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The extremely well-documented campaign group of seven awarded to Captain C. H. Wilkinson, Royal Corps of Signals, late Wireless Operator, Mercantile Marine and Sergeant Mechanic (Wireless Telegrapher), Royal Naval Air Service British War 1914-20 (F.11559 C. H. Wilkinson. P.O.M. R.N.A.S.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (C. H. Wilkinson); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, nearly extremely fine (6) £260-£300 --- Cecil Howard Wilkinson was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, in July 1896. He was educated at The Greystones School, Scarborough, and joined the Merchant Navy as a Wireless Operator in 1913. Wilkinson made several Atlantic crossings in early 1914, before serving as a Sergeant Mechanic (Wireless Telegrapher) with the Royal Naval Air Service from 11 February 1916 to 1 April 1918, and then transferring to the Royal Air Force, his last posting being No. 1 Marine Observers School, Aldeburgh. Wilkinson’s Log Book records various W/T test flights at Aldeburgh with him in a Observer capacity in mainly DH6 aircraft between August 1918 and March 1919. He returned to the Merchant Navy in December 1919, and was still serving in April 1921. Wilkinson re-engaged for service during the Second War as a Company Quarter Master Sergeant with the Royal Corps of Signals. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in September 1943, and advanced to Captain in the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers in January 1948. Wilkinson was discharged with the honorary rank of Captain in August 1951. Sold with the following related original documentation: Board of Trade Continuous Certificate of Discharge; British Mercantile Marine Identity and Service Certificate; Signal Card 1908 (reprint 1914); First Class Certificate of Proficiency in Radiotelegraphy granted by the Postmaster General, dated 25 November 1913, complete with photograph and various travel stamps; Pilot’s Flying Log Book (Army Book 425), covering the period from 16 August 1918 to 6 March 1919; Certificate of Employment During the War; Protection Certificate and Certificate of Identity (Soldier Not Remaining With The Colours); Second World War campaign medal enclosure slip; The Greystones School, Scarborough, School Report for Easter 1911; Membership Certificate for The Incorporated Radio Society of Great Britain, dated 8 September 1947; a number of photographs from Second World War service; and other ephemera.

Pair: Captain R. A. Maby, Gloucestershire Regiment, Parachute Regiment, and Royal Army Ordnance Corps Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (2/Lt. R. A. Maby. Glosters.); General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Malay Peninsula (Capt. R. A. Maby. RAOC.) mounted as worn, edge bruising to AGS, toned, good very fine (2) £300-£400 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2015. Rene Alexis Maby was born in Headington, Oxford, on 22 July 1932, the son of the physicist Joseph Maby, the scientist who helped develop the early radar systems. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment on 22 July 1953, he was promoted Lieutenant on 22 July 1955, and served with the 1st Battalion in Kenya in 1955 as commander of the Anti-Tank Platoon. Undergoing parachute training, he transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment in 1958, and was promoted Captain on 22 July 1959. He served with them in Cyprus from December 1959, before transferring to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on 29 August 1961, and saw further service in Malaya. Sold with array of the recipient’s unit cloth badges ands patches, including his Pegasus patch and Parachute Wings; and three photographic images.

Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2) (68123 Gnr: E. Farman. R.A.; 47901 Dvr: J. E. Feary. R.F.A.) minor edge bruising to latter, good very fine (2) £80-£100 --- Ernest Farman was born in Peckham in 1868 and attested for the Royal Artillery at Woolwich on 26 July 1888. He served overseas in India, Gibraltar and Malta and was awarded the LSGC Medal with gratuity in 1908. James Elliott Feary was born in Plaistow in 1866 and attested for the Royal Artillery at Colchester on 10 March 1885. He served in India and South Africa from 1 January 1900 to 23 March 1900, being further entitled to the QSA Medal, clasp Cape Colony.

A R.V.M. awarded to Bombardier C. Piggin, Royal Horse Artillery Royal Victorian Medal, V.R., bronze, contemporarily engraved ‘93769. Br. C. Piggin S. Baty. R.H.A.’ crown suspension loose, nearly extremely fine £70-£90 --- George Piggin was born in Norwich and attested for the Royal Artillery on 25 October 1892. Transferred to the Military Mounted Police, he was invalided from the Service as Corporal on 21 January 1911. A letter contained within his Army Service Record notes that he later spent time at the Surrey County Asylum (Netherne Hospital) and died in consequence of a bad fall in 1930.

A Second War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant and Paymaster J. E. de la Motte, Royal Army Pay Corps, late Suffolk Yeomanry The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; British War and Victory Medals (2-Lieut. J. E. de la Motte.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, court-mounted for wear, lacquered, very fine (5) £160-£200 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1946. Jack Edward de la Motte was born in Wandsworth in 1898. He served from 28 October 1915 as a Second Lieutenant in the Suffolk Yeomanry and later returned to service during the Second World War with the Royal Army Pay Corps. Raised Lieutenant and Paymaster in the London Gazette of 18 August 1942, his work was later recognised with the award of the O.B.E. in the New Year’s Honours’ list of 1946. Retired to north London, de la Motte later devoted his time to the pursuit of golf, his name regularly appearing in the contemporary press in consequence of winning the ‘longest drive’ at Wyke Green golf club (typically around the 230 yards mark).

Delhi Durbar 1903, silver (90298 Tptr.: E. J. Hill R.H.A.) contemporarily engraved naming, lacking integral silver riband buckle, minor scratches, generally very fine £160-£200 --- Ernest John Hill was born in Devonport in 1878. He attested for the Royal Artillery at Woolwich on 19 May 1892 and witnessed extensive service as Trumpeter with “E” and “M” Batteries, Royal Horse Artillery, including a 6 year posting to India from 12 October 1899 to 19 February 1906. His Army Service Record notes 10 days confined to barracks for ‘ill-treating Boy Hedley’, neglecting to obey orders, drunkenness, using obscene language, and breaking away from Military Police.

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (2119 Pte. R. Gorman 1st. Bn. E. Lanc: Regt.) edge bruising, nearly extremely fine £100-£140 --- Robert Gorman was born in Shankhill, Belfast, in 1869 and attested for the East Lancashire Regiment at Belfast on 14 October 1887, having previously served in the 4th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. He served with the 1st Battalion in India from 12 October 1891 to 2 December 1895, and took part in the Relief of Chitral campaign. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 8 December 1895, and was discharged on 13 October 1899, after 12 years’ service. Sold with copied service papers.

Four: Sergeant A. F. C. Child, Corps of Military Police General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (1416803 Sjt. A. Child. C. of M.P.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (1416803 Cpl. A. F. C. Child. C. of M.P.) cleaned, good very fine (4) £100-£140

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.S.M. awarded to Sergeant C. Humphreys, one of the original cohort of the 4th Battalion, “The Mad Fourth”, Canadian Expeditionary Force, who survived the first German gas attack at Ypres in April 1915 - when the Battalion strength was less than halved - and was later transferred behind the lines and decorated for valuable service as Sergeant Cook Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (11583 Sjt. C. Humphreys. 4/Bn. 1/C. Ont. R.) minor contact marks, very fine £200-£240 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 20 May 1919: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered in France and Flanders.’ Charles Humphreys was born in Colchester, Essex, on 30 July 1888. A carpenter by trade, he attested for the 4th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Central Ontario) at Valcartier on 22 September 1914, one of four Battalions which would eventually make up the 1st Brigade, 1st Canadian Infantry Division. Interestingly, many of the first officers and men to attest for the 4th Battalion came from up to a dozen of the pre-war Canadian Militia Regiments; the recipient’s Canadian Army Service Record confirms 1 years’ previous service with the [38th] Dufferin Rifles of Brantford. Initially appointed Private, Humphreys was sent to staff as Pioneer at Bustard on 2 November 1914. He subsequently boarded the S.S. Atlantian and docked at St. Nazaire with the 4th Battalion on 11 February 1915. After a train ride to Strazeele, the men marched to Outtersteene and spent the next few days in billets; here they learned of their first loss, Private Frederick Norris, who fell from the train enroute and was killed. Sent to Hazebrouck the troops soon suffered from scarlet fever and other health complaints; Humphreys spent 4 days suffering from stomach problems. On 22 April 1915, the German Army changed the nature of warfare by employing lethal chlorine gas on the battlefield for the first time. Lacking protective clothing and masks, French Colonial troops suffered appalling casualties and left a dangerous gap in the lines for the enemy to exploit. Leaving Vlamertigne at 2130hrs on 22 April 1915, the 4th Battalion moved to occupy the Mauser Ridge. At 0525hrs the following morning the Canadians emerged from the front line trenches and moved to leapfrog towards their objectives. Details of the attack were later printed in The Times: ‘It is safe to say that the youngest Private in the rank, as he set his teeth for the advance, knew the task in front of him, and the youngest subaltern knew that all rested upon its success. It did not seem that any human could live in the shower of shot and shell which began to play against the advancing troops.’ In his 1920 History of Brant County, author F. Douglas Reville noted that the 4th Battalion won its nickname just as its commanding officer went down in Battle: ‘As [Birchall] turned he fell dead at the head of his battalion. With a hoarse cry the battalion rushed forward to avenge him, and thus earned the title of “The Mad Fourth”. The Battalion War Diary for 23 April 1915 lists 505 killed, wounded or missing, the survivors - including Humphreys - being forced to dig in to consolidate their meagre gains. Having weathered this onslaught, Humphreys likely witnessed further action at Observatory Ridge from 12-14 June 1916 and the larger Canadian effort to capture Mont Sorrel. Promoted in the field to the unusual rank of Sergeant Cook 31 August 1916, he was thus removed from front line duties, likely being seen as having ‘done his bit’ and being one of the last of the original cohort still in the field. His Service Record subsequently notes the award of the M.S.M. after ‘49 months of service in France’. Returned home to Quebec per S.S. Metagama, he was struck off strength at Quebec Depot Clearing Service Command on 9 July 1919.

