A scarce Queen’s South Africa Medal awarded to Captain and Company Commander W. W. Stanley-Clarke, 2nd Company, 1st Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, who was killed in action at Brandwater Basin on 24 August 1900 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen (Capt. Stanley-Clarke. 2/Co 1/Imp. Yeo.) engraved naming, note lack of initials which were never added, extremely fine £1,600-£2,000 --- William Willoughby Stanley-Clarke was born in 1868, the eldest son of the late Colonel Stanley Clarke, 21st Hussars, and was educated at Cheltenham College. At the outbreak of the Boer War he was engaged in tea-planting in Ceylon, but volunteered for active service; his services were accepted and he was granted the rank of Captain in the army from 10 March 1900, and joined the Imperial Yeomanry from the 6th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, in which he had served as a Captain from August 1894. Captain Stanley-Clarke commanded No. 2 Company, 1st Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry from the forming of the battalion. The battalion consisting of 1st (Wiltshire) Company; 2nd (Wiltshire) Company, commanded by Captain Stanley Clarke; 3rd (Gloucestershire) Company; 4th (Glamorganshire) Company; and 63rd (Wiltshire) Company. The Battalion arrived at Cape Town on 23 and 30 March 1900 and were immediately sent up to the Imperial Yeomanry Base Camp at McKenzie Farm. On the 16 April orders were given for the battalions to move ‘up country’, with Captain Stanley Clarke’s No. 2 Company being ordered to Springfontien. They were joined several days later by HQ and the balance of the Wiltshire’s. For the next few weeks, the Yeomanry were employed on escort and patrol duties, before joining General Rundle’s 8th Division on 4 May. At this time General Rundle was involved in preliminary movements by which he intended to surround Boer forces operating in the Eastern corner of the Free State, driving them briefly into the Brandwater Basin. On 5 May, No. 4 and No. 2 Company went into action for the first time, luckily having no casualties. Patrols continued for the next few weeks but on 25 May, elements of No. 2 Company were involved in an action at Senekal in which Major Dalbiac and a number of men from the Middlesex Yeomanry were killed and wounded. Men of No. 2 Company captured a Boer flag. By June, operations commenced to surround the Boer forces of 10,000 men under Generals De Wet, Prinsloo and Olivier, with the 1st Imperial Yeomanry being part of General Rundle’s own force which occupied a line between Ficksburg and Sekekal. According to the regimental history, ‘From this date until 25 July, the 1st Imperial Yeomanry was employed in escort and reconnaissance duty with the 8th Division, being daily under enemy fire, for the whole country was alive with scattered bands of the enemy.’ Small actions were taking place all along the lines, and during the months of June and July the Boers were being pushed back, though De Wet and his force managed to slip through the cordon. However, on 30 July 1900, General Martinus Prinsloo surrendered at Surrender Hill in the Brandwater Basin, and for the Yeomanry, the next month consisted of mopping up patrols and expeditions. On 24 August 1900, Captain Clarke went out on patrol with part of his company into the Brandwater Basin, where many of the Boers that escaped the surrender of Prinsloo were hiding out. The company formed part of a larger force of Leicester Imperial Yeomanry and Port Elizabeth Guards, under Captain Harrison of the Leicesters (all told around 200 men). Captain Clarke was sent off with a detachment to try and capture a force of Boers who had been reported to be at a farm in the mountains. At daybreak on 26 August, the farm was surrounded, but it was discovered that several more Boers were held up in a nearby cave. Captain Clarke and Lieutenant Barclay, with a number of men, attempted to enter the cave, but Captain Clarke was shot and killed and Lieutenant Barclay and a Private were wounded. On hearing the firing, Captain Harrison came up with the Leicesters, but in the confusion caused by the loss of the two Officers, most of the Boers managed to escape, leaving 1 dead and 17 captured. ‘The Last Post’ states Stanley Clarke was killed at Harrismith, which was under British control at the time, but the regimental history makes it clear that it was during the search for Boer stragglers in the Brandwater Basin (in which 1st Imperial Yeomanry were heavy involved) that the action took place. Captain Stanley Clarke’s name is inscribed on the Eleanor Cross War Memorial at Cheltenham College. ‘The Annals of the Yeomanry Cavalry of Wiltshire’ Vol 2 1893 – 1908, gives a detailed account of the formation of the raising of the Wiltshire companies, Imperial Yeomanry for service in the Boer War and their service during the War itself.
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Five: Band-Sergeant W. Reynolds, King’s Royal Rifle Corps India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (4001 Lce. Corpl. W. Reynolds 1st Bn. K.R. Rifle Corps.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Talana, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (4001 Band-Serjt: W. F. Reynolds. K.R.R.C.) clasps mounted in this order with unofficial rivets between 4th and 5th clasps; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4001 Band-Serjt: W. F. Reynolds. K.R.R.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (4001 Band-Sjt: W. Reynolds. K.R.R.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (4001 Sjt. W. Reynolds. K.R.R.C.) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine or better (5) £600-£800
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp, bronze issue (805. Ward Swpr. Anthony Army Hosp. C.) officially impressed naming, edge bruises and suspension a little bent, otherwise nearly very fine and rare £200-£300 --- Sold with copied medal roll for Army Hospital Corps, Madras Command, confirming 805 Ward Sweeper 2nd Grade Anthony, bronze medal only, with clasps for Belfast, Orange Free State, Talana, Defence of Ladysmith, and Laing’s Nek crossed through. The full roll (not present) gives a total of 34 silver and 12 bronze medals to this unit and notes ‘no clasps authorised for issue with the silver medals’, most recipients being shown for the same clasps.
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Canal Zone (2Lt D V M Howell Para) nearly extremely fine £400-£500 --- David Vaughan May Howell was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Queen’s Regiment on 6 September 1952, and transferred to the Parachute Regiment on 29 January 1954. He was promoted Lieutenant on 13 May 1954, and transferred to the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers on 7 November 1957.
Family group: A Great War ‘Salonika operations’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant R. J. Wildman, 9th Battalion, Royal Lancaster Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (9-16247 Sjt: R. J. Wildman. 9/R. Lanc: R.); 1914-15 Star (16247 Pte. R. J. Wildman. R. Lanc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (16247 Sjt. R. J. Wildman. R. Lanc. R.) medals unmounted, together with two ribbon bars, good very fine Three: Able Seaman Richard Wildman, Royal Navy, who was lost in H.M. Submarine Urge when she was lost with all hands after striking a mine off Malta in April 1942 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Admiralty enclosure in card box of issued addressed to his father Mr R. J. Wildman, nearly extremely fine (7) £1,200-£1,600 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 1 January 1919; citation published 3 September 1919: ‘He has been with his coy. since since its formation, and has done consistent good work. He has taken part in three raids and several patrol encounters, and has been three times wounded. He has shown most consistent gallantry, devotion to duty, and determination at all times. He has previously been brought to notice for distinguished conduct. The cheerful and determined way in which he tackles a difficult and dangerous task has inspired his men with absolute confidence in him.’ Richard John Wildman was born on 9 May 1892, in Guildford, Surrey, to his parents John and Jane (née Albury). At the turn of the century he was living in Lancaster with his grandfather. In April 1914, he married Mary Alice Peel while still living in Lancaster. He enlisted in the army after the outbreak of the war, answering Kitchener’s appeal for troops, and joined 9th Battalion, Royal Lancaster Regiment. He landed in France on 4 September 1915, where they formed part of the 65th Brigade, 22nd Division. The Division stayed briefly in France, proceeding to Marseille in October from where they sailed for Salonika, arriving in November and December. The Division remained in Salonika for the duration of the war, taking part in the Battles of Horseshoe Hill (10-18 August 1916), Machukovo (13-14 September 1916), the First Battle of Doiran (24-25 April, 8-9 May 1917), and the Second Battle of Doiran (8-18 September 1918). Wildman stayed in Lancaster after the war and died on 13 May 1958. Richard Wildman, son of Richard John Wildman, was killed during the Second War as an Able Seaman aboard the submarine Urge, a British U-class submarine, of the second group of that class, built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 30 October 1939, and was commissioned on 12 December 1940. From 1941-42 she formed part of the 10th Submarine Flotilla based in Malta and is the only Royal Navy ship to have borne the name. Urge spent most of her career operating in the Mediterranean, where she damaged or sank a number of mostly Italian warships and merchant vessels and took part in special operations. She was commanded by Lieutenant-Commander Edward P. Tomkinson, D.S.O., R.N., and was was lost with all hands on 27 April 1942, after striking a naval mine off Malta. She failed to arrive at Alexandria on 6 May 1942, and was reported overdue on that day. Wildman is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. Sold with copied research.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Modder River, Orange Free State (H. Andrews. Church Army Vols:) officially impressed naming, good very fine and very rare £400-£500 --- Sold with copied medal roll for ‘Church Army Volunteers’ originally with just with 3 names, including Andrews, and four further names added later, the clasp for Modder River being unique to this unit.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (Civ: Surg: F. J. Engelbach.) officially engraved naming, note incorrect second initial, nearly extremely fine and a very rare casualty £2,000-£2,400 --- Civil Surgeon Frederick George Engelbach, attached to the Volunteer Ambulance, was killed in action at Nooitgedacht on 13 December 1900, shot through the forehead whilst bravely tending to the wounded under a hail of the enemy’s bullets. ‘Dr F. G. Engelbach Local Doctor Frederick George Engelbach qualified as Doctor and Surgeon at St Bartholomew's in London in 1866, then came to Moretonhampstead. He lived at Cookshayes in Court Street, and practised first independently, then with Dr Collyns in Cross Street, then as senior partner with Dr J. S. F. Clark. At that time he was also Medical Attendant to the Convalescent Home and to the Birch Tor and Vitifer mines. In 1898 he moved to London. Captain of Volunteers He entered very thoroughly into the life of the town and was instrumental in brightening the lives of the workers in many ways. In 1896 he raised the local company for the Volunteer Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment and was appointed Captain. Always throwing himself heart and soul into whatever he undertook, he spent his hard-earned holiday at Southsea, in order to pass the school of instruction and thoroughly fit himself for his position. Army Surgeon When the Boer War broke out he volunteered for service and was appointed Civil Surgeon by the War Office. He arrived in time to accompany General French in his famous ride to Kimberley. Always close to the front, he then accompanied the army in its march to Bloemfontein and then to Pretoria. He also went to Foundeberg at the time of the surrender of Prinsloo and was present at the battle of Diamond Hill. His last letters stated that he was at Riefontein and that a Boer attack was not improbable. The death of Surgeon Engelbach of the Yeomanry hospital was a typically brave one. Tending the wounded under heavy fire he was shot through the palm of the left hand and had just made a grim joke about now being handicapped in his work when, in standing up to dress his wound, he was killed by a bullet through the forehead. At Nooitgedacht he met the death he would have wished, killed while assisting his wounded under a hail of the enemy’s bullets.’ (From obituaries in The Lancet [1901, I, 211] and The British Medical Journal [1901, I, 311]). Dr Engelbach has a memorial in St Andrew’s Church, where there is also an episcopal chair that he himself made. The following inscriptions are in St Andrew's Church, Moretonhampstead, Devon: ‘To the glory of God and in memory of FREDERICK GEORGE ENGELBACH for 10 years Medical Practitioner in this town and first Commanding Officer of G. Co. (Moretonhampstead) 5th V.B.D.R. who was killed whilst succouring the wounded at the battle of Nooitgedacht, South Africa, Dec. 13th 1900. Erected by the inhabitants and other friends, December 1901.’ ‘This chair was carved and presented to the Parish Church of Moretonhampstead, Sth. Devon, by Dr. F. G. ENGELBACH who for 10 years practised in the district and worshipped in this church, finally laying down his life in South Africa whilst attending the wounded under fire on 13th December 1900.’ Sold with copied research including medal roll entry [F. G. Engelbach on roll but initials F. J. on Memorial to Men of Devon, Exeter Cathedral] which notes in the remarks column, ‘Original Unit 2nd Cavalry Brigade. Killed in action at Nooitgedacht Dec: 13th 1900.’ He was attached to the Volunteer Ambulance when killed and was mentioned in despatches by Field-Marshal Earl Roberts (London Gazette 10 September 1901) for his services.
