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Three boxes of mixed military shirts and trousers including army and navy

A pair of British Army 1946 pattern battledress trousers, similar to the 1940 pattern, size 9 waist 40-41, together with a pair of unmarked dispatch rider's leggings (2)

A 1946 dated British Army Officer's Service Dress jacket and trousers, the jacket by Burberry's, Royal Military Police insignia

A quantity of 1950's British Army uniform including Battledress blouse with Royal Military Police insignia, Battledress trousers and shirts etc.

A British Army 19 set wireless with charging unit.

Three British Army officer’s greatcoats, one by a French maker, two are 1951 pattern

A mid century British Army khaki jacket, together with a no.1 dress jacket and trousers, both jackets with George VI crown badges and Royal Artillery buttons

A George VI British army no.2 service dress jacket with insignia including Royal Engineers buttons, no date visible, some moth damage

A pair of WWII Canadian army 1940 pattern trousers, size 13

A collection of post-war Royal Army Chaplain's Department uniform consisting of service dress, parade dress and mess dress

A WWI British army jacket with Suffolk shoulder titles, some moth damage, with label S.D. Jackets, dated 1915

A WWII Regulation Army officer's greatcoat, dated 1942 to inner pocket

A WWII British Army Battledress blouse, 1940 pattern, size no. 9, Raffles and Co., dated 1942, some minor moth damage, Royal Engineers insignia

Four post war British army no. 2 service dress jackets and trousers, one with insignia

A WWII kukri together with canvas and brown leather sheath with one of two knives. Provenance: Belived to have been standard issue for the 9th JAT Regiment of the Indian Army which Lt. Robert Michael John (1924-1980) joined after his 18th Birthday in May 1942

A Third Reich Era German Army officer's dress dagger, the blade by Herder Solingen, some corrosion to scabbard, split to ivorine grip. Provenance: Vendor's father Captain William Leonard Jenkin was in Military Government and this was taken from a prisoner

A quantity of WWII medals including 5th Army medal and Africa star with 8th Army bar etc to FRANK JEFFERIES a gunner who served in Italy and North Africa.

Three 19th Century Medals consisting of Victorian Crimea Medal named to No. 1826 GEORGE MEADES 44th REGT. with Sebastopol, Inkermann and Alma clasps, Victorian Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal named to 1826 CORPL. GEO. MEADES 44th REGT., Turkish Crimea Medal named to N.1826 CORPL. G. MEADES.44.REGT.

Three British army jack knifes, two WWII era, the other 1950's.

A collection of British insignia including Women's Land Army badges, ARP badge, shoulder titles etc

An 1897 pattern NCOs army officer’s sword, George V cypher and pierced basket guard, shagreen grip, plain blade stamped ‘Proved’, leather scabbard a/f. Provenance - owned by William Cary Dobbs, Irish, born 1870, joined November 1914 aged 44, severely wounded Ypres 1915 and Somme 1916, killed on The Menin Road 31.07.17.

Two Elizabeth II British Army officer's great coats

An Edward VII era Army Ordnance mess dress jacket with trousers, insignia and webbing etc, moth damage present, webbing a/f

A scarce pair of Swiss army  Edinsco (Dutch) produced Carl Zeiss Jena 8x30 from 1928. Serial number is 1931. Body is embossed with Swiss cross. Optics are clear.  

A collection of 8 x early 20th century military and field binoculars.  Makers include: Jumelle Paris Marine, Negretti & Zambra, Dolland London, T Armstrong (Manchester), 3 x others that are " unbranded ", 1 x marked "Army Regulation 1914".  Optics are clear and clean. 

A pair of vintage Japanese WWII Second World War Enomoto Kogaku EK Fujinon brass binoculars 6 x - 9.3. Serial number: 18287.  The binoculars are marked with an “EK” within a star, this being the manufacturer mark of Enomoto Kogaku Seiki KK, which made optical ordnance for the Japanese Army during WWII (and which changed its name to Fuji Kogaku after 1944. Appears to have retained its original leather straps and army issue canvas case.  Optics and collimation are good.   

Baigish BPO 7x 30 Russian Army Military Binoculars.  Manufactured by company KOMZ.  Full rubberised body casing, rubber end lens protection caps, hard plastic eye lens protection cap with nylon strap.  Optics are clear. 

Baigish BPO 7x 30 Russian Army Military Binoculars.  Manufactured by company KOMZ.  Full rubberised body casing, rubber end lens protection caps, hard plastic eye lens protection cap with nylon strap.  Optics are clear.

Baigish BPO 7x 30 Russian Army Military Binoculars.  Manufactured by company KOMZ.  Full rubberised body casing, rubber end lens protection caps, hard plastic eye lens protection cap with nylon strap.  Optics are clear.

PCT Baigish BPO 7x 30 Russian Army Military Binoculars.  Serial number: 011220.  Full rubberised body casing, rubber end lens protection caps, hard plastic eye lens protection cap with nylon strap.  Optics are clear.

LEV VERKMAN (RUSSIAN b. 1924),LENIN WITH SOLDIERS OF THE RED ARMY (LENIN CON I SOLDATI DELL'ARMATA ROSSA) 1956oil on canvas, initialledimage size 74cm x 52cm, overall size 96cm x 74cm Framed.

