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Doctor Who The Encyclopaedia by Gary Russell 2011 First Edition Hardback Book with 400 pages published by BBC Books (Ebury Publishing) some ageing good condition. Sold on behalf of Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW. We can ship a parcel up to 20kg which will take approx. 40 books in UK £12, EUROPE £39.99, ROW, £59.99

Pair: Lieutenant S. Sheffield, Imperial Yeomanry, later Hampshire Regiment, who was Mentioned in Despatches and promoted Corporal by the Commander-in-Chief for his gallantry at Retief’s Nek on 29 April 1901, and was subsequently killed in action leading in his company in an attack on the Turkish tenches at Gallipoli on 6 August 1915 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (11386 Cpl. S. Sheffield. 62nd. Coy. 11th Imp: Yeo:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut: S. H. Sheffield. Imp: Yeo:); 1914-15 Star (Lieut. S. Sheffield. Hamps. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lieut. S. Sheffield.) nearly extremely fine (5) £600-£800 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 20 August 1901: Lance-Corporal S. Sheffield, 62nd Company Imperial Yeomanry ‘For gallantry in the attack on Retief’s Nek, Orange River Colony, 29 April 1901. Promoted Corporal by Commander-in-Chief.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 5 November 1915 (Mediterranean Expeditionary Force). Surtees Sheffield was born in London on 8 June 1878 and was educated at Godolphin School. He ‘was a medical student at Guy’s Hospital, London, but after the outbreak of the South African War he enlisted as a Trooper in the Middlesex Yeomanry early in 1900, and obtained a commission soon after. He served through that campaign, for which he was Mentioned in Despatches, was awarded the Queen’s Medal with three clasps, ands the King’s Medal with two clasps, the latter being personally presented to him by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace in recognition of his gallantry at Retief’s Nek. On the termination of the war he resigned his commission and went to Malaya, where he was engaged in rubber planting when war was declared in August 1914. He returned to England at once and took up his commission, becoming Lieutenant in the 13th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment on 29 January 1915. He went to Gallipoli on 25 May 1915, with a draft for the 2nd Battalion, and as was wounded in July, being sent to hospital in Alexandria. He returned to his regiment on 1 August, and was killed in action five days later, while leading his company in an attack on the Turkish trenches before Achi Baba. For his gallant and distinguished service in the Field he was Mentioned in Despatches by Sir Ian Hamilton.’ (The Roll of Honour refers). Sheffield has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey. Sold with copied research. including a photographic image of the recipient.

Six: Major W. Jones, Cheshire Regiment, late Northumberland Fusiliers and Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who was Mentioned in Despatches in both the Boer War and the Great War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Orange Free State, last clasp attached with unofficial rivets (1705 Col Sej: W. Jones. R: Welsh Fus:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1705 Clr:-Serjt: W. Jones. Rl: Welsh Fus:); 1914-15 Star (Lieut. W. Jones. North’d Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major W. Jones.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (1705 Clr. Sjt. W. Jones. Rl. Welsh Fus.) mounted for display, very fine and better (6) £500-£700 --- M.I.D. London Gazette of 10 September 1901. M.I.D. London Gazette 14 June 1918, with Egyptian Expeditionary Force. The Llangollen Gazette of 6 September 1918 records the mention as being for gallantry in Palestine. Walter Jones was born in Wrexham on 12 September 1867. He initially joined the East Yorkshire Regiment on 31 August 1886, but transferred to 2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 16 December 1886. He was promoted to Lance Corporal on 2 March 1887, and to Corporal on 18 July 1888. He saw steady promotion to Lance Sergeant in August 1891, Sergeant in October of the same year and Colour Sergeant in April 1894, having transferred to the 2nd Battalion in February 1892. He went with the Battalion to South Africa in October 1899, serving there until February 1902, and was Mentioned in Despatches (Q.S.A. roll shows him as attached to Volunteer Battalion.) In February 1902 he was posted to the 3rd Volunteer Battalion as Sergeant & Instructor. In May 1902 he was transferred to the 2nd Volunteer Battalion and served with them until his discharge on 30 August 1904. His Long Service Medal was awarded in April 1905. As an old soldier of 47 he joined up again on 12 September 1914, into the ranks. He was rapidly promoted over 3 days to Sergeant-Major, and was given a commission into the New Armies after serving 131 days. His Medal Index Card shows his theatre of entry into the war as Gallipolli, where he served with the 15th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, being wounded by a bomb in June 1915. He was repatriated home via Alexandria whilst attached to 1/5th East Lancashire Regiment. In November 1915 he was transferred to the 2nd Garrison Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Sold with copied discharge papers and record of service.

Five: Private R. Blanchard, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Queen’s South Africa 1899-1901, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3294 Pte. R. Blanchard. Oxford: Lt Infy:) unofficial affixing between state and date clasps; 1914-Star, with copy clasp (6981 Pte. R. Blanchard. 2/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.) Battalion no. officially corrected; British War and Victory Medals (6981 Pte. R. Blanchard. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (6931 Pte. R. Blanchard. Oxf & Bucks. L.I.) very fine (5) £200-£240 --- R. Blanchard serve with the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front form 13 August 1914. Sold with photograph cut from a regimental chronicle of ‘Officers and other ranks, 2nd Battalion, 1914-19’ who went to France in August 1914 and came home in 1919, in which the recipient is identified.

A Great War ‘Palestine operations’ D.S.O. group of five awarded to Vice-Admiral (Retired) J. D. Nares, Royal Navy, who was decorated and mentioned in despatches for services whilst serving in H.M.S. Enterprise in October & November 1917 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Commr. J. D. Nares. R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, unnamed as issued, flaking to obverse red enamel central medallion, otherwise good very fine (5) £1,400-£1,800 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 20 February 1919: ‘Cdr. John Dodd Nares, R.N., H.M.S. Enterprise. Did most useful service prior to the operations in fixing positions north of Gaza, thus enabling a map to be drawn up. Rendered every 'assistance’ to R.A. Egypt from the 6th to 12th November, 1917, when the Rear Admiral’s flag was flown in Enterprise.’ John Dodd Nares was born on 11 December 1877, the son of Admiral Sir George Nares, the Arctic explorer. He entered the Royal Navy on 15 January 1892 and was promoted to Sub Lieutenant on 15 December 1897, having served as a Cadet in H.M.S. Britannia, and in H.M.S. Crescent, in which he advanced to Midshipman on 15 March 1994. As a Midshipman he served in H.M.S. Katoomba, H.M.S. Orlando, H.M.S. Flora, H.M.S. Calliope, H.M.S. Victory and H.M.S. Volage. It was remarked that he "suffers greatly from sea sickness". He became an Assistant Surveyor 4th Class on 1 September 1898 and, as a Sub-Lieutenant, served in H.M.S. Triton and H.M.S. Penguin. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 1 April 1900, then serving in H.M.S. Dart, H.M.S. Penguin, H.M.S. Research and, from March 1908 to February 1911, in H.M.S. Egeria, as First Lieutenant and, from March 1910, in command. He was in H.M.S. Fantôme from 21 February 1911, and in command from May 1911 until May 1913, when he spent a few months in the Hydrographic Department before taking command of H.M.S. Hearty on 7 November 1913. He was promoted to Commander on 31 December 1913, and left Hearty only a couple of months later on 28 February 1914, when he returned to the Hydrographic Department the following day as a Naval Assistant, before becoming Superintendent of Charts on 17 February 1915. He joined H.M.S. Enterprise on 1 September 1917, in command and as Charge Hydrographic Surveyor, and was also appointed to the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief, East Indies, nominally to conduct surveys in the Red Sea. But, from October to December 1917, operated in H.M.S. Enterprise off the coast of Palestine, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and was also mentioned in despatches. From 19 August 1918, he commanded H.M.S. Merlin, in Hong Kong and was promoted to Captain on 30 June 1919. It is recorded that Their Lordships "expressed satisfaction at the circumstances in which hydrographic information of considerable value of Canton Rivers East and West was obtained". He was Superintendent of Charts in the Hydrographic Department from 1 November 1920 to 1 March 1922, when he took command of H.M.S. Endeavour on the west coast of Africa, remaining in her until 13 August 1924. He returned to the Hydrographic Department as Assistant Hydrographer until 23 February 1928, when he joined H.M.S. Iroquois in command on the China Station until 6 December 1929. Vice Admiral Tyrwhitt described him as "Above average. A most efficient surveyor and has carried out his duties in accordance with Admiralty Orders. Charming personality and a pleasant companion." He was promoted to Rear-Admiral on 4 April 1931 and retired the following day. During 1931-32 he undertook surveys of Bharanager Channel on the west coast of India, before becoming the President of the Directing Committee of the International Hydrographic Bureau in Monaco from 1932 to 1940 when, with the collapse of France, he returned to England to serve in the Hydrographic Department - first as a Retired Commander and then as a Retired Captain. From 1942-44 he held the post of Assistant Hydrographer in Bath. He returned to Monaco as a Vice Admiral (dating from 1 Jan 1936) in 1945, and remained there until his death on 18 January 1957. Sold with copied research, including record of service and confirmation of Second War medals.

Pair: Captain C. G. Collins, Cameron Highlanders, who commanded the Howe Battalion of the Royal Naval Division throughout the Gallipoli campaign and ‘led a dashing life that made the romantic heroes of fiction seem pale’ Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (Lieut. C. G. Collins. 1/Camn. Hdrs.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. C. G. Collins. Cam. Hrs.) engraved naming, edge nick to QSA, otherwise about extremely fine and the recipient’s only extant medals (2) £700-£900 --- Charles Glen Collins was born in 1880, the grandson of William Collins who founded the well-known publishing firm of the same name. He was educated at Cheltenham College, where he was an outstanding sportsman, and the Royal Military College Sandhurst. Commissioned into the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders on 14 September 1898, he joined his regiment in Cairo after the conclusion of the Sudan campaign. His colourful unpublished memoirs in the National Army Museum (Archives 2007-07-02) give a full account of the pleasures of peacetime soldiering in a crack Highland regiment. He played on the regimental polo team, shot duck and left detailed accounts of regimental customs such as dinner nights and subaltern’s court martials. His time in Egypt was not without incident. He was challenged to a duel in Alexandria after an altercation over a Hungarian dancer and he was nearly lynched in Marseilles on his way home on leave. Having pushed a drunk cab driver, who fell over, word spread along the corniche that an English officer had killed a Frenchman. Memories of the Fashoda incident were fresh and a mob soon attacked the Hotel De Noailles where Collins was staying and in his pyjamas by that time. ‘Stones and missiles were every moment breaking the windows in the hotel. The affair of the drunken cabman was beginning to assume serious proportions. At the same time loud knocking at my door announced the arrival of the hotel manager who, badly frightened, very strongly suggested that I should go out and quiet the mob. I saw that this man had completely lost his head so I slammed the door and locked it in his face. I then pushed a large wardrobe in front of the door, drew my Claymore, which happened to be among my hand luggage and decided to put up the best fight possible under the circumstances. I then saw through the window that a large body of police, both on horse and on foot, had arrived. A few minutes later, imperative orders to open my door, with the repeated mention of “Police!” caused me to push aside the wardrobe and admit a Captain of the Gendarmes. He also appeared somewhat excited so I decided it would be wise to start off by handing him a hundred franc note.’ The Boer War, Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts and Mentioned in Despatches Collins survived the ordeal and was later recalled from leave in England to re-join his regiment in Cairo. It was held in readiness for immediate embarkation for South Africa. The 1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders arrived in South Africa on 23 March 1900 and fought their way to Pretoria as part of the 21st Brigade in General Ian Hamilton’s force. Their exploits were well recorded by Winston Churchill in his book Ian Hamilton’s March. They covered over 2,500 miles on foot. For his part, Collins noted that Churchill and the Duke of Marlborough, on the staff, were billeted next to their lines: ‘We were always entertained by observing that the Duke invariably did all the dirty work: pitching and striking their bivouac, cooking and cleaning the pots and pans while his cousin smoked his pipe and freely criticised him.’ On 10 June 1901, Collins was appointed Adjutant of 1st Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts with the rank of local Captain. He was only twenty-one years old. Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts was an irregular regiment of volunteers raised in December 1900 and commanded by the legendary colonial warrior, Johan Colenbrander, called ‘The White Whirlwind’ by the Zulus. They fought the Boers, General Beyers and his commando especially, in the harsh Northern Transvaal. The officers and Troopers were some of the toughest Rhodesians, South Africans, Australians and Americans. They were notoriously averse to the discipline exerted by a regular Adjutant but which was required if the regiment was not to run amok, as happened to ‘Breaker’ Morant and the Bushveldt Carbineers operating in the same area. Collins’s memoirs detail some of the incidents he dealt with, including the execution of three captured Boers who were dressed in British uniform and had lured some of the KFS into a lethal ambush. Colenbrander and his men captured many Boers, their laagers, wagons and cattle but not Beyers during the guerrilla war. Colenbrander recommended Collins to Lord Kitchener for an award on 23 December 1901: ‘Capt. C. G. Collins, S.O. and Adjt. 1st K.F.S. (1st Cameron Highlanders). To whom as my Staff Officer I have always left the organisational work of the Column and to whose capability I attribute in a great part captures and successes we have been able to make’; and again on 28 April 1902: ‘Adjutant 1st K.F.S. and Staff Officer to my column to whose untiring energy and most able management I owe in great measure any success we may have accomplished. To this officer I have on all occasions entrusted the whole of the organisation of the Column, and his assistance to me has always been of the most ready and practical order’ (The National Archives, Kew, WO108/140 & 141). Collins was Mentioned in Despatches in Kitchener’s final despatches (London Gazette 29 July 1902). Balmoral, bankruptcy, marriage and divorce in the U.S.’s ‘Gilded Age’ Collins was chosen as one of the three Cameron officers of the first King’s Guard to be mounted at Balmoral during King Edward VII’s reign. His memoirs contain much detail about life at Balmoral and the Royal family, some of it repeated in a series of articles about Collins published in the book Mississippi Gumbo by Bob Jones in 2003. Collins’s time at Balmoral got off to a shaky start when he nearly crashed his newly acquired car, a Panhard Levassor, into a coach containing the Princess of Wales and her five children including the future Kings Edward VIII and George VI. He was ordered to garage the car for the remainder of his duty. Collins was an inveterate gambler, at Monte Carlo and on the racecourse. He later attributed his financial difficulties to backing bills for his friend Charles Innes-Ker, a Gentleman Usher to the King. Whatever the cause, according to Collins it was ill-health, he resigned his commission in February 1904 before he was declared bankrupt in September 1904. By this stage he was in New York and conspicuous as a polo player and charming member of the Gilded Age set which included his friends the Vanderbilts, Goulds and Belmonts. In April 1904 he had married the American heiress Nathalie Schenck, the ‘Granddaughter of Brooklyn’. The marriage was short lived, not least because of his gambling. He lost a quarter of a million dollars on Boxing Day night in December 1904 playing baccarat at the Khedieval Club in Cairo. She divorced him in 1905. Collins spent the next ten years in recurrent financial difficulty in the United States, often reported in the U.S. papers. He set out to marry an heiress. In 1911 he was engaged to be married to Clara Parks, stepdaughter of the millionaire John H. Parks. The engagement ended when Princess Zoltykoff, the former burlesque dancer Ethel Clinton, accused him publicly of having appropriated two valuable Chinese vases from...

