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WWII era Nazi German Third Reich heer (army) belt buckle with 'Gott Mit Uns' banner encircling eagle holding a swastika, the partial leather belt with makers stamp 'E SCHNEIDER 1941 LUDENSCHEID', also a similar belt buckle, an army waffen SS assault badge, a naval destroyer war badge and a German oval brass plaque with central horse encircled by 'BREMERVORDE AMTSDIENER DES AMTS'. (5)

German WWII style Heer (army) field cap with SS Totenkopf skull badge and eagle cloth badge to side, the interior with black stamp possibly dated 1941.

Collection of military cap and other badges and insignia to include a British waist belt plate front, Womans Land Army badge, Cameron Highlanders, The Royal Scots, Kings Own Scottish Borderers, Gordon Highlanders, The Cameronians, Kings Dragoon Guards, Royal Warwickshire, 16th Queens Lancers, 17th/21st Lancers, Scots Greys shoulder titles etc. also cloth badges and other insignia.

British army khaki green beret with interior label 'W JARDINE & SONS LTD OF EDINBURGH' penned 'R I KENNEDY', having fretted white metal Kings Own Scottish Borderers KOSB cap badge, also two other similar caps, one with KOSB badge. (3)

A WWI German medal group of four. Iron Cross (2nd Class), Hesse-Darmstadt, General Honour Decoration for Bravery, Imperial German Legion of Honour with frontline badge and Prussian Service Medal, together with an Eastern carved box with Royal Veterinary Army Corps crest.

A GEORGE V SILVER ART NOUVEAU TROPHY by E. Barnsley & Co., Birmingham 1912, the circular bowl with three shaped handles, on a flared pedestal foot, 7cm high x 19cm diameter, 22.5 tr. ozs, engraved with Army Service Corps cap badge

A Display of Eighteen Second World War Polish Badges, including 12th Regiment of the Podolski Uhlans breast badge, 2nd Regiment of the Grochowski Uhlans breast badge, 3rd Carpathian Infantry Division breast badge, lapel badge and three Special Command collar badges, six collar badges to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Carpathian Infantry Brigades, a 7th Regiment of the Lublin Uhlans breast badge, 3rd Carpathian Division embroidered insignia and enamelled lapel badge and a Polish Army embroidered eagle cap badge, and SK monogram

A Small Collection of Second World War British Army and Other Cloth Insignia and Divisional Patches, including 1st Corps, 50th (Northumbrian) Division, Home Command London District, arm of service strips, an Old Blues RFC badge, London & South West Sector Army Cadet Force embroidered formation sign, Girl Guides Chaffinch bird patrol badge, and a quantity of printed Arms of the County Councils, Towns etc of Britain, all contained in a binder file; also, a file of research material relating to the War Memorial at Middleton St George, a file of fourteen First World War photographic postcards and research material relating to the 62nd (2/West Riding) Divisional Ammunition Column 1915-19. and a white metal plaque engraved by Lance Corporal A Jackson West Yorkshire Regiment as a Memento of the European War (4)

A Second World War Polish Group of Five Medals, awarded to 265/111 Acting Sergeant (Plutonowy) Leonard Pohl, 1st Rifle Battalion, 1st Carpathian Rifle Brigade, 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division, Polska 2nd Corps, (Unit name "Peszek"), comprising Polish Cross of Valour, Polish War Medal, 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with clasp 8TH ARMY, and Italy Star, with his dog tags, Free Polish Army cap badge and 3rd Carpathian Rifle divisional patch, also, seven miniature medals, in a glazed display.

A Display of Eleven Polish Medals and Badges, comprising a Polish Legions Cross and lapel badge, a War with Ukraine "Young Eagles" Honour badge and lapel badge, a Cross of the Polish Soldiers from America 1920, a Polish Volunteer Army in France 1917-1921 "Haller Swords" Commemorative medal, a miniature commemorative medal to Miliary Railway Guards for the War with Bolshevik Russia 1920-1921, and four lapel badges to the Eagle Cadre 1913, 3rd Infantry Brigade Polish Legions Honour Cross, 1st rigade Polish Legions for Faithful Service 1916, and Polish Military Organization 1919, all loosely mounted in a dislay case

A Collection of Approximately One Hundred and Twenty First/Second World War Sweetheart Brooches, in brass, enamel, white metal, mother of pearl, including RFC,RAF, Royal Navy, and various regiments; also, enamelled lapel badges to Women's Land Army, ARP, King's War Badge, Civil Defence Corps, On War Service 1914, Home Guard, etc, two cap badges to the Suffolk Regiment, a post-1953 Royal Military Police cap badge and collar dogs, in a glazed display and two boxes.

A Glazed Display of Eleven Second World War Polish Badges and Cloth Insignia, comprising a brass cap badge, 2nd Corps white metal cap badge, two embroidered shoulder titles, 2nd Polish Corp Maid of Warsaw formation badge, 2nd (Warsaw) Armoured Division badge, 3rd Carpathian Division badge, 5th Kresowa Infantry Division badge, 6th (Lvov) Polish Infantry Division badge, 4th Armoured Regiment Scorpion beret badge, and Polish 8th Army formation badge

British Women’s Land Army & Timber Corps EIIR pin badge, made by Firmin in gilt and enamel.

British WWII six place 8th Army and Normandy Medal group and three miscellaneous medals awarded to Frank William Pulfer Royal Artillery with 1939-1945 Star, The Africa Star with 8th Army clasp, The Italy Star, The France and Germany Star, The Defence Medal and The 1939-1945 Medal complete with miniature group, also with, National Service Medal, The Normandy Campaign Medal and Medal of a liberated France with miniatures. Frank William Pulfer was the Vice Chairman of the Normandy Veterans' Association and this group comes with his Vice Chairman badge, a 45th Anniversary Commemoration plate. A copy of his death certificate is included

British Commonwealth South African Army WWII Orange Free State Rifle Defence Association Cap Badge

British WWII Royal Army Service Corps Officers Cap Badge, bronze with tab fitting, sadly one tab missing.

Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps British WWI Cap Badge, brass, solid centre variant with slider

WW2 British 1st Battalion South Staffs Chindit Group to 4914190 Pte Eric Verdon Bryan comprising of: General Service Medal with Palestine Clasp named to him, complete with ribbon: Defence Medal complete with ribbon: Letter regarding claim of his medals: Aldershot Command Sports Medalion for Cross Country 1936 in case: two large group photos showing him, one of the Cross Country team in 1936: two photo albums from his service in Egypt and Palestine: Loose photos taken in the Middle East: His original Enlistment paper from 1935 into the South Staffs, Army Certificate of Education 2nd class 1936, Soldiers Release Book Class A 1945 dated: souvenirs bought in the Middle East, two leather wallets, bag, Arab Headress, etc: Kukri knife, Bone handled knife, private purchase cutlery style eating knife in leather pouch, "Green River" Stainless Steel throwing knife, General Purpose Survival Knife which he carried in Burma: MKIII Compass maker marked and dated "TG Co. Ltd 1942": Maps used in Burma: Blank Indian made AB64 Paybook: Canvas holdall: Brass South Stafford Shoulder Title: British made Slouch Hat maker marked and dated "Moores, London 1943" complete with original Chindit Formation Sign sewn to turn up. Size 7: Letter dated April 1944 on award of the Chindit badge by Major General W Lentaigne after the death of Orde Wingate : two pairs of his drum sticks, Wristwatch (not working), etc. New to the market.

WW2 British Defence Medal and Special Constabulary Faithful Service Medal to Thomas W Wright: Cased ERII Imperial Service Medal to Richard Hugh Griffiths: ERII HM Armed Forces Veterans Lapel Badge: Royal Army Reserve lapel badge, ROC Lapel badge, 15th/19th Hussars cap badge, brass shoulder titles x 3, collar dogs.

WW2 British Cap Badge Collection to include: Argyl & Sutherland Highlanders, Army Service Corps, Royal Fusiliers, 9th Lancers, REME, Royal Ulster Rifles, Derbyshire Regt, 3rd Dragoon Guards, Border Regt, Worcestershire Regt, 6th Dragoon Guards, RCMP, Royal Guernsey Regt, RAMC, RAOC, Devons, RE x 2, 3rd County of London Yeomanry, West Riding Regt, South Notts Hussars, South Lancs, Rifle Brigade, RA, Royal Signals, 16th Queens Lancers, 8th Gurghka Rifles, Life Guards, etc.

Post War British Army REME Cast Metal Alloy Vehicle Badge. 340mm in height.

Collection of British Army Cap badges to include: Military Foot Police: Military Police x 2: WW1 RE: RAOC: WW1 Tank Corps: Lincolnshire Regt: RUR: WW1 Army Cyclist Corps: Machine Gun Corps plus MGC shoulder title: Royal Signals: Cheshire Regt: Royal Army Veternary Corps: Loyal North Lancs: Worcestershire Regt brooch pinned: Seaforths: Gordons:General Service Corps: The Loyal Regt: Lancashire Fusiliers: Suffolks: Aryshire Yeomanry: Notts & Derbys: RAPC: Wiltshire Regt: Gloucesters with back badge: Grenadier Guards: Fusiliers: HAC: Royal Hussars: Scots Guards: GRV RASC: WW1 Officers Bronze ASC: Carnarvonshire Volunteer Regt: Sussex VTC: Oxford University STC: RAOC x2 : Devons: SWB: Inniskilling Fusiliers: The Queens: RAPC, etc.

Collection of British Army Cap badges to include: General Service Corps: Royal Signals: The Buffs: Welsh Guards: Royal Welch Fusiliers: Kings Own: Connaught Rangers: Cheshire Regt: Liverpool Regt: First Life Guards: Royal Munster Regt: Dorsets: Northamptonshire Regt x 2: The Buffs: Royal Sussex Regt: North Staffs: The Welsh Regt: Manchester Regt: Royal Berkshire Regt: Royal West Kents: Royal Marines: Guards: ATS: Middlesex Regt: Leicestershire Regt: South Lancs: 3rd Carabiniers x 2: Shropshire Yeomanry: East Lancs: York & Lancs: East Yorks: Norfolk Regt: Royal Fusiliers: West Riding Regt: 13th/18th Royal Hussars: East Surrey Regt: Essex Regt: RTR: RAF: Irish Guards: Gloucesters Back Badge: Oxford University OTU: Lincolnshire Yeomanry.

