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Three: Sergeant F. Oliver, 20th Regiment of Foot (Lancashire Fusiliers) Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (Sejt. Frdk. Oliver. 20th. Regt.) contemporary engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 2nd issue, large letter reverse (Sergeant Frederick Oliver 1851.) engraved naming, fitted with replacement silver bar suspension; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued, pierced with small ring suspension, all three mounted from contemporary wearing buckles, generally good very fine (3) £400-£500 --- Frederick Oliver, a labourer, was born in Witley, Surrey, on 1 January 1810, and attested at Portsmouth for the 20th Regiment of Foot on 5 July 1824. Advanced Corporal on 30 September 1826, and Sergeant on 8 December 1832, he witnessed extensive service overseas in the East Indies, Bermuda and North America. Posted to the Crimea for six months from 31 August 1854, he was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal with £15 gratuity and took his final discharge at Chatham in consequence of ‘general failing health’ on 31 July 1855. Sold with copied service record.

An Albert Medal group of five miniature dress medals representative of those worn by Sergeant Major H. Pickersgill, Scots Guards, later Royal Scots Albert Medal, 2nd Class, for Gallantry in Saving Life on Land, bronze and enamel; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 3 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R.; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, mounted for display, good very fine (5) £160-£200 --- A.M. London Gazette 23 December 1890: ‘In recognition of gallantry displayed on the occasion of a fire which took place at the Wellington Barracks, London, on 12 November 1890. The fire was in the soldier’s married quarters and he and others saved a number of children from the roof.’ Sold with copied research.

A well-documented D.S.O., D.C.M. group of twelve miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel E. A. Stretch, Royal Welsh Fusiliers Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919; Defence Medal; Coronation 1937; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R.; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, mounted court-style for display, traces of adhesive to reverse of DSO, otherwise generally very fine and better (12) £400-£500 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 22 December 1916. D.C.M. London Gazette 31 October 1902. Edward Arthur Stretch was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 29 December 1870, the son of a soldier in the 84th Regiment of Foot, and attested for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Wrexham on 16 October 1889. Promoted Corporal in May 1891, and Sergeant in April 1893, he served in South Africa during the Boer War as Colour Sergeant of the Western Company of the 2nd Mounted Infantry, and was present at the Relief of Kimberley; according the the recipient’s own reminiscences, ‘My Captain, Ingham Brooke, and I were the first men into Kimberley’. He saw further service at Paardeberg (wounded), and again distinguished himself when serving as the advanced Scouts from Ian Hamilton’s Column: ‘One of our boys had his horse shot and he was also wounded and helpless whilst his horse was struggling. I galloped forward and released the boy after I had to shoot the poor horse, and heaved the boy onto my horse and was taking him back out of rifle range when I met the doctor, an Australian attached to our Battalion, who stopped me and between us we got the boy down and the Doctor bandaged him up. The Doctor had taken off his jacket and had a white shirt on which made him a fine target for the Boers who kept up a rifle fire but with no damage and before the Doctor had put on his jacket one of the Staff Officers, Major Haig [later Field Marshal Earl Haig], turned up and slated the Doctor for exposing himself in a white shirt! Incidentally the Doctor received the V.C. for attending the wounded under fire!’ For his services in South Africa during the Boer War he was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Commission temporary Second Lieutenant on 21 February 1915, Stretch saw further service with the 8th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers throughout the Great War, landing at Gallipoli on 16 July 1915, and was reputedly on of the last men to leave the Gallipoli peninsula on 8 January 1916. He saw further service in Mesopotamia on the Staff of the 40th Brigade, and whilst there was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his gallantry during the attack on El Hannah, being wounded in the action, but remaining at duty. Additionally, for his services during the Great War he was thrice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 24 August 1916, 11 November 1918, and 7 February 1919). Advanced Lieutenant-Colonel, he saw further service on the North West Frontier of India during the Third Afghan War. His final award was receiving the Meritorious Service Medal, with annuity, on 13 October 1950. He died at Maidstone, Kent, on 14 May 1953. Sold with the recipient’s original Commission Document appointing him a Second Lieutenant on 19 February 1915; Bestowal Document for the D.S.O. together with a copy of the Statutes of the Order; three Mentioned in Despatches Certificates, dated 24 August 1916, 11 November 1918, and 7 February 1919; First Class certificate of Education and four Certificates of Instruction; various photographs of the recipient in uniform and wearing his medals; various Old Comrades Association Dinner Menus; various newspaper cuttings and other ephemera; and copied research.

Four: Bombardier M. D. B. Pearcey, Royal Artillery General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24551722 Gnr M D B Pearcey RA); South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (24551722 Gnr M D B Pearcey RA); U.N. Medal, on UNFICYP riband, unnamed as issued; Gulf 1990-91, 1 clasp, 16 Jan to 28 Feb 1991 (24551722 Bdr M D B Pearcey RA); together with the recipient’s Saudi Arabia and Kuwait Medals for the Liberation of Kuwait 1991, mounted court-style for wear, good very fine and better (6) £700-£900 --- Mark David Bernard Pearcey was born in Coventry in 1960 and witnessed extensive overseas service with the Royal Artillery during the South Atlantic campaign and as part of the mission to supervise the cease-fire and maintain a buffer zone on the island of Cyprus. Posted to the Middle East, he took part in the Liberation of Kuwait where artillery proved invaluable in softening up an entrenched Iraqi Army. Pearcey is later recorded as having died at Wolverhampton in 2011.

Three: Private Daniel Mackinson, 13th Prince Albert’s Light Infantry Ghuznee 1839 (Pt. Danl. Mackinson XIII P.A.L.I.); Defence of Jellalabad 1842, Mural Crown (Pt. Danl. Mackinson XIII P.A.L.I.); Cabul 1842 (Pt. Danl. Mackinson XIII P.A.L.I.) all three with regimentally impressed naming and fitted with replacement silver clip and straight bar suspensions, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine or better (3) £1,400-£1,800 --- Daniel Makinson was born at Bolton, Lancashire, in May 1805. He was attested for the 13th Light Infantry at Dublin on 12 September 1825, aged 20, a clogger by trade. He was promoted to Corporal in August 1830 and to Sergeant in May 1833, but was convicted by Court Martial in July 1836, confined for one week, and reduced to Private. He rose to Corporal once more from January 1840 till February 1841, when he was reduced again to Private. ‘He served with the Army of the Indus during the campaigns of 1838, 39, 40, 41 & 42. Was present at the storming of Ghuznee in July 1839, and the forts of of Tootim, Dumah and Gulgah in the Kohistan in 1840. Was present in the several engagements in four of the passes from Cabool to Jellalabad in 1841 and in defence of the latter fortress in 1841 and present in the General action at Jellalabad , 7th April 1842. Ganduluck 8th September, Tazeen 13th September and the recapture of Cabul 15th September 1842.’ Makinson served as a Private for the remainder of his army career, returning to England in July 1845 where he was discharged at Chatham in August 1846. Sold with copied discharge papers which confirm all three medals.

A M.C. group of seven miniature dress medals representative of those worn by Major R. W. B. Simms, General List, late Royal Marine Artillery and Northumberland Fusiliers Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head; Belgium, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Chevalier’s badge, silver and enamel; Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, mounted for display, enamel damage to wreath on Order of the Crown, nearly very fine (7) £80-£100 --- M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918: ‘For distinguished conduct in connection with military operations in Italy’. Belgian, Order of the Crown, Chevalier London Gazette 21 August 1919. Belgian, Croix de Guerre London Gazettes 21 August 1919 and 4 September 1919. Robert William Benjamin Simms was born on 11 August 1865. As a young man he joined the Royal Marines and served in the Royal Marine Artillery. He was subsequently promoted Sergeant, and in that rank was awarded the Royal Navy L.S. & G.C. In the April 1898 edition of The Globe and Laurel he is shown as a Sergeant Instructor wearing his medal. On the formation of the 3rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in 1900, Quartermaster Sergeant Instructor Simms transferred to the Army and to that battalion, being promoted to Sergeant-Major in June 1900. He was discharged to a pension in April 1906. On the outbreak of the Great War, Simms rejoined the Army. He was appointed Temporary Quartermaster with the honorary rank of Lieutenant on 28 October 1914, serving with the Portsmouth (later 14th) Battalion Hampshire Regiment. He was advanced to Temporary Lieutenant on 30 November 1914 and Temporary Captain on 11 March 1917. Temporary Captain Simms was transferred to the General List, and appointed an Assistant Provost-Marshal (graded as Staff Captain) on 21 April 1917. Mentioned in General Haig’s despatch of 7 November 1917 (London Gazette 11 December 1917), he was then awarded the M.C. for services in Italy. The 41st Division with whom he had been serving had been sent to the Italian Front in November 1917; it later returned to the Western Front in March 1918. On 1 May 1918 Simms was promoted to Temporary Major. As such he was awarded the Belgian Order of the Crown and twice awarded the Croix de Guerre. During the period from 23 February to 1 March 1920 he held the appointment of Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal. On 1 July 1920 he was appointed a Camp Commandant, holding this appointment until he was released. Temporary Major Simms relinquished his commission, retaining his rank of Major on 10 November 1920. He was awarded the M.S.M. and Annuity by the Army Orders 16 of 31 January 1935, and died on 17 October 1955. Note: The recipient’s full-sized awards were sold in these rooms in December 2008, as part of the John Tamplin Collection. Sold with a photographic image of the recipient; and copied research.

