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Lot 886
Nine: Warrant Officer Class 1 H. Robinson, King’s Royal Rifle Corps 1914 Star, with copy slip-on clasp (10062 L. Cpl., 2/K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (10062 Sjt., K.R. Rif. C.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6837479 W.O.Cl.1, K.R.R.C.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Jubilee 1935 (R.S.M. H. Robinson); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (6837479 W.O. Cl. II, K.R.R.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (6837479 W.O.Cl.1, K.R.R.C.); together with a Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs Medal, rev. inscribed, ‘1931 The Army .22 Rifle Match, R.S.M. Robinson’, bronze, Great War and Long Service medal worn; others good very fine and better (10) £400-450 Harry Robinson was born in 1892 and enlisted into the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. at Winchester on 24 April 1911. During the Great War he served with the B.E.F. in France, 12 August-5 December 1914 and 9 February -24 November 1915, and was then in the Balkans, 25 November 1915-17 December 1918. Postwar he served in India, October 1919-March 1929 and in Palestine, September 1936-March 1937. As a Warrant Officer Class 1 he was discharged on 23 August 1937 on reaching the age limit but re-enlisted during the Second World War. Sold with Regular Army Certificate of Service, copied photograph, research and m.i.c., the latter showing entitlement to the clasp to the 1914 Star. £400-£450
Lot 896
Four: Serjeant G. F. Huckle, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, a prisoner-of-war of the Germans 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, with Second Award Bar (6642447 Sjt., K.R.R.C.); together with ‘56th (1st London) Division T.A. Miniature Range’ Medal, bronze, unnamed, in case of issue, extremely fine (5) £120-160 George Frank Huckle enlisted in 1931. Serving with the K.R.R.C. he was captured in North Africa and spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans held in the camp at Lamsdorf. After the war he was repatriated and at the time of his demobilization, was serving with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. sold with original Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Soldier’s Release Book; National Identity Card; medal forwarding slip; German P.O.W. camp money (5 notes); Certificate of Transfer to the Army Reserve; Medical Card; together with cloth shoulder badges, riband bar etc. £120-£160
Lot 1008
Pair: Mate H. C. Jeffreys, Royal Navy naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (H. C. Jeffreys, Mate); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, bronze, unnamed, pierced with ring suspension, very fine (2) £550-650 Henry C. Jefferys served as Mate aboard the Princess Charlotte in the operations on and off the coast of Syria during 1840. £550-£650
Lot 1085
Four: Flight Sergeant R. G. Love, Royal Air Force india General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (363998 A.C.1, R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (363998 F/Sgt., R.A.F.), mounted as worn, very fine (lot) £380-420 R. G. Love, an amateur boxer of some repute in the R.A.F., was the winner of a quantity of medals, cups, trophies and plaques: medals (14), including, R.A.F. Medallion, 44mm., bronze, rev. inscribed, ‘Boys Wing Cranwell, Feather Weight Champion 1924’; R.A.F. Medallion, 38mm., silver, rev. inscribed, ‘Boys’ Wing Cranwell Boxing Championships Featherweight winner A/A. R. G. Love; The Wakefield R.A.F. Boxing Trophy Medal, rev. inscribed, ‘1926-27 Bantam Weight Winner R. G. Love’, 9ct. gold, 24.18g., hallmarks for Birmingham 1926; Prize Medal, eight-pointed silver star with gold centre inscribed, ‘Mussourie Boxing Tournament 1931; other medals and medallions, silver (4); bronze (6), most named or otherwise inscribed. cups and Trophies (13), including, Silver Cup, approx. 181mm. high, hallmarks for London 1926, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Boxing Association, Fly Weight Championship 1927, Winner A/C. R. G. Love, Presented by Air Vice Marshal Sir John F. A. Higgins, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., A.F.C.’; Silver Cup, approx. 153mm. high, no hallmarks, inscribed, ‘Boxing Cranwell v Halton (Aircraft Apprentices) Mar. 1926, Winner, Bantam Weight, R. G. Love’; Silver Tankard, approx. 117mm. high, hallmarks for London 1926, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Iraq Individual Bantam-Weight Champion 1928-29 R. G. Love’; Silver Cup, approx. 140mm. high, hallmarks for London 1928, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Iraq 1929-30, Bantam Weight Winner, R. G. Love’; Silver Cup, approx. 165mm. high, hallmarks for London 1933, inscribed, ‘R.A.F.B.A. Individual Championships 1933-1934, Bantam-Weight Winner, L.A.C. R. Love’; Silver Cup, approx. 100mm. high, hallmarks for London 1930, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Uxbridge 1934 Contest Winner’; Silver Cup, approx. 