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Lot 35
Paul Henry RHA (1876 - 1958) A Cottage in Kerry 1933-5 Oil on board, 29 x 39.5cm (11½ x 15½") Signed Provenance: Private collection, Dublin Exhibited: Recent Paintings of Kerry and Connemara by Paul Henry, R.H.A., Combridge's Gallery, Dublin, from 7 May 1935 (14); Paul Henry: Retrospective Exhibition, Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, and Belfast Museum & Art Gallery, Belfast, May-July 1957 (57) Literature: S. B. Kennedy, Paul Henry: with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 267, catalogue number 843, reproduced. This is almost certainly a scene in Co. Kerry, where Paul Henry took a holiday in September 1934. Judged stylistically, too, it must date from around this time. Henry liked Kerry, which he had first visited only a year or eighteen months earlier. 'Wherever one turns there is material for dozens of pictures,' he wrote to a friend in the United States. Basing himself near Glenbeigh, he explored the Dingle Peninsula, which reminded him of Cape Cod. He was happy at the time and derived much stimulus from his Kerry trip. Later, painting in the studio from sketches done on the spot, he worked on pictures for his 1935 exhibition at the Combridge Gallery, his Dublin dealer at the time. The exhibition was a financial success and was well received by the Dublin newspapers, the Irish Press (7 May 1935), for example, commenting on the 'paler key' of these new pictures over much of his earlier work, a change that reflected the artist's more settled domestic life at the time. These developments are clear to be seen in A Cottage in Kerry, in which the paint has lost much of its dryness of earlier years and has become more fluid. The palette, too, is brighter in tone and the umbers and darkish olive greens that characterise Henry's work of the late 1920s and early 1930s have also gone. Here the artist is clearly at ease in himself and enjoying the very act of painting. Dr. S.B. Kennedy, 2012
Lot 36
Paul Henry RHA RUA (1876-1958) The Bog at Evening Oil on Canvas, 76 x 91cm (30 x 36") Signed Provenance: Combridge's Fine Art Dublin, Henry Lee Shattuck, Boston Exhibited: "Exhibition of Pictures by Paul and Grace Henry", Magee's Gallery Belfast, April, 1923; "Paul Henry", NGI, Dublin, 19 February - 18 May 2003, Catalogue No. 71 Literature: S.B. Kennedy, "Paul Henry", NGI, Dublin, 2003, pp. 100-2, illustrated; S.B. Kennedy, "Paul Henry - Paintings, drawings, illustration", Yale, 2007, Catalogue Raisonne No. 591 As with many artists, a good number of Paul Henry's paintings are known by more than one title. This often makes for difficulties in precisely identifying them, although contemporary press reviews (which are usually more detailed than those of today) of the artist's exhibitions often help in this regard, Thus, for example, the "Northern Whig" (12 April 1923) in its review of Henry's 1923 Exhibition at Magee's Gallery, Belfast, commented on a composition called "The Bog at Evening" in a manner which exactly describes this picture: "the black peat-stacks", it said, "stand out against the dim brown of the bog, and the curves of their shapes are repeated and magnified in the curves of the mountains, and of the clouds that tower above them". It continued: "The repetition of these curves gives a sense of rhythm to the design, and the fine purple of the mountains is enriched by the contrast with the blacks and browns of the foreground". Despite also being known as "Evening on an Achill Bog" (a label on the reverse of the frame, but not in the artist's hand, bears this title), it seems likely that this picture is indeed "The Bog at Evening" which Henry exhibited in 1923. The first owner of the picture, H. L. Shattuck, who also owned another Henry painting, "A Mountain Village" (no in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), almost certainly acquired it from the exhibition of "Contemporary Irish Art", held at Grace Horne's Gallery, Boston, in May 1929. At any rate, "The Bog at Evening" shows Henry at the height of his powers. There is an absence of all human