CHARLES MARTIN HARDIE RSA (SCOTTISH 1858 - 1916),THE MILKMAIDoil on canvas, signed and dated '80image size 31cm x 46cm, overall size 45cm x 60cm Framed.Note: Born in East Linton, East Lothian, Hardie entered the family business and worked as a carpenter. However, a family connection with the artist, John Pettie, encouraged him to study at the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh. Hardie became known for his pictures of Scottish rural life which often have a strong narrative element. He produced portraits, landscapes and genre scenes as well as historical paintings in both oils and watercolour. His 1899 'Curling at Carsebreck' is held in the permanent collection of the National Galleries Scotland. The picture had been commissioned to mark the Diamond Jubilee of The Royal Caledonian Curling Club. The sixty-one people depicted are all individual portraits of members. Hardie exhibited his first picture at The Royal Scottish Academy in 1877 and the popularity of his work is reflected by the fact that the Academy accepted a remarkable 175 further examples. Charles Martin Hardie's work is held in the collections of The National Galleries of Scotland, Museums & Galleries Edinburgh, Abbotsford House, Highland Council, Laing Art Gallery, The National Army Museum, The National Trust, The National Trust for Scotland, McLean Museum & Art Gallery, The Royal Scottish Academy, John Muir House, Westminster College (University of Cambridge) and others. Hardie's "The Studio Mirror" a 72 x 59cm oil on canvas was sold by Bonhams, New Bond Street, London on 11th July 2012 (lot 65) for £15,625 (premium).

* HAMISH CONSTABLE PATERSON (SCOTTISH 1890 - 1955),CRUMPLED MAN AT LE PONT ROYALE, PARISwatercolour on paper, signed and dated 1926image size 21cm x 31cm, overall size 46cm x 56cm Mounted, framed and under glass. Note: The third son of the artist James Paterson, cousin of Viola Paterson and thus a member of the distinguished Scottish painting family. He was actually named James Constable Paterson but was always known as Hamish. In 1910 he began studying at Edinburgh College of Art and his talent was obvious to all. He became an officer in The Black Watch during Army service in World War I and was severely wounded. Although he eventually recovered physically, his experiences left a lasting mental mark and he suffered from "depressions" for the rest of his life. His uncle William Bell Paterson gave him a show in Bond Street (London) in 1922 which included portraits of the former Prime Minister David Lloyd George and many titled people. Hamish's talent as a portraitist was widely admired but instead of accepting lucrative commissions he chose to live in France painting landscapes. It's possible that he sought a life away from the people he knew, perhaps embarrassed by his issues. The vendor believes the crumpled figure in the foreground to be Hamish Paterson. If he's right, Paterson depicts himself as a lonely and forlorn figure with his back turned to the spectacular view and the nearby Louvre. Although his work continued to be exhibited at the RSA regularly until 1949, many of these pictures were loaned by friends, fellow artists or collectors. His pictures were also shown at the RSW, RA, Royal Glasgow Institute and was included in "The Paterson Family" at Belgrave Gallery (London) in 1977. He retained lifelong friendships with some of the Kirkcudbright group including W.O. Hutchison, Robert Sivell and Mac Fleming. It seems Hamish Paterson largely financed his life in France with the sales of his pictures there and he only returned to the family home at Moniaive (Dumfriesshire) a couple of years before his death. Hamish Paterson's war experiences had a dramatic impact on the rest of his life but his watercolours show the influences and qualities which brought his father such success and had Hamish felt able to remain in Scotland, it's likely that his reputation in his own country would have better matched his abilities and talent.

Cigarette Cards - Players Uniforms of the Territorial Army; Decorations & Medals ; Cricketers etc, framed; an advertising print (5)

A selection of books to include A Spell at the Top by Brian Statham, and other cricket related books, Rural England by L G Seguin, three volumes of Survey of London, Medals and Decorations of the British Army & Navy by J H Mayo, and others, together with a Monte Lynch Benefit 1991 signed cricket bat Location: RWM

WWII PERIOD THIRD REICH OFFICER'S DRESS SWORD,maker Alexander & Coppel, curved steel blade stamped maker's mark, with brass guard and knucklebow, wirebound bakelite grip, original scabbard, 103cmProvenance: This was given to the vendor by their uncle who served as a Sergeant in the RAF. He was captain of a squad to disarm German prisoners after the war finished in 1945, it is believed that this sword came from a senior German army officer who had been serving a position in the Belsen Camp.Additional images now detail the blade.

