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Click here to subscribeA large quantity of Action Man Accessories to include ammo boxes, radio packs, sandbags, detonators, spades, etc, to include vintage, anniversary and other similar parts to suit 1:6th scale action figures, also includes modern GI Joe Space Capsule and Astronaut figure - generally Fair to Good, includes a quantity of fire/smoke damaged items, some attention to cleaning required - see photos. (Qty)
Palitoy Action Man vintage pair to include (1) loose/unboxed flock head dressed figure with accessories; (2) boxed #34713 Landrover, includes steering wheel, gear stick, rear tray with accessories, spare wheel, spare engine tray - generally Good, within Fair to Poor original box (where applicable), not checked for completeness - see photos. (2)
Palitoy Action Man vintage loose/unboxed group to include (1) flock head dressed figure with accessories; (2) Captain Zargon - Space Pirate wearing Cape and x 2 Space Swords; (3) #77012 Snowcat; (4) #34749 Solar Hurricane (incomplete) - generally Fair, not checked for completeness - see photos. (4)
Palitoy Action Man vintage loose/unboxed group to include (1) flock hair undressed action man figure; (2) loose/unboxed #34713 Land Rover - with fold-down windscreen, spare wheel; (3) #34723 Motorcycle and Sidecar with 2 x radios and machine gun; (4) #934880 SAS - Beach Head Assault Craft with reversible PVC tent; (5) #34726 Searchlight, not tested, also includes Cherilea German Army Motorcycle and Sidecar with saddle and machine gun - generally Fair to Good, not checked for completeness - see photo. (6)
Action Man/GI Joe 'Anniversary Issue' accessory sets to include GI Joe - Beachhead, GI Joe - Flags, Action Man Bazooka, plus others - all appear to be Mint within sealed fire/smoke damaged packaging, also includes 'open' Action Man Horse - Good within fire/smoke damaged box/packaging, not checked for completeness, some cleaning required to all of the packaging - see photo. (13)
Palitoy Action Man vintage loose/unboxed group to include (1) flock head dressed figures (x 2) with accessories, not checked for completeness; (2) #77007 Combat Plane (the Cockpit cover has warped); (3) #34714 (disassembled) Helicopter, not checked for completeness - generally Fair to Good - see photos. (4)
Palitoy Action Man vintage group of loose/unboxed vehicles to include (1) #34132 Assault Craft with accessories; (2) #34713 Landrover, includes gearstick and steering wheel; (3) # 34718 Trailer with canvas cover and frame; (4) #34740 Police Motorcycle - generally Fair, not checked for completeness/correctness, but all appear to be incomplete. Some attention to cleaning required and a little fire/smoke damage is visible - see photo (4)
Palitoy/Cherilea Action Man vintage loose/unboxed group to include (1) Palitoy vintage flock head dressed figures (x 3) with accessories; (2) Cherilea Transporter Bridge with ramps, supports, lifting barriers, plus other parts, also includes instruction leaflet; (3) Cherilea Artillery Combat 'parts' including searchlight, machine gun, missile launcher, field gun on turntable, plus others, - generally Fair, not checked for completeness - see photos. (Qty)
Palitoy Action Man vintage loose/unboxed French Foreign Legion figure, blonde flock hair, gripping hands, (appears to have reproduction gripping hands fitted), wearing coat, trousers, shirt, belt, back-pack, kepi, rifle, plus other accessories, not checked for completeness/correctness - generally Good - see photos.
