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hearse (G.S.) The Tramways of Gateshead, 1965 sgnd. by author, dw.; Jordan (H.E.) Tramways of Reading, n.d., dw.; Kirby (A.K.) Middleton Tramways, 1976, fldg. map, card wraps.; Stretch (E.K., The Tramways Wigan, 1978, fldg. map, card wraps; with A Quantity of Other Volumes on trams and genealogy (qty.)
‘It was my great good fortune to be appointed General Staff Officer to the Arab Forces in the early part of 1918. From then throughout the final phase of the Arab revolt on till Damascus, I worked, travelled, and fought alongside Lawrence. Night after night we lay wrapped in our blankets under the cold stars of the desert. At these times one learns much of a man. Lawrence took the limelight from those of us professional soldiers who were fortunate enough to serve with him, but never once have I heard even a whisper of jealousy. We sensed that we were serving with a man immeasurably our superior ... In my considered opinion, Lawrence was the greatest genius whom England has produced in the last two centuries, and I do not believe that there is anyone who had known him who will not agree with me. If ever a genius, a scholar, an artist and an imp of Shaitan were rolled into one personality, it was Lawrence.’ Colonel W. F. Stirling, D.S.O., M.C., from his autobiography, Safety Last. the important Boer War and Great War Palestine operations D.S.O. and Bar, M.C. group of fourteen awarded to Colonel W. F. Stirling, Chief of Staff to Lawrence of Arabia and Advisor to Emir Feisal in Damascus in 1918, late Royal Dublin Fusiliers and Royal Flying Corps distinguished Service Order, E.VII.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with Second Award Bar; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (Lieut., R. Dub. Fus.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., R. Dub. Fus.); 1914-15 Star (Capt., R. Dub. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge, silver and enamel; Italy, Order of the Crown, 5th Class breast badge, gold and enamel; Syria, Order of Merit, breast badge, gilt metal and enamel; Hedjaz, Order of El Nahda, a rare first type 2nd Class set, comprising neck badge and breast badge, in silver, gold and enamels, complete with original plaited neck cord; Albania, Order of Scanderbeg, a scarce first type Grand Cross set of insignia by Cravanzola, Roma, comprising sash badge, silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star, silver, gilt and enamels, complete with full dress sash, minor official correction to surname on the Boer War awards, reverse centre lacking on the Italian piece, enamel work chipped in places but otherwise generally very fine or better (12) £25000-30000 d.S.O. London Gazette 28 January 1902: ‘For skill and gallantry in action at Kaffirspruit, 19 December 1901.’ Bar to D.S.O. London Gazette 8 March 1919: ‘For gallant service rendered rendered during the operations resulting in the occupation of Damascus by Arab Forces. By his example and personal courage whilst leading the Arabs he, in conjunction with another officer, was mainly instrumental in securing the successful occupation of the town and the establishment, without grave disorder, of the Arab Military Authorities therein.’ The other officer referred to in the above citation is almost certainly Lawrence. m.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918. walter Francis Stirling was born on 31 January 1880, the son of Captain Francis Stirling, R.N., who was last heard of having left Bermuda on that same day in command of the training frigate Atalanta, and was presumed lost at sea with all hands shortly afterwards - one of the notorious ‘Bermuda Triangle’ mysteries. Young Walter spent much of his early life at Hampton Court Palace where Queen Victoria had set aside a wing for widows of Naval officers who died in the course of duty, was educated at Sandhurst and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in 1889. actively engaged in South Africa with the 4th Division Mounted Infantry in Dundonald’s Brigade, Natal Field Force, and afterwards as Adjutant, 14th Mounted Infantry, he took part in operations which included the Relief of Ladysmith and the actions at Laing’s Nek, Belfast and Kafferspruit. sterling’s service with the Mounted Infantry during the latter part of the War mostly involved long drives against the blockhouses, operations