Vintage WWII Official Press Photographs, The War on Land, Sea original vintage gelatin silver prints printed c.1940-1945, some dated, possibly all 1942 typically printed on sheets 20.5cm x 25.5cm, British Official Press photographs plus Planet News and Keystone, British Forces and their American and Soviet allies, issued by British War Office, British Ministry of Information, British Admiralty, British Air Ministry, subjects include 8th Army in North Africa, online images include the labels pasted verso, 17 with labels, plus 11 having lost their labels (28 prints in all)

WWI Cap Badges & Associated Tie-Pins: including an Austro-Hungarian 13th Shutzen Division Montello defeat 'tinnies' cap badge, a 'Watching over the Danube example, Defense of the 3rd Army in Carpathians 1914-15 badge, a 1922 March on Rome Fascist tie-pin and other Mussolini examples, trench art pendant and more (a lot)

Three Trout Rods, including a four-section hexagonal Army & Navy Stores example, a three-section hexagonal J.J.S. Walker Bamfton & Co. example, and a Hardy Brothers example (3) The Hardy AF

Spain & Portugal. Nantiat (Jasper), A New Map of Spain and Portugal, Exhibiting the Chains of Mountains With their Passes The Principal & Cross Roads, With Other Details requisite for the Intelligence of Military Operations, compiled by Jasper Nantiat, William Faden, January 1st. 1810, large engraved map with contemporary hand colouring on four sheets, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic title, table of the distances between towns, table of explanation and an 'advertisement' explaining the topography, slight staining and offsetting, each sheet approximately 570 x 785 mm, overall size if conjoined approximately 1130 x 1570 mm, contained in a contemporary marbled card slipcase with publisher's label to upper board, wear to extremities, together with Mentelle (Edme & Chanlaire Pierre Gregoire). New Map of Spain and Portugal, John Stockdale, 1808, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, inset map of the Straits of Gibraltar, oval cartouche. slight offsetting, 940 x 1255 mm, contained within a contemporary card slipcase with a printed label to the upper cover, with Arrowsmith (Aaron), publisher). Map of the Roads of Portugal, 2nd edition, with Additions and Corrections by Lieutenant James Cruttwell 83rd. Rgt. 1832, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, slight offsetting, edged with pale blue silk, marbled endpapers, 585 x 130 mm, contained in a contemporary marbled card slipcase with printed label to the upper cover, plus Egerton (T. publisher). A New Military Map of Portugal..., Drawn by Captn. Eliot, Rl. Artillery, 1810, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, some dust soiling and staining, 630 x 395 mm, contained in a contemporary card slipcase with a printed label to the upper cover, worn at extremitiesQTY: (4)NOTE:The first described item is a large and detailed folding map, published during the Peninsular War. Probably because of the war, Nantiat is most exercised with the borders between Spain and Portugal, especially the passes through which it was expected that Napoleon's army might come when the campaign season started in the spring. It is probable that Faden saw an opportunity to sell this detailed and large-scale map to officers in Wellington's army in Portugal, with the idea that it could be used as a reference for the campaign. In July of 1810 - six months after the publication of the map - the French military commander, Marshal Masséna led an army of 65,000 troops into Portugal, pushing on towards Lisbon, but was held back by the Lines of Torres Vedras a set of earthworks that had been built on the orders of Wellington. The campaign - significant for the emergence of large-scale guerrilla warfare - was eventually won by the British under the command of Lt. Gen. Sir Arthur Wellesley, later the 1st Duke of Wellington. It could be argued that the French defeat was sealed when Napoleon set out with a massive army on what proved to be the disastrous French invasion of Russia. This seriously depleted the French forces with the result that a combined allied army under Wellesley pushed into Spain, defeating the French at Salamanca and taking Madrid. In the following year, Wellington scored a decisive victory over King Joseph Bonaparte's army in the Battle of Vitoria. Pursued by the armies of Britain, Spain and Portugal, Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult, no longer able to get sufficient support from a depleted France, led the exhausted and demoralized French forces in a fighting withdrawal across the Pyrenees during the winter of 1813/1814. France, Napoleon and its European dominance would finally fall the following year at the battle of Waterloo.

* Moore (Lieutenant Joseph). Sixteen plates from 'Views taken at and near Rangoon', London, Kingsbury & Co. & Thomas Clay, October 1, 1825 - January 2, 1826, sixteen aquatint views by G. Hunt, H. Pyall, T. Fielding and R. Reeve, all with bright contemporary hand-colouring, five plates tipped on to near-contemporary paper, slight marginal dust soiling and staining, occasional short marginal closed tears, 'Inside View of the Gold Temple' with longer repaired marginal closed tear, but not affecting the printed image, each approximately 320 x 420 mm, together with two subscribers sheets from the same workQTY: (18)NOTE:The plates consist of. Scene upon the Terrace of the Great Pagoda at Rangoon..., Inside View of the Golden Temple..., View of the Lake and part of the Eastern Road from Rangoon..., Scene upon the Eastern View from Rangoon..., The Position of part of the Army previous to attacking the Stockades on the 8th July 1824, The Gold Temple of the Principal Idol Guadma..., Scene upon the Terrace of the Great Dagon Pagoda at Rangoon taken near the Great Bell, One of the Birman Gilt War Boats..., The Attack of the Stockades at Pagoda Point on the Rangoon River..., The Attack of the Dalla Stockade by the Combined Forces..., View of the Great Dagon Pagoda at Rangoon and Scenery Adjacent..., View of the Landing at Rangoon of part of the Combined Forces from Bengal and Madras..., The Attack on the Stockades near Rangoon by Sir Archibald Campbell K. C. B...., View of the Great Dagon Pagoda and Adjacent Scenery taken on the Eastern Road from Rangoon, The attempt of the Birmans to retake the Stockades of Dalla..., [and] The Storming of the Fort of Syriam...,

