Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Capture of Deig (E. Skinner, 22nd Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, edge bruise and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and very rare £3000-3500 Only one corporal and seven privates of the 22nd Foot lived to claim the medal, all with the single clasp for the capture of Deig. Two other examples have been on the market, one of which resides in the Patiala Collection in India. Approximately 103 clasps for Capture of Deig were issued to European recipients. edward Skinner was admitted to Chelsea Hospital as an out-pensioner on 22 March 1820, due to ‘long service, ill health and unfit’. Born at Lambeth, Middlesex, he served 3 years as a Sergeant, 1 year 10 months as a Corporal, and 17 years 10 months as a Private, of which 16 years he served in the East Indies. £3000-£3500
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Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Nathl. Sydenham, 41st Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, very fine £800-1000 Ex Hamilton-Smith Collection 1927, Dalrymple-White Collection 1946, and Elson Collection 1963. nathaniel Sydenham was born at Honiton, Devon, and was a tailor prior to his joining the 41st Foot at Chelmsford on 13 June 1811, aged 19. According to his discharge papers he served ‘In America for two years, received four bayonet wounds when one of a forlorn hope at ‘Fort Eyrie’ and was the only survivor out of 10 men sent out on this occasion. In France for five months and 8 days. In the East Indies for fifteen years one hundred and forty six days and was present during the whole of the Burmese War.’ He was twice promoted to Corporal, October 1823 to September 1824, and May 1830 to September 1832, but was discharged in the rank of Private on 25 July 1838, ‘worn out by Service, frequent attacks of fever with abstinate neuralgic affections of the muscles of the loins and lower extremities’. he did not claim a medal for Fort Detroit to which he was surely entitled. Sold with copy discharge papers. £800-£1000
Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (P. McArdle, 44th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, nearly very fine £700-900 Ex Phillips Collection 1925, Hamilton-Smith Collection 1927, and Dalrymple-White Collection 1946. patrick McArdle was born in the Parish of Keady, County Armagh, and enlisted into the 24th Foot on 2 April 1812, still only 13 years of age. He transferred to the 13th Foot in October 1822, and finally to the 44th Foot on 25 September 1823, at Fort William. He was discharged at Ghazepore on 5 July 1826, confirmed at Horse Guards on 19 June 1827, in consequence of ‘enlargement of the liver and spleen and frequent attacks of intermittent fever - worn out’. Sold with copy discharge papers. £700-£900
Army of India 1799-1826, 2 clasps, Nepaul, Ava (S. Clough, 53rd Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, good very fine and rare £1800-2200 Ex Gaskell Collection 1911, Needes Collection 1940, Dalrymple-White Collection 1946, and Elson Collection 1963. only 7 officers and 10 men of the 53rd received this medal for Nepaul. Clough’s medal is unique to the 53rd with an additional clasp for Ava gained with the 13th Foot. Assistant Surgeon Miller was attached to the 53rd Foot in Nepaul and to the 47th Foot at Ava but is shown on the roll of the latter regiment. samuel Clough was a weaver from Oldham, Lancashire, prior to enlisting into the 53rd Foot. He was admitted to Chelsea Hospital as an out-pensioner from the 13th Foot on 11 October 1826, aged 39, in consequence of ‘wounded right leg and long service’. He is stated to have served in the 53rd for 17 years 8 months, and then in the 13th Foot for 4 years 1 month, of which he spent 19 years 11 months on India service. Sold with copy Chelsea Hospital admission details. £1800-£2200
Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Corpl. J. Eakins, 54th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, very fine £700-900 First recorded at Glendining, September 1903. james Eakins was born at Curhonough, County Cavan, and enlisted into the 95th Foot on 25 June 1817. He transferred to the 54th Foot on 1 December 1818, at Sunderland, County Durham, then aged 19, for unlimited service, and spent the period from May 1822 to October 1829 in the East Indies. He was discharged in the rank of Private, due to intermittent fever and epilepsy, on 12 November 1830, having served as a Corporal for 264 days and as a Sergeant for 2 years. His conduct was stated to have been ‘very bad’. Sold with copy discharge papers. £700-£900
Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Poona (Lieut. A. Cuppage, 65th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, suspension claw re-fixed, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore nearly very fine and rare £3500-4000 Ex Dalrymple-White Collection 1946 and Elson Collection 1963. only 75 clasps for Poona issued to European recipients, including 8 officers and 34 other ranks of the 65th Foot. adam Cuppage was born at Dunfin, County Antrim, on 29 February 1794. He was appointed Ensign in the 65th Foot on 11 March 1813, and promoted to Lieutenant in August 1815. He served with the 65th Foot on the borders of Scindiah’s territory in Guzerat from November 1814 to May 1815, Lieutenant-Colonel Holmes, E.C.S. in command; in Kathiawar and Kutch from June 1815 to May 1816, when present at the taking of Juria, Bunda, Anjar, Dwarka, Kuncote, and Dingee, Lieutenant-Colonel East, E.C.S. in command; in the Deccan from October 1816 till January 1819, during the whole Mahratta campaign, present at the capture of Poonah, 16 March 1817, Major-General Sir L. Smith in command; in Kutch, February and March 1819, Major-General Sir W. Keir Grant in command; in the Persian Gulf from October 1819 to April 1820, at the capture of Ras-al-Khyma and Zyah forts, Major-General Sir W. Keir Grant in command; on the coast of Arabia from January 1821 to March 1821, in the action of Ben Boo Ali, 2d March, when the tribe of Wahbee Arabs was annihilated, and on which occasion Lieutenant Cuppage was wounded. in his Statement of Services made in 1829, Cuppage notes in respect of his wounds, ‘No Pay received & no Pension granted from delay in obtaining & forwarding the necessary certificates’. He married at Edinburgh on 26 August 1824, Mary Hughes Bulkely McDonald, and had produced by the close of 1829 three sons and a daughter, namely John McDonald, Thomas Hughes, Adam, and Margaret Hughes Cuppage. He was placed on half-pay on the unattached list on 13 November 1835. £3500-£4000
Army of India 1799-1826, 4 clasps, Allighur, Battle of Delhi, Laswarree, Battle of Deig (T. Davis, 76th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine and very rare £7000-9000 Ex Hyde Greg Collection 1887, Whitaker Collection 1896, and Tinlin Collection 1965. only 23 medals issued with 4 clasps, including 14 to British regiments, and five with this combination of clasps, all to the 76th Foot - Lord Lake’s ‘Handfull of heroes’. £7000-£9000
Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Nepaul (John Connister, 87th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise, nearly very fine £1200-1500 john Connister was born at Kilbride, County Roscommon, and enlisted into the 87th Foot at Athlone on 28 February 1810, aged 16, for unlimited service. He served in India from September 1812 until May 1826, and was discharged on 9 June 1826, due to long service. His conduct was stated to have been ‘very bad’. sold with copy discharge papers. £1200-£1500
Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (T. Wright, 89th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, very fine £700-900 thomas Wright was born at Wolverhampton and enlisted for the 89th Foot on 14 September 1816, aged 20. He served in the ‘Concan and Deccan wars under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Brothers and Major-General Sir W. Keir Grant in the years 1818-19; also in the Burman Empire from the commencement to the conclusion of the war in that country’. He was discharged in 1837, due to illness, his character stated as being ‘very good’. sold with copy discharge papers. £700-£900
Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Poona (Serjt. John Hooper, Eur. Regt.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, edge bruising, otherwise very fine £2500-3000 First recorded at Glendining, October 1912, and in the Lovell Collection 1977. only 75 clasps for Poona issued to European recipients, including 6 to the 103rd Bombay European Regiment. £2500-£3000
New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1847 (Col. Thos. Bernd. Collinson, Ryl. Engrs.) officially impressed naming, toned, extremely fine and probably unique to an Army recipient £1500-2000 Ex Graveson Collection, Glendining March 1989. confirmed on Roll 7681/359 Royal Engineers 'Medals Issued on 25 February 1870', Rank and Name: Colonel Collinson, Thomas Bernard; Rank at the period the Medal was earned: Captain; Record of Service in the Field on which the claim is founded: Engaged against the natives in Cook Straits 1847, Lieut. Col. McCleverty Commanding. Present at the repulse of 400 natives in attack at Wanganui on 19 July 1847.’ Believed to be the only Army recipient of a medal with this date. thomas Bernard Collinson was bom on 18 November 1821, the son of the Rev John Collinson and Amelia King, at Gateshead, County Durham. He entered the Army at the age of 16 years and 8 months in the Cadet Company of the Royal Engineers on 16 June 1838, being promoted Lieutenant in March 1841, Captain in April 1847, Brevet of Major in October 1858, Lieutenant-Colonel in September 1860, Brevet of Colonel in September 1865, Colonel in July 1871, and Hon. Major-General and retired on full pay on 2 August 1873. His service comprised 21 years and 217 days at Home, and 13 years and 195 days Abroad. His Home service included terms at Chatham, Woolwich, on the Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, the Great Exhibition in 1857, and further terms at Woolwich and Chatham, and at Aldershot and Dover. His service abroad included China, New Zealand, Corfu, Malta, two periods in Corfu interspersed with Special Service in Egypt, September to November 1858, and Malta. as a young Lieutenant Collinson left Woolwich on the Honourable East India Company Ship Mount Stewart Elphinstone on 24 May 1843, bound for Hong Kong. There, his principal work was making an exact survey of Hong Kong Island, employing knowledge gained from three years with the Ordnance Survey in England and Ireland. Ambitious to make a perfect map, he utilised the contour system that had recently been developed and adopted in the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, also adding soundings and other nautical information from Admiralty charts by Captain Edward Belcher, R.N., H.M.S. Sulphur (Commander Richard Collinson, R.N., Thomas' brother, also produced Admiralty charts of the China coast). Thomas Collinson was rewarded by the engraving of his map at Ordnance Survey, Southampton, and a compliment from the geographer J. Arrowsmith that it was the most complete map he had ever seen. Collinson's pictorial drawings were of such an admirable standard that Major Aldrich, R.E., used Collinson's work to illustrate his 1846 report on the erection of Ordnance buildings in Hong Kong, published in the Royal Engineer Papers in 1849. on 11 June 1846 Collinson sailed for service in New Zealand embarking in an old teak ship, the Emily Jane (480 tons), bound for Sydney, New South Wales, arriving on 18 August 1846. Upon the continued native attacks in New Zealand it was decided that he had better go, and on 1 September 1846 he departed New South Wales in the aptly named trading brigantine Terror, anchoring at Auckland on 19 September 1846. Collinson recorded in his [unpublished] Journal, ‘left Hong Kong for services in New Zealand. This movement was brought about by some representation at headquarters that I had been long enough in China; and as I had completed the special work I had been sent out for, and as an officer was wanted in New Zealand, there was some reason for it.’ In Auckland he stayed with Captain Henderson, R.A., for several months. The Royal Engineer officer in New Zealand at this time consisted of Captain William Biddlecomb Marlow R.E. and Clerk of Works George Graham R.E., both of whom had recently been exhaustively occupied with Hone Heke's War in the Bay of Islands during 1845-46, and with the Auckland defences. on 22 November 1846, Collinson embarked in the Colonial Brig Victoria to his solitary station in Wellington, where trouble persisted in the Hutt Valley. Ten days after his arrival, on 30 November, he embarked on H.M.S. Calliope, with the whole force, for Wanganui, where Captain Joseph Henry Laye, 58th Regiment, and himself selected a site for a stockade and arranged its construction. In January 1847, having returned to Wellington in a small trading cutter, he organised the construction of barracks, explored the road to Porirua and the Hutt Valley, and returned to Wanganui in February to carry on the construction of defences there. He was present there, on 19 July, in the successful repulse of an attack on the fort, known as the ‘Rutland Stockade’, by some 400 Maori warriors. collinson returned to his station in Wellington in 1848, where duties included a plan for the defence of Wellington, the arrangement and construction of military buildings, and a report on the earthquake that damaged the Paremata Barracks at Porirua. He also made occasional visits to Wanganui and explorations about the local countryside. During his service in New Zealand he made a number of friends in Captain Henderson, R.A., Bishop Selwyn, Sir George Grey, Alfred Domett, William Fox and Tamehana. Dr Andrew Sinclair, the Colonial Secretary and naturalist, had served with his brother Richard on H.M.S. Sulphur. collinson departed New Zealand for Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, in March 1850. During his return to England from May 1850, he wrote two detailed papers on the history of military operations in New Zealand for publication in the Royal Engineer Papers. In April 1869 he advocated in a lecture to the Royal United Service Institute, the formation of one General Military School. In 1889 he edited his brother Sir Richard Collinson's journal for publication: Journal of H.M.S. Enterprise, on the expedition in search of Sir John Franklin's ships by Behring Strait, 1850-55. In 1892-94 he compiled a detailed and illustrated memoir (unpublished) of his work and experiences titled Seven Years Service on the Borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850, Written for the Information and Satisfaction of My Children [Believed to have been sold at auction by Messrs Phillips in November 1970]. major-General Thomas Bernard Collinson died at Ealing, Middlesex, of pneumonia on 1 May 1902. sold with full research including photocopies from Papers Connected with The Duties of the Corps of The Royal Engineers’, Vol. III - New Series, Paper II: Remarks on the Military Operations in New Zealand by Capt. Collinson, Royal Engineers, Parts I, II, and III. £1500-£2000
New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (Ensgn. C. E. Hurst, 1st Bn. 12th Foot) officially impressed naming, fitted with silver ribbon buckle, very fine £600-800 Ex Wadey Collection. lieutenant Hurst served in New Zealand from 1860, and formed part of a reinforcement in 1860 that embarked upon H.M.S. Fawn at Sydney, arriving at Taranaki on 23 July. On the 17th they marched to Waireka to construct a redoubt with a view to arresting the advance of hostile natives from the south in their intended attack on the town of Taranaki. The regimental history again reports that in 1864 this officer, who was at that time attached to the Royal Engineers, was again in action against the Maoris. His services are given in Hart’s Army List thus: 'Lt. Hurst served in the New Zealand War from 1860 until 1866 and was engaged in all the principle actions. Was attached to the Royal Engineers, as an assistant engineer, for five years, and commanded a detachment of the Royal Engineers at the attack and storming of the fortified position of Orakau for which services he was specially mentioned in despatches' (London Gazette 14 June 1864). the Strangest War, by Edgar Holt, describes this action at Orakau Pa as follows: ‘‘A battle in which the Maoris made the most remarkable sortie in the whole series of New Zealand wars- a sortie which Sir Henry Havelock, son of the great Indian soldier and himself a holder of the Victoria Cross, was to describe years later as the finest thing he had ever witnessed in the whole course of his military career.’ The defenders of the "Pa", including 20 women and some children, numbered only about 300. The British force, under General Carey, numbered some 2000 men, and they were able, on this occasion, to surround the "Pa" completely - rarely possible in the Maori Wars. The defenders had little food and no water, but for two days held out against all attacks, including several attempts to take the "Pa" by storm, all of which failed. Thereafter Carey decided to approach the "Pa" by means of a sap, and Lieutenant Hurst was in charge of this operation. By the third day the sap was within a few yards of the "Pa", and grenades could be thrown from it into the defences. At this point the British sent an interpreter up to the "Pa" under a white flag, to give the Maoris, who were now suffering from hunger and thirst and almost out of ammunition, a chance to surrender honourably. After discussing the offer for a few minutes the Maoris gave their reply, which translates into the following: "Enough! We shall fight on, for ever, for ever, for ever!" At the further suggestion that the women and children should be sent out of the "Pa" to safety the chiefs retorted: "The women will fight as well as we!". "Rare plucked 'uns, rare plucked 'uns", said Sir Henry Havelock, when he was told what the reply was. the Maoris waited until Lieutenant Hurst's sap had reached the "Pa" itself, and then, quite suddenly, the whole body of defenders marched out from one corner of the "Pa", the women and children being in the middle, and trotted through the British lines at a steady unhurried pace. The troops were amazed at the sight, but recovered from the shock and began to close in on all sides, although they dare not fire for fear of hitting each other. The Maoris did not fire a shot throughout their withdrawal. When the pursuit started in earnest many of these gallant men were killed, and twenty or thirty taken prisoner, but more than sixty got away, as they thoroughly deserved to do. the Maoris had been forced to leave their wounded behind, inside the "Pa", and it is a sad footnote to this story of bravery that a number of them were bayoneted, including at least one woman, by British regulars, a most unusual occurrence in any war, let alone the Maori Wars, where so much chivalry was displayed on both sides. It is good to record that the general feeling of the men, however, was of admiration. The Maoris were indeed ‘Rare plucked ‘uns’. charles Edward Hurst, who had been appointed an Ensign in the 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot on 25 March 18 8, and promoted to Lieutenant on 2 February 1862, retired on Half Pay on 15 July 1868. He is briefly shown as a Lieutenant in the 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers in the Army List for 1873 but disappears thereafter. sold with research including copies of the London Gazette for 14 June 1864 and 15 July 1865, and extracts from The Strangest War by Edgar Holt, and The Waikato War by John Featon. £600-£800
New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (1329 Sergt. H. Hitchins, A.H. Corps.) officially engraved naming, nearly very fine £300-350 Sergeant Henry Hitchins is confirmed on the medal roll of Army Hospital Corps. Of the approximate 60 medals issued to this Corps, as few as 6 are known to have been on the market. The Army Hospital Corps was sent to New Zealand in 1861 and detachments based at Auckland were then seconded to Infantry Regiments. It also manned the Military Hospitals established at Auckland, New Plymouth, Napier, and Wanganui, as well as smaller facilities at the front, for example at Tauranga, after Gate Pa. The New Zealand Wars were the first conflicts where the wounded from various regiments were treated at one facility. Prior to this, soldiers were cared for by their own regiment's medical personnel. The last of the Corps left New Zealand in 1870. £300-£350
