British Arctic Expedition of 1875-76.- Fulford (Reginald Baldwin, Naval Officer and Arctic Explorer, 1851-86) Photograph Album of the British Arctic expedition under the command of Captain Sir George Nares, some signed T. Mitchell [Thomas Mitchell], 56 albumen prints, tissue guards, slightly faded, laid down in an album, bookplate of Fulford on front pastedown, original red blind-stamped diced leather, hessian dust-jacket, browned, a few small tears, g.e., photographs each 147 195mm., 4to album, 1875-76.⁂A visual account of the expedition commanded by Nares whose chief aim was to reach the North Pole. The vessels sailed on 29 May 1875 and reached winter quarters on the coast of Grinnell Land (Ellesmere Island), the Discovery in latitude 81°44ʹ N., and the Alert, with Nares, in latitude 82°27ʹ N "the most northerly point hitherto reached in the Canadian Arctic" (Levere, 281). (Oxford DNB). From these bases sledging parties explored the north coast of Ellesmere Island westwards to Cape Columbia and continued to Cape Alfred Ernest charting nearly 400 km of unknown coastline. Lieutenant Lewis Beaumont of the Discovery followed the coast of Greenland northwards to Sherard Osborn Fjord, and a party led by Commander A. H. Markham of the Alert made an attempt on the North Pole, reaching 83°20ʹ N, before turning back due ice drift and rough conditions. Photographs including: "Alert 'Discovery' & Valorous at Disco [Disko Island, Baffin Bay] July 1875"; "Group of natives Esquimeau-dans taken on board Discovery"; "Group of Native Women taken at Disco [Disko]"; "Franklin Pierce Bay looking East Hart Rawson and Fulford"; "Discovery in W[inte]r Q[uarter]s Dougall & the dogs Tide guage in the distance"; "Lt Beaumonts party ready to start for Greenland"; "Sledging Season the Ship Keepers"; "Sledges rounding Cape Rawson near Alert Wr Qr"; "Upper Deck of Alert bEarly Summer 1876" etc.Thomas Mitchell was the paymaster on the HMS Discovery during the British Polar Expedition of 1875-76. An amateur photographer, Mitchell was trained at the request of Captain Nares at the Army School of Photography in Chatham particularly for Nares' Arctic Expedition.
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U.S. Army "Ike" Eisenhower prototype jacket, size 38R, of two pocket BD type with white and blue Army service forces roundel to right shoulder, with original signal corps photograph of an officer wearing the jacket, together with provenance letter relating to the history of the jacket and Lt. Col. William P. Carlin. Also an army shirt.
Major Cuthbert John Eccles 16th Lancers jacket, name label to inside with number 4074 and date 3.8.14, with belt together with a pair of trousers bearing name label E. B Eccles. Major Cuthbert John Eccles (born 2nd February 1870 in Southampton, died 10 th January 1922) Son of Major General Cuthbert Eccles. John Eccles joined the 16th Lancers as a ranker and serving for 4 years enlisted in the ranks 10 July 1890. He became Second Lieutenant 16th Lancers 1st August 1894, Lieutenant 4th November 1896, and Captain 9th November 1899. Eccles was also part of the 16th Lancer escort at the Wedding of King Alphonso XIII of Spain (Colonel of the 16th Lancers) The day of the wedding (31st May 1906) a bomb was thrown out of a third floor window, as the procession was passing. For services to the King John Eccles was awarded the Spanish Order of Merit and other members of the escort were also decorated. This uniform would have been worn on that day of the 31 st May 1906. John Eccles served in South Africa (1900-1902) and was present at the Advance on Kimberley and the Relief of Kimberley. He took part in operations in the Orange Free State from February to May 1900, including the action at Paardeberg 17th – 26th February as well as actions at Poplar Grove, Houtnet (Thoba Mountain) and Zand River. Eccles was involved in operations in Transvaal in May and June 1900, including action near Johannesburg. Outside of Africa John Eccles was in action at Belfast 26th/27th August 1900. Promoted Major on the 9th June 1909. Major John Eccles served in Great War 1914 – 1917, acting as temporary Lieutenant Colonel 16th Lancers on the 24th September to 10th November 1914. Lieutenant Colonel 19th December 1914. Twice wounded and twice MID. Lieutenant Colonel Eccles was awarded The DSO, QSA ( 4 clasps) KSA, 1914 Star, War & Victory Medals, Spanish Order of Merit, Mention in Dispatches. The DSO was awarded for services in the Field during the First World War and gazetted 18 February 1915. John Eccles retired from Army 19th December 1919. MIC shows to France 17th August 1914. As Major. Entitled to 14 Star with Clasp and Roses. War and Victory Medals. Address on Medal card shows 4/55 Drayton Gardens SW 16 & Cowley House, Headington Hill, Oxford. Died aged 51, 10 th January 1922. Buried Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford. Interred 14 January 1922. Probate to brother Ernest Edward Eccles (Engineer) of £582. Electoral Register of 1921 shows both brothers at the same address 4/55 Drayton Gardens, Radcliffe War0d. Ernest born 1874 at Woolwich. Their Father was born in Dublin.
