Four: Leading Seaman F. Hazlewood, Royal Navy, who was killed in action in H.M.S. Queen Mary at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916 1914-15 Star (202881. F. Hazlewood. L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (202881 F. Hazlewood. L.S. R.N.) with flattened named card boxes of issue; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (202881 Fred Hazlewood, Ldg. Sean. H.M.S. Queen Mary.); Memorial Plaque (Fred Hazlewood) the group mounted court-style for display, traces of adhesive for reverse, toned, extremely fine (5) £500-£700 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Fred Hazlewood was born in Winchester on 6 May 1882 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 17 January 1899. Advanced Leading Seaman on 13 July 1907, he was transferred to the Coast Guard on 20 August 1912. Recalled for War service on 2 August 1914, he was posted to H.M.S. Queen Mary on 23 August 1914, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 14 June 1915. He was present at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916, when, under the command of Captain C. I. Prowse, Queen Mary engaged the German ships SMS Seydlitz and SMS Derfflinger during the opening phase of the Battle. One of Derfflinger’s shells scored a direct hit on Queen Mary’s ‘Q’ turret detonating the magazines and breaking the ship in two. She was sunk with the loss of 1,266 crew and only 18 survivors. Hazlewood was amongst those killed, and he is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. Sold with copied record of service and copied research.
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India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Chin Hills 1892-93 (2533 Pte. H. Adcock. 1st. Bn. Norfolk Regt.) minor edge bruising, very fine and scarce £700-£900 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Approximately 200 ‘Chin Hills 1892-93’ clasps issued to the Norfolk Regiment, the only British regiment employed during these operations. Whilst many of these medals were issued with officially re-engraved naming, this example is correct in all respects. For the medals to Private F. E. Adcock, Norfolk Regiment, see Lot 111.
Pair: Police Constable J. O’Hara, Metropolitan Police Jubilee 1887, clasp, 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C. J. O’Hara. T. Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. O’Hara. T. Div.) mounted for wear, polished, nearly very fine Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued, good very fine (3) £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Five: Sick Berth Petty Officer A. Rayton, Royal Navy, who was among those lost in the armed merchant cruiser Comorin when she caught fire and capsized in the North Atlantic in April 1941 British War Medal 1914-20 (M. 5112 A. Rayton, S.B.A., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue (M. 5112 A. Rayton, S.B. P.O., H.M.S. Egmont) together with original Admiralty condolence slip in the name of ‘Arthur Rayton’, good very fine and better (5) £200-£240 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Arthur Rayton was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire in February 1893 and entered the Royal Navy as a Sick Berth Attendant in October 1912. On the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he was employed at the R.N.H. Haslar but, in April 1915, he commenced a two years’ posting to Malta. He returned to Haslar in November 1917 and was similarly employed at the war’s end (British War Medal 1914-20). He was advanced to Sick Berth Petty Officer in the summer of 1926 and was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in December of the following year. By early 1941, he was serving in the armed merchant cruiser Comorin, which liner had been requisitioned by the Admiralty in September 1939. In April 1941 Comorin was on passage from the UK to Freetown; in addition to her own ship’s company she was carrying drafts for other ships and bases, a total of 475 officers and men. On 6 April a fire broke out in her engine rooms and soon engulfed much of the ship. Although two other ships, the destroyers Lincoln and Broke, came to her aid, the weather was bad and it was extremely difficult for the smaller ships to approach the massive liner, rolling heavily in the huge North Atlantic waves. Lieutenant-Commander Peter Scott, aboard the Broke, later wrote: ‘When we drew near, the scene was awe-inspiring. The great liner lay beam on to the seas, drifting very rapidly. A red glow showed in the smoke which belched from her funnel and below that amidships the fire had a strong hold. Clouds of smoke streamed away from her lee side. The crew were assembled aft and we were in communication by lamp and later by semaphore ... To go alongside Comorin seemed an impossibility. The waves were fifty to sixty feet from trough to crest and the liner’s cruiser stern lifted high out of the water at one moment showing rudder and screws and crashed downward in a cloud of spray the next. I thought a destroyer could not possibly survive such an impact ... ’ When Broke arrived on the scene, Lincoln was engaged in rescuing men with her Carley rafts but only a few men could be taken each time and it was a desperately slow business. Also, because the rafts could not go right up to the side of the wildly rolling ship, the men had to go down a rope to them, and several were drowned in the attempt. Broke however managed to go alongside the liner; she repeated this manoeuvre dozens of times, and each time a few men jumped from Comorin to the destroyer’s focsle. It was essential to time the jump correctly; not only were the two ships rapidly moving up and down, but they were also rolling in opposite directions, so that one moment they touched, the next they were ten yards apart. A few men fell between the ships, and many others broke a limb, but the great majority were saved. In fact, 455 men were saved and only 20 were lost; sadly, Arthur Rayton was amongst these casualties. He left a widow, Mrs Elizabeth Rayton. His name is recorded at the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. Sold with copied research and a contemporary picture postcard of the Comorin.
