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Lot 498
Collection of Ephemera, including silver sugar nips, a boxed set of child's spoon and pusher in original fitted box, paper knife with owl handle, silver salt spoon, tea scoop, teaspoon, Emca City whistle, small fruit knife, Schrader Balloon Tyre Gauge, German flint lighter, Army knife with cutlery, etc. heavy magnifying glass, button hook, small perpetual calendar, spirit measure, etc. Interesting collection.
Lot 7067
A collection of assorted 1970's and 1980's Bronze Age comic books to include Whitman Comics 'Lost In Space' #43, 'UFO & Outer Space' #22, 'Mighty Samson' #31, 'Tomo and Komo The Jungle Twins' #16, 'Grimm's Ghost Stories' #21, 'Boris Karloff Tales Of Mystery' #69 and 'Turok Son Of Stone' #92, Gold Key 'The Twilight Zone' #60, 'UFO & Outer Space' #22, 'Boris Karloff Tales Of Mystery' #90 and 'Turok Son Of Stone' #111, Charlton Comics 'The Many Ghosts Of Doctor Graves' #49, 'War' #7, 'Billy The Kid' #118 and 'Fightin' Army' #12, Atlas Comics 'Ironjaw' #1, Archie Adventure Series 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures' #8, Modern Comics 'Captain Atom' #84, 'Disney Mickey Mouse and Goofy Explore Energy', The Crusaders 'The Ark' and Golden Legacy 'Crispus Attucks and The Minutemen'
Lot 7168
A collection of French Dinky diecast military vehicles to include 883 Char AMX (x2), 80A EBR Panhard, 80C Char AMX 13 Tonnes (x2), 813 Canon De 155 Automoteur, 822 Half Track M3 (x2), 827 EBR Panhard FL10, 829 Gun Carrier Jeep, 823 Army Field Kitchen and 828 Rocket Carrier Jeep (12, in reproduction boxes), together with an unboxed 822 Half-Track (13)
Lot 129
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge. A series of 16 autographed letters signed from Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819–1904) to Colonel George Thurles Finucane (1791–1879), between 1842 and 1867, discussing military, political and personal matters over the course of their long friendship, commencing January 1845 while stationed in Corfu, ‘I sit down to give you a line from here to show you, that your friends miss you dreadfully and that you are not forgotten’, and the following year from London, ‘I nail my faith in Sir Robert Peel, being fully persuaded that he is the only man to be at the head of affairs of this great country and I am therefore truly sorry to find that there is a very strong feeling against him and that the general impression is that his Government cannot stand’, and later noting his own promotion, ‘…I make no doubt you will have heard of my being appointed to the Limerick District in succession to Lord Downes’ and sharing distress at the Finucane’s lack of progress, ‘I wish my dear Fin I could hear of your appointment to a better place’, and in 1846, commenting on the famine in Ireland, ‘The country meanwhile is really in a most terrible state, nothing but starvation staring me in the face in all directions. God knows what is to become of it, I for my part see no chance whatever of improvement. Every body cries out but nobody seems to know what to do or what to propose and meanwhile poor John Bull is paying through the nose…’, and discussing a shared interest in theatre, ‘We have two operas, Jenny Lind a great singer and carries all before her with overwhelming success. Covent Garden is however decidedly the finest company of the two with the best orchestra’, and inviting intelligence on military matters, ‘So much has been said of late of the disturbances in Cephalonia and the conduct of Sir George Ward on that occasion, that I am extremely anxious to hear from one on the spot the real state of the case and I therefore tip you a line my dear Finucane to beg of you to enlighten my mind’, while sharing his movements, ‘I confess I am one of those who are delighted at the Austrian Monarchy having been saved from destruction and I admire the gallantry and devotion of the Austrian Army. I am also much pleased with the Prussians of whom I saw a good deal during last summer, as I went over for a fortnight to see them in their campaign against Baden, when all behaved remarkably well’, and noting his position at the war in Crimea, ‘Our Infantry are all quite ready for a win. I have a splendid division’, but later conceding, ‘Here it is impossible to remain and to sacrifice an Army and Fleet at the Crimea seems to me madness, though the people of England appear to expect it’, 97pp., some with envelopes; and a further ALS to George Finucane from Henry Finucane, dated 16 June 1842, informing him of the death of his sister, 3pp.; an ALS from A. E. Loughnan to the Duke of Cambridge, concerning a charitable donation, 3pp.; an ALS from the Duke of Cambridge to Lord Home, congratulating him on the promotion of his son, 2pp., and a passport issued to Colonel George T. Finucane on 16 August 1870, 1pp.; and various recent research notes, v.s. (a quantity). ** Varied
Lot 269
Official Programme. Delhi Coronation Durbar, December 1911, illustrations, 4 folding maps in pocket at end, original boards, oblong 8vo, Delhi: Army and Navy Co-operative Society, 1911 Loosely inserted are two formal invitations to Mr and Mrs Darashaw N. Modi, for the State Entry of The King Emperor and Queen Empress, 7th December, 1911 and from The Lord High Steward to an Afternoon Party at Delhi Fort, 13th December 1911, a further invitation from the Maharajah of Jaipur, dated April 1908, on the occasion of his obtaining a Degree from the University of Edinburgh, and rare silk souvenir of the 1911 Coronation, with printed map and vignettes, 41cm x 52cm, folded. ** Hinges split, shaken, extremities bumped and worn, invitations damaged slightly by silverfish, head of spine chipped with loss.
Lot 163
William Moorcroft - A collection of teawares glazed in a pale green comprising teapot, teacup and saucer, side plate and hot water pot, all with Moorcroft Museum labels to the bases, impressed marks, S/D. NB - It is believed that this range was made for the British Army for use during World War One.
Lot 17
JAMES DRUMMOND RSA (SCOTTISH 1816 - 1877) THE ABBOT OF INCHAFFRAY BLESSING THE SCOTTISH ARMY BEFORE THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN THE ABBOT OF INCHAFFRAY BLESSING THE SCOTTISH ARMY BEFORE THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURNoil on canvas, titled partial label versoframedimage size 85cm x 125cm, overall size 108cm x 148cmPartial handwritten exhibition label verso. Label verso: Britnell's Art Galleries, London & Toronto.Exhibited: Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition 1844 cat no 173.Exhibited: Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition 1880 cat no 298 (Lent by Mrs Ballantine)Note: The Scots soldiery was aroused at around daybreak on Sunday 23rd June 1314. Maurice, the aged blind Abbot of Inchaffray celebrated mass for the army. On seeing this, Edward II is reputed to have said: "Yon folk are kneeling to ask mercy." Sir Ingram de Umfraville, a Balliol supporter fighting for Edward, is said to have replied: "They ask for mercy, but not from you. They ask God for mercy for their sins. I'll tell you something for a fact, that yon men will win all or die. None will flee for fear of death." "So be it", retorted Edward. Robert the Bruce addressed his soldiers, informing them that anyone who did not have the stomach for a fight should leave. A great cry re-assured him that most were ready for the battle. If there is a fact every Scot knows, it is who won the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314; although it did not bring outright victory in the war, which lay 14 years in the future and would only be won at the negotiating table. The victory was a combination of Bruce's demand of 1313: that all of the remaining Balliol supporters acknowledge his kingship or forfeit their estates, and the imminent surrender of the English garrison encircled in Stirling castle – which spurred Edward II to invade Scotland. He mobilised a massive military machine: summoning 2,000 horse and 25,000 infantry from England, Ireland and Wales. Although probably only half the infantry turned up, it was by far the largest English army ever to invade Scotland. The Scots common army numbered around 6000, with a small contingent on horseback. It was divided into three "divisions" or schiltroms (massive spear formations), led by King Robert Bruce, his brother, Edward, and his nephew, Sir Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray. After eight years of successful guerrilla warfare and plundering the north of England for booty, the Scots had created an experienced battle-hardened army. The battle opened with one of the most celebrated individual contests in Scottish history. Sighting a group of Scots withdrawing into the wood, the English vanguard, made up of heavy cavalry, charged. As they clashed with the Scots, an English knight, Sir Henry de Bohun, spotted Robert Bruce. If de Bohun had killed or captured Bruce, he would have become a chivalric hero. So, spurring his warhorse to the charge, he lowered his lance and bared down on the king. Bruce, an experienced warrior, didn't panic, but mounted "ane palfray, litil and joly" and met the charge. Dodging the lance, he brought his battle axe down on de Bohun's helmet, striking him dead. Elated, the Scots forced the English cavalry to withdraw. The Scots had won the first day. Their morale was high and Bruce's new tactic of using the schiltroms offensively rather than statically, as Wallace had used them at Falkirk, appeared to be working. Yet Bruce must have been contemplating a strategic withdrawal before the set piece battle that would inevitably follow in the morning. For the English the setbacks of the first day were disappointing. Fearing Bruce might mount a night attack, they encamped in the Carse of Balquhiderock. The following day they still hoped to draw Bruce into a full-scale, set-piece battle where their decisive Welsh longbowmen could be brought to bear rather than let Bruce return to guerrilla warfare. At this critical moment, Sir Alexander Seton, a Scots noble in the English army, defected to Bruce bringing him vital intelligence of Edward's army: its confined position and the low morale within the English camp. Bruce decided to risk all in the morning and face Edward in open battle. At dawn the Scots ate their breakfast and advanced out of the wood to face the enemy. Medieval battles were seen as the judgement of God; it was important to have the saints on your side, and so, in the midst of the Scots schiltroms, Abbot Bernard of Arbroath carried their ancient lucky talisman, the Breccbennach (or Monymusk Relquary), which held the relics of St Columba. Bruce himself made a speech invoking the power of St Andrew, John the Baptist and Thomas Beckett. Then, according to the chronicler Walter Bower: "At these words, the hammered horns resounded, and the standards of war were spread out in the golden dawn."