Five: Able Seaman J. Day, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. Challenger in the Naval Brigade ashore in the Cameroons and German East Africa, and was involved in the hunt for and destruction of S.M.S. Königsberg Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (230601 J. Day, A.B.. H.M.S. Fox.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (230601. J. Day. A.B.. H.M.S. Fox); 1914-15 Star (230601. J. Day. A.B. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (230601 J. Day. A.B. R.N.) mounted court style as worn, light contact marks, small stain to lower edge of V.M., overall very fine (5) £400-£500 --- James Day was born in Bristol on 1 January 1887, and was a carter when he commenced naval service on 5 May 1904 as a Boy 2nd Class, H.M.S. Pembroke. He was advanced to Boy 1 Class, H.M.S. Northampton, on 1 July 1904, and to Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. Vivid I, on 30 January 1906. He was advanced to Able Seaman in H.M.S. Monmouth on 14 February 1906, and remained as an Able Seaman for the remainder of his naval career. He was retired in 1922 on a reduced pension on reduction of the Navy. He had a slightly chequered disciplinary career having lost good conduct badges on three occasions, but by October 1919 he had attained three, but lost one on 12 August 1921 (restored 10 February 1922), however this meant that he was not eligible for the L.S. & G.C. medal. He served in H.M.S. Fox from 24 June 1908 to 13 July 1910 and in H.M.S. Challenger from 30 July 1914 to 11 January 1918. His service in the Great War was almost entirely in H.M.S. Challenger during which she was engaged in the campaign in German East Africa, including land operations ashore, in which it seems Day was involved. H.M.S. Challenger was involved in operations off the Cameroons and East Africa during the Great War, including the capture of Duala (Cameroons) on 27 September 1914, supporting the destruction of S.M.S. Königsberg on 15 July 1915, and the capture of Dar-es-Salaam on 4 September 1915. H.M.S. Challenger was in action against the Marie, the supply ship for S.M.S. Königsberg, on 26 April 1916, and supplied 5 officers and 50 sailors as part of a Naval Force of 300, under Commander Watson, R.N., to capture Bagamoyo. This they did even though they were shelled by Königsberg guns emplaced ashore. During bayonet charges and hand to hand fighting Captain R. H. Thomas, R.M., and the German officer in command were among the killed. It seems likely that Day also took part in operations ashore in 1916 and 1917, when a small Naval Brigade under Commander H. D. Bridges, R.N., were amongst the force that marched on Dar-es-Salaam which was captured on 4 September 1916. Sold together with a portrait photograph of the recipient wearing the first two medals, and two odd bits of memorabilia, one comprising a German 1 Mark piece soldered to a small plaque engraved "Bombardment of Duala by H.M.S. Challenger 26 Sept 1914", and the second, a ½ Mark piece soldered to a little plaque which is engraved "Kamerun German Bullets 1914" - both reflecting the Cameroon operations in the second month of the Great War.

Three: Sergeant C. Cox, Royal Field Artillery, who was Mentioned in Despatches in 1914, and was killed in action on the Western Front on 31 May 1916 1914 Star, with later slide clasp (27415 Cpl. C. Cox. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (27415 Sjt. C. Cox. R.A.) nearly very fine (3) £140-£180 --- Charles Cox was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, and attested for the Royal Field Artillery at Liphook, Hampshire. He served with the 113th Battery during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 August 1914, and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 4 December 1914). He was killed in action on 31 May 1916, and is buried in Bully-Grenay Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

A Great War ‘Western Front 1918’ D.S.O. and M.C. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel R. C. Lloyd, commanding 1/1st Denbigh Yeomanry, later re-designated as 24th (Denbighshire Yeomanry) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. R. C. Lloyd.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Capt. R. C. Lloyd. Denbigh Yeo.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1919, the last five mounted as worn and contained in a contemporary fitted glazed display case with the D.S.O. still on its original integral ribbon brooch, obverse centre depressed on the D.S.O., otherwise good very fine, the TFWM rare to unit (6) £3,600-£4,400 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 2 April 1919; citation published 10 December 1919: ‘Captain (acting Major) Roderick Croil Lloyd, M.C., 1/1st Denbigh Yeomanry, attached 24th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. During the successful operations of 31st October 1918, in the vicinity of Tieghem, he showed great gallantry and able leadership in command of his Battalion. At one period of the operations he went forward to the leading Company Commander, and with him so effectively reorganised the Company under heavy fire that he was able to order it forward to the attack on the second objective. He then found the supporting Company, who had lost direction, reorganised it and placed it in position’. M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1919: ‘Captain (acting Major), 1/1st Denbigh Yeomanry.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 12 January 1918 (Egypt) and 5 July 1919 (France). Roderick Croil Lloyd was born in Flint, Mold, on 3 July 1885, the son of Major Edward Lloyd and his wife Ethel Mary. Educated at Cheltenham College, he was first commissioned in the Denbighshire Hussars Yeomanry as Second Lieutenant on 30 August 1902; Lieutenant, 1 April 1908; Lieutenant, Denbigh Yeomanry, from T.F. Reserve of Officers, 19 August 1914; Temporary Major, 7 May 1916; Acting Major whilst employed on H.Q. of a Yeomanry Regiment, 20 June 1918; Acting Lieutenant-Colonel, 9 November 1918, whilst commanding a Yeomanry Battalion. Relinquishing the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 3 December 1918, he was promoted substantive Lieutenant-Colonel on 7 March 1921. Post War he commanded the 5th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers from 10 September 1920. Serving with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force from 3 March 1916 with the Denbighshire Yeomanry, on 1 March 1917 whilst in Egypt it was re-designated 24th (Denbighshire Yeomanry) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers Territorial Force. Leaving Egypt on 30 April 1918, the Battalion arrived in France on 18 May 1918. On 21 June 1918, it became part of 94th Brigade, 31st Division and took part in the following actions: battle of St Quentin, battle of Bapaume, battles of Arras, Estaires, Hazebrouck, defence of the Nieppe Forest, attack at La Becque, capture of Vieux Berguin, battle of Ypres including the action at Tieghem. War Services of Army Officers (1920) records that Lieutenant-Colonel Lloyd was wounded. Post War he returned to his estate and probably continued his former career as a Land Agent. He married Joan Tate on 29 April 1924, whose family owned the well-known Tate & Lyle Company. He was a J.P. of Denbigh and died there in 1971 aged 86 years.

Three: Sergeant C. Newton, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who was wounded on the Western Front on 24 March 1915 1914 Star, with copy clasp (9460 L.Sjt. C. Newton. R. War: R.); British War and Victory Medals (9460 Sjt. C. Newton. R. War. R.) very fine (3) £100-£140 --- Charles Newton attested for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 October 1914. He was reported wounded on 24 March 1915.

Three: Lieutenant G. O. de P. Chance, 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who was killed in action near Dadizeele on 19 October 1914 1914 Star, with clasp (Lieut. G. O. de P. Chance. R.W. Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G. O. de P. Chance.) mounted court-style for display, nearly extremely fine (3) £800-£1,000 --- Guy Ogden de Peyster Chance was born at Edgbaston on 28 February 1892, youngest son of Mr W. E. Chance, of Thurston Grange, Bury St. Edmunds. He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 20 September 1911, and promoted Lieutenant on 19 April 1913. He accompanied the 1st Battalion to Belgium, as part of the VIIth Division, from Lyndhurst, disembarking at Zeebrugge on 4 October 1914. He was killed in action on 19 October 1914 in the severe fighting near Dadizeele, aged 22. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, and also on commemorative plaques in the Chapel at Eton College, and in St Peter’s Church, Thurston. His Grandfather was George Chance of Birmingham, who married Cornelia Maria, daughter of Arent Schulyer de Peyster of New York. Arent Schuyler De Peyster (27 June 1736 – 26 November 1822) was a British military officer best known for his term as commandant of the British controlled Fort Michilimackinac and Fort Detroit during the American Revolution. Following the capture of Lieutenant-Governor General Henry Hamilton, De Peyster is often credited as being the military leader of British and Indian forces in the Western American and Canadian frontiers.

A fine campaign group of five awarded to Chief Mechanic O. R. Rowe, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, a veteran of the Great War and the North West Frontier - who received a unique I.G.S. clasp combination to an Other Rank 1914 Star, with copy clasp (230 2/A.M. O. R. Rowe. R.F.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (230 F. Sgt. O. R. Rowe. R.F.C.); India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24 (230 F-Sgt. O. R. Rowe, R.A.F. In India); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (230 F/Sgt. O. R. Rowe. R.A.F.) mounted for display, generally very fine (5) £600-£800 --- Oscar Reginald Rowe attested for the Royal Engineers in September 1910, and served as a Sapper with 17 Company, Royal Engineers. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in July 1912, and was posted to the Flying Depot. Rowe was a Carpenter Rigger, and was posted as 1 A.M. to the Aircraft Park, France, 16 August 1914 (M.I.C. gives as ineligible for 1914 clasp). He advanced to Flight Sergeant (Carpenter) in December 1916, and transferred to the Royal Air Force as Chief Mechanic (Mentioned in an Air Ministry Press Release of 29 August 1919, and also in the Times ‘B’ Press Release the same day). Rowe served with 20 Squadron on the North West Frontier, and his medal group is illustrated in A Contemptible Little Flying Corps by I. McInnes and J. V. Webb, and which also gives: ‘The 3-bar IGS combination of bars occurs only three times in 4,561 medals issued to the R.A.F., two to officers and this one, unique to an Other Rank. (He is also shown on the Waziristan, 1925 roll but could not of course have this clasp and that for 1921-24).’ Rowe served with 41 Squadron at Northolt prior to transferring to the Reserve, after 24 years service, 23 September 1934. He died in Uxbridge in 1957.

Three: Driver W. S. Newman, Royal Field Artillery, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 25 May 1915 1914 Star (57935 Dvr: S. Newman. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (57935 Dvr. W. S. Newman. R.A.) good very fine (3) £100-£140 --- William Stewart Newman was born in Plymouth and attested for the Royal Field Artillery at Devonport. He served with the 6th Divisional Ammunition Column during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 September 1915, and died of wounds on 25 May 1915. He is buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

Three: Private W. Benson, Royal Lancaster Regiment, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 3 March 1915 1914 Star (8531 Pte. W. Benson. R. Lanc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (8531 Pte. W. Benson. R. Lanc. R.) good very fine (3) £100-£140 --- William Benson was born at Flookburgh, Lancashire, and attested for the Royal Lancaster Regiment at Lancaster. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 September 1914, and died of wounds on 3 March 1915. He is buried at St. Saver Cemetery, Rouen, France.

Five: Paymaster Lieutenant A. M. Rogers, Royal Navy, later Captain, Section ‘D’, Special Intelligence Service, and Special Operations Executive, who was captured and interrogated by the Gestapo, but survived the experience, his cover as a Consular Clerk holding up 1914-15 Star (Clk. A. McK. Rogers, R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Papr. S. Lt. A. McK. Rogers. R.N.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Payr. S. Lt. A. McK. Rogers. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, generally very fine ands better (5) £600-£800 --- Alan MacKenzie Rogers was born in Portsea, Hampshire, on 19 July 1896, the son of a Naval Officer, and entered the Royal Navy on 15 January 1914, at the age of 17, as a Clerk. He served during the Great War in the Light Cruiser H.M.S. Castor, ands was present at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, where his ship was damaged by German fire, suffering 10 casualties. Advanced Paymaster Lieutenant in 1919, he resigned his commission in February 1921, and subsequently found employment with the Vacuum Oil Company, which was to merge with Standard Oil of New York in 1931. His work took Rogers to Yugoslavia, and in 1940 he was recruited by Section ‘D’ of the Special Intelligence Service on a voluntary basis. In July of that year Section ‘D’ was merged with two other intelligence agencies to form the now famous Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) which carried on its work in occupied and threatened territories. Section ‘D’ (the 'D' standing for demolition) had been formed within S.I.S. in April 1938, with the purpose of creating disruption and fostering local resistance within territories that were, or were likely to be, occupied by Axis forces. Their primary responsibility was, as their name suggests, sabotage. At that stage Hitler had already occupied the Saarland and the Rhineland, and annexed Austria, and by the time that Section D received authorisation to commence operations, in March 1939, he had annexed the Sudetenland under the terms of the Munich Agreement. In that month, he contravened the agreement by annexing Bohemia and Moravia. This process had been facilitated by the conciliatory policies of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, but from the chronology it is clear that S.I.S. did not share Chamberlain's indulgent view of Hitler. The personnel of Section ‘D’ went to (irregular) war with the Nazis five months before the official declaration of war between Britain and Germany. Their methods tended to involve encouraging and equipping local 'partners' to help them pursue the aims of sabotage and subversion, and such was the case in Yugoslavia, where their objectives included violent interference with traffic on the Danube (vital to the Germans for maintaining the supply of oil from the Balkans) and promoting the interests of local factions likely to resist an Axis invasion. Rogers became part of the effort, working under the cover of a consular clerk, and is described as forming a triumvirate with Trevor Glanville and Major Alexander Lawrenson, running the Croatian and Slovenian networks, at a time when considerable pressure was being exerted on them by the Axis powers - including the attempted murder and murder of two of their colleagues (Section ‘D’ for Destruction, by Malcolm Atkin refers). Yugoslavia was finally invaded by the Axis on 6 April 1941, and four days later Rogers was arrested in Split on the Adriatic coast. Official documents make it clear that he had remained in place and was captured because of his work for S.O.E. The Gestapo held him at a concentration camp near Graz in Styria, on unspecified criminal charges. Correspondence indicates that he was regarded as being in serious danger and instructions were given that German consular officials captured in Iraq be detained by the Foreign Office as a form of security. The following month Rogers’ status was formalised by the granting of a Secret Commission as a Captain on the general list. His cover as a consular clerk held, and he was eventually transferred to a civilian detention camp in Poland (Lager Ilag 8), in December 1941. Liberated in May 1945, he resigned his commission with the honorary rank of Captain in 1949. Returning to the oil industry, he died in Palma in 1970. Sold with copied research, including a photocopy of the recipient’s S.O.E. service file, and a photographic image of the recipient.

