Five: Warrant Officer Class II A. A. Thompson, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914 Star (7671 L.Cpl (A. Cpl.) A. Thompson. 2/Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (7671 A.W.O.Cl.2. A. A. Thompson. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Defence Medal; Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Arthur Alfred Thompson) mounted court-style as worn, contact marks, some edge bruises, nearly very fine and better (5) £100-£140 --- Arthur Alfred Thompson attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion on the Western Front from 14 August 1914 (entitled to a clasp to his 1914 Star), being later appointed Acting Warrant Officer Class II. Post-War, he worked as a skilled workman in the London Telecommunications Region and was awarded the Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement (London Gazette 15 October 1946).
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Three: Private A. G. Fulker, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 29 February 1916 1914-15 Star (16648 Pte. A. G. Fulker. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (16648 Pte. A. G. Fulker. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) generally good very fine Three: Private W. E. Harper, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 15 May 1917 1914-15 Star (15348 Pte. W. E. Harper. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (15348 Pte. W. E. Harper. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); together with the recipient’s card identity disc, generally good very fine (6) £100-£140 --- Arthur George Fulker was born in Drayton, Oxfordshire and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry for service during the Great War. He served with the 6th Battalion on the Western Front from 20 May 1915 and died of wounds on 29 February 1916. He is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. William E.. Harper attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry for service during the Great War and served with the 5th Battalion on the Western Front from 18 September 1915. He died of wounds on 15 May 1917 and is buried in Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, France.
A Great War C.I.E. group of five awarded to Captain E. I. M. Barrett, Commissioner of Police, Shanghai, late Lancashire Fusiliers, who was wounded at Venters Spruit during the Boer War; a keen sportsman, he played Rugby Union for England; first class cricket for Hampshire; and won the Japan Amateur Golf Championship The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel, with neck riband; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, the first clasp a tailor’s copy (Lieut. E. I. M. Barrett. Lanc. Fusrs.) officially re-engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. E. I. M. Barrett. Lanc. Fusrs.) officially re-engraved naming; Shanghai Municipal Police Long Service Medal, silver (Capt. E. I. M. Barrett, C.I.E., Com of Police) edge prepared prior to naming; War Medal 1939-45, the second, third, and fourth mounted as worn, the War Medal loose, retaining rod missing from the Shanghai award, light contact marks, generally very fine and better (5) £1,800-£2,200 --- C.I.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For meritorious services connected with the War.’ Edward Ivo Medhurst Barrett was born in Churt, Surrey, on 22 June 1879 and was educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned second lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers on 11 February 1899, and served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War as part of the Ladysmith Relief Force, and was slightly wounded at the engagement at Venters Spruit on 20 January 1900. Promoted captain in 1902, in June of that year he was seconded as a wing officer to the Malay States Guides. He joined the Shanghai Municipal Police on 1 May 1907, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1919. He served as Commissioner of Police, Shanghai from 1925 to 1929. A keen sportsman, Barrett played rugby union for England against Scotland in the Calcutta Cup Match in the 1903 Four Nations Championship (which Scotland won 10-6 on their way to the Triple Crown), and between 1896 and 1925 played 86 first class cricket matches for both Hampshire and the Marylebone Cricket Club, with a top score of 215. He also won the Japan amateur golf championship in 1917. He died in Boscombe on 10 July 1950. Sold with the recipient’s original Bestowal Document for the C.I.E. For the recipient’s related miniature awards, see Lot 533.
Pair: Gunner G. Lack, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (147577 Gnr. G. Lack R.A.) both in named card box of issue; together with a hand-painted envelope addressed to the recipient; and a postcard photograph of the recipient, extremely fine Pair: Driver A. E. Stebbing, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (228491 Dvr. A. E. Stebbing. R.A.) nearly very fine Three: Driver L. E. Walls, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (210365 Dvr. L. E. Walls. R.A.); National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal, bronze, with clasps for Five Years and Ten Years, the edge officially numbered ‘9965’ and contemporarily engraved ‘Leonard E. Walls’, light contact marks, very fine (7) £80-£100
Seven: Leading Cook W. J. Sims, Royal Navy, who survived the sinking of H.M.S. Amphion on 6 August 1914, when she struck a mine off the Thames Estuary and sank with the loss of 132 men killed; she was the first ship of the Royal Navy to be sunk in the Great War. 1914-15 Star (M.5636, W. J. Sims, Ck. Mte., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.5636. W. J. Sims. Ck. Mte. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.5636, W. J. Sims., L. Ck. H.M.S. Vivid.) contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine and better (7) £120-£160 --- William Sims was born in Plymstock, Devon, on 12 September 1894 and attested for the Royal Navy on 24 January 1913. He joined H.M.S. Amphion on 29 October 1913, which, by the start of the Great War, was leader of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla in the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, assigned to the Harwich Force, defending the eastern approaches to the English Channel, under the command of Captain Cecil H. Fox. In the morning of 5 August, Amphion and the 3rd Flotilla sortied into the North Sea to patrol the area between Harwich and the Dutch island of Terschelling for German activity. At 10:15 a ship in the black, buff, and yellow colours of the Great Eastern Railway’s steamers that plied between Harwich and the Hook of Holland was spotted. Fox sent the destroyers H.M.S. Lance and H.M.S. Landrail to investigate and shortly afterwards another destroyer reported that a trawler had seen a suspicious ship, 'throwing things overboard, presumably mines'. H.M.S. Amphion led the flotilla to investigate and observed that the fleeing ship was deploying mines even then. At 10:45, Lance opened fire at a range of 4,400 yards (4,000 m). The target was S.M.S. Königin Luise, a former Hamburg-Heligoland excursion boat that had been converted to an auxiliary minelayer by the Germans. They had planned to mount a pair of 8.8-centimetre (3.5 in) guns on board, but they did not have the time to do so; her only armament was a pair of lighter guns and 180 mines. On the night of 4 August, she had departed Emden and headed into the North Sea to lay mines off the Thames Estuary, which she began to do at dawn. The fire from the destroyers was ineffective until Amphion closed to a range of 7,000 yards and began hitting the German ship at about 11:15. By noon, Königin Luise was sinking and the three British ships rescued 5 officers and 70 ratings. The flotilla proceeded onwards with their patrol until they reached the Dutch coast around 21:00 and turned for home. Fox was uncertain as to the locations of the mines laid by Königin Luise and laid a course that was seven nautical miles west of where he thought the mines were. He guessed wrongly and led his flotilla over the danger area. At 06:35, Amphion struck a mine that detonated underneath her bridge. The explosion set her forecastle on fire and broke the ship’s keel. The destroyer H.M.S. Linnet attempted to tow the cruiser, but a deep crack across her upper deck showed that she was hogging badly and Fox ordered his crew to abandon ship. Shortly afterwards, her forward magazine exploded, throwing one 4-inch gun into the air that narrowly missed Linnet. One of Amphion’s shells burst on the deck of the destroyer Lark, killing two of her men and the only German prisoner rescued from the cruiser. Amphion then rapidly sank within 15 minutes of the explosion losing 1 officer and 131 ratings killed in the sinking, plus an unknown number of the crew rescued from Königin Luise. Having survived her sinking, Sims saw later war service in H.M.S. Benbow and H.M.S. Rule. On 22 January 1919 he married Winifred Metters at St Eustachius parish church, Tavistock, Devon, but she was tragically killed in car accident later that day. Later that year he married again. He continued to serve post war and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1928. Discharged to pension at the end of January 1935, he was mobilised from 29 September to 3 October 1938 and later recalled for service during the Second World War. serving in H.M.S. Lucia the base for the Red Sea Force from 23 September 1939 to 29 September 1941. He remained in Lucia until the 29th September 1941 before service in H.M.S. Malaya and H.M.S. Drake, before his eventual discharge, whilst serving in H.M.S. Imperieuse, on 17 August 1945. Post war, he worked as a civilian in the catering section of a naval camp. He died, aged 79, in Plymouth, on 28 September 1973.