The highly emotive Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot’s campaign group of three awarded to Pilot Officer W. H. G. ‘Scotty’ Gordon, 234 Squadron, Royal Air Force, who shot down at least one enemy aircraft, and shared one enemy aircraft probably destroyed during the height of the Battle - only to succumb to the guns of a German ‘Ace’, whilst trying to fend off the attack of three enemy fighters over Beachy Head on 6 September 1940. His remains were believed to be retrieved from the wreckage of his Spitfire in Sussex shortly after the crash, and buried by his family in Scotland. Permission was gained for the site to be excavated again in 2003, and amongst the surviving wreckage of the aircraft were the remains and most of the named uniform belonging to William Gordon - he was finally laid to rest some 63 years after his death 1939-45 Star, 1 clasp, Battle of Britain; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Air Council enclosure and ‘ticker tape’ entitlement slip, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Major W. Gordon, D.S.O., M.C., St. Mary’s, Duffton, Banffshire’, nearly extremely fine (lot) £5,000-£7,000 --- William Hugh Gibson Gordon was born in Aberdeen in 1920, and was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Gordon, D.S.O., M.C. [whose medals were sold in these rooms in April 2003]. Gordon was educated at Mortlach Primary School, and joined the Royal Air Force on a short service commission in 1939. He carried his initial training as pilot at No. 6 F.T.S., Little Rissington, between May and November 1939, and was posted as a Pilot Officer to the recently reformed 234 Squadron at Leconfield in November 1939. The Squadron began to re-equip with Spitfires in March 1940, and became operational on 8 May 1940. Gordon moved with the Squadron to St. Eval, Cornwall, on 16 June 1940, and became actively engaged during the Battle of Britain. Gordon shared in the probable destruction of a Ju.88 on 12 July 1940, when the latter ‘dropped bombs on the aerodrome it was immediately engaged by P/O Lawrence and P/O Gordon, chased out to sea and damaged.’ (Squadron’s Operations Record Book refers) Gordon was involved in multiple daily patrols and interceptions over Devon and Cornwall throughout July and August 1940. He moved with the Squadron to Middle Wallop, Hampshire, on 14 August 1940. Gordon was involved in an inclusive combat four days later: ‘I was in Yellow section in squadron formation proceeding South over Isle of Wight when we met about twenty aircraft - Me.109’s at 1430 hrs. on 18/8/40. We went into the attack and on approaching to within 150 yards of one enemy aircraft I gave him a burst of three seconds. I saw bits fall from his machine. On being attacked myself I broke away violently. I remained on patrol but did not engage again.’ (Recipient’s Combat Report refers). Gordon shot down a Me. 109E of 6/JG2 piloted by Feldwebel Gerhardt Ebus, 24 August 1940. The Squadron’s Operations Record Book gives the following for that date: ‘One interception scramble by 12 aircraft to raid approaching Portsmouth. S/Ldr O’Brien destroyed 1 Me. 109, P/O Gordon destroyed 1 Me. 109, P/O Olenski claimed 1 Me. 109 as probable. P/O Lawrence damaged 1 Me. 110.’ A witness of Gordon’s combat, over the Isle of Wight, was reported thus by the Isle of Wight Chronicle: ‘I first saw the Messerschmitt just as the fighter had got on its tail and was pumping tracer into it. The next moment the Nazi plane went into a steep dive and there was a tiny puff of white as the pilot baled out.... The Messerschmitt came screaming down from a tremendous height. It crashed into a thickly wooded copse within 500 yds of where I stood [in Shanklin Chine]. Members of the Home Guard and Military rushed up. All of us were mystified at the uncanny silence which reined immediately after the plane crashed through the tree tops. A column of smoke guided us to the spot and a fantastic scene provided explanation to the mystery. A few fragments of tail and wings were all that remained above the ground. The fuselage and most of the wings and tail had plunged headlong into a disused well. The force of the impact with the well rim must have crushed the wings in against the body, as there was no sign of any of the main structure of the plane beyond the part of the tail which bore the swastika. Flames and black smoke vomited from the well and twice the ground shook beneath our feet as explosions rumbled far below... An officer arrived and to him a policeman handed over the grotesque crumpled fragment carrying the swastika...’ Gordon’s luck, however, was to shortly run out. He was shot down and killed whilst flying Spitfire I X4035 ‘G’, by an Me.109 over Hadlow Down, Sussex, at 9.10am on 6 September 1940. Gordon piloted one of 12 Spitfires that engaged an enemy formation sighted off Beachy Head near Eastbourne. Initially thought to be only six enemy aircraft, the force turned out to be part of a much larger force escorting a formation of Dornier bombers. Gordon was apparently shot down whilst trying to engage three enemy fighters, and after the War, records indicated that there was a strong possibility that he fell under the guns of the German Ace and Knights Cross holder Gustav Sprick. Regardless of the above - Pilot Officer Gordon’s remains were supposedly recovered at the time from the crash site: ‘When Amalia and Linda [relatives of William Rhodes-Moorhouse, D.F.C. - looking for his body] had discounted and left the crash site at Howbourne Farm, near Hadlow Down, they could not have known that the family of its pilot were also engaged in a similar quest for a lost loved one. Pilot Officer William Gordon came from a well known distilling family and his kin travelled from Scotland to find news of their missing son who had been lost in 234 Squadron Spitfire - also on 6 September 1940. Whatever the trail was that led them to Howbourne Farm we cannot now be certain. However, suffice to say that it ultimately led to the realisation that their missing son was still trapped in the buried wreck of his Spitfire. By good fortune it turned out that civil engineering contractors, Messrs Mowlems, were engaged on government work in the adjacent fields constructing anti-invasion measures such as pill boxes and tank traps. On site with them was a drag line excavator and the machine was quickly put to work extricating the wreckage. Sure enough, the sad remains of Bill ‘Scotty’ Gordon were extricated with the wreck of his aeroplane and he was ultimately laid to rest in the parish church at Mortlach in Banff, Scotland.’ (Finding The Few, by A. Saunders refers) Despite the Army and the RAF spending approximately 10 days excavating the crash site in 1940, it appeared many years later that all was not as it seemed. Permission was gained for the site to be excavated again in 2003, and amongst the surviving wreckage of the aircraft were the remains and most of the named uniform belonging to William Gordon. Ultimately this led to an exhumation of the original grave, and a reburial including the extant remains. This was carried out with full military honours for a second time on 26 June 2003. Sold with the following contemporary items: Commission appointing William Hugh Gibson Gordon as Acting Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force, 13 May 1939, in OHMS delivery tube addressed to ‘Pilot Officer W. H. G. Gordon, No. 234 Squadron, Royal Air Force, Leconfield, Beverley, Yorks’, dated 11 March 1940; Buckingham Palace condolence enclosure, this framed and glazed; a copy of The History Of British Aviation 1908 - 1914, by R. Dallas Brett, insid...

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (885 Pte. J. Longman 2d. Bn. Devon. Regt.) light contact marks, very fine £140-£180 --- James Longman, alias Jno Lorimer, was born in Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, and attested for the Devonshire Regiment at Exeter on 4 July 1884. A carpenter by trade, he witnessed initial service at Newry but was soon convicted by Court Martial of fraudulent enlistment on 31 July 1885. Imprisoned for 199 days, Longman was released and immediately posted overseas to India aboard H.M.S. Crocodile on 15 February 1886. His Army Service Record notes a plethora of illnesses and accidents at around this time including a contusion suffered on 18 July 1886 in consequence of being struck by a cricket ball on the foot. Posted to Burma on 29 December 1888, Longman took part in the advance up the Irrawaddy River and in operations against the local tribespeople, and on 26 February 1892 he received a wound to the left hand at Namliku caused by a bamboo stake (’panjie’). Transferring to the Army Reserve, Longman was discharged on 30 July 1897.

The group of four miniature dress medals attributed to General F. A. E. Loch, Indian Army The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B., 17mm., gold and enamel, straight-bar and loop suspension with gold riband buckle; Punjab 1848-49, 1 clasp, Mooltan; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India; Abyssinia 1867, mounted as worn with gold riband buckle, the last with slightly bent swivel-suspension, light contact marks, generally very fine and better (4) £160-£200 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, July 2004. Francis Adams Ellis Loch entered the Bombay Army in 1844 and was twice Mentioned in Despatches for services during the Punjab Campaign and in Abyssinia. Appointed Commandant of the Scinde Frontier Force, he was created C.B. in 1873 and later served as Political Resident at Aden from 1877 to 1882. Advanced General in the Bombay Staff Corps, he died at his residence in Richmond, Surrey, on 27 July 1891.

A Great War ‘Egyptian theatre’ M.C. group of four awarded to Major L. Gall, 1st City of London Yeomanry and 25th Cavalry Frontier Force, Indian Army Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (Capt. L. Gall. 25-Cavalry.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major L. Gall.) minor patch of staining to obverse of VM, generally very fine (4) £600-£800 --- M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916. Lawrence Gall was born on 10 September 1884 and educated at Cheltenham College. Appointed to a commission on 21 January 1903, he is listed as a newly promoted Captain in the Cheltenham Looker-on of 6 April 1912 and witnessed initial service at home upon the outbreak of the Great War as Captain in the 1st County of London Yeomanry. Transferred to the 25th Cavalry Frontier Force, Indian Army, he served in Egypt from 28 April 1915 and was advanced Major. Composed of four distinct squadrons of Sikhs, Dogras, Punjabi Muslims and Hindustani Muslims/Pathans, the 25th Cavalry were later posted to East Africa and saw fighting at Nahungo and Chingwea. Involved in the pursuit of General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck to the Portuguese African border, their impressive campaign against the Schutztruppe finally ground to a halt in consequence of illness transmitted by the bites of tsetse flies. Gall later applied for his medals - which were issued by the India Office mint - on 17 February 1922, his address at that time given as 90 Seymour Street, Hyde Park, W.2.

A Great War ‘Mesopotamian operations’ M.C. group of five awarded to Captain J. A. G. Burton, Royal Army Medical Corps, late British Red Cross Society, who served with 41 Field Ambulance at Gallipoli, and was reputedly, as Medical Officer in the rearguard, ‘the last person to leave Suvla Bay’ Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914 Star (J. A. G. Burton. B.R.C.S.); British War and Victory Medals, with copy M.I.D. oak leaves (Major J. A. G. Burton.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (Capt. J. A. G. Burton. R.A.M.C.) mounted as worn; together with a Corps Football medal, silver, the obverse engraved ‘G.B.’, the reverse engraved ‘R.A.M.C. 41st. F.A. F.C. 1915.’, in case of issue, good very fine (6) £1,000-£1,400 --- M.C. London Gazette 3 March 1919. M.I.D. London Gazette 27 August 1918 (Mesopotamia) John Adam Gibson Burton was born in 1888 and was educated at Glasgow High School and the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He served as a Medical Officer with the Scottish Unit of the British Red Cross Society during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 October 1914. Commissioned temporary Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 29 January 1915, he served with 41 Field Ambulance, 40th Brigade, 13th Division in Gallipoli, and his obituary claimed that ‘As Medical Officer in the rearguard he was the last person to leave Suvla Bay.’ Whilst this is a matter of conjecture, he was indeed the Medical Officer detailed to the rearguard, and is confirmed in the War diaries as having embarked upon the very last lighter to depart Suvla. Burton saw further service with the 41st Field Ambulance in Mesopotamia, as part of the force being assembled for the relief of the besieged garrison at Kut. Mentioned in Alec Glen’s book In the Front Line: A Doctor in War and Peace, he was described as ‘quite a character who had many very good qualities as a soldier, but did not approve much of Army way, and had his own idea of discipline.’ Promoted Captain, for his services in Mesopotamia Burton was both Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Military Cross. Post-War he saw further service on the North West Frontier, and was promoted Major on 21 April 1920. Sold with copied research.

Six: Warrant Officer Class II W. Williamson, Seaforth Highlanders Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (5554. Lce. Corpl. W. Williamson. 1/Sea Hrs.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, date clasp block loose on riband (5554 Q.M.S. W. Williamson. Sea: Highrs: M.I.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (5554 Sergt. W. Williamson 1st. Bn. Sea. Highrs) surname partially officially corrected; British War and Victory Medals (5554 W.O. Cl.2. W. Williamson. Seaforth.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, The Atbara, unnamed as issued; together with a Seaforth Highlanders Regimental Medal, silver, unnamed, with South Africa 1901 clasp; and an Army Temperance Association India 1 Year Medal, silver, unnamed, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and better (8) £500-£700 --- William Williamson was born in Wick, Caithness, and attested there for the Seaforth Highlanders on 10 April 1896, having previously served in the 1st Orkney Artillery Volunteers. He served with the 1st Battalion in the Sudan; with the 18th Mounted Infantry Company in South Africa during the Boer War; and again with the 1st Battalion on the North West Frontier of India. Sold with a copy of a published drawing showing the Seaforth Highlanders storming the Zabera at the Battle of the Atbara; and copied research.

