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Lot 183
Five: Chief Petty Officer E. J. Riches, Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45; Naval General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (C/JX 127174 E. J. Riches. C.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (JX. 127174 E. J. Riches. P.O. H.M.S. Pembroke.); together with the recipient’s Royal Life Saving Society Swimming Medal, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘E. J. Riches. Jan. 1927’, nearly extremely fine (6) £140-£180
Lot 190
Six: Lance-Sergeant H. C. Carter, Hampshire Regiment, later Royal Artillery, Palestine Police, and Inspector, Admiralty Constabulary 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (3530. B/Const. H. C. Carter. Pal. Police.); Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (Inspr. Henry C. Carter.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (5495813 Bmbr. H. C. Carter. R.A.); together with a Duke of Connaught’s Own bronze prize medallion, the reverse engraved ‘43rd Wessex. Div Drill Comp. Winners No. 9 Platoon. Pte. H. Carter. 1935.’, good very fine (7) £120-£160 --- Henry Cornelius Carter was born in Gosport, Hampshire, on 27 December 1914 and attested for the 6th (Duke of Connaught’s Own) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment (Territorial Army) on 4 May 1931. Promoted Corporal on 10 May 1938, he was called up for service on 26 September 1938, and after a brief period with the Royal Engineers transferred to the 393/48th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery as an Acting Lance-Sergeant on 17 July 1940. Following the cessation of hostilities he joined the Palestine Police, and served with them in post-War Palestine, before moving to the Admiralty Constabulary, with whom he was advanced Inspector. His final appointment was with the Admiralty Constabulary’s Fire Service. He retired in 1979, and died in Fareham, Hampshire, on 24 August 2013. Sold with copied research.
Lot 205
A well-documented Second War United States Bronze Star group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. Wood, General List and Control Commission Germany, also Metropolitan Police; together with a substantial archive of original documents and ephemera 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1977, unnamed as issued; Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (Sergt. Horace Wood); United States of America, Bronze Star, the reverse engraved ‘Horace Wood’, in case of issue, about extremely fine (7) £300-£400 --- United States of America Bronze Star London Gazette 15 August 1946. The citation states: ‘Captain Horace Wood, British Army, for meritorious service in connection with military operations, from September 1944 to May 1945. As Public Safety Officer, 325th Civil Affairs Detachment, Captain Wood was largely responsible during the early days of liberation for the reorganization of local police, Gendarmerie, fire and civil defense services, and by his exceptional energy ands drive was instrumental in the maintenance of law and order in the port of Antwerp during months of crucial importance to the allied war effort in northwest Europe. His services have, throughout, reflected credit upon himself and the armed forces of the Allied Armies.’ Horace Wood was born on 12 February 1912 and joined the Metropolitan Police on 25 February 1935. Advanced Sergeant on 14 September 1942, he served during the Second World War on the General List in North West Europe, and having re-joined the Metropolitan Police on 3 March 1947 was seconded to the Control Commission in Germany. There he was responsible for various policing and traffic management matters, and was advanced Lieutenant-Colonel. He retired from the Police to Pension on 28 March 1965, and is confirmed on the Silver Jubilee Medal roll as ‘Laterly Supervising Bailiff Grade II, Lord Chancellor’s Department’. Sold with the following archive: i) A large portrait of the recipient, oils on canvas ii) Various portrait photographs of the recipient iii) Various photographs of the recipient with other well-known personalities iv) A presentation copy of the book ‘The Battle of Antwerp’, with letter of dedication v) Various presentation photograph albums regadring police inspections in post-War Germany vi) A large presentation scrap-book compiled to commemorate the introduction of a 30 km/h speed limit for Belgian lorries vii) Various invitations, dinner menus, and other ephemera.
