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German Third Reich Army Officer's Dagger with knot by wMw Waffen, Solingen. Good example circa 1935-45 with amber spiral celluloid grip and plain polished double-edged blade etched with wMw Waffen (Waffenfabrik Max Weyersberg). Plated eagle and swastika cross-guard, oak leaf decoration to pommel and ferrule. Housed in stippled plated scabbard with two suspension rings and foliate lockets. Complete with aluminium wire portepee (knot). Minor service wear and lightly toned but generally GC. Army (Heer) Officer’s dagger was designed by Paul Casburg in 1935. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

Badge. 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot Victorian shako plate circa 1869-78. Good scarce die-stamped brass crowned laurel sprays enclosing the Garter, the seeded centre pierced with stencilled numerals 53. Loops. VGC Following Cardwell's reforms of the Army, 53rd became 1st Bn King's Light Infantry on 1st July 1881, later KSLI. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

Boer War RAMC Queen's South Africa 5 Clasp Pair of Medals. Awarded to "4879 SERJT-MAJ J MURRAY RAMC". Comprising" Queen's South Africa Medal "S.MAJOR RAMC" bearing Five clasps "Belmountt", "Relief of Kimberley, "Paardeberg', "Driefontein", "Transvaal", King's South Africa Medal "SERJT-MAJ RAMC" two clasps "South Africa 1901", "South Africa 1902". Medals loose. Sergeant Major John Murray enlisted into the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1881 INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

German Third Reich SS / Army WW2 Tank Assault breast badge for 25 Engagements by JFS. Excavated rare die-cast example. Approaching panzer secured with two open rivets within an oval oakleaf wreath surmounted by eagle and swastika with applied 25 tablet to base. Reverse with hinged vertical tapered pin and countersunk hook; Josef Felix & Sohne, Gablonz logo. Slight service wear. VGC Basic badge instituted 20th December 1939; 22nd June 1943 numbered version introduced. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

WW2 British Army Issue Brass Pommel Smatchet Fighting Knife. Good scarce example with single edged leaf shape blade. The hilt with large steel oval crossguard, heavy brass pommel stamped with broad arrow over 5. The wooden slab grips secured by four steel rivets. Housed in its webbing covered fibre scabbard with rear belt loop and securing strap. Scabbard with maker “ME Co 1942â€. GC INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

1940 Pattern WW2 Army Battledress Trousers 1945. A good clean pair of the 1940 pattern trousers tailored with field dressing and leg pockets. WD issue stamp Z indicating 1945. Very clean condition some small moth holes. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

Badge. 20th (East Devon) Regiment of Foot Victorian Officer's Quilted pattern shako plate circa 1861-69. Fine scarce die-stamped rich gilt crowned star mounted by the Garter; seeded centre pierced with stencilled 20. Loops. VGC Following Cardwel's reforms of the Army, the 20th Foot became the Lancashire Fusiliers on Friday 1st July 1881. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

WW1 1917 Official Army Telegram Fall of Jerusalem. This army message form is dated 9th December 1917 and states "CHIEF OF POLICE OF JERUSALEM HAS COME OUT TO OFFER SURRENDER OF THE CITY". Mounted into a contemporary frame with details of the 74th (Yeomanry) Division. Writing clear ... Accompanied by a second frame showing Staff Officers of 231st Infantry Brigade ( 2 items) INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

German Third Reich WW2 Army / Waffen SS Close Combat Clasp in bronze. Good scarce die-cast example, the reverse bears in relief F.E.C. W.E. PEEKHAUS BERLIN and AUSF. A.G.MU K. GABLONZ. Eagle and swastika over crossed grenade and bayonet set between oakleaf sprays. Hinged tapered pin with countersunk securing hook and complete with central backing plate. VGC Introduced in November 1942 by Adolf Hitler. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

English County Regiments 8 x Hollow Silver Regimental Sweetheart Brooches. Comprising: North Staffordshire with Birmingham 1898 hallmark ... Oxfordshire Light Infantry unmarked silver (repair to hook). ... Royal Berkshire with unmarked silver (possibly converted from a hat pin).... Royal Berkshire 2nd Battalion with Birmingham 1892 hallmark (hookr eplaced) ... Worcestershire. with London 1904 hallmark (polished). ... Worcestershire with Birmingham 1911 hallmark (repaired) .... accompanied by similar Army Service Corps with Birmingham 1897 hallmark 1914... Royal Artillery with London 1903 hallmark (damaged A/F). All complete with pin and hook fitting. (8 items) INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

1st Glider Pilot late WW2 Wings / Army Flying Badge. Good 2nd pattern smaller yellow and red Royal Crest flanked by light blue wings embroidered on black cloth. Removed from uniform. Service wear. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

German Third Reich WW2 Army / Waffen SS Close Combat Clasp in silver. Good scarce die-cast slightly curved example, the reverse bears in relief F.E.C. W.E. PEEKHAUS BERLIN and AUSF. A.G.MU K. GABLONZ. Eagle and swastika over crossed grenade and bayonet set between oakleaf sprays. Hinged tapered ridged pin with countersunk securing hook and complete with central backing plate. Minor service wear VGC. Introduced in November 1942 by Adolf Hitler. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army WW2 cap badge. Good scarce 1942-45 locally cast aluminium example. Red painted scroll and tiger's highlights. Flat integral loops GC Bob Betts Collection INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

