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Lot 329
A group of coins and medals to include the Sage of Valenciennes, First Collection medal 'His Royal Highness Frederick Duke of York' 'Valenciennes Surrendered' white metal medal dated 1793, together with a commemorative medallion for Sir Francis Burdett BART MP for Westminster, four Army Rifle Association bronze medals and inscribed 'Britannia Trophy 1955', and other commemorative Crowns Location: Cab
Lot 336
British and European from approximately 1850s to 1919 silver, bronze and copper, and mixed world coins, Ioz Australian Kangaroo coin, Australian shillings and banknotes, and costume jewellery to include faux pearls, necklaces, rings, pendants and other items contained in a red leather case. Location:RAB
Lot 259
* Wilkinson (Henry 1921 - 2011). Five Drypoint Etchings of Dogs, late 20th century, five drypoint etchings of dogs and gamebirds, each finished by hand in watercolour, each signed and limited in pencil below the image by the artist, each approximately 265 x 350 mmQty: (5)NOTESThe prints consist of: Cocker Spaniels flushing a Pheasant, 129/150, Springer Spaniel retrieving a Widgeon, 66/150, Cairn terriers, 102/150, Golden Retriever & Squirrel [and] Pheasants, 72/100. Henry Wilkinson was a master engraver of mainly sporting subjects and especially dogs. He studied engraving at the Royal College of Art and honed his skills while working as an assistant to the famous canine and wildlife engraver George Vernon Stokes. He produced his limited editions single-handedly, from conception, engraving, printing and finishing, including the production of his printing inks. His talents extended to other areas as diverse as silversmithing, gun making, cabinet making and stone masonry. For many years Wilkinson was Head of Engraving at the City and Guilds of London Art School, a consultant to the Morris Singer Bronze Foundry and a council member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers. He is widely regarded as the master of canine engraving from the late 20th century.
Lot 254
Three: Leading Seaman S. Higgs, Royal Navy, who served with the battle cruiser H.M.S. Lion at the Battle of Jutland 1914-15 Star (J.31136, S. Higgs, Ord., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.31136 S. Higgs. A.B., R.N.) mounted for display, with 9ct. gold prize medal, reverse engraved ‘H.M.S. Resolution Winners Kings Cup 1922-1923 S. Higgs’, and bronze prize medal, reverse engraved ‘Runners-Up 1st B.S. 2nd Div. Ships Football Compt. 1922-23. Resolution’, generally very fine or better (lot) £140-£180 --- Sydney Higgs was born in Stone, Staffordshire in May 1897. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in May 1914, and advanced to Leading Seaman in January 1919. Higgs served with H.M.S. Lion (battle cruiser) from January 1915, and served with her at the Battle of Jutland where she was Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty’s fleet flagship of the Battle Cruiser Fleet. The Lion was hit a total of 14 times during the battle, including sustaining near-catastrophic damage to Q-turret, and suffered 99 dead and 51 wounded. Although mortally wounded, Major Francis Harvey, Royal Marines, the Q-turret gun commander, ordered the magazine and turret to be flooded, which although costing him his life saved the magazine from exploding, which would undoubtedly have sunk the ship; for his bravery and self sacrifice he was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. Higgs was discharged by purchase in August 1923.
Lot 297
Three: Private G. R. Pippet, Rifle Brigade, late Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps 1914-15 Star (S-7482 Pte. G. R. Pippet. Rif: Brig:); British War and Victory Medals (S-7482 Pte. G. R. Pippet. Rif. Brig.); together with a Ceylon Tribute Medal, bronze (G. R. Pippet) the last polished and worn, nearly very fine (4) £120-£160 --- George Reginald Pippet was born at Croscombe, Congleton, Cheshire and attested for the Rifle Brigade in London on 13 December 1914, at the age of 22. By profession a tea planter, he declared 18 months’ prior service with the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps. He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was wounded by a gun shot wound ‘explosive bullet’ to his right arm on 15 August 1915, being invalided to England on 18 September 1915. He was discharged no longer fit for active service in July 1916.