activity, his attention is focused firmly on the landscape and his handling of paint and treatment of the scene have become slightly codified, with a suffuse sense of stillness, even of timelessness - in this respect compare, for example, his "In the West of Ireland" (National Gallery of Ireland), which also dates from the 1920's - in a manner that typifies much of his oeuvre hereafter. Although one cannot be certain, the setting is most probably Connemara, and my be Achill Island. The size of the composition is unusual for Henry, as is the degree of impasto employed throughout, but these elements serve to illustrate confidence and vigour of the artist's early years in Dublin, The handling of colour is particularly subtle, the pinks and warm creams in the cloud formations contrasting with the cooler cobalt blues elsewhere in the sky, while the juxtaposition of the purple mountains and the yellow cornfield in the middle distance is distinctly Post-Impressionist in concept and recalls the artist's time in Paris. The foreground, too, despite, the predominance, of the umbers, browns and blacks of soft earth, is a myriad of pinks and other hues and the reflections in the foreground pool lead the eye back into the composition and ultimately splendour of the sky. A label on the reverse of the frame notes: 'Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, T.L. 3682, H.L. Shattuck.' Dr. S.B. Kennedy
Lot 65
John Butler Yeats RHA (1859-1922) In a Gondola Gouache, 33 x 47cm (13 x 18.5") Signed and extensively inscribed on artist's label verso Provenance: Inherited by the current owner Exhibited : 1901 Hone - Yeats Loan Exhibition in Dubin Literature: "The prodigal Father" by William Murphy P116 and P232 This is one of two works that the poet Dr John Todhunter commissioned from John Butler Yeats based on Brownings series of narrative poems "Bells and pomegranates". The first commission was given in 1870 "Pippa Passes" and is now in the Collection of The National Gallery of Ireland (Ref 3531). Brownings poems tell how a girl from Asolo spends her New Years holiday passing through the lives of others ,passing through their lives,imagining herself into their situations and so influencing them. It took 2 years for the first commission to reach Todhunter. Yeats met and made a lifelong friendship with the John Todhunter while at Trinity College (1857 - 62) . Todhunter was a gifted dilettante who started life in a grocery firm but then decided to become a Doctor and through his interest in music,poetry and philosophy brought him into the company of John. At the time of painting this picture Yeats was sharing a studio with Edwin Ellis at. No. 74 Newman Strret,London near J.T. Nettleship - a member of the informal artistic brotherhood they had set up who recently published a collection of essays on Browning's poetry. The brotherhood declared a common interest in Blake,Browning and the Pre-Raphaelite ideals as well as a belief in the solitary nature of the artist. Browning saw "Pippa Passes" at Todhunters and called on Yeats,who was out and never returned Brownings call. It had also been admired by Rossetti who invited Yeats to visit but again Yeats due to the awe in which he held Rossetti never took up the invitation. The model for Pippa in both this work and "Pippa Passes" has been identified as Nelly Whelan. This later work was also in Todhunters possession when Browning called and Todhunter lent both to the very successful 1901 Hone-Yeats exhibition that was organized by Sarah Purser and included 44 works by John Butler Yeats and 28 works by Hone. There is a label verso inscribed with a stanza from Robert Browning's In a Gondola "Care no for the coward, care only to put aside thy beauteous hair, my blood will hurt"
Lot 4
A First World War Pair, awarded to T.Z.11756 F.DEIGHTON. R.N.V.R., comprising British War Medal and Victory Medal, with dog tags; a Second World War Trio, comprising 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star and War Medal, in box of issue addressed to J.A.B.Jackson, Leeds, together with King`s Badge, three other badges and a lapel pip
