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Lot 117
* GORDON HOPE WYLLIE RSW (SCOTTISH 1930 - 2005), EVENING LIGHT mixed media on board, signedframed and under glassimage size 15cm x 18cm, overall size 32cm x 34cm Note: Gordon Wyllie was born in Greenock and in 1949 was accepted to study at the Glasgow School of Art. Under the tutelage of such luminaries as Edward Odling and Mary and Willie Armour, Gordon distinguished himself, graduating in 1953 after an eminent final year. He was awarded the post-diploma, or Master's course, won the Scottish Academy Award and also the Newbery Medal, the school's most prestigious prize. This was all the more remarkable considering that Gordon had, in his diploma year, returned home to care for his father, whose seriously deteriorating health ended in death two months before the degree show, and Gordon himself had suffered a bout of pneumonia. With a scholarship award, he studied that summer at Hospitalfield, Arbroath, as a post-graduate under Ian Fleming. Fleming inspired Gordon and encouraged him in abstraction, with which he occupied himself for the next few years. Meanwhile, he trained at Jordanhill College of Education in Glasgow to become a teacher, in the vanguard of the resurgence of art teaching in Scottish schools by the new art masters, undoubtedly because they painted actively while teaching full-time. Passionate about art education, he was instrumental in influencing many students to pursue a career in the creative industry. A former pupil aptly described his classroom as a "guided exploration rather than a formal lesson". His love of the Scottish countryside is mirrored in his work and undoubtedly stemmed from the bank of images he built when, as a youngster, he travelled with his parents around the country. Argyll and the Western Isles were his favourite destinations, where he was fascinated by the crofts and farms sprouting from the land. Small houses typified his landscapes and still-lifes included abstracted landscapes; flowers, particularly poppies, fruit and fish feature in his later output. In 1996, he was awarded the Alexander Graham Munro Prize at the RSW exhibition in Edinburgh. His work featured regularly in one-man and combined shows and at his last one-man show in London in 2003, demand for his paintings remained high, as it has done ever since. In the last couple of years auction prices, in Glasgow and elsewhere, have shown a significant surge, reflecting the increasing collector interest in Gordon Wyllie's work. His auction record price has been beaten on regular occasions and currently stands at £2400 (hammer) established in October 2020.
Lot 73
* ALEXANDER GOUDIE RP RGI (SCOTTISH 1933 - 2004), GREEN ANGEL pastel on paper, signed, titled partial label versomounted, framed and under glassimage size 54cm x 64cm, overall size 85cm x 94cm Note: Alexander Goudie was born in 1933 at Paisley and, as a child, showed prodigious talent for drawing. He studied at Glasgow School of Art when William Armour was head of drawing and painting and David Donaldson was the ubiquitous influence. Goudie, as a student at Glasgow, demonstrated his extraordinary ability. He received the Somerville Shanks Prize for Composition and, later, his draughtsmanship and sense of colour was recognized with the award of the Newbery Medal. As a young artist he grew up admiring three great masters, Sir John Lavery, George Henry and James Guthrie; all artists who had bridged the gap between Glasgow and Paris. It was these artists’ glorious virtuoso control of oil paint that appealed to Goudie, as well as their genre and realist subject-matter. Alexander Goudie was elected a member of the Glasgow Art Club in 1956 and a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1970. He painted a portrait of the Queen for the Caledonian Club, London (1992/93), and exhibited widely, showing at Harari and Johns, in London, the Fine Art Society, Glasgow, and the Musee de la Faience, in Quimper. Sir Timothy Clifford, former Director of the National Galleries of Scotland, wrote: ''At his best, Goudie could draw better than any of his rivals in Scotland. There was magic and vision in his art and, I expect, history will be kind to him.'' Collections: 79 of Goudie's paintings are held in UK public collections including at Glasgow Museums & Galleries, The Hunterian, Rozelle House Galleries, Paisley Museum & Art Galleries and The Fleming Collection (London). Numerous prestigious corporate collections in the UK and France and in private collections around the world.
Lot 70
* GORDON HOPE WYLLIE RSW (SCOTTISH 1930 - 2005), SLIGACHAN AND SGURR NAN GILLEAN, SKYE watercolour on paper, signed and titledmounted, framed and under glass image size 28cm x 40cm, overall size 49cm x 62cm Label verso: Panter & HallNote: Gordon Wyllie was born in Greenock and in 1949 was accepted to study at the Glasgow School of Art. Under the tutelage of such luminaries as Edward Odling and Mary and Willie Armour, Gordon distinguished himself, graduating in 1953 after an eminent final year. He was awarded the post-diploma, or Master's course, won the Scottish Academy Award and also the Newbery Medal, the school's most prestigious prize. This was all the more remarkable considering that Gordon had, in his diploma year, returned home to care for his father, whose seriously deteriorating health ended in death two months before the degree show, and Gordon himself had suffered a bout of pneumonia. With a scholarship award, he studied that summer at Hospitalfield, Arbroath, as a post-graduate under Ian Fleming. Fleming inspired Gordon and encouraged him in abstraction, with which he occupied himself for the next few years. Meanwhile, he trained at Jordanhill College of Education in Glasgow to become a teacher, in the vanguard of the resurgence of art teaching in Scottish schools by the new art masters, undoubtedly because they painted actively while teaching full-time. Passionate about art education, he was instrumental in influencing many students to pursue a career in the creative industry. A former pupil aptly described his classroom as a "guided exploration rather than a formal lesson". His love of the Scottish countryside is mirrored in his work and undoubtedly stemmed from the bank of images he built when, as a youngster, he travelled with his parents around the country. Argyll and the Western Isles were his favourite destinations, where he was fascinated by the crofts and farms sprouting from the land. Small houses typified his landscapes and still-lifes included abstracted landscapes; flowers, particularly poppies, fruit and fish feature in his later output. In 1996, he was awarded the Alexander Graham Munro Prize at the RSW exhibition in Edinburgh. His work featured regularly in one-man and combined shows and at his last one-man show in London in 2003, demand for his paintings remained high, as it has done ever since. In the last couple of years auction prices, in Glasgow and elsewhere, have shown a significant surge, reflecting the increasing collector interest in Gordon Wyllie's work. His auction record price has been beaten on regular occasions and currently stands at £2400 (hammer) established in October 2020.
