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A GOOD LARGE SINGLE STONE DRESS RING.

Good late C19th / early C20th Continental porcelain group of a couple playing chess, with pierced lacework dress, cuffs and collars, blue crowned 'N' mark, 10.6ins. wide, 6.3ins. high (see illustration).

A part boxed Britains Review Dress Field Gun Team, (horses at halt).

*A BRONZE OF A JAPANESE WARRIOR, 11 3/8in. high atop a bronze plinth and in a semi-crouching pose, depicted in traditional warrior's dress with a Katana on a shoulder sling and Wakizashi through band, the hands would appear to have been holding something now missing.

E M PITT A lady in a white dress seated, signed, oil on board, 19 1/2" x 13 1/4"

DUTCH 19TH CENTURY SCHOOL A half length portrait of a lady wearing a black dress, oil on board, 8 1/4" x 7"

A CHINESE CARVED IVORY FIGURE of Hua Mulan, 19th century, depicting a standing figure dressed in full armour holding a tackle spear in one hand and a feather issuing from a head dress in the other with hardwood stand (slight faults), 13" high (see illustration)

A George V Army Officers' dress sword with shagreen handle, the blade stamped Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall, London in brown leather scabbard

English School, (circa 1830), A portrait of a young lady, half length, seated and wearing a white dress, oil on canvas, 56cm x 46cm.

Italian School, A portrait of a young woman in Renaissance dress, bust length in a landscape, oil on panel incorporated in an ornate giltwood and composition frame, moulded with tied oak leaves and surmounted by a spread eagle, 30.5cm x 24.5cm.

Circle of Francis Alleyne, (late 18th century), A portrait of a lady, half length, in a white dress, pastel, 32cm x 25cm. See Illustration.

After George Romney, A portrait of a lady, bust length, in a white dress, oil on canvas, 56cm x 46cm.

A late 19th century Simon and Halbig bisque headed doll having sleeping eyes, open mouth and composition limbs, dressed in simple yellow trimmed bonnet and full length dress.

ogden [J.] Ogden On Fly Tying, 1887 frontis., 3 plts., errata slip, (some underlining in pencil), orig. cl.; Pryce-Tannatt (T.E.) How to Dress Salmon Flies, 1914, 12 plts. orig. cl. (2)

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel J. Maguire, 60th Rifles, late 55th Regment, a Military Knight of Windsor china 1842 (Ensign, 55th Regiment Foot); Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Mooltan, Goojerat (Lieut., 1st Bn. 60th R. Rifles); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Capt., 60th Rifles), each with silver buckle on ribbon; together with a mounted set of three contemporary miniature dress medals, full-size medals with edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine, rare combination (7) £1800-2200 John Thomas Maguire purchased the rank of Ensign in the 55th Regiment in February 1840. Serving with them in the 1st China War, he was present at the attack and capture of Amoy, the second capture of Chusan, the attack and capture of Chinhae and the operations up the Yangtsekiang. Promoted to Lieutenant in June 1843 and Captain in July 1854, he served with the 60th Rifles throughout the 2nd Sikh War, including the siege and capture of Mooltan, the battle of Goojerat, the pursuit of the Sikh Army until its surrender at Rawal Pindi, the occupation of Attock and Peshawar, and the expulsion of the Afghan Force beyond the Khyber Pass. During the supression of the Indian Mutiny, he served throughout the campaign of Rohilcund in 1858, including actions at Bugawalla and Nugena, the relief of Moradabad, the action in the Dojura, the assault and capture of Bareilly, the bombardment of Shahjehanpore, the capture of the Fort of Bunnal, the pursuit of the enemy across the River Goomtee, and the destruction of the Fort of Mahomdee. he commanded a wing of the 1st Battalion of the 60th Rifles at the attack and destruction of Shahabad, for which he received the brevet of Major on 20 July 1858, and he commanded the Battalion in the action of Bungagong. During the campaign he was three times mentioned in despatches and recommended for an unattached Majority by Lord Clyde for his services in the field. He subsequently obtained the Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel. Appointed a Lieutenant-Colonel in August 1864, he was placed on Half Pay in April 1866. Lieutenant-Colonel Maguire was a Miltary Knight of Windsor, 1895-1904. He died in his 85th year. Sold with copied research and with newspaper cuttings bearing his obituary. The medals, miniatures, badge and framed newspaper cuttings, mounted within an ornate gilt frame. £1800-£2200

The Second World War C.B. and Great War` D.S.O., M.C. group of ten awarded to Major-General T. N. F. Wilson, King’s Royal Rifle Corps the Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar, obv. centre a little depressed; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Major); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf; Coronation 1953, unnamed, all except first mounted court style as worn; together with a mounted group of ten miniature dress medals, generally good very fine (20) £3000-3500 d.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘Captain, 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps’. m.C. London Gazette 13 February 1917. ‘Lieut. (Acting Captain), K.R.R.C. ‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. He reorganised a few men and led them forward with great gallantry, capturing an enemy trench together with 60 prisoners.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 9 July 1919, 20 December 1940. thomas Needham Furnival Wilson was born on 20 March 1896 and educated at West Downs, Winchester; Winchester College and R.M.C. Sandhurst. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 11 November 1914. Wilson served in the France / Flanders theatre of war, February - May 1915 and October 1915 - November 1918 and was wounded. He was promoted Captain in February 1917 and held the rank of Acting Major in September 1917 and Adjutant, M.G.C., April - September 1918. During the period December 1917 - April 1918 he was employed as an Instructor in the 5th Army Infantry School. For his wartime services he was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, awarded the Military Cross and Mentioned in Despatches. Wilson was employed as G.S.O.3 in the War Office, January 1931 - March 1932, Commander of the Company of Gentleman Cadets, R.M.C., March 1932 - January 1935, D.A.A.G. War Office, February 1936 - January 1938, during which time he received the brevet of Major, January 1932, was promoted Major, July 1932, received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel, January 1936 and was promoted to that rank in August 1938. Commanding the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. during 1938-39, he gained the rank of Colonel in January 1939 and as Acting Brigadier, December 1939 - June 1940 he served as a Brigadier Commanding in the British Expeditionary Force and Northern Command, December 1939 - December 1940 for which he was mentioned in Despatches. wilson served on the General Staff Home Forces, December 1940 - July 1941 and then on the General Staff in Washington, July 1941 - March 1943. During this time he held the rank of Temporary Brigadier, June 1940 - March 1944, Acting Major-General, March 1943 - March 1944 and attained the rank of Temporary Major-General in March 1944. For his wartime servives he was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1946. He retired from the Army with the Honorary rank of Major-General on 1 April 1946 and died on 15 May 1961. sold with the recipient’s commission document appointing him 2nd Lieutenant in the K.R.R.C., dated 11 November 1914; M.I.D. document dated 16 March 1919; D.S.O. bestowal document, dated 3 June 1919; a copy of the D.S.O. statutes; C.B. bestowal document and accompanying letter, dated 10 June 1946; together with copied research and photographs. £3000-£3500

A Great War C.M.G. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. J. Long, King’s Royal Rifle Corps the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, rev. centre slightly depressed; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Lushai 1889-92 (2d Lieut., 4th Bn. K. Rl. Rif. Corps); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, Orange Free State, Cape Colony (Captain, K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Capt., K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (Major, K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed, mounted for wear, first three medals with some contact marks, nearly very fine and better (8) £1200-1400 wilfred James ‘Linger’ Long was born in 1871, the son of Rear-Admiral Samuel Long. He was educated at Winchester. Commissioned into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, he served in the Burmese Expedition of 1891-92, including operations in the Chin Hills with the Lushai column (One company of the 4th Battalion K.R.R.C. present). As a Captain he saw fighting in the Second Boer War, being present in the relief of Ladysmith, the actions at Tugela Heights, Pieter’s Hill, Laing’s Nek, Belfast and Lydenberg. For his services he was twice mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901, 29 July 1902) and awarded the Queen’s medal with six clasps and the King’s medal with two. In the Great War, he commanded the 3rd Battalion K.R.R.C. in Salonika, for which, in 1916, he was awarded the C.M.G. In June 1918 he was placed in command of the 1st Battalion in France, and on 23 June he suffered from the effects of a gas attack at Quesnoy Farm. For his services during the war he was three times mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 22 Jue 1915, 1 January 1916, 21 July 1917) and received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was placed on Retired Pay in 1920. Latterly living at Maytree, Josephine Avenue, Lower Kingswood, Surrey; he died on 24 May 1954. in an obituary, a brother officer wrote, ‘‘Linger’ was a sound and practical soldier. He was never afraid of expressing his opinion, however unpopular, preferably to those in authority over him; and he was usually right. He was never very particular about his appearance or dress, which was rarely according to regulations. ....’Linger’ played no games, never shot, rode very seldom, never seemed particularly genial, yet was always extremely popular, especially with us younger officers. ...’ sold with copied research including several extracts written by Long for the K.R.R.C. Chronicle. £1200-£1400