Three: Sergeant-Major James Mount, Royal Engineers new Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1860 to 1866 (6099 Sergt. Jas. Mount, Ryl. Engrs.) officially impressed naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (6099 Sergt. Maj. J. Mount, R.E.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (S.Mjr. J. Mount, R.E.) good very fine or better (3) £700-900 Confirmed on the roll for service in the Taranaki campaign 1860-61, including the action at Kaihihi 10th & 11th October 1860, and in the Wanganui campaign 1865-66. His medal issued on 25 February 1870, one of only 14 with this date known. The Royal Engineers served in New Zealand during the period 1860-70 and took part in many sieges and built roads, bridges and blockhouses. Their use of the field telegraph to link posts in the Waikato and Taranaki is one of the earliest recorded on campaign. according to The Annuity Meritorious Service Medal 1847-1953, Ian McInnes, Sergeant Major James Mount's Annuity M.S.M. was awarded circa 1917 and he died shortly thereafter. £700-£900
Pair: Surgeon Major G. E. Will, Army Medical Department new Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (Assist. Surgn. George E. Will, Staff) officially impressed naming; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 2 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, The Nile 1884-85 (Surgn. Maj. G. E. Will, A.M. Dept.) light pitting from star, otherwise very fine (2) £600-700 George Elmsley Will was born at Aberdeen on 25 Dec 1836, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon on the Staff on 19 January 1860. He transferred to the Royal Artillery in October 1867, became Surgeon in January 1870, Surgeon Major in April 1875, and Brigade Surgeon in June 1885, specially promoted for services on the Nile. He was finally appointed Deputy Surgeon General in November 1890 and died at Devonport on 31 July 1891. He served throughout the New Zealand War of 1863-66, including the Waikato and Taranaki campaigns; in Egypt, including the battle of Tel-el-Kebir; and in the Nile campaign of 1884-85. £600-£700
Pair: Sergeant C. T. Benzoni, Army Hospital Corps, later Acting Under-Secretary for Public Works at Wellington china 1857-60, 2 clasps, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1860 (Ordy. Chas. Thos. Benzoni, Medical Staff Corps) officially impressed naming, the clasps neatly soldered together; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (-ergt. Charles Benzoni, Army Hospital Corps) officially impressed naming, first letter of ‘Sergt.’ obscured by suspension claw, the edge a little rubbed but as issued, both medals contained in their original named card boxes of issue together with War Office registered packet for the second, this addressed to the recipient ‘Care of Colonel Gorton, Inspector of Stores Office, Wellington, New Zealand’, the packet creased and the boxes with some damage, otherwise toned, extremely fine (2) £1000-1200 ‘Few Public Servants past or present can have lived the varied and exciting life of Charles Thomas Benzoni. Born in London in 1835, he was educated at a private school in St. Albans, Hertfordshire. For a time he worked with T. and T. Gates, Bat a d'or et Fabricants, de Baudruche Anglaise, in London. Later he entered the Imperial Service during the Crimean War, and was attached to the Army Medical Department. After that he was a member of Lord Elgin's expedition to China, but was wrecked in the H.M.S. Transit in the Straits of Sunda. Eventually the force was diverted to the Bengal Presidency, consequent on the Indian Mutiny. Benzoni was subsequently employed in China on gun-boat duties on the Canton River. Later he was present at the destruction of the forts at Taku, in the Gulf of Pi-tchi-li. Returning to England he studied in the General Surgery at Aldershot. He volunteered and proceeded to Canada with the Guards and Rifle Brigade. After returning to England he was sent to New Zealand and served with Lieutenant-General Cameron's force in the Waikato campaign. Later he followed mining and journalistic pursuits in Auckland until 1870, when he was appointed Field Quartermaster in the expedition against Te Kooiti in the Patatere district. on 20 January 1870 he commenced duty as Officer in Charge of Stores, Auckland and on 17 October following he became Chief Clerk, Stores Department, Wellington. A leading article in the Evening Post of 27 March 1873 contained rather trenchant criticism of his action in keeping notes about the conduct of one of his officers, the subject of an inquiry. in the latter part of 1872 when immigration activities were handed over from the Public Works to the Crown Lands Department, the first Chief Clerk of the Department, H. J. H. Elliot, was also transferred. On 10 March 1873, Mr Benzoni took up his position. On 22 March 1879, he was promoted to Assistant-Undersecretary. John Knowles, the First Under-Secretary, retired on 31 March 1883, and Benzoni became Acting Under-Secretary. Later that year C. Y. O'Connor, an Inspecting Engineer, who was deputy to W. N. Blair, Engineer-in-Charge of the South Island, was appointed Under-Secretary. In December 1884, Benzoni applied for 6 months leave of absence which was granted from 1 January, but on 5 February he acknowledged a letter dispensing with his services after expiration of his leave of absence. in September 1885 Benzoni was elected a member of the Wellington City Council but resigned in April 1887. The same year he was appointed Clerk of the Friendly Societies' Registry Office and in 1892 he became Deputy-Registrar of the Friendly Societies.’ Ref: By Design, Rosslyn J. Noonan, p. 280, ‘Some Early Public Works Personalities’. £1000-£1200
Three: Naick Hakam Singh, 19th Punjabis india General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Hazara 1891, Samana 1891 (2979 Sepoy, 19th Bl. Infy.), edge rubbed; Tibet 1903-04, no clasp (2979 Naick, 19th Punjabis); Indian Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2979 Naick, 19th Punjabis), mounted for wear, all three claws tightened, some edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (3) £320-380 £320-£380
Six: Lieutenant-Colonel E. L. Croslegh, 23rd Sikh Pioneers, late South Wales Borderers queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, South Africa 1901, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut., S. Wales Bord.), clasps mounted in that order; Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (Lieut., 23rd Sikh Pioneers); British War and Victory Medals (Maj.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Maj., 2-3 S. Prs.); Delhi Durbar 1911 (Captain, 23rd Sikh Pioneers), mounted for wear, some contact marks, very fine (6) £1200-1400 Evan Leigh Croslegh was born on 30 October 1880. He served in the Boer War with the South Wales Borderers and Royal Berkshire Regiments. There he served in operations in the Orange River Colony, June-July 1900; in Cape Colony south of the Orange River, June 1900; in Cape Colony north of the Orange River, June-November 1900; in Transvaal, May-September 1901; in the Orange River Colony, January-February 1901 and in Cape Colony, November 1900-January 1901 and February-May 1901. He was embodied in the Militia for 1 year, 252 days and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant from the Militia into the Royal Berkshire Regiment in November 1901. Transferring to the Indian Army in April 1903, he served with the 23rd Sikh Pioneers in the Tibet Expedition, 1903-04; seeing action at Niani and serving in the operations at and around Gyantse. Croslegh was promoted to Lieutenant in January 1904; Captain in May 1909; Major in September 1915 and attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1924. £1200-£1400
Three: Lieutenant and Quartermaster Serjeant G. H. Manley, London Regiment, late Royal Fusiliers tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (5571 Corpl., 1st Bn. Ryl. Fuslrs.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5571 Q.M. Sjt., R. Fus.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (L-5571 Q.M. Sjt., 5/R. Fus.) together with two contemporary ribbon bars, nearly extremely fine and scarce (3) £850-950 M.S.M. London Gazette 22 February 1919: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with the War.’ G. H. Manley enlisted in November 1896 and was advanced to Lance-Corporal, March 1898; Corporal, April 1902; Lance-Serjeant, December 1904; Serjeant, November 1905; Colour Serjeant, November 1908; Staff Serjeant, November 1911 and Quartermaster Serjeant in 1914. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 2 January 1915 as a Sergeant in the 3rd Battalion London Regiment and was commissioned a Lieutenant and Quartermaster in the 1/3rd Battalion London Regiment on 18 May 1918. Sold with copied m.i.c. £850-£950