Lot 314
A mixed lot of military interest to include Royal Berkshire Regiment beret, cap badge and cloth badge along with other badges to include Sergeants chevrons, Army Cadet Forces and others, WWII books and papers to include The Eighth Army Sept 1941-Jan 1943, combined operations 1940-1942 A/F, Military Training and record books and later items, Location:
Lot 292
Military interest - 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards cap badges, shoulder tiles and other items to include a dog tag, Royal Armoured Corps cloth badges and Royal Army Service Crops examples and cap badge and others, along with clip on lenses in leather pouch, marked 22G/2047 with brand arrow, Location:
Lot 97
Poland Collection to 2002 in three loose-leaf albums, including #1 (unused, faults), a good range of First World War occupation overprints incl. eagles on Austro-Hungarian types used set, 'Poczta Polska' newspaper set (SG.N50/N54, £300), 1919 Gniezno 10pf surcharge (not signed), through to better 1920s sets incl. 1925 National Fund (SG.230/240, £325), '28 Exhibition m/s used (SG.MS270, £475), 1938 Exhibition ms/s used (the imperf type postally used with faults), 1938 stratosphere m/s, 1948 Polish Culture m/s used (SG.MS615a, £500, crease in margins at left perf line), etc, as well as a wide range of 1950 currency revaluation 'Groszy' handstamps. The third volume is for back-of-the-book, a wonderful survey including insurgency issues not listed in SG, 'Port Gdansk' incl. 1933 1z used (SG.R25, cat. £225), rarely seen ODESA ovpts on 20f and 1m (cat. £500 each), Levant ovpts matt set requiring expertization (cat. £1,400) with reprint types for comparison, then 1918 Polish Corps complete with Poczta types all signed incl. 10k on 7k MNH (SG.M5, £900 for hinged) and 70k imperf (SG.M11, £500), the 1942 Polish Army in Russia issue (SG.M16, £300) and presumed reprint tête-bêche sheet 'used', followed by an exciting 30+ pages of 1918/19 local overprints etc. mostly unlisted in Gibbons, WWII Polish Forces incl. Dachau miniature sheets, etc, etc.
Lot 267
A Yellow Binder Holding a Selection of Embroidered Silks (24) mostly bright and clean including The Salvation Army. Also a selection of Military and Northern France topography, many with censor marks, an interesting set of photographic views of the explosion at Fort de Longin, Belgium, Hitler (8) Easter Uprising of 1916 (5) Battle of Stepney East End Siege (10 and in mixed condition) also Military Hospitals.
Lot 212
An album containing loose 18th and 19thC engravings, to include The King's Declaration to His Gentry and Army, The English Civil War 1642, Dickie Stooge and The Giant Porter, pen and ink by Kenilworth, others by Kenilworth, a coloured illustration of Windsor Castle, W Forbes pen and satirical sketches after Cruikshank, van Ostade potrait etchings, etc. (a quantity)
Lot 181
A collection of Catala black and white French war related postcards, comprising Directing the Way at the Front, Our Democratic Army, fifteen Guerre 1914-1916, Albert (Somme), Basilique D'Albert, Environs D'Albert, Boulogne-Su-Mer, Interieur De La Basilique, Es 111 Boulogne, etc. (a quantity)
Lot 307
Two Army orders, comprising one appointed to General Sir H S Rawlinson For the Victoa Cross to Corporal Alexander Henry Buckley, Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, and bar awards, dated 7th March 1919, 33cm x 20cm, and a recommendation for award of Military Cross to Lieutenant and Quartermaster William Henry Jater, awarded 1st December 1818, 31cm x 20cm, framed and glazed. (2)
![An interesting ‘Colonial Service’ O.B.E. and Somaliland 1920 group of four awarded to Sir Douglas J. Jardine [K.C.M.G.], who](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/01dfdb88-8fcb-46d3-a5b0-af65010dddf7/3a765766-2d6b-4661-bb7c-afb400e1c291/468x382.jpg)
Lot 73
An interesting ‘Colonial Service’ O.B.E. and Somaliland 1920 group of four awarded to Sir Douglas J. Jardine [K.C.M.G.], who held the posts of Governor of North Borneo, 1934-37; Sierra Leone, 1937-41 and the Leeward Islands, 1941-44. The recipient of the rare British North Borneo Company’s Medal 1937-41, he also authored The Mad Mullah of Somaliland, and went on to suggest a daring plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type, breast badge, hallmarks for London ‘1919’, in Garrard & Co. Ltd case of issue; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1920 (D. J. Jardine. O.B.E.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, last two mounted for wear, toned, generally good very fine (4) £800-£1,200 --- Provenance: Jardine’s K.C.M.G., British North Borneo Company’s General Service Medal 1937-1941, Ethiopian Insignia and miniature K.C.M.G., O.B.E. and A.G.S. appeared for sale with Dixons Medals in 2008. Douglas James Jardine was born in 1888, and educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He joined the Colonial Service, and was appointed to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Cyprus in 1910. Jardine was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Government in 1912, and was employed there as Acting Chief Assistant on several occasions, 1912-1916. He was employed as Secretary to the Administration of Somaliland, 1916-1921 (O.B.E.), during which time he accompanied the mission to Abyssinia on the occasion of the coronation of Empress Zauditu (awarded Star of Ethiopia, 3rd Class, 1917). Jardine was employed as officer in charge H.Q. Services, Somaliland 1920 (A.G.S. and mentioned in despatches). Jardine was next employed as Senior Assistant Secretary Nigerian Secretariat in 1921, and as Deputy Chief Secretary, Tanganyika Territory from May 1927 (various mentions in Governor’s despatches). He was employed as Acting Governor of Tanganyika Territory, 1929-1933 (C.M.G. 1932), and as Governor and Commander in Chief, North Borneo 1934-37 (K.C.M.G.; British North Borneo Company Medal 1937-41, of which only 44 were issued). Jardine served as Governor and Commander in Chief, Sierra Leone, 1937-1941, and in the same capacity for the Leeward Islands, 1941-1944. An article written by the recipient’s daughter, that featured in The New Yorker, 28 July 1977, gives the following with regards to Jardine in Sierra Leone: ‘Amory Bradford’s letter regarding Clare Boothe Luce’s idea for the assassination of Hitler reminded me of an ingenious plan devised by my father, Sir Douglas Jardine, when he was the British Governor, in 1941. The Germans were gaining ground in North Africa, and he was secretly approached by the German High Command with a proposal that he move his troops in Sierra Leone to the wrong border when the German Army invaded the country. For this help, my father was to receive “clement treatment” in the event of a German victory. My father wrote to Whitehall suggesting that he should agree to go to Berlin to discuss the moves he might make. In his pocket he would have a box of Swan Vesta matches with yellow-fever germs sealed inside. My father had been vaccinated against yellow-fever, a fatal disease, so while talking to Hitler he would be able to light his pipe or cigarette and crush the box of matches. Whitehall replied that on no account was he to do any such foolish thing; it would not be cricket to murder Hitler.’ Jardine was the joint editor of The Cyprus Handbook, 1913-1919, wrote an article about the coronation of Empress Zauditu which appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine of October 1917, and authored The Mad Mullah of Somaliland in 1923. After he returned to the UK, he resided at “The Quarries”, Bathurst Hill, Itchingfield, Sussex and died in December 1946. Sold with copied research, including photographic image of recipient in uniform wearing his awards.
Lot 27
Pair: Company Sergeant-Major E. Gardner, Royal Garrison Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, South Africa 1902 (61817 Co: Q.M. Sjt: E. Gardner, 63rd Coy. R.G.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (61817 Co: Sjt: Maj: E. Gardner. R.G.A.) very fine (2) £100-£140 --- Ernest Gardner was born in the Parish of Romsey, Hampshire, and attested at Gosport for the Royal Artillery on 14 July 1887. He was discharged at Cardiff on 13 July 1908, having completed his second period of engagement. Sold with original parchment certificates of discharge and character, and an original portrait photograph of recipient wearing medals together with four other copied photographs.
