Great War Royal Field Artillery 1917 Shoulder Rank Uniform with Equipment and Ephemera Attributed to Lieutenant H S Percy, Wounded Twice on the Western Front, standard four pocket 1917 pattern shoulder rank service dress tunic with typical large lower pockets. Brass Royal Artillery regimental buttons to the front, pockets, cuffs and shoulder boards. Two small brass rank pips to each shoulder board. To one arm is three blue overseas service chevrons and the other arm has two bullion wire officers wound stripes. Above the breast pocket is medal ribbons for WW1 service. Roberts & Short tailors label to the collar area with inked name “H S PERCY ESQ”. Small field dressing pocket to the front of the tunic. Standard cloth lining to the interior. Accompanying the tunic is his original whip cord breeches, Sam Browne belt with cross strap and officers ammunition pouch, leather sword frog, ridding crop, two undated webbing belts, plus other associated leather straps etc. All housed in the original black storage tin with a newspaper in the bottom which would appear to have been lying in the bottom since 1919. Accompanying the uniform is a small archive of paperwork and his original engraved identity disc. Amongst the items of paperwork are his demobilisation paperwork, relinquishment of his commission document, 5th August 1914 Territorial Force Embodiment document, post war movement order for going on leave, 6th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery Mobilization Instructions booklet, 1917 Pocket History of the Regiments, various letters, Officers service book and a very nice post card sent to his mother on July 27th (1917) telling her not to worry and that he was just wounded in the shoulder and he is leaving France to return to England. An interesting time capsule grouping detailing an officers service who saw combat during WW1. Tunic has had some professional repairs to the cloth. Harold Stanley Percy was born on July 10th 1893 in West Norwood, South London. He enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery Territorial Force in 1909 and served with the regiment overseas from March 1915 until December 1916. He was first wounded in action on 20th September 1916. In January 1917 he joined the Royal Artillery Cadet school to become an officer, becoming a 2nd Lieutenant on May 6th 1917. He served in various establishments at home before returning overseas with the 18th Division Artillery where again he was wounded on July 25th 1917, two days before he wrote the postcard sent home to his mother that accompanies this group. Evacuated back to England after his second wounding, he served at various home establishments before being attached to the R.A.O.C, again serving in France in 1919.
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WW2 1944 Royal Tank Regiment Grouping, consisting of heavy canvas tank suit with two full zips to the front. Breast pockets and side pockets closed with brass press stud fasteners. Removable sergeant rank chevrons to the arm. M Belmont & Co Ltd size label to the interior cuff with clear 1944 date. Suit is complete with its fixed waist belt. Accompanying the suit is a black WW2 style RTR beret with cap badge, tank commanders headphone set, tank commanders hand held microphone, webbing map case, officers binoculars, webbing belt with ammunition pouches and Webley pistol holster, pair of goggles and winter weather / shell carrying gloves. All items show wear and use.
*A Scarce and Interesting Falklands Group of 3 awarded to Lance-Bombardier G. Wallace, of 8 (Alma) Commando Battery, this unit known as the ‘Black 8’, part of 29 Commando Regiment, Royal Artillery. This unit provided three 105mm guns in support of the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment during the attacks upon Darwin and Goose Green on 27-28 May 1982, where their guns were ‘in action almost continuously’ comprising: General Service Medal, 1962-2007, 2 clasps, Northern Ireland, N. Iraq & S. Turkey (24268811 Lbdr G Wallace RA); South Atlantic, 1982, with rosette (24268811 Gnr G Wallace RA); United Nations Medal for Cyprus, UNFICYP; Medals court-mounted on bar with reverse brooch pin as worn, with matching miniature group, the first a proudly polished very fine, remainder good very fine or better (6). Private research confirms that the above recipient served with 8 (Alma) Commando Battery, 29 Commando Regiment, Royal Artillery. This Regiment formed part of 3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines, during the Falklands War. From early on 27 May until 28 May, 8 (Alma) Commando Battery, Royal Artillery, provided artillery support in the form of three 105mm L118 light guns / howitzers to assist the main attacking force of the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment (roughly 500 men) during the attacks upon Darwin and Goose Green, which were at that time held by the Argentine 12th Infantry Regiment. Despite challenging high winds, a limited supply of equipment and ammunition, being strafed by enemy Pucara aircraft and receiving enemy artillery fire in return, 8 Commando Battery directed their fire towards the enemy targets. As Mark Adkin writes in ‘The Battle for Goose Green’: “During the 14-hour struggle to reach and secure Goose Green these three guns were in action almost continuously.” At the end of the battle, a total of 17 British and 47 Argentine soldiers were killed, with 30 to 40 members of 2 Para wounded, and a reported 961 Argentine troops (including 202 Argentine Air Force personnel of the Condor airfield) taken prisoner.
