Modern Firsts, Signed Editions, & Uncorrected Proofs. Crichton (Michael), Jurassic Park, first edition, Century, 1991, dj, hb, 8vo, Rushdie (Salman): The Moor’s Last Sigh, signed, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1995, dj, hb, 8vo, [&] The Satanic Verses, first edition, Verses, 1998, dj, hb, 8vo, a further nineteen signed titles, various authors, including Bill Bryson, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Bragg and Sally Hay Burton on the latter’s biography of her husband Richard Burton, Ian Rankin, Laurie Lee, A.N. Wilson, David Frost, Joanne Harris, a further thirty-one first editions, various authors, including three by Kazuo Ishiguro, Alan Sillitoe, Anthony Burgess, two Hilary Mantel, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, John Fowles, Uncorrected Proof Copies, a collection of forty-two, including Heller (Joseph), Good as Gold, London: Jonathan Cape, 1979, original wrappers, 8vo, Hemingway (May Welsh), How it Was, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977, original wrappers, 8vo, Colegate (Isabel), Deceits of Time, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1998, original wrappers, 8vo, Kerr (Philip), Esau, London: Chatto & Windus, 1996, original wrappers, 8vo, Bryson (Bill), Mother Tongue: The English Language, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990, original wrappers, 8vo, others, fiction and non-fiction, various, (95).
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Binding, Australia and New Zealand. A finely bound late 19th century morocco album of Victorian English, Colonial Australasian and African newspaper clippings, compiled by and bound for Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead, GCMG, PC (1824-1897), while Sir Hercules, the ephemera dated between 1877 & 1885 while Lord Rosmead was Governor of New South Wales (1872-79), New Zealand (1879-80), & High Commissioner for Southern Africa and Governor of Cape Colony (1881-89), as well as the clippings, the album is also illustrated by a two-fold lithographed maritime panorama, engraved by W. Macleod: "Adieu"/Departure of His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson, 19th March, 1879", without sounding judgmental, the contents, which are pasted to card leaves, entirely concern himself, red niger morocco over bevelled boards, the covers gilt with a single-fillet enclosing fleurons at angles, raised bands dividing six compartments, lettered in the second and fourth, the remainder with conforming foliage, all edges gilt, gilt foliate dentelles, small folio (31cm x 27cm).
Literary Upshots or Split Reading by Richard Mallett 1951 First Edition Hardback Book with 158 pages published by Jonathan Cape Ltd good condition. Sold on behalf of Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW. We can ship a parcel up to 20kg which will take approx. 40 books in UK £12, EUROPE £39.99, ROW, £59.99
A Victorian Queen's South Africa Medal with four bars 'Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902' awarded to Private W. Falconer Scottish CC 7511, together with a George V Faithful Service Medal awarded to William Falconer and a black and white photograph of William (Falconer) and a Scottish army form B.73 (4).
Vintage Loose First/Second/Third Wave Star Wars Action Figures, including: Chewbacca @G.M.F.G. I. 1977 no coo, Ben Kenobi @G.M.F.G. I. 1977 made in Hong Kong, Darth Vader with cape @G.M.F.G. I. 1977 no coo, Stormtrooper @G.M.F.G. I. 1977 Hong Kong, Death Squad Commander @G.M.F.G. I. 1977 Hong Kong, Greedo @G.M.F.G. I. 1978 Hong Kong, Boba Fett @C.P.G.1979 Taiwan, Bespin Security Guard @ 1980 L.F.L Hong Kong, Han Solo Hoth outfit @ 1980 L.F.L Hong Kong, Imperial Stormtrooper @ 1980 L.F.L Hong Kong, Rebel Soldier Hoth battle gear,@ 1980 L.F.L Hong Kong, Dengar @ 1980 L.F.L Hong Kong, Ugnaught purple apron @ 1980 L.F.L made in Hong Kong, Leia Hoth outfit @ 1980 L.F.L made in Hong Kong, Imperial Commander @ 1980 L.F.L made in Hong Kong, Rebel commander @ 1980 L.F.L. no coo, 2-1B @ 1980 L.F.L made in Hong Kong, AT-AT Commander @ 1980 L.F.L made in Hong Kong, Luke Skywalker Hoth battle gear @ 1980 L.F.L made in Hong Kong, 4-LOM @ 1981 L.F.L made in Hong Kong, C-3PO removable limbs @ 1982 L.F.L no coo, Chief Chirpa @ L.F.L 1983 H.K., 2 x Logray @ L.F.L 1983 H.K., Leia Boushh Disguise @ L.F.L 83 Hong Kong, Weequay @ L.F.L 83 no coo, Klaatu Skiff @ L.F.L 1983 no coo, Nikto @ L.F.L 1983 no coo and Han Solo @ L.F.L 1984 no coo, all in fair to very good original condition, missing weapons. (30 items)