A fine ‘Mekran Expedition 1898’ C.B. group of nine awarded to Colonel R. C. G. Mayne, Bombay Army The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge converted for neck wear, silver-gilt and enamels; Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Kandahar (Lt. R. C. G. Mayne, 29th Bo. N.I.); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (Lieut: R. C. G. Mayne 29th Bombay N.I.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Lieut: R. C. G. Mayne, 2nd Belooch: Regt.); China 1900, no clasp (Lt. Col: R. C. G. Mayne, C.B., A.D.C., 30 Belooch: Inf:); Coronation 1902, silver; Delhi Durbar 1903, silver; Coronation 1911; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, mounted court-style, minor enamel chips to the first, the earlier campaign medals with pitting from star, otherwise very fine and better (9) £2,800-£3,400 --- Richard Charles Graham Mayne was born on 27 August 1852 in Simla, India, the son of Major Robert Graham Mayne, and Eliza Anne Landale. He was sent back to England to be educated at Wellington College, and then attended the Royal Military College Sandhurst, being commissioned as an Ensign into the 83rd County of Dublin Regiment of Foot in 1872. Mayne then transferred to the Indian Army, and was appointed a Lieutenant with the 29th Bombay Native Infantry, which was otherwise known as the Balooch Regiment. He saw service during the Second Afghanistan War of 1878-80, being present during Lord Robert's famous march from Kabul to Kandahar during August 1880, and was then present at the capture of Kandahar on 1 September 1880. Mayne was then present with the Indian Contingent sent to Egypt during the Egyptian War of 1882, being present in action at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir on 13 September 1882. Mayne was promoted to Captain in 1884, and then to Major in 1892, followed by Lieutenant Colonel in 1898, and appointed to command the 30th Bombay Native Infantry which was otherwise known as the 3rd Balooch Regiment. It was in this year that Mayne performed his most distinguished services for the Indian Army when he commanded the forces during the little known but important Mekran Expedition. At the turn of the 19th Century, the Mekran area of north-west India (now Pakistan) and adjacent south-east Persia was a remote dry strip of land running along the northern coastline of the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. This was, and remains today, one of the most hostile and inaccessible regions in the world. Mountains rising to over 10,000 feet formed a backdrop to the coastal desert. Habitation inland followed watercourses that ran through gorges in the hills where date gardens could be irrigated. Coastal communities existed on fishing and smuggling, with Muscat, in Oman across the Straits of Hormuz, being a major source of illegally-imported weapons. The camel provided a transport resource, as well as milk and meat. The standard of living was very low, bordering on wretched, for many inhabitants. The people were hardy and lawless Muslim Baluch tribesmen who resisted outside interference and who constantly intrigued and fought amongst themselves. In the British-administered portion of Mekran government of a sort was achieved by tribal treaty supervised by British Political Agents. The British presence was most evident on the coast where a telegraph line ran from Persia to Karachi. However, by 1898, British survey parties were working inland. In January 1898, conflict broke out in Kej, where the Hindu Nazim Diwan Udho Das (a district administrator who reported to the ruler of the region, the Khan of Kalat) was disliked and disrespected by the Baluch sardars (leaders) Baluch Khan and Mehrab Khan Gichki. The latter, with the complicity of Baluch Khan, attacked Diwan Udho Das on 6th January, imprisoned him in Kalatuk Fort and looted his treasury. Meantime, the unsuspecting British had deployed four surveyors, with Punjabi civilian support staff, into the Kolwa and Kej valleys, depending on the Baluch sardars' levies for security. On 9th January, the camp of one of the surveyors, Captain J. M. Burn, Royal Engineers, was attacked by local tribesmen. The fifteen-man levy escort team, commanded by Rhustam Khan, brother of Mehrab Khan Gichki, stood aside as sixteen support staff were slaughtered. The attackers and the escort party then seized thirty-five rifles and 15,000 Rupees. Captain Burn had been sleeping on a hill three miles away, and he was alerted by one of his men who had escaped from the camp. Burn started off on foot to Balor, thirty-five miles away. At Balor he sent messengers to alert the other surveyors, and he obtained a camel to ride to Urmara, whence on 11th January he telegraphed a report to Brigadier-General T. A. Cooke, the Officer Commanding Sind District, at Karachi. Within two hours of the report's arrival, a military response was initiated. Lieutenant-Colonel R. G. C. Mayne, commanding 30th Bombay Infantry (3rd Baluch Battalion), was ordered to proceed with 250 men to Urmara, seventy-five miles east of Pasni. Transportation was provided by the tug Richmond Crawford, with a local boat in tow carrying followers, baggage, 400 rounds per rifle, and rations for one month. Three British officers and one medical officer accompanied Mayne. Parties from the 21st Bombay Infantry were despatched to Chabbar and Jask in Persian Mekran to protect British telegraph facilities in those locations. Meanwhile those sardars wishing to avoid direct conflict with the British escorted the three remaining surveyors and their men into Urmara. At Urmara, Colonel Mayne landed his men, horses and supplies by using local bunder boats (ship-to-shore coastal boats). More troops were being organised to join Colonel Mayne, and Pasni was chosen as the operational base. From Pasni, a direct route led north to Mehrab Khan's fort at Turbat and the nearby fort at Kalatuk where Nazim Diwan Udho Das was jailed. Colonel Mayne marched on 19th January with his men along the 100 miles of telegraph line to Pasni, repairing the line as he went. The hostile sardars had sent instructions that the British were not to be offered camels to assist with transportation, but the British Political Agent for South-East Baluchistan, Major M. A. Tighe, quickly found camels for Colonel Mayne. None of the beasts were strong due to recent droughts in the region and many died under the pressure of work. By 27th January, Colonel Mayne had under his command at Pasni the 30th Bombay Infantry (400 rifles), a section of No 4 Hazara Mountain Battery (two 7-pndr guns), and eighty-eight transport mules. Two days later the following troops left Karachi to join Colonel Mayne: 6th Bombay Cavalry (half-squadron); 30th Bombay Infantry (eighty rifles, tasked with guarding telegraph facilities at Urmara, Pasni and Gwadur); Bombay Sappers and Miners (one British and one Indian officer with twelve other ranks); No 42 Field Hospital ('C' and 'D' Sections); an additional twelve transport mules. Colonel Mayne left Pasni with his men and the two mountain guns on 27th January, knowing that Baluch Khan intended to block his advance to Turbat. Four dry and dusty days later at 08.00 hours, the column came across the hostile Sardars and 1,500 of their men on hills 300 feet above the mouth of a narrow six-mile long defile. When the advance guard under Lieutenant N. R. Anderson got within 850 yards of the enemy, it came under breech-loading rifle fire. Captain A. Le G. Jacob, with fifty rifles, was deployed onto a hill on the enemy's left flank where he met stiff opposition. Lieutenant J. H. Paine and his gunners now delivered destructive blows by blasting the sardars' forces with shells. Colonel Mayne sent Captain R. Southey with fifty rifles to drive the enemy off low hills to the left (west) of the defile. At that moment Lieutenant H. T. Naylor appeared with thirty-two sabres from the 6th Bombay Cavalry. ...

A Medal of the Order of the British Empire group of seven awarded to acting Warrant Officer Class II A. J. Nutting, 16th (County of London) Battalion (Queen’s Westminster Rifles), London Regiment, who was thrice honoured in the Great War Medal of the Order of the British Empire (Military), unnamed as issued; 1914 Star (161 Sjt. A. J. Nutting, 1/16 Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (161 A.W.O. Cl. 2 A. J. Nutting, 16-Lond. R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (161 Sjt. A. J. Nutting, 1/16 Lond. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., named to another recipient ‘562118 Spr.-A.S. Sjt. E. Paine, R.E.’; Royal Victorian Medal, G.V.R., silver, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style with new ribands but on original wearing bar, together with four related Queen’s Westminster Rifles’ prize medals 1909-12, two in gold and two in bronze, all named to the recipient, dated and in fitted cases of issue; and a silver prize award from the Metropolitan Territorial School of Arms Association, 1912, this also in fitted case, good very fine and better (12) £800-£1,000 --- Provenance: John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2009. Medal of the Order of the British Empire London Gazette 23 January 1920: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in France and Flanders. M.S.M. London Gazette 18 October 1916: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered during the present War.’ Alfred James Nutting was from Merstham, Surrey, and by profession a director of an old family business, the seed merchants Nutting and Sons Ltd. But he was also a keen Volunteer and Territorial, originally having joined the 13th (Queen’s) Middlesex Rifle Volunteers at Buckingham Gate in London several years before the Great War. Awarded the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal shortly before the outbreak of hostilities (AO 216 of July 1914 refers), he went out to France as a Sergeant with the 16th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) in November of that year, where, no doubt, he witnessed events of the famous Christmas Truce - gifts were exchanged in No Man’s Land and one of the German officers encountered by the Battalion was originally from Catford. Remaining actively employed on the Western Front, Nutting was to be decorated on three occasions, namely with the Army Meritorious Service Medal; the Royal Victorian Medal in silver, on the occasion of George V’s visit to the Army in the Field in July 1917; and the Medal of the Order of the British Empire. Returning to his family firm after the War, of which he rose to be Chairman of the Board, Nutting was appointed as the Horticultural Trade Association’s representative to the Ministry of Agriculture on the renewal of hostilities, but following the complete destruction of his business premises in Southwark Street, London in 1942, his health declined. He died in Redhill, Surrey in July 1946.

Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (James Wilfred Harrald), in Royal Mint case of issue; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (23823131 Bdr D J Cook RA), in named card box of issue; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (George W. F. Jefferson) nearly extremely fine (3) £70-£90 --- I.S.M. London Gazette, 10 April 1980: Harrald, James Wilfred, lately Telephonist, Scotland West Telephone Area, Glasgow.

Miscellaneous Women’s Insignia. A good selection of insignia to the Women’s Services including, OSD bronze FANY cap and collar badges and buttons, ATS cap, collars and shoulder titles, WRAC caps collars and shoulder titles, scarce lapel badges Women’s Royal Naval Services, Scottish Women’s Hospital, St. Dunstan’s Hallmarked Birmingham 1934, Women’s Imperial League, Food Preservation & Naval Transport Service 1915, Board of Agriculture Women’s Branch, another example Land Worker, Women’s Land Army cloth shoulder titles, brassard and lapel badge; and sundry cap, collar, and lapel badges, very good condition (lot) £300-£400

Five: E. L. Chescoe, Australian Forces 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Australia Service Medal, all officially impressed ‘VX43285 E. L. Chescoe’, very fine 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; Defence Medal (2), one in named card box of issue address to ‘Mrs. E. I. Oliver, 7 Lonsdale Avenue, Romford, Essex’; War Medal 1939-45 (2) generally very fine (12) £100-£140 --- Sold with a War Medal 1935-45 planchet only, an Army Council Second World War bestowal slip, a boxed Dunkirk veteran’s commemorative medal, with certificate named to ‘Mr. W. McLennan’, a boxed National Service Medal, two Masonic medals and a Royal Navy Cap Tally.

Pair: Quartermaster Sergeant J. Hicks, Royal Artillery, who served a remarkable 34 years with the Colours Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Q.M. Sjt. J. Hicks. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (132. Sergt. J. Hicks. R.A.) good very fine and better (2) £140-£180 --- James Hicks was born in Westminster in 1853 and attested at Woolwich for the Royal Artillery on 17 September 1870. He served in 1884 as Sergeant with the 1st Brigade, North Irish Division, transferring the following year to the Southern Division and subsequently the London Division. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with gratuity in 1891, he was later issued an annuity Meritorious Service Medal per Army Order No. 231 of 1925.

Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (168 C. Sjt: A. E. King. 5/Essex Regt.) nearly extremely fine £80-£100 --- A. E. King served with the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Essex Regiment, from 1898. Transferring to the 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment, on the formation of the Territorial Force in 1908, he was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 255 of October 1910, one of only 41 E.VII.R. Territorial Force Efficiency Medals awarded to the 5th Battalion. He did not serve overseas during the Great War (the Essex Regimental Museum has a photograph of him with 3/5th Battalion taken during the War, and he is noted as a Sergeant Major), he later served as President of the 5th Battalion Old Comrades Association.

Pair: Corporal R. W. Webb, 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment, later Royal West Surrey Regiment British War Medal 1914-20 (11957 A. Cpl. R. W. Webb. The Queen’s R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (379 Cpl. R. W. Webb. 5/Essex Regt.) the TFEM mounted as worn, good very fine (2) £100-£140 --- Robert W. Webb served with the 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment, being awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 8 of January 1911, one of only 41 E.VII.R. Territorial Force Efficiency Medals awarded to the 5th Battalion. He served during the Great War with the Royal West Surrey Regiment (also entitle to a Victory Medal), and later with the Labour Corps. Sold with copied Medal Index Cards.

The group of eight mounted medals attributed to Major-General N. A. Aferi, Ghanian Forces, late Royal West Africa Frontier Force Ghana, Republic, Every Ready Medal, silver; Ghana United Nations Medal, with Congo bar; Ghana Independece Medal 1960; Long and Efficient Service Star; Great Britain, Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953; U.N. Medal, 1 clasp, Congo, all unnamed as issued, mounted court-style as worn, good very fine (8) £200-£240 --- Nathan Apea Aferi was born at Mampong-Akuapen, Gold Coast, on 21 September 1922, and served during the latter stages of the Second World War with the Royal West African Frontier Force. He was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in 1954, and later trained at the Staff College, Camberley. Advanced Lieutenant-Colonel in the Ghanian Forces, he served with the United Nations Operation in the Congo, where he is reported to have been on guard at Radio Congo when Patrice Lumumba attempted a broadcast in the confusion around the time of Congo's independence in 1960 from Belgium. Promoted Major-General, he was appointed Chief of the Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces in July 1965, and retired from the Army on 7 June 1966. Subsequently pursuing a diplomatic career, he served as Ghanian Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1972 to 1975. In addition to his mounted group of medals he was awarded the Honour of Merit First Class in 1963, and the Ghanian Distinguished Service Order in 1965, as well as receiving various honorary foreign awards. Twice married, firstly to Miss Rose Obeng in 1946, and then to Mad Wilhelmina Classpeter in 2001, in later life he was an enthusiastic Gospel singer at the Soul Clinic International Church in Accra. He died in Accra on 8 April 2003, and was buried with full military honours. Sold with the recipients Burial and Funeral Programme, containing many tributes to and photographs of the recipient; and a post-mortem photograph of the recipient in his open casket wearing his medals.

Three: Captain R. H. Rogers, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, attached Burma Mounted Rifles British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. R. H. Rogers.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (Lieut. R. H. Rogers.) good very fine (3) £160-£200 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 20 January 1920: ‘For valuable service rendered in India during the War.’

A ‘double issue’ Queen’s South Africa Medal group of three awarded to Gunner W. Hales, Royal Field Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 (2), 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (34515 Gnr: W. Hales, 39th. Bty: R.F.A.); 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (34515 Gnr: W. Hales. 38th. Bty: R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (34515 Gnr: W. Hales. R.F.A.) light contact marks, very fine and better (3) £200-£240 --- Walter Hales was born in Bow, London, in 1881. A carpenter, he initially attested for the Royal Engineers as Sapper on 11 April 1899, before transferring to the Royal Field Artillery a couple of days later. Posted to South Africa from 5 September 1900 to 4 March 1907, his Army Service Record confirms entitlement to the QSA Medal with 3 clasps.

Miscellaneous Economy Plastic Cap Badges. A selection of 10 economy plastic cap badges, mostly to various Corps, including Royal Engineers, Royal Corps of Signals, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Army Catering Corps &c., all complete with fold-over tangs, very good condition (10) £60-£80 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

An extremely fine British War Medal awarded to The Reverend Major H. C. Eves, M.C. and Second Award Bar, Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, late Machine Gun Corps and Durham Light Infantry, who was twice decorated for personally capturing an enemy machine-gun and crew, and was later recognised for holding back waves of the enemy on the First Day of the German Spring Offensive. Devoting his later life to the study of theology and God, he became a much admired and loved personality in Newmarket, notably after suggesting Public Houses could become good recruiting grounds for the next generation of parishioners British War Medal 1914-20 (Major H. C. Eves.) attractively toned, minor edge bruise, good very fine £200-£240 --- M.C. London Gazette 4 February 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He personally captured an enemy machine gun and two of the team. On reaching the final objective he went forward in advance of the Tanks and captured two field guns. He showed great daring and initiative.’ M.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 26 July 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during an enemy attack, when he controlled his battalion under very heavy fire, and later advanced to a most advantageous position, where his guns did great execution. Finally, although partially surrounded, he fought his guns to the last until overwhelmed by enemy bombers, and when all his guns except one had been knocked out, he succeeded in retiring with it.’ Harold Cecil Eves was born in Redcar, Yorkshire, on 13 June 1894. Educated at Coatham Grammar School, he was appointed to a commission as Second Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry in the London Gazette of 9 June 1915. Posted to France on 4 June 1916, he transferred to the Machine Gun Corps and was twice decorated with the Military Cross. The Second Award Bar was later notified in The North-Eastern Daily Gazette on 9 May 1918: ‘Lieut. H. C. Eves, who was recently awarded the Military Cross, has now received a Bar to his distinction for bravery in holding up the enemy with the machine-gun during the attack on March 21st.’ Hostilities over, Eves was admitted to St. Chad’s College, Durham University, where he was awarded a theological scholarship and a prize for Hebrew in 1920. Graduating B.A. (1921) and M.A. (1924), he won an open exhibition for mathematics with £30 and represented the University at football; he also played for Stockton Football Club. Ordained at Durham Cathedral, he took appointment as Curate at Brotton Parva and Carlin Howe, followed by Wath-on-Dearne from 1926-31. The Sheffield Daily Telegraph later recorded Eves experiencing further sporting success, this time on the golf course: ‘Bishop of Sheffield and the Game for the Clergy. The Reverend H. C. Eves of Wath, is the first winner of the Cup presented by the Bishop of Sheffield for competition among the members of the newly-formed Sheffield Clergy Golfing Society. On the course of the Abbeydale Club yesterday morning, the Rev. Eves led the way with an excellent card of 89-16: 73.’ The event proved a fine success, the Bishop keen to add: ‘He could think of no finer way for the Sheffield Clergy to get together than in God’s fresh air.’ Appointed to the living of Bradfield St. George, near Bury St. Edmunds, Eves subsequently spent the full duration of the Second World War as Chaplain to the Forces. The Bury Free Press & Post of 28 September 1945, adds: ‘In the early months he was in France, and was among the last to return to this country through St. Nazaire after the fall of Dunkirk. Since that time he has served in Scotland and Bury St. Edmunds.’ Transferred to the Suffolk and Essex Home Guard, Eves later found himself looking for new ways of filling his church pews with peace returned: ‘The Pub and the Parson. The Reverend H. C. Eves, former Rector of Bradfield St. George and now rector of St Mary’s, had something to say about racehorses and “pubs” when he addressed his annual parochial meeting this week. He described his five months’ stay in Newmarket as simply wonderful, and later went on to speak of the danger of young folk losing their vision in Christ... “We must do our bit,” he said. “It is our part of the battlefield...” There was laughter when the Rector said he had hinted to the men where they could talk about it, and he added: “I think the public house can be the best friend to a Parson!”’ A married man, the Reverend Harold Eves died at Newmarket on 6 January 1979.

