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Click here to subscribeA framed set of medals awarded to Richard R.R. Martin to include The Africa Star 8th Army bar, 1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, France and Germany Star, Dunkirk memorial medal and French medal of Fedelity complete with framed certificates, territorial and general service medals together with one other framed set of Police cap and other badges. (2)
A Group of Medals, awarded to Lt Col H L L Watkis, 37th Lancers Indian Army, including MC with bar, WWI trio with 1914 star, and mentioned in dispatches, an India general service medal with Waziristan 1919-21, Mahsud 1919-20, and Afghanistan North West Frontier 1919 bars, WWII defence and war medals, George V and Queen Mary silver medal, and two continental decorations, all in a glazed mahogany Spink case, a Madras Light Cavalry silver sash with battle honours, Birmingham 1903, an early photograph of Watkis, a tinted photograph of Watkis (with MC) a photograph of Watkis wearing Madras Light Cavalry silver sash, a mid/late 20th century photograph of Watkis and his wife(?) feeding pigeons, an Old Contemptibles badge, an oval gilt metal locket, initialled HW within a garter, with a photograph of his father, a United Service Club Coronation 1953 ticket, and a similar tag Note: Also see lots 815 & 830.
1917 George V: a monochrome photograph of the King in military uniform, the mount embossed with the Royal Coat of Arms, printed W & D Downey, 61 Ebury Street, SW and ink signed George RI 1917, framed 221 x 298mm, the reverse inscribed 'presented to Brig. Gen. ADC James in 1916 (sic) for conducting him round the battlefields in France as provost Marshal 3. Army'
The Higgins at War - Five medals with the same family name comprising:-Queens South Africa Medal with the following bars - Laings Nek, Transvaal, Relief of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Tugela Heights (5), awarded to 5189 Pte J Higgins West Yorkshire Regt.; The Kings South Afica Medal with bars 1901-02, awarded to 5187 Pte J Higgins W Yorks Regt; and a First World War Trio to 2368 Pte J Higgins W Yorks Regt., all mounted on an army great coat.
Richards (Walter). His Majesty's Territorial Army. A Descriptive Account of the Yeomanry, Artillery, Engineers and Infantary, with the Army Service and Medical Corps, comprising 'The King's Imperial Army of the Second Line', 4 vols., n.d., [1910], thirty-two col. plts. by R. Caton Woodville, correct as list, a.e.g., orig. pict. cloth gilt, slightly faded on spines, 4to (4).
Prints & Maps. Jenkins (J., pub.), Centre of the British Army at La Haye Sainte, June 18th, 1815, pub. March 1st, 1816, hand coloured aquatint view of the Battle of Waterloo by T.Sutherland after W.H., descriptive text to lower margin, some abrasion with a few small holes, approx. 290 x 370 mm, framed and glazed, together with Keere (Pieter van den), Holy Island, Garnsey, Farne, Jarsey, c.1610, hand coloured engraved map with some light dampstaining, approx. 90 x 125 mm, not laid down, framed and glazed, and other maps and prints including a Baxter print, Owen/Bowen road maps, county maps by Archer, etc. (22).
WORLD WAR I and later. Series of over fifty letters from the front from Captain (later Major) Donald Mackenzie to his mother, 1914-18 describing his work as an artillery officer. All with original envelopes with Field Army Post Office and censor markings. Several hundred pages in all. "Yesterday I took eighty men to B-------...for washing purposes, every man was given a bath". "Everything continues to go well...one man was killed...a stray shell came over". "There has been a battle raging for the last few days...got through a large number of shells...have had two turn's in the Observers station...the Gs know that we use it...all Field Artillery Guns are called 'Pip Squeaks' (June 1915). Together with Mackenzie's medals (1914/15 Star (with 1914 bar), War Medal, Victory Medal, Defence medal and miniatures). Also included with this lot are a series of letters from South Africa, 1922-25 where he was a gunnery instructor, all with original envelopes, and a suitcase filled with notebooks of various compositions by him including poems and limericks; also a few watercolours. A few blemishes, envelope tears etc, but majority in sound condition. (box and suitcase).
*WWI. A pair of framed displays of WWI silk postcards, comprising thirty-two silk postcards, mostly hearts-and-flowers type, displayed on a pink background, each display approx. 25 x 25 (64 x 64 cm), modern gilt frames, glazed, together with a similar memorial display of seven WWI silk postcards, with printed notice 'State Colours of the Coldstream Regiment of Footguards ... this is to inform the relatives and friends of P.C. Harry Holden that he served his King and County as a soldier, no. 4388 in the Coldstream Guards, during the Great European War', approx. 18 x 21 (46 x 53 cm.), stained oak frame, glazed, plus a complete set of Wills's Cigarette 'Allied Army Leaders' cigarette cards, c. 1930s, framed and glazed (4)
Lake (Colonel Atwell). Narrative of the Defence of Kars, Historical and Military, 1st ed., 1857, folding plan, folding tinted litho. panorama and five single page tinted litho. plts., all correct as list, near contemp. school prize calf gilt, rubbed on spine, minor wear to extrems., 8vo, together with Oliphant (Laurence), The Trans-Caucasian Campaign of the Turkish Army under Omer Pasha. A Personal Narrative, 1st ed., 1856, four tinted litho. plts., folding plan and a folding map, contemp. half morocco gilt, worn on spine, both 8vo (2)
Robinson, N. (editor), Celebrities of the Army, London, George Newnes, 1900, large 4to (360 x 270mm.), colour plates, title partially detached, contemporary red half morocco, front cover lettered in gilt, front cover partially detached With Bartholomew's 'The XXth Century Citizen's Atlas of the World' (London, n.d.)
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