Pair: Colour Sergeant W. Cragg, 60th Rifles South Africa 1834-53 (Serjt. Wm. Cragg, 2nd Bn. 60th Rifles); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1537 Color Sergeant William Craggs, 2.B. 60. Rifles. 13 April 1859) edge bruising, contact marks, good fine and better (2) £460-£550 --- William Cragg was born in Quorndon, Loughborough, Leicestershire in 1820. He attested for the 60th Rifles at Nottingham on 23 October 1840. He was promoted to Corporal in December 1845; Sergeant in July 1848; Colour Sergeant in April 1855 and attained the rank of Sergeant-Major in January 1860, when he appointed to the 7th (Rifle) Depot Battalion. With the 2nd Battalion 60th Rifles he served in Jamaica, 19 years, 6 months; Canada, 3 years, and the Cape of Good Hope, 1 year, 11 months. Saw service in the Third Kaffir War 1851-53. Awarded the Army L.S. & G.C. with a gratuity and discharged with a pension after 21 years service on 14 February 1862. Latterly served as Sergeant Drill Instructor with the 1st Westmoreland Rifle Volunteers and died in 1872. With a quantity of copied research on C.D. and paper, including discharge papers.
An outstanding sniper’s ‘Battle of Loos 1915’ D.C.M. group of five awarded to Private J. Ryan, 5th Battalion (formerly 2nd Battalion), Rifle Brigade, who emigrated to Canada after the War, and ‘changed his target from Huns to moose’ Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (2546 Pte. J. Ryan. 5-Rif. Brig.); 1914 Star, with clasp (2546 Pte. J. Ryan. Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (2546 Pte. J. Ryan. Rif. Brig.); War Medal 1939-45, mounted for display, the Great War awards all named in a Canadian style and therefore possibly a replacement or duplicate set, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (5) £1,000-£1,400 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 14 January 1916; citation published 11 March 1916: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and very good work, as a sniper. No work of this kind was too dangerous for him. While carrying out a duel with an enemy sniper in front of our parapets he was wounded, this being the third time he had been wounded during the year. His services have been most valuable and his devotion very marked.’ Joseph Ryan enlisted into the Army on 20 December 1907, aged 17. He landed at Havre on 7 November 1914, with the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade and was awarded the D.C.M. for his work as a sniper, principally as Bois Grenier during the Battle of Loos. He was wounded three times during 1915. By 1916 he was serving with the 5th Battalion and his award was both gazetted and named to this battalion. At some later date, presumably no longer fit for front line service, he was transferred to the Labour Corps and subsequently discharged from the service due to his wounds on 11 December 1917. The Regimental History records that Ryan’s D.C.M. was for the attack at Bois Grenier on 25 September 1915, and that it was one of four such awards for this action. The Rifle Brigade Chronicle of 1924 included a picture of Ryan, taken in Canada where he was then living, together with an ex-Rifleman who had served in Canada in 1866. After describing Ryan’s D.C.M. winning exploits, the note ends ‘From a letter recently received from J. Ryan he appears to still keep up his sniping, but has changed his target from Huns to moose, deer, etc.’ Sold with copied research including extracts from the Regimental History with account of the Bois Grenier action, and war diary extracts for 1914 and 1915. Note: Another group of medals to this man is known to exist, and given the fact that the 1914 Star in this lot omits the Battalion number, and the fact that the medals are all named in a style typically seen on Canadian-issued awards, it is likely that the medals in this lot are a replacement set issued in Canada.
A fine Colonial Military Secretary's C.M.G., Second War O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Hon. Colonel O. H. C. Balfour, King's Royal Rifle Corps, who was twice severely wounded during the Great War, on the first occasion at the battle of the Aisne in September 1914, when he walked five miles to the nearest Casualty Clearing Station after a bullet hit his jaw and exited out of the back of his neck The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, with neck riband; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1914 Star, with clasp (2 Lieut. O. H. C. Balfour, K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. O. H. C. Balfour); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, very fine and better (7) £1,000-£1,400 --- C.M.G. London Gazette 1 January 1923: ‘For services as Personal Secretary to the Governor-General of Canada.’ O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1944. Oswald Herbert Campbell Balfour was born at Whittingehame, East Lothian on 25 September 1894, the son of Colonel Eustace Balfour and Lady Frances Balfour, a daughter of the 8th Duke of Argyll. His uncle, Arthur Balfour, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. Educated at Westminster School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps in February 1914 and served during the Great War with ‘C’ Company, 2nd Battalion from August 1914. He was severely wounded at the battle of the Aisne on 14 September, when a bullet hit his jaw and exited from the back of his neck; notwithstanding the nature of his wound, he remained in duty with a field dressing for 24 hours, prior to walking five miles to a Casualty Clearing Station. Invalided home, he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 19 October 1914). Balfour returned to France in April 1915, when he joined 'C' Company of the 3rd Battalion. His appointment proved short-lived: at Hooge on the night of the 25 May, as member of a raiding party, he took a bullet in the chest. Admitted to 3rd General Hospital at Le Treport, he was embarked for Newhaven in a hospital ship in mid-June. Having recovered, Balfour next embarked for Egypt, where he was attached to the Australian and New Zealand Overseas Depot in Alexandria, and managed to arrange for a tour of duty with the 3rd Battalion in Salonika in April 1916. Admitted to 83rd Field Ambulance with malaria in late August, he was evacuated to Malta. In October 1916, and having been advanced to Captain, Balfour returned to the 3rd Battalion in Salonika, and remained actively employed in that theatre of war until March 1917. Thereafter, he served on the General Staff of 26th Infantry Division. In 1920, and having served a tour of duty with the 18th Battalion, K.R.R.C. on the Rhine, Balfour was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of Devonshire, the Governor-General of Canada. He later he served as the Duke's Military Secretary and continued in that office under his successor, Viscount Byng of Vimy, in 1921-23. For his services as Military Secretary he was created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George; a rare distinction for someone who was still only a Captain. Returning home in early 1923, he transferred to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Balfour was recalled to the Colours and was posted to the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, prior to taking up an appointment as a Staff Captain in M.S. 1 (B.) at the War Office in August 1940. In the following year he commenced a spate of training appointments and, having served with distinction as G.S.O. 1 (Home Guard Training) G.H.Q., Home Forces, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1944 New Year’s Honours’ List in January 1944. He finally relinquished his commission in August 1947 and was granted the rank of Honorary Colonel. He died on 16 October 1953, aged 59 years, his regimental obituary noting that he was ‘a cheery and convivial companion’ and ‘a very keen shot.’ Sold with a copy of the recipient's mother's autobiography Ne Obliviscaris; a photographic image of the recipient; and an extensive file of copied research.
Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1478. Sergt. W. F. Frith, 1-9th. Foot) impressed naming, heavy edge bruising, therefore fine £60-£80 --- William Francis Frith was born in Deansgate, Manchester, in 1830 and attested for the 5th Foot on 24 December 1857. He was promoted Sergeant on 6 September 1864, and transferred to the 9th Foot on 31 August 1868. He was discharged at Colchester on 15 April 1879, after 21 years and 7 days’ service, his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal being his sole medallic entitlement, and died in Colchester on 26 October 1891. Sold with copied service papers and a file of research.
Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1796: S.S. Maj: W. Butcher. 3/Dgn: Gds.) engraved naming, edge bruising, nearly very fine £80-£100 --- Walter Butcher was born in Pontefract, Yorkshire, on 7 February 1858 and attested for the 3rd Dragoon Guards at York on 5 August 1878. He was advanced Sergeant on 22 February 1884, before serving as a rough rider in both India and South Africa, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, his sole medallic entitlement, on 1 October 1896. He was discharged on 4 August 1899, after 21 years’ service, and died in Burnley, Lancashire, on 7 January 1951. Sold with copied service papers and a file of research.
