Cross of the Order of Maria Isabella Louisa, mainly for the prelude to the assault on Irun in 1837. He was also awarded the First China War Medal 1841-42 for his service aboard Cornwallis and there is a China medal named to Sergeant J. Ford, Royal Marines, in the R.M. Museum collection at Eastney. Sold with copied service papers and other research.

Four: Warrant Officer Class 1 V. J. McKibbin, Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-15 Star (7/84 S.S/M., N.Z.E.F.); British War and Victory Medals (7/84 W.O.1, N.Z.E.F.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (7-84 Sq. S. Mjr., Canterbury Mtd. Rif.) mounted court style as worn, very fine and better (4) £240-280 M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1918. ‘.. in recognition of Valuable Services Rendered with the Forces in Egypt’. 336 ‘Immediate’ M.S.M’s. were awarded to the New Zealand Forces in the Great War (4 to the Army for Gallantry, 4 to the New Zealand Navy Auxiliary Service for Minesweeping, and 328 to the Army for Meritorious Service. Victor James McKibbin was born at Pleasant Point, South Canterbury on 24 May 1893 to William McKibbin and Margaret nee Morgan, early farming settlers. A Commercial Traveller by occupation and a member of the 8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifle Regiment, he attested to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Timaru on 14 August 1914, aged 23 years, 3 months. He sailed from Lyttelton, Christchurch with the battalion on 23 September 1914 for Wellington to be joined by the other battalions with their transports. The fleet departed on 16 October 1914 with McKibbin aboard Transport No. 11 (Athenic) and disembarked at Alexandria on 3 December 1914. He was made Sergeant on 14 August 1914, Staff Sergeant on 1 January 1916, Squadron Sergeant-Major 8 April 1916, and Warrant Officer 30 April 1918. He embarked for New Zealand at Suez on the Devon on 5 April 1919. During his service in Egypt he was admitted to hospital on 7 August 1916 for 10 days at Alexandria sick with ‘jaundice’. During this period he met his future wife, Margaret Elsie Louise Dodd, who was a volunteer nurse, and married her in Cairo. He was discharged on 2 July 1919 after 4 years and 231 days of service. In 1942 he was Managing Director of a motor business and living at 56 Dyers Pass Road, Cashmere, Christchurch, when he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Home Guard (Christchurch East Battalion). He was promoted to Lieutenant from 1 August 1943 and was posted to the Reserve of Officers with effect from 1 January 1944. Victor James McKibbin died at the above address on 4 June 1962, aged 69 years. At the time of his death he was Managing Director of South Island Motors Ltd and Treasurer of the Canterbury Park Trotting Club, and was a member of the Metropolitan and New Brighton Trotting Clubs. Included are about 30 pages of copies of his attestation to the N.Z.E.F., military history sheets, casualty form, certificate of discharge, appointment to commission in the Home Guard, notification of promotions in the Home Guard, page from the nominal roll of N.Z.E.F. 1914, notification of his M.S.M. in the Supplement to the London Gazette of 3 June 1918, and certified copy of entry of death, and obituary from the Christchurch Star, 5th June 1962.

Pair: Blacksmith 1st Class S. Garget, Royal Navy, who was killed when H.M.S. Curacoa was in collision with the liner Queen Mary, 2 October 1942 Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (MX.45530 Blk.1, H.M.S. Curacoa) in damaged card box ox of issue; Royal Life Saving Society Medal, bronze (S. Garget, June 1931) in case of issue, extremely fine (5) £120-160 Blacksmith 1st Class Sydney Garget, Royal Navy, was killed when the cruiser Curacoa was in collision with the liner Queen Mary on 2 October 1942. Aged 37 years at the time of his death, he was buried in Ashaig Cemetery, Invernesshire. He was the son of William and Elizabeth Garget and husband of Margaret Gertrude Garget of Brighton, Sussex. The Curacoa was part of the escort of the Queen Mary that was transporting some 15,000 American servicemen across the Atlantic to the U.K. Travelling at high speed in heavy weather, the 80,000 ton liner made a sudden turn to starboard in response to a reported submarine sighting and in doing so cut the escorting 4,290 ton Curacoa in two. Within five minutes the two portions of the vessel sank with the loss of 25 officers and 313 ratings. Only 26 officers and men of the Curacoa survived the accident. The Queen Mary, although damaged, made it across the Atlantic with her human cargo intact. Sold with Marriage Certificate and Marriage License, Maidestone, Kent, 1929; modern photographs of the grave and copied research.

