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A Great War October 1918 ‘Famars operations’ D.C.M. group of three awarded to Private J. D. Wylie, 6/7th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, late Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (260124 Pte. J. D. Wylie. 6/7 Gord: Highrs:); British War and Victory Medals (252601 Pte. J. D. Wylie. A. & S.H.) mounted on card for display, very fine (3) £1,000-£1,400 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 12 March 1919; citation published 2 December 1919: ‘For marked gallantry and initiative at Famars between 25th and 27th October, 1918. While acting as company runner he was carrying a message through the village of Famars, when he came upon an enemy party of two officers and nine men. He opened fire on the party with his rifle, and when they threw down their arms and surrendered, he brought the party back unaided. He did fine work.’ John D. Wylie was a native of Glasgow who originally served with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, his regimental number indicating that he was a territorial serving with 1/6th Battalion, who were originally recruited around Renfrewshire. Arriving in France sometime after 1 January 1916, Wylie transferred to the Gordon Highlander with a new service number from a block allocated to the 1/5th Battalion but it was while serving with the 6/7th Battalion that Private Wylie was awarded the D.C.M. for his actions at Famars during the last two weeks of the war. The struggle for Famars was practically the final significant action of the war for the two battalions of the Gordon Highlanders (4th and 6/7th) in the 51st (Highland) Division. When the armistice came into force the 4th Gordons were in Cambrai and the 6/7th four miles north at Thun-l’Evêque. Sold with copied research including gazette and War Diary entries and Medal Index Card.

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private E. Jones, Leinster Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (6-584 Pte. E. Jones. 2/Leins: R.); 1914-15 Star (584. Pte. E. Jones. Leins. R.); British War and Victory Medals (584 Pte. E. Jones. Leins. R.) medals unmounted, good very fine (4) £1,000-£1,400 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 22 October 1917; citation published 26 January 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When the sole survivor of his gun team, he got into a trench with the two front companies, collected their guns and the remnants of their teams, and, taking up a commanding position on the left flank, opened fire on the enemy, who were massing, and dispersed them with heavy loss. His prompt and gallant action assisted the two leading companies to push on.’ Annotated gazette states: ‘East of Ypres, 31 July 1917.’ Edgar Jones was a native of Clydach Vale, Rhondda, South Wales, and first entered the Balkan theatre of war with the Leinster Regiment on 9 July 1915, probably with the 6th Battalion, and afterwards served in France with the 2nd Battalion, Leinster Regiment. Sold with copied research including War Diary extracts covering the battalion operations of 31 July 1917.

An early Great War D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private A. E. Holton, 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade, who, having been decorated for gallantry at Armentieres in February 1915, died of wounds the following September Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (B-431 Pte. A. E. Holton, 3/Rif: Bde:); 1914-15 Star (B-431 Pte. L. E. Holton. Rif: Brig:) not first initial shown as ‘L.’; British War and Victory Medals (B-431 Pte. A. E. Holton. Rif. Brig.) generally good very fine (4) £1,200-£1,600 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 10 March 1915; citation published 1 April 1915: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and great daring near Armentieres on the night of 3rd February, 1915. In company with another man he crawled close to the German trenches to ascertain their movements, he then returned to our lines, and obtaining a hand grenade went back and threw it amongst them, scattering the enemy in all directions. To achieve his object it was necessary to crawl through the German wire entanglements, and the risk was very great.’ Albert Edward Holton, who was born in Dartford, Kent, served in the Army Service Corps 1899-1904, but was court martialed and imprisoned for the theft of goods belonging to a soldier, being subsequently discharged. Recalled in 1914, he disembarked in France with the 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade, on 30 November 1914 [Ineligible for “1914 Star”] but qualifying date for 1914-15 Star is shown as 3 December 1914 on Medal Index Card which also shows first initial as ‘L’. He died of wounds in France on 14 September 1915, aged 29, and is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery. Sold with copied research.

A Great War ‘Canal du Nord, September 1918’ D.C.M. and ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of five awarded to Company Sergeant-Major A. L. Watkin, 50th Battalion (Alberta Regiment) Canadian Infantry, late Montgomeryshire Imperial Yeomanry; ‘After being wounded he single-handed attacked an enemy machine-gun nest, killing a number of crew and capturing twelve of them’ Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (434222 C.S. Mjr. A. L. Watkin. M.M. 50/Can: Inf.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (434222 C. S. Mjr: A. L. Watkin. 50/Alberta R.); British War and Victory Medals (434222 W.O. Cl. 2 A. L. Watkin. 50-Can. Inf.); Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (341 Sjt: A. L. Watkin. Montgmry: I.Y.) mounted court-style for display, very fine or better (5) £2,200-£2,600 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 12 March 1919; citation published 2 December 1919: ‘In front of Bourlon, 27th September, 1918. For conspicuous gallantry and fearless leadership. After his officers had become casualties he took command of the company and won his objective under heavy enemy fire, from which his company suffered heavily. After being wounded he single-handed attacked an enemy machine-gun nest, killing a number of crew and capturing twelve of them, thus assisting the advance of his company. Throughout he showed great courage, and rendered valuable service.’ The 50th Battalion report on the operations of 27 September states: ‘At Zero (5.20 A.M.) the attack went forward under a perfect barrage. The Canal du Nord was found no obstacle to cross but our men had a short fight with some enemy Machine Gunners who had been over run. Shortly after crossing the Canal all the officers in “D:” Company were hit, but the Company Sergt-Major A. L. Watkins (sic) M.M. led them on most gallantly.’ M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919. Awarded per Corp. Order 1899 of 11 September 1918. Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C. Army Order 27 of February 1905. Alfred Llewelyn Watkin was born at Llansantffraid, Montgomeryshire, on 17 November 1873. He enlisted into the 50th Battalion C.E.F. at Calgary on 12 January 1915, and served in France from 11 August 1916. He was slightly wounded in the head on 7 May 1917, and also by a gunshot wound in the thumb on 27 September 1918, when winning his D.C.M. He was discharged ‘medically unfit for General Service’ on 28 August 1919. Sold with copied research including record of service and War Diary extracts.

An outstanding and rare Great War ‘Gallipoli’ C.G.M. group of five awarded to Acting Leading Seaman W. J. Pierce, Howe Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, later Defensively Armed Merchant Ships and a veteran of the Battle of Antwerp in October 1914, for his great gallantry during the Third Battle of Krithia, in which his Battalion suffered over 80% casualties; one of only a handful of men who reached and held the Turkish front-line trench, when a withdrawal was ordered, Pierce, though badly wounded himself, stayed behind to cover the retreat of other wounded men and then carried back a wounded comrade over open ground, completely exposed to enemy fire Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, G.V.R. (SX.3.226 W. J. Pierce, A.B. R.N.V.R. Howe Bn. R.N. Div.); 1914 Star, with clasp (SX3/226 W. J. Pierce, A.B. R.N.V.R. Howe Bttn. R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (S.3-226 W. J. Pierce. Act. L.S. R.N.V.R.); Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (3/226 W. J. Pierce, A.B. R.N.V.R. Sussex Divn.) minor edge nick to CGM, light contact marks, nearly extremely fine (5) £15,000-£20,000 --- Provenance: Exhibited in the Royal Marines Barracks, Walmer, Deal when the School of Music was destroyed and heavy casualties inflicted by an IRA bomb on 22 September 1989. Dix Noonan Webb, September 2009. Only 13 C.G.M.s ever issued to Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; the combination with both a 1914 Star and a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal is excessively rare. C.G.M. London Gazette 13 September 1915: ‘Showed great gallantry on the 4th June in remaining in the enemy’s trench and continuing firing, although wounded, to cover the retirement of other wounded men, and finally in carrying in a wounded man under heavy fire.’ The original recommendation was submitted by Commodore Oliver Backhouse to General Sir Ian Hamilton on 8 June: ‘I desire to bring to your notice the following officers and men of the 2nd R.N. Brigade who performed special meritorious service during the operations on 4th June. In illustration of the fighting I would mention that out of the 36 officers and 911 men who formed the 1st line of advance in the assault of the enemy’s trenches only 6 officers and 279 men escaped injury. The 2nd and 3rd lines of advance consisted of 28 officers and 850 men of whom 3 officers and 493 men were unwounded.’ Hamilton forwarded the list to London, stating that ‘The powers granted to me by His Majesty the King to confer decorations in the field do not extend to this Division which is under the control of the Admiralty, and which is therefore at a disadvantage in this respect compared with the other troops alongside whom they are fighting.’ William James Pierce was born at 7 Fort Road, New Willingdon, Eastbourne on 13 September 1893, one of seven children of a journeyman house decorator (four of his siblings died from TB in childhood). A butcher’s assistant by trade, and a keen footballer, Pierce enrolled in the Eastbourne (No 3) Company, Sussex Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 14 January 1911. He claimed a date of birth one year earlier than was truly the case. Aged 17, he was 5’ 7” with fair hair, blue eyes and “fairly good” physique (32” chest). The Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Goes to War The Admiralty War Plan called for the creation of an ‘Advanced Base Force’ to seize or protect naval bases and key harbours that might be necessary to support expeditionary warfare. This concept was inspired by the example of the successful seizure and fortification of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba by the US Marine Corps during the 1898 Spanish-American War. The A.B.F. was to be created by expanding the Royal Marines. As the mobilisation of July 1914 got underway, a Royal Marine Brigade capable of fighting on land was formed by using reservists to expand existing R.M. units. By August the Fleet and shore establishments had been manned to maximum capacity and the Admiralty found it had a surplus of reservists still available, especially men (like William Pierce) who had enrolled in the pre-war Royal Naval Volunteer Reserves. It was expected that these reservists, who already had some naval training, would be needed at sea over time to replace casualties and ‘natural wastage’, but in the short term the most obvious way to keep them still available to the Admiralty was to expand the Advanced Base Force. Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, issued the necessary orders on 16 August, and by 22 August Pierce and his fellow R.N.V.R.s were mobilised and concentrated at Betteshanger, near Deal. They bought with them their ‘long pattern’ 50-inch barrel Lee-Enfields (rather than the ‘short’ 44.5-inch model used by the Army). R.N.V.R. units were not issued with any machine-guns. In late August 1914 Ostend was threatened by German cavalry and on 26 August the Marine Brigade was sent to strengthen its defences. On 8 September it was agreed that the First Naval Brigade (comprising the Benbow, Collingwood, Hawke and Drake battalions) and the Second Naval Brigade (comprising the battalions of Howe, Hood, Anson and Nelson) plus the Marine Brigade would be equipped and trained as an Infantry Division (the Royal Naval Division) reporting to the Admiralty. Two important innovations were made. Generally, Divisions are ad hoc organisations to which units are assigned and reassigned as military needs change, so there is not necessarily in the minds of soldiers a lasting identification with a specific division. The naval battalions fought together throughout the War, and were supported by a single Divisional Depot instead of multiple regimental ones (the R.N. Division is the only Divisional formation ever to have been included in the inscriptions on medals). Second, civilians were commissioned from the outset, with a preference for those aged 25-35, who would prove to be more experienced, resilient and talented as leaders than those who formed the majority of junior officers in army units. They were collectively described by Churchill as ‘salamanders born in the furnace’ (WSC’s Introduction to Jerrold’s The Royal Naval Division refers). The Division attracted many well-connected talents, including men such as Arthur Asquith (the Prime Minister’s son), Bernard Freyberg and Rupert Brooke. The R.N.V.R., which provided the majority of officers and men for the original eight naval battalions, had a strong naval esprit de corps and was determined to adopt only the essentials of infantry techniques. Naval terms and traditions were rigorously followed and the naval units never sought to become ‘smart soldiers’. They bowed to superior ability more readily than to superior rank. They were always more difficult (and rewarding) men to command. Antwerp By mid-September the German thrust into France had been defeated, but the Allied attack on the German defences along the River Aisne had ended and the “Race to the Sea” was getting underway. In Belgium, a separate German force had been tasked to defeat the Belgian army, capture the key port of Antwerp and then occupy the entire country. Antwerp was defended by two lines of forts, and on 2 October the Germans broke through the outer line. The Admiralty undertook to send its three brigades to reinforce the defences of the inner line of forts. By 4 October the Royal Marine Brigade had deployed in Antwerp. That day the two Naval Brigades marched to Dover and embarked in transports so overcrowded that it was standing room only for Pierce and the Howe Battalion. At Dunkirk they were issued with 120 rounds of ammunition (mostly to be carried in pock...

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant G. Weddell, Royal Field Artillery, who was wounded in action on 4 April 1918 Military Medal, G.V.R. (5022 Sjt: G. Weddell. 260/Low: Bde: R.F.A. - T.F.); 1914-15 Star (5022 Sjt. G. Weddell. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (5022 Sjt. G. Weddell. R.A.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (108 Sjt: G. Weddell. 1/L’ld. Bde: R.F.A.) mounted as worn, generally very fine and better (5) £400-£500 --- M.M. London Gazette 22 January 1917. George Weddell was born in Ratho, Midlothian. Having previously served with the 3rd Battalion Gordon Highlanders, and whilst serving with 1st (Edinburgh City) Royal Garrison Artillery, he re-engaged on 2 April 1908 in the 1st City of Edinburgh Battery, 1st Lowland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, noting his occupation as cable jointer for The National Telegraph Company (GPO), Edinburgh. He was awarded the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal in August 1915, and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 October of that year. Following restructure of the unit to 315th Brigade, Weddell was posted to ‘C’ Battery, 315th Brigade on 11 February 1917. He was wounded in the left arm on 4 April 1918, and was admitted to No. 10 General Hospital, Rouen, before being repatriated to St Luke’s War Hospital, Halifax. He was discharged on account of his wounds on 7 August 1918, and is additionally entitled to a Silver War Badge. Sold with copied research.