Pair: Captain J. M. Hierons, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was strangled to death on the overnight express train to Kashmir whilst making her way to the British Military Hospital at Deolali Defence and War Medals 1939-45, unnamed, pinned to a contemporary memorial panel with brass plaque, engraved ‘To the Memory of Capt. Joyce Margaret Hierons who died in the Service of her Country 14 May 1946. We Shall Remember Them’, with R.A.M.C. cap badge below, 380mm x 165mm, good very fine Pair: Deputy Superintendent D. F. Tisdall, St. John Ambulance Brigade Defence Medal; Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver (30256 D/Supt. D. F. Tisdall. No.8 Dist. S.J.A.B. 1944.) mounted in a modern frame with S.J.A.B. cap badge, shoulder titles and five buttons, glue residue to obverse of Defence Medal, generally good very fine (4) £70-£90 --- Joyce Margaret Hierons served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in India, and came to a tragic end on 14 May 1946. The Derby Daily Telegraph of 15 May 1946 takes up the story: ‘Train Murder: Two Arrests. Two arrests have been made after the murder in a train of Captain Joyce Margaret Hierons, a British woman doctor attached to the R.A.M.C., it was announced in Lahore to-day. Captain Hierons of Whitton, Middlesex, was murdered when travelling in the Bombay-Peshawar express with Miss N. W. Reid, a nursing sister, who was injured. They were attacked by three men, believed to be Sikhs, and robbed of 450 rupees (£34). The attackers, according to a description to-day were three fierce-looking bearded and turbaned men who entered the women’s first class compartment whilst most of the other passengers on the train were asleep.’ Dorothea Frances Tisdall was born on 11 February 1897 in Ireland and came to London in the early 1920s to train as a midwife. Upon graduation, she took employment as the ‘right hand man’ to Dr. Nancy Lewis and later rendered over 20 years of outstanding service to the Reigate and Redhill division of the St John Ambulance Brigade. The Surrey Mirror of 5 November adds: ‘Courage and Laughter in War and Peace. Throughout the war she was in charge of the Shaw’s Corner first aid post, and for a time, whenever the raid warning sounded, she dropped everything and went... Her colleagues spoke of her courage, calmness and tremendous sense of humour she always displayed at these times, and which, they remembered, created an atmosphere in which they were never afraid.’ An extremely popular member of the congregation at St Matthew’s Church at Redhill, Miss Tisdall died on 27 October 1965.

Four: Corporal R. McKenzie, Cameron Highlanders Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3683 L/Cpl. R. Mc.Kenzie 1/Cam: Hrs:); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (3683 Corl. R. McKenzie. 1: Cam’n: H’drs:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3683 Serjt: R. Mc.Kenzie. Cameron Highrs:); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, The Atbara (3683 Cpl. Mc.Kenzie 1 Cam. Highrs.) contemporarily engraved naming, light contact marks throughout, nearly very fine and better (4) £500-£700 --- Roderick McKenzie was born in Dingwall in the Scottish Highlands in 1873, and attested for the 1st Cameron Highlanders at Inverness on 17 May 1895. A sawmiller by trade, he served overseas in Gibraltar, Cyprus and Egypt, and is confirmed upon his Army Service Record as present at the Nile Expedition of 1898 and the Battle of the Atbara where Anglo-Egyptian forces defeated 15,000 Mahdists on the banks of the River Atbara. The 1st Cameron Highlanders suffered 44 casualties, including 3 officers killed and 1 wounded, with the engagement proving to be a turning point in the re-conquest of Sudan by the British and Egyptian coalition. Posted to South Africa from 25 April 1900 to 9 October 1902, McKenzie was discharged on 16 May 1907, after 12 years’ service. Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Acting Sergeant A. H. Grimmitt, Royal Army Medical Corps Military Medal, G.V.R. (58330 Cpl. A. H. Grimmitt. 142/F.A. R.A.M.C.); 1914-15 Star (58330, Cpl. A. A. [sic] Grimmett [sic], R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (58330 A.Sjt. A. H. Grimmitt. R.A.M.C.) light contact marks, generally very fine (4) £240-£280 --- M.M. London Gazette 3 June 1916. Albert Harry Grimmitt was born in Beckford, Gloucestershire, around 1886, and is recorded in 1911 as an unmarried policeman living and working in Middlesbrough. Appointed to the 142nd Field Ambulance during the Great War, his unit served on the Western Front from 24 August 1915 as part of 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, and was heavily engaged as a mobile front line medical unit at the Battle of Loos. Transferred to the Somme, Grimmitt was awarded the Military Medal in June 1916 and was likely present on 1 July 1916 when thousands of Allied soldiers made their way along the casualty evacuation chain from Regimental Aid Posts to the heavily over stretched Field Ambulances. Raised Acting Sergeant, Grimmitt survived the war and returned home to the Midlands. He died on 17 June 1930 at the North Ormesby Hospital in Middlesbrough.

A post-War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Group Captain J. Lambie, Royal Air Force, late Indian Army and Royal Fusiliers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. J. Lambie.); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24 (Lieut. J. Lambie, 67 Pjbs.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted court-style as worn, very fine and better (8) £360-£440 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 2 January 1950. James Lambie was born in Brixton, London, on 22 March 1897. An accountant by profession, he initially attested for the 26th (Bankers) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, but was later appointed to a commission with the 7th (Extra Reserve) Battalion on 26 March 1917. Sent to France, he served with the Battalion as Acting Captain and Adjutant before transfer to the 2/4th Rajputs, Indian Army, on 13 May 1918. Posted from the Western Front to India, Lambie later transferred to the 67th Punjabis and was involved in operations against the Tochi, Wana Wazirs and Mahsub tribes who had been steadily causing problems for British rule since the end of the Third Afghan War in 1919; in the 1921-24 operations in North and South Waziristan, the Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan districts, the 67th Punjabis were involved in garrison duties, road protection and guard picquets. Moving to Manzai, the troops spent many hours protecting the new road link between North and South Waziristan from marauding Mahsud and Bhittani tribesmen. Possibly tired of ground operations in mountainous lands, Lambie transferred to the Royal Air Force on 7 December 1925 and was commissioned Flying Officer in the accountancy branch. Promoted Flight Lieutenant 1 August 1934, he was sent to North Weald on 18 January 1937 and was still there in 1939. As home to 56 and 151 Fighter Squadrons, North Weald soon attracted the attention of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. The Airfield Museum offers a good insight as to those events: ‘The first major raids on R.A.F. North Weald took place on the afternoon of 24th August [1940], when more than 200 bombs fell. At around 4.30pm German bombers and fighters, harassed by the defending R.A.F. Hurricanes, headed for the airfield at around 15,000 feet and proceeded to drop bombs “in a straight line through the western part of the village across the Epping to Ongar road” before hitting the airfield. The officer’s mess, the officer’s and airman’s married quarters, a powerhouse and other facilities were damaged. In North Weald High Road, the old Post Office, a cottage opposite the King’s Head and the Woolpack Pub was wrecked.’ Promoted Temporary Wing Commander September 1941, Lambie was posted to Burma and witnessed operations against the Japanese. Raised Wing Commander in 1947, he was awarded the O.B.E. in the New Year’s Honours List of January 1950, before retirement as Group Captain on 1 July 1950. Sold with copied research.

Pair: Private J. Weeding, 90th Light Infantry (Perthshire Volunteers) South Africa 1834-53 (J. Weeding. 90th. Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 2nd issue, large letter reverse (1210 Pt. Joseph. Weeding. 90. L.I.) depot impressed naming, edge bruising, nearly very fine (2) £300-£400 --- Joseph Weeding, a labourer by trade, attested at Hitchen for the 90th Light Infantry on 20 January 1836, aged 19 years. Posted overseas to Ceylon and the Cape of Good Hope, he fought in the second campaign of 1846-47 against the uprising of the Gaika Kaffirs under Chief Sandilli. Remaining as Private and the recipient of four good conduct badges, Weeding was discharged from the Colours at Chatham on 13 January 1857 after almost 21 years of military service. His Army Service Record, adds: ‘chronic rheumatism & general debility through long service and exposure in the service.’ Sold with copied service record which notes his intended place of residence as South Hill, Biggleswade.

Pair: Private A. Marshall, Royal Army Medical Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (9415 Pte. A. Marshall. R.A.M.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (9415 Pte. A. Marshall. R.A.M.C.) edge nicks and light contact marks, very fine (2) £120-£160

A scarce ‘double issue’ India General Service group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel A. A. Smith, 2/151st Native Infantry, late 58th Vaughan’s Rifles (Frontier Force) and 5th Punjab Infantry, Indian Army, who was wounded at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle on 12 March 1915, and was later Mentioned in Despatches India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1901-2 (Lieutt. A. A. Smith 5th. Pjb Infy); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (Captn. A. A. Smith - 58th. Rifles.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. A. A. Smith, 58/Rfls. F.F.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. A. A. Smith.); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1919-21 (Lt. Col. A. A. Smith 2-151 Infy.) last officially re-impressed, mounted for wear, generally very fine and better (6) £700-£900 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 22 January 1919. Alfred Aquila Smith was born on 2 January 1877, the eldest son of Dublin-born civil servant Vincent Arthur Smith, C.I.E, Indian Civil Service, in Allahabad, Bengal. Educated at Cheltenham College, he was commissioned in the 4th (Militia) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment in February 1896 and transferred to a Regular Army in December 1897, being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the East Lancashire Regiment. Posted to the 2nd Battalion then serving in India, he was appointed to the Indian Staff Corps in February 1901 and attached to the 5th Bombay (Light) Infantry. He was subsequently appointed to 5th Punjab Infantry on 18 October 1901. At the time Smith joined the regiment it was engaged in a series of punitive expeditions against the Darwesh Khel Wazirs and Mahsuds of Waziristan which lasted up to February 1902, for which the clasp ‘Waziristan 1901-2’ was awarded. The following year the 5th Punjab Infantry became 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force). Promoted Captain on 1 December 1906, Smith took part in the punitive operations in Mohmand country in 1908 and was present at the engagement at Kargha. In 1914 the 58th Rifles was stationed at Chaman on the border of Afghanistan, which served as an important trade point in the Baluchistan region. The Regiment was mobilised in August 1914 and Captain Smith was appointed to command the depot, along with Lieutenant J. O. Nicholls, which was then temporarily based at Chaman with the plan to move the depot to Multan shortly afterwards. He was sent to France to rejoin his unit in December 1914. There Smith witnessed the Indian Corps in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle; in misty conditions on 12 March 1915, the Germans launched a half-hearted assault which was easily repulsed at a cost of 70 Prisoners of War. According to the History of the 5th Battalion Smith was wounded during the engagement, alongside 11 Indian ranks killed. Marched back to billets in Paradis, the survivors later fought at Aubers Ridge before transferring to Egypt and then Palestine. Promoted Major, Smityh subsequently rejoined the battalion on 6 December 1917: ‘The 58th Rifles, now, on December 10th, received orders to join the 232nd Brigade then at Jimsu, where it arrived the same day after a march across a roadless, rain-sodden country, and on the 11th the 75th Division advanced its front to the line Midieh - Kh. Hamid - Budrus - Sheik Obeid Rahil in the XXIst Corps area, meeting with slight opposition in the process. On this day “C” Company under major A. A. Smith - who had only rejoined a few days previously from command of the regimental depot at Multan - supported a company of the 4th Devons in the capture of the Khurbat Zebdah Ridge, then passing through and taking Khurbat Hamid, after a short fight in which one man was killed and two wounded... On December 15th the Regiment was on the left of the Brigade in the storming of the very steep Khurbat Ibanneh position, taking prisoner 2 officers and 11 men; the casualties in the 58th from the 1st to 31st were 4 men killed and 18 wounded, whilst the captures totalled 3 officers, 25 men and one machine gun (ibid).’ Smith was promoted acting Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1918 and left the regiment to take over command of the 2nd Battalion, 151st Infantry, a newly raised infantry battalion. On 10 June, the 2nd Battalion, 151st Infantry joined the 29th Brigade, 10th (Irish) Division and remained with the division for the rest of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, taking part in the Battle of Nablus (19–21 September 1918). Mentioned in Despatches for his services during the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Smith returned with his unit to India in early February 1919; there they were mobilised for service in the the Third Afghan War, forming part of the Thal Relief Column. Smith relinquished command on 10 June 1919 and the battalion was disbanded on 31 July 1920. He retired from the Indian Army on 3 June 1921 and died on in Chiswick, Middlesex, on 14 July 1930. Sold with extensive copied research.