which, he later noted in his autobiography, Safety Last, ‘entailed dividing the countryside into huge triangles, marked out at every six or eight hundred yards with armoured blockhouses interconnected with double barbed-wire fences. It was a laborious process but profitable, for once a Boer Commando got into one of the triangles, our mounted troops could then line up and sweep the whole country, driving the enemy up against one of the blockhouse lines where they either had to surrender or else fight their way out ... on my return from one of these drives I received two telegrams. One was from Lord Kitchener and said: ‘Congratulate you on immediate award in the field of the D.S.O. for skill and gallantry in action at the affair of Kaffirspruit.’ ‘ After further service with the Dublin Fusiliers at Malta and in Egypt, Stirling transferred to the Egyptian Army in 1906, and served with the 11th Sudanese Regiment engaged in patrols throughout the Sudan 1907-12. Promoted to Captain in 1908, he retired in 1912 and lived in Canada for a time, before returning to Egypt to run the Sporting Club in Alexandria. after the outbreak of hostilties in 1914, he served temporarily with the Gordon Highlanders in the Censorship Office, Egypt, and later in 1914 transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and trained as an Observer at Ismalia, where he was then detailed to patrol and reconnoitre the Sinai Desert. On one patrol in search of Turkish troop movements Stirling and his pilot, Grall - ‘an extraordinarily nice Breton naval quartermaster’ - crash landed in the desert. The latter broke his collarbone and three ribs in the process, but the pair evaded capture by Turks and Bedouin to arrive safely back in Akaba. Grall was awarded the D.C.M. for this feat. upon hearing of the disaster that had befallen his regiment aboard the River Clyde in the landings at Gallipoli, however, Stirling at once requested permission to rejoin his regiment in the peninsula, where only one officer remained unwounded. Thus he served as second in command of the 1st Battalion, Dublin Fusiliers, for three months until he ‘got buried by a shell which burst on the parapet of the trench’ above his head and had to be evacuated. the Palestine Campaign 1915-18 upon his return to Egypt, late in 1915, he was posted as G.2 Intelligence to General Sir Archibald Murray’s G.H.Q. in Ismailia. Here he very soon met T. E. Lawrence, then a young subaltern who had arrived out from England in December 1914 as G.3 Intelligence. Lawrence was then ordered to Basra with additional instructions to make a report on anything he saw there which could be of interest to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. ‘The document that he produced for us on his return was an amazing document, considering its author was only a 2nd Lieutenant. It was a violent criticism of the mental capacity of the draughtsmen and map-makers, of the quality of the stone used in their lithography, of the disposal of the cranes on the quayside, of the system of mooring the barges and of the shunting operations on the railway, of the medical arrangements, particularly of the provision for the wounded, and even of the tactical dispositions of the commanders in the field and of the general strategical conception of the campaign. We dared not show it to the C.-in-C., but had to water it down till it was considered fit for the great man’s perusal. I have regretted ever since that I never kept a copy of the original; it was Lawrence at his best’ (Stirling’s autobiography refers). stirling was active throughout the Palestine campaign, taking part in the fall of Gaza, the operations in and around Jerusalem, and the night attack across the river Auja. Shortly afterwards he was posted