General Service 1962, 2 clasps, Northern Ireland, Dhofar (24105622 Sig. D. A. Ware, R. Signals), in its card box of issue, together with related miniature dress medal and an S.A.S. cap badge, good very fine £400-500 Duncan Alexander Ware was born in May 1952 and enlisted in the Royal Signals at Edinburgh in September 1967. In his subsequent career of 18 years with the Colours he completed no less than four operational tours in Northern Ireland, the first of them in 1973 and the last in 1980, in addition to participating in the Dhofar operations in 1974-75. However, as verified by his Certificate of Service (copy included), he also served in the U.K. on a ‘classified’ basis on at least six occasions between 1977-81, namely during his employment with 264 S.A.S. Signals, so he may well have re-visited Northern Ireland on an operational footing during the periods in question. He was discharged with an ‘Exemplary’ conduct rating in July 1986; sold with a portrait photograph wearing his S.A.S. beret. £400-£500

Six: Staff Sergeant J. P. Jones, Parachute Regiment, late Royal Marines, who won a ‘mention’ with 3 Commando Brigade in Malaya in 1952 naval General Service 1915-62, 2 clasps, Malaya, Near East, M.I.D. oak leaf (RM. 8119 A./Sgt., R.M.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (23542136 Pte., Para.); U.N. Medal, UNFICYP riband; General Service 1962, 1 clasp, South Arabia (23542136 S. Sgt., Para.); Coronation 1953; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., Regular Army (23542136 S. Sgt., Para.), mounted court-style as worn, together with a set of related miniature dress medals, very fine and better and rare (6) £800-1000 John Patrick Jones, who was born in Sutton, Surrey in September 1930, was awarded his mention in despatches ‘for gallant and distinguished service with 3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines in Malaya during the period 1 January to 30 June 1952’ (London Gazette 21 October 1952 refers), most probably as a member of 42 Commando. Having then attended the Coronation Day parade in 1953, he participated in ‘Operation Musketeer’ in the Near East in 1956 and transferred to the Parachute Regiment towards the end of the decade. Thereafter, he witnessed further active service in Cyprus 1958-59 and in South Arabia in the 1960s, in addition to a tour of duty in the former country under the the auspices of the U.N. £800-£1000

A Great War C.B.E. group of eight awarded to the Rev. Canon J. G. W. Tuckey, late Chaplain 1st Class to the Forces and Honorary Chaplain to the King the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (Rev., C. to F.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Rev., C. to F.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Rev., A.C.D.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Rev.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, together with a set of related dress miniature medals, the first with slightly chipped enamel work, the Boer War awards with officially re-impressed naming, the 1914 Star gilded, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise generally very fine (16) £800-1000 C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. mention in despatches London Gazette 16 April 1901 (South Africa); 19 October 1914; 22 June 1915 and 1 January 1916. james Grove White Tuckey was born in June 1864, the second son of Dr. Charles Caulfeild Tuckey, and was educated at King’s School, Canterbury and Trinity College, Oxford, and later studied at Heidelberg. A lecturer at Durham University from 1893 to 1895, he was ordained in the same period and appointed Chaplain of University College and of St. Margaret’s, Durham. in 1895, however, he became a Chaplain to the Forces, serving first at Aldershot and then at York, whence he was embarked for South Africa on the outbreak of hostilities in October 1899. Subsequently one of just five Chaplains present at Elandslaagte, Lombard’s Kop and the defence of Ladysmith, and afterwards in the actions at Laing’s Nek, Belfast and Lydenburg, he was advanced to Chaplain 3rd Class and mentioned in despatches. Then from 1902-04 he did duty at Middleberg in the Transvaal, before coming home to an appointment at Caterham. Senior Chaplain at Woolwich Garrison by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he quickly went out to France as Senior Chaplain, 4th Division, shortly thereafter transferring to III Corps and thence to the 2nd Army in 1915. Appointed Assistant Chaplain-General, Rouen Area, in 1916, later in the year he returned home to Southern Command, in which capacity he was still employed at the War’s end. He was thrice mentioned in despatches, awarded the C.B.E. and appointed Honorary Chaplain to the King. having then been placed on the Retired List as a Chaplain 1st Class in 1923, Tuckey briefly served as Honorary Chaplain to the Bishop of Salisbury before being appointed Church of England Representative on the Interdenomination Advisory Committee at the War Office in 1935. He had, meanwhile, also been appointed Canon Residentiary of Ripon, in which capacity he remained employed until 1945. He died in October 1947, leaving a daughter, his wife having pre-deceased him and his only son John having been killed in action on the Somme as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 13th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment in August 1916. £800-£1000

Five: Serjeant E. W. C. Stanton, 1st Rhodesian Regiment, late Cape Mounted Rifles queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3638 Pte., Cape M.R.); 1914-15 Star (Sjt., 1st Rhodn. Rgt.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Sjt., 1st Rhod. Rgt.), mounted for wear; Defence; together with a mounted set of four miniature dress medals - as first four above but ‘Victory’ unilingual; together with six associated badges, very fine and better (15) £140-180 With copied extract from rolls confirming Q.S.A. clasps. Medals and badges mounted on a board. £140-£180

Nine: Private J. Newton, Grenadier Guards and Royal Household 1914 Star, with copy slip-on clasp (11297 Pte., 1/G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (11297 Pte., G. Gds.); Defence; Royal Victorian Medal, G.VI.R., silver; Coronation 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, G.V.R., 1907-1927, 2 clasps, Thirty Years, Forty Years (John Robert Newton), mounted court style as worn, fine and better (lot) £800-1000 John Robert Newton was born in Walpole St. Peters, near Wisbeach, Norfolk. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for service in the Grenadier Guards in January 1904, aged 19 years, having previously served in the Royal Field Artillery. After service in the U.K. he was transferred to the Army Reserve in January 1907 and took employment with the Royal Household. With the onset of the Great War he was mobilized at London on 5 August 1914 and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 11 November 1914. He served in France until 6 October 1915 and suffered a gunshot wound to the left arm. Returning home, he was discharged on 22 February 1917 as a result of his injury and returned to his service in the Royal Household. As a Gentleman Porter at Windsor Castle he was awarded the R.V.M. in Silver (London Gazette 1 January 1943). sold with recipient’s wartime identity disk and three buttons. Also with a Defence Medal in card forwarding box addressed to ‘Mrs M. Newton, Cambridge Gate, Windsor Castle, Berks.’; together with two copied photographs of the recipient in court dress wearing medals. With copied service papers and m.i.c. which confirm the award of the 1914 Star clasp and Silver War Badge. £800-£1000

Three: Lieutenant C. H. C. Burrows, Royal Engineers british War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Lieut.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (Lieut.) nearly extremely fine (3) £160-200 M.I.D. London Gazette 21 May 1920. ‘... for valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Kurdistan and Persia. Dated 17th January , 1920’. ‘Royal Engineers, attd. S.& M., I.A.’ Charles Henry Claud Burrows was the son of Colonel E. A. Burrows, R.A., C.M.G. Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy. Appointed a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, he served with the B.E.F., 1916-18, and with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, 1918; retiring in 1920 and living at The Manor House, Long Credon, Thame. sold with some copied research. for his father’s miniature dress medals, see Lot 703. £160-£200

Eight: Master Aircrewman E. F. Hughes, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine 1945-48, Malaya (W.O. (1320703), R.A.F.); Korea 1950-53 (1320703 F./Sgt., R.A.F.); U.N. Korea; R.A.F. L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (M. Sig. (1320703), R.A.F.), mounted as worn, together with a set of related miniature dress medals and his wife’s 1939-45 Defence & War Medals, in their card forwarding box, generally good very fine and rare (18) £400-500 Ernest Frank Hughes was born in Croydon in January 1923 and enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in June 1941. Having then witnessed active service in Burma, and been demobbed in June 1946, he joined the strength of Royal Air Force as an A.C. 2 (Signaller) in March 1947. Advanced to Flight Sergeant in the following year, he served in Palestine and Malaya, in addition to the Korea operations as a member of crew in Sunderlands of the Far East Flying Boat Wing (88, 205 and 209 Squadrons). Appointed a Master Aircrewman in January 1957, and awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in October 1959, hughes was finally discharged in January 1969; sold with a copy of his service record - which confirms all of the above listed Medals and clasps, including a late claim for his G.S.M. for ‘Palestine 1945-48’ & ‘Malaya’ in January 1960, together with a crew photograph and a Korean War veteran newsletter, with front page feature on the Far East Flying Boat Wing. The vendor states that Master Crewman E. F. Hughes was in the air when the first atom bomb went off on Christmas Island. mrs. Ethel Francis Hughes (nee Dixon), who married in June 1946, served in the W.A.A.F. in the 1939-45 War, but did not claim her Defence & War Medals until many years later. £400-£500

Six: Captain B. C. Anderson, Royal Engineers, late Indian Army 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (Capt., R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (Capt., I.A.), mounted as worn; together with a mounted set of six miniature dress medals, some contact marks, very fine and better (lot) £180-220 Sold with a whistle, a pair of epaulettes; a pair of identity disks, ‘B. C. Anderson, C of E, 402753’; two prize medals, ‘4 Trg. Regt. R.E.’, and sundry badges, buttons and pips. £180-£220