Abyssinia 1867 (Asst. Surgn. P. S. Turnbull M.D. Bombay. M. Dept.) nearly extremely fine £400-£500 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: David Dixon Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, April 2006. Peter Stephenson Turnbull was born in 1836 and studied at the University of Glasgow, graduating M.D. in 1859. He entered the Bombay Medical Department as an Assistant Surgeon on 1 October 1860 and served in the Abyssinian expedition, being present at the action at Aroji and the capture of Magdala. He was promoted Surgeon in 1872, Surgeon Major in 1873 and Brigade Surgeon in 1887. On 26 February 1888 he was appointed Deputy Surgeon-General and on 26 February 1893 Surgeon Major-General. He retired from the service on 2 March 1896 and was appointed Honorary Surgeon to the King in 1902. Major-General Turnbull died in Edinburgh on 7 October 1921.
General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24867242 Tpr J J Hewitt QRH) extremely fine, scarce to unit £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- J. J. Hewitt completed one tour of Northern Ireland, from October 1997 to May 1998, based in Armagh.
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp (2), S.E. Asia 1945-46 (D/KX.753468 R. O. Brien. Sto. 1. R.N.) initials officially corrected; Malaya, G.VI.R. (C/JX.206260 F. Steven A.B. R.N.) about 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 ---
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (6271 Pte. W. H. Croker. 35th Coy. 11th Impl: Yeo:) clasp loose on ribbon, good very fine £60-£80 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Confirmed on roll as Wilson Hal ‘Crocker’ and entitled to additional clasps for Orange Free State and South Africa 1901.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (134 Tpr: J. P. Beesley. S.A.C.) very fine £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
An extremely rare Great War D.S.C. and life-saving group of eight awarded to Lieutenant de Vaisseau J. J. Perrette, French Navy, for services aboard the battleship Gaulois in the failed attempt to force the Dardanelles in March 1915, and for saving life from a torpedoed vessel in January 1918 Distinguished Service Cross, GVR, reverse hallmarked London 1915; France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Officer’s breast badge, gold and enamels, chipped in several places; Croix de Guerre 1914 1915, with palm; China Campaign Medal 1900-01, silver, 1 clasp, Chine 1900-01; Levant Campaign Medal, bronze, 1 clasp, Levant; Colonial Campaign Medal, silver, 1 clasp, Afrique Occidentale Francaise; Serbia, War Medal 1914-18, these mounted for display in French order of precedence; together with Société Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufragés (Central Society for Saving Life), large gold medal, 36mm, French hallmark for 18 carat gold, 28.0g, the reverse with uniquely struck inscription ‘Lieutenant de Vaisseau Perette, Commandant La “Sagaïe” – Sauvetage en presence de l’ennemie du personnel de La “Catherine II” torpillée 30 Janvier 1918’, generally good very fine or better (8) £3,000-£4,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- DSC London Gazette 23 December 1915: ‘rewards to Officers and Men of the French Navy, with the approval of the President of the Republic, in recognition of their bravery and distinguished service in the [Dardanelles] campaign:- ‘Le Lieutenant de Vaisseau Julien Joseph Perrette, du “Gaulois”.’ The Gaulois was on the extreme left of the French four battleship squadron taking part in the main naval attack on the Dardanelles defences on 18 March 1915. Badly holed below the waterline in the early afternoon by return fire from Turkish fixed and mobile land batteries, Gaulois flooded rapidly and had to be beached off the entrance to the Dardanelles, on Rabbit Island, north of Tenedos. After pumping out, patching and refloating she went to Malta to be repaired. Only twenty-nine D.S.C.’s were gazetted to the French Navy during the Great War although a few others were possibly awarded and not gazetted. Most of these awards were for the Dardanelles, with one award going to each of the battleships Bouvet (sunk), Suffren and Gaulois. In the absence of any named medals the majority will have passed into anonymous obscurity. The French cargo ship Catherine II (formerly Empress Ekaterina II of the Russian Steam Navigation & Trading Company, Odessa) was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB 52 (Otto Launburg) on 30 January 1918, north of Bougie, Algeria, whilst en route from Bizerta to Greece. The crew were saved by the French destroyer La Sagaïe, commanded by Lieutenant Perette who was awarded a gold medal.
