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Five: G. G. Williams, South African Forces 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Africa Service Medal, all officially named (103686 G. G. Williams) Four: Private A. E. Graham, 1st Royal Natal Carbineers 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War and Africa Service Medals, all officially named (144853 A. E. Graham) Three: A. F. Abraham, South African Engineer Corps 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 8th Army clasp; Defence Medal, all officially named (189870 A. F. Abraham) 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 8th Army clasp; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; New Zealand Service War Medal, all unnamed as issued, very fine and better (20) £60-80 Alexander Edward Graham, a Farmer in civilian life, attested for the 1st Royal Natal Carbineers at Premier Mine on 12 June 1940, aged 26 years. After service in South Africa, Abyssinia and the Middle East he was discharged as medically unfit at Premier Mine on 15 November 1941. Later awarded Invalidity Badge No. ‘3096’ (not with lot). Sold with original Certificate of Discharge; Invalidity Badge Certificate; Invalidity Badge Regulations; medal forwarding slip, and registered envelope - this addressed to Mr A. E. Graham at White River. Also with two ‘1RNC’ metal shoulder titles. Alfred Ferdinand Abraham was born on 16 November 1911. In 1940, employed as a Carpenter, he joined the South African Army. He served in the 13th Field Company South African Engineer Corps and later with the 11th Field Company with the 8th Army. In March 1943 he was admitted to hospital, placed on the discharge list and posted to 157 Works Company, S.A.E.C. In May 1944 he was again admitted to hospital and was discharged in November 1944. Also entitled to War and Africa Service Medals.

The important group of awards to Field-Marshal Sir John Michel, G.C.B., Colonel of the 86th Foot, who commanded the Malwa Field Force in the pursuit of Tantia Topee in Central India, and in China commanded the 1st Division which burned the Summer Palace at Pekin in retaliation for the murder of European captives The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, G.C.B. (Military) Knight Grand Cross set of insignia by R. & S. Garrard & Co., comprising sash badge in 18 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1870; and breast star in silver, gold and enamels, one green enamelled stalk lacking; South Africa 1834-53 (Lieut. Colonel John Michel, 6th Regt.) renamed; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Majr. Genl. Jno. Michel, C.B.) ‘Jno.’ re-engraved otherwise officially impressed naming; China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Major Genl.Sir J Michel, K.C.B. 1st Dvn. Staff) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea, British issue, unnamed; Order of the Medjidie, 2nd class set, comprising breast star in silver, gold and enamel, 94mm; and badge in silver, gold and enamels, 57mm, this lacking suspension, the star with old repair to red enamel and other minor chips; Field-Marshal’s Baton, the surviving staff only of the Field-Marshal’s Baton presented by the Queen to Michel in 1886, comprising velvet covered wooden staff with fourteen gold lions, the original gold finials apparently lost in a burglary and replaced with silver-gilt caps to each end, these hallmarked London 1946, velvet worn overall, the campaign medals with contact marks but generally very fine or better £12000-15000 John Michel was born on 1 September 1804, eldest son of General John Michel by his second wife, Anne, daughter of the Hon. Henry Fane, M.P., and granddaughter of the eighth Earl of Westmoreland. John was educated at Eton and obtained an ensigncy in the 57th Foot by purchase on 3 April 1823, passing through the 27th to the 64th Foot, joining that corps at Gibraltar, and obtaining his lieutenancy in it on 28 April 1825. He purchased an unattached company in December 1826, and in the following February exchanged back to the 64th Foot at Gibraltar. In February 1832 he entered the senior department of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and in November 1833 passed his examination and received a first certificate. He then rejoined his regiment and served with it in Ireland until February 1835, when he exchanged to the 3rd Buffs in Bengal, where he was aide-de-camp to his uncle, General Sir Henry Fane, G.C.B., while commander-in-chief in India in 1835-40. In May 1840 Michel was promoted to a majority by purchase in the 6th Foot, over the heads of many old officers in the regiment, an appointment which provoked much criticism at the time, and in April 1842, a few weeks after the arrival of the regiment in England, he purchased the lieutenant-colonelcy. He commanded the 6th Foot at home and at the Cape of Good Hope until 1854. He was in command of a brigade during the Kaffir war of 1846-47, and during part of the war of 1852-53 was in command of the 2nd division of the army in the Waterkloof (medal). At the close of the campaign he was made C.B. ‘for distinguished service in the Kaffir wars of 1846-7 and 1851-3.’ He became brevet colonel in January 1854 and was appointed to command the York recruiting district, but exchanged to half-pay in the 98th Foot, on appointment as Chief of Staff of the Turkish Contingent. With local rank of Major-General in Turkey, he held this post until the end of the Crimean war (2nc class of the Medjidie and Turkish medal). In 1856 he was appointed to a brigade at Fort Beaufort, Cape of Good Hope, at a time of great danger and threatened war, owing to the expected fulfilment in February 1857 of an old Kaffir prophecy of the destruction of the whites. The danger was hardly over before Michel was ordered to China for a command there. He was shipwrecked in the Transit steamer in the Straits of Sunda on 10 July 1857, and carried to Singapore. His services were subsequently diverted to India and he was placed on the Bombay Staff in February 1858. In June of that yera the troops in Rajputana were concentrated at Nusseerabad and Nimach, under Major-General H. G. Roberts, Bombay Army, those at Mhow consisting of a brigade under Brigadier Honner. The latter, reinforced from Bombay, were formed into a division, as the Malwa Field Force, under Michel, the command of the troops in Rajputana being added thereto in August 1858, when Roberts was promoted to the command in Gujerat. Michel became Major-General on 26 October 1858. Impressed with the necessity of cutting off from the towns the bodiesof rebels under Tantia Topee, Rao Sahib, and other leaders, and compelling them to seek the jungles, Michel adopted a strategy which proved eminently successful, despite serious physical obstacles, for the rains at this season had converted the soil at Malwa into a sea of black mud, and the heat was phenomenal. He distributed his troops in lightly equipped columns at salient points in Rajputana and Malwa, with orders to follow the rebels without intermission. Starting himself from Mhow, Michel came up with Tantia Topee at Beorora on 5 September 1858. Tantia and the cavalry fled, pursued by the British cavalry. The infantry and guns made a stand, but did not await the British onset, and leaving thirty guns behind them, eight thousand well trained troops were put to flight without the loss of a man. Michel again defeated Yantia at Mingrauli on 9 October, marched against Rao Sahib the next day, and defeated him at Sindwaha on 15 October. On 5 December he anihilated one wing of Tantia’s force near Saugor, the other escaping across the Narbada into Nagpur. Other defeats of bodies of rebels followed and they began to lose heart and creep away to their homes. Between 20 June 1858 and 1 March 1859, the field force traversed an aggregate distance of over three thousand miles, of which Michel himself marched seventeen hundred miles. The operations ended with the capture of Tantia Topee, who was taken by a small column under Brigadier Meade, was at once tried by court-martial, and was hanged on 18 April 1859 for being in arms against the British. The legality of the sentence was questioned but he was admitted to have been one of the most bloodthirsty of Nana Sahib’s advisers. Michel, who was made K.C.B., remained in command of the Mhow division untilo the end of 1859, when he was appointed to the army under Sir James Hope Grant, proceeding to the north of China. Michel commanded the 1st Division at the action at Sinho, and at the occupation of Pekin on 12 October 1860. On 18 October his division burned the Summer Palace at Pekin, in return for the treacherous treatment of Mr (afterwards Sir Harry) Parkes and some other captives. The palace had already been looted by the French and most of the Imperial treasures which found their way to England were bought from French soldiers. Sir John Michel was appointed Colonel of the 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment (later 2nd Royal Irish Rifles) on 19 August 1862. From 1865 to 1867 he commanded the British troops in North America, becoming lieutenant-general in June 1866, and general in March 1874. He was advanced to G.C.B. in 1871, and selected to command the troops in the first ‘autumn manoeuvres’ in the south of England in 1873. In 1875 he was appointed commander of the forces in Ireland, and was sworn of the Irish privy council. He held the Irish command from 1875 to 1880, his social qualities and ample means rendering him extremely popular. He was a J.P. for Dorset and was made a Field-Marshal on 27 March 1885. Sir John Michel died at his seat, Dewlish, Dorset, on 23 May 1886, aged 82. The medals are accompanied by an ivorine label which records the original inscription on the base of Michel’s baton: ‘From Her Majesty Alexandra Victoria Queen of the United Kin

A rare Great War East Africa operations C.M.G. group of nine awarded to Colonel C. U. Price, Indian Army, C.O. of Jacob’s Rifles and a successful Column Commander whose forces captured Dar-es-Salaam in September 1916 The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; East and Central Africa 1897-99, 1 clasp, Uganda 1897-98 (Lieut., 3/Baluch L.I.); China 1900, no clasp (Captain, 30/Baluch L.I.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col., 1/130 Baluchis); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Col.); Delhi Durbar 1903, impressed naming, ‘Colonel C. V. Price, 130th Baluchis’; Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed as issued; Russian Order of St. Anne, ribbon only, mounted court style for wear, generally good very fine (8) £1800-2200 C.M.G. London Gazette 26 June 1916. Mention in despatches London Gazette 30 June 1916, 7 March 1918 and 6 August 1918 (all East Africa). Russian Order of St. Anne, 3rd Class London Gazette 15 February 1917. Charles Uvedale Price was born in May 1868 and was educated at the United Services College, Westward Ho! and the R.M.C., Sandhurst. Originally commissioned into the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in February 1888, he transferred to the Indian Army in January 1890 and served in the Zhob Valley on the North West Frontier in the same year, afterwards gaining an appointment as a Wing Officer in the 30th Regiment of Bombay Infantry (3rd Baluchis). In January 1897, however, he was attached to the 27th Bombay Infantry (1st Baluchis) as Adjutant, and went on to win his first campaign medal with them in the Uganda operations of 1897-98. During this latter campaign he was engaged against the Sudanese mutineers, including the operations at Jeruba and Kijangute, and in Budda and Ankoli, gaining a mention in despatches. Shortly afterwards he sailed for China, and served as a Captain in the course of the Boxer Rebellion. Then in 1903, back in India, Price attended the Delhi Durbar, attached as a Political Officer to His Highness the Mir of Khairpur. He was advanced to Major in February 1906. Appointed a Double Company Commander in the 130th K.G.O. Baluchis (Jacob’s Rifles) in October 1911, Price assumed command of the regiment in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1915, and went on to serve with distinction in the operations in East Africa. In July 1915, in the fighting in the Mbuyuni region, he was appointed to the command of the flanking column, comprising Jacob’s Rifles, the 4th K.A.R. and Cole’s Scouts, sent by Brigadier-General Malleson to envelop the enemy’s left. Carrying out a well timed circuitous night march, Price attacked at daybreak on the 14th, but by 8 a.m. his force was checked by strong enemy resistance, and it became necessary to await more positive news from the main attacking force to the Germans’ front. This initiative, however, also lost momentum, and by the time Malleson’s order to call off the assault reached Price, his force had been under a lively hostile fire for at least an hour. Unperturbed, Price disengaged and ‘brought away his force in a steady and well-executed withdrawal, with slight loss’ (Official history refers). In early July 1916, as C.O. of a 500-strong force, comprising the 5th Light Infantry and a company of the 101st Grenadiers, Price was given the task of capturing Tanga. Carrying out a successful landing on the southern shore of Manza Bay on the 5th, he moved his force inland towards Amboni, ‘which was reached next day after disposing of some slight resistance on the way’. And on the 7th, he and his men crossed the Zigi River, the final natural barrier between them and their goal. Tanga, however, was found to have been deserted by the enemy, although some had remained behind in the surrounding bush from where they sniped at the British with good effect. Flushing out such opposition by means of frequent patrolling, Price moved on to Kange on the 17th. Then in early August, he was given overall command of two columns, numbering in total some 1400 men, to secure the crossings of the Wami River. This he successfully accomplished in little more than a week, thereby assisting in opening up the way forward to attack Dar-es-Salaam. For the final advance on the seat of government and principal port of German East Africa, Price’s force was bolstered in strength by some 500 men and equipped with 20 machine-guns. The whole was assembled at Bagamoyo at the end of the month, and on the 31st, in two columns, it advanced on Dar-es-Salaam, while two smaller parties penetrated north to secure the railway line and some important bridges. Just four days later, having encountered little opposition, Price’s main force was assembled on the heights near Mabibo, from which the port could be seen less than three miles away. And early on that morning, after the Royal Navy had despatched a delegation aboard the Echo with a formal summons to surrender, the 129th Baluchis, which had acted as Price’s advanced guard throughout the operation, entered and took over the town. Once again, the Germans had made a hasty retreat, leaving behind 80 hospital patients and 370 non-combatants. For his part in some of the above related operations in German East Africa, Price was awarded the C.M.G and mentioned in despatches, in addition to gaining appointment to the Russian Order of St Anne. And in the later operations of that theatre of war between 1917-18, he again distinguished himself and was twice more the recipient of a ‘mention ‘. The Colonel, who retired to South Africa, died in May 1956. For the recipient’s Order of St. Anne, see Lot 669.

A Civil C.B.E. group of three awarded to Major H. B. McCance, General List and Royal Engineers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck cravat, in Garrard, London case of issue; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Major) medals mounted as worn; together with a corresponding set of three miniature dress medals, nearly extremely fine (6) £200-250 C.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1958. ‘Henry Bristow McCance, Esq., Chairman of Council, Linen Industry Research Association’. M.I.D. London Gazette 29 May 1917. Lieutenant Henry Bristow McCance, General List, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 12 January 1916. In March 1917 as a Temporary Captain he was transferred to the Royal Engineers for duty as Chemical Advisor with Xth Army Corps and was later promoted to Major. Sold with copied research.

A Great War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Captain V. T. D. Palmer, East Kent Regiment The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lieut., E. Kent Rgt.); Defence; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these threee unnamed as issued, mounted for display, good very fine (5) £350-400 O.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918. Vivian Trestrail Dampier Palmer was born on 29 December 1876, the son of Colonel James Dampier Palmer, M.P., of Herondon Hall, Tenterden. He was educated at Marlborough College. He received his commission in the Militia in October 1894 and was promoted to Lieutenant in May 1895. Appointed an Honorary Lieutenant in the Army in 1900, he served in the Boer War, being present in operations in Orange Free State, March-May 1900; operations in Orange River Colony, May-November 1900 and December 1900-January 1901, and in the Cape Colony during December 1900. Palmer was invalided home in January 1901 as unfit for further service. He held the rank of Captain in the 3rd Battalion East Kent Regiment, 1904-07. Palmer was a member of the Kent County Council, 1907-19, as a representative for Tenterten. Appointed a Temporary Captain in the Army, 1914-19, he was employed as a Recruiting Staff Officer at Canterbury in 1914 and was later the Deputy Director of Recruiting for the South Eastern Region. He was in addition the Secretary of the South Eastern Region, Ministry of National Service and Private Secretary to Sir Cecil Beck, M.P. - Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of National Service. For his wartime services he was awarded the O.B.E. Postwar he became a J.P., during 1921-22 was High Sheriff of Kent and was Mayor of Tenterden, 1929-30. Captain Palmer died on 9 August 1946, aged 69 years. Sold with a quantity of copied research.

An inter-war Military O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Captain J. D. Cameron, Nigeria Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force, late Royal Army Medical Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (14335 S-Sjt., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Defence and War Medals; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (14335 S. Sjt., R.A.M.C.) some edge bruising, fine and better (7) £250-300 O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1930. ‘Captain James Daniel Cameron, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, Staff Quartermaster, Nigeria Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force’. Staff Sergeant James Daniel Cameron, Royal Army Medical Corps, entered the Cameroon theatre of war on 6 August 1914. He was commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry in May 1916, serving with the West African Frontier Force, and was promoted to Lieutenant in November 1917 and Captain in January 1921. Sold with some copied research.

A Military O.B.E. pair awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Maude Tompkins, Women’s Royal Army Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, with bow ribbon and case of issue; War Medal 1939-45, both unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, second with slight edge bruising, good very fine and better (2) £100-140 Maude Tompkins was born on 27 December 1908. First commissioned on 27 December 1933, she became a Major in December 1944. Posted as Assistant Director, W.R.A.C., Northern Ireland District, with the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on 12 August 1954, she retired from the W.R.A.C. as an Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel on 28 November 1957. Sold with original O.B.E. bestowal document to Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Maude Tompkins, Women’s Royal Army Corps, dated 13 June 1957; this with original envelope, addressed to the recipient at ‘47 Conisboro Avenue, Caversham, Reading, Berkshire’. Also with named forwarding slip and Order of the British Empire Service of Dedication booklet, 19 May 1971.