A German Second World War 1940 Army Wehrpass and a Luftwaffe Wehrpass. Including a photograph of soldier born in 1892 in civil dress, served in WWI from 1913 through to 1918 and was recalled for service in 1940 until 1944. Many promotions in WWI. Awards for WWI are Iron Cross Second Class, Hessian Bravery Medal, WWI Honour Cross. A full English translation accompanies this Wehrpass. Together with a Luftwaffe Wehrpass dated June 1943, photograph of recipient shows him Hitler Youth uniform. Entries show him at various flying schools and flying regiments from 1943 through to April 1945. Interestingly within this Wehrpass there is a letter when this pass book was originally offered for sale in 1960. A full English translation accompanies this Luftwaffe Wehrpass, reasonable condition (2) £80-£100
Three: Sergeant C. Baker, Royal Garrison Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (58725 Sgt. C. Baker, 23rd W.D., R.G.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (58725 Serjt: C. Baker. R.G.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (58725 Serjt: C. Baker. R.G.A.) mounted as worn, contact marks, very fine (3) £120-£160
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Cpl. D. McNab, Scottish Hos:) officially impressed naming, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and scarce £300-£400 --- The Scottish National Red Cross Hospital was organised in the first instance by the St Andrew’s Association and was funded by voluntary donations. The organisation of the hospital commenced in January 1900, the personnel eventually consisting of an officer in charge, 18 civil medical officers, 1 Quartermaster, 1 Warrant Officer, 2 secretaries, 35 nursing sisters of the Army Nursing Service Reserve, 45 first-class orderlies, all of whom were medical students, and 57 second-class orderlies, making a total of 160.

The first section arrived at Cape Town on 13 May 1900, and the hospital was opened for patients on 4 June, at Kroonstadt. Previous to that time however, the hospital staff had been employed on duty in the military hospitals at Bloemfontein and Kroonstadt. It remained during the whole period at Kroonstadt, and its equipment was handed over to the Government, when it ceased to exist as a private hospital, on 14 October 1900. Sold with copied medal roll confirmation.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Surng. A. B. Friel. Irish Hosp:) officially engraved naming, nearly extremely fine and rare £500-£700 --- Alfred B. Friel is confirmed on the roll as one of three Civil Surgeons to serve with the Irish Hospital in South Africa. The Irish Hospital was offered to the Central Committee of the British Red Cross, in December 1899, by Lord Iveagh, who generously offered to pay for equipping the hospital for service in South Africa. He proposed that ‘it should be as far as possible a mobile unit and that the management should be left to whatever civilian medical gentleman he should select’. The hospital was formally established on 28 December 1899, and the first personnel and equipment sailed for the Cape in the following February. On arrival at Cape Town the staff went into camp at Green Point and then moved by rail to Naauwport, arriving there on 10 March. The following day two surgeons, two dressers and eighteen orderlies, with stores, were sent by rail to De Aar. The remainder of the unit, being under orders to move to Bloemfontein, were unable to operate at Naauwport. The final move was made between 10th and 12th April and the De Aar detachment joined the main body on 21 April at Bloemfontein.

On 10 May 1900 a section under Sir William Thomson marched out to join Lord Roberts’ force at Kroonstadt, were attached to the 11th Division on the advance which commenced on 22 May, and reached Pretoria on 6 June. On 14 June the Irish Hospital commenced operations in the Palace of Justice and by 19 June had had 93 admissions. The original capacity of 100 beds was soon extended to 250 beds and by 10 July there were 500 beds, the staff being supplemented by military personnel. No patients were admitted after 30 September 1900, and the unit left South Africa on 15 October, handing over its last 180 patients to the Royal Army Medical Corps. 

The medal roll for the Irish Hospital shows a total of 67 members entitled to the medal with various clasps. Also included in the roll are three members of the R.A.M.C. and 25 Nursing Sisters of the Army Nursing Service Reserve. Sold with copied medal roll and other research.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Orange Free State (The Hon: & Rev: B. Feilding, D.D.,) officially engraved naming, a few scratches, otherwise good very fine £300-£400 --- Basil George Edward Vincent Feilding was born on 13 July 1873, third son of the 8th Earl of Denbigh. He graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy (Phil.D.), and a Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) from Rome, Italy. He fought in the Boer War as a Chaplain in the Army Chaplain’s Department. The Very Rev. Monsignor Hon. Basil George Edward Vincent Feilding died on 31 July 1906, drowned in the Rhine. Sold with copied medal roll and some other research.
Militia L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (4150 Gnr. W. Gorham. Suffolk R.G.A. Mil.) edge bruise, very fine £400-£500 --- William Gorham was born in Ipswich, Suffolk. He attested for the Suffolk Royal Garrison Artillery Militia in September 1879, and was discharged in June 1904 (awarded Militia L. S. & G.C. Medal in Army Order 27 of 1905). Sold with copied service papers.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Civ: Vet: Surg: J. H. Hulseberg, A.V.C.) officially impressed naming, good very fine £200-£300 --- John Henry Hulseberg qualified in London on 15 December 1897. During the Boer War he saw service in South Africa for an unknown period of time as a Civilian Veterinary Surgeon attached to the Army Veterinary Department at Mooi River. After the war he returned to England. He succumbed to meningitis at the College Hospital, St Pancras, London, after many years of suffering, on 2 February 1914, aged 46. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Hulseberg, Army Medical Department.
Four: Company Quartermaster Sergeant D. J. Vaughan, Liverpool Regiment, who was wounded by gun shot on the Western Front 1914-15 Star (205. Sjt. D. J. Vaughan. L’pool. R.); British War and Victory Medals (205 Sjt. D. J. Vaughan. L’pool R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (205 Cpl. D. J. Vaughan. 5/L’pool Regt.) light contact marks, very fine (4) £120-£160 --- Daniel Joseph Vaughan was born in Cork on attested for the 5th Battalion, Liverpool Regiment (Territorial Force) on 1 April 1908, having previously served for 9 years and 293 days in the Volunteer Force. He was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 205 of 1 July 1912, and having been promoted Sergeant on 5 September 1914 served during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 February 1915. Appointed Acting Quartermaster Sergeant, on 22 February 1916, he was discharged suffering from the effects of a gun shot wound to the buttocks on 31 August 1919, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold with copied record of service and other research.
Three: Major T. A. Pamplin-Green, West African Frontier Force, late Lagos Hausa Force and Essex Regiment (Militia), who was twice wounded whilst on campaign in West Africa Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1897-98 (Capt. & Insptr. T. P. Green, Lagos Hausa Force); Ashanti 1900, no clasp, high relief bust (Captain T. A. Pamplin Green. A.F.F.) impressed naming, light contact marks, otherwise very fine (3) £2,000-£2,400 --- Thomas Alfred Pamplin-Green entered the Army as 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Essex Regiment (Militia) on 2 April 1887; Lieutenant, 10 November 1888; Captain, 23 May 1892; Hon. Captain in the Army, 21 October 1900; Hon. Major, 12 May 1906. Pamplin-Green was an Assistant Inspector, Gold Coast Constabulary, from September 1895 to May 1902, and Cantonment Magistrate, Gold Coast, from May 1902 until 1910. He served in the Ashanti Expedition 1895-96, in the operations against King Prempah, from December 1895 to January 1896 (Star); in West Africa 1897-98, in the operations in the Lagos Hinterland and in Birgu, from September 1897 to June 1898 (Medal and clasp); in West Africa, Northern Territories, Gold Coast, 1899, in the operations against the Fra Fras in the White Volta District. During these operations he was severely wounded by a poisoned arrow, which would have been fatal had not the Colonial Surgeon, Doctor Garland, removed the arrow, and at the risk of his own life, sucked the poison from the wound (Mentioned in despatches London Gazette 24 April 1903); again in West Africa in 1900, in the operations in Ashanti, during which he was slightly wounded (Medal).
1914 Star (5538 Pte F. Emmerson. 2/Suff: R.) good very fine £60-£80 --- Frank Ernest Emmerson served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment on the Western Front from 30 August 1914. He subsequently served with the 2/5th Battalion, Scottish Rifles and the Royal Army Service Corps.
A rare West Virginia ‘Killed in Battle’ Civil War Medal awarded to Private W. Cole, Company A, 3rd Regiment West Virginia Infantry, who was killed at the Battle of Cross Keys, on 8 June 1862 during Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign West Virginia Civil War Medal, ‘Killed in Battle’ type, bronze (Wilm. Cole. Co. A 3rd. Reg Inf Vols.) nearly extremely fine £700-£900 --- William Cole was born c.1839 and mustered into Company A, 3rd West Virginia Volunteers on 25 June 1861. His Compiled Military Service Records say he was enrolled for duty for three years’ service at Morgantown, West Virgina, on 7 June 1861 and at Clarksburg, West Virginia on the same date. His regiment served in West Virginia and Virginia in 1861 and 1862 and was engaged in General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson’s campaign in the Shenandoah Valley in May and June 1862, at the Battle of McDowell on 8 May 1862 and at Cross Keys on 8 June 1862. On the latter occasion he was killed in action. The State of West Virginia Civil War Medal In 1866, the state of West Virginia authorised the minting of 26,000 medals to honour its Union Civil War soldiers. Unlike other Union States, medals were issued to every soldier who served in a West Virginian unit. Three different dies were produced for the medals, each with a different suspension clasp: i) “Honourably Discharged” for the officers and soldiers of the volunteer army who have been or may be honourably discharged from the service. This is the most common variant. ii) “Killed in Battle” for the officers and soldiers who have been killed in battle. Not more than 800 of this variant were produced. iii) “For Liberty” for the officers and soldiers who have died from wounds received in battle and for those who died from diseases contracted in the service. 3,200 of this variant were produced. Each medal was officially impressed with the soldier’s name, rank and unit on the rim, in a similar style to British Campaign medals. To this day, over 4,000 medals remain unclaimed. Of the States that fought for the Union, only West Virginia, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut, issued officially named or numbered medals to its servicemen in significant numbers. Even then, bar to soldiers in West Virginian service, this was to a small number of men that actually served in each State during the War and a fraction of the over two million servicemen who fought for the Union. Connecticut, Pennsylvania and others issued medals to their ‘first call’ militia but numbers were lower than 800. Sold with copied research.
Pair: Colonel G. T. Lavie, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was mentioned in despatches and wounded at Moedwil in September 1901 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Major G. T. Lavie. R.A.M.C.) officially engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Maj. T. G. Lavie. R.A.M.C.) officially engraved naming, very fine and better (2) £400-£500 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 3 December 1901: ‘Major G. T. Lavie [together with Civil Surgeon W. S. Kidd] - Wounded early in attack on Colonel Kekewich’s camp at Moedwil on 30th September, but continued at their duties many hours.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 29 July 1902. In a document dated 2 August 1902, Lieutenant-Colonel Babtie (Asst. D-G, Army Medical Services) submitted a list of Officers and Civil Surgeons in an ‘Order of Merit’ with suggested ‘Appropriate Rewards’, wherein Major Lavie was recommended for the award of a D.S.O. or promotion to Brevet Lt. Col. He evidently received neither. Tudor Germain Lavie was born on 18 October 1861 and educated at Cheltenham College and Edinburgh University. Appointed Surgeon in the Army Medical Service in 1886, he saw service during the Boer War with the 15th Brigade Field Hospital up to 20 April 1901, when he transferred to 12th Brigade Field Hospital. Slightly wounded. Operations in the Orange Free State, February to May 1900, including action at Karee Siding. Operations in the Transvaal, 30 November 1900 to 31 May 1902. Despatches twice, Queen’s medal with 3 clasps, King’s medal with 2 clasps. Sold with copied research.
