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Third Reich army/waffen SS tank battle badge in bronze, early type c. 1940 issued by "JFS"

A British Army Articiser (Blacksmith's) Trade Badge in Brass

WW2 British Army combat helmet War relic British Army mk2 combat helmet with great patternation and hand painted Gloucestershire Rgt badge to front and rear. Great display piece.

British Army Pouch Badge British Army post 1953 brass pouch badge. Shows signs of age and wear.9cm x 8.5cm

A collection of 20th century cap badges, to include a Salvation Army Blood and Fire, an APC crossed swords, Wessex, a Lyre, Army Ordnance Corps, Fusiliers, East Yorkshire star, 11th Hussars, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, WWI Royal Marines, together with a Royal Army Ordnance Corps brooch, WWI South Irish Horse cap badge. (24)

A collection of 19th/20th century cap badges, to include a 21st Empress of India's Lancers, 2nd King Edward's Horse with Shoulder Title, 9th Queen Royal Hussars, Imperial Service badge, St John's Ambulance Brigade, Royal Army Medical Corps, together with Irish cap badges and New Zealand cap badges, to include a gilt 1st Regiment New Zealand Infantry Canterbury, WWI Waikato Regiment, and others. (16)

A collection of 20th century cap badges, to include a Machine Gun Corps, Ubique Fusiliers collar badge, Army Ordnance Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps, National Defence Company, Anson and Howe Battalion Royal Naval Division, together with others. (19)

A Fascist Italian large bronze medallion commemorating the 1933 Monument to the Royal Carabiniere, together with an ONB / Opera Nazionale Balilla Fascist youth organization badge, a 2nd Army (occupied Yugoslavia) medal and a 1933 military medical college anniversary commemorative

Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry cap and collar badges together with a Royal Engineers cap badge and an Army Service Corps sweetheart brooch

A small group of British Army cloth insignia including 4th Infantry Division, 11th Armoured Division and Berlin Command formation signs, a jack knife and a naval badge

A Great War Army Service Corps Cuff Rank Tunic. A very good four pocket example, ranked to a Captain, missing its collar insignia, complete with all buttons and two year blue overseas service stripes, with metal fastener and belt supports, leather trim to cuffs, visible between the reverse of the tunic below the neck between the shoulder blades where previously a large red horse shoe divisional insignia was originally sewn, with maker’s label ‘Daniels & Sons, 8 Grand Parade, Military Tailors, Cork’,with pen markings ‘LEA, 7179, ASC’, attributed to Captain Archibald Raby Riley, Army Service Corps, who served on the Western Front with the 37th Division from 10 October 1916, relinquishing his commission on 19 March 1919 and was awarded a Silver War Badge, issued on 12 April 1919, very good condition £300-£400 --- Sold together with copied medal roll extract and copied Medal Index Card, showing that the British War and Victory Medals were dispatched to Captain Riley, formerly of Gort-More, Dartry Road, Dublin, to the Royal Bank, Cornmarket, Dublin.

A scarce Japanese POW Medical Officer’s Order of Saint John and M.I.D. group of seven awarded to Colonel Horace Claude ‘Hot ‘n’ Cold’ Benson, a senior British Medical Officer on the Burma-Siam Railway, of “Bridge on the River Kwai” infamy; after the war he was a witness for the prosecution at the trial of Major Kudo, 19th Ambulance Corps for War Crimes The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer (Brother’s) breast badge, silver and enamel; 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1953; Service Medal of the Order of St John, silvered base metal (D/Sgn H. C. Benson. York) mounted as worn, pin lacking, good very fine (7) £600-£800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Order of St. John London Gazette 9 July 1957. M.I.D. London Gazette 12 September 1946. ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services while Prisoners of War’. Horace Claude Benson was born on 11 May 1902, at Ashover, Derbyshire, and educated at Sedburgh School. At Edinburgh University he studied medicine and gained the M.B. and Ch.B. (1928). He was employed as a Clinical Assistant at the Ear and Throat Department of the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, prior to being granted a commission in the Army. He became a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1929, served in Egypt during 1931-36, was promoted to the rank of Captain in 1932 and Major in 1939, being posted to India. He was commanding officer of the 27th Indian Field Ambulance, 9th Indian Division, 1941-42, being promoted Acting Lieutenant-Colonel in February 1941 and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in May 1941. Benson was present at the fall of Malaya, was captured and remained a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during 1942-45. Whilst in captivity, he was Senior British Officer of ‘L’ Force - a medical force of 15 officers and 100 medical orderlies. Initially held at Changi P.O.W. Camp, Singapore; thence from 23 August 1943, by train to Kanburi (Kanchanabri) Thailand to administer relief from cholera and other multifarious diseases rife in the P.O.W. and coolie forced labour camps, situated along the Burma-Siam Railway. After the war and his subsequent repatriation, Colonel Benson gave a report of his wartime experiences as a captive: ‘Beatings with fists or bamboo sticks, on the face and head, of MOs (Medical Orderlies) and ORs by Japanese medical personnel of Kudo Batai (19th Ambulance Corps commanded by Major Kudo) was fairly frequent, and often done for no apparent offence. These beatings were committed by most of the Japanese from the lowest rank up to even Major Kudo himself.... My complaints generally had a temporary successful effect, but it was quite apparent that Major Kudo encouraged his subordinates. The biggest beating up that I had was from Major Kudo because the ORs were having a singsong one night. However when he afterwards apologised I asked for a pig for Christmas Dinner and got it. Our experience was that we received worse treatment from Japanese medical personnel than we did from non-medical personnel and Koreans’. Following the Japanese surrender, Major Kudo was subsequently arrested for war crimes. As a witness for the prosecution at Kudo’s trial, Colonel Benson submitted an affidavit in 1946 that he had witnessed the death of some 25 recaptured coolies, who were imprisoned in a hut near to the Kanburi Hospital. ‘They were then given an injection of some reddish fluid. They all died in agony and showed symptoms consistent with mercurial poisoning’. For his splendid efforts as British Officer Commanding at Kanchanabri Hospital, Benson was mentioned in despatches and in June 1946 was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel. He was appointed C.O. of 109 Military Convalescent Hospital in 1946 and Chief Instructor Training Wing Depot and Training Establishment R.A.M.C., 1947-50. He was then posted as C.O. of the British Military Hospital in Malta, 1950-51. Promoted Temporary Colonel in August 1952, he attained the rank of Colonel in January 1953 and was appointed Assistant Medical Director, H.Q. North-West District, 1953-54 and Commandant of the Depot and Training Establishment R.A.M.C., 1954-58. He was President of the Standing Medical Board, Northern Command, York, 1958-59 and placed on Retirement Pay in 1959. Colonel Benson died on 13 March 1986. Sold with a folder of copied service papers and other research including his thirteen page close typed “Report on History of “L” Force P.O.W. Thailand”, relevant copies from “The Knights of Bushido, A Short History of Japanese War Crimes” by Lord Russell of Liverpool, which in the chapter ‘Life and Death on Burma-Siam Railway’ documents Lieutenant-Colonel Benson’s evidence, and “River Kwai Railway, The Story of the Burma-Siam Railroad” by Clifford Kinvig... “venal and corrupt... Major Kudo who commanded the Kudo Butai which included the medical reinforcements ‘K’ and ‘L’ sent north to succour the native labourers”. Additionally, a small folder of Benson’s personal papers including reports on medical conditions in POW camps in Thailand 1943-45 was deposited with The Imperial War Museum’s Department of Documents.

