A Great War Western Front M.M. group of four awarded to Pioneer Richard Mark Lyon, Royal Engineers Military Medal, G.V.R. (72851 Sapr., 2/A. Sig. Coy. R.E.); 1914-15 Star (72851 Pnr., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (72851 Pnr., R.E.) very fine (4) £280-320 M.M. London Gazette 13 September 1918. Richard Mark Lyon was born in 1895, the second child of Thomas and Alice Lyon of Jackson Place, St. Savior, Leeds. He enlisted as a Signal Lad in the Royal Engineers on 23 March 1915, aged 15 years. On 12 June 1915 he embarked for the Base Signal Depot in France, joining the Second Army H.Q. Signal Company on 17 July 1915. Awarded the Military Medal on 10 September 1918. Transferred to Class Z Reserve on 23 June 1919, giving 22 Oxley Street, Leeds, as his intended address. With copied service papers, gazette and census extracts.
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Four: Serjeant Henry Lyon, 6th South African Infantry, late Lieutenant, South Lancashire Regiment Queens South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lieut., S/Lanc. Rgt.); Kings South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt., S. Lanc. Rgt.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Sjt., 6th S.A.I.) good very fine (4) £280-320 Henry Lyon was born at Woolwich Arsenal on 10 August 1872, the youngest of four soldier sons of Colonel Francis Lyon, of the Appleton Hall Lyons. He was educated at Prince of Orange House, Wellington College, 1885-88. He served for a time with the Foreign Office in Algeria, and in 1894 became the Private Secretary to the Agent General of the Niger Coast Protectorate. By the time of the Benin Massacre he was an Assistant District Commissioner at Sapele, and met the survivors on their way back down the river. He left in 1897 and on 25 May was commissioned into the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the South Lancashire Regiment. He served with them in the Boer War, and at one stage was in command of a Maxim gun detachment. He remained in South Africa, attached to the Army Service Corps, when his Battalion returned to England in July 1901, and he eventually resigned his commission on 20 June 1903. On 4 December 1915, then working as a Farm Manager, he enlisted as a Private in the Machine Gun Section of the 6th South African Infantry. He served with them as a Serjeant in the campaign in German East Africa but falling ill with a tropical disease, he was discharged on 30 March 1917 as being temporarily unfit for further war service. He left to farm at White Thorns, Emangeni and by 1920 was a Planter at nearby Felixton. Latterly retiring to Castle Drive, Horley, Surrey, he died on 22 November 1940. With copied research.
Four: Temporary Serjeant R. Lyon, Military Mounted Police 1914 Star, with copy slip-on clasp (694 L. Cpl., M.M.P.); British War and Victory Medals (694 T. Sjt., M.M.P.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (694 Cpl., M.M.P.) nearly extremely fine (4) £100-140 Lance-Corporal R. Lyon, Military Mounted Police, entered the France Flanders theatre of war on 16 August 1914. Clasp not confirmed.
Three: Gunner Charles Lyon, Royal Field Artiilery 1914 Star, with copy clasp (63645 Gnr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (63645 Gnr., R.A.) minor contact marks, good very fine (3) £80-100 Charles William Lyon was born at 11 Joiners Row, Boston, Lincolnshire, on 17 September 1890. A labourer by occupation and having previously been unsuccessful in joining the Army, he successfully attested for service in the Army Special Reserve at Kings Lynn, on 28 May 1908. As a Gunner with the Royal Field Artillery he served in France/Flanders, 16 August 1914-22 August 1918 and 7 September 1918-17 May 1919. Transferred to the Army Reserve in June 1919, he was discharged on 2 October 1920. With copied service papers, m.i.c. and associated birth, marriage and death certificates. Clasp confirmed.
Three: Private John Lyon, Manchester Regiment 1914 Star (5789 Pte., Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (5789 Pte., Manch. R.) nearly extremely fine (3). £100-140 John Hardman Lyon was born in the Parish of Upton, near Chester. A Clerk by occupation, he attested for service in the Manchester Regiment at Chester on 19 July 1899, aged 18 years, 3 months. With the 1st Battalion he served in South Africa, 9 November 1901-10 March 1903; Singapore, 11 March 1903-19 December 1904, and India, 20 December 1904-30 April 1907. For his service in the Boer War he was awarded the Queens medal with clasps for Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902. Lyon was transferred to the Army Reserve on 18 July 1907. Recalled for service in the Great War, he served with the 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment in France/Flanders, 27 October-27 November 1914, being returned to England due to bronchitis. After service at Home with the 3rd Battalion, he was posted to Egypt with the 11th Battalion on 25 November 1915, serving there until July 1916. After further service in France, July-October 1916, he was posted home and was discharged on 20 January 1919. With copied details taken from service papers, together with a family tree and related copied death certificates..
