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Lot 279
Four: Warrant Office Class II W. J. Parminter, Gloucestershire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (2466 Sjt. W. J. Parminter. Glouc. R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (2466 Sjt. W. J. Parminter. Glouc. R.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (5178823 W.O. Cl.II. W. J. Parminter. 6-Glouc R.); together with an Army Rifle Association Bronze Medal, the reverse engraved ‘R.Q.M.S. W. Parminter 1936’; and a silver pocket watch, the reverse engraved; Recruiting Prize 1930 C.S-M. W. Parminter (6) £400-£500
Lot 589
Four: Stoker Petty Officer A. A. Reeds, H.M.Y. Victoria and Albert, Royal Navy Jubilee 1897, bronze (A. A. Reeds Sto. H.M.Y. Alberta); Coronation 1902, bronze, reverse engraved ‘Presented To A. A. Reeds R.Y. Alberta’; Coronation 1911 (A. A. Reeds. Sto. P.O. H.M.S. Alberta); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (A. A. Reeds, Sto., H.M.Y. Victorial & Albert.) impressed naming, generally nearly very fine or better (4) £280-£340 --- Albert Arthur Reeds was born in Landport, Hampshire, in January 1866. He joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in June 1885, and advanced to Stoker Petty Officer in July 1906. His service included with the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert from June 1887 to May 1912 (awarded L.S. & G.C. in September 1900), during which time he spent the majority of service with the Royal Yacht Alberta - which was the tender to the much larger Victoria and Albert. Reeds was shore pensioned in May 1912, only to be re-engaged for service with H.M.S. Victory II in August 1914 (entitled to BWM). Sold with Parchment Certificate of Service, and copied research.
Lot 798
Miscellaneous Women’s Services Insignia. A good selection of cap badges to the Women’s Services including, bronze Forage Corps, another gilding metal example, Queen Mary’s AAC, Women’s AAC, Navy & Army Canteen Board, another lapel for 1917, Women’s volunteer Reserve, a pair of Expeditionary Force Canteen shoulder titles, 1915 Women’s Land Army workers arm band, another badge, another 1939-45 example, and a Women’s Army Pensions Department Cloth badge, generally good condition (12) £200-£240
Lot 125
Four: Commander W. A. L. Q. Henriques, Royal Navy, who served ashore in Egypt in the Armoured Train and had an impressive record for saving lives during his career Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Lieut. W. A. L. Q. Henriques, R.N. H.M.S. “Malabar”); British War Medal 1914-20 (Commr., R.N.); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed; Royal Humane Society, small successful bronze medal (Sub. Lieut. W. A. L. Q. Henriques, R.N. 16 July 1671 (sic)) last with integral top riband buckle, together with related group of four miniature medals mounted on a Hunt & Roskell quadruple silver buckle brooch, and a ‘Queen Mary’s Carpenters of War Hospital, Central Surgical Supply Depot’, oval bronze lapel badge, the reverse inscribed ‘Capt. Henriques R.N. Oct. 1915 -’, generally very fine or better (lot) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Web, December 2006. William Abraham Ludington Quixans Henriques was born on 25 September 1850, and entered the Navy as a Naval Cadet in June 1865, becoming Midshipman in March 1866, Sub Lieutenant in December 1870, and Lieutenant in December 1874. He served in China in 1866, as Midshipman in H.M.S. Pelorus, and was present and assisted in the destruction of several piratical villages and junks in the Lejemon Pass, near Hong Kong, for which the officers engaged received the thanks of the Governor of Hong Kong. Whilst Midshipman of H.M.S. Juno in 1869, he jumped overboard on two occasions and saved the lives of two marines who had fallen overboard in Portsmouth Harbour, one being in heavy marching order. As Sub-Lieutenant of H.M.S. Monarch, on 16 July 1871, he jumped overboard to save E. Ringsford, A.B., and J. Breshnahan, Pte. R.M.L.I. (Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane Society). In East Africa from 1873 to 1875, as Sub-Lieutenant of H.M.S. Thetis, he was present at the capture and destruction of several slave dhows, and the liberation of 600 slaves, including the expedition up the Mtusi River, resulting in the taking of three large dhows after a determined resistance by the Arab slave dealers. He subsequently received Prize Money for one Slave Dhow, name unknown, captured on 16 July 1874, and another, name unknown, captured on 29 October 1874. In 1874 he also rescued the crew of the galley which had capsized on the bar at Pangany, after dark and under circumstances of great difficulty, for which he received the thanks of Captain T. Le H. Ward. Heriques served throughout the war in Egypt in 1882 as Lieutenant in H.M.S. Malabar, including service ashore, and was twice under fire in the Armoured Train (Medal & Khedive’s Bronze Star). Whilst in Malabar, he rescued the Boatswain who had fallen overboard at night, the ship going at 11 knots under steam and all possible sail. He was publicly thanked in the presence of the ship’s company by Captain Grant for going away in the lifeboat. Promoted to Commander and Retired in September 1895, Henriques was re-employed during the Great War from March 1917 to late 1918, borne in H.M.S. President for ‘Miscellaneous and Special Service’ as Commander on the Active List.
Lot 108
The Great War A.R.R.C. attributed to Matron Elizabeth J. Milne, Brechin Infirmary Auxiliary Hospital, Forfarshire Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; together with a Society of Science, Letters, and Art Medal, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Elizabeth Milne, Needlework, Dec. 1906.’, nearly extremely fine (2) £120-£160 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 6 August 1919: Miss Elizabeth Jane Milne, Matron, Brechin Infirmary Auxiliary Hospital, Forfarshire.
Lot 715
A miscellaneous selection of Nursing and Medical badges, comprising Cardiff Infirmary; Edinburgh City Hospital (C. Mc.Quarrie 15th. Oct. 1901 to 15th. Nov. 1904); Plaistow Trained Nurse; General Nursing Council for England and Wales (J. R. Townsend S.E.A.N 27657 28.2.47); Maternity Nursing Association; Royal Medico-Psych Association Certified Nurse (E. C. Smith 43043); Medico-Psychological Association (Sarah Brassington); Birmingham Asylums Committee (Sarah Brassington May 1916); Women’s Industrial Nursing Service; St. John Ambulance War Service (Sgt. W. A. Naughton 17th Middx: V.A.D. 5230); British Red Cross Society Practical Nursing; and an unknown Nursing medal (L.B.M.H. March 1909), some silver or silver and enamel, the majority bronze, generally good condition (12) £160-£200
Lot 596
Pair: Staff Sergeant H. Kearns, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, late Coldstream Guards and Military Foot Police Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Royal Canadian Mounted Police Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, with bronze single star Second Award Bar (H Kearney) mounted court-style for display and mounted for display alongside cap badges for the Coldstream Guards and the Military Police; and a KC cap badge and collar badges for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, good very fine (2) £300-£400 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Henry Kearney was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and attested for the Coldstream Guards on 23 December 1919. He transferred to the Military Foot Police on 31 May 1921, before taking his discharge on 26 December 1926. Emigrating to Canada, he joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Calgary, Alberta, on 2 December 1927, and was promoted Corporal on 1 May 1932; Sergeant on 1 September 1940; and Staff Sergeant on 1 October 1949. He was stationed throughout Canada, from Whitehorse, Yukon, to Montreal, Quebec (and several places in between), and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 24 October 1949, and a Bronze Bar on 7 August 1956. He retired to pension on 1 December 1956, and died at Vancouver, British Columbia, on 18 March 1974. Sold with copied service papers.
