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Lot 9
macquoid (P.) A History of English Furniture, 1904-8 4 vols., fo., illus., orig. cl.; Jourdain (M.) English Decoration and Furniture of the Early Renaissance (1500-1650), 1924, lg. 4to., orig. cl.; Cescinsky (H.) & Gribble, (E.R.) Early English Furniture and Woodwork, 1922, 2 vols., lg. 4to., t.e.g., mor. gt. (spines worn); with Two Other Volumes similar (9)
Lot 22
erotica: Hofstatter (H.H,) Gustav Klimt, Erotic Drawings, 1980 fo., numbered ltd. ed., cl., slipcase; Revens (L.) The Graphic Work of Felicien Rops, 1975, lg. 4to., dw.; Rawson (P) Erotic Art of the East, 1973, 4to., dw.; Bonaparte (M.) Flyda of the Seas, 1950, dw.; with A Quantity of Volumes of erotica (qty.)
Lot 23
erotica: Lucas (F.L.) & Severin (M.) The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, 1948 4to., Golden Cockerel Press, qtr. mor.; Crebillon & Popeliniere, Tableaux des Moeurs du Temps, 1920, plts. hf. mor. with wraps bound in; Monbron (F. de) & Becat (P.-E.) Le Canape, 1955, sgnd. numbered ltd. ed., engd. plts., unbound with original wraps, (pagination at beginning suspect but appears complete), contained in qtr. mor. bds. and slipcase; Bret (A.) La Belle Alsacienne, 1985, illus. by Becat, subscriber's ed., a.e.g., mor. style bdg. (4)
Lot 89
wood (M.) Rhoda Broughton, Profile of a Novelist, 1993 1st ed., dw.; Ure (P.) Yeats the Playwright, 1963, 1st ed., dw.; Twain (M.) A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur, 1889, 1st UK ed., orig. cl. gt; De Vogue (E.M.) The Russian Novel, 1913, orig. cl.; with A Good Quantity of modern first editions, literature and related biography (qty.)
Lot 145
vachon (M.) Detaille, 1898, sm. fo., engd. plts., hf. mor. with Writers to the Signet armorials; Rousset, Histoire Generale de la Guerre Franco-Allemande (1870-1871), n.d., 2 vols., 4to., cold. plts., qtr. mor.; with de Preville (X.) Mac-Mahon, Marechal de France, n.d., t.e.g., hf. cf. (half-title torn) (3)
Lot 843
1914-15 Star (5) (Y-379 Pte. W. Collier, K.R. Rif. C.; A-1134 Pte. J. Felton, K.R. Rif. C.; A-1500 L. Cpl. G. E. Matthews, K.R. Rif. C.; R-1182 Cpl. D. Roberts, K.R. Rif. C.; A-234 Pte. R. Spilsbury, K.R. Rif. C.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (R-7817 Pte. T. Reynolds, K.R. Rif. C) last with contact marks, very fine and better (6) £100-140 George Edwin Matthews was born in and enlisted at Birmingham. Serving with the 8th Battalion K.R.R.C., he died of wounds on 10 February 1916. The husband of L. M. Matthews, of Emily Street, Birmingham; he was buried in the Birmingham (Lodge Hill) Cemetery. dick Roberts was born in and enlisted at Warrington. Serving with the 8th Battalion K.R.R.C., he was killed in action on 21 September 1915, aged 27 years. He was buried in the Potijze Burial Ground Cemetery. He was the son of Joseph and Martha Roberts of Warrington and the husband of Annie Roberts of 6 School Street, Warrington. roland Spilsbury was born in and enlisted at Birmingham. Serving with the 8th Battalion K.R.R.C., he died of wounds on 3 May 1917. having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. thomas Reynolds was born and lived in Belbroughton, Stourbridge and enlisted at Kidderminster. Serving with the 11th battalion K.R.R.C., he was killed in action on 20 September 1917. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. He was the son of Mrs Sarah Ann Reynolds of 80 Windsor Road, Stirchley, Birmingham. £100-£140
Lot 895
Five: Captain R. V. G. Elwes, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, captured by the Yugoslavs on the ‘Morgan Line’ in early 1947 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, unnamed; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Capt., K.R.R.C.) last with some contact marks, very fine and better (5) £160-200 robin Valentine Gervase Elwes was born on 14 August 1922 and was educated at Ampleforth. He received an emergency commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the K.R.R.C. in April 1942 and was later posted to the 8th Battalion. In August 1944 he saw service with the 2nd Battalion in North-West Europe and a year later he was posted to the 10th Battalion. In the Autumn of 1945 he returned home and joined the 27th holding battalion at Ogbourne St. George, Wiltshire. In January 1947, he joined the 1st Battalion C.M.F., and saw service on the Morgan Line. The line was the unofficial boundary between Italy and Yugoslavia, running north from Trieste. Manned by British troops southwards from the River Vipava, the 1st Battalion K.R.R.C. held a position in the north of the sector, taking position shortly after Christmas 1946. In early 1947, Lieutenant Elwes and a Rifleman Gormley were captured by communist Yugoslav troops whilst investigating a telephone line that crossed the boundary. They were initially bound, roughed-up, interrogated before being cast into the local jail. After three days they were marched out into the deserted countryside and after fearing they might be summarily shot, were at length driven to Ljubljiana in Slovenia where their treatment improved. After three weeks and further interrogation they were returned to the Morgan Line and released into the American sector. This was a time of high tension, added to by political differences, when it was thought the Yugoslavs might forcibly seize adjacent Italian land. in May 1947 Elwes received a regular commission in the rank of Lieutenant. In September he was appointed Staff Captain ‘Q’ H.Q., 86 Area C.M.F. At the end of the year he returned home and joined the Green Jackets Brigade Training Centre at Barton Stacey near Winchester. In February 1948 he returned to the 2nd Battalion M.E.L.F. and in August he returned home to the Rifle Depot. He was promoted to Captain in August 1949. He joined the 1st Battalion B.A.O.R. in June 1951, and in 1952 was appointed to serve on the staff of H.Q. 7th Armoured Division, B.A.O.R. His private life was also not without incident. In 1949 his yacht, the 4 ton sloop Kestrel, ran aground in a gale on sand banks off Dunkirk. He and his wife were fortunate to be able to get ashore to safety. captain Elwes died at the early age of 36 on 10 January 1959. Sold with copied research and photographs, including an article entitled The Morgan Line, 1947, by Major M. P. Lee. £160-£200