Pair: Guardsman W. Heslop, Grenadier Guards defence Medal; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (2628840 Gdsm., Gren. Gds), mounted as worn, heavy contact marks, good fine and better three: attributed to Chaplain to the Forces, The Rev. W. Parsons 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed as issued; together with a mounted set of three miniature dress medals, very fine (8) £30-50 William Heslop was born in 1928 and served in the Home Guard, 13 July 1943-31 December 1944. He enlisted into the Grenadier Guards at Carlisle on 5 June 1946 and was transferred to the Army Reserve on 31 July 1952. He served in Malaya, 9 September 1948-17 August 1949 and also in North Africa during 1951. He was employed as an M.T. Driver/Instructor. Sold with six photographs and copied Certificate of Service and Certificate of Transfer to the Army Reserve. the medals attributed to The Rev. Wilfred Herbert Parsons (1909-95), with newspaper cutting providing biographical details - was made a prisoner-of-war at Dunkirk. Sold with a cap badge, two collar badges and riband bar. An archive of material relating to his time as a prisoner of war is held at the Imperial War Museum. £30-£50

Three: Sergeant D. P. Smith, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers rhodesia 1980 (24395317 Cpl., REME); General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24395317 Sgt., REME), mounted as worn; Zimbabwe Independence Medal 1980 (13482), bronze, nearly extremely fine (4) £400-500 Sold with Rhodesia 1980 miniature dress medal, British Army Identity Card bearing the recipient’s photograph, and copied army statement of service taken from Army Form B108Y, ‘Sgt. Smith has been employed for the last 13 years on tasks associated with the maintenance of Army aircraft. He has carried out scheduled and unscheduled maintenance in a number of world wide locations, on both fixed wing and helicopters. ... During the latter part of his career he has confidently supervised a small team of both aircraft and avionic tradesman’. £400-£500

Three: Lance-Corporal C. P. Clarke, Royal Army Dental Corps gulf 1990-91, 1 clasp, 16 Jan to 28 Feb 1991 (24763997 L. Cpl. RADC), mounted as worn; together with a miniature dress medal; Saudi Arabia, Liberation of Kuwait 1991; Kuwait, Liberation of Kuwait 1991, 4th Grade, nearly extremely fine, scarce unit (4) £200-240 £200-£240

Family group: a Civil O.B.E. and Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Private J. Parrish, Scottish Rifles the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1932, in Garrard, London case of issue; Military Medal, G.V.R. (241082 Pte., 5/6 Sco. Rif.) edge bruise; British War and Victory Medals (241882 Pte., Sco. Rif.); Silver War Badge (290622); together with a mounted pair of British War and Victory miniature dress medals, these in a Spink, London leather case six: Driver W. H. Parrish, Royal Artillery british War and Victory Medals (806096 Dvr., R.A.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine except where stated (13) £400-460 O.B.E. London Gazette, not confirmed. m.M. London Gazette 29 August 1918. private J. Parrish, Scottish Rifles, came from Hanley. Silver War Badge to Parrish not confirmed. group to W. H. Parrish sold with an unnamed ‘Air Council’ medal forwarding slip for the four Second World War Medals. £400-£460

‘It was my great good fortune to be appointed General Staff Officer to the Arab Forces in the early part of 1918. From then throughout the final phase of the Arab revolt on till Damascus, I worked, travelled, and fought alongside Lawrence. Night after night we lay wrapped in our blankets under the cold stars of the desert. At these times one learns much of a man. Lawrence took the limelight from those of us professional soldiers who were fortunate enough to serve with him, but never once have I heard even a whisper of jealousy. We sensed that we were serving with a man immeasurably our superior ... In my considered opinion, Lawrence was the greatest genius whom England has produced in the last two centuries, and I do not believe that there is anyone who had known him who will not agree with me. If ever a genius, a scholar, an artist and an imp of Shaitan were rolled into one personality, it was Lawrence.’ Colonel W. F. Stirling, D.S.O., M.C., from his autobiography, Safety Last. the important Boer War and Great War Palestine operations D.S.O. and Bar, M.C. group of fourteen awarded to Colonel W. F. Stirling, Chief of Staff to Lawrence of Arabia and Advisor to Emir Feisal in Damascus in 1918, late Royal Dublin Fusiliers and Royal Flying Corps distinguished Service Order, E.VII.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with Second Award Bar; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (Lieut., R. Dub. Fus.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., R. Dub. Fus.); 1914-15 Star (Capt., R. Dub. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge, silver and enamel; Italy, Order of the Crown, 5th Class breast badge, gold and enamel; Syria, Order of Merit, breast badge, gilt metal and enamel; Hedjaz, Order of El Nahda, a rare first type 2nd Class set, comprising neck badge and breast badge, in silver, gold and enamels, complete with original plaited neck cord; Albania, Order of Scanderbeg, a scarce first type Grand Cross set of insignia by Cravanzola, Roma, comprising sash badge, silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star, silver, gilt and enamels, complete with full dress sash, minor official correction to surname on the Boer War awards, reverse centre lacking on the Italian piece, enamel work chipped in places but otherwise generally very fine or better (12) £25000-30000 d.S.O. London Gazette 28 January 1902: ‘For skill and gallantry in action at Kaffirspruit, 19 December 1901.’ Bar to D.S.O. London Gazette 8 March 1919: ‘For gallant service rendered rendered during the operations resulting in the occupation of Damascus by Arab Forces. By his example and personal courage whilst leading the Arabs he, in conjunction with another officer, was mainly instrumental in securing the successful occupation of the town and the establishment, without grave disorder, of the Arab Military Authorities therein.’ The other officer referred to in the above citation is almost certainly Lawrence. m.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918. walter Francis Stirling was born on 31 January 1880, the son of Captain Francis Stirling, R.N., who was last heard of having left Bermuda on that same day in command of the training frigate Atalanta, and was presumed lost at sea with all hands shortly afterwards - one of the notorious ‘Bermuda Triangle’ mysteries. Young Walter spent much of his early life at Hampton Court Palace where Queen Victoria had set aside a wing for widows of Naval officers who died in the course of duty, was educated at Sandhurst and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in 1889. actively engaged in South Africa with the 4th Division Mounted Infantry in Dundonald’s Brigade, Natal Field Force, and afterwards as Adjutant, 14th Mounted Infantry, he took part in operations which included the Relief of Ladysmith and the actions at Laing’s Nek, Belfast and Kafferspruit. sterling’s service with the Mounted Infantry during the latter part of the War mostly involved long drives against the blockhouses, operations which, he later noted in his autobiography, Safety Last, ‘entailed dividing the countryside into huge triangles, marked out at every six or eight hundred yards with armoured blockhouses interconnected with double barbed-wire fences. It was a laborious process but profitable, for once a Boer Commando got into one of the triangles, our mounted troops could then line up and sweep the whole country, driving the enemy up against one of the blockhouse lines where they either had to surrender or else fight their way out ... on my return from one of these drives I received two telegrams. One was from Lord Kitchener and said: ‘Congratulate you on immediate award in the field of the D.S.O. for skill and gallantry in action at the affair of Kaffirspruit.’ ‘ After further service with the Dublin Fusiliers at Malta and in Egypt, Stirling transferred to the Egyptian Army in 1906, and served with the 11th Sudanese Regiment engaged in patrols throughout the Sudan 1907-12. Promoted to Captain in 1908, he retired in 1912 and lived in Canada for a time, before returning to Egypt to run the Sporting Club in Alexandria. after the outbreak of hostilties in 1914, he served temporarily with the Gordon Highlanders in the Censorship Office, Egypt, and later in 1914 transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and trained as an Observer at Ismalia, where he was then detailed to patrol and reconnoitre the Sinai Desert. On one patrol in search of Turkish troop movements Stirling and his pilot, Grall - ‘an extraordinarily nice Breton naval quartermaster’ - crash landed in the desert. The latter broke his collarbone and three ribs in the process, but the pair evaded capture by Turks and Bedouin to arrive safely back in Akaba. Grall was awarded the D.C.M. for this feat. upon hearing of the disaster that had befallen his regiment aboard the River Clyde in the landings at Gallipoli, however, Stirling at once requested permission to rejoin his regiment in the peninsula, where only one officer remained unwounded. Thus he served as second in command of the 1st Battalion, Dublin Fusiliers, for three months until he ‘got buried by a shell which burst on the parapet of the trench’ above his head and had to be evacuated. the Palestine Campaign 1915-18 upon his return to Egypt, late in 1915, he was posted as G.2 Intelligence to General Sir Archibald Murray’s G.H.Q. in Ismailia. Here he very soon met T. E. Lawrence, then a young subaltern who had arrived out from England in December 1914 as G.3 Intelligence. Lawrence was then ordered to Basra with additional instructions to make a report on anything he saw there which could be of interest to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. ‘The document that he produced for us on his return was an amazing document, considering its author was only a 2nd Lieutenant. It was a violent criticism of the mental capacity of the draughtsmen and map-makers, of the quality of the stone used in their lithography, of the disposal of the cranes on the quayside, of the system of mooring the barges and of the shunting operations on the railway, of the medical arrangements, particularly of the provision for the wounded, and even of the tactical dispositions of the commanders in the field and of the general strategical conception of the campaign. We dared not show it to the C.-in-C., but had to water it down till it was considered fit for the great man’s perusal. I have regretted ever since that I never kept a copy of the original; it was Lawrence at his best’ (Stirling’s autobiography refers). stirling was active throughout the Palestine campaign, taking part in the fall of Gaza, the operations in and around Jerusalem, and the night attack across the river Auja. Shortly afterwards he was posted

