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Click here to subscribeThree: Private James Granger, 60th Royal Rifles South Africa 1834-53 (Jas. Granger, 2nd Bn. 60th Rifles); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Jas. Granger, 2nd Batn. 60th Ryl. Rifles); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1283 Jas. Granger, 2nd Bn. 60th Foot) edge bruising, contact marks, good fine and better (3) £480-520 Private James Granger served in the Third Kaffir War.
Three: Private J. Blythe, Coldstream Guards Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (3199 Joseph Blythe, 1st Battn. Coldm. Guards) privately impressed naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue (3199 Josh. Blythe, 1st Battn. Coldm. Guards); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (3199 Cm. Gds.) - no name, plugged, fitted with ‘Indian Mutiny’ style suspension, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (3) £220-260 Joseph Blythe was born in the Parish of Longe Melford, Sudbury, Suffolk. A Servant by occupation, he attested for the Coldstream Guards at Sudbury on 14 September 1846, aged 18 years, 4 months. With the regiment he served in the Crimean War. He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in 1865. He was discharged at London at his own request on 28 March 1868. Blythe was admitted as Inpensioner on 1 July 1897 and was later in convalescent homes at Sandgate and Limpsfield. He died on 27 January 1902. Sold with copied service papers. .
Three: Sergeant D. Ryder, 47th Foot Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (47th Regt.) contemporary engraved naming; Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (3106 Sgt., 47/Lan. R.) engraved naming; Army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R. (Sergt., 47/Foot); together with a renamed Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (Sergt., 47th Regt.) and a renamed Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (Regt. No. 3106 Sergeant, 47th Regt.), swivel ring suspension, nearly very fine and better (5) £600-700 Darby Ryder was born in Longhsea, Co. Galway. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for the 9th Regiment at Galway on 29 December 1852, aged 17 years, 6 months. He was transferred to the 47th Regiment in April 1854 and served with them in the Crimea War and in North America. He attained the rank of Sergeant in January 1862 and was detached for duty with the South Cork Militia, September 1871-June 1874. Ryder was discharged at Preston on 15 June 1874. He was awarded the M.S.M. with an annuity of £10 on 22 May 1896 and died on 8 February 1900. Sold with copied discharge papers.
Four: Corporal Edwin Hindle, 1/60th King’s Royal Rifles Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Mooltan, Goojerat (E. Hindle, 1st Bn. 60th R. Ri[fles]); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Delhi (E. Hindle, 1st Bn. 60th Rifles); Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Red River 1870 (2279 Cpl. E. Hindle, 1/60 K.O.R.) officially engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (2279 Corpl. E. Hindle, 1st Bn. 60th Foot) the first two with edge bruising and contact marks, good fine or better, otherwise nearly extremely fine and a very rare group (4) £2000-2500 Only 174 Red River clasps were issued to British units, including 121 to the 1/60th Rifles. Edwin Hindle was severely wounded at Delhi on 17 September 1857. All clasps fully confirmed on the relevant rolls.
Four: Colonel W. T. Fairbrother, Indian Army Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Lt., 29th Ben. N.I.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Sikkim 1888 (Captn., 13th Bl. Infy.) correction to regiment; India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Waziristan 1901-2 (Major, 13th Bl. Infy.); Delhi Durbar 1903, unnamed, slight contact marks, good very fine (4) £500-600 William Tomes Fairbrother was born on 19 July 1856. He was commissioned into the 11th Foot in February 1875 and entered the Indian Army in July 1878. In the Afghan War of 1878-80, he served in the Bazar Valley Expedition; saw action on the Gara Heights near Kam Dakka and served in the Zaimukhit Expedition, seeing action at Zawa. Further service followed in Sikkim, 1888; Abor, 1894; in the relief of Chitral, 1895 and on the N.W. Frontier in Waziristan, 1901-02. He was appointed a Brevet-Colonel in February 1904. Colonel Fairbrother ceased to be employed with the Indian Army on 3 February 1903 and was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1909. He died in 1924. Sold with copied service details and with ornate brooch bars. .
Five: Surgeon General W. G. Birrell, Army Medical Department Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (Surgeon, A.M.D.); India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Surgeon, A.M.D.); Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Major, R.A.M.C.); Khedive’s Star, 1884-6, unnamed; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (Major, R.A.M.C.), all medals officially impressed in a later style, mounted as worn, good very fine and better (5) £300-400 M.I.D. London Gazette 2 September 1887. William George Birrell was born in Penicuik, Midlothian, on 23 September 1859. Attending Edinburgh University, he gained the M.B. and C.M. in 1880. He entered the Army Medical Department as a Surgeon, afterwards Surgeon-Captain, on 30 July 1881. He was promoted to Surgeon-Major in July 1893, Lieutenant-Colonel in July 1901, Colonel in March 1911 and Surgeon General on 1 March 1915. He served in the Sudan campaign of 1885 and the Burma campaign of 1886-7, being mentioned in despatches for the latter. He then participated in the Sudan campaign of 1898. In the Great War, as a Colonel in the Army Medical Service, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war in August 1914. Birrell was D.M.S., Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, during the earlier operations at Gallipoli, 1915. Surgeon-General Birrell died in the U.K. on 23 August 1918. Sold with copied m.i.c. which shows entitlement to a 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medals, and some other copied research.
Seven: Warrant Officer Class 1 F. Day, Royal Army Medical Corps, late Medical Staff Corps Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (5267 Bugr., M.S. Corps); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5267 Sjt. Maj., R.A.M.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (57913 W.O. Cl.1, R.A.M.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue (5267St. Sgt. 1st Cl., R.A.M.C.); Khedive’s Star 1884-6, unnamed; Montenegro, Medal for Zeal, Nicholas I, silver-gilt, unnamed, mount and ring suspension; British Red Cross Society’s Balkan War Medal 1912-13, for Montenegro (Frank Day), silver-gilt and enamel, unmounted, first pitted, with edge bruising, fine; the others nearly very fine and better (7) £550-650 Sergeant-Major Frank Day, Royal Army Medical Corps, served with the British Red Cross Society’s Unit 1 in Montenegro during the Balkan War of 1912-13. One of 31 recipient’s of the B.R.C.S. Medal for Montenegro. Sold with copied research.
Eight: Warrant Officer P. Fitzgerald, Supply & Transport Corps, late 19th Hussars India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Chin Hills 1892-93 (2957 Corpl. P. Fitzgerald, S. & T. Corps) officially re-engraved as issued; India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (2957 Sergt. R. Fitzgerald, 19th Hussars) note incorrect initial; Tibet 1903-04, no clasp (Sergt. P. Fitzgerald, S. & T. Corps); 1914-15 Star (Sub Condr., S. & T. Corps); British War and Victory Medals (Condr., S.T.C.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (W.O. Cl. 1, S. & T. Corps); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (Sergt., S. & T. Corps) contact wear, otherwise nearly very fine or better (8) £600-800 The first two medals earned in the 19th Hussars whilst attached to the Supply and Transport Corps. Only 1 officer and 3 men of the 19th Hussars were entitled to the clasp for Chin Hills 1892-93, and only 5 men for the Relief of Chitral 1895. The Chin Hills clasp was not authorised until 1903 and a great number were issued using unclaimed medals re-engraved with new details. Sold with medal roll details.