Lot 907
A Second World War ‘N.W. Europe’ M.M. group of five awarded to Acting Serjeant E. G. M. Willcocks, King’s Royal Rifle Corps military Medal, G.VI.R. (6850428 A. Sjt., K.R.R.C.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, mounted court style for wear, good very fine and better (5) £1600-1800 m.M. London Gazette 21 June 1945. ‘For gallant and distinguished service in N.W. Europe’. recommendation reads, ‘Throughout this period, from November 1944 to January 1945, during which the Battalion has been almost continuously in the line, Cpl. Willcocks has consistently shown the highest qualities of leadership and courage. His example of cheerfulness and coolness under fire has maintained the spirit and increased the ‘dash’ shown by his section of motor infantry. In particular his conduct at Tongerloo may be mentioned. His platoon was ordered to find out the location of the enemy positions. His platoon commander, two NCOs and one Rfn were badly wounded, the platoon Sgt and one Rfn were killed by Spandau fire. Cpl Willcocks was the only remaining NCO. He held the platoon together by his leadership and completed the task of the platoon. He used the platoon weapons with resource and initiative, and thereby extricated all the wounded. His behaviour on this occasion is in keeping with the standard of conduct which he has reached, and which he may confidently expected to maintain’. willcocks, from Kingsgate, Kent, was serving in the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. at the time. The battalion was part of 4th Armoured Brigade, 8th Corps, 2nd Army. £1600-£1800
Lot 964
Three: Lieutenant E. M. Butler, East Kent Regiment 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., E. Kent R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.), mounted as worn, virtually extremely fine (3) £100-140 2nd Lieut Edward Maudus Butler, East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant on 25 March 1915. He arrived in France on 18 August 1915 and on 6 March 1916 was in command of one of the platoons of ‘C’ Company in their attack at Loos on Triangle Crater and the Chord. His platoon succeeded in reaching the Chord and maintained their position until most of the bombers were casualties and the supply of bombs failed owing to a heavy German counter attack. In this action 2nd Lieutenant Butler was wounded and Corporal W. R. Cotter won the only Victoria Cross to the Buffs in the First World War. Edward Butler was promoted Lieutenant on 1 July 1917 and served in the 3rd Battalion (Reserve) East Kent Regiment at the Depot. In December 1918 he was employed ‘Commanding a Prisoner of War Camp’. Sold with copied m.i.c. £100-£140
Lot 971
Pair: Staff Nurse M. I. Witchell, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve 1914-15 Star (S. Nurse, Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (S. Nurse) victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (Sister E. H. M. Burlend; S. Nurse H. Galton; 401 Wkr. E. M. A. Patterson, Q.M.A.A.C.) generally good very fine (5) £50-70 £50-£70
Lot 981
1914-15 Star (3) (Lieut. L. M. Clark, A.S.C.; Lieut. C. H. Douglas, Bedf. R.; Lieut. H. St. J. Williams, High. L.I.) good very fine (3) £100-140 Lionel Melville Clark was born on 29 April 1878, the son of William Trested Clark of Rivermead, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Highgate School, 1893-97 and became a Solicitor. During the Great War he served in the Army Service Corps and saw service in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine. He attained the rank of Major and was, on demobilisation in June 1919, Deputy Assistant Director of Supplies. For his wartime service he was twice mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 6 July 1917 & 22 January 1919) and awarded the O.B.E. Sold with some copied research. £100-£140
Lot 988
British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (Lt. Col. J. H. Cooke; Major E. P. Donaldson; Bt. Col. J. M. Ransom) good very fine and better (3) £60-80 Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Cooke, 4th Battalion Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. major E. P. Donaldson, Rifle Brigade. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 15th (Service) Battalion Rifle Brigade, 12 January 1915; promoted to Lieutenant, 7 July 1916. In the April 1917 list shown as serving with the Machine Gun Corps. In the December 1918 list shown as an Acting Major, Rifle Brigade, attached to Machine Gun Corps. james Mann Ransom was commissioned into the Royal Marines but transferred to become an officer in the 12th Bombay Native Infantry, Indian Army. He then served in the 114 Mahrattas and was promoted Major in February 1901. He then retired. In November 1914 with the onset of war he was re-employed as a Brevet Colonel and in the August 1916 List he is shown as in command of the 9th (Reserve) Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry based at Pembroke Dock. In April 1917 he is shown as a Brevet Colonel in command of the 48th Battalion K.S.L.I. and Training Reserve. £60-£80
Lot 992
Victory Medal 1914-19 (2 Lieut. E. M. Lynch-Staunton) nearly very fine £40-50 Eric Margrave Lynch-Staunton was born in Addleston, Surrey on 15 July 1897. After leaving School he worked as a ‘L.C.C. Tramways Clerk’ but as soon as he was eighteen he joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in London and on 16 August 1915 became 1659 Private E.M. Lynch-Staunton. He was appointed to a commission in the 4/3rd London Regiment on 30 December 1915. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 17 September 1916 and was posted to the 1/3rd London Regiment. He was killed in action on 9 May 1917, aged 19 years. Having no known grave, his name was commemorated on the Arras Memorial. Sold with copied service papers and m.i.c. £40-£50