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Gunner F. Ideson, Royal Horse Artillery, who was discharged on account of wounds Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (45919 Gnr: F. Ideson. ‘N’ By: R.H.A.); 1914 Star, copy; British War and Victory Medals (45919 Gnr. F. Ideson. R.A.) mounted court-style for wear, light pitting from Star, VM officially re-impressed, nearly very fine and better (4) £400-£500 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- D.C.M. London Gazette 3 June 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When the battery was in action, supporting a counter-attack, this man for some time served his gun alone, thereby keeping it in action at a very critical time. The battery was under heavy shell fire, and had suffered several casualties.’ Frank Ideson was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, around 1889 and enlisted in the Royal Horse Artillery on 21 November 1906. Posted to France as Gunner in the Royal Field Artillery on 5 October 1914, Ideson’s name was later listed in the Bradford Daily Telegraph of 6 October 1915 as one of 3000 ‘gallant sons’ of Keighley who answered the call. Transferred to the Royal Horse Artillery, he was awarded the D.C.M. in 1918 whilst serving with “N” Battery; this unit of 6 guns later claimed the highest number of shells discharged in a single month by one battery during the Great War, firing 115,360 shells in August 1917 in support of the Canadian Corps on the Western Front. Discharged from 5th Army Brigade and awarded a Silver War Badge in consequence of wounds on 28 August 1919, it is possible that Ideson witnessed his former comrades of “N” Battery bear the coffin of the Unknown Soldier to Westminster Abbey on 11 November 1920. Sold with copied research.

Pair: Gunner J. Young, Royal Horse Artillery Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (64438 Gnr. J. Young. R.H.A.) mounted court-style for display together with the riband for the Queen’s South Africa Medal 1899-1902, very fine and better (2) £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- James Young was born in 1868 and enlisted in the Royal Horse Artillery on 2 November 1887. Posted to India per S.S. Malabar the following year, he served during the Boer War as Bombardier in “R” Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with gratuity in October 1907. Young later served during the Great War with the 589th H.S. Company, Labour Corps, being discharged on 4 February 1918 and awarded a Silver War Badge in consequence of sickness. Sold with copied research including Coronation 1911 Medal roll extract.

Five: Major-General R. N. Tinley, 39th Regiment of Foot, later Cape Mounted Riflemen, who was severely wounded at the battle of Mahrajpoor on 29 December 1843, and led his Regiment’s attack on the Grand Redan during the Crimea War Maharajpoor Star 1843 (Captn. Robert N. Tinley H.M. 39th. Regt.) original hook adapted and now suspended from a straight bar suspension, with contemporary silver riband buckle; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Lieut. Colonel R. N. Tinley. 39th. Regt.) depot impressed naming; France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, gold appliqué, and enamel, with poincon mark to base of tassel; Ottoman Empire, Fifth Class breast badge, silver, gold appliqué, and enamel, unmarked, of ‘bazaar’ manufacture; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, fitted with an IGS-style suspension, mounted for wear, significant enamel damage to the tips of points of LdeH, otherwise generally very fine (5) £1,400-£1,800 --- Robert Newport Tinley was born in 1811 and was commissioned Ensign in the 39th Regiment of Foot on 4 April 1832. He was promoted Lieutenant on 19 July 1833, and Captain on 15 December 1840. He served with the Regiment during the Gwalior campaign, and was severely wounded at the battle of Maharajpoor on 29 December 1843. Promoted Major on 11 November 1851, Tinley saw further service during the Crimean War, going out to the Crimea with a draft of the 39th Regiment aboard H.M.S. Princess Royal, sailing from Queenstown on 13 January 1855, and was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on 9 March 1855. He led his regiment's attack on the Redan on 18 June 1855, and commanded the Trench Guard, left attack, where a strong sortie of 2,000 Russians was made against the chevaux de frise, Woronzoff Road, on the night of 2 August, and which was successfully repulsed; he was also present at the attack on the Redan on 8 September, and Commanded and brought out the 39th Regiment of Foot at the end of the war. For his services he was awarded the Fifth Classes of both the French Legion of Honour and the Ottoman Order of the Medjidieh. Promoted Colonel on 28 May 1858, Tinley went on to serve with distinction with the Cape Mounted Rifles before going on half pay on 1 May 1866. Promoted Major-General on 6 March 1868, he died at St. Helier, Jersey on 10 July 1877. A fine watercolour of Tinley in the uniform of the Cape Mounted Rifles, by Richard Simkin, is held in the collection of the National Army Museum. (Accession No. NAM.2014-02-43-1). Sold with the eight Commission Documents covering most of the recipient’s promotions from Ensign to Major-General. For the Maharajpoor Star named to the recipient’s brother, see Lot 359.

A well-documented Defence of Lucknow and Egypt campaign group of four awarded to Colonel W. Cleland, Royal Dublin Fusiliers Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Defence of Lucknow, Lucknow (Lieut. W. Cleland, 1st Madras Fusrs.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Lieut. Col. W. Cleland, 1/Rl. Dub. Fus.); Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, Third Class neck badge, by Paul Stopin, Palais-Royal, silver, gold, and enamel, maker’s cartouche to reverse, minor enamel damage to crescent suspension, with small section of neck riband for display purposes; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, contact marks and pitting from the star, otherwise nearly very fine or better (4) £1,800-£2,200 --- Provenance: Gordon Everson Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2002. William Cleland was born at Perth, Scotland, on 26 April 1818, and was educated at Perth Academy. He was commissioned as an Ensign in the 1st Madras Fusiliers on 4 March 1857, and embarked the same day for India. He was actively engaged in the suppression of the mutiny in Bengal in 1857-58, and was present with Havelock’s Column in the actions of Futtehpore, Aoung, Pandoo, Nuddee, Cawnpore, Bithoor, Mungarwar, and Alumbagh, relief of Lucknow, and defence of the Residency, occupation of the Alumbagh under Outram, capture of Lucknow, and the campaign of 1858 in Oude. He was slightly wounded during the attack on the fort at Rehora on 23 November 1858. During his passage home in 1859, Cleland compiled a journal of his experiences during the mutiny, much of which survives in transcript form today. Of the entry into Lucknow on 25 September 1857, he wrote: ‘The distance to the Residency was about three quarters of a mile through a narrow street, the houses on either side of which had two or three rows of loopholes, the street being cut by deep trenches too broad to leap, so that one was compelled to jump to the bottom and scramble up the other side. On the order to advance the 98th rushed through the gateway followed by the Sikhs, the rear being brought up by the Madras Fusiliers, but before the Residency gate was reached the three regiments were left as one. Two guns also were taken along with us, but were brought to a stand on reaching the first trench. Under such a storm of bullets it would have been certain death to anyone who remained stationary for a moment, the guns were consequently left in the street, and we pushed on to the Residency. Those who were wounded lay where they fell, and amongst them were several officers poor fellows. The greater number were massacred during the night by the enemy who issued from their houses for that purpose. It was here that General Neill fell. Having seen his Brigade all pass through the gateway headed by Generals Outram and Havelock, he prepared to follow. On passing through the gateway he was struck on the temple by a bullet which passed through his head and he fell dead to the ground. We reached the Residency gateway about 7 o’clock, were greeted with a cheer and the Residency was saved. Having scrambled over the parapet and gained the interior we were met by numbers of the Garrison who attacked us eagerly with questions concerning Cawnpore. An officer came up to me who I subsequently learned was a doctor, he asked me eagerly who were saved at Cawnpore, and on my telling him all were massacred, he ejaculated “Oh God, my wife and child,” and left me.’ Cleland was promoted to Captain on 8 July 1867, became Major on 1 September 1877, and Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 July 1881. Returning home from a visit to Australia in 1882, Cleland found himself in Egypt at the time of the uprising by Arabi Pasha, and immediately offered his services. He was appointed Chief of Police in Alexandria, a duty which he carried out with an iron rule; ‘Every other day, under the superintendence of Col. Cleland, Chief of Police, Arabs who had been found guilty of the murder of Europeans were executed...’ He was mentioned in despatches for his services and awarded the Order of the Medjidie Third Class. Cleland was appointed to the command of the 1st Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, on 7 June 1884, and became Colonel on 1 July 1885. He relinquished command of the Battalion on 1 July 1887, and went on Half Pay, finally retiring from the Army on 15 April 1888. After an active life as a bachelor, Cleland married in July 1895, and had one child. He died at Overton, Flintshire, on 14 June 1909. Sold with a very large quantity of extensive research including many transcripts of the recipient’s letters home and reminiscences during the mutiny.