Four: Private G. W. Francis, 4th Dragoon Guards India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (4376 Pte., 4th Dragoon Gds.); 1914 Star, with clasp (4376 Pte., 4/D. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (4DG-4376 Pte., 4-D. Gds.) mounted as worn, very fine and better (5) £260-300 George Walter Francis was born in Wapping, London. As a member of the 15th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, he attested for service with the Dragoons of the Line on 19 November 1895, aged 18 years, 8 months. Posted to the 4th Dragoon Guards he served with them in India before being transferred to the Army Reserve in January 1904. He re-engaged in 1907 and 1911 and was posted to active service with the 4th Dragoon Guards in August 1914. Private Francis was transferred to Class ‘Z ‘Army Reserve for demobilization in January 1919. Sold with copied service papers, war diary extract and with an enamelled 4th Dragoon Guards Old Comrades Association lapel badge.
Pair: Private C. Saddington, Northamptonshire Regiment India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (3050 Pte., 1st Bn. North’n. Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (3050 Pte., Nthptn. Regt.) contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £200-240 Charles Saddington was born in Northamptonshire. A Groom by occupation and serving in the 3rd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, he enlisted into the Northamptonshire Regiment on 12 March 1891, aged 18 years, 6 months. He served in India, October 1892-January 1899, before being transferred to the Army Reserve. Recalled soon after for service in the Boer War, he served in South Africa, October 1899-June 1900 and May 1901-September 1902. Returning to England, he was discharged after completing his period of service on 11 March 1903. In addition to the above, Private Saddington was awarded the Queen’s medal with clasps for Belmont, Modder River, Orange Free State and Transvaal. Sold with copied service papers.
Five: Private G. Fear, Army Service Corps, late Lincolnshire Regiment Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3696 Pte., 1/Lin. R.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (3696 Pte., Lincoln Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (M-286348 Pte., A.S.C.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (3696 Pte., 1st Linc. R.) some contact marks, very fine and better (5) £350-400 George Fear was born in Leicester. A Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the Lincolnshire Regiment on 28 October 1893, aged 18 years, 5 months. With the regiment he served in Malta, February 1895-February 1897; Egypt and the Sudan, February 1897-October 1898; India, October 1898-February 1902, and South Africa, February-September 1902. He was discharged in October 1909 but re-engaged in the A.S.C. for service in the Great War. Sold with copied service papers.
Three: Captain Heneage Greville Finch, Lord Guernsey, Irish Guards, late Wiltshire Regiment, who was killed in action, 14 September 1914 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Lieut. H. G. Lord Guernsey, Wilts Rgt.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Lieut. Lord Guernsey, Ir. Gds.); Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed, mounted for wear, good very fine and better (3) £600-800 Heneage Greville Finch, Lord Guernsey, was born on 2 June 1883, the eldest son of Charles Wightwich Finch, 8th Earl of Aylesford. Educated at Eton, he joined the Militia in August 1901 and served with the Wiltshire Regiment in St. Helena during the Boer War. He was gazetted a 2nd Lieutenant in the Irish Guards in June 1902 and was promoted to Lieutenant in September 1904. Appointed A.D.C. to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar in 1905, he retired from the Army in 1906. In August 1910 he became a Captain in the Warwickshire Yeomanry and became a Captain in the Reserve of Officer in April 1914. With the outbreak of war, he rejoined the Irish Guards and went to France on 12 August 1914. He was killed while leading his company into action at Soupir, 14 September 1914. He was buried in the Soupir Communal Cemetery.
Four: Warrant Officer Class 2 G. T. Barton, Derbyshire Yeomanry Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (5092 Pte., 8th Coy. 4th Imp. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (29 W.O. Cl.II, Derby. Yeo.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (29 S.S. Mjr., Derby. Yeo.) some edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (4) £220-260 T.F.E.M. awarded by Army Order January 1909.
Pair: Lieutenant A. F. Redfern, 7th Goorkha Rifles, late Devon Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal (Lieut. A. F. Redfern, Devon Rgt.); Tibet 1903-04, no clasp (Lieutt. A. F. Redfern, 7th Goorkha Rifles) official correction to last two letters of surname, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (2) £600-700 Lieutenant Alan Faulkner Redfern was first commissioned in August 1900 and served with the Devon Regiment in South Africa (Despatches London Gazette 7 May 1901). He joined the Indian Army in February 1903, was posted to the 7th Goorkha Rifles and served with them in Tibet.
Five: Warrant Officer Class 2 A. E. Day, Royal Field Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (97829 Gnr., 87th Bty. R.F.A.); 1914 Star, with clasp (97829 Sd. S. Sjt., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (97829 W.O. Cl. 2, R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (97829 Sd. Sjt., R.F.A.) minor contact marks on first and last, very fine and better (5) £200-240 Arthur Ernest Day was born in Dover, Kent. He attested for service in the Royal Artillery at London on 19 June 1893, aged 14 years, 3 months. Serving initially as a Boy, he was advanced to Gunner and posted to the 87th Battery R.F.A. in April 1897. With them he served in South Africa, January-July 1900, being invalided to England suffering from Enteric Fever. Returning to active duty, in November 1901 he was injured during the course of his duty in England, being kicked on the knee by a horse. He returned to South Africa, June 1904-June 1907 and was promoted to Saddler Corporal in April 1904, Saddler Sergeant in February 1910 and Saddler Staff Sergeant in June 1913. With the onset of the Great War he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 23 August (?) 1914. Appointed Saddler Quartermaster Sergeant in February 1915, he attained the rank of Warrant Officer 2nd Class Quartermaster Sergeant in June 1918. For his wartime services he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal (London Gazette 18 January 1919). He was discharged on 18 April 1919. Sold with copied service papers.
Five: Private W. Ralph, Royal Lancaster Regiment, who was seriously wounded on the Somme in July 1916 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (5959 Pte., R. Lanc. Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5959 Pte., R. Lanc. Regt.); 1914 Star, with clasp (5959 Pte., R. Lanc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (5959 Cpl., R. Lanc. R.), mounted as worn, last clasp on the first with sewn rivets and both Boer War awards with contact marks, edge bruising and polished, nearly very fine, the Great War issues rather better (5) £250-300 William Ralph was born in Salford, Manchester and enlisted in the Royal Lancaster Regiment direct from the 3rd (Militia) Battalion in May 1899, aged 18 years. Embarked for South Africa in June 1900, after serving a sentence for desertion, he joined the 1st Battalion and qualified for the above described Medals and clasps prior to returning to the U.K. in April 1903 (copy service record refers). Shortly afterwards convicted on charges of drunkenness and disorderly behaviour, Ralph was placed on the Army Reserve, but with the advent of hostilities in August 1914, he was mobilised and embarked for France with the 1st Battalion in August 1914. A few days later his unit was heavily engaged near Harcourt, suffering casualties of 443 men killed, wounded or missing, while in October further heavy losses were sustained in the fighting around Le Touquet, but for the moment at least Ralph appears to have emerged unscathed. Having then gained advancement to Acting Lance-Sergeant in November 1915, but been reduced to Private after another run-in with his seniors over a charge of drunkenness, he was seriously wounded in the left leg during fighting on the Somme in early July 1916 - most probably on ‘The First Day ‘, when the Battalion was ordered to attack enemy positions between Beaumont-Hamel and Serre on the 1st, many men falling in No Man’s Land as a result of heavy machine-gun and shell fire. Ralph was evacuated to the U.K. a few days later and was discharged as a Private in November 1917.
