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A CAMERON HIGHLANDERS OFFICER'S CAP BADGE UNMARKED of traditional form with St Andrew holding cross within wreath; together with a pair of epaulette boards with three pips(Cap badge 4.5cm wide)Footnote: Note: from direct family provenance this sporran belonged to Lt Col Henry Brown DSO. He served at the Battle of Omdurman and was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in 1892, rising to Brevet Major in 1902 while serving in the Boer War. Although he retired shortly afterwards at the outbreak of the First World War he re-joined the army serving as Second in Command to Cameron of Locheil who raised and commanded the 5th Cameron’s. It was when in command of the 5th Cameron’s he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.

A well-documented group of four awarded to Quartermaster and Captain F. P. Clark, 3rd (The King’s Own) Hussars, a long-served veteran of the regiment who died as a result of illness contracted on active service on 8 October 1918 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (2314 R. Qr: Mr: Serjt: F. P. Clark. 3rd Hussars.); 1914 Star (Hon: Lt: & Q.M. F. P. Clark. 3/Hrs.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Q.M. & Capt. F. P. Clark.) in named card box of issue; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2314 Q.M. Serjt: F. P. Clarke. 3rd Hussars) first and last mounted together as worn, nearly extremely fine (4) £300-£400 --- Frederick Percy Clark was born in 1868 at Ulceby, North Lincolnshire, the son of Rosa Clark, and was educated at Royal St. Anne’s School, Streatham Hill, Surrey. He attested for the 3rd (King’s Own) Hussars at Manchester on 28 May 1886 and was advanced Corporal in April 1888, Payment Sergeant in June 1888 and Quartermaster Sergeant in February 1892. He served in South Africa during the Boer War as Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant (medal and 3 clasps). Commissioned Quartermaster of his regiment with the honorary rank of Lieutenant on 15 November 1905, he served a total of 4 years and 6 months in South Africa and 8 years and 6 months in India before returning to England with his regiment prior to the outbreak of the Great War. Mobilised on 5 August 1914, Clark served with his regiment on the Western Front as part of the 4th Cavalry Brigade from 16 August 1914 and was present with the regiment in 1914 at the Battles of Mons (and subsequent Retreat), Le Cateau, Marne, Aisne, Messines, Armentières, Ypres and Gheluvelt. He was promoted Captain in November 1915 and served with the 4th Battalion (Dismounted Cavalry Division) in the trenches at Vermelles between 1 January and 15 February 1916 and was also present with the 3rd Hussars at the Somme, 1916, the Battle of Arras, 1917 and the Battle of Cambrai, 1917. He continued to serve in France until May 1918 when he was compelled to return to England owing to ill health attributable to active service. Diagnosed with an aneurysm, he retired from the service on 3 June 1918, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. He died on 8 October 1918, aged 50 years, leaving a widow - H. G. Clark, of 107 Chart Rd., Folkestone - and is buried in Shorncliffe Military Cemetery. Sold together with the recipient’s metal campaign box, inscribed to front ‘F. P. Clark 3rd (K.O.) Hussars’ 44cm x 31cm x 19cm, containing an archive of items, documents and letters including the following: army shaving strop; wooden baton; 2 ink pots; cigar cutter; gimlet; recipient’s Accounts Book; Programme of the Review in Honour of their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales held at Rawalpindi on 8 December 1905; recipient’s Army Book; Summary of Information 2nd Cavalry Division, Christmas Number. 1914 (2 copies) - a humorous account of the activities of the 2nd Division in the opening phase of the war together with a journal of the Division’s activities from the beginning of the war until 31 August 1914; Royal St. Anne’s Redhill School Magazines, April 1917 and March 1918 - the latter showing the recipient listed as having been wounded on active service; 3rd Hussars Christmas Card 1916; another 3rd Hussars Christmas card - undated; 11 maps of France and Belgium; 2 booklets of postcards showing scenes of Albert post bombardment and a quantity of similar loose postcards; War Office transmittal letter to accompany 1914 Star, BWM and Victory Medals; a quantity of correspondence between the recipient’s widow and the Ministry of Pensions; a further quantity of assorted ephemera.