Seventeen Vintage Loose Second/Third Wave Star Wars Action Figures, including: Imperial Tie Fighter @L.F.L 1982 made in Hong Kong, Bib Fortuna (missing staff) @L.F.L 1983 Hong Kong, Logray figure only @L.F.L 1983 H.K. Klaatu skiff guard @L.F.L 1983 no coo, Weequay @L.F.L 1983 no coo, The Emperor missing cane, AT-ST Driver @L.F.L 1984 Taiwan, B-Wing Pilot @L.F.L 1984 no coo, Han Solo in trench coat @L.F.L 1984 no coo, Princess Leia Organa in combat poncho, with helmet and belt @L.F.L 1984 no coo, Prune Face with cape @L.F.L 1984 no coo, Rancor Keeper with hood @L.F.L 1984 no coo, 2 x Teebo figures, both missing stone ax, 1. @L.F.L 1984 no coo 2. @L.F.L 1984 Taiwan, Paploo complete no date or coo, Han Solo (missing carbonate chamber) @L.F.L 1984 no coo and Anakin Skywalker @L.F.L 1985 no coo, all in fair to very good original condition.(17 items)
Britains Indian Army sets 66, 13th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers with Trumpeter, green jackets, 1893 Indian Army Service Corps with Officer, mule and Handler, 1901 Cape Town Highlanders with Officer and 2031 Australian Army in battledress with Officer in original ROAN boxes (Condition Excellent, one man embellished with chevrons, boxes Good-Fair) 1951 (28)
A scarce Great War ‘Warrant Officer’s’ M.C. group of eight awarded to Warrant Officer Class I W. H. Tilbury, 5th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who later served as an Assistant Commissioner of Police in Assam and was a member of the Surma Volunteer Light Horse, Auxiliary Force India Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (5369 Pte. W. Tilbury. Rl: Berks: Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5369 Serjt: W. Tilbury. Rl: Berks: Regt.); 1914-15 Star (16689 Sjt. W. Tilbury. R. Berks: R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (16689 W.O. Cl.1. W. Tilbury. R. Berks. R.); Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Pte. W. H. Tilbury. Surma V.L.H. A.F.I.); Belgium, Kingdom, Order of Leopold II, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver and enamel, with bronze A.I.R. palm on riband, contact marks and minor edge bruising, generally nearly very fine and better (8) £1,400-£1,800 --- M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1919. M.I.D. London Gazette 4 January 1917. Belgian Order of Leopold II, Chevalier, with palms London Gazette 5 April 1919. William Harry Tilbury was born at Burchetts Green, Berkshire, on 5 November 1881 and attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment aged 15 years and 6 months. He served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and with the 5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 28 July 1915. Advanced Warrant Officer Class I, he was awarded the Military Cross; the following account appeared in the Berkshire Chronicle: ‘The Germans were making a rush for the guns which they had almost surrounded when the party I have spoken of together with the other Berkshire men and the Guards thwarted the desperate attempts which the Boches made to capture them... In regard to the saving of the guns I should like to say that splendid work was performed by our signalling officer, whose name I cannot remember, and Regimental Sergeant Major Tilbury.’ Subsequently commissioned Captain, post-War Tilbury served with the Assam Civil Service as an Extra Assistant Commissioner of Police, with the rank of Major, and whilst in India served with the Surma Volunteer Light Horse, Auxiliary Force India. He died of Malaria on 15 December 1932.