Lot 998
Victory Medal 1914-19 (4) (Capt. M. A. Archdale; Capt. W. S. M. Brady; Lieut. C. D. Coulby; Capt. W. J. Cowan) second fine; others good very fine (4) £80-100 Captain M. A. Archdale, R.A.M.C., served in the 3rd Northumberland Field Ambulance. captain W. S. M. Brady, King’s Royal Rifle Corps and Gold Coast Regiment. lieutenant G. D. Coulby, 7th Battalion Notts. & Derby. Regiment, attached Tank Corps. captain W. J. Cowan, two of this name and rank known - R.A.M.C. and Manchester Regiment.. £80-£100
Lot 1018
A Crimean War Heavy Brigade pair to Captain A. M. Robertson, 4th Dragoon Guards crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Capt. A. M. Robertson, 4th [Dn.] Gds.) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, both with Bailey, Coventry riband fitments for wearing, first with signs of restoration overall and partial loss of regimental details due to bruising, contact marks and heavily polished, thus fine £600-800 Arthur Masterton Robertson, who purchased a Cornetcy in the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards in May 1846, witnessed active service as a Captain in the Crimea, where he served ‘up to November 1854, including the siege of Sebastopol and the battles of Balaklava and Inkermann’ (Hart’s refers). He retired by the sale of his commission in 1864. £600-£800
Lot 1041
Three: Lieutenant-Colonel F. M. Mangin, Royal Army Medical Corps india General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Surgn. Capt., A.M.S.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (Capt., R.A.M.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. Col.), the first with officially re-engraved naming, contact marks, very fine or better (3) £250-300 Frederick Meredyth Mangin was born in Limerick in June 1867 and entered the Army Medical Service as a Surgeon Lieutenant on 30 January 1893. Promoted to Surgeon Captain in January 1896, he served on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1897-98, at No. 3 British Field Hospital, Punjab Command, and during the Boer War, in Cape Colony in 1902. Advanced to Major in July 1904, he entered the India theatre of war in August 1914, was advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel in March 1915 and died in December 1918, his only entitlement being to the British War Medal 1914-20; sold with India General Service medal roll extract, his MIC entry and other research. £250-£300
Lot 1055
Five: Lieutenant-Colonel B. M. Fuller, Army Ordnance Department, late Dorsetshire Regiment and Oxfordshire Imperial Yeomanry queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (7968 Pte., 40th Coy. 10th Impl. Yeo.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt., Dorset Rgt.); 1914 Star (Capt., A.O.D.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.) slight contact marks, very fine and better (5) £300-360 M.I.D. London Gazette 12 January 1918 & 14 June 1918. brian Maitland Fuller was born in Belfast. A Clerk by occupation, he attested for short service with the Imperial Yeomanry at Oxford, aged 23 years, having previously served in the 7th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Regiment. With the Oxfordshire Yeomanry he served in South Africa from 3 February, receiving a commission on 25 October 1900. He served as a Railway Staff Officer, 23 October 1900-23 July 1901. Appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Dorset Regiment in June 1901, he was advanced to Lieutenant in January 1904 and Captain in May 1909. Fuller transferred to the Army Ordnance Department in December 1909. In the Great War he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 20 September 1914; served in Egypt and with the E.E.F., 31 January 1916-24 May 1918, and then returned to France again, 4 July-11 November 1918. He was advanced to Temporary Major in April 1915; Major in September 1915; Acting Lieutenant-Colonel during October 1917-November 1919 and July 1920-May 1922, being promoted to that rank in October 1928. Lieutenant-Colonel Fuller retired from the Army on 26 August 1931. sold with copied service papers, gazette entries and other research. £300-£360
Lot 1056
Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel R. M. G. Tulloch, Royal West Kent Regiment, who served in the Boer War, was twice wounded and awarded the D.S.O. in the Great War and was murdered during the Mau Mau rebellion queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lt., 2/R.W. Kent Rgt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt., Rl. W. Kent Rgt.) both suspensions re-pinned, edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £350-450 D.S.O. London Gazette 18 February 1915. m.I.D. London Gazette 19 October 1914 & 17 February 1915. richard Murray Gregorie Tulloch was born on 20 May 1878, the youngest of five sons of General Sir Bruce Tulloch, K.C.B., C.M.G. He was commissioned into the Royal West Kent Regiment in September 1897 and was promoted to Lieutenant in January 1899. He served with the regiment in the Boer War, participating in operations in Orange Free State, April-May 1900; operations in the Orange River Colony, May 1900-September 1901, including actions at Biddulphsberg and Wittebergen, 1-29 July 1900; operations in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River, 1900; operations in Transvaal, September-November 1901; operations in the Orange River Colony, November 1901-April 1902, and operations on the Zululand Frontier of Natal, September-October 1901. Promoted to Captain in 1904, he was Adjutant of the Regiment, November 1907-August 1909 and Adjutant of the Special Reserves, August 1910-January 1912. serving with the 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment, he served with the B.E.F. as officer commanding ‘D’ Company. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 15 August 1914. He was wounded in the head at Le Cateau on 27 August 1914. Returning to England briefly to recover, he returned to his regiment on 18 September 1914. He later participated in the battle of Neuve Chapelle and was badly wounded when a shell burst close by him. He was again invalided to England to recover. For his services in these early actions, he was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O. Promoted to Major in May 1915, he was G.S.O.2 and G.S.O.3, employed at the training centre at Ripon, June 1915-April 1916. He was G.S.O.2 64th Division, Home Forces, September 1916-March 1917 and G.S.O.2 11th Army Corps, May-July 1917 and Chief Instructor at the Instructional School at Berkhampstead, May-July 1918. During July 1918-July 1920 he was G.S.O.2 at the Training School at Berkhampstead and was Chief Instructor of History and Tactics at the R.M.A., July 1920-August 1922. For his continued wartime services he was given the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel on 3 June 1919. He retired from the Army in 1923. in the later 1920’s he emigrated to Kenya. On 9 October 1952, he and his wife were attacked in their home at Kinankop, 10 miles from Nairobi, situated on the edge of the Kikuyu Reserve, by a gang of five Africans armed with long knives - Colonel Tulloch being killed in the attack. sold with a bound folder containing research on the recipient and the Tulloch family. £350-£450
Lot 1104
Nine: Private J. Newton, Grenadier Guards and Royal Household 1914 Star, with copy slip-on clasp (11297 Pte., 1/G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (11297 Pte., G. Gds.); Defence; Royal Victorian Medal, G.VI.R., silver; Coronation 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, G.V.R., 1907-1927, 2 clasps, Thirty Years, Forty Years (John Robert Newton), mounted court style as worn, fine and better (lot) £800-1000 John Robert Newton was born in Walpole St. Peters, near Wisbeach, Norfolk. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for service in the Grenadier Guards in January 1904, aged 19 years, having previously served in the Royal Field Artillery. After service in the U.K. he was transferred to the Army Reserve in January 1907 and took employment with the Royal Household. With the onset of the Great War he was mobilized at London on 5 August 1914 and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 11 November 1914. He served in France until 6 October 1915 and suffered a gunshot wound to the left arm. Returning home, he was discharged on 22 February 1917 as a result of his injury and returned to his service in the Royal Household. As a Gentleman Porter at Windsor Castle he was awarded the R.V.M. in Silver (London Gazette 1 January 1943). sold with recipient’s wartime identity disk and three buttons. Also with a Defence Medal in card forwarding box addressed to ‘Mrs M. Newton, Cambridge Gate, Windsor Castle, Berks.’; together with two copied photographs of the recipient in court dress wearing medals. With copied service papers and m.i.c. which confirm the award of the 1914 Star clasp and Silver War Badge. £800-£1000
Lot 1105
Three: Lieutenant M. S. Lewis, Royal Garrison Artillery, late Honorable Artillery Company 1914 Star (1022 Pte., H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) extremely fine (9) £180-220 Sold with two identity disks, one inscribed, ‘Private M. S. Lewis 1022, H.A.C. Infantry, C.E.’ and ‘2nd Lt. Malcolm S. Lewis R.G.A., C.E.’ ; the other, with chain, ‘2nd Lieut. Malcolm S. Lewis, R.G.A., C. of E.’ With British Sea Anglers Society (B.S.A.S.) Badge, enamelled, pin-backed; B.S.A.S. Silver Medallion, 39mm., rev. inscribed, ‘Specimen Fish 1907-8, T. R. Estall Lewis - Scad. 2lbs. Ballycotton, 27-8-07’; National Council of Sea Anglers Bronze Medallions (2), 39mm., rev. inscribed, ‘B.S.A.S. T. R. Estell (sic) Lewis, Halibut, 56lb, 1907’, another, rev. inscribed, ‘B.S.A.S. T. R. Estall Lewis, Ling, 30lbs. 1908’, these three in cases of issue. M. S. Lewis attained the rank of Lieutenant on 20 July 1918. £180-£220
Lot 1121
Three: Trooper M. G. Haynes, Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), killed in action, 23 January 1916 1914-15 Star (1709 Tpr., R.H. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (1709 Tpr., R.H. Gds.); Memorial Plaque (Mark George Haynes) extremely fine (4) £240-280 Mark George Haynes was born and lived in Twyford, Buckinghamshire and enlisted at St. Pancras, Middlesex. Serving with the Royal Horse Guards, he was killed in action on 23 January 1916, aged 21 years. He was buried in the Quarry Cemetery, Vermelles. He was the son of John and Mary Ann Haynes of Woodbine Cottages, Twyford. Medals with card boxes of issue complete with enclosures; plaque in card envelope with slip; together with Memorial Scroll; identity disk; cloth badge; recipent’s Musketry Small Book and Equitation booklet; copied obituary and other research. £240-£280
Lot 1126
Three: Sick Berth Steward 2nd Class J. N. Graham, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (M. 2789 S.B.A., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M. 2789 2 S.B.S., R.N.), mounted as worn, good very fine or better (3) £40-60 John Norman Graham was born in Liverpool in September 1891 and entered the Royal Navy as a Probationary Sick Berth Attendant in February 1911. Having then served in the cruiser - and destroyer depot ship - H.M.S. Dido from the outbreak of hostilities until June 1915, he was employed ashore at the R.N. Hospital Haslar and at the R.N. College, Greenwich, latterly, it would appear, as a laboratory assistant. He purchased his discharge in September 1919, in order that he could take up an appointment as an Assistant to a Leicestershire County Council Medical Officer. £40-£60
Lot 1129