New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1847 (Col. Thos. Bernd. Collinson, Ryl. Engrs.) officially impressed naming, toned, extremely fine and probably unique to an Army recipient £1500-2000 Ex Graveson Collection, Glendining March 1989. confirmed on Roll 7681/359 Royal Engineers 'Medals Issued on 25 February 1870', Rank and Name: Colonel Collinson, Thomas Bernard; Rank at the period the Medal was earned: Captain; Record of Service in the Field on which the claim is founded: Engaged against the natives in Cook Straits 1847, Lieut. Col. McCleverty Commanding. Present at the repulse of 400 natives in attack at Wanganui on 19 July 1847.’ Believed to be the only Army recipient of a medal with this date. thomas Bernard Collinson was bom on 18 November 1821, the son of the Rev John Collinson and Amelia King, at Gateshead, County Durham. He entered the Army at the age of 16 years and 8 months in the Cadet Company of the Royal Engineers on 16 June 1838, being promoted Lieutenant in March 1841, Captain in April 1847, Brevet of Major in October 1858, Lieutenant-Colonel in September 1860, Brevet of Colonel in September 1865, Colonel in July 1871, and Hon. Major-General and retired on full pay on 2 August 1873. His service comprised 21 years and 217 days at Home, and 13 years and 195 days Abroad. His Home service included terms at Chatham, Woolwich, on the Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, the Great Exhibition in 1857, and further terms at Woolwich and Chatham, and at Aldershot and Dover. His service abroad included China, New Zealand, Corfu, Malta, two periods in Corfu interspersed with Special Service in Egypt, September to November 1858, and Malta. as a young Lieutenant Collinson left Woolwich on the Honourable East India Company Ship Mount Stewart Elphinstone on 24 May 1843, bound for Hong Kong. There, his principal work was making an exact survey of Hong Kong Island, employing knowledge gained from three years with the Ordnance Survey in England and Ireland. Ambitious to make a perfect map, he utilised the contour system that had recently been developed and adopted in the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, also adding soundings and other nautical information from Admiralty charts by Captain Edward Belcher, R.N., H.M.S. Sulphur (Commander Richard Collinson, R.N., Thomas' brother, also produced Admiralty charts of the China coast). Thomas Collinson was rewarded by the engraving of his map at Ordnance Survey, Southampton, and a compliment from the geographer J. Arrowsmith that it was the most complete map he had ever seen. Collinson's pictorial drawings were of such an admirable standard that Major Aldrich, R.E., used Collinson's work to illustrate his 1846 report on the erection of Ordnance buildings in Hong Kong, published in the Royal Engineer Papers in 1849. on 11 June 1846 Collinson sailed for service in New Zealand embarking in an old teak ship, the Emily Jane (480 tons), bound for Sydney, New South Wales, arriving on 18 August 1846. Upon the continued native attacks in New Zealand it was decided that he had better go, and on 1 September 1846 he departed New South Wales in the aptly named trading brigantine Terror, anchoring at Auckland on 19 September 1846. Collinson recorded in his [unpublished] Journal, ‘left Hong Kong for services in New Zealand. This movement was brought about by some representation at headquarters that I had been long enough in China; and as I had completed the special work I had been sent out for, and as an officer was wanted in New Zealand, there was some reason for it.’ In Auckland he stayed with Captain Henderson, R.A., for several months. The Royal Engineer officer in New Zealand at this time consisted of Captain William Biddlecomb Marlow R.E. and Clerk of Works George Graham R.E., both of whom had recently been exhaustively occupied with Hone Heke's War in the Bay of Islands during 1845-46, and with the Auckland defences. on 22 November 1846, Collinson embarked in the Colonial Brig Victoria to his solitary station in Wellington, where trouble persisted in the Hutt Valley. Ten days after his arrival, on 30 November, he embarked on H.M.S. Calliope, with the whole force, for Wanganui, where Captain Joseph Henry Laye, 58th Regiment, and himself selected a site for a stockade and arranged its construction. In January 1847, having returned to Wellington in a small trading cutter, he organised the construction of barracks, explored the road to Porirua and the Hutt Valley, and returned to Wanganui in February to carry on the construction of defences there. He was present there, on 19 July, in the successful repulse of an attack on the fort, known as the ‘Rutland Stockade’, by some 400 Maori warriors. collinson returned to his station in Wellington in 1848, where duties included a plan for the defence of Wellington, the arrangement and construction of military buildings, and a report on the earthquake that damaged the Paremata Barracks at Porirua. He also made occasional visits to