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Lot 409
The Royal Victorian Order, G.C.V.O., Knight Grand Cross set of insignia comprising sash badge, silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star in silver-gilt and enamels, fitted with gold pin for wearing, both pieces officially numbered ‘622’, with evening dress sash and fitted velvet pad from case, nearly extremely fine £1000-1200
Lot 410
The Royal Victorian Order, K.C.V.O., Knight Commander’s set of insignia comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star in silver-gilt and enamels, fitted with gold pin for wearing, both pieces officially numbered ‘1289’, complete with full neck cravat and miniature evening dress cravat, in its Collingwood of Conduit St., Ltd. case of issue, extremely fine £600-700
Lot 549
Borough of Southwark, Cross for Air Raid Service during the Great War, obverse: shield of Southwark, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented to H. M. Reece, July 23rd 1919, 1914-1919’, 37 x 35mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1918; Bomber Command Medal; War Medal 1939-45; Victoria Cross, uniface copy, with broken eyelet and lacking suspension; miniature dress medals (6) - 1914-15 Star trio, mounted as worn; Bomber Command Medal; General Service Cross; Voluntary Service Medal, mounted as worn, about very fine and better (10) £60-80
Lot 572
Order of the Bath, full dress sash attributed to Admiral Lord Lyons, G.C.B. (Civil and Military), G.C.M.G., K.C.H. (1790-1858), circa 1850, together with a partial sash bow arrangement to the same; and another full dress sash with gold swivel-rings for attaching badge attributed to Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty (1767-1837), circa 1830, the second a little fragile but commensurate with age, otherwise good condition £50-100
Lot 618
Mayo, J.H., Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy, 2 vols, London, 1897, lxxxviii + 618pp, 55 plates, other illustrations in text, original red cloth with bevelled edges, t.e.g., some wear at extremities and backs faded, internally very fine and clean; Irwin, D.H., War Medals and Decorations issued to the British Military and Naval Forces and Allies from 1588 to 1910, 4th edn., London, 1910, [x] + 536pp, 18 plates, original decorated cloth, some minor wear and a few pages slightly spotted, otherwise a fine copy of the best edition; Luard, J., A History of the Dress of the British Soldier, London [1852], the 1971 reprint, xxiv + 171pp, 50 engraved plates, copy no.385; Johnson, S.C., The Medal Collector, London, 1921, 320pp, 24 plates; Gillingham, H.E., Spanish Orders of Chivalry and Decorations of Honour, New York, 1926, 165pp. including 39 plates; Gillingham, H.E., South American Decorations and War Medals, N.Y., 1932, 178pp including plates; Gillingham, H.E., Ephemeral Decorations, New York, 1935, 45pp, plates; Joslin, E.C., The Standard Catalogue of British Orders Decorations & Medals, 1st edn, London, 1969, xiv + 114pp, illustrations in text; Purves, A.A., The Medals Decorations & Orders of the Great War 1914-1918, Ldn., 1975, xi + 199pp, illustrations in text, dj; Oosthuizen, P., Boer War Memorabilia, The Collectors’ Guide, Edmonton, 1987, xxxii + 239pp, illustrations in text, dj; together with other titles (5), by Thies, Hieronymussen, etc., good and better condition (16) £60-80
Lot 636
A mounted group of nine miniature dress medals attributed to Major-General Eric Paytherus Nares, C.B., C.B.E., M.C., Cheshire Regiment Military Cross, G.VI.R. (sic), 1st issue; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine, M.I.D. oak leaf; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1953, mounted as worn, in glass-fronted case, good very fine (9) £40-60 Eric Paytherus Nares was born on 9 July 1892, the third son of Ramsey Nares of Kingston-on-Thames. Educated at Marlborough College and Sandhurst, he entered the Cheshire Regiment in 1911. He served throughout the Great War in France and Flanders, was twice wounded and three times mentioned in despatches and awarded the M.C. and Bar. Awarded the brevet of Major in 1919, he gained the rank in 1927; becoming a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1936; Colonel in 1937 and Major-General in 1943. He served in Palestine 1936-39 where he was A.A. & Q.M.G. of the 8th Division and twice mentioned in despatches. During the Second World War he served in North Africa, was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the C.B.E. in 1941. Post-war he was awarded the Legion of Merit, Commander Class in 1946 and the C.B. in 1947. Major-General Nares died on 18 June 1947.
