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Lot 328
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (4911 Pte. G. Soudan, Gordon Highrs.) contact marks, nearly very fine £120-160 George Soudan was born in Inverurie, Inverness. A Labourer by occupation and a member of the 4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders, he attested for the Gordon Highlanders at Aberdeen on 24 November 1893. With them he served in India, January 1896-September 1899 and South Africa, September 1899-July 1902. For his services he was awarded the India Medal with clasps for Punjab Frontier and Tirah, and the Queen’s medal with clasps for Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek and Belfast. He was discharged on 23 November 1909. 3/6466 Private George Soudan, 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, son of George Soudan of Inverurie, was killed in action, 14 December 1914, aged 37 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. sold with copied service papers and m.i.c. £120-£160
Lot 332
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (4004 Pte. Sh. Sth. R. Starsmere, 17/Lcrs.) part of surname corrected, nearly extremely fine £100-140 4004 Shoeing Smith R. Starsmeare (sic), 17th Lancers, died of disease at Matjesfontein on 23 January 1902. Entitled to the K.S.A. with two clasps. sold with damaged Royal Mint medal envelope on which is inscribed, ‘Nov 11th 1902 Bobs medal ribbon for South Africa Cape Colony & Orange Free State, 2 bars’; also with copied roll extracts. £100-£140
Lot 336
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal (13400 Tpr. . Stapylton, 68th Coy. 19th Impl. Yeo.), note: recipient’s initial not on medal, nearly extremely fine £180-220 13400 Trooper B. Stapylton, 68th Company 19th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry (Paget’s Horse), was seriously wounded at Lichtenburg on 12 March 1901, and died the next day. £180-£220
Lot 357
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Orange Free State, Defence of Mafeking, Transvaal (68 Tpr. H. Jenner, Protect. Regt. F.F.) good very fine £800-1000 Harry Jenner, who enlisted in the Protectorate Regiment in August 1899, served in ‘C’ Squadron at the defence of Mafeking, which unit suffered losses of 22 killed in the action at ‘Game Tree’ on 26 December 1899, the same occasion on which Sergeant Horace Martineau was awarded the V.C. Jenner was discharged at Rosebank in November 1900. sold with copy medal roll verification. £800-£1000
Lot 379
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (3034 Pte. A. Smales, 1st Yk. & Lanc. Regt.), faint jeweller’s mark on obv., good very fine £120 -160 William Smales (note different initial on medal) was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire. A Miner by occupation, he attested for service with the York and Lancaster Regiment at Pontefract on 14 August 1891, aged 19 years, 8 months. With the 1st Battalion he served in South Africa, March 1893-February 1897; India, February 1897-February 1899, and South Africa, December 1899-August 1902. He was discharged at Pontefract on 13 August 1903 having completed his period of service. Sold with copied service papers. £120-£160
Lot 418
1914 Star (6425 Pte. A. G. Lewis, 17/Lrs.) gilded; 1914-15 Star (13103 Pte. D. Douglas, C. Gds.) pair: Private G. S. Prowse, 10th Hussars 1914 Star (2957 L. Cpl., 10/Hrs.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2957 Pte., 10-Hrs.) nearly very fine and better (4) £120-160 David Douglas was born in Creich, Fife, and living at Balbeggie, Perthshire, enlisted at Cowdenbestle. Serving with the the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, he was killed in action on 30 November 1917. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial. george Scott Prowse was born and lived in Chudleigh and enlisted at London. Serving with the 10th Hussars, he was killed in action on 31 October 1914, aged 29 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. He was the son of Emma Prowse of Sowell’s Farm, Kentisbeare, Cullompton, Devon. £120-£160
Lot 419
1914-15 Star (2) (G-2104 Sjt. P. Paulson, R. Suss. R.; 1066 Gnr. J. A. Summers, R.F.A.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police (P.C. J. White, V. Div.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., 1st issue (James P. Duke); Silver War Badge (B.168330) and (4193), this re-numbered, both lacking pins; other unofficial medals (6), very fine and better (10) £70-90 Medal to Summers sold with original (damaged) medal card box of issue, with envelope addressed to ‘Mr J. A. Summers,78 Violet St., Sth. Penwell, Newcastle’; a large portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform; a group photograph of the recipient and others in uniform; an envelope bearing a message to his wife, and copied m.i.c. silver War Badge ‘B.168330’ awarded to Private George William Martin, Labour Corps, late Middlesex Regiment, who enlisted on 1 May 1916 and was discharged due to sickness on 23 January 1919. Silver War Badge ‘4193’ awarded to Private John Samuel Worsley, Army Service Corps, who enlisted on 20 December 1912 and was discharged due to sickness on 28 January 1915. £70-£90
Lot 422
British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (Lieut. A. S. Atkins; E. Buxton) good very fine and better (2) £50-70 Arthur Samuel Atkins was born on 18 June 1888 in Streatham, England and was educated at Crauford College, Berkshire and the South African College, Cape Town. He served in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Volunteer Rifles (Mounted Infantry) in the Natal Rebellion of 1906 and served in Brand’s Horse, September 1914-September 1915, seeing service in German S.W. Africa. Later, as a Captain he served with the 16th Mounted Rifles. He was then ‘granted indefinite leave to proceed to Europe for military service in the Imperial Army’ and on 17 July 1918 embarked on H.M.T. Galway Castle for England. There he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards Special Reserve, 5 September 1918. He then served in the Russian Relief Force, 12 May-22 September 1919. Lieutenant Atkins was demobilized on 31 December 1919. Sold with copied service papers and m.i.c. ethel Buxton served with the Y.W.C.A. and entered France on 6 July 1917. Sold with copied m.i.c. £50-£70
Lot 423
British War Medal 1914-20 (5) (Lieut. J. J. Bradbery; 2 Lieut. C. E. Irving; 2 Lieut. R. S. Johnstone; Lieut. F. Talbot; 2 Lieut. F. C. Wicks) very fine and better (5) £100-140 Lieutenant John James Bradbery, Royal Army Service Corps, entered into the France/Flanders theatre of war on 2 May 1915. Private Cecil E. Irving, 1/10th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, was later commissioned into the 3/152nd Punjabis - entitled to the Territorial Force War Medal. Captain Ralph Sidney Johnstone served in the Royal Field Artillery. Captain Francis Talbot served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Gunner Frederick G. Wicks, Royal Garrison Artillery, was later commissioned into the Indian Army. All with copied m.i.c. £100-£140
Lot 424