Three: Lieutenant-Colonel W. T. Barry, Indian Army Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut., I.S.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lieut., I.S.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. Col.) minor contact marks, good very fine and better (3) £280-320 William Thornburn Barry was born on 10 May 1874. He received his first commission in the East Surrey Regiment in June 1894. and was advanced to Lieutenant in December 1896. Appointed to the Indian Army and the 2nd (Queen’s Own) Rajput Light Infantry in December 1898. Serving in the Boer War with the I.S.C., he was present in operations in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River, 1899-1900, including the action at Kheis, 29 May; operations in the Orange River Colony, May-November 1900, including actions at Lindley, 1 June, Rhenoster River, 11 June, and Lindley, 26 June. Served also in operations in Transvaal, west of Pretoria, July-November 1900, including the action at Ventes Kroon, 7 & 9 August, and operations in Transvaal, November 1900-May 1902. Barry was promoted to Captain in June 1903 and Major in June 1912. Appointed a Magistrate in the Lahore Cantonment in January 1904, he was transferred to the Supernumary List in January 1914. In January 1918 he was ranked as a 2nd Class Magistrate. Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1920, he retired on 3 June 1924. Sold with copied roll extract, m.i.c. and other research.
Three: Corporal T. G. Day, 8th Battalion London Regiment, late Army Post Office Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Orange Free State, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (388 Pte., A.P.O. Corps); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (388 Corpl., A.P.O.C.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (5752 Cpl., 8/London Regt.) slight contact marks, very fine (3) £200-240.
Pair: Private F. Day, Rifle Brigade Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, Orange Free State (4986 Pte., Rifle Bde.) initial officially corrected, unofficial connection to last clasp; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (4986 Pte., Rifle Brigade) some edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (2) £100-140 George Frederick Day was born in West Ham, London. A Ship’s Steward by occupation, he attested for service in the Rifle Brigade at London on 4 February 1897, aged 22 years, 4 months. Serving with the 1st Battalion, he served in South Africa, March 1900-October 1902. He was transferred to the Army Reserve in April 1904 and discharged in February 1909. Sold with copied service papers. ‘Orange Free State’ clasp not confirmed.
Four: Major Sir G. L. L. B. Prescott, Life Guards Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Lt. Sir G. L. L. B. Prescott Bt., 2/L. Gds.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Capt. Sir G. L. L. B. Prescott. Bart., 2/Life Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (Major Sir G. L. L. B. Prescott. Bt.) mounted for display, in leather case by Garrard, London, lid inscribed, ‘Sir George Prescott, Bart’, good very fine and better (4) £600-800 George Lionel Lawson Bagot Prescott was born on 25 October 1875, the eldest son of Sir George Rendlesham Prescott, 4th Baronet and a Lieutenant in the 2nd Life Guards. Educated at Wellington College, he succeeded to the title as 5th Baronet in 1894. He was commissioned into the Militia - the 4th Battalion Cameronians, in 1895 and was commissioned into the 2nd Life Guards in 1898. With the Life Guards he served in the Boer War. In 1907 he was promoted to Captain and retired from the Army in 1908. With the onset of war, he returned to the 2nd Life Guards and saw service with the British Expeditionary Force in 1914. He later served as Military Secretary and A.D.C. to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1916. In 1919 he served with the North Russian Expeditionary Force. He died in 1942 and was succeeded by his brother - Sir Charles William Beeston Prescott as the 6th Baronet. The title became extinct in 1959. Sold with copied research. .
Five: Warrant Officer Class 1 F. Venn, Coldstream Guards Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (383 Pte., Coldstream Guards) 1914 Star, with copy clasp (383 Sgt., C. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (383A-W.O. Cl.1, C. Gds.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (383 C.S. Mjr., C. Gds.) first with edge bruising, fine; others very fine and better (5) £200-250 Frank Venn joined the Coldstream Guards on 27 January 1896. Was wounded in 1914. Retired in 1918 with a gratuity of £700. Sold with a large cloth badge.
Pair: Private E. Power, Royal Irish Fusiliers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Talana, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4300 Pte. E. Power, Rl. Irish Fus.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (4300 Pte. E. Power, 1st R.I.F.) engraved naming, slight edge bruising and contact marks, good very fine £280-320 Edward Power was born in Waterford. A Farm Labourer by occupation and a member of the Waterford Artillery, he attested for service with the Royal Irish Fusiliers at Waterford on 22 October 1892, aged 21 years. With them he served in India, February 1894-December 1897; Egypt, December 1897-September 1899, and South Africa, September 1899-August 1902. Serving in the Boer War he was posted ‘Missing’ at Blood River Poort on 17 September 1901 but later rejoined his unit. Transferred to the Army Reserve in January 1903, he was discharged after completing his period of service on 21 October 1908. Entitled to the K.S.A. with two clasps. Sold with copied service papers.
Five: Private W. Day, Royal Berkshire Regiment, late Royal Army Medical Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Defence of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (10596 Pte., R.A.M.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (10596 Pte., R.A.M.C.); 1914-15 Star (1466 Pte., R. Berks. R.); British War and Victory Medals (1466 Pte., R. Berks. R.) first two with some contact marks, nearly very fine and better (5) £160-200 Private Walter Day, Berkshire Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 30 March 1915. Later discharged and was on the Silver War Badge list. With copied m.i.c.
Four: Conductor T. S. Croce, Indian Ordnance Department, late Royal Field Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (23449 Tptr., R.F.A.) rank re-impressed; British War and Victory Medals (S-Serjt., I.O.D.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (Staff Serjt, I.OD.) first with some edge bruising, very fine and better (4) £140-180 Tom Seymour Croce was born in Dublin. A Telegraph Messenger by occupation, he attested for the Royal Artillery at Woolwich on 25 October 1897, aged 15 years, 6 months. He served initially as a Boy Trumpeter until November 1899 when he was appointed a Trumpeter. With the R.F.A. he served in South Africa, December 1899-October 1901 and was then posted to India, October 1901-June 1918, being ranked as a Gunner in December 1903 and attaining the rank of Serjeant in November 1908. He was transferred as a Staff Serjeant to the I.O.D. in September 1911 and attained the rank of Conductor in April 1923. Conductor Croce died at Netley Hospital on 27 March 1930. Sold with 14 sheets of copied service papers.
