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Lot 397
Early 19th century Miniature School - 'William Drysdale - Officer Indian Army', monogrammed L.M.L. and inscribed verso, watercolour, oval, 3" x 2.5", within a rectangular ebonised frame; 19th Miniature School - portrait of a gentleman with curly brown hair, black jacket and cravat, watercolour on ivory, oval, 3" x 2.5", within a rectangular ebonised frame (2)
Lot 56
AN ON - General Regulations and Orders for the Army, Adjutant General's Office Horse Guards 12th August 1811, title page detached, tree calf, gt. spine bands; GOWING (T) - A Soldier's Experience or A Voice From The Ranks, Nottingham 1899, illustrated plates, one folding, orig. dec. purple boards, sunned spine; MORRIS (REV F O) - Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain, vol. 1, Leeds n.d., vignette title, 8 chromolith plates, foxing, orig dec. boards (3)
Lot 76
SIMKIN (R) - Life In The Army, Every-Day Incidents In Camp, Field And Quarters, Chapman & Hall, n.d. 20 col. plates inc. title vignette, orig. pictorial boards; together with Life In The Army, incorporating Lloyd (W W) On Active Service, Chapman & Hall 1890, lacking some colour plates, some loose orig. red cloth gilt; At Home & Abroad, Chapman & Hall nd and Simkin (R) Our Armies, 1st. ed. Sampson Low, Marston & Co, nd. numerous col. plates & illust. to text, orig. pictorial boards, front free-end papers torn, top board partially detached; another of same, 2nd ed. pub. Day & Son; and Creswicke (Louis) South Africa and Transvaal War, T.C. & E.C. Jack Edinburgh 1900, vol. III, col. & b/w plates, maps and charts, orig. pict. boards; Bairnsfather (Capt. Bruce) Fragments From France, 7 cols. also The Bystanders Fragments From All The Fronts, no. 6 (12)
Lot 490
A copy of The New Testament for the Red Cross, an edition of 'The Young Officer's Guide to Knowledge' by The Senior Major, a Boys Brigade Ambulance Handbook and a St Johns Ambulance First Aid Hand Book together with a parcel of military belts, buckles, buttons, a Royal Army Medical Corps medal and a Russian/English military hand bill
Lot 701
WWII Medals: War and Victory Medals, with Stars for 1939-45, France and Germany, Africa with 1st Army clasp, Italy, Burma, Atlantic and Pacific, first two with slight discolouration, otherwise mainly extremely fine (with postal box from RASC & ACC Records, addressed to Mr. H. Schofield, containing entitlement slip, latter covered with clear tap), plus WWI Victory Medal, awarded to 45654, Pte. H. Gorton, Lancashire Fusiliers, minus gilt, otherwise fine (9)
Lot 731
British Army cap badges, various, metal, some with distorted fittings (27) and 'Staybright' type (4), cap badges, all with broken fittings (11), misc. other badges (9), odd shoulder titles (7), 'sweetheart' brooches, various (5), pips and buttons (11), bullion cloth badge and gilt vanity box (76)
Lot 732
Military and other badges: British Army cap badges, various, some with distorted fittings (12), KOSB cap badges, all minus fittings (3), cap and collar badge, converted to brooches, shoulder titles, inc. two pairs (7), Commonwealth Forces etc., cap badges (7), silver ARP lapel badge and silver miniature, pips (6), buttons (8), 'Staybright' oddments (4), non-military, letter and number titles (46), gilt oddments (8), silver plated and similar oddments (30) and lead oddments (7) (142)
Lot 735
British Army cap badges, Regimental, mainly good condition, in metal re-enforced glazed wooden frame (91) [Auctioneer's note: although all badges appear to be original, they have not been removed from the frame and therefore it is possible that they may include some reproductions] [Care! High shipping costs]
Lot 736
British Army cap badges, mainly Corps, with a few Regimental, mainly good condition, in metal re-enforced glazed wooden frame (87) [Auctioneer's note: although all badges appear to be original, they have not been removed from the frame and therefore it is possible that they may include some reproductions] [Care! High shipping costs]
Lot 737
British Army cap badges, Regimental etc., mainly good condition, in metal re-enforced glazed wooden frame (75) [Auctioneer's note: although all badges appear to be original, they have not been removed from the frame and therefore it is possible that they may include some reproductions] [Care! High shipping costs]
Lot 738
British Army cap badges, Hussars, Lancers, Guards etc., mainly good condition, in metal re-enforced glazed wooden frame (83) [Auctioneer's note: although all badges appear to be original, they have not been removed from the frame and therefore it is possible that they may include some reproductions] [Care! High shipping costs]
Lot 741
