Brigadier-General Charles Edward Every Francis Kirwan Macquoid, C.I.E., D.S.O., Indian Army Riband bar, pin-backed (lacking pin), bearing the ribbons: Order of the Indian Empire; Distinguished Service Order; India General Service 1895-1902; Queens South Africa 1899-1902; 1914 Star, with silver rosette; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaf; India General Service 1908-35; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, good condition £20-40 Riband bar attributed to Brigadier-General Charles Edward Every Francis Kirwan Macquoid. Born in 1869 and educated at Dover College. He entered the Army, as a 2nd Lieutenant with the Kings Regiment, in 1888. Later with the Indian Army, he was Commandant of the 4th Cavalry, 1916-19. He served in the military operations on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1895-96, at Tirah, the operations against the Khani Khel Chamkanis, Mohmand and Samana, for which he was awarded the I.G.S. 1895 with three clasps, was mentioned in despatches and was awarded the D.S.O. He then served in the Boer War, being awarded the Queens medal with one clasp. In the Great War, he served in France, Egypt and Mesopotamia, 1914-18, being mentioned in despatches and attaining the rank of Brigadier-General in 1918. He was G.O.C. Kuki Punitive Measures, 1918, for which he was awarded the C.I.E., and G.O.C. Brigade Afghan Frontier, 1919. Brigadier-General Macquoid died in 1945. With copied research..
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Dame Leslie Whateley, D.B.E., Director of the World Bureau of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, late Chief Controller of The Army Territorial Service Riband bar, on buckram, in two strips, bearing the ribbons: Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, military; France & Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Decoration; France, Legion of Honour; France, Resistance Medal; U.S.A. Legion of Merit, with gilt Officers emblem; together with a miniature riband bar, pin-backed, bearing the above ribbons in incorrect order and Efficiency Medal instead of Efficiency Decoration, good condition (3) £20-30 Dame Leslie Whateley, D.B.E. was Director of the World Bureau of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, 1951-63. Prior to this, she had risen through the ranks to become a Major-General in the British Womens Army. Her medal were sold in Christies, 17 November 1987. With some copied research and certified provenance of riband bars
Germany, Copies (5) Empire, Tank Badge, silver base metal, pin-backed; Third Reich, Tank Badge of the Condor Legion, silver base metal, pin-backed; Infantry Assault Badge, silver base metal, pin-backed, reverse marked in raised letters, R.S.; Army Flak Badge, reverse impressed, C. E. Juncker Belin SW, base metal, pin-backed; ôAfrikaö Armband, all are copies, very fine and better, sold as found (5) £100-140
Yugoslavia, Social Federal Republic, Order of Labour (3), 1st Class badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse with two screw-fittings, stamp mark, and impressed, I and 1217; 2nd Class, silver and silver-gilt, reverse impressed, II, with pin-fitting marked, Znb-Kovnica; 3rd Class, silver and silver-gilt, with pin-fitting marked, Znb-Kovnica; Order of National Merit, 3rd Class screw-backed badge, silver and silver-gilt, reverse impressed, III and 80345; Order of Brotherhood and Unity, 2nd Class screw-backed badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse with stamp marks and impressed, 57656; Order of the Peoples Army, 3rd Class pin-backed breast star, silver, gilt metal and enamel, unmarked; Order of Military Merit, 3rd Class pin-backed breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, stamp marks on reverse, very fine and better (7) £80-100
A large bi-metal pin back badge "Somerset Veteran Reserve" two enamelled lapel badges for the "National Reserve Somerset" by Gaunt, pin back enamelled badge "West Somerset Yeomanry" South Africa 1900-01 and a Central Association VTC lapel badge (5). Note: The Veteran Reserve was founded around 1907/08 but not recognised by the War Office. In 1913 the Army Council authorised the formation of the National Reserve and members of the Veteran Reserve were invited to transfer. The 1st West Somerset National Reserve were provided with colours by the wife of the mayor of Taunton. They were never consecrated as by this time war had been declared. ++good condition
An OR`s cap badge of the 178th CEF ("Province de Quebec" type); Army Dental Corps collar badge; 3 old cap tallies: HMS Gleaner, Drake and RNVR London; Third Reich destroyer badge (no pin or hook, othewise good); a glengarry cap with anodised Lowland Brigade badge; a small Union flag; 2 military drum biscuit barrels; 4 commemorative pewter pots; and 2 press photographs of the new type Admiral`s launch. Average GC
An 18ct gold stick pin set with two rubies by Alfred Thielmann for Faberge, the Russian Imperial crown set with two rubies above intertwined monogram GM for Grand Duke George Mikhailovich, with its original Faberge birchwood box (Illustrated). George Mikhailovich was born on August 23rd 1863, the third of six sons of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikholaivich and grandson of Tsar Nicholas I. He served briefly in Her Majesty`s Lancers of The Imperial Guard, the friend and cousin of future Tsar, Nicholas II and then became curator of The Alexander III Museum, now known as The Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, specialising in coins, of which he accumulated a huge collection. He married Maria Georgievna, the daughter of King George I of Greece, in Corfu on 12th May 1900. They had two daughters, Nina (born 1901 and Xenia (born 1903); his wife and daughters left Russia for London in 1914 and never returned. During the 1914-18, he served as Inspector General in the army and was sent on a diplomatic mission to Japan in 1915. After the 1917 revolution, he went to Finland but returned to Russia in 1918 and was arrested by the Bolshevik Red Guards. He was briefly exiled to Siberia and returned to imprisonment in the Peter & Paul Fortress in Petrograd; whilst in prison, his wife tried to buy his freedom and that of his three cousins for the sum of £50,000 but the Bolsheviks refused and he was shot by firing squad in the Peter and Paul Fortress alongside his three cousins on 30th January 1919. Alfred Thielmann was of German extraction, his father was an engineer in St. Petersburg and he worked for Faberge from 1880, becoming the second in charge of the jewellery department of the St. Petersburg branch.