Lot 9
Pair: Company Sergeant-Major O. Redmond, Royal Garrison Artillery East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (66512 Sejt. O. Redmond: R.G.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (66512 C. Sjt: Maj: O. Redmond. R.G.A.) mounted as worn, contact marks, otherwise toned, nearly very fine (2) £300-£400
Lot 84
Pair: E. A. Floyer, Inspector General of Egyptian Telegraphs, a scholar, explorer and scientist, who accompanied Kitchener on his mission to see the Mudir of Dongola, and subsequent disguised forays from Debba. Known to General Gordon, he corresponded with him at Khartoum, and also heavily contributed to Sir Reginald Wingate’s history of the Egyptian Campaigns Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (Insp: Genl Of Telegrs E. A. Floyer.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1884-6, unnamed as issued, generally good very fine and rare (2) £800-£1,200 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 1999 (when sold as a single Egypt and Sudan 1882-89 medal) Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer, the British telegraph engineer and explorer, was born on 4 July 1852, at Marshchapel, Lincolnshire, eldest surviving son of the Rev. Ayscoghe Floyer by his wife Louisa Sara, daughter of the Hon. Frederick John Shore of the Bengal Civil Service. After education at Charterhouse from 1865 until 1869, Floyer served for seven years in the Indian telegraph service, being stationed on the coast of the Persian Gulf. On receiving his long leave, in January 1876, he started for the unexplored interior of Baluchistan. His journeys there occupied him until May 1877, and his observations and surveys earned him a reputation as a bold and intelligent explorer. His results were published in ‘Unexplored Baluchistan’ (1882), with illustrations and map. The narrative describes a journey of exploration from Jask to Kirman via Anguhran. There are appendices on dialects of Western Baluchistan and on plants collected. In January 1878 he was appointed Inspector General of Egyptian telegraphs, a post which he held until his death.
He and his telegraph staff played an important part in maintaining communications with the Egyptian garrisons in the Sudan at the beginning of the Mahdist revolt. In 1884 he made a journey from Halfa to Debba, in the Dongola province with H. H. Kitchener, then in the intelligence department of the Egyptian army. He also regularly corresponded with General Gordon: ‘Dear General Gordon, I send you the above as the last public news we have heard. I have been appointed Inspector General of the Soudan Telegraph, but at present I can’t get beyond Debba to inspect them, as Mr Hudai has captured the Merowi telegraph office, and the Sirdar will not let us advance. I am ordered back to Halfa, and am leaving by boat this morning. With kind regards to Colonel Stewart. Yours sincerely, E. A. Floyer. Debba, 22 August 1884.’ (The Journals of Major General C. G. Gordon C.B. at Khartoum refers) Later in the journal Gordon writes the following having used telegraph forms for his journal, “Floyer wil be furious at this misuse of telegraph forms.” The following report from Floyer appeard in Reynolds Newspaper 24 August 1884: ‘Writing from Dongola: ‘The people here go about armed to the teeth. Even my barber comes to me with a huge spear in one hand and his shaving tackle in another. The Mudir of Dongola has ordered his men to collect and mass at Sarras, the railway terminus, 1,000 camels to aid in the transport of stores southwards; 1,500 out of the 2,000 men promised by the Mudir are on their way to Sarras, under the charge of Issedin Bey, a Vakeel of Dongola.’ Floyer so administered the department as to convert an annual loss into a substantial annual surplus. He induced the government to devote a portion of this to experiments in the cultivation of trees and plants upon the soil of the desert. He took charge of these experiments in the capacity of director of plantations, state railways and telegraphs of Egypt. He cultivated successfully cactus for fibre, casuarina for telegraph poles, Hyoscyamus muticus yielding the alkaloid hyoscamine, and other plants. Having discovered nitrate of soda in a clay in Upper Egypt, he was appointed by the government to superintend the process of its extraction. At the same time he engaged in exploration. In 1887 he surveyed two routes between the Nile and the Red Sea in about N. lat. 26°. In 1891 he was appointed by the Khedive to the command of an important expedition in a more southern part of the same desert (about N. lat. 24°). In this expedition he rediscovered the abandoned emerald mines of Sikait and Zabbara which had been worked at various epochs from early times. As the result of Floyer’s report these mines were reopened. The outcome of this expedition, antiquarian, scientific, and economic, is fully described in his official publication ‘Etude sur la Nord-Etbai entre le Nil et la Mer Rouge’ (Cairo, 1893, 4to, with maps and illustrations). For services to the military authorities Floyer received the British medal ‘Egypt 1882,’ with clasp ‘The Nile 1884-85,’ and the Khedive’s bronze star. Floyer, who was popular with his native employees, had a mastery of Arabic and possessed an ear for minute differences of dialect. He described his Egyptian explorations in ‘The Mines of the Northern Etbai’ (Trans. Roy. Asiatic Soc. October 1892); ‘Notes on the Geology of the Northern Etbai’ (Trans. Geol. Soc. 1892); ‘Further Routes in the Eastern Desert of Egypt’ (Geogr. Journ. May 1893); and ‘Journeys in the Eastern Desert of Egypt’ (Proc. Roy. Geogr. Soc. 1884 and 1887). To the Journal of the ‘Institut Egyptien’ for 1894-96 he contributed many papers on antiquarian, botanical, and agricultural matters. (Ref. Dictionary of National Biography and Biographical Dictionary of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan). Floyer died in Cairo in 1903, and is extensively mentioned in several works including Life, Letters and Diaries of Lieutenant General Sir Gerald Graham and The Story of My Life by Sir Harry H. Johnston. Sold with a copy of Notes on a Sketch Map of two Routes in the Eastern Desert of Egypt by the recipient, extensive copied research, and several photographic images of the recipient.
Lot 38
Five: Staff Sergeant A. Walters, Royal Field Artillery China 1900, no clasp (R.A./87902 Sergt. A. Walters. 41st By. R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (19897 B.Q.M. Sjt. A. Walters. R.A.); British War and Victory Medals (19897 S. Sjt. A. Walters. R.A.) Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (87902 B.Q.M. Sjt: A. Walters. R.F.A.) light contact marks, otherwise very fine and better (5) £260-£300
Lot 20
Six: Gunner C. Maurice, Royal Field Artillery, who was reported wounded and missing at Le Cateau on 26 August 1914 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (14965 Gnr: C. Maurice, R.F.A.); 1914 Star, with later slide clasp (14965 Gnr: C. Maurice. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (14965 Gnr. C. Maurice. R.A.); Defence Medal; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (14965 Gnr. C. Maurice. R.F.A.) mounted as worn, light contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (6) £160-£200 --- Charles Maurice served with 28th Brigade Royal Field Artillery in France and Flanders from 19 August 1914. According to an annotation on his Medal Index Card he was reported wounded and missing on 26 August 1914 (Le Cateau).
Lot 127
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Egypt (T. Hickley, 54th Foot) minor solder repair to righthand side of clasp facing, nearly very fine £800-£1,000 --- Provenance: J. Darwent Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, April 2004. Thomas Hickey/Hickley was born in Queens County, Ireland, and volunteered for the 1st Battalion 54th Foot from the Louth Militia on 1 February 1799. He transferred to the 2nd Battalion on 24 June 1800, served in Egypt until March 1802 and transferred back to the 1st Battalion in June 1802. After Nelson’s defeat of the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile, the British Army was landed to push the French out of Egypt. The landing in Aboukir Bay was opposed, and is an early example of the 54th Foot taking part in an amphibious landing against an enemy held coastline. General Abercrombie then led the army up the sand spit towards Alexandria. The French veterans of Napoleon’s Italian campaign were not easy to overcome, but after a week of hard fighting the French retreated and the British moved forward to Alexandria itself. The 54th Foot were given the task of taking Fort Marabout as its objective. It was the key to the city’s defences as it dominated the left flank of the attack and was able to keep the Royal Navy gun boats at bay. The 54th Foot dragged the guns of the Royal Artillery across the sand and rock, which was extremely hot work under the blistering sun into a position to support and attack. The guns were moved under the cover of musket fire, and the efforts of the regimental sharp shooters. So effective was their combined fire that after a time the commandant of the fort surrendered when he saw the columns of the 54th Foot forming up to attack. With the fort taken the main British attack took place leading to an overwhelming victory. As a reward the 54th Foot were allowed to where the Sphinx as their cap badge, and one of the captured French cannon as a regimental trophy. In 1840 the War Office took back the cannon and moved it to Woolwich, in return the 54th Foot were granted permission to wear the inscription “Marabout” under the badge of the Sphinx, a unique honour amongst the British Army. Hickey served in Gibraltar and at home until 4 November 1807, when he transferred to the 1st Garrison Battalion and served in Ireland until 26 July 1809. On the latter date he was discharged due to a pulmonic complaint, blindness of the right eye and impaired left vision. In later life he was employed as a calico printer, and he died aged 83 at Preston, Lancashire in March 1865. 43 medals issued to the 54th Foot, all with clasp for ‘Egypt.’ Sold with copied research.
