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Pair: Forewoman Barbara A. Shaw, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (380 Fwn. B. A. Shaw. Q.M.A.A.C.) mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, the miniatures lacking M.I.D. oak leaves, good very fine (2) £100-£140 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 10 July 1919. Miss Barbara Alison Shaw served as a Forewoman with the Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 June 1917 until the cessation of hostilities, and was Mentioned in Despatches. Sold together with two British Red Cross Society lapel badges; a Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps lapel badge; and copied research.

A scarce Great War ‘Italian theatre’ M.S.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant W. S. Newton, 1st/1st (Buckinghamshire) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (599 L. Cpl. W. S. Newton, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (599 Sjt. W. S. Newton. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (265038 Sjt. S. W. Newton 1/Bucks. Bn: Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (235038 Sjt: S. W. Newton. Bucks: Bn: Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.) with Buckinghamshire Battalion cap badge, generally very fine or better (5) £180-£220 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 1 January 1919 (Italy). M.I.D. London Gazette 30 May 1918 (Italy). William S. Newton served during the Great War with the 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in the French theatre of war from 30 March 1915. He advanced to Sergeant, and moved with the Battalion for service in Italy.

Pair: Lieutenant R. J. Scott, Royal Air Force, who died of wounds following an aeroplane accident in Palestine on 7 May 1918 British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. J. Scott. R.A.F.) nearly extremely fine (2) £100-£140 --- Reginald Jacob Scott was born in Brandon, Manitoba, on 5 December 1896 and attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Winnipeg on 12 February 1916. Posted to the Canadian Army Service Corps, he served with them during the Great War from 1 April 1916, before being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps on 30 August 1917. He served with 111 Squadron in Palestine and died of wounds received following an aeroplane accident on 7 May 1918. Sold with copied research.

Three: Captain R. S. Henderson, Indian Army Reserve of Officers British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. S. Henderson.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (Capt. R. S. Henderson.) good very fine (3) £180-£220 --- Robert Sharp Henderson was born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, on 14 June 1891 and was educated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow University. A solicitor by profession, he served during the Great War as a Captain in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers, and subsequently served as Procurator-Fiscal of Kilmarnock. He died in Truro, Cornwall in December 1981, aged 90.

Three: Second Lieutenant A. G. J. O’Sullivan, Mesopotamian Railways, later Military Works Services British War and Victory Medals (A. G. J. O’Sullivan, Meso. Rlys.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Engineer A. G. J. O’Sullivan. M.W.S.) mounted as worn, good very fine, scarce (3) £200-£240 --- Anthony George J. O’Sullivan served as a civilian worker with the Mesopotamian Railways, based at Basrah, during the Great War from 1916 to 1918, and was subsequently commissioned Second Lieutenant into the Indian Army Reserve of Officers. He saw further service with the Military Works Service during the Third Afghan War as Chief Engineer of the Waziristan Force. Sold together with a photographic image of an armoured train in Mesopotamia, and Indian troops involved in the railway’s construction.

Eight: Subadar Fida Hussain Shah, 16 Punjab Regiment India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (3615 Sepoy Eida Hussain Shah, 1/33/Pjbs.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (298 Naik Fida Hussain Shah. 3-16-Punjab R.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (Jemdr. Fida Hussain Shah, 3-16 Punjab R.); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, the first two polished, better than good fine, otherwise very fine and better (8) £180-£220 --- Fida Hussain Shah enrolled into the 1/33 Punjab Regiment (which became 3/16 Punjab Regiment) on 19 February 1917. He was appointed Jemadar on 1 June 1935, and promoted to Subadar on 7 August 1940. He still appears as such in the Indian Army List for April 1945.

Seven: Lieutenant W. H. Bosworth, Royal Indian Army Service Corps India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (7144615 S-Sgt. W. H. Bosworth, I.A.S.C.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (7144615 S-Sgt. W. H. Bosworth. R.I.A.S.C.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, India (S-Serjt. W. H. Bosworth, R.I.A.S.C.) nearly extremely fine (7) £180-£220 --- William Hurley Bosworth was born in Birmingham on 10 March 1902, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Bosworth, Supply and Transport Corps, and attested for the Connaught Rangers at Jullundur on 10 March 1920. Transferring initially to the Manchester Regiment, and then to the Indian Army Service Corps with the rank of Sergeant on 6 December 1921, he was advanced Staff Sergeant on 6 December 1924, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Indian Army Order 255 of 1939. Appointed Sub-Conductor on 18 June 1940, he served with the Royal Indian Army Service Corps throughout the Second World War, and was commissioned Assistant Commissary, with the rank of Lieutenant, on 15 September 1943. Sold with copied research. For the recipient’s father’s medals, see Lot 192.

Eight: Colour Sergeant A. Runciman, Gordon Highlanders India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Mohmand 1933 (2872047 Pte A Runciman Gordons); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (2872047 CSjt A Runciman Gordon) mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted, the medals all later issues/official replacements, with both the IGS and LS&GC stamped ‘R’ for Replacement, nearly extremely fine Pair: Private J. E. McCullough, 78th Canadian Infantry British War and Victory Medals (234236 Pte. J. E. Mc Cullough. 78-Can. Inf.) good very fine (10) £180-£220 --- Note: Although the Gordons as a whole did not take part in the Mohmand Expedition of 1933, a small detachment from the 1st Battalion, approximately 47 Officers, N.C.Os and men, accompanied it in the capacity of clerks, provost staff and other similar support roles. Runciman is confirmed on the roll as having served attached to HQ, Peshawar Brigade. Any such awards to Imperial troops are scarce.

Four: Seaman G. Skinner, Royal Naval Reserve 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (7054C. G. Skinner. Smn. R.N.R.) mounted court-style, good very fine (4) £60-£80 --- George Skinner was born in Ross-shire, Scotland, on 4 June 1906 and enrolled in the Royal Naval Reserve on 15 June 1925. He served with them during the Second World War, and subsequently transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps in 1946. Sold with copied record of service.

Eight: Captain G. D. Habesch, Mercantile Marine and Royal Fleet Auxiliary 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Burma Star, 1 clasp, Pacific; War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (G. D. Habesch.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Commemorative medal for the 40th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1945-85, bronze, the first seven mounted court-style as worn, the last loose, nearly extremely fine (8) £200-£240 --- Geoffrey David Habesch was born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, on 5 April 1924 and after gaining his 2nd Mates Certificate joined he Merchant Navy Officers Reserve Pool and the Empire Prowess on the Russian Convoy JW-67. He saw further service in a variety of wartime theatres from the North Atlantic convoys to support of the North African campaign and the Far East and Pacific campaigns. After the War he had a short period with the Royal Army Service Corps before transferring to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service wither he saw further service during the Korean War. Habesch remained with the R.F.A. until 1960 when he took up the first of his shore appointments with H.M. Colonial Service, employed as Senior Marine Officer with the Hong Kong Marine Department. Retiring from Hong Kong in 1972, he subsequently held various consultancy appoints for a number of different governments, in Europe, the Middle East, and Central and South America. He died in Hull on 7 March 2007. Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient.

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel M. H. Jones, South Wales Borders, later Army Cadet Force 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; Cadet Forces Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Capt. M. H. Jones.) mounted as worn, edge bruising to last, generally good very fine (4) £80-£120 --- Mansell Howard Jones was born in Swansea on 27 June 1914 and was educated at Swansea University. He served during the Second World War initially in the ranks of the South Wales Borderers, before being commissioned Second Lieutenant on 10 March 1945. Transferring to the Army Education Corps following the cessation of hostilities, he later served in the Cadet Forces, with the Combined Cadet Force at Prices School, Fareham, and was awarded his Cadet Forces Medal in 1958 (London Gazette 28 November 1958). He relinquished his commission on 31 July 1974, and was granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He died in Hereford in August 1996. Sold with copied research including various photographic images of the recipient.

Four: Flying Officer C. H. C. Nicholls, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R., 1st issue (859579 Cpl. C. H. C. Nicholls. A.A.F.); Cadet Forces Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Fg. Off. C. H. C. Nicholls. R.A.F.V.R. (T)) nearly extremely fine (4) £200-£240 --- Charles Henry Cecil Nicholls was born in West Ham, Essex, on 28 February 1901 and served as a Leading Aircraftman in the Barrage Balloon Squadrons in Britain in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War. Advanced Corporal, he was awarded his Air Efficiency Award on 10 February 1949. Commissioned Second Lieutenant for service on the Special List with the Army Cadet Force in Gloucestershire on 1 April 1948, Nicholls was promoted Lieutenant on 12 June 1950, and was appointed to a commission as Flying Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 18 March 1958. He was awarded his Cadet Forces Medal on 1 April 1960, and resigned his commission on 22 October 1961. He died in Rhuddlan, Wales, in 1981. Sold with copied research.