WW2 British Cap Badge Collection to include: Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Royal Devon Yeomanry Artillery, Lothian & Border Horse, RAEC, Army Ordnance Corps, Military Police, REME, Northumberland Fusiliers, Royal Signals x 2, Scots Guards, Queens Own Worcestershire Hussars x 2, South Lancs, Manchester Regt, KRRC, Duke of Lancasters Own, Hertfordshire Regt, Bays, Liverpool Regt, South Staffs, KSLI, The Queens Regt, Worcestershire Regt, The Buffs, Bucks, East Lancs, WW1 RE Officers Bronze, RAVC, The Loyal Regt, ASC, Machine Gun Corps, etc.

WW2 British Cap Badge Collection to include: Recce Corps, North Staffs, Honourable Artillery Company, Artists Rifles, Royal Warwicks, Glider Pilot Regt, Norfolk Regt, General Service Corps, RASC, Army Pay Corps, Royal West Kents, Middlesex Regt, Army Dental Corps, Royal Signals Staybrite, WW1 Tank Corps, East Surrey Regt, Grenadier Guards, Army Catering Corps, Wiltshire Regt, WW1 Royal Flying Corps, Scots Guards, Kings Own, Kings Royal Irish Hussars, Queen Mary's AAc, WAAC, ATS, Army Cylist Corps war economy, RA, Leicesters, York & Lancs Regt, etc.

WW1 British Silver War Badge to Pte William John Hillier, Royal Army Veterinary Corps. Badge number 414941. Discharged 12/2/1918.

A collection of seven post war British Army Berets to include : Airborne Forces Red Beret, size 56 with Queens Crown Parachute Regt cap badge: Royal Marines Green Berets x 2, size 56 one with black badge the other with badge in gilt: Khaki Berets x 2, small sizes: Midnight blue beret with Royal Regt of Fusiliers cap badge and hackle: Irish Caubeen Cap size 53cm with Irish Guards badge (missing one lug): along with a Post War Belgian Army Airborne Red Beret dated 1968 size 56, complete with cap badge. (8)

A collection of early 20th century gentleman's ephemera plus other items including a gold plated hunter pocket watch and table lighter.  Comprising a 1940s Cimier gentleman's aluminium wrist watch (untested but winds and appears to run); an Ingersoll wristwatch head (untested but appears to not work); a Dennison Star gold plated full hunter pocket watch (untested but winds and appears to run); a Swiss army pen knife; a BMC Drivers club 5 year safe drivers badge; a Ronson silvered table lighter ; two lacquered snuff boxes; a carved bone rose brooch; a Rolstar pocket lighter; a life saving medal; a leather wallet and an Art Deco chrome plated cigarette case; and other items. 

A group of vintage costume jewellery including two strings of graduated simulated pearls, one with 9ct gold clasp, pair of cultured pearl earrings, 19th century paste brooch, silver Stockport and District Parks Bowling medal fob, cap badge for the Army Ordinance, a swivel fob and further fob, various watch chains, including a gold plated belcher chain, and figaro curb link chain and a cross on a very long gold plated french plait chain.

German Third Reich Hitler Youth dagger, the hilt with black chequered grips and enamelled diamond shaped H.J. badge, broad single edged blade by Carl Heidelberg, Solingen, the H.J motto on the reverse side has been ground, but a slight shadow of it remains, some losses to the plating but otherwise in an untouched condition, lacking scabbard, 13.5cm blade, 24.5cm overall Salvaged by the vendor’s late father, John Pierce Lane. Lane was born in Oxford on 3rd April 1920. In the late 1930's he joined the Territorial Army and was called up to the regulars at the outbreak of war in 1939. He was in the artillery with the Northumberland Hussars. In June 1944, now with the officer rank of Captain, he participated in the allied invasion of France landing on Gold Beach in Normandy. Over the course of the next many months, he fought through northern France and into Belgium (the Battle of The Ardennes), then on into Holland with direct involvement in the Battle of Arnhem. Finally, he was part of the allied push into Germany resulting in German surrender and the end of the war. He remained in Germany for some months engaged in settlement, restructuring and social rebuilding work before finally returning to England for de-mob in 1946. He returned home with the three other daggers/knives, which he acquired towards the very end of the war in Germany

Third Reich N.C.O. dress bayonet, 24cm blade by W.K.C., plated hilt with working mortise button, black chequered grips with badge of the Prussian Guards on one side, badge comprises a sunburst with an eagle in the centre surrounds by the motto 'Suum Cuique' - (To each their own), in its scabbard and frog, 41cm overall Salvaged by the vendor’s late father, John Pierce Lane. Lane was born in Oxford on 3rd April 1920. In the late 1930's he joined the Territorial Army and was called up to the regulars at the outbreak of war in 1939. He was in the artillery with the Northumberland Hussars. In June 1944, now with the officer rank of Captain, he participated in the allied invasion of France landing on Gold Beach in Normandy. Over the course of the next many months, he fought through northern France and into Belgium (the Battle of The Ardennes), then on into Holland with direct involvement in the Battle of Arnhem. Finally, he was part of the allied push into Germany resulting in German surrender and the end of the war. He remained in Germany for some months engaged in settlement, restructuring and social rebuilding work before finally returning to England for de-mob in 1946. He returned home with this and two other daggers/knives, which he acquired towards the very end of the war in Germany.

THE POULTRY CLUB; A Hallmarked Silver Medallion, allover high relief design, reverse states "THE POULTRY CLUB" "founded 1977" engraved cartouche "NELSON SHOW" "PRESENTED TO F.BROWN 1928", another with vacant cartouche, both in original "J.A.RESTALL, JEWELLER, SILVERSMITH&MEDALLIST" "BIRMINGHAM" fitted cases, another similar, together with a small collection of military related items, including a boxed Festival of Britain crown piece, two RAF cap badges, US Army Air Force pilot wings style badge, two matchbox covers/holders, etc

A collection of 19th century and later military collectables. Including papers, books, badge, a helmet, WWI handwritten and typed 'Secret' orders in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' envelopes, WWII army instruction pamphlets, notebooks, maps, aerial photographs, etc.

A C.M.G. mounted group of four miniature dress medals representative of those worn by Brigadier-General C. W. Clark, Royal Garrison Artillery The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s badge, silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves, mounted as worn on a Spink, Piccadilly wearing pin, extremely fine A C.B.E mounted group of four miniature dress medals representative of those worn by Colonel C. E. T. Rolland, Royal Artillery The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type, breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, mounted as worn on a Spink, Piccadilly wearing pin and housed in a contemporary Spink & Son Ltd., fitted case, extremely fine A D.S.O. mounted group of three miniature dress medals representative of those worn by Major G. R. de la C. Corbett, Royal garrison Artillery Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold (18ct) and enamel, with integral top riband bar; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine An M.C. mounted group of five miniature dress medals representative of those worn by the Reverend W. Drury, Army Chaplains’ Department Military Cross, G.V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Transvaal, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902; 1914 Star and clasp; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves, mounted on modern ribands, nearly extremely fine (16) £180-£220 --- C. W. Clark was born in Oxton, Birkenhead, and was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1885 and served in India, Malta and Gibraltar, before being appointed Private Secretary and Aide de Camp to the Governor of Trinidad in 1893. Advanced Lieutenant-Colonel in 1913, he served during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 August 1915, and was Brigadier-General, Heavy Artillery, Headquarters, 15/Army Corps. For his services during the Great War he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 4 January 1917 and 15 May 1917) and was appointed a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1917. He retired in 1922 and died on 21 November 1944. Charles Edward Tulloch Rolland was born on 28 November 1874 in Madras, India, the son of Colonel Alexander Tulloch Rolland of the Madras Staff Corps. Emulating his father, he was Commissioned on 16 December 1893 and promoted to full Colonel on 3 June 1921. Whilst serving as Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel during the Great War he was seconded to the Research Department on 19 June 1916, and for his services he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (London Gazette 3 June 1919). He was appointed a Member of the Ordnance Committee on retirement on 1 January 1926. Garnet Robert de la Cour Corbett served with the 206th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War, and for his services was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette 3 June 1918). The Reverend William Drury was born in Burton on 19 June 1876 and was educated at Christ’s Hospital and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Ordained a Priest at Worcester in 1900, he was employed as Acting Chaplain to the Forces during the Boer War and was appointed Chaplain to the Forces at Woolwich, Singapore, Aldershot and Crownhill. Raised Deputy Chaplain General 1916-18, he was three times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 22 June 1915, 4 January 1917, 15 May 1917) and later served as Chaplain to the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, from 1918-23. He died at Binstead Rectory on 24 October 1943. Sold with copied research.

Three: Driver Wheeler G. Fisk, Remount Department, Army Service Corps 1914 Star (TS-791 Dvr: Whlr: G. Fisk. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (TS-791 Dvr. G. Fisk. A.S.C.) very fine and an unusual rank (3) £70-£90 --- George Fisk, a Wheeler from Marylebone, London, attested, aged 40, into the Remount Department of the Army Service Corps on 13 August 1914 for service during the Great War. He served on the Western Front from 5 October 1914 to 28 December 1914 afterwards serving at Home until 31 December 1915 when he was discharged as a consequence of sickness. He was awarded a Silver War Badge, No. 119591. Sold with copied Medal Index Card and copied Silver War Badge roll extract.

