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Click here to subscribeA WWI MILITARY MEDAL GROUP OF THREE, 52708 William F. Showell D.L.I.The absence of a Condition Report does not imply that a lot is without imperfections. Please note carefully the exclusion of liability for the condition of lots contained in the Conditions of Sale.inscription looks crisp. Viewing recommended for more detail.
A well-documented C.M.G. group of seven to Lt-Col Charles Walter Tribe, 41st Dogras: the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s badge, January 1st 1916 ‘for services rendered in connexion with Military Operations in the Field’; India General Service 1854-95 with Waziristan 1894-5 clasp (Lt.); the India Medal with three clasps: Malakand 1897, Punjab Frontier 1887-88 and Waziristan 1901-2 (Lt.); the China War Medal 1900; the 1914 Star with 5th August – 22nd Nov 1914 clasp; the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. All seven in their Spink & Son Ltd. red-leather fitted easel case. Three of the five miniatures in a matching easel case.Agra-born Lt-Col Charles Walter Tribe CMG (1868-1916) was the eldest son of the Venerable W. H. Tribe (1832-1909) Archdeacon of Lahore, and the brother of Mary Duchess of Bedford (1865-1937). Educated at the United Services College, he was commissioned into the Royal Marine Light Infantry in September 1887. In October 1890 he transferred as a lieutenant to the Indian Staff Corps and first saw service in the Waziristan Expedition (1894-1895) and on the North-West Frontier he took part in the defence and relief of Malakand, the relief of Chakdara and in operations in Bajaur and in the Mamund country. Promoted captain in September 1898 he served with the 38th Dogras in the China Relief Expedition of 1900 and from June 1901 to July 1902 as Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General, South Africa. In 1903 he married Alice Seaton Massy, daughter of Lt-Col Charles Francis Massy, Indian Army. In September 1905 he was promoted major and from January 1906 to October 1908 he was Commandant of the Mounted Infantry School, India. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel in October 1912 and appointed commandant of the 41st Dogra Regiment who landed at Marseilles in October 1914. He was severely wounded by a shell-splinter in the chest, whilst watching No. 2 company going over the parapet to lead the assault on Richebourg l’Avoué in May 1915, mentioned in Sir John French’s last despatches. For his servicesin France he was made a Companion of St. Michael and St. George in January 1916. News of the award reached the Dogras, now in Mesopotamia, hours after he was killed in action on January 13th 1916. He was 47 and buried at the Amara War Cemetry. Vol 1 The Story of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 41st Dogras (1923) records that:‘The Regiment had good cause to mourn its losses on this day. Lt-Col CW Tribe, who had commanded since 1912 had earned the greatest admiration and respect on account of his gallantry. Celebrated for his contempt of danger, he instilled a large measure of his courage into his battalion. Apart from the example he set his Regiment in the field, his able administration of it in peace had laid it under a deep debt of gratitude. The condition report on CMG - enamel is in good condition (see image). The medals are named and close up images have been added.
The India General Service Medal with Hazara 1888 clasp to the Venerable Archdeacon W. H. Tribe Eccl. Estt.. Contained in its original box with printed label and handwritten inscription Walter Harry Tribe MA (1832-1909) was the father of the notable aviator, ornithologist and hospital manager, Mary Duchess of Bedford, ‘the flying Duchess’ and Charles Tribe.Born at Fittleworth, Sussex, he was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1854. He was ordained deacon and priest in 1857 by the Bishop of Winchester (Dr. C. R. Broughton) to the curacy at Broughton, Hampshire. In 1860 he accepted from a private patron the rectory of Stockbridge and married in 1861 Sophie Lander, daughter of the Consul-General in the Dardanelles. In 1867 began his long service as an Indian Civil Service chaplain in the Bengal Establishment. He was stationed successively at Bareilly, Agra, Delhi Camp of Exercise, Nynee-Tal Allahabad, Sealkote, the Rawalpindi Durbar and at Simla. In 1885 Bishop Valpy French appointed him Archdeacon of Lahore. In January 1888 his daughter, Mary, married Viceroy Dufferin’s ADC, Lord Herbrand Russell (the 11th Duke of Bedford from 1893 to 1940) at Barrackpore. That October he joined the First Hazara (Black Mountain) Expedition, as one of its four chaplains, which he recorded in a series of drawings. After leaving India in 1892 he was for a time chaplain at Algiers, and in 1895 he was nominated by his son-in-law, Herbrand Russell 11th Duke of Bedford, to the vicarage of Awliscombe, Somerset, which he resigned ten years later.