Pair: Private D. Johns, Army Air Corps War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (14031100 Pte D Johns AAC) the GSM a slightly later issue, about extremely fine (2) £60-£80

Pair: Major N. E. Smith, Royal Army Service Corps, later Royal Army Ordnance Corps General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (Capt. N. E. Smyth. RASC); General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, Borneo, Northern Ireland, second clasp unofficially attached, as issued (Capt. N. E. Smyth. R.A.O.C.) mounted court-style as worn; together with a small silver identity tag, light contact marks, otherwise very fine (2) £200-£240 --- Neil Erskine Smyth was born at Bristol on 3 October 1934 at Bristol and was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps on 6 August 1954, and was promoted Lieutenant on 6 August 1956, and Captain on 6 August 1960. He transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on 15 July 1965, and was promoted Major on 30 June 1967. He retired on 3 July 1971.

Seven: Corporal S. P. Edwards, Royal Regiment of Wales, late Cheshire Regiment General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24768996 Pte S P Edwards Cheshire) impressed naming; U.N. Medal, on UNPROFOR ribbon; N.A.T.O. Medal 1994, 1 clasp, Former Yugoslavia, with plastic case of issue and ribbon bar; N.A.T.O. Medal 1994, 1 clasp, Kosovo; Iraq 2003-11, no clasp (24768996 Cpl S P Edwards RRW) laser-engraved naming, with named card box of issue; Jubilee 2002; Accumulated Campaign Service Medal 1994 (24768996 LCpl S P Edwards Cheshire R) laser-engraved naming, with named card box of issue, together with companion set of 7 miniature dress medals, both sets mounted court-style for wearing, nearly extremely fine (8) £260-£300 --- Stephen Patrick Edwards was born on 23 July 1968 and enlisted into the Cheshire Regiment at Carlisle on 14 December 1989. He transferred to the Royal Regiment of Wales on 13 July 2000, and was discharged in the rank of Corporal on 28 February 2006. The following extracts are taken from the Testimonial on his Certificate of Discharge: ‘Corporal Edwards joined the Army in December 1989 and was sent to the Prince of Wales’s Division Depot at Litchfield to complete his basic training. The course was physically and mentally demanding, with robustness, team spirit and character required throughout. Corporal Edwards joined the 1st Battalion The Cheshire Regiment in November 1990 and quickly settled in to life in the Field Army. He completed exercises in Belize, The United States, Canada and Poland along with numerous exercises in Germany and United Kingdom. Corporal Edwards has a wealth of operational experience which has included service in Northern Ireland (3 times), the Balkans (both Bosnia (twice) and Kosovo (once)) and more latterly Iraq (3 times).’ Sold with copied coloured group photograph of the ‘Commanding Officers TAC 13-man patrol “The Infidels”, all men named including Corporal Edwards; together with copied Army Form B 108A (Certificate of Service), Army Form B 108X(2) (Certificate of Service dated 30 January 2006), and copied Certificate for award of UN Medal.

Three: Private J. Winfield, 8th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (16342 Pte. J. Winfield. Oxf. & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (16342 Pte. J. Winfield. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) very fine (3) £100-£140 --- John Winfield, a native of Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, was born in 1894 and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 17 November 1914. He served with the 8th (Pioneer) Battalion during the Great War in France and Salonika, and was discharged on transfer to the Army Reserve on 30 May 1919. His conduct on discharge was described as follows: ‘During the whole of his four and a half years service Private Winfield has been one of the finest men in the battalion. His reliability and efficiency and example to his fellow soldiers has been most marked. His conduct and Character have always been excellent.’ Sold together with the recipient’s two original fibre identification-tags, several original photographic postcards of the recipient in uniform, two of which identify him and his brother, and a larger group photograph with civilians taken in 1919, presumed to have been taken in Salonika; the recipient’s original Protection Certificate (Army Form E.11), his Certificate of Employment During the War (Army Form Z.18), together with his brothers Certificate on Transfer to Reserve (Army Form Z.21), Soldiers Demobilisation Account (Army Form W.5065), and Certificate of Employment During the War, (Army Form Z.18) and a white metal Light Infantry cap badge, converted to a pin badge.

Waterloo 1815 (Arm. Sergt. D. Farnsworth, 3rd Bat. 1st Foot. or R. Scots) last letter of unit obscured by replacement silver ball and bar suspension, generally very fine and a rare rank £2,400-£2,800 --- Armourer Sergeant David Farnsworth served in Captain James Cowell’s No. 1 Company at Waterloo. No other regiment in the British army suffered greater casualties amongst its officers at Quatre Bras and Waterloo, as a percentage, than the Royal Scots. Of the 42 officers of this regiment at Waterloo, only nine remained unwounded, these including the Paymaster, the Surgeon and the two Assistant Surgeons. Seven officers were killed. Most of these casualties occurred at Quatre Bras where the regiment distinguished itself in a particular manner, receiving repeated attacks from the lancers and cuirassiers whilst formed in square. According to the muster lists Farnsworth was still serving when the battalion was disbanded at Canterbury on 24 April 1817. It appears that he was afterwards transferred to the 1st Battalion Royal Scots and made his way to London where he was robbed of a substantial sum of money, most likely his final pay settlement from the 3rd Battalion. At the Old Bailey on 21st May, 1817, ‘Sarah Margaret Austin was indicted for stealing, on the 15th of May, from the person of David Farnsworth, one purse, value 6d.; four guineas, one half guinea, one 7-shilling coin [third-guinea], six £5 bank notes, and twenty-two £1 bank notes, his property.’ David Farnsworth made the following statement in court: ‘I am a Sergeant in the 1st Regiment of the Royal Scots. On the 15th of May, about a quarter before one o’clock in the morning, when I got to my lodgings at the Eagle and Child, in St Martins-le-Grand, they were gone to bed - I had the money in my possession. I knocked at the door, and the prisoner came up to me, and said, as I was locked out, I had better go along with her. I told her she had better go home. She caught hold of me, and put her hand into my pocket, took out my purse, and ran away down a passage. I went after her, but lost her. The watchman came up - I went to the watch-house with him, and described her to him - They said they knew her well, and went to her lodgings, and found a padlock on the door. The next morning, I saw her talking in the street to another woman, and gave her in charge. Nothing was found on her. I am positive she is the woman. I never saw her before - I knew her by her voice and person. I lost £57-1s-6d in all - £52 in notes, and the rest in gold - my purse was in my left-hand pocket.’ After further statements from watchmen and others, Sarah Austin, aged 26, was pronounced guilty and transported for seven years. Nothing further is known of Sergeant David Farnsworth. Sold with copied medal roll entry and Old Bailey trial details.

