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Click here to subscribeGeneral Service 1918-62, 1 clasp (2), S.E. Asia 1945-46, unnamed as issued to Indian personnel; Palestine 1945-48 (41956 Pte. Belele Alwali. E.A.A.S.C.) edge bruise to first, this very fine; the second good very fine (2) £70-£90 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Belele Alwali served with the East Africa Army Service Corps
Pair: Bombardier A. L. Pinkney, Royal Artillery General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24508653 Gnr A L Pinkney RA); South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (24508653 Gnr A L Pinkney RA) mounted as worn, good very fine (2) £500-£700 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- A. L. Pinkney was born on 30 October 1961 and attested for the Royal Artillery on 31 October 1978. He was discharged in the rank of Bombardier on 18 December 1992. Sold with the recipient’s original Certificate of Qualifications.
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Chin Hills 1892-93, bronze issue (364 Dvr. Buta Singh. 7th. Mtn. By. R.A.) officially re-engraved naming, good very fine £180-£220 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (14169650 Pte. P. Teagle. R.A.O.C.); General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, Radfan, South Arabia, unofficial retaining rod between clasps (4262308 SAC. L. J. Smith R.A.F.) edge nick to first, nearly extremely fine (2) £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
A Great War anti-U-boat operations D.S.M. group of three awarded to 2nd Hand J. H. Crumpton, Royal Naval Reserve, who was decorated for his gallant deeds in the Sea King – ex-Q-ship Remexo - in June 1917, when she successfully attacked with depth charges and sank the UC-66 off the Lizard Distinguished Service Medal G.V.R. (SD.3186 J. H. Crumpton, 2nd Hd. R.N.R. “Sea King” English Channel, 12 June 1917); British War and Victory Medals (SD.3186 J. H. Crumpton. 2nd Hd. R.N.R.) mounted court-style for display, nearly extremely fine (3) £1,200-£1,600 (3) £1,200-£1,600 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- D.S.M. London Gazette 31st July 1919: ‘For services in action with enemy submarines.’ Note: Award delayed as destruction of submarine not confirmed until May 1919. Jesse Henry Crumpton was born in Rochester, Kent on 25 June 1883, and enrolled in the Royal Naval Reserve in November 1915. He saw no seagoing service until the following year, when he served in H.M. Trawlers Moray and Lorna Doone, following which, in May 1917, he joined the Sea King (Ex-Q-ship Remexo) under Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, D.S.O., R.N.; the latter had already gained notoriety for his uncompromising command of the Q-ship Baralong, not least in her close encounter with the U-27 in August 1915. Of Sea King’s subsequent action against the UC-66 in the Channel on 12 June 1917, Keeble Chatterton’s Amazing Adventure takes up the story: ‘Admiral Luard, the Senior Naval Officer at Falmouth, had received a report that night of a submarine's presence somewhere near the Lizard and ordered Herbert's flotilla off to sea. This sudden alteration of routine, after coming into port and stand-off, was something of a surprise. Men were below taking their well-earned rest and looking forward to a walk ashore in the morning. “I immediately sent a signal to prepare for sea,” Herbert still remembers, “but had some difficulty getting the orders to my friend Buchanan in the Sea Sweeper. After several attempts failed, I fired my revolver at his waterline, which quickly did the trick and we sailed on time.” Through the dark and still summer’s night they all four steamed out past old Pendennis Castle, Helford River’s mouth, the Manacles, and so to the Gaunt Lizard. “We spent a gorgeous middle-watch in perfect weather, and at sunrise I thought to myself how many City workers would have given £10 a minute to be yachting with us.” The dark hours passed, and the dawn of a beautiful day revealed the channel in its kinder mood with shipping going up and down on its lawful occasions. No submarine, however, in sight! Perhaps just one more of those numerous yarns which never came to anything? None the less, you could never be sure, and it was generally supposed that somewhere between the Lizard and Kynance Cove U-boats were fond of going to rest on the bottom. So long as she was down below with engines stopped these four Trawlers would only waste their hours. Besides, the sun had risen, it was time the enemy rose likewise and did something. So Herbert decided to wake him up. “At 4.30 a.m.,” he relates, “I dropped a baby depth charge on a known submarine resting ground not far from Kynance Cove, with the objective of stirring