Lot 406
Family Group: Three: Gunner A. Juckes, 12th Citizen Battery, South African Artillery 1914-15 Star (Gnr. A. Juckes 12th Cit. Batt.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Gnr. A. Juckes. 12th Cit. Batt.) the BWM and VM both in slightly crushed named card boxes of issue, good very fine Pair: Warrant Officer Class I D. L. Juckes Rhodesia, General Service Medal, with M.F.C. bronze pick emblem on riband (597 WO 1 D. L. Juckes); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Rhodesia (597 WOI Juckes D.L.) mounted as worn, extremely fine (5) £300-£400 --- Sold with various buttons and other ephemera.
Lot 599
Miscellaneous Military Badges. A selection of Military Badges including Officers cap badges post 1953 for 3rd Hussars; 15th/19th Hussars; and Seaford Highlanders; Warrant Officers badges for Grenadiers Guards; Coldstream Guards; and Scots Guards; a Women’s Land Army arm band with lapel badge; a scarce Buffs Palestinian shoulder title; and sundry other items, generally good condition (lot) £120-£160
Lot 213
The Waterloo Medal awarded to Surgeon Francis Burton, 4th Foot, later Surgeon attached to the 66th Foot at St Helena, where he was present at Napoleon’s death on 31 March 1821, presided over the subsequent post-mortem autopsy, and is renowned for having made Napoleon’s death mask Waterloo 1815 (Surgeon Burton, 4th Regiment Foot.) fitted with original steel clip and silver straight bar suspension, nearly extremely fine £5,000-£7,000 --- Francis Burton was born in Ireland in 1784 and, prior to being commissioned to the 5th Garrison Battalion on 5 March 1807, was assistant surgeon to the North Devon Militia, his subsequent appointments being assistant surgeon 36th Foot, 10 March 1808; surgeon 4th Foot, 9 September 1813; half-pay, 10 December 1818; full-pay surgeon, 66th Foot, 16 December 1819; M.D., Edinburgh 1820; surgeon 12th Lancers, 30 June 1825. Burton served in the Peninsula in 1808-09, was present in the Walcheren Expedition later in 1809, and served again in the Peninsula, with the 36th Foot from March 1811 to October 1813, including the siege and battle of Salamanca; and with the 1/4th Foot from November 1813 to January 1814, including actions in the Pyrenees, Battle of the Nive and the investment of Bayonne. He afterwards accompanied the 1/4th Foot to North America in 1814 and was present with the battalion at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Burton was one of the five army medical officers present at the autopsy of Napoleon on St Helena, where he had only arrived, as surgeon of the 66th Foot, on 31 March 1821. He was present at Napoleon’s death on 5 May 1821, and features in the famous painting by Baron Charles Steuben, based on accounts of the event. Burton not only presided over the post-mortem but is also renowned for having made Napoleon’s death mask. Burton died in London on 24 October 1828. Note: Some historical accounts contend that Dr François Carlo Antommarchi, Napoleon’s personal physician but both disliked and distrusted by Napoleon, cast the original parent mould, which would later be used to reproduce bronze and additional plaster copies. Other records, however, indicate that Dr Francis Burton, the surgeon attached to the 66th Foot at St. Helena, presided at the emperor’s autopsy and during that post-mortem procedure cast the original mould. Antommarchi obtained from his British colleagues a secondary plaster mould from Burton’s original cast and with that second-generation mould, Antommarchi in France reportedly made further copies of the death mask in plaster as well as in bronze. There have been a good number of books and articles written over the years about Napoleon’s death masks and it seems fairly conclusive that Antommarchi’s mould was indeed a copy taken from Burton’s original. Original casts from either mould are very rare and most reside in museums around the world. In 2013, one of the last remaining original death masks taken by Burton was made the subject of a U.K. export ban after selling at auction for £175,000.
Lot 399
Three: Captain G. St. J. Richardson, 7th Duke of Connaught’s Own Rajputs, Indian Army, who died of wounds on the first day of the Battle of Kut al Amara on 7 December 1915 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. G. St. J. Richardson); Memorial Plaque (Garnet St. John Richardson); Memorial Scroll ‘Lieut. Garnet St. John Richardson, 7th Rajputs’, with a portrait newspaper cutting photograph of the recipient and a small silver life-saving medal, all mounted in a glazed display frame, the scroll ‘corrected’ to read ‘Captain Garnet St.-John Richardson, D.C.O. 7th Rajputs. 1915’, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4) £280-£320 --- Garnet St. John Richardson, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel W. St. J. Richardson, was commissioned second lieutenant, Unattached List for Indian Army, from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, on 8 September 1909 and was posted to the 7th Duke of Connaught’s Own Rajputs on 27 December 1910. He was promoted lieutenant on 8 December 1911, and captain on 1 September 1915 (although his promotion to captain was not formally gazetted until after his death). He died of wounds on 7 December 1915, on the first day of the battle of Kut al Amara, and is buried in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq. Note: Owing to the fact that the medals are held in a glazed display frame the reverse of the 1914-15 Star has not been seen. Consequently this lot is sold as viewed and not subject to return.
Lot 463
Pair: Captain D. P. Mills, Royal Artillery Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (14057. 3/Cl. Mr. Gunr. D. P. Mills. R.A.) engraved naming, good very fine (2) £240-£280 --- Daniel Peter Mills was born at Leith, Midlothian on 25 May 1859, and attested for the 19 Brigade, Royal Artillery on 23 September 1874 at Fyzabad, Oude, India, joining ‘D’ Battery as a trumpeter two days later. He was appointed 1st class trumpeter on 28 February 1878 and was promoted to bombardier on 1 August 1879. He was promoted to corporal on 1 September 1879 and transferred to the 1st Brigade on 10 March 1881. On 7 March 1882 he was promoted to sergeant followed by promotion to battery sergeant major on 22 July 1885. Mills was promoted to 3rd class master gunner and was transferred to the 10th Division Coast Brigade on 1 April 1890. He was awarded the Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 7 of January 1893 and was promoted to 2nd class master gunner on 10 April 1896. He was commissioned lieutenant on 18 July 1900, was awarded the Coronation Medal in 1911, and was promoted captain on 4 July 1913. He retired on 25 May 1914 but was re-employed for service during the Great War as a district officer on 22 September 1914 and served at home with No. 3 Depot, Royal Garrison Artillery at the Citadel in Plymouth. Sold with the recipient’s parchment Commission Document, dated 18 July 1900; two portrait photographs of the recipient; and copied research.
Lot 355
Three: Drum Major F. J. Brashaw, 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, who was captured during the Retreat from Mons on 24 August 1914 and was awarded an M.S.M. for services rendered whilst a prisoner of war 1914 Star (9219 Cpl. F. J. Brashaw. Ches: R.); British War and Victory Medals (9219 Cpl. F. J. Brashaw. Ches. R.) polished with light pitting and some scratches, therefore good fine (3) £300-£400 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 30 January 1920: ‘In recognition of devotion to duty and valuable services rendered whilst a prisoner of war or interned, which services have been brought to notice in accordance with the terms of Army Order 193 of 1919. To be dated 5 May 1919’ Frederick Joseph Brashaw was born in 1895 at Madras, India, the son of Colour Sergeant A. Brashaw of the 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, stationed at Bellary, India 1895-97. He was enlisted as a Boy into the Cheshire Regiment in 1909 in Belfast and appears in reports of the 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment sports day at Ballykinler in 1911 as Boy Brashaw, winning the 220 yards handicap for enlisted boys. Also an accomplished lightweight boxer, he was already participating in Belfast prize fights as Boy Brashaw at the age of 17. Following the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, Brashaw disembarked in France with D Company of the 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment on 16 August and early on the morning of 21 August, his battalion, as part of the 15th Brigade of the 5th Division, began its march north-eastwards towards the Mons area to face the might of Von Kluck’s First German Army. As the inequality in the fighting strengths of the respective forces became apparent, an inevitable retreat was ordered by Sir John French on the evening of 23 August, although it came as something of a shock to the British troops who were conscious of having inflicted heavy losses on the Germans that day during the fighting around Mons and on the Mons-Condé canal. During the following day, as the withdrawal of the British force from its predicament was successfully carried out, it was only on the left that the fighting was heavy. Here, in open fields near Audregnies, on 24 August, the 1st Cheshires, together with the 1st Norfolks were exposed to the brunt of four German Regiments, each of three battalions, while acting as flank guard to the 5th Division. The Cheshires’ actions caused them to suffer 78% losses in one day due to men killed, wounded and taken prisoner of war but bought valuable time for the rest of the British Expeditionary Force during the retreat. Afterwards Brigadier-General Count Gleichen, commander of 15th Infantry Brigade, paid tribute to the Cheshires, saying: ‘The battalion behaved magnificently in the face of terrible odds and immense difficulty, one could not expect more of them. They did their duty, and did it thunderingly well, as I should have expected from such a gallant battalion, and I am only grieved that they had such terrible losses.’ Corporal Brashaw was captured on 24 August 1914 at Mons and was held prisoner of war for the remainder of the war. Initially incarcerated at Merseberg, it was reported in British newspapers in October 1916 that Brashaw was among a group of 22 British soldiers who volunteered their services as nursing orderlies during the Typhus epidemic that devastated the internment camp at Garderlegen. Twenty of these volunteers caught Typhus and two died. Repatriated after the war, arriving at Hull on 27 November 1918, he married Marjorie Farmer at Knockin, Shropshire in August 1919 and was awarded the M.S.M. for his reported services as a prisoner of war. Remaining in the Army, he advanced to Drum-Major and later settled back in Northern Ireland. In August 1964, on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Mons, Brashaw returned with a party of 18 old comrades to the village of Audregnies where the men were given a reception and, following a procession, several wreaths were laid at a British Memorial. A photograph of Brashaw accompanied the Belfast Telegraph’s report on the visit and an article in the Cheshire Observer, 4 September 1964 commented: ‘The Last Post was sounded by Drum-Major F. J. Brashaw who was present at the battle 50 years ago. Mr Brashaw, who retired in January 1932 had not played a bugle since he left the Army.’ Brashaw died in Belfast in 1971. Sold with copied research.