Family group: A Great War Western Front M.M. group of four awarded to Private W. Waring, Canadian Army Medical Corps Military Medal, G.V.R. (32908 Pte W. Waring. Can: A.M.C.); 1914-15 Star (32908 Pte W. Waring. Can. A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (32908 Pte. W. Waring. C.A.M.C.) mounted for wear, with Canadian Medical Corps cap badge and C.E.F. For Service at the Front lapel badge, generally good very fine Pair: Private R. Waring, 1st Battalion (Ontario Regiment), Canadian Infantry, who was killed in action at the Battle of Mount Sorrel, 13 June 1916 British War and Victory Medals (163952 Pte. R. Waring. 1-Can. Inf.) good very fine (6) £300-£400 --- M.M. London Gazette 3 July 1919. William Waring was born in Belfast, County Antrim in June 1893. He resided with his mother at 99 Bartlett Avenue, Toronto, Ontario. Waring served during the Great War with the 1st Field Ambulance, Canadian Army Medical Corps on the Western Front. Robert Waring was born in Belfast, County Antrim in February 1896. He was the younger brother of the above, and also resided at the same address as his mother. Waring served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion Canadian Infantry on the Western Front, and was killed in action at the Battle of Mount Sorrel, 13 June 1916. Private Waring is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.

The rare First Burma and First Afghan Wars group of five awarded to Quartermaster-Sergeant J. N. Heseltine, 13th Prince Albert’s Light Infantry, an exemplary fighting soldier, who was wounded at the storm of Ghuznee and distinguished for his Gallantry during the Battle of Gundamuck, near Jellalabad and the Khyber Pass, on 11 November 1841; after leaving the army, he stayed on in India as ‘a man of property’ who owned several hotels Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Josh. N. Heseldine [sic], 13th. Ft.) short hyphen reverse, officially engraved naming in upper and lower case as issued in India; Ghuznee 1839 (*Qr. Mr. Serjt. J. N. Heseltine No. 268. 13th. or P.A. Lt. Infantry.*) contemporarily engraved naming, with hinged silver straight bar suspension; Defence of Jellalabad 1842, 2nd Flying Victory type (Josh. N. Heseldine [sic] 13th. Ft.) contemporarily engraved naming in upper and lower case as before, with original steel clip and straight bar suspension; Cabul 1842 (Qr. Mr. Serjt J. N. Heseltine No. 268. 13th. or P.A. Lt. Infantry.) contemporarily engraved naming, with original steel clip and bar suspension; 13th Light Infantry Regimental Merit Medal for 14 Years’ Good Conduct, hollow silver, chased, the edge inscribed ‘Josh. N. Heseldine [sic] 13th. Ft.’, light contact marks otherwise good very fine or better, the Defence of Jellalabad Medal one of the few (believed to be fewer than fifty) exchanged by men who remained in India when the regiment returned to England (5) £4,000-£5,000 --- Army of India Medal confirmed in Gould’s roll. Joseph Nelson Heseltine was born in Doncaster on 3 October 1803. A labourer by trade, he enlisted in the 58th Foot in 1822 and transferred to the 13th Foot later that year. In September 1822, the 13th Foot was moved from Ireland to Chatham in Kent, where it was brought up to strength for service in India - it is likely that Heseltine joined at that time. At Chatham it was reconstituted as a light infantry unit in December 1822 and re-titled as the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment (Light Infantry). Ava The 13th Light Infantry arrived in Calcutta in May/June 1823. Soon after its arrival, Burmese forces attacked Cachar, a territory in Assam that was under British protection. War was declared against the kingdom of Ava on 5 March 1824. It was decided that the war would mainly be fought via amphibious attacks, with a key objective of conquering the port town of Rangoon, on the north bank of the Irrawaddy. The expeditionary force was organised at Port Cornwallis in the Andaman Islands under the joint control of Brigadier-General Archibald Campbell and Commodore Grant. The 13th Light Infantry, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel ‘Fighting Bob’ Sale, formed part of the 11,000 strong infantry component. The first task assigned to 13th Light Infantry was to seize and occupy the island of Cheduba, near Ramree on the Arakan Coast, astride the coastal trade route between Rangoon and Calcutta. Three companies were detailed to make this attack, whilst the remainder of the regiment proceeded to Rangoon. The attack on Rangoon passed off smoothly and the town was soon converted to a defensive stronghold. However, 50,000 Burmese men armed with muskets, swords and spears, all familiar with jungle fighting, dug in around Rangoon. During the 1824-25 campaigning season, Brigadier Campbell went on to the offensive. It was hard fought - artillery had to be man-handled through the jungle, soldiers were falling thick and fast due to disease and each town and fortified stockade was heavily defended. By February 1826 the Anglo-Indian army had advanced three hundred miles north to the town of Yandaboo and the Burmese capital was just four miles away. The advance on the capital began on 9 February 1826 with the 13th Light Infantry leading a night attack, which caused the enemy to flee. The capital was reached two weeks later. The King of Ava agreed to pay an indemnity and surrender a considerable part of his western and southern territories. Garrison Duties in India The 13th Light Infantry returned to garrison duty in India. From May 1826 to 1838, they were successively stationed in Baharampur, Dinapur, Agra and finally Karnal. Inspection Reports mention the newly-instituted regimental reward system of a gold medal to be awarded for 20 years Good Conduct and regimental service, and silver medals for 7 and 14 years of Good Conduct and service. The Reports also mention the frequency of courts martial. Heseltine was court-martialed in 1826 for ‘Signing his Captain’s name to a Pass from Evening Parade’. He was advanced to Corporal in 1831, Sergeant in 1833 and appointed Colour Sergeant in February 1837. The Inspection Reports suggest that the 13th Light Infantry’s rank and file comprised three main groups. At one extreme were the hard cases, habitual drunks who were repeatedly court-martialed. At the other extreme were ‘Havelock’s Saints’, who attended the all-ranks bible study classes established by the austerely religious Captain Henry Havelock, were Chapel-going Baptists and members of the regimental Temperance Society, which had 274 members in 1837. Heseltine’s record suggests that he was neither a drunkard nor a saint but part of the middle group, for which a separate Church of England chapel was built. Sergeant Heseltine married in Agra on 15 April 1833. He chose the traditional formality of banns rather than marrying ‘by permission of Commanding Officer’, the other route that serving soldiers could opt for. His age is given as 29, his wife was 19. She is named only as C. Sandison and was given away by Mr and Mrs Harding (Mrs Harding was illiterate). The Invasion of Afghanistan and the winter retreat In 1838 the 13th Light Infantry formed part of the 1st Brigade of the Army of the Indus, leaving Karnal for Ferozepore and crossing the Indus, marching through Scinde and Baluchistan to the Bolan Pass, then on to Kandahar. Heseltine was wounded in the left foot during the storming of Ghuznee on 23 July 1839, when Captain Vigor’s company was part of the Forlorn Hope. The rest of the 13th Light Infantry fought their way into the town after the Kabul Gate was blasted open to reveal a tunnel 150 yards long by 20 wide, where a desperate hand-to-hand struggle took place. The 13th Light Infantry then moved on to Kabul itself. One of Heseltine’s comrades, Sergeant George Godfrey, recorded that: ‘The country abounds with hills and valleys; the former are generally barren, the latter very fertile and well-watered in many parts, in some places very much reminding us of our own country... The Regiment lay in the Bala Hissar during the winter in temporary barracks and in the spring [1840] we went out to camp again. Afterwards a small force was formed and marched into Kohistan, a few marches from Cabool. We were engaged at a village called Tootum Durra and very soon succeeded in clearing the orchards and places round it. We routed the enemy and destroyed the village with very little loss on our part. They retreated across a small river at the back, into the hills. The next place we attacked was a small mud fort called Julgar [3 October 1840]. After cannonading it for some time a breach was made and an assault was undertaken, which did not prove so effectual as was expected, on account of the scaling ladders being too short, and not exactly of the right kind, as they were made of doolie poles. Fourteen of our men belonging to the storming-party were killed, one of whom was our sergeant-major, an excellent non-commissioned officer who stood very fair for a commission. After dusk the enemy made their escape, although closely watched, on account of the faithlessness of some...

The historically important First and Second China Wars campaign pair awarded to Sir Harry S. Parkes, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., British Consul at Canton and Shanghai, Ambassador to Japan and then to China, who served as Chief Political Officer during the Second China War, when he conducted negotiations and seized high-ranking Chinese Officials; Parkes’s heroic defiance of the torturers in the Board of Punishments in Peking’s Forbidden City led to the destruction of the Summer Palace and established his reputation as an Imperial Paragon; despite large bounties on his head, he survived multiple assassination attempts, and ‘no one contributed more to make the name of England Great and Powerful in the distant regions where he wielded his unique influence’ China 1842 (Mr. Interpreter Parkes) officially impressed naming, original suspension replaced with a Second China style suspension; China 1857-60, 3 clasps, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Harry S Parkes CB) officially impressed naming, both with contemporary top silver riband buckles, and housed in a Spink, Piccadilly, fitted case, deeply toned on obverses, good very fine or better (2) £15,000-£20,000 --- Harry Smith Parkes, the son of Harry Parkes, founder of the firm of Parkes, Otway & Co., Ironmasters, was born on 24 February 1828 at Birchills Hall, Bloxwich, Staffordshire. When he was four years old his mother died, and the following year his father was killed in a carriage accident. Left an orphan, he found a home with his uncle, a retired naval officer, at Birmingham. He went to a boarding-school at Balsall Heath, and in May 1838, when he was ten, entered King Edward’s Grammar School. In the words of his principal biographer: ‘In person Parkes was short and slight, of a very fair complexion, large head, broad high brow, alert expression, and bright vigilant blue eyes. In character he was extraordinarily tenacious of purpose, restlessly active, prompt and energetic, never losing his presence of mind in danger or difficulty, courageous and daring to a fault.’ (Dictionary of National Biography refers). First China War In June 1841 Parkes sailed for south China to live in the house of his cousin, Mary Gützlaff, the wife of the missionary, linguist and explorer Karl Gützlaff, who was then based in the Portuguese enclave of Macau. At that time, by Imperial decree, all Chinese ports were closed to foreign ships except for Canton in the far south, where trade was undertaken during a relatively short season under carefully limited and regulated conditions. In 1839 the British had been forcibly expelled from Canton by the Imperial Commissioner charged with ending the import of opium, most of which came from British India. This was the start of the First China War (1839-42), during which Britain seized and annexed Hong Kong to serve as a safe harbour and trading base. Parkes arrived in Macau in October 1841 and at the age of fourteen began to learn Chinese. He was soon employed as an assistant by John Morrison, the secretary and chief interpreter of Sir Henry Pottinger, then British Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China. In May 1842 Parkes left Macau to join Morrison in Hong Kong, as the British prepared to sail northwards up the coast of China and compel the Imperial authorities to enter serious negotiations. On 13 June 1842 he accompanied Pottinger on the expedition up the Yangtze River to Nanking, joined in various junk captures and naval ‘cutting-out parties’ and was present at the capture of Chinkiang on 21 July. The threat posed by foreign warships and troops on the Yangtze, China’s main internal trade route, was more than the Manchu rulers could stand and they reluctantly agreed to a less regulated trade with Britain. The Treaty of Nanking obliged China to open up to international trade the five most important southern ports (Canton, Amoy, Fuzhou, Ningbo and Shanghai) and to allow foreign communities to live freely in these cities. Parkes attended all the negotiations and witnessed the signing of the Treaty of Nanking by three Chinese mandarins on board H.M.S. Cornwallis on 29 August 1842. In order to maintain a close blockade over the mouth of the Yangtze, the British had seized the island of Chusan just off Ningbo, and they kept a garrison there until the Emperor formally ratified the Treaty of Nangking and opened the five Treaty Ports (once this process was well under way, Chusan was evacuated and returned to Imperial rule). During the British occupation of Chusan the formidable Reverend Gützlaff was appointed its Civil Magistrate, and young Parkes spent a year as his clerk from September 1842 to August 1843. Diplomatic work in China and Siam In August 1843 Parkes passed the consular examination in Chinese in Hong Kong and that September was appointed Interpreter at Fuzhou. However, there was a delay in opening the port and so he served instead successively at the consulate in Canton, as assistant to the Chinese Secretary in Hong Kong and then as Interpreter at Amoy (Xiamen). Finally, in March 1845 Parkes and his Consul, Rutherford Alcock, were transferred to Fuzhou, an important tea-trading port. The British were not welcome in Fuzhou and in October Parkes survived an attack by Manchu soldiers. In August 1846 Alcock and Parkes were again transferred, this time to Shanghai, where Parkes acted as Interpreter. In 1847 he began to study Japanese and in March 1848 accompanied the British vice-consul at Shanghai to Nanking to negotiate the punishment of some Chinese men who had assaulted three British missionaries. Parkes’s prominent role, undertaken at great personal risk, received the warm approbation of Lord Palmerston. Following this he was appointed Interpreter at Shanghai on 9 April 1848. After a period of leave from 1850-1851, which he spent in Europe, Parkes took up the post of Interpreter at Canton, where, aged 24, he acted as Consul in the absence of Sir John Bowring, and in August 1853 he was placed temporarily in charge of the Canton vice-consulate before being promoted to Consul at Amoy in 1854. In 1855 Parkes was sent to Siam (now Thailand) as Joint Secretary to Sir John Bowring’s Mission to conclude a commercial treaty with the Kingdom. The treaty, the first ever European treaty with Siam, was signed in Bangkok on 18 April 1855 and Parkes was given the honour of taking it to England for ratification. He delivered it on 1 July, and was received at Court by Queen Victoria on 9 July 1855. He spent the rest of 1855 helping the Foreign Office deal with Chinese and Siamese issues and meeting with Miss Fanny Plumer. ‘She was a beautiful girl,’ wrote a friend, ‘tall, well-proportioned, and graceful, her colouring rich and soft, her features expressing sensitiveness and the power of warm emotion; her dark brown eyes full of intelligence and speaking earnestness of purpose. She possessed in a large degree the power of fascination in which all her family were remarkable.’ After a six-week courtship, they were married on New Year’s Day, 1856, at St Lawrence's Church, Whitchurch. The couple left England on 9 January, carrying the ratified Siamese treaty, which Parkes exchanged in a ceremony in Bangkok on 5 April 1856. They travelled on to Canton, where Parkes was Acting Consul. Second China War and the Seizure of Canton Parkes’ position as Acting Consul at Canton brought him into renewed contact with Imperial Commissioner and Viceroy Ye Mingchen, who he had met during his first posting to Canton in 1852-54. Clashes between the two men would soon lead to the Second China War (1856-60). Ye came from a scholarly family in Hubei Province and was awarded the highest degree in the imperial exams in 1835. In 1848...