An interesting K.H. group of three awarded to Captain Ludwig Von Borstel, 1st Line Battalion, King’s German Legion, who was severely wounded at St Etienne, near Bayonne in February 1814 The Royal Guelphic Order, K.H. (Military) Knight’s, breast badge, reverse with monogram ‘GR’ MDCCCXV, ring suspension; Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive (Louis Von Borstel, Capt. 1st Line Bn. K.G.L.); Germany, Hannover, Wilhelmskreuz for 25 years service as an officer, WR IV, gold (14ct, 9.63g), gold marks to suspension ring, about extremely fine, the M.G.S. retaining most of its original frosted finish (3) £8,000-£10,000 --- Provenance: Morton & Eden, May 2004 (M.G.S. only, Hannoverian awards added to complete entitlement). Hermann Christian Ludwig von Borstel was born in Hannover on 16 September 1776. He was one of the original members of the King’s German Legion, being commissioned, without purchase, on 17 March 1804, aged 28, into Captain Marschalk’s No 2 Company of the 1st Line Battalion. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 24 March 1804, with temporary rank (exact date of confirmation as Lieutenant is not known as his papers were lost in the wreck of the Augustus Caesar - see below) before being promoted, again without purchase, to Captain on 17 August 1809. Ludwig ‘anglicised’ his name when he came to England with the K.G.L., initially from Hermann Christian Ludwig von Borstel to the simpler Louis von Borstel. Later he changed the French sounding Louis to the more English sounding Lewis Borstel, which is the style he used to sign his service record in February 1829, even though the record shows his full Hannoverian name. He reverted to his correct German given names on his eventual retirement back to Hannover. Ludwig von Borstel accompanied the expedition to Hannover in 1805 as part of the Anglo-Austro-Russian alliance formed to combat Napoleon’s forces which were advancing south out of northern Germany. Following Napoleon’s victory over the Austrians as Austerlitz in December 1805, control of Hannover fell to the Prussians and the Legion was immediately ordered to withdraw to England. Shipwreck and Capture Borstel next accompanied the successful expedition to Copenhagen in 1807. Following the capitulation of the Danes in September of that year, several ships were lost in a storm on the return journey to England. Three companies of the 1st line Battalion were embarked in the Augustus Caesar transport which, on the night of 27 October, came into a violent collision with the ship of war H.M.S. Inflexible, of sixty-four guns. The bowsprit of the man-of-war, bearing down upon the larboard side of the transport, passed through her main chains and carried away her mainmast. The masts, yards, and rigging of both vessels then got foul of each other and the smaller ship, thus entangled, became exposed to the tremendous thumping of the man-of-war, which threatened soon to reduce her to a wreck. Every effort was made on both sides to get clear, but the darkness of the night and the heavy sea rendered this extremely difficult, and nearly an hour had passed before the vessels could be disengaged. Meantime, five of the officers, Captain Laroche, Lieutenants von Borstel, Schlatter, Heine, and Colonel Ompteda, and about a hundred non-commissioned officers and men of the Legion, ventured to attempt escaping from the transport into the Inflexible. This was a hazardous experiment, as well in consequence of the violent concussion of the vessels, as of the number of spars that were falling about; however, although many were wounded, with the exception of one man, the whole gained the deck of the ship. By this time the transport presented a deplorable appearance. Of her three masts, the foremast alone remained standing; large breaches down to the very edge of the water had been made in both her sides; twelve out of fourteen guns which she carried had been either torn away, or forced through the deck into the hold; her boats were driven from their fastenings and damaged, and the whole of her bulwark had been carried away. Thus disabled, she was totally incapable of following the fleet, which on the morning of the 30th was completely out of sight, and the wind coming on to blow a gale from the westward on the following day, she was driven before it towards the coast of Holland. Land was first seen on the morning of the 31st, and now the apprehension arose that the ship might be dashed upon the beach, for they could find no holding ground at sufficient distance from the coast to be secured against a land attack, and the vessel had drifted within half gunshot of the shore, before she could be brought to anchor. The sea broke over her with violence, and it did not seem probable that her shattered hull would hold much longer together; at noon, however, the gale subsided and some hope of safety was entertained. But now came the perils of the land, for the Dutch, who were allied to the French, having descried the vessel, had brought down a few guns to the shore, and from these soon opened a fire upon the luckless transport. The English signal of distress was then made, which caused the firing to be for a time suspended, but towards evening it was resumed, and continued until the master of the transport had been made by signal to understand that he was required to hoist a lantern at the mast head, which being done, the firing ceased, and the vessel, which had received but little additional injury from the ill directed shots, was left unmolested until morning. A Dutch naval officer then came off to the transport, and demanded the surrender of all on board as prisoners of war. Colonel von Ompteda felt that he had no alternative but to submit to this requisition, and his whole force, amounting to nine officers, and more than two hundred non-commissioned officers and soldiers, were, together with the crew of the vessel, disembarked and marched to the Hague, from which the landing place was about six miles distant. They were to have retained their baggage, but the boats being occupied, till nightfall with the disembarkation of the men its removal could not be attempted before morning, and then the vessel was no longer visible; for the wind getting up in the night, her destruction had been completed. During the violent storm several ships were wrecked, and 226 officers and men of the legion were drowned in the Channel, with another 450 or so captured on the beaches. The men were afterwards removed to the fortress of Löwenstein, and the officers placed on their parole at Gorcum, The latter were exchanged, and returned to England in the following spring; but the non-commissioned officers and soldiers, being principally natives of those provinces which formed the new kingdom of Westphalia, were forced to enter the service of king Jerome [Napoleons’ brother who he had made king of Westphalia] which was a conglomeration of several occupied German states. From this rule, however, the greater part took the first opportunity of emancipating themselves. The Peninsula War Von Borstel served throughout the war in Spain and Portugal from 1808 until 1813, and in the south of France in 1813 and 1814. He took part in the crossing of the Douro, the battles of Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, battle of Salamanca, storming of Burgos, battle of Vittoria, action at Tolosa, siege of St Sebastian, battles of the Nivelle and the Nive, and at the storming of St Etienne, near Bayonne, on which occasion von Borstel was severely wounded. St Etienne, near Bayonne, February 1814 Lewis von Borstel was severely wounded leading his company at the storming ...
