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Lot 477
7 single Third Reich period epaulettes, including SA Engineer Sturmmann, Luftwaffe Flieger (?), Army black felt with green piping and similar with white piping, similar field grey with black piping, Schutzpolizei Wachtmeister, and naval field grey with crossed gold anchors, the first with paper RZM label; and two black collar patches, one with single metal pip and roped border, the other with embroidered swastika. Average GC (9)
Lot 504
16 corps and miscellaneous badges, including Geo V RE (brooch pin), Ordnance small, Army Cyclists 16 spokes (in unissued condition), etc; 4 R Arms badges: large cast with flat topped crown, 3 lugs, 2 General Service caps, and small Vic with lugs; a WOs small R Arms in wreath arm badge. GC (21)
Lot 639
A US .54” Model 1842 Army percussion holster pistol, 14” overall, barrel 8½” stamped at the breech “US” (faint) and “NWP”, the lock marked “US/H. Aston” and “Middtn/ Conn/ 1849” (worn), the walnut halfstock having regulation brass mounts and swivel ramrod. GWO & C (cleaned overall with some pitting to the barrel, the hammer spur crudely replaced).
Lot 75
A quantity of various makes. Including Dinky; Thornycroft Mighty Antar Tank Transporter with Centurion Tank. Bedford 3-ton Army Wagon. Bedford 2-ton Army Wagon. Humber 1-ton Cargo Truck. Austin Champ and an Armoured Personnel Carrier. Also a Double Deck Bus. Corgi; Ford Thunderbird. Bentley Continental. Karrier Bantam Milk Float. Micro; Humber Super Snipe and US style Peter’s Ice Cream Van. Spot On Austin A40. Schuco Mercedes Benz Artic Thermo Truck. Budgie Routemaster Bus. Morestone Noddy Car and AA Scout Patrol Motorcycle. US style battery operated Skyliner Sports Car, etc. A few items boxed, minor/some wear. Contents GC-VGC
Lot 677
Williamson G45 Aircraft Gun Camera. Probably from a Spitfire or similar, fitted with a 'Short Lens', both parts showing the Air Ministry mark. Original film cassette present and packed in makers box with inner packing; A WWII German army belt. The buckle (worn) shows a German eagle atop a swastika and with laurel leaves below. The words "GOTT MIT UNS" (God is with us) are around the top; a British army compass, dated 1940 and with the W.D. arrow mark; A WWII microphone No.7 with earphones, etc
Lot 242
A WORLD WAR I CHRISTMAS TIN & CONTENTS including a 1915 card 'From Princess Mary & Friends at Home', poem ephemera from the 13th Battalion Rifle Brigade, a 1916 diary with daily entries showing both British and battlefield locations, conditions, events and health etc, eg '1916, January 30th, misty, heavy bombardment from enemy at 4am til 7, no rain - Tuesday, February 8th, 1916, raining, received parcel from Edith - Wednesday, February 16th, 1916, stormy, trenches underwater - Saturday, March 4th, 1916, snow storm, snow up to knees, sent 37th letter with memo, weather very bad, trenches in bad state, relief every two or three days, got a very bad cold', other items include two jewellery items for the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, one dated 1914/15, along with an amber cigarette holder with silver collar dated Birmingham 1901
Lot 623
A rare Chief Cypher Officer 21st Army medal group to Lt. Col. Henry Colley, comprising 1939-45 star, France & Germany star, Defence medal, War medal and Orange Nassau order. Henry Colley was involved with D-day cypher comms between the British and Dutch forces and was at one stage Liaison Officer to Prince Bernhard. He was one of the first British officers to arrive at Belsen. He was twice mentioned in despatches and much of his work is covered by the OSA SO book for 1944. He landed at Vers-sur-Mere on 9th June on a reconnaisance mission but found himself behind enemy lines and escaped from a patrol. Sold with related paperwork, photographs, badges, spurs etc. for further information.
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Lot 533
Commemorative Medals, Foreign, Italy, The Maurician medal [Medaglia Mauriziana pel Merito Militare di dieci lustri], in gold, signed Ferraris, for 50 years of service in the Italian army, undated, 20th century, St. Maurice on horseback to r., holding banner, rev. legend and engraved name of recipient, ‘Arnaldo Maroni’, 36mm., stamped Z917, wt. 35.10gms., ring and flat suspender, struck with a matt surface, scuffed and test mark to reverse edge, otherwise nearly extremely fine The medal first instituted in 1839.
