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Click here to subscribeDURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY INTEREST: Two Soldiers Pay Books for 326325 Lance Sergeant Frederick George Richardson [born 9-3-1894 in Lambeth]; together with his original Army Form W.5112 for MID; a group of four miniature medals; a Defence Medal; a ribbon bar; two Salonika reunion association badges; a Durham cloth shoulder title; a star cloth badge; a Kings Badge in its box; and 14 pages of photocopied service papers [1914-18 service] [lot]
An important WWI and WWII father and son medal group and related documentation to 7733148 RSM Henry James Hillary and Wing Commander Walter Stanley Hillary DFC, DFM, RAF, comprising Distinguished Flying Cross, dated 1942, Distinguished Flying Medal named '580022 Sgt W.S. Hillary R.A.F', unnamed Defence Medal, DFC and DFM miniature group of nine including Air Crew Star and Italy Star; WWI and WWII miniature medal group of eight including Regular Army Long Service and Good Conduct miniature for Henry Hillary, a French 43rd Colonial Infantry Regiment pocket badge and RAF embroidered wings. Sold with a pilot log book for Walter Stanley Hillary stating that he qualified as first pilot at Heyford on 15.12.36, with 78(B) Squadron, the log book begins October 1937 and continues to June 1946, embellished with photographs and cuttings towards the latter pages; a flying training note book and a copy of ‘From Biplane to Boeing, The Story Of One Man’s Journey Through Aviation As Though Told By Walter Stanley Hillary DFC, DFM 1917-1995’, written by Nigel Hillary. Page 52/53 of the book discusses Hillary being awarded the DFC “for gallantry during active operations against the enemy” with a quotation describing his actions returning from Hanover and a bombing sortie to Cologne in August 1941; the book also mentions his DFM for “services with 10 Squadron”, with other details in the book of missions, crashes, images of photographs etc. With a folder with historical information including details of Walter's background, a copy of a photograph of Walter and Henry, the planes which Walter flew, copies from the London Gazette etc. Henry Hillary joined the Army in 1916, was wounded, and returned to the front to work in the stores as a company clerk. He served in a similar capacity in WWII. During WWII Walter was serving in the sky and Henry on the ground.Condition Report: Back of the DFM and DM with residue of glue tabs. Pin to the enamel French badge snapped.
Medals of 1766965 Corporal John C Keith of the Intelligence Corps, Corps of Military Police, Provost Company, comprising WWII war medal, defence medal, 1939-1945 star, Africa star with 8th ARMY clasp and Italy star, an Intelligence Corps cap badge, also a silver spoon with 9th Battalion Royal Scots crest given as a shooting competition award to Private J T Keith 1933, together with photographs of Keith, some bearing his signature and a wallet of pertaining ephemera.
British army WWII era coloured side cap with Royal Scot Greys cap badge, another with Harrods of London label and Royal Artillery bullion ware badge, a peaked cap with Royal Artillery cap badges and a peaked cap with Edward VII Royal Military college cap badge with 'vires acquirit eundo' motto. (4)
WW2 Polish Medal Group And Badges consisting Polish, bronze, Cross Of Merit, Army Active Service medal, Monte Cassino Cross number 15008, 1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Defence medal and War medal ... Polish type, plastic medal bars ... White metal, 2nd Korps breast badge ... White metal Polish Signals badge ... White metal and enamel Polish 5th Kresowa Infantry Division badge ... 2 x Italian postcards.
Selection Of Various Badges And Buttonsincluding brass QC Yeomanry pouch badge. Cap badges include brass KC Royal East Kent Yeo ... Brass KC ATS ... Anodised QC Royal Marines ... Bi-metal East Anglia ... Brass KC Royal Horse Artillery. Lapel include silvered and enamel Worcestershire ... Brass KC On War Service 1915 ... Silvered KC Intelligence Corps ... White metal KC Regular Army Reserve. Mixed selection.
Small Selection Of Cap And Collar Badges Including Yeomanryincluding brass and enamel, KC Birmingham Battalion 1914 lapel badge ... Bi-metal Cambridgeshire Reg ... Brass Leicestershire Yeo ... Bi-metal Loyal Suffolk Hussars ... Brass Warwickshire Yeo ... White metal KC Royal Scots Fus ... White metal Seaforth Highlanders. Collars include brass QC R.M.P. ... Bi-metal QC REME ... Bi-metal KC Army Catering Corps. 21 items.
A COLLECTION OF MILITARY HATS, TOW SETS OF BINOCULARS, boxes of Air Pistol Slugs and some modern military collectables, the hats include a red beret with a SAS Badge on it, a black beret style hat, a leather flying helmet with added USA 6th Army Air Force insignia, a flying helmet with a Russian badge on it, a later copy of a Napoleonic shake hat, the binoculars include a pair made by Doland of London and another set complete in their leather case, the other items include a replica bar of chocolate and a pen/watch boxed set, the air pistol pellets are still boxed, Customers must satisfy themselves prior to sale in regards to conditions and authenticity, viewing is advised, condition reports are available on request
A SMALL ACCUMULATION OF BRITISH MILITARY CAP BADGES AND COLLAR BADGES, to include Royal Army Pay Corps(2 coloured metal)General Service Corps Cap badge, East Surrey Reg t Cap badge(2 coloured metal) 2 plastic badges East Surrey & Hampshire, silver coloured circular Air Training Corps & enamelled red & blue RAFVR badge.
