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Click here to subscribeA collection of military and other cap badges to include the Lancashire Fusiliers, The Border Regiment, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Manchester Regiment, West Yorkshire, also some cloth badges for the Royal Army Service Corps, etc, brass button polisher and two berets, one with possible recent paratrooper badge, the other with Royal Army Service Corps.
An RMS Lusitania boxed German medal, a Continental 900 grade silver necklace pendant with wings under a crown to the centre and inscribed 'KLM', a WVS Civil Defence badge, two Gordon Highlanders cap badges, various other silver and enamel military badges, and a Royal Army Service Corps badge (10).
British Army WW1 ephemera relating to Eric Jack Dee, who enlisted into the Gloucestershire Regiment and subsequently transferred to the Worcestershire Regiment, including letters from home in Cainscross, Stroud, War Badge, award paperwork, Discharge Certificate and Officer Training Corps papers. Also a WW1 1914-1915 Star named to Pete P C Merrett, Gloucester Regiment, unnamed War Medal etc
British Army WW1 medal trio comprising 1914-1915 Star, War Medal and Victory Medal named to 15258 Pte A Eden, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, together with a Territorial Efficiency Medal for 180919 Pte N E Eden, Royal Army Service Corps, sports medals, Loyal Service badge etc
Sixteen various cap badges including 7th QO Hussars, 5th Inniskilling Dgn Gds, 23rd Hussars, Machine Gun Corps, pre 1920 Army Pay Corps, Intelligence Corps, and officers bronze Ryl Artillery (bronze worn, no prongs); a United Nations enamelled beret badge; 14 various collars, titles etc; two brass WBCs, of the Scots Guards and Universal pattern with QVC; and 28 cloth items, many of them reproduction. Average GC £40-60
Two WWII Third Reich first pattern Wehrpasses, one to Unteroffizier in the Luftwaffe, who completed 4 years service in 1939, later rejoined the Luftwaffe, was awarded Reich Sports badge and 4 years Long Service Medal in 1939, together with a Good Conduct Certificate; the second to a Medical Doctor, who joined the Army in 1936, served in numerous different hospitals, saw service in Russia 1941-43, ending as a Captain in the Medical Corps, was awarded War Merit Cross 2nd Class with swords and Russian Front Medal, received Wehrmacht Fuhrerschein in 1941 and after the war was granted an Exemption Certificate to return his medal instruments and furniture so that he could continue his practice, both of these documents are with the Wehrpass; also two WWI and two WWII death cards, a post card of troops marching and a photograph of troops marching "at ease" behind a standard bearer. Average GC £40-60
An assortment of various cap badges, to include Glider Pilot Regiment, Navy, Army & Air Force Institutes (NAAFI), The Hertfordshire Regiment, Royal Marines (Gaunt London), plastic Home Guard by A Stanley & Sons, National Motor Volunteers (JR Gaunt London), RAVC, V-Force (JR Gaunt London), Singapore Guard Regiment, Mechanised Transport Corps, Long Range Desert Group, a silver Popski's Private Army badge, stamped Birmingham 1952 by LB & B Co, plus a selection of pips and other items (parcel)
Order of St John Serving Brother's breast badge, 1939-1945 Star, Africa Star First Army Clasp, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medal and Service Medal of the Order of St John, base metal and three bars Pte W Cane Somerset SJAB and miscellaneous cap and other badges, shoulder titles, buttons and documents Condition
WWII and post-war MBE group of nine, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Member's Breast Badge Military Division, 1939-1945 Star, Burma Star, War Medal, India Service Medal, Coronation Medal 1953, Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal and Efficiency Medal, Territorial suspender 4606563 C Sjt G H Machen DWR [on LS and GC, 22267754 WO CL2 G H Machen MBE DWR on last], mounted court style with one other medal and various silver and bronze marksmanship awards and cap and other badges Captain George Herbert Machen (1911-2000) of Huddersfield, Yorkshire. He enlisted in 1923 and served with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment for 44 years Condition
A Group of World War I, World War II and other Medals, belonging to Corp. G Dunn T-1954 Army Service Corps, comprising 1914-1915 star, 1914-1919 Peace Medal, George V 1914-1918 war medal, George VI World War II Defence Medal and a Victoria St Johns Ambulance Medal with two bars, also a silver and enamel St Johns Ambulance Medal in case, a chain commemorating 1946-1962 in St Johns Ambulance, George V and Queen Mary Silver Jubilee Medal and 1915 Woolwich Arsenal on war service lapel badge no. 90553
A group of assorted militaria, primarily collected by Captain F. Vincent (KSLI) in the lead-up to and during the Second World War: comprising a Japanese prayer flag constructed of parachute silk, extensively signed; a Japanese seal inscribed 'Yoshida'; a photograph of a Japanese soldier and a photograph of a Japanese solider's sweetheart or fiance;a group of King's Shropshire Light Infantry items - Brass Duty bed plate, Attestation Papers and Permanent Pass (named to 403040 Vincent F.); embroidered patch; cap badge; single shoulder title; KSLI Depot Permanent Orders; a letter granting Vincent honorary rank of Captain on 12th December 1945; a 1st Btn KSLI reunion letter with a list of the known members between 1930-40; together with Vincent's birth certificate; Regular Army Certificate of Service; Soldier's Service Pay Book NHS Medical Card, letter of character recommendation and a Manual of Operations on the North-West Frontier of India. Sold together with other items including a King's South Africa Rifles cap badge; a War Department oral thermometer in a white metal case, together with a similar US example; a 38th (Welsh) Infantry Division formation patch; Lewis Machine Gunner's qualification patch; "Greetings from East Africa" postcard; Small Arms Training Vol. 1931; Educational Training 1931; Manual of Elementary Drill (All Arms) 1931; Field Service Regulations Vol. 2 1935; Health Memoranda for Soldiers East African Army Exhibition Official Programme (Nairobi, August 25th - September 3rd 1944) further literature etc. Notes: Captain Frederick Vincent enlisted at Pontypridd on 23rd April 1929 with service number 4031040. Before the Second World War, he served with the KSLI both at home and in India for over 7 years.