Lot 450
British War Medal 1914-20 (53700 Dvr. P. Pugh. R.E.) suspension broken, planchet only; Victory Medal 1914-19 (8) (131683 2.Cpl. M. J. Richardson. R.E.; 47478 Pte. C. Milne. North’d Fus.; 35318 Pte. J. Seggie. Sco. Rif.; 10065 Pte. G. Elsdon. Camerons.; S-11241 Pte. F. Morgan. A. & S.H.; S-43201 Pte. W. Newby. A. & S.H.; 95684 Pte. J. Donald. R.A.M.C.; 66673 Pte. A. Midgeley. R.A.M.C.); Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Miss Edith Mary Hunt) in Royal Mint case of issue; together with a Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute for Nurses brooch badge, bronze, the reverse engraved Vernie B. Whiting Queen’s Nurse 22 1/4 Years. Resigned Dec. 1912’, in Elkington, London, fitted case, edge bruising and contact marks, generally nearly very fine or better, the ISM nearly extremely fine (11) £120-£160 --- Marmaduke J. Richardson attested for the Royal Engineers on 9 October 1914 and served with the 235th A.T. Company during the Great War on the Western Front from 9 March 1916, being appointed a 2nd Corporal on 6 May 1917. John Seggie attested for the Scottish Rifles and served with them during the Great War, being awarded a Silver War Badge. George Elsdon was born in Wilton, Roxburghshire, and attested for the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders at Penicuik, Midlothian, on 14 August 1914. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front, and is recorded in the Regimental Journal as being slightly wounded. He later served with the Labour Corps. Frederick Morgan attested for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on 7 September 1914 and served with the 10th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 4 October 1915. He was wounded by gun shot to the right knee, resulting in his leg being amputated, and was discharged on account of wounds on 21 January 1918, being awarded a Silver War Badge, No. 306,061. Walter Newby attested for the Norfolk Regiment on 12 December 1915, and was mobilised on 9 June 1916. He transferred to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on 21 June 1916, and served with the 11th Battalion during he Great War, being appointed Lance-Corporal on 28 October 1917. He was discharged on 28 March 1919. Miss Vernie Bessie Whiting was born in Coventry on 24 February 1866 and was employed as a Sick and Maternity District Nurse, latterly at Wargrave, Berkshire. Sold with copied research.
Lot 525
A mounted group of twelve miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant-Colonel E. A. Parker, O.B.E., M.C., D.C.M., Royal Welsh Fusiliers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military Division) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt; Military Cross, G.V.R.; Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R.; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1891; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Orange Free State; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; Coronation 1911; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, with bronze palm; Order of Merite Agricole, breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, mounted as worn, minor enamel damage to the last, very fine and better (12) £360-£440 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919. M.C. London Gazette 18 February 1915. D.C.M. London Gazette 27 September 1901. Edward Augustus Parker was born in Peckham, London about 1867 and enlisted in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in December 1886. Having then served with the 1st Battalion in the Hazara Expedition of 1891 (Medal & clasp), he was appointed Sergeant-Major in October 1898 and participated in the operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, including the action at Frederickstad on 20 October 1900. He was wounded on the latter occasion, mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901, refers) and awarded the D.C.M. Subsequently commissioned as a Quarter-Master, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant, in the 1st Battalion in April 1904, he was a member of the regiment’s Coronation Contingent in 1911. Advanced to Q.M. & Captain in April 1914, Parker joined the 1st Battalion in Flanders in early October and was consequently witness to the severe fighting that followed. Following an abortive attack on Menin on the 17th, the Battalion - numbering 1150 officers and men - took up positions on the Broodseinde Ridge: within three days, as a consequence of severe enemy shelling and numerous infantry assaults, the unit’s strength was reduced to 200 officers and men. On the 29th, the Battalion was reinforced by 200 men and moved to new positions just east of the village of Zandvoorde. The Germans attacked in force on the following day, supported by 260 heavy artillery guns, and managed to get behind the Battalion’s line: it was all but annihilated, just 90 men answering the roll call on the 31st, among them Parker, the only surviving officer. He was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 17 February 1915, refers) and awarded the M.C., both distinctions undoubtedly reflecting his ‘gallantry in the Field’, as cited in a reference written by Major-General H. E. Holman at a later date. He was invested with his M.C. by King George V at Windsor Castle in April 1915, one of the first officers to be so honoured. Parker was subsequently appointed to the Staff, initially serving as A.D.C. to the G.O.C. 7th Division (November 1914-May 1915), and afterwards as a Camp Commandant In IV Corps H.Q. (May 1915-February 1916), and Camp Commandant 4th Army (February 1916-March 1918). Then following a brief spell as Camp Commandant, Supreme War Council, he returned to his post in 4th Army and remained similarly employed until the war’s end. He was awarded the O.B.E. and five times mentioned in despatches (London Gazettes 15 June 1916, 4 June 1917, 7 April 1918, 20 December 1918 and 5 July 1919, refer); in addition he was appointed a Chevalier of the French Order of Merite Agricole (London Gazette 7 October 1919, refers), and awarded the Croix de Guerre (London Gazette 24 October 1919, refers). Parker, who had been advanced to Q.M. & Major on the recommendation of Lieutenant-General H. Rawlinson, G.O.C. IV Corps, in May 1915, was appointed Q.M. & Lieutenant-Colonel in November 1923, shortly before his retirement. He died in December 1939. Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including the recipient’s pre-attestation recruit’s form; warrants appointing him to the rank of Sergeant-Major and Quarter-Master (1898 and 1914); his M.I.D. certificates for French’s despatch, dated 14 January 1915, and Haig’s despatches, dated 30 April 1916, 8 November 1918 and 16 March 1919; and an old copy of General Rawlinson’s letter recommending him for advancement to Q.M. and Major, dated 5 May 1915.