164mm. high, hallmarks for Birmingham 1939, inscribed, ‘Boxing Bedfs. & Herts Depot v R.A.F. Cardington 1939 Fly Wt. Winner’; Pewter Tankard, with glass bottom, approx. 133mm. high, inscribed, ‘Signals Stadium L.A.C. Love’; Silvered Metal Cup, approx. 170mm. high, inscribed, ‘Amateur Boxing, R.A.F. v Ulster, 1935’, but with broken stem; other small cups (4) - three silver, one silvered metal, all inscribed. Ten of the trophies with wooden plinths. plaques (4), Silver Plaque on a wooden base, hallmarks for Birmingham 1928, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Iraq Individual Bantam-Weight Champion 1929-30, W. G. Love’ (sic); another, hallmarks for London, inscribed, ‘Aldershot Command v Royal Air Force, November 1934 L.A.C. Love’; Silver and Gold Plaque on a wooden base, hallmarks for London 1926, inscribed, ‘I.S.B.A. Boxing 1927, Amateur Championship Other Ranks Fly Weight Winner, A.C. R. G. Love’; Bronze Plaque on wooden base, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Inter-Command Boxing Tournament 1930, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Runners Up, R. G. Love’. for his father’s medals, see Lot 814. £380-£420
Lot 1105
Three: Lieutenant M. S. Lewis, Royal Garrison Artillery, late Honorable Artillery Company 1914 Star (1022 Pte., H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) extremely fine (9) £180-220 Sold with two identity disks, one inscribed, ‘Private M. S. Lewis 1022, H.A.C. Infantry, C.E.’ and ‘2nd Lt. Malcolm S. Lewis R.G.A., C.E.’ ; the other, with chain, ‘2nd Lieut. Malcolm S. Lewis, R.G.A., C. of E.’ With British Sea Anglers Society (B.S.A.S.) Badge, enamelled, pin-backed; B.S.A.S. Silver Medallion, 39mm., rev. inscribed, ‘Specimen Fish 1907-8, T. R. Estall Lewis - Scad. 2lbs. Ballycotton, 27-8-07’; National Council of Sea Anglers Bronze Medallions (2), 39mm., rev. inscribed, ‘B.S.A.S. T. R. Estell (sic) Lewis, Halibut, 56lb, 1907’, another, rev. inscribed, ‘B.S.A.S. T. R. Estall Lewis, Ling, 30lbs. 1908’, these three in cases of issue. M. S. Lewis attained the rank of Lieutenant on 20 July 1918. £180-£220
Lot 1116
Four: Captain G. F. Rickett, 12th Battalion London Regiment (The Rangers), taken prisoner, 8 May 1915 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., 12/Lond. R.), with card box of issue; Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt.); Jubilee 1897, bronze, in Wyon, London case of issue; Coronation 1902, bronze, in Elkington, London case of issue, extremely fine (lot) £180-220 George Frederick Rickett was born in Willesden Green and was educated at the Regent Street Polytechnic. A Civil Servant by occupation, he joined the 12th Battalion London Regiment in 1909 and by 1914 was ranked as a Colour Sergeant. He received a commission in the battalion in October 1914 and on 24 December 1914 entered the France/Flanders theatre of war. He was promoted to Lieutenant in March 1915 and Captain in June 1916. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Verloren Hoek, near Ypres, on 8 May 1915. His Medical Report records, ‘States that he was in front line trenches when hit on head by shrapnel. Got dressed, went back in counter attack 4 days later hit thro lung & taken prisoner. In hospital, then sent to camps & dressed there’. Elsewhere it is recorded that he received ‘shrapnel in head’ and ‘bullet in right lung’. Held principally in the camp at Gutersloh, he was transferred to internment in Holland in March 1918 and repatriated to England in November. In 1919 he was attached to the Royal Fusiliers and was employed with the Army of Occupation. In May 1920 he was appointed Acting Adjutant of the 12th Battalion London Regment. Sold with copied m.i.c. and a quantity of copied service papers. Together with four other medals, two medallions in cases and a wax seal in glass-fronted case. £180-£220
Lot 1151
A Great War ‘Al Valore Militare’ group of five awarded to Chief Mechanician J. G. Friend, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (232807 Act. Mech., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (232807 Mech., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (232807 Mechn., H.M.S. Osea), this with minor correction; Italy, Kingdom, Al Valore Militare, bronze, unmarked, unnamed, British medals with contact marks, fine and better, last nearly extremely fine (5) £400-500 John George Friend was born in Deal, Kent in February 1887. A Porter by occupation he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in January 1905, being advanced to Boy 1st Class in March the same year. He was promoted to Stoker 2nd Class in August 1905 when on the Acheron; to Stoker 1st Class in July 1906 on the Amphitrite; Acting Leading Stoker in August 1909 on the Bacchante; Acting Stoker Petty Officer in November 1910 when based at Pembroke I, and Stoker Petty Officer in November 1911 when on the Triumph. With the onset of war Friend was serving on the 3rd class cruiser Diamond and was appointed Acting Mechanician on 1 January 1915. In March he was transferred to the old battleship Russell and was advanced to Mechanician in January 1916. He was aboard her when she was mined and sunk off Malta on 27 April 1916. In the court martial to ascertain the loss of the vessel, Friend was one of a number of officers and men commended. Resulting from this he was awarded the Al Valore Militare (London Gazette 17 November 1917). He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal whilst based at Osea, August 1919-June 1921, this being the coastal motor boat base at Clacton-on-Sea, 1919-21. Further service followed and he attained the rank of Chief Mechanician 2nd Class in April 1924, when on the dreadnaught battleship Marlborough. Chief Mechanician Friend was pensioned ashore on 10 February 1927. Sold with copied service papers and Admiralty papers relating to the loss of the Russell. £400-£500