British War Medal 1914-20 (9) (220486 Pnr. E. J. Baunton, R.E.; 4698 Pte. P. Brannan, Ches. R.; 316802 Pnr. C. W. Cope, R.E.; 70621 Pte. F. S. Davidge, Devon R.; 240757 Pte. A. Edwards, Y. & L. R.; 51824 Cpl. Cpl. W. H. Gibson, The Queen’s R.; C. Grant; 124428 Gnr. A. Moxon, R.A.; ... 09TS W. Stevens, Tr., R.N.R.) ‘Brannan’ lacking suspension rod; ‘Edwards’ with bad contact marks; ‘Stevens’ worn; Victory Medal 1914-19 (10) (G-8399 Pte. F. W. Allen, The Queen’s R.; J.95151 E. Grima, A.B., R.N.; R-23552 Pte. H. W. Hale, K.R. Rif. C.; 78275 2 A.M. G. E. Howard, R.A.F.; S-3759 Pte. J. McBride, Gord. Highrs.; 362746 C. Nays, O.S.1, R.N.; 527 Pte. L. Robinson, R.A.M.C.; 22418 Pte. J. Thomson, A.S.C.; 40850 1A.M. J. G. Watson, R.A.F.; T.Z.12019 G. R. Wood, P.O., R.N.V.R.), medals to ‘Allen’ and ‘McBride’ lacking suspension rings, some with edge bruising and contact marks, fine and better (19) £100-140 With card box of issue lids for the medals to ‘Grant’ and ‘Hale’. £100-£140
Lot 425
British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. R. A. Brock) nearly extremely fine £40-60 Reginald Arthur Brock was born on 14 May 1869, the son of William Rees and Margaret Anna Brock. Educated at the Upper Canada College and Royal Military College, Kingston. Working for the family business of W. R. Brock Co. Ltd., Wholesale Dry Goods, of Montreal, Quebec; he was a Member of the Montreal Board of Trade and served on the Council, 1910-11. A Lieutenant-Colonel in the Canadian Militia prior to the war - commanding the 17th Duke of York’s Royal Canadian Hussars; in March 1916 he was appointed a Major in the Canadian Field Artillery, C.E.F., and served in England until 1917, commanding the 66th Battery R.C.A. He resigned his commission in October 1917 and returned to Canada. Rejoining the family company he was elected President in 1925. Brock was at various times a Governor of the Montreal General Hospital and the Verdun Protestant Hospital; a Director of a number of firms; President of the Stanstead Granite Company; member of the Chamber of Mines; member of the Montreal Golf Club, the St. James’s Club, and the St. Lawrence Yacht Club. He died at his home in Montreal on 17 March 1959. Sold with copied service papers and other research. £40-£60
Lot 426
British War Medal 1914-20 (4) (226337 T. Carr, L.S., R.N.; B.Z.4047 C. N. Hicklin, A.B., R.N.V.R.; F.32658 J. P. Rowe, Act. A.M.1, R.N.A.S.; 9389 W. G. Robbins, Welsh R.) ‘Hicklin’ with edge bruising, very fine and better (4) £50-70 Able Seaman Cyril Norman Hicklin, Drake Battalion, R.N. Division, R.N.V.R., died on 21 August 1918. His name is recorded on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial. william George Robbins was born in Porth, Glamorgan, and living at Pontyclun, Glamorgan, enlisted at Cardiff. Serving with the 2nd Battalion Welsh Regiment, he was killed in action on 20 September 1914, aged 29 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial. He was the son of William and Esther Robbins of 1 Coronation Street, Pontymister, Risca, Newport, Monmouthshire. £50-£70
Lot 427
British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (17944 Sjt. C. Raftree, L’pool. R.; 1537 Gnr. R. Hunter, R.A.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (8446 W. I. Hunter, S. Gds.; 40976 Cpl. D. Manson, High. L.I.); 1939-45 Star, clasp, France and Germany (sic); Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, V.R., unnamed, this lacking suspension; Lovat Scouts Yeomanry button pair: Private P. Smith, Royal Highlanders 1914 Star (8516 Pte., R. Highrs.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (8516 Pte., R. Highrs.) nearly very fine and better (12) £80-100 £80-£100
Lot 428
Victory Medal 1914-19 (9) (J.42503 A. Dainton, Boy 1, R.N.; L.3909 H. G. Dakers, O.S., R.N.; K.32128 W. Edwards, Sto.1, R.N.; 347399 F. W. Wilkins, C.E.R.A.2, R.N.; Ply.13854 Pte. E. F. Fisher, R.M.L.I.; 1DG-6044 Pte. F. Tizzard, 5-D. Gds.; 22046 Pte. F. Kirkham, North’d. Fus.; 235270 Pte. J. A. Cooke, L’pool. R.; 22300 Gnr. C. H. Gaudie, 3 D.A.C. A.I.F.) nearly very fine and better (9) £140-180 Boy 1st Class Arthur Dainton, R.N., was killed in action whilst serving on the battlecruiser Invincible at the battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. He was the son of Charles Henry and Ellen Dainton of 38 Granville Road, Woodford, London. officer’s Steward 2nd Class Henry George Dakers, R.N., was killed in action on 1 January 1915 when the battleship Formidable was torpedoed and sunk by the U.24 off Portland Bill. stoker 1st Class W. Edwards, R.N., died on 5 July 1918 whilst serving aboard the destroyer Landrail. He was buried in the Cefn Crib Baptist Graveyard. chief Electrical Artificer 2nd Class Frederick William Wilkins, R.N., was killed in action whilst serving on the armoured cruiser Black Prince at the battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. He was the husband of Beatrice C. Wilkins of 46 Tennyson Road, Copnor, Portsmouth. private Ernest Frederick Fisher, R.M.L.I., serving on H.M.S. Doris, died on 23 May 1918. He was the son of Mr & Mrs Frederick Fisher of 23 Falcon Road, Guildford, Surrey. His name is recorded on the Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial. francis Tizzard was born in Dorchester, lived in Tolpiddle and enlisted at Dorchester. Serving with the 5th Dragoon Guards, he was killed in action on 16 November 1914. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. frederick Kirkham was born in Walsall, Staffordshire and enlisted at Buxton, Derbyshire. Serving with the 12th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, he was killed in action on 14 March 1916. He was buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, and was the son of Joseph and Jane Kirkham of Reaps Moor, Staffordshire. lance-Corporal James Ashton Cooke was born in Haslingdon, Lancashire and enlisted at Manchester. Serving with the 6th Battalion Liverpool Regiment, he was killed in action, 21 October 1918, aged 20 years. He was buried in the Tournai Communal Cemetery Allied Extension and was the son of Robert and Edith Cooke of 39 Queen’s Road, Oldham. gunner Charles H. M. Gaudie, 3rd Division Ammunition Column, Australian Army Service Corps, died on 23 January 1920, aged 38 years. £140-£180
Lot 448
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (1379 Tpr. T.J.F.F.) good very fine, scarce £60-80 Awarded to a trooper in the Trans-Jordan Frontier Force; no name given on medal. The Trans Jordan Frontier Force, created in 1926, was disbanded on 9 February 1948 - many of its members being absorbed into the Arab Legion. £60-£80
Lot 478
General Service 1962 (2), 1 clasp, Borneo (RM.22252 G. Wong, Mne., R.M.; 23965049 Rfn. R. A. F. N. Harris, 3 Green Jackets) nearly extremely fine (2) £100-140 Medal to Harris in damaged card box of issue and with bronze Army Rifle Association medal inscribed, ‘L.M.G. Rfn. Harris, Best Recruit’. £100-£140
Lot 493
