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Lot 125
An 18ct gold diamond dress ring, An 18ct gold diamond dress ring, the brilliant cut diamond within a textured bow setting, hallmarks for Birmingham, ring size N, gross weight 3.5g. Overall condition good to fairScratches and discolouration in keeping with occasional wearSponsor's marks B&WDiamond approx. 0.12ct, internal fractures visible with magnification
Lot 226
Five gold plated pocket watches, Five gold plated pocket watches, two hunter pocket watches and three open face pocket watches, by Waltham and Thos. Russell, case diameters 34 to 50mm (5).Overall condition good to fairWilson 55 does not guarantee the working accuracy of any timepiece offeredOpen face Waltham - not working at time of cataloguing, monogramming to case back, scratching and discolouration to sides, discolouration to bow and crown, movement numbered 13483713, case numbered 434836Hunter Waltham - working at time of cataloguing, some scratches to side of case, some discolouration to bow, movement numbered 21773890, case numbered 694879Hunter Thos Russell - working at time of cataloguing, small dents to outer case, movement numbered 20(0? indistinct)890, case numbered 296039Waltham fob watch - damp to inside of glass, discolouration to bow, working at time of catalouging, overwound, movement numbered 14115778, case numbered 166845Thos Russell fob watch - not working at time of cataloguing, overwound, shallow dents to case, movement unnumbered, case numbered 353275
Lot 214
An 18th century pair cased pocket watch by Adam Costen, An 18th century pair cased pocket watch by Adam Costen, the signed dial with roman numeral markers and outer minutes track, verge fusee movement signed 'adm Costen, Kirkham' within a white metal case marked TL, and outer case, case diameter 48mm, gross weight 91.9g.Overall condition fair to goodOuter case - split to reverse, light dents throughout, closes, not quite to, button workingHinges in good conditionCase - light dents and scratches, repair work to bow, possible replacementWatch not working at time of cataloguing, Wilson 55 does not guarantee the working accuracy of any timepiece offeredOverwoundDial and glass in good condition
Lot 2156
An early 20th century brass framed double bed frame with ball finials and ribbon bow mounts, height 137cm, width 155cm, length 213cm.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Lot 203
A George III Cream-Painted and Parcel-Gilt Two-Light Wall Applique The Design Probably by Robert Adam, Circa 1775Height 53 x width 26 inches.This lot is located in Chicago.Provenance:Chandos House, London (according to the invoice)Hotspur Ltd., London, 14 June 1990 (with invoice)Note:Chandos House, London was designed by the pre-eminent Georgian architect Robert Adam (1728-1792) originally as a speculative investment partially financed by the banker Sir George Colebrooke. It was eventually purchased by James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos (d. 1789) until it" sale to the Austrian Embassy in 1815.Decoration refreshed. The gilding with a faint reddish tone. A restored break to the bottom central leaf tip. One trailing husk to the far left plinth, slightly bent but present. Typical repairs to trailing husks, commensurate with age. A restored break to the right hand side of the vase, only apparent from the reverse. The right hand bow, a well-matched and well-carved replacement only visible from the reverse. The upper left-hand carving where it meets the oval plaque with a reinforced backing with a linen strip. The structure is overall fragile due to the delicate design but appears to remain intact and generally stable.Condition reports are available upon request. All lots are sold "as is," in the condition they are in at the time of the auction. The physical condition of lots can vary due to age, normal wear and tear, previous damage, and restoration. Prospective buyers are strongly advised to inspect a lot personally or through a knowledgeable representative prior to bidding. The absence of any reference to the condition of a lot does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections, or the effects of aging. Prospective buyers must review and agree to the Conditions of Sale before participating in an auction, and it is the responsibility of the buyer to ensure that they have requested, received and considered any condition report.