Six: Captain A. H. Waddy, Bedfordshire Regiment, later Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, who first enlisted under the Tricolour in August 1914 as a Private in the French Army 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut. A. H. Waddy. Bedf. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. H. Waddy. R.A.F.); France, Third Republic, War Commemorative Medal 1914-18, bronze; Inter-Allied Victory Medal 1914-19, bronze; Croix du Combatant Voluntaire 1914-18, bronze, good very fine and better (6) £400-£500 --- Alexander Harry Waddy was born at Regent's Park, London, on 25 April 1896, the son of Harry Waddy, a member of the London Stock Exchange. Educated at Cheltenham College from 1910-13, he crossed the Channel to France a short while later in order to improve his language skills. His life at this time was carefully detailed by The Evening Sentinel on 30 August 1934: 'At the outbreak of the war, he was in France, studying French, and, with a patriotism that was typical of his character, he at once joined the French Army as a private.' With the declaration of war on 29 July 1914, a call was made for foreigners residing in France to support their adopted country. While many would have preferred direct enlistment in the regular French Army, the only option immediately available was that of the Foreign Legion. On 3 August 1914 a reported 8,000 volunteers applied to enlist in the Paris recruiting office of the Legion. The speed of the German Advance in accordance with the Schlieffen Plan caught the French Army heavily by surprise, not least the enemy proximity to Paris in early September 1914. Detailing every available man to the defence of the city and famously utilising over 600 taxicabs to carry soldiers from Les Invalides to Nanteuil-le-Haudouin, some fifty kilometres away, the German sweep was halted - something which the French later termed 'The Miracle on the Marne'. With the front temporarily stabilised, Waddy returned to England and was appointed to a commission in the Bedfordshire Regiment on 11 May 1915. Posted to France from 7 July 1915 with the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, Waddy arrived in the aftermath of the defence of Hill 60 - likely as a replacement - and was later moved south in defence of the Somme. In 1916, the 1st Battalion witnessed heavy action at High Wood and Guillemont and took part in the Battles of Morval and Le Transloy. Transferred to the 7th Battalion, Waddy was mentioned in the Battalion war diary of 5 October 1917 during practise exercises near Irish Farm and Canal Bank, in preparation for his unit going into the line during the Battle of Passchendaele. The war diary later adds: 'The mud was very bad and duck-boards few. The men suffered considerably from cold and wet. The line consisted of shell holes filled with water.' Keen to leave the life of an infantryman, Waddy transferred to the Royal Flying Corps on 5 February 1918 and was posted to 21 Squadron. Qualifying Temporary 2nd Lieutenant (Observer) 5 April 1918, he was sent to Armaments School at R.A.F. Uxbridge for Pilot training; the war subsequently ended before Waddy had the opportunity to take on the Luftwaffe and he relinquished his commission on 9 February 1919 after taking employment as managing director of T. R. Boote Ltd, Waterloo Potteries (Tile Manufacturers), Burslem. Married to a local girl in 1918, Waddy soon became a popular and successful industrialist. Appointed Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment (Territorial Army) on 28 December 1928, he was placed in the command of "C" (Burslem) Company and set up home at Standon House, Standon. Beset by a sudden illness, Waddy died a few years later at the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary on 29 August 1934, his loss much lamented by his family and workforce of over 250 people: 'He was a soldier of ability and a man of understanding, and he has helped, by his knowledge, fairness and grit, to keep the flag flying' (The recipient's obituary, refers). Waddy's premature death at the age of 38 years proved the first of many tragedies for his family; both of his sons died during the Second World War, the first, Midshipman Roger Latham Waddy, R.N.V.R., being killed whilst piloting a swordfish aircraft on a depth-charge practice sortie on 16 July 1941, the second, Major Alexander Peter Harry Waddy, being killed in action at Arnhem on 18 September 1944 whilst leading "B" Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Parachute Brigade, in an attempt to destroy a panzer using a 'Gammon' bomb. Sold with copied R.A.F. Service Record, newspaper entries, and a photographic image of the recipient in officer’s uniform.