Three: Musician H. J. Martin, Grenadier Guards, late Royal Garrison Artillery British War and Victory Medals (34290 Gnr. H. J. Martin. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (406106 Musician H. J. Martin. G.Gds.) the Great War awards polished, the obverses fair to fine; the reverses and the LS&GC better (3) £60-£80 --- Confirmed not entitled to a 1914 or 1914-15 Star.

Miniature Medals: South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879, mounted for wear; British War and Victory Medals, this pair mounted as worn; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army; Netherlands, Kingdom, Order of Orange-Nassau, with lapel bow, in van Wielik, The Hague, card box, generally good very fine and better (6) £80-£100

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (12843. Gunnr. J. Delaney. N/2 --- R.A.) pitting and contact marks obscuring part of naming, nearly very fine £80-£100 --- John Delaney was born in the Parish of Paulstown, Kilkenny, Ireland, around 1855. A farm labourer, he attested for the Royal Artillery at the Manchester recruiting office and served with “N” Battery as a groom during operations in Egypt and the Sudan. Transferred to Army Reserve on expiration of colour service, his Army Service record adds: ‘Fair. A smart soldier and respectful to his officers.’

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (8905 Gnr: J. Early. J. B, R.H.A.) edge bruising, polished and worn, better than good fine £60-£80 --- John Early was born in Brighton in 1877 and attested there for the Royal Horse Artillery on 19 March 1895. Stating previous service with the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, he served in India and South Africa from 17 January 1900 to 26 June 1900. Awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with gratuity in 1914, he joined the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force from 16 March 1915 to 23 September 1915 and is noted upon his Army Service Record as serving at Gallipoli. Returned home, Early took civilian employment in central London with the Ministry of Supply. He died of pneumonia on 22 September 1952.

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1361. Pte. F. Hollyoak, A.H. Corps) minor edge bruising, good very fine £60-£80 --- Frederick Hollyoak attested for the 66th Regiment of Foot on 5 April 1858 and transferred to the 64th Regiment of Foot on 1 August 1861, and then to the Army Hospital Corps on 1 September 1863. He served in New Zealand for three years and eleven months, of which one year and four months were spent in the field at Ngaruawahia under the command of General Sir Duncan Cameron (Medal); and then for three months on the West Coast of Africa. He was discharged on 28 April 1877, after 19 years and 24 days’ service. Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extract.

Three: Lieutenant V. R. W. Johnson, Wiltshire Regiment, who was mortally wounded on the Western Front in March 1915
1914 Star, with clasp (2 Lieut. V. R. W. Johnson, Wilts. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. V. R. W. Johnson) good very fine or better (3) £500-£700 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Victor Reginald William Johnson was born in July 1894, the son of a ‘highly respected tradesman’ from Reading, and was educated at the Kendrick School and University College, Reading, where he was a member of the O.T.C.

Commissioned in the 3rd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, on the outbreak of hostilities, he was attached to the 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment on entering the French theatre of War on 23 October 1914, in which capacity he remained employed until transferring to the 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, in mid-February 1915, a period that witnessed him present in the fighting around Festubert and being hospitalised in late December 1914 (the 1/Devons war diary refers).

As stated, Johnson joined the 2nd Wiltshires in mid-February 1915 but, having emerged unscathed from the ferocious fighting at Neuve Chapelle in the following month, was mortally wounded on the 28, while commanding ‘A’ Company. Captain E. Makin wrote to the recipient’s father in the following terms:

‘I regret to announce to you that your son was killed in the trenches yesterday afternoon. He was hit through the back of the head by a rifle bullet. Our Medical Officer happened to be on the spot at the time and I can assure you that everything was done that was possible to save him. The Medical Officer, who is a very clever doctor, tried to operate almost at once, but found it was useless, and your son died about two hours afterwards.

He was buried by our Chaplain at 3 p.m. this afternoon. Only my Adjutant, Captain Ponsford, and myself were able to be present, with some of the regimental stretcher bearers, as the other officers could not leave their duty in the trenches.

His loss is not only a personal loss, but I think he would have become a very good officer, and his death is a loss to the whole Army. He is buried besides two other officers. Please allow me to express my sympathy with you at your great loss, and that of the whole regiment.’

Johnson, ‘an exceedingly smart young fellow’ and of ‘genial disposition’, was 20 years old when he died, and is buried in the Royal Irish Rifles Graveyard, Laventie. Sold with including copied articles from local newspapers featuring his news from the front and copied portrait photograph taken from Berkshire at War.

An extremely rare Boer War R.R.C. pair awarded to Nursing Sister Helen Hogarth, Army Nursing Service Reserve, one of just three such decorations granted for services in hospital ships in the Boer War, in her case as a hand-picked member of staff aboard the Princess of Wales Royal Red Cross, 1st Class, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister H. Hogarth) enamel somewhat chipped on upper arm of RRC, otherwise good very fine, extremely rare (2) £3,000-£4,000 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2008. Only three ladies received the R.R.C. for services in hospital ships during the Boer War: Superintendent Miss M. C. Chadwick; Nursing Sister Miss H. Hogarth (both of the Princess of Wales); and Mrs. G. Cornwallis-West (of the privately funded Maine). The award of the Royal Red Cross itself for the Boer War is scarce, with just 77 awarded – one fewer than the number of Victoria Crosses awarded for the same campaign. R.R.C. London Gazette 26 June 1902: ‘Miss H. Hogarth, Army Nursing Service Reserve, Hospital Ship Princess of Wales.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 17 June 1902. Miss Helen Hogarth was one of just four nursing staff hand picked by H.R.H. Princess Christian to serve on the royal hospital ship Princess of Wales during the Boer War. Hospital Ship Princess of Wales Much of the history behind the creation of the Princess of Wales is well documented in the columns of The Times, Lord Wantage having corresponded with the newspaper in October 1899 about the creation of the Central British Red Cross Committee, including the Army Nursing Service Reserve, whose President was H.R.H. Princess Christian. In turn she became Honorary President of the newly formed Committee, out of which emerged the funding for a fully equipped hospital ship. The vessel in question, the well-known yachting steamer Midnight Sun, was chartered for the purpose and sent to the Armstrong works for the necessary alterations into a 200-bed hospital ship, ready to leave for South Africa by the end of November 1899. In addition to assisting with the cost of fitting the ship, Her Royal Highness spent more than £1,000 in luxuries and comforts for the sick and wounded soldiers and, at the express wish of the Central British Red Cross Committee, consented that the ship be called the Princess of Wales. In the company of her husband, she visited the ship at Tilbury Docks in late November, just before her departure for South Africa - painted white, the Princess of Wales had the Geneva Cross ‘standing out in bold relief on her side’. The Times continues: ‘The interior fittings have been swept away, commodious wards taking the place of dining room, music room, and so on, and the ship now represents a perfectly equipped floating hospital. There are three large wards, and one small one, the last being for officers, and altogether cots are provided for about 200 patients ... The operating room is on the lower deck, in the middle of the ship, and is fitted, not only with a cluster of electric lights showing right down on the operating table, but with the Rontgen rays, as well. Then there is a well-arranged dispensary and also an isolation ward. In addition to the wards already spoken of there are some private cabins available for sick and wounded officers. Three refrigerating rooms with a total capacity of 2,200 feet, have been arranged, in order to allow of an adequate supply of fresh meat being carried for the long voyage. The Principal Medical Officer will be Major Morgan, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, and he will have three assistants from the same corps. Of nursing sisters there will be four – one, who will superintend, from the Army Nursing Service, and three from the Army Nursing Service Reserve of the Central British Red Cross Committee. The three have been personally selected by Princess Christian, who has taken the greatest interest in the arrangements ... The nurses (Sisters Chadwick, Brebner, Hogarth, and Spooner), the staff and the men of the Royal Army Medical Corps who go out with the vessel were drawn up on deck as the Royal party came on board. Passing through commodious wards the Royal visitors entered the officers’ ward, into which the dining and music rooms have been converted, and inspected the numerous appliances provided for the relief of the patients ... To the personnel as well as to the vessel the Princess of Wales devoted much attention. Her Royal Highness presented to each nurse a distinguishing badge and addressed to them individually a few words of encouragement and approbation ... The Princess then proceeded along the line of R.A.M.C. men, 23 in number, and to each she handed a badge. To a similar number of the St. John Ambulance Brigade Her Royal Highness also gave badges and expressed special interest in this branch of the hospital staff, who, for the first time, are being sent abroad for service.’ Those services were much required by the time the Princess of Wales reached South Africa in the wake of ‘Black Week’ in December 1899, unprecedented British casualties having emerged from the battles of Magersfontein, Stormberg and Colenso. In all, the Princess of Wales made three voyages to South Africa and on each occasion that she berthed back at Southampton H.R.H. the Princess of Wales made private visits to the ship to meet the nursing staff and the sick and wounded. And the first such occasion was in February 1900, when she was cheered into port by nearly 500 men about to depart for South Africa in the Goorkha. The Times once more covered events in detail:
‘Then away to the Empress Dock close to the embarkation office where the Princess of Wales, formerly the Midnight Sun, was being slowly warped up to the quayside. Her bulwarks were lined with as healthy looking a lot of men in blue uniform as ever I saw, but one imagined that below there must be many worse cases. But it was comforting to find on asking Major Morgan, who was the R.A.M.C. surgeon in charge, that, as a matter of fact, there was only one man out of the 174 who was not on deck, and that he was carried on deck every day. In fact, the state in which the men arrived did every credit to Major Morgan and Miss Chadwick, the superintendent nursing sister, and to the nurses, female and male, who have been in charge of them. Of limbs lost there appeared to be but a small percentage, but of a sort of partial paralysis following upon a wound from a Mauser bullet there were a good many cases among these victims of Magersfontein and the Modder River ... ’ The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the officers, nursing staff and wounded men on board the ship the day after it had docked at Southampton, carrying out a ‘friendly inspection’ of each and every ward, The Times’ correspondent reporting that ‘there is not one of the 176 men on board the Princess of Wales who cannot boast that the wife of the Prince of Wales has spoken to him words of comfort and encouragement.’ On 14 April 1900, the Princess of Wales left Southampton for Table Bay, Cape Town, where she worked as a floating hospital until returning home with more wounded and invalids that July - as was the case before, H.R.H. the Princess of Wales inspected the ship and met all of the 170 casualties and the nursing staff, Major Morgan and the Nursing Sisters being presented to the Princess as she arrived on board. So, too, on her return from her third and final trip in December 1900, when H.R.H. the Princess of Wales was introduced to two particularly bad cases:
‘The cases that aroused the deepest sympathy of Her Royal Highness were those of two men named Stoney, of the Liverpool Regiment, and Dyer, of the Scots Guards. St...

