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Click here to subscribeRare Victorian Officers silver cheroot case with cast crowned badge of the 16th Bengal Cavalry and cast owners crest with IW monogram (London 1887, Frederick Bradford Macrea for The Army and Navy Co-operative Society Ltd ) 9 x 5 cm. The 16th Bengal Cavalry only used this badge from 1885 to 1890 when it became The 16th Bengal Lancers.Condition report: Sound original condition , some general light dents and wear
Collection of WW1 trench art & buttons of Imperial Airways, Air transport auxiliary and a silver pin badge showing 25 years service with the ‘British Overseas Airways Corporation’ with a small tankard to the 15th Royal Welsh Fusiliers Association 1914 - 1935. One of the Trench art in the form of a letter opener is etched with ‘LENS 1917’ referring to the Battle of Hill 70between Canadian Corps and the German 6th Army on the outskirts of Lens in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region between 15th & 25thof August 1917.
The Royal Red Cross and Mons Star medal group awarded to Beatrice Jane Tanner (1879-1966) of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service, together with her wartime diary, gold identity bracelet and associated badges. 1. The Royal Red Cross - First Class (1919 New Year’s Honours) in its Garrard & Co case. 2. 1914 Star (MISS. B.J. TANNER Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.), the British War and Victory Medals (SISTER B.J. TANNER), and the Defence Medal. The four mounted-for-wear and in a J.R. Gaunt case. The miniatures of all five of the above, in their J.R. Gaunt box. Complete with ribbon bars and the silver insignia of the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. (cape badge) by Carrington & Co. 3. The 1914-1916 diary, in two parts: transcripts and original. The 14-page typewritten transcript begins on the day war was declared, ‘Aug 4th - I received a letter telling me to hold myself in readiness to be called up at any minute.’ (Twelve days later she was in France.) It ends on March 15 1915 ‘The Canadian sisters came here to help each morning and evening until their own hospital is ready’. Pages 1-14 can be viewed at the Royal College of Nursing website: www.rcn.org.uk/servicescrapbooks/beatrice-tanner/transcript . The original diary - 9 leaves in pencil recording March 19th 1915 to October 20th 1916. Also a two-leaf brief memorandum of 1918-1920 in ink.. 4. The recipient’s 9-carat gold identity bracelet engraved ‘Beatrice Tanner - Catsfield Place, Battle’ and the reverse ‘EKAB 167-3’. The eight badges comprise: her two dog-tags; silver General Nursing Council for England and Wales (engraved B. J. Tanner 57654); St. John Ambulance Association (engraved Beatrice Tanner 57654); honorary life membership of the British Red Cross (some enamel away); W.V.S. Civil Defence; Women’s Land Army; British Legion.
A Second War ‘Governor of Edinburgh Castle’ K.C.B., and Great War D.S.O. group of eleven awarded to Lieutenant-General Sir R. H. Carrington, Royal Horse Artillery, late Hampshire and Isle of Wight R.G.A. Volunteers The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s, set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star in silver with gold and enamel appliqué centre, with full neck cravat in its R & S Garrard & Co case of issue, catch defective; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels, with integral top ribbon bar; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer‘s breast badge, silver and enamel; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt. R. H. Carrington, Hants. & I of W. R.G.A.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Capt: R. H. Carrington. R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major R. H. Carrington.); War Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, the last ten mounted for display, generally very fine or better (12) £2,000-£2,600 --- K.C.B. London Gazette 1 January 1941: ‘Lieut.-General, C.B., D.S.O., Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, Governor of Edinburgh Castle.’ C.B. London Gazette 1 January 1938: ‘Major-General, D.S.O. (late Royal Artillery), Major-General, Headquarters Staff of the Army in India.’ D.S.O. London Gazette 14 January 1916: ‘Captain, Royal Artillery.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 31 December 1915 (French), 14 December 1917 (Haig), 20 May 1918 (Haig), and 5 July 1919 (Haig). Robert Harold Carrington was born on 7 November 1882, and educated at Winchester. Served in South African war as Lieutenant in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight R.G.A. Volunteers. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery on 16 November 1901. Served with Royal Horse Artillery 1908-16, and with the B.E.F. in France from 6 October 1914, with “F” Battery R.H.A., 14th Brigade (Despatches 4 times, D.S.O., promoted to Bt. Lieut.-Col.). Lieutenant-Colonel, 1929; Colonel, 1931; G.S.O.1, 4th Division, 1931-32; Commander Royal Artillery, 4th Division, 1932-36; Major-General Royal Artillery, A.H.Q. India, 1936-39; Deputy Adjutant-General War Office, 1939; Lieutenant -General, G.O.C.-in-C. Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle, 1940; retired pay 1941; employed under Ministry of Supply, 1942-45; Colonel Commandant R.A., 1940-50; D.L. Suffolk, 1952; High Sheriff Suffolk, 1953. Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Carrington died on 4 September 1964.