Four: Mechanician J. Byng, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Hampshire was sunk off Orkney, 5 June 1916 1914-15 Star (286748 J. Byng, Mech., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (286748 J. Byng. Mech. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (286748. James Byng, Actg. Mechn. H.M.S. Monarch.) nearly extremely fine (4) £300-£400 --- James Byng was born in Portsea, Hampshire, on 5 February 1878 and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker Second Class on 5 January 1898. Advanced Acting Mechanician on 1 January 1912, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 17 February 1913, and was confirmed in that rate that same year. He joined H.M.S. Hampshire on 27 January 1914, and was killed in action when the Hampshire, conveying Field Marshal Lord Kitchener on a diplomatic mission to Russia, struck a German-mine off Orkney on 5 June 1916 and sank within 15 minutes with the loss of 737 lives. There were only 12 survivors. Byng is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. Sold with copied record of service.

An unusual Second War ‘1944’ D.S.O., ‘1943’ A.F.C., United States of America Bronze Star group of nine awarded to Group Captain D. C. R. MacDonald, Royal Air Force, a Hawker Hind and Baltimore pilot, who served with 613 Squadron in 1939 and commanded 211 and 52 Squadrons in the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa. He also commanded the Mediterranean Air Transport Service, December 1944 - May 1945 Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., silver-gilt and enamel, reverse officially dated ‘1944, with integral top riband bar; Air Force Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1943’; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; United States of America, Bronze Star, reverse engraved ‘D. C. R. MacDonald’, mounted for display, generally very fine or better (9) £2,800-£3,200 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 9 June 1944. The original recommendation states: ‘Group Captain (Wing Commander) MacDonald took over the command of 52 Squadron in March 1943, whilst rearming with Baltimores for use as bombers in the Middle East. In June the Squadron was transferred to this Command for reconnaissance. Later the Squadron was employed in the protection of shipping running between Sicily and Salerno from enemy submarines. These changes in role, though considerable, were made efficiently and quickly. Credit for this is due to Group Captain MacDonald. Since the arrival of the Squadron in North Africa, Group Captain MacDonald has flown a considerable number of hours on active operations. During the last six months, for example, he has flown 150 operational hours. These figures are high for a Squadron Commander, but the Squadron was without previous experience of sea reconnaissance and anti-submarine work and had to learn as it went along. It is in this respect that Group Captain MacDonald has shown outstanding leadership in the face of the enemy as he never hesitated to do the more hazardous sorties himself first of all and to pass on his experience to his squadron. The Squadron arrived in North Africa at a time when it was vital shipping be stopped between Italy and Sicily. This shipping travelled close inshore and under fighter protection. Much of this reconnaissance was carried out by 52 Squadron and on sighting reports being made shipping torpedo strikes were made by Beaufighters or Wellingtons in North Africa, and also by bombers of the Strategic Air Force. Shipping reconnaissances were also necessary to stop traffic between Sardinia and Corsica and Italy during the period of the evacuation of these islands by the enemy. Many of the successful strikes on shipping were made as a result of reconnaissance by 52 Squadron. Much of this sea reconnaissance was very hazardous. Many of the sightings of enemy shipping made by Group Captain MacDonald, despite the fact that the shipping was covered by enemy fighters, resulted in sinkings by the shipping strikes. I attribute the excellent work done by 52 Squadron in sea reconnaissance to the personal example and courageous and gallant leadership of Group Captain MacDonald, who set a very high standard of achievement to the rest of the Squadron.’ A.F.C. London Gazette 2 June 1943. The original recommendation states: ‘Since the formation of this unit [No. 72 Operational Training Unit], this officer has been engaged as chief instructor. He has produced consistently good results during the period. The school has become an exceptionally efficient training unit and Wing Commander MacDonald has set a fine example.’ United States of America Bronze Star. The official citation, dated 24 October 1945, states: ‘Group Captain D. C. R. MacDonald, Royal Air Force, first as Commander and later as Deputy Commander, Mediterranean Air Transport Service, from December 1944 to May 1945, assumed his duties at the time of departure of the American commander of the theatre. With unusual ability he applied himself to the difficult and complex task of operating an allied airline in a combat zone. His changes in operation control, and his diplomacy and tact in transactions with the associated carriers, materially increased the efficiency of the command. His enthusiastic and loyal support of the later American commander not only inspired members of the organisation but paved the way for future allied co-operation. Group Captain MacDonald’s outstanding services in the Mediterranean Air Transport Service contributed greatly to the execution of the allied war effort.’ Duncan Charles Ruthven MacDonald was born in Woolwich in 1913, and educated at home and University College, London. He joined the Royal Air Force as Acting Pilot Officer on probation in September 1934, and was posted to No. 5 F.T.S., Sealand for pilot training. Having qualified as a pilot, subsequent postings included to 4 and 614 Squadrons. MacDonald advanced to Flying Officer in March 1937, and was posted to 613 Squadron (Auxiliary Air Force) as the Regular Officer Adjutant and Instructor with the rank of Flight Lieutenant in March 1939. The Squadron was an army co-operation unit, and at the outbreak of the war was allocated to the Air Component, British Expeditionary Force in support of troops in France. Flying Hawker Hinds, they also carried out raids on German installations. MacDonald advanced to Squadron Leader in September 1940, and to Wing Commander in February 1941. He appears to have spent the remainder of the war in flying appointments in the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa, including as the Commanding Officer of 211 Squadron, July - November 1941. At this latter date an element of the squadron formed No. 72 O.T.U. (See A.F.C.). MacDonald was appointed to the command of 52 Squadron (Baltimores), Egypt, in March 1943. He moved with the Sqaudron to Tunisia in June, from where they carried out shipping reconnaissance and convoy escort duties before moving to Italy in November 1943. MacDonald advanced to Group Captain, and commanded No. 328 Wing prior to commanding the Mediterranean Air Transport Service, December 1944 - May 1945. By the end of the war he had flown over 2,000 hours, and at least 63 operational sorties. Group Captain MacDonald was presented with is D.S.O. and A.F.C. by H.M. the King at Buckingham Palace in December 1946), and retired in September 1958. Sold with Bestowal Document for the D.S.O., dated 9 June 1944, and official photograph of recipient being awarded the Bronze Star. Also with copied research.

Three: Chief Ship’s Cook E. G. Harrison, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Hampshire was sunk off Orkney, 5 June 1916 1914-15 Star (346362 E. G. Harrison. Ch. Sh. Ck., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (346362 E. G. Harrison. Ch. Sh. Ck. R.N.); Memorial Plaque (Edwin George Harrison); Memorial Scroll ‘Ch. Sh. Cook Edwin George Harrison, H.M.S. Hampshire’, Buckingham Palace enclosure, nearly extremely fine (4) £400-£500 --- Edwin George Harrison was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, on 29 July 1885 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Second Cook’s Mate on 31 July 1903. Advanced Ship’s Cook on 30 October 1911, he joined H.M.S. Hampshire on 27 January 1914, and was promoted Chief Ship’s Cook on 4 December 1914. He was killed in action when the Hampshire, conveying Field Marshal Lord Kitchener on a diplomatic mission to Russia, struck a German-mine off Orkney on 5 June 1916 and sank within 15 minutes with the loss of 737 lives. There were only 12 survivors. Harrison is buried in Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery, Orkney. Sold with the recipient’s hand-written cook-book, which paints a graphic picture of both the quality and variety of food in the Royal Navy; a true copy of the recipient’s Certificate of Service; Admiralty letters regarding the recipient’s presumed and confirmed death; named Admiralty enclosure, and copied record of service.

Eight: Sick Berth Petty Officer A. Bennison, Royal Navy, who served with the British Naval Mission to Serbia 1915-16 1914-15 Star (M.4003, A. Bennison, S.B.A., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.4003 A. Bennison. 2 S.B.S., R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.4003 A. Bennison. S.B.P.O. H.M.S. Revenge); Serbia, Kingdom, Medal for Zeal, silvered bronze, most silvering lost from obverse; Medal for the Retreat from Albania 1915, bronze, mounted as worn, some edge bruising, fine or better and a rare group (8) £1,000-£1,400 --- Alan Bennison was born in Dulwich, London on 13 January 1894. A Mechanic by occupation, he entered the Royal Navy on 22 January 1912 as a Provisional Sick Berth Attendant. He was confirmed at that rank in October 1912 when based at Haslar Hospital. During the war he served at Malta Hospital, June 1914-February 1915; Egmont (Malta), February 1915-February 1916; from Malta Bennison was sent out with the British Naval Mission to Serbia under Rear-Admiral Troubridge in 1915. It consisted of a torpedo and mining party and eight 4.7” guns. Each gun had 3 seaman gunners in the crew to train the Serbians. The unit also had a picket boat which was used to attack Austrian Monitors. Peter Singlehurst records that the crew of the picket boat all received Serbian awards (OMRS Journal 2000 p60 refers). He returned to Haslar Hospital, February 1916-November 1917; and the repair ship Assistance, November 1917-September 1920, being advanced to 2nd Class Sick Berth Steward in January 1918 and Leading Sick Berth Attendant in August 1920. For his services during the defence of Belgrade he was awarded the Serbian Medal for Zeal in silver. He was promoted to Sick Berth Petty Officer whilst on the battleship Revenge in October 1924 and was awarded the Long Service Medal whilst on the same vessel in 1927. Sold with copied record of service which confirms Serbian Medal for Zeal.

Five: Sick Berth Attendant G. J. Grieve, Royal Navy, who was severely wounded in action at Athens in December 1916, being mentioned in despatches and awarded both the French Medaille Militaire and Croix de Guerre 1914-15 Star (M.4417. G. J. Grieve, S.B.A., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (M.4417 G. J. Grieve. S.B.A. R.N.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre 1914-16, with bronze palmes; Medaille Militaire, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, mounted for display, enamel chipped on reverse centre of last, otherwise good very fine (5) £1,000-£1,400 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 23 March 1917. Croix de Guerre with Palme London Gazette 23 March 1917. Medaille Militaire London Gazette 12 May 1917. George Johnson Grieve was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, on 24 May 1893. He enlisted into the Royal Navy on 6 May 1912, at Devonport, was rated as a probationary Sick Berth Attendant and served in this rate until May 1913 when he was rated Sick Berth Attendant having completed his training at the R.N. hospital Plymouth. He joined H.M.S. Exmouth as S.B.A. on 30 July 1914. Exmouth was sent to Gallipoli as flag ship to Admiral Nicholson and remained off the beaches even after the torpedoing of the Goliath, Majestic and Triumph. Grieve was landed ashore with the Allied Naval Brigade at Athens in December 1916, in which operations he was severely wounded, as described in Blumberg’s History of the Royal Marines: ‘During the fighting Surgeon Lt. John Desmond Milligan of the Exmouth continued to attend to the wounded on the crest of a hill all through the first period of the fighting, although fully exposed to the Greek fire, and was assisted by Sick Berth Attendant Grieve, who was wounded three times in the arm.’ Following his wounding in Greece, Grieve spent several months in hospital before re joining Exmouth which ship he left on 31 August 1917, returning to duties at R.N. Hospital, Plymouth. Unfortunately, Grieve developed epilepsy and was invalided out of the Navy on 12 December 1917. He died of tuberculosis in November 1929. Sold with the following archive: i) A fine studio portrait photograph of the recipient ii) The recipient’s Mentioned in Despatches Certificate, dated 23 Marcy 1917. iii) Admiralty Telegram to Mrs Grieve informing her that he son had been severely wounded. iv) Certificate of discharge from Hospital. v) Vellum parchment certificate for Medaille Militaire. vi) Borough of Tenby certificate admitting Grieve as an Honorary Freeman of the Borough. vii) Obituary notice from a Tenby newspaper. viii) Certified Copy of Birth Certificate.

