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Click here to subscribeAdmiral Lord Nelson Interest, to include framed memorial etching, Trafalgar battle plan, three Nelson related picture postcards, Edwardian period, glass etched with Nelson & HMS Victory, large resin Scrimshaw style ornament depicting ""HMS VICTORY"" approx 18cm long, boxed Nelson commemorative medal and a Spode plate ""The Cunard Steam Ship Company Ltd.
A quantity of military ephemera etc, including sundry post WWII training manuals, including Light Machine Gun, Machine Carbine, 2? and 3? mortar, etc; WWII period maps of Germany; a contemporary coloured chart showing WWII Divisional signs; a letter detailing how to make a sandbag, dated July 1915; a telegram dated 4th August 1914 to the Headquarters D Coy, Yorkshire Regiment from the Adjutant with the one word ?Mobilize?; a pair of brass box spurs; several small items of trench art; an Afghanistan medal, 1878-80 (naming erased and edge rounded); and a pair of WWII German brass 37mm(?) brass shell cases with dummy aluminium heads. Various conditions, contained in a wooden box (lid AF)
An Imperial German Brunswick War Merit Cross, 1st class, the screw back with backing plate and domed nut embossed ?D.R.G.M 653146?, GC, (slgiht verdigris to front); a 1914 Iron Cross 2nd class, with 5 brass commemorative bars attached to the ribbon ?Maas-Aisne, Reims, Champagne, Somme-Schlacht, and Verdun?; and a small silvered Third Reich Life Saving medal, with ribbon. GC(3
3 WWII tin helmets: one with transfer badge of The W Yorks Regt (some wear), one plain (both d 1940) and another marked ?Police? (no lining); an RA Lt Colonels khaki SD jacket, medal ribbons WWI etc and pair overalls; 2 wire cutters; sundry webbing equipment; an Essex fire service tin helmet and 2 others; sundry other items. Generally GC
The undress blue 10th Hussars uniform of Captain Lord William W Montague-Douglas-Scott, MC , comprising: scarlet sidecap with gilt piping, buttons and gilt and silver badge; blue jacket, gilt and silver plated collar badges, shoulder chains with rank stars, medal ribbons MC, WWI with MID and 1910 Coronation, gilt and crimson cord aiguilette with gilt tags; pair overalls with double yellow stripes; tailor?s labels inside with officer?s name. Plate 17Note: Lord Scott, ADC to the Governor of Canada (1920?s)
A most interesting group of twelve to Lt. Colonel John Patrick Shelley, who raised the special Z Force (?The Johnnies?) vital to the success of the Burma campaign., comprising: 1914-15 star (Lieut.J.P.Shelley R.Lanc.R.), British War and Victory medals (Capt.J.P.Shelley), General Service Medal with clasp Palestine (Major J.P.Shelley G.Gds), 1939-45 star, Africa star, Burma star, Defence and War medals with MID oakleaf (privately named Col. J.P. Shelley Gren Guards),Egypt Order of the Nile, 4th class, (enamel minor crazing), Sudan 1910 medal with clasp Garjak Nuer (engraved Capt J.P.Shelley, The King?s Own Regt); Poland Krzyz Walecznych. Mounted court style by Spink & Son, and with companion miniatures including the CBE to which he is entitled, the full size now no longer present. Good Very Fine. Plate 4 Note: John Patrick Shelley, born 5th March 1888. Joined the King?s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 4th October 1910, 2nd Lieutenant 16th August 1911 and following various promotions rose to Captain 8th June 1915. Service in France and Belgium 13.1.1915 to 6.3.1916 and 25.5.1916 to 26.7.1916. He is shown in the London Gazette as Spec. Employed by War Office 17.9.1915 to 7.3.1916. He joined Royal Flying Corps 3.4.1916 training at Roehampton as Balloon Officer, later with 13th Kite Balloon Section, served with Egyptian Expeditionary Force -.12.1916 to 31.10.1918, employed with the Egyptian Army 12.1.1917 to 11.l.1924, during which time he spent two years on his own gaining intelligence in the Southern part of the Sudan. He was awarded the Egyptian Order of the Nile 4th class (London Gazette 24th June 1924 ) ?in recognition of valuable services rendered