WORLD WAR I - BAGHDAD AND MESOPOTAMIAArchive relating to the British transport corps ('Remount Depot', and 'Mule Column') centred at Baghdad, comprising Lieutenant Ralph Smith's diary for 1918; his manuscript account fund book for 'No. 3 Mule Column' (1917-1920); his letterbook (Mesopotamia, May 1919-June, 1920), with related telegrams, photographs, and ephemera; small group of official correspondence relating to Gunner Harry Dryburgh of the Remount Depot, Baghdad (mostly relating to travel permissions), c.1918-1919; three programmes for theatrical performances held at the M.T. Depot Theatre (1918-1919), and cinema programme for the Olympia Cinema, 31 May to 4 June 1919, the diary disbound, others original bindings, ephemera loose, the theatrical programmes printed on coloured paper, various sizes, [c.1917-1922]Footnotes:'NEVER SHALL I FORGET THE PAIN & TERROR IN THAT POOR LITTLE THING'S FACE. I had nothing to help it & they were miles from any habitation... without food and medicine' (13 May, near Qara Tappah) - an evocative diary kept by Lieutenant Smith, capturing both the horror and beauty of his daily life. It was written whilst serving he with the No. 3 Mule Column, a section of the Transport Corps stationed in Mesopotamia, to which he was assigned in June 1917. The diary includes mentions of Qara Tappah, Baguba, Abu Jisra, Hillah (March 3, visiting 'the house built by the German excavators who have done so much here...' and the Babylonian remains, which Gertrude Bell had visited in January), Abu Saida (31 March, 'I killed 1000 flies in my tent...'; April 5, 'Changed into my light underwear...'; April 17, '...Saw streams of Kurds & Arabs on the road... on the trek with camels'; April 23, '... held a court martial... of Hazzat Shah... for theft from a mail bag, found him guilty & sentenced him to 30 lashes...'), Table mountain (trip with his orderly, Mohammed Qasim, whose photograph is included), Kifri and environs of Baghdad (29 April, 'Tuz Khurmatli [Khurma] was taken today and nearly the whole of the Turkish force killed or taken prisoners'; 2 May, 'Passed the 2 lots of Turkish prisoners... one prisoner of the first lot died on the way... they are evidently hungry and tired...'). The majority of Smith's letter book correspondence relates to his ordering books on India from Mudie's Select Library, Higginbotham in Madras (from where he purchased his Lett's Diary) and elsewhere, or selling others (12 April 1920, placing an advert in the Baghdad Times, 'For Sale. Palmer's Arabic Grammar...'). Smith's record of the No.3 Mule Column Fund records Receipts ('Sale of a consignment of cigarettes for the column', 'Proceeds of the sale of parts of two Turkish carts...') and Expenditure ('Football, 2 bladders & one tube cement', 'Sweets for the the Peace celebrations'). The entertainment programmes include pantomimes ('Red Riding Hood', 'A Gipsy Romance' by the Advaxeliers at the Baghdad Depot Theatre), and an Olympia Cinema listing printed by the Dangor Press, Baghdad.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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WINCHESTER COLLEGE - MANUSCRIPT 'NOTIONS BOOK''Compendium quorundam verborum quae in his et priscis temporibus Collegii Wykhamici commensalibus precipue usitata sint. MDCCCXLIV', MANUSCRIPT, ink on paper, 232 pages (approximately 90 blank), titles, part-titles and caption alphabet letters in red ink, remainder in black ink, approximately 96 small ink illustrations, 2 full-page ink elevations of the school ('Winchester College, from Blackridge'; 'Commoners. Winton'), 2 full-page maps hand-coloured in red, green and blue, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked with red morocco spine label, 8vo, [1844]Footnotes:FINELY ILLUSTRATED NOTIONS BOOK, COMPILED BY A WINCHESTER COLLEGE PUPIL. 'Over the years, particular words and phrases have developed at Winchester. These are known as Notions. Some are very old in origin (from Latin, Middle English or Anglo-Saxon) and some have been absorbed from schoolboy slang' (Winchester College, website). Although some of the vocabulary was shared with other colleges, such as Eton and Charterhouse, the term 'notions' is used only by Wykehamists. Organised alphabetically, each word in the volume is given alongside a short definition, and in approximately 80 cases, a charming ink illustration. Words and images relate to sporting activities (mostly football), teachers and learning ('books up to...', 'Trencher caps'), punishments (such as 'funding... a licking on the back with a ground ash', and 'scrubbing... a corporal punishment of 4 cuts'), fagging ('Bread picker', 'Butter washing', 'Turf keeper', 'Tege... any one to whom kindness has been shown... generally a younger boy, when he first becomes befriended by an older'), local place names, and localised slang ('Jubilee...a period when there is nothing to do', 'Joel. The nickname of the under porter of the college...', 'Cargo... a basket of eatables sent from home', 'Bees-waxers, thick soled half boots worn at football', 'Rabbited, a blow on the back of the head...'). Provenance: George Parker Heathcote (1828-1871), bookplate. Parker attended Winchester College from 1842, later attaining the rank of Captain in the 52nd Light Infantry; Gilbert V. Heathcote, inscribed 'Feb 20 1871. In memoriam G.P.H.