Family Group: British War Medal 1914-20 (2. Lieut. J. E. Griffiths) contained in an unrelated velvet lined leatherette case; together with silver plated photograph frame with studio portrait of Second Lieutenant Jack Griffiths, in uniform, frame with applied silver plated Gloucestershire Regiment cap badge (frame size 110mm x 204mm); together with a matching silver plated photograph frame, with studio portrait in uniform, of his brother Second Lieutenant William George Griffiths, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, with applied silver plated Royal Welsh Fusiliers cap badge, some polishing loss to silver plating on photo frames, otherwise good very fine (lot) £100-£140 --- John ‘Jack’ Enos Griffiths was born in 1893, the second son of John Griffiths, a ship owner and coal exporter who lived at Gnoll Park Road, Neath. Educated at Taunton School along with his younger brother William, he was a talented sportsman and captained the school cricket XI in both 1912 and 1913. After returning to Neath to join the family business he played rugby for the Y.M.C.A. and represented Neath R.F.C. at full back at least once in the 1913-14 season. He also turned out regularly for the Neath Cricket Club. He attested for service on the same day as his younger brother in December 1915, and after training in the Inns of Court O.T.C., in November 1917 he was commissioned into the Gloucestershire Regiment. Posted o the 2/5th Battalion, on 23 April 1918 his battalion launched a successful attack on a position called Bacquerolles Farm. The German retaliatory bombardment caused a number of casualties and Jack was one of four officers killed. He is buried in the St Venant Robecq Road British Cemetery, France. Sold with a silver mounted presentation cricket ball, silver band (no hallmarks) engraved: ‘Taunton School 1910. Average Ball won by Jack Griffiths who also won the average Bat’; and an original photographic image of Jack at Taunton School. William George Griffiths was born in 1896, the youngest of three sons to John Griffiths. Along with his older brother ‘Jack’ he was educated at Taunton School where, like his older brother, he excelled at sport. He spent a year in the school’s Officer Training Corps and after leaving studied mining engineering, with the intention of following his father into the coal exporting trade. He attested for military service alongside his brother in December 1915 and after a brief period in the Reserve and the Inns of Court O.T.C., was accepted for a temporary commission in the army. In July 1917 he landed at Alexandria to join 5th Battalion the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, in the 53rd Welsh Division, Egyptian Expeditionary Force. On 9 March 1918 his battalion was ordered to capture a position on Cairn Hill, adjacent to Tell ‘Asur. William was the only officer of 5th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers to be killed in the assault. He is buried in the Jerusalem War Cemetery. Both brothers are commemorated on the Taunton School War Memorial and the Neath Town War Memorial. Sold with a Great War period British Officer’s Marching Compass by Sinclair, London (lacking leather case) but contained in retailers box of Sir John Bennett, 65 Cheapside; vintage ‘sports kit’ comprised of white sports shorts and ‘Sportsman’ brand cricket jumper, with dark and pale blue banding, retailed by A. Calder of Cardiff, with sewn in name label ‘Griffiths’.

An Order of St. John group of seven awarded to Corporal W. J. Foster, Preston Corps, St. John Ambulance Brigade, later Sergeant, Royal Army Medical Corps The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silver and enamel; St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (529 Pte. W. J. Foster. Preston Corps.); 1914-15 Star (42522, Sjt. W. J. Foster. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (42522 Sjt. W. J. Foster. R.A.M.C.); Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Cpl. W. J. Foster.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, with three Additional Award Bars, and a ‘5 Years Service’ clasp (Corp. Walter James Foster. (Hdqrs. Div: Preston Corps S.J.A.B.) 1914) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (7) £300-£400 --- Walter J. Foster served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 December 1914.

Six: Captain W. C. Aumayer, Devonshire Regiment, attached King’s Own Malta Regiment 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (5612495 W.O. Cl. 2. W. C. Aumayer. Devon.) unit officially corrected on last, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (6) £160-£200 --- William Charles Aumayer was born in Kennington, London in 1903. A Labourer by occupation he attested for the Regular Army on 12 June 1922 and was posted to the 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment at Devonport on 29 September 1922. Transferring to the 2nd Battalion, he served with them in India from 25 January 1923, before returning home with his battalion via Aden in 1927. A keen sportsman he successfully completed several courses of instruction before embarking with the 2nd Battalion for Malta on 16 July 1938 and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in October 1940. Appointed to an Emergency Commission whilst in Malta as a Lieutenant on 5 December 1940, Aumayer was attached as Acting Captain to the King’s Own Malta Regiment in September 1941, and serving with them during the Siege of Malta. Returning home on 21 October 1943 he was medically boarded before being placed on sick leave; a period of various hospital admissions followed before he relinquished his commission on account of disability with the rank of Captain on 24 February 1945. He died at Plymouth on 26 May 1956, aged 53. Sold with the recipient’s riband bars; various related badges including an officer’s King’s Own Malta Regiment cap badge; and a pewter presentation tankard, engraved ‘Open Obstacle Race 1932 Winner L/Sgrt. Aumayer 2nd Devon Regt.’; with two photographic images of the recipient, copied service records, and other research. Note: The official records with the lot clearly indicate that the recipient was not entitled to the Italy Star; given that this medal group was acquired by the present vendor directly from the recipient’s family, presumably the Italy Star was self-awarded.

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. awarded to Captain A. G. W. Compton, Royal Army Medical Corps Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse contemporarily engraved ‘Captain A. G. W. Compton. Royal Army Medical Corps. 9 May 1915.’, in Royal Mint case of issue, very fine £500-£700 --- M.C. London Gazette 14 January 1916. Albert George William Compton was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Special Reserve on 6 August 1914, and served during the Great War on the Western Front attached to the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards from 9 October 1914. Wounded in action, he was awarded the Military Cross, and subsequently received a Silver War Badge.

Six: Colonel E. Roseveare, Devonshire Regiment, who served with the St John Ambulance Brigade during the South Africa War 1899-1900 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 copy clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (191 Sply: Ofcr. E. Roseveare. St. John Amb: Bde:); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. E. Roseveare.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Capt. E. Roseveare. Devon. R.); Defence Medal; Territorial Decoration G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919, with integral top riband bar, mounted court-style as worn; together with a Devonshire Regiment Old Comrades label badge and an ARP silver label badge, edge bruise to QSA, light contact marks, generally very fine and better (6) £500-£700 --- Provenance: Glendining’s, March 1994. M.I.D. London Gazette 18 May 1918: ‘For operations against the Mahsuds, March-August 1917’ Edwin Roseveare was born in Plymouth in 1873 and was educated at Queen’s College, Taunton. As a Sergeant in the Newton Abbot Division St. John Ambulance Brigade, attached 20th Field Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps, he volunteered for service in South Africa and served as a Supply Officer in 1900. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 2nd (Prince of Wales’s) Volunteer Battalion, Devonshire Regiment on 29 January 1902, he was appointed Captain of the 5th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment on the formation of the Territorial Army on 1 April 1908. Embodied for Great War service with the 5th Battalion, Roseveare embarked for India on the Staff of Wessex Division and was appointed Railway Transport Officer at Lahore on 14 February 1916. Appointed Assistant Director Railway Transport, Waziristan Field Force, on 13 June 1917, for his valuable services rendered in Waziristan and on the North West Frontier he was Mentioned in Despatches. Awarded the Territorial Decoration the following year (London Gazette 15 July 1919), he was disembodied in London on 13 April 1920 and was restored to the establishment of the 5th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Appointed Lieutenant Colonel in command of the 5th Battalion on 1 September 1921, Roseveare relinquished command on 1 September 1925 and was promoted Brevet Colonel on transfer to the Reserve of Officers. During the Second World War he was appointed Divisional Warden ARP, Division 4, Millbay, Plymouth, serving in the heart of Plymouth Docks during the blitz. Subsequently President of the 5th Devons Old Comrades Association, he died at Plymouth on 30 May 1957, aged 84. Sold with a two handled silver presentation cup (100mm diameter x 90mm height), engraved ‘5th (P.O.W.) Devon Regt. Rifle Club Officers Cup 1911 Won By Capt. E. Roseveare’; and copied service records and other research.

A Great War ‘Salonika operations’ M.B.E. group of six awarded to Captain and Quartermaster R. Ashton, 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, with Garrard, London, case of issue; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, unofficial rivets between first and second clasps (11303 Cpl. R. Ashton. R.A.M.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (11303 Serjt: R. Ashton. R.A.M.C.); 1914 Star (11303 S.Mjr. R. Ashton. R.A.M.C.); British War Medal 1914-19 (Q.M & Capt. R. Ashton); Victory Medal 1914-19, erased, mounted court-style for display purposes, light contact marks to Boer war medals, generally very fine (6) £260-£300 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 12 December 1919. Robert Ashton initially served during the Boer War as a Corporal at No. 15 Stationary Hospital at Heidelberg. Equipped with 150 beds, it operated from 13 July 1900 to 31 May 1902, one of 42 Stationary Hospitals which proved instrumental in saving the lives of wounded men and those suffering from disease. Advanced Sergeant Major on 10 August 1914, he served during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 August 1914 and was appointed to a commission as Honorary Lieutenant and Quartermaster in the R.A.M.C. on 5 June 1915. Advanced Captain and Quartermaster, for his valuable service as part of the British Salonica Force he was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. Sold with copied research.

Five: Private Isaac Death, Seaforth Highlanders Afghanistan 1878-80, 4 clasps, Peiwar Kotal, Charasia, Kabul, Kandahar (1828 Pte I. Death. 1/Sea: Hdrs.) later naming impressed in small capitals; Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (No. 1828 Private Isaac Death 72nd Highlanders) later engraved naming; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (1828 Pte I. Death. 1/Sea: Hdrs.) later naming impressed in small capitals; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1828 Pte I. Death. 1/Sea: Hdrs.) later naming impressed in small capitals; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882 (1828 Pte. I. Death 72nd Hdrs.) later naming impressed in small capitals, all duplicate medals issued in 1917, good very fine (5) £400-£500 --- Isaac Death was born in the Parish of Edwardston, Sudbury, Suffolk, and attested for the 20th Foor at Colchester on 22 November 1869, aged 22 years 10 months, a labourer by trade. He served with the 2/20th Foot intil August 1870 when he transferred to the 72nd Foot. He reengaged to complete 21 years in January 1878, was permitted to continue in the service beyong 21 years, November 1890, and was discharged on 22 April 1891. During his time in India he suffered greatly from malaria, despite which he lived into old age. Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts which confirm duplicates issued on 19 July 1917, and sent c/o Hon. Secretary Scottish Naval and Military Veterans Residence, Whitford House, Edinburgh; together with copy bonnet badge and unattributed locket with husband and wife photographs.

Four: Driver J. S. Hughes, Army Service Corps 1914-15 Star (W-T4-037128. Dvr. J. S. Hughes. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (WT4-037128. Dvr. J. S. Hughes. A.S.C.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (John Hughes) mounted court-style for display purposes; together with a Glamorgan Special Constabulary lapel badge, good very fine (4) £70-£90 --- John S. Hughes attested for the Army Service Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 4 December 1915 attached to the 130th (St. John’s Ambulance) Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Sold with copied service record and other research.