1940 Pattern WW2 Army Battledress Trousers 1942. A good clean pair of the 1940 pattern trousers tailored with field dressing and leg pockets. Retaining issue label dated 1942 Size 13. Very clean condition some small moth holes lower legs. ... Accompanied by WD issue braces. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

Royal Army Pay Corps and Royal Signals Regimental Sweetheart Broochs. RAPC gold bar brooch bearing Corps crest in red and blue enamel stamped 9 CARAT retaining pin fitting with roller catch ... Royal Corps of Signals converted bar brooch stamped 22 K and overseas markings retaining pin fitting. (2 items) INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

REME 8th Army WW2 Attributed Battledress Uniform & Beret. A group of three items worn by a Lance Corporal of the REME. Comprising: 1937 Pattern blouse with 8th Army embroidered badges and Lance Corporal rank. The left breast with medal ribbons of 1939/45 Star and Italy Star. The interior with issue label for a 1940 pattern blouse Size 10 dated 1941 ... Battledress trousers, these tailored with both field dressing and large leg pockets. Retaining issue label 1940 pattern Size 10 1942 ... GS Beret dated 1945 and retaining plastic economy REME cap badge. A good matching set, very good condition no obvious moth. (3 items) INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

Similar 1922 Pattern / Pattern 38 WW2 Army Trousers 1942. A good clean pair of the 38 pattern trousers retaining issue label Size 14. dated 1942. This pair tailored with belt loops. Very clean condition. Unissued. INVOICE PAYABLE ON PRESENTATION BY BANK TRANSFER ONLY

* Schultz (Anton, 1894-1977). Wall Street Giants, circa 1929, etching, signed in pencil to lower right, plate size 30.2 x 18.8 cm (11 7/8 x 7 3/8 ins), sheet size 43 x 29 cm (16 7/8 x 11 3/8 ins)QTY: (1)NOTE:Anton Schutz was a German-American artist, born in Berndorf, Germany in 1894. He is best known for his cityscapes and architectural etchings, especially of New York City. Schutz began his formal studies at the University of Munich, but they were put on hold because of World War I. After serving in the German Army, he returned to the University for a period of time before moving on to the Royal Academy of Fine Art, where he earned his degree in Mechanical Engineering and Architecture in 1920. He immigrated to the United States in 1924, where he met and befriended artist Joseph Pennell in New York City. That same year, he had his first several solo exhibitions at Anderson Gallery.

* Houedard (Dom Sylvester 1924-1992). Sand, Rock & Tide (Openings, Wall Poem I), circa 1964, handprinted linocut, 'Openings/WallPoemI/dsh' in red to right edge, sheet size 58 x 77.7 cm (22 7/8 x 30 5/8 ins) QTY: (1)NOTE:Born on Guernsey, as Pierre (Peter) Thomas Paul Jean Houédard, he studied at Jesus College, Oxford. He served in British Army Intelligence from 1944 to 1947, and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, being ordained as a priest in 1959 and taking the religious name Sylvester. Houédard was a leading exponent of concrete poetry, with regular contributions to magazines and exhibitions from the early 1960s onward. His elaborate, typewriter-composed visual poems ("typestracts") were scattered across many chapbooks.

* Sauerweid (Alexander Ivanovitch, 1783-1844). An Officer on the General Staff of the Saxon Army, circa 1810, watercolour and bodycolour on paper, with collector's mark to lower right corner of the Empress Alexandra Feoderovna, label to verso of The Covent Garden Gallery Ltd., 20 Russell Street, London, with printed exhibition caption, 392 x 337 mm (15 2/5 x 13 1/5 ins), mounted, framed and glazed (59 x 53 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: From the collection of H.I.H. The Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918); Collection of the late Christopher Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey; Private Collection.An inscription on the mount identifies the subject as 'General Schreibershofen'.Alexander Ivanovitch Sauerweid (1783-1844) was born in present-day Latvia, and trained at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts between 1806 and 1812. He settled in Saint Petersburg in 1814, where he was invited by Czar Alexander I to paint portraits of Russian soldiers and their uniforms. A set of 30 coloured aquatint engravings entitled The Saxon Army in 1810 after Sauerweid was published in Dresden in 1810 by Henry Ritner (Colas 2640) "of which no complete copies are known." The Saxon Army in 1810. Without place or date [Dresden: Henry Ritner, 1810], In Folio in brown half-binding with corners, 5-ribbed spine with title on morocco piece, Series of 30 plates engraved in aquatint and enhanced with colors mounted on tabs. "Very rare suite" according to Colas [2640] "of which no complete copies are known."

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (31422. Sergt. W. H. Jackson. 10 Div: Cst. Bde. R.A.) good very fine £60-£80

Pair: Second Lieutenant J. L. Gow, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, late Royal Army Medical Corps, who was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916 British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. J. L. Gow.) good very fine (2) £300-£400 --- James Lightfoot Gow attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 25 January 1916. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers on 10 April 1915, and was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, whilst attached to the 1st Battalion; on this date the battalion, involved in the attack in front of Beaumont-Hamel, suffered 552 casualties. Gow is buried in Knightsbridge Cemetery, Mesnil-Martinsart, Somme, France.