Pair: Police Constable T. Corcoran, Dublin Metropolitan Police Visit to Ireland 1900 (P.C., D.M.P.) complete with brooch bar; Visit to Ireland 1903 (P.C., D.M.P.) lacks brooch bar, minor edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (2) £180-220 Thomas Corcoran, a Farmer from C. Cavan, joined the Dublin Metropolitan Police on 3 March 1889, aged 20 years, 6 months. On his record it was noted that he was awarded 5/- in June 1892 ‘for stopping a runaway horse’ and ‘appropriated’ in April 1894 ‘for arresting a corner boy who resisted arrest, assaulting him’. Four other monetary awards are recorded for ‘Special Police Services’ between 1899 and 1907. Corcoran retired with a pension on 28 May 1916 and died on 19 March 1949. Sold with copied service details.

Pair: Police Sergeant T. Leary, Dublin Metropolitan Police Visit to Ireland 1900 (P.S., D.M.P.) complete with brooch bar; Visit to Ireland 1903 (P.S., D.M.P.) complete with brooch bar, good very fine (2) £240-280 Thomas Leary, a Farmer from Kilmilil, Co. Clare, joined the Dublin Metropolitan Police on 12 June 1883, aged 20 years. He was promoted to Sergeant in 1898 and retired with a pension in December 1908. During his time on the force he received a number of commendations and monetary awards for a variety of services, including: ‘Retaining in custody two men who assaulted him, and threw a bottle at another Sergeant’. ‘Retaining a powerful corner boy who stabbed him with a knife’. ‘Arresting a horse and driver for furious driving’. ‘Identifying and convicting ten prisoners who violently assaulted himself and a Constable’. Balanced against this were a number of disciplinary entries on his service record, including: ‘Gossiping on duty’ with civilians, shopkeepers and Constables -for which he was cautioned or fined. ‘Absent from his beat, found coming out of public house - Cautioned’. ‘Highly improper conduct, incurring debt from a spirit grocer, and allowing his wife to incur a debt, also causing annoyance to proprietor by repeatedly standing in front of his shop and laughing at him to detriment of his business .. severely reprimanded ..’ Sold with copied service details .

Emanuel (Walter) The Dog Who Wasn't What He Thought He Was, nd., 24 coloured plates by Cecil Aldin, illustrated cloth

The Sporting Life The British Turf and the Men Who Have Made It, 1906, folio, plates as called for, a.e.g., morocco

Manuscript commencing 'Some Account of the Forepart of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge who died in Truth's Service at the house of Robart Lackeys at Killnock in the County of Carlow in Ireland ...1755, ownership inscription dated 1773, further entries in different hand, Quaker interest, approx 200 pages, vellum (worn)

A pair of George III silver canted-rectangular entree dishes and covers by Henry Greenway, London 1794, with gadrooned borders, the covers each engraved with armorials, each cover and base with crests, the unmarked screw-in handles modelled as mailed fist crests, 29.5cm (11.75in) long, 2776g (89.25 oz) (the handles unmarked)The shield bearing the mark of a red hand of Ulster, and ensigned by a full-face open helm is for a baronet. The arms and cast finial show them to be for Sir John Dixon Dyke, 3rd baronet of Horeham Sussex. Sir John succeeded his father to the baronetcy and to the property of Lullingstone Castle, Dartford, Kent in 1756. In that year he also married Philadelphia Payne (of East Grinstead) who bore three sons and three daughters. Sir John died in 1810 and was succeeded by his sons, Thomas (4th baronet) and Percival (5th baronet)

