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Click here to subscribeSeven British Army peaked caps to include one with George V Royal Engineers cap badge and interior label 'George Downle & Sons', one with 'Gieves and Hawkes Ltd' interior label, one with Northumberland Fusiliers badge, one with George VI Royal Engineers cap badge and 'William Anderson & Sons Ltd' interior label, one with Royal Artillery cap badge, a WWI era cap with George V badge, and another by Herbert Johnson of London. (7)
British Army uniform, a mess dress jacket with William Anderson & Sons Ltd 'Capt R N Gourlay G99386 6th Dec 1937' with Highland Light Infantry HLI brass buttons by Gaunt of London, and lower sleeve bullion wire British coat of arms badge. Also an Army black jacket with Moss Bros & Co Ltd label having ubique collar badges and ERII Royal Engineers buttons. (2)
Masonic Rose Croix 30th degree neck badge [A BALLANTYNE], a WWI British Red Cross war service medal in original box, Seaforth Highlanders Association enamel button, British Legion Scotland Conference Dundee 1949 enamel badge by Mingware Ltd, Royal British Legion Annual Conference Galashiels 1980 badge and a Army Cadet Force enamel button by Collins of London.
A post-War M.V.O. group of seven awarded to Lance-Corporal E. V. Schopman, Royal Army Service Corps, attached British Army Newspaper Unit, later Royal Household Account Executive, Harrison & Sons, Printers The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 5th Class breast badge, silver nad enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘1487’; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1977, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style as worn, with Defence Council enclosure and named card box of issue for the Second War awards, addressed to ‘Mr. E. V. Schopman, M.V.O., Horizons, 1b Anthony Close Poughill, Bude, N-Cornwall, EX23 9HD’, the Second War awards all later issues, extremely fine (7) £400-£500 --- M.V.O. London Gazette 3 June 1978. Edward Victor Schopman was born on 17 August 1918, and at the age of 14 was apprenticed to a firm of printers. He attested for the Royal Army Service Corps on 16 July 1939, and served during the Second World War with the British Army Newspaper Unit, latterly stationed in Venice. Post-War, he was employed by Messrs Harrison & Sons, Printers (a firm that held three Royal Warrants as Printers for the Royal Household and various Government Departments), and was latterly the firm’s Royal Household Account Executive. For his services he was created a Member of the Royal Victorian Order shortly before his retirement to Cornwall. Sold with a copy of the Statutes of the Royal Victorian Order; three Central Chancery letters regarding the M.V.O.; Bestowal Certificate for the Silver Jubilee Medal; and a large quantity of copied research, including copies of the recipient’s Army record of service.
Miscellaneous Women’s Services Insignia. A good selection of cap badges to the Women’s Services including, bronze Forage Corps, another gilding metal example, Queen Mary’s AAC, Women’s AAC, Navy & Army Canteen Board, another lapel for 1917, Women’s volunteer Reserve, a pair of Expeditionary Force Canteen shoulder titles, 1915 Women’s Land Army workers arm band, another badge, another 1939-45 example, and a Women’s Army Pensions Department Cloth badge, generally good condition (12) £200-£240
A Crimean War C.B. group od seven awarded to Vice Admiral Arthur Parry Eardley-Wilmot, C.B., Royal Navy The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1815, maker’s mark ‘TD’ over ‘HD’ for Thomas and Henry Davies, fitted with later silver-gilt ribbon buckle; Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (A. P. E. Wilmot, Lieut. R.N.); Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 3rd Class neck badge converted for breast wear, silver, gold and enamel; St. Jean d’Acre 1840, silver-gilt; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, the first with one or two very minor blemishes to enamel, light contact marks but generally good very fine (7) £4,000-£5,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Arthur Parry Eardley-Wilmot was born in April 1815, the fourth son of Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, Bart., M.P. for Warwickshire, and Governor of Van Diemen's Land, and entered the Royal Naval College in 1828. He joined H.M.S. Wolf, fitting for the East Indies, in 1830 as a 1st Class Volunteer, and subsequently saw active service against the Malay Pirates and in the blockade of the fortress of Quedah. In 1832 he was at Canton when the Chinese 'first displayed the symptoms of insolence and aggression'. He returned to England in October of the latter year as Midshipman in the Crocodile, and next joined Sir William Parker's Flagship, Asia, at Lisbon where he witnessed the expulsion of Don Miguel from Portugal during the Civil War with Don Pedro. Having passed for Mate in 1833, he visited 'the South Sea Islands, protecting British interests in the Sandwich Islands, the missionary interests at Marquesas, and the peace and good order in the Rio de la Plata'. During this latter commission a group of islands was discovered and named after the Actaeon. Promoted Lieutenant in July 1840, he was appointed to the Powerful the following November, and, under Commodore Sir Charles Napier, served off Syria and in the blockade of Alexandria. In the Wolverine he sailed for China, and was employed at the close of the Opium War in the blockade of the Canton River. He then served as Flag-Lieutenant to William Parker in the Cornwallis on the East Indies Station and in the Hibernia in the same capacity in the Mediterranean. Advanced to Commander in 1847 he was nominated acting Captain of the Spartan off the coast of Syria and then second Captain of the Superb. In 