Six: Lieutenant-Colonel W. M. H. Armstrong, Army Service Corps, who was three times Mentioned in Despatches, and was wounded during the Great War Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Transvaal (Capt. W. M. H. Armstrong. A.S.C.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Maj: & Adjt: W. M H. Armstrong. A.S.C.) engraved naming; 1914 Star, with clasp (Lt: Col: W. M. H. Armstrong. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. W. M. H. Armstrong.) mounted for wear, contact marks, generally very fine (6) £700-£900 --- William Meredith Howard Armstrong was born on 7 October 1868 and was educated at Clifton College, where he captained the Cricket XI. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the 3rd (Fermanagh Militia) Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 4 September 1889, and converted to the Regular Army as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Irish Regiment on 12 March 1892. He transferred to the Army Service Corps on 1 April 1893, and was posted to No. 14 Company at Dublin. Promoted Lieutenant on 30 March 1894, he embarked for the Gold Coast the following year and took part in the Ashanti expedition. Promoted Captain on 19 June 1898, Armstrong served in South Africa during the Boer War from 1899, and took part in the operations in Cape Colony south of the Orange River in 1899 to 1900; in the Orange Free State in 1900, including the engagement at Paardeberg from 17 to 26 February; in the Orange River Colony from November to December 1900; and in the Transvaal from December 1900 to May 1902. Appointed Adjutant on 5 December 1900, he was promoted Brevet Major on 22 August 1902, and for his services was Mentioned in both Lord Roberts’ Despatch of 4 September 1901 (London Gazette 10 September 1901) and Lord Kitchener’s Despatch of 23 June 1902 (London Gazette 29 July 1902). Promoted Major on 1 April 1905, Armstrong returned to Ireland and served in Dublin and Longford before being appointed Commanding Officer, Army Service Corps on the Island of Bermuda, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, on 15 December 1913. Following the outbreak of the Great War he served in France with the British Expeditionary Force as Commanding Officer of the Advance Horse Transport Depot from 22 August 1914; was wounded in action; and was Mentioned in Field Marshal French’s Despatch of 14 January 1915 (London Gazette 17 February 1915). He later served on the Staff as Assistant Director of Supply and Transport at HQ, Irish Command, and was placed on the Reserve of Officers List on 24 January 1919. Sold with copied research.

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (71540 Br. Cr. Maker J. M. Greenway No. 1 Mtn. By R.A.) light contact marks, otherwise very fine £100-£140 --- John Mathew Greenway was born in the Parish of Doderell, near Worcester, and enlisted into the Royal Artillery at Hilsea on 16 March 1889, aged 19 years 7 months. He served in India from March 1890 to March 1896, and from February 1898 to January 1910. Having passed the Collar Maker’s course at Cawnpore in September 1893, he was appointed and promoted Bombardier Collar Maker in April 1895, and promoted to Saddler Sergeant on 31 March 1905. He was discharged at Gosport upon termination of his second period of engagement on 15 March 1910. Sold with copied discharge papers which confirm medal for North West Frontier 1897-98, and Good Conduct Medal (with Gratuity) in Army Order 242 of 1907.

Seven: Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Stewart, 7th and 13th Rajputs, Indian Army India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (Lieutt. J. A. Stewart, 7th Bl. Infy.); China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (Captn: J. A. Stewart, 7th Rajput.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-14 (Major J. Stewart, I.A. H.M.S. Perseus.); 1914-15 Star (Maj. J. A. Stewart. 13/Rajputs); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt-Col. J. A. Stewart); Delhi Durbar 1911 (Major J. A. Stewart, 7th D.C.O. Rajputs 12-12-1911.) mounted as worn, generally very fine and rare (7) £2,600-£3,000 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 30 June 1916. John Alexander Stewart was born on 5 June 1868, and was first commissioned into the Manchester Regiment on 22 August 1888. He transferred to the Indian Army on 1 June 1893, and was appointed to the 7th Rajputs, with whom he served in the relief of Chitral 1895 (Medal with clasp), the relief of Pekin 1900 (Medal with clasp), and in the operations on the North West Frontier in the Mohmand country 1908 (Medal with clasp). He served aboard H.M.S. Perseus in command of a detachment of 7th Rajputs during the anti-gun running operations in the Persian Gulf from 1909 to 1914, and was thus one of only 17 Army and police officers to receive this Naval medal. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in the 13th Rajputs on 22 August 1914, and commanded the regiment from 17 November 1916 to 5 June 1920, when he retired on attaining 52 years of age. Note: Stewart is also entitled to the medal for ‘North West Frontier 1908’. Sold with an article from the O.M.R.S. Journal on the background to the award of the N.G.S. ‘Persian Gulf’ to certain army and police officers (17 medals awarded) by Major M. C. Spurrier. He confirms Major Stewart as having been borne in H.M.S. Perseus in 1912 and being shown in the Indian army lists of April and July 1912 as being ‘at Jask’.