A rare Second War ‘Norway V.C. action’ D.S.M. group of five awarded to Seaman C. E. Newman, Royal Naval Reserve, for gallantry aboard H.M. Trawler Arab when subjected to thirty-one air attacks in five days at Namsos; her skipper Lieutenant Richard Been Stannard, R.N.R. was awarded the Victoria Cross, whilst members of her crew received a D.S.O., a C.G.M., and two D.S.M.’s Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (C. Newman. Smn. R.N.R.) impressed naming, mounted on original investiture pin; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, these last four unnamed as issued in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr C. E. Newman, 31 St James Road, Hastings’, extremely fine (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 --- --- D.S.M. London Gazette 16 August 1940: ‘For bravery and devotion to duty in certain of H.M. Trawlers employed on the coast of Norway - Seaman Charles Newman, R.N.R., H.M.S. Arab.’ The following awards were given to the crew of the Arab, all announced in this same London Gazette: Victoria Cross - Lieutenant Richard Been Stannard, R.N.R. Distinguished Service Order - Sub-Lieutenant Ernest Thomas Lees, R.A.N.V.R. Conspicuous Gallantry Medal - Second Hand David George Spindler, R.N.R. Distinguished Service Medal - Mr James Nicholson, 2nd Engineer, R.N.R., and Seaman Charles Newman, R.N.R. M.I.D. - Seaman Charles Hossack, R.N.R.. The citation for Stannard’s V.C. states: ‘For outstanding valour and signal devotion to duty at Namsos. When enemy bombing attacks had set on fire many tons of hand grenades on Namsos wharf, with no shore water supply available, Lieutenant Stannard ran Arab’s bows against the wharf and held her there. Sending all but two of his crew aft, he then endeavoured for two hours to extinguish the fire with hoses from the forecastle. He persisted in this work till the attempt had to be given up as hopeless. After helping other ships against air attacks, he placed his own damaged vessel under shelter of a cliff, landed his crew and those of two other trawlers, and established an armed camp. Here those off duty could rest while he attacked enemy aircraft which approached by day, and kept anti-submarine watch during the night. When another trawler near-by was hit and set on fire by a bomb, he, with two others, boarded Arab and moved her 100 yards before the other vessel blew up. Finally, when leaving the fjord, he was attacked by a German bomber which ordered him to steer East or be sunk. He held on his course, reserved his fire till the enemy was within 800 yards, and then brought the aircraft down. Throughout a period of five days Arab was subjected to 31 bombing attacks and the camp and Lewis gun positions ashore were repeatedly machine-gunned and bombed; yet the defensive position was so well planned that only one man was wounded. Lieutenant Stannard ultimately brought his damaged ship back to an English port. His continuous gallantry in the presence of the enemy was magnificent, and his enterprise and resource not only caused losses to the Germans but saved his ship and many lives.’ H.M. Trawler Arab, originally a Hull trawler requisitioned by the Navy was sent by the Admiralty, under the command of Lieutenant Richard Been Stannard, as part of the 15th Anti Submarine Striking Force and had the task of sweeping the fjords for enemy submarines and to land supplies at the small fishing port of Namsos. On 28 April 1940, when enemy bombing attacks had set on fire many tons of ammunition and stores on the wharf, Lieutenant Stannard ran Arab’s bows against the wharf and held her there. Sending all but two of his crew aft, he endeavoured for two hours to extinguish the fire with hoses from the forecastle. He persisted in this work till the attempt had to be given up as hopeless. Stannard later received orders to evacuate French troops from