Lot 756
Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Books pertaining to Wing Commander J. G. Calvert, D.F.C., 640 Squadron, Royal Air Force, a Halifax pilot who completed a tour of 33 night time and daylight sorties against some of the most heavily defended enemy targets in the Ruhr valley; post-War, he subsequently flew another 163 sorties during the Berlin Airlift 1948-49 Five Log Books, the first a Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot’s Log Book covering the period 5 September 1942 to 7 June 1948, well-annotated with details of all operational sorties undertaken; the second to fifth the recipient’s post-War Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book covering the periods August 1948 to June 1951; July 1951 to September 1953; September 1953 to December 1958; and May 1959 to March 1965, some pages slightly loose, and the spines damaged and reinforced with sellotape throughout, otherwise good condition (5) £400-£500 --- D.F.C. London Gazette 22 May 1945. The original Recommendation states: ‘On the night of the 2nd February 1945, this Captain was detailed to attack Dusseldorf and during the bombing run his aircraft was attacked by a J.U. 88. In spite of this Flying Officer Calvert was determined to hold the same course, in order to allow the Bomb Aimer to release his bombs on the objective. The decision on the part of the pilot to disregard the danger of fighter attack called for the highest degree of fortitude and determination to successfully conclude his mission. Once again, on the night of the 17th December 1944, the target being Duisburg, this Captain's aircraft was attacked by an enemy night fighter a few miles from the target, and a running fight followed, with the result that the enemy aircraft was claimed as destroyed. Although considerable height was lost during the combat, Flying Officer Calvert settled down to a bombing run and it was not until his bombs had found their objective that the pilot set course for base. The above are but two of the instances where this officer has shown the utmost disregard for his personal safety, placing the satisfactory completion of his mission before all other considerations. He has also led his Squadron on daylight attacks to the most heavily defended Ruhr cities, displaying leadership and courage of the highest order. I therefore have no hesitation in recommending this officer for the non-Immediate award of the Distinguished Flying Cross. Remarks by Station Commander: During his operational tour this Officer has carried out a number of varied and difficult sorties which have included a series of attacks, both by day and by night, on Ruhr targets, and others of equal importance throughout Germany which were vital to the enemy's war effort and where the opposition was powerful. During this time Flying Officer Calvert has displayed consistent flying skill and efficiency of a high order, and his courage and dash have always served as a valuable example to other crews. His fine offensive spirit and operational record fully merit the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross.’ James Gordon Calvert was born in August 1923, and commenced his training at No. 32 E.F.T.S. in Alberta, Canada in September 1942. Returning to the U.K. in October 1943, and having attended further courses, he was posted to No. 640 Squadron, a Halifax unit operating out of Leconfield, Yorkshire, in early October 1944, in which month he completed six sorties, including two strikes against the Krupps works at Essen, a raid on Cologne, and two trips to Holland against enemy gun positions in support of the 1st Canadian Army. Calvert flew another half dozen operations in November, all against German targets, the first to Dusseldorf on the night of the 7th-8th, when his Halifax was coned by searchlights amidst heavy flak - and attacked by a Ju. 88. Bochum having been attacked on the 8th-9th (’Intense flak. Two searchlights’), and Gelsenkirchen on the 9th-10th (’Heavy flak. Saw several a/c go down’), he flew on strikes against Julich, Munster and Sterkrade. In December, after a sortie to Solst, Calvert and his crew were ordered to attack Osnabruck on the night of the 6th-7th, his Flying Log Book once more noting heavy flak - and a feathered port outer engine. Duisburg ten days later proved even more challenging, his Halifax being attacked on four occasions by an enemy night fighter ... ‘Destroyed same. Lost 6,000 feet.’ And a sharp reminder of ever present threat of enemy night fighters came again on the night of 5-6 January 1945, during a raid on Hannover, Calvert noting ‘Bags of N. Fighters. 32 lost on this night’s sortie.’ Luckily his trips to Dortmund, Ludwigshaven and Stuttgart in the same month appear to have been of a smoother nature. February 1945 witnessed Calvert flying several more sorties, including strikes against Mainz, Goch and Wanne Eickel, but it was an attack against Worms on the night of 21st-22nd that proved the highlight, his Flying Log Book noting, ‘Intense searchlight activity. Moderate flak. Saw seven a/c shot down by fighters.’ While in March, the final month of his operational tour, he appears to have enjoyed smoother trips against Hemmingstedt, Homburg and Witten. Tour expired, he was awarded the D.F.C. and posted to Transport Command. Post-war, Calvert joined No. 47 Squadron, a Hastings unit based at Dishforth, in which capacity he flew a remarkable tally of 163 sorties during the Berlin Airlift, between November 1948 and August 1949. He then instructed on Meteors with Flying Training Command, in addition to similar duties on secondment to the Luftwaffe in the early 1960s. Having then been advanced to Wing Commander, and attended the N.A.T.O. Defence College in Rome, he was posted to N.A.T.O’s Southern Europe H.Q. in Naples, from which latter establishment he returned to the UK in 1975; shortly after which, as a result of ill-health, he was placed on the Retired List. Sold with details of the recipient’s operational sorties, taken from the Squadron Operations Book; copied birth and death certificates; various newspaper cuttings; and other ephemera, including a NATO Defense College bronze medallion embossed ‘Wing Commander J. G. Calvert’.
Lot 673
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Thos. W. Collins, Gunner, R.A. 11. April 1872.) lacking integral bronze riband buckle, good very fine £100-£140 --- R.H.S. Case number 18,904. Thomas W. Collins was awarded the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society for a rescue at Sheerness in Kent. The story was later published in the Morning Advertiser on 19 June 1872: ‘A comrade named William Waine was bathing on the day in question from the Martello Tower called “Grain Tower,” which is about 400 yards from the shore of Grain Island, on the opposite side of the Medway to Sheerness. The current round the tower is very strong, and Waine was being carried away and was fast drowning, when Gunner George Farley, who was standing on the steps of the tower, jumped into the water with a rope in his hand... [but] the current was so strong that he could not make head against it, and he in his turn was sinking, when another Gunner named Collins jumped in to his assistance and got hold of him... William Waine survived the current and was saved. Gunner Farley, despite the best efforts of Collins - who was forced to choose between Waine and Farley - sank from exhaustion and was drowned.’
Lot 718
Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, Medal of Merit, French issue, silver, reverse inscribed, ‘R. Drollet par Province de Quebec 1960’, numbered, ‘1429’; Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, Service Medal, English issue, silver, reverse inscribed, ‘City of Vancouver to G. U. Renwick, 1968’, numbered, ‘1933’; Ontario Fire Services Long Service Medal, silver, unnamed; Legion of Frontiersmen Medal, British Columbia Provincial Command, silver, unnamed, good very fine Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel W. L. Kelly, Legion of Frontiersman Legion of Frontiersmen Meritorious Service Medal, Canadian Division (Lt. Col. W. L. Kelly), silvered bronze, beaver emblem on riband; Legion of Frontiersmen Service Medal, Saskatchewan Command (W. L. Kelly), silver, last with edge bruise, good very fine (6) £140-£180 --- Provenance: John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2009.
Lot 719
Edward Prince of Wales Visit to Bombay 1921, oval bronze medal, the obverse with bust of Edward Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII), surmounted by Prince of Wales’ feathers, the reverse inscribed ‘Visit of His Royal Highness, Bombay, November 1921’, lacking top suspension ring, good fine Silver War Badge (3), officially numbered ‘RN48388; B63284; B89302’, all complete with reverse pins, good very fine St. John Re-Examination Cross (6), silver, type 2, the reverse engraved ‘William Robinson No. 7899’; gilt, type 2, the reverse engraved ‘Cornelius Gerrard Darnhall Winsford No. 4498 May 24 1886’; silver, type 3, the reverse engraved ‘Elizabeth Barker No. 15255’; silver, type 3, the reverse engraved ‘George Clark No. 21275’, with 1907 dated bar, the reverse numbered ‘21275’; bronze, type 3, the reverse engraved ‘Elizabeth N. Stewart No. 16518’; bronze, type 4, the reverse engraved ‘260381 Florence Brierley’; bronze, type 4, the reverse engraved ‘274605 Dorothy Coates’, good very fine (11) £120-£160 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Silver War Badge RN48388 awarded to Able Seaman E. Frear, Royal Navy. Silver War Badge B63284 awarded to Private J. Gregory, Manchester Regiment. Silver War Badge B89302 awarded to Private J. Gill, West Yorkshire Regiment. Sold with copied research.
Lot 26
Five: Dr. Ruth Nicholson, Scottish Women’s Hospitals, who served as Assistant Surgeon at Royaumont Hospital British War and Victory Medals (R. Nicholson); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1918, with bronze star on riband; Medal of Gratitude, silver-gilt, unnamed, with miniature rosette on riband; Medal of Honour, Ministry of War for Epidemics, gilt, reverse embossed ‘Miss R. Nicholson 1917’, with miniature rosette on riband; together with the relate miniature awards, these mounted as worn, good very fine and better (5) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Tony Sabell Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2013. Ruth Nicholson was born on 2 December 1884, the daughter of the Rev. Canon Nicholson. She was educated at Newcastle-on-Tyne High School and the Universities of Durham and Dundee, taking the degrees M.B., B.S. in 1909; B.Hy., D.P.H. in 1911; and M.S. in 1923. After graduating in 1909 she worked in a dispensary in Newcastle before going to Edinburgh where she became an assistant to Dr Elsie Inglis in the Bruntsfield Hospital. Prior to the War she worked in Gaza in Palestine. With the onset of war she returned home, and after being turned down for a voluntary medical unit she was accepted by the Scottish Women’s Hospitals and became an Assistant Surgeon at Royaumont Hospital from December 1914 until February 1919. After the War she specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, became Gynaecological Surgeon and Clinical Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, and was one of the earliest Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She became the first woman President of the North of England Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and played a prominent part in the Medical Women’s Federation. Dr Ruth Nicholson died in Exeter on 18 July 1963. For the medals awarded to the recipient’s sister, see the following lot (lot 27).