Collar Badges and Service Badges. A selection of Collar Badges and Service Badges including enamel badges (8) to the Police Auxiliary, Second War Messenger Service, National Savings Movement, Civil Nursing Reserve. Women’s Land Army. British Legion. Civil Defence Corps, with assorted badges, some silver, including fobs, Collar Badges, Lapel Badges etc., including 20th Lancers in Silver, Royal Marines, Army Reserve (2), Royal Malta Artillery, Merchant Navy, Loyal Service, a Sailor’s Pension Relief Badge in paper, a Victorian Valise Plate, a quantity of military badge backing plates and an unworn pair of printed cloth formation signs, generally good condition (21) £50-£70 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

Family Group: A fine Great War O.B.E., scarce Warrant Officer’s ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Captain J. J. Bulman, Royal Engineers, later Royal Signals, who was three times Mentioned in Despatches The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt; Military Cross, G.V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (... J. J. Bulman. R.E.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (... 2nd. Corpl: J. Bulman. R.E.); 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. J. J. Bulman.) all mounted for display in an illustrated and informative octagonal glazed display frame, together with a Royal Engineers cap badge, light contact marks, very fine and better Three: Lieutenant J. R. Bulman, 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches and died of wounds in Normandy on 12 August 1944 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, wth M.I.D. oak leaf, with named condolence slip, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mrs. R. A. F. Bulman, Roylands, Croyde Bay, Braunton, N. Devon’, extremely fine (10) £1,400-£1,800 --- Note: The medals awarded to Captain John James Bulman have not been removed from the display frame for inspection, and not all the naming details are visible. Consequently, this lot is sold as viewed. O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919: ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in France and Flanders.’ M.C. London Gazette 18 February 1915: ‘For services rendered in connection with Operations in the Field.’ John James Bulman attested for the Royal Engineers and served in South Africa during the Boer War with the Telegraph Battalion. He was later selected for appointment to the Sudan Government Telegraphs in Khartoum under Colonel E. V. Turner, and rapidly gained promotion to the rank of Inspector, returning home in 1910. Advanced Company Sergeant Major, Bulman served with the 3rd Light Railway Signal Company, Royal Engineers, during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 August 1914, and was Mentioned in Field Marshal Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 January 1915 (London Gazette 17 February 1915). Awarded a scarce Warrant Officer’s Military Cross, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 18 April 1915, and was promoted Lieutenant on 26 June 1915, and Captain on 11 June 1916. Twice further Mentioned by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig in his Despatches of 7 November 1917 and 8 November 1918 (London Gazettes 14 December 1917 and 23 December 1918), for his services during the Great War he was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1919 New Year’s Honours’ List. Post-War he served as Captain and Adjutant of the 54th East Anglian Divisional Signals (Territorial Army), and died in Devon on 16 June 1925. Sold with the recipient’s 1895 pattern Sword, by Wilkinson, London, numbered 50457 and etched ‘Royal Engineers’ on blade, with G.V.R. cypher to hilt, with leather scabbard ands sword knot. John Reginald Bulman, the son of Captain John James Bulman and his wife Rose Agatha Ford Bulman, was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps, on 12 March 1944. He served during the Second World War in North West Europe post-D-Day, and died of wounds in Normandy on 12 August 1944, aged 21, being posthumously Mentioned in Despatches ‘in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe’ (London Gazette 10 May 1945). He is buried in Bayeux War Cemetery; his headstone reads: ‘John - So greatly loved and honoured. A very true, lovable and gallant scout.’ Sold with a Boy Scouts lapel badge This is an age restricted lot: the successful buyer will be required to either collect in person, or arrange specialist shipping.

A fine Waterloo C.B. pair awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Kuhlmann, who commanded the 9-pounder 2nd Horse Battery of the King’s German Artillery The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1815, maker’s mark ‘IN’ for John Northam, complete with wide swivel-ring gold suspension and gold ribbon buckle; Waterloo 1815 (Capt. Henry Kuhlmann, King’s Germ. Artillery) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, contained in a fitted but repurposed Victorian leather case, the first with minor enamel damage, otherwise good very fine (2) £12,000-£16,000 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2014. Henry Jacob Kuhlmann joined the Horse Artillery of the King’s German Legion on 16 June 1804, and served in the expedition to Hanover in 1805-06, the campaign in Northern Germany in 1813-14, and in the Waterloo Campaign of 1815, where he commanded the 9-pounder Horse Battery. The battery arrived with the British Guards Division at the battlefield at four o’clock, from its quarters between Ath and Enghien. It had to hurry ahead of the infantry and take position directly in front of the Quatre Bras farm. It was just at this time that the enemy made his first forceful cavalry attack, which the battery’s fire helped drive back off the highway: ‘In an instant the whole mass appeared in irretrievable confusion; the road was literally strewed with corpses of these steel clad warriors and their gallant steeds; Kellerman himself was dismounted and compelled like many of his followers to retire on foot.’ (Siborne). After this first crisis had been met, the battery advanced with the infantry along the side of the Charleroi highway and had to keep firing at the enemy artillery until darkness set in. At Waterloo Kuhlmann’s Horse Battery, with Captain Sandham’s Foot Battery R.A., of the Guards Division, to which it belonged, had moved up onto the plateau behind Hougoumont, about 400 paces to the left of the farm. Right on half past eleven o’clock, it started firing at the advancing infantry, which was forced to move to the left behind the wood of Hougoumont, where it then began its attack. When, after several hours, the enemy cavalry spread out everywhere on the plateau, the much damaged artillery retreated to a ridge further to the rear and, towards evening, moved back to its former position. In the following letter Lieutenant-Colonel Kuhlmann provides a detailed account of the part played by his battery in the action: ‘Stade, 1 December 1824 Relation on the participation of the 2nd Horse Artillery Battery of the King’s German Legion in the battle of Waterloo. In the evening of 15 June 1815, the 2nd Horse Battery of the German Legion, commanded by the undersigned and quartered at Ghislenghien (between Ath and Enghien), was ordered by the English Major-General Cooke, to whom the battery was subordinated, to be on stand by and be ready for an immediate departure. On the following morning at one o’clock we marched off, past Enghien, and joined the English Guards and a battery of English foot artillery [Sandham’s Battery], all under Major-General Cooke’s command; the two batteries were put under the command of Colonel Adye of the English artillery. This column arrived at Quatre Bras towards four o’clock in the afternoon. The Duke of Wellington immediately ordered the horse battery to move up front, two guns were positioned before the Quatre Bras farm, and the remaining four guns to the left of the farm behind the highway [Namur road], and we then opened fire on the enemy artillery, which was stationed about 1,200 paces before us on an elevation. Towards five o’clock several enemy squadrons launched a forceful attack against the two guns in front of the farm but were completely dispersed by our fire and that of the infantry posted near the guns on the highway. Those infantry men were Hanoverians and were commanded by Major-General Best, if I am not mistaken. Shortly thereafter, the two guns, together with a third gun of my battery, advanced still further and, on higher orders, fired until dark at the enemy guns which occupied the heights opposite from us. As the army retreated to the Waterloo position on 17 June, I joined again the English battery of Lieutenant-Colonel Adye. Even as the greater part of the army had arrived at that destination, the enemy still pressed our rearguard so forcefully that it was considered necessary for our two batteries to assist our troops with a few shots. These had the desired effect in that the enemy now let up on his determined pursuit. The fire of the enemy’s guns, which was then directed against us, did very little damage. We afterwards set up our bivouac assigned to us in the vicinity. At around eight o’clock in the morning of 18 June, the Hereditary Prince of Orange, who commanded the army division to which we belonged, assigned positions to the English brigade and to the 2nd Horse Artillery Battery, into which we moved instantly. The 2nd Horse Artillery Battery was posted at the right flank of the English foot artillery brigade. The terrain, on which we stood, was slightly elevated, sloping downwards both in front and in back, thus forming a kind of plateau. The ground consisted of clayey soil and had been softened by the rainfalls lasting throughout the night to the extent that the 9-pounder cannon and 5.5-inch howitzers could hardly be moved by the men. This plateau extended somewhat to the right and the left, but in the latter direction it turned inward towards the enemy in an obtuse angle. The troops to our left were posted on and behind this plateau. To the right of our emplacement, at a distance of about 600 paces, was Hougoumont. Behind us were the Guards who, however, were sent to Hougoumont as reinforcements during the enemy attack. Several cavalry regiments stood some 100 paces to our right rear, and, later, an English howitzer brigade moved up before the said cavalry. The Duke of Wellington visited us several times and gave us the distinct order never to fire at the enemy artillery. Several hours later, a strong column of enemy infantry moved towards Hougoumont. As soon as it was within effective firing range, our artillery covered it with such a powerful fire of ball and shrapnel that it fell into disorder several times and retreated. But it always formed up again and finally moved to its left, behind Hougoumont, where it could no longer be observed by us. It then renewed its attack against Hougoumont and was able to seize the area outside the walls of Hougoumont. This area was covered with trees which protected the enemy; to have any effect, we were limited to firing shrapnel in its direction. The Hereditary Prince of Orange complimented in a loud voice the two artillery brigades involved, that is, the 2nd Horse Artillery Battery under my command, and the English brigade, for the well-aimed and effective fire. While this happened, an enemy heavy battery with guns of large calibre had taken up position opposite us at a distance of about 1,200 paces and opened fire on us, to which we could not respond due to the Duke of Wellington’s previously mentioned order. Later in the afternoon we noticed that, at quite a distance to our left, the enemy made a strong attack against our line. We were unable to ascertain its effect due to the distance and particularly due to the intervening bend of the plateau. It then turned out that our position had in effect been broken through because the enemy cavalry moved down behind the said plateau out of our sight. It unexpectedly fell on our left flank and forced us to retreat. It was only at some distance to the rear that m...