a landing stage at 23.59 hours and transfer them to a troop-ship which was completed at 03.30. Following this Arab made for a small bay. In the vicinity were two sister trawlers, H.M.S. Gaul and Aston-Villa. On 1st May Gaul received a direct hit and was sinking, her crew making for the shore. Stannard placed Arab under shelter of a cliff, landed his crew and with those of the other vessels established a camp, where they were frequently attacked. When the trawler Aston Villa was hit Stannard, with two others, boarded Arab and moved her out of danger. On leaving the fjord on 2nd May Arab was attacked by a German Heinkel 115 bomber which ordered them to steer east or be sunk. Stannard held his course and, when the aircraft made her final run in to bomb the trawler, Arab’s Oerlikon gun brought the plane down. Throughout the five day action Arab was subjected to 31 bombing attacks. Lieutenant Stannard then brought Arab back to Scapa arriving on 6th May and on 16th August was awarded the V.C., and Newman his D.S.M. Charles Edwin Newman was born in Hastings, Sussex, on 25 March 1915. He joined the Navy on 19 March 1940 (Official No. JX.184489) and as Ordinary Seaman joined H.M. Trawler Hazel on 10 April but transferred to H.M. Trawler Arab on 21 April 1940. In November 1941, still serving in Arab, he changed branches to become a Stoker 1st Class (new Official No. KX.148617) and continued in Arab until 19 December 1942. He was held on the books of Europa, R.N.P.S. base at Lowestoft, for the remainder of the war, but from June to October 1945 saw service in the Virginia, yacht of 712 tons, at Columbo, Ceylon, Bahrain, Persian Gulf and Bombay. Sold with the recipient’s Royal Naval Patrol Service sleeve badge (1st type without the integral loops for stitching) with brooch pin; original Certificate of Service of Charles Edwin Newman listing his D.S.M. 16. Aug. 1940; Petty Officer’s first class embroidered arm badge; naval cap badge and shoulder board; photo of recipient; “His Majesty’s Minesweepers” booklet, HMSO 1943; “Junior Mirror” newspaper Jan 18th 1956, which introduces a section/feature “Our VC Heroes” of which No. 1 was the V.C. to Richard Stannard and during which Seaman Newman played his part, paper AF; together with copied research.
Three: Private E. J. Rewitzky, Royston’s Horse, later Union Defence Force Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Pte. E. J. Rewitzky, 2nd Royston’s Horse.); War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, both officially impressed ‘137301 E. J. Rewitzky’, mounted for display; together with the recipient’s riband bar, edge nicks, 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 ---
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (Pte. R. Berkley. Kimberley Town Gd:) good very fine £160-£200 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Confirmed on roll as ‘R. G. Birkley’. Also served with Warrenton D.M.T. but disallowed additional clasps for Orange Free State and Transvaal.
Three: Private J. W. Sheriff, Northamptonshire Regiment India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (3842 Pte. J. Sheriff 1st. Bn. North’n Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (47682 Pte. J. Sheriff. North’n. R.) nearly very fine or better (3) £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R. (K.34710. S/Sgt. H. Kent.) good very fine £60-£80 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Howard Kent was born in England and emigrated to Canada in 1926. He attested for the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps in 1939, and served with them overseas during the Second World War, latterly as a Warrant Officer Class II in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals. He died from a heart attack at Seaforth Armoury, Canada, on 8 December 1944, and is buried in Vancouver (Mountain View) Cemetery, B.C.
