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Click here to subscribeWWII group, comprising War and Defence Medals and Stars for 1939-45, Africa and Italy, extremely fine (5), plus WWI Victory Medal, awarded to 57372, Pte. H. Brook, West Yorkshire Regt., mainly missing gilt, otherwise fine and George V, Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, awarded to T4-247604, Sjt. W. Wishart, RASC, minus suspender and with some small scratches and discolouration spots, otherwise fine (7)
WWII Medals: War and Victory Medals, with Stars for 1939-45, France and Germany, Africa with 1st Army clasp, Italy, Burma, Atlantic and Pacific, first two with slight discolouration, otherwise mainly extremely fine (with postal box from RASC & ACC Records, addressed to Mr. H. Schofield, containing entitlement slip, latter covered with clear tap), plus WWI Victory Medal, awarded to 45654, Pte. H. Gorton, Lancashire Fusiliers, minus gilt, otherwise fine (9)
WWII Medal groups: War and Defence Medals with Stars for 1939-45 and Burma and War and Defence Medals with Stars for 1939-45 and Atlantic with rosette, plus Efficiency Medal with Territorial bar, awarded to 7357382, Pte. W. D. Vagg, RAMC, latter with minor scratches, otherwise mainly extremely fine, with two brooch bars (9)
WWII Medal group, comprising War and Defence Medals and Stars for 1939-45 and France and Germany, mainly extremely fine, with entitlement slip and postal box addressed to Mr. C. Lolley, together with Royal Berkshire Regt. AR prize medals, two for 'Tug-of-War', one marked 'Pte. Lolley', mixed condition (3) (7)
WWII Medal group, comprising War and Defence Medals and Stars for 1939-45 and France and Germany, Defence Medal has small knock and some discolouration, otherwise mainly extremely fine, with Service and Release Book in name of 1635955, LAC C. Nicholas and Air Ministry postal box with entitlement slip, incorrectly addressed to C. Micholas Esq., plus enamelled RAF pendant brooch (5)
WWII Medal groups: War and Defence Medals and Stars for 1939-45 and Burma, latter with discolouration to rev., on brooch bar, War and Defence Medals and Stars for 1939-45 and France and Germany, three on brooch bar and War and Defence Medals and Stars for 1939-45 and Africa, plus four War Medals, one minus suspender, otherwise mainly extremely fine, unless stated and Royal Berks cap badge (17)
USA Medals: Vietnam Service, Kuwait Liberation, National Defence and Pennsylvania National Guard, World War, three boxed, Soviet WWII Medal, WWI Birmingham (UK) Peace Celebration, some discolouration and Safe Driving award, plus three 'Desert Storm' cloth patches, mainly extremely fine, unless stated (10)
Royal Navy Medal group, comprising, WWI pair, George V LS & GC and WWII, War and Defence Medals with Stars for 1939-45, Atlantic, Africa, Burma and Italy, awarded to J.88748, R. E. W. Browning, Signal Boy RN (Signaller, HMS Victory on LS & GC), WWI pair only fair, with some rubbing to rim of War Medal, otherwise mainly extremely fine, on two brooch bars, in small concertina style carrying case, together with Certificate (and copy) for Wounds and Hurts on HMS Camito, Service Certificate and History Sheet etc. (10)
A named Lloyds Patriotic Fund vase and cover, Benjamin Smith, London 1807-08. of classic Greek Volute Krater shape, the cover with a cast figure of a lion walking on a plain circular base, the separate shoulder with gadroon border, fruiting laurel border and scroll border on matted grounds, the main body with a repoussé florid meandering scroll frieze, on a matted ground with rope twist borders, flanked by a pair of tall vertical handles with rosette bosses and rope twist banding over a rosette terminal and a formal foliate spray, the front with a chased panel of Hercules slaying the Hydra, the verso with Britannia, seated, her raised hand supporting a figure of Victory, all over a formal band of anthemions and foliate sprigs upon the stiff leaf and acanthus chased socle foot, the shoulder with engraved inscription: ‘From the Patriotic Fund at Lloyds to Major Hamill of the Royal Regiment of Malta in Testimony of his gallant conduct at the Battle of Maida in Calabria on the 4th of July 1806 in which the pride of the presumptuous enemy was severely humbled and the superiority of the British troops most gloriously proved’; together with the original fitted oak