A rare Great War East Africa operations M.B.E. group of four awarded to Captain A. Crawford, Royal Army Medical Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt., R.A.M.C.), good very fine (4) £300-350 M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in East Africa.’ Andrew Crawford appears to have entered the East Africa theatre of war in May 1915.

A fine Second World War M.B.E. group of ten awarded to Warrant Officer Class 2 E. T. Maxfield, Royal Armoured Corps, late Worcestershire Regiment and Gloucestershire Regiment: a veteran of the Somme, where he was severely wounded in October 1916, he went to land on ‘Gold Beach ‘on D-Day with 61 Reconnaissance Regiment, displaying courage on ‘many occasions’ during the ensuing operations in North-West Europe The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; 1914-15 Star (21386 L. Cpl., Worc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (21386 Cpl., Worc. R.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., India (S. Sjt., I.U.L.), mounted as worn, generally very fine or better (10) £500-600 M.B.E. London Gazette 21 June 1945. The original recommendation states: ‘Warrant Officer Class 2 Maxfield enlisted, under age, in the Worcestershire Regiment 30 years ago today, on 2 February 1915. Throughout that time his conduct has been of the highest standard, and his record entirely unblemished. He was appointed Lance-Corporal in 1915, and went to the Middle East in November. In 1916 he went with the 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment to France. He fought on the Somme and at Ypres. In October he was severely wounded near Bapaume. After the War he served two years with the Army of Occupation on the Rhine, and became a Sergeant in 1920. When his battalion was disbanded, he was transferred to the Gloucestershire Regiment. He served in India from 1922 until 1937. From then until the start of the War he was training recruits at the depot. In 1940 he was promoted C.Q.M.S. and joined the 7th Battalion, Glosters in Ireland. Here he was promoted to C.S.M. He joined 61 Reconnaissance Regiment in October 1941 as S.S.M. His work for and value to this regiment merit the highest praise. In Ireland and England, during the training years, his conduct set the fine standard for his fellow Warrant Officers and Sergeants. His unfailing courtesy to all ranks, his selfless devotion to his squadron and the Regiment, and his example of strict yet friendly discipline have been in great measure responsible for the spirit of the Regiment. There is not a man in the Regiment who was not glad to carry out his orders. On active service again, this time at the age of 47, he has been Sergeant-Major of ‘A’ Echelon since shortly after D-Day. His experience, initiative and on many occasions courage have made him quite invaluable. It would be hard to imagine a finer Warrant Officer than S.S.M. Maxfield, or a more faithful servant to the Army. I recommend him most strongly for this award.’ Edwin Thomas Maxfield orignally entered the Balkans theatre of war in December 1915, but, as verified by the above recommendation, later served in France on the Somme, as a Corporal in the 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, and was severely wounded there in October 1916. Transferring to the Gloucestershires after the Great War, he served in India 1922-37, and was awarded his Jubilee 1935 Medal while employed as a Sergeant in the 1st Battalion (the official roll refers), in addition to qualifying for the L.S. & G.C. Medal. And his subsequent award of the M.B.E. was mainly in respect of services in 61 Reconnaissance Regiment, R.A.C., in North-West Europe from D-Day to February 1945 - the landings on ‘Gold Beach ‘met with strong and determined enemy resistance, our casualties amounting to over 400 killed, wounded or missing.

A rare and emotive Second World War clandestine operations M.B.E. group of three awarded to Lieutenant A. W. O. Newton, an ‘F’ Section, S.O.E. agent who was parachuted into France as a saboteur instructor in June 1942, captured in April 1943, and brutally tortured before being sent to Buchenwald: his brother suffered the same fate but both survived to be liberated by the advancing Allies in April 1945 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, in its Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, together with related G.VI.R. ‘Loyal Service ‘badge and original O.B.E. warrant, this in the name of ‘Alfred Willie Oscar Newton, Lieutenant in Our Army’ and dated 13 August 1945, the medals very fine and better, the warrant torn in several places (Lot) £400-500 M.B.E. London Gazette 30 August 1945. The original recommendation states: ‘This officer was parachuted into France with his brother on 30 June 1942 as a saboteur instructor to a circuit in the unoccupied zone. In this capacity he worked for a period of nine months, throughout which period he showed outstanding courage and devotion to duty. He travelled continuously and organised and trained sabotage cells in various regions, in particular Lyon, St. Etienne and Le Puy. These groups subsequently carried out effective sabotage on enemy industrial installations and railway communications. Newton was arrested in April 1943 with his brother and incarcerated at Fresnes, where he spent over a year in solitary confinement. He was later transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp where he suffered grave hardships. He was liberated in April 1945 when American forces occupied the camp. For his courageous work in the French Resistance and his remarkable endurance during his two years in captivity, it is recommended that he be appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division).’ No better summary of the wartime story of S.O.E’s famous ‘Twins ‘, Alfred and Henry Newton, maybe found than that published in E. H. Cookridge’s Inside S.O.E.: ‘The two saboteurs selected for the job by Buckmaster [the destruction of the German radio station at St. Assise] were Alfred and Henry Newton, twin sons of a former Lancashire jockey who had been a racing trainer in France and had lived there with his family for many years. The brothers had become well-known on the Continent as variety artistes, ‘The Boorn Twins ‘, performing a comic tap-dancing act. When the Germans invasion came, Alfred and Henry, who had both married French girls, decided to try and bring their families to England. Alfred Newton had three children, Gigi 10, Jimmy 9 and Coco 3. They trecked in night marish conditions along roads crowded with refugees to Penzon in the Vendome. There the men were apprehended by the Vichy police, interned as ‘enemy aliens ‘and put into a works battalion. After many difficulties the twins escaped to Spain, were arrested by Franco’s police and taken to the internment camp at Miranda de Ebro. They were not released until Christmas 1941. At the British Embassy in Madrid they learned that their families had been evacuated from France by the Red Cross and brought to Lisbon for repatriation to Britain. During the sea journey they had all been drowned, when their ship, the Avoceta, was torpedoed in an Atlantic gale on 25 September 1941. By the time the brothers arrived in London they had but a single thought between them - vengeance on the Nazis. They were given an opportunity almost immediately. I know of hardly another case where a rank-and-file agent was directly enrolled with S.O.E. Nearly always the volunteers came from the Forces. But the story of the Newton twins had become known to British Intelligence officers at Gibraltar and was reported to Headquarters in London. When they arrived aboard the destroyer H.M.S. Hesperus in Liverpool, they were taken to a Field Security Officer, given tickets to London and asked to see a Major at the War Office. This officer gave them an address near Baker Street. The address was 6 Orchard Court, Portman Square, and the man who welcolmed them was Major Lewis Gielgud, the chief recruiting officer of the French Section of S.O.E. Henry Newton spoke for them both: ‘Give us a couple of tommy guns and a bunch of hand grenades and we know bloody well what we’re going to do. ‘Major Gielgud had some difficulty in explaining that it was not as simple as that. But he realized that he had two men who would shirk no task, however dangerous or difficult. He decided they were ideal material for training as saboteurs. For several weeks, at Special Training School No. 17 for industrial sabotage at Hertfordshire, the twins were put through their paces. They were circus acrobats and as tough as they come. When the Chiefs of Staff ordered the destruction of St. Assise transmitter, Buckmaster had no doubt whom he wanted for this job. At last the big day came. Peter Churchill was to be dropped ahead of the Newtons, who had become ‘Arthure ‘and ‘Hubert ‘, two French artisans, to conduct them to the German radio station. The signal heralding their arrival to the local reception group was to be: Les durs des durs arrivent (The toughest of the tough are arriving). The target was of the utmost importance. The St. Assise station was used by the German naval command for directing U-boats in the Atlantic. Its destruction would have caused a breakdown in these communications and probably saved the lives of many British and Allied seamen. Many weeks of preparations preceded the despatch of the two saboteurs. The Newton twins were taken to the big S.O.E. radio station at Rugby and shown all over its installation, to learn what they had to look for at St. Assise. A ‘safe house ‘was prepared at Le Pepiniere, eight kilometres from St. Leu, in the vicinity of the German transmitter. R.A.F. reconnaissance aircraft brought back scores of aerial photographs of St. Assise and the twins were briefed for endless hours. On 28 May Buckmaster and Major Guelis, the briefing officer, came to Wanborough Manor with the latest report of the Meteorological Department, which forecast perfect weather. Eventually they all drove to Tempsford airfield. ‘Arthure ‘and ‘Hubert ‘, rigged up in old suits of an authentic French cut, were put aboard a Whitely, with a load of propaganda leaflets from the political Welfare Executive which were to be scattered on the way. But the aircraft developed engine trouble and the S.O.E. men had to be transferred to a Wellington. Just when they were inspecting their parachuting gear, ‘Gerry ‘Morel ran on to the tarmac. ‘The operation is off. Sorry, you’ll have to get out, ‘he told them. The twins were livid.’ However, as confirmed by the activities described in the above recommendation, the ‘Twins ‘were indeed actively employed in France shortly afterwards. Cookridge continues: ‘A few weeks later Alfred and Henry Newton were dropped on another mission - to teach sabotage to Resistance groups in the Lyons area. They were getting into their stride and did some excellent work when, through the betrayal of a V-man, an Alsatian named Robert Alesch who posed as a priest and was known as ‘The Bishop ‘, they were caught by the Gestapo. The twins underwent unspeakable torture at the Gestapo H.Q. at Lyons, at the hands of it notorious commander, S.S. Sturmbann-Fuhrer Barbie and his thugs. They never gave any of their comrades away and spent the last two years of the War at Buchenwald, where they had a miraculous escape from the gallows, and were freed in 1945.’ Robert Alesch was tried and executed after the War.

A post-war M.B.E., O. St. J. group of eight attributed to the Reverend Canon J. F. W. Hardy, Royal Army Chaplain’s Department, Honorary Chaplain to H.M. The Queen and Chaplain to the Lord Mayor of London 1974-75 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silvered-metal and enamel; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, the last privately inscribed, ‘Rev. J. F. W. Hardy, R.A. Ch. D.’; Coronation 1953; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., the reverse dated ‘1950’, with three Bars, one G.VI.R., and two E.II.R., cleaned and lacquered, good very fine and better (8) £180-220 Ex A. A. Flatow collection, Spink, 25 November 1998 (Lot 1433), when sold in company with his wife’s 1939-45 awards. M.B.E. London Gazette 13 June 1957. John Francis Wrangham Hardy served as a Chaplain to the Forces (Territorials) 1939-65 and was awarded his Efficiency Decoration in 1950 (London Gazette 21 April of that year refers), Also an Honorary Chaplain to H.M. The Queen 1962-64 (and again from 1967), he was appointed Assistant Chaplain to the Order of St. John in May 1965, in which capacity he was elevated to Sub. Chaplain in July 1980 and to Chaplain in May 1985, and employed as Chaplain to the Lord Mayor of London 1974-75. After spending most of his ministry in various Yorkshire livings, Hardy’s final incumbency was as Rector of Green’s Norton, Towcester, Northemptonshire, where he died aged 81 years in July 1993.

A Military M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel D. P. Smith, Royal Engineers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1st Army clasp; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial, officially dated ‘1951’, all unnamed as issued, war medals with adhesive marks to the reverse, good very fine (7) £140-180 M.B.E. London Gazette 28 June 1945. ‘Major (temporary) Donald Padden Smith (71724), Corps of Royal Engineers (Birmingham 20)’. Sold with a bound copy of Field Service Pocket Book Pamphlets - folder inscribed in ink, ‘Capt. D. P. Smith R.E.’; Efficiency Decoration forwarding slip, conferred on 15 June 1951, addressed to ‘Lt. Colonel D. P. Smith, T.D.’, and with a brass napkin ring inscribed, ‘Donald Padden Smith, M.B.E., Royal Engineers’ and further inscribed with his places of service for the years 1939-45.

A Civil M.B.E. group of six awarded to Sister M. A. Redwood, Territorial Army Nursing Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf, all unnamed, mounted as worn; Swansea General and Eye Hospital Badge, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘3 Mary A. Redwood’, with brooch bar, good very fine (6) £200-240 M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1958. ‘Miss Mary Ann Redwood, Health Visitor, Monmouthshire County Council’. M.I.D. London Gazette 8 November 1945. ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe’. Sold with three letters re. the award of the M.B.E.; War Office notification of the mention in despatches; medal and M.I.D. forwarding slips; case and bow riband for the M.B.E.; a statutes booklet for the Order of the British Empire; a photograph of Mary Redwood outside Buckingham Palace having been awarded the M.B.E., and a souvenir Programme to mark the Visit of the Prince of Wales to Ebbw Vale, 4 July 1969. The recipient’s address given on several of the papers is ‘Holmlea, Eureka Place, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire’. Also with an autograph book of Nursing Sister N? Redwood dating from the Great War, which contains verse and sketches; together with eight embroidered cards dating from the same period.

An extremely rare Boer War R.R.C. pair awarded to Nursing Sister H. Hogarth, Army Nursing Service Reserve, one of just three such decorations granted for services in hospital ships in the Boer War, in her case as a hand-picked member of staff aboard the Princess of Wales Royal Red Cross, 1st Class, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with original riband and brooch-pin for wearing; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister H. Hogarth), enamel slightly chipped on upper arm of the first, otherwise good very fine (2) £2000-3000 R.R.C. London Gazette 26 June 1902: ‘Miss H. Hogarth, Army Nursing Service Reserve, Hospital Ship Princess of Wales.’ Mention in despatches London Gazette 17 June 1902 (Lord Roberts’ final despatch). Helen Hogarth was one of just four nursing staff hand-picked by H.R.H. Princess Christian to serve on the royal hospital ship Princess of Wales and the only ‘Nursing Sister ‘to receive the Royal Red Cross for services in such circumstances. ‘The Princess of Wales ‘Much of the history behind the creation of the Princess of Wales is well documented in the columns of The Times, Lord Wantage having corresponded with the newspaper in October 1899 about the creation of the Central British Red Cross Committee, including the Army Nursing Service Reserve, whose President was H.R.H. Princess Christian. In turn she became Honorary President of the newly formed Committee, out of which emerged the funding for a fully equipped hospital ship. The vessel in question, the well-known yachting steamer Midnight Sun, was chartered for the purpose and sent to the Armstrong works for the necessary alterations into a 200-bed hospital ship, ready to leave for South Africa by the end of November 1899. In addition to assisting with the cost of fitting the ship, Her Royal Highness spent more than £1,000 in luxuries and comforts for the sick and wounded soldiers and, at the express wish of the Central British Red Cross Committee, consented that the ship be called the Princess of Wales. In the company of her husband, she visited the ship at Tilbury Docks in late November, just before her departure for South Africa - painted white, the Princess of Wales had the Geneva Cross ‘standing out in bold relief on her side’. The Times continues: ‘The interior fittings have been swept away, commodious wards taking the place of dining room, music room, and so on, and the ship now represents a perfectly equipped floating hospital. There are three large wards, and one small one, the last being for officers, and altogether cots are provided for about 200 patients .. The operating room is on the lower deck, in the middle of the ship, and is fitted, not only with a cluster of electric lights showing right down on the operating table, but with the Rontgen rays, as well. Then there is a well-arranged dispensary and also an isolation ward. In addition to the wards already spoken of there are some private cabins available for sick and wounded officers. Three refrigerating rooms with a total capacity of 2,200 feet, have been arranged, in order to allow of an adequate supply of fresh meat being carried for the long voyage. The Principal Medical Officer will be Major Morgan, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, and he will have three assistants from the same corps. Of nursing sisters there will be four Ð one, who will superintend, from the Army Nursing Service, and three from the Army Nursing Service Reserve of the Central British Red Cross Committee. The three have been personally selected by Princess Christian, who has taken the greatest interest in the arrangements .. The nurses (Sisters Chadwick, Brebner, Hogarth, and Spooner), the staff and the men of the Royal Army Medical Corps who go out with the vessel were drawn up on deck as the Royal party came on board. Passing through commodious wards the Royal visitors entered the officers’ ward, into which the dining and music rooms have been converted, and inspected the numerous appliances provided for the relief of the patients .. To the personnel as well as to the vessel the Princess of Wales devoted much attention. Her Royal Highness presented to each nurse a distinguishing badge and addressed to them individually a few words of encouragement and approbation .. The Princess then proceeded along the line of R.A.M.C. men, 23 in number, and to each she handed a badge. To a similar number of the St. John Ambulance Brigade Her Royal Highness also gave badges and expressed special interest in this branch of the hospital staff, who, for the first time, are being sent abroad for service.’ And those services were much required by the time the Princess of Wales reached South Africa in the wake of ‘Black Week ‘in December 1899, unprecedented British casualties having emerged from the battles of Magersfontein, Stormberg and Colenso. In all, the Princess of Wales made three voyages to South Africa and on each occasion that she berthed back at Southampton the Princess of Wales made private visits to the ship to meet the nursing staff and the sick and wounded. And the first such occasion was in February 1900, when she was cheered into port by nearly 500 men about to depart for South Africa in the Goorkha. The Times once more covered events in detail. ‘Then away to the Empress Dock close to the embarkation office where the Princess of Wales, formerly the Midnight Sun, was being slowly warped up to the quayside. Her bulwarks were lined with as healthy looking a lot of men in blue uniform as ever I saw, but one imagined that below there must be many worse cases. But it was comforting to find on asking Major Morgan, who was the R.A.M.C. surgeon in charge, that, as a matter of fact, there was only one man out of the 174 who was not on deck, and that he was carried on deck every day. In fact, the state in which the men arrived did every credit to Major Morgan and Miss Chadwick, the superintendent nursing sister, and to the nurses, female and male, who have been in charge of them. Of limbs lost there appeared to be but a small percentage, but of a sort of partial paralysis following upon a wound from a Mauser bullet there were a good many cases among these victims of Magersfontein and the Modder River .. ‘The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the officers, nursing staff and wounded men on board the ship the day after it had docked at Southampton, carrying out a ‘friendly inspection ‘of each and every ward, The Times’ correspondent reporting that ‘there is not one of the 176 men on board the Princess of Wales who cannot boast that the wife of the Prince of Wales has spoken to him words of comfort and encouragement.’ On 14 April 1900 the Princess of Wales left Southampton for Table Bay, Cape Town, where she worked as a floating hospital until returning home with more wounded and invalids that July - as was the case before, the Princess of Wales inspected the ship and met all of the 170 casualties and the nursing staff, Major Morgan and the Nursing Sisters being presented to the Princess as she arrived on board. So, too, on her return from her third and final trip in December 1900, when the Princess of Wales was introduced to two particularly bad cases: ‘The cases that aroused the deepest sympathy of Her Royal Highness were those of two men named Stoney, of the Liverpool Regiment, and Dyer, of the Scots Guards. Stoney was wounded in eight places, most of the bullets having been fired into him after he had been knocked down; while Dyer was shot through the head and paralysed in both legs and one arm.’ Moreover, The Times report continues: ‘Before leaving the ship she presented the four nursing sisters Ð Misses Chadwick, Brebner, Hogarth, and Spooner Ð with a souvenir brooch. The brooch consists of a white enamel cross surmounted by a gold crown, and the front of the cross bears the initial ‘A’ in gold.’ In the course of this visit, the Princess was presented with an official rec