A rare Second War Arctic Convoys D.S.M. group of seven awarded to Able Seaman H. J. Woodward, Royal Navy, who killed when H.M.S. Gossamer was bombed and sunk in the Kola Inlet and posthumously awarded the Soviet Order of the Patriotic War Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (J.104237 H. J. Woodward A.B.) impressed naming; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (J.104237 H. J. Woodward A.B. H.M.S. Suffolk); Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class, enamelled breast badge with screw-back ribbon, reverse officially numbered ‘84’, mounted court style for display, top arm of the last damaged and retouched with paint, otherwise nearly extremely fine (7) £3,000-£4,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- DSM London Gazette 25 August 1942: ‘For distinguished services in HM Ships... Gossamer... in taking convoys to and from Murmansk in March and May 1942, through the dangers of ice and heavy seas and in the face of relentless attacks by enemy U-boats, aircraft and surface vessels.’ Order of the Patriotic War announced in Edict from the Kremlin, Moscow, 7 September 1942, and London Gazette 17 November 1942: ‘For valour and courage shown during the delivery of armaments from the United Kingdom to the U.S.S.R.’ A contemporary translation of this edict, announcing 12 soviet awards accompanies the group together with the original Soviet award booklet with recipient’s photograph and pension booklet, this unused. During the Second World War a total of 166 Soviet awards were given to British and Colonial forces, including 19 Orders of the Patriotic War 2nd Class, of which only 3 Royal Navy and 5 Merchant Navy. In October 1941 Gossamer was part of the anti‑submarine escort of the North Russian convey PQ1, arriving at Archangel on the 11th. She was afterwards engaged on minesweeping and anti‑submarine sweeps from that port and in the escort of later convoys. On 30th April 1942, Gossamer left Murmansk with two other ships of her flotilla to assist the cruiser Edinburgh which had been torpedoed with Convoy QP11, enabling 480 men to be saved. Next day the Edinburgh was further attacked by German destroyers and sunk, taking with her several tons of Soviet gold going to Britain as payment for arms. Gossamer herself had rescued 440 survivors. In May 1942 she to took part in the escort of Convoy PQ16. Gossamer remained in North Russia and on 24th June was sunk by a direct bomb hit from a JU-88 during an air attack while at anchor in the Kola Inlet. Only 30 of the 178 crew survived. Henry James Woodward, of Shepherds Bush, London, is commemorated by name on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
Five: Private A. Goldsack, Liverpool Regiment, later Army Service Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (3276 Pte. A. Goldsack, L’pool: Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3276 Pte. A. Goldsack. Liverpool Regt.); 1914-15 Star (13113 Pte. A. Goldsack. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (13113 Pte. A. Goldsack. A.S.C.) light contact marks, generally good very fine (5) £200-£240 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Four: Musician C. H. Wright, Royal Marines Band 1914-15 Star (R.M.B. 886, Mus. C. H. Wright.); British War and Victory Medals (R.M.B. 886 Mus. C. H. Wright.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (R.M.B. 886 C. H. Wright. Mus. H.M.S. Hawkins.) mounted court-style for wear; together with the recipient’s 2nd Cruiser Squadron Medal 1908, 1 clasp, Durban, unnamed as issued, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (5) £160-£200 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Charles Harold Wright was born in Hornsey, London, on 29 June 1891 and joined the Royal Marines as a Band Boy on 4 July 1905, playing the cornet and violin. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. Prince of Wales from the outbreak of War to 5 April 1917, and then, after a brief spell at the Royal Marines School of Music, in H.M.S. Marlborough from 23 May 1917 until the cessation of hostilities. He subsequently served in H.M.S. Renown during the Royal Tour of the Prince of Wales to India and Japan from 22 October 1921 to 30 June 1922. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 30 October 1924, he was pensioned on the termination of his period of engagement on 15 December 1936. Recalled for service during the Second World War, he served at the Royal Naval School of Music from 27 August 1940 to 19 August 1941. Sold with copied service record.