A Staffordshire Volunteer Rifle Corps Shako Badge. An early small shako badge of the 39th Burton-on-Trent Volunteer c.1860, blackened crowned light infantry bugle with ‘39’ to the centre; together with a Senior NCOs white metal Pouch Belt Plate, c.1870, with crowned laurel wreath with Staffordshire Knot on stippled ground; and another NCOs bronze example, all fixings in place, good condition (3) £140-£180
Pair: Admiral C. H. Adair, Royal Navy, who accompanied and instructed the young Princes Albert and George on the cruise of H.M.S. Bacchante, and was later A.D.C. to their father King Edward VII Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (Lieut. C. H. Adair. R.N. H.M.S. “Helicon.”); Khedive’s Star, dated 1884-6, unnamed as issued, with a fine cabinet photograph of recipient in uniform, signed by him and dated ‘1913’, mounted for wear, light contact marks, generally very fine (2) £400-£500 --- Approximately 29 Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, no clasp medals issued to H.M.S. Helicon. Charles Henry Adair was born in July 1851, and was the son of Colonel C. W. Adair, C.B., Royal Marines. He joined the Royal Navy in October 1864, and the Liverpool Daily Post, 21 September 1869, gives the following: ‘Lieutenant Adair and his brother William were charged with “wanton outrages” in that they had smashed a number of garden vases and ornaments whilst also injuring a number of flowers and shrubs in Maidstone Road, Rochester. Charles was further charged with wilfully breaking a street lamp in Rochester High Street wit his walking stick, and assaulting a police constable in the execution of his duty. They appeared before the Mayor and Magistrates at the Guidhall, Rochester. Both men pleaded guilty to the charges and their father Colonel C. W. Adair, C.B., Royal Marines, spoke on their behalf as did others. The Mayor agreed that they should be fined, consequently a total of £7-17s was paid by the brothers who produced a a number of banknotes.’ The above seems not to have unduly affected the young Adair’s career, as he was promoted Lieutenant in June 1874. His service record gives ‘Commanded 1st Co. “Actives” men destroying piratical villages in Congo River, 18 September 1875’. Adair elected to specialise in gunnery, and served with H.M.S. Bacchante, July 1879 - August 1882. Whilst with the latter, he found himself in contact with the Royal Family. The two oldest sons of the Prince of Wales had entered the navy in 1877, and by 1879 it had been decided by the Royal Family and the Government that the two should undertake a cruise. They were assigned to Bacchante, which was then part of a squadron intended to patrol the sea lanes of the British Empire. The Princes, with their tutor John Neale Dalton, duly came aboard on 17 September 1879. The Bacchante was to be their home for the next three years, and the future Duke of Clarence and King George V were instructed by Adair: ‘The First Lieutenant the Honourable A. G. Curzon-Hawe taught the princes seamanship, the Gunnery Lieutenant C. H. Adair, instructed them in that skill.’ (Royal Education Past, Present and Future by P. Gordon and D. Lawton refers) The Reverend Dalton later donated photographs of the trip to the Royal Collection, and Adair features amongst them. Adair advanced to Commander in January 1886, and to Captain in June 1893. He was appointed to H.M.S. Royal Sovereign in January 1900, and the Christchurch Times, 16 November 1901, reported: ‘Gun Accident On Board the Royal Sovereign. A big gun burst on board the Royal Sovereign while she was manoeuvring. One officer and six artillerymen were killed and the captain of the ship and thirteen sailors were seriously injured. Captain Charles Henry Adair, who, is reported to have been seriously injured by the explosion was appointed to the ship on January 30th 1900.’ Adair, having recuperated from his injuries, was appointed A.D.C. to H.M. The King in January 1904. He advanced to Rear Admiral in April 1905, and was appointed to the command of the Second Cruiser Squadron the following year. Adair was promoted Admiral in May 1913, and retired at his own request later that month. Admiral Adair died in March 1920. Sold with copied research, including a group photographic image of the crew of H.M.S. Bacchante from the Royal Collection.
Pair: Second Lieutenant A. C. Skoulding, 6th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who died of wounds received at Guillemont on 21 February 1917; in civilian life he was an Auctioneer’s Clerk British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut A. C. Skoulding) some scratches to VM, otherwise very fine British War Medal 1914-20 (2. Lieut. P. E. Craddock.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2. Lieut. A. W. Wood.) BWM extremely fine, ring altered on VM to incorporate an unofficial straight suspension, some staining, otherwise nearly very fine (4) £80-£100 --- Alfred Cecil Skoulding, an auctioneer’s clerk from Melton, Suffolk, was born on 9 January 1894. He attested for the Honourable Artillery Company and served at home during the Great War, before being commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 19 December 1916. He served on the Western Front with the 6th Battalion from 4 February 1917 and, just a few weeks later, was wounded at Guillemont by gun shot to his left buttock on 19 February 1917. He died of wounds on 21 February 1917, and is buried in Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte, France. Percy Ernest Craddock was born in Wantage, Oxfordshire in October 1896 and attested for the Oxford Yeomanry for service during the Great War. Appointed sergeant, he was later commissioned in to Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 2nd/4th Battalion on the Western Front, where he was taken Prisoner of War. Almerick Watkins Wood was born on 11 October 1891 in Kurseong Parsonage, Bengal. He was educated at Beaumont College, where he was both School and Boats Captain; and at Merton College, Oxford, where he rowed in the college eight in the Henley Regatta in both 1912 and 1913. He was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 22 September 1914, for service during the Great War, and served on the Western Front in 1915. On 10 September 1915, he was posted to the 5th Battalion and died of wounds on 26 September 1915, received the previous day at the attack on Bellewaarde Farm, during the Battle of Loos. He is buried in Poperinghe New Military Cemetery, Belgium. Sold with copied research.
Three: Private W. J. Cross, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Intantry 1914 Star (8362 Pte. W. J. Cross. 2/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (8362 Pte. W. J. Cross. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) very fine (3) £70-£90 --- William J. Cross was born in Cottisford, Oxfordshire, in 1898 and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1906. A Reservist, he was recalled for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front with the 2nd Battalion from 14 August 1914, and was discharged ‘no longer physically fit for war service’ on 17 November 1915.
Five: Captain A. Williams, Royal Field Artillery, who was three times Mentioned in Despatches Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein (99848 Sgt. A. Williams, 65th Bty: R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. A. Williams. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. A. Williams.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (99848 B.Q.M. Sjt: A. Williams R.F.A.) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (5) £120-£160 --- Amos Williams was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery on 15 December 1914, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 August 1915. For his services he was three times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 18 May 1917; 21 May 1918; and 7 July 1919).
Three: Second Lieutenant L. E. Davis, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, late Army Service Corps, who was wounded at Glencoe Wood on 25 August 1917 1914-15 Star (S4-038822 Sjt. L. E. Davis. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. L. E. Davis) very fine Three: Lieutenant T. H. Webb, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was twice wounded on the Western Front 1914-15 Star (1955 Pte. T. H. Webb. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. T. H. Webb) traces of verdigris, otherwise very fine Pair: Lieutenant R. A. W. Kennedy, Highland Light Infantry, attached 7th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. A. W. Kennedy) mounted as worn, very fine (8) £120-£160 --- Leonard Edgar Davis was born in Addlestone, Surrey on 13 June 1895. He attested for the Army Service Corps on 7 November 1913, and was promoted Sergeant on 4 August 1914. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 December 1914 and was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 26 April 1917. Returning to France in June 1917, he joined the 5th Battalion at Arras and was wounded by a gun shot to his leg at Glencourse Wood, Ypres, on 24 August 1917. A Medical Board report dated 11 July 1919 states that the injury sustained a fracture to his right femur and knee, which resulted in a 2.5” shortening of his right leg. Thomas Harry Webb, a student at Culham College, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, attested for the 4th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 23 September 1913. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 March 1915 and was wounded on the Somme on 19 July 1916, with multiple gun shot wounds to his right forearm. Commissioned on 26 April 1917, he returned to his battalion in July 1917 and was further wounded by a shell splinter to his cheek on 28 August 1917. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 26 October 1918. Ronald Alexander Whitelaw Kennedy was born in Glasgow in 1893. He was commissioned into the 2/5th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry for service during the Great War, and served in Salonika from May 1917, attached to the 7th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He died in York on 20 February 1966.