An Australian Forces pair awarded to Warrant Officer K. H. W. Willert, Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps Australia, Defence Force Service Medal, with clasp (213321 Willert K. H. W.); National Medal (213321 K. H. W. Willert) mounted court style as worn, extremely fine (2) £140-£180 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2009. Kevin Henry Walter Willert was born on 18 September 1942. He enlisted into the Australian Regular Army on 28 September 1959, based at the 1st Recruit Training Battalion, Kapooka, and Infantry Centre, Ingleburn, being allocated to the Australian Infantry Corps. As a Sergeant he was an Instructor at the 1st Recruit Training Centre and attended the Tropical Warfare Advisor’s Course, at Canungra, between May and July 1967. Latterly with the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps at Bandiana. He was discharged on 27 September 1980.

Family Group: Three: Acting Corporal C. Rush, Army Service Corps, later 8th Battalion (Post Office Rifles), London Regiment 1914 Star, with later slide clasp (S-29276 Pte. C. Rush. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (s-29276 A. Cpl. C. Rush. A.S.C.) mounted as worn, nearly very fine General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (14532098 Cfn C R Rush REME) a somewhat later issue, good very fine (4) £100-£140 --- Charles Rush attested for the Army Service Corps and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 August 1914. He later transferred to the 2nd/8th Battalion (Post Office Rifles), London Regiment.

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (Bombr. P. Keeffe. Euro. Vet. Co.) good very fine £60-£80

The C.B. and Naval General Service Medal pair awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Plenderleath, 49th Foot, a Captain in H.M.S. Ardent under Nelson at Copenhagen in 1801 and in command of his Regiment at Stoney Creek and Chrystler’s Farm in 1813 The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamel, hallmarked London 1815, maker’s mark ‘IN’, complete with wide swivel-ring suspension and gold ribbon buckle; Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Copenhagen 1801 (Chas. Plenderleath) the first with minor damage to a few petals of green enamel wreath and a small blemish to one reverse arm, the second lightly lacquered, otherwise extremely fine and very rare (2) £12,000-£16,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Glendining, February 1953 (Lots 133 and 134). The small Army Gold Medal awarded to Plenderleath for the battle of Chrystler’s Farm was formerly in the David Spink Collection and now resides in the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa; Dix Noonan Webb, December 2004. Twenty-three medals were issued to the 49th Foot for Copenhagen, together with two to the Rifles and one to the Artillery. The 49th Foot, under Colonel Brock, together with two companies of the Rifle Corps, and a detachment of Artillery, were embarked aboard various ships of the fleet, under the command of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, with Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson as second-in-command. It was during this engagement that Nelson famously ignored Parker’s signal of recall when, with his glass to his blind eye, he said, ‘I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal.’ Charles Plenderleath served as a Captain in the 49th Foot on board the Ardent 64 at Copenhagen, in which battle she formed one of the squadron under the orders of Lord Nelson, and compelled four of the Danish flotilla, one of which was the Jutland of 60 guns, to surrender. The Ardent received considerable damage, and sustained a loss of 29 men killed and 64 wounded, not counting about 40 others who were rendered hors de combat but who were not included in the casualty returns. Early on the following morning, Lord Nelson went on board the Ardent to thank her commander, Captain Thomas Bertie, officers, and people, for their conduct and exertions on the preceding day. In the American war of 1812-14, Plenderleith for the most part had command of the 49th Foot, including the actions of Stoney Creek and Chrystler’s Farm, in both of which actions he was wounded. The following extracts are taken from an account of Stoney Creek given by Lieutenant James Fitzgibbon, 49th Foot, in a private letter, dated 7 June 1813, to the Rev. James Somerville, of Montreal: ‘Major Plenderleath came immediately after to that portion of the line which I had quitted, and, with the men I had left in charge of a sergeant, and a few others, he rushed forward against the guns and took four of them - two and a tumbril were brought away. The others could not be, our men having bayonetted the horses. Major Plenderleath pushed on with about 20 men, following the main road, the men stabbing every man and horse they met with... This handful of men with Major Plenderleath took at this dash, besides the two generals [Chandler and Winder], five field officers and captains, and above 100 prisoners, and brought them off.’ ‘I am of opinion that, had not Major Plenderleath made the dash he did, the Americans would have kept their ground and our ruin would have been inevitable, but finding our people so far advanced in their centre, they broke and fled in every direction and their fire ceased at a time when our line was, as it were, entirely routed.’ Although the Americans claimed Stoney Creek as a victory, their defeat at Chrystler’s Farm was complete. Plenderleath again commanded the 49th and was again wounded. Five Lieutenants of the 49th were also wounded, as well as five men killed and three sergeants and thirty-four men wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Plenderleath subsequently received a C.B. and the Field Officers’ Gold Medal for the action at Chrystler’s Farm. Lieutenant-Colonel Plenderleath was placed on the Half Pay of the 49th shortly afterwards and saw no further active service. He died in 1854.

Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (2005 Sjt: Dmr: C. Calleja. R. Malta Arty.) edge bruise, otherwise very fine £60-£80

A German Second World War Cloth German Cross in Gold. A nice example of the cloth version of the German Cross in Gold with army field grey green backing material. Good clear 1941 date. It appears never to have been attached to a uniform, very good condition £360-£440

Renamed and Defective Medals (6): Crimea 1854-56, no clasp, naming erased; India General Service 1854-95, no clasp (Samuel Wheeler. 1st Madras Fusrs.) traces of brooch mounting to obverse, and fitted with a non-swivel suspension; Canada General Service 1866-70, no clasp, naming erased; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (3430 Cpl. W. Ockham, 44 Sig. Coy.) renamed except for unit; Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18, naming erased; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse, (17411. Sergt. W. Barratt. Rl. Engrs.) renamed; some heavy edge bruising, generally fine or better (9) £220-£260

Army L.S. & G.C. (2), V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1545 Lce. Corpl, W. G. Piper. 3rd. Hussars.) pawnbroker’s mark to reverse; E.VII.R. (25973 S. Mjr: H. T. Spanner. R.E.) nearly extremely fine (2) £120-£160

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (129. Cpl: W. Menzies. Band. R. M. Col.) toned, edge bruise, good very fine, scarce £140-£180 --- Provenance: The D. R. H. Jones Collection of Victorian Long Service Medals, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2001. William Menzies was born in Dundee, Scotland. He attested for the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots Regiment at Dundee in April 1882, and was appointed as a Bandsman in February of the following year. Menzies transferred to the Band Corps, Royal Military College in July 1890, and was discharged to pension in May 1904, having served for 22 years and 36 days (awarded L.S. & G.C. in 1900). After service he resided at 192 Westbourne Road, Sandhurst, and died there in March 1946. Sold with copied service papers.

Three: Quartermaster Sergeant A. E. Marshall, North Staffordshire Regiment, later Lancashire Fusiliers Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3101 L/Cpl. A. E. Marshall, 1/N. Staff: R); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (5994. C. Sjt. A. E. Marshall. Lanc: Fus.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Hafir (3101 Lce. Cpl. A. E. Marshall, 1st Battn. N.S. Rgt.) mounted court-style for display, edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £500-£700 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2010. Arthur Ernest Marshall was born in Birmingham c. 1872. A Gun-Maker by occupation and a member of the 4th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, he attested for the North Staffordshire Regiment at Birmingham on 11 July 1890, aged 18 years. With the North Staffordshire Regiment he served in South Africa from May 1892 to April 1893; in Malta from April 1893 to October 1895; in Egypt and the Sudan from October 1895 to April 1897, and attained the rank of Corporal in April 1897. Seeing active service in Sudan with the Dongola Expedition, he was awarded the Queen’s medal and the Khedive’s medal for Hafir. Returning home, he was then transferred to the 1st Class Army Reserve in July 1897, intending to join the Police. Marshall rejoined the Colours under Army Order 23 of 1898 and was transferred as a Corporal to the Lancashire Fusiliers. He was appointed Lance-Sergeant in April 1898, and was promoted Sergeant in July of the same year, and Colour Sergeant in March 1900. With the Lancashire Fusiliers he served in Malta from August 1898 to November 1901, and in Barbados from November 1901 to August 1902. He was awarded a gratuity in July 1902 and awarded the Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with gratuity per Army Order 270 of October 1909. He was discharged at Seaford, Sussex, having given notice, on 31 October 1912, becoming a Postman in civilian life. On 8 September 1914, with the onset of war, Marshall attested for one year’s service in the Army Reserve (Special Reserve), aged 41 years, 11 months. Appointed a Quartermaster Sergeant in the Lancashire Fusiliers, he was discharged as medically unfit on 21 October 1914. He re-enlisted on 25 June 1917 and as a Company Quartermaster Sergeant in the Lancashire Fusiliers, he served at Home until discharged to the Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 4 June 1919. Sold with a quantity of copied service papers and other research.

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (71. Pte H. Diddams. Rl. Mil: College) with silver top riband buckle, edge bruise, generally good very fine, scarce £120-£160 --- Henry Diddams was born in Winchester, Hampshire. He attested for the 1st Foot at Winchester in May 1854, and was appointed as a Drummer in December of the same year. Diddams was discharged in December 1867, only to re-engage for service the following February for service with the Royal Military College. He was discharged on 14 May 1878, having served for 20 years and 91 days. Sold with copied service papers.

British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (7786 Wkr. K. Edwards. Q.M.A.A.C.; 11237 Wkr. A. Gilliland. Q.M.A.A.C.; 6864 Wkr. G. Mellor. Q.M.A.A.C.) generally very fine (3) £80-£100 --- Kittie Edwards attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 22 June 1918 to 24 October 1919. Ada Gilliland attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 3 May 1918 to 13 September 1919. Gladys Mellor attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 11 November 1917 to 6 December 1919.

Efficiency Medal (3), G.VI.R., 1st issue, Militia (2557166 Sgln. F. Brown. R. Signals.); E.II.R., 2nd issue (2), Territorial (22271672 Pte. G. W. White. Cheshire), in named card box of issue; T. & A.V.R. (23234635 LCpl R Carson RCT) very fine (3) £100-£140 --- F. Brown was awarded the Efficiency Medal in Army Order 190 of 1938, and a first clasp in Army Order 26/47 of 1947.

Pair: Nursing Sister Catherine Terry, Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister C. Terry.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister C. Terry.) nearly extremely fine (2) £400-£500 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (5429956 W.O. Cl.2. R. Tank. R. Signals.) extremely fine £70-£90

Pair: Worker Charlotte Hooson, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps British War and Victory Medals (21301 Wkr. C. Hooson. Q.M.A.A.C.) contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £70-£90 --- Charlotte Hooson attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 9 May 1918 to 26 April 1919.

