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Click here to subscribeR.M.S. Carpathia and S.S. Titanic Medal 1912, bronze, the reverse contemporarily engraved ‘A. Gilliam’, with reverse loop but lacking small ring suspension, very fine and a rare named example £2,000-£3,000 --- Provenance: Marine Sale, Bonhams, April 2014. Alfred Gilliam served as a Steward in R.M.S. Carpathia.
Pair: Sick Berth Steward S. Barend, Royal Navy, who witnessed the devastating impact of the Apia Cyclone on the German and American fleets anchored at Samoa in March 1889 British War Medal 1914-20 (108779 S. Barend. S.B.S. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (S. Barend, 2nd. Sk. B:Stewd: H.M.S. Pembroke.) impressed naming; together with an H.M.S. Calliope at Samoa 1889, The Marquis de Leuville’s Presentation Medal, 30mm, bronze-gilt, the obverse featuring the arms of The Marquis de Leuville, the reverse embossed ‘British Seamanship and Captain Kane of H.M.S. Calliope from an Admirer, The Marquis de Leuville’, unmounted, good very fine and better, the last rare (3) £220-£260 --- Sidney Barend was born in Hackney around 1861 and joined the Royal Navy as Domestic 3rd Class in June 1879. Raised 2nd Class Sick Berth Steward in H.M.S. Calliope in 1887, he was present aboard this ship in 1889 when she was directed to Samoa and charged with maintaining British interests and keeping the peace in the region; she joined the competing squadrons of the Imperial German and United States Navies in the small and primitive harbour of Apia - fit for four large vessels, it was soon overwhelmed with seven warships and six merchant vessels by 14 March 1889, forcing many to weigh anchor amidst the treacherous offshore reefs. That afternoon the barometer began to fall and a tropical cyclone began to form. Rapidly increasing in ferocity over the following two days, the Apia Cyclone fed winds of 70-100 miles per hour directly into the harbour, causing many anchors to lose purchase. Vessels collided and were thrown upon the reef; hit by one ship and narrowly missed by another, Calliope under the command of Captain Kane decided to make her escape - described later by the American Commander of the holed Trenton as ‘one of the grandest sights (of seamanship) a seaman or anyone else ever saw’. With ten men on her wheel, Calliope made it to deep water and weathered the storm for the next two days. Re-entering the harbour on the 19, her crew discovered that all the other ships - 12 in all - had foundered, with loss of life aboard each. She later made her way to Sydney, where Captain Kane and his crew received a hero’s welcome. Recommended for the L.S. & G.C. Medal whilst aboard Calliope, Barend later received his medal whilst serving at Pembroke. Pensioned off in 1901, he served at Chatham during the Great War, ending his war aboard the armed steam yacht Nairn which was at that time based in Scotland. Awarded the British War Medal (he was not entitled to a Victory Medal), he died in 1942. Sold with four modern specimen Samoan stamps depicting Apia after the Hurricane, H.M.S. Calliope, and two vessels which foundered; and copied service record.
R.S.P.C.A. Life Saving Medal, bronze (S/O F. N. Jury, 1963) naming engraved over some light preparatory naming, with integral top ‘For Humanity’ brooch bar, nearly extremely fine £100-£140 --- Frederick Newton Jury was born in St. Austell, Cornwall on 30 April 1910. By 1939 he was still in St. Austell, a toys and Hardware Dealer, and additionally part of the Auxiliary Fire Services for World War II. There are many references to him as a Station Officer in the St. Austell Fire Services in the local paper the Cornish Guardian in the 1960s. In the 11 June 1964 edition a parade was held in Bodmin, Cornwall for the Fire Services where long service medals and Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals awards were presented by Her Majesty’s Inspector of Fire Services, Mr A. V. Thomas whom was very impressed by the proceedings and was always impressed by the great amount of animal rescue work they did, not to mention other special services such as rescuing people from cliffs. In Cornwall they had a unique record in the country for this kind of thing and he went to say “To my knowledge there is not another brigade that does a quarter of the work you do in this respect”. The awards were: one silver, one bronze bar, four bronze medals and six certificates awarded. Curiously only Jury’s was for the St. Austell Fire Unit. Although no specific rescue or citation was given there were many to chose from looking at the local newspaper such as an attempted rescue of a dog fallen down a mineshaft or a ‘jammed animal’; one better documented incident is the three hour long rescue of a valuable two year old Freisian heifer from a disused quarry in St. Austell, where the animal was stranded on a ledge 60 foot down the side of the quarry, the ledge itself only being above deep water, ‘Station Officer F. N. Jury and Mr. Grigg (the animal’s owner) were lowered down the side of the quarry and put a rope around the heifer’s horns. When the special rescue equipment arrived from Bodmin they put the heifer into a sling and, by the use of the blocks and tackle, she was hauled up to the top. The heifer, released from the harness, walked away apparently unhurt’.