Family Group: A Great War C.M.G. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Allen, Royal Irish Rifles The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s, breast badge converted for neck wear, silver-gilt and enamels, minor chips to both centres; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lt: Col: E. Allen, R. Ir. Rif:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt. Col. E. Allen, Rl. Irish Rif.); 1914-15 Star (Lt: Col: E. Allen. R. Ir: Rif:); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. E. Allen.) the last five mounted as worn, good very fine Five: Captain R. G. Allen, Royal Ulster Rifles 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, all privately named ‘Capt. R. G. Allen, R.U.R.’, mounted for display, good very fine (11) £700-£900 --- C.M.G. London Gazette 14 January 1916. M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1916. Edward Allen was born on 6 September 1859, at Stone Hall, Glandore, county Cork, second son of Christopher Allen, J.P. He was educated at Eastman’s Naval Academy, Southsea, Hampshire, with a view to entering the Navy, and afterwards at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He joined the 86th Regiment, afterwards the 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, in August 1879. He saw active service throughout the Boer war, 1899-1902; present at the battle of Stormberg, relief of Wepener, and took part in operations in the Orange River Colony, and Cape Colony. He was twice mentioned in despatches and made Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel (Queen’s medal and 2 clasps, King’s medal and 2 clasps). Lieutenant-Colonel Allen retired in September 1902. Recalled in 1914, Lieutenant-Colonel Allen served with the Royal Irish Rifles in France from 26 February 1915. Rufus Gray Allen served as a Captain with the Royal Ulster Rifles and was killed in action in Sicily on 5 August 1943, aged 23. He is buried in Catania War Cemetery, Sicily. Sold with original portrait photographs of both recipients together with some copied research.
Pair: Captain J. D. Demme, Slavo British Legion British War and Victory Medals (Capt. J. D. Demme.) good very fine, rare to unit £200-£300 --- The Slavo-British Legion After the British invasion and occupation of Archangel in early August 1918 recruiting began locally for the formation of the ‘Slavo-British Legion’ raised from White Russian volunteers as a ‘British Foreign Legion’ to fight the Bolshevik Red Army. A sister unit, the ‘Slavo-British Aviation Corps’ was formed under the command of Imperial Russian ace Alexander Kazakov to fly British aircraft against the Reds. The Legion would be commanded by British officers with a sprinkling of volunteer White Russian officers recruited into the Legion and given British ranks. It was incorporated into the North Russia Expeditionary Force Order of Battle, wore British Army uniforms and observed British Army traditions. The hat badge of the Legion was a brass Cross of St. Andrew, the Legionnaires also wore brass ‘SBL’ shoulder titles on their epaulettes. The faithful devotion to duty of the Legionnaires was recognised when General Ironside presented the Legion with ‘King’s Colours’ at a public parade attended by local dignitaries and representatives from each of the Allied military contingents conducted in front of Archangel Cathedral on King’s Birthday, 1 June 1919. On the night of 6–7 July 1919, the Slavo-British Legion were billeted behind the front line on the eastern bank of the Dvina River near the village of Topsa. At 0230 a party of eight mutineers led by Corporal Nuchev and Private Leuchenko crept towards the hut where the British and White Russian company and platoon officers were sleeping. Corporal Nuchev shot Captain Aubrey Finch (Seaforth Highlanders) through a window as he was sleeping, killing him outright, whilst the other mutineers stormed the hut shooting and killing four more British and four Russian officers and three batmen. Captain David Barr (East Lancashire Regiment) was badly wounded with bullet and bayonet wounds but managed to evade his attackers and flee out of the hut into the twilight, swimming across the Dvina to one of monitor H.M.S. Humber’s picket boats. For his gallantry in fighting his way out of the billet under fire and courage and endurance despite his wounds, Barr was awarded the Military Cross but sadly succumbed to his wounds six days later and was buried in Archangel Allied Cemetery. As the mutiny erupted and hundreds of Legionnaires fled into the forest to join the Red Army, Legion company officers Captain William Beavan, Welsh Regiment and Alfred Barrett, Royal Berkshire Regiment, formed their men on parade despite the mayhem and by their determination held the men steady with the assistance of 2nd Lieutenant Sydney Brooker, General List, who was commanding one of the platoons in Beavan’s company. All three men were awarded the Military Cross for their courage and devotion to duty. Also murdered during the mutiny were Lieutenants Gerald Gosling, M.C., Gloucestershire Regiment; Cecil Bland, M.C., Royal Berkshire Regiment; and Thomas Griffith, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Twenty six captured Legionnaires were charged with offences relating to the mutiny, their court-martial carried out in the field over two days, 12–13 July. Eight men were acquitted whilst the