Lot 27
A Pair of Sevres Porcelain Triple Salts (Saliere 'a Trois Compartiments')1759bearing blue interlaced Ls enclosing date letter F and painter's mark of an anchor for Buteux; modeled as three conjoined tightly fluted baskets with common tripartite bail handle entwined with gilt-edged beau bleu ribbon, the bow as a finial, the beau bleu rims and footrims of each basket €˜whip stitched' in gilt, the interior of each painted in colors with a flower spray.Width across base 3 1/2 inches.This lot is located in Chicago.Provenance: The Hillingdon CollectionAdrian Sassoon, London, no. 3651, 13 June 2003 (purchased at the International Ceramics Fair, London; with copy of invoice)Note:Perhaps best known for his trophy painting, Charles Buteux l'aîne (later pere, active 1756-1782) is recorded at Sevres as a painter, also specializing in figures and flowers. The flowers in the bowls of the present pair of triple-salts will have been among his early works.Both with handles broken and restored. One with replaced sections of the ribbon, the other with the original porcelain, small restored chips to the base. Exhibiting no incised marks. One with a hanging hole, the other with a small chip where the hanging hole might have been.Condition reports are available upon request. All lots are sold "as is," in the condition they are in at the time of the auction. The physical condition of lots can vary due to age, normal wear and tear, previous damage, and restoration. Prospective buyers are strongly advised to inspect a lot personally or through a knowledgeable representative prior to bidding. The absence of any reference to the condition of a lot does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections, or the effects of aging. Prospective buyers must review and agree to the Conditions of Sale before participating in an auction, and it is the responsibility of the buyer to ensure that they have requested, received and considered any condition report.
Lot 23
A Sevres Pink-Ground Porcelain Footed Cream Jug (Pot-a-Lait 'a Trois Pieds', 3eme Grandeur)Circa 1758-1760of baluster form with a branch handle and three feet, decorated with gilt-enriched sprigged flowers issuing from each foot, a gilt-edged painted bow-tied trellis enclosing flowerheads and with a gilt dentil rim.Height 3 1/2 inches.This lot is located in Chicago.Provenance:John Whitehead, London, no. 9, 13 June 1997 (purchased at the International Ceramics Fair, London; with copy of invoice)Note:A sugar bowl and cover with a pink bow-tied ribbon trellis enclosing flowers (similar to the pattern on the present example) and further reserved with a child in a landscape vignette painted by Viellard and dated circa 1761 is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (791A/1,2-1882).In good condition with negligible wear to the gilding, traces of a gilt mark to the underside and minute air bubbles.Condition reports are available upon request. All lots are sold "as is," in the condition they are in at the time of the auction. The physical condition of lots can vary due to age, normal wear and tear, previous damage, and restoration. Prospective buyers are strongly advised to inspect a lot personally or through a knowledgeable representative prior to bidding. The absence of any reference to the condition of a lot does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections, or the effects of aging. Prospective buyers must review and agree to the Conditions of Sale before participating in an auction, and it is the responsibility of the buyer to ensure that they have requested, received and considered any condition report.
Lot 377
A Georgian mahogany bow fronted serving sideboard, inlaid decoration, single drawer, flanked by a cellerette cupboard and one other cupboard door, on square tapering legs and spade feet, (with a key that doesn't appear to open or close the drawers or cupboard doors, one door locked), Location:
Lot 57
Vintage costume jewellery to include a 1990's gold tone and pearl bow brooch by E.Pearl (Erwin Pearl), a Sarah Coventry gold tone and simulated pearl necklace A/F, a JewelCraft silver tone necklace, a Manselle gold tone brooch forming the letter 'B', a pair of Aurora Borealis earrings and others, gold tone chains, a small cameo brooch and cufflinks. Location:R1.3
Lot 577
International, Sovereign Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Rhodes & Malta, Knight of Grace’s neck badge, 85mm including crown but lacking bow suspension x 47mm, silver-gilt and enamel, fly de lys in angles between arms, unmarked, with related miniature award and lapel rosette, in Cravanzola, Rome, case of issue, lacking bow suspension, otherwise good very fine £60-£80 --- Sold with the original Bestowal Document with attached seal named to Claude Faribault.
Lot 195
The M.B.E. attributed to Miss Patricia N. Goate The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver, on lady’s bow riband, in Spink, London, case of issue; together with a 20th Century presentation Seal of the Order of the British Empire, 212mm, cold cast in resin bronze, with label to reverse reading ‘Miss Patricia Newton Goate MBE’, extremely fine (2) £120-£160 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 11 June 1994: Miss Patricia Newton Goate, Parish Councillor, Colyton, Devon. ‘For services to Local Government.’ Sold with information leaflet about the 20th Century Seal of the Order of the British Empire.