1914-15 Star (K.21273, H. Fox, Sto. 1., R.N.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (K.21240 W. Brett. Sto.2. R.N.; J.17106 G. E. Sellick. A.B. R.N.) heavy digs to last with replacement suspension, therefore fair; the Star fine and the VM to Brett good very fine (3) £80-£100 --- H.M.S. Amphion At the start of the Great War, H.M.S. Amphion was leader of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla in the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, assigned to the Harwich Force, defending the eastern approaches to the English Channel, under the command of Captain Cecil H. Fox. In the morning of 5 August, Amphion and the 3rd Flotilla sortied into the North Sea to patrol the area between Harwich and the Dutch island of Terschelling for German activity. At 10:15 a ship in the black, buff, and yellow colours of the Great Eastern Railway’s steamers that plied between Harwich and the Hook of Holland was spotted. Fox sent the destroyers H.M.S. Lance and H.M.S. Landrail to investigate and shortly afterwards another destroyer reported that a trawler had seen a suspicious ship, ‘throwing things overboard, presumably mines’. H.M.S. Amphion led the flotilla to investigate and observed that the fleeing ship was deploying mines even then. At 10:45, Lance opened fire at a range of 4,400 yards (4,000 m). The target was S.M.S. Königin Luise, a former Hamburg-Heligoland excursion boat that had been converted to an auxiliary minelayer by the Germans. They had planned to mount a pair of 8.8-centimetre (3.5 in) guns on board, but they did not have the time to do so; her only armament was a pair of lighter guns and 180 mines. On the night of 4 August, she had departed Emden and headed into the North Sea to lay mines off the Thames Estuary, which she began to do at dawn. The fire from the destroyers was ineffective until Amphion closed to a range of 7,000 yards and began hitting the German ship at about 11:15. By noon, Königin Luise was sinking and the three British ships rescued 5 officers and 70 ratings. The flotilla proceeded onwards with their patrol until they reached the Dutch coast around 21:00 and turned for home. Fox was uncertain as to the locations of the mines laid by Königin Luise and laid a course that was seven nautical miles west of where he thought the mines were. He guessed wrongly and led his flotilla over the danger area. At 06:35 on 6 August, Amphion struck a mine that detonated underneath her bridge. The explosion set her forecastle on fire and broke the ship's keel. The destroyer H.M.S. Linnet attempted to tow the cruiser, but a deep crack across her upper deck showed that she was hogging badly and Fox ordered his crew to abandon ship. Shortly afterwards, her forward magazine exploded, throwing one 4-inch gun into the air that narrowly missed Linnet. One of Amphion’s shells burst on the deck of the destroyer Lark, killing two of her men and the only German prisoner rescued from the cruiser. Amphion then rapidly sank within 15 minutes of the explosion losing 1 officer and 131 ratings killed in the sinking, plus an unknown number of the crew rescued from Königin Luise. She was the first ship of the Royal Navy to be sunk in the Great War. Harold John Fox was born in Plymouth on 1 July 1893 and attested for the Royal Navy on 10 November 1903. He joined H.M.S. Amphion on 28 April 1914, and was present in her when when she sank on 6 August 1914. He afterwards served in H.M.S. Temeraire, which took part in the Battle of Jutland. Advanced Leading Stoker on 18 January 1919, he was still serving in 1932, in H.M.S. Lucia, when he was taken seriously ill. Admitted to the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Gosport, Hampshire, he died, aged 39, on 21 May 1932 due to general peritonitis. William Brett was born in Exeter on 9 April 1895 and attested for the Royal Navy on 3 November 1913. He joined H.M.S. Amphion on 28 March 1914, and was killed when she struck a mine and sunk on 6 August 1914. He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. George Edward Sellick was born in Topsham, Devon, on 20 April 1896 and attested as a Boy for the Royal Navy on 17 April 1912. He joined H.M.S. Amphion on 20 April 1914, and was present in her when when she sank on 6 August 1914. Sellick was later serving in H.M.S. Brisk, when, on 21 February 1917, about 10 nautical miles from St Catherine’s Point on the Isle of Wight, in thick fog, whilst escorting the chartered troopship S.S. Mendi, which, having arrived at Plymouth from South Africa, was bound for Le Harve, France. The Mendi was carrying 823 men of the 5th Battalion of the South African Native Labour Force, many of whom had never seen the sea and very few of whom could actually swim. In the thick fog the Mendi was accidentally rammed and sunk by the large steamship S.S. Darro which was sailing at high speed in ballast for Argentina. Darro made no attempt to rescue survivors and it did not remain at the scene, although H.M.S. Brisk launched her boats which rescued around 200 men, although 616 South African soldiers and 30 crew members from the Mendi were lost. On 2 October 1917, he had a further lucky escape when Brisk was at sea off the north coast of Ireland to meet and escort convoy H.H. 24, which was inbound from America. After Brisk had joined the escort, the convoy was attacked by the German submarine U-79 which torpedoed the cruiser H.M.S. Drake which later sank with the loss of 19 lives. After this attack, as was normal procedure, the convoy dispersed and the remaining naval and auxiliary escorts including Brisk, were deployed to follow up the dispersed ships, some through Rathlin Sound and others in the North Channel. As the steamship Lugano entered the sound, she was torpedoed and sunk by U-79 and shortly afterwards, while making a sweep of the Sound, Brisk either struck a mine, or was torpedoed. The explosion broke Brisk in two and the bow section sank in the sound, whilst, of the 141 crew members, 32 lives were lost. The stern section remained afloat and was towed to Londonderry and on being fitted with a new bow Brisk later returned to service. He later served in the new destroyer H.M.S. Simoon from 11 March 1918. Post war, he continued to served until his discharge on 19 April 1926 and later died, aged 63, in Exeter in 1959.
A Great War ‘gallantry’ M.B.E. group of five awarded to Captain H. C. Gray, Royal Field Artillery, who was Mentioned in Despatches for his services during the Siege and Defence of Ladysmith, and again during the Great War, and was wounded on the Somme The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1918, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, Orange Free State, unofficial retaining rod between third and fourth clasps (86201 Cpl. H. Gray, R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (86201 Serjt: H. Gray. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H. C. Gray.) light contact marks to the Boer War pair, these very fine; the Great War awards better (5) £500-£700 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 18 November 1917: T./Lieutenant Herbert Chester Gray, Royal Field Artillery (For an act of gallantry not in the presence of the enemy) ‘For distinguished service in connection with military operations in France and Flanders.’ Herbert Chester Gray ‘served in the South Africa War and took part in the defence of Ladysmith, being mentioned in the late General St. George White’s Despatch for services during the siege. He rejoined on the outbreak of War, having retired with the rank of Sergeant Major, and was promoted for good service. He was Mentioned in Despatches by Sir Douglas Haig, and was wounded on the Somme, having his horse was shot from under him.’ (Northampton Independent, 21 December 1918 refers). Gray was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 9 May 1915, and served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 30th Division from July 1916. Sold with various newspaper cuttings announcing the award of the M.B.E.; and a small group photograph.
Five: Private T. Chappell, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (3720 Pte. T. Chappell. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Civil Defence Long Service Medal, E.II.R., mounted as worn, contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine Three: Private H. Tanner, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (22398 Pte. H. Tanner. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Henry Tanner) in Royal Mint case of issue, contact marks, generally very fine and better (8) £70-£90 --- Henry Tanner attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with them during the Great War. He later worked as a Blacksmith Fitter with the War Office and was awarded the Imperial Service Medal on his retirement in 1960 (London Gazette 30 September 1960).