Pair: Private O. Badby, Royal Berkshire Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4565 Pte. O. Badby, 2: Rl: Berks: Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4565 Pte. O. Badby: Rl: Berks: Regt.) contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £140-£180
Three: Private E. Day, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s Bronze Medal for saving the life of a man from drowning at Roodevval Spruit, Orange River Colony, on 16 September 1900 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (4838 Pte. W. Day, 2: R: Berks: Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4838 Pte. W. Day. Rl: Berks: Regt.) number officially corrected; Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (J. Day. 2nd. Bttn: Berks: Regt, Sep. 16 1900.) with integral top bronze riband buckle, light contact marks, generally good very fine (3) £240-£280 --- R.H.S. Case no. 30,977: ‘On 16 September 1900, J. J. Le Roux, the son of a local burgher, by holding on to the tail of a horse, was carried out some 25 yards from the bank in a pond at Roodevval Spruit, Orange River Colony. Seeing his danger, Privates Jones and Day, both 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who were bathing near, at once swam out, and at great risk rescued him.’
A Boer War C.B. group of four awarded to Colonel The Honourable R. T. Lawley, 7th Hussars, who commanded his regiment in South Africa and was later 4th Baron Wenlock The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s, breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, complete with swivel-ring bar suspension and ribbon buckle; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (Lieut: Hon: R. T. Lawley, 7/Husrs.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt: Col: Hon R. T. Lawley, C.B., 7/Hrs:); Khedive’s Star, dated 1884-6, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style for display, the second with contact pitting from star, otherwise nearly very fine, the remainder good very fine (4) £2,600-£3,000 --- Richard Thompson Lawley, 4th Baron Wenlock, was born on 21 August 1856, second son of Beilby Richard, 2nd Baron Wenlock of Escrick Park, Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, and Colonel of the Yorkshire Hussars, by his wife Lady Elizabeth Grosvenor, daughter of 2nd Marquess of Westminster. He was brother of Sir Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock, Governor of Madras (1891-96), whom he succeeded in 1912 as the 4th Baron Wenlock. He was educated at Eton (1870-74) in the Rev. William Wayte’s House where, although not academically gifted, he was a successful cox. He entered the army in 1875, serving throughout with the 7th Hussars, retiring as Colonel of the Regiment in 1904. He served throughout the Nile Expedition of 1884-85 with the Light Camel Regiment, in which the 7th Hussars detachment comprised three officers and 44 other ranks, and took part in the operations of the Desert Column including the engagement at Abu Klea Wells, 16 and 17 February 1885. After service in Egypt, Lawley served in the Boer War, sailing for the Cape on board the S.S. Templemore, and commanded the 7th Hussars in South Africa from 20 December 1901 to 22 January 1902, after which he commanded a column composed of the Queen’s Bays, 7th Hussars, two guns and a pom-pom from 39th R.F.A., formed at Winburg and operating towards Senekal from 23 January to 31 May 1902, to clear the country in that district of cattle and provisions. He was present during operations in the Transvaal from March to 31 May 1902; Orange River Colony from January to March, and May 1902; Cape Colony from December 1901 to January 1902. He was mentioned in despatches London Gazette 17 June 1902, and appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath ‘in recognition of services during operations in South Africa’, London Gazette 26 June 1902. Following a posting at Aldershot, he retired on 2 November 1904. He was married in 1909 to Rhoda Edith, a daughter of Canon Knox-Little. He succeeded his brother as 4th Baron Wenlock in 1912, and died at Hestercombe, Devon, on 25 July 1918. Sold with full research including various copied photographs together with medal roll and gazette entries saved to CD.
Pair: Private A. Harper, Royal Berkshire Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (5042 Pte. A. Harper, 2nd. Rl: Berks: Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5042 Pte. A. Harper, Rl: Berks: Regt.) mounted as worn, light contact marks, very fine (2) £140-£180 --- Provenance: Lovell Collection, Sotheby’s, November 1978.
