Pair: Private C. Lodge, Wiltshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 20 September 1917 British War and Victory Medals (27089 Pte. C. Lodge. Wilts. R.) nearly very fine Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (73418 Pte. W. H. Hudson. L’pool R.; 41041 Pte. A. R. Riley. Lan. Fus.; M-338792 Pte. W. Lord. A.S.C.) last partially corrected; Memorial Plaque (Robert Skinner) nearly very fine Imperial Service Medal (2), G.VI.R., 1st issue (Frank Hugh Haynes) in Royal Mint case of issue; E.II.R., 1st issue, naming erased; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (John H Duxbury) officially renamed; together with a Royal Life Saving Society Proficiency Medal, bronze (J. H. Egan July 1909) in fitted case of issue; a silver and enamel Masonic Jewel named to ‘Bro. William J. Chapman, Arden Lodge, No. 6230, Nov. 29 1928’; and five miscellaneous tokens, nearly very fine and better (lot) £80-£100 --- Charles Lodge was born in Corsham, Wiltshire, in 1898 and attested for the Wiltshire Regiment at Chippenham, Wiltshire. He served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action at Passchendaele on 20 September 1917, on which date the Battalion captured and held a position in front of Hollebeke Chateau, during which they suffered over 200 casualties. Lodge has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
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Four: Chief Shipwright F. A. G. Gover, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. King George V at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916 1914-15 Star (M.7192, F. A. G. Gover. Shipt. 2. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.7192 F. A. G. Gover. Shpt.2 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.7192 F. A. G. Gover Ch. Shpt 2. H.M.S. Tiger.) nearly very fine (4) £100-£140 --- Frank Albert George Gover was born in Portsmouth on 19 June 1889 and joined the Royal Navy as Shipwright 2nd Class on 18 February 1914. Posted to the dreadnought battleship King George V from 30 April 1914 to 27 July 1917, Gover was thus present at the fleet review at Portland in July 1914 and the unsuccessful attempt by the Royal Navy to ambush the High Seas Fleet in the aftermath of the bombardment of Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby. Gover later served aboard King George V at the Battle of Jutland under the command of Captain Frederick Field on 31 May 1916; she fired two salvoes of common pointed, capped shells, at the battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger, but was forced to call off the engagement and turn away to avoid a destroyer attack. Raised Shipwright 1st Class 1 September 1917 and Chief Shipwright aboard the light cruiser Calcutta 29 June 1926, his Service Record notes a fracture to the right fibula in October 1926 and award of his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal whilst aboard Tiger on 8 March 1929. Sold with copied research.
Pair: Orderly J. H. Pitchford, Welbeck Division, St John Ambulance Brigade Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (1069 Ordly: J. H. Pitchford, St. John Amb: Bde:); St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (1069. Pte. W. H. Pitchford Welbeck Div.) note initials, good very fine, the second polished (2) £300-£400
Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (J. Morris. 3rd Regt.) officially impressed naming, sometime lacquered, otherwise nearly extremely fine £260-£300 --- 3206 James Morris (London Gazette gives 3206 James Morrice) was wounded in the final attack on the Redan on 8 September 1855, and died of his wounds in hospital on the following day. His entry in the medal roll is annotated ‘WO’ which indicates that his medal would have been officially impressed and despatched to his next of kin by the War Office. Sold with copied research including London Gazette casualty list and medal roll extract.
Pair: Warrant Officer Class II W. Foster, Manchester Regiment British War Medal 1914-20 (9072 W.O. Cl. II W. Foster. Manch. R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (9072 W.O. Cl. II. W. Foster. Manch. R.) mounted court-style for display, minor edge bruising, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £70-£90 --- William Foster served at home in the U.K. initially in 17th (Service) Battalion, the Manchester Regiment, and later in 25th Battalion Manchester Regiment, which became 69th Training Reserve Battalion. He received the British War Medal as his sole medal entitlement for the Great War (confirmed on the medal roll) for draft conducting duty to France. He was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in October 1920. Sold with copied research.
Six: Private J. Norbury, Manchester Regiment 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (3529990 Pte. J. Norbury, Manch. R.) mounted court-style for display, extremely fine (6) £80-£100 --- John Norbury was born in Manchester on 6 February 1907. A Silverman by occupation, he enlisted into the 8th (Ardwick) Battalion Manchester Regiment (T.A.) on 11 March 1938. Embodied on 2 September 1939, he served with the B.E.F. in France from April to 6 May 1940; he subsequently served in Gibraltar from May 1940; Malta between May 1940 and August 1943; Middle East from August 1943 to March 1944; and Italy from March to October 1944. He was wounded in action in Italy on 29 May 1944, suffering shrapnel wounds to the face, arms and chest, and was posted to the Reserve in September 1945.
An exceptional Second War ‘Utterly Fearless’ Submariner’s D.S.M. and Second Award Bar group of nine awarded to Petty Officer S. Hawkey, Royal Navy, for outstanding courage, coolness and devotion to duty in H.M. Submarine Porpoise, making vital ‘Magic Carpet’ runs to Malta, and striking the Japanese in H.M. Submarine Tally-Ho. As a Control Room Telephone Operator and Quarter Gunner ‘Excellent in all Respects’, Hawkey endured repeated close calls, such as ‘One of the Heaviest Depth-Charge Attacks Ever Made on a British Submarine’ (the Fore Hatch was Blown Open and water flooded in), close inshore work with Force 136 operatives, and ramming by an enemy warship Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar (JX. 127066 S. Hawkey, A.B., R.N.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (JX. 127066 S. Hawkey, A.B., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Burma Star, 1 clasp, Pacific; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (JX. 127066 S. Hawkey, A.B., R.N., H.M.S. Tally-Ho) mounted as worn, generally good very fine (9) £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: Sotheby’s, May 1989; Dix Noonan Webb, July 2015. Only 147 Second Award Bars were awarded to the Distinguished Service Medal during the Second World War. D.S.M. London Gazette 29 December 1942:
‘For distinguished services in successful patrols in H.M. submarines.’ D.S.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 20 February 1945:
‘For outstanding courage, skill and undaunted devotion to duty in successful patrols in H.M. submarine Tally Ho.’ The original recommendation states: ‘For coolness and courage in the face of the enemy. Leading Seaman Hawkey is the 4-inch gun trainer in H.M.S. Tally Ho. He is utterly fearless, his coolness in action has had a valuable steadying effect upon the younger members of the gun’s crew, and his skill has contributed to the destruction by gunfire of an enemy warship and fourteen other vessels.’ Stanley ‘Stan’ Hawkey, the son of a farmer, was born in St. Columb, Cornwall on 24 February 1911. After working as a farm labourer, at age 15 he entered the Royal Navy at Devonport as a Boy 2nd Class in May 1926. After three years of boy service in Training Ships and Battleships, during which he was tattooed on both arms, Hawkey engaged for Twelve Years on his 18th birthday in 1929. Joining the Submarine Service, despite Tragic Disasters that killed his close Comrades Hawkey advanced from Ordinary to Able Seaman in June 1930. From then onwards his story is closely linked with that of another ‘newly made’ Able Seaman, A.B. Leslie Bennington, who was two years younger. Bennington went on to rise rapidly through the ranks and was commissioned, eventually becoming one of the few wartime Captains who had begun his naval career on the lower deck. Bennington held seven levels of rank between 1931 and 1945 - remarkably, Hawkey served alongside him for part of each upward step. Hawkey greatly admired Bennington and the two men always got on well together. By his 20th birthday, Hawkey decided to apply for transfer to the submarine branch but had a long wait for a vacancy to occur. In January 1932 H.M.S. M2, the world’s first submersible aircraft carrier, sank while attempting to launch her seaplane. Sixty men died; Hawkey personally knew six of them (they had transferred months ahead of him). He spent three years in the Mediterranean in the mid-1930s, serving as quartermaster in the destroyer Beagle, where he qualified for his first medal, the Naval General Service with bar ‘Palestine’ (Bennington was also aboard Beagle during this commission.). In May 1938 Hawkey was at last offered the chance to serve in submarines. Due to heavy losses in submarine crews due to accidents, the nerve-wracking Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus (DSEA) test was obligatory. Each would-be submariner put on a primitive oxygen rebreathing apparatus and was locked inside a simulated submarine escape hatch (which could only accommodate one person at a time) at the bottom of a giant water tower. The occupant had to wait until the chamber was completely full of water before opening the outer door, exiting, closing the hatch behind him (so that the chamber could be pumped out and made ready for the next man to climb inside) and swimming to the surface of the water tower, without showing any signs of panic. Hawkey passed his DSEA test with flying colours. Part of his training was two months service in a drifter. Bennington (by now a Lieutenant) was his Divisional Officer. Bennington’s assessment of A.B. Hawkey in August 1938 was ‘An excellent man, cheerful and willing. During a salvage operation in bad weather, he displayed great courage… Power of command excellent for an Able Seaman.’ Hawkey qualified as a member of the deck gun crew in H.M. Submarine Starfish. Many of his shipmates were subsequently drafted to the brand-new submarine Thetis, which was to undergo pre-commissioning trials in Liverpool bay. On 18 January 1939 Hawkey was transferred to the large minelaying submarine Porpoise, which could carry 50 mines, together with six tubes (with two 21-inch torpedoes apiece) and a four-inch gun. Hawkey had also been earmarked for transfer to Thetis, and in April 1939 Porpoise’s Captain received official notification of this. However, the Captain refused to release his recently arrived crewman. On 1 June Thetis sank with 56 men aboard after the outer and inner doors of one of her torpedo tubes were both opened by mistake. After 17 hours of work, the crew had pumped out enough water to raise her stern to the vertical, protruding upright out of the sea and bringing her DSEA escape hatch within 20 feet of the surface. Rescue ships arrived and signalled their presence. Four crew members (three naval personnel and a civilian aboard for the trials) in turn successfully used the escape chamber and were picked up. During the fifth escape attempt the occupant of the DSEA chamber opened its outer door before the chamber had completely flooded. The higher external pressure caused an in-rush of sea water, trapping and drowning him. Because the outer hatch remained partially open, the chamber became inoperative; no one else could escape. The surviving crewmen still trapped inside the hull slowly suffocated. Hawkey stated “I knew every one of these good men and the majority of them sailed with me in the S/M Starfish and without a sudden change around in the drafting arrangements I should have certainly met my fate with them.” Porpoise Carrier Service: ‘A first-class seaman and an excellent character’ In July 1939 Porpoise loaded live mines and sailed for Malta, to await the outbreak of war with Italy and orders to mine the entrance of the Italian battlefleet’s anchorage at Leghorn. By October that had not happened, so the submarines in the Mediterranean were ordered back to home waters. Hawkey married in November 1939 and settled permanently in Liverpool. High-intensity war operations got underway in March 1940, when Porpoise joined 4th Submarine Flotilla at Rosyth to conduct hazardous patrols and mine-laying operations off Norway. In November 1940 she began escorting convoys across the Atlantic (and was the first submarine to protect convoys from German surface raiders). In August 1941 Porpoise completed a refit and began patrols in the Bay of Biscay, laying mines off St Nazaire and Bordeaux. From October 1941 she was operational in the Mediterranean, based in Alexandria, and became the first subma...
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (156 Ordly: A. Kew, St. John Amb: Bde:) good very fine £140-£180 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 10 September 1901. Private A. Kew, Leeds Corps (Armley and Wortley), St John Ambulance Brigade, served at Port Elizabeth and is also entitled to the St John Ambulance Brigade bronze medal for South Africa.
Five: Sergeant R. Broxson, Manchester Regiment 1914-15 Star (11 Pte. R. Broxson. Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (11 Pte. R. Broxson. Manch. R.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. with additional long service clasp (11 Pte. R. Broxsom [sic]. 5/Manch. R.) mounted as worn (but lacking pin), very fine and better (5) £160-£200 --- Richard Broxson served initially in the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Manchester Regiment, and served as a stretcher bearer during the Great War with the 5th Territorial Battalion, and later with the Labour Corps. He re-enlisted into the Territorial Army after the Great War and was re-numbered 3511006. He appears on the medal roll for the 1935 Jubilee Medal as 3511006, Sgt. R. Broxson, 5th Bn. Manchester Regiment. (T.A.). He is noted as having been a member of the 5th Battalion Band and served in the Territorial Army up to 1939. He died aged 85 in May 1955. Sold with copied research and two copied photographic images of the recipient.
General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, Borneo, Malay Peninsula, unofficial retaining rod between clasps (23231776 Sgt. J. A. Fisher. 3 Green Jackets.) edge nicks, nearly very fine £80-£100 --- John Anthony Fisher was born in 1933 and attested for the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers at Derby on 19 January 1955. He transferred to the Green Jackets on 3 June 1963, and served with them in Cyprus from 4 July 1963 to 7 October 1964 (although there is no record of him being awarded a U.N. Medal for Cyprus in his Red Book), and in the Far East from 8 January 1965 to 4 January 1966, with the rest of his service being at home. He was discharged in the rank of Colour Sergeant on reduction of the establishment on 15 December 1971, after 16 years and 331 days’ service. Sold with the recipient’s Certificate of Service Red Book; and various forms and letters.
Pair: Sergeant-Major J. Blackford, 96th Regiment of Foot Army Meritorious Service Medal, E.VII.R. (Sjt: Mjr: J. Blackford. 96th Foot.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (301. C. Sergt. J. Blackford. 96th Foot.) mounted court-style for display, good very fine and better (2) £300-£400 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, February 2016. James Blackford was born in Portsea, Hampshire, on 20 April 1840 and attested for the 96th Regiment at Aldershot on 7 June 1858. He was promoted to Corporal in July 1859; Sergeant in October 1860; Colour Sergeant in September 1863; and Sergeant-Major in October 1876. He served overseas in the Cape of Good Hope for two years, eight months, and in the East Indies for over five years. Awarded the L.S. & G.C. with a gratuity of £5 in January 1879 and the M.S.M. with an annuity of £10 on 25 November 1909, these were his only medallic awards. In November 1878 he transferred to the 6th Royal Lancashire Militia as Permanent Sergeant-Major, and was discharged having completed his second period of service on 4 June 1879. Then, moving to Salford, he joined the Salford City Police as a Constable on 14 January 1880. He was promoted to Sergeant in January 1881 and to Inspector six months later. He retired from the police force in December 1909, and died on 15 April 1913. Sold with copied service papers and other research.
