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Lot 429
Three: Boy First Class W. V. Taylor, Royal Navy, who was killed when H.M.S. Clan McNaughton was lost at sea with all hands during a severe gale on 3 February 1915 1914-15 Star (J.27306, W. V. Taylor, Boy.1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.27306 W. V. Taylor. Boy 1. R.N.); Memorial Plaque (Walter Victor Taylor) nearly extremely fine (4) £100-£140 --- Walter Victor Taylor was born in Kingston, Surrey, on 25 October 1897 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 23 September 1913. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. Clan McNaughton from 11 December 1914, and was killed when the Clan McNaughton sunk during a severe gale off the north west coast of Ireland with the loss of all hands on 3 February 1915. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
Lot 461
Three: Captain A. J. Sedgley, 6th (City of London) Battalion (Rifles), London Regiment 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut A. J. Sedgley, 6/Lond: R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. J. Sedgley.); together with the recipient’s Masonic Million Memorial Fund Jewel, silver, the reverse inscribed ‘Bro. A. Sedgeley No. 3856.’ good very fine (4) £80-£100 --- Arthur John Sedgley was born in Camberwell, London, in 1881. An accountant by profession, he served in France as Second Lieutenant from 17 March 1915 with the 1/6th Battalion, London Regiment. The Battalion saw its first major action at the Battle of Loos in September 1915, and Sedgley is listed as wounded in the War Office casualty list of 27 September 1915. Raised Lieutenant on 1 June 1916 and Temporary Captain on 20 July 1917, Sedgley was seconded to the Ministry of Munitions in the spring of 1917. He remained engaged in overseeing and co-ordinating the production and distribution of munitions for the war effort until resigning his commission in 1921. Sold with copied research.
Lot 415
Four: Able Seaman J. E. MacLeod, Royal Navy, later Mercantile Marine China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (J. E. Mc.Leod, A.B., H.M.S. Barfleur.); 1914-15 Star (193253, J. E. MacLeod, P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (193253 J. E. Mac Leod. A.B. R.N.) light polishing throughout, nearly very fine and better (4) £300-£400 --- John Evan MacLeod was born in Inverness on 6 November 1879. A telegraph assistant, he joined the Royal Navy on 19 April 1897, and witnessed extensive service aboard a host of ships including H.M.S. Barfleur from 1 October 1898 to 18 September 1900. In consequence, he was present on 9 June 1900 when a detachment from the Barfleur, led by Commander David Beatty, proceeded in an effort to relieve Pekin as part of a 2,000-strong Naval Brigade. The expedition witnessed severe fighting, casualties recorded at 2 officers and 63 men killed, 20 officers and 210 men wounded. Advanced Able Seaman 9 November 1899, Petty Officer Second Class on 1 September 1904, and Petty Officer First Class on 12 June 1908 whilst aboard the pre-dreadnought battleship H.M.S. Triumph, MacLeod’s rise through the ranks hit a temporary snag in April 1911 when he was disrated for breaking out of ship. He remained in service with the Royal Navy during the Great War, the majority of time being spent aboard TB 29, before being shore pensioned on 17 December 1919. In need of further income, MacLeod took employment with the Merchant Navy before finally resolving to keep his feet dry and retiring home to Inverness in the early 1920s. Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient as an Able Seaman in the Merchant Navy.
Lot 6
A fine Second War ‘North Africa 1943’ Immediate D.S.O. group of eight awarded to Brigadier H. Thorne Thorne, Royal Artillery Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., silver-gilt and enamel, reverse officially dated 1943, with integral top riband bar; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Brig. H. Thorne-Thorne. D.S.O. Staff.); Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, minor chips to wreaths of the first, otherwise nearly extremely fine (8) £2,600-£3,000 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 19 August 1943: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East:- Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Houghton Thorne-Thorne, Royal Regiment of Artillery (Woking).’ The original recommendation for an Immediate D.S.O. was submitted by Brigadier H. K. Dimoline, C.R.A. 4th Indian Division: ‘Major (T/Lt-Col) Houghton THORNE-THORNE, 1st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 4 Indian Division. For outstanding ability, courage and devotion to duty during the battle for the GARCI feature on 20-22 April 1943. Lt-Col THORNE-THORNE acted in direct support on 5 Ind Inf Bde and controlled the fire not only of of his own Regt but that of Army Field Regts affiliated to the Bde. He acted throughout the 72 hours operation with coolness and outstanding ability bringing the fire of these Regts to bear time and again, upon concentration and assembly areas with speed and precision. Through his quick action and decision he beat off serious counter attacks with the fire of his guns alone. The marked efficiency of his ceaseless and untiring work was appreciated during the battle by more than one personal message from Bn Comds asking the C.R.A, to convey their thanks to him. Infantry exposed on the bare rocky hills to ceaseless mortar, shell and MMG fire have never been in a more precarious situation. It was in part measure due to Lt-Col THORNE-THORNE that this tired infantry held its ground and never yielded a yard.’ Houghton Thorne-Thorne was born on 12 April 1903, educated at Harrow and was a direct entry to R.M.A., Woolwich from school. Commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 30 January 1924, he retired on 21 May 1956, and died on 14 March 1982. Sold with original documents including warrant for D.S.O., M.I.D. Certificate (23 May 1946), named Buckingham Palace Certificate for Coronation medal, O.T.C. Harrow School Certificate “A”, commission document as Second Lieutenant 30 January 1924, a confidential report from 1933 when stationed in India, and contemporary copy of recommendation for D.S.O.
Lot 449
Three: Private S. Ball, 10th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, on which date his battalion suffered over 750 officers and men killed or wounded, the greatest number of casualties to a single battalion on the first day of the Battle 1914-15 Star (14275 Pte. S. Ball. W. York: R.); British War and Victory Medals (14275 Pte. S. Ball. W. York. R.) nearly extremely fine (3) £400-£500 --- Sydney Ball was born in Leeds and attested there for the West Yorkshire Regiment. He served with the 10th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 March 1915, and was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916. On this date the Battalion was involved in an attack on Fricourt. Two companies moved forward at zero hours on the left of the assault, and cleared the enemy front lines with little loss. The supporting companies, however, met heavy fire, machine-guns having been brought from the dug-outs. The Regimental history records that the latter were almost annihilated, with total casualties of 22 officers and approximately 750 other ranks, the most casualties of any Battalion on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Ball has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France. Sold with copied Medal Index Card and Battalion War Diary extract.
Lot 879
Miscellaneous Cap Badges. A selection of mainly 20th-century Regimental Cap Badges mounted on two boards, the first exclusively Royal Marines; the second mainly Line Regiments, but also including Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force; together with some loose badges, some copies and reproductions, generally good condition, sold as viewed not subject to return (lot) £40-£50
Lot 375
Family Group: Three: Major C. F. Wightman, Hertfordshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (Major C. F. Wightman.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Major C. F. Wightman, Herts. R.) nearly extremely fine, the last rare to unit Pair: Second Lieutenant W. P. Westwood, 6th Battalion attached 1/4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, who was killed in action on 26 September 1917 British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. W. P. Westwood.) nearly extremely fine (5) £600-£800 --- One of only two Territorial Force War Medals recorded as having been issued to the Hertfordshire Regiment. Cecil Frank Wightman served as Signalling Officer in the Hertfordshire Regiment, and later served as a Brigade Major on the Staff of 19th Division Head Quarters, landing in France in June 1916. His home address in 1921 was at The Old Palace, Royston, Herts. In civilian life he was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows Online carries the following entry: ‘Born at Bungay, Suffolk, 7 January 1870, the fifth son of Henry Wightman, draper, and his wife, née Hambling. He was educated at the Grammar Schools at Bungay and Great Yarmouth, before proceeding to St Bartholomew's Hospital. From the Hospital he passed the final examination for FRCS at the age of 23. He filled the offices of house surgeon at the Scarborough Hospital, at the Chichester Infirmary, and at the Bolton Infirmary. In 1896 he entered into general practice in Leicester, but soon moved to Cornwall Gardens, London, where he practised as a consultant. Failing health led him to settle at Royston in 1902, where he entered into partnership with Dr C W Windsor, and retired in 1926 when his eyesight began to fail. He acted for many years as surgeon to the Royston Hospital, and was instrumental in getting it enlarged as the Royston and District Hospital. During the war he served with the Hertfordshire Regiment, and retired with the rank of major. He died unmarried at the Old Palace, Royston on 4 May 1937, and was buried at Therfield, Royston, Herts. He left £100 to St Dunstan's Home for the Blind. Dr Wightman did much for Royston. He was a good churchman, being Vicar's warden 1917-1929, was interested in the Boy Scout movement, and was the mainstay of the Social Club, where he was president for many years, until he resigned the position in 1933.’ Sold with a copy of his publication First Aid in Accidents, published jointly with Sir John Collie, London, 1912 (this in very distressed condition with covers and binding detached, contents good); two period photographs including the recipient, one being a group photo of a prize presentation, and the other as driver of a vintage motor vehicle; with additional copied press cuttings, including a photograph, and obituary. Walter Peter Westwood was the son of Mrs. Clara Westwood, of 43, Queen's Road, Royston, Hertfordshire, with his widowed mother remarrying Cecil Frank Wightman (see above). Westwood served in the ranks of the Suffolk Regiment as Colour Sergeant, but was commissioned prior to overseas service. He landed in France on 4 May 1917, and was killed in action on the 26 September 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
Lot 396
Four: Colour Sergeant W. J. Davis, South Staffordshire Regiment Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Kirbekan (793 Pte. W. H. Davies [sic]. 1/S. Staff: R.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (2509. Cr: Sgt: W. J. Davis. S: Staff: R.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (C. Sjt. W. J. Davis. S. Staff. R.); Khedive's Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, contact marks and pitting to naming of first which has obscured much of the number and Regiment, otherwise good fine and better (4) £400-£500 --- William John Davis was born on the island of Corfu, Greece, in 1862. Following three years' service in the Dorset Militia, he attested for the 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot at Manchester on 14 September 1876 and was appointed Drummer. He served overseas in Malta and Egypt, and was present with the 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, when a British column under General Earle stormed the heights of Kirbekan and routed a strong Mahdist force. Appointed Colour Sergeant on 6 April 1887, Davis re-engaged for the South Staffordshire Regiment at Gibraltar on 18 July 1888 and served as drill instructor for a number of years until his discharge to pension in 1908. Awarded the M.S.M. under Army Order 242 of 1926, he died at Smethwick, Staffordshire, on 4 November 1932. Sold with copied research including two photographs of the recipient.
Lot 158
Pair: Battery Sergeant-Major S. Brown, Royal Horse Artillery Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (330. By. Sgt. Maj. S. Brown. C.A. Bde. R.H.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (B.S. Mjr: S. Brown. R.H.A.) the first nearly very fine, otherwise good very fine (2) £200-£240 --- M.S.M. Army Order 106 of 12 February 1915, with Annuity of £10. He died circa 1918.
Lot 267
A fine Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of seven awarded to Sergeant F. Dunton, Bedfordshire Regiment, late Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (3-8572 Pte. F. Dunton. 2/Bedf: R.); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (5831 Pte. F. Dunton. Derby: Regt.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5831 Pte. F. Dunton. Notts: & Derby: Regt.); 1914-15 Star (3-8572 Sjt. F. Dunton. Bedf: R.); British War and Victory Medals (3-8572 Sjt. F. Dunton. Bedf. R.); Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Frederick Dunton) the silver awards heavily toned, good very fine and better (7) £600-£800 --- M.M. London Gazette 21 January 1919. Frederick Dunton was born in the parish of Shefford, Bedfordshire, in 1878, and initially attested for the Grenadier Guards at Long Eaton on 9 February 1898. Transferred to the 1st Battalion of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment six days later, Dunton was first sent to Malta for a year and thence to South Africa from 21 November 1899 to 7 September 1902. Attached to 21st Brigade, his Battalion soon developed a reputation for good work, notably during the many actions from 3 to 24 May 1900, and later at Doornkop on 29 May 1900, and Diamond Hill on 11/12 June 1900. However, his Army Service Record notes two weeks' incarceration not long thereafter, in consequence of 'setting the veldt on fire'. Discharged in February 1910 upon termination of his first period of engagement, Dunton returned home to Shefford and took employment as a postman. The outbreak of the Great War saw him return to service with the Colours, being posted to France on 12 August 1915 as Sergeant in the 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. The following year this Battalion was heavily engaged during the Battle of the Somme, specifically the storming of the Pommiers Redoubt on 1 July 1916, the Battle of Bazentin, where the Division captured Trones Wood on 14 July 1916, and the Battle of Thiepval in September 1916. The latter engagement included the storming of Thiepval Village and the front face of the Schwaben Redoubt on 28/29 September 1916. Dunton was later commended by Major General R. P. Lee, Commanding 18th Division, for gallant conduct and devotion to duty in the Field on 5/6 August 1918, south of the Bray-Corbie Road. Decorated with the MIlitary Medal, he returned to employment with the post office and was awarded the Imperial Service Medal on 3 March 1939 as a postman based at the Harpenden Sub-Office, St. Albans. He died in St. Albans on 26 November 1946. Sold with the original hand-annotated card of commendation; three parchment certificates of character; and copied research.