A most unusual Great War D.C.M. group of seven awarded to Sergeant W. A. Taylor, Border Regiment, late Hampshire Regiment, who, hearing that the officers and senior N.C.O’s of his company had become casualties, immediately took command of the company during a heavy barrage; later, during lulls in the action, he ‘produced a piccolo, and by playing popular airs cheered and put new spirit into his men’; he afterwards joined the Royal Air Force and received one of only 8 Army L.S. & G.C. medals named to that unit Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (10575 Sjt: W. A. Taylor. 8/Bord: R.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Transvaal (5144 Dr. W. Taylor, 2nd Hampshire Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5144 Dmr: W. Taylor. Hampshire Regt.); 1914 Star (10575 Pte. W. A. Taylor. Bord: R.); British War and Victory Medals (10575 Sjt. W. A. Taylor. Bord. R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (345492 Sjt. W. A. Taylor. R.A.F.) mounted as worn, the Boer War medals with edge bruising and polished, fine, others nearly very fine, the last very rare (7) £2,000-£2,400 --- Provenance: From the collection of Long Service Medals formed by John Tamplin, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2008. D.C.M. London Gazette 3 September 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when in charge of stretchers. Hearing that all his company officers and senior N.C.O’s. were down he left his job and went forward to take charge of the company at great personal danger, passing through a heavy barrage. He took charge of the remainder of the company, collected stragglers, organized them into bombing and Lewis gun sections, with the result that when another came he found all the work had been done. During lulls he produced a piccolo, and by playing popular airs cheered and put new spirit into his men’. Regimental History confirms award for Vaulx Wood, 21-22 March 1918. William A. Taylor served as a Drummer in the 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment during the Boer War. He served in France with the 2nd Border Regiment from 5 October 1914, and won the D.C.M. whilst serving as a Sergeant with the 8th Battalion, Border Regiment. He subsequently served in the Royal Air Force and was awarded the Army L.S. & G.C. through Army Order 388 of October 1924, one of only eight such awards given to the R.A.F.
Three: Sick Berth Chief Petty Officer H. J. Edwards, Royal Navy East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (H. J. Edwards, S.B.A., H.M.S. St George.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein (H. J. Edwards, S.B. Std: H.M.S. Doris); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (350304 H. J. Edwards, S.B. Std, H.M.S. Victory) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (3) £550-£750 --- Sold with an interesting original letter home to England, the envelope marked ‘On Active Service - Stamps not Obtained’: ‘Royal Naval Brigade at Bloemfontein Orange F. State March 18th 1900 Dear George & Em, Just a few lines at last as it was not until late last night that I got your address and that after being on the way out since the 30th of Nov ‘99. Consequently I could not write you before. This letter has been chasing me round to the following ships and places where I have never been viz. “Terrible” “Powerful” “Doris” “Tartar” Durban Peter Martizburg Point Natal Stormberg Colesburg and the RN Hospital Simons Town which last place it was sent on after me. I can assure you the envelope is quite a curio and shall keep it as such. Moreover it contained an Xmas Card from dear Jean and Dad which remained intact and unbroken. I had given it up for lost. Well dear George we have been ashore now for two months tomorrow Monday the 19th and am pleased to say feels none the worse for it being in the best of health and spirits. Hoping that Em and all the family are quite well and that you are getting along allright in London. We are attached to Lord Roberts Column and came up to this place from Modder River via Enslin marching about 160 miles; the City Imperial Volunteers being with us all the way. They are a fine lot of fellows and are enduring the hardship or fortunes of war. Manly was present at capture of Jacobsdal and at Paardeberg where the hated Cronje was bombarded and where finally he surrendered to Lord Roberts with between 3 and 4 thousand Boers. My doctor and myself were engaged all the following day dressing the Boers wounds the sights being too horrid to describe. We then after resting to recruit our health etc for 3 days moved on to this place with but very little opposition and occupied this place on the 14th. As you know ere this per papers at home. I have read with pleasure the way in which the news of the relief of Kimberley, surrender of “Cronje”, relief of Ladysmith etc etc has been received at home. Dear George, the sights of the firing of the 4.7 at night time and the rattle of rifle fire were awful but grand. I cannot find words to express it, but I never want to be in such places again. This is a very nice place containing some handsome buildings and nicely laid out. Government House (Steyn’s late residence) is now occupied by Roberts and staff and it does ones eyes good to see the Union Jack proudly flying over it as well as over the two large forts which are garrisoned by the Coldstream Guards as well as from almost every house in the town...’ Henry John Edwards was born in Pembroke on 29 March 1872, and enlisted in January 1895, giving his occupation as ironmongers assistant. Within two years he saw action aboard H.M.S. St George during the Benin expedition, and two years later he landed from H.M.S. Doris, seeing action at Paardeberg and Driefontein with the Naval Brigade. At the end of the Boer war he was serving on the hospital ship Maine. He received his L.S. & G.C. medal on 11 January 1910, and in 1913 he was rated Chief Sick Berth Steward. During the Great War he served at R.N. Hospitals Malta and Haslar to gain entitlement to the British War Medal and was discharged to pension as S.B.C.P.O. in 1920.