case with inset brass name plaque and trade label to the lid interior, 39cm high, 123oz, Note: MAJOR JOHN HAMILL, John Hamill came from County Antrim; he was probably born in the 1770s and is known to have been a Roman Catholic. The plain of Maida has been described as being like a ‘great natural amphitheatre’, with the coast forming slightly less than half its circumference and two rivers, the Ippolito and Amato, roughly bisecting the plain, the surface of which was dry dusty scrubland with patches of marsh. A French force estimated at about 7,000 men was identified, camped on the eastern ridge of the amphitheatre and on 3rd July Stuart decided to march his army into the plain early on the following day in order to tempt the French to engage him in battle. At dawn on 4th July 1806 the British brigades formed up and marched off south from their camp on the beach, wheeling left when they reached the river Amato, with the brigades forming three echeloned lines, Cole’s brigade comprising the army’s left flank and third line. As the British brigades deployed, the French came down the slopes to meet them and the first British line, the brigade on the right wing comprising the light infantry battalion and some companies from the Royal Corsican Rangers and Royal Sicilian Volunteers, received the initial French onslaught. As the British right wing became engaged, so Hamill was ordered to take some grenadiers across the Amato to reinforce the right flank and it may have been while in the thick of the fighting in that sector of the battlefield that he received what he later described as a ‘trifling wound’ - probably from a musket ball. The battle swung Britain’s way in the first moments of the action since two close- range, accurate and rapid volleys of musketry from the light infantry battalion broke the French advance on the British right and the collapse of the French left wing was quickly followed up by a British pursuit with the bayonet that wrought carnage. Although the battle was brief, sustained fighting took place along the length of the British line - the 78th Highlanders in the centre sustaining heavy casualties - and at one point it appeared that the British left wing would be driven in, only the timely appearance of a battalion of 20th Foot on the British left flank saving Cole’s brigade from heavy loss and potential collapse. Hamill left little record of his part in the battle of Maida, apart from the deprecating reference to his wound, and so we cannot be sure either where he sustained it or what it comprised. He was, though, one of twelve officers wounded and the only officer from his brigade to sustain a wound. Total British casualties, killed and wounded, for Maida were 327. It was estimated at the time that the number of French killed was about 700; the numbers wounded and captured varied from 1,000 to 3,000. By any standards it was a famous victory and a rare one at that time for the British army: this accounts for the rapture with which news of the battle was received in Britain when Stuart’s dispatch was published in The London Gazette of 5th September 1806. Stuart was knighted, given a pension and permitted to use the title ‘Conte de Maida’ given him by the king of Naples; a gold medal was eventually struck and presented to each of the battalion commanders at the battle. When the Committee of the Patriotic Fund met on 16th September, it resolved that Stuart should receive a vase of the value of 300, ‘in testimony of the high sense entertained by this Committee of his gallant conduct at the battle of Maida, ‘in which the pride of the presumptuous Enemy was severely humbled, and the superiority of the British Troops most gloriously proved’’. At the same meeting awards of 100 each were resolved for each of the field officers (lieutenant-colonels and majors) wounded at the battle, wounded officers of lower rank receiving awards of 50 and 25 and wounded men receiving proportionate financial recompense . Listed among those due to receive an award of 100 was ‘Major Hammill, of the Royal Regiment of Malta’. As was usual with the Patriotic Fund, recipients of awards were contacted by the Fund to ask how they would like their award made: in the form of a sword, or of a vase or in cash. As we now know, Hamill opted for a vase, although there is now no surviving correspondence concerning this. John