Lot 299
Four: Captain A. B. Cluckie, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for rescuing a French Officer under fire, was wounded, and was subsequently taken Prisoner of War at Kemmel in 1918 1914-15 Star (Lieut. A. B. Cluckie. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. A. B. Cluckie.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917, with bronze star on riband, good very fine (4) £100-£140 --- Alexander Beck Cluckie was born in 1886, the son of a Glasgow ophthalmic surgeon, and graduated M.B. from Glasgow University in 1908, after which, following in his father’s footsteps, he was house surgeon for three years at the Moorfields Eye Hospital before settling in Greenock where he was assistant ophthalmic surgeon at the Greenock Eye Infirmary. Completing his Doctor’s Degree at the University of Oxford, he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 April 1915, and was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for the rescue of a French officer under fire (London Gazette 10 October 1918). Wounded during his gallant rescue, he was subsequently taken Prisoner of War at Kemmel, Belgium, on 25 April 1918, and held in captivity for the rest of the War (copied research with lot refers). Post-War Cluckie settled in Bath, and was appointed ophthalmic surgeon at the Bath Eye Infirmary. A keen rugby player, he played as full-back for Bath Rugby Club. He died in tragic circumstances in Bath in June 1938. Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient.
Lot 355
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.
Lot 568
Matthew Boulton’s Medal for Trafalgar 1805, a specially struck reduced-size medallion, issued for the centenary celebrations in 1905, 31mm (2), one in bronze-gilt, the other in white metal, identical in all respects to the full-size medallion, but ‘Centenary of The Battle of Trafalgar 1905’ additionally struck on reverse, the edge inscribed ‘bronze’ on first, and both struck without presentation inscription to edge, first nearly extremely, second nearly good very fine (2) £120-£160
Lot 573
The Poignant, Historically Important Manuscript Journal, Peking Siege Commemoration Medal and Archive of Doctor Wordsworth Poole, who was Mentioned in Despatches for his devoted and gallant services as Physician to the British Legation during the Siege at Peking, having previously served as Principal Medical Officer in Central Africa and Southern Nigeria. Poole’s Journal, lavishly illustrated by sketches, diagrams, and tables, is a fascinating account of the rising tension between the foreign Legations and the Qing Court, the appearance of anti-foreigner ‘Boxers’, and the daily struggles of the defenders of the International Legations, all from the perspective of ‘the fighting doctor’ who set up and ran the improvised International Hospital and was a close confidante of, and advisor to, Sir Claude Macdonald, British Minister to the Qing Emperor, and his wife Ethel, Lady Macdonald. i) Peking Siege Commemoration Medal, 57mm, bronze, the obverse featuring the Ch’ien Men engulfed in flames, in the exergue a cannon, ‘junii xx - augusti xiv’, the reverse featuring Britannia and Germania standing facing, clasping hands, a Chinese female standing behind; below a dragon, ‘mene. mene. tekel. upharsin. ichabod!’ impressed on the edge (Dr Wordsworth Poole C.M.G.) ii) Dr Poole’s Personal handwritten Journal (marked ‘Private’) in two volumes, the first (rebound) running from January 1896 to May 1901, the second covering the period May 1901 up to November 1901, when he fell ill prior to his death in January 1902, the several hundred pages of acute observation and commentary contain much of historical, medical and mental health interest iii) Dr Poole’s personal photograph album, covering the period 1895-1901, a fascinating companion to the Journal, 26 pages with hundreds of images in excellent condition, annotated and covering many of the personalities and places mentioned in his Journal and letters, including the Siege of the Legations iv) Dr Poole’s personal letters to his family, mostly typed transcripts but some of the later ones from 1900 onwards are handwritten originals v) Two framed original portrait photographs of the recipient vi) Obituaries, notices, and much other ephemera relating to Wordsworth Poole, generally very good condition and an important and rare archive (lot) £12,000-£15,000 --- Dr Poole’s medal group, comprising The Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion’s breast badge; Central Africa Medal 1891-98 with clasp Central Africa 1894-98; East and West Africa Medal 1887-1900, with clasp 1897-98; and China Medal 1900 with clasp Defence of Legations, was sold in these rooms in March 2021. Wordsworth Poole was born at St. Paul’s Cray, Kent, on 7 December 1867, the son of Samuel Wordsworth Poole, an