A LINED BOX WITH A SMALL COLLECTION OF CAP BADGES AND OTHERS, to include various eras of Royal artillery, Royal Army medical corps, also included is two sweetheart brooches and a Church Lads Brigade collar badge and a five year service medal, inside the lid is a cloth RA badge, Customers must satisfy themselves prior to sale in regards to conditions and authenticity, viewing is advised, condition reports are available on request
A WWI TANK CORPS PAIR OF MEDALS AND OTHER ASSORTED MEDALLIONS AND EPHEMERA, the Tank Corps medals are correctly named to Private T. BAYLISS 305364 Tank Corps and they come with their original box, also included is a white metal issued by Tangye Brothers who was an engineering company in Birmingham, a pay book and discharge book for a Brandon Bayliss who served in the Army Catering Corps, ACC cap badge, coronation medals and a ration book
A WWI PRINCESS MARY TIN, various cap badges, a French medal and a souvenir book from the Boer War, the Princess Mary Tin is in Good condition, the cap badges include ASC, RAMC a badge in the form of an anchor, the French medal is a WWI Patriotic medal, also included is a 1900 Field Marshall Lord Roberts of Kandahar Rifle Club medal, an empty Army Club Cigarette tin, the Boer War souvenir book features loose pages and colour prints and is called celebrities of the Army
Attack on Hindenburg Line Military Cross Miniature Group of 4 attributed to Captain Thomas Clapperton, 141 Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps, who “Throughout the day (he)Repeatedly Conducted Bearers to the most Exposed parts of the line” comprising, Military Cross, GVR, 1914-1920 British War and Victory Medals with MiD emblem on MC Ribbon, lightly toned, very fine. (3) Military Cross - London Gazette 30th July 1919T./Capt. Thomas Clapperton, M.B., 141st Fld Amb R.A.M.C. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during the attack on the Hindenburg Line on September 29th 1918. Throughout the day he repeatedly conducted bearers to the most exposed parts of the line to search for casualties. Though his advanced bearer post at Berthaucourt was heavily shelled he succeeded by his promptitude and energy in getting his wounded away without further casualties. His fine work was the means of saving many lives.Mentioned in Despatches November 1918Thomas Clapperton son of Thomas Clapperton, born Fochabers, 10th of December 1883. Bachelor of Medicine 1907, Aberdeen University Troop ( Scottish Horse) RAMC(Vol.). War Work British Red Cross Rutland 1914-1916, Commissioned, RAMC, October 1916. Served France September 1916 – November 1918.Sold 2 copy Photographs in uniform, in France. Copy General Rawlinson, Army Orders, Immediate Rewards MC Notification, copy Fourth Army Gallantry Card, Copy London GazetteEntry, Copy Medal Index Card Confirming Pair and RAMC collar Badge.
The Hutson Family George Thomas HutsonThe British War and Victory Medals and Memorial Plaque awarded to Pte George Thomas Hutson Royal Army Medical Corps who was Killed in Action in the sinking of His Majesty’s Hospital Ship Glenart Castle on the 26th of February 1918, comprising 1914-1920 British War and Victory Medals, (123711 Pte. G.T. Hutson. R.A.M.C.), Memorial Plaque (George Thomas Hutson) Framed and Glazed, naming not seen. Sold with an original photograph of George Hutson in uniform.On 25 February 1918, Glenart Castle left Newport, South Wales, heading towards Brest, France, to collect patients. After 3:00 on 26 February, fishermen in the Bristol Channel saw her clearly lit up as a hospital ship. John Hill — a fisherman on Swansea Castle — remembered "I saw the Hospital Ship with green lights all around her – around the saloon. She had her red side lights showing and mast-head light, and also another red light which I suppose was the Red Cross light." A little before 04:00, Glenart Castle was hit by a torpedo fired from the German U-boat UC-56 in the No. 3 hold. The blast destroyed most of the lifeboats, while the subsequent pitch of the vessel hindered attempts to launch the remaining boats. In the seven to eight minutes the ship took to sink, accounts varied as to how many lifeboats were launched, but only one lifeboat carrying 22 men survived the night on rough seas. The men bailed constantly in wintry conditions to avoid being swamped. They were rescued by a French boat, Feon, around 10:30. Four rafts bearing nine more men were located by USS Parker between 13:00 and 15:00. Fireman Jesse White washed astern in his exhausted state and was injured by Parker's propeller. White died on board. One man was unconscious when rescued and died in hospital the next day having never recovered consciousness. He was subsequently identified as Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) Private Samuel "Harry" Lund. The body of wireless operator Michael Sinnott was recovered off Trevose Head, Cornwall, on 2 March 1918.The most likely figures are that 182 were on board, of whom 29 survived. A total of 153 people were killed. Ninety-five of 120 crew died, including Captain Bernard Burt who had given the order "Every Man For Himself" before he was last seen retiring to the chart room. Both chaplains, 48 of 52 RAMC personnel, and all eight nurses of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service died. The matron of Glenart Castle, Kate Beaufoy, was among those killed in the sinking. Beaufoy was a veteran of the South African War and the Gallipoli campaign. Her family kept her diary and her writings describe life on the ship. Also killed was Staff Nurse Edith Blake, the only Australian nurse killed in action in the First World War. Having trained at the Coast Hospital (later Prince Henry Hospital) in Sydney, she volunteered to serve and was one of almost 130 Australian nurses allotted to the QAIMNS. She nursed at 1 Australian General Hospital in Cairo and 17 British General Hospital in Alexandria, on HMHS Essequibo and nursed Germans at Belmont Prisoners of War Hospital, Surrey before joining Glenart Castle. She described her war service in detailed letters home to her family. Newspaper reports suggested that the submarine may have shot at initial survivors of the sinking in an effort to cover up the sinking of Glenart Castle. The body of a junior officer of Glenart Castle was recovered from the water close to the position of the sinking. It was marked with two gunshot wounds, one in the neck and the other in the thigh. The body also had a life vest indicating he was shot while in the water.However, official records do not support this story.Arthur HutsonThe Great War Territorial Force War Medal Territorial Efficiency group of 4 awarded to Georges younger brother Arthur Hutson, 17th Battalion (1st Footballers) Middlesex Regiment later Royal garrison Artillery. Comprising, 1914-1920 British War and Victory Medals, (1613 Pte. A. Hutson. Midd’x. R.), Territorial Force War Medal (1613 Pte. A. Hutson. Midd’x R.), Territorial Efficiency Medal, (148697 Gnr. A. Hutson. R.G.A.).G.T. Hutson toned extremely fineA. Hutson toned very fine in all (7)Working as a whitesmith in 1911,Arthur married Mary Scott in 1914 he landed in France 18th Nov 1915 and was disbanded on 10th Feb 1918 in France, which is presumably when Arthur went to the RGA. Medal Index Card confirms both Service Numbers Sold with copy papers, census detail, Original RAMC shoulder title, a Middlesex Regiment Old Comrades Association Badge and to RAOB jewels.
BUDYONNY SEMYON: (1883-1973) Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union who served during World War II and was a close political ally of Joseph Stalin. D.S., S M Budyonny, in Cyrillic, two pages, in the form of a hardbound folding oblong 12mo presentation certificate, n.p., 25th May 1953, in Cyrillic. The cover features the stamped title Volunteer Society for the Assistance to the Army, Aviation and Navy, Certificate for the badge of honour "For Active Work" and the partially printed text, completed in manuscript, to the inside confirms that the certificate (Number 865) is presented to Matsyuk Roman Matveevitch and that he has been awarded the badge "For Active Work" and also explains that it is presented to ´individual members of the Society for the Assistance to the Army, Aviation, and Navy, who have especially distinguished themselves in the promotion of military, military-technical, aviation and naval knowledge, training of members of the Society in military specialities, training of the population in all types of anti-aircraft and anti-chemical defence, development of military sports.....´. Signed by Budyonny in his capacity as Chairman of the Central Award Commission and countersigned by Vasily Kuznetsov (1894-1964) Soviet Colonel General of World War II, a Hero of the Soviet Union. Signed by Kuznetsov in his capacity as a representative of the Organising Committee of DOSAAF. Some very light, minor age wear, VG
Assorted motor related items comprising of Michelin Battle of Normandy 102 folding map; Crossville United & September 1965, Christmas 1970 & Christmas 1971; Soldiers Release Book, Class 'A' book; Home Office Protection of your home against Air Raids; National Service booklet; Royal Corps Army Ordnance cap badge, various metal and enamel badges, mainly licenses; together with a Edward VII hallmarked silver openface pocket watch, Birmingham 1903
A 1947 post WW2 RAF Leading Airman's blue coat with cloth badges to include propeller insignia and brass buttons, size No.6 and other items of uniform to include jackets sizes No.8 and 9, together with accessories, a peaked hat with brass RAF cap badge and related collectables to include a WW1 Army Book 425 Pilot's Flying Log Book belonging to Flt Lt Alfred Horwood Regiment no:317962 all housed in a mid 20th Century suitcase. Location:BWRIf no condition report, please request.
