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US Army dress uniform with various badges and insignia inc. MSG rank patch, pistol expert badge, combat infantry badge etc. (jacket 38L, trousers 31R)

A collection of British insignia including Women's Land Army badges, ARP badge, shoulder titles etc

WWI Cap Badges & Associated Tie-Pins: including an Austro-Hungarian 13th Shutzen Division Montello defeat 'tinnies' cap badge, a 'Watching over the Danube example, Defense of the 3rd Army in Carpathians 1914-15 badge, a 1922 March on Rome Fascist tie-pin and other Mussolini examples, trench art pendant and more (a lot)

A scarce and unusual Second War ‘1942’ military division O.B.E., ‘Iraq 1920-21’ D.F.M. group of six awarded to Aircraftman 1st Class, later Colonel, R. Hayne, Royal Air Force and Royal Army Ordnance Corps, who distinguished himself whilst serving with 30 Squadron over the newly formed Kingdom of Iraq, and stayed on in the Middle East for the inter-war years after his discharge. Obviously having made a success of himself, and now proficient in Arabic, Hayne re-engaged at Cairo for commissioned service with the R.A.O.C. during the Second War The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type, breast badge; Distinguished Flying Medal, G.V.R. (39018 A.C.1. R. Hayne. R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted for display, generally good very fine (6) £2,000-£2,400 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 18 February 1943: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished service in the Middle East during the period May 1942 - October 1942.’ The original recommendation states: ‘This Officer has shown exceptional devotion to very responsible duties connected with fighting and other vehicles. He has also shown outstanding merit during two major reorganisations of his depot during a period of unprecedented activity and expansion. These high qualities have contributed considerably to the course of operations in the Middle East generally, and particularly during the present crisis in the Western Desert. He has set an inspiring example to all by his tenacity of purpose, organising ability, untiring efforts, leadership and absolute selfless service to the fighting troops.’ D.F.M. London Gazette 10 October 1922: ‘For distinguished services rendered during active Service operations in Iraq during 1920-21.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 1 April 1941: ‘For distinguished service in the Middle East during the period August 1939 - November 1940.’ Richard Hayne was born in Dorking, Surrey in January 1901, and entered the Royal Flying Corps as a Boy in July 1916. He was still mustered as a Boy on the formation of the Royal Air Force in April 1918, and is shown as being at the Recruits Depot on that date. Subsequent postings included C.F.S. Upavon, Eastchurch, No. 1 Aero Repair Department Farnborough, then again to C.F.S., and from there to 63 Squadron in Mesopotamia in July 1919. Hayne was posted as Aircraftman 1st Class to 30 Squadron (D.H.9A’s), Baghdad West, 1 March 1920, and it was for his service with the Squadron that he was awarded the D.F.M. The Squadron, commanded by Squadron Leader R. Collishaw, D.S.O. and Bar, D.S.C., D.F.C., was employed as one of the permanent squadrons in Iraq, engaged with providing security for the new kingdom. Hayne was posted to Amman, Trans Jordan in February 1922. The latter was the base for 14 Squadron and an Armoured Car Squadron. Hayne was transferred to the Reserve in January 1923, but more or less immediately recalled for Reserve Service, before finally discharged locally, 8 January 1924. Unusually, his address on discharge was given as ‘c/o Chief British Representative, Amman, Trans Jordan.’ Hayne appears to have decided that his civilian future lay in the Middle East, and he remained there throughout the inter-war years. Hayne was awarded a Regular Army Emergency Commission in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in September 1939. He joined at Cairo, and declared his previous service with the R.F.C. and R.A.F., claiming linguistic talent in Arabic, but choosing to make no reference to his D.F.M. Hayne also provided proof of a Class ‘A’ Private Pilot’s Licence. He advanced to Temporary Colonel in October 1943, and served during the Second War in Egypt, Libya, Palestine, the United Kingdom and finished in Egypt. Hayne relinquished his commission, 26 March 1946, and was granted the Honorary Rank of Colonel. In later life he resided at 34 Cheniston Gardens, Kensington, London. It is unusual that Hayne did not declare his D.F.M. on entry into the Army, for he is known to have worn it after the Second World War. Indeed, he also wore a G.S.M., with ‘Iraq’ clasp which was named to a native - a medal to which he was not entitled. Hayne is not listed on the Iraq clasp medal roll, nor is there any reference to the award of the medal on his Record of Service (as a consequence the medal was removed from the group by the current vendor). His R.A.F. Record of Service, however, suggests that he was entitled to the BWM and VM (authorised on 8 January 1923 - the day before his discharge), but again this is incorrect. Hayne never saw service outside of the UK during Great War operations. Had he received them, he would surely have worn them, given his willingness to wear a G.S.M. to which he was not entitled! Sold with copied research.

A rare and well-documented campaign group of seven awarded to Group Captain W. H. Dolphin, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps and Royal Indian Marine, who was one of the World’s pioneer aviators, being awarded the Royal Aero Club Aviator’s Certificate No. 82, 9 May 1911. A hugely experienced pilot, who was mentioned in despatches for his services during the Great War and on the North West Frontier in 1919, and who was bestowed with the Order of the Nile by King Fuad of Egypt 1914-15 Star (Asst. Engr. W. H. Dolphin, R.I.M.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. W. H. Dolphin. R.A.F.); India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Ft-Lt. W. H. Dolphin, R.A.F.) 2nd and 3rd clasps riveted together and loose on riband as issued, surname and unit partially officially corrected; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamels, generally very fine or better (lot) £1,800-£2,200 --- Approximately 117 ‘Mahsud’ clasps awarded to the Royal Air Force, 66 of which appear in 3 clasp medals. Wilfred Herbert Dolphin was born in Duddeston, Birmingham in May 1882. The following was provided by the Victoria Times, B.C. in 1936: ‘One of Great Britain’s pioneer aviation pilots, Wing Commander W. H. Dolphin, who recently retired from the Royal Air Force is an interesting visitor to Victoria in the course of a holiday tour of the world. Wing Commander Dolphin is visiting this continent for the first time after a life spent mostly on service in the Far East, India, Afghanistan, Mesopotamia or Iraq as it is now known. Arabia, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey and Malta, each in turn having been the scene of his activities during the last thirty years. Wing Commander Dolphin has the distinction of having worn the uniforms of all three services. Originally serving in the Royal Indian Marine, now the Royal Indian Navy, as an engineer officer, he later transferred to the Indian Army in search of more excitement, and from there was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps seeing active service with all three forces. It was in 1910, while on leave from India, that Wing Commander Dolphin made his first flight with Claude Grahame White, flying in what he describes as “a sort of flying bird cage.” He decided to master the art of flying and in May 1911, was granted his pilot’s certificate by the Royal Aero Club of Great Britain, his certificate being number 82. He associated himself with the well known pioneer of aviation, Gordon England, and the late Col. James Valentine during the early part of 1911 and had many interesting experiences with them, both in England and in France. But it was not until he was seconded for service with the Royal Air Force that he was able to make use of his knowledge of aircraft and skill as a pilot. On the formation of the R.A.F. he was gazetted to a permanent commission and has been largely concerned with the technical development of that service, although he continued active flying until shortly before his retirement last January. Among the many interesting personalities he was associated with during his R.A.F. service was Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw, the former Nanaime boy who after a distinguished career during the war is now one of the outstanding figures in the air force in Great Britain. Wing Commander Dolphin has had a career of great interest which, although arduous was full of excitement and adventure. He numbers among his many experiences life in the palaces of various Oriental rulers, expeditions against tribesmen of the Northwest Frontier, and of Kurdistan, and epic flights over inaccessible mountain country where a forced landing generally meant instant destruction, as well as tiger shoots in Bengal and big game hunting in many other parts by way of diversion. Twice mentioned in despatches, Wing Commander Dolphin has in addition to the 1914-18 war medals, the Indian Northwest Frontier medal with three clasps and the Egyptian Order of the Nile, presented to him personally by the late King Fuad of Egypt at an investiture at the Abdin Palace in Alexandria in 1922.....’ Dolphin had initially been employed as an automobile engineer, and learned to fly in a Hanriot Monoplane at Brooklands, gaining his Royal Aero Club Aviator’s Certificate, 9 May 1911. Prior to this he had spent time in India, and was a Freemason and member of the Deccan Lodge. He initially served during the Great War as an Assistant Engineer with the Royal Indian Marine, before ultimately transferring to the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force (M.I.D.). Dolphin advanced to Captain in April 1918, and served as a pilot on the North West Frontier (M.I.D. for Afghanistan 1919). Dolphin advanced to Squadron Leader in June 1923, served in Egypt the following year [Order of the Nile, 4th Class], and was appointed Commanding Officer, Marine Section, Basrah, Iraq in 1926. During the latter posting he was in charge of RAF vessels using the waterways of Iraq. Dolphin advanced to Wing Commander in July 1931, and retired in January 1936. After carrying out his ‘World Tour’, Dolphin was recalled for service at the outbreak of the Second World War. He retired as Group Captain in August 1941. Sold with the following related original documentation: M.I.D. Certificate, dated 23 October 1918; Royal Aero Club Aviator’s Certificate, numbered ‘82’, dated 9 May 1911, and complete with photograph - this rare; Royal Indian Marine enclosure addressed to recipient at H.Q., R.A.F. Middle East, Egypt forwarding his 1914-15 Star from R.I.M Dockyard, Bombay, dated 21 December 1922; Air Ministry enclosure addressed to recipient at the Aircraft Depot, R.A.F. Aboukir, Egypt, forwarding the I.G.S. with ‘Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919’ clasp, dated 3 May 1923; Bestowal Document for the Order of the Nile, with R.A.F. Middle East enclosure, dated 19 August 1919; passport, photographic images of recipient in uniform including attending to the Duchess of Gloucester during an official visit in 1941, and copied research.