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (5615055. Pte. C. E. Wright. Devon. R.) extremely fine, scarce to unit £180-£220 --- Approximately 32 Palestine clasps awarded to the 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, all to other ranks attached to the 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Charles Edward Wright was born in Peckham, London, in 1907. A butcher by occupation, he attested at London for the Devonshire Regiment on 26 April 1927. Posted to the 2nd Battalion he served at home until transferred to Section ‘B’ Army Reserve in 1934. Mobilised at Exeter on 6 September 1936, he was posted to the 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, on 9 September 1936, and embarked for Palestine on 18 September 1936. Returning to the U.K. he was re-transferred to the Army Reserve on 14 December 1936 and was finally discharged on 25 April 1939. He died in Chard, Somerset on 17 January 2005, aged 98. Sold with copied research.

Meeanee Hyderabad 1843 (Drumr. John Long, 22nd. Regt.) officially engraved naming, fitted with a contemporary silver clip and straight bar suspension, heavy edge bruising, very fine £500-£700 --- John Long was born near Dublin in April 1813 and attested at Manchester for the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot on 23 April 1832. A shoemaker by trade, he initially served over a year as Private before being appointed Drummer on 1 October 1833. Repeatedly raised and disrated, his Army Service Record notes that he went absent without leave from 31 May 1839 to 24 June 1839; recorded prisoner from 25 June, he was Regimentally Court Martialled and spent six weeks in the cells. Restored to Private, Long repeated his actions in 1840 and was incarcerated again; released 28 April 1840, he once more deserted on 4 May 1840 for three weeks. Released and restored to Private on 27 August 1840, Long was raised Drummer on 1 July 1841 and sent to India with his Regiment during the Scinde Campaign. Present at the Battles of Meeanee and Hyderabad, he further served in the Campaign in Southern Mahratta from 1844-45. Four years later - on 13 June 1849 - Long appeared before a Garrison Court Martial for habitual drunkenness, but was released in the rank of Drummer on the following 27 July. This was his last collision with authority and his service remained ‘good’ until discharge at Rawul Pindi on 27 September 1852. Returned to military hospital at Chatham, his medical records note chronic rheumatism and general deterioration. Sold with copied service record.

Pair: Private O. C. Hedge, Scots Guards Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Wittebergen, Belfast (6989 Pte. O. C. Hedge, Scots G..) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (6989 Pte. O. Hedge, Scots Guards) edge bruising and heavy contact marks that has partially obscured naming, therefore fine (2) £140-£180 --- Owen Charles Hedge was born in Benger, Hertford. A Groom by occupation, he attested for the Scots Guards at London on 6 November 1885, aged 19 years, 7 months. With the Guards, he served in South Africa from March 1900 to October 1902, and was discharged on 5 November 1906, after 21 years’ service. As an ‘Army Pensioner’ he died on 7 January 1949. Sold with copied service papers, medal roll extracts, and death certificate.

Honourable East India Company Medal for Seringapatam 1799, silver-gilt, 48mm, Soho Mint, a magnificent example mounted in a contemporary frame with integral florally engraved rings for suspension from a large rectangular bar inscribed ‘SERINGAPATAM’, fitted with four pronged ornately engraved ribbon brooch buckle, nearly extremely fine £1,000-£1,400 --- Provenance: Engraved illustration of this medal in Tancred’s Historical Record of Medals (1891): ‘Taken from a photograph of the Medal presented to Major Arthur Gibbings.’ Arthur Gibbings, Madras Establishment: ‘This officer, after passing through the different gradations of military rank, attained that of Lieut.-Col. in the army, 10th Dec. 1800; and was appointed Lieut.-Col. 3d Native Infantry, 13th Jan. 1800. His services commenced in India, in the year 1777, and terminated after the Mysore campaign, in 1800, in which latter year he was compelled to return to Europe for the re-establishment of a constitution impaired to excess, the natural consequence of severe trials encountered during a period of thirteen years’ service in the field, and various parts of India; and which finally obliged him, in May 1803, to retire from the service.’ (The East India Military Calendar refers).

Pair: Major Robert Marsh, 24th Foot, who was wounded at Nivelle in November 1813; he afterwards served in the Nepaul campaign of 1815-16 and the Mahratta war of 1817-18 Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes (R. Marsh, Ensn. 24th Foot); Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Nepaul (Lieut. R. Marsh, 24th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, both with original ribbons but the latter rather frayed and distressed, attractively toned, extremely fine (2) £5,000-£7,000 --- Provenance: Morton & Eden, November 2017. Robert Marsh was born on 15 September 1795, at Hoveton St. John, Norfolk. He joined the British Army at the age of 16, being commissioned as an Ensign in the 24th Foot on 31 October 1811. Taking part in the fighting in Spain and France during the latter stages of the Peninsula War, he saw action at Vittoria, in the Pyrenees, at Echalar, at Nivelle, where he was slightly wounded on 10 November 1813, and at Orthes. For his wound he appears not to have received any allowance, for reasons unknown. He continued to serve in the Nepaul during the campaign of 1815-16, being present at Harriapore on 1 March 1816. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 13 February 1817, having also taken part in the Mahratta War of 1817-18, and was latterly promoted to Captain on 14 April 1829. Serving in Canada, he was present during a trial of rebels' in Montreal on 21 November 1838, and was later promoted to Major on 3 April 1846. Living into old age, he retired to Erpingham, Norfolk, and was recorded as being amongst the very last survivors of the Battle of Vittoria on 27 June 1883, on the occasion of the battle's 70th anniversary.

Pair: Brigade Quartermaster Sergeant R. Mullen, Royal Horse Artillery, late Madras Artillery, Indian Army Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Serjt. Robt. Mullen, D Tp. He. Bde. Madras Arty.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R. (464, Qr. Mr. Serjt. R. Mullen, D. Bde. R.H.A.) very fine (2) £400-£500 --- Robert Mullen was born in the Parish of Annis, Dublin, Ireland, in March 1827. A clerk, he attested at Dublin for the Honourable East India Company, serving as Gunner with the Madras Artillery from 5 January 1847 to 27 June 1848. Transferred to the Horse Brigade on 28 November 1848, Mullen was promoted Corporal on 24 January 1855, Drill Sergeant on 3 October 1855, and Sergeant on 20 August 1856. Re-engaged for a period of 12 years at Secunderabad on 5 March 1860, he volunteered for the British Army on 15 May 1861 and served as Battery Quartermaster Sergeant with ‘D’ Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, from 14 April 1863. His Army Service Record notes forfeiture of pay and awaiting trial in April 1866, reason unclear, before final discharge on 27 July 1875. Sold with four sporting medals: white metal fob, engraved to obverse ‘S. J. C. Tennis Singles 1923’; hallmarked silver medal, engraved ‘S.J.C.’ to obverse, and ‘C. Mullen. Batting Average 1923’ to reverse; white metal medallion with small ring suspension, ‘Presented to H. F Shaboodeen Army Contractor 1925’; large white metal medallion with small ring suspension, ‘Spencer Hockey Cup 1925’; and copied research.

An unattributed group of fourteen miniature dress medals Military Cross, G.V.R.; Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R.; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, Abu Klea, The Nile 1884-85; India General Service 1854-95, 5 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Chin-Lushai 1889-90, Burma 1885-7 [sic], Samana 1891, Waziristan 1894-5; India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98; China 1900, no clasp; Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse; British War and Victory Medals; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919; Coronation 1937; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue; Khedive’s Star, dated 1884-6, mounted for display, generally very fine (14) £180-£220

Three: Colour-Sergeant John Jefferies, 40th Regiment Candahar Ghuznee Cabul 1842 (Serjt. John Jeffries Her M’s 40th Regt.) naming engraved in running script, fitted with steel clip and replacement silver bar suspension; Maharajpoor Star 1843 (Serjt. John Jefferies H.M. 40th Regt.) fitted with adapted silver bar suspension with engraved decoration and inscribed ‘J. Jefferies’; Army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R., dated ‘1847’ on edge (Color Serjt John Jefferies 40th Regt. 1847) the last with obverse brooch marks, naming detail weak in parts on the first and last, pitting overall, therefore good fine (3) £1,400-£1,800 --- Provenance: Glendining’s, November 1956; Ian McInnes Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2003. Only 107 M.S.M.s of the first issue were awarded with the edge dated 1847, this one being unique to the 40th Foot.

John Jefferies (often Jeffries) was born at Sudbury, Suffolk, in 1806, and was attested for the 40th Foot at Colchester on 15 November 1825, aged 19 years. He joined his regiment in Tasmania, or Van Dieman’s Land as it was then called, where he remained for almost two years before they were posted to Belgaum, in the Bombay Presidency of India. Promoted to Corporal in 1833 and to Sergeant in 1834, Jefferies saw his first active service from 183 to 1843 in Baluchistan, Afghanistan, and lower and upper Scinde, culminating in the battle of Maharajpoor on 29 December 1843. He was promoted to Colour-Sergeant in 1844 and sailed for England in 1845. He was by now suffering from chronic hepatitis and rheumatism, which caused him to be discharged on 22 December 1846. His papers were signed by Lieutenant-Colonel George Hibbert, the last of the officers of the 40th who had fought at Waterloo, and it was he who recommended Jefferies for the M.S.M. in March 1847. Jefferies received his M.S.M. on 3 December of that year, together with an annuity of £10, and died circa 1875. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research.

Candahar Ghuznee Cabul 1842, with three unofficial clasps to riband, Cabul, Ghuznee, Candahar (Edward King Elliot Lieut. 43rd. Regt. Bengl. Lt. Infy.) contemporary engraved naming in serif capitals, fitted with with original steel clip and replacement swivelling straight bar suspension, with period top pin brooch, very fine £700-£900 --- Edward King Elliot served as Interpreter and Quartermaster in the 43rd Bengal Native Infantry. His obituary, published in the Bombay Gazette on 10 April 1865, states: ‘Colonel Elliot While announcing, with sincere regret, the death, at Nusseerabad, on the 27th instant, of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward King Elliot, of the Bengal Staff Corps, Agent to the Governor-General for the State of Rajpootana, we deem it best a duty to record our tribute to the memory of one in whose lamented demise the Government of India has lost a faithful servant. The distinguished officer entered the army in 1829, and was posted to the late 43rd N.I. At the early age of nineteen he was appointed to the staff of his regiment, and served with it at the commencement of the Afghan war. He evinced talents and energy which soon attracted notice, and was nominated as Assistant to Sir Henry Rawlinson, in a political capacity, at Candahar. On the conclusion of that memorable campaign Lieutenant Elliot was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Saugor, and served as such for many years under the late Sir William Sleeman, who regarded him as one of his most valuable officers. At the period referred to, the Saugor and Nerbudda Territories were much under officered; incessant and laborious duties consequently devolved upon the commission. Privilege leave was considered out of the question, and then it was that Colonel Elliot contracted that fatal disease to which half his life-time he has been a martyr, and to which after a wearyingly painful illness, borne with fortitude and christian patience, he has at length succumbed. From Deputy Commissioner of Saugor, he rose successively to become Judicial Commissioner, Commissioner of Nagpore, and, upon the amalgamation of the Saugor and Nerbudda Territories, Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces. During an incumbency of twenty years in these important appointments, it cannot be supposed that Colonel Elliot escaped the criticisms of the Press, but latterly many unfounded statements were made against him... The crowning fact of his promotion to the States of Rajpootana speaks volumes in his favour. Colonel Elliot, after a life devoted to the service, has died a poor man. During his short sojourn in Rajpootana he, by kindness and consideration, has endeared himself to all with whom he was thrown in contact. They respected him as a public man, and could not but esteem him as a friend.’ The recipient’s son later became Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Locke Elliot. He fought in the Second Afghan War and later served in Burma, Egypt, and in South Africa during the Boer War.