Lot 532
38th Foot Medal, silver with raised rim, 38mm diameter, obverse engraved with crowned royal cypher ‘GIIIR’ over ‘XXXVIII REGT’; reverse engraved ‘38 REGT to a deserving soldier as a TOKEN of faithful and meritorious fervice Ge. MOSS’, fitted with contemporary loop and blue silk neck ribbon, toned, very fine and rare £300-£400 --- Referenced in Balmer, R309. Just two or three known examples; the National Army Museum have an unnamed specimen in bronze or brass. Sold with research notes that state he joined the 38th Foot in 1815; promoted to Sergeant 1830; discharged 1839; served 4 years Cape of Good Hope and 17 years in the East Indies; awarded Army of India medal with clasp ‘Ava’.
Lot 536
Royal Bristol Volunteers 1814, struck silver medal, 53mm x 37mm, obverse: the arms and crest of Bristol, ‘Royal Bristol Volunteers’ around, ‘In Danger Ready’ on scroll below; reverse: 15 line inscription below ‘GR’ cypher, ‘Imbodied for the maintenance of public order & protection of their fellow citizens on the threat of invasion by France MDCCXCVII. Revived at the renewal of hostilities MDCCCIII. Disbanded when the deliverance of Europe was accomplished by the perseverance and magnanimity of Great Britain and her allies MCCCCXIV’, ‘Pro Patria’ on scroll below. Penryn Volunteers 1794, struck bronze medal, 28mm, obverse: on a trophy of arms, a laureated head on a shield with a helmet above, ‘Penryn Volunteers’ on a band above, in exergue ‘First Inrolld April 3, 1794’; reverse: the Dunstanville arms, on a scroll above ‘Pro Rege et Populo’, in exergue ‘Lord de Dunstanville Colonel’, pierced with ring for suspension, nearly very fine (2) £100-£140 --- Referenced in Balmer’s unpublished work on Volunteer Medals (September 1985), V94.
Lot 54
Pair: Commander W. J. Bullmore, Royal Navy Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1884 (Nav: Lieut: W. J. Bullmore, R.N. H.M.S. “Carysfort”); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed, nearly extremely fine (2) £400-£500 --- William John Bullmore was appointed Navigating Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 12 June 1867; Navigating Lieutenant, 10 September 1874; Staff Commander 14 January 1888; Retired Commander, 23 February 1900. Was Navigating Lieutenant of Carysfort during Egyptian war, 1882 (Egyptian Medal, Khedive’s Bronze Star); also during the naval and military operations near Suakin, in the Eastern Soudan, 1884 (Suakin Clasp). See Lot 49 for related family medals.