Lot 2009
A late 19th Century 8 day coromandel clock letter box, the clock face has Roman numerals, enamelled face with Leuchars & Son 38-39 Piccadilly, glass front is hinged to allow for time adjust and winding with gilt letter box above bevelled glass, key opening door with register mark to inside, 42cm high, 26.5cm wide at base. Note: Sold together with a letter, stamped with a perfin 1d red, plate 197, dated February 1878, from Chapman, Son & Co, Gold Medal 'Cabinet & Leather Goods Manufactory', advertising three examples of 'The Registered Clock Letter Box', the most expensive - and rarest - being made in Coromandel wood.
Lot 147
India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (Lieutt. A. S. Miller No. 8 Mtn. By. R.A.) name officially corrected, good very fine £180-£220 --- Alan Stewart Miller was born on 4 March 1869, educated at the R.M.A., Wooleich, and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 16 February 1887. He was posted to No. 8 Mountain Battery at Rawal Pindi in April 1893 and served with his Battery in the Chitral Relief Force in 1895 Medal with Clasp. Unfortunately Miller died at Cherat in the Punjab on 9 August 1895, aged 25, from disease contracted in the Chitral campaign. Sold with full service history and photographic image of the recipient.
Lot 692
Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1326 Pte J. Whitney, 1-12th Foot) attempt to erase rank, very fine £60-£80 --- Provenance: Spink, February 1980. James Whitney was born in Kelleshandra, Avagh, County Cavan, Ireland. He initially served with the 2nd Battalion, 14th Foot in New Zealand (entitled to New Zealand Medal with reverse dates ‘1861-66’). He was discharged, and immediately attested for the 12th Foot at Auckland in December 1866. Whitney was discharged in August 1876, having served for 21 years and 24 days. Sold with copied service papers and research.
Lot 266
A fine Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Second Award Bar group of four awarded to Pioneer H. C. Rycroft, Royal Engineers, who was decorated for passing on vital messages whilst under enemy attack Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (81867 Pr. H. C. Rycroft. 7/D.S.Coy. R.E.); 1914-15 Star (81867 Pnr: H. C. Rycroft: R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (81867 2.Cpl. H. C. Rycroft. R.E.) light contact marks, generally very fine (4) £700-£900 --- M.M. London Gazette 9 December 1916. M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 4 February 1918. Harry Cecil Rycroft was born in the market town of Colne in Lancashire in 1894, and served with the Divisional Signals in France from 7 November 1915. Twice decorated with the Military Medal for bravery in the field, Rycroft was later sent to No. 21 Field Ambulance on 7 October 1918 suffering from influenza. Evacuated to safety via Ambulance Train, he returned home to Colne and later set up a business in Bradford as a cotton and artificial silk lining manufacturer. Sold with a poignant letter from the recipient’s son to a charity, dated 4 March 2003, noting: ‘My father served in the Royal Engineers as a Signaller, the Military Medal being awarded for signalling vital messages whilst under attack... My wife and I are now 83 years old & when we pass the medals would not mean much to any-one else, so we would be most happy to think his memory was being perpetuated in such a worthy cause by helping you in your wonderful work.’
Lot 4
A scarce ‘Aro Expedition 1901-02’ D.S.O. and ‘Queen Victoria’s Funeral’ M.V.O. group of six awarded to Major M. L. Goldie, Royal Horse Artillery, who was accidentally killed in France in March 1915 and had won the D.S.O. for ‘conspicuous gallantry at the water picket affair at Ikotobo’ during the Aro expedition Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, lacking integral top riband bar; The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 5th Class, breast badge, silver, silver-gilt, gold and enamels, the reverse not numbered; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Aro 1901-1902, high relief bust (Capt: M. L. Goldie, M.V.O, R.A.) officially engraved naming; 1914-15 Star (Major M. L. Goldie, D.S.O., M.V.O. R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Major M. L. Goldie.) obverse centre slightly depressed on the first and with minor loss to enamel wreaths, otherwise generally good very fine (6) £2,800-£3,400 --- Mark Leigh Goldie was born in India on 16 October 1875, son of Colonel M. H. G. Goldie, R.E., of Plymouth. He joined the Army on 2 November 1895, as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, in which he became Lieutenant on 2 November 1898, and Captain on 16 November 1901. As a Lieutenant he was created an M.V.O. for his command of the R.H.A. Team at the funeral of H.M. Queen Victoria on 19 March 1901. He served in Southern Nigeria in 1901 and 1902, taking part in the Aro Expedition, for which he was Mentioned in Despatches, received the Medal with clasp, and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette 12 September 1902). He was invested by the King on 18 December 1902. From 1907, Captain Goldie was with B Battery, R.H.A., at Plymouth. He was promoted to Major on 10 May 1912, and served in France from 14 December 1914, with V Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. He died from accidental wounds on 5 March 1915, aged 39, and is buried in Aire Communal Cemetery, France. Fuller detail of the expedition and the circumstances of Goldie’s award of the D.S.O. are given in the despatches of Commissioner R. Moor and Lieutenant Colonel A. Montanaro, published in the London Gazette of 12 September 1902: 
‘The objects of the expedition were:
a) To abolish the slave trade which was actively carried on throughout the entire territories belonging to, and dominated by the Aro tribe.
b) To abolish the fetish of the Aros known as “Long Juju,” which, by superstition and fraud caused many evils amongst the Ibo tribes generally, and to all the outlying tribes of the entire protectorate, who continually appealed to it. While this Juju existed it was impossible to establish effective government in the territories.
c) To open up the whole of the Ibo country lying between the Cross River and the Niger to civilization and trade of collecting the natural products of their country and developing it to the best advantage.
d) To introduce a currency in lieu of slaves, brass rods, and other forms of native currency that existed in the territories, and which from their nature and cumbersomness were opposed to advance in any direction.
e) Finally, to establish throughout the territories a labour market to take the place of slavery.