Meeanee 1843 (Wm. Costello. 22nd. Regt.) officially engraved naming, fitted with original steel clip and straight bar suspension, nearly very fine £600-£800 --- Provenance: Colonel Murray Collection, Glendining’s, May 1926. William Costello was born in the town of Birr, Co. Offaly, Ireland, in March 1819. An illiterate labourer, he enlisted for the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot on 22 March 1838 for a bounty of £3. Posted to India and placed under the command of General Sir James Napier, G.C.B., Costello fought at the battle of Meeanee against the Baloch Army of the Talpurs of Sindh on 17 February 1843; a resounding victory for the Bombay Army of the East India Company, the Imperial Gazetteer of India later reported five thousand Balochs killed or wounded on the battlefield. A British journal said of the captive Sindhi Amirs: ‘The Amirs as being the prisoners of the state are maintained in strict seclusion; they are described as broken-hearted and miserable men, maintaining much of the dignity of fallen greatness, and without any querulous or angry complainings at this unallevable source of sorrow, refusing to be comforted.’ Awarded the battle honour ‘Meeanee’ the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment remained in India and later fought at Hyderabad - an action which resulted in the Amirs of that place being exiled to the Andaman Islands upon the conclusion of the conflict. Briefly consigned as prisoner from 7 to 19 April 1848, reason unknown, Costello was discharged at Karachi on 15 November 1849, unfit for further service. His Army Service Record notes ‘impaired vision, deafness and general bad health’ caused by climate and scrophulous diathesis not aggravated by vice or misconduct. Frequently in hospital in Bombay from November 1848, Costello returned to England and spent a further 34 days under army medical supervision at Chatham. Sold with copied service record and private research.

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private A. Mitchell, 16th Battalion (Queen’s Westminster Rifles), London Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (553903 Pte. A. Mitchell. 16/Lond: R.); British War and Victory Medals (7546 Pte. A. Mitchell. 16-Lond. R.) very fine (3) £240-£280 --- M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919. Alfred Mitchell was born in 1889 and lived in Bermondsey prior to being called up for service with the 16th London Regiment on 16 November 1916. A fish fryer by trade, he was sent to Buckingham Gate for training as a Lewis gunner, and posted overseas to Salonika with the 2/16th Battalion on 2 February 1917. Disembarked 19 February 1917, he later served in Egypt from 21 June 1917 to 17 June 1918, and France from 18 June 1918 to 4 November 1918; wounded at duty on 14 September 1918 and again, two months later, with an injury to his finger, he crossed the Channel to England and was transferred to the Army Reserve on 18 March 1919. His Army Service Record confirms his home address at the time as 98 Long Lane, London, S.E.1.

Five: Private A. Southwell, Royal Army Pay Corps, late 8th Battalion (90th Regiment) Canadian Infantry 1914-15 Star (438117 Pte. A. Southwell. 8/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals (438117 Pte. A. Southwell. 8-Can. Inf.) ‘Victory’ officially re-impressed; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, unnamed as issued; together with Silver War Badge (C16551) and a mounted set of five miniature dress medals, fine and better (7) £120-£160 --- A. Southwell, 8th Battalion Canadian Infantry, was born in 1896 and was wounded in the right thigh during 1916 and subsequently discharged. He joined the R.A.P.C. on 29 August 1939, but was discharged on 9 April 1940 being physically unfit. Sold with original Certificate of Discharge from the Royal Army Pay Corps and a named Borough of Bexley card to accompany the Defence Medal.

A Prussian Feldmutze. A good upper size, possibly 56 or 57 field grey feldmutze. Standard material, red piping to the crown with red centre band. Both large size Prussian and State cockades fitted. Some moth damage but generally good nap to the cloth with faint traces of its army group markings, which appear to be Army Group 7 or 8 with faint traces of a date of ‘1917 just about visible, generally good condition £180-£220 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (16868 Pte. J. W. Venters. R.A.M.C.) good very fine £80-£100 --- John Venters was born un Wemyss, Fife, in 1879 and attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps at Edinburgh on 26 December 1901. He served in South Africa during the Boer War from 22 February to 13 September 1902, and was discharged on 16 September 1902, after 265 days’ service. Sold with copied record of service.

Four: attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel A. W. Wallace-Turner, Royal Army Service Corps 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, together with named card box of issue addressed to ‘Lt Col. A. W. Wallace-Turner, Ripley Grange, Hartley Wintney, Hants.’; together with the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted, good very fine Four: attributed to H. A. Prismall 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in named card box of issue addressed to ‘H. A. Prismall Esq., 10 The Mount, Christchurch Road, Reading’, very fine Three: attributed to Driver C. Millar, Royal Artillery and Royal Army Service Corps 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; together with eleven photographs taken from the recipient’s service in Italy, good very fine Pair: attributed to Ordinary Seaman J. Millar, Royal Navy, who died in the Faroe Islands on 13 February 1942 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; together with two photographs of the recipient and a memorial card, good very fine Pair: attributed to Lance Bombardier A. Fisher, Royal Field Artillery Defence and War Medals 1939-45; together with the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Skill at Arms Record Book; R.A.A. Benevolent Fund subscription card and additional paperwork, very fine Pair: attributed to F. Frost Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr. F. Frost, 87 Woodstock Way, Mitcham, Surrey’, good very fine (17) £100-£140 --- Alfred Wallace Wallace-Turner was born on 23 May 1898 and was appointed Second Lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps in in December 1939. Advanced Major on 6 March 1945, he was discharged shortly thereafter with the rank of honorary Lieutenant-Colonel. James Millar, a native of Roslin, Midlothian, served as an Ordinary Seaman in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. He died in the Faroe Islands on 13 February 1942, whilst borne on the books of H.M.S. Pyramus, and is buried in Torshavn Cemetery, Faroe Islands. Arthur Fisher was born on 30 May 1920 and enlisted for the Royal Artillery at Fareham on 23 February 1938. Posted to the Hampshire Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery, on 25 March 1940, he served at home for the entire duration of the War.

Waterloo 1815 (Geo. Holland, Drummer, 2nd Batt. 73rd Reg. Foot.) fitted with original steel clip and replacement ring suspension, edge bruising, wear to high relief parts, nearly very fine £1,000-£1,400 --- George Holland attested for the 73rd Regiment of Foot and served in Captain Kennedy’s Company during the Waterloo Campaign, 16-18 June 1815. The 2nd Battalion of the 73rd Regiment of Foot formed part of Major-General Halkett's Brigade in Lieutenant-General Alten's 3rd Division during the 100 days campaign. The battalion fought at the battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815, loosing 53 officers and men killed and wounded. At the battle of Waterloo on 18 June, the regiment was charged by French Cavalry no fewer than 11 times during the battle and was bombarded by French artillery. It remained in square without breaking but he battalion lost 17 officers and 222 men killed and wounded during the battle, along with about 40 missing. Of the 563 Officers and men of the 73rd who took part in the Waterloo campaign, 336 became casualties; this casualty rate of 60% was among the highest rate suffered by any Regiment during the campaign. The 73rd later formed part of the Army of Occupation in Paris before moving back to England in December 1815.

Five: Corporal A. Faith, Parachute Regiment, a former member of the ‘Red Devils’ parachute display team General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24791126 Pte A Faith Para); N.A.T.O. Medal 1994, no clasp; Operational Service Medal 2000, for Afghanistan, 1 clasp, Afghanistan (24791126 Cpl A Faith Para); Jubilee 2002, unnamed as issued; Accumulated Campaign Service Medal 1994 (24791126 L Cpl A Faith Para (Replacement)) court mounted for wear, the last an official replacement, slight edge dig to first medal, very fine (5) £600-£800 --- Aaron Faith attested in the Parachute Regiment on 18 December 1986, qualifying as an Army Parachutist on 15 September 1987. He served with the 1st Battalion in Northern Ireland in Co. Armagh, from 18 July to 30 November 1988 and afterwards qualified as a USA Army Parachutist on 16 April 1989, before returning with his battalion to Northern Ireland for a further tour from 20 February 1991. He later served with the 2nd Battalion as part of 16 Air Assault Brigade, in Macedonia, in 2001. Faith qualified as a Free Fall Parachutist, with descents, in August 1992, and was awarded Specialist Parachute Pay in April 2006, and advanced Sergeant on 1 October 2007. A member of the Red Devils parachute display team, and an Instructor at the Joint Services Parachute Course, he was discharged with the following appraisal on 4 March 2012: 'He has proved a steadfast instructor and has been responsible for the delivery of the two annual advanced parachute courses. He is a world class athlete and is one of only two people to win gold in both four-way and eight-way teams in the same year at the National Parachuting Championships.' He continued parachuting in civilian life, with Skydivemag.com giving the following profile: 'Aaron Faith is a passionate British skydiver and a former member of Satori 4-way team. Almost from the beginning he was hooked on competition skydiving and he followed his dream competing in both 4-way and 8-way. In 2007 Aaron and Julia Foxwell (now Swallow) decided to form Satori team which won many Nationals along the years. In 2012 Satori won the bronze medal at the World Cup in the Czech Republic, which was the first medal for an open British team since 1979. Aaron is currently based in Bahrain working as a military skydiving instructor.' Sold together with copied Army Certificate of Service and photographs from the recipient’s career.

Nine: Captain W. F. Horton, Royal Berkshire Regiment General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, N.W. Persia, Palestine (5329570 Pte. W. F. Horton. R. Berks. R.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (5329570 Sjt. W. F. Horton R. Berks. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (5329570 W.O.Cl.II W. F. Horton R. Berks. R.) the G.V.R. awards polished and worn, these fine, the G.VI.R. awards good very fine (9) £200-£240 --- William Frederick Horton attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment in 1920 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 6 August 1943. He died at Caversham on 21 November 1947.

Pair: Colonel J. M. Cripps, 26th Regiment Light Infantry Cabul 1842, unnamed as issued, fitted with original steel clip and bar suspension; Sutlej 1845-46, for Moodkee 1845, 2 clasps, Ferozeshuhur, Sobraon (Lieut: J: M: Cripps 26th Regt L:I:) very fine (2) £1,000-£1,400 --- The 26th Bengal Native Infantry was designated Light Infantry for its services in Afghanistan under General Pollock. The regiment mutinied at Meean Meer on 30 July 1857. John Matthew Cripps was appointed Ensign on 11 December 1839; Lieutenant on 16 July 1842; Captain on 1 September 1850; Major, Bengal Staff Corps, on 18 February 1861; Lieutenant-Colonel on 11 December 1865; and Brevet Colonel on 11 December 1870. Lieutenant Cripps served throughout the campaign in Afghanistan with the Army under General Pollock (Medal); and also that on the Sutlej, including the actions of Moodkee, Ferozeshuhur, and Sobraon (Medal and Clasps). He was afterwards Deputy Commissioner 1st Class in the Punjab, Jullundur Division.

