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Lot 159
A RARE BAVARIAN SWORD HALBERD, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY with slightly curved terminal sword blade swelling to a double-edged point and cut with a long slender fuller along the back-edge on each side, curved axe-blade, tapering socket with bevelled edges, a pair of long straps, on an early wooden haft with an additional pair of straps 109.0 cm; 43 in head Provenance Galerie Fischer, Zurich, 7/8th May 1935, lot 30 A large number of halberds of this form, formerly in the Bavarian arsenal, are now preserved in the Bavarian Army Museum, Ingoldstadt. Others have been sold in these rooms 4 December 2013, lot 162; 7 May 2014, lot 116; 24 June 2015, lot 233. See Seitz 1968, p. 216, ill. 221.
Lot 348
AN OFFICER'S MESS DRESS OF THE 15TH LANCERS, INDIAN ARMY A British officer's blue mess jacket of stable jacket style, with buff facings. The jacket edged all round, and on the cuffs, with 1-inch gold "Vandyke" pattern lace. Gilt studs to left front. Buff piping to back-seams. Plaited gold shoulder-cords bearing Lieutenant Colonel's rank-badges. Red quilted cotton lining; and a companion buff cloth waistcoat, with upright collar, with ¾ inch gold lace edging. Five twisted loops of gold chain gimp each side, fastened with plain gilt ball buttons and trimmed with ornate Russia braid figuring. Pocket openings also edged with gold braid. Braid figuring severely rubbed, some stains to cloth.
Lot 462
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN A FINE CASED 5 SHOT 54 BORE EARLY TRANTER PATENT THIRD MODEL SELF-COCKING PERCUSSION REVOLVER, RETAILED BY ROBERT TAYLOR PRITCHETT 86 ST. JAMES'S ST, LONDON, LONDON PROOF MARKS, NO. 7479T, CIRCA 1858 with blued octagonal sighted 6in barrel engraved with a band of foliage around the muzzle and with scrolling foliage on each side of the breech, foliate and border-engraved blued top flat signed 'R.T. Pritchett, 86, St, James St, London', engraved blued frame profusely decorated with scrolls and border ornament, the right side engraved 'N° 7479.T.', the left side stamped 'WH', fitted with bright patent scroll-and border-engraved rammer stamped 'W.T. Tranter's Patent' in an oval, bright patent double trigger stamped 'W. Tranter's Patent' in an oval (very small areas of pitting), profusely scroll-and border-engraved case hardened cylinder stamped with London proof marks, blued safety catch and arbor pin, finely chequered figured walnut butt, engraved case-hardened butt cap, engraved blued trigger-guard, in very good condition and retaining virtually all its original finish: in original fitted mahogany case lined in green baize, the lid with vacant circular brass escutcheon, complete with accessories comprising bag-shaped copper flask by G & J.W Hawksley, double cavity brass 54 bore mould for pointed bullets stamped "54" and numbered to the revolver "7479", cleaning rod with rammer, jag and worm ends, oil bottle by James Dixon & Sons, turnscrew, nipple key, Kynoch & Co. japanned cap tin, japanned tin of Tranter lubricating composition, tin of Tranter lubricating bullets, and bone nipple box containing two spare nipples 29.8 cm; 11 3/4 in overall Literature Wolfgang Berk, William Tranter Birmingham 1849-1890, 2008, page 58.William Tranter traded from 13 St. Mary's Row, Birmingham 1849-75, and between 1853-65 was granted six British patents relating to revolvers and their accessories, and was licensed by Deane, Adams & Deane to make complete Adams' self-cocking revolvers and to use Adams' patented frame for his own revolvers. Robert Taylor Pritchett was contractor to the East India Company, Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1854 and traded from 86 St James's Street from 1856-62. He retired from the gun trade in 1865 and took up art. He illustrated Sibbald Scott's "British Army" in 1868, exhibited at The Royal Academy and became Private Painter to Queen Victoria.
Lot 13
American Gulf War challenge coins (10) and American Vietnam War era Combat Medical Badges including: 29th Signal Battalion, Army National Guard, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Military Sea Lift Command, Warriors' Watch Riders, Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations etc. With an Iraq Culture smart card and a 16th Infantry Regiment, Stonewall Brigade cloth arm badge, Vietnam Combat Medical Badge Basic Award, 2nd Award, 3rd Award and Expert. Scarce collection.. A good collection.