Collection of medals and items relating to Private J. Derbyshire Royal Tank Corps, to include an India Medal with North West Frontier 1936-37 clasp, named and numbered 7883355, Italy Star, 1939-1945 medal, France and Germany medal, 1939-1945 star, and Africa Star, several cap badges, buttons, and pins, a photograph album showing J. Derbyshire's time in India, with scenes of tanks and armoured cars getting stuck in the dessert and being pushed out! several loose photographs, collection of Army paperwork and pamphlets an un used pair of goggles, RTC cap,also a Hohner Echo Elite mouth organ.
1896 pattern sword awarded to Alexander Edward Murray (Viscount Fincastle) (1872-1962) awarded the Victoria Cross in 1898, the blade marked with Dunmore family crest above the date May 1st 1891, marked Queens Lancers, and numbered 99304, in leather sheath, 111cm overall length Alexander Edward Murray (Viscount Fincastle) joined the British Army on the 1st May 1891, becoming Lieutenant in 1894. Murray became Aide de Camp to the Viceroy of India from 1895-1897. On the 17th August, 1897 during a battle at Nawa Bali, in Upper Swat, Lieutenant Murray attempted the rescue of Lieutenant R. T. Greaves, Lancashire Fusiliers, who was wounded by a bullet and surrounded by the enemy. Lieutenant Murray, Lieutenant-Colonel R. B. Adams, Lieutenant H. L. S. MacLean and five men of the Guides, managed to rescue Lieutenant Greaves however Greaves was struck by another bullet and killed whilst the party were attempting to bring him back to cover. Lieutenant MacLean was mortally wounded during the action and the horses of Lieutenant-Colonel Adams and Lieutenant Murray were shot, as well as two troop horses. Lieutenant Murray was promoted to Captain following the action and gazetted for the Victoria Cross on 9th November 1897. He received his medal from Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle on 28th February 1898.Footnote: Alexander Edward Murray VC DSO MVO DL Born 22 April 1872 at Portland Place, London. Died 29 January 1962 London. Educated Eton. Parents Father Charles Murray, Mother Lady Gertrude Coke. Commissioned into 16th Lancers 30 May 1892 and sent to India. Became ADC to Victor Bruce 9th Earl of Elgin. Governor General of India from 1895 to 1897. In 1896 accompanied the Dongola Expedition to the Sudan, seeing action in the Mahdist War. 1897 returned to India with 16th Lancers and acting as war correspondent for the Times. On 17th August 1897 at Nawa Kili, Upper Swat, India along with Lieutenant Colonel Robert B Adam's and Lieutenant Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean along with 5 men of the Guides, went under heavy and close fire to rescue of Lieutenant R T Greaves, Lancashire Fusiliers, who had been wounded by a bullet and was surrounded by enemy swordsmen. Unfortunately Greaves was further struck and would die of his wounds, as did MacLean. For this he was recommended for the Victoria Cross, as were Adam's and MacLean. The only journalist ever to be so honoured. He was later posted to South Africa as ADC to General Sir H. C. Chermside. In 1901 raised Fincastle's Horse (31st Battalion Imperial Yeomanry) appointed with temporary rank of Lieutenat Colonel to command it. Most of the men were recruited in Highlands. Consisted of 32 Officers and 603 men. They left Edinburgh in April 1902 and sailed out on the SS Galatea. In 1906 was awarded the Royal Victorian Order, for services to the Prince of Wales, in conjunction with the marriage of King Alphonso of Spain. Resigned his commission on the death of his Father, when he took the title Earl of Dunsmore, to look after his considerable family estate. Lived at 55 Lancaster Gate, London. Returning to active service on the outbreak of war, serving as Staff Officer. Awarded the DSO during the Battle of the Somme. MID four times. Wounded twice. Between the Wars held political office, serving as government whip in the House of Lords,Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms in 1924 and then as Lord in Waiting from 1930 to 1936. He also held the role of Deputy Lieutenant. Medal entitlement: Victoria Cross, DSO, MVO, Sudan Medal (Dongola 1896), QSA with 3 clasps, Paardeburg,Defence of Kimberley and 1902, 1914, War & Victory medals. MID The Sudan Medal was awarded when he was attached to the Egyptain Cavalry as Special Service officer, 16th Lancers. Fought in the Mahdist War, Tirah Campaign, Malakand Frontier War, Second Boer War and the First World War.
