The unique and quite outstanding Great War Q-ship ‘Baralong incident’ D.S.M. and Caspian Sea 1919 operations Second Award Bar group of seven awarded to Chief Petty Officer Harry Dickason, Royal Navy, who had earlier been a stoic member of the Northern Party in Scott’s Antarctic Expedition of 1910-13, when, over nine months, he shared in a story of endurance and courage rarely matched in the annals of exploration. Afterwards an equally valued member of the North-West Persia Mission in 1920, when he became one of just four naval personnel awarded the related Medal and clasp ‘N.W. Persia 1920’ Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (209527. H. Dickason, P.O. H.M.S. Baralong.) the reverse of the Bar officially impressed ‘Caspian Sea. 1918-19.’; 1914-15 Star (209527, H. Dickason. D.S.M., P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (209527 H. Dickason. P.O. R.N.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, N.W. Persia 1920 (209527 H. Dickason. C.P.O. R.N.); Polar Medal 1904, G.V.R., 1st issue, silver, 1 clasp, Antarctic 1910-13 (209527 H. Dickason, A.B. Terra Nova); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (209527 Harry Dickason, P.O. H.M.S. Pembroke.) original mounting as worn, very fine or better and numismatically one of the most important Naval groups of the 20th Century (7) £50,000-£70,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Just 67 Bars to the D.S.M. were awarded in the Great War. D.S.M. London Gazette 19 November 1915: ‘The following awards have been approved.’ The recommendation states: ‘H.M.S. Baralong. Sinking of German submarine U41 24 September 1915.’ One of two D.S.M.s awarded for this action. D.S.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 11 November 1919: ‘To receive a Bar to the Distinguished Service Medal.’ The recommendation states: ‘H.M.S. Kruger. Caspian Sea 1918-19. Brought to notice for the work done on behalf of the expedition.’ Harry Dickason was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire on 16 December 1884, and worked as a milk boy prior to entering the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in April 1900. Advanced to Able Seaman in June 1904, he was serving in the battleship H.M.S. Montague when she was wrecked on Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel on 30 May 1906. In the summer of 1909, Dickason applied for a place in Scott’s second Antarctic Expedition, a successful application that saw him joining the Terra Nova in May 1910. Having then shared in the trials and tribulations of the Terra Nova’s stormy passage south, he served in the Northern Party, a six-man team under Commander Victor Campbell, R.N., between January 1911 and January 1913, a period that witnessed great danger and hardship. In addition to himself and Campbell, the party comprised Surgeon G. Murray Levick, R.N., the geologist Raymond Priestley, and Petty Officers G. P. Abbott and F. V. Browning. Having spent the first 10 months of their northern sojourn at Cape Adare, where several journeys of exploration were carried out and extensive scientific observations taken, Campbell and his team were embarked in the Terra Nova in January 1912 and proceeded to Evans Cove in Terra Nova Bay, where it was intended they carry out a six week expedition. As a result of adverse ice conditions, however, the Terra Nova was unable to come and pick them up, and Campbell and his men were left stranded, with few provisions, and the daunting prospect of the imminent arrival of the Polar winter: what followed over the next nine months was a story of endurance and courage rarely matched in the annals of exploration. Wearing summer clothing, and equipped with light tents, it was quickly apparent that if they were to survive more substantial shelter was required. To that end, the six-man team constructed a giant snow cave (or igloo), from which they rarely ventured, other than to hunt for seal and penguin. In company with Petty Officer Browning, Dickason designed a “blubber lamp”, without which the interior of the ice cave would have remained pitch black in the winter months; the lamp comprised a strand of rope suspended from a “bridge” across the top of a small Oxo tin filled with melted blubber. As recounted by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, in Worst Journey in the World, blubber was very much the Northern Party’s order of the day: ‘They ate blubber, cooked with blubber, had blubber lamps. Their clothes and gear were soaked with blubber, and the soot blackened them, their sleeping-bags, cookers, walls and roof, choked their throats and inflamed their eyes. Blubbery clothes are cold, and theirs were soon so torn as to afford little protection against the wind, and so stiff with blubber that they would stand up by themselves, in spite of frequent scrapings with knives and rubbings with penguin skins, and always there were underfoot the great granite boulders which made walking difficult even in daylight and calm weather … ’ Severe privations were suffered by all, Campbell recording in his journal cases of frostbite and dysentery, and ongoing hunger, the whole compounded by the low temperatures and extreme winds. Dickason was, at one stage or another, laid low by all these factors, in addition to suffering from snow blindness. In early August the sun returned, and the party prepared the sledges for the return to Cape Evans. Setting off on 30 September 1912, they reached Cape Roberts four weeks later, having in the interim come upon the welcome contents of an old depot left by Shackleton’s 1907-09 Nimrod expedition. In fact, they discovered yet further supplies at Cape Bernacchi and at Butter Point, discoveries that enabled their safe return to Hut Point on 6 November, but, here, of course, they learnt of the tragic fate of Scott and his party. A full account of the party’s experiences is to be found in team member Raymond Priestley’s Antarctic Adventure, Scott’s Northern Party, in addition to the aforementioned diary kept by Victor Campbell, which was published in Scott’s Last Expedition (Volume II). In his diary, Campbell makes frequent mention of Dickason, often in glowing terms. For his services to the expedition, he was advanced to Petty Officer and received his award of the Polar Medal from the King on 26 July 1913. Moreover, Mount Dickason, at the head of Boomerang Glacier in Victoria Land, is named after him. Dickason was serving ashore at Pembroke I on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, but, in typical fashion, he sought further adventure by volunteering for Q-ships in January 1915. Shortly afterwards he joined the Antwerp, the ex-G.E.R. passenger steamer Vienna, and only the second Q-ship to be commissioned by the Admiralty. He subsequently participated in the first Q-ship/U-boat encounter of the war, when, in March 1915, Antwerp went to the rescue of three merchantmen which had been sunk by the U-29. Although a bloodless encounter, it did persuade the Admiralty that smaller, less well-known ships were required if German U-boat commanders were going to be tempted into action. Accordingly, the Antwerp was relegated to transport duties and her guns transferred to the newly acquired tramp steamer Baralong. And with those guns went Dickason, who would shortly witness the destruction of two U-boats and the demise of half a dozen enemy submariners in circumstances that would attract allegations of war crimes. By the Spring of 1915, Baralong had been fitted out with three concealed 12-pounder guns, and one of her first notable acts was to race to the scene of the sinking of the L...