Family group: Four: Captain Sir Edward A. Stewart-Richardson, Bart., 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), late Queensland Mounted Infantry, who died on 28 November 1914, from the effects of wounds received the previous month at Ypres Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Driefontein, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901, the date clasp a tailor’s copy (Capt: Sir E. A. S. Richardson. Q’land M.I.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt Sir E. A. Stewart-Richardson. Bt: R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. Sir E. A. Stewart-Richardson. Bt.) nearly extremely fine Four: Major I. R. H. Stewart-Richardson, 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, who was seriously wounded and Mentioned in Despatches for the Battle of the Campoleone Salient, Anzio, January 1944 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. Oak Leaf, with Army Council enclosure and Army Medal Office enclosure in card box of issue addressed to ‘Major Sir I. R. H. Stewart-Richardson, Lyndale, Longcross, Surrey’; together with the related four mounted miniature awards; King’s Badge in box of issue; and wartime issued smaller bronze M.I.D oak leaf emblems (2) to be worn on uniform, the last with War Office letter giving instructions for wearing, extremely fine The mounted group of six miniature dress medals attributed to Temporary Captain C. T. H. Richardson, M.C., Royal Field Artillery, who was decorated for gallantry at Tobruk, 1941 Military Cross, G.VI.R.; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (lot) £2,000-£3,000 --- Sir Edward Austin Stewart-Richardson, 15th Baronet, the eldest son of Sir James Stewart-Richardson, 14th Bart., of Pentcaitland, Pitfour Castle, Perth, was born at Edinburgh on 24 July 1872 and was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Glenalmond, Perthshire. In September 1890 he joined the 3rd Battalion, Royal Highlanders, being promoted Lieutenant in March 1892, and Captain in February 1900. From 1899 to 1902 he was A.D.C. to Lord Lamington, the Governor of Queensland. In the South African War he served with the 2nd Battalion, Black Watch and with the Queensland Mounted Infantry, taking part in the operations in the Orange River Free State, including the action at Vet River, and in the Orange River Colony, including the actions at Rhenoster River, Wittebergen, and Wittepoort, for which he received the Queen’s Medal with five clasps. On volunteering for service in the Great War, he was attached to the 1st Battalion of his old regiment, the Black Watch, arriving with them in France on 22 September 1914, and died in London on 28 November the same year, of wounds received at Gheluvelt on 27 October during the First Battle of Ypres. He had married Lady Constance Mackenzie, younger daughter of Francis, 2nd Earl of Cromartie, in 1904, and left two sons. (The Bond of Sacrifice by Col. L. A. Clutterbuck refers). Sir Ian Rorie Hay Stewart-Richardson, 16th Baronet, the eldest son of the above, was born on 25 September 1904 and was educated at the Imperial Service College, 1919-1922. Prior to the Second World War he travelled widely - adventures which are alluded to in the History of the Irish Guards in the Second World War by Major D. J. L. Fitzgerald, M.C.: ‘Then came Major Rory Stewart-Richardson. He was almost too cheerful. His large face, with sandy hair all over it, glowed, and he began to fill in the time by telling a familiar story of one of his macabre adventures in New Guinea. He had once, it seems, found a gold mine in some desolate jungle. “Unfortunately, my two companions died of fever on the way back,” it always ended, and he could never understand why everybody always laughed.’ Commissioned Second Lieutenant into the Irish Guards on 12 October 1939, he served with them during the Second World War initially in North Africa receiving promotion to War Substantive Lieutenant 12 April 1941, Temporary Captain 8 January 1942, War Substantive Captain 19 September 1942 and Temporary Major 19 September 1942. In command of No. 1 Company, 1st Battalion during Operation Shingle - the Allied amphibious landing at Anzio - his unit was among the first onto the beach on 22 January 1944. Meeting stronger than expected resistance in the attempted breakout and driven back to the beachhead, the 1st Irish Guards were involved in heavy fighting at Carroceto, 25-26 January 1944 repelling several enemy attacks and also experienced heavy casualties in the Battle of the Campoleone Salient, 30 January - 3 February 1944. Although inflicting heavy losses on the German forces, at Campoleone the 1st Irish Guards became surrounded and, confronting armour, were forced to fight their way back through to allied lines, Major Stewart-Richardson being among the wounded: ‘“When the companies got the order to withdraw,” wrote Major FitzGerald afterwards, “the situation was not very bright. We decided to take the obvious route back down the railway line. As we were quietly leaving our positions a German officer came running towards us flourishing a revolver. He was duly killed, but the shots attracted the attention of a nest of machine-gunners.” Whole belts of bullets swept across the open stretch of ground that lay between the sunken road and the nearest cutting on the railway line. Only a man who could run had any chance of surviving. The wounded were collected in the safest place, under the bridge over the sunken road. The remainder, under Major Rory Stewart-Richardson, made a dash for the embankment. “The Bren gun covering fire was not very effective, because of the long range and the number of German machine guns, and the companies received rather heavy casualties getting into the embankment. The Companies paused in the embankment while they prepared to fight their way back down the railway line. The only help they could get was smoke. Lieutenant Patrick Da Costa led off the first platoon. He was killed almost immediately and his platoon broken into small parties by a German attack. Lance-Corporal O’Brien took command of the largest fragment and brought them back to No. 4 Company by bounds. He himself, with a Bren gun, provided the covering for each bound, running the gauntlet every time to catch up with his party and cover them over the next stretch of open ground. The other platoons followed by slightly different routes. Lieutenant Stephen Preston was killed by machine-gun fire from the flank as he came out of the first railway cutting with the second platoon. Major Stewart Richardson, following behind, was wounded over the eye by a mortar fragment, but could still see enough to gather the platoon and return the Germans’ fire, while Lieutenant Bartlet, behind him, led his platoon slightly left down a gully. Lieutenant Brand, with the last platoon and Company H.Q., joined Major Stewart-Richardson and together they launched an attack down the railway line. It was a bloody little battle. Squads of Germans dotted along the railway, who had lain low during the night, now resisted savagely. The German mortars fired indiscriminately along the railway line. They did not seem to care whether or not they hit their own troops, but they must have done, and they certainly killed and wounded numbers of Guardsmen. The German 88-mm. guns by the cross-roads joined in firing air bursts. Through this turmoil of mixed fire, over the bodies of their friends who had been killed the night before, the Guardsmen attacked post after post, driving the Germans back before them into the waiting arms and muzzles of No. 4 Company. Slightly less than half of the two companies who had set out the previous night reached No. 4 Company that ...

An inter-War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Major C. H. H. Harold, Royal Army Medical Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Capt. C. H. H. Harold. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. C. H. H. Harold.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Maj. C. H. H. Harold. R.A.M.C.) mounted as worn (although the last now loose) and housed in a fitted leather case, good very fine (5) £500-£700 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 3 July 1926 Charles Henry Haslar Harold was born in Llangollen, Denbighshire, on 1 January 1885, and was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 29 July 1910. Promoted Captain on 29 January 1914, he served during the Great War in Mesopotamia from June 1915, and was Mentioned in Despatches ‘in connection with minor Military Operations in North and Northeast Persia during the period 1917-21’ (London Gazette 8 May 1922). He subsequently served in Afghanistan and on the Northwest Frontier of India, was again Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 3 August 1920), and was promoted Brevet Major on 15 September 1921. Created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1926 Birthday Honours’ List, Harold served as Assistant Director of Hygiene and Pathology, India, from March 1927 to March 1931, before returning to England as Assistant Director of Hygiene, Southern Command. He retired with the rank of Major on 1 May 1934, and subsequently served as Director of Water Examination at the Metropolitan Water Board. Sold with copied research.