An extremely rare Second World War D.S.O. and Bar, inter-war O.B.E. group of ten awarded to Captain G. F. Stevens-Guille, Royal Navy, who won his first D.S.O. for services as Senior Officer of an Escort Group in 1939, and a Bar for his command of the destroyer Codrington at Dunkirk, thereby becoming the Navy’s first ‘Double D.S.O.’ of the War - among those he embarked in the course of operation ‘Dynamo’ was a certain Major-General B. L. Montgomery distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., 1st issue, with Second Award Bar, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse of the lower suspension bar officially dated ‘1939’ and the reverse of the Bar ‘1940’; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1930; 1914-15 Star (Mid. G. F. Stevens-Guille, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (S. Lt. G. F. Stevens-Guille, R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, together with a set of related Great War period dress miniatures (4), generally good very fine or better (14) £6000-8000 d.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1940: ‘For faithful devotion to the hazardous duty of escorting and protecting other ships from the violence of the enemy.’ Bar to D.S.O. London Gazette 7 June 1940: ‘For good services in the withdrawal of the Allied Armies from the beaches of Dunkirk.’ The original recommendation states: ‘During the period 28 May-3 June 1940, H.M.S. Codrington made seven trips to Dunkirk, five being to the beaches, and brought home a total of about 6175 troops. Although several times attacked by aircraft and on several occasions under gun fire from shore batteries, Codrington was not hit and suffered no damage.’ O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1931. mention in despatches London Gazette 23 January 1945. ‘For distinguished service in the planning and execution of amphibious operations in the Mediterranean.’ george Frederick Stevens-Guille, who was born in December 1898, the son of a clergyman from Guernsey, entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in September 1911 and was appointed a Midshipman in the battleship Glory in October 1914. Removing to the Royal Oak in April 1916, in which battleship he was present at Jutland, and advanced to Sub. Lieutenant in March 1917, he joined the torpedo boat destroyer Ferret in June of the latter year, in which capacity he served until the end of the War. Shortly thereafter he attended a course at Cambridge University, but was admitted to the R.N.H. Plymouth with gunshot wounds to his right arm in January 1919 - luckily not of too serious nature for he was back at sea in the Marksman by August of the same year. advanced to Lieutenant-Commander in February 1927 and to Commander in December 1931, shortly after being awarded his O.B.E., he was serving as Senior Officer of the 1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla at Portland on the renewal of hostilities, in command of the sloop H.M.S. Bittern. quickly ordered to Rosyth, home of the 15th Destroyer Flotilla, he was actively engaged in a spate of coastal convoys between September and November 1939, gallant and demanding work that won him his first D.S.O. Thus convoys F.S. 5 and F.N. 6 in September, when Bittern stopped to pick-up survivors from the mined City of Paris and delivered a depth-charge attack on the 17th; convoy F.S. 20 in mid-October, when Bittern engaged enemy aircraft and delivered further depth-charge attacks; convoys F.S. 24 and F.N. 25 in late October, with further action being taken by Bittern against enemy bombers; convoys F.S. 29 and F.N. 30, and F.N. 32 and F.N. 33, in early November, the latter witnessing at least one engagement with a prowling Dornier; convoys F.S. 37 and F.N. 38 in mid-November, and convoys F.S. 40 and F.N. 41 at the end of that month, the latter witnessing the mining of the S.S. Hookwood on the 23rd, and Bittern once more stopping to pick up survivors. stevens-Guille was advanced to Captain in December 1939 and received his D.S.O. at an investiture held on 5 March 1940 - one of the very first such decorations of the entire War, just a dozen or so other R.N. recipients having been gazetted beforehand in December 1939. A brief period of command ensued in the destroyer Duncan, but in mid-May 1940 he removed to the flotilla leader Codrington, in which ship he would quickly win a Bar to his D.S.O., the relevant operations commencing on the 28th, when he oversaw the rescue of 32 survivors from the torpedoed Aboukir in the North Sea, following which Codrington proceeded to Dunkirk’s East Mole. Thereafter, over the coming week, she carried out a punishing agenda of return trips to Dover, eventually bringing back over 6,000 troops, among them Major-General B. L. Montgomery: ‘Saturday 1 June: Secured alongside eastern pier, Dunkirk, at 0525 hours. Embarked about 500 troops, including Major-General B. L. Montgomery, temporarily commanding a corps. The latter informed me that embarkation at Braye had been very difficult due to the pier being unsuitable. While in Dunkirk harbour low cloud persisted and several low bombing attacks took place ... one Heinkel was brought down apparently by the fire of Codrington and another destroyer’ (Stevens-Guille’s official operation ‘Dynamo’ report referes). he was awarded a Bar to his D.S.O., thereby becoming the Navy’s first ‘Double D.S.O.’ of the War. codrington having then been bombed and sunk off Dover in the following month, he came ashore to take up an appointment in Victory, with effect from August 1940, about the time he attended his second Buckingham Palace investiture. returning to sea with command of the cruiser Cardiff in February 1942, he removed to the Durban that September and thence to the Algiers base Hannibal in December 1943. Then in the following year he joined the staff of Byrsa, the R.N. base at Bougie, North Africa, which establishment removed to Naples at the end of 1943 - an appointment that would have witnessed him planning amphibious operations in the Mediterranean, not least for the Sicily and South of France landings, for which he won his ‘mention’. from June 1946, Stevens-Guille commanded the training establishment Raleigh, and he was placed on the Retired List in January 1949, having latterly been appointed an A.D.C. to H.M. the King - original letter of notification, dated in August 1948, refers. sold with a small quantity of other original documentation, including the recipient’s original M.I.D. certificate, in the name of ‘Captain George Frederick Stevens-Guille, D.S.O., O.B.E., R.N., H.M.S. Byrsa’ and dated 23 January 1945, together with his 1939-45 War campaign award forwarding slip and a quantity of his calling cards; and one or two items of uniform, including a fine pair of Captain, R.N’s full-dress epaulettes, by Gieves. £6000-£8000

A rare Great War ‘Capture of Jerusalem’ M.C. group of six awarded to Major B. C. D. Nash-Wortham, 9th Lancers, late Yorkshire Regiment military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut., Yorks. Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lieut., Yorks. Regt.), these two late issues; 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt., 9-Lrs.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major), mounted court style as worn; together with a similarly mounted set of six miniature dress medals, good very fine (10) £1800-2200 M.C. London Gazette 11 April 1918. ‘... for distinguished services in the Field in connection with Military Operations, culminating in the capture of Jerusalem.’ ‘Capt. (T./Maj.) Lrs.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 16 January 1918 (Allenby) ‘Capt. (temp. Maj., Yeo.)’. brereton Charles Dalton Nash-Wortham was educated at Eastbourne College. Commissioned into the Yorkshire Regiment, he served with the 1st Battalion in the Boer War, being employed as a Railway Staff Officer, graded as a Staff Lieutenant, on the Lines of Communication. As such he served in operations in Cape Colony, March-August 1900, in the Orange River Colony, September-November 1900, and latterly as a Station Staff Officer, in Transvaal, November 1900-March 1902. For his services he was awarded the Q.S.A. with three clasps and K.S.A. with two - these were later lost, and replacements issued in March 1926. subsequently transferring to the 9th Lancers, Nash-Wortham served in the Great War, entering the France/Flanders theatre of war on 16 August 1914, his regiment forming part of the 2nd Brigade in Allenby’s Cavalry Division. It is probable, therefore, that he participated in the regiment’s celebrated charge on Elouges Ridge, near Quievrain on 24 August 1914, when, under a hail of fire, it charged over 2,000 yards of open ground into six battalions of German infantry who had the support of six batteries. The 9th Lancers were to carry out another spectacular charge, when on 7 September 1914, they charged against German Cavalry at Moncel, this being the last occasion on which British cavalry participated in a ‘lance-to-lance’ action. Ranked as a Temporary Major in the 9th Lancers, Nash-Wortham was later mentioned in despatches and awarded the M.C. for his services in the operations in Palestine, which led to the capture of Jerusalem. sold with some copied research, including gazette details, m.i.c., and roll extracts. Medals and miniatures in a wooden glass-fronted case. £1800-£2200