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The important Small Naval Gold Medal awarded to Rear-Admiral John Peyton, Royal Navy, one of Nelson’s ‘Band of Brothers’ who commanded H.M.S. Defence ‘with good sense and courage’ at the battle of the Nile Captain’s (Small) Naval Gold Medal 1794-1815, for the Nile, 1 August 1798 (John Peyton Esquire Captain of H.M.S. The Defence on the 1 of August MDCCXCVIII The French Fleet Defeated) in its original gold frame with replacement bevelled glass lunettes, original gold rings and bar suspension, and three-pronged gold ribbon buckle, together with an oval portrait miniature of Captain Peyton, extremely fine and rare (2) £50,000-£70,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Nelson and the Napoleonic Wars, Sotheby’s, October 2005, Lot 140 ‘by direct descent.’ In common with Nelson and the other twelve surviving captains at the Nile, Peyton also received Davison’s Medal in gold. His example was acquired by Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris, R.N., and now resides at the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth. John Goodwin Gregory Peyton was born in Ardingly, Sussex in 1752, the son of Joseph and Katherine Peyton and scion of a distinguished naval family. His father rose to the rank of admiral, his paternal grandfather onetime served in the rank of commodore, and three of his brothers also opted for a career in the Senior Service. In one of those strange quirks of fate known to the age of sail, father and son were to fight alongside each other aboard H.M.S. Cumberland at the ‘moonlight battle’ off Cape St. Vincent in January 1780. John is believed to have entered the Royal Navy aboard his father’s ship, H.M.S. Belleisle, in 1766, although his early career is not well documented. Having then gained his Lieutenancy in February 1772, he appears to have remained under his father’s patronage. He was, as stated, serving in Peyton senior’s command the Cumberland at the ‘moonlight battle’ off Cape St. Vincent in January 1780. Peyton junior’s first command was the 10-gun schooner Kite, in which he captured the privateer Fantasque off Dunkirk in March 1782. He was advanced to Commander and, in January of the following year, he was appointed to the command of the 74-gun Carnatic, but it proved to be a short-lived assignment and he was placed on half-pay. In July 1794, Peyton returned to sea with command of the 38-gun Seahorse and spent the next two years on the Irish station. On 29 August 1795, in an action alongside two of her consorts, Seahorse captured the Dutch East Indiaman Cromhout, whilst in May 1796 she was credited taking the French cutter L’Abrille. It appears Peyton was placed back on half-pay about this time, although one source credits him with command of the Ceres on the Mediterranean station. Either way, he was by now a full-fledged Captain, R.N. Nelson’s Band of Brothers In May 1798, Peyton was appointed to the command of the 74-gun Defence and he is said to have shared a coach with Nelson’s wife, Fanny, to Portsmouth, where he was embarked for the Mediterranean in the Admiral’s flagship Vanguard. He surely enjoyed the great man’s company and hospitality over the coming weeks, prior to joining the Defence on station in June. The scene was now set for the epic battle of the Nile, Earl St. Vincent, the C.-in-C. of the Mediterranean, being able to confirm that ten ships, including Defence, were ready to join Nelson’s squadron. In so doing, he told the First Lord of the Admiralty: ‘The whole of these ships are in excellent order, and so well officered, manned and appointed I am confident they will perform everything to be expected of them.’ And so it proved at Aboukir Bay on 1 August 1798, when Nelson’s combined force of 15 ships delivered a stunning victory over the French fleet. For his part, Peyton was credited with commanding the Defence with ‘good sense and courage’. Defence’s log records Nelson’s signal to prepare for battle at 4.00 p.m., when the enemy ships were some nine or ten miles distant, and his next signal at 6.20 p.m. to engage the van. Defence duly took-on the 74-gun Peuple Souverain, already under attack on her other beam by Orion. Firing continued for three hours until 10.00 p.m. when Peuple Souverain cut her cable and drifted away completely mastless. Just five minutes later, Defence manoeuvred to attack the 80-gun Franklin which was already engaged with the Swiftsure. Firing continued until 11.20 p.m. when Franklin hailed Defence to say that she had struck. Both enemy ships suffered heavily, in damage and casualties. For her own part, Defence suffered the loss of her bowsprit and fore topmast and had to replace her main topmast with a jury rig. Given the duration of her ferocious duels and in common with most of her consorts, her human loss was surprisingly light: three seamen and one marine killed, nine seamen and two marines injured; fifteen casualties in all. In writing home to his wife on 13 August, Peyton stated: ‘My ever Dear Love I write you by the Leander who sailed from hence the 6th instant with the Admiral’s dispatches since which we have been busily employed refitting our own ships & prizes. Tomorrow we shall sail & make the best of our way to Gibraltar or Lisbon - & I should hope ultimately to England - at any rate my own Dear Susan, we shall be better situated to hear from each other - no small comfort to both parties - I have my fears you will hear of our action through France before the Leander can probably arrive in England & that in consequence you as well as many others will be kept for some time in a state of anxiety. The more I think of our victory, & its consequences the more I am gratified - & if Bonaparte should fail in his expedition - which we here flatter ourselves that he may - I believe peace not very far distant … The three frigates, Alcmene & Emerald & Bonne Citoyenne that have been looking for us these two months are now coming in - truly mortified they must be - in not meeting us until after the action. I hope to have John dine with me. I think the Captains will get two thousand pounds perhaps more if all our prizes get to England. The Emerald has just passed us & gone to endeavour to free one of our prizes that is aground so that I fear I shall not see John. I must send this to Capt. Capel who leaves us this afternoon. Believe me ever your faithful affectionate husband John Peyton P.S. I find myself a stouter man since the action, another such would make me a fine young fellow. God bless you. The French fleet on the coast of Egypt.’ What made Defence’s role in the battle particularly noteworthy was the fact that most of her crew had been laid low by fever and scurvy. Peyton himself was unwell, writing to Nelson four weeks before the battle that the effect of the weather on his weakening constitution, ‘will make it very unjustifiable in retaining a situation I shall not be equal to.’ Although he somehow managed to take part in the battle, by the end of October 1798 the Earl St. Vincent informed the First Lord of the Admiralty that Peyton was ‘in a deplorable state of health’. He nonetheless took Defence to Gibraltar for repairs, arriving these in mid-September. Following which, in November, he took his passage home in the Colossus. In January 1799, Peyton sent a letter Nelson, explaining that his health was improving. It clearly did the rounds before catching up with the great man in Vanguard in May 1799. But when it did, he responded enthusiastically: ‘It was onl...