An extremely rare South Atlantic Medal awarded to Private R. W. Steward, Falkland Islands Defence Force, one of only 35 members of his unit to receive the Medal, most of whom were engaged alongside the Royal Marines at Government House on the night of 1-2 April 1982 south Atlantic 1982, with rosette (Pte. R. W. Stewart, F.I.D.F.), good very fine £2000-2500 Called out by Governor Rex Hunt on 1 April 1982, a little over 30 members of the Falkland Islands Defence Force reported to Government House at 7.30 p.m. Allocated to assorted duties by their C.O., Major Phil Summers, among them the defence of key points in Stanley such as the radio and power stations, ‘most of them really thought they were going out to die that evening’. This, then, the opening chapter of a memorable evening, the F.I.D.F. men all the while under the overall command of Major Mike Norman, R.M., who had but 57 Marines and 11 sailors from Naval Party 8901 at his immediate disposal. however, not long after his combined R.M., R.N. and F.I.D.F. force had been deployed, Norman was alerted by sounds of gunfire at the R.M. barracks located at Moody Brook - luckily unmanned but nonetheless stormed in the darkness by Argentinian Commandos using phosphorous grenades - as a result of which he decided to recall his force to the defence of Government House, where, in a spirited action against an elite team of Commandos under Lieutenant-Commander Giachino, he and his men held out until 9.30 a.m., inflicting three casualties, one of them, Giachino, later dying of his wounds. on their surrender, the British were disarmed and herded on to the nearby playing fields, enemy footage of them face down on the ground famously being released to the media at large. Unlike their comrades from the R.M., who were flown out to Uruguay, most of the F.I.D.F. men remained under house arrest for the duration of the War. stewart was among those presented to Governor Alan Huckle on the 25th Anniversary of the invasion, and, in common with his fellow 1982 veterans, received a special commemorative badge; see assorted websites for further information, including a photograph of Stewart meeting Governor Huckle. £2000-£2500
Lot 499
Operational Service Medal 2000, 1 clasp, Afghanistan (25078287 Gdsm. J. R. Hynes, Coldm. Gds.), in card box of issue, extremely fine £400-500 Guardsman J. R. Hynes, Coldstream Guards, transferred to the Reserve on 11 February 2004 having served 5 years 311 days. He was released from the Reserve on 12 October 2005. Sold with copied Certificate of Transfer to the Reserve and Discharge Certificate. other medals to the recipient were sold in D.N.W. auction 7 March 2007, lot 926. £400-£500
Lot 529
The Companion of Honour group of three awarded to Harold Arthur, Viscount Dillon, first Curator of the Tower of London Armouries, Chairman of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery, President of the Royal Archaeological Institute and of the Society of Antiquaries, Trustee of the British Museum and of the Wallace Collection, a leading authority on the history of arms and armour and medieval costume the Order of the Companions of Honour, G.V.R., neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘Harold Arthur Viscount Dillon 1921’, with length of neck ribbon; Jubilee 1897 (Harold Arthur Viscount Dillon PSA, PRIA); Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued, good very fine (3) £2500-3000 Ex Hayward’s Gazette, December 1975. harold Arthur Lee Dillon was born on 24 January 1844, and was educated at a private school at Eltham, Kent, and at Bonn University. He joined the Rifle Brigade in 1862, was promoted to Lieutenant in 1866, and served in India and Canada during the Fenian troubles of 1868-71. He left the regular army in 1874, but was promoted to Captain in the Oxfordshire Militia and eventually retired with the rank of Major in 1891. In the following year he succeeded his father as the 17th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen. on leaving the army Dillon became interested in modern military subjects such as equipment and dress, which eventually led him to the history of arms and armour and medieval costume. Dillon traced hundreds of illuminated manuscripts and illustrated works and made a series of brass rubbings. When he would enter a gallery he would focus only on those paintings with military themes, concentrating on sword hilts, armour and horse trappings, and skillfully copied them. his first works were published shortly after he left the army. These articles related to his home, Ditchley in Oxfordshire and described flint tools excavated from the area and objects from the collections in the house. He published many articles on the subjects of arms and armour and military history which appeared in academic journals such as the Archaeological Journal and Archaeologia as well as journals of popular and military general interest such as Antiquary and Colburne's United Service Magazine. He would also write on the subjects of arms and armour in pictures, on monuments and in Shakespeare, on tournaments, military equipment, soldier's arms, equipment and life. His first major undertaking was a revised edition of F. W. Fairholt's two volume Costume in England, published in 1885. Three years later he published a paper on the sections of the great 1547 Inventory of the possessions of Henry VIII. In his writings Dillon focused on the defensive and offensive characters of armour rather than as a work of art. many of his articles appeared under his own name, but he would sometimes use the pseudonym 'Armadillo.' The animal was so closely linked with Lord Dillon that the designer of a commemorative medal produced for the National Portrait Gallery used an image of an armadillo for the reverse of a medal bearing the portrait of Lord Dillon. although Dillon was associated with the Tower of London Armouries from 1892, serving as the consultant scientific expert, he was not officially appointed curator of the Armoury until 1895. He was tasked with producing an accurate and up to date catalogue of the collection. As curator he was able to reduce historic inaccuracies that had built up over the previous years. In 1827 Samuel Meyrick had brought expert knowledge to the collection, but it had then fallen into the hands of the War Office storekeepers and unfortunately most his work was lost. Labels were misplaced, and suits wrongly mounted and erroneous traditions had been established for public amusement. his research led him through the State Papers, especially those of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, in which he discovered interesting and valuable details about the making and issue of arms and armour. Dillon dismantled nearly every piece of armour in the collection to see how it was worn and the reason for certain constructional details. Most of the pieces were those of Henry VIII. Dillon even tried them on himself to see how the rivets and the joints of the harness worked and discovered that many of the suits had been wrongly assembled This exercise enabled him to rectify countless inaccuracies. He also examined the internal mechanisms of the crossbow, pistol and gunlocks. in 1910 Dillon's Illustrated Guide to the Armouries was published, being a summary catalogue of the arms and armour as he had arranged and exhibited them, and the various manuscript inventories of the collection. Dillon carried out a complete reorganisation of the collection in preparation for the new catalogue, and