by him while employed with the Egyptian Army?, and also the Khedive?s Sudan medal with clasp Garjak Nuer. Transferred to Grenadier Guards 20.9.1924 as Captain. Worked with the Shanghai Defence Force as an Intelligence Officer. On 1.5.1927, Capt J P Shelley was secd for service on the Staff, 23.7.1929 Spec Appt temp to be G.S.O. 3rd Grade (temp) N China Comd. The Gazette of 12th November 1929 shows him as secconded for service under the Foreign office; In 1933 he became the first head of the Secret Intelligence Station in Jerusalem where he remained until replaced in 1936. Promoted Major 6.8.1934. Qualified for GSM for Palestine under RAF Staff. Lt Col (Brevet) 9.2.1938. In 1939 he went to Poland to join General Carton de Wiart?s Mission and was listed as Passport Control Officer in Warsaw. In February 1939 Shelley, then aged 51, married a Polish girl aged 20. On 1st September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, on 3rd September Britain declared war on Germany, on 5th September 1939, due to the rapid advance in Poland by the Germans, the British Embassy and Mission evacuated to Lukow, a village south east of Warsaw. Lukow became a target for the Luftwaffe and when it was bombed on the 7th September Shelley?s wife of six months became the only casualty. Shelley radiod back to London alerting them to the dangerous situation and praised the resolve and courage of three Polish female staff who begged to stay in contrast to two male colleagues who were ?quite useless in crisis.. and anxious to leave?. Shelley and his colleagues got back to Britain via Roumania at the end of September/beginning of October. In December 1939 he was sent out by the S.I.S. to the Middle East, based in Cairo, where he visited Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Iran. He was awarded the Krzyz Walecznych 11.4.1941 ?in recognition of distinguished services in Poland along with Col Adrian Carton de Wiart, VC, Lt Col C McVean Gubbins and three others.At the beginning of 1942 Shelley arrived in India to take charge of General Staff Intelligence. Z in Delhi. After the attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941, Hong Kong fell to the Japanese on Christmas Day with Singapore following in February 1942; the Japanese were now rapidly advancing in Burma.Shelley was given the task of establishing a group to report from the dense
Six: Distinguished Service Order, (undated), O.B.E., Military Cross (un-named), 1914 star with bar, (Rev. P.W. Guinness A.C.D), British War medal and Victory with MID leaf (Rev P.W. Guinness) Near Very Fine and Very Fine. Plate 1 Note: The Reverend Percy Wyndham Guinness, DSO,Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Cavalry Brigade. ?The VC and DSO? by Creagh and Humphis states ?Born 18th May 1875..he was educated at Monkton Combe School; at Emmanuel College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge; was ordained in 1900; was Curate of Aston, Birmingham, 1900-11; joined the Army in Jan, 1911; Acting Chaplain to the Forces, Aldershot, 1911-12; Chaplain to the Forces, Curragh, 1912-14. He served in the European War from 1914. He was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette, 1 Jan 1915): ?The Reverend Percy Wyndham Guinness, B.A. Chaplain to the Forces, 3rd Cavalry Brigade. On the 5th November, at Kruistraat, when Major Dixon, 16th Lancers, was mortally wounded, he went on his own initiative into the trenches, under a heavy fire, and brought him to the ambulance, and on the afternoon of the same day, being the only individual with a horse in the shelled area, took a message, under heavy fire, from the 4th Hussars to the headquarters of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade?. Mentioned in despatches 14th January 1915, and 24th June 1915. In the Retreat from Mons he rode twice alone through a fearfully shelled area to sucour wounded men in a cave. He was Senior Chaplain to the East African Expedition, Jan 1916 to 1919 ..... Major, the Rev. P.W. Guinness was awarded the Military Cross.?