A Great War Trio & Memorial Plaque awarded to Private James Main Wallace, 1st Battalion Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, who was killed in action on 9 May 1915 – the first day of the Battle of Aubers Ridge comprising: 1914-15 Star (9892 Pte. J. M. Wallace. Cam’n Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (9892 Pte. J. M. Wallace. Cam’n Highrs.); Memorial Plaque (James Main Wallace). Private James Main Wallace was born in Holywood, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, but later lived in Kirkcudbright. He enlisted for Great War service with the 1st Battalion Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders at Dumfries, and was present with the 1st Division during the offensive to take Aubers Ridge. Launched on 9 May, it was soon after considered a disastrous attack, resulting in heavy casualties with little or no gain. A lack of artillery ammunition was cited as the cause of this failure, which brought about the ‘Shell Crisis’ of 1915. Private Wallace was killed in action during this attack on 9 May 1915, where the Cameron Highlanders and Black Watch had led and attack as the 1st wave of the 1st (Guards) Brigade just after 4.00pm. His name is commemorated at the Le Touret Memorial, France. Trio extremely fine, plaque well-polished (4)
The India General Service Medal with clasp ‘Pegu’ awarded to Lieutenant Edward St John Daniel V.C., R.N. – this, his first campaign medal. Having served in the Second Anglo-Burmese war, he later became Aide-De-Camp to Captain Robert Peel throughout the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny. At the age of just seventeen, Daniel was the youngest of the recipients of the new ‘Victoria Cross’ awarded in early 1857, and his citation records no fewer than 3 separate occasions upon which he showed his bravery. These included carrying powder under fire at Balaklava, remaining at a dangerous and exposed post at the Battle of Inkermann, and then ultimately saving Captain Peel’s life through the timely application of a tourniquet to his superior’s arm upon the glacis of the Redan - afterwards returning him to safety on the 18th of June 1855. Lieutenant Edward Daniel remains the only officer to have had his V.C. forfeited, having deserted his ship at Corfu to avoid a court-martial regarding his increasingly erratic behaviour, comprising: India General Service, 1854-1895, single clasp, Pegu (Edd. St. J. Daniel. Nl. Cadet. “Winchester”), officially impressed in small upright capitals, with length of old and possibly contemporary ribbon, attractively toned,just one or two tiny surface marks, good very fine. V.C.: London Gazette: 24 February 1857: ‘Sir Stephen Lushington recommends this Officer: 1st. For answering a call for volunteers to bring in powder to the Battery, from a waggon in a very exposed position under a destructive fire, a shot having disabled the horses. (This was reported by Captain Peel, commanding the Battery at the time.) 2nd. For accompanying Captain Peel at the Battle of Inkermann as Aide-de-camp. 3rd. For devotion to his leader, Captain Peel, on the 18th June, 1855, in tying a tourniquet on his arm on the glacis of the Redan, whilst exposed to a very heavy fire.’ Lieutenant Edward St John Daniel (1837-1868) was born 17 January 1837 at Nailsea, near Clifton, Somerset, and was baptised on 6April that year. He was the first child of Edward Daniel, a well-known local solicitor, and Babara Daniel (née Bedford), the granddaughter of the 12th Baron St John, and together they would have a further 4 children. Edward Daniel enlisted into the Royal Navy as a naval cadet with H.M.S. Dauntless on 7 January 1851, just prior to his 14th birthday. After just over a year, in March 1852 he had a short spell aboard H.M.S. Blenheim, before transferring to the frigate H.M.S. Winchester in March 1852, commanded by Captain Granville Loch. Edward saw action soon afterwards in the Second Anglo-Burmese War of 1852-53. Arriving in late 1852, and with Martaban, Rangoon, Bassein and Pegu successfully occupied, Captain Loch; upon whom the Irawaddi command had devolved, continued in October that year to pacify areas further up the Irawaddi River. He proceeded upstream in ships’ boats taken from the Winchester, Hastings, Fox and Sphinx and other H.E.I.C. vessels, and launched various combined naval and military expeditions ashore, including the reduction and storming of a fortified position at Prome. Pegu meanwhile saw further fighting, but was once again captured and held in November and December 1852. With most of the key coastal areas now secure, an expedition was despatched to attack the jungle stronghold of Donabew; commanded by a rebellious local warlord called Nya Myat Toon, who continued to resist to the British annexation of Pegu. In February 1853 Captain Loch led a party of 185 seamen, 62 marines and 25 officers from H.M.S. Winchester alongside 300 troops of the 67th Bengal Native Infantry under Major Minchin to confront the enemy. Tragically; and whilst leading the approach through a narrow jungle defile, Loch was mortally wounded by gunshot through the body, and his troops met with deadly resistance in this unexpected reverse for the British forces. This defeat would later be avenged, but for his part in the campaign, Cadet Daniel was awarded the India General Service