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain T. H. G. Parker, Royal Engineers military Cross, G.V.R., rev. inscribed, ‘Capt. T. H. G. Parker, R.E.’; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.), mounted as worn; together with mounted set of four miniature dress medals, good very fine and better (8) £700-800 M.C. London Gazette 4 June 1917. ‘2nd Lt. (T./Capt.) Theodore Henry George Parker, R.E., Spec. Res.’ Promoted to Lieutenant on 26 June 1917, he was granted the rank of Temporary Captain on 6 May 1916. £700-£800

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of three awarded to Lieutenant D. Ditchburn, Royal Engineers military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed, in case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); together with a mounted set of three miniature dress medals - the ‘Victory’ with M.I.D. oakleaf, extremely fine (6) £650-700 M.C. London Gazette 16 September 1918. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Throughout the operations this officer showed courage and initiative in rallying his own men and infantry under heavy fire. He took a large share in organising and leading two counter-attacks under machine-gun fire. In spite of eight days’ hard work and fighting, his spirits never flagged, and he encouraged all ranks by his example’. m.I.D. London Gazette 14 December 1917 (Haig). sold with damaged named card box of issue for the Great War medals. £650-£700

A Great War D.C.M., M.M. group of four awarded to Serjeant E. J. West, King’s Royal Rifle Corps distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (R-7339 Cpl., 6/K.R.R.C.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (R-7339 Sjt., D.C.M., 2/K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (R-7339 Sjt., K. R. Rif. C.); together with a set of four miniature dress medals, good very fine (8) £1800-2200 d.C.M. London Gazette 13 February 1917. ‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. He got on to the parapet under heavy fire, and drove back the enemy parties on both sides of the trench. Later, he rallied and led forward a party of men’. m.M. London Gazette 7 October 1918. edward James West was born in 1892. Coming from Staines and a Lino Maker by occupation, he enlisted into the K.R.R.C. on 18 November 1914. Serving with the 6th Battalion K.R.R.C. he was awarded the D.C.M. for conspicuous gallantry on 22 July 1916. Later serving with the 2nd Battalion he was awarded the M.M. for bravery. He was transferred to the Army Reserve on 10 February 1919. After the war he returned to employment with the Staines Lino Company and worked for a total of 48 years with them until his eyesight failed. He came to St. Dunstans in 1954. He died on 28 January 1972 leaving a widow and a married daughter. According to the vendor who purchased these medals directly from the family he was told that the M.M. was awarded for saving men’s lives on the Somme river. sold with copied research; the recipient’s Certificate of Transfer to Reserve; Certificate of Emloyment during the War; handwritten notes re the forwarding of the D.C.M. and M.M. dated 1919; a letter from St. Dunstan’s re. a pension, dated 2 March 1954; St. Dunstan’s Golden Jubilee 1915-65 London Reunion Invitation Card to Mr and Mrs West; together with a Menu, which includes a list of St. Dunstaners (including West) attending; St. Dunstans Review, March 1972 - with obituary; several photographs including two of the recipient in uniform; and one of recipient’s sweetheart whom he later married; also with a K.R.R.C. cap badge and three metal and two cloth badges and a leather wallet. £1800-£2200

A Great War M.M. group of five awarded to Private C. H. Crump, Royal Army Medical Corps military Medal, G.V.R. (11780 Pte., R.A.M.C.); 1914-15 Star (11780 Pte., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (11780 Pte., R.A.M.C.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Charles H. Crump); together with a mounted set of four miniature dress medals (M.M. detached), nearly extremely fine (9) £280-320 M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919. charles Harold Crump was born in 1896. A Plumber by occupation from Walsall, he enlisted at Darlaston on 23 March 1915. He served as a Stretcher Bearer with 19 C.C.S., ? 1915-November 1916 and with 88th Field Ambulance, November 1916-June 1919. Serving in the 38th Field Ambulance he was awarded the M.M. for bravery in the field. He was transferred to the Reserve on 2 August 1919 and was discharged from the Reserve on 22 March 1935. sold with a good collection of original documents, including: recipient’s Discharge Certificate; Character Certificate; Certificate of Employment during the War; letter of congratulations on the award of the M.M. signed by Lieutenant-General Aylmer Hunter-Weston, Commanding VIII Corps; two photographs; and a 38th Field Ambulance Menu, Xmas 1918, signed by many of the members of the unit. £280-£320

A rare Fall of France 1940 D.F.M. group of four awarded to Flight Lieutenant L. S. Pilkington, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who was credited with 5 ‘kills’ as a Hurricane pilot in No. 73 Squadron prior to transferring to Spitfires of No. 111 Squadron and being killed in action on a Channel offensive sweep in September 1941: he was to have been married just six days later distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (741935 Sgt. L. S. Pilkington, R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, together with related dress miniature for the first, generally extremely fine (5) £5000-6000 d.F.M. London Gazette 16 July 1940: ‘For exceptional gallantry and devotion to duty in the air from January 1940, and especially from the 10-15 May 1940, during which period this airman pilot displayed unflagging zeal and courage in the face of superior forces of the enemy. He has shot down five enemy aircraft.’ Lionel Sanderson Pilkington, a native of Hull, entered the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1938, qualified as a Sergeant Pilot and was posted to No. 73 Squadron, a Hurricane unit, and a component of 67 Wing, Advanced Air Striking Force, in early 1940 - records reveal him embroiled in a combat in Flight Lieutenant E. J. ‘Cobber’ Kain’s red section as early as 25 January. another followed on 26 March, when he fired all of his ammunition in a protracted dogfight with Me. 110s and Dorniers, one of the former hitting his propeller with return fire and causing him to drop 10,000 feet with a ‘spluttering engine’; so, too, on 21 April, when he got in a brace of attacks on 109s, one of them rolling over on its back. but it was after the ‘Phoney War’, on the advent of the German invasion of the Low Countries in May 1940, that No. 73 embarked upon a period of constant action, Pilkington noting in his diary as early as the 11th how he had to dive for cover at Reims-Champagne airfield, two bombs having landed yards from his quarters. Indeed his diary is extensively quoted in Twelve Days in May, by Brian Cull and Bruce Lander, with Heinrich Weiss (Grub Street, London, 1995): ‘[May 11] I get a Messerschmitt 110 but one also gets me! A cannon shot in the tailplane passes through the fuselage and out the other side! Bullets in the engine, shot away throttle control; cannot close throttle and bullet hits in cockpit, beside rudder bar. Land on [Rouvres] ‘drome by cutting switches, rudder control wire practically sheared.’ This action took place over Mourmelon, Pilkington flying Hurricane P2569/D - his victim was an aircraft from II/KG53, while ‘Cobber’ Kain also claimed a Bf. 110 on the same occasion. at first light on the 13 May, with the war correspondent Charles Gardner on hand to record events, Pilkington added a shared Do. 17 to his tally, in company with fellow pilots P./Os R. F. ‘Dickie’ Martin and D. S. ‘Don’ Scott, but the enemy aircraft’s rear-gunner was a good shot - ‘We all came back very riddled’. Again in combat that evening, this time against a brace of Heinkels near Vouziers, Pilkington saw one of them downed by Squadron Leader J. W. C. More - the crew managed to bale out but were lined up and shot by French troops on landing, or certainly according to Gardner. the very next day, in an early morning patrol over the Sedan battlefront, Pilkington and Flying Officer ‘Fanny’ Orton both seriously damaged Do. 17’s of 3/KG76, the former noting that large pieces came away from his Dornier’s starboard engine before his windscreen was covered in oil - ‘Also damage port engine and get the gunner ... Shots in my plane and I fly home as I cannot use my gunsight owing to the oil.’ The Dornier made it back to base, but with three of its crew wounded. later on the 14th, as one of six 73-pilots on a similar patrol, he engaged seven Stukas of I/StG76 over Malmy, his particular target diving into the ground and exploding, but then 73’s Hurricanes were jumped by 109s of III/JG53 and Pilkington’s fellow Sergeant Pilots, Basil Pyne and George Dibden, were both shot down and killed: ‘This is a hell of a blow to me. Hell!’ Notwithstanding such losses, 73’s punishing agenda continued apace, Pilkington sharing a claim for a Do. 17 with his C.O. on the following day: ‘Panic take-off. First off, chase some Heinkels but do not catch them. Come back to base and chase five Dorniers. Get starboard engine then jettison bombs. Crossfire gets me in oil and patrol tanks, also glycol. Get back to drome, glycol tank melted and run into engine. Face slightly burnt and eyes sore from glycol. C.O. says a good show.’ And in the air battles over Lille on the 19 May, again witnessed by the war correspondent Charles Gardner, he added another ‘probable’ to his tally - but as a result of damage caused by return fire was compelled to make a force-landing: ‘Think I got a He. 111 but one of the rear-gunners gets my oil tank and I fly back. See three He. 111s doing dive-bombing 200 yards away; also run into 15 Me. 110s. Fly back in cloud and land at French bomber drome. Given a fine lunch. Ken calls in a Maggie for me in the afternoon.’ His He. 111 was in fact most likely a Ju. 88 of KG51. at the end of the month, the first of 73 Squadron’s pilots were recalled to the U.K., but in common with No. 1 Squadron, their gallant part in the defence of France had been recorded for posterity by Noel Monks, another war correspondent who had followed their story from late 1939, and who subsequently published Squadrons Up! with such valuable combat experience under his belt, Pilkington was posted to No. 7 Operational Training Unit (O.T.U.) at Hawarden, Cheshire that July - and survived a prang with a student pilot in a Miles Master on the 17th. Far more unusually, he is credited with bringing down a Ju. 88, even though still based with No. 7 O.T.U., that September - an accompanying Tangmere Military Aviation Museum letter refers. sometime thereafter joining No. 111 Squadron, most probably in early 1941, when it commenced cross-Channel offensive patrols and escorts, he was shot down and killed by Me. 109s in a sortie to Hazebrouck in Spitfire AB-962 on 20 September 1941 - as Flight Lieutenant Keller concluded in his combat report for that date, ‘The Me. 109s on this occasion seemed to me to be making a far more concerted effort than usual and were present in greater numbers than hitherto’. Pilkington, by then a 22-year old Flight Lieutenant, was due to have been married on the 26th. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. sold with a quantity of original documentation, including Buckingham Palace condolence message; four wartime photographs, one a framed portrait, and another of a page in his Flying Log Book, carrying an endorsement from his 73 C.O., ‘Has proved himself a gallant and successful Fighter Pilot’, in addition to details of a claim for an He. 111 above; an R.A.F. permanent pass, for St. Athan, No. 11 Group, in the name of ‘741935 Sgt. L. S. Pilkington’, dated 21 November 1939; together with the remnants of his embroidered cap badge, his uniform ‘Wings’ and, most poignantly, his fiancee’s R.A.F. sweetheart’s brooch, gold and enamel. £5000-£6000