A Collection of German Third Reich Medals and Badges, comprising :- two War Merit Crosses Second Class without swords-one ring stamped 41; a Wound Badge Silver Class, the reverse numbered 30-pin damaged; a Luftwaffe Ground Combat Badge-lacks pin; a medal for the Winter Campaign in Russia 1941-42; a Krim Shield; a Mother's Cross in bronze; a Hamburg 24.2.34 Day Badge; an Army eagle and swastika cloth insignia; and a copy of a U-Boat War Badge (10)
A Third Reich Army/Waffen SS Special Grade of the General Assault Badge 1943, grade three for fifty engagements, rivetted type with maker's mark to reverse; a Third Reich S.A. Military Sports Badge, (S.A. Wehrabzeichen), (lacking pin); and a Third Reich Crimea Campaign Shield 1941-1942, (Krimschild), (3).
Five: Captain P. D. Carter, Royal Army Service Corps, who was twice mentioned in despatches for his services in XXX Corps 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, (copy) clasp, 8th Army; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted court-style as worn, good very fine and better (5) £200-250 Mention in despatches London Gazette 9 August 1945 and 4 April 1946. Paul David Carter was commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps in December 1942 and served with XXX Corps in North Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium and Germany, and was twice mentioned in despatches ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North-West Europe’ (above London Gazette entries refer). XXX Corps landed on Gold Beach on D-Day 6 June 1944 and, after harsh fighting, linked up on 10 June with American forces advancing from Omaha Beach. Soon after, General Montgomery appointed Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks to command the Corps and under the leadership of this charismatic leader the Corps spearheaded the Allied advance into Belgium and Germany. After the fighting around the Falaise Gap, Horrocks and his men rapidly advanced North-East and liberated both Antwerp and Brussels in Belgium. And they played a crucial but ultimately unsuccessful role in attempting to link up with the British Airborne Forces at Arnhem during ‘Operation Market Garden ‘, before breaking into Germany. Sold with a quantity of related documentation, including original War Office letter of notification for one of the recipient’s ‘mentions ‘, related forwarding letter for the oak leaf emblem from G.H.Q., British Army on the Rhine, and a copy of the relevant London Gazette; together with assorted wartime period pamphlets, including 21 Army Group publication, Modern Administration in the Field, date stamped 28 October 1945, 30th Corps in Germany and a booklet with illustrations and identities of 21 Army Group unit badges. Together with the recipient’s identity discs, a pair of XXX Corps commemorative medallions 1941-45, boxed, a large quantity of embroidered or metalled ‘pips ‘, assorted Corps and Brigade uniform patches (approximately 20), and 127 Company, Corps Transport, R.A.S.C. metalled badge and tie-pin.
An extremely rare Boer War R.R.C. pair awarded to Nursing Sister H. Hogarth, Army Nursing Service Reserve, one of just three such decorations granted for services in hospital ships in the Boer War, in her case as a hand-picked member of staff aboard the Princess of Wales Royal Red Cross, 1st Class, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with original riband and brooch-pin for wearing; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister H. Hogarth), enamel slightly chipped on upper arm of the first, otherwise good very fine (2) £2000-3000 R.R.C. London Gazette 26 June 1902: ‘Miss H. Hogarth, Army Nursing Service Reserve, Hospital Ship Princess of Wales.’ Mention in despatches London Gazette 17 June 1902 (Lord Roberts’ final despatch). Helen Hogarth was one of just four nursing staff hand-picked by H.R.H. Princess Christian to serve on the royal hospital ship Princess of Wales and the only ‘Nursing Sister ‘to receive the Royal Red Cross for services in such circumstances. ‘The Princess of Wales ‘Much of the history behind the creation of the Princess of Wales is well documented in the columns of The Times, Lord Wantage having corresponded with the newspaper in October 1899 about the creation of the Central British Red Cross Committee, including the Army Nursing Service Reserve, whose President was H.R.H. Princess Christian. In turn she became Honorary President of the newly formed Committee, out of which emerged the funding for a fully equipped hospital ship. The vessel in question, the well-known yachting steamer Midnight Sun, was chartered for the purpose and sent to the Armstrong works for the necessary alterations into a 200-bed hospital ship, ready to leave for South Africa by the end of November 1899. In addition to assisting with the cost of fitting the ship, Her Royal Highness spent more than £1,000 in luxuries and comforts for the sick and wounded soldiers and, at the express wish of the Central British Red Cross Committee, consented that the ship be called the Princess of Wales. In the company of her husband, she visited the ship at Tilbury Docks in late November, just before her departure for South Africa - painted white, the Princess of Wales had the Geneva Cross ‘standing out in bold relief on her side’. The Times continues: ‘The interior fittings have been swept away, commodious wards taking the place of dining room, music room, and so on, and the ship now represents a perfectly equipped floating hospital. There are three large wards, and one small one, the last being for officers, and altogether cots are provided for about 200 patients .. The operating room is on the lower deck, in the middle of the ship, and is fitted, not only with a cluster of electric lights showing right down on the operating table, but with the Rontgen rays, as well. Then there is a well-arranged dispensary and also an isolation ward. In addition to the wards already spoken of there are some private cabins available for sick and wounded officers. Three refrigerating rooms with a total capacity of 2,200 feet, have been arranged, in order to allow of an adequate supply of fresh meat being carried for the long voyage. The Principal Medical Officer will be Major Morgan, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, and he will have three assistants from the same corps. Of nursing sisters there will be four Ð one, who will