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A post-war B.E.M. group of seven awarded to Warrant Officer Class 2 J. F. Wren, Royal Army Service Corps british Empire Medal, (Military) E.II.R. (T./91617 A./W./O. 2 John F. Wren, R.A.S.C.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Arabian Peninsula (T./91617 W.O. Cl. 2, B.E.M., R.A.S.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., Regular Army (T./91617 Sgt., B.E.M., R.A.S.C.), mounted as worn, generally good very fine (7) £250-300

A military B.E.M. group of three awarded to Major E. A. Morris, Royal Artillery, late Royal Army Service Corps, awarded the B.E.M. for his service in Jordan during 1958 british Empire Medal, (Military) E.II.R. (S/22816052 Sgt. Evan A. Morris, R.A.S.C.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (S/22816052 Sgt., B.E.M., R.A.S.C.); General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Borneo (Capt., B.E.M., RA), mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (3) £280-320

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Maida (Saml. Smith, 35th Foot) refixed suspension claw, edge bruising and heavily polished, thus fine £700-900 ex Glendining’s, May 1903; only 16 Military General Service 1793-1814 Medals are known to have survived to members of the 35th Foot. samuel Smith, a frame work knitter, was born in Arnold, Nottinghamshire and enlisted in the 35th Foot in July 1799, aged 19 years. just over two months later, ‘he received a gunshot wound in the head in action in Holland on 2 October 1799’ (his discharge papers refer), so whether he was fit enough for duty at the capture of Malta in the following year remains unknown. But he was certainly back on the strength of the 1/35th at the time of the Sicily operations and Calabria Expedition in 1806, for, as further verified by his discharge papers, he received another gunshot wound ‘at Maida in the right hip on 4 July 1806’. in 1807 the Regiment was sent to Egypt, from there proceeding to Italy and taking part in the capture of the Ionian islands in 1809, before returning to England and then to Ireland in 1817. smith was finally discharged in Brighton in November 1818 (WO 97 & WO 116/28 refer), and in the 1851 census he is shown as living at 162 Knight’s Square, Arnold, Nottingham ,with his wife Susannah. Described as a ‘F.W.K [Frame Work Knitter], Chelsea Pensioner’, he was then 71 years of age; just 46 survivors of the 1/35th lived to claim the Medal and ‘Maida’ clasp, the Regiment’s only such entitlement. £700-£900

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Sahagun & Benevente (James Chatterton, 7th Light Dragoons) edge bruising, nearly very fine £1000-1200 james Chatterton was born in the parish of Bennington, near Boston, Lincolnshire, where he enlisted in the 7th Hussars in August 1804, aged 18 years. the Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel R. Hussey Vivian, arrived in Corunna in November 1808 and, having fought at Sahagun and Benevente - in which battles Chatterton was present as a member of Captain Loveless’s Troop - returned to England via Corunna in January 1809, Chatterton being embarked in the transport Sykes. The regiment did not return to the Peninsula until September 1813, when, still under Vivian, it was engaged at Orthes in February 1814, where it made a number of charges, but, as revealed by the medal roll (WO 100 refers), Chatterton’s claim to the ‘Orthes’ clasp was disallowed, for he had been taken P.O.W. in a skirmish on 28 December 1813. He rejoined the depot ‘From a French prison’ on 8 May 1814, and returned to duty in the Regiment on 25 July 1814, in good time for the forthcoming Waterloo campaign. at Waterloo, the 7th Hussars formed part of the 5th British Cavalry Brigade, with the 2nd Hussars K.G.L. and the 15th Hussars. The Brigade was heavily involved in the retreat from Quatre Bras and the great battle itself, making several charges during the day. The 7th formed the rear-guard during the retirement from Quatre Bras, where, oddly enough, the enemy advance-guard was the 7th (French) Hussars. The two regiments manoeuvred against each other the whole way from there to the final position at Mont St Jean.The 7th, 380 strong, lost 56 killed and 99 wounded during the Waterloo campaign; returning to England from Paris in July 1816. chatterton was discharged in Manchester in February 1819 on reduction of the Regiment, with 14 years 230 days service, plus 2 years for his presence at Waterloo, with a ‘good’ conduct record (WO 97/28 refers), and he died, aged 68 years, in Butterwick in Bennington, in April 1854. £1000-£1200

Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Sahagun & Benevente (J. Rippen, 18th L. Dgns.) one or two minor edge bruises, otherwise extremely fine £1000-1200 Ex Spink, 1897; just 26 Military General Service 1793-1814 Medals are known to the 18th Light Dragoons with this clasp, 10 of them as single clasps. james Rippen, a clockmaker from Nottingham, enlisted into the 18th Light Dragoons in February 1808. that September, eight Troops of the Regiment were sent to Portugal to assist in Sir John Moore’s Corunna campaign, and were quickly in action at Valladolid, and again at Benevente on 29 December, prior to being re-embarked in January 1809, a day or two before Sir John’s last stand and the final evacuation. And while the Regiment did not take an active part in the battle of Sahagun, which was largely an affair conducted by the 15th Hussars, it did, like the rest of the Brigade, receive the clasp. at Benevente, the 18th closely engaged General Lefebvre-Desnouettes advance guard of cavalry, which had crossed the Esla hot on the heels of the retreating British. Indeed Rippen and his comrades, about 130 strong, charged the numerically superior French force the moment it was observed. Having then broken off the action in good order, and tied-up with a Troop of the 3rd Dragoons, K.G.L., the augmented British force, still outnumbered, charged forward once more, but was forced back to the village of Benevente, where, unbeknown to the French, the 10th Hussars lay waiting out of sight. The combined British force, in the very capable hands of Lord Paget, this time was superior, and sprang upon the unsuspecting French, who were put to flight, being chased all the way back to the Esla for some two miles. The French lost 55 killed and wounded and 72 prisoners, including Lefebvre-Desnouettes himself. British casualties were about 50, mostly in the 18th Hussars. the 18th Hussars went back to the Peninsula in January 1813, but Rippen was not among their ranks, having deserted from Captain Underwood’s Troop back in July 1811 (WO 25/1463 refers). There is no further trace of him on the regimental rolls, and details of his desertion clearly evaded those charged with processing his subsequent claim for the Military General Service 1793-1814 Medal. £1000-£1200

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Busaco, Albuhera, Toulouse (F. Johnston, Arty. Driver) edge nicks, otherwise nearly extremely fine £700-900 francis Johnston(e), a labourer from Killasent, Leitrim, enlisted in the Royal Artillery as a Driver in 1807, aged 17 years. Placed on the strength of Lane’s Rocket Troop, part of Elliott’s 1st Rocket Troop, R.H.A., he was present at Busaco, Albuhera and Toulouse (see Vigors and Macfarlane), so, too, at Waterloo, as a member of ‘H’ Troop Artillery Drivers (his Waterloo Medal was sold at Glendining’s in 1988). Discharged in consequence of ‘visceral obstruction’ in January 1819, aged 28 years, his pension was fixed at 9d. a day, but his subsequent application for an increase in 1876, while resident in Ballymena, Antrim, was turned down. the Corps of Artillery Drivers was formed in 1794 as a separate organisation from the Royal Artillery. From an administrative point of view this seems to have been an unsatisfactory arrangement, as the men were posted piecemeal to anywhere in the latter regiment. No doubt because of this the corps had a very poor reputation for ill-discipline and criminality. It was disbanded in 1822 and from then on drivers became an integral part of the Foot Artillery. ‘The drivers ... had no weapons at all, in order that their attention might not be distracted from their horses. This seems to have been a very doubtful expedient, leaving them absolutely helpless if attacked by hostile cavalry. It may have originated from the fact the driver, far into the eighteenth century, had not been a soldier at all, but a ‘waggoner’, a civilian without uniform or arms’ (Sir Charles Oman, Wellington’s Army, refers). £700-£900

Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Talavera, Albuhera, Salamanca, Vittoria, Toulouse (James Raynor, 4th Light Dragoons) extremely fine £1000-1200 Ex Baldwin, January 1953; just 35 Military General Service 1793-1814 Medals are known to have survived to men of the 4th Light Dragoons, 24 of them with the ‘Albuhera’ clasp. james Raynor was born in Nottingham in 1791 and enlisted in the 4th Dragoons in October 1807, aged 16 years. the Regiment, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Edward Somerset, arrived at Lisbon in April 1809, with Raynor on the strength of Captain Wright’s Troop, and first went into action at Talavera, where it charged alongside the 23rd Light Dragoons - but fortunately managed to avoid the hidden nullah that proved so fatal to the 23rd. in April 1811, Raynor and his comrades were sent to assist in the operations around Badajoz and so became involved in the battle of Albuhera in the following month, when, under the cover of a thunderstorm, the French cavalry virtually annihilated Colborne’s Brigade. In response, the 4th Dragoons, part of Lumley’s Brigade, were launched against the enemy Hussars and Lancers, even though heavily outnumbered, and, to begin with at least, managed to check the latter’s excesses; later still, they acted in support of Cole’s critical and strikingly successful infantry assault on the deadlocked protagonists. shortly after, on 25 May, Lumley’s Brigade, 980 sabres strong with the addition of the 3rd Dragoon Guards and 13th Light Dragoons, together with another 1000 Portuguese and 300 Spanish, was screening Beresford’s movements and had taken up a position behind the bridge and village of Usagre, a defile through which the French must pass. The two leading regiments of French Dragoons were allowed to come over the bridge and, while the third regiment was coming across and other horsemen were strung out through the village, Lumley charged suddenly upon the first brigade - the French were thrown into complete confusion, being quite unable to manoeuvre, losing 250 killed and wounded and 80 prisoners. This model action, known as the ‘Combat of Usagre’, is warmly spoken of by cavalry authorities. in February 1812, the 4th Dragoons became part of Le Marchant’s Heavy Brigade and at Salamanca that July took part in the famous charge against a mass of broken French infantry, when three divisions were destroyed in some 30 minutes. This was the most decisive, perhaps the only decisive, stroke by cavalry in any of the Duke’s Peninsula battles. Unfortunately Le Marchant, that rare bird, a British cavalry commander of real ability, was killed in the action, shot through the spine. after further service at Vittoria and Toulouse, Raynor was embarked for India, from where he was invalided back to England in December 1823, a victim of chronic dysentery. Placed on the strength of the 3rd Royal Veterans’ Battalion in July of the following year, he was finally discharged at Chatham in June 1826, aged about 35 years. in July 1860 he was admitted as an in-pensioner of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, where he died in March 1865; interestingly, a William Raynor, also from Nottingham, served with James throughout his career in the 4th Dragoons, and may well have been his brother - his Peninsular Medal is also known to have survived. £1000-£1200

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Nepaul (Lieut. J. Jeffries, 17th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, good very fine £1800-2200 Only 6 officers and 46 men of the 17th Foot received the medal for Nepaul. james Jeffries afterwards transferred to the 82nd Foot and became a Captain. £1800-£2200

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Capture of Deig (E. Skinner, 22nd Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, edge bruise and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and very rare £3000-3500 Only one corporal and seven privates of the 22nd Foot lived to claim the medal, all with the single clasp for the capture of Deig. Two other examples have been on the market, one of which resides in the Patiala Collection in India. Approximately 103 clasps for Capture of Deig were issued to European recipients. edward Skinner was admitted to Chelsea Hospital as an out-pensioner on 22 March 1820, due to ‘long service, ill health and unfit’. Born at Lambeth, Middlesex, he served 3 years as a Sergeant, 1 year 10 months as a Corporal, and 17 years 10 months as a Private, of which 16 years he served in the East Indies. £3000-£3500

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Nathl. Sydenham, 41st Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, very fine £800-1000 Ex Hamilton-Smith Collection 1927, Dalrymple-White Collection 1946, and Elson Collection 1963. nathaniel Sydenham was born at Honiton, Devon, and was a tailor prior to his joining the 41st Foot at Chelmsford on 13 June 1811, aged 19. According to his discharge papers he served ‘In America for two years, received four bayonet wounds when one of a forlorn hope at ‘Fort Eyrie’ and was the only survivor out of 10 men sent out on this occasion. In France for five months and 8 days. In the East Indies for fifteen years one hundred and forty six days and was present during the whole of the Burmese War.’ He was twice promoted to Corporal, October 1823 to September 1824, and May 1830 to September 1832, but was discharged in the rank of Private on 25 July 1838, ‘worn out by Service, frequent attacks of fever with abstinate neuralgic affections of the muscles of the loins and lower extremities’. he did not claim a medal for Fort Detroit to which he was surely entitled. Sold with copy discharge papers. £800-£1000

Army of India 1799-1826, 2 clasps, Nepaul, Ava (S. Clough, 53rd Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, good very fine and rare £1800-2200 Ex Gaskell Collection 1911, Needes Collection 1940, Dalrymple-White Collection 1946, and Elson Collection 1963. only 7 officers and 10 men of the 53rd received this medal for Nepaul. Clough’s medal is unique to the 53rd with an additional clasp for Ava gained with the 13th Foot. Assistant Surgeon Miller was attached to the 53rd Foot in Nepaul and to the 47th Foot at Ava but is shown on the roll of the latter regiment. samuel Clough was a weaver from Oldham, Lancashire, prior to enlisting into the 53rd Foot. He was admitted to Chelsea Hospital as an out-pensioner from the 13th Foot on 11 October 1826, aged 39, in consequence of ‘wounded right leg and long service’. He is stated to have served in the 53rd for 17 years 8 months, and then in the 13th Foot for 4 years 1 month, of which he spent 19 years 11 months on India service. Sold with copy Chelsea Hospital admission details. £1800-£2200