Pair: Labourer B. Bust, a civilian employee of Messrs. Lucas & Aird who were contracted to construct the railway from Suakin to Berber, near Khartoum, a distance of 200 miles, although only 20 miles of track had been laid before the Army withdrew from the Suakin operations in May 1885 Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (Labourer. B. Bust); Khedive’s Star, dated 1884-6, unnamed as issued, extremely fine (2) £300-£400 --- Among the main objectives of the second British expedition to set foot in the eastern Sudan in 1885 was the construction of a railway line from Suakin to Berber. It was, to quote the historian Thomas Archer, an effort to ‘smash the Mahdi’ by means of the ‘latest resources of civilization.’ Indeed had all gone to plan, a 280-mile railway line would have been constructed, thereby securing the protection of the eastern Sudan. In the event, however, it proved to be an expensive red herring: as some had rightly observed from the outset, an exercise on this scale, in enemy territory, would have to involve round the clock protection for the civilian construction workers, and, with the difficult climate and terrain, a good deal of luck. The contract to carry out this monumental task was awarded to the British company Messrs. Lucas & Aird. In the official minute issued by the Government, the company was to construct ‘for the War Department for the purposes of the Expeditionary Force sent out to Suakin, and, according to the orders and under the control of the General Officer for the time being in command of the same force, a 4ft. 8.5ins. gauge single line of railway from Suakin, and thence in sections to so far towards Berber as may from time to time be ordered by the Secretary of State. The War Department engages to keep the way clear and the working-staff protected.’ The staff of Lucas & Aird were to be paid by the Government and their rations and clothes supplied by the War Department and, if an employee died as a result of enemy action, or the climate, his next of kin would be paid a gratuity equal to one year’s salary. Otherwise, the assorted navvies would receive a daily payment of 12 shillings, a small fortune for the day. And quite a sight they must have made, working alongside the military, in their bowler-hats. Certainly their language was colourful enough, an Army Padre who was billeted alongside one of their huts having his vocabulary ‘widened by the experience’ (Henry Keown-Boyd’s A Good Dusting refers). Yet, as predicted from the outset, their endeavours quickly attracted hostile interest from Osman Digma’s tribesmen. In fact, for the purposes of safety, while the military fought out such battles as that at Tofrek on 22 March 1885, Lucas & Aird were instructed to halt progress. By early April, work had recommenced but General Graham, still concerned for the safety of the navvies, ordered an advanced zeriba to be established five miles along the road to Handoub to cover the head of the railway, and a block-house and another zeriba to be built at Handoub itself, while covering parties were to protect the head of the railway as it advanced. Owing, however, to the growing heat, the difficulty confronted in obtaining water supplies, and the fact that many local tribesmen continued to act with hostility, progress was slow and painful, and by the time General Graham ordered a halt to the project, the railway line had advanced just 20 miles to the town of Otao; ultimately the British withdrew from the Sudan and the railway project was abandoned at a cost of £865,000 to the Government. Added to that cost was the distribution of the relevant campaign medal and clasp to the navvies of Lucas & Aird, the relevant roll (WO 100 68) revealing an extremely interesting and varied head count of 475 employees. In all the Company was represented by some 30 different types of employee, Blacksmiths, Boilermakers, Carpenters, Cashiers, Clerks, Cooks, Engine Drivers, Firemen, Foremen, Guards, Labourers, Pipelayers, Platelayers, Ropemakers, Roperunners, Storekeepers and Traffic Managers among them: and each and every Medal was duly engraved with the recipient’s relevant job title. The medal roll is dated 16 August 1887. Several locomotives built specially for this contract were subsequently put to work on the Chattenden & Upnor Railway in Kent. Sold with copied medal roll entry.

Four: Engineer Commander W. H. Rosevere, Royal Navy Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Ast. Engr. W. H. Rosevere. R.N., H.M.S. Niobe); 1914-15 Star (Eng. Lt. Cr. W. H. Rosevere. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Eng. Cmmr. W. H. Rosevere. R.N.) mounted on card for display, the first with heavy edge bruising overall, otherwise generally very fine (4) £260-£300 --- William Henry Rosevere was born at Devonport on 17 May 1877. He joined the Royal Navy in May 1897 and earned his Q.S.A. as Assistant Engineer aboard H.M.S. Niobe. He resigned his commission on 7 March 1903, but this was restored on 11 August 1914, when he was placed on the Emergency List. He served in H.M.S. Galatea 1914-15, and Egmont for Malta Dockyard 1916-19. Promoted to Engineer Commander in 1918, he reverted to the Emergency List on 18 October 1919. He served during the Second War in Hannibal and President additional for service inside the Admiralty. He was killed in a road accident on 23 March 1945. Sold with copied record of service together with that of his younger brother, Allan George Rosevere, who also served as an Engineer in the Royal Navy.

Six: Chief Shipwright Frank James, Royal Navy, who was awarded the Naval M.S.M. for services aboard H.M.S. Caledon during the battle of Heligoland Bight on 17 November 1917 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (F. James, Ldg: Car: Cr: H.M.S. Fearless); 1914-15 Star (341996, F. James, Ch. Shpt., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (341996 F. James. Ch. Shpt., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (341996 Frank James, Shipt., 1Cl., H.M.S. Imperieuse); Royal Naval Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (341996 F. James, Ch. Shipwt. 2Cl. “Caledon” Services During War) together with a small silver medal for Their Majesties Visit to India 1911-12, very fine and better (7) £800-£1,000 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 27 June 1919. The original recommendation states: ‘The Carpenter being on leave this Chief Petty Officer, in charge of the Carpenter ratings, did splendid and intelligent service in shoring up the large hole made by a 12-inch shell, through which a dangerous quantity of water would otherwise have entered, likely to impair the ship’s further fighting efficiency.’ The same gazette announced the award of four D.S.O.s and one D.S.C. to Officers of H.M.S. Caledon, all for the battle of Heligoland Bight on 17 November, 1917. H.M.S. Caledon was Commodore Walter Cowan’s Flagship and part of the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron in what was the last ‘big-ship’ engagement of the Great War. Caledon was hit amid ships by a large calibre German shell killing and wounding most of the crew of one of her guns. Seaman J. H. Carless, although mortally wounded, continued to serve his gun before finally succumbing to his wounds. He was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. Frank James was born in the Parish of Boscombe, near Christchurch, on 11 January 1878, and was a carpenter by trade when he joined the Royal Navy as Carpenter’s Crew on 11 March 1898. He served as Leading Carpenter’s Crew aboard H.M.S. Fearless from June 1899 to November 1900, including service off the coast of South Africa (Medal). Advancing to Shipwright in January 1902 and to Leading Shipwright in April 1904, he became Carpenter’s Mate in May 1910. He joined H.M.S. Medina on 10 October 1911, which ship conveyed the King and Queen to India for the Delhi Durbar. He received his L.S. & G.C. medal while serving in Imperieuse in March 1913 and, come the outbreak of war in 1914, Frank James was a Shipwright 1st Class aboard H.M.S. Leviathan, advancing to Chief Shipwright in the same ship in April 1915. He served briefly in Fisgard from August to November 1916, next joining Victory II before joining Caledon in March 1917. He advanced to Chief Shipwright in Caledon in October 1918 and remained in her until 31 December 1919, when he went to Victory III and was demobilised on 28 April 1920. Sold with copied record of service.

Six: Chief Stoker P. T. J. Davis, Royal Navy, who was awarded the Naval M.S.M. for minesweeping operations during the Great War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (P. Davis, Lg. Sto., H.M.S. Sappho); 1914-15 Star (279947 P. T. J. Davis. Ch. Sto., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (279947 P. T. T. Davis. Ch. Sto., R.N.) note initials; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (279947 P. T. J. Davis, Stoker P.O., H.M.S. Natal) surname officially corrected; Royal Naval Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (279947 P. T. J. Davis. Ch. Sto. “Gaddesden” Minesweeping 1918) mounted on card for display, contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (6) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996; Dix Noonan Webb, March 2007. Percy Thomas John Davis was born at Wingham, Kent in December 1875 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in July 1895. He subsequently served in H.M.S. Sappho from August of the same year to September 1901, a period that witnessed his advancement to Leading Stoker 1st Class and service off South Africa. He was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in September 1910, serving in HMS Natal. By the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, Davis was serving as a Chief Stoker in the battleship St. Vincent, but in November of the same year he transferred to the Auxiliary Patrol with an appointment in the destroyer Ure. Having served off the Belgian coast in the same ship 1915-16, he came ashore in October 1917, but returned to sea in the Hunt-class minesweeper Gaddesden in February 1918. And it was for his subsequent services in the latter ship that he was awarded his M.S.M. ‘For services in minesweeping operations between 1 July and 31 December 1918’ (London Gazette 24 March 1919 refers). Davis was demobilised in the same month that his M.S.M. was gazetted. Sold with copied record of service.

Five: Chief Stoker J. Sawyer, Royal Navy, who was Mentioned in Despatches for services at Jutland aboard H.M.S. Indomitable Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (J. Sawyer. Sto: H.M.S. Tartar); 1914-15 Star (285895 J. Sawyer. Ch. Sto., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (285895 J. Sawyer. Ch. Sto., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (285895 James Sawyer, Actg. Ch. Sto. H.M.S. Shannon) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine (5) £300-£400 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 30 November 1917: ‘Additional awards for service in the battle of Jutland.’ James Sawyer was born at Ipswich, Suffolk, on 6 June 1875, and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in Pembroke II on 1 September 1897. He joined H.M.S. Tartar on 19 May 1898, advanced to Stoker on 28 July 1898, and served in her until 19 September 1901, earning his Q.S.A. As Stoker Petty Officer he joined H.M.S. Medina on 10 October 1911, to convey King George and Queen Mary to India for the Delhi Durbar and tour of India in 1911-12. He served in the battleship Indomitable for the entirety of the Great War, including the battle of Jutland, until September 1919 when he went to Pembroke II for demobilisation on 18 October 1919. Sold with copied record of service.

Five: Leading Seaman W. J. Owen, Royal Navy, who was Mentioned in Despatches for services in Submarines in 1918 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (W. J. Owen, Ord. H.M.S. Naiad.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (W. J. Owen. A.B., H.M.S. Naiad.); 1914-15 Star (198545, W. J. Owen, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (198545 W. J. Owen. L.S. R.N.) mounted on card for display, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good fine and better (5) £460-£550 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 20 February 1919: ‘Honours for Services in Submarines between the 1st July and 11th November 1918.’ William Joseph Owen was born in Trowbridge on 27 September 1882. He joined Royal Navy on 26 March 1898 as a Boy. He joined Naiad on 19 March 1901, earning his Q.S.A and A.G.S. in that ship. He probably joined the R.N. Submarine Service when he joined the submarine depot ship H.M.S. Mercury on 1 April 1910. He would probably have trained on B and C-class submarines and during W.W.I he is listed as serving on the submarine depot ship H.M.S. Maidstone. This was the depot ship of the 8th and later the 9th submarine flotillas based at Harwich. It is likely that he would have served on E-class submarines during this period. He remained with the submarine service and was promoted to Leading Seaman in 1916 and the final entry on his record of service shows him serving on the submarine depot ship H.M.S. Titania. He was discharged to pension on 9 June 1922, and died in Northumberland on 27 December 1945. Sold with original framed M.I.D. certificate and copied research including record of service.

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M., M.M. and Second Award Bar pair awarded to Company Sergeant Major C. E. Minchin, 5th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who earned all three gallantry awards during a six month period in 1917 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (5374 Sjt: C. E. Minchin. 5/R. Berks: R.); Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (5374 Cpl: C. E. Minchin. 5/R. Berks: R.) minor edge bruising and light contact marks, very fine (2) £1,000-£1,400 --- Provenance: Sotheby’s, November 1988. D.C.M. London Gazette 26 November 1917; citation published 6 February 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during a raid. His officer was wounded in the leg, and told him to leave him. He, however, bound up his wound, sent a man back to report, and with the help of the remaining man succeeded in carrying the officer out of danger, after being under shell fire for four hours.’ M.M. London Gazette 18 July 1917. M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 17 September 1917. Charles E. Minchin, from Dublin, attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment and served with the 5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 May 1915. He was awarded his Military Medal for gallantry near Monchy on 28 April 1917, and was awarded a Second Award Bar for supervising the erection of a wire entanglement only 40 yards from the enemy front of Hook Trench at Monchy on 21-22 July 1917. He was additionally awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for bringing in, under heavy fire, Second Lieutenant Beattie on the night of 15-16 October 1917, making it three gallantry awards won in the space of under six months. Returning to England, Minchin was presented with both his M.M. and the Second Award Bar by Lieutenant-General Sir H. C. Sclater, Commander-in-Chief, Southern Command, at Oxford on 11 December 1917. Advanced Company Sergeant Major (acting Warrant Officer Class I), he subsequently transferred to the Liverpool Regiment, but did not serve overseas with them. Sold with a photographic image of the recipient and copied research.