The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel M. W. R. de Courcy, Indian Army, 34th Baron Kingsale and Premier Baron of Ireland distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel, complete with top bar; Tibet 1903-04, no clasp; India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Abor 1911-12, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1921-24; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver; Serbia, Order of the White Eagle, 5th Class badge with swords, silver, gold and enamel, mounted court style as worn, in Spink, London leather case, second fine, others very fine and better (7) £300-350 Michael William Robert de Courcy was born on 26 September 1882, the eldest son of Michael Constantine de Courcy, the 33rd Baron Kingsale (created 1223) and Baron of Ringrone. He was educated at Dulwich College; Kelly College, Tavistock, and Sandhurst. In the latter he passed out first and was awarded the King’s Medal and the Anson Memorial Sword. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Connaught Rangers in October 1902. Transferring to the Indian Army in August 1904 and serving with the 32nd Sikh Pioneers, he was promoted to Lieutenant in January 1905; Captain in October 1911 and Major in October 1917. He served in the latter part of the Tibet Expedition, 1904, then in the Abor Expedition, 1911-12, for which he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 16 July 1912). Serving during the Great War, 1915-18, he was Brigade-Major of the 6th Infantry Brigade in Mesopotamia. For his services he was three times mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 19 October 1916, 14 November 1916 and 15 August 1917) and awarded the D.S.O. (London Gazette 25 August 1917) and the Serbian Order of the White Eagle, 5th Class with swords. Major de Courcy then served in the Marri Operations for which he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 18 May 1920), the Afghan War of 1919 for which he was again mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 3 August 1920), and the Waziristan Campaign of 1921-24. In 1922 he was appointed D.A.Q.M.G. Eastern Command, India. He retired from the Indian Army as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1931 and in the same year succeeded his father as the 34th Baron (by some reckonings 29th Baron) Kingsale, Baron of Ringrone and the Premier Baron of Ireland. Baron Kingsale died on 21 October 1965 and was succeeded by his only surviving grandson, John. Sold with some copied research. £300-£350
Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Lieut. G. Casswell), short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, minor edge bruising and contact marks, very fine £1400-1800 Commander George Caswell entered the Royal Navy in 1808 as a Second Class Volunteer on board H.M.S Parthian, and that same year fought his first action when his ship engaged three men of war. He assisted at the capture of the noted privateer La Nouvelle Gironde, 5th May 1809, and was employed subsequently at the bombardment of Flushing. Appointed Midshipman 1810, he transferred to H.M.S. Christian VII and then to H.M.S. Caledonia in which he served until September 1814, during the latter period he took part in two engagements with the French fleet off Toulon, 5th November 1813 and 13th February 1814, also serving on shore at the reduction of Genoa. Caswell was promoted Lieutenant in 1815 and, then serving in H.M.S. Minstrel, he returned home in her, and was paid off in December of that year; he was appointed First Lieutenant of H.M.S. Champion in December 1824, serving in her during the Burmese War. He attained the rank of Commander in 1846. Sold with copied research. £1400-£1800
Candahar Ghuznee Cabul 1842 (Lieut. W. A. Cooke, 2d Grs. 1842) naming engraved in contemporary hatched capitals, with replacement silver mount and swivel straight bar suspension, good very fine £600-700 William Augustus Cooke was commissioned an Ensign in the Indian Army on 7 June 1829 and was promoted to Lieutenant in April 1835; Captain in November 1844; Major in May 1853, and Lieutenant-Colonel in September 1857. He served in operations against the Kols during 1932. During the 1st Afghan War he was a Lieutenant with 2nd Native Infantry (2nd Bengal Native Infantry) with General Nott's force. Mentioned in Cassell's History of India, p. 22, as 'on duty on 10 March 1842 at the Herat Gate at Candahar’. Cooke retired on 24 April 1860 with the rank of Honorary Colonel. Sold with some service details. £600-£700
Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Balaklava, Sebastopol (R. B. Smyth, Asst. Surgn., 1st The Royal Regt.) engraved naming, contact marks, nearly very fine £400-450 Robert Beresford Smyth was born in Co. Dublin on 7 December 1826 and qualified as a M.B., T.C.D. in 1848. He entered the Army as an Assistant Surgeon with the 1st Foot in November 1850 and served with them in the Crimean War, being present at the battle of Balaklava and the siege and fall of Sebastopol. He was appointed Surgeon on the Staff in January 1858; with the 2nd Battalion 22nd Foot in May 1860, and with the 102nd Foot in June 1865. Smyth was promoted to Surgeon-Major of the 102nd Foot in October 1870. He retired on Half Pay in March 1874 and died at Berganio Alta, Italy on 15 September 1886. Sold with copied research. £400-£450
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (1094 Pte. M. Hayes, 2d Bn. Devon Regt.) good very fine £100-140 Maurice Hayes was born in Norwood, Middlesex. A Porter by occupation, he attested for the Devonshire Regiment at Exeter on 18 December 1884. Not the best of soldiers, he was imprisoned for some offence, April-August 1887. He then deserted, December 1887-November 1889 for which he was briefly imprisoned pending embarkation for India. With the regiment he served in India, December 1889-July 1897. Hayes transferred to the Army Reserve in July 1897 but was recalled for service in the Boer War in October 1899. With the Devonshires he served in South Africa, October 1899-October 1901. He was discharged on 12 October 1901. Sold with copied service papers. £100-£140
India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1887-89, Burma 1889-92 (6802 Pte. J. Blackhurst, 4th Bn. Rif. Brig.) edge bruising, good very fine £140-180 John Henry Blackhurst was born in Handsworth, Birmingham. A Labourer by occupation he attested for the Rifle Brigade on 7 July 1884, aged 19 years. In October 1890 he was transferred to the Ordnance Store Corps. He served in Gibraltar, February 1885-January 1886 and India and Burma, January 1886-January 1890. Blackhurst was transferred to the Army Reserve in July 1891 and discharged on 6 July 1894. Sold with copied service papers and roll extracts. £140-£180
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (Lieut. Wm. D. Bloxsome, 1st Bn. 23rd R.W. Fusrs.) minor edge bruising, good very fine £600-800 William Dowdeswell Bloxsome was born in London on 3 February 1839. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 1 May 1855, he was promoted to Lieutenant on 30 September 1855. Serving in Malta, October-December 1855 and the Crimea, December 1855-July 1856, before entering Bengal; he joined the army at Lucknow on 14 October 1857 and was present at the relief of Lucknow, the defeat of the Gwalior Contingent at Cawnpore and the capture of Lucknow. Lieutenant Bloxsome retired by the sale of his commission in 1858. Sold with copied research. £600-£800
The B.S.A. Co. Medal to Trooper F. L. Vogel, Salisbury Horse, formerly Assistant Secretary to Dr. L. S. Jameson and a member of Major Wilson’s heroic patrol, killed in action at Shangani River, 4 December 1893 british South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Matabeleland 1893 (Troopr. F. L. Vogel, Salisbury Horse); together with a second medal, originally fraudulently named to Vogel, since erased and now marked ‘Forgery’, nearly extremely fine (2) £1400-1800 ex Upfill-Brown Collection, BDW December 1991. trooper Frank Leon Vogel was one of the gallant men forming Major Wilson's heroic party. He was the second son of the Hon. Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G., and was born on October 21st, 1870, at Auckland, New Zealand. After being educated at Charterhouse he went, in 1890, into the London Office of the British South Africa Company. He left England for South Africa on April 4th, 1891, and became a trooper in the Mashonaland Mounted Police at Tuli. When this force was disbanded, in 1892, he went into the Survey Department at Salisbury, and subsequently became Acting Assistant-Secretary to Dr. L. S. Jameson. When the war broke out he volunteered, was enrolled in the 'B' Troop of the Salisbury Horse under Captain Borrow, and during the campaign served the Maxim gun attached to his troop, under Lieut. Llewellyn. He left Salisbury with the column, but returned alone two or three weeks afterwards on business. Rejoining his troop two or three days after they left Fort Charter, he marched with the column, and was in all the engagements on the way to Bulawayo, serving the Maxim gun, besides volunteering for special scouting expeditions. He was one of the small party sent out in search of Captain G. Williams, and also one of the expedition on which Captain Campbell was killed. He served the Maxim at the engagement on the Shangani River on the 25th of October, and also at Imbembesi on the 1st November, where he had a narrow escape, one bullet passing through his hat. He reached Bulawayo safe and sound on November 4th, and on the 10th wrote his last letter to his relatives, being then evidently in high spirits, and regarding the campaign as over. He left Bulawayo on the 14th, and remained with Major Forbes throughout the patrol which ended at Shiloh; thence again, as a volunteer, he accompanied the force under Major Forbes to the Shangani River, where under Captain Borrow, he joined Major Wilson, with whom he was killed. frederick Burnham, the American scout, later Chief of Scouts under Lord Roberts, was the last man to leave the beleaguered patrol before their final stand at Shangani River. In his book 'Scouting on Two Continents' he describes a discussion of the senior officers with Wilson before that fateful day on the 4th December, 1893: 'It had now stopped raining. Captains Judd, Kirton, Fitzgerald, Greenfield and Brown gathered with us round Wilson. The first three were experienced colonials, and Wilson asked each what he thought to be the best move. 