Lot 579
Military Orders and Medals, Single Campaign Medals, A Single British War Medal to Worker Grace Charlotte Horne, Queen Mary’s Auxiliary Corps (4756 Wkr. G.C. Horn Q.M.A.A.C.), toned The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (1917–1918), later named the Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps (1918–1920), was the women’s unit of the British Army during and immediately after the Great War. It was formally instituted on 7 July, 1917 by Sir Neville Macready, the Adjutant General, who had appointed Dr Mona Chalmers Watson the first Chief Controller and senior officer. Over 57,000 women served between January 1917 and November 1918. On 31 March 1917 women in the WAAC were first sent to the battlefields in France, just 14 cooks and waitresses. In 1918 women medical personnel were sent to the front in France. The corps was disbanded in September 1921. After the German air raid in September 1940 which damaged the Army Records Office based in London most of the WAAC service records were destroyed. Worker Grace Horn’s papers are amongst those that did not survive. Sold with copied Medal Index card.
Lot 583
Military Orders and Medals, Campaign Groups and Pairs, Egypt Medal and Khedive’s Star Pair to the Scots Guards, awarded to Private Christopher Rippley, of the 1st Battalion comprising: Egypt Medal 1882-89, one clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (4378 Pte. C. Rippley. 1/Scots Guards); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, pair loose, lightly toned, surface pitting to first and contact marks from star, number and name of regiment rather worn, generally nearly fine (2) A 25,000 strong British force, under the command of Sir Garnet Wolseley, landed in Egypt in August 1882, and on the 13th September, the decisive engagement of the campaign occurred, with the Battle of Tel el-Kebir, At 5.45 a.m. Wolseley’s troops were six hundred yards from the entrenchments and dawn was just breaking, when Egyptian sentries saw them and fired. The first shots were followed by multiple volleys from the entrenchments and by the artillery. British troops, led by the Highland Brigade on the left flank, and the 2nd Brigade on the right flank with the Guards Brigade (commanded by Queen Victoria’s third son, Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn) in support, charged with the bayonet. The British advance was shielded from view by the smoke from the Egyptian artillery and rifles. Arriving in the trenches at the same time, all along the line, the resulting battle was over within an hour. Most of the Egyptian soldiers were tired from having stood to all night. Because of the haste with which Urabi’s forces had prepared their defences, there were no obstacles in front of them to disrupt the attackers. Several groups stood and fought, mainly the Sudanese troops in the front of the Highland Brigade, but those not overwhelmed in the first rush were forced to retreat. In the end, it was less a battle than a massacre. Official British figures gave a total of 57 British troops killed. Approximately two thousand Egyptians died. The British army had more casualties due to heatstroke than enemy action. The 1st Battalion Scots Guards gained the battle honours ‘Tel-el-Kebir’ and ‘Egypt 1882’ for their part in the Egyptian Expedition. It was the last time the regiment carried the Colours into battle. Sold with copy Medal Roll confirming clasp.
Lot 598
Military Orders and Medals, Campaign Groups and Pairs, A Great War ‘Stockbrokers Battalion’ Royal Fusiliers, later Royal Army Medical Corps Officer Trio, awarded to Lieutenant P. Harwood comprising: 1914-15 Star (STK-1278 Pte P. Harwood. R. Fusiliers:); 1914-1920 British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. P. Harwood.), lightly toned, fine (3) Philip Harwood lived in Westerham, Kent. To France 31st July 1915 with 10th ‘Stockbrokers’ Battalion Royal Fusiliers. Commissioned 31st August 1918 onto General List, attached Royal Army Medical Corps. Sold with copy Medal Index Card, British War and Victory Medal Rolls, original long silk ribbons and three named Boxes of Issue.