A fine C.B. and campaign service group of six awarded to Brigadier-General F. S. Gwatkin, 13th Bengal Lancers, Indian Army, who was Mentioned in Despatches on six occasions The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, complete with ribbon buckle; Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Lt. F. S. Gwatkin, 13th Bl. Lancs.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1885 (Lieut: & Adjt. F. S. Gwatkin. 13th Bengal Lancs.); India General Service 1854-95, 3 clasps, Lushai 1889-92, Chin-Lushai 1889-90, N.E. Frontier 1891 (Captn. F. S. Gwatkin, S.C.) small erasure after unit; India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Major F. S. Gwatkin, Road Comdt. 1st Section); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, contact marks and some pitting from star, otherwise generally very fine (6) £2,600-£3,000 --- Frederick Stapleton Gwatkin was born on 30 January 1849, and educated at Rugby and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was commissioned into the 73rd Foot in March 1872, and transferred to the Indian Army in July 1875. Posted to the 13th Bengal Lancers, he served in the Second Afghan War in the 2nd Division of the Khyber Force, and took part in both the Bazar Valley expeditions, at the action of Dek Sarak, and in the Zaimukht expedition (Mentioned in Despatches, Medal). He was present with the 13th Bengal Lancers in the Egyptian campaign of 1882, including the actions at Kassassin and Tel-el-Kebir, and the occupation of Cairo, being adjutant of the regiment at the time. Promoted Captain in March 1884, he also served with the Suakin force during the Nile expedition of 1885 (Medal and two clasps, Khedive’s star). From October 1888 to June 1889 he was Station Staff Officer at Ferozepore, and in June 1889 his appointment as District Staff Officer, Assam, brought him opportunities for campaigning on the north-eastern frontier of India. As a staff officer with the Lushai expedition of 1889 his name was specially cited, and for his work on the staff during the Chin-Lushai operations in 1889-90 he was Mentioned in Despatches and given a brevet majority. He acted as A.A.G. with the Manipur expedition in 1891 and received another Mention in Despatches, obtaining his regimental promotion to Major in March of the following year. Returning to his regiment in April 1894, he was selected in 1895 to be the First Section Road Commandant on the lines of communication of the Chitral Relief Force, and earned another mention in despatches and another brevet. In January 1896, he was posted as Commandant to the 1st Lancers (Hyderabad Contingent), but from October 1897 to March 1898 he was with the Tirah Expeditionary Force as A.A. and Q.M.G., his services again being Mentioned in Despatches. He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in his regiment in March 1898, and from January 1899, when he reached the substantive rank of Colonel, to March 1900, he was Military Secretary to Sir William Lockhart, Commander-in-Chief in India. He was then appointed A.A.G. Peshawar District, and from August 1900, until his retirement in November 1904, commanded successively at Cawnpore, Fyzabad, and Sialkot. He was created C.B. in June 1902. Brigadier-General Gwatkin died on 29 January 1940, the day before his 91st birthday. Sold with original warrant for C.B. and original Indian Army record of service together with copied research.
Five: Sergeant L. R. H. Ward, Union Defence Force 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially impressed ‘1824 L. R. H. Ward’; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st (bilingual) issue, Union of South Africa (Sgt. L. R. H. Ward U.M.R.) mounted as worn, good very fine Five: Corporal A. H. Gibb, Union Defence Force, who was taken Prisoner of War in North Africa in June 1942 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially impressed ‘2664 A. H. Gibb’; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st (bilingual) issue, Union of South Africa (Cpl. A. H. Gibb M.P.C.) good very fine (10) £100-£140 --- Archibald Hanbury Gibb was born in Johannesburg on 26 May 1911 and enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Durban Light Infantry, at Pietermartizburg in May 1940. Attached to 4th Infantry Brigade in February 1941, he was posted Missing, believed Prisoner of War, from the 3rd Field Provost Company on 6 June 1942. Repatriated in October 1944, he was discharged in March 1945.
Pair: Supply Officer C. Eccles, Preston Corps, St John Ambulance Brigade Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (1075 Sply: Offcr: C. Eccles, St. John Amb: Bde:); St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (1075. Sergt. C. Eccles. Preston Corps) the first good very fine, the second nearly very fine (2) £400-£500 --- Sergeant C. Eccles served in South Africa as a Supply Officer at No. 18 General Hospital, Charleston, Natal. He was mentioned in Brigade Order 43/144 of 1901.
Three: Attributed to Flight Lieutenant R. G. Carpenter, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; together with the recipient’s two fibre identity discs ‘R. G. Carpenter Offr C.E. 144351 R.A.F.V.R.’, the ACE Star harshly cleaned, very fine (3) £240-£280 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 14 June 1945. Robert Gordon Carpenter was born in 1917 and was commissioned temporary Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 13 March 1943. Advanced Flight Lieutenant on 6 April 1945, for his services during the Second World War he was Mentioned in Despatches. Sold with copied research.
1914-15 Star (7208 Pte A. Keane. High: L.I.); British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (2. Lieut. G. W. Wallace.; 406243 Spr. S V. Spence. R.E.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt. E. E. Ruddell.); Bilingual Victory 1914-19 (1760 Gnr. D. Mc.Kinnon - SA Heavy Artillery); together with Allied Victory Medals for Belgium (2); France, this a copy; Italy; and United States of America, 1 clasp, France, nearly very fine and better (10) £80-£100
Four: Captain (Quartermaster) W. Tarpey, Manchester Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between second and third clasps, and with top retaining rod (1576 Cr: Serjt: W. Tarpey. Manchester Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (Q.M. & Capt. W. Tarpey.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (C. Sjt. W. Tarpey. Manch. R.) suspension claw re-pinned on QSA with traces of solder repair, edge bruise, polished and worn, this fair; the rest good very fine (4) £200-£240 --- William Tarpey was born at Bilston, Staffordshire, in 1869 and attested for service in the North Staffordshire Regiment, at Lichfield, on 13 July 1886, declaring prior service with 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Manchester Regiment. He very shortly thereafter transferred to 1st Battalion the Manchester Regiment, serving in Ireland. He was promoted Corporal in July 1892 and to Sergeant in February 1895. In 1896 he was posted to the staff of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Manchester Regiment at the depot at Ashton Under Lyne. He was mobilised for service with 5th (Militia) Battalion which arrived at Cape Town on 10 July 1901, and was ordered to Winburg to take over town defences and to act as railway guards. The battalion returned to the U.K. in July 1902, and he was posted as Colour Sergeant Instructor to the 5th Volunteer Battalion. He was discharged to pension on 12 July 1907, and was awarded the Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 242 of 1907. On the outbreak of the Great War, Tarpey volunteered for home service and was posted as a Private to the 8th (Ardwick) Territorial Battalion of the Manchester Regiment, despite being 44 years of age. He was swiftly promoted to Musketry Instructor and Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant. He was appointed Honorary Lieutenant and Quarter Master on 3 July 1915 and in 1917 went to France to join the 9th (Ashton Under Lyne) Battalion in the trenches at Havrincourt Wood. In early 1918 he was appointed as the Quarter Master to the whole of the 66th Division, and on 4 July 1918 was promoted Captain. Following the Great War he resigned his commission and was permitted to retain his rank. He was awarded the M.S.M. per Army Order 122 of 1933 and died at Manchester in 1938. Sold with copied service papers and extensive copied research.