Lot 5
A First World War Pair, awarded to 796729 GNR.S.W.CARR. R.A., comprising British War Medal and Victory Medal; a Second World War Group of Four Medals, comprising 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence and War Medals; a Silver Gilt and Enamel Medallion, to the Past President of the Faculty of Teachers in Commerce, hallmarks for Birmingham 1932 (7)
Lot 6
A First World War Gallantry Group of Three Medals, awarded to 107315 SPR.H.STOREY. R.E., comprising Military Medal, British War Medal and Victory Medal, together with a framed award certificate, and two sweetheart badges; a Second World War Group of Five Medals, awarded to 14612462 PTE.D.STOREY. D.W.R., comprising 1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medal and General Service Medal 1918-62 with clasp PALESTINE 1945-48 (11)
Lot 18
A Very Interesting First/Second World War Gallantry Group of Seven Medals, awarded to G-495 PTE.(later SJT) H.HAVERS. 11/MIDDX:R., comprising Distinguished Conduct Medal (George V) with bar (London Gazette 22.01.1916 & 3.09.1918), 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal, Defence Medal, Coronation Medal 1953 and Royal Household Faithful Service Medal (Elizabeth II) 1940-1960, together with a German trench knife, a St Christopher`s medal, an EV enamelled stick pin (a gift from Queen Ina of Spain), a silver mounted swagger stick, a breast badge, a mother of pearl button engraved with a crowned GR cypher, a hat brush and a clothes brush, each with wood back brand stamped with crowned A (as used by Prince Albert Duke of York), two packs of playing cards with GVIR cypher to the backs, a photograph album with group photographs of First World War British and German soldiers, a volume of Red Aces by Edgar Wallace signed by Elizabeth, Duchess of York (later the Queen Mother), a volume of Sassoon, The Worlds of Philip and Sybil and a folio of research material and related ephemera including Royal correspondence, copies of supplements to the London Gazette, letters of congratulation, thanks and reference **Herbert Havers led a very interesting life. He grew up in London and was employed by the Countess of Lovelace until he joined the 11th Middlesex Regiment at the outbreak of the First World War. He won the first DCM in October 1915 and the bar in March 1918. After the war he returned to service in noble households, eventually working for Viscount Carisbrooke. He left the Carisbrookes in 1934 for the job of running the Park Lane home of Sir Philip Sassoon until his death in 1939. He then accepted the position of Steward at Royal Lodge, Windsor where he became a great favourite with the Royal Family. He served with the Home Guard in the Second World War
Lot 19
A First World War Trio, awarded to 21109 PTE.T.C.BENNETT. GLOUC.R. (later Military Police), with dog tag, silver War Badge, silver pique decorated tortoiseshell sweetheart brooch, cap badge, shoulder title, four other badges and related ephemera including diary relating his time during the Dardanelles campaign, Certificate of Discharge in consequence of being physically unfit for service and Honourable Discharge certificate dated 10th May 1917 etc
Lot 20
A First World War Pair, awarded to 34230 PTE.F.W.KINCHIN. YORK.R., of British War Medal and Victory Medal; a Single Victory Medal, to 49266 PTE.H.BAUM. DEVON R.; a Second World War RAF Group of Five Medals, of 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with clasp NORTH AFRICA 1942-43, Italy Star, Defence and War Medals in cardboard box of issue with medal slip; a 1939-45 War Medal, a Princess Mary 1914 Christmas tin, and a Corona Ware pottery photograph holder
Lot 21
A First World War Trio, awarded to S-5158. PTE. W.M.WILLIAMSON. A.& S.HIGHRS., comprising 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, with Memorial Plaque, to WILLIAM WILLIAMSON, an Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders glengarry badge, an embroidered silk postcard ``from Willie``, a Soldier`s Bible and a small quantity of stamps, in an Anvil toffee tin
Lot 22