1851 he was appointed Commander of the Brig Harlequin, and, as there was no standard uniform for sailors at that time, he followed the lead of other Captains who dressed their crew, particularly the crew of the gig boats, according to their own taste. Wilmot's gig, manned by 'multi-coloured Harlequins', was consequently never hard to make out. In the Harlequin Wilmot distinguished himself in anti-slavery operations on the coast of West Africa, where he made several treaties, and subsequently received from the King of Dahomey, as 'a tribute of esteem and friendship', an ornamental purple velvet Cap and Silver Staff in the form of an alligator Fetish. In December 1853 The Illustrated London News wrote of this prize, 'The Staff is an emblem of high rank, and gives to the possessor the title of Great Chief. Whenever the person carrying the Staff is seen, the natives fall prostrate upon the ground, and, according to the homage paid to Royalty, throw dirt over their heads ...' Promoted Captain in 1854, Wilmot went aboard the Royal William (Captain Kingcome) as a volunteer for operations in the Baltic ending with the capture of Bomarsund. At Fort Nott, 'owing to the truce having expired', he was taken prisoner but the Russians chivalrously agreed to release him and he returned home in the Royal William to take command of the Paddle Steamer Sphinx, destined, with a cargo of ammunition and explosives, for Sebastopol. Commended in numerous despatches and created a C.B. for services in the Crimea, especially for organising the expedition to Kertch and superintending the landing of the Turkish army at Eupatoria. He was appointed in 1862 Captain of the wooden Corvette Rattlesnake, in which he was instructed to hoist the Broad Pennant of Commodore on the West Coast of Africa, where he spent the next four years stamping out the slave trade. On his return to England he was nominated a Naval A.D.C. and appointed Superintendent of Deptford Dockyard until his promotion to Rear-Admiral in 1870. On 2 October of that year he was appointed Second-in-Command of the Channel Fleet under Admiral Wellesley and hoisted his flag on board the Agincourt. In 1871 during a visit to Gibraltar, the Agincourt, leading the inshore Squadron, ran on the Pearl Rock and became stranded, causing considerable comment and controversy at the time. The mishap proved 'a deathblow' to Wilmot's seagoing career, and he retired as Vice-Admiral on 18 June 1876. He was author of The Midshipman’s Friend, or Hints from the Cockpit, 1845; Manning the Navy, 1849; and Complete and Universal Dictionary of Signals, 1849. He died at Torquay on 2 April 1886.
A Second War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant and Paymaster J. E. de la Motte, Royal Army Pay Corps, late Suffolk Yeomanry The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; British War and Victory Medals (2-Lieut. J. E. de la Motte.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, court-mounted for wear, lacquered, very fine (5) £160-£200 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1946. Jack Edward de la Motte was born in Wandsworth in 1898. He served from 28 October 1915 as a Second Lieutenant in the Suffolk Yeomanry and later returned to service during the Second World War with the Royal Army Pay Corps. Raised Lieutenant and Paymaster in the London Gazette of 18 August 1942, his work was later recognised with the award of the O.B.E. in the New Year’s Honours’ list of 1946. Retired to north London, de la Motte later devoted his time to the pursuit of golf, his name regularly appearing in the contemporary press in consequence of winning the ‘longest drive’ at Wyke Green golf club (typically around the 230 yards mark).
A fine ‘Mekran Expedition 1898’ C.B. group of nine awarded to Colonel R. C. G. Mayne, Bombay Army The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge converted for neck wear, silver-gilt and enamels; Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Kandahar (Lt. R. C. G. Mayne, 29th Bo. N.I.); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (Lieut: R. C. G. Mayne 29th Bombay N.I.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Lieut: R. C. G. Mayne, 2nd Belooch: Regt.); China 1900, no clasp (Lt. Col: R. C. G. Mayne, C.B., A.D.C., 30 Belooch: Inf:); Coronation 1902, silver; Delhi Durbar 1903, silver; Coronation 1911; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, mounted court-style, minor enamel chips to the first, the earlier campaign medals with pitting from star, otherwise very fine and better (9) £2,800-£3,400 --- Richard Charles Graham Mayne was born on 27 August 1852 in Simla, India, the son of Major Robert Graham Mayne, and Eliza Anne Landale. He was sent back to England to be educated at Wellington College, and then attended the Royal Military College Sandhurst, being commissioned as an Ensign into the 83rd County of Dublin Regiment of Foot in 1872. Mayne then transferred to the Indian Army, and was appointed a Lieutenant with the 29th Bombay Native Infantry, which was otherwise known as the Balooch Regiment. He saw service during the Second Afghanistan War of 1878-80, being present during Lord Robert's famous march from Kabul to Kandahar during August 1880, and was then present at the capture of Kandahar on 1 September 1880. Mayne was then present with the Indian Contingent sent to Egypt during the Egyptian War of 1882, being present in action at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir on 13 September 1882. Mayne was promoted to Captain in 1884, and then to Major in 1892, followed by Lieutenant Colonel in 1898, and appointed to command the 30th Bombay Native Infantry which was otherwise known as the 3rd Balooch Regiment. It was in this year that Mayne performed his most distinguished services for the Indian Army when he commanded