Medal with clasp ‘Pegu’. It is recorded that during his time in Burma, Edward Daniel would begin to suffer from painful leg ulcers (possibly the very serious bacterial skin infection now known as ‘jungle rot’) which troubled him throughout his life, and seems to confirm a direct involvement in the latter expedition. After this experience in the East he transferred in March 1853 to H.M.S. Contest for a period of 6 months before again transferring to H.M.S. Diamond, under the command of Captain William Peel – an officer who would play a major role in his life thereafter, and would also earn the Victoria Cross. Cadet Daniel was promoted to Midshipman on 8 September 1853 - the following day - and remained with H.M.S. Diamond when it was despatched soon afterwards to the Crimea in 1854. Upon arrival, men from Diamond formed part of the Naval Brigade of Captain Stephen Lushington, of H.M.S. Albion. It was here that Midshipman Daniel was appointed A.D.C. to Captain Peel, alongside his other A.D.C. Midshipman Evelyn Henry Wood, of H.M.S. Queen, another man who would later gain the Victoria Cross. As described in the aforementioned citations, Edward Daniel displayed remarkable bravery during some of the bloodiest battles of the Crimean War, remaining always beside the gallant Captain Peel. His first display of bravery took place on 18 October 1854, as British forces made preparations for the Siege of Sebastopol. Diamond’s guns were now set up as a battery ashore, and it was here that Daniel volunteered to bring up heavy zinc-lined boxes of ammunition (each weighing 112 pounds) from a nearby cart whose horses had already been shot and killed.
A 1944 wire cutter in its original webbing holster, a blackout torch, a felt covered metal water bottle with webbing strap, a .38 webbing holster dated 1941, an ammunition pouch dated 1942, a pair of webbing gaiters, a 'pig sticker' bayonet and pistol cleaning rod, a rifle pull-through and various canvas straps in a webbing bag and a clothes brush dated 1941.
A Gevelot inert cartridge display board, the glazed varnished oak frame containing an extensive selection of sporting, rifle and pistol cases and cartridges in a linear form, interspersed with circular displays surrounding ammunition tin lids, the whole on a black ground with an upper central felt GEVELOT logo.
NAZI GERMANY: Selection of signed pieces, T.Ls.S., A.Ls.S., a few photographs etc. by various individuals in relation to German political, military, and civil organisations to various correspondents, in German. The selection comprises a typed letter, signed, 13th April 1938, from the Peoples Association for Germans Abroad to Dr. Herbert Kier, Vienna, asking him visit Dr. Rabl in Prague and discuss the German-Austrian academic assistance scheme; seven clipped signatures, taken from official documents, of various SS Officers; a four page A.L.S., 27th November 1932, featuring a printed image of Adolf Hitler; a postcard photograph, unsigned, depicting District Agricultural Leader Ernst Ritter, photographed by Hoffmann; an award document, signed by Ewald von Kleist, 30th November 1943, to a railway official from the Reichs Labour Minister and the Reichs Railway Company; a document, signed, 20th April 1916, to Franz Greiner, Munich, being an official promotion from the Royal State Ministry of Justice; a typed letter from the German Embassy, Buenos Aires, 11th January 1932, regarding an autograph request (no longer present) addressed to President Hindenburg; a typed letter, in English, 11th February 1942, from the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain, to an Anglo-Soviet organisation, expressing support and sympathy for the fight against Fascism; a World War I military bond receipt signed by a Lt. Colonel, the bond featuring striking image of a soldier and sailor working together to store ammunition, with a tear to the horizontal fold; an unsigned photograph of a Ritterkreuz holder, who passed away in 1980; two postcards, one with a portion neatly cut from the corner, signed by unidentified writers, together with two magazine photos with facsimile signatures; a signed postcard photograph of Admiral Harsdorf von Enderndorf; a series of correspondence to Hans Rossbach, 1970's-80's, in connection to his collection of First Day Covers, signed by various World War II personalities; a typed letter, in English, 10th February 1942, from the Free Austrian Movement in Great Britain to Lord Lytton, Chairman of the Grand Meeting of Allied Greetings to the Soviet Union, expressing gratitude and admiration for the heroism of the peoples of the U.S.S.R. Most of the letters have file holes to the left edge, a few with pencil annotations, and light age wear, generally G to VG, 33
Audie Murphy Typed Signed Letter dated 31/1/55 on his own stationary. Has fold marks and showing signs of age. 20 June 1925 - 28 May 1971 was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II, receiving every military combat award for valour available from the U.S. Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism. Murphy received the Medal of Honor for valour demonstrated at the age of 19 for single-handedly holding off an entire company of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in January 1945, then leading a successful counterattack while wounded and out of ammunition.