The exceptional Second War D-Day Immediate D.S.M. group of five awarded to Stoker 1st Class W. G. Ingram, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his services in L.C.A. 722, which was damaged by enemy fire when landing U.S. Rangers on Pointe Du Hoc, four miles west of Omaha Beach, where the Rangers were tasked with destroying a German coastal battery of six 155mm. howitzers Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Sto. 1 W. G. Ingram. P/KX.179183)officially engraved naming; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £2,400-£2,800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Noble Auctions, Sydney, April 2005. D.S.M. London Gazette 28 November 1944: ‘For gallantry, skill, determination and undaunted devotion to duty during the landing of Allied Forces on the coast of Normandy.’ The original recommendation states: ‘He showed conspicuous skill and courage when his craft L.C.A. 722 was damaged by enemy action whilst under machine gunfire. Ingram made great efforts to repair his craft’s engines; although unsuccessful, his devotion to duty was a great example.’ Remarks of Intermediate Authority: ‘This rating had a very difficult task whilst landing U.S. Rangers on Pointe du Hoc.’ Walter Gordon Ingram, who was from Wandsworth, London, was embarked in H.M.S. Ben My Chree on the eve of Operation ‘Neptune’. An ex-Isle of Man ferry of 2,586 tons, which had been converted for use as a Landing Ship Infantry (Heavy), she was charged with transporting three companies of the 2nd U.S. Ranger Battalion to Normandy on D-Day. Thence disembarked to smaller assault landing craft, including L.C.A. 722 with Ingram, the Rangers arrived, under fire, at Pointe du Hoc in the Omaha Beach area, where they were assigned the unenvious mission of capturing the enemy positions on the high cliffs above. A glimpse of L.C.A. 722 and her occupants in action is to be found in the records of the 2nd Ranger Battalion’s assault on Pointe du Hoc: ‘Twenty yards left of Colonel Rudder’s craft, L.C.A. 722 hit shore with IS Company, E Rangers, five Headquarters’ men, a Stars and Stripes photographer, and a Commando officer who had assisted the Rangers in training. Touchdown was made at the edge of a crater, and the men could not avoid it in debarking. Enemy grenades were ineffectual, and the craters and debris on the beach gave sufficient cover from enfilading fire from the left. The only casualty was Pfc. John J. Sillman, wounded three times as the craft came in, hit twice on the beach, and destined to survive. A good deal of assorted equipment came on this craft, including the S.C.R. 284, two pigeons, a 60mm. mortar with ammunition, and some demolitions. All were got ashore without loss, though it took manoeuvring to avoid the deep water in the crater. Tech. 4 C. S. Parker and two other communications men hefted the big radio set on a pack board, and managed to get it in and working before the first climbers from 722 reached the top. The rockets had been fired just before landing. One ladder and one plain rope got up and held (L.C.A. 722 had experienced no trouble with water, and the ropes were comparatively dry). The single rope lay in a slight crevice, but the ladder came down on an overhang where it seemed exposed to the flanking fire and would be hard to climb. Tech. 5 Edward P. Smith tried the plain rope and found he could easily ‘walk it up.’ On top, three or four minutes after landing, he saw a group of Germans to his right throwing grenades over the cliff. Sgt. Hayward A. Robey joined Smith with a BAR. Robey lay in a shallow niche at the cliff edge and sprayed the grenadiers with 40 or 50 rounds fast fire. Three of the enemy dropped and the rest disappeared into shelters. Pfc. Frank H. Petersen, lightly wounded on the beach by a grenade, joined up and the three Rangers went off on their mission without waiting for the climbers. The mortar section in this boat team remained below, according to plan, with the purpose of setting up their 60mm. on the beach to deliver supporting fire. But the beach was too exposed to make this practicable, and time was consumed in getting ammunition from the one surviving supply craft. About 0745 the mortar team went on top without having yet fired … ’ Subsequently, in one of the most famous episodes of the landings, with covering fire from the destroyers H.M.S. Talybont and U.S.S. Satterlee, three companies of Rangers stormed the enemy’s battery positions and eliminated the remaining garrison. Thereafter, they maintained their position throughout the day. Sold with copied research.
The excessively rare Lake Tanganyika 1915-16 Expedition D.S.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant A. E. Wainwright, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, “The Old Loco Driver” and mainstay of that remarkable team of Jack Tars who transported two gunboats through 100 miles of African jungle to successfully challenge German superiority on Lake Tanganyika - and inspire C. S. Forester’s “The African Queen” Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., the reverse hallmarked London 1916; 1914-15 Star (S. Lt. A. E. Wainwright. R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. E. Wainwright. R.N.V.R.) extremely fine (4) £20,000-£24,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Richard Magor Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, July 2003. D.S.C. London Gazette 31 May 1916: ‘In recognition of his services in command of a motor boat on Lake Tanganyika on the occasion of the destruction of the German gunboat “Hedwig von Wissman” on 9 February 1916.’ No single achievement during the Great War was distinguished by more bizarre features than the successfully executed undertaking of 28 daring men who transported a ‘ready-made’ Navy overland through the wilds of Africa to destroy an enemy flotilla in control of Lake Tanganyika. In the summer of 1915, the key to success in Central Africa lay in the overwhelming German supremacy on Lake Tanganyika. Just how this was challenged by a force of two motor boats commanded by an eccentric Naval Officer with a talent for public relations is one of the most extraordinary stories of the whole War. To cover the three thousand miles or so that lay between Cape Town and the Lake, the boats had to be hauled by steam traction engines and ox trains over more than a hundred miles of extremely wild and difficult country, where there were no roads or communications of any kind. The whole journey, by barely navigable rivers and narrow-gauge railways, through country where sleeping-sickness and other ghastly diseases were rife, is one of the strangest passages in the history of the Royal Navy. The two boats, with a small expeditionary force under the command of Commander G. Spicer Simpson, R.N., arrived at Cape Town towards the end of June 1915. By the 23 December the Mimi and Toutou, as the boats were christened, had been successfully launched on the Lake, and three days later the first action was fought. Lieutenant A. E. Wainwright, R.N.V.R., who had established his authority from the beginning, was a man to whom everyone turned in an emergency. He was already known affectionately to the ratings as “The Old Loco Driver”. In fact he was a great deal more. He had worked for many years in Africa, not only on coming up with the railway from Beira to Rhodesia, but on transport work with oxen, traction engines and native labour. He had a large farm in Rhodesia, raising cattle and growing mealies, which he had left in charge of a partner in order to return home and enlist in Kitchener’s Army. Commander Spicer Simpson was deferential, almost apologetic towards Wainwright, as if he were a bit afraid of him. He never gave him a direct order, it was always “Mr. Wainwright, I am thinking you might do this or that”, or “I’d be much obliged to you, Mr. Wainwright,” all without the least hint of sarcasm. He could not have failed to notice that the battle had enhanced and clinched the admiration of all hands, officers and men alike, for “The Old Loco Driver”. The first encounter with the enemy took place on 26 December, resulting in the capture of the German gunboat Kingani, a vessel of 30-40 tons, armed with one gun. A 12-pounder was mounted on her, and as H.M.S. Fifi she proved to be a valuable addition to the British Flotilla. This left the enemy with two ships, the Graf von Gotzen, a vessel of 400-500 tons carrying one 4-inch and two smaller guns, and the Hedwig von Wissman, a gunboat of about three times the tonnage of the captured one. Wainwright was placed in command of the Mimi, whilst Spicer Simpson embarked in the Fifi and on 6 February 1916 the Hedwig von Wissman was attacked by both of them, and sunk after a running fight of three hours duration. The result was largely due to the skilful manoeuvring of the two British vessels. The Mimi kept astern of the enemy and out of range of his after gun, causing him to tack from side to side in order to bring his foremost gun to bear, and thus delaying him until the Fifi could get within range. Finally a high explosive shell from the Fifi destroyed the enemy’s engines. Before she sank, the Germans abandoned ship, and all except two Europeans and three natives, who had been killed, were picked up by the Fifi and Mimi. It would have been satisfactory if the third and largest of the German ships could have been accounted for by the British Flotilla, but she did not risk an engagement. After being bombed by a Belgian aeroplane, she was scuttled by the Germans in Kigoma Harbour, on the eastern shore of the Lake. So ended Germany’s command of Tanganyika. Apart from the material loss inflicted on the enemy, the success of the Naval Expedition did much to enhance British prestige among the natives, not only in the immediate neighbourhood of the Lake, but also in the northern districts of Rhodesia and in adjacent German territory. In consequence of the great success of the expedition, Spicer Simpson was awarded the D.S.O., Wainwright and two other officers the D.S.C., and 12 ratings the D.S.M. For further reading, in addition to the more well known title Phantom Flotilla, there is a superbly illustrated article, Transporting a Navy Through the Jungles of Africa in War Time, which appeared in The National Geographic Magazine in October 1922, by Frank G. Magee (copy included). Although C. S. Forester’s famous novel The African Queen has a somewhat different story line, it was undoubtedly inspired by the Lake Tanganyika Expedition of 1915-16. So, too, of course, the subsequent oscar-winning film starring Humphrey Bogart.