China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1858 (H. Wakerell. H.M.S. Hesper.) contemporary engraved naming, very fine £240-£280 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Henry ‘Wakrell’ is confirmed on the roll as a Stoker aboard H.M.S. Hesper. He was born in Bermondsey and was invalided from Melville on 21 December 1859.
Six: Chief Engine Room Artificer E. E. Holland, Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star, 1 clasp, Burma; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (M.35665 E. E. Holland. E.A.2. [sic] H.M.S. Resource.) generally very fine and better (6) £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Ernest Edward Holland was born in Woolwich on 4 January 1905 and joined the Royal Navy as an apprentice Engine Room Artificer on 14 August 1920. Advanced Engine Room Artificer Second Class on 1 July 1933, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 22 November 1937, and was promoted Chief Engine Room Artificer on 1 May 1939. He served during the Great War principally in the destroyer H.M.S. Scout, and was serving in her during the evacuation convoy operations immediately prior to the Fall of Singapore. He was finally released from the service on 22 November 1945. Sold with the recipient’s London County Council King’s Medal, 1 clasp, 1919-20 (E. Holland) with integral top L.C.C. riband bar, with crushed named lid of card box of issue; three H.M.S. Resource silver prize medals, all hallmarked, the reverses engraved ‘Interpart Billiards 1931 E.R.A. E. Holland’; ‘Interpart Cricket 1931 E.R.A. E. Holland’; and ‘Interpart Billiards 1932 E.R.A. E. Holland’, all in N.A.A.F.I. cases of issue; Admiralty enclosure for the Second War awards; and copied record of service and other research.
A Great War D.S.M. group of eight awarded to Leading Seaman A. M. Polyblank, Royal Navy, who was decorated for services in H.M. Submarine R12, mentioned in despatches whilst serving as Second Coxswain of H.M. Submarine D4 when she attacked UB-72 in May 1918, also awarded the Roumanian Cross of Military Virtue, and later Royal Australian Navy Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (223681 A. M. Polyblank, Ldg. Sea. H.M. Sub. “R-12” 1 July – 11 Nov. 1918); 1914-15 Star (223681 A. M. Polyblank. A.B. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (223681 A. M. Polyblank. L.S. R.N.); War Medal 1939-45 and Australia Service Medal, these two officially impressed (9256 A.M. Polybank); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (223681 A. M. Polyblank. Ldg. Smn. H.M.A.S. Platypus); Romania, Cross of Military Virtue, 2nd Class, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise about very fine (8) £3,000-£3,600 --- 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 20 February 1919: ‘For services in submarines between 1st July and 11th November 1918.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 21 June 1918: ‘For services in action with enemy submarines.’ Romania, Cross of Military Virtue, 2nd Class, London Gazette 17 March 1919: ‘For distinguished services rendered during the war.’ Romania’s highest decoration for bravery; five First Class and twenty Second Class crosses awarded to the Royal Navy during the Great War. Alfred Mordant Polyblank was born at Poplar, London, on 15 August 1885, and joined the Navy in November 1902 as a Boy 2nd Class , a leather box maker by trade. From September 1903 to April 1904 he served on the Australian station in the ships Wallaroo and Katoomba, and no doubt this influenced his decision to join the Royal Australian Navy after the Great War. He joined the submarine service in October 1912 and served in the D4 from March 1917 to June 1918. During this period he was mentioned in despatches, as Second Coxswain of D4, when she attacked UB-72 on 12 May 1918. One week before the end of the war he joined R12, in which he served until March 1919 when he enlisted into the R.A.N. and joined J2, in which submarine he served until June 1922, now as a Petty Officer. He received his L.S. & G.C. in February 1920 and retired on pension in August 1925. He was recalled for service during W.W.2 and was finally discharged from H.M.A.S. Rushcutter as a Boatman II (A.B.) on 4 October 1945.
Four: Battery Quartermaster Sergeant P. C. Cherry, Royal Field Artillery 1914-15 Star (10736 Sjt. P. C. Cherry, R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (10736 B.Q.M. Sjt. P. C. Cherry. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (10736 B.Q.M. Sjt. P. G. [sic] Cherry. R.A.) nearly very fine (4) £70-£90 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Percy C. Cherry attested for the Royal Field Artillery and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 10 May 1915.