Four: Engine Room Artificer 1st Class J. H. Rowe, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (M. 14200 E.R.A. 4, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M. 14200 E.R.A. 4, R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., coinage bust (M. 14200 E.R.A. 1, H.M.S. Curlew), one or two edge bruises and polished, thus good fine or better (4) £70-90 James Henry Rowe was born in Birmingham in January 1887 and entered the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class in June 1915. He subsequently witnessed active service in the battleship H.M.S. Dominion, from August 1915 to April 1918 - in which period she survived a U-Boat attack in May 1916 - and, following a brief appointment aboard the Commonwealth, in April to May 1918, transferred to submarines with an appointment at Dolphin. His service record thereafter reveals assorted appointments in ‘H’, ‘K’ and ‘L’ class submarines 1918-28, prior to his return to surface duties in the Calliope in 1928. £70-£90
Lot 1132
Four: Lieutenant P. M. George, Royal Air Force, late Royal Fusiliers and Cheshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (Lieutenant, Cheshire Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Jubilee 1935, mounted as worn, the first impressed in the style of South African issues, generally good very fine (4) £100-120 Philip Montague George, who was born in Manchester in December 1893 and was educated at Manchester Grammar School, enlisted in the Public School Battalion, Royal Fusiliers in September 1914, direct from his employment in a local accountancy firm. Discharged to a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, in November of the same year, he went out to France in June 1915, but was invalided home in April 1916, the relevant medical report stating that he was suffering from breathing difficulties following service in the Givenchy sector. Of his employment between then and May 1918 little is known, but by the latter month he was serving as a Temporary Captain (A. & S.) in the newly formed Royal Air Force. However, George actually appears to have been employed as a Technical Officer, and ended the War with an appointment at the Armament School, Uxbridge, from which establishment he was discharged in April 1919. He subsequently settled in South Africa, where he became President of the Natal Society of Accountants. £100-£120
Lot 1141
Three: Sapper G. Wade, Royal Engineers, late Royal Horse Artillery, killed in action, 27 May 1917 1914-15 Star (87502 Gnr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (87802 Gnr., R.A.), note different service number; Memorial Plaque (George Wade) good very fine and better (4) £100-140 George Wade was born in Danethorpe, Derbyshire, lived at Cresswell, Nottinghamshire and enlisted at Nottingham. He served originally with the Royal Horse Artillery as Gunner 82802. When serving as Sapper 245596 with the 4th Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers, he was killed in action on 27 May 1917, aged 23 years. Wade was buried in the Fins New British Cemetery, Sorel-le-Grand, France. He was the son of Mr J. C. and Mrs M. A. Wade, of 13 Morvon Street, Cresswell, Mansfield. £100-£140
Lot 1153
Four: Gunner M. Broadhead, Royal Marine Artillery 1914-15 Star (R.M.A.9581 Gr.); British War and Victory Medals (R.M.A.9581 Gr.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (R.M.A.9581 B.509 Gr., R.F.R.), mounted as worn, very fine (4) £70-90 Michael Broadhead was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire. A Postman by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Marines Artillery on 1 June 1901. Serving throughout the Great War, he was demobilized in March 1919. Sold with copied service paper. £70-£90
Lot 1163
Family group: three: Able Seaman R. D. Robb, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1914-15 Star (CZ.4840 A.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (C.Z. 4840 A.B., R.N.V.R.) pair: Private J. M. Robb, Highland Light Infantry british War and Victory Medals (4506 Pte., H.L.I.) good very fine (5) £60-80 Robert Dickson Robb died on 11 March 1917 whilst serving with the Howe Battalion, Royal Naval Division and is buried at Cathcart Cemetery, United Kingdom. £60-£80
Lot 1168
Seven: Commander M. V. Keogh, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (Mid., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals, fine and better (7) £120-160 Maurice Victor Keogh was born on 26 March 1897, the son of Fleet Surgeon J. A. Keogh, R.N., of Southsea. He entered a Naval Training Establishment in January 1910 and was posted to the Grafton as a Midshipman in August 1914. He served on the battleship Marlborough, December 1914-June 1916, being present at the battle of Jutland - the ship being hit by a torpedo. He was promoted to Lieutenant in May 1918. Serving in the Royal Navy in the inter-war years and into the Second World War, he was placed on the Retired List with the rank of Commander on 26 March 1942. Continuing to serve, he was found guilty by a disciplinary court in September 1942, of being drunk on shore. As a result of this he was severely reprimanded and dismissed from the Baldur. He returned to the Retired List on 9 December 1946. Sold with copied service papers. £120-£160
Lot 1177
Four: Stoker Petty Officer M. Burns, Royal Naval Reserve 1914-15 Star (U.1060 L. Sto., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (1060 U. S.P.O., R.N.R.); Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (U.1060 Lg. Sto., R.N.R.); Memorial Plaque (Martin Burns) extremely fine (5) £120-160 Petty Officer Martin Burns, R.N.R., died on 26 October 1918 whilst serving at H.M.S. Pembroke (Chatham). He was buried in the East London Cemetery, Plaistow. He was the husband of Margaret Eliza Burns of 10 Athol Street, Poplar. Sold with medal forwarding slip addressed to Mrs Burns. £120-£160
Lot 1179