superintend, from the Army Nursing Service, and three from the Army Nursing Service Reserve of the Central British Red Cross Committee. The three have been personally selected by Princess Christian, who has taken the greatest interest in the arrangements .. The nurses (Sisters Chadwick, Brebner, Hogarth, and Spooner), the staff and the men of the Royal Army Medical Corps who go out with the vessel were drawn up on deck as the Royal party came on board. Passing through commodious wards the Royal visitors entered the officers’ ward, into which the dining and music rooms have been converted, and inspected the numerous appliances provided for the relief of the patients .. To the personnel as well as to the vessel the Princess of Wales devoted much attention. Her Royal Highness presented to each nurse a distinguishing badge and addressed to them individually a few words of encouragement and approbation .. The Princess then proceeded along the line of R.A.M.C. men, 23 in number, and to each she handed a badge. To a similar number of the St. John Ambulance Brigade Her Royal Highness also gave badges and expressed special interest in this branch of the hospital staff, who, for the first time, are being sent abroad for service.’ And those services were much required by the time the Princess of Wales reached South Africa in the wake of ‘Black Week ‘in December 1899, unprecedented British casualties having emerged from the battles of Magersfontein, Stormberg and Colenso. In all, the Princess of Wales made three voyages to South Africa and on each occasion that she berthed back at Southampton the Princess of Wales made private visits to the ship to meet the nursing staff and the sick and wounded. And the first such occasion was in February 1900, when she was cheered into port by nearly 500 men about to depart for South Africa in the Goorkha. The Times once more covered events in detail. ‘Then away to the Empress Dock close to the embarkation office where the Princess of Wales, formerly the Midnight Sun, was being slowly warped up to the quayside. Her bulwarks were lined with as healthy looking a lot of men in blue uniform as ever I saw, but one imagined that below there must be many worse cases. But it was comforting to find on asking Major Morgan, who was the R.A.M.C. surgeon in charge, that, as a matter of fact, there was only one man out of the 174 who was not on deck, and that he was carried on deck every day. In fact, the state in which the men arrived did every credit to Major Morgan and Miss Chadwick, the superintendent nursing sister, and to the nurses, female and male, who have been in charge of them. Of limbs lost there appeared to be but a small percentage, but of a sort of partial paralysis following upon a wound from a Mauser bullet there were a good many cases among these victims of Magersfontein and the Modder River .. ‘The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the officers, nursing staff and wounded men on board the ship the day after it had docked at Southampton, carrying out a ‘friendly inspection ‘of each and every ward, The Times’ correspondent reporting that ‘there is not one of the 176 men on board the Princess of Wales who cannot boast that the wife of the Prince of Wales has spoken to him words of comfort and encouragement.’ On 14 April 1900 the Princess of Wales left Southampton for Table Bay, Cape Town, where she worked as a floating hospital until returning home with more wounded and invalids that July - as was the case before, the Princess of Wales inspected the ship and met all of the 170 casualties and the nursing staff, Major Morgan and the Nursing Sisters being presented to the Princess as she arrived on board. So, too, on her return from her third and final trip in December 1900, when the Princess of Wales was introduced to two particularly bad cases: ‘The cases that aroused the deepest sympathy of Her Royal Highness were those of two men named Stoney, of the Liverpool Regiment, and Dyer, of the Scots Guards. Stoney was wounded in eight places, most of the bullets having been fired into him after he had been knocked down; while Dyer was shot through the head and paralysed in both legs and one arm.’ Moreover, The Times report continues: ‘Before leaving the ship she presented the four nursing sisters Ð Misses Chadwick, Brebner, Hogarth, and Spooner Ð with a souvenir brooch. The brooch consists of a white enamel cross surmounted by a gold crown, and the front of the cross bears the initial ‘A’ in gold.’ In the course of this visit, the Princess was presented with an official rec
A late 19th Century morocco and gilt covered Musical Photograph Album “The British Army Album” and dated 21/10/90 No 10458 with pages depicting the British and Colonial Regiments, to a compartmentalised back cover containing a pin music box, 17493, with embossed and gilt highlighted morocco covers decorated with military trophies, height 12”
The historically important insignia of the Order of Saint Patrick successively worn by Richard, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), Governor-General of India, by the 6th Earl of Mayo (1822-72), Viceroy of India from 1869 until his assassination in February 1872, and finally by the 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902), third Governor-General of Canada and eighth Viceroy of India the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, an important set of insignia, circa 1800-10 comprising an impressively large oval double-sided sash badge in gold and enamels, 80mm x 65mm excluding suspension, some bruising to the edge of the badge and one outer and several inner retaining pins lacking, minor enamel chip to stalk of one central shamrock and likewise to one border shamrock on each side, otherwise very fine and superb condition for age, and breast star in silver with hinged arms and gold and enamel centre, the silver backplate engraved with three successive inscriptions ‘Marquefs Wellesley / ®TAT. 83’, ‘Richard Southwell 6th Earl of Mayo / ®TAT. 50’, and ‘The Marquis of Dufferin & Ava / ®TAT. 76’, fitted with gold pin for wearing, extremely fine, the green enamel shamrock expertly restored, the two pieces contained in a mid to late 19th century fitted case, the lid with later gilt embossed inscription, ‘Order of St Patrick worn by Richard, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), Governor-General of India and afterwards The Earl of Mayo (1822-1872) Viceroy of India’, complete with full dress sash, a most important and historic set of insignia £20000-30000 provenance: Sotheby March 1995, by direct descent. ‘Wellesley was Governor-General of Bengal in 1799 at the time of the subjugation of the rebel state of Mysore under Tippoo Sultan, and the army in gratitude for his leadership, ‘caused a star and badge of the Order of St Patrick to be prepared, in which as many of the jewels as could be found suitable were taken from the Treasury of Tippoo’. He initially refused it, but subsequently accepted it from the hands of the East India Company, and was delighted to have it. ‘It is magnificently beautiful and of enormous value. I should think about 8 or 10,000 pounds sterling; it is the most superb decoration I have ever seen.’ After his resignation from the Order in 1810 to accept the Order of the Garter, he would not have been able to wear the star and badge of the Order of St Patrick again. What happened to the jewelled Patrick star and badge is unknown, but the marquess was in some financial difficulties in the last years of his life, and it may have been sold to pay his creditors, and even broken up, though his silver star and enamelled badge did survive. There appeared in The Times on 31 March 1885, the following article: ‘There have been three Irishmen - namely, Lord Wellesley, Lord Mayo, and Lord Dufferin, who have been Governors-General of India and also Knights of St Patrick. When Lord Mayo went to India the star of the Order worn by Lord Wellesley was lent to him by Mr Alfred Montgomery, and he used it during the period of his viceroyalty. After his death Mr Montgomery presented the star to Lady Mayo and when Lord Dufferin went to India, she lent it to him and he now wears it.’ The badge and star still exist, and were auctioned at Sotheby's in London in 1995.’ (Ref: The Most Illustrious Order - The Order of Saint Patrick and its Knights, Peter Galloway, London, 1999). alfred Montgomery, referred to above, was the son of Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery, a senior civil servant on the Madras establishment. Born in 1814 and educated at Charterhouse, at the age of sixteen Alfred became private secretary to the Marquess of Wellesley, the elder brother of the Duke of Wellington. Wellesley was deeply attached to Alfred's mother, and it was widely rumoured that his choice of private secretary had been influenced by his suspicion that he was in fact the boy's father. Alfred was generally believed to bear a striking similarity in appearance to Wellesley and was perhaps best known during his lifetime as a magnificent wit and entertainer, the ‘last of the Dandies’. he was granted a civil list pension of £300 in 1834, raised to £720 in 1882. He died in 1896 and Wellesley’s St Patrick insignia appears to have been bequeathed to Montgomery who took it upon himself to further the association of the Order with the high office of Governor-General, or Viceroy, of India, by lending it to his brother-in-law, Lord Mayo, upon his appointment as Viceroy in 1869. Married just three weeks after Wellesley’s death, to Fanny Wyndham, daughter of George Wyndham, Baron Leconfield, and granddaughter of George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont; their daughter Sibyl subsequently married the 8th Marquess of Queensberry, whilst Fanny’s younger sister, Blanche, a few years afterwards married Richard Southwell Bourke, later 6th Earl of Mayo (qv). richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, also called (from 1781) 2nd Earl of Mornington, Viscount Wellesley of Dangan Castle, or (from 1797) Baron Wellesley of Wellesley, was born in June 1760 at Dangan, County Meath, Ireland. A successful statesman who, as governor of Madras and governor-general of Bengal (both 1797-1805), greatly enlarged the British Empire in India and who, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland attempted to reconcile Protestants and Catholics in a bitterly divided country. He was a founder Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1783 but resigned in 1810 on appointment as a Knight of the Garter. He did, however, have further important associations with the Order of St Patrick, serving two terms as Grand Master in 1821-28 and 1833-35. a moderately liberal disciple of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, Wellesley sat successively in the Irish House of Commons, the Irish House of Lords (after inheriting his father’s Irish titles in 1781), and the British House of Commons until 1797. From 1793 he was a member of the British Privy Council and a commissioner of the India Board of Control. as governor-general in India, he used military force and diplomacy to strengthen and expand British authority. He annexed much territory from some states and contracted with other states a series of "subsidiary alliances" by which all parties recognized British preponderance. He received a barony in the British peerage in 1797 and a marquessate in the Irish peerage in 1799. on receiving a British government order to restore to France its former possessions in India, he refused to comply; his policy was vindicated when the Treaty of Amiens of 1802 was violated and Great Britain resumed war against Napoleonic France. Wellesley's annexations and the vast military expenditure that he had authorized alarmed the court of directors of the East India Company. In 1805 he was recalled and, soon afterward, was threatened with impeachment, although two years later he refused an offer of the Foreign secretaryship. In 1809 he went to Spain to make diplomatic arrangements for the Peninsular War against France and later that year became foreign secretary in Spencer Perceval's ministry. In that office he antagonized his colleagues, who considered him an indolent megalomaniac and welcomed his resignation in February 1812. as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Wellesley disappointed the anti-Catholic George IV, and he was about to be removed when Wellington was appointed Prime Minister in January 1828. Wellesley then resigned because his brother was opposed to Roman Catholic emancipation, although the duke was constrained to accept that policy as a political necessity in the following year. Wellesley’s second term as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1833-34) ended with the fall of the 2nd Earl Grey's reform government. When the Whig Party returned to power in April 1835, he was not sent back to Ireland, and in his rage he threatened to shoot the Prime Minister, the 2nd Viscount Melbourne. Despite his own great achievem
Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service, V.R. (Lieut-Col. R. Spencer Browne C.B. A.L.H. 12.8.05), with silver brooch bar (lacking pin), nearly extremely fine £200-250 M.I.D. London Gazette 8 February and 16 April 1901. colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 12 August 1905 ‘Lt. Col. Reginald Spencer Browne C.B. 13th A.L.H.R. (Qld. Mtd. Inf.)’. colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 7 March 1908. ‘Col. R. Spencer Browne C.B. 5th L.H.Bde.’ Reginald Spencer Browne was born at Oaklands, Appin, New South Wales on 13 July 1856. Educated at Appin and in England, he became a journalist, working for the Deniliquin Pastoral Times and the Albury Banner, becoming sub-editor of the Townsville Herald in 1877, editor of the Cooktown Herald in 1878 and editor of the Brisbane Observer in 1881. In 1882 he joined the Brisbane Courier. browne was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Queensland Mounted Infantry in 1887. Although sympathetic to unions, he commanded a flying column during the shearers' strike of 1891. Browne was promoted to Captain in 1891 and Major in 1896. He volunteered for service in South Africa, and sailed in November 1899 with the 1st Queensland Contingent. He was present at the relief of Kimberley, and operations in Orange Free State, February to May 1900; including operations at Paardeburg , 17-26 February. Actions at Poplar Grove, 7 March; Dreifontein, 10 March; Vet River, 5-6 May; and Zand River, 10 May. Operations in the Transvaal in May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, 29 May; Pretoria, 4 June; and Diamond Hill, 11 and 13 June. Operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, July to 29 November, 1900, including action at Zilikat's Nek, 2 August. Operations in the Transvaal east of Pretoria, July to 29 November, 1900, including actions at Riet Vlei, 16 July. Operations in Cape Colony north of Orange River, 1899-1900. For his services, he was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath and mentioned in despatches and awarded the Queen’s medal with five clasps. In Lord Robert’s despatch of 31 March 1900 it was recorded that ‘Mr. Carlisle assisted Major Browne to get six armed Boers out of a dark cave, 23rd April, near Krugersdorp’. He was invalided back to Australia in November 1900. In 1903 Browne became commanding officer of the 13th Light Horse Regiment with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Then in 1906 he became Commander of the 5th Light Horse Brigade and a full Colonel. He was transferred to the Reserve of Officers in 1911. browne joined the AIF on 16 March 1915 as Commander of the 4th Light Horse Brigade. This brigade was sent to Egypt, dismounted, and in August 1915 broken up. The 13th Light Horse Regiment was assigned to the newly formed 2nd Division, with which it served at Anzac; the 11th and 12th Light Horse Regiments were sent to Anzac where they were broken up into squadrons, with one squadron being attached to each of the six other light horse regiments from New South Wales and Queensland. On 28 August 1915, Browne was appointed officer commanding Australian Details Egypt, responsible for training reinforcements. Then in September Major General J. G. Legge sent for him to replace Colonel R. Linton, the commander of the 6th Infantry Brigade who had drowned following the torpedoing of the Southland. Browne took over the brigade on 8 September 1915 and served at Lone Pine and Quinn's Post but at 59 was simply too old for the rigours of the campaign. Nonetheless he stayed until he was evacuated on 10 December 1915. back in Egypt, Browne was transferred to the Training and General Base Depot at Tel el Kebir, Egypt. On 16 March 1916 he was promoted to Temporary Brigadier-General and appointed to command the Depot on 20 March 1916. When the Base moved to England, Browne went with it, taking command of the Training Depots in England on 14 June 1916. In both posts, Browne was responsible for a large and important training organisation. On 25 July 1916, his command was abolished and merged with the convalescent depots as AIF depots in the United Kingdom under Major General Sir N. J. Moore. Browne took charge of the 2nd Command Depot at Weymouth, England. This unit was responsible for receiving men unfit for service within six months and therefore to be returned to Australia. on 12 October 1917, Browne was declared medically unfit and listed for return to Australia. He paid a visit to France, and then embarked for Australia on 24 November 1917. On 10 February 1918, Browne was appointed to command the new Molonglo Concentration Camp near Canberra, where German internees were held. He was discharged from the army on 17 December 1918. From 1925 to 1927, Browne contributed weekly articles to the Courier on his memories of people and events in 19th century Queensland. These were collected and published as A Journalist's Memories in 1927. Browne died on 9 November 1943. £200-£250
Six: J. Shenton, British Army, formerly a Boy Scout from Rugby 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; R.S.P.C.A. Life Saving Medal, bronze (John Shenton, March 4 1921), complete with ‘For Humanity’ brooch bar, in Spink, London case of issue; Rotary Club, Past President’s Badge, Port Talbot branch (John Shenton 1957-58), silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1957, in Toye, London plastic wallet; Primrose League Badge, gilt and enamel, pin-backed, extremely fine (8) £180-220 extract from 1921 R.S.P.C.A. Annual Report: ‘Boy Scout John Shenton, Rugby, for saving the life of a runaway horse’. with copied extract from the Rugby Advertiser of 8 March 1921 which provides further details: ‘A Plucky Scout - On Friday afternoon a Boy Scout named John Shenton, of Lawford Road, aged 16, a member of the Lower School Troop, proved the value of Scout training, combined with grit, in a highly commendable manner. He was cycling from the town in the direction of Lower Hillmorton Road; and on reaching Whitehall Road noticed a run-away heavy horse, attached to a cart, the body of which was tipped and dragging along the road. The animal was galloping