A post-War ‘Civil Division’ O.B.E. pair awarded to Lieutenant J. C. O’Dwyer, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, later H.M. Consul-General, Berlin, whose Consular career saw him serving in Munich in the lead-up to the Second World War, and in San Francisco at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into the War The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lt. J. C. O’Dwyer, I.A.R.O.) good very fine (2) £260-£300 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 13 June 1959. John Chevalier O’Dwyer was born was born on 15 September 1900, the son of Sir Michael O’Dwyer, Governor of the Punjab (who was murdered in 1940 by the revolutionist Udham Singh as a reprisal for the Amritsar massacre of 13 April 1919 in which an estimated 1,000 protesters were shot dead, Udham Singh being one of the survivors), and was educated at Downside School and Clongowes College, County Kildare. Travelling to India to see his parents and arrived in Lahore in December 1918, he was commissioned into the Indian Army Reserve of Officers, and served during the Third Afghan War on attachment to the 31st Duke of Connaughts Own Lancers and took part in the Third Afghan War of 1919. Returning to England he went up to Balliol College, Oxford, and after taking his degree joined the Levant Consular Service, the branch of the Foreign Office dealing with the Middle East, in 1923. Over the next five years he worked almost exclusively in Persia being appointed Vice Consul and Acting Consul in Tehran, Shiraz, Ahwaz, Meshed, Kermanshah and Basra. Contracting Pulomary Tuberculosis in 1931, O’Dwyer became very ill and in October 1931 left Basra by sea and travelled directly to Germany where he was treated at a Bavarian Mountain Sanatorium. On his recovery, he transferred to the General Consular Service and stayed in Germany initially as His Majesty’s Vice Consul in Frankfurt, before transferring to the very heart of the political scene by being appointed Vice Consul in Munich in 1936. He left Germany in May 1938 and was appointed first Vice Consul then Consul in San Francisco, California, United States of America. Promoted Consul General following America’s declaration of war on Japan following the attack at Pearl Harbor, he represented H.M. Government on all non-military matters on the western seaboard. Returning to London in 1943, he spent a year at the Foreign Office before returning to the Pacific, this time Hawaii, upon his appointment as Consul in Honolulu. Following the surrender of Japan, he was involved in the preparation of pre-trial documents for the war crimes tribunals. In 1950 O’Dwyer was appointed to Tokyo as Consul in time for the outbreak of the Korean War and later moved to Yokohama as Consul General. He returned to the Foreign Office in London in 1952 at the height of the Cold War remaining there until 1956 when he was appointed Consul General in Berlin, a post he held until his retirement in 1959. Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on his retirement, he died in 1978 and is buried near his father in Brookwood Cemetery, Woking. Sold with a photographic image of the recipient presenting the C.B.E. to Lieutenant-General E. Hull, U.S. Army, whilst British Consul in Honolulu; and copied research.

A M.V.O. and R.V.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant H. G. Barrett, Royal Horse Artillery The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 5th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, the reverse unnumbered [see footnote], minor blue enamel restoration to motto; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (49234 Sgt. H. G. Barrett. U Bty., R.H.A.); Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (49234 Sjt: H. G. Barrett. R.H.A.); Royal Victorian Medal, G.V.R., silver, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style for display, traces of lacquer, otherwise good very fine and better (5) £700-£900 --- M.V.O. 5th Class London Gazette 2 January 1933 Henry Gulliver Barrett was born in Woolwich on 2 May 1871; his father was Richard Barrett, a Sergeant in the Riding Establishment, Royal Artillery. Following his father’s footsteps, Barrett joined the Royal Horse Artillery and as a Sergeant in ‘U’ Battery R.H.A. served in South Africa during the Boer War from 21 December 1899 to 5 March 1900. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with Gratuity per Army Order 172 of October 1903. After leaving the Army he joined Royal Service, and as Clerk of the Stables at Marlborough House he was awarded the Royal Victorian Medal in Silver on 31 December 1925, on the occasion of the death of Queen Alexandra, on 20 November 1925. He was subsequently in the Household of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and for many years organised the reunion dinners of ‘Q’ Battery, R.H.A. As ‘Storekeeper, Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace’, he was appointed a Member Fifth Class of the Royal Victorian Order on 29 July 1932, and was presented with the insignia in hospital by Sir Arthur Erskine shortly before he died in Croydon General Hospital on 13 November 1932. Note: Research included with the lot, compiled by John Tamplin, indicates that the recipient was allocated the M.V.O. badge no. 589; however, owing to the fact that the insignia of the Order was presented to him in hospital in a presumably hurried ceremony, and before the notification of the award had even appeared in the London Gazette, it is possible that he was invested with an unnumbered badge. Sold with copied research.