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Driefontein (5543 Pte. C. Kenway, Gren. Gds.) very fine £70-90 Charles Kenway was born in Wareham, Dorchester, Dorset. A Footman by occupation, he attested for service with the Grenadier Guards on 8 November 1895, aged 19 years, 11 months. With them he served in Gibraltar, September 1898-October 1899 and South Africa, January-April 1900. He returned to England in May as servant to Lieutenant-Colonel Cooper. For his services he was awarded the Queen’s medal with two clasps. In September 1900 he transferred to the Irish Guards. He was transferred to the Army Reserve in November 1902 and was discharged in November 1911. In November 1902 he was a candidate for employment as a Constable in the Metropolitan Police. In the Great War he attested for service with the Irish Guards on 31 May 1916, aged 39 years, 7 months. Appointed a Lance-Corporal in May 1917, he served throughout the war in the 3rd Reserve Battalion at Warley. He was discharged on 9 January 1919 and awarded the Silver War Badge. Sold with copied attestation papers and other research.

Seven: Captain Thomas Henry Johnson, Canadian Corps of Military Staff Clerks, late 8th Hussars 1914-15 Star (24257 Pte., 7th (sic) Hrs.); British War and Victory Medals (24257 Pte., 8-Hrs.); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal 1939-45, no clasp (Capt.); War Medal 1939-45, silver issue (Capt.); Permanent Forces of the Empire L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (Q.M.S. W.O.II, C.M.S.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (WO. Cl.II (QMS) CMSC) mounted for display, very fine and better (7) £400-500 Thomas Henry Johnson was born on 21 September 1885 in Emo, Port Arlington, in the Registration District of Mountmellick, Queens County, Ireland, the son of Thomas Johnson, a farmer, and Anna Maria Fisher He first served as Private 6931 in the 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, 2 January 1904-1 January 1907. He then enlisted in the Royal Canadian Dragoons as Private 1298 on 8 September 1908 at St. Jean in the Province of Quebec and completed his engagement on 7 September 1911. On the outbreak of the First World War he was in Montreal preparing to rejoin his old Unit when he received a letter from his mother stating that two of her younger sons had joined up and requesting that he return to Ireland and enlist in the Regiment of the youngest son, the 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars, to look after him. He booked his passage on the earliest steamer and succeeded in enlisting in the same Regiment as his brother, as Private 24257, on 25 November 1914 and served until being demobilised on 31 May 1919. After returning to Canada, he enlisted in Lord Strathcona's Horse at Winnipeg, Manitoba on 11 June 1921 as Private 2430 'Harry' Johnson; he was promoted to Acting Lance-Corporal on 9 February 1922. On 22 May 1922, he transferred and was promoted to Corporal and granted the Acting Rank of Sergeant as No. 38129 in the Corps of Military Staff Clerks with effect from 1 May 1922. On 1 March 1926 he made a statutory declaration assuming his correct name of Thomas Henry Johnson, now Staff Sergeant. He was again promoted, to Quartermaster-Sergeant (W.O. Class II) on 1 May 1928. On 22 March 1929, he was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (Ref General Order No. 22 of 1929). He continued to be engaged in the C.M.S.C. for three-year periods, and on 1 September 1939 he attested for the Canadian Active Service Force. He was made Acting Sergeant-Major (W.O. I) with effect from the same date, Temporary Sergeant-Major (W.O. I) with effect from 1 December 1939, and 1st Class Staff Sergeant-Major on 1 January 1942. On 1 June 1942 he was commissioned as Lieutenant, and on 1 June 1943 as Acting Captain, in which rank he was confirmed on the same date. In January 1944 he was awarded the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with effect from 1 March 1941. Johnson was compulsorily retired to pension on 12 February 1945, with intended place of residence at 92 Borebank Street, Winnipeg, after service of 34 years and 79 days. He received a Parchment Certificate on Discharge and the War Service Badge No. 149781 on 4 April 1945, and a Canadian Army (Active) Certificate of Service dated 17 May 1945. In September 1945, the Canadian Department of National Defence in Ottawa announced the award of his Meritorious Service Medal, which he received and acknowledged on 10 January 1946 at 386 Ashland Avenue, London, Ontario. The M.S.M. was announced through G.O. 348 of 5 October 1945. In February 1946 he received a new Silver War Service Badge (General Service Class No. 763255) to replace his old type Badge, which was returned to the Department of National Defence. His Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and War Medal 1939-45 were despatched to him on 26 October 1949. A letter in his records states that ‘In World War I, my brother, two stepbrothers and I served throughout the campaign in France, one stepbrother also receiving a medal for operations in Irak. One stepbrother and I spent the last nine months of the war as Prisoners of War under the Germans. At the outbreak of the present war (World War II) I was the only member of my family in the army. Immediately war was declared one of my stepbrothers again enlisted in the Imperial Army, was in France on 17th October 1939, and served through Dunkirk. He was 46 years of age when he enlisted. My other stepbrother is serving with the United States Naval Reserve. My brother though over 50 years old was disappointed that the United States could not find a place for him in any of the Armed Forces. His only son has been serving with the U.S. Army in the South Pacific from the beginning of the campaign.’ Johnson's typed notebook shows him as Prisoner of War from 22 March to 25 December 1918. His Medical Board Proceedings on Discharge state ‘Wounded in last war. Gunshot would to left shoulder’ and the Radiological Examination states ‘An oval metallic fragment about 3/4 ‘long in the soft tissue of left shoulder ..’ and ‘There is evidence of a former fracture ..’ On 16 June 1923, Thomas Henry Johnson married Helen Bogart Duncan in the Diocese of Rupert's Land, Manitoba. He left no surviving issue. He died on 30th January 1967, aged 81, at 825 Cook Street (The Royal Armada, Suite 111), Victoria, British Columbia, and was survived by his wife (she was still alive in April 1982). His obituary states that, besides his wife, he was survived by two brothers in England, two in Ireland, a brother Frederick in Portland, and a half-brother in the U.S.A. Sold with a quantity of documentation including: a copy of his Canadian Permanent and Active Force file; copies of birth, marriage and death certificates; original memorial documentation; notebook; obituary; a photograph of Thomas Henry (Harry) Johnson in the uniform of Captain, wearing ribbons, one wearing the 1914-15 Star trio and Permanent Forces L.S. Medal, and another with his wife Helen.

New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal, E.VII.R. (No.678 Regt. Serg. Major George J. Parrell, Royal N.Z. Engineers. (1907)) minor contact marks, very fine, rare £800-1000 This is one of the rarest New Zealand awards, with sources variously quoting 6 or 15 as the number of New Zealand Meritorious Service Medals E.VII.R. issues awarded. George John Parrell was born in the Parish of St. Mary's, London on 16 February 1857. By occupation a Clerk, he enlisted in the Royal Engineers at Westminster on 4 October 1873 and was assigned the service number 12261. He was first posted to Chatham, Kent to carry out his initial training. He received his first Good Conduct Badge after two years service, and was promoted to Lance-Corporal on 29 December 1874, reverting to the rank of Sapper on 20 January 1877. He was posted to Bermuda on 1 November 1877 where he was to spend the next eight years of service, was promoted again to Lance-Corporal on 25 March 1878, gained his second Good Conduct Badge on 6 October 1879, and was promoted to Corporal on 1 July 1880 and Sergeant on 1 March 1885. He also re-engaged while in Bermuda to complete 21 years of service. In December 1885 he and his family took passage to England where he was on home service for about 15 months before returning to Bermuda on 7 April 1887, continuing to serve there for just over a further five years. He was promoted to Company Sergeant-Major, Foreman of Works, and Sergeant-Major, Storekeeper on 26 April 1887. George Parrell was again promoted, to Quarter Master Sergeant, on 1 April 1892 and in June the same year, he and his family returned to England where he was awarded his British Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Also in 1892 Q.M.S. Parrell passed a Submarine Mining Course with a ‘superior’ pass. His last appointment in the British Army appears to have been as a Stores Accountant with the rank of Company Sergeant-Major, Foreman of Works and on 5 October 1893 he was discharged from the Coastal Battalion, Royal Engineers at the expiry of his term of service. As a Pensioner he completed a Submarine Mining Instructor's Course at H.M.S. Vernon on 31 May 1895 and almost immediately took passage with his family to New Zealand on the S.S. Tainui, which left London on 13 June 1895. Sergeant-Major Parrell was enlisted in the New Zealand Permanent Militia as a Submarine Instructor with effect from 13 July 1895, signing his attestation papers at the Permanent Force Depot at Wellington on 10 September 1895. He joined the Torpedo Corps but a few months later transferred to No. 2 Service Company as by then the Torpedo Corps had been disbanded. He was promoted to Regimental Sergeant-Major on 14 October 1898. In 1903, General Orders reported the re-engagement of No. 678 Regimental Sergeant-Major George John Parrell (late Royal Engineers) as Submarine Mining Instructor to the Royal New Zealand Engineers for a period of one year from 1 August 1903. The application for the award of his Meritorious Service Medal was dated 29 May 1907 and the approval dated 14 June and recorded in General Orders 212 of 6th July of the same year. In October 1907, R.S.M. Parrell was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Army Artillery as the R.N.Z.E. had been absorbed in to the Electric Section of the R.N.Z.A. He was appointed Engineer Store Accountant on 17 June 1913 and granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant. This was regularised by the gazetting of the commissioned rank. He was further promoted Quartermaster and Honorary Lieutenant on 17 June 1917. In the meantime he transferred to the New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps on 1 April 1917 on the establishment of that Corps, and was graded Ordnance Officer 3rd Class with rank of Captain and held the appointment of Inspector of Engineers, Electric Light and Defence Vessels Stores. Captain Parrell retired on 30 September 1919 and died in Auckland on 22 July 1936. His British Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal is known to exist and is named to ‘C.S.M. (F. of W.), R. E.’ [Company Sergeant Major (Foreman of Works) Royal Engineers]. With about 30 pages of records from his Defence Force File, New Zealand Gazettes, and General Orders including correspondence concerning his recruitment from England.

Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, New Zealand (2/816 WOI H. B. Bernard, RAE(P)) nearly extremely fine £100-140 An anomalous award of an Army L.S. &. G.C. Medal with ‘New Zealand’ suspension to a member of the Australian military. Army L.S. & G.C. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 30 July 1936. ‘997 Staff Sgt. H. B. Bernard, R. Aust. Engrs.’ Clasp to the Army L.S. & G.C. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 29 May 1952. ‘2/816 W.O. I Henry Bernard Bernard, R. Austr. Engrs. (Perm.)’. Commonwealth of Australia Meritorious Service Medal Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 14 August 1945. ‘NP997 W.O. (Cl.I) Henry Bernard Bernard, R. Aust. Engrs. (Perm.)’. Henry Bernard Bernard was born on 25 December 1890 in London, England. He arrived in Australia in November 1909 aboard the Orsova together with his parents and siblings. A Motor-Fitter by occupation, he enlisted in to the Permanent Military Forces at George's Head on 10 June 1912 and was posted as a Sapper to Fortress Engineers. He was sent to the Royal Military College, Duntroon on 17 April 1916 and thereafter proceeded through the ranks, various postings and re-enlistments until he became Warrant Officer Class One on 1 April 1941. He was assigned to the Sydney Fixed Defences in November 1941. Transferred to the Water Transport Group in February 1943, he was involved in operations in the South West Pacific against the Japanese in the Milne Bay area of Papua New Guinea with postings to various Small Ships Companies and Water Transport Sections before being transferred to the School of Military Engineering, Liverpool on 18 November 1945, to Sydney Fixed Defences in January 1946, to the Interim Army in July 1947, to the Army Vessel Crusader, September 1947-February 1948, from where he was posted to 5th Base Ordnance Depot of the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He re-enlisted in to the Australian Regular Army on 14 May 1949 and was discharged as an Honorary Lieutenant on the Retired List on 26 December 1950, aged 60 years and after service of 38.5 years. In addition to the award of the Australian Long Service and Good Conduct Medal and the Australian Meritorious Service Medal, Harry Bernard Bernard was awarded the 1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal and Australian Service Medal, and the Return form Active Service Badge. Sold with copied research.

Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Australia (5610 A. J. Hill) nearly extremely fine £70-90 Army L.S. & G.C. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 20 December 1967. Commonwealth of Australia Meritorious Service Medal Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 29 October 1970. Andrew John Hill was born in Perth, Western Australia on 23 July 1929. By occupation a Farm Worker, he enlisted in the Australian Regular Army on 20 February 1948, giving his father's address as Mr. Reginald Clifford Hill, the Schoolhouse, Bendering, Western Australia. Initially he was posted to the 1st Recruit Training Battalion, Kapooka, and then to the Signals School, Balcombe. In October 1948 he was transferred to the 1st Line Construction Project Squadron and was promoted to Linesman in March 1949 and Corporal in March 1950. He transferred to the School of Signals in October 1952, the 4th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment in December 1952, and then the 1st Battalion Royal Australian Regiment in July 1953. On 21 March 1954 he embarked on the New Australia at Brisbane, arriving at Pusan, Korea, on 31 March, remaining there until 5 July 1954 when he embarked for Japan. He returned to Korea on 29 July and remained there until 9 November 1954. Returning home aboard the New Australia, he was then posted to the 17th National Service Training Battalion at Ingleburn. In July 1957, he was posted to 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment as Orderly, and embarked at Sydney for Penang in September for service in the Malayan Emergency. He was attached to the 1st RAR in October and November 1959 and enplaned at Singapore for Perth on 25 November. He was transferred to 1st RAR in October 1960 and was posted to Singapore. He joined the 2nd RAR in November 1961 at Malacca and returned to Australia in October 1962. Hill was promoted to Corporal in March 1964 and Sergeant Quartermaster in March 1965. He then served in Vietnam, arriving at Saigon on 9 June 1965 for operations in Phouc Tuy and Bien Hoa Provinces in South Vietnam before returning to Australia on 11 June 1966, being promoted to Staff Sergeant in July. He served for a second tour in Vietnam from 17 March 1968 to 4 February 1969. He then went to Kuala Lumpur for duty with Far East Land Forces (FARELF), being promoted to W.O. II in August 1970. In September 1972 he was on training in Lae, Papua New Guinea and was then transferred to the 42nd Royal Queensland Regiment in December 1973. Warrant Officer Hill was discharged on 20 April 1979 with over 31 years of service. In addition to the awards of the Australian Long Service and Good Conduct Medal and Australian Meritorious Service Medal, Andrew John Hill was awarded the United Nations Medal for Korea, the General Service Medal with clasp 'Malaya', the Vietnam Medal and the South Vietnam Campaign Medal, the United States Meritorious Unit Commendation, and the Infantry Combat Badge. .

A 9ct Masonic pendant A George V silver medal for St Patrick Chapter No.517, and an Army service corps cap badge (3)

Two WWI medals For PTE F.A Bardwell, Gordons, a War Badge for 'Services Rendered' with document, also his WWII Defence medal and a copy of 'The Final Blow of The First Army in 1918'

A Pair of Benzie, Cowes Blue and Yellow Flag shaped brooches, a Royal Army Service Corps badge and a small quantity of various other badges

The RAF Conspicuous Gallantry Medal Group of Five to Sergeant D.R.Bowers, with France and Germany Star, 1939-1945 Star, Defence and War medals. Also included is 1) The Flying Log Book in good condition noting as the final entry the incident that brought about the awarding of the CGM, the last neat entry reads 'Received Direct Hit from Heavy A/A Shell in Rear Bomb Bay. F/S French, F/S Hart, Sgt McWilliams Abandoned Aircraft as ordered - Posted Missing. Self Severely Wounded - Awarded C.G.M. D.F.M. Awarded to F/S Reynolds, F/S Mann. D.F.C. awarded to F/O Hampson'. A further single line in pilot Gilbert Hampson's hand reads 'A wizard show Dennis, always indebted to you. Gil'. 2) Flight Engineer's Notes for 'Lancaster' Aircraft. 3) RAFA membership book. 4) RAF Service Book. 5) File of ephemera including 3 rather ragged contemporary newspaper cuttings on the award, RAF group photo, two photos of the damage to the aircraft, copy photograph of Bowers in uniform, the pilot's report of the incident and photocopy recommendation for the award endorsed by Air Chief Marshal 'Bomber' Harris dated 7th April 1945, and various other items/letters including Buckingham Palace Investiture letter dated 27th February 1946. 6) Four cloth uniform badges and few others including LESMA metal badge. Sergeant Bowers served in No. 156 Squadron of the Path Finder Force (No.8 Group) as Flight Engineer. The incident happened on the afternoon of the 24th March 1945 whilst the aircraft was taking part in a bombing raid over Harpenerweg. The Conspicuous Gallantry Medal (RAF) was awarded to NCO's, glider pilots, observers and Army personnel engaged in an air operation against the enemy. The award is superior to the Distinguished Flying Medal. Since its institution in 1943, a total of 104 CGM's (Flying) have been awarded. *For ref. see H.Taprell Dorling 'Ribbons and Medals' 1974, p.81

British Army cap badges, Corps (inc. Motor Machine Gun Corps) etc., inc. badge changes, comprehensive collection, various, all individually identified, good condition, possibly inc. a few reproductions (48)

A medal group to D M A Smythe, DFC, 223 Sqn, no 79196 comprising Distinguished Flying Cross, 1939-45 Star with Battle of Britain Bar, Aircrew Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medal.and dress medals with extra Defence medal as worn. Also included is Observers and Air Gunners Flying Log Book for Flt Lt Smythe start date 27.7.40, last entry 3/2/46, a copy of Get That Fighter, restricted, Army Airforce 1 November 1943, a 1950/51 Ration Book for D.M.A.Smythe, a cased and boxed Eisernes Kreuz 1 Klasse 1939, a leather flying helmet, a pair of enamelled RAF cufflink, a service watch, chrome, inscribed AM 68/243, 15918/40, a brass badge, central R with crown above inscribed Commander in Chiefs Bodyguard, sf and af 1900, a cloth Air Gunners brevet and a cloth badge for 264 Squadron RAF, the original case for the DFC and associated photographs and ephemera and a print of a Defiant.

A Nazi period Kreissieger 1939 enamel and bronzed pin badge by H. Aurich, Dresden to/w assorted other German and British Army badges (5)

Lot of family related British medals and effects, comprising 1914-18 War and Victory Medals named to '268898 Pte.D.L.Bell. R.Highers.', 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Italy Star, Defence and War Medals, with slip (Army) and box of issue, addressed to 'Mr.D.McN.Bell, Glasgow', dog tag, a pair of WWII Canadian 6x30 binoculars with leather case, ceremonial kukhri, leather bound cosh, beret bearing Reconnaissance Corps badge, a pair of WWII British 78th Division shoulder strap insignia, badges and other small items. Note: see lot 404

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel J. Maguire, 60th Rifles, late 55th Regment, a Military Knight of Windsor china 1842 (Ensign, 55th Regiment Foot); Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Mooltan, Goojerat (Lieut., 1st Bn. 60th R. Rifles); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Capt., 60th Rifles), each with silver buckle on ribbon; together with a mounted set of three contemporary miniature dress medals, full-size medals with edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine, rare combination (7) £1800-2200 John Thomas Maguire purchased the rank of Ensign in the 55th Regiment in February 1840. Serving with them in the 1st China War, he was present at the attack and capture of Amoy, the second capture of Chusan, the attack and capture of Chinhae and the operations up the Yangtsekiang. Promoted to Lieutenant in June 1843 and Captain in July 1854, he served with the 60th Rifles throughout the 2nd Sikh War, including the siege and capture of Mooltan, the battle of Goojerat, the pursuit of the Sikh Army until its surrender at Rawal Pindi, the occupation of Attock and Peshawar, and the expulsion of the Afghan Force beyond the Khyber Pass. During the supression of the Indian Mutiny, he served throughout the campaign of Rohilcund in 1858, including actions at Bugawalla and Nugena, the relief of Moradabad, the action in the Dojura, the assault and capture of Bareilly, the bombardment of Shahjehanpore, the capture of the Fort of Bunnal, the pursuit of the enemy across the River Goomtee, and the destruction of the Fort of Mahomdee. he commanded a wing of the 1st Battalion of the 60th Rifles at the attack and destruction of Shahabad, for which he received the brevet of Major on 20 July 1858, and he commanded the Battalion in the action of Bungagong. During the campaign he was three times mentioned in despatches and recommended for an unattached Majority by Lord Clyde for his services in the field. He subsequently obtained the Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel. Appointed a Lieutenant-Colonel in August 1864, he was placed on Half Pay in April 1866. Lieutenant-Colonel Maguire was a Miltary Knight of Windsor, 1895-1904. He died in his 85th year. Sold with copied research and with newspaper cuttings bearing his obituary. The medals, miniatures, badge and framed newspaper cuttings, mounted within an ornate gilt frame. £1800-£2200

Pair: Private G. Stripp, King’s Royal Rifle Corps british War and Victory Medals (44509 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.) five: Rifleman G. E. Clifford, King’s Royal Rifle Corps 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, with numeral ‘8’ on ribbon; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed as issued, extremely fine (9) £70-90 Sold with silver medal inscribed, ‘Boxing B.W. Rfn. Stripp, A Coy.’ and ‘Army of Occupation, 18th/60th, Germany 1919’, 38mm., hallmarks for Birmingham 1917; and with an enamelled K.R.R.C. Association lapel badge. george Edward Clifford was born on 25 March 1914. He enlisted in Birmingham in July 1940. With the K.R.R.C. he served in Egypt, October 1940-July 1943; Sicily, July-August 1943, and Italy, August 1943-March 1945. He was discharged on 11 February 1946. Medals confirmed. Sold with the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book containing his discharge certificate. £70-£90

The Second World War C.B. and Great War` D.S.O., M.C. group of ten awarded to Major-General T. N. F. Wilson, King’s Royal Rifle Corps the Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar, obv. centre a little depressed; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Major); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf; Coronation 1953, unnamed, all except first mounted court style as worn; together with a mounted group of ten miniature dress medals, generally good very fine (20) £3000-3500 d.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘Captain, 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps’. m.C. London Gazette 13 February 1917. ‘Lieut. (Acting Captain), K.R.R.C. ‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. He reorganised a few men and led them forward with great gallantry, capturing an enemy trench together with 60 prisoners.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 9 July 1919, 20 December 1940. thomas Needham Furnival Wilson was born on 20 March 1896 and educated at West Downs, Winchester; Winchester College and R.M.C. Sandhurst. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 11 November 1914. Wilson served in the France / Flanders theatre of war, February - May 1915 and October 1915 - November 1918 and was wounded. He was promoted Captain in February 1917 and held the rank of Acting Major in September 1917 and Adjutant, M.G.C., April - September 1918. During the period December 1917 - April 1918 he was employed as an Instructor in the 5th Army Infantry School. For his wartime services he was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, awarded the Military Cross and Mentioned in Despatches. Wilson was employed as G.S.O.3 in the War Office, January 1931 - March 1932, Commander of the Company of Gentleman Cadets, R.M.C., March 1932 - January 1935, D.A.A.G. War Office, February 1936 - January 1938, during which time he received the brevet of Major, January 1932, was promoted Major, July 1932, received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel, January 1936 and was promoted to that rank in August 1938. Commanding the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. during 1938-39, he gained the rank of Colonel in January 1939 and as Acting Brigadier, December 1939 - June 1940 he served as a Brigadier Commanding in the British Expeditionary Force and Northern Command, December 1939 - December 1940 for which he was mentioned in Despatches. wilson served on the General Staff Home Forces, December 1940 - July 1941 and then on the General Staff in Washington, July 1941 - March 1943. During this time he held the rank of Temporary Brigadier, June 1940 - March 1944, Acting Major-General, March 1943 - March 1944 and attained the rank of Temporary Major-General in March 1944. For his wartime servives he was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1946. He retired from the Army with the Honorary rank of Major-General on 1 April 1946 and died on 15 May 1961. sold with the recipient’s commission document appointing him 2nd Lieutenant in the K.R.R.C., dated 11 November 1914; M.I.D. document dated 16 March 1919; D.S.O. bestowal document, dated 3 June 1919; a copy of the D.S.O. statutes; C.B. bestowal document and accompanying letter, dated 10 June 1946; together with copied research and photographs. £3000-£3500

Six: Corporal D. A. Read, Royal Corps of Signals, who served in the Raiding Support Regiment 1944-45 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; together with his wartime embroidered parachute wings and related badges (4), among them a cast Badge of the Greek Sacred Legion, the whole contained in a glazed display frame, generally good very fine (11) £300-350 douglas Arnold Read was born in Alverstoke, Hampshire in April 1920 and enlisted in the Royal Corps of Signals at Newport, Isle of Wight, in October 1937, direct from brief service as a Private in the Queen’s Royal Regiment. As verified by accompanying documentation, he served in the B.E.F. from September 1939 until being evacuated in June 1940, and went out to the Middle East in June 1942, in which theatre of war he appears to have been actively employed until the end of hostilities. indeed it is clear from his original Soldier’s Service and Pay Book that he was a qualified parachutist and a member of ‘Raiding Forces’, most probably as a Wireless Operator - he completed No. 1 4 Parachute Course in April 1944, was awarded his ‘operational wings, left breast’ in February 1945, and was further entitled to wear the ‘Badge of the Greek Sacred Regiment’. The same source also confirms that he won a ‘mention’ in June 1945. most probably, therefore, he joined the Raiding Support Regiment (R.S.R.) soon after it was established at the end of 1943, a call for parachute volunteers for ‘duties of a hazardous nature’ gaining around 3,000 applicants from 60 differents regiments and corps. Over the coming months, its members assisted a number of clandestine units in operations in Albania, Greece, Italy and Yugoslavia - in Greece alone its men destroyed 17 bridges, blew up six roads, wrecked hundred of metres of railway line on 18 different occasions, shot up or derailed five trains, blew up five petrol / ammunition dumps, knocked out 150 vehicles, destroyed a dam and killed around 300 of the enemy. read’s entitlement to wear the Badge of the Greek Sacred Regiment, a sister unit, is not without interest, for the R.S.R’s ‘Foxforce’ became embroiled in the Greek Civil War 1944-45, the British losing 250 troops in five weeks of bitter fighting against E.L.A.S. Discharged to the Army Reserve in the rank of Corporal in June 1946, he was serving as an Acting Warrant Officer in the 5th (Cadet) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment in the mid-1950s. sold with a quantity of original documentation, including the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book, Regular Army Certificate of Service, a sketch book, a wartime field message form, with pencilled statement in a foreign language (‘If liable to be intercepted or to fall into enemy hands, this message must be sent in cipher ... ‘), and a calendar booklet for 1941-42, which includes a list of officers Read was appointed to train in Morse and wireless operation, suggesting perhaps even earlier participation in clandestine operations. £300-£350

A post-war M.B.E., Second World War North Africa operations M.C. group of six attributed to Major G. L. W. Street, Parachute Regiment and Army Air Corps, late Grenadier Guards the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, in its Royal Mint case of issue; Military Cross, G.VI.R. reverse officially dated ‘1943’ and privately inscribed, ‘Lieut. G. L. W. Street, 3rd Batt. Parachute Regt., Jebel Alliliga, Feb. 26th.’; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 1st Army; Defence and War Medals, mounted as worn except where stated, generally good very fine or better (6) £600-700 m.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1952. m.C. London Gazette 22 April 1943. The original recommendation for an immediate award states: ‘For most conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on 26 February Ragouret El Araan, Bou Arada, Tunisia. This officer saw a section moving across the rear of his H.Q. at 0615 hours and, thinking it was his own rear section moving into its alternative position, he went over to give them orders. It was still practically dark and as a result he walked straight into a German section and was taken prisoner. He was taken back to the platoon and ordered in French to lead them through the wire and keep away from British positions. With complete disregard for his own safety, Lieutenant Street led the platoon straight to the wire of the nearest section post where they were heavily fired upon. The platoon dispersed and Lieutenant Street was left with one man to guard him. This man kept a pistol pressed into his back. Choosing his moment, this officer knocked his guard out with his fist, disarmed him and ran back to his own H.Q. He then led one of his sections in a charge on the enemy platoon whose positions he had noted. The German platoon was destroyed and 15 prisoners and an M.G. were taken. By his initiative, coolness and bravery this officer was an inspiration to all ranks.’ George Lewis William ‘Pat’ Street was born at Mill Hill, London in March 1920 and was originally commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards in November 1940. Advanced to Lieutenant in May 1942, he transferred to the Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps that August, and was serving in the 3rd Battalion at the time of winning his M.C. in Tunisia. Having then been wounded in the same theatre of war, he was advanced to Captain at the end of 1944 and was permitted to retain the honorary rank of Major in February 1947. Street was awarded his M.B.E. for services as a Press Officer in the Festival of Britain Office and died in a car acciedent in March 1979; sold with a file of research including an original Second Army Thanksgiving Service Programme, May 1945. £600-£700