Lot 562
A Polish Second World War ‘Monte Cassino’ group of eight attributed to Corporal A. Kiszka, 6th (Children of Lwów) Armoured Regiment, who was captured by the Russians in September 1939 Poland, Republic, Cross of Merit, 1st issue, 3rd Class, bronze, with separate crossed swords suspension; Victory and Freedom Medal 1945, bronze; Monte Cassino Cross 1944, reverse numbered, ‘30595’; Great Britain, 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 copy clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, minor corrosion to first two, otherwise very fine and better (8) £240-£280 --- Andrzej Kiszka was born on 30 November 1905 and served during the Second World War as a corporal with the 6th (Children of Lwów) Armoured Regiment. Initially serving with the 39th Infantry Regiment, he was captured by the Russians at StanisÅ‚awów on 18 September 1939, and after being released joined the Anders Army at Buzuluk on 2 September 1941. Emigrating to the United Kingdom following the end of the war, he died in Leeds on 8 September 1976. Sold with an enamelled riband bar (this lacing the Defence Medal); and copied research which confirms the award of the Monte Cassino Cross no. 30595.
Lot 76
An Order of St. John group of three awarded to Surgeon Major J. H. Rivers, Royal Army Medical Corps and Egyptian Army The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silver and enamel, rev. engraved, ‘Captain John Herbert Rivers, R.A.M.C., 1901’; Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmanieh, 4th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-19081 clasp, Nyam-Nyam (Major, R.A.M.C.), mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (3) £1,200-£1,600 --- Provenance: Colonel D. G. B. Riddick Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2006. John Herbert Rivers was born in Harlow, Essex in November 1869. Appointed a surgeon lieutenant in January 1893, he attained the rank of surgeon major in July 1904. Rivers was seconded for service with the Egyptian Army, January 1899-January 1906. He served in the Sudan during 1905 and took part in the operations against the Nyam-Nyam tribes in the Bahr-el-Ghazai province on the Belgian Congo border, during which he was the principal medical officer to the Eastern Column commanded by Captain A. Sutherland. The force sent to restore order was composed of 18 British and 30 native officers, with some 700 men. For his services in the Egyptian Army he was awarded the Order of Osmanieh 4th Class in 1906. Rivers was also a noted big game hunter, and features in Records of Big Game by R. Ward. He also appears in the photographs and papers held by Durham University for Angus Cameron and his time in the Sudan. Surgeon Major Rivers retired in November 1911, and died at The Grange, Fleet, Hampshire in July 1913. He is buried in All Saints Church Cemetery, Fleet. Sold with copied research, and photographic images of recipient.
Lot 114
Pair: Major H. H. Nurse, 122nd Rajputana Infantry China 1900, no clasp (Captn: H. H. Nurse. 22d Bo: Infy); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Capt: H. H. Nurse. 122nd Rajput: Infty:) mounted as originally worn, polished, therefore good fine or better, last unique to Regiment (2) £500-£700 --- H. H. Nurse was commissioned second lieutenant in the Indian Army in 1888, and advanced to captain in 1897. He featured in the Bury and Norwich Post, 31 July 1900: ‘Troops have now been selected for duty in China, and one of the first regiments chosen, on account of its efficiency, was the 22nd Bombay Native Infantry. Bury can claim an officer in this regiment, who has arrived at Hong Kong, in the person of Captain H. H. Nurse, a well-known Bury man, being a son of Mrs F. W. King of St. Mary’s Square [and brother of the Reverend Euston J. Nurse]. The regiment arrived on the 23rd to reinforce and garrison the town of Hong Kong with the aid of the 3rd Madras Native Infantry. Captain Nurse received his education at King Edward’s School, Bury St. Edmund’s, from which school he took the Exhibition of St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he obtained a classical scholarship, and took his B.A. degree before he entered the army in the year 1887. Captain Nurse has been both quarter master and adjutant of the 22nd Bombay Native Infantry, and has been successful in winning a number of prizes for revolver shooting in India. He has also held the position of examiner in Oriental languages at Quetta.... When ordered out to China he was serving as station staff officer at Indore, when the regiment marched to Calcutta from a very short notice.’ Captain Nurse, with one Jemadar and 27 other ranks of the 122nd Rajputana Infantry, subsequently proceeded on service to the Aden Hinterland in 1903. The Jemadar and the 27 other ranks were attached to the Poona Mounted Infantry, and also received the ‘Jidballi’ clasp. Nurse was attached for service with the 102nd Prince of Wales’ Own Grenadiers - and as such his single clasp medal would appear to be regimentally unique to his parent unit. Nurse advanced to major in 1904, and retired in February 1908. He volunteered to act as a recruitment officer in 1914, and served in this capacity 5 August - 7 September 1914, before poor health forced him to relinquish his role (awarded Silver War Badge). Sold with copied research, including photographic images of recipient in later life.
Lot 446
Five: Lieutenant B. H. Harding, Southern Rhodesian Forces, who served with the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) from August 1944 until its disbandment, serving in Captain J. Olivey’s eleven-man Z.1. Patrol in Greece 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, all unnamed as issued; Africa Service Medal 1939-45 (SR.599042 B. H. Harding.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., Rhodesia & Nyasaland (0367. Lt. B. H. Harding.) officially engraved naming, mounted as worn, very fine (5) £1,400-£1,800 --- Barend Hercules Harding was born at Bethlehem, Orange Free State on 19 December 1924 and attested for service in Southern Rhodesia on 26 May 1943, serving with the Rhodesian Recce Unit and the 49th Survey Company. He was posted to join the strength of the British Forces in the Central Mediterranean in July 1944 and joined legendary Long Range Desert Group on 4 August 1944, being a member of the Z1 Patrol. Z.1 Patrol in Greece Harding went into action in September, as part of Captain John Olivey’s 11-man Rhodesian Z.1 Patrol: ‘Olivey’s 11 jeeps arrived in Greece by landing craft on 26 September, roaring ashore in their jeeps at Katakolon, 40 miles south of Araxos. The patrol soon became bogged down, however, Olivey noting as they drove north that “the roads [are] very bad after the recent rain”. Four of the jeeps in the patrol pulled trailers, on each of which was 1,000lb of equipment for Bucket Force, and within a day of landing Olivey began to doubt that all the vehicles would stand the ordeal if the condition of the roads did not improve. On 30 September Olivey’s patrol arrived at Bucket Force’s Forward HQ, a few miles west of Patras. “L” Squadron of the S.B.S. were positioned on the high ground overlooking the port, and their commander, Major Ian Patterson, was endeavouring to persuade the garrison of 900 Germans and 1,600 Greeks from a collaborationist security battalion to surrender. During the night of 3-4 October word reached Bucket Force HQ that the Germans had started withdrawing from Patras. At first light a patrol of the S.B.S., travelling in the L.R.D.G. jeeps, raced into the port and discovered that all but a German rearguard had indeed sailed out of Patras, heading east up the Gulf of Corinth towards the Corinth Canal. The S.B.S. and the L.R.D.G. now set off in pursuit of the Germans. In a convoy of jeeps they roared along the headland overlooking the gulf, a captured 75mm German field gun hitched to the back of one of the jeeps. “Chased the enemy who were withdrawing by boat,” wrote Olivey in his log, “firing with .5 Browning and 75 mm gun, from positions on the Corinth Road.” They reached Corinth on 7 October, exchanged desultory fire with the Germans on the other side of the canal and then accepted the surrender of another battalion of Greek collaborators. From Corinth Olivey received instructions to push on to the town of Megara, several miles to the north-east over a mountain road, but to leave two jeeps’ worth of men in Corinth to help in the clearance of German mines. Olivey’s Z1 Patrol reached Megara on 9 October and at dawn the next day assisted an S.B.S. unit to “blow the escape road that the enemy were using”. With that done, they set about preparing a landing strip for the arrival of the 4th Independent Parachute Brigade led by Colonel George Jellicoe. They dropped into Megara on 12 October, a day when the wind was particularly stiff. “We were rushed to Megara airfield to help by driving alongside the paratroopers on the ground with open chutes, swinging left or right to collapse the chutes, to enable them to get to their feet”, recalled Tommy Haddon, a Rhodesian trooper in Z1 Patrol. “Even so, many parachutes were not collapsing and men were swept onto the rocks along the coast running alongside the airfield.” The next day, 13 October, Z1 Patrol was among the first Allied troops to enter the Greek capital. “We proceeded over the Corinth Canal to Athens in convoys,” recalled Haddon, “all the way being greeted by singing and joyful Greeks, shouting words of welcome.” Once in Athens, Haddon and Z1 checked into the Grand National Hotel, though it wasn’t for long. They were soon billeted in less salubrious surrounds – the old Ford factory on the main road to Piraeus. John Olivey’s patrol then “proceeded south of Florina and harassed the withdrawing enemy and proceeded to the flat country ... firing at a range of 2,000 yards, at the enemy force withdrawing up the Florina to Havrokhoma Road. Florina was occupied/captured at 1600 hours.” By mid-November the Germans had been chased out of Greece and on 12 November the L.R.D.G., together with the S.B.S., returned south to Athens for what they imagined would be some well-earned rest and recuperation. But it was quickly apparent in Athens that the indolent days of the past had evaporated. The antagonism was palpable between the government of ‘National Unity’, who were pro-monarchy, and EAM, the predominantly communist National Liberation Front, whose military wing was ELAS, the Greek People’s Liberation Army. They were still in Athens when the trouble with ELAS started and their jeep patrols rescued police from posts under fire and raided an ELAS headquarters to capture petrol and arms. Several of the party were wounded and had to be evacuated. A Greek National Guard was then being hurriedly formed, and the Rhodesians and their colleagues helped to train them while assisting in maintaining order in Athens and the neighbourhood.’ (Long Range Desert Group in the Balkans refers). Harding was returned upon the disbandment of the LRDG in late 1945. He returned for further service in Rhodesia and rose to the rank of lieutenant (quartermaster). Sold with framed photograph of the 2nd Battalion, King's African Rifles Officer's Mess, June 1962, with Harding identified; a number of photographs including the recipient; and copied research that confirms that his Africa Service Medal was his only officially named Second War medal.