Tibet 1903-04 (2), no clasp, naming erased, nearly very fine; another, a miniature dress medal with clasp, Gyantse, silver, good very fine (2) £50-70 £50-£70

The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel M. W. R. de Courcy, Indian Army, 34th Baron Kingsale and Premier Baron of Ireland distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel, complete with top bar; Tibet 1903-04, no clasp; India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Abor 1911-12, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1921-24; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver; Serbia, Order of the White Eagle, 5th Class badge with swords, silver, gold and enamel, mounted court style as worn, in Spink, London leather case, second fine, others very fine and better (7) £300-350 Michael William Robert de Courcy was born on 26 September 1882, the eldest son of Michael Constantine de Courcy, the 33rd Baron Kingsale (created 1223) and Baron of Ringrone. He was educated at Dulwich College; Kelly College, Tavistock, and Sandhurst. In the latter he passed out first and was awarded the King’s Medal and the Anson Memorial Sword. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Connaught Rangers in October 1902. Transferring to the Indian Army in August 1904 and serving with the 32nd Sikh Pioneers, he was promoted to Lieutenant in January 1905; Captain in October 1911 and Major in October 1917. He served in the latter part of the Tibet Expedition, 1904, then in the Abor Expedition, 1911-12, for which he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 16 July 1912). Serving during the Great War, 1915-18, he was Brigade-Major of the 6th Infantry Brigade in Mesopotamia. For his services he was three times mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 19 October 1916, 14 November 1916 and 15 August 1917) and awarded the D.S.O. (London Gazette 25 August 1917) and the Serbian Order of the White Eagle, 5th Class with swords. Major de Courcy then served in the Marri Operations for which he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 18 May 1920), the Afghan War of 1919 for which he was again mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 3 August 1920), and the Waziristan Campaign of 1921-24. In 1922 he was appointed D.A.Q.M.G. Eastern Command, India. He retired from the Indian Army as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1931 and in the same year succeeded his father as the 34th Baron (by some reckonings 29th Baron) Kingsale, Baron of Ringrone and the Premier Baron of Ireland. Baron Kingsale died on 21 October 1965 and was succeeded by his only surviving grandson, John. Sold with some copied research. £300-£350

The historically important insignia of the Order of Saint Patrick successively worn by Richard, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), Governor-General of India, by the 6th Earl of Mayo (1822-72), Viceroy of India from 1869 until his assassination in February 1872, and finally by the 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902), third Governor-General of Canada and eighth Viceroy of India the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, an important set of insignia, circa 1800-10 comprising an impressively large oval double-sided sash badge in gold and enamels, 80mm x 65mm excluding suspension, some bruising to the edge of the badge and one outer and several inner retaining pins lacking, minor enamel chip to stalk of one central shamrock and likewise to one border shamrock on each side, otherwise very fine and superb condition for age, and breast star in silver with hinged arms and gold and enamel centre, the silver backplate engraved with three successive inscriptions ‘Marquefs Wellesley / ®TAT. 83’, ‘Richard Southwell 6th Earl of Mayo / ®TAT. 50’, and ‘The Marquis of Dufferin & Ava / ®TAT. 76’, fitted with gold pin for wearing, extremely fine, the green enamel shamrock expertly restored, the two pieces contained in a mid to late 19th century fitted case, the lid with later gilt embossed inscription, ‘Order of St Patrick worn by Richard, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), Governor-General of India and afterwards The Earl of Mayo (1822-1872) Viceroy of India’, complete with full dress sash, a most important and historic set of insignia £20000-30000 provenance: Sotheby March 1995, by direct descent. ‘Wellesley was Governor-General of Bengal in 1799 at the time of the subjugation of the rebel state of Mysore under Tippoo Sultan, and the army in gratitude for his leadership, ‘caused a star and badge of the Order of St Patrick to be prepared, in which as many of the jewels as could be found suitable were taken from the Treasury of Tippoo’. He initially refused it, but subsequently accepted it from the hands of the East India Company, and was delighted to have it. ‘It is magnificently beautiful and of enormous value. I should think about 8 or 10,000 pounds sterling; it is the most superb decoration I have ever seen.’ After his resignation from the Order in 1810 to accept the Order of the Garter, he would not have been able to wear the star and badge of the Order of St Patrick again. What happened to the jewelled Patrick star and badge is unknown, but the marquess was in some financial difficulties in the last years of his life, and it may have been sold to pay his creditors, and even broken up, though his silver star and enamelled badge did survive. There appeared in The Times on 31 March 1885, the following article: ‘There have been three Irishmen - namely, Lord Wellesley, Lord Mayo, and Lord Dufferin, who have been Governors-General of India and also Knights of St Patrick. When Lord Mayo went to India the star of the Order worn by Lord Wellesley was lent to him by Mr Alfred Montgomery, and he used it during the period of his viceroyalty. After his death Mr Montgomery presented the star to Lady Mayo and when Lord Dufferin went to India, she lent it to him and he now wears it.’ The badge and star still exist, and were auctioned at Sotheby's in London in 1995.’ (Ref: The Most Illustrious Order - The Order of Saint Patrick and its Knights, Peter Galloway, London, 1999). alfred Montgomery, referred to above, was the son of Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery, a senior civil servant on the Madras establishment. Born in 1814 and educated at Charterhouse, at the age of sixteen Alfred became private secretary to the Marquess of Wellesley, the elder brother of the Duke of Wellington. Wellesley was deeply attached to Alfred's mother, and it was widely rumoured that his choice of private secretary had been influenced by his suspicion that he was in fact the boy's father. Alfred was generally believed to bear a striking similarity in appearance to Wellesley and was perhaps best known during his lifetime as a magnificent wit and entertainer, the ‘last of the Dandies’. he was granted a civil list pension of £300 in 1834, raised to £720 in 1882. He died in 1896 and Wellesley’s St Patrick insignia appears to have been bequeathed to Montgomery who took it upon himself to further the association of the Order with the high office of Governor-General, or Viceroy, of India, by lending it to his brother-in-law, Lord Mayo, upon his appointment as Viceroy in 1869. Married just three weeks after Wellesley’s death, to Fanny Wyndham, daughter of George Wyndham, Baron Leconfield, and granddaughter of George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont; their daughter Sibyl subsequently married the 8th Marquess of Queensberry, whilst Fanny’s younger sister, Blanche, a few years afterwards married Richard Southwell Bourke, later 6th Earl of Mayo (qv). richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, also called (from 1781) 2nd Earl of Mornington, Viscount Wellesley of Dangan Castle, or (from 1797) Baron Wellesley of Wellesley, was born in June 1760 at Dangan, County Meath, Ireland. A successful statesman who, as governor of Madras and governor-general of Bengal (both 1797-1805), greatly enlarged the British Empire in India and who, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland attempted to reconcile Protestants and Catholics in a bitterly divided country. He was a founder Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1783 but resigned in 1810 on appointment as a Knight of the Garter. He did, however, have further important associations with the Order of St Patrick, serving two terms as Grand Master in 1821-28 and 1833-35. a moderately liberal disciple of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, Wellesley sat successively in the Irish House of Commons, the Irish House of Lords (after inheriting his father’s Irish titles in 1781), and the British House of Commons until 1797. From 1793 he was a member of the British Privy Council and a commissioner of the India Board of Control. as governor-general in India, he used military force and diplomacy to strengthen and expand British authority. He annexed much territory from some states and contracted with other states a series of "subsidiary alliances" by which all parties recognized British preponderance. He received a barony in the British peerage in 1797 and a marquessate in the Irish peerage in 1799. on receiving a British government order to restore to France its former possessions in India, he refused to comply; his policy was vindicated when the Treaty of Amiens of 1802 was violated and Great Britain resumed war against Napoleonic France. Wellesley's annexations and the vast military expenditure that he had authorized alarmed the court of directors of the East India Company. In 1805 he was recalled and, soon afterward, was threatened with impeachment, although two years later he refused an offer of the Foreign secretaryship. In 1809 he went to Spain to make diplomatic arrangements for the Peninsular War against France and later that year became foreign secretary in Spencer Perceval's ministry. In that office he antagonized his colleagues, who considered him an indolent megalomaniac and welcomed his resignation in February 1812. as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Wellesley disappointed the anti-Catholic George IV, and he was about to be removed when Wellington was appointed Prime Minister in January 1828. Wellesley then resigned because his brother was opposed to Roman Catholic emancipation, although the duke was constrained to accept that policy as a political necessity in the following year. Wellesley’s second term as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1833-34) ended with the fall of the 2nd Earl Grey's reform government. When the Whig Party returned to power in April 1835, he was not sent back to Ireland, and in his rage he threatened to shoot the Prime Minister, the 2nd Viscount Melbourne. Despite his own great achievem