The Peninsula War Medal to Captain Edward Wolfe, 28th Foot, who was severely wounded at the battles of Vittoria and the Nive military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Vittoria, Nivelle, Nive (E. Wolfe, Capt. 28th Foot) medal originally named ‘Wolffe’, consequently letter ‘E’ erased and second ‘F’ altered to an ‘E’, otherwise nearly extremely fine £1800-2200 Edward Wolfe was commissioned as Lieutenant in the 28th Foot on 9 January 1806, and became Captain on 9 September 1813. He was severely wounded at Vittoria, 21 June 1813, and again severely wounded at the battle of the Nive, 13 December 1813. sold with an old printed statement of financial accounts, The Report of the Committee of the Forenaghts Cavalry, appointed to examine the accounts of the Corps, Dublin 1803, with mentions of Colonel John Wolfe, Captain Theobold Wolfe, and Captain John Wolfe, jun. As a result of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, members of the Forenaghts Cavalry were left with debts of some £33 10s each. £1800-£2200

The Egyptian Campaign pair to Lieutenant George Wolfe, Royal Irish Fusiliers egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Lieut. G. Wolfe, 1/R.I. Fus.); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, together with companion miniature medals, both sets mounted as worn, pitting from star, therefore good fine (4) £250-300 George Wolfe was commissioned as Lieutenant in the Royal Irish Fusiliers on 10 May 1882. He served with the 1st Battalion in the Egyptian War of 1882 and was present at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir (Medal with Clasp, and Khedive’s Star). Lieutenant Wolfe resigned his commission in 1885. £250-£300

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1845 to 1846 (R. Shearer, Sailmkrs. Mate, H.M.S. Castor) officially impressed naming, light traces of brooch marks to reverse, suspension re-fixed, otherwise nearly very fine £500-600 Robert Shearer's medal was sent on 12 June 1871. 160 medals were awarded for 1845-46 of which 68 were issued to H.M.S. Castor. In total, 69 medals (4 to R.N. officers, 56 to R.N. ratings, 2 to R.M. officers, and 7 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were awarded to H.M.S. Castor of which 35 are known, including one with the reverse undated, and the rest with reverses dated 1845-1846. £500-£600

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1845 to 1846 (W. Traveller, Painter, H.M.S. Osprey) officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine £700-800 Ex Douglas-Morris Collection, DNW October 1996. william Traveller's medal was sent on 25 October 1870. Only 11 medals (7 to R.N. ratings and 4 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were awarded to H.M.S. Osprey, of which 7 are known, all with reverses dated 1845-1846 (3 to R.N. ratings and 4 to R.M. N.C.Os and men). william Traveller was born on 27 May 1820, at Brighton, Sussex. He joined the service as an Ordinary Seaman in March 1840 and continued to serve almost continuously until May 1879, when he was awarded the LS & GC Medal after serving for 37 reckonable years. ‘The beautiful man-of-war, the Osprey brig, 12 guns, was lost 12 miles north of Hokianga on Wednesday 11th at 3 p.m. The previous day she had stood in to Hokianga and fired two guns to announce to the pilot that she had arrived, and stood off for the night in bad weather and visibility. The next day she stood in again, and entered the breakers of 'False Hokianga'. Thinking she was crossing the bar, she stood on under sail and finally struck. Guns were thrown overboard to lighten ship, but at low tide she was high and dry, and the ship's company was able to disembark. The heads at False Hokianga are very similar to the entrance to Hokianga proper.’ (Ref. J. O'C. Ross The White Ensign in New Zealand). £700-£800