Lot 157
WWII Africa Star Group of eight medals including: 1939-1945 Star, Africa Star with (8th Army Clasp), Italy Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, 1939-1945 War Medal, Police LS & GC medal, Cadet Forces Medal with two bars (KC and QC). A good full size group, Police LS & GC medal, Cadet Forces Medal named to Captain K.W.J. Bartlett. A scarce collection.
Lot 56
Imperial German Pattern Star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross, known as the Hindenburg Star as he was only the one awarded it during WWI for the kaiserschlacht (Spring Offensive) of 1918. This is a good museum replica of what was one of the Highest orders of the German Army. It was also manufactured in WWII (1939) but was never issued.
Lot 677
The Road Home'-is a pamphlet issued to these members of the eighth army that were returning home to England on leave after the end of the second World War, it sets out a route from Villach in to Calais with brief historical notes on every major town or city that the troops will pass through, there is a cartoon inside the front cover and a foreword by the Army Commander.
Lot 685
Military-A mixed lot, two copies of the British Army Review for April and October 1961, seven instruction manuals issued by the United States Army Aviation Centre, Fort Rucker, Alabama, including map reading and military symbols, there is also (5) tubes of 'Sunday Times' film strips and explanatory pamphlets on various subjects for schools dated 1966.
Lot 399
*North (Frederica 1837 - 1915). Portrait of a French Army officer, watercolour, very slight spotting, 18.5 x 15 cm ( 7.25 x 6 ins), framed and glazed Provenance: Formerly North family collection, Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire, with a note about the artist and an excised artist's signature on paper to verso. (1)
Lot 15
WWI MEDALS,a family collection of medals, comprising Indian Mutiny renamed to Apothecary C.M. Pettigrew I.S.M.D., engraved in contemporary style; and five medals to Captain R.W. Pettigrew I.M.D.: 1914-15 Star (1/CL.A.S./R..W.Pettigrew I.M.D).; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. R.W. Pettigrew I.M.D).; India General Service 1908-35 (Lieut. R.W. Pettigrew I.M.D).; one clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F.1919 , all with impressed naming; Army Long Service and Good Conduct (1st Class Asst Surgn R W Pettigrew I.S.M.D)., engraved in running script; together with a presentation plaque, 'To Major R W Pettigrew from Doctors and Nursing Staff St George's Hospital April 1927', and a commemorative 1917 dagger. N.B. The Indian Mutiny Medal appears renamed and it has not been possible to verify the recipient's entitlement; similarly, the L.S.G.C medal to the second man could not be verified at the time of cataloguing (8)
Lot 38
A 19TH CENTURY MOURNING RING, 1835Set centrally with a frame of enamel surrounded by half-pearls, between carved trifurcated shoulders, mounted in 18K gold, hallmarked London 1835 and engraved Dorcas Grives obt 4 June 1835 Oct 79 with heart-shaped fitted case, ring size U Mourning rings are commemorative rings created and worn to pay tribute to a deceased relative, close friend or historical figure. Accounts of mourning rings date back as far as the Roman Empire. After the defeat of the Romans by the Carthage Army lead by Hannibal at the battle of Cannae c.216 BC (a great battle of the Second Punic War), the Carthaginian general ordered all gold rings of the slain Roman soldiers to be removed and sent back to Carthage as proof of the army’s great victory. In remembrance of the fallen soldiers or others who had passed away, the elite of Roman society would remove their gold rings and replace them with iron ones to show they were in mourning. This tradition was only practiced by the upper classes as under Caesar’s reign only the rich could wear gold rings. Centuries later mourning rings were still in use and have been identified from the 15th to the early 20th Century, the pinnacle of their popularity being during the 18th Century.
Lot 1053
The Irish Tangle for English Readers by Shane Leslie 1946; Tha Tain; Chitrál - The Story of a Minor Siege by Sir George S. Robertson (lacking map) Meuthen 1899; The Anti Christ and Gog and Magog by Maulana Muhammad Ali. Published by Dar-ul-Kutub Islamia Limited, LAHORE, 1948; The Importance of being Earnest' Oscar Wilde Folio Society Edition 1960; STANDING ORDERS AND REGULATIONS FOR THE ARMY IN IRELAND Published by Frederick Muller Ltd.. 1st thus. 1969, Edition originally published in Dublin, 1794. Large format. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 150 pages plus index; The Birth of the Irish Free State 1921-1923 by Joseph Curran (7).