Five: Chief Engine-Room Artificer P. Stowar, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. Marlborough throughout the War, including the battle of Jutland, and was awarded the M.S.M. shortly after Marlborough evacuated members of the Russian Imperial family from Yalta in April 1919 1914-15 Star (M.2541 P. Stowar, E.R.A.3., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Act. C.E.R.A. 2 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (M.2541 C.E.R.A.1 H.M.S. Columbine); Royal Navy Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., Admiral’s bust (M.2541 P. Stowar A/C.E.R.A. 2Cl. ‘Marlborough’ War Services) suspension claw tightened and repaired on the last, otherwise about very fine (5) £350-400 M.S.M. London Gazette 17 July 1919. percy Stowar was born at Wimborne, Dorset, on 20 July 1889, and entered the Royal Navy as an acting Engine Room Artificer on 15 October 1910. He joined the battleship Marlborough in June 1914, was present at the battle of Jutland in 1916, and was still serving aboard her when she evacuated the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, Queen Alexandra’s sister, and other members of the Russian Imperial family, from Yalta, in the Crimea, in April 1919. He received his L.S. & G.C. medal in November 1925, was granted a Hurt Certificate for a fractured patella in February 1928, and left the Navy later that year. Sold with copy record of service. for further details of the services of H.M.S. Marlborough at the battle of Jutland see Lot 1411 for the D.S.O. group awarded to her Executive Commander. £350-£400
Lot 1187
Family group: ten: Lieutenant Commander W. E. Mingay, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (M.937 S.S.A., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.937 V.C.P.O., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.937 S.C.P.O., H.M.S. Dragon), mounted as worn, British War and Victory Medals worn; others nearly very fine and better six: attributed to G. E. Mingay, Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Burma Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, all unnamed, mounted as worn, these nearly extremely fine (16) £300-350 M.I.D. London Gazette 8 January 1942. william Edmund Mingay was born in Portsmouth. He entered the Royal Navy as a Ships Stewards Boy in March 1909 and was advanced to Ships Stewards Assistant when serving on the Black Prince in September 1911. During the Great War he served on/was based at Halcyon, Actaeon I, Pembroke and Hussar, on which latter ship he was appointed Victualling Chief Petty Officer in February 1918. Mingay was promoted to Warrant Supply Officer in August 1931 and Commissioned Supply Officer in July 1939. As such, during the war, when based at Excellent II, he was mentioned in despatches for his services during the withdrawal from Crete. In September 1942 he was promoted to Lieutenant. In 1944 he received a Certificate of Appreciation for ‘his fine example of tireless devotion to duty whilst serving on my staff during the training and preparatory stages of the invasion of France, and during Operation Neptune’ - signed Flag Officer Commanding Force ‘S’. During 1945 he held the rank of Acting Lieutenant Commander. He retired from the Navy in 1946 and died in 1979. Sold with framed M.I.D. Certificate and a framed Certificate of Appreciation and copied service papers. professor Gordon Edmund Mingay, B.A., Ph.D., was born in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, on 20 June 1923, the son of William Edmund Mingay, R.N. Educated at Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School, Rochester, and the University of Nottingham. Mingay lectured at the Woolwich Polytechnic and the London School of Economics before taking the chair of Professor of Agrarian History at the University of Kent in 1965. Latterly living at Selling, he retired in 1983 and died in 2006. Sold with newspaper cutting with photograph and obituary. £300-£350
Lot 1191
Four: Senior Reserve Attendant A. Fairhurst, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (M.8816 S.R.A., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.8816 S.R.A., R.N.); Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (1929 Lg. S.B.A., R.N.A.S.B.R.) good very fine (4) £100-140 Arthur Fairhurst was born in Wigan, Lancashire on 8 January 1886. A Rope Splicer by occupation, he entered the R.N.A.S.B.R. on 2 August 1914. He served at Plymouth and Chatham Hospitals and was demobilized on 30 May 1919. Sold with copied service paper. £100-£140
Lot 1194
1914-15 Star trios (4) (41784 Gnr. J. E. Workman, R.G.A./R.A.; 108189 Spr./A. Sjt. M. Harris, R.E.; M2-102491 Pte. J. R. Graham, A.S.C.; M2-020076 Pte. G. Macaulen, A.S.C.) ‘Harris’ group worn; others very fine and better (12) £100-140 Gunner Jesse E. Workman, R.G.A. entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 16 February 1915. Discharged to the reserve on 6 March 1919. sold with copied m.i.c. £100-£140
Lot 1204
Three: Captain C. J. Temperley, Royal Air Force, late Northern Cyclist Battalion and Royal Flying Corps, who was wounded in a combat in October 1917, while piloting an S.E. 5 of No. 60 Squadron british War and Victory Medals (Capt., R.A.F.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Capt., N. Cyc. Bn.), contained in an old metalled display frame, together with his privately engraved silver identity disc, the obverse inscribed ‘Capt. C. J. Temperley, N. Cyc. Bn. & R.F.C., 1914-18’, and the reverse ‘Noel M. Temperley, W.R.N.S., 1940 1945’, extremely fine (4) £600-700 clifford James Temperley, who was born in June 1894 and commissioned as a Territorial Officer in November 1914, qualified for his ‘Wings’ in June 1915 (Certificate No. 1367), and remained employed on the Home Establishment until joining No. 60 Squadron, an S.E. 5 unit operating out of St. Marie Cappel, in October 1917. By then a Temporary Captain, it was intended he take up appointment as a Flight Commander, but in lieu of his lack of experience in scouts in France the Squadron C.O. vetoed the idea. And, as it transpired, Temperley was downed just a few days later, on the 28th, when wounded in the foot in a combat near Vlamertinger and forced to land near Poperinghe. Invalided home, he did not return to duty until April 1918, with an appointment at the Air Ministry, following which he served as a Staff Officer until the end of hostilities. He was placed on the Unemployed List in January 1919. sold with the recipient’s Great War photograph album, containing approximately 25 images of fellow pilots, aircraft and ‘prangs’, together with a fine-quality studio portrait in uniform, in contemporary glazed frame; a Dover Garrison Pass in the name of ‘2nd Lieut. C. J. Temperley’, circa 1915, and additional items appertaining to Noel Temperley, W.R.N.S., including another smaller identity disc, in white gold, and a silver and enamelled compact case, with central applique R.F.C. badge, together with two related photographs, an Admiralty certificate appointing her a Third Officer, dated 21 December 1941, and a souvenir programme for an R.A.F. Benevolent Fund matinee held at the New Opera House Blackpool on 5 October 1941, complete with a pair of admittance tickets. £600-£700