M.D. of Aberdeen and Vicar of St. Mark’s, Cambridge, and the grandson of Richard Poole, an eminent physician, psychiatrist and phrenologist, who practised in Edinburgh. He was educated at St. Olave’s School, London, where he won several scholarships, and St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. Completing his medical training at Guy’s Hospital, an organisation to which he developed a lifelong loyalty, qualifying as an M.B. and B.C.H. and serving time as house surgeon, he went overseas in search of adventure, first to Africa, then to China. Africa Poole kept a private Journal and wrote many letters to members of his family, providing a rare insight into an important period of British rule in the interior of Africa, dealing with the final overthrow of the armed forces of the African and Arab leaders who conducted a huge traffic in slaves. They also contain much of interest from a medical and mental health perspective and many references to the life led by the early Europeans in the interior of Africa (and subsequently, China). One of Poole’s first tasks was to make and fit a prosthetic for an African whose leg had been bitten off by a crocodile. Poole found his work with the indigenous peoples highly rewarding; he considered many of the European missionaries and soldiers less likeable as patients and companions. The sickness and mortality rate amongst the Europeans must have been one of the highest in the world, an overall annual death rate of around 10%. The death rate among officials was particularly high. In 1897-98 out of the total of 65 in the country around Lake Nyasa there were 12 deaths (18%), practically all in the prime of life. Kinetic injuries abounded, especially in rural areas. Dr Poole joined Major C. E. Edwards on his campaign against Zirafi, a powerful slaver chief based on a steep, easily defended hill covered with boulders, which was tough to approach ‘with people potting at you from good cover.’ The skirmishing en-route was described by Poole in a letter to his mother: ‘I and my hospital carriers were passing a clearing when about 70 yards away from us two guns blazed off from behind rocks. The porters threw down their loads and hooked. My boy ran up to me with my rifle, and I was trying to catch sight of someone to fire at (I’m fairly steady with the rifle now) when I saw a flash and some smoke, followed by another, and a bullet fell near my feet, knocking up dust into my face.’ Poole performed several operations in the field: ‘Last Saturday I took off a man’s hand. He had been shot through the wrist by one of Zirafi’s men about six weeks ago. Since then he has had Tetanus… He is doing well now and it has all healed up by primary union.’ On 24 November 1895, Poole accompanied Major Edwards, Smith and Bradshaw of 35th Sikhs on the German Steamer S.S. Hermann von Wissman on their way up to subdue the Arab slaver strongholds of Mloze, Kopa Kopa and Kapandanser; their force of 400 soldiers arriving in detachments. Stopping on the way at Likoma, a missionary station, Poole reflected on the psychology of Europeans who came to Africa: ‘There is a peculiarity about the men who have been in Africa some time. You get into a groove of your own and can’t bear anyone else to be running the show with you. Look at Livingstone and his fearful temper and quarrels with other white men. Kirk, Stanley and all of them the same. One’s temper must become ruined. It is so noticeable with every head of out-stations; they are all bears in one way and brook no interference. I see that one must make enormous allowances for people out here. The circumstances are so adverse. There is no public opinion and such a fierce light of criticism beats upon the actions of a handful of white men out here.’ Poole described in his letters the appalling outbreaks of severe dysentery, malaria and blackwater fever and the difficulties he had in dealing with them single-handed: ‘Just now there is a great deal of sickness about. In the last fortnight I have had about 40 cases of very acute dysentery, some cases of pneumonia and other minor ones.’ He too succumbed to recurrent bouts of fever in the Nyasa region and in Nigeria, to extent that he had to return to England as a convalescent. He recorded his options in his Journal on 6 June 1899: ‘1. Another billet from Colonial Office in a healthy climate. Such a billet as would be worth my while accepting would probably be a long time turning up. 2. Stay at home and try and get on Tropical School of Medicine - but pay poor. 3. Foreign Office said there was a possibility of post of physician to Legation at Peking falling vacant. Worth about £700 a year. Climate good. Drawbacks to this appointment not allowed private practice… and no further advancement. But an easy well-paid billet. My prospects in Nigeria were good...