Four: Warrant Officer Class 2 E. Cook, Royal Fusiliers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (5111 Cpl., 2nd Rl. Fus.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5111 Serjt., Rl. Fusiliers); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5111 C. Sjt., R. Fus.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (5111 W.O. Cl. 2, R.F.), mounted as worn, together with a presentation shooting cup, silver, gilt interior, hallmarks for Birmingham 1910, of bowl shape with scallop design, engraved inscription to outer front, ‘Winners of the Prince of Wales Cup, 1909 / Sgt. E. Cook’, the Boer War pair joined by a shared suspension post, light contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine and better (Lot) £400-500 Ernest Cook was born in London and enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers at Hounslow direct from the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment in October 1894, aged 18 years. Advanced to Corporal in the 2nd Battalion shortly after the outbreak of hostilities in South Africa in 1899, he remained actively employed in that theatre of war until October 1902, in which period he was promoted to Sergeant in late 1901 and qualified for the above described Medals and clasps (copy service record refers). Subsequently employed in the East Indies 1904-07, he returned to the U.K. to take up an appointment in the 6th Battalion in the latter year, and remained continuously employed in that unit until attached to the R.F.C. Cadet Wing at St. Leonard’s-on-Sea in September 1917, a period that witnessed his advancement to Colour Sergeant in August 1910 and to Company Sergeant-Major in September 1914 - and the award of his L.S. & G.C. Medal in AO 117 of 1913. Cook was finally discharged in February 1919, having latterly returned to his duties in the 6th Battalion.
Pair: Private T. G. Day, King’s Royal Rifle Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (5815 Pte., K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (5815 Pte., K.R.R.C.) good very fine (2) £180-220 Thomas George Day was born in Winchester, Hampshire. A Servant by occupation, he attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps at London on 20 July 1890, aged 19 years, 3 months. With the 2nd Battalion he served in Gibraltar, December 1891-January 1895; Malta, January 1895-July 1896 and South Africa, July 1896-March 1898. He was transferred to the Army Reserve in March 1898 but was recalled to service in October 1899. With the 3rd Battalion K.R.R.C. he served in South Africa, November 1899-August 1902. Day was discharged on 4 August 1902. He died of natural causes in London on 5 August 1940. Sold with copied service papers and roll extracts.
Pair: Major S. Day, Essex Yeomanry, attached Army Gymnastic Staff, late Life Guards Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (2152 Tr., 2nd L. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Major) good very fine (3) £180-220 Trooper S. Day, 2nd Life Guards, served in the Boer War. He served in the relief of Kimberley, in operations in the Orange Free State, February-May 1900, including the action at Driefontein. In operations in Transvaal, May-June 1900, including actions near Johannesburg and Diamond Hill. In operations in the Orange River Colony, May-November 1900, including the action at Wiiterbergen. At the time of the Great War he was commissioned in the Essex Yeomanry and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war in 27 August 1918. He was latterly a Superintendent at the Army School of Physical and Bayonet Training, Aldershot. For his wartime services he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 5 July 1919). With copied research.
Pair: Private W. Day, Royal Army Medical Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (9922 Pte., R.A.M.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (9922 Pte., R.A.M.C.) some contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £140-180 William Ellis John Day was born in Old Buckenham, near Attleborough, Norfolk. A Fitter by occupation, he attested for the Medical Staff Corps on 26 January 1893, aged 21 years. With the M.S.C. he served until January 1896 when he was transferred to the Army Reserve. Recalled to service with the R.A.M.C. in October 1899, he served in South Africa, November 1899-October 1902. He then returned to the Army Reserve, June 1903-January 1905. Sold with copied service papers.
Five: Warrant Officer Class 2 M. Moore, Royal Munster Fusiliers Queen’s Mediterranean 1899-1902 (4005 Corpl., Rl. Mun. Fus.); 1914 Star, with (loose) clasp (7079 Sjt., R. Muns. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (7079 W.O. Cl.2, R. Mun. Fus.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (7079 W.O. Cl.II, R. Muns. Fus.) nearly very fine (5) £360-400 Sold with copied roll extract and m.i.c. The latter records entry into the France/Flanders theatre of war on 13 August 1914 but makes no mention of the award of a clasp to the Star.
Six: Temporary Warrant Officer Class 2 A. H. Ealey, Royal Engineers Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (8704 Sapr., R.E.); 1914 Star, with clasp (8704 Cpl., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (T.W.O. Cl. 2, R.E.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (8704 Sjt. - A.C.S. Mjr., R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (8704 Sjt., R.E.), mounted as worn, contact marks and a little polished, otherwise generally very fine (6) £350-400 Ealey was awarded his Meritorious Service Medal ‘in recognition of valuable services rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders’ (London Gazette 3 June 1919 refers).
Four: Quartermaster Duffadar Fazal Ahmed, Horse Transport Company, late 15th Mule Corps Tibet 1903-04, no clasp, silver issue (611 Driver Fazl Ahmed, 15th Pack Mule Corps); British War Medal (611 K-Dfdr. Fazal Ahmed, 15 Mule Cps.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (1620 Q-M-D. Fazal Ahmed, 1 Horse Transpt. Coy.); Indian Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (T.C.59469 Tr. Dfdr. Fazal Ahmed, 3 C.B.T. Coy.) nearly very fine (4) £300-350.
Four: Acting Corporal F. A. Tooze, Worcestershire Regiment 1914 Star , with clasp (10140 L. Cpl., 2/Worc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (10140 A. Cpl., Worc. R.) B.W.M. suspension a little slack; National Fire Brigades Association L.S. Medal, 1 clasp, Ten Years (11120 Frederick A. Tooze), bronze, fine and better (4) £160-200 Frederick Arthur Tooze was born in Worcester. A General Labourer by occupation and a member of the 5th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment (Militia), he attested for the Worcestershire Regiment on 10 September 1906, aged 18 years, 1 month. He was transferred to the Army Reserve in 1912. Mobilized in August 1914 he was taken onto the strength of the 2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment and entered into the France/Flanders theatre of war on 12 August 1914. He was invalided back to England on 27 January 1915 having contracted certain illnesses. He was discharged because of sickness on 7 May 1917 and was awarded the Silver War Badge. In 1922 he joined the Worcester Fire Brigade and was awarded the N.F.A. Long Service Medal in 1934. Sold with copied service papers, medical papers and m.i.c.
Four: Captain E. A. Titchmarsh, Indian Army, Royal Engineers 1914 Star (28112 Cpl., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Capt.) mounted court style for display, very fine (4) £200-250 Corporal Edward Arthur Titchmarsh, Royal Engineers, entered his first theatre of war on 8 September 1914. He was discharged to a commission in April 1915. Appointed a 2nd Lieutenant with the 7th Rajputs, he served with them throughout the war and beyond, serving as an Acting Captain in 1918 and Captain in 1920. Sold with copied m.i.c. (2); Annual Confidential Reports (6), 1915-22; and War Diary extracts.
Five: Driver J. Skinner, Royal Field Artillery 1914 Star , with (loose) clasp (45954 Dvr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (45954 Dvr., R.A.); Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (45954 Dvr., R.F.A.); together with a renamed India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (No.45954 Driver J. Skinner, R.F.A.) worn (6) £120-160.