The Der Ahnenpass (Ancestor Pass) of Obereichsleiter Kreisleiter Dr. Arthur Kolb (b. 1885 - d. 1945) hardback 48-page booklet, complete, divided into sections where family histories are documented and officially stamped, the first page further inscribed 'Oberbereichsleiter Kreisleter Dr. Arthur Friedr. Ludw. Kobl, Amberg, Archivstr. 5/I. Sold together with a black and white photograph of Dr. Kolb and an envelope written in Kolb's hand. An Ahnenpass was a standard booklet issued in the Third Reich in Germany. In it, people recorded their Ayran ancestry, which they were required to trace back at least four generations to avoid being categorized as Jewish. Notes: Dr Kolb was a German dentist and National Socialist. He served with the Corps Baruthia during the early part of the First World War before switching to dentistry. He qualified in 1919 and went on to receive his doctorate in medical dentristry in 1920. In 1929, he went to work in the Upper Palatinate, first to Grafenwoehr and then to Amberg in 1927. He is believed to have taken part in the suppression of the Bavarian Soviet Republic in Nuremberg and took part in the Kapp Putsch in March 1920. After its failure, he turned to the Völkisch movement and first became a member of the Deutschvolkisher Schutz-und-Trutzbund. In 1926, he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party. As a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), he took on the duties of an adjutant to a Standartenfuhrer. He was, among other things, a Reich speaker and a Gau dental special consultant. From March 1923 until his death in 1945, he also sat as a member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP. From 1933, he headed the Bavarian state office of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Germany and the state association of dentists. He was involved in the National Socialist German Doctors' Association and the Reichsbund der Kinderreichen, which awarded him the honorary leader's ring and badge of honour. In April 1945, as the district leader of Amberg, he refused to capitulate by handing over the town and was therefore shot by soldiers of the United States Army.
Spr William J Gaunt Royal Engineers, a Desert Rats medal group comprising Africa Star with 8th Army clasp, France & Germany star, 1939-45 star, BWM and Defence medal. Also included is Gaunts RE cap badge, a Desert Rats sleeve patch and a large quantity of related photographs and ephemera, together with a North African dagger collector in Egypt. P&P Group 2 (£18+VAT for the first lot and £3+VAT for subsequent lots)
SILVER AIRSHIP PILOT WINGS A very rare silver badge issued to pilots of the U.S. Army's airship program in the 1930's, thru the first two years of the war. Wings are 1.5 in. long, circa 1930s, featuring a dirigible airship at the center of a pair of wings, with a wire pin back and rolling clasp on the reverse, and marked with a raised 'Sterling' hallmark. The U.S. Army Airship Program was used primarily for search and patrol operations in support of coastal fortifications and border patrols, and operated from 1908 to 1937. It is widely believed that there were only around 70 U.S. Army airship pilots in total. Slightly tarnished else very fine.
A post-War ‘Church Army’ O.B.E. pair awarded to Miss Katherine J. Inglis The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt, on lady’s bow riband, in Royal Mint case of issue; Defence Medal, good very fine (2) £120-£160 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1957: ‘Honorary Secretary for Women’s Work, the Church Army’ Katherine Jane Inglis was born in 1900 and died in 1993. The family archive is held by Cumbria Archives and includes various papers relating to the recipient, including her account of the 1953 Coronation. Sold with the Bestowal Document for the O.B.E.
A post-War ‘Scouting’ O.B.E. pair awarded to Captain B. D. Fairgrieve, Royal Army Medal Corps, who was Regimental Medical Officer to the 2nd/6th Gurkha Rifles The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (Lt. B. D. Fairgrieve. R.A.M.C.); together with an unofficial National Service Medal and the three miniature awards, nearly extremely fine (3) £200-£240 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 14 June 1989: ‘For services to the Scout Association in Blair Atholl, Tayside’ Brian David Fairgrieve was born in Cambusland and educated at Gresham House Boarding School, Glasgow Academy and Glasgow University. After 18 months at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in Singapore and Malaya as regimental medical officer with 2nd/6th Gurkha Rifles. Fairgrieve, who described this time as ‘one of the best experiences of my life’, survived a convoy ambush in which the Gurkhas killed six terrorists. Further appointments followed at Killearn Hospital, the Western Infirmary, Stobhill Hospital and Falkirk Royal Infirmary, latterly as general surgeon. In addition to his scouting work, as medical officer and a District Commissioner, Fairgrieve lectured and examined at the Scottish Police College and was a Deputy Lieutenant from 1972. He died in 2010. Sold with copied research and a copied group photograph in Klulang, 1953.