A post-war M.B.E. group of three awarded to Warrant Officer J. J. Rudd, 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, later 203 (Elswick) Field Battery T.A. and 101 (Northumbrian) Field Battery T.A. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, with its Royal Mint case of issue; General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, Radfan, South Arabia (23691815 Bdr. J. J. Rudd. R.H.A.); Efficiency Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue, T. & A.V.R. (23691815 WO2 J J Rudd RA) mounted court-style, good very fine (3) £240-£280 --- M.B.E. (Military) London Gazette 15 June 1985: ‘Warrant Officer Class 2, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.’ John James Rudd was born in 1941 and enlisted into the Royal Artillery at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 18 July 1960. An extract from the recommendation for his M.B.E. states: ‘Warrant Officer Class 2 Rudd joined the Territorial Army in 1959 and from 1960 to 1966 served as a regular soldier with the 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery in Aden, United Kingdom and Germany. He rejoined the Territorial Army in 1969 and was awarded the Efficiency Medal in 1982. He has attended Camp every year and in every year has exceeded the Man Training Days allowance. During the past year he has served as Battery Sergeant Major of 203 (Elswick) Field Battery and his performance has been outstanding.’ Sold with Regular Army Certificate of Service together with copied news cuttings announcing M.B.E. and presentation of the Queen’s Cup to 203 Field Battery, copied recommendation for M.B.E. and other research.

A post-war B.E.M. group of nine awarded to Staff Sergeant George Bulger, 7th Parachute Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery British Empire Medal, (Military) E.II.R. (LS/837015 S/Sgt (Lcl) George Bulger, R.H.A.; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (837105. Gnr. G. Bulger. R.A.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (837105 Sgt. G. Bulger. R.A.) together with case of issue for B.E.M. and British Legion enamelled numbered badge in numbered box of issue, good very fine (9) £300-£360 --- B.E.M. London Gazette 2 June 1962: ‘Staff-Sergeant (Local) George Bulger, Royal Horse Artillery.’ Awarded for particularly enthusiastic and sterling service as Chief Clerk to 7 Parachute Regiment R.H.A. in the period June 1957 to December 1961. Sold with copied recommendation from Lieutenant-Colonel T. St. G. Caulfield, M.B.E., R.H.A., Commanding Officer, and copied medal roll entry for G.S.M. Palestine serving with 7 Medium Regiment R.A.

Four: Staff Sergeant G. Lawrence, Royal Army Medical Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, last clasp loose on riband (8647 Corpl: G. Lawrence. R.A.M.C.); 1914-15 Star (32195. Sjt. G. Lawrence. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (32195 S.Sgt. G. Lawrence. R.A.M.C.) nearly very fine or better (4) £140-£180 --- George Lawrence attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps, and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 June 1915. Sold together with the recipient’s card identity tags, cap badge and shoulder title; and a locket containing two photographs of the recipient.

Three: Driver W. Linley, Army Service Corps, who died in January 1918 1914 Star (T1-125 Dvr: W. Linley. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (T1-125 Dvr. W. Linley. A.S.C.) extremely fine (3) £60-£80 --- William Linley enlisted into the Army Service Corps on 21 August 1914, and served in France with the 2nd Advanced Horse Transport Depot from 16 November 1914. He was discharged on 7 November 1917, and died on 5 January 1918. He is entitled to the Silver War Badge (No. 267361).

Family Group: Three: Able Seaman A. Hands, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when the cruiser H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed and sunk, along with her sister ships Aboukir and Hogue, in the North Sea by the German submarine U-9 on 22 September 1914, with the loss of 1,459 lives 1914-15 Star (126838, A. Hands, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (126838 A. Hands. A.B. R.N.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Private A. Hands, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (M2-148814 Pte. A. Hands. A.S.C.) nearly extremely fine (5) £280-£320 --- Arthur Hands was born in Birmingham on 19 May 1868 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 25 March 1884. Advanced Able Seaman on 1 July 1889, he was shore invalided on 8 August 1890 and joined the Chatham Division of the Royal Fleet Reserve on 1 August 1903. He was recalled for War service on 2 August 1914, and served during the Great War with the cruiser H.M.S. Cressy. He was killed in action when the Cressy, along with her sister ships Aboukir and Hogue, part of the 7th Cruiser Squadron engaged in blockade and patrol duties, were all torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea by the German submarine U-9 on 22 September 1914. The Aboukir was the first to be hit, at 06:20; her captain thought that she had struck a mine and ordered the other two ships to close in order to transfer his wounded men. The Aboukir quickly began listing and capsized, sinking at 06:50. Having approached, stopped, and lowered her boats, Hogue was struck by two torpedoes at 06:55 as she was attempting to rescue the survivors. She capsized and sank within twenty minutes. Cressy meanwhile attempted to ram the submarine, but did not hit anything and resumed her rescue efforts until she too was torpedoed at 07:20. She too took on a heavy list and then capsized before sinking at 07:55. Total losses from the three ships were 62 officers and 1,397 men killed. Hands was amongst those killed, and he is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. His son, also named Arthur Hands, served with the Army Service Corps during the Great War, and was discharged on 2 June 1917, being awarded a Silver War Badge.

Pair: Captain H. Coppock, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. Coppock.); together with the recipient’s riband bar, good very fine Pair: Captain A. J. Davoren, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (Capt. A. J. Davoren.) very fine Pair: Lieutenant R. H. Vercoe, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. H. Vercoe.) good very fine Pair: Private R. Foreman, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (1933 Pte. R. Foreman. R.A.M.C.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘B327760’, good very fine (9) £120-£160 --- Robert Foreman attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps on 9 February 1915, and was discharged on 9 June 1919.