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY AND A GENTLEMAN BY DIRECT DESCENT FROM THE RECIPIENT A FINE PRESENTATION SWORD TO LIEUTENANT COLONEL THE HONORABLE WILLIAM MONSON, DATED 1802 with curved blade double-edged for its last third, etched in imitation of watering, applied on one face with the gilt presentation inscription and on the other with the owner's blued and gilt monogrammed initials and full crested arms, each side incorporating a long slender blued and gilt panel with stylised key terminals and enriched with a spray of foliage at the forte, gilt-brass stirrup hilt cast and chased in low relief, comprising slender down-curved quillon, ropework quillon-block, knuckle-guard decorated with oak foliage at the top, and lion mask cap pommel, and the grip retaining its original binding of plaited and twisted silver wire, in its fishskin-covered wooden scabbard with large brass mounts comprising finely chiselled locket with the mask of Mercury on each side in high relief, a pair of bands for suspension decorated with lilies and clam shells, and openwork chape decorated with acanthus, and retaining its red silk and bullion sword knot: in its original mahogany case lined in red velvet (the lid now glazed for display), and retaining its original leather belt embroidered with silver wire and with a brass buckle chiselled with a prowling lion 77.5cm; 30 1/2in blade The presentation inscription reads: 'This scymetar [sic] was presented in the year, MDCCCII, to the Honorable Lieutenant Colonel William Monson, by the Non-Commissioned Officers and privates of the LVXXVI, regiment, as a tribute of respect, esteem and gratitude.' William Monson (1760-1807) received a commission into the 52nd Regiment of Infantry in 1780 with which he proceeded to India. He became Captain on 5th August 1785 and took part in the Battle against Tipu Sultan of Mysore. He commanded a Light Company which successfully attacked the southern entrenchment of Seringapatam on 22nd February 1792. Monson remained in India after the peace and became Major in 1795. Two years later he exchanged into the 76th regiment where he became Lieutenant General. In 1803 he was appointed to the command of the first Infantry Brigade at the outbreak of the Mahratta war. He led the storming party at Allyghur on 4th September 1803 where he was severely wounded and incapacitated from field duty for six months. In 1804 he led a force of four thousand natives to keep watch on Jeswunt Rao Holkar who was threatening the British ally the Rajah of Jeypore. When Holkar broke camp and retreated Southwards Monson pursued him against the orders of Lord Lake with the intention of alarming Holkar and disbanding his army. This failed and in the forced retreat the cavalry was annihilated. Monson managed to escape with his infantry but attacks on his force continued and he arrived in Agra on 29th August with only a few hundred of the original force. In spite of this defeat he was again employed by Lake in the final operations against Holkar in Northern India. He acted as second in command to General Fraser on 21st February 1805 and became the chief command when his superior was wounded, from which position Monson wrote a report of the victory to Lord Wellesley. In 1806 he returned to England where he entered parliament and died in Bath the following year. ++