A Quantity of Enamel Civilian and Military Enamel Badges. This lot includes Masonic, Catholic Women's League, Steven Selby medallion, Boy Scouts, WVS Civil Defense, Army Ordinance badge, Gateway Club, District Hospital Bowling Committee, Colonial Government Service, Army Ordnance Corps, Cheltenham Special Constable, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, HJC green enamel badge, B.P Cheltenham Conference badge, Observer Corps, Fifth London Infantry Brigade, Gloucestershire Regiment, St Malo badge, Cheltenham District Traction Society, Forewarned Forearmed Observer Corps, Girl Guides, Royal Army Medical Corps, On War Service, Army Cadet Force, For Home and County badge amongst others.
MEDALS. Lt.Col. HAROLD TWEEDALE CUNNINGHAM. A GOOD HISTORICAL DSO GROUP WITH HISTORY AND PROVENANCE. MEDALS TO INCLUDE 1914 STAR, 1914-1918 SERVICE AND WAR MEDALS, CHINA MEDAL 1900, LEGION D'HONNEUR AND DSO TOGETHER WITH FULL ARMY RECORD, FIVE MENTIONS IN DESPATCHES, DSO AND LEGION D'HONNEUR CERTIFICATES AND FULL BAR MINIATURES.
A VICTORIAN SILVER HALLMARKED MUG DATED 1888 FOR ARMY & NAVY COOPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD (FREDERICK BRADFORD MACREA) TOGETHER WITH A QUANTITY OF SILVER HALLMARKED ITEMS TO INCLUDE AN ARMADA DISH, ASHTRAY, SMALL PHOTO FRAME, LOADED CANDLESTICK AND A SNUFFER TRAY DATED 1738. GROSS WEIGHT 536grms (EXCLUDING CANDLESTICK).
John Butler Yeats RHA (1839-1922)Portrait of Master Milo RyanOil on canvas, 66 x 51cm (26 x 20’’) UnframedExhibited: Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 1903, No. 100Provenance: The sitter’s family, by descent.Yeats completed a number of intriguing portraits of children throughout his career. Beginning with his own offspring, he made multiple sketches of their early years, a particularly touching example is a drawing of the infant W.B Yeats asleep in the family home. Portraits of children are challenging for an artist, as they are faced with a subject whose personality is not yet fully defined. However, this is part of their charm.Though we do not know the exact age of the sitter, Master Milo Ryan looks to be around eight or nine when the portrait was completed. Yeats chooses to depict him standing, with an open book in hand as if he was just in the process of reading a passage out to us. Yeats has painted the young boy in a strong light, which throws up the details of his formal attire. Dressed in a suit jacket, with a shirt and tie, the clothes feel as if they are too big for him, the triangles of the shirt collars extending out over his narrow shoulders. The face is beautifully rendered especially the large brown eyes of his sitter, which express a sensitivity, a youthfulness behind the somewhat formal composition. Working from an almost black background, Yeats introduces colour through flashes of white, pink and blue highlights. The pages of the book appear as dabs of paint, which Yeats, using the end of a brush scrapes a line through to suggest the folds in the paper. Despite the dark colour tones, there is warmth to the boy’s features, the pink and orange highlights of his flushed cheeks. Milo Ryan, was born on June 7th, 1892 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War, taking a permanent commission as Captain in 1919 and becoming a Major in 1927. He died at Lahore on December 4th, 1936 at the age of 44.We know that this work was included in the Royal Hibernian Academy annual exhibition in 1903, so presumably it was painted around this time. This was a busy year for Yeats; he had been commissioned by Hugh Lane to paint twenty portraits of figures from the Irish cultural milieu for his modern art gallery. Lane had also helped Yeats secure his old studio at no. 7 St Stephen’s Green in Dublin. John Quinn, an American lawyer turned art collector visited Ireland the year previously and purchased from Yeats his portrait of his son William, which is now part of the NGI collection. He also requested a further three portraits of John O’Leary, Douglas Hyde and George Russell. The portrait of AE was not finished until 1903 and he persuaded Quinn to let him enter it into the annual RHA exhibition.One would not consider Yeats to be a society portrait painter, in the traditional sense, in that he did not make significant money from the commissions. He painted people he knew, family friends and relatives, fellow