Lot 613
Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, on Third Reich period riband, good very fine Germany, Third Reich, War Service Cross (2), Second Class breast badge, with swords, bronze; another, Second Class breast badge, without swords, bronze; War Merit Medal, bronze; Cross of Honour of the German Mother, First Class, 2nd type, gilt and enamel; Wound Badge in black (2), both of which have lost their finish; together with a 1934 Tag Der Arbeit Work Day with its tinny pin back fixing, generally very fine (8) £80-£120
Lot 614
Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, maker marked ‘N’ to ring, for Neun, Rosner, Saxony, very fine Germany, Third Reich, Iron Cross 1939, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, unmarked; Cross of Honour of the German Mother, 2nd type, First Class badge, gilt bronze and enamel, with R. Souval, Vienna, case of issue, very fine (3) £70-£90
Lot 616
Germany, Third Reich, Iron Cross 1939, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, ring stamped ‘55’ for J. E. Hammer & Sohn, Geringswalde; War Service Cross, Second Class, with crossed swords, bronze; together with a 1934 East Hannover NSDAP-SA 10 Year Anniversary Badge, bronze; and a German pin badge impressed ‘Aufwärts Aus Eigener Kraft 1934’; a RDK pinback badge, generally good very fine (5) £80-£120 --- Sold together with the remnants of a German wartime First Aid pouch impressed ‘Erste Hilfe’.
Lot 620
The Serbian Order of St. Sava and Queen Natalia Medal bestowed upon Louisa Hay, Mrs. Alexander Kerr Serbia, Kingdom, Order of St Sava, 1st type, Commander’s neck badge, 80mm including crown suspension x 50mm, silver-gilt and enamel, Bishop with red robes, Royal cipher to reverse, unmarked, with neck riband, in by Rothe, Vienna, fitted case of issue; Queen Natalia Medal, First Class shoulder badge, 53mm x 33mm, silver-gilt, Cyrillic cipher at centre, unmarked, on lady’s bow riband, in fitted case of issue, about extremely fine (2) £700-£900 --- Louisa Hay, Mrs. ALexander Kerr (1806-1900) was an English composer and translator, who translated the History of Serbia and the Serbian Revolution into English in 1853, and was awarded the Serbian Order of St. Sava in 1886. Sold together with a commemorative medal for the 500th Anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, 1389-1889, 41mm, bronze, with small ring suspension; a presentation Medallion from the Academy of Industry, Agriculture, Manufacturing, and Commerce, 50mm, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Madame Kerr (Louisa) 1847’, unmounted; a bound presentation copy of The Coronal, a Collection of Songs compiled and set to music by Mrs. Alexander Kerr, and dedicated to H.R.H. The Princess Augusta, 41pp, leather bound, foxing and water damaged; Certificate appointing Mrs. Alexander Kerr a Life Member of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, dated 10 March 1858; a letter to the recipient from the Secretary to H.M. the King of Prussia, dated 27 June 1850; a fine colour portrait of the recipient, mounted in a contemporary gilt frame, and then all re-housed in a modern glazed display frame; and various other portraits and likenesses, and other ephemera.
Lot 73
Six: Private W. Clarke, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (5379294 Pte. W. Clarke. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (5379294 Pte. W. Clark [sic]. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, together with a bronze British Army of the Rhine, Small Arms Meeting, shooting prize medal for 1927, nearly very fine (7) £200-£240 --- W. Clarke appears on a medal roll of 26 reservists of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry mobilised in 1936 and appointed to the 2nd Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry for service in Palestine.
Lot 74
Five: Private H. Fuller, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (5378126 Pte. H. Fuller. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (5) £100-£140 --- Sold together with five regimental sports medals, silver and bronze, one to 43rd L.I., and three to 52nd L.I., and the recipient’s cap badge, shoulder titles, and unit insignia.