Three: 1914-15 star, BWM, Victory (104762 Cpl W T Booker, RE), GVF. Three: BWM, Victory (25485 Pte W C Garman Som LI), Efficiency medal Territorial, Geo V issue (2211900 Cpl, RE) VF, this trio attractively mounded in a frame with a Som LI and RE badges, wound stripe and wound badge and a sundry RA collar.
Four: Military Medal, Geo V first type (20010 Sapr A W Harman 11/Fd Co RE), 1914 star with clasp, BWM, Victory (20010 Spr A W Harman RE), VF. See inside back coverNote: Arthur Wallace Harman, Military Medal London Gazette 11.10.1916. A photocopy shows: ?1st Birmingham War Hospital?, admitted to hospital 21.7.1916, discharged 8.9.1916 50 days, for Shell Shock, ?after being buried for about 2 hours, unconscious same length of time. When he regained consciousness was unable to speak and hearing much impaired. His speech returned in about 2 hours, but he stuttered. The stuttering has gradually disappeared but the hearing has not improved..?~
Four: Military Medal, Geo V first type (16104 Sapr A.L.Cpl C H Sole 23/FD Coy RE), 1914 star with clasp (gilt finish), BWM, Victory (Dvr RE), NVF, (MM with star pitting to edge), together with ?The Smallholder Championship Medal? in HM silver (engraved C H Sole 1st Prize Aug 1939) NVF. See inside back coverNote: Military Medal London Gazette 25.4.1918, with copy of medal index card and copy birth certificate 26.2.1890~
Six:Military Medal, Geo V first type (17084 T Sjt Mjr J Hunter RAMC), 1914 star and clasp (Sjt), BWM and Victory (WO Cl 1), LS & GC Geo V military bust (7245154 S Sjt), MSM Geo V (17084 S Sjt, 5./F A. RAMC) VF See inside back cover.Note: Military Medal London Gazette 20.8.1919, MSM London Gazette immediate award 18.10.1916, some photocopies including pages from War Diary with lot. It is interesting to note that Lt A.M. Leake was with the 5th FA, RAMC when he won the bar to his Victoria Cross.~
Four: I.G.S 1908, 1 clasp N W Frontier 1908, (2nd Lieut C G P Gilliat, 1st R War R); 1914 star with clasp (Lieut C G P Gilliat, R War R); BWM (an erased replacement); Victory medal (Capt C G P Gilliat), GVF and neatly framed with a reprint photo of recipient and badge, with Memorial plaque to Cecil Glendower Percival Gilliat, (frame requires a little attention).Note: Captain Cecil Glendower Percival Gilliat of Arch Hall, Cy Meath, Ireland born 6.12.1884, educated at Cheltenham school and commissioned 2nd Lieut R Warwicks Regt 28.11.1905. He served in the operations in the Zekka Khel country on the N.W. Frontier of India, promoted Lieut 1.4.1909 and gazetted Captain posthumously to date from 12.9.1914. Gilliat served on the Western Front and died of wounds 14.10.1914 as a result of an attack on the village of Meteren on 13.10.1914. The following account was written by a fellow officer : ?We were attacking a village called Meteren. My company was next to ?Glennie?s? when I fell. He saw at once, and ran to me with two of his men, and started bandaging my wound. It was a very plucky thing to do, as I was lying in a very exposed place, and the Germans were firing at me all the time. Glennie left me after he had put the dressing on, and said he would send some men to carry me back, but he was killed himself, shot through the forehead- when he got back to the trench? (Bond of Sacrifice refers). The action at Meteren resulted in 42 killed and 85 wounded for the 1st Warwickshire, one of those wounded was Lieutenant Montgomery, later to become F.M. Montgomery of Alamein.~