A rare ‘posthumous’ Boy Scouts Association Bronze Cross awarded to Scout C. Humphreys, 33rd Nairobi Group, Kenya, for his gallantry in saving a boy from drowning in a rain filled murram pit at Nairobi on 18 April 1950, during which action he gave up his own life Boy Scouts Association Gallantry Cross, 1st Class, bronze, 2nd issue, (C. Humphries [sic], 18.4.50) with integral top brooch bar, in damaged but original Collins, London, card box of issue, extremely fine, rare £700-£900 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2007. Christopher Humphreys, a Scout from the 33rd Nairobi Group, was awarded a posthumous Bronze Cross on 20 August 1950. The official citation states: ‘In posthumous recognition of his gallantry in saving a boy from drowning in a rain filled murram pit, Kogeria Estate, Kiambu, Nairobi, 18th April, 1950’. Christopher Humphreys was the son of Bren and Vera Humphreys. On 18 April 1950, in saving the life of a boy from drowning in a rain-filled clay pit, he gave up his own. For his gallant action he was posthumously awarded the Boy Scout Associations’ highest award, the Bronze Cross. The presentation was made to his parents by the Chief Scout Lord Rowallan, on the occasion of the opening of the new scout training camp in the Ngong Forest, Kenya, in October 1950. Sold with a glazed and framed bestowal document, named to the recipient and bearing the citation, signed ‘Rowallan’ Chief Scout (1945-59). Together with a copied photograph of Humphreys by a camp fire and tent and one of Lord Rowallan presenting the award to his parents; a copied newspaper cutting concerning the opening of a new scout camp and the presentation of the Bronze Cross; and a cloth ‘Boy Scout’ badge.
Miscellaneous World Medals. A miscellaneous selection, including Austria, Empire, Bravery Medal, Franz Joseph, ‘Der Tapferkeit’, bronze; War Medal 1873, bronze; Commemorative Medal 1898 ‘Signum Memoriae’, bronze; Belgium, Kingdom, Political Prisoner’s Cross 1940-45, silvered and enamel, with riband bar with two stars; Russia, Empire, Medal for Zeal, Nicholas II, silver; Serbia, Kingdom, 1913 Commemorative Cross, bronze; United States of America, Good Conduct Medal, bronze; United Dtates Navy Medl, bronze, the reverrse engraved ‘William Shibell Fox 1945’; United States Marine Corps Medal, bronze; Washington Army National Guard Medal, bronze; Washington State Guard Medal, bronze; and a Combat Infantryman Badge; together with various other miscellaneous medals and ephemera, generally nearly very fine and better (lot) £100-£140
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Arthur Stewart Houston, 25th August, 1891) lacking integral bronze riband buckle, nearly very fine £120-£160 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- R.H.S., Canada Case No. 25647: ‘At great personal risk, rescued two persons from drowning in the Niagara River, Cedar Island, on the 25th August, 1891.’
R.S.P.C.A. Life Saving Medal, bronze (Mr. James Gent. 1924.) complete with ‘For Humanity’ top suspension brooch, in fitted case of issue, minor edge bruise, nearly extremely fine £140-£180 --- The Lynn Advertiser of 10 October 1924, states: ‘Aid to Animals Recognised: Before the ordinary business of the Lynn Borough Bench was commenced on Monday morning, the Mayor (Major S. A. T. Coxon) presented eight local men with medals for saving the lives of animals at the recent fire at Highgate. Inspector W. S. Harding, of the R.S.P.C.A., said that on July 16 a fire occurred in Garden Row, Highgate, in a place where there were four horses and two dogs. These animals were all saved at the personal risk of eight local men, and the Society had decided to give them medals, while the owners of the animals and an insurance company were also giving the men 5s. each. - The Mayor handed the bronze medals and money to Herbert Fisher, Robert Cozens, James Gent, Walter Dawson, Arthur Fysh, Walter Watson, Wm. Davies and Horace Jex.’