madly along the Lower Road, in the direction of the town. The Scout quickly dismounted his cycle, laid it aside, and, as the horse reached him smartly put into practice the Scout method he had been taught to adopt under such circumstances, caught the horse’s rein, and soon brought the excited animal to a standstill. A small crowd of onlookers immediately gathered, whom the Scout requested to lift the body of the cart. He then put right the disarranged harness, calmed the excited horse, and led it quietly back in the direction from which it had come until he met its driver, whom the horse had knocked down and slightly hurt in breaking away. The horse and cart were the property of Mr J. Durham, of West Street. It is highly probable that through this Boy Scout’s prompt and plucky action, serious damage to either person or property in the town was averted, and his performance on this occasion is highly creditable to both him and the troop to which he belongs’. second World War Medals in card box with forwarding slip; with riband bar and copied research. £180-£220
An eighteenth century memoriam brooch of Jacobite interest the canted square rock crystal enclosing a lock of hair, in collet set gold mount with two scroll mounts to reverse and hinged pin, the back of the closed setting engraved with a crown with L Lovat / M:G / SF below Provenance: By family repute the lock of hair belonged to the wife of Simon Lord Lovat and was given before his execution whilst imprisoned at the Tower of London to a loyal servant and later mounted. Notes: Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, second son of Thomas Fraser was born circa 1667 and died April 9th 1747. He was educated at Kings College Aberdeen before raising an army of his clansmen to fight with the Jacobite risings of 1745. Fraser was renowned for changing his allegiances and in fact in the first Jacobite uprising had fought on the side of the government troops for the House of Hanover. This character trait followed Simon throughout life and while it often helped him stay alive and guaranteed his passage while involved with the 'right' side it was also instrumental in his down fall and later execution for his part in the '45 rising. After the failure of the uprising at Culloden, Simon fled for safety and tried in enact a plan to create a safe conclave in the highlands for the exiled noble men and officers of the Jacobite army to stay. On the failure of this plan he was captured and arrested for treason to the Crown on an island in Loch Morar. His trial took place in London over five days and on the 19th March 1747 his sentence to death was pronounced. His final words before laying his head on the executioner's block were 'Dulce et decorum est pro patrai mori' a line from Horace which he had learned as part of his education at Kings College Aberdeen, translating as "it is sweet and right to die for your country"
The nationally important Order of Merit group of sixteen awarded to Sir Basil Spence (1907-76), the distinguished post-war architect, and architect of Coventry Cathedral The Order of Merit, E.II.R., Civil Division neck badge, gold and enamel, with neck cravat, minor enamel damage; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officers 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, rev. dated, 1957, these unnamed as issued; Royal Institute of British Architects Silver Medal (1931), obv. a pair of stylized lions either side of a column, rev. inscribed, Board of Architectural Education awarded to Basil Spence, Edinburgh College of Art, School of Architecture, 88mm., silver; Incorporation of Architects in Scotland Medal (1931), obv. bust of Sir R. Rowand Anderson left, by Hazel Armour, rev. Edinburgh Castle, inscribed, Basil Spence, 1931, 58mm., silver; Royal Institute of British Architects Pugin Medal (1933), obv. a pair of stylized lions either side of an ornate column, mural crown above, rev. heraldic shield (Basil Spence Pugin Student, 1933), 57mm., silver, American Institute of Architects Honorary Fellows Badge (1959), by M.A.C., New York, obv. stylized eagle with an olive branch in its talons, superimposed upon a column, rev. inscribed, Basil Spence 1959, oval, 39 x 32.5mm., silver, with suspension mount, with neck cravat; Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Fellows Medal (1960), obv. seated architect in classical garments, a winged cherub presents a sprig of foliage, a temple in the background, rev. inscription (name and date engraved), Basil Spence, Honourary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1960, 46mm., bronze-gilt, ring suspension, with neck cravat; Royal Institute of British Architects Bronze Medal (1963), obv. a pair of stylized lions either side of a column, rev. two builders at work, St. Pauls Cathedral in the background (Sir Basil Spence, O.M., O.B.E., T.D., R.A., A.R.S.A., R.D.I., P.P.R.I.B.A. Falmer House, The University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton), 63mm., bronze; City of Coventry Award of Merit (1970), obv. stylized phoenix rising from the flames, three crosses in the background, rev. plain, rectangular, 45 x 26mm., gold, 30.7g., hallmarks for Birmingham, unnamed, complete with gold and enamel brooch bar, inscribed, Coventry Award of Merit; Medal of the Academia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome (1972), obv. man in classical garments, knelt, writting upon a scroll, a winged bull in the background, rev. inscribed, Basil Spence, MCMLXXII, 55mm., bronze, ring suspension, with neck cravat; with associated lapel badge, gilt and enamel; French Academie dArchitecture, Grande Medaille dOr (1974), obv. stylized ornamented column by H. Navarre, inscribed in exergue, Grande Medaille dOr 1974 Sir Basil Spence Architecte, rev. seated figure in classical garments enclosed by wreath, 68mm., gold, 212g., edge stamped, 1974 and 3or, some with minor (pin?) marks to edge, in general nearly extremely fine (17) £6000-8000 O.M. London Gazette 23.11.1962 O.B.E. (Civil Division) London Gazette 1.1.1948 Basil Urwin Spence was born in Bombay on 13 Aug. 1907, the elder son of a chemist in the Indian Civil Service. When he was twelve, Spence, whose family were from Orkney, was sent home to Scotland to be educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh. Having shown a particular ability in drawing he enrolled in 1925 at the Edinburgh College of Art to