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1845 to 1846 (J. Crew, Commr. Cook, H.M.S. Racehorse) officially impressed naming, good very fine £700-800 Ex Douglas-Morris Collection, DNW October 1996. joseph Crew's medal was issued on 17 May 1872. 36 medals (3 to R.N. officers, 24 to R.N. ratings, and 9 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were awarded to H.M.S. Racehorse, of which 23 are known including one with an undated reverse, one with the reverse dated 1845-1846, and the rest with reverses dated 1845-1847. This medal is therefore unique to H.M.S. Racehorse with these dates. his first entry into the service occurred when he joined Racehorse during her visit to Sydney on 23 October 1845. He was taken on her books 'in lieu of a Royal Marine..' to act as the Commander's Cook, aged 23 years, born at St. Mary's, Cheshire. At his own request he was discharged from Racehorse and out of the R.N. only a short time later, on 18 May 1846, when his vessel was moored in Auckland Harbour. His New Zealand medal was issued somewhat belatedly, in May 1872, with the incorrect embossed dates of '1845 to 1846' on its Reverse. £700-£800

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1846 to 1847 (G P Harrison, Carp Crew H M S Calliope) officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine £700-800 Ex George Moss Collection, New York, April 1992. george Harrison's medal was sent on 19 September 1872. 60 medals were issued with the 1846-1847 dated reverse, all to H.M.S. Calliope. In all, 62 medals were issued to H.M.S. Calliope (13 to R.N. officers, 38 to R.N. ratings, and 11 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men), of which 35 are known: one dated 1846, one with reverse undated, and the others with reverses dated 1846-1847. george Harrison was born in the parish of Stoke Damerel, Devonport, Devon. He was 24 years of age, a joiner by trade, when he entered the service aboard Calliope as Carpenter's Crew on 31 July 1845, from which ship he was discharged on 9 January 1849. Sold with copy of Medal Roll and two pages from Description Book for H.M.S. Calliope. £700-£800

The very rare ‘1860’ New Zealand medal awarded to Captain C. H. Vernon, Royal Navy, who earlier participated in the Franklin Search Expedition from 1848 to 1854 as a Lieutenant in the Plover new Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1860 (Commander C. E. H. Vernon, H.M.S. Cordelia) officially impressed naming, fitted with silver ribbon brooch, nearly extremely fine £2000-2500 One of only six known New Zealand War medals dated 1860 awarded to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, and a unique date to H.M.S. Cordelia; three are also known to H.M.S. Iris and two to H.M.S. Niger. Vernon's Medal was issued on 12 November 1870. 29 medals (4 to R.N. officers, 16 to R.N. ratings, and 9 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were awarded to H.M.S. Cordelia for the Second New Zealand War. Of these 29, 20 are known as extant including this one with reverse dated 1860, three with undated reverses, and the remainder with reverses dated 1860-1861. charles Egerton Harcourt Vernon was born in 1827, and his seniority as Lieutenant in the Royal Navy dated from 2 February 1849. He was posted to Daedalus on 27 July 1849, and to Plover in September 1851. as a Lieutenant he took part in the Franklin Search Expedition in the Plover, under Captain Moore, wintering at Port Clarence during 1851-52, and during another commission of the Plover, under Commander Maguire, from 1852-54, wintering at Point Barrow during 1852-53 and 1853-54. A vessel from the Pacific squadron communicated with the Plover each year, after the departure of the Herald. In 1851, H.M.S. Daedalus (Captain Wellesley) was sent to Port Clarence on this duty, and it would seem that Vernon transferred from Daedalus to Plover at that time. The Amphitrite took up Captain Maguire in 1852. on 30 June 1852, Captain Moore of the Plover recommended Vernon for his active and zealous conduct during the Arctic expedition; and on 29 October 1854, Commander Maguire spoke in the highest terms of Vernon's valuable services in the Arctic Seas. On 24 February 1859, Captain Loring reported his useful proceedings in the Navigators Islands. promoted to be a Commander in April 1855, he was posted to Surprise in March 1856, and to Cordelia in April 1857. In 1859 H.M.S. Cordelia paid a punitive visit to the Samoan island of Savii, to demand the surrender of a young chief who had murdered an English trader by the name of William Fox two years earlier. After destroying houses and canoes the chief was delivered up and then promptly strung to the yardarm, his body being returned for burial. The effect of the punishment was as marked as it was lasting. Cordelia saw service in New Zealand during 1860 and 1861, but Vernon was made Acting Captain of Iris in December 1860, and promoted to Captain in August 1861. Captain Vernon died on 14 May 1872. £2000-£2500

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1860 to 1861 (E. Squires, A.B., H.M.S. Cordelia) officially impressed naming, minor marks, otherwise good very fine £400-450 Squires’ medal was issued on 9 August 1876. 29 medals (4 to R.N. officers, 16 to R.N. ratings, and 9 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were awarded to H.M.S. Cordelia of which 20 are known, including one with reverse dated 1860 (Commander Charles E. H. Vernon - see previous Lot) and 3 with reverses undated. £400-£450