Six: Private A. Benge, Frontier Light Horse Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (1165 Pte. A. Benge. Frontier Lt. Horse); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1165. Pte. A. Benge. Frontier Lt. Horse.) renamed; British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (No. 35. A. Benge. Special Police.) both renamed; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, both officially impressed ‘213788 A. V. Benge’, the KSA, BWM and VM all renamed; nearly very fine (6) £120-£160
Three: Corporal John McDonough, 13th (Prince Albert’s) Light Infantry Crimea 1854-56, no clasp (2565 Corpl. John McDonogh 13th P.A.L.I.) regimentally engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Corpl. J, McDonough. 1st Bn. 13th Lt. Infy.); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, fitted with replacement scroll suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine --- John McDonough enlisted into the 13th Light Infantry at Enniskilling, Ireland, on 13 July 1847, aged 19 years 6 months. He served in Ireland, Scotland, and at Gibraltar, being promoted to Corporal in February 1855. He served in the Crimea from July 1855 to June 1856, before going out to India, via Gibraltar and Grahamstown, South Africa, in November 1857, serving there with the Left Wing of the regiment. He was discharged at Calcutta on 16 January 1860, time expired. Sold with full muster details.
A Great War ‘Western Front’ 1918 D.C.M., M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal John Markinson, 8th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (305208 Cpl. J. Markinson. M.M. 8/W. York: R.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (305208 Cpl. J. Markinson. 8/W. York: R.); British War and Victory Medals (1658 Cpl. J. Markinson. W. York. R.) mounted court-style for display, light contact marks, otherwise very fine (4) £1,600-£2,000 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 18 February 1919; citation published 10 January 1920: ‘On the 20th October, 1918, in the attack near Solesmes, he showed great gallantry and initiative. Before reaching the final objective four of the enemy made a determined resistance on the right flank. He collected a few bombs and rushed the post, killing one, wounding another, and capturing two prisoners. Later he made two reconnaissances under heavy fire and brought back important information.’ M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919. Award of M.M. noted in War Diary on 21 September 1918, to nine men, including Markinson, all of “C” Coy, for gallantry in action. John Markinson was a native of Leeds and served with the 8th West Yorkshire Regiment. He was disembodied on 9 May 1919. Sold with copied research including D.C.M., M.M. and Medal Index Cards, gazette notices, and extracts from Battalion War Diaries.
Pair: Private William Woodley, 7th Hussars Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Orthes, Toulouse (William Woodley, 7th Light Dragoons.); Waterloo 1815 (William Woodley, 7th Regiment Hussars) fitted with replacement silver straight bar suspension, the first with light contact marks, otherwise good very fine, the second with edge bruising and contact marks, fine (2) £3,000-£4,000 --- William Woodley was born in the Parish of Latney, Oxford, and attested for the 7th Hussars at Reading on 11 October 1809, aged 20. He ‘served in Spain and France in the year 1814, was at Waterloo and with the Army of Occupation in France till the year 1818.’ He was discharged due to chronic rheumatism on 9 August 1832, with 24 years 303 days service, including 2 years for Waterloo, where he served in Captain Verner’s Troop. His conduct was that ‘of a good and efficient soldier.’ Sold with copied discharge papers.
1914 Star (9904 Pte. F. J. Mooring. 2/ Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (5711 Pte. P. A. Heady. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) good very fine (2) £80-£100 --- Frederick James Mooring (also recorded as Mooren) was born in Sutton Courtney, Berkshire, in 1891 and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, serving with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 August 1914 (also entitled to a clasp to his 1914 Star). He was killed in action on 25 September 1915, on the first day of the Battle of Loos. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France. Percy Arthur Heady was born in Stewkley, Buckinghamshire and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front before transferring to the Lincolnshire Regiment, and was killed in action whilst serving with the 10th Battalion on 10 June 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Egypt (William Caworth.) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine £1,400-£1,800 --- Provenance: Whalley Collection 1877 and Christies, July 1985. William Caworth served as a Boy with H.M.S. Eurus in the operations on and off the coast of Egypt in 1801. Approximately 3 N.G.S. issued to this ship.
Pair: Private G. E. Gardener, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was taken Prisoner at Kut-al-Amara and subsequently award the M.S.M. for his conduct whilst in captivity 1914-15 Star (9645 Pte. G. E. Gardener. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (9645 Pte. G. E. Gardener. Oxf & Bucks. L.I.) obverse of both medals heavily polished, therefore about fine 1914-15 Star (1579 Pte. A. Adams. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War Medal 1914-20 (143426 Bdr. R. F. C. Watts. R.A.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (10480 PCpl. H. Paul. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); together with an unofficial Occupation of Japan Medal 1946-52 (R.K Watts R.N.) very fine (6) £80-£100 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 30 January 1920. George E. Gardener attested into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry for service during the Great War and served in Mesopotamia with the 1st Battalion from 24 February 1915. He was taken prisoner during the siege of Kut-al-Amara and subsequently awarded the M.S.M. ‘in recognition of devotion to duty and valuable services rendered whilst prisoners of war interned’ (London Gazette 30 January 1920, with the award dated 5 May 1919). Albert Admans attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 1st/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 March 1915. Advanced Sergeant, for his gallantry he was awarded the Military Medal (London Gazette 11 November 1916). He was also awarded the Territorial Efficiency Medal in 1920. Hosea Paul attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 May 1915. For his gallantry during the attack on Hillside Wood, Vis-en-Artois, as part of the Arras offensive, he was awarded the Military Medal (London Gazette 28 July 1917).
Pair: Sergeant Alexander Murdock, 3rd Foot Guards Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Egypt, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria (A. Murdoch, Serjt. 3rd Ft. Gds.); Waterloo 1815 (Serj. Alex. Murdock, 2nd Batt. 3rd Reg. Guards.) fitted with rather crude replacement steel clip and ring suspension, the second with edge bruising and contact pitting, naming weak in parts, therefore fine, the first with light nicks and marks, otherwise good very fine (2) £3,600-£4,400 --- Alexander Murdock was born at ‘Barrynry’ [Barony], Glasgow, and enlisted for the 3rd Foot Guards at Glasgow on 18 August 1800, aged 19, for unlimited service. He served 21 years 85 days, including 2 years for Waterloo, and was discharged in London on 10 November 1819, ‘having Rheumatic Pains’. He had served 9 years 4 months as a private, 5 years 1 month as corporal, and 10 years 10 month in the rank of sergeant, conduct ‘Good.’ Sold with copied discharge papers and M.G.S. medal roll entry confirming all 6 clasps.
Six: Acting Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant J. Walmsley, Manchester Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Belfast (4720 Pte J. Walmsley, Manch: Regt); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4720 Serjt: J. Walmsley. Manch: Regt); British War and Victory Medals (33306 C. Sjt. J. Walmsley. Manch. R.); Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., Circular issue, 2nd ‘Coronation robes’ issue (Joseph Walmsley.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (33306 C.Q.M. Sjt. -A.R.Q.M. Sjt.- J. Walmsley 12/Manch: R.) minor traces of adhesive to obverses, light contact marks and minor edge bruising to the Boer War pair, otherwise generally very fine or better (6) £700-£900 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919. Joseph Walmsley attested for the Manchester Regiment, and served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boar War, and subsequently with the 12th Battalion during the Great War. Initially a Home Defence battalion, the 12th Manchesters took part in the battles of the Somme and at Delville Wood in 1916, continuing through Arras in 1917, the Spring Offensives of 1918, and until the end of the war. For his serves as acting regimental quartermaster sergeant during the Great War he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. Sold with copied research.