Four: I.G.S. 1908, 1 clasp N W Frontier 1908, 1914 star with unattached clasp, BWM, Victory (9634 Pte J Fuller, R War R), VF, with Royal Warwickshire cap badge, and photocopy of medal index card, and some photocopied research, photo of grave etc.Note: John Fuller, k.i.a. 21.3.1916 aged 33, a photocopy of page from War Diary shows position at Bienvillers ?Battalion prepared to move to trenches. Relieve 2nd R Dub Fus....enemy shelled village with shrapnel and cannon shell in afternoon, 1 OR killed and 10 ORs wounded.?~
Four: I.G.S. 1908, 1 clasp N W Frontier 1908 (script engraved 8205 Pte C S Hunter 1st W Y Regt), 1914 star, unattached clasp, BWM and Victory, VF with West Yorkshire cap badge and aluminium I.d. ?dog? tag, and copy of medal index card.Note: Charles Sidney Hunter, born Sydney Australia 1884. In 1902 Pte Hunter joined the Scots Guards, in 1906 he transferred to 2nd Btn West Yorkshire Regt. After service in India, he was drafted to Malta before being sent to Albania as part of an International Peace Keeping force, returning first to Malta and then England. On 5.11.1914 his battalion arrived at Le Havre. On 18.12.1914 the battalion were on the Estaires-La Bassee road when an order was made for an attack on the German line, shortly after Pte Hunter was wounded in the thigh and had a fractured forearm. Due to the attack Hunter had to remain in the trench and, next morning, crawled to the casualty clearing station. He died of wounds on Christmas night 1914 and now rests at the Etretat Churchyard extension. An obituary, with photo, notice appeared in the Yorkshire Post.~
Four: 1914 star with clasp, BWM, Victory (1379 Tpr C G King RHG), 1911 Coronation medal (engraved Tpr King C 1379 R H Gds), VF. Mounted as worn, with HG lapel badge.Note: Charles George King, born 1891, enlisted 16.10.1909, a motor mechanic by trade. Part of the BEF he landed in France 16.8.1914, and was taken prisoner of war after receiving a gunshot wound to the left calf 28.8.1914 at Viesley, Cambrai. He was held as prisoner at Doebritz, E Prussia, repatriated to UK 9.1.1919 and sent to the POW reception camp at Ripon. Sold with research information and National Archive photocopies.~
Three: 1914 star, BWM, Victory (10428 Pte F Smith 2/Worc R, BWM reimpressed), GF with 3 cap badges and 3 City of Birmingham Peace Celebration medals (2 types) F. Three: 1914 star, BWM, Victory (7223 Pte H Lock, Devon R, Victory reimpressed). IGS 1908, 1 clasp NWF 1908 (re-engraved 434 Pte W Greatrix 1st R War R), VF; an erased Victory; WWII Pacific star and War Medal, VF.
Pair: BWM, Victory (T4/239887 Dvr W H Rose ASC), GEF, in remains of original box, with Memorial plaque to William Herbert Rose, with medal transmittal slip, confirmation telegram, reprint photo, etc. Note: William Herbert Rose, died of influenza at the 64th Casualty Clearing station, France 13.3.1919 and buried at Sudfriedhof, Cologne, Germany
A machine engraved silver cigarette case, owner?s monogram ?JEH? on lid, and name inside ?James E Haworth, Sept 8th 1926?, HM B&W B?ham 1923, GC; another cigarette case engraved with foliate panels and monogram ?WSJ? to front and ?AP Sept 8? to back, HM T&S Chester 1917 (some wear and dents); a Lusitania medal in box; 3 18 pdr shell cases; a folder of WWI postcard views of Ypres before and after the battle (some loose); a No 4 spike bayonet; sundry WWI battlefield relics, etc.