Lot 753
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Order of the Red Star, 2nd type breast badge, silver and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘3668509’, with Monetny Dvor mint mark and screw-back suspension; Order of the Badge of Honour, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘556286’, with Monetny Dvor mint mark and riband suspension; Order of the Patriotic War, Second Class breast badge, 3rd 1985 type, silver, gold appliqué, and enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘1411922’, with Monetny Dvor mint mark and screw-back suspension; Order of Glory, Third Class, 2nd type, silver and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘123103’, with Monetny Dvor mint mark and riband suspension; Medal for Bravery, 2nd type, silver and enamel, unnumbered; Medal for Military Merit, 2nd type, silver and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘465524’; Medal for the Defence of Moscow, bronze; Medal for the Defence of Leningrad, bronze; Medal for Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45, bronze (2); Commemorative Medal for the 800th Anniversary of Moscow 1147-1947; together with a poor quality cast copy of the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky; and a cast copy Medal for the Capture of Berlin, generally good very fine (13) £140-£180
Lot 27
Three: Miss Alison M. Nicholson, Scottish Women’s Hospitals, who served as an Orderly at Royaumont Hospital British War and Victory Medals (A. M. Nicholson); together with the recipient’s Scottish Women’s Hospitals Medal 1914, bronze, unnamed, nearly extremely fine (3) £300-£400 --- Provenance: Tony Sabell Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2013. Alison May Nicholson was the daughter of Rev. Canon Nicholson and youngest sister of Dr. Ruth Nicholson. She served as an Orderly in the Royaumont Hospital, entering France in September 1916. For the recipient’s sister’s medals, see the previous lot (lot 26).
Lot 98
A R.V.M. awarded to Bombardier C. Piggin, Royal Horse Artillery Royal Victorian Medal, V.R., bronze, contemporarily engraved ‘93769. Br. C. Piggin S. Baty. R.H.A.’ crown suspension loose, nearly extremely fine £70-£90 --- George Piggin was born in Norwich and attested for the Royal Artillery on 25 October 1892. Transferred to the Military Mounted Police, he was invalided from the Service as Corporal on 21 January 1911. A letter contained within his Army Service Record notes that he later spent time at the Surrey County Asylum (Netherne Hospital) and died in consequence of a bad fall in 1930.
Lot 668
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Long Service Medal, E.II.R., French issue, with bronze single star Second Award Bar (J. P. Y. Bussieres) in fitted case of issue with metal gilt badge superimposed onto the lid, extremely fine £240-£280 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- J. P. Y. Bussieres joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in March 1974, and was awarded his Long Service Medal on 29 March 1994. He retired on 16 May 2002.
Lot 24
Three: Dr. Agnes F. Savill, Scottish Women’s Hospitals, who served as a Radiologist at Royaumont Hospital British War and Victory Medals (A. Savill); France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour, Ministry of War, for Epidemics, 1st Class, gilt, reverse embossed, ‘Miss A. Savill, 1917’, with small rosette on riband; together with the recipient’s Scottish Women’s Hospitals Medal 1914, bronze, unnamed, nearly extremely fine (4) £700-£900 --- Provenance: Tony Sabell Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2012. Agnes Forbes Savill, née Blackadder, was born in Dundee in 1876. She graduated first from the University of St. Andrews in 1895 receiving the degree of Master of Arts. Her first degree in medicine, M.B., Ch.B., of the University of Glasgow, was obtained in 1898 and the higher degree of M.D. in 1901. Dr Blackadder married Dr Thomas Dixon Savill in 1901 - he died in 1910. Dr Agnes Savill developed an interest in Dermatology and became a Physician to the Skin Hospital, Leicester Square, London. Early in the Great war she joined the staff of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, entering France in May 1915. Serving at Royaumont Hospital, near Paris, she was placed in charge of the x-ray and electro-therapy departments. She served there until the end of 1916. The author of several books and papers on her own subjects, she was also editor of her late husband’s Clinical Medicine and in 1955 had published her Alexander the Great and his Time. Dr Agnes Savill died on 12 May 1964.
Lot 99
A Medal of the Order of the British Empire group of seven awarded to acting Warrant Officer Class II A. J. Nutting, 16th (County of London) Battalion (Queen’s Westminster Rifles), London Regiment, who was thrice honoured in the Great War Medal of the Order of the British Empire (Military), unnamed as issued; 1914 Star (161 Sjt. A. J. Nutting, 1/16 Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (161 A.W.O. Cl. 2 A. J. Nutting, 16-Lond. R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (161 Sjt. A. J. Nutting, 1/16 Lond. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., named to another recipient ‘562118 Spr.-A.S. Sjt. E. Paine, R.E.’; Royal Victorian Medal, G.V.R., silver, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style with new ribands but on original wearing bar, together with four related Queen’s Westminster Rifles’ prize medals 1909-12, two in gold and two in bronze, all named to the recipient, dated and in fitted cases of issue; and a silver prize award from the Metropolitan Territorial School of Arms Association, 1912, this also in fitted case, good very fine and better (12) £800-£1,000 --- Provenance: John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2009. Medal of the Order of the British Empire London Gazette 23 January 1920: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in France and Flanders. M.S.M. London Gazette 18 October 1916: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered during the present War.’ Alfred James Nutting was from Merstham, Surrey, and by profession a director of an old family business, the seed merchants Nutting and Sons Ltd. But he was also a keen Volunteer and Territorial, originally having joined the 13th (Queen’s) Middlesex Rifle Volunteers at Buckingham Gate in London several years before the Great War. Awarded the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal shortly before the outbreak of hostilities (AO 216 of July 1914 refers), he went out to France as a Sergeant with the 16th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) in November of that year, where, no doubt, he witnessed events of the famous Christmas Truce - gifts were exchanged in No Man’s Land and one of the German officers encountered by the Battalion was originally from Catford. Remaining actively employed on the Western Front, Nutting was to be decorated on three occasions, namely with the Army Meritorious Service Medal; the Royal Victorian Medal in silver, on the occasion of George V’s visit to the Army in the Field in July 1917; and the Medal of the Order of the British Empire. Returning to his family firm after the War, of which he rose to be Chairman of the Board, Nutting was appointed as the Horticultural Trade Association’s representative to the Ministry of Agriculture on the renewal of hostilities, but following the complete destruction of his business premises in Southwark Street, London in 1942, his health declined. He died in Redhill, Surrey in July 1946.
Lot 799
Miscellaneous Women’s Insignia. A good selection of insignia to the Women’s Services including, OSD bronze FANY cap and collar badges and buttons, ATS cap, collars and shoulder titles, WRAC caps collars and shoulder titles, scarce lapel badges Women’s Royal Naval Services, Scottish Women’s Hospital, St. Dunstan’s Hallmarked Birmingham 1934, Women’s Imperial League, Food Preservation & Naval Transport Service 1915, Board of Agriculture Women’s Branch, another example Land Worker, Women’s Land Army cloth shoulder titles, brassard and lapel badge; and sundry cap, collar, and lapel badges, very good condition (lot) £300-£400
Lot 8
A Great War A.R.R.C. group of six awarded to Nursing Sister Helen M. Bennett, British Red Cross and Order of St John of Jerusalem, who was Mentioned in Despatches Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; 1914 Star, with copy clasp (H. M. Bennett, B.R.C.S. & O.St.J.J.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (H. M. Bennett, B.R.C.S. & St.J.J.); Defence Medal; Belgium, Kingdom, Queen Elisabeth Medal, bronze; together with the related miniature awards (but lacking the Belgian medal), these mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (6) £700-£900 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘In recognition of their valuable services in connection with the war’. M.I.D. London Gazette 24 December 1917. Helen Margaret Bennett was born at Clifton, Bristol, in 1878 and was trained as a nurse at University College Hospital, London, between 1901 and 1905. She was enrolled as a Trained Nurse (Sister) with the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem in August 1914, and served in France from 23 September 1914, initially at No. 2 Hospital, Rouen until May 1915. She served subsequently at No. 4 Hospital, Wimereux, from May to December 1915; No. 17 Ambulance Train from December 1915 to May 1916; No. 1 Hospital, Le Touquet, from May to June 1916; and No. 5 Hospital, Wimereux, where she remained until January 1919.