Lot 86
Pair: Trumpeter E. Newton, 20th Hussars, who was noted as sounding the ‘Charge’ at Gemaizah, and was killed in action during that battle, 20 December 1888 Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Gemaizah 1888 (1461. Trumptr. E. Newton. 20th Hussars.); Khedive’s Star, undated, unnamed as issued, generally good very fine, and a unique single clasp award to a Trumpeter in the regiment (2) £2,000-£2,400 --- Provenance: Medals to Trumpeters from the Collection of Roderick Cassidy, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2004. Edward Newton was a native of Edmonton, London, and was killed in action at Gemaizah, whilst serving as a Trumpeter with the 20th Hussars, 20 December 1888: ‘I am glad to find that at least one board of guardians can do justice to the memory of those who reflect credit on their teaching. The Strand Guardians have resolved to place a marble slab in the dining hall of their schools at Edmonton, bearing a suitable inscription in memory of Trumpeter Newton, of the 20th Hussars, who sounded the “charge” the other day at Suakin. Newton, who was twenty-six years of age, was educated at Edmonton, and joined the Army when only 15. He was one of the many boys whom that prince of trumpeters, Binnie, late of the 2nd Life Guards, fitted for the service of the Crown. All those who are interested in the education of youths for the military service should take an early opportunity of inspecting Mr Binnie’s class. It would be difficult to find a smarter set of lads anywhere in England.’ (The People, 6 January 1889 refers) During the cavalry charge at Gemaizah, three troopers and Trumpeter Newton were killed and mutilated, prompting not merely feelings of rage and vengeance but the reflections of Trooper E. L. Wedlake: ‘It was indeed a glorious charge, though marred with grief and pain. For Newton, Thomas, Jordan, Howes, were numbered with the slain. We bore them from the field of strife with tenderness and love. And trusted that their souls had found a resting place above. Then our thoughts returned to Cairo camp, with mottoes and its flowers. With saddened recollections of its gay and festive bowers. We wept for our gallant comrades, as still in death they lay. And in the camp of our beaten foes we spent our Christmas Day.’ The four men of the 20th Hussars were re-interred in the Khartoum Cemetery of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Sold with copied research.
Lot 324
Four: Warrant Officer Samuel Edwards, Middlesex Regiment, late Royal Fusiliers and Shropshire Light Infantry Hong Kong Plague 1894 (Private S. Edwards, S.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (G-51464 W.O. Cl. 2. S. Edwards. Midd’x R.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (6635 Sjt: S. Edwards. R. Fus.) the first with edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (4) £1,600-£2,000 --- Provenance: Sotheby, May 1989; Spink, May 1998. Sold with Medal Index Card confirming entitlement to W.W.I pair.
Lot 155
A rare Great War ‘Konigsberg’ D.S.C. group of ten awarded to Rear-Admiral G. A. Scott, Royal Navy Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1918; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. G. A. Scott. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Commr. G. A. Scott. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, the reverse dated 1914-1918, very fine and better (10) £4,000-£5,000 --- D.S.C. London Gazette 10 July 1919: ‘For distinguished services in H.M.S. Severn.’ The following recommendation was submitted by Captain E. J. A. Fullerton, R.N.: ‘Lieutenant Scott was Executive Officer of H.M.S. Severn, during the bombardment of the right flank of the German Army in September, October, November and December, 1914, and behaved with exceptional gallantry on several occasions. He was also Executive Officer of H.M.S. Severn during the attacks of S.M.S. Konigsberg in Rufugi River, July, 1915. On this occasion Lt. Scott showed great coolness, ability and excellent leadership when under heavy fire. He showed quick decision and a disregard of danger in taking a motor boat away by himself with a Marine, in the heat of the action, to rescue the observers from an aeroplane which had been shot down. The major part of the burden for preparing H.M.S. Severn for being towed out to East Africa and subsequent fitting out of the ship for action fell on Lieutenant Scott's shoulders. He has received no reward of any kind, nor was he mentioned in Sir H. King-Hall's despatches, although very strongly recommended by me.’ George Arthur Scott was born on 5 September 1888, and entered the Royal Navy as a Midshipman on 30 November 1904, becoming Sub-Lieutenant on 30 January 1908, and Lieutenant on 1 October 1910. On 9 February 1914, while studying at Osborne College, he was admitted to Haslar Hospital for an injured knee. He returned to service on 6 March. He was appointed to Collongwood on 1 August 1914, but this was cancelled and a week later he was appointed to the monitor Severn. He took part in the bombardments off the Belgian coast, September to December 1914, and in Severn’s operations in the Rufiji Delta, including her two epic engagements against the Konigsberg in July 1915 (see The Konigsberg Adventure and Severn’s Saga, both by E. Keble Chatterton, for full details of these actions). He was invalided from Severn at Simonstown on 8 September 1915, with further knee problems and he was not fit until 8 December when he was appointed to Tyne for command of the “C” Class destroyer Bat. During the remainder of the war he commanded, successively, H.M. Ships Arun, Nymphe, Mons and Urchin. Scott was promoted to Lieutenant-Commander on 1 October 1918, becoming Commander on 31 December 1923, and Captain on 30 June 1931. During this period he held various commands but his record was tarnished on at least two occasions when he was found to be at blame for collisions with other ships. On 24 April 1939, Scott was appointed the first commanding officer of H.M.S. Belfast upon her commissioning for trials. However, diagnosed with ‘nervous dyspepsia’ on 15 January 1940, he left Belfast at the end of that month for duty outside the Admiralty not exceeding six months. Scott was promoted to Rear-Admiral on 8 July 1941, and placed on the Retired List the following day. Sold with copied research.