The Rhodesia General Service Medal, with Silver Pick Commendation, awarded to Captain J. A. Q. Vos, 2nd Battalion, Rhodesian African Rifles - who initially commanded 1 Platoon, ‘A’ Company, under Major André Dennison, and whom after countless successful contacts with enemy ‘terrorists’ went on to be Dennison’s Second-in-Command - under the call-sign ‘Sunray Minor’ Rhodesia, General Service Medal, with Silver Pick Commendation on riband (Lt. J. A. Q. Vos) mounted as worn, edge nicks, nearly very fine £300-£400 --- Jean Vos joined the newly-raised 2nd Battalion, Rhodesian African Rifles, 1 October 1975, and was appointed Officer Commanding of 1 Platoon, ‘A’ Company. Major André Dennison (ex S.A.S.) commanded ‘A’ Company, which comprised of three platoons or ‘call-signs’ formed at Methuen Barracks, Bulawayo. The war against guerilla incursions by the communist-backed Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) and the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), operating from bases in Mozambique, Zambia, and Botswana, was three years’ old, and was far from being a conflict between blacks and whites. Black volunteers accounted for about 80% of the Rhodesian Government Security Forces, and 2 RAR was a black battalion officered by whites. Generally the night belonged to the guerillas. During the day the Rhodesian forces usually had the upper hand, especially after the organisation of Fire Force units, air-mobile troops, which could be alerted by ground patrols and swiftly deployed to cut off and wipe out specific terrorist gangs. It was as a Fire Force commander between September 1976 and June 1979 that Dennison was to excel. The potency of Dennison’s Fire Force, which initially consisted of a command helicopter, the ‘K-Car’, and three others, ‘G-Cars’, carrying sticks of four men each, supported by a fixed wing ground attack aircraft carrying napalm or the dreaded ‘Golf bomb’, was increased after March 1977 with the addition of a Dakota, or ‘Paradak’, carrying, in ‘A’ Company’s case, sixteen African paratroopers who specialised in jumping into the battle zone from dangerously low altitudes. Many of the Dakotas dated from the Second World War, and when Dennison parachuted, which seemingly he did at every opportunity, he liked to be the first man into action. Vos, who was later to become Dennison’s Second in Command, is mentioned throughout The War Diaries of André Dennison by J. R. T. Wood, and as taking part in numerous contacts in the book Masoda, by A. Binda. On 18 March, during ‘A’ Company’s second deployment (17 March - 20 April 1976), Vos’s men accounted for ‘A’ Company’s ‘1st Kills’ during the deployment. Dennison describes the contact which took place in the south east operational area, ‘Thrasher’, thus: ‘The Company deployed to Chikwedzira Dip, a District Commissioner’s rest camp in eastern Matibi 2, and before we had even taken over from ‘B’ Company, 1 Platoon had to take over a follow-up from elements of our old friends 5 Indep Company. Within ten minutes of arriving by helicopter in the Naivaswa Camp area, Gona-re-Zhou [game reserve], Lt. Vos had a contact with seven CTs. No blood was shed on either side and a day long follow up ensued. In the late afternoon (18 March) 1 Platoon contacted four terrorists, killing two. Major Dennison was in the K-Car (pilot Baldy Baldwin) and the [helicopter] gunner failed to score on the two CTs who broke and ran. They had better luck and managed [when firing back] to sever the fuel line of one of the G-Cars with a lucky shot. The helicopter crash-landed and was a total write-off but the pilot and tech escaped with comparatively minor injuries.’ Vos was posted to the 81mm Mortar Platoon in May 1976, despite this he was still on hand if required by Dennison. This was very much the case during ‘A’ Company’s sixth deployment (23 September - 4 November 1976), as Dennison relates: ‘On 13 October we were recalled to Buffalo Range [the airfield at Chiredzi] to take over Fire Force. 3 Platoon were deployed into the Humani Ranch area and the other two platoons provided three first wave sticks [i.e. the first troops to be transported into each action by the helicopters] and six follow-up sticks [or second wave]. On 14 October a member of the Selous Scouts on leave reported to Zaka police station that fourteen CTs were feeding at his kraal on the Chiredzi River, eight kilometres south of Zaka. The first wave flew into Zaka by helicopter and the other sticks were lifted in by Dakota. With the African Selous Scout as guide the choppers flew in but unfortunately over-shot the target, giving the CTs a few minutes warning. A tracker stick led by Lt. Jean Vos, on loan for the occasion, was put down and almost immediately came under heavy close range fire from a group of CTs in the river bed. Sgt. Muardi shot and killed one and the stick went to ground as the others were deployed. For the next four hours the contact ground on. Two CTs broke across the river and were engaged and missed by the K-Car, and others had obviously broken east away from the river before contact began. The early sticks were mortared in the initial stages, and the angle of entry of an unexploded bomb indicated quite clearly that it was fired from way outside the contact area.’ At the end of October, Vos commanded four 81 mm mortar crews during Operation Mardon - a concerted attack on ZANLA camps in Mozambique. Vos returned to the command of 1 Platoon and was rewarded for his services in this position with a Commendation during ‘A’ Company’s twelfth deployment in September 1977. He advanced to Second-in-Command of ‘A’ Company in March 1978, and was promoted Captain in August the same year. During ‘A’ Company’s nineteenth deployment (5 September - 17 October 1978), ‘Captain Vos took the K-Car and Major Dennison went with Vulture One. The K-Car gunner did some good work, immobilising, but not killing three CTs, and the sweep killed them and a further three.’ (bid) Sold with a copy of The War Diaries of André Dennison, by J. R. T. Wood, in which Vos is pictured.
Three: Lieutenant N. Williams, 8th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the first day of the German Spring Offensive on 21 March 1918 1914-15 Star (13945 Cpl. N. Williams, R. Lanc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. N. Williams.) very fine (3) £180-£220 --- Norman Williams served in the ranks of the Royal Lancaster Regiment in France from 17 July 1915, and was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant on 4 August 1916. As a Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, he was killed in action on the first day of the German Spring Offensive, 21 March 1918, as recorded in the regimental history: ‘Then the Germans began working round both flanks and shortly opened fire with a machine gun from in rear of the trench. From this, and snipers on all sides, heavy losses were incurred. One sniper, in a shell-hole fifty yards in front, was particularly active and deadly. This man was located by Lt. N. Williams who, accompanied by his servant, Pte. J. E. Peters, rushed him with the bayonet, and took him prisoner. As he was returning to the trench, Williams was killed. His gallantry probably saved many lives.’