A German Second World War group pertaining to Obergefreitter Karl Muller, 2nd Panzer Division, together with a most impressive Russian Front presentation photograph album Germany, Iron Cross 1939, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, unmarked; Wound Badge in Black, unmarked, with original pin, hook and hinge; together with a DRL sports badge in bronze with the associated stick-pin miniature; ands a RJA stick-pin miniature, good very fine (5) £500-£700 --- Sold with the the award document for the Iron Cross, dated Nicaea, Greece, 5 May 1941; award document for the Wound Badge, dated Beexkow, Russia, 17 December 1941; award booklet for the DRL sports award, dated 3 September 1937; award booklet for the RJA award, dated 25 August 1931; the recipient’s Wehrpass issued at Mannheium on 31 August 1937, very nicely filled out with 26 pages having some form of entry, including a photograph of the recipient in uniform, and giving details of the recipient receiving a splinter injury from a mortar round to his righ foot in Russia on 10 October 1941; and a fine original ‘presentation type’ photograph album, A4 size, black imitation crocodile skin cover with large silvered soldier at the top left and ‘Erinnerungen an meine Dienstzeit’ silver blocked at the base, the inside containing 90 b/w photographs depicting the recipient’s wartime service in the West, through Greece, and finally on the Russian front, with the final photographs showing the recipient in hospital on crutches and wearing his awards.
Royal Humane Society, large bronze medal (successful) (Margaret Robertson. 16, Jany 1850.) with contemporary brass claw and small ring suspension, polished, good fine to nearly very fine £120-£160 --- R.H.S. Case No. 14857: ‘On 16th January 1850, River Annan, St Mungo, Dumfries, John Smith whilst crossing the ice went through and Margaret Robertson, servant, after breaking a branch from a tree, went on the ice and rescued him. Bronze medal awarded to Robertson.’
An Order of St John group of five awarded to Lady Superintendent B. Bourke, Children’s Home Division and 1st (Stoke Newington) Nursing Division, St John Ambulance Brigade, who was one of the first eight women to be awarded the Service Medal of the Order The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s shoulder badge, silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, white enamel repair to two arms; Jubilee 1897, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Lady Treasr. Miss. B. Bourke.); Coronation 1902, St. John Ambulance Brigade, bronze (B. Bourke. Lady Supt.); Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Lady Supt. B. Bourke.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, with three Additional Award Bars (Lady Supt. Blye. Bourke. 1906.) mounted for display, minor contact marks, generally very fine and better (5) £240-£280 --- Blye Bourke was born in Islington around 1850 and is recorded as an unmarried draper’s assistant living in Hastings in 1881. Returning to Hackney to live with her widowed father, she devoted her life to the work of the St John Ambulance Brigade in London and became Honorary Serving Sister of the Order of St John of Jerusalem on 24 June 1893. As one of the first eight women to be awarded the Service Medal of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, Bourke later served from 20 October 1914 at the Roseneath Voluntary Hospital, Winchmore Hill, in the rank of Commandant. Released from nursing duties upon the cessation of hostilities, she returned home to ‘Chateaudun’, 166 Osbaldson Road, N.16, and was soon mentioned in the Bayswater Chronicle on 29 September 1923 for her continued work with St John Ambulance and her appointment as Lady of Grace. She died in 1931, one of the great Lady ‘stalwarts’ of the Brigade.
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel F. J. Langdon, King's Liverpool Regiment, who was three times Mentioned in Despatches Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major F. J. Langdon); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, Sudan 1899, Gedid (Capt. F. J. Langdon, The King’s (L’pool) Regt.) contemporarily engraved naming; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1918, with silver star emblem on riband, mounted court-style for display in this order, good very fine (5) £1,800-£2,200 --- Provenance: Woodliffe Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, May 2011. D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1918. M.I.D. London Gazette 30 January 1900 (Pursuit and defeat of the Khalifa; battle of Gedid); 11 December 1917; 1 January 1918. French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 7 October 1919. Francis John Langdon was born on 18 August 1873, at Clifton, Bristol. He was educated at Waymouth College and was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in 3/4th King’s (Liverpool) Regiment (Militia) on 17 October 1891, becoming Lieutenant in April 1893. He transferred to a commission in the 1st King’s Liverpool Regiment at the end of that year. He was attached to the Egyptian Army from March 1899 to March 1901, and held the rank of Bimbashi with XIIIth Sudanese under Maxse Bey, taking part in the pursuit and defeat of the Khalifa in 1899 and at the battle of Gedid (Um Debeykarat). Langdon returned to the King's Liverpool Regiment in March 1901, retired in April 1910 and was transferred to Reserve of Officers. Mobilised in September 1914 to the 11th Battalion, Liverpool Regiment, he transferred to the Army Service Corps in November 1914 and raised the 21st Divisional Train which he commanded until 7 December 1914. Langdon was employed on Staff Duties from 23 January 1915 to 20 December 1918, being appointed D.A.Q.M.G. to the 62nd Division. Promoted to Major in January 1916, he served in France and Belgium from 2 January 1917 to 11 November 1918. He was appointed A.Q.M.G to 7 Corps on 22 September 1918, and held a temporary appointment to H.Q. 4th Army as Liaison Officer with II American Corps in October 1918. In December 1918 he went to Base H.Q. at Havre as temporary Lieutenant-Colonel when A.Q.M.G., and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel on 28 May 1919, transferring to the unemployed list the following day. Sold with copied research.