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (4437 Pte. H. Blair. Manch. R.) attempted erasure of surname but details all fully legible, edge nicks, very fine £50-£70 --- Henry Blair was born at Holloway, London, in 1871 and enlisted in the army on 1 October 1915, initially into the Bedfordshire Regiment. He was transferred a few days later to the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and landed in France to join the 9th Battalion on 2 July 1916. On 28 September 1916 he transferred again to the 10th (Service) (5th City) Battalion, Manchester Regiment. In November 1917 his battalion moved to the Italian Front, but returned to the Western Front in September 1918. Blair was wounded (gun shot wound to the left hand) on 3 October 1918. He is entitled to the British War Medal and Victory Medal for his service in the Great War. In March 1919, Blair transferred to the 2nd Battalion, which in February 1920 was under orders for Mesopotamia, and served at Basrah, Tekrit and at Hillah in the ‘Manchesters Column’; he was one of those taken prisoner of the Arabs at Hillah on 24 July 1920, only being handed back to the British army in October after several months of harsh treatment. He was discharged to the Army Reserve in February 1923. Sold with copied service papers and other research.
Five: Chief Petty Officer W. L. Burton, Royal Navy, who was awarded the Naval Good Shooting Medal in 1912 1914-15 Star (217903, W. L. Burton, P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (217903 W. L. Burton. P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (217903 W. L. Burton, P.O. H.M.S. Egmont.); Naval Good Shooting Medal, G.V.R. (217903 W. L. Burton. Lg. Sea. H.M.S. Diamond. 1912 4 In. Q.F.) mounted court-style for display, polished, better than good fine (5) £300-£400 --- William Leonard Burton was born at Ramsgate, Kent, on 13 June 1886. He commenced naval service as Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Ganges on 23 November 1901, and was advanced to Ordinary Seaman in H.M.S. Aboukir on 13 June 1904 and to Able Seaman on 16 March 1904. He was further advanced to Leading Seaman in H.M.S. Pembroke on 28 July 1908, and to Petty Officer on 28 March 1913. During the Great War he served in H.M.S. Sapphire and in H.M.S. Pembroke I. During the main Gallipoli landings of 25 April, H.M.S. Sapphire was part of the Fourth Squadron and helped to land troops on ‘Y’ Beach and then to evacuate them on the next day. His service record is annotated that he was ‘noted for war services in the Dardanelles Operations’. He was awarded the Naval Long Service Medal in 1919, and was confirmed as Chief Petty Officer in June 192. He was shore pensioned in June 1926; briefly recalled in December 1939, he was rejected for service ‘medically unfit’. Sold with copied record of service.
Fire Brigade Medals. A miscellaneous selection of Fire Brigade medals including a Bavarian Cross for services to fire-fighting, bronze; a Baden medal for Loyal Services to fire-fighting, silver, the reverse engraved ‘F. Wohlgemuth Adjutant 1897-1917’; two German fire-fighting crosses for 25 Years’ service; a Belgian Civic Decoration, silver and enamel; an Irish Free State Fireman’s medal, silvered; a Portuguese Volunteer Fire-fighter’s medal, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Bodas de Duro 1943’; an Interfire 110th Anniversary Medal, Peterborough, September 1994, bronze; an Association of Fire Chiefs International Centennial Medallion 1973, bronze; a United States of America Berlin Airlift Medal, bronze, with riband bar and related miniature, in case of issue; and two United States of America Delegates Badges, both on embossed ribbons, generally very fine and better (lot) £100-£140
Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp (2), one with Combined Operations clasp for ‘Dieppe’, the other with clasp for ‘Hong Kong’, very fine (2) £100-£140 --- These official clasps were authorised by the Canadian Government to recognise Dieppe veterans in 1993 and for veterans of the fall of Hong Kong in 1995.
Pair: Private M. Bromley, Manchester Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front from 3 April 1917 British War and Victory Medals (29485 Pte. M. Bromley. Manch. R.) mounted court-style for display, light polishing, very fine Three: Private F. Lathwood, Manchester Regiment British War and Victory Medals (301140 Pte. F. Lathwood. Manch. R.); Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 1st issue (Frederick Lathwood) mounted court-style for display, nearly extremely fine Three: Private P. C. Letten, Manchester Regiment British War and Victory Medals (53256 Pte. P. C. Letten. Manch. R.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Percival C. Letten.) mounted court-style for display, better than very fine (8) £100-£140 --- Matthew Bromley was born in the Bradford area of Manchester in 1888, and was ‘called up’ for service in the Great War on 11 December 1915, but was not mobilised until 14 June 1916, when he was posted to 27th (Reserve) Battalion the Manchester Regiment. He was posted overseas on 14 December 1916, to serve in 2nd Battalion the Manchester Regiment, which was then on the Somme near Beaumont Hamel. He was killed in action in the operations to capture Francilly-Selency on 3 April 1917, and was buried in Fluquieres Communal Cemetery. Frederick ‘Fred’ Lathwood was born in Manchester in 1898 and enlisted into 8th (Territorial) Battalion the Manchester Regiment on 23 April 1915, aged only 17. It seems likely that he joined his battalion in Egypt in 1916. The 8th Battalion embarked at Alexandria for service on the Western Front in February 1917. He was discharged on 3 March 1919, and was awarded Silver War Badge No. 456137. After the Great War he joined the Post Office and worked as a postman until his retirement in 1954, when he received the Imperial Service Medal (London Gazette 17 December 1954). Percival Charles Letten appears in the 1911 Census as a 26-year-old warehouseman, residing at Wandsworth, London. During the Great War he served in the 23rd and 11th Battalions The Manchester Regiment and the Labour Corps. In the 1939 Register he is noted as a City of London, Special Constable. He died in 1962 at Hendon. Sold with copied research.
1914 Star (97569 Pte. P. Cumberton. 2/Conn: Rang.) some scratch marks, slightly worn, good fine £60-£80 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Patrick Cumberton was born at Tullamore, King’s County, Ireland, in 1883 and attested for the Connaught Rangers on 13 October 1902, having previously served in the 3rd Battalion, Leinster Regiment. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 August 1914, and was admitted to hospital suffering from a gun shot wound to his shoulder on 28 April 1915. Repatriated to the U.K., he was discharged on 12 October 1915. Sold with copied record of service, medal index card, and other research.
Pair: Private J. Murkin, 63rd Regiment of Foot Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol, unofficial rivets between second and third clasps (1260. J. Murkin. 63rd. Regt.) Regimentally impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, a contemporary tailor’s striking struck on a slightly thicker flan, unnamed, pierced with ring suspension, mounted court-style for display, minor edge bruising and contact marks, very fine and better (2) £300-£400 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2017. James Murkin was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, in 1819, and attested for the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot at Bury St. Edmunds on 25 January 1839. He served with the regiment in India, the Crimea, and in Canada, and was also awarded an Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, together with a gratuity of £5. He was discharged on 20 August 1860, after 21 years and 216 days’ service. Sold with copied service papers and other research.