Gathorne-Hardy (Alfred Erskine, 1845-1918). British politician, barrister, railway executive and naturalist. A pair of personal scrap albums, c. 1898/1916, one album largely containing letters to Gathorne-Hardy on a variety of subjects including politics, fishing and field sports, publishing, railway matters, etc., correspondents including John Buchan, G.W. Balfour, George Edward Lodge, Horace Walpole, George O. Trevelyan, Lord Salisbury, Lord Lansdowne, C.B. Stuart Wortley, Knollys, George Earle Buckle, Earls of Cadogan, Derby, et al, the second album largely comprising news cuttings relating to Gathorne-Hardy and his published works, including reviews and correspondence from Westminster Gazette, Eastern Daily News, Daily Telegraph, Scotsman, The Field, Army and Navy Gazette, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, plus a few publisher's agreements from Longmans, 4 printed proof illustrations with detailed pencil notes for alterations in the margins by George E. Lodge (two initialled), plus a small quantity of other ephemera including 2 photographs, all pasted and tipped on to rectos and versos throughout, a total of approximately 150 autograph letters signed (mostly c. 1907-10) and a total of 260 pages, alphabetic thumb indexes at front of each volume, contemporary half calf, heavily rubbed, two covers detached and both spines deficient, folio (36 x 24 cm), together with:Gathorne-Hardy (Alfred E.), Gathorne Hardy, First Earl of Cranbrook: A Memoir with extracts from his Diary and Correspondence, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Longmans, Green & Co., 1910, 12 plates, occasional spotting, bookplates of the Earl of Cromer and John Ellison to front pastedowns, half calf gilt by Bickers & Son, rubbed and partly faded, 8voQTY: (4)NOTE:Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and the third son of Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, and Jane Orr. Gathorne-Hardy was an observant naturalist, a keen shot and fisherman. Besides the memoir of his father, Longmans also published The Salmon (1898), Autumns in Argyleshire with Rod & Gun (1900) and My Happy Hunting Grounds: with Notes on Sport and Natural History (1914).

Irish Manuscript Pedigree. The Pedigree of O'Kelly, 2 volumes, 18th/early 19th century, comprising approximately 77 leaves in total, one volume with general title written in a fine calligraphic hand followed by a leaf bearing the armorial bearings of the family in pen, ink and watercolour, volumes contain detailed early 19th century manuscript notes, with ten mounted leaves of 18th century notes & a related letter compiled by the Irish antiquary Chevalier Thomas O'Gorman (1732-1809) relating to the lineage and pedigree of the O'Kelly family, several leaves with manuscript pedigrees including some double-page, one folding (with closed tears) and also a seven leaf manuscript genealogical tree (two leaves having a series of small hand-painted armorials to one side), two large late 18th century folding vellum pedigrees of the family bound-in, one titled to verso 'Pedigree of the Family of Castle Kelly', all edges gilt, contemporary calf with inset cloth side panels to boards, upper board to one volume detached, light wear and few marks, large folio (approx. 57 x 45 cm) QTY: (2)NOTE:Tomás, Chevalier O'Gorman or Thomas O'Gorman (1732-1809) was an Irish soldier and genealogist. He was born in Castletown, County Clare, the son of Patrick O'Gorman with his first language being Irish. He was educated as a Medical Doctor at the Irish College, Paris and served with the Irish Brigade in the French army. He was created Chevalier by Louis XV. O'Gorman married a daughter of Count d'Eon, and from him inherited vast vineyards, which were lost in the French Revolution whereupon he retired to Ireland, where he pursued his antiquarian studies. From about 1764 he corresponded with the Irish antiquary Charles O'Conor (1710-1791) and compiled an impressive collection of Irish manuscripts. He also compiled pedigrees of Irish expatriates and also personally arranged for the Book of Ballymote to be given by the Irish College to the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.

H Poole & Co Army and Navy Tailors, a Victorian tin travelling case bearing the plaque for H Poole & Co, 36/37/38/39 Savile Row, London West, with further plaque Sir Francis Ley. Length 103 cm, width 33 cm, depth 11 cm. NOTE: Sir Francis Ley First Baronet (1846-1916) was the founder of Leys Malleable Castings, Vulcan Ironworks in Derby, he was also Lord of the Manor at Epperstone, Lazonby, Staffield, Glassonby and Kirkoswald in Cumbria.