Three: Private A. G. Roberts, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 9 May 1915 1914 Star (9648 Pte. A. G. Roberts. 2/R. Berks: R.); British War and Victory Medals (9648 Pte. A. G. Roberts. R. Berks. R.) nearly very fine (3) £120-£160 --- Albert George Roberts was born in Kingsclere, Hampshire, and attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment at Reading. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 November 1914, and was killed in action on 9 May 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

Three: Motor Engine Mechanician R. H. Lamb, Motor Transport Company, Royal Naval Division - one of 140 drivers and mechanics of the London General Omnibus Company who volunteered to accompany the 100 ‘B’ Type London Transport buses that the Admiralty had commandeered to take the men and equipment of the recently formed RND from the ports of Dunkirk and Ostend to Antwerp in September 1914 1914 Star, with copy clasp (150.S. Mechn. R. H. Lamb, M.T.R.N. Div.); British War and Victory Medals (R.M.A.150-S- Mech. R. H. Lamb.) nearly extremely fine, scarce (3) £500-£700 --- Approximately 56 1914 Stars and Clasps issued to the Motor Transport Company, Royal Naval Division. Robert Henry Lamb was born in West Ham, London on 27 October 1888 and attested for ‘P’ Company, Royal Marine Artillery on 29 September 1914, and was one of 140 drivers and mechanics of the London General Omnibus Company who volunteered to accompany the 100 ‘B’ Type London Transport buses that the Admiralty had commandeered to take the men and equipment of the recently formed RND from the ports of Dunkirk and Ostend to Antwerp. They drove their vehicles down to Dover or Southampton, stopping en route at Chatham or Eastney, where they were given a suit of uniform and a few articles of kit and then on to Dunkirk. Thus it was that the fleet of buses from the London General Omnibus Company began their wartime service and earned their unique place in the annals of war. The buses, which were decorated with garish advertisements just as they had left the London streets, and their drivers, wearing a mixture of civilian and military uniform, made a remarkable impression on the people of Flanders which was never forgotten. Similarly, their role in transporting troops was crucial in the early stages of the war, as was the part they played in the supplying of the Naval and Marine Brigades in Antwerp, along with the evacuation of the wounded. After the R.N.D. had returned to England, the unit was lent to the Army and proceeded initially to St Omer. From there it rendered particularly valuable service during the first battle of Ypres and, from then on, it was continuously employed in every aspect of troop transportation. In August 1915, it was eventually decided that the Army would take over the unit and incorporate it into the A.S.C. The Non Commissioned Officers and men of the RMA Motor Transport Company were given the option of discharge or transfer to the A.S.C. at the lower rate of pay; not surprisingly very few transferred. Lamb returned to London and was discharged from the R.M.A. on 1 September 1915. Sold with copied research.

Three: Private G. Bateman, Royal West Surrey Regiment, who was taken Prisoner of War at the Battle of Gheluvelt, 31 October 1914, and spent the rest of the Great War in captivity 1914 Star, with clasp (L-8195 Pte. G. Bateman. 1/The Queen’s R.); British War and Victory Medals (L-8195 Pte. G. Bateman. The Queen’s R.) all in named card boxes of issue, the last two with outer envelopes addressed to ‘Mr. G. Bateman, 7 St. Ann’s Gardens, Kentish Town, London, NW.’, extremely fine (3) £200-£240 --- George Bateman was born in Marylebone, London, in 1885, and attested for the Royal West Surrey Regiment at Guildford on 25 October 1904, whilst currently serving in the Regiment’s 3rd (Militia) Battalion. Posted to the 2nd Battalion on 13 February 1905, he transferred to the 1st Battalion on 25 November of that year, for service in India. Returning home on 21 February 1910, he transferred to the Army Reserve on 24 October 1913. Recalled to the Colours following the outbreak of the Great War, he served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 August 1914. He was taken Prisoner of War at the Battle of Gheluvelt on 31 October 1914, during which battle the Battalion was virtually wiped out, suffering 9 officers and 624 other ranks either killed, wounded, or missing. However, their sacrifice was not in vain, for despite their heavy losses they prevented the enemy from taking Ypres and being able to advance on the channel ports. As Field Marshal Sir John French said: ‘31 October and 1 November will remain forever memorable in the history of our country, for, during those two days, no more than one thin and straggling line of tired-out British soldiers stood between the Empire and its practical ruin as an independent first-class Power.’ Bateman was one of those reported missing during the defence of Gheluvelt. Having been taken Prisoner of War, he spent the remainder of the War in captivity, including at Hähnofersand Lager P.O.W. camp. He was repatriated on 31 December 1918, and was discharged on 31 March 1920, after 15 years and 159 days’ service, of which 4 years and 62 days were spent in captivity. Sold with the recipient’s identity tag; cap badge; ‘Old Contemptibles’ lapel badge; a Queen’s Regiment ‘Prisoner of War Welcome Home Medal’, bronze; and two Regimental prize medals, both silver, these last three in cases of issue; a copy of ‘The Prisoner of War in Germany’, a booklet containing approximately 250 photographs from German Prison Camps, the inside page inscribed ‘Cpl G. Bateman 8195, “Queen’s” Regiment, Hähnofersand Lager, Germany, 26.5.1917’; various other ephemera; and copied service papers and a large quantity of copied research.

Three: Private J. Lee, York and Lancaster Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 17 June 1916 1914 Star, with clasp (8230 Pte. J. Lee. 2/York: & Lanc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (8230 Pte. J. Lee. Y. & L.R.); Memorial Plaque (John Lee) traces of verdigris to Plaque, otherwise very fine and better (4) £200-£240 --- John Lee was born in Sheffield and attested there for the York and Lancaster Regiment. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 September 1914, and was killed in action on 17 June 1916. He is buried in Essex Farm Cemetery, Boesinghe, Belgium.

Three: Lieutenant E. J. N. L. Sandbach, East Kent Regiment, late 14th (London Scottish) Battalion, London Regiment, who was one of the ‘Originals’ of the first Territorial Battalion ever to go into action, on Messines Ridge on 31 October 1914; subsequently wounded on the first day of the Battle of Loos, 25 September 1915, he was later commissioned into The Buffs 1914 Star, with clasp (2096 Pte. E. J. N. L. Sandbach. 14/Lond: R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. E. N. L. Sandbach.) light pitting from Star, otherwise very fine (3) £300-£400 --- Edward James Napier Linnell Sandbach was born in Fulham, London, in 1896 and attested for the 14th (London Scottish) Battalion, London Regiment, on 6 July 1914. He served with the Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 September 1914, and was one of the ‘originals’ of the first Territorial Battalion ever to go into action, on Messines Ridge on 31 October 1914, and subsequently on the Menin Road, 6-15 November 1914, during which two actions the Battalion suffered over 700 casualties. Sandbach was admitted to hospital in December 1914 to January 1915, and having recovered was severely wounded in the chest on the first day of the Battle of Loos, 25 September 1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the East Kent Regiment on 27 January 1916, he saw further service on the Western Front with the 2nd/5th Battalion from 28 February 1916, and was promoted Lieutenant on 27 July 1917. He transferred to the Territorial Force Reserve (Infantry) on 3 February 1921, and resigned his commission on 20 September 1921. Sold with copied attestation papers and other research.

Four: Colonel J. C. Freeland, C.B., C.B.E., 35th Sikhs, Indian Army, who was four times Mentioned in Despatches 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt. J. C. Freeland, 35/Sikhs.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Bt. Lt. Col. J. C. Freeland.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Bt. Lt. Col. J. C. Freeland, 1/35/Sikhs.) very fine and better (4) £240-£280 --- C.B. London Gazette 3 June 1929. C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1925. John Cavendish Freeland was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on 22 January 1877 and was educated at Fauconberge School, Beccles, and then the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was first commissioned Second Lieutenant on the Unattached List on 4 August 1897 and arrived in India on 4 November of that year. He was appointed to the Indian Army on 8 November 1898 and was posted to the 35th Sikhs, being promoted Lieutenant on 4 November 1899, and Captain on 4 August 1906. From February 1906 to February 1910, he was an Assistant Inspecting Officer, Imperial Service Troops, to the Punjab Infantry at Ambala, and attended Quetta Staff College from February 1911 to February 1913. Freeland served on the Staff during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 October 1914 to 25 March 1917, and then in Mesopotamia from 1 May 1917 to 21 May 1918, and was promoted Major on 4 August 1915. His Great War appointments were consecutively Staff Captain, Dehra Dun Brigade, 15 August 1914 to 17 April 1915; Special Appointment, G.S.O. 3, B.E.F., 28 April to 1 August 1915; G.S.O. 3, 1st Army, B.E.F., 2 August to 22 December 1915; G.S.O. 2, 1st Army, B.E.F., 23 December 1915 to 11 March 1916; G.S.O. 2, 8th Division, B.E.F., 12 March 1916 to 14 January 1917; Temporary Commanding Officer, 36th Sikhs, 25 May to 19 July 1917; and G.S.O. 2, 8 November 1917 to 25 April 1918. He was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, G.H.Q. Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force and War Office, 26 April 1918 to 28 March 1919, and for his services during the Great War he was promoted Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on 3 June 1918 and was four times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 22 June 1915; 1 January 1916; 4 January 1917; and 27 August 1918). He saw further service during the Third Afghan War and was appointed temporary Commanding Officer, 36th Sikhs, from 4 June to 31 October 1919. Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 February 1921, Freeland was appointed Commandant of the 47th Sikhs on 1 February 1921, before transferring to Command the 35th Sikhs on November 1921. He was promoted Colonel on 3 June 1922 and was appointed Deputy Director of Auxiliary and Territorial Forces as part of the Directorate of Personal Services at HQ of the Army in India in Delhi 1 April 1923, serving there until 31 March 1927, and being appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1925 Birthday Honours’ List. His final appointment was as a General Staff Officer First Class, India Office, on 1 April 1927, which appointment he held until his retirement on 1 April 1931, and for his services he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1929 Birthday Honours’ List. He died in Playford, Suffolk, on 19 September 1944.

Family group: Three: Private C. Gerard, 1st Battalion (Ontario Regiment), Canadian Infantry, late Canadian Army Medical Corps, who died of wounds on the Western Front, 7 May 1917 1914 Star (34287 Pte C. Gerard, C.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (34287 Pte. C. Gerard. C.A.M.C.); Memorial Plaque (Charles Gerard) with 2 Canada shoulder titles, 2 postcards written by recipient to his niece in 1915, and a newspaper cutting, remnants of adhesive on reverse of plaque, generally good very fine Three: Private F. P. Gerard, Canadian Army Medical Corps 1914 Star (34288 Pte. F. Gerard. C.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (34288 Pte. F. P. Gerard. C.A.M.C.) with large portrait photograph of recipient in uniform, BWM erased, very fine (7) £380-£460 --- Charles Gerard was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada in December 1882. He initially served during the Great War with No. 2 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Canadian Army Medical Corps, before transferring to 1st Battalion (Ontario Regiment), Canadian Infantry. Private Gerard died of wounds on the Western Front, 7 May 1917, and is buried in the Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France. Frank Paul Gerard was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada in March 1893, and was the older brother of the above. He served with No. 2 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Canadian Army Medical Corps during the Great War on the Western Front. Gerard was wounded during the Great War, and was recuperating from his wounds in hospital when his brother died. Frank Gerard died in November 1943, and is buried in the St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Cemetery, Windsor, Ontario.

Pair: Chief Writer W. B. Bayley, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (345760. W. B. Bayley. WR.1. R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (345760. W. B. Bayley. Ch. Wr. R.N.) scratches to reverse of star, otherwise very fine Pair: Ordinary Seaman E. W. Ginelack, Royal Navy, who was killed in action whilst serving in H.M.S. Formidable on 1 January 1915 1914-15 Star (J.26317. E. W. Ginelack. Ord., R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (J.26317 E. W. Ginelack. Ord. R.N.) very fine Pair: Stoker 1st Class S. T. Sawyer, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (SS.112429. S. T. Sawyer. Sto.1., R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (SS.112429. S. T. Sawyer. Sto.1. R.N.) very fine Pair: Able Seaman A. Williams, Royal Navy, who died on 2 June 1916 1914-15 Star (J.7654. J. Williams. A.B., R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (J.7654. J. Williams. A.B., R.N.) staining to BWM, very fine Pair: Acting Airman 1st Class A. Seaman, Royal Naval Air Service 1914-15 Star (F.2340, A. Seaman, A.M.2., R.N.A.S.); British War Medal 1914-20 (F.2340, A. Seaman Act. A.M.1. R.N.A.S.) very fine (10) £140-£180 --- Wallace Bruce Bayley, a Schoolboy from Portsmouth, Hampshire, was born on 12 September 1887. He attested for the Royal Navy, as a Boy on 12 September 1905. He saw service in H.M.S. Sphinx during the Persian Gulf 1909-14 campaign and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Northbrook. His LSGC was issued whilst he was serving in H.M.S. Hermione on 15 November 1920. Advanced Chief Petty Officer Writer on 4 January 1924, he was invalided from the service on 3 August 1927. Ernest William Ginelack, A Railway Signal Lad from Camden Town, London, was born on 3 November 1896 and attested for the Royal Navy on 3 August 1913. Advanced Ordinary Seaman on 3 November 1914, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Formidable and was killed in action on 1 January 1915 when she was torpedoed and sunk by U-24 with the loss of 35 officers and 512 men. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. Alfred Williams, an Errand Boy from Clapham, London, was born on 21 May 1894, and attested as a Boy for the Royal Navy on 21 May 1912. Advanced Able Seaman on 6 February 1914, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Flirt and was drowned on 2 June 1916. He is buried in Streatham Cemetery, London.