A Second World War 1st Division Sleeve Patch, with cream felt triangle over two scarlet strips stitched to khaki wool cut from a uniform; a Combination Cloth Sleeve Insignia to 53rd Welsh Division, 159th Brigade, with printed badge over two scarlet strips and a yellow patch, all stitched to khaki wool cut from a uniform; an Army Cadet Force Brassard, with cloth badges including Proficiency badge; twenty Eight Various Military Armbands, including RAF Police, Fire Guard, Civil Defence, Women's Land Army, Military Police etc.(31)
Four Miniature Medal Groups: - a group of five comprising British War Medal, Victory Medal, Territorial War Medal, Defence Medal and Imperial Service Medal, swing mounted; a trio of 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, swing mounted; a British War Medal and Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, swing mounted; a group of four comprising General Service Medal with PALESTINE clasp, 1939-45 Star, Defence and War Medals, swing mounted; a trio of 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal; copies of Air Crew Europe Star and Burma Star, with medal ribbon bars in a glazed display case; a Small Glazed Display Case, containing various badges including copy of RFC pilot's brevet, a raised bullion thread embroidered RAF blazer badge, silver ARP lapel badge, Civil Defence Corps lapel badge, enamelled Civil Defence and Home Guard lapel badges etc; a Small Glazed Display, containing a white metal model of a Supermarine Spitfire MKI, and three RAF commemorative coins - One Crown, and Five Pounds x 2.
A George V/VI Royal Horse Artillery Officer's Busby, in black sable with crimson bag, gilt metal busby badge with King's crown and white horsehair short plume, with black patent leather chin strap, leather and cloth liner with maker's label for Army & Navy, in cardboard box.Small area of moth damage to the crimson bag, otherwise in good clean condition.
An assembled group of militaria to include: A British Army MKIV helmet dated 1979, with exterior net; a First World War Soldier's small book for Pte. Ernest John Mound, no. 15413, KSLI; and a Royal Army Service Corps car badge (3)Notes: Mound transferred to be a Sergeant in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps [SE35603] and was entitled to WW1 trio with 1915 Star for his service in France.
A Royal Signals Second World War medal group comprising Defence Medal, 1939-45 War Medal, 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with 1st Army Clasp and Italy Star, with a certificate of issue, with an Imperial Service Medal named William Richard Inch, in case of issue, with slip stating 'Lately Senior Technician, Chester', and a Royal Signals Cap badge (7)Provenance: Family descent.
A collection of assorted First and Second World War militara to include; WWI medal pair awarded to one 28148 Pte A J Herbert of the R.A.M.C Royal Army Medical Corps WWII Second World War German respirator gas mask dated 1941, Civil Defence armband, Royal Engineer should titles and uniform buttons, ARP badge, Avon Ambulance Service patches and buttons and more.
WWI First World War medal group awarded to one 3626 Sergeant Frederick Stephen Hackett of the Rifle Brigade. Comprising his 1914 'Mons' Star with bar, War Medal, Victory Medal and George V Coronation Medal. All officially impressed (Coronation Medal not named), with ribbons. Framed and mounted alongside an original Rifle Brigade silk postcard, 'RB' shoulder titles, Hackett's 'For Services Rendered,' badge, Hackett's Army Form and a period postcard photograph of a field hospital 'Revue' show - with Hackett noted as the 'tall man in the civilian suit on the right.' Supplied with a letter of provenance from the vendor, detailing some known history; 'My Grandad was caught in an explosion in 1916 and shrapnel pierced his chest and one of his lungs... he died in 1952 aged 60.' Framed total size: 50cm x 41cm.
WW2 US ARMY & KOREA MILITARIA MEDALS - AWARDED TO CAPTAIN F.A. JACOBUCCI. RESERVIST NATIONAL GUARD. KOREA CASUALTY. 16 MEDALS AND BADGES IN A FRAMED DISPLAY CASE. INC. US BRONZE STAR MEDAL, AMERICAN CAMPAIGN MEDAL, PURPLE HEARTH MEDAL AND A MINIATURE, ASIATIC PACIFIC MEDAL, NATIONAL DEFENCE MEDAL, US WW2 MEDAL, KOREAN WAR US AIR FORCE, KOREA SERVICE, BRONZE KOREA WAR SERVICE MEDAL, GOOD CONDUCT E. H. F. MEDAL, AND 1946 KOREA MEDAL, 2 WW2 STERLING SILVER MARKMANS & EXPERT RIFLEMAN BADGES, CROSSED RIFLE PIN BADGE AND MARKSMAN BADGE.
Coldstream Guard's steel and brass helmet with horsehair plume and chin strap; breast plate, H.41cm; name plate inscribed "2658279 W Britcher", reverse inscribed "Duty", 8.8 x 11.5cm, and a car badge on an oak plaque, together with a Royal Army Ordnance Corps car badge and painted elm shield, 17.5 x 14.6cm. (6)
Quantity of military badges (23). Including: Highland Cyclist Battalion, Engineers, Royal Army Chaplain Jewish, Queen Alexandra Royal Army Nursing Corps, 7th Battalion Hampshire Regiment, New Zealand Army, Motor Machine Gun Corps, 20th Hussars, Australian x 4, Army Service Corps, Army Cycling Corps, Royal Jersey Light Infantry, RNAS, Jewish 40th Brigade, RFC, Loyal Service, Military Police, Royal Scottish Fusiliers, German badge, Artillery sweetheart brooch.