the forces during the little known but important Mekran Expedition. At the turn of the 19th Century, the Mekran area of north-west India (now Pakistan) and adjacent south-east Persia was a remote dry strip of land running along the northern coastline of the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. This was, and remains today, one of the most hostile and inaccessible regions in the world. Mountains rising to over 10,000 feet formed a backdrop to the coastal desert. Habitation inland followed watercourses that ran through gorges in the hills where date gardens could be irrigated. Coastal communities existed on fishing and smuggling, with Muscat, in Oman across the Straits of Hormuz, being a major source of illegally-imported weapons. The camel provided a transport resource, as well as milk and meat. The standard of living was very low, bordering on wretched, for many inhabitants. The people were hardy and lawless Muslim Baluch tribesmen who resisted outside interference and who constantly intrigued and fought amongst themselves. In the British-administered portion of Mekran government of a sort was achieved by tribal treaty supervised by British Political Agents. The British presence was most evident on the coast where a telegraph line ran from Persia to Karachi. However, by 1898, British survey parties were working inland. In January 1898, conflict broke out in Kej, where the Hindu Nazim Diwan Udho Das (a district administrator who reported to the ruler of the region, the Khan of Kalat) was disliked and disrespected by the Baluch sardars (leaders) Baluch Khan and Mehrab Khan Gichki. The latter, with the complicity of Baluch Khan, attacked Diwan Udho Das on 6th January, imprisoned him in Kalatuk Fort and looted his treasury. Meantime, the unsuspecting British had deployed four surveyors, with Punjabi civilian support staff, into the Kolwa and Kej valleys, depending on the Baluch sardars' levies for security. On 9th January, the camp of one of the surveyors, Captain J. M. Burn, Royal Engineers, was attacked by local tribesmen. The fifteen-man levy escort team, commanded by Rhustam Khan, brother of Mehrab Khan Gichki, stood aside as sixteen support staff were slaughtered. The attackers and the escort party then seized thirty-five rifles and 15,000 Rupees. Captain Burn had been sleeping on a hill three miles away, and he was alerted by one of his men who had escaped from the camp. Burn started off on foot to Balor, thirty-five miles away. At Balor he sent messengers to alert the other surveyors, and he obtained a camel to ride to Urmara, whence on 11th January he telegraphed a report to Brigadier-General T. A. Cooke, the Officer Commanding Sind District, at Karachi. Within two hours of the report's arrival, a military response was initiated. Lieutenant-Colonel R. G. C. Mayne, commanding 30th Bombay Infantry (3rd Baluch Battalion), was ordered to proceed with 250 men to Urmara, seventy-five miles east of Pasni. Transportation was provided by the tug Richmond Crawford, with a local boat in tow carrying followers, baggage, 400 rounds per rifle, and rations for one month. Three British officers and one medical officer accompanied Mayne. Parties from the 21st Bombay Infantry were despatched to Chabbar and Jask in Persian Mekran to protect British telegraph facilities in those locations. Meanwhile those sardars wishing to avoid direct conflict with the British escorted the three remaining surveyors and their men into Urmara. At Urmara, Colonel Mayne landed his men, horses and supplies by using local bunder boats (ship-to-shore coastal boats). More troops were being organised to join Colonel Mayne, and Pasni was chosen as the operational base. From Pasni, a direct route led north to Mehrab Khan's fort at Turbat and the nearby fort at Kalatuk where Nazim Diwan Udho Das was jailed. Colonel Mayne marched on 19th January with his men along the 100 miles of telegraph line to Pasni, repairing the line as he went. The hostile sardars had sent instructions that the British were not to be offered camels to assist with transportation, but the British Political Agent for South-East Baluchistan, Major M. A. Tighe, quickly found camels for Colonel Mayne. None of the beasts were strong due to recent droughts in the region and many died under the pressure of work. By 27th January, Colonel Mayne had under his command at Pasni the 30th Bombay Infantry (400 rifles), a section of No 4 Hazara Mountain Battery (two 7-pndr guns), and eighty-eight transport mules. Two days later the following troops left Karachi to join Colonel Mayne: 6th Bombay Cavalry (half-squadron); 30th Bombay Infantry (eighty rifles, tasked with guarding telegraph facilities at Urmara, Pasni and Gwadur); Bombay Sappers and Miners (one British and one Indian officer with twelve other ranks); No 42 Field Hospital ('C' and 'D' Sections); an additional twelve transport mules. Colonel Mayne left Pasni with his men and the two mountain guns on 27th January, knowing that Baluch Khan intended to block his advance to Turbat. Four dry and dusty days later at 08.00 hours, the column came across the hostile Sardars and 1,500 of their men on hills 300 feet above the mouth of a narrow six-mile long defile. When the advance guard under Lieutenant N. R. Anderson got within 850 yards of the enemy, it came under breech-loading rifle fire. Captain A. Le G. Jacob, with fifty rifles, was deployed onto a hill on the enemy's left flank where he met stiff opposition. Lieutenant J. H. Paine and his gunners now delivered destructive blows by blasting the sardars' forces with shells. Colonel Mayne sent Captain R. Southey with fifty rifles to drive the enemy off low hills to the left (west) of the defile. At that moment Lieutenant H. T. Naylor appeared with thirty-two sabres from the 6th Bombay Cavalry. ...