A few days before the operations commenced a most deplorable massacre of some 400 men, women and children, mostly women and children, was carried out in the hinterland of the Opobo district, at a town called Obegu. The Aros had long threatened to attack the tribes friendly to the government, and though the people of Obegu had been warned to keep careful watch, they were unfortunately caught napping by a conglomerate force of the various sections of the Aro tribe, together with other Ibos unfriendly to them, and their town was destroyed with the slaughter of the people above mentioned. This gave another object and duty to the Field Force, viz., that of capturing and bringing to justice the natives responsible for this bloodthirsty massacre, in the carrying out of which one section of the Aro tribe alone, the Abams, who were great head hunters, are reported to have obtained 200 heads...

Dispositions were as follows... No. 4 Column, consisting of 19 Europeans, 1 Native officer, 479 Native rank and file, 1 M/m gun, 1 7-pr. gun, 1 rocket tube, 2 Maxim guns, 13 gun-carriers and 225 general carriers, under the command of Captain (local Major) W. C. G. Heneker, Connaught Rangers, concentrated at Itu, with orders to make feint advances towards Aro-Chuku and so cause the enemy to keep the bulk of his forces in the corner of the country where the capital lay...

The Scouts 4 sections of Infantry, 1 M/m gun, 1 7-pr. gun, and a Maxim, under the command of Major Heneker, marched out of Esu-Itu on the morning of December 8th. At a distance of 1 1/2 miles from camp the enemy was discovered by the Scouts to have established himself in a thickly wooded ravine. The line of Scouts was strengthened on each flank by a section, and the guns were brought up to the front. The enemy for a time held the ravine tenaciously, but was unable to stand the case shot and Maxim fire, which searched his position from a hill overlooking it, and he retired, taking up another position on some high ground behind the ravine. He was again driven out of this position by shrapnel and case shot. The country becoming now fairly open, the enemy was slowly driven back on his final position. Here he made a most determined stand, and as our fire appeared to make no impression, Major Heneker decided to outflank him simultaneously on both flanks. This movement was most successfully carried out by Captain Venour, D.S.O., who, working his men round through the scrub thereby exposed a long line of deep trenches to enfilade fire. The “Cease Fire” was then sounded and the whole line advancing, charged into the trenches and turned the enemy out at the point of the bayonet. Our casualties were only two men killed, this being due to Major Heneker’s good dispositions and to the admirable way in which the Scouts performed their duties...

At Ikotobo, on January 26th, the enemy treacherously ambushed a water picket under the command of Lieutenant J. Wayling, Canadian Militia and Southern Nigeria Regiment, and, but for the initiative taken by Major G. B. Hodson, I.S.C., and the conspicuous gallantry displayed by that Officer, as well as by Captain M. L. Goldie, R.A., and Second Lieutenant R. H. D. Tompson, R.A., the picket would have been annihilated, as well as the carriers whom it was guarding. Major Hodson called for volunteers, and without waiting to see if any one was following him, he rushed across the stream under a very heavy cross fire from the enemy. He was followed by Captain Goldie and Second Lieutenant Tompson. These three officers held the opposite heights until the killed and wounded, numbering 7, were withdrawn, and the picket had formed up to cover the retreat of the whole party. Returning with reinforcements the same evening, Major Heneker inflicted summary punishment upon the enemy... 
The following are the names of Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and men whom I desire to bring to your notice... “Captain M. L. Goldie, M.V.O., Royal Artillery, and Second Lieutenant R. H. D. Tompson, Royal Artillery, displayed conspicuous gallantry at the water picket affair at Ikotobo.’’
Lot 203
Three: Honorary Surgeon General V. Webb, Army Medical Department, late Surgeon, 46th Regiment of Foot Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Mooltan, Goojerat (Asst. Surgn. Vere Webb. 10th. Foot.); Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, this loose on riband, unnamed as issued; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, a contemporary tailor’s copy by ‘J.B.’, unnamed as issued, edge bruising, very fine (3) £600-£800 --- Vere Webb was born in Barnstaple, Devon, on 18 September 1817. He qualified as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1843, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the 67th Regiment of Foot on 13 October 1843. Transferred to the Staff on 4 June 1847 and 10th Regiment of Foot the following month, he served in India from July 1847 to June 1853, including the Punjab campaign of 1848-49. Raised Staff Surgeon Second Class on 28 March 1854 and Surgeon to the 46th Regiment of Foot on 5 May 1854, Webb left his first wife behind in Margate and sailed for the Crimea on 8 November 1854 aboard the steam transport Prince. He served throughout the war in the Crimea and remained with the Regiment when it was posted to Corfu following the evacuation of the peninsula. Reappointed to the Staff on 29 November 1859, he married Fanny Elizabeth Duncan at Colchester and departed for Canada in June 1861. Taking residence in Toronto, the couple became parents to two sons in quick succession before Webb was promoted Surgeon Major on 13 October 1863, and later Surgeon to the 70th Regiment of Foot. Returned to the Staff, he was further raised Deputy Inspector General and Deputy Surgeon General in the Army Medical Department in 1871 and retired at Belfast on half-pay with the Honorary rank of Surgeon General on 18 September 1877. Sold with extensive copied research which notes that the Punjab Medal was retailed as a single in 2006, with subsequent additions to complete entitlement.
Lot 158
The Q.S.A. medal awarded to Acting Bombardier George Dew, “T” Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, who was wounded at Sannah’s Post and awarded the D.C.M. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein (21590 Bomb. G. Dew, T Bty. R.H.A.) good very fine £400-£500 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 19 April 1901. Awarded for Sannah’s Post (Thaba N’chu) 31 March 1900 (slightly wounded); medal presented by the King at St James’s Palace on 25 July 1901. George Dew was born at Rhyader, Breconshire, and attested for the Corps of Dragoons at Hounslow on 22 November 1898. He was transferred to the Royal Fusiliers a few days later, on 1 December, and again transferred to the Royal Artillery on 16 January 1899, and posted to “T” Battery R.H.A. He was appointed acting Bombardier on 28 January 1900, and was slightly wounded at Thaba N’chu (Sannah’s Post) on 31 March 1900. He was invalided Home on 31 July 1900, and was discharged ‘Medically Unfit’ on 6 July 1901. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research.