Quantity of military badges including: Rutland Home Guard, Central Association, Popski's Private Army, Coldstream Guards, Royal Warwickshire 1st Birmingham, Machine Gun Corps, Royal Armoured Corps, 16th Cardiff City Battalion, 14th Irish Rifles, Paddington Rifles, Hertfordshire Reg't, Victorian badge, Engineers x 2, Cameron Highlanders, Durham Light Infantry, West Yorkshire Reg't 8th Battalion, Border Cumberland and West Morland Regiment, Australian, 8th Battalion city of London, Leeds Pals, French medals x 2, Canadian enamel badge, Gloucestershire Reg't x 2. (26)
Military badges (11). Including: 1st Wilts Volunteers x 2, Army Cyclist Corps, Middlesex Regiment & Public Works Pioneer Battalion, Devonshire Reg't, Post Office Rifles, Bedfordshire Yeomanry, Plastic ASC badge, RASC, Lincolnshire Yeomanry, Machine Gun Corps, Scots Guards, Gloucestershire Reg't.
A fine post-War ‘Civil’ O.B.E., Inter-War ‘Military’ M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. Allbones, Lincolnshire Regiment, who was decorated as an intelligence officer in Northern Ireland and was later recognised for his recruitment work with Northern Command The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1917; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. F. W. Allbones); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, mounted court style for wear, very fine (7) £300-£400 --- O.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 1 January 1952: ‘Chief Recruiting Officer, Northern Command, York, War Office.’ M.B.E. (Military) London Gazette 3 June 1924. Frank William Allbones was born in Lincoln on 18 August 1892 and was educated at Heighington Endowed Elementery School from 1906 to 1909. Taking initial employment as a junior bank clerk, he was appointed to a commission in the Lincolnshire Regiment as Second Lieutenant on 10 December 1915. Posted to the 8th Battalion from 18 September 1916, he witnessed extensive service in France and Flanders, most notably at the Second Battle of the Scarpe from 23 to 24 April 1917 whilst under the command of Major D. Davies-Evans. Serving as part of 37th Division, the 8th Lincolnshire Regiment lost 2 officers and 20 other ranks killed, with 102 men wounded and 14 missing in action, whilst attempting to attack Greenland Hill and the Plouvain-Gavrelle Road (”The Black Line”). According to the 1928 Gradation List of Officers of the British Army, Allbones returned home following this engagement, almost certainly on account of wounds. Mentioned in Despatches in the London Gazette of 22 May 1917, he was raised Captain in the 8th Battalion on 24 September 1917 and was appointed Battalion Adjutant from September to October 1918. He survived the war and was later specially employed as Intelligence Officer in Northern Ireland from April 1923 to January 1924 - valuable work which was later recognised with the award of the Military M.B.E. in the King’s Birthday Honours List. Advanced Lieutenant-Colonel, Allbones died at his home, White Gate, Washingborough, in February 1966. Sold with the recipient’s original M.I.D. Certificate, framed and glazed bestowal document for M.B.E., and copied research.
Pair: Private S. Fraser, Royal West Surrey Regiment British War and Victory Medals (64433 Pte. S. Fraser. The Queen’s R.) edge digs, nearly very fine Pair: Private J. W. Winchcole, Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals (34381 Pte. J. W. Winchcole. M.G.C.) contact marks, some staining, nearly very fine Pair: Private P. J. Potter, 24th (County of London) Battalion (The Queen’s), London Regiment British War and Victory Medals (205281 Pte. P. J. Potter. 24-Lond. R.) in named card box of issue, extremely fine Pair: Acting Corporal J. Douglas, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (M2-020524 A-Cpl. J. Douglas. A.S.C.) contact marks, very fine Pair: Private R. M. Pennel, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (M2- 222461 Pte R. M. Pennel. A.S.C.) contact marks, very fine (10) £100-£140 --- Sold with a Queens Regiment lapel badge, a Machine Gun Corps cap badge, a Machine Gun Corps sports medallion, bronze, and an MMG lapel badge.
A scarce Great War ‘Warrant Officers’ M.C. group of eight awarded to Captain (Quartermaster) H. J. Anderson, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches in the early months of the Great War, and was one of the very first 99 Officers and Warrant Officers to be awarded the Military Cross in the first London Gazette of 1 January 1915 Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (10434 Cpl. H. J. Anderson. R.A.M.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (10434 Corpl: H. J. Anderson. R.A.M.C.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (10434 S. Mjr. H. J. Anderson. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Q.M. & Capt. H. J. Anderson.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Q.M. & Capt. H. J. Anderson.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (10434 S. Sjt: H. J. Anderson. R.A.M.C.) mounted court-style for display, contact marks to the Boer War pair, these nearly very fine; the rest good very fine (8) £1,400-£1,800 --- M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1915: Serjeant-Major H. J. Anderson, Royal Army Medical Corps. M.I.D. London Gazettes 19 October 1914 (Field Marshal Sir John French’s Despatch of 8 October 1914) and 17 February 1915 (Field Marshal Sir John French’s Despatch of 20 November 1914) . Henry John Anderson was born on 18 October 1879 and attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps as a Boy soldier in March 1895. Promoted Corporal, he served with the R.A.M.C. in South Africa throughout the Boer War, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct medal in March 1913. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 August 1914 (entitlement to the clasp to his 1914 Star confirmed), and within the space of five months on the Western Front had been twice Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Military Cross. Advanced Warrant Officer Class I in January 1915, he was commissioned Lieutenant (Quartermaster) on 9 May 1915, and was promoted Captain on 9 May 1918. Appointed temporary Major on 20 February 1919, he finally relinquished his commission on 25 June 1919. Sold with a Royal Army Medical Corps silver and enamel lapel badge; and copied research.
Pair: Corporal F. Hardy, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (SB-800622 F. Hardy); U.N. Korea 1950-54 (SB-800622 F. Hardy); together with United States of America, Distinguished Unit Citation riband bar, with gilt surround, traces of lacquer, good very fine (2) £300-£400 --- Francis Hardy served with the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, in Korea, and received the United States Army Distinguished Unit Citation (subsequently renamed the Presidential Unit Citation) for successful actions at the Battle of Kap'yong on 14-25 April 1951. The Battle of Kap'yong occurred during the Chinese Spring Offensive and saw the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade establish blocking positions in the Kap'yong Valley, on a key route south to the capital, Seoul. The two forward battalions, the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, and the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry occupied positions astride the valley and hastily developed defences. As thousands of South Korean soldiers began to withdraw through the valley, the Chinese infiltrated the brigade position under the cover of darkness, and assaulted the Australians on Hill 504 during the evening and into the following day. Although heavily outnumbered, the 27th Brigade held their positions into the afternoon before the Australians were finally withdrawn to positions in the rear of the brigade, with both sides having suffered heavy casualties. The Chinese then turned their attention to the Canadians on Hill 677, but during a fierce night battle they were unable to dislodge them. The fighting helped blunt the Chinese offensive and the actions of the Australians and Canadians at Kap'yong were important in assisting to prevent a breakthrough on the United Nations Command central front, and ultimately the capture of Seoul. The two battalions bore the brunt of the assault and stopped an entire Chinese division during the hard fought defensive battle. The next day, the Chinese withdrew back up the valley. Sold together with a copy Canadian Volunteer Service Medal for Korea; Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry cap badge, collar tabs, and shoulder flash; Canadian and Commonwealth Forces patches; Canadian Parachutist Wings; and an embroidered U.S. Distinguished Unit Citation riband bar.