study sculpture, but then switched to architecture. Spence excelled as a student, and during 1929-30 he completed his practical assignment in London, attending evening classes at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College, and by day working as an assistant in the London office of Sir Edwin Lutyens where he helped prepare designs for Lutyens' Viceroy House in New Delhi. Spence imbibed Lutyens' masterly combination of classical and modern architectural idioms, and thereafter always acknowledged him as his 'patron and master'. Spence completed his professional training in Edinburgh and gained his architectural diploma in September 1931, having added to his earlier prizes the Rowand Anderson Medal and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Silver Medal; in 1933 came the prestigious RIBA Pugin Medal. He was invited to join the leading Edinburgh architects, Rowand Anderson, Balfour Paul & Partners. Within the practice he designed small houses and departmental stores in and around Edinburgh, but his private commissions gave him the opportunity to venture designs that were more modernist and daring. He became a junior partner in 1935 and undertook work for some of the practice's most wealthy and important clients, designing grand country houses that catered to individual tastes, but which at the same time were eye-catching in the way they blended traditional elements with modern and made use of the natural, textured materials of the local landscape. Notable among these structures was Quothquhan, Lanarkshire (1936) for Alexander Erskine-Hill MP, Gribloch (1937-9), near Loch Lomond, for the steel magnate John Colville, and Broughton Place (1937-9), near Peebles. In 1938 he was commissioned to design the Scottish pavilion for the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow. Spence's highly abstract construction owed much to the ideas of Le Corbusier, the influential pioneer of modern design, and was widely praised as one of the chief attractions of the exhibition. There soon followed other exhibition work in Edinburgh and Johannesburg. However, with the onset of war Spence set aside his thriving practice and joined the Royal Artillery, having enrolled with the Territorial Army 1934. He rose to the rank of Major in the camouflage unit where his talent for design was usefully employed. In Normandy, he was shocked by the destruction of ancient religious buildings and in his diary confided his ambition to build a church of his own time if he survived the war. The shortage of new work in the years immediately after the war confined Spence to small-scale architectural commissions and exhibition design, and through the latter area his practice began to pick up. He was awarded major commissions for exhibitions in Edinburgh (1946) and Glasgow (1947) to help foster post-war enterprise, and he was chief architect for the 1949 Britain Can Make It Exhibition in London, having been appointed O.B.E. in the New Year Honours the previous year. He was then commissioned to design the Sea and Ships Pavilion for the Festival of Britain which opened on the South Bank in May 1951. Spence had also been working on designs in the competition for a new cathedral at Coventry to replace that which had been gutted during the enemy bombardment of the city on the night of 14 November 1940-the 'Night of Infamy'. There had been some indecision over how the new cathedral should look. Initially, a new neo-gothic edifice was envisaged with Sir Giles Gilbert Scott as its architect, but Scott's 'ponderous' design was vetoed in 1946, and in setting up the subsequent competition for a fresh design in 1950 it was decided that entrants should be encouraged to think in terms of an adventurous modern church building that would embody the spirit of the new post-war order. In August 1951 it was announced that Spence had won first prize out of 219 entries. It was to be the turning-point of Spence's career. Coventry had a special significance, being the first British city to have had its centre destroyed by enemy bombing. The project to rebuild the cathedral caught the public imagination as symbolising the nation's rise from the ashes of war. On the eve of its consecration in 1962 Spence wrote in The Times: 'When I first visited Coventry with the competition conditions in October 1950, the old cathedral burnt open by fire-bombs seemed to say in a gentle voice, "I
The D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. M. Lenox-Conyngham, Army Veterinary Corps Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar (lacking pin); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Capt. A.V.D.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Major, A.V.C.); British War and Victory Medals, small M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Memorial Plaque (Hubert Maxwell Lenox-Conyngham); together with two miniature awards: Distinguished Service Order, silver-gilt and enamel, with top bar; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04; together with an A.V.C. badge and a cloth badge, all mounted in a leather display case, minor enamel damage, nearly extremely fine (10) £1800-2200 D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1917. M.I.D. London Gazette 2 September 1904, 7 April 1915, 4 January 1917, 23 July 1917. Hubert Maxwell Lenox-Conyngham was born in Dublin on 18 October 1869, the 7th son of Colonel Sir William F. Lenox-Conyngham, K.C.B. He became a F.R.C.V.S. and entered the Army Veterinary Department in 1896. With them he served in the Somaliland campaign of 1902-04 under General J. E. Gough, V.C., being Veterinary Inspector, Lines of Communications from 16 July 1903. For his services he was mentioned in despatches. He entered the Great War as a Major in the A.V.C. and was A.L.V.S. with the 6th Division from September 1914, was D.D.V.S. with the 5th Army, under Sir H. Gough in 1916, and served all through the fighting on the Somme and Ancre. He was invalided in May 1917 but was later A.D.V.S. Western Command. He died suddenly at Chester on 15 March 1918, aged 47 years. During the course of the war he had been three times mentioned in despatches and been created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Oreder. Lieutenant-Colonel Lenox-Conygham was buried in the Kilgobbin Burial Ground, Ireland. He was the husband of Eva Lenox-Conyngham (nee Darley), of The Paddocks, Kilsby, Rugby.