‘I have never witnessed a more gallant charge than was made upon the enemy’s infantry by the heavy brigade of the King’s German Legion under major-general von Bock, which was completely successful, and the whole body of infantry, consisting of three battalions of the enemy’s first division, were made prisoners.’ (Wellington) ‘The boldest charge of cavalry in the whole war.’ (French General Foy) The important and rare ‘Garcia Hernandez 1812’ casualty Waterloo Medal awarded to Lieutenant Augustus Fumetty, 2nd Light Dragoons, King’s German Legion, who was wounded in this historic cavalry action when he led his troop, with that of Captain Baron von Marschalck, in charging a ‘third square’ formed of those who had escaped from the destruction of the first two squares, which they broke and completely overthrew; upon the wreck of these routed battalions making another stand, ‘Marschalck and Fumetty led their troopers a second time to the charge, but their little force had become too much reduced, and the horses were too fatigued to admit of any impression being made upon the enemy... Captain von Uslar was killed, Lieutenant Fumetty was wounded, and several men and horses were struck down.’ Waterloo 1815 (Lieutenant Fu[m]ette, 2nd Reg. Light. D[ra]g. K.G.L.) fitted with silver clip and small ring suspension, dark toned, considerable contact marks commensurate with a long serving cavalry officer, a few letters of the naming now weak but still discernable, otherwise nearly very fine and the only named medal to an officer casualty of the historic action of Garcia Hernandez £8,000-£10,000 --- Augustus Fumette, so named in the Army List of 1810, or Fernetti [A.L. 1815], or Fumetti [A.L. 1817, 1821, 1830, and in Beamish’s history of the K.G.L.) was henceforth, from the Army List of 1840 to the announcement of his obituary in the Army List of 1862, styled as Joannes Justinus von Fumetti or Fumetty. Fumetti served as an N.C.O. in the 2nd Heavy Dragoons K.G.L. (designated Light Dragoons from 1813) in the Baltic campaign of 1807. He was commissioned as a Cornet on 27 February 1809, and promoted to Lieutenant on 24 March 1812. He served in the Peninsula and South of France from January 1812 until April 1814, being present in 1812 at the combats of Castrejon (18 July), Salamanca (22 July), Garcia Hernandez (23 July), Venta del Pozo (23 October), San Munoz (17 November), and in 1814, at Vic Bigorre (19 March) and the battle of Toulouse (10 April). He afterwards served in the Netherlands in 1814 and the campaign of 1815 including the battle of Waterloo. He was slightly wounded at Garcia Hernandez on 23 July 1813, or, as it was termed in the London Gazette, ‘an Affair with the Enemy’s Rear-Guard near La Serna’. Garcia Hernandez Following the bloody victory at Salamanca on 22 July 1812, the allied troops designated to pursue the French General Foy were under the command of Major-General Eberhardt Otto George Von Bock, who had taken temporary command of the Cavalry Division after Le Marchant had been killed and Stapleton-Cotton wounded. These troops consisted of Baron Von Bock's Heavy Brigade, comprising 1st Heavy Dragoons K.G.L. (3 Squadrons, each of 100 men) and the 2nd Heavy Dragoons K.G.L. (3 Squadrons, each of 100 men); and General George Anson's Light Brigade, comprising the 11th Light Dragoons (1 Squadron of 105 men) and the 16th Light Dragoons (1 Squadron of 105 men). The action that followed on the 23rd of July is best described by N. Ludlow Beamish’s classic History of the King’s German Legion: ‘The French infantry and artillery being at first, concealed by the inequalities of the ground, the brigades were ordered by Lord Wellington to attack the cavalry, and their pace was accordingly increased to a gallop. The German regiments, confined by the narrowness of the valley, had been unable during their progress through it, to move upon a larger front than sections of threes, and now, being an echelon of squadrons, they attempted to form line upon the first squadron. Who without waiting hurried forward, however, by the excitement of the moment, the leading squadron of the first regiment under Captain Von Hattorf - having also in front General Bock; the field officers of the regiment and Lt. Col. May of the English artillery, who had brought the order from Lord Wellington - dashed on without waiting for the remaining squadrons, and made straight for the enemy's cavalry.’ ‘The left wing of the French horsemen retired from the charge of Anson's brigade and those in front went about on the approach of Hattorf's squadron; but in pursuit the flank of the squadron became exposed to the fire of the infantry on the heights, by which Colonel May and several men and horses were wounded, and the pursuit was discontinued.’ ‘Captain Gustavus Von Der Decken, who commanded the third or left squadron of the regiment, seeing that if he advanced according to the order given, his flank would be exposed to the fire of a dense infantry square, formed the daring resolution of attacking it with his single squadron.’ ‘This square stood on the lower slope of the heights and obedient to the signal of their chief, the German troopers advanced against it with order and determination, while a deafening peel of musketry from the enemy greeted their approach. Arriving within a hundred yards of the point of attack, the gallant squadron officer, struck by a ball in the knee, fell mortally wounded, and Lieutenant Von Voss, with several men and horses, were killed; but instantly, Captain Von Uslar Gleichen, who commanded the left troop, dashing forward, placed himself at the head of the squadron and re-animating his followers by words and example, while another shower of bullets carried destruction among their ranks, the intrepid soldiers forced onward and bringing up their right flank, appeared before the enemy's bayonets on two sides of the square.’ ‘The two front ranks, kneeling, presented a double row of deadly steel, while in the rear of these, the steady muskets of four standing ranks were levelled at the devoted horsemen. At this critical moment, when the sword was about to be matched against the firelock, and the chivalrous horsemen against the firm foot soldier - when victory hung yet in equal scales - an accidental shot from the kneeling ranks, which killing a horse, caused it and the rider to fall upon the bayonets - gave the triumph to the dragoons!’ ‘For a path was now opened, and the impatient troopers rushing in amid the blazing fire, while men and horses fell fast before the muskets of the French infantry, their firm formation was destroyed, and the whole battalion were either cut down or taken prisoner.’ ‘Captain Von Reitzenstein, who commanded the second squadron, seeing the success which had attended the daring onset of his comrades on the left, and being also impeded in his forward movement by the difficulties of the ground, decided upon following up the discomfiture of the infantry, and attempting the second square, which stood on the edge of the heights. He was received with a steady and destructive fire, by which Lieutenant Heugel was killed and Lieutenant Tappe severely wounded; but the moral force of the French infantry had been shaken by the fearful overthrow which they had just witnessed, and some timid individuals leaving their ranks, Reitzenstein rushed in with his ready followers; the square broke, and the greater part of the battalion was cut down or captured.’ ‘A third square was instantly formed by those few who had escaped from destruction, and some cavalry came to thei...

Six: Lance-Corporal F. Golby, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (48797 Pte. F. Golby, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (8602 Pte. F. Golby. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (5374362 Pte. F. Golby. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Coronation 1937 (L.Cpl. F. Golby. Oxf. & Bucks. Lt. Infty.) contemporarily engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (5374362 Pte. F. Golby. Oxf. & Bucks L.I.) contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine and better (6) £180-£220 --- Frederick Golby attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 July 1915. During the Great War he is also noted as serving with the West Yorkshire Regiment. He is confirmed on the medal roll for the 1937 Coronation medal as a Private serving at the Depot, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal that same year. Sold together with a postcard photograph of the recipient.

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Lt. H. Watson, 33rd Madras N,I.) good very fine £500-£600 --- Hugh Watson was born on 31 December 1831, and educated at Perth Academy and Addiscombe. Nominated for the H.E.I.C. Army by Major-General Sir Archibald Galloway, K.C.B. [one of the distinguished heroes of the Defence of Delhi in 1804 and now Chairman of the H.E.I.C.] and recommended by his father Hugh, a farmer from Keilor by Coupar, Angus. He was gazetted Ensign on 13 June 1851, and sailed for India on the Gloriana on 8 September 1851; Lieutenant, 23 November 1856; Captain, 13 june 1863; Second-in-Command 2nd Hyderabad Cavalry Contingent 1863; Major, 13 June 1871; Lieutenant-Colonel, 13 June 1877; Commandant 1st Hyderabad Cavalry Contingent 1882; retired with honorary rank of Major-General, January 1882. He was actively engaged during the Indian Mutiny in 1857-58, and was employed on field service with the Kamptee movable column in the Saugor and Nerbudda territories and Kalpore district, from July 17, 1857, to April 30, 1858, and was present at the affairs at Balakote, Nursinghur, Patun, Junapanee, and Khonee Pass, and the engagement at Kuttengee (Medal). This latter action at Kuttengee [Kitanji] is specifically mentioned in the History of the Indian Mutiny, by Kaye & Malleson: ‘Between this place and Jabalpur, close to a village called Kitanji, flows a navigable river, the Hiran, the passage across which it was thought possible, might be disputed by the 52nd [Native Infantry rebels]. To secure the means of crossing it, a party consisting of the grenadier company 33rd Madras Native Infantry, under Lieutenant Watson, and a few troopers of the 4th, under Major Jenkins, left camp at two o’clock in the morning of the 26th. At daybreak, as they were nearing Kitanji, Jenkins and Watson, who were riding in front of their column, were suddenly fired at, and almost immediately surrounded. How they escaped it is difficult to imagine. It is however a fact that, notwithstanding the efforts of the Sipahis, they fought their way through them and reached their men. These were not numerous enough to take the aggressive. Jenkins, therefore, drew them up on a hill difficult to escalade, and there awaited the arrival of the main column. To this column on the point of starting about six o’clock in the morning, information arrived, in an exaggerated form, of the events at Kitanji. The two European officers were reported killed, and the rebels were said to be pressing on in force. Eager to avenge their officers and relieve their comrades, the gallant native soldiers of the coast hurried forward. On reaching the mouth of the gorge leading to Kitanji, they found the 52nd had taken up a very strong position, both flanks covered by thick jungle. Without hesitating they opened fire from the guns, and then attacked the rebels with bayonet, and drove them before them. On reaching Kitanji they were joined by Jenkins and Watson.’ In his despatch to the Adjutant General of the Army, Lieutenant-Colonel J. Millar, commanding Kamptee Movable Column, Camp Kuttunghee, 28 September 1857, reported: ‘On our approaching Kuttunghee, we were agreeably surprised by Major Jenkins and Lieutenant Watson riding up to the column, they had succeeded in cutting their way through the ambuscade in the dark, and had concealed themselves in the hills until the advance of the column enabled them to rejoin us. Lieutenant Watson, I regret to say was wounded on the cheek by a musket ball, and knocked off his horse; his escape was most miraculous.’ Major-General Hugh Watson died on 12 June 1887, at Tower House, Grandtully, Perthshire.