Three: Private A. Rawlings, Royal Fusiliers 1914 Star (8325 Pte. A. Rawlings. 4/R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (SR-8325 Pte. A. Rawlings. R. Fus.) good very fine (3) £80-£100 --- Alexander Rawlings was born in St. Giles, London, in 1890 and attested for the Army Reserve at Stratford, Essex, on 13 October 1908, having previously served in the 7th Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Mobilised on 8 August 1914, he served with the 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 November 1914, and suffered from tubercle of the lung brought in Belgium at the end of 1914. He was discharged, permanently unfit for medical service, on 23 February 1915, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold with copied record of service and Medal Index Card.
A Great War M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Honorary Major E. S. Woodiwiss, Canadian Army Medical Corps, late 47th Company 13th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, a was a noted breeder of cats, dogs and cattle The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (14105 Sgt. E. S. Woodiwiss, 47th Coy. 13th Impl: Yeo:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 1 clasp, South Africa 1902 (Capt. E. S. Woodiwiss, I.Y.); 1914 -15 Star (Capt: E. S. Woodiwiss Can: A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Hon. Major E. S. Woodiwiss.); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Major E. S. Woodiwiss, A.M.C. 1917’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1913, complete with top suspension bar, mounted for display, good very fine (7) £800-£1,000 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. C.A.F. Decoration G.O. 76 of 15 September 1917. Edwin Sydney Woodiwiss was born at Derby on 13 December 1871, the youngest of 10 children born to Sir Abraham and lady Emma Woodiwiss. He served in the ranks of the Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War and was taken prisoner upon the surrender of the 13th Imperial Yeomanry following the disaster at Lindley in May 1900. Sent to Barberton as a special prisoner, he was released upon the surprise arrival of General French on 13 September 1900. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry in March 1901, was promoted to Lieutenant in May 1901 and to Captain in November 1901. After a move to western Manitoba in 1903, Captain Woodiwiss signed Attestation papers to join the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 25 September 1914, serving with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He finished the war in the rank of Major and was awarded the M.B.E. in 1919. Woodiwiss left an impressive legacy in the cat fancy with his commitment to the Siamese breed, both before and after the First World War; later in the 1930s, he was to play an important part in establishing a solid basis for the breeding of the Abyssinian breed which was to see unforeseen devastation during the coming war. Prior to the Boer War, he was recognised as a breeder of prize-winning Dachshund and Schipperke dogs, and was also a well-known breeder of the diminutive Dexter breed of cattle, winning many major awards. This small herd of just twenty cattle was put up for sale two months after he departed for South Africa to service during the second Boer War. Major Woodiwiss died in North London on 13 December 1940, and is buried in St Laurence’s Churchyard at Upminster, in the same grave as an infant daughter from his first marriage.
A Great War ‘Civil Division’ M.B.E. group of four awarded to Phyllis Hermione, the Honourable Mrs. Arthur Coke, later Lady Howard-Vyse, who served with the Young Men’s Christian Association during the Great War The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type lady’s shoulder badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1917, on 2nd type lady’s bow riband; British War Medal 1914-20 (Hon. Mrs. P. H. Coke.); Defence Medal; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband, in card box of issue; together with the related miniature awards, these mounted as worn, the MBE on 2nd type riband, and both the MBE and Coronation Medal on bow ribands, good very fine (4) £300-£400 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 15 March 1918: ‘For services in connection with the War in France, Egypt and Salonika.’ Phyllis Hermione, the Honourable Mrs. Arthur Coke, later Lady Howard-Vyse, was born Miss Phyllis Hermione Drury at Sydenham Hill, Surrey, on 28 August 1885 and married the Hon. Arthur Coke, second son of Viscount Coke (later the 3rd Earl of Leicester), on 10 May 1906. She served during the Great War with the Young Men’s Christian Association at Abbeville from 1915 to 1918 (entitled to the British War Medal only), and for her services in charge of the Y.M.C.A. arrangements at 3rd Army Rest Camp was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire. The Hon. Arthur Coke served during the Great War initially in the Royal Horse Guards on the Western Front, before transferring to the Armoured Cars Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and was in charge of three Maxim machine-guns on the S.S. River Clyde during the Gallipoli Landings, 25 April 1915. He was killed in action during the Battle of Krithis on 2 May 1915; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey. Mrs. Coke remarried the army officer Richard Howard-Vyse in Cairo on 15 October 1925. Knighted in 1935, and advanced Major-General, he subsequently served as Honorary Colonel of the Royal Horse Guards, and was Gold Stick in Waiting at the Coronation of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. He died in December 1962. Lady Howard-Vyse died at Newbury, Berkshire, on 22 September 1976. Her only son, Anthony Coke, succeeded his cousin to the Earldom of Leicester in 1976. Sold with copied research.
Three: Private I. Pepper, Royal Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (10785 Pte. I. Pepper, R. Fus,); British War and Victory Medals (10785 Pte. I. Pepper. R. Fus.) very fine Three: Private W. G. Evans, Army Service Corps 1914-15 Star (DM2-112482 Pte. W. G. Evans. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (DM2-112482 Pte. W. G. Evans. A.S.C.) light contact marks, very fine (6) £70-£90 --- Isaac Pepper attested for the Royal Fusiliers and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 2 June 1915. He later transferred to the Labour Corps and was discharged Class Z Reserve on 26 February 1919. William George Evans attested for the Army Service Corps on 19 July 1915 and served with the Motor Transport Section during the Great War on the Western Front from 26 September 1915. He was discharged due to sickness on 24 March 1917 and was awarded a Silver War Badge, No. 156,601. Sold with copied research.