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1860 to 1861 (G. Newman, Lg. Seamn., H.M.S. Iris) officially impressed naming, edge bruising and a little polished, therefore nearly very fine £400-450 Ex Douglas-Morris Collection, DNW February 1997. newman's medal was issued on 22 June 1871. 72 medals (10 to R.N. officers, 49 to R.N. ratings, one to R.M. officer, and 12 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were awarded to H.M.S. Iris of which 34 are known, including 3 with reverses dated 1860, 4 with reverses undated, and the rest with reverses dated 1860-1861. george Newman was born in Essex in 1834. He only served one Commission in the Royal Navy, joining H.M.S. Iris on 2 April 1858, as a Leading Seaman, thus proving that he was an experienced prime seaman from the Merchant Service, and was discharged to shore on 3 August 1861. £400-£450

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1863 to 1864 (W. Forrell, Bandsmn., H.M.S. Curacoa) officially impressed naming, very fine £350-400 Bandsman William Forrell's medal was issued on 21 January 1871. This is the only medal on the Roll for the Second New Zealand War issued to a Royal Navy rating ‘Bandsman’. 187 medals (24 to R.N. officers, 123 to R.N. ratings, one to R.M. officer, and 39 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were issued to H.M.S. Curacoa, of which 70 are known including one with reverse dated 1863-1866 to Ordinary Seaman George Loxley, and 3 with undated reverses to R.N. ratings. william Forrell was born on 17 July 1838 in Bavaria, Germany. His earlier records have not been sought but his later record for 'Ships Served In' shows ‘Traced 89/215’. His latter record shows him as serving as Bandsman on Royal Alfred from January 1873 until Shore Paid Off in January 1874; Valiant from February 1874 until June 1875, when he was sent to ‘Shore-per order- to better condition’; Sultan from July 1875 to February 876; Defence until May 1876, when he continued as Barber until November 1879 and was then discharged to shore on request, continuing as Barber in Tenedos until December 1882, and finally in Duke of Wellington to 21 January 1883, when he was Shore Pensioned. His later record is annotated ‘Traced Pension 22.11.82’. £350-£400

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1863 to 1864 (Alfd. Manuel, Boy 1st Cl., H.M.S. Curacoa) officially impressed naming, good very fine £300-350 Alfred Manuel's medal was issued on 10 October 1870. 187 medals were issued to H.M.S. Curacoa (24 to R.N. officers, 123 to R.N. ratings, 1 to R.M. officer, and 39 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) of which 70 are known, including one dated 1863-1866 to Ordinary Seaman George Loxley, and 3 with undated reverses to R.N. ratings. £300-£350

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1863 to 1864 (T. Sutton, A.B., H.M.S. Curacoa) officially impressed naming, small collector’s number ‘352’ impressed by claw, minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £300-350 Thomas Sutton's medal was issued on 19 November 1870. 187 medals were issued to H.M.S. Curacoa (24 to R.N. officers, 123 to R.N. ratings, one to R.M. officer, and 39 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) of which 70 are known including one dated 1863-1866 to Ordinary Seaman George Loxley, and 3 with undated reverses to R.N. Ratings. sutton's earlier service records have not been sought but ADM 188 lists two Thomas Suttons with birth date that corresponds with service in the Second New Zealand War: the first Thomas Sutton, Official No. 55174, born on 21 July 1839, at Manchester, Lancashire (ADM 188/30); and Thomas Edward Sutton, Official No. 75895, born on 5 February 1834, at Dover, Kent (ADM 188/64). £300-£350