Pair: Sapper W. M. Bunce, Canadian Pioneers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 21 October 1917 British War and Victory Medals (463602 Spr. W. M. Bunce. Can. Pnr. Bn.) very fine Pair: Private L. Goudreau, Canadian Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (684880 Pte. L. Goudreau. C.A.M.C.); together with an unofficial Jubilee Medal 1935, nearly very fine British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (2. Lieut. G. W. Ross.; 2504219 Spr. W. L. Mc Donald. C.E.) the second with the recipient’s ‘For Honourable Services’ silver badge, the reverse numbered ‘22547’; Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (Capt. J. B. Harvey; 7569 Pte. A. W. Didwell. Linc. R.) generally very fine (10) £100-£140 --- William Maxim Bruce was born in Oxford on 8 May 1890, and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 31 July 1915. He served with the 123rd Canadian Pioneer Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 21 October 1917. He is buried in Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Belgium. George William Ross was born in Montreal, Quebec, on 26 March 1894 and attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 6 July 1917. Posted to the Canadian Army Medical Corps, he served with them in England before being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the (British) Royal Engineers on 26 April 1918, and was seconded for service as a Naval Balloon Officer to the Royal Air Force. He died from influenza aboard H.M.S. Warspite at Scapa Flow, Orkney, on 2 March 1919, and is buried in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal. Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient.

Four: Private S. Homer, 4th Battalion, King’s (Liverpool Regiment), late King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), who was killed in action at St. Jean, near Ypres on 27 April 1915 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (7306 Pte. A. Homer, Rl: Lanc: Regt.); 1914-15 Star (26457 Pte. S. Homer. L’pool R.) with flattened named card box of issue; British War and Victory Medals (26457 Pte. S. Homer. L’pool R.) with flattened named card box of issue; Memorial Plaque (Samuel Homer) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure and torn outer envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. L. G. Homer, 1065 Tenth St., Trafford Park, Manchester.’; Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. Samuel Homer, Liverpool Regt.’, significantly torn down left side, in OHMS transmission tube, similarly addressed, medals and plaque nearly extremely fine or better (6) £300-£400 --- Samuel Joseph Homer was born in 1882 in Cheetwood, Manchester, Lancashire and attested for the King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) in June 1900. He served with the 4th Battalion (Militia) in South Africa from September 1900 until July 1901 and was awarded the Q.S.A. with 3 clasps. Following the outbreak of the Great War Homer re-enlisted in the King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) on 26 August 1914 (service number 3832). Posted to the 3rd Battalion, he was then discharged due to chronic pleurisy on 26 December 1914. Having subsequently successfully attested for the King’s (Liverpool Regiment), he disembarked for service on the Western Front with the 4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion on 7 April 1915. Less than 3 weeks later, on 27 April, he took part in an attack by his battalion from trenches north-east of St. Jean, outside Ypres. The War Diary records: ‘At 12 noon the Battalion formed up for the attack and assaulted the German positions, in support of 1/4th Gurkha Rifles.’ The History of the of the King’s Regiment by Everard Wyall states, ‘The King’s, splendidly led by their officers, advanced in short rushes, with the enemy pumping lead into them and men falling in heaps.’ In the fighting, the battalion lost 1 officer killed and 8 officers wounded whilst 375 other ranks were either killed, wounded or missing. Following the action, Homer was among the missing. He was presumed to have been killed on or since 27 April 1915 and his date of death for official purposes is given as 27 April 1915. He was the husband of Lily Homer and, having no known grave, is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Sold together with a photograph of the recipient in uniform in a glazed metal frame (glass cracked) 107mm x 178mm, with the badge of the The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) affixed to the lower part of the frame; another copy of the same portrait photograph, cut down, 65mm x 102mm; 2 smaller versions of the same portrait photograph, 1 cut down and contained within a circular glazed metal pendant frame (glass cracked), 31mm diameter; the recipient’s Liverpool Regiment cap badge; transmittal letters for Great War medals; War Office Army Form W.5132, informing the recipient’s widow that her late husband’s medals are available for issue; Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing Badges awarded to the recipient’s daughter, Mildred Homer, metal and enamel (2), the first inscribed to the reverse, ‘M. L. Homer, 21.2.54’ and the second inscribed to the reverse ‘M. Homer. 29-6-57’; and 4 certificates named to the recipients daughter, Mildred L. Homer, for accomplishments in shorthand typing, ballroom dancing, typewriting, German and Air Raid Precautions.

The Ottoman Order of the Medjidieh First Class set of insignia bestowed upon Field Marshal Lord Grenfell, who served as Sirdar and Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Army 1886-92 Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, First Class set of insignia, by Kretly, Paris, comprising sash badge, 80mm including Crescent suspension x 62mm, silver, gold appliqué, and enamel, maker’s cartouché on reverse, the star lacking from the suspension; Star, 94mm x 89mm, silver, gold appliqué, and enamel, maker’s cartouché on reverse, with retaining pin and two additional support hooks, one of the hooks re-affixed, with short length of sash riband for display purposes, enamel damage to both, nearly very fine (2) £800-£1,200 --- Provenance: Spink, November 2011 (when sold alongside the recipient’s other Honours and Awards). Ottoman Order of the Medjidieh First Class London Gazette 18 May 1888: Colonel Sir Francis Wallace Grenfell, K.C.B. (holding local rank of Major-General whilst employed as Sirdar of the Egyptian Army).