Four: Warrant Officer Class 2 P. K. Delaney, Royal Engineers 1914 Star , with (loose) clasp (23066 Pnr., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (23086 Cpl., R.E.); Army L.S.& G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (1854187 W.O. Cl.II, R.E.) contact marks, good fine and better (4) £120-160 Sold with framed Warrant appointing Patrick Kevin Delaney to be Warrant Officer Class II, dated 9 March 1927. Note: glass unsuitable for posting.
Three: Corporal J. T. Harrington, Army Service Corps 1914-15 Star (M2-019268 Pte., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (M2-019268 Cpl., A.S.C.); together with a mounted set of three miniature dress medals Three: Driver G. Adsett, Army Service Corps 1914-15 Star (T4-041209 Dvr., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (T4-041209 Dvr., A.S.C.) Pair: 2nd Corporal F. Marriott, Royal Engineers 1914-15 Star (88049 Spr., R.E.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (88049 2 Cpl., R.E.) minor edge bruising and contact marks, very fine and better (lot) £80-100 Private James T. Harrington, A.S.C., entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 11 December 1914. Sold with identity disk; Princess Mary Christmas tin (empty) - inside inscribed with the recipient’s name, unit and number; cap badge; riband bar and copied m.i.c. Driver George Adsett, A.S.C., entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 25 September 1915. Sold with copied m.i.c. Sapper Fred Marriott, R.E., enlisted on 5 May 1915 and entered the France/Flanders theate of war on 21 May 1915. Latterly serving with the Railway Transport Department, he was discharged due to sickness on 19 August 1918 and was entitled to the Silver War Badge. Sold with copied m.i.c. and roll extract.
Three: Gunner W. Harris, Royal Field Artillery 1914-15 Star (99005 Gnr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (99005 Gnr., R.A.) Pair: Worker A. Shields, Queen Mary’s Auxiliary Army Corps British War and Victory Medals (14288 Wkr., Q.M.A.A.C.) Pair: E. H. Shirtliff, Merchant Navy British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Ernest H. Shirtliff) nearly extremely fine (7) £100-140 Gunner Walter Harris, R.F.A. entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 19 September 1915. With copied m.i.c. Alice Shields enlisted into the Q.M.A.A.C. on 16 November 1917 and served in France/Flanders, 6 December 1917-30 January 1918. She was discharged as medically unfit on 4 September 1919 and was awarded the Silver War Badge. Sold with copied m.i.c. and roll extracts. Ernest Hamshaw Shirtliff was born in Stainforth, Yorkshire in 1872. Sold with some copied service papers showing service in the Second World War. .
Three: Private A. E. Day, Grenadier Guards 1914-15 Star (22523 Pte., G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (22523 Pte., G. Gds.) nearly extremely fine (3) £40-60 Arthur Edwin Day was born in Holdfast, near Upton-on-Severn, Worcestershire. He attested for the Grenadier Guards on 1 December 1893, aged 21 years, 4 months. Serving in the the Boer War as Private 4635 he was awarded the Queen’s medal with clasps for Cape Colony and South Africa 1902. Transferred to the Army Reserve in July 1902, he was discharged in November 1905. Believed to be the same person, with the start of the Great War, he rejoined the Grenadier Guards as Private 22523. With them he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 16 March 1915. Sold with copied service papers and copied m.i.c.
Three: Lieutenant-Colonel P. L. C. Webster, Army Educational Corps, late Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) very fine (3) £100-140 Philip Lionel Clive Webster was born on 12 February 1892, the son of Lionel W. Webster of Shiplake-on-Thames. He was educated at Haileybury where, in 1910, he played for the School XV. He was then an Exhibitioner at Merton College, Oxford, 1911-14 and gained a B.A. in 1917. Webster was commissioned into the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in August 1914, being attached to the 2nd Battalion in 1915. He served in France, 17 May-1 October 1915 and 22 May-6 August 1916 and was wounded. He was promoted to Lieutenant in November 1915 and Captain in April 1917. Transferred to the Army Educational Corps in November 1920, he was promoted to Major in January 1939, Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1942, Acting Lieutenant-Colonel in August 1943 and attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in December 1944. During 1929-30 he was employed as an officer at the Royal Military College and in 1943 was Chief Education Officer Western Command. He retired as an Honorary Colonel in the Royal Army Educational Corps in February 1947. Sold with copied service details.
Three: Captain R. F. C. Elmslie, Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) very fine (3) £120-160 Ronald Frederick Clarence Elmslie was appointed a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Monmouthshire R.E. in September 1914 and was advanced to Temporary Lieutenant in May 1915 and Temporary Captain in November 1917. Elmslie was wounded in early 1915 when serving with No.4 Siege Company R.M.R.E. He was later posted to No.6 Siege Company R.M.R.E. in France before being withdrawn to Monmouth to command the newly formed No.8 Army Troops Company R.M.R.E. The 7th and 8th Army Troop Companies were war-time companies, commanded by a Captain and consisting of 3 officers and approximately 100 men. The 8th Company served in Trouville, France, June-October 1917; it was then moved to Arquata Scrivia, Italy. Here the unit split, with half going to the front and half remaining with Elmslie at Arquata Scriva. At the end of the war Elmslie was posted to Constantinople from whence he was despatched to Anatolia for several months in charge of water supply; he then went to Salonika to take over the large R.E. Base Store Depot until it was disposed of. The 8th Company, which suffered 2 fatal casualties, was disbanded in Italy early in 1919. Elmslie relinquished his commission whilst retaining the rank of Captain in June 1920. Sold with some copied research.
Five: Lance-Corporal A. E. Standen, 2nd Rhodesia Regiment, afterwards British South Africa Police Reserve 1914-15 Star (1042 Pte., 2-Rhodesia Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (1042 L.-Cpl., 2-Rhodesia Regt.); Southern Rhodesia Medal for War Service 1939-45; Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Arthur E. Standen), the earlier awards a little polished, otherwise generally very fine and a particularly rare combination of awards (5) £400-500 Arthur Edward Standen, the son of Frederick Watt Standen, a Manager of the Standard Bank of South Africa, and the grandson of a Deputy Assistant Commissary General in the British Army, first entered the African theatre of war as a Private in the 2nd Rhodesian Regiment in March 1915. He subsequently served in the 1939-45 War as a Constable in the British South Africa Police Reserve in Umtali District, Southern Rhodesia, and was awarded his Special Constabulary Long Service Medal in February 1946; also see Lot 32 for his Grandfather’s South Africa 1834-53 Medal.