Miscellaneous Women’s Insignia. A good selection of insignia to the Women’s Services including, OSD bronze FANY cap and collar badges and buttons, ATS cap, collars and shoulder titles, WRAC caps collars and shoulder titles, scarce lapel badges Women’s Royal Naval Services, Scottish Women’s Hospital, St. Dunstan’s Hallmarked Birmingham 1934, Women’s Imperial League, Food Preservation & Naval Transport Service 1915, Board of Agriculture Women’s Branch, another example Land Worker, Women’s Land Army cloth shoulder titles, brassard and lapel badge; and sundry cap, collar, and lapel badges, very good condition (lot) £300-£400
An extremely rare Boer War R.R.C. pair awarded to Nursing Sister Helen 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, on lady’s bow riband; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister H. Hogarth) enamel somewhat chipped on upper arm of RRC, otherwise good very fine, extremely rare (2) £3,000-£4,000 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2008. Only three ladies received the R.R.C. for services in hospital ships during the Boer War: Superintendent Miss M. C. Chadwick; Nursing Sister Miss H. Hogarth (both of the Princess of Wales); and Mrs. G. Cornwallis-West (of the privately funded Maine). The award of the Royal Red Cross itself for the Boer War is scarce, with just 77 awarded – one fewer than the number of Victoria Crosses awarded for the same campaign. R.R.C. London Gazette 26 June 1902: ‘Miss H. Hogarth, Army Nursing Service Reserve, Hospital Ship Princess of Wales.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 17 June 1902. Miss 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 during the Boer War. Hospital Ship 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 – 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.’ 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 H.R.H. 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, H.R.H. 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 H.R.H. 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. St...
Family Group: Pair: Captain F. C. Mower, M.C., Royal Field Artillery, who was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross British War and Victory Medals (Capt. F. C. Mower.) very fine and better Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (60165 F.S. Sjt: G. Mower. R.F.A.) good very fine (3) £80-£100 --- M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918. Frederick Charles Mower was born in Mitford, Norfolk, in 1874. Appointed to a commission as Second Lieutenant in the East Anglian Divisional Ammunition Column in May 1915, he served during the Great War on the Western Front from November 1915 and was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 18 May 1917 and 11 December 1917). Further decorated with the Military Cross, his MIC confirms entitlement to a 1914-15 Star and Silver War Badge.
Pair: Nursing Sister Margaret Walker, Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. Walker.) officially re-impressed naming as typically encountered with QSAs to Nurses; King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. Walker.); together with the related miniature awards, these mounted as worn; and the recipient’s Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service cape badge, silver, light scratches to obverse, nearly very fine (3) £300-£400 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Margaret Walker trained at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, and joined Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve as No. 201 on 10 January 1900. She served in South Africa during the Boer War at No. 13 Stationary Hospital, Pinetown Bridge.
Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve Cape Badge, silver, reverse numbered ‘258’, pin-backed; together with a similar badge, the reverse number erased (but remnants of number 448 visible) and engraved ‘The Lord is at Hand’, the first good very fine; the second nearly very fine (2) £240-£280 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- The Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve was established in 1897, and its members served in South Africa during the Boer War, where the Princess Christian Hospital was based in Pinetown, near Durban. The unit was disbanded in 1907, with its members transferring to Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve.
An Order of St. John group of four awarded to Private J. E. Death, Devonshire Regiment and Order of St. John of Jerusalem The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background; British War Medal 1914-20 (64919 Pte. J. E. Death. Devon R.); Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Service Medal of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, silver, with three Additional Award Bars (3061. Sgt. J. E Death. (Ipswich 1st.) Div. No.10 Dist. S.J.A.B. 1923) very fine and better (4) £120-£160 --- John Ernest Death lived at Lister Road, Ipswich, and initially served on convoy duties with the British Red Cross in his home town. Called up for active service in June 1916, he remained in England with the 2/6th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, and is recorded upon his MIC as entitled to the BWM only. Transferred to the Army Reserve on 10 July 1919, he took employment in Ipswich as an Assistant Elementary Schoolmaster and was later decorated as a Serving Brother in the Order of St John of Jerusalem, as notified in the London Gazette of 3 January 1930.