Lot 100
Pair: Private A. Slattie, 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys), who led a colourful life filled with controversy and hardship - twice sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour during his military career, he then went on to be involved in a high profile Edinburgh murder trial, before succumbing to a near fatal train accident at Edinburgh Waverley when ‘he was knocked down, with a unknown number of wheels passing over his right leg at the ankle’ Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4688 Pte A. Slattie. 2nd Dragoons); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4688 Pte A. Slattie. 2nd Drgns:) suspension slack on both, contact marks, fine (2) £280-£320 --- Alexander Slattie was born on the Isle of Wight, and attested for the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) at Edinburgh in August 1899. He served with the regiment in South Africa and transferred to the Reserve in December 1906, being discharged in December 1911, after 9 years and 351 days service. It would appear that Slattie led a very colourful life - during his military service he was twice sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour, and was subsequently involved in a murder trial, and a near fatal accident. On 17 December 1905 at the Edinburgh High Court of Justice a young man named George Gordon was tried for the murder of Elizabeth Tavendale in the house occupied by him at No. 3 North Richmond Street. He had cut her throat and beaten her head with a hammer. The jury after 25 minutes absence returned a unanimous verdict of culpable homicide, and the Lord Justice Clerk, without comment, sentenced the prisoner to twelve years penal servitude. Slattie, who had also been romantically involved with Elizabeth Tavendale, gave evidence during the subsequent trial. The case, and the trial, received a lot of coverage in the Scottish press with Slattie being referred to as ‘The Soldier in the Box’ and ‘A Soldier Lover’. Court sketches of the individuals concerned also appeared in the press, with the case being variously referred to as “The Richmond Street Murder”, “The Richmond Street Tragedy” and “Low Life Tragedy, Sordid Revelations.” The following extracts also appeared at the time: ‘Alex Slattie, private “B” Squadron, Royal Scots Greys, Piershill Barracks, Edinburgh said that the deceased’s sister was married to a brother of his. In July 1904 when he was on furlough, and staying with his brother, he came intimate with the deceased, and was in the habit of keeping company with her at that time. Till her death he saw her frequently at night. On the Thursday evening he met her in the High Street, and accused spoke to him. Gordon was very angry and said something about the witness having anything more to do with the girl. Gordon used bad language, and the witness thought the deceased said to Gordon, “What have you got to do with it?” The witness was in the deceased’s company on the Saturday night till four o’clock on Sunday morning....’ ‘A Soldier Lover - Alexander Slattie (26) a private in the Royal Scots Greys, who wore two medals and clasps said he became acquainted with Tavendale a year ago when he was in Edinburgh on furlough after coming home from South Africa. When his regiment was at Norwich he corresponded with her. He only became acquainted with Gordon when his regiment came to Edinburgh in November last....’ Slattie married two years later, and continued to reside in Edinburgh whereupon being discharged from the army he was employed on the railways: ‘Just before 1pm on 11th July 1914, goods porter Alexander Slattie was on duty at the North British Railway’s Edinburgh Waverley Goods Station. He was in the delivery office when local confectioner R. Diekman called to pick up a suitcase. Slattie offered to carry the case. Slattie told Diekman he would take him by a short cut - across the lines between the goods station and the passenger station. Diekman protested against going that way as he considered it dangerous. Eventually Slattie persuaded Diekman to go with him, but whilst crossing the lines Diekman suddenly realised that an approaching train was almost upon them. He shouted a warning and rushing forward was very fortunate to get clear of the train. Slattie was less fortunate - he was knocked down, with a unknown number of wheels passing over his right leg at the ankle. Inspector Campbell was stern in his admonition of Slattie: he had no right to leave the goods station when he did so, and he added to the offence by inducing a member of the public to trespass on the Company’s lines.’ (Railway Work, Life & Death by M. Esbester refers) Slattie died in Edinburgh in September 1952. Sold with photographic images of recipient, and copied research.
Lot 117
Five: Lieutenant F. M. Edwards, Egyptian Camel Transport Corps, a Cross Country Blue at Cambridge, who was selected for the 3 mile team race at the 1908 Olympics, and was employed as a translator for Lord Allenby on his entrance into Jerusalem. He later served in the Egyptian Civil Service, and with the Cambridgeshire Home Guard 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. F. M. Edwards. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. F. M. Edwards.); Defence Medal; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 5th Class breast badge, by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, generally good very fine (5) £400-£500 --- Egypt, Order of the Nile, 5th Class London Gazette 16 March 1926: ‘Francis Millward Edwards, Esq., Inspector, Egyptian Ministry of Finance, Damanhur, Egypt.’ Francis Millward Edwards was born in Barton Regis, Bristol in March 1886. He studied Theology at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and was a Blue for Cross-Country - representing the university in the 3 mile race against Oxford on four occasions. Edwards was selected for the 3 mile team race at the 1908 Olympics, but was not called upon to run. An Arabic speaker, before the war he worked for the Egyptian Ministry of Education and was an assistant master at Tewfikia School. Edwards was appointed a second lieutenant with the Egypt Camel Transport Corps on 30 December 1915 and served at Kantara as Section Officer of ‘B’ Company. He was admitted to hospital at Cairo on 22 October 1916 and was found to be suffering from neurasthenia - his medical report stating: ‘... agitated; states that he is unable to control himself with natives. He is quite unfit for any work. Recommended for change to England, as he is unlikely to be fit for a long time.’ The doctor’s report was acted upon and Edwards was invalided to England in November 1916 aboard H.M.H.S. Herefordshire and thence Britannic. Recovering, he returned to Egypt in March 1917 and saw service in Palestine and Egypt with the Camel Transport Corps, where he acted as interpreter to Lord Allenby upon his entrance into Jerusalem. Edwards was released from military service on 17 June 1919 and in 1921 was granted the rank of lieutenant. Remaining in Egypt, Edwards was employed as an inspector with the Ministry of Finance and in 1926 was awarded the Order of the Nile. His life at this time in the Egyptian Civil Service is illustrated in Tales of Empire by D. Hopwood. Edwards returned to the UK, and was residing in Cambridge at the time of the Second World War. He served with the Cambridgeshire Home Guard, and his service is recalled in Adventures with Authors by S. C. Roberts: ‘Another part-time activity was service in the Home Guard. Being enrolled in the Trumpington platoon, I took part in the feverish preparation of a road-block at the junction of the Trumpington Road and Brooklands Avenue. The platoon was a healthy mix of town and gown.... As an instructor in anti-gas measures, I reached the rank of corporal. My closest friend in the platoon was F. M. Edwards, an old cross country running Blue of Queens’. He and I had many adventures together and the one Sunday morning I recall with real pleasure was that of a ‘security’ exercise in which the Trumpington platoon’s objective was to obtain a foothold on the railway bridge over the river, which would be strongly guarded by the Chesterton company. The role assigned to me, late on the Saturday night, was to pose as a staff officer. An Army car was put at my disposal and I was lent a major’s great-coat. Frank Edwards acted as my orderly and with the aid of a false moustache and a strip of red flannel round my hat, I bluffed my way through barbed wire and fixed bayonets to the bridge with considerable gusto and much to the amusement of Guy Dale, the C.O. of the Battalion.’ Edwards died in Bath, Somerset in March 1976, and his papers are held at the Middle East Centre, St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Sold with copied research.
Lot 87
The rare and important ‘Egypt and Sudan’ pair awarded to George Zeidan, an Interpreter attached to the Intelligence Department, who was a prolific Christian Lebanese Journalist, editor and teacher, who wrote 23 novels, and is also considered to have been one of the first thinkers to help formulate the theory of Arab Nationalism Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (323. Interpr. G. Zeidan.) edge bruise, scratch mark to edge after naming; Khedive’s Star, dated 1884-6, unnamed as issued, generally good very fine and rare (2) £800-£1,200 --- Provenance: J. Webb Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2008 and Dix Noonan Webb, May 2019 (both times as a single Egypt and Sudan Medal). One of 11 interpreters shown on the roll as entitled to the clasp Abu Klea, and the only one entitled to this combination of clasps. George Zeidan or ‘Jurji Zaydan’, ‘Jorge Zaydan’, ‘Georgie Zeidan’ or ‘Jirji Zaydan’ was born in Beirut, Ottoman Syria (present day Lebanon) in December 1861. He was a prolific Christian Lebanese journalist, editor and teacher, most noted for his creation of the magazine al Hilal (The Crescent) in 1892, which he used to serialise his twenty-three historical novels. His primary goal, as a writer and intellectual during the Nahda (Awakening), was to make the common Arabic population know their history through the entertaining medium of the novel. He is also considered to have been one of the first thinkers to help formulate the theory of Arab nationalism. Zeidan ‘equipped with letters of recommendation... arrived in Egypt in 1883. In Cairo he soon took over the editorship of al-Zaman, a daily newspaper. He remained its editor until 1884. The reason for leaving this job are not evident. Neither are his motives clear as to why with his friend Gabr Dumit he joined Wolseley and his expeditionary corps that was to relieve Gordon at Khartoum. Zaidan [sic] was attached to this army as a dragoman, and guide. We may catch a glimpse of his life with the British Army in the description by Nasib Abdallah Sibli al Lubani, tension developed between the British officers and the Syrian dragomans. An English officer commanded Zaidan to do some menial work which Zaidan refused. It came to blows between the officer and Zaidan until a high ranking officer and friend of Zaidan re-established order. After the Wolseley expedition, sent too late, had been unable to save Gordon it returned to Egypt. Zaidan took his leave of the Army and returned in 1885 together with Gabr Dumit to Beirut where they both started studying languages.’ (Gurgi Zaidan, His Life and Thought BY T. Philip refers) Zeidan had been attached to the Intelligence Department for service in Egypt and the Sudan, and had served with Captain W. W. C. Verner who was employed in an intelligence gathering capacity. Zeidan gets several mentions in The Military Diary of Colonel W. W. C. Verner: ‘April 2nd: Sent Zaidan [sic] to Ambokul Market. He hot the usual news about revolt in Kordofan, sickness etc. and that 2,000 spearmen and 60 regulars with rifles were at Birti. April 17th: George Zaidan, my interpreter’s subordinate refused to obey an order and said “You cannot make me”. Severe crisis, ending in my having to show him my revolver and George doing as he was bid. May 4th: George Zaidan visited Ambokul in order to interview a man I had heard of recently come from Khartoum, but who was sick and unable to come and see me. His name is Mohamed Kheir Aga and he said that he left Khartoum on the day it fell and was kept a prisoner at Omdurman for two months. Gordon was killed near the church when about to blow up the magazine. He was killed with sticks, no other weapon was used. His head was cut off and taken to Omdurman. He saw it there all the time he was at Omdurman. It was there when he left about April 12th. May 28th: Drifted about 4 miles. Landed with George Zaidan and found the villagers in great fright as they had heard the ‘Bashi Bazouks’ were coming down stream and would kill their cattle!’ Zeidan died in Cairo, Egypt in July 1914, and The Zaidan Foundation based in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A was set up by members of his family in 2009 to enhance intercultural understanding and the dissemination of Arabic culture. Sold with copied research, and photographic images of the recipient.