Lot 154
A scarce Second War ‘Indian Army’ R.R.C. group of four awarded to Principal Matron Miss Leonora G. Hughes, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, reverse dated 1944, on lady’s bow riband; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Sister L. G. Hughes. Q.A.I.M.N.S.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, extremely fine, the IGS rare to unit (4) £1,200-£1,600 --- R.R.C. London Gazette 29 December 1944. The original Recommendation, submitted by His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief India, Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, states: ‘Miss Hughes has been Principal Matron of North Western Army since 12 October 1942 during which time the standard of nursing in this Army has been maintained in a high standard in spite of the many vicissitudes inseparable from the great shortage of nursing sisters and from the fact that a large proportion of existing staffs have been inexperienced and unqualified. She has been unremitting in her efforts to overcome these difficulties and through her own initiative, frequent personal contacts and skilful guidance has achieved an exceedingly large measure of success. In addition her devotion to duty has been further evidenced by the deep and active interest she has taken in the training of the new nursing cadre of the I.A.M.C., in the success of which has been largely due to her zeal and enthusiasm.’ Miss Leonora Gladys Hughes was born at Northwich, Cheshire, on 11 September 1890, and trained as a nurse at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, where she obtained her nursing certificate in 1919, and passed her Central Midwives Board examination on 14 August 1920. She was appointed Staff Nurse to the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service on 1 March 1921, having been appointed to the permanent Nursing Establishment of the Military Families and Military Isolation Hospital on 10 January the same year. Shortly thereafter, Miss Hughes volunteered for Imperial Service and embarked for Egypt in 1925, where she is recorded as serving with the Military Families Hospital, Abbassea, Cairo. Following her promotion to Sister in the Queen Alexandra’s Military Families’ Nursing Service, on 1 July 1926, she was posted to India where she served at the British Military Hospital at Peshawar during the ‘Red Shirt Rebellion’ of 1930-31, being one of only seventeen members of Q.A.I.M.N.S. to be awarded the Indian General Service Medal with clasp North West Frontier 1930-31. Appointed Matron on 25 January 1939, Miss Hughes served in India throughout the Second World War, being appointed acting Principal Matron and was awarded the Royal Red Cross, First Class. Post-War, she continued to serve in India and Burma, before returning to England on appointment as Principal Matron of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Southampton, following which she retired the service in 1947 with the honorary rank of Principal Matron. She died in Southampton on 18 April 1963. Sold with copied research.
Lot 202
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Centaur 26 Augt 1808 (James Goslin.) letter ‘a’ double-struck, two light scratches to obverse, otherwise nearly extremely fine £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: Mackenzie Collection 1873; Cheylesmore Collection, July 1930; Spink, March 1995 and July 2010. Approximately 41 clasps issued for this action. James Goslin is confirmed on the rolls as a Landsman aboard H.M.S. Centaur at the pursuit of the Russian fleet of 24 ships and the capture of the Sevolod by H.M. Ships Centaur and Implacable off Hango Head, south coast of Finland. In August 1808, Sir Samuel Hood in Centaur accompanied by Implacable, Captain Thomas Byam Martin, joined Rear Admiral Nauckhoff and the Swedish fleet in Oro Roads and they all sailed from there on the 25th, in pursuit of the Russian fleet which had appeared off Sweden two days earlier. Due to their superior sailing Centaur and Implacable were soon well in advance and closing on the Russians who appeared to be in disorder. By the morning of the 26th, Implacable was able to bring the leewardmost of the enemy's line-of-battle ships, the Sevolod 74, Captain Roodneff, to close action. After 20 minutes the enemy's colours and pendant were lowered but the approach of the whole Russian force obliged Sir Samuel to recall Captain Martin. A Russian frigate took the crippled ship in tow but when the Russian Admiral hauled his wind, Centaur and Implacable gave chase and forced the frigate to slip her tow. The enemy ships again bore down in support but instead of engaging they entered the port of Rager Vik (also known as Port Baltic or Rogerswick). When boats were sent out to try and tow her in to harbour Centaur stood in and, after driving the boats off, ran across the bow of the Sevolod just as she was entering the harbour. The Centaur then lashed the Sevolod’s bowsprit to her mizen-mast and both ships soon drifted aground. The Russians refused to strike and the battle went on until the arrival of the Implacable finally induced the Russian ship to surrender. Implacable had to heave Centaur off. However, the prize was so firmly aground that after taking out the prisoners and wounded men, Sir Samuel ordered her to be burnt. Implacable lost six men killed and twenty-six wounded including two who did not recover and three who had limbs amputated. Centaur lost three killed and twenty-seven wounded, and the Sevolod 303 killed, wounded and missing.