[India & History] The History of The Indian Mutiny by Charles Ball with Battle Scenes, Views, Portraits & Maps in 2 volumes. The Decisive Battles of India from 1746 to 1849 by Col. Malleson 1888. Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India by Major Hodson 1859. The Land of The Veda; Being Personal Reminiscences of India by Rev. William Butler Illustrated. A Year's Campaigning in India by Julius Medley 1858. The History of the indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan 1856-7-8 with Maps, Plans and Engravings 1859. History of The Bengal Army by Captain Broome 1850 volume 1. History of British India by Hugh Murray 1857. The Armies of India Painted by Major Lovett Described by Major MacMunn 1911. The Myrtyr of Allahabad 1857. The Young Rajah by W.H.G. Kingston 1880. The Makers of British India by Davenport Adams. Western India before & during the Mutines by Jacob 1872. Forty-One Years in India by Earl Roberts 1911 and others similar (32)   

Postcard album containing approximately 320 cards relating to London including three Battle of Stepney, WW2, trams, charabancs, many Petticoat Lane, Billingsgate, Covent Garden, Piccadilly Circus, Earls Court, Crystal Palace, Streatham, Kings Road, Chelsea, Hammersmith, Fleet St, electric cab, trams, Thames, Enfield, army airship at Aldershot, Royal Exchange, Hyde Park, Fulham, London Types series, London Life series, railway stations, bomb damage, WW1 searchlights etc

DINKY; a collection of vintage toys comprising a boxed 702 D.H. Comet Airliner, an Army Covered Wagon, a 320 27B Harvest Trailer (incomplete), a 411 Castrol Tanker, a 172 Studebaker Land Cruiser, a 106 Austin Atlantic Convertible, all boxed, with a Benbros TV Series AA Motorcycle and Rider and a Crescent Toy Mobile Space Rocket, with various tinplate and other loose toys.

BRITAINS; a boxed British Army Covered Tender No.1433, with a No.1726 Royal Artillery Ammunition Limber, and a No.905 Hippopotamus (3).

A FRAMED AND AUTOGRAPHED DADS ARMY FIRST DAY COVER LIMITED EDITION 32/100 ALONG WITH THREE DADS ARMY MUGS

Six: Battery Quartermaster Sergeant J. Hollington, Royal Horse Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, unofficial rivets between first and second, and between fifth and sixth clasps (27369 Bomb: J. Hollington, A.B. R.H.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, top lugs removed (27369 Bomb: F. Hollington. G. Bty. R.H.A.); 1914 Star (27369 Sjt. J. Hollington. R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals (27369 B.Q.M. Sjt. J. Hollington. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (RA-27369 B.Q.M. Sjt: J. Hollington. R.H.A.) contact marks and edge bruising to the Boer War pair, therefore these nearly very fine; the rest better (6) £300-£400 --- John Hollington was born in Bethnal Green, Middlesex, on 2 June 1878 and attested for the Royal Horse Artillery at Dalston, Middlesex, on 19 April 1898. He served with both ‘A’ and ‘G’ Batteries in South Africa during the Boer War from 8 January 1900 to 2 September 1902, and was promoted Bombardier on 21 October 1901. He was advanced Sergeant on 24 May 1909, and saw further service during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 September 1914. Advanced Battery Quartermaster Sergeant, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 68 of April 1917. In civilian life Hollington was employed by Messrs Yardley & Co. Ltd, Stratford, and was congratulated by the company for ‘the cool and prompt manner in which he dealt with the fire caused by the incendiary bomb which fell through the Packing Shop roof in March 1941’, receiving a gratuity of £2. Sold with the recipient’s original Soldier’s Small Book; a photograph of the recipient on holiday at Yarmouth in 1931; and other research.

Pair: Bombardier T. Wainwright, Royal Horse Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, unofficial rivets between fifth and sixth clasps (81709 Bomb. T. Wainwright, P.B., R.H.A.) rank officially corrected; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (81709 Bomb: T. Wainwright. R.H.A.) light contact marks, very fine (2) £160-£200 --- Tom Wainwright was born in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, in 1872 and attested for the Royal Horse Artillery on 19 November 1890. He transferred to the Reserve on 19 November 1897, but was recalled to Army Service on 9 October 1899, and served with ‘P’ Battery in South Africa during the Boer War from 28 October 1899 to 6 September 1902. He was appointed Acting Bombardier on 1 August 1900, and was subsequently promoted Bombardier. He was discharged on 18 November 1902, after 12 years’ service. Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts (the latter which show his rank on the QSA roll as ‘Acting Bombardier’).

Six: Major W. Jones, Cheshire Regiment, late Northumberland Fusiliers and Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who was Mentioned in Despatches in both the Boer War and the Great War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Orange Free State, last clasp attached with unofficial rivets (1705 Col Sej: W. Jones. R: Welsh Fus:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1705 Clr:-Serjt: W. Jones. Rl: Welsh Fus:); 1914-15 Star (Lieut. W. Jones. North’d Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major W. Jones.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (1705 Clr. Sjt. W. Jones. Rl. Welsh Fus.) mounted for display, very fine and better (6) £500-£700 --- M.I.D. London Gazette of 10 September 1901. M.I.D. London Gazette 14 June 1918, with Egyptian Expeditionary Force. The Llangollen Gazette of 6 September 1918 records the mention as being for gallantry in Palestine. Walter Jones was born in Wrexham on 12 September 1867. He initially joined the East Yorkshire Regiment on 31 August 1886, but transferred to 2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 16 December 1886. He was promoted to Lance Corporal on 2 March 1887, and to Corporal on 18 July 1888. He saw steady promotion to Lance Sergeant in August 1891, Sergeant in October of the same year and Colour Sergeant in April 1894, having transferred to the 2nd Battalion in February 1892. He went with the Battalion to South Africa in October 1899, serving there until February 1902, and was Mentioned in Despatches (Q.S.A. roll shows him as attached to Volunteer Battalion.) In February 1902 he was posted to the 3rd Volunteer Battalion as Sergeant & Instructor. In May 1902 he was transferred to the 2nd Volunteer Battalion and served with them until his discharge on 30 August 1904. His Long Service Medal was awarded in April 1905. As an old soldier of 47 he joined up again on 12 September 1914, into the ranks. He was rapidly promoted over 3 days to Sergeant-Major, and was given a commission into the New Armies after serving 131 days. His Medal Index Card shows his theatre of entry into the war as Gallipolli, where he served with the 15th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, being wounded by a bomb in June 1915. He was repatriated home via Alexandria whilst attached to 1/5th East Lancashire Regiment. In November 1915 he was transferred to the 2nd Garrison Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Sold with copied discharge papers and record of service.