Lot 127
A Great War C.M.G., C.B.E. group of nine awarded to Captain W. B. S. Wrey, Royal Navy, who was promoted to Commander for services as second-in-command of the Naval Brigade at the Relief of Pekin, and served as Principal Naval Transport Officer at Southampton throughout the Great War The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast badge converted for neck wear, silver-gilt and enamels, reverse centre depressed; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (W. B. S. Wrey. Midn. R.N. H.M.S. “Superb”); China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (Lieut. W. B. S. Wrey, R.N., H.M.S. Barfleur.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. W. B. S. Wrey. R.N.); Khedive’s Star 1882; Belgium, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Officer’s breast badge, gilt and enamels; United States of America, Navy Distinguished Service Medal, gilt and enamels, these last six mounted as worn; Japan, Empire, Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, a few very minor enamel chips and light contact marks, otherwise generally good very fine (9) £2,000-£2,600 --- C.M.G. London Gazette 4 June 1917: ‘For services in connection with the War.’ C.B.E. (Military) London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For services in connection with the War.’ Belgium, Order of the Crown, 4th Class, London Gazette 29 August 1917. Japan, Order of the Sacred Treasure, 3rd Class, London Gazette 7 June 1918. U.S.A., Distinguished Service Medal (Navy), London Gazette 12 December 1919. William Bourchier Sherard Wrey was born at Holne, Devon, on 2 April 1865, the fourth son of Sir Henry Bourchier Wrey, 10th Baronet. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy in H.M.S. Britannia on 15 July 1878, and, having passed for Midshipman, joined H.M.S. Superb on 4 October 1880, being confirmed in that rank on 23 March 1881. He was a Midshipman in Superb at the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882 (Medal with clasp and Bronze Star), and afterwards in Carysfort in the Sudan during 1884-85, but not in the period to qualify for the clasp ‘Suakin 1885’ which some sources give. Promoted to Lieutenant in October 1888, he joined Barfleur as Lieutenant, and later Acting Commander, in May 1898. Wrey was Mentioned in Despatches by Captain Callaghan, and promoted to Commander for his services as second-in-command of the Naval Brigade at the relief of Pekin in 1900. Invalided home with enteric fever in November 1900, he arrived back in England on 23 December 1900, and was found ‘fit’ in February 1901. He was appointed to Hannibal on the Channel station from May 1901 to January 1904. After an inspection of Hannibal, Lord Charles Beresford reported that ‘Commr. Wrey is not sufficiently competent for second in command of a Battleship.’ Nonetheless, his invention shortly afterwards of a ‘Change of Range Indicator’ did draw an expression of Their Lordships’ appreciation. A period in command of Edinburgh from June 1904 to March 1905, was followed by a Signal Course at Portsmouth, after which he held no further commands. He was placed on the Retired List at his own request with rank of Captain on 31 December 1909. On the outbreak of the war with Germany he returned to duty, and served during the whole period of hostilities as principal naval transport officer at Southampton with the rank of Commodore, being created C.M.G. in 1917 and C.B.E. in 1919, and receiving the American Distinguished Service Medal as well as Belgian and Japanese decorations. Captain Wrey married, in 1897, Flora Bathurst, daughter of Vice-Admiral W. S. Greive, of Ord House, Berwick-on-Tweed. He died on 8 January 1926. Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts including entitlement to single British War Medal.