The Robinson Family at War:- A First World War Pair of British War Medal and Victory Medal and Memorial Plaque, to 30608 PTE.A.(ARTHUR) ROBINSON DURH.L.I., another Pair to J.77687 R.T.ROBINSON. R.N. (HMS Monarch & HMS Victory); a Memorial Plaque, to 32/649 Private ALFRED ROBINSON, 17th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers, together with photographs and ephemera
Lot 23
A First World War Pair, of British War Medal and Victory Medal, with Defence Medal, to J.70636 F.EMMERSON. ORD. R.N., with portrait photographs, a newspaper cutting, Home Guard Citation and diagrams showing the Surrender of the German High Seas Fleet 21.11.18 and the Disposition of the Grand Fleet escorting them into the Firth of Forth
Lot 25
An Africa General Service Medal, with clasp KENYA, awarded to 23126285 CFN.J.CALL R.E.M.E.; a First World War Pair, to PLY.17939, PTE.F.McMANUS, R.M.L.I., of 1914-15 Star and Victory Medal; a British War Medal, to 107548 SPR.J.E.BELL. R.E.; a Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, to IRVIN BUNTMAN; Militaria:- two King`s War Badges; three Royal commemorative medals; an Erection Grand Lodge State of Israel breast badge - cased; two Fourteenth Army insignia, four Royal West Africa Frontier Force shoulder strap titles and two cap badges
Lot 28
A First World War Trio, awarded to CAPT.L(Lancelot) BECK, of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers, (City of London Regiment), comprising British War Medal, Victory Medal and Territorial Force War Medal, together with his dog tags, two group photographs, his commission and a brass Trench Art miniature ewer, six tankards and a tray
Lot 31
A First World War Gallantry Group of Four Medals, awarded to L-15546 CPL.C.J.THOMPSON. R.FUS., comprising Military Medal, 1914 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, together with letter of congratulation for being awarded the Military Medal, two Character Certificates, a Certificate of Transfer to B Reserve and Discharge Certificate. Also a typed document describing his act of desertion, subsequent capture, trial and sentence to be reduced to the rank of Private on 3rd February 1920 and transferred to B Army Reserve. Charles James Thompson had one wound stripe, one red chevron and three blues
Lot 34
A First World War Pair, awarded to 130320D.A. E SHIMMIN. D.H. R.N.R. comprising British War Medal and Victory Medal; a Second World War Royal Navy Group of Four Medals, comprising 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, Burma Star and War Medal, with medal slip, two British Minesweeping/anti-submarine badges and two cloth insignia
Lot 37
Four Groups of Medals Relating to the Jago Family in the First and Second World War: a Trio, to Captain Edwin Osborne Jago, Gloucestershire Regiment, comprising British War Medal, Victory Medal and Defence Medal, mounted in a glazed display with portrait photograph, cap badge, ARP badge and 7 Years Service National Savings badge; a French Medaille Militaire 1870 and Croix de Guerre, to Paul Denoeud (whose sister was married to the above), set in a glazed display against an overpainted photograph; a Group of Four, to Pilot Officer Paul Osborne Jago RAF, comprising 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Defence and War Medal, in a glazed display with portrait photograph, breast insignia and biography 19/4/1920 - 20/8/1940, While serving with 8 Bomber Squadron in Aden, he was shot down over Abyssinia, aged 20, together with research material; a Group of Four, to Captain Claude Ashley Jago, Royal Artillery and Air Observation Post Squadrons RAF 1940-46, comprising 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence and War Medal, with portrait photograph, cap badge, breast insignia and biography (4)
Lot 38
Two Boy Scout Medals of Merit, awarded to Clifford Cookson, 13.2.35, the first centred by a fleur de lys set onto a swastika, the second of typical circular form pierced and set with a fleur de lys, in cases of issue. **The first medal was recalled when Adolf Hitler adapted the swastika as the Nazi emblem. Clifford refused to return it, so he had to have the brooch pin broken and was forbidden to wear it.