British Army Shoulder Boards. A pair of Royal Army Medical Corps Lieutenant-Colonel’s Shoulder Boards; a pair of Colonel’s Shoulder Boards; and a pair of Colonel’s battle dress Shoulder Boards, all housed in a glazed wooden display frame; together with two Major’s crowns; an Army waist-belt clasp; and badge, generally good condition (10) £80-£120

Family Group: A Great War O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Major M. Higgin-Birket, Lancashire Fusiliers, a Boer War veteran who was wounded with the 2nd Battalion in 1914 and was three times Mentioned in Despatches for his services whilst on attachment as Cipher Officer with G.H.Q. Staff, British Salonika Force, 1915-17 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt. M. Higgin-Birket, 5/Lanc: Fus:); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Major M. Higgin-Birket. Lan. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major M. Hggin-Birket.); Serbia, Kingdom, Order of the White Eagle, Civil Division, Fourth Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, significant damage to blue pendalia enamel and upper right quadrant of red enamel; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1918, with bronze star emblem on riband, generally very fine Four: Captain W. Higgin-Birket, Lancashire Fusiliers, who, having served with the 5th Battalion during the Boer War, was wounded and then missing, presumed killed, serving with the 2nd Battalion at the Battle of Armentières on 28 October 1914 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut: W. Higgin-Birket, 5/Lanc. Fus:); 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt. W. Higgin-Birket. Lan. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. W. Higgin-Birket.) edge bruise to QSA, very fine (11) £1,400-£1,800 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 15 March 1918: ‘For services in connection with the war in Salonika.’ Serbian Order of the White Eagle, Fourth Class London Gazette 7 June 1919. Myles Higgin-Birket was born in 1873 at Richmond, Surrey, the son of William Higgin-Birket and Elizabeth Hilbro Higgin-Birket of Birket Houses, Winster, Westmorland and was educated at Heversham Grammar School and University College School, Hampstead. Commissioned Second Lieutenant into the 5th and 6th Battalions, Lancashire Fusiliers on 28 March 1898, he was advanced Lieutenant, 30 November 1899 and Captain, 16 March 1901. He served with the 5th Battalion in South Africa, 1901-02 where he was present at the Operations in Orange River Colony, June to July 1901 and the operations in Cape Colony, July 1901 to May 1902, receiving the Queen’s South Africa Medal with 5 clasps. He retired with the Honorary rank of Major on 10 May 1913 but rejoined for service with the Special Reserve as Captain (Hon. Maj. Ret.) in the 3rd Battalion of his old regiment, proceeding to France with the 2nd Battalion on 28 September 1914. Wounded on 12 November, Higgin-Birket returned to London and was attached to the Foreign Office, March to October 1915 before being posted to Salonika on attachment with the General Staff of the General Headquarters. For his services as Cipher Officer, G.H.Q., Salonika Force, Captain (Hon Major) Higgin-Birket was awarded the O.B.E., and personally decorated by the Crown Prince of Serbia with the Order of the White Eagle, 4th Class. For these services he was also three times Mentioned in General Milne’s Despatches (London Gazettes 6 December 1916; 21 July 1917; and 28 November 1917). After the war, from November 1918 to March 1920, he served as Camp Commandant G.H.Q. Salonika and G.H.Q. Army of the Black Sea, Constantinople. French Croix de Guerre unconfirmed. William Higgin-Birket, younger brother of the above, was born in 1878 at Richmond, Surrey. Commissioned Second Lieutenant into the 5th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers on 12 July 1900, he was promoted Lieutenant on 16 March 1901 and served with the 5th Battalion during the Boer War in South Africa, 1901-02, where he was present at the Operations in Orange River Colony, June to July 1901, and the operations in Cape Colony, July 1901 to May 1902, receiving the Queen’s South Africa Medal with 4 clasps. Higgin-Birket was advanced Captain on 5 September 1903 and was still serving with the 5th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers on the outbreak of the Great War. Proceeding to France with the 2nd Battalion, he served with B Company on the Western Front from 14 September 1914. Having crossed the Aisne under heavy fire in September, his battalion, as part of the 12th Brigade of the 4th Division, was engaged during the Armentiéres and Messines operations in October, Higgin-Birket first gaining mention in the Regimental History for his part in the attack on Le Touquet on 18 October: ‘Early in the morning, “B” (Captain W. Higgin-Birkett) and “C” (Captain R. Luker) Companies advanced on the left of the Le Bizet-Le Touquet road, with “A” Company in support and “D” Company in reserve. The village was strongly held, the houses were loopholed and trenches were dotted about over open ground outside the village. Moreover the enemy was able to bring a cross-fire of artillery and rifles from the east bank of the River Lys and from the loopholed buildings of Frélinghien. As a result, progress was very slow, “B” and “C” Companies lost touch and a platoon of “A” Company was sent up to restore contact. But the enemy’s fire was so heavy that it was found necessary to reinforce this platoon...’(The History of the Lancashire Fusiliers 1914-1918, Volume I, by Major-General J. C. Latter, C.B.E., M.C. refers) On 28 October 1914, Higgin-Birket was reported missing presumed killed after he had been wounded in leading his Company in a successful counter attack against German infantry of the XIII Corps divisions and Infantry regiments 107 and 179 from XIX Corps. The German units had infiltrated through ruined buildings and overrun a battalion of the 18th Brigade holding a salient east of the La Bassée–Armentières railway near Rue du Bois: ‘Again, scarcely had the relief been completed when, at 2am on the 28th, the enemy attacked the 2nd Essex Regiment on the right of the battalion, which went to its support and helped to repel the assault. A second attack was made on the 1st East Yorkshire Regiment of the 18th Brigade, but it was held up in the wire between the first and second lines of trenches and was driven back by a counter-attack launched by the East Yorkshire Regiment and “B” Company of the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers. The enemy’s losses were estimated to be at least 200 killed. The battalion’s losses during the day were 4 men killed and Captain W. Higgin-Birket and 7 men wounded. Higgin-Birket had been hit in the head and started to walk back to the dressing station alone; nothing was ever heard from him again.’ (ibid) Captain William Higgin-Birket has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

WW2 Spanish Volunteers to the German Army Tunic Badge, 250 Infantry Division AZUL.