Three: Private D. A. Davies, Royal West Kent Regiment 1914-15 Star (3293 Pte. D. A. Davies, R.W. Kent R.); British War and Victory Medals (3293 Pte. D. A. Davies. R.W. Kent R.) good very fine Three: Corporal T. Harrington, Army Service Corps 1914-15 Star (21946 Pte. (A. Cpl.) T. Harrington. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medal (21946 Cpl. T. Harrington. A.S.C.) mounted as worn, good very fine Four: Private A. S. Burwood, Royal West Surrey Regiment British War and Victory Medals (G-69337 Pte. A. S. Burwood. The Queen’s R.); Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Alfred S. Burwood.); together with the recipient’s cap badge and unit insignia, good very fine Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 1st issue (Randle George Shenton); together with a large Commemorative Medallion for the Diamond Jubilee 1897, 76mm, white metal, pierced at 12 o’clock; and a miscellaneous ‘Unguibus et Rostro’ Medal, silver and enamel, the reverse numbered ‘006’, in fitted case, the medallion fine; the other two medals extremely fine (13) £120-£160 --- David A. Davies attested for the Royal West Kent Regiment and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 31 August 1915. He subsequently transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery and was discharged Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 15 March 1919. Thomas Harrington attested for the Army Service Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 December 1915. He subsequently transferred to the Labour Corps, and was discharged Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 28 February 1919.
Family Group: Three: Lieutenant S. R. Perry, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, late Honourable Artillery Company, who was killed in action at Gincy on 17 September 1916 1914-15 Star (2298 Pte. S. R. Perry. H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. S. R. Perry.) good very fine Pair: Captain L. B. Perry, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. L. B. Perry.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘B45550’, nearly extremely fine Pair: The Reverend Canon H. C. Perry, Royal Army Chaplains’ Department British War and Victory Medals (Rev. H. C. Perry.) mounted as worn, very fine (7) £300-£400 --- Stephen Ralph Perry was born in 1893, the son of the Rev. Samuel Edgar Perry, Vicar of Littleport, Ely, and was educated at Tonbridge School. Following the outbreak of the Great War he enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company on 8 September 1914, and served with the 1st Battalion on the Western Front from 23 January 1915. Commissioned temporary Second Lieutenant, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, on 16 January 1916, he served with the 12th Battalion in the Ypres Salient, and then on the Somme, and was killed in action at Ginchy on 17 September 1916: ‘That morning, the Germans made a strong counter-attack and occupied a portion of our trench. Lieutenant Perry promptly led two platoons across the open, and after some very sharp fighting the trench was recovered, but whilst directing operations on the top of the parapet he was struck simultaneously by a bomb ands a rifle bullet, and died five minutes later. The two subalterns who were under him were both awarded the Military Cross. His Commanding Officer wrote: “A more gallant officer never came to France. He was a universal favourite, and we all feel his loos deeply. I saw his end, and a better one no man could wish for. He was most gallantly leading his men against the enemy and appeared to be utterly regardless of his own safety, when he was struck by several bullets... I do hope it will be some comfort to you to know that, as he had to go, the end came in such a way that you can always most justly think of him with the greatest pride”.’ Perry was buried at Ginchy, near to where he fell. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France. Lionel Banks Perry was born on 31 December 1884, the son of the Rev. Samuel Edgar Perry, and brother of the above, and was educated at Tonbridge School and Queens’ College, Cambridge. He undertook his medical training at St. Thomas’s Hospital (House Surgeon 1909-10), and was commissioned temporary Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 16 May 1917. He served during the Great War in Salonika attached to the 80th Field Ambulance, 26th Division from 28 June 1917, before being invalided home with malaria in 1918. He relinquished his commission on account of ill health contracted on active service on 30 November 1918, and was granted the honorary rank of Captain. He died, accidentally drowned, at Mundelsey, Norfolk, on 18 July 1926. The Reverend Canon Henry Charles Perry was born in 1887, the son of the Rev. Samuel Edgar Perry, and brother of both of the above, was educated at Tonbridge School and Queens’ College, Cambridge. Ordained Deacon in 1911, and priest in 1912, he was appointed Chaplain at Bedford School in 1913, and served during the Great War as a temporary Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, from 1917. He later served a Rural Dean of Bedford, 1944-48, and was appointed an Honorary Canon of St. Albans in 1951. Sold with extensive copied research.
A Second War ‘Italy’ M.B.E. group of ten awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel T. H. Emmett, Royal Signals, later Royal Army Ordnance Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches for Korea The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major. T. H. Emmett. M.B.E. R.A.O.C.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Militia, with Second Award Bar (2322966 W.O. Cl.2 T. H. Emmett. R. Signals.) mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s related miniature awards, these similarly mounted as worn; and the recipient’s Royal Tournament Prize medal, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘1st Prize Tug of War 130 Stone Major T. Emmett. M.B.E. 9 Bn. R.A.O.C. 1948’, all housed in a fitted case, generally good very fine (10) £700-£900 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 13 December 1945: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy.’ The original Recommendation states: ‘In his capacity of Staff Officer Stores to C.S.O. Lines of Communication, Captain Emmett has been responsible for the siting and stocking of forward dumps and for arrangements for delivery of stores as required by units employed on the construction and installation of the main telecommunication system. It is in a large measure due to the outstanding energy, ability, and enthusiasm with which he has carried out his duties that it was possible to commence work on the three main constructions north of Bologna immediately after the capture of that city and to maintain them in such a measure as to ensure an exceptionally rapid completion of the main telecommunication system in Italy.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 2 May 1952: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Korea during the period 1 July to 31 December 1951.’ Thomas Henry Emmett attested for the Royal Corps of Signals and served in the ranks during the Second World War, being advanced Regimental Sergeant Major. Appointed Quartermaster and commissioned temporary Lieutenant on 12 August 1943, he served as Staff Officer Stores with the rank of temporary Captain with the Lines of Communication in Italy, and for his services during the Second World War was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire. Granted a permanent commission as Lieutenant on 13 July 1946, Emmett was awarded the Second Award Bar to his Efficiency Medal in May 1947, before transferring to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps with the rank of Major on 12 November 1948. He saw further service with the R.A.O.C. in Korea, being Mentioned in Despatches, and was promoted to his ultimate rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on 12 April 1954. Sold with the recipient’s aluminium identity disc, ‘309563 Emmett T H CE’; riband bar for the final four awards; and a Royal Army Ordnance Corps badge.