Five: Stoker First Class R. Keegan, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (SS.109218, R. Keegan, Sto. 1., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (S.S.109218 R. Keegan. Sto. 1. R.N.; Defence Medal; National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal, Bronze (13323 Richard Keegan.) contact marks, some staining, polished, good fine and better Three: Lieutenant D. E. Erlbach, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. D. E. Erlbach. R.N.V.R.); Defence Medal, mounted for wear, some staining, very fine Pair: Sapper R. A. Warren, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (298790 Spr. R. A. Warren. R.E.) very fine (10) £120-£160 --- Richard Keegan, from Liverpool, was born on 31 January 1891. He attested into the Royal Navy on 7 September 1909 and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Natal and survived its sinking following an explosion due to faulty cordite in one of her magazines on 30 December 1915, with the loss of 421 lives. He afterwards served ashore and was demobilised on 22 February 1919. Afterwards joining the Dorchester Fire Service, he served during the Second War after he had been awarded his National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal in February 1939. Sold with a gilded silver H.M.S. Natal tribute medal, copy photographs of the recipient in uniform, and copied research. Donald Eustace Erlbach, a shipbroker from Islington, London, was born on 4 January 1883. After being rejected from joining the army due to his age, he attested into the Royal Navy on 6 February 1915 for service during the Great War and was Advanced Chief Petty Officer just 20 days later on 26 February 1915. He was commissioned as a Sub-Lieutenant into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 10 April 1916 and served afloat in Motor Launches ML148 and ML186. Advanced Lieutenant on 10 April 1917, he was demobilised on 11 February 1919. Post-War, he became a Director of the Baltic Exchange, and served there on Fire Watching duties during the Second War. After the Second War, he was elected as a Common Councilman for Aldgate ward, appointed a Lieutenant of the City of London on 2 May 1958 and an honorary member of the Baltic Exchange, receiving a vellum award from the Chairman, Lord Kilmarnock, in June 1965. He died, aged 79, in Eastbourne, Sussex, on 17 April 1970. Sold with detailed copied research. Robert Andrew Warren, from Hereford, was born on 3 May 1885. He attested as a Boy into the Royal Navy on 26 March 1903. Advanced Able Seaman on 10 December 1905, he was discharged to shore on 6 February 1908. He later attested into the Royal Engineers for service during the Great War and served with the Inland Water Transport and Docks service. Sold with copied service papers.
Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (2) (Stn. Offr. Thomas Jordan; Ldg. Fireman Charles T. Rule); British Fire Services Association Twenty Years Long Service Medal, silver, one ‘B.F.S.A.’ Additional Award Bar, the edge numbered ‘1091’, the reverse of the suspension bar engraved ‘G. W. Byrne’; National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal (2), silver, the edge officially numbered ‘3145’ and additionally contemporarily engraved ‘William George Pemberton’; bronze, with clasp for ‘Ten Years’ service and additional ‘B.F.S.A.’ clasp, the edge officially numbered ‘16396’ and additionally contemporarily engraved ‘Benjamin Elcock’; Corps of Commissionaire’s Badge, silver and enamel, reverse engraved ‘A. V. Jacobs’, generally good very fine (6) £120-£160
A Japanese bronze bottle vase with dragon in relief entwined around the neck, ht. 18cm. Top rim slightly misshapen, some corrosion around head of the dragon, otherwise in good condition. WE TAKE GREAT CARE in the accuracy of our condition reports and may record damage and restoration if obvious. The information is provided in good faith along with detailed photographs where requested and is for guidance only. However, this does not imply that there may not be further condition issues associated with the lot and we DO NOT provide any guarantee to the buyer.WE STRONGLY ADVISE BIDDERS TO EXAMINE PERSONALLY ANY LOT THEY ARE INTERESTED IN BEFORE THE AUCTION.
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