A Second World War D-Day operations M.M. group of five awarded to Private R. J. Brennan, 7th Parachute Battalion, Army Air Corps, who landed behind enemy lines on the night of 6 June 1944 military Medal, G.VI.R. (4462955 Pte. R. J. Brennan, A.A.C.), an official replacement with attempted erasure of the ‘R.’; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, together with a Parachute Regiment badge, good very fine or better (6) £600-800 m.M. London Gazette 31 August 1944. The original recommendation states: ‘Private Brennan was one of the parachute troops who landed behind the German lines on 6 June 1944. His battalion was in continual action for 21 hours. Throughout this time, Private Brennan’s courage and cheerfulness were an inspiration to his comrades and made an important contribution to the success of this unit.’ Ronald James Brennan, a native of Darlington, is listed among those members of his battalion who were wounded in the period leading up to 5 August 1944 (W.O. 171/1239 refers). the 5th Parachute Brigade, a glider-borne force which included the 7th Parachute Battalion, was charged with seizing the crossings over the River Orne and the canal at Benouville and Ranville, in addition to clearing landing zones north of Ranville for the arrival of reinforcements later on D-Day. Famously, of course, the capture of the former objective was carried out by six platoons of the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Regiment, commanded by Major R. J. Howard, but it should be added that it was the 7th Parachute Battalion who arrived on the scene a little later, in order to help secure the area. of the fate of Brennan’s original M.M., and his replacement award, the following extract from a Northern Ireland Branch S.S.A.F.A. newsletter is not without interest: ‘At a simple ceremony in the Northern Ireland War memorial Building on Thursday, 8 January 1987, Mr. Ronald I. Brennan, M.M., was re-presented with the decoration awarded to him for gallantry in Normandy in 1944 ... an Englishman who has been living in Northern Ireland for some years, he served in the 7th (Light Infantry) Battalion, the Parachure Regiment in North-West Europe 1944-45. The original medal was presented by the then General Montgomery at an investiture in the field in 1944 ... After the War, during the course of his travels as an entertainer, Mr. Brennan lost his Military Medal, and it was not until S.S.A.F.A. came to his assistance on another matter, that Mrs. Grace Herbert, the Secretary for Northern Ireland District, heard the story and applied to the Army Medal Office for a replacement.’ £600-£800

A Great War C.B.E. group of eight awarded to the Rev. Canon J. G. W. Tuckey, late Chaplain 1st Class to the Forces and Honorary Chaplain to the King the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (Rev., C. to F.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Rev., C. to F.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Rev., A.C.D.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Rev.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, together with a set of related dress miniature medals, the first with slightly chipped enamel work, the Boer War awards with officially re-impressed naming, the 1914 Star gilded, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise generally very fine (16) £800-1000 C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. mention in despatches London Gazette 16 April 1901 (South Africa); 19 October 1914; 22 June 1915 and 1 January 1916. james Grove White Tuckey was born in June 1864, the second son of Dr. Charles Caulfeild Tuckey, and was educated at King’s School, Canterbury and Trinity College, Oxford, and later studied at Heidelberg. A lecturer at Durham University from 1893 to 1895, he was ordained in the same period and appointed Chaplain of University College and of St. Margaret’s, Durham. in 1895, however, he became a Chaplain to the Forces, serving first at Aldershot and then at York, whence he was embarked for South Africa on the outbreak of hostilities in October 1899. Subsequently one of just five Chaplains present at Elandslaagte, Lombard’s Kop and the defence of Ladysmith, and afterwards in the actions at Laing’s Nek, Belfast and Lydenburg, he was advanced to Chaplain 3rd Class and mentioned in despatches. Then from 1902-04 he did duty at Middleberg in the Transvaal, before coming home to an appointment at Caterham. Senior Chaplain at Woolwich Garrison by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he quickly went out to France as Senior Chaplain, 4th Division, shortly thereafter transferring to III Corps and thence to the 2nd Army in 1915. Appointed Assistant Chaplain-General, Rouen Area, in 1916, later in the year he returned home to Southern Command, in which capacity he was still employed at the War’s end. He was thrice mentioned in despatches, awarded the C.B.E. and appointed Honorary Chaplain to the King. having then been placed on the Retired List as a Chaplain 1st Class in 1923, Tuckey briefly served as Honorary Chaplain to the Bishop of Salisbury before being appointed Church of England Representative on the Interdenomination Advisory Committee at the War Office in 1935. He had, meanwhile, also been appointed Canon Residentiary of Ripon, in which capacity he remained employed until 1945. He died in October 1947, leaving a daughter, his wife having pre-deceased him and his only son John having been killed in action on the Somme as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 13th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment in August 1916. £800-£1000

Family group: four: Private T. Howarth, Coldstream Guards 1914 Star, with clasp (10679 Pte., C. Gds.;) British War and Victory Medals (10679 Pte., C. Gds.); Belgium, King Albert I Veteran’s Cross, unnamed seven: Warrant Officer Class I A. T. Howarth, Royal Artillery 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (754544 W.O. Cl.1, R.A.), service number and rank officially re-impressed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (754544 W.O. Cl.1, RA.), part of service number officially re-impressed, this group mounted as worn on two bars, good very fine (11) £260-300 Group to Thomas Howarth sold with certificate of award for the veteran’s cross, dated 17 August 1971; newspaper cutting bearing a photo of the recipient, with the caption, ‘Pte. T. Howarth, 1st Coldstream Guards, 17, Brook Street, Reading. - Wounded’; and copied m.i.c. showing confirmation of the three British medals, date of entry into the war as 11 September 1915, entitlement to the Silver War Badge and the issuance of a duplicate clasp. £260-£300

Family group: three: Private W. Jobson, 16th Lancers, late 17th Lancers 1914 Star, with clasp (5512 Pte., 16/Lrs.); British War and Victory Medals (16L-5512 Pte., 16-Lrs.); Silver War Badge (B10538) four: J. Jobson, British Armed Forces 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed, good very fine and better (8) £180-220 William Jobson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. A Joiner by occupation, he attested for service in the Lancers at Newcastle on 8 August 1898, aged 18 years, 9 months, having served with the Volunteer Artillery. With the 17th Lancers he served in South Africa, February-June 1900 and December 1900-October 1902. For his service in the Boer War he was awarded the Q.S.A. with clasps for Cape Colony and Orange Free State and the K.S.A. with two clasps. In April 1904 he extended his period of service, transferring to the 16th Lancers in November 1905. Jobson was transferred to the Army Reserve on 8 August 1906. Returning to the Colours with the onset of war, he was wounded on 13 May 1915, suffering a gunshot wound to the left thigh. As a result of his injuries he was discharged on 19 February 1916. Sold with copied service papers, roll extracts and m.i.c. medals to J. Jobson in card forwarding box addressed to ‘Mr J. Jobson, 11 South ?, North Seaton Village, Ashington’, stamped ‘R.A.S.C. & A.C.C. Records, Hastings’ and with ‘Air Council’ slip. £180-£220

Nine: Private J. Newton, Grenadier Guards and Royal Household 1914 Star, with copy slip-on clasp (11297 Pte., 1/G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (11297 Pte., G. Gds.); Defence; Royal Victorian Medal, G.VI.R., silver; Coronation 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, G.V.R., 1907-1927, 2 clasps, Thirty Years, Forty Years (John Robert Newton), mounted court style as worn, fine and better (lot) £800-1000 John Robert Newton was born in Walpole St. Peters, near Wisbeach, Norfolk. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for service in the Grenadier Guards in January 1904, aged 19 years, having previously served in the Royal Field Artillery. After service in the U.K. he was transferred to the Army Reserve in January 1907 and took employment with the Royal Household. With the onset of the Great War he was mobilized at London on 5 August 1914 and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 11 November 1914. He served in France until 6 October 1915 and suffered a gunshot wound to the left arm. Returning home, he was discharged on 22 February 1917 as a result of his injury and returned to his service in the Royal Household. As a Gentleman Porter at Windsor Castle he was awarded the R.V.M. in Silver (London Gazette 1 January 1943). sold with recipient’s wartime identity disk and three buttons. Also with a Defence Medal in card forwarding box addressed to ‘Mrs M. Newton, Cambridge Gate, Windsor Castle, Berks.’; together with two copied photographs of the recipient in court dress wearing medals. With copied service papers and m.i.c. which confirm the award of the 1914 Star clasp and Silver War Badge. £800-£1000

Six: Battery Quartermaster Serjeant A. G. R. Cunningham, Royal Field Artillery 1914-15 Star (13 Whlr. S. Sjt., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (13 B.Q.M. Sjt., R.A.); Defence, unnamed; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (739211 S. Sjt., R.F.A.), note initials are ‘A. G. K.’ on this medal; Civil Defence Long Service, E.II.R., unnamed, mounted as worn; Silver War Badge (B188611) good very fine (7) £70-90 Wheelwright Staff Sergeant Albert George Reginald Cunningham, R.F.A., entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 27 March 1915. Commissioned 18 September 1917, he served with the 19th Anti-Aircraft Company, R.G.A. Sold with copied m.i.c. Silver War Badge to Cunningham not confirmed. silver War badge ‘B.188611’ was awarded to ‘12262 Sergeant George Robinson, Royal Army Veterinary Corps’, who enlisted on 19 October 1915 and was discharged on 23 March 1919. £70-£90

Three: Private E. Brompton, Lincolnshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (13341 Pte., Linc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (13341 Pte., Linc. R.), ‘Limc. R.’ on B.W.M., this with loose suspension rod; Lincolnshire Regiment cap badge, very fine and better (lot) £80-100 Edward Brompton was born in 1891 and enlisted for service in the Lincolnshire Regiment on 4 September 1914. Serving with the 4th Battalion Lincolnshire, he was posted ‘missing’ on 15 April 1918 and was later found to be a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. He was transferred to the Army Reserve on 9 March 1919. At the time of his capture, his wife was living at ‘15 May Road, Twickenham’. sold with a quantity of original papers, including, recipient’s Soldiers’ Small Book with enclosed ‘Will’; War Office forms (2) informing his wife that he was ‘missing in action’; Newspaper cutting, in which his wife and mother request information; Red Cross cards (2) re. their efforts to trace his whereabouts; letter written by his officer to his wife; another from an officer a friend of the recipient; wartime postcards (7); portrait photograph; Certificate of Transfer to the Reserve; recipient’s Leave or Duty Ration Book, December 1918-February 1919; Released Prisoner of War Card (unused); Field Service Post card (unused); other wartime cards (3); slips re. medals (2); ‘Buckingham Palace’ Welcome home letter; sundry forms re. war pension and gratuity; Programme of the 1946 Royal Performance at the Palladium; two theatre posters. £80-£100

Four: Sergeant J. A. Smith, Royal Engineers british War and Victory Medals (492283 Sjt., R.E.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (492283 Sjt., R.E.); Belgian Croix de Guerre; together with Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘448012’, good very fine (5) £180-220 Belgian Croix de Guerre London Gazette 15 April 1918. james A. Smith was discharged from the army on 25 April 1919 due to sickness. £180-£220

Pair: Bombardier T. E. Shubart, Royal Garrison Artillery general Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Iraq, N.W. Persia (219951 Gnr., R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (1414841 Bmbr., R.A.); Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Badge, gilt and enamel (T. E. Shubart), with ‘Egypt’ top bar, first fine; others good very fine (3) £100-140 Sold with copied m.i.c. £100-£140

Six: Corporal A. J. Woodford, King’s Royal Rifle Corps 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (6898589 Cpl., KRRC), all later issues, extremely fine (lot) £70-90 Lance-Serjeant A. J. Woodford, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, was captured whilst serving in Italy. He was held at Stalag VIIA at Moosburg, having the P.O.W. Number ‘142004’. w.W.2 medals in card box with modern forwarding slip; Efficiency Medal in card box of issue with forwarding slip dated 25 May 1978. Sold with Identity Disk, ‘C.E. Woodford 6898589’, P.O.W. Identity Disk, ‘Stalag VII/A Nr.142004’, and K.R.R.C. cap badge. With copied photograph, copied fragmentary letter to his wife at 25 Salmon Street, Kingsbury, London, N.W.9, dated November 1944, and other copied research. £70-£90

Five: Private E. Pratt, Royal Sussex Regiment and Reconnaissance Corps 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star, clasp, Rimini Line; Defence and War Medals, mounted as worn; together with Royal Sussex Regiment Coronation Medal 1937 (Pte. E. Pratt 6399393), bronze; Royal Sussex Regiment Prize Medal, rev. inscribed, ‘Runner-up St. Lucia Squad, 6399393 Pte. E. Pratt’, bronze three: Corporal S. Ingham, East Lancashire Regiment defence and War Medals; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (3387503 Cpl., E. Lan. R.), mounted for display, very fine and better (11) £100-140 Medals to Pratt sold with Reconnaissance Corps cap badge and Reconnaissance Corps Comrades Association membership card - which shows service in the 44th Recce Regt. and a home address of ‘73 St. Johns Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire’. £100-£140

Pair: Guardsman W. Heslop, Grenadier Guards defence Medal; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (2628840 Gdsm., Gren. Gds), mounted as worn, heavy contact marks, good fine and better three: attributed to Chaplain to the Forces, The Rev. W. Parsons 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed as issued; together with a mounted set of three miniature dress medals, very fine (8) £30-50 William Heslop was born in 1928 and served in the Home Guard, 13 July 1943-31 December 1944. He enlisted into the Grenadier Guards at Carlisle on 5 June 1946 and was transferred to the Army Reserve on 31 July 1952. He served in Malaya, 9 September 1948-17 August 1949 and also in North Africa during 1951. He was employed as an M.T. Driver/Instructor. Sold with six photographs and copied Certificate of Service and Certificate of Transfer to the Army Reserve. the medals attributed to The Rev. Wilfred Herbert Parsons (1909-95), with newspaper cutting providing biographical details - was made a prisoner-of-war at Dunkirk. Sold with a cap badge, two collar badges and riband bar. An archive of material relating to his time as a prisoner of war is held at the Imperial War Museum. £30-£50