WW2 German Infantry Assault Badge in Silver, with AS makers mark to the reverse. Ball hinge but no pin or catch; 4x German cap insignias; German army bevo cap cockade; selection of reproduction Third Reich badges and insignia. (12 items)

Royal Army Ordnance Corps Officers Battle Dress Uniform Grouping, consisting of 1949 pattern battle dress blouse with original embroidered insignia, Captains rank pips to the shoulders. Accompanied by a pair of 1946 pattern battle dress trousers, officers shirt and items of equipment. Officers service dress peaked cap with George VI officers silver gilt cap badge to the front. Set generally in good condition.

A Princess Mary Gift Box and its contents: a silver Air Raid Precautions badge and a set of ARP buttons (8 large and 4 small), a silver Boys’ Brigade badge,  a Daily Telegraph Boys’ Brigade medal and a brass vesta case engraved ‘WAAC’ (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps), ‘Souvenir Calais’ and ‘28.6.19’

A WW1 (Black Watch) and WW2 (Glider Pilot Regiment) father and son group:1. The Victory and British War Medals to S-23333 PTE. A.B. LINDSAY. R. HIGHRS. (Twice wounded in 1918 serving with the Royal Highlanders in France.) 2. The Territorial Efficiency Medal to 918329 SJT. A.B. LINDSAY. R.A., the Defence Medal and the War Medal 1939-45 (oak leaves clasp on ribbon bar). The MID was presumably awarded for his part as one of the 74 glider pilots of E Squadron (2nd Wing) during the D Day operation, Mallard. Casualty List Nos. 1588 (missing 25/09/1944), 1612 (POW 24/11/1944) and 1801 (now not POW 06/07/1945). Stalag 4b, Muhlberg (Elbe) - POW No. 076335. Promoted Sergeant 1946. 3. A small photograph of Allan Barr Lindsay wearing beret; four patches (3 x Glider Pilot Wings and 1 x Pegasus); an Army Air Corps cap badge; a small RAF pin badge and a Lindsay Clan badge (‘Endure Fort or Endure Furth’). 

A good selection of mostly WW1 and WW2 militaria:1. Grenadier Guards: the Regular Army Certificate of Service of 2628214 Sergeant Brian Howard White, Grenadier Guards (enlisted 4.6.45, transferred to the Army Reserve 25.1.53) and two references from the regiment's Adjutant dated November 1952. Together with his War Medal 1939-1945, Senior NCO cap badge and two First OR Grenadier Guards Association lapel badges. 2.  A trench art forage cap fashioned from a 1909 8mm shell case with a warrant officer’s King’s Crown as the badge3.  A miniature teak cask with plaque reading ‘From the teak of HMS Valiant – Jutland 1916’ 4.  A rare Royal Marine Light Infantry tunic button and seven civilian badges (WVS Civil Defence, National Reserve London, Civil Defence - Instructor and 4 x British Legion)

A group of army ephemera, to include the regular army certificate of service, The Woodworkers Pocket Book, Forty Power Tools You Can Make, books on wood carving, a silver plated armed medallion for 1925, a medallion of the Norfolk Regiment Heneker 1929 for J Pearce, and the Territorial Army Rifle Association commemorative badge, all enclosed in a metal army tin. (a quantity)

Miscellaneous British army cap badges and other insignia, including RAF, triangular War Service badge, etc (30)

A collection of Oxford college University memorabilia to include 11 x college ties of various design, 1 x navy and maroon striped scarf, a size large straw hat with navy and maroon ribbon band around, 2 x photographs of Keble Ball, Oxford 1947 and Magdalen College Commemorative Ball, Oxford 1950 with pencil written details of people that attended to back, 2 x Painted wooden Coat of Arms of Christchurch and New Coll (College), 2 x metal and glass Coat of Arms to be mounted on pole/car, a postcard, a fabric badge of Christchurch college, 2 x paper documents related to the university and H E BROWN, Harold Ellett Brown, a Document of Temporary enrolment for the Land forces of the Royal Army Medical Crop dated 31st December 1914 for William Brown and 5 x tie pins and a enamelled Coat of Arms and a boat ore fountain pen with Christchurch Coat of Arms.Condition ReportHole to one navy and white Coat of Arm design tie, usage wear to ties, rust and dirt grime to metal/glass Coat of Arms and age colouring to paper documents and photographs.

A Syrian army cap badge, (National Arms of Syria)

British Army WW2 medals comprising 1939/1945 Star, France and Germany Star, Africa Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal and War Medal together with postal address box for Mr R Evans of Cheltenham and non delivery address for the Royal Engineers Brighton, Royal Flying Corps cap badge etc 

British Army WW1 medals comprising 1914 'Mons' Star, War Medal and Victory Medal named to 330 Driver E.C Webb Army Service Corps, silver wound badge, Gloucestershire Regiment badges etc, No.4 Company 2nd Division 

British Army medals and ephemera for Private George Wheatley, comprising Queen's South Africa medal with clasps for Orange Free State and South Africa 1902, named to 7136 Pte G Wheatley, Volunteer Company South Staffordshire Regiment, WW1 1914-1915 Star, War and Victory medals named to Pte G  Wheatley, Army Ordnance Corps, his Princess Mary's Fund Christmas 1914 gift tin with cards, bullet pencils and receipt request, football and boxing medals, silver and enamel boxed AOC badge, original documents for enrolment and discharge, photographs etc

British Army Victory medal named to 310682 Pte V B Phillips, Tank Corps, with cap badge