made a detailed examination of all the major pieces as well as identifying a number of those with important historical associations, and corrected inaccuracies. The catalogue was more in the format of a guided tour rather than a systematic catalogue. dillon considered his task to be one of preserving and studying a closed collection rather than expanding it and spreading knowledge of it outside the Tower. His two significant acquisitions for the collection were a pistol of Prince Charles, purchased in 1898 and a part visor of King Henry VII found in St James' Palace in 1906. One of his most valuable contributions was the Armourer's Album which appeared for sale in Paris and by Dillon's efforts was purchased and preserved in the Victoria & Albert Museum. The album contained a number of watercolour drawings of suits of armour of the Elizabethan period that were made at Greenwich, many of which were in the Tower, together with the names of the owners, which proved invaluable for establishing provenance and for identifying pieces in the Tower, Windsor and other private collections. lord Dillon contemplated retiring in 1909, but finally retired from his post of Curator in 1912, and handed the Armouries over to Charles Foulkes. Dillon left the Armouries on its way to becoming a modern museum. A catalogue had been completed, a programme of inspections of loans had been established, and regular inventory checks were carried out. Armour and weapons were displayed according to the techniques of the day, with labels and a guidebook describing the displays. he received an honourary degree of Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford and the Order of Companion of Honour by the King in 1921. Dillon served as a trustee to the British Museum, secretary to the Royal Commission on Westminster Abbey, President of the Royal Archaeological Institute of the Wallace Collection, Trustee and Chairman of the Board of the National Portrait Gallery, Honourary Member of the Armourers and Brasier's Company of London, Fellow of the British Academy and Antiquary of the Royal Academy. Harold Arthur Lee Dillon died on 18 December 1932. The group is sold with a ‘Souvenir Album of the Tower of London, with Historical and Descriptive Notes by The Viscount Dillon P.S.A.’ £2500-£3000
Lot 544
An extremely rare first issue Victorian Royal Marine M.S.M. dated ‘1848’ on obverse and with dated edge awarded to Sergeant W. Maxwell, R.M. royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, V.R., dated ‘1848’ below bust (Serg. W. Maxwell, R.M. 16. Jan: 1849) officially engraved naming, fitted with silver ribbon brooch, toned, nearly extremely fine £1600-1800 Ex Fevyer Collection, Spink November 1998. the first 16 Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medals were issued with the ‘1848’ obverse and ‘16 Jan 1849’ engraved on the rim. There were probably only 39 issued with the ‘1848’ obverse of which 20 are known, 8 with dated rim and 12 without the dated rim. william Maxwell, Sergeant Schoolmaster, Chatham Division, served 27 years. His annuity of £10 commenced on 24 April 1849. He probably died between December 1850 and December 1852. £1600-£1800
Lot 545
A rare Victorian Royal Marine M.S.M. dated ‘1848’ on obverse awarded to Sergeant Henry King, R.M. royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, V.R., dated ‘1848’ below bust (Hy. King, Serjt. R.M. Chatham Divn. 30 Years) officially engraved naming, edge bruising, otherwise very fine £1400-1600 One of probably only 39 Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medals issued with the ‘1848’ dated obverse. sergeant Henry King was born in the parish of South Hall, near Uxbridge, Middlesex. He was 20 years of age and a clerk by trade when he attested for the Chatham Division, 21st Company, of the Royal Marines at Rochester, Kent, on 27 October 1826. He served as a Private from 27 October 1826 to 20 January 1831 (4 years 86 days), as Corporal to 30 June 1840 (9 years 162 days), Sergeant to 3 August 1844 (4 years 34 days), Colour Sergeant to 24 July 1846 (355 days) and, on resigning his Colours, as Provost Sergeant to 5 April 1847 (1 year 255 days), and finally as Hospital Sergeant to 21 June 1861 (14 years 77 days) for total servitude of 34 years 239 days, of which 10 years 280 days were Afloat and 23 years 324 days were At Home. He embarked on the Orestes from February 1828 to March 1831 (3 years 24 days), the Winchester from July 1834 to June 1838 (3 years 336 days), and the Queen from October 1840 to July 1844 (3 years 285 days). Henry King was ‘Set Off the Rolls’ on 28 June 1861, discharged due to length of service. he was awarded the Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal and an Annuity of £5 from 13 January 1857. This sum was increased to £10 from April 1877 and he was still receiving this after 1884. Provost Sergeant King also received the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (Wide Suspender) without a Gratuity in January 1862. Sold with several copied pages of Attestation, Discharge, and Letter Books. £1400-£1600
Lot 546
Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, V.R. (Amos Smith, Sergt. 13th Co. R.M.L.I.) officially impressed naming, contact marks and overall wear, nearly very fine £600-700 complete records cannot be found of awards of the Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal from 1874 onwards but the total excluding the ‘1848’ obverse medals is likely to be no more than 100. £600-£700
Lot 547
Four: Colour Sergeant Daniel Burgess, Royal Marine Light Infantry crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (-. Burgess, R.M. H.M.S. Agamemnon) depot impressed naming, initial illegible through edge bruising; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Dl. Burgess, Cr. Sergt. R.M. H.M.S. Cadmus 21 Yrs.); Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, V.R. (Daniel Burgess, Col.Sergt. 53rd Co. R.M.L.I.) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, all cleaned and lacquered, the first with contact marks, therefore good fine, otherwise generally very fine (4) £1200-1500 ex Douglas-Morris Collection, DNW February 1997. daniel Burgess was born in Harwich, Essex, circa 1827, and was aged 19 years 6 months when he enlisted for the Chatham Division on 3 February 1847. He served afloat for 14 years of his total servitude of 21 years aboard H.M. Ships Asia (1845-51), Agamemnon (1852-56), Russel (1858-1862), and Cadmus (1864-68). During this period he received promotion to Corporal in September 1856, Sergeant in April 1859 and ultimately to Colour Sergeant in September 1866. He was amongst the men selected to receive the L.S. & G.C. medal when H.M.S. Cadmus paid off in June 1868, and was pensioned to shore on 20 July 1868. His M.S.M. Annuity commenced on 15 June 1895. £1200-£1500
Lot 548