Five: Able Seaman W. A. Carter, Royal Naval Reserve and Mercantile Marine, who was wounded whilst serving in H.M.S. Cornwallis during the Gallipoli landing on 25 April 1915, on which date Midshipman Malleson, of the Cornwallis, was awarded the Victoria Cross, and was subsequently awarded the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Marines Royal Benevolent Society’s silver medal for a gallant rescue in the English Channel on 23 October 1937 1914-15 Star (A.5190, W. A. Carter, Smn., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (5190A. W. A. Carter. Smn. R.N.R.); Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (4763D. W. A. Carter Smn. R.N.R.); Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society, silver (W. Carter. A.B. S.S. “St. Briac” October 23. 1937.) with double-dolphin suspension, good very fine and better (5) £400-£500 --- William Alfred Carter was born in Tollesbury, Essex, on 31 July 1891 and joined the Royal Naval Reserve on 18 October 1913. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. Cornwallis and was wounded in action ‘sustaining a gun shot wound to the left elbow, fractured arm’, on 25 April 1915, the first day of the Gallipoli Landings, when the Cornwallis acted as the landing ship for the South Wales Borderers, before going onto support the landings from the River Clyde. Numerous acts of gallantry were performed by the crew of the Cornwallis, which resulted in the award of the Victoria Cross to Midshipman Malleson, as well as two Distinguished Service Orders; five Distinguished Service Crosses; one Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; and five Distinguished Service Medals. Total casualties were 16 killed in action and 46 wounded. Carter recovered from his wounds and went onto serve in H.M.S. Jupiter and various Defensively Armed Merchant Ships until being demobilised in 1919. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 22 May 1929. Remaining in the Mercantile Marine, he was awarded the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Marines Royal Benevolent Society’s silver medal for the rescue of four men from the yacht Tess on 23 October 1937. A local newspaper carried the following account: ‘Four men were rescued from the 60 ton yacht Tess when she was sinking in the Channel on Saturday by the Southern Railway Steamer St. Briac and arrived at Southampton yesterday. The St. Briac was delayed by the gale and did not reach Southampton from Havre until six hours after her scheduled time. Captain P. Lewis, the Commander of the St. Briac, said he had to launch a lifeboat to take the men off the yacht, which was then almost at the point of foundering. Mr. McBain, one of the four men rescued, said, “We went over to Havre to bring the boat back to Poole for Mr. Bonham-Christie, who had bought her and left again on Friday night. All three engines were put out of action by water. We were nearly waist deep in spite of baling and the yacht then took a list to starboard. We sent up flares and as a last hope soaked a mattress in petrol on deck and set it alight. This was fortunately seen by the St. Briac”.’ Carter, along with five crew mates who manned the lifeboat with the Chief Officer, Mr. D. Denny, and the Captain of the St. Briac, Mr. P. Lewis, were presented their Shipwrecked Fishermen and Marines Royal Benevolent Society’s medals at a presentation by the Mayor of Southampton on board the St. Briac at Southampton on 22 December 1937. They were also awarded The Emil Robin award as they were judged to have carried out the bravest rescue of the year. Sold with copied research.

Three: Steward K. MacDonald, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary 1914-15 Star (K. Mc [sic] Donald, Std., M.F.A.) British War and Victory Medals (K. MacDonald, Std., M.F.A.) nearly extremely fine Pair: Telegraphist H. T. Sharp, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals (J.40910 H. T. Sharp. Tel. R.N.) nearly extremely fine (5) £60-£80 --- Kenneth MacDonald. A number of men with this name served with the Mercantile Marine during the Great War, including a man with this rate who was killed in action whilst serving with the Mercantile Marine Reserve, in H.M.Y. Sanda, when she was sunk by gunfire, off the Belgian Coast on 25 September 1915. Harry Thomas Sharp, a Grocer’s Assistant from Brighton, Sussex, was born on 14 January 1899. He attested for the Royal Navy, as a Boy, on 18 May 1915. Advanced Telegraphist on 11 September 1915, he saw service during the Great War in H.M.S. Glasgow from 18 January 1916 to 26 February 1918. He was discharged to shore on 7 April 1920.

Family group: Four: Private S. H. Thomas, 4th Dragoon Guards 1914-15 Star (D-10320 L. Cpl. S. H. Thomas. 4th D. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (D-10320 Pte. S. H. Thomas. 4-D. Gds.); Defence Medal, good very fine Pair: Lance-Corporal C. F. Thomas, 12th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 27 September 1915 1914-15 Star (6744 Pte. F. C. Thomas. North’d Fus:); British War Medal 1914-20 (6744 Pte. F. C. Thomas. North’d Fus.); Memorial Plaque (Frederick Charles Thomas) good very fine Pair: Second Lieutenant W. E. Thomas, 16th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 29 September 1918 British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. W. E. Thomas); Memorial Plaque (Walter Edward Thomas) good very fine Jubilee 1887, Metropolitan Police (P.C. C. Thomas. S. Divn.) good very fine (11) £300-£400 --- Walter Edward Thomas was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 11th (South Downs) Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 21 September 1918 and is buried at Unicorn Cemetery, Vend’huile, France. Charles Frederick Thomas was born in Regent’s Park, London, and attested for the Northumberland Fusiliers at Wimbledon. He served with the 12th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 27 September 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. Sidney H. Thomas attested for the 4th Dragoon Guards and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 18 October 1915.

Three: Battery Quartermaster Sergeant E. C. Furse, Royal Field Artillery, who was Mentioned in Despatches during the Great War 1914-15 Star (28764 Sjt. E. C. Furse. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (28764 B.Q.M. Sjt. E. C. Furse. R.A.) spots of verdigris on star, very fine Three: Shoeing Smith G. M. Currie, Royal Field Artillery 1914-15 Star (15778 S. Sth. G. M. Currie. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (15778 Gnr. G. M. Currie. R.A.) very fine (6) £80-£100 --- Edward Charles Hall Furse, a Boatman, from Naylor, Famouth, Cornwall, with eight years previous service as a Seaman in the Royal Naval Reserve, attested, aged 32 years and 11 months for the Royal Field Artillery and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 2 September 1915. He was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette on 4 January 1917), and was hospitalised as a result of a Gun Shot Wound to his finger, from Christmas Day 1916 to 14 March 1917. Appointed Battery Quartermaster Sergeant on 14 April 1918, he was discharged Class ‘Z’ on 24 February 1919. George McKeller Currie attested for the Royal Field Artillery during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 17 July 1915. He was discharged Class ‘Z’ on 8 May 1919.

Family Group: Three: Private G. C. S. Cox, Gloucestershire Regiment, who was killed in action at the Battle of Langemarck on 12 August 1917 1914-15 Star (2509 Pte. C. G. S. Cox. Glouc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (2509 Pte. C. G. S. Cox. Glouc. R.); Memorial Plaque (Charles Gordon Stuart Cox) in card envelope; together with one flattened original name medal box of issue, nearly extremely fine Three: Private T. S. Cox, Gloucestershire Regiment, who was killed in action in the fighting for Pozieres Ridge on 23 July 1916 British War Medal 1914-20, naming erased; Victory Medal 1914-19 (5293 Pte. T. S. Cox. Glouc. R.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas Stuart Cox) in card envelope, edge bruise to BWM, very fine and better (7) £200-£240 --- Charles Gordon Stuart Cox was born at Margate, the son of the Rev. Charles Edward Stuart Cox, and attested for the Gloucestershire Regiment at Bristol. He served with the 1st/6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 31 March 1915, and died of wounds received during the Battle of Langemarck on 12 August 1917. He is buried at Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium. Sold with an original postcard photograph of the recipient, two original named transmission condolence slips for the medals, and original registered envelope for the memorial plaque. Thomas George Stuart Cox was born at Tockington, Gloucestershire, the son of the Rev. Charles Edward Stuart Cox, and the brother of the above, and attested for the Gloucestershire Regiment at Bristol. He served with the 1st/5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action at Pozieres Ridge on 23 July 1916. He is buried at Pozieres British Cemetery, Ovillers La Boiselle, France. Sold with an original postcard photograph of the recipient, and memorial plaque envelope,

Three: Private J. McHale, Worcestershire Regiment, who died of wounds in Mesopotamia on 6 October 1916 1914-15 Star (9031 Pte. J Mc.Hale. Worc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (9031 Pte. J. Mc.Hale. Worc. R.) very fine Pair: Private H. Smith, Worcestershire Regiment, who died of wounds in Mesopotamia on 28 January 1917 British War and Victory Medals (30022 Pte. H. Smith. Worc. R.) reverse of BWM and obverse of VM heavily polished and worn, therefore fin, the other sides better Pair: Private B. L. Charlton, Monmouthshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (266587 Pte. B. L. Charlton. Monmouth. R.) good very fine (7) £100-£140 --- James McHale was born in Birmingham and attested there for the Worcestershire Regiment. He served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War in the Balkan theatre of War from 15 September 1915, and died of wounds in Mesopotamia on 6 October 1916. He is buried in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq. Harold Smith was born in Worcester and attested for the Worcestershire Regiment at Birmingham. He served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War in Mesopotamia, and died of wounds on 28 January 1917. He is buried in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.

A scarce and unusual Second War ‘1942’ military division O.B.E., ‘Iraq 1920-21’ D.F.M. group of six awarded to Aircraftman 1st Class, later Colonel, R. Hayne, Royal Air Force and Royal Army Ordnance Corps, who distinguished himself whilst serving with 30 Squadron over the newly formed Kingdom of Iraq, and stayed on in the Middle East for the inter-war years after his discharge. Obviously having made a success of himself, and now proficient in Arabic, Hayne re-engaged at Cairo for commissioned service with the R.A.O.C. during the Second War The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type, breast badge; Distinguished Flying Medal, G.V.R. (39018 A.C.1. R. Hayne. R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted for display, generally good very fine (6) £2,000-£2,400 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 18 February 1943: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished service in the Middle East during the period May 1942 - October 1942.’ The original recommendation states: ‘This Officer has shown exceptional devotion to very responsible duties connected with fighting and other vehicles. He has also shown outstanding merit during two major reorganisations of his depot during a period of unprecedented activity and expansion. These high qualities have contributed considerably to the course of operations in the Middle East generally, and particularly during the present crisis in the Western Desert. He has set an inspiring example to all by his tenacity of purpose, organising ability, untiring efforts, leadership and absolute selfless service to the fighting troops.’ D.F.M. London Gazette 10 October 1922: ‘For distinguished services rendered during active Service operations in Iraq during 1920-21.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 1 April 1941: ‘For distinguished service in the Middle East during the period August 1939 - November 1940.’ Richard Hayne was born in Dorking, Surrey in January 1901, and entered the Royal Flying Corps as a Boy in July 1916. He was still mustered as a Boy on the formation of the Royal Air Force in April 1918, and is shown as being at the Recruits Depot on that date. Subsequent postings included C.F.S. Upavon, Eastchurch, No. 1 Aero Repair Department Farnborough, then again to C.F.S., and from there to 63 Squadron in Mesopotamia in July 1919. Hayne was posted as Aircraftman 1st Class to 30 Squadron (D.H.9A’s), Baghdad West, 1 March 1920, and it was for his service with the Squadron that he was awarded the D.F.M. The Squadron, commanded by Squadron Leader R. Collishaw, D.S.O. and Bar, D.S.C., D.F.C., was employed as one of the permanent squadrons in Iraq, engaged with providing security for the new kingdom. Hayne was posted to Amman, Trans Jordan in February 1922. The latter was the base for 14 Squadron and an Armoured Car Squadron. Hayne was transferred to the Reserve in January 1923, but more or less immediately recalled for Reserve Service, before finally discharged locally, 8 January 1924. Unusually, his address on discharge was given as ‘c/o Chief British Representative, Amman, Trans Jordan.’ Hayne appears to have decided that his civilian future lay in the Middle East, and he remained there throughout the inter-war years. Hayne was awarded a Regular Army Emergency Commission in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in September 1939. He joined at Cairo, and declared his previous service with the R.F.C. and R.A.F., claiming linguistic talent in Arabic, but choosing to make no reference to his D.F.M. Hayne also provided proof of a Class ‘A’ Private Pilot’s Licence. He advanced to Temporary Colonel in October 1943, and served during the Second War in Egypt, Libya, Palestine, the United Kingdom and finished in Egypt. Hayne relinquished his commission, 26 March 1946, and was granted the Honorary Rank of Colonel. In later life he resided at 34 Cheniston Gardens, Kensington, London. It is unusual that Hayne did not declare his D.F.M. on entry into the Army, for he is known to have worn it after the Second World War. Indeed, he also wore a G.S.M., with ‘Iraq’ clasp which was named to a native - a medal to which he was not entitled. Hayne is not listed on the Iraq clasp medal roll, nor is there any reference to the award of the medal on his Record of Service (as a consequence the medal was removed from the group by the current vendor). His R.A.F. Record of Service, however, suggests that he was entitled to the BWM and VM (authorised on 8 January 1923 - the day before his discharge), but again this is incorrect. Hayne never saw service outside of the UK during Great War operations. Had he received them, he would surely have worn them, given his willingness to wear a G.S.M. to which he was not entitled! Sold with copied research.

Three: Private J. Shelton, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (12760 Pte. J. Shelton. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (12760 Pte. J. Shelton. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) nearly extremely fine Three: Private J. Steptoe, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (3234 Pte. J. Steptoe. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (3234 Pte. J. Steptoe. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) contact marks, very fine Three: Private H. Slaymaker, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (2603 Pte. H. Slaymaker Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2603 Pte. H. Slaymaker. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) contact marks, very fine (9) £100-£140 --- John Shelton attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 21 September 1915. He later served with the 7th Battalion and was discharged class ‘Z’ on 30 April 1919. Sold together with a copy of his National Roll of the Great War entry, suggesting that he first served at Gallipoli and later in Salonika. Jesse Shelton attested for the 1st/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 14 December 1914 for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 25 June 1915. He was discharged due to wounds on 31 May 1917 and awarded a Silver War Badge, No. 209675. Harold Slaymaker attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry for service during the Great War and served with the 1st/4th Battalion on the Western Front from 29 March 1915. Sold together with a hand-written note stating that, according to the Appendix of The War Record of the 1st/4th Battalion, he was named as one of the N.C.O.’s and Men who served throughout the campaign, mentioning him as serving with the Transport section.