Lot 1213
Pair: Private E. F. Petrie, Machine Gun Corps, late Scottish Rifles british War and Victory Medals (36854 Pte., Sco. Rif.); Memorial Plaque (Edward Fraser Petrie); together with two School Prize Medallions, bronze, both named and dated ‘Session 1912-13’ and ‘Session 1913-14’, nearly extremely fine (5) £100-140 Edward Fraser Petrie was born in Aberdeen, the son of James and Janet Petrie. Enlisting at Aberdeen, he served originally as Private 36854 in the Scottish Rifles. Serving as Private 147371 in the 20th Battalion Machine Gun Corps, he died of wounds on 21 July 1918, aged 19 years. He was buried in the Ligny-St. Flochel British Cemetery, Averdoingt. sold with commemorative scroll and Memorial Plaque slip - these within a glass-fronted case; the medals and medallions fitted in a separate glass-fronted case - these not suitable for posting. £100-£140
Lot 1249
Three: Lieutenant-Colonel R. H. James, Northern Pioneers british War and Victory Medals (T. Capt.); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R. (Major R. H. James, N. Prs.), complete with brooch bar, in Royal Mint case of issue; Canadian War Service Badge, (159199), bronze and enamel screw-backed badge, extremely fine (4) £220-260 Sold with Canadian Certificate of Military Qualification, dated 21 & 22 April 1915, having passed the prescribed examination for the rank of Captain; Warrant, appointing Reginald Heler James to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Northern Pioneers; War Service Badge Certificate, confirming badge ‘159199’ to ‘R. H. James’ of the ‘C.R.T.D.’; a medal forwarding slip; riband bar, and with a section of The Northern News, of Kirkland Lake, Ontario, dated 6 August 1937, in which a speech given by Colonel Jameson on the history of markets ‘from the time of Adam’ is recorded. £220-£260
Lot 1274
Family group: seven: Warrant Officer C. F. Geeves, Royal Army Medical Corps 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Burma Star, clasp, Pacific; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; St. John Service Medal, silvered-bronze issue, 4 silver clasps (one base metal) (35523 A/Off. Bucks. S.J.A.B. 1947), mounted as worn seven: Mrs E. M. Geeves, nee Stevens, British Red Cross Society defence Medal; Voluntary Medical Service Medal (Mrs Elsie Margaret Geeves), mounted as worn; B.R.C.S. Medal of Merit (5621 E. M. Stevens); B.R.C.S. Proficiency in Red Cross Nursing Cross, 1 clasp, Red Cross Nursing 1939 (15679 Elsie Stevens); Proficiency in Red Cross First Aid Cross, 1 clasp (loose), Red Cross First Aid 1939 (26285 E. Stevens); Proficiency in Anti-Gas Training Cross (6705 E. M. Stevens); B.R.C.S. 3 Years Service Medal, 2 clasps, 3 Years Service (11992), these five enamelled; Identity Disk (Stevens E. M., B.R.C.S. Bucks 30, very fine and better (lot) £200-250 Medals to Warrant Officer Cyril Frank Geeves, R.A.M.C., sold with the recipient’s Soldiers Release Book and several photographs; together with a quantity of letters written by Geeves to his parents living at Rose Lawn, Woodside Close, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, during the period 1941-45. medals to Mrs Elsie Margaret Geeves, nee Steven, wife of the above, sold with a number of original papers, including; Aylesbury Temple School Reports (6), 1924-26; ‘Young Helpers’ League’ Certificates (2); Royal Drawing Society Certificates (4); British Red Cross Society Certificates (4); British Legion Membership Card. During the Second World War she served aboard various Hospital Ships. £200-£250
Lot 1280
An emotive Second World War group of three awarded to Petty Officer P. H. Kissane, who was killed in action aboard H.M.S. Glowworm during her remarkably gallant clash with the heavy cruiser Hipper off Norway on 8 April 1940: her captain, Lieutenant-Commander Gerald Roope, R.N., was subsequently awarded a posthumous V.C., while Churchill famously announced in the House of Commons ‘Glowworm’s light has been quenched’ 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, unnamed as issued, together with a Royal Life Saving Society bronze medal (P. H. Kissane, Sept. 1932), and a quantity of original documentation, as listed below, extremely fine (Lot) £600-800 patrick Henry Kissane was born in Southampton in March 1908 and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in September 1923. Advanced to Ordinary Seaman in the Tiger in March 1926, to Able Seaman on the Warspite in June 1927 and