Abyssinia 1867 (1096 J. Gangham H.M. 96. Regt.) edge bruising, suspension neatly repaired, nearly very fine and rare to unit £300-£400 --- Provenance: Sir Godfrey Dalrymple-White, Bt., Collection. Only 3 officers and 19 other ranks of the 96th Foot qualified for the Abyssinia Medal 1867-68, all for service with the ‘Transport Train’. James Gangham (also recorded as Gaughan) was born at Tuam, Co. Galway, Ireland, in 1839 and attested for service in the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment on 24 September 1857. He served with his regiment in India until January 1866 when he transferred to the 96th Regiment. He was one of a detachment of 2 officers and 19 other ranks to be seconded to the Transport Corps, for the Expedition to Abyssinia, where he carried out the duties of 3rd Class Inspector. In 1874 he transferred to the 81st Regiment and was part of the Peshawar Field Force, being present at Ali Musjid in 1878 (Medal and clasp). He returned to England and was discharged on 17 May 1879 being’ unfit for further service’. Sold with copied service papers and other research.
Family Group: Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 (2), 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4287 Pte. T. A. Bridger. 10th. Rl: Hussars); 3 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Natal, unofficial rivets between second and third clasps (4231. Pte. G. R. Bridger. 13/Hrs.) engraved naming, good very fine Victory Medal 1914-19 (156767 Spr. W. C. Owen. R.E.); 1939-45 Star; Burma star, very fine (5) £200-£240 --- T. A. Bridger attested for the 10th Hussars and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War. He was killed in action at Wanhoop, Cape Colony, on 11 August 1901. G. R. Bridger, brother of the above, attested for the 13th Hussars, and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War. He was later an in-pensioner at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea.
British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. C. A. Dignan.) very fine £80-£100 --- Charles Alfred Dignan, the son of Charles Coleman Dignan, of Ballinagan House, Roscommon, sometime Sheriff of Roscommon and the Roscommon Recruiting Officer, attested for the Army Service Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 October 1914, before being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the South Irish Horse on 2 January 1916. Two of his brothers also served as officers in the South Irish Horse, whilst a third brother served as an officer in the Connaught Rangers.
East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Gambia 1894 (W. Poole, Pte. R.M. H.M.S. Raleigh.) edge bruising, nearly very fine £200-£240 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- William Poole was born at Hampton, Evesham, Worcestershire, on 17 September 1862 and enlisted into the Royal Marines on 17 August 1883. He served with the Royal Marine Brigade in Egypt in 1884-85 (Medal and Khedive’s Star), and served in H.M.S. Raleigh from 23 May 1891 to 23 February 1895, taking part in the Gambia Expedition in 1894. He w was invalided out of the service on 9 October 1902. Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.
Four: Band Sergeant H. Waterfield, Manchester Regiment Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1695 Pte. H. Waterfield. 63rd. Regt.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (1695 ...e. H. Waterfield. Manch. R.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (169... H. Waterfield. M...ch. R.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style for display; edge bruising and heavy pitting from Star that has obliterated some naming detail, therefore fine (4) £400-£500 --- Henry Waterfield was born at Barony, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, in 1853. He attested for service as a Private in the 63rd Regiment at Cork, Ireland, on 8 July 1870, giving his trade as musician. He served in India at Agra, Delhi and in the Punjab and was appointed Bandsman on 12 February 1876. The 63rd left Quetta at the latter stages of the first phase of the Afghan War and joined the Kandahar Field Force in July 1880. He continued serving in India until the 63rd was due to return to the U.K. in August 1882, but were diverted to Suez and thence to Alexandria and Ras El Tin Barracks, finally returning to the U.K. in October 1882. He was promoted Lance Corporal on 1 August 1884, Bandsman Corporal on 21 March 1889, and Band Sergeant on 5 August 1889, and was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal the same year. He was discharged to pension at Aldershot on 30 September 1897. Sold with copied service papers and other research including several photographic images of the recipient.
Four: Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. Cole, Royal Engineers Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Maj. C. H. Cole. R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (1863131 W.O. Cl.2. C. H. Cole. R.E.) mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (4) £120-£160 --- Charles Herbert Cole was born in 1908 and attested for the Royal Engineers on 1 May 1923, aged 15. He was granted an Emergency Commission on 1 August 1938, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1941. He was advanced Major on 1 July 1946, and saw further service in post-War Malaya. He retired on 21 October 1956, and was granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Four: Colour Sergeant F. W. Lloyd, Manchester Regiment, later a member of The Queen’s Bodyguard of the Yeoman of the Guard Jubilee 1897, bronze, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1902, bronze, unnamed as issued; Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (868 Cr. Sgt. F. W. Lloyd. 63rd Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (868 Sergt. F. Lloyd. Manch: R.) mounted court-style for display in this order, polished, contact marked, edge wear and bruising, nearly very fine and better (4) £400-£500 --- Frederick Wellington Lloyd was born in the parish of Ballybut, Co. Tipperary, Ireland around July 1843. He attested for service in the 63rd Regiment of Foot on 9 July 1864 at Toronto, Canada, joining his regiment at Hamilton, Ontario, and then moving to Victoria Barracks, Montreal. In June 1865 the 63rd embarked for England, arriving at Portsmouth on 12 August. He served with his regiment in Scotland and in Ireland, being promoted to Corporal in 1867 and to Sergeant in March 1869. In October 1870 the 63rd embarked for India, landing at Bombay on 7 November to entrain for Deolali, and Barakar and then marching to Hazarabagh, arriving there in December 1870. He was appointed Colour Sergeant on 17 January 1872. In November 1878 the regiment moved to Umballa until ordered to proceed to Quetta and then to Kandahar. He returned to the U.K. on 5 December 1882 and on 1 January 1883 he was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. He was discharged from the army at Tipperary on 12 December 1890. In 1892, Frederick Lloyd was accepted as a member of the ‘Queen’s Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard’. He died on 15 May 1906 at the age of 63. Sold with copied service papers and extensive research including a copied photographic image of the recipient in uniform as Colour Sergeant and another as a Yeoman of the Guard.
A post-War ‘Civil Division’ B.E.M. group of four awarded to Miss Jane A. Heaton, a collector for the Blackpool Savings Group British Empire Medal, (Civil) E.II.R. (Miss Jane Ann Heaton) mounted on Lady’s bow; Defence Medal; Jubilee 1935 (Miss Jane Heaton) privately engraved naming, mounted on Lady’s bow riband; Coronation 1937 (Miss J. A. Heaton) privately engraved naming, mounted on Lady’s bow riband; together with her father’s Service Medal of the Order of St John, straight bar suspension with two loose additional service bars (4756 L/A/Offr. A. Heaton Blackpool N. Div. No. 4 Dis. S.J.A.B. 1925.); four tunic buttons and a hallmarked silver S.J.A.B. lapel badge, extremely fine (5) £140-£180 --- B.E.M. London Gazette 10 June 1967: ‘Miss Jane Ann Heaton, Collector, Blackpool Savings Group.’
Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1936 Sergt. Walter Nisbet, 96th Foot) very fine £80-£100 --- Walter Nisbet was born in Hawick, Roxborough, Scotland, in 1826. A weaver by trade, he enlisted at Norwich on 18 May 1844 and was posted to the 96th Foot who were based in Sydney, Australia, at the time, having supplied convict guards on different vessels employed on this duty sailing from England. He served nearly four and a half years in Australia, followed by postings to India and Gibraltar. Nisbet was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal with gratuity in 1865 by which time he was attached to the 1st Berwickshire R.V.C. at Dunse, Scotland, as a Sergeant Instructor. He left the army at his own request on 22 June 1865, at Belfast, having served 21 years, 36 days, of which over 11 years were overseas. Sold with copied service papers.
Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, reverse officially dated 1952, with integral top ‘Territorial’ riband bar, this pierced for securing to riband; Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (4260496 Fsr. G. Robinson. 4-North’d Fus.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (2059078. Gnr. C. T. Butcher. R.A.) edge bruising and contact marks to second, this nearly very fine; the first and third better (3) £120-£160
Three: Lieutenant A. Robertson, Manchester Regiment, who was severely wounded at Ovillers on the Somme in July 1916 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. A. Robertson. Manch: R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. Robertson. Manch R.) mounted court-style for display, light spotting to VM, otherwise very fine (3) £80-£100 --- Arthur Robertson was born at Dublin, Ireland, on 26 March 1888 and applied for a temporary commission in the army for the duration of the war on 11 November 1914. Following training he was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the 4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion of the Manchester Regiment. Having been posted to 2nd Battalion he embarked for France on 5 December 1915 and joined his battalion at Sailly Lorette. On 16 January 1915 he led a patrol into ‘no man’s land’, and on 2 March he was wounded by shelling whilst in the trenches, receiving wounds to the head, right arm, back and legs. Following medical treatment in France he returned to the U.K. on medical leave to recuperate. On 11 May 1916, Robertson was ordered to report to the 4th Battalion Manchester Regiment for service on the Humber Defences, but returned to the 2nd Battalion sometime prior to the Battle of the Somme when, on the first day, the 2nd Battalion were ordered to Authuille Wood with the objective of taking Moquet (Monkey) Farm. Robertson was severely wounded in the jaw by an exploding shell on 9 July at Ovillers and he was evacuated to the U.K. via Calais and Dover. He did not return to active service with 2nd Battalion until 18 December 1918, having been promoted Lieutenant. He was promoted Acting Captain on 16 January 1919, whilst serving in Bonn in the army of occupation. He was demobilised to the Special Reserve on 17 February 1920, and formally relinquished his commission on 28 July 1920, retaining the rank of Captain. Curiously, his medal index card indicates that he first served in the Gallipoli theatre, which must be incorrect. Sold with copied service papers and other research.
A Second War anti-U-Boat operations D.S.M. group of five awarded to Able Seaman T. Farrell, Royal Navy, for the sinking of U-204 by H.M.S. Mallow in October 1941 Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (JX.199905 T. Farrell. A.B.) impressed naming; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted court-style, very fine and better --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Spink, December 1997. D.S.M. London Gazette 24 March 1942: ‘For skill and enterprise in action against enemy submarines while serving in H.M. Ships Exmoor, Blankney, Stanley, Mallow and Marigold.' Thomas Farrell was serving in H.M.S. Mallow at the time of being recommended for his D.S.M. While engaged on an A./S. sweep off Cape Spartel on 19 October 1941, in company with the Corvettes H.M.S. Rochester and H.M.S. Carnation, Mallow picked an asdic contact at 500 yards range. Manoeuvring into an attack position, she dropped seven depth charges set to 150 and 300 feet, but on the point of delivering a second attack ‘an area of oil approximately 200 yards long and 50 yards broad was seen extending across the wind’. Mallow was now joined by the Carnation, and later still the Rochester, both of whom carried out further attacks on what appeared to be a stationary target. Further evidence of a probable ‘kill’ turned up 24 hours later, when the air vessel and fuel and water bottles of a German torpedo were recovered in a position about eight miles eastward of the original attack, and in their subsequent deliberations the U-Boat Assessment Committee concluded in Mallow's favour with a ‘Known sunk’. Her victim was probably the U-204. Farrell received his D.S.M. at an Investiture on 27 October 1942.
Four: Sergeant S. Brierley, Manchester Regiment, later Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial, with three Additional Award Bars (3515534 Pte. S. Brierley. 10 - Manch. R.) mounted court-style for display, light contact marks to the last, otherwise good very fine and better (4) £80-£100 --- Samuel Brierley was born at Oldham on August 1900 and attested for service in 10th Battalion the Manchester Regiment (T.A.) in February 1921. He was promoted Corporal in 1934 and Sergeant in February 1938. The 10th Battalion Manchester Regiment converted to 41st Battalion, Royal Tank Corps on 31 October 1938, and on 27 December 1939 Brierley was transferred to the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps, serving in France in the B.E.F. He crossed the Channel on 4 January 1940, returning to the U.K. following the Dunkirk evacuation on 5 June 1940, serving for the remainder of the War in the U.K. He was discharged to Class ‘Z’ Army Reserve on 23 July 1945. He was awarded the Efficiency Medal (Territorial) per Army Order 125 of May 1934, and the first, second, and third clasps as Sergeant, Royal Pioneer Corps, formerly Manchester Regiment per Army Order 26 of February 1947. Sold with copied research.
Pair: Second Lieutenant D. K. W. Cook, East Yorkshire Regiment, who died whilst serving with the British Expeditionary Force on 1 June 1940 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. R. E. Cook, 45 Hartington Road, East Twickenham, Middx.’, extremely fine (2) £60-£80 --- Denis Kilby Wray Cook served as a Second Lieutenant with the East Yorkshire Regiment as part of the British Expeditionary Force, and died on 1 June 1940. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Dunkirk Memorial, France.
Pair: Orderly J. Green, Keighley Corps, St John Ambulance Brigade Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (1786 Ord: J. Green, St. John Amb: Bde:); St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (1786. Pte. J. Green, Keighley Corps.) very fine (2) £300-£400 --- Private J. Green served as an Orderly with No. 1 General Hospital in South Africa.
Efficiency Medal (4), G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (3) (3524461 Trpr. C. Lamb. R.A.C.; 3528793 Pte. J. Langham. Manch. R.; 3531262. Sjt. H. Thorpe. Manch.); E.II.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (22452110 Cpl. A. Jackson Manch) second officially re-impressed light contact marks, generally very fine and better (4) £160-£200 --- C. Lamb of the 111th Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps (Manchester Regiment) was awarded the Efficiency Medal (Territorial) per Army Order 180 of September 1942; he received a clasp to the medal after transfer to the Army Catering Corps per Army Order 104 of June 1945. John Langham attested for the Manchester Regiment (T.A.) on 1 July 1936, he was transferred to the Territorial Army Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 9 April 1946. He was awarded the Efficiency Medal (Territorial) per Army Order 104 of June 1945. Harold Thorpe attested for the Manchester Regiment (T.A.) on 3 May 1939. He was transferred to the Territorial Army Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 17 July 1946. A. Jackson was awarded the Efficiency Medal (Territorial) per Ministry of Defence List No. 145 of May 1985.