artists and writers. As a result they feel familiar, more personal than traditional portraits of the period. There is a sense of kinship between the artist and his subjects, in which he is gently probing at a further understanding of their personality and Yeats once remarked ‘The best portraits will be painted where the relation of the sitter and the painter is one of friendship’. His portraits often have a sense of being unfinished, quick sketch like brushstrokes move across the canvas. It seems the artist did not want to produce static, conventional portraits in which the sitter is frozen in time, but rather allow them to act as enquiries into the personality and thoughts of his subjects who, as with all human beings, young and old, were ever evolving. Niamh Corcoran, September 2019
Sir John Lavery RA RSA RHA (1856-1941)The Red House - from the Phoenix ParkOil on canvas board, 25 x 35cm (10 x 15)Signed; signed, inscribed and dated versoProvenance: Gifted to Maeve Healy, daughter of Tim Healy (the first Governor General of Ireland).Sir John Lavery occupies a unique position in the history of Irish art. Although he was the pre-eminent society portrait painter in England throughout the period in which Ireland gained its independence, he wasn’t just sympathetic to the Irish cause: Michael Collins was a close friend and stayed with Lavery and his wife Hazel at their home in London during the Treaty negotiations. Lavery was a Northerner, born in Belfast. Orphaned early on, he was raised by relatives and sent to school in Scotland, began working and studying art in Glasgow, then Paris, then with the plein air painters at Grez-sur-Loing (where he was, he said, happiest), all of which broadened his horizons immensely. He always attributed a major part of his public success to Hazel (they married in 1910), herself a painter, socially skilled and a natural communicator.He knew - and painted - pretty much everyone involved in political developments in Ireland from the pre-First World War years to the establishment of the Free State. That is to say, he knew people on all sides, Irish, Unionist and English, and felt secure enough to advise Churchill, when he asked his opinion, that the English should leave Ireland to the Irish. It is hardly surprising, then, that he numbered among his friends the Irish nationalist MP, barrister and writer Tim Healy. Born in Bantry in 1855, Healy moved to England and worked for a rail company while still in his teens. He soon became involved in the Irish Home Rule movement and grew close to Parnell, who encouraged him to run for parliament in 1880, launching his political career.Their relationship soured, however, over the O’Shea scandal. Healy, a famously wasp-tongued, traditional catholic, objected fiercely to Parnell’s extra-marital affair. He found his own path through the dramatic political developments, giving up the Home Rule cause as lost and declaring himself a supporter of independence but against violence. He was legal consul for many Sinn Féin members in various legal proceedings. Because, like Lavery, he knew and talked to everyone, he seemed an ideal candidate for the new position of Governor General, the Crown’s representative in the Free State (as it happened, Kevin O’Higgins was a nephew of his). He excelled in the role.His home was Glenaulin in Chapelizod, which Lavery dubbed The Red House. Hence his inscription, ‘The Red House - from the Phoenix (sic) Park, To The Misses Healy’ on the back of this painting, which highlights Glenaulin in red, in a view towards the southwest with the Dublin Mountains in the distance. In the foreground, seen from the rear, four people are seated on a park bench.The painting was a gift to Maev Healy, one of Tim Healy’s daughters (second from the left). The others depicted are (left to right) Maev’s elder sister Lizzy Healy, Mick Buckley of the Irish Army Medical Corps, and his sister, ‘May Buck’, who was married to the Healy sisters’ younger brother Joseph Healy.Aidan Dunne, August 2019
Norman Rossington signed album page approx 5 x 4 inches. Norman Rossington 24/12/1928 to 21/5/1999 was an English actor best known for appearing in The Army Game, Carry On Films, A Hard Days Night, The Longest Day , The Charge of the Light Brigade, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. Good condition slightly creased.