Five: Staff Quartermaster Sergeant A. E. Brook, Army Service Corps Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (6417 S-Sejt. A. E. Brook, A.S.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6417 S. Qr:- Mr:- Sjt: A. E. Brook. A.S.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (6417 S.Q.M. Serjt: A. E. Brooks [sic]. A.S.C.); Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., Circular issue, 2nd ‘Coronation robes’ issue (Albert Edward Brook.) mounted court-style for wear in this order, light pitting and contact marks, generally very fine and better (5) £300-£400

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 2nd issue, large letter reverse, impressed naming (W. Stotherd, Gunr. & Drivr. Royal Artillery.) fitted with original steel clip and rectangular bar suspension, minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £120-£160 --- William Stothart/Stotherd was born in the Parish of Wingate, County Durham, and attested for the Royal Artillery at Newcastle on Tyne on 1 May 1826, aged 18 years. He served abroad in Portugal, 1 year 3 months; at St Helena, 7 years 11 months; and was discharged from the 10th Battalion R.A. on 11 July 1848. ‘His conduct has been exemplary... He is in possession of and wears a Medal for Good Conduct.’ Sold with copied discharge papers.

Three: Private W. A. Beck, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (9422 Pte. W. A. Beck. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (9422 Pte. W. A. Beck. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) edge bruising and contact marks, fine Seven: Driver R. Ritchie, Royal Engineers 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. R. G. Ritchie, 8 Kingshill Rd., Aberdeen’; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (2079323 Dvr. R. Ritchie. R.E.) extremely fine British War Medal 1914-20 (G-11433 Pte. R. Lucas. R.W. Kent R.) officially re-impressed, good very fine (11) £100-£140 --- Walter A. Beck attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War in the Hedjaz theatre of War from 5 December 1914. Richard Lucas attested for the Royal West Kent Regiment and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 1916. Transferring to the East Kent Regiment that same year, he was killed in action on the Somme on 15 September 1916, whilst serving with the 1st Battalion. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

Defective and Copy Medals: India General Service 1895-1902, lacking suspension and clasp and fitted with silver loop (4162 Lce. Corpl. Anstey 1st Devon Regt.) attempted obliteration of surname, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine; Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., undated copy; together with: Yorkshire Regiment, engraved silver sports medal, 45mm, unnamed with ball and ring suspension, in its P. Orr & Son, Madras & Rangoon fitted case; two Boxing medals won by L.A.C. J. A. Howard, both named, H.M.S. Royal Sovereign, silver, hallmarked Birmingham 1930, with ring suspension, and R.A.F. Boxing medal, bronze, named and additionally inscribed ‘Egypt - Palestine - Iraq 1932’, both fitted with rings for suspension; Army Temperance Medal In Memory of Queen Victoria 1837-1901, silver, with ring suspension, unless otherwise described, very fine or better (6) £80-£100

Army L.S. & G.C. (3), G.V.R., 1st issue (2) (1030910 Sjt. G. E. Hall. R.E.; 4991 Dmr: T. Harford. S. Lanc: Regt.); G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (816398 W.O. Cl. 2. B. C. Daniels. R.A.) good very fine (3) £100-£140 --- Sold together with copied research.

Three: Captain F. G. Doyle, 2nd Dragoon Guards, who served on ‘Special Service’ in the Zulu war of 1879, and who died at home in 1882 of typhoid contracted on active service in Egypt whilst attached to the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Capt; F. Doyle. 2nd Dgn. Gds.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Capt. F. G. Doyle. 2nd Dn. Gds.) ‘2nd’ officially corrected; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, nearly extremely fine and rare (3) £3,000-£4,000 --- Only 9 Zulu War medals issued to the 2nd Dragoon Guards, all with 1879 clasp, Doyle being the senior of the three officers present. Frederick Grenville Doyle was born on 4 April 1848, son of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, Bart. He entered the army as an Ensign in the 63rd Foot on 20 February 1866, transferring to the 60th Foot on the following 9 March. Promoted to Lieutenant in the 60th Foot on 22 May 1869, he transferred to the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays) on 8 March 1876. He was then made Extra Aide-de-Camp to Governor of Madras, a position he held from January to July 1868, and then to G.O.C. Southern District between 1 April 1874 and 30 June 1877. Doyle accompanied Sir Garnet Wolseley to South Africa in May 1879, and was employed on special service until the conclusion of the campaign in Zululand as Commandant at Headquarters of the army (Medal with Clasp). He passed the Senior Department, Staff College, 1880, and subsequently served in the Egyptian campaign of 1882, attached to the 4th Dragoon Guards, including at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir (Medal with Clasp, Khedive’s Bronze Star). He was invalided to England and died at home on 12 December 1882 of ‘typhoid fever, contracted in the late Egyptian campaign, while attached to the 4th Dragoon Guards’. He is buried in Meifod Parish churchyard, where the inscription on his headstone reads: ‘In Loving memory of Francis Grenville Doyle 2nd Dragoon Guards eldest son of Francis Hastings Doyle, Baronet and Sidney his wife, daughter of the Honourable Charles Williams Wynne. Born April 1846 - Died 2nd December 1882 at Coed-Y-Maen of fever contracted in the Egyptian Campaign at Magfar, Mahuta, Masemeh and in the Kassassin and Tel-el-Kebir Campaign and entered Cairo with the 1st Detachment. Coming home only to die.’ Sold with copied photograph of the recipient in uniform wearing the first medal together with other copied research.