Lot 195
Poland, WW2 Period Medals, including WW2 Army Service Medals (2); Volunteer War Medals (2); Polish Resistance in France Medal; Monte Cassino Medal, reverse numbered ’23 352’; 10 Year Long Service Medal; Volunteer War Cross; Jan Krasicki Cross; and a large quantity of other related medals and commemoratives, very fine to extremely fine (41) Please note there are 41 items in the lot, not 42 as previously stated.
Lot 64
Czechoslovakia, Badge for Dedication in Business, type 3, with pin back suspension, obverse stamped 5 and 800, good very fine and rare; Miscellaneous Medals (15) Construction Merit (2), including early type numbered 1304; Outstanding Labour (2); Jan Evangelista Comenius Decoration; Jan Amos Keminsky Decoration; Brotherhood in Arms, Second class; Prison Service (3), First, Second and Third classes; Devotion to Socialism; Model Student badge; Vitezi Society Competition 1955; Motherhood silver clasp; Czech Political Prisoner’s Cross 1939-45; 25 Years of Socialist Agriculture; all but the last in cases of issue, generally extremely fine; together with Czech Republic (post 1991) miscellaneous medals (10), Cross of Merit of the Minister of Defence (3), First, Second and Third class; Medal of the Army of the Czech Republic (4), First class, Second class and Third class (2); IFOR 1996 (2); SFOR 1997; Balkan Peacekeeping 1999, last two in boxes of issue, extremely fine (28)
Lot 568
An Intriguing WW2 ‘Warsaw Uprising’ and S.O.E. interest Group of Ten attributed to Major Jerzy Feliks Szymanski, Polish ‘Home Army’ (A.K.) and member of the Intelligence division of the elite ‘Cichociemny’ or ‘Silent Unseen’ paratroop force. Wounded and taken P.O.W. by German forces at the Battle of Tomaszow Lubelski, he later escaped to Paris, and then to Britain. Having received S.O.E. training in Scotland, Szymanski returned to occupied Poland where he operated under the name ‘Doctor Borkowski’ and other pseudonyms, and played a role in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 as Operations Officer in the Podobwodu District. Supporting documentation shows that he was known to Major General Sir Colin Gubbins, the wartime head of S.O.E., who later assisted with his application for British citizenship in 1965, comprising: Poland, Silver Merit Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari, unnumbered, in silver, with gilt and enamel centre; Cross of Valour, dated 1920, with two bars; Cross of Merit, 2nd Class with swords, in silver and enamel; Medal for the War of 1939; Warsaw Uprising Cross, 1944; Great Britain, King’s Medal for Courage in the Cause of Freedom; 1939-1945 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Original riband bar as worn, and an unrelated Belgian Congo, Bronze Service Medal, Leopold III issue (1935-53); Also offered with a quantity of documentation, including an original letter, signed by Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins, war-time head of the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) regarding Szymanski’s application for British Citizenship. It is addressed to S. Grocholski, Veritas Foundation, dated 7 May, 1965; also included are various hand-annotated copied photographs, and other copied letters; first with chipped enamel, King’s Medal for Courage with Royal Mint case of issue, generally good very fine (12). Major Jerzy Feliks Szymanski was born on 27 September 1909 at Wloclawek, Poland, and served in the Polish Army prior to WW2 as a cavalry officer between 1934 and 1939. He served in the 1st Mounted Rifles at the Battle of Tomaszow-Lubelski during the invasion of Poland, where he was wounded in action on 25 September 1939 and was captured by Nazi forces there. Managing to make a quick escape, he first travelled to Paris, where he became a personal emissary for General Sikorski, and then during the