Lot 379
Maharajpoor Star 1843 (Private William Smith H.M. 39th Regt.) original brass hook and ring suspension completely missing and replaced with a top ring and silver straight bar suspension; together with another Maharajpoor Star 1843 (John Reed H.M. 16th Lancers) renamed, the remnants of the original brass hook adapted with ring and bronze straight bar suspension, nearly very fine (2) £300-£400
Lot 269
Five: Sergeant B. Mundell, Scottish Police, later Royal Garrison Artillery British War and Victory Medals (346081 Sjt. B. Mundell. R.A.); Coronation 1911, Scottish Police (P.C., B. Mundell.); Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-18, with bronze palm, very fine (5) £120-£160 --- Benjamin Mundell served during the Great War with the Forth Royal Garrison Artillery Territorial Force. His MIC confirms entitlement to a pair, whilst the Great War Service Medal and Award Roll notes ‘M.M.’ after his name; this remains unconfirmed, as is the French decoration.
Lot 28
Six: Miss Maude I. Smieton, later Lady Sanderson, Scottish Women’s Hospitals British War and Victory Medals (M. I. Smieton); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1918, with bronze star on riband; Medal of the Society of Aid to Military Wounded, silver; Cross of the Society of Aid to Military Wounded 1914-19, silver; together with the recipient’s Scottish Women’s Hospitals Medal 1914, bronze, unnamed, some corrosion to CdeG, otherwise good very fine (6) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Colonel D. G. B. Riddick Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2006. Maude Isolde Smieton was employed as an Orderly, Dispenser and Nurses Aide at the auxiliary hospitals at Villers Cotterets and Royaumont, France, from July 1916 to March 1919. In the Royaumont News Letter, 1968, she recalled: ‘I remember that last week at V.C. (Villers Cotterets). It was at the end of May just before we were to leave the hospital. I was seconded to the theatre and I was to spend all the time, day and night, as orderly with Inglis and some others. We could use only candles as we were under fire. I can see Inglis holding a candle at one side of the operating table and myself at the other, trying to keep our hand steady while loud explosions went on outside. The whole place was a shambles with men lying on the floor everywhere. It was so dark ... it was difficult to know whether a man was dead or alive. ... While Miss Ivens was operating, French soldiers burst into the place and asked us why we had not left as the town had been evacuated. We eventually got away next day, only just in time, as shells were coming over. ... The Americans came to our aid and helped with the wounded. Finally our ambulances from Royaumont came to our rescue. We were glad to see them. ...’ In a letter dated 23 May 1918, Smieton wrote of the last night at Villers Cotterets, ‘I shall never forget that night as long as I live; the sights were too appalling for words. I helped in the X-ray room. Three bombs were dropped quite close to the hospital; and a munition train in the station was bombed and went on fire. ... The doctoresses were simply splendid through it all. ... Seven amputations were done that night by the light of two candles’. Miss Smieton married Harold Leslie Sanderson, D.C.M. in 1922. He subsequently served as Director of Rice, Ministry of Food, from 1941 to 1952, and was knighted in 1946. A member and official of the Royaumont and Villers Cotterets Association. Lady Sanderson died on 11 February 1974.
Lot 547
An interesting Victory Medal awarded to Captain E. W. S. Bardsley, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, attached King’s African Rifles, who was wounded in action in 1915 and joined with his father in becoming a keen advocate for demilitarisation and the establishment of The League of Nations Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt. E. W. S. Bardsley.) nearly very fine £80-£100 --- Eric William Schofield Bardsley was born in Litherland, Lancashire, on 18 January 1896, the son of the Reverend Joseph Udell Bardsley of Ulverston Parish. Educated at Eton, he finished third in the college’s Senior Sculls in 1914. Appointed Temporary Second Lieutenant in November 1914, Bardsley served during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 September 1915 with 8th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Subsequently attached to the 6th Battalion, King’s African Rifles, the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News of 18 December 1915 records him wounded in action. Evacuated home to his father’s residence at ‘The Vicarage, Lancaster’, Bardsley survived the war and later bore witness to his father becoming a prominent advocate for the League of Nations; the Reverend Joseph Bardsley was appointed Vice President of the Lancaster League of Nations Union in 1921. Regarded as a family of ‘peace pilgrims’, the Lancaster Guardian noted that ‘warm tributes were paid to the Reverend’ upon his death in 1928. According to family repute, Bardsley married Fabienne Eugenie Georgette Tombeur at Marylebone Registry Office on 14 December 1922. He was later awarded a bronze medal by the City of Bordeaux before returning home to Lancashire upon the death of his mother on 7 September 1939; interestingly, his Belgian wife is recorded in Elles ont suivi de Gaulle as joining the Free French in London on 21 April 1943, serving in the administration and health departments.
Lot 590
Three: Police Constable T. Jeffery, Metropolitan Police Jubilee 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C. -T. Jeffery. G. Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C., T. Jeffery. G. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C., T. Jeffery.) good very fine (3) £70-£90 --- Thomas Jeffery was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, on 24 March 1868 and joined the Metropolitan Police at Great Scotland Yard on 16 July 1888. He served with ‘G’ or Finsbury Division throughout his police service, and retired to pension on 21 July 1913. He died on 15 July 1940.
Lot 95
A 1913 Sea Gallantry Medal awarded to Assistant Scout Master W. F. Vowles, Port of London Sea Scouts Sea Gallantry Medal, G.V.R., bronze (William Fletcher Vowles, “Mirror”. 25th. October, 1913.) with top bronze riband buckle, nearly extremely fine £300-£400 --- ‘At about 11.00 p.m. on 25 October 1913, a collision occurred in Gravesend Reach, River Thames between the steamship Hogarth of Aberdeen and the ketch Mirror of Dartmouth used for the purpose of training Boy Scouts, by which the Mirror was sunk and four lives were lost. When the collision occurred the crew of the Mirror clambered on board the Hogarth, but Mr. Vowles immediately went to the forecastle hatchway and saw that the Boy Scouts were coming on deck. Finding that the Mirror was sinking fast and being uncertain as to whether all the boys had come up, he went below although the water was well up in the forecastle, and, by shouting and splashing satisfied himself that no one was left. As he came up on deck again the Mirror sank bow first and those on board were all thrown into the water. Mr. Vowles then swam to the Hogarth’s port bow, calling for ropes, which were thrown over from that vessel, and seeing Assistant Scout Master Cornall floating unconscious near him, he attempted to rescue him, but Cornall slipped from his grasp and was drowned. Three of the boy scouts were picked up by a boat from the Hogarth and Mr. Vowles and two others were hauled on board that vessel by ropes.’ William Fletcher Vowles, Assistant Scout Master, Port of London Sea Scouts, was presented with the his Bronze Sea Gallantry Medal by King George V on 29 June 1914. He also received a Lloyd’s Silver Medal for this action. On board the Mirror at the time of the incident were Assistant Scout Masters Vowles and Cornall; and 11 Sea Scouts. A memorial to the four who lost their lives was unveiled by Prince Leopold in St. Agatha’s Church, Finsbury Avenue, in 1914.
Lot 83
A fine Great War ‘Salonika’ M.M. group of nine awarded to Warrant Officer Class 1 W. J. H. Davis, 153rd Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery Military Medal, G.V.R. (34193 Cpl. W. J. H. Davis. R.G.A.); 1914-15 Star (34193. Gnr. W. J. Davis. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals; (34193 Cpl. W. J. H. Davis. R.A.) India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (1406053 Sjt. W. J. H. Davis. R.A.); Defence Medal; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (1406053 Sjt. W. J. H. Davis M.M., R.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (1406053 W.O. Cl. 1. W. J. H. Davis. R.A.) 5th, 6th and 9th medals loose with last in named card box of issue, remainder mounted for wear, light contact marks in places, otherwise generally very fine or better (lot) £400-£500 --- M.M. London Gazette 24 January 1919. Walter James Hollick Davis was born in 1896, and was a native of Maidstone, Kent. He enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery at Chatham in January 1911. Davis served during the Great War with the 153rd Heavy Battery, R.G.A. in Salonika from 3 July 1915 until 11 May 1918. He served with the Royal Artillery in India from 19 September 1922 to 11 May 1926, and in Aden from 12 February 1932 until 19 March 1934. Davis gained his Master Gunner’s Certificate at Woolwich between 30 March 1925 and 27 March 1926. Having advanced to Warrant Officer Class I, he was discharged on 20 May 1938, having served for 27 years and 128 days (awarded M.S.M. in 1952). Sold with the following related items and documents: R.A. Tug of War prize medal, bronze, reverse engraved ‘W. J. H. Davis 1930’; Warrant appointing recipient Warrant Officer Class I, dated 16 October 1935; Regular Army Certificate of Service; Artillery College Master Gunner’s Certificate; named enclosure for M.S.M., dated 23 April 1952, and addressed to recipient at 37 Pembury Road, Bexleyheath, Kent; group photograph (including recipient) of Master Gunners’ Course, 1925-26.