A most interesting group of twelve to Lt. Colonel John Patrick Shelley, who raised the special Z Force (‘The Johnnies’) vital to the success of the Burma campaign., comprising: 1914-15 star (Lieut.J.P.Shelley R.Lanc.R.), British War and Victory medals (Capt.J.P.Shelley), General Service Medal with clasp Palestine (Major J.P.Shelley G.Gds), 1939-45 star, Africa star, Burma star, Defence and War medals with MID oakleaf (privately named Col. J.P. Shelley Gren Guards),Egypt Order of the Nile, 4th class, (enamel minor crazing), Sudan 1910 medal with clasp Garjak Nuer (engraved Capt J.P.Shelley, The King’s Own Regt); Poland Krzyz Walecznych. Mounted court style by Spink & Son, and with companion miniatures including the CBE to which he is entitled, the full size now no longer present. Good Very Fine. Plate 4 Note: John Patrick Shelley, born 5th March 1888. Joined the King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 4th October 1910, 2nd Lieutenant 16th August 1911 and following various promotions rose to Captain 8th June 1915. Service in France and Belgium 13.1.1915 to 6.3.1916 and 25.5.1916 to 26.7.1916. He is shown in the London Gazette as Spec. Employed by War Office 17.9.1915 to 7.3.1916. He joined Royal Flying Corps 3.4.1916 training at Roehampton as Balloon Officer, later with 13th Kite Balloon Section, served with Egyptian Expeditionary Force -.12.1916 to 31.10.1918, employed with the Egyptian Army 12.1.1917 to 11.l.1924, during which time he spent two years on his own gaining intelligence in the Southern part of the Sudan. He was awarded the Egyptian Order of the Nile 4th class (London Gazette 24th June 1924 ) “in recognition of valuable services rendered by him while employed with the Egyptian Army”, and also the Khedive’s Sudan medal with clasp Garjak Nuer. Transferred to Grenadier Guards 20.9.1924 as Captain. Worked with the Shanghai Defence Force as an Intelligence Officer. On 1.5.1927, Capt J P Shelley was secd for service on the Staff, 23.7.1929 Spec Appt temp to be G.S.O. 3rd Grade (temp) N China Comd. The Gazette of 12th November 1929 shows him as secconded for service under the Foreign office; In 1933 he became the first head of the Secret Intelligence Station in Jerusalem where he remained until replaced in 1936. Promoted Major 6.8.1934. Qualified for GSM for Palestine under RAF Staff. Lt Col (Brevet) 9.2.1938. In 1939 he went to Poland to join General Carton de Wiart’s Mission and was listed as Passport Control Officer in Warsaw. In February 1939 Shelley, then aged 51, married a Polish girl aged 20. On 1st September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, on 3rd September Britain declared war on Germany, on 5th September 1939, due to the rapid advance in Poland by the Germans, the British Embassy and Mission evacuated to Lukow, a village south east of Warsaw. Lukow became a target for the Luftwaffe and when it was bombed on the 7th September Shelley’s wife of six months became the only casualty. Shelley radiod back to London alerting them to the dangerous situation and praised the resolve and courage of three Polish female staff who begged to stay in contrast to two male colleagues who were ‘quite useless in crisis.. and anxious to leave’. Shelley and his colleagues got back to Britain via Roumania at the end of September/beginning of October. In December 1939 he was sent out by the S.I.S. to the Middle East, based in Cairo, where he visited Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Iran. He was awarded the Krzyz Walecznych 11.4.1941 “in recognition of distinguished services in Poland along with Col Adrian Carton de Wiart, VC, Lt Col C McVean Gubbins and three others.At the beginning of 1942 Shelley