Three: Corporal A. W. Larsen, 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment Vietnam 1964-73 (1410781 A. W. Larsen); South Vietnam Medal 1964, 1 clasp, 1960- (1419781 A. W. Larsen); South Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, bronze, with silver star emblem; mounted court-style as worn; together with the recipient’s United States Army Meritorious Unit Commendation and Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm Unit Citation riband bar; and related miniature awards (the last without silver star emblem), generally very fine and better (3) £300-£400 --- Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star: There is no record of entitlement for this award. There is a letter (translation of which is by a graduate of the RAAF School of Languages at Point Cook) from the Republic of Viet Nam Veteran's League of Queensland stating 'that Mr Alan Larsen has a medal of the Armed Forces of The Republic of Vietnam, namely a Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star, which is awarded for meritorious combat service by a divisional Commander. This letter is given by way of explanation of the medal in his possession.' The letter in no way confirms any entitlement to the award. United States Army Meritorious Unit Commendation: By the direction of the Secretary of the Army, the Meritorious Unit Commendation is awarded to the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment Group for exceptionally meritorious achievement in the performance of outstanding service. The 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, distinguished itself in the conduct of military operations in the Republic of Vietnam from 5 May 1965 to 16 May 1966 while attached to the 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate) of the United States Army. As the first ground combat unit in-country, the 173rd Airborne Brigade and its assigned and attached units conducted extensive combat manoeuvres in the Bien Hoa area and in the Viet Cong strongholds of War Zone D and the Iron Triangle during the period 5 May 1965 to 4 May 1967. In every confrontation with the stubborn insurgents, the 173rd Airborne Brigade displayed marked aggressiveness which enabled them to neutralize enemy strongholds and capture thousands of logistical items. In addition to remarkable skill and tenacity in combat, the sky soldiers of the brigade carried on an extensive civic action program characterised by sincere compassion for the suppressed local populace. During each of the brigade's combat operations, the sky soldiers immeasurably aided the allied counterinsurgency effort by winning the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people. The remarkable proficiency and devotion to duty displayed by the members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect distinct credit upon themselves, the Armed Forces of the United States, and the Armed Forces of Australian and New Zealand. Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm Unit Citation: The above medal recipient, Mr Alan Larsen, a former serving member of 1RAR who served in Vietnam lodged an application in 2011 with the Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal (the Tribunal) putting in a claim to have the Citation awarded to 1RAR and its attached units, for service in Vietnam between 5 May 1965 and 31 May 1966. The Tribunal ruled that in awarding the Citation to the 173rd Airborne Brigade and its attached and assigned units, there was intent for the Citation to be awarded to 1RAR and thus it subsequently recommended to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence that the award be accepted. The guidelines established in 1997 governing the acceptance and wearing of foreign awards allows the Governor-General to grant permission for the formal acceptance and wearing of foreign awards by Australians in extraordinary or unusual circumstances and since the Government of the Republic of Vietnam no longer exists, the Parliamentary Secretary considered these circumstances fell within these guidelines. Accordingly he wrote to the Governor-General recommending that he exercise his authority to accept the Citation which he did on 17 April 2015. Alan William Larsen was born at Mount Morgan, Queensland, on 3 February 1944 and enlisted into the Australian Army at Brisbane on 28 November 1962. He served in Vietnam with the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment from 27 May 1965 to 11 June 1966, and again from 27 March to 9 September 1968. He was discharged on 27 November 1968. Sold with an Infantry Combat badge; General Service cloth badge for Australians in S-E Asia; Marksman's embroidered badge; two Royal Australian Infantry Corps buttons in anodised gilt by Stokes & Sons, Melbourne; a duplicate South Vietnam Cross of Gallantry; a photographic image from the Vietnam War showing the recipient; and copied research.
An Ohio Civil War Veteran’s Volunteer Medal awarded to Sergeant W. S. Welling, 80th Ohio Infantry Regiment, who served between December 1861 and August 1865, during which period the regiment saw considerable service in the western theatre State of Ohio Veteran Civil War Medal, bronze (Wy. S. Welling, Co. F 80th. Regt. Inft.) good very fine £240-£280 --- Wesley S. Welling enlisted in Company F, 80th Ohio Volunteers, as a private soldier, aged 18 on 7 December 1861, for 3 years. He was promoted Corporal in the same company and later Sergeant to rank from 20 December 1864. He re-enlisted as a veteran volunteer and was mustered out with the company at Little Rock, Ark., on 13 August 1865. The 80th Regiment was organised at Canal Dover, Ohio, between October 1861 and January 1862, and left the state on 10 February 1862 for active duty. During the course of the ensuing three years it served in Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Principle events in the career of the 80th included the Siege of Corinth, the Battles of Corinth and Iuka, the Vicksburg Campaign (including the Battles of Port Gibson, Raymond, Champion’s Hill and the Siege of Vicksburg), Missionary Ridge, Sherman’s March to the Sea, the Siege of Savannah, and the Carolinas Campaign, including the Battle of Bentonville and the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston’s army. It then took part in the Grand Review of the western armies in Washington on 25 May 1865, before moving to Little Rock, Ark., where it was mustered out in August. The State of Ohio Civil War Medal The State of Ohio authorised Tiffany & Company of New York to provide 20,000 medals to recognise those soldiers from Ohio who re-enlisted from the State under War Department General Orders, No. 191, which called for “Veteran Volunteers”. These were soldiers who completed their three-year tour of duty and then signed up for further duty as a Veteran Volunteer. The medals were distributed in the summer of 1866 and are officially engraved with the name and unit to the reverse field of the medal. Based on the British Crimea medal, the suspension was attractively but poorly designed, resulting more often than not in only the disc surviving. Approximately 319,000 men from this State fought for the Union, with less 6.5% being awarded this medal. Of the States that fought for the Union, only West Virginia, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut issued officially named or numbered medals to its servicemen in significant numbers. Even then, bar to soldiers in West Virginian service, this was to a small number of men that actually served in each State during the War and a fraction of the over two million servicemen who fought for the Union. Sold with copied research.
Three: Private C. Dobbings, 11th Light Dragoons Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Salamanca (Charles Dobbings, 11th Light Dragoons) suspension re-affixed, brooch marks to reverse with slight affect to ‘Charles’; Waterloo 1815 (Charles Dobbings, 11th Reg. Light Dragoons.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension; Army L.S. & G.C., W.IV.R. (Charles Dobbings, 11th Reg. Light Dragoons. 1833.) fitted with original steel clip and rectangular bar suspension, the Waterloo with light contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (3) £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: Spink’s List, October 1909; Glendining’s, October 1910, July 1919 and March 1988. This is a unique combination of medals to the 11th Light Dragoons, and one of only three men in the regiment to get a William IV L.S. & G.C. medal. Charles Dobbings was born in the Parish of Upleadon, near Newent, Gloucestershire, and attested for the 11th Light Dragoons at London on 28 February 1804, aged 18 years, a labourer by trade. He ‘served three years and half in the Peninsula, three years in France, twelve years and half in the East Indies; Present at the Battle of Salamanca, Elboden, Vittoria, Storming of Badajoz & Waterloo.’ He served at Waterloo in Captain James Duberly’s Troop. Dobbings served in India from 12 July 1819, but does not appear to have played any part in the operations against Bhurtpoor with his regiment. He left India on 31 December 1831, returning to England to receive his final discharge on 13 November 1832, being found ‘unfit for service and that he is likely to be permanently disqualified for Military Duty.’ ‘Copy of the character given Private Charles Dobbings 11th Light Dragoons, as inserted in the Proceedings of a Detachment Board held at Cawnpore on the 12th December, 1831. The Officers composing the Board having examined the Regimental Defaulters Book, received parole testimony from Lt. & Adjt. Ready, are of opinion that his conduct has been that of a good and efficient soldier, seldom in Hospital, trustworthy and sober, and strongly recommend Private Dobbings to receive on Discharge the highest Pension & Gratuity, as also a Medal for his long & faithful Services.’ His L.S. & G.C. medal was sent care of Mr J. Veale, Gloucester, in April 1833. Sold with copied discharge papers and L.S. & G.C. medal register entry.
A Connecticut Civil War Volunteers’ Service Medal attributed to Private G. A. Frink, 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, late Commissary Sergeant, Field and Staff, 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Connecticut Volunteers’ Service Medal 1861-65, bronze, unnamed, the reverse officially numbered ‘532’, complete with ‘Connecticut Minutemen April 1861’ top brooch bar, very fine £240-£280 --- George Arthur Frink was a naturalised Canadian born in 1838, and who enlisted as a private soldier in Company C, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry on 22 April 1861. When the regiment was mustered in to federal service on 7 May, the company letter was altered to G. On 18 July he transferred to the regimental staff, and although the State rosters record his rank as a Commissary Sergeant, the pension records note that in other infantry regiments at this time the commissaries held the rank of First Lieutenant. At the time the three Connecticut regiments were serving in the defences of Washington but on 16 July, they set out for Centreville, Virginia, as a part of Colonel Erasmus D. Keys’ First Brigade, part of General Daniel Tyler’s First Division, of the Army of North-eastern Virginia, and was engaged in the First Battle of Bull Run on 31 July. The 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Infantry then re-joined the Washington defences before returning home where it was mustered out on 7 August 1861. Frink did not serve again. After the war he lived in New York till his death in 1914. In 1905 he applied for a federal pension, and after his death his wife applied for a widow’s pension. The Connecticut Volunteers’ Service Medal 1861 In May 1903 the State of Connecticut authorised the production of a medal to be awarded to members of the First, Second and Third Regiments of Connecticut Volunteers who answered Lincoln’s ‘first call’ for troops in April of 1861. Posthumous awards were also authorised. By September 1904, 634 had been awarded. No further figures were published but the medals were numbered on the reverse and numbers have been seen as high as 781. The State’s list of recipients does not go beyond No. 730. There are a few gaps in these numbers and several examples of second awards. Of the men that were in awarded these medals, at least 468 served again in another other Connecticut unit, three of whom earned the Medal of Honor during this service. Its rarity compares with that of the army’s Civil War Medal with the traceable “No.” numbers, and the West Virginia Medal for soldiers killed in battle. Sold with copied research.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Talana (5321 Pte. M. Moran. Rl. Dublin Fus:) extremely fine £180-£220 --- Provenance: Anglo-Boer War Anniversary Sale, Spink, October 1999. Michael Moran was born in Dublin and attested there for the Royal Dublin Fusiliers on 24 December 1894, having previously served in the Regiment’s 4th (Militia) Battalion. He served with the 2nd Battalion in India from 15 May 1896 to 1 June 1897, and then in South Africa during the Boer War from 9 November 1899 to 1 March 1902. Posted missing on 22 October 1899 after the Battle of Talana Hill, he was not confirmed as having been taken Prisoner of War until the fate of Colonel Moller’s force became known, and he was released eight months later when Pretoria was taken. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 23 November 1902, and was discharged on 23 December 1906, after 12 years’ service. Sold with copied record of service, medal roll extracts (which confirms the entitlement to a King’s South Africa Medal) and other research.