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant C. A. Trimm, Royal Field Artillery Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse privately engraved ‘Awarded to Lieut C. A. Trimm R.F.A. Sept. 1917. Presented by King George V. July 31st. 1919.’; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. A. Trimm.); Defence Medal, mounted court-style, nearly extremely fine (4) £600-£800 --- M.C. London Gazette 18 October 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when the battery position was being heavily shelled. The camouflage of two guns caught fire, and this officer at once ran out and, filling buckets from adjacent shell holes, succeeded, in extinguishing the fire, although the sandbags around the guns had caught alight. After he had got under cover he saw that an ammunition dump had been hit and was alight, and he, accompanied by a gunner, again went out to extinguish the fire.’ Charles Algernon Trimm was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery Special Reserve on 23 December 1916 and served with the Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 March 1917, being awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry in September 1917. Promoted Lieutenant on 23 June 1918, he saw further service during the Second World War with the Surrey Army Cadet Force as part of the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers.

Family Group: Pair: Captain F. C. Mower, M.C., Royal Field Artillery, who was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross British War and Victory Medals (Capt. F. C. Mower.) very fine and better Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (60165 F.S. Sjt: G. Mower. R.F.A.) good very fine (3) £80-£100 --- M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918. Frederick Charles Mower was born in Mitford, Norfolk, in 1874. Appointed to a commission as Second Lieutenant in the East Anglian Divisional Ammunition Column in May 1915, he served during the Great War on the Western Front from November 1915 and was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 18 May 1917 and 11 December 1917). Further decorated with the Military Cross, his MIC confirms entitlement to a 1914-15 Star and Silver War Badge.

Pair: Nursing Sister Margaret Walker, Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. Walker.) officially re-impressed naming as typically encountered with QSAs to Nurses; King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. Walker.); together with the related miniature awards, these mounted as worn; and the recipient’s Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service cape badge, silver, light scratches to obverse, nearly very fine (3) £300-£400 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Margaret Walker trained at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, and joined Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve as No. 201 on 10 January 1900. She served in South Africa during the Boer War at No. 13 Stationary Hospital, Pinetown Bridge.

The ‘Maiwand survivor’ Abyssinia and Afghanistan pair awarded to Major-General C. M. Griffith, 1st Bombay Grenadiers, who took over command of his Regiment after Colonel Anderson was severely wounded; when the inexperienced Jacob’s Rifles broke and fled, Griffith was ‘Conspicuous in his Efforts to Steady his Men’ and motivate the Bombay Grenadiers to ‘Fight On’, saving his Regiment’s reputation and averting a total disaster; afterwards he reconstituted a fighting unit from the surviving Grenadiers and commanded it during the Defence of Kandahar City and the subsequent victory at the Battle of Kandahar Abyssinia 1867 (Captn. C. M. Griffith. Bombay Staff Corps); Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Kandahar (Lieut. Col. C. M. Griffith. Bo. N.I.) both fitted with contemporary silver riband buckles, nearly extremely fine (2) £4,000-£5,000 --- Charles Matthew Griffith was born at Poona on 19 October 1834, the son of Colonel Julius George Griffith, later General and Colonel Commandant, Bombay Artillery. He was educated at Cheltenham College, nominated as an HEIC Cadet, and passed the Military Committee at East India House on 4 February 1852. After being twice rejected for his weak English and Latin, he was admitted to Addiscombe on 6 August 1852, and commissioned Ensign in the Bombay Infantry on 8 June 1854, at the age of 19. He arrived in Bombay on 23 September 1854 for regimental service with the 1st Bombay Native Infantry (Grenadiers). From June 1859 he was variously employed with the Irregular Cavalry, the Sind Judicial and Police departments, and as Superintendent of Police for the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. The March to Fortress Magdala By 1868, Griffith was a Captain in the Bombay Staff Corps. He was first sent on active service during the Abyssinia Campaign, the most logistically challenging but among the best executed of the British expeditionary wars up to that time. He was given responsibility for organising and commanding ‘A’ Division Highland Transport Train, 1st Brigade of the 1st Division, Abyssinian Field Force. He also commanded the stretcher-bearers who recovered the wounded on 10 and 13 April 1868 from the battlefields of Arogee and Magdala. He was created Brevet Major on 15 August 1868 and was four times Mentioned in Despatches: London Gazette 16 June 1868: ‘The bandsmen and a party of Punjab muleteers were also organised under command of Captain Griffith and furnished with stretchers for the removal of wounded men from the field.’ London Gazette 30 June 1868: ‘Captain Griffith [and other officers] have distinguished themselves by their zeal and activity and deserve special notice.’ London Gazette 10 July 1868: ‘Captain Griffith [and other officers], Land Transport Corps, commanded the first Divisions that were raised, are strongly recommended by the Director of Transport Corps for the extent and value of their assistance.’ London Gazette 7 August 1868: ‘The working of the Train next comes into consideration, which commenced with the arrival of Captain Griffith, with the advance Brigade... The Train was divided into four divisions... and Captain Griffith commenced the formation of “A” Mules... Difficulties and disasters met these officers at every step. Mules landed without equipment in hundreds, and with muleteers of the class already spoken of. At that time these officers having no subordinates had to look to everything themselves... The pleasing task now remains of bringing to the special notice of His Excellency the names of such officers more especially deserving of his kind consideration, and whose efforts came under the personal observation of the Director, who from first to last, never failed... Captain C. M. Griffith, Bombay Staff Corps.’ Griffith was granted furlough to England from 10 October 1868 to 22 November 1870. After marrying and returning to India, he was appointed Brigade Major, Aden in November 1871, promoted Major in June 1874, and Lieutenant-Colonel in July 1877. In August 1879, at the age of 44, he was appointed officiating Second in Command of 1st Bombay Grenadiers, considered to be an elite Indian regiment smartly turned out in a uniform of red jacket, khaki turban and dark blue trousers with white gaiters. Griffith accompanied his regiment to join the South Afghanistan Field Force via the Bolan and Khojak Passes in October 1879, experiencing the hostile, anti-British environment of the Kandahar region for many months. In July 1880 a column built around Brigadier Burrows’s 1st Brigade, which included the Bombay Grenadiers, was sent west to Girishk on the Helmand river. At the disastrous battle of Maiwand on 27 July 1880, Griffith initially commanded the Grenadier’s Right Wing, and then took command of the whole Regiment at around 3pm, after Colonel Anderson was severely wounded and evacuated. Maiwand Two months later, in mid-September 1880, the British, including some officers who had survived the massacre, revisited the battlefield. They found that the European and Indian bodies had been left to disintegrate where they fell, but, learning of the British return, local Afghan villagers had hastily buried them just days before in 40 separate shallow graves at the places where they had died. The battlefield was carefully surveyed and the graves plotted on the battle map, then opened and their contents recorded. The correlation of the battlefield survey with the unsatisfactory and evasive official despatches of the force commanders was so contradictory that each surviving officer was ordered to submit a written report outlining what he had directly witnessed. Lieutenant-Colonel Griffith’s official account is quoted below, slightly abridged, while extracts of accounts given by other officers mentioning Griffith are inserted in italics. ‘On the 26th July 1880, the force under Brigadier-General Burrows [personally brave but indecisive, cautious and totally inexperienced in commanding an all-arms force], which consisted of the following troops [2,600 men], were encamped at Khushk-i-Nakhud, which is on the road from Kandahar to Girishk on the Helmand and distant from the former place about fifty miles: E-B, Royal Horse Artillery [146 men]; Detachment [260 men], 3rd Sind Horse; Detachment [315 men] 3rd Light Cavalry; Detachment [46 men] Bombay Sappers and Miners; 66th Foot [473 men]; 1st Bombay Grenadiers [649 men, the largest infantry unit in the force]; and Jacob's Rifles [624 men]. It was generally believed… that an Afghan force, consisting of about 20,000 men and 36 guns, under Ayub Khan, was not far distant; but such was the enmity against us, that neither the political officers nor our own cavalry patrols were able to obtain reliable information either as to the correct numbers or the exact position of the Afghan force. However, information was received that a few ghazis and some cavalry of Ayub Khan’s advanced guard had occupied the village of Maiwand… and during the night orders were issued for our brigade to march on Maiwand the next morning [27 July] at 6:30 a.m. The position occupied by Ayub Khan’s army at this time was unknown. Owing to the large quantity of ordnance and commissariat stores which had been stowed away within walled enclosures at Khushk-i-Nakhud, and the loading of which took a considerable time, the force did not start punctually, and the sun was well up, and the heat considerable, before we were all off the ground. The force advanced with cavalry and two guns of E-B, Royal Horse Artillery, in advance; the infantry in line of columns at deploying distance; baggage on the right flank; and the whole brought up by a rear-guard of two guns and some cavalry, each regiment of infantry ...