Lot 394
Pair: Private M. Kempton, 59th Regiment of Foot Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Kandahar (1239, Pte. M. Kempton, 59th. Foot); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (1239 Private Michl. Kempton 59th. Regt.) third digit of number over-struck on Star; light contact marks and wear to first, good fine and better and extremely rare to unit (2) £500-£700 --- British Battles and Medals states just 13 Afghan Medals with clasp Kandahar; and just 9 Kabul to Kandahar Stars awarded to the 59th Foot. Michael Kempton was born in Glasgow in 1850. He is recorded in the British Army, Worldwide Index 1871, as serving from 1 April 1871 to 30 June 1871 with the 59th Regiment of Foot at Mhow and Bombay, India. He later fought at the Battle of Kandahar on 1 September 1880, and was discharged to pension on 19 June 1883. He died in Gateshead in December 1913.
Lot 263
A fine Great War ‘Battle of Jutland’ D.S.M. group of eight awarded to Chief Yeoman of Signals W. W. Day, Royal Navy, who was decorated for gallantry aboard the destroyer H.M.S. Nestor as she attempted to lead a near-suicidal torpedo attack against the German High Seas Fleet Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (216047. W. W. Day, Yeo. Sigs. “Nestor” 31st. May-1st. June. 1916.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (216047 W. W. Day, Lg. Sig, H.M.S. Proserpine:); 1914-15 Star (216047, W. W. Day, Y.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (216047 W. W. Day. Y.S. R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st type (216047. W. W. Day, Yeo. Sig. H.M.S. Victory) light contact marks throughout, otherwise nearly very fine (8) £1,400-£1,800 --- D.S.M. London Gazette 5 October 1918: ‘Additional Awards for Services in the Battle of Jutland on the 31st May, 1916.’ The official recommendation states: ‘H.M.S. Nestor, Battle of Jutland, 31 May-1 June, 1916. Whilst under heavy shell fire did carry out his duties with the greatest efficiency and coolness, although one of his staff was killed alongside him and he was handicapped by his halliards, semaphore and searchlight being shot away. Always a most zealous and capable Yeoman.’ William Walter Day was born in Bromley, Kent, on 25 October 1884. He joined the Royal Navy as a schoolboy on 25 July 1901, and witnessed rapid promotion in a little over a year from Boy 2nd Class to Signalman aboard H.M.S. Lion. Advanced Yeoman of Signals aboard the cruiser H.M.S. Venus on 1 February 1913, Day served at various shore establishments and depot ships from 1914 to 1916, before being posted to the destroyer H.M.S. Nestor on 25 May 1916, with less than a week to go before the largest fleet engagement of the Great War, the Battle of Jutland. To gain a real insight of the little destroyer’s part in the Battle, the following extract from Deeds that Thrill the Empire brings the story to life: ‘Some of our destroyers, too, had a busy and fruitful time during the run south. Nominally, they accompanied the battle-cruisers in order to protect them against submarine attack (in which they succeeded to perfection), but opportunity came to them for still more effective work. At 4.15 a division of these vessels, under the command of Commander The Hon. E. B. S. Bingham, in the Nestor, moved out towards the enemy with the object of delivering a torpedo attack. On the way they met a flotilla of hostile destroyers setting out towards our own battle line with a similar object, and a fierce fight ensued between the opposing craft, in which two of the enemy’s vessels were sunk without loss to us. The hostile attempt to attack our battle-cruisers was thus frustrated, and our boats pressed on with their original plan. The Nestor, Nomad and Nicator rushed in at the enemy under a terrific fire and discharged torpedoes at them. By all the rules of the game, they should have been sunk with every man on board, and, as it was, the only one of the three to escape was the Nicator, whose commanding officer, Lieutenant Jack Mocatta, was rewarded with the D.S.O. ‘The Nestor and Nomad were both disabled within easy reach of the enemy’s guns, and neither of them survived the experience, although, happily, many of those on board were saved by the enemy. These included Lieutenant-Commander Paul Whitfield, in command of the Nomad, who was specially promoted to the rank of commander, and Commander Bingham, of the Nestor, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for “the extremely gallant way in which he led his division in their attack, first on the enemy destroyers, and then on the battle-cruisers. He finally sighted the enemy battle fleet, and, followed by the one remaining destroyer of his division (Nicator), with dauntless courage he closed to within 3,000 yards of the enemy in order to attain a favourable position for firing the torpedoes. While making this attack, Nestor and Nicator were under concentrated fire of the secondary batteries of the High Seas Fleet. Nestor was subsequently sunk.”’ Plucked from the choppy North Sea by the Germans, Day was landed at Wilhelmshaven on 3 May 1916. Transferred from a German P.O.W. camp to Holland on 30 April 1918, it was only then that official reports of his brave actions aboard Nestor reached the Admiralty in London; recommended for the D.S.M. and accelerated promotion, he was raised Chief Yeoman of Signals on 18 January 1921, before being shore pensioned in the summer of 1922. Day returned to service during the Second World War, but his time was cut short in June 1941 in consequence of mental health problems, most likely associated with the horrors witnessed at Jutland and the deprivations associated with two years as a prisoner of war. Sold with an original small Battle of Jutland 1916 Commemorative Medal, base metal with ring suspension, in Spink & Son Ltd. card box; a set of period silk ribands; and copied research.
Lot 742
The historically important Great War Victory Medal awarded to Colonel T. Sinclair, Army Medical Service, who personally conducted the first post-mortem examination of Baron Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen in a hanger of No. 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, just hours after he was extricated from the wreckage of his red triplane, near Corbie, on 21 April 1918 Having analysed the pathway of a single .303 bullet through the Baron’s torso using a rudimentary piece of wire, it was Sinclair’s report which gave considerable weight to the argument that the fatal shot came from a trailing aircraft, rather than the ground - thus, the Canadian Pilot, Captain A. R. Brown, was officially credited with the ‘kill’ shortly after receiving a Bar to his D.S.C. Victory Medal 1914-19, with copy M.I.D. oak leaves (Col. T. Sinclair.) mounted on contemporary wearing pin, better than very fine £500-£700 --- ‘Copy extracts from A. H. File No. 21/13/506 In the Field 22nd April 1918. We have made a surface examination of Captain Baron von Richthofen and find there are only the entrance and exit wounds of one rifle bullet on the trunk. The entrance wound is on the right side about the level of the ninth-rib, which is fractured, just in front of the posterior axillary line. The bullet appears to have passed obliquely backwards through the chest striking the spinal column, from which it glanced in a forward direction and issued on the left side of the chest, at a level about two inches higher than its entrance on the right and about in the anterior axillary line. There was also a compound fracture of the lower jaw on the left side, apparently not caused by a missile – and also some minor bruises of the head and face. The body was not opened – these facts were ascertained by probing from the surface wounds.’ Thomas Sinclair, Colonel AMS, Consulting Surgeon IV Army, B.E.F. Thomas Sinclair was born in Belfast in 1858. Credited by the Ballymena Weekly Telegraph as ‘one of the most outstanding Ulstermen of his generation’, Sinclair graduated with distinction from the Royal University of Ireland and became Professor of Surgery at Queen’s University in 1886. Appointed surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital and consulting surgeon to the Ulster Hospital for Children, the Forster Green Hospital, and the County Antrim Infirmary, Sinclair spent the next thirty years training a generation of medical students in the art of surgery - indeed, under his tutelage, the Belfast School of Modern Surgery came to be regarded as one of the most advanced in the British Isles. Volunteering for active service at the outbreak of hostilities, Sinclair served as Colonel in Egypt from 15 November 1915, before being transferred to the Western Front as Consulting Surgeon to the Fourth Army, which at that time was commanded by that other distinguished Ulsterman, Lord Rawlinson. Decorated with the C.B., ‘in recognition of work well and faithfully done on various fighting fronts’, Sinclair was further Mentioned in Despatches on 4 January 1917 whilst serving as Consultant. However, quite by accident and pure circumstance, it was from Headquarters on a sunny spring day in 1918 that Sinclair received the order to proceed immediately to a small hangar at Poulainville aerodrome on the Somme; awaiting his inspection lay the body of one of the most dangerous foes of the Great War. Controversy remains to this day as to who exactly fired the fatal shot which killed the Red Baron. During the autopsy it was noted that Sinclair used a piece of wire, rumoured to be fence wire, to track the path of the bullet, rather than a more appropriate smooth and rounded apparatus. Such a crude improvisation laid open the opportunity for error and inaccuracy, but it is widely accepted that this first report remains the most important piece of evidence to this day which addresses the circumstances of death and factual wounds, more-so given that the infamous red Fokker Dr.I. 425/17 triplane was scavenged within hours for souvenirs. Sinclair’s conclusions however, remain contested, especially following recent analysis of the path of the machine gun bullets fired from the trenches by Sergeant Cedric Popkin of the 24th M.G.C., 1st Australian Imperial Force. Elected to the Ulster Senate representing Queen’s in 1921, Sinclair was later honoured as Founder of the Modern Ulster School of Surgery and is remembered via a large and impressive oil portrait by George Harcourt, R.A., which hangs to this day in the Great Hall of Queen’s University, Belfast. His acceptance speech was particularly humbling: ‘What a sustaining and consoling thought it is to me that so many warm friends consider that I have not altogether lived in vain, but have been enabled in some degree to alleviate or assuage the heavy burden of human suffering throughout the years.’ Sinclair died of illness on 5 November 1940.
Lot 505
Pair: Corporal P. W. Moyses, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (S-33885 Cpl. P. W. Moyses. A.S.C.) very fine Pair: Private H. J. B. Whittingham, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps British War and Victory Medals (63444. Pte.1. H. J. B. Whittingham. R.A.F.) good very fine 1914-15 Star (1744 A-Bmbr. F. Coates, R.F.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (51123 Spr. W. H. Rotherham. R.E.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (3658 Pte. J. Slater. L.N. Lan. R.) generally very fine (lot) £80-£100 --- Horace John Bertram Whittingham was born in Dudley, Worcestershire, in 1884. A master tailor, he joined the Royal Flying Corps as Air Mechanic 2nd Class on 1 March 1917, and was transferred to the newly-created Royal Air Force as Private 1st Class on 1 April 1918. He served in France from 3 May 1918, spending the majority of his time in the clothing stores at Courban. Sold with a British Red Cross Society Medal, with top riband bar ‘Proficiency in Red Cross Nursing’ (25593 G. Whitham); a British Red Cross Society Medal, with top riband bar ‘Proficiency in Red Cross First Aid’ (27627 G. L. Whitham); two Silver War Badges, officially numbered ‘C30333’ and ‘B306971’, the second lacking pin catch; two Great War period brass cap badges to the Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery, the second heavily worn; a Primrose League sweetheart brooch, black bakelite; a Bevin Boy Veteran lapel badge, gilt and enamel, in box of issue; a small ‘V’ for Victory badge; and a Freedom of the City of London Certificate to ‘Raymond Wesley Page, Citizen and Spectacle Maker of London’, dated 10 May 1927, in red transmission envelope; together with a pair of contemporary metal-rimmed spectacles, in leather case marked ‘P.A.’, the whole contained in card box of issue by the ‘General Optical Co., 120 Clerkenwell Road, London, E.C.1.’ Raymond Wesley Page invented the military spectacle.