A Second War M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Acting Lieutenant-Colonel T. Redfearn, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, who had previously been awarded an Immediate M.S.M. during the Great War The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; British War and Victory Medals (S-6685 T.W.O. Cl. 1 T. Redfearn. A.O.C.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (7574412 W. O. Cl. II. T. Redfearn. R.A.O.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (S-6685 T. Sub-Condr: T. Redfearn. R.A.O.C.) mounted court-style for display purposes in this order, contact marks, very fine (7) £400-£500 --- M.B.E. London Gazette, 1 January 1941. M.S.M. London Gazette, 3 June 1919. Thomas Redfearn was born in Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland, on 17 October 1894 and attested into the Army Ordnance Corps on 28 June 1910 at the age of 15. He initially served at home during the Great War and was Advanced Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant on 24 June 1918, before serving on the Western Front from 6 July 1918. He continued to serve post-War, and was commissioned on 24 August 1936. He further served at home during the Second World War and was Advanced Acting Lieutenant-Colonel on 11 September 1944, before reverting back to the rank of Major on 4 October 1944. Sold together with copy service papers, copy Medal Index Card, copy London Gazette entries, named copy group photographs including the recipient, and copy Army Ordnance Corps Gazette entries, with reference to the recipient.
Six: Warrant Officer Class II A. H. Taylor, Royal Field Artillery India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (8410 Gunr. A. H. Taylor No. 7 Mn. By. R.A.); Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (8410 ... A. H. Taylor 7th. Mtn. By. ... R.A.); 1914-15 Star (51217 B.S. Mjr. A. H. Taylor. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (51217 W.O. Cl.2. A. H. Taylor. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (8410 Sjt: A. H. Taylor. R.G.A.) mounted court-style, heavy contact marks which has partially obscured the naming on the first two, good fine and better (6) £600-£800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Arthur Horace Taylor was born in Poplar, London, in 1876 and attested for the Royal Artillery in London on 13 February 1895. He was promoted Bombardier on 21 March 1901, Corporal on 29 March 1902, and Sergeant on 3 February 1903, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in February 1913. He was discharged at his own request at Gosport on 6 April 1913, of which over 16 years were spent soldiering in India. Re-enlisting in the Royal Field Artillery on 30 October 1914, following the outbreak of the Great War, Taylor served as a Battery Sergeant Major during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 May 1915, and was discharged, no longer physically fit for War service, on 13 September 1916, being awarded a Silver War Badge No. 61210. Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts.
A Great War M.B.E. group of three awarded to Deputy Administrator Violet D. A. Lyon, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Victory Medals (A. Adtr. V. D. A. Lyon. Q.M.A.A.C.) lacquered, good very fine and better (3) £240-£280 --- Provenance: Lyon Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2009. M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919” Miss Violet Dorothy Agnes Lyon, Deputy Administrator, Q.M.A.A.C. Violet Dorothy Agnes Lyon was born in Romford, Essex, on 31 December 1894, the daughter of Colonel R. H. Lyon. During the Great War, in March 1918, she was appointed an Assistant Administrator in the Q.M.A.A.C., and was advanced to Deputy Administrator in March 1919. With the Q.M.A.A.C. she served in Boulogne, France. In October 1918, the Q.M.A.A.C. Controller-in-Chief Florence Leach undertook an inspection of the Corps in France. She recorded her assessment of Miss Lyon as: ‘Miss Lyon is good clerically. She has some idea of organisation and arranged the performance for the Controller-in-Chief’s visit very well. She lacks education’. Despite this lack, Miss Lyon was later awarded the M.B.E. for her services in the Great War. She died in Wimbledon on 28 June 1977.
Six: Dr. Honoria S. Keer, Scottish Women’s Hospitals, who served as an Assistant Surgeon with the Girton and Newnham Unit British War and Victory Medals (H. S. Keer); Serbia, Kingdom, Order of St. Sava, Officer’s badge, silver-gilt and enamel, Bishop with red robes; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917, with bronze star on riband; Medal of Honour, Ministry of War for Epidemics, silver, reverse embossed, ‘Miss Kear [sic] 1917’, with case of issue inscribed with the recipient’s name; together with the recipient’s Scottish Women’s Hospitals Medal 1914, bronze, unnamed; and the related miniature awards for the Great War campaign pair and the two French awards, good very fine (6) £1,000-£1,400 --- Provenance: Tony Sabell Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2013. Serbian Order of St. Sava London Gazette 12 August 1919: ‘In recognition of services while employed with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals in Serbia.’ Honoria Somerville Keer was born in Toronto, Canada on 26 December 1883, the daughter of Major-General Jonathan Keer, Bengal Staff Corps. She was educated at Hazel Bank, Malvern and at the University of Glasgow where she was awarded in 1910 the degrees of M.B. and Ch.B. At the outbreak of war she was serving as Resident Medical Officer at the Infirmary, Kilmarnock. She became Assistant Surgeon to the Girton and Newnham Unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals on its foundation and proceeded with it to Troyes in the Champagne district of France in May 1915. In October of that year the French Government transferred that hospital to Serbia. Soon it was obliged to retreat with the Serbian Army and from December 1915 it was sited in Salonika. In the Autumn of 1917 the unit was re-housed and re-constituted as the Calcutta Orthopaedic Centre - still under the command of its original Chief Medical Officer, Dr Louise McIlroy. As such, it continued to work in Salonika until early 1919 when it closed as a military hospital, being subsequently transferred to Belgrade to form The Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital. However, in April 1918 Dr Keer was transferred to Corsica as Chief Medical Officer of the Scottish Women’s Hospital for Serbian Refugees, operating under the Serbian Relief Fund. This hospital closed in April 1919. After the war Dr Keer returned to England and took a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Health in 1924. The following year she was appointed a Medical Officer to Nigeria, being posted to the Hospital in Lagos. Here she worked until 1931. Increasingly suffering from deafness, she returned to England in 1933. She died in London on 20 March 1969.