Lot 398
Four: Private E. Downing, Yorkshire Dragoons British War and Victory Medals (175582 Pte. E. Downing. York. Dns.); Defence Medal; Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Ernest Downing), edge digs to BWM, otherwise very fine Three: Corporal W. H. Fear, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (324296 Spr. W. H. Fear. R.E.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Militia (2213597 Cpl. W. H. Fear. R.E.) contact marks, very fine (7) £100-£140 --- I.S.M. London Gazette, 3 January 1953. ‘Downing, Ernest, Assistant Inspector, Post Office, Doncaster.’ Ernest William Downing was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, in 1899. He attested into the 10th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment for serving during the Great War and served on the Western Front with the Yorkshire Dragoons from April 1918. Discharged in February 1919, he then worked for the General Post Office in Doncaster. William Henry Fear, from Weston, Somerset, was born in 1891. He attested into the Royal Engineers and served during the Great War, serving on the Western Front from February 1918. Discharged in November 1919, he later served in the Militia. He died in 1960. Sold with a Yorkshire Dragoons cap badge, copied service papers and copied research.
Lot 226
Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (2310 Drur. Joh. Stephens 46th. Regt.) contemporarily engraved naming, very fine £260-£300 --- Only a detachment of the Regiment, 6 Officers and 225 men, made up of Sir George Cathcart’s Honour Guard and two companies of the Advance Party, were present at the Battle of the Alma on 20 September 1854, and the subsequent actions at Balaklava and Inkermann. Joseph Stevens (note surname) attested for the 46th Regiment of Foot at Yeovil and is confirmed by WO/100/29 as entitled to the Crimea Medal with four clasps. He appears on the muster roll at Guernsey from April to June 1847, followed by postings to Dover, Liverpool and Chester from 1848 to 1850. Recorded as absent without leave from 18 to 19 August 1849, he transferred as Guard in Liverpool to barracks in Bradford and Leeds. Appointed Drummer at Preston on 22 September 1851, Stevens joined a detachment to Armagh and received his first good conduct pay at Wexford on 21 October 1853. Stevens sailed with the two Advance Companies for the Crimea, and landed at Calamita Bay on 14 September 1854. He survived considerable active service in the Crimea and later travelled with the Regiment to Corfu in April 1856. Transferred to Mooltan, Jullundur, Camp Malaoms, Cawnpore and Shahjehanpore, he died on 5 October 1864 at Inynes Tal in northern India.
Lot 740
The Craven Legion 1808. An oval engraved medal with decorated rim, 72mm x 51mm, silver, unmarked, obverse engraved with crossed Regimental and Union Banners, with Crown above and Bugle suspended, ‘The Craven Legion Ball Firing Prize’ below, all within rope border, reverse engraved ‘Adjudged to Henry Whittam Distance Shot at 100 Yards 1st July 1808’ within rope border, with integral loop suspension, minor correction to recipient’s surname, good very fine £160-£200 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- The Craven Legion was part of the 2nd Northern Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry Cavalry raised by Lord Ribblesdale of Gisburn Park in 1794. Owing to the uncertainty that exists with regard to the original provenance and manufacture of some early engraved Regimental and Volunteer Medals, this lot is sold as viewed.
Lot 271
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Acting 2nd Corporal R. Hutchinson, Royal Engineers Military Medal, G.V.R. (40336 A.2.Cpl. R. Hutchinson. 12/D.S.Co: R.E.) nearly very fine £200-£240 --- M.M. London Gazette 3 June 1916. Robert Hutchinson served in France from 29 May 1915 and caught the attention of the Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser on 22 July 1916: ‘Corporal Robert Hutchinson, Royal Engineers, of West Hartlepool, has been awarded the Military Medal for gallantry in the field. Before joining the Army he was employed in the Seaton Carew Ironworks.’ Hutchinson was wounded in action a few days later on 8 August 1916 whilst still in the service of the 12th Divisional Signal Company of the Royal Engineers.
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Lot 447
Three: Sergeant W. E. R. Jennings, Somerset Light Infantry British War Medal 1914-20 (8929 Sjt. W. H. [sic] R. Jennings. Som. L.I.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (8928 Sgt. W. Jennings, Som. L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (5663816 Sgt. W. E. R. Jennings. Som. L.I.) contact marks, slight scratch to obverse of LSGC, otherwise nearly extremely fine (3) £120-£160 --- William Eldred Roberts Jennings was born in Truro, Cornwall, in 1891. He attested into the Somerset Light Infantry in May 1910 and served during the Great War in India with the 2nd Battalion. Advanced Sergeant in September 1918, he served in Afghanistan during the 1919 campaign. By 1925 he was a Sergeant Instructor attached to the 4th (Territorial) Battalion, and was was awarded his LSGC in 1928. Further Advanced Company Quartermaster Sergeant in January 1929, he was discharged to pension later that year. He died in Redruth, Cornwall, in 1969. Sold with copy Medal Index Cards.
Lot 256
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of five awarded to Company Sergeant-Major J. Croll, 9th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, for gallantry at Mont de Lille in April 1918 when he led a counter-attack and forced the enemy back to his own lines Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (19967 C.S. Mjr: J. Croll. 9/L.N. Lan: R.); 1914-15 Star (19967 Pte. J. Croll. L.N. Lan: R.); British War and Victory Medals (19967 W.O. Cl. 2. J. Croll. L.N. Lan. R.); Defence Medal, medals unmounted, the first with light contact pitting from star, otherwise very fine and better (5) £1,000-£1,400 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 3 September 1918: ‘On the night of the 14/15th April, 1918 at “Mont de Lille,” this Officer took charge of a party of reinforcements to the front line. Arriving near Mont de Lille he found the situation serious as the enemy had captured the commanding point of the hill. He immediately led a counter-attack with these reinforcements, and by means of outflanking them, forced the enemy back to his own lines, thus restoring the general situation. He showed great initiative and skill in the way he handled his men.’ John Croll hailed from Glasgow and served with the 9th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in East Africa from 21 February 1915. He afterwards served in France and Flanders from 26 September 1915 to 12 August 1918. Sold with Second Army certificate of congratulations on award of the D.C.M. and old typescript citation giving full date and location which are omitted from the published London Gazette citation.