Lot 52
A First World War Group of Four Medals, awarded to K.7184, W.W.CURTIS, ACT.L.STO.R.N., comprising a Russian Cross of St George, 4th Class, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, together with Certificate of Service named to Walter Wilfred Curtis and Qualifications in Stoker Ratings certificate (6)
Lot 67
Denis Pannett - Bert Hinkler`s Record Solo Flight from Brazil to Bathurst on the West African coast in his De Havilland Puss Moth, signed watercolour, 17cm by 26.5cm, together with a biography of the pilot and a folder of associated ephemera, including four First Day Covers; a Framed Associated First Day Cover. (3)
Lot 155
A German Third Reich War Merit Cross with Swords, First Class, with sword shape pin, in case of issue; a German Third Reich Anti-Aircraft War Badge, in white metal, with vertical needle pin, hinge and C hook; a German Third Reich DAK Pith Helmet Eagle, in white metal, with three flat pins, in case of issue (3)
Lot 219
A Copy of a First World War Military Issue Kukri, the curved steel blade stamped COI arrowhead over I G L 1917 37, with brass mounted wood grip and leather scabbard; three Indian Kukris, each with wood grip and leather scabbard; a Small Knife, the blade stamped Magnus Hansen, with carved wood grip and leather sheath (5)
Lot 523
A Black Painted Cast Iron Model of a Signal Cannon, non-working, the 61cm triple banded tapering barrel with cylindrical trunnions and pierced cylindrical cascabel, on a teak carriage with four wheels, set with a plaque engraved ``From the teak of H.M.S.WARRIOR, the World`s First Iron Clad, Iron Built Battleship``, overall length 70cm
Lot 45
A Great War ‘Aubers Ridge’ Casualty Group of Four to Private G. Wheeler of the 4th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, 1914-15 Star (2531 Pte. G. Wheeler Sea:Highrs), British War and Victory Medals (2531 Pte. G. Wheeler. Seaforth.), Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Gerald Wheeler). 2531 Private Gerald Mardon Wheeler, Son of Alfred Henry and Elizabeth Wheeler of 24 Stanley Road, Oxford, fell on the 9th of May 1915, aged 18 years, he has no known grave, but is Remembered with Honour at the Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais. Westlake’s ‘Battalions on the Western Front 1915’. May - Moved up into Rue du Bois trenches between the 5th and 8th. Took part in attack on Aubers Ridge on 9th. WD records leading company going over the top wearing gas masks at 5.30 am. A letter from one member of the battalion that was published in ‘The Morning Post’ noted how ‘C’ Coy got up, scrambled, with the aid of many hands, from the trenches and flung themselves over the parapet. Immediately an absolute hail of bullets met them - ‘...down, backwards and forwards’. Moving slowly forward foot by foot the attackers trod - ‘through grass in many places even then soaking with blood’. Battalion relieved and withdrew to billest near Riez Bailleul. Total casualties - 216 including Lt’s CG Tennant, AT Railton and 2nd Lt S Bastin killed. Moved to Vielle Chapelle on 11th... The Memorial in Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l’Avoue, is one of those erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to record the names of the officers and men who fell in the Great War and whose graves are not known. It serves the area enclosed on the North by the river Lys and a line drawn from Estaires to Fournes, and on the South by the old Southern boundary of the First Army about Grenay. It covers the period from the arrival of the II Corps in Flanders in 1914, to the eve of the Battle of Loos. It does not include the names of officers and men of Canadian or Indian regiments (they are found on the Memorials at Vimy and Neuve-Chapelle) and those lost at the Battle of Aubers Ridge, 9 May 1915, who were involved in the Northern Pincer (the 7th, 8th and 49th Divisions - they are commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial). The names of those commemorated are listed on panels set into the walls of the court and the gallery, arranged by Regiment, Rank and alphabetically by surname within the rank. Over 13,000 names are listed on the memorial of men who fell in this area before 25 September 1915 and who have no known grave.View on dnfa.com
Lot 47