The exceptional Victorian C.B. group of four awarded to Admiral C. Fellowes, Royal Navy, a seemingly fearless bluejacket of ‘splendid strength’ who on one occasion parried the thrust of an opponent’s bayonet and ‘literally tore his arm out of its socket’ Mentioned in despatches on several occasions, Fellows was promoted to Commander for his gallantry in actions against Chinese pirates in 1854 and to Captain for his deeds in the Second Opium War: wounded at the storming of Canton in 1857, he was the first member of the Naval Brigade to scale the city’s wall and seized a Chinese colour that Queen Victoria later gifted to Greenwich Hospital The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 18 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1870, complete with gold ribbon buckle; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Chas. Fellowes. Lieut. “Spartan”; Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1858, unnamed as issued, some light contact marks, otherwise good very fine or better (4) £4,000-£5,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. C.B. London Gazette 20 May 1871. Charles Fellowes was born at Potterne, Wiltshire on 19 October 1823, the son of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Fellowes, C.B., by his second wife, Mary Anne Catherine, only child of the late Colonel Isaac Humphreys, Bengal Artillery. On passing his examination in October 1842, Fellowes served as a Mate on the North America, West Indies and Pacific Stations over the next two or three years. And it was during this period - whilst employed in H.M.S. America - that he had his close encounter with a bayonet-toting opponent. John Moresby, a shipmate, takes up the story in The Admirals: ‘An incident occurred in Rio which illustrated the strength and presence of mind of Charlie Fellowes. Three Yankee frigates were in the harbour at the same time as the America and frequent drunken brawls took place between the British and American sailors; in one of the more violent of these incidents, the Brazilian police tried to arrest the ring leaders, but the sailors joined forces against the police and the army was called in to assist. The Brazilian soldiers with fixed bayonets forced the sailors back, wounding several of them. At this moment, Charlie Fellowes, whose splendid strength and presence attracted notice wherever he went, ran up and placed himself at their head, holding the Brazilians in check as he retreated slowly towards the quay, where his men would be in comparative safety. He accomplished his object and was the last man back to the quay when a Brazilian soldier lunged at him with his bayonet. Quick as a thought, Charlie Fellowes jumped aside and catching the man by the wrist, literally tore his arm out of his socket and flung him on the ground. The affair produced a diplomatic row, the Brazilian Government immediately demanding that Charlie Fellowes be given up to the civil authorities. However the America left Rio at once and heard no more of the matter.’ Advanced to Lieutenant in June 1846, Fellows went on to witness active service in the Spartan and Winchester on the East Indies Station, being landed with the Naval Brigade for the expedition to Pegu. He was subsequently present in the boats of Spartan and Winchester on the Pegu River at the attack on the city of Prome in September 1852 and on the city of Pegu in November 1852, and was commended by Commodore Sir Rowly Lambert, K.C.B., Commander in Chief, East Indies Station. In November 1854, having been ‘most creditably engaged in various enterprises against pirates in Chinese waters,’ Fellows was selected by Admiral Sir James Stirling to take charge of Winchester’s boats and those of Spartan, five in number, to take action against a robbery which had been committed in one of the channels leading into the harbour of Hong Kong. Early on the morning of the 2nd, he destroyed three boats on the beach in Pilang Bay and burnt six houses, and the stronghold of the freebooters. On the same day the force under his command also brought out two junks which had run on shore in Tynmoon Bay, took two Hong Kong fast boats, torched two junks up a creek, and blew up one of 200 tons, killing from 40 to 50 men and capturing nine guns and seven gingals. During these operations the small British force landed frequently and was exposed to a sharp fire from the enemy who were often concealed behind rocks, some of the boats occasionally grounding. In his subsequent report to the Admiralty, Sir James Stirling expressed his hope that ‘the entire success of the operation, and the very judicious and gallant conduct evinced by Lieutenant Fellowes, and the excellent behaviour of all who were employed under him, might meet with their lordships approbation’ (London Gazette 8 October 1855, refers). Fellowes went on to destroy 19 junks at Tyloo, in the island of Lantao, the crews of which had been previously driven out by a few well aimed shot and shell from Encounter, once again winning Sir James Stirling’s highest commendation (London Gazette 8 October 1855, refers). On 11 November 1854, in Winchester’s launch, he accompanied an expedition under Captain O’Callaghan to co-operate with the Chinese authorities in an attack upon pirates at their headquarters at Coulan, in the island of Tyloo, which was reached on 12th. During the following night he was employed in effectively blockading the Bay of Coulan. In the course of the 13th, he landed under fire from a battery of 20 guns, with a small body of armed men, and assisted at the capture of a second battery of 7 guns, in addition to contributing to the destruction of about 50 strongly armed junks. On the 14th he was directed to superintend and cover in his launch the landing of 60 ratings and marines who had been embarked on board the P. & O. steam vessel Charles Forbes and who had been directed to search the scene of the previous day’s achievement for prisoners and for lost property. In narrating these events Captain O’Callaghan in his official letter to Admiral Sir James Stirling remarked, ‘For Lieutenant Fellowes, Senior Lieutenant of your flagship, I have to assure you I cannot say too much in his praise - always willing and ready for anything.’ In recognition of his sustained gallantry, Fellowes was promoted to Commander in January 1855. Having then served in Winchester in the Gulf of Peter the Great in August 1855, whilst searching for the Russian squadron commanded by Vasily Zavoyko, Fellowes was appointed to the Cruiser in July 1856. And it was in that capacity that he added further laurels to his distinguished record back on the China Station, a notable action being his part in the capture and destruction of more than 70 heavily armed junks in Fatshan creek in June 1857. Subsequently, at the storming of Canton City in the following December, he was attached to the 3rd Division of the Naval Brigade, under Sir Robert McClure, and with Captains J. L. C. Hamilton and J. F. Slight, had charge of the scaling ladders. In the event, he was the first man of the Naval Brigade over the city wall and received a wound in the head. As a reward for his gallantry on that occasion, in which he also captured a Chinese colour, he was promoted to Captain in February 1858 (London Gazette 11 January 1856, refers). Having then served as Flag Captain to the C.-in-C. of the Channel Squadron and C.-in-C. of the Mediterranean Station, Fellows commanded the Duke of Wellington and the Duncan, the la...