Lot 112
Three: Colonel R. Burns-Begg, K.C., a founding member of Kitchener’s Horse and Intelligence Officer to the Military Governor of Pretoria. He served as Crown Prosecutor for the infamous “Breaker” Morant trial, when the Anglo-Australian Lieutenant of the Bushveldt Carbineers was found guilty of murdering six Boer prisoners-of-war and three captured civilians in two separate incidents during the Second Boer War - the subject of much controversy at the time, and of a critically acclaimed feature film in 1980 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (Capt: R. Burns-Begg, Kitchener’s Horse.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt: R. Burns-Begg, S.A.M.I.F.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Col. R. Burns-Begg.) first two mounted for wear, generally good very fine or better (3) £700-£900 --- Robert Burns-Begg was born in Kinross in March 1872, and educated at Stranraer School, Bournemouth and Edinburgh University. He served as a Second Lieutenant and Instructor of Musketry with the 7th Clackmannanshire & Kinross Volunteer Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders from 1892. Burns Begg advanced to lieutenant in December 1893, and resigned his commission in November 1895. He travelled to Africa, and was appointed advocate and counsel to the Transvaal Government. Burns-Begg was commissioned lieutenant in the Cape Town Highlanders, and was employed as an intelligence officer and staff captain from March 1901. He advanced to captain in the South African Mounted Irregular Force from September 1901, and was intelligence officer to the Military Governor of Pretoria. Burns-Begg was employed as prosecuting counsel in the Floris Visser murder trial of “Breaker” Morant, and others of the Bushveldt Carbineers, 17 January 1902. Harry Morant, was an Anglo-Australian officer in the Bushveldt Carbineers, who was convicted and executed for murdering six Boer prisoners-of-war and three captured civilians in two separate incidents during the Second Boer War. The case, and subsequent execution received a lot of press coverage and debate in Australia. A number of books have been written about Morant, and Kenneth Ross wrote a critically acclaimed play Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts which in 1980 was turned into a successful movie called Breaker Morant. Burns-Begg’s legal capabilities in the courtroom are recorded in Shoot Straight you Bastards by N. Bleszynski. He was recalled to England before the close of the trial, but not before he had destroyed the case of the defence. Burns-Begg was also the principal witness in the committal proceedings at Bow Street Court for Treason of “Colonel” Arthur Lynch, M.P., 1 August 1902. Lynch (an Irish Australian, who was MP for Galway Borough and fought for the Boers during the Second Boer War) was subsequently found guilty at trial, 24 January 1903, and sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment, and ultimately pardoned). The following is given about his varied career in The Scots Law Times, 11 March 1911: ‘Colonel Burns-Begg’s remarkable career has not yet solved the problem, which is the mightier weapon - the sword, the pen, or the baton? Since a wise institution told him that the development of his peculiar talents required a wider field than that afforded by the floor of the Parliament House, his returns thither at meteoric intervals, now as a soldier, now as a lawyer, now as an administrator, have left his friends in a state of bewildered admiration. His first military appointment, as galloper one manoeuvres to Brigadier General Sir J. H. A. Macdonald, was prophetic of a protean career. At the Speculative Society he was known as a master of picturesque and forcible English, and of an embarrassing capacity for the conduct of private business. Colonel Burns-Begg is now in his thirty-ninth year. After practising as an advocate for a little over two years he left Edinburgh for South Africa, and was called to the bar of Southern Rhodesia in 1898. The outbreak of the war gave pause, for the moment, to his legal career, and Lieut. Burns-Begg, with a commission in the Cape Colonial Forces, assisted Col. Legge and Major Congreve to raise Kitchener’s Horse in 1900. During the same year he was successively attached to the Maxim Gun Detachment R.F. and R.H.A. and to the staff of the Second Mounted Infantry Corps, in which services he took part in the marches to Bloemfontein and to Pretoria, and in the actions at Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, and Diamond Hill. Through the remainder of the war he acted as Intelligence Officer on the Staff at Pretoria. He returned home with the rank of captain in March 1902, and during the year which followed held an appointment on the Headquarters Intelligence Staff of the War Office….. Returning to South Africa, he was appointed Legal Adviser to the Transvaal Government, and for five years succeeded in running his two professions in double harness, being made King’s Counsel in 1906 and rising to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel in command of the Northern Mounted Rifles. In 1908 he became Commissioner of the Transvaal Police, and retained that office until the autumn of last year [1910], when he resigned, owing to altered conditions brought about by the reconstitution of the Government of South Africa. After a visit to this country of less than six months, he is now about to take up the duties of Resident Commissioner and Commandant General of the Volunteer and Police Forces of Southern and Northern Rhodesia [1911-15], appointments which carry, ex officio, seats on the Legislative and Administrative Councils of these colonies…..’ Burns-Begg was appointed temporary colonel and commandant lines of communication, Folkestone 1915. The latter town being a vital link in the war effort, with some ten million troops and medical staff passing through the port to and from the front. Colonel Burns-Begg returned to Edinburgh on sick leave, and died of pneumonia, 9 January 1918. He is buried in the Kinross Cemetery, commemorated on the Sutton War Memorial, at Kinross Parish Church and on the Edinburgh University Faculty War Memorial. Sold with copied research, and photographic images of the recipient.