Lot 587
India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (3928 Lce. Corpl. A. Smith. 1st. Bn. Som. L.I.) suspension loose, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £60-£80 --- Arthur Smith, a labourer from Bath, was born in 1875 and attested into the Somerset Light Infantry on 31 December 1892. Appointed Lance Corporal, he served in India with the 1st Battalion during the Mohmand expedition, before returning to the U.K. in 1907 for service with the 4th Battalion. Advanced Colour Sergeant, he was discharged in December 1913 before re-enlisting into his old regiment for service during the Great War. Appointed Regimental Sergeant Major, he served on the Western Front with the 7th Battalion from 24 July 1915, before returning home after contracting influenza in July 1916. Commissioned Lieutenant, he was discharged in June 1918. Sold with copied service papers, medal roll extracts, and other research.
Lot 275
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Acting Sergeant H. E. Ellis, Royal Welsh Fusiliers Military Medal, G.V.R. (48879 Pte. H. E. Ellis. 10/R. W. Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (48879 A. Sjt. H. E. Ellis. R.W. Fus.) very fine (3) £240-£280 --- M.M. London Gazette 28 January 1918. Harry Edward Ellis was born in Hyde and attested for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He served with the 10th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was one of a party of 165 men under Major A. J. S. James when they moved into the line to hold the Mochy defences. He was wounded, possibly by gas, in May 1917, and was awarded the Military Medal for his gallantry during he attack on Polygon Wood. He subsequently transferred to the 7th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment.
Lot 273
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Pioneer F. J. Shirley, Royal Engineers Military Medal, G.V.R. (126507 Pnr: F. J. Shirley. No: 5 L.R. Sig: Coy. R.E.) good very fine £160-£200 --- M.M. London Gazette 6 August 1918. Frederick J. Shirley suffered a shell wound to the right leg on 23 March 1918 in the initial stages of the German Spring Offensive and was later awarded the Military Medal whilst serving in France with No.5 Light Railway Signal Company, Royal Engineers. According to the Biggleswade Chronicle (Bedfordshire) of 13 December 1918, Shirley received his decoration from the hand of General Godfrey Faussett alongside seven pals at a public investiture made at Market Square in Biggleswade, the conclusion of which was met with ‘three hearty cheers’ and a march past the heroes.
Lot 558
The Indian Mutiny Medal awarded to Master Walter Smith, one of the ‘Ragged Fusiliers’ of La Martinière College during the siege of Lucknow Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Defence of Lucknow (W. Smith) very fine £2,400-£2,800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Brian Ritchie Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2005. Confirmed on the roll as one of the 50 or so boy pupils at La Martinière College, Lucknow. The Roll of Honour to the staff and boys at La Martinière College records him as Walter Kenneth Smith. La Martinière was once the residence of the French General Claude Marti, and was established as a college for European and Eurasian boys in his memory. During the siege the elder boys, though not officially combatant, were armed with muskets and helped their masters in the defence of their quarters. The younger boys helped with some of the domestic work when servants deserted, or carried messages and ammunition to the posts. Whilst they were known as the ‘Ragged Fusiliers’ by the soldiers of the 32nd, L. E. R. Rees, in his diary of the siege, makes known his disapproval of the tasks given to them:
‘The poor Martinière pupils, who go about the garrison more filthy than others, and apparently more neglected and hungry even than we are, are made use of to drive away these insects (flies) from the sick in hospital, and others. That they, too, should contribute their share of usefulness is but just and fair; but that they should be placed in menial attendance upon the healthy great in the garrison is, in my opinion, far from right. But I shall say nothing more on this subject, lest I assume a tone of censure.'
Lot 449
Pair: Private A. Parsons, Somerset Light Infantry India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (8688 L. Corpl. A. Parsons. 2/Som. Lt. Infy.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (5663847 Pte. A. Parsons. Som. L.I.) light contact marks, good very fine (2) £60-£80 --- Austin Parsons was born in Bridgwater, Somerset, in 1890. He attested into the Somerset Light Infantry and is noted on the 1911 census as serving in Malta. Appointed Lance Corporal whilst serving in North China, he then served in India with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War. Additionally entitled to a British War Medal, he died in Portsmouth in 1959. Sold with a Somerset Light Infantry cap badge and copied research.
Lot 282
A Great War M.M. group of five awarded to Warrant Officer A. J. Le Sueur, 60th Canadian Infantry Military Medal, G.V.R. (458416 L. Cpl. A. J. Le Sueur. 60/Can: Inf: Bn:); British War and Victory Medals (458416 W.O. Cl. 2 A. J. Le Sueur. 60-Can. Inf.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, 1914-1918; Belgium, Kingdom, Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., mounted for wear, nearly extremely fine (5) £400-£500 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- M.M. London Gazette 23 August 1916. Neither Croix de Guerre appears in the London Gazette. Arthur James Le Sueur was born in Austin, Texas, on 12 November 1888. A surveyor by trade, he had previously served in the U.S.A. Army Engineer Corps, when he attested at Montreal for the C.E.F. on 2 August 1915. He sailed from Montreal in the S.S. Scandina on 6 November 1915, and served on the Western Front with the 60th Canadian Infantry from 21 February 1916. Sold with copied service papers.