The Second War group of three awarded to Acting Sub-Lieutenant R. C. A. Barnes, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who killed in action in the ill-fated raid on Dieppe in August 1942 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, with original Admiralty condolence slip in the name of ‘Temporary Acting Sub-Lieutenant Raymond Charles Arthur Barnes, R.N.V.R.’ and in their O.H.M.S. card forwarding box addressed to his father, extremely fine (3) £400-£500 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2002. Raymond Charles Arthur Barnes was born in Romford, Essex in April 1921, the son of Charles Frederick and Ellen Matilda Barnes, who later moved to Banstead, Surrey. At the time of his death in action at Dieppe on 19 August 1942, aged 21, Barnes was borne on the books of the shore establishment H.M.S. Tormentor at Warsash, Hampshire, the Combined Operations principal landing craft training base. Although the exact circumstances of his fate are unknown, he was most likely killed manning a landing craft. Two fellow officers from Tormentor were killed on the same occasion, Temporary Lieutenant Edgar Hunt, R.N.V.R. and Lieutenant-Commander Charles Corke, R.N.V.R. The fate of Corke is described by Hilary St. George Saunders in Combined Operations: ‘Six landing craft made a landing in broad daylight 25 minutes late on one of the two chosen beaches near Berneval, and a seventh at the other. The six, which through the mischance of the naval action, arrived late, came under heavy fire. They were led by Lieutenant-Commander C. L. Corke, R.N.V.R., covered by the fire of Motor Launch 346, which subsequently engaged and drove ashore a small armed German tanker, the “Franz.” Lieutenant-Commander Corke was soon mortally wounded, his coxswain killed and the wheel taken by a private soldier. The troops were landed from the craft, which was in a sinking condition. Lieutenant-Commander Corke gave orders for the wounded to be transferred to another craft; but he, a dying man, would endanger no man's life, and so he remained where he was alone and went down with his ship … ’ In common with Lieutenant-Commander C. L. Corke, Barnes has no known grave. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
The rare and important Second War St. Nazaire raid D.S.C. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Commander (E.) W. H. Locke, Royal Navy, who was Warrant Engineer aboard H.M.S. Campbeltown and taken P.O.W. after the loss of M.L. 177 Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1945’, hallmarks for London 1948; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (Lt. Cdr. W. H. Locke. R.N.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed, mounted court-style as worn, good very fine or better (7) £30,000-£40,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2008. D.S.C. London Gazette 11 September 1945: ‘For gallantry, determination and devotion to duty in H.M.S. Campbeltown in the raid on St. Nazaire in March 1942.’ Wilfrid Harry Locke was born in Surrey on 5 March 1910 and entered the Royal Navy in January 1926. Appointed as a Warrant Engineer in October 1941, he was placed in charge of the engine-room of the former American four-stacker Campbeltown in early 1942, which ship had been allocated a key role in forthcoming Operation ‘Chariot’, namely to ram the southern caisson of the Normandie Dock in St. Nazaire, laden with delayed action explosives, thereby destroying the facility and denying the Tirpitz use of the only suitable dry-dock on the Atlantic coast. Accordingly, over a two-week period in March 1942, the Campbeltown was fitted out at Devonport and outwardly altered to resemble a German Mowe-class torpedo boat, while internally she was fitted with a special tank containing four tons of T.N.T. and eight-hour delay fuses, which were to be activated two hours before she reached the Normandie Dock. Setting out on her final voyage with the raiding force on 26 March, she took over as Force Leader shortly after midnight on the 28th, when seven and a half miles remained in the run up the Loire. Finally, at about 0130, with less than two miles to go, the German defences awoke. C. E. Lucas Phillips takes up the story in The Greatest Raid of All: ‘A continuous stream of projectiles of all sorts was now striking the Campbeltown, but so violent was the sound of our own weapons that the ring of bullets on her hull and the crack of small shells was hardly noticed; but when larger shells shook her from stem to stern none could be unaware, and what every survivor was to remember for ever afterwards was the unchecked glow of the darts of red and green tracer flashing and hissing across her deck and the quadruple whistle of the Bofors shells. Bullets penetrated her engine and boiler-rooms, ricocheting from surface to surface like hornets, and Locke, the Warrant Engineer, ordered hands to take cover between the main engines of the condensers, except for the throttle watchkeepers ...’ With 200 yards to go a searchlight fortuitously illuminated the check-point of the lighthouse on the end of the Old Mole, enabling Lieutenant-Commander S. H. Beattie on the Campbeltown’s bridge to correct his aim on the caisson. Having then ploughed through the steel anti-torpedo net, the old four-stacker closed on her collision course at 20 knots, and every man aboard braced himself for the impact. At 0134 the Campbeltown crashed into the gate, rearing up and tearing the bottom out of her bows for nearly 40 feet. Commando assault and demolition parties streamed ashore, while below the sea cocks were opened to ensure the Germans could not remove her before she blew up. As she settled by the stern, Beattie evacuated the crew via M.G.B. 314, and Lieutenant Mark Rodier’s M.L. 177. Locke and Beattie, with some 30 or more of Campbeltown’s crew boarded the latter, and started off down river at 0157 hours. Lucas Phillips continues: ‘The boat was embarrassingly overcrowded but Winthrop, Campbeltown’s doctor, helped by Hargreaves, the Torpedo-Gunner, continued to dress and attend to the wounded both above and below deck. Very soon, however, they were picked up again by the searchlights lower down the river and came under fire from Dieckmann’s dangerous 75mm and 6.6-inch guns. Rodier took evasive action as he was straddled with increasing accuracy. The end came after they had gone some three miles. A shell ... hit the boat on the port side of the engine-room lifting one engine bodily on top of the other and stopping both. Toy, the Flotilla Engineer Officer, went below at once. Beattie left the bridge and went down also. He had no sooner left than another shell hit the bridge direct. Rodier was mortally wounded and died a few minutes afterwards ... The engine room was on fire, burning fiercely, and the sprayer mechanism for fire-fighting had also been put out of action. Toy, who had come up momentarily, at once returned to the blazing compartment but was never seen again. Locke, Campeltown’s Warrant Engineer, was able partially to repair the extinguisher mechanism. The flames amidships divided the crowded ship in two, but the ship’s company continued to fight the fire for some three hours by whatever means available. At length, when all means had failed and the fire had spread throughout the boat, the order to abandon ship was given at about 5 a.m. One Carley raft had been damaged, but few of the wounded ratings were got away on the other, and the remainder of those alive entered the icy water, many of them succumbing to the ordeal. All of Campbeltown’s officers were lost except Beattie and Locke, among those who perished being the brilliant and devoted Tibbets, to whose skill and resourcefulness the epic success of the raid was so much due and whose work was soon to be triumphantly fulfilled.’ Locke and the other survivors were rounded up by the Germans by 0930 hours, which was expected to be the last possible time for the acid-eating, delayed action fuses in Campbeltown to work. Thus it was with all the more satisfaction that at 1035 hours the British prisoners, gathered together in small groups across the St. Nazaire area, heard the terrific explosion which blew in the caisson and vaporised Campbeltown’s bows. The stern section was swept forward on a great surge of water and carried inside the Normandie Dock where it sank. Thus, the main goal of the operation was achieved for a cost of 169 dead and about 200 taken P.O.W., many of them wounded, out of an original raiding force of 611 men. Yet only six of Campbeltown’s gallant crew were eventually decorated, Beattie being awarded the Victoria Cross. For his own part, the wounded Locke was hospitalised at Le Baule and Rennes, prior to being transferred to Marlag und Milag Nord camp at Tarnstedt at the end of April 1942. Nor was he a willing prisoner, official records revealing his part in the digging of a 130ft. tunnel from the camp’s dining room in September 1943, as part of a team of 30 men. That having been discovered by the enemy, he joined a team of 60 men in April 1944 in digging another tunnel parallel to the old one, but this too was discovered when a section of the roof collapsed. He also volunteered to make a hasty exit by wire cutting, but this plan was vetoed by the Escaping Committee. His award of the D.S.C. was not gazetted until after his liberation, a distinction that prompted his former boss, Lord Mountbatten, to write in person: ‘From my personal knowledge as Chief of Combined Operations, I know how well deserved this recognition is and am delighted to see that the part you played in such a hazardous expedition has been recognised nearly four years afterwards. I hope that you have fully recovered from your captivity and should like to wis...