arrived in India to take charge of General Staff Intelligence. Z in Delhi. After the attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941, Hong Kong fell to the Japanese on Christmas Day with Singapore following in February 1942; the Japanese were now rapidly advancing in Burma.Shelley was given the task of establishing a group to report from the dense Burmese jungle any intelligence regarding Japanese positions and movements. This legendary group, given the nickname “The Johnnies”, comprised originally of 10 hand picked men who were selected partly from the Burma civil list and who were not only used to army and jungle life but had to show imense courage and the ability to survive on their own. Theywere generally recruited from the Forest Dept of Burma or had worked in forestry with timber companies, they worked in pairs, with each patrol having a minimum of eight men selected largely from ex Burma Riflemen who had escaped back to India. In 1945 Shelley was awarded the CBE, the recommendation from the Director of Intelligence India dated 16 May 1945 states “I have known Colonel Shelley since his arrival in India in the autumn of 1942. At that time there was no clandestine organization obtaining information about the Japanese in the area up to about 100 miles behind their foremost outposts in Burma. This task was entrusted to Colonel Shelley who raised a special force for this purpose with conspicuous success. During the fighting in 1942, 1943 and 1944, this organization produced more operational intelligence of direct value than any other field organization in this theatre. Much of the undoubted success of this organization was due to Colonel Shelley himself, both as a result of his previous experience in this type of work and by reason of the energy, initiative and enthusiasm which he has displayed and which gained him the affection of all his officers. Although 56 years of age and by no means physically fit as a result of his experiences in Poland in September 1939, he has never spared himself and has set a fine example of devotion to duty. His work and the results of his work has been uniformly excellent and he is eminently worthy of the award proposed”.In June 1945 Z Force was disbanded, the service given by the Johnnies evident from the awards bestowed, apart from Shelley’s CBE the Johnnies were also awarded 2 Distinguished Service Orders, nineteen Military Crosses and sixteen Burma Gallantry Medals. Field Marshal Viscount Slim stated later on meeting some of the men “I remember thinking to myself as I shook hands with some of them - you are very much braver men than I can ever hope to be”. See “The Johnnies” by Lt. Gen Sir Geoffrey Evans KBE, CB, DSO and “MI6, The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949” by Keith Jeffery for further details and an insight into the world of this remarkable man who died in December 1966.
The undress blue 10th Hussars uniform of Captain Lord William W Montague-Douglas-Scott, MC , comprising: scarlet sidecap with gilt piping, buttons and gilt and silver badge; blue jacket, gilt and silver plated collar badges, shoulder chains with rank stars, medal ribbons MC, WWI with MID and 1910 Coronation, gilt and crimson cord aiguilette with gilt tags; pair overalls with double yellow stripes; tailorÂ’s labels inside with officerÂ’s name. Plate 17Note: Lord Scott, ADC to the Governor of Canada (1920Â’s)
Three: 1914-15 star, BWM, Victory (104762 Cpl W T Booker, RE), GVF. Three: BWM, Victory (25485 Pte W C Garman Som LI), Efficiency medal Territorial, Geo V issue (2211900 Cpl, RE) VF, this trio attractively mounded in a frame with a Som LI and RE badges, wound stripe and wound badge and a sundry RA collar.