A very fine and well-documented Great War C.M.G. and ‘Mohmand Expedition 1908’ D.S.O. group of ten awarded to Brigadier-General F. W. B. Gray, 57th Wilde’s Rifles, late Royal Berkshire Regiment; he commanded Wilde’s Rifles in France until severely wounded, 26 October 1914 The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, complete with integral riband buckle; Distinguished Service Order, E.VII.R., silver-gilt and enamels, with integral top riband bar, pin removed; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1894-5 (Lieut: F. W. B. Gray 4th Punjab Infy); China 1900, no clasp (Captn: F. W. B. Gray. 4th Pjb. Infy.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (Major F. W. B. Gray 57th Rfls F.F.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Lt. Col. F. W. Gray, D.S.O., 57/Rfls.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Brig. Gen. F. W. B. Gray.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed; United States of America, Military Order of the Dragon, China 1900 (Frederick William Barton Gray. 4th Punjab Infantry) complete with worn but original embroidered riband and integral top Pagoda suspension brooch, minor enamel chips to centres of the first two, some light contact marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine (10) £5,000-£7,000 --- C.M.G. London Gazette 18 February 1915. D.S.O. London Gazette 14 August 1908: ‘In recognition of services in the recent operations against the Zakka Khel and Mohmands, on the North West Frontier of India, in 1908.’ M.I.D. G.G.O. 521A of 1908. M.I.D. London Gazette 14 January 1915 (Field Marshal Sir John French); 29 March 1917 (Lieutenant-General G. F. Milne); and 25 October 1917 (Lieutenant-General G. F. Milne). Fredeick William Barton Gray was born on 7 February 1867, son of the Rev. Thomas T. Gray, of Carn Park, County Westmeath. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Sandhurst from September 1887 to July 1888, from where he entered the Army as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Berkshire Regiment on 22 August 1888. He became Lieutenant in the Indian Staff Corps on 22 January 1890. Appointed to the 4th Punjab Infantry, he accompanied the Waziristan Expedition of 1894-95 (Medal with clasp). Promoted to Captain on 22 August 1899, he served with the 3rd Brigade, China Field Force in China from August 1900 to June 1902, including the action at Tai Tao Ying on 22 April 1901 (Medal). In the renumbering in 1903 the 4th Punjab Infantry took the title of 57th Wilde's Rifles (Frontier Force). Promoted to Major in August 1906, he was officiating in command of the 57th Rifles F.F. and took part in the operations in the Mohmand country including the engagements of Matta, 24 April 1908, and of Kargha, 24 May 1908, being mentioned in despatches and created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (Medal with clasp). Gray was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, in command of the 57th Rifles on 8 March 1914, and proceeded to France on 26 September 1914, as part of the 7th (Ferozepore) Infantry Brigade, 3rd (Lahore) Division. He was severely wounded on 26 October 1914 when an enemy shell burst near the window of the Regimental Headquarters. Evacuated to England he returned to France on the day before the disastrous attack on 26 April 1915, at Ypres when the battalion only came out 216 strong following a severe fight and gas attack. He was appointed Officer Commanding Troops, Lemnos and Composite Brigade, September 1916 to May 1917; General Officer Commanding Troops Mudros, June 1917; General Officer Commanding Troops Lemnos, July 1917; Officer Commanding Troops Lemnos, August 1917; General Officer Commanding Troops Mudros, September to November 1917. He held the temporary rank of Brigadier-General from 15 April 1916 to 27 November 1917, whilst Commanding a Brigade in Egypt, and from 13 May 1918 to 24 May 1919, whilst Commanding the Bareilly Brigade in India. He was given the Brevet of Colonel on 1 January 1918, and retired as Brigadier-General in 1921. The General died on 17 January 1931. Sold with accompanying folder of original documents including warrants and statutes for C.M.G. and D.S.O., three M.I.D. Certificates, letters of congratulation for D.S.O. and upon becoming Commandant of the regiment, record of services, marriage and death certificates, letters to his wife and other correspondence, and various photographs including two regimental groups.

British Army WW2 Glider Pilot Regiment ephemera of Ronald George Greenland including cap badge, pay book, photographs, framed picture of DY Flight 68 Course and Booker clasp knife, wall plaque, flap indicator, port and starboard indicator, replica beret and badge, modern Air Borne flag, 100 x 70cm, books including Go To It by Peter Harclerode, History of the Glider Pilot Regiment by Claud Smith and 1000 piece jigsaw in sealed bag etc

British Army WW1 War Medal named to Captain J.T. Yeoman, Royal Scots and Tank Corps together with his Princess Mary Christmas tin, Royal Scots cap badge and copy research paperwork

British Army London Scottish Volunteers badge, Queen's Crown

British Army WW1 Gloucestershire Regiment 'Mons' Star trio comprising 1914 Star, War Medal and Victory Medal named to 9889 Pte W.E James, 1st Battalion together with silver War Badge and two Princess Mary Christmas tins, photograph in glazed frame (33 x 45cm) and paperwork

The General Abbatuci - 1869 Leather 'Shako' uniform cap and badge Bearing the cap badge of the 42nd French Infantry Regiment of the Line. Size of the badge 12 x 10cm. Leather cap degraded. Size of leather 12 x 22cm.The General Abbatuci was a 282-ton cargo ship. On 13th May 1869 she left the port of Marseilles on a routine trip bound for the port of Civitavecchia, Italy. Her cargo was thought to include several million French Francs and gifts for the birthday of Pope Pius IX from officials in France and possible pay for the French Army stationed in Italy. The Abbatuci was involved in a collision with a larger Norwegian vessel off the northern coast of Corsica. She was holed and sank with the loss of 54 passengers and crew. This name-plate was part of a diplomatic pouch conveying messages between the French Minister for Foreign Affairs in Marseille and the French Ambassador to Naples. It was travelling on a ship containing treasure for Pope Pius IX which would have been used to pay the French troops who protected him in Rome from the forces of Italian reunification. The French withdrew their troops the following year, leading to the collapse of the Papal States.