fall of France, he moved onward to Britain. There, he assisted the S.O.E. with the training of select Polish officers and soldiers in Biggar, Scotland in 1940, creating a new, elite paratrooper & espionage force called the ‘Cichociemny’ or ‘Silent Unseen’. Szymanski appears to have been an Intelligence instructor at this time. Those who passed the various examinations were then air-dropped back into occupied Poland to support the Home Army. After some work in Cairo and in Iraq, Szymanski made his return to Poland, and research suggests that he was in joint-command of the downtown Podobwodu District of Warsaw during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, where despite some impressive initial success, the Polish forces were slowly crushed whilst Soviet forces halted outside the city and failed to assist them. For his role in the uprising it appears he was awarded the Silver Merit Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari. He was taken prisoner of war once again, and having been moved around various POW camps (including one unsuccessful escape attempt), he did eventually escape from a small camp called Licterfelde near Berlin in March 1945. He reached the Polish Legation in Stockholm on 22 April 1945. Some years after the war he applied for British citizenship – his application supported by letters of recommendation (one original of which is included with the otherwise unnamed medals) written by Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins, the wartime head of S.O.E., who wrote: “He did great service during the War and we as a Nation are indebted to him, as so many other Poles for their gallantry and comradeship which was in so many cases so ill-rewarded by our country.” Major Szymanski eventually settled in Ealing, London, where he worked for Securicor, amongst other roles, and appears to have continued in further intelligence roles reporting ‘anti-Polish exile activities in London’. His name appears in numerous Polish-language books concerning the ‘Cichociemny’ force and he also penned the book ‘Losy Skoczka’ which appears to relate to the same elite paratroop force. He died in 1995. Ex Sotheby’s, 10-12 November, 1997, lot 91.
Lot 512
A Second World War Group of Nine, all unnamed, 1939-45, Africa Star, Defence and War Medal, last with oak leaf, Coronation 1953, Army Emergency Reserve Decoration, Elizabeth II, rev. dated 1953, with two additional clasps, Albert I Cross, European Veteran’s cross, Dunkirk commemorative 1960, mounted for wearing, with related miniatures of the first six medals, good very fine (15)
Lot 497
*A Scarce Indian Mutiny and Indian Army MSM awarded to Sergeant-Major William Wilson, Madras Artillery, late 19th Madras Native Infantry, comprising: Indian Mutiny, 1857-58, single clasp, Central India, with top bar (Serjt Major W, Wilson, 19th Madras N.I.); Indian Army Meritorious Service Medal, 1848 type, with top bar and brooch pin to reverse (Serjt W. Wilson Eur: Vets.); light marks, once cleaned with one or two small nicks, very fine or better, and scarce (2). William Wilson (c. 1816-1881), of Peckham, Surrey, attested for service in the East India Company’s Artillery at London on 12/13 September 1836, having previously worked as a Plasterer. On arrival to India he was posted as a Gunner in the Horse Brigade, Madras Artillery. He reached the rank of Sergeant in 1854, and served as Sergeant-Major during the Indian Mutiny with the 19th Native Infantry under Major-General Whitlock. He was then remanded back to the Madras Artillery, having failed to qualify for the rank of Sergeant-Major, and then transferred to the Madras European Veterans. He died at Pallaveram (now a suburb in Chennai), India, 15 July 1881. Offered with copied roll entry confirming his Central India clasp, copied death certificate, and other research.