remaining 18 charged were sentenced to death, six of these having their capital sentences commuted to 10 years penal servitude leaving 12 mutineers sentenced to execution. On the morning of 17 July 1919 the condemned men were brought out to meet their fate. Ironside ensured that 500 new White Russian recruits were present to witness the executions as a none too subtle warning. Royal Air Force ace pilot Captain Ira Jones was witness to the executions: ‘I have tonight seen something which I never want to witness again. An execution…The men were being shot by their own comrades who had not mutinied, each of the condemned men having a machine-gun all to himself [although each loaded only with a belt of 5 rounds] at ten yards range. It was an eerie sight because the executioners were themselves covered from behind by machine gunners from the Royal Fusiliers, in case they suddenly changed their minds and turned their weapons on the British present! A Russian officer was in charge of the execution, although a British Assistant Provost Marshal was present. The signal to fire was when the officer dropped his raised sword, then a strange thing happened which lengthened the lives and agony of those Bolos for about one minute. A little dog appeared from somewhere and trotted up to one of the prisoners and sniffed at his legs. The dog had to be got away before the officer dropped his sword. I shall never forget the rattle of those machine guns and the wriggling bodies as their life was shot out of them. The executioner of the sergeant either deliberately missed him or became very nervous, because when the smoke of the guns had cleared away the N.C.O. had pulled off his handkerchief and was shouting “Long live Bolshevism”. The officer, pulling out his revolver strolled up to him – I was secretly hoping he would not shoot – and as he did so pointed the revolver at the disc on his heart. The sergeant spat at him. Bang! Bang! Bang! And two more for his head. Afterwards, all the bodies were buried in one big grave which the victims had themselves dug in the morning.’ Of the mutiny one British officer wrote: ‘In their innermost hearts the loyal Russians were not sorry. They regretted the butchery of British officers, but the mutiny itself they regarded as the natural and inevitable outcome of the whole effort. They merely shrugged their shoulders as if to say, ‘We told you so.’ The British Army made a concerted attempted to track down the mutineers who escaped to defect to the Red Army. The names of a further eight mutineers were identified, an internal British military intelligence memo stated: ‘The names of these Russians should be carefully recorded and never lost sight of. They are guilty of the blackest treachery conceivable, and if our affairs with Russia should at any time in the next five or ten years reach a condition when it is possible for us to demand their exemplary punishment, we must not fail to do so’. The escaped mutineers were never found, and only a handful of loyal Slavo-British Legionnaires who were evacuated to England after the British withdrawal from North Russia in October 1919 became eligible for awards of the British War and Victory Medals. A full account of the Slavo-British Legion mutiny can be found in Churchill's Secret War with Lenin by Damien Wright. Note: The Slavo-British Legion Medal Roll contains 67 names, most of whom do not appear to have been issued any medals, with many others had their medals returned unclaimed. The medal roll confirms only 17 British War and Victory Medal pairs issued to the unit, five of them being to officers.
A Great War O.B.E. group of four awarded to Captain A. Smith, King’s Own Royal Royal Lancaster Regiment, who served as Member of Parliament for Clitheroe, Nelson and Colne 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. A. Smith, R. Lanc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. A. Smith) gilding almost all rubbed from OBE, light contact marks, otherwise very fine (4) £200-£240 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 12 December 1919. Albert Smith was born on 15 June 1867, and was first employed as a Mill boy at the age of 8. ‘From 1902 to 1912 he served on the Nelson Town Council and was Mayor of the Town from 1908 to 1910. In 1910 he succeeded Sir David J. Shackleton as M.P. for Clitheroe Division; however, his Parliamentary experience was interrupted by his voluntary enlistment in the Army in the first year of the Great War, and he had the distinction during the first few weeks of the war of being the only member of the Labour Party in Parliament to hold a commission in H.M. Forces. He saw active service as a Captain with the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Gallipoli, from where he was invalided home. For a time during the last war he was military representative in the Burnley Nelson and Colne area, but in 1917 he rejoined his battalion and finally left the Army on his completion of three years service. When the parliamentary borough of Nelson and Colne was formed in 1918, Captain Smith became its first M.P. He resigned in 1920, and subsequently served as a a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Lancashire for a good many years. He died at Nelson, Lancashire, in April 1942.’ (the recipient’s obituary from the Regimental Journal The Lion and the Rose, May 1942, refers). Sold with copied research.