An Indian Mutiny C.B. pair awarded to Brigadier-General Edward Brice, a veteran of the Coorg Expedition of 1834, who commanded ‘F’ Troop, Madras Artillery, throughout the campaign in Central India in 1858-59 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1859, makers mark ‘WN’, complete with correct gold swivel bar suspension and ribbon buckle; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Bt. Major E. Brice, F. Tp. Madras Art.) good very fine (2) £3,000-£3,600 --- C.B. (Military) London Gazette 1 March 1861. Edward Brice was appointed Second Lieutenant, Madras Artillery, on 16 June 1826; First Lieutenant, Madras Artillery, 25 February 1828; Captain, by Brevet, 16 June 1841; Captain, Madras Artillery, 3 July 1845; Major, by Brevet, 20 June 1854; Lieutenant-Colonel, by Brevet, 20 July 1858; Lieutenant-Colonel, Madras Artillery, 5 November 1858; Colonel, Royal (Madras) Artillery, 25 September 1861; Inspector of Artillery with rank of Brigadier-General, from 1 November 1862. Served in the expedition to Coorg in 1834 - was present at affair at crossing of the river, and Ramasamy, Kanaway, Beebaby, and Hunninghy; served also with the Saugor Field division under Major General Whitlock in 1858, was present at the affair at Kubrai 17th April 1858, and at the battle of Banda 19th April 1858. Brice commanded ‘F’ Troop, Madras Artillery, throughout the campaign in Central India. The following extract is taken from the Memoirs of David Dinwiddie, who was Major Brice’s troop sergeant major: ‘To show you that all native troops during this time were not in open mutiny, I may mention that this very ‘F’ Troop when under the Command of Major Brice, in Secunderabad, was the means, under his well ordered plans, of keeping the large city of Hyderabad in awe and order, and under Providence, saved also the southern part of India from the fate of Bengal. For this important service, I believe, Major Brice received his military honours, and now, 1864, holds a good situation as Inspector of Artillery. Just think of the respect the native Mussel-men of this Troop must have held their Commanding Officer in, when they fired at and killed a number of their own caste and countrymen at a moment when the whole city of fanatics were ready to break out at the slightest success of their leaders, and murder every man, woman, and child of European descent belonging to the garrison of Secunderabad, which is situated a few miles from the Residence of their King or Rajah, the Nizam. If the Sepoys in Hyderabad city had not been held in check by this native troop at this critical moment, the entire people of the country from Cape Comorin to the river Nurbuddah, might have committed themselves, under the example of the Madras Native Army, which had been hourly expected to break out in open rebellion as had been the case in Bengal, in May and June the preceding year, viz., 1857.’ Troop Sergeant-Major Dinwiddie makes many mentions of Brice in his memoirs and also describes a close escape from an exploding gun-limber in May 1858: ‘Previous to finally quitting my troop; it was ordered out one morning, with a few of the 12th Lancers to reconnoitre the surrounding country, and to let the villagers know that they would be protected from the rebels, provided they would stay at home and cultivate the soil as heretofore. This being done, after a few hours fast riding, with the guns and Cavalry across country, we were on our way home, when an accident occurred, which proved more dangerous than the field of battle, viz., the blowing up of a gun-limber full of shot, shell and powder. On the leading gun-limber two unfortunate natives sat, whom we had taken with us from Bandah as guides to show the way from village to village. The ground was rough over which we passed at a quick pace, this shook the limber boxes in which was packed the ammunition, which ignited through friction, a rather uncommon occurrence, but it should be remembered the weather was very hot. The ammunition had been carefully packed a few days previously. First a single loud report was heard, when we looked over our shoulders to see what was the cause; quick as thought three shells burst in succession. The next moment, the guides before mentioned were blown up in the air, torn into pieces, their clothing on fire, portions of their bodies, being afterwards found half-roasted; the guns and cavalry, which were all in the rear had timely seen the danger, and halted. The six horses, yoked to the doomed limber, two of them within a yard of it, on the first report rushed to the front in terror, the drivers having no control over them, and they were only brought to a stand, when the pole horses sank exhausted, having been burnt by the explosion and wounded by the splinters of the carriage and limber, which were blown to a thousand pieces. Major Brice who commanded the party, and who was selected for this duty, on account of his knowledge of the language, Lieutenant Sewel, one of the subalterns of the Native troops, the Quarter Master Sergeant and myself were riding close in front of the leading horses. On the report of the explosion, our horses also stretched out at a full gallop in terror, but were closely followed by the exploding limber. We expected to have our bodies riddled by balls or splinters of wood and iron. In this case the strongest resistance to the force of the powder was from below, viz., from the strong frame of the carriage and axle tree-bed on which the two ammunition boxes were fixed, the consequence was, all the missiles of danger flew, sloping upwards over our heads, so we in front escaped uninjured: but the leading driver at the moment he was looking over his shoulder was struck on the mouth by a stray foot of one of the unfortunate guides, his lips were swollen for a few days; the centre driver, next in the rear, died of wounds received in his skull and neck; the pole driver, recovered of his wounds, which were (wonderful to say) very slight, he being next to the guides at a distance of two yards. One pole horse was shot to put him out of misery, the other five were soon fit for duty, a new limber was supplied from the large Park of Artillery, packed as its predecessor with ammunition, and the gun was again ready for action in a few hours after the accident. I shall always remember the blowing up of the limber, and thank God I escape. The families of the guides were paid a certain sum of money as compensation, and the widow of the unfortunate driver pensioned for life. Major Brice had, previous to the accident of the limber, been suffering from his chest and the extreme heat; he was now unable to do effective duty, so his Medical man recommended a change of climate. Doctor Ford doing duty with the force, was also seriously ill at the same time, thus they both left the Army a few days after the limber affair on sick leave to Madras, to enjoy the cool and bracing breeze of the Neilgherry [Nilgiri] Hills; I was likewise ordered to accompany the two sick officers, and have an eye to their wants as far as Madras, and then join my new appointment at Palavaram. Accordingly I bid farewell to camp life for a time, and made the best of my way down the valley of the Ganges to Calcutta.’ Sold with copied research including the above-mentioned ‘memoirs’.