Family Group: Pair: Gunner G. Bate, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (171605 Gnr. G. Bate. R.A.); together with a small generic bronze 1919 peace medal, nearly extremely fine Four: Trooper F. Bate, 3rd Carabiniers, Royal Armoured Corps 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure, in card box of issued addressed to ‘Mr. F. Bate, 186 Slazebrook Lane, Slazebrook, Nr. Manchester’, nearly extremely fine (6) £70-£90 --- Sold with Frank Bate’s Burma Star Association Lapel Badge; and several original documents including birth certificate, driving licence and Embarkation Certificate issued by 33 Indian Corps, Army Service Book; Certificate of Transfer to the Reserve; and Soldiers Release Book.

The unique Great War M.B.E., ‘Darfur 1916 - Sudan operations’ D.C.M. group of six awarded to Warrant Officer Class 1 R. J. Sladden, 17 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, who served as the senior Warrant Officer in Darfur, Sudan in 1916, and was later commissioned rising to the rank of Captain The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type, breast badge, hallmarks for London ‘1919’; Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (212 Fl. Sjt: R. J. Sladden. No. 17 Sq: R.F.C.); 1914-15 Star (212 S. Mjr. R. J. Sladden R.F.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (212 W.O. Cl. 1. R. J. Sladden R.F.C.); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, 1 clasp, Darfur 1916, loose on riband (212 Sjt. Mjr. R. J. Sladden. R.F.C.) officially impressed naming, with a silver shooting prize medal, hallmarks for Birmingham 1920, reverse engraved ‘F/O. Sladden Inter Squadron Officers, Halton, May 1921’, all housed in a privately made velvet lined wooden case with ‘RFC’ embossed on lid, and R.F.C. cap badge, generally very fine (6) £4,000-£5,000 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘In recognition of distinguished services during the war.’ D.C.M. London Gazette 31 May 1916 (Egypt): ‘For consistent good work in connection with the care and repair of aeroplanes.’ One of only 92 Distinguished Conduct Medals awarded to members of the Royal Flying Corps. Approximately 63 Khedive’s Sudan 1910 Medals were awarded to R.F.C. personnel, 23 of them with them with the ‘Darfur 1916’ clasp. Robert John Sladden was born in Stoke, Devon, and attested for the Royal Artillery at Devonport in August 1906. He served as a Gunner with 148 Battery, Royal Field Artillery prior to transferring to the Royal Flying Corps and being posted to the Flying Depot, 16 July 1912. He advanced to Sergeant in July 1913, and to Senior Mechanic 1st Class and Sergeant Major, and served with 17 Squadron in the Egyptian theatre of war, November 1915 - December 1916. Sladden participated as the senior non-commissioned officer in the Darfur operations of March-December 1916, when four B.E. 2c aircraft from the squadron’s ‘C’ Flight went into action with the Governor-General Sir Reginald Wingate’s blessing, for ‘the sudden appearance out of the blue of flying chariots would impress on Ali Dinar’s followers the futility of resistance.’ Henry Keown-Boyd’s article, From Private to Pilot (O.M.R.S., June 2010), takes up the story: ‘With hindsight, the inclusion of the Flight seems to have been a curiously unnecessary addition to the burden of the war effort bearing in mind the considerable logistical and transportation problems involved, balanced against it uncertain effectiveness. Neither the aircraft or equipment and stores required could be flown in those days the 1,000 miles to destination, so four crated aeroplanes, their fuel in drums, two Leyland lorries, four Crossley tenders, a spare aero engine, two canvas hangars together with arms, ammunition and about 60 officers and men had to be transported by sea and land, the latter part of the journey across trackless desert into central Africa. Via a series of landing grounds and depots the Flight and its equipment was transported from Port Sudan via Khartoum and El Obied by rail, lorry and camel to its main base at Nahud and advance base at Jebel el Hula.’ Keown-Boyd continues: ‘The first operational flight was made on 12 May 1916 by Lieutenant F. Bellamy and on the 17th a plane piloted by Captain Bannatyne was hit by a bullet. On the 23rd, 2nd Lieutenant (later Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John) Slessor was wounded in the thigh while attacking Ali Dinar’s army retreating from its defeat at the battle of Beringia but displaying a certain defiance against Wingate’s Flying Chariots! The Sultan Ali Dinar escaped from Beringia but was killed by a Camel Corps patrol a few months later.’ Having been awarded the D.C.M. for his good work in Egypt, Sladden returned to the UK at the end of 1916. He was commissioned Acting Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps in April 1917, and saw out the remainder of the war with postings in the UK. Sladden advanced to Acting Captain in March 1919, and to Flying Officer in July 1920. He subsequently served at No. 1 Technical Training School, Halton, and retired as Captain in November 1921. The medal group is illustrated in both A Contemptible Little Flying Corps by I. McInnes and J. V. Webb, and On Patrol, The Story of the Khedive’s Medal 1910-22 by B. Hewitt. M.I.D. unconfirmed.

A Great War M.B.E. group of five awarded to Mr Henry A. Harrington, Director of Posts at Alexandria, Egypt, late Sergeant, 3rd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, breast badge, hallmarks for London 1918; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, The Nile 1884-85 (2288. Lce. Cpl. H. A. Harrington, 3/K.R. Rif: C.); Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, Fifth Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel, with mint mark to reverse; Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, Fourth Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, good very fine (5) £1,500-£2,000 --- Only 4 Egypt medals issued to 3/K.R. Rif. C. with this combination of clasps. M.B.E. London Gazette 30 March 1920: ‘For services in connection with the war - Henry Augustus Harrington, Esq., Postmaster, Alexandria.’ Order of the Nile, 4th Class London Gazette 29 December 1916: ‘Director of Post Office, Alexandria.’
Henry Augustus Harrington was born at the Rifle Depot, Winchester, on 3 April 1864, where his father was serving as a Colour-Sergeant in 3/60th King’s Royal Rifles. Henry enlisted in his father's regiment as a boy recruit in February 1879 and, as per regimental musters, 'Lad W. H. Harrington' was embarked for South Africa in February 1880. At the onset of the First Anglo-Boer War, it is likely young Henry was kept back at the battalion's base at Newcastle. In December 1881, he was appointed to the Mounted Infantry of 3/60th Royal Rifles, the regiment being retitled the King's Royal Rifle Corps in the same year.
He was embarked for Alexandria in July 1882, ande was present in the actions at Magfar and Kassassin, and at battle of Tel-el-Kebir (Medal & Clasp; Khedive's Star). Promoted to Lance-Corporal in April 1883, Harrington was next detailed to serve as Postmaster for the Army of Occupation at Cairo, and he remained similarly employed until June 1884; he was detached for duty in the South Staffordshire and Essex Regiments in the same period. During the Nile operations he was detached for duty on the staff as Postmaster at Dongola (Clasp). He served in the Egyptian Postal Service from 1883 to 1916. Postal Arrangements in Sudan in 1884 The trained staff available for postal service consisted of the Chevalier Santoni, nine Egyptian employees, and three or four British non-commissioned officers [one of whom was Sergeant Harrington] who had worked at the Post Office at Cairo. These men were reserved for the three principal Post Offices [Sergeant Harrington was to serve on the staff at Dongola as Postmaster during the 1884-85 Sudan Campaign], the intermediate offices being served for the most part by convalescent soldiers. Mails were made up at Cairo for battalions and corps on information telegraphed to the Commandant of the base. A parcels post was established under the superintendence of the Commandant of the base. The mails were carried from Cairo to Assiut by railway; Assiut to Assuan by steamers; Assuan to Philae by railway; Philae to Halfa by steamers; Halfa to Sarras by railway, Sarras to Abu Fatmeh by camel; and Abu Fatmeh to the south by camel. Separate contracts were made for the carriage of letters, parcels, and newspapers, by camel; three camels sufficed as a rule for the letters, and ten for the parcels, &c. Local posts were also organised by the military authorities on the Line of Communications; the means of transport being almost entirely camels, sometimes hired, but generally government property. The post riders were either natives or Egyptian soldiers. Regular post offices were opened at Dongola [where Harrington was appointed postmaster] and Korti and also a transit office on board the Lotus, by the Egyptian postal authorities, in which a complete postal service was established, letters could be registered and money orders obtained. (History of the Sudan Campaign, Vol. 1 p. 86 refers). On 1 November 1885, Harrington reverted to Regimental Duty, from pay with the 2nd Essex Regiment at Assuan, and, on 1 January 1886, he purchased his discharge in Egypt to accept an offer from the Egyptian authorities of a position in the Post Office. And there he remained happily employed for many years, rising to the office of Local Director of Posts at Alexandria. During the Great War he showed 'a general interest in the welfare of British troops' and undertook canteen work. He was awarded the M.B.E. and appointed an Officer of the Egyptian Order of the Nile (London Gazette 29 December 1916, refers); his Order of Medjidieh was likely awarded in the same period but was not gazetted. Henry Harrington died at Walton-on-Thames on 4 November 1948. Sold with research copied to CD.