Three: Private Joseph Henry Lyon, Rifle Brigade, killed in action 18 October 1916 1914-15 Star (Z-577 Pte., Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (Z-577 Pte. Rif. Brig.) nearly extremely fine (3). £100-140 Joseph Henry Lyon was born in Ancoats, Lancashire on 6 November 1889. A Railway Wagon Checker with the G.N.R. at Deansgate, he enlisted into the Army at Manchester. Serving with the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade, he was killed in action, France/Flanders, on 18 October 1916. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. He was the son of Mrs Mary Allen Lyon, of 46 Ravald Street, Oldham Road, Manchester. With copied research..
Three: Acting Serjeant George Henry Lyon, Army Service Corps, who died at sea, 22 January 1917 1914-15 Star (M2-051051 L-Cpl., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (M2-051051 A. Sjt., A.S.C.) extremely fine (3) £60-80 George Henry Lyon lived and enlisted at Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Serving with the 244th Motor Transport Company, Army Service Corps, he died at sea on 22 January 1917, aged 37 years. He was buried in the Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles. He was the husband of Mary A. E. Lyon of 4 Durham Street, Scarborough. With some copied research.
Four: Colonel Ralph Harvey Lyon, Essex Regiment British War and Victory Medals (Col.); Volunteer Decoration, V.R., unnamed, hallmarks for London 1896, complete with brooch bar; Volunteer Long Service, V.R., unnamed, nearly extremely fine (4) £160-200 Ralph Harvey Lyon was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Volunteer Battalion Essex Regiment on 29 June 1881. He attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in December 1901 and he resigned his commission on 13 August 1904. Awarded the Volunteer Long Service Medal as a Captain by Army Order 120 of July 1895 and the Volunteer Decoration as a Major in November 1898. As a Temporary Major (Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel, retired, Volunteers), Essex Regiment, Special List, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 25 July 1917. He relinquished his temporary commission on 16 October 1919. With copied research.
Pair: Major Louis George Mackenzie Lyon, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals, with loose M.I.D. oakleaf Capt.) extremely fine (2) £60-80 M.I.D. London Gazette 20 December 1918; 7 July 1919. Louis George Mackenzie Lyon was born in Calcutta in 1893. Later living in Inverness, he was educated at Inverness College and Trent College, and trained locally as a Civil Engineer. As a 2nd Lieutenant in 2 Field Company, Highland Divisional Engineers, he was appointed to be a Temporary Lieutenant in July 1915 and a Temporary Captain in March 1916. He was promoted to Lieutenant in June 1916 and appointed Acting Major in January 1919. Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) Lyon entered the France/Flanders theatre of war in June 1917. Attached to the 89th Field Company, he was twice mentioned in despatches. Discharged from the Army after the war, he was employed as a Civil Engineer overseas, particularly in Nigeria where he is believed to have been involved in the construction of the harbour at Port Harcourt. In the Second World War he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in September 1940. He is believed to have spent time in the construction of the military harbour at Cairnryan, Wigtownshire and thereafter spent most of the remainder of the war in Nigeria. He died on 3 December 1963. With copied research including: m.i.c., gazette and census extracts, copied M.I.D. certificate and photocopied photographs.
Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5357 S. Mjr. R. Lyon, Ches. R.) slight edge bruise to reverse, nearly very fine £50-70 M.M. London Gazette 17 June 1919. Robert Arthur Lyon joined the 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment in 1896, and remained with the Colours until he was discharged from the Army as medically unfit, in December 1919. He served in India, December 1898-November 1904. With the onset of the Great War, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war as a Company Quartermaster Serjeant on 16 August 1914 but was back in England on 29 August and after a spell of hospital treatment in Sheffield was detailed for duty at the Depot, Chester Castle for a while. He returned to France in September 1915-April 1917 and became Regimental Serjeant-Major of the 1st Battalion. In April 1917 he was posted R.S.M. of the 3rd Battalion in England, and in December 1917, R.S.M. of the 15th Battalion in France. Whilst serving with them he was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in action and was treated for shell concussion in July 1918. He returned to the U.K. in April 1919, was awarded the Army L.S. & G.C. by Army Order 130 of April 1919 and was invalided out of the service in December 1919. With a quantity of copied service papers and other research. In addition to the above, Lyon was awarded the Military Medal; 1914 Star; British War and Victory Medals and Silver War Badge.