Lot 606
Military Orders and Medals, Campaign Groups and Pairs, A 1916 Montauban/Dantzig Alley Officer Casualty, 8th Battalion Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), awarded to 2nd Lieutenant T. R. Castle, a pre-war poet and associate of the Bloomsbury Group, comprising: 1914-1920 British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut T. R. Castle); Memorial Plaque (Tudor Ralph Castle), War Medal lightly toned, Victory Medal as issued, Plaque very fine, housed in velvet mount (2) To Mrs Castle – Sandy Cross, Seale, Farnham, Surrey. ‘Deeply regret to inform you that 2/Lt T.R. Castle West Surreys killed in action – August 31st – The Army Council express their sympathy’ Tudor Ralph Castle was born on 28th December 1882 at ‘Woodlands Villa’, Brentford, London. He was the second son of Eleanor Wilhelmina (Sadleir) and William Henry Castle. The family later moved to Kensington, London Tudor was admitted to Harrow School in September 1896 and resided in Mr Moss’s House, Church Hill. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1901 and graduated with a B.A. Hons in Part II of the Historical Tripos in 1904. As an undergraduate Tudor joined two Trinity poetry societies, the X Society and the Shakespeare Society, serving successively as Secretary and President of the X Society. Following graduation, Tudor travelled to India, Spain and Germany. In 1910 he was associated with Toynbee Hall, a resettlement house in Whitechapel, East London. Tudor was engaged in secretarial and literary work and was the author of a volume of poems entitled ‘The Gentle Shepherd’, published in 1908 (a photocopy of this book is included with the lot.) During these years Tudor became involved with a set of writers, artists and intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group, that had its origins at Cambridge University. This group included among its members Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, Duncan Grant, John Maynard Keyes, Dora Carrington and Clive Bell. In 1910 he was associated with the Dreadnought Hoax. The Dreadnought Hoax was a practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the battleship HMS Dreadnought, to a fake delegation of Abyssinian royals. The hoax drew attention in Britain to the emergence of the Bloomsbury Group, among whom some of Cole’s collaborators numbered. The hoax was a repeat of a similar impersonation which Cole and Adrian Stephen had organised while they were students at Cambridge in 1905 when he posed as the Sultan of Zanzibar. The Dreadnought Hoax was a similar impersonation which was suggested to Cole by a friend who was an officer on HMS Hawke to hoax their rivals on HMS Dreadnought, including Commander Willie Fisher - Stephens’ cousin - who was on the staff of the Admiral. As Virginia Woolf later recounted ‘In those days the young officers had a gay time. They were always up to some lark; and one of their chief occupations it seemed was to play jokes on each other. There were a great many rivalries and intrigues in the navy. The officers like scoring off each other. And the officers of the Hawke and the Dreadnought had a feud. ... And Cole’s friend who was on the Hawke had come to Cole, and said to him, ‘You’re a great hand at hoaxing people; couldn’t you do something to pull the leg of the Dreadnought This involved Cole and five friends - writer Virginia Stephen (later Virginia Woolf), her brother Adrian Stephen, Guy Ridley, Anthony Buxton and artist Duncan Grant - who had themselves disguised ‘by the theatrical costumier Willy Clarkson with skin darkeners and turbans to resemble members of the Abyssinian royal family.’ The main limitation of the disguises was that the ‘royals’ could not eat anything or their make-up would be ruined. Adrian Stephen took the role of ‘interpreter’. On 7 February 1910 the hoax was set in motion. Cole organised for an accomplice to send a telegram to HMS Dreadnought which was then moored in Portland Harbour, Dorset. The message said that the ship must be prepared for the visit of a group of princes from Abyssinia and was purportedly signed by Foreign Office Under-secretary Sir Charles Hardinge. Cole with his entourage went to London’s Paddington station where Cole claimed that he was ‘Herbert Cholmondeley’ of the Foreign Office and demanded a special train to Weymouth; the stationmaster arranged a VIP coach. In Weymouth, the navy welcomed the princes with an honour guard. An Abyssinian flag was not found, so the navy proceeded to use that of Zanzibar and to play Zanzibar’s national anthem.The group inspected the fleet. To show their appreciation, they communicated in a gibberish of words drawn from Latin and Greek; they asked for prayer mats and attempted to bestow fake military honours on some of the officers. Commander Fisher failed to recognise either of his cousins. When the prank was uncovered in London, the ringleader Horace de Vere Cole contacted the press and sent a photo of the ‘princes’ to the Daily Mirror. The group’s pacifist views were considered a source of embarrassment, and the Royal Navy briefly became an object of ridicule. The Navy later demanded that Cole be arrested. However, Cole and his compatriots had not broken any law. During the visit to Dreadnought, the visitors had repeatedly shown amazement or appreciation by exclaiming ‘Bunga Bunga!’ In 1915 during the First World War, HMS Dreadnought rammed and sank a German submarine - the only battleship ever to do so. Among the telegrams of congratulation was one that read ‘BUNGA BUNGA’. For his role in this affair, Tudor was threatened with possible arrest, he was never formally charged but for this, or other reasons he left England shortly after to work on a Government survey of Australia. On October the 24th 1912 Tudor married Muriel Isabel Catherine Howard. Tudor was then employed as a Land Agent on his father-in-law’s Hampton House Lodge Estate, in Seale, West Surrey. With the outbreak of the Great War, Tudor enlisted in the 19th (Service) Battalion (2nd Public Schools) Royal Fusiliers on the 15th September 1914, being given Service Number 175. He served 152 days in the ranks before being discharged to Commission on the 13th February 1915, being granted a Regular Temporary Commission in the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment). He was posted to the 8th Battalion on the 2nd July 1916, joining the battalion at Morlancourt sand pit where the Battalion was in tents training for its move to Guillemont on the 8th July. He took part in the unsuccessful attack by his Battalion on the Quarry near Guillemont, the Battalion losing 7 Officers and 89 Other Ranks, they moved out of the line after this attack returning to the Front area on the 31st August 1916 at Fricourt, moving up through Mametz to the village of Montauban and Danzig Alley Trench in preparation for their attack on Delville Wood on the 1st September. Whilst in this reserve position on the 31st August 1916 the Battalion was bombarded all day by the enemy, and it was during this bombardment that 2/Lt Castle was killed by a gas shell. He was 34 years old. He is buried in Plot 1, Row B, Grave 36 of Danzig Alley, British Cemetery, Mametz, France. His name is on the Harrow School War Memorial, the Memorial was built on the site of Mr. Moss’s House, Tudor’s House whilst he was at the school The lot is sold with copy service papers, copy of the 8th Battalion War Diary, a photocopy of his book ‘The Gentle Shepherd’, a letter from the archivist of Trinity College Cambridge and five copy photographs of Tudor, Muriel, a Battalion Officers’ photograph and an original photograph of his headstone in Dantzig Alley.