Four: Colour Sergeant James Roach, Royal Marine Light Infantry china 1857-60, 2 clasps, Fatshan 1857, Canton 1857, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Js. Roach, Colr. Sergt. 47th Co. R.M.L.I. 21 Yrs.); Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, E.VII.R. (James Roach, Colr. Sergt. Plymo. R.M.L.I.) officially impressed naming, cleaned, nearly extremely fine (3) £1000-1200 ex Douglas-Morris Collection, DNW February 1997. only about 40 Edward VII Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medals were awarded, of which 13 are known extant. only one man, John Cree, received the award of the Royal Marine M.S.M. between George Hancock (known Victorian issue) and James Roach. Since the type of medal despatched to Colour Sergeant John Cree, R.M.L.I., on 8 February 1904 is unknown, this award to James Roach is either the first or the second Edward VII Royal Marine M.S.M. to be issued. james Roach was born in Kingsbridge, Devon, and enlisted in the Plymouth Division aged 19 years on 4 June 1852. He was drafted to H.M.S. Sybille in June 1853 and served ashore in China with the Royal Marine Battalion during 1857 prior to being disembarked in his home port in May 1858. He was promoted to Corporal in May 1858, to Sergeant in November 1861, and to Colour Sergeant in April 1869. His twelve years of service afloat was above average for a Marine, a period which included service aboard H.M. Ships Assurance (1864-68) and Implacable (1870-72). He was pensioned and discharged to shore with 21 years servitude on 19 June 1873, and not unusually was awarded his L.S. & G.C. medal without gratuity after he had left the service, retrospectively approved on 23 May 1874. £1000-£1200
Lot 549
Three: Colour Sergeant Philip Hoyle, Royal Marine Light Infantry baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Taku Forts 1860, unnamed as issued; Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, E.VII.R. (Philip Hoyle, Colr. Sergt. R.M.L.I. 1st March 1906) officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine (3) £700-800 ex Perkins Collection, Sotheby December 1990. only about 40 Edward VII Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medals were awarded, of which 13 are known extant. philip Hoil was born on 11 May 1836, at North Malton, Devon, and was a labourer when he attested for 12 years for the Plymouth Division on 9 July 1854, aged 18 years 2 months. He remained at Plymouth until he embarked on H.M.S. Cornwallis, from 15 February 1855 to August 1856, earning the medal for the Baltic Campaign before disembarking to his home Division. He embarked with the Royal Marine Battalion on H.M.S. Sanspareil in March 1857 and transferred to H.M.S. Princess Charlotte in November 1857, where he remained until disembarking at his home port in May 1861 after a period of over four years in the Second China Wars for which he earned the medal and clasp for Taku Forts 1860. He remained at the Plymouth Division until November 1863 when he embarked to H.M.S. Royalist as a super-numery and transferred to H.M.S. Aboukir, from which he was discharged back to H.M.S. Royalist in April 1864 and from which he disembarked to the Plymouth Division in April 1867. He remained with the Plymouth Division until May 1870 when he embarked to H.M.S. Sphinx until August 1870, when he transferred to H.M.S. Aboukir before being discharged to H.M.S. Niobe in August 1871. There he remained until paid off in July 1874 to H.M.S. Sphinx and the following month returned to Plymouth Division where he remained until discharged with 'Exemplary' character on 3 August 1875. during his service he spent 13 years 86 days afloat and 7 years 303 days ashore for total servitude of 21 years and 24 days, earning promotion from Private to Corporal in August 1858, to Sergeant in September 1862, and to Colour Sergeant in July 1869. He also reckoned 5 Good Conduct Badges towards additional pension. He was awarded his Royal Marine M.S.M. 31 years after leaving the service. sold with copies of Attestation papers, Statement of Services, Certificate of Services, and Record of Service. £700-£800
Lot 550
Four: Sergeant William Slater, Royal Marine Artillery baltic 1854-55 (W. Slater R.M.A. H.M.S. Cruizer) contemporary engraved naming; China 1857-60, no clasp (W. Slater R.M.A. H.M.S. Encounter) depot impressed naming; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Wm. Slater, Sergt. 16th Co. R.M.A. 21 Yrs.); Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, E.VII.R. (Wm. Slater, Sergeant 16th Co. R.M.A. 9 May 1908) officially impressed naming, the first two with contact marks, very fine, otherwise extremely fine (4) £1000-1200 l.S. & G.C. medal awarded February 1872 without Gratuity. only about 40 Edward VII Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medals were awarded, of which 13 are known extant. Sold with copies of relevant pages of Medal Roll for the Second China Wars for H.M.S. Encounter and Baltic for H.M.S. Cruizer. £1000-£1200
Lot 551
Pair: Sergeant Levi White, Royal Marine Light Infantry royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Levi White, Sergt. 6th Co. R.M.L.I.) engraved naming; Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., Field Marshal’s bust (PO. 14th Coy. Levi White, Clr. Sergt. R.M.L.I.) officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine (2) £500-600 a complete list of Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medals awarded between 1884 and 1918 has neither survived nor been reconstructed. Approximately 35 George V Admiral’s bust Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medals were awarded, of which 7 are known. £500-£600
Lot 552
Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., Coinage head (Ch. 885 W. J. Hake, Cr. Sgt. R.M. 11 Jan. 1936) officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine £400-500 approximately 17 George V Coinage head Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medals were awarded, of which 8 are known. william John Hake was born on 23 March 1860 at Greenwich, Kent, and enlisted in the Royal Marines on the 26 May 1875, at Chatham, aged 15 years 2 months, as a Drummer. He earned his first Good Conduct Badge in March 1880 and was to earn four more during his service, the last being awarded in March 1899. His record shows Embarked, Time Only from 6 July to 1 August 1881 when he was Paid Off to Flora (Tender) until March 1884, the last period from 28 February 1884 recorded as ‘Mail Steamer Passage to England’. He was promoted to Sergeant, Chatham Division, in March 1884 and embarked on the Rover in September 1885 until posted to Head Quarters, Chatham, from November 1888 where he was promoted to Colour Sergeant in October 1890. He embarked on St Vincent in November 1892 before returning to Head Quarters, Chatham Division, in November 1894, where he remained until discharged due to length of service on 22nd March 1899. He then enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve until ‘Completed’ in March 1905. He continued to attend Annual Drills until finally discharged on 22 March 1910 ‘Having attained the age of 50 years’. He married on 29 December 1880, and received his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 25 February 1889. £400-£500
Lot 553