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (5 Corpl. W. T. Marchant, A.P.O. Corps) some edge bruising, contact and scratch marks, about very fine £600-800 On 8 August 1882 the newly created Army Post Office Corps (formed 17 days previously) under the command of Major Sturgeon (Army Postmaster) embarked aboard the Black Prince for its first overseas expedition, and landed at Alexandria on 19 August. Stationary Army Post Offices were established at Alexandria, Ramleh, Cairo, Port Said and Ismaila, while mobile Field Post Offices were attached to the divisional headquarters. On 9 September 1882, during the battle of Kassassin, the Army Post Office, under the command of Sergeant F. J. Inwood, attached to H.Q. 2 Division, came under fire. In the action, Private H. F. Yardley and Corporal W. T. Marchant, both of the A.P.O. Corps, were mentioned in despatches. The A.P.O. Corps as a whole received high praise from the C-in-C, who wrote, The formation of a purely military postal department has been tried for the first time in this war. It has been very successful ... I have much pleasure in bringing to the notice of the Secretary of State the admirable manner in which the Post Office Corps discharged its duties in Egypt. ... Their services have been so valuable that I hope a similar corps may be employed on any future occasion ...
Hong Kong Plague 1894, silver issue (Private W. Humphreys, S.L.I.) extremely fine £1000-1200 William Humphreys was born in the Parish of Lingden (?), near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. A Labourer by occupation and a member of the 3rd Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry, he attested for service with the Shropshire Light Infantry at Shrewsbury on 9 May 1887, aged 18 years, 3 months. Posted to the 1st Battalion as Private 2321, he served in Malta, September 1888-March 1891; Egypt, March-December 1891, and Hong Kong, December 1891-January 1895. Whilst in Hong Kong he was fined by a Civil Court for Drunkenness and twice imprisoned for a short period for breaking out of barracks when a defaulter; his service papers record his general conduct as difficult. Returning to Britain in January 1895, he was transferred to the Army Reserve and was discharged on 8 May 1899. The Hong Kong Plague Medal was his only medallic award. With copied service papers.
Defence Medal (7) six unnamed, one impressed (2278 B. Crumpsty, A.B., R.N.) this with contact marks and slight edge bruising; War Medal 1939-45, unnamed, very fine and better (9) £40-60 Defence Medal, unnamed, with Ministry of Food Ration Book bearing the name and address, S. Abrahams, Flat 233C Clayhall Ave., Ilford, Essex, together with two Clothing Coupon booklets. Defence Medal, unnamed, in card forwarding box addressed to Mrs Florence A. Bell, 39 Temple Road, Croydon, Surrey, together with a named identity card of the Salop County Council Public Assistance Committee. Defence Medal, unnamed, and A.R.P. Badge with Borough of Camberwell Civil Defence Services Certificate of Appreciation named to Mr W. J. Bilby. Defence Medal, unnamed, in card forwarding box addressed to Miss M. A. Chantler, 48 St. Dunstans Street, Canterbury, Kent, with forwarding slip. Defence Medal, unnamed, attributed to Herbert Harry George Pawley, a Private in the Home Guard serving, 23 October 1942-31 December 1944. Defence Medal, unnamed, in card forwarding box addressed to Mr W. H. Riches, 26 Lingfield Crescent, Eltham, London S.E.9, with forwarding slip. War Medal, unnamed, in card box stamped Deceased and with the label Staff Sjt. G. A. Paish, E.A.A.S.C., together with a registered envelope addressed to Mr Paish G. A., c/o Mrs A. Paish, Gloster Villa, Cirencester, Glos, U.K. and an associated slip. Staff Serjeant George Alfred Paish, a Mechanic with the East African Army Service Corps, died on 2 August 1940, aged 39 years. He was buried in the Ndola (Kansenshi) Cemetery, Zambia and was the son of Alfred and Emma Paish of Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Pte. E. A. Reeves, 2 B.N. Ry. R., A.F.I.) impressed naming, correction to I of A.F.I., good very fine £50-70 Awarded to Private E. A. Reeves, Bengal-Nagpore Railway Regiment (Auxiliary Forces, India) by India Army Order 568 of 31 August 1928.
Jubilee 2002, unnamed, in card box of issue; Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Mildred May Frake) in Royal Mint case of issue; 8th Army Entrance of the British Army in Italy Medal 1943; Miniature dress medals (2): Belgium Croix de Guerre, A cypher; France Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, good very fine and better (5) £70-90
Honorary Captain Rambahadur Limbu, V.C., 2nd Battalion 10th Princess Marys Gurkha Rifles Riband bar created for display purposes, bearing the ribbons: Victoria Cross, with bronze V.C. emblem; General Service 1918-62; General Service 1962; Jubilee 1977; Army L.S. & G.C., the riband bar on card bearing the signature of the recipient, dated 3 December 1983, together with two copied photographs of the recipient in uniform, good condition £30-50 V.C. London Gazette 21 April 1966. Lance-Corporal Rambahadur Limbu, 2nd Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles, won the V.C. for his gallant action in Sarawak on 21 November 1965. With booklet:My Life Story Rambahadur Limbu, V.C. and other copied photographs and cuttings.