Five: Staff Sergeant A. Tanner, Royal Field Artillery 1914-15 Star (97769. Dvr. A. Tanner. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (97769. Gnr. A. Tanner. R.A.); Defence Medal; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (1025026 S. Sjt. A. Tanner. R.A.) contact marks to the Great War trio, these nearly very fine, the latter two better (5) £80-£100 --- Alfred Tanner was born in London in 1897 and served with the Royal Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 10 June 1915. He died in Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1960. Sold with a USB memory stick of copied research.
German Second World War Artillery Shoulder Boards and Slip-Ons. 2 pairs of numbered slip-ons. 2 individual single slip-ons. 6 individual artillery slip-on shoulder boards. 1 set of Artillery Regiment 13 slip-on. 1 set of Observer Regiment No.2. Single No.181. Single No.12. Artillery mid-war slip-on board with candidate tress, traces of glue on the reverse side. Army M.36 with observer motif, traces of glue on the reverse. Late-war earth-brown shoulder board, slight moth to the piping, enlisted soldier. Early pre-war apple-green shoulder board Artillery Regiment No.2. Mid war Anti Aircraft Battalion 276 shoulder board. Mid-War 2nd Artillery Regiment field grey centred senior nco, generally good condition (lot) £160-£200
Pair: Private W. Stone, 12th Foot, late 23rd Foot, who was wounded in action during the Battle of Alma, 20 September 1854 Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (Wm Stone, 1st Bn 23rd R. W. Fusrs); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1843 Pte Willm Stone 2nd Bn. 12th Foot) contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £400-£500 --- Provenance: Buckland Dix and Wood, July 1995 (Indian Mutiny only) William Stone was born in Clifton, Bristol. He attested for the 23rd Foot in February 1853, and served with the Regiment in the Crimea (entitled to medal with ‘Alma’ and ‘Sebastopol’ clasps, and Turkish Crimea). His service papers give that he was ‘wounded in left shoulder and leg on 20th September at the Battle of Alma.’ Stone continued to serve with the Regiment during the Indian Mutiny, transferred to the 12th Foot in July 1869, and was discharged in February 1875. Sold with copied service papers and research.
Four: Private A. Lees, Suffolk Regiment, later Bedfordshire Regiment, taken prisoner of war at Colesberg, 6 January 1900 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (5105 Pte A. Lees, 1st Suffolk Regt); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5105 Pte A. Lees. Suffolk Regt); British War and Victory Medals (322237 Pte. Lees. Bedf. R.) very fine (4) £160-£200 --- Arthur Lees was born in Hertford, and attested for the Suffolk Regiment at London in March 1898. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Second Boer War, and was taken prisoner of war at Colesberg on 6 January 1900 (published transcription of casualty roll erroneously gives service number as ‘5101’). Lees transferred to the Army Reserve in March 1908, and was discharged on 10 March 1910, having served 12 years with the Colours.
A fine Great War ‘German Spring Offensive’ 1918 D.C.M. and ‘Battle of the Somme’ 1916 M.M. group of twelve awarded to Colour-Sergeant W. A. Barnby, 4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, a committed territorial who was gassed at Passchendaele in November 1917, wounded on the Aisne in May 1918, and later joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with them during the Second War in Africa and Italy, being mentioned in despatches during the latter campaign Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (200343 Cpl.-A. Sjt:- W. A. Barnby. M.M. 1/4 E. York: R.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (1908 Pte. W. A. Barmby. 4/E. York: R.-T.F.) note spelling of surname; 1914-15 Star (1908 Pte. W. A. Barnby. E. York: R.); British War and Victory Medals (1908 A. Sjt. W. A. Barnby. E. York. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., with two additional service clasps (4336419 Sjt. W. A. Barnby. 4-E. York. R.); Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial (4336419 C. Sjt. W. A. Barnby. D.C.M. M.M. 4-E. York. R.) official correction to two digits of number, very fine or better (12) £2,400-£2,800 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 30 August 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He showed great coolness in organising and reforming his men under heavy fire. Later he showed fine leadership and courage in rallying his men under heavy shell fire, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy.’ Annotated gazette states: ‘East of Estaires, 10 April 1918.’ M.M. London Gazette 9 December 1916. Probably an award for operations on the Somme during September and October 1916. M.I.D. London Gazette 24 August 1944: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished service in Italy. - 4336419 Sergt. W. A. Barnby, D.C.M., M.M., Royal Army Medical Corps.’ Walter Arthur Barnby was born in Hull, Yorkshire, in March or April 1895, the son of Arthur and Emma Barnby. He enlisted in the 4th Battalion (Territorial), East Yorkshire Regiment in 1908 and landed in France with the Battalion during the Great War on 17 April 1915, initially as Private, No. 1908. The Battalion was part of 150th Brigade, 50th (Northumbrian) Division with whom they served until July 1918, taking part in the 2nd Battle of Ypres in 1915; the Battle of the Somme in 1916; the Battle of Arras and Passchendaele in 1917; and the Battles of Lys and Aisne during the German offensive of 1918. By that time the battalion had been reduced by losses to a cadre and was transferred to Lines of Communication and attached to 116th Brigade, 39th Division. Under the re-numbering of the Territorial Force in 1917, Barnby was given the new number 200343. Barnby was gassed in November 1917 during the Battle of Passchendaele, and again wounded in action on 27 May 1918, during the 'First Assault' of the Battle of the Aisne. Company Sergeant-Major Barnby was demobilised, 20 February 1919, but re-engaged serving as 4336419 4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. In 1923 he was awarded the Territorial Efficiency Medal under Army Order 299, for 12 years’ service in the Territorials. He was also awarded the Efficiency Medal (Territorial) in the early to mid 1930s and in February 1950 received two clasps to his T.E.M., each clasp signifying a further 6 years’ service. He was discharged, 20 May 1935 but again re-enlisted (retaining his service number) on 18 July 1935. He was transferred to 160th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, on 30 September 1938, and served with the Corps in Africa and Italy during the Second War, being mentioned in the espatches for services in Italy in 1944. Sold with original photograph in uniform with medal ribbons, original M.I.D. Certificate, XI Corps D.C.M. Card ‘For great coolness and initiative in action under heavy shell fire. 10.4.18.’, and various related documents including Soldiers’ Service and Pay Book, together with copied research.
United States of America, Silver Star (Army), Bronze Star, Air Medal, World War II Victory Medal (2), Defence Medal (2), Army American Campaign Medal 1941-45 (2), Navy American Campaign Medal 1941-45, European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (2), Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal 1941-45 (2), Army of Occupation Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal, Korean Service Medal (boxed), Vietnam Service Medal (2), National Defence Medal (2) one boxed, Armed Forces Expeditionary Service Medal (2), Army Good Conduct Medal (2), Air Force Good Conduct Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Marine Corps Reserve Service Medal, generally very fine (28) £120-£160 --- Sold together with two London Borough of Harrow, Youth Service medallions.
Three: Captain G. H. Kennedy, 3rd Bombay Native Infantry India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Persia (Ensn. G. H. Kennedy, 3rd Regt. Bombay N.I.); China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Lieut. Kennedy 3rd Regt. Bombay N.I.) note lack of initials; Abyssinia 1867 (Captn. G. H. Kennedy 3rd Regt. Bombay N.I.) light contact marks and scratching to reverse of the last, otherwise very fine or better (3) £1,800-£2,200 --- Gerald Hume Kennedy was born in London in 1837, educated at Burry Grammar School, Suffolk, and Addiscombe House and entered the employment of The Oriental Bank Corporation, London, as a Clerk before applying for a Cadetship in the H.E.I.C. Army in 1854. He was appointed Ensign on 20 February 1855, attached to 13th Infantry from 27 March to 17 May 1855, and appointed to the 3rd Bombay Native Infantry on 2 June 1855. He served in Persia at the bombardment and capture of Mohomra and pursuit of the Persian Army (Medal with Clasp). He joined the detachment which marched from Sholapoor to Lunderpoor (40 miles) in 17 hours, the detachment thanked by command of Her Majesty the Queen. Captain Kennedy commanded the Bhuma Kushna frontier in October and November 1858 and was almost continually employed from 5 August 1858 to 24 September 1859 in command of detachment on field service. He was commended by His Excellency the Commander in Chief for Zeal and Energy. In addition to command of a detachment, he aacted as Post Master and Superintendent of Bazars of the Field Force under Sir H. Rose, G.C.B. in the Nizam’s dominions in March and February 1859. Kennedy served with the Horse Transport Service in the China Expeditionary Force under Lt. General Sir Hope Grant, G.C.B., and was present at the landings at Peh-Tang; the battle of Sin Ho; the bombardment and capture of the entrenched village of Tankow; the assault and capture of the Taku Forts; and he accompanied the advance of the Army on Tien Tsin and Pekin, including the battles of Chang Kia Wan and Tungchow, and occupation of Pekin (Medal with two Clasps). He was made Lieutenant on 23 January 1960, and Captain on 20 February 1867. He served in the Abyssinian campaign of 1868 as Adjutant, 3rd Bombay Native Infantry (Medal). Captain Kennedy died at Ahmadabad, Gujerat, on 10 June 1872. Sold with copied research including two copied portrait photographs of the recipient.