A Royal Navy WW1 group of three to Lieut. N. H. Beaver R.N.: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. Commander Noel Herbrand Beaver (1893-1949) was the younger son of Brigadier Frederick Tyssen McKinley Beaver (1852-1928) and Zoe Harriet Tribe (1862-1960). He took his middle name from Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, the husband of his maternal aunt. Beaver was made an acting sub-lieutenant in 1912, promoted lieutenant in 1915 and appointed command of the patrol boat P11 in 1918. Promoted lieutenant-commander in 1923, he retired as a commander in 1937.
A group of three to Major Philip Charles Beaver (1937-2020): the General Service Medal with Northern Ireland clasp (MAJOR P.C. BEAVER 13/18H.), the General Service Medal with Malaya clasp (2/LT. P.C. BEAVER. 13/18H.) and the 1977 Silver Jubilee Medal; together with miniatures.Major Philip Charles Beaver was the son of Lt-Col. Philip S.L. Beaver M.C. and the last of five consecutive generations that served in the armed forces for over two centuries - the first being Captain Philip Beaver RN. Educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the 13th/18th Hussars in 1957 He served as a G2 Branch officer in Londonderry 1978-1979, British Liaison Officer to the French Cavalry School at Saumur 1980-1982 and Allied Staff Secretary in Berlin 1982-1984.
The Afghanistan Medal to CAPTN. P. K. L. BEAVER – E. / 4TH R.A.Madras-born Colonel Philip Keith Lonsdale Beaver (1843-1922) was the son of Major Herbert Beaver (1806-1852) (Paymaster of the East India Company's 5th Native Infantry) and Anne Amelia Lonsdale (1819-1898) and grandson of Capt. Philip Beaver R.N.. He passed into the Woolwich Academy from Cheltenham College in 1862 and was promoted lieutenant in 1865 and captain in 1877. He returned to England from India in 1880 and served as an instructor at the School of Gunnery at Shoeburyness. Appointed major in 1883, he retired as a colonel.
A mixed lot of four comprising a Kirby Beard & Co. white-metal bracelet with tag engraved ‘Paul Schneider 1er Aout. 1891’ and the reverse ‘ESC. N. 15’; a 1912 Françoise Montagny bronze Art Nouveau medal marked AVIATION and with vacant cartouche (5cm in diameter); the 1914-1918 Inter-Allied Victory medal and the Victory Medal to 265645 SPR. W. TAYLOR R.E . Together with a photocopy of a French postcard possibly related to the bracelet.(4)
The Imperial Order of the Crescent 1st Class (the Sultan’s Medal for Egypt 1801) to Captain Philip Beaver R.N. (1766-1813). The 54mm gold medal with original gold chain suspender (3.4cm), fastening hook and yellow riband (9.8cm x 3.5cm) contained in a Spink folding glazed easel case with plaque reading: SULTAN'S GOLD MEDAL FOR EGYPT 1801 - GRANTED TO CAPT. PHILIP BEAVER R.N. H.M.S. FOUDROYANT – FLAG CAPTAIN TO ADMIRAL LORD KEITH. Provenance: by direct descent through the male line to the vendor. Philip Beaver’s naval career began in 1777 as an eleven-year-old midshipman on board the Monarch. His career and life ended, towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars, in 1813, at Table Bay as a 47-year-old in command of the frigate HMS Nisus. Apart from his distinguished naval service, Beaver has gone down in history as an anti-slavery adventurer, who gave a fascinating first-hand account in African Memoranda (1805) of the short-lived settlement of the island of Bulama, near Sierra Leone, in 1792 (see lot 761).The circumstances behind the award of the Sultan’s Medal are recounted by Capt. W. H. Smyth in his biography The Life and Services of Captain Philip Beaver - Late of his Majesty's Ship Nisus (Murray 1829):The Determinée being sent to Constantinople, with intelligence from the armies, Lord Elgin announced, in a very friendly note, an intended pecuniary gift from the Porte [the Ottoman Court of Salim III], of 2,000 piastres for the captain, and specified sums for the officers and ship’s company; but knowing Beaver’s repugnance to accepting money from a foreign power, his lordship added, “I am well aware of the awkwardness of this, but attempts which I have made, on