An unusual and interesting group of nineteen awarded to Alexander Gault MacGowan, an accredited War Correspondent in the 1939-45 War, whose extraordinary career commenced with service as a subaltern in the Manchester Regiment and as an R.A.F. Observer in the Great War: having been wounded in North Africa in 1943, he was captured by the Germans in France in 1944, but escaped ‘through a series of adventures that would make a Hollywood scenarist bite his nails with envy’ - and briefly fought alongside the Maquis 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; France, Croix de Guerre 1939-1940, with bronze star on ribbon; Academic Palms, Officer’s breast badge, gilt metal and enamel, with rosette on riband; War Commemorative Medal 1914-18; Somme Commemorative Medal; Colonial Medal, 2 clasps, Algerie, Maroc; War Commemorative Medal 1939-45, 1 clasp, Liberation; Medal of Liberated France 1947; Morocco, Order of Ouissam Alaouite Cherifien, Officer’s breast badge, gilt metal and enamel, with rosette on riband; Portugal, Republic, Military Order of Christ, Officer’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband; U.S.A., Purple Heart, gilt metal and enamel, the Legion of Honour severely chipped in places and the Portuguese piece less so, otherwise generally good very fine (19) £3000-3500 Ex Sotheby’s 6 March 1986. Alexander Gault MacGowan, who ‘crammed more dangerous adventures into his lifetime than most men would care to experience’, was born February 1894 and was educated at Manchester Grammar School. Mobilised as a pre-war member of the Cheshire Yeomanry on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he was commissioned into the 24th (Oldham) Battalion, Manchester Regiment in October 1915 and is believed to have been wounded by rifle-grenade fragments in the head and legs on the Somme in July 1916. Declared as ‘unfit for anything other than mounted duty’, he transferred to the Royal Air Force and went on to serve as an Observer on the Italian front in 1918. Commencing his career as a journalist in 1922, when he worked as a correspondent for the Associated Press out in India (where MacGowan also held a commission on the Indian Army Reserve of Officers), he moved to a new appointment in Mesopotamia in the following year. Indeed for much of the 1920s and 1930s he travelled extensively, working variously for The Times and Daily Express, and others newspapers, and was credited with discovering a new pass into Little Tibet, for which he received the thanks of the Survey of India, in addition to participating in the first flight over the Orinoco Delta and the Venezuelan Ilanos, between Trinidad and Maracay, and the first flight between Trinidad and British Guiana. Added to which he had further adventures during an epic motor car trip across the desert from Kurdistan and Mosul to Syria, the first of its kind. He later reported, ‘Hold ups were frequent, and an officer who tried it after me was stripped of everything and had to walk naked into the Lebanons! ‘In 1934 MacGowan joined the New York Sun, for whom he reported on the Spanish Civil War and produced two controversial features entitled ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel of Spain ‘and ‘The Red Vultures of the Pyrenees ‘, for he had no time for the Spanish loyalists and their left-wing sympathisers. He also had an assignment with the French Foreign Legion out in Algeria and Morocco in 1937, in addition to covering the coronation of George VI in the same year. In fact, MacGowan was still working in London on the renewal of hostilities, and accordingly he was assigned to cover the events of the Battle of Britain, in addition to acting as ‘Press Observer with the Commandos in the raid on Dieppe’. As an accredited War Correspondent with the American forces, he next travelled to North Africa and was with the French when they attacked Jabel Mansour in April 1943, when he was ‘wounded in the leg .. and was awarded the Purple Heart by special order of President Roosevelt. For the same incident he was cited for bravery and awarded the Croix de Guerre by General Henri Giraud.’ Both awards were announced in the New York Times. In the following year he reported on the Allied landings in Normandy and was attached to General Omar Bradley’s forces, riding in the jeep of the first American to reach the historic island of Mont Saint Michel. But, as subsequently confirmed by German radio, such scoops were shortly thereafter curtailed, for he was captured at Chatres on 15 August 1944: ‘MacGowan’s experience, following his capture, was unusual. Upon arrival at Chalons-sur-Marne with Makin [another correspondent who had been mortally wounded when their jeep was originally fired upon by two German armoured cars], he was placed in the temporary custody of a group of German war correspondents of the Presse-kompanie. They treated him well, but eventually delivered him to a prisoner of war camp on the line of the German retreat. From there he was started on a journey eastward aboard a train, en route to Germany. At 2 a.m., after six hours in the slow-moving train, and as the guards drowsed, MacGowan opened the compartment door and jumped from the car, fell and ran, with bullets flying about him. Still in France, he was fortunate in reaching a group of Maquis, or French resistance forces. Once he had established his identity, they hid him until the U.S. forces had advanced to the area in September. Interviewed for the World’s Press News after his return to England, the publication described British-born MacGowan as the only ‘British correspondent ‘ever known to have escaped after capture, with the exception of Winston Churchill in his escape from the Boers during the South African War in 1899’ (Europe Made Free: Invasion 1944 refers). Having ‘lived a life like Robin Hood’s’ with the Maquis, and accompanied them with the advancing Americans at the capture of a local town, MacGowan duly reported to the bar of the Paris hotel that served as a press H.Q. - the rest of his colleagues almost dropped their glasses, ‘for the usually immaculate MacGowan was dressed in borrowed French civilian clothes that fitted him like Europe fits Hitler - too big in some places, too tight in others’. In October he returned to the Sun’s offices in New York, for the first time in five years, where he was hailed as a conquering hero, ‘trim and fit in his war correspondent’s uniform, with a chest full of campaign ribbons and decorations from two World Wars.’ Returning to N.W.Europe in the Spring of 1945, MacGowan accompanied General Patton’s forces and visited the scene of Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest ‘at Berchtesgaden at the War’s end. He subsequently reported on the ‘Big Three ‘Potsdam conference. MacGowan - a ‘tall, dark-haired man, with a ‘devil-may-care ‘look in his eyes ‘‘ - was European Manager of the New York Sun 1946-50, during which period he reported on U.N.O. and N.A.T.O. forces, and latterly editor and publisher of European Life. In so far as his foreign Honours and Awards are concerned, it would be impossible to ascertain the validity of his entitlement to the French War Comemmorative Medal 1914-18 and Colonial Medal, although given his Great War services were purely with the British, the former seems unlikely. However, relevant editions of Who’s Who do verify the following: ‘Officier de l’Instruction Publique, 1930 [a.k.a. Palms Academic]; Officer of Military Order of Christ, Portugal, 1933; Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, 1934; Officer of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite, Morocco, 1938; Croix de Guerre, 1943; Medaille de la France Liberee, 1949’, together with mention of his Purple Heart. Sold with an extensive file of research, including correspondence with MacGo
Eight: Major E. N. Deall, Royal Engineers and Sherwood Foresters, late Seaforth Highlanders 1914-15 Star (3133 Pte., Sea. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) erasure of ‘2’? before ‘Lieut.’; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 1st Army; War Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1937; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated ‘1940’, with three ‘G.VI.R.’ bars, these all dated ‘1951’, mounted as worn, nearly very fine and better (8) £160-200 Efficiency Decoration London Gazette 6 February 1940. ‘Major, Royal Engineers’. ‘3 Clasps’ to the Efficiency Decoration London Gazette 16 March 1951. ‘Major, Foresters’. Major E. N. Deall was posted to the Sherwood Foresters from the Royal Engineers, by London Gazette 12 April 1940. Sold with copied gazette extracts.