Pair: Private G. E. Ansted, East Surrey Regiment 1914-15 Star (2172 Pte. G. W. Ansted. E. Surr: R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2172 Pte. G. E. Ansted. E. Surr. R.) good fine Pair: Acting Sergeant W. Kelly, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (S-312271 A. Sjt. W. Kelly. A.S.C.) nearly extremely fine Five: Attributed to C. R. Morgan 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr. C. R. Morgan, 31 Four Ash Street, Usk, Mon.’, nearly extremely fine 1914-15 Star (No. 3499 Sepoy Ghazi Shas, 128/Pionrs.); 1939-45 Star (190195 P. J. Clark); Atlantic Star; Africa Star; copy Burma Star; Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45 (2); together with a Royal Air Force Walking and Road Marching Association 2-Day March Medal; a Toronto Scottish cap badge; and a British Legion Women’s Section lapel badge, the reverse numbered ‘288558’, the 1914-15 Star heavily worn, this fair; the rest better Copy medals (4): Victoria Cross, reverse of suspension bar engraved ‘Pte. Henry Hook 1373 B. Co. 24th Regiment’, reverse of Cross dated ‘22nd-23rd Jan 1879’; Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol, unnamed; China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Taku Forts 1860, bronze issue [sic], unnamed; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Defence of Ladysmith, Wittebergen, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (2366 Pte. J. Lynch. Bedford Regt.) all poor-quality non-Museum quality copies, with some of the clasps loose, fair to fine (lot) £80-£100
An ‘Indian Mutiny’ C.B. pair awarded to General H. Macan, 17th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry and Rajpootana Field Force, who was fired upon by a rebellious mutineer in an early and fruitless show of defiance The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 18ct gold and enamel, hallmarks for London 1857, with later narrow swivel-ring suspension and integral gold riband buckle; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Brigdr. Hy. Macan, Rajpootana Fd. Force) with silver top riband buckle, displayed in a fine glazed silver frame, hallmarked Birmingham 1918, extremely fine (2) £2,600-£3,000 --- C.B. London Gazette 1 March 1861. Henry Macan was born at Dhaka on 20 December 1804 and was privately educated by Mr. Howard at Tamerton on the Devon and Cornwall border, specialising in Greek, Latin, French, Mathematics and Hindustani. Orphaned at a young age, Macan was placed in the custody of his uncle, Major Thomas Macan of Bath, who proved keen to recommend him for a Cadetship in the Indian Army; thanks to his linguistic talents, Macan was appointed Ensign on 4 January 1821 and served as Interpreter in the 2nd Battalion, 9th Native Infantry from 23 May 1822. Advanced Lieutenant on 1 February 1822, Macan then transferred to the 17th Native Infantry where he qualified as Interpreter in Hindustani and Mahratta. On 23 February 1831, he was placed in command of a detachment of the Regiment employed in the concan against the Ramoosees - the concan being that part of Maharashtra located between the Ghauts and the sea, extending from Sewdasheogurh to the Taptee on the western peninsula of India. Recorded as arriving at the Presidency from Poona in the Government of India Gazette 20 October 1831, Macan was raised Captain on 27 November 1834 and Major on 17 October 1841; it was at around this time that he was appointed to act as Persian Interpreter to Major-General Brooks, Commanding the Scinde Field Force. Made President of the Annual Invaliding Committee on 17 February 1842, Macan was recognised as an ‘able and zealous’ commanding officer. Further advanced Lieutenant-Colonel on 29 December 1846 and Second Class Brigadier on 16 April 1854, his leadership qualities were soon put to the test during the Mutiny. An extract from The History of the Indian Mutiny by Kaye and Melleson (page 387), notes: ‘Slight Outbreak at Nasirabad Easily Suppressed by Brigadier Macan On 10th August 1857, the military class showed its teeth. One of the regiments accompanying the force for which Gen. G. Lawrence had made a requisition on Disa, and which had reached Nasirabad on 12th June, was the 12th Bombay N.I. A trooper of the 1st Bombay Lancers, suddenly mounting his charger, had galloped in front of the lines of his regiment, endeavouring by cries and threats to induce his comrades to mutiny. The Bombay Lancers, however, were staunch, and some of them mounted their horses to pursue the rebel. Noting this, the trooper discharged his carbine at the native officer superintending the mount, and fled to the lines of the 12th Bombay N.I. where he was received and sheltered. Meanwhile, the Brigadier, Henry Macan, had come onto the parade ground. He at once ordered the men of the 12th to turn out. Only 40 obeyed. Upon this, the Brigadier called out the guns, and bringing up a company of the 83rd, proceeded to the line of the 12th. The original mutineer, the trooper of the 1st Cavalry, fired at him but missed. The rebel himself was then shot by an artillery officer. The men of the 12th were paraded, and all who had disobeyed the order to turn out were disarmed. Their muskets were found loaded. The ringleaders were then tried by court-martial, five were hanged and three sentenced to imprisonment for life. Twenty-five had previously deserted. To the remainder, their arms, on their expression of contrition, were restored, and they behaved well in the field afterwards.’ According to the Magnet (London) on 27 April 1885, Macan went on to command 1st Brigade at the Siege, Assault and Capture of Kotah in March 1858. Permitted to resign his command at Nasirabad 1 October 1858, Macan took furlough to Europe for 18 months. Promoted Major-General on 5 March 1859, and General on 24 May 1877, he died in his 81st year on 20 April 1885.