A FINE PRESENTATION SWORD TO ADMIRAL SARTORIUS BY WIDDOWSON & VEALE, SWORD CUTLERS NO 73 STRAND, LONDON, RETAILED BY SALTER, CIRCA 1834 with pipe-backed blade etched over almost its entire surface with the crowned Royal Arms of Portugal, the presentation inscription, and the cutler's details all amidst elaborate scrolls of foliage on one side and further designs of scrolling foliage and trophies enclosing the motto 'Aut Honor Aut Nihil' on the other (areas of wear and pitting, obscured in parts), gilt-brass stirrup hilt comprising quillons formed as a fasces, knuckle-guard as a branch entwined with a snake, a pair of langets chiselled with a deity, the back-strap and pommel formed as a lion's pelt, and finely chequered ivory grip (one small closed crack), in its original wooden scabbard with later velvet-covering, (replaced in its early life), with large gilt-brass mounts cast and chased in low relief with flowers and scrolling foliage on a punched ground, and medallions decorated with the seated figure of Justice, figures from the antique and a classical warrior profile 83.5cm; 32 7/8in blade The inscription reads: PRESENTED TO HIS EXCELLENCY VICE ADMIRAL SARTORIUS LATE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF H. M. F. HIS MAJESTY'S SQUADRON BY A FEW OFFICER'S WHO HAVING SERVED UNDER HIS COMMAND APPRECIATE HIS HIGH HONOR [SIC]COURAGE INDEFATIGABLE EXERTIONS IN THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY Sir George Rose Sartorius (1790-1885) entered the navy in June 1801 and joined the Tonnant in October 1804 under the command of Captain Charles Tyler. He was present in her at the battle of Trafalgar and was sent to the Daphne frigate in 1806, in which he was present at Rio de la Plata. In 1808 he was promoted to be lieutenant of the Success and took part in the defence of Sicily where he commanded the boats in bringing out trading vessels from under heavy fire on shore. The Success was afterwards employed in the defence of Cadiz, and on 1 Feb. 1812 Sartorius was promoted to the rank of commander. On 14 December he was appointed to the Slaney in the Bay of Biscay which was in company with the Bellerophon when Bonaparte surrendered himself on board her. In 1831 Sartorius was engaged by the exiled Regent of Portugal, Dom Pedro, as admiral to command the Portuguese regency fleet against Dom Miguel, and in that capacity obtained some marked successes over the usurper's forces. The difficulties he had to contend with were very great; he was met by factious opposition from the Portuguese leaders; the supplies which had been promised him were not forthcoming, and his men were consequently mutinous or deserted at the earliest opportunity. Sartorius spent much of his own money in keeping them together, and threatened to carry off the fleet as a pledge for repayment. Dom Pedro sent two English officers on board the flagship with authority, one to arrest Sartorius and bring him on shore, the other to take command of the squadron. Sartorius, being warned, made prisoners of both as soon as they appeared on board. Such a state of things, however, could not last; and without regret, in June 1833, Sartorius handed over his disagreeable command to Captain Napier, who, warned by his predecessor's experience, refused to stir till the money payment was secured. All that Sartorius gained was the grand cross of the Tower and Sword, together with the grand cross of St. Bento d'Avis and the empty title of Visconte de Piedade. His name had, meantime, been struck off the list of the English navy, but was restored in 1836. On 21 Aug. 1841 he was knighted, and at the same time appointed to the Malabar, which he commanded in the Mediterranean for the next three years. In 1842 he received the thanks of the president and Congress of the United States for his efforts to save the U.S. frigate Missouri, burnt in Gibraltar Bay. In July 1843 off Cadiz he received on board his ship the regent of Spain, Espartero, driven out of the country by the revolutionary party. The Malabar was paid off towards the end of 1844, and Sartorius had no further service afloat, though he continued through the remainder of his very long life to take great interest in naval matters. As early as 1855 he was said to have proposed to the admiralty to recur to the ancient idea of ramming an enemy's ship; and though the same idea probably occurred to many about the same time, there is little doubt that he was one of the earliest to bring it forward as a practical suggestion. He became a rear-admiral on 9 May 1849, vice-admiral 31 Jan. 1856, admiral 11 Feb. 1861; K.C.B. on 28 March 1865; vice-admiral of the United Kingdom in 1869; admiral of the fleet on 3 July 1869, and G.C.B. on 23 April 1880. He died at his house, East Grove, Lymington, on 13 April 1885, preserving to the last his faculties, and to a remarkable extent his physical energy, joined to a comparatively youthful appearance. He married, in 1839, Sophia, a daughter of John Lamb, and left issue three sons, all in the army, of whom two, Major-general Reginald William Sartorius, and Major-general Euston Henry Sartorius, C.B., won the Victoria Cross; the other, Colonel George Conrad Sartorius, is a C.B. John Salter died in 1834 after which the company was re-established by Widdowson and George Veale (his former shopman and witness to his will) as Widdowson and Veale.

A GEORGIAN GILT COPPER GORGET, A BUFF LEATHER BELT, AND A BUGLE BY I. KOHLER, ST JAMES'S ST, LONDON, 18TH CENTURY the first engraved with the crowned Royal Arms for pre-1801, the second with brass fittings, the third of copper, applied with a brass rim around the bell with the maker's details and stamped with a series of marks on each side, a rampant lion, a fleur-de-lys and a rampant unicorn on each side and with an associated mouthpiece (3) Inv. nos. U004, U002 & F066 The bugle was almost certainly made by John Köhler who was born in Germany circa 1770 and worked at this address 1811-30.

A George III gold and enamel memorial ring for Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson by John Slater of the Strand London, dated 21st October 1805, one of approximately 58, the square head with the letter N beneath a viscount's coronetand B for Bronte beneath a ducal coronet above the word Trafalgar with polychrome enamel detailing, on a tapered hoop shank, bearing the motto Palman Qui Meruit Ferat (let him bear the palm of victory who has won it), the underside engraved 'lost to his Country 21 Oct 1805 aged 49', finger size N, losses to the gold work and enamelling on the head the shank split at the base.Approximately 58 of these memorial rings were made by John Slater of the Strand following the death of Nelson at Trafalgar in 1805. The executors of Nelson's will gave the rings to Nelson's relatives. close friends and pall bearers, and a manuscript in the British Museum details all these recipients. Three of these rings are known to have been offered for sale, the first being at Sotheby's in 1926, and the last was sold in 1968 for £190. The ring offered here, although in a poor state of repair, does offer the possibility to the buyer the chance of returning this important and historic jewel to its original state

Five Beswick Beatrix Potter Mice, 'Hunca Munca', BP3b; 'Anna Maria', BP3b; 'Thomasina Tittlemouse', BP3b; 'The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe', BP3b; 'Johnny Town Mouse', BP3b and a Rat, 'Samuel Whiskers', BP3b, with boxes (6)

A Royal Doulton character kitten HN2579, five other Royal Doulton animals comprising HN2582, HN1158, HN2594, K18 and K8, together with a Beswick Beatrix Potter figure 'The Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe' gold oval mark to base (some with faults).