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Ensign H L Ramsbotham 37th Bgl. NI.) good very fine £300-£400 --- Henry Lindsay Ramsbotham was born in London on 18 December 1837, and baptised at St Botolphs, Bishopsgate. He was educated at Charterhouse, was nominated for the H.E.I.C. Army by John Masterman M.P. and recommended by his father Doctor Francis H. Ramsbotham, M.D., of Portman Square. He was examined and passed as a Cadet on 25 June 1856, took the overland route to India to join at Alexandria on 5 August 1856. Gazetted Ensign on 4 September 1856, and promoted to Lieutenant on 30 April 1858. The Indian Mutiny medal roll gives his services thus: ‘Ensign H. L. Ramsbotham doing duty with late 37th Regiment Native Infantry and subsequently a Lieutenant in 47th Regiment Native Infantry. Present with the 37th Regiment Native Infantry when that regiment and other troops mutinied at Benares on 4th June 1857 and was driven out of the station by European troops.’ The roll is noted: ‘Received by Doctor Ramsbotham 1st January 1863.’ Lieutenant Ramsbotham died on 18 January 1862 at his family home, No. 8 Portman Square, of ‘Accidental inhalation of Chloroform used for a medical purpose.’ In April 1855, Lieutenant Ramsbotham’s mother Mary was arrested for stealing four cambric handkerchiefs, the property of Mr John Moule, a draper of 54, Baker Street. The trial and scandal which followed was widely reported in the national press of the time. Questions were asked as to why a lady in such a privileged position in society would be driven to steal. Eventually, having been on bail of £1,000, she was dismissed at trial after a split jury. Subsequently, whenever a lady of position was tried for a similar theft, this case was generally stated as part of the defence.

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Lt. & At. J. S. D. Bolton. Sawunt. Warree. Lcl. Cps.) toned, good very fine £400-£500 --- John Shand Douglas Bolton was born on 20 August 1833. He was examined and passed for the H.E.I.C. Army on 26 March 1851, and sailed for India on the Ripon. Gazetted Ensign, 14 June 1851; Lieutenant, 23 November 1856; Captain, 14 June 1863; Major, 14 June 1871; Lieutenant-Colonel, 14 June 1877; Colonel, 1 July 1881. In 1857 he served with the Persian Expeditionary Force as quartermaster and interpreter to the Light Battalion, and was present at the bombardment and capture of the forts of Mohumra, and the pursuit of the Persian Army (Medal with clasp). Commanded a field detachment under the orders of Brigadier-General Legrand Jacob, C.B., Political Commissioner in Kholapore and Sawunt Warree country in 1857-58, and present in the operations against the insurgent Sawunt Desaies in 1858. Served as Adjutant of the Sawunt Warree Local Corps from July 1857 to March 1859, and was actively employed during the considerable part of that time in hunting down mutineers and rebels; commanded the detail sent to the ghats West og Kholapore in December 1857 to check the would-be insurgents in that quarter; secured the ringleaders, and disarmed the inhabitants before they could rise en masse (Medal). He was appointed Sub-Assistant Commissary General, 8 October 1867; transferred to the Unemployed Supernumerary List, 20 August 1891. Colonel Bolton died at Sidmouth, Devon, on 15 July 1892.

Four: Sergeant A. I. Church, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, late Rifle Brigade 1914-15 Star (1620 Pte A. I. Church. Rif: Brig:); British War and Victory Medals (1620 Sjt. A. Church. Rif. Brig.) ‘Ghurch’ on BWM; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (6905189 Sjt. A. I. Church. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) polished, therefore good fine (4) £70-£90 --- A. I. Church served during the Great War with the Rifle Brigade in the French theatre of war from 30 December 1914. He subsequently advanced to Sergeant, and transferred to the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

The interesting Indian Mutiny Medal awarded to Henry Dubois, late Lieutenant in the King of Oudh's Cavalry who was dismissed to pension on the Company's annexation of Oudh in 1856; despite this he supported the British and served throughout the siege of Lucknow. Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Defence of Lucknow (Henry Dubois.) fitted with silver ribbon buckle, small edge bruise, otherwise toned, good very fine £2,000-£2,600 --- Henry Charles Duboist (note spelling) and his twin sister Ellen were born at Agra on 10 September 1819, son and daughter of Charles Duboist, assistant to a Mr Bathurst, and his wife Sarah née Luckstedt. Charles Duboist was variously a writer, accountant and by 1831 was the Bandmaster to the King of Oudh. The Dubois family were of Huguenot descent who had come to India in the 18th century to escape the persecutions of their Protestant faith in Europe and had found employment in the non-regulated states of India. The Kingdom of Oudh was made a British Protectorate in May 1816 and had served the British faithfully. However, successive British Residents at Lucknow became increasingly alarmed at the King's profligate expenditure, chaotic administration and hedonistic lifestyle of the Court. After several warnings Lord Dalhousie annexed the province on 7 February 1856, using an egregious political device called the Doctrine of Lapse. The India Political Consultations 13–20 June 1856, No. 178–334, list all the remaining officers belonging to the King of Oudh's army. A letter from Captain Fletcher Hayes, of the military office, advised the British authorities that the European and East Indian officers had served the late King for long periods with zeal and great ability and were now facing unemployment. Hayes requested liberal consideration should be given to granting these officers pensions and gratuities. The Consultations show that Lieutenant Dubois had served 26 and a half years and made no application for further employment. Dubois joined the cavalry in 1836 and served 20 years, indicating that he had held other employment prior to joining the cavalry, possibly as a bandsman where his father was the Bandmaster. Henry Dubois retired with a settlement of one third pay or Rupees 50 per month. While low it was well known that the King showered gifts and monies on all his army officers with sums that dwarfed their salaries. The Oudh army had fought no wars since the Mahratta uprisings and were used solely for ceremonial duties and to collect revenue which invariably was pocketed by the army. The annexation caused the redundancy of over 66,000 troops, made up of 52 regiments of infantry, cavalry and artillery. Some 30,000 were accommodated in the new Oudh and police battalions but over 31,000 were dismissed. Disagreements about pay followed and the seeds of a rebellion were firmly implanted into the minds of the many soldiers who suffered the humiliation of dismissal. Furthermore over 14,000 civilian contractors attended to the King's army and it is therefore unsurprising that they did not welcome annexation and the Company's arrival. Among those dismissed was a regiment of African infantry known as the Black Regiment. They were the sons of slaves brought to India by Arab traders and became favourites of the King. One of its number was to have a devastating effect on the defenders in the Residency and was given the soubriquet “Bob the Nailer” because of his accuracy with the musket. Henry married Caroline Hare in 1842, daughter of Thomas Hare, and by the annexation he had raised six children, two of whom were deceased. He also legally adopted a George Masik (probably Maseyk) in 1845. The church record describes him as a “man” with unknown parents. In 1855 Caroline died leaving Henry with 4 offspring. He remarried in January 1856, Amelia, a Eurasian and daughter of Lieutenant Alexander Campagnac, a strong Huguenot dissenter, also of the Oudh service and his wife Taj. The outbreak of the Mutiny split the loyalties of the ex King of Oudh’s officers. Henry Dubois and the Campagnac family made the conscious decision to side with the British. Many of their friends took the decision to support the mutineers. One case in point was the Rotten family. Captain Rotten, dressed in “local garb” was seen urging on the rebels at the battle of Chinhut and spent the whole of the siege in the home of his concubine in Lucknow. He even had the audacity to claim Rupees 28,000 for losses suffered! Henry Dubois entered the Residency accompanied by Sarah, his mother, and wife Amelia although surprisingly his four children from Caroline were left in Lucknow town with their adopted brother Mr Maseyk. The odds of survival in the Residency looked bleak so Dubois, who would have had high standing in the Lucknow community, took the calculated decision that his children would be far safer with friends in the Lucknow environs. The children did indeed survive. Henry Dubois, like so many other defenders, is not mentioned in any of the main narratives of the Lucknow siege but would have taken an active part. One of his in-laws was severely wounded when going on a sortie outside the Residency and another young ex Oudh man and two Sepoys managed to secure a breach at the Innes Post earning great respect for their bravery. On the relief of Lucknow in November 1857 the non-combatants together with the women and children of the former garrison were escorted to Allahabad where Amelia immediately gave birth to George Napoleon on 10 December 1857. Henry and Amelia continued living in Allahabad where further children followed. In October 1870 wife Amelia together with children Grace and Arthur Edwin were baptised into the Church of Scotland, a Reformed Church in the Calvinist tradition. Sometime between 1870 and 1875 the family moved to Calcutta. No death of Henry Charles Dubois is recorded but it is reasonable to assume that Amelia and her children moved to Calcutta on the death of Henry to be close to her own family. Amelia died in Calcutta on 4 July 1897, aged 67, of malaria and cirrhosis of the liver. IOR/P/203/36 shows that Dubois made a claim for losses during the mutiny of Rupees 16,000. The claims were divided into lists of either “accepted”, “doubtful” or “inadmissible” with Dubois' claim considered “doubtful”. He was given a succour payment of Rupees 1,000 later reduced to Rupees 200 and eventually received Rupees 15,000 as a full settlement. Dubois would have acquired a large number of assets while working for the King. Certainly one of his in-laws, Charles Campagnac, had amassed a large property portfolio which had been destroyed. Other claims were so outrageous that one was rejected as being that of an “opulent speculator”. The factual accounts of the House of Oudh in the books Engaging Scoundrels and The Last King of India by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones are enlightening as to the financial affairs of the Royal Oudh Court. Those officers and Vakils in authority just “filled their boots” with little regard to the King. Dubois was probably somewhere in the middle hence the British accountants rather sceptical view of his claims. Sold with a file of comprehensive research including a digital disc of the 56 pages of transcripts of a court case in which Charles Duboist, the King's Bandmaster, accuses a Mr Hunt of murdering his daughter Ellen, Henry's twin sister, by beating her to death. Ellen, aged just 12, had married a Mr Derusett. On his death she remarried Mr Hunt. A fascinating account of how Ellen was nothing but the chattel of an abusive husband.