to Petty Officer at the gunnery establishment Excellent in August 1938, he was serving in the cruiser Belfast at the outbreak of hostilities. A brief period ashore at Drake IV followed in the new year, and thence his appointment to the destroyer Glowworm, in which ship he was killed in action on 8 April 1940. the Glowworm, in company with Greyhound, Hyperion and Hero, was screening the battlecruiser Renown as part of operation ‘Wilfred’, a minelaying operation off Norway. After becoming separated whilst searching for a man overboard, the Glowworm made contact with two German destroyers that were carrying troops for the invasion of Norway, and quickly went into action, gaining some notable hits. Shortly afterwards, however, the German heavy cruiser Hipper appeared on the scene and began to shell Roope’s command with accurate fire. John Winton’s definitive history, The Victoria Cross at Sea, takes up the story: ‘As usual, the German initial gunnery ranging was excellent and Hipper hit Glowworm with her first salvo. The weather made escape or evasive shadowing almost impossible, so Roope sent off an enemy sighting report (his second, both of which were received by the C.-in-C.) and closed the enemy. The destroyer Glowworm, 1,345 tons and armed with four 4.7-inch guns, therefore advanced upon the 10,000-ton Admiral Hipper, armed with eight 8-inch and twelve 4.1-inch guns. Glowworm was hit again, in the Captain’s day cabin, where the doctor and his action sick-bay party were all killed or wounded. Another shell brought down part of the foremast and the wireless aerials, which fouled the siren on the funnel, and Glowworm went into action with the strange mournful banshee wailing of her steam siren. She fired a spread of five torpedoes, all of which ran wide, and was hit again, forward and in the engine-room, where a large fire broke out. Glowworm made smoke and prepared for another torpedo attack. At some time now, Roope decided to ram his enemy. Glowworm emerged from the smokescreen, crossing Hipper’s bows from port to starboard, and fired another spread of five torpedoes, four of which got away and one of which just missed Hipper by yards. Glowworm was still making about twenty knots when Roope ordered a sharp turn to starboard and headed for Hipper’s starboard side. Helmuth Heye, Hipper’s captain, alarmed by the possibility of another torpedo attack, also tried to turn to starboard and ram Glowworm, but Hipper was much slower under helm and Glowworm struck her amidships, tearing away about 100 feet of her armoured plating, damaging the starboard side torpedo tubes, killing one man at his gun and puncturing two fresh-water tanks. glowworm drew clear after her collision and although her decks were swept by a storm of fire from Hipper’s 4.1-inch and 37mm. close-range weapons, got off another salvo and hit Hipper from a range of about 400 yards. She was by then losing way, settling by the bows, with a major fire raging amidships and all steam pressure lost. Roope ordered his ship’s company to abandon ship. He stayed on the bridge, smoking a cigarette. heye chivalrously stayed for over an hour to pick up Glowworm’s survivors. Roope was seen in the water, helping men to put on their lifejackets and he actually reached Hipper’s ship’s side, where a rope was thrown to him. He caught it, but was not able to hang on. He sank back exhausted and was drowned. One officer and 30 men of Glowworm’s total ship’s company of 149 were picked up. Two men died in captivity.’ Aged 32 years, Kissane left a widow, Nora, a resident of Eastleigh, Hampshire. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. sold with a quantity of original documents, including the recipient’s Certificate of Service; R.N. Certificate for the Educational Test, Part I, to ‘Patrick H. Kissane, Boy 1st Class, O.N. J.108276’, dated 2 March 1926; Queries in Seamanship, Gunnery and Torpedo booklet, with pencil written notes; Wightman’s Arithmetical Tables booklet, inscribed, ‘P. H. Kissane’; the recipient’s H.M.S. Tiger and H.M.S. Warspite Qualification Cards; his H.M.S. Greyhound Identification Card; postcards and photographs of ships including H.M.S. Glowworm; a photograph of the recipient; newspaper cuttings mostly regarding the loss of the Glowworm; cloth badge; a metal name-plate inscribed ‘P. Kissane’ and a quantity of copied research. £600-£800
Lot 1285
Five: Private E. Pratt, Royal Sussex Regiment and Reconnaissance Corps 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star, clasp, Rimini Line; Defence and War Medals, mounted as worn; together with Royal Sussex Regiment Coronation Medal 1937 (Pte. E. Pratt 6399393), bronze; Royal Sussex Regiment Prize Medal, rev. inscribed, ‘Runner-up St. Lucia Squad, 6399393 Pte. E. Pratt’, bronze three: Corporal S. Ingham, East Lancashire Regiment defence and War Medals; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (3387503 Cpl., E. Lan. R.), mounted for display, very fine and better (11) £100-140 Medals to Pratt sold with Reconnaissance Corps cap badge and Reconnaissance Corps Comrades Association membership card - which shows service in the 44th Recce Regt. and a home address of ‘73 St. Johns Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire’. £100-£140