A Rare Emotive Great War Family Collection of Medals to the Peachey Brothers of Newbury, Berkshire. A Great War Group of Three to Private A. W. Peachey, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1914-15 Star (10526 Pte. A. W. Peachey. R.A.M.C.) British War and Victory Medals (15619 Pte A. W. Peachey. R.A.M.C.). A Great War Casualty Group of Three to Private W. J. Peachey, 8th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, British War and Victory Medals (10526 Pte. W. J. Peachey. R. Berks. R.) Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Wilfred John Peachey). Lance Corporal Wilfred Peachey Fell on the 25th of September 1915, aged 29 years, Son of Richard and Julia F. Peachey, of Falkland Farm, Wash Common, Newbury, Berks, he has no known grave, but is Remembered with Honour at the Loos Memorial, to the Missing (Dud Corner Cemetery) Panel 93 - 95,. Dud Corner Cemetery stands almost on the site of a German strong point, the Lens Road Redoubt, captured by the 15th (Scottish) Division on the first day of the battle.The name "Dud Corner” is believed to be due to the large number of unexploded enemy shells found in the neighbourhood after the Armistice. The Loos Memorial commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who have no known grave, who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay. On either side of the cemetery is a wall 15 feet high, to which are fixed tablets on which are carved the names of those commemorated. At the back are four small circular courts, open to the sky, in which the lines of tablets are continued, and between these courts are three semicircular walls or apses, two of which carry tablets, while on the centre apse is erected the Cross of Sacrifice. A Great War Casualty Group of Three to Gunner E. R. Peachey, ‘B’ Battery, 165th Brigade Royal Field Artillery, British War and Victory Medals (901295 Gnr. E. R. Peachey. R. A.) Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Edward Richard Peachey). Gunner Edward Peachey Fell on the 29th of October 1918, aged 29 years, less than a month before the end of hostilities, Son of Richard and Julia F. Peachey of Sydmonton, Newbury ; husband of Florence L. Peachey of ‘Heatherlea’, Wash Common, Newbury, Berks, he is Remembered with Honour at the La Kreule Military Cemetery, Hazebrouck G.R. V.25, France. La Kreule Military Cemetery was opened in April 1918 by the 1st and 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Stations, which came back from Outtersteene ahead of the German advance, and the 17th, which arrived from Lijssenthoek. These three stations, known collectively as "Ana Jana Siding”, were posted to the north of La Kreule, but in the middle of April they withdrew to Blendecques, near St. Omer, and the cemetery was then used by heavy artillery and fighting units. In October 1918, the 17th Casualty Clearing Station returned with the 8th and the 64th and the cemetery was closed at the end of the month. A Second World War Group of Three to R. Peachey, 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, War Medal 1939-1945, in their inscribed card box of issue.View on dnfa.com
Lot 52
A Rare 1918 March Retreat Great War Group of Three to Sergeant W. J. Tyack of No.3 Section, A Company, 8th Battalion, Machine Gun Corp, British War and Victory Medals (108226 Sjt. W. J. Tyack. M.G.C.) Defence Medal, enlisted April 20th 1917, aged 18 years. Related Photographs and original Machine Gun Corp Cloth Insignia of the recipient. Sergeant Tyack’s Handwritten Note-Book, written at the time, inscribed in pencil, including ‘nominal roll’, details of members of machine gun teams, and diary entries, titled ‘The Great Retreat March 31st (1918). Mar 21st - 8th Division rushed from Ypres to the Somme. Mar 22nd - Go in action, are opposed by 10 divs to 1. We retreat 12 kilo fighting rear-guard actions, 2 teams and guns captured, i manage to get away. Mar 23rd - We cover retreat of West Yorks as they fall back over the Somme. Lose my officer and another gun. Am one of last to cross bridge before being blown up. Next day am ordered to cover the retreat of Middlesex. The Germans advance in mass formation, we mow them down in front, but get surrounded on flanks. officer says ‘no surrender’. We put gun out of action and 14 of us fight our way out with revolvers. We get shot down and i am the sole survivor, have had nothing to eat or any sleep for three days. Humour running out of my eyes, i can hardly get along, find my way by map as best i can, first British i meet 6 kilo away. ‘1 Officer, myself and 9 men answer roll call out of 187’..................... 8th Division Parchment Certificate for Gallant Conduct and Devotion to Duty Awarded by the General Officer Commanding 8th Division to :- No.108226, Lance Corporal William Tyack, 8th battalion Machine Gun Corps. ‘At Brie on 25th March, 1918, Lance-Corporal Tyack showed great gallantry and resource in keeping his gun in action until the last possible moment. He covered the retirement of the infantry and hung on to his position until the enemy were within 50 yards and then succeeded in getting his gun away - 26th May 1918. A Rare Original Ink Inscribed Exercise Book ‘W. J. Tyack, 108226, Hut 24, 23 Coy, 4th Batt., Machine Gun Corps, Clipstone Camp, Notts, Sep 24 1917’ detailing his training on the machine gun, ‘care & cleaning’, ‘aiming instructions’, ‘immediate action’.............View on dnfa.com