Three: Colour Sergeant W. T. Sillence, Hampshire Regiment India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (1250. Corp: W. T. Sillence. 2/Hamps: R.) engraved in upright serif capitals; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (1250 Cr:- Sjt: W. T. Sillence. Vol: Coy. Hants: Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1250 Clr:- Serjt: W. T. Sillence. Hamps: Regt.) light contact marks, good very fine and better (3) £300-£400 --- William Thomas Sillence was born on 22 July 1862 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment on 24 November 1883. He was promoted Corporal on 18 June 1885; Sergeant on 17 January 1889; and Colour Sergeant on 23 April 1894, and served with the 2nd Battalion overseas in India and Burma, and with the Volunteer Company in South Africa during the Boer War from 8 March to 31 July 1902 (entitled to the clasps Transvaal and South Africa 1902 to his Queen’s South Africa Medal - such clasps were issued loose to the Volunteer Company). He was discharged on 23 November 1904, after 21 years’ service, and died in Portsmouth on 20 January 1944; his occupation on his death certificate stating ‘Pensioned Colour Sergeant, Hampshire Regiment, and Pensioned Civilian Clerk, Royal Army Ordnance Corps’.
Four: Petty Officer (Telegraphist) S. H. Dawe, Royal Navy, who was killed on 6 August 1914, when H.M.S. Amphion struck a mine off the Thames estuary and sank with the loss of 132 men killed; she was the first ship of the Royal Navy to be sunk in the Great War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (185605 S. H. Dawe, Ord. Sig., H.M.S. Magicienne); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Jubaland (185605 S. H. Dawe, Ord. Sig., H.M.S. Magicienne); Victory Medal 1914-19 ((185605 S. H. Dawe, P.O. Tel. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (185605 S. H. Dawe, P.O. (Tel) H.M.S. Amphion) toned, extremely fine (4) £300-£400 --- Duplicates of the Q.S.A. and A.G.S., and most likely the Naval L.S. & G.C., were issued to his widow on 26 March 1915. Samuel Henry Dawe was born at Aubyn, Devonport, Devon, on 20 March 1880, and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class from Greenwich School on 8 September 1895. He served as Ordinary Signalman aboard Magicienne from November 1897 to June 1901, seeing service off South Africa and Somaliland. He became a Petty Officer (Telegraphist) in November 1907, and joined the newly commissioned scout cruiser Amphion on 2 April 1913. By the start of the War Amphion was leader of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla in the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, assigned to the Harwich Force, defending the eastern approaches to the English Channel, under the command of Captain Cecil H. Fox. In the morning of 5 August, Amphion and the 3rd Flotilla sortied into the North Sea to patrol the area between Harwich and the Dutch island of Terschelling for German activity. At 10:15 a ship in the black, buff, and yellow colours of the Great Eastern Railway's steamers that plied between Harwich and the Hook of Holland was spotted. Fox sent the destroyers Lance and Landrail to investigate and shortly afterwards another destroyer reported that a trawler had seen a suspicious ship, 'throwing things overboard, presumably mines'. Amphion led the flotilla to investigate and observed that the fleeing ship was deploying mines even then. At 10:45, Lance opened fire at a range of 4,400 yards (4,000 m). The target was S.M.S. Königin Luise, a former Hamburg-Heligoland excursion boat that had been converted to an auxiliary minelayer by the Germans. They had planned to mount a pair of 8.8-centimetre (3.5 in) guns on board, but they did not have the time to do so; her only armament was a pair of lighter guns and 180 mines. On the night of 4 August, she had departed Emden and headed into the North Sea to lay mines off the Thames Estuary, which she began to do at dawn. The fire from the destroyers was ineffective until Amphion closed to a range of 7,000 yards and began hitting the German ship at about 11:15. By noon, Königin Luise was sinking and the three British ships rescued 5 officers and 70 ratings. The flotilla proceeded onwards with their patrol until they reached the Dutch coast around 21:00 and turned for home. Fox was uncertain as to the locations of the mines laid by Königin Luise and laid a course that was seven nautical miles west of where he thought the mines were. He guessed wrongly and led his flotilla over the danger area. At 06:35, Amphion struck a mine that detonated underneath her bridge. The explosion set her forecastle on fire and broke the ship's keel. The destroyer Linnet attempted to tow the cruiser, but a deep crack across her upper deck showed that she was hogging badly and Fox ordered his crew to abandon ship. Shortly afterwards, her forward magazine exploded, throwing one 4-inch gun into the air that narrowly missed Linnet. One of Amphion's shells burst on the deck of the destroyer Lark, killing two of her men and the only German prisoner rescued from the cruiser. Amphion then rapidly sank within 15 minutes of the explosion losing 1 officer and 131 ratings killed, including Dawe, in the sinking, plus an unknown number of the crew rescued from Königin Luise. He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
Four: Bugler E. T. H. Gell, Durban Light Infantry, later Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (705 Bglr: E. T. H. Gell. Durban L.I.); Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Tpr. E. T. H. Gell. Natal Mtd. Rifles.) renamed; 1914-15 Star (8984 Pte. E. T. Gell. R. Innis. Fus.); British War Medal 1914-20 (8984 Pte. E. T. Gell. R. Innis. Fus.) nearly very fine (4) £140-£180
Three: Acting Corporal P. B. Chew, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914 Star (68 Pte. P. B. Chew. R.A.M.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (68 A. Cpl. P. B. Chew. R.A.M.D. [sic]); Victory Medal 1914-19 (68 A. Cpl. P. B. Chew. R.A.M.C.) mounted as worn and housed with shoulder titles and cap badge in a glazed display frame, light contact marks, very fine (3) £140-£180 --- Percival Bradley Chew was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1886 and attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving with them pre-War in Egypt. He served with No. 13 Stationary Hospital on the Western Front during the Great War from 14 October 1914, and was later posted to the Somerset Light Infantry. He died in Stroud in 1953. Sold with a Princess Mary 1914 Christmas tin with reproduction contents; a 1914 Active Service New Testament; various postcards and photographs; a small bag of miscellaneous charms; and copied research.
An unattributed pair of miniature dress medals Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp, light pitting; Khedive’s Star, dated 1884-6, mounted for wear, nearly very fine An unattributed pair of miniature dress medals Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, mounted for wear, nearly extremely fine An unattributed group of three miniature dress medals Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp; British War and Victory Medals, mounted for wear, good very fine An unattributed group of three miniature dress medals Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill; British War and Victory Medals, mounted for wear, generally very fine (10) £80-£100
Five: Sergeant H. S. Sinfield, Royal Engineers, later Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light infantry 1914 Star, with clasp (27559 Sjt. H. S. Sinfield. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (27559. Sjt. H. S. Sinfield. R.E.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (242. Sjt. H. S. Sinfield. Bucks: Bn: Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., Circular issue, 2nd ‘Coronation robes’ issue (Henry Samuel Sinfield) first four mounted as worn, the last loose on original mounting pin, generally very fine and better (5) £140-£180 --- Henry Samuel Sinfield was mobilised for service during the Great War, serving on the Western Front with the Postal Section, Royal Engineers, from 22 August 1914. His entry in The National Roll of the Great War mentions his service during the retreat from Mons and at the Battles of the Marne, Ypres and Givenchy, before he being wounded at Loos in 1915 and invalided home. He returned to his unit in France the following year and served until the end of the war, and afterwards, in the army of occupation in Cologne. Discharged in December 1919, he then worked as a sorting clerk and Telegraphist in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, and was awarded the Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement (London Gazette 24 November 1931). Sold with copied research.
A Knight Bachelor’s group of six awarded to Sir H. G. Pearson, Legal Advisor to the Secretary of State for India, late Captain, 81st Pioneers, Indian Army Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1924; British War and Victory Medals (Lt. H. G. Pearson.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (Capt. H. G. Pearson, 81-Pioneers.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, the last five mounted as worn, together with mounted group of five miniature dress medals, nearly extremely fine (6) £400-£500 --- Knight Bachelor, New Year Honours 1931: ‘Justice Hubert Grayhurst Pearson, Barrister-at-Law, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal.’ Hubert Grayhurst Pearson was born on 5 August 1878, second son of Sir Charles John Pearson, of Edinburgh. He was educated at Rugby, 1892-97, and was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1902; was a Trooper in the Calcutta Light Horse before being commissioned Lieutenant in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers, attached 81st Pioneers; served in India, North West Frontier, and Bushire; Chairman, Bengal Jails Enquiry Committee, 1926; President Trades Dispute Act Enquiry, Bombay, 1929; Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature, Calcutta, 1920-33; Knighted 1931; Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State for India, 1933-1938. Sir Herbert Pearson died on 8 November 1958.