A Great War C.B. group of five awarded to Colonel Sir Bruce G. Seton, Bt., Indian Medical Service, who was severely wounded at Kaniguram during the Waziristan campaign of 1894-95, and was later Mentioned in Despatches during the Great War The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1894-5 (S: Capt. B. G. Seton., I.M.S.); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (S. Capt. B. G. Seton, I.M.S.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Col. Sir B. G. Seton); together with a silver eight-pointed star and Royal Masonic Institute for Girls Steward’s Badge for 1927, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, mounted for display, very fine and better (7) £1,200-£1,600 --- Provenance: Tony Sabell Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2012. C.B. London Gazette 4 June 1917. M.I.D. London Gazette 27 June 1917. Sir Bruce Gordon Seton, Bt., was born on 13 October 1868, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Seton, Royal Engineers. He was educated at Bart’s and gained the M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. London in 1891. He entered the Indian Medical Service as a Surgeon Lieutenant in January 1892; being promoted to Surgeon Captain in January 1895, Major in January 1904 and Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1912. He was granted the brevet rank of Colonel on 30 June 1913. Seton served on the N.W. Frontier of India in the Waziristan campaign of 1894-95, being severely wounded at Kaniguram; then in the Tochi campaign of 1897-98. Prior to the Great War he held the post of Secretary to the Director-General of the I.M.S. During the Great War he was in command of the Kitchener Indian Hospital at Brighton, 1914-16. For his wartime services he was mentioned in despatches and appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath. On 6 March 1916 he succeeded his cousin, Sir Bruce Maxwell Seton, as 9th Baronet of Abercorn. In 1923 he advanced a claim to the Barony of Gordon, which, after six years, was rejected by the House of Lords. Sir Bruce Seton was the author or co-author of Cavalry Elementary Veterinary Manual, 1895; The Indian Medical Service, 1911; The Pipes of War, 1920; The Prisoners of Forty-five, 1928, and was editor of The Orderly Book of Lord Ogilvy’s Regiment in the Army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 1924. He died at Edinburgh on 3 July 1932. Sold with a folder containing extensive copied research.
Territorial Army Nursing Service cape badge, silver; Territorial Force Nursing Service cape badge, silver; together with a single Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service collar badge; three Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve collar badges; a pair of 4th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment spots medals, silver, the reverse engraved ‘Bn. Sports 1933 Tug of War 1st’ and ‘L.G. Comptn. N.C.O.s 1st Sgt. T. Meredith’; and a miniature Scottish Sword, by Hamilton & Inches, silver, hallmarks for Edinburgh 1934, generally very fine (9) £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
A Great War M.B.E. and long service pair awarded to Quartermaster and Honorary Captain W. H. Hesketh, Royal Garrison Artillery The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (55086 Serjt:-Maj: W. H. Hesketh. R.A.) mounted as worn, very fine (2) £140-£180 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with the War.’ William Henry Hesketh was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal without gratuity in the Appendix to Army Order 172 (c) of 1904. Appointed Quartermaster with the honorary rank of Lieutenant in the London Gazette of 9 February 1915, and raised Honorary Captain in the London Gazette of 19 February 1918, Hesketh took his retirement from the R.G.A. upon reaching the age limit in January 1927.
A Great War O.B.E. group of three awarded to Mabel C. Carmichael-Walker, a civilian attached to the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, who served during the Great War as a Hospital visitor and writer for the wounded at Wimereux, near Boulogne The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt, on lady’s bow riband; British War Medal 1914-20 (M. C. Carmichael-Walker.); Belgium, Kingdom, Queen Elisabeth Medal, bronze and enamel, nearly extremely fine (3) £200-£240 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1920: Miss Mabel Caroline Walker, Founder of the Soldiers’ Institute and Hostel, York. Mabel Caroline Carmichael-Walker was born in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland on 2 August 1865, the daughter of Colonel Sir George Walker, K.C.B. From 1897 to 1908 she servedas Honorary Superintendent of the Institutes for Soldiers in South Africa; and in 1908 founded the Soldiers’ Institute and Hostel at Fulford, York, of which Field Marshal the Lord Roberts was President. She served during the Great War as a Hospital visitor and writer for the wounded in Wimereux, near Boulogne, France, attached to the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, from December 1914 to June 1917 (not entitled to either a 1914-15 Star or a Victory Medal), and upon returning to York she enlarged the Institute and opened a hostel-annexe for the relatives of the wounded and sick soldiers. For her services she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Sold with copied research.