Lance-Sergeant Robert Bennett, M.M., B.E.M., Special Air Service, late Grenadier Guards Original riband bar (in three strips) bearing the ribbons: Military Medal; British Empire Medal, 2nd issue, military; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62; Army L.S. & G.C.; Imperial Service Medal, fair condition £20-40 Ribbons attributed to Bennett with booklet The S.A.S. Elite Forces; a letter to Judge Pownall from Lieutenant-General Sir Peter de la Billiere, dated 28 May 1990, relating to Bennetts M.M. citation, for the second raid on Tamet Aerodrome, December 1941. - a copy of which is with the lot, together with other related letters and copied research. Citation: This NCO in the second raid on Tamet Aerodrome, showed the highest qualities of determination. Although silhouetted against the light of burning aircraft and thus easily visible to the enemy, he continued his task in the face of heavy fire from automatic weapons, until demolition charges had been placed on all the aircraft. On completing his task he managed to shoot his way clear of the aerodrome. This NCO has successfully participated in five other raids. It is requested that no details should be published of these operations owing to their secrecy.
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, G.C.B., G.C.H., one of Wellingtons six Divisional Commanders at the battle of Waterloo Lengths of ribbon: Army Gold Cross/Large Gold Medal, approx. 48mm. wide and 283mm. long, a little ragged, marked and stained; Austria, Order of Maria Theresa, watered, approx. 38mm. wide and 187mm. long; Russia, Order of St. George, approx. 35mm. wide and 180mm. long, fairly good condition (3) £100-140 With some copied research and certified provenance of the ribbon taken from the insignia of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Edwards, C.M.G., D.S.O., T.D., D.L., J.P., Welsh Horse, late 15th Hussars, 6th Baron Kensington Riband bar, pin-backed, bearing the ribbons: Order of St. Michael & St. George; Distinguished Service Order; Queens South Africa 1899-1902; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Territorial Decoration, good condition £30-40 Hugh Edwardes was born in 1873, the son of the 4th Baron Kensington. He succeeded his brother in the title in 1900. He entered the Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 15th Hussars and served in South Africa, 1899-1901, as A.D.C. to Lieutenant-General Sir H. M. L. Rundle, for which he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He became Lieutenant-Colonel of the Welsh Horse in 1914 and saw service in the Dardanelles and in the Sinai and Jerusalem campaigns for which he was again mentioned in despatches. In 1918 he was awarded the C.M.G. With some copied research and certified provenance of the riband bar.
Field Marshal Sir Francis Wogan Festing, G.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., late East Lancashire Regiment Riband bar, on buckram, in two strips, bearing the ribbons: Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, military; Order of the Bath; Distinguished Service Order; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1953; U.S.A. Legion of Merit, with Commander emblem; China; Order of the Cloud and Banner; together with buttons (10) and cloth and metal uniform insignia, good condition (lot) £30-40 Riband bar, buttons and insignia attributed to Field Marshal Sir Francis Wogan Festing. As the Order of the British Empire is in the senior position to the Order of the Bath, the riband bar may be dated to the period 1952-57, the recipient having been awarded the C.B.E. in 1945, C.B. in 1946, K.B.E. in 1952, K.C.B. in 1956 and G.C.B. in 1957. Francis Wogan Festing was born in 1902 and educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. He entered the Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade in 1921. In 1939 he was a Lieutenant-Colonel and commanded the 2nd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment. He commanded a Brigade in Madagascar in 1941 and commanded the 36th Division in Burma, 1942-45. Post-war he was GOC British Troops in Egypt, 1952-54; GOC-in-C Eastern Command, 1954-56; and C-in-C. FARELF, 1956-58. Attaining the rank of Field Marshal in 1960 and Colonel Commandant of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, 1953-65, he died in 1976. With a letter from a former owner of the Field Marshals uniform.