Three: Private T. Carroll, Connaught Rangers, who was killed in action by a sniper on the Western Front on 2 April 1916 1914-15 Star (2873 Pte. T. Carroll. Conn: Rang:); British War and Victory Medals (2873 Pte. T. Carroll Conn. Rang.) traces of verdigris to Star, otherwise good very fine (3) £100-£140 --- Thomas Carroll attested for the Connaught Rangers and served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 17 December 1915. He was killed in action on 2 April 1916, and is buried in Noeux-les-Mines Communal Cemetery, France. Sold with an original (but severely folded and crudely repaired with sellotape) letter to the recipient’s sister from Chaplain to the Forces W. O’Neill, dated 4 April 1916: ‘I sincerely regret to have to tell you that Private T. Carroll, 6th Connaught Rangers, has been shot by a sniper on Sunday morning as he was manning the trenches and died almost immediately. He had a glorious and painless death. He had been at Confession and Communion a few days before and was buried here by me surrounded by his comrades.’

Three: Private W. Jepps, 8th Battalion, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles), who was killed in action on the Western Front on 7 October 1916 1914-15 Star (2539. Pte. W. Jepps. 8-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2539 Pte. W. Jepps. 8-Lond. R.); together with a white metal cap badge of the Post Office Rifles, nearly extremely fine (3) £100-£140 --- Walter Jepps attested for the 8th Battalion, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles) and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 18 March 1915. He was killed in action on 7 October 1916, aged 31, and is buried at Warlencourt British Cemetery, France. He had previously been employed by the Post Officer as a Sorter at the London East Central Sorting Office.

A rare and well-documented campaign group of seven awarded to Group Captain W. H. Dolphin, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps and Royal Indian Marine, who was one of the World’s pioneer aviators, being awarded the Royal Aero Club Aviator’s Certificate No. 82, 9 May 1911. A hugely experienced pilot, who was mentioned in despatches for his services during the Great War and on the North West Frontier in 1919, and who was bestowed with the Order of the Nile by King Fuad of Egypt 1914-15 Star (Asst. Engr. W. H. Dolphin, R.I.M.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. W. H. Dolphin. R.A.F.); India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Ft-Lt. W. H. Dolphin, R.A.F.) 2nd and 3rd clasps riveted together and loose on riband as issued, surname and unit partially officially corrected; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamels, generally very fine or better (lot) £1,800-£2,200 --- Approximately 117 ‘Mahsud’ clasps awarded to the Royal Air Force, 66 of which appear in 3 clasp medals. Wilfred Herbert Dolphin was born in Duddeston, Birmingham in May 1882. The following was provided by the Victoria Times, B.C. in 1936: ‘One of Great Britain’s pioneer aviation pilots, Wing Commander W. H. Dolphin, who recently retired from the Royal Air Force is an interesting visitor to Victoria in the course of a holiday tour of the world. Wing Commander Dolphin is visiting this continent for the first time after a life spent mostly on service in the Far East, India, Afghanistan, Mesopotamia or Iraq as it is now known. Arabia, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey and Malta, each in turn having been the scene of his activities during the last thirty years. Wing Commander Dolphin has the distinction of having worn the uniforms of all three services. Originally serving in the Royal Indian Marine, now the Royal Indian Navy, as an engineer officer, he later transferred to the Indian Army in search of more excitement, and from there was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps seeing active service with all three forces. It was in 1910, while on leave from India, that Wing Commander Dolphin made his first flight with Claude Grahame White, flying in what he describes as “a sort of flying bird cage.” He decided to master the art of flying and in May 1911, was granted his pilot’s certificate by the Royal Aero Club of Great Britain, his certificate being number 82. He associated himself with the well known pioneer of aviation, Gordon England, and the late Col. James Valentine during the early part of 1911 and had many interesting experiences with them, both in England and in France. But it was not until he was seconded for service with the Royal Air Force that he was able to make use of his knowledge of aircraft and skill as a pilot. On the formation of the R.A.F. he was gazetted to a permanent commission and has been largely concerned with the technical development of that service, although he continued active flying until shortly before his retirement last January. Among the many interesting personalities he was associated with during his R.A.F. service was Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw, the former Nanaime boy who after a distinguished career during the war is now one of the outstanding figures in the air force in Great Britain. Wing Commander Dolphin has had a career of great interest which, although arduous was full of excitement and adventure. He numbers among his many experiences life in the palaces of various Oriental rulers, expeditions against tribesmen of the Northwest Frontier, and of Kurdistan, and epic flights over inaccessible mountain country where a forced landing generally meant instant destruction, as well as tiger shoots in Bengal and big game hunting in many other parts by way of diversion. Twice mentioned in despatches, Wing Commander Dolphin has in addition to the 1914-18 war medals, the Indian Northwest Frontier medal with three clasps and the Egyptian Order of the Nile, presented to him personally by the late King Fuad of Egypt at an investiture at the Abdin Palace in Alexandria in 1922.....’ Dolphin had initially been employed as an automobile engineer, and learned to fly in a Hanriot Monoplane at Brooklands, gaining his Royal Aero Club Aviator’s Certificate, 9 May 1911. Prior to this he had spent time in India, and was a Freemason and member of the Deccan Lodge. He initially served during the Great War as an Assistant Engineer with the Royal Indian Marine, before ultimately transferring to the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force (M.I.D.). Dolphin advanced to Captain in April 1918, and served as a pilot on the North West Frontier (M.I.D. for Afghanistan 1919). Dolphin advanced to Squadron Leader in June 1923, served in Egypt the following year [Order of the Nile, 4th Class], and was appointed Commanding Officer, Marine Section, Basrah, Iraq in 1926. During the latter posting he was in charge of RAF vessels using the waterways of Iraq. Dolphin advanced to Wing Commander in July 1931, and retired in January 1936. After carrying out his ‘World Tour’, Dolphin was recalled for service at the outbreak of the Second World War. He retired as Group Captain in August 1941. Sold with the following related original documentation: M.I.D. Certificate, dated 23 October 1918; Royal Aero Club Aviator’s Certificate, numbered ‘82’, dated 9 May 1911, and complete with photograph - this rare; Royal Indian Marine enclosure addressed to recipient at H.Q., R.A.F. Middle East, Egypt forwarding his 1914-15 Star from R.I.M Dockyard, Bombay, dated 21 December 1922; Air Ministry enclosure addressed to recipient at the Aircraft Depot, R.A.F. Aboukir, Egypt, forwarding the I.G.S. with ‘Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919’ clasp, dated 3 May 1923; Bestowal Document for the Order of the Nile, with R.A.F. Middle East enclosure, dated 19 August 1919; passport, photographic images of recipient in uniform including attending to the Duchess of Gloucester during an official visit in 1941, and copied research.

Three: Staff Sergeant G. A. Renton, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, late 78th Battalion (Winnipeg Grenadiers), Canadian Infantry, who was gassed and received a shrapnel wound during the Great War British War 1914-20 (147900. A.C.S. Mjr. G. A. Renton. 78-Can. Inf.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (721147 Pte. A. Sinclair. 16-Inf. Can [sic]); Jubilee 1935; Royal Canadian Mounted Police Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Renton. G. A.) mounted as worn, toned very fine (lot) £600-£800 --- George Allan Renton was born in Leith, Scotland in November 1892, and attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery at Dundee in July 1910. He served during the Great War with the 78th Battalion (Winnipeg Grenadiers), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front (received a shrapnel wound to the left shoulder, 30 September 1918, and was gassed, 23 July 1918). Renton was a Master Mason at the St. Michael, Leuchars and Tayport Lodge, and was appointed Mark Master in May 1919. He joined the Manitoba Provincial Police in 1920, and served with them with his brother W. G. Renton (who had already served with the Fifeshire Police in Scotland). Renton transferred to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as Staff Sergeant in 1932 (awarded L.S. & G.C. in August 1941). He was posted as the Senior NCO on detective duties at the Winnipeg Detective Branch in 1937. At the outbreak of the Second World War Renton was appointed to the command of the Intelligence Branch, D Division, and was ‘Invalided to Pension’ in May 1945. Sold together with the following related items and documents: Silver War Badge, reverse numbered ‘C6141’; Open Face Pocket Watch Case, by Longines, in gold and glazed, reverse engraved ‘Presented to S/Sgt G. A. Renton By Officers, N.C.O.’s & Men “D” Div. R.C.M.P. On His Retirement 31st May 1945’; Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cap Badge, Collar Badge, pair of buttons and RCMP Collar Title; Manitoba Provincial Police Cap Badge; Manitoba Provincial Police Shield; 100th Regiment, Winnipeg Grenadiers Prize Medallet, reverse engraved ‘Section Prize H.C.O. 100th Regt. W.G. 1913’; a Fifeshire Police uniform button converted into a locket containing two photographs of young men in uniform; named Buckingham Palace Enclosure for Jubilee Medal; Soldier’s Small Book; Canadian Expeditionary Force Discharge Certificate; Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force Discharge Certificate; Manitoba Provincial Police Discharge Certificate; Letter of Appreciation from Commissioner of Manitoba Provincial Police, dated 23 March 1932; 2 Postcards addressed to recipient’s parents in Tayport, Fife, Scotland shortly after the Great War; Various Education Certificates; Masonic Certificate; photographs of recipient in uniform and a number of photographic images and other ephemera.

Three: Second Lieutenant W. F. J. Lait, 8th (Service) Battalion, Border Regiment, late 2nd Divisional Cyclist Company, Canadian Corps of Cyclists, who was killed in action on the Western Front, 3 August 1917 1914-15 Star (186 Pte W. F. J. Lait. 2/Can: Div: Cyc:); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. W. F. J. Lait.) generally very fine or better (3) £140-£180 --- Wilfred Francis James Lait was born in London in September 1890. He was employed as a Bank Clerk with the Merchants Bank of Canada prior to the Great War. Lait enlisted in the 2nd Divisional Cyclist Company, Canadian Corps Cyclists at Toronto in November 1914, and embarked for the UK. He served with the unit in the French theatre of war from 15 September 1915, and advanced to Lance Corporal in November of the same year. Lait was commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Border Regiment in May 1917. Second Lieutenant Lait was killed in action whilst attached to the 8th (Service) Battalion, Border Regiment on the Western Front, 3 August 1917. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Sold with copied service papers.

A post-War ‘Civil Division’ O.B.E. pair awarded to Lieutenant J. C. O’Dwyer, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, later H.M. Consul-General, Berlin, whose Consular career saw him serving in Munich in the lead-up to the Second World War, and in San Francisco at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into the War The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lt. J. C. O’Dwyer, I.A.R.O.) good very fine (2) £260-£300 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 13 June 1959. John Chevalier O’Dwyer was born was born on 15 September 1900, the son of Sir Michael O’Dwyer, Governor of the Punjab (who was murdered in 1940 by the revolutionist Udham Singh as a reprisal for the Amritsar massacre of 13 April 1919 in which an estimated 1,000 protesters were shot dead, Udham Singh being one of the survivors), and was educated at Downside School and Clongowes College, County Kildare. Travelling to India to see his parents and arrived in Lahore in December 1918, he was commissioned into the Indian Army Reserve of Officers, and served during the Third Afghan War on attachment to the 31st Duke of Connaughts Own Lancers and took part in the Third Afghan War of 1919. Returning to England he went up to Balliol College, Oxford, and after taking his degree joined the Levant Consular Service, the branch of the Foreign Office dealing with the Middle East, in 1923. Over the next five years he worked almost exclusively in Persia being appointed Vice Consul and Acting Consul in Tehran, Shiraz, Ahwaz, Meshed, Kermanshah and Basra. Contracting Pulomary Tuberculosis in 1931, O’Dwyer became very ill and in October 1931 left Basra by sea and travelled directly to Germany where he was treated at a Bavarian Mountain Sanatorium. On his recovery, he transferred to the General Consular Service and stayed in Germany initially as His Majesty’s Vice Consul in Frankfurt, before transferring to the very heart of the political scene by being appointed Vice Consul in Munich in 1936. He left Germany in May 1938 and was appointed first Vice Consul then Consul in San Francisco, California, United States of America. Promoted Consul General following America’s declaration of war on Japan following the attack at Pearl Harbor, he represented H.M. Government on all non-military matters on the western seaboard. Returning to London in 1943, he spent a year at the Foreign Office before returning to the Pacific, this time Hawaii, upon his appointment as Consul in Honolulu. Following the surrender of Japan, he was involved in the preparation of pre-trial documents for the war crimes tribunals. In 1950 O’Dwyer was appointed to Tokyo as Consul in time for the outbreak of the Korean War and later moved to Yokohama as Consul General. He returned to the Foreign Office in London in 1952 at the height of the Cold War remaining there until 1956 when he was appointed Consul General in Berlin, a post he held until his retirement in 1959. Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on his retirement, he died in 1978 and is buried near his father in Brookwood Cemetery, Woking. Sold with a photographic image of the recipient presenting the C.B.E. to Lieutenant-General E. Hull, U.S. Army, whilst British Consul in Honolulu; and copied research.

Pair: Private G. Ives, 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Rifles), Canadian Infantry, who was taken prisoner of war on the Western Front, 16 April 1916 1914-15 Star (67419 Pte G. Ives 25/Can: Inf:); Victory Medal 1914-19 (67419 Pte. G. Ives. 25-Can. Inf.) generally very fine or better Pair: Private C. Preston, Canadian Forestry Corps British War and Victory Medals (2323347 Pte. C. Preston. C.F.C.) generally very fine or better (4) £60-£80 --- George Ives was born in Wigan, Lancashire in May 1896. He was a Miner by occupation, and served with the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Rifles), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front. Ives was taken prisoner of war, 6 April 1916. Charles Preston was born in Manchester, England in October 1880. He was employed as a Logger and Millwright in British Columbia, Canada. Preston served during the Great War with the 56th Forestry Company, Canadian Forestry Corps on the Western Front.