former occasions, to alter this practice, have proved unsuccessful, this being the established etiquette. The matter, therefore, stands thus: the Porte intend a politeness, and this is the known mode adopted by them”. Notwithstanding this liberal explanation, the captain refused to countenance what he disapproved of, and he therefore declined the proffered favour for himself and officers, but accepted the portion which was intended for his crew.That this delicacy of feeling was neither misunderstood, nor disregarded, even by the Turks, was soon proved in a second letter from Lord Elgin, who, by unreserved communications on various matters, appears to have placed the highest confidence in the discretion of our officer. “As the Porte,” says the ambassador, “are particularly anxious to pay a compliment to you, both as Lord Keith’s former captain, and as the bearer of good news from Grand Cairo, a diamond-box is prepared for your acceptance, and a gold one for each of your lieutenants.” Beside this mark of favour, Captain Beaver’s services in Egypt were rewarded with the medal of the Crescent; for, by a curious solecism, the Grand Signior [Sultan Selim III] had been induced to institute an order of knighthood, as mode of rewarding his allies.
An Edward VII Coronation medal 1902; the obverse with combined busts of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, the reverse with royal cypher above the ceremony date, raised wreath rim and with the original ribbon hanging from a suspension loop above a crown, original red Elkington & Co. Ltd box dated 1902
A rare WWI British patriotic propaganda doll of Lord Horatio Kitchener of Khartoum; with painted china head, hands and boots, the doll wearing a period officer's uniform and complete with puttie leg straps, brass buttons, leather belt and medal ribbons etc. (A rare of doll of Lord Kitchener, one of the earliest known 'Celebrity' dolls, Kitchener was one of the most celebrated war heroes of the late Victorian period)(overall length 48cm)
JOSEPH QUINAUX (1822-1895), a gilt-framed oil on canvas study of a countryside scene (lined), figures (one mounted) on a country pathway before a lone dwelling with trees and mountainous terrain to the background, signed and dated lower right 1844, plaque to centre bottom front frame and informational label verso detailing Quinaux born 1822 in Namur, died Brussels 1895, studied at Antwerp and Louvain and became Professor at Brussels Academy and had work accepted by Brussels Museum. Awarded the Brussels Gold Medal, the Leopold Order and other decorations, also represented at Brussels, Sydney and Alvers Museums etc. (56.5 x 67cm)
A selection of enamel Red Cross and other badges and awards, one engraved 'Zoe Beaver' (sister of Mary Duchess of Bedford), together with a set of 17 gold-plated buttons (9 large and 8 small) engraved with central crown (probably related to the Russells of Woburn Abbey)Condition as seen (see images). The County of Hampshire British Red Cross Society Medal is engraved 'Zoe Beaver' and numbered '149'
Medals, World War I, a pair, Britis War and Victory, named to 49840 Pte J W Rose, Leicester Regiment, ribbons ensuite; a silver coloured metal badge, For King and Empire Services Rendered, stamped to verso B238305; two enamel RAF sweetheart badges; two gold coloured metal and silver football medal fobs, L&D F. L. (7)
Militaria - Medals, World War One, a Great War group of 8 to Sgt. William Rowland Wright 4th King's Royal Rifle Corps, 1911-1945: 1911 Delhi Durbar medal (re-named to Bugler W R Wright 4th KRRC); Russia St. George Medal (re-named) no number, 1913-1917 version); France, Croix de Guerre; 1914-15 star , British War Medal, Victory medal, Long Service Good conduct 1911-1920 issue (all to Pte. W R Wright KRRC), WW2 Defence medal, mounted on bar, along with miniature group of same, but only including the Delhi Durbar, 19140-15 stare, BWM, Victory medal and LSGC medals, also mounted on bar and black KRRC cap badge 7787 William Rowland Wright transferred to the Labour Corps as a sergeant in 1918 (53351) and served until 1920.