Brigadier-General Charles Edward Every Francis Kirwan Macquoid, C.I.E., D.S.O., Indian Army Riband bar, pin-backed (lacking pin), bearing the ribbons: Order of the Indian Empire; Distinguished Service Order; India General Service 1895-1902; Queens South Africa 1899-1902; 1914 Star, with silver rosette; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaf; India General Service 1908-35; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, good condition £20-40 Riband bar attributed to Brigadier-General Charles Edward Every Francis Kirwan Macquoid. Born in 1869 and educated at Dover College. He entered the Army, as a 2nd Lieutenant with the Kings Regiment, in 1888. Later with the Indian Army, he was Commandant of the 4th Cavalry, 1916-19. He served in the military operations on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1895-96, at Tirah, the operations against the Khani Khel Chamkanis, Mohmand and Samana, for which he was awarded the I.G.S. 1895 with three clasps, was mentioned in despatches and was awarded the D.S.O. He then served in the Boer War, being awarded the Queens medal with one clasp. In the Great War, he served in France, Egypt and Mesopotamia, 1914-18, being mentioned in despatches and attaining the rank of Brigadier-General in 1918. He was G.O.C. Kuki Punitive Measures, 1918, for which he was awarded the C.I.E., and G.O.C. Brigade Afghan Frontier, 1919. Brigadier-General Macquoid died in 1945. With copied research..
General Sir Richard Nugent OConnor, K.T., G.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., Commander of the Western Desert Corps, 1940-41 Photograph of the General with Bedouin Arabs and others, signed, R N OConnor, general in Comd. Western Desert Force; together with a leather wallet/notebook cover, inscribed, Dick, photo with fold mark, notebook cover in good condition (3) £50-70 Richard Nugent OConnor was born in 1889. Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He served in the Great War being mentioned in despatches on nine occasions, and was awarded the D.S.O. and Bar. M.C. and Italian Al Valor Militare in silver. Between the wars he was GSO 2nd Grade, War Office, 1932-34; Commander of the Peshawar Brigade, India, 1936-38 and Military Governor of Jerusalem, 1938-39. In the Second World War he commanded the Western Desert Corps in the successful Libyan campaign, 1940-41. OConnor was captured by the Germans on 7 April 1941 and spent two years as a prisoner-of-war of the Italians until he escaped in 1943. He then commanded VIII Corps in Normandy and in Operation Market Garden. For his wartime services he was mentioned in despatches, awarded the C.B. in 1940; and K.C.B. in 1941. He was further honoured with the G.C.B. in 1947 and K.T. in 1971. Post-war he was A.D.C. to the King, 1946; Commandant of the Army Cadet Force, Scotland, 1948-59; Colonel of the Cameronians, 1951-54; and Lord Lieutenant for the County of Ross and Cromarty, 1955-64. General Sir Richard OConnor died in 1981. With a letter hand-written by General OConnor to a Mr Woodcock: Dear Mr Woodcock, I am afraid I have not got anything of the things you want. And the best I can do is first a photograph taken in the Western Desert of Bedouin Arabs. And secondly a note book I carried part of the War & partly in peace. It is a personal one which I hope you wont mind (signed) R. N. OConnor.
General Sir Harry Tuzo, G.C.B., O.B.E, M.C., late Royal Artillery Riband bar created for display purposes, bearing the ribbons: Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, military; Military Cross; 1939-45 Star; France & Germany Star; Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; General Service 1918-62; General Service 1962, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Brunei, Order of Setia Negara, mounted on card with a photograph of the General with paper slip bearing his autograph, good condition Lieutenant-General G. Peter Walls, G.L.M., D.C.D., M.B.E., Commander Combined Operations, Rhodesia Rhodesia, Legion of Merit, Military; Defence Cross for Distinguished Service; General Service Medal; Exemplary Service Medal, with silver rosette; G.B., Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, military; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62; Coronation 1953, mounted on card with a photograph of the General, the card signed, W. P. Walls, Lt. Genl. Commander Combined Operations Zimbabwe Rhodesia, 16 Nov. 79, good condition £30-50 General Sir Harry Tuzo, was born in Bangalore, India, in 1917. He joined the Supplementary Reserve of Officers in 1939 and in 1943 was given a Regular Army commission in the Royal Artillery. In the Second World War he saw service in N.W. Europe and in 1944/45 he commanded a battery of 21 Anti-Tank Regiment, R.A. in the Guards Armoured Division. After the war he held a number of Staff appointments. In 1967 he was appointed Chief of Staff, H.Q. British Army of the Rhine with the rank of Major-General and in 1969 he was appointed Director, Royal Artillery. In 1971 he was appointed General Officer Commanding and Director of Operations, Northern Ireland, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1973 he was appointed Commander Northern Army Group and C-in-C. British Army of the Rhine. Having been granted the K.C.B. in 1971, he was promoted to G.C.B. in 1973. With some copied biographical details. Peter Walls was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia in 1926. He enlisted into the Southern Rhodesian Army in October 1944 and was commissioned into the Black Watch, British Army, in 1946. Commissioned into the Southern Rhodesian Permanent Staff Corps in 1948, he raised the Southern Rhodesian Far East Volunteer Unit for Malaya, 1950, and commanded C (Rhodesia) Squadron 22nd Special Air Service in Malaya, 1951-53. At the time of U.D.I. in 1965 he was Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion The Rhodesian Light Infantry, 1964-67. He was later appointed Commander, Rhodesian Army, 1972-77, and Commander, Combined Operations, Rhodesia, 1977 onwards. With copied research and copied photographs and with a signed note from Peter Walls which accompanied the above ribbon-bearing card.