Lot 166
The Order of St. John group of four awarded to Lady Twiston-Davies, Prince of Wales District, St John Ambulance Brigade The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Sister’s), shoulder badge, silver and enamel, mounted on ladies bow; Defence Medal; Coronation 1953; Service Medal of the Order of St John, silvered base metal (18222 D. S. Twiston-Davies P for W. S.J.A.B. 1952.) with additional service bar, the last three mounted as worn, together with mounted group of four miniature dress medals, nearly extremely fine (4) £100-£140 --- Dorothy Savile Twiston-Davies (née Jackson) was born in 1899 and, in 1924, became the second wife of Sir Leonard Twiston-Davies, K.B.E. (1894-1953), patron of the arts and of folk studies, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1933 and for many years Vice-Commissioner of the St John’s Ambulance in Wales. Lady Twiston-Davies died in 1958.
Lot 475
Imperial Service Medal, E.VII.R., Lady’s badge with wreath (Emma S. Davis.) on lady’s bow riband, in Elkington, London, case of issue, good very fine £300-£400 --- I.S.M. London Gazette 2 October 1908: Davis, Emma Sophia, Sorting Clerk and Telegraphist, Manchester. Sold with named Imperial Service Order Certificate.
Lot 284
1914-15 Star (K.21273, H. Fox, Sto. 1., R.N.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (K.21240 W. Brett. Sto.2. R.N.; J.17106 G. E. Sellick. A.B. R.N.) heavy digs to last with replacement suspension, therefore fair; the Star fine and the VM to Brett good very fine (3) £80-£100 --- H.M.S. Amphion At the start of the Great War, H.M.S. Amphion was leader of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla in the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, assigned to the Harwich Force, defending the eastern approaches to the English Channel, under the command of Captain Cecil H. Fox. In the morning of 5 August, Amphion and the 3rd Flotilla sortied into the North Sea to patrol the area between Harwich and the Dutch island of Terschelling for German activity. At 10:15 a ship in the black, buff, and yellow colours of the Great Eastern Railway’s steamers that plied between Harwich and the Hook of Holland was spotted. Fox sent the destroyers H.M.S. Lance and H.M.S. Landrail to investigate and shortly afterwards another destroyer reported that a trawler had seen a suspicious ship, ‘throwing things overboard, presumably mines’. H.M.S. Amphion led the flotilla to investigate and observed that the fleeing ship was deploying mines even then. At 10:45, Lance opened fire at a range of 4,400 yards (4,000 m). The target was S.M.S. Königin Luise, a former Hamburg-Heligoland excursion boat that had been converted to an auxiliary minelayer by the Germans. They had planned to mount a pair of 8.8-centimetre (3.5 in) guns on board, but they did not have the time to do so; her only armament was a pair of lighter guns and 180 mines. On the night of 4 August, she had departed Emden and headed into the North Sea to lay mines off the Thames Estuary, which she began to do at dawn. The fire from the destroyers was ineffective until Amphion closed to a range of 7,000 yards and began hitting the German ship at about 11:15. By noon, Königin Luise was sinking and the three British ships rescued 5 officers and 70 ratings. The flotilla proceeded onwards with their patrol until they reached the Dutch coast around 21:00 and turned for home. Fox was uncertain as to the locations of the mines laid by Königin Luise and laid a course that was seven nautical miles west of where he thought the mines were. He guessed wrongly and led his flotilla over the danger area. At 06:35 on 6 August, Amphion struck a mine that detonated underneath her bridge. The explosion set her forecastle on fire and broke the ship's keel. The destroyer H.M.S. Linnet attempted to tow the cruiser, but a deep crack across her upper deck showed that she was hogging badly and Fox ordered his crew to abandon ship. Shortly afterwards, her forward magazine exploded, throwing one 4-inch gun into the air that narrowly missed Linnet. One of Amphion’s shells burst on the deck of the destroyer Lark, killing two of her men and the only German prisoner rescued from the cruiser. Amphion then rapidly sank within 15 minutes