Three: Second Lieutenant W. B. Hunter, Tank Corps, late Army Cyclist Corps, who was twice wounded during the Battle of Messines in July 1917 1914-15 Star (10507 Pte. W. B. Hunter. A. Cyc. C.); British War and Victory Medals (10507 Pte. W. B. Hunter. A. Cyc. Corps.); together with the recipient’s Tank Corps badge, nearly extremely fine Pair: Private G. Kravanger, Army Cyclist Corps British War and Victory Medals (7688 Pte. G. Kravanger. A. Cyc. Corps.) good very fine (5) £80-£100 --- William Bordass Hunter, a native of Maryport, Cumberland, attested for the Northumberland Fusiliers on 11 September 1914. Posted to the Army Cyclist Corps on 1 September 1915, he served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 November 1915; his service records note that he saw action on the Somme on 1 July 1916 with the 32nd Division. Transferring to “B” Battalion, Tank Corps on 24 December 1916 he saw further action at Messines on 7 June 1917 and at Ypres where he was wounded twice on 31 July 1917. He was hospitalised in the U.K. from 3 August 1917 to October 1917 after which he served at home with the Depot Battalion, Tank Corps. Posted to No. 24 Officer Cadet Battalion at Winchester on 5 April 1918, he was granted a temporary commission into the Tank Corps on 8 October 1918, after which he served in the U.K. Gerrard Kravanger was born in Southwark, London, on 1 June 1885, the son of Gerrett J. Kraaivanger, a Dutch national, and served during the Great War with the Army Cyclist Corps. He died in Surrey on 18 August 1959. Sold with copied research.
Four: Colour-Sergeant L. J. Serra, 12th (The Rangers) Battalion, London Regiment, later Royal Garrison Artillery, who was wounded at St. Julien on 24 April 1915 1914-15 Star (2684 Pte. L. J. Serra. 12-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2684 C.Sjt L. J. Serra. 12-Lond. R.); Defence Medal, mounted as worn, contact marks, good very fine Pair: Second Lieutenant N. Foskett, Machine Gun Corps, late 28th (Artist’s Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment, who was twice wounded on the Western Front British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. N. Foskett.); together with the recipient’s Artists Rifles cap badge, good very fine (6) £100-£140 --- Leon John Serra, a Building Surveyor from Marylebone, Middlesex, was born in Swanwick, Hampshire in 1887 and attested for the 12th (The Rangers) Battalion, London Regiment on 7 September 1914. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 9 March 1915 and received shell wounds to his head and foot at St. Julien on 24 April 1915. Appointed Acting Corporal on 24 July 1915, he joined the Potential Officer’s Course at Woolwich on 26 June 1917, the same day transferring as a Fitter Staff Sergeant into the Royal Garrison Artillery. After further service in Egypt, he was demobilised on 14 February 1919. He died in Marylebone on 12 October 1951. Noel Foskett, a Solicitor from Forest Hill, London, was born on 27 December 1889 and attested for the 28th (Artist Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment on 15 December 1915. He was transferred to the Army Reserve the following day before mobilisation on 5 December 1916. Discharged to a temporary commission in the Machine Gun Corps on 25 September 1917, he served with the 15th Company, Machine Gun Corps on the Western Front from 3 November 1917, with whom he was wounded on 29 June 1918. After a period of leave in the U.K. he was further wounded on 19 October 1918, and was demobilised on 23 March 1919. He died in Lewes, Sussex, in June 1967. Sold with copied research.
Three: Private C. Dutch, Army Service Corps 1914-15 Star (SS-20555 Pte. C. Dutch. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (SS-20555 Pte. C. Dutch. A.S.C.); together with a School Board for London Attendance Medal, 1901, V.R., white metal, the reverse engraved ‘G. Dutch.’; and an A.S.C. cap badge, good very fine Pair: Private A. Whittingham, South Lancashire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 13 April 1918 British War and Victory Medals (265451 Pte. A. Whittingham. S. Lan. R.) edge bruising, nearly very fine Pair: Private J. Whittingham, Welsh Regiment British War and Victory Medals (37314 Pte. J. Whittingham. Welsh R.) minor edge bruising, very fine British War Medal 1914-20 (2/Lieut. C. H. Whittingham. R.A.F.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (41686 Cpl. T. L. Whittingham. The Queen’s R.); Royal Navy L.S. & GC., E.II.R., 2nd issue (K.953898 R. Whittingham. LM(E). HMS Eagle.) good very fine (11) £160-£200 --- Charles Dutch attested for the Army Service Corps in London on 13 October 1915, aged 44, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 to 30 November 1915. He was discharged on 11 February 1916, physically unfit for war service, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. Arthur Whittingham was born in Ancoats, Lancashire, and attested for the South Lancashire Regiment at Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 13 April 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Cecil Hall Whittingham was born in Bickerton, Cheshire, on 5 July 1892 and attested initially for the Denbighshire Yeomanry, serving with the 1st Battalion during the Great War, before transferring to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force on 9 August 1918. Posted to 142 Squadron on 20 September 1918, he served with them during the latter stages of the Great War in Palestine, before transferring to the Unemployed List on 5 July 1919. Sold with copied research.