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Captn. F. C. Tombs 18th Bengal N.I.) toned, nearly extremely fine £500-£700 --- Frederick Cooper Tombs was born at Calcutta on 8 February 182, son of Major-General J. Tombs, 6th Bengal Light Cavalry, and Mary, an elder brother to Sir Henry Tombs, V.C., K.C.B., Bengal Horse Artillery (see Dix Noonan Webb sale, 6 December 2017). Frederick Tombs was educated at Soton & Mayer, Wimbledon, and was gazetted Ensign in the Bengal Army on 9 December 1837; Lieutenant, 12 April 1848; Captain, 7 June 1854; Major, 10 June 1861; Lieutenant-Colonel, 25 March 1862. Lieutenant-Colonel Tombs served in the Punjab campaign of 1848 and 1849, and was present at the siege and surrender of Mooltan and the battle of Goojerat (Medal and clasps). Served in the Indian Mutiny as Field Pay Marshal at Lucknow. ‘Captain F. C. Tombs, 18th Native Infantry. Field Pay Marshal. Was present at Benares when the native troops mutinied on 4 June 1857, at Futteghar and siege and capture of Lucknow. Dated 5 September 1859. Calcutta.’ (Indian Mutiny medal roll L/MIL/7/77 Folio 181.’ Record of an officer of the late 18th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry who was employed in the suppression of the Mutiny in India.’ refers) ‘Not long before his death, Hodson had applied to the paymaster, Captain F. C. Tombs, for two months’ pay for his regiment. General Mansfield, then Chief of Staff to Sir Colin Campbell, had sanctioned the application. At Hodson’s request the sum of Rs. 60,000 was paid to him in the shape of bills on Calcutta, for which at that time there was great demand among the upcountry bankers. “That they were duly paid”, writes his brother, “all allow... It is perhaps needless after this to say that it can be proved that no such sums came into the hands of his bankers at Calcutta or was found by his executors”.’ Lieutenant-Colonel F. C. Tombs died at Long Marston, Bishopsteignton, South Devon, on 22 May 1905.

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Lt. E. W. Shaw, 27th Madras N,I.) very fine £400-£500 --- Edward William Shaw was born on 24 July 1837, son of David Shaw, Writer and Clerk of the Peace, Ayr. He was educated by Richard C. Gardiner, M.A., Ayr and Glasgow College. He was gazetted Ensign, 27th Madras Native Infantry, 12 December 1856; Lieutenant, 7 June 1857; Captain, 12 December 1868; Major, 12 December 1876; Lieutenant-Colonel, 12 December 1882; Colonel, 26 April 1883. Lieutenant Shaw was employed in the suppression of the Mutiny in India 1857-58-59. Present a Bunnee with the force forming the rear guard of the Commander-in-Chief’s Army during the capture of Lucknow. Was present at the affair of Daibaiah on 23rd July 1858, was present and commanded a detachment of the Regiment at Hurryanon on 29th August 1858, also at Doomergunge on 26th November 1858, under Brigadier Rowcroft, also Burrelea on 3rd December 1858. Present at the battle of Tooleapore, 25th December 1858. British Consular Agent, Karikal, 1 December 1878. Mentioned in Brigadier Francis Rowcroft’s despatch for attack on a body of rebels in the fortified village of Debreheeah, 23 July 1858: ‘Lieutenant Shaw attached to the infantry part of the force, rendered me every assistance and I have already mentioned the gallantry of all ranks under him, most of them just off an 18 mile march.’ Colonel Shaw died at Lansdowne Road, Bournemouth, on 12 December 1924. Sold with research including extracts from the book Further Indiscretions which gives mention of Shaw’s visit to Cawnpore shortly after the massacre and what he witnessed there.

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Capt. S. Chalmers, Sub-Asst. Comy. Genl.) good very fine £500-£600 --- Provenance: Elson Collection, Glendinings 1963. Sidney Chalmers was born at Cawnpore on 4 August 1833. Educated at Rev. Robert Morris, Edinburgh, he was nominated for the H.E.I.C. Army by Campbell Bart and recommended by Mrs Simpson. He sailed to India on the Ripon on 20 December 1850. Ensign 53rd Native Infantry, 9 December 1852; Lieutenant, 22 April 1855; Captain, 23 October 1857; Major, 21 October 1864; Lieutenant-Colonel, 19 October 1868; Colonel, 10 October 1873; Major-General, 23 April 1884; Lieutenant-General, 23 March 1887. Most officers of the 53rd Native Infantry were murdered by mutineers at Cawnpore on or about 27 June 1857. Only three survived, Captain Mowbray Thompson who managed to swim away from the boats during the massacre, Ensign Delafosse, Privates Murphy and Sullivan, and Lieutenant Sidney Chalmers who was absent from the regiment on commissary duties at Agra. Chalmers joined the 53rd Bengal Native Infantry on 22 April 1853 as Interpreter and Quartermaster. In the Sonthal Insurrection of 1855, he did service as Sub-Assistant and Deputy Assistant Commissary General at Umballah, Agra and Meerut. He was senior Assistant Commissary Officer in the Jaunpore Field Force under Major-General Franks, and served as Commissary Officer in charge of the 4th Division of the Army at the capture of Lucknow. Mentioned in the Calcutta Gazette of 28 April 1858. ‘The authorities, after Delhi had remained several months peacefully in their hands, resolved on the formation of a camel corps, under a peculiar system of organisation. It was completed by the end of March, by a native named Lalla Jotee Pershaud, under the superintendence of Captain Chalmers, Assistant Commissary-General. The camels, 400 in number were selected with great care, in the Bikaneer district. The drivers were each armed with a sword and fusil; and each camel fitted to carry a European soldier if necessary.’ (The Revolt in India 1858, refers). Chalmers was severely wounded at Lucknow on 16 March 1858, in circumstances described in the Homeward Mail from India, China and the East of 4 May 1858: ‘We very truly regret to learn that Lieut. Sidney Chalmers, Assistant Commissary General, with Brigadiers Franks’ force, has met with a very serious accident whilst on duty. He was challenged by a European sentry, but replied in Hindustani, the sentry fired his musket through the lungs of the unfortunate officer. There are hopes of his recovery.’ Lieutenant-General Chalmers died at Faygate, Sussex, on 10 August 1892.

A Great War ‘Mesopotamian theatre’ M.S.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant H. V. Straker, 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (7194 Sjt. H. V. Straker. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (7194 A. Cpl. H. V. Straker. 1/O. & B. L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5373063 Sjt H. V. Straker. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) suspension claw re-affixed on BWM, last with official corrections, generally very fine or better (4) £120-£160 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 16 August 1917 (Mespotamia). Henry V. Straker attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War in the Asiatic theatre of war from 5 December 1914 (entitled to 1914-15 Star).