to life any somnolent Hun and incidentally, desiring some fresh fish for breakfast.” During the forenoon, all four trawlers were keeping watch south of the Lizard, listening keenly with their hydrophones. So far nothing had been seen, nothing heard. The Sea King and her sisters seemed to have been brought on a fool’s errand. But at 11.30 a.m. when 2½ miles south east of the headland, “I spotted about 400 yards away, two or three points off my port bow, the periscope, stanchion, and jumper stay of a submarine travelling westward at about 4 or 5 knots. Having seen that stay, I could judge her course much more easily than if only her periscope had been visible. I concluded that her captain had probably just been taking a bearing from the Lizard, and as I turned towards him he dived. At once I hoisted in the Sea King a signal to turn eight points, though this was not taken by all the flotilla. But we all wasted not a second letting-go 16 large depth charges and 64 smaller ones. “It was an exciting moment whilst these were exploding. There was very little time for any signals, and the manner in which the whole flotilla dropped their bombs was admirable. No one could tell exactly where the enemy existed: all I knew was that she lay very near, and it was a barrage which did the trick. Every charge detonated perfectly, all explosions were very heavy, and one sent up water three times the height of any others.” As the tide off the Lizard has, at its maximum, a velocity of 3 knots, a fresh breeze blowing against this soon kicks up a nasty sea. For most of the year there will be found off here a rough tumble of waves and unpleasant jobble: the worst conditions for hydrophone operations. This forenoon, however, the tide was running at about 2 knots to the eastward, and everything remained calm under the favourable weather. To leeward of the enemy there rose up a quantity of oil. The depth charges had beyond all questioning, burst the submarine, set off her mines and torpedoes. Not one German body came to the surface. “The Admiralty instructions,” adds Herbert facetiously, “were very carefully designed to prevent more than one large depth charge being ready at any given moment. Whilst each of us had four, the official orders were that one of these big types was to be ready on deck, but the remainder below unprimed. However, I realized that such levels of precaution were not warranted and, consequently, we all kept our big charges primed and ready “in case”. During the general melee which followed my signal ordering a turn to port, we somehow managed to have one collision, through a helmsman’s misunderstanding, but the damage was very slight. After the sea had regained its calm from the underwater disturbance, we stopped our engines and listened on our hydrophones. It was ideal for hearing any movement, but nothing came through, not a sound reached us. Had she survived, our expert listeners would certainly have detected her under way. The depth at this spot was 40 fathoms, so she could not have rested on the bottom voluntarily. Finally, after hanging about the locality during several hours, we returned to Falmouth, were I reported the affair to Admiral Luard.” Months passed, the Armistice came and went, and at the end of May 1919 - almost two years since the event - an official letter reached Herbert from the Lords of the Admiralty “that it is now known that the submarine in question, UC-66, commanded by Herbert Pustkuchen, was destroyed with the loss of all hands.” This announcement set every doubt at rest, although as a submarine officer himself he had been convinced all the while that the German perished utterly. During the year 1917, Herbert had been at last promoted to Commander, and now for his Lizard victory received a Bar to his Baralong D.S.O. Lieutenant Buchanan was awarded the D.S.C. and two of the crew the D.S.M.’ And one of them was Crumpton, who was demobilised in March 1919.
Pair: Havildar Bahadur Singh, Indian Signal Corps India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (1767 Hav. Bahadur Singh, I.S.C.); Indian Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R. (1767 Hav. Bahdur Singh, I.S.C.) good very fine (2) £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Pair: Private F. E. Adcock, Norfolk Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, unofficial rivets between second and third clasps (4200 Pte. F. E. Adcock, Norfolk Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4200 Pte. F. Adcock. Norfolk Regt.) mounted for wear; together with a Norfolk Regiment cap badge, contact marks and edge bruising, good fine (2) £140-£180 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- For the medal to Private H. Adcock, Norfolk Regiment, see Lot 294.