[eathcote]' on the front free endpaper, and bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Playfair Football Album 1948-9 with Arsenal, Newcastle United and Manchester United players signatures; A programme for the London Olympics Athletics at the Empire Stadium Wembley, Saturday July 31st 1948; a Hill's Sporting News Annual; Scottish & Newcastle football fixture booklets, seasons 1961-62 and 1962-63; and four c1970 IPC magazines Ltd 'My Favourite Soccer Stars' albums, Buster, Lion, Tiger and Smash (9)
1960's football programmes to include Liverpool, Everton, Sunderland, Burnley, Peterborough United, Nottingham Forest, Stoke City, Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, Manchester City, Manchester United, and others; FA Cup Year Books mid-1960's to early 1970s; Football Monthly magazines; etc (a qty)
Colin Campbell McKechnie Veitch (22 May 1881 – 26 August 1938): The England international caps of Colin Veitch, Captain of Newcastle United in the Glory Days of 1899-1914. A 1907 purple England International Football Cap by A.W. Gamage Ltd., 126-129 Holborn, London; and a 1906 red England Cap by Young & Co., 36 King William Street, London Bridge; and an England jersey badge. Provenance: Given to the vendor's father by Veitch's wife. Exhibitions: The caps were displayed in the St James's History Gallery as well as the Federation Breweries guest room. History: Colin Veitch is one of, if not the, greatest Newcastle United players who ever played. Born in Heaton he proved himself as both an academic as well as a sportsman and although he started as an amateur he soon tuned professional ins 1899, something very few footballers at the time had the opportunity to do. He was described as “a man who is the master of his job”, and scored 49 goals in 322 appearances. For a short spell, Veitch considered giving up his football career to pursue a career in academia, but after a spell in the reserves, playing under the pseudonym of 'Hamilton' he changed his mind. Veitch played for England on six occasions from 1906-1909, what happened to the other dated caps is unknown, if they exist at all. He was also an accomplished playwright, composer, conductor and producer, and counted George Bernard Shaw amongst his circle of friends. He founded the People's Theatre in 1911. Veitch served in France during the First World War as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery which sadly ended his football carrier. However he was still an active member of the football community as a Union spokesman and an Evening Chronicle Journalist, but he was banned from the press box in 1929, a harsh decision against someone who had done so much for his team. In 1938, Veitch contracted pneumonia and died aged 57 in Bern, Switzerland whilst on a recuperation holiday.
* WWI. An archive relating to Major Charles Hodgkinson Smith (1877-1952), comprising: a typescript history of the family written by the Major entitled 'A "Gunner" Family', ff.30, with genealogy frontispiece, bound in a spring back cloth binder, slim folio, with author's original manuscript and notes loosely inserted; a 3pp. typescript curriculum vitae and letters of recommendation (including a typescript letter signed from General Sir George F. Milne); a printed bifolium certificate completed in manuscript awarding the Order of the British Empire, dated 1919, with circular embossed seal, and signature of George V, folio; a printed paper commission document completed in black ink, appointing Charles Hodgkinson Smith Second Lieutenant in the Land Forces, dated 1900, with most of wax seal lacking, signed by Edward VII 'Edward R&I' to upper margin, vertical folds as issued, toned, 30 x 40 cm (12 x 15.75 ins); a printed paper commission document completed in black ink, appointing the same to rank of Lieutenant in the Land Forces, dated 1914, embossed blue paper seal to left margin, vertical folds as issued, 30.5 x 40.5 cm (12 x 16 ins), and another commission document similar, stamped in red 'Temporary', appointing the same to rank of Captain in the Royal Air Force, dated 1918; a printed copy of Seniority and Distribution