Lot 25
Six: Dr. Honoria S. Keer, Scottish Women’s Hospitals, who served as an Assistant Surgeon with the Girton and Newnham Unit British War and Victory Medals (H. S. Keer); Serbia, Kingdom, Order of St. Sava, Officer’s badge, silver-gilt and enamel, Bishop with red robes; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917, with bronze star on riband; Medal of Honour, Ministry of War for Epidemics, silver, reverse embossed, ‘Miss Kear [sic] 1917’, with case of issue inscribed with the recipient’s name; together with the recipient’s Scottish Women’s Hospitals Medal 1914, bronze, unnamed; and the related miniature awards for the Great War campaign pair and the two French awards, good very fine (6) £1,000-£1,400 --- Provenance: Tony Sabell Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2013. Serbian Order of St. Sava London Gazette 12 August 1919: ‘In recognition of services while employed with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals in Serbia.’ Honoria Somerville Keer was born in Toronto, Canada on 26 December 1883, the daughter of Major-General Jonathan Keer, Bengal Staff Corps. She was educated at Hazel Bank, Malvern and at the University of Glasgow where she was awarded in 1910 the degrees of M.B. and Ch.B. At the outbreak of war she was serving as Resident Medical Officer at the Infirmary, Kilmarnock. She became Assistant Surgeon to the Girton and Newnham Unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals on its foundation and proceeded with it to Troyes in the Champagne district of France in May 1915. In October of that year the French Government transferred that hospital to Serbia. Soon it was obliged to retreat with the Serbian Army and from December 1915 it was sited in Salonika. In the Autumn of 1917 the unit was re-housed and re-constituted as the Calcutta Orthopaedic Centre - still under the command of its original Chief Medical Officer, Dr Louise McIlroy. As such, it continued to work in Salonika until early 1919 when it closed as a military hospital, being subsequently transferred to Belgrade to form The Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital. However, in April 1918 Dr Keer was transferred to Corsica as Chief Medical Officer of the Scottish Women’s Hospital for Serbian Refugees, operating under the Serbian Relief Fund. This hospital closed in April 1919. After the war Dr Keer returned to England and took a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Health in 1924. The following year she was appointed a Medical Officer to Nigeria, being posted to the Hospital in Lagos. Here she worked until 1931. Increasingly suffering from deafness, she returned to England in 1933. She died in London on 20 March 1969.
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Lot 676
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Captain H. Cox 1st. Worcester Artilly. Volrs., 5th. Augt. 1891.) with integral bronze riband buckle, good very fine £140-£180 --- R.H.S. Case number 25,624: ‘Assisted by Sergeant Sanders, Corporals Hodges and Deakin, and Gunners Elt, Beard, Summerhill and Suffield, also of the 1st Worcester Artillery Volunteers, rescued eleven men from drowning at Doganwy, North Wales, on the 5th August, 1891. Parchment to others.’
Lot 741
A group of nine miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel J. M. Rose, Wellington Battalion, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, late Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, who served as a soldier for nearly 40 years Military Cross, G.V.R.; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 modern clasp, The Nile 1884-85; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronz,e reverse dated 1914-1918, with bronze palm emblem on riband, recently re-mounted court-style, all of contemporary manufacture except for the Nile clasp, good very fine (9) £140-£180 --- M.C. London Gazette 14 January 1916. John Murray Rose was born in Elgin, Scotland, on 1 August 1865 and attested for the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, serving with them during the Nile Expedition and the Sudan Campaign in 1885-86 (and presumably entitled to an undated Egypt and Sudan Medal and an 1884-86 Khedive’s Star, rather than the dated and 1882 versions). Advanced Colour Sergeant and Instructor of Musketry, he was discharged after 21 years’ service, and subsequently emigrated to New Zealand. He enlisted in the New Zealand Regular Army at Wellington as a Sergeant Major Instructor on 1 July 1908, and was promoted Lieutenant in the New Zealand Staff Corps on 1 February 1913. As a temporary Captain, he served with the 1st New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the Great War in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France, and was awarded the Military Cross and the French Croix de Guerre whilst serving with the Wellington Battalion. Promoted Major in 1919, he transferred to the Retired List in December 1920 with the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He died in Wellington, New Zealand, on 12 June 1948. Sold with a postcard photograph of the recipient; rank insignia; and various ephemera relating to the recipient’s son, Captain John Ferguson Murrary Rose, N.Z.E.F.
Lot 211
Five: Leading Stoker J. Townsend, Royal Navy, later Sub-Officer, London Fire Brigade, who as an Acting Sub-Officer based at Bethnal Green received a King’s Commendation for Brave Conduct in Civil Defence for the rescue of three persons from a damaged shelter at Skidmore Street, Stepney, on 5 September 1940 1914-15 Star (K. 4395, J. Townsend, Sto.1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (K. 4395. J. Townsend, Sto.1. R.N.); Defence Medal, with K.C.B.C. silver laurel spray on riband; London Fire Brigade Good Service Medal, bronze (Fireman J. Townsend) with emblem to riband, mounted court-style, contact marks to the Great War awards, nearly very fine and better (5) £400-£500 --- K.C.B.C. London Gazette 28 February 1941: John Townsend, Temporary Acting Sub-Officer, London Fire Brigade. John Townsend was born in Stepney, London, on 16 December 1892 and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker Second Class on 14 September 1909 (giving his year of birth as 1890). He served in a variety of ships and shore based establishments during the Great War, and was advanced Leading Stoker on 12 May 1921. He was shore demobilised on 13 September 1921, after 12 years’ continuous service, and subsequently joined the London Fire Brigade as a Fireman on 16 March 1922 He served over the next twenty years at the stations at Whitefriars, Tooley Street, Whitechapel, Brunswick Road, Shadwell, and Bethnal Green. Townsend was promoted Acting Sub Officer on 7 September 1939, and served during the initial stages of the Second World War, and throughout the Blitz, as Bethnal Green, receiving a King’s Commendation for Bravery in Civil Defence for the rescue of three persons from a damaged shelter at Skidmore Street, Stepney, on 5 September 1940. Transferring to the National Fire Service on 19 February 1942 as a Leading Fireman, based at Homerton, he finally retired on 5 September 1946. Post-War Townsend joined the Mercantile Marine, as an Oiler and Greaser, and served in the S.S. Orion on the Australian Mails run. His final discharge came on 4 May 1952, in his 60th year. Not eligible for unemployment benefit, he subsequently wrote to the Prime Minister to complain about the injustices of the labour market. Sold with the following related archive: i) The recipient’s original King’s Commendation for Brave Conduct Certificate, in OHMS envelope addressed to ‘Mr. John Townsend, 105 Lodge Avenue, Dagenham’, with Home Secretary’s enclosure for the Defence Medal and Central Chancery enclosure for he silver laurel leaf emblem. ii) Original Royal Navy Parchment Certificate of Service. iii) Original Qualifications in Stoker Ratings Parchment Certificate; with paper duplicate and Conduct Sheet. iv) Royal Navy Education Certificate for Stoker Petty Officer, dated 12 May 1921. v) London County Council First Aid Certificate, named to the recipient and dated 31 July 1922. vi) The recipient’s Seaman’s Record Book and Certificates of Discharge; together with the recipient’s National Union of Seamen Member’s Contribution Book. vii) Commonwealth of Australia Certificate of Efficiency as Lifeboatman, dated 4 May 1951. viii) Copy of a letter written to the Prime Minister, dated 27 May 1952; and 10 Downing Street acknowledgement letter. ix) Three Driving Licences; a postcard photograph of the recipient; copied record of service; and other ephemera.