Four: Captain (Quartermaster) H. J. Newman, 1st Federation Reconnaissance Regiment of Malaya, late King’s Royal Rifle Corps Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine 1945-48, Malaya (6403692 W.O. Cl.2 H. J. Newman. K.R.R.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (6403692 W.O. Cl.1. H. J. Newman. K.R.R.C.) mounted court-style for display; together with three metal identification discs to recipient., nearly extremely fine (4) £140-£180 --- Henry John Newman served with the Royal Sussex Regiment and Staff of the G.O.C. Southern Command as a Sergeant during the Second World War. He was promoted Orderly Room Quartermaster-Sergeant in 1946, serving with the 27th Green Jackets Holding Battalion. He then transferred to the King's Royal Rifle Corps, serving in the same role until 1956. From 1957 to 1959, he acted as Regimental Sergeant-Major, Queen Victoria's Rifles. Commissioned Lieutenant (Quartermaster) in the 1st Federation Reconnaissance Regiment of Malaya, he was promoted Captain (Quartermaster) on 25 November 1962 and retired some five days later.

Four: Acting Sergeant G. Smee, 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment 1914-15 Star (400 Pte. G. Smee. Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (400 A.Sgt. G. Smee. Essex R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (400 Pte. G. Smee. 5/Essex Regt.) mounted for wear, polished, minor pitting and edge bruising, nearly very fine (4) £100-£140 --- George Smee was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 11 of 1 January 1913, and served with the 5th Battalion Essex Regiment during the Great War in the Egyptian theatre of War from 9 August 1915. He is noted in the Regimental History as being wounded in November 1915, and later served with the Royal Engineers. He was disembodied on 5 May 1919.

Riband: Complete or virtually complete rolls of riband for the Distinguished Service Cross; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal (Flying); George Medal; King’s Police Medal, for Gallantry; Colonial Police Medal, for Gallantry; Imperial Service Medal; Jubilee 1977; Accumulated Campaign Service Medal 1994; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C.; Ulster Defence Regiment L.S. & G.C.; Efficiency Decoration T. & A.V.R. (3 rolls); Efficiency Medal T. & A.V.R. (2 rolls); Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (post-1941); Air Efficiency Award (2 rolls); Northern Ireland Home Service Medal; Royal Observer Corps; Dunkirk Medal (2 rolls; together with partial (but still substantial) rolls of riband for the Efficiency Medal T. & A.V.R.; Army Emergency Reserve Decoration; and the Rhodesia Medal 1980; and a very large roll of generic turquoise riband, the majority manufactured by Toy Kenning & Spencer, and some still in cellophane packaging, unused condition (lot) £180-£220

Riband bar attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel William John Woodcroft Sorby, Gurkha Rifles
Riband bar, pin-backed, bearing the ribbons: 1914-15 Star; War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-18; Coronation 1911; ‘Blue ribbon’; 1939-45 Star; ‘Khaki ribbon’, with M.I.D. oak leaf, good condition (lot) £30-£40 --- Sold with original M.I.D. certificate to Major (T/Lieut-Colonel) W. J. W. Sorby, V.D., Corps of Indian Engineers, London Gazette 5 August 1943 - in envelope; together with 26 related original photographs, some identified. With newspaper clipping with his obituary, 7 October 1960. William John Woodcroft Sorby joined the 1st Battalion, 1st Gurkha Rifles in France on 28 September 1915 and afterwards accompanied the Battalion to Mesopotamia when the Indian Corps was withdrawn from France towards the end of 1915. He was subsequently severely wounded at the Battle of Bait Aissa on 17 April 1916. Reverting to the Indian Army Reserve of Officers after the Great War, he is listed as serving with the Auxiliary Forces of India in the 1920s, initially with the Oudh and Pokilkhand Railway Battalion and afterwards the North Western Railway Battalion Regiment. Appointed a war substantive Major in December 1941, he witnessed active service in Burma and was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 5 August 1943, refers), prior to being appointed an Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel on relinquishing his commission in November 1946.

Three: Colour-Sergeant George Paine, Royal Fusiliers Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (1921 Cr. Sgt. G. Paine, 1st Bn. Ryl. Fu...) part of unit lost through contact wear; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (1921 Clr: Serjt: G. Paine, Royal Fus.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (C. Sjt. G. Paine, R. Fus.) the first two with contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine, the last nearly extremely fine --- M.S.M. notified in Army Order 187 of 1941. George Paine was born in the Parish of Backley, near Rye, Sussex, and attested at Maidstone for the Royal Fusiliers on 4 June 1885, aged 18 years three months. He served a total of 21 years, of which 19 years 52 days were served abroad, and was discharged at Parkhurst on 3 June 1906. He was then in possession of medals for ‘Tibet 1904’ and ‘Long Service & Good Conduct’, and intended to reside at Rye, Sussex. Sold with original parchment Certificate of Discharge, together with copied research including record of service and a published account of the Tibet Mission of 1904.

The Memorial Plaque to Able Seaman E. H. Coase, Royal Navy, who was killed in the H.M.S. Glowworm explosion on the Dvina River on 25 August 1919 Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Edward Henry Coase) extremely fine £140-£180 --- Edward Henry Coase was born in Devonport on 5 October 1896 and enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 28 March 1912. He entered the War serving on the battleship Centurion, in which he was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in October 1914 and Able Seaman in June 1915. He then served at Vivid I from November 1915 to July 1916, before joining the gunboat Glowworm, based on Halcyon,from July 1916 to September 1918, and subsequently: Pembroke II, from October 1918; Monitor 25, from October 1918 to May 1919; and Fox, June 1919 to August 1919. Able Seaman Coase was killed on 25 August 1919 ‘as a result of the blowing up of an ammunition lighter.’ On the night of 25 August 1919, the gunboats Glowworm and Cockchafer were proceeding down the Dvina River to relieve Cricket and Cicala as part of the advance guard on R.N. gunboats operating on the Dvina. As the Glowworm and Cockchafer neared Bereznik, the watch on the Glowworm spotted a barge on fire mid-river. The Mercantile Marine Reserve and Russian crew of Army barge NT326 Edinburgh had raked out the galley fire as usual before heading to their hammocks for the night. Closer to midnight, two of the crew awoke to find the aft cabin ablaze. Unable to stem the flames, some of the crew fled the barge in a small boat. The crew of the barge had good reason to flee the inferno as they knew what Commander Green onboard Glowworm did not: that the barge was being used to transport ammunition and was loaded with 70 tons of explosive. As Commander Green brought the Glowworm alongside, nose towards the blazing barge, the crew of the gunboat rushed with hoses to fire-stations on the fore-deck in preparation to put out the conflagration. Many of Glowworm’s crew not involved in fighting the fire crowded the fore-deck to watch the brilliant bonfire before them. As the crew of Glowworm began to fight the fire, the Cockchafer, some distance away, began to manoeuvre to approach the barge from another direction. A crowd had gathered ashore of men observing the spectacle. The crowd watched in horror as a huge wall of flame rose into the calm night sky. Soon after there was another explosion and several smaller ones after that. It is unknown how many of Glowworm’s crew died in the initial explosions, but by now it must have been apparent to Commander Green that he had brought his ship alongside a blazing ammunition barge. A few minutes later an enormous flash blanketed the countryside. Seconds later the deafening roar and shock wave of the explosion ripped through air sending debris up to a mile away. Slowly, as those on the shore began to regain their senses, rescue teams hastily cobbled together began to make their way towards Glowworm in whatever vessels they could find. As the rescue teams boarded Glowworm, they could not believe the devastation that awaited them. The entire superstructure seemed to be scorched and bent; debris and the remains of the crew lay everywhere. The fore-deck had suffered the most damage being closest to the explosion. All of the fire-fighting crews had been wiped out whilst manning their hoses. As rescuers came across wounded sailors they carried them to the relatively undamaged after-deck and lay them in rows for the medical staff to attend to. Commander Green was found on the bridge mortally wounded, surrounded by the bodies of other officers and sailors who had been killed outright in the explosion. He was evacuated to the hospital barge which moored alongside the smoking Glowworm, but did not regain consciousness and died an hour later. In the meantime Cockchafer, under Commander Preston Thomas, had come to her stricken sister ship’s aid. She lit the ship with her searchlights to aid the rescue efforts whilst coming alongside. From the bridge of Cockchafer, Commander Thomas directed the rescue crews through a megaphone. The following day, the full scale of the tragedy became apparent. Onboard Glowworm, 23 officers and men had been killed, and another 15 had been wounded. Additionally, two Mercantile Marine Reserve men and two Russian seamen onboard a nearby ammunition barge had been killed by flying debris and three other Mercantile Marine Reserve men wounded. It was the largest loss of life suffered on a single day by the Royal Navy in North Russia in 1918-19. The damage to Glowworm was significant. She was towed back to Archangel to be refitted and repaired and was able to make her way back to England under her own steam, but she was too worn out to continue service and was paid off almost as soon as she arrived back at Chatham on 18 November 1919 and was eventually scrapped in 1921.