A Good Teco Pottery terracotta vase shouldered form with four looped handles, covered in a pale green matt glaze impressed Teco twice 32.5cm. high. The Teco range was introduced as an artistic line in 1900 by Gates Potteries, a subsidiary of American Terra Cotta and Ceramic Company. The production is generally architectural bearing the influence of local Chicago architects including Frank Lloyd Wright who supplied some of its designs. Literature: Important 20th Century Design Christie's New York, 7th December 2001 for this exact shape, lot 309 page 22.

A brass and steel detector lock by John Wilkes, circa 1685, the rectangular front with a reeded knob, the lock plate decorated in relief with a soldier holding a staff pointing at the circular dial, his left leg hinged to reveal the keyhole, beneath the verse 'Had I but the guilt of tongue, I would declare & do no wrong, who the are that com by stealth, to impare my Masters welth', length approx 16.5cm, bearing Alistair Sampson Antiques Ltd label to back, together with steel key. Note: a similar lock from the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated in Rupert Gentle and Rachel Field's Domestic Metalwork 1640-1820, revised and enlarged by Belinda Gentle, Antique Collectors' Club, 1994, plate 4, page 384.

A Beswick Beatrix Potter figure "The Old Woman who lived in a shoe", straight gilt backstamp, copyright 1959

Omar Ramsden - a George V chalice, planished hemi-ovoid bowl with reeded rim, the stem with wrythen knop applied with four lion mask bosses, above a band of stiff leaves, conforming spreading circular foot, engraved to the underside 'St Michael And All Angels, Middleton Charles Waterhouse In Memoriam Matris Suae Dono Dedit 1938, Omar Ramsden Me Fecit', 12cm high, London 1921, 5oz, cased Capt. the Rt. Hon. Charles Middleton, PC, MC, JP, DL, MP was a younger son of Thomas Crompton Waterhouse, of an old Yorkshire family from White Knowle, who had bought Lomberdale Hall from the estate of the younger Thomas Bateman. Charles was born in 1893 and served in the 1st Life Guards in the Great War, being awarded an MC. In 1917 he married Beryl Ford, an Australian. He had inherited the Lomberdale estate from his father in 1912, and in 1913 bought the Middleton Hall estate (also formerly a Bateman property) from the Mellands. He determined on a career in politics after his war service, and twice stood unsuccessfully for a Derbyshire seat before being elected in 1924 for South Leicestershire, which he held until 1945 and, as SE Leicestershire, from 1950 until he resigned in 1957. He served under Winston Churchill as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade 1941-1945, and was later chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1944. In 1938, when he donated this chalice, he also extended Middleton Hall (built in 1824-25), adding a billiard room in a matching Gothic style and generally modernising the house. He was at that time HM Comptroller of the Royal Household. The parish church of Middleton was built as a mission church in 1864, and restored in 1899.

J Davis & Sons - a boxwood and brass inclinometer level, by J Davis & Sons, All Saints, Derby, with compass, protractor hinge, two levels and scale, cased John Davis first came to Derby for varying periods before moving on again, mainly to Cheltenham. He was in the town in 1830, again in 1831, in 1835-36, on and off during the period 1837-1843, before settling permanently behind 22, Iron Gate, Derby in 1844; the firm is still flourishing. John Davis (1811-1873) was a member of an extended family of instrument makers of Jewish descent who, like John in the years prior to 1844, mainly worked peripatetically. Some members of the family - John, senior, David, William and a female relative - had attended Spencer's academy in Green Lane, run by the philosopher Herbert Spencer's father and grandfather, during the 1780s and 1790s.. However, the description on the instrument John Davis & Son/All Saints' Derby tells us that it was made after John Davis's eldest son was taken into partnership in 1873, and Henry took over on his father's death, retaining the style ÒJohn Davis & son/DerbyÓ which was current until the Company style changed in 1898 to ÒJohn Davis (Derby) LtdÓ. The firm built a new works called All Saints' works in Amen Alley opening them in November 1875, and the use of the style ÒAll Saints', DerbyÓ on this instrument confirms that it was made within eighteen months or two years of that date, when the firm was keen to emphasise its new premises. Thus the instrument was probably made 1876-78