Three: Stoker 1st Class J. Collins, Royal Navy Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (300712. J. Collins, Sto. 1Cl. H.M.S. Barham.); British War and Victory Medals (300712. J. Collins, Sto. 1. R.N.) edge bruising and contact marks, good fine or better (3) £120-£160 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Three: Driver C. Burney, Royal Field Artillery 1914-15 Star (87302. Dvr. C. Burney. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (87302. Dvr. C. Burney. R.F.A.) BWM and VM both renamed, very fine Pair: Lieutenant T. A. Cowburn, Natal Light Horse, later Army Service Corps 1914-15 Star (Lt. T. A. Cowburn Ntl. Light. Hse.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. T. A. Cowburn); together with the recipient’s identity tag, this engraved ‘Lieut. T. A. Cowburn. A.S.C.’, very fine Pair: W. Graham, Mercantile Marine British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (William Graham) good very fine Pair: Private A. E. Jones, Royal West Surrey Regiment British War and Victory Medals (G-14551 Pte. A. E. Jones. The Queen’s R.); mounted for wear with a War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; and a New Zealand War Service Medal, polished, good fine Pair: Private Biriati, King’s African Rifles British War and Victory Medals (4247 Pte Biriati 1/KAR) locally impressed naming, good very fine Pair: Gunner H. E. Clewlo, Canadian Field Artillery British War and Victory Medals (312861 Gnr. H. E. Clewlo. C.F.A.) very fine (15) £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Six: Corporal J. Smith, Royal Marine Light Infantry, later Royal Fleet Reserve 1914-15 Star (Ch.17704, Pte. J. Smith. R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch.17704. Pte. J. Smith. R.M.L.I.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (Ch.17704 (B.2736) J. Smith. Cpl. R.F.R.) small verdigris spot to VM, light contact marks, generally very fine (6) £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1920 (2318 Pte. Adodo Owari. 6-K. A. Rif.) suspension bent, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good fine £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Copy and Renamed Medals; (13): China 1842, copy; India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98, bronze issue, renamed; Ashanti Star 1896, copy; Queen’s Mediterranean 1899-1902 (2), both copies; Ashanti 1900, 1 clasp, Kumassi, copy; Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse, copy; 1914-15 Star, naming erased; Bilingual Victory Medal 1914-19 (2), both naming erased; Gulf 1990-91, 1 clasp, 16 Jan to 28 Feb 1991, copy; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, copy; Khedive’s Star, unnamed as issued, lacking suspension, generally fair to fine (13) £60-£80 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Three: Police Constable A. Drane, Metropolitan Police Jubilee 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C. A. Drane. G. Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. A. Drane. T. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C. A. Drane.) edge bruising, very fine (3) £70-£90 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Arthur Drane was born in Eye, Suffolk, in 1875 and attested for the Suffolk Artillery Militia on 6 March 1893. He purchased his discharge the following year, and subsequently joined the Metropolitan Police on 7 June 1896, serving with both ‘G’ (King’s Cross) and ‘T’ (Hammersmith) Divisions. He retired to pension on 12 June 1922. Sold with copied research.
A Great War ‘Logeast Wood’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private W. E. Clark, R.M.L.I., 63rd Royal Naval Division Military Medal, G.V.R. (PLY-2541 (S) Pte. W. E. Clark, R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (PLY. 2541-S- Pte. W. E. Clark. R.M.L.I.) mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (3) £600-£800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919. Confirmed in Royal Marine records as an award for great gallantry in the capture and successful retention of Logeast Wood, 4 miles NW of Bapaume in the Ancre Valley, on 21/22 August, 1918.
Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Canada (Capt. A. F. Stafford. RC Sigs); Canadian Forces Decoration (2), G.VI.R. (F/L. F. J. Lowry); E.II.R. (Sgt G. W. Tuggey) good very fine (3) £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Pair: Trooper R. W. C. Richards, 16th/5th Lancers General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24698151 Tpr R W C Richards 16/5L); U.N. Medal, on UNFICYP riband, mounted court-style as worn, contact marks, nearly extremely fine (2) £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (J.15774. J. H. Avery, Ord. Sean. H.M.S. Dartmouth.) pitting, polished and worn, therefore fair £70-£90 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- John Henry Avery was born in Devonport on 9 July 1895 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 26 January 1912. He served in H.M.S. Dartmouth from 14 March 1913 to 30 June 1915, and again from 1 October 1915 to 2 June 1916, and was advanced Able Seaman.