Lot 84
A Second World War ‘Battle of Britain’ D.F.C. Group of Four to Flight Lieutentant (Air Gunner) Marcas Kramer , 1939-1945 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, War Medal 1939-45. D.F.C. Recommendation - Fighter Command - May 1940. (1) Pilot Officer Marcus Kramer (77345). (2) Pilot Officer Richard Cummins Haine (43137). Pilot Officers Kramer and Haines were air gunner and pilot in one of six aircraft attacking Rotterdam aerodrome on 10th May, 1940. Immediately after attacking aircraft on the ground, they were themselves attacked by six enemy fighters. The rear gun turret operating mechanism had been put out of action and the gun itself jammed but, in a most calm manner, Pilot Officer Kramer directed his pilot how best to evade the attacks of the enemy fighters and at the same time dismantled and repaired his gun. As the last enemy aircraft attacked, this officer had his gun working and succeeded in driving the enemy off. By the great coolness of Pilot Officer Kramer and the accurate information he gave, Pilot Officer Haine with great skill succeeded in bringing his badly damaged aircraft to a position where he was able to make a forced landing in friendly territory. Pilot Officer 77345 Marcus Kramer of 600 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. A pharmacist from Thorpe Bay Essex, he was born in Bermondsey in 1911 and active in the local Jewish community, son of Mr and Mrs Emmanuel Kramer of 3, Marine Parade, Southend-on-Sea. He joined the RAFVR in March 1939, and was commissioned in Feb. 1940. On May 10th 1940 he flew as gunner with PO R C Haine with 6 Blenheims on an attack on Rotterdam (Waalhaven) aerodrome, just captured by German paratroops that morning. . After the attack they were shot down by 110’s but he evaded capture and was evacuated with his crew by the Royal Navy. He was awarded the DFC on 9th July 1940 [LG Issue 34892 published 9 July 1940. Page 13 of 78], but he was killed in action on 21st May 1941 with 29 Squadron, aged 29 years. Son of Emanuel and Rosie Kramer, of Thorpe Bay, Essex. M.P.S. His name is on the Runnymede memorial Panel 29. His AJEX card states that the Jewish Chaplains wrote to the father who replied that ‘his plane was seen to crash into the River Severn near Chepstow and his tunic was washed up almost immediately’ and is therefore believed to be dead. Also that the ‘Times’ reported his death on the 31st December 1941 first in a list of RAF casualties under "previously reported missing beleived killed on active service, now presumed killed on active service”. The Times - List of Casualties - Wednesday December 31 1941. FLIGHT LIEUTENANT MARCUS KRAMER, D.F.C., previously reported missing, believed killed, now presumed killed on active service, was born at Bermondsey in 1911. He enlisted as an untrained air observer in the R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve in 1939, and was gazetted to a commisison in 1940. On July 8, 1940, as a pilot officer, he was awarded the D.F.C. for gallantry and devotion to duty during air operations. An enamel and silver sweetheart brooch ‘600 - City of London Squadron’, pin-back with safety chain, together with related paperwork (copies).View on dnfa.com
Lot 164
An Indo-Persian Kulah Khud and Dhal, the first with hemi-spherical skull fitted with a tall central spike, adjustable sliding nasal and a pair of plume-holders, the second of concave form and fitted with four central bosses, each finely decorated with foliage, the kulah khad 28cm high, the dhal 36cm diameter.View on dnfa.com
Lot 184
Three Cut Steel Hilted Court Swords, the first with an 80cm tapering blade, re-curved quillons and shell-guard, the second with an etched 87cm tapering blade with knucklebow, shell-guard and urn-shaped pommel, the third with an 85cm, etched decorated tapering blade and knucklebow, all lacking scabbards.View on dnfa.com
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