Pair: Sapper A. Mann, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (530367 Spr. A. Mann. R.E.) good very fine Pair: Private S. Lunn, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (DM2-096517 Pte. S. Lunn. A.S.C.) edge bruising to VM, otherwise very fine Pair: Private A. Mathieson, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (64961 Pte. A. Mathieson. R.A.M.C.) edge bruise to BMW, very fine 1914-15 Star (S-10 Pte. L. Byrne. Rif: Brig:) nearly very fine (7) £100-£140 --- Lawrence Byrne attested for the Rifle Brigade and served with the 10th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 July 1915. He was discharged on 17 January 1919 and was awarded a Silver War Badge.
Pair: Temporary Corporal L. R. Flavell, Australian Imperial Force British War and Victory Medals (18453 T-Cpl. L. R. Flavell Cps. Sig. Coy. A.I.F.) both in named card boxes of issue, nearly extremely fine Pair: Private A. Marshall, New Zealand Expeditionary Force British War and Victory Medals (47277 Pte. A. Marshall. N.Z.E.F.) traces of verdigris to VM, otherwise nearly extremely fine Four: A. Lebas, Australian Merchant Navy 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal, all officially named ‘A. Lebas. M.N.’, mounted as worn, very fine Four: H. A. Thain, Australian Forces 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal, all officially named ‘SX31881 H. A. Thain’; together with the recipient’s Returned from Active Service Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘A48356’, good very fine War Medal 1939-45 (NX202270 M. B. Mac Kenzie) with named Australian Army enclosure, in card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr M. B. Mackenzie, c/o Seaman’s Unit, Rincon Annex P.O., San Francisco, California, U.S.A.’, extremely fine (13) £140-£180
Pair: Private R. H. Cooksey, Kent Cyclist Battalion, later Royal West Kent Regiment British War Medal 1914-20 (G-20792 Pte. R. H. Cooksey. Kent Cyc Bn.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (G-20792 Pte. R. H. Cooksey. R.W. Kent R.) extremely fine (2) £80-£100 --- Robert Henry Cooksey was born in Walworth, London, on 1 July 1880 and attested for the Army Service Corps on 11 December 1915. Mobilised on 1 December 1916 he transferred to the Kent Cyclist Battalion on 18 March 1917, ands served with them during the Great War in India. He saw later service during the Third Afghan War on the North West Frontier from 15 May 1919, and was discharged on 31 March 1920. He died in Wiltshire on 8 October 1950. Sold with the recipient’s two card identity discs; and a Royal West Kent other ranks cap badge and cloth shoulder title.
Four: Lance-Sergeant R. H. Foster, Royal Sussex Regiment, who was Mentioned in Despatches for gallant deeds with the British Expeditionary Force in 1940, the recommendation originally for a gallantry medal, and was later wounded in the Western Desert 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £140-£180 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 20 December 1940. The recommendation, originally for either a D.C.M. or a M.M., states: ‘Both in the battles of Anseghem and Caestre, Private Richard Henry Foster acted as an orderly between Battalion Headquarters and his own Company Headquarters. At all times he carried messages and orders regardless of his own safety, and with instant readiness. His example was an inspiration to those around him throughout these actions.’ Richard Henry Foster was born in December 1918, and witnessed active service in the 4th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment in France in 1940, his unit comprising part of 133rd Infantry Brigade in the 44th (Home Counties) Division which landed in France on 9 April 1940 as part of the British Expeditionary Force. The 133rd Brigade saw fighting in the St Omer-La Bassée area during the Battle of France (23–29 May 1940) and retreated to Dunkirk, where they were evacuated from on 30 May 1940. It was during these operations in which he was Mention in Despatches. The recommendation was originally a Military Medal or a Distinguished Conduct Medal award. Thereafter back in England the Battalion was part of the 133rd Brigade which was positioned in Southeast England, to defend the area, stretching from the Isle of Thanet to Dover and on to Folkestone which was deemed to be ‘the No 1 German invasion area’. In May 1942 Foster witnessed further action with the 5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion, in the Western Desert, including the Alam Halfa and El Alamein operations, on this occasion serving alongside elements of the 8th and 10th Armoured Divisions. It was here in the Western Desert that he was wounded on the 2 November 1942. Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including the recipient’s M.I.D. certificate, dated 20 December 1940, and forwarding letters regarding same; his Soldier’s Release Book; a Grace Line “Crossing the Equator” certificate, dated June 1942; and wartime photographs (approximately 15), including several images from North Africa, 1942; and the recipient’s cap badge
Six: Captain A. P. Wolken, Royal Army Medical Corps 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Germany, Federal Republic, Order of Merit, Cross of Merit First Class (Officer) breast badge, gilt and enamel, pin-backed, with lapel rosette, in Steinhauer &, Lück, Lüdenscheid case of issue, good very fine and better (6) £160-£200 --- Peter Arthur Wolken was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in August 1944 and served during the Second World War in the North Africa Sector. Ranked as a War Substantive Captain from August 1945, he was released from the service in 1948. He was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the German Federal Republic Order of Merit by President Karl Carstens on 22 August 1979, with the presentation taking place in the Ambassador’s Residence in London on 13 December 1979. Dr Wolken, a former German citizen, received the award in recognition of services rendered to the Federal Republic; as a medical doctor, he had provided medical services and advice to the German Embassy and its staff. He died in London on 2 February 1993. Sold with original ‘Buckingham Palace’ notification granting Dr. Arthur Peter Wolken ‘permission to wear’ the ‘insignia of The Cross of an Officer of The Order of Merit’, dated 7 February 1980; and copied research.