Fire Brigade Medals. A miscellaneous selection of foreign, mainly Eastern European, Fire Brigade medals including Croatian Volunteer Fireman’s Long Service Medal for 10 years’ service, bronze; German Democratic Republic Medal for Faithful Service in the Volunteer Fire Department (3), Second Class, for 20 years’ service, silvered; Third Class, for 10 years’ service, bronze (2); Hungarian Volunteer Fireman’s Long Service Medal (3), for 10 years’ service, silvered (2); for 5 years’ service, bronze; Polish Medal of Merit for Fire-Fighting (3), First Class, gilt; Second Class silvered; Third Class, bronze; Fireman’s Medal, Krakow 1972, silver; and a Soviet Medal for Bravery in a Fire, silvered, generally good very fine and better £100-£140
A unique Second War D.S.M. group of nine awarded to Acting Temporary Sub-Lieutenant R. E. Harris, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (JX.320955 R. E. Harris A.B.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France & Germany; Burma Star, 1 clasp, Pacific; Defence and War Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46 (P/JX.320955 R. E. Harris. D.S.M. Ldg. Smn. R.N.); Efficiency Medal, Territorial, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (JK 320955. A.B. R. E. Harris (D.S.M.) R.N.) minor official correction; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre 1939-1940, mounted as worn, good very fine --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2000. D.S.M. London Gazette 24 February 1942: ‘For resource and devotion to duty.’ Seedies roll states for services aboard H.M.S. Royal Eagle when mined on 4 January 1942, and successfully brought to port. Royal Eagle was a former Thames Paddle Steamer which had a distinguished war record, especially in the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk in 1940. Harris served aboard her from December 1941 to May 1942. M.I.D. London Gazette 3 March 1943. Efficiency Medal, Territorial, confirmed 27 February 1944. It is believed that only 26 were awarded to the Royal Navy, only Harris receiving the D.S.M. in addition. Richard Ernest Harris was born at Dawdon, Durham, on 24 May 1918. He volunteered for service in the Royal Navy on 29 December 1941, at which time he was allowed to count 2 years 119 days former Army Service towards pension and badges. He was previously a fitter and draughtsman and served in the navy as a Radar specialist. He was commissioned Acting Temporary Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 30 March 1946. The group is sold with his original Certificate of Service which confirms all awards except the Croix de Guerre, various letters and documents, including one regarding his T.A. Efficiency Medal addressed to Captain Harris, and two French banknotes signed by the crew of ‘H.M.S. Waveny, D-Day, 6th June 1944, Bernieres sur Mer, 3rd Brigade, J2 Assault Group.’
Pair: Private R. Stokes, 8th Canadian Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 13 June 1916 British War and Victory Medals (460386 Pte. R. Stokes. 8-Can. Inf.); Memorial Plaque (Roy Stokes) with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in card envelope; Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (460386 Pte. R. Stokes.) in embossed case of issue; together a Municipality of Rockwood, Manitoba, Great European War Tribute Medal, silver (Pte. Roy G. Stokes No. 460386) minor edge bruise to last, otherwise extremely fine (5) £260-£300 --- Roy George Edward Stokes was born in Bradford, Ontario, on 11 March 1882 and attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Winnipeg on 3 June 1915, having previously served in the 106th Regiment Militia. He served with the 8th Battalion (Manitoba Regiment), Canadian Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 13 June 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Sold with a Canada General Service cap badge, a ‘Canada’ shoulder title; and an 8th Manitoba Battalion (“Black Devils”) cap badge; and a small photograph of the recipient.
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Persia (J. Anderson, 78th Highlanders) contact marks, good fine £300-£400 --- The Indian Mutiny Medal Roll shows that a ‘James’ and a ‘John’ Anderson served with the regiment, and were both entitled to the Indian Mutiny Medal with ‘Defence of Lucknow’ and ‘Lucknow’ clasps.
Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 1st issue, large letter reverse, edge dated, impressed naming (Robert Gilbert 96th Regiment Foot. 1844.) with replacement steel clip and large ring suspension, traces of brooch mounting to reverse, otherwise good very fine £140-£180 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, May 2018. Robert Gilbert was born in Frant, Sussex, in November 1803 and joined the newly formed 96th Regiment of Foot at Maidstone, Kent, on 6 February 1824. He served with the 96th Foot in Canada and in the West Indies, not returning to the U.K. until 1835. He subsequently served ‘at home’, in Scotland and Ireland, until being posted ‘on recruiting duty’ to Norwich until 1845, being awarded his only medal, the Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1884. He was declared unfit for further service and was discharged from the army on 11 March 1845. He died in 1887 at Tonbridge, Kent. Sold with copied service papers and research.
Three: Sergeant V. Robinson, Manchester Regiment British War and Victory Medals (275477 Sjt. V. Robinson. Manch. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (591 Sjt. V. Robinson. 7/ Manch: Regt.); together with a Regimental Attendance Medal for 4th V.B. Manchester Regiment, a small fully hallmarked silver fob medal, the obverse with the Sphinx above a plinth reading ‘Egypt’, surmounted by the ‘Fleur de Lys’, and the words 4th V.B. Manchester Regt. below, the reverse inscribed ‘For best attendance in the Company / Section’, and engraved ‘Sgt. V. Robinson ‘L’ Coy.’, mounted court-style for display, very fine (4) £100-£140 --- Vincent Robinson was born in Withington, Manchester, in 1877 and at some point he joined the 4th Volunteer Battalion of the Manchester Regiment, which in 1908 became the 7th (Territorial) Battalion. He was awarded the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 183 of July 1911. During the Great War he initially volunteered for service in September 1914, but was posted to 2/7th (Home Service) Battalion and did not serve overseas until after January 1916.
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (Sig. T. J. Drew, S.A.N.F. (V)) officially engraved naming, nearly extremely fine £100-£140 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2008. Thomas John Drew was born on 14 July 1916. He was a traveller by calling and married to Yvonne Mary Barker when he enrolled in the South African Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (No. D 3542) on 1 July 1935 at Durban. He was initially rated as Signalman Recruit until rated as Ordinary Signalman in March 1938, and then Signalman in July 1938. His initial posting was to Milford until October 1936, and then Neptune. He was struck off the Roll of the S.A. Division of the R.N.V.R. and transferred as a Signalman to the R.N.V.R. War Reserve (No. WR 628) on 1 April 1939. In October 1940 he was transferred to the South African Naval Force (No. 68154V). During the next four years or so he was transferred to various posts including Afrikander, Stag, Nile, Assegai, and Cape Fortress, and Durban Fortress until discharged at Durban on 16 October 1945. Drew's full medal entitlement is: 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with clasp North Africa 1942-43, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, Africa Service Medal, and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Long Service Medal. Sold with copied service papers.