The unique ‘Aden operations 1903-04’ D.C.M. awarded to Lance-Corporal, later Company Quartermaster Sergeant, C. E. Dicker, Hampshire Regiment, who was subsequently wounded at Gallipoli in June 1915 Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (4715. Lce. Corpl. C. E. Dicker, 1st. Bn. Hamps. Regt.) officially engraved in running script, cleaned, nearly very fine, and a scarce instance of a gallantry award being awarded for an action where there was no corresponding campaign medal £1,200-£1,600 --- Five gallantry awards were awarded for services during the operations in connection with the protection of the Aden Boundary Commission, 1903-4: Four Distinguished Service Orders; and a single Distinguished Conduct Medal (to Dicker). D.C.M. London Gazette 14 April 1905: ‘In recognition of his gallant conduct during the operations in connection with the protection of the Aden Boundary Commission, 1903-4.’ Charles Edwin Dicker was born in Fareham, Hampshire, in 1875 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment at Winchester on 8 November 1895. He served with the 1st Battalion in India from 25 February 1898 to 13 January 1903, before proceeding to Aden in January 1903. The Hampshire Regiment in Aden 1903-04 ‘Britain first occupied Aden in 1839 and over the following decades extended its authority over the coastal tribes from Sheik Saad at the entrance to the Red Sea eastwards. Turkish influence also extended into Southern Arabia, and in 1872 the Turks occupied the Yemen, bringing them to the ill-defined border of the British sphere of influence. In an attempt to regularise the situation an Anglo-Turkish Boundary Commission was set up in 1902, but made little progress. The Turks then occupied Jalela and other villages on the British side of the boundary while, at the same time, tribesmen in the Aden hinterland became increasingly turbulent, intercepting mail and generally causing trouble. To counter these threats, three companies of the 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment under Major Lewis Munro were sent from India to Aden in January 1903. Headquarters and two further companies followed at the end of the month. By early February all five companies had been dispatched 70 miles inland from the port of Aden to Dtahala, the major town in the disputed area. As the British advanced the Turks withdrew into their own territory, and for a time it seemed no fighting would occur. Two Hampshire companies were sent to occupy Darrakan, west of Dthala, but the place proved to be rife with malaria and several men died before the units withdrew. Meanwhile, Arab unrest intensified, fuelled by a dislike of foreign troops on their soil. Tribesmen raided small convoys and sniped at the army camps, prompting the British to instigate punitive operations. These took the form of small columns sent out to destroy the offending Arab villages and to exact retribution. However, the columns found themselves operating in desolate country with little water and the Hampshire men were relieved when most moved back to Aden in May 1903. Aden, too, proved intolerably hot and officers who kept ponies had to pay for their water. Meanwhile, men who chose to bathe to keep cool had to beware of sharks. Those troops that remained in the Aden hinterland were occupied mainly in building roads and escorting surveying parties. However, they were also involved in further fierce skirmishes with Arab tribesmen which inevitably led to more punitive expeditions. The most serious fighting, against the particularly troublesome Kotaibis, took place in October 1903. A 1,500-strong Kotaibi force attacked a British post at Sulaiq, held by a small party of some British Indian soldiers. Two companies of the 1st Hampshire plus the headquarters were on their way from Aden to Dthala when the attack on Sulaiq took place and 100 men under Captain Arthur Beckwith were detached to join the relief column. This force successfully dislodged the Kotaibis around Sulaiq. Beckwith’s party, brought up to 250 rifles by the arrival of another detachment under Lieutenant Peter Connellan, then joined a mobile column which pursued the Kotaibis into the hills, capturing the village of Kariati in a night attack on 2nd November. The column then spent several days in punitive operations, mainly blowing up towers, and over the following week inflicted a series of defeats on the Kotaibis. Several more villages were destroyed, but the Kotaibis, by now wary of engaging the British at close quarters, confined themselves to long distance sniping. Battalion headquarters remained at Dthala until the end of December when it shifted to El Mileh and from there in January to Musemir, a fever-stricken village of mud huts in Wadi Tiba. Malaria was rife and, despite daily doses of quinine, nearly everyone there contracted the disease. By the time the Hampshires returned to the coast again in February malaria had cost the battalion 30 men. In May 1904, when the battalion was medically inspected and the Medical Officer walked between the ranks and fell out men suffering from malaria, many were actually shaking with it as they stood. So it was without regret when, on 29 May 1904, the battalion’s five companies, ten officers and 424 other ranks left Aden for home.’ (The 1st Hampshire in Aden and Somaliland, 1903, Royal Hampshire Regiment refers). Appointed Lance-Corporal on 29 February 1904, for his services in Aden Dicker was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Promoted Corporal on 23 February 1907, he saw further service with the 2nd Battalion overseas in South Africa from 31 December 1908 to 6 December 1911; in Mauritius from 7 December 1911 to 6 December 1913; and in India from 7 December 1913 to 23 December 1914. Promoted Sergeant on 10 December 1910, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with gratuity per Army Order 99 of 1914. Appointed Company Quartermaster Sergeant on 4 May 1915, Dicker served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War in Gallipoli from the first day of the Gallipoli campaign, 25 April 1915, and was wounded by a gun shot wound to the left thigh at Gallipoli on 19 June 1915. Further suffering shell shock at Gallipoli on 8 January 1916, he was hospitalised and, having returned home on 22 February 1916, was posted to the 3rd Battalion as Company Quartermaster Sergeant on 31 March 1916. He was discharged, no longer physically fit for war service, on 21 November 1917, after 22 years and 14 days’ service, and was awarded a Silver War Badge, no. 271977. Sold with copied service papers and other research.

Three: Acting Corporal S. H. D. George, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Serbian Medal for Zeal for his services in Salonika British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (105438 A. Cpl. S. H. George. R.A.M.C.); Serbia, Kingdom, Medal for Zeal, silver, mounted for wear; together with the recipient’s related miniature awards, nearly extremely fine (3) £100-£140 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 30 January 1919 (Salonika) Serbian Silver Medal for Zeal London Gazette 7 June 1919: 105438 Private (acting Corporal) Stuart Harry Douglas George, Royal Army Medical Corps (Tufnell Park, N.) Sold with the recipient’s R.A.M.C. cap badge and riband bar; and four unrelated buttons.

African military cap badges, to include Regiment President Steyn Bloemfontein, King's Africa Rifles, Rhodesia Light Infantry, Northern Rhodesia Regiment, Rhodesia African Rifles, Royal West Africa Frontier Force etc.; together with further Malta, Falkland Island and Palestinian examples; a naval Mine Clearance Service cuff badge; various Home Guard, Women's Land Army, A.R.P. and other home front uniform badges/insignia etc.  Condition Report:Available upon request

India Army Military Police interest: WW2 British Indian Service Medal complete with ribbon: Bihar Military Police Blazer badge, collar dogs, shoulder title, cap badge, together with an Indian Army Sgt Majors Swagger Stick with plated metal cap bearing the India Army Lion insignia, etc.

Britsh Army Cap Badge collection to include: WW1 Machine Gun Corps: West Yorkshire Regt: York & Lancs Regt x 2: Lincolnshire Regt & Royal Lincolnshire Regt: Leinster Regt: 19th Princess Of Wales Own Hussars: WW1 Tank Corps: 17th/21st Lancers: Notts & Derbys: Hertfordshire Regt: Glamorganshire Regt: Kings Shropshire Light Infantry: Lancashire Fusiliers: Royal Fusiliers: Royal Warwickshire Regt: Essex Regt: Kings Own: Royal Artillery with another post war Kings Crown Beret size badge: The Buffs: Lincolnshire Yeomanry: Royal Scots: Black Watch a/f: Highland Light Infantry: Devons: The Perth Regt: along with Stybrite badges for Dorests, RAF, Staffs, RAOC, Irish Rangers etc. Plus collar dogs buttons, trade badges, etc.

The fine K.C.B., Army of India, Baltic and Crimea group of seven awarded to Admiral C. H. M. Buckle, Royal Navy The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge, 18 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1873, and breast star by Garrard & Co., silver with gold and enamel centre, fitted with gold retaining pin; Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (C. H. M. Buckle, Mid.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Capt. C. H. M. Buckle, H.M.S. Valorous.) contemporary engraved naming; Baltic 1854-55 (Capt. C. H. M. Buckle, H.M.S. Valorous.) contemporary engraved naming; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 4th Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, mounted on a contemporary bar as worn, fitted with gold pin, generally good very fine or better (7) £8,000-£10,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Morton & Eden, December 2003. C.B. (Military) London Gazette 10 July 1855 K.C.B. (Military) London Gazette 29 May 1875. Claude Henry Mason Buckle was the second son of Admiral Mathew Buckle. He entered Portsmouth Naval College in 1817 and first went to sea as a volunteer aboard H.M.S. Heron in 1819. During the Burmese War he served on H.M.S. Liffey at the capture of Rangoon in 1824 and in other naval encounters, hence the Ava clasp on his Army of India medal. Subsequently he served in various ships on the South American and West Indian stations and was Flag-Lieutenant in the San Josef under Sir William Hargood. In 1840-1 he studied the theory and construction of the marine steam engine at Robert Napier's Vulcan Foundry in Glasgow and was subsequently given command of H.M.S. Growler, a new steam sloop. On the Growler he served on the African station in the suppression of the slave trade. His account (to Commander William Jones, Senior Officer, H.M.S. Penelope) of an encounter between the Growler's pinnace, under Lieutenant John Lodwick, and a Spanish slave ship off Shebar in 1845, in which two men were killed, includes the following commendation: "I trust that the successful exertions of a handful of brave men in preventing several hundred slaves from being carried off will meet with your approval and I earnestly hope will also induce you to recommend Lieut. Lodwick to the favourable notice and considerations of My Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty". The Buckle Papers include a letter from Admiral J. Bullen (dated 1st February 1850) to Buckle's father, commenting: "I beg that you will receive my sincerest congratulations on the late noble brave and spirited conduct of your son against the Pirates on the Coast of Africa .....". In 1852 he was appointed Captain of the paddle steamer Valorous and on the outbreak of war with Russia proceeded to the Baltic. He was present at the first bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands when Valorous maintained fire for almost seven hours, taking part in the second attack and eventual capitulation of the town. He subsequently distinguished himself in the Black Sea. O’Byrne records that he ‘chased the Russian steamer "Vladimir" under the forts of Sebastopol, receiving their fire; assisted in defeating the Russian land attack on Eupatoria, and in the night attacks on the Quarantine Fort, Sebastopol; "Valorous" bore the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart at the attack and surrender of Kinburn (Crimean and Turkish Medals, 4th class of the Medjidjie); C.B. and K.C.B.; was gazetted on three occasions’. He was Captain Superintendent at Deptford Dockyard, 1857-63, subsequently promoted to Rear-Admiral on 14 November 1863 and placed on the retirement list on 24 March 1866. He was appointed Vice-Admiral on the retired list on 1 April 1870 and Admiral on 22 January 1877. See Lot 324 for the recipient’s miniature medals.