Lot 72
Estonia, Order of the Eagle Cross, type 1, Gold Cross, in silver and gilt, with blue-enamelled arms, width 46mm, good very fine; Order of the White Star, Bronze Merit Medal; Red Cross Medal; Latvia, Home Guard Medal Zeal Medal 1939; Lithuania, Army Founders Medal 1918-20, very fine or better; together with Latvian Republic (post 1990) Diver’s badges (5), in gilt and enamels, extremely fine (10)
Lot 366
Yugoslav People’s Republic, Miscellaneous Orders Medals and Decorations (34), Order of Military Merit, First class badge, in silver, gilt and enamels; in damaged case of issue; Second class badge and Third class, both in silver, gilt and red enamels and medal in silvered metal, Third class in case of issue; Order of Bravery (67831) and Bravery Medals (2), in gilt metal; Order of the Republic, Second class, in silver-gilt and enamels, in case of issue, with related ribbon bar; Order of National Merit, First (2) (both screwback 1094 and 114110), Second (2) (screwback 40355, pinback 52515) and Third class badge in silver and gilt (pinback unnumbered) and medal in gilt metal; Order of Brotherhood and Unity with Silver wreath (7708); Order of Labour, First class badge, in silver gilt and enamels; Second class and Third class badges, in silver and gilt and medal in gilt metal; Partisan Commemoratives, type 1 (2), in bronze and red enamel, one silvered and with incorrect back plate; Bravery Medal in gilt metal (2); Distinguished Marksman Medals (2), in bronze-gilt silvered bronze; 10th, 20th, 30th 40th and 50th Anniversary of the Yugoslav Army; 30th Anniversary of the Victory over Fascism; Tito commemorative, in silvered bronze and a Yugoslav Army office’s cap badge; together with a copy screwback Order of National Liberation, with reverse silvered and engraved number 147; last offered as a copy, very fine or better (34)
Lot 518
Miscellaneous: M.B.E. type 2 (Civil); I.S.M., George V type 2 (Herbert George Brennan); 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with 1st Army clasp, Burma Star, Defence and War Medal, last with oak leaf; Knights Templar breast star, in silver, with enamelled centre; and a WW2 miniature group of 5, mostly very fine or better (13)
Lot 564
*A Great War and Third Afghan War M.C. Group of Eight awarded to Colonel G.G. ‘Georgie’ Rogers, 1st Gurkha Rifles, awarded the M.C. for his command of the reconnaissance piquets at Khurd Kyber Pass, where his company met and repelled some 2,000 Afghan tribesmen from two hillside positions with rifle, grenade and kukri. A renowned expert in Gurkha dialects and customs and the scion of an established family of Gurkha Officers, he later became an expert advisor for the 1945 film ‘Johnny Gurkha’, comprising: Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (Lt. G. G. Rogers, 2/1 Gurkha Rfls.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. G. G. Rogers); India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24 (Capt. G. G. Rogers, 2-1 Grks.); War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, court-mounted on board for display, toned, generally good very fine or better (8). M.C.: London Gazette, 3 August 1920: ‘For distinguished service in the Field in the Afghan War, 1919.’ George Gordon Rogers was born on 9 April 1893, at Dharamsala, India. His father, Colonel G. W. Rogers, D.S.O. of the 4th Gurkha Rifles, had originally raised the 2nd Battalion, 1st Gurkha Rifles in 1886 and both his paternal and maternal grandfathers were Major-Generals in the Indian Army (The latter, J.S. Rawlins, had commanded the 1st Battalion). George (or “Georgie”) was educated at Bedford College and at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, being commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in January 1912. He joined the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Gurkha Rifles in Chitral in early 1913 and served during the operations against rebellious tribesmen in the Swat Valley in August 1915. Soon after he was transferred to the Nepalese Contingent, whose soldiers were sent to help maintain order in India, whilst most of the Indian Army was in France and Mesopotamia. During this period he also served as Staff Officer at the Mountain Warfare School at Kakul, near Abbottabad, for which he was rewarded with an appointment to the Order of the Star of Nepal (this order not present with group). Rogers rejoined his regiment in early 1919, when, having been promoted to Captain, he was given command of ‘D’ Company. Three days after war was declared against Afghanistan in May 1919, his battalion left by train from Nowshera for the Khyber Pass area. They arrived at Ali Masjid on the 10th, and marched the following morning to Landi Kotal where they formed the reserve for an attack on the Afghan positions at Bagh. Hearing the sound of heavy gunfire, the Battalion made a forced march to Loe Dakka on the 17th and found that a Sikh regiment had just captured Sikh Hill. ‘B’ and ‘D’ Companies were sent to occupy it but lacking adequate food or water, and being laden with ammunition and entrenching tools on a very hot day, the had a very tough time