Ashanti 1900, 1 clasp, Kumassi, high relief bust (31 Pte. Namewe. 1st K.A.R.C.) suspension re-affixed, naming rubbed, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore fair to fine £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Renamed and Defective Medals (10): Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued, the reverse brooch mounted; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 (6), the reverse of one brooch mounted, and the obverse of another with traces of brooch mounting; King’s South Africa 1901-02 (2); General Service 1918-62, G.V.R., all planchets only, generally fine and better (lot) £160-£200 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Sold with a small quantity of variously mounted coins; unofficial commemorative medals; two Japanese medals; various miniature medals; riband bars; and other ephemera, including a South Africa 1900 Christmas tin and a Great War 1914 Christmas tin.
Pair: Lance-Corporal D. Hiam, 4th/7th Dragoon Guards, later 14th/20th Hussars General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24144763 Tpr. D. Hiam 4/7DG.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (24144763 LCpl D Hiam 14/20H) mounted court-style as worn, nearly extremely fine, scarce (2) £140-£180 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Five: Lance Corporal A. S. Bulley, Royal Marines General Service 1962, 3 clasps, Northern Ireland, Gulf, N. Iraq & S. Turkey (Mne A S Bulley PO37743L RM); U.N. Medal for Cyprus; South Atlantic 1982, with Rosette (Mne A S Bulley PO37743L RM); Gulf Medal 1990-91, 1 clasp, 16 Jan to 28 Feb 1991 (LCpl A S Bulley PO37743L RM); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (Mne A S Bulley PO37743L RM) mounted as worn, good very fine and a rare group (5) £1,600-£2,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- A. S. Bulley was a member of 7 Troop “M” Company 42 Commando Royal Marines and participated in Operations Paraquat and Keyhole. The retaking of South Georgia was, in the event, left to the S.B.S. and the S.A.S. Mountain and Boat Troops. After the Argentine surrender a disappointed “M” Company 42 Commando, not having been involved in the direct action, remained as a garrison on South Georgia. Sold with an original group photograph of 7 Troop “M” Company taken on a train station prior to their departure for the Falklands, an S.S. Canberra bottle opener and copied research; together with related mounted group of 5 miniature medals, and official replacement medals of the first three, the General Service and Gulf medals both stamped ‘R’ for replacement.
Three: Trooper D. Messent, New Zealand Mounted Rifles Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (8050 Tpr: D. Messent. N.Z.M.R. 9th. Cont:); British War Medal 1914-20 (23007 Pte. D. Messent. N.Z.E.F.); Victory Medal 1914-19, naming erased, good very fine (3) £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Three: Private F. J. Whent, Royal Marine Light Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 3 August 1916 1914-15 Star (Po.14719, Pte. E. J. Whent, R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Po.14719. Pte. E. J. Whent. R.M.L.I.); Memorial Plaque (Ernest James Whent) in card envelope and outer OHMS transmission envelope, addressed to ‘Mr. E .Whent, Bridge St., Long Melford, Suffolk.’, nearly extremely fine (4) £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Ernest James Whent was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, on 12 March 1888 and enlisted into the Portsmouth Division of the Royal Marine Light Infantry at Swindon on 18 February 1907. He served during the Great War initially afloat in H.M.S. Superb, and then ashore with the 2nd Royal Naval Brigade at Gallipoli, and then subsequently at Stavros in Salonica, before transferring to the Western Front in May 1916, serving with the 1st Royal Marine Battalion, 63rd Royal Naval Division. He was killed in action on 3 August 1916, and is buried in Tranchee de Mecknes Cemetery, France. Sold with copied service record and other research.
General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24164785 Tpr. M. R. Thompson RHG/D.) small erasure/ test mark between number and rank, mounted court-style as worn, extremely fine, scarce to unit £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2005
General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24292293 Tpr G W Dutson 5 Innis DG) good very fine, scarce to unit £120-£160 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Sold with a 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards cap badge.