Lot 612
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, first three clasps loose as a block of three, separate from the loose date clasp (1447 Gnr: R. McLaren. Edin: Coy: R.G.A.) scratches to obverse and reverse, otherwise very fine £90-£120 --- Provenance: Spink, November 2016 (when sold as a no clasp medal). Robert McLaren, a Groom from Edinburgh, was born in 1864. He attested into the Edinburgh Company of the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1891 and served until 1896, before transferring into the Militia Reserve. Mobilised in 1899, he served in South Africa during the Boer War until his discharge in March 1900. He immediately reenlisted and was struck off in June 1908. The Natal clasp is confirmed on the medal roll. Sold with copy research and copy service records, showing his entitlement to a three clasp medal.
Lot 464
Eight: Captain G. M. Little, Middlesex Regiment, late Royal Signals 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Capt. G. M. Little. Mx.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (2581636 Cpl. G. M. Little. R. Signals.) good very fine (8) £200-£240
Lot 656
A fine Victory Medal awarded to Corporal W. H. Goodman, M.M., Rifle Brigade, late King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who was killed in action on the third day of the Battle of Pilckem Ridge, 2 August 1917 Victory Medal 1914-19 (S-27090 Cpl. W. H. Goodman. Rif. Brig.) extremely fine £50-£70 --- M.M. London Gazette 9 July 1917. William Humphrey Goodman was born in Islington in 1888, the son of coach builder Alfred Goodman and his wife Amy. At 5ft 2.5 inches in stature and a plumber and fitter by trade, he attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in London on 11 December 1915 and spent the Spring of 1916 training with ‘D’ Company of the 23rd Battalion in England - including a special course on the Lewis machine gun. He married Charlotte Shirley on 26 February 1916 at St. John the Evangelist Church, Finsbury Park, before embarking with the Rifle Brigade from Southampton to Havre on 26 October 1916. Posted to the 13th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, Goodman was promoted Corporal on 18 July 1917 and was awarded the Military Medal for bravery on the Western Front. He was killed less than a month later on 2 August 1917, his widow receiving the decoration by post to 40 Compton Road, Winchmore Hill. She would also later receive his effects which consisted of a wallet, photograph and card, and a notebook, likely collected by a comrade from his body or held back in the British front line prior to going ‘over the top’. Charlotte was awarded a widow’s pension of 15/ per week from 18 February 1918. She later remarried, her details given as Charlotte Hare (formerly Goodman), of 33 Hardwicke Road, Palmer’s Green. William Goodman is commemorated upon the Menin Gate Memorial.
Lot 254
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Corporal C. S. Kenward, Royal Sussex Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (1366Cpl. C. S. Kenward. 2/R. Suss: R.); 1914-15 Star (G-1366 L. Cpl. C. S. Kenward. R. Suss: R.); British War and Victory Medals (G-1366 Cpl. C. S. Kenward. R. Suss. R.) mounted for wear, the first with edge bruise, otherwise good very fine (4) £1,000-£1,400 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 4 June 1917; citation published 9 July 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He has consistently performed good work throughout, and has at all times set a fine example of gallantry and leadership.’ Charles Sidney Kenward served in France with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment from 20 October 1915. A copied newspaper report dated 4 May 1918 states: ‘Sergeant C. S. Kenward, the son of Mr George Kenward, wheelwright, Nutley, Sussex, has just been the recipient of the D.C.M. for conspicuous gallantry. His Divisional General says of him that he has been with the Royal Sussex since 1915, and taken part in every engagement in which the battalion participated, and during the Somme fighting he showed the greatest gallantry and fine leadership, and that at all times he set a fine example of keenness, smartness and devotion to duty. He had previously been recommended for the reward. The gallant Sergeant is now in hospital in Oxfordshire, having been badly gassed in the recent fighting.’ Kenward was transferred to ‘Class Z’ Reserve on 22 February 1919. Sold with copied research including gazette notices and Medal Index Card.
Lot 645
British War Medal 1914-20 (4) (4505 Pte. P. L. McLaren. Sco. H.; 43621 Pte. J. McLaren. Sco. Rif.; 4811 Cpl. J. McLaren. H.L.I.; M. A. B. McLaren. V.A.D.) slight edge digs to first, otherwise very fine (4) £70-£90 --- Peter L. McLaren, a traveller from Kirkcaldy, was born in Forfar, Angus, on 13 June 1885. He attested into the 1/1st Scottish Horse at Dunkeld on 25 May 1915 and served during the Great War. Appointed Lance Corporal on 16 June 1915, he reverted to Private on 15 February 1916. Research provided by the vendor suggests that he transferred to the 7th Company, Imperial Camel Corps. However it seems unlikely that he served with Lawrence of Arabia during the Arab Revolt, as the lot is accompanied with a collar dog and named silver 50th Division, 13th (Scottish Horse) Battalion, Black Watch football medallion, inscribed ‘B.E.F. 1918.’ John McLaren was born in Maryhill Glasgow in 1897. He attested into the Scottish Rifles (Cameronians) for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front with the 10th Battalion in July 1916. He was posted missing in September 1916, but returned to his unit. He was discharged on 17 February 1919. John McLaren attested into the Highland Light Infantry for service during the Great War, and served on the Western Front with the 9th Battalion. Appointed Acting Lance Sergeant, he died of wounds on 20 March 1918 and is buried in Nine Elms Cemetery, Belgium. Mary Annie Bell McLaren was born about 1870 in Kinfauns, Perthshire. She volunteered for service with the British Red Cross during the Great War and served in Malta at the Royal Naval Hospital. Her BWM is her sole entitlement. Sold together with copy research.
Lot 469
Six: Signalman E. P. Brett, Royal Signals 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (2582992. Sigmn. E. P. Brett. R. Sigs.), lacquered, good very fine and better (6) £60-£80 --- Note: Coronation Medal unconfirmed.