Lot 761
Three: Serjeant C. G. Minchington, Royal Irish Rifles, who died in France, 24 April 1917 1914-15 Star (7-4364 L. Cpl., R. Ir. Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (4364 Sjt., R. Ir. Rif.) mounted as worn, medals good very fine (lot) £100-120 Clarence Geroge Minchington was born in and enlisted at Jersey, Channel Islands. Serving with the Royal Irish Rifles, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 21 December 1915. Serving with the 7th Battalion he died on 24 April 1917, aged 23 years. He was buried in the Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, Nord, France. Together with unofficial medals (3); dress miniature Defence and War Medals, in case; copy and damaged Iron Cross 1914, and badges (4)
Lot 776
Pair: Private W. Walsh, Liverpool Regiment British War and Victory Medals (21803 Pte., L’pool. R.); together with four miniature dress medals: Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, V.R.I cypher, lacking top bar; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service, G.V.R.; Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), V.R., edge bruising, contact marks; India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., 1st issue, no clasp, the miniatures fine and better; the pair, good very fine (6) £40-60
Lot 805
A rare Second World War K.C.B., Great War Greek mainland operations D.S.C. group of seventeen awarded to Admiral Sir Arthur Palliser, Royal Navy: having been decorated for his command of a seamen company in a costly action in Athens in December 1916, he rose to senior command in the 1939-45 War - including service as a Chief of Staff to the C.-in-C. Far East at the time of the loss of the Prince of Wales and Repulse The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, and breast star, silver, with gold, gilt and enamel centre, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1918; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. A. F. E. Palliser, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Lieut. A. F. E. Palliser, R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. oakleaf; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; The Netherlands, Order of Orange Nassau, Grand Officer’s set of insignia, with swords, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, and breast star, silver, with gilt and enamel centre, in its case of issue; France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1915, with bronze palm, together with a set of related miniature dress medals, and three sets of mounted tunic ribands, the centre-piece of the Orange Nassau breast star chipped, otherwise generally good very fine or better (Lot) £3500-4000 K.C.B. London Gazette 1 January 1945. D.S.C. London Gazette 23 March 1917. The original recommendation states: ‘Lieutenant A. F. E. Palliser was in charge of a detachment of Exmouth’s seamen at the Zappeion.’ Arthur Frances Eric Palliser was born in Richmond, London in July 1890 and was educated at Bradfield College, and the R.N.Cs Dartmouth and Greenwich. Appointed Sub. Lieutenant in March 1910, and advanced to Lieutenant one year later, he was commanding the destroyer H.M.S. Albacore on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914. Shortly thereafter, however, he came ashore to an appointment at the gunnery establishment Excellent, but he returned to sea in the flotilla leader Exmouth in February 1915, and witnessed active service in the Dardanelles. So, too, in the landing at Piraeus, Greece on 1 December 1916, when he had charge of the seaman company which came under fire from Greek troops, an incident described in detail in Blumberg’s Britain’s Sea Soldiers. On that day, an Anglo-French force comprising 3,000 seamen and marines landed at Piraeus in the early morning hours, and proceeded inland to occupy a variety of prominent defensive features - Palliser and his men were charged with taking possession of the Zappeion, about one kilometre east of the Acropolis, a task successfully accomplished in spite of intermittent fire throughout the day. Indeed local opposition proved costly, the Allied force suffering casualties of 60 officers and men killed, and 167 wounded, prior to a negotiated withdrawal back to the harbour at the end of the day. Palliser was awarded the D.S.C. and remained actively employed in the Exmouth until returning to the gunnery establishment Excellent in September 1917. His final wartime appointment was in the cruiser Comus, in which capacity he was employed from February 1918 until the end of hostilities. Gaining steady advancement between the Wars - thus to Commander in December 1924 and to Captain in June 1931 - he served as Chief of Staff to the C.-in-C. China 1936-38, and, on the renewal of hostilities in September 1939, was once more serving at the gunnery establishment Excellent. Then in May 1940, he was appointed to the command of the battleship Malaya, in which capacity he witnessed extensive action in the Mediterranean, up until March of the following year, when his command was seriously damaged by a torpedo strike delivered by the U-106 - due to heavy flooding, the battleship took on a list of 7 degrees, but Palliser managed to nurse her into port in Trinidad. In the interim, the Malaya had escorted assorted Malta convoys and carried out bombardments of Italian positions at Bardia in August 1940 and of Genoa harbour in February 1941, on which latter occasion one of her 15-inch armour piercing shells hit the south-east corner of the Genoa Cathedral’s nave - luckily the relatively soft masonry failed to detonate the fuse and the shell remains on view in the nave to this day. With Malaya effectively out of action for repairs, Palliser was advanced to Rear-Admiral and appointed Chief of Staff to the C.-in-C. Far East, in which capacity he remained employed until 1942, a period encompassing the loss of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales. Much has been written about the loss of Force Z, so, too, of Palliser’s role as Chief of Staff to Admiral Sir Tom Phillips, who was flying his flag in the Prince of Wales. To all intents and purposes, it fell to Palliser to “read” the movements being made by his senior at sea, radio contact being prohibited until the enemy had been joined in battle, and to provide his senior with intelligence reports. In the circumstances, therefore, Palliser actually performed his duties adequately, and, in fairness, the fateful decision not to engage the support of the Royal Air Force rested more heavily on the shoulders of Phillips - a conclusion reached by Patrick Mahoney and Martin Middlebrook in their definitive history - Battleship: ‘It is sometimes suggested that Rear-Admiral Palliser, Phillips’s Chief of Staff at Singapore, was the one to blame for the disaster that followed, having failed to read his commander’s mind and to arrange for air patrols to be over Force Z at Kuantan that morning. We cannot agree with this view. Palliser and Phillips had been together for six weeks, and Phillips had had ample opportunity to ensure that Palliser was ‘tuned in’ to his likely movements and needs. No one in Prince of Wales has ever stated that Admiral Phillips showed any sign of disappointment that Palliser failed to provide fighters for him that morning ... ‘ Appointed to the Staff of the C.-in-C. India later that year, Palliser was awarded the Grand Officer’s grade of the Order of Orange Nassau for his services to the Dutch Navy while on detachment to the Staff of Admiral Hart, U.S.N. (London Gazette 19 January 1943); a “mention” for his good work in S.W. Pacific (London Gazette 2 February 1943), and the C.B. for his subsequent work as Flag Liaison Officer in Delhi (London Gazette 2 June 1943). Having then briefly commanded the 1st Cruiser Squadron, Palliser was advanced to Vice-Admiral in February 1944, and served as a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Chief of Supplies and Transport 1944-46, work that led to his appointment to K.C.B., which insignia he received at an investiture at Buckingham Palace on 8 February 1945. Latterly C.-in-C. East Indies Station, Palliser was advanced to Admiral in May 1947 and was placed on the Retired List in the following year. He died in Kensington, London in February 1956. Sold with Twelve Years’ Military Adventure, Volume I (London, 1829), with ink inscription, ‘A. F. E. Palliser, London, 1951’, together with The Order of Merit, by Stanley Martin (London, 2007), with author’s presentation inscription to Bridget Rendel.