A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ O.B.E. group of three awarded to Major W. C. Reid, 32nd Lancers, Indian Army, who was also Mentioned in Despatches; he later served as Commandant of the Myitkyina Battalion, Burma Military Police 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 Star, with clasp (Capt. W. C. Reid, 32/Lncrs.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Maj. W. C. Reid.) mounted court-style together with the riband for the Victory Medal with M.I.D. oak leaves; together with the recipient’s related group of four miniature dress medals and riband bar, all housed in a Spink, London, fitted case, gilding somewhat rubbed on OBE, generally very fine (3) £400-£500 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Mesopotamia.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1919 (Mesopotamia). Walter Clarke Reid was born in London, Ontario, on 12 April 1881, and was educated at Huron College School and the Royal Military College. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant on the Unattached List on 27 August 1902, and was appointed to the Indian Army on 28 January 1904. Posted to the 32nd Lancers, he was promoted Lieutenant on 27 November 1904, and Captain on 27 August 1911. He was appointed Assistant Commandant, Burma Military Police Battalion at Taunggyi on 10 April 1912, before reverting to Regimental duty in 1914, and served with the 32nd Lancers during the Great War on the Western Front from 26 August 1914 to 15 June 1917. Promoted Major on 27 August 1917, he saw further service in Mesopotamia from 14 August 1918, and for his services there was Mentioned in Lieutenant-General Sir W. R. Marshall’s Despatch of 7 February 1919, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Post-War, Reid was appointed Squadron Commander of the 32nd Lancers on 1 January 1919, and then Commandant of the Myitkyina Battalion, Burma Military Police, on 24 May 1923. He retired on 23 October 1928, and died in Canada on 4 June 1934. Sold with the following related items: i) The recipient’s Mess Jacket, waistcoat, and sash, these severely moth damaged ii) A hallmarked silver cigar box, the lid engraved with the bade of the 32nd Lancers; together with a small vesta box iii) The recipient’s Journal for the Summer of 1907, spent on a Bear-hunting trip with a friend called Hogg to Chamba in the foothills of the Himalayas, type-written with a good selection of photographs, including various photographs of the various Bears that the recipient bagged, the first few pages water damaged, and the spine and front cover board missing iv) Four original studio portrait photographs of the recipient; together with a photograph of the recipient mounted on a horse v) 32nd Lancers unit insignia; and copied research.
Three: Cadet Lieutenant-Colonel A. B. Solomon, Jewish Lads’ Brigade, Birmingham Cadet Corps Defence Medal, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. A. B. Solomon, 68 Woodbourne Rd., Edgbaston, Birmingham 17’; Jubilee 1935 (Cadet Lieut-Colonel A. B. Solomon Birmingham Cadet Corps J.L.B.) contemporarily engraved naming; Cadet Forces Medal, G.VI.R. (Cadet Lt Col. A. B. Solomon.) in named card box of issue; together with the recipient’s Birmingham Special Constabulary Long Service Medal 1916, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘A. B. Solomon’; ands a Birmingham Special Constabulary Reserve lapel badge, silvered and enamel, the reverse numbered ‘229’, generally very fine and better (5) £200-£240 --- The Jewish Lads’ Brigade was founded in 1895 by Albert Edward Goldsmid, a self-declared ‘nationalist Jew’ and the British Chief of ‘Chovevi Zion’. As a Zionist Anglophile, he made a successful career as a staff officer in the British Army. Whilst Colonel at Cardiff, he inspected the local Church Lads’ Brigade and commented that something similar should be arranged for Jewish lads. His aim was to help poor Jewish boys, particularly between the time they left school and the time they could join Jewish Working Mens’ Clubs. A lasting function of the Brigade was to facilitate cultural integration. Members of the Brigade served with distinction in the Boer and First and Second World Wars. In 1974 the Jewish Lads’ Brigade joined with the Jewish Girls’ Brigade to form the ‘Jewish Lads and Girls’ Brigade’. Archie B. Solomon was the Officer Commanding the Jewish Lads’ Brigade (Birmingham Cadet Corps), which was affiliated to the 5th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Sold with copied research.
Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (277845 Sjt: J. O’Regan. 31/Amm: Sub-Pk: R.G.A.) extremely fine £70-£90 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1918. James O’Regan attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery on 13 September 1914 and was awarded the M.S.M. for devotion to duty in France. Discharged on 16 July 1919, he was issued a Silver War Badge in August 1919.
Four: Sergeant R. H. Stone, 10th Hussars 1914 Star, with clasp (5550 Cpl. H. Stone. 10/Hrs.); British War and Victory Medals (5550 A. Sjt. H. G. Stone. 10-Hrs.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver (No. 5550 Corpl. H. Stone 10 Royal Hussars) contemporarily impressed naming, nearly extremely fine (4) £200-£240 --- Harry Garland Stone was born in Croydon, Surrey, in 1884 and attested for the Hussars of the Line on 15 March 1905. Posted initially to the 20th Hussars, he transferred to the 10th Hussars on 6 September 1905, and served with them in India from that date to 8 November 1912, receiving the Delhi Durbar Medal in 1911. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 14 March 1913, but was recalled to the Colours following the outbreak of the Great War ands served with the 10th Hussars on the Western Front from 6 October 1914 to 7 November 1915. Promoted Sergeant, he was discharged on 22 March 1919, and was awarded a Silver War Badge no. B209614. Sold with copied record of service and medal index card.