Norman Rossington signed album page approx 5 x 4 inches with Clonel Parker, Elvis's Manager on reverse . Norman Rossington 24/12/1928 to 21/5/1999 was an English actor best known for appearing in The Army Game, Carry On Films, A Hard Days Night, The Longest Day , The Charge of the Light Brigade, Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines. Scruffy condition.
A Second World War US Entrenching Tool, painted green, the blade stamped US/WOOD/1944, with green canvas case stencil marked J.A.SHOE/1944; a US Army Combat Helmet, with fibreglass liner and webbing chin strap; a Second World War Bomber Crew Hand Held Compass Type 06A, numbered 46941H, in original wood case; ; a Second World War RAF Aeronautical Map of England, North East, second edition, 55cm by 73cm, in a glazed frame (4)
A Distinguished Service Medal, 1938-49, awarded to TEMP.A/P.O. E.(Edmund) HOWSON, D/JX.285285 (for gallantry, determination and skill when intercepting an E-boat convoy attack in extreme weather conditions off the coast of Belgium and Holland, in which engagement two E-boats were sunk. He served on HMS Rutherford, a British Captain Class Frigate in the Second World War); two Bar Mounted Groups of Four Medals, one comprising 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with 8TH ARMY clasp, Defence and War Medals, the other similar, but with Burma Star, with three lapel badges. DSM has a ding to the obverse edge between 5 and 6 o'clock
A German Stahlhelm Member's Belt Buckle, of two piece brass construction, the reverse with raised semi-circular buckle catch, prongs and tubular prong bar, complete with 101cm brown leather belt stamped KVZ/1942 within a rectangle and 9052; a German Third Reich Army EM/NCO's Belt Buckle, in stamped steel with Afrika Korps painted finish, the reverse with brazed catch, prongs and tubular prong bar, stamped Dr.F.& Co., 1940, complete with 82cm brown leather belt stamped Croupon 632 (2)
A Quantity of British Army Part Uniforms, mainly post Second World War, including a battledress blouse dated 1956 to a Lance Corporal RAOC, with pair of trousers, a shirt, tie, and beret with cap badge; two khaki greatcoats, one with leather football buttons, the other with DLI buttons to Bugle Major Powell; a Footguards OR's grey wool greatcoat; drab desert trousers and windcheater; a Canadian combat smock with detachable hood; a camouflage combat smock and trousers with shirt and quilted gilet; an Australian jungle jacket and shirt; denim overall blouse and tunic; denim overall blouse and trousers (21)
A Second World War Women's Land Army Composite Uniform, comprising a greatcoat, size 14, with label dated 1941, the lapel set with a WLA Proficiency economy badge, with armband; a pair of corduroy breeches, size no.6 with label dated 1944; a shirt and tie, wool socks and a pair of leather shoes, all displayed on a full size mannequin
A Collection of Approx. 90 Second World War Military Maps, comprising: a part run (consecutively numbered 1-40) of German maps, England and Wales, 1:100,000 scale, marked, ''Sonderausgabe: Nur fur den Dienstgebrauch'' (Special Edition: for Service Use Only), circa 1938; a similar part run (consecutively numbered 1-34) of German maps of Scotland; a two-sheet map, Antwerp V1 & V2 Attack: Fall of Shot on Arrondissement of Antwerp from 7 Oct. '44 to 30 March '45; a set of four German military maps, ''Stadtplan London'', 30.XI.41, 1:20,000 scale; six Allied Army / Air maps, 1st. & 2nd. Editions, 1943 & 1944, comprising mainly German cities, 1:250,000 scale, and a small quantity of others, various. Mostly in folded but good condition. A few with tears or sellotape repairs.
A Collection of Fourteen German Third Reich Kriegsmarine Trade, Proficiency and Rank Badges, including a Kriegsmarine cap tally; Petty Officer in gold bullion embroidered on blue wool; Boatswain Petty Officer in gilt metal on blue wool; two Kleinkampfverbände Proficiency badges - 1st and 2nd Grade, embroidered in yellow on blue wool; also, an Army Boat Pilot silver bullion embroidered sleeve badge, all loosely mounted on a white display board
A German Third Reich M43 Army EM's/NCO's Field Cap, in field grey wool, with machine embroidered eagle and swastika over a machine embroidered cockade, with cloth covered stiffened visor, fold-down scalloped sides secured by two pebbled buttons, the rayon lining stencilled 57, RBNr. 0/0421/0012, 1944 . Slight wear to top. Stain to one side of the fold-down ear protector on the inside.
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