The Victorian gold C.B. group of four awarded to Deputy Surgeon-General G. E. Farrell, Indian Medical Service, Surgeon of Shannon’s Naval Brigade and later of the 5th Gurkhas during the Second Afghan War The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (Military) C.B., breast badge, 18 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1880, lacking swivel-ring straight suspension and now fitted with fluted silver-gilt ring and gold ribbon buckle; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Relief of Lucknow (Asst. Surgn. G. Farrell.); India General Service 1854-94, 4 clasps, North West Frontier, Jowaki 1877-8, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Surgn. G. Farrell, 2nd Punjab Infy.); Afghanistan 1878-80, 3 clasps, Peiwar Kotal, Charasia, Kabul (Surg-Maj. G. Farrell, 5th Goorkha) attractively toned, generally good very fine (4) £5,000-£7,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Brian Ritchie Collection, March 2005. C.B. London Gazette 29 May 1886. George Elias Farrell was born in Dublin on 22 October 1831 and trained at Steven’s Hospital, Dublin. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Honourable East India Company’s Service on 4 August 1854, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Ireland) in 1856. He embarked for India aboard the S.S. Nubia and landed at Calcutta on 17 December 1856. After duty at the General Hospital, Calcutta, he was ordered to report to the Surgeon of the 20th N.I. at Benares in February 1857, but the following month was attached to the 2nd Company, 3rd Battalion, Bengal Artillery, and proceeded with a detachment of that unit to Dinapore on 12 April. He next returned to Benares and was attached to the Loodianah Sikhs and was placed in medical charge of all European troops at the station. On 19 July, with Bengal in revolt, he was ordered to Calcutta and shortly after his arrival was assigned to accompany the second party of H.M.S. Shannon’s Naval Brigade which, 120-strong, left Calcutta for Allahabad in the river steamer Benares on 18 September, under Lieutenant Vaughan. Vaughan’s party caught up with the rest of the Naval Brigade on 20 October and marched into Allahabad fort with the ship’s band playing at the head of the column. During the Second Relief of Lucknow he found a steady demand for his professional skills. Of the total of 553 officers and men landed from Shannon, four officers and 100 men were killed or died from wounds or disease. One officer and 17 men were invalided, and a further seven officers and 51 men wounded in action. Following the relief of Lucknow, Farrell was sent with the sick, wounded, and non-combatant members of the Residency garrison to Allahabad, where he was appointed to do duty at the General Hospital until February 1858, when he was ordered to Mean Meer in the Lahore Circle for general duty. He was next attached to the 2nd Punjab Infantry on the Frontier and in April 1860 took part in the expedition against the Mahsud Waziris under Brigadier Neville Chamberlain. Service with Sam Browne’s Cavalry, interrupted by a spell with the 2nd Punjab Infantry in 1865, followed until 1868, when on 4 August, he was promoted Surgeon. Farrell became Surgeon Major in 1873, and in 1877-78 took part in the punitive expedition against the Jowaki Afridis. During the Second Afghan War he served with the 5th Gurkhas in the Kurram Valley Field Force, under Major-General F. S. Roberts, and was mentioned in despatches for services at Peiwar Kotal and thanked in orders. He continued with the force to Ali Khel and the Shutargardan Pass and returned with the force to Kurram, via the southern route and the Mangiar defile where the rearguard and baggage were suddenly attacked by the Mangal Pathans. The situation was saved by the ‘steadiness and gallantry of the 5th Gurkhas’ who for five hours repulsed every attack. Two officers were severely injured in the encounter, Captain Goad, a transport officer, and Captain Powell of the 5th Gurkhas, both of whom subsequently died of their wounds. During the second campaign of the war, Farrell served again under Roberts, now commanding the Kabul Field Force. On 6 October 1879 Farrell was present with the forward elements of the Field Force which encountered the army of Kabul at Charasia, and put it to rout. Farrell entered Kabul with Roberts’ force a few days later and subsequently served in operations around Kabul and in the defence of the Sherpur cantonment, earning another mention in despatches. Promoted Brigade-Surgeon in December 1883, he was advanced to Deputy Surgeon-General and created a Companion of the Bath in 1886. He last saw active service in 1886-87 during the Burma Campaign. Farrell retired from the Indian Medical Department in September 1893, and died in Dublin on 28 April 1899. Sold with copied research.

The unique Victorian gold C.B. and Royal Visit to India C.S.I. group of nine awarded to Vice-Admiral Hon. H. Carr Glyn, Royal Navy, who served with distinction in command of a gunboat flotilla on the Danube in the summer of 1854, gaining special promotion to Commander and one of just two Turkish General Service Medals in gold awarded to Naval officers; then, on being appointed A.D.C. to Admiral Lord Lyons in the Crimea, he was attached to Lord Raglan’s staff at the battle of the Alma, thereby becoming one of only two Naval officers to gain entitlement to the relevant clasp The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 18 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1875, complete with gold ribbon buckle; The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, C.S.I., Companion’s breast badge, gold and enamels, with central onyx cameo of a youthful Queen Victoria, the motto of the order set in rose diamonds, suspended from a five-pointed silver star and gold bar suspension, complete with gold top suspension; Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Alma, Sebastopol (H. C. Glyn. Lieut. H.M.S. Britannia) contemporary engraved naming, clasps attached in reverse order; Ottoman Empire, Medal of Iftihar 1855, gold; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed; Order of the Medjidie, 3rd Class neck badge, silver, gold and enamel; Portugal, Kingdom, Order of Aviz, breast star, silver-gilt, gold and enamels; International, Sovereign Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Rhodes & Malta, Knight of Honour and Devotion neck badge with trophy of arms suspension, silver-gilt and enamels; together with Prince of Wales’ Visit to India 1875-76, large silver medal, the edge officially numbered ‘246’, and a small silver medallet for the same, minor enamel chips to the Turkish and Portuguese orders, otherwise generally very fine or better (10) £10,000-£14,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. C.B. London Gazette 29 May 1875. C.S.I. London Gazette 8 March 1876. Henry Carr Glyn was born on 17 April 1829, the fourth son of George Carr, 1st Lord Wolverton, and entered the Royal Navy as a First Class Volunteer aboard America in March 1844. He subsequently saw extensive service on the Pacific, East Indies and China Stations, and in 1850, in the latter theatre, under Commander Edmund Lyons, he distinguished himself in the suppression of piracy. On one occasion, in fact, he came prominently under the notice of the authorities for his gallant conduct in boarding a pirate junk. During the engagement Captain Lyon’s Brig happened to sheer off from the pirate junk which had just been boarded, and young Carr Glyn, with his Commander, and about a dozen others, was left on board to fight the crew and take the ship, in which enterprise they were, after some heavy fighting, successful. On the outbreak of the Crimea War, Carr Glyn was appointed First Lieutenant of Britannia, the flagship of the Naval Commander in Chief, Vice-Admiral J. W. D. Dundas, and was subsequently chosen to command the small naval gunboat flotilla on the Danube. His orders were to assist the Turkish Army, together with a party of 30 English Sappers and 15 French Pioneers, in securing a bridgehead over the River Danube at Giugevo. Travelling by sea to Varna, the naval party then journeyed on horseback to Rhoustchouk, a distance of some 130 miles. They arrived on 10 July 1854 to find a Russian Army 70,000 strong, under Prince Gortschakaff, threatening a Turkish force of a few thousand men which had crossed the Danube and was now camped on the northern bank at Giurgevo. Having thus become separated from the main Turkish Army it was soon clear that the small force would be unable to withstand the impending Russian offensive. Immediately on arrival Carr Glyn, assisted by Midshipman His Serene Highness Prince Leiningen, took command of the few Turkish gun boats on the river and thrust them down a narrow loop stream which split away from the main river above Giurgevo. By this action he placed the boats between the two armies and, though under heavy fire from the north bank, maintained his position and relieved the pressure on the small isolated Turkish advance party. Prince Gortschakaff, uncertain as to the strength of the newly arrived British force, decided against an immediate attack. While he hesitated, the naval party assisted the sappers in constructing a pontoon bridge, 787 yards long, using 55 commandeered boats. The bridge was completed by 10 August and the main Turkish Army, under Omar Pasha, was now in a position to cross the Danube River and to counter the Russian threat. In conclusion to this spirited affair it might be claimed that Carr Glyn’s actions had been entirely responsible for thwarting the Czar’s intention of invading Bulgaria. Certainly he was generously rewarded, being mentioned in despatches and promoted to Commander. He was also awarded the 3rd Class Order of Medjidie and was given a Gold Turkish General Service Medal, the latter being one of only two awarded to British Naval officers, Midshipman His Serene Highness Prince Leningen receiving the other. Admiral Lord Lyons, being much satisfied with Carr Glyn’s conduct, appointed him to his staff as A.D.C., and in this capacity he was seconded to attend on Lord Raglan and was present at the battle of Alma on 24 September 1854. In consequence he received the Crimea Medal with ‘Alma’ clasp, one of only two such distinctions issued to Naval officers; see Clowes, Volume 6, page 432. Following the Crimea War, Glyn saw varied service off the West Coast of Africa and in the Mediterranean, and he was advanced to Captain in August 1861 after being commended by Commodore Seymour for his valuable assistance in conveying troops to New Zealand in the Miranda. In 1870 he assumed command of the ironclad Warrior – today residing in all her glory at Portsmouth – and in March 1874, after being appointed an A.D.C. to Queen Victoria, he was ordered to ‘meet and attend the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia while in England.’ (his service record, refers). He was appointed a C.B. On appointment to the command of Seraphis in 1875, he conveyed the Prince of Wales to India for the Royal Visit. In recognition of these services, he was created a C.S.I. in 1876, and also received the large oval Silver Commemorative Medal issued to senior dignitaries. Carr Glyn became Rear-Admiral in September 1877 and Vice-Admiral in June 1882. He died suddenly from an attack of peritonitis in February 1884. Sold with copied record of service and other research.