Seven: Acting Serjeant A. H. Stafford, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, late Liverpool Regiment and Lancashire Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (9744 Pte., L’pool. R.); British War and Victory Medals (9744 Pte., L’pool. R.); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21 (3436681 A. Sjt., S. & T. Corps); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (3436681 Cpl., Lan. Fus.) contact marks, fine and better (7) £120-160 Arthur Hartington Stafford was born on 20 July 1886 and enlisted at the Depot of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 25 October 1905 and was posted to their 1st Battalion in February 1906. On 18 August 1906 he was medically discharged from the regiment. He enlisted in the Liverpool Regiment on 10 December 1906 and was posted to their 2nd Battalion in March 1907. Serving in India with the 2nd Battalion when the Great War began, he remained in India with the unit throughout the war, seeing active service at Landakai Ridge, November 1914-October 1916. In March 1918 he joined the Marri Field Force for operations lasting until May 1918. He re-enlisted in the Liverpool Regiment on 31 March 1919. In October 1919 he was appointed an Acting Serjeant and was seconded to the Indian Army Service Corps. In January 1920 he was transferred to the 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers whilst continuing his secondment to the I.A.S.C. During February-August 1920 he served with the Waziristan Field Force in operations against the Mahsud and Wana Wazir tribesmen. Stafford rejoined the 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers in January 1922 and in December 1926 attained the rank of Lance-Serjeant. He was discharged on 18 September 1928. Living at 17 Blade Street, Lancaster at the time of the Second World War, on 20 December 1940 Stafford enlisted into the Royal Army Service Corps as a Private. After attaining the rank of Serjeant he was discharged, his services no longer required, on 14 February 1942. Not content to be idle in time of war, Stafford then volunteered for the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in December 1942. Attaining the rank of Leading Aircraftsman, he served at R.A.F. Castle Kenedy, Milltown and Lossiemouth. He was released from the service on 14 December 1947. Aged 60 at the time of his release, he had served 298 days in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers; 12 years, 315 days with the Liverpool Regiment; 8 years, 246 days with the Lancashire Fusiliers; 84 days with the I.A.S.C.; 1 year 57 days with the R.A.S.C. and 4 years, 48 days with the R.A.V.R. Sold with copied service details.
Four: Guardsman J. G. L. Warren, Scots Guards 1914-15 Star (5606 Pte., S. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (5506 Pte., S. Gds.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (2688480 Gdmn., S. Gds. ) contact marks, very fine (4) £60-80 Four: Corporal C. Guld, Royal Field Artillery 1914-15 Star (827 Bmbr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (827 Cpl., R.A.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (935039 Cpl., R.F.A.); with R.A. cap badge, contact marks, fine and better (9) £100-140.
Four: Captain L. M. McCoy-Hill, Indian Army, late Middlesex Regiment 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., Midd’x. R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lieut.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (Capt. C. M. McCoy-Hill, 55-Rifles) note different initials, nearly extremely fine (4) £200-240 Lancelot McCoy McCoy-Hill was commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment in 1915 and was advanced to Lieutenant in the following year. After serving in France with the regiment he transferred to the Indian Army in 1918. With the 55th Coke’s Rifles he served in South Persia, 1918-19 and retired with a gratuity on 25 June 1922. Sold with some copied service and campaign details.
Three: Serjeant G. P. Mason, Army Service Corps, late Petty Officer Mechanic, Royal Naval Air Service 1914-15 Star (F.2807 P.O.M., R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals (M2119803 Sjt., A.S.C.) some contact marks, very fine (3) £80-120 George Percy Mason was born in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, on 8 September 1889. A Chauffeur by occupation, he enlisted into the R.N.A.S. as a Petty Officer Mechanic on 28 December 1914. Based on Pembroke III and President II he served with the Armoured Car Division in France. In August 1915 he was transferred to the Army. Sold with copied service paper and m.i.c.
Three: Private A. G. Smith, Army Service Corps, late Petty Officer Mechanic, Royal Naval Air Service 1914-15 Star (F.1753 A. Smith, P.O.M., R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals (M-205749 Pte. A. G. Smith, A.S.C.), note initials, very fine (3) £80-120 Archibald Smith was born in Glasgow on 3 March 1883. A Chauffeur Mechanic by occupation, he enlisted into the R.N.A.S. as a Petty Officer Mechanic (E) on 29 October 1914. Based at Pembroke III and President II, he saw active service with the Armoured cars in France. Later transferred to the Army. Sold with copied service paper, m.i.c. and other research.
Four: Sergeant J. H. Osborn, Coldstream Guards 1914-15 Star (7225 Pte., C. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (7225 Sjt., C. Gds.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (2646137 Sjt., C. Gds.) some contact wear and edge bruising, therefore generally nearly very fine or better (4) £120-150. #120-150 1027. Three: Lieutenant J. C. Pistorius, 12th Mounted Rifles 1914-15 Star (Lt., 12th M.R.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Lt.) very fine (3) £80-100.
Three: Captain R. A. Morrison, Army Education Corps British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (Lieut., A.E.C.); together with a mounted set of three miniature dress medals, good fine (6) £120-160 Robert Archy Morrison was born on 24 March 1892. During the Great War he served in France/Flanders, February-April 1917 and was wounded. Served as Education Officer in Turkey with the temporary rank of Captain, May-December 1920. Appointed a Lieutenant in the Army Education Corps in January 1921 and promoted to Captain in February 1931. With riband bar.
Three: Major C. H. D. La Touche, Indian Army British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Major C. H. Digges-la-Touche); India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21 (Maj. C. H. D. La Touche, 16 Cavy.) nearly extremely fine (3) £220-260 M.I.D. London Gazette 15 August 1917. Cecil Huntingdon Digges La Touche was born on 4 April 1883 and educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1902 and was appointed a Lieutenant in the Indian Army in 1905 - serving as a Squadron Officer in the 16th Cavalry. He was appointed Assistant Commandant of the Military Police at Lashio, Burma in October 1908. Promoted to Captain in 1911, he returned to the 16th Cavalry in 1912 as Squadron Officer. In 1915 he was appointed Squadron Commander and in 1917 was promoted to Major. For his wartime services in Mesopotamia he was mentioned in despatches. On 22 December 1918 he was appointed D.A.Q.M.G. on the Staff in India and in April 1920 was appointed D.A.Q.M.G., Wazirforce, on the N.W. Frontier. He died at Lahore on 3 May 1922. Sold with copied summary of service and some ‘La Touche’ family history.
Seven: Bombardier R. V. Merry, Royal Artillery, afterwards a member of the Southern Rhodesian Forces British War and Victory Medals (949 Bmbr., R.A.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (949 Bmbr., R.A.); Southern Rhodesia Medal for War Service 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, generally good very fine and rare combination of awards (6) £400-450 Ralph V. Merry, a member of the Royal Field Artillery (Territorials), arrived in Southern Rhodesia in April 1928, where he initially settled with his brother at Banket. He subsequently served in the Army in the 1939-45 War and qualified for the Southern Rhodesia Medal for War Service. His Jubilee and Coronation Medals require verification.