Three: Private J. Regan, King’s Royal Rifle Corps Afghanistan 1878-80, 2 clasps, Ahmed Khel, Kandahar (1188 Pte. J. Regan, 2/60th Foot); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (1188 Private Jas. Regan, 2/60 Foot); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1188 Pte. J. Regan, K.R. Rif. C.) some contact marks, otherwise very fine and better (3) £700-£900 --- James Regan was born in Bandon, Co. Cork. A Brick Maker by occupation, he enlisted into the 60th Rifles at Southampton on 16 January 1865, aged 19 years, 6 months. With the unit he served in India, September 1867-December 1878; Afghanistan, December 1878-October 1880; Marri Country, October-November 1880; India, November 1880-January 1881; South Africa, January 1881-January 1882. Saw active service in the Second Afghan War 1878-80; in Marri Country, 1880, and in the First Boer War, 1881. Awarded the Army L.S. & G.C. with gratuity in July 1883. Rifleman Regan claimed his discharge at Shorncliffe on 17 May 1887, and died in 1900. Sold with copied service papers and other research.
Nine: Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel S. G. Hollingsworth, Royal Artillery, late Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, who flew operationally in the Kurdistan and Iraq operations 1919-20 British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. S. G. Hollingsworth, R.A.F.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (1229 Gnr. S. G. Hollingsworth, R.A.); General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Kurdistan, Iraq, unofficial retaining rod between clasps (P./O. S. G. Hollingsworth, R.A.F.) surname officially corrected; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, the reverse inscribed, ‘Major S. G. Hollingsworth, Royal Artillery, 23/2/32’, with integral top riband bar; mounted for display together with a Royal Artillery Officer’s cap badge; a Major’s rank crown; a R.A.F. cloth Pilot’s Wings; a R.A.F. Officer’s cap badge; and the recipient’s riband bar; minor contact marks and the earlier awards a little polished, otherwise generally very fine or better (9) £800-£1,000 --- Samuel Gerald Hollingsworth, who was born in September 1897 and educated at Westminster City School, and onetime a Gunner in the Royal Field Artillery (Territorials), was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps in March 1918 and qualified as a pilot that June. Subsequently posted to 31st Wing in Mesopotamia, he joined 63 Squadron in February 1919, and 30 Squadron in March 1920, and participated in the Kurdistan and Iraq operations. He returned to the U.K. in May 1920, and was placed on the Unemployed List. Returning to civilian life, but retaining his interest in the Territorial Army, Hollingsworth was awarded his Efficiency Decoration while serving as a Major in 103rd (Suffolk) Field Brigade, R.A. (London Gazette 24 May 1932), and was advanced to the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in August 1942.
Three: Acting Matron M. R. Makepeace, Army Nursing Service, later Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. R. Makepeace) officially re-impressed naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. R. Makepeace.) officially impressed naming; British War Medal 1914-20 (A. Matron. M. R. Makepeace.) toned, good very fine (3) £400-£500 --- Mary Ridley Makepeace was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 7 January 1860. She trained at the London Hospital 1890-92, and was Staff Nurse at the Throat Hospital and at Croydon General Hospital 1893-94. She first enlisted into the Army Nursing Service as a Nursing Sister on 15 October 1894, and was renamed Sister when the A.N.S. became Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service in 1902. She was formally appointed to Q.A.I.M.N.S. as a Sister on 17 February 1903. She served at Netley 1894-97, and at Shorncliffe 1897-99. The entry in the Army List for 1921 under “War Services” states: ‘Makepeace, Miss M. R. (Sister) S. African War, 1899-1902 - Served on Hosp. Ship “Spartan” Oct 1899 to Jan 00 and “Avoca” Feb 00 to Oct 01. Operations in the Orange River Colony, Nov 01 to 31 May 02. Queen’s Medal.’ Nurse Makepeace is identified in a group photograph on board the Spartan published in the Black and White Budget of Jan. 6, 1900. Sold with copied research including medal rolls for both Boer War medals and Great War Medal Index Card which shows entitlement to British War and Victory Medals and to Silver War Badge.
Pair: Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel G. Andrew, Army Medical Department attached 12th Foot India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (At Surgn G. Andrew H.M.’s 1st Bn 6th Regt); Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Surgn. Maj: G. Andrews, 1/12th Regt) light contact marks, very fine (2) £500-£700 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, April 2006 (I.G.S. only) and J. B. Hayward, June 1972 (Afghanistan only). George Andrew was born on 5 September 1840, and qualified M.A., King’s College, Aberdeen, 1860, and M.B. 1864. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon on the Staff in March 1865, and to the 6th Foot in July 1866, and served with that regiment in the Hazara campaign of 1868, including the subsequent operations in the Black Mountain (Medal with clasp). He was appointed Surgeon Major in March 1877, and served with the 12th Foot in Afghanistan 1878-80, during the first campaign with the Peshawar Valley Field Force, and during the second campaign with the Khyber Division and Khyber Line Force. He retired as Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1895, and resided in later life at 37 Westburn Road, Aberdeen. He died in October 1899. Sold with photographic image of recipient in uniform, and copied research.
Four: Reserve Constable J. A. Ryan, Royal Ulster Constabulary, late Ulster Defence Regiment and Royal Irish Fusiliers General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (23721802 Pte. J. A. Ryan UDR) with named card box of issue; Accumulated Campaign Service Medal 1994, E.II.R. (23721802 LCpl J A Ryan UDR); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, E.II.R., ‘Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve’ reverse (R/Const J A Ryan) with Royal Mint case of issue; Royal Ulster Constabulary Service Medal, E.II.R. (R/Const J A Ryan) on 2nd type ribbon, with Royal Mint case of issue, mounted court-style as worn, nearly extremely fine (4) £600-£800 --- James Alexander Ryan undertook Northern Ireland home service initially with the 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers from 15 October 1959 to 14 October 1965, and later with the Ulster Defence Regiment from 20 November 1971 to 10 January 1973, and again with the 2nd Battalion 17 December 1974 to 16 December 1978, all in County Armagh. Ryan also served in Armagh with the Royal Ulster Constabulary in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s as a part time Reserve Constable. Sold with a quantity of original ephemera including the recipient’s fully completed and signed Regular Army Certificate of Service Red Book for the period 17 December 1974 to 16 December 1978; original Army Form B108D Territorial Army Certificate of Service for the period 15 October 1959 to 14 October 1965; original Army Form B108D Ulster Defence Regiment Certificate of Service for the period 20 November 1971 to 10 January 1973; an original signed and named R.U.C. Standard of Efficiency certificate, dated 1 January 1980; three group photographs; a blank R.U.C. pocket notebook; O.C.A. lapel badge; eight various R.U.C. uniform/cap badges; and three Association medals (Royal Irish Rangers, Royal Irish Fusiliers; and Territorial Army), the first two named on reverse ‘L/Cpl J A Ryan 23721802 5th Batt R.I.F.’, and all swing mounted for wear.
Four: Squadron Sergeant Major F. Battson, Glamorgan Yeomanry and 14th Hussars, who was awarded a scarce M.S.M. for Egypt and received the 14th Hussars Regimental Medal British War and Victory Medals (3254 W.O. Cl.2. F. Battson. Glam. Yeo.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (3254 Sq. S. Mjr: F. Battson. 14/Hrs.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (H-47818 Sq: S. Mjr. F. Battson. 14/Hrs.) mounted court-style; together with the recipient’s 14th Hussars Regimental Medal, silver, the reverse engraved ‘To No. 3254 S.S.M. Frederick Battson 14th. (King’s) Hussars in recognition of the valuable services to the regiment Mhow 10th. Dec. 1912.’, nearly extremely fine (5) £400-£500 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 1 January 1919: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered with the Forces in Egypt.’ One of only two M.S.M.s awarded to the Hussars for Egypt (the other being to the 8th Hussars). Frederick Battson was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 1 July 1911, and received the 14th Hussars Regimental Medal the following year. The 14th Hussars Regimental Medal was instituted by Lieutenant-Colonel E. D. Browne-Synge-Hutchinson, V.C., in 1909; available to all ranks, it was awarded to those who ‘contributed in some conspicuous manner to the military efficiency or the military honour of the Regiment’. A total of 70 awards (68 medals and two Second Award bars) were made between 1909 and 1949. Sold with copied research.