Lot 1214
Three: Lieutenant C. H. C. Burrows, Royal Engineers british War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Lieut.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (Lieut.) nearly extremely fine (3) £160-200 M.I.D. London Gazette 21 May 1920. ‘... for valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Kurdistan and Persia. Dated 17th January , 1920’. ‘Royal Engineers, attd. S.& M., I.A.’ Charles Henry Claud Burrows was the son of Colonel E. A. Burrows, R.A., C.M.G. Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy. Appointed a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, he served with the B.E.F., 1916-18, and with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, 1918; retiring in 1920 and living at The Manor House, Long Credon, Thame. sold with some copied research. for his father’s miniature dress medals, see Lot 703. £160-£200
Lot 1239
British War and Victory Medal pairs (7) (575425 Pte. E. Pannell, Rif. Brig.; 124764 Gnr. H. P. E. Spencer, R.A.; M2-183300 Pte. J. Chesney, A.S.C.; S-405973 Pte. H. Crockford, A.S.C.; 032611 Pte. A. M. John, A.S.C.; M-400951 Pte. W. F. Kemp, A.S.C.; M2-115368 Pte. T. Pollard, A.S.C.) pair to ‘Pannell’ worn; others nearly very fine and better (14) £90-120 £90-£120
Lot 1245
Pair: Private M. Bingham, 13th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment british War and Victory Medals (202336 Pte., E. Kent R.); together with memorial plaque (Moses Bingham); transmission slip for B.W.M. and Registered packets of issue for medals and plaque, nearly extremely fine (3) £60-80 Moses Bingham was born at Frittenden, Kent and enlisted at Tunbridge Wells. He was killed in action in France and Flanders on 27 September 1917 whilst serving with the 13th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. £60-£80
Lot 1271
Six: Serjeant M. Deegan, Royal Signals india General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (2318967 Cpl., R. Sigs.); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (2318967 Sjt., R. Sigs.), mounted as worn, some edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (6) £140-180 £140-£180
Lot 1272
Seven: Private J. M. Hamilton, 156th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, late Warwickshires, who died of wounds at Arnhem on 21 September 1944 india General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (5109896 Pte., R. War. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, good very fine or better (7) £1800-2200 John Mallon Hamilton, a native of Belfast, probably joined the 156th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, on its formation in 1943, soon after which, as a component of 4th Parachute Brigade, it took part in a number of minor operations in the Middle East and Italy. arriving back in the U.K. at the end of the year, the Battalion was duly employed in operation ‘Market Garden’, and landed on Dropping Zone ‘Y’, at the top of Ginkel Heath, on 18 September, under mortar fire. Quickly in action in support of the 10th Battalion, the 156th lost 40 men killed on this day alone. Further heavy casualties were sustained in an attempt to retake the crossing at Wolfhezen on the 19th, from which place the Battalion’s survivors fought their way through to General Urquhart’s Divisional H.Q. inside the Oosterbeek perimeter on the 20th - and it was in the course of this latter initiative that Hamilton fell mortally wounded, an incident later recalled by Harry Bankhead in his history of 151/156 Parachute Battalion, Salute to the Steadfast (a signed edition is included): ‘We were now heading north-east towards Valkenburglaan through more open woods ... At 1200 hours, the 10th Battalion had broken clear and was reported to have reached Valkenburglaan in close touch with the Division’s perimeter. Progress became slower because the leading files were constantly exchanging fire with the encroaching Germans. The enemy suffered higher casualties, but our own were considerable. I passed John Hamilton lying on the ground with a serious stomach wound that was clearly mortal. He died the next day. A fortnight earlier he had introduced me to his wife and children.’ Hamilton died of his wounds in St. Joseph’s Mental Hospital at Apeldoorn and was buried in the Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery. £1800-£2200
Lot 1274
Family group: seven: Warrant Officer C. F. Geeves, Royal Army Medical Corps 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Burma Star, clasp, Pacific; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; St. John Service Medal, silvered-bronze issue, 4 silver clasps (one base metal) (35523 A/Off. Bucks. S.J.A.B. 1947), mounted as worn seven: Mrs E. M. Geeves, nee Stevens, British Red Cross Society defence Medal; Voluntary Medical Service Medal (Mrs Elsie Margaret Geeves), mounted as worn; B.R.C.S. Medal of Merit (5621 E. M. Stevens); B.R.C.S. Proficiency in Red Cross Nursing Cross, 1 clasp, Red Cross Nursing 1939 (15679 Elsie Stevens); Proficiency in Red Cross First Aid Cross, 1 clasp (loose), Red Cross First Aid 1939 (26285 E. Stevens); Proficiency in Anti-Gas Training Cross (6705 E. M. Stevens); B.R.C.S. 3 Years Service Medal, 2 clasps, 3 Years Service (11992), these five enamelled; Identity Disk (Stevens E. M., B.R.C.S. Bucks 30, very fine and better (lot) £200-250 Medals to Warrant Officer Cyril Frank Geeves, R.A.M.C., sold with the recipient’s Soldiers Release Book and several photographs; together with a quantity of letters written by Geeves to his parents living at Rose Lawn, Woodside Close, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, during the period 1941-45. medals to Mrs Elsie Margaret Geeves, nee Steven, wife of the above, sold with a number of original papers, including; Aylesbury Temple School Reports (6), 1924-26; ‘Young Helpers’ League’ Certificates (2); Royal Drawing Society Certificates (4); British Red Cross Society Certificates (4); British Legion Membership Card. During the Second World War she served aboard various Hospital Ships. £200-£250