Lot 754
The United States Bronze Star attributed to Major W. F. Murley, United States Army United States of America, Bronze Star, unnamed as issued, with riband bar, in case of issue, good very fine The United States Bronze Star attributed to Private First Class Herbert C. Jones, United States Army United States of America, Bronze Star, unnamed as issued, good very fine (2) £60-£80 --- Sold with the Bronze Star Bestowal Document inscribed: ‘To Major William F. Murley, 01881679, Artillery, United States Army. For Meritorious Achievement in Ground Operations against Hostile Forces in the Republic of Vietnam from August 1964 to July 1965.’ Dated Washington, 14 July 1965. The Citation states: ‘To Major William F. Murley, United States Army. For distinguishing himself by outstanding meritorious service in connection with ground operations against a hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam during the period August 1964 to July 1965. Through his untiring efforts and professional ability, he consistently obtained outstanding results. He was quick to grasp the implications of new problems with which he was faced as a result of the ever changing situations inherent in a counterinsurgency operation and to find ways and means to solve those problems. The energetic application of his extensive knowledge has materially contributed to the efforts of the United States Mission to the Republic of Vietnam to assist that country in ridding itself of the communist threat to its freedom. his initiative, zeal, sound judgement and devotion to duty have been in the highest tradition of the United States Army and reflect great credit on him and on the military service.’ Sold also with the recipient’s Army Commendation Medal (First Oak Leaf Cluster) Bestowal Document, inscribed: ‘To Major William F. Murley, 01881679, Artillery, United States Army. For Meritorious Service during Operations in the Dominican Republic from 13 September 1965 to 29 November 1965.’ Dated Washington, 29 November 1965; and a photograph of the recipient receiving his Bronze Star. Sold with the Bronze Star Bestowal Document inscribed: ‘To Private First Class Herbert C. Jones, United States Army. For Meritorious Achievement in Ground Combat against the Armed Enemy during World War II in the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater of Operations.’ Dated Washington, 31 July 1986. Note: This award of the Bronze Star was made pursuant to Army Regulation 600-8-22. Sold with an additional Bronze Star Bestowal Documents inscribed: ‘To Warrant Officer Junior Grade Sidney H. Closter, W2136255, United States Army. For Meritorious Achievement in Ground Operations against the Enemy , Pacific Theater of Operations, 23 February 1943 to September 1945.’ Dated Washington, 16 August 1967.
Lot 356
Three: Lieutenant-Commander I. McLaren, M.B.E., Royal Navy, who was Mentioned in Despatches for his services in H.M.S. Gloucester during the First Gulf War, almost certainly for the part he played in the shooting down of a Silkwork Missile fired at the U.S.S. Missouri by firing off a salvo of Sea Dart missiles; the first successful missile verses missile engagement at sea in combat by the Royal Navy South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (Lt I Mc.Laren HMS Fearless) an official replacement, the edge stamped ‘R’; Gulf 1990-91, 1 clasp, 16 Jan to 28 Feb 1991, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt Cdr I Mc.Laren RN); Oman, Sultanate, Peace Medal, bronze, with Omani crown emblem on riband, mounted court-style as worn, edge bruising to first, good very fine and better (3) £1,000-£1,400 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 15 June 1996. M.I.D. London Gazette 29 June 1991: ‘In recognition of service during the operations in the Gulf.’ Ian McLaren joined the Royal Navy and served as a Lieutenant in the amphibious assault ship H.M.S. Fearless during the Falklands War; Fearless was quickly in the thick of the action in San Carlos Water, successfully landing her embarked forces on 21 May 1982, and subsequently undertook tasks such as ferrying Welsh Guards around the coast. McLaren is also recorded as serving ashore as part of Naval Party 2160, and was given command of the MV Monsunen, a Falkland Islands coastal vessel used for inter-island use, that had originally been captured in the course of the Argentine invasion, and was requisitioned by the Royal Navy after the Battle of Goose Green. Advanced Lieutenant-Commander, McLaren saw further service during the First Gulf War, as Operations Officer in H.M.S. Gloucester, and was Mentioned in Despatches, almost certainly for the part he played in the shooting down of a the Silkwork Missile fired at the U.S.S. Missouri by firing off a salvo of Sea Dart missiles; the first successful missile verses missile engagement at sea in combat by the Royal Navy. Remaining in the Royal Navy, he was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1996.
Lot 43
A Great War O.B.E. group of three awarded to Mabel C. Carmichael-Walker, a civilian attached to the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, who served during the Great War as a Hospital visitor and writer for the wounded at Wimereux, near Boulogne The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt, on lady’s bow riband; British War Medal 1914-20 (M. C. Carmichael-Walker.); Belgium, Kingdom, Queen Elisabeth Medal, bronze and enamel, nearly extremely fine (3) £200-£240 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1920: Miss Mabel Caroline Walker, Founder of the Soldiers’ Institute and Hostel, York. Mabel Caroline Carmichael-Walker was born in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland on 2 August 1865, the daughter of Colonel Sir George Walker, K.C.B. From 1897 to 1908 she servedas Honorary Superintendent of the Institutes for Soldiers in South Africa; and in 1908 founded the Soldiers’ Institute and Hostel at Fulford, York, of which Field Marshal the Lord Roberts was President. She served during the Great War as a Hospital visitor and writer for the wounded in Wimereux, near Boulogne, France, attached to the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department, from December 1914 to June 1917 (not entitled to either a 1914-15 Star or a Victory Medal), and upon returning to York she enlarged the Institute and opened a hostel-annexe for the relatives of the wounded and sick soldiers. For her services she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Sold with copied research.
Lot 30
The Victory Medal awarded to Hospital Orderly Miss Elsie E. Bowerman, Scottish Women’s Hospital Unit, who was a prominent member of the Women’s Social and Political Union and served as Christabel Pankhurst’s Political Agent in the 1918 General Election- six years earlier she had survived the sinking of the Titanic Victory Medal 1914-19 (E. E. Bowerman); together with the recipient’s Scottish Women’s Hospitals Medal 1914, bronze, the edge engraved ‘Mess Ord. Elsie E. Bowerman’, good very fine (2) £600-£800 --- Elsie Edith Bowerman was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on 18 December 1889, and was educated at Wycombe Abbey and Girton College, Cambridge. Whilst at Girton she joined the Women’s Social and Political Union in 1909, and the following year established a branch in the College. Her mother, Edith, was also a member of the W.S.P.U., and was one of the ten members chosen to accompany Emmeline Pankhurst on her deputation to the House of Commons on ‘Black Friday’, 18 November 1910; she also went on the next deputation three days later, when she was dealt a severe blow on the head by a policeman and her coat was torn to pieces. In 1912 Elsie Bowerman and her mother embarked for America on the Titanic, and were aboard her when she sank during her maiden voyage on 15 April 1912. She later wrote: ‘The silence when the engines stopped was followed by a steward knocking on our door and telling us to go on deck. This we did and were lowered into life-boats, where we were told to get away from the liner as soon as we could in case of suction. This we did, and to pull and oar in the midst of the Atlantic in April with ice-bergs floating about is a strange experience.’ On the outbreak of the Great War Elsie Bowerman supported the decision of the W.S.P.U. to help Britain’s war effort. She took part in the Women’s War Procession in July 1916 and was then asked by Evelina Haverfield to go out to Serbia as a Hospital Orderly with the Scottish Women’s Hospital Unit. According to Elizabeth Crawford in her book The Women’s Suffrage Movement, ‘In September 1916 Elsie Bowerman sailed to Russia as an Orderly with the Scottish Women’s Hospital Unit. With this unit she travelled via Archangel, Moscow, and Odessa to serve the Serbian and Russian armies in Romania. The women arrived as the allies were defeated, and were soon forced to join the retreat northwards to the Russian frontier.’ While awaiting her passage home, she witnessed the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II in St. Petersburg. Returning home, she joined the Women’s Party, an organisation established by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst. Following the passing of the Qualification of Women Act 1918, Christabel Pankhurst became one of the 17 female candidates who stood in the 1918 General Election, and Elsie Bowerman was appointed her political agent. Contesting the Smethwick seat, she lost narrowly to the Labour candidate by 775 votes. In 1922 Elsie Bowerman established, with Flora Drummond, the Women’s Guild of Empire, a right-wing league opposed to communism, the campaigns of which culminated in 1926 in a great procession in London and a meeting at the Royal Albert Hall demanding an end to the General Strike and the abolition of trade unions. Called to the Bar in 1924, as one of the first female barristers, she practised on the the south-eastern circuit until 1938 when she joined the Marchioness of Reading in starting the Women’s Voluntary Service. During the Second World War she worked for the Ministry of Information (1940-41) and as a Liaison Officer for the B.B.C.s North American Service (1941-45). After the War she spent one year at the United Nations in New York where she was in charge of the Status of Women section. She died in Eastbourne, Sussex, on 18 October 1973.