Lot 131
An interesting Second War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Mr Otway H. Little, Director of the Geological Survey of Egypt, late Lieutenant, 7th Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers, who was taken prisoner by the Turks in April 1916 and imprisoned at Yozgad, where he featured as one of the characters in E. H. Jones’ book The Road to En-dor, widely regarded as one of the most remarkable prisoner-of-war escape stories ever The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, in its Royal Mint case of issue; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. O. H. Little. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. O. H. Little.); Egypt, Kingdom, Order of Ismail, Officer’s breast badge, 75mm including crown suspension x 56mm, gold and enamels, reverse with Egyptian maker’s mark, and stamped with gold and silver marks, each with date letter ‘A’, suspension pin replaced with pin brooch to reverse of crown suspension, some minor enamel chips to the last, otherwise nearly extremely fine (5) £1,200-£1,500 --- O.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 3 March 1944: ‘For services to the Forces and in connection with Military operations [all awards for Egypt]:- Otway Henry Little, Director of the Geological Survey, Egyptian Ministry of Finance. For scientific services.’ Order of Ismail, 4th Class, permission to wear London Gazette 29 July 1949: ‘For valuable services rendered by him in the capacity of Director of the Geological Section of the Egyptian Mines Department.’ Otway Henry Little, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, joined the Geological Survey of Egypt in November 1912. His first two field seasons were spent with the late John Ball in west-central Sinai on the last of those great expeditions of the Egyptian Survey which produced such valuable monographs on the geology of the desert. Then came the 1914-18 war and Little, who had joined the 7th Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers, was taken prisoner by the Turks in their successful raid on Qatia and Oghratina in April, 1916. Little was imprisoned at Yozgad and readers of that lively book The Road to En-dor will find mention of him in its pages. After his release, Little’s first mission was to southern Arabia 1919-20 and he reported on this in The Geography and Geology of Makalla, published in 1925. Returning to Cairo, Little found the Geological Survey greatly curtailed in scope and power. “Petroleum research” had been assigned to an independent department; the mapping of the desert to another. Field work was almost at a standstill, while, in the office, his chief’s attention was largely absorbed in amassing material for a work on The Geology of Egypt, which was never finished. Little had to abandon research and concentrate on the administrative task of keeping the Survey in being and, when time permitted, in compiling the 1:1,000,000 geological map of Egypt. From time to time he escaped from his office to investigate the water supplies of the oases, and A Preliminary Report on the Water Supply of Dakhla Oasis and (with M. Attia) The Deep Bores in Kharga and Dakhla contained valuable recommendations on the control of drilling new wells, to which the Egyptian Government paid little heed. In 1928, Little succeeded W. F. Hume as Director of the Geological Survey. In 1934, with Dr L. J. Spencer of the Natural History Museum, he took part in the field investigation of a remarkable find by Mr. (now Colonel) P. A. Clayton of the natural silica glass in the Sand Sea near the Egyptian-Libyan border. Many specimens, including some beautiful glass artefacts of the Acheulean type, were brought back but no satisfactory explanation of the occurrence was forthcoming. During the Second World War, Little placed his great experience of desert water supply at the service of the chief engineer, M.E.F., and was later awarded the O.B.E. In 1949, he retired and settled in South Africa, where his latter years were clouded by ill-health. He died near Stellenbosch, Cape Province, in October 1956. Little took life philosophically and with great good humour so that he made no enemies. In Cairo, he was always ready to welcome visitors to his museum and library and to help, when needed, with information and advice based on his own researches. Incapable of malice or spite, he was loved by his Egyptian colleagues and subordinates. As the head of an allied section of the Survey of Egypt, I always found Little a loyal colleague in the joint approaches we had often to make to the powers over us. Little was a valued member of the oldest scientific body in Egypt, the Institut d’Egypte, and served a term as its Vice-President.’ (Obituary by G. W. Murray from Proceedings of the Geological Society of London (1957) refers). Sold with mounted group of miniatures of the first four, silver medal of the ‘Institut Egyptien’, bronze medal of ‘Congres International de Geographie Le Caire 1925, and four enamelled badges for Geological Conventions for 1922 (2), 1929 and 1948, the last with name tag ‘Mrs D. Little’, together with comprehensive research.
Lot 196
Four: Private M. J. Gilbert, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914 Star, with copy clasp (4781 Pte. M. J. Gilbert. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (4781 Pte. M. J. Gilbert. R.A.M.C.); Defence Medal; together with a Stratford-upon-Avon Peace Medal 1945, bronze, with top riband bar, all mounted as worn, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (5) £100-£140 --- Matthew J. Gilbert attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with the 1st Cavalry Field Ambulance during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 August 1914; his clasp is verified on his Medal Index Card. He was discharged on 11 February 1915, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.
Lot 198
Four: Private R. K. Childs, Lincolnshire Regiment 1914 Star (8045 Pte. R. K. Childs. 1/Linc: R.); British War Medal 1914-20, erased; Victory Medal 1914-19 (8045 Pte. R. K. Childs. Linc. R.); Belgium, Kingdom, Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, good very fine (4) £80-£120 --- Robert Key Childs, a native of Mansfield, attested for the Lincolnshire Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914. For his services during the Great War he was awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre (London Gazette 15 April 1918).