A rare Great War Egypt and Palestine operations C.B., C.M.G., Boer War ‘Edward VII’ D.S.O. group of twelve awarded to Major-General Sir Michael Bowman-Manifold, Royal Engineers, whose distinguished career spanned extensive service in the Sudan campaigns 1896-98 as Staff Officer Telegraphs and one of Kitchener’s R.E. ‘Band of Boys’ - and having his horse shot from under at Firket - through to senior command in the Great War as a Director of Signals of both the Mediterranean and Egyptian Expeditionary Forces, which latter appointments included active service in Gallipoli and Palestine: other than the fact his private journals and letters of the Sudan period are extensively quoted in relevant histories, he published his own account of the campaigns in Egypt & Palestine 1914-18, in which he acknowledges the assistance given him by Lawrence of Arabia the Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G. Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, E.VII.R., silver-gilt and enamel; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Lieut. M. G. E. Manifold, R.E.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Capt. M. G. E. Bowman-Manifold, D.S.O., R.E.); 1914 star, with clasp (Major M. G. E. Bowman-Manifold, D.S.O., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Brig. Gen. M. G. E. Bowman-Manifold); Turkish Order of Osmanieh, 4th class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Turkish Order of Medjidie, 4th class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; French Legion of Honour, Officer’s breast badge, gold and enamel; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 5 clasps, Firket, Hafir, Sudan 1897, The Atbara, Khartoum (Lieut. M. G. E. Manifold, R.E., Dongola 1896) original mounting as worn, enamel work chipped in places, severely so on the Osmanieh badge, otherwise generally very fine (12) £8000-10000 C.B. London Gazette 4 June 1917: ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with Military operations in the Field’. c.M.G. London Gazette 11 April 1918: ‘For distinguished services in the field in connection with Military operations culminating in the capture of Jerusalem.’ D.S.O. London Gazette 27 September 1901: ‘For services during the recent operations in South Africa’. michael Graham Egerton Bowman-Manifold was born in June 1871, the son of a Surgeon-General, and was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in February 1891. the Dongola Expedition 1896 advanced to Lieutenant in February 1894, he commenced a lengthy span of service in Egypt and the Sudan, on attachment to the Egyptian Army, in November 1895, and served as Staff Officer of Telegraphs in the Dongola Expedition of 1896, when, as one of eight R.E. subalterns present at the commencement of operations, he became one of ‘Kitchener’s Band of Boys’ - indeed his subsequent services are the subject of frequent mention in Colonel E. W. C. Sandes’ famous history of these R.E. operations: ‘The story of how a few subalterns of the Royal Engineers carried a railway and telegraph up the Nile towards Dongola in 1896 is a record of many dangers and hardships and most strenuous endeavour ... They had youth, courage and endurance, and to these they added unswerving devotion to their work and unstinted admiration of their leader, Kitchener, both as a soldier and an engineer ... Manifold played a lone hand in Telegraphs. Buoyed up by enthusiasm, and untrammelled by red tape, the ‘band of Boys’ accomplished, time after time, the seemingly impossible.’ One of Manifold’s first actions was to rapidly extend the telegraph to Akasha, which place was taken in March 1896, an exercise that henceforth included suitable collaboration with the R.E’s railway construction parties, a point noted by Winston Churchill in his classic, The River War: ‘As the railway had been made, the telegraph-wire had, of course, followed it. Every consignment of rails and sleepers had been accompanied by its proportion of telegraph-poles, insulators, and wire. Another subaltern of Engineers, Lieutenant Manifold, who managed this part of the military operations against the Arabs, had also laid a line from Merawi to Abu Hamed, so that immediate correspondence was effected round the entire circle of rail and river.’ Yet if normal engineer duties were the order of the day, Kitchener ensured his eight-strong R.E. ‘Band of Boys’ reverted to a military role in the case of operational forays, acting as gallopers to Brigade Commanders, forays that became known to them as ‘weekends at the front’. And in Bowman-Manifold’s case, his first weekender proved to be the storming and capture of Firket on 7 June, an action which he later recorded for posterity’s sake, and one in which his horse was shot from under him: ‘The long, snaky column of troops crawled along until 4.30 a.m., when we got on to a plain about three-quarters of a mile wide. Firkey Mountain, a very scarped rock, was on our left, and the Nile on our right ... I had plenty of hard riding, some of it very difficult. At first we moved along very quietly. Then a horse neighed and I heard Hunter say, ‘That’s given the show away,’ but apparently it did not alarm the outposts for another ten minutes elasped before we were fired on ... Men and horsemen were running about, waving flags and firing. The rattle of fire from both sides was deafening, and soon our men began to get hit ... Houses in the village were soon ablaze, and the Egyptians kept advancing continuously ... All along the river was a thick grove of palm-trees with houses under them, and here very heavy fighting took place. My horse was hit at about 250 yards range. A party of horsemen attempted to charge out from behind the houses, but never reached more than 50 yards ... I started back at 5 p.m. with Stevenson and Polwhele and rode into Akasha early next morning. There I got 30 camels and began my return journey to Firket at 2 p.m., laying the telegraph line, and having halted by the river at night, pushed into the Sirdar’s camp on June 9th.’ By early July, Bowman-Manifold was able to write in his journal: ‘I have a complete set of telephones from station to station all along the railway between Wadi Halfa and Akasha, 87 miles, eight stations. They work beautifully, and all the telegraphs are also in good working order. The great anxiety now is cholera. To-day, there is a case at Wadi Halfa. It is pretty warm here - 118 degrees in my tent.’ While in September - Kitchener being ‘ever mindful of his chosen ‘Band of Brothers’ ‘ - He found himself acting as a galloper in the action at Hafir, although on this occasion he remained unscathed, most of the fighting being carried out by our artillery and gunboats. He was, nonetheless, mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 3 November 1896 refers) and awarded the 4th class Order of Medjidie, his remarkable accomplishments being described at length by Sandes - anxious exchanges with Kitchener were commonplace, so too temperatures upto 130 degrees, the whole compounded by a shortage of qualified engineers and suitable equipment. Colonel Sandes concludes: ‘The total length of the telegraph lines erected along the Nile during 1896 was 630 miles. Manifold had to travel far and fast to supervise the work of his partially trained men. Indeed, between March 1896 and his departure on leave in January 1897, he covered more than 5,000 miles by land and water. His trials were many and varied; but, in the end, he had the satisfaction of knowing that, through his wanderings in the wilderness, he had succeeded in providing an efficient line of telegraphic communication in the reconquered province of Dongola.’ The Atbara and Omdurman back from his leave, Bowman-Manifold extended the telegraph yet further, hot on the heels of General Hunter’s push to Abu Hamed in August 1897, ‘unwinding

A rare Great War East Africa operations C.M.G. group of nine awarded to Colonel C. U. Price, Indian Army, C.O. of Jacob’s Rifles and a successful Column Commander whose forces captured Dar-es-Salaam in September 1916 the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; East and Central Africa 1897-99, 1 clasp, Uganda 1897-98 (Lieut., 3/Baluch L.I.); China 1900, no clasp (Captain, 30/Baluch L.I.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col., 1/130 Baluchis); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Col.); Delhi Durbar 1903, impressed naming, ‘Colonel C. V. Price, 130th Baluchis’; Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed as issued; Russian Order of St. Anne, 3rd class breast badge, with swords, by Osipov, St. Petersburg, gold and enamel, manufacturer’s initials on reverse, ‘56’ zolotnik mark for 1909-17 on eyelet, and other stamp marks on sword hilts, generally good very fine (9) £3500-4000 c.M.G. London Gazette 26 June 1916. mention in despatches London Gazette 30 June 1916, 7 March 1918 and 6 August 1918 (all East Africa). russian Order of St. Anne London Gazette 15 February 1917. charles Uvedale Price was born in May 1868 and was educated at the United Services College, Westward Ho! and the R.M.C., Sandhurst. Originally commissioned into the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in February 1888, he transferred to the Indian Army in January 1890 and served in the Zhob Valley on the North West Frontier in the same year, afterwards gaining an appointment as a Wing Officer in the 30th Regiment of Bombay Infantry (3rd Baluchis). in January 1897, however, he was attached to the 27th Bombay Infantry (1st Baluchis) as Adjutant, and went on to win his first campaign medal with them in the Uganda operations of 1897-98. During this latter campaign he was engaged against the Sudanese mutineers, including the operations at Jeruba and Kijangute, and in Budda and Ankoli, gaining a mention in despatches. shortly afterwards he sailed for China, and served as a Captain in the course of the Boxer Rebellion. Then in 1903, back in India, Price attended the Delhi Durbar, attached as a Political Officer to His Highness the Mir of Khairpur. He was advanced to Major in February 1906. appointed a Double Company Commander in the 130th K.G.O. Baluchis (Jacob’s Rifles) in October 1911, Price assumed command of the regiment in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1915, and went on to serve with distinction in the operations in East Africa. in July 1915, in the fighting in the Mbuyuni region, he was appointed to the command of the flanking column, comprising Jacob’s Rifles, the 4th K.A.R. and Cole’s Scouts, sent by Brigadier-General Malleson to envelop the enemy’s left. Carrying out a well timed circuitous night march, Price attacked at daybreak on the 14th, but by 8 a.m. his force was checked by strong enemy resistance, and it became necessary to await more positive news from the main attacking force to the Germans’ front. This initiative, however, also lost momentum, and by the time Malleson’s order to call off the assault reached Price, his force had been under a lively hostile fire for at least an hour. Unperturbed, Price disengaged and ‘brought away his force in a steady and well-executed withdrawal, with slight loss’ (Official history refers). in early July 1916, as C.O. of a 500-strong force, comprising the 5th Light Infantry and a company of the 101st Grenadiers, Price was given the task of capturing Tanga. Carrying out a successful landing on the southern shore of Manza Bay on the 5th, he moved his force inland towards Amboni, ‘which was reached next day after disposing of some slight resistance on the way’. And on the 7th, he and his men crossed the Zigi River, the final natural barrier between them and their goal. Tanga, however, was found to have been deserted by the enemy, although some had remained behind in the surrounding bush from where they sniped at the British with good effect. Flushing out such opposition by means of frequent patrolling, Price moved on to Kange on the 17th. then in early August, he was given overall command of two columns, numbering in total some 1400 men, to secure the crossings of the Wami River. This he successfully accomplished in little more than a week, thereby assisting in opening up the way forward to attack Dar-es-Salaam. For the final advance on the seat of government and principal port of German East Africa, Price’s force was bolstered in strength by some 500 men and equipped with 20 machine-guns. The whole was assembled at Bagamoyo at the end of the month, and on the 31st, in two columns, it advanced on Dar-es-Salaam, while two smaller parties penetrated north to secure the railway line and some important bridges. Just four days later, having encountered little opposition, Price’s main force was assembled on the heights near Mabibo, from which the port could be seen less than three miles away. And early on that morning, after the Royal Navy had despatched a delegation aboard the Echo with a formal summons to surrender, the 129th Baluchis, which had acted as Price’s advanced guard throughout the operation, entered and took over the town. Once again, the Germans had made a hasty retreat, leaving behind 80 hospital patients and 370 non-combatants. for his part in some of the above related operations in German East Africa, Price was awarded the C.M.G and mentioned in despatches, in addition to gaining appointment to the Russian Order of St Anne. And in the later operations of that theatre of war between 1917-18, he again distinguished himself and was twice more the recipient of a ‘mention’. The Colonel, who retired to South Africa, died in May 1956. £3500-£4000

A fine Second World War North-West Europe operations C.B.E., Great War M.C. group of twelve awarded to Brigadier W. A. S. Turner, Royal Artillery: having seen almost four years of continuous active service in the 1914-18 War, he was gassed and evacuated with shell-shock, but rose to senior rank in the 1939-45 War as Deputy Chief of Public Relations at S.H.A.E.F., when he was credited with master-minding the success of the Allied Film and Photographic Sections in North-West Europe 1944-45 the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved, ‘Major W. A. S. Turner, R.H.A., 3rd June 1918’; 1914 Star, with clasp (2 Lieut., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, these four privately engraved, ‘Brig. W. A. S. Turner’; U.S.A., Legion of Merit, Officer’s breast badge, gilt and enamels, the reverse engraved, ‘W. A. S. Turner’; French Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, gilt and enamels; French Croix de Guerre 1939, with palm, mounted court-style as worn, in Spink & Son Ltd. leather box, the lid gilt inscribed, ‘Brig. W. A. S. Turner’, very fine and better (12) £1800-2200 c.B.E. London Gazette 2 August 1945. The original recommendation states: ‘Since its inception, Brigadier Turner has served as senior British representative in the Public Relations Division, S.H.A.E.F., first as Assistant Chief and then as Deputy Chief of the Division. In addition to his general Public Relations duties Brigadier Turner has had particular charge of the Film and Photographic Section. brigadier Turner’s work has throughout been of a very high order of excellence. Not only has he been outstandingly successful in maintaining harmony among all sorts and conditions of British correspondents but he has managed over a long period to compose the many and varied international differences inevitable in a Public Relations organisation of the nature of that set up for the recent campaign in North-West Europe. his untiring efforts and unfailing imperturbability have earned the respect of all with whom he has come in contact. The undoubted success of the Public Relations aspect of the operations can be attributed in large measure to Brigadier Turner’s devoted efforts.’ M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918. american Legion of Merit London Gazette 8 November 1945. The White House citation, signed by Harry Truman, states: ‘Brigadier W. A. S. Turner, British Army, served from May 1944 to May 1946 as Assistant to the Director, and later as Deputy Director of the Public Relations Division, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force. He was instrumental in the preliminary planning for Public Relations activities in the invasion of North-West France and later organised and supervised the operation of film and photographic coverage of the campaigns in Western Europe. Through his tact, ingenuity and meticulous spirit of abnegation, he played an exemplary role in composing the many nationalistic difficulties in the allocation of war correspondents to ensure proportional representation and the establishment of equitable quotas throughout operations on the Continent. He contributed immeasurably to the efficient operations of the Public Relations Division and to the successful conclusion of the war against Germany.’ French Legion of Honour 30 October 1945 (Register No. 53003 refers). william Arthur Scales Turner was born in January 1890, the son of William Henry Turner of Leicestershire, and was educated at the Leys School and Trinity College, Cambridge. commissioned in the Royal Artillery in December 1911, he went out to France on 7 August 1914, where he served in ‘I’ Battery, R.H.A. until transferring to 2/’A’ Battery, H.A.C. at Langemarck in November 1917. Gassed during a heavy enemy bombardment near Loos on 6 April 1918, he was evacuated with three officers and 60 other ranks, but he returned to duty in the following month, when he resumed command of the Battery as an Acting Major near Mazingarbe. But the effects of almost four years continuous active service were beginning to surface, and a few weeks later he was invalided home suffering from shell-shock. He was awarded the M.C., his unit’s history stating that it was ‘difficult adequately to express the admiration of all ranks of the Battery, and indeed of the Brigade, for this officer.’ Between the wars, Turner held a succession of staff appointments, was appointed Assistant Adjutant-General in February 1935 and was placed on the Retired List as a full Colonel in 1937. Quickly re-employed at the Public Relations Department of the War Office, he was appointed a Deputy Director in 1941, and served in a similar capacity at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force 1943-45, work that was rewarded with a C.B.E., American Legion of Merit and French Legion of Honour and Croix de Guerre in 1945, following the successful conclusion of the North-West Europe operations. sold with original certificate of award and White House citation for the recipient’s Legion of Merit, both signed by Harry Truman, and the warrant for his Legion of Merit, dated at Paris on 30 October 1945. £1800-£2200

A post-war C.B.E. group of six awarded to Lionel Powys-Jones, Chief Native Commissioner of Southern Rhodesia, late Rhodesia Regiment and King’s Royal Rifle Corps, in which latter regiment he was wounded as a young subaltern in the Great War the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. L. Powys-Jones); Southern Rhodesia Medal for War Service 1939-45; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, surname officially corrected on the third, generally good very fine (6) £600-800 ex A. A. Upfill-Brown collection. c.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1954. lionel Powys-Jones was born in July 1894, the son of Llewellyn Powys-Jones, a Resident Magistrate in Bulawayo, and was educated at Blundell’s School, Tiverton, Victoria College, Jersey and Oriel College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Returning home to Rhodesia, he joined the Native Affairs Department, and in 1916 enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Rhodesia Regiment. Subsequently commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, he was wounded in 1918. back in the service of the Native Affairs Department by 1919, he went on to enjoy a long and distinguished career, ultimately gaining appointment as Secretary for Native Affairs and Chief Native Commissioner in 1947. he had, meanwhile, joined the Southern Rhodesia Volunteers, and attended assorted musketry courses in the period leading upto the 1939-45 War. Placed on the Reserve of Officers in March 1940, he served in a Concession Platoon from August of that year until April 1942, and is a verified recipient of the Southern Rhodesia Medal for War Service, the relevant roll stating, ‘Jones, L., X8610, Army’, which corresponds with his Q. & R. card in the archives in Harare; this award has accordingly been added to his Honours and Awards for display purposes. powys-Jones finally retired in 1954, in which year he was awarded his C.B.E. A keen tennis player who onetime represented Rhodesia, he settled in Somerset West, Cape Province, where he died in November 1966. £600-£800

An O.B.E. group of thirteen awarded to Brigadier C. V. Bennett, Royal Army Service Corps the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1928; 1914 Star, with clasp (2 Lieut., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (Capt., R.A.S.C.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, medals mounted for display on board, all with adhesive marks, Great War medals with contact marks, fine and better (13) £340-380 O.B.E. London Gazette 23 June 1936. ‘Major (Local Lieut. Colonel), A.M.I.Mech.E., Royal Army Service Corps, Officer Commanding Somaliland Camel Corps, The King’s African Rifles’. m.I.D. London Gazette 15 June 1916; 30 December 1941. charles Vere Bennett was born on 24 December 1892, the second son of Lieutent-Colonel A. C. Bennett, D.S.O., West Yorkshire Regiment, of Ardleigh Park, Colchester. He was educated at the Army School, Stratford-on-Avon and was latterly an A.M.I.Mech. E. He entered the Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Berkshire Regiment in 1912 and transferred to the A.S.C. in 1914. During the Great War he served in France/Flanders, 22 September-December 1914 and August 1915-November 1918. For his wartime services he was mentioned in despatches. Promoted to Captain in November 1917, he served as an Acting Major, February 1920-January 1921, was promoted to Major in October 1935 and received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel in July 1936. After service in India, he served as an Instructor at the Army Technical School for Boys, May 1928-January 1930, and was Administrative Officer at the School, January-April 1930. Employed with the King’s African Rifles, April 1933-April 1935, he served as a Company Commander in the Somaliland Camel Corps and in the 1936 Birthday Honours List, was awarded the O.B.E. During the Second World War he was A.D. of S.& T., February-March 1940 and D.D. of S.& T., East Africa, September 1940-December 1943. He served as an Acting and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, December 1939-February 1941 and was promoted to war substantive Lieutenant-Colonel in February 1941 and Colonel in June 1941. Bennett held the rank of Acting Brigadier, September 1941-March 1942, and Temporary Brigadier, March 1942-December 1943 and again in 1944. For his wartime services he was mentioned in despatches. He retired with rank of Honorary Brigadier on 31 October 1946. sold with some copied research. £340-£380