Dame Leslie Whateley, D.B.E., Director of the World Bureau of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, late Chief Controller of The Army Territorial Service Riband bar, on buckram, in two strips, bearing the ribbons: Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, military; France & Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Decoration; France, Legion of Honour; France, Resistance Medal; U.S.A. Legion of Merit, with gilt Officers emblem; together with a miniature riband bar, pin-backed, bearing the above ribbons in incorrect order and Efficiency Medal instead of Efficiency Decoration, good condition (3) £20-30 Dame Leslie Whateley, D.B.E. was Director of the World Bureau of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, 1951-63. Prior to this, she had risen through the ranks to become a Major-General in the British Womens Army. Her medal were sold in Christies, 17 November 1987. With some copied research and certified provenance of riband bars
A mounted group of nine miniature dress medals attributed to Major-General S. MacDonald, Royal Army Medical Corps Order of the Bath, Military Division, silver-gilt and enamel, ring suspension; Order of St. Michael and St. George, silver-gilt and enamel, ring suspension, India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Tirah 1897-8; Queens South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902; 1914 Star; British War and Victory Medals; Coronation 1911, silver; France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1916, with bronze palm on ribbon, some contact marks, very fine and better (9) £100-140 Full-size and miniature medals ex Spink, 11 May 2001. Stuart MacDonald was born in Elgin, Scotland, on 14 April 1861 and qualified in medicine at Aberdeen University in 1884. He entered the R.A.M.C. as a Surgeon Captain in February 1887 and was promoted to Major in February 1899, Lieutenant-Colonel in July 1911 and Colonel in March 1915. On active service on the N.W. Frontier, 1897-98, serving with the Turak and Tirah Expeditionary Forces; he later served in the Boer War. In the Great War, he was on active service in France/Flanders for the duration of the conflict. He was C.O. of No. 1 General Hospital, October 1914-April 1915, Assistant Medical Director of the 1st Division, April 1915-November 1916, and Deputy Director of Medical Services, November 1916-April 1918. For his great wartime services, he was five times mentioned in despatches and awarded the C.M.G. in 1916, the C.B. in 1918 and French Croix de Guerre in 1917. Latterly appointed an Hon. Physician to the King, he retired at the end of the war with the rank of Major-General. MacDonald died in May 1939.
Royal Naval Temperance Society Medals (3): R.N.T.S.3, with Fidelity top bar; R.N.T.S.4 (2) - one with Three-Years top bar; Army Temperance Association Medals: India (5) A.T.A.I.1, silvered; A.T.A.I.2, with Fidelity top bar; A.T.A.I.3; A.T.A.I.15 (2) - one with Excelsior top bar; Army Temperance Association Medals: Home (4): A.T.A.H.2; A.T.A.H.3; A.T.A.H.5; A.T.A.H.9; Soldiers Total Abstinence Association, S.T.A.6, with For Merit top bar, generally good very fine (13) £60-80 With a copy of A Guide to Military Temperance Medals, by David A. Harris.