The Indian Mutiny Medal awarded to Colonel E. C. Garstin, C.B., Executive Engineer, Bengal Staff Corps, the only East India Company Officer attached to the Royal Engineers during the Mutiny Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (Ensn. E. C. Gasstin, Attd. to Royal Engrs.) toned, good very fine £800-£1,200 --- Provenance: Sotheby, January 1973. Indian Mutiny medal roll L/MIL/5/77 Folio 152: ‘Royal Engineers. Roll of Officers of the Hon. E.I.C. Service attached to the Royal Engineers who have been employed in the suppression of the Mutiny: Ensign E. C. Garstin. Relief of Lucknow & Lucknow. An Ensign of the 29th Bengal Native Infantry acting as Interpreter to the 23rd Co. R.E. has since entered the College of Roorkee.’ Ensign Garstin was the only East India Company Officer attached to the Royal Engineers during the Mutiny. The medal itself is named ‘Gasstin’. Edward Charles Garstin was born at Meerut on 30 May 1837, and baptised on 17 June 1837, at Calcutta. He was educated at Grosvenor College, Bath, and Addiscombe; was nominated by for the H.E.I.C. Army by J. P. Muspratt and recommended by his father Colonel, Bengal Engineers. Gazetted Ensign, 13 June 1856; Lieutenant, 30 April 1858; Captain, 13 June 1869; Major, 13 June 1876; Lieutenant-Colonel, 13 June 1882; Colonel, 13 June 1886. Ensign Garstin arrived in India on 23 October 1856. Proceeded with a detachment under Sir William Peel, R.N., and present at the action of Kudjwah, 1 November 1857; present with the 23rd Company Royal Engineers at the relief of Lucknow under Sir Colin Campbell, November 1857; at the battle of Cawnpore against the Gwalior Contingent, December 1857; present with the 23rd Company Royal Engineers at the action of Khudagunj and the occupation of Fatteghar, capture of Lucknow, attack on the Fort of Rooyah, action of Allygunj and capture of Bareilly 1858 (Medal with two clasps). Although Ensign Garstin was attached to the 23rd Company Royal Engineers as an Interpreter, it is clear from the report of Lieutenant Knox R.E. on the demolition of the Fort of Tutteah on 29 December 1857, that Garstin was actively employed in the blowing of several mines. Garstin held his appointment with the Royal Engineers until 2 July 1858, when he entered Thomason College, Roorkee, and remained there until 1 November 1859. He was promoted to 2nd Grade Engineer, 12 November 1860; 1st Grade Engineer, 1 April 1865; Subordinate Magistrate of the 2nd Class for the purpose of enforcing the law, Bari Doab Canal; promoted Executive Engineer 3rd Grade, 1 September 1872; in charge of Bari Doab Canal 1st Division, 30 October 1872. Colonel Garstin died on 29 April 1909. Sold with a cabinet portrait photograph of Colonel Garstin wearing his medal.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (J. Levinson, P.C.D.) extremely fine, scarce £200-£240 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, July 2001. Mr J. Levinson was one of approximately 120 civilians employed in the Press Censors Department under the control of the Army Field Intelligence Department to act as press and general censors.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (283 Dvr: E. H. Waller. Lumsden’s Horse) toned, nearly extremely fine £200-£240 --- Ernest Henry Waller, a coffee planter by trade, served in the Transport Section of ‘B’ Company, Lumsden’s Horse during the Boer War. Lumsden’s Horse was an irregular unit of mounted volunteers raised by subscription in India. Commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel D. M. Lumsden of the Assam Valley Volunteers, it consisted of two squadrons of cavalry and a maxim gun detachment. Its members were mostly tea, coffee or indigo planters from across India, along with a few gentlemen, merchants, clerks and civil servants, altogether some 240 strong. The regiment sailed from Calcutta in February (A Squadron) and March (B Squadron). Once both squadrons had been assembled in South Africa, they joined Lord Robert’s Army at Bloemfontein, where they were attached to Colonel Ross’s Mounted Infantry. They took part in several sharp engagements during the advance to Pretoria, and after its occupation were engaged in outpost work and skirmishing. They later took part in the march from Machododorp to Heidelberg, where they were engaged in further severe fighting. When the Regiment returned home in November 1900, they found that they were the toast of India. Lord Roberts sent a telegram to the Viceroy expressing his appreciation for their excellent services, stating, ‘It has been a pride and a pleasure to me to have under my command a volunteer contingent which has so well upheld the honour of the Indian Empire.’

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (4503 Pte. C. Hurlock 1st R. Dragoons) light contact marks, nearly very fine £100-£140 --- Charles Hurlock was born in Bromley, Kent, and attested for service in the Dragoons of the Line at London on 6 October 1899. He served in South Africa during the Boer War with the 1st Dragoons, before transferring to the 2nd Dragoons in July 1904, and then to the Army Reserve on 8 November 1904.

Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lt. Col. C. P. Marten) extremely fine £70-£90 --- Charles Peter Marten was born in Canterbury on 12 September 1880, the eldest son of Captain Stephen W. Marten, East Kent Militia, and was educated at Tonbridge School and Clare College, Cambridge. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own) on 4 December 1901, and was promoted Lieutenant on 3 October 1906. Appointed Adjutant of the 1st Battalion in 1907, he served with them during the Mohmand Expedition of 1908. Promoted Captain in January 1911, he was appointed Adjutant of the 3rd Battalion in 1912, and was promoted Major in 1916. Appointed Second in Command of the 32nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, Marten served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 4 May 1916, before being given the command of the 18th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, on 24 June 1916. He was killed in action on the Somme on 15 September 1916, on which date the Battalion was ordered to attack Flers, and to ‘push home their attack with the utmost vigour. Just before zero hour, one shell hit the Battalion killing their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel C. P. Marten, his Adjutant, and two other Officers. Nevertheless, the attack went on, with the Battalion doing all that was asked of it, and suffering total casualties of over 350.’ (British Battalions on the Somme, by Ray Westlake refers). Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 4 January 1917) for his ‘gallant and distinguished services in the Field’, his Brigadier-General wrote of him: ‘He has done splendid work out here.’ The Commanding Officer of his parent unit, the West Yorkshire Regiment, wrote: ‘As an all-round sportsman, whether in the hunting field, in polo, cricket, or as a soldier, the loss to the Regiment and the Army at large cannot be overestimated. He was a fine rider, and always in the first flight in the hunting field. The old XIV has lost one of its most popular officers, one who endeared himself to all by his cheerfulness, sportsmanship, and his high sense of duty.’ Other officers wrote: ‘It is no easy task to take command of a battalion of another regiment, where one knows nobody; but to show with what success he did it, I need only say that he was universally popular with both officers and men. The battalion had the most complete confidence in him, and his death can only be a terrible loss... His influence was a great power in the battalion, and his past work in all probability largely contributed to the success which we were able to win last week. The battalion has lost a fine soldier and one of the best of men; all ranks were proud to be led into action by such a leader.’ (The Roll of Honour, Volume III refers). Marten is buried in Serre Road Cemetery, Somme, France.

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (7674221 Sigmn. F. Green, R. Sigs.) with original forwarding letter and outer OHMS envelope addressed to ‘Mr. F. Green, 14 Howard Road, Ilford, Essex; together with three Second War Medals, comprising Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; Italy Star; and War Medal 1939-45, these three accompanied by a hand-written note from the vendor attributing them to a Mr. L. C. Worsfold, 46b New Road, Rochester, Kent, nearly extremely fine (4) £60-£80

Pair: Quarter-Master Sergeant J. Hicks, Royal Artillery Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (132 Sergt. J. Hicks. R.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Q.M. Sjt. J. Hicks. R.A.) good very fine (2) £140-£180 --- Annuity M.S.M. Army Order 231 of 1925.

Pair: Squadron Sergeant-Major W. Clark, Army Pay Corps Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (637 S.Q.M. Sjt: W. Clark. A.P.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (637 S.S. Mjr. W. Clark. A.P.C.) very fine (2) £140-£180

Pair: Warrant Officer Class II G. Tinker, 6th Dragoon Guards Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (2372 W.O. Cl.2. G. Tinker. 6-D.G.) number and surname partially officially corrected; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2372 S.S. Mjr: G. Tinker. 6/Dgn. Gds.) light contact marks, good very fine and better (2) £140-£180 --- G. Tinker attested for the 6th (Carabiniers) Dragoon Guards, and saw active service with them as a Sergeant in South Africa during the Boer War. Promoted Squadron Sergeant Major, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in October 1907, and his Meritorious Service Medal per Army Order 121 of 1943. Note: The recipient’s Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps or Relief of Kimberley and Paardeberg was sold in these rooms in July 2020.

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (202209 Sjt: A. J. Harvey 4/North’n R.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘470377’; card identity disc; and Masonic Million Memorial Fund Jewel, silver, the reverse engraved ‘Bro. W. J. A. Harvey. No. 1329’, extremely fine £100-£140 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 22 February 1919. lbert John Harvey, a native of Plaistow, Essex, attested for the Essex Regiment (Territorial Force) at West Ham on 27 August 1914, and served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War at home. Promoted Sergeant on 15 January 1916, he transferred to the Northamptonshire Regiment on 29 September 1916, and saw further service with the 4th Battalion at home. For his services at home during the Great War he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, this being his only medallic recognition. He was discharged on 13 February 1919, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold together with the recipient’s cap badge, shoulder titles, and lapel badge; Northamptonshire Territorial Force Association Certificate; letter of congratulations on the award of the M.S.M.; various letters and telegrams regarding the recipient’s marriage; and copied research.

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (307684 Cpl.- A.Sjt. H. A. Hucker. Lab: C.) attempted erasure of naming but details all perfectly legible; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (1024673 W.O. Cl. II. G. T. Johnson., R.A.) generally very fine (2) £60-£80 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919. Harry Austin Hucker, a native of Bristol, served as acting Sergeant with the Army Service Corps with number 20460, before transferring to the 794th Area Employment Company, Labour Corps. George Thomas Johnson, a native of Shoeburyness, attested for service in the Royal Artillery at the age of 15, in August 1914, with service No. 77045. He extended his engagement to complete 21 years service in October 1925, and was discharged in March 1941.