Militaria. Germany, Third Reich, badges, comprising Anti-Aircraft, Assult and Kriegsmarine High Seas Fleet, twenty-one British Army cap badges, including Leicestershire and Notts & Derby Regiments, King's Own Scottish Borderers and Canadian, silver ARP badge, United Nations Korea medal and several others All genuine and most, if not all, in good condition
MEDALS, awarded to 8416 J. Arnott, Seaforth Highlanders to include Edward VII India General Service Medal 1908-1910 with North West Frontier bar and a WWI trio with ribbons, together with a WWII 1939 - 1945 War medal with box addressed to Mrs H Arnott, Epns dog tag for 8416 Pte J. Arnot, another 1939 - 45 War medal, and three India Temperance medallions, Royal Scots cap badge and another and a WWII US Army Air Force Aircrew Member Bracelet, stamped Sterling
Palitoy - Hasbro - Action Man - An unboxed 1978 Action Man action figure with Flock hair and eagle eyes in a arm camouflage uniform. The uniform appears to be missing (beret badge) parts but comes with gun accessory. The Figure itself is in overall very good to excellent condition but some marks to the hands are present All functionalities work well. This lot also contains an unboxed 2006 Action Man in U.S. army uniform. This figure has a painted head and appears to be in excellent condition. Can not guarantee all uniform and accessories are complete. (This does not constitute a guarantee) RG
A 1914-15 star medal trio to the Royal Army Medical Corps for service in the 6th London Field Ambulance.1914-15 Star medal, British War and Victory medal, “2012 PTE. T.L. RAWLINGS R.A.M.C.” Thomas Leonard Rawlings enlisted on 20th November 1914 and served in France from 15th March 1915. He was discharged from the 6th London Field Ambulance on 29th August 1916 as unfit for further service due to illness and was issued with a Silver War Badge.
A mixed lot of militaria: A Lancashire Regiment officer's field service cap; an Austrian Army officer's peak cap with owner's nametape, Oblt. Trautmannsdorff; a WW2 RAF Flight Engineer's half-wing badge; a pair of vintage RN Lieutenant's epaulettes, various modern epaulettes and soft badges; two regimental crests (The Royal Scots and 7 Regt. RCT); a small military storage box (LWH 19 x 19 x 13 cm); Urban Mark - 'The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes'; Simkins, Peter - 'Kitchener's Army' Kenyon, David - 'Horsemen in No Man's Land' Holland, James - 'The War in the West - Germany Ascendant 1939-1941' Mann, Chris - 'SS Totenkopf'
A WW1 ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS MEDAL GROUP OF FOUR Awarded to S. Sjt. J.F.S. Brown R.A.M.C., comprising 1914-15 Star (21. Pte. J.S.F. Brown R.A.M.C.), British War Medal (322012 Pte. J.S. Brown R.A.M.C.), Victory Medal 322012 Pte. J.S. Brown R.A.M.C.) and Territorial Efficiency Medal (37439 S. Sjt. J.S.F. Brown R.A.M.C.), with corresponding miniatures, together with Royal Army Ordnance Corps cap badge, Silver War Badge (B300473) and Kings Own Scottish Borderers pin badge Condition Report:Available upon request
A mixed lot comprising vintage elbow length ladies gloves, a gents Timex watch, a Reading & Acton pearlized vesta case, a Victorian white metal baby's rattle with mother of pearl handle, a George VI Royal Army Service Corps cap badge, Victorian silver items, jewellery, a fruit knife, a bone paper knife, a carved mother of pearl bangle, a vintage mitre barley sugar sweetie tin, miniature dice, a Victorian yellow metal and black fabric bracelet and an early 20th Century Bavarian combination field compass with dual lens, mirror and magnifiers and mixed collectables. Location:BWR
Two Second World War RAF Officer's Peaked Caps, one by Burberrys, the other by Watson Prickard Ltd., each with raised bullion thread and gilt metal cap badge, mohair cap band, black patent leather chin strap and Real Roan Leather sweatband; a Similar Cold War Period RAF Officer's Peaked Cap by Bates of Jermyn St., St. James, London, in oirginal cardboard box and outer case; a Second World War Army Officer's No.2 Dress Peaked Cap by Lock & Co., London, with bronze cap badge to the Green Howards (4)Watson Prickard hat and army hat with some moth damage.
A Quantity of Various Badges and Insignia, including ARP lapel badge, cap and collar badges, also a single Victory Medal awarded to 21526 PTE.J.J.ANSELL, W.YORK.R. - lacking its suspender, a cardboard display of US Army buttons, a framed and glazed display of Soviet Russian badges, and a glazed display of buttons (qty)
A SMALL COLLECTION OD BADGES AND BUTTONS, to include an Army General Service corps cap badge, a kings own Liverpool collar badge and a small collection of uniform buttons and two further damaged collar badges, Customers must satisfy themselves prior to sale in regards to conditions and authenticity, viewing is advised, condition reports are available on request
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