Lot 608
Military Orders and Medals, Campaign Groups and Pairs, A Great War Edward VII Manchester Regiment Territorial Efficiency Casualty Group of three, awarded to Serjeant H. Lingard 8th Battalion King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment late 7th Battalion The Manchester Regiment who was Killed in Action near Arras on the 12th May 1917, comprising: 1914-1920 British War and Victory Medals (25645 Sjt. H. Lingard. R. Lanc. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal EVII (445Cpl H. Lincard. 7/Manch. Regt), one of only 62 TFEMs to the Manchester Regiment, note spelling on TFEM, lightly toned, fine (3) Henry Lingard was born in All Saints in 1878 and lived in Manchester. He joined the Volunteers circa 1897 and probably served with the 4th Volunteer Battalion Manchester Regt, which became the 7th Manchester regiment on the 1st April 1908 when the Territorial Force was formed. His Territorial Force Efficiency Medal was announced in Army Orders of July 1909 after 12 years’ service. On the 2nd September 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the Great War, Henry re-enlisted into 16th Manchester Pals Battalion and transferred back to 7th Battalion the Manchester Regiment. He transferred again into 8th Battalion King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment on the 8th October 1916, prior to serving in France and Flanders; he was Killed in Action on the 12th May 1917, his body was not located after the war and he is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Lot 632
Military Orders and Medals, Groups and Single Decorations for Gallantry, A Well-Documented WW2 B.E.M. (Mily), awarded to S/Sgt D. C. Murch R.E.M.E. attached Royal Artillery; British Empire Medal, GRI cypher, Military Division (10558031S/Sgt. Derek C. Murch. R.E.M.E.), toned, fine, on brooch pin, note spelling of ‘Derek’ Sold with 27 original documents, his AB64, Soldiers Release Book (Army Book X801 and two original photographs. B.E.M. (Mily) London Gazette 6th April 1945 The King has been graciously pleased to approve the award of the British Empire Medal (Military Division), in recognition of Meritorious Services. Derrick Clifford Murch, born 4th August 1920, trade on enlistment Electrician for Walthamstow Borough Council. Called up in 1939 for the R.A.O.C., he wrote to the Army asking to be transferred to the R.E.M.E. His request was granted in December 1940 and he reported for the ‘Duration of the Present Emergency’ at Woolwich Barracks on the 17th May 1941. After passing an Electrical Trade Test he was re-mustered to the R.E.M.E. and proposed for a Commission. He served in the ranks until 1946 rising to the rank of WOII employed by R.E.M.E., attached to the Anti-Aircraft Arm of the Royal Artillery, as an Armament Artillery Electrician, finishing the War at Agra, India. He was awarded the British Empire Medal in the London Gazette of the 10th April 1946; he received Congratulations from General Sir A.F. Pile Bt., G.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., R.A., Commanding Anti-Aircraft Command – ‘Dear Sgt Murch, I was delighted to see in the London Gazette that you have been awarded the B.E.M. by His Majesty The King. Please accept my heartiest congratulations. Yours sincerely F.A. Pile’ He was discharged on the 3rd September 1946 to class ‘Z’ Reserve being recalled on the 5th September 1951 for a medical, then he reported for training at the Anti-Aircraft Command School of Technical Instruction, Lydd, Kent on the 1st December 1951.