A rare Memorial Plaque and Scroll posthumously awarded to Able Seaman Edward Henry Coase, Royal Navy, who was killed in the H.M.S. Glowworm explosion on the Dvina River, 25 August 1919 Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Edward Henry Coase) with associated slip in card envelope; together with Memorial Scroll, medal extremely fine £120-160 Edward Henry Coase was born in Devonport, Devon, on 5 October 1896. He enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 28 March 1912 and was advanced to Boy 1st Class in August the same year. He entered the war serving on the battleship Centurion, on which he was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in October 1914 and Able Seaman in June 1915. He then served at Vivid I, November 1915-July 1916, before joining the gunboat Glowworm, based on Halcyon, July 1916-September 1918; Pembroke II, October 1918; Monitor 25, October 1918-May 1919, and Fox, June 1919-August 1919. Able Seaman Coase was killed on 25 August 1919 as a result of the blowing up of an ammunition lighter. On the night of 25 August 1919, the gunboats Glowworm and Cockchafer were proceeding down the Dvina River to relieve Cricket and Cicala as part of the advance guard on R.N. gunboats operating on the Dvina. As the Glowworm and Cockchafer neared Bereznik the watch on the Glowworm spotted a barge on fire mid river. The Mercantile Marine Reserve and Russian crew of Army barge NT326 ôEdinburghö had raked out the galley fire as usual before heading to their hammocks for the night. Closer to midnight two of the crew awoke to find the aft cabin ablaze. Unable to stem the flames some of the crew fled the barge in a small boat. The crew of the barge had good reason to flee the inferno as they knew what Commander Green onboard Glowworm did not, that the barge was being used to transport ammunition and was loaded with 70 tons of explosive. As Commander Green brought the Glowworm alongside, nose towards the blazing barge, the crew of the gunboat rushed with hoses to fire-stations on the fore-deck in preparation to put out the conflagration. Many of Glowworms crew not involved in fighting the fire crowded the fore-deck to watch the brilliant bonfire before them. As the crew of Glowworm began to fight the fire, the Cockchafer, some distance away, began to manoeuvre to approach the barge from another direction. A crowd had gathered ashore of men watching the spectacle. As the crowd watched in horror a huge wall of flame rose into the calm night sky. Soon after there was another explosion and several smaller ones after that. It is unknown how many of Glowworms crew died in the initial explosions but it now must have been apparent to Commander Green that he had brought his ship alongside a blazing ammunition barge. A few minutes later an enormous flash blanketed the countryside. Seconds later the deafening roar and shock wave of the explosion ripped through air sending debris up to a mile away. Slowly as those ashore began to regain their senses, hastily cobbled together rescue teams began to make their way towards Glowworm in whatever vessel they could find. As the rescue teams boarded Glowworm they could not believe the devastation that awaited them. The entire superstructure seemed to be scorched and bent, debris and what remained of the bodies of the crew lay everywhere. The fore-deck had suffered the most damage being closest to the explosion. All of the fire-fighting crews had been wiped out whilst manning their hoses. As rescuers came across wounded sailors they carried them to the relatively undamaged after-deck and lay them in rows for the medical staff to attend to. Commander Green was found on the bridge mortally wounded, surrounded by the bodies of other officers and sailors who had been killed outright in the explosion. He was evacuated to the hospital barge which moored alongside the smoking Glowworm but did not regain consciousness and died an hour later. In the meantime Cockchafer, under Commander Preston Thomas, had come to her stricken sister ships aid. She lit the ship with her searchlights to aid the rescue efforts whilst coming alongside. From the bridge of Cockchafer, Commander Thomas directed the rescue crews through a megaphone. The following day the full scale of the tragedy became apparent. Onboard Glowworm, 23 officers and men had been killed, and another 15 had been wounded. Additionally two M.M.R. men and two Russian seamen onboard a nearby ammunition barge had been killed by flying debris and three other M.M.R. men wounded. It was the largest single day loss of life suffered by the Royal Navy in North Russia 1918-19. The damage to Glowworm was significant. She was towed back to Archangel to be refitted and repaired and was able to make her way back to England under her own steam, but she was too worn out to continue service and was paid off almost as soon as she arrived back at Chatham on 18 November 1919 and was eventually scrapped in 1921. With copied service papers and research.