A most unusual group of six awarded to Captain H. V. Dorey, Rhodesian Forces, late Tientsin Volunteer Fire Brigade and Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. V. Dorey); War Medal 1939-45; Tientsin Volunteer Fire Brigade Long Service, silver, with gold engraved centre and gold-faced fire axes between arms, by Vaughton, hallmarks for Birmingham 1907, the reverse engraved, ‘Tientsin, 1909 to 1914, Presented by the British Municipal Councils for Long Service to H. V. Dorey’, complete with ‘T.V.F.B.’ riband buckle for wearing, in a fitted Merry Weather & Sons Ltd., London case of issue, with gilt ‘T.V.F.B.’ title to lid; China, Medal for Military Academy Excellence, silver-gilt and enamel, obverse, portrait of Marshal Wu Pei-Fu, reverse, enamelled Chinese flags and characters, complete with original riband and hook-fastener for wearing, in a Spencer & Co., London case; China, a silver-gilt and enamel star-shaped award, the enamelled obverse with Chinese characters and flowers, the plain reverse officially numbered ‘1101’, complete with integral loop, chain and hook device for wearing, in a Spencer & Co., London case, upper reverse centre on the fifth with chipped enamel, otherwise good very fine or better (6) £800-1000 Harry Vaughan Dorey, who was born in London in July 1892, was otherwise employed at a General Storekeepers and Gentlemens Outfitters in Victoria Road, Tientsin, during the period of his service in the local Volunteer Fire Brigade. Returning to the U.K. from Taku, China at his own expense in early 1916, he enlisted in the Army Service Corps that April, and was commissioned shortly thereafter. Ordered to France in July 1916, he was attached to 129th Siege Battery, R.G.A., until invalided home in the following year as a result of ‘an explosion of an ammunition dump through enemy action at Roclincourt on approximately 24 May 1917 .. I was in the New Zealand Hospital at Hazebrouke from 11 June until evacuated to England on 19 July to the 5th Southern General Hospital.’ Demobilised as a Captain, Dorey arrived in Rhodesia ‘from China with his sister (Mrs. Thompson) and four children’ in June 1926, and settled there as a farmer at Bromley. Recalled in the 1939-45 War, he was appointed a Lieutenant and Platoon C.O. at Bromley in August 1940, Quarter-Master of the 1st Battalion, Rhodesian Regiment in January 1942, and placed on the War Emergency Reserve of Officers in August 1942; sold with a quantity of related research.
A group of five awarded to Captain A. F. Watts, Canadian Expeditionary Forces, awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus for services in North Russia British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, no clasp, these two unnamed; Russia, Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd Class breast badge with swords, by Eduard, St. Petersburg, 39 x 39mm., gold and enamel, ‘56’ gold and St. Petersburg mark for 1908-17 on eyelet, manufacturer’s name on reverse, lower left interarm eagle with sword hilt replaced; together with a mounted set of five miniature dress medals, the C.V.S.M. with clasp, the Order of St. Stanislaus in silver-gilt and enamel, with handle of one sword missing; together with two identity tags, Capt. A. F. Watts, CE. Cdn.’, good very fine and better (12) £1600-2000 Alexander Francis Watts was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on 4 May 1894. An Accountant by occupation and a member of the 90th Winnipeg Rifles, he was commissioned into the 90th Battalion at Winnipeg on 1 November 1915. Posted overseas in June 1916 he was transferred to the 8th Battalion and in March 1917 to the 18th Reserve Battalion. He was on command to the Royal Flying Corps, 1 June-20 November 1917. He proceeded overseas to North Russia in September 1918 and was promoted to Acting Captain. He remained in North Russia until September 1919 at which time he was ranked as Temporary Captain and had been awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus 3rd Class. Returning to Canada he was discharged at Winnipeg on 4 October 1919. Living in Vancouver and employed as an Investigator, whilst on the Reserve of Officers attached to the Winnipeg Rifles, he re-engaged on 16 November 1940. He served with the South Alberta Regiment in Canada and was honourably discharged on 25 July 1946. Captain Watts died on 29 January 1964. Sold with original letter with envelope from Alexander Watts to Janet Walters (they married in 1921), written on paper headed, ‘The Canadian Syren, Northern Russia Expeditionary Force, Army Post Office, London, dated 14 May 1919: ‘My Dearest Janet, No I have’nt forgotten about my little girlie, how could I, but the reason I have’nt written is that we have been on the move rather fast lately and have been sleeping under the stars most of the time .. For the last three weeks we have been pushing on and have taken three small villages and the train has only just caught up to us. They had to repair the track as they came on, which was blown up in almost every hundred yards and all the bridges either blown or burned. .. The American Railway Troops are working at it and we have taken over all the railway ahead of Saroka. At present we are only two miles or so from Lake Onega, so you see we are getting on a bit. However I think our time is getting short out here as there are any amount of English troops and we are about the only ones left who are not regulars. ..’ With framed ‘Notary Public, Seattle, Washington, 1920, certificate of award for the Order of St. Stanislaus, written in Russian and English: ‘Order 278, dated Sept. 13th 1919. In recognition of valuable services rendered to the Russian Army, and activities within the Northern Region, I award the Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd Class, with Swords and Bow,- to Captain Alexander F. Watts, of the British Army, Canadian Detachment. Signed (Printed) Miller, Lieutenant-General, General Staff’. Also with framed Statement of Service in the Canadian Armed Forces (2) - for World Wars I and II; photographs of the recipient; photographs of his and his wife’s memorial stone; copied service papers and copied war history extracts.
Three: Stoker W. Ellis, Royal Naval Reserve British War and Victory Medals (3134T Sto., R.N.R.); Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (1219V Sto., R.N.R.) edge bruising Four: Corporal J. H. Shann, Royal West Kent Regiment 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed, mounted as worn Three: Aircraftsman P. Grove, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal, all unnamed, extremely fine Family group: Four: Flight Lieutenant N. A. Simpson, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed Pair: J. Herold, Women’s Auxiliary Air Force War and Africa Service Medals (F46788 J.Herold) good very fine and better (22) £120-160 John Henry Shan was born on 2 February 1920 and enlisted at London on 9 May 1938. During the Second World War he served in Malta, 1 August 1939-9 April 1944, and thereafter was based in the U.K. He was discharged on 14 November 1944 due to ‘ceasing to fulfil Army Physical Requirements’. Sold with Regular Army Certificate of Service; Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; postcard photograph of the recipient and another group photograph; and Ministry of Pensions papers. Medals to Grove in card forwarding box addressed to ‘P. Grove Esq, 15, Westward Road, Broughton Heath, Chester’. Also with R.A.F. Certificate of Discharge - showing service in the R.A.F. from 10 June 1940 and discharge on 29 June 1943 due to Physical Unfitness. Medals to Husband and wife. Those to Simpson sold with a bronze sports medal (Inter Squadron Runners-up 1939-40); Identity Disk (2) on chain, one named (162451 Simpson N. A., R.A.F., R.C.), the other (R.C. 162451 R.A.F.); R.A.F. Pass Card, named to N. A. Simpson at St. Athan 32 M.U. Medals to Herold with riband bar; Identity Disk (2) (46788 J. Herold, W.A.A.F., C.E.), and medal forwarding slip. Also with eagle badge.
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