New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1861 to 1866 (2034. Danl. Mc.Namara, 2nd. Bn. 14th. Regt.) lacquered, contact marks, nearly very fine £300-£400 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Daniel McNamara was born in Dartford, Kent, in 1830, and attested for the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot on 8 March 1843, aged 14. Initially serving in the United Kingdom, he was later deployed to Australia, arriving in the Australian colonies in 1852, and it is recorded that, as a member of the 40th Regiment band, he played at the Grand Military Harmonic Society concert in Geelong, Victoria on 5 June 1860, playing the trombone. McNamara served with the 40th Regiment of Foot in New Zealand from 24 July 1860; the Band of the 40th were conveyed to shore in surf boats and, with some difficulty, played themselves ashore in the boats! He went on to serve for a period of 6 years and 83 days in New Zealand; during this time, the regiment participated in the major Taranaki battles of 1860-61, held garrison in Auckland on various occasions, collaborated with other regiments in constructing the Great South Road towards the Waikato in 1861-2, and engaged in several significant Waikato battles of 1863-64. He transferred to the 2nd Battalion, 14th Regiment of Foot, on 1 June 1866 whilst still in New Zealand, and was subsequently awarded a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. He was discharged in Australia on 28 June 1870, after 23 years and 113 days’ man’s service, and died in Melbourne, Australia, on 7 November 1900, aged 70. Note: McNamara should have been issued an undated New Zealand Medal named to the 40th Regiment of Foot, owing to the fact that he was an inter-Regimental transfer whilst in New Zealand, and would thus be shown as non-effective on the roll of the first Regiment with which he served in New Zealand. Instead, he is shown on the medal rolls of the 2/14th Regiment of Foot, and interestingly the medal he was issued bears the dates that the 2/14th saw active service in New Zealand (1861-66), and not the dates that McNamara presumably saw active service in New Zealand (1860-66).
Pair: Private D. A. Jones, Prince of Wales’s Own, later Royal Irish Hussars General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24589202 Pte D A Jones PWO); Accumulated Campaign Service Medal 1994, E.II.R. (24589202 Pte D A Jones R Irish (HS)) mounted court-style as worn, extremely fine, scarce (2) £240-£280 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, April 2006.
Five: Ship’s Corporal First Class T. W. Beames, Royal Navy, late Royal Marine Artillery East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Witu 1890 (T. W. Beames, Gunner R.M.A., H.M.S. Brisk.); 1914-15 Star (150084 T. W. Beames. Sh. Cpl. 1., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (150084 T. W. Beames. Sh. Cpl. 1. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (T. W. Beames, Sh. Corp 1 Cl., H.M.S. Minotaur.) impressed naming, minor official correction to ship’s name on last, generally good very fine (5) £400-£500 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Approximately 83 ‘Witu 1890’ clasps awarded to H.M.S. Brisk. Thomas William Beames was born on 23 August 1866 and joined the Royal Marine Artillery on 22 January 1886. He served as a Gunner in H.M.S. Brisk from 20 November 1888 to 21 October 1891, including active service off East Africa as part of the Naval Brigade during the Witu Expedition, 17 to 27 October 1890. Transferring to the Royal Navy ion w6 March 1893, he served as a Ship’s Corporal for most of his career, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 17 January 1902. Invalided out of the Service on 18 July 1904, he subsequently joined the Royal Fleet Reserve, and was recalled for War service on 2 August 1914, serving in H.M.S. Vindictive from that date until 30 June 1916, and then in H.M.S. Victory I until he was finally shore demobilised on 18 March 1919. He died in Portsmouth in March 1933. Sold with copied service record and other research.