Lot 540
Pair: Mechanician First Class W. Tomlin, Royal Navy General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, Borneo, Northern Ireland, second clasp loose on riband, as issued (051893 W. Tomlin. A/L. M. (E). R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (D051893R W. Tomlin Mech1 HMS Sultan) mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (2) £120-£160
Lot 617
The Indian Mutiny Medal to Joseph Henry Lockwood who, as an Assistant Apothecary, was attached to the Shannon’s Naval Brigade, serving throughout all of the affairs of the mutiny with the Brigade. Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (Asst. Apothy. J Lockwood. Shannon. Naval Brigade) extremely fine and scarce £1,800-£2,200 --- Provenance: Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996. Joseph Henry Lockwood was born into a Eurasian family on 21 June 1835, at Berhampore, the son of Joseph Lockwood, Drum Major 40th Regiment N.I., one of only two Bengal Marine Native Infantry Regiments that, because of caste, could voyage overseas, and his wife Diana. He joined the Bengal Subordinate Medical Department as Hospital Apprentice on 13 January 1853; was advanced Assistant-Apothecary on 11 May 1858; advanced Hospital Steward on 26 February 1863; and advanced Apothecary 1st Class on 20 September 1867. On joining the service, Lockwood was attached variously to H.M. 27th and 70th Regiments at Rawalpindi and Peshawar, with stints at the Presidency's General Hospital and 2nd Company 6th Battalion Artillery. Lockwood was on medical leave at the outbreak of the mutiny. Recalled, he was one of a very small number of Subordinate Medical Officers seconded from the Bengal Army to the British and Indian Naval Brigades. Lockwood served under Dr Anthony Beale, who later stated that Lockwood ‘had been attached to the Naval Brigade under my Medical charge from 18 August 1857,’ the date the Shannon's First Party departed Calcutta, ‘his rank then being described as Acting Assistant-Apothecary and Assistant Steward.’ Lockwood remained with the Brigade until 25 May 1858. James Flanagan, Assistant Surgeon of Shannon’s Naval Brigade, reported in April 1858 that ‘I have known Mr Lockwood for the last nine months, while acting with me as Assistant Apothecary. His strict attention to his duties and gentlemanly bearing have elicited my warmest admiration as well as the officers and men of this Brigade with whom he has come professionally in contact. I consider him a young man of considerable ability, and one who, if he followed in the course he has pursued while acting with me, will yet prove an ornament to his profession’. Furthermore, in 1862, Flanagan confirmed Lockwood’s application for his Mutiny medal and two clasps when stating that ‘he had been engaged in the Relief of Lucknow, and the operations against the city from 2nd to 16th March, including the battles of Khujwa, Futtehgurh and the second battle of Cawnpore’. (IOR L/MIL/5/100 dated 11 March 1862 refers.) After the mutiny he worked for many years at the Garrison and General Hospitals Allahabad. In early 1870 he sailed to Ireland to study and qualified there as a Licentiate of the King’s and Queen’s College of Physicians (Ireland) L.K.Q.C.P., Licentiate of Royal College of Surgeons (Ireland) L.R.C.S.I. and a Licentiate of Midwifery L.M. On return to India he was posted, 7 December 1872, to the Sutlej Bridge Division, Indus Valley (State) Railway and took charge of medical affairs. The district was notoriously unhealthy and in 1874 a pestilence caused the deaths of countless bridge workers. Sadly Lockwood, too, succumbed and he died on 22 August 1874 while recuperating at Almora. Though a qualified doctor, Lockwood was unable to be promoted beyond Apothecary 1st Class due to the regulations existing at the time, a situation that changed a few years after his death when, in 1881, the government recognised the iniquity of the situation. Lockwood married Jane Fleming on 12 December 1867 at Allahabad without issue. Sold with a comprehensive file of research.
Lot 5
A Great War ‘Gallipoli’ D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel K. G. Campbell, Royal Garrison Artillery, Commandant, 26th Jacob’s Mountain Battery, Indian Army Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Jubaland (Lieut. K. G. Campbell, R.A.) high relief bust, officially engraved naming; 1914-15 Star (Major K. G. Campbell. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. K. G. Campbell.) mounted as worn in contemporary carrying case, good very fine (5) £1,400-£1,800 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1916: ‘Major, Royal Artillery, attached 26th Jacob’s Mountain Battery, Indian Army.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 13 July 1916: ‘Major, attached 26th Jacob’s Mountain Battery (Dardanelles).’ Keith Gordon Campbell was born on 29 October 1876, son of Colonel W. M. Campbell, R.A. Educated at Dulwich College and R.M.A. Woolwich, he was first commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1896. He served in the operations against the Ogaden Somalis, Jubaland, 1901 (Medal with Clasp); in the European War, Defence of Suez Canal from February 1915; in Gallipoli; and in Mesopotamia. He was made Commandant, 26th Jacob’s Mountain Battery.
Lot 225
A fine Great War 'Salonica' D.S.O., M.C., Al Valore Militare group of six awarded to Major R. H. Jones, King's Liverpool Regiment, late Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and Hampshire Regiment, who repeatedly displayed marked leadership in patrol actions Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut: R. H. Jones. L'pool R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major R. H. Jones.); Italy, Kingdom, Al Valore Militare, silver, unnamed as issued, gilding slightly rubbed on first, otherwise good very fine and better (6) £2,600-£3,000 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 1 February 1919: 'For conspicuous gallantry during an attack on an enemy position at White Scar Hill on September 18th, 1918. He was in charge of the attacking party, and, owing largely to his courage and determination, the enemy position was taken by assault. Under subsequent heavy shelling he held on to the position, and when ordered withdrew his force in order to our lines. His coolness and disregard for safety were most marked.' M.C. London Gazette 19 April 1917: 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He handled his party with great courage and initiative throughout. On one occasion he was in command of a party which accounted for eleven of the enemy.' Italian Al Valore Militare in silver, London Gazette 31 August 1917. Richard Hodkinson Jones was born in the parish of Westhoughton, Lancaster, on 18 May 1890. A schoolmaster, he was appointed to a Commission on 2 December 1914 as Temporary Second Lieutenant, 14th (Service) Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment. Serving as part of 22nd Division, he fought in Salonika from 6 November 1915 and took part in the action at Macukovo, where men of the King's Liverpool Regiment and Lancashire Fusiliers briefly captured a ruined village and killed over 200 of the enemy amidst brutal hand-to-hand fighting. Jones was subsequently awarded the Military Cross for a patrol action against the Bulgars at Cakli, and was wounded not long thereafter on 2 May 1917 at Pearse Ravine. Specially employed with the 12th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, from 13 July 1917, Jones was again conspicuous for his gallantry and devotion to duty at White Scar Hill. For this outstanding display of courage, he was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order and Mentioned in Despatches on 30 April 1919. Following steady promotion throughout the war years, on 12 April 1920 Jones was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel whilst commanding the 7th Battalion of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry as part of the Army of Occupation. He finally relinquished his commission a couple of months later and returned to his school master's duties, but satisfaction in civilian life was short lived. In 1921, Jones returned to the Army and the 2nd Battalion, King's Regiment, but further recognition and career progression was curtailed due to failing health. Forced to retire in the rank of Major on 15 July 1930, Jones died at the British Sanatorium, Montana, Switzerland, on 13 May 1931. Sold with copied research.
Lot 444
Three: Private S. Beet, Northumberland Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (15795 Pte. S. Beet. North’d Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (15795 Pte. S. Beet. North’d Fus.) good very fine Three: Private F. E. Wilson, Essex Regiment, later Middlesex Regiment and Royal Engineers, who was wounded on the Western Front on 11 April 1916 1914-15 Star (14882 Pte. F. E. Wilson, Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (14882 Pte. F. E. Wilson. Essex R.) minor stain to last, good very fine Three: Private J. Bamford, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, later Labour Corps, who was twice wounded on the Western Front, on 20 May 1916 and 20 September 1917 1914-15 Star (3503 Pte. J. Bamford, L.N. Lanc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3503 Pte. J. Bamford. L.N. Lanc. R.) the VM worn to high relief, otherwise very fine (9) £120-£160 --- Sidney Beet attested for the Northumberland Fusiliers and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 25 August 1915. He later transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Francis Edward Wilson was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, in 1894. A clerk by profession, his Army Service Record notes that he attested at London for the Essex Regiment on 4 September 1914, and served in France from 25 July 1915 to 9 May 1916. His first period of service overseas was promptly suspended when suffering a gunshot wound to the neck, face and right thigh on 11 April 1916. Evacuated to England, he transferred to the Middlesex Regiment on 11 November 1916 and later served back in France with the Royal Engineers Railway Troops. James Bamford, a resident of Preston, Lancashire, served in France from 8 August 1915 to 1 June 1916, and again from 9 February 1917 to 2 October 1917. His Army Service Record notes that he was twice wounded, including a gunshot wound to the right thigh on 20 May 1916, and a second wound on 20 September 1917. The latter was initially judged as ‘slight’, but his medical notes describe a head injury: ‘Depressed fracture skull (old G.S.W.). States that he was wounded in the head in 1917 and had an operation on his head. Suffers from constant and severe right-sided headache.’
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Three: Quarter-Master Sergeant D. Cameron, Royal Artillery Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (22666. Batt: Sergt. Maj: D. Cameron, 1/1 Bde. Lon: Div. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (22666. Q.M. Sgt. D. Cameron. R.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Q.M. Sjt. D. Cameron. R.E.) the first with edge bruising and contact marks, fine, otherwise nearly very fine or better (3) £300-£400 --- M.S.M. Army Order 432 of 1922 with Annuity of £10. Late Permanent Staff, West of Scotland Artillery Militia. He was still alive in 1926.
Lot 312
Family Group: Four: Captain the Hon. R. W. D. Legh, Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry, later 3rd Baton Newton and Hon. Colonel, 7th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. Hon. R. W. D. Legh.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Capt. Hon. R. W. D. Legh. Lan. Hrs.); Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, reverse officialy dated 1946, with integral top riband bar, the first three mounted as worn, the last loose, minor contact marks and small verdigris spot to the third, otherwise better than very fine Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with ‘Geneva Cross’ Second Award Bar (The Lady Newton) good very fine (5) £600-£800 --- Richard William Davenport Legh, 3rd Baron Newton, was born on 18 November 1888, the son of the British diplomat and Conservative politician Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton. His grandfather, William John Legh, also a Conservative politician, had been raised to the peerage as Baron Newton, of Newton-in-Makerfield in the County Palatine of Lancaster. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he was an attaché for the British Embassy at Istanbul (later Vienna), and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry on 1 March 1910. He served with the Lancashire Hussars during the Great War, was appointed a Staff Captain on 17 July 1917, and for his services was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 11 December 1917). He relinquished his commission on account of ill health on 17 January 1919, and was entitled to the Silver War Badge Having succeeded to the peerage, Lord Newton was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 7th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, on 4 April 1939, and during the Second World War he served as a Staff Captain at the War Office. He was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1946 (London Gazette 31 January 1946), and died on 11 June 1960, at age 71. The Hon. Helen Winifred Meysey-Thompson, Lady Newton, wife of the above, was born on 14 June 1889, the daughter of Henry Meysey Meysey-Thompson, 1st Baron Knaresborough, and married the Hon. Richard William Davenport Legh, later 3rd Baron Newton, on 28 January 1914. She died on 28 December 1958 at age 69.
Lot 504
Pair: Second Lieutenant P. E. O. Booth, Machine Gun Corps, attached Middlesex Regiment, who was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916 British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. P. E. O. Booth.) good very fine (2) £240-£280 --- Percival Edward Owen Booth was born in Hendon, Middlesex, in 1892, and was commissioned in the Middlesex Regiment for service during the Great War. He served on the Western Front from 15 May 1916 and was killed in action on 1 July 1916, whilst attached to the Machine Gun Corps, during the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He is buried in Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, France.
Lot 544
Three: Signalman A. J. Journet, Royal Signals U.N. Medal, on UNFICYP riband, with ‘2’ emblem; U.N. Medal, on UNTAG riband; Gulf 1990-91, 1 clasp, 16 Jan to 28 Feb 1991(24762343 Sig A J Journet R Signals) mounted as worn, polish residue, some contact marks, good very fine (3) £140-£180 --- Sold together with copy research suggesting that the recipient served with 30 Signal Regiment, who having served with the United Nations force in Namibia, in 1989, became the first ground force detachment sent to the Gulf as part of Operation Granby in 1990 to establish satellite communications.
Lot 799
Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (4871 Pte. E. Ascott. L.N. Lanc: R.); Efficiency Medal, E.II.R., 1st issue, Territorial reverse officially dated ‘1966’, with integral top riband bar, in Royal Mint case of issue, contact marks to first, very fine (2) £120-£160 --- Edward Ascott attested into the East Lancashire Regiment and served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion, on the Western Front from 12 August 1914 and saw later service with the Cheshire Regiment. Sold together with a CD-ROM, presumably containing research.