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. Townsend, East Surrey Regiment British War Medal 1914-20 (Major C. H. Townsend.); Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmanieh, Fourth Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Order of the Medjidieh, Fourth Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Sudan 1899, unnamed as issued; Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, 3rd Class neck badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamels, the first four mounted court-style as worn, together with similarly mounted set of five miniature dress medal and tunic riband bar, all contained in a specially fitted double-fronted glazed leather display case by Spink, Piccadilly, nearly extremely fine (5) £1,000-£1,400 --- Order of Medijieh London Gazette 23 September 1902. Order of Osmanieh London Gazette 22 March 1912. Order of the Nile London Gazette 20 June 1916. Cuthbery Hanson Townsend was born on 5 April 1872, at Rushbrook, near Queenstown, son of Admiral S. P. Townsend, R.N. He was educated at United Service College, Westward Ho!, North Devon, and R.M.C. Sandhurst 1891. Noted to be acquainted with French and German, following training at the Royal Military College he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 18 June 1892, into the East Surrey Regiment. Promoted Lieutenant on 29 May 1894, he was appointed Adjutant in November 1896. Seconded to Egyptian Army on 9 March 1899, he was A.A.G. Egyptian Army 1905-07. He retired from the British Army in 1910 but continued to serve in Egypt. He was Governor of Berber Province for three years, then Governor and Commandant of Troops, Kassala Province for four years. He retired from the Egyptian Army and Sudan Government Service in 1917, and was employed at the War Office 1917-18 (single B.W.M. for services in Sudan confirmed. He was afterwards Regional Director of Pensions for the N.W. Region, 1919-25. His first wife, Letitia, died on 2 May 1938, and he remarried on 2 April 1946 to Muriel Amy Denton. He died on 27 January 1956, while living at Godrevy, Park Hill Road, Ewell, Surrey. Sold with original Commission Certificate dated 18 June 1892, and copied research saved to CD.

Six: Attributed to Trooper J. Perry 5th Royal Tank Regiment India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (7880597 Tpr. J. Perry 1 ACC RTC) re-named; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, the last five all privately engraved ‘7880597 Tpr. J. Perry 5 RTR’, the first polished, nearly very fine the others very fine Five: Attributed to Sergeant D. T. Tillson, 131/22 Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, very fine (11) £70-£90 --- Joseph Perry is confirmed on the Medal roll for the 1st Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps as having received the India General Service Medal with clasp for North West Frontier 1930-31. Sold with Army Council medal issue slip for five medals and one clasp, Royal Tank Regiment white metal cap badge with King’s Crown with two lugs and red leather backing, original distressed National Registration Identity Card named to Joseph Perry of Wrexham, named Royal British Legion membership cards and several named Royal British Legion membership subscription receipts, several press cuttings relating to El Alamein reunion meetings; and several topographic and regimental fancy dress photographs the majority apparently taken in India. Douglas Thomas Tillson was born on 15 November 1918. He enlisted for the Royal Artillery (Militia) at Southend on 15 July 1939 serving in North Africa and Italy, being released in 1946. His Army Books confirm the award of the five medals and 8th Army clasp. Sold with the recipient’s riband bar for the five medals, and a large quantity of original documentation including, two original Army ‘Brown’ Soldiers Service and Pay Books (Army Book 64) one in relic condition, Membership card for the Southend on Sea Royal Artillery Association, original Certificate of Transfer to Army Reserve, dated 9 May 1946, hospital discharge certificate noting his service with 131/32 H.A.A. Regiment, dated March 1944, original 8th Army propaganda notice in Italian, Allied Military currency Italian 10 Lire note, original Army Record of Service form showing service from 30 October 1939 to 8 May 1946, head and shoulders portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform, cloth overseas embroidered service chevrons, one with four red chevrons and another single, together with other original named documentation and several original unit photographs and photographs in action in North Africa.

A Second War M.B.E., Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of eleven awarded to Major A. Shelton, Royal Artillery The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Military Medal, G.V.R. (39929 Sjt: A. C. Shelton. 48/D.A. R.F.A.); 1914 Star, with clasp (39929 Sjt. A. Shelton. R.F.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (39929 W.O. 11. A. Shelton. R.A.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (39929 W.O. 2. A. Shelton. R.A.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (1026026 W.O. Cl.I. A. Shelton. R.A.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (1026026 W.O. Cl.II. A. Shelton. R.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (39929 B.S. Mjr: A. Shelton. R.H.A.); Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated 1950, with integral top riband bar, mounted court-style for display purposes, light pitting from star to both the MM and BWM, these very fine, the rest better (11) £700-£900 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1941. M.M. London Gazette 11 November 1916. M.S.M. London Gazette 18 January 1919: ‘In recognition of valuable service rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders.’ Arthur Shelton attested for the Royal Artillery at Glasgow on 16 November 1905, and served during the Great War initially with the 35th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery on the Western Front from 6 October 1914. He was awarded the Military Medal whilst serving with the 48th Divisional Artillery, and an ‘Immediate’ Meritorious Service Medal whilst serving as Battery Sergeant Major of the 2nd/1st (Warwick) Battery, Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Force). Discharged on 11 June 1931, he re-enlisted in the Royal Artillery on 10 May 1939, and was commissioned Lieutenant (Quartermaster) in the Royal Artillery (Territorial Army) on 5 August 1939. He was promoted Captain on 5 August 1945, and Major on 1 May 1947, and relinquished his commission having exceeded the age limit on 5 April 1948, retaining the rank of Major. He was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1950 (London Gazette 21 April 1950). Sold with copied research.