SS General Abbatucci Leather drummer boy's cap with brass French 35th Infantry Regiment badge Black leather ‘shako’ cap with brass cap badge designating it from the French 35th Infantry Regiment Of The LineLeather with heavy brass eagle insignia badge 10.5 x 11.5cm Approximate measurements of cap: H: 13cm, diameter 13cm , width of brim 14cm The General Abbatuci was a 282-ton cargo ship. On 13th May 1869 she left the port of Marseilles on a routine trip bound for the port of Civitavecchia, Italy. Her cargo was thought to include several million French Francs and gifts for the birthday of Pope Pius IX from officials in France and possible pay for the French Army stationed in Italy. The Abbatuci was involved in a collision with a larger Norwegian vessel off the northern coast of Corsica. She was holed and sank with the loss of 54 passengers and crew. This name-plate was part of a diplomatic pouch conveying messages between the French Minister for Foreign Affairs in Marseille and the French Ambassador to Naples. It was travelling on a ship containing treasure for Pope Pius IX which would have been used to pay the French troops who protected him in Rome from the forces of Italian reunification. The French withdrew their troops the following year, leading to the collapse of the Papal States.

THREE WWII MEDALS, ALONG WITH A SET OF MINIATURES the three comprising the 1939-1945 Star, the Africa Star and the Italy Star, the miniature set comprising the 1939-1945 Star, the Africa Star with 8th Army bar, the Italy Star, and the 1939-1945 War Medal with mentioned in despatches oak leaf, also a honourable discharge War Badge numbered B57986

An archive of ephemera relating to 15-1314 Pte. Charles William Aveyard of the 15th (Service) Battalion, P. W. O. West Yorkshire Regiment (1st Leeds). No.14 Platoon 'D' Company, including WWI War and Victory Medals, a leather dog tag, 15th Battalion West Yorkshire cap badge, brass sleeve badges, a 'For King and Country Services Rendered' white metal badge, various buttons, all contained within a Christmas 1914 tin, together with a WWI PH gas hood in canvas bag, two black and white photographs of the regiment, various military paperwork, to include two passes, a 'Comrades of the Great War' subscription slip for 1918, notification of assessment by Medical Board for the Ministry of Pensions, employment card, Army Form B.2067, notes from the Record Office, Army Form W.5112, Permanent Medical Board Discharge papers, Soldier's Pay Book for Use on Active Service, various pictures and postcards, including a silk cigarette card for the British Empire, two newspaper cuttings, an early 20th century leather-bound sketch album with Aveyard's details to the inside page, including various sketches, poems, etc, the earliest dated July 25th 1916, the later entries dated 26th March 1945, partially filled, a sepia photograph of the soldier in an oak frame with gilt slip and a further Honourable Discharge certificate dated 6th October 1917, signed by King George V.

Items relating to Sergeant Laurence Ashley Rayner of the Parachute Regiment, to include a medal group comprising a British Campaign Service Medal awarded to 24128593 Pte. L. A. Rayner Para., with Northern Ireland bar, a South Atlantic Medal with rosette and a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (both to Sgt. L. A. Rayner), a Parachute Regiment gold wire braided badge, a Log Book of Parachute Descents with British Airborne Forces, a Regular Army Certificate of Service, Army Certificate of Education dated 1967, Certificate of Qualifications, a poem relating to the Falkland Islands, dated June 1982, an Official Secrets Act Declaration, Territorial Army and Reservist Instruction Book, etc, contained in a red vinyl Army folder.Footnote: - Sergeant Rayner served from 1967 to 1982. In the Falklands, he was in charge of ammunition transports and worked on the ship 'The Elk' loading ammunition for the troops.Condition Report: These are the original medals and have been kept in a box for many years, there are some scratches on them especially the long service medal, please see the close up photosThere is no letter R after the name on the rim

SS General Abbatucci Brass regimental cap badge of Napoleon’s 42nd Regiment of Foot Attached to the remains of a leather cap.The General Abbatuci was a 282-ton cargo ship. On 13th May 1869 she left the port of Marseilles on a routine trip bound for the port of Civitavecchia, Italy. Her cargo was thought to include several million French Francs and gifts for the birthday of Pope Pius IX from officials in France and possible pay for the French Army stationed in Italy. The Abbatuci was involved in a collision with a larger Norwegian vessel off the northern coast of Corsica. She was holed and sank with the loss of 54 passengers and crew.

Third Reich Early War Heer (Army) Flak Artillery Badge. Nice solid heavily plated Tumbak Badge. Unmarked. UK P&P Group 1 (£16+VAT for the first lot and £2+VAT for subsequent lots)

Queen Elizabeth II Associate Royal Red Cross silver and enamel decoration with bow ribbon in fitted Collingwood case, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps silver medal, military identification tag 'Polson W. P/215904', Nursing Corps militaria and photograph of the recipient in carved hardwood box with Q.A.R.A.N.C. badge to top.Provenance : Major Williamina Polson, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, Serial No. 215904, Associate Royal Red Cross, (London Gazette Supplement 12, June 1965, p.5504). Major Polson was the sister of Miss Marion Polson, The Housekeeper of the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

Preußen - Tschapka für einen Offizier der Reserve im 14. Ulanen-Regiment Schwarz lackierter Lederkorpus. Komplett mit allen Beschlägen. Vorderschirmschiene aus Neusilber. Versilbertes Adleremblem mit goldenem Reservekreuz und Schlachtenbandeau (fixiert mit zwei Splinten). Vergoldete gewölbte Schuppenketten mit Rosetten und Offizierskokarde. Hellbraunes Lederschweißband, cremefarbenes Seidenfutter. Schwarz/silbernes Feldzeichen. Schwarz/weißer Haarbusch an Metalltülle. Silberne Fangschnur mit schwarzen Durchzügen. Größe ca. 52. Siehe "Buyer's Guide for Headgear of The Imperial German Army circa 1914", James D. Turinetti, Ausgabe 2015/16, S. 16.USA-Los – weitere Infos hier A Prussian 14th Uhlan Reserve Officers czapka A Prussian 14th Uhlan Reserve Officers czapka Black lacquered leather body, rounded front visor; silver front visor trim; silver officer front plate of Prussian Eagle with gold reserve cross and battle honour banner, attached by two splintas; gilt convex chin scales with rosette side posts; Imperial Officer cockade; tan leather sweatband, cream silk lining; officer black and silver field badge; white and black hair bush with metal tulle, officer silver cord with black fleckings. Size circa 52 cm. Cf. "Buyer's Guide for Headgear of The Imperial German Army circa 1914", James D. Turinetti, 2015-16 edition, pg. 16. USA lot - more info here Condition: II

A shako for Mecklenburg Jaeger Battalion 14 Officers Black felt covered body with black leather front and rear visors; gold front plate of Mecklenburg star with silver coat of arms attached by two screw posts and nuts; silver bullion Mecklenburg field officer badge backed with black velvet; gold flat chin scales with rosette side posts, one Imperial Officer cockade, dark brown leather sweatband, dirty yellow silk lining. Size circa 53 cm. Cf. "Buyer's Guide for Headgear of The Imperial German Army circa 1914", James D. Turinetti, 2015-16 edition, pg. 62.USA-Los – weitere Infos hier A shako for Mecklenburg Jaeger Battalion 14 Officers A shako for Mecklenburg Jaeger Battalion 14 Officers Black felt covered body with black leather front and rear visors; gold front plate of Mecklenburg star with silver coat of arms attached by two screw posts and nuts; silver bullion Mecklenburg field officer badge backed with black velvet; gold flat chin scales with rosette side posts, one Imperial Officer cockade, dark brown leather sweatband, dirty yellow silk lining. Size circa 53 cm. Cf. "Buyer's Guide for Headgear of The Imperial German Army circa 1914", James D. Turinetti, 2015-16 edition, pg. 62. USA lot - more info here Condition: II