British Army cap badges, WWI and WWII, Regiments and Corps, various, in wood and 'Perspex' frame (29) [Auctioneer's note: although all badges appear to be original, they have not been removed from the frame and therefore it is possible that they may include some reproductions] [Care! High shipping costs]
Lot 166
A named Lloyds Patriotic Fund vase and cover, Benjamin Smith, London 1807-08. of classic Greek Volute Krater shape, the cover with a cast figure of a lion walking on a plain circular base, the separate shoulder with gadroon border, fruiting laurel border and scroll border on matted grounds, the main body with a repoussé florid meandering scroll frieze, on a matted ground with rope twist borders, flanked by a pair of tall vertical handles with rosette bosses and rope twist banding over a rosette terminal and a formal foliate spray, the front with a chased panel of Hercules slaying the Hydra, the verso with Britannia, seated, her raised hand supporting a figure of Victory, all over a formal band of anthemions and foliate sprigs upon the stiff leaf and acanthus chased socle foot, the shoulder with engraved inscription: ‘From the Patriotic Fund at Lloyds to Major Hamill of the Royal Regiment of Malta in Testimony of his gallant conduct at the Battle of Maida in Calabria on the 4th of July 1806 in which the pride of the presumptuous enemy was severely humbled and the superiority of the British troops most gloriously proved’; together with the original fitted oak case with inset brass name plaque and trade label to the lid interior, 39cm high, 123oz, Note: MAJOR JOHN HAMILL, John Hamill came from County Antrim; he was probably born in the 1770s and is known to have been a Roman Catholic. The plain of Maida has been described as being like a ‘great natural amphitheatre’, with the coast forming slightly less than half its circumference and two rivers, the Ippolito and Amato, roughly bisecting the plain, the surface of which was dry dusty scrubland with patches of marsh. A French force estimated at about 7,000 men was identified, camped on the eastern ridge of the amphitheatre and on 3rd July Stuart decided to march his army into the plain early on the following day in order to tempt the French to engage him in battle. At dawn on 4th July 1806 the British brigades formed up and marched off south from their camp on the beach, wheeling left when they reached the river Amato, with the brigades forming three echeloned lines, Cole’s brigade comprising the army’s left flank and third line. As the British brigades deployed, the French came down the slopes to meet them and the first British line, the brigade on the right wing comprising the light infantry battalion and some companies from the Royal Corsican Rangers and Royal Sicilian Volunteers, received the initial French onslaught. As the British right wing became engaged, so Hamill was ordered to take some grenadiers across the Amato to reinforce the right flank and it may have been while in the thick of the fighting in that sector of the battlefield that he received what he later described as a ‘trifling wound’ - probably from a musket ball. The battle swung Britain’s way in the first moments of the action since two close- range, accurate and rapid volleys of musketry from the light infantry battalion broke the French advance on the British right and the collapse of the French left wing was quickly followed up by a British pursuit with the bayonet that wrought carnage. Although the battle was brief, sustained fighting took place along the length of the British line - the 78th Highlanders in the centre sustaining heavy casualties - and at one point it appeared that the British left wing would be driven in, only the timely appearance of a battalion of 20th Foot on the British left flank saving Cole’s brigade from heavy loss and potential collapse. Hamill left little record of his part in the battle of Maida, apart from the deprecating reference to his wound, and so we cannot be sure either where he sustained it or what it comprised. He was, though, one of twelve officers wounded and the only officer from his brigade to sustain a wound. Total British casualties, killed and wounded, for Maida were 327. It was estimated at the time that the number of French killed was about 700; the numbers wounded and captured varied from 1,000 to 3,000. By any standards it was a famous victory and a rare one at that time for the British army: this accounts for the rapture with which news of the battle was received in Britain when Stuart’s dispatch was published in The London Gazette of 5th September 1806. Stuart was knighted, given a pension and permitted to use the title ‘Conte de Maida’ given him by the king of Naples; a gold medal was eventually struck and presented to each of the battalion commanders at the battle. When the Committee of the Patriotic Fund met on 16th September, it resolved that Stuart should receive