Three: Private J. Hazan, Zion Mule Corps 1914-15 Star (625 Pte. J. Hazan. Zion Mule C.); British War and Victory Medals (T4-232813 Dvr. J. Hazan. A.S.C.) mounted for wear, contact marks, nearly extremely fine, rare to unit (3) £500-£700 --- Joseph (Joussef) Hazan was born in 1897 and attested in Egypt for service with the Zion Mule Corps, the first Jewish military unit to be raised during the Great War. The idea of a Jewish regiment had been formulated by the Zionist activist, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who had been instrumental in persuading expelled Palestinian Jews, of both Ashkenazi (Eastern European) and Sephardic (North African, Portuguese and Spanish) heritage, to enlist to fight against the Turks. Together with Joseph Trumpeldor, a one-armed veteran of the Russo-Japanese war, he had lobbied the British Commander in Egypt, General Sir John Maxwell, of the need for a Jewish regiment, but the only suggested response was the Zion Mule Corps, the first draft of whom, left for Gallipoli in April 1915. Although the Corps was only employed in a transport role, some 650 Jewish men enlisted under their first commander, Colonel John Patterson, an Irish Protestant, who was well versed in both Jewish history and the Bible stories of his youth. He ensured that daily orders were given in Hebrew, Kosher food was provided for his men, (including unleavened bread during Passover), and encouraged the depiction of traditional Jewish symbols throughout the unit. Acutely aware that the Jewish people had not possessed an army for almost two millennia, as a boy, Patterson had read about Joab who had been appointed by King David to command his army. He saw himself in a similar light, even looking the other way when some of the Muleteers actually took up arms and fought, during a charge on Turkish positions, alongside the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Yet their role as Muleteers led them to become increasingly frustrated and distant from their aim to oust the Turks from Palestine. In June 1915, just two months following their April arrival in Gallipoli, 75 members of the first draft requested repatriation to Egypt. Patterson, much to Trumpeldor’s exasperation, had the three ringleaders tied to the wheels of a wagon, flogged and put on a punishment ration of bread and water for three days, explaining that, if the Zion Mule Corps was to become the nucleus of a Jewish army, then there had to be both unity and discipline. He recalled the example of Moses berating the wandering and squabbling children of Israel before entering the Promised Land. Due to heavy losses, a second draft left for Gallipoli in September 1915, of which Hazan appears to have been a member, as the date of entry on both of his Medal Index Cards is noted as 3 September 1915. At the end of the Gallipoli campaign, the Zion Mule Corps returned to Egypt before being disbanded on 26 May 1916. Some of their men appear to have transferred to the Army Service Corps, and over a hundred travelled to London to enlist in the 20th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. After the Great War, and taking the surname of ‘Chazan’, he settled in Glasgow, Scotland, where he died, aged 84, on 10 January 1961. Sold with copy Medal Index Cards, copy medal roll extracts and a scanned photograph of the recipient, with his wife, in later life.

Pair: Private W. F. Green, 7th Hussars British War and Victory Medals (7609 Pte. W. F. Green. 7-Hrs.) good very fine Pair: Lieutenant G. M. Pargiter, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G. M. Pargiter.) good very fine Pair: Private V. E. Clements, Machine Gun Corps, who was killed in action at Zillebeke on 29 May 1917 British War and Victory Medals (68515 Pte. V. E. Clements. M.G.C.) nearly extremely fine (6) £80-£100 --- Gordon M. Pargiter was born in India and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers. He served during the Great War with a Railway unit in Salonika from 4 January 1917 and was invalided home in 1919. Victor Edgar Clements was born in Portsmouth and attested there for the Machine Gun Corps. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action at Zillebeke on 29 May 1917. He is buried at Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium.

Pair: Acting Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant R. Cameron, Northumberland Yeomanry and Northumberland Fusiliers British War Medal 1914-20 (171173 A.Sq. Q.M. Sjt. R. Cameron. North’d Fus.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (171173 A.Sq. Q.M. Sjt. R. Cameron. North’d Yeo.) good very fine Pair: Second Corporal W. Cole, Royal Engineers, late Middlesex Regiment, who was Mentioned in Despatches British War and Victory Medals (129762 2.Cpl. W. Cole. R.E.) good very fine Pair: Lieutenant V. W. Thompson, Royal Warwickshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. V. W. Thompson.) good very fine (6) £100-£140 --- William Cole attested for the Middlesex Regiment and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front. Transferring to the Royal Engineers, for his services during the Great War he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 7 July 1919).

Pair: Lance-Corporal J. Cartwright, Grenadier Guards, who died of his wounds as a Prisoner of War on 3 December 1917 British War and Victory Medals (17923 Pte. J. Cartwright. G. Gds.) traces of verdigris to VM, nearly very fine (2) £60-£80 --- James Cartwright was born in Liverpool and attested there for the Grenadier Guards. He served with the 4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and is recorded on the official letter communicating his death in captivity that he died from gun shot wounds to the upper arm, knee and abdomen whilst a prisoner of war in a German Field Lazarett, at Clary, France, on 3 December 1917. He is buried at Honnechy British Cemetery, France. Sold with original Army Form B.104-82, notifying his widow of his death whilst a prisoner in German hands.

Six: Corporal A. E. Smith, Hampshire Regiment, who was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for his services with the British Forces in Siberia during the Russian Intervention British War and Victory Medals (355107 Pte. A. E. Smith. Hamps. R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (217 Pte. A. E. Smith. Hamps. R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (355107 Cpl. A. E. Smith. 9/Hamps. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (355107 Cpl. A. E. Smith. 9/Hamps: R.); Italy, Kingdom, War Cross, bronze, minor edge nicks, nearly very fine and better (6) £500-£700 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 22 January 1920: ‘For valuable service rendered with the British Forces in Siberia.’ Italian War Cross London Gazette 7 May 1920. Albert Edwin Smith attested for the Hampshire Regiment at Bournemouth and served with the 9th Battalion during the Russian Intervention in Siberia. For his services in Russia he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal and also received the Italian War Cross. He was awarded the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 23 of February 1920. Sold with copied Medal Index Cards.

The unique Great War M.B.E., ‘Darfur 1916 - Sudan operations’ D.C.M. group of six awarded to Warrant Officer Class 1 R. J. Sladden, 17 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, who served as the senior Warrant Officer in Darfur, Sudan in 1916, and was later commissioned rising to the rank of Captain The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type, breast badge, hallmarks for London ‘1919’; Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (212 Fl. Sjt: R. J. Sladden. No. 17 Sq: R.F.C.); 1914-15 Star (212 S. Mjr. R. J. Sladden R.F.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (212 W.O. Cl. 1. R. J. Sladden R.F.C.); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, 1 clasp, Darfur 1916, loose on riband (212 Sjt. Mjr. R. J. Sladden. R.F.C.) officially impressed naming, with a silver shooting prize medal, hallmarks for Birmingham 1920, reverse engraved ‘F/O. Sladden Inter Squadron Officers, Halton, May 1921’, all housed in a privately made velvet lined wooden case with ‘RFC’ embossed on lid, and R.F.C. cap badge, generally very fine (6) £4,000-£5,000 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘In recognition of distinguished services during the war.’ D.C.M. London Gazette 31 May 1916 (Egypt): ‘For consistent good work in connection with the care and repair of aeroplanes.’ One of only 92 Distinguished Conduct Medals awarded to members of the Royal Flying Corps. Approximately 63 Khedive’s Sudan 1910 Medals were awarded to R.F.C. personnel, 23 of them with them with the ‘Darfur 1916’ clasp. Robert John Sladden was born in Stoke, Devon, and attested for the Royal Artillery at Devonport in August 1906. He served as a Gunner with 148 Battery, Royal Field Artillery prior to transferring to the Royal Flying Corps and being posted to the Flying Depot, 16 July 1912. He advanced to Sergeant in July 1913, and to Senior Mechanic 1st Class and Sergeant Major, and served with 17 Squadron in the Egyptian theatre of war, November 1915 - December 1916. Sladden participated as the senior non-commissioned officer in the Darfur operations of March-December 1916, when four B.E. 2c aircraft from the squadron’s ‘C’ Flight went into action with the Governor-General Sir Reginald Wingate’s blessing, for ‘the sudden appearance out of the blue of flying chariots would impress on Ali Dinar’s followers the futility of resistance.’ Henry Keown-Boyd’s article, From Private to Pilot (O.M.R.S., June 2010), takes up the story: ‘With hindsight, the inclusion of the Flight seems to have been a curiously unnecessary addition to the burden of the war effort bearing in mind the considerable logistical and transportation problems involved, balanced against it uncertain effectiveness. Neither the aircraft or equipment and stores required could be flown in those days the 1,000 miles to destination, so four crated aeroplanes, their fuel in drums, two Leyland lorries, four Crossley tenders, a spare aero engine, two canvas hangars together with arms, ammunition and about 60 officers and men had to be transported by sea and land, the latter part of the journey across trackless desert into central Africa. Via a series of landing grounds and depots the Flight and its equipment was transported from Port Sudan via Khartoum and El Obied by rail, lorry and camel to its main base at Nahud and advance base at Jebel el Hula.’ Keown-Boyd continues: ‘The first operational flight was made on 12 May 1916 by Lieutenant F. Bellamy and on the 17th a plane piloted by Captain Bannatyne was hit by a bullet. On the 23rd, 2nd Lieutenant (later Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John) Slessor was wounded in the thigh while attacking Ali Dinar’s army retreating from its defeat at the battle of Beringia but displaying a certain defiance against Wingate’s Flying Chariots! The Sultan Ali Dinar escaped from Beringia but was killed by a Camel Corps patrol a few months later.’ Having been awarded the D.C.M. for his good work in Egypt, Sladden returned to the UK at the end of 1916. He was commissioned Acting Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps in April 1917, and saw out the remainder of the war with postings in the UK. Sladden advanced to Acting Captain in March 1919, and to Flying Officer in July 1920. He subsequently served at No. 1 Technical Training School, Halton, and retired as Captain in November 1921. The medal group is illustrated in both A Contemptible Little Flying Corps by I. McInnes and J. V. Webb, and On Patrol, The Story of the Khedive’s Medal 1910-22 by B. Hewitt. M.I.D. unconfirmed.

Pair: Private J. Longland, 2nd/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 2 April 1917 British War and Victory Medals (23808 Pte. J. Longland. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) extremely fine Pair: Private L. Oakley, 5th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 27 September 1917 British War and Victory Medals (235084 Pte. L. Oakley. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) extremely fine 1914-15 Star (13351 Pte. R. P. Parker. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (22963 Pte. P. G. Woodley. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) extremely fine (6) £120-£160 --- Joseph Longland attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 6th Battalion on the Western Front during the Great War. He later transferred to the 2nd/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion, with whom he was killed in action on 2 April 1917. He is buried in Jeancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Leonard Oakley was born in Tring, Hertfordshire and lived in Wing, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. He attested for the Oxfordshire Yeomanry for service during the Great War and later transferred to the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, with whom he served on the Western Front. He was killed in action, aged 28, with the 5th Battalion on 27 September 1917 and is buried in Westhof Farm Cemetery, Belgium. Robert Parker attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 3 September 1914 and served during the Great War in Salonika where he was hospitalised with shell shock on 27 September 1916. He later transferred to the Royal Flying Corps on 24 March 1918, a week before it was amalgamated into the Royal Air Force. He died of influenza on 10 December 1918 and is buried in Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria, Greece. Sold with copy service record. Percival Charles Woodley was born in St. Ebbes, Oxford and resided in Cassington, Oxfordshire. He attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 2nd Battalion on the Western Front during the Great War. He later transferred to the 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, with whom he was killed in action on 9 October 1917. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

Pair: Private H. Maxted, 19th (St. Pancras) Battalion, London Regiment British War and Victory Medals (7150 Pte. H. Maxted. 19-Lond. R.); together with a 19th Battalion (St. Pancras) County of London Regiment cap badge, nearly extremely fine Pair: Private H. A. Speight, 20th (Blackheath and Woolwich) Battalion, London Regiment, who was wounded on the Western Front in October 1916 British War and Victory Medals (5887 Pte. H. A. Speight. 20-Lond. R.); together with a 20th (Blackheath and Woolwich) Battalion, London Regiment cap badge, light contact marks, very fine Pair: Private H. G. Farrant, 21st (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment British War and Victory Medals (2814 Pte. F. G. Farrant. 21-Lond. R.); together with a 21st (First Surrey Rifles) County of London Regiment cap badge, good very fine (6) £100-£140 --- Herbert Alexander Speight voluntarily enlisted in November 1915, into 10th Battalion East Surrey Regiment and transferred to the 20th (Blackheath and Woolwich) Battalion, London Regiment in June 1916. He suffered a shell or shrapnel wound to the back in October 1916 and was initially reported missing, but re-joined and was evacuated to the U.K. He later served in the Labour Corps and was re-numbered 341867. He was discharged in February 1919.