Lot 401
Pair: Gunner G. Dinwiddy, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (12266 Gnr. G. Dinwiddy. R.A.) very fine Pair: Sapper R. J. Gamlin, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (508558 Spr. R. J. Gamblin. [sic] R.E.) very fine Pair: Sapper R. E. Madge, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (35510 Spr. R. E. Madge. R.E.) extremely fine Pair: Driver W. J. Turner, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (506446 Dvr. W. J. Turner. R.E.) staining to VM, otherwise nearly extremely fine British War Medal 1914-20 (190636 Gnr. L. Evans. R.A.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (5367 Pte. J. Howard. Glouc. R.) very fine (10) £100-£140 --- Lot Evans, from Stawell, Street, Somerset, was born in December 1895. He attested into the Royal Garrison Artillery for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 6 April 1918. Discharged on 5 February 1919, he died of pneumonia, caused by influenza, eight days later on 13 February 1919. He is buried in Brean Churchyard, Somerset. Sold together with copied research.
Lot 22
A Second War B.E.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant S. J. Gregory, Royal Artillery British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (1451125 Sgt. Stanley J. Gregory. R.A.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (1451125 Sjt. S. J. Gregory. R.A.) the last with official correction to name, together with named card box of issue for campaign medals addressed to the recipient at ‘Eastcote, Ruislip, Middlesex’, the last with official correction to name, good very fine (6) £140-£180 --- B.E.M. London Gazette 10 April 1945.
Lot 336
Pair: Private W. Tout, Somerset Light Infantry Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (2870 Pte. W. Tout, Somerset: Lt Infy); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2870 Pte. W. Tout. Somerset: L.I.) minor edge nicks, good very fine (2) £160-£200 --- Walter Tout, a farm labourer from Thurloxton, Somerset, was born in 1872. He attested into the Somerset Light Infantry on 14 August 1890 and served in South Africa during the Boer War with 2nd Battalion, having earlier served in India during the Mohmand expedition of 1897. He was discharged on 13 August 1902 and attested into the Army Reserve on 7 July 1903 before his final discharge on 6 July 1907. Sold with copied service records, medal roll extracts and other research.
Lot 166
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (57513 Sgt. Clerk A. Gobbitt, R.H.A.) good very fine £140-£180 --- Alfred Gobbitt was born at Woodbridge, Suffolk, and enlisted for the Royal Artillery at Colchester on 25 October 1886, aged 19 years 3 months, a clerk by trade. Posted to the Royal Horse Artillery, he was appointed Corporal in December 1892 and transferred to District Staff R.A. as a Lieutenant-Colonel’s Clerk in December 1894, becoming Sergeant in the same appointment in April 1896. He was promoted to Master Gunner 3rd Class in January 1900 and posted to the Southern District, but then transferred as a Sub-Conductor to the Army Ordnance Corps in December 1900. He served overseas in India from February 1889 to November 1892; in South Africa from December 1899 to August 1900; and at Bermuda from October 1902 to May 1905, during which service he was promoted to Conductor in July 1903. He was discharged on 2 July 1905, in consequence of a ‘tubercle of lung’. Sold with copied discharge papers which confirm medal and clasps and also entitlement to Good Conduct Medal (without Gratuity) announced in Army Order 68 of 1905.
Lot 213
Pair: Private T. Taylor, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (01566 Pte. T. Taylor. D.C.L.I.); War Medal 1939-45, edge bruising to first, nearly very fine (2) £70-£90 --- Theophilus Taylor was born in Madron, near Penzance, on 4 March 1900, the son of domestic servant Mary Taylor. A hotel porter by occupation, he attested at Catterick for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 5 June 1919 and served with the 2nd Battalion in Iraq. Discharged at Exeter on 16 May 1921, Taylor returned to Penzance and later joined the Royal Regiment of Artillery in his home town on 2 July 1924. Appointed Gunner to No. 203 Battery, 51st Brigade, he served four years without incident before being recorded absent without leave from annual training in 1929. Discharged services no longer required, he spent the next decade working as a dustman in Redruth before applying to join the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps on 18 January 1940. Likely looked upon favourably as a serving member of the local Salvation Army, he was accepted and posted to No. 1 A.M.P.C. Centre at Westenhanger in Kent, but his service was cut short due to anxiety and he returned home to Cornwall on 30 December 1941. Sold with a comprehensive file of copied research including the recipient’s Army Service Record.
Lot 342
Five: Painter First Class A. S. Benoke, Royal Navy China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (A. S. Benoke. Pntr. 2Cl., H.M.S. Phœnix.); 1914-15 Star (341927. A. S. Benoke. Ptr., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (341927 A. S. Benoke. Ptr. 1 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (341927 A. S. Benoke, Painter 1Cl. H.M.S. Sapphire.) edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (5) £400-£500 --- Allan Scott Benoke was born in Paddington Green, London, on 30 January 1876 and joined the Royal Navy as a Painter Second Class on 20 February 1898. He served in H.M.S. Phoenix from 20 February 1900 to 14 May 1903, and was advanced Painter First Class on 11 April 1910. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 10 April 1913, and was shore pensioned on 12 July 1915. He died on 25 July 1920, and is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Ilfracombe Churchyard. Sold with copied service record and other research.
Lot 465
Eight: Sergeant S. Anderson, Royal Signals 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Near East (2587508 Sgt. S. Anderson R. Sigs.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2ndissue, Territorial (2587508 Cpl. S. Anderson. R. Sigs.); Pakistan Independence Medal 1947 (2587508 P/A/Sgt S. Anderson P. Signa.) last officially impressed, mounted as worn, very fine (8) £120-£160
Lot 684
Delhi Durbar 1911, silver (7251 Rfn. S. Taylor. 3. K.R.R.C.) contemporarily engraved naming in the style associated with the unit, good very fine £70-£90 --- Samuel Taylor, a cycle maker from Spitalfields, London, was born into a Jewish family in 1888. He attested into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 19 March 1906 and served in India at the time of the 1911 Delhi Durbar. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 November 1914 and received a gun shot wound to his finger in June 1915, being further wounded in the buttocks two months later. He was discharged as a consequence of his wounds on 23 June 1919 and awarded a Silver War Badge, No. B287275. He emigrated to Canada, where he later died in 1960. Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts.