Army Veterinary Department Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet 1881-1901. A fine example, the skull complete with all gilt metal fittings, the frontal plate of crowned star pattern with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of black vitreous enamel a silver ‘AVD’ monogram, buff leather sweatband with crimson silk lining, with supplier’s stamp ‘L. Silberston, London S.W.’ to inside, the underside of both peaks with original dark green leather, housed in its original carrying case, very good overall condition £400-£500

An impressive ‘Royal Service’ K.C.V.O. and Great War D.S.O., O.B.E. group of twelve awarded to Major Sir Edward Seymour, late Grenadier Guards, Knighted in 1934 for his services as Comptroller to Princess Victoria and successively as Extra Equerry to Queen Alexandra, King George V, King Edward VIII and King George VI; he was wounded in South Africa in May 1900, and commanded the Grenadier Guards Bearer Party at the funeral of Queen Victoria in March 1901 The Royal Victorian Order, K.C.V.O., Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, the reverse officially numbered ‘K468’; and breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamels, the reverse officially numbered ‘468’ and fitted with gold pin for wearing; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels, with integral top riband bar; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, reverse hallmarked London 1919; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (2/Lt. E. Seymour 1/Gren: Gds.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lieut. E. Seymour, M.V.O., Gren. Gds.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. E. Seymour, M.V.O. Gren. Gds.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. E. Seymour. G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major E. Seymour.); Coronation 1911, unnamed; Jubilee 1935, unnamed; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (2nd Lieut. E. Seymour Grenadier Guards) mounted on card for display together with an M.V.O. 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt, gold and enamels, the reverse officially numbered ‘1128’ [as awarded in January 1922] generally good very fine or better (14) £4,000-£5,000 --- K.C.V.O. 1 January 1934: ‘Edward Seymour, C.V.O., D.S.O., M.V.O., O.B.E., Comptroller to Princess Victoria and Extra Equerry to His Majesty.’ C.V.O. 26 November 1925: ‘Edward Seymour, D.S.O., M.V.O., O.B.E., Equerry to H.M. Queen Alexandra.’ M.V.O. 4th Class 2 January 1922: ‘Edward Seymour, D.S.O., M.V.O., O.B.E., Comptroller of the Household to H.R.H. The Duchess of Albany.’ D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1917. O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘Capt. (T/Maj.) Edward Seymour, M.V.O., D.S.O., Grenadier Guards.’ M.V.O. 5th Class 19 March 1901: ‘Lieutenant Edward Seymour, Grenadier Guards. Funeral of H.M. Queen Victoria; Commanded Bearer Party.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 15 June 1916, 4 January 1917, and 20 May 1918. Edward Seymour was born on 10 February 1877, son of Lieutenant-Colonel L. R. Seymour. He was educated at Eton and entered the Army in 1897 as a Second Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards. He served in the campaign in the Sudan under Sir Herbert Kitchener in 1898, and was present at the battle of Khartoum (Queen’s medal and Khedive’s medal with Clasp). Served in South African War in 1900-02, and took part in operations in Orange Free State, April to May 1900; in Orange River Colony May 1900, including actions at Biddulphsberg, 29th May-wounded-invalided 18th June 1900. Whilst convalescing from his wound in England, Seymour had the honour of commanding the Colour Party of the Grenadier Guards at the funeral of Queen Victoria in March 1901, before returning to South Africa to serve the final stages of the war in Cape Colony, December 1901 to May 1902. Promoted to Captain in the Grenadier Guards in June 1904, he resigned his commission in May 1908, and was appointed Comptroller to the Household of H.R.H. The Duchess of Albany in November of the same year. He carried the Duchess of Albany’s coronet at King George’s coronation in 1911. Recalled from the Reserve of Officers in August 1914, he was appointed Brigade Major on 28 December 1914. He served in France from 6 November 1915, was mentioned in despatches three times and awarded the D.S.O. Promoted to temporary Major (Guards) 25 February 1918, and confirmed as Major on 20 April 1919, he was created O.B.E. in June 1919. Seymour was made M.V.O. 4th Class for his services to The Duchess of Albany in January 1922, and appointed Equerry to H.M. Queen Alexandra on 1 January 1923. He was appointed to be C.V.O. in November 1925 and, shortly afterwards, on 1 December, appointed to the office of Comptroller to H.R.H. Princess Victoria and created a K.C.V.O. for these services in January 1934. He held the appointment as Extra Equerry to King George V, King Edward VIII, and to King George VI. Edward Seymour married, 29 July 1905, Lady Blanche Conyngham, daughter of 4th Marquess Conyngham. They had a daughter, Verena Mary Doyne, born 24 May 1906, and a son, John Edward, born on 18 October 1915. Sir Edward Seymour died on 28 February 1948.