Seven: Lieutenant-Colonel W. E. Longfield, Royal Engineers and Egyptian Army, who served as Chief Railway Engineer, Alexandria, and Deputy General Manager, Sudan Railways, and was instrumental in the surveying, construction, and supervision of the Suakin-Berbewr-Atbara Railway; thrice honoured by the Egyptian government, he was also three times Mentioned in Despatches 1914-15 Star (Capt: W. E. Longfield. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. W. E. Longfield.) all with crushed named lids of card boxes of issue; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (William E. Longfield) with crushed lid of named card box of issue, this additionally named ‘Glos’; Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmanieh, Third Class neck badge, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, Star and Crescent suspension detached but present, with short section of riband for display purposes; Order of the Medjidieh, Third Class neck badge, silver-gilt, gold appliqué, and enamel, silver mark to reverse, with short section of riband for display purposes; Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, Third Class neck badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, lacking reverse central backplate, with short section of riband for display purposes, minor green enamel damage to Osmanieh, otherwise good very fine (7) £1,200-£1,600 --- Order of Medijieh London Gazette 27 April 1906. Order of Osmanieh awarded 1912. Order of the Nile London Gazette 1 August 1922. William Elrington Longfield was born on 4 June 1874, the sixth son of the Reverend Richard Longfield, of Curraglass, Co. Cork, and was educated at Clifton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, passing out third in his class. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 25 July 1893, and was promoted Lieutenant on 25 July 1896. Attached to the Egyptian Army from December 1899, in 1901 and 1902 he conducted a difficult and complicated survey for the proposed Suakin-Berber-Atbara railway line; as a result of the survey’s success, the project proceeded with Longfield being substantially involved in the construction and supervision of the line. Promoted Captain on 1 April 1904, he was appointed to the Order of the Medjidieh in 1906, and was appointed Deputy General Manager of the Sudan Railways. He transferred to the Retired List on 2 December 1909 in order to become Assistant Director of Works in the civil employment of the Sudan Government, and in 1912 was appointed to the Order of Osmanieh. Recalled upon the outbreak of the Great War, Longfield served as Chief Railway Engineer, Alexandria, as part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, and was promoted Major in 1916. For his services during the Great War he was three times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 6 July 1917; 16 January 1918; and 5 June 1919). Following the cessation of hostilities Longfield reverted to the post of Deputy Manager of the Sudan Railways, and was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in 1920. He retired in 1922, being awarded the Egyptian Order of the Nile on his retirement. Settling in Gloucestershire, he served in the Special Constabulary, was appointed a Justice of the Peace, and wrote a history of the Sudan Railways (published in 1936); he is also mentioned several times in The Royal Engineers in Egypt and the Sudan by E. W. C. Sandes. He died on 17 October 1942. Sold with a French Railways silver Presentation Plaque, the reverse engraved ‘Le President Stephane Derville au Captaine Longfield en Souvenir du Voyage au Soudan Janvier 1908’, in red leather case, the lid embossed ‘Captaine Longfield’; an original officer’s bronze Royal Engineers cap badge; the crushed named lid of the card box of issue for the recipient’s wife’s Great War medals ‘M. Longfield, B.R.C.S. & O.S.J.J.’; various photographic images of the recipient; and extensive copied research.
A particularly fine Kaffir War, Crimean War and Indian Mutiny campaign group of five awarded to Captain G. Robertson, who witnessed extensive conflict overseas with the 12th (East Suffolk) and 95th (Derbyshire) Regiments of Foot and was decorated by the Turkish authorities having endured considerable hardship in the trenches before Sebastopol South Africa 1834-53 (Ensign G. Robertson, 12th. Regt.); Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (G-Robertson- Lieut. 95th. Foot.) contemporary engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Lieut. G. Robertson, 95th. Regt.); Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, Fifth Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel, privately engraved to reverse ‘Lieut. G. Robertson. 95th. Regt.’, minor red enamel loss to crescent suspension; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (Lieut. G Robertson. 95th. Regt.) contemporary engraved naming, all five fitted with period unmarked silver top wearing pins, with matching contemporary miniature awards, these mounted from Hunt & Roskell silver riband buckles, all contained within an attractive two-drawer silk and velvet lined fitted case with brass lock and key, named to top lid in gilt lettering ‘Captain Robertson, 95th Derbyshire Regiment’, contact marks to first and second, these good fine, the remainder very fine and better (5) £1,600-£2,000 --- George Robertson was born in Montreal, Canada, on 30 September 1831, and attested for the 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot as Ensign by purchase on 17 June 1851, aged 19 years and 8 months. Posted to South Africa, he served during the Eighth Kaffir War from 1851 to 1853 in operations against Xhosa and Khoikhoi forces. The campaign later became regarded as one of the most bitter and brutal in the series of Xhosa wars, the tide turned by the successful deployment of British reinforcements via Cape Town, including drafts of the 12th Foot. Exchanged into the 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot 5 November 1854, Robertson was promoted Lieutenant (without purchase) on 9 February 1855, and joined the Regiment before Sebastopol from 26 January 1855 to 8 September 1855. His experiences during this time were later detailed in 1929 by Colonel H. C. Wylly, C.B., in Extracts from the History of the Sherwood Foresters, Notts & Derby. 95th Regiment, Volume 2: ‘Another officer of the 95th whose siege diary is available for reference, was Lieut. Robertson, who joined the Service Companies in January, 1855, and he gives the following figures: “The admissions for disease to hospital in December, 1854, amounted to 48 per cent of the strength present; in January, 1855, to 57 per cent, and the deaths exceed 8 per cent; in February, to 39 per cent; and in March to 37 per cent, and the deaths to 19 per cent of the strength present. This is accounted for by the men being, in the fullest sense of the word, ‘worn out’ by numerous and continuous hardships previously endured.”’ Robertson was later keen to point out the attachment of officers to other regiments for trench duty, such was the impact of disease and state of exhaustion in the British Army. On 23 February 1855, The Times published a letter from a Captain of the 95th, written on the second of that month, in which he adds: ‘The weather has been very severe and the Regiment has, I am sorry to say, suffered greatly; on some days we buried as many as five out of our thinned ranks. In fact we are now very nearly hors de combat... Another fortnight will, I fear, reduce us altogether.’ Briefly returned home to England on 18 June 1856, just a couple of months before his 25th birthday, Robertson landed in India with his Regiment on 1 November 1857. He served with the 95th Foot throughout the Mutiny, including the Siege and Capture of Kotah under Major-General Roberts, C.B., on 30 March 1858; early that morning three columns, each of 500 men, attempted to breach the town’s walls, the lead assault being led by Lieutenant-Colonel Raimes of the 95th Foot. The victory came via a clever flanking movement which resulted in the capture of 70 guns of various calibres and a gallant charge by the 8th Hussars. Major-General Roberts, in thanking the Brigade, was keen to note that he had been in field fights, he had been in storming parties, but he had never seen men go steadier: ‘It was more like men upon a parade, or on a field day, than men who were facing death.’ Advanced Captain by purchase on 16 December 1859, Robertson returned home and exchanged to the 2nd Battalion, 25th (King’s Own Scottish Borderers) Regiment of Foot by purchase on 18 May 1860. Confirmed upon the recipient’s Army Service Record as awarded the Turkish Order of Medjidie, he left the Army a short while later and does not appear in Hart’s Army List of 1865. Sold with copied Service Record and a small contemporary envelope containing original silk ribands for the full-size awards.