'Kirton, with a bitter smile, said: "There is no best move." Fitzgerald said: "We are in a hell of a fix. There is only one thing to do, cut our way out. Judd said: "This is the end. Picking up the threads of the grim story, we are told by Majors Forbes and Sir John Willoughby that, after crossing the river and following the king's spoor, Major Wilson and his men reached a series of scherms, or temporary encampments protected by felled bush or trees. These scherms were filled with Matabele, who, however, offered no resistance, probably because they did not know the strength of the whites, or believed them to be but the advance guard of a larger body. So the Patrol rode on till they reached the royal scherm, within which the king's wagons were dimly visible in the gathering gloom. Here a halt was called, and Lobengula summoned to surrender. The reply was an ominous rattle of arms within the reed fence, while parties of Matabele, rifle in hand, came hurrying up from the rear. With so small a force nothing could be done, and the Patrol withdrew into the bush, Captain Napier and Troopers Robertson and Mayne being sent for reinforcements. These in due time appeared in the form of Captain Borrow with eighteen mounted men. A miserable night was passed under arms in the drenching rain, and when day at length dawned, Major Wilson decided to make one more dash for the king, with the tragic result, which will not soon be forgotten in South Africa. From the start the Patrol was outnumbered, and almost as soon as the attack began, Ingram, Burnham, and Gooding had to be sent to cross the river, if that were possible, to ask for further support. That support, however, never arrived, and Burnham's first breathless remark to Major Forbes, after reaching the main body, was 'I think I may say we are the sole survivors of that party.' The Shangani had risen in flood, added to which Major Forbes was himself attacked in force on the way down to the river. Either of these circumstances was enough to prevent the arrival of succour in time to save the doomed men to whom the last chance of escape was lost. To the end, however, there was no thought of surrender, no request for quarter. They resolved to show the Matabele that the white man could play a losing as well as a winning game. Taking cover behind the dead bodies of their horses, with an iron calmness they fought on for two long hours, pouring a destructive fire into their encircling foes, and coolly singling out the Indunas for their aim. One by one, however, they sank under the heavy fire from the bush, but many of the wounded continued, so the natives say, to re-load and pass their rifles to their uninjured comrades. Again and again the Matabele would issue from their cover to attempt a conclusive charge, but again and again were repulsed with a well-directed fire; upon which Wilson and his men would wake the echoes with an undismayed, defiant cheer. But at last the end came. Of the thirty-four valiant men whose hearts beat high with hope and courage as they rode behind their leader in the early dawn that morning, only one remained erect; the rest lay prone, dead or dying, upon that 'field of honour.’ The name of the one man who stood at bay against an army of Matabele will never be known; his remains could not be identified. But the natives tell that, picking up several rifles and bandoliers, this hero amongst heroes made his way to an ant-heap some twenty yards from where the rest lay stretched upon the earth. From that point of vantage he checked, single-handed, several rushes of the Matabele with a cool and deadly fire. At length, shot through the hips, he sank on his knees, but continued to load and fire until he succumbed to his wounds. Then, and not till then, the Matabele came out from the bush, but on reaching the hallowed circle where the Patrol lay side by side, were fired upon by several of the unconquerable wounded who were still alive. So great had been the terror and demoralisation inspired by the desperate bravery of the Patrol, that when the revolvers rang out the natives turned and fled precipitately into the bush; and it was not till several hours later-'when the sun was right overhead' -as the Matabele tell the tale-that they again ventured to leave their cover. But by this time death had mercifully come to the wounded, and as the native warriors gazed upon the forms of their fallen foes there was silence’. sold with copied research. £1400-£1800
East and Central Africa 1897-99, 1 clasp, Uganda 1899 (Lieut. C. de V. Beauclerk, K.R.R. Cps.) small edge bruise, otherwise extremely fine and extremely rare £800-1000 Only three medals with this clasp issued to British Army recipients, viz: Lieutenant F. R. Hicks, Hampshire Regiment; Sergeant S. W. Bone, South Lancashire Regiment; and Lieutenant C. de Vere Beauclerk, K.R.R.C. this clasp was awarded to those members of the force under Major G. C. Martyr and Colonel J. T. Evat, comprising mainly of 27th Bombay N.I. and 1st Uganda Rifles, which advanced down the Nile, captured both Kabarega and Mwanga in the Ugandan Protectorate, and then continued on to Nandi. charles Edward de Vere Beauclerk was born on 10 September 1875, and commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 10 October 1894. He was appointed Lieutenant in the Uganda Militia in June 1898, immediately departing London for Uganda, via Marseilles and Mombassa. He served with the Wakedi Field Force in Unyoro, in March and April 1899 (Medal with clasp). He died on Kerenge Island, Lake Victoria, on 14 January 1900, whilst on his way from Kampala to Kisumu having been invalided to the coast with blackwater fever. £800-£1000
India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Maj. E. Edwards, 2-15 Punjab R.) good very fine £100-140 Ernest Edwards was born on 24 November 1881 and educated at Clifton College, Bristol, 1893-98. He was commissioned into the Dorsetshire Regiment from the Militia on 7 May 1902. Appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Indian Army in June 1904; he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in December 1827. Lieutenant-Colonel Edwards retired from military service on 25 December 1931, having served in East Africa during the Great War, 1914-17, in the Afghan War 1919-20, in Mesopotamia, 1921, and in Waziristan, 1922-23. During the Second World War he served with the Civil Defence. He died in 1950. Sold with some copied service details. £100-£140
India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21 (Lt. A. Williams, 2/41/Dogras) good very fine £80-100 Williams was first commissioned on the Indian Army Reserve of Officers in August 1917 and was appointed a Company Officer in the 2/41st Dogras in April 1918. £80-£100
1914-15 Star (2) (G-2104 Sjt. P. Paulson, R. Suss. R.; 1066 Gnr. J. A. Summers, R.F.A.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police (P.C. J. White, V. Div.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., 1st issue (James P. Duke); Silver War Badge (B.168330) and (4193), this re-numbered, both lacking pins; other unofficial medals (6), very fine and better (10) £70-90 Medal to Summers sold with original (damaged) medal card box of issue, with envelope addressed to ‘Mr J. A. Summers,78 Violet St., Sth. Penwell, Newcastle’; a large portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform; a group photograph of the recipient and others in uniform; an envelope bearing a message to his wife, and copied m.i.c. silver War Badge ‘B.168330’ awarded to Private George William Martin, Labour Corps, late Middlesex Regiment, who enlisted on 1 May 1916 and was discharged due to sickness on 23 January 1919. Silver War Badge ‘4193’ awarded to Private John Samuel Worsley, Army Service Corps, who enlisted on 20 December 1912 and was discharged due to sickness on 28 January 1915. £70-£90
British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (Lieut. A. S. Atkins; E. Buxton) good very fine and better (2) £50-70 Arthur Samuel Atkins was born on 18 June 1888 in Streatham, England and was educated at Crauford College, Berkshire and the South African College, Cape Town. He served in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Volunteer Rifles (Mounted Infantry) in the Natal Rebellion of 1906 and served in Brand’s Horse, September 1914-September 1915, seeing service in German S.W. Africa. Later, as a Captain he served with the 16th Mounted Rifles. He was then ‘granted indefinite leave to proceed to Europe for military service in the Imperial Army’ and on 17 July 1918 embarked on H.M.T. Galway Castle for England. There he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards Special Reserve, 5 September 1918. He then served in the Russian Relief Force, 12 May-22 September 1919. Lieutenant Atkins was demobilized on 31 December 1919. Sold with copied service papers and m.i.c. ethel Buxton served with the Y.W.C.A. and entered France on 6 July 1917. Sold with copied m.i.c. £50-£70
British War Medal 1914-20 (5) (Lieut. J. J. Bradbery; 2 Lieut. C. E. Irving; 2 Lieut. R. S. Johnstone; Lieut. F. Talbot; 2 Lieut. F. C. Wicks) very fine and better (5) £100-140 Lieutenant John James Bradbery, Royal Army Service Corps, entered into the France/Flanders theatre of war on 2 May 1915. Private Cecil E. Irving, 1/10th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, was later commissioned into the 3/152nd Punjabis - entitled to the Territorial Force War Medal. Captain Ralph Sidney Johnstone served in the Royal Field Artillery. Captain Francis Talbot served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Gunner Frederick G. Wicks, Royal Garrison Artillery, was later commissioned into the Indian Army. All with copied m.i.c. £100-£140
Victory Medal 1914-19 (9) (J.42503 A. Dainton, Boy 1, R.N.; L.3909 H. G. Dakers, O.S., R.N.; K.32128 W. Edwards, Sto.1, R.N.; 347399 F. W. Wilkins, C.E.R.A.2, R.N.; Ply.13854 Pte. E. F. Fisher, R.M.L.I.; 1DG-6044 Pte. F. Tizzard, 5-D. Gds.; 22046 Pte. F. Kirkham, North’d. Fus.; 235270 Pte. J. A. Cooke, L’pool. R.; 22300 Gnr. C. H. Gaudie, 3 D.A.C. A.I.F.) nearly very fine and better (9) £140-180 Boy 1st Class Arthur Dainton, R.N., was killed in action whilst serving on the battlecruiser Invincible at the battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. He was the son of Charles Henry and Ellen Dainton of 38 Granville Road, Woodford, London. officer’s Steward 2nd Class Henry George Dakers, R.N., was killed in action on 1 January 1915 when the battleship Formidable was torpedoed and sunk by the U.24 off Portland Bill. stoker 1st Class W. Edwards, R.N., died on 5 July 1918 whilst serving aboard the destroyer Landrail. He was buried in the Cefn Crib Baptist Graveyard. chief Electrical Artificer 2nd Class Frederick William Wilkins, R.N., was killed in action whilst serving on the armoured cruiser Black Prince at the battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. He was the husband of Beatrice C. Wilkins of 46 Tennyson Road, Copnor, Portsmouth. private Ernest Frederick Fisher, R.M.L.I., serving on H.M.S. Doris, died on 23 May 1918. He was the son of Mr & Mrs Frederick Fisher of 23 Falcon Road, Guildford, Surrey. His name is recorded on the Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial. francis Tizzard was born in Dorchester, lived in Tolpiddle and enlisted at Dorchester. Serving with the 5th Dragoon Guards, he was killed in action on 16 November 1914. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. frederick Kirkham was born in Walsall, Staffordshire and enlisted at Buxton, Derbyshire. Serving with the 12th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, he was killed in action on 14 March 1916. He was buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, and was the son of Joseph and Jane Kirkham of Reaps Moor, Staffordshire. lance-Corporal James Ashton Cooke was born in Haslingdon, Lancashire and enlisted at Manchester. Serving with the 6th Battalion Liverpool Regiment, he was killed in action, 21 October 1918, aged 20 years. He was buried in the Tournai Communal Cemetery Allied Extension and was the son of Robert and Edith Cooke of 39 Queen’s Road, Oldham. gunner Charles H. M. Gaudie, 3rd Division Ammunition Column, Australian Army Service Corps, died on 23 January 1920, aged 38 years. £140-£180