Lot 816
A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain M. Murphy, Royal Army Medical Corps Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914 Star (Lieut. M. Murphy, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. M. Murphy), together with a set of related miniature dress medals, mounted as worn, generally very fine and better (8) £700-900 M.C. London Gazette 7 November 1918: ‘During an attack he worked continuously for 36 hours attending the wounded under heavy fire and evacuated a large number of cases. It was due to his splendid energy that the evacuation of the wounded was so successfully carried out.’ Michael Murphy first entered the French theatre of war as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in early November 1914 and, according to his MIC entry, later served in the rank of Major in the Indian Medical Service. Sold with original Army Order 219 dated 28 September 1918, announcing the award of his M.C., together with original Buckingham Palace telegram requesting his attendance at an investiture to be held on 20 February 1920.
Lot 841
A rare Second World War B.E.M. group of eight to Company Sergeant-Major P. T. Benson-Ryal, Worcestershire Regiment and Intelligence Corps, awarded for his services with the British Military Mission to the Egyptian Army British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (6340681 C.S.M. Patrick T. Ryal); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6340681 Cpl. P. Ryal, Worc. R.) surname officially corrected; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, unofficial ‘8’ emblem on ribbon; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (6340681 Sjt. P. T. Benson-Ryal B.E.M., Int. Corps); note variation in surname, together with a mounted set of eight miniature dress medals, very fine and better (lot) £350-450 B.E.M. London Gazette 6 January 1944. Recommendation states: ‘During his three years service with the British Military Mission to the Egyptian Army, C.S.M. Ryal has shown outstanding zeal and devotion to duty. His work throughout has been characterised by great keenness, efficiency, smartness and reliability. Through the exercise of unbounded tact and ability he has rendered exceptional service in fostering good relations between Egyptians, both military and civil, and their British colleagues, and has done much towards instilling confidence in British intentions. In addition to his military duties, he has rendered, under the direction of the Embassy immeasurable service in the political sphere. He has toured the whole area round Asuit constantly and has, to all practical purposes, transformed a potential Anti-British group of towns and villages into a peaceful area in which British ideas are accepted with confidence. He is in my opinion worthy of the award for which he is recommended both for his military and his civil services which are of outstanding merit.’ Company Sergeant Major Patrick Thomas Benson-Ryal, B.E.M., enlisted into the Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment in 1928 at the age of nineteen. He served with the Worcestershire Regiment 1937-48, Cheshire Regiment 1948-49 and the Intelligence Corps 1950-52. On the termination of his colour service engagement in June 1952 his Commanding Officer described his conduct as ‘exemplary’; in his testimonial to Benson-Ryal’s service, he writes ‘Sergeant Benson-Ryal has been in the canal zone of Egypt since June 1950. During the whole of this time he has been employed on civil security duties. He has always been very hard working, intelligent, honest and of sober habits. A very smart clean trustworthy N.C.O. who has a wide knowledge of Egyptian affairs. He also has a working knowledge of Arabic, police and customs, popular with everyone he has come into contact, and has done sterling work in the Middle East.’ Benson Ryal was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Territorial Army in 1961 and in the Essex Cadet Regiment in 1963. Sold with a quantity of related items, including: Prize Medals (3) named; cap badges (6); Regular Army Certificate of Service Booklet; Record of Service Card; Buckingham Palace forwarding slip for the B.E.M. named to ‘Company Sergeant-Major Patrick T. Ryal, B.E.M., The Worcester Regiment’; Commission Document appointing him a 2nd Lieutenant in the T.A., 1961; Essex Army Cadet Force Identity Card; notebooks (2); letters (3); many photographs - mostly annotated.
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