4 World War II medals - 1939-45, Defence Medal, Africa Star, 1939-45 Star, 'For Loyal Service' badge and photos from Africa belonging to Sgt. Maj. Harry Crawshaw 1914-2005, 8th & 9th Army

A WWII US Army Air Corps badge

Five German WWII uniform patches, a ribbon bar and one other ribbon bar or badge, including a WWII Police officer's sleeve eagle and an army uniform eagle

Military collection USAAF Officers Visor Cap, USAAF Master Sergeant Shoulder Patch, USAAF Senior Airman Uniform Patch, USAAF Air Material Command Patch, USAF Senior Air Crew Wing for wear on flight suit, US Army Tactical Air Patch Badge, US Garrison Cap Size 7 and The Associated Military Stores Patch badge. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

A resin and bone walking stick, inscribed 'RE' and 'Sapper Able France 1917 1918', with bullet casing to the bottom and an army badge to the handle, and a carved wooden walking stick with stylised baboon pommel (2).

Militaria - a quantity of military items including naval brass buttons, a WWI war medal, issued to Josef Gonsalves (possibly Portuguese), WWII star medal, Gloucester Regiment Egypt cigarette card silk, US Army technician 5th grade rank stripes, ribbon bars, marksmanship badge, allied military currency, etc (qty)

WW2 British RAF Buttons, single Army officers rank pip, WW1 lapel badge "Arras", West German Army Panzer marksmans badge, copy Heersversuchsstelle Peenemunde lapel badge no. 304

Polish Army 27th Ulan Regimental badge with enamelled shield with screw back, Polish Free Polish Army in Exile cap badge with ribbon bar for Monte Cassino, 1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Polish Army Officer's cap bullion and a Polish Army Officer's cap with metal badge. (B.P. 21% + VAT)  Images of reverse of regimental badge including screw added.

An Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal second type, inscribed to 30549 Gunner T Hunt RA (Royal Artillery), with replacement ribbon, and a shako brass regimental badge, with facsimile paperwork.

Royal Welsh Fusiliers, WWI British Trio, awarded to 16916 Private Arthur Pryse Jones, 2nd Battalion, May 1916 while in the trenches at Auchy right sector, front line, the Germans were attacking using rifle grenades, Jones was badly wounded, he was taken to No.33 Casualty Clearing Station, where later he was evacuated back to England , where he was discharged from the Army for being no longer physically fit for War Service, he was entitled to wear the silver wound badge, no.109467 (3)

Royal Welsh Fusiliers, three pairs of WWI British War and Victory Medals, awarded to 77703 Private James Newton, originally 2/1st The Montgomeryshire Yeomanry in September 1915, sailing from Liverpool onboard S.S. Olympic for Service in Gallipoli, under orders of the 54th East Anglia Division, seeing action at the Suez Canal, Battle of Romani, Sinai, Battle of Magdhaba, Rufa, 1st-2nd Battle of Gaze, Megiddo and the Capture of Jerusalem, 1917 merging with 1/1st Welsh Horse to form the 25th Montgomery and Welsh Horse Yeomanry, 9th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, in 1918 still with 11th Cyclist Corps (14532) Newton was sent to France to reinforce the 9th Battalion after the German March Offensive (Kaiserschlacht), 1919 returning to England, 17th April Demobbed from the Royal Welsh depot, Highton Barracks, Wrexham, 37186 Corporal Edwin Davies, as an experienced underground collier he was attached to the 177th Tunnelling Company, switching between that and the 16th Royal Welsh several times during his career, he would have been involved in the underground mining at Railway Wood, Hooge, Birr Crossroads, Cambridge Road, Sanctuary Wood, Ramparts Dugouts and Yser Canal Dugouts, he later demobilised in March 1919, and to 43871 Private George Henry Tyson, enlisted 12th December 1915, sailing from Southampton to Rouen, France where he joined the 2nd Battalion, on the 31st May part of the 19th Brigade, 33rd Division fought at Hooge, also seeing action at the Battle of Loos as part of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, in 1918 Tyson was at the Front Line Trenches at Gouzeaucourt, after heavy German Gas Shelling, Tyson was one of the casualties, later being discharged from the army for no longer being physically fit for War Service, he was awarded the silver Wound badge (B82289) (6)

Rolls Royce Badge, Small Spirit of Ecstasy, Keyfob. Also a cast iron Michelin Bibendum figure and a Royal Army Service Corps motoring badge. (5 items)

1933 MG J2Registration number ALX 934Chassis number J4199Frame number 2767AJBlack with a red leather and vinyl interiorHood and tonneau cover are in black 'Wigan' materialDVLA declared manufactured 1978Wonderful history with the first owner being the vendors father, he spent some time looking for this car which he evenutally discovered and, as being an engineer, completely restored to better than newExtensive history file with copy of early photosPlease see the condition report online for the history of this carThe owner also has a large box containing many small parts removed, replaced or bought and not used, to be collected by the buyer from the postcode area TA13 at a mutually agreed date and timeAll lots in this sale are sold as is and bidders must satisfy themselves as to the provenance, condition, age, completeness and originality prior to bidding. Please read our terms and conditions With V5C, HPI clear AA badge & St Christopher on dash will be retained (shown in photos) View video Information from the owner: General History up to 2024 This car was bought new in November 1933 by my father, then a serving Flying Officer with the RAF who had just returned from a 3 year posting with No 27 Squadron in the North Western Frontier region of India (now the Pakistan/Afghanistan border areas) flying the Westland Wapiti” 2 seater Bomber/Army support aircraft and had saved enough to pay the £200 for his new J2 At the time he was based at RAF Henlow and during the 6 month guarantee period there was a good bit of correspondence between him and the MG company, I have copies of the Abingdon responses from which it seems that he had problems with performance 'maximum speed only 68 mph' and other small matters including vibration. It seems that in April 1934 a new gearbox and remote were fitted plus new front engine bearings etc. These seem to have been dealt with promptly and efficiently. Mileage by then was over 4,000 Sometime in 1934 father and friend took the car on a long tour into Southern Germany and there are several photos taken on that trip including loading (or unloading) onto channel ferry, just guessing Newhaven/Dieppe The next report is it taking part in the Great West Motor Club’s London to Bournemouth trials at the end of March 1935 and I have a photo of it taken at the Bovington Camp section. As father married later in April that year it seems unlikely that he was the entrant so he must have traded it in by then for the 2 Litre Lagonda he next had. The only clue as to its location after 1935 is a repair plate on the radiator header tank by Sercks of Maidstone, Kent and a tax disc issued by London C C expiring end of June 1938. The next phase in the story is that in 1937 or 1938 the car was bought by a young Lincolnshire man, Colin Muncaster. I was able to contact the widow of Colin’s brother, Ray, and she (Phyllis) was able to tell me quite a lot and the rest of the history comes from her and another name she mentioned, Mike Hewson, who lived very near the Muncasters in Horncastle. Mike Hewson’s father was with Colin when he bought the car and they took it to the British Grand Prix held at Donington Park in 1937 or 38. Colin was keen on some competition driving and had the car worked on by the well known MG fettler Harry Lester. The engine had a Laystall crank fitted, cylinder head modified with polished ports enlarged to 1 1/8 inch dia and bigger 1 1/8 inch carburetters fitted. The brakes were converted to hydraulic using components from a Wolseley Hornet with 9 inch drums. Ignition was by 'Scintilla' magneto. Phyllis told me that Colin and Ray were coming home from the pub when they ran off the road near Horncastle and Ray, being thrown forward, lost his front teeth on the dashboard. She asked if the marks were still there on the aluminium panel. I looked and indeed they were and still are! I imagine this was the cause of the bent chassis discovered during restoration. Apparently during the war Colin bought another MG (understood to be a J1 salonette) to use that engine to 'save' the original 'good' engine until war was over, but the car was taxed for a while in 1941 and 1943. Colin was born in 1914 but for some reason wasn’t called up for military service. He had a Garage business and after the war worked for the Council. I have photocopies of ALX 934 taken from late 1930’s on some showing his Hill Climb runs and trophies won, all presumably in the Lincolnshire general area up to about 1952 when by then it was fitted with 16 inch rear wheels. The 19 inch wheels went back on for everyday use until 1955 when it was pushed into an open ended Nissen hut until bought by Harry Dickinson of Bucknall, Lincs, in 1978 where it sat unused for another 27 years until I bought it from Harry’s widow. Before that a chance conversation with another J2 owner at a car show in 2005 led to the discovery that father’s old car still existed and was for sale. I went up to Lincolnshire to see it; very much as I would have expected after so long unused although the engine had been started and run occasionally. It seemed complete and original and there was a large amount of spare parts included. My offer was accepted and we hauled it back to Suffolk a week or so later in July. It soon became apparent that it needed much more than a tidy up and it looked like a total strip down was needed, everything that could wear was worn and the woodworm had consumed most of the plywood trim. The first thing to do was to drain and refill the engine oil, water in radiator, connect to a battery and take a fuel feed from a petrol can. Starter pushed, and engine started and ran strongly, still on its magneto, so this was encouraging. So began over 2 years of work whenever I was able. The most useful tool was the angle grinder to cut off all the rusted up nuts and bolts and with body off I could see what had to be done. The body and chassis went up to David Wall in Wroxham where he repaired and replaced any damaged and rotten timber and re panelled in steel or aluminium where necessary. The chassis was straightened and new stubs welded on the rear chassis cross members to take the spring trunnions. Other steel fittings, plates, brackets, stainless battery box etc. were made up for me by the people at the metal fabricators whom I then worked for. A trip to Sports and Vintage in Shrewsbury supplied me with all the other bits and pieces I thought I needed as well as relining the clutch plate. This was followed by a trip to Jones Springs to recondition the springs. This lot must be collected by 12.30pm on Friday 25th October. If the buyer has not collected by this time it will automatically be removed and placed into storage, incurring a removal charge of £100 + VAT, to include the first week of storage, unless otherwise noted. Storage will then be charged at £10 + VAT per day or part thereof. If collecting from storage, please provide 24 hours notice