A webbing covered aluminium ammunition box, to hold 16 magazines in four compartments, with padded back, D rings for leather straps, and leather carrying handle. QGC (worn and needs cleaning); and a plywood ammunition box for .303” cartridges containing a Bren gun magazine (AF) and 2 .303” rifle shooting score books for schools. GC
Germany, First Word War German Expressionist Art Medals (2) comprising (i) “Eingeben der Kanone” (Feeding the Canons), uniface bronze medal by Ludwig Geis, c. 1917, men dragging carts with ammunition, loading and firing three enormous field guns; edge stamped c. poellath schrobenh[ausen], 62mm (Ernsting 56; Frankenhuis 1365; Bernhart 104; Jones, Art of the Medal 404), very fine and rare; and (ii) “Europas Selbstmord” (European Suicide), bronze medal, 1917, by Karl Goetz, Europa and bull crushing armies, rev., America and Japan gathering coins from a fountain, 85mm (Kienast 199; Frankenhuis 1476), very fine (2)
Britains set 2102 Austin Champ limbers and 25pdr guns by Britains and Crescent sixteen Britains 25pdrs, ten regulation limbers and five Austin Champs, Crescent: six 25pdrs and six limbers with two plastic stacks of ammunition in boxes (G-P, many damaged or repainted, one traverse wheel missing) (45)
![Sean Mac Bride [1904-88] A very interesting typescript report to the IRA Chief of Staff, 16.4.25, signed initials SmacB, 'Com](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a1235de0-ae2f-4b31-9734-a76000fab544/653ad9a9-357e-4db9-8144-75dc8b34d08b/468x382.jpg)
Sean Mac Bride [1904-88] A very interesting typescript report to the IRA Chief of Staff, 16.4.25, signed initials SmacB, 'Comdt., Officer i/c finance & Accounts,' concerning a mission to investigate options for arms purchase in Germany and Belgium, on headed paper paper of Oglaigh na hEireann GHA, 5pp, with 2pp specifications from an arms supplier, Sean Mac Bride, a son of Major John Mac Bride and Maud Gonne Mac Bride, was a Na Fianna and the IRA from an early age. He opposed the Treaty, and after escaping from Mountjoy Jail late in 1923 he joined IRA GHQ, and took charge of the IRA's finances, producing regular monthly balance sheets (see other documents in this archive.) He spoke French fluently, and evidently he made journeys to continental Europe to source arms purchases.The present report describes a journey to London, Paris, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Berlin, Antwerp, Liege and back through Liverpool, meeting two arms suppliers from Germany, Grotstuck and Becker, and in Belgium. He says Grotstuck had proved unreliable previously in relation to supplies left in their care. In relation to Becker, 'In some respects I would rather deal with this man as his dealings in arms would be illegal from the Reparations Commission's point of view, and therefore, he would take greater care than if it were an ordinary business transaction. On the other hand, I am convinced that if he got the lightest opportunity for swindling us, he would probably avail of it.' However, Mac Bride suggests dealing mainly with the Belgian supplier as his prices are lower and he is prepared to ship supplies close to the Irish coast.Mac Bride also mentions supplies purchased by a previous IRA Director of Purchases, most of which he says are now lost or stolen. 'The only goods which we definitely possess on the Continent are 50,000 rounds of 9 mm ammunition which is in Hamburg. I arranged to have this removed to another warehouse as I did not look on the warehouse where it was as being trustworthy.' He also mentions the activities of 'Briscoe' [Robert Briscoe, an import/export trader, later a Fianna Fail TD and Lord Mayor of Dublin.]In later life Mac Bride became an Irish Government Minister and was founder of Amnesty International. He was the first person to be awarded both the Nobel Peace Prize and the Lenin Peace prize. His biography by Anthony Jordan does not mention his arms purchase activities, and they are touched on only briefly in his entry in the recent Dictionary of Irish Biography. (1)
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