Five: L. R. Stevens, Australian Forces 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Australia Service Medal, all officially impressed ‘TX3039 L. R. Stevens’, good very fine Australia Service Medal (59834 R. W. Howarth.) officially impressed naming, good very fine (6) £60-£80 --- 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, bronze issue (Bearer Khuler Khan 1st. W.Y. Regt.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine, rare to unit £140-£180 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Pair: Sepoy Dost Mahomed, 20th Bengal Infantry India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1894-5 (4374 Dost Mahomed 20th Bl Infy) ; India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Malakand 1897 (4374 Sepoy Dost Mahamad 20 (D.C.O.) P.I.) light contact marks, otherwise very fine (2) £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Malakand clasp not issued singly and not confirmed; unit entitled to Punjab Frontier 1897-98 and Tirah 1897-98 only.
Jubilee 1887, Metropolitan Police (PC, S. Turner. V. Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. G. Hole. G. Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (Insp. C. Greenham.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Thomas W. Robson) edge bruise to first, otherwise good very fine (4) £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal (98365 L. W. M. Infield); India Service Medal (4) (21423 Sep. Partap Singh, 2 Punjab R.; 27999 L/Nk. Pertap Rai, 5-8 G.R.; two unnamed); New Zealand War Service Medal; South Africa Medal for War Service, generally good very fine and better (16) £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
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South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 [not entitled] (“Shah” R. Bacon. P.O. 1st. Cl: H.M.S.) naming separated by suspension post, minor edge bruise, very fine £300-£400 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Sold with copied medal roll extract which states that the recipient was not entitled to the clasp 1879.
Four: Leading Stoker A. M. Gillingham, Royal Navy, who was killed in action in H.M.S. Neptune in December 1941 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted court-style for display, together with original Admiralty condolence slip in the name of ‘Alfred Mitchell Gillingham’, this folded and repaired, otherwise extremely fine (4) £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Alfred Mitchell Gillingham was killed in action in the cruiser H.M.S. Neptune on 19 December 1941, when as part of Force K, the ship ran into an enemy minefield off Tripoli and struck three mines in quick succession. Having then hit yet another, she sank. Gillingham has no known grave and is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
Four: M. de V. Whitwell, née Farrant, Rhodesian Forces Rhodesia, General Service Medal (213FW W/F/R M. de V. Whitwell); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, these all officially impressed ‘F264013 M. de V. Farrant’, mounted court-style for display, good very fine and scarce to a female recipient Rhodesia, District Service Medal (D.A. C. Tambanda) good very fine (5) £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Taku Forts 1860 (Dr. Thomas Coghlan, H.M.S. Beagle.) contemporarily engraved naming, fitted with top brooch bar, light contact marks and wear, nearly very fine £800-£1,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: John Tamplin Collection Thomas Coghlan (later Colan) was born in Cork on 7 November 1830. He entered the Royal Navy on 5 December 1853, as an Assistant Surgeon on board the Royal George, in which ship he served in the Baltic during the campaigns of 1854-55. During the summer of 1854 the Royal George suffered much from cholera. In January 1856 he joined the Pylades and again visited the Baltic with the Advanced Squadron in the ice of the Gulf of Finland (Medal). After witnessing the grand naval review held at Spithead at the conclusion of the war, he sailed for the North America and West India station where he continued to serve in the Boscawen 70, and in the Scorpion surveying vessel, until April 1857. After serving in the Hastings 60, he joined the Beagle, in which vessel he served during the Second China War, being present at the capture of the Peiho Forts, and in the Tientsin River during the operations which resulted in the fall of Pekin (Medal with clasp Taku Forts 1860). Coghlan was promoted to Surgeon on 30 January 1863, and shortly afterwards changed his name to Colan. He was awarded the Gilbert Blane Gold Medal for 1872 for his Medical Journal on the West Coast of Africa. In 1873 he served in Rattlesnake during the Ashantee War, for which service he was specially promoted to Staff Surgeon in March 1874 (Medal). Appointed Principal Medical Officer for the Arctic expedition of 1875-76 under Captain George S. Nares, Colan served on board the Alert, and for his services was once again specially promoted, to Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets (Arctic Medal). From October 1877 he served for three years as Deputy Inspector of Hospitals at Port Royal in Jamaica, during which time yellow fever broke out twice at Port Royal. In January 1883 he was promoted to Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets, and retired in April of that year. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and author of A Memoir on Parasitic Vegetable Fungi and Diseases induced by them, besides his paper on the West Coast of Africa. He died on 18 August 1885, aged 54. Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient. Note: The recipient’s privately named Baltic Medal, and officially named Arctic Medal, were sold in these rooms in December 2003.