Pair: Surgeon Captain J. H. Wright, Imperial Yeomanry Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (Capt: J. H. Wright, M,D, Imp: Yeo:) engraved naming; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, V.R. (Corpl. J. H. Wright. B.M.R. 1895.) engraved naming, mounted for wear, light contact marks, very fine (2) £300-£400 --- John Henderson Wright was born in Kelso, Roxburghshire, on 11 December 1854. A founding member of the 1st Roxburgh (The Border) Horse, he served during the Boer War as a Surgeon Captain attached to the 27th (Devonshire) Company, Imperial Yeomanry.
Three: Captain A. Dodgson, Royal Navy Jubilee 1897, silver (Commander Arthur Dodgson, H.M.S. Sharpshooter.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Sub Lt. A. Dodgson. R.N. H.M.S. “Orontes.”); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, mounted for wear, toned, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (3) £300-£400 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2014. Arthur Dodgson was born in Walthamstow, Essex in July 1859. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in July 1872, and advanced to sub lieutenant in October 1878. Dodgson served with H.M.S. Orontes, October 1881 - January 1883, and advanced to captain in December 1901. He was in command of the depot ship Calliope, and the Kingstown Flotilla during naval manoeuvres in August 1903, when he met with a tragic end. Captain Dodgson had been involved in a serious bicycle accident five years prior, which had left him hospitalised and drifting in and out of consciousness for several months. Upon his return to service it would appear that he could no longer cope with the pressures, and tried to resign his commission. Having been persuaded that he would be a loss to the service, he carried on until 7 August 1903. On the latter date he retired to his cabin, wrote two letters including one to his wife, and then cut his own throat with a razor. Captain Dodgson was buried with full military honours at Haslar Cemetery, 14 August 1903. Sold with copied research, including copies of various local press articles in which the recipient’s death was featured.
Three: Private A. Pool, 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, who was killed in action at Belmont, 23 November 1899 Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3760. Pte. A. Pool. 1/Northd. Fus:) minor edge nick; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Belmont (3760 Pte A. Poole. [sic] North’d: Fus:); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (3760. Pte A. Pool. 5th Fusers.) regimentally engraved naming, generally extremely fine (3) £700-£900 --- A. Pool was a native of Scarborough, Yorkshire. He served during the Boer War with the 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, and was killed in action at Belmont, 23 November 1899. On the latter date the Northumberland Fusiliers and the Yorkshire Light Infantry had been tasked with the capture of Table Mountain, and met stiff resistance. The Boers had built sangars on the slopes and the two battalions were forced to clear these whilst under enfilade fire from a hitherto unknown Boer force on Mont Blanc, a kopje to the east of Gun Hill and Table Mountain. After a ferocious days fighting British losses, which included the Guards attack on Gun Hill, amounted to 4 officers and 71 men killed or died of wounds, and 24 officers and 199 men wounded. Sold with copied research.
British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (Lt. Col. J. C. Low; Capt. H. L. Gauntlett); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (2415 Pte. A. S. Adams. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.; 2416 Pte. F. J. Adams. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) edge bruising, otherwise very fine (4) £100-£140 --- John Chabot Low was born in Asuncion, Mexico, on 6 September 1854 and appears on the 1891 census as a merchant living in Westbourne Terrace, London. Upon the resignation of his commission as a captain with the 6th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers on 17 June 1904, he was appointed with the honorary rank of major, in which description he appears in the 1911 census, living in Lower Berkeley Street, London. Appointed lieutenant colonel with the 7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment on 2 March 1915, he resigned his commission to be granted the honorary rank of lieutenant colonel on 29 September 1915, yet served on Western Front from 16 May 1917, appearing on the Staff Officer’s roll. Awarded a Silver War Badge, he died in Hove, Sussex, aged 87 on 21 August 1942. Harry Leon Gauntlett was born in Wandsworth, Surrey, on 10 January 1884. As a medical student, he attested into the Royal Army Medical Corps Volunteers in London, resigning as a sergeant in November 1907. He was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps Territorial Force on 1 March 1913, attached to the 1/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He was mobilised on 5 August 14, and transferred as the medical officer to the 1/6th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, with whom he served on the Western Front from 30 May 1915. He was wounded by gun shot to the head on on 6 November 1915 and evacuated to the U.K. In August 1917 he returned to the Western Front and was further wounded by gun shot through his right ankle and invalided home. He died in Devon, aged 72, on 10 March 1956. Albert Stanley Adams was born in Oxford and attested, with his brother Frank, (consecutive numbers), into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry for service during the Great War. He served on the Western Front with the 1st/4th Battalion from 29 March 1915, and was killed in action, on the Somme, on 14 August 196. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France. Frank James Adams was born in Oxford and attested, with his brother Albert, (consecutive numbers), into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry for service during the Great War. He served on the Western Front with the 1st/4th Battalion from 29 March 1915 and was killed in action on 16 August 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Sold with copied research.
South Africa 1834-53 (Lieut. P. Thompson, 7th. Dgn. Gds.) suspension somewhat bent, edge bruising and traces of lacquer, nearly very fine £500-£700 --- C.B. London Gazette 2 June 1869. Pearson Scott Thompson was appointed a cornet in the 7th Dragoon Guards in August 1842 and was promoted lieutenant in June 1844. He served with the regiment in South Africa against the insurgent Boers in 1845 and in the Second Kaffir War 1846-47, and was present at the Battle of Guanga, where the 7th Dragoon Guards suffered the loss of one officer killed and had 11 wounded, versus a loss to the enemy of some 400 warriors. Subsequently appointed a captain in the 14th Light Dragoons, Thompson saw further action in the Indian Mutiny in the Central India Field Force under Sir Hugh Rose, including the siege and capture of Jhansi in 1858. He also commanded the cavalry at the capture of the fort of Loharri and was present at the capture of Koonch and in the various skirmishes leading to the capture of Calpee, including the action at Galowlie; commanded the left wing of the 14th Hussars at the action of Morar and the engagements on the heights before Kotakeserai and Gwalior, prior to the capture of the latter fort and city. He subsequently distinguished himself as commanding officer of a field detachment for three months in Bundlecund, where he was present in a successful attack against a superior body of rebels at Gorotha. He was thanked by the Governor of Bombay and was twice mentioned in despatches, in addition to being given the brevets of major and lieutenant-colonel (Medal and clasp). Thompson served as commanding officer of the 14th Hussars from 1864 to 1875, and was promoted colonel in January 1867. Created a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1869 Birthday Honours’ List, he was advanced major-general on the Retired List in October 1877, and died in Beverley, Yorkshire, the following year. Bever Sold with a photographic image of the recipient.
Four: Captain J. Forbes, East African Medical Service attached King’s African Rifles, a Private Practitioner in Kenya from 1921 1914-15 Star (Capt. J. Forbes. E. Afr. M.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. J. Forbes.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, East Africa 1918 (Capt. J. Forbes. E. Afr. M.S.) generally nearly extremely fine, scarce (4) £800-£1,200 --- Provenance: R. Magor Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, July 2003. John Forbes was born in Mains of Fyvie, Aberdeenshire in February 1875. He entered the East African Medical Service in August 1914, and served as the Senior Medical Officer, Carrier Corps, East African Expeditionary Force in 1915. Forbes resigned his commission in November 1918, and practised colonial medicine in Lake Magadi, Kenya as a private practitioner from 1921. His medical thoughts on Kenya are described in Islands of White, by D. K. Kennedy: ‘Several doctors testified that Kenya was healthy and suitable for permanent settlement. Most notable was Doctor John Forbes, a private practitioner with five years experience in the colony, who charged that most causes of ‘sunstroke’ were actually due to malaria aided by excessive consumption of alcohol. Dr Forbes declared “if people will hermetically seal up their houses carefully excluding air and light, how can they expect to remain healthy?” Especially pervasive in the two territories was malaria and its ravages, which were suffered by a large portion of the white population for whom diagnosis as Dr Forbes observed in Kenya was not always accurate. Often however settler accounts of neurasthenic maladies appeared in conjunction with complaints about the social disabilities of colonial life. Loneliness, monotony and insecurity were recurrent themes for settlers in Kenya and Rhodesia.’ Dr Forbes was employed as a district surgeon from 1930, and died in Nairobi in January 1950. He is buried in the Nairobi City Park Cemetery. Sold with copied research.