The important Victorian K.C.B. group of nine awarded to General Sir Henry Tuson, Colonel Commandant, Royal Marine Artillery, who commanded the R.M.A. in Egypt in 1882, and all Marine Forces during the Sudan campaign at the battles of El-Teb and Tamaai The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge in 18 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1881, and breast star in silver with gold and enamel centre, the star lacking one central crown fitment; China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860, unnamed as issued; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 3 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, El-Teb_Tamaai (Lt. Col: H. B. Tuson. R.M.A.); Jubilee 1887, clasp, 1897, silver; Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmanie, 3rd Class neck badge, silver, gold and enamels, lacking cravat loop and mounted for display as a breast badge; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882; Germany, Sax-Coburg-Gotha, Silver Wedding Anniversary Medal 1899, these last six mounted for display; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 3rd class neck badge by Stopin, Paris, silver, gold and enamel, lacking tips of three points; Germany, Saxon Duchies, Ernestine House Order, 2nd type, Commander First Class set of insignia, comprising neck badge, gold and enamels, and breast star in silver with gold and enamel centre, some enamel damage to wreath in this, unless otherwise described, generally very fine or better (11) £10,000-£14,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Henry Brasnell Tuson was born at Boulogne in about 1836, son of Lieutenant James Tuson, R.N., and joined the Royal Marine Artillery as a 2nd Lieutenant in April 1854. He served in China in 1858-60, and commanded a detachment on an expedition against pirates from 26 August to 5 September, 1858 (mentioned in despatches), and was present at the capture and destruction of 100 junks and 236 guns; was also present at the attack on the Peiho forts on 25 June 1859, the capture of the Taku Forts in 1860, and took possession of the forts and city of Tientsin; was employed in the Flotilla in September 1860 until the notification of the treaty and return of the Army to Tientsin. He commanded the Royal Marine Artillery of the Battalion of Royal Marines sent out to South Africa for special service in the Zulu war of 1879, but did not see active service. He served as Lieutenant-Colonel in command of the R.M.A. Battalion throughout the whole campaign in Egypt in 1882, and commanded a combined force of R.M.A. and R.M.L.I. at the reconnaissance in force at Mallaha Junction (mentioned in despatches). He afterwards commanded the R.M.A. Battalion in the actions at El Magfar, Mahsaneh, Kassassin 28th August (despatches), Kassassin 9th September, and Tel-el-Kebir, also at the occupation of Cairo and Aboukir Forts (C.B., Brevet of Colonel, extra ADC to the Queen, Medjidie 3rd class). He received his Egyptian medal and clasp from the Queen in person at Windsor Castle on 21 November 1882. Tuson commanded the Royal Marine forces of the Mediterranean, East Indian and China squadron during the naval and military operations in the Eastern Sudan, and at the battles of El-Teb and Tamaai, the advance on and relief of Tokar, and the advance on Tamanieb. He was twice mentioned in naval and military dispatches, his services officially acknowledged by the Lords of the Admiralty, and publicly made known at the Headquarters of the four Divisions of Royal Marines (Suakin and El-Teb-Tamaai clasps, Osmanieh 3rd class). Advanced to Colonel Commandant R.M. in November 1886, Major-General in May 1888, and Lieutenant-General in August 1893, he was promoted to K.C.B. in May 1895. His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Duke of Edinburgh), being anxious to mark, upon his accession to the Duchies, his long association with the corps of Royal Marines, of which he was Honorary Colonel, conferred upon Tuson, as Deputy-Adjutant-General of the corps, the decoration of the Saxe-Ernestine Order, 1st Class, in November 1893. Tuson was placed on the retired list, on account of age, on 30 April 1901, and died at Kingston-upon-Thames on 21 December 1916.

‘It is difficult to do adequate justice to an Admiral of the Fleet who was born nearly a century ago and whose life covered such a tremendous range: at sea in the pre-Dreadnought Navy; served in both World Wars; designed, put together and fought a successful major sea action with the most advanced naval weapon of the age; who spent eight months in a Bolshevik prison but 25 years later received the Order of Suvorov, 1st Class, at the hand of Stalin himself; who commanded three Fleets in war; was Controller of the Royal Navy and First Sea Lord; a member of the House of Lords; who made no great mistakes nor great enemies and was loved and respected by all with whom he came into contact … He never boasted of anything and it would be hard to find a man of his talents and position so totally devoid of pretension and pomposity, so unconscious of rank or position, and so very human and endowed with the common touch. He never sought publicity but when it came his way he would use it to promote the Navy, not himself … He had a keen sense of humour and an enormous sense of fun. Like all great leaders he had a streak of independence, a touch of rebel, backed by a dogged determination from which he would not be deflected so long as he was convinced he was right … ’ So stated Admiral Sir Henry Leach, G.C.B., at a Service of Thanksgiving for Admiral of the Fleet Baron Fraser of North Cape, at Westminster Abbey on 8 April 1981. The nationally important Second World War G.C.B., K.B.E. group of nineteen awarded to Admiral of The Fleet Baron Fraser of North Cape, who orchestrated the destruction of the Scharnhorst and signed the Japanese Surrender on behalf of Great Britain in September 1945 Such momentous achievements and historic occasions aside, Fraser had long before gained the glowing approbation of his seniors, from his stoic endurance of seven shocking months as a prisoner of the Bolsheviks at Baku in 1920, after being captured on a secret mission, to his pioneering work as Controller of the Royal Navy in 1939-42: in the latter post he masterminded the ship building programme that won the Battle of the Atlantic and afterwards became the only British Admiral to devise a new weapons system, oversee its production, and then win a major sea battle with it The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, G.C.B. (Military) Knight Grand Cross set of insignia, comprising sash badge, silver-gilt and enamels, with gold centres; breast star, silver, with gold and enamel appliqué centre, with display sash; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Military) 2nd type, Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamels; 1914-15 Star (Lt. Commr. B. A. Fraser, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Commr. B. A. Fraser. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953; United States of America, Navy Distinguished Service Medal, gilt and enamels; France, Croix de Guerre, 1939, with palm; Denmark, Order of the Dannebrog, Grand Cross set of insignia, comprising sash Badge, Frederick IX, silver-gilt and enamels; breast star, silver-gilt and enamels, with display sash; France, 3rd Republic, Legion of Honour, Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; The Netherlands, Order of Orange Nassau, Grand Officer’s set of insignia, with swords, by Casa das Condecoracoes, Lisbon, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamels; Norway, Order of St. Olaf, 3rd type, Grand Cross set of insignia by Tostrup, Oslo, comprising sash badge with swords, gold and enamels; breast star without swords, silver, gold and enamels, with display sash; Soviet Russia, Order of Suvorov, 2nd type, 1st Class badge, gold, platinum, silver and enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘102’ and stamped Monetny Dvov, original screw-back fitting removed and replaced by a pin-fitting, mounted court-style as worn where applicable, enamel work chipped in places, especially on Legion of Honour which is also lacking its original loop suspension, otherwise generally very fine and better (24) £30,000-£40,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Spink, November 1998. G.C.B. London Gazette 5 January 1944: ‘For good services rendered in the pursuit and destruction of the Scharnhorst on 26 December 1943.’ K.B.E. London Gazette 1 July 1941. Denmark, Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog, not gazetted: Visit to Norway as First Sea Lord. France, Commander of the Legion of Honour and Croix de Guerre, not gazetted: For services to the Free French Naval Forces when C.-in-C. of the Home Fleet. The Netherlands, Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau London Gazette 19 January 1943: ‘For services to the Royal Netherlands Navy in the United Kingdom and the Far East.’ Norway, Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olaf London Gazette 13 January 1948: ‘For service to the Royal Norwegian Navy in the war.’ Soviet Russia, 1st Class of the Order of Suvorov London Gazette 29 February 1944: ‘For distinguished services in the action which resulted in the sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst.’ United States of America, Navy Distinguished Service Medal, not gazetted. Admiral of the Fleet Baron Fraser of North Cape, G.C.B., K.B.E. - ‘the victor of the Royal Navy’s last battleship action and Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful fleet Britain has ever sent to sea’ - was born Bruce Austin Fraser, the youngest son of General Alexander Fraser, C.B., R.E., in London on 5 February 1888. The General allotted his sons their respective careers shortly before his death in 1898, telling the older one he would join the Army and the younger, Bruce, that he would go into the Navy. Mrs. Fraser never thought of altering her husband’s choice, and in due course the boys went to Bradfield which offered both Army and Navy classes. In September 1902, the younger Fraser passed well into H.M.S. Britannia and on completing his Cadetship with distinction in January 1904, he was appointed a Midshipman in the Channel Fleet battleship Hannibal. Over the next seven years, amid Lord Fisher’s white-hot crusade for efficiency, he advanced steadily to the rank of Lieutenant, serving in a succession of battleships and destroyers in home waters. In 1911, having decided to specialise, he commenced the forbidding Long Gunnery Course at H.M.S. Excellent, Whale Island, where for ten months or more candidates were exhaustively examined on every subject from ballistics and dynamics to personal marksmanship with rifle and pistol. When the results of the Long Course were published in October 1912, Fraser emerged top of his class and carried off the Egerton Prize. Now ‘a man of mark in the branch of the Service in which promotion was regarded as most certain,’ he was next sent on the Advanced Gunnery Course at Greenwich and then returned to Whale Island as a Junior Instructor to produce, on the eve of the First World War, the Navy’s handbook on Director Firing. Yet, even though recognised as a leading exponent of modern Naval gunnery in 1914, he was destined to serve the first two years of the war far from the technical excellence of the Grand Fleet’s Battle Squadrons massed in Scapa Flow. In July 1914, he was appointed Gunnery Officer of the elderly light cruiser Minerva, and subsequently saw active service patrolling Akaba at the head of the Red Sea, landing agents, firing on forts, rescuin...