Hamill was buried close to where he fell in Anacapri but re-interred in the town cemetery in 1831 when one of his descendants visited Capri, saw to the re- interment and erected a plaque to his ancestor’s memory. Restored in 1914, the plaque still remains in the piazza of Anacapri and reads: TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN HAMILL A NATIVE OF THE COUNTY ANTRIM IN IRELAND AND MAJOR IN HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S LATE REGIMENT OF MALTA, WHO FELL WHILE BRAVEL YRESISTING THE FRENCH INVASION OF ANACAPRI ON THE 4TH OF OCTOBER 1808, AND WHOSE MORTAL REMAINS ARE DEPOSITED NEAR TO THIS PLACE THIS TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION AND RESPECT HAS BEEN PLACED BY HIS KINSMAN AND NAMESAKE. OCTOBER 3RD 1831 REQUIESCAT IN PACE According to the records of the Patriotic Fund, Hamill’s silver vase cost 97 7s 11d and was delivered by Messrs. Rundell, Bridge and Rundell on 17th November 1808, some six weeks after his death. In view of this, it must be assumed that the vase was sent to the regiment in Sicily, to which its remaining officers and men had been paroled following the fall of Capri, and then returned to Hamill’s next-of-kin. The vase is recorded in 1918 as being in the possession of a Mr Andrew Hamill Ford of Yatton in Somerset. Stephen Wood MA FSA, Literature: Hopton, R. The Battle of Maida 1806 (Barnsley, 2002). Knowles, Sir L. The British in Capri 1806-08 (London, 1918). Mackesy, P. The War in the Mediterranean 1803-10 (London, 1957). Note: A longer and more detailed account of the life and military service of John Hamill will appear in a forthcoming issue of The Irish Sword, journal of The Military History Society of Ireland. The Lloyds Patriotic Fund Vase originally presented to Major General Sir John Stuart (mentioned previously) also at Calabria, sold Sotheby’s London, 11th November 1971, lot 15 (1,700), 167. MAJOR JOHN HAMILL, John Hamill came from County Antrim; he was probably born in the 1770s and is known to have been a Roman Catholic. Commissioned ensign in 2nd Regiment, The Irish Brigade, with effect from 1st October 1794, he was promoted lieutenant on 25th December 1795. Hamill's first regiment was one of six such regiments raised in Ireland in October 1794 from the remnants of the famous Irish regiments of the Royal French Army. Most of the officers of Britain's Irish Brigade had previously served the King of France and all were Roman Catholics: they we
CASED FISH: Fine early preserved roach by E Hesse 59 Chisenhale Road, Old Ford "First Class Exhibition Medal", glazed bow front case 18. 5"x12"x5", blue background, paper label as above, fully reeded over rock base, gilt lined, gilt text reads "caught by F. Barrows in the Lea Aug 7th. 1891, wgt 1lb 8oz"
A Great War Military Cross group of four to 2nd Lieutenant T.H. Evans, Royal Fusiliers, M.C., 1914-18 War Medal, Victory Medal, Belgian Croix de Guerre with oak leaf to the ribbon, mounted for wearing. The award of the Military Cross is published in the London Gazette for 11th May 1917 ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in charge of a carrying party….’.
A Great War group with Memorial Plaque to P/O 5673 Pte E. W. Hardiman R.M.L.I., 1914-15 Star (mis-named to Harding), 1914-18 War Medal and Victory Medal, Memorial Plaque; together with the original card boxes and envelopes of issue, memorial scroll, and covering letter to next of kin. The memorial scroll gives Private Hardiman’s ship as H.M.S. Ramsey. The Ramsey was an armed boarding ship which was sunk on August 8th 1915 near Kinnaird Head by the German minelayer ‘Meteor’, which had been flying Russian colours at the time.
A group of five medals to Squadron Leader V.S.E. Lindop R.A.F. O.B.E., O.B.E. (cased, with letter of issue dated 8th April 1946 to Squadron Leader..retired), 1914 Star with 5th August-22nd November 1914 bar (Captain R.F.C.), 1914-18 War Medal and Victory Medal (Captain R.A.F.), IGS with Waziristan 1919-21 and Waziristan 1921-24 clasps (F/L R.A.F.), the last four mounted and with associated mounted miniatures; together with a leather cased Christmas Card ‘To Squadron Leader Erskine Lindop and the Officers of 208 (A.C.) Squadron…1927… from Albert’ (ie the future George VI), and a tennis award. The recipient enlisted in the R.F.C. in June 1914, before being taken prisoner in September 1914.