Lot 102
Three: Squadron Sergeant Major H. H. Coxen, 18th Hussars, later Yorkshire Hussars, who distinguished himself and was mentioned in despatches for his gallantry during a Boer ambush east of Uitkyk Station, 24 December 1900, ‘I had rather a narrow shave myself, five bullets through my jacket, two through my pants. Not one of these touched my skin, although I was hit through the muscle of the leg below the calf.’ Coxen, who was twice shipwrecked during previous employment with the merchant service, met a sad and untimely end at a rifle range in the Bedern Yeomanry Drill Hall, York, June 1908 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Natal, Belfast, Orange Free State (3122. Serjt: H. H. Coxen. 18/Hrs.) unofficial rivets between 2nd and 3rd clasps; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3122 Serjt: H. Coxen. 18th Hussars); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (3122 S. Sjt. Mjr. H. H. Coxen. 18/Hussars.) mounted for display, light contact marks, therefore generally nearly very fine or better (3) £360-£440 --- Provenance: D. Lloyd Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, February 2021. H. H. Coxen was a native of Bristol, served with the 18th Hussars during the Second Boer War, and was mentioned in Lord Kitchener’s despatch, 8 March 1901, for his gallantry during outpost duties at Uitkyk, near Middleburg, 24 December 1900. Coxen supplied a report for the action, which was reproduced in full in The 18th Hussars in South Africa 1899-1902, by Major C. Burnett. The following extracts are taken from that report: ‘At 7.30am on the 24th December, 1900, Lieut. Thackwell, with our patrol of thirty-two non-commissioned officers and men of ‘B’ Squadron, relieved ‘A’ Squadron, which under command of Lieut. Wood, since 2am had been holding a position near the colliery to the East of Uitkyk Station, distant about three and a half miles from Middleburg. Reaching the colliery, we dismounted and relieved the different posts, and our horses, led by the number threes, were placed under cover. We had not taken up position more than ten minutes when we saw Boers moving about amongst the trees surrounding Van Niekirk’s Farm, then we saw a waggon, which, with the Boers, was making towards the railway line. Lieut. Thackwell was occupying a position commanding the line, the ground affording little or no cover, with the exception of a few small ant heaps. Looking through my glasses I saw another party of the enemy threatening our left flank and rear, so sent Private Collier with a message to that effect to Lieut. Thackwell, meanwhile placing the five men (Privates Speigh, Slinger, Seppings, Kempster, and Jackson) and myself well extended to resist a flank attack. By this time the Mauser bullets were flying thick and fast, and we could hear Lieut. Thackwell’s party hard at it as well... Then we heard three loud explosions, which we at first thought were from the guns at Oliphant’s River, but soon discovered they were caused by the charges of dynamite placed under the rails, which resulted in blowing up the line. As soon as this was accomplished the Boers (who certainly numbered 130, some say 150) devoted their whole attention to us, and as they had to advance for some distance up a gentle slope they made a fair mark, and we made it rather warm for them. We held on to our positions for quite an hour and three-quarters, then a shrill whistle sounded, ponies appeared as if by magic, the Boers were in the saddle in a twinkling, and they rushed us, yelling like fiends as they came. Slinger, Seppings, Kempster, and Jackson managed to reach their horses, but, to tell the truth, I did not miss them until I heard them shouting to Speight and myself, for they were bringing our horses up; but I waved them back, for I saw that it would mean the whole of us being captured, as the Boers were too close upon us. Speight and I went on firing as quickly as we could, still hearing Lieut. Thackwell’s party doing the same. When the Boers were within about one hundred yards of us we opened cut-offs and commenced magazine fire, the last shots ringing out when they were about ten or twelve yards away. The next second I was jerked on my feet by two burly Boers seizing my bandolier, my carbine wrenched out of my hand, and I saw Speight had been served in the same manner. We were then marched down into a hollow towards Van Niekirk’s farm by four of them and two armed Kaffir boys, the remainder pursuing the four men who had got away, but they fortunately did not succeed in wounding or capturing one of them. In about a quarter of an hour they returned, and then there was a big palaver, and very excited they seemed to get. Luckily Speight and I did not understand Dutch, or we certainly should not have been so unconcerned. Just then they were joined by a man in a white jacket, who evidently seemed to be someone in authority, although his appearance and dress would not have proclaimed it. They had a long talk with him, and we heard the name “Jansen” frequently mentioned, and angry faces were turned towards us as they pointed at us. Ultimately we were told to go, the man in the white jacket coming a little distance with us, saying to us before leaving that we should consider ourselves lucky for his timely arrival, as the majority of the Boers were for shooting us, on account of firing until the last moment, instead of laying down our carbines and putting our hands up..... I had rather a narrow shave myself, five bullets through my jacket, two through my pants. Not one of these touched my skin, although I was hit through the muscle of the leg below the calf, but not bad enough to go sick with, and it healed entirely in about a fortnight. In conclusion I heard from three different sources, one them being a Boer who was himself in the attack, and was captured some months afterwards, that the Boers had nine killed and nineteen wounded, five of the latter subsequently dying. “Jansen,” I discovered, was one of Trichardt’s leading men, and was amongst the killed.’ Coxen advanced to squadron sergeant major, and transferred to the Yorkshire Hussars. He committed suicide on the rifle range at the Bedern Yeomanry Drill Hall, York in June 1908. Sold with copied research.
Lot 154
A scarce Second War ‘Indian Army’ R.R.C. group of four awarded to Principal Matron Miss Leonora G. Hughes, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, reverse dated 1944, on lady’s bow riband; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Sister L. G. Hughes. Q.A.I.M.N.S.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, extremely fine, the IGS rare to unit (4) £1,200-£1,600 --- R.R.C. London Gazette 29 December 1944. The original Recommendation, submitted by His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief India, Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, states: ‘Miss Hughes has been Principal Matron of North Western Army since 12 October 1942 during which time the standard of nursing in this Army has been maintained in a high standard in spite of the many vicissitudes inseparable from the great shortage of nursing sisters and from the fact that a large proportion of existing staffs have been inexperienced and unqualified. She has been unremitting in her efforts to overcome these difficulties and through her own initiative, frequent personal contacts and skilful guidance has achieved an exceedingly large measure of success. In addition her devotion to duty has been further evidenced by the deep and active interest she has taken in the training of the new nursing cadre of the I.A.M.C., in the success of which has been largely due to her zeal and enthusiasm.’ Miss Leonora Gladys Hughes was born at Northwich, Cheshire, on 11 September 1890, and trained as a nurse at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, where she obtained her nursing certificate in 1919, and passed her Central Midwives Board examination on 14 August 1920. She was appointed Staff Nurse to the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service on 1 March 1921, having been appointed to the permanent Nursing Establishment of the Military Families and Military Isolation Hospital on 10 January the same year. Shortly thereafter, Miss Hughes volunteered for Imperial Service and embarked for Egypt in 1925, where she is recorded as serving with the Military Families Hospital, Abbassea, Cairo. Following her promotion to Sister in the Queen Alexandra’s Military Families’ Nursing Service, on 1 July 1926, she was posted to India where she served at the British Military Hospital at Peshawar during the ‘Red Shirt Rebellion’ of 1930-31, being one of only seventeen members of Q.A.I.M.N.S. to be awarded the Indian General Service Medal with clasp North West Frontier 1930-31. Appointed Matron on 25 January 1939, Miss Hughes served in India throughout the Second World War, being appointed acting Principal Matron and was awarded the Royal Red Cross, First Class. Post-War, she continued to serve in India and Burma, before returning to England on appointment as Principal Matron of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Southampton, following which she retired the service in 1947 with the honorary rank of Principal Matron. She died in Southampton on 18 April 1963. Sold with copied research.
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