Lot 644
Military Orders and Medals, Long Service Medals, Territorial Force Efficiency Medals, EVIIR, awarded to Driver W. Hinde 3rd West Riding Brigade Royal Field Artillery (329 Dvr: G.W. Hinde. 3/ W.R.B. R.F.A.), very fine Only 18 EVII TFEMs awarded to the 3rd West Riding Brigade R.F.A. Army Order 1/1910
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Lot 258
Friendly Programmes: A Combined Services v. National Police and Civil Defence match programme, 9th May 1945, played at Wembley, a pair of British Army v. Czechoslovak Forces programmes, 7th March 1942, played at Dulwich Hamlet and an England XI v. Combined Services XI, 29th April 1944, played at Chelsea. (4)
Lot 62
Dinky: One box of assorted unboxed Dinky Military vehicles to comprise: 660 Tank Transporter, 651 Centurion Tank, 622 10 ton Army Truck, 626 Military Ambulance, 623 Covered Wagon, 677 Armoured Command Vehicle, 688 Field Artillery Tractor, 670 Armoured Car, 643 Army Water Tanker, 673 Scout Car, 661 Recovery Tractor, 674 Austin Champ, 621 3 ton Army Wagon, 641 Army 1 ton Cargo Truck, 693 Howitzer Gun, 692 Medium Gun, 696 and 687 25 pdr Trailer. (one box)
Lot 69
Diecast: One box of assorted playworn diecast vehicles to comprise: Observation Coach, Foden Flat Truck with Chains 905, Coles 20 Ton Lorry-Mounted Crane 972, Bedford Flatbed, Corgi Jaguar Mark X Saloon 238, Centurion Tank 651, Mercedes-Benz 600 128, A.E.C. Single Deck Bus, Army 1 Ton Cargo Truck 641, Austin-Healey 109, Ferrari Racing Car 23H, Morris Minor, Corgi Daimler Scout Car, MG Midget 108, Jeep, Dodge, Austin A90 Atlantic 140a, AA Motorcycle Patrol 44B, RAC Motorcycle Patrol 43b, Triumph TR2 111, Yellow Ford Sedan, Scout Car 673, Speed of the Wind, Alfa-Romeo 23F, A.E.C. Monarch Thompson Tank, Austin Devon, Massey Harris Manure Spreader, Matchbox Dump Truck, Police Box and others. (one box)
Lot 1037
WW2 & Korea Medal Group, paperwork and cap badge collection to 4915656 Rfn. John Thomas Hardy, RUR. Medals mounted on bar: 1939-45 Star, Burma Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, Korea Medal and UN Korea Medal. Joined up pre war in the South Staffs. Paperwork: AB64, Army Prayer book, Air Mail letter 1944, Army Cert. of Education 3rd class: Plus a large collection of 14 items of Allied cloth insignia and numerious cap badges, mostly mounted on a cloth stable belt and a cloth putee to include medal ribbon bar and approx sixty British & Commonwealth cap badges and metal insignias. There is a 3d coin sewn in the belt.
Lot 1038
WW2 British Medal Group comprising of : 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal and War Medal to 554012 A/P/SQMS AGT Broughton, 17th/21st Lancers. A pre war regular who joined up in 1934. Soldiers Release book, part AB64 Paybook: letters from his CO and employers: Army Education certs: eight photographs.
Lot 1203
WW2 US Army Enlisted mans Wool shirt. Gas flap has been cut away. Has originally applied WW2 82nd Airborne shoulder sleeve insignia and British made Staff Sgt's stripes. With 505 Parachute Inf Oval with NS Meyer Sterling Silver Jump Wings and a Sterling Silver Combat Infantrymans bar. All insignia machine sewn in place.
Lot 1204
WW2 US Army Enlisted Man's service dress visor cap in OD wool size 7: WW2 US Army Officers Overseas cap in OD Wool with 2nd Lt's rank bar size 7 dated 1942: US Army summer weight private purchase overseas cap: Post war US Army Dress Blue Officers service dress visor cap by the King John Cap Co, New York.
Lot 1237
WW2 US Army Enlisted Man's "Coat, Wool, Serge" dated 7/10/42. Size 38L. Has been stripped of US buttons and reissued to a PoW with black plastic buttons fitted and stencilled "P/W" to sleeves and back of tunic. Some moth. Along with a pair of British Army "Trouser, Mans, Barrack Dress" Size leg 80 / waist 92 / seat 108. Plus "Trousers, Mans, Tropical Stone, RAF" size leg 85 / waist 93 / seat 108. And a Begian Blue Service Dress tunic. (4)
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