British Army WW1 Gloucestershire Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal group of six awarded to 12069 Pte H Pugh, 8th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, including Distinguished Conduct Medal, Military Medal, 1914/1915 Star, War Medal, Victory Medal, French Croix de Guerre and Silver War Badge, with copy paperwork. His citation reads 'For conspicuous gallantry in action. He led a party with great gallantry against an enemy machine gun and himself shot three of the gun team. He has previously done fine work'

British Army Queen's South Africa 1899 and King's South Africa 1902 medals with clasps for Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Transvaal and South Africa 1901 and 1902 named to 2951 Sgt/colour Sgt E Davis together with Edward VII Long Service and Good Conduct Medal named to 2951 Colour Sergeant E Davies Gloucestershire Regiment and sleeve badge

British Army Queen's South Africa Medal 1899 named to 5781 Pte E Ryan Wiltshire Regiment, with hat badge and button

German Army WW2 Gebirgsjager Mountain Troops Edelweiss metal badge, together with a cloth officer's breast badge', acquired by a Sherwood Forester sergeant for his intelligence officer in France late 1944

German Army WW2 Azerbaijan Volunteers cloth badge, together with a Private First Class badge, acquired by a Sherwood Forester sergeant for his intelligence officer in France late 1944

British Army Royal Artillery mess dress comprising jacket, waistcoat and trousers, miniature medals and WO2 rank badge

British Army felt slouch hat by Harritz Hat Factory, South Africa, with 3rd Battalion King's African Rifles badge

A Silver and Enamel Badge for the Royal Army Service Corps

Vintage Clothing: A Nigerian ceremonial cotton gown with crewel-work decoration and similar trousers and two similar printed dresses, together with a Nigerian Army astrakhan Forage cap with Cap Badge of the North-Western State, other caps and three pairs of slippers

Selection of Military items and ephemera; including assorted dress buttons for Royal Marines, five Army enamel rank pips, Royal Flying Corps buttons and badges, Royal Air Force Service button; also an RAF badge, chrome whistle, two commemorative medals (1911 and 1937), uniform shoulder cord, collar, and a twin handle trophy with applied Royal Engineers badge and an enamel car badge for 19th Century Motorists members stamped Capt. Trubie Moore

A group of 20th century British Army helmets to include a WWII era Home Defence black painted Steel 'Tommy' helmet, a British Mk 5 style helmet, a 1988 NATO Issue helmet, together with a pair of bugles, each bearing the Royal Artillery cap badge Location: LAF

Small Selection of Various Badges Including Guernsey including gilt and enamel, National Reserve Guernsey & Alderney lapel badge (some enamel damage) ... Gilt, KC Board of Agriculture Land Worker lapel badge ... 2 x brass and enamel, KC Women's Land Army ... Gilt and enamel, Civil Defence Guernsey lapel badge ... Embroidery Guernsey C.I. RASC title ... Embroidery Victoria College Jersey CCF title ... Embroidery Elizabeth College CCF title.  14 items.

Cavalry and Yeomanry Cap Badges including bronzed, KC Royal Horse Guards (blades) ... Darkened Middlesex Yeomanry ... Blackened, KC Queens Own Yorkshire Dragoons ... Plated Pembrokeshire Yeomanry (re-lugged) .... Bronzed, Queens Own West Kent Yeomanry ... Bronzed, KC The Life Guard (re-lugged) ... Brass, KC Second Life Guards ... Bi-metal, KC 16th Queens Lancers (faulty) ... Brass, KC Surrey Yeomanry (lugs damaged) ... Silvered 11th Hussars arm badge ... Cast white metal, Shropshire Yeo army badge.  Some fittings absent.  23 items.

Formation and Naval Badges Formation include printed 78th Div over RA/RE arm of service ... Printed 8th Indian Div over RA/RE arm of service ... Field made 8th Army ... Printed 13th Corps ... 4 x bevo weave Central Command South Australia ... 7 x bevo weave, QC 3rd Infantry Div Australia ... 2 x embroidery Royal Navy Combined Operations ... Bullion embroidery, Tank arm badge ... Pair of Staff Officer collar tabs ... 19 x embroidery Royal Navy trade badges.  45 items.

WW2/1950 Formation Badges consisting embroidery South Highland District ... Silvered, gilt and enamel HQ Allied Forces Central Europe breast tab ... 3 x embroidery 21st Army Group ... 3 x embroidery Anti Aircraft Command ... 5 x printed Anti Aircraft Command ... 2 x printed QC War Office Controlled Units ... 10 x embroidery QC War Office Controlled Units ... 14 x embroidery 42nd Lancashire Div 2nd patt ... Printed ARP breast badge ... Embroidery Royal Army Ordnance Corps title ... Bullion embroidery QC AAC beret badge ... Bullion embroidery RE beret badge ... Small selection of various badges.  85 items.

A collection of assorted militaria comprising an Airborne Forces Golden Jubilee glass paperweight, R.A.F steel seal, horn-handled paper-knife engraved 'Goose Bay', 2 x medal bars, Timeso quartz watch, hundreds of black plastic and gilt metal Light Infantry collar badges, three belts, two wooden plaques - R.A.F, Northamptonshire plastic presentation badge and Royal Navy cloth badges, Coldstream Guards cloth badge, leather and brass chinstrap, pair of white metal and enamel Fire Service college cufflinks in fitted box, two World War 2 related magazines and a glazed wooden cased set of twelve British Army badges

A mixed collection of predominantly post-war military cloth insignia, including shoulders chevrons, titles, patches badges - including Royal Army Pay Corps, Royal Marines Commandos, Corps of Commissionaires boards and cap badge, Royal Engineers, blue uniform pocket embroidered with crest, two rifles and 1926 date, and others, including bullion examples and a Scottish silver sgian dubh, hallmarked for Edinburgh 1975, further stamped 'RA' for Robert Allison, overall length 15cm (hilt chipped, tip of blade a.f, some wear to scabbard)(qty)