Lot 347
Pair: Lance-Corporal A. E. Annison, East Surrey Regiment British War Medal 1914-20 (868 Pte. A. E. Annison. E. Surr. R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (868 Pte. A. E. Annison. E. Surr. R.); together with two bronze regimental prize fob medals for the 5th Territorial Battalion, East Surrey Regiment in the form of small sized regimental badge with top ring suspension, the first inscribed ‘Pte. A. E. Annison: Inter Company Morris Tube Competition’, the second inscribed ‘Field Firing Competition 1913 B. Coy. L. Corpl. Annison’, good very fine (2) £120-£160 --- Alfred Edward Annison, a native of Leatherhead, Surrey, served with the 5th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, and was not entitled to the Victory Medal. He was awarded a Silver War Badge No. B272782, and was in receipt of an army disability pension.
Lot 239
A Second War ‘Civil Division’ M.B.E. group of ten awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. R. A. Branch, Chief of Police, Leeward Islands, late Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry and Durham Light Infantry, who was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s Bronze Medal for saving life on Anguilla in November 1931 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1914-15 Star (410906 Pte. J. R. A. Branch. P.P.C.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J. R. A. Branch.); War Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, reverse contemporarily engraved ‘Lt. Col. John R. A. Brnach.’, lacking integral top riband bar; Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Captain J. R. A. Branch. 20th. Nov. 1931.) with integral top bronze riband buckle, the first nine mounted court-style as worn, the last loose; together with the related set of nine miniature awards (omitting the RHS Medal), the ED again lacking integral top riband bar, these similarly mounted, polished and worn, with almost all the gilding rubbed from the ED, therefore good fine and better (10) £600-£800 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1941: John Reginald Arthur Branch, Esq., Superintendent of Police, Leeward Islands.’ John Reginald Arthur Branch was born in St. John’s, Antigua, Leeward Islands, on 24 June 1894 and was educated at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Initially attesting for the 1st Universities Company, 38th Battalion, Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Montreal on 17 February 1915, he served with Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front from 31 July 1915, before being commissioned temporary Second Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry on 25 October 1916. Promoted Lieutenant, he was wounded on the Western Front on 23 September 1918. Following the cessation of hostilities, Branch returned to the Leeward Islands, and served with the Islands’ Police, ultimately rising to the rank of Chief of Police. For his gallantry in saving life at sea off Anguilla on 20 November 1931 he was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s Bronze Medal (R.H.S. Case no. 51,083), and was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1941 New Year’s Honours’ List.
Lot 232
Family Group: A Second War ‘Internment Camp Commandant’s’ O.B.E. group of five awarded to Colonel E. D. B. Kippen, Veterans Guard of Canada The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. E. D. B. Kippen.); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, mounted as worn, together with mounted companion set of miniature dress medals, good very fine 1914-15 Star (55084 Pte. A. Kippen. 19/Can: Inf:) reverse scratched overall in attempt to obscure naming, otherwise good very fine (6) £280-£340 --- O.B.E. (Military) Canada Gazette 8 June 1944: ‘Colonel Eric Douglas Bruce Kippen, Veterans Guard of Canada.’ The recommendation states: ‘This officer has completed over five year’s service as Officer Commanding Internment Camps of Prisoners-of-War, having in that period an enviable record of success in several military districts. His last command has been Camp 133, Lethbridge, Alberta, with a prisoner of war strength of upwards of 13,000. He has at all times displayed tact and fairness in dealing with his charges, but has been instrumental in fostering among them the ideals and practical machinery of democratic methods, by both precept and practice. His work has been voluntarily enlarged by exhibiting the same qualities in his dealings with the civil population adjacent to camps so that the relationship between them and the guards and other army personnel has been maintained on a basis of good will and courtesy. His service embraces also the war of 1914-1919 in which he served.’ Eric Douglas Bruce Kippen served in France in World War I, having been commissioned in 1916, severely wounded and taken prisoner in the battle of Cambrai in December 1917. The first three months of his captivity were spent in German hospitals, and then for over a year he was detained at four different camps in Germany until he was liberated in December 1918. Returning to Canada in May 1919, Kippen obtained his discharge and went into the investment business in Montreal and New York. In 1922 he launched his own investment firm, Kippen and Company, in Montreal. Anxious to serve his country again when the Second War started, the present commanding officer of Canada's largest Prisoner Of War camp volunteered his services, and in June 1940 became a major in the Veterans Guard of Canada. That same month he opened an internment camp at Lle-Aux-Noix, Quebec, for internees from England and received his first prisoners in July. He opened another camp at Farnham, Quebec, in October 1940. Early in 1942 he was posted to the P.O.W. camp at Espanola, Ontario, in command of a guard company, and after a short stay there was sent to the camp at Angler, Ontario. From Angler he went to the temporary camp at Ozada, near Banff, in the summer of 1942. Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, Kippen was appointed commandant of the internment camp at Angler in September 1942, which was the camp detaining Japanese internees. The following February, Colonel Kippen organised and opened the Prisoner Of War camp at Grande Ligne, Quebec, for German officers, and received his first captives in June. He remained commandant of that camp until moving to Lethbridge Camp in October 1944, at the same time receiving his promotion to the rank of full Colonel. After the war he returned to his investment business, from which he retired as a Director in 1975. Colonel Kippen died at Toronto on 22 October 1988, aged 95. Arnold Kippen ‘is reported wounded again. He went overseas in May 1915. He was then a lance-corporal, but received his commission on the field [as Lieutenant]. He is 23 years old, and was employed at the Merchants Bank. This is his third time wounded. Last March he was severely wounded, and might have had light duty in England, but volunteered to go back on the firing line.’ (Copied news cutting refers). Sold with copied research and the book Prisoners of the Home Front, by Martin F. Auger, which contains numerous mentions of Colonel Kippen.
Lot 345
Five: Company Quarter Master Sergeant B. W. G. Winter, East Surrey Regiment British War and Victory Medals (200318 A. W.O. Cl. 2 B. W. G. Winter. E. Surr. R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (200318 Sjt. B. W. G. Winter. E. Surr. R.); Defence Medal; Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (6135159 C.Q.M. Sjt. B. W. G. Winter. 5 - E. Surr. R.) the first four mounted for wear, the last crudely stitched to mounting bar, contact marks and a couple of small edge bruises, overall very fine and better (5) £260-£300 --- Bertie William George Winter re-enlisted in the East Surrey Regiment (T.F.) after the Great War and was awarded the T.E.M. in Army Orders in June 1926. He was discharged at Hounslow on 3 July 1926.
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Lot 390
Pair: Private J. Coldbeck, 7th Hussars, late 4th Light Dragoons Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (James Colbeck [sic]. 7th. Husrs.) officially impressed naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Jas. Coldbeck, 7th. Husrs.); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued, pierced with small ring suspension, minor edge nicks to first otherwise nearly very fine and better (3) £500-£700 --- James Coldbeck was born in Manchester and served with the 4th Light Dragoons in the Crimea from 25 May 1855. Transferred to the 7th Hussars at Aldershot on 1 August 1857, he served as a cavalryman throughout the Indian Mutiny and took part in the capture of Lucknow in March 1858. He died of cholera at Sealkote, India, on 20 May 1864.
Lot 247
A fine and scarce 1918 Great War Sopwith Camel fighter ace’s D.F.C. and Second Award Bar group of three awarded to Captain S. C. Joseph, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force - who was the highest scoring Jewish ace of the Great War - claiming at least 13 aerial victories through a combination of destroyed, forced down out of control and shared destroyed enemy aircraft. All with 210 Squadron, over the Western Front between May - October 1918. A ‘gung-ho’ pilot and Flight Commander, Joseph had a traumatic September during which he nearly succumbed to anti-aircraft fire, and was later wounded in aerial combat leading to a crash landing Distinguished Flying Cross, G.V.R., with bar for second award, unnamed as issued. British War and Victory Medals (Capt. S.C. Joseph, R.A.F.) mounted for wear, generally very fine (3) £15,000-£18,000 --- D.F.C. London Gazette 21 September 1918 (Sea Patrol): ‘A gallant pilot who has accounted for eight enemy aircraft within the past four months. On many occasions the enemy, were numerically superior to Lieutenant Joseph's patrol, but this did not prevent his attaining success.’ D.F.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 2 November 1918 (Sea Patrol): ‘A very gallant and skilful officer. He led his formation under a large force of enemy aircraft with a view to inducing them to descend to attack him. In this ruse de guerre he was successful, and, in accordance with arrangements previously made, another formation of our machines then appeared on the scene, and a combined attack was made on the enemy, resulting in the destruction of four Aeroplanes and three more being brought down completely out of control. Since the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross was conferred on this officer less than two months ago he has personally destroyed one enemy machine, brought down another out of control, and has helped to destroy a third. Captain Joseph was wounded on the occasion of the combined attack.’ Approximately 66 D.F.C. and Bars awarded for the Great War. Captain S. C. Joseph was the highest scoring Jewish Ace of the Great War, and the only Ace of the conflict to hail from Birmingham. Solomon Clifford Joseph was born in Birmingham in April 1893, and was the son of a fine art dealer specialising in jade. The family home was 14 Speedwell Road, Edgbaston, and his father’s business was based in Birmingham. Joseph joined the Royal Naval Air Service in August 1917, and carried out pilot training at Crystal Palace from 12 August 1917, and at Vendome from 15 September 1917. He trained on the Caudron Biplane at the British Flying School, Vendome, France, attaining his Royal Aero Licence (No.5475) on 7 October 1917. Subsequent training postings were to Cranwell and Manston, before being posted to Dunkerque on 16 February 1918. After a brief posting to 12 (N) Squadron R.N.A.S. in February 1918, Joseph then went to 10 (N) Squadron R.N.A.S. later the same month. He was posted as a pilot for operational flying to 210 Squadron in March 1918, and transferred with the Squadron into the Royal Air Force the following month. Flying in Sopwith Camels from various bases in France, Joseph remained with the Squadron until 28 November 1918. The Squadron, of which Joseph was to become a Flight Commander, were initially engaged on ground-attack duties in an effort to help stop the German Spring Offensive. They were subsequently engaged on offensive patrols and bomber escort missions over Belgium. May, and into the Fray Joseph claimed 13 victories with 210 Squadron, between May and October 1918. His first victory came when he forced down an Albatros DV out of control over Armentières on 8 May 1918. A précis of the Combat Report gives an early indication of his close-up style of fighting: ‘In general engagement with 14 Albatros and Pfalz scouts over Armentières got on tail of one of former and after firing 90 rounds from 50 – 10 yards E.A. went down out of control. Confirmed by Lieut. F.V. Hall.’ The following day Joseph shared another Albatros forced down out of control near Bailleul: ‘Patrol attacked an Albatros two-seater near Bailleul and after Capt. Carter had shot the observer in firing 60 rounds from 30-20 yards. Lieut. Joseph got behind & above E.A. and fired about 60 rounds into the pilot from 20 yards. Pilot collapsed & E.A. went down out of control diving on its back. Not seen to crash owing to ground mist, but did not reappear.’ (Ibid) On 14 May, Joseph attacked a further three enemy aircraft and forced an Albatros DV down out of control near Ypres-Zillebeke: ‘Between Ypres & Zillebeke at 12,000ft. In general engagement with 12 E.A. Lieut. Joseph attacked 3 individually in successive dives. Then observed Albatros Scout below dived & fired at 50-40 yards, E.A. went down Out of Control unable to observe result as I was attacked by 5 E.A. & chased back to the line, my machine being hit in the tail.’ (Ibid) The following day Joseph was involved in an inconclusive aerial combat with a Pfalz Scout near Armentières, when he fired 150 rounds at 50-100 yards. The enemy aircraft was seen to turn on its back and go down in a deep spiral dive, but no result was observed. He concluded his success for the month, with the shared destruction of a Kite Balloon near Pont Riqueu on 21 May. A Summer ‘Ace’ The clear skies of summer continued to appeal to Joseph, and he had his most successful day to date on 6 June 1918, when he destroyed an enemy aircraft near Neuf Berquin, and shared in the destruction of another near Vieux Berquin: ‘Attacked wireless E.A. near Neuf Berquin diving & firing 300 rounds at 80-40 yards, observer was killed & collapsed in the cockpit, Lieut. Joseph followed E.A. down to 800ft. & saw him still descending when at 200ft. Pulled off thereafter to attack 2 other E.A. circling over Estaires. Wireless E.A. is confirmed by A.A. 'J' Battery to have crashed near Neuf Berquin... Lieut. Joseph then with Lieut. Campbell attacked (another) wireless machine at 4,000ft. Over Morris, Joseph dived & fired 400 rounds at 60-40 yards range. Observer was killed & collapsed in the cockpit. Lieut. K.Y. Campbell fired burst of 50 rounds at pilot from close range from side of E.A. which was followed down to 800ft. Owing to machine-gun fire from the ground, Pilots had to pull off & did not observe results. E.A. confirmed by A/A 'J' Battery to have crashed near Vieux Berquin.’ Three days later, Joseph added to his score when he forced a Pfalz DIII down out of control near Ploegsteert Wood: ‘While on Offensive Patrol, our formation observed 7 Pfalz scouts at 8,000ft. Over Ploegsteert Wood and dived to attack. Shortly after, 7 more Pfalz and 3 tri-planes came up from the East and a general engagement ensued. I attacked one Pfalz scout and fired a burst of about 60 rounds at close range. E.A. spun down out of control. I could not observe result as I attacked a Triplane immediately after, but without decisive results.’ (Ibid) There was a flurry of activity for Joseph at the end of June, when he firstly shot down an LVG C Type in flames north of Armentières on the 26: ‘While leading Offensive Patrol I observed a L.V.G. 2-seater at 15,000ft. And fired a burst of 160 rounds at 60 yards to point blank range. E.A. dived omitting smoke and afterwards burst into flames. When last seen was still falling out of control and emitting volumes of smoke. This is confirmed by Lieut. Highstone. Pilot was unable to watch final result as he was attacked by 3 Triplanes.’ (Ibid) The above was closely foll...