of it. That night an Afghan battalion attacked their position on the hill, but was successfully driven off. On 14 June, Rogers provided the piquets and advanced guard for a force sent out to intercept a tribal raiding party (“lashkar”). Surprisingly no opposition was encountered, but two Afghan envoys presented themselves under a white flag, carrying sealed letters from the Amir, and they were duly escorted to Headquarters. On the evening of the 16th Rogers was in command of No. 5 piquet when, at roughly 9.30 p.m., it came under attack from about 80 tribesmen. The attack was driven off with accurate Lewis-gun fire, and on the 27th, Rogers and ‘D’ Company established two new piquets on Conical Hill and West Ridge to protect the Kabul Road, which passed between the two features. On the morning of 13 July, ‘D’ Company under Rogers went to furnish the piquets on the Khurd Khyber Pass for the cavalry reconnaissance, and was so strongly opposed by some 2000 tribesmen that another company had to be called up before the piquets could be set up. Fortunately, Rogers had taken the initiative to set up piquets on two hills about 1,000 yards south-west of the pass which had never before been occupied. The tribesmen had hoped to find the hills again unoccupied, intending to use them to harass the reconnaissance from the flank, but they were foiled by Rogers’ forward thinking. Fierce combat ensued, with the Gurkhas holding one side of the hill and the enemy the other; at times resorting to hand-to-hand fighting with kukris drawn. The orderly withdrawal of the piquets was covered by machine guns and howitzers which inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy. The battalion suffered casualties of just three killed and seven wounded in this action, and it was for this operation that Rogers was awarded the M.C. At this time Rogers also played a key role in forming the ‘Gurkhas Scouts’, formed of picked men from the Gurkha regiments nearby. This detachment would lie up after dark in likely approaches and deal with snipers and intruders with hand grenades or kukris, leading to several successful ambushes and providing a strong deterrent. At the end of 1920 Rogers was attached to the 2nd / 6th Gurkha Rifles and deployed to southern Waziristan. According to the regimental history, ‘The men were fresh from the rigours of the Great War and were in no mood to adopt kid-glove methods with the Mahsud tribesmen. This did not fit in with the policy envisaged by the political authorities and so the Battalion was moved (from Kotkai camp) to a quieter area to Manzai where it was thought “incidents” were less likely to occur.’ However in April 1921, the Mahsuds devastated two Punjabi regiments by ambushing a convoy, and thereafter the Battalion spent more time on road-protection duties. After returning to his own regiment, Rogers was then attached to the 1st / 4th Gurkha Rifles, from May 1923 to March 1924, and served with them during the disturbances in the Sikh state of Mabha. Through his upbringing and service, Rogers became a master of Nepalese dialects, mastering both Gurung and Magar, as well as the court language of Kathmandu. He was an expert in Gurkha songs and dances and, as one colleague reported, ‘He was usually found in the centre of a fascinated group of men who hung on his word ... it was in these inter-war years in Dharmsala and the N.W. Frontier that we got to know Georgie well, accompanied him on shooting trips, attended his nautches, and learnt something of our men and their language.’ In January 1929, Rogers was promoted to Major and from 1934 he was senior Major - in effect the second-in-command. He was placed on the Supplementary Unemployed List in 1936, and settled for a time in South Africa, before being recalled in June 1940. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (Temporary) and, in November 1940, appointed to be Commandant of the Regimental Centre at Dharmsala. During this time, when the decision had been taken to double the size of the Gurkha regiments, the 1st Gurkha Rifles faced the challenge of raising an extra battalion to replace the 2nd Battalion, which had been lost when Malaya was over-run. The Regimental Centre was thus responsible for both recruitment and specialist training, and Rogers oversaw the enormous expansion of the Centre - at one time commanding some 5000 men. He was promoted to Colonel in May 1943. An officer who trained at the Centre late in 1942 described Rogers as ‘a tall, remote and austere figure. His knowledge of Gurkhas, their languages and dialects was legendary ... the depth and width of his linguistic knowledge was thought to be unmatched among his contemporaries either in the 1st or other Gurkha regiments.’ He died in Maidenhead in May 1966, and was buried at Hampton Cemetery, Middlesex. Offered with a large file of copied research, including several picture post cards, and a photo of the Officers of the 2nd / 1st Gurkha Rifles, 1933, with Rogers shown wearing his M.C. and group. The foregoing catalogue notes are largely adapted from Rogers’ formal obituary by Pat O’ Ferrall.