Seaforth Highlanders Regimental cap badge on tartan backing, Lorne Scots Peel Dufferin and Halton Regiment Canadian Army with King's Crown, white metal; WWII era Cameronians Scottish Rifles Glengarry cap badge; WWII Westminster Regiment Canadian cap badge; WWII Regimental Sgt Major sleeve badge, Royal Sussex cap badge, Royal Kent West cap badge, Royal Artillery cap badge, WWI Physical Instructors cap badge, Queens Own Rifles of Canada cap badge, Royal Corps Canadian Ordnance, The Perth Regiment cap badge, The Royal Regiment of Canada cap badge, Air Training Corps cap badge; RAF cap badge, RAF white metal brooch, RAC badge, Auxiliary Territorial Service cap badge, Royal Canadian Army Service badges, Coldstreamers Association badge, The British Red Cross Society enamel badge, together with a small quantity of buttons incl. Sherwood Forrester's, Canadian brass buttons and various pips. 

WWI medal group, named to Donald Wilson James (1894-1957), 2nd Lt, Suffolk Regt. Infantry 1st Battalion, including The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) Military Cross British War Medal, Victory Medal, Territorial Force War medal, mounted to board with photographic prints of D.W.James along with an excerpt from The Times, Wednesday 5th February 1919 pg. 13, together with two Suffolk Regiment cap badges, Guards Machine Gun Corps cap badge and the Royal Artillery cap badge.  D.W James enlisted, before the outbreak of the war, as a private soldier in the Territorial Force, joining the 6th Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment (cyclist unit). He served with the battalion until early 1917, by which time he had risen to sergeant. He undertook weapons training and attended an Officer Training Cadre with a Machine Gun Corps, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Machine Gun Corps on 26th April 1917. Following normal form, he would then have attended a five-week course of instruction on the Vickers Machine Gun at the Machine Gun Training Centre, Belton Park near Grantham, Lincolnshire. He was eventually posted to France, and joined the 1st Battalion Machine Gun Corps, which was formed 28th February 1918.  Gallantry notes: "Near Berthaucourt 24th September 1918, after firing a barrage, he pushed his guns forward and consolidated his position under very heavy shelling. During two determined hostile counter attacks he directed his guns with great skill and courage and inflicted severe casualties on the enemy, for which he was awarded the Military Cross certified by General Rawlinson, Commander of the Fourth Army, on the 30th December 1918". Lt James was discharged in 1919, and later re-enlisted in the Territorial Army. He retired in the early 1930s as Battery Sergeant Major, in the 229 Medium Battery, Royal Artillery and was awarded the MBE in 1931. Cite: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/079ebd94-4632-41ca-9fbb-59247cb52047. This record is held by Vickers MG Collection & Research Association. 

Medal group ~ Queen's South Africa medal (2 clasps Transvaal & Cape colony) + King's South African medal (2 clasps South Africa 1902 & 1901) awarded to 1888 Pte H Thompson KRRC t/w WWI trio awarded to 1888 Sjt H E Thompson K R Rif C + Army Long Service and Good Conduct medal (GV & awarded to 1888 TCS MJR H Thompson K R Rif C) + cap badge

A WWI Princess Mary gift tin (empty) together with a single volume 'Kitchener's Army and the Territorial Forces' and a British Army Forage cap with REME badge, and a tie (4)