Six: Major J. Pragnell, Hampshire Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Transvaal (3172 Sejt. J. Pragnell, 2: Hampshire Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3172 Cr:-Serjt: J. Pragnell. Hampshire Regt.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Q.M. & Capt. J. Pragnell.) rank partially officially corrected on BWM; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (3172 C. Sjt: J. Pragnell. Hants: Regt.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (3172 C/Sjt. J. Pragnell. R. Hamps.) mounted court-style as worn, contact marks, nearly very fine (6) £400-£500 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1919 (Mesopotamia). John Pragnell ‘joined the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Royal Artillery at the age of 17, and as a Sergeant in the South African War was present at the Relief of Kimberley. During the Great War he served in the 6th Hampshire Regiment (Territorials) in India and Mesopotamia, and retired in 1930, after 40 years’ service with the Regiment. Since then Major Pragnell has attended regularly the reunion dinners of the War Veterans’ Association.’ (The recipient’s obituary in The Royal Hampshire Regiment Journal, August 1957, refers). Pragnell was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 101 of April 1909, and served during the Great War as Quartermaster of the 6th Battalion in Mesopotamia from 16 September 1917. Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient in old age.

Pair: Private G. E. R. Dartnell, Hampshire Regiment, later Hampshire Yeomanry Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (300 Pte. C. [sic] Dartnell. Vol: Coy. Hants: Regt.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (157 Pte. G. E. R. Dartnell. Hants: Yeo.) light contact marks, nearly extremely fine (2) £200-£240 --- George E. R. Dartnell was born in Lambeth, London, in 1882 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment at Winchester on 11 February 1902. He served with the Volunteer Company in South Africa during the Boer War, from 8 March to 31 July 1902, and was discharged on 30 August 1902. He subsequently enlisted in the Hampshire Yeomanry (Territorial Force), and was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 11 of January 1913. Sold with copied record of service and copied medal roll extracts.

Five: Private R. Blanchard, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Queen’s South Africa 1899-1901, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3294 Pte. R. Blanchard. Oxford: Lt Infy:) unofficial affixing between state and date clasps; 1914-Star, with copy clasp (6981 Pte. R. Blanchard. 2/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.) Battalion no. officially corrected; British War and Victory Medals (6981 Pte. R. Blanchard. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (6931 Pte. R. Blanchard. Oxf & Bucks. L.I.) very fine (5) £200-£240 --- R. Blanchard serve with the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front form 13 August 1914. Sold with photograph cut from a regimental chronicle of ‘Officers and other ranks, 2nd Battalion, 1914-19’ who went to France in August 1914 and came home in 1919, in which the recipient is identified.

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel F. T. T. Moore, 3rd Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, attached 7/8th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, late Imperial Yeomanry and Indian Army Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (Capt: F. T. T. Moore, Imp: Yeo:); Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (Captn. F. T. T. Moore, S. & T. Corps); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. F. T. T. Moore.) mounted for display, good very fine or better (4) £1,000-£1,400 --- Frederick Thornton Trevor Moore was born on 20 May 1870. He was appointed Second Lieutenant, from the Militia, in the Connnaught Rangers on 8 June 1889, and was promoted Lieutenant on 24 September 1890. He transferred to the Indian Army on 5 September 1891, and was promoted Captain, Indian Army on 8 June 1900; Captain, Imperial Yeomanry, from 11 January to 20 October 1902; and Major, Indian Army on 8 June 1907. He retired on 11 August 1911. According to his own statement of services, Moore was Adjutant of the 4th Cavalry, Indian Army; Adjutant of the 28th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, which he helped to raise and took it to South Africa in 1902; raised and commanded the 56th Camel Corps; commanded the 10th Mule Corps on the Tibet Expedition; and was Station Staff Officer at Jubblepore. During the Great War he applied for and was recommended to a vacant Majority in 3rd Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Battalion on 4 August 1914, and afterwards raised and commanded the 7th Service Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, and served with them for 8 months in France from 18 February 1916, until the battalion was amalgamated, being Mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig’s despatch of 7 November 1917 (London Gazette 1 January 1918). Lieutenant-Colonel Moore died at Richmond, Yorkshire, on 15 November 1925. Sold with copied research.