A R.V.M. group of nine miniature dress medals representative of those worn by Sergeant Major A. Rule, 20th Regiment of Foot, later Yeoman of the Guard Royal Victorian Medal, V.R., silver; Jubilee 1887, clasp, 1897, silver; Coronation 1902, silver; Coronation 1911; Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse; Army Meritorious Service Medal, E.VII.R.; France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s badge, silver, gold, and enamel; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, mounted for display, significant enamel damage to the Legion of Honour, this fair; the rest generally very fine and better (9) £160-£200 --- Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient wearing his full-sized medals.
Three: Captain D. A. Haggard, Seaforth Highlanders, later Royal Construction Transport Depot, Royal Engineers 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. D. A. Haggard. Sea. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals, with copy M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. D. A. Haggard.) good very fine (3) £180-£220 --- David Amyand Haggard was born in Essex on 12 March 1886, the son of Alfred Hinuber Haggard, and the nephew of the author Sir Henry Rider Haggard. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Seaforth Highlanders, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 10 May 1915. Advanced Captain, he saw further service with the Railway Construction Transport Depot, Royal Engineers. His entitlement to the M.I.D. oak leaves is unconfirmed. He died in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, in 1965. Sold with the following related items: i) A silver Seaforth Highlanders Bonnet Badge and silver kilt pin. ii) A silver Vesta case, engraved ‘D. A. H.’ iii) A silver tobacco box, believed to have belonged to the recipient’s father, the lid enfaced with crest and initials ‘G. B. H.’ iv) Metal die for the recipient’s visiting card, engraved ‘Mr. Dan Haggard’. v) Two silver presentation plaques. vi) Epaulette from the recipient’s Army Greatcoat, with pips for the rank of Captain. vii) A copy of the book Allan Quartermain, by the recipient’s uncle Sir Henry Rider Haggard.
Army L.S. & G.C. (3), E.VII.R. (2) (89907 Gnr: F. Darby. R.H.A.; 61961 Co: Sjt: Maj: H. Wheeler. R.G.A.); G.V.R., 3rd issue, India (1205 L-Nk. Ghulam Rasul. I’’Bty. R.H.A.) very fine and better (3) £80-£100 --- Francis Darby was born in Aston, Warwickshire, in 1873. He attested for the Royal Artillery around 1891 and was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal on 1 July 1909. Henry Wheeler was born in Reading in 1867. He attested for the Royal Artillery at Newport, Monmouthshire, on 25 July 1887 and initially served as Gunner to the 1st Brigade, Welsh Division. Transferred to ‘A’ Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, on 2 January 1888, he witnessed extensive service in India and was married at Rawalpindi on 12 December 1895. Returned home, Wheeler served in 1905 as Battery Sergeant Major with the 1st Midlothian Royal Garrison Artillery and was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal with gratuity on 1 January 1906. This represents the recipient’s full entitlement as he served in India throughout the Boer War and witnessed home service during the Great War with the 2/18th East Lancashire Battery, Royal Field Artillery; he is however entitled to Silver War Badge No. B9176. The Army List notes that the Indian gunners of ‘I’ Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, were largely composed of Punjabi Musalmans recruited from the Trans Jhelum region. The Battery transferred from Secunderabad to Aldershot in 1914, and served alongside ‘L’ Battery with 1st Cavalry Brigade in the early engagements of the Great War. Sold with copied research.
An unattributed O.B.E. mounted group of four miniature dress medals The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type badge, silver-gilt; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Arabian Peninsula; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army, mounted court-style as worn, nearly very fine An unattributed group of four miniature dress medals India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48, mounted as worn, very fine Miniature Medal: Military Medal, G.V.R., good very fine (9) £60-£80
A post-War ‘Civil Division’ O.B.E. group of six awarded to Captain H. S. Ganderton, Devonshire (Fortress) Company, Royal Engineers, later County Surveyor of Wiltshire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1914-15 Star (Capt. H. S. Ganderton. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. S. Ganderton.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, mounted for wear, with crushed named card boxes of issue for the Great War awards, nearly extremely fine (6) £240-£280 --- O.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 1 January 1949: Howard Sims Ganderton Esq., County Surveyor of Wiltshire. Howard Sims Ganderton was born at Aston, Birmingham, in 1890. A Surveyor employed by Torquay Borough Council, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Devonshire (Fortress) Engineers, Works Companies, Royal Engineers on 1 February 1912, and was mobilised for War service in the 1/3 Devon Army Troops Company, Royal Engineers at Torquay on 4 August 1914 and was appointed Acting Captain. He embarked for the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 17 October 1915 and was employed on construction work at Imbros and Mudros. He embarked at Mudros for Alexandria on 31 January 1916, and served as Officer in Charge, 1/3 Devon Army Troops Company, Royal Engineers, Warden Saw Mills, Camp A, North Alexandria from 16 March 1916. With the designation of unit altered to 569th (Devon) Army Troops Company, Royal Engineers, he moved to Rafa, Palestine, on 31 October 1917 and was employed on construction work there, moving finally to Beirut on 25 October 1918. Disembodied on 30 September 1921, he relinquished his commission, retaining the rank of captain. Subsequently successively appointed Assistant County Surveyor Cornwall, Assistant County Surveyor Wiltshire, and County Surveyor Wiltshire in 1927, he was awarded the Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935, and the Coronation Medal in 1953. Appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1949, ‘in recognition of his work during the Second World War’, he retired as County Surveyor, Wiltshire County Council, in March 1954, and died at Bradford-on-Avon on 29 September 1954, aged 63. Sold with a photographic image of the recipient; and copied research.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (3287 Cpl. G. Gyford, 1st. Suffolk Regt.) good very fine £140-£180 --- Sold with a South Africa 1900 Christmas tin in relic condition with remnants of original chocolate; a Suffolk Regiment cap badge; and a newspaper cutting that reads: ‘Five Sons in the Army. Another Ipswich Family’s Remarkable Record of Service. Mrs. Gyford, of 2 Dedham Place, Fore Street, Ipswich, has received from Her Majesty the Queen the sum of £3, as a mark of Her Majesty’s appreciation of the fact that she has five sons in the Army. All are serving in South Africa - one as a Quartermaster Sergeant in the Ordnance Store Department; one as a Corporal in the Devonshire Regiment; one as a Corporal in the Military Mounted Police; one as a Driver in the Royal Artillery; and one as a Corporal in the Suffolk Regiment.’