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, G.C.S.I., Knight Grand Commander’s set of insignia, comprising sash badge, 110mm x 58mm, the central onyx cameo of a youthful Queen Victoria set within an openwork ornamental border, oval border of gold bearing the motto of the Order ‘Heaven’s Light Our Guide’, surmounted by and pendant from a five-pointed star with small suspension loop, the whole badge and suspension being lavishly set with diamonds; and breast star, 90mm, the body worked entirely in gold, with central five-pointed star of silver set with diamonds, and set upon a gold and enamelled ribbon bearing the motto of the Order in silver and also set with diamonds, the reverse with large gold pin for wearing, complete with full dress sash, nearly extremely fine and very rare £25000-30000 established in 1861 the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India originally comprised of just one class of Knight Companions who wore a breast badge. It was enlarged and extended in 1866 to include Knight Grand Commanders (G.C.S.I.) and Knight Commanders (K.C.S.I.). The British Sovereign was, and still is, Sovereign of the Order. All insignia was returnable prior to Indian Independence in 1947 and is consequently rare in any class. the G.C.S.I. insignia awarded to Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Viceroy of India 1910-16, which was sold as part of the Richard Magor Collection, DNW July 2003, realised £36,000. £25000-£30000

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, G.C.I.E., Knight Grand Commander’s set of insignia, comprising sash badge in gold and enamels, and breast star in silver, gold and enamel with gold retaining pin, complete with full dress sash, the set contained in its late Victorian R. & S. Garrard & Co case of issue, enamel chips to one red petal and two green leaves of badge, otherwise nearly extremely fine £3500-4000 sold with manuscript note concerning the return of insignia, initialled by and attributed to Major-General Sir Owen Tudor Burne (1837-1909), G.C.I.E. (1897), K.C.S.I. (1879), Director of the Oriental and Peninsular Steamship Co., late 20th Foot; Military Secretary to Sir Hugh Rose when Commander-in-Chief in India, 1861; Private Secretary to the Earl of Mayo, Viceroy of India, 1868-72; and to the Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India, 1876-78; Member of the Council of India, 1887-97. £3500-£4000

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, G.B.E. (Military) Knight Grand Cross, 1st type set of insignia, comprising sash badge in silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star in silver, silver-gilt and enamel, complete with full dress sash, the set contained in its Garrard & Co. Ltd ‘G.B.E. Mily.’ case of issue, enamel flaked at point of one arm of badge, otherwise extremely fine and very scarce £2000-2500 £2000-£2500

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, G.B.E. (Civil) Knight Grand Cross, 2nd type 1936-52 period set of insignia, comprising sash badge in silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star in silver, silver-gilt and enamel, complete with full dress sash, the set contained in its Garrard & Co. Ltd case of issue, extremely fine £1600-1800 £1600-£1800

The Companion of Honour group of three awarded to Harold Arthur, Viscount Dillon, first Curator of the Tower of London Armouries, Chairman of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery, President of the Royal Archaeological Institute and of the Society of Antiquaries, Trustee of the British Museum and of the Wallace Collection, a leading authority on the history of arms and armour and medieval costume the Order of the Companions of Honour, G.V.R., neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘Harold Arthur Viscount Dillon 1921’, with length of neck ribbon; Jubilee 1897 (Harold Arthur Viscount Dillon PSA, PRIA); Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued, good very fine (3) £2500-3000 Ex Hayward’s Gazette, December 1975. harold Arthur Lee Dillon was born on 24 January 1844, and was educated at a private school at Eltham, Kent, and at Bonn University. He joined the Rifle Brigade in 1862, was promoted to Lieutenant in 1866, and served in India and Canada during the Fenian troubles of 1868-71. He left the regular army in 1874, but was promoted to Captain in the Oxfordshire Militia and eventually retired with the rank of Major in 1891. In the following year he succeeded his father as the 17th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen. on leaving the army Dillon became interested in modern military subjects such as equipment and dress, which eventually led him to the history of arms and armour and medieval costume. Dillon traced hundreds of illuminated manuscripts and illustrated works and made a series of brass rubbings. When he would enter a gallery he would focus only on those paintings with military themes, concentrating on sword hilts, armour and horse trappings, and skillfully copied them. his first works were published shortly after he left the army. These articles related to his home, Ditchley in Oxfordshire and described flint tools excavated from the area and objects from the collections in the house. He published many articles on the subjects of arms and armour and military history which appeared in academic journals such as the Archaeological Journal and Archaeologia as well as journals of popular and military general interest such as Antiquary and Colburne's United Service Magazine. He would also write on the subjects of arms and armour in pictures, on monuments and in Shakespeare, on tournaments, military equipment, soldier's arms, equipment and life. His first major undertaking was a revised edition of F. W. Fairholt's two volume Costume in England, published in 1885. Three years later he published a paper on the sections of the great 1547 Inventory of the possessions of Henry VIII. In his writings Dillon focused on the defensive and offensive characters of armour rather than as a work of art. many of his articles appeared under his own name, but he would sometimes use the pseudonym 'Armadillo.' The animal was so closely linked with Lord Dillon that the designer of a commemorative medal produced for the National Portrait Gallery used an image of an armadillo for the reverse of a medal bearing the portrait of Lord Dillon. although Dillon was associated with the Tower of London Armouries from 1892, serving as the consultant scientific expert, he was not officially appointed curator of the Armoury until 1895. He was tasked with producing an accurate and up to date catalogue of the collection. As curator he was able to reduce historic inaccuracies that had built up over the previous years. In 1827 Samuel Meyrick had brought expert knowledge to the collection, but it had then fallen into the hands of the War Office storekeepers and unfortunately most his work was lost. Labels were misplaced, and suits wrongly mounted and erroneous traditions had been established for public amusement. his research led him through the State Papers, especially those of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, in which he discovered interesting and valuable details about the making and issue of arms and armour. Dillon dismantled nearly every piece of armour in the collection to see how it was worn and the reason for certain constructional details. Most of the pieces were those of Henry VIII. Dillon even tried them on himself to see how the rivets and the joints of the harness worked and discovered that many of the suits had been wrongly assembled This exercise enabled him to rectify countless inaccuracies. He also examined the internal mechanisms of the crossbow, pistol and gunlocks. in 1910 Dillon's Illustrated Guide to the Armouries was published, being a summary catalogue of the arms and armour as he had arranged and exhibited them, and the various manuscript inventories of the collection. Dillon carried out a complete reorganisation of the collection in preparation for the new catalogue, and made a detailed examination of all the major pieces as well as identifying a number of those with important historical associations, and corrected inaccuracies. The catalogue was more in the format of a guided tour rather than a systematic catalogue. dillon considered his task to be one of preserving and studying a closed collection rather than expanding it and spreading knowledge of it outside the Tower. His two significant acquisitions for the collection were a pistol of Prince Charles, purchased in 1898 and a part visor of King Henry VII found in St James' Palace in 1906. One of his most valuable contributions was the Armourer's Album which appeared for sale in Paris and by Dillon's efforts was purchased and preserved in the Victoria & Albert Museum. The album contained a number of watercolour drawings of suits of armour of the Elizabethan period that were made at Greenwich, many of which were in the Tower, together with the names of the owners, which proved invaluable for establishing provenance and for identifying pieces in the Tower, Windsor and other private collections. lord Dillon contemplated retiring in 1909, but finally retired from his post of Curator in 1912, and handed the Armouries over to Charles Foulkes. Dillon left the Armouries on its way to becoming a modern museum. A catalogue had been completed, a programme of inspections of loans had been established, and regular inventory checks were carried out. Armour and weapons were displayed according to the techniques of the day, with labels and a guidebook describing the displays. he received an honourary degree of Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford and the Order of Companion of Honour by the King in 1921. Dillon served as a trustee to the British Museum, secretary to the Royal Commission on Westminster Abbey, President of the Royal Archaeological Institute of the Wallace Collection, Trustee and Chairman of the Board of the National Portrait Gallery, Honourary Member of the Armourers and Brasier's Company of London, Fellow of the British Academy and Antiquary of the Royal Academy. Harold Arthur Lee Dillon died on 18 December 1932. The group is sold with a ‘Souvenir Album of the Tower of London, with Historical and Descriptive Notes by The Viscount Dillon P.S.A.’ £2500-£3000