Wanganui and explorations about the local countryside. During his service in New Zealand he made a number of friends in Captain Henderson, R.A., Bishop Selwyn, Sir George Grey, Alfred Domett, William Fox and Tamehana. Dr Andrew Sinclair, the Colonial Secretary and naturalist, had served with his brother Richard on H.M.S. Sulphur. collinson departed New Zealand for Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, in March 1850. During his return to England from May 1850, he wrote two detailed papers on the history of military operations in New Zealand for publication in the Royal Engineer Papers. In April 1869 he advocated in a lecture to the Royal United Service Institute, the formation of one General Military School. In 1889 he edited his brother Sir Richard Collinson's journal for publication: Journal of H.M.S. Enterprise, on the expedition in search of Sir John Franklin's ships by Behring Strait, 1850-55. In 1892-94 he compiled a detailed and illustrated memoir (unpublished) of his work and experiences titled Seven Years Service on the Borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850, Written for the Information and Satisfaction of My Children [Believed to have been sold at auction by Messrs Phillips in November 1970]. major-General Thomas Bernard Collinson died at Ealing, Middlesex, of pneumonia on 1 May 1902. sold with full research including photocopies from Papers Connected with The Duties of the Corps of The Royal Engineers’, Vol. III - New Series, Paper II: Remarks on the Military Operations in New Zealand by Capt. Collinson, Royal Engineers, Parts I, II, and III. £1500-£2000
War Diary, a note book, 200 x 166mm. (approx.), handwritten in ink, the day by day recollections of Lieutenant B. Marden, 9th Lancers, for the period, 15 August 1914-1 May 1915, spine worn and repaired, covers worn, contents in good condition £200-300 Basil Jock Newton Marden was born on 17 February 1893. Commissioned into the 9th Lancers on 4 September 1912, he was appointed a Temporary Lieutenant on 15 November 1914 and attained the rank of Captain on 26 October 1915. With the 9th Lancers aboard the Welshman, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 16 August 1914. In action at Mons, Marne and Aisne; he received a wound to the head in the action at Paissy, 20 September. Recovering, he returned to the 9th Lancers based near Wulverghem on 30 October. In action at Ypres, he was shot, receiving a bullet wound to the head, 19 November. Invalided to England on 22 November, he recovered but remained in England for the rest of the war, latterly on attachment to the 7th Reserve Regiment of Cavalry. The twice wounded recipient is mentioned three times in the regimental history - The Ninth Queen’s Royal Lancers 1715-1936, by Major E. W. Sheppard. The diary, written some time after the events described, provides a lively account of a young cavalry officer during the early months of the war, describing his troop movements, fellow officers, casualties, recreation, food, war rumours etc. ‘Introduction. This book is intended to be the account of the personal adventures, ideas and feelings of a lieutenant of the 9th Lancers ....’ ‘Aug. 15. At last we are off ... arrive Southampton at 2.30p.m. and amuse ourselves as best we can on the dock until the following morning. Pater, who is R.T.O. at Southampton spends the afternoon with me on the dock’. ‘Aug. 24. In the early morning, we are attacked by apparently several divisions ...’ ‘Sept. 20. Turn out at 4.30 & rush off to Paissy to help the ‘feet’ - move round sky-line to draw gun-fire away from heroes’ who are about to bolt - good mark to the General - rather skilfully done - only one horse hit. Sent off with eight men as intercommunication between English right and French left .... am shown remains of last intercommunication patrol (R.H. Gds) officer killed - 3 horses - 4 men! This, I suppose, is to cheer me up! .... The run forwards was the most dangerous show as everyone fired as they ran, in any direction. Once there I fired at a few easy ‘masses’ until a silly fool hit me in the head. I tied it up with a tommy’s handkerchief ...’ ‘Nov. 5. Rearrange squadron & pay men - offer of armoured car rejected. ... We wander around about digging trenches etc & being sniped at & finally at dawn sleep in a farm; that is, we just collapse on the ground! Some French batteries make an infernal row in the yard - but I am soon asleep!’ ‘Nov. 18. Shelled lightly today - in the evening ‘C’ Squadron relievs the 4 D.G. in the Chau. (Chateau) stables. I didn’t expect this - a nasty dangerous place - the Chau. itself was destroyed yesterday by a minewerfer - on entering stables thro’ shell-hole we fall over what we imagine to be sacks of potatoes - they are corpses really - 120 dead Germans and over a week old - they provide some good souvenirs. The attached plan shows my dispositions [map attached] ...In the trench on the right the R.E. hurled out coils of loose barbed wire and we had an abattis made of trees ...’ ‘Nov. 19. The enemy became v. active with hand-grenades - one nearly gets me - & badly wounds 2 men, whom I had placed in the top front room. I fire 8 pistol shots ‘rapid’ at the sight of a match, struck to light one. No corpse there next day, tho’ the match goes out. When these grenades get bad, I send for another troop from Alan (Graham) & keep them in room with fixed bayonets for 2 hours sitting on dead Huns! When dawn arrives I post snipers at each hole - and we bag 10 to 15 Germans - I personally get 3 - my first separate & sure bag of the war! Alan comes on & in despite of my telling him that the front window was dangerous, we go & peep thro’ an iron loop-hole we had hoisted there. Then we both get hit by one bullet in the head ... ‘Lord I’m hit’. ‘So am I!’ And off we crawl downstairs on hands and knees, pouring with blood. I feel dizzy & cannot do much good - so we send back for some 4 D.G. officers to relieve us ...’ £200-£300
cleife (P.) Airway to the Isles, 1966 1st ed., dw.; Lecomber (B.) Talk Down, 1978, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st ed., sgnd. presentation copy, dw.; An Autograph Album, containing General Montgomery's autograph; A WWI Trench Map, Sheet 51B, April 1917, (laid on linen, lacking cover); Leech (J.) Follies of the Year, n.d., cold t.p., cold. plts., orig. qtr. mor., (bdg. def. pages loose); with Nine Other Volumes (14)
trollope (A.) New Zealand, 1874 1st ed. thus, fldg. map; idem. South Australia and West Australia, 1875, fldg. map; idem. Victoria and Tasmania, 1875, 2 fldg. maps; idem. New South Wales and Queensland, 1875, fldg. map, all four vols. in original decorative yellow bds. ('yellow-backs'); with Hume (D.) The History of England, 1852, 6 vols, orig. cl. (worn) (10)
covarrubias (M.) Island of Bali, 1937 fldg. map, cold. and b/w illus., cl.; Wilson (J.) Aorangi, The Story of Mount Cook, 1968, dw.; Mayes (L.J.) The History of Chairmaking in High Wycombe, 1960, dw.; Bliss (W.) Rapid Rivers, 1935, cl.; with A Quantity of Volumes on various subjects including mountaineering (qty.)
colvile (H.E.) A Ride in Petticoats and Slippers, 1880 [Account of a journey through Morocco], frontis., folding plt., fldg. map, cl. gt.; Jardine (W.) The Naturalist's Library, Vol XXVI, British Birds Pt 3, 1843 frontis., engd. t.p., 33 hand-cold. plts. (of 34), hf. cf.; D.A.W., Quirks of Nature, 1997, sgnd. and numbered ltd. ed., cl. gt.; Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary, 1895, 7 vols., hf. mor. (rubbed); with Three Other Volumes (13)
bogg (E.) & Daykin (W.H.) Nidderdale: And the Vale of the Nidd, n.d. 4to., orig. printed paper bds., (re-backed cl.); Bogg (E.) Picturesque Fell Land, n.d., fldg. map, card wraps; Wildridge (T.T.) Holderness and Hullshire Historic Gleanings, 1886, map frontis., illus., orig. hf. cl. (head of spine worn); Lewthwaite (G.) Adel: Its Norman Church....and Other Earlier Antiquities, n.d., [c1887], cl.; with A Quantity of Other Volumes on Yorkshire topography (qty.)
mortimer (J.R.) Forty Years' Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire, n.d. 4to., fold-out map, plts., orig. qtr. mor.; Drake (F.) Eboracum, 1978, sm. fo., dw.; Hume (D.) The History of England, 1767, 8 vols., cf., (worn, one vol. with cracked spine), with Two Other Volumes Yorkshire related (12)
lysons (D. & S.) Magna Britannia, Vol. II, Pt. II, Containing The County Palatine of Chester, 1810 4to., map, engd. plts. as called for, hf. cf., (mor. re-back); Sheahan (J.J.) History of the Town and Port of Kingston-upon-Hull, n.d., 2nd ed., fold-out frontis, plts., (inc. 1 extra), later hf. cf.; James (J.) The History and Topography of Bradford, 1841, engd. plts., recent hf. cf.; with Two Other Volumes related and A Quantity of C. & W.A.& A.S. Transactions (qty.)