The Indian Mutiny Medal awarded to Boatswain’s Mate John Harrison, Royal Navy, a member of Shannon’s Naval Brigade who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his conspicuous gallantry at Lucknow Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (John Harrison, Boatsn’s Mate. Shannon.) nearly extremely fine £14,000-£18,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Colonel Walford collection, Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, July 1897; Brian Ritchie Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2004. Harrison’s Victoria Cross is held by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. John Harrison, the son of John Harrison, an estate carpenter, was born at Castleborough, Co. Wexford, on 24 January 1832, and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 2 February 1850. Rated an Ordinary Seaman on joining his first ship, the Prometheus, he removed to the line-of-battle ship Agamemnon in February 1853 and served in her throughout the Crimean War. He left Agamemnon in July 1856 as Leading Seaman and Coxswain of the Pinnace, and in the October following joined the Shannon, a new screw steam frigate of fifty-one guns, commanded by Captain William Peel, V.C., R.N. In early 1857 Peel received orders to prepare for service in China, where the exasperating behaviour of the Emperor and his officials in refusing to abide by the terms of the Nanking Treaty had brought the two countries to the brink of war. Peel was to proceed to Singapore, pick up the Ambassador Extraordinary, Lord Elgin, and convey him to the mouth of the Peiho River, where the latter was to make a last appeal to the Chinese before the Government resorted to full scale naval and military operations. The Shannon sailed on 17 March 1857, and reached Singapore on 11 June. On Elgin’s way out to Singapore, his P. & O. steamer had touched Galle in Ceylon to pick up Lieutenant-General the Hon. T. Ashburnham, who had been appointed to the command of the land forces in China. Ashburnham had sketchy reports of unrest among the Sepoys in India, but it was not until they reached Singapore that the full horror of the insurrection was revealed. Elgin then received an urgent request from the Governor General of India, Viscount Canning, appealing for the troops assigned to the China venture. Unable to contact his superiors in London, Elgin acted on his own authority and diverted the troops. He later won much credit for doing so, but this left only the Shannon to reinforce Sir Michael Seymour’s inadequate naval force on the China Station and press Britain’s claims against the Imperial government. Arriving at Hong Kong on 2 July, Elgin found that the French Ambassador, with whom he was to make his representations, was still on his way out, and that it would be sometime before he could carry out his mission. He therefore instructed Peel to sail for Calcutta so that he could have talks with Lord Canning. The Shannon entered the Hooghly on 8 August 1857, carrying a detachment of the 90th Light Infantry, picked up at Singapore after their own transport, the Transit, had been wrecked, and was welcomed by the European inhabitants with wild enthusiasm and no small sense of relief. Elgin lost no time in ascertaining the seriousness of the situation and on hearing of the chronic shortage of artillery, immediately offered to place the ship’s company and guns from H.M.S. Shannon at Canning’s disposal. A Naval Brigade was formed and on 13 August, Peel set out for Allahabad taking with him 408 officers and men, six 8-inch 65 cwt. 68-pounders with 400 rounds of shot per gun, a 6-pounder brass gun, a 24-pounder howitzer, eight rocket tubes, and a large quantity of siege train stores. The first part of the journey up the Ganges by river steamer was fraught with difficulties; mosquitoes, heat-stroke, cholera and typhoid were omnipresent, and the usual lower deck problem of drunkenness was exacerbated by the searing heat of the Bengal summer. However, on marching out of Allahabad for Cawnpore on 28 October, ‘Peel’s Jacks’ or ‘The Shannons’ as they liked to be called, soon proved themselves ‘superb campaigners, able to march, fight, live off the land, handle guns and horses with equal ease, and soon won a fearsome reputation amongst the Sepoys, who firmly believed that the Jacks were all four feet high by five foot wide from snout to tail, carried 9-pounder guns over their heads, and ate human flesh as much as they could, salting down the rest for future consumption’. By 15 November 1857, the Naval Brigade had reached the Alumbagh, just outside Lucknow, and came under the command of the recently arrived Commander-in-Chief, Sir Colin Campbell. Next day as Sir Colin strove to effect the relief of the Lucknow Residency, Peel’s Naval Brigade, which now consisted of about 200 sailors and marines, with six 24-pounder guns, two 8-inch rocket tubes mounted on ‘hackeries’ (bullock carts), was in action bombarding the thick loopholed outer walls of the Shah Nujeff mosque. It quickly became apparent that it was going to be a tough nut to crack and Peel ordered his guns up to within a few feet of the outer walls ‘as if he had been laying Shannon alongside an enemy’s frigate’. In such an exposed position, ‘The Shannons’ began to suffer casualties not only from the mutineers’ musket fire from the walls but also from a number of rebels in a tree who were tossing out grenades on to the gun crews below. Peel called for volunteers to climb the tree, dislodge the mutineers and spot enemy positions. Three men came forward, Lieutenant Nowell Salmon, R.N., Leading Seaman John Harrison and Able Seaman Richard Southwell. Southwell was killed outright, but Harrison and Lieutenant Salmon succeeded in climbing the tree and ejecting ‘the ruffians who were throwing grenades’. Both Harrison and Salmon were recommended for the Victoria Cross by Peel, and the awards were subsequently announced in the London Gazette of 24 December 1858. The citation read: ‘John Harrison, Naval Brigade, and Nowell Salmon, Lieut. (now Commander). Date of Act of Bravery: 16 Nov. 1857. For conspicuous gallantry at Lucknow, on 16 Nov. 1857, in climbing up a tree touching the angle of the Shah Nujjiff, to reply to the fire of the enemy, for which most dangerous service the late Capt. William Peel, K.C.B., had called for volunteers.’ As there were no posthumous Victoria Cross awards at the time, Southwell’s gallantry went unacknowledged. Rated Boatswain’s Mate and Petty Officer on 27 June 1858, Harrison was discharged from the Navy on 13 January 1859, and received his Cross from Queen Victoria at an investiture held in the quadrangle of Windsor Castle on 4 January 1860. Salmon, who later rose to become Admiral of the Fleet and a G.C.B., supplied Harrison with a letter of recommendation by which he obtained a post in the Customs and Excise. As the result of a wound received during the Second Relief of Lucknow, and a bout of malaria contracted during his service in the Far East, Harrison suffered poor health and made several visits to the Naval Hospital. A man of strong religious convictions, and a firm Protestant, he lived latterly at 5, Stafford Place, Westminster. John Harrison, V.C., never married and died aged 33 on 27 September 1865. He is buried at Brompton Cemetery, West London
A Lego 76126 Marvel Avengers, Avengers Ultimate Quinjet, built, instructions (not checked for completeness); Action man; A vintage Playskool presents Richard Scarry's build and play world of Puzzletown Mayor Fox's Town Center (sic) set D, includes Mayor Fox, Mrs Murphy and Sgt Murphy, woodboard cut-outs, plastic bases and roof tiles, boxed (not checked, playworn); army figures; A boxed Artin Formula Challenge, unused, boxed; another similar slot car set, unboxed (2)
CLASSIC ROCK - 7" PACK. A quality pack of 22 classic rock 7". Artists/ titles include Queen inc We Are The Champions, Keep Yourself Alive, Lily Of The Valley. The Who inc Lets See Action, See Me Feel Me, Young Man Blues, Success Story, Join Together, I Don't Even Know Myself, Pinball Wizard, Waltz For A Pig, Water, My Generation, Wasp Man, I Can See For Miles. Jimi Hendrix inc Gipsy Eyes. The High Numbers - I'm The Face, Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall, White Heat - Foggy Notion, Mick Farren - Play With Fire, Iggy And The Stooges - I'm Sick Of You and Iggy Pop - Five Foot One. Condition is generally VG+ to Ex+, odd one may drop below.
**Comprehensive Blu-ray and DVD Film and TV Collection**A well-maintained assortment of over 70 Blu-ray and DVD titles featuring popular films, series, and box sets from diverse genres. This collection spans blockbuster movies, critically acclaimed dramas, action franchises, and notable TV series, showcasing titles primarily released between the late 2000s and early 2010s. Each item is encased in standard blue-edged Blu-ray packaging or black DVD cases, with age certifications prominently displayed, adhering to BBFC ratings.### Key Features and Titles:- **Notable Blu-ray Films**: - *Skyfall (007)*, *Spectre (007)*, *The Equalizer*, *Inception*, *I, Robot*, *The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies*, *Apollo 18*, *Inception*, *Pacific Rim 3D*, *Passengers*, and *Les Misérables*. - Marvel films including *Iron Man 2* and *Ant-Man*. - Sci-fi and action classics like *Terminator 2* and *Cowboys and Aliens*. - **DVD Box Sets and TV Collections**: - *Prison Break* multiple season box sets (*Seasons 1-4*). - BBC’s *Peaky Blinders: Series Two*. - *Murphy’s Law* featuring complete Series One to Five. - *Homeland: The Complete First Season*.- **Comedy and Drama Box Sets**: - *Norman Wisdom 3 DVD Box Set* with a distinctive yellow design. - *Baywatch* and *Lethal Weapon Collection*.- **Special Editions**: - *Awaydays* Blu-ray featuring a tagline: "Football, Fighting, Fashion." - *Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D*. - Steelbook editions such as *Where the Wild Things Are*.### Packaging Details:- **Standard Dimensions**: Blu-ray cases roughly 17 cm x 13.5 cm, with DVDs slightly taller.- **Age Ratings**: Primarily "12", "15", and "18" certified for UK distribution.- **Region Codes**: Region B or Region Free, suitable for UK/European players.### Condition:Appears to be in good, well-preserved used condition, with notable collector-oriented items such as *Murphy’s Law* and *Prison Break* box sets.### Context:This collection reflects popular culture trends of the 2010s with themes spanning action, drama, sci-fi, and television classics. It serves as an excellent compilation for collectors, cinema enthusiasts, or those seeking a well-rounded home entertainment library.
Unboxed Action Man Polar Expedition accessory pack, two 'I can't believe it's not Action Man' figures made in Hong Kong and a selection of weapons and accessories. Some damage to the snow sledge, nothing major and some plastic weld would do the trick. Items otherwise appear in VG condition. Not available for in-house P&P
1970s onwards Action Man 12" 1/6th scale action figures, generally good plus to good, with fuzzy heads, gripping hands, Tom Stone (Geyper, Spain), Atomic Man, Adventurer (dark beard), etc. Would benefit from cleaning and repairs. Contents appear complete but unchecked. Viewing recommended. Qty 5
1990s Hasbro Action Man collection, with 12" 1/6th scale action figures (7) including Professor Gangrene, Tempest, etc., outfits, accessories and motorbike with sidecar, generally good plus to good. Would benefit from cleaning. Contents part complete and unchecked. Viewing recommended. Qty approx. 30+ (2B)
1960s onwards Action Man part-complete outfits, boots and shoes, accessories, etc., with Astronaut including Life Support Pack, Deep Sea Diver, Leeds Utd Footballer, etc., excellent to good, would benefit from washing. Contents unchecked for completeness or correctness and viewing recommended. Qty approx. 50+ (2B)
1960s onwards Action Man vehicles and equipment collection, generally good plus to good, with Armoured Car (without machine gun and spare wheel), Trailer with cloth cover, Locker, Helicopter front screen only, plus unknown make Canoe. Would benefit from cleaning and repairs. Contents part complete and unchecked. Viewing recommended. Qty 4 (2B)
Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos No’s. 39, 53, 61, 63, 65, 66, 67, 73, 82 and 84; and other Marvel comics, comprising: The Invincible Iron Man No. 8; The Invaders No’s. 15, 18 and 33; Marvel Triple Action No. 2; The Fantastic Four No. 107; The Avengers No. 147; Daredevil No. 156; Daredevil Annual No. 4; and five other Marvel comics.