A Great War M.B.E. group of five awarded to Mr Henry A. Harrington, Director of Posts at Alexandria, Egypt, late Sergeant, 3rd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, breast badge, hallmarks for London 1918; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, The Nile 1884-85 (2288. Lce. Cpl. H. A. Harrington, 3/K.R. Rif: C.); Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, Fifth Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel, with mint mark to reverse; Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, Fourth Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, good very fine (5) £1,500-£2,000 --- Only 4 Egypt medals issued to 3/K.R. Rif. C. with this combination of clasps. M.B.E. London Gazette 30 March 1920: ‘For services in connection with the war - Henry Augustus Harrington, Esq., Postmaster, Alexandria.’ Order of the Nile, 4th Class London Gazette 29 December 1916: ‘Director of Post Office, Alexandria.’
Henry Augustus Harrington was born at the Rifle Depot, Winchester, on 3 April 1864, where his father was serving as a Colour-Sergeant in 3/60th King’s Royal Rifles. Henry enlisted in his father's regiment as a boy recruit in February 1879 and, as per regimental musters, 'Lad W. H. Harrington' was embarked for South Africa in February 1880. At the onset of the First Anglo-Boer War, it is likely young Henry was kept back at the battalion's base at Newcastle. In December 1881, he was appointed to the Mounted Infantry of 3/60th Royal Rifles, the regiment being retitled the King's Royal Rifle Corps in the same year.
He was embarked for Alexandria in July 1882, ande was present in the actions at Magfar and Kassassin, and at battle of Tel-el-Kebir (Medal & Clasp; Khedive's Star). Promoted to Lance-Corporal in April 1883, Harrington was next detailed to serve as Postmaster for the Army of Occupation at Cairo, and he remained similarly employed until June 1884; he was detached for duty in the South Staffordshire and Essex Regiments in the same period. During the Nile operations he was detached for duty on the staff as Postmaster at Dongola (Clasp). He served in the Egyptian Postal Service from 1883 to 1916. Postal Arrangements in Sudan in 1884 The trained staff available for postal service consisted of the Chevalier Santoni, nine Egyptian employees, and three or four British non-commissioned officers [one of whom was Sergeant Harrington] who had worked at the Post Office at Cairo. These men were reserved for the three principal Post Offices [Sergeant Harrington was to serve on the staff at Dongola as Postmaster during the 1884-85 Sudan Campaign], the intermediate offices being served for the most part by convalescent soldiers. Mails were made up at Cairo for battalions and corps on information telegraphed to the Commandant of the base. A parcels post was established under the superintendence of the Commandant of the base. The mails were carried from Cairo to Assiut by railway; Assiut to Assuan by steamers; Assuan to Philae by railway; Philae to Halfa by steamers; Halfa to Sarras by railway, Sarras to Abu Fatmeh by camel; and Abu Fatmeh to the south by camel. Separate contracts were made for the carriage of letters, parcels, and newspapers, by camel; three camels sufficed as a rule for the letters, and ten for the parcels, &c. Local posts were also organised by the military authorities on the Line of Communications; the means of transport being almost entirely camels, sometimes hired, but generally government property. The post riders were either natives or Egyptian soldiers. Regular post offices were opened at Dongola [where Harrington was appointed postmaster] and Korti and also a transit office on board the Lotus, by the Egyptian postal authorities, in which a complete postal service was established, letters could be registered and money orders obtained. (History of the Sudan Campaign, Vol. 1 p. 86 refers). On 1 November 1885, Harrington reverted to Regimental Duty, from pay with the 2nd Essex Regiment at Assuan, and, on 1 January 1886, he purchased his discharge in Egypt to accept an offer from the Egyptian authorities of a position in the Post Office. And there he remained happily employed for many years, rising to the office of Local Director of Posts at Alexandria. During the Great War he showed 'a general interest in the welfare of British troops' and undertook canteen work. He was awarded the M.B.E. and appointed an Officer of the Egyptian Order of the Nile (London Gazette 29 December 1916, refers); his Order of Medjidieh was likely awarded in the same period but was not gazetted. Henry Harrington died at Walton-on-Thames on 4 November 1948. Sold with research copied to CD.

Pair: Captain B. M. Young, 2nd South Western Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. B. M. Young.) light contact marks, very fine (2) £70-£90 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 30 May 1918. Bertram Michell Young was born on 13 April 1872 and was educated at Clifton College, Bristol. He qualified as a doctor at St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London, becoming Demonstrator in Hygiene at King’s College London, and was a Fellow of the Institute of Public Health. In 1905 he was in medical practice at Hassocks in Sussex. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 16 October 1914, and, having been promoted Captain on 16 April 1915, served with the 2nd South Western Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance on the Western Front from June 1916, later becoming part of the 74th (Yeomanry) Division. For his services in the Great War he was Mentioned in Despatches. He later resided at the family home at Crocombe House, Taunton, and died in 1948. Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient.

Pair: Trooper L. Grisdale, Canadian Light Horse, Canadian Cavalry, who was killed in action during a mounted patrol, 9 August 1918 British War and Victory Medals (227022 Pte. L. Grisdale. Can. Cav. Bde.) good very fine 1914-15 Star (2) (77067 Pte E. Smyth. 7/Can: Inf:; 20690 Pte W. M. Tawse. 10/Can: Inf:) last with Silver War Badge, reverse numbered ‘C331’, last with verdigris, generally very fine (4) £100-£140 --- Lionel Grisdale was born in Thorold, Ontario, Canada in July 1897. He served during the Great War with the Canadian Light Horse, Canadian Cavalry on the Western Front. Trooper Grisdale was killed in action on the Western Front, 9 August 1918, when he was in a mounted patrol which went forward into the enemy line in front of Bouchoir to cut off a German ammunition convoy. The objective was safely reached by the patrol, but on its return was caught by flanking enemy machine gun fire, and Trooper Grisdale was instantly killed. He is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Edward Smyth was born in Belfast, Country Antrim in January 1888. He served during the Great War with the 7th Battalion (1st British Columbia), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front. Private Smyth died of illness, 4 October 1917, and is buried in the Fort Massey Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. William Michael Tawse was born in Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in January 1888. He served during the Great War with 10th Battalion (Canadians), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front, and was wounded in action at St. Julien 23 April 1915. Private Tawse was discharged due to his wounds, 27 September 1916.

Pair: Trooper G. Lewis, Canadian Light Horse, who was killed in action during the first day of the Battle of Vimy, 9 April 1917
 British War and Victory Medals (551380 Pte. G. Lewis. C.L.H.); Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (551380 Pte. G. Lewis) good very fine (3) £300-£400 --- George Lewis was born in Colwall, Herefordshire in April 1893. He served during the Great War with the Canadian Light Horse in the French theatre of war from April 1916. Trooper Lewis was killed in action during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, 9 April 1917, and is buried in the Bois-Carre British Cemetery, Thelus, Pas de Calais, France. Sold with copied service papers.

Pair: Private N. McSween, 67th (Pioneer) Battalion, Canadian Infantry British War and Victory Medals (102338 Pte. N. McSween. 67-Can. Inf.) with identity disc, good very fine Pair: Lance Corporal A. A. Butterworth, 72nd Battalion (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Infantry British War and Victory Medals (1015363 L. Cpl. A. A. Butterworth. 72-Can. Inf.) suspension slack on first, otherwise good very fine Pair: Sergeant G. S. Powell, 11th (Service) Battalion, The Queen’s Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front, 16 October 1916 British War and Victory Medals (G-10968 Sjt. G. S. Powell. The Queen’s R.) good very fine (6) £80-£120 --- Neil McSween was born on the Isle of Skye, Scotland in September 1884. He served during the Great War with the 67th (Pioneer) Battalion, Canadian Engineers on the Western Front. Arthur Arnold Butterworth was born in Manchester, England in May 1890. He served with the Royal North West Mounted Police in Whitehorse, Canada for three years prior to the Great War. Butterworth served with the 72nd Battalion (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front, and was wounded in action, 21 July 1918. George Sydney Powell was born in British Columbia, Canada. He served during the Great War with the 11th (Service) Battalion (Lambeth), The Queen’s Regiment on the Western Front. Sergeant Powell was killed in action on the Western Front, 16 October 1916, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

Six: Major G. W. Stilwell, Royal Hampshire Regiment, who was Mentioned in Despatches for Malaya General Service 1918-62, 3 clasps, Palestine, Palestine 1945-48, Malaya, with M.I.D. oak leaf (2-Lieut. Stilwell. Hamps. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted court-style as worn, nearly extremely fine (6) £300-£400 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 20 December 1957: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished conduct in operations in Malaya.’ Godfrey William Stilwell was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,on 26 August 1937, and was promoted Lieutenant on 26 August 1940; Captain on 26 August 1945; and Major on 26 August 1950. He transferred to the Reserve of Officers on 3 September 1959, and died on 23 August 1971. Sold with copied research.

Three: Able Seaman F. L. G. Ellissen, Royal Navy, a D.E.M.S. Gunner who died at sea on 12 September 1942, when the Cunard White Star liner, S.S. Laconia was torpedoed and sunk by U-156 in shark-infested waters off West Africa, with 1,800 Italian Prisoners of War aboard: on learning of this, the U-Boat commander commenced rescue operations, but his admirable endeavours, and those of other U-Boats that joined the scene, were quickly curtailed by an unfortunate attack delivered by Allied aircraft - and the transmittal of Doenitz’s notorious ‘Laconia Order’ 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Admiralty enclosure, in card box of issued addressed to Mrs. I. M. M. Ellissen, 6 Cardigan Road, Richmond Hill, Surrey’, nearly extremely fine (3) £100-£140 --- Francis Lyon Gordon Ellissen was born in Richmond, Surrey in 1918. He served in the Royal Navy in the Second World War with service number D/JX 199792, as an Able Seaman and a Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship Gunner. He was killed in action when the S.S. Laconia was sunk by U-156 on 12 September 1942, and is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. S.S. Laconia The S.S. Laconia was homeward bound from the Cape in September 1942, with some 2,700 people aboard, including 1,800 Italian Prisoners of War under a 160-strong Polish guard, when she was torpedoed by the U-156, commanded by Kapitain Werner Hartenstein, on 12 September 1942, in a position about 500 miles south of Cape Palmas, Liberia and about 360 miles north-east of Ascension Island. Shortly after the liner capsized, the crew of the now surfaced U-Boat were amazed to hear Italian voices yelling amongst the survivors struggling in the water, and on speaking to some of them, Werner Hartenstein immediately began rescue operations, alerting at the same time nearby U-Boats to come to his assistance. Also by radio he contacted his seniors in Germany, asking for instructions and, more courageously, sent out an un-coded message inviting any nearby ships to assist, allied or otherwise, promising not to attack them on the basis his U-Boat, too, was left unmolested. And amazingly, to begin with at least, Berlin replied in the affirmative, although Hitler personally intervened to threaten Admiral Raeder in the event of any U-Boats being lost to enemy action as a result of the rescue operation. Over the next few days, Hartenstein’s ‘rescue package’ achieved commendable results, and by 16 September, U-156 had picked up around 400 survivors, half of which she towed astern in lifeboats, while other enemy U-Boats, the U-506 and the U-507, and the Italian Cappellini, had arrived on the scene and acted with similar compassion. Tragically, on 16 September, an American Liberator bomber, operating out of Ascension Island, attacked the gathered U-Boats, forcing Hartenstein and his fellow captains to cut their tows with the lifeboats and submerge. Mercifully, some Vichy French warships arrived on the scene soon afterwards from Dakar, and in total, including those still aboard the U-Boats, some several hundred men, women and children were saved. But two lifeboats remained undiscovered, their occupants having to endure a living nightmare, adrift without adequate sustenance, under a burning sun, with sharks for company, for several weeks. Following his enforced departure from the scene of rescue on 16 September, Kapitain Hartenstein remained in contact with Berlin, in a vain attempt to complete his worthy task. In the event, he, and his fellow U-Boat commanders, received Doenitz’s infamous ‘Laconia Order’, forbidding any attempt to assist survivors of sunken vessels, a diktat that mercilessly rewrote the conduct of sea warfare (and became one of the charges levelled at the Grand Admiral at Nuremberg). Sold with copied research.

Four: Lieutenant Sir Charles J. Jessel, Bt., 15th/19th Hussars, who was Mentioned in Despatches for gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, all privately named ‘Lt. C. J. Jessel’, court-mounted for wear, laquered, good very fine (4) £60-£80 --- M.I.D. London Gazette: 8 November 1945: ‘For gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe’. Sir Charles John Jessel, Bt., was born at Goudhurst, Kent, on 29 December 1924, the son of Sir George Jessel, Bt., M.C., and Muriel Jessel, the daughter of Colonel J. W. Chaplin, V.C., and was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, General List, on 20 August 1944, he served in the Second World War with 15th/19th Hussars, was promoted War Substantive Lieutenant on 20 February 1945, and was Mentioned in Despatches. In civilian life he was a Justice of the Peace and held several important positions within the National Farmers Union, and other bodies.

Five: Gunner E. G. Pannell, 610 Regiment ‘The London Scottish’, Royal Artillery 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, light contact marks, very fine Four: Private H. Holder, Suffolk Regiment, who received a Divisional Commanding Officer’s Commendation for devotion to duty and personal courage for the campaign in North West Europe following D-Day 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, the address somewhat faded; together with a 3rd British Infantry Division, Divisional Commander’s Commendation card congratulating Pte. H. Holder, 1st Bn., Suffolk Regiment, for his ‘consistent devotion to duty and personal courage during the entire campaign from D Day, acting as rangetaker and wireless operator in the Mortar Platoon’ signed by Major General L. G. Whistler and dated 28 June 1945, nearly extremely fine (9) £80-£100 --- Edwin George Pannell was born on 25 May 1908 and enlisted at Oswestry for the duration of the war on 16 January 1941. His Army Book confirms the award of the Africa Star with 1st Army clasp, and the award of three service chevrons in January 1944. Sold with the recipient’s original Soldier’s Service and Pay Book (Army Book 64); Certificate of Transfer to the Army Reserve, dated March 1946; original Soldier’s Release Book with ‘exemplary’ officers reference, confirming service with 610 Regiment Royal Artillery (Garrison) ‘The London Scottish’, a wedding photograph, and an additional photograph of the recipient’s wife.