Five: Private H. C. Pugh, Imperial Yeomanry, later Gunner, Royal Horse Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (38158 Pte. H. C. Pugh. 127th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:); 1914 Star (126 Gnr: H. C. Pugh. R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals (126 Gnr. H. C. Pugh. R.A.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (126 Gnr: H. C. Pugh. War: R.H.A.) edge bruise to QSA, light contact marks, nearly very fine (5) £300-£400 --- Henry C. Pugh served with the 127th (Westminster Dragoons) Company, 28th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War, and, having been awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 11 of January 1913, served with the 1st/1st Warwickshire Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 31 October 1914.
Pair: Corporal G. Hicks, Suffolk Regiment, later Police Sergeant, Metropolitan Police Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (3263 Cpl. G. Hicks, 1st. Suffolk Regt.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.S. G. Hicks.); together with a Metropolitan Police Shooting Medal 1910, the obverse featuring H.R.H. the Prince of Wales (later G.V.R.), the reverse embossed ‘Challenge Cup presented by George, Prince of Wales, to The Metropolitan Police for their best miniature rifle shot.’, unnamed, nearly extremely fine (3) £200-£240
Three: Private H. A. Bartlett, Royal Welsh Fusiliers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Orange Free State, unofficial rivets between top two clasps (3377 Pte. H. Bartlett, R. Welsh Fus:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3377 Pte. H. Bartlett, Rl: Welsh Fus:); Birmingham Tribute Medal 1899-1902, gilt unnamed, with 1899-1902 top riband bar [Hibbard A4]; together with a Queen Victoria’s Christmas Tin 1900 (containing a fragment of chocolate) and three decorated leaves of Veldt Grass (?), all mounted for display in a heavy wooden glass-fronted case, 354mm x 302mm x 56mm, first two medals with edge bruising, therefore fine; the third medal nearly extremely fine (3) £280-£340 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, May 2016. Henry Alfred Bartlett was born at Balsall Heath, Birmingham. A Tube Drawer by occupation, he attested for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Birmingham on 19 October 1891, aged 18 years, 1 month. He served with the regiment in India, December 1893-November 1896; Malta, November-December 1896 and India, December 1896-December 1897. He was appointed Lance Corporal on 16 December 1899. He transferred to the Army Reserve in April 1898 but was recalled to the Colours in October 1899, and served in South Africa from October 1899 to August 1902. He was transferred to the Reserve once more in March 1903 and was discharged on 18 October 1903.