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (23052500 Pte. E. Miller, H.L.I.), mounted as worn, good very fine £40-60 E. Miller served his National Service with the Royal Corps of Signals, July 1954-June 1956, and then joined the Regular Army, serving with the Highland Light Infantry as a Piper, June 1955-June 1958. With the Army Reserve, 1958-62; then with the Territorial Army in the Leeds Rifles as a Pipe Major, 1965-66; the 52nd Lowland Volunteers as a Drum Major, 1974-75; the 15th (Scottish) Battalion Parachute Regiment as a Pipe Major, 1982-85, and finally with the Royal Corps of Transport as a Pipe Major, 1985-86. sold with copied Record of Service and other research; also with several photographs. £40-£60
General Service 1962 (2), 1 clasp, Borneo (RM.22252 G. Wong, Mne., R.M.; 23965049 Rfn. R. A. F. N. Harris, 3 Green Jackets) nearly extremely fine (2) £100-140 Medal to Harris in damaged card box of issue and with bronze Army Rifle Association medal inscribed, ‘L.M.G. Rfn. Harris, Best Recruit’. £100-£140
The historically important insignia of the Order of Saint Patrick successively worn by Richard, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), Governor-General of India, by the 6th Earl of Mayo (1822-72), Viceroy of India from 1869 until his assassination in February 1872, and finally by the 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902), third Governor-General of Canada and eighth Viceroy of India the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, an important set of insignia, circa 1800-10 comprising an impressively large oval double-sided sash badge in gold and enamels, 80mm x 65mm excluding suspension, some bruising to the edge of the badge and one outer and several inner retaining pins lacking, minor enamel chip to stalk of one central shamrock and likewise to one border shamrock on each side, otherwise very fine and superb condition for age, and breast star in silver with hinged arms and gold and enamel centre, the silver backplate engraved with three successive inscriptions ‘Marquefs Wellesley / ®TAT. 83’, ‘Richard Southwell 6th Earl of Mayo / ®TAT. 50’, and ‘The Marquis of Dufferin & Ava / ®TAT. 76’, fitted with gold pin for wearing, extremely fine, the green enamel shamrock expertly restored, the two pieces contained in a mid to late 19th century fitted case, the lid with later gilt embossed inscription, ‘Order of St Patrick worn by Richard, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), Governor-General of India and afterwards The Earl of Mayo (1822-1872) Viceroy of India’, complete with full dress sash, a most important and historic set of insignia £20000-30000 provenance: Sotheby March 1995, by direct descent. ‘Wellesley was Governor-General of Bengal in 1799 at the time of the subjugation of the rebel state of Mysore under Tippoo Sultan, and the army in gratitude for his leadership, ‘caused a star and badge of the Order of St Patrick to be prepared, in which as many of the jewels as could be found suitable were taken from the Treasury of Tippoo’. He initially refused it, but subsequently accepted it from the hands of the East India Company, and was delighted to have it. ‘It is magnificently beautiful and of enormous value. I should think about 8 or 10,000 pounds sterling; it is the most superb decoration I have ever seen.’ After his resignation from the Order in 1810 to accept the Order of the Garter, he would not have been able to wear the star and badge of the Order of St Patrick again. What happened to the jewelled Patrick star and badge is unknown, but the marquess was in some financial difficulties in the last years of his life, and it may have been sold to pay his creditors, and even broken up, though his silver star and enamelled badge did survive. There appeared in The Times on 31 March 1885, the following article: ‘There have been three Irishmen - namely, Lord Wellesley, Lord Mayo, and Lord Dufferin, who have been Governors-General of India and also Knights of St Patrick. When Lord Mayo went to India the star of the Order worn by Lord Wellesley was lent to him by Mr Alfred Montgomery, and he used it during the period of his viceroyalty. After his death Mr Montgomery presented the star to Lady Mayo and when Lord Dufferin went to India, she lent it to him and he now wears it.’ The badge and star still exist, and were auctioned at Sotheby's in London in 1995.’ (Ref: The Most Illustrious Order - The Order of Saint Patrick and its Knights, Peter Galloway, London, 1999). alfred Montgomery, referred to above, was the son of Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery, a senior civil servant on the Madras establishment. Born in 1814 and educated at Charterhouse, at the age of sixteen Alfred became private secretary to the Marquess of Wellesley, the elder brother of the Duke of Wellington. Wellesley was deeply attached to Alfred's mother, and it was widely rumoured that his choice of private secretary had been influenced by his suspicion that he was in fact the boy's father. Alfred was generally believed to bear a striking similarity in appearance to Wellesley and was perhaps best known during his lifetime as a magnificent wit and entertainer, the ‘last of the Dandies’. he was granted a civil list pension of £300 in 1834, raised to £720 in 1882. He died in 1896 and Wellesley’s St Patrick insignia appears to have been bequeathed to Montgomery who took it upon himself to further the association of the Order with the high office of Governor-General, or Viceroy, of India, by lending it to his brother-in-law, Lord Mayo, upon his appointment as Viceroy in 1869. Married just three weeks after Wellesley’s death, to Fanny Wyndham, daughter of George Wyndham, Baron Leconfield, and granddaughter of George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont; their daughter Sibyl subsequently married the 8th Marquess of Queensberry, whilst Fanny’s younger sister, Blanche, a few years afterwards married Richard Southwell Bourke, later 6th Earl of Mayo (qv). richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, also called (from 1781) 2nd Earl of Mornington, Viscount Wellesley of Dangan Castle, or (from 1797) Baron Wellesley of Wellesley, was born in June 1760 at Dangan, County Meath, Ireland. A successful statesman who, as governor of Madras and governor-general of Bengal (both 1797-1805), greatly enlarged the British Empire in India and who, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland attempted to reconcile Protestants and Catholics in a bitterly divided country. He was a founder Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1783 but resigned in 1810 on appointment as a Knight of the Garter. He did, however, have further important associations with the Order of St Patrick, serving two terms as Grand Master in 1821-28 and 1833-35. a moderately liberal disciple of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, Wellesley sat successively in the Irish House of Commons, the Irish House of Lords (after inheriting his father’s Irish titles in 1781), and the British House of Commons until 1797. From 1793 he was a member of the British Privy Council and a commissioner of the India Board of Control. as governor-general in India, he used military force and diplomacy to strengthen and expand British authority. He annexed much territory from some states and contracted with other states a series of "subsidiary alliances" by which all parties recognized British preponderance. He received a barony in the British peerage in 1797 and a marquessate in the Irish peerage in 1799. on receiving a British government order to restore to France its former possessions in India, he refused to comply; his policy was vindicated when the Treaty of Amiens of 1802 was violated and Great Britain resumed war against Napoleonic France. Wellesley's annexations and the vast military expenditure that he had authorized alarmed the court of directors of the East India Company. In 1805 he was recalled and, soon afterward, was threatened with impeachment, although two years later he refused an offer of the Foreign secretaryship. In 1809 he went to Spain to make diplomatic arrangements for the Peninsular War against France and later that year became foreign secretary in Spencer Perceval's ministry. In that office he antagonized his colleagues, who considered him an indolent megalomaniac and welcomed his resignation in February 1812. as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Wellesley disappointed the anti-Catholic George IV, and he was about to be removed when Wellington was appointed Prime Minister in January 1828. Wellesley then resigned because his brother was opposed to Roman Catholic emancipation, although the duke was constrained to accept that policy as a political necessity in the following year. Wellesley’s second term as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1833-34) ended with the fall of the 2nd Earl Grey's reform government. When the Whig Party returned to power in April 1835, he was not sent back to Ireland, and in his rage he threatened to shoot the Prime Minister, the 2nd Viscount Melbourne. Despite his own great achievem