Four: Warrant Officer Class II G. Mayhew, Royal Field Artillery 1914-15 Star (47729 B.S. Mjr. G. Mayhew. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with copy M.I.D. oak leaves (47729 W.O. Cl.2. G. Mayhew. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (87045 Cpl. G. Mayhew. R.F.A.) contact marks, nearly very fin (4) £80-£100 --- George Mayhew served during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 May 1915 and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 18 May 1917), whilst serving as Battery Sergeant Major, Royal Field Artillery.

Five: Quarter Master Sergeant E. H. Garwood, Royal Garrison Artillery 1914 Star, with copy clasp (91554 Q.M.Sjt. E. H. Garwood. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (91554 T.W.O. Cl.1. E. H. Garrett [sic]. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (91554 Q.M.Sjt: E. H. Garwood, R.G.A.); France, Third Republic, Medaille Militaire, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, gilding somewhat rubbed on last, very fine and better (5) £160-£200 --- Ernest Henry Garwood was born in Gloucester in 1874. He attested for the Royal Artillery at Crown Hill Fort on 21 July 1892 and served at home for 17 years before receiving his first overseas posting to Bermuda on 24 December 1909, and was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order No. 280 of 1911. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 August 1914, and was awarded the French Medaille Militaire in the London Gazette of 8 November 1915 and was Mentioned in Despatches for ‘gallant and distinguished service in the field’ on 31 December 1915.

Five: Private T. L. Fearn, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, attached 1st Docks Operating Group, Royal Engineers, who was killed in action when the S.S. Yoma was torpedoed and sunk off the Libyan coast on 17 June 1943 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mrs. H. Fearn, 10 Birley Rise Road, Birley Carr, Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield 6.’, mounted for display in a glazed display frame, extremely fine (5) £100-£140 --- Thomas Leslie Fearn was born in Ecclesfield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, on 22 January 1919. He attested for the Royal Army Ordnance Corps at Aldershot on 16 October 1939, and served with them during the Second World War in North Africa. He was killed in action, presumed drowned at sea, when his transport ship the S.S. Yoma was torpedoed and sunk off the port of Derna, Libya, on the morning of 17 June 1943, with the loss of 484 lives. He is commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey. Sold with a silver cigarette case inscribed ‘T. L. Fearn, 21st Birthday, Jan: 22nd 1940’; the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; the recipient’s bed plate stamped ‘No. 8134 T. Fearn’; official notification of death; a postcard photograph of the recipient; various other postcards written to the recipient; and and a small framed photograph of the recipient.

Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve Cape Badge, silver, reverse numbered ‘258’, pin-backed; together with a similar badge, the reverse number erased (but remnants of number 448 visible) and engraved ‘The Lord is at Hand’, the first good very fine; the second nearly very fine (2) £240-£280 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- The Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve was established in 1897, and its members served in South Africa during the Boer War, where the Princess Christian Hospital was based in Pinetown, near Durban. The unit was disbanded in 1907, with its members transferring to Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve.

Four: Warrant Officer Class II H. Clarke, Essex Regiment 1914-15 Star (8870 Cpl. H. Clarke. Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (8870 A-W. O. Cl. 2. H. Clarke. Essex R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5998065 Sjt. H. Clarke. Essex R.) edge bruising, some staining, nearly very fine (4) £90-£120 --- H. Clarke attested into the Essex Regiment and served during the Great War at Gallipoli with the 1st Battalion, where he received gun shot wounds to his hand and wrist. He was later appointed Acting Company Sergeant Major. Sold with copied Medal Index Card and copied research.

Three: Driver S. J. Baldwin, Royal Field Artillery, who was killed in action on 23 October 1915 when his troopship the Marquette was torpedoed and sunk en route to Salonika, laden with fellow artillerymen and members of the New Zealand Army Nursing Service and New Zealand Medical Corps 1914-15 Star (8842 Dvr: S. J. Baldwin. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (8842 Dvr. S. J. Baldwin R.A.) good very fine (3) £70-£90 --- Sidney James Baldwin served with the 29th Division Ammunition Column and died in the eastern Mediterranean when the H.T. Marquette was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine on 23 October 1915. The Navy Museum of New Zealand adds a little more detail: ‘At 9 a.m. the Marquette was hit by a torpedo from the new heavyweight German submarine No. 35 (U-35) and rapidly listed to port. Those not killed in the explosion moved quickly to put on lifebelts and moved to lifeboat stations to abandon ship. One lifeboat on the port side fell onto another killing and injuring many. Many being lowered in boats on the starboard side were tipped out into the sea. Only one boat left the Marquette with nurses aboard. The ship sank within ten minutes with still several men and four nurses on deck. Two of those nurses survived despite being sucked under the water by the sinking ship.’ Driver Baldwin is commemorated upon the Mikra Memorial in Greece; sold with original letter of transmittal for 1914-15 Star addressed to ‘Mr. W. Baldwin, Clay Hill, Wigginton, Tring, Herts.’

A Great War ‘Italian campaign 1918’ D.C.M. and ‘Battle of Poelcappelle 1917’ M.M. group of five awarded to Company Sergeant-Major H. Ward, 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (1825 C.S. Mjr: H. Ward. M.M. 2/R. War: R.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (1825 Sjt: H. Ward. 2/R. War: R.); 1914 Star, with clasp (1825 Pte. H. Ward, R. War: R.); British War and Victory Medals (1825 W.O. Cl. 2. H. Ward. R. War. R.) nearly very fine (5) £2,000-£2,400 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 8 September 1918 [Italy]: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when in command of a party of men in a successful raid. Seeing some of the enemy attempting to escape he rushed forward and wounded one, bringing him back a prisoner. He led the party with great courage and skill. He alos reconnoitred the position before the raid several times in daylight.’ Annotated gazette states: ‘Nr. Ambrosini, 16 April 1918.’ The Battalion War Diary for 16 April 1918 states: ‘Weather dull. Capt T. Lynch, D.C.M. M.M., 2 Lt Lawrence and 2 Lt Barton M.C. with 40 other ranks raid Austrian trenches at AmbrosiniI - 2 Lt A. Edwards was in command of the covering party. Raid commenced at 4.50 A.M. and continued until 5.20 A.M. It was very successful - one prisoner was taken, also a searchlight. 2 Lt F. C. Bolton, M.C., was slightly wounded. Battn is relieved by 1st Royal Welch Fusiliers and marches to billets at Monte Brusaro.’ M.M. London Gazette 17 December 1917. Awarded for the battle of Poelcappelle, near Judge Copse on 9 October 1917. The award is noted in the Battalion war diary together with that of 1441 Sergeant F. Moon, who was killed in the action. Harry Ward was born in Birmingham on 2 April 1892, and joined the Army at about the age of 18. He landed at Zeebrugge on 4 October 1914, with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Married in November 1918, he was discharged from the army on 27 February 1919, and went to live in Herbert Road, Small Heath, Birmingham. He died in Birmingham in 1949. Sold with copied research including copied gazette notices, D.C.M., M.M. and Medal Index Cards, and extracts from the Battalion War Diary.

Five: Corporal F. Locke, Royal Field Artillery 1914 Star (28689 Dvr: F. Locke. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (28689 Cpl. F. Locke. R.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (28689 Cpl. F. Locke. 64/By: 5/A. Bde: R.F.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (1017365 Cpl. F. Locke. R.F.A.) pin mark to edge of last, good very fine (5) £140-£180 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1918. Frank Locke served during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 November 1914 with 5th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Promoted Corporal, he was later awarded the M.S.M. for devotion to duty on the Western Front.

Damaged and Defective Medals (4): Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension, naming erased, and suspension re-affixed; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (2443 Cr. Sergt. A. Bullous, 2-14th. Foot) heavy traces of brooch mounting to reverse, with copy suspension; Delhi Durbar 1911 (9228. L/C. R. Brown. E. Coy. 1st. Durham L.I.) this a poor-quality cast copy, with privately engraved naming; Jubilee 2012, Caribbean Realms, unnamed as issued, lacking ring suspension and damage to some of the plating finish; generally very fine (4) £80-£100

Four: Acting Battery Sergeant Major F. Opie, Royal Field Artillery 1914-15 Star (377, Sjt. F. Opie, R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (377 W.O. Cl.2 F. Opie. R.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (745170 Sjt:- A.B.S.Mjr:- F. Opie. 13/By: 17/Bde: R.F.A.) very fine and better (4) £120-£160 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1918. Francis Opie was born in Cardiff on 27 November 1881 and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 25 November 1915.