Four: Warrant Officer Class II C. H. Farindon, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, late Queen’s Regiment and Gloucestershire Regiment, who was Mentioned in Despatches for his service in Mesopotamia during the Great War 1914 Star (L-8944 Pte. C. H. Faringdon. [sic] 1/The Queen’s R.); British War and Victory Medals (8944 C.Sjt. C. H. Farindon. The Queen’s R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (5172694 W. O. Cl. II. C. H. Farindon. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) BWM polished, contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine (4) £120-£160 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 3 June 1919 (North Persian Force) Coryn H. Farindon was born in 1891 in Farnham, Surrey. He attested into the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment on 20 November 1906 and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 August 1914 (entitled to a clasp to his 1914 Star). Appointed colour sergeant, he transferred into the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1917, serving with the 7th Battalion in Mesopotamia, for which he was mentioned in despatches. Post -War, he appears to have transferred to the Connaught Rangers in 1919, and afterwards to the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1924, until his discharge to pension on 8 March 1928. In civilian life, he served as a prison officer at H.M.P. Parkhurst, before his death in Wandsworth, London, on 4 January 1938. Sold with copied research.
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Four: Private C. Uff, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (1406 [sic] Pte. C. Uff. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (1407 Pte. C. Uff. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Charles Uff) very fine Four: Private T. F. Drayton, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (20315 Pte. T. F. Drayton. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, 1 clasp, Long Service 1949 (Thomas F. Drayton) mounted as worn, minor edge bruising, nearly very fine (8) £100-£140 --- Charles Uff was born in Quainton, Buckinghamshire in 1878 and attested into the 1st/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry for service during the Great War, serving with them on the Western Front from 30 March 1915. He was disembodied on 5 March 1919 and died in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, on 11 March 1934. Thomas F. Drayton attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 2/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front.
South Africa 1834-53 (Serjt. R. Baldwin, 72nd Regt.) light contact marks, otherwise very fine, scarce £500-£700 --- Provenance: Sotheby’s, April 1910; Coutts Collection 1921; Kuriheka Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2006. Approximately 139 South Africa 1834-53 Medals awarded to the 72nd Regiment, all of whom served in the 1st Kaffir War 1834-35. Fewer than 400 medals in total were issued to Officers and men from the 27th, 72nd, and 75th Regiments, the only British units who fought during the 1st Kaffir War.
The important and scarce ‘North Nigeria’ campaign group of four awarded to Colonel W. H. O’Neill, Royal Artillery and West Africa Frontier Force, who commanded the operations against the forces of Bida and Kontagora, July - December 1900, culminating in leading a brave but reckless attack which ‘advanced right up to the walls of Bida, entered the town with a few men and fought the Emir Adudekeri in a hand to hand fight. O’Neill was badly wounded and only escaped through the timely arrival of his men.’ The rescue was carried out by Lieutenant H. A. ‘Bertie’ Porter, 19th Hussars, ‘a thruster who has been noted in the Gazette for a brevet on obtaining his troop for a mad show at Bida when his C.O. got the sack for singeing the Emir’s whiskers. He nearly got hacked to pieces, but Porter got him out. Porter should have got a V.C. and he might have, had not the whole thing been contrary to orders. But it put an end to the insolence on the part of the Emir.’ Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Lieut: W. H. O’Neill. F/1. B.. R.A.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, N. Nigeria (Major W. H. O’Neill, R.F.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut: Col: W. H. O’Neill, 62/Bty., R.F.A.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, light contact marks overall, generally very fine (4) £1,800-£2,200 --- William Heremon O’Neill was ‘born in Auckland and was the fourth son of the late Hon. James O’Neill, who was a member of the old Auckland Provincial Council, and later sat in the first Parliament of New Zealand as a member for Auckland City in 1854-55, and member for the northern division of Auckland from 1861 to 1868.’ (New Zealand Herald, 9 June 1925 refers) O’Neill was commissioned into the Royal Artillery, and a letter he wrote to a relation in Lincoln was published in the Lincolnshire Chronicle, 22 September 1882, and gives the following: ‘Ismailia, Sept. 8, 1882 - We start for Kassassin tomorrow, and expect to attack Tel-El-Kebir on Tuesday or Wednesday. After Tel-El-Kebir is taken we go on to Cairo in all probability. I hope Arabi won’t sack Cairo before we arrive. This climate is not half bad, although they tell me it is a good deal worse at the front; however, it agrees with me very well, and I am not likely to knock under. The ammunition, too, is always put in a safe place, so it is a sort of picnic with me. I regret to say that our horses are dying by the dozen. Ismailia is filled with representatives of every nation under the sun. The natives are coming back by degrees; they all bolted when we took the place. I have lots to do, as one of my two junior subalterns is seedy.’ O’Neill was promoted captain in 1885, and advanced to major in October 1893. He was seconded for service with the West African Field Force in September 1899. O’Neill was placed in command of a force for operations against the forces of Bida and Kontagora (North Nigeria), July - December 1900: ‘In July, Lugard [Sir Frederick, High Commissioner] received information that the Sarkin Sudan Emir of Kontagora, and the Etsu Nupe, Emir of Bida, were planning to massacre the small garrison that he had left at Wushishi, the site of his projected new capital of the Northern Nigeria Protectorate. The bulk of the West African Frontier Force was away on active service in Ashanti, but Lugard in person at once hurried up to Wushishi from Jebba, bringing reinforcements under Major O’Neill, Royal Artillery. The situation was indeed serious. The village heads of Wushishi had been assassinated and the West African Frontier Force soldiers were being attacked virtually on the threshold of their camp. Ngwamachi, the notorious Emir of Kontagora, and the Emir of Bida, had sent messengers to Ilorin, urging the Emir to join in a rising and expel the white man whose troops, it was rumoured, had been exterminated in Ashanti. O’Neill, with Lieutenant [H. A. ‘Bertie’] Porter [whose medals were offered for sale in these rooms as part of the A. A. Upfill-Brown Collection in December 1991] as his second-in-command, patrolled the countryside for some 20 miles round Wushishi, keeping the Nupe and Kontagora cavalry at their distance by a series of masterly skirmishes. A number of small military forts, such as those at Wushishi, Wuya and Maraba, were erected as soon as the rains ceased. In November O’Neill’s force defeated a band of Kontagora levies at Dabb in Egbake district, north of Kutigi, and, crossing the Kaduna, they routed the Bida horsemen. With immense gallantry O’Neill entered Bida town, accompanied by a mere handful of troopers, on December 19th, and endeavoured to kidnap the Emir. Badly wounded, O’Neill escaped only by the greatest of luck.’ (The Second Battle of Bida article by A. H. M. Kirke-Greene refers) Lugard’s despatch for the operations, praises both the gallantry of O’Neill and Porter but stresses that the former had exceeded his orders and was fortunate to escape with his life: ‘On the 19th December Sergeant H. Edwards defeated with heavy loss a force estimated at 100 horse and 700 foot. On the 15th and 16th Major W. H. O’Neill, Royal Artillery, and Lieutenant H. A. Porter, 19th Hussars attacked and defeated the Bida raiders, who are said to have lost 50 killed at least. On the night of the 17th he marched on the hostile forces again and surprised them at dawn. He estimated the enemy at 500 horse and 1,000 foot, and states that they suffered at least 200 casualties. His own force consisted of himself, Lieutenant Porter, Sergeant Edwards, eight mounted and fifty dismounted men. Again on December 18th he advanced towards Bida with Lieutenant Porter and 13 mounted and 25 dismounted men, driving parties of enemy before him. These he pursued up to the walls of Bida and actually entered the town with his handful of men and endeavoured to seize the Emir with his own hand. In a desperate hand to hand encounter he was badly wounded, but the opportune arrival of some of his men [under Porter, for which he was promoted.] enabled him to put the Fulanis to flight and to effect a retirement, during which his party was much harassed. The other casualties, besides Major O’Neill himself, being one man severely and two slightly wounded. Major O’Neill had received distinct and positive orders not to approach too close to Bida, still less to enter it, and I consider that a grave disaster was only averted partly by good fortune and partly by the resource and ability shown by Lieutenant Porter.... There is no doubt that this most adventurous exploit created an immense impression on the people of Bida.’ In 1902 O’Neill was appointed to the ‘command of the 18th Imperial Yeomanry at Ficksburg, Orange River Colony, at present with Col. Ternan’s column. The men do not belong to any particular county, but are picked men and called “Sharp Shooters.” (Lincolnshire Chronicle, 7 March 1902 refers). He subsequently retired, and died as a result of an accident whilst staying at the Mansion House, Kawau Island, in June 1925: ‘When war broke out in 1914 he went Home and offered his services to the Imperial Army, being accepted for home service. In recent years he has resided at Tauranga and Devenport.’ (Obituary refers) Colonel O’Neill is buried in O’Neill’s Point Cemetery, Auckland. Sold with copied research.