Lot 1288
Four: Guardsman C. Godsmark, Coldstream Guards, killed in action, 11 December 1940 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, unnamed pair: Private D. McKay, Warwickshire Regiment 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, unnamed, extremely fine (6) £70-90 Guardsman Charles Godsmark, 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards, was killed in action on 11 December 1940, aged 22 years. He was buried in the Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt. He was the son of Mary A. Godsmark of Crawley, Sussex. Sold with card forwarding box addressed to ‘Mrs M. A. Godsmark, 18 Field Rd., Crawley, Sussex’, condolence slip and Army Form B.104-82 informing Mrs Godsmark that her son had been killed in action. 5110650 Private D. McKay, Warwickshire Regiment, was a prisoner-of-war of the Germans; held at the camp at Gorlitz. Sold with card forwarding box addressed to ‘Mr D. McKay, 2 St. Andrews Close, Droitwich, Worcs., WR9 8RE’, and with forwarding slip. £70-£90
Lot 1296
Eight: Master Aircrewman E. F. Hughes, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine 1945-48, Malaya (W.O. (1320703), R.A.F.); Korea 1950-53 (1320703 F./Sgt., R.A.F.); U.N. Korea; R.A.F. L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (M. Sig. (1320703), R.A.F.), mounted as worn, together with a set of related miniature dress medals and his wife’s 1939-45 Defence & War Medals, in their card forwarding box, generally good very fine and rare (18) £400-500 Ernest Frank Hughes was born in Croydon in January 1923 and enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in June 1941. Having then witnessed active service in Burma, and been demobbed in June 1946, he joined the strength of Royal Air Force as an A.C. 2 (Signaller) in March 1947. Advanced to Flight Sergeant in the following year, he served in Palestine and Malaya, in addition to the Korea operations as a member of crew in Sunderlands of the Far East Flying Boat Wing (88, 205 and 209 Squadrons). Appointed a Master Aircrewman in January 1957, and awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in October 1959, hughes was finally discharged in January 1969; sold with a copy of his service record - which confirms all of the above listed Medals and clasps, including a late claim for his G.S.M. for ‘Palestine 1945-48’ & ‘Malaya’ in January 1960, together with a crew photograph and a Korean War veteran newsletter, with front page feature on the Far East Flying Boat Wing. The vendor states that Master Crewman E. F. Hughes was in the air when the first atom bomb went off on Christmas Island. mrs. Ethel Francis Hughes (nee Dixon), who married in June 1946, served in the W.A.A.F. in the 1939-45 War, but did not claim her Defence & War Medals until many years later. £400-£500
Lot 1322
Five: Flying Officer B. E. Shannon, Zambia Air Force, late Royal Air Force defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (1624509 Sgt., R.A.F.); General Service 1962, 2 clasps, Radfan, South Arabia (M. Plt. (1624509) R.A.F.); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (M. Plt. (T1624509) R.A.F.), mounted as worn, minor contact marks, very fine and better (9) £240-280 Bernard Shannon attained the rank of ‘Master Pilot’ whilst serving with the R.A.F. He was later commissioned a Flying Officer in the Zambian Air Force. Information from the vendor indicates that Flying Officer Shannon was killed whilst landing a Hercules transport plane in Zambia. His wife, Mrs Daphine Eileen Shannon was employed by Zambian Airways during 1968-69. sold with Republic of Zambia warrant granting Bernard Eric Garth Shannon the rank of Flying Officer in the Zambian Air Force, dated 10 March 1969. Together with four metal tankards, one inscribed with the badge of the University of London Air Squadron R.A.F.V.R.; one inscribed, ‘Presented to Sgt. Barney Shannon by the Pilots of No.80 Squadron Kai Tak, Aug. 1952-Dec. 1954’; one inscribed, ‘Presented to ‘Barney’ by the members of the Sergeants Mess, R.A.F. Kai Tak, Hong Kong, Dec. 1954’; the last inscribed, ‘Barney Shannon, 233 Squadron, Aden, 1962-1964’. £240-£280
Lot 1359
Pair: Lance-Corporal C. M. J. Murley, Scots Guards, wounded during the battle for Tumbledown mountain general Service 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24464467 Gdsm C M J Murley SG); South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (24464467 LCpl C M J Murley SG) mounted as worn, good very fine (2) £1200-1500 Christopher Michael J. Murley was born on 20 July 1961, and enlisted for the Scots Guards at Forest Gate, London, on 1 September 1977. His Certificate of Service states that his Military Conduct was ‘Exemplary’ and that ‘During his time in the army L/Corporal Murley did extremely well. He was an able, intelligent and enthusiastic soldier, much prized by his Company Commander in the field. The wound he received in the Falklands put an end to a promising career, but in circumstances of great credit to L/Corporal Murley’. sold with copy Certificate of Service, dated 8 February 1984, two news cuttings, and a copy extract from The Times believed to show the recipient, arm in sling, talking to the Duke of Edinburgh when presenting Falklands medals. £1200-£1500
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