Lot 202
A Great War group of three awarded to Engineer Lieutenant-Commander W. A. Horton, Royal Navy, who served as Second Engineer in the Royal Research Ship Terra Nova during Captain R. F. Scott’s last Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13, being presented with his Silver Medal by H.M. the King in 1913. Following the Great War Horton served as Chief Engineer in R.R.S. Discovery and Discovery II, and at the time of his death held the record for the number of Antarctic voyages completed, having spent no fewer than ten seasons, including winter voyages, in the Antarctic 1914-15 Star (Art. Eng. W. A. Horton. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Eng. Lt. W. A. Horton. R.N.) minor traces of verdigris to VM, othewise very fine and better (3) £500-£700 --- William Ault Horton was born in Derby on 14 January 1883, and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class on 7 June 1904. Advanced Engine Room Artificer Second Class on 12 January 1910, he transferred to the Royal Research Ship Terra Nova for service with the British National Antarctic Expedition on 25 January 1912, and served as Second Engineer of the Terra Nova during Captain R. F. Scott’s final and celebrated Antarctic Expedition. Promoted Acting Artificer Engineer on 1 September 1914, Horton served during the Great War, and was promoted Engineer Lieutenant. Following the cessation of hostilities he was advanced Engineer Lieutenant-Commander and resumed his Antarctic Research Work, spending ten seasons, including winter voyages, in the Antarctic, as Chief Engineer in Discovery and Discovery II from 1925 to 1937. He died in November 1939; at the time of his death he held the record for the number of Antarctic voyages completed. For his services in the Antarctic Horton was awarded the Polar Medal in Silver with clasp Antarctic 1910-13 (London Gazette 25 July 1913), receiving this medal from the hands of H.M. King George V on 26 July 1913. For his services in Discovery and Discovery II 1925-37 he was posthumously awarded the clasp Antarctic 1925-37 in bronze (London Gazette 7 October 1941). Uniquely (presumably owing to an oversight at the time), Horton was issued the clasp only for the second award, rather than being awarded it attached to a separate bronze medal; consequently his silver medal is the only Polar Medal that carries this combination of clasps. Sold with copied research.
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Three: Sergeant-Bugler J. W. Donnelly, Oxfordshire Light Infantry Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal (2701 Corl. J. W. Donnelly, Oxford: Lt. Infy.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2701 Serjt:-Bug: J. Donnelly. Oxford: L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2701 Sjt: Bglr: J. W. Donnelly. Oxford. L.I.); together with a Burma Rifle Association Medal, silver; a Madras District Medal, bronze; and an Army Temperance Association Medal, with top Excelsior riband bar, good very fine (6) £180-£220 --- John William Donnelly was born in Folkestone, Kent, in 1873 and attested for the Oxfordshire Light Infantry on 29 March 1887. He served with the 2nd Battalion in India and Burma from 21 November 1887 to 6 March 1898; in South Africa during the Boer War from 22 December 1899 to 4 October 1902; and again in India from 22 September 1903 to 27 March 1908. The Regimental Chronicle of 1904 notes that ‘in addition to winning the Aggregate Championship, Sergeant-Bugler Donnelly won the Bengal Presidency Rifle Association Silver Medal, and the Field Glasses presented by Colonel Penno for the best shot amongst British N.C.O.s at 600 and 800 yards.’ He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 189 of 1905, and was discharged as a Sergeant-Bugler on 16 April 1908. He died on 26 May 1877. Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient.
Lot 124
A collection of Beijing 2008 Olympics memorabilia / ephemera including a Friendlies silver plated bronze medallion decorated with the five mascots, limited edition No'd. 6168/80000, boxed, a framed and glazed collection of five limited edition Friendlies figures No'd. 34848/50000, a set of five gold plated mascot souvenir medallions No. 19700/80000, boxed, another Friendlies commemorative medallion set No'd. 5578/60000, boxed, a boxed pair of pottery coffee mugs, together with a plated and enamelled 2010 Asian Games mascot medallion, limited edition No'd. 8429/30000, boxed, an Olympic souvenir 1988 Seoul miniature ashtray collection, framed and glazed, a Wedgwood Los Angeles 1984 collectors' plate and a commemorative yellow metal plaque to commemorate the opening of Jiangyin Yangtze River Highway Bridge, boxed
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