Pair: Captain M. E. McKenzie, Nesbitt’s Horse, late Frontier Light Horse Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lieut: M. E. MacKenzie. Mackenzie. Frontier L.H.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Captain & Adjt. M. E. McKenzie. Nesbitt’s H.) minor edge bruising, very fine (2) £200-£240
Four: Private H. C. Jones, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (285029 Pte. H. C. Jones. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Defence Medal, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. Henry Charles Jones, The Gardens, Chequers, Butlers Cross, Bucks’; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Herbert [sic] C. Jones) the Defence Medal in named card box of issue, some contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (4) £70-£90 --- Henry Charles Jones attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 3 April 1915 and served with the 2/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was discharged as a consequence of wounds on 31 May 1918 and was awarded a Silver War Badge, No. 397981. Given the address on the card box of issue for his Defence Medal he was presumably employed during the Second World War as a gardener at the Prime Minister’s official country residence Chequers.
Pair: Major T. E. “Teddy” Madden, 17th Musalman Rajput Infantry (The Loyal Regiment), Indian Army, portrayed as a loveable rogue and scoundrel in John Barleycorn Bahadur, Old Time Taverns of India, with his death - contested as ‘murder for diplomatic reasons’ by his wife - gaining international press coverage Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Capt: T. E. Madden, 17th Infty: I.A.) partially officially renamed; Delhi Durbar 1903, silver (Capt. T. E. Madden (17th B.I.) Commdt. 19th & 20th T.Cs.) minor edge bruising to last, otherwise generally very fine or better, A.G.S. unique to officer of the regiment (2) £360-£440 --- Provenance: A. M. Shaw Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2013. Travers Edward Madden was born in January 1871, and was the son of Colonel T. D. Madden, Indian Army. The latter served attached to the Rifle Brigade during the Indian Mutiny, and shot himself in June 1885. Extensive details about Madden’s subsequent life, and death, can be found in John Barleycorn Bahadur, Old Time Taverns of India, by Major H. Hobbs. Some extracts from which are as follows: ‘At that time Lieutenant Travers Edward Madden - “Teddy Madden” to his intimates, was a bit of a star turn at Spence’s hotel... Clever, humorous, a good amateur actor, able to talk well on most subjects, free from the insignificance of exaggeration... Born in Agra, the city where the famous Willcocks brothers first saw the light, he went to Sandhurst and was commissioned into the South Wales Borderers, then laying at Aden - afterwards moving to Allahabad. Transferring to the Indian Army he started with the 16th Bengal Infantry at Alipore where Colonel Stoddart found him rather too much of a handful.... His popularity resulted in a London decoration - the “F.O.S.” (Friend of Sloper) awarded by Ally Sloper’s Weekly, one of the leading comic papers of the day to prominent men who had endured enough religion in youth to last through life were assumed to be uninfluenced by or unimpaired by sloppy or bilious affection for missionaries. Looking back it is astonishing how popular and important Ally Sloper was for so many years.... Madden, with his “F.O.S.” became more than a local character; no other man in Calcutta had it and as he was in due course depicted in one of the weekly cartoons, Ally Sloper added to cheerfulness in the hotel bar.... Madden volunteered for service in Somaliland where he did good work as transport officer showing capacity for organisation for which he was praised. On return to regiment duty he published a small book on transport. Some time later he came in for £800 a year. Leaving his wife in India, he went home, organised the finest horse show and military tournament ever seen in Dublin and in five years spent every penny. Nobody could understand how he managed to get back into the Indian Army but he did, and stayed there in spite of scores of bitter letters sent by his wife to army officials right up to the Secretary of State for War.... When Madden had put in full time as major he was retired on pension eventually taking the post of Comptroller of the Household in Alwar State. There were not many - that is, very many - anxious to serve that maharajah, but the pay was good, there was plenty of shikar and little interference. One of the conditions laid down was that Madden should give up drink. Unfortunately, in India, nothing keeps well, not even good resolutions. In a place like Alwar any man could be pardoned for taking a rest from his memory, and sobriety, like virtue, is not everything.... During the summer of 1916 he went out after tiger. Alwar State in June is hot enough to melt the sword in scabbard; as someone, surprised to find anybody lived there put it, the air was so dry that fish came out of the water to sneeze... When Madden came in he did what others have done - drank with the moderation of a thirsty camel. Heat stroke supervened. He was brought insensible to Delhi, put in hospital and in spite of care, after three days breathed his last.’ In a final twist, Madden’s wife was convinced of ‘foul play’ with regards to his death. She attempted to sue Lord Winterton, the Under Secretary of State for India. At the time the case was covered by many newspapers across the British Empire, with the widow claiming that her husband had been murdered for diplomatic reasons and the case had been ‘hushed up’. The case was eventually dismissed due to a lack of substantial evidence to support her claim. Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of recipient in uniform.
Six: Bombardier H. Wood, Royal Field Artillery, who served with the Pom Poms Section during the Boer War Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (90699 Dvr. H. Woods. R.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (90699 Br: H. Wood, R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (90699 Bomb: H. Wood. Pom Poms Sec: R.A.); British War and Victory Medals (44048 Bmbr. H. Wood. R.A.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (90699 Driver H. Wood. 32 F.B. R.A.) contemporarily impressed naming, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (6) £400-£500 --- 32 Field Battery R.A. was equipped with 15-pdr rifled muzzle-loading guns and was positioned in the centre of the Zariba at Omdurman with the 8000 strong British Division. It was the first unit to open fire against the Dervishes at 6.25am on the morning of the battle, at a range of 2,700 yards. Bombardier Wood served in “H” Section Pom Poms R.F.A. during the Boer War, attached from 1st Divisional Ammunition Column.
VINYL RECORDS a large collection of mostly pop and rock vinyl LP records with Prince, Simple Minds, Police, Talking Heads, Sky, Alison Moyet, Wet Wet Wet, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Big Country, INXS, Electric Light Orchestra, The Moody Blues, Queen, Styx, 10CC, Europe, Supertramp etc Condition Report:Available upon request
9ct gold oval locket on a 9ct gold chain, chain L: 40 cm, 6.3g. Light scratches to back, no dents to cover, force required to close the locket, once closed latch holds securely. Hinge slightly misshapen, when closed the bottom of the locket is partially open. P&P Group 1 (£14+VAT for the first lot and £1+VAT for subsequent lots)
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