Four: Colour Sergeant Robert Langham, Musician, Royal Marine Light Infantry british War and Victory Medals (Ch.15823 Mus. R. Langham, R.M.L.I.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (Ch.15823 Sgt. R. Langham, R.M.L.I.); Royal Marine Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Ch.15823 C.Sgt. R. Langham 28.2.1951) the first three mounted as worn, nearly very fine, the last extremely fine (4) £250-300 Robert Langham was born on 2 April 1893, in London, and was a schoolboy when he enlisted in the Chatham Division of the Royal Marines on 1 April 1908, a day before his 15th birthday; he re-engaged on 13 March 1923. He served in the 13th Coy, Chatham Division, from enlistment until discharge on 1 April 1932, after total servitude of 24 years of which 3 years 1 day was under age. Ranked as Bugler until 5 April 1910, he was promoted to Private (ranked as Musician) from 30 March 1912. He was elevated to Corporal only in October 1922 but quickly to Sergeant in October 1923. His final promotion was to Colour Sergeant on 20 September 1930. He was Band Sergeant from July 1929 to April 1932. At discharge, his character was rated as Very Good and he was in possession of 3 Good Conduct Badges. Upon discharge he became Pensioner No. 10969 with intended residence in Dursley, Gloucestershire. his Record of Service shows that he ‘Served with the Expeditionary Force in France from 2nd April to 11th June 1917’, and was paid a War Gratuity of £29 on 2 October 1919. He was also awarded a Long Service and Good Conduct Gratuity from 5 June 1929. He received the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 4 June 1924. In 1951 over 250 pensioners on the register were awarded the M.S.M. but without annuity and no more names were added. Sold with full research. £250-£300
Lot 554
Royal Naval Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (T.S.2814 A. G. B. Harper, Engn. R.N.R. ‘Willet’ Aux. Patrol 1918) minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £200-250 London Gazette 24 May 1919: Engineman Albert George Benjamin Harper, Royal Naval Reserve. 1072 immediate awards of the Meritorious Service Medal were gazetted to Naval Forces, of which 102 were awarded to the Royal Naval Reserve. £200-£250
Lot 555
A scarce first issue Victorian Army M.S.M. dated ‘1847’ on the edge awarded to Quartermaster T. C. Fitzgerald, 94th Regiment army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R., dated ‘1847’ on edge (.... Thos. Colley Fitzgerald, 94th Regt. 1847), rank erased, some edge bruising, very fine £400-500 Sergeant-Major Thomas Colley Fitzgerald, 94th Foot (Connaught Rangers), was awarded the M.S.M. with an annuity of £20 on 5 December 1847. Having been commissioned as a Quartermaster on 23 January 1847 he never drew his annuity. his M.S.M. was one of the first 107 produced with the date ‘1847’ impressed on the edge. Sold with some copied research. £400-£500
Lot 556
An extremely rare Victoria issue Army M.S.M. dated ‘1848’ on obverse awarded to Troop Serjeant-Major W. Ryan, 3rd Dragoon Guards army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R., dated ‘1848’ below bust (W. Ryan, Troop Serjt. Major, 3rd Dragoon Guards) edge bruising, very fine and extremely rare £2000-2500 Fewer than 10 M.S.M’s. with ‘1848’ below the Queen’s bust are believed to have been awarded to the Army. william Ryan was born in Co. Tipperary and attested for service with the Dragoon Guards on 19 February 1825, aged 25 years. Serving with the 3rd Dragoon Guards, he was promoted to Corporal in September 1830; Serjeant in June 1833 and Troop Serjeant-Major in March 1838. He was awarded the M.S.M. with an annuity of £10 in August 1849. Ryan was discharged at Chatham on 22 July 1857 and died c.1871. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research. £2000-£2500
Lot 557
Pair: Serjeant J. Heppleston, Royal Artillery china 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Bombr. John Hepplestone, No.4 B. 13th Bde. Rl. Arty.), officially impressed naming; note spelling of surname; Army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R. (Sgt. J. Heppleston, R.A.), first with suspension tightened/refixed, edge bruising, contact marks, good fine; second nearly extremely fine (2) £400-500 Sergeant John Heppleston, Royal Artillery, awarded the M.S.M. and an annuity of £10, 1 April 1902. The recipient who served in the Crimea and Second China Wars was the recipient of one of the last M.S.M’s. bearing Queen Victoria’s head. Heppleston died c.1908. Sold with some copied research. £400-£500
Lot 559
Three: Quartermaster Serjeant L. Silver, Cheshire Regiment india General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (2110 Q.M. Sergt., 2d Bn. Ches. R.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue (2110 Qr. Mr. Sgt., Ches. R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Q.M. Sjt., Ches. R.) contact marks, nearly very fine and better (3) £350-400 Louis Silver was born in Sutton, near Winchester, Hampshire in 1852 and enlisted on 7 October 1870. He served with the 2nd Battalion Cheshire Regiment in the U.K., India and Burma until discharged in 1898. Awarded the Long Service medal in 1890; he was recommended for the M.S.M. in March 1898 and awarded it, with an annuity of £10, in 1921. Sold with some copied research. £350-£400
Lot 560
Pair: Battery Sergeant-Major J. Cockburn, Royal Artillery canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (285 Cpl., R.A.), engraved naming; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (B.S. Mjr., R.A.) good very fine (2) £300-350 Battery Sergeant-Major J. Cockburn, Royal Artillery was awarded the M.S.M. with an annuity of £10 on 7 August 1914. He was commissioned or died the following year. £300-£350
Lot 561
A rare Great War M.S.M. group of four awarded to Lieutenant R. MacFadyen, Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Nyasaland 1915 (Nyasaland Vol. Res.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.), surname spelt ‘McFadyen’; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Vol., Nyasaland V.R.), mounted court style as worn, very fine and better (4) £400-500 M.S.M. London Gazette 13 March 1918. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with Armies in the Field’. it is believed that only five Army (Immediate) M.S.M’s. were awarded to Nyasaland forces. £400-£500
Lot 562
A rare Great War ‘France’ M.S.M. group of four awarded to Acting Leading Seaman G. M. Martin, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1914-15 Star (CZ-286 A.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (C.Z.286 Act. L.S., R.N.V.R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (CZ286 A.B.-H.G., Drake Bn. R.N.V.R.), mounted for display, good very fine, scarce (4) £600-700 M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1918. ‘... for valuable services rendered with the Forces in France’. a total of 119 G.V.R. Field Marshal’s bust ‘Immediate’ M.S.M’s. were awarded to Naval recipients, of which 47 were awarded to the Royal Navy and 72 to the Royal Marines. Of those to the Royal Navy, the majority were awarded to the R.N.V.R. £600-£700
Lot 563
Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Sjt. Dr. J. Adair, Scots Gds.) fine £200-250 sergeant Drummer John Adair, Scots Guards, was admitted as a Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London on 24 January 1903. At the time of his enlistment he was in possession of the Egypt Medal with clasp, Tel-el-Kebir; the Khedive’s Star 1882; the Queen’s South Africa with clasps for Belmont, Modder River and Orange Free State; the King’s South Africa with two clasps; the Army Long Service Medal and Jubilee Medal 1897. During his time as a Warder he was awarded the Coronation Medal 1911, and was awarded the M.S.M. in 1926. As a Yeoman Warder he originally resided in the Cradle Tower but from 27 September 1917 he lived in the Middle Tower. After a Yeoman career spanning 28 years, 4 months, Adair died at Brookwood, Surrey, on 3 June 1931, aged 73 years. sold with copied photograph and research. £200-£250
Lot 564
Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (11895 Sjt. A. L. Payne, R.F.C.) nearly extremely fine £500-600 M.S.M. London Gazette 11 April 1918. ‘For Distinguished Services in the Field in connection with Military Operations culminating in the capture of Jerusalem’. serjeant Payne came from Blackheath. A total of 141 ‘Immediate’ M.S.M’s. for the R.F.C. and R.A.F.; only 15 for ‘Jerusalem’. £500-£600
Lot 565
Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (5401 Sjt. A. S. Foster, 4/Aust. Pr. Bn.) good very fine £200-250 M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1919. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered with the Forces in France during the present war’. arthur Stanley Foster enlisted on 8 December 1914. After service in France he returned to Australia on 25 January 1919. £200-£250
Lot 566
Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (ME-264 Far. Sjt. G. Gilbert, 2/S.A. Eng. Troop) good very fine £160-200 M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations with the Forces in East Africa’. george Gilbert was born in England about 1884. He was 33 years of age, single and a carpenter by trade when he attested at Roberts Heights to the South African Expeditionary Forces on 1st May 1917, giving his next-of-kin as his mother Rebecca Gilbert of Newcastle, Australia. Taken on the strength from 28th April 1917, he was posted as a Sapper Carpenter of the Mounted Engineers. He was promoted Acting Sergeant from 2nd November 1917 and to Farrier Sergeant, 2nd South African Engineering Troop, from 9th April 1918. He embarked aboard H.M.T. Royal George for East Africa on 22nd July 1917. During his service he was treated for malaria on several occasions between 5th December 1917 and 12th December 1918: at Dar-es-Salaam, Morogosa, Lindi, St Amelia, and Kilossa. He disembarked from H.M.T. Ingoma on return, at Durban on 28th December 1918. He was demobilised on 13th January 1919 and discharged at Durban on 9th February 1919, giving his address as Lake Hotel, Boksburg. His trio was despatched apparently to his mother in Newcastle, Australia, on 12th June 1923 (medal trio not in lot). Sold with copied service papers. £160-£200
Lot 567
A rare George VI issue ‘Crowned Head’ M.S.M. group of four awarded to Squadron Serjeant-Major M. E. Swan, 1st Dragoons queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, Cape Colony (2852 Serjt., 1Dgns.) ‘Laing’s Nek’ clasp a contemporary copy; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (2852 Serjt., Rl. Dragoons); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2852 Sq. Sjt. Maj., 1st Dragoons); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, ‘crowned head’ (Sq. S. Mjr., 1-Dns.), mounted as worn, first two with some edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and better (4) £1200-1400 The Army L.S. & G.C. was announced in Army Order 189 of 1905; the M.S.M. in Army Order 44 of 1942. Only about 55 G.VI.R. ‘Crowned Head’ M.S.M’s. were awarded. £1200-£1400
Lot 569
A scarce George V ‘Commonwealth of Australia’ M.S.M. awarded to Gunner J. F. Chapple, Royal Australian Garrison Artillery commonwealth of Australia Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (78 Gnr. J. F. Chapple, R.A.G.A. 2nd M.D. 29.9.21) nearly extremely fine £400-500 Acting Bombardier J. F. Chapple, 2nd Military District, R.A.G.A. was awarded the Permanent Forces of the Empire Beyond the Seas L.S.& G.C. (Commonwealth Gazette 4 July 1914) and, as a Gunner, was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal (Commonwealth Gazette 22 September 1921). sold with copied research. £400-£500
Lot 570
A rare New Zealand Long Service group of four awarded to Captain J. Coleman, New Zealand Staff Corps, late Permanent Militia queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, South Africa 1902 (S.S.M. Instr., 2nd Regt. 10th N.Z. Cont.); New Zealand (Permanent Militia) L.S. & G.C. (No.171 1/c Gunner, N.Z.P.M. 1895), ring and straight bar suspension; New Zealand L.S.& G.C., V.R. (No.171 Bombr., No.1 Service Coy. N.Z.P.M. (1900)); New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R.., 4th issue, robed bust (Staff Serg. Major (W.O.) N.Z. Perm’t. Staff 1911) very fine and better (4) £900-1200 Staff Sergeant-Major J. Coleman is known to have been issued with a replacement New Zealand L.S.& G.C. - the above is the original. He is also known to have been issued with a replacement New Zealand M.S.M. - the above is the replacement; the original medal is known to exist. The New Zealand (Permanent Militia) L.S. & G.C. Medal instituted in 1887 and discontinued in 1898 was of the same design as the New Zealand Police L.S.& G.C. Medal; 105 are known to have been issued. joseph Trevor Coleman was born at Chester, England, on 10 January 1862 and arrived in New Zealand as a young man. His trade prior to enlistment was groom. He enlisted in the Armed Constabulary Field Force on 26 September 1881 and was transferred on 7 October to Opunake, being mobilised to ‘quell the Maori rising at Parihaka, on the West Coast of Taranaki.’ At this time, Parihaka was the centre of a very strong movement of passive resistance against the encroachment of Europeans. It was this movement which caused the Armed Constabulary to be called out to ‘quell the rebellion.’ Although his wife claimed after his death that he possessed the New Zealand Wars Medal, there is no evidence of this. Constable Coleman was transferred to the Waikato District on 4 March 1882. in 1886, after the passing of the Defence Act, the Permanent Militia was established and many personnel of the Armed Constabulary transferred to the Artillery Section of the Permanent Militia. This later became No. 1 Service Company of the Permanent Militia and, in 1902, the Royal New Zealand Artillery. Joseph Coleman served for 13 years in the artillery at Fort Takapuna, Auckland as an Artillery and Drill Instructor and was promoted to Bombardier. In 1898 he applied for a transfer to Dunedin and also permission to get married. He was transferred to No. 1 Service Company detachment at Lyttelton on 19 July 1898, three days after his marriage. He was detailed for temporary duty as a Volunteer Drill Instructor at Christchurch and was also employed as a Gunnery Instructor at Fort Jervois during the period of the Lyttelton Naval Volunteers 'in camp' training. Coleman was transferred on 15 May 1900 to the Militia and Volunteer Staff as a Sergeant Major Instructor, Permanent Staff, and was also an Instructor for the Mounted