Four: Attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel H. Lacy, O.B.E. (Civil), M.B.E. (Military), Royal Artillery, later Chief Design Officer at the War Office Armament Design Department, Principal Inspecting Officer at Woolwich Arsenal, Assistant Director of Artillery at at the Ministry of Supply, and latterly a Director of the British Aircraft Corporation (Guided Weapons) Limited 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted for wear, very fine (4) £60-£80 --- O.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 11 June 1977: Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Lacy (Retd.), M.B.E., lately Director, British Aerospace (B.A.C.). M.B.E. (Military) London Gazette 10 June 1954: Major (now Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Harry Lacy (222157), Royal Regiment of Artillery. Harry Lacy was commissioned into the Royal Artillery as a Second Lieutenant on 19 December 1941, and was advanced Major on 2 April 1949. He retired on 1 April 1955, and was granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. An un-attributed obituary of the recipient states: ‘Lieutenant-Colonel Lacy, who was educated at Burnley Grammar School and the University of London, began his career as a technical college lecturer in mathematics. He left a reserved occupation in 1939 to join the Army, rising from the ranks to win a commission in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, and was later granted a regular commission. From 1939 to 1945 Lieutenant-Colonel Lacy served with the Royal Regiment of Artillery at home and overseas, subsequently joining the technical staff course at the Royal Military College of Science, where he qualified as a technical staff officer in 1946. Later the same year he was appointed Chief Design Officer at the War Office’s Armament Design Department, Fort Halstead, and became Principal Inspecting Officer for the Chief Inspector of Armament at Woolwich Arsenal in 1948. From 1950 to 1953 he was Assistant Director of Artillery at Ministry of Supply Headquarters, and in 1954 was appointed Senior Technical Officer, Trials Establishments, Royal Artillery, at Ty Croes, Anglesey. In 1955 Lieutenant-Colonel Lacy joined Vickers Limited as Chief Technical Adviser to the Armament Department and joined British Aircraft Corporation on its formation in 1960. From 1955 to 1960, he was associated with the development of the Chieftain tank and Abbot self-propelled gun, both projects now being in service with the British Army. He had also been concerned with the development of the Vigimant anti-tank weapon system since the initiation of the project in 1957. On 13 February 1968 Lieutenant-Colonel Lacy was appointed a Director of the British Aircraft Corporation (Guided Weapons) Limited. Sold with over 25 original photographs, in several of which the recipient is identified, including 124th Officer Cadet Training unit Christmas party invitation addressed to Capt. & Mrs Lacy, several original portrait photographs of the recipient in uniform, a number of named Royal Artillery group photographs, including one of 22 War Gunnery Course, December 1942 - May 1943, named group photo of 124 O.C.T.U. R.A. A.A. Regimental Soccer team, 1943-44, including Capt. Lacy and an original print of his obituary which includes a photograph.

Seven: Warrant Officer Class II G. E. Fox, Royal Signals, who was Mentioned in Despatches for Operations in Malaya in 1950 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, with M.I.D. oak leaf (2320365 WO2 G E Fox R Signals); Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (2320365 WO2 G E Fox R Signals), all official replacements, the stars with large ring suspensions and the last two marked ‘R’, extremely fine (7) £120-£160 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 27 April 1951: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Malaya during the period 1 July to 31 December 1950.’

Family Group: A Second War M.B.E. group of six awarded to Warrant Officer Class I J. E. Eames, Royal Sussex Regiment, late Hampshire Regiment, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War near Amiens on 20 May 1940 - escaping, he was recaptured 24 hours later, and held in captivity for the rest of the War The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; British War and Victory Medals (24603 Sjt. J. E. Eames. Hamps. R.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (5485467 W.O. Cl. II J. E. Eames. Hamps. R.) generally very fine and better Coronation 1911, County and Borough Police (P.C. Joseph Eames Winchester City Police) good very fine (7) £600-£800 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 29 November 1945: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Field.’ The original Recommendation states: ‘Regimental Sergeant Major Eames, 7th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, served with the Battalion from its inception at the outbreak of War. This Warrant Officer was invaluable in helping lay the foundation of general discipline and in training and building up a healthy structure of non-commissioned officers, in spite of the almost complete lack of any real experience amongst those from whom he had to draw. His assistance in training young officers was also of great importance. He set a fine example to all and his deportment and patience at all times went far in guiding the numbers of young recruits onto the right lines. This example was carried out in full, when, on the weekend of 18-20 May 1940 the Battalion, entirely alone in a French Sector (just west of Amiens) was attacked by General Rommel’s Panzer Division. A very great deal is owing to this fine old soldier (who had been a pensioner and was 52 years old at the time) for the manner in which all ranks carried out their orders and held their ground until he and other survivors had not alternative to being taken Prisoner. After being taken Prisoner he escaped with some others on the same evening (20 May 1940), but they were overtaken by Armoured Cars 24 hours later. I recommend that this Warrant Officer be awarded the M.B.E.’ Joseph Edward Eames was born in 1889, the son of Police Constable Joseph Eames, Winchester City Police, and served during the latter stages of the Great War with the Hampshire Regiment. Advanced Company Sergeant Major, he proceed to Guernsey on 19 December 1924 for posting to the Permanent Staff, 1st Battalion, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry, and served on the island for a number of years. Returning to his parent unit, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in April 1933. Eames subsequently transferred to the Royal Sussex Regiment, and served with the 7th Battalion as part of the British Expeditionary Force during the Second World War. He was captures and taken Prisoner of War on 21 May 1940 (see M.B.E. Recommendation), and held in captivity for the rest of the War. For his services leading up to his capture he was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire. He died at Ryde, Isle of Wight, on 10 September 1949. Sold with a postcard photograph of the recipient, and copied research.

Five: Attributed to Sergeant A. Wantling, East Yorkshire Regiment, who was killed in action on 11 June 1944, a few days after his battalion landed in the first wave at ‘Gold Beach’ on ‘D’ Day 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, one clasp, 8th Army; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Arm Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mrs Wantling, 8 Richelieu Street, Great Lever, Bolton’, nearly extremely fine (5) £100-£140 --- Arthur Wantling served as Sergeant No. 5955913, in 5th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment and was killed in action on 11 June 1944, D-Day plus 5, aged 29. He is buried at Tilly sur Seulles War Cemetery, Calvados, France. He was the son of Thomas and Florence Wantling and husband of Elizabeth Wantling, of Bolton, Lancashire. The 5th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment was brigaded with the 6th and 7th Battalions, Green Howards, as part of the 69th Infantry Brigade, 50th (Northumbrian) Division, and were a 1st wave assault battalion on Gold Beach on D-Day. The battalion received orders at around 10.00 hours on the 11 June 1944 to advance to Oristot, and at around 14.30 followed the 6th Battalion Green Howards through Duoy St. Marguerite, coming under shellfire. Audrieu was reached at 16.00 hours and the 5th East Yorkshires established a firm base for an attack by armour. The tanks having passed through Audrieu, the Green Howards followed on. At 18.00 hours, as they approached Les Hauts Verts, the Green Howards came under heavy fire from small arms and Spandaus from Oristot. A fierce battle ensued. The Germans launched a counter-attack with tanks and the 5th East Yorkshires were called in, sustaining casualties; Major H. F. Dixon, the acting Commanding Officer, died of wounds; Major H. C. Cocking and Lieutenant J. L. Sykes were missing (later found to have been killed in action), while ten other ranks were missing and twenty five were wounded. Wantling was amongst those missing and was later confirmed killed in action.

Four: Rifleman C. R. Richardson, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), who was reported missing in action shortly after landing in Normandy on 26 June 1944, and later confirmed as a prisoner of war 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure, in card box of issued addressed to ‘Mr. C. R. Richardson, 113 Garwood St., South Shields, Co. Durham’, good very fine (4) £80-£100 --- Charles Robert Richardson was born on 13 July 1912. He enlisted at Tisbury, for the duration of the war on 30 September 1940, into 9th Battalion the Cameronians. He was originally reported missing in action on 26 June 1944, but was subsequently confirmed as having been taken prisoner of war, and was held at Stalag VIIIA (Gorlitz) and VIIIC (Sagan). The 9th Battalion Cameronians landed in Normandy at the Mulberry Harbour at Arromanches on 23 June, their first engagement, in which Rifleman Richardson was taken prisoner, was on 26 June when the battalion’s first objective was to capture the village of Haut du Bosq. Sold with a Cameronians white metal cap badge with plaid backing, two original Soldier’s Service and Pay Books (Army Book 64); original Soldier’s Pay Book (Active Service) (A.B. 64 Part II); original certificate of transfer to Army Reserve, dated 28 April 1946, original prisoner of war slip confirming that the recipient was captive and held at Camp VIIIC (Sagan - Silesia), with P.O.W. number 81244; and original German War-time P.O.W. worker’s identity card.

Three: Attributed to Private B. B. Airey, 11th Battalion, Parachute Regiment, who was killed in action at Arnhem on 21 September 1944 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, in card box of issue, addressed to his mother ‘Mrs. M. Airey, 8 Millfield Avenue, York’, some loss to paper address label and corner split, medals issued by the Infantry and A.A.C. Records Office, no named condolence slip, nearly extremely fine (3) £80-£100 --- Bernard Burwell Airey was born at York on 21 July 1919, the son of Clarence and May Airey. He served during the Second World War as Private No. 4749730, in 7 Platoon, ‘C’ Company, 11th Battalion, Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps, and was killed in action at Arnhem, on 21 September 1944, age 25. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Canadian War Memorial at Groesbeek, Netherlands. In the 1939 Register he is shown as a 19 year old clerk for a sugar manufacturer, residing in his parents household at 8 Millfield Avenue, York.

Four: Sergeant A. E. Hammarton, Royal Air Force, who died at sea on 12 September 1942, when the Cunard White Star liner, S.S. Laconia was torpedoed and sunk by U-156 in shark-infested waters off West Africa, with 1,800 Italian Prisoners of War aboard: on learning of this, the U-Boat commander commenced rescue operations, but his admirable endeavours, and those of other U-Boats that joined the scene, were quickly curtailed by an unfortunate attack delivered by Allied aircraft - and the transmittal of Doenitz’s notorious ‘Laconia Order’ 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Air Council enclosure, in card box of issue addressed to ‘N. V. Hammarton, 5 Cowslip Road, South Woodford, London E.18’, nearly extremely fine (4) £100-£140 --- Albert Edward Hammarton, prior to transferring to the Royal Air Force, had served as Gunner No. 861173 in 175th Heavy Battery, Royal Artillery (T.A.). During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force as Sergeant No. 538645, and had volunteered for service as an Air Gunner, he saw service in 47 (B) Squadron in the Middle East at Heliopolis and at Khartoum, before transferring as operational aircrew to 162 (Wellington) Squadron as Sergeant Wireless Operator. He appears to have become unwell and was transferred No. 7 General Hospital and was then being repatriated to the U.K. aboard the Laconia when he died at sea on 12 September 1942. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt. S.S. Laconia The S.S. Laconia was homeward bound from the Cape in September 1942, with some 2,700 people aboard, including 1,800 Italian Prisoners of War under a 160-strong Polish guard, when she was torpedoed by the U-156, commanded by Kapitain Werner Hartenstein, on 12 September 1942, in a position about 500 miles south of Cape Palmas, Liberia and about 360 miles north-east of Ascension Island. Shortly after the liner capsized, the crew of the now surfaced U-Boat were amazed to hear Italian voices yelling amongst the survivors struggling in the water, and on speaking to some of them, Werner Hartenstein immediately began rescue operations, alerting at the same time nearby U-Boats to come to his assistance. Also by radio he contacted his seniors in Germany, asking for instructions and, more courageously, sent out an un-coded message inviting any nearby ships to assist, allied or otherwise, promising not to attack them on the basis his U-Boat, too, was left unmolested. And amazingly, to begin with at least, Berlin replied in the affirmative, although Hitler personally intervened to threaten Admiral Raeder in the event of any U-Boats being lost to enemy action as a result of the rescue operation. Over the next few days, Hartenstein’s ‘rescue package’ achieved commendable results, and by 16 September, U-156 had picked up around 400 survivors, half of which she towed astern in lifeboats, while other enemy U-Boats, the U-506 and the U-507, and the Italian Cappellini, had arrived on the scene and acted with similar compassion. Tragically, on 16 September, an American Liberator bomber, operating out of Ascension Island, attacked the gathered U-Boats, forcing Hartenstein and his fellow captains to cut their tows with the lifeboats and submerge. Mercifully, some Vichy French warships arrived on the scene soon afterwards from Dakar, and in total, including those still aboard the U-Boats, some several hundred men, women and children were saved. But two lifeboats remained undiscovered, their occupants having to endure a living nightmare, adrift without adequate sustenance, under a burning sun, with sharks for company, for several weeks. Following his enforced departure from the scene of rescue on 16 September, Kapitain Hartenstein remained in contact with Berlin, in a vain attempt to complete his worthy task. In the event, he, and his fellow U-Boat commanders, received Doenitz’s infamous ‘Laconia Order’, forbidding any attempt to assist survivors of sunken vessels, a diktat that mercilessly rewrote the conduct of sea warfare (and became one of the charges levelled at the Grand Admiral at Nuremberg). Sold with copied research.

A fine ‘Military Division’ M.B.E., M.S.M. combination group of six awarded to Warrant Officer P. A. ‘Paddy’ Jeffers, Royal Air Force, who completed over 40 years continuous service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type, breast badge, silver; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, South Arabia (D2227774 Act. F. Sgt. P. A. Jeffers R.A.F.); Jubilee 1977; Royal Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, E.II.R. (WO P A Jeffers (D2227774) RAF); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, with Second Award Bar (2227774 Sgt. P. A. Jeffers. R.A.F.) mounted for display, generally good very fine or better (6) £800-£1,000 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1972. Patrick Anthony Jeffers was born in Crosshaven, County Cork in December 1925. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force as an AC2 in January 1944, and advanced to Sergeant in April 1952. ‘Paddy’ Jeffers served at the Aden Supply Depot, Steamer Point, from November 1965, and subsequently at Muharraq and Sharjah. He advanced to Flight Sergeant in January 1966, and to Warrant Officer in July 1969 (received AOC’s Commendation, 24 June 1960 and 13 June 1964). Jeffers was a much respected Warrant Officer who served continuously until 14 June 1984, being discharged at the age of 58 and having served for 40 years and four months (awarded L.S. & G.C. in January 1962 and the Second Award Bar in December 1977). Jeffers was considered the ‘Father’ of the R.A.F. Catering Trade, and his latter years were spent at the R.A.F. School of Catering, R.A.F. Hereford. He was awarded the M.S.M. in June 1978, and was in the first tranche of awards of the M.S.M. on its re-introduction to the R.A.F. On retirement Jeffers became the Secretary of the Hereford City Conservation Club, and he died in December 2007. Sold with typed details of service originally provided by recipient.