Playmates - Jakks Pacific - Neca - Others - A mixed group of boxed and unboxed action figures mainly TMNT & WWE together with a boxed TMNT Munchkin game. Figures include Playmates TMNT Shredder; Mattel boxed 'Macho Man' Randy Savage'; Neca 'Head Knockers 'Marshall Mathers' and similar. Conditions appear to range Fair Plus - Mint. Boxed items in boxes which appear to range Fair Plus - Very Good. All items are unchecked for completeness. (This does not constitute a guarantee) (K)
Action Man - Hasbro - Three boxed modern Action Man figures / accessories. Lot consists of a Limited Edition James Bond Action Man 'The Spy Who Loved Me'; 'Ultimate Battle' Action Man v Dr.X boxed set; plus an Action Man 'Undercover Radio Torch'. Items appear to be in Mint condition in Fair Plus packaging with some general storage related imperfections. All items are unchecked for completeness. (This does not constitute a guarantee) (K)
Mattel - MOTU - Cannel - A collection of 14 loose He-Man MOTU action figures together with a loose Carnell 'Murdoch' figure from 'The A-Team'. MOTU figures include Sy-Klone; King-Hiss; Two-Bad and similar. All figures show play and age related wear, appearing to range Fair Plus - Very Good in condition. All figures are unchecked for completeness. (This does not constitute a guarantee) (K)
Marvel Preview Presents: a group of 17 Curtis US editions (Marvel Comics / Curtis, 1975-6).From the Peter Judge Comic collection. This lot features:No. 1: Man-Gods From Beyond The Stars. Painted cover by Neal Adams.No. 3: Blade the Vampire Slayer. 1st appearance of Afari.No. 5: Sherlock HolmesNo. 6: Sherlock HolmesNo. 9: Man-God. Painted cover by Earl Norem.No. 10: Thor the MightyNo. 11: Star-LordNo. 14: Star-LordNo. 15: Star-Lord. Price Sticker to cover.No. 16: Masters of Terror. Price Sticker to cover.No. 17: Black Mark. Price Sticker to cover.No. 25: Bizarre Adventures. Price Sticker to cover.No. 27: Bizarre Adventures, Secret Lives of the X-Men Price Sticker to cover.No. 28: Bizarre Adventures. Price sticker to cover.Marvel Super Special No. 9: The Savage Sword of Conan co-starring Red Sonja. Price sticker to cover.Marvel Super Special No. 10: Star-Lord. Price sticker to cover.Marvel Super Action No. 1: The PunisherSquare bound issues. Oversize magazine format: 27.5cm x 20.5cm. 84 pages.All copies 1st print, US Cents copies.Issues complete without cut coupons, missing value stamps or missing pages. Issues come bagged in new polypropylene bags.~(17)Condition Report: Generally excellent condition.Prices stickers to some covers.
A Collection of Circa 1980's Plastic Ghostbusters Action Figures and Accessories by Kenner to Include Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz and Egon Spengler Action Zapping Ray Figures (complete with accessories), Ghostbusters Fright Figures (believed to be complete apart from Ray Stantz fork device), Ghostbusters Haunted Human Set, Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, Slimer Green Ghost (missing water melon slice), and others. All loose.
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