Three: Attributed to Third Officer G. Humphrys, Women’s Royal Naval Service 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; with Admiralty enclosure, in named card box of issued addressed to ‘Miss G. Humphreys, Greenbank, Hastings Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex’; together with a silver A.R.P. lapel badge in red box of issue, with an official receipt slip for the badge issued by Bexhill Borough Council, extremely fine Three: Attributed to Miss B. A. Chance, Auxiliary Territorial Service France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-4r, with Army Council enclosure, in partially named card box of issue, very fine Voluntary Medical Service Medal, silver, with five Additional Award Bars, four with Geneva Cross and one with Kings Crown centre, with V.A.D. top suspension pin bar (Margaret E. Tuttiett.) good very fine (7) £70-£90 --- Miss Georgina Humphrys appears in the October 1945 Navy List as Third Officer Women’s Royal Naval Service, with seniority 12 March 1944. She still appears in the Navy List for 1958 as Third Officer in the Women’s Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Margaret E. Tuttiett of 4 Cranfield Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, appears on the list of British Red Cross Society Volunteers 1914-18, and worked as a full time V.A.D. Assistant Nurse for V.A.D. Detachment Sussex 24, at The Red Cross Hospital at 13-15, Cantelupe Road, Bexhill-on-Sea. She died at Bexhill-on-Sea in 1970.

Family Group: A Second War M.B.E. group of six awarded to Warrant Officer Class I J. E. Eames, Royal Sussex Regiment, late Hampshire Regiment, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War near Amiens on 20 May 1940 - escaping, he was recaptured 24 hours later, and held in captivity for the rest of the War The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; British War and Victory Medals (24603 Sjt. J. E. Eames. Hamps. R.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (5485467 W.O. Cl. II J. E. Eames. Hamps. R.) generally very fine and better Coronation 1911, County and Borough Police (P.C. Joseph Eames Winchester City Police) good very fine (7) £600-£800 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 29 November 1945: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Field.’ The original Recommendation states: ‘Regimental Sergeant Major Eames, 7th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, served with the Battalion from its inception at the outbreak of War. This Warrant Officer was invaluable in helping lay the foundation of general discipline and in training and building up a healthy structure of non-commissioned officers, in spite of the almost complete lack of any real experience amongst those from whom he had to draw. His assistance in training young officers was also of great importance. He set a fine example to all and his deportment and patience at all times went far in guiding the numbers of young recruits onto the right lines. This example was carried out in full, when, on the weekend of 18-20 May 1940 the Battalion, entirely alone in a French Sector (just west of Amiens) was attacked by General Rommel’s Panzer Division. A very great deal is owing to this fine old soldier (who had been a pensioner and was 52 years old at the time) for the manner in which all ranks carried out their orders and held their ground until he and other survivors had not alternative to being taken Prisoner. After being taken Prisoner he escaped with some others on the same evening (20 May 1940), but they were overtaken by Armoured Cars 24 hours later. I recommend that this Warrant Officer be awarded the M.B.E.’ Joseph Edward Eames was born in 1889, the son of Police Constable Joseph Eames, Winchester City Police, and served during the latter stages of the Great War with the Hampshire Regiment. Advanced Company Sergeant Major, he proceed to Guernsey on 19 December 1924 for posting to the Permanent Staff, 1st Battalion, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry, and served on the island for a number of years. Returning to his parent unit, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in April 1933. Eames subsequently transferred to the Royal Sussex Regiment, and served with the 7th Battalion as part of the British Expeditionary Force during the Second World War. He was captures and taken Prisoner of War on 21 May 1940 (see M.B.E. Recommendation), and held in captivity for the rest of the War. For his services leading up to his capture he was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire. He died at Ryde, Isle of Wight, on 10 September 1949. Sold with a postcard photograph of the recipient, and copied research.

Four: Rifleman C. R. Richardson, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), who was reported missing in action shortly after landing in Normandy on 26 June 1944, and later confirmed as a prisoner of war 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure, in card box of issued addressed to ‘Mr. C. R. Richardson, 113 Garwood St., South Shields, Co. Durham’, good very fine (4) £80-£100 --- Charles Robert Richardson was born on 13 July 1912. He enlisted at Tisbury, for the duration of the war on 30 September 1940, into 9th Battalion the Cameronians. He was originally reported missing in action on 26 June 1944, but was subsequently confirmed as having been taken prisoner of war, and was held at Stalag VIIIA (Gorlitz) and VIIIC (Sagan). The 9th Battalion Cameronians landed in Normandy at the Mulberry Harbour at Arromanches on 23 June, their first engagement, in which Rifleman Richardson was taken prisoner, was on 26 June when the battalion’s first objective was to capture the village of Haut du Bosq. Sold with a Cameronians white metal cap badge with plaid backing, two original Soldier’s Service and Pay Books (Army Book 64); original Soldier’s Pay Book (Active Service) (A.B. 64 Part II); original certificate of transfer to Army Reserve, dated 28 April 1946, original prisoner of war slip confirming that the recipient was captive and held at Camp VIIIC (Sagan - Silesia), with P.O.W. number 81244; and original German War-time P.O.W. worker’s identity card.

Victory Medal 1914-19 (10) (1812 Bmbr. W. Ramsey. R.A.; 52260 A. W. O. Cl. 2. J. G. Kingswood. R.E.; G-72579 Pte. W. C. Morris. The Queen’s R.; GS- 86167 Pte. W. G. T. Jones. R. Fus.; 45438 Pte. W. Sharman. Linc. R.; 62148 Pte. F. Lees. W. York. R.; 64974 Pte. J. W. Garside. York. R.; 61696 Pte. E. G. Parker. Ches. R.; 20893 Pte. A. E. Boyce. Y & L. R.; 030015 Pte. J. Waters. A.O.C.) ring missing and suspension poorly replaced on Morris’ medal, ring missing on Jones’ medal, some edge bruises, contact marks and verdigris, generally very fine (10) £70-£90 --- John George Kingswood attested for the Royal Engineers on 22 September 1914 and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 August 1915. Appointed Warrant Officer Class 2, he was discharged due to sickness, aged 46, on 25 February 1918 and awarded a Silver War Badge, No, 333,884. William Charles Morris attested for the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment during the Great War and served with the 2/4th Battalion. Frank Lees, a Colliery Driver from Great Wyrley, Staffordshire, attested for the Royal Field Artillery on 16 January 1917 during the Great War. He transferred to the West Yorkshire Regiment and served on the Western Front with the 3rd Battalion from 1 April 1918. He received a Gun Shot Wound to his neck and arm on 29 June 1918 and was discharged on 18 February 1919. James W. Garside attested for the Yorkshire (Green Howards) Regiment during the Great War, and serving with the 6th Battalion. Ernest George Parker attested for the Cheshire Regiment on 15 January 1916 and served during the Great War. He was discharged aged 30 on 8 July 1919 and awarded a Silver War Badge, No. B252325. Albert E. Boyce attested for the York and Lancaster Regiment and served during the Great War with the 6th Battalion in Egypt from 25 August 1915. He was discharged Class ‘Z’ on 28 April 1919. John Waters attested for the Army Ordnance Corps and served during the Great War. He was discharged Class ‘Z’ on 31 August 1919.

Canada Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (30372 W.O.2. S. Beard C.A.S.C.) second digit of number double-struck, polished and slightly worn, minor edge bruise, nearly very fine and scarce £400-£500 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919. Sidney Beard was born in London, England, in April 1882, and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Valcartier on 23 September 1914. Posted to the Canadian Army Service Corps, 1st Divisional Train, he served with them during the Great War on the Western Front, and was advanced Company Quarter Master Sergeant on 9 May 1917. For his services during the Great War he was awarded the Colonial Meritorious Service Medal; he also received a Silver War Badge. Demobilised in May 1919, he subsequently settled in London, Ontario, and died there in October 1960. Sold with copied research.