Lot 458
Five: Private H. Holstead, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1914-15 Star (18623 Pte. H. Holstead. L.N. Lan. R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (18623 Pte. H. Holstead. L.N. Lan. R.) renamed; Victory Medal 1914-19 (18623 Pte. H. Halstead. L.N. Lan. R.); Defence Medal; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1915, very fine Pair: Corporal H. J. E. Hooper, East Surrey Regiment, late Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 26 October 1917 British War and Victory Medals (240440 Cpl. H. J. E. Hooper. E. Surr. R.) traces of adhesive to reverse of both, otherwise nearly extremely fine Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (3530 C.Sjt: N. H. P. Page. Devon: Regt.) minor edge bruising, very fine (8) £80-£100 --- Henry John Edward Hooper was born in Burnham on Crouch, Essex, around 1893. An assistant professional golfer at Chertsey, he attested for the 2/6th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, on 11 December 1913, and spent the first few years of the war on home service. Posted to Redhill in January 1916, his Army Service Record notes neglect of duty for leaving the Reigate guard room in a dirty condition. Posted to the Western Front on 15 September 1917, Hooper transferred to the 4/5th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment on 19 September 1917 and was killed in action barely a month later on 26 October 1917. His medals were later posted to his mother at 12 Herbert Road, Clacton-on-Sea. Sold with an original postcard photograph of the recipient in civilian attire; further entitled to TFWM under A.O. 143/20. Nathaniel Henry Pettitt Page attested for the Devonshire Regiment at Exeter on 28 June 1892. He served overseas with the 2nd Battalion during the South African Campaign from 20 October 1899 to 21 May 1903, and was discharged as Colour Sergeant on 15 November 1910. Sold with a reproduction Princess Mary Christmas tin.
Lot 433
A rare and well-documented ‘Balloonatics’ campaign group of seven awarded to Flight Sergeant and Observer J. Baxter, Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force - decorated for his service whilst attached to the Belgian forces during 1917, and a Police Constable with the City of London Police prior to and after the Great War 1914-15 Star (F.4573, J. Baxter, A.M. 1. R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals (30212. F. Sgt. J. Baxter. R.A.F.); Coronation 1911, City of London Police (P.C. J. Baxter.); Jubilee 1935 (P.C. J. Baxter.); Belgium, Order of Leopold II, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver and enamel, with rosette on riband, obverse centre missing Lion; Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, with bronze palm emblem on riband, mounted for wear, but additionally mounted on card for display, generally very fine unless otherwise stated (7) £800-£1,200 --- Order of Leopold, Chevalier London Gazette 25 July 1918. The recommendation, dated 8 December 1917, states: ‘A non-commissioned flying officer who has rendered the greatest services during the ascents made on behalf of the British artillery placed as the disposal of the Belgian Army.’ Croix de Guerre London Gazette 25 July 1918. The combination of Belgian awards to the R.F.C. is very rare, only five such being awarded, with a further three later awarded to the R.A.F. James Baxter was born in Hornsey, London in May 1888. He joined the City of London Police at Cloak Lane in May 1910, and was Commended and awarded ten Shillings for courageous conduct in stopping a runaway horse on 18 July 1913. Baxter enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service in May 1915, and served with No. 8 Balloon Company in the French theatre of war from 1 September 1915. It was not long before the R.N.A.S. Balloons were transferred to the control of the Royal Flying Corps, and Navy personnel were at liberty to transfer Services if they so desired. Baxter joined the R.F.C. as Sergeant in June 1916, and the Royal Air Force in April 1918. He advanced to Flight Sergeant in April 1917, and at some stage advanced his status from being ground staff on the handling of the balloons to becoming an Observer, being entitled to wear the distinguishing observer’s brevet. Baxter was granted his Aeronaut’s Certificate by the Royal Aero Club of the UK on 2 October 1916, and as such served as a “Balloonatic” with the 16th Balloon Company, R.F.C. He was demobilised on 24 March 1919, and rejoined the City of London Police the following month. Baxter retired to Pension in May 1936, and was appointed to the First City of London Police Reserve in August 1936. He resigned in October of the same year in order to take a permanent position with the London Telephone Service of the General Post Office. After the war he resided at 1 College Hill, London, EC4, and died in November 1961. Sold with the following original and related documentation: Bestowal Document for both Belgian awards, with Ministry of Foreign Affairs enclosure letter (both with typed translations); Ministry of Foreign Affairs enclosure for the two Belgian awards; Royal Air Force Demobilization Account document; typed letter from recipient to Officer Commanding, Port Depot, Royal Air Force, Havre, regarding his application for the 1914-15 Star, dated 6 March 1919; St. John Ambulance Association First Aid Certificate, named and dated February 1911; letter from recipient as member of the First City of London Police Reserve to the Commissioner of Police for the City of London agreeing to serve for an indefinite period from June 1936; with other ephemera and copied research.
Lot 13
A Great War D.C.M. and Second Award Bar pair awarded to Gunner C. Edwards, Royal Field Artillery Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (93304 Gnr: C. Edwards. R.F.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (93304 Gnr. C. Edwards. R.A.) good very fine (2) £800-£1,000 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 1 May 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He displayed marked courage and coolness in repairing telephone wires in the open under a heavy fire. It was due to his determination and energy that communications were successfully maintained throughout the day. He also assisted another battery by taking up wire to its observation post under an intense fire. His devotion to duty was most praiseworthy.’ D.C.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 27 June 1919 (Mesopotamia): ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Benagadi, near Baku, on 31st August 1918. When acting as telephonist to his F.O.O. he frequently left his trench to repair the telephone wires in the open, though the enemy were sweeping our position with heavy fire. Later, when our line was compelled to withdraw, he again established communications, and although wounded in the neck continued at duty until the severity of his wound forced him to withdraw.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 12 March 1918. Charles Edwards first entered the Egyptian theatre of war on 14 July 1915. Sold with copied D.C.M. and Medal Index Cards which show that replacement medals were issued in September 1962.
Lot 236
A Second War ‘Civil Division’ M.B.E. group of seven attributed to Ship’s Master G. G. Rich, Merchant Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Pacific Star; Italy Star, War Medal 1939-45, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (7) £160-£200 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 4 June 1943. George Gapon Rich was born in Deptford, London, on 13 January 1905. He joined the Merchant Navy in July 1920 and served in 1942 as First Mate aboard the steel motor vessel African Prince. Advanced Chief Officer, he was awarded the M.B.E. whilst in service with the Merchant Navy. Rich ended his career as Master of the Egyptian Prince on 17 June 1964, his home address given as 309, Limpsfield Road, Sanderstead, Surrey. Sold with copied Merchant Navy Service Record, including an image of the recipient., but no original documentation.
Lot 493
Pair: Private H. E. Norman, 11th (Cambridgeshire) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, who was killed in action on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916 British War and Victory Medals (16703 Pte. H. E. Norman. Suff. R.) nearly extremely fine (2) £300-£400 --- Herbert E. Norman attested for the Suffolk Regiment and served with the 11th (Cambridgeshire) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1916. He was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916. The Battalion War Diary for 1 July 1916 reads: ‘7:28 a.m. The mine opposite left of 101st Brigade was exploded. 7:30 a.m. The infantry assault was launched. The Battalion followed the 10th Lincolns from our assembly trenches down into Sausage Valley and across to the German lines. Owing to the failure of the 102nd Brigade on the left to capture La Boiselle, our advance from the moment it left our assembly trenches was subjected to a very heavy fire from machine guns from La Boiselle. In spite of the fact that wave after wave were mown down by machine gun fire, all pushed on without hesitation, though very few reached the German lines.’ Relieved on 4 July, the Battalion had suffered total casualties of 691. Norman is buried in Ovillers Military Cemetery, France. Sold with copied Medal Index Card and War Diary extract.
Lot 821
Imperial Service Medal (3), G.V.R., Circular issue, 1st ‘coinage head’ issue (Henry Pycroft) minor official correction to first part of surname; G.VI.R., 1st issue (Thomas Henry Snow.); E.II.R., 2nd issue (James Alastair Mc.Neill); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal (3), G.V.R., 1st issue (Thomas P. Reed.) edge bruising; G.V.R., 2nd issue (Alfred G. Anderson.); G.VI.R., 1st issue (William Branch) generally very fine and better (6) £100-£140 --- Sold with the named Home Office Certificate for the first Imperial Service Medal, named to Mr. Henry Pycroft, H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth, and dated 5 March 1923; and a newspaper cutting recording that Skiller Labourer Henry Pycroft was awarded his Imperial Service Medal by Rear-Admiral Sir Percy Grant, K.C.V.O., C.B., Admiral-Superintendent, H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth.
Lot 604
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Benjn. Kennett, Ord. Pearl.) minor edge nick, good very fine £700-£900 --- Benjamin Kennett was born at Ramsgate, Kent, around 1842, and served as Ordinary Seaman aboard the 21-gun screw corvette H.M.S. Pearl. Despatched from Hong Kong to Calcutta in July 1857 upon receiving news of the rebellion, the crew of the Pearl were first engaged in rescuing the crew of the transport H.M.S. Transit which was wrecked off Bangka Island, Sumatra. Arriving safely in India on 11 September 1857, her 175 officers and men proceeded to form the Pearl Naval Brigade under the command of Pearl’s Captain, Edward Southwell Sotheby. The Brigade engaged in numerous actions against the rebel forces, most notably contributing to the campaign which resulted in the Relief of Lucknow. Deploying mostly rifle companies, the Pearl Naval Brigade fought alongside a similar Brigade formed from the crew of H.M.S. Shannon, which was led by William Peel, son of the Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, and a Victoria Cross recipient himself. For their role in suppressing the Indian uprising, Sotheby and the Pearl Naval Brigade were mentioned in despatches on 13 occasions relating to the operations in Oudh, and received thanks of the Governor-General of India and of both Houses of Parliament; Sotheby was further made Companion of the Order of the Bath, appointed an extra aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, and ended his career as Admiral. Sold with an extensive file of copied research, noting possible service in the 1860s aboard the brig Frederick Huth and later service as Master Mariner and Captain of the S.S. Canto, whilst living at Dartford on the bank of the River Thames.
Lot 1
The scarce Second China War C.B. pair awarded to Lieutenant-General Franklin Dunlop, Royal Artillery, who commanded the Troops in China from the breaking out of hostilities in 1856 to the end of April 1857; in January 1857 he suffered severely from the attempt by the Chinese to poison the inhabitants of Hong Kong by mixing arsenic mixed with the bread sold on 16 January; he nevertheless recovered to command the Artillery at the capture of Canton in December 1857 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 22 carat gold breast badge, hallmarked London 1857, maker’s mark ‘WN’ for William Neale, complete with gold swivel-ring bar suspension, gold three-pronged ribbon buckle, and gold three-pronged top brooch buckle; China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Canton 1857 (Coll. Frankiln Dunlop C.B. Royal Arty.) officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine (2) £4,000-£5,000 --- Franklin Dunlop was born at Onchan, Isle of Man, on 17 February 1812, and choosing a military career was appointed Gentleman Cadet on 30 January 1827. He joined the Army on 18 December 1829, as Second Lieutenant, and some three months later was gazetted First Lieutenant to the 5th Battalion, Royal Artillery. Having been made Captain in the 7th Battalion on 23 November 1841, he became Lieutenant-Colonel on 20 June 1854, and full Colonel exactly three years later. On the latter date he had never been on half-pay, but in continuous active service; and now came his chance for distinction. When trouble arose in the Far East, Colonel Dunlop was placed in charge of the troops in China, from the breaking out of hostilities in 1856 to the end of April 1857. In January 1857, he suffered severely from an attempt made by the Chinese to poison the inhabitants of Hong Kong by mixing arsenic with the bread sold on 10 January. At the capture of Canton in December 1857, Colonel Dunlop commanded the Artillery, and was awarded a C.B. and the China medal with clasp for his services. Colonel Dunlop's next appointment was to the command of the artillery forces in Canada, as Colonel on staff with headquarters at Montreal. The date of this promotion was 31 December 1861; he had become a full Colonel on 26 October 1858, and had passed the staff college. He vacated the appointment in 1857, and retired with full pay on his promotion to Major-General on 2 February 1868. Less than three months afterwards - on the 23rd April - he received the honorary rank of Lieutenant-General. His good service pension of £90 per annum, dated 23 March 1861, had been increased to £100 per annum on 12 May 1866. General Dunlop died on 24 April 1887 at his residence ‘Sunnyside’, in the village of Holmwood, near Dorking.