Lot 473
Five: Signalman R. Peacock, Royal Signals 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (2329092 Sigmn. R. Peacock. R. Sigs.) number partially officially corrected; U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style as worn, traces of verdigris to Africa Star, very fine and better (5) £80-£100
Lot 399
Pair: Second Lieutenant A. S. Lampard, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. A. S. Lampard.) generally very fine or better Pair: Private C. R. Laurence, 7th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (49274 Pte. C. R. Laurence. Bedf. R.) good very fine British War Medal 1914-20 (3-9314 Pte. G. R. Lockwood. Suff. R.) worn, good fine; together with Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (49313 Pte. J. Light. Suff. R.) very fine (6) £80-£100
Lot 412
Pair: Private E. Beaumont, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment British War and Victory Medals (63814 Pte. E. Beaumont. Suff. R.) very fine Pair: Private F. W. Burrows, 12th (Service) Battalion (East Anglian), Suffolk Regiment, who died of wounds on the Western Front, 29 July 1916 British War and Victory Medals (21958 Pte. F. W. Burrows. Suff. R.) generally good very fine or better British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (46904 A. Sjt. W. Betts. Suff. R.; 5359 A. Cpl. J. H. Brooker. Suff. R.) generally good very fine (6) £50-£70 --- Frederick William Burrows initially served during the Great War with the 9th (Service) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment on the Western Front. He died of wounds whilst serving with the 12th (Service) Battalion (East Anglian) on 29 July 1916, and is buried in the Bethune Town Cemetery, France.
Lot 380
Four: Lieutenant T. N. Bowerbank, East Yorkshire Regiment, late Somerset Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (11949 Pte. T. N. Bowerbank. Som: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. T. N. Bowerbank.); Defence Medal, mounted for wear, very fine Five: Private P. C. James, Gloucestershire Regiment 1914-15 Star (16633 Pte. P. C. James. Glouc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (16633 Pte. P. C. James. Glou. R.); Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Percy C. James) very fine (9) £100-£140 --- Thomas Norman Bowerbank was born in Exmouth, Devon, on 2 February 1894. He attested into the Somerset Light Infantry for service during the Great War, and served on the Western Front with the 6th Battalion from 21 May 1915. Advanced Lance Corporal, he was commissioned into the East Yorkshire Regiment on 24 July 1915. Appearing on the 1939 Register as a member of the Emergency Reserve of Officers, he later died on 20 November 1966. Percy Cecil James, a shop assistant from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, was born in 1893. He attested into the Gloucestershire Regiment on 28 December 1914 for service during the Great War and served with the 12th Battalion on the Western Front from 25 November 1915. He was discharged as a consequence of wounds received on 20 April 1917 and was awarded a Silver War Badge, No. 172091. Appearing in the 1939 Register as a Special Police Constable, living in Weston-super-Mare, he died in 1969. Sold with copied research.
Lot 732
Hans Town Association Volunteers 1799. A circular engraved medal with triple-stepped rim, 52mm, silver, unmarked, obverse engraved with crowned ‘GR’ within wreath of roses, ‘Hans Town Association’ above, reverse engraved ‘Presented by Capt. Penny to Mr. Thomas Price Adjudged best shot 100 Yards 23rd July 1799’, with small loop and ring suspension, minor denting, very fine £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Hans Town was an 18th-century London suburb centred on Sloane Street, Chelsea, and named after Sir Hans Sloane. The Hans Town Association Volunteers were located in nearby Knightsbridge. Owing to the uncertainty that exists with regard to the original provenance and manufacture of some early engraved Regimental and Volunteer Medals, this lot is sold as viewed.
Lot 358
Five: Chief Petty Officer W. S. Clifford, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (142767, W. S. Clifford, C.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (142767 W. S. Clifford. C.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (W. S. Clifford, P.O. 1Cl., H.M.S. Bonaventure.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (W. Clifford. L.S. H.M.S. Melita 1896) contemporarily engraved naming, polished and worn, good fine and better (5) £240-£280 --- Walter Stewart Clifford was born in Portsmouth on 13 May 1872 and joined the Royal Nay as a Boy Second Class on 16 September 1887. He served in H.M.S. Melita as a Leading Seaman from 28 September 1896, and was advanced Petty Officer 2nd Class on 7 November 1896, and Petty Officer First Class on 1 April 1897, seeing active service during the Dongolla campaign. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 7 July 1906, Clifford was advanced Chief Petty Officer on 1 November 1907, and was shore pensioned on 16 April 1912. He saw further service during the Great War, and was finally discharged on 9 April 1919. He died in Exeter on 30 September 1940. Sold with copied record of service and other research.
Lot 229
The honours and awards bestowed upon Sir John E. Jackson, and his wife Kathleen, Lady Jackson Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘John Ernest Jackson, 1st January 1924’; The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘John Ernest Jackson, 4th June 1917’, reverse backing plate detached but present, with miniature width neck riband; British War Medal (8201 Vol. J. E. Jackson. Bombay Bn., I.D.F.); together with the recipient’s wife’s Kaisar-I-Hind, G.V.R., 1st class, 1st type, gold, with integral top riband bar, all mounted in a glazed display frame, generally good very fine and better (4) £1,800-£2,200 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2000. Knight Bachelor London Gazette 1 January 1924: John Ernest Jackson, Esq., C.I.E., Acting Agent of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway. C.I.E. London Gazette 3 June 1918: John Ernest Jackson, Esq., Chief Auditor, Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway, Bombay. Kaisar-i-Hind, First Class London Gazette 3 June 1930: Kathleen Anna Dorothy, Lady Jackson, Bombay. ‘For public services in India.’
Lot 433
Three: Lance Corporal C. W. Nason, 13th (County of London) Battalion (Princess Louise’s Kensington Battalion), London Regiment British War and Victory Medals (1294 Pte. C. W. Nason. 13-Lond. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (490075 Pte. - L.Cpl. - C. W. Nason. 13/Lond: R.) very fine (3) £70-£90 --- Cecil William Nason was born in Willesden, Middlesex, in 1895. Noted in 1911 as a gas company clerk residing in Kilburn, he attested for the London Regiment and served with the 13th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 3 November 1914 (also entitled to a 1914 Star). Sold with copied medal roll extracts and other research.
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