Lot 565
*A Great War M.M. and Long Service Group of 4 awarded to C.Q.M.S. George Augustus Ives, ‘C’ Company, 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, late 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment, thrice wounded in action and taken P.o.W. at Gernicourt on 26 May 1918, having behaved with ‘great gallantry’ –for which he was presumably recommended for the Military Medal, comprising: Military Medal, GVR (30214 Sjt: G. A. Ives. 2/E. Lan: R.); British War & Victory Medals (30214 Sjt: G. A. Ives. E. Lan: R.); Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, GVR (3378033 C. Sjt. G. A. Ives. M.M., E. Lan. R.); Medals mounted on board for display, with cap badge above and small plaque below, minor edge nicks and bumps, polished about very fine (4) M.M.: London Gazette, 16.07.1918: ‘for bravery in the field’. George Augustus Ives was born in Gorleston, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk c.1891 and attested for service with the 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment on 29 December 1910, having previously worked as a Hairdresser. Serving in the Great War as a Corporal, he later transferred to the 2nd East Lancashire Regiment on 24 June 1917 and was promoted to Sergeant. He is mentioned in the Regimental History of the East Lancashire Regiment during the attack at Guyencourt on 26 May 1918: ‘…the company [‘C’] took part in the heavy fighting in the battle zone. According to Lieutenant Davies’ account the fighting in this zone continued for some considerable time…Lieutenant Davies was wounded and got away, but he mentions the Acting Company Sergeant-Major, Sergeant Ives, as behaving with great gallantry, being thrice wounded before he was taken to the first aid post where he was afterwards taken prisoner.’ He was reported P.o.W. the next day on 27 May 1918 and spent nearly 6 months interned as a Prisoner-of-War. He was then repatriated to Leith on 13 December 1918, whereupon he continued to serve, completing 8 years’ service prior to re-enlistment, which latterly took him to Jamaica in late 1921, Bermuda in 1922, Malta between 1923-25, and India as C.Q.M.S. between 1925-28. He was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in May 1929, and was discharged upon completion of a further 12 years with the colours in 1931. He is believed to have died in Belfast in 1973. Offered with a quantity of useful research, copied service papers, and a copied portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform.
Lot 508
Efficiency Medal, GVIR, Territorial Clasp (865229 Gnr. R. G. Harris. R.A.), toned, extremely fine. Offered with four copy photographs and a substantial typescript account of Harris’s service written by a close friend. ‘Ronny’ Harris served in an Anti-Aircraft unit in the Royal Artillery in WW2, and had been present at the evacuation from Dunkirk. He was of Jewish stock, from the Whitechapel area of East London, and joined the Army in 1937 to escape from a difficult and impoverished life and troubled background.
Lot 368
Yugoslav People’s Republic, Dress Miniatures (42), comprising Order of the Yugoslav Great Star; Order of Freedom; Order of the Yugoslav Star, First Second and Third class; Order of the National Hero; Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour (2 – one on stick pin); Order of National Liberation; Order of the Yugoslav Flag, First and Second or Third class; Order of the Republic (2) both First class; Order of the Partisan Star, First, Second and Third class; Order of National Merit, First, second and Third class; Order of the People’s Army, First, Second and Third class (2-one on incorrect ribbon); Order of Brotherhood and Unity, First and Second Class; Order of Labour, 3rd class (2); Order of Bravery, with additional ribbon bar; Medal of Bravery; Medal of National Merit; Distinguished Service Medal; Partisan Commemorative type 2 (2- one on stickpin); 10th Anniversary of the Yugoslav Armies (2); 20th Anniversary of the Yugoslav Armies (2); 30th Anniversary of the Yugoslav Armies (2); 40th Anniversary of the Yugoslav Armies (2); 30th Anniversary of the Victory Over Fascism, three hallmarked, generally extremely fine (42)
Lot 301
Soviet Union, Copies: fraudulently altered orders and decorations (8), Order of the Patriotic War, First class, type 2 badge falsely renumbered and with suspension added to appear as a type 1 variation 3; Order of Glory a Third class badge, gilt and falsely renumbered to appear as a First class badge; Medal for Bravery type 2 (624710) with false type 1 suspension added; Medal for Bravery, unnumbered type 2 with falsely added number; Medal for Combat Service type 1 (410392), with later suspension; Medal for Valiant Labour an unnumbered type 2 with falsely added number and type 1 suspension; Medal for Distinguished Labour an unnumbered type 2 with falsely added number and type 1 suspension; 20th Anniversary of the Worker’s and Peasant’s Red Army, with false type 1 numbered suspension, fine or better, offered as copies (8)
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