The Companion of Honour group of three awarded to Harold Arthur, Viscount Dillon, first Curator of the Tower of London Armouries, Chairman of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery, President of the Royal Archaeological Institute and of the Society of Antiquaries, Trustee of the British Museum and of the Wallace Collection, a leading authority on the history of arms and armour and medieval costume the Order of the Companions of Honour, G.V.R., neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘Harold Arthur Viscount Dillon 1921’, with length of neck ribbon; Jubilee 1897 (Harold Arthur Viscount Dillon PSA, PRIA); Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued, good very fine (3) £2500-3000 Ex Hayward’s Gazette, December 1975. harold Arthur Lee Dillon was born on 24 January 1844, and was educated at a private school at Eltham, Kent, and at Bonn University. He joined the Rifle Brigade in 1862, was promoted to Lieutenant in 1866, and served in India and Canada during the Fenian troubles of 1868-71. He left the regular army in 1874, but was promoted to Captain in the Oxfordshire Militia and eventually retired with the rank of Major in 1891. In the following year he succeeded his father as the 17th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen. on leaving the army Dillon became interested in modern military subjects such as equipment and dress, which eventually led him to the history of arms and armour and medieval costume. Dillon traced hundreds of illuminated manuscripts and illustrated works and made a series of brass rubbings. When he would enter a gallery he would focus only on those paintings with military themes, concentrating on sword hilts, armour and horse trappings, and skillfully copied them. his first works were published shortly after he left the army. These articles related to his home, Ditchley in Oxfordshire and described flint tools excavated from the area and objects from the collections in the house. He published many articles on the subjects of arms and armour and military history which appeared in academic journals such as the Archaeological Journal and Archaeologia as well as journals of popular and military general interest such as Antiquary and Colburne's United Service Magazine. He would also write on the subjects of arms and armour in pictures, on monuments and in Shakespeare, on tournaments, military equipment, soldier's arms, equipment and life. His first major undertaking was a revised edition of F. W. Fairholt's two volume Costume in England, published in 1885. Three years later he published a paper on the sections of the great 1547 Inventory of the possessions of Henry VIII. In his writings Dillon focused on the defensive and offensive characters of armour rather than as a work of art. many of his articles appeared under his own name, but he would sometimes use the pseudonym 'Armadillo.' The animal was so closely linked with Lord Dillon that the designer of a commemorative medal produced for the National Portrait Gallery used an image of an armadillo for the reverse of a medal bearing the portrait of Lord Dillon. although Dillon was associated with the Tower of London Armouries from 1892, serving as the consultant scientific expert, he was not officially appointed curator of the Armoury until 1895. He was tasked with producing an accurate and up to date catalogue of the collection. As curator he was able to reduce historic inaccuracies that had built up over the previous years. In 1827 Samuel Meyrick had brought expert knowledge to the collection, but it had then fallen into the hands of the War Office storekeepers and unfortunately most his work was lost. Labels were misplaced, and suits wrongly mounted and erroneous traditions had been established for public amusement. his research led him through the State Papers, especially those of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, in which he discovered interesting and valuable details about the making and issue of arms and armour. Dillon dismantled nearly every piece of armour in the collection to see how it was worn and the reason for certain constructional details. Most of the pieces were those of Henry VIII. Dillon even tried them on himself to see how the rivets and the joints of the harness worked and discovered that many of the suits had been wrongly assembled This exercise enabled him to rectify countless inaccuracies. He also examined the internal mechanisms of the crossbow, pistol and gunlocks. in 1910 Dillon's Illustrated Guide to the Armouries was published, being a summary catalogue of the arms and armour as he had arranged and exhibited them, and the various manuscript inventories of the collection. Dillon carried out a complete reorganisation of the collection in preparation for the new catalogue, and made a detailed examination of all the major pieces as well as identifying a number of those with important historical associations, and corrected inaccuracies. The catalogue was more in the format of a guided tour rather than a systematic catalogue. dillon considered his task to be one of preserving and studying a closed collection rather than expanding it and spreading knowledge of it outside the Tower. His two significant acquisitions for the collection were a pistol of Prince Charles, purchased in 1898 and a part visor of King Henry VII found in St James' Palace in 1906. One of his most valuable contributions was the Armourer's Album which appeared for sale in Paris and by Dillon's efforts was purchased and preserved in the Victoria & Albert Museum. The album contained a number of watercolour drawings of suits of armour of the Elizabethan period that were made at Greenwich, many of which were in the Tower, together with the names of the owners, which proved invaluable for establishing provenance and for identifying pieces in the Tower, Windsor and other private collections. lord Dillon contemplated retiring in 1909, but finally retired from his post of Curator in 1912, and handed the Armouries over to Charles Foulkes. Dillon left the Armouries on its way to becoming a modern museum. A catalogue had been completed, a programme of inspections of loans had been established, and regular inventory checks were carried out. Armour and weapons were displayed according to the techniques of the day, with labels and a guidebook describing the displays. he received an honourary degree of Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford and the Order of Companion of Honour by the King in 1921. Dillon served as a trustee to the British Museum, secretary to the Royal Commission on Westminster Abbey, President of the Royal Archaeological Institute of the Wallace Collection, Trustee and Chairman of the Board of the National Portrait Gallery, Honourary Member of the Armourers and Brasier's Company of London, Fellow of the British Academy and Antiquary of the Royal Academy. Harold Arthur Lee Dillon died on 18 December 1932. The group is sold with a ‘Souvenir Album of the Tower of London, with Historical and Descriptive Notes by The Viscount Dillon P.S.A.’ £2500-£3000
A scarce first issue Victorian Army M.S.M. dated ‘1847’ on the edge awarded to Quartermaster T. C. Fitzgerald, 94th Regiment army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R., dated ‘1847’ on edge (.... Thos. Colley Fitzgerald, 94th Regt. 1847), rank erased, some edge bruising, very fine £400-500 Sergeant-Major Thomas Colley Fitzgerald, 94th Foot (Connaught Rangers), was awarded the M.S.M. with an annuity of £20 on 5 December 1847. Having been commissioned as a Quartermaster on 23 January 1847 he never drew his annuity. his M.S.M. was one of the first 107 produced with the date ‘1847’ impressed on the edge. Sold with some copied research. £400-£500
An extremely rare Victoria issue Army M.S.M. dated ‘1848’ on obverse awarded to Troop Serjeant-Major W. Ryan, 3rd Dragoon Guards army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R., dated ‘1848’ below bust (W. Ryan, Troop Serjt. Major, 3rd Dragoon Guards) edge bruising, very fine and extremely rare £2000-2500 Fewer than 10 M.S.M’s. with ‘1848’ below the Queen’s bust are believed to have been awarded to the Army. william Ryan was born in Co. Tipperary and attested for service with the Dragoon Guards on 19 February 1825, aged 25 years. Serving with the 3rd Dragoon Guards, he was promoted to Corporal in September 1830; Serjeant in June 1833 and Troop Serjeant-Major in March 1838. He was awarded the M.S.M. with an annuity of £10 in August 1849. Ryan was discharged at Chatham on 22 July 1857 and died c.1871. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research. £2000-£2500
Pair: Serjeant J. Heppleston, Royal Artillery china 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Bombr. John Hepplestone, No.4 B. 13th Bde. Rl. Arty.), officially impressed naming; note spelling of surname; Army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R. (Sgt. J. Heppleston, R.A.), first with suspension tightened/refixed, edge bruising, contact marks, good fine; second nearly extremely fine (2) £400-500 Sergeant John Heppleston, Royal Artillery, awarded the M.S.M. and an annuity of £10, 1 April 1902. The recipient who served in the Crimea and Second China Wars was the recipient of one of the last M.S.M’s. bearing Queen Victoria’s head. Heppleston died c.1908. Sold with some copied research. £400-£500
Three: Quartermaster Serjeant L. Silver, Cheshire Regiment india General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (2110 Q.M. Sergt., 2d Bn. Ches. R.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue (2110 Qr. Mr. Sgt., Ches. R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Q.M. Sjt., Ches. R.) contact marks, nearly very fine and better (3) £350-400 Louis Silver was born in Sutton, near Winchester, Hampshire in 1852 and enlisted on 7 October 1870. He served with the 2nd Battalion Cheshire Regiment in the U.K., India and Burma until discharged in 1898. Awarded the Long Service medal in 1890; he was recommended for the M.S.M. in March 1898 and awarded it, with an annuity of £10, in 1921. Sold with some copied research. £350-£400