A post-War B.E.M. group of four awarded to Captain N. Priestley, Royal Army Ordnance Corps British Empire Medal, (Military) E.II.R. (10596505 A/W.O. Cl.2. Norman Priestley, R.A.O.C.); War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (10596505 W.O. Cl.2. N. Priestley. R.A.O.C.); General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, South Arabia (Capt. N. Priestley. B.E.M. RAOC.) mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s riband bar; and the related miniature awards for the first three medals, these similarly mounted, good very fine (4) £300-£400 --- B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1955. The original Recommendation, dated 7 July 1954, states: ‘At the end of 1953, expansion of the Ammunition Repair Factory’s activities caused a progressive increase in the production of repaired ammunition to the extent that the Repair Factory was no longer self-sufficient in the supply of serviceable packages. It became necessary to set up a separate organisation to satisfy this requirement and it was decided that a “Package Renovation Centre” should be created at a depot road transit area. Speed and efficiency of improvisation were essential pending the study and implementation of Works Services in order to maintain production. Early in 1954, a non commissioned officer was available to undertake the task of creating this special department, Warrant Officer Priestley being detailed to carry out the work under broad terms of reference, and in addition to his normal duties as an Ammunition Examiner. The task was formidable. The predicted delays in making provision for and obtaining equipment, and in planning and organising work and documentation procedures, foretold various interruption in the flow of serviceable ammunition. This was prevented, however, by the capable and energetic way in which Warrant Officer Priestley tackled the problem. He displayed admirable efficiency and with much determination, ingenuity, and pride of achievement, he brought about the start of production sufficiently early to alleviate a bottleneck in the flow of serviceable ammunition from the Repair Factory. Today the “Package Renovation Centre” is a smoothly-working and self-accounting sub-department. Works Services are not yet completed, but improvisation and self-help under the continued supervision of Warrant Officer Priestley have ensured continuity in the interim. It is anticipated that the “Package Renovation Centre” will supply all the needs of the Repair Factory, thus releasing the present Repair Factory packages facilities and labour for repair of ammunition.’ Norman Priestley was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on 31 August 1964. He was promoted Lieutenant on 21 July 1966, and Captain on 31 August 1966, and retired on 31 March 1972. Sold with the original named Buckingham Palace enclosure for the B.E.M.; and three letters of congratulations on the award, from General Sir Ouvry L. Roberts; Major-General W. W. Richards; and Major-General G. A. N. Swiney.

Three: Lieutenant P. G. Edwards, Devonshire Regiment and Royal Army Service Corps Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Lt. P. G. Edwards. Devon.) mounted as worn, the Defence and War Medals on the incorrect ribands, good very fine and better (3) £80-£100 --- Peter Glanville Edwards was born in Irby, Cheshire, in 1925. A Civil Engineer by occupation, he enlisted as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers on 19 October 1944, and served in India with the Royal Engineers until being granted an Emergency Commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment on 10 February 1946. Joining the 1st Battalion at Kluang, Malaya, on 29 March 1946 he served in Malaya and Hong Kong with the Devonshire Regiment until 25 September 1948. Returning home in October 1948, he was temporarily attached to the Royal Army Service Corps before being granted a Regular Commission in the Royal Army Service Corps on 23 July 1949; his subsequent career spent in Egypt, Home, and with the B.A.O.R. was chequered; twice subject to General Court Martial and twice found guilty he was called upon to retire May 1957. He died at Basingstoke on 27 September 1977, aged 52. Sold with copied service records; and other research.

Four: Private T. Cooke, 13th Regiment of Foot Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (T. Cooke, 13th. Foot.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming; Ghuznee 1839, reverse engraved in serif capitals ‘Thos. Cooke 13th. P.A.L.I.’, with original silver straight bar suspension; Defence of Jellalabad 1842, Mural Crown, reverse engraved in serif capitals ‘Thos. Cooke 13th. P.A.L.I.’, with original silver clip and straight bar suspension; 13th Foot Regimental Medal of Merit for 14 Years Good Conduct, silver, reverse engraved in running script ‘Lt. Col. Robt. H. Sale to Pvt Thomas Cooke’, good very fine (4) £1,800-£2,200 --- Thomas Cooke was born in the Parish of Stanton, Leicestershire, in 1798, and attested for the 17th Regiment of Foot on 17 September 1817. Posted to the East Indies on 17 July 1818, he volunteered for the 13th Foot on 19 November 1822 and served during the Burmese Campaigns of 1824, 1825, and 1826 (one of two men of this name from the 13th Foot on the Army of India Roll for the clasp Ava), and later with the Army of the Indus during the Campaigns of 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842. Present at the Storming of Ghuznee from 21 to 23 July 1839, Cooke witnessed the capture of the Fort and the restoration of the Shah of Afghanistan to his throne. He saw further action at the capture of the Forts of Tootim, Dumah and Gulgah in the Kohistan in 1840, and was present in several engagements in forcing the passes from Cabool to Jellalabad in 1841; and in the successful defence of the latter Fortress in 1841 and 1842 - which went a little way to restore the British reputation devastated by the Battles of Kabul and Gandamak. Placed under the command of Captain Vigirs, Cooke fought in the engagement at Jellalabad on 7 April 1842 - which cost the lives of three Privates of the 13th Foot. He spent a further two years attempting to contain the Afghans and Ghilzai tribesmen before setting sail for Gravesend on 30 September 1843, after 27 years of service in Calcutta, Ava, Berhampore, Dinapore, Kermaul, Agra and Afghanistan. Cook was finally discharged at Chatham ‘unfit for further service’ on 13 August 1844. Sold with copied service record and other research.

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel William Hough, Judge Advocate General of the Bengal Column, Army of the Indus, and author of A Narrative of the March and Operations of the Army of Indus in the Expedition to Afghanistan, 1838-1839, and several other works on Military Law Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Nepaul (Lieut. Wm. Hough, 8th Grenr. Battn.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming; Ghuznee 1839 (Major W. Hough, Dy. Judge Advte. Genl.) neatly engraved on the edge, original suspension, good very fine (2) £1,800-£2,200 --- Provenance: Glendining’s, June 1988. William Hough was born in London in 1789 and obtained a Cadetship in the East India Company’s Army in 1805. He arrived in India on 11 July 1806, and was posted to the Barasat Cadet College, near Calcutta. He was commissioned as an Ensign in the 24th Bengal Native Infantry on 7 August 1806, whilst still at Barasat, and promoted to Lieutenant in the same regiment in October 1808. In 1816, as a Lieutenant and holding the appointments of Interpreter and Quartermaster to the 8th Grenadier Battalion of the Bengal Army, he accompanied the expedition under Sir David Ochterlony into the Kingdom of Nepaul to subdue the Nepalese who were making repeated raids into Indian territory, in spit of treaties of friendship with Britain and a sharp lesson taught them by the East India Company’s Army the previous year. He was promoted to Captain in the 48th Bengal Native Infantry in 1826 and a year later obtained the extra-regimental employment of Acting Deputy Judge Advocate General of the Cawnpore Division. For the rest of his working life he is associated with the legal branch of the Army, which was almost entirely occupied by the day to day Courts martial at various levels. As early as 1821 he had written the first of his many books on military law, one of which - A case book of European and Native Courts Martial - ran to some 900 pages. In 1839 came the beginning of what was perhaps Hough's finest enterprise when he was appointed Deputy Judge Advocate General to no less than the Bengal portion of The Army of the Indus. This vast force, comprised of two of the East India Company's Presidency armies, joined together to march across the desert to Afghanistan. There, as has been succinctly stated, they were ‘to persuade the Afghans to become a bulwark against Persia, and Russia by arranging for them to be conquered by their hated enemies, The Sikhs, it being optimistically supposed that they would be reconciled to this fate by the appearance of their former king, Shah Shoojah, whom most of them despised as a failure and whom all of them believed to have been born under an unlucky star.’ Many books and diaries exist of this war, which ended in the total annihilation of the remnants of both armies three years later on their ignominious retreat from Kabul, but none cover the march into Afghanistan and the capture of Ghuznee in more detail than Major Hough's epic The March and Operations of the Army of the Indus, which was published nearly simultaneously in Calcutta and London in 1841. In 1840 after the thus-far-victorious army had settled down in Kabul, Hough was recalled to Calcutta and placed on the Invalid Establishment List. He retired in February 1850 and returned to England. His busy pen produced several law books during the years after his return form Afghanistan. He also wrote anonymously the most comprehensive history of the Bengal Army ever to appear. Unfortunately it appeared in the Englishman newspaper in Calcutta, an instalment at a time over several years and was never republished in book form. He was promoted to Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel on 28 November 1854, and died in London on 3 January 1865, aged 75. Sold with research including a most interesting article by A. G. Stone, Esq., O.B.E., giving a very detailed account of the military career of Lieutenant-Colonel William Hough, together with a first edition of his Campaign in Afghanistan.

Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, India (S-Serjt. C. F. J. Stofer, R.I.A.S.C.) edge bruise; together with Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, E.VII.R. (1133 Serjt: R. Gray. 1st Roxb: & Selkirk V.R.C.) last officially re-impressed, generally very fine (2) £60-£80 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