Four: Leading Stoker William Nicholson, Royal Naval Reserve, who was awarded the bronze Al Valore Militare upon the occasion of the loss of H.M.S. Falmouth on 19th-20th August 1916 1914-15 Star (U.1830. W. Nicholson. Sto. R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (1830U W. Nicholson. L. Sto. R.N.R.); Italy, Kingdom, Al Valore Militare, bronze, no mint mark to obverse, unnamed as issued, mounted on card for display, with damaged named card lids of boxes of issue for the trio, nearly extremely fine (4) £600-£800 --- Al Valore Militare (Bronze) London Gazette 17 November 1917: ‘For distinguished services rendered during the war.’ The recommendation states: ‘Leading Stoker William Nicholson R.N.R. U.1830 H.M.S. Falmouth Upon the occasion of the loss of H.M.S. Falmouth 19th-20th August, 1916, he distinguished himself and performed meritorious service in attempting to save the ship. After the ship had been abandoned, it was thought that 8 men who were missing might have been left on board wounded. He volunteered to return to the ship as one of a party, to search for them, and although they were not found, the opportunity was taken of trying to make the ship more water tight.’ William Nicholson was born in Bangor, Carnarvon, on 11 December 1880, the son of William and Ellen Nicholson. He attested for the Royal Naval Reserve on 19 February 1904, at which time he was residing in Bangor and was employed aboard the Penrhyn as Second Engineer. Mobilised on 4 August 1914, he joined H.M.S. Falmouth on 3 September 1914, and was aboard this ship during the battle of Jutland and during her loss when torpedoed in August 1916. Joining Pembroke II on 29 August 1916, and Vernon on 21 March 1917, he was discharged to shore on demobilisation from this base on 31 March 1919. Awarded a disability pension from 11 July 1919 to 12 April 1921 for Neurasthenia (shell shock), his address in 1923 is recorded as The Railway Inn, Amlwch, Anglesey. Nicholson returned to sea and in 1920 was employed as Chief Engineer on S.S. Dinorwic. H.M.S. Falmouth at Jutland H.M.S. Falmouth participated in the Battle of Jutland 31 May–1 June 1916. As the battle began, the 3rd Light Cruiser Squadon (L.C.S.) was screening Beatty’s battlecruisers as they searched for the German fleet and moved to support the 1st L.C.S. after they had spotted the German ships. This put them out of position when Beatty turned south to pursue the German battlecruisers. After he turned north on encountering the main body of the German High Seas Fleet, Falmouth and her Squadron were the first to encounter the screen of the Grand Fleet at 17:33. As Beatty turned east to rendezvous with them, Falmouth engaged several German ships at ranges below 7,000 yards and in poor visibility. Falmouth opened fire on the disabled light cruiser S.M.S. Wiesbaden beginning at about 18:15 and also fired a torpedo at her that missed around 18:21. She then briefly engaged two destroyers and then switched to the battlecruisers S.M.S. Lützow and S.M.S. Derfflinger, hitting both ships, also firing a torpedo that she mistakenly claimed to have hit around 18:25. In return, Falmouth was hit once by a 5.9in shell on the foremast that cut the voice tubes to the spotting top. By 18:40, the squadron was in position to escort the 3rd battlecruiser squadron of the Grand Fleet. By 20:10, Beatty’s ships were in front of the Grand Fleet and the 3rd L.C.S. was screening them when Falmouth spotted five cruisers of the 4th Scouting Group and the squadron closed to engage at full speed. The British ships were not spotted in return until 20:17 and Falmouth opened fire a minute later at a range of 9,600 yards. Despite poor visibility, she hit the Light Cruiser S.M.S. München twice, one of which damaged her aft boilers and impaired her ability to keep steam up. By 20:38, the British lost sight of the Germans and turned away to assume their position at the head of Beatty’s battlecruisers. Falmouth fired a total of 175 shells during the battle, the most of any British Light Cruiser. Loss of H.M.S. Falmouth On the evening of 18 August 1916, the Grand Fleet put to sea in response to a message deciphered by Room 40 that indicated that the High Seas Fleet would be leaving harbour that night. The German objective was to bombard Sunderland the following day, based on extensive reconnaissance conducted by Zeppelins and submarines. Part of the German plan was to draw the British ships through a series of submarine ambushes and Falmouth fell victim to one of the awaiting U-boats, U-66, at about 16:05 the following afternoon after the Grand Fleet was headed for home, two torpedoes hit and badly damaged Falmouth, follow-on attacks were unsuccessful due to the presence of the escorting Destroyers. Shortly after she was struck, the Armed Trawler Cooksin went alongside and took off all of the men not required to work the ship. Falmouth was able to steam through the night under her own power at a speed of 2 knots, although a pair of tugboats came out the following morning and took her in tow. Her course took her right past U-63, which put another pair of torpedoes into her around noon, despite eight escorting destroyers. Falmouth remained afloat for another eight hours before sinking off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. No one was killed in the attacks, but one man later died of his injuries. Sold with copied research.

Family group: Pair: Leading Seaman A. MacDonald, Royal Naval Reserve, who was taken prisoner of war when the S.S. Bronwen was sunk by U-35, 24 September 1916. He contracted Tuberculosis, and died on his way home after release in November 1918 1914-15 Star (A.3091 A. McDonald. Smn. R.N.R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (3091A A. McDonald. L.S. R.N.R.) officially renamed; Memorial Plaque (Angus MacDonald) note spellings, generally very fine or better Pair: Seaman D. MacDonald, Royal Naval Reserve British War and Victory Medals (1971C. D. MacDonald. Smn. R.N.R.) very fine (5) £100-£140 --- Angus MacDonald was the son of Mr and Mrs A. MacDonald of 15 Shulishadder Point, Stornoway. He served during the Great War with the Royal Naval Reserve, and was taken prisoner of war when the SS Bronwen (defensively armed steamship) was captured and sunk by gunfire from U-35 25 miles off Dragonera Island, 24 September 1916. MacDonald was interned at Salzerbad, Austria. He contracted Tuberculosis, and died on his way home after release, 27 November 1918. Leading Seaman MacDonald is buried in the Ste. Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, France. Donald MacDonald was the brother of the above, and also served with the Royal Naval Reserve during the Great War.

Four: Marine C. P. Buckle, Royal Marine Light Infantry, who served ashore in the Dardanelles and France and with the Special Naval Party on the Caspian with Dunster Force in 1918 1914-15 Star (Ch.18269 C. P. Buckle. Pte. R.M.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch.18269 Pte. C. P. Buckle. R.M.L.I.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue (Ch.18269 (Ch.B.2791) C. P. Buckle. Mne. R.F.R.) contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £120-£160 --- Charles Peter Buckle was born at Tottingham Watton, Norfolk on 30 November 1895. He enlisted into in the Royal Marines on 9 December 1913, as Private at the Royal Marines Depot at Deal. He saw sea service in S.S. Duchess of Devon, which had been requisitioned by the Admiralty for use as an armed boarding steamer. He served in the Dardanelles with the M.E.F. in 1916 and from May 1916 to December 1917 served ashore in France receiving a gun shot wound to the left arm in February 1917. He subsequently served at Chatham, and was posted to H.M.S. Venus in 1918. In August 1918 he served ashore with the Special Naval Party with Dunster Force in the Caspian. He was discharged from Chatham Division in March 1922, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve. He was awarded the Royal Fleet Reserve Long Service Medal in February 1934 and died at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, in December 1992.

Three: Battery Sergeant Major H. S. Greenwood, Royal Field Artillery, who was Mentioned in Despatches 1914-15 Star (32205 B.S. Mjr. H. S. Greenwood. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (32205 W.O. Cl. 2. H. S. Greenwood. R.A.) edge bruise to VM, nearly very fine 1914-15 Star (786 Dvr. A. Parker. R.F.A.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (38818 Pte. W. Marshall. D. of Corn. L.I.) Star heavily worn, therefore fair; VM nearly very fine (5) £50-£70 --- Horace Stanley Greenwood attested for the Royal Field Artillery and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 December 1914, being Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 30 January 1919). Alfred Parker attested for the Royal Field Artillery and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 November 1915. He was discharged on 21 May 1919.

Three: Major O. C. Jones, 7th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who died of wounds in Palestine on 30 December 1917 1914-15 Star (Capt. O. C. Jones. R.W. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Major O. C. Jones.) extremely fine (3) £400-£500 --- Owen Cecil Jones was born in 1883, the son of a surgeon. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 6 April 1909 into the Welsh (Caernarfon) Garrison Artillery, then transferred to 7th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, being promoted Lieutenant in March 1913 and Captain in October 1914. He embarked with the battalion for the Dardanelles in July 1915, landing in Gallipoli at Suvla Bay on the 9 August, where in the advance on Lala Baba Hill he was wounded on 10 August. He was evacuated from Gallipoli to Alexandria and then to Southampton, arriving on 7 November 1915. Whilst on duty in Alexandria he had contracted enteric fever. He was gazetted Adjutant to the 3/7th Battalion in February 1916 and promoted to Major in June 1916. He rejoined the 1/7th Battalion and saw action in Palestine where he was wounded in the attack on Suffa on 28 December 1917, and died from his wounds two days later. He is buried in Jerusalem War Cemetery. Sold with copied research.

Three: Captain Tegerin Hughes, 10th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who died of wounds at St Eloi on 1 April 1915 1914-15 Star (Capt. T. Hughes. R.W. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. T. Hughes.) nearly extremely fine (3) £400-£500 --- Tegerin Hughes enlisted into the Middlesex Regiment on the 8 September 1914, declaring 2 years service with 6th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was 23 years old and working on the Local Government Board Audit Staff. On 5 March 1915 he was discharged on receiving a commission in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. His papers show he served with the 14th Battalion but was attached to the 10th Battalion. Hughes died of wounds on 1 April 1916. His mother’s address is given as Bryncuhelyn, Llanerchymedd, Anglesey. The War Diary records him as being killed during the repulse of enemy attacks on the St Eloi trenches, St. Eloi also being shown on the Llangefni County School war memorial. He is commemorated by name on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Sold with copied research including record of service and War Diary extracts.

Three: Private J. Fox, 7/8th Battalion, Scottish Borderers, who was killed in action on the Western Front, 9 April 1917 1914-15 Star (15873 Pte J. Fox. K.O. Sco: Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (15873 Pte. J. Fox. K.O. Sco. Bord.); Memorial Plaque (James Fox) in card envelope of issue, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; Memorial Scroll (Pte. James Fox K.O. Scottish Borderers) in O.H.M.S. tube, nearly extremely fine (lot) £120-£160 --- James Fox served during the Great War with the 7/8th Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers in the French theatre of war from, 9 July 1915. Private Fox was killed in action on the Western Front, 9 April 1917, and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

Family group: Three: Private T. W. Hackett, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who was killed in action in Gallipoli, 16 December 1915 1914-15 Star (19132 Pte W. [sic] Hackett. K.O. Sco: Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (19132 Pte. T. W. Hackett. K.O. Sco. Bord.) in named card boxes of issue, with named enclosures for campaign awards, generally good very fine or better Pair: Private F. Hackett, 18th (Service) Battalion (Arts and Crafts), King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who died of wounds on the Western Front, 12 July 1916 British War and Victory Medals (C. 7839 Pte. F. Hackett. K.R. Rif. C.) in named card boxes of issue, with small photograph of recipient as a small child, and named enclosures for campaign awards and pension paperwork addressed to his mother at ‘18 Mundy Street, Derby’, generally good very fine or better (5) £100-£140 --- Thomas William Hackett served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers in the Gallipoli theatre of war from 24 September 1915, and was killed in action, 16 December 1915. Private Hackett is buried in Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Turkey. Frank Hackett was the brother of the above, and the son of Mary Hackett of 18 Mundy Street, Derby. He served during the Great War with the 18th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps on the Western Front. Private Hackett died of wounds on the Western Front, 12 July 1916, and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

Four: Wheeler Sergeant R. Slocombe, Royal Army Service Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded an Immediate M.S.M. for Egypt 1914-15 Star (T4-058781 Whlr: Sjt. R. Slocombe. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (T4-058781 Sjt. R. Slocombe. A.S.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (T4-058781 Whlr: Sjt. R. Slocombe. R.A.S.C.) very fine and better (4) £240-£280 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 22 January 1919 (Egypt). M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919 (Egypt). Robert Slocombe was born in Bridgewater, Somerset, in 1893 and served with the Army Service Corps during the Great War in Egypt from 31 March 1915. Demobilised to Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 27 July 1919, he died in Bridgewater in 1928, aged 35. Sold with the recipient’s original Mentioned in Despatches Certificate.

Three: Assistant Nurse Doris E. Levy, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, who was Mentioned in Despatches as a Special Military Probationer 1914-15 Star (Miss D. E. Levy. Q.A.I.M.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals (D. E. Levy.) minor edge bruise to VM, good very fine (3) £260-£300 --- Miss Doris Elizabeth Levy served with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 August 1915, and was Mentioned in Despatches as a Special Military Probationer (London Gazette 29 May 1917)

Three: Private W. Sharpe, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was taken Prisoner of War at Dunkirk in 1940 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (5335917. Pte. W. Sharpe. R. Berks.) good very fine (3) £100-£140 --- W. Sharpe served with the Royal Berkshire Regiment as part of the British Expeditionary Force, and was taken Prisoner of War at Dunkirk in 1940. He was held at Lamsdorf Prisoner of War Camp.

Three: Major E. Cullen, British Columbia Dragoons, late Private, 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles 1914-15 Star (107145 Pte E. Cullen. 2/Can: Rif:); British War and Victory Medals (107145 Pte. E. Cullen. 2-C.M.R.) good very fine Three: Sapper J. H. Cox, Canadian Engineers, who drowned when the hospital ship Anglia hit a mine returning from Calais to Dover, 17 November 1915 1914-15 Star (45 Spr: J. H. Cox. Can: Eng:); British War and Victory Medals (45 Spr. J. H. Cox. C.E.) with cap badge, generally very fine or better (6) £120-£160 --- Earle Cullen was born in Bolton, Lancashire in September 1892. He was a Locomotive Engineer, who served during the Great War with the 2nd Regiment Canadian Mounted Rifles on the Western Front. Cullen re-engaged for service as a Captain with the British Columbia Dragoons in July 1940, and advanced to Major (entitled to CVSM, War Medal and Canadian Efficiency Decoration). John Herbert Cox was born in London in May 1880. He served during the Great War with the 4th Field Company, Canadian Engineers on the Western Front. Sapper Cox drowned, 17 November 1915, when travelling in H.M.H.S. Anglia. The latter was returning from Calais to Dover with 390 injured Officers and Other Ranks. Around 12.30 p.m. she struck a mine and sank in 15 minutes. Despite the assistance of nearby ships, 134 personnel were killed. Sapper Cox is commemorated on the Hollybrook War Memorial, Southampton, England.