complete Atlas of Modern Classical and Celestial Maps...1871 2 vols., fo., 171 terrestrial maps, the majority hand-cold. in outline, 6 hand-cold. celestial maps, contemp. hf. cf. (issued without the city plans, each map hand numbered in margin, pictures laid on to verso of title pages, wear to edges of bdgs., cl. marked)
dunn (S.) A Map of Independent Tartary, Containing the Countries of the Kalmuks and Uzbeks with the Tibet, 1786 hand-cold. map, 318mm x 445mm; idem, A Map of Chinese Tartary with Corea, 1786, hand-cold. map, 309mm x 444mm; idem, China, Divided Into Its Great Province's and The Isles of Japan, 1786, hand-cold. map, 309mm x 442mm (3)
gibson (J.) Plan of Gibraltar, 1762 engd. map from Gents. Mag., 170mm x 446mm; idem, A Particular Map to Illustrate Gen. Amherst's Expedition to Montreal, n.d.,[1760], map from Gents. Mag., 90mm x 227mm; A Plan of The City and Harbour of Louisburg, Shewing that part of Gabarus Bay in which the English landed....in 1745, n.d., engd. map with inset map of Cape Breton, 187mm x 256mm; Jefferys (T.) A New and Correct Plan of the City and Fortifications of Maestricht, n.d., mounted map, 163mm x 200mm; [Der Keere, P. van] Gallia, n.d., mounted hand-cold. map, 85mm x 123mm, English text to verso; with Eleven Other Hand-Cold. Maps (14)
morden (R.) Worcestershire, n.d., mounted map, 355mm x 405mm; A Map of the Surrey Side the Thames from Westminster Bridge to the Borough, n.d., mounted hand-cold. map, 260mm x 205mm; A Map of the Parish of St Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, n.d., 280mm x 360mm; Plan of the Late Fire in Cornhill, 1748, from Gent's. Mag. 177mm x 110mm; Two Road Maps, 1765, and Four Engd. Plts. of London, 1751-68 all from Gents. Mag.; with Two Further Maps (12)
saxton (C.) Kip (W.) Dunelmensis, Episcopatus qui comi, n.d. [1637], mounted hand-cold. map, 280mm x 337mm; Northumberland [disbound extract from England Illustrated, 1764], 14 pages, hand-cold. engd. map by Kitchin, engd. plt.; with Three Nineteenth Century Hand-Cold. Maps of County Durham (5)
langlois (N.) Peyrounin, (A.), Carte De Haute Et Basse Hongrie, Transilvanie ..., 1663 framed hand-cold. map, 368mm x 528mm; Sanson, Le Royaume de Hongrie ..., 1679, framed hand-cold. map, 365mm x 533mm; with Radefeld, (Maj.), Africa, 1850, framed hand-cold. map with mount 188mm x 250mm. (3)
Francis Hill (drawn 1740) – Pen, ink and watercolour - “A Map and Description of all ye land belonging to Sandling Farme, situate lying and being in ye Parish of Saitwood in ye County of Kent, belonging to Heny. Deedes, Gent of Hyth and now Mayor of ye said Town” - The detailed estate plan showing named fields and indicating individual sizes with family armorial and various vignettes, on vellum, 24.75ins x 26ins (somewhat dampstained, damaged and discoloured), in oak frame and glazed Provenance : From the Estate of the Late W.F. Deedes (Lord Deedes of Aldington), removed from “New Hayters”, Forge Hill, Aldington, Ashford, Kent
BRAYLEY & BRITTON, Topographical and Historical description of the County of Essex, London n.d, 8vo (Beauties of England and Wales Series), folding map and 19 engravings as called for, paper on boards, rear board detached, A & C BLACK's Essex 1909, 1st edition, spine split but complete with 75 colour plates and two other Essex volumes (4)
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