British India and the Raj - a Victorian army officer's ink manuscript diary, of Major Henry Lonsdale Hallewell (1852-1908) while aged 20 and on active service with the 2nd Battalion Royals, intermittently kept from 1st January - 8th June, 1872, only, his narrative commences in a chilly railway carriage from Bombay station - and he was glad of his great coat - eventually arriving at Fatehpur?, further accounts of men's sport racing, horse-buying, dinners (getting very tight on whisky), mess life with his brother officers, dances, official's financial irregularities, rumours, Russian and American news (the veiled possibility of war), cholera outbreaks, marching, boat races, comments on irregular language and snippets of domestic native and colonial life, further notes in places, some loosely-inserted, Lett's Diary for 1872, grey cloth gilt and blind, marbled endpapers, 8vo, [1] Henry Lonsdale Hallewell was born on 3 October 1852, the son of Colonel Edmund Gilling Hallewell, 28th Regiment. As a Sandhurst Cadet he was the recipient of a Royal Humane Society Medal in bronze, awarded for a rescue made on 28 May 1871 at Knaresborough, Yorkshire (R.H.S. Case No. 18724). He served in the Bengal Famine Relief of 1874 and was mentioned in the Order of the Army of India. As a Deputy Assistant Commissary General in the Commissariat and Transport Corps, he served in the Egypt and Sudan Campaign of 1884-85, being present at the battle of El-Teb. He later served in the operations in Zululand 1888. During the Second Boer War he served as a Major in the Queenstown Rifle Volunteers and was awarded the C.M.G. in 1900 and mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 16 April 1901). Latterly living at The Holt, Alverstoke, Hampshire, he died on 23 June 1908. Major Hallewell's medals were sold by Dix Noonan Webb, Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, 25th-26th June 2014, Lot 1118.
A group of five medals awarded to Squadron Leader TH Lucas RAF:- 1939/45 star, Africa star, Defence medal, War medal and RAF Long Service and Good Conduct medal (No.332478 F/Sgt. T.H.Lucas RAF), mounted as worn together with a large selection of various paperwork and notes listing his career dating between 1916 and 1950, mainly as a Photography Officer
An India General Service medal with two bars - Burma 1885-7 and Burma 1887-89, awarded to Lieut.C.V.Mainwaring 14th Madras Infrantry in old display frame with silvered badge of the 89th Punjabis and plaque "Charles Vaughan Mainwaring Colonel 89th Punjabis Burma Frontier Force 35 Years Service"
A 1939/45 star, Defence and War medal with RAF condolence slip awarded to No.864810Sgt. Robert Deugard R.A.F.V.R. together with Airman's service and pay book, original Air Gunners wings, original telegram confirming Sgt. Deugard missing from air operations 11/12 August 1943, Buckingham Palace slip and other paperwork
A group of five medals awarded Lieut. R.M.W.Turner Fleet Air Arm:- 1939/45 star, original Air Crew Europe star; Pacific star; Defence medal and 1939/45 War medal, mounted as worn together with box of issue and Admiralty slip; Cloud Atlas for Aviators dated 1942, Meteorology notes, Fleet Air Arm embroidered wire Pilots badge and two similar Observer badges and other later paperwork
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