A Rare and Historically Important OBE Medal Group of 8, to One of the Founding Members of the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E) Who Went on to Command Both F and Later DF Sections and was Responsible for Setting Up Some of the Most Successful SOE Escape Routes in Western Europe, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Civil Division, 2nd type Officers Breast Badge, 1939-45 Star Medal, France & Germany Star Medal, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, France Legion D’Honneur, Officers Breast Badge, France Croix De Guerre 1939-45 with bronze palm, Belgium Order of the Crown, Officers Breast Badge. The group display mounted in a frame with an enclosed name plate. Accompanied by the following items, Bestowal document for the O.B.E. (Civil) to Lt. Colonel Leslie Alexander Longmore Humphreys dated 1st January 1946 (framed). Bestowal document for French Legion D’Honneur to Lt Col Leslie Alexander Longmore Humphreys dated 19th March 1948 (framed). Cardboard tube of issue for Legion D’Honneur document, cases of issue for O.B.E., Legion D’Honneur, Order of the Crown, cardboard postal box for Secon World War campaign medals with Army Council slip for 4 medals, addressed to LAL HUMPHREYS, UNION CLUB, 10 CARLTON HOUSE, LONDON, SW.Most Excellent Order of the British Empire London Gazette, 9th January 1946 - The KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire: — To be Additional Officers of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order: —Lieutenant-Colonel Leslie Alexander Longmore HUMPHREYS, Civil Assistant, War Office.Belgium, Officer of the Order of the Crown, London Gazette 14th May 1948 – Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Leslie Alexander Longmore -HUMPHREYS (108305), Special List.' London Gazette, 23rd July 1948 - DECORATIONS CONFERRED BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT OF BELGIUM, Officer of the Order of the Crown – Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Leslie Alexander Longmore HUMPHREYS, O B E. (108305), Special List (Substituted for the announcement made in the London Gazette No 38288, dated 14th May, 1948).Leslie Alexander Francis Longmore Humpreys was born in Budapest on 4th July 1904, the only son of Richard John Edward Humphreys and his wife Elizabeth Agnes Lyons. His father taught English in Budapest later becoming commercial secretary at The Hague, Budapest and Bucharest. Leslie studied at Cardinal Vaughan School and Stonyhurst College then spent a year at Faculté des Lettres in Dijon before moving to Magdalene College, Cambridge. He gained a 3rd class in modern languages in 1925 and a lower 2nd in part two of the history tripos in 1926. By this point he was virtually trilingual in French, German and Romanian.In early 1939 he joined section D of the British Secret Service, the predecessor of the Special Operations Executive making 2 operational trips to the Netherlands and 1 to Poland before the outbreak of war. In September he was sent to Paris with the rank of Major to liaise with the French Fifth Bureau, planning sabotage lines from Paris and later a sabotage network inside falling France.He was evacuated on 20th June 1940 and on the formation of the SOE in July 1940 he became head of its F Section, charged with organising subversion in France. His main principle was that communications are the essential basis of all clandestine work. In December he was moved over to work on clandestine communications (DF Section), a task well suited to his abilities. He visited Lisbon twice during the winter of 1940/41 to investigate reported lines for passing letters, parcels and people into France. Unimpressed by what he found he decided to construct links of his own designing the blueprint of a system that would serve SOE throughout Western Europe for secret travel and secret supply. His first agent landed in France in April 1941 ultimately Humphreys was responsible for establishing SOE’s biggest and best escape line.A strong administrator with a firm belief in maintaining secrecy, he kept his people inconspicuous, and this was the main reason for his DF Section’s run of successes. The effectiveness of his process was demonstrated when one of his ‘lines’ was penetrated by the German Abwher in 1943 and none of the 11 arrested sub-agents provided any exploitable information to the German forces.DF’s methods were sometimes unorthodox, by passing regular, approved channels in order to deliver results. The results of his section were remarkable with several hundred passengers carried without loss and the carrier’s casualty rate of 2 per cent was by far the lowest of any of SOE’s French sections. By the end of the war, he had attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.Post War he returned to the business world but in 1950 he accepted an opportunity to serve in the Foreign Office spending time in Frankfurt, Pusan (South Korea), Vienna and finally London. In 1964 he retired and joined the staff at Stonyhurst Preparatory School until his second retirement in 1973 when he moved to Bexhill where he lived until his death on 19th December 1976.

WW2 German Award Documents to Gefr. G. Ziegler, Grenadier regiment 121, 50. Infanterie Division, award document to the wound badge in black, infantry assault badge in silver and the iron cross 2nd class, mint condition, awarded on 26.2.1944 on the Krim fighting the red army and hand signed by Generalleutnant Friedrich Sixt, commander of the Division. This combat award documents group comes with an early Gymnasium passport with beautiful HJ uniform photo of Ziegler.

WW2 German Army / Waffen-SS Close Combat Clasp in Gold by Friedrich Linden, Lüdenscheid, zinc construction with soldered on set up and crimped in backplate. Maker marked on the reverse with the FLL logo and designer "Peekhaus". Worn condition with the majority of the gold finish faded. Small spots on the badge show the bright gilding around the hinge and catch as well as on the obverse. An interesting and original gold grade!

Royal Army Chaplains Department Officers Cap Badge by J R Gaunt, fine silver gilt and enamel example with two lug fittings to the reverse. Makers stamp to the reverse of the badge. Accompanied by matching collar badge.

WW2 German Army / Waffen-SS Infantry Assault Badge in Silver by C.E. Juncker, Berlin, nickel silver construction with soldered on set up. Early war, high quality variant by the C.E. Juncker company. Needle repaired during the period. Excellent and rarer piece!

WW2 British Royal Army Service Corps 10th Corps Battle Dress Blouse, good untouched example of a 1943 dated Canadian battle dress blouse with majors rank insignia to the shoulders, embroidered RASC shoulder titles above 10th Corps formation sign and felt arm of service strip. Interior with size stamps and issue date 1943. Accompanied by a war economy khaki wool field service cap with other ranks brass regimental cap badge. (2 items)

An Impressive Collection of Medals to 3 Members of the Sevenoaks Family Who all Served as Officers with the Indian Forces Covering Service from the 1850’s to the 1940’s, India General Service Medal with clasp Pegu, impressed naming, “C C SEVENOAKS, 3RD OFFR, “MAHANUDDY””; British War Medal, “LT. P.L. SEVENOAKS”, Victory Medal, “2. LT P. L. SEVENOAKS”, India General Service Medal with 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F 1919, Waziristan 1919-21 and Waziristan 1921-24 “LT. P.L. SEVENOAKS, 2/69 PJBS”, medals mounted as worn; Military Cross, GVR, unnamed as issued, British War and Victory Medals, “CAPT. C.L. SEVENOAKS”, India Service Medal, War Medal 1939-45. Accompanied by the following items case for Military Cross, Hallmarked silver (London, 1929) cigarette case with gilded interior and the exterior engraved with the intertwined initials PLS, a fine quality sweetheart badge for the 24th Punjabis, believed to be gold but not marked (or tested), contained in a fitted Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company Limited hinged case, a pair of 16th Punjab Regt collar badges and a decorative kukri knife.Military Cross, London Gazette 15th February 1919 - Lt. (A./Capt.) Charles Lutman Sevenoaks, Ind. A., attd. 1st Bn., 152nd Ind. Infy. (EGYPT) - Citation – London Gazette 30th July 1919 - Lt. (A./Capt.) Charles Lutman Sevenoaks, Indian Army, attd. 1st Bn. -152nd Indian Inf. '(Egypt). For conspicuous gallantry on September 19th, 1918, in the attack on El Tireh. After the capture of the first objective the unit became disorganised owing to the shortage of officers. Captain Sevenoaks, who was acting adjutant, was sent by his commanding officer to take charge of the situation. On arrival, he immediately organised a large sector of the front under very heavy fire, and by his own personal example and leading rushed the enemy position at the head of the company. He continued with the advance line up to the final objective, and showed great ability and courageous leadership throughout.C C Sevenoaks – confirmed on the roll for the medal and clasp serving in the Bengal Marine on the steam vessel Mahanuddy. 115 medals issued to the ship of which 29 were to Europeans.Patick Lutman Sevenoaks – Started his service as a Private in the 28th London Regiment (Artists Rifles) serving in France from 4th November 1916. Commissioned into the Indian Army Reserve of Officers on 30th April 1918 as a 2nd Lieutenant, he carried on serving until through until he died as a Captain in 3rd Battalion 16th Punjab Regiment on 12th August 1935. His Victory medal was issued by the British Government whilst his War Medal was issued by the Government of India and this may account for the differences in the rank.Charles Lutman Sevenoaks – Born in Bangalore India on 10th March 1896. He was a Cadet at Wellington College before being commissioned into 24th Punjab Regiment on 28th April 1916. He served in India, Mesopotamia and Palestine during the Great War earning a Military Cross for bravery at El Tireh. Entitled to a pair of campaign medals for his service these were issued by the Indian Government and he retired from the service on 19th October 1922. Granted an Emergency Commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Indian Army with effect from 27th August 1940 (London Gazette 15th November 1940), he served through the Second World War and in 1944 he is recorded as a Lieutenant Colonel (Temporary) in the Indian Army Headquarters Staff, Adjutant Generals Branch as Deputy Director Prisoners of War. Released from service on 1st March 1946 he died in Maidstone, Kent in October 1971.

WW2 German Army (Heer) Shooting Lanyard, 2nd Model, zinc constructed badge with soldered on prongs. Mounted on textbook lanyard rope. Textbook example.

Royal Army Chaplain Department Cap Badge and Collar Badge by J R Gaunt, fine blackened bronze kings crown cap badge with blae fittings to the reverse. Makers mark also to the reverse. Accompanied by a single collar badge with lug fittings. Also accompanied by a pair of blackened collar badges repute to have been made by Pitt & Co. (4 items)