The unique Uganda Mutiny C.M.G. group of four awarded to Lieutenant C. W. Fowler, Royal Navy The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s, breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, complete with ribbon buckle; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (Lieut. C. W. Fowler, R.N. H.M.S. Carysfort) impressed naming; East and Central Africa 1897-99, 2 clasps, Lubwa’s, Uganda 1897-98 (Lt: C. W. Fowler, R.N.) mounted on original wearing bar together with related ribbon bar, nearly extremely fine (4) £8,000-£10,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- The clasp ‘Lubwa’s’ is unique to the Royal Navy. Charles Wilson Fowler was born in December 1859 in Cookham, Berkshire, the ninth of 13 children of Captain George Campbell Fowler, R.N. Like his father, he joined the Navy as a Cadet in January 1873, becoming Midshipman in June 1875, Sub-Lieutenant in April 1880, and Lieutenant in December 1883. He was Lieutenant of Carysfort during the naval and military operations near Suakin in 1884-85. Fowler was ‘allowed to resign from the navy to avoid court martial after sending a letter to his Captain accusing him without foundation of ‘scandalous conduct.’ He went to Uganda where he was appointed 3rd Class Assistant, Uganda Protectorate, in July 1896. He was Assistant Collector at Port Victoria, January to September 1897, and was at Lubwa’s during the Sudanese mutiny in November 1897. The mutineers were invested in Lubwa’s Fort by Captain E. M. Woodward, Leicester Regiment, with a very small force, and after several skirmishes they evacuated Lubwa’s and moved by launch and canoes up the Nile towards Mruli. Included in the medal rolls is Lieutenant Fowler, R.N., in command of 58 Swahilis. He was appointed 2nd Class Assistant and Superintendent of Marine in April 1898, and invested with the C.M.G. in January 1899 ‘for services rendered during the Uganda Mutiny’. The following extracts are taken from Major J. R. L. Macdonald’s official report and despatches: ‘Lieutenant C. W. Fowler, late R.N., was especially mentioned for his conduct in the engagement at Lubwa’s Hill, 19th October, 1897, again distinguished himself on the 24th November, though ill at the time. He was present at the fights of the 7th and 11th December, 1897, made a gallant effort to sink the enemy’s dhow on the 5th January, 1898, and subsequently served with the Unyoro column, and commanded in the minor engagement of the 10th April, 1898, when he inflicted a severe defeat on Mwanga’s Mahommedans.’ In more detail: Early October 1897: ‘Lieutenant Fowler, late R.N., at Port Victoria, also took steps to defend his fort, and to cut the bridges over the Sio River; but he was only able to partially carry out this step. On hearing that Lieutenant Fowler was in danger, Mr Jackson and I [Macdonald] advanced to his assistance with all the men we could raise.’ ‘On the 19th instant the mutineers, to the number of 300, assisted by some 150 Waganda Mahommedans, attacked our camp. The engagement commenced at 6 a.m. by a fierce attack on two sides of the camp, the mutineers coming on with the greatest determination. This attack was repulsed, but not until some had got within 50 yards of our line. The fight then continued until nearly 11 a.m., the mutineers bringing up supports, and making repeated attacks. About 11 a.m. when they appeared to have somewhat exhausted their attack, I made a counter-attack on the left with 100 Swahilis under Captain Kirkpatrick and Mr Mayes, on the right a few Swahilis under Lieutenant Fowler, assisted by some fifty Wasoga under a sub-Chief called Kyrania. This counter-attack was completely successful, and the enemy were driven down the hill, and retired to the fort, where they have since remained. Our total loss amounted to 16 killed, 18 severely wounded, and 12 slightly wounded. I cannot speak too highly of the gallantry of the Europeans and Indians. The Wasoga, as a result of our victory, came forward in large numbers, and on the 20th we were joined by an army of Waganda under the Sekebobo. The enemy are now invested in the fort.’ ‘Lieutenant Fowler kept his men incessantly at hand, assisted in repulsing the first attack on our right, and took part in the final counter-attack, when his courage and judgement were productive of the best results.’ ‘On the 14th January [1898] Lieutenant Fowler took the steam-launch and a sailing boat which had meanwhile arrived close to the enemy’s new fort under a heavy fire, and shelled their dhow, with a view to rendering it useless.’ ‘On the night between the 4th and 5th January the mutineers began effecting their escape from the fort by means of this vessel. A party of some sixty embarked and crossed to a small promontory lying north of the station... and proceeded to intrench themselves. On the second night Lieutenant Fowler, late R.N., made efforts with canoes and a Maxim to sink the dhow but without success, as the gun jammed, with a broken mainspring, and from that moment his canoemen absolutely refused to go anywhere near the dhow.’ ‘On the 14th January Lieutenant Fowler succeeded in getting near enough to the dhow to severely damage it with Hotchkiss fire, and on the following day the mutineers themselves destroyed it.’ ‘On the 10th April, 1898, Lieutenant Fowler and Corporal Brodie, acting under the orders of Captain Harrison, with a column of under 100 men, surprised the Mahommedan camp in Bugoma, and, after a brisk fight, in which he lost eleven killed and wounded, completely defeated the enemy and vigourously pursued them. The enemy lost fifty-five killed and twenty prisoners, and their camp and baggage.’ His last appointment appears to have been as Sub-Commissioner of the Nile Province. He died on 19 March 1907. The group is accompanied by two fine portrait photographs of Fowler wearing these medals; original letter notifying him of his appointment to be Commander of St Michael and St George ‘for services rendered during the Uganda Mutiny’; and original warrant for C.M.G. and accompanying transmission document, 23 January 1899.

The unique Ashanti 1896 C.M.G., Dawkita 1897 D.S.O. group of six awarded to Commander F. B. Henderson, Royal Navy - the remarkable defence of Dawkita, over four days and nights, with 40-odd men pitched against an army of Sofas 7000 strong, stands out as one of the great epics of Empire, so too Henderson’s extraordinary bravery in giving himself up to the enemy to parley for the freedom of his men; he refused to kneel before the Samory and his elders, even having been shown the head of his most trusted officer The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamels, with integral top riband bar; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 2 clasps, Dawkita 1897, 1897-98 (Lieut. F. B. Henderson. R.N.) second clasp loose on ribbon; Ashanti Star 1896; British War Medal 1914-20 (Commr. F. B. Henderson. R.N.); Coronation 1911, enamel work slightly chipped in places, generally very fine and better (6) £30,000-£40,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Richard Magor Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, July 2003. C.M.G. London Gazette 26 June 1902. D.S.O. London Gazette 8 March 1898: ‘In recognition of services in conducting operations against the Sofas in 1897.’ Francis Barkley Henderson was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire on 8 July 1859, fourth son of the Rev. J. H. Henderson and Anne, daughter of Rear-Admiral H. G. Morris, R.N. Educated at Britannia, he was appointed a Midshipman in October 1874 and, four years later, on promotion to Sub. Lieutenant, he joined H.M.S. Bacchante, sailing in her during her world cruise with the Dukes of York and Clarence as fellow Midshipmen. And on passing for Lieutenant in June 1882, he was awarded the Goodenough Medal for the best examination in gunnery. But in July 1884, his promising career seemingly came to a halt, when he was invalided from the active list. In the following year, however, he took up appointment as Private Secretary and A.D.C. to Sir W. E. Maxwell, K.C.M.G., Governor of the Gold Coast Colony, and accompanied him to Kumassi during the Ashanti Expedition of 1896, experience that no doubt assisted him in gaining appointment as a Travelling Commissioner in the Colony for the next six years. And it was during the course of this appointment that he commanded the small force allocated to the Defence of Dawkita in 1897. Not enough, perhaps, has been written of this gallant little affair, but in his Africa General Service Medals, Richard Magor provides a full and entertaining account of proceedings. As the author successfully illustrates, Henderson’s feat is wholly worthy of comparison to other 19th century epics, Rorke’s Drift among them. For reasons discussed at length by Magor, including aggressive behaviour towards Europeans and friendly tribesmen, Henderson raised the Union Flag at Dawkita in the full knowledge that his actions might be met with severe local opposition. Apart from anything else, the Sofas were said to be starving and his occupation of Dawkita effectively blocked their way to forage for food. He also took the trouble to warn the appropriate Chiefs that if they continued to molest his people, their actions would be considered as hostile ones This, of course, was like a red rag to a bull, and within a short period of time, the Sofas were on the warpath to Henderson’s little three-compound settlement. Henderson takes up the story in his subsequent despatch: ‘The Sofa army appeared over the hill in front of the town, massed in a huge square, numbering, as far as we could estimate, about 7000 men. Their mounted men, of whom they had about 400, tried to pass to the rear of the town on our left, but were driven back by some Lobis, and then, passing along the river bank, occupied the water-hole distant about 350 yards from our front. The Bonas, who were to have held this, made no resistance. I felt very much the want of this water-hole, want of water being one of the chief causes of my having, eventually, to retire. At 4.30 p.m. their riflemen (numbering over 1000) opened a heavy fire on us from the cover of the bush. They showed some skill in skirmishing and their fire was well directed, though high. I had been informed on good authority that they were very short of ammunition, but this want had evidently been supplied from some source, as they were able to keep up an almost un-intermittent fire through that night, the next day and the best part of the next night, and at intervals heavily for the rest of the four days. At night I only replied to their fire by an occasional volley, when they came to the edge of their cover.’ Such were the odds faced by the gallant defenders of Dawkita, a tiny force of arms comprising an African surveyor, Mr. George E. Ferguson, a native Police Officer and 41 Constables of the Gold Coast Constabulary, all of whom, under their gallant commander, found themselves pitched against the full might of several thousand Sofas, an army which they engaged and held off for four days and nights. Amazingly, given that they were outnumbered by 160-1, the defenders suffered just two men killed and eight wounded, while the Sofas are believed to have lost at least 400 warriors. It had been at dusk on the fourth day of the defence that Henderson had decided to evacuate Dawkita and retire to Wa, where reinforcements were expected, and after marching through the night, he duly met up with Captain Cramer, who had 50 men, two guns and some rocket launchers. Henderson later reported in his despatch that he regretted having to leave the Government’s tent behind, which had been used as an awning in the defence and was ‘riddled with bullets’, but was pleased to report that the Union Flag, which ‘had been flying since my occupation of the place’, was saved. He also made light of what had clearly been a terrifying 40-mile dash for Wa. Inevitably, however, this bid for freedom proved in vain, for the agitated Sofas hot-footed it to Wa, encircled Henderson’s barely increased force and recommenced hostilities. Painfully aware that their position was now hopeless, and in a desperate attempt to save his men, Henderson put his life on the line by suggesting he parley with the enemy Prince, whom he knew to be both ‘treacherous and cruel.’ His despatch continues: ‘I then laid this proposition before the other officers, who at first opposed the plan on the grounds of the risk I should incur, Ferguson especially saying that I should be uselessly courting death in some unpleasant form. In the end they concurred and a letter was written to the Prince stating that we had not come here to fight his people and could not understand why he had followed me here ... ’ Of subsequent developments, Magor states: ‘The next morning a Chief came to the British to enter into further discussion, and for reasons unknown, other than Henderson’s extreme gallantry, it was decided that he would indeed have to accompany the Chief back to his Prince for a face to face encounter of the terrifying kind. Given the near suicidal nature of this undertaking, it was decided that if Henderson was detained by the Prince, his men were to evacuate Wa as soon as possible. Henderson found the Prince surrounded by all his Chiefs and young courtiers and behind them about 1000 riflemen. The palaver commenced and after the usual preliminaries Henderson said he had not come to fight the Sofas but to prevent the French from occupying the country. He confirmed that he wished to march to Daboya en route for Kumassi. Just a...