Four: Military Medal, Geo V first type (20010 Sapr A W Harman 11/Fd Co RE), 1914 star with clasp, BWM, Victory (20010 Spr A W Harman RE), VF. See inside back coverNote: Arthur Wallace Harman, Military Medal London Gazette 11.10.1916. A photocopy shows: “1st Birmingham War Hospital”, admitted to hospital 21.7.1916, discharged 8.9.1916 50 days, for Shell Shock, “after being buried for about 2 hours, unconscious same length of time. When he regained consciousness was unable to speak and hearing much impaired. His speech returned in about 2 hours, but he stuttered. The stuttering has gradually disappeared but the hearing has not improved..”~
Six:Military Medal, Geo V first type (17084 T Sjt Mjr J Hunter RAMC), 1914 star and clasp (Sjt), BWM and Victory (WO Cl 1), LS & GC Geo V military bust (7245154 S Sjt), MSM Geo V (17084 S Sjt, 5./F A. RAMC) VF See inside back cover.Note: Military Medal London Gazette 20.8.1919, MSM London Gazette immediate award 18.10.1916, some photocopies including pages from War Diary with lot. It is interesting to note that Lt A.M. Leake was with the 5th FA, RAMC when he won the bar to his Victoria Cross.~
Four: I.G.S 1908, 1 clasp N W Frontier 1908, (2nd Lieut C G P Gilliat, 1st R War R); 1914 star with clasp (Lieut C G P Gilliat, R War R); BWM (an erased replacement); Victory medal (Capt C G P Gilliat), GVF and neatly framed with a reprint photo of recipient and badge, with Memorial plaque to Cecil Glendower Percival Gilliat, (frame requires a little attention).Note: Captain Cecil Glendower Percival Gilliat of Arch Hall, Cy Meath, Ireland born 6.12.1884, educated at Cheltenham school and commissioned 2nd Lieut R Warwicks Regt 28.11.1905. He served in the operations in the Zekka Khel country on the N.W. Frontier of India, promoted Lieut 1.4.1909 and gazetted Captain posthumously to date from 12.9.1914. Gilliat served on the Western Front and died of wounds 14.10.1914 as a result of an attack on the village of Meteren on 13.10.1914. The following account was written by a fellow officer : “We were attacking a village called Meteren. My company was next to ‘Glennie’s’ when I fell. He saw at once, and ran to me with two of his men, and started bandaging my wound. It was a very plucky thing to do, as I was lying in a very exposed place, and the Germans were firing at me all the time. Glennie left me after he had put the dressing on, and said he would send some men to carry me back, but he was killed himself, shot through the forehead- when he got back to the trench” (Bond of Sacrifice refers). The action at Meteren resulted in 42 killed and 85 wounded for the 1st Warwickshire, one of those wounded was Lieutenant Montgomery, later to become F.M. Montgomery of Alamein.~
Four: I.G.S. 1908, 1 clasp N W Frontier 1908, 1914 star with unattached clasp, BWM, Victory (9634 Pte J Fuller, R War R), VF, with Royal Warwickshire cap badge, and photocopy of medal index card, and some photocopied research, photo of grave etc.Note: John Fuller, k.i.a. 21.3.1916 aged 33, a photocopy of page from War Diary shows position at Bienvillers “Battalion prepared to move to trenches. Relieve 2nd R Dub Fus....enemy shelled village with shrapnel and cannon shell in afternoon, 1 OR killed and 10 ORs wounded.”~
Four: I.G.S. 1908, 1 clasp N W Frontier 1908 (script engraved 8205 Pte C S Hunter 1st W Y Regt), 1914 star, unattached clasp, BWM and Victory, VF with West Yorkshire cap badge and aluminium I.d. ‘dog’ tag, and copy of medal index card.Note: Charles Sidney Hunter, born Sydney Australia 1884. In 1902 Pte Hunter joined the Scots Guards, in 1906 he transferred to 2nd Btn West Yorkshire Regt. After service in India, he was drafted to Malta before being sent to Albania as part of an International Peace Keeping force, returning first to Malta and then England. On 5.11.1914 his battalion arrived at Le Havre. On 18.12.1914 the battalion were on the Estaires-La Bassee road when an order was made for an attack on the German line, shortly after Pte Hunter was wounded in the thigh and had a fractured forearm. Due to the attack Hunter had to remain in the trench and, next morning, crawled to the casualty clearing station. He died of wounds on Christmas night 1914 and now rests at the Etretat Churchyard extension. An obituary, with photo, notice appeared in the Yorkshire Post.~
Four: 1914 star with clasp, BWM, Victory (1379 Tpr C G King RHG), 1911 Coronation medal (engraved Tpr King C 1379 R H Gds), VF. Mounted as worn, with HG lapel badge.Note: Charles George King, born 1891, enlisted 16.10.1909, a motor mechanic by trade. Part of the BEF he landed in France 16.8.1914, and was taken prisoner of war after receiving a gunshot wound to the left calf 28.8.1914 at Viesley, Cambrai. He was held as prisoner at Doebritz, E Prussia, repatriated to UK 9.1.1919 and sent to the POW reception camp at Ripon. Sold with research information and National Archive photocopies.~
Three: 1914 star, BWM, Victory (10428 Pte F Smith 2/Worc R, BWM reimpressed), GF with 3 cap badges and 3 City of Birmingham Peace Celebration medals (2 types) F. Three: 1914 star, BWM, Victory (7223 Pte H Lock, Devon R, Victory reimpressed). IGS 1908, 1 clasp NWF 1908 (re-engraved 434 Pte W Greatrix 1st R War R), VF; an erased Victory; WWII Pacific star and War Medal, VF.