Family group: Three: Private G. Blaylock, 7th Battalion (1st British Columbia), Canadian Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front, 24 June 1918 1914-15 Star (428178 Pte G. Blaylock. 7/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals (428178 Pte. G. Blaylock. 7-Can. Inf.); Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (428178 Pte G. Blaylock.) generally very fine or better Three: Gunner R. Blaylock, 103rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, who was killed in action on the Western Front, 18 August 1917 1914-15 Star (56786 Gnr: R. Blaylock: R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (56786 Gnr. R. Blaylock. R.A.) generally very fine or better (7) £160-£200 --- George Blaylock was born in Hayton, Cumberland in June 1893. He served during the Great War with the 7th Battalion (1st British Columbia), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front. Private Blaylock was killed in action on the Western Front, 24 June 1916, and is buried in the Railway Dugouts Burial Ground, Belgium. Robert Blaylock was the elder brother of the above. He served during the Great War with ‘C’ Battery, 103rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, and was killed in action on the Western Front, 18 August 1917. Gunner Blaylock is buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.

Pair: J. Fagg, Mercantile Marine, who survived his fishing boat being torpedoed and sunk off the Kent coast in March 1917 British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (James Fagg) good very fine Pair: A. J. Day, Mercantile Marine British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Alfred J. Day) with Board of Trade Authority to Wear form, dated 13 November 1919, and signed by the recipient; and Board of Trade condolence enclosure for the actual medals, named to the recipient’s widow, and dated 24 February 1928, extremely fine Three: C. W. Rooke, Mercantile Marine and Royal Army Medical Corps British War Medal 1914-20 (62918 Pte. C. Rooke. R.A.M.C.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Charles W. Rooke.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (62918 Pte. C. Rooke. R.A.M.C.) mounted as worn, good very fine (7) £100-£140 --- James Fagg, a fisherman from Ramsgate, was born in Folkestone, Kent, in 1887 and served with the Mercantile Marine during the Great War. He survived his fishing boat being torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat off the Kent coast in March 1917 (Thanet Advertiser, 31 March 1917 refers).

Pair: Gunner G. C. Cleere, Canadian Field Artillery British War and Victory Medals (300184 Gnr. G. C. Cleere. C.F.A.) nearly very fine Pair: Gunner D. McLean, Canadian Field Artillery British War and Victory Medals (345881 Gnr. D. McLean. C.F.A.) very fine Pair: Gunner T. McMaster, Canadian Field Artillery British War and Victory Medals (345860 Gnr. T. McMaster. C.F.A.) very fine Pair: Gunner C. Rollins, Canadian Field Artillery British War and Victory Medals (301537 Gnr. C. Rollins. C.F.A.) very fine Pair: Gunner J. S. Starr, Canadian Field Artillery, who died as a result of his injuries received during the Great War on 28 July 1924 British War and Victory Medals (300133 Gnr. J. S. Starr. C.F.A.) very fine (10) £120-£160 --- James Stuart Starr, from Ottawa, Canada, attested for the Canadian Field Artillery for service during the Great War on 11 August 1915 and served on the Western Front from 18 January 1916. He was wounded (gas poisoning) on 3 November 1917 and was later discharged unfit on 25 June 1919. He died in Ottawa on 28 July 1924, as a result of injuries sustained on War service. Sold with copied research.

Pair: Lance Corporal J. D. Bell, No. 2 Tunnelling Company, Canadian Engineers, who was taken prisoner of war at Ypres, 2 June 1916 British War and Victory Medals (503368 2. Cpl. J. D. Bell. C.E.) very fine (2) £60-£80 --- John Day Bell was born in Sunderland in April 1885. He emigrated to Canada, and attested for the Canadian Infantry at Victoria, British Columbia in December 1915. Bell served with No. 2 Tunnelling Company, Canadian Engineers in the French theatre of war from March 1916. He was taken prisoner of war at Ypres, 2 June 1916, and was initially interned at Dalmen. Bell was repatriated in December 1918, and returned to Canada in March 1919. Sold with copied research.

Pair: Private A. Schoyen, 8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 15 August 1917 British War and Victory Medals (829692 Pte. A. Schoyen. 8-Can. Inf.) nearly extremely fine Pair: Private J. D. Paterson, 43rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 15 August 1918 British War and Victory Medals (693332 Pte. J. D. Paterson. 43-Can. Inf.) nearly extremely fine (4) £60-£80 --- August Schoyen was born in Loiten, Norway and enlisted at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada for service during the Great War on 8 December 1915. He served with the 8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry on the Western Front from 16 February 1917, and was killed in action on 15 August 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the 8th Canadian Cemetery Memorial, Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, France. John Donald Paterson from Loughleed, Alberta, Canada, attested for service during the Great War and served with the 43rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry on the Western Front from 9 November 1917. He received a shrapnel wound to the head on 14 August 1918 and died of wounds the following day. He is buried in St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France.

Pair: Private W. Taylor, 24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles), Canadian Infantry British War and Victory Medals (417119 Pte. W. Taylor. 24-Can. Inf.) good very fine Pair: Private J. V. Kirk, 47th Battalion (British Columbia), Canadian Infantry, who was killed in action whilst attached to the 1st Tank Battalion, 10 August 1918, when his tank was hit by an anti-tank shell and caught fire British War and Victory Medals (654056 Pte. J. V. Kirk. 47-Can. Inf.) generally good very fine British War Medal 1914-20 (550270 Pte. T. Allen. R.C.D.) last with coloured photograph of recipient mounted on a horse, suspension reaffixed and mount altered to a brooch fitting, otherwise very fine (5) £140-£180 --- William Taylor was born in December 1877, and resided at 2454 Chabot Street, Montreal, Quebec. James Vincent Kirk was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire in May 1898. He initially served during the Great War with the 47th Battalion (British Columbia), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front. On 8 August 1918 Kirk was attached to the 1st Tank Battalion for the attack on Arras. Two days later he was killed in action when his tank was hit by an anti-tank shell and caught fire. Private Kirk is buried in Le Quesnel Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Timothy Robert Allen was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada in November 1895. He served during the Great War with the Royal Canadian Dragoons, Canadian Cavalry on the Western Front, and was killed in action, 23 March 1918. Private Allen is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Pair: Private A. F. Hawke, 38th Battalion, Canadian Infantry British War and Victory Medals (410504 Pte. A. F. Hawke. 38-Can. Inf.) nearly very fine Pair: Private J. W. Rathwell, 38th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who died of wounds on 21 August 1918 British War and Victory Medals (640029 Pte. J. W. Rathwell. 38-Can. Inf.) nearly very fine Pair: Private W. Papillon, 43rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry British War and Victory Medals (2381452 Pte. W. Papillon. 43-Can. Inf.) mounted for wear, contact marks, very fine Pair: Private A. Honsberger, 50th Battalion, Canadian Infantry British War and Victory Medals (811252 Pte. A. Honsberger. 50-Can. Inf.) nearly extremely fine (8) £120-£160 --- John Wesley Rathwell, from Frankville, Ontario, Canada, was born on 17 August 1898. He attested for 156th Overseas Battalion, Canadian Infantry for service during the Great War on 29 March 1916, and served on the Western Front with the 38th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, from 19 January 1918. He received a gun shot wound to his thigh on 11 August 1918, and died of his wounds on 21 August 1918. He is buried in Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, France. Sold with copied research.

Pair: Private T. Tremblay, Canadian Forestry Corps British War and Victory Medals (1012161 Pte. T. Tremblay. C.F.C.) generally very fine or better British War Medal 1914-20 (2323446 A. Sjt. A. J. Fifer. C.F.C.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (4) (9791 Pte. A. Gibb. 3-Can. Inf.; 775359 Pte. N. Oleinik. 3-Can. Inf.; 438042 A. Cpl. H. A. Wilson. 21-Can. Inf.; 1054780 Pte. A. Tremblay. 24 Can. Inf.) 2nd VM with 38th Battalion lapel badge, 3rd with riband bar, chevrons, wound stripe and other metal insignia, generally very fine (lot) £100-£140 --- Théodule Tremblay was born in St-Rémi, Quebec, Canada in April 1886. He during the Great War with the Canadian Forestry Corps on the Western Front. Arthur John Fifer was born in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany in November 1872. He was an Accountant who resided in Armstrong, British Columbia, Canada prior to the Great War. Fifer served during the Great War with the Canadian Forestry Corps Depot, in the UK. Alexander Gibb was born in Chester, England in December 1876. He served during the Great War with the 3rd Battalion (Toronto Regiment), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front. Gibb was taken prisoner of war on the Western Front, 24 April 1915, and interned at Giessen. Nazar Oleinik was born in Podoski, Russia in July 1890. He resided in Toronto, Canada, and initially served during the Great War with the 38th Battalion (Ottawa), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front. Oleinik was was sentenced to Death for desertion, but had his sentence commuted two weeks later to 5 years penal servitude. Harold Aubry Wilson was born in Toronto, Canada in September 1893, and employed as a Railway Operator. He served during the Great War with the 21st Battalion (Eastern Ontario), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front. Alfred Tremblay was born in Eboulements, Quebec, Canada in February 1894. He served during the Great War with the 24th Battalion, Canadian Infantry on the Western Front. Tremblay received a gun shot wound to left leg and right hand during actions at Lens as part of the Battle of Hill 70. He was discharged as medically unfit and committed to psychiatric hospital upon discharge for service related psychosis.

Pair: Chief Engine Room Artificer B. H. L. Thompson, Royal Navy, who was killed in action on 5 September 1914, when H.M.S. Pathfinder was sunk by U21 in the Firth of Forth British War Medal 1914-20 (175938 B. H. L. Thompson. C.E.R.A.1 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (175938 B. H. L. Thompson C.E.R.A. 2Cl., H.M.S. Shannon.) small dig to obverse of LSGC, otherwise very fine (2) £70-£90 --- Bernard Harry Leopold Thompson, a Turner from Greenwich, London, was born on 7 March 1872 and attested for the Royal Navy on 7 September 1893. His LSGC was traced on 10 October 1908 and he was advanced Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st class, on 24 April 1911. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. Pathfinder and was killed in action on 5 September 1914 when she was sunk in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, by a torpedo from U21, with the loss of 261 lives. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. Sold with copy service record.

Four: Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class L. H. Doran Royal Navy, who was killed in action in the submarine H.M.S. P-33, when she was sunk by a depth charge on 20 August 1944 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Admiralty enclosure, extremely fine (4) £100-£140 --- Laurence Hugh Dolan was born in Barry, Glamorganshire, on 7 June 1907 and attested for the Royal Naval Reserve, serving during the Second World War in the U-class submarine H.M.S. P-33. Attached to the 10th Submarine Flotilla based at Malta, on 15 July 1941, she sunk the 5,300 ton motor-vessel Barbarigo south of Punta Sciaccazza, Pantelleria, part of a small Italian convoy. The submarine departed on her final patrol on 6 August 1941 from Malta to patrol off Sicily to intercept an Italian convoy heading towards Libya. Her sister boat P-32, which was attacking the same convoy along with H.M.S. Unique, reported hearing a prolonged depth charge attack on 18 August and subsequently attempted unsuccessfully to contact P-33. P-32 was herself sunk later that day. P-33 became overdue on 20 August, having almost certainly been sunk during this attack. Dolan is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

Five: Attributed to Major C. E. Tearne, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, who was Mentioned in Despatches 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, in named card box of issued, addressed to ‘Maj. C. E. Tearne, 89 Ember Lane, Esher, Surrey’, extremely fine Five: Attributed to R. H. Durrant, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in named Air Ministry card box of issued, addressed to ‘R. H. Durrant, Esq., 28 Sherborne Avenue, Ipswich, Suffolk’, extremely fine Three: Attributed to J. E. Williams 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf [Note: M.I.D. unconfirmed], with Army Council enclosure, in named R.A.S.C. and A.C.C. card box of issued, addressed to ‘Mr. J. E. Williams, 19 Canterbury Road, Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, Cheshire.’, extremely fine (13) £70-£90 --- Charles Ernest Tearne was born at Handsworth, Staffordshire, on 30 April 1900 and was commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 22 November 1918 as an Observer. Too late to see active service, he transferred to the Unemployed List on 12 June 1919. He was granted an emergency commission as a Major in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, on 28 December 1939, and served with them during the Second World War, transferring to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers on 1 October 1942. For his services in the Mediterranean theatre he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 21 May 1946). He died at Ewhurst, Surrey, on 28 February 1974. Sold with copied research.