A large quantity of Documents, Wartime Photographs, and other Ephemera. Including a Commission Document appointing Theodore Francis Edwards a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps, dated 17 August 1935; Wartime photographs attributed to members of the Dunscombe family, specifically Sub Lieutenant E. W. Dunscombe, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (31 photographs); Lieutenant T. A. Dunscombe, Royal Artillery (4 photographs); and Dorothy Dunscombe, Auxiliary Territorial Force (4 photographs); Wartime photographs and Army Training Manuals attributed to Captain A. Thorne and Lieutenant P. Turnbull, both Grenadier Guards, principally related to bomb and mine laying and disposal; Documents and photographs relating to Flight Lieutenant F. M. Fuller, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve; a small lot of photographs attributed to the Samuels and Kirkland families of Newton le Willows, Yorkshire, together with a small silver R.A.F. wings sweetheart badge; and a Father and son pair of Metropolitan Police pension certificates and Metropolitan Police J. Hudson & Co., Whistles, to Police Constable H. Parker, ‘K’ (Bow) Division, and Police Constable H. A. Parker, ‘M’ (Southwark) Division, generally good condition (lot) £60-£80 --- Sold with copied research.

A selection of miscellaneous medals, including a Medallion to commemorate the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Ireland in 1868, this in poor condition; a Great War Tribute Medal from the Citizens of Lidcombe 1918, silver (Cpl. W. E. Simpson); a Great War Silver War Badge ‘132571’, with brass wound stripe; a London County Council ‘King’s Medal’ for good attendance, silver, 1 clasp, 1911-12 (F. Kitchen.), with an undated second clasp, and ‘L.C.C.’ top riband bar; a London County Council ‘King’s Medal’ for good attendance, bronze, 1 clasp, 1911-12 (M. Chatfield.), with ‘L.C.C.’ top riband bar; two Association of Conservative Clubs Distinguished Service Medals, bronze and enamel, the first with two ‘Five Years’ clasps, ‘M. J. Blades 1904’; the second with three ‘Five Years’ clasps, ‘H. Edmunds 1957’, both with top ‘Distinguished Service’ riband bars; a Salvation Army Long and Faithful Service Medal, silver and enamel, ‘Major George W. P. Read. 1917’; three Safe Driving Competition Badges, the first the War substitute for the Gold Medal, ‘E. A. Owen’, with top 1941 riband bar; the second a 5 years Driver Award, ‘E. A. Owen’, with top 1936 riband bar; the third a bronze medal for 25 Years, 1926-1950, ‘G. P. Lucking’, with additional clasps for 1951, 1952, 1953, and 1954, and top 1950 25 [Years] riband bar; a British Securicor Medal for Long Service, silver, unnamed; three National Saving Bank Long Service Badges, for 7 Years, 15 Years, and 20 Years; a Royal Irish Rangers 1689-1989 Commemorative Medal, unnamed; a Gordon Highlanders Glengarry cap badge; a Canadian lapel badge; a Yachtsman lapel badge; a George IV pendant with five miscellaneous tokens; a Royal Dublin Society silver oval medallion, ‘Spring Show 1939, Long Service Award, Edward Farrelly, 42 Years Service’; a U.S.S. Constellation Commissioning Medallion 1961, bronze; and a Pakistan Republic Medal 1956, generally very fine (lot) £100-£140

A German Great War Iron Cross group of five Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre; Bavaria, Military Merit Cross, Third Class breast badge, bronze, with crossed swords suspension; Germany, Cross of Honour 1914-18, combatant’s issue with swords, bronze, reverse marked ‘B10’; Bavaria, Army Jubilee Medal 1905, bronze; Long Service Medal, Third Class, for 9 Years’ Service, silvered, mounted German-style as worn, traces of verdigris to fourth, generally very fine and better (5) £100-£140

Italy, Kingdom, Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, Knight’s breast badge, without crown suspension, gilt and enamel; War Merit Cross (4), bronze; Allied Victory Medal, bronze; Commemorative Medal for the Great War (2), bronze; Fiume Medal 1926, bronze; East Africa Medal, bronze; Medal of Merit for Italian Schools Abroad, V.E.III.R., silver, in case of issue; together with an 11th Army Commemorative Cross, bronze and enamel, generally very fine (12) £140-£180

Miscellaneous German Third Reich and Associated Badges. Comprising a 1943 shooting award for Kries Volkmarkt with pin back suspension, Innsbruck maker marker marked on reverse side. The National Eagle shield for an army trophelm, pins missing. Olympic badge 1936 all white enamels with pin fixing. A very unusual 50 year National Faithful Service female wrap lapel miniature with its ribbon. A Dutch 1940 NSB medallion. Lapel Police pin with pin fixing. An unusual Spanish Falange lapel badge individually numbered 8177 on the reverse side with a stick pin with the image of General Franco. A very small 8mm miniature of the National Faithful Service Medal with lapel pin fixing. Hitler Mussolini joint meeting lapel badge, nice quality construction, pin back suspension fitted, generally good condition (10) £80-£100

WW1 Trench Art, British 1915 18 pounder Shell Casing turned into jug with smaller calibre shell cap with North Staffordshire regiment badge on one side and Army Service Corps badge on the other.

Two German cap visor eagles one for Luftwaffe and the other for the army and a navy stick pin lapel badge.

A World War II era British Army dress cap by Thomas & Stowe (London) and other items. The hat with gilt thread laurel leaves to brim and embroidered badge to cap, with a whistle, a stirrup, three gilt-metal badges and a buckle, in a metal hat box, together with three Royal Engineer's Badges.

A wooden plaque painted in regimental colours and bearing an affixed Victorian 10th Battalion Black Watch cap badge, together with an early 20th Century oak plaque painted in depiction of the badge of the Army Physical Training Corps, 22 cm x 18 cm

A family group with consecutive army numbers: a WWI pair, British War and Victory medals awarded to: 27454 Pte H T Hambly, D of Corn LI, framed with death plaque, buttons and badges, with photographs of Pte Hambly's wooden cross, (possibly taken at Parchim p-o-w camp), also a WWI pair to 27455 Pte E C Hambly D of Corn LI, with cap badge, a collection of photographs/postcards of prisoners of war at Mannschaftslager Parchim Camp, a pencil letter home from Pte E C Hambly (Claude) to his mother referring to his brother's death, other letters, postcards, post-WWI orders of memorial service, etc.

A Gordon Highlanders 'Bydand' badge, British Army military badge, plus two other similar badges.

A Collection of German 1st and 2nd World War Military Medals ( 5 ) Comprises 1/ World War I - Imperial Iron Cross Badge / Medal 1st Class, Third Reight Issued Example. 2/ World War I Iron Cross, Third Reight Issued. 3/ World War II German Army War Merit Cross with Ribbon. 4/ German World War II Winterschlacht Imosten 1914 - 1942 Medal. 5/ German World War II Original War Merit Medal ( Kriegsverdienst Medaille ) Instituted In 1940.

Overseas and Special Forces Badges and Titles including 2 x bullion embroidery 14th Army Formation ... Printed Airborne Forces Formation ... Embroidery Airborne Forces Formation ... Embroidery USA Canada Formation. Titles include 2 x bullion embroidery Chindit ... Embroidery Chindit ... 3 x bullion embroidery SEAC ... Embroidery New Zealand ... 2 x embroidery Special Air Service ... White metal, KC AAC cap badge ... 4 x embroidery Airborne rank stars. 20 items.