Corps, particularly the 1st and 2nd Canterbury Mounted Rifles, and assisted with training of personnel for the 3rd and 7th New Zealand Contingents for the South African (Second Boer) War. He was also involved in the Royal Visit in 1901. sergeant Major Coleman served with the South Island Battalion, 10th New Zealand Contingent in the South African War (Second Boer War). Major W.S. Pennycook stated that Coleman actually served in the rank of Regimental Sergeant Major in 2nd Regiment of the 10th New Zealand Contingent during May-June 1902. He was attached to the 9th Contingent at Durban in July 1902 for the return journey to New Zealand aboard the SS Orient. On arrival in New Zealand he was transferred to Auckland in October 1902. In late December 1906, he applied for a commission in the Permanent Forces. This was declined as was a similar application in 1908. In 1909 he applied for promotion as Warrant Officer and was appointed as such on the New Zealand Permanent Staff on 4 June 1909. He applied again for a commission in 1910 but this was again denied on the grounds that he did not have the attributes of an officer. Supported by a number of very senior officers, the case finally reached the Prime Minister. Coleman was posted to the 4th Waikato Mounted Rifles at Hamilton and on 12 November 1913 he was finally commissioned as a Lieutenant in the New Zealand Staff Corps, and subsequently promoted Temporary Captain on 19 January 1914, and appointed Adjutant. He was next appointed Group Commander at Hamilton. Captain Coleman was then posted as Commander of Group 20 at Wanganui, where on 29 November 1916 he suffered a stroke. He was retired on superannuation on 3 June 1917 after 25 1/2 years of continuous service and an aggregate of over 29 years total service. Joseph Trevor Coleman died at Christchurch on 23 April 1919 aged 57 years, leaving a widow and two children. He had married Elizabeth Ann (surname unknown but born at Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia) at Takapuna on 16 July 1898. joseph Coleman applied for the award of the New Zealand Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 28 December 1899 and was presented with this award on 24 May 1900 at Christchurch. He applied for the award of the Meritorious Service Medal in March 1905 and, at the same time, requested that his New Zealand (Permanent Militia) Long Service Medal be returned to him. This latter medal had been surrendered by Coleman in 1901 on being awarded the New Zealand Long Service and Good Conduct Medal as regulations did not permit the wearing of two medals with the same ribbons. This regulation had in the meantime been amended, and the medal was ordered returned to him on 15 May 1905. Sold with copied research. £900-£1200
Lot 571
A unique New Zealand M.B.E. and Long Service group of nine awarded to Captain and Quartermaster A. Mathieson, New Zealand Permanent Staff, late Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Modder River, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal (6533 Corl., A. & S. Highrs.), correction to service number; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (6533 Corpl., A. & S. Highrs.); War Medal 1939-45, unnamed; New Zealand Service Medal 1939-45, unnamed; Jubilee 1935, unnamed; New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal (W.O.1, N.Z.P.S.); Army L.S.& G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, New Zealand (W.O.1, N.Z.P.S.); New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, ‘Crowned Head’ (W.O.1, N.Z.P.S.), the group unmounted, some with edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and better (9) £1200-1500 Ex Matthew Taylor Collection, Christies November 1990. m.B.E. New Zealand Gazette 10 June 1943. ‘Captain and Quartermaster Archibald Mathieson, New Zealand Permanent Staff, of Timaru’. archibald Mathieson was born on 7 June 1881 at Kaysmuir Duns in the Parish of Duns, Berwickshire. He was the son of John William Mathieson, a Journeyman Mason born in Dumfries, and Margaret nee Dunholm, born in Coldingham, Berwickshire. A Draper by occupation, he joined the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers at the age of 15 years, and three years later on 4 May 1898 he was attested for the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. On 27 October 1899 he was posted to active service in South Africa and took part in the battles at Modder River, Paardeberg, and Dreifontein. From South Africa (in 1902) he was posted to India for the next 4 years 8 months but his records do not give details of that service, except for receiving a bounty for the extension of his services to complete 12 years with the Colours. He was promoted to Corporal on 10 February 1906. He was posted back to South Africa on 19 December 1906. He was permitted to extend his service to complete 21 years on 1 September 1909 and was promoted to Lance-Sergeant on the same day. He returned to England on 27 January 1910 and took his discharge on 25 November 1910 after 12 years 206 days service. his parents had migrated to New Zealand c.1905 and he arrived to join them in 1911 and apparently took up farming for a short while in Timaru. During the First World War he served with the New Zealand Temporary Staff on 1 September 1915-24 May 1920 but was unable to be passed fit for active service due to bouts of asthma. He remained, however, at Trentham and Featherstone Camps, training personnel in musketry skills for the Expeditionary Force, Archibald joined the New Zealand Permanent Force on 20 July 1920. He was promoted to Staff Sergeant Instructor on 25 May 1923, to WO 2 on 25 May 1926, and Warrant Officer in July 1929. mathieson was recommended for the New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal in September 1931, receiving it on 20 July 1932 in Christchurch. He was recommended for the award of the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 31 January 1934, which was approved on 20 February, and received it on 11 June 1934. On 6 May 1935 he received the Silver Jubilee Medal for the 25th Anniversary of the reign of King George V. In June 1940, after nearly 11 years as W.O. 1, he was promoted to Temporary Lieutenant and Quartermaster. Both the Award Notice and Defence Headquarter List for his New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal are annotated ‘now Lieutenant and Quartermaster’. This award was approved on 4 July 1941 and he received a piece of the ribbon issued on 21 September 1941 but it was almost 20 months before the medal was issued on 23 February 1943. captain and Quartermaster Archibald Mathieson was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.) in the King's Birthday Honours List of 1943. He was at that time holding a clerical and administrative appointment in the Permanent Staff at Timaru. He was discharged in Timaru as a consequence of reaching the age of retirement on 14 August 1946, and was posted to the Retired List on the same day. He retired to his home at 15 Lough Street, Timaru and died there soon after on 5 September 1947 in his 67th year. Sold with a quantity of copied research. £1200-£1500
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