An inter-War ‘Civil Division’ O.B.E., Great War ‘Military Division’ M.B.E., ‘Salonika’ R.R.C. group of nine awarded to Principal Matron H. G. Palin, Ministry of Pensions Nursing Service and Territorial Army Nursing Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1926, on 2nd type lady’s bow riband; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919, on lady’s bow riband; Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Sister’s) small shoulder badge, 30mm, silvered and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, on lady’s bow riband; 1914-15 Star (Sister H. G. Palin. T.F.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Matron H. G. Palin) VM officially re-impressed; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband, very fine and better (9) £1,000-£1,400 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1930. M.B.E. (Military) London Gazette 4 June 1918 (initially gazetted as a Civil Division award; a copy letter in her service papers requested that the M.B.E. be classified as Military Division). R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1915. Officer (Sister) Order of St. John of Jerusalem, London Gazette 1 January 1946. Helen Grace Palin was born in India in 1871, the daughter of Lieutenant-General Charles Thomas Palin of the Indian Army. She trained as a nurse at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, London, and in 1909 the Royal College of Nursing journal showed her as Night Superintendent at the Guest Hospital, Dudley. She enrolled in the Territorial Force Nursing Service in November 1911, and was mobilised for service on 17 August 1914, serving until demobilised on 31 July 1919. Miss Palin was appointed to H.M. Hospital Ship Asturias on 24 September 1914, transporting the wounded back from France. She subsequently served in France for a short period prior to being posted to Salonika, where she served with 21st Stationary Hospital from 1 February 1916, and was promoted Matron on 29 October 1916. Noted as ‘a most capable and hard working Matron’, she was Mentioned in General Milne’s Despatch (London Gazette 23 March 1918). Miss Palin returned to England on 19 May 1918, to be Matron of 1 Leicester General Hospital, but in July was sent as Matron to 1 Western General Hospital, Wallasey, Liverpool. Her reports mention her tact, intelligence and organisational ability. Her final appointment with the Territorial Army Nursing Service was with 2 London General Hospital as Matron. She subsequently served as Principal Matron, Ministry of Pensions, and died in Birmingham in 1952. Sold together with copied research including a copied press cutting photograph of the recipient.
A post-War O.B.E. group of nine awarded to Colonel C. W. Hurley, Royal Artillery The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1953; Jubilee 1977; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, the reverse officially dated ‘1946’, with companion set of nine miniature medals, both sets mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (10) £200-£260 --- O.B.E. (Military) London Gazette 13 December 1945: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy.’ M.B.E. (Military) London Gazette 24 August 1944: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 19 July 1945: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy.’ Clement Woods Hurley was born in 1916 at Benton, Northumbria, and educated as Douai school in Berkshire. He joined Northumberland Council straight from school, was articled to the clerk of the council and, in 1937, after five years’ apprenticeship, was officially admitted to the council’s staff. In the meantime, the young solicitor had joined the Territorial Army, and when war broke out he was called up. ‘I was evacuated from Dunkirk and later went out to the Middle East,’ he said. He was wounded, not badly, but both feet were injured and he remained forever a little lame. He served in the 50th (Northumbrian) Division and finished up a Colonel. From 1948, he was deputy clerk of the council for the next 21 years. In 1968 he became clerk, and clerk of the peace, and in 1973 he became chief executive of the council. He retired in 1977. Sold with various original documents including Warrants for O.B.E. and M.B.E.; M.I.D. Certificate; award certificates for Coronation 1953 and Jubilee 1977; Commission as 2nd Lieutenant in 72nd (Northumbrian) Filed Brigade R.A., dated 19 April 1938; certificate of Appointment as Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Northumberland, dated 1 June 1971; various Law Society certificates for Articles of Clerkship and Examination passes for Solicitor; together with copied research including news cuttings.