Lot 57
Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel A. P. De Villiers, Cape Garrison Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Lt: Col: A. P. De Villiers, Cape G.A.); Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, V.R., ‘Victoria Regina et Imperatrix’ (Lieut. Col. A. P. de Villiers. Cape Garrison Arty.) this on original investiture pin and clearly never worn, good very fine (2) £300-£400 --- ‘The death occurred this morning, at his residence at D'Urban Road, of Lieutenant Colonel A. P. de Villiers, Commanding the Cape Garrison Artillery. The deceased gentleman, who was a member of the firm of Lindenberg and De Villiers, auctioneers, was an enthusiastic Volunteer, having survived the Colony and the Empire for twenty-two years as a citizen soldier. He worked his way from private in the ranks to Commanding Officer, a record of which he was always proud as also of the fact that, though not of British blood, he was a British subject. His connection with Volunteering commenced in 1879 when he joined the Cape Town Volunteer Engineers, saw service with his corps in the Transkei Rebellion of 1879-80, and afterwards became successively lieutenant, captain, adjutant, major, and ultimately lieutenant-colonel, to which latter post he was appointed on the recommendation of Colonel Forbes-Taylor, R.A. He rendered great assistance in the inception and establishment of the new corps of Garrison Artillery, of which unit he became first head. In 1899 he became entitled to the long service medal, and was duly invested with it - on paper. As a matter of actual fact, he never received it, though nearly two years have elapsed since he became entitled to it. He was a very popular officer, beloved by his men, and his general presence was welcome everywhere. At the outbreak of the war he went into active service with his corps. Last August he was found to have contracted a severe kidney affection, and was sent by his medical advisers to Europe to recruit, but his insidious complaint was too much for him, and after spending over six months under medical care - nine weeks of which he passed in Netley Hospital - he returned home to the Colony. His demise - at the early age of 41 - will come as a shock to many of his old friends, who will find it hard to realise that the cheerful and buoyant "A.P. (Apie)" of the old days is no more. He leaves a widow and three daughters.’ Sold with details of obituary notice (undated but circa 1903-10) and funeral arrangements and several copied photographs of De Villiers in uniform.
Lot 296
A post-War ‘Civil Division’ O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Major A. Young, Essex Regiment, later Royal Engineers, sometime Mayor of Ilford The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. A. Young.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Lieut. A. Young. Essex R.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, with integral top brooch bar, mounted as worn, toned, very fine and better (7) £500-£700 --- O.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 1 January 1957: ‘For public services in Essex’. M.I.D. London Gazette 22 January 1919 (Egypt). Alexander Young was commissioned from the ranks of the 5th Battalion, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) to be 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion, Essex Regiment, on 5 August 1914. He was promoted Lieutenant on 28 April 1915, promoted Captain on 1 June 1916, and served during the Great War in Egypt from 10 February 1916. An unattributed obituary, dated 1960, states: ‘Major A. Young, O.B.E., T.D., J.P., died in St Bartholemew’s Hospital on Sunday, October 9, aged 81 years. Major Young served with the Essex Regiment in the Middle East, during the First World War, and later with the Royal Engineers. After his military service he devoted his life to public service and in 1948 was made a Freeman of the Borough of Ilford. He was also a Freeman of the City of London. His O.B.E. was awarded some three years ago in recognition of his public service to the County of Essex. In all he gave over 40 years of his life to civic service, which began when he joined Ilford Ratepayers Association in 1919. Six years later he was Chairman of the old Urban District Council and in 1931 he was elected Mayor. He joined the Essex County Council in 1945 and four years later became Chairman of the Essex County Education Committee. He continued his public duties right up to the time of his illness.’ Young appears on the medal roll for the 1935 Jubilee Medal as Major Alexander Young, T.D., Staff Officer, Engineering Department, G.P.O.
Lot 363
Four: Captain R. Collymore, 2nd (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers), London Regiment British War and Victory Medals (Capt. R. Collymore.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Lieut. R. Collymore. 2-Lond. R.); Defence Medal, the first three mounted for wear, the last loose; together with the related four miniature awards, these mounted court-style as worn, good very fine (4) £300-£400 --- Robert Collymore initially served in the ranks of King Edward’s Horse and the 5th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, before being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, London Regiment on 2 January 1915. He was promoted Lieutenant on 1 July 1915, and temporary Captain on 22 September 1915, and served during the Great War on the Western Front from January 1917.
Lot 12
A rare West African Frontier Force D.C.M. pair awarded to Gunner Damana, No. 2 Battery, Northern Nigeria Regiment West African Frontier Force Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (352 Gnr: Damana, N. Nigeria Regt.); Ashanti 1900, 1 clasp, Kumassi (352 Gnr: Damana. A.N.N. Regt.) suspension detached on first and post needs re-affixing, both sometime plated, contact marks and edge bruising, therefore good fine (2) £800-£1,000 --- W.A.F.F. D.C.M. awarded for the Kano-Sokoto Campaign 1903, for distinguished conduct at the storming of Kano, 3 April 1903. Only 58 Edward VII West African Frontier Force D.C.Ms awarded. He is also entitled to the A.G.S. medal with clasps for N. Nigeria and N. Nigeria 1902. Sold with full details, including a copy of the despatches relating to the Kano-Sokoto expedition.
Lot 226
A Great War Battalion Commander’s D.S.O., M.C. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel R. P. Burnett, 8th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment and 7th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar, this adapted to slide fitting for mounting purposes; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (Capt. R. P. Burnett. S. Staff. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. R. P. Burnett.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, original court-style mounting though now a little frayed, the Great War trio rather polished on the obverse, otherwise better than very fine (7) £2,400-£2,800 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For Military Operations in France and Flanders’. M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1917. M.I.D. London Gazette 18 December 1917, 28 December 1918 and 9 July 1919. Richard Parry Burnett was born on 18 March 1891, in Rotherham, Yorkshire. His family moved to Oxley, Wolverhampton, and he was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School. Qualifying as a civil engineer, he volunteered for military service on 5 August 1914, and was selected for a commission into the 8th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, raised in Litchfield. Appointed Captain in May 1915, he appears to have been a member of the Battalion’s advance party, landing in France on 16 July 1915. The Battalion joined 51st Brigade, 17th (Northern) Division, which had been selected for home service, but that was reversed and they proceeded to France, landing in July 1915 and concentrating near St Omer. They moved into the Southern Ypres salient for trench familiarisation and then took over the front lines in that area. In the spring of 1916 they were in action at the Bluff, south east of Ypres on the Comines canal, then moved south to the Somme, seeing action during the Battle of Albert in which the Division captured Fricourt, and the Battle of Delville Wood. Appointed Major in July 1916, he was wounded in the right foot on 10 July on the Somme. In November 1916 he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 8th South Staffordshires. In 1917, the Battalion moved to Arras and saw action in the First and Second Battles of the Scarpe and the Capture of Roeux. Wounded again on 27 May, this time in the arm and head, he was sent as Quartermaster to the Army Infantry School upon his recovery. Returning in April 1918, Burnett was attached to the 7th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) as commanding officer. He remained with the 7th Royal Fusiliers until its return to England in May 1919. He then applied for a permanent commission and this was granted in January 1921 to the York and Lancaster Regiment. During the inter-war years, Burnett served at home and in India, and only regained his Great War rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on his retirement from the Army in December 1938. At the outbreak of the Second World War he rejoined the Regiment, and in 1941 was commanding the 11th Battalion. He relinquished command of the 11th Battalion on 12 May 1942, and was appointed Commander (Acting Colonel) of the Cambridge sub-area the same day. Appointed Temporary Colonel in November 1942, he relinquished command of the Cambridge sub-area on 15 March 1943. He subsequently received a glowing reference from Brigadier General Lesslie: "I was in command of the 190th Infantry Brigade, 63rd (Royal Naval) Division, in France, from June 1918 until April 1919. Throughout this period Temp. Lt-Col. R. P. Burnett D.S.O. M.C. commanded the 7th Royal Fusiliers, one of the three Battalions of the Brigade, and I was, therefore in constant touch with him. I regarded him as a very efficient Commanding Officer, capable, energetic, tactful, possessed of initiative and not afraid of responsibility, he set a fine example to the personnel of his unit, and to him, to a great extent, is due the credit of the excellent record of this Battalion during the closing months of the War. If proof is needed that I was right in my appreciation of his qualifications, and of his general good service, it lies in the fact that he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, and was later selected for a Commission in the Regular Army. It gives me great pleasure to record that, in my opinion, he well deserved this recognition. I am confident, moreover, that however employed, he will continue to add to the fine record of service which he has already achieved.” Lieutenant-Colonel Burnett died in March 1971 at Wincanton, Somerset. Sold with original documents including Warrant for D.S.O. (mounted on board), three M.I.D. certificates (all Field Marshal Haig), full record of service (Army Form B199A), two portrait photographs in uniform, and a certified true copy of Brigadier-General Lesslie’s testimonial dated May 1931; together with copied research.
Lot 249
A rare ‘1958’ Malaya operations D.F.C. group of four awarded to Valetta pilot Flight Lieutenant K. J. Robinson, 52 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Distinguished Flying Cross, E.II.R., reverse officially dated ‘1958’; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Flt. Lt. K. J. Robinson. R.A.F.) mounted as originally worn, but additionally mounted on card for display, minor edge bruising, very fine (4) £2,800-£3,400 --- D.F.C. London Gazette 27 June 1958: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished service in Malaya.’ Kenneth John Robinson was a native of Paignton, Devon. He enlisted in the ranks of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in May 1941, and subsequently advanced to Flight Sergeant. Robinson was commissioned as Pilot Officer (on probation) in the General Duties Branch (Pilot) in September 1943. He advanced to Flying Officer in March 1944, and to Flight Lieutenant in September 1945. Robinson qualified as a flying instructor at the Central Flying School, and it would appear that he was employed as such during the Second World War. Robinson served two tours of Malaya, the first between 1951 and 1952 being at AHQ Malaya and with 52 Squadron (Dakotas and Valettas). Whilst no recommendation for Robinson’s award has yet been released by MOD(Air), it is known that he was serving on his second tour of Malaya, with 52 Squadron (Valettas) from R.A.F. Changi. Extracts from the squadron’s Operational Record Book (Air 2 2785/2786) and the Log Book of Flight Sergeant E. E. Roshier, D.F.M. (Robinson’s navigator - held in a private collection, photocopies of relevant extracts included in lot) confirm that Robinson was employed ‘up-country’ on many supply dropping missions. He was also the captain of a Valetta dropping S.A.S. parachutists on operations in July 1956. Many aircraft and crews were lost on these supply dropping flights and statistics show that the casualty rate for R.A.F. personnel was three times that of the infantry and S.A.S. troops that they were assisting. Robinson continued to serve after Malaya, and was serving at R.A.F. Lyneham when he died of post-operative Peritonitus at R.A.F. Hospital, Wroughton in March 1961. Flight Lieutenant Robinson is buried in Lyneham Cemetery. Sold with copied research.