Pair: A. M. Robertson, Canadian Forces Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (A. M. Robertson 25575H); U.N. Korea 1950-54 (A. M. Robertson 25575H) extremely fine (2) £70-£90 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902, Transvaal (8144 Corpl: H. Batchelor. Rl: Warwick: Regt.) suspension slack and re-pinned, unofficial rivets, clasps unconfirmed, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £50-£70 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (3003 Sowar Firoz Khan 19th. Lancers); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (TC-45549 Naik Sardar, R.I.A.S.C. (A. Tpt.)) both with minor official corrections, nearly very fine (2) £60-£80 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Three: Private J. McFarlane, Gordon Highlanders India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (5632 Pte. J. McFarlane 1st Bn. Gord: Hrs.) official correction to surname; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (5632 Pte. J. McFarlane, Gordon Highrs.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5632 Pte. J. McFarlane. Gordon Highrs:) light contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (3) £260-£300 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Four: Leading Seaman H. Orchard, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (J.6657, H. Orchard, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.6657 H. Orchard. A.B. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (J.6657 H. Orchard. L.S. H.M.S. Royal Sovereign.) light contact marks, very fine (4) £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
The extremely rare Russia 1919 operations D.S.C. group of four awarded to Gunner C. W. Clarke, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his command of the armed-barge Suffolk in the Kama River Flotilla, Siberia Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (235903 C. W. Clarke, P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Gnr. C. W. Clarke, R.N.) mounted court-style for display, together with Osmotherley Great War Tribute Medal, silver, named to ‘C. W. Clarke, The Great War 1914-19 Foreign Service’, very fine and better (5) £3,000-£4,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: R. C. Witte Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2013. D.S.C. London Gazette 8 March 1920: ‘For distinguished services in command of the river steamer Suffolk operating on the Kama River.’ Cedric William Clarke was born at Northallerton, Yorkshire, in December 1889, and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in February 1906. A Leading Seaman in battleship H.M.S. Prince George by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he remained similarly employed until March 1916, in which period he was advanced to Petty Officer and witnessed action in the Dardanelles. Having then returned to a shore appointment back in the U.K., Clarke served in another battleship, the Albion, in January-June 1917, in which latter month he was commissioned as a Gunner, R.N. and in this latter rank he joined the cruiser H.M.S. Kent in May 1918, the commencement of his Siberian sojourn. Ordered to Vladivostock in January 1919, to relieve her consort Suffolk, Kent was approached for volunteers to man an oil-driven tug and a barge in support of operations on the River Kama in Siberia, and Clarke was among the chosen handful of naval personnel to support a larger force of Marines, the whole under the command of Captain T. H. Jameson, R.M.L.I. Kama River Flotilla The oil-driven tug was duly renamed Kent and the barge Suffolk, the former being armed with four 12-pounders and manned by a volunteer crew of 24, and the latter with a 6-inch gun and a crew of nine, of which Clarke was placed in command. Joining their new “ships” at Perm in late April 1919, where they came under the overall command of Admiral Smirnoff, C.M.G., C.O. of the Kama River Flotilla, the Marines and Bluejackets were quickly in action as part of the Third Division of the Flotilla, under Captain Fierdoroff, in May and June, engaging enemy gunboats and carrying out valuable shore bombardments - a story vividly recalled in Captain Jameson’s Expedition to Siberia 1919. It is clear from Jameson’s account of the expedition that Clarke’s command, the Suffolk, was regularly in action, more so than the Kent, not least in the closing days of the Third Division’s part in the campaign in late June - on the 26th Suffolk engaged the enemy in Veltanka district, and again the next day at the village of Stralka, where she routed large numbers of the “Bolos” at close range - in all she fired 256 rounds and, having expended her ammunition, was recalled to Perm, arriving at Motavaileka Works on the 28th. The Marines and bluejackets were now ordered to dismantle their “ships” and load the resultant 225 tons of material on to railway trucks, a task made yet harder by the threat that Perm would fall shortly to the “Bolos” - in fact confusion reigned everywhere and the local railway station was overflowing with refugees. Kent and Suffolk were then sunk by permission of Admiral Smirnoff. Commandeering a locomotive from the repair shop - much to the annoyance of the Russians - Captain Jameson and his men eventually chugged out of Perm Station in the early morning of 29 June, a total of 37 of all ranks being crammed into two wooden trucks. And it would be 52 days - via Omsk and many adventures - that the exhausted party finally reached Vladivostock on 8 August, when they were taken on board the Carlisle: transferring at Shanghai to the Colombo, they finally reached England on 10 November 1919. Jameson was awarded the D.S.O., Clarke and his opposite number in the Kent D.S.C.s, and eight Petty Officers and ratings the Naval M.S.M., in addition to a single D.S.M. to Sergeant Alfred Taylor, R.M.L.I. of the Suffolk. Remaining active between the Wars, Clarke was appointed Commissioned Gunner in December 1926, while serving in the Hood, and to Lieutenant in November 1937, while serving in the Royal Sovereign. Next removing to the Devonport establishment Drake in April 1938, where he was still serving on the renewal of hostilities in the following year, he later removed to Malagas, the Fleet Air Arm station in South Africa, and was placed on the Retired List as a Lieutenant-Commander in 1946. He died in January 1951. Sold with copied record of service and R.M. Historical Society reprint of Captain Jameson’s Expedition to Siberia 1919.
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