The unique C.B. and 5-clasp Army of India medal awarded to General E. F. Waters, Bengal Army, one of five European recipients of the clasp ‘Defence of Delhi’ The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1815, complete with wide swivel-ring suspension and gold ribbon buckle; Army of India 1799-1826, 5 clasps, Allighur, Battle of Delhi, Defence of Delhi, Nepaul, Ava (Major E. F. Waters, Commg. Dinagepore Battn.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, some old glue repairs to the centres and Lions and chips to both wreaths on the C.B., very fine, the second good very fine (2) £15,000-£20,000 --- Provenance: Glendining’s, May 1965. C.B. London Gazette 20 July 1838. Army of India medal is unique with these clasps, one of ten medals issued with five clasps; only five clasps for ‘Defence of Delhi’ were issued to European recipients, each with a unique combination of clasps: Sergeant J. Brown, Bengal Artillery - 5 clasps, Allighur, Laswarree, Defence of Delhi, Battle of Deig, Capture of Deig.
Riding Master C. J. Davis, 4th Light Cavalry - 4 clasps, Allighur, Defence of Delhi, Battle of Deig, Capture of Deig.
Lieutenant (later Major-General Sir, K.C.B.) Archibald Galloway, 14th N.I. - 2 clasps, Defence of Delhi, Capture of Deig.
Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-General Sir, K.C.B.) John Rose, 14th N.I. - 3 clasps, Allighur, Battle of Delhi, Defence of Delhi.
Major (later General, C.B.) Edmund F. Waters, 17th N.I., later commanding Dingapore Battalion - 5 clasps, Allighur, Battle of Delhi, Defence of Delhi, Nepaul, Ava. Edmund Frederick Waters was born in 1784 and entered the Bengal Army in 1799. His services are thus described in The East Indies Military Calendar, Vol. III, London 1826: ‘In 1799, this officer was appointed a Cadet: he arrived in India in 1800, and joined the army as an Ensign. In 1803, war was declared against the confederated. Mahratta princes, and the corps to which Ensign Waters belonged [2/17th N.I.] formed part of the grand army, under the personal command of Lord Lake. He served during the two campaigns, and was with the storming party that assaulted the strong fortress of Allyghur, which place was taken after two hours' severe exposure and fighting: he was also with the small force of 5000 men that defended Delhi, under the late Major-General Burne, in 1804-5. In 1804, he had obtained the rank of Lieutenant; and in 1805, he was appointed to a regimental Staff situation, which he held till 1814, when he vacated it on his promotion to the rank of Captain. In the interim, he served with his regiment, and was on service against the Goorkahs in the Nepaul war. In 1821, he was appointed to the command of a frontier battalion, and in 1825, obtained his majority. In 1824, war was declared against the Burmese empire, and Major Waters was destined to act with his battalion in the division of the army, commanded by Brigadier Alfred Richards, that has conquered the petty kingdom of Assam. In the 2d campaign of the Burmese war, Major Waters was detached, with the disposable part of his battalion, from the main force, and for his exertions and services on this occasion, he received the thanks of the highest military authorities. Major Waters, with the head-quarters of the Dinagepoor battalion, amounting, in effective strength, to about 250 men, and a brigade of gun-boats, mounting pounder cannonades, quitted the post of Gowahutty on the 19th Oct., for the purpose of surprising and dislodging the enemy on the line of the river Kullung, and of occupying the position of Raha Chokey, a centrical point, keeping in check the main body of the enemy stockaded at Noagong, and also commanding the mountain passes leading from Cachar. On the second day the division arrived at the mouth of the Kullung, at its confluence with the Sonage and the Brahmaputra, distant from Gowahutty about 15 miles; and the following day, with the advantage of a favourable wind, passed the deserted post of Kejleechokey, and overtook the advanced party, under Lieut. Jones, of the 46th regiment, temporarily attached to the command (60 men). For many succeeding days the progress of the division was extremely slow and tedious, owing to the rapidity of the current, in a channel peculiarly winding and tortuous, and the nature of the banks, which were overgrown with high and impervious reed jungle, and did not admit of the usual mode of tacking. On the 26th, the division reached the village of Jaghee, now nearly depopulated; and about that time Major Waters received intelligence of a party of the enemy being stationed at a village inland, called Hautgong, or Sautgong, where they were committing plunder and ravage upon the surrounding district. On the following morning, the division passed the deserted village, and the same evening reached a point of the river opposite the village of More Kullung, from whence the road to Hautgong branched off, and reported to be a distance of eight or nine miles. In consequence of confirmed intelligence of the strength and position of the enemy's party, Major Waters determined on giving them an alert; and disembarked at midnight with one hundred men for that purpose: after marching (officers, as well as men, on foot) for about four miles, they reached the village of More Kullung on the edge of a broad and deep jeel, which the detachment crossed by rafts. At this time there commenced heavy rain, which continued, with little intermission, during the whole of the march. The road, for the first ten miles, was practicable, and though occasionally passing through tracts partly inundated, did not generally offer much difficulty. The distance, however, proved to be nearly double that previously estimated; and, in addition, the fatigue was much increased by the nature of the country, the last eight miles being through rice-fields, almost entirely knee, and sometimes waist, deep in water. The heavy rain and mist, however, aided the surprises and the detachment arrived, at about 8 o'clock, unperceived, on the enemy's position, into which it immediately dashed: The slaughter, however, was comparatively small, owing to the numerous outlets from the village favouring the escape of the enemy, and the depth of the surrounding jungle: many Burmese fell, and some women and plunder were captured in returning from the pursuit. The former were released, on being claimed by their families. By following mistaken information, the detachment, on its return to the fleet, experienced added fatigue and difficulty in a bad and circuitous route, and did not reach the boats till the following morning, having been compelled to bivouac in a small village for the night. The distance traversed cannot be estimated at less than from thirty-five to forty miles. On the 30th, the division resumed its progress up the Kullung, meeting with rather more favourable ground for tacking, and less strength of current, though in a channel equally devious and winding. Major Waters, of course, deemed that the knowledge of his advance upon Raha Chokey could no longer be concealed from the enemy, after the alarm excited by the attack on Hautgong; but on approaching that post, he had reason to believe that their attention had rather been diverted to the line of the great river, in which Major Cooper was then proceeding; and that they attributed the alert to a detachment from that quarter. He, in consequence, made arrangements for surprising them; and having pushed in, with a party of 200 men in the gun and light boats, landed a little below their post at Raha Chokey, and sueceeded in reaching it, unperceived, by early day-break. Major Waters, having taken a rapid view of the place, divided his party into two,...

Twelve: Subadar F. Sher, Frontier Force Regiment, Pakistan Army, late Indian Army Pakistan, Tamgha-I-Khidmat, Second Class neck badge, silver and enamel; Sitara-I-Harb 1965 (PJO-190102 Sub Fateh Sher FFR); Sitara-I-Harb 1971, unnamed; General Service Medl, 1 clasp, Dir-Bajaur 196-62, unnamed; War Medal 1965; War Medal 1971; Pakistan Independence Medal 1947 (3438680 L/Hav Fateh Sher 12.F.F.R.); Republic Day Medal 1956, unnamed; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal, very fine and better (12) £80-£100 --- Fateh Sher attested for the Indian Army on 12 June 1940. A Muslim Punjabi of the Awan tribe, he served initially on the North West Frontier with the 7th Battalion, 12th Frontier Force Regiment. Raised Lance Naik 22 August 1943, his unit were soon posted to the 39th Training Division near Dehra Dun for jungle training. Promoted Naik, he joined the 8th Battalion, 12th Frontier Force Regiment on 5 November 1944, and was sent to Burma in October 1944 as part of 19th (Dagger) Division. Following vicious fighting against Japanese forces, the 19th Division broke out from the Sittang Bridgehead with orders to take Pinlebu on 4 December 1944. A few days later, Sher and his comrades crossed the Irrawaddy to the north of Mandalay, facing repeated enemy counter attacks in the process. Mandalay fell to Allied forces on 20 March 1945 after 10 weeks of exceptionally heavy fighting, including the capture of Fort Dufferin. The 19th Division had not only cleared the Japanese from Mandalay, Maymio and a large area of Burma, but had also caused 6,000 casualties to the enemy. Promoted Havildar on 22 August 1945, Sher likely returned to Calcutta with the 8th Battalion in April 1946, before opting for service with the Army of Pakistan upon the partition of India on 15 August 1947. Sold with extensive copied research.

Family Group: Three: Gunner S. Dixon, Royal Artillery, late 50th Foot Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Seth Dickson. [sic] 50th. Queens) engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (130. Gunner. S. Dixon. R.M.A.); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, illegible engraved naming, pierced with ring suspension, brooch marks to reverse, otherwise very fine Pair: Sergeant W. Dixon, Royal Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (L-12503 Sgt. W. Dixon. R. Fus.) these both somewhat later issues, contact marks, nearly very fine Four: Attributed to Flight Lieutenant E. S. Dixon, Royal Air Force, Accountant Branch 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, unnamed as issued, some staining, nearly very fine (9) £280-£340 --- Seth Dixon attested into the 50th Foot and served in the Crimea. After his discharge, he later attested Royal Artillery on 2 March 1860, aged 26 years. Serving in England, Gibraltar, Halifax, Nova Scotia and Bermuda, he was discharged on 19 December 1882 with very good character. His service papers refer to his earlier service with the 50th Foot with confirmation of the award of a Crimea pair. William Dixon, believed to be the grandson of Seth, attested into the Royal Fusiliers on 23 November 1900 and served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 4th Battalion from 21 September 1914. Appointed Sergeant, he was discharged as a consequence of his wounds on 18 July 1918 and was awarded a Silver War Badge No. 429,468. The award of a clasp to his 1914 Star is confirmed and his Great War pair were returned and later reissued on 6 October 1940. Eric Seth Dixon, believed to be the son of William, was commissioned into the Royal Air Force for service during the Second War and served with the Accountant Branch. For his services during the Second World War he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 1 January 1945). Sold together with copied service papers and copied research.

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Edwd. Henderson, 71st. Highd. L.I.) contact marks, nearly very fine £200-£240 --- Edward Henderson was born in Kirkcaldy in 1829 and attested for the 71st Regiment of Foot at Edinburgh on 16 February 1847. Initially sent to the Reserve Battalion in Toronto, he served with No. 1 Company in the Crimea and the expedition to Kertch and Yenikete. Confirmed in his Army Service Record as awarded the Crimea Medal with clasp Sebastopol and the Turkish Crimea Medal, Henderson subsequently served during the suppression of the Indian Mutiny; posted to Mhow in 1858 under General Michael, he took part in the pursuit of the rebels under the celebrated leader Tantia Topee, being present at the actions at Rathghur, Mongrowlee, Sindwahs and Koorai. The 71st Foot later joined the Yusafzai Field Force in November 1863 and took part in a number of small actions around the Eagle’s Nest and Crag Picket; Henderson was subsequently awarded the India General Service Medal with clasp Umbeyla for service on the North-West Frontier during this period. Advanced Sergeant 9 October 1865, Henderson was discharged due to medical disability on 6 November 1867 after losing the sight in his left eye. He later became an umbrella maker and is recorded in the Fife Herald of 10 August 1871 as proprietor of a shop in Kirkcaldy High Street. Sold with copied service record and other research.

Pair: Private W. G. Carder, Devonshire Regiment Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (1642. Pte. W. G. Carder. Devon. R.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (200212 Pte. W. G. Carder. 4-Devon. R.) good very fine (2) £160-£200 --- William George Carder was born in the Parish of St. Thomas, Devon, on 6 August 1896. Recorded as an apprentice carpenter in 1911, he served during the Great War with the 4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, and was disembodied on 17 January 1920. He was later awarded the Territorial Army Efficiency Medal per Army Order No. 305 of 1922, and died at Topsham on 1 December 1962.

An O.B.E., D.C.M. group of ten miniature dress medals representative of those worn by Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Campbell, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, later Western Australian Volunteers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type badge, silver-gilt; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight of Grace’s breast badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles; Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R.; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir; British War Medal 1914-20; Jubilee 1897, silver; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse; Army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R.; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, mounted for display, nearly very fine and better (10) £160-£200 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1918. D.C.M. Recommendation submitted to the Queen 11 December 1886 (For gallantry at Tel-el-Kebir, 13 September 1882). Joseph Alexander Campbell was born at Dublin on 26 October 1842 and attested for the 79th Regiment of Foot on 8 August 1857, sailing for India on the same day. He served in the Mutiny at Fyzabad, Rampore and Oudh; 21 years later, in 1878, he was appointed Regimental Sergeant Major in the new rank of Warrant Officer. He was Mentioned in Despatches for his bravery at Tel-el-Kebir on 13 September 1882 and over four years later his name was submitted to Queen Victoria with a recommendation that he be granted a Distinguished Conduct Medal. In February 1884 Campbell was appointed Chief of the Instructional Staff, Western Australia, and was promoted to Chief Staff Officer in 1886. He was promoted again to Captain in 1894. He accompanied a detachment of Western Australian Volunteers to Queen Victoria's Jubilee celebrations in London in 1897 as Adjutant and Staff Captain. He subsequently served as a Major in charge of training troops for service in South Africa during the Boer War; he volunteered himself, aged 60, but was rejected. However, two of his sons did serve with the Australian contingent. He retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on 30 September 1902 as Acting Commandant of Commonwealth Military Forces of Western Australia. During the Great War Campbell again volunteered his services, becoming a Sea Transport Officer and earning the British War Medal at the age of 76. In 1918 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He died on 18 April 1924, aged 81. Sold with a photographic image of the recipient; and copied research.