Lot 431
Three: Engineman J. Marr, Royal Naval Reserve 1914-15 Star (ES. 1591, J. Marr, Engn., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (1591 E.S. J. Marr. Engn. R.N.R.) good very fine Pair: D. T. Farquhar, Mercantile Marine British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Daniel T. Farquhar) nearly extremely fine Pair: J. Marr, Mercantile Marine British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (John Marr) nearly extremely fine Pair: C. I. Snailham, Mercantile Marine British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (Charles I. Snailham) good very fine (9) £120-£160 --- John Marr was born in Aberdeen on 5 July 1875. A resident of Leith, he served with Royal Naval Reserve from 26 December 1914 and was stationed at the Granton naval base from 4 January 1915 until demobilisation on 3 February 1919. The base initially held 29 trawlers and 3 yachts, employed on patrol work and minesweeping in the Firth of Forth and North Sea, but from 1915, Granton was engaged in the fitting out and operation of “Q” Ships, merchantmen and trawlers fitted with hidden weapons, designed to lure in and destroy enemy submarines at close range. According to the recipient's Service Record, Marr received payment for the salvage of the Norwegian barque Henrik Ibsen from 21-23 November 1916. He was later fortunate to escape with his life when the trawler Ethel Nutten foundered near the Isle of May during a severe north-westerly force 12 storm, whilst under tow of the F.V. Sargon. All crew were saved. Daniel Taylor Farquhar was born at Leith, Midlothian, in 1860. An experienced Ship's Master, his career spanned over 40 years, including a 'close call' reported in The New York Times on 23 November 1901: 'Steamship Dunblane's Cargo Ablaze. St. John's, N. F., Nov. 22 - The fire on board the British steamship Dunblane, Capt. Farquhar, which put in here yesterday on her way from Savannah for Bremen, with part of her cotton cargo aflame, was found to be more serious than at first reported. A large volume of flame is breaking from her No. 3 hold, and the city Fire Department has been working on her all day. It is expected that most of the cargo will have to be discharged, and the crew is now busy throwing bales of charred cotton into the harbor. The vessel will probably be delayed here a long time.’ Charles Ivor Snailham was born in Cardiff in 1893. He served with the Merchant Navy during the Great War and is recorded as a Marine Engineer resident aboard a vessel located at Blackwater Point Dry Dock, Greenwich, at the time of his marriage to Ethel Lewis Howard in 1922. Later noted as a Depot Operator in the 1939 Register, Snailham died on 11 August 1954 at The Royal Masonic Hospital, Hammersmith. Sold with copied research.
Lot 425
Three: Sister Georgina B. Oddy, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, later Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve 1914 Star (G. B. Oddy. B.R.C.S. & O.St.J.J.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Sister G. B. Oddy.) polishing to first, otherwise very fine (3) £400-£500 --- Miss Georgina Bertha Oddy was born in Bolton, Lancashire, on 18 September 1875, the third child of master grocer William Oddy. Educated in her home town, she trained as a nurse at the Lewisham Infirmary in London from June 1900 to July 1903, and then served as Staff Nurse, Ward Sister and Night Superintendent at the West Ham Infirmary until the outbreak of hostilities. Sent to France in October 1914, Miss Oddy witnessed her first posting as Nursing Sister at Calais Unit No. 1, and was likely heavily engaged in caring for vast numbers of Regular Army soldiers wounded during the First Battle of the Marne and subsequent race to the sea. Transferred to the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. as Staff Nurse, and later Sister, she joined No. 14 General Hospital at Wimereux on 13 December 1915, and served aboard the Hospital Ship Copenhagen from 1 January 1916 to 8 March 1916. A former passenger vessel, the newly converted Copenhagen was crewed by 42 medical staff and catered to the needs of up to 254 sick and wounded service personnel. In the spring of 1916, the strain of work began to impact upon Miss Oddy’s own health, and she was admitted to Vincent Square Hospital in central London suffering from pulmonary catarrh. Suffering from pain and extreme discomfort, she made a temporary recovery and returned to France at the end of April 1916, but her Service Record makes clear that her health never fully recovered. Serving in various hospital wards, she thus survived the loss of the Copenhagen which was torpedoed in the North Sea in 1917, and was finally struck off strength in June 1919, her superiors noting, ‘very capable, most reliable and hard working nurse, and very patient and sympathetic with her patients... maintains very good discipline in her ward.’ Given such high regard, Miss Oddy was unsurprisingly Mentioned in Despatches on 10 July 1919. Sold with an excellent and most comprehensive archive of original nursing artefacts, including the recipient’s Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. cape badge, silver, hallmarked Birmingham 1915, by Carrington & Co., London; a contemporary nursing arm band, white linen with felt red cross and white buttons, with hand-written ink date ‘5.7.16’.; an original card dog tag, impressed ‘G. B. Oddy, C.E. S.N. Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.’; two original white metal identity bracelets, named to the recipient; a particularly fine General Nursing Council for England and Wales Nursing Badge by Fattorini of Birmingham, silver and blue enamel, privately engraved to reverse, ‘G. B. Oddy. S.R.N. 177, 30.9.21.’; a heavy white metal Cross of St. John on a similar chain; together with three small framed family portrait photographs and sundry badges and titles.
Lot 682
A fine 'Defence of Ladysmith' Queen's South Africa Medal awarded to Private A. Spray, King's Royal Rifle Corps, who was blown up by a 6-inch shell from a Boer artillery piece commanding high ground to the south of the town, and was later wounded in the knee Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (8601 Pte. A. Spray, K.R.R.C.) small pawnbroker’s mark to obverse, extremely fine £200-£240 --- Arthur Spray was born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, in 1873, the son of lace mender Eliza Spray. He attested for the King's Royal Rifle Corps at Birmingham on 20 June 1894 and was posted from depot to the 4th Battalion at Winchester on 22 October 1894. For reasons unknown, Spray absconded just before Christmas Day in 1895, and spent almost a month on the run from the military authorities. Placed in confinement on 21 January 1896, he was tried by the District Court Martial and found guilty of desertion and loss of equipment resulting in 30 days' imprisonment with hard labour. Remarkably, less than a year later, Spray returned to the cells when given a further 14 days' hard labour on 10 December 1896, but the unexpired portion of his punishment was remitted upon Spray's agreement to transfer to the 2nd Battalion, and he headed to South Africa forthwith. According to the recipient's Army Service Record, Spray served three terms in South Africa, from 15 December 1896 to 5 April 1899, 18 September 1899 to 26 July 1900, and 11 December 1901 to 9 October 1902. These were separated by five months in India and a brief spell back in England. Most importantly, Spray was present throughout the Siege of Ladysmith in Northern Natal, from 2 November 1899 to 27 February 1900, and returned home to give a rare firsthand account which was published in The Nottinghamshire Guardian on 28 July 1900: 'A Nottingham Soldier's Experience At the invitation of Mr. Godfrey L. Evans, a meeting was held on Tuesday on the lawn of his residence, Hamilton-road, the chief object of the gathering being to hear an address by Private A. Spray, of the 2nd King's Royal Rifles, on "The Siege of Ladysmith..." He said that many of the soldiers looked like scarecrows, having gone seven days without a wash and with no change of underclothing. "Gentleman Joe," the name of a gun, sent his first shot on the morning of November 27th, just after breakfast, and another shell struck the ground a few feet in front of where the speaker was standing, sank six feet, and then exploded, blowing up the rough sun-shelter, and scattering the men right and left, but hurting no-one. The speaker described the various battles in which he had taken part, and the circumstances under which he was wounded in the knee. After the 6th of January, when the Boers were supposed to have lost only a few men, he saw them carting their dead and wounded all day long, under the white flag. The lecturer then described, in vivid fashion, the scene when the relief column came to Ladysmith, and said that the invalids were splendidly treated on board the hospital ship, Lismore Castle, on their way home...' Spray was particularly fortunate that the 96-pound shell from the French-manufactured creusot gun "Gentleman Joe" had failed to find its mark, for other similar weapons including "Long Tom" and "Puffing Billy" had delivered a particularly intense barrage from 8 to 9 a.m. that morning. Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege points to a most unpleasant incident not far away, and taking place just minutes earlier: 'This morning a Kaffir was working for the Army Service Corps (being at that moment engaged in kneading a pancake), when a small shell hit him full in the mouth, passed clean through his head, and burst on the ground beyond.' Referring to the events of 6 January 1900, Spray's life was saved once again when large numbers of Boers, encouraged by President Kruger, launched a major attack on Ladysmith designed to overwhelm the garrison and take the town. At Wagon Hill, a confused and fierce fight took place in the dark between the Boers and the men of the King's Royal Rifles, Gordon Highlanders and Imperial Light Horse, supported by a hotchkiss gun. The enemy retreated but the siege prevailed, and by mid-January 1900, the remaining cavalry horses had to be shot for food.
Lot 550
A fine Naval General Service Medal 1793-1840 awarded to Captain G. Cheyne, Royal Navy, who, having been taken prisoner following the Seagull’s ‘glorious resistance of 2 hours and 30 minutes’ against a far superior Danish flotilla off Norway in June 1808, was ‘employed with the Army under the Duke of Wellington near Bayonne’ in February-August 1814 - but only after he had managed to pass ‘the fearful bar of the Adour in an open boat with five men’, an example of ‘dashing intrepidity’ that won the admiration of his Admiral Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (George Cheyne, Lieut. R.N.) minor edge nicks, better than very fine £2,400-£2,800 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2007. George Cheyne was baptised at St. Andrew’s Church, Edinburgh in March 1788 and entered the Royal Navy as a Midshipman in the Texel on 12 October 1804. Removing to the Seagull of 16 guns and 94 men, as Master’s Mate, under Commander Robert Cathcart, in September 1805, he was subsequently present at her loss off Norway: ‘The latter vessel was captured off the coast of Norway 19 June 1808, by a powerful Danish force, consisting of the Lougen, of 20 guns and 160 men, and of six gunboats, all heavily armed and manned, after a glorious resistance of two hours and 30 minutes, in which she lost eight men killed and 20 wounded, and was reduced to a sinking state. Mr. Cheyne was, with the rest of his shipmates, taken prisoner and confined until the following October’ (O’Byrne refers). A rather more informative account of this action, namely the official report submitted by Commander Cathcart, was published in the London Gazette of 17-20 September 1808: ‘I beg leave to acquaint you, that in His Majesty’s sloop Seagull, under my command, yesterday at 2 p.m., off Norway bearing W.N.W. seven or eight leagues, I discovered a brig inshore running to the eastward, and immediately made all sail in chase of her; at half-past four we came within gunshot and hoisted our Colours, which she answered by hoisting Danish Colours and opening fire on the starboard side. At this time it became nearly calm from a fresh breeze we had at W.S.W. and which obliged us to get our sweeps out, in order to get between her and the shore. At five we got within musket-shot of the enemy and commenced action; having now most of our sweeps shot away and a great part of the rigging. At twenty minutes past five we discovered several gunboats coming towards us, which had been concealed behind the rocks; and it being perfect calm, they had every advantage they could with in placing them. They took their position on each quarter, raking us every shot, while the brig had the same advantage on the larboard bow. At half-past six five of our carronades were dismounted on the larboard side (the only side we could bring to bear on the enemy), and several of the officers and crew killed or wounded. Every method was used to get the Seagull round, so as to bring the starboard guns to bear, but without effect; with our sweeps being all shot away, the gunboats hulling us every shot they fired, five feet of water in the hold, and all our sails and rigging cut to pieces, at half-past seven, from the sinking state of the ship, and also the great slaughter made by the gunboats, I considered it an indispensable duty for the preservation of the surviving officers and crew, to order the Colours to be hauled down. I have the satisfaction to acquaint you, there was scarcely sufficient time to remove the wounded out of the Seagull before she sunk. The force opposed to her was the Danish brig of war Lougen, mounting 20 guns (18 long-18-pounders and two long-6-pounders); six gunboats, most of them carrying two 20-pounders and from 50 to 70 men each. The action was fought close to the mouth of the harbour of Christiansand. I cannot speak in terms adequate to the defence of every officer and man under my command on this trying occasion. I received that support from Mr. Hatton, the First Lieutenant, I had every reason to expect from his general good conduct; and the officers and crew have my warmfelt thanks for their cool and steady behaviour; and I consider it a duty I owe them, to add, that never was more British valour displayed than on this occasion, although opposed to so very superior a force. The enemy must have suffered very considerably, but I have not been able to ascertain to what extent. Several of the Danes perished on board the Seagull, so precipitately did she go down; I herewith send to you a list of the killed and wounded on board the said sloop.’ Following his release in October 1808, Cheyne joined the Nightingale, under Captain William Wilkinson, while his subsequent appointments in the Ganymede (1809-10) and Alexandria (1810-11) were under his old C.O., Robert Cathcart, the whole on the Home or Baltic Stations; so, too, his time in the Victory under Sir James Saumarez (1812). Advanced to Lieutenant in the Defiance in December 1813, he removed in the same month to the Porcupine, under Captain John Coode and, in February 1814, to the sloop Woodlark. It was in this latter capacity, using a Spanish boat ‘destined to assist the operations of the Army under Marquess of Wellington’, that he made his courageous crossing of the ‘fearful bar’ of the Adour (Rear-Admiral Penrose’s despatch, as per London Gazette 15 March 1814, refers). Those duties discharged, Cheyne joined the Queen in the Mediterranean that September, prior to removing to another command of John Coode, the Albion, in December 1815, and in her was present at the bombardment of Algiers. Cheyne came ashore when the Albion was paid-off in May 1819, was advanced to Commander that August and, on half-pay, to post-rank in April 1832. Sold with extensive copied research.