A Great War Western Front M.C. awarded to Lieutenant R. E. Darnley, Army Service Corps Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, Lieut. R. E. Darnley, decorated by H.M. King George V, Buckingham Palace, Dec. 3 1919, with A.S.C. pin-backed badge, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1915, extremely fine (2) £400-450 M.C. London Gazette 5 July 1918. For conspicuous gallantry and ddevotion to duty. When in charge of a convoy of wagons, under shell fire, he steadied his men, assisting them to rescue the wounded horses and damaged wagons, which were successfully cleared away from the road through his personal example and energy. On a later occasion, on his convoy being bombed by hostile aircraft, he was severely wounded, but he ordered a N.C.O. to leave him and take the convoy out of danger. By his coolness and courage he prevented a serious disaster. The place and date of the act of gallantry are recorded as East of Ypres, 12 November 1917. Sold with a copy of a M.O.D. letter, dated 10 July 1964, which provides the above details.
An O.B.E. group of six attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. R. Orlebar, Norfolk Regiment and Equitorial Corps, Sudan Defence Force The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officers 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon, slight enamel damage, all unnamed, mounted as worn; together with a corresponding mounted set of six miniature dress medals, very fine and better (14) £200-250 O.B.E. London Gazette 24 April 1953. M.I.D. London Gazette 1 April 1941, 13 January 1944. Egypt, Order of the Nile London Gazette 8 June 1945. John Hatton Rolt Orlebar was born on 19 February 1907, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Rouse Boughton Orlebar, D.L., J.P., of Hinwick House, Bedford. Educated at Malvern and the Royal Military College, he entered the Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Norfolk Regiment in 1926. Attached to the Sudan Defence Force, 1933-45. He was promoted to Lieutenant, 1929; Captain 1937; Acting Major, January-April 1942; Temporary Major, April-November 1942; War Substantive Major, November 1942; Major 1943; Acting Lieutenant-Colonel, August-November 1942; Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, November 1942-December 1944; Lieutenant-Colonel, 1950; Temporary Colonel, 1948-51 and 1953-54; Colonel, February 1954, and local Brigadier, June 1948-May 1951. He was employed as G.S.O.2, January-August 1942; A.A.G., August 1942-March 1943; A.M.S., H.Q., B.A.O.R., September 1946-March 1947; Military Attache at Baghdad, June 1948-March 1951; A.Q.M.G. with the rank of Colonel at the War Office, September 1953-August 1956. He was appointed Commandant of the School of Infantry, Small Arms Wing in 1956. Sold with a S.D.F. button and a S.D.F. pin-backed badge and some copied research.
A Victorian Dark Stained Oak Truncheon, of thick cylindrical form, painted with crowned VRI and inscribed "Swine 1843" in yellow, 54cm long; a military pin cushion of heart shape, set with the arms of the Royal Army Medical Corps, a silk depicting the Allied flags and cartouche panels of coloured glass pins (2)
A CASED SMITH & WESSON .32 (RIMFIRE) MODEL NO.2 'ARMY' SIX-SHOT SINGLE-ACTION REVOLVER, serial no. 36817 for circa 1865/6, 9in. overall, with 4in. blued barrel (possibly shortened) marked 'SMITH & WESSON. SPRINGFIELD. MASS.', blued cylinder and action, the latter with spur trigger and three pin top-strap, case-hardened hammer, rosewood grips, and much original finish, in lined and fitted oak case with trade label of J.H. Crane, the lid with circular brass escutcheon. J.H. Crane was the main British importer of Smith & Wesson firearms in the 1860s.
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Jacques Villon (1875-1963), after Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) "La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au Grand Pin"] Limited edition coloured lithographic print from an edition of 200 (79/200), bearing a later signature for Paul Cezanne and dated "1923", 57cm by 76cm (22 1/2in by 30in), unframed *Taken from an original painting, circa 1885-1887, this particular image clearly has the date 1923, however in 1924 a further lithographic image was published by the Chalcographie du Louvre and printed by Jacques Villon in an edition of two hundred. A further black and white image was also printed as a proof and also limited to an edition of 200. This was produced in order to verify that the tonality of the work would be vibrant and crisp before finally producing a colour image. This later coloured edition is often signed by Villon in pencil and can retail for $12,500. *Provenance. Ex. collection Orlando Greenwood (1892-1989), born in Nelson Lancashire, Orlando Greenwood became a full time painter, designer and draughtsman af er working in his uncle's cotton mill from the age of 13. He studied at Goldsmith's College School of Art and was in army service during WWI. The artist's house was bombed in WWII and he moved to the North of England settling in Ulpha, Cumbria in 1967 and gave up painting around this time. The present vendor was a neighbour and acquaintance of Orlando Greenwood.
British Army cap badges, Hussars, Tank Regiment & Armed Corps, George V to E.II, in various metal combinations & fittings, inc. large & small white metal 19th Prince of Wales Own Hussars, with split pin & slide fasteners, plus restrikes to "3rd Carabiniers", "27th (Indian) Lancers" & "21st King's Lancers" (27)
5 Medical cap badges: bronze American Ambulance: Great Britain (one blade missing), WM RAMC Vols with applied "Vols" scroll in centre, and pair matching collars, WM RAMC, Vic silver plated with brooch pin (sweetheart) and enamelled gilt Red Cross; 8 collars, including pair Army Medical Staff, bronze FANY etc. GC. (15)
A MADE-UP GROUP OF FOUR REPLACEMENT MEDALS, Court-mounted, comprising G.S.M. (George V) with bar Palestine 1945-48, (named to L/Cpl. S.Mollo, Army Pay Corps), Coronation Medal, (Elizabeth II) (name erased), National Service (unofficial) and American Legion of Frontiersmen (For Merit) Gilt Cross, (and a stick pin for the latter) (5),
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