A post-War O.B.E., Great War ‘Battle of Langemarke’ M.C. group of nine awarded to Brigadier J. N. Ritchie, Royal Field Artillery, who was taken Prisoner of War at Fleurbaix in 1918 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved ‘Langemarke Nov. 1917, J.N.R.’; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Maj. J. N. Ritchie.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated 1942, with integral top riband bar, mounted for wear; together with the related miniature awards, very fine and better (9) £1,000-£1,400 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1968: Brigadier James Norman Ritchie, M.C., T.D., D.L., Honorary Director, Shropshire and West Midland Agricultural Society M.C. London Gazette 17 December 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in getting his guns into position under very great difficulties. Later, succeeded under heavy shell fire in taking ammunition up to the guns by pack transport at a time when other transport had failed to get through.’ James Norman Ritchie was born at Liverpool on 7 July 1896 and was educated at Loretto School, Edinburgh, and the South Eastern Agricultural College. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Force) on 4 February 1915, he was posted to the 4th West Lancashire Brigade Ammunition Column, R.F.A., and was promoted Lieutenant on 1 June 1916. Awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry at Langemarke, he was advanced Acting Major on 15 November 1917, and commanded “C” Battery, 286th Brigade, R.F.A. in 1918. He was recorded as missing in action on 9 April 1918, and subsequently found to have been taken prisoner of war at Fleurbaix. Held at Stralsund (Dalholm) P.O.W. camp, he was released on 17 December 1918. For his services during the Great War he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 7 November 1917). Post-War Ritchie joined the 240th (Shropshire R.H.A.) Medium Battery R.A. (T.A), becoming their Commanding Officer in 1929. He transferred to the 60th Medium Battery in 1933, and was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in 1937. He served during the Second World War with the 6th A.A. Training Group as Commander 1941, and was advanced Brigadier in 1942, being awarded the Efficiency Decoration that same year (London Gazette 2 October 1942). He retired on 12 December 1945. In later life Ritchie was a Deputy Lieutenant of Shropshire, as well as serving as Chairman of the Shropshire Territorial Army, and was High Sheriff. A well-known breeder of sheep and Hereford cattle, he served as Director of the Shropshire and West Midland Agricultural Society, ands was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1968 New Years’ Honour’s List, being invested with his insignia at Buckingham Palace on 12 March 1978. He died in April 1970. Sold with copied research.
A Second War ‘Special Operations Executive’ M.B.E. group of three awarded to Major S. Dunollie, 17th/21st Lancers and Special Operations Executive Intelligence The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue and outer card transmission box; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issued addressed to ‘Major S. Dunollie, Glen Cottage, Park Road, Camberley, Surrey’, extremely fine (3) £400-£500 --- Stanhoe Dunollie was born on 15 September 1889 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 17th/21st Lancers on 19 September 1940- the notification in the London Gazette shows him with the post-nominal letters of M.B.E. He was advanced War Substantive Captain and Temporary Major on 19 December 1940, and is listed as having served as an Intelligence Officer with the Special Operations Executive (The Most Secret List of S.O.E. Agents, compiled by E. Meyer refers).
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal (5), one with Home Secretary’s enclosure, in card box of issue; War Medal 1939-45 (4); Africa Service Medal (2); South Africa Medal for War Service; U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Canadian Forces Decoration, G.VI.R. (W.O. 2 J. L. R. Marier); Multinational Force and Observers Medal, bronze; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1918, with bronze star emblem on riband, in card box of issue, generally good very fine Pair: Army Field Clerk G. M. Wetz, United States Forces United States of America, Victory Medal, 1 clasp, France, bronze; Tomkins County, New York State Great War Service Medal, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Godfrey Wetz’, with top brooch bar; together with various cloth insignia, good very fine (20) £80-£120 --- Sold together with a Canadian Forces General Service lapel badge and other ephemera.
Canada Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (30372 W.O.2. S. Beard C.A.S.C.) second digit of number double-struck, polished and slightly worn, minor edge bruise, nearly very fine and scarce £400-£500 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919. Sidney Beard was born in London, England, on 11 April 1882 and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Valcartier on 23 September 1914. Posted to the Canadian Army Service Corps, 1st Divisional Train, he served with them during the Great War on the Western Front, and was advanced Company Quarter Master Sergeant on 9 May 1917. For his services during the Great War he was awarded the Colonial Meritorious Service Medal; he also received a Silver War Badge. Demobilised in May 1919, he subsequently settled in London, Ontario, and died there in October 1960. Sold with copied research.
Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1694 Sgt. Cook. J. Johns, E. Kent R.); together with Prince Consort’s Own Bloomsbury Rifles (5th V.B,. Rifle Brigade) Centenary Medal, bronze, ‘presented to Sergt. Cook G. S. Hellier at the annual inspection, June 26th, 1897’, first with edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine --- James Johns was born in Bristol and enlisted there into the 3rd Foot on 16 January 1868. He served with the 1st Battalion on the Perak Expedition, 20 November 1875 to 19 November 1876 (Medal with clasp), and was awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal on 1 April 1886, whilst serving with the 2nd Batttalion. Sold with copied discharge papers. George S. Hellier was born at Parkhurst, near Newport, Isle of Wight, in 1860. He is entitled to the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal (A.O. 65 of 1921) and the Silver War Badge (No. 68240) but did not serve overseas. Sold with copied Territorial papers from 1908 and other research.
Scrap album compiled by the family of Private R. Young, Machine Gun Corps, who survived the sinking of the S.S. Transylvania A large half leather bound scrapbook with gilt Kings Crown Machine Gun Corps badge inset into the front cover containing numerous postcards sent home by Robert Young, from Greece, Italy, Mesopotamia and Palestine also with tipped in original telegrams and press cuttings, letters and original Army notifications that he was suffering from Malaria and on another occasion ‘inflammation of connective tissues’. Also an original concert programme for a concert held on board the ‘Transylvania’ on 27 February 1917, an original telegram from Robert Young to his family two days after the sinking simply stating ‘Saved Home Soon - Young’, a large newspaper cutting on the sinking of the S.S. Transylvania together with several studio family photographs. binding to album worn, therefore reasonable condition £50-£70 --- Robert D. Young, a native of Glasgow, served during the Great War as a Private with 239 Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps, as part of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force. The troopship Transylvania was sunk in the Gulf of Genoa on 4 May 1917 by the German U-boat SM U-63, while carrying Allied troops to Egypt, and sank with a loss of 412 lives.
Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, unmarked, good very fine Germany, Third Reich, Iron Cross 1939, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, ring marked ‘11’; Memelland Medal 22 March 1939, bronze; Eastern Front Medal (2), zinc, one on chain suspension; Cross of Honour of the German Mother, Third Class, 2nd type, bronze and enamel; together with a set of insignia for an Afrika Korps tropical pith helmet, the national eagle and the national tricolour all with their three fitting pins; a single Armed Forces shield for the Afrika Korps pith helmet; two Winter Help plastic Third Reich Army and Luftwaffe standards; and a small multi enamelled membership lapel pin for the Old Conrades Association, generally very fine (12) £140-£180
Germany, Third Reich, Iron Cross 1939, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, ring stamped ‘75’ (Karl Hensler of Pforzheim); East Front Medal, zinc; Italian Afrika Medal, bronze; 25 Year National Faithful Service Medal, silvered and enamel, in card box of issue; Armed Forces 4 Year Long Service Medal, silvered, with silvered eagle emblem on riband; Mothers Cross, Second Class, silvered and enamel; together with an Army Drivers Badge in bronze; a Wound Badge in black; and a small German-Italian Aviation Medal, good very fine (9) £100-£140
Six: Sergeant C. E. Shaw, Royal Engineers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (20740 Corpl: C. E. Shaw. R.E.); 1914-15 Star (52243. Sjt. C. E. Shaw. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (52243 Sjt. C. E. Shaw. R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (52243 Sjt: C. E. Shaw. R.E.); Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., Circular issue, 1st ‘coinage head’ issue (Charles Edward Shaw); together with Queen Victoria’s Boer War Chocolate tin 1900 and Silver War Badge in its numbered box of issue (336046), good very fine (6) £180-£220 --- Charles Edward Shaw enlisted into the Royal Engineers in February 1886 as a Boy recruit, serving at Home for the next 12 years and twice being promoted, to Lance-Corporal in 1896 and to Corporal in 1897. He was discharged to the Reserve in 1898 on termination of his first period of engagement, and took employment as a telegraphist at the General Post Office in Liverpool. Rejoining on the outbreak of the Boer War, he served in South Africa from November 1899 to July 1901 with 1st Field Company, attached to the 1st Telegraph Division (Queens Medal with 5 clasps). He afterwards returned to his position with the Telegraph Office in Liverpool, where he remained until the outbreak of war in August 1915. Shaw rejoined the Royal Engineers in September 1914, being promoted to Sergeant within one day of joining. He served at Home attached to various Signals Depots until November 1915 when he joined the Expeditionary Force in France. In August 1917 he was found in the Sergeant’s Billet with self-inflicted wounds to his wrist and leg and with his bedding alight having attempted to set the Billet on fire. A Shell Shock Specialist with the R.A.M.C. concluded that he was in a condition of temporary mental derangement and was not responsible for his actions but suffering from severe Neurasthenia. He was consequently discharged in March 1918 and awarded the Silver War Badge due to his sickness. Returning to his profession as a telegraphist with the General Post Office, he was awarded the Imperial Service Medal on 24 December 1929. Sold with comprehensive research.