Family group: the Order of St. John insignia attributed to Mr Waynman Dixon the Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, Chevalier of Honour insignia consisting of a neck badge, 41 x 41mm., unembellished, gold and enamel, arms inscribed, ‘W.D. 24.6.1885’, swivel ring suspension, with ribbon, with gold and enamel stick-pin, in Philips Brothers & Son, London case of issue, enamel damage to both pieces, nearly very fine and rare the Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, Knight of Grace set of insignia, neck badge, 52 x 52mm. and breast star, 52 x 52mm., both embellished, silver and enamel, with neck ribbon, in Philips Bros. & Son, London case of issue, star with bent points and severe enamel damage; neck badge with minor enamel damage; with gold and enamel stick-pin, fine and better the Order of St. John insignia attributed to Mrs Waynman Dixon the Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, Lady of Grace shoulder badge, 42 x 42mm., silver and enamel, with bow ribbon, in case of issue; together with a similar miniature dress badge in case of issue, extremely fine three: Miss Betty Waynman Dixon, Voluntary Aid Detachment british War and Victory Medals (B. W. Dixon, V.A.D.); Defence, unnamed, these extremely fine (lot) £550-650 Mr Waynman Dixon was admitted as a Chevalier of Honour of the Order of St. John on 21 April 1885. He became a Knight of Grace post-1888. Mrs Anne Elfleda Dixon was admitted as a Lady of Grace on 30 April 1915. insignia to Mr Waynman Dixon sold with a letter from the Grand Priory of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, dated 11 December 1906, informing him of his appointment by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, to be a Selected member of the Chapter-General; two papers on the wearing of St. John insignia and two newspaper cuttings. attached to the lid of the insignia to Anne Elfleda, Mrs Dixon, is an old note, ‘Mrs Waynman Dixon, Decoration of The Order of St. John J. as Lady of Grace about 1906’. betty Waynman Dixon, was born in Sheffield c.1880. Believed to be the daughter of the above, she served with the V.A.D. in France, attached to the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R., 8 November 1916-17 May 1918. For her services she was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 24 December 1917). Also with an amband of ‘The St. John Ambulance Association’. £550-£650

Three: Inspector A. McRae, Metropolitan Police jubilee 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C., E Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police (P.S., F. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (Insp.), mounted as worn; together with a mounted set of three miniature dress medals l.C.C. School Attendance Medals (2), G.V.R. (I. McRae), with clasp for ‘1913-14’; another with clasp for ‘1914-15’, both with brooch bars; two other medals, plus a badly rusted Lusitania Medal in card box of issue, good very fine except where stated (11) £100-140 £100-£140

The mounted group of four miniature dress medals attributed to Colonel E. A. Burrows, Royal Artillery order of St. Michael and St. George, gold and enamel, with gold buckle on ribbon; Jubilee 1897, silver; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Tugela Heights, Rel. of Ladysmith; Laing’s Nek, Orange Free State, Belfast, South Africa 1901, mounted as worn, first with slight enamel damage, very fine and better (4) £80-100 Edmund Augustus Burrows was born on 19 March 1855, the son of Canon Burrows of Rochester, Kent. He entered the Army in 1875 and was appointed a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1900. He was awarded the C.M.G. in 1900 and the C.B.E. in 1919. Latterly a J.P. for Buckinghamshire and living at The Manor House, Long Crendon, Thame, he died on 19 May 1927. For his son’s full-size medals, see Lot 1214. £80-£100

A mounted group of five miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel F. S. Williams-Thomas, Worcestershire Yeomanry distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel, complete with top bar, minor enamel damage; 1914-15 Star, with clasp, 5th Aug-22nd Nov. 1914; British War and Victory Medals; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., complete with top bar, mounted as worn, good very fine a mounted group of five miniature dress medals, 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps (loose), Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24; Jubilee 1935, mounted as worn, this group fine and better (10) £80-100 D.S.O. London Gazette 30 January 1920. £80-£100

A mounted group of six miniature dress medals, Order of St. Michael and St. George, silver-gilt and enamel; Military Cross, G.V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen; 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as worn a mounted group of seven miniature dress medals, Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel, complete with top bar; Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Defence; Jubilee 1935, mounted court style as worn, very fine and better (13) £100-140 £100-£140

Five: Serjeant H. J. Evans, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry india General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (3902 Pte. E. Evans, 2nd Bn. Oxf. Lt. Infy.), note initial; 1914 Star (3902 Sjt., 2/Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (3902 Sjt., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (3902 Sjt., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); together with a mounted set of five miniature dress medals, first with edge bruising and some contact marks, nearly very fine and better (10) £240-280 £240-£280

Six: Colour Serjeant S. G. White, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914 Star, with copy slip-on clasp (9905 Pte., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.), late issue; British War and Victory Medals (9905 C. Sjt., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.), these two with contact marks and worn; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (5373240 C. Sjt., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Defence; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (5373240 Sjt., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); together with a mounted set of five miniature dress medals as above but lacking ‘Defence’, minor contact marks, about very fine except where stated (14) £220-260 Sold with Silver Cased Half Hunter Pocket Watch, by Coombes, Rangoon & London, rev. inscribed, ‘52nd Light Infantry Regimental Rifle Meeting 1931, Winner Regimental Championship, Sergt. S. J. White’, glass to front casing cracked (condition of internal workings unknown), with chain, with an Army Rifle Association Medal attached as a fob, this bronze, rev. inscribed, ‘18th Hussars Cup, 1924, Sergt. S. White’; with cap badge. £220-£260

Four: Company Quartermaster Serjeant W. F. Taylor, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry british War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (265029 C. Sjt., Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (337 Sjt., Bucks. Bn. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (265029 C.Q.M. Sjt., 4/Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); together with a mounted set of four miniature dress medals, good very fine and better (8) £160-200 M.S.M. London London 18 January 1919. ‘... in recognition of valuable service rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders’. m.I.D. London Gazette 21 December 1917 (Haig) (France). the recipient came from Stantonbury. £160-£200

A large pair of 19th century Meissen 'gardener' figures After Michael Victor Acier the lady standing with a basket of flowers under her arms, in a hat and flower sprigged dress, beside and urn; the man dressed in flower sprigged coat and waistcoat, standing with a spade beside a tree trunk and leaning on a watering can, both on rococo scroll bases, blur painted crossed sword mark and impressed G106 and G107 (2) 36cm high

A 19th century French gilt brass and marble mantel clock By Mabille, Paris the case in the form of a young girl in a flowing dress holding a serpent and leaning against the dial, the whole on a breakfront gilt brass and white marble plinth, with bun feet, the 41/2" white enamel dial with twin winding apertures marked 'Mabille a Paris', the barrel movement striking on a bell 28cm wide, 34cm high

mackay (J.G.) The Romantic Story of the Highland Garb and the Tartan, 1924 cold. plts., orig. cl.; Dunbar (J.T.) History of Highland Dress, 1979, dw.; Christison (D.) Early Fortifications in Scotland, 1898, 3 fldg. maps, orig. cl.; Fittis (R.S.) Romantic Narratives from Scottish History and Tradition, 1907, dec. cl.; Argyll, Duke of, Scotland As It Was, 1887, dec. cl. gt.; Smith (R.A.) Loch Etive and The Sons of Uisnach, 1885, orig. cl.; with A Quantity of Volumes related (qty.)

A paper knife in the form of a naval officer's dress sword and scabbard, with parcel gilt detail and fouled anchor motif to hilt, 25cm (10in)

CHILDREN'S. "Deans New Dress Book, Rose Merton The Little Orphan." 6 good hand col plates each with complete applied cloth dress, orig illus, cloth backed boards large, 8vo, Dean and Son, c1860's good. (See Illustration).

A Bow porcelain figure depicting “Plenty” - Standing figure of a young woman wearing floral decorated dress holding a cornucopia with a lion at her feet, 7.75ins high (circa 1760 - firing crack across base and chipping to cornucopia and floral encrusted garlands)

A Derby porcelain figure of a seated young woman wearing a floral decorated dress and a hat on her knee, on floral encrusted rococo pattern base, 4.5ins high (unmarked - circa 1765 - right fore finger and petals of flower chipped), and a Derby bisque porcelain figure of a young boy with a floral filled hat on his knee, seated on a basket, 5.5ins high (incised mould No. 36 to base - flowers in his hands and in hat slightly chipped)