The unique Great War London Omnibus Driver’s D.S.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant (Road Inspector) A. Chouffot, Royal Marine Artillery, attached Motor Transport Company, Royal Naval Division and Royal Marines Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (99. S. Sergt. A. Chouffot. Motor Tpt. Coy. R.N. Division.); 1914 Star, with clasp (99. S. Sergt. Mechn. A. Chouffot, M.T. R.N. Div.); British War and Victory Medals (R.M.A. 99-S-.Sgt. A. Chouffot.), together with London Omnibus A.O.C.A. 1914 badge, gilt and enamel, the reverse numbered ‘543’, the third partially officially corrected and the last officially re-impressed, generally very fine or better (4) £3,000-£4,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Spink, July 2008. D.S.M. London Gazette 1 January 1916. ‘The following awards have been approved: Sergeant (Road Inspector) Alfred Chouffot, No. R.M.A./99 (S), R.N.D., Motor Transport Company.’ The recommendation states: ’R.N. Division Motor Transport Company. Antwerp 3-9 October 1914. For services at Antwerp. Throughout the time the Royal Naval Division Bus Company was running, he did excellent and efficient work, both in barracks and when on convoy duty. Displayed great ability.’ Alfred Chouffot was born in Barnsbury, London on 30 September 1887, and by profession a Road Inspector on joining the Royal Marine Artillery in September 1914. Quickly appointed a ‘Road Inspector Sergeant’, he was embarked for services in the Motor Transport Section of the Royal Naval Division. The creation of the Motor Transport Section arose at the time of the Royal Marine Brigade’s embarkation for Dunkirk in September 1914, when it was realised by the administrative staff of the Royal Naval Division that some additional method of transport was necessary. Consequently, under the orders of the First Lord of the Admiralty, 90 ‘B’ type buses of the London General Omnibus Company were purchased and dispatched to Dunkirk. At the same time their drivers were enrolled and sent to the Royal Naval Recruiting Office where they were attested as Marines. Stopping at Chatham or Eastney en-route, the ex-civilian drivers were fitted out with the uniforms and other equipment, prior to proceeding to their respective points of embarkation at Dover or Southampton, from whence they sailed to Dunkirk. Thus, it was, in a quite unique episode in the annals of war, that the London bus drivers commenced their wartime careers. Their splendid omnibuses, which to begin with were still decorated with garish advertisements, just as if setting off down Piccadilly, made a remarkable impression on the men and women of Flanders, even if the ill-fitting and incomplete uniforms of the drivers left a somewhat contrary impression. More importantly, they played a vital role, as did their gentlemen counterparts from the Royal Automobile Club, in supplying transport for the Naval and Marine Brigades in Antwerp, especially in respect of the evacuation of the wounded. Once the Royal Naval Division had returned to England, the unit was lent to the Army and proceeded to St. Omer, afterwards providing valuable service during the First and Second Battles of Ypres. During the latter they were particularly active: ‘All buses under Lieutenant Guest being ordered to Steenvorde and were there employed under fire between Hazeboruck and Vlamertinghe; on 29 April they note that they brought back 800 wounded and refugees. Again in the battle of Aubers Ridge and Festubert they had much to do.’ (Britain’s Sea Soldiers, by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, K.C.B., R.M., refers). Then in August 1915, after once more proving itself with all types of transportation, the unit was taken over permanently by the military establishment and became part of the Army Service Corps. Very few of the unit’s drivers transferred, however, and Chouffot was himself discharged in September 1915. In a short but much-admired life span, the Motor Transport Company, R.N.D., won three gallantry awards: a D.S.O. to Captain Leaf; a D.S.C. to Captain Summers; and a D.S.M. to Chouffot. Sold with copied research and photographs.

The group of six miniature medals worn by Admiral C. H. M. Buckle, Royal Navy The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s, breast badge, gold and enamels; Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol; Baltic 1854-55; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, the last five mounted on a contemporary wearing bar, nearly extremely fine (6) £400-£500 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Morton & Eden, December 2003. See Lot 323 for the recipient’s full sized medals.

The exceptional Victorian C.B. group of four awarded to Admiral C. Fellowes, Royal Navy, a seemingly fearless bluejacket of ‘splendid strength’ who on one occasion parried the thrust of an opponent’s bayonet and ‘literally tore his arm out of its socket’ Mentioned in despatches on several occasions, Fellows was promoted to Commander for his gallantry in actions against Chinese pirates in 1854 and to Captain for his deeds in the Second Opium War: wounded at the storming of Canton in 1857, he was the first member of the Naval Brigade to scale the city’s wall and seized a Chinese colour that Queen Victoria later gifted to Greenwich Hospital The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 18 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1870, complete with gold ribbon buckle; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Chas. Fellowes. Lieut. “Spartan”; Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1858, unnamed as issued, some light contact marks, otherwise good very fine or better (4) £4,000-£5,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Alan Hall Collection, June 2000. C.B. London Gazette 20 May 1871. Charles Fellowes was born at Potterne, Wiltshire on 19 October 1823, the son of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Fellowes, C.B., by his second wife, Mary Anne Catherine, only child of the late Colonel Isaac Humphreys, Bengal Artillery. On passing his examination in October 1842, Fellowes served as a Mate on the North America, West Indies and Pacific Stations over the next two or three years. And it was during this period - whilst employed in H.M.S. America - that he had his close encounter with a bayonet-toting opponent. John Moresby, a shipmate, takes up the story in The Admirals: ‘An incident occurred in Rio which illustrated the strength and presence of mind of Charlie Fellowes. Three Yankee frigates were in the harbour at the same time as the America and frequent drunken brawls took place between the British and American sailors; in one of the more violent of these incidents, the Brazilian police tried to arrest the ring leaders, but the sailors joined forces against the police and the army was called in to assist. The Brazilian soldiers with fixed bayonets forced the sailors back, wounding several of them. At this moment, Charlie Fellowes, whose splendid strength and presence attracted notice wherever he went, ran up and placed himself at their head, holding the Brazilians in check as he retreated slowly towards the quay, where his men would be in comparative safety. He accomplished his object and was the last man back to the quay when a Brazilian soldier lunged at him with his bayonet. Quick as a thought, Charlie Fellowes jumped aside and catching the man by the wrist, literally tore his arm out of his socket and flung him on the ground. The affair produced a diplomatic row, the Brazilian Government immediately demanding that Charlie Fellowes be given up to the civil authorities. However the America left Rio at once and heard no more of the matter.’ Advanced to Lieutenant in June 1846, Fellows went on to witness active service in the Spartan and Winchester on the East Indies Station, being landed with the Naval Brigade for the expedition to Pegu. He was subsequently present in the boats of Spartan and Winchester on the Pegu River at the attack on the city of Prome in September 1852 and on the city of Pegu in November 1852, and was commended by Commodore Sir Rowly Lambert, K.C.B., Commander in Chief, East Indies Station. In November 1854, having been ‘most creditably engaged in various enterprises against pirates in Chinese waters,’ Fellows was selected by Admiral Sir James Stirling to take charge of Winchester’s boats and those of Spartan, five in number, to take action against a robbery which had been committed in one of the channels leading into the harbour of Hong Kong. Early on the morning of the 2nd, he destroyed three boats on the beach in Pilang Bay and burnt six houses, and the stronghold of the freebooters. On the same day the force under his command also brought out two junks which had run on shore in Tynmoon Bay, took two Hong Kong fast boats, torched two junks up a creek, and blew up one of 200 tons, killing from 40 to 50 men and capturing nine guns and seven gingals. During these operations the small British force landed frequently and was exposed to a sharp fire from the enemy who were often concealed behind rocks, some of the boats occasionally grounding. In his subsequent report to the Admiralty, Sir James Stirling expressed his hope that ‘the entire success of the operation, and the very judicious and gallant conduct evinced by Lieutenant Fellowes, and the excellent behaviour of all who were employed under him, might meet with their lordships approbation’ (London Gazette 8 October 1855, refers). Fellowes went on to destroy 19 junks at Tyloo, in the island of Lantao, the crews of which had been previously driven out by a few well aimed shot and shell from Encounter, once again winning Sir James Stirling’s highest commendation (London Gazette 8 October 1855, refers). On 11 November 1854, in Winchester’s launch, he accompanied an expedition under Captain O’Callaghan to co-operate with the Chinese authorities in an attack upon pirates at their headquarters at Coulan, in the island of Tyloo, which was reached on 12th. During the following night he was employed in effectively blockading the Bay of Coulan. In the course of the 13th, he landed under fire from a battery of 20 guns, with a small body of armed men, and assisted at the capture of a second battery of 7 guns, in addition to contributing to the destruction of about 50 strongly armed junks. On the 14th he was directed to superintend and cover in his launch the landing of 60 ratings and marines who had been embarked on board the P. & O. steam vessel Charles Forbes and who had been directed to search the scene of the previous day’s achievement for prisoners and for lost property. In narrating these events Captain O’Callaghan in his official letter to Admiral Sir James Stirling remarked, ‘For Lieutenant Fellowes, Senior Lieutenant of your flagship, I have to assure you I cannot say too much in his praise - always willing and ready for anything.’ In recognition of his sustained gallantry, Fellowes was promoted to Commander in January 1855. Having then served in Winchester in the Gulf of Peter the Great in August 1855, whilst searching for the Russian squadron commanded by Vasily Zavoyko, Fellowes was appointed to the Cruiser in July 1856. And it was in that capacity that he added further laurels to his distinguished record back on the China Station, a notable action being his part in the capture and destruction of more than 70 heavily armed junks in Fatshan creek in June 1857. Subsequently, at the storming of Canton City in the following December, he was attached to the 3rd Division of the Naval Brigade, under Sir Robert McClure, and with Captains J. L. C. Hamilton and J. F. Slight, had charge of the scaling ladders. In the event, he was the first man of the Naval Brigade over the city wall and received a wound in the head. As a reward for his gallantry on that occasion, in which he also captured a Chinese colour, he was promoted to Captain in February 1858 (London Gazette 11 January 1856, refers). Having then served as Flag Captain to the C.-in-C. of the Channel Squadron and C.-in-C. of the Mediterranean Station, Fellows commanded the Duke of Wellington and the Duncan, the la...

Four hallmarked silver military badges, comprising a WWI HMS Australian Infantry Battalion badge with white, green and blue enamels, inscribed 'Aut Vincere Aut Mori', diameter 3.1cm, also a Berkshire Regiment badge, Royal Corps Army Ordnance enamel badge and further crown badge, combined approx 31.5g (4).

Scarce Indian Army. 1st Punjab Regiment post 1922 Officer’s cap badge, inscribed “1st Punjab Regiment” with additional “China” scroll beneath the dragon’s chest. By J.R. Gaunt, London.