Lot 544
A scarce British War Medal in Bronze awarded to Muleteer Georhiou Christos, a Greek Cypriot serving with the Macedonian Mule Corps British War Medal 1914-20, bronze issue (3863 Muleteer Macedonian Mule C.) replacement copy suspension, edge bruise, otherwise nearly very fine, scarce £60-£80 --- Georhiou Christos, a Greek Cypriot, attested into the Macedonian Mule Corps and served during the Great War in Macedonia from 21 August 1916 to 18 November 1916. Sold with copied Medal Index Card and copied medal roll extract.
Lot 20
A rare Great War campaign group of five awarded to Ambulance Driver, Sergeant Winifred Mordaunt, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, who was amongst the very first F.A.N.Y’s in France, was twice Mentioned in Despatches, and was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for gallant conduct during an air raid 1914-15 Star (W. Mordaunt. F.A.N.Y.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (W. Mordaunt. F.A.N.Y.C.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-18, with bronze star; together with the recipient’s First Aid Nursing Yeomanry 1914-18 Service Medal, with four riband Stars denoting pre-War Service; and a Sandown Races Bronze Medal, 1882, reverse numbered ‘1088’, light contact marks, therefore generally very fine (6) £1,000-£1,400 --- Provenance: Provenance: A. Flatow Collection, Spink, November 1998; Julian Johnson Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, May 2017. M.I.D. London Gazette 24 December 1917 and 25 May 1918. Winifred Mordaunt, later Mrs John Geare was the daughter of Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet, of Walton Hall, Warwick. She served during the Great War as an Ambulance Driver for the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry on the Western Front from November 1915. She was based with the Ambulance Motor Convoy at Boulogne, and Pat Beauchamp (a contemporary of hers at Bouglone) in her book Fanny Goes To War gives the following insight: ‘It may be interesting to members of the Corps to know the names of those who formed that pioneer Convoy. They are: Lieutenant Franklin, M. Thompson (Section Leader), B. Ellis, W. Mordaunt, C. Nicholson, D. Heasman, D. Reynolds, G. Quin, M. Gamwell, H. Gamwell, B. Hutchinson, N. F. Lowson, P. B. Waddell, M. Richardson, M. Laidley, O. Mudie-Cooke, P. Mudie-Cooke and M. Lean (the last three were new members).... We arrived at Boulogne in time for lunch, and then set off for our camp thirty kilometres away, in a British Red Cross touring car borrowed from the “Christol Hotel.” We arrived there amid a deluge of rain, and the camp looked indeed a sorry spectacle with tents all awry in the hurricane that was blowing. Bell tents flanked one side of the large open space where the ambulances stood. A big store tent occupied another and the cook-house was in a shed at the extreme corner, with the Mess tent placed about as far from it as possible! We had no telephone in those days, and orderlies came up from the Casino hospital and A.D.M.S. with buff slips when ambulances were wanted. At that time the cars, Argylls, Napiers, Siddeley-Deaseys, and a Crossley, inscribed “Frank Crossley, the Pet of Poperinghe,” were just parked haphazard in the open square, some with their bonnets one way and some another - it just depended which of the two drives up to camp had been chosen. It will make some of the F.A.N.Y.’s smile to hear this, when they think of the neat rows of cars precisely parked up to the dead straight, white-washed line that ultimately became the order of things!’ Mordaunt advanced to the rank of Sergeant, and Beauchamp goes on to mention ‘Winnie’ on several occasions throughout the book. She is also mentioned in F.A.N.Y. Invicta by Irene Ward, including Mordaunt’s post-war involvement with the organisation, when she was elected as a member of the Headquarters Staff Committee: ‘From the beginning of the inter-war period rather different personalities exercised control and the whole administrative machine was overhauled. Franklin was the first Commandant. It was also agreed to establish a more regular central committee to decide on Corps policy. The Headquarters Staff Committee consisted at first of Franklin, Joynson, A. H. Gamwell, Lowson, Mordaunt, Russell-Allen, Baxter Ellis, Mosely, Peyton-Jones, Walton and Waddell (soon to become Colston and Washington).’ Mordaunt is recorded as having been awarded the Croix de Guerre for gallant conduct during an air raid, and her two M.I.D.’s are amongst just 15 to the F.A.N.Y. for the whole of the Great War.
Lot 675
A fine Royal Humane Society Lifesaving pair awarded to Sergeant Farrier W. Bridge, Royal Horse Artillery, for a rescue at the Grand Canal in Dublin on 30 January 1886 Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Sergt. Farrier Walter Bridge. R.H.A. 30 Jany 1886.) with integral bronze riband buckle; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1816. Sgt. Farrr. W. Bridge. R.H.A.) rank officially corrected on latter, very fine (2) £160-£200 --- R.H.S. Case number 23,017.
Lot 345
Three: Cadet Lieutenant-Colonel A. B. Solomon, Jewish Lads’ Brigade, Birmingham Cadet Corps Defence Medal, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. A. B. Solomon, 68 Woodbourne Rd., Edgbaston, Birmingham 17’; Jubilee 1935 (Cadet Lieut-Colonel A. B. Solomon Birmingham Cadet Corps J.L.B.) contemporarily engraved naming; Cadet Forces Medal, G.VI.R. (Cadet Lt Col. A. B. Solomon.) in named card box of issue; together with the recipient’s Birmingham Special Constabulary Long Service Medal 1916, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘A. B. Solomon’; ands a Birmingham Special Constabulary Reserve lapel badge, silvered and enamel, the reverse numbered ‘229’, generally very fine and better (5) £200-£240 --- The Jewish Lads’ Brigade was founded in 1895 by Albert Edward Goldsmid, a self-declared ‘nationalist Jew’ and the British Chief of ‘Chovevi Zion’. As a Zionist Anglophile, he made a successful career as a staff officer in the British Army. Whilst Colonel at Cardiff, he inspected the local Church Lads’ Brigade and commented that something similar should be arranged for Jewish lads. His aim was to help poor Jewish boys, particularly between the time they left school and the time they could join Jewish Working Mens’ Clubs. A lasting function of the Brigade was to facilitate cultural integration. Members of the Brigade served with distinction in the Boer and First and Second World Wars. In 1974 the Jewish Lads’ Brigade joined with the Jewish Girls’ Brigade to form the ‘Jewish Lads and Girls’ Brigade’. Archie B. Solomon was the Officer Commanding the Jewish Lads’ Brigade (Birmingham Cadet Corps), which was affiliated to the 5th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Sold with copied research.
Lot 113
The rare ‘Algiers’ and ‘Anchor’ type L.S. & G.C. pair awarded to Colour Sergeant J. Pickford, Royal Marine Artillery Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (James Pickford.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., Anchor obverse with scarce ‘inverted’ reverse (James Pickford Colour Serjeant Royal Marine Artillery 21 Years) pierced with two rings for suspension, together with a small bronze medallet to commemorate the action off Algiers, minor edge nicks, generally very fine or better (3) £3,000-£4,000 --- Provenance: Christie’s, July 1983. Awards of the L.S. & G.C. medal issued between 1833 and 1835 were struck with the reverse accidentally inverted relative to the obverse. Fewer than 20 examples from this period are known to have survived today, and even fewer in combination with the Naval General Service Medal. James Pickford was born in Cameley, Somerset. He attested for the Royal Marine Artillery at Wells in March 1814, to join the Portsmouth Division. Pickford advanced to Corporal in November 1828, and to Sergeant in January 1834. His service included with H.M.S. Impregnable during the bombardment of Algiers on 27 August 1816. The latter occupied a vulnerable position during the bombardment and was exposed to the concentrated fire from shore batteries and an accurate raking fire from the heavily armed Lighthouse Battery. The Impregnable lost nearly a quarter of her complement, suffering 50 killed and 164 wounded as a consequence of the action. Pickford advanced to Colour Sergeant, and served with H.M.S. Salamander from March 1834. The ship was paid off on 3 March 1835, and Pickford was discharged to pension 21 May 1835 (awarded L.S. & G.C. in May 1835, with a Gratuity of £7). Although the Royal Marine Artillery was disbanded in 1832, two Artillery Companies remained in being including Pirckford’s 2nd Company - and they were attached to the Portsmouth Division. After service, Pickford was employed as the Master of the Catherington Union Workhouse in Horndean, Hampshire, in the 1850s. He continued to be employed in that capacity for the next 20 years, and died aged 85 in Catherington, Hampshire, in 1880. Sold with copied research.