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1863 to 1864 (Wm. Clay, Captn. F. Top, H.M.S. Eclipse) officially impressed naming, very fine £400-450 Ex Douglas-Morris Collection, DNW October 1996. william Clay's medal was issued on 2 November 1870, and is one of three known to this ship with these dates which should normally be ‘1863 to 1865.’ 75 medals (13 to R.N. officers, 49 to R.N. ratings, and 13 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were awarded to H.M.S. Eclipse of which 34 are known. Of these, 11 have the 1865 dated reverse, 3 have the reverse dated 1863-1864, one has the reverse dated 1864-1866, and the balance are dated 1863-1865. ref Captain Kenneth Douglas-Morris Naval Medals 1857-1880, p. 168 ‘Entitled to Baltic as Ord 2nd Cl H.M.S. CRESSY and LS & GC Vic WS as Gunner's Mate aboard H.M. MINOTAUR 20 Years.’ William Clay was born in London on 7 August 1834, and first entered the service as an Ordinary Seaman 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Cressy in April 1854 until December 1855. He subsequently served aboard H.M. Ships Drake (1857-59) being advanced to A.B. in October 1857; Excellent (1859-1861) achieving the specialist rate of 'Diver' in June 1860; Bacchante (1861-63) where he received Petty Officer status as Quartermaster and Captain of the Hold, in May and July 1863 respectively, and then served aboard St George (1865-68) as a Gunner's Mate. After three more years aboard Excellent (1868-71) he served his last commission aboard H.M.S. Minotaur (August 1871 to March 1873) from which vessel he was 'pensioned with medal' after 20 years service upon being discharged to shore. He was also entitled to the Baltic medal for service in Cressy and a wide suspension L.S. & G.C. medal as Gunner’s Mate aboard Minotaur with 20 years service. £400-£450

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1863 to 1864 (Mr. C E Grisell - Midn - R-N - HMS Esk) officially impressed naming, some surface roughness on reverse, otherwise very fine £500-550 Midshipman Grissell's medal was issued on 16 May 1873. 119 medals (16 to R.N. officers, 79 to R.N. ratings, one to R.M. officer, and 23 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were issued to H.M.S. Esk of which 48 are known, including 4 with reverses undated (all to R.N. ratings) and the rest with reverses dated 1863-1864. charles Edmund Grissell was born on 8 March 1849, the son of Major Charles Grissell of the 61st Bengal Native Infantry, who was born in London in 1805 and died in July 1855, aged 50, from a fall from a buggy. Charles Edmund Grissell entered the service as a Naval Cadet on Brittania on 10 December 1861 until April 1863. He served aboard the Esk from 22 April 1863 until June 1867, and Brisk from June 1867 to January 1869. Service followed aboard a succession of H.M. Ships: Excellent (January to April 1869), Endymion (May 18 9 to November 1870), Duke of Wellington (December 1870 to January 1871), Dido (April 1871), Duke of Wellington (April 1871 to April 1872), Cambridge (June 1872 to August 1873), and Teazer (September 1873 to August 1874). He was placed on the Retired List from 15 February 1875, due to short-sightedness, and retired on active half-pay of 4/- per day as, Lieutenant, as of 5 March 1875. lieutenant Charles Edmund Grissell's name was removed from the Navy List as of 12 March 1880, having been found guilty of contempt of the House of Commons for failing to attend as a witness before the Tower Hill Level Bridge (Metropolis) Committee. Sold with copy service records. £500-£550

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1863 to 1865 (John Bodsworth, Pte., R.M.L.I., H.M.S. Eclipse) officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine £500-550 Ex ‘Jubilee’ Collection, Glendining May 1992. john Bodsworth's medal was issued on 11 September 1872. Only 60 medals were awarded to the Royal Navy with these reverse dates, all to this ship. 75 medals (13 to R.N. officers, 49 to R.N. ratings, and 13 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were awarded to H.M.S. Eclipse, of which 34 are known including 11 with reverse dated 1865, one with reverse dated 1864-1866, and 3 dated 1863-1864. £500-£550

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1863 to 1866 (George Loxley Ord H-M-S-Curacoa) officially impressed naming, very fine and probably unique to Naval forces with these dates £600-800 Ex Douglas-Morris Collection, DNW October 1996. george Loxley's medal was issued on 4 August 1873. 187 medals were issued to H.M.S. Curacoa (24 to R.N. officers, 123 to R.N. ratings, 1 to R.M. officer, and 39 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) of which 70 are known, mostly dated 1863-1864 but including one dated 1863-1866 and 3 undated to R.N. ratings. This medal is therefore probably unique to Naval Forces. douglas-Morris records in Naval Medals 1857-1880, p. 165, ‘George Loxley's medal was issued later than normal, 4th August 1873, with the incorrect dated Reverse of '1863 to 1866'. It is not without interest that a duplicate medal issued in 1879 to Able Seaman Martin Murphy, also from H.M.S. Curacoa, had included at the end of the engraved edge details the dates '1863-66'. born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire on 1 March 1841, George Loxley first entered as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Victory on 16 November 1857, and soon drafted as Boy 1st Class to H.M.S. Orion in April 1858 to serve there until November 1861, when drafted to H.M.S. Asia (1861-63). He later served aboard H.M.S. Curacoa as an 'Ord' from April 1863 until February 1867, followed by H.M. Ships Minotaur (1867-69) where he was advanced to A.B. in March 1869, then Northumberland (1869-73). In December 1873 he was placed on the books of H.M.S. Valiant as a boatman upon joining the Coast Guard Service, rising to Commissioned Boatman in December 1881, after earning his LS & GC medal on 14 June 1875 with 15 years service to his credit. He was pensioned on 7 November 1883. £600-£800