Badge and Medal Reference Books consisting British Army Proficiency Badges by Edwards & Langley ... Head-Dress Badges Of The British Army Vol 2 by Kipling & King ... Guidebook Of US Medals ... Complete Guide To All US Military Medals 1939-Present ... American Medals and Decorations.

Badge and Medal Orientated Books including Ribbons And Medals by Dorling ... Badges Of The British Army 1820-1960 by Wilkinson ... British Army Collar Badges 1881, printed by Churchill & Westlake ... Coronation & Royal Commemorative Medals 1887-1977 ... The Punjab Campaign 1848-1849.

Badge And Military Orientated Books including Military Shoulder Belt Plates & Buttons by Parkyn ... Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles by Westlake ... Buttons Of The British Army 1855-1970 by Ripley ... Officer Waist Belt Clasps 1855-1902 by Ryan ... British Gallantry Awards Of The Sherwood Foresters. Quantity.

Scottish Glengarry dark blue body with lower red, white and black checkered band. Black silk tails and badge backing. White metal Essex and Kent Scottish badge. Together with a post war, khaki woollen, Other Ranks service dress cap. Brass, QC Military Provost Staff Corps badge ... Records and Badges Of The British Army book printed 1895. Some damage. 3 items.

Small Selection of Formation Badges consisting pair embroidery Aldershot & Hants District ... Pair embroidery Hampshire County Div ... Pair embroidery 46th Div ... Bullion embroidery 1st Army ... Embroidery HQ 21st Army Group. Together with heavy embroidery QC Guards RSM arm badge ... White metal A & SH pouch badge. 15 items.

A HUGE SELECTION/COLLECTION OF BRITISH/GERMAN/WORLD MEDAL RIBBONS, together with buttons badges, Cap badges, in fact pretty much everything a Military Tailor would need to assist serving, or retired members of the Armed forces, there are rolls of virtually every Campaign medal, including Gallantry long service, etc, fixing bars, ribbon bars, inc lots of miniatures ribbons, together with lots of other items, two Military Berets, one with Cap badge fitted (Polish), Aircraft models, lead style horseback soldiers, a large bag of metal Crucifixs, also included is a case of wide ribbons/sashes possibly for use in the Freemasonry Community The history of this lot, is that the original owner of all the items, a Mr Czwarkiel ran an Army/Navy Surplus shop in Atherstone, Warwickshire, known as 'Amys Den', the polish owner would look after the needs of collectors and those who eneded his services with new ribbons, mounting, etc, although the shop has now closed and the owner sadly passed, we are now able to offer this splendid selection as one complete lot

A BOX OF MILITARY ITEMS WITH IRISH/UDR INTEREST, as follows, large camo painted metal Ammo box, British 80s period Army Kevlar? helmet with attached Riot see through face protector, complete with Camo cover etc, Army style green 'shemagh' RAF Beanie hat, black scarf, a 14th Btn Royal Irish Regiment bullion blazer badge, framed, a 11th (Craigavon Btn) UDR Wall plaque, a further 11th Btn wall plaque and three small arm patches, crossed rifles and 11 UDR

QUEEN VICTORIA ARMY LONG SERVICE GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL, swivel suspender, 2nd type Badge of Hanover omitted, named to 263 SHng Smth(Shoeing Smith) J. Patrick, 7th Dragoon Guards, medal has heavy edge knock on rim no ribbon

VICTORIAN ARMY LONG SERVICE GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL, 2nd type obverse Badge of Hanover named to 2284 Sergt Thoms (Thomas) Griffiths, 1st Btn 25th Foot

A BOX CONTAINING GERMAN 3RD REICH INSIGNIA, to include, Hitler Jugend Diamond Pin Badge, marked to reverese M1/8 & RZM, Hitler Jugend Shooting Profficiency Badge marked to reverse M1/102 & RZM, SS Totenkopf Skull,(copy?) small metal silver coloured Breast/Cap Eagle marked to reverse M1/120 & RZM, together with fur Rettung Aus Gefahr Medal, originally issued, before the emergance of the 3rd Reich, but re-instituted by the Reich for awarding in the cases of saving lives or facing extreme danger to do so, with ribbon and wearing ribbon, together with two DRL Badges silver and bronze marked H W ERNSTEIN-Jena German Ribbons and two British Army Articifer patches

A BOX OF VARIOUS MILITARY ITEMS AS FOLLOWS, Belgium medals, two Adminiastration medals, boxed, WW1 Croix Du Guerre, Gold order of the Crown, French WW1 Victory medal, Metal Parachute Regiment WW2 Beret Badge, three Womens Land Army pin badges, Para pin badges, two small alloy rings pin badge tin, letter opener in wood with plate stating from the HMS Valiant Jutland 1916 etc

A LARGE COLLECTION OF MILITARY/SHOOTING/FISHING CAMOUFLAGE UNIFORMS TO INCLUDE U.S. ARMY WITH DELTA FORCE BADGE, AND A KIT BAG

A BOER WAR PERIOD BOX CONTAINING NUMEROUS WORLD WAR I AND WORLD WAR II BADGES TO INCLUDE POLISH ARMY CAP BADGE, CALGARY HIGHLANDERS, SWB, BITS OF SHRAPNEL, INERT BULLETS, ETC

A vintage souvenir chatelaine, possibly Italian, white metal tests as silver, however, no hallmark. Also included is a quantity of buttons, Royal Marines, RAF, etc and a Royal Army corps cap badge.

Two WWI First World War Imperial German Army Officers wound badges comprising a Black (3rd Class) example for being wounded once or twice by hostile action and Silver (2nd class) for being wounded three or four times. Each badge depicting the Imperial German helmet at the forefront x2 crossed swords. Note; from a large private collection of militaria. Due to the nature of some items, buyers are reminded for the need to satisfy themselves as to originality / origin / condition prior to bidding, irrespective of any description. No guarantees are implied nor offered and all lots remain sold 'as is'. 

A collection of assorted WWII Second World War Third Reich Nazi German medals and badges to include; SA Horse Specialist badge, Mountain Police Ski Trainers badge mounted on field grey wool with a plate on the back, tri-colour shield badges for helmets and other Army and Luftwaffe badges. Note; from a large private collection of militaria. Due to the nature of some items, buyers are reminded for the need to satisfy themselves as to originality / origin / condition prior to bidding, irrespective of any description. No guarantees are implied nor offered and all lots remain sold 'as is'. 

A Vietnam War era Russian Infantry cap, as used by the North Vietnamese Army. Khaki wool construction with red piping and a People's Army of Vietnam badge to the red felt band.

An original WWII Second World War Third Reich Nazi German Officers full dress uniform with peaked cap and medals. The uniform comprising tunic / jacket with Lieutenant rank collar badges and epaulettes, First Class Iron Cross, General Assault badge and Demyansk Shield. The jacket with label for Berlin Makers Arthur Kuck to the inside lining. The peaked cap having a silvered aluminium Army eagle, bullion wire national tri-color cockade and twisted cord chin strap fastened in place by two pebbled buttons. Trousers size XXL. All contained within a brown wooden suitcase with Eagle Swastika stamp.

A WWI First World War British Army ( Essex Regiment ) peaked dress service cap. The khaki peaked cap with front cap badge depicting the Castle of Gibraltar and Sphinx on a tablet embossed ' EGYPT '. Stamped to the inside with a War Department inspection and 1915 date.

A 20th Century USAAF United States Air Force slouch hat. Firm felt construction with leather chin strap and central US Army badge.