Lot 1380
Three: Sergeant D. P. Smith, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers rhodesia 1980 (24395317 Cpl., REME); General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24395317 Sgt., REME), mounted as worn; Zimbabwe Independence Medal 1980 (13482), bronze, nearly extremely fine (4) £400-500 Sold with Rhodesia 1980 miniature dress medal, British Army Identity Card bearing the recipient’s photograph, and copied army statement of service taken from Army Form B108Y, ‘Sgt. Smith has been employed for the last 13 years on tasks associated with the maintenance of Army aircraft. He has carried out scheduled and unscheduled maintenance in a number of world wide locations, on both fixed wing and helicopters. ... During the latter part of his career he has confidently supervised a small team of both aircraft and avionic tradesman’. £400-£500
Lot 1403
An inter-war ‘Chemical Warfare School’ M.B.E., Great War D.C.M. group of seven awarded to Warrant Officer T. O’Brien, Royal Engineers the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for 1927; Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (16171 Sjt.-A.C.S. Mjr., 15/F. Coy. R.E.); 1914 Star, with clasp (16171 2 Cpl., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (16171 A.W.O. Cl. 2, R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (1852065 W.O.Cl. II, D.C.M., R.E.); France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, small bronze palm on ribbon, mounted for wear, last with dented reverse, very fine (7) £1000-1200 M.B.E. London Gazette 4 June 1928. ‘’No.1852065 Warrant Officer Class II, Company Sergeant-Major, Acting Regimental Sergeant-Major, Thomas Coulthard O’Brien, D.C.M., Royal Engineers, Chemical Warfare School, Porton’. d.C.M. London Gazette 3 October 1918. ‘16171 Serjt. (A./C.S.M.) T. O’Brien, R.E. (Ealing, W.)’ ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in supervising the work of demolishing bridges over river and canal, and in organising parties to defend the canal bank. At one time he held a position with four men, in spite of heavy fire, and prevented the enemy from repairing one of the demolished bridges. He set a fine example of coolness and resource’. croix de Guerre London Gazette 7 January 1919. corporal Thomas Coulthard O’Brien, 2 Field Company R.E., entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 5 November 1914. Sold with copied m.i.c. and gazette details. £1000-£1200
Lot 1451
A scarce Great War Honorary D.C.M. group of five awarded to Marechal-des-Logis A. G. Fockeday, 19e Escadron du Train france, Croix de Guerre, with silver star and bronze palm on ribbon; Croix du Combatant; War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-18; G.B., Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R., unnamed as awarded to foreign nationals, the medals with photograph and documents in glass-fronted, wooded framed case, generally good very fine (5) £600-800 Sold with a photograph of the recipient in uniform; ‘Ordre General No.7’ from the Grand Quartier General des Armees du Nord et du Nord-Est, dated 1 March 1917, confirming the award of the British D.C.M. and French Croix de Guerre to Marechal-des-Logis Alphonse Gustave Fockaday, of the 19e Escadron du Train; identification card with photograph confirming Fockaday as an interpreter; a telegram to Fockaday at 12 Rue Lauriston, Paris, from the Queen’s Private Secretary, thanking him for his kind message of sympathy. These documents in display case with medals; also with photocopies of the same. £600-£800
Lot 1489
A scarce Great War ‘Italy’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private V. C. T. White, 1/4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was killed in action on 20 October 1918 military Medal, G.V.R. (200986 Pte., 1/4 R. Berks. R.); British War and Victory Medals (200986 Pte., R. Berks. R.); together with a bronze religous medal, nearly extremely fine (4) £400-450 M.M. London Gazette 21 October 1918. victor Charles Thomas White was born at Uffington, Berkshire and enlisted at Reading. He was killed in action in Italy on 20 October 1918, just one day before the award of his Military Medal was announced in the London Gazette. £400-£450
Lot 99
Five: Sergeant James Quigley, 43rd Foot, late 89th Foot crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (No. 3040 Jas. Quigley, Corpl. 89th Regt.) regimentally impressed naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Jas. Quigley, Sergt. 89th Regt.) naming re-engraved, suspension re-fixed, not shown on roll; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (804 Jas. Quigley, 43rd Regt.) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (Sergt. Jas. Quigley, 89th Regiment); New Zealand Association Royal Veteran Cross, bronze (J. C. Quigley) contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise good fine and better (5) £400-500 James Quigley was born at Ferhard, Tipperary, and enlisted into the 89th Regiment on 19 February 1852. After service in the Crimea and India (but not entitled to Indian Mutiny medal) he transferred into the 43rd. He was discharged at New Plymouth on 29 March 1866, to settle in the Australian Colonies. Sold with copies of various muster lists for the 89th and 43rd Regiments. £400-£500