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1324. Gunr. W. H. Pearson. F/A. R.H.A.) minor edge bruising, good very fine £80-£120

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1694 Sgt. Cook. J. Johns, E. Kent R.) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £80-£120 --- James Johns was born in Bristol and enlisted there into the 3rd Foot on 16 January 1868. He served with the 1st Battalion on the Perak Expedition, 20 November 1875 to 19 November 1876 (Medal with clasp), and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 1 April 1886, whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion. Sold with copied discharge papers.

Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, Rhodesia & Nyasaland (Z.B.K. 11571. Sgt. Sailes Dula) engraved naming, light contact marks, very fine, scarce £200-£240

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (C. Turner, To. Artfr: H.M.S. Imperieuse.) lightly polished, very fine £100-£140 --- Charles Turner was born in Buntingford, Hertfordshire, on 17 August 1855 and joined the Royal Navy (after 3 years and 220 days in the army) on 4 November 1878. Advanced Torpedo Artificer on 1 March 1888, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 14 August 1890, and was shore pensioned in the rate of Chief Armourer on 16 April 1896.

Three: Colour Sergeant A. E. Weymouth, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (8859 C.Sjt. A. E. Weymouth Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (5373148 C. Sjt. A. E. Weymouth. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) with lid of named card box of issue, good very fine and better (3) £70-£90

Twelve: Lance Corporal H. Purkins, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was one of the longest serving soldiers in the regiment and a noted regimental personality British War and Victory Medals, both neatly erased; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (5374454 Pte. H. Purkins. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (5374454 Pte. H. Purkins. Oxf. & Bucks.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (5374454 Pte. H. Purkins. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) nearly very fine and better (12) £300-£400 --- H. ‘Polly’ Purkins: A Private Herbert Purkins served in the Great War with 1/7th Middlesex Regiment as Private No. 9684, transferring to 1/9th Highland Light Infantry as Private. No. 334003, and lastly with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry as Private No. 49884, and is possibly the same man, entitled to the British War and Victory Medals. Purkins was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in July 1943, and served with the 2nd Battalion O.B.L.I. in Normandy, being wounded on 8 August 1944. The regimental journal in December 1945 states: ‘A Celebrity. L/Cpl. Perkins [sic], who in his own way is one of the regiment’s celebrities, had quite a long talk with the General [General Sir Bernard Paget]. L/Cpl Perkin’s arm is a study in stripes; one for his appointment, six ‘upside down’ stripes for long service (they reach up to his elbow) and two wound stripes, one for World War One (second battle of Ypres) and the other for World War Two (Normandy). He is 46. When it came to the point of doing an air-landing he wouldn’t be left behind, so went in with the rest of them although he was twice their average age. L/Cpl. Perkins [sic] joined up in 1915 and has been with his present regiment since 1919. He went to India in 1922 and was there until 1940 with never a leave. When this war finished he volunteered to go to Japan. When his time comes for demobilisation he is going to do his best to stay in the army.’ Sold with copied research.

Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, reverse officially dated ‘1952’, the top bar with slide fitting and mounted on Army Emergency Reserve ribbon, good very fine £60-£80

Seven: Private A. W. Fribbence, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, late Wiltshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (01526 Pte. A. W. Fribbence. Wilts. R.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., Regular Army, G.VI.R., 1st issue (5563244 Pte. A. Fribbence. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) minor official correction to last, very fine (7) £80-£120 --- Albert Fribbence was born in 1900 and enlisted into the Shropshire Yeomanry on 13 April 1918, later transferring to the Wiltshire Regiment. Discharged in March 1921, he re-enlisted in May 1925 in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and his trade on enlistment was labourer. His inter-war service was at home, in Germany, and in India. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in October 1941, and subsequently transferred to the Pioneering Corps in March 1943 and later to the Army Catering Corps. Sold together with recipient’s Regular Army Certificate of Service Red Book and other ephemera.

Army Inter-Regimental Rifle Matches Prize Medal, 48mm, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1884, a skeletal prize medal, the obverse featuring the Royal coat of arms, with outer laurel wreath and crossed rifles below, these engraved ‘1884’, the reverse engraved ‘Won by Corporal Brimer, 13th. Hussars’, good very fine £80-£120

A German Second War Luftwaffe Battle of Britain Pilot’s Grouping. A very nice small grouping of paperwork and award to Feldwebel Karl Heinz Wilhelm, who served with Jagdgeschwader 77 (Ace of Hearts Fighter Wing) during the Battle of Britain, and was shot down and captured at Waldron, Sussex, on 20 October 1940. The documents comprise his A4 size once folded award certificate for his Pilots Badge dated 1 April 1940, A4 size once folded promotion document from Feldwebel to Unteroffizier whilst a member of JG77 dated 31 May 1940 just prior to the Battle of Britain, a letter dated 15 November 1940 from a Luftwaffe officer to his family presumably confirming capture and perhaps more information on the action. A very interesting postcard size photograph of a group of German Kriegsmarine, Army and Luftwaffe prisoners of war, Wilhelm at the extreme right of the photograph still wearing his flight blouse with full insignia and still wearing the Luftwaffe Pilots Badge, which is offered here. The postcard is stamped Examined by Censor Prisoner of War Mail sent to his parents in Oldenburg, Germany, unfortunately at one stage of its life this card has been adhered to a collectors display and traces of gummed paper are on the back of the card. A small quantity of six photographs being of Luftwaffe interest showing a high ranking Luftwaffe officer exiting a JU52 and shaking hands with Luftwaffe personel, plus three pre war photographs, which we believe are images of the unit within the Condor Legion in Spain. Standard enlisted ranks breast eagle still sewn to a section of uniform cloth. The very fine condition C.E.Juncker produced Pilots Badge seen being worn in the photograph, excellent detail to the oak and laurel leaf wreath, all of the patinated finish remaining to the eagle, complete with its original hook, hinge and thick needle pin, which is at present located in a post war Pilot Observers Badge box. A pair of Luftwaffe Unteroffiziers shoulder boards, which again we presume are the ones being worn in the photograph. On close inspection of the prisoner of war photograph it can clearly be seen that his shoulder boards are of the stitch-in variety, which these are with their correct matching rank configuration of lace and pip. A post war plaque for the Association of Fighter Pilots from Jagerkreis Nord with his named label to the reverse side dated 1990. Three photographs of the crash site of his BF109 in Sussex, plus extra research material. Lastly a 175 page book plotting the history from WWII to date of the fighter group in North Germany at Flying Station Oldenburg, good condition (lot) £800-£1,200

Grant of Arms Elizabeth II Period. To Eve Maida Platel, widow of Francis Vittery Platel, Esq., G.M., late Major, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, of Shrewsbury, granted 15 April 1954 by Garter King of Arms and Clarenceux King of Arms, full illuminated parchment scroll complete with attached brass cased seals in its original presentation box bearing EIIR cypher, very good condition £80-£120 --- Note: The George Medal awarded to Major F. V. Platel was sold in these rooms in September 1999.

The group of seven miniature dress medals worn by Warrant Officer Class 2 S. G. Jardine, 1st Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, later The Highlanders, 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, E.II.R.; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland; Iraq 2003-11; Operational Service Medal 2000, for Afghanistan, 1 clasp, Afghanistan; Jubilee 2012; Accumulated Campaign Service Medal 2011; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army, mounted as originally worn, nearly extremely fine (7) £300-£400 --- C.G.C. London Gazette 23 April 2004: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Iraq during the period 1st April to 30th September 2003.’ The original recommendation states: ‘Corporal Jardine was commanding a Fire Team employed as the Immediate Quick Reaction Force for the Al Uzayr Security Force Base in Maysan Province on the morning of Saturday 9th August 2003. At 0815hrs a prolonged and intense mix of Heavy Machine Gun and small arms fire was heard 300m to the north of the base and Corporal Jardine and his fire team deployed to investigate. Corporal Jardine and his team advanced North on foot until they were engaged by two enemy positions 100 metres to their West. The first was occupied by three men armed with automatic rifles, the second by a Heavy Machine Gun. Corporal Jardine immediately ordered his team into what limited cover was available. Simultaneously, other elements of the Al Uzayr Multiple, which had also deployed came under fire to the South. Realising that no reinforcements were available and assessing that his team’s position was becoming untenable, Corporal Jardine decided to take the offensive. Corporal Jardine ordered the remainder of his team to provide covering fire, and despite intense and accurate HMG fire, assaulted the first position alone, killing two of the enemy and capturing their weapons. The third enemy fled in the face of his determined action. Corporal Jardine then proceeded to suppress the depth machine gun position, whilst calling forward the remainder of his own team to join him. At this point a third enemy position was identified to him by the Platoon Commander. Corporal Jardine’s team located this position and proceeded to lay down fire on both positions, allowing the remainder of the Multiple to move forward. At this point the enemy disengaged from the action and withdrew to the North. Corporal Jardine’s quick thinking and total disregard for his own safety undoubtedly served to prevent casualties amongst his own team and the remainder of the Multiple. His courage and inspirational leadership in the face of a determined enemy attack deserve recognition.’ Sold together with an original letter of congratulation from Brigadier (retd) Frank Coutts, dated 24 April 2004. For the recipient’s full size awards, see Lot 139.