The Second World War Japanese internee group of five medals to Major Donald Honey Grist (OBE), Federated Malay States Volunteer Force, agricultural expert: 1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration (Malaya), George VI (GRI), reverse engraved (MJR. D.H. GRIST F.W.S.V.F.); mounted for wearing, all about good very fine; with a mounted set of dress miniatures corresponding to the foregoing but commencing with an OBE badge, extremely fine; offered together with a large archive of ephemera, original and scans/transcripts, including correspondence, diary excerpts and paintings, the latter produced by the recipient's wife Isobel while they were both interned in Changi Prison Camp, and depicting scenes of camp life. D.H. Grist studied at the University of Cambridge School of Agriculture (Diploma), before becoming an officer of the Colonial Agricultural Service, in the service of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States. Having previously spent four years in the 1st Bn Cambridgeshire Regiment, he joined the ranks of the Malay States Volunteer Rifles in 1915, before obtaining a commission in the Malay Volunteer Infantry, which he held until 1935. He captained the F.M.S. rifle team in the 1930s, and competed for them at Bisley. On the outbreak of the Second World War he was on leave in England, and he applied for a commission in the army, but was advised that his services were of greater use to the Colonial Service, and so returned to his duties in the East, and was interned as civilian, together with his wife Isobel. He was a published expert on rice, and copy of his book 'Rice', is offered with this lot. His O.B.E. (not present in the lot) was gazette in December 1976. The paintings included in this lot are of particular importance, Prisoners experienced great difficulty in obtaining (and retaining) the even basic necessities of life, and Isobel Grist was usual in being able to produce these paintings and preserve them through her captivity, until her liberation. Her family recount that she secured her watercolour paints mere moments before being marched off to Changi, and that brushes were made for her by other prisoners using human hair.
Ottoman Order of the Crescent: a three piece set of silver-gilt flatware engraved with the badge of a Knight of the Crecent, vine pattern knife, fork and spoon, each with the badge engraved to a panel on the handle, John Samuel Hunt, London 1855, in a green baize and silk lined leather covered case. A survey of Hart's Army lists indicates only eight officers entitled to this distinction in the period when this flatware was made. The opportunity exists for further research.
A small collection of dress miniature medals, comprising: D.S.O. and Bar, George V; C.B.E., breast badge; a mounted group of a no-clasp QSA with a 1914-15 Star trio; another mounted group of six Second World War awards; and a mounted group of Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, GSM with Malaya clasp, and Regular Army L.S.G.C.; some scuffing and enamel damage to first two, generally very fine or better. [qty]
A collection of silver and enamelled jewellery to include a blue wings brooch Norway Sterling 925, a Sterling pair of blue enamel and orange stone earrings, a green and white bar brooch (Birmingham 1938?) and a Royal Army Service Corps Badge (unmarked) (5). Some damages to the enamel. Some very stylish pieces. 6cm bar brooch.
A WWII Second World War Third Reich Nazi German Army medal group awarded to one Obergefreiten (Corporal) Ottmar Conradi. Comprising his; Eastern Front Medal, Black Wound Badge and Second Class Iron Cross. All with their original certificates of issue, and with ribbons. c1942. The EK2 certificate signed by General Major Oskar Boege, of the 197th Division.
A collection of x3 original WWI First World War Imperial German Army assorted uniform items, comprising; an original Pickelhaube leather uniform helmet (AF - crushed, lacking badge but retaining top spike), an original German Army water canteen with bullet hole to one side, retaining original covering and stopper. Along with a period German soldier's enamel food canteen. Interesting assortment of period items, each labelled where it was discovered immediately post-war.
A WWII Second World War Russian Soviet medal group comprising Soviet Army Order of Great Patriotic War badge (numbered 1488302) a Guards Unit badge, and Defense Of Stalingrad Medal (with ribbon). Along with the original Certificate for Participation In The Heroic Defence Of Stalingrad certificate, and associated later research as well as the original recipient's cap badge. Interesting group.