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of seven awarded to Sergeant C. Utting, Royal Engineers, for his gallantry at Neuve Chapelle on 10 March 1915 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (607 Sjt: C. Utting. 2/F. Co. R.E.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (607. Cpl. C. Utting. R.E.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (607 L.Cpl. C. Utting. R.E.); 1914 Star, with clasp (607 Sjt. C. Utting. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (607 Sjt. C. Utting. R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (607 Sjt: C. Utting. R.E.) mounted court-style for wear, light contact marks to the Boer War pair, these very fine, the rest better (7) £800-£1,000 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 123 June 1915; citation published 30 June 1915: ‘For conspicuous gallantry at Neuve Chapelle on 10 March 1915 when seven of his men had been killed or wounded by a shell, in going back under machine gun fire, improvising stretchers, and getting three of the wounded under cover. Sergeant Utting has also done much good work in the trenches since November 1914.’ Charles Utting attested for the Royal Engineers and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and then with No. 2 Field Company during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 November 1914. Sold with a photographic image of the recipient, taken from The War Illustrated, 9 October 1915.

Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (4702 Pte. A. Nicholls 1st Bn. Ryl. Fuslrs) nearly very fine £800-£1,000 --- Alfred Nicholls was born in Holborn, Middlesex in 1874, the son of Charles Thomas Nicholls and Frances Nicholls of 31 City Buildings, Moor Lane, City of London. A cook by trade, he attested for the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) at Hounslow on 24 June 1893, having previously served in the 5th (Militia) Battalion, at Hounslow on 24th June 1893, aged 19. He was convicted and imprisoned for using threatening language to his superior officer and wilfully injuring his equipment &c. on 29 May 1895, and was returned to duty on 29 November 1895. On 1 December 1901, Nicholls extended his Army service with the colours to complete 12 years service, and re-engaged for the Royal Fusiliers on 4 February 1905 for such term as shall complete 21 years service. He was issued with his Tibet Medal with clasp on 1 February 1905 (his only medallic entitlement), and was paid his Tibet Mission Gratuity on 1 December 1905. He was discharged free on 26 November 1906, after 13 years and 3 months’ service, of which nearly 11 years were spent soldiering in India or Burma.

Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2) (77197 Gnr: W. Jackman. R.G.A.; 50992 Bandsman R. Unwin. R.A.) good very fine £80-£100

Imperial German Identity Tags. 5 standard large-size army identity tags all in zinc, 3 splitable, 2 solid. A single splitable large size that has been split but both sides present. A small oval identity disc to a member of Field Artillery Regiment. Another small oval with army corps numbers XIX. A depot identity tag and Infantry Regiment 31 rectangular tag with accompanying 3 smaller splitable zinc tags for members of the Reichsmarine, generally good condition (13) £80-£100

Pair: Worker Laura Cooper, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps British War and Victory Medals (34527 Wkr. L. Cooper. Q.M.A.A.C.) very fine (2) £70-£90 --- Laura Cooper attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 11 June 1918 to 10 October 1919.

Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (973 Wkr. D. E. Hall. Q.M.A.A.C.; 22162 Wkr. F. E. Hill. Q.M.A.A.C.; 2133 A-Fwn. E. Pennington. Q.M.A.A.C.) nearly very fine (3) £70-£90 --- Doris Eva Hall attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 19 June 1917 to 1 September 1919. Florence Ethel Hill attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 30 January 1918 to 11 October 1919. Ellen Pennington attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 22 August 1917 to 13 October 1919.

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (2) (J/73993 P.C. Syed Monzil B. Syed Abdul Rahman, Army Dep. Pol.; J/92698 P.C. Samat B. Arif, Army Dep. Pol.) very fine and better (2) £100-£140

Five: Staff Sergeant V. G. Gray, Royal Army Medical Corps Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (7263474 S/Sgt. V. G. Gray. R.A.M.C.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (7263474 W.O. Cl. 2. V. G. Gray. R.A.M.C.) mounted as worn, very fine (5) £100-£140 --- Sold with matching group of mounted miniatures, two cloth rank badges and five regimental cap, collar and shoulder insignia.

Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (1213 Pte. J. Vacher. Hampshire Regt.); Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, E.VII.R. (2056 Cpl. G. F. Bayliss. 1/V.B. S. Staff: Regt.); Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial (3180803 Sjt. J. Black. 5-K.O.S.B.) toned, nearly extremely fine (3) £120-£160

Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (24071 Wkr. L. M. Cutler. Q.M.A.A.C.; 21580 Wkr. A. Pimley. Q.M.A.A.C.; 16643 Wkr. C. L. Stamp. Q.M.A.A.C.) very fine (3) £70-£90 --- Lilly Maria Cutler attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 17 March 1918 to 14 March 1919. Annie Pimley attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 9 January 1918 to 14 June 1919. She was discharged on grounds of unsuitability on 10 August 1919. Clara Lily Stamp was born in Worthing, Sussex, in 1895. She attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 29 December 1917 to 15 April 1919, the same year that she married George Cranham.

British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (2560 Wkr. P. Cleland. Q.M.A.A.C.; 5183 Wkr. J. G. Hunter. Q.M.A.A.C.; 2371 Wkr. E. E. Thompson. Q.M.A.A.C.) generally very fine (3) £80-£100 --- Patricia Cleland was born in 1897. She attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 12 September 1917 to 17 December 1919. Jean Grace Hunter attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 9 December 1917 to 17 April 1918. Ethel Elizabeth Thompson attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 27 August 1917 to 20 May 1919.