The Military General Service Medal awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Mullen, K.H., 1st Foot, who served with the 1st Battalion in the West Indies and with the 3rd Battalion in the Peninsula; in the bloody and unsuccessful first assault of St Sebastian on 25 July 1813, command of the 3rd Battalion devolved on him, all his seniors having been killed or severely wounded Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Guadaloupe, Vittoria (Robt. Mullen, Lieut. 1st Foot) with silver ribbon brooch and contained in contemporary fitted case, toned, extremely fine £2,400-£2,800 --- 7 clasps for Guadaloupe to the 1st Foot, this being the only officer recipient and probably unique to the British army in combination with a Peninsula clasp. Robert Mullen was enlisted into the 1st Regiment of Foot, then stationed in Ireland, on 24 April 1786, aged not quite 13 having been born in Dublin in May 1773. Appointed Drummer on 1 April 1788, and Private on 19 January 1790, the regiment was stationed at Spanish Town in March 1790 and subsequently at Fort Augusta and Up-Park, Jamaica, and later at Port-au-Prince. Appointed Drummer once more in February 1792, he reverted to Private in June 1792 and was promoted to Corporal in December 1793, and to Sergeant in August 1795. By April 1798 the regiment was stationed at Stirling Castle, having last been mustered at Port-au-Prince in January 1797, and in January 1799 was stationed in Ireland. On 24 July 1800, Mullen was appointed Sergeant-Major and, on 2 August 1801, he was appointed Adjutant without purchase. On 25 June 1802 he was commissioned Ensign and Adjutant, again without purchase. Although Mullen left no written record of his service in the ranks, it is possible to assume that he did see active service in the West Indies, particularly in the operations against the French on the Island of St Domingo in 1794 and the capture of Port-au-Prince. Fortunately his commissioned service is more fully documented, particularly in his statement of service, written in 1829 which states: ‘Was present at the capture of St Martin and St Thomas in 1801, and of Demerera, Esquibo and Berbice in September 1803; attack and capture of Guadaloupe in Feby. 1810, on which occasion although a Captain and holding the Staff Appointment of Town Major of St Ann’s Barbados, and command of the detachments of the Army in that country he volunteered to proceed as a Subaltern with a company of the 1st Battalion, which formed a part of the 1st Light Infantry Battn upon that expedition, and resigned his Staff appointment for that purpose. Present at the affair of the Pass of Osma in Spain on the 18th, and at the Battle of Vittoria 21st June 1813; Siege of St Sebastian, and in the assault 25th July 1813, when the command of the 3rd Battalion devolved on him, all his seniors having been killed or severely wounded. The loss sustained by the 3rd Battalion in this assault was 16 officers out of 21, and upwards of 300 non-commissioned officers and privates killed and wounded.’ Relieved, on 24 August 1813, of his active role in the 3rd Battalion, Mullen took up duties on the Staff but continued with the 3rd Battalion until redeployed back to the 1st Battalion on 26 September 1814, in Canada. His duties seem to have been in Corps Headquarters in Quebec as a Staff Officer until he was recalled to England in July 1815, after which he served with the Army of Occupation in the Netherlands and France until January 1817. In February 1820 he returned to the West Indies where he served until the Battalion embarked for the U.K. in December 1835. He had been promoted to Major in the 1st Foot on 8 August 1833, and in 1835 was appointed a Knight of Hanover by King William IV. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, on 16 June 1843. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Mullen, K.H., died on 7 July 1851, at the residence of his son, Captain Mullen, the Governor of the Glasgow prisons. Sold with Lieutenant-Colonel Mullen’s own leather-bound copy of Cannon’s Regimental History of the First Foot, 1837, with inscription ‘from a sincere friend, Dublin July 1839’, and with page annotations in his own hand, together with his hand-written statement of service and two letters from the Hanoverian Legation in London, one dated 7th January 1852, concerning the return of the ‘Badge of a Guelphic Knight, formerly worn by your late lamented father Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Mullen’, the second dated 10th March 1852, acknowledging receipt of the Badge. For the medals awarded to Lieutenant E. C. Mullen, see Lot 84.
An unattributed group of five miniature dress medals India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp, mounted as worn, very fine The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 1st type badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Air Force Cross, E.II.R.; Distinguished Conduct Medal (2), G.V.R., 1st issue; G.VI.R., 1st issue; George Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue; Military Medal, E.II.R., 1st issue; Distinguished Flying Medal, E.II.R.; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp, with contemporary top silver riband buckle; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914; Defence Medal; Belgium, Kingdom, Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., generally very fine (lot) £120-£160 --- Sold with a full-sized Royal Army Medical Corps skeletal cape badge, with top ‘Hon Life President’ riband bar, lacking riband; and two full-sized British Medical Association, Plymouth cape badges, with ‘Vice-President Medicine’ and ‘Overseas’ top riband bars.