Family group: Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (7553 Pte. J. Beddall, Shrops. Lt. Infy.) nearly extremely fine Three: Private A. Beddall, Royal Marines 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr. A. Beddall, 8 Williamson Crescent, Whaley Bridge, Stockport, Cheshire’, with service number PO/X 118544 inscribed on the side; together with original grey fibre identity tag (A. Beddall CE PO X 18544) on white metal neck chain; two rather frayed woven Royal Marines shoulder titles; a Royal Marines brass cap badge; a crude Royal Marines sweetheart badge, and other ephemera, nearly extremely fine (4) £120-£160 --- John Beddall served in the 1st Volunteer Battalion, The King’s (Shropshire Light Infantry) in South Africa during the Boer War, attached to the 2nd Battalion, and was additionally entitled to the date clasp South Africa 1901. He died of enteric fever at Middleburg on 4 June 1901 and is commemorated on a plaque at the church of St Mary and St Andrew, Condover, Shropshire, and on the Memorial Statue to the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, St Chad's Terrace, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
Five: Private W. Chappell, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, later Royal Sussex Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (7323 Pte. W. T. Chappell, K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (7323 Pte. W. T. Chappell. K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (GSSR-18 Pte. W. Chappell. R. Suss: R.); British War and Victory Medals (GSSR-18 Pte. W. Chappell. R. Suss. R.) clasp carriages on both Boer War medals ‘flattened’ to facilitate mounting, edge bruising to Boer War pair, light contact marks, generally very fine (5) £200-£240 --- William Chappell attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and with the Royal Sussex Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 January 1915. He was discharged Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 12 February 1919.
Three: Senior Reserve Attendant J. H. Nuttall, Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve, late St John Ambulance Brigade Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (587 Ordly: H. J. Nuttall, St John Amb: Bde:) clasps attached with unofficial suspension rod; St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (587 Pte. J. H. Nuttall Bolton Corps); British War Medal 1914-20 (M.8311 J. H. Nuttall. S.R.A. R.N.) mounted on card for display, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (3) £400-£500 --- John H. Nuttall was born near Bury, Lancashire, on 13 October 1873. He served with the Bolton Corps of the St John Ambulance Brigade in the South African war in 1900-01. He joined the Royal Navy on 2 August 1914, initially in Vivid, then joining Impregnable in October 1914 until his demobilisation in 1919. Sold with copied service record and medal entitlement confirmation.
Five: Sergeant F. G. Rhodes, Cape Mounted Rifles Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (2735 Pte. F. G. Rhodes. Cape M.R.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2735 Corpl. F. G. Rhodes. Cape M.R.); 1914-15 Star (Sjt. F. G. Rhodes 1st. S.A.M.R.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Sjt. F. G. Rhodes. 1st. S.A.M.R.) traces of adhesive to reverses, lacquered, very fine and better (5) £200-£240 --- Frederick Gordon Rhodes was born on 23 December 1871 and attested for the Cape Mounted Rifles at King William’s Town on 18 June 1895. He served in both the Boer War and the Great War, and was wounded in the latter on 13 December 1914 when, whilst on a riding patrol, his horse stepped into an ant bear hole and came down rolling over on top of him, injuring his right leg and knee. He was discharged to pension on account of his injuries on 23 March 1916. Sold with copied research.
Four: Captain Sir Benjamin Chave, K.B.E., Royal Naval Reserve 1914-15 Star (Commr. B. Chave, R.N.R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Commr. B. Chave, R.N.R.); Mercantile Marine War Medal (Benjamin Chave); Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Commr. B. Chave, R.N.R.) mounted as worn; together with a bullion Torpedo badge, nearly extremely fine (4) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, October 1997. K.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1920. Benjamin Chave was born in 1870 and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Southampton, subsequently becoming a Master Mariner with the Union Castle Steam Ship Company. During the Great War he served as Commander, Royal Naval Reserve, aboard H.M.S. Armadale Castle, and subsequently, as Naval Transport Officer at Ludentzbucht, during General Botha’s successful campaign in German South West Africa. He was later Commanding the Transport Alnwick Castle when torpedoed in March 1917. The liner Alnwick Castle was taken over in 1914 as a troopship and in 1915 was in the Dardanelles. On 19 March 1917, when 310 miles west of the Bishop Rock, Scilly Isles, the ship was torpedoed without warning and sank within half an hour. The lifeboats, of which there were six, got away without mishap, but the weather worsened and the boats were separated. Two of them were never heard of again but the Chief Officer’s boat, containing 31 persons, drifted about for 9 days before being rescued by Spanish fishing boats and taken into Carino, near Cape Ortega. Ten persons had died, some had lost their reason and all were suffering from intense thirst, the water having given out some days before. Commander Chave’s boat had fared little better. She was five days adrift and was picked up by the French Fabre liner Venezia. Four persons had died from exposure. When a final muster of the survivors was made some weeks later, it was found that out of 139 persons on board the Alnwick Castle when she was torpedoed, 40 had been drowned or had died, including three of the crew of the Trevose, 25 crew of which ship had been rescued by Commander Chave the day before his own vessel was sunk. The full story of this episode is recounted by John Masters in his book I.D., chapter VI, ‘The Ordeal of Captain Chave’. He concludes: ‘No finer feat of seamanship has been performed in living memory: it ranks with the great voyages of the Elizabethans.’ Sold with copied research.