An inter-war ‘Chemical Warfare School’ M.B.E., Great War D.C.M. group of seven awarded to Warrant Officer T. O’Brien, Royal Engineers the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for 1927; Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (16171 Sjt.-A.C.S. Mjr., 15/F. Coy. R.E.); 1914 Star, with clasp (16171 2 Cpl., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (16171 A.W.O. Cl. 2, R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (1852065 W.O.Cl. II, D.C.M., R.E.); France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, small bronze palm on ribbon, mounted for wear, last with dented reverse, very fine (7) £1000-1200 M.B.E. London Gazette 4 June 1928. ‘’No.1852065 Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant-Major, Acting Regimental Sergeant-Major, Thomas Coulthard O’Brien, D.C.M., Royal Engineers, Chemical Warfare School, Porton’. d.C.M. London Gazette 3 October 1918. ‘16171 Serjt. (A./C.S.M.) T. O’Brien, R.E. (Ealing, W.)’ ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in supervising the work of demolishing bridges over river and canal, and in organising parties to defend the canal bank. At one time he held a position with four men, in spite of heavy fire, and prevented the enemy from repairing one of the demolished bridges. He set a fine example of coolness and resource’. croix de Guerre London Gazette 7 January 1919. corporal Thomas Coulthard O’Brien, 2 Field Company R.E., entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 5 November 1914. Sold with copied m.i.c. and gazette details. £1000-£1200

The Second World War ‘N.W. Europe’ M.B.E. group of ten awarded to Captain W. M. Wilkins, Royal Artillery, late Rifle Brigade the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; British War and Victory Medals (5707 Pte., Rif. Brig.), extremely worn; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (..05993 Sjt., Rif. Brig.), worn; Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, rev. dated ‘1960’; Cadet Forces Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Capt., M.B.E., TD., CCF.), mounted as worn, very fine except where stated (20) £350-400 M.B.E. London Gazette 24 January 1946. ‘Captain (Quartermaster), Royal Regiment of Artillery’. recommendation states: ‘This officer has shown outstanding devotion to duty and his untiring efforts on behalf of the unit during the early stages of the campaign in obtaining all the requirements of the Regt under exceedingly difficult conditions and at a very critical time, were of immense value to the fighting efficiency of the Regt. His efforts were a major factor in keeping all the guns and complex Radar equipment in action in defence of vital installations in the beachhead. Since the Regt moved forward into Germany this officer has on more than one occasion been responsible for uncovering illegal activities by Germans and has shewn initiative, energy and keenness of a high order which have been an inspiration to all with whom he has come into contact’. during the Great War and a period thereafter William M. Wilkins served in the Rifle Brigade. In the Second World War he was awarded the M.B.E. for his services with the 146th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, R.A., part of 80 A.A. Brigade, during the period following the Normandy landings and the later campaign into Germany. Postwar he was appointed to the Brighton Grammar School Contingent of the Junior Training Corps (London Gazette 8 January 1946). In 1947 he was granted the honorary rank of Captain (Quartermaster) in place of the same War Substantive rank which he held (London Gazette 21 February 1947). He was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1960 (London Gazette 19 January 1960). He retired from his post with the Brighton Grammar School Combined Cadet Force in 1970 (London Gazette 13 January 1970). Sold with copied gazette extracts, recommendation and other research. Also with ten prize medallions/medals for shooting, athletics and sports - two enamelled, some named. £350-£400

‘It was my great good fortune to be appointed General Staff Officer to the Arab Forces in the early part of 1918. From then throughout the final phase of the Arab revolt on till Damascus, I worked, travelled, and fought alongside Lawrence. Night after night we lay wrapped in our blankets under the cold stars of the desert. At these times one learns much of a man. Lawrence took the limelight from those of us professional soldiers who were fortunate enough to serve with him, but never once have I heard even a whisper of jealousy. We sensed that we were serving with a man immeasurably our superior ... In my considered opinion, Lawrence was the greatest genius whom England has produced in the last two centuries, and I do not believe that there is anyone who had known him who will not agree with me. If ever a genius, a scholar, an artist and an imp of Shaitan were rolled into one personality, it was Lawrence.’ Colonel W. F. Stirling, D.S.O., M.C., from his autobiography, Safety Last. the important Boer War and Great War Palestine operations D.S.O. and Bar, M.C. group of fourteen awarded to Colonel W. F. Stirling, Chief of Staff to Lawrence of Arabia and Advisor to Emir Feisal in Damascus in 1918, late Royal Dublin Fusiliers and Royal Flying Corps distinguished Service Order, E.VII.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with Second Award Bar; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (Lieut., R. Dub. Fus.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., R. Dub. Fus.); 1914-15 Star (Capt., R. Dub. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge, silver and enamel; Italy, Order of the Crown, 5th Class breast badge, gold and enamel; Syria, Order of Merit, breast badge, gilt metal and enamel; Hedjaz, Order of El Nahda, a rare first type 2nd Class set, comprising neck badge and breast badge, in silver, gold and enamels, complete with original plaited neck cord; Albania, Order of Scanderbeg, a scarce first type Grand Cross set of insignia by Cravanzola, Roma, comprising sash badge, silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star, silver, gilt and enamels, complete with full dress sash, minor official correction to surname on the Boer War awards, reverse centre lacking on the Italian piece, enamel work chipped in places but otherwise generally very fine or better (12) £25000-30000 d.S.O. London Gazette 28 January 1902: ‘For skill and gallantry in action at Kaffirspruit, 19 December 1901.’ Bar to D.S.O. London Gazette 8 March 1919: ‘For gallant service rendered rendered during the operations resulting in the occupation of Damascus by Arab Forces. By his example and personal courage whilst leading the Arabs he, in conjunction with another officer, was mainly instrumental in securing the successful occupation of the town and the establishment, without grave disorder, of the Arab Military Authorities therein.’ The other officer referred to in the above citation is almost certainly Lawrence. m.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918. walter Francis Stirling was born on 31 January 1880, the son of Captain Francis Stirling, R.N., who was last heard of having left Bermuda on that same day in command of the training frigate Atalanta, and was presumed lost at sea with all hands shortly afterwards - one of the notorious ‘Bermuda Triangle’ mysteries. Young Walter spent much of his early life at Hampton Court Palace where Queen Victoria had set aside a wing for widows of Naval officers who died in the course of duty, was educated at Sandhurst and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in 1889. actively engaged in South Africa with the 4th Division Mounted Infantry in Dundonald’s Brigade, Natal Field Force, and afterwards as Adjutant, 14th Mounted Infantry, he took part in operations which included the Relief of Ladysmith and the actions at Laing’s Nek, Belfast and Kafferspruit. sterling’s service with the Mounted Infantry during the latter part of the War mostly involved long drives against the blockhouses, operations which, he later noted in his autobiography, Safety Last, ‘entailed dividing the countryside into huge triangles, marked out at every six or eight hundred yards with armoured blockhouses interconnected with double barbed-wire fences. It was a laborious process but profitable, for once a Boer Commando got into one of the triangles, our mounted troops could then line up and sweep the whole country, driving the enemy up against one of the blockhouse lines where they either had to surrender or else fight their way out ... on my return from one of these drives I received two telegrams. One was from Lord Kitchener and said: ‘Congratulate you on immediate award in the field of the D.S.O. for skill and gallantry in action at the affair of Kaffirspruit.’ ‘ After further service with the Dublin Fusiliers at Malta and in Egypt, Stirling transferred to the Egyptian Army in 1906, and served with the 11th Sudanese Regiment engaged in patrols throughout the Sudan 1907-12. Promoted to Captain in 1908, he retired in 1912 and lived in Canada for a time, before returning to Egypt to run the Sporting Club in Alexandria. after the outbreak of hostilties in 1914, he served temporarily with the Gordon Highlanders in the Censorship Office, Egypt, and later in 1914 transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and trained as an Observer at Ismalia, where he was then detailed to patrol and reconnoitre the Sinai Desert. On one patrol in search of Turkish troop movements Stirling and his pilot, Grall - ‘an extraordinarily nice Breton naval quartermaster’ - crash landed in the desert. The latter broke his collarbone and three ribs in the process, but the pair evaded capture by Turks and Bedouin to arrive safely back in Akaba. Grall was awarded the D.C.M. for this feat. upon hearing of the disaster that had befallen his regiment aboard the River Clyde in the landings at Gallipoli, however, Stirling at once requested permission to rejoin his regiment in the peninsula, where only one officer remained unwounded. Thus he served as second in command of the 1st Battalion, Dublin Fusiliers, for three months until he ‘got buried by a shell which burst on the parapet of the trench’ above his head and had to be evacuated. the Palestine Campaign 1915-18 upon his return to Egypt, late in 1915, he was posted as G.2 Intelligence to General Sir Archibald Murray’s G.H.Q. in Ismailia. Here he very soon met T. E. Lawrence, then a young subaltern who had arrived out from England in December 1914 as G.3 Intelligence. Lawrence was then ordered to Basra with additional instructions to make a report on anything he saw there which could be of interest to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. ‘The document that he produced for us on his return was an amazing document, considering its author was only a 2nd Lieutenant. It was a violent criticism of the mental capacity of the draughtsmen and map-makers, of the quality of the stone used in their lithography, of the disposal of the cranes on the quayside, of the system of mooring the barges and of the shunting operations on the railway, of the medical arrangements, particularly of the provision for the wounded, and even of the tactical dispositions of the commanders in the field and of the general strategical conception of the campaign. We dared not show it to the C.-in-C., but had to water it down till it was considered fit for the great man’s perusal. I have regretted ever since that I never kept a copy of the original; it was Lawrence at his best’ (Stirling’s autobiography refers). stirling was active throughout the Palestine campaign, taking part in the fall of Gaza, the operations in and around Jerusalem, and the night attack across the river Auja. Shortly afterwards he was posted

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O., M.C. and Second World War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Major H. D. Denison-Pender, 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914 Star, with clasp (Lieut., 2/Dns.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Bt-Major), War Medal with minor correction to surname; Jubilee 1935, unnamed; Coronation 1953, unnamed, mounted court style as worn, in fitted wooden glass-fronted case good very fine (8) £2800-3200 d.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918. o.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1942. ‘Major, D.S.O., M.C., J.P.’ ‘Deputy Chief Censor, Telegraph Censorship Branch, Ministry of Information’. m.C. London Gazette 18 February 1915. ‘Lieutenant (temporary Captain), 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)’. m.I.D. London Gazette 17 February 1915; 4 January 1917; 11 December 1917. Henry Denison Denison-Pender was born on 2 April 1884, the 2nd son of Sir John Denison-Pender, G.B.E., K.C.M.G. He was educated at Eton and was commissioned into the 15th Hussars in May 1907, transferring to the Royal Scots Greys in June the same year. Promoted to Lieutenant in April 1911, he served in the Scottish Cavalry Depot at Dunbar, 1913-14. During the Great War he served in France/Flanders, August-November 1914 and May 1915-March 1918. Appointed a Temporary Captain in November 1914, he was promoted to that rank in May 1915. Denison-Pender was appointed G.S.O.3 with the 6th Division in December 1915; Brigade Major with the 6th Infantry Brigade in June 1916; G.S.O.2 with the 33rd Division in July 1917, and G.S.O.2 with the 51st Division in January 1919. For his wartime services he was three times mentioned in despatches, was awarded the D.S.O. and M.C., and in November 1917 was granted the brevet of Major. He retired from the Army in 1919 (London Gazette 1 July 1919). Postwar he was Director of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co. Ltd., 1921-59. He was appointed J.P. for Dorset in 1929 and High Sheriff of Dorsetshire in 1935. During the Second World War he was employed as Deputy Chief Telegraph Censor at the Central Telegraph Office, 1939-42, for which he was awarded the O.B.E. He was in addition, Chairman of the Sturminster Rural District Council, 1949-53; Member of Council of the Bath and West Agricultural Society, 1929-50; Member of Council of the Royal Agricultural Society, 1943-53; President of the Yeovil Agricultural Society, 1936-37; Life Honorary Member of the Hunters Improvement and Light Horse Breeding Society, 1953; and Master of the Portman Hunt. He was married in 1913 to Doris Louise Sydney, the eldest daughter of Sydney Fisher of Amington Hall, Tamworth, Staffordshire, with whom he had three daughters. Latterly living at Hartletts in Hook, Hampshire; he died on 16 February 1967. £2800-£3200

A Great War D.C.M., M.M. group of four awarded to Serjeant E. J. West, King’s Royal Rifle Corps distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (R-7339 Cpl., 6/K.R.R.C.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (R-7339 Sjt., D.C.M., 2/K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (R-7339 Sjt., K. R. Rif. C.); together with a set of four miniature dress medals, good very fine (8) £1800-2200 d.C.M. London Gazette 13 February 1917. ‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. He got on to the parapet under heavy fire, and drove back the enemy parties on both sides of the trench. Later, he rallied and led forward a party of men’. m.M. London Gazette 7 October 1918. edward James West was born in 1892. Coming from Staines and a Lino Maker by occupation, he enlisted into the K.R.R.C. on 18 November 1914. Serving with the 6th Battalion K.R.R.C. he was awarded the D.C.M. for conspicuous gallantry on 22 July 1916. Later serving with the 2nd Battalion he was awarded the M.M. for bravery. He was transferred to the Army Reserve on 10 February 1919. After the war he returned to employment with the Staines Lino Company and worked for a total of 48 years with them until his eyesight failed. He came to St. Dunstans in 1954. He died on 28 January 1972 leaving a widow and a married daughter. According to the vendor who purchased these medals directly from the family he was told that the M.M. was awarded for saving men’s lives on the Somme river. sold with copied research; the recipient’s Certificate of Transfer to Reserve; Certificate of Emloyment during the War; handwritten notes re the forwarding of the D.C.M. and M.M. dated 1919; a letter from St. Dunstan’s re. a pension, dated 2 March 1954; St. Dunstan’s Golden Jubilee 1915-65 London Reunion Invitation Card to Mr and Mrs West; together with a Menu, which includes a list of St. Dunstaners (including West) attending; St. Dunstans Review, March 1972 - with obituary; several photographs including two of the recipient in uniform; and one of recipient’s sweetheart whom he later married; also with a K.R.R.C. cap badge and three metal and two cloth badges and a leather wallet. £1800-£2200

The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel M. W. R. de Courcy, Indian Army, 34th Baron Kingsale and Premier Baron of Ireland distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel, complete with top bar; Tibet 1903-04, no clasp; India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Abor 1911-12, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1921-24; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver; Serbia, Order of the White Eagle, 5th Class badge with swords, silver, gold and enamel, mounted court style as worn, in Spink, London leather case, second fine, others very fine and better (7) £300-350 Michael William Robert de Courcy was born on 26 September 1882, the eldest son of Michael Constantine de Courcy, the 33rd Baron Kingsale (created 1223) and Baron of Ringrone. He was educated at Dulwich College; Kelly College, Tavistock, and Sandhurst. In the latter he passed out first and was awarded the King’s Medal and the Anson Memorial Sword. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Connaught Rangers in October 1902. Transferring to the Indian Army in August 1904 and serving with the 32nd Sikh Pioneers, he was promoted to Lieutenant in January 1905; Captain in October 1911 and Major in October 1917. He served in the latter part of the Tibet Expedition, 1904, then in the Abor Expedition, 1911-12, for which he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 16 July 1912). Serving during the Great War, 1915-18, he was Brigade-Major of the 6th Infantry Brigade in Mesopotamia. For his services he was three times mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 19 October 1916, 14 November 1916 and 15 August 1917) and awarded the D.S.O. (London Gazette 25 August 1917) and the Serbian Order of the White Eagle, 5th Class with swords. Major de Courcy then served in the Marri Operations for which he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 18 May 1920), the Afghan War of 1919 for which he was again mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 3 August 1920), and the Waziristan Campaign of 1921-24. In 1922 he was appointed D.A.Q.M.G. Eastern Command, India. He retired from the Indian Army as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1931 and in the same year succeeded his father as the 34th Baron (by some reckonings 29th Baron) Kingsale, Baron of Ringrone and the Premier Baron of Ireland. Baron Kingsale died on 21 October 1965 and was succeeded by his only surviving grandson, John. Sold with some copied research. £300-£350