Four: Private H. Hill, Manchester Regiment General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (3525525 Pte. H. Hill. Manch. R.); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted for wear, good very fine Three: Private W. Titley, Manchester Regiment General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (3525390 Pte. W. Titley. Manch. R.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted court-style for display, light contact marks and small edge bruise to the first, very fine (7) £160-£200 --- Harry Hill attested for service in the Manchester Regiment, but transferred to the Cheshire Regiment in March 1942, before reverting back to the Manchester Regiment in October of the same year. He later saw brief service with the Corps of Military Police in October 1944, but again reverted to the Manchester Regiment. He was discharged to Class ‘Z’ Army Reserve in January 1946. Walter Titley was born in Charlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, on 30 September 1913. A warehouseman by occupation, he enlisted into the Manchester Regiment on 7 December 1931. With them he served in Sudan, from October 1932 to December 1933; in the West Indies from January 1934 to September 1935; in Egypt from September 1935 to January 1938; and in Palestine between January and September 1938. Posted home, he was placed in the reserve in December 1938 but was recalled for active service in September 1939. He served at home throughout the War. Sold with copied research.
Six: Lieutenant (Quartermaster) W. J. Welch, Manchester Regiment India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (3514547 Sjt. W. J. Welch. Manch.) a later issue with non-swivelling suspension, with named card box of issue; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (3514547 W.O. Cl. 2. W. J. Welch. Manch.) with named card box of issue, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (6) £100-£140 --- William Joseph Welch was born at Greenwich, London, on 5 December 1901 and enlisted as a Private into the Manchester Regiment on 30 September 1920. He embarked for India with 2nd Battalion on 28 September 1921, and was promoted Corporal on 17 May 1927 and Sergeant on 18 November 1927. He served throughout the campaign in Burma in 1930-32. Returning to the U.K. he was promoted Warrant Officer Class 2, and Company Sergeant Major on 19 March 1936 and in April 1939 was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Welch was appointed Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant and on 13 January 1940 as Regimental Sergeant Major. In 1942 he went to East Africa, being posted to 46th (Tanganyika Territories) Battalion King’s African Rifles, but was commissioned Lieutenant and Quartermaster in the Manchester Regiment on 6 September 1942, remaining attached 46th K.A.R., with which he served in India and Burma. He returned to the U.K. in July 1945 and was released from service in October 1945. Following the war he moved from Oldham, returning to Greenwich, where he died on 6 May 1971. Sold with copied service papers and other research, including medal roll extract for the IGS that states that a replacement IGS was issued in April 1950.
A Great War ‘Battle of Jutland’ D.S.M. group of five awarded to Chief Petty Officer J. J. Greenland, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Barham Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (161574 J. J. Greenland, C.P.O. H.M.S. Barham. 31. May,-1. June, 1916.); 1914-15 Star (161574 J. J. Greenland, C.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (161574 J. J. Greenland. C.P.O., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (161574 J. J. Greenland, P.O. 1Cl., H.M.S. Excellent) mounted as worn, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (5) £1,400-£1,800 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- D.S.M. London Gazette 15 September 1916: ‘For services rendered by Petty Officers and Men of the Grand Fleet in the action in the North Sea on the 31st May-1st June 1916. Chief Petty Officer James John Greenland, ON 161574.’ James John Greenland was born in London on 3 January 1876, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in June 1891. He served aboard the battleship Barham at the battle of Jutland and continued to serve aboard that ship until August 1918. He was finally demobilised to shore on 27 February 1919. Sold with copied record of service.
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1891 (1887 Pte. J. Richardson. 2d. Bn. Sea Highrs.) edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine £120-£160 --- James Henry Richardson was born in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone. A labourer by occupation, he attested for the Seaforth Highlanders at Glasgow on 12 January 1886, aged 18 years, 2 months. In the 2nd Battalion he served in India from September 1889 to March 1897, and saw service with the Chitral Relief Expedition of 1895 (Medal and clasp). Awarded a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, he was discharged in 1907, and died in Inverness on 13 July 1945. Note: The recipient’s India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 and Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. were sold in these rooms in September 2013.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (2646 Pte. T. Dunn. Manch: R.) minor edge bruising, good very fine £80-£100 --- Thomas Dunn attested for service in the Manchester Regiment in August 1889, initially serving at the Depot at Ashton Under Lyne. He was posted to 1st Battalion for service in India in 1891, later transferring to 2nd Battalion. He was transferred to the Army Reserve in 1897, but was recalled for war service in the South African War. He served in 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment, attached to the 7th Battalion Mounted Infantry. His service papers record the issue of the Queen’s Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal, together with the King’s Medal with two clasps. This is contradicted by the medal roll which shows the clasps as they appear on this medal. He was discharged at Aldershot from 3rd Battalion Manchester Regiment on 15 June 1902. The medal roll also notes that replacement medals were issued in 1925. Sold with copied research.
Three: Attributed to Major D. Gow, Royal Artillery Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, reverse officially dated 1962, in Royal Mint case of issue, and outer OHMS transmission box, addressed to ‘Major D. Gow, TD, 79 Campsie Gardens, Clarkston, Glasgow’; together with the related miniature awards for the Second War pair, these mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Andrew Gow) a couple of verdigris spots, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4) £80-£100 --- T.D. London Gazette 19 January 1962.
A Crimean War D.C.M. awarded to Drummer J. Roe, 63rd Regiment of Foot Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Drummer John Roe. 63rd. Regt.) heavy edge wear, polished and heavily contact marked, end of ‘Regt’ worn and edges a little rounded from wear, therefore fair to fine £700-£900 --- Provenance: Usher Collection, Glendining’s, July 1975. John Roe was born at Gibraltar on 2 March 1833. He enlisted as a ‘boy’ soldier in the 63rd Foot at Chatham on 3 February 1848 at the age of 14. He was promoted to ‘Drummer’ on 25 November 1848. He served at Salford Barracks, Newcastle on Tyne, and in Ireland. In June 1854 the 63rd was ordered to join the expeditionary force in the East and embarked for Turkey and then to Varna on the Black Sea to join the 4th Division. The 63rd reached the Crimea on 14 December 1854, and force marched to the Alma, and then to besiege Sebastopol. The 63rd were heavily engaged at Inkermann on 5 November 1854. Following instructions received from the War Office of December 1854 the commanding officer of each regiment was instructed to direct the officers and men to select those men whom they considered most entitled to an award of the ‘Silver Medal for Distinguished Conduct in the Field’, Drummer John Roe was so recommended and received the award of the Distinguished Conduct Medal in the trenches before Sebastopol on 28 April 1855. On 26 April 1856, John Roe and the 63rd embarked on the steamship Andes for Malta, where they trans-shipped for onward passage to Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was one of only 8 officers and 45 men of the 63rd who had served continuously through the Crimean campaign. He remained in Canada being appointed Private on 4 March 1864, and Corporal on 13 July 1864, having duties in the Officers Mess. He was appointed to be ‘Orderly to the Major General’ in January 1865. He returned to the U.K. on 12 August 1865, at Aldershot and undertook recruiting duties. He was discharged at Chatham on 4 June 1872, being additionally entitled to the Crimea Medal with clasps for Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann and Sebastopol, the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal and the Turkish Medal. He was admitted a Chelsea out pensioner in 1872. Sold with copied discharge papers and extensive research.
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