A Second War ‘Battle of Britain’ Hurricane Pilot’s campaign group of three awarded to Pilot Officer P. Kennett, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who flew operationally with 3 and 605 Squadrons during the Battle, and having volunteered for overseas service in March 1941, was shot down and killed in the process of claiming a shared probably destroyed Ju88 off Malta, on 11 April 1941 1939-45 Star, 1 clasp, Battle of Britain; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Air Council enclosure, in card box of issue addressed to ‘T. Kennett, Esq., Braeside, Pear Tree Lane, Little Common, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex’; Memorial Scroll ‘Pilot Officer P. Kennett, Royal Air Force’, nearly extremely fine (4) £3,600-£4,400 --- Peter Kennett was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire, in May 1919, the son of Thomas Kennett, M.B.E., and was educated at Windsor House School, Slough and Cranbrook. At the latter he was a member of the Officer Training Corps, and he joined the Luton Squadron of the Voluntary Reserve as an Airman u/t Pilot in June 1939. Kennett was mobilised with the outbreak of the Second War, and was commissioned Pilot Officer (on probation), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in July 1940. He was initially posted as a Pilot for operational service to 3 Squadron (Hurricanes), Turnhouse, Scotland, at the start of September 1940. He transferred to 605 Squadron (Hurricanes), Croydon, 30 September 1940, however, this posting was equally short-lived as he returned to 3 Squadron, now at Castletown, 17 October 1940. He flew in various scrambles with the squadron, before being posted to 46 Squadron, North Weald, in November 1940. Kennett moved with the Squadron to Digby in December, and flew in several patrols before being transferred to 17 Squadron, Martlesham, 21 December 1940. Mainly tasked with fighter sweeps, Kennett continued to serve with 17 Squadron until he volunteered for an overseas posting in March 1941. He sailed in H.M.S. Ark Royal for Malta, flying his Hurricane off the carrier on 3 April 1941. Upon arrival Kennett joined 261 Squadron flying out of Ta Kali, and this time his posting was all too short for differing reasons: ‘A relatively strong force of fighters approached Malta on 11 April [1941], apparently as cover for a Luftwaffe reconnaissance aircraft. Twelve MC200s of the 17 Gruppo under the command of Magg. Bruno Brambilla, covered by six CR 42s from the 23 Gruppo led by Ten. Col. Falconi, swept over the island, while the Bf109Es of 7/JG 26 also made for the same location. Numbers of Hurricanes were scrambled at various times during the mid-morning. Sgt. Deacon made his first sortie in V3978, seeing five CR 42s, but being unable to engage these. A little later two of the new Hurricane IIs, flown by Plt. Off. Peter Kennett and Sgt. Waghorn, intercepted a Ju88 and were reported to have shot it down. At that moment both were bounced by Bf109s, and were shot down. Their aircraft, Z3036 and Z2904, both crashed into the sea; Kennett got out and was seen by Sqn. Ldr. Lambert swimming and waving vigorously. However there was a long delay in sending out a rescue launch as the raid was still on, and he was dead when eventually picked up; Waghorn was also killed. Recorded Westmacott that evening: “Plt. Off. Kennett and Sgt. Waghorn killed... It is the same old story - no one was looking behind. It is frightfully difficult to make inexperienced pilots realise the necessity of even so small a formation as two aircraft keeping one up above looking out while the other is attacking the Hun... Not very long ago he (Kennett) told me he was sure he was going to be killed.” ‘ (Hurricanes over Malta, refers) Kennett and Waghorn were posthumously credited with a Ju88 shared probably destroyed. Both were buried next to each other in Capuccini Naval Cemetery, Malta. Sold with the recipient’s original Commission Document, dated 27 July 1940; a Letter of Condolence to the recipient’s father from his son’s Commanding Officer, Squadron Leader R. Lambert, dated 12 April 1941; five original photographs of the recipient’s funeral in Malta; and a file of copied research. For the M.B.E. pair awarded to the recipient’s father, see Lot 134.

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Private R. N. Coleman, 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 16 August 1917 Military Medal, G.V.R. (203141 Pte. R. N. Coleman. 2/R. Berks: R.) minor edge nick, the obverse polished and worn, therefore fine, the reverse better £240-£280 --- M.M. London Gazette 2 November 1917. Raymond Noel Coleman was born at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment at Cheltenham. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 16 August 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

The Second Afghan War Medal awarded to Sergeant W. Kelly, 66th Regiment of Foot, who was severely wounded at the Battle of Maiwand, 27 July 1880 Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1336. Sergt. W. Kelly. 66th. Foot.) pawnbroker’s mark to obverse field, minor edge bruising, otherwise very fine £1,400-£1,800 --- Provenance: J. B. Hayward, December 1975. William Kelly attested for the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot and served with the Regiment in Afghanistan during the Second Afghan War. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Maiwand, 27 July 1880, ‘one of the grandest examples of heroism in the annals of war’, where the Regiment lost its Colours and 10 officers and 275 other ranks were killed. Following the loss of the 66th Foot’s Colours at Maiwand, and those of the 24th Foot at Isandhlwana the previous year, the British Army soon after ended the tradition of carrying Colours into battle; the last occasion on which Colours were carried into Battle being by the 58th Foot at Laing’s Nek on 28 January 1881.

Three: Sergeant D. K. Taylor, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, a Rhodesian-born Wellington Pilot with 37 Squadron who was killed in action on his 18th Operational Sortie whilst on a bombing raid over Benghazi on 1 August 1941 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; together with the related miniature awards, all mounted for display purposes with various metal and cloth badges and insignia, the Stars all heavily lacquered, good very fine and better (3) £300-£400 --- Dennis Kibbey Taylor was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, on 15 May 1919 and was educated at Prince Edward Boys’ High School, Salisbury. He joined the Rhodesian Air Training Group in 1940 and began his flying training at No. 25 Elementary Flying Training School in May 1940. He qualified as a Pilot on 13 September 1940, and having been posted to 37 Squadron (Wellingtons), based at R.A.F. Sallufa, North Africa, in February 1941, flew his first operational sortie, a bombing raid on Rhodes, on 10 March 1941. Further raids included Scarpanto, Rhodes (2), Sofia, Prilep, Benghazi (5), Derna (2), Menidi, Gazala, Beirut, and Elevisis. He was killed in action on his 18th Operational Sortie when, on a raid on Benghazi on 1 August 1941, his Wellington A1067 crashed into the Mediterranean near the coast west of Sollum. He is commemorated alongside his crew on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt; it is believed that he is the only Rhodesian born pilot commemorated on the Alamein Memorial. Sold with the recipient’s original Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book, covering his entire flying career; and copied research.

Five: Flight Lieutenant R. Evans, who served during the Second World War with the Cheshire Home Guard, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy; and later with the South African Air Force and the Rhodesian Air Force Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Arabian Peninsula (445 Chf. Tech. Evans. R.); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (445 Chf. Tech. Evans R.); Rhodesia, General Service Medal (Fg. Off. R. Evans.) mounted for display purposes on a velvet cloth with the recipient’s cap badge, Warrant patch, and shoulder boards, light contact marks, good very fine and better (5) £240-£280 --- Robert Evans was born in Chester on 4 September 1924 and served during the Second World War initially in “C” Company, 6th Cheshire (City of Chester) Battalion, Home Guard, from 16 August 1941 to 18 November 1942. He joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 19 November 1942 and served with them as a Fitter Second Class, before transferring once again to the Royal Navy as an Air Fitter (A) from 3 May 1945. He was released Class ‘A’ Reserve on 20 August 1946. Evans subsequently served with the South African Air Force as a Fitter Second Class from 9 June 1946 to 8 June 1951, and then with the Rhodesian Air Force from 4 September 1951 to 4 September 1974, being advanced Warrant Officer Class 1 on 10 September 1962, and Flying Officer on 20 March 1969. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 8 June 1963, and was discharged with the rank of Flight Lieutenant, his last appointment being Officer Commanding, Aeronautical Inspection Services. Sold with the recipient’s three card identity discs and an Airman’s trade patch; original Royal Air Force Certificate of Service and Discharge; Royal Air Force Airman’s Service and Pay Book; Royal Navy Parchment Certificate of Service; Union Defence Force Certificate of Service; Rhodesian Air Force Certificate of Service; Warrant appointing him a Warrant Officer Class I, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Air Force, dated 10 September 1962; Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Loyal Service Certificate, dated 31 December 1963; various official letters regarding his medal entitlement; a photograph of the recipient receiving his Long Service Medal from Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland at Salisbury on 8 June 1963; and other ephemera.

To Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. Audacious, 1st August, 1798 I have the satisfaction to tell you the French Ship, Le Conquerant has struck to the Audacious and I have her in possession. The slaughter on board her is dreadful: her Captain is dying. We have but one killed, but a great many wounded. Our fore and mainmast are wounded, but I hope not very bad. They tell me the foremast is the worst. I give you joy. This is a glorious victory. I am, with the utmost respect, yours in haste. D. Gould. The Important ‘Battle of the Nile 1798’ Post Captain’s Naval Gold Medal awarded to Davidge Gould, Captain of the 74-gun H.M.S. Audacious, who fought in many ‘Boat Actions’ during the American Revolutionary War and enabled the capture of two French capital ships off Genoa in 1795. At the Battle of the Nile, he sailed Audacious inshore of the French line and took Le Conquerant after a desperate close-range fight, then helped batter Guerrier and Spartiate into their submissions. Gould was soon embroiled in the controversy around Lord Nelson’s affair with Lady Emma Hamilton; he finally became Vice Admiral of the United Kingdom, and was the last surviving member of Nelson’s famous ‘Band of Brothers’ Naval Small Gold Medal 1794-1815, the reverse engraved in capitals ‘DAVIDGE GOULD ESQUIRE CAPTAIN OF H.M.S. THE AUDACIOUS ON THE 1 of AUGUST MDCCXCVIII + THE FRENCH FLEET DEFEATED+’. Early Naval Gold Medals were inscribed with ‘The’ between H.M.S. and the ship’s name, but this is omitted in later Naval Gold Medals (Douglas-Morris ‘Naval Medals 1793-1856’ p13 refers). Lacking gold ribbon buckle (therefore was probably worn from a left-hand buttonhole) and enclosed in its original lunettes, extremely fine £80,000-£100,000 --- Provenance: Hamilton-Smith collection; Glendining November 1927; W. Waite Sanderson collection, Glendining November 1941; Glendining September 1991. Davidge Gould was born at Bridgewater, Somerset in 1758, the youngest son of William Gould of Sharpham Park. He entered the Navy at the age of 13 in May 1772 as a volunteer on H.M.S. Alarm, a 32-gun frigate which was the first Royal Navy ship to have a fully copper-sheathed bottom. Early Career Gould served in frigates in the Mediterranean and then in North America, where he spent four years as a Midshipman on Captain Hyde Parker’s 44-gun H.M.S. Phoenix during the early part of the First American War. The teenage Midshipman Gould was “much engaged in attacking the enemy’s batteries, cutting out their vessels, and contesting, not without loss, with their boats up the North [now called the Hudson] River” (O’Bryne’s Naval Biography refers). On 7 May 1779, after seven years at sea, Gould was promoted to Lieutenant. He moved into his first 74-gun line-of-battle ship, H.M.S. Conqueror, and took part in the Battle of the Saintes on 9-12 April 1782. The British fleet (36 ships of the line, commanded by Admiral Rodney) achieved a decisive victory over a combined French and Spanish fleet of 47 ships. Conqueror lost 7 men killed and 23 wounded. As a reward for his conduct in the battle, Gould was appointed First Lieutenant of Rodney’s 98-gun flagship and on 13 June 1782 was promoted Master and Commander of the fire-sloop Pachahunter, based in Jamaica. In 1787 he was appointed to command a former Dutch privateer, H.M.S. Pylades (18), which built up a considerable reputation as an effective anti-smuggling vessel cruising off Start Point in Devon. In between commissions, Gould appears to have spent about four years on half-pay. Thanks to the Spanish and Russian war scares, on 17 March 1789, aged 30, Gould was made a Post Captain. He was appointed to the command of frigates in the West Indies and the Mediterranean, where he was part of Admiral Hood’s fleet sent to drive the French out of Corsica. He was present at the sieges of Bastia and Calvi (where Captain Nelson was blinded in an eye) and was given his first command of a 74, the 20-year-old H.M.S. Bedford. The Battle of Genoa 1795 Gould’s first fleet action as Post Captain of Bedford took place in March 1795, when Vice-Admiral Hotham brought to battle off Genoa a French squadron carrying troops intended to recapture Corsica. On 13 March Ca Ira (80) lost her fore and main topmasts in a collision with another French ship. Falling behind the retreating French squadron, Ca Ira soon had to be taken in tow. She was attacked by Captain Nelson in his 64-gun Agamemnon and the 74-gun Captain, until the French squadron returned and drove them off, despite Gould’s attempts to engage the French flagship, the 120-gun Sans-Cullotte. At dawn the next day Ca Ira, while being towed by the 74-gun Censeur, was isolated, having fallen well behind the main body of the French squadron during the night. In contrast, the British fleet was advantageously placed to windward. Hotham signalled the 74-gun warships Captain and Gould’s Bedford to close and attack Censeur and Ca Ira. The two British ships had to endure raking fire from both French broadsides (some 1,500lbs of metal) as they approached, before they could bring their own guns to bear. They battered the French for 75 minutes, until Captain, which had suffered severe damage to her sails, rigging, and stays, signalled to be towed out of the action. Hotham saw that Bedford had also had her sails and rigging badly cut up and sent two other 74s to relieve them. Five men were killed on Captain and seven wounded. Bedford had seven killed and eighteen wounded, including her First Lieutenant. By this time Ca Ira and Censeur had been heavily damaged and reduced to almost defenceless hulks, suffering over 400 casualties. The French Admiral abandoned them to their fate, and they duly surrendered to Nelson. Joining the Audacious and Nelson’s ‘Band of Brothers’ By autumn 1795 Gould, now 37, had turned over command of Bedford. His next ship was H.M.S. Audacious, ten years old and with a 781lb broadside, assigned to Sir John Jervis’s Mediterranean fleet. “Under Jervis, the captains of the Mediterranean fleet were becoming a brotherhood, bonded by skill, experience, mutual respect and a common cause. Maybe they had not thought of it in that way before; but from about this time they all did, and Nelson most of all. And the concept - so suitable to his nature - became an important, conscious element in his conduct of the war.” (Howarth, Nelson – The Immortal Memory refers). Southey (Life of Nelson p 127) quotes a letter in which Nelson used his famous phrase “The Band of Brothers” (a quotation from Shakespeare’s Henry V Act 4 scene 3 ‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers’) in 1797: “Such a gallant set of fellows! Such a band of brothers! My heart swells at the thought of them!” After the Nile, Nelson wrote a number of letters and dispatches, often using the term ‘band of brothers’ to refer to the fourteen Captains who had fought under him. To Lord St Vincent, referring to Alexander Ball: “His activity and zeal are eminently conspicuous even amongst the Band of Brothers - each, as I may have occasion to mention them, must call forth my gratitude and admiration.” And on 8 January 1799 to Earl Howe, “I had the happiness to command a Band of Brothers...” Nelson had already served alongside several of the future ‘Band of the Nile Brothers’. He knew Gould from Corsica and the Battle of Genoa. Nelson's ability to deeply understand, trust and inspire his fleet Captains, through close consultations with them prior to actions, enabled him to leave them free to fight their ships as they beli...