of the explosion losing 1 officer and 131 ratings killed in the sinking, plus an unknown number of the crew rescued from Königin Luise. She was the first ship of the Royal Navy to be sunk in the Great War. Harold John Fox was born in Plymouth on 1 July 1893 and attested for the Royal Navy on 10 November 1903. He joined H.M.S. Amphion on 28 April 1914, and was present in her when when she sank on 6 August 1914. He afterwards served in H.M.S. Temeraire, which took part in the Battle of Jutland. Advanced Leading Stoker on 18 January 1919, he was still serving in 1932, in H.M.S. Lucia, when he was taken seriously ill. Admitted to the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Gosport, Hampshire, he died, aged 39, on 21 May 1932 due to general peritonitis. William Brett was born in Exeter on 9 April 1895 and attested for the Royal Navy on 3 November 1913. He joined H.M.S. Amphion on 28 March 1914, and was killed when she struck a mine and sunk on 6 August 1914. He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. George Edward Sellick was born in Topsham, Devon, on 20 April 1896 and attested as a Boy for the Royal Navy on 17 April 1912. He joined H.M.S. Amphion on 20 April 1914, and was present in her when when she sank on 6 August 1914. Sellick was later serving in H.M.S. Brisk, when, on 21 February 1917, about 10 nautical miles from St Catherine’s Point on the Isle of Wight, in thick fog, whilst escorting the chartered troopship S.S. Mendi, which, having arrived at Plymouth from South Africa, was bound for Le Harve, France. The Mendi was carrying 823 men of the 5th Battalion of the South African Native Labour Force, many of whom had never seen the sea and very few of whom could actually swim. In the thick fog the Mendi was accidentally rammed and sunk by the large steamship S.S. Darro which was sailing at high speed in ballast for Argentina. Darro made no attempt to rescue survivors and it did not remain at the scene, although H.M.S. Brisk launched her boats which rescued around 200 men, although 616 South African soldiers and 30 crew members from the Mendi were lost. On 2 October 1917, he had a further lucky escape when Brisk was at sea off the north coast of Ireland to meet and escort convoy H.H. 24, which was inbound from America. After Brisk had joined the escort, the convoy was attacked by the German submarine U-79 which torpedoed the cruiser H.M.S. Drake which later sank with the loss of 19 lives. After this attack, as was normal procedure, the convoy dispersed and the remaining naval and auxiliary escorts including Brisk, were deployed to follow up the dispersed ships, some through Rathlin Sound and others in the North Channel. As the steamship Lugano entered the sound, she was torpedoed and sunk by U-79 and shortly afterwards, while making a sweep of the Sound, Brisk either struck a mine, or was torpedoed. The explosion broke Brisk in two and the bow section sank in the sound, whilst, of the 141 crew members, 32 lives were lost. The stern section remained afloat and was towed to Londonderry and on being fitted with a new bow Brisk later returned to service. He later served in the new destroyer H.M.S. Simoon from 11 March 1918. Post war, he continued to served until his discharge on 19 April 1926 and later died, aged 63, in Exeter in 1959.
Lot 479
Imperial Service Medal (2), G.V.R., Circular issue, 1st ‘coinage head’ issue (Freddy Hudson) with named Home Office enclosure; G.VI.R., 1st issue (George Gray.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Albert H. Newman); The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s shoulder badge, silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; Service Medal of the Order of St John (Nurs./Off. J. M. Meech. London S.J.A. 1973.) generally good very fine and better (5) £70-£90
Lot 225
MARC BOLAN Born in 1947 and died in 1977 - This is an original 8 x 6 inch black and white photograph of Marc Arriving at London Airport from his home in France ( Monte Carlo ) taken 20 th Jan 1975. By S.K.R Photos International An original in very good condition with studio stamp and paper info on reverse. Not a reprint original photo of Marc wearing a velvet jacket and bow tie.
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