Lot 63
An Order of St John group of ten awarded to Sergeant J. Elam, 2nd London Volunteer Rifle Corps and St John Ambulance Brigade The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer‘s breast badge, silver and enamel; Defence Medal; Jubilee 1897, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Private J. Elain (sic)); Coronation 1902, St. John Ambulance Brigade, bronze (J. Elam, Sergt.); Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Sgt. J. Elam); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, E.VII.R. (1887 C. Sjt: J. Elam, 2/Lomdon V.R.C.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, silvered base metal, unnamed, with three additional service clasps; St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (Sergt. J. Elam. No. 1 Dist.) mounted court-style as worn, very fine (10) £400-£500
Lot 34
Miscellaneous Nursing Insignia. A small selection of Nursing insignia, including Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service cape badge, silver (2), together with two related miniature awards, one in silver the other bronze; Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve cape badge, silver; Queen Alexandra’s Military Families Nursing Service cape badge, silver, together with the related miniature award; British Red Cross Society War Service 1914-18 Medal, bronze; Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘B230776’; Volunteer Medical Service Medal, with two Additional Award Bars (Miss Alice Hunt); two Queen Mary Nursing Guild Badges, gilt and enamel, one with clasps for 1916, 1917, and 1918; a Royal Star and Garter Home Nurses Badge, bronze and enamel, the reverse named ‘Dorothy Hutchinson Dec. 1939’, in fitted case; and a Belgian Queen Elisabeth Medal, bronze and enamel; together with a St. John Ambulance Association Re-examination Cross, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘41068 Charles S. Priddle’, with 25 date clasps for 1912-1916 and 1919-1938 inclusive ,the reverse all engraved ‘141068’, generally good very fine £100-£140 --- Silver War Badge no. B230776 was awarded to Staff Nurse T. E. Docwra, Territorial Force Nursing Service. Sold with a large quantity of postcards, photographs, newspaper cuttings, and other nursing related ephemera, including photographs of the Boer War Hospital Ship Princess of Wales.
Lot 130
Pair: Colonel J. F. Craig, Royal Artillery Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Lieut: J. F. Craig. N/2. Bde. R.A.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, pitting from star, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £500-£700 --- Provenance: Jack Webb Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2008. “N” Battery, 2 Brigade, Royal Artillery, was later awarded the Honour Title “The Broken Wheel” for an incident during the battle of Tel-El-Kebir. It having been decided to attack at dawn after an approach march by night, the latter difficult operation was carried out by the two infantry and one cavalry divisions moving in line, in an echelon from the left with all the seven field batteries, also in line, in an interval between the two infantry divisions. The left-hand infantry division arrived first at the enemy's entrenchments in the half light and was met by a blaze of fire. Their attack was not at first completely successful, but with the aid of their supports, they and the other division forced their way into the entrenchments where hand-to-hand fighting continued. Meanwhile, the guns had been halted until there was enough light to see what was going on; but, as dawn broke, they were ordered forward to come into action inside the entrenchments in positions from which they could engage the defences in enfilade. N/2 galloped forward with the rest and, in the words of an officer of the battery, writing just after the battle: ‘All of a sudden the smoke lifted like a curtain and we found ourselves close to a long line of entrenchments... We at once went on and Major Branker found an angle in the line just in front where the ditch was not so deep, so the right gun galloped straight at it. It went with a bump into the ditch, and stuck fast on the face of the parapet, with most of the horses over; but a lot of 42nd [Highlanders] rushed to our help, and we lifted and shoved the gun over; but found one of the wheels smashed to pieces’. Although one of its guns had thus come to grief, N/2 brought its remaining guns into action inside the entrenchments and engaged the rearward parts of the defences with effective shrapnel fire in enfilade at 1,000 yards’ range. The enemy, facing destructive fire from both their front and flank were soon broken up and with victory secured, N/2 gained their prized Honour Title. John Francis Craig was born on 26 July 1856, and entered the Royal Artillery as a Lieutenant on 2 February 1876. He was A.D.C. to the Governor of Mauritius from December 1880 to February 1881, and from April 1881 to February 1882. He served in the Egyptian war of 1882, including the battle of Tel-El-Kebir (Medal and Clasp; Bronze Star). Promoted to Captain in January 1885, he was Adjutant of the Clare Artillery Militia, from 1887 to 1894. He went on half-pay in the rank of Colonel in November 1907, retired in February 1910, and died in 1922.
Lot 672
Royal Humane Society, large bronze medal (unsuccessful) (Thos. Collins A.B. H.M.S. “Dee” Vit. Peric. Expos. D.D. Soc. Reg. Hvm. 28th July 1863) fitted with ring suspension, extremely fine £120-£160 --- R.H.S. Case No. 17,130: ‘On 28th July 1863 at the River Thames, Woolwich a seaman of H.M.S. Tamar accidentally fell overboard, Collins jumped overboard, dived twice but could not save him. Bronze unsuccessful medal award to Collins.’ Thomas Collins was born in County Cork, Ireland, in July 1826. He joined the Royal Navy in July 1844, and advanced to Able Seaman in February 1852. His service included with H.M.S. Cleopatra between March 1849 and September 1853 (entitled to I.G.S. with ‘Pegu’ clasp); H.M.S. Princess Royal between January 1854 and February 1856 (entitled to Baltic Medal); and H.M.S. Dee between June 1863 and February 1864. Collins advanced to Boatswain’s Mate in October 1862, and Quarter Master in April 1866. He was discharged in August 1870, after 25 years and 42 days’ service. Sold with copied research and service papers.
Lot 677
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (unsuccessful) (Gunner W. Malone, R.A. 31st. Aug. 1895.) with replacement integral bronze riband buckle, in original Warrington fitted case of issue, minor edge bruising, nearly very fine £120-£160 --- R.H.S. Case number 27,968. The original citation states: ‘At great personal risk, attempted to rescue two persons who were unfortunately drowned at Spithead, on the 31st August 1895.’ The Morning Post of 23 October 1895 adds: ‘Gunner W. Malone, Royal Artillery, for attempting to save H. Gibbins and R. Short, whose boat capsized about 200 yards from the Horse Sand Fort, Spithead, August 31, when Malone nearly lost his own life (case sent by the Officer Commanding Royal Artillery, Portsmouth).’
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Seven: Mary E. Symons, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, later French Red Cross, who served as Directress of the Rimberlieu Hospital 1914 Star (M. E. Symons, B.R.C.S. & O. St. J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (M. E. Symons); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1917; Reconnaissance Medal, First Class, gilt, with rosette on riband; Medal of Honour, First Class, gold, the reverse inscribed ‘Mme. Symons, Rimberlieu 1915-1917’, with rosette on riband; Medal of the Societe Academique d’Histoire Internationale, gilt, with rosette on riband, good very fine (7) £600-£800 --- Mary E. Symons, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, served during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 September 1914. Later, working for the French Red Cross she was the Directress of the Rimberlieu Hospital, at Château Rimberlieu situated to the north of Compiegne. The hospital contained some 80 beds and was from the outset staffed entirely by British personnel. In 1916 an annex containing another 30 beds was added.
Lot 674
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (George Dewe Gunner, R.A. 24th. Feby. 1876.) with integral bronze riband buckle, suspension claw crudely repaired, therefore good fine £80-£100 --- R.H.S. Case number 19,868. George Dewe was awarded the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society for a rescue in Bermuda.
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Three: Sergeant F. Hinchliffe, Royal Garrison Artillery, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 25 March 1918 British War and Victory Medals (5432 Sjt. F. Hinchliffe. R.A.); Belgium, Kingdom, Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, very fine and better (3) £70-£90 --- Belgian Croix de Guerre London Gazette 15 April 1918. Frederick James Hinchliffe was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, in 1880. A policeman in civilian life, he attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery on 1 December 1915 and served on the Western Front with No. 148 Heavy Battery from 17 July 1916. According to the recipient’s Army Service Record he died of wounds on 25 March 1918, likely in consequence of the German Spring Offensive. Hinchliffe’s widow Alice later received his effects which were posted to ‘Toll Bar House’ in Mansfield. He is buried in the Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
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