Lot 129
Tibet 1903-04, no clasp, bronze issue (Baidar Kama Nand Upadhya, S. & T. Corps) good very fine £80-100 Baidar, or Bedar, is the name of a caste of which there are two divisions, the Karnata and the Telinga, who neither eat together nor intermarry. Formerly they were hunters and soldiers by profession; now they are employed in agriculture, labour, and as peons and village policemen (An Anglo-Indian Dictionary, by G. C. Whitworth, London, 1885, refers). £80-£100
Lot 132
Tibet 1903-04 (3), no clasp, bronze issue (Servt. Abdul Khafur, 27th Mtn. By.; 74 Saddler Inda, S. & T. Corps; 16 Sweeper Kallan, S. & T. Corps) second with claw tightened/refitted, last pitted, all with edge bruising and worn (3) £120-140 One section from the 27th Mountain Battery served in the expedition, being sent to the base camp at New Chumbi. £120-£140
Lot 318
British North Borneo Company Medal 1898-1900, 1 clasp, Tambunan, bronze issue (380 Private Momin) clasp slightly bent, minor edge bruising, good very fine £650-750 7 silver and 116 bronze ‘Tambunan’ medals were initially produced and named. Bronze medals could be exchanged for silver in 1905/06 and 36 were so exchanged. £650-£750
Lot 478
General Service 1962 (2), 1 clasp, Borneo (RM.22252 G. Wong, Mne., R.M.; 23965049 Rfn. R. A. F. N. Harris, 3 Green Jackets) nearly extremely fine (2) £100-140 Medal to Harris in damaged card box of issue and with bronze Army Rifle Association medal inscribed, ‘L.M.G. Rfn. Harris, Best Recruit’. £100-£140
Lot 645
Eight: A. Twynam, a servant of the Royal Household royal Household Faithful Service Medal, G.V.R., ‘1910-1930’ (A. Twynam); Coronation 1911, silver; Russia, Medal for Zeal, Nicholas II, small silver medal; Spain, Order of Isabella the Catholic, Medal of the Order, bronze; Sweden, Royal Household Medal, Gustaf V, silver; Portugal, Coronation Medal 1889, Carlos, bronze; France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour, silver; Italy, Kingdom, ‘Ricordo’ Medal, Victor Emanuel III, silver, all unnamed except first, mounted court style as worn, good very fine and better (8) £450-550 £450-£550
Lot 691
Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, V.R., large, silver (Paul Holland Millar, wreck of the ‘Moselle’ on the 29th October 1891), unmounted, minor edge bruise, nearly extremely fine £380-420 The cargo ship Moselle, of 3,280 tons was built by J. Elder & Company and launched in 1871. On service with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, she was wrecked near Colon on 29 October 1891, while on a voyage carrying general cargo from Port Limon, Costa Rica, to Southampton. One life was lost. for their gallantry in saving lives, 5th Officer P. H. Millar and Quartermaster J. Orman, both of the Moselle, received the Board of Trade Sea Gallantry Medal, in silver and in bronze respectively. £380-£420
Lot 693
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Chas. Metcalf, Boy, Ship ‘Cumberland’, 16th July 1888. Dup.), with bronze buckle on ribbon, minor edge bruising, very fine £60-80 ‘William Pitkeathly (Boy of H.M.S. Cumberland) was on the lower boom with all his clothes and oilskins on, when he slipped and fell overboard. He was not able to swim, a strong tide was running and a strong breeze. Metcalf (aged 13) and Waddell (aged 14) undressed and jumped from the lower deck into the water and reaching their shipmate held him until a boat was sent to their assistance’. Both Metcalf and Waddell were awarded the R.H.S. Medal in Bronze. Ref. R.H.S. Case No. 24012. the training ship, H.M.S. Cumberland was moored at Helensburgh in Dunbartonshire on the northern shore of the Firth of Clyde. £60-£80
Lot 694
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (W. R. Brownring, R.A., Aug. 14 1889) worn £50-70 ‘Wm. R. Brownring, Driver, R.H.A., at great personal risk, rescued two coolies from drowning in the River Chenab, at Sealkote, on the 14th August, 1889’. Ref. R.H.S. Case No. 24726. £50-£70
Lot 696
Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd type, bronze (To Thomas Reynolds for Meritorious Service, 31/10/26), bronze buckle on ribbon, minor edge bruise, nearly extremely fine £70-90 ‘For rescuing a boy (13) in danger of drowning in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, near Litherland Road Bridge’. Ref. Report 1 July 1927. £70-£90
Lot 701