Pair: Captain C. G. Collins, Cameron Highlanders, who commanded the Howe Battalion of the Royal Naval Division throughout the Gallipoli campaign and ‘led a dashing life that made the romantic heroes of fiction seem pale’ Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (Lieut. C. G. Collins. 1/Camn. Hdrs.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. C. G. Collins. Cam. Hrs.) engraved naming, edge nick to QSA, otherwise about extremely fine and the recipient’s only extant medals (2) £700-£900 --- Charles Glen Collins was born in 1880, the grandson of William Collins who founded the well-known publishing firm of the same name. He was educated at Cheltenham College, where he was an outstanding sportsman, and the Royal Military College Sandhurst. Commissioned into the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders on 14 September 1898, he joined his regiment in Cairo after the conclusion of the Sudan campaign. His colourful unpublished memoirs in the National Army Museum (Archives 2007-07-02) give a full account of the pleasures of peacetime soldiering in a crack Highland regiment. He played on the regimental polo team, shot duck and left detailed accounts of regimental customs such as dinner nights and subaltern’s court martials. His time in Egypt was not without incident. He was challenged to a duel in Alexandria after an altercation over a Hungarian dancer and he was nearly lynched in Marseilles on his way home on leave. Having pushed a drunk cab driver, who fell over, word spread along the corniche that an English officer had killed a Frenchman. Memories of the Fashoda incident were fresh and a mob soon attacked the Hotel De Noailles where Collins was staying and in his pyjamas by that time. ‘Stones and missiles were every moment breaking the windows in the hotel. The affair of the drunken cabman was beginning to assume serious proportions. At the same time loud knocking at my door announced the arrival of the hotel manager who, badly frightened, very strongly suggested that I should go out and quiet the mob. I saw that this man had completely lost his head so I slammed the door and locked it in his face. I then pushed a large wardrobe in front of the door, drew my Claymore, which happened to be among my hand luggage and decided to put up the best fight possible under the circumstances. I then saw through the window that a large body of police, both on horse and on foot, had arrived. A few minutes later, imperative orders to open my door, with the repeated mention of “Police!” caused me to push aside the wardrobe and admit a Captain of the Gendarmes. He also appeared somewhat excited so I decided it would be wise to start off by handing him a hundred franc note.’ The Boer War, Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts and Mentioned in Despatches Collins survived the ordeal and was later recalled from leave in England to re-join his regiment in Cairo. It was held in readiness for immediate embarkation for South Africa. The 1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders arrived in South Africa on 23 March 1900 and fought their way to Pretoria as part of the 21st Brigade in General Ian Hamilton’s force. Their exploits were well recorded by Winston Churchill in his book Ian Hamilton’s March. They covered over 2,500 miles on foot. For his part, Collins noted that Churchill and the Duke of Marlborough, on the staff, were billeted next to their lines: ‘We were always entertained by observing that the Duke invariably did all the dirty work: pitching and striking their bivouac, cooking and cleaning the pots and pans while his cousin smoked his pipe and freely criticised him.’ On 10 June 1901, Collins was appointed Adjutant of 1st Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts with the rank of local Captain. He was only twenty-one years old. Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts was an irregular regiment of volunteers raised in December 1900 and commanded by the legendary colonial warrior, Johan Colenbrander, called ‘The White Whirlwind’ by the Zulus. They fought the Boers, General Beyers and his commando especially, in the harsh Northern Transvaal. The officers and Troopers were some of the toughest Rhodesians, South Africans, Australians and Americans. They were notoriously averse to the discipline exerted by a regular Adjutant but which was required if the regiment was not to run amok, as happened to ‘Breaker’ Morant and the Bushveldt Carbineers operating in the same area. Collins’s memoirs detail some of the incidents he dealt with, including the execution of three captured Boers who were dressed in British uniform and had lured some of the KFS into a lethal ambush. Colenbrander and his men captured many Boers, their laagers, wagons and cattle but not Beyers during the guerrilla war. Colenbrander recommended Collins to Lord Kitchener for an award on 23 December 1901: ‘Capt. C. G. Collins, S.O. and Adjt. 1st K.F.S. (1st Cameron Highlanders). To whom as my Staff Officer I have always left the organisational work of the Column and to whose capability I attribute in a great part captures and successes we have been able to make’; and again on 28 April 1902: ‘Adjutant 1st K.F.S. and Staff Officer to my column to whose untiring energy and most able management I owe in great measure any success we may have accomplished. To this officer I have on all occasions entrusted the whole of the organisation of the Column, and his assistance to me has always been of the most ready and practical order’ (The National Archives, Kew, WO108/140 & 141). Collins was Mentioned in Despatches in Kitchener’s final despatches (London Gazette 29 July 1902). Balmoral, bankruptcy, marriage and divorce in the U.S.’s ‘Gilded Age’ Collins was chosen as one of the three Cameron officers of the first King’s Guard to be mounted at Balmoral during King Edward VII’s reign. His memoirs contain much detail about life at Balmoral and the Royal family, some of it repeated in a series of articles about Collins published in the book Mississippi Gumbo by Bob Jones in 2003. Collins’s time at Balmoral got off to a shaky start when he nearly crashed his newly acquired car, a Panhard Levassor, into a coach containing the Princess of Wales and her five children including the future Kings Edward VIII and George VI. He was ordered to garage the car for the remainder of his duty. Collins was an inveterate gambler, at Monte Carlo and on the racecourse. He later attributed his financial difficulties to backing bills for his friend Charles Innes-Ker, a Gentleman Usher to the King. Whatever the cause, according to Collins it was ill-health, he resigned his commission in February 1904 before he was declared bankrupt in September 1904. By this stage he was in New York and conspicuous as a polo player and charming member of the Gilded Age set which included his friends the Vanderbilts, Goulds and Belmonts. In April 1904 he had married the American heiress Nathalie Schenck, the ‘Granddaughter of Brooklyn’. The marriage was short lived, not least because of his gambling. He lost a quarter of a million dollars on Boxing Day night in December 1904 playing baccarat at the Khedieval Club in Cairo. She divorced him in 1905. Collins spent the next ten years in recurrent financial difficulty in the United States, often reported in the U.S. papers. He set out to marry an heiress. In 1911 he was engaged to be married to Clara Parks, stepdaughter of the millionaire John H. Parks. The engagement ended when Princess Zoltykoff, the former burlesque dancer Ethel Clinton, accused him publicly of having appropriated two valuable Chinese vases from...