Lists of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, No. 548, Woolwich, November 1900, folded into printed blue paper wrappers; and various newspaper cuttings, army papers, personal family correspondence, certificates (including 3 framed certificates pertaining to gallant and distinguished services during WWI), and other ephemera, together with: A cavalry sketching board, London: Houghton-Butcher, 1915, wooden sketching board with compass, integrated clinometer and swivelling leather arm strap with buckle to reverse, original squared paper roll still attached to side rollers bearing a pencilled diagram and annotations, 25 x 18.5 cm (10 x 7.25 ins)Qty: (-)NOTESMajor Charles Hodgkinson Smith was the eldest son of Major General Charles Hodgkinson Smith (1826-1897) and the last of six successive generations of the same family to serve in the Royal Artillery, five of which were documented by him. The Major's military career commenced in 1899 when he joined the yeoman cavalry at the start of the Boer War, receiving a commission in the Royal Artillery the following year and serving until 1904, when he retired in favour of agricultural pursuits. During the Boer War Charles saw action at Sand River, Wittebergen, Slaapkrantz, and Bothaville, and was involved in the operations in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony. In his history of the family he describes his experiences of guerilla warfare during which he endured: "constant flank and rear-guard actions, long hours in the saddle, extremities of heat and cold, often sleeping on sodden ground and sometimes for weeks living on nothing but bully-beef and dry biscuits ... ". At the outbreak of the First World War he rejoined the Royal Artillery (Reserve of Officers), and served in the Second Battle of Ypres as Captain, and subesquently commanded the Brigade Ammunition Column before Armentières, Boise Grenier, and Péronne, south of the Somme. In 1916 he was invalided home, although he was later sent to Egypt with the Royal Flying Corps in 1917, and then to the Balkans where he took part in operations, including the two battles of Doiran. Immediately after the Armistice Charles was appointed Commandant of the Royal Air Force of the Alexandria and Aboukir District in Egypt. He therefore served in three branches of the armed forces - the Cavalry, the Artillery and the Air Force. He was awarded a number of medals, including two South African medals, the Victory Medal and the Croix de Guerre, and was also made a Member of the British Empire. Major Charles appears to have been a sporting all-rounder, excelling in football, tennis, golf, rowing, and billiards, as well as polo, skating, skiing and other winter sports. One of the testimonials, dated 1919, describe him as "an excellent officer ... His personal habits are those of an English country gentleman. He is a good sportsman, of almost gigantic proportions, full of physical fitness, and just the sort of Englishman for a Colonial appointment." Charles married and had one daughter, but no son to carry on the family tradition of serving in the Royal Artillery.
* Military Postcards. A collection of approximately 200 mostly real photo postcards, c. 1910-45, the majority of First World War soldiers and some families, some postally used including Field Service postcards, and including a group of approximately 35 real photo postcards relating to BDSM James Gregory, RL Warwickshire Regiment while at Stalag XXI A (Posnan) & XXI D, most with stamps to versos and some addressed to Mrs Ann Gregory in Birmingham, many of these showing amateur dramatics and sporting teams, one signed by members of the football team featured in the photographQty: (approx. 200)
Beasley (R.L.). A Pictorial Souvenir and History of the Second Battalion the Gloucestershire Regt., Jhansi, India, 1928, published by C.R. Jessop & Co., [1928], printed title and 11 pages of text followed by 38 gelatin silver print photographs mounted singly and as pairs on rectos of stiff card leaves with printed captions beneath, mostly formal group portraits, including 13 larger images each approximately 20.5 x 29.5 cm, the smaller images approximately 15 x 20 cm and similar sizes, plus one additional photograph of the regimental football team from 1924 pasted to rear endpaper, original cloth, rubbed, oblong folio (27.5 x 38 cm)Qty: (1)
Various sporting items, etc., to include a Lincoln City signed football, an England cricket squad Vs Pakistan 2016 photograph with facsimile signatures, a picture of the footballer Pele bearing signature, a Dancing on Ice official tour programme, signed, an Aardman Limited Edition framed figure of Rex the Runt, number 33 of 150, and three cockney rebel LP's, etc.