Germany, Copies (5) Empire, Tank Badge, silver base metal, pin-backed; Third Reich, Tank Badge of the Condor Legion, silver base metal, pin-backed; Infantry Assault Badge, silver base metal, pin-backed, reverse marked in raised letters, R.S.; Army Flak Badge, reverse impressed, C. E. Juncker Belin SW, base metal, pin-backed; ôAfrikaö Armband, all are copies, very fine and better, sold as found (5) £100-140
Yugoslavia, Social Federal Republic, Order of Labour (3), 1st Class badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse with two screw-fittings, stamp mark, and impressed, I and 1217; 2nd Class, silver and silver-gilt, reverse impressed, II, with pin-fitting marked, Znb-Kovnica; 3rd Class, silver and silver-gilt, with pin-fitting marked, Znb-Kovnica; Order of National Merit, 3rd Class screw-backed badge, silver and silver-gilt, reverse impressed, III and 80345; Order of Brotherhood and Unity, 2nd Class screw-backed badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse with stamp marks and impressed, 57656; Order of the Peoples Army, 3rd Class pin-backed breast star, silver, gilt metal and enamel, unmarked; Order of Military Merit, 3rd Class pin-backed breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, stamp marks on reverse, very fine and better (7) £80-100
British Army Buttons, an interesting all gilt selection including small mounted coatees 7th Foot, large mounted mufti examples to the Medical Staff, Aide-de-Camp, 49th Princess Charlotte of Waless Regiment, Lymington Yeomanry, and small examples to the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment, 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment; later tunic examples include very small cuff examples for the 26th (Cameronian) Regiment, two large and one small to the 31st Bombay Infantry, etc., very good condition (80) £ 200-300
British Army Buttons, a selection of all gilt mufti buttons c1840-50, including large examples to 1st (The Royal) Regiment (13), Aide-de-Camp (3), 98th Regiment (8), 3rd Kings Own Light Dragoons (9), 49th (Princess Charlotte of Waless) Regiment (5), Medical Staff (5), together with some relevant small patterns; 10th Royal Hussars gilt undress (not mounted) c1835-1840, twelve large and one small examples, very good condition (75) £200-250
Clark, F., The East India Register and Army List for 1856, Allen & Co., London, 1856, rebound modern red half calf and marbled boards; [Government of India], Army Department Dress Regulations (India) 1931, 124pp., original boards; Booklets (13) 6th Queen Elizabeths Own Gurkha Rifles Regimental Association, Winter 1969; Spring 1970; Winter 1970; Spring 1971; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 2000; 2001; 2002; together with The Journal of the 2nd King Edward VIIs Own Goorkhas, 1976; and The Brigade of Gurkhas 1965, generally good condition (15) £70-90
Six: Colonel Charles Bailey, Indian Army India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Lieut., 26th Bl. Infy.); Queens South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein (Capt., 16/Bengal Lcrs.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col., I.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. (Col.); Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed, mounted as worn, very fine and better (6) £450-500 Charles Bailey was born on 5 December 1862. He received his first commission as a Lieutenant in the Royal Scots Fusiliers on 12 November 1884 and became a Lieutenant in the Indian Staff Corps in August 1886. With the 26th Bengal Infantry he served in the Burma Expedition of 1885-87. Promoted Captain in November 1895 and Major in November 1902. With the 16th Bengal Lancers he served in the Boer War and was attached to Kitcheners Horse, serving in operations in the Orange Free State, February-May 1900, including operations at Paardeberg and actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein and Karee Siding. As a Lieutenant-Colonel and later Colonel in the Indian Army during the Great War, he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 30 June 1916). Colonel Charles Bailey died in Kensington on 8 January 1936. With copied research.
A pair of medals awarded to Band Sergeant H. Tovell, 94th Foot, who was killed in action during the First Boer War at Bronhorst Spruit, 20 December 1880 South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (3327 Band Sergt. H. Tooell, 94th Foot); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue (3327 Sergt. H. Tovell, 94th Foot) note variation in surname, good very fine (2) £1000-1200
Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel J. M. A. Retallick, Indian Army Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Lt., 45th Ben. N.I.); China 1900, no clasp (Lt. Col., 45/Sikh Inf.) minor contact marks, good very fine (2) £500-550 John Mark Anthony Retallick was born on 13 November 1857. Commissioned a Sub-Lieutenant in the 25th Foot in September 1875, he was appointed a Lieutenant in the Bengal Staff Corps in November 1879. He served in the Afghan Campaign 1878-80, firstly with the 25th Foot in the operations in the Bazar Valley, and then with the 45th Bengal Native Infantry in the actions with the Ghilzais at and near Jagdalakand and in the action at Chihildakhteran. For his services he was mentioned in despatches. Retallick was promoted to Captain in September 1886; Major in September 1895; Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in October 1897 and was confirmed in that rank in September 1901. With the 45th Bengal N.I. he served in the Zhob Valley Expedition, 1884. He was attached to the Hong Kong Regiment in 1891 and was appointed Commandant with the rank of Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in October 1897. As such he served in the China Campaign of 1900 and was mentioned in the despatches of Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Gaselee, K.C.B., as having done useful work on the Paotingfu Expedition (London Gazette 14 May 1901). Lieutenant-Colonel Retallick retired from the Hong Kong Regiment and the Indian Army in 1904. With copied gazette extracts and other research.
Six: Serjeant G. E. Gray, Royal Engineers, late Royal Scots Fusiliers India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (4222 Pte., 1st Ryl. Sco. Fusileirs (sic)); China 1900, no clasp (4222 Lce. Corpl., 1st Ryl. Scots Fus.); 1914-15 Star (56663 Sjt., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (56663 Sjt., R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (4222 Cpl., R. Scots. Fus.) first two with some edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and better (5) £280-320
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