An Elizabeth II Long Service Group of Four Medals, awarded to 23397959 DVR. G.W. STOREY RASC., comprising General Service Medal 1962 with three clasps MALAY PENINISULA, BORNEO and NORTHERN IRELAND, UN Medal for Cyprus, Golden Jubilee Medal 2002 and Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with REGULAR ARMY bar (SGT. RCT), court mounted, with the miniatures, together with a Pingat Jasa Malaysia Medal and miniature in fitted case, a UN sleeve badge and a US Military Intelligience medallion

A French Marine Infantry Colonel's Kepi, in black wool with gold gimp top and rank bands, gilt metal cap badge, gold lace chinstrap, black patent peak, black leather sweatband and cloth liner; three Soviet Russian Caps, comprising a black cloth beskozirka with cap tally and ribbon tails, a naval officer's peaked parade cap with white top and an army officer's peaked cap (4)

Major General Philip Thomas Tower, CB, DSO, MBE, GOC - a Part Uniform, comprising a No.1 blues tunic with staybrite buttons, rank pips, scarlet wool gorgets, medal ribbon bars and paratrooper sleeve insignia, a leather crossbelt and pouch badged to the Royal Artillery, a No.1 blues dress cap and a No.2 khaki service cap, each with bullion thread badge and leather chinstrap, a black wool Kangol beret with bullion thread cap badge, an Athol grey general officer's greatcoat with staybrite buttons and scarlet lining, a blue wool evening uniform cloak with scarlet lining, and a khaki greatcoat with leather football buttons - made by his wife and sent to him as a POW in Italy (he used this greatcoat as part of his escape outfit), together with ephemera including a copy of his obituary and the draft eulogy given at his funeral by his nephew Major General Michael Trenchard Tennant. (9)Footnote:- Philip Thomas Tower was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1937 and served with 25 Field Regiment RA in India until the outbreak of the Second World War. After a staff appointment with 4th Indian Division he rejoined 25th Field Regiment in the Western Desert as a battery commander. In June 1942, at Tobruck, he was forced to surrender to the Germans after his battery were surrounded when their ammunition ran out. His gallantry was later recognised by the awarding of the DSO. He was sent to a POW camp in Italy and made several attempts to escape, finally doing so whilst being transported from the battle zone to a prisoner of war compound. He dispatched his guard and jumped from the vehicle which was travelling at 40 mph. Two days later he staggered into a German workshop and was eventually returned to the Italians as a POW. He escaped again, this time successfully, although he was wounded in the chest by a mine. After he recovered from his ordeal and his wound he went on to qualify as a parachutist and was dropped at Arnhem with 1st Airborne Division. After the war he continued his career in the army and in 1967 was appointed GOC Middle East Land Forces tasked with the withdrawal of British Troops from South Arabia, and it was the town of Aden which was to provide the defining moment in his military career.No.1 dress tunic - 42" chest, 19" shoulder width, 27" sleeve length; No.1 dress cap measures 23" around sweatband; No.2 dress cap measures 22" around sweatband; beret size 59, Athol Grey greatcoat 44" chest, 19" shoulder width, 24 1/2" sleeve length; khaki greatcoat 44" chest, 19" shoulder width, 28 1/2" sleeve length; evening cape 24 1/2" sleeve length.

A pair of Royal Scots Major's braided epaulettes; a belt buckle for the Cameron Highlanders, another for the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders; a quantity of military cap badges to include the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Royal Artillery, Royal Scots Greys, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Royal Leicestershire Regt., Dorsetshire Regt., the Black Watch, Gordon Highlanders, Seaforth Highlanders; and a Northern Lighthouse Keeper's cap badge Condition Report:Available upon request

French 1970's Officers Army/Foreign Legion Garrison Side Cap with American Vietnam War era "Support" badge attached, size 60 and makers stamp inside 'Scecam Bernay.' The cap made of a dark blue serge material with red piping and top.

Soviet Russian Cold War era collection including: Russian Federation 1990s/2000s Army MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs Badge, Cuban Airborne Parachute Jump Qualification Badge, Soviet Russian Armed Forces Advance Guards (aka Red Guard) Badge, New Russian Communist Party (aka Working Russia) membership pin, Russian Federation Imperial Crest Pin Badge, Russian Soviet USSR Submariner/Staff Members Breast Badge, VDV and MVD service badges, WWII Commemorative medals, various Space Race pin badges, Russian Soviet Cold War Era Fuel and Supply Pipeline Troop Officers (Lieutenant Rank) epaulettes for the service wear uniforms and a Russian Soviet Naval winter black fur ushanka hat, label inside and is size 64, in very good condition. An excellent collection

A FIRST WORLD WAR PAIR AND MEMORIAL PLAQUE TO THE ARMY CYCLIST CORPS. A Great War pair comprising War Medal and Victory Medal named to 20512 E.S. Wilkinson A. Cyc Corps. the plaque to Sam Wilkinson. Mounted in a glazed frame with Army Cyclist Corps cap badge. Sam Wilkinson from Halifax, Yorkshire rose to the rank of Lance Corporal before being killed in action on the 8th September 1917 whilst serving with the 18th Battalion of the Army Cyclists Corp. He is buried at the Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery West of Ypres. He also served as number 3137 with the West Riding Division Cyclists Corps.Maximum dimensions 44 x 34cm. With a collection of printed research including an image of the recipient's headstone and an obituary "I am sorry to say he was killed on the 8th inst. in the very early morning by a hostile bomb. ... I, along with several of his comrades, buried him in a quiet cemetery well behind the lines. ... I feel his absence sincerely, for we were the only two, about here from the same village.". *CR Not examined out of the frame.

A framed group of WWII medals awarded to Staff SGT Clarence Kall . Royal Army Corps. To include the mertitorious service medal , other general service medals , a cap badge and a picture , frame size37.5cm x 40cm

A large collection of Victoria 1887 and 1897 Diamond Jubilee commemorative medals, medallions, medalets, brooches and badgesto include 1887:to include a cased silver-gilt and enamel Albert Edward Prince of Wales medal on ribbon, Army and Navy silvered medal on ribbon town medals: Biddlestone and Slaughterford, Birmingham, Borough of Brighton, School Children of Dover, Exeter x2, Hornsey, Borough of Guildford x 2, Borough of Kidderminster, Middlesborough x2. Borough of Oldham, Norwich x 2, Stockton-Upon-Tees and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight; a gilt embossed card shield shaped Northampton badge, The Queen Jubilee Puzzle advertising The Perfect Timekeeper 10/6-The Waterbury Watch, etc., 1897:cased silver Glasgow Children's Fete medallion, two other examples of the same medallion in bronze, Liverpool silver Jubilee medal on ribbon, three Metropolitan Police Jubilee medals on ribbons, Army and Navy medal by Spink on ribbon, Town jubilee medals: Central Wards of Rawtenstall, Burton-On-Trent, Lymington, Norwich Middlesborough, Peterborough, Wigan x3; Advertising medals and tokens: Western Gazette and Pullman News Newspapers, two Epps's Cocoa aluminium tokens, A.I Cakes Far Famed Cakes & Biscuits are THE Best, Mellin's Food, Money Lent by Gibson 346 Victoria St. Grimsby; various others some enamelled, other on ribbons, tokens, a rosette etc., (qty)various Condition: Varying condition, from good to rubbed. Viewing recommended in person