Pair: Sergeant L. P. Thatcher, Canadian Army Medical Corps, late Royal Army Medical Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (15720 Pte L. P. Thatcher. R.A.M.C.) attempt to obliterate part of surname; British War Medal 1914-20 (525172 A. Sjt. L. P. Thatcher. C.A.M.C.) otherwise very fine (2) £60-£80 --- Louis Percy Thatcher was born in Kennington, Surrey in May 1878. He served for 5 and half years with the Royal Army Medical Corps prior to moving to Canada. Thatcher was employed as a nurse, and resided at the Strathcona Hotel, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He served during the Great War as a Sergeant with the Canadian Army Medical Corps in the UK.

A Great War ‘Western Front 1918’ D.S.O. and M.C. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel R. C. Lloyd, commanding 1/1st Denbigh Yeomanry, later re-designated as 24th (Denbighshire Yeomanry) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. R. C. Lloyd.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Capt. R. C. Lloyd. Denbigh Yeo.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1919, the last five mounted as worn and contained in a contemporary fitted glazed display case with the D.S.O. still on its original integral ribbon brooch, obverse centre depressed on the D.S.O., otherwise good very fine, the TFWM rare to unit (6) £3,600-£4,400 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 2 April 1919; citation published 10 December 1919: ‘Captain (acting Major) Roderick Croil Lloyd, M.C., 1/1st Denbigh Yeomanry, attached 24th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. During the successful operations of 31st October 1918, in the vicinity of Tieghem, he showed great gallantry and able leadership in command of his Battalion. At one period of the operations he went forward to the leading Company Commander, and with him so effectively reorganised the Company under heavy fire that he was able to order it forward to the attack on the second objective. He then found the supporting Company, who had lost direction, reorganised it and placed it in position’. M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1919: ‘Captain (acting Major), 1/1st Denbigh Yeomanry.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 12 January 1918 (Egypt) and 5 July 1919 (France). Roderick Croil Lloyd was born in Flint, Mold, on 3 July 1885, the son of Major Edward Lloyd and his wife Ethel Mary. Educated at Cheltenham College, he was first commissioned in the Denbighshire Hussars Yeomanry as Second Lieutenant on 30 August 1902; Lieutenant, 1 April 1908; Lieutenant, Denbigh Yeomanry, from T.F. Reserve of Officers, 19 August 1914; Temporary Major, 7 May 1916; Acting Major whilst employed on H.Q. of a Yeomanry Regiment, 20 June 1918; Acting Lieutenant-Colonel, 9 November 1918, whilst commanding a Yeomanry Battalion. Relinquishing the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 3 December 1918, he was promoted substantive Lieutenant-Colonel on 7 March 1921. Post War he commanded the 5th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers from 10 September 1920. Serving with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force from 3 March 1916 with the Denbighshire Yeomanry, on 1 March 1917 whilst in Egypt it was re-designated 24th (Denbighshire Yeomanry) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers Territorial Force. Leaving Egypt on 30 April 1918, the Battalion arrived in France on 18 May 1918. On 21 June 1918, it became part of 94th Brigade, 31st Division and took part in the following actions: battle of St Quentin, battle of Bapaume, battles of Arras, Estaires, Hazebrouck, defence of the Nieppe Forest, attack at La Becque, capture of Vieux Berguin, battle of Ypres including the action at Tieghem. War Services of Army Officers (1920) records that Lieutenant-Colonel Lloyd was wounded. Post War he returned to his estate and probably continued his former career as a Land Agent. He married Joan Tate on 29 April 1924, whose family owned the well-known Tate & Lyle Company. He was a J.P. of Denbigh and died there in 1971 aged 86 years.

Four: Sergeant R. A. Harris, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914 Star, with copy clasp (6940 L. Cpl. R. A. Harris. 2/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (6940 Cpl. R. A. Harris. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5373053 Sjt. R. A. Harris. Oxf: & Bucks. L.I.) edge bruising to last, nearly very fine (4) £100-£140 --- Ronald A. Harris attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 August 1914. Sold with the recipient’s card identity disc.