ACTION MAN - MATTEL - BIG JIM - three action figures comprising an Action Man, Ken doll and BIg Jim or Mark Strong figure. All the figures are playworn and would benefit from a clean. Big Jim / Mark Strong otherwise appears to be in about good condition, and is stamped Mattel 1971. Ken has "bite marks" to hands noticed, with some fingers on right hand missing. Action Man appears to be a combination of Atomic Man head (stamped Hasbro) attached to a different body (stamped CPG 1978), the body appears to be in about good condition, the head has a bald patch and missing the clear plastic in the top of the head. The items have not been checked for completeness. (This does not constitute a guarantee.) [GM]
Palitoy - Action Man - A collection of Action Man items including a boxed Space Ranger Battle Pack, a blonde flock haired and bearded Action Man, Police Motorcycle and many clothes and accessories. They show sign of age and use and appear in Fair to Good overall condition. Unchecked for completeness. (This does not constitute a guarantee) [ba]
PALITOY - HASBRO - ACTION MAN - STRIKE FORCE - A large quantity of approximately 25 action figures including 1990s Hasbro Action Man figures, a Strike Force figure stamped 2001 and other generic, similar sized action figures together with a large quantity of accessories, clothing and weapons, including some Palitoy Action Man clothing noted. The figures and items are playworn in a range of conditions from poor to good or better, with some damage and repainting noted. The items have not been checked for completeness. (This does not constitute a guarantee.) [GM]
UK Quad Poster Collection Action/Adventure (1992-2005) -Collection of 32 posters, To include; The Saint (1997),Sudden Death (1995),The Sum of All Fears (2002),Kiss of the Dragon (2001), Swordfish (2001),Fair Game (1995) Stealth (2005), Into the Blue (2005),The Getaway (1994) The Musketeer (2001), Shaft (2000), Enemy at the Gates (2001), S.W.A.T. (2003) x 2, The Scorpion King (2002), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004),Catwoman (2004), Around the World in 80 Days (2004),Batman Begins (2005) A , Batman Begins (2005) B, Star Wars Episode 2 (2002), Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), Executive Decision (1996), The Transporter (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004),The Mummy (1999),Fortress (1992) ,The One (2001), The Brothers Grimm (2005) x 2,The Hunted (2003), Domino (2005). 30"x40",Folded.(32).
Charles Darwin, 3 titles: ‘The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits’, London, John Murray, 1897, 13th thou., original cloth gilt, ‘The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex’, L, Murray, 1871, 7th thou., volume 1 (of 2) only, 16 pp Catalogue dated January 1871, original cloth gilt, ‘Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world’, L, Ward Lock, [nd], c.1900, port. Frontis + 15 b/w plates complete, original cloth gilt (3)
LOCAL INTEREST - A First World War Killed in Action medal trio and death plaque to 11519 Private Albert Jones, 6th King's Shropshire Light Infantry. 1914-15 Star, 1914-18 War Medal and Victory Medal named to "11519 PTE. A. JONES SHROPS. L.I". Sold together with a small amount of photocopied research.Footnote:The 6th Service Battalion was formed by companies at different towns in the county, and it left the depot for Blacktown on 10th September 1914. The Battalion became a unit of the 60th Brigade and, on 21st/22nd July 1915, entrained for Folkestone en route to Boulogne. Pte. Jones was killed in action on 13th August 1915, aged 24, and buried at the Rue-du-Bois Military Cemetary, Fleuxbaix (Grave reference I.A.22).The unit war diary for 13th August 1915, 6th Battalion at Rouge de Bout and trenches at Petillon: "Casualties during the day - 1 man killed (gunshot wound to the head), 1 man seriously wounded (gunshot wound to head) and 1 man slightly wounded (remained at duty). 8.30pm "A" Company to relieve "D" Company and two platoons of "B" Company in the trenches." Albert Jones was the man killed on this day and he was the first man from the 6th Battalion to be killed in action. Sergeant E.S. Williams was the man seriously wounded and later died of his wounds.Thomas Albert Jones, known as Albert, was born in 1891 at Rushbury, near Munslow, Craven Arms. He was the son of John and Jane Jones and the husband of Rose Elizabeth Jones of 82, Elkington Street, Aston, Birmingham. He enlisted at Ludlow in late August 1914 and landed in Franche on 24th July 1915. He is commemorated on the War Memorials both at Ludlow and Wistantow.
A BOXED 1965 GILBERT THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. ILLYA KURYAKIN TV ACTION FIGURE, numbered 16125, played by David McCallum, rear of head stamped K11, wearing a dark blue Jumper, black trousers and dark blue shoes, with instructions, card slips, gun and holster, box worn the sharper edges and slightly distorted
A BOXED 1965 GILBERT THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. NAPOLEON SOLO TV ACTION FIGURE, numbered 16120, played by Robert Vaughn, rear of head stamped K90?, wearing a white shirt, black trousers and gray and black shoes, with gun and holster, card slips and instructions, wear to box edges and some slight losses to front design, box slightly distorted
A WW1 casualty medal pair, scroll, and emotive 1918 handwritten letters, awarded to 82858 Pte Tom Williams Green of the 25th Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment. To include: the British War Medal, and Victory Medal (mounted as a pair), an additional Victory Medal named to the same man, and a framed and glazed memorial scroll name to Tom Williams Green. Additionally there are several letters, written to Pte Green’s widow, 2 of which tragically confirm the death of Tom. One letter dated October 3rd 1918 is written by 97323 Pte H.Jones of the 25th King’s Liverpool Regiment. He writes ‘Mrs Green, I am very sorry to inform you that your husband has been killed while I was walking over a field. I noticed your husband laying dead and all I could do was to take out his pay book, and other things which I handed over to our orderly for which they will be forwarded over to you’. Another letter written to Mrs Green, from 2nd Lt W.M.Robertson (dated October 24th 1918), states that he was Pte Green’s Platoon Commander when he was wounded, but ‘owing to the barrage lifting I was unable to stay beside him. He fell wounded by my side and I can assure you he was not dead and no official world has come about him to date’. He goes on to add ‘I cannot find the person who wrote and told you he was killed, but if I should find him I will see that he is punished’. A third letter, written by the Rev C.P.Thomas Chaplain 1/5th London Field Ambulance, dated November 3rd 1918 appears to confirm Pte Green’s death in action on October 2nd 1918. There are also some letters of correspondence between Pte Green’s son (Captain T.E.Green) with regards to a visit to his memorial at Loos, and in that regard there is also a black and white photograph of his name on the memorial. Notes: Tom William Green was born Bruton, Somerset, but at the time of his death he was a resident of Shepherd’s Bush in London. Published records states that Pte Green was formerly of the London Regiment, using the service number 801452. His medal entitlement is confirmed as being the pair only, and the whereabouts of his memorial plaque is unknown. The pair mounted on a bar would appear to be late issue, in this instance very late indeed, with his Medal Index Card being stamped for June 29th 1982, some 64 years after his death. Both of these medals are marked with a small R to the rim. The additional Victory Medal would have been to original period issue. The circumstances surrounding how the originals became lost is unknown, but it’s assumed that his son made the application to the medal office.
Star Wars - Palitoy - Kenner - A group of four loose vintage 3 ¾" Star Wars action figures. . Lot consists of Snaggletooth with black Rebel Blaster; Greedo with black Rebel Blaster; Walrus Man with black Imperial Blaster and Hammerhead with black Imperial Blaster. All figures are marked "Hong Kong, GMFGI, 1978" and conditions appear Excellent. The originality of the weapons / accessories is untested and unverified by us, buyers need to use the detailed photos to satisfy themselves as to originality and completeness prior to bidding. (This does not constitute a guarantee) (K)
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