Matthew Boulton’s Medal for Trafalgar 1805, bronzed copper, impressed in the reverse field ‘John Potts, Midsm. HMS. Conqueror’, fitted with claw and ring suspension, nearly extremely fine £300-£400 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2005. John Potts entered the Royal Navy on 7 October 1800, as a First Class Volunteer on board the Assistance 50 guns, in which ship, having attained the rating of Midshipman, he was wrecked between Dunkirk and Gravelines on 29 March 1802. Joining next, in March, 1803, the Conqueror 74 guns, he served under Captain Israel Pellew in Nelson's pursuit of the combined squadrons to the West Indies and back, and at the battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805. On 7 May, 1808, a few days after his removal to the Hibernia 120 guns, flagship of Sir Charles Cotton at Lisbon, Potts was made Lieutenant into the Eclipse sloop; and in that vessel he was employed, on the Channel, East and West India, and Cape of Good Hope stations, until July, 1814. He remained thenceforward on half-pay. He died in 1847. Note: Bronzed copper medals were struck by the Soho Mint as specimens or souvenirs and not for award to participants in the battle of Trafalgar.
South Africa 1834-53 (Richd. Hall. 6th. Regt.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £300-£400 --- Richard Hall was born in Coventry in 1828 and attested for the 6th Regiment of Foot on 6 August 1846. He served in the Kaffir Wars of 1846-47 and 1850-53, before transferring to the Cape Mounted Riflemen on 31 December 1854. He was finally discharged on 31 January 1864, after 17 years and 139 days’ service, of which 12 years and 8 months was spent in South Africa. Sold with copied record of service and other research.
The South Africa Medal 1834-53 awarded to Colour-Sergeant D. Mason, 91st Highlanders, who survived the sinking of the Abercrombie Robinson off Cape Town, 27-28 August 1842 South Africa 1834-53 (Colr. Serjt. D. Mason. 91st. Regt.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £500-£700 --- Daniel Mason was born in Warwick in 1823 and attested there for the 90th Regiment of Foot on 12 July 1841. He transferred to the 91st (Argyllshire) Highlanders on 1 April 1842, and sailed for South Africa in June of that year in the Abercrombie Robinson. The Abercrombie Robinson
In 1842 a Reserve Battalion of the 91st Foot was formed. It sailed for the Cape of Good Hope in June of that year, arriving at Table Bay on 25 August in the Abercrombie Robinson. Upon arriving all the Officers not on duty were given permission to go on shore, and on 27 August all landed except six, with command of the troops on board devolved to Captain Bertie Gordon. That night a gale blew up, which developed into a hurricane; the ship'’s cables snapped, and the ship was driven towards the beach. There were 700 souls on board, of whom 90 were women and children; all were kept below in order to lessen the weight on the ship’s deck. From accounts in the Regimental History it is clear that it was a terrifying time. The following morning it was decided to disembark and this dangerous exercise was carried out after a night of great peril and through raging surf over a period from 8:30am until 3:30pm using towards the end just a single boat with a capacity of 30, without a single casualty. Captain Gordon was in the last boat-load to disembark the stricken ship. A description of the wreck and the evacuation was submitted to Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, who wrote: “I have never read anything so satisfactory as this report. It is highly creditable, not only to Captain Bertie Gordon and the officers and troops concerned, but to the service in which such an instance has occurred of discretion and firmness in an officer in command, and of confidence, good order, discipline, and obedience in all under his command, even to the women and children. Captain Bertie Gordon, and all concerned, deserve the highest approbation, and I will not forget their good conduct.’ The display of discipline shown by those on the Abercrombie Robinson inspired the same display of discipline when the Birkenhead was wrecked ten years later. Mason served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Second and Third Kaffir Wars, being appointed Colour-Sergeant on 9 September 1850. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, together with a gratuity of £15, in December 1857, he was discharged on 26 August 1862 after 21 years and 47 days’ service, of which 13 years and 1 month was spent in South Africa; 1 year and 5 months were spent in the Mediterranean; and 3 years and 9 months were spent in India. Sold with copied record of service and other research, including a detailed account of the wreck of the Abercrombie Robinson.