A Great War C.M.G., D.S.O. group of five awarded to Colonel W. A. Simson, Canadian Army Service Corps, who was three times Mentioned in Despatches The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels, with integral top riband bar; 1914-15 Star (Lieut: Col: W. A. Simson. Can: A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Col. W. A. Simson.) the first two with minor chips to reverse centres, otherwise nearly extremely fine (5) £1,200-£1,600 --- C.M.G. London Gazette 1 January 1919: ‘For services rendered in connection with the war.’ One of only three awarded to the Canadian Army Service Corps. D.S.O. London Gazette 14 January 1916: ‘For distinguished service in the field.’ William Amor Simson was born in Halifax on 25 November 1872, and educated at Halifax High School. He was appointed Provisional 2nd Lieutenant in the 63rd Halifax Regiment on 26 February 1900, and was confirmed in that rank on 15 February 1901. Simson was promoted to Lieutenant in the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles in April 1902, and left Canada for South Africa with the regiment but arrived there when the war was over. He returned to the 63rd Rifles and was promoted to Captain on 19 September 1904. He was appointed Lieutenant in the Canadian Army Service Corps on 1 August 1906, was promoted to Captain in May 1908, and took over No. 1 Detachment at Ottawa. In 1910, he went to the U.K. for a short course in Mechanical Transport to learn how to drive. Upon his return, he was appointed as Major and Assistant Director of Supply and Transport from 10 November 1911. On the outbreak of war in 1914, Simson was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Divisional Train, which was organising at Valcartier, and embarked with the unit on 3 October 1914. Simson was appointed to the command of all Canadian Army Service Corps units from 21 October 1914, and proceeded to France with his unit, arriving in February 1915. He was placed on the strength of the H.Q. Staff Divisional Train from 1 April 1915, and was promoted to Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 July 1915. He was then attached to the Canadian Corps as officer in charge of Canadian Army Service Corps personnel (France) and graded as A.A. & Q,M.G. from 24 November 1917, and promoted Action Colonel. He returned to England on 24 November 1917, to take up duties as Director of Supply and Transport at O.M.F.C. Headquarters, London (Shorncliffe), retaining his rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. For his services during the Great War he was three times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 22 June 1915; 27 January 1916; and 28 December 1917). He returned to Canada in August 1919 and retired the following December, although was still listed as District Supply Officer at Toronto in 1920, at which time he held the rank of Colonel, the highest rank in the Canadian Army Service Corps during peacetime. Colonel Simson had married Louise du Barry of Norfolk, Virginia, prior to 1914 and she accompanied him to England, where he was afterwards employed as a pharmaceutical and analytical chemist. Colonel Simson died in London on 17 November 1925, and is buried at Tilford, near Farnham, Surrey. Sold with full record of service and copied War Diary of the Canadian Divisional Train kept by Lieutenant-Colonel W. A. Simson, while under his command, from November 1914 until November 1917, when he returned to the U.K.
A Selection of Argentinean Airborne Insignia c.1980. Including a silvered Parachutists badge; another bronze example; an Air Force silver wing; another bronze example; an Army Marines silvered wing; an Air Force Officers gilt wing; and a Navy Officers gilt wing, generally good condition (9) £80-£100
German Second World War Army Officers Brocade Hanging Straps A good set of German army officers brocade hanging straps for the army officers dagger, springs to the catches all complete, brocade good, the finish to the buckles and clips also good; together with a Marine Coastal Artillery M.43 cap eagle in yellow on Coastal Artillery green; a War Merit Cross Second Class without swords, with slight bend to the lower right hand arm of the cross; a 1936 light cream enamelled Olympic Badge, maker marked with its tinny type construction on the reverse side; a Polish cap eagle with screw thread fitting; an Italian motorised unit cap badge; and an Italian Opera Ballila day badge, tinny type fixing, maker marked on the reverse side, generally good condition (7) £70-£90
North Vietnamese Army (N.V.A) Pith Helmet, fine green cloth covered pith helmet with badge to the centre. Top of the helmet with drawn artwork showing a Viet Cong soldier with flag and drawn map of the country, scroll with “DUNG SI GIU NUOG”. Liner loose to the interior. Some flaking to the interior.
Interesting Saxon State Government Ausweis (Identity Document) of Adolf Hitler’s Half Brother-in-Law, Dr Martin Hammitzsch, Who Committed Suicide on 12th May 1945, this brown linen ausweis given to Hammitzsch, who was a Professor and Doctor of Engineering, on 7th September 1943, in Dresden (Saxony). With ink stamps and photograph of Hammitzsch, where you can see he is wearing the NSDAP party badge on his suit. Signature below the photograph and with ink stamps over the image and on the pass. Remains in very good overall condition. Professor Martin Hammitzsch was the second husband of Adolf Hitlers half-sister, Angela Franziska Johanna Hammitzsch, nee Hitler. Hammitzsch was a professor of engineering, being an architect by trade and was highly regarded as so in the state of Saxony. He was the director of the state school of building and construction in Dresden. It is believed that Hitler did not approve of his half-sisters marriage to Hammitzsch. He was drafted into the German army and was dismissed in 1943 with the rank of Colonel. He committed suicide on 12th May 1945, his body found in Oberwiesenthal state forest district not far from the Czechoslovakian border, his body was found with a bullet hole to his head.
WW2 German Army / Waffen-SS Infantry Assault Badge in Silver by E Ferdinand Wiedmann, Frankfurt am Main, fine example complete with correct pin and catch fixing set up to the reverse. Much of the finish remains to the award. See page 94-95 of “The Infantry Assault Badges” by Sascha Weber for a similar example.
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