An original WWI First World War British Army ' Tommy ' steel combat Brodie helmet. The helmet lacking liner or chin strap, but with a Royal Artillery cap badge to front and painted insignia for the 56th London Division (likely a later addition). The helmet being a seamless example, with adjustable bales.
An original WWI First World War British Army soldier's souvenir cap badges and belt. The belt featuring over twenty original cap badges and uniform buttons (both enemy and ally), comprising; a rare Machine Gun Corps Canada cap badge, Royal Artillery badge, Middlesex Regiment, Royal Scots, The Duke Of Wellington's West Riding Regiment badge, Australian Commonwealth Military Forces cap badge, German hat button and others. Comes with an envelope which reads ' Given by a wounded soldier to Mary Collins Pinder, who was nursed by her in France.' Also accompanied by a vintage typed slip which describes each button / badge. Interesting piece of WW1 history.
Large collection of medals and medallions, to include War Medal, Defence Medal, The Africa Star, The Italy Star and The 1939-1945 Star, collection of Queen's Own 4th Hussars cap badges and insignia, silver Regular Army Reserve Officer's button, Masonic 'Quest Lodge' enamel jewel, equestrian enamel badges and pins, silver house relay race keychain, Third Reich badge, and others, together with buttons and belt buckles (qty)
Collection of British Army uniforms and caps , to include WWII British Army dress uniform jacket Conway Williams of London label inscribed in pen ' S.T. Eve Esq. 4th Hussars, 2.4.37 and no 5954', another khaki uniform including jacket and trousers with matching oak leaf badge, 4th Hussars field service side cap by Herbert Johnson, New Bond St, Queen's Own 4th Hussars peaked forage cap by Herbert Johnson, British Officers khaki peaked cap by Herbert Johnson with original Herbert Johnson box, and 4th Hussars cloth shoulder badges
A NUMBER OF WALL POSTERS PRODUCED FOR THE ARMY RECRUITMENT OFFICES which features images of cap and cloth insignia, of various British regiments and units, believed 70's - 80's era, a boxed British Red Cross ladies uniform hat, with cockade and enamelled badge, also some RN ships ID sticker badges mounted and some other related military prints
A BOX CONTAINING A NUMBER OF OFFICIAL WWII ERA BOOKLETS FOR ARMY ENGINEERS in relation to field repairs etc, Churchill Tank etc, together with a small wooden wall plaque featuring Windmill scene, Holland dated on reverse 1945, also an ATS sash and tie, together with Royal Corps of Signals cap badge, ATS cap badge and collar dogs
ARMY STYLE BUGLE, copper and brass with attached mouthpiece and green corded knot, together with a brown leather fold over buckle top case and carry strap, marked W.S 15/19H(15/19 Kings Royal Hussars), possibly pre or WWI era, brass WWI era napkin ring with the crest for 'Albert' Somme, France, two small boxes with photo badge and pin badge (Mafeking) Great War Alloy Medallion, N Staffords Collar Dog (WWI) and a 1943 AM (Air Ministry) marked stop watch, watch winds but does not operate beyond approximately five seconds
WW2 Third Reich metal insignia: RAD enamel lapel stick pin with makers mark "A.TH" along with RADJ mark, good enamel: HJ Sportsfest badge 1936 maker marked "Fechler, Bernsbach/SA": plastic WHW Army Standards collection badge marked on reverse "We1" "DRGM" and "Schutzen-und Kraftschutzen": single Luftwaffe enlisted mans collar rank gull, complete with both pins, VSR makers mark: Prussian State cap cockade complete with both lugs: Badge for Civilian Employees of the Luftwaffe, pin backed, no makers mark. (6)
US Ka-Bar Fighting Knife with fullered Bowie type blade with non reflective black finish marked "US Army" along with makers mark "KaBar, Olean NY" 177mm in length. Grip formed from compressed leather washers. Overall length 305mm. Complete with tan leather scabbard impressed with makers name, US Army and US cap badge design: Along with another similar knife with 179mm long Bowie style blade with Parkerised finish marked "US Ontario". Grip formed from black compressed leather washers. Overall length 307mm. Complete with black leather scabbard. (2)
British Army Staffordshire Regiment 1949 Pattern Captains Battledress Blouse. Complete with all original insignia including a gold wire bullion glider tradition badge. 19th Infantry Brigade formation signs. Named to "Captain Gregory, J". Size 4. Maker marked and dated "Milford Clothing Co Ltd 1954".
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