Pair: BWM, Victory (T4/239887 Dvr W H Rose ASC), GEF, in remains of original box, with Memorial plaque to William Herbert Rose, with medal transmittal slip, confirmation telegram, reprint photo, etc. Note: William Herbert Rose, died of influenza at the 64th Casualty Clearing station, France 13.3.1919 and buried at Sudfriedhof, Cologne, Germany
A machine engraved silver cigarette case, owner’s monogram “JEH” on lid, and name inside “James E Haworth, Sept 8th 1926”, HM B&W B’ham 1923, GC; another cigarette case engraved with foliate panels and monogram “WSJ” to front and “AP Sept 8” to back, HM T&S Chester 1917 (some wear and dents); a Lusitania medal in box; 3 18 pdr shell cases; a folder of WWI postcard views of Ypres before and after the battle (some loose); a No 4 spike bayonet; sundry WWI battlefield relics, etc.
A quantity of military ephemera etc, including sundry post WWII training manuals, including Light Machine Gun, Machine Carbine, 2” and 3” mortar, etc; WWII period maps of Germany; a contemporary coloured chart showing WWII Divisional signs; a letter detailing how to make a sandbag, dated July 1915; a telegram dated 4th August 1914 to the Headquarters D Coy, Yorkshire Regiment from the Adjutant with the one word “Mobilize”; a pair of brass box spurs; several small items of trench art; an Afghanistan medal, 1878-80 (naming erased and edge rounded); and a pair of WWII German brass 37mm(?) brass shell cases with dummy aluminium heads. Various conditions, contained in a wooden box (lid AF)
An Imperial German Brunswick War Merit Cross, 1st class, the screw back with backing plate and domed nut embossed “D.R.G.M 653146”, GC, (slgiht verdigris to front); a 1914 Iron Cross 2nd class, with 5 brass commemorative bars attached to the ribbon “Maas-Aisne, Reims, Champagne, Somme-Schlacht, and Verdun”; and a small silvered Third Reich Life Saving medal, with ribbon. GC(3
3 WWII tin helmets: one with transfer badge of The W Yorks Regt (some wear), one plain (both d 1940) and another marked “Police” (no lining); an RA Lt Colonels khaki SD jacket, medal ribbons WWI etc and pair overalls; 2 wire cutters; sundry webbing equipment; an Essex fire service tin helmet and 2 others; sundry other items. Generally GC
J Hicks London Prismatic Compass, late Victorian, 2 ¾? diameter, worn leather case initialled ?E D B?, attributed to Captain Edward Darley Bullen RE (1865-1898); together with Lawrence and Mayo London ?Groper? Great War period Compass, 2? diameter, leather cased with ink ownership names of Major Hill 12th Pioneers, the latter three words crossed out with new owner?s name of S D Bullen, attributed to Colonel Stephen Darley Bullen DSO (1870-1951), both items stated to have been given by Colonel Bullen to his Batman Gunner Charles Parkinson; together with a 2nd World War period Air Ministry Stop Watch marked ?AM6B/221? + an Edward VII Volunteer Long Service Miniature Medal in Contemporary Glazed Wooden Frame
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