Three: Private R. R. Rogerson, East Surrey Regiment British War and Victory Medals (2446 Pte. R. R. Rogerson. E. Surr. R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (2446 Pte. R. R. Rogerson. E. Surr. R.) mounted court-style for wear, lacquered, nearly extremely fine (3) £140-£180 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
Three: Private A. Williams, 11th Hussars 1914 Star (8108. SS. A. Williams. 11. Hussars.); British War and Victory Medals (8108 Pte. A. Williams. 11 Hussars.) all official replacements marked ‘Replacement’, very fine Pair: Private J. Lancastle, Grenadier Guards 1914-15 Star (10578 Pte. J. Lancastle. G. Gds:); British War Medal 1914-20 (10578 Pte. J. Lancastle. G. Gds.) very fine Pair: Private J. Wyllie, Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals (79147 Pte. J. Wyllie. M.G.C.); together with the recipient’s related miniature awards, riband bar, and cap badge, nearly extremely fine (7) £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Albert Williams attested for the 11th Hussars and served with them as a Shoeing Smith during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 August 1914. His medal index card states that replacement medals were issued on 27 November 1957. James Lancastle attested for the Grenadier Guards and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 January 1915.
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Near East (P/KX.847202 G. E. Nobes. Mech. 1. R.N.); General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (OM(MW)1 D J Graham D230722S RN) 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 ---
Eight: Electrician’s Mate First Class J. E. Hutchings, Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (C/MX.844613 J. E. Hutchings. E.M.1. R.N.); Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (C/MX.844613 J. E. Hutchings. E.M.1. R.N.) minor official correction to prefix to number; U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, generally good very fine and better (8) £200-£240 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- John Edward Hutchings was born in Camberwell, London, on 9 June 1913 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 9 July 1929. Promoted Able Seaman on 8 December 1932, he served during the Second World War in a variety of ships and shore based establishments in a variety of theatres (his Certificate of Service states that, in addition to the medals included in this lot, he received the ‘Burma & Pacific Star’ [sic], perhaps implying that he was entitled to a Pacific clasp to his Burma Star). Promoted Electrician’s Mate Second Class on 12 February 1947, he saw further service during the operations in Malaya and Korea, and was shore released on 13 December 1953. He was not awarded a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. He subsequently joined the Merchant Navy. Sold with the recipient’s original Certificate of Service; Torpedo History Sheet; Gunnery History Sheet; Electrician Trade Certificate; Lifeboatman Certificate of Efficiency; and Liverpool Fire Service Training School Ship Fire Fighting Certificate.
Three: Gunner W. Whitworth, Royal Navy Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, this loose on riband (Mr. W. Whitworth, Gunr. R.N. H.M.S. Valorous) privately engraved naming, with small correction to ship’s name; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, pierced as issued with replacement small ring suspension, light contact marks, very fine (3) £300-£400 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- William Whitworth was born in Camberwell, Surrey, in 1813 and initially joined the Royal Navy in June 1833. Advanced Acting Gunner, Third Class, on 10 January 1845, he joined H.M.S. Valorous on 17 December 1852, and served in her during both the Baltic and Crimea campaigns. He was advanced Gunner First Class in H.M.S. Excellent on 14 September 1855, and was pensioned on 11 May 1870. He died in London in 1892. Sold with copied medal roll extracts, which confirms entitlement to the Sebastopol clasp; and copied research.
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