Derbyshire Coal Mining Interest - a 19th century lacquered brass Casartelli's Patent Mining Dial, the 12.5cm silvered dial inscribed Casartelli's Patent Dial, No. 225, J. Casartelli, Manchester, Arabic numerals, engraved with a compass rose, set with two levels, folding frame, screw fitting cover, 30cm wide, fitted mahogany case, leather outer case, c. 1852 - 1896 The firm of Casartelli was founded by Lewis (Ludovico) Casartelli, born Tavernerio, Nr. Como, Italy 1784, d. 1860. He set up as an instrument maker in Liverpool in 1812. He came to UK as the nephew and assistant of Baptist (Battisto) Ronchetti, also from Tavernerio, who set up in Manchester in the same trade. From 1845 the business was run by Casartelli's two sons, Anthony John and Joseph Lewis. The latter married his cousin Harriet Ronchetti in 1852 and moved to 43, Market St., Manchester that year to take over the highly regarded Ronchetti business which he ran until his death in 1900, having been joined in partnership by his son Joseph Henry in 1896, who succeeded him until 1925. Thus the instrument dates from between 1852 & 1896, when the dial would have been marked Casartelli & Son/Manchester. The heavy-duty leather case is signed beneath the flap ÒE. Burrows, saddler, HeanorÓ. This refers to Elijah Burrows who set up at 18, Church Street, Heanor, between 1891 and 1895. The instrument was consigned to Edward Mundy, Shipleygate Station via the Midland Railway (MS inscription, right corner of label) The Mundy family had been of Shipley Hall since the early 18th century, and were major coal owners in the area, Shipley Colliery being a very large concern on the estate, served by the canal and later the MR. In the early 1890s - for this has to be the date of the case, if not the instrument, which can only be dated between 1852 and 1896 by its signature - the Shipley estate was owned by Alfred Edward Mundy (1849-1920) who succeeded to it on the death of his father, another Alfred in 1877. The family sold the hall and estate to the colliery company in 1923 and moved out; the colliery was nationalised in 1948 and the NCB demolished the hall shortly afterwards due to the structure being undermined by the coal extraction.

AFTER SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS PASTEL DRAWING Bust portrait of Isabella Brandt the artist's first wife who died of the plague circa 1619 18" x 13" (45cm x 32.5cm)

British School, late 19th century- Portrait of a gentleman, standing three-quarter length in a highland landscape, dressed in hunting attire and holding a shotgun, with his gun dog in attendance, traditionally held to be J C Tweedie/Tweedy of Rachan; oil on canvas, bears later inscription verso, 136x87cm. Note: Scottish tradition ascribes the origin of the Tweedie name to be that of a water sprite in the River Tweed. Legend tells of a husband who went off to fight in the crusades and while he was away his young wife became pregnant and so he returned home to find he had a son. His wife then told him that she had gone down to the banks of the River Tweed and had been accosted by a fairy of the river and become pregnant by him. Her husband, chose to believe this story but on the condition that the son kept the surname of Tweedie.

Dragon School: "Memorials of Old Boys and Masters of The Dragon School, Oxford who fell in the Great War", 1922; Kernot, C.F: "British Public Schools War Memorials", 1927, presentation inscription from the author; Wilson, E.R: "Wykehamist War Service Record and Roll of Honour", 1947 and Imperial War Graves Commission (Pub): "The War Dead of the British Commonwealth and Empire-Anzio War Cemetery" 1954. (4)

Gladstone and Disraeli: an impressive pair of pottery figures by Whitman and Roth each depicted in characteristic standing pose and wearing top hats, Disraeli with hand on hip, Gladstone holding an umbrella and bag, decorated in underglaze colours, on square bases moulded with makers lozenge shaped mark, registration mark for 8th December 1876 and inscribed 'Copyright', Disraeli 419mm high, rear part of carrying handle of bag missing and small chip to foot of Gladstone figure (2) * In the general election of February 1874 the Conservatives under Disraeli won a resounding victory over Gladstone and the Liberals. In 1876 Queen Victoria bestowed the titles of Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden upon Disraeli who remained Prime Minister until defeated by the Liberals in the general election of 1880 when Gladstone again became Prime Minister having been leader of the opposition in the interim.

JAPANESE FAIRY TALES - Crepe Books, printed in colour and translated into English, The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling; Chin Chinkobakama; The Goblin Spider; The Tongue Cut Sparrow; The Wonderful Mallet; The Ogres Arm; Three Reflections; Calendar For 1904; and three further similar books, early 20th century