Pair: Battery Sergeant-Major J. Cockburn, Royal Artillery canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (285 Cpl., R.A.), engraved naming; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (B.S. Mjr., R.A.) good very fine (2) £300-350 Battery Sergeant-Major J. Cockburn, Royal Artillery was awarded the M.S.M. with an annuity of £10 on 7 August 1914. He was commissioned or died the following year. £300-£350
A rare Great War M.S.M. group of four awarded to Lieutenant R. MacFadyen, Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Nyasaland 1915 (Nyasaland Vol. Res.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.), surname spelt ‘McFadyen’; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Vol., Nyasaland V.R.), mounted court style as worn, very fine and better (4) £400-500 M.S.M. London Gazette 13 March 1918. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with Armies in the Field’. it is believed that only five Army (Immediate) M.S.M’s. were awarded to Nyasaland forces. £400-£500
A rare Great War ‘France’ M.S.M. group of four awarded to Acting Leading Seaman G. M. Martin, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1914-15 Star (CZ-286 A.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (C.Z.286 Act. L.S., R.N.V.R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (CZ286 A.B.-H.G., Drake Bn. R.N.V.R.), mounted for display, good very fine, scarce (4) £600-700 M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1918. ‘... for valuable services rendered with the Forces in France’. a total of 119 G.V.R. Field Marshal’s bust ‘Immediate’ M.S.M’s. were awarded to Naval recipients, of which 47 were awarded to the Royal Navy and 72 to the Royal Marines. Of those to the Royal Navy, the majority were awarded to the R.N.V.R. £600-£700
Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Sjt. Dr. J. Adair, Scots Gds.) fine £200-250 sergeant Drummer John Adair, Scots Guards, was admitted as a Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London on 24 January 1903. At the time of his enlistment he was in possession of the Egypt Medal with clasp, Tel-el-Kebir; the Khedive’s Star 1882; the Queen’s South Africa with clasps for Belmont, Modder River and Orange Free State; the King’s South Africa with two clasps; the Army Long Service Medal and Jubilee Medal 1897. During his time as a Warder he was awarded the Coronation Medal 1911, and was awarded the M.S.M. in 1926. As a Yeoman Warder he originally resided in the Cradle Tower but from 27 September 1917 he lived in the Middle Tower. After a Yeoman career spanning 28 years, 4 months, Adair died at Brookwood, Surrey, on 3 June 1931, aged 73 years. sold with copied photograph and research. £200-£250
Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (11895 Sjt. A. L. Payne, R.F.C.) nearly extremely fine £500-600 M.S.M. London Gazette 11 April 1918. ‘For Distinguished Services in the Field in connection with Military Operations culminating in the capture of Jerusalem’. serjeant Payne came from Blackheath. A total of 141 ‘Immediate’ M.S.M’s. for the R.F.C. and R.A.F.; only 15 for ‘Jerusalem’. £500-£600
Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (5401 Sjt. A. S. Foster, 4/Aust. Pr. Bn.) good very fine £200-250 M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1919. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered with the Forces in France during the present war’. arthur Stanley Foster enlisted on 8 December 1914. After service in France he returned to Australia on 25 January 1919. £200-£250
Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (ME-264 Far. Sjt. G. Gilbert, 2/S.A. Eng. Troop) good very fine £160-200 M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations with the Forces in East Africa’. george Gilbert was born in England about 1884. He was 33 years of age, single and a carpenter by trade when he attested at Roberts Heights to the South African Expeditionary Forces on 1st May 1917, giving his next-of-kin as his mother Rebecca Gilbert of Newcastle, Australia. Taken on the strength from 28th April 1917, he was posted as a Sapper Carpenter of the Mounted Engineers. He was promoted Acting Sergeant from 2nd November 1917 and to Farrier Sergeant, 2nd South African Engineering Troop, from 9th April 1918. He embarked aboard H.M.T. Royal George for East Africa on 22nd July 1917. During his service he was treated for malaria on several occasions between 5th December 1917 and 12th December 1918: at Dar-es-Salaam, Morogosa, Lindi, St Amelia, and Kilossa. He disembarked from H.M.T. Ingoma on return, at Durban on 28th December 1918. He was demobilised on 13th January 1919 and discharged at Durban on 9th February 1919, giving his address as Lake Hotel, Boksburg. His trio was despatched apparently to his mother in Newcastle, Australia, on 12th June 1923 (medal trio not in lot). Sold with copied service papers. £160-£200
A rare George VI issue ‘Crowned Head’ M.S.M. group of four awarded to Squadron Serjeant-Major M. E. Swan, 1st Dragoons queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, Cape Colony (2852 Serjt., 1Dgns.) ‘Laing’s Nek’ clasp a contemporary copy; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (2852 Serjt., Rl. Dragoons); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2852 Sq. Sjt. Maj., 1st Dragoons); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, ‘crowned head’ (Sq. S. Mjr., 1-Dns.), mounted as worn, first two with some edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and better (4) £1200-1400 The Army L.S. & G.C. was announced in Army Order 189 of 1905; the M.S.M. in Army Order 44 of 1942. Only about 55 G.VI.R. ‘Crowned Head’ M.S.M’s. were awarded. £1200-£1400
A unique New Zealand M.B.E. and Long Service group of nine awarded to Captain and Quartermaster A. Mathieson, New Zealand Permanent Staff, late Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Modder River, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal (6533 Corl., A. & S. Highrs.), correction to service number; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (6533 Corpl., A. & S. Highrs.); War Medal 1939-45, unnamed; New Zealand Service Medal 1939-45, unnamed; Jubilee 1935, unnamed; New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal (W.O.1, N.Z.P.S.); Army L.S.& G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, New Zealand (W.O.1, N.Z.P.S.); New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, ‘Crowned Head’ (W.O.1, N.Z.P.S.), the group unmounted, some with edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and better (9) £1200-1500 Ex Matthew Taylor Collection, Christies November 1990. m.B.E. New Zealand Gazette 10 June 1943. ‘Captain and Quartermaster Archibald Mathieson, New Zealand Permanent Staff, of Timaru’. archibald Mathieson was born on 7 June 1881 at Kaysmuir Duns in the Parish of Duns, Berwickshire. He was the son of John William Mathieson, a Journeyman Mason born in Dumfries, and Margaret nee Dunholm, born in Coldingham, Berwickshire. A Draper by occupation, he joined the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers at the age of 15 years, and three years later on 4 May 1898 he was attested for the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. On 27 October 1899 he was posted to active service in South Africa and took part in the battles at Modder River, Paardeberg, and Dreifontein. From South Africa (in 1902) he was posted to India for the next 4 years 8 months but his records do not give details of that service, except for receiving a bounty for the extension of his services to complete 12 years with the Colours. He was promoted to Corporal on 10 February 1906. He was posted back to South Africa on 19 December 1906. He was permitted to extend his service to complete 21 years on 1 September 1909 and was promoted to Lance-Sergeant on the same day. He returned to England on 27 January 1910 and took his discharge on 25 November 1910 after 12 years 206 days service. his parents had migrated to New Zealand c.1905 and he arrived to join them in 1911 and apparently took up farming for a short while in Timaru. During the First World War he served with the New Zealand Temporary Staff on 1 September 1915-24 May 1920 but was unable to be passed fit for active service due to bouts of asthma. He remained, however, at Trentham and Featherstone Camps, training personnel in musketry skills for the Expeditionary Force, Archibald joined the New Zealand Permanent Force on 20 July 1920. He was promoted to Staff Sergeant Instructor on 25 May 1923, to WO 2 on 25 May 1926, and Warrant Officer in July 1929. mathieson was recommended for the New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal in September 1931, receiving it on 20 July 1932 in Christchurch. He was recommended for the award of the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 31 January 1934, which was approved on 20 February, and received it on 11 June 1934. On 6 May 1935 he received the Silver Jubilee Medal for the 25th Anniversary of the reign of King George V. In June 1940, after nearly 11 years as W.O. 1, he was promoted to Temporary Lieutenant and Quartermaster. Both the Award Notice and Defence Headquarter List for his New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal are annotated ‘now Lieutenant and Quartermaster’. This award was approved on 4 July 1941 and he received a piece of the ribbon issued on 21 September 1941 but it was almost 20 months before the medal was issued on 23 February 1943. captain and Quartermaster Archibald Mathieson was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.) in the King's Birthday Honours List of 1943. He was at that time holding a clerical and administrative appointment in the Permanent Staff at Timaru. He was discharged in Timaru as a consequence of reaching the age of retirement on 14 August 1946, and was posted to the Retired List on the same day. He retired to his home at 15 Lough Street, Timaru and died there soon after on 5 September 1947 in his 67th year. Sold with a quantity of copied research. £1200-£1500
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