Lot 545
Evening Chronicle Medal of Honour, bronze-gilt and enamel cross by Fattorini & Sons, the reverse embossed ‘Gloops Club Member of Honour awarded to...’, unnamed, complete with enamelled top suspension brooch inscribed ‘For Achievement’; together with 22nd Regiment Order of Merit 1820, bronze, disc only, unnamed, the second with heavy edge bruising, fine, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £30-£40
Lot 548
A Selection of Miscellaneous Nursing Badges. Comprising lapel badges for the Chelmsford and Essex Hospital, silver and enamel, unnamed; C.S.N.T. 1874, silver and enamel, unnamed; The Prince of Wales’s General Hospital, gilt and enamel, unnamed; Red Cross and St. John, silvered and enamel, unnamed; British Red Cross Society Child Welfare, silvered and enamel, unnamed; St. John Ambulance Association, silvered and enamel, unnamed; Northern Ireland Hospital Service Reserve, silvered and enamel, unnamed; Lancaster Road Fathers’ Council Child Welfare, bronze and enamel, unnamed; The Prince of Wales’s General Hospital Carnival, plastic coated base metal; Austrian Red Cross, bronze and enamel, the reverse numbered ‘1294’, all with original suspensions; together with a cloth V.R.I. patch, generally very fine (11) £50-£70
Lot 566
France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917, with bronze star emblem on riband; together with a French ‘Arts’ medal, gilt and enamel, very fine Greece, Kingdom, War Medal 1940-41, Army issue, bronze, nearly very fine Poland, People’s Republic, Auschwitz Cross (2), silvered and enamel; Warsaw Uprising Cross, silvered and enamel, very fine Serbia, Kingdom, Commemorative Medal for the Great War 1914-18, bronze, good very fine United States of America, National Defense Medal, bronze, good very fine (8) £60-£80
Lot 574
Germany, Third Reich, War Service Cross 1939, Second Class, without Swords, bronze; War Service Medal 1939, bronze; West Wall Medal (2), bronze, all in their original paper packets; together with two empty packets for the War Service Cross 1939, Second Class, with Swords; and two empty packets for the West Wall Medal, good very fine (4) £80-£100
Lot 581
A United States of America Great War Purple Heart pair awarded to B. R. Chism, 11th Infantry, United States Army United States of America, Purple Heart, gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Benton R. Chism’; Victory Medal, 1 clasp, Some Defensive, bronze, good very fine (2) (2) £70-£90 --- Sold with the recipient’s Society of the Fifth Division, U.S.A. Veteran’s Membership Card; and unit insignia.
Lot 582
United States of America, Certificate of Merit Medal, bronze, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine, scarce £60-£80 --- The Certificate of Merit Medal was a military decoration of the United States Army which was issued between 1905 and 1918, replacing the much older parchment ‘Certificates of Merit’ which had first been issued by the U.S. Army in 1847. The Medal itself was declared obsolete in 1918, and recipients of the Certificate of Merit Medal could exchange their medal for the newly created Distinguished Service Medal. In 1934 Congress changed the regulation allowing the conversion of the medal to the Distinguished Service Cross, including those previously converted to the Distinguished Service Medal.
Lot 628
A German Third Reich Young Horseman’s Badge in Bronze. 32mm in diameter, tinny type suspension to the reverse side; together with a National Youth sports badge with short bar either side indicating a female award, RJA to centre over swastika; a BDM proficiency clasp in bronze individually numbered on the reverse side 91313 with RZM mark; and a JM (young womans proficiency clasp in silver) individually numbered 26058 with RZM mark, generally good condition (4) £120-£160
Lot 632
A German Second World War Kriegsmarine Destroyer Badge and Army Infantry Assault Badge. A mint condition Army Infantry Assault Badge, solid back, marked WH in raised relief, all bronze finish remaining; together with a Kriegsmarine Destroyer Badge, maker marked JFS in raised relief with original hook, pin and hinge and uniform retaining hook, with some good gilt remaining to the surrounding laurel wreath, extremely good condition (2) £120-£160
Lot 83
Five: Captain J. J. Botting, Royal Horse Artillery 1914 Star, with clasp (17815 Cpl. J. Botting. R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. J. Botting.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Capt. J. Botting. R.A.); Coronation 1902, bronze, unnamed as issued, good very fine (5) £120-£160 --- John Jeffrey Botting was born in Ardingly, Sussex, on 20 April 1883 and attested for the Royal Horse Artillery on 26 June 1901. He was serving in India at the start of the Great War, and landed on the Western Front on 11 November 1914, whilst serving with ‘Q’ Battery Royal Horse Artillery. Commissioned Second Lieutenant on 11 December 1915, he was wounded at St. Omer, being affected by gas in his eyes. After recovery he saw later service in India including in Afghanistan during the North West Frontier campaign of 1919. Upon relinquishing his commission Botting became the landlord of The Bull Inn, St. Leonards on Sea, Sussex. He died on 2 December 1948 aged 65. Sold with a detailed large file of research including his soldiers and officers service papers. Coronation medal unconfirmed.
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