A DUKE OF ARGYLE & SIR ROBERT WALPOLE MEDAL Obv. The Duke of Argyle stands wearing robes and collar of the Garter, leaning on a column on which is his coronet, behind him a trophy of arms. "The Generouse Duke of Argyle" around and "No Pentioner" below. Rev. The Devil leads Sir Robert by a rope towards the mouth of "an infernal beast". "Make Room for Sir Robert" around "No Excise" in exergue. ** 37mm diameter. Together with a quantity of various coins including a George III 1797 cartwheel penny. ** Detailed on www.charlesriley.co.uk
A Collection of Third Reich Medals and Political Awards: Faithful Service Decoration 1938, 2nd class in silver for 25 years, War Merit Medal War Merit Cross, 2nd class bronze without swords 1939, (3). War Merit Cross 2nd class with swords 1939. Iron Cross 2nd class. West Wall Medal 1939. Cross of Honour of the German Mother 1938. Two fire fighting awards. Imperial award 1848 - 1908 (13). Award Documents Iron Cross 1st Class (S.S mn. Atur Veller, Frunsberg Mar 7 1942) and Iron Cross 2nd Class to (S.S. Mn. Atur Veller, Frunsberg, Dec 5 1941).
Record Of Valour, The Battles of the British Army in Portugal, Spain and France, from the year 1808 to 1814, under the command of Englands Great Captin Arthur Duke of Wellington, edited, published and sold by Edward Orme, Bond Street, London, 1815, a bronzed circular box and cover, the lid with Wellington's profile, after Porter, the base depicting a winged maiden 'Picture Medal, Edw. Orme Dinex, Bond Street, London, containing thirteen engraved cards with coloured wash, depicting battles scenes, the reverse of each with printed description, in its original gilt embossed red leather hinged case, 3in (74mm).
A Great War D.S.O. Group of Seven to Lieutenant-Colonel H.F. Warden The Queen's Regiment, Twice Wounded South Africa War, Twice Mentioned in Despatches, The European Great War, Twice Mentioned in Despatches. i) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top ribband bar. ii) Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Transvaal, Relief of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Tugela Heights, Cape Colony (Capt. H.F. Warden. Rl. W. Surrey. R.). iii) King's South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (Capt. H.F. Warden The Queen's). iv) 1914-15 Star (LT. Col. H.F. Warden. The Queen's R.). v) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Lt. Col. H.F. Warden). vi) Defence Medal. vii) Group of seven related dress miniatures, (cased). viii) Photographs of recipient, (3). All good very fine, mounted for display. D.S.O. London Gazette 1.1.1917. Lieutentant-Colonel H.F. Warden, D.S.O., born 10th March 1871, educated Haileybury College; Sandhurst; 2nd Lieutenant, The Queen's Regiment 9.10.1890, Lieutenant 11.9.1892, Captain 20.10.1898, Major 2.3.1913, Lieutenant Colonel 5.11.1918; late commanding 1st Battalion the Queen's Regiment, retired 1920.