South Africa 1834-53 (James Hore, Cape Md. Riflemen) minor edge nicks, good very fine £300-£400 --- James Hore was born in Oxford in 1828 and attested for the 73rd Regiment of Foot at Reading on 12 November 1845. He served with them in South Africa from 4 September 1846, and was slightly wounded on 29 April 1851. He transferred to the Cape Mounted Riflemen on 1 November 1853 and was promoted Corporal on 1 March 1858. He was discharged at Netley on 2 August 1864, after 18 years and 85 days’ service, of which 17 years and 4 months were spent in South Africa; his medical report on discharge stated ‘Impaired vision in the loss of right eye from purulent ophthalmia contracted at Fort Beaufort while on duty. Disease attributable to military service and not aggravated by intemperance.’ Sold with copied record of service and other research.
South Africa 1834-53 (P. Klass. Cape Md. Riflemen) suspension claw tightened, heavy edge bruising, nearly very fine £260-£300 --- Piet Klass was born in Kaffirland and attested for the Cape Mounted Rifleman on 9 November 1849, being one of the original ‘coloured’ members of the Cape Mounted Rifleman when it was an imperial force. He stayed loyal through the Kat River rebellion of 1851, and spent almost all of the Third Kaffir War ‘in the field’. He was discharged in 1862 after 13 years’ service. Sold with typed transcript of the recipient’s relevant entries on the various muster lists.
South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (J. N. J. O’Malley. Fleet Surgn. R.N. H.M.S. “Boadicea.”) extremely fine £500-£700 --- James Nicholas Joseph O’Malley was born on 29 September 1832, and joined the Royal Navy as an Assistant Surgeon on 23 April 1856. He became a Surgeon on 18 November 1865, and Fleet Surgeon on 28 November 1877. He served as Fleet Surgeon aboard H.M.S. Boadicea at the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa from 24 April 1878 until 2 June 1882 when paid off. He retired on 29 September 1887, and died on 30 June 1908. Sold with copied record of service.
Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 2 clasps, Basutoland, Bechuanaland (Pte. S. W. Partridge. Colesberg. Vol.) nearly very fine and scarce £400-£500 --- Only 77 medals issued with these two clasps, Partridge being the only such recipient amongst the nine medals issued to this unit which is also listed as Colesberg Burghers.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (T. Blount. C.G.R.) good very fine £60-£80 --- Confirmed on roll of Cape Government Railways as a Fireman ‘working trains etc., within the theatre of war and services which assisted in the success of operations.’ He resigned his position on 12 February 1902.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 (2), 1 clasp, Cape Colony (5836 Pte. G. Howard. The Queens.) officially re-impressed naming; 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (5714 Pte. W. Foster. N. Stafford: Regt.) suspension partially broken on latter, with traces of brooch mounting to reverse; edge bruising and contact marks, the first good very fine, the second nearly very fine (2) £100-£140
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 (2), 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Agent or Guide R. H. Pringle. F.I.D.) reconstituted from disc with replacement suspension, severe edge bruising and worn overall; 1 clasp, Orange Free State (Guide F. H. Becker. Intelligence Dept:) remains of brooch fitting to reverse of clasp carriage, clasp face with slight damage to first and last letters, otherwise very fine (2) £100-£140
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (1651 Pte. G. Adams. Rly: Pnr: Regt.) abrasion to Queen Victoria’s Garter Star on obverse, otherwise very fine £80-£100 --- G. Adams served with both the 3rd Railway Pioneer Regiment and the Rand Rifles during the Boer War
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