A ‘First Day of the Battle of the Somme’ casualty pair awarded to Second Lieutenant, B. H. Belcher, 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was killed in action during the attack on Ovillers on 1 July 1916 - seen to fall just after leading his platoon over the parapet, his battalion suffered a total of 437 casualties that day British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. B. H. Belcher.), Memorial Plaque (Basil Henry Belcher) nearly extremely fine (3) £1,000-£1,400 --- Basil Henry Belcher was born in Newbury, Berkshire, on 3 August 1894 and was educated at Brighton College, where he was a member of the Officers' Training Corps. At the outbreak of war, Basil and his elder brother, Wilfred, joined the 18th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (1st Public Schools Battalion), and both were commissioned as Second Lieutenants in the 3rd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment on 16 May 1915. Transferring to the 2nd Battalion, he served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from March 1916. Battle of the Somme On 1 July 1916, the 2nd Battalion - who formed part of 25th Brigade, 8th Division - found themselves in a trench near the France town of Albert. At 7.30am three companies of the battalion left the trench to advance on German held positions a few hundred metres away around the little village of Ovillers-la-Boiselle, off the Albert/Bapaume road. No Man’s Land was particularly wide at this point and was overlooked by German positions to the north. At about 7.45am the advancing companies lost their commanding officer when Lieutenant-Colonel Holdsworth was fatally wounded without even leaving the trenches; since his second in command, Major Sawyer, was also wounded, command of the battalion fell on the shoulders of Second Lieutenant Mollet. The 2nd Berkshires were in serious trouble. At 11am the order to standby was finally received from Brigade HQ and the surviving members of the battalion (about 200 men) regrouped in a nearby trench. The Battalion War diary for the day gives the following account: ‘Attack on Ovillers. The Battalion took up its assembly position in accordance with Brigade Operation Order No. 100. The 2nd Bn Lincolnshire Regt was on the left and the 2Bn Devonshire Regt on right. Our own wire was not sufficiently cut and parties were immediately sent out by Companies to clear it. At 6.25am the intensive bombardment began as scheduled. At about 7.15am the enemy opened rifle and machine gun fire on our line; this fire was probably drawn by the 2nd Devon Regt which at about this time attempted to line up in front of their parapet. At 7.20am Companies began filing down trenches and getting ready for the assault. At 7.30am the three assaulting Companies advanced to attack the German line. They were met by intense rifle and machine gun fire which prevented any of the waves reaching the enemy lines. A little group on the left of the Battalion succeeded in getting in, but were eventually bombed out. At about 7.45am the commanding officer (Lt Col A.M. Holdsworth) and second in command (Major G.H. Sawyer DSO) were wounded in the sap on the left of our front, the commdg officer handed over Command of the Battalion to 2nd Lieut C. Mollet (Actg Adjt) by this time the parapet was swept by rifle and machine gun fire which prevented any exit from our trenches. The enemy replied to our intensive bombardment by barraging the front line from about 6.35am onwards. No message was received from other Battalions in immediate vicinity. At about 11am the order came from Bde Headquarters to "stand by" and await further orders. About 200 men of the Battalion were collected on the right of the front line and in the assembly trenches off Ulverston Street. At about 12.30pm news was received that the Brigade would be relieved. At about 3pm Major Hon R. Brand, 2nd Rifle Brigade arranged to take over all the front line and with the sanction of the Brigade the Battalion was withdrawn to Ribble Street. On relief by the 37th Infantry Bde, the Battalion marched back to bivouac in Long Valley. Two Lewis Guns were damaged, Steel Helmets proved invaluable and in numberless cases saved men’s lives.’ The war diary for the day lists a devastating 431 casualties (20 Officers and 411 men) for the battalion; 3 officers and 33 men dead; 8 officers and 260 men wounded. The death toll appears far lighter than reality as a further 9 officers, including Basil Belcher, and 118 men are simply reported as missing. On that dreadful day missing almost always meant dead; either cut down by enemy fire or blown apart by shellfire. The following report appeared in the Newbury Weekly News on 13 July 1916: ‘Mrs W H Belcher, of Newbury, has received a telegram from the War Office, stating that her younger son, 2nd Lieut B H Belcher, Royal Berks Regt, has been reported missing on July 1st. From letters received from her elder son, it is feared that there is very little hope of his being alive. The battalion made an attack on the morning of July 1st, and came under very heavy machine gun fire, and 2nd Lieut B H Belcher was seen to fall just after leading his platoon over the parapet.’ For almost a year the family may have held out some hope that Belcher would turn up in a list of prisoners of war, though the report that he fell close to the British lines must have made them fear the worst. Confirmation came ten months after he fell, as reported in the Newbury Weekly News of 10 May 1917: ‘In view of the fact that no further information has been forthcoming about 2nd Lieut B H Belcher, Royal Berks Regt, reported missing July 1st, 1916, the Army Council conclude that he must have been killed in action on that day. He was educated at Brighton College and in Paris, and was on the point of going to Russia when the war broke out. In September, 1914, he and his brother joined the Public Schools Brigade, and obtained their commissions in the 3rd Batt Royal Berkshire Regt in May, 1915. They both went to France in March, 1916, and 2nd Lieut B H Belcher was in the severe fighting for the Vimy Ridge in the spring of that year. He was transferred to the 2nd Battalion, to be near his brother, just before the great offensive on the Somme. He went into action on the morning of July 1st, and was seen to fall soon after leaving the trench. The ground was so swept away by the enemy’s fire that search was impossible.’ His Colonel wrote of him: ‘He was a very good boy indeed. When he joined I told him that if he came up to the standard of his cousin, Gordon [Captain G. Belcher, M.C., Royal Berkshire Regiment], he would do right well. I think I can say with truth that he came up to that standard. He was very popular with all ranks when he was here.’ Belcher’s body was recovered from the battlefield, and he is buried in Serre Road No.2 Cemetery, France. His brother Wilfred survived the war, rising to the rank of Captain and being awarded the Military Cross. Sold with the following related archive: i)Two portrait photographs of the recipient; together with two small photographs, one of the recipient, the other presumably his mother. ii) A letter, dated 16 April 1915, from the recipient to his mother whilst serving with the 1st Public Schools Battalion, a month to the day prior to his Commission. The content giving the young man’s somewhat naive description of how the war began. iii) Named Buckingham Palace letter of condolence, dated 23 June 1917.
Six: Private P. Scott, Suffolk Regiment, later Sapper, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (53737 Pte. P. Scott. Suff. R.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Malabar 1921-22 (5821007 Pte. P. Scott, Suff. R.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (5821007 Spr. P. Scott. R.E.) mounted crudely as originally worn, generally nearly very fine or better (6) £160-£200 --- Percy Scott resided at 668 Barking Road, Plaistow, London.
Pair: Nursing Sister S. J. Barnes, Imperial Yeomanry Hospital Staff and South African Constabulary Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister S. J. Barnes. I.Y. Hp. Staff) officially impressed naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister S. J. Barnes, S.A.C.) officially impressed naming, toned, very fine and scarce £400-£500 --- Sarah J. Barnes was trained at Guy’s Hospital, London, and enlisted into Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve on 10 January 1900. She served in South Africa with the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital Staff, and with the South African Constabulary, “E: Division, from 20 December 1900. She was discharged from the S.A.C. on 1 July 1907. Sold with copied research including medal roll entries.
A Second War O.B.I. group of six awarded to Subadar Dalel Khan, 1st Punjab Regiment, late 56th Rifles, Indian Army, who was Mentioned in Despatches for the Mohmand Operations on the North West Frontier of India in 1935 Order of British India, 1st Class, 2nd type neck badge, gold and enamel, with neck riband; India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., 4 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24, North West Frontier 1935 (1530 Sepoy Dalel Khan, 2-56 Rfls.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (Subdr. Dalel Khan, 5-1 Punjab R.) unit partially officially corrected; 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal, nearly very fine or better, the OBI good very fine (6) £1,000-£1,400 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 8 May 1936: Dalel Khan, Jemadar, 5th Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment
‘For distinguished services rendered in connection with the Mohmand operations, North West Frontier of India, 15th/16th August to 15th/16th October, 1935.’ Sold with copied research.
Three: Private J. Harvey, 5th Lancers Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, Suakin 1885, Tofrek (1758. Pte. J. Harvey. 5th. Lancers.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1758. Pte. J. Harvey. 5th. Lancers.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1884-6, unnamed as issued, minor edge nicks, traces of lacquer and the Star silvered, good very fine (3) £550-£750 --- John Harvey was born in Kilmarnock and attested for the 9th Lancers on 23 November 1863. He was discharged as a Corporal on 22 November 1875, after 11 years and 347 days’ service, before re-attesting for the 5th Lancers on 27 February 1877. He was finally discharged on 8 March 1886, after 21 years and 20 days’ service.
Pair: Reverend H. H. Scofield, Chaplain, No. 7 General Hospital, Pretoria Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Rev: H. H. Scofield,) officially engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Rev. H. H. Scofield, C. to F.) officially engraved naming, very light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (2) £200-£300 --- Reverend H. H. Scofield is confirmed on the roll for the Army Chaplains Department, which contains 75 names. Sold with copied medal roll and a copied image of Rev. Scofield with the Bishop of Pretoria in front of the church tent with a number of convalescent soldiers immediately after a Confirmation service at No. 7 General Hospital, Pretoria.
The Battles of the British Army in Portugal, Spain, and France.
A set of 13 hand-coloured circular aquatint views of the Battles of Vimiero, The Douro, Talavera, Busaco, Albuera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pampeluna, St. Sebastian, Toulouse, and Waterloo, by Edward Orme, London, 66mm diameter, each on thin card, with an historical account of the action on the reverse, contained in a circular bronze case in form of a medallion, bust of the Duke of Wellington on obverse lid; winged muse of history seated beneath an olive tree recording on a tablet the ‘Record of British Valour’ on reverse lid, ‘Picture Medal’ inscribed below; ‘The Battles of the British Army in Portugal, Spain and France from the Year 1808 to 1814 under the Command of England’s Great Captain Arthur Duke of Wellington’ title card on inside of lower lid, traces of tabs that originally held the cards together, otherwise very fine and scarce £240-£280 --- Mr. Edward Orme, of Bond Street, London, was, after Ackermann, the most important publisher of coloured aquatint prints. British success at sea and on land was one of the staple subjects of his publishing: ‘He has omitted no opportunity of bringing forward to public admiration, by the graphic art, the principal events in which our arms have triumphed both by sea and land, publishing at various periods engravings of those great exploits most calculated to impress the mind with correct ideas of the arduous struggles which have immortalised the British name.'’ (The History of Aquatint Engraving, by S. T. Prideaux refers).
It is thought that he produced over 700 of this series.
Three: Lance Corporal J. Mason, Suffolk Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (4028 Pte J. Mason. 1st Suffolk Regt); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 1 clasp, South Africa 1902 (4028 Pte J. Mason. Suffolk Regt); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (4028 L. Cpl. J. Mason. Suff: Regt) contact marks to first two, good fine, last good very fine (3) £140-£180 --- John Mason was born in Farnborough, Warwickshire. He attested for the Suffolk Regiment at Bury St. Edmunds in November 1894. Mason served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa from November 1899 to October 1900, and then from April through to September 1902. He was appointed a Bandsman in July 1902, and served with the Battalion in Egypt from January 1911 until October 1914. Mason subsequently served as a Lance Corporal with the 3rd Battalion at Home from 24 October 1914 to 10 January 1917 (awarded L.S. & G.C. in 1915; entitled to British War Medal, and Silver War Badge). He was discharged on 10 January 1917, having served 22 years and 63 days with the Colours. Sold with copied service papers.