An original Great War Pilot’s Flying Log Book (Army Book 425 type), appertaining to Lieutenant J. M. Brown, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps and Honourable Artillery Company, covering the period 13 November 1917 to 2 December 1918, commencing with early training flights at Thetford and continuing with many later training flights from Duxford Aerodrome mostly on RE6s, RE8s and DH9s, good condition £100-£140 --- John Maberly Brown was born on 29 July 1896 at Islington, London and attested for the Honourable Artillery Company on 2 December 1915. He served overseas in the 2nd Battalion with the British Expeditionary Force during the Great War from 1 October 1916 and was promoted to the rank of Corporal before he was discharged to a commission in the Royal Flying Corps on 28 August 1917. Having graduated from the the Military Wing on 17 March 1918, he continued in training at aerodromes in England until the War’s end, recording flights in his log book often multiple times daily. He was transferred to the unemployed list on 13 October 1919. Sold together with other documentation including the recipient’s R.F.C. Training Transfer Card, dated 28 September 1917; National Registration Identity Card, stamped 17 May 1943; Royal Flying Corps Officers Graduation Certificate, C.F.S. Upavon, dated 17 March 1918; and a photograph of the recipient in uniform together with two other R.F.C. airmen standing beside a Sopwith Pup.

An original Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Books appertaining to Flight Lieutenant E. A. G. Rumbelow, Royal Air Force, who flew Spitfires in North Africa and over the Balkans, 1943-45, R.A.F. Form 414 types (3), covering the periods March 1942 to December 1943; December 1943 to May 1947; and June 1947 to January 1954, this latter logbook including civil flying from October 1948; together with part of a fourth logbook unused and unnamed and a 1942 copy of the Meteorological Handbook for Pilots and Navigators, covers and spines of log books in very poor condition, edges of pages often in state of disintegration, contents broadly sound (4) £160-£200 --- Eric Allen Goff Rumbelow was born in 1923 at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk and commenced his R.A.F. pilot training in the U.S.A and Canada (August - November 1941) and continued as a Sergeant in March 1942 on Tiger Moths at No. 1 Elementary Flying Training School, Hatfield and later at R.A.F. College, Cranwell (Oxfords and Masters). Selected for Spitfires he continued training at No. 52 O.T.U. at Aston Down from November 1942, qualifying on 28 January 1943 and was posted to No. 66 Squadron (Spitfires) at Skeabrae, Orkneys. His log book for the following six months records numerous dawn patrols, dusk patrols, scrambles, convoy patrols and sweeps flying the Spitfire VB and VI. Posted to No. 1 A.P.D., Fort de l’Eau, Algiers, North Africa in August 1943, he flew Spitfires from Maison Blanche to Setif in a series of one way flights returning as a passenger (possibly delivery flights) before joining the Advanced Flying Unit at Setif (Hurricane IIc and Spifire VB and VC) in October, his logbook noting army co-operation Hurribomber attacks, sweeps, low level attacks in this period. Rumbelow was posted to No. 73 Squadron at Foggia, Italy on 7 December 1943 and received an emergency commission as a Pilot Officer on 16 March 1944. Flying the Spitfire mark VC, IXc, XI, he participated in offensive sweeps over the Balkans, long range escorts, road and railway strafing, naval action cover, dinghy searches etc. Many trucks, locos, railyards, MTBs are strafed, bombed or destroyed - his logbook usually giving location details (mostly Jugoslavian targets). A belly-landing is noted on 6 October 1944 after an air sea rescue search and on 13 November 1944 Rumbelow records ‘a scrap with 109s. Strafed Aerodrome Zagreb. Bad day’. Offensive patrols cease around February 1945 and two months later he returned to North Africa. The remainder of the war was spent testing and instructing between North African and Italian locations. Post war, Rumbelow remained in the R.A.F., based in the Middle East. He was with the Delegation Communication Squadron Hassani in 1947 and the same year he commenced civil flying in Grumman Widgeons for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the American Mission for Aid to Greece. He resigned his commission on 11 March 1949, retaining the rank of Flight Lieutenant and continued to fly in a civil capacity. In June 1951, having undertaken test flights on the Short Sealand, he reported his findings in a detailed article for Flight magazine the same month. His remaining flights, concluding January 1954 are all in the Sealand. Sold together with the recipient’s certificate of validity for private pilot’s license, dated 20 July 1949 and its renewal dated 23 August 1951. Also with a 2 page typed document (damaged) stamped ‘SECRET’ entitled ‘Messerschmidt 109 v Spitfire’. The opening paragraph of which states: ‘As a result of a visit to Farnborough on 17 June 1940 for the purpose of carrying out a dogfight with an M.E. 109, the following conclusions were arrived at:’ - a series of tests are then described followed by the following conclusion: ‘It therefore seems evident that the M.E. 109 is easily outclassed by the Spitfire as a fighting aeroplane, and that is is possible to follow any manoeuvre a M.E. 109 carries out, providing the correct action is taken.’

Regimental Swagger Sticks. Five Regimental Swagger Sticks, for the Northumberland Fusiliers, Norfolk Regiment, Suffolk Regiment, West Yorkshire Regiment, and Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, the tops of each bearing the Regimental crest, and the one to the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment additionally engraved ‘Hon. L. O. Russell.’, three with bottom ferrules; together with a miscellaneous presentation stick, generally good condition (6) £100-£140 --- The Hon. Leopold Oliver Russell was born on 26 January 1907, the youngest son of Arthur Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill, and was educated at Eton. He served with the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (Territorial Army) during the Second Word War, was advanced Brigadier, and was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1944, and awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1945. He died in January 1989.

Pair: Sergeant W. W. Caudrey, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry British War Medal 1914-20 (7277 Sjt. W. M [sic]. Caudrey. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Special Reserve L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (7277 Sjt: W. W. Caudrey. 3/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.) minor edge bruising, very fine (2) £300-£400 --- Walter William Caudrey was awarded his Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 94 of April 1911. One of only 8 Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medals awarded to the 3rd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

Family group Pair: Private J. Bryne, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry British War Medal 1914-20 (6078 Pte. J. Bryne. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (6078 Pte J. Bryne. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) good very fine Pair: Special Constable R. Bryne Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R, 1st issue, 2 clasps, Long Service 1949, Long Service 1956 (Horace R. Bryne) good very fine (4) £80-£120

Six: Quartermaster Sergeant A. L. Bromley, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, later Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (7337075 Pte. A. L. Bromley. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) minor official correction to unit; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Lt. A. L. Bromley R.A.M.C.) good very fine and better (6) £140-£180 --- Arthur L. Bromley attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with them in India and Burma, and during the Second World War. Advanced Quarter Master Sergeant, he was appointed Lieutenant (Quartermaster) in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 25 March 1945, and saw further service with the R.A.M.C. in post-War Palestine.

Six: Warrant Officer Class I G. Wilson, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (5376641 Sjt. G. Wilson. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (5376641 W.O. Cl. 1 G. Wilson. Oxf. & Bucks.) good very fine and better (6) £120-£160

Seven: Corporal H. W. Mellors, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (5378585 Pte. H. W. Mellors. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) suspension claw re-affixed; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (5378585 Cpl. H. W. Mellors, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); together with the recipient’s Second World War ‘For Loyal Service’ lapel badge, heavy edge bruising, contact marks and polishing to first, otherwise generally very fine and better (7) £140-£180 --- H. W. Mellors served as a Bandsman in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (September 1928 Regimental Journal refers).

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Private E. Horton, 5th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, late Army Cyclist Corps Military Medal, G.V.R. (23824 Pte. E. Horton. 5/O. & B.L.I.); 1914-15 Star (3265 Pte. E. Horton, A. Cyc. Corps.); British War and Victory Medals (3265 Pte. E. Horton. A. Cyc. Corps.) light pitting, very fine (4) £300-£400 --- M.M. London Gazette 9 December 1916. Ernest Horton originally attested for the Army Cyclist Corps, and served with the 14th Divisional Cyclist Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 10 September 1915, before transferring to the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and seeing further service with the 5th Battalion. He was discharged Class ‘Z on 10 March 1919.