Lot 611
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (I, Middleton, 14th. Lgt. Drgns.) note first initial, minor edge knock, light contact marks and polishing, otherwise nearly very fine £300-£400 --- John Middleton attested for the 14th (The King’s) Regiment of Light Dragoons and served in Meerut, India, from 1 January 1851. He fought at Rathghur from 24 to 28 January, 1858; Barodia from 30 January 1858; Garrokota Pass from 13 February 1858; Mundesore from 25 March 1858; Betwa from 1 April 1858; Jhansi from 3 April 1858; Koonch from 7 May 1858; Golowlee from 16 May 1858; Calpi from 23 May 1858; Morar from 16 June 1858,; and Gwalior from 20 June 1858. He was discharged at his own request not long thereafter.
Lot 262
A fine and rare Second War Landing Craft Gun C.G.M. group of six awarded to Able Seaman T. H. R. Hills, Royal Navy, who took over as the coxswain of L.C.G.12 in Operation “FERDY” the fiercely opposed landings on the Italian Coast at Vibo Valentia; when an enemy shell burst just above the bridge leaving him the only person alive on the bridge, he took control and steered the craft through bursting shells and ammunition out of range of the enemy’s guns and brought her to safety Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, G.VI.R. (A.B. T. H. R. Hills. C/JX. 373402); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, these last five privately engraved ‘A.B. T. H. R. Hills C.G.M. C/JX. 373402’, nearly extremely fine (6) £10,000-£14,000 --- C.G.M. London Gazette 25 January 1944: ‘For gallantry, leadership and undaunted devotion to duty under heavy and continuous fire from the enemy during landings on the Italian mainland.’ Conspicuous Gallantry Medal. ‘Able Seaman Thomas Henry Richard Hills, C/JX.372402 Able Seaman Hills was serving in a Landing Craft which was heavily damaged by a shell which burst just over the bridge. All the officers were killed or badly wounded and he was the only man left alive on the bridge. With complete coolness he took control and steered the craft through bursting shells and ammunition out of range of the enemy’s guns and brought her to safety.’ The original recommendation for this award in Admiralty Honours and Awards file H&A 1257/43 is in the National Archives under reference ADM1/14593 - Operations “Baytown” and “Ferdy” awards to personnel for services in support of the invasion of Sicily (sic). It reads: ‘L.C.G.12 - Operation “BAYTOWN” L.C.G.12 at “Ferdy”. This rating was the only person left alive on the bridge of L.C.G.12 at “Ferdy”. He took charge and brought L.C.G.12 out of range of the enemy’s guns.’ Fleet Honours Committee, Commodore Parker, 31st October, 1943, noted: ‘Concur. Propose Conspicuous Gallantry Medal. An outstanding act of gallantry and devotion to duty.’ Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, Admiral A. B. Cunningham, 2nd November, 1943, also noted: ‘Fully concur with the recommendation of the H & A Committee.’ Able Seaman Thomas Henry Richard Hills received his award of the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal at an Investiture on 19 November 1946. Operations “Baytown” and “Ferdy” Vibo Valentia is high up the ‘foot’ of Italy, midway between Reggio Calabria and Cosenza. Two landing attacks were planned by the Allies in September 1943, first across the Straits of Messina in operation “Baytown”, the first landing on the Italian mainland, and then further up the coast in operation “Ferdy” at Vibo Valentia. These were planned to disrupt enemy activities and to hasten their retreat north. Operation “Ferdy” was originally scheduled to take place on 6 September 1943. The object was to land 231 Brigade at Gioja, some miles behind enemy lines. This would help speed up the advance of XIII Corps, interfere with the enemy’s programme of withdrawal and road demolition, and, in the words of Flag Officer Sicily, ‘put some Germans in the bag’. Operation “Ferdy” was put into action on Tuesday 7 September, when the assembled force proceeded at 1830, to sail so as to arrive at Vibo Valentia Marina at 0530 on D-Day, 8 September. Paul Lund and Harry Ludlum take up the story in their War of the Landing Craft in the aptly named chapter The Guns of Vibo Valentia: ‘It had been thought that the landing at Vibo Valentia would be well behind the enemy’s lines and would only meet with slight opposition. But [...] the van of the German withdrawal happened to be passing when the landing occurred and this accounted for the large number of guns and machine guns brought to bear… And then it came, with a sound so full of bitter, impersonal hatred… the LCT’s ran the gauntlet of shell-fire into the harbour. The air was full of the sharp crack of the guns and the almost instantaneous explosion of the shells, which gave no preliminary whistle, for these were high velocity German 88-millimetre guns. We continued to stand, silent, clustered together in the tank space, watching the approach of several more landing craft, one of which carried a cargo of ammunition. As she now waddled towards the shore shells began to fall on either side of her. “Christ” said a low voice, “she only needs to get the next lot in that ammo, and there’ll be fuck-all left.” “There’ll be fuck all left of any of us, mate, if that lot goes up,” added another. But as we awaited what seemed like the inevitable fate of that LCT, there suddenly broke out to seaward the sound of gunfire followed by bursts of Oerlikon and pom-pom fire, which immediately drew the attention of the German gunners and dramatically eased the situation for the LCTs… It transpired that an LCG and an LCF had closed the shore and begun to engage the enemy defences. It was twelve minutes past six when LCG 12 opened fire with her two four-point-sevens at the battery of mobile German 88s, while LCF 4 sprayed the woods above the town where machine-gun nests were giving trouble. The effect of this intervention was instantaneous for the German gunners at once turned their attention on the LCG with her greater fire power and began to score hits. But LCG 12 stood her ground and continued to fire and so give the landing craft a chance to make good their escape from the harbour. Later[…] looking through their binoculars where LCG 12 had ceased firing. “She’s under way and she’s badly damaged” Snagge said. The three of us watched in silence as the LCG slowly headed away from the shore. As we made our way down the Italian coast with the warmth of the sun on our backs, each of us knew how much we owed to LCG 12. Months later, bit by bit, we heard the full story of Operation Ferdy and the part that LCG 12 and the LSTs and support craft had played. For 38 minutes LCG 12 had engaged the enemy shore batteries and during that time she was hit several times. Then, at 6:50 a.m. after most of the LSTs had left the beach, a shell exploded above the bridge killing all the craft’s officers and many of the crew. It was at that moment, when conditions aboard the gun craft had reached a critical state, with no one in control, with both her guns out of action and still under heavy fire, that Ordinary Seaman T. H. Hills with great presence of mind and under considerable difficulty took the craft out to sea and to safety. His coolness saved the LCG and the lives of the rest of her company. And the distraction that LCG 12 had provided during those 38 minutes had allowed nearly all the 16 LCTs to escape – only one being hit. But the operation was successful in fulfilling its main object for it greatly increased the speed of the enemy withdrawal and hardly a bridge was demolished on the long road to Sapri.’ Sold with copied research including Admiralty recommendation and extracts from various publications.
Lot 416
Pair: Private G. R. Arthur, Shanghai Volunteer Corps China 1900, no clasp (Pte. G. R. Arthur Shanghai Vols.) initials and surname unofficially re-engraved, the rank and unit officially impressed; Shanghai Volunteer Corps Long Service Medal, silver, the reverse engraved ‘G. R. Arthur Act. 1900-1901, 1903-1907, 1912-1916.’, edge bruising to first, this nearly very fine; the latter good very very fine (2) £400-£500
Lot 223
A Great War C.B.E., M.C., group of five awarded to Chaplain to the Forces First Class, The Reverend J. Carden, Army Chaplains’ Department, who was robbed and murdered in Cairo by a local fruit hawker and his accomplice The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander's 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (Rev. J. Carden. A.C.D.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Rev. J. Carden.) mounted as worn, good very fine and better (5) £1,800-£2,200 --- C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919: 'For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in France.' M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916. Portugal, Kingdom, Order of Christ, Commander, London Gazette 7 October 1919. John Carden was born Gustav John Hessenauer at Wurtemberg on 22 March 1882, the son of Gustav John Hessenauer, a commercial clerk, and his wife, Annie Louisa Redman, of 71 Brailsford Road, Lambeth, Surrey. Educated at Canterbury Cathedral School and Dulwich College, he was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church at St. Joseph's, Roehampton, on 18 January 1903. A year later he entered St. Augustine's House, Walworth, to prepare to enter Seminary, transferring to St. John's at Wonersh to study for the priesthood on 1 September 1905. Ordained a priest for the Diocese of Southwark, Hessenauer took up his first appointment at a parish in Chatham on 6 April 1910. Appointed Temporary Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, on the outbreak of hostilities, he served in France and Belgium from 9 May 1915 and was decorated with the Military Cross. Raised Assistant Principal Chaplain, and later Temporary Chaplain to the Forces, 1st Class, his good work was further recognised in Sir Douglas Haig's despatch of 16 March 1919. A little before this time, Father Hessenauer changed his name by deed poll to Carden; all of his awards, save his M.C., were gazetted to him as John Carden. Retained in the service as Chaplain to the Forces, Carden was posted to Egypt as Senior Catholic Chaplain in 1924. Appointed Chaplain to the Forces, 2nd Class, and posted to Headquarters, Southern Command, as Assistant Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain, he was raised Chaplain to the Forces, 1st Class, on 1 March 1931, before taking retirement and taking residence at Cairo in the spring of 1932. Two years later he was murdered. An extract from the Daily Mail describes the incident: 'The victim is a former Roman Catholic chaplain in the British Army, Father John Carden, aged 51, who resigned his commission two years ago. Last June he came to live in Egypt. Early this morning his unclothed body was found by a servant in a bedroom of the lonely villa which he rented at Helmich, a Cairo suburb, with the head almost severed. An old razor blade was wedged fast in the wound in his throat and his chest bore terrible slashes as evidence of the desperate struggle he must have waged against his assassins. Police inquiry reveals that robbery was apparently the motive of the crime, as drawers had been emptied and papers ransacked in Father Carden's house.' Sold with extensive copied research.
Lot 189
Five: Sergeant J. Shea, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (... J. Shea. 2/D. of Corn ...) naming partially obscured from heavy contact marks; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg (1583 Corl. J. Shea 2: D. of C. Lt. Inft.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1583 Serjt: J. Shea. D. of C.L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1583. L/Cpl. J. Shea. D. of Corn: L.I.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1884-6, unnamed as issued, heavy pitting and contact marks to the Egypt pair, with suspension claw on first very loose, these therefore fair to fine; the rest good very fine (5) £400-£500 --- John Shea was born in Whitechapel, London, in 1866 and attested as a Musician for the 35th Brigade at Bodmin on 1 December 1880, aged 14. Posted to the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, he served with the 2nd Battalion in Egypt and the Sudan during the Nile Expedition 1884-85, and in South Africa during the Boer War 1899-1902, and was discharged with the rank of Lance-Sergeant (Bandsman) on 5 September 1902. Sold with copied service papers.
Lot 862
Four: Prison Officer First Class J. Chikore, Zimbabwe Prison Service Zimbabwe, Independence Medal 1980 (4143); Prison Service Long and Exemplary Service Medal (907568 PO1 J. Chikore); Ten Year Service Medal (907568 P.O.1. Chikore J.); Rhodesia, Prison Service Medal (7568 Wdr. J. Chikore) some staining, good very fine Three: Section Commander T. A. V. Gava, Zimbabwe Police Zimbabwe, Independence Medal 1980 (55604); Rhodesia, General Service Medal (17085 Section Officer. T. A. V. Gava); Police Long Service Medal (017085 P/O T. A. V. Gava) mounted for wear, very fine Pair: Constable Kundishora, Rhodesian Police Rhodesia, General Service Medal (13935 Const. Kundishora); Police Long Service Medal (13935 Const. Kundishora) edge bruise to first, very fine Pair: Reserve Police Officer K. S. Cross, Rhodesian Police Reserve Rhodesia, General Service Medal (8408N R/P/O K. S. Cross); Police Reserve Long Service Medal (8408N K. S. Cross) very fine (11) £180-£220
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