Pair: Captain A. F. Dalzel, Devonshire Regiment, who was killed in action at Ladysmith on 27 December 1899 India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Lieut. A. F. Dalzell. 1st Bn. Devon: Regt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith Capt. A. F. Dalzel. Devon. Rgt.) extremely fine (2) £2,800-£3,400 --- Augustus Frederick Dalzel, Devonshire Regiment, was killed in Ladysmith by a Boer shell, December 27th, 1899. He was the only son of the late William Frederick Blygh (sic) Dalzel, M.D., Surgeon-Major Bengal Army, was born Sept., 1870, educated at Haileybury, and joined the Devonshire Regiment, January 1892, being promoted Lieutenant, May 1895. He served with the first battalion of his regiment in the campaign on the North-West Frontier of India, 1897-98, under the late Sir William Lockhart, with the Tirah Expeditionary Force, being present at the capture of the Sampagha and Arhanga Passes, receiving the medal with two clasps. Lieutenant Dalzel was serving with his battalion in Natal, when war broke out, was in the fighting round Ladysmith, and served in the town during the siege until killed.’ (The “Last Post” refers). ‘27th December. We are all feeling terribly down in the mouth today, as an unlucky shell came right into our mess this morning and burst there, killing poor Dalzel on the spot, and wounding eight other officers more or less. Price-Dent, and Caffin of the Yorkshires, are dangerously wounded, and Lafone, Byrne (Inniskillings), Tringham (Queen’s), Twiss, Scafe, and Kane very slightly - all with knocks on the head from bits of stone. Price-Dent has a piece of the back of his head knocked off, exposing the brain, and Caffin has his right arm broken and a bit of stone in his lung, and the doctors think badly of both cases. The rest are all right. I was down in the orderly-room at the time, and most of the officers had just left it and gone back to the mess, which is a big canvas and tarpaulin shelter behind a 7 ft. thick stone wall, with an earth bank behind it, and is pretty safe; but, by bad luck, the shell just scraped the top of the wall and burst over the heads of the fellows sitting underneath, sending showers of stones and dirt over them. Dalzel was sitting further on at a table reading, and had just laughingly said he wouldn’t move but would take his chance, when he was struck and killed instantaneously. One of the newspaper correspondents has very kindly sent a message through for me, asking his editor in London to break the news to Dalzel’s sisters, so that I hope they will know before they see the bare official news in the papers. Our mess can’t be seen from anywhere near the Boer guns, so that this shot was a pure fluke, and must have been aimed at something else. It has wrecked the mess, smashing two-thirds of the tables and chairs, and cutting the canvas and tarpaulin into shreds. It was a big 6-inch shell from a hill nearly four miles off. We have a look-out man, with a whistle, who blows whenever this gun fires, so that everyone has lots of time to get under cover, and the fellows in the mess thought they were quite safe. It is not likely to happen again in 1000 rounds. Poor Dalzel will be buried this evening in the cemetery here.’ (Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Park at Ladysmith refers).
India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89, second clasp loose on riband, as issued (Mr. F. H. Wells, Assist. Suptd. Burma Police) edge bruise, contact marks, otherwise very fine £220-£260 --- Francis Henry Wells was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on 5 May 1863. The son of Dr. Warwick Wells, a retired surgeon with the Bengal Army, he was appointed Inspector of Police, 4th grade, in the North-Western Provinces, on 1 April 1886. Promoted Assistant District Superintendent of Police, 2nd class, at Pagan on 6 January 1887, he was posted to Pin, Taugdwingyi 13 days later. On 8 January 1888, he is noted as being ‘on medical certificate for one year and three months’. He subsequently returned to the UK and appears on the 1891 census as a Captain in the Cardigan Artillery Militia. He died, aged 73, in Cheltenham on 4 May 1937. Sold with copy research.
Six: Major H. C. F. Wortherspoon, South African Technical Service Corps, late Lincolnshire Regiment and Royal Scots, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War on the Western Front in March 1918 British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. C. F. Wotherspoon.); War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, with copy Protea emblem, the two Second War Medals both named ‘117584 H. C. F. Wotherspoon’; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (3048449 W.O. Cl.II H. C. F. Wotherspoon. R. Scots.) contact marks to the Great War pair, these polished and worn and therefore fair; the rest good very fine and better (6) £200-£240 --- Henry Charles Frederick Wotherspoon was born in New South Wales, Australia, on 17 September 1897. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 30 May 1917, and was posted to the 7th Service Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. He led ‘C’ Company in action during the First Battle of Passchendaele on 12 October 1917, and was advanced Captain on 25 October of that year. He was captured and taken Prisoner of War on 24 March 1918- the Battalion History gives the following account: ‘The pressure of the enemy on Demicourt and Doignies on the night of 22-23 March had, as was anticipated, its effect on the 7th Lincolnshire, holding Hermies, for that Battalion early on the 23rd observed the enemy massing in the valley north and north-west of the latter village. Hermies was heavily shelled, the trench system round the eastern and northern exits escaped with only slight shelling. During the morning headquarters ordered the evacuation of Hermies. The Commanding Officer (Lieutenant-Colonel Metcalf) with A and C companies, withdrew at 1.45; he was followed at 2.15 p.m. by Major Peddie with B and D Companies. At 2 p.m. the enemy had broken into the Hermies line south of Graincourt Road (Lurgan Switch), and there was a gap from south of the road, which was filled by one platoon of D Company under Second Lieutenant Dunn. Hermes was now beset by the enemy on three sides. His troops poured down the Graincourt and Demicourt roads and up the valley north-west of the village. On the Graincourt road flank, Second Lieutenant Dunn with his platoon was soon engaged in a stiff rearguard action, a platoon of B Company being similarly engaged on the Demicourt road flank. Captain Carr and Captain Wotherspoon and Second Lieutenant Hommert, with about sixty other ranks of B Company, who had taken cover in the Quarry, were cut off and surrounded and presumably captured. After falling back from Hermies, the 7th Lincolnshire formed up in column of route at the eastern end of Bertincourt, A and C Companies being detailed to move to the north-eastern end of Velu Wood.’ Wotherspoon was repatriated after the end of the War on 29 November 1918. He saw further service as a regular soldier with the Royal Scots, and then during the Second World War, first as Acting Major from 12 December 1940 with the South African Technical Services Corps, having responsibility as Officer Commanding at various stations such as at the Bomb Assembly and Shell Fill Depot Camp at Pretoria. He was confirmed in this rank on 1 January 1941, and in 1944 he served as Officer Commanding at the No. 96 T.S.C. Camp at Lenz. He died following a coronary thrombosis in Johannesburg on 13 April 1954.
Pair: Private F. B. Manby, Suffolk Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (4229 Pte F. G. Maneby, 1st Suffolk Regt); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4229 Pte F. Manby [sic] Suffolk Regt) very fine (2) £80-£100 --- Frederick George Manby was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He attested for the Suffolk Regiment at Ipswich in May 1895. Manby served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa from November 1899 until October 1902. He was discharged on 29 May 1907, having served 12 years with the Colours. Manby re-engaged for service with the Army Service Corps in November 1915, and advanced to Sergeant (entitled to BWM and VM). Sold with copied service papers.
A Massachusetts Minuteman Medal awarded to Private D. M. Sidlinger, 6th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, later Private, Company D, 17th United States Infantry Massachusetts Minuteman Medal, bronze (Daniel M. Sidlinger, Prvt. B. 6th. Regt.) extremely fine £240-£280 --- Daniel M. Sidlinger was born in Maine in 1839 and enlisted in Company B, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia at Townsend, Massachusetts, on 20 May 1861. He was mustered out at Boston on 2 August 1861. Two months later he enlisted on 29 October 1861 for three years in Company D, 1st Battalion, of the newly formed 17th United States Infantry which saw heavy duty with the Army of the Potomac in all of its major engagements before being removed from the line in October 1864. In 1862 he served in the Seven Days Battle, at Second Bull Rim, Antietam and Fredericksburg, where he was wounded. In 1863 the regiment was engaged at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and in the Bristoe and Mine Run Campaigns. The following year it was engaged in the battles of the Overland (Rapidan) Campaign and in the battles of the Siege of Petersburg. It was ordered to duty at Fort Lafayette in New York Harbour in October 1864 and Sidlinger was mustered out on 29 October of that year. After the war Siflinger returned to Maine for a while but for over 20 years down to his death he lived in the small community of Sabula, Jackson County, Iowa. In 1894 he joined the Chauncey Lawrence Post No. 163 of the Grand Army of the Republic (Department of Iowa). He was awarded an invalids pension in 1895 and he died on 6 April 1919, being buried in Oak Shade Cemetery, Marion, Linn County, Iowa. The Massachusetts Minuteman Medal In 1902 the State of Massachusetts authorised the production of the Minuteman medal to be awarded to all ‘3 month’ Militiamen who answered Lincoln’s ‘first call’ for troops in April of 1861. The medals themselves were issued with officially impressed naming, giving the name, rank and unit of the soldier, in a similar style to British Campaign medals. Approximately 3,800 veterans were eligible to claim this medal; however, as they were only awarded on application, many remained unissued. Overall, approximately 159,000 men from this State fought for the Union, thus only a fraction actually received a medal. Of the men that were in these original Militia units, the majority went on to serve in other units during the War. Sold with copied research.
Pair: Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant D. T. Kirkpatrick, Army Pay Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial retaining rod between state and date clasps (769 Corpl: D. T. Kirkpatrick. A.P.D.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (769 S.Q.M. Sjt. D. T. Kirkpatrick. A.P.C.) good very fine King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3239 Serjt: J. Garbutt. Scot: Rifles.) very fine (3) £180-£220
Five: Corporal R. Hay, Queen’s, late Royal Army Dental Corps General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24327929 Cpl R Hay RADC); copy South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (24327929 Cpl. R. Hay. SAS.) naming machine engraved; U.N. Medal, on UNFICYP ribbon; Gulf 1990-91, no clasp (24327929 Cpl R Hay Queens); Accumulated Campaign Service Medal 1994, E.II.R. (24327929 Cpl R Hay Queens) mounted court-style as worn, the South Atlantic Medal a copy, very fine and better (5) £200-£300 --- S.A.S. service and South Atlantic Medal entitlement not confirmed.
A Second War M.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. F. Seston, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, later Sherwood Foresters The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star, the reverse privately engraved ‘137614 E.C.12886 Lieut-Colonel C. F. Seston Foresters & R.I.A.S.C.’; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; together with the recipient’s card identity discs; R.I.A.S.C. cap and collar badges; and a 14th Army lapel badge, nearly extremely fine (5) £140-£180 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 17 January 1946: ‘For gallant and distinguished services in Burma.’ Sold with a wooden cigar box, the lid handsomely engraved with the badge of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps; the named card box of issue for the recipient’s Long Service and Good Conduct Medal ‘Lt. Q.M). C F. Seston. Foresters.’ [the medal not included with the lot]; and a coloured portrait of the recipient.
London Fire Brigade Long Service Medal, bronze (Fireman S. A. Morley); together with a Pacific Star; a Defence Medal; a Royal Life Saving Society Swimming Proficiency Medal, bronze ‘M. Thompson Oct. 1936’; and seven Army Temperance Medals, all silver, all unnamed, generally nearly extremely fine (11) £60-£80
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