Afghanistan Medal 1881 to Private H.Martin of the 66th Foot, killed in action Maiwand (B/707 Pte.H.Martin. 66th Foot). The Lions of Maiwand. On the 27th of July 1880, at the battle of Maiwand, 2700 British and Indian troops, including the 66th Foot (later the Royal Berkshires), under Brigadier George Burrows, engaged an Afghan force of over 25,000, led by the rebel leader Ayub Khan. Although hugely outnumbered, and with many young recruits who had not completed weapons training, the 66th fought with extraordinary bravery. After finally being over-run by continual Afghan attacks, led by the fanatical Ghazi, the 66th fell back, a group of around 200 rallied on the south bank of a near-by ravine at Khig, where Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Galbraith uncased one of the regiments colours, after already hard hit, he died on one knee, clutching the standard. The group were surrounded, their CO was dead and they were doomed but, losing men all the while, they retired slowly through the village, effecting a second stand in a small mud-walled garden, until the remaining officer's and men of the 66th, to a man, supporting the colours, each gave their lives protecting them, finally the few survivors, fixed bayonets and charged into immortality. The last stand of the eleven. Even in the flush of their victory, the Afghans were awed by the end of the 66th, "Surrounded by most of the Afghan army, they fought on until only eleven men were left, inflicting enormous loss on their enemy", wrote one of Ayub's senior artillery officer's. "These men charged out of the garden and died with their faces to the foe, fighting to the death. Such was the nature of their charge, and the grandeur of their being, that although the whole of the ghazis were assembled round them, no one dared approach to cut them down. Thus standing in the open, back to back, firing steadily and truly, every shot telling, surrounded by thousands, these officer's and men died; and it was not until the last man was shot down that the ghazis dared advance upon them their conduct was the admiration of all who witnessed it". For the survivors of the 66th the retreat over the 45 miles to Kandahar was an ordeal in its self, with no water and a victorious army still in pursuit, the rearguard action was as fierce as the battle.
A Rare South African Campaign Group of Three to Colour Sergeant J. Leedham, 2nd, 21st Foot & Cape Mounted Rifleman. South Africa Medal, one clasp, 1879, (2208.Corpl. J. Leedham. 2-21st Foot.). Queen's South Africa Medal, 2 clasps; Wepener,Cape Colony (1521 Serjt: J.R. Leedham. Cape M.R..). Cape of Good Hope Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, VR (1521.1/ Cl: SGT. J. Leedham. Cape M. Rif.). The Cape Mounted Riflemen was a fully militarised unit of the Colonial forces, formed in 1878 from the Frontier Armed and Mounted Police. The CMR fought in the Moorosi campaign in 1879, the Basutoland Gun War (1880-1881), the Matabeleland campaign (1893-1894), the Bechuanaland campaign in 1897, and the Second Boer war (1899-1902). Sergeant Major James Robert Leedham was killed in action at Jammerberg Drift, near Wepener, South Africa on April 10, 1900.
A Boer War Group of Three to Drummer J. Smith, Norfolk Regiment. Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Orange Free State, Cape Colony (3590 Drmr J. Smith. Norfolk Regt), fine King's South Africa 1901-02, two clasps, fine Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, GRV, swivel type (3590 Dmr J.H. Smith. Norfolk Regt), fine. 1914 Star to Private J.H. Smith Army Service Corp (M1-8402 Pte J.H. Smith A.S.C.), fine, together with a Princess Mary tin Xmas 1914
Four: King's South Africa Medal 1901-02, 2 clasps, to (4983 Pte. G. Giles, Ln. Lanc Regt). King's South Africa Medal 1901-02, 2 clasps, to (3067 Pte P. Dowd. Lanc Fus). King's South Africa Medal, 1901-02 2 clasps, to (5086 Pte A. Berry York & Lanc Regt). King's South Africa Medal 1901-02, 2 clasps, to (7475 C.QR:- MR:-SJT: J. Isaacs. A.S.C.), (4).
A Great War Pair to 5162 Pte.M. Byrne, 7th Bn. Leinster Regiment, Killed in Action 31/08/1916;. British War and Victory Medals (5162 Pte. M. Byrne. Leins. R.). Great War Bronze Memorial plaque, ' Martin Byrne'. Private Martin Byrne, Son of Mrs Sarah Byrne, of Drogheda Row, Monasterevan, Kildare and of the 7th Battalion Leinster Regiment, 16th Irish Division, 47th Brigade, was killed in action on the 31st August 1916 at the battle of the Somme, he was just 19 years of age, he has no known grave and is remembered with honour at the Thiepval Memorial to the missing. (From a hand-written poem found with medal group). So Long As Love Abides. They laid him where he fell in Battle, far away from me,. Where iI cannot plant his grave with flowers of memory. That last sweet solace is denied, an exile there he lies,. Underneath the alien stars and unfamiliar skies. Yet the part of him I loved, the spirit and the mind. Is clothed in immortality and cannot be confined,. To the faithful death is life and no dark gulf devides,. He will dwell within my heart so as love abides.
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