Six: J. Shenton, British Army, formerly a Boy Scout from Rugby 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; R.S.P.C.A. Life Saving Medal, bronze (John Shenton, March 4 1921), complete with ‘For Humanity’ brooch bar, in Spink, London case of issue; Rotary Club, Past President’s Badge, Port Talbot branch (John Shenton 1957-58), silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1957, in Toye, London plastic wallet; Primrose League Badge, gilt and enamel, pin-backed, extremely fine (8) £180-220 extract from 1921 R.S.P.C.A. Annual Report: ‘Boy Scout John Shenton, Rugby, for saving the life of a runaway horse’. with copied extract from the Rugby Advertiser of 8 March 1921 which provides further details: ‘A Plucky Scout - On Friday afternoon a Boy Scout named John Shenton, of Lawford Road, aged 16, a member of the Lower School Troop, proved the value of Scout training, combined with grit, in a highly commendable manner. He was cycling from the town in the direction of Lower Hillmorton Road; and on reaching Whitehall Road noticed a run-away heavy horse, attached to a cart, the body of which was tipped and dragging along the road. The animal was galloping madly along the Lower Road, in the direction of the town. The Scout quickly dismounted his cycle, laid it aside, and, as the horse reached him smartly put into practice the Scout method he had been taught to adopt under such circumstances, caught the horse’s rein, and soon brought the excited animal to a standstill. A small crowd of onlookers immediately gathered, whom the Scout requested to lift the body of the cart. He then put right the disarranged harness, calmed the excited horse, and led it quietly back in the direction from which it had come until he met its driver, whom the horse had knocked down and slightly hurt in breaking away. The horse and cart were the property of Mr J. Durham, of West Street. It is highly probable that through this Boy Scout’s prompt and plucky action, serious damage to either person or property in the town was averted, and his performance on this occasion is highly creditable to both him and the troop to which he belongs’. second World War Medals in card box with forwarding slip; with riband bar and copied research. £180-£220
Lot 702
Switzerland, Geneva Presentation Medallion, obv. the arms of the Canton of Geneva, rev. within a wreath of laurel and oak leaves, engraved, ‘Offert par L. H. Malet Capitaine de la Cie de Sauvetage Genve’, 48mm., bronze, in red leather case of issue, lid bearing the same inscription in gilt lettering as on medal; Belgium, ‘Societe Royle & Centrale des Sauveteurs Belges’ Medal, obv. Leopold II, rev. inscribed, ‘E. Vandenbruel’, 26mm., silver, with crown suspension; France, ‘Societe des Sauveteurs de la Seine’ Medal, rev. inscribed, ‘Milon Pierre Honoraire 1891’, 31mm., silver, these two with ribbon, good very fine and better (3) £100-140 the rescue service of Geneva was founded in 1885 and was responsible for lifesaving on Lake Geneva. The Society of Rescuers of the Seine was founded in 1845. £100-£140
Lot 727
Great War Tribute Cross 1914 (3), gold straight-armed paty cross, 32 x 32mm., obv. ‘22 Loyalty 1914’; rev. ‘Presented to W. J. Marshall (name engraved) by F.L.C.’, ring suspension, in fitted case of issue, lid inscribed, ‘W. L. Marshall, 1914’; two others in bronze, without cases, named to ‘J. W. Gray’ and ‘E. Cheffers’, good very fine and better (3) £100-140 awarded by Sir Frederick Lucas Cooke of London to his workers who enlisted in 1914. Known to be awarded in gold, silver and in bronze. £100-£140
Lot 750
A group of five military presentation medallions awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel G. J. W. Malet, O.B.E., Royal Hussars u.S.A., Department of the Army, by Dondero Inc., obv. trophy-of-arms, rev. plain, undated, 76mm., bronze-gilt, in case of issue, inside with plaque, ‘Presented by General John A. Wickham, Jr, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army’; Portugal, Ecercito Portugus, obv. heraldic shield and helmet, rev. inscribed, ‘From General Jorge Salazar Braga, Chief of the Portuguese Army Staff, March 1985’, 90mm., bronze, in velvet covered case of issue; Brazil, Ecercito Brasileiro, obv. bust of Luis Alves de Lima e Silva, Duque de Caxias (1803-1880), undated, 70mm., silvered bronze, in velvet covered case of issue bearing gilt and enamel emblem of Brazil, inside of lid inscribed, ‘Exercito Brasileiro Presena Nacional’; France, Plaquette, bearing a shield marked, ‘E.M.A.T.’ and the inscription, ‘Offert par le General d’Armee Maurice Schmitt Chef d’Etat-Major de l’Armee de Terre Franaise au Lieutenant-Colonel G. J. Malet, Mars 1987’, 125 x 77mm., silvered metal, in Delsart, Sens case of issue; Oriental (? Vietnam), Commemorative Bronze Medal, 1927-1987, 49mm, in case of issue, all unnamed except where stated, virtually mint state (5) £80-120 O.B.E. London Gazette 31 December 1987. ‘Lieutenant Colonel, The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales’s Own)’. Recommendation states, ‘Lt Col Malet has been Head of the Army Section of the Foreign Liaison Section since November 1983. His duties cover maintaining a close liaison with all the foreign MilitaryAttaches in London, staffing their many requests for information, hosting representational functions, arranging and escorting Attache group visits to UK and BAOR Military establishments, coordinating programmes for foreign military visitors and planning, programme and escorting CGS’s inbound COS visitors. ...... Dealing with the representatives of foreign countries provides unlimited scope for disaster but he has always foreseen and therefore averted problems. He is held in extremely high regard by all the foreign representatives who value his friendship, direction and help. ....’ greville John Wyndham Malet was born on 6 December 1939, the son of Captain John Wyndham Malet (1910-40) and June Rosalind nee Broadley, and was a scion of the Malet Baronets. He was educated at Harrow and in July 1958, after serving in the ranks for 242 days, he gained a commission in the 10th Hussars. Following the regiment’s amalgamation with the 11th Hussars in 1969, he continued to serve with the Royal Hussars. He was appointed G.S.O.2 (Author) at the R.A.C. Tactical School, December 1971-January 1974 and held the rank of Acting-Major from December 1971 until promoted to that rank in December 1972. In July 1980 he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; was awarded the O.B.E. in 1987 and was placed on Retired Pay in February 1990. He married in 1972, the Hon. Margaret Cherry Wigram, eldest daughter of the 2nd Baron Wigram, with whom he had two children. Latterly living at the Walled House, Hathertop, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, he died on 5 September 2004. william Malet, the founder of the Malet family in England, was a companion of William the Conqueror at Hastings and was related by marriage to Rollo, 1st Duke of Normandy. Sold with copied research. £80-£120
Lot 802
Six: Colour Serjeant S. G. White, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914 Star, with copy slip-on clasp (9905 Pte., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.), late issue; British War and Victory Medals (9905 C. Sjt., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.), these two with contact marks and worn; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (5373240 C. Sjt., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Defence; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (5373240 Sjt., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); together with a mounted set of five miniature dress medals as above but lacking ‘Defence’, minor contact marks, about very fine except where stated (14) £220-260 Sold with Silver Cased Half Hunter Pocket Watch, by Coombes, Rangoon & London, rev. inscribed, ‘52nd Light Infantry Regimental Rifle Meeting 1931, Winner Regimental Championship, Sergt. S. J. White’, glass to front casing cracked (condition of internal workings unknown), with chain, with an Army Rifle Association Medal attached as a fob, this bronze, rev. inscribed, ‘18th Hussars Cup, 1924, Sergt. S. White’; with cap badge. £220-£260
Lot 813
The Great War ‘Salonika’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. Wheeler, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., complete with top bar, slight enamel damage; 1914-15 Star (Major, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medal, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.), rank officially re-impressed on ‘Victory’; Defence; Greece, War Cross 1916-17, 2nd Class, bronze star on ribbon, mounted as worn, very fine and better (6) £1600-2000 d.S.O. London Gazette 26 July 1917. ‘Temporary Major, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Although wounded, he assumed command of the battalion, which had no officer available, and organized an attack on the enemy’s second line. By his energy and courage he inspired confidence in all ranks, and remained in command for four hours until relieved’. m.I.D. London Gazette 28 November 1917 (Salonika). greek War Cross 2nd Class London Gazette 7 October 1919. ‘Temporary Major, D.S.O., 7th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry’. cordy Wheeler was born on 13 September 1884. Educated at West Buckland School, Devon, and Keble College, Oxford, he was sometime an Assistant Master at Wellington College, Berkshire, and Headmaster of the Lower School of Lawrence Sheriff, Rugby. With the 7th Battalion Oxf. & Bucks. L.I. he served in Salonika and was their 2i/c during 1917 and was wounded. Still in Salonika he was appointed to the command of the 11th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment on 19 May 1918 and was subsequently wounded for a second time. For his services during the war, he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O. and Greek War Cross 2nd Class. Postwar he had published, The Memorial Record of the 7th (S) Batt. The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. sold with D.S.O. bestowal document; D.S.O. Statutes booklet; riband bars; M.I.D. Certificate; cloth 2 wounds stripe; Salonika Reunion lapel badge, enamelled; W.W.2 Defence Medal forwarding slip, and copied research which includes extracts from the above publication. £1600-£2000
Lot 181
A pair of late 19th century bronze figures the male and female figures gesturing with one arm raised and seated on a plinth styled as a gilded and taselled cushion with their legs crossed, their gowns incised with chinoiserie, on associated giltwood stepped plinth bases (2) figures 18cm high, 24cm high overall (including plinths)
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