a vase of the value of 300, ‘in testimony of the high sense entertained by this Committee of his gallant conduct at the battle of Maida, ‘in which the pride of the presumptuous Enemy was severely humbled, and the superiority of the British Troops most gloriously proved’’. At the same meeting awards of 100 each were resolved for each of the field officers (lieutenant-colonels and majors) wounded at the battle, wounded officers of lower rank receiving awards of 50 and 25 and wounded men receiving proportionate financial recompense . Listed among those due to receive an award of 100 was ‘Major Hammill, of the Royal Regiment of Malta’. As was usual with the Patriotic Fund, recipients of awards were contacted by the Fund to ask how they would like their award made: in the form of a sword, or of a vase or in cash. As we now know, Hamill opted for a vase, although there is now no surviving correspondence concerning this. John Hamill was buried close to where he fell in Anacapri but re-interred in the town cemetery in 1831 when one of his descendants visited Capri, saw to the re- interment and erected a plaque to his ancestor’s memory. Restored in 1914, the plaque still remains in the piazza of Anacapri and reads: TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN HAMILL A NATIVE OF THE COUNTY ANTRIM IN IRELAND AND MAJOR IN HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S LATE REGIMENT OF MALTA, WHO FELL WHILE BRAVEL YRESISTING THE FRENCH INVASION OF ANACAPRI ON THE 4TH OF OCTOBER 1808, AND WHOSE MORTAL REMAINS ARE DEPOSITED NEAR TO THIS PLACE THIS TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION AND RESPECT HAS BEEN PLACED BY HIS KINSMAN AND NAMESAKE. OCTOBER 3RD 1831 REQUIESCAT IN PACE According to the records of the Patriotic Fund, Hamill’s silver vase cost 97 7s 11d and was delivered by Messrs. Rundell, Bridge and Rundell on 17th November 1808, some six weeks after his death. In view of this, it must be assumed that the vase was sent to the regiment in Sicily, to which its remaining officers and men had been paroled following the fall of Capri, and then returned to Hamill’s next-of-kin. The vase is recorded in 1918 as being in the possession of a Mr Andrew Hamill Ford of Yatton in Somerset. Stephen Wood MA FSA, Literature: Hopton, R. The Battle of Maida 1806 (Barnsley, 2002). Knowles, Sir L. The British in Capri 1806-08 (London, 1918). Mackesy, P. The War in the Mediterranean 1803-10 (London, 1957). Note: A longer and more detailed account of the life and military service of John Hamill will appear in a forthcoming issue of The Irish Sword, journal of The Military History Society of Ireland. The Lloyds Patriotic Fund Vase originally presented to Major General Sir John Stuart (mentioned previously) also at Calabria, sold Sotheby’s London, 11th November 1971, lot 15 (1,700), 167. MAJOR JOHN HAMILL, John Hamill came from County Antrim; he was probably born in the 1770s and is known to have been a Roman Catholic. Commissioned ensign in 2nd Regiment, The Irish Brigade, with effect from 1st October 1794, he was promoted lieutenant on 25th December 1795. Hamill's first regiment was one of six such regiments raised in Ireland in October 1794 from the remnants of the famous Irish regiments of the Royal French Army. Most of the officers of Britain's Irish Brigade had previously served the King of France and all were Roman Catholics: they we
Lot 138
RODS: (2) Fine Army & Navy 15'6" 3 piece plus spare tip greenheart salmon fly rod, snake guides whipped black, bronze ferrules with wire tie loops, 26" sheet cork handle with nickel/brass reel fittings, large red rubber button, fine, in fitted cloth bag and a Hardy 11'6" 2 piece greenheart trout fly rod, agate butt ring, lacking tip ring, snake intermediates, 13" sheet cork handle, bronze W fitting, fine, in distressed MOB.
Lot 297
A 1897 pattern Infantry Officer's sword, 32.5in (825mm) blade by Ranken & Co., Calcutta, Lahore & London, etched panels, George V cypher and crown, plated steel hilt with GRI Indian Army cypher and a wire-bound fishskin grip, in its original brown leather field service scabbard and carrying case.
Lot 432
A Third Reich Heer Dress Dagger, of standard pattern, the double edged blade 10.25in (267mm) bearing the WKC (Waffenfabrik Gmbh Weyersberg, Kirschbaum & Co.) maker's mark, the cross-piece bearing the Army eagle, oakleaf decorated pommel and orange celluoid grip, in its plated sheath and hanging straps.
Lot 456
A Third Reich Army Officer's sword, single edged, curved, plain, fullered blade 33in (83.8cm), bearing the Alcosa maker's mark, the gilt brass hilt with acorn and oakleaf relief decoration, the langet with eagle and swastika, wire-bound black celluloid grip, in its black painted steel scabbard.
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