Four: Private George Bale, 43rd Light Infantry, a confirmed participant of the action at the Gate Pah in New Zealand South Africa 1834-53 (Geo. Bale, 43rd Regt.); Indian Mutiny 1857-59 (Geo Bale, 43rd Lt. Infy.); New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (3150. G. Bale 43rd Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (3150 Geo. Ball. 43rd Foot) note spelling of surname on last, suspension on first a little distorted, the first two with edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine, otherwise toned, better than very fine (4) £2,400-£2,800 --- George Bale was born in the Parish of Redmarley, near Ledbury, Worcestershire, and originally enlisted into the 12th Foot on 23 December 1845, aged 18 years 7 months, a labourer by trade. He transferred to the 43rd Light Infantry on 1 October 1853, while stationed in the Cape of Good Hope where both regiments were serving during the third Kaffir War (Medal). He served during the Indian Mutiny with the Sakas Column (Medal), and in New Zealand from 9 January 1864. He is confirmed as being engaged in the action at Gate Pah, 28 April 1864 (Medal). Bale was awarded his L.S. & G.C. medal in 1866 and was discharged to full pension on 19 February 1867. Sold with copied discharge papers and a copy of Gordon Everson’s Gate Pah and the 43rd with full roll of those present in the action.

Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Kandahar [not entitled] (1371. Pte. Hy. Fryer. 63rd. Regt.) polished, nearly very fine £80-£100 --- Henry Fryer was born in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, in 1844 and attested for the 7th Regiment of Foot at Uxbridge in August 1869 before transferring to the 63rd Regiment in March 1870. He served in India and Afghanistan, seeing active service during the Second Afghan War; temporarily attached to the 2nd Infantry Brigade, he left Quetta for Kandahar on 29 August 1880, and on 4 September 1880, when just two days’ march from Kandahar, received news of Lord Roberts’ victory at Kandahar on 1 September. Consequently Fryer was not entitled to the Kandahar clasp but, perhaps understandably, he felt that as he had proceeded to Kandahar he was entitled to it. Fryer remained in India until his regiment went to Egypt in 1882, returning to the U.K. later in that year. He took his discharge from the army on 5 May 1883, and died at Uxbridge in 1896 aged 48. Sold with copied research and medal roll extracts that confirms entitlement to a no clasp medal.

Military General Service 1793-1814, 8 clasps, Vimiera, Talavera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nive (J. Castelow, Serjt. 43rd Foot) toned, nearly extremely fine £2,400-£2,800 --- Provenance: Professor A. Leyland Robinson Collection; Spink, March 1978. Only one officer, one N.C.O. and 18 men of the 43rd received the clasp for Talavera, where they formed part of the 1st Battalion of Detachments, containing men from various regiments left behind in Portugal after the departure of the British army after the battle of Corunna. John Castelow (Costello, Costellow) first appears in the musters of the 1st Battalion in early 1808 but no personal details given. He is shown as being sick in hospital for 36 days in the September 1809 quarter. Promoted to Corporal on 24 December 1813, and is shown as sick in hospital January to April 1814. He was promoted to Sergeant on 24 June 1814 and transferred to the 2nd Battalion on 26 October 1814. He was admitted to an out-pension at Chelsea on 10 February 1852, Leeds District, and died at Leeds in June 1853. Sold with muster research and old ivorine display label.

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (747. Pte. E. Power, 2-5th. Foot) minor edge bruises, nearly extremely fine £80-£100 --- Edward Power was born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1834 and attested for the 5th Fusiliers at Liverpool on 12 December 1857. He served with the 2nd Battalion overseas in Mauritius for four years and five months, and in South Africa for four years and three months, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medals with gratuity in 1876. He was discharged on 31 December 1878, after 21 years and 20 days’ service. Sold with copied record of service.

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Hazara 1891, Samana 1891 (2721 Bugler A. E. East. 1st. Bn. K.R. Rif. C.) good very fine £140-£180 --- Albert Edward East was born in Caddington, Bedfordshire, in 1867 and attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps at Luton on 28 May 1885, having previously served in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Appointed a Bugler on 17 February 1890, he served with the 1st Battalion in India from 25 November 1890 to 27 March 1893, and took part in the Hazara, Miranzai, and Isazai Expeditions between 1891 to 1892. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 6 April 1893, and was discharged on 10 April 1902, after 16 years and 318 days’ service. He died in Luton on 17 May 1951. Sold with copied service papers and other research.

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (3454. William J Dowling 33rd. Regiment) minor edge bruising, very fine £70-£90 --- William J. Dowling attested for the 33rd Regiment of Foot, and served with them in both the Crimean and Abyssinian campaigns.

Indian Army L.S. & G.C. (3), E.VII.R. (57 Sepoy ....r Ali 84th Punjabis); G.V.R., 1st issue (1417 Sowar Sant Singh 18th K.GO. Lancers); G.VI.R. (7969 Nk. Dalip Singh, 14 Punjab R) generally very fine (3) £80-£120 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

Three: Colour-Sergeant Joseph Northam, Royal Welsh Fusiliers Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (Josh. Northam, 1st Bn. 23rd R.W. Fusrs.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (5023. Cr. Sergt. J. Northam, 1-23rd Foot); Army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R. (C: Sgt. J. Northam, R. Welsh Fus.) the first two with light contact marks, very fine, the last extremely fine (3) £1,000-£1,400 --- Joseph Northam was born at Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies, and enlisted into the 1/23rd Foot at Weedon on 28 June 1855, aged 13 years. He served as a Drummer from 13 March 1856 to 15 July 1858, when he reverted to Private for the remainder of his under-age service until 2 July 1860. He was promoted to Corporal on 21 October 1861, to Sergeant on 6 May 1868, and to Colour-Sergeant on 7 August 1869. He was discharged on completion of his second period of service on 4 July 1881. Northam had served in India from September 1857 to November 1869, and was, when discharged, in possession of the ‘Indian Mutiny medal and 2 Clasps for Lucknow and Relief of Lucknow and good conduct medal.’ Stating his intended place of residence to be Whaley Bridge, Derby, Northam was appointed as Sergeant Instructor (Pensioner) to the 2nd (Volunteer) Battalion of the Derbyshire Regiment o 9 August 1881, where he served until 8 August 1896. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal and Annuity of £10 on 4 May 1896, and died on 17 April the following year. Sold with copied discharge papers.

Regimental Prize Medals (11), an unknown Scottish Medallion on ribbon with suspension bar in Wilson & Sharp, Edinburgh fitted case of issue, silver; (F Compy. 5th V.B. R.H., 2nd Prize 1893), in case of issue, hallmarked silver; Royal Guernsey Militia (Inter Regimental Football Challenge Cup 1933), bronze, in F. Phillips, Aldershot, case of issue; West Yorkshire Regiment (2) (Winners Inter Company Rugby 1926 L. Cpl. Garbutt) white metal; another unnamed, bronze, in F. Phillips, Aldershot, cases of issue; Depot, The Black Watch, (L/Cpl Allan 1934), bronze, in F. Phillips, Aldershot, case of issue; Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (2), White metal, unnamed, (8th Argylls 1931 Machine Gun Competition L/Cpl. J. Park), bronze and enamels, in F. Phillips, Aldershot, case of issue; N.R.A. Rifle Clubs, bronze, in Elkington & Co. Ltd. case of issue; (H.R.H. Duke of Connaught’s Challenge Sheild Competition Winners Junior Section 1927 Louis Trichardt Junior Troop. Sgt. H. R. Cheales.), white metal, suspension broken, Auxiliary Transport Service, (Rounders Tournament 1947, Winners A & H District), bronze; Army Temperance Medal, India (2), silver; 5th V.B. Bn., The Royal Scots, Drill prize fob, silver; Regimental Cap Badges (4), Royal Navy, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, Royal Artillery, Tank Corps, generally very fine or better (lot) £100-£140 --- Sold with a Sunday Companion Roll of Honour Medal (G. MacDonald 1858-1904) in Jenkins, Birmingham, case of issue; a Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee 1897 Medallion, bronze, in case of issue; a Fife & Forfar Yeomanry regimental button badge; a Royal Air Force button badge; assorted pin badges; and other ephemera.

The Army Rifle Association, Queen Victoria’s Cup Prize Medal, silver, the obverse inscribed ‘The Army Rifle Association’, with crossed rifles and wreath of leaves around, the reverse engraved ‘The Queen Victoria Cup 1913’, with engraved central inscription ‘3rd Battn. The Devonshire Regiment’, the edge engraved ‘Captain B. V. Mitford (Captain)’, with small ring suspension, nearly extremely fine £40-£50 --- Bertram Vernon Mitford was born in Monmouthshire in 1871 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment on 8 February 1890. Advanced Captain, he was embodied in the 3rd Militia Battalion at Jersey for service during the Boer War in 1899 and was disembodied at Jersey in 1902. As Captain of the 3rd Militia Battalion shooting team his team were the winners of Queen Victoria Cup in 1913. Mobilised following the outbreak of the Great War and promoted Major, he embarked for India on 5 January 1917 and was appointed Paymaster, Pensioners’ Department, at Madras. He was disembodied from the Special Reserve of Officers on 19 October 1920 and died at Budleigh Salterton, Devon, on 12 April 1949, aged 77. Sold with a photographic image of the recipient; and copied research. Surviving records indicate Major Mitford did not apply for the single British War Medal to which he would appear to be entitled for his service in India during the Great War.

The superb ‘Heavy Brigade’ D.C.M. group of three awarded to Private J. R. Aslett, 1st Royal Dragoons, who lost an arm to cannon shot during the famous charge at Balaklava on 25 October 1854 Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (James R. Aslett. 1st Rl. Drags.) officially impressed naming; Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Balaklava, Sebastopol (Pvte. Jas. R. Aslett 1st. RL. Drs.) Hunt & Roskell engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, fitted with small ring for suspension, mounted for wear, all with contemporary silver top riband buckles, minor edge bruising overall, otherwise very fine or better (3) £8,000-£10,000 --- Provenance: Spink, June 1987, (Lot 353 £1950) as part of a collection of Crimea medals which included the Light Brigade D.C.M. group to S/Maj G. Loy Smith, 11th Hrs, (Lot 354 £2900) which sold in these rooms in April 2006 for £45,000; Dix Noonan Webb, December 2016. D.C.M. recommendation dated 1 January 1855. James Richard Aslett was born in Farnham, Surrey, and attested for the 1st Royal Dragoons at Westminster on 20 October 1853. He served with the Regiment in the Crimea, and took part in the famous charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava on 25 October 1854. He was severely wounded during the charge, and was ‘disabled by amputation of right shoulder joint after cannon shot wound received at Balaklava’ (Service Papers refer). The field surgery that he underwent was further recorded in Medical and Surgical History of British Army in Turkey and Crimea during the Russian War, 1858, ‘James Aslett, aged 19, had his right humerus smashed by a round shot, it became necessary to remove the arm from the shoulder-joint, the amputation was done immediately after the injury. He was sent to Scutari, where the stump soon united without a bad symptom.’ The D.C.M. awarded to Aslett was initially sent out to the Crimea in March 1855, only to have to be returned for presentation to the U.K. on 14 May. Aslett had preceded its return and was discharged ‘Medically Unfit’ on 2 May 1855. One of eight D.C.M.s awarded to the Regiment for the Crimean Campaign, only two of which were awarded to recipients who were wounded at Balaklava and therefore unquestionably confirmed as ‘chargers’.