A M.C. group of seven miniature dress medals representative of those worn by Major R. W. B. Simms, General List, late Royal Marine Artillery and Northumberland Fusiliers Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head; Belgium, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Chevalier’s badge, silver and enamel; Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, mounted for display, enamel damage to wreath on Order of the Crown, nearly very fine (7) £80-£100 --- M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918: ‘For distinguished conduct in connection with military operations in Italy’. Belgian, Order of the Crown, Chevalier London Gazette 21 August 1919. Belgian, Croix de Guerre London Gazettes 21 August 1919 and 4 September 1919. Robert William Benjamin Simms was born on 11 August 1865. As a young man he joined the Royal Marines and served in the Royal Marine Artillery. He was subsequently promoted Sergeant, and in that rank was awarded the Royal Navy L.S. & G.C. In the April 1898 edition of The Globe and Laurel he is shown as a Sergeant Instructor wearing his medal. On the formation of the 3rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in 1900, Quartermaster Sergeant Instructor Simms transferred to the Army and to that battalion, being promoted to Sergeant-Major in June 1900. He was discharged to a pension in April 1906. On the outbreak of the Great War, Simms rejoined the Army. He was appointed Temporary Quartermaster with the honorary rank of Lieutenant on 28 October 1914, serving with the Portsmouth (later 14th) Battalion Hampshire Regiment. He was advanced to Temporary Lieutenant on 30 November 1914 and Temporary Captain on 11 March 1917. Temporary Captain Simms was transferred to the General List, and appointed an Assistant Provost-Marshal (graded as Staff Captain) on 21 April 1917. Mentioned in General Haig’s despatch of 7 November 1917 (London Gazette 11 December 1917), he was then awarded the M.C. for services in Italy. The 41st Division with whom he had been serving had been sent to the Italian Front in November 1917; it later returned to the Western Front in March 1918. On 1 May 1918 Simms was promoted to Temporary Major. As such he was awarded the Belgian Order of the Crown and twice awarded the Croix de Guerre. During the period from 23 February to 1 March 1920 he held the appointment of Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal. On 1 July 1920 he was appointed a Camp Commandant, holding this appointment until he was released. Temporary Major Simms relinquished his commission, retaining his rank of Major on 10 November 1920. He was awarded the M.S.M. and Annuity by the Army Orders 16 of 31 January 1935, and died on 17 October 1955. Note: The recipient’s full-sized awards were sold in these rooms in December 2008, as part of the John Tamplin Collection. Sold with a photographic image of the recipient; and copied research.
Pair: Captain J. M. Hierons, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was strangled to death on the overnight express train to Kashmir whilst making her way to the British Military Hospital at Deolali Defence and War Medals 1939-45, unnamed, pinned to a contemporary memorial panel with brass plaque, engraved ‘To the Memory of Capt. Joyce Margaret Hierons who died in the Service of her Country 14 May 1946. We Shall Remember Them’, with R.A.M.C. cap badge below, 380mm x 165mm, good very fine Pair: Deputy Superintendent D. F. Tisdall, St. John Ambulance Brigade Defence Medal; Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver (30256 D/Supt. D. F. Tisdall. No.8 Dist. S.J.A.B. 1944.) mounted in a modern frame with S.J.A.B. cap badge, shoulder titles and five buttons, glue residue to obverse of Defence Medal, generally good very fine (4) £70-£90 --- Joyce Margaret Hierons served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in India, and came to a tragic end on 14 May 1946. The Derby Daily Telegraph of 15 May 1946 takes up the story: ‘Train Murder: Two Arrests. Two arrests have been made after the murder in a train of Captain Joyce Margaret Hierons, a British woman doctor attached to the R.A.M.C., it was announced in Lahore to-day. Captain Hierons of Whitton, Middlesex, was murdered when travelling in the Bombay-Peshawar express with Miss N. W. Reid, a nursing sister, who was injured. They were attacked by three men, believed to be Sikhs, and robbed of 450 rupees (£34). The attackers, according to a description to-day were three fierce-looking bearded and turbaned men who entered the women’s first class compartment whilst most of the other passengers on the train were asleep.’ Dorothea Frances Tisdall was born on 11 February 1897 in Ireland and came to London in the early 1920s to train as a midwife. Upon graduation, she took employment as the ‘right hand man’ to Dr. Nancy Lewis and later rendered over 20 years of outstanding service to the Reigate and Redhill division of the St John Ambulance Brigade. The Surrey Mirror of 5 November adds: ‘Courage and Laughter in War and Peace. Throughout the war she was in charge of the Shaw’s Corner first aid post, and for a time, whenever the raid warning sounded, she dropped everything and went... Her colleagues spoke of her courage, calmness and tremendous sense of humour she always displayed at these times, and which, they remembered, created an atmosphere in which they were never afraid.’ An extremely popular member of the congregation at St Matthew’s Church at Redhill, Miss Tisdall died on 27 October 1965.
A post-War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Group Captain J. Lambie, Royal Air Force, late Indian Army and Royal Fusiliers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. J. Lambie.); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24 (Lieut. J. Lambie, 67 Pjbs.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted court-style as worn, very fine and better (8) £360-£440 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 2 January 1950. James Lambie was born in Brixton, London, on 22 March 1897. An accountant by profession, he initially attested for the 26th (Bankers) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, but was later appointed to a commission with the 7th (Extra Reserve) Battalion on 26 March 1917. Sent to France, he served with the Battalion as Acting Captain and Adjutant before transfer to the 2/4th Rajputs, Indian Army, on 13 May 1918. Posted from the Western Front to India, Lambie later transferred to the 67th Punjabis and was involved in operations against the Tochi, Wana Wazirs and Mahsub tribes who had been steadily causing problems for British rule since the end of the Third Afghan War in 1919; in the 1921-24 operations in North and South Waziristan, the Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan districts, the 67th Punjabis were involved in garrison duties, road protection and guard picquets. Moving to Manzai, the troops spent many hours protecting the new road link between North and South Waziristan from marauding Mahsud and Bhittani tribesmen. Possibly tired of ground operations in mountainous lands, Lambie transferred to the Royal Air Force on 7 December 1925 and was commissioned Flying Officer in the accountancy branch. Promoted Flight Lieutenant 1 August 1934, he was sent to North Weald on 18 January 1937 and was still there in 1939. As home to 56 and 151 Fighter Squadrons, North Weald soon attracted the attention of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. The Airfield Museum offers a good insight as to those events: ‘The first major raids on R.A.F. North Weald took place on the afternoon of 24th August [1940], when more than 200 bombs fell. At around 4.30pm German bombers and fighters, harassed by the defending R.A.F. Hurricanes, headed for the airfield at around 15,000 feet and proceeded to drop bombs “in a straight line through the western part of the village across the Epping to Ongar road” before hitting the airfield. The officer’s mess, the officer’s and airman’s married quarters, a powerhouse and other facilities were damaged. In North Weald High Road, the old Post Office, a cottage opposite the King’s Head and the Woolpack Pub was wrecked.’ Promoted Temporary Wing Commander September 1941, Lambie was posted to Burma and witnessed operations against the Japanese. Raised Wing Commander in 1947, he was awarded the O.B.E. in the New Year’s Honours List of January 1950, before retirement as Group Captain on 1 July 1950. Sold with copied research.
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