‘Probably the Finest Known’ example of Alexander Davison’s Medal for Trafalgar, believed to have been presented by Nelson’s Prize Agent to the crew of the Flagship H.M.S. Victory and intended for wear by those sailors attending Nelson’s State Funeral ceremonies in January 1806 Alexander Davison’s Medal for Trafalgar 1805, pewter, contained in copper frame as usual with integral loop and split ring for suspension, unnamed as issued, extremely fine as struck £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: Spink, May 2003. It is believed that copper-rimmed pewter medals commemorating Nelson and H.M.S. Victory (designed by T Halliday) were hastily commissioned by Alexander Davison, Nelson’s Agent, for award to the crew of H.M.S. Victory who took part in the battle and were in London at the time of Nelson’s State Funeral, with the intention that Victory’s crew members would wear them during the funeral ceremonies and the great procession. When Victory returned to England carrying Nelson’s body, most members of her crew volunteered to be brought to London to participate in the various memorial ceremonies which lasted for over five days, culminating in the great funeral procession through the streets from the Admiralty in Whitehall to St Paul’s Cathedral on 9 January 1806.

Waterloo 1815 (Qu. Master John Ramsden, 1st Regiment Life Guard-) ‘s’ of Guards obscured by replacement silver barrel and ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good fine £2,000-£2,400 --- John Ramsden joined the 1st Life Guards on 26 July 1789 and is shown on the muster rolls for January 1790. He was appointed Corporal of Horse on 24 February 1793, and promoted to Corporal-Major on 7 July 1803, in which rank he was discharged on 3 August 1805, and appointed Quartermaster on the following day. He is shown on the muster roll taken on 24 June 1815, and is the senior of the four Quartermasters who served in the 1st Life Guards at Waterloo. Of the other three, one was wounded and two were killed. His name is shown in the Army List for 1830 under ‘Officers who have been allowed to Retire on their full pay’ but has disappeared by 1840. Sold with copied muster rolls and other research notes.

The Waterloo medal awarded to Lieutenant W. A. Griffiths, 23rd Foot, who was wounded in the left arm at Salamanca, slightly wounded at the storming of San Sebastian, and by a gun shot wound in the right thigh at Waterloo Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. W. A. Griffiths, 23rd Regiment Foot, R.W.F.) fitted with replacement silver clip and straight bar suspension, minor edge bruises and a little polished, otherwise very fine £4,600-£5,500 --- William A. Griffiths was born at Wrexham, Denbighshire, on 14 February 1792. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 23rd Foot from the Denbigh Militia on 14 March 1811, and promoted 1st Lieutenant on 13 May 1812. He served in the Peninsula from January 1812 to September 1813 and was present at the ‘Siege and Storming of Badajoz 6 April 1812. Battle of Salamanca 22nd July 1812. Battle of Waterloo 18th June 1815.’ ‘Received a gun shot wound in left arm at Salamanca 22nd July 1812. Received a gun shot wound at Waterloo in the right thigh 18th June 1815. One years pay received.’ He is also listed in the London Gazette as having been slightly wounded at the storming of San Sebastian, 31 August 1813, but this is not recorded in his 1829 Statement of Service. He served at Waterloo in the Grenadier Company and is noted in the North Wales Gazette as having been severely wounded. He was appointed Depot Paymaster in April 1828 and promoted to regimental Paymaster on 12 October 1830. Placed on Half Pay in 1831, he died in 1832.

The South Africa Medal 1834-53 awarded to Colour-Sergeant D. Mason, 91st Highlanders, who survived the sinking of the Abercrombie Robinson off Cape Town, 27-28 August 1842 South Africa 1834-53 (Colr. Serjt. D. Mason. 91st. Regt.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £500-£700 --- Daniel Mason was born in Warwick in 1823 and attested there for the 90th Regiment of Foot on 12 July 1841. He transferred to the 91st (Argyllshire) Highlanders on 1 April 1842, and sailed for South Africa in June of that year in the Abercrombie Robinson. The Abercrombie Robinson
In 1842 a Reserve Battalion of the 91st Foot was formed. It sailed for the Cape of Good Hope in June of that year, arriving at Table Bay on 25 August in the Abercrombie Robinson. Upon arriving all the Officers not on duty were given permission to go on shore, and on 27 August all landed except six, with command of the troops on board devolved to Captain Bertie Gordon. That night a gale blew up, which developed into a hurricane; the ship'’s cables snapped, and the ship was driven towards the beach. There were 700 souls on board, of whom 90 were women and children; all were kept below in order to lessen the weight on the ship’s deck. From accounts in the Regimental History it is clear that it was a terrifying time. The following morning it was decided to disembark and this dangerous exercise was carried out after a night of great peril and through raging surf over a period from 8:30am until 3:30pm using towards the end just a single boat with a capacity of 30, without a single casualty. Captain Gordon was in the last boat-load to disembark the stricken ship. A description of the wreck and the evacuation was submitted to Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, who wrote: “I have never read anything so satisfactory as this report. It is highly creditable, not only to Captain Bertie Gordon and the officers and troops concerned, but to the service in which such an instance has occurred of discretion and firmness in an officer in command, and of confidence, good order, discipline, and obedience in all under his command, even to the women and children. Captain Bertie Gordon, and all concerned, deserve the highest approbation, and I will not forget their good conduct.’ The display of discipline shown by those on the Abercrombie Robinson inspired the same display of discipline when the Birkenhead was wrecked ten years later. Mason served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Second and Third Kaffir Wars, being appointed Colour-Sergeant on 9 September 1850. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, together with a gratuity of £15, in December 1857, he was discharged on 26 August 1862 after 21 years and 47 days’ service, of which 13 years and 1 month was spent in South Africa; 1 year and 5 months were spent in the Mediterranean; and 3 years and 9 months were spent in India. Sold with copied record of service and other research, including a detailed account of the wreck of the Abercrombie Robinson.

The very rare three-clasp Indian Mutiny medal to original defender Assistant Surgeon G. B. Hadow, who was in medical charge of various units of Bengal Artillery throughout the siege of Lucknow, and later served in the Central India campaign; Hadow was a prolific letter writer during his service in India whose correspondence is now preserved in the library of Worcester College, Oxford Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 3 clasps, Defence of Lucknow, Lucknow, Central India (Asst. Surgn. G. B. Hadow, 1st Compy. 5th Bn. Bl. Arty.) fitted with silver ribbon buckle, unofficial rivets between second and third clasps; together with another, 2 clasps, Defence of Lucknow, Lucknow (Asst. Surgn. H. P. Hadow, 4th Oudh Irreg. Infy.) note differing initials [as per medal rolls], generally very fine or better (2) £4,000-£5,000 --- Hadow is confirmed on two separate medal rolls at the India Office Library, one with initials G. B. and the other with H. P., both rolls showing him to be the same man. Gilbert Bethune Hadow was born at Haseley, Warwickshire, on 15 August 1832, son of William Thomas Hadow, Clerk in Holy Orders, and his wife Eleanor Anne. He was educated at Marlborough College, Winchester and King’s College Medical Hospital, London, where he qualified M.R.C.S. in 1854, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service on 20 January 1855. He was posted to the 4th Infantry, Oudh Irregular Force in May 1856, and to the 4th Company, 1st Bengal Artillery on 5 January 1858. Hadow served throughout the defence of Lucknow, the capture of Lucknow, the campaign in Oudh in 1858, and in Central India in 1859, latterly as a medical officer attached to the 2nd Gwalior Infantry and details of Bombay Infantry. Hadow was a prolific letter writer during his service in India, and all his correspondence is now in the possession of Worcester College, Oxford. In a letter to his sister back home in March 1857, he makes one of the first known references to the “Chupatty movement”: ‘There is a most mysterious affair going on throughout the whole of India at present, no one seems to know the meaning of it.… It is not known where it originated, by whom or for what purpose, whether it is supposed to be connected to any religious ceremony or whether it has to do with some secret society. The Indian papers are full of surmises as to what it means. It is called the “Chupatty movement”.’ As a medical officer during the siege of Lucknow, Hadow was witness to many of the more famous episodes of the siege, among others the death of Sir Henry Lawrence: ‘While waiting for breakfast in the former drawing room of the Residency, but now turned into the 32nd Mess Room, a shell came into the next room and exploded over a bed on which Sir Henry Lawrence was lying; one piece of it gave him a mortal wound, shattering his left thigh and tearing open a wound into his abdomen. I was by his side in a minute, but of course could do nothing, he himself knew it was mortal, and begged not to be disturbed.’ Towards the final relief of the city by Lord Clyde, Hadow found himself engaged on more military matters, as illustrated by the following extract which describes his prowess as a sharpshooter: ‘Till the Brigadier had determined what I should do, I was turned into a sharpshooter, being supplied with one of the new Enfield rifles; I took up position where I could see anyone who attempted to cross either of two streets, which were at right angles to one another, with the angle towards me. Here I amused myself for three or four days, practising long range shooting at any armed creature that chose to show itself, and by the time other employment was found for me, I had knocked over nineteen men. It is curious how calmly one can shoot at a fellow creature when you know he would shoot at you if he had the chance.’ Hadow’s views towards the mutineers were clear enough, and no doubt prompted by the dwindling number of children who were ‘dropping and dying from day to day on account of the close confinement’. He once inspected, in horror, the remains of a friend who had been hit by a round shot and lay crumpled on the floor, ‘just as if a suit of clothes filled with sand had been thrown down’. It was probably sights like this that prompted him to tell his sister how he wanted to have the opportunity of actually running through a mutineer, ‘I want more of their blood, and I’ll have it yet’. Hadow’s extensive correspondence contains many more entries of a similar nature, and ultimately provides a fascinating insight into one of the most famous sieges of British military history. In addition to the more obvious observations, he also has time for recording less likely matters, among them news of the introduction of the Indian Mutiny medal: ‘The order for decorations is out – I shall have a medal, and two clasps – one for the Residency, the other for the fall of Lucknow – and we all hope we may have one for the Rohilcund Campaign.’ In fact, Hadow’s later services also involved participation in Brigadier Troupe’s Oudh Campaign of 1858, and service in the Central Indian jungles between May and September 1859, attached to the 2nd Gwalior Infantry and details of Bombay Infantry. His letters cover this part of the mutiny with equal precision. Whilst on home leave he married Rachel Elizabeth daughter of Mr G. Lloyd Esq. at Ladywood Church, Birmingham, on 11 November 1862, the service being conducted by his father. They had issue Helen Frances, born at Dum Dum in 1863, Gilbert George, born at Boolundshuhur in 1865, and Janet Elizabeth, born at Meerut in 1867. The death of his two daughters at Boolundshuhur in 1867 and 1868 had a profound effect on Hadow. The cause of death on their burial certificates warrants the single stroke of a pen. Just another two infant deaths in Boolundshuhur's inhospitable and pestilent climate. Hadow subsequently wrote fewer letters and began to suffer ill-health dying of heart disease at Aligarh on 31 July 1876. His widow died at Marylebone on 6 April 1906, aged 71. Sold with an original small tinted ambrotype (believed to be of the recipient) in its original gilt mount and frame, and copied photograph of Hadow from Ahmed Ali Khan's wonderful ‘Images of Lucknow’ series taken in 1857, and coloured images of Hadow as a child and as a young man; together with a full set of copies of Hadow’s letters held by Worcester College, Oxford, these contained in a box and also saved to CD.

The Queen’s South Africa Medal and associated tribute medals awarded to Private R. G. Roberts, 30th Company, Imperial Yeomanry Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, Transvaal clasp a tailor’s copy, and date clasp loose on riband, as issued (4191 Pte. R. G. Roberts, 30th. Coy. 9th. Imp. Yeo.), with the related miniature award, with clasps Transvaal, Orange River Colony, Cape Colony; together with a Carnarvon tribute medal, gold (9ct., 14.40g), hallmarks for Birmingham 1901, the reverse engraved ‘Presented by the Burgesses of Carnarvon to Trooper R. Gordon-Roberts, 30th. Coy 9th. Batt Imperial Yeomanry (Pembrokeshire) on his Return from Active Service in the South African campaign July 1901’; and Incorporated Law Society of the United Kingdom tribute medallion, bronze, the reverse impressed ‘Presented by the President of the Society, Sir Albert Kaye Rollit, LLD., DCL, MP, and the Vice President, John Edward Gray Hill, Esq., to Solicitors and Articled Clerks who served in the South African Campaign, 1899-1902, and who were entertained by the Society at a Banquet in it Hall on December 18th 1902.’, about extremely fine; the two tribute medals both rare and unrecorded by Hibbard (lot) £2,000-£2,400 --- Richard Gordon-Roberts was born in Llanbeblig, Carnavon, in 1870 and was a solicitor by profession He attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Tenby on 13 February 1900, and served with the the 30th (Pembrokeshire) Company, 9th Battalion, in South Africa during the Boer War from 14 March 1900 to 8 July 1901. He was discharged on 7 August 1901, after 1 year and 175 days’ service, and subsequently served as a solicitor in Anglesey. He died in Liverpool on 10 December 1957. Sold with a renamed King’s South Africa Medal 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4191 Pte. R. G. Roberts. 30th. Coy. 9th. Imp. Yeo.) contemporarily re-engraved naming [note: the recipient is not entitled to the K.S.A.]; an Association of Conservative Clubs Medal, gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘R. Gordon-Roberts 1902’, with ‘Five Years’ riband bar and ‘Distinguished Service’ top brooch bar; a Pitt Club Medal, silver-gilt, with cameo portrait to obverse the reverse engraved ‘Menai. Robt. Roberts of Garn Esq.’; various British Red Cross Society Medals awarded to a family member, two named to ‘E. G. Roberts’, in various named card boxes of issue; together with a card identity disc ‘G-Roberts E. B.R.C.S. Anglesey 4’ and various shoulder rank insignia with ‘Red Cross 4 Anglesey’ unit insignia; and other ephemera, including a bullet mounted as a charm, with a silver band around inscribed ‘In memory of S.T.’ Sold with a mounted group photograph of the Pembroke Yeomanry in the field; two contemporary photographs; and copied record of service and other research.

The 1914-15 Star awarded to Private W. E. Crunston, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 9 May 1915 1914-15 Star (R-4824 Pte. W. E. Crunston. K.R. Rif: C.); Memorial Plaque (William Edward Crunston) minor traces of verdigris, good very fine (2) £70-£90 --- William Edward Crunston (also recorded at Crumston) attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and served with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 April 1915. He died of wounds on 9 May 1915, and is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.