1914-15 Star (2) (G-2104 Sjt. P. Paulson, R. Suss. R.; 1066 Gnr. J. A. Summers, R.F.A.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police (P.C. J. White, V. Div.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., 1st issue (James P. Duke); Silver War Badge (B.168330) and (4193), this re-numbered, both lacking pins; other unofficial medals (6), very fine and better (10) £70-90 Medal to Summers sold with original (damaged) medal card box of issue, with envelope addressed to ‘Mr J. A. Summers,78 Violet St., Sth. Penwell, Newcastle’; a large portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform; a group photograph of the recipient and others in uniform; an envelope bearing a message to his wife, and copied m.i.c. silver War Badge ‘B.168330’ awarded to Private George William Martin, Labour Corps, late Middlesex Regiment, who enlisted on 1 May 1916 and was discharged due to sickness on 23 January 1919. Silver War Badge ‘4193’ awarded to Private John Samuel Worsley, Army Service Corps, who enlisted on 20 December 1912 and was discharged due to sickness on 28 January 1915. £70-£90

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Lieut. C. L. Miers) good very fine (2) £70-90 Lieutenant Capel Leonard Miers (1882-1943), served in the Royal Army Service Corps. Sold with Middlesex Regiment cap badge. £70-£90

The historically important insignia of the Order of Saint Patrick successively worn by Richard, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), Governor-General of India, by the 6th Earl of Mayo (1822-72), Viceroy of India from 1869 until his assassination in February 1872, and finally by the 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902), third Governor-General of Canada and eighth Viceroy of India the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, an important set of insignia, circa 1800-10 comprising an impressively large oval double-sided sash badge in gold and enamels, 80mm x 65mm excluding suspension, some bruising to the edge of the badge and one outer and several inner retaining pins lacking, minor enamel chip to stalk of one central shamrock and likewise to one border shamrock on each side, otherwise very fine and superb condition for age, and breast star in silver with hinged arms and gold and enamel centre, the silver backplate engraved with three successive inscriptions ‘Marquefs Wellesley / ®TAT. 83’, ‘Richard Southwell 6th Earl of Mayo / ®TAT. 50’, and ‘The Marquis of Dufferin & Ava / ®TAT. 76’, fitted with gold pin for wearing, extremely fine, the green enamel shamrock expertly restored, the two pieces contained in a mid to late 19th century fitted case, the lid with later gilt embossed inscription, ‘Order of St Patrick worn by Richard, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), Governor-General of India and afterwards The Earl of Mayo (1822-1872) Viceroy of India’, complete with full dress sash, a most important and historic set of insignia £20000-30000 provenance: Sotheby March 1995, by direct descent. ‘Wellesley was Governor-General of Bengal in 1799 at the time of the subjugation of the rebel state of Mysore under Tippoo Sultan, and the army in gratitude for his leadership, ‘caused a star and badge of the Order of St Patrick to be prepared, in which as many of the jewels as could be found suitable were taken from the Treasury of Tippoo’. He initially refused it, but subsequently accepted it from the hands of the East India Company, and was delighted to have it. ‘It is magnificently beautiful and of enormous value. I should think about 8 or 10,000 pounds sterling; it is the most superb decoration I have ever seen.’ After his resignation from the Order in 1810 to accept the Order of the Garter, he would not have been able to wear the star and badge of the Order of St Patrick again. What happened to the jewelled Patrick star and badge is unknown, but the marquess was in some financial difficulties in the last years of his life, and it may have been sold to pay his creditors, and even broken up, though his silver star and enamelled badge did survive. There appeared in The Times on 31 March 1885, the following article: ‘There have been three Irishmen - namely, Lord Wellesley, Lord Mayo, and Lord Dufferin, who have been Governors-General of India and also Knights of St Patrick. When Lord Mayo went to India the star of the Order worn by Lord Wellesley was lent to him by Mr Alfred Montgomery, and he used it during the period of his viceroyalty. After his death Mr Montgomery presented the star to Lady Mayo and when Lord Dufferin went to India, she lent it to him and he now wears it.’ The badge and star still exist, and were auctioned at Sotheby's in London in 1995.’ (Ref: The Most Illustrious Order - The Order of Saint Patrick and its Knights, Peter Galloway, London, 1999). alfred Montgomery, referred to above, was the son of Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery, a senior civil servant on the Madras establishment. Born in 1814 and educated at Charterhouse, at the age of sixteen Alfred became private secretary to the Marquess of Wellesley, the elder brother of the Duke of Wellington. Wellesley was deeply attached to Alfred's mother, and it was widely rumoured that his choice of private secretary had been influenced by his suspicion that he was in fact the boy's father. Alfred was generally believed to bear a striking similarity in appearance to Wellesley and was perhaps best known during his lifetime as a magnificent wit and entertainer, the ‘last of the Dandies’. he was granted a civil list pension of £300 in 1834, raised to £720 in 1882. He died in 1896 and Wellesley’s St Patrick insignia appears to have been bequeathed to Montgomery who took it upon himself to further the association of the Order with the high office of Governor-General, or Viceroy, of India, by lending it to his brother-in-law, Lord Mayo, upon his appointment as Viceroy in 1869. Married just three weeks after Wellesley’s death, to Fanny Wyndham, daughter of George Wyndham, Baron Leconfield, and granddaughter of George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont; their daughter Sibyl subsequently married the 8th Marquess of Queensberry, whilst Fanny’s younger sister, Blanche, a few years afterwards married Richard Southwell Bourke, later 6th Earl of Mayo (qv). richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, also called (from 1781) 2nd Earl of Mornington, Viscount Wellesley of Dangan Castle, or (from 1797) Baron Wellesley of Wellesley, was born in June 1760 at Dangan, County Meath, Ireland. A successful statesman who, as governor of Madras and governor-general of Bengal (both 1797-1805), greatly enlarged the British Empire in India and who, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland attempted to reconcile Protestants and Catholics in a bitterly divided country. He was a founder Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1783 but resigned in 1810 on appointment as a Knight of the Garter. He did, however, have further important associations with the Order of St Patrick, serving two terms as Grand Master in 1821-28 and 1833-35. a moderately liberal disciple of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, Wellesley sat successively in the Irish House of Commons, the Irish House of Lords (after inheriting his father’s Irish titles in 1781), and the British House of Commons until 1797. From 1793 he was a member of the British Privy Council and a commissioner of the India Board of Control. as governor-general in India, he used military force and diplomacy to strengthen and expand British authority. He annexed much territory from some states and contracted with other states a series of "subsidiary alliances" by which all parties recognized British preponderance. He received a barony in the British peerage in 1797 and a marquessate in the Irish peerage in 1799. on receiving a British government order to restore to France its former possessions in India, he refused to comply; his policy was vindicated when the Treaty of Amiens of 1802 was violated and Great Britain resumed war against Napoleonic France. Wellesley's annexations and the vast military expenditure that he had authorized alarmed the court of directors of the East India Company. In 1805 he was recalled and, soon afterward, was threatened with impeachment, although two years later he refused an offer of the Foreign secretaryship. In 1809 he went to Spain to make diplomatic arrangements for the Peninsular War against France and later that year became foreign secretary in Spencer Perceval's ministry. In that office he antagonized his colleagues, who considered him an indolent megalomaniac and welcomed his resignation in February 1812. as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Wellesley disappointed the anti-Catholic George IV, and he was about to be removed when Wellington was appointed Prime Minister in January 1828. Wellesley then resigned because his brother was opposed to Roman Catholic emancipation, although the duke was constrained to accept that policy as a political necessity in the following year. Wellesley’s second term as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1833-34) ended with the fall of the 2nd Earl Grey's reform government. When the Whig Party returned to power in April 1835, he was not sent back to Ireland, and in his rage he threatened to shoot the Prime Minister, the 2nd Viscount Melbourne. Despite his own great achievem

The Companion of Honour group of three awarded to Harold Arthur, Viscount Dillon, first Curator of the Tower of London Armouries, Chairman of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery, President of the Royal Archaeological Institute and of the Society of Antiquaries, Trustee of the British Museum and of the Wallace Collection, a leading authority on the history of arms and armour and medieval costume the Order of the Companions of Honour, G.V.R., neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘Harold Arthur Viscount Dillon 1921’, with length of neck ribbon; Jubilee 1897 (Harold Arthur Viscount Dillon PSA, PRIA); Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued, good very fine (3) £2500-3000 Ex Hayward’s Gazette, December 1975. harold Arthur Lee Dillon was born on 24 January 1844, and was educated at a private school at Eltham, Kent, and at Bonn University. He joined the Rifle Brigade in 1862, was promoted to Lieutenant in 1866, and served in India and Canada during the Fenian troubles of 1868-71. He left the regular army in 1874, but was promoted to Captain in the Oxfordshire Militia and eventually retired with the rank of Major in 1891. In the following year he succeeded his father as the 17th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen. on leaving the army Dillon became interested in modern military subjects such as equipment and dress, which eventually led him to the history of arms and armour and medieval costume. Dillon traced hundreds of illuminated manuscripts and illustrated works and made a series of brass rubbings. When he would enter a gallery he would focus only on those paintings with military themes, concentrating on sword hilts, armour and horse trappings, and skillfully copied them. his first works were published shortly after he left the army. These articles related to his home, Ditchley in Oxfordshire and described flint tools excavated from the area and objects from the collections in the house. He published many articles on the subjects of arms and armour and military history which appeared in academic journals such as the Archaeological Journal and Archaeologia as well as journals of popular and military general interest such as Antiquary and Colburne's United Service Magazine. He would also write on the subjects of arms and armour in pictures, on monuments and in Shakespeare, on tournaments, military equipment, soldier's arms, equipment and life. His first major undertaking was a revised edition of F. W. Fairholt's two volume Costume in England, published in 1885. Three years later he published a paper on the sections of the great 1547 Inventory of the possessions of Henry VIII. In his writings Dillon focused on the defensive and offensive characters of armour rather than as a work of art. many of his articles appeared under his own name, but he would sometimes use the pseudonym 'Armadillo.' The animal was so closely linked with Lord Dillon that the designer of a commemorative medal produced for the National Portrait Gallery used an image of an armadillo for the reverse of a medal bearing the portrait of Lord Dillon. although Dillon was associated with the Tower of London Armouries from 1892, serving as the consultant scientific expert, he was not officially appointed curator of the Armoury until 1895. He was tasked with producing an accurate and up to date catalogue of the collection. As curator he was able to reduce historic inaccuracies that had built up over the previous years. In 1827 Samuel Meyrick had brought expert knowledge to the collection, but it had then fallen into the hands of the War Office storekeepers and unfortunately most his work was lost. Labels were misplaced, and suits wrongly mounted and erroneous traditions had been established for public amusement. his research led him through the State Papers, especially those of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, in which he discovered interesting and valuable details about the making and issue of arms and armour. Dillon dismantled nearly every piece of armour in the collection to see how it was worn and the reason for certain constructional details. Most of the pieces were those of Henry VIII. Dillon even tried them on himself to see how the rivets and the joints of the harness worked and discovered that many of the suits had been wrongly assembled This exercise enabled him to rectify countless inaccuracies. He also examined the internal mechanisms of the crossbow, pistol and gunlocks. in 1910 Dillon's Illustrated Guide to the Armouries was published, being a summary catalogue of the arms and armour as he had arranged and exhibited them, and the various manuscript inventories of the collection. Dillon carried out a complete reorganisation of the collection in preparation for the new catalogue, and made a detailed examination of all the major pieces as well as identifying a number of those with important historical associations, and corrected inaccuracies. The catalogue was more in the format of a guided tour rather than a systematic catalogue. dillon considered his task to be one of preserving and studying a closed collection rather than expanding it and spreading knowledge of it outside the Tower. His two significant acquisitions for the collection were a pistol of Prince Charles, purchased in 1898 and a part visor of King Henry VII found in St James' Palace in 1906. One of his most valuable contributions was the Armourer's Album which appeared for sale in Paris and by Dillon's efforts was purchased and preserved in the Victoria & Albert Museum. The album contained a number of watercolour drawings of suits of armour of the Elizabethan period that were made at Greenwich, many of which were in the Tower, together with the names of the owners, which proved invaluable for establishing provenance and for identifying pieces in the Tower, Windsor and other private collections. lord Dillon contemplated retiring in 1909, but finally retired from his post of Curator in 1912, and handed the Armouries over to Charles Foulkes. Dillon left the Armouries on its way to becoming a modern museum. A catalogue had been completed, a programme of inspections of loans had been established, and regular inventory checks were carried out. Armour and weapons were displayed according to the techniques of the day, with labels and a guidebook describing the displays. he received an honourary degree of Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford and the Order of Companion of Honour by the King in 1921. Dillon served as a trustee to the British Museum, secretary to the Royal Commission on Westminster Abbey, President of the Royal Archaeological Institute of the Wallace Collection, Trustee and Chairman of the Board of the National Portrait Gallery, Honourary Member of the Armourers and Brasier's Company of London, Fellow of the British Academy and Antiquary of the Royal Academy. Harold Arthur Lee Dillon died on 18 December 1932. The group is sold with a ‘Souvenir Album of the Tower of London, with Historical and Descriptive Notes by The Viscount Dillon P.S.A.’ £2500-£3000

A unique New Zealand M.B.E. and Long Service group of nine awarded to Captain and Quartermaster A. Mathieson, New Zealand Permanent Staff, late Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Modder River, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal (6533 Corl., A. & S. Highrs.), correction to service number; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (6533 Corpl., A. & S. Highrs.); War Medal 1939-45, unnamed; New Zealand Service Medal 1939-45, unnamed; Jubilee 1935, unnamed; New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal (W.O.1, N.Z.P.S.); Army L.S.& G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, New Zealand (W.O.1, N.Z.P.S.); New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, ‘Crowned Head’ (W.O.1, N.Z.P.S.), the group unmounted, some with edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and better (9) £1200-1500 Ex Matthew Taylor Collection, Christies November 1990. m.B.E. New Zealand Gazette 10 June 1943. ‘Captain and Quartermaster Archibald Mathieson, New Zealand Permanent Staff, of Timaru’. archibald Mathieson was born on 7 June 1881 at Kaysmuir Duns in the Parish of Duns, Berwickshire. He was the son of John William Mathieson, a Journeyman Mason born in Dumfries, and Margaret nee Dunholm, born in Coldingham, Berwickshire. A Draper by occupation, he joined the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers at the age of 15 years, and three years later on 4 May 1898 he was attested for the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. On 27 October 1899 he was posted to active service in South Africa and took part in the battles at Modder River, Paardeberg, and Dreifontein. From South Africa (in 1902) he was posted to India for the next 4 years 8 months but his records do not give details of that service, except for receiving a bounty for the extension of his services to complete 12 years with the Colours. He was promoted to Corporal on 10 February 1906. He was posted back to South Africa on 19 December 1906. He was permitted to extend his service to complete 21 years on 1 September 1909 and was promoted to Lance-Sergeant on the same day. He returned to England on 27 January 1910 and took his discharge on 25 November 1910 after 12 years 206 days service. his parents had migrated to New Zealand c.1905 and he arrived to join them in 1911 and apparently took up farming for a short while in Timaru. During the First World War he served with the New Zealand Temporary Staff on 1 September 1915-24 May 1920 but was unable to be passed fit for active service due to bouts of asthma. He remained, however, at Trentham and Featherstone Camps, training personnel in musketry skills for the Expeditionary Force, Archibald joined the New Zealand Permanent Force on 20 July 1920. He was promoted to Staff Sergeant Instructor on 25 May 1923, to WO 2 on 25 May 1926, and Warrant Officer in July 1929. mathieson was recommended for the New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal in September 1931, receiving it on 20 July 1932 in Christchurch. He was recommended for the award of the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 31 January 1934, which was approved on 20 February, and received it on 11 June 1934. On 6 May 1935 he received the Silver Jubilee Medal for the 25th Anniversary of the reign of King George V. In June 1940, after nearly 11 years as W.O. 1, he was promoted to Temporary Lieutenant and Quartermaster. Both the Award Notice and Defence Headquarter List for his New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal are annotated ‘now Lieutenant and Quartermaster’. This award was approved on 4 July 1941 and he received a piece of the ribbon issued on 21 September 1941 but it was almost 20 months before the medal was issued on 23 February 1943. captain and Quartermaster Archibald Mathieson was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.) in the King's Birthday Honours List of 1943. He was at that time holding a clerical and administrative appointment in the Permanent Staff at Timaru. He was discharged in Timaru as a consequence of reaching the age of retirement on 14 August 1946, and was posted to the Retired List on the same day. He retired to his home at 15 Lough Street, Timaru and died there soon after on 5 September 1947 in his 67th year. Sold with a quantity of copied research. £1200-£1500