Coins - Royal Mint Great British Coin Hunt Fifty pence collection in recessed folder of issue, including specimen 50p coins 1997-2015, 18 coin set (2015 missing, but including 2009 Kew Gardens), with ?Completer Medallion? unopened in folder of issue, coins EF-BU, also with 2015 Battle of Britain 50p in unopened Royal Mint folder to complete set; also timber boxed set designed to contain gilded and enamel set of 1967 issue LSD coins, but now with 2/6d, 3d, 1d and 1/2d only, but with similar decimal 50p, 20p, 10, 5p, 20p and 1p coins from a different set included; also Peru 100 inti note 1987 unc. in plastic folder with 1968 US Kennedy half dollar; Wellington Waterloo 1815 medallion, reproduction, proof like, in associated case; two Guinness 1989 £2 Bill of Rights £2 coins in folders; football medallion Long Eaton Sunday League Division 4 1987-1988 steel and enamel 50mm and various others (qty)
MANCHESTER UNITED F.C.; a signed photograph of the 1964-65 League Champions, a magazine on Bobby and Jack Charlton and a collection of Manchester United, United Review and further football programmes including Manchester United versus Red Star of Belgrade first leg 14th January 1958, also a 1966 World Cup commemorative textile.Additional InformationThe photographs somewhat creased and crumpled, the United versus Belgrade program has been folded with further scuffs, scrapes and discolouration, further similar wear to the remaining programs which date from 1960s.
NAO; fourteen figures including boy with stacks of books, boy with football, lady in lilac dress, two swans and swan group, etc, three Lladro polar bears, swan and two figures (both af) (20).Additional InformationThe two Lladro figures of girl with lamb and winged boy af, lamb lost an ear and boy’s head has been off and reglued, other figures with loose pieces to interiors in some cases but otherwise ok, dust and dirt.
An album of cigarette cards of approximately 840 cards, which includes a full set of 50 Kensitas 'Builders of Empire' series, from Florence Nightingale to Rudyard Kipling; all 50 of WA & AC Churchman's 'Well Known Ties' 2nd series (schools, colleges and sports clubs); Wills's Cigarettes 'Radio Celebrities' complete 1st and 2nd series; Player's Cigarettes 'Film Stars' 3rd series (missing No 41 but with other film cards from other series); a full set of 36 real photograph cards from J. Millhoff's 'In The Public Eye' series; a set of all 54 of the Godfrey Phillips 'In The Public Eye' series; all 50 of the horse racing Godfrey Phillips 'Turn Over & Spot The Winner' series; the 50 'Kings of Speed' series from Churchill; the WD &HO Wills 50-strong 'Speed' series; and other sets and cards relating to the RAF, flying, football trophies and cricket - old and modern. Most cards in good condition, but some have faults. There's also a Rodney paper cigarette card album with approximately 200 cards in very mixed condition, including royalty and military uniforms. This lot also includes low-value three photograph albums - one with a close-up newspaper original photograph of Queen Elizabeth 11 in a barge, presumed to be in Portsmouth Harbour; another which includes photos and postcards, mostly moderns relating to the Dockyard, Southampton Docks, liners, HMS Victory and the Royal Yacht; and the third album has mainly modern shipping postcards.There's also a selection of 50 standard size royalty postcards (see photo), mainly of British royals, but a few foreign ones too; plus a bag of large modern British Royalty postcards; and a selection of 14 standard-size Butlins holiday camp cards from the 1970s and possibly early 80s.There are also four bags containing approximately 550-650 mainly modern cards - with some older ones, and a Pamlins reprint of the Titanic. The modern cards are on various themes, including Portsmouth and Southsea, UK and Ireland views and European views.
Jack Taylor (1930-2012). Three International football referee caps: 'Portugal v England 1964, 'Wales 1967-68' and 'Iceland 1969-70'. (3)*Notes English Referee Jack Taylor officiated over 1000 league and 100 international matches. He is perhaps most famous for the 1974 World Cup final between Germany and the Netherlands when he awarded a penalty after the first minute of the match, the first penalty awarded in a World Cup final.
Of Early Football interest. A team photograph of 'Dental Hospital of London. Football Club 1890-91' by Russell & Sons, Baker Street: on mounted and inscribed as per title with players names beneath, image size 23 x 29cm, together with a photograph of 'Maidstone Company Vol. Medical Staff Corps Football Team, 1897-98' by the London Photographic Co., mounted with players names beneath, image size 23 x 28 (2) (mounts torn)
Of Early Football interest. Two photographs of a football match taken by 'Messrs Stearn Photos, Cambridge' : possibly of Cambridge University v Woolwich Arsenal, Jan 1896, image size 15 x 23cm, embossed photographers mark lower left corner, together with a page from the album inscribed ink with the teams and date. (3)*Notes- The distinctive two colour kit seen in the images does appear to be similar to that originally used by Abbey United in the first part of the 20th century (Abbey United became Cambridge United in 1951) The inscription and date is written in ink on the reverse of a photograph of a lady with a spaniel and is presumed to be the preceding page when all three were originally bound in an album.
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