Three: Private C. Clark, 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment, who died of pneumonia in Syria on 26 November 1918 British War and Victory Medals (37281 Pte. C. Clark. Essex R.); Memorial Plaque (Clarence Clarke [sic]) the plaque pierced with four holes around edge (three subsequently plugged), therefore fine; the pair nearly extremely fine British War Medal 1914-20 (1569 Pte. O. G. King. Essex. R.) good very fine (4) £80-£100 --- Clarence Clarke was born in Skipton, Yorkshire, and attested for the Army Service Corps at Keighley. Transferring to the Essex Regiment, he served with the 5th Battalion in the Egyptian theatre of War, and died of pneumonia in Syria on 26 November 1918, presumably a victim of the influenza pandemic. He is buried in Beirut War Cemetery, Lebanon. Oliver George King was born in Great Tey, Essex, in 1895 and attested for the Essex Regiment at Halstead. He served as a Corporal with the 5th Battalion during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 9 August 1915, before being discharged on termination of engagement in 1916, and subsequently re-enlisted in the regular forces, seeing further service with the 1st Battalion on the Western Front. Promoted Sergeant, he was killed in action during the attack at Monchy-le-Preux on 14 April 1917, on which date the Battalion was almost wiped out. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France. Sold with copied Medal Index Card, which shows that King’s British War and Victory Medals should have been issued with the rank of Sergeant; why it shows Private is presumably due to an error at the Mint.

An Order of St. John group of four awarded to Private J. E. Death, Devonshire Regiment and Order of St. John of Jerusalem The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background; British War Medal 1914-20 (64919 Pte. J. E. Death. Devon R.); Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Service Medal of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, silver, with three Additional Award Bars (3061. Sgt. J. E Death. (Ipswich 1st.) Div. No.10 Dist. S.J.A.B. 1923) very fine and better (4) £120-£160 --- John Ernest Death lived at Lister Road, Ipswich, and initially served on convoy duties with the British Red Cross in his home town. Called up for active service in June 1916, he remained in England with the 2/6th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, and is recorded upon his MIC as entitled to the BWM only. Transferred to the Army Reserve on 10 July 1919, he took employment in Ipswich as an Assistant Elementary Schoolmaster and was later decorated as a Serving Brother in the Order of St John of Jerusalem, as notified in the London Gazette of 3 January 1930.

Pair: Worker Agnes S. Fulton, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps British War and Victory Medals (1273 Wkr. A. S. Fulton. Q.M.A.A.C.) good very fine (2) £70-£90 --- Agnes Smillie Fulton attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 3 July 1917 to 11 July 1919.

Three: Captain C. H. W. Clifford, 29th Punjabis, Indian Army, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches during the Great War 1914-15 Star (Lieut. C. H. W. Clifford, 29/Punjabis.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C. H. W. Clifford.) good very fine (3) £70-£90 --- M.I.D. London Gazettes 8 February 1917 and 5 June 1919. Cecil Herbert Windsor Clifford was born in Poona, India, in 1889. He was commissioned into the Indian Army Reserve of Officers for service during the Great War on 14 May 1915, and served in East Africa with the 29th Punjabis from 23 June 1916, before further service in Palestine. Advanced Lieutenant on 24 July 1917 and Captain 14 May 1919, post-War he appears to have worked as a Port Official for the Bengal Marine Department in Calcutta. He died in England in 1967. Sold with copied research.

Three: Private W. S. Hughes, 2nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment), who died of wounds on the Western Front, 4 April 1917 1914-15 Star (8452 Pte W. S. Hughes. 2/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals (8452 Pte. W. S. Hughes. 2-Can. Inf.) in named card boxes of issue, good very fine Pair: Sergeant R. Cullen, 32nd (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (East Ham), who died of wounds on the Western Front, 7 June 1917 British War and Victory Medals (GS-53021 Sjt. R. Cullen. R. Fus.) generally very fine or better (5) £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- William Slowley Hughes was born in Taunton, Somerset in November 1884. He attested for the Somerset Light Infantry at Taunton in November 1901, having previously served in the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Posted to the 2nd Battalion, 22 July 1902, he left for South Africa, too late for the Boer War and served there until 30 April 1903. Hughes advanced to Lance Corporal in January 1903, and transferred to the Army Reserve in November 1908. He was discharged, 5 November 1913, before serving during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment). Private Hughes died of wounds (gunshot wounds scalp, chest, right hand, right knee and neck) at No. 30 Casualty Clearing Station, 4 April 1917. He is buried in Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Richard Cullen was born in Hamilton, Canada. He enlisted for the Royal Fusiliers at London, and served during the Great War with the 32nd (Service) Battalion (East Ham). Sergeant Cullen died of wounds on the Western Front, 7 June 1917, and is buried in the Mendingham Military Cemetery, Belgium.

A Second War M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Acting Lieutenant-Colonel T. Redfearn, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, who had previously been awarded an Immediate M.S.M. during the Great War The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; British War and Victory Medals (S-6685 T.W.O. Cl. 1 T. Redfearn. A.O.C.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (7574412 W. O. Cl. II. T. Redfearn. R.A.O.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (S-6685 T. Sub-Condr: T. Redfearn. R.A.O.C.) mounted court-style for display purposes in this order, contact marks, very fine (7) £400-£500 --- M.B.E. London Gazette, 1 January 1941. M.S.M. London Gazette, 3 June 1919. Thomas Redfearn was born in Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland, on 17 October 1894 and attested into the Army Ordnance Corps on 28 June 1910 at the age of 15. He initially served at home during the Great War and was Advanced Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant on 24 June 1918, before serving on the Western Front from 6 July 1918. He continued to serve post-War, and was commissioned on 24 August 1936. He further served at home during the Second World War and was Advanced Acting Lieutenant-Colonel on 11 September 1944, before reverting back to the rank of Major on 4 October 1944. Sold together with copy service papers, copy Medal Index Card, copy London Gazette entries, named copy group photographs including the recipient, and copy Army Ordnance Corps Gazette entries, with reference to the recipient.

Six: Warrant Officer Class II A. H. Taylor, Royal Field Artillery India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (8410 Gunr. A. H. Taylor No. 7 Mn. By. R.A.); Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (8410 ... A. H. Taylor 7th. Mtn. By. ... R.A.); 1914-15 Star (51217 B.S. Mjr. A. H. Taylor. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (51217 W.O. Cl.2. A. H. Taylor. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (8410 Sjt: A. H. Taylor. R.G.A.) mounted court-style, heavy contact marks which has partially obscured the naming on the first two, good fine and better (6) £600-£800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Arthur Horace Taylor was born in Poplar, London, in 1876 and attested for the Royal Artillery in London on 13 February 1895. He was promoted Bombardier on 21 March 1901, Corporal on 29 March 1902, and Sergeant on 3 February 1903, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in February 1913. He was discharged at his own request at Gosport on 6 April 1913, of which over 16 years were spent soldiering in India. Re-enlisting in the Royal Field Artillery on 30 October 1914, following the outbreak of the Great War, Taylor served as a Battery Sergeant Major during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 May 1915, and was discharged, no longer physically fit for War service, on 13 September 1916, being awarded a Silver War Badge No. 61210. Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts.

Pair: Saddler Quartermaster Sergeant T. Hallett, Royal Field Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (69136 Sgt.-Cr-Mr: T. Hallett, 43rd. Bty: R.F.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (69136 Sad: Q.M.Sjt: T. Hallet [sic]. R.F.A.) minor contact marks, very fine (2) £120-£160 --- Thomas Hallett was born in Bridport, Dorset, in 1866, and attested at Hilsea for the Royal Field Artillery on 19 October 1888. A baker by trade, he served in India and South Africa from 27 January 1900 to 16 September 1901. His Army Service Record adds that he passed a collar maker’s course at Cawnpore on 26 September 1891 and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with gratuity in 1907. He was later discharged from the 136th Battery, R.F.A., on 28 March 1912 after 23 years with the Colours.

Army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R. (Sergt. R. Colby R.A.) suspension post a little bent, nearly very fine £200-£240

Five: Second Lieutenant C. W. Bull, Royal West Surrey Regiment, late Lance Corporal, 5th Dragoon Guards and Police Constable, Metropolitan Police Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4690 Pte C. W. Bull. 5th Dragoon Gds:) unofficial rivets between state and date clasps; 1914-15 Star (G8-5295 L. Cpl. C. W. Bull, 5-D. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. C. W. Bull.) initials officially corrected on BWM; Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C., C. W. Bull.) mounted for display, generally very fine (5) £200-£240 --- Charles William Bull was born in Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey in July 1883, and was educated at Norbiton National School. His father was employed as an Aeroplane Assembler by Messrs. Sopwith. Bull attested for the 5th Dragoon Guards in August 1900, and served with the regiment in South Africa, being discharged in August 1908. He joined the Metropolitan Police as a Police Constable in the Mounted Section in February 1909. Bull rejoined the Army at Poplar, London in October 1914. He served during the Great War with the 5th Dragoon Guards in the French theatre of war from 18 May 1915. Bull was commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant in the Royal West Surrey Regiment in July 1917. He returned to the Metropolitan Police after the war, and was serving with ‘H’ Division (Whitechapel) when he was discharged in February 1935 - having completed 26 years service with the force. Sold with copied service papers.

Pair: Corporal James Davidson, Military Train, later Army Service Corps New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1866 (2962 Corpl. Jas. Davidson, 4th Batn. Mility. Trn.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (183. Pte. J. Davidson, A.S. Corps) polished, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £400-£500 --- James Davidson was born at Perth, Scotland, circa 1838, and enlisted for the Military Train at Glasgow on 26 November 1859, aged 21. He was promoted Corporal on 14 May 1864, and Sergeant on 9 June 1867, but he was tried and reduced to Private following a period of absence without leave, 10 December 1867. He served in New Zealand from 7 November 1863 to 24 June 1867, including service in the field from 24 April to 29 May, 1866. He transferred to the Army Service Corps on 15 February 1870, was awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal with gratuity and was discharged at Woolwich on 29 March 1881, his trade now stated to be a groom.