A miscellaneous assortment of militaria and commemorative medals etc, comprising a WW1 War badge no.98404 within original box, a further war badge no. 127285, a fabric belt with 4 army badges attached - Royal Corps of Signals, R.A.S.C, King's Light Infantry and Life Guards, together with a Tyneside Scottish badge, a pewter snuff box engraved 'F.S', a Prince Edward medal, Shrewsbury 1935 Silver Jubilee medal, three bronze medalets, a U.S. button and a U.S. medallion in box (qty)

A collection of German tinnies and badges comprising Erfurt. Thur. Gautreffen modelled directly after the Thuringen Badge; Kriesappell der NSDAP Moers 1936; 10 Year NSDAP badge from the city of Fulda; a Münster 'Day of the Wehrmacht' badge, an NSKOV Bez. Münsterland 29th October 1933 badge; an SA Brigade 47 Sportfest badge; a 1933 NSDAP Sieg der Lippe badge and an Army 1933 Competition badge and one further WHW bakelite badge (10)

A silver engine-turned pocket cigarette case with engraved Army Chaplain’s badge, the interior with engraved inscription: “Mary-From Her Best Boy, 1927-1942”; Birmingham 1944. (3.2 oz).

Second World War Soldiers Service and Pay Book to 10548868 Private E. Eames of the Royal Army Service Corps, together with fibre Identity Discs to the same soldier, and a plastic economy RAOC cap badge, (qty)

Ca. 300-400 AD. Roman. A wonderfully preserved, mould-made terracotta lamp with a round nozzle, a round discus with concentric ridges and one filling hole, and a perforated round handle. The rich, deep red colour indicates a North African provenance. The discus is adorned with a right-facing eagle and a caduceus. Excellent condition. The caduceus was the staff carried by Hermes (in Rome, Mercury), the Graeco-Roman messenger of the gods, as a symbol of peace. Among the ancient Greeks and Romans, the caduceus became the badge of heralds and ambassadors, signifying their inviolability. As regards the eagle, the traits that we commonly associate with this bird, such as strength, shrewdness, and leadership, emerged in ancient Egypt over 4000 years ago. The Romans appropriated eagle imagery when they conquered Egypt in 300 BC and incorporated this symbolic meaning into their own culture. In 107 BC, Roman general Gaius Marius designated the eagle as the emblem of the Roman army, presenting Rome as the ideal ruler in the global sphere. During the Roman Empire, a lamp like this one was originally called a 'lychnus; (from the Greek ‘λυχνος’) with the oldest Roman lamps dating back to the third century BC. It is thought that the Romans took the idea for lamps from the Greek colonies of Southern Italy. During the Roman Empire, it became commonplace to use lamps in funeral ceremonies and for public purposes. Over time, the manufacture of lamps increased, and so did the variation in decoration, which depended mainly on the shape and size of the lamp. Common decorative themes depicted on the discus were entertainment scenes (such as gladiators in combat), common myths, and animals. During the fourth and fifth century AD, North Africa started to produce oil lamps from red slip, much like this fine example, with large discus areas which allowed for numerous designs. Cf. Zhuravlev, D. (2002). Fire, light and light equipment in the Graeco-Roman world. Oxford: Archaeopress to find out more about light equipment across the Classical world. Size: L:43mm / W:93mm ; 49g. Provenance: Property of a North London gentleman C. M.; formerly in Arnos Jumperz collection, Leverkusen (Germany), acquired pre-1994.

Quantity of ten military cap badges to include a Victorian King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry bi-metal cap badge, Army Catering Corps, King's Shropshire Light Infantry, RAF, Royal Armoured Corps Cambridge Regt etc (10)

Group: Queen Victoria Army long service and good conduct medal, with swivelling scroll suspension to 30734 quartermaster sergeant J.A.J Newberry, royal artillery, plus great war casualty group to 341334 ships steward assistant Frank Harfoot, 1914-15 star, British war medal, victoria medal and memorial plaque, Frank Harfoot steward on H.M.S "Proserpine", died 25th June 1916 and is commemorated at Basra war cemetary, plus group of five medals comprising 1939-45 star, Africa star, defence medal, war medal and army long service medal, George V, regular army bar to 1409514 staff sergeant A.Ferguson army ordnance corps, plus Royal life saving Bronze medal (2,1 cased) a bronze shooting medal, a 1965 Churchill crown, these all housed in a long wooden box, together with a souvenir type dagger with applied badge of Royal Electrical and mechanical engineers

Five 20th century badges to include three silver ARP badges, one further ARP badge, silver plated Territorial Army buttonhole badge (5)

20th century RAF peak cap by Moss Bros together with Army peak cap with Elizabeth II Intelligence Corps cap badge and 37 pattern web belt

French M15 pattern Army helmet with RF infantry badge to front, and a comb on top (a/f), rust and lacking lining

French M15 pattern Army helmet with Artillery badge to front and comb on top (a/f), heavily rusted and remnants of liner inside

WW1 style British Army khaki denim trench cap, with South Lancashire regiment badge, black lining worn to the interior

A 1942 German Afrika Korps style M43 desert field cap, the red interior stamped Rb Nr 003 1942, 57, together with a German style M41 field cap in cream cotton, with police insignia stitched to front, and a WW2 German style M43 single button field cap, in green wool, piped with silver coloured rope style cord around the top, bearing metal army Heer ski jager oakleaf badge to one side, with green interior

A WW1 style Imperial German Feldmutze soft cap, with Iron Cross badge to red band, bearing interior label Speidel 7 Romp. Inf.Regt. 127, and stamped B.A.XIII, together with a WW1 style German army visor cap, in drab coloured felt with red band, visor painted drab, silk effect interior with leather sweatband