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (H. F. Crohan, Midn. H.M.S. Iris 1860-61) officially impressed naming, hairlines to obverse, otherwise good very fine £400-450 Ex Douglas-Morris Collection, DNW October 1996. crohan's medal was issued on 9 November 1878. 72 medals (10 to R.N. officers, 49 to R.N. ratings, 1 to R.M. officer, and 12 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were awarded to H.M.S. Iris of which 34 are known, including 4 with undated reverses and 3 with reverses dated 1860. Crohan's medal is the only undated example known to a Royal Navy officer on H.M.S. Iris and is also a rare example with impressed dates on the edge, the issuing authorities having run out of dated reverse medals. herbert Crohan was born on 16 September 1841, and first entered as a Naval Cadet on 12 April 1855 aboard H.M.S. Pylades. He transferred to H.M.S. Iris in November 1856, to take part ashore (9 July to 11 October 1860) in the early stages of the Second New Zealand War as a Midshipman (seniority 12 April 1857) on the books of H.M.S. Cordelia. Promoted to Acting Mate in October 1860, immediately on return from shore to his proper vessel, H.M.S. Iris, he subsequently served aboard Fawn (1861-62), where he received promotion to Sub Lieutenant in January 1862, and later on Pelorus (1862-63) where he was promoted to Lieutenant in August 1862, followed by Cadmus (1865-68) and Pheasant (1871-73). he was promoted to Commander in February 1873 and appointed to H.M.S. Active, 'additional' as a Transport Officer in October 1873 until May 1874. He was the Senior Transport Officer afloat at Cape Castle during the Ashantee Campaign 1874, receiving the Ashantee 1873-74 medal without clasp for services aboard H.M.S. Active. He completed his service aboard H.M. Ships Flying Fish (1874-78) and Trincomalee (1880-83), and then was with the Coast Guard Service until 1886. He retired with the rank of Captain on 19 September 1889, and died on 23 February 1892. £400-£450

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (H. Webb, Ord. H.M.S. ‘Niger’ 1860-1) officially engraved naming, very fine £250-300 Ex Douglas-Morris Collection, DNW February 1997. webb's medal was issued on 7th January 1878. 66 medals (13 to R.N. officers, 37 to R.N. ratings, and 16 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were awarded to H.M.S. Niger of which 33 are known, including 2 with reverses dated 1860, 4 with reverses undated, and the rest dated 1860-1861. This is a rare example with officially engraved dates on the edge, the issuing authorities having run out of dated reverse medals. henry Webb was born in Brighton, Sussex, on 26 April 1841, and first entered the service as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Niger on 26 March 1856, ending his time there as an Able Seaman in September 1861. His following vessels were Rifleman (1861-66) and Lord Clyde (1866-68) ending his time aboard her as Coxswain of the Launch. In this same rate he served aboard Northumberland (1868-69), and as Quartermaster aboard Penelope (1869-71), followed by Vulture (1873-76) and Fawn (1876-79). He was finally pensioned from Royal Naval Barracks as a Petty Officer 1st Class on 26 November 1879, with 20 years service. On three occasions whilst aboard Vulture he lost good conduct badges which probably precluded his chances of earning the LS & GC medal. £250-£300

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (J. Donley, A.B., H.M.S. Esk) officially impressed naming in later style as for East & West Africa medals, good very fine £200-250 Donley's medal was issued on 26 January 1892. 119 medals (16 to R.N. officers, 79 to R.N. ratings, 1 to R.M. officer, and 23 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were issued to H.M.S. Esk of which 48 are known, including 4 with undated reverses to R.N. ratings. john Donley was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, on 5 March 1838, and entered the service aboard Hastings as an Ordinary Seaman on 5 January 1858, volunteering for 10 years Continuous Service (No. 35,788), having previously been in the Merchant Service from 1855. Subsequently he served on Russel (January to July 1858), Victor Emanuel (July to August 1858), Russel (August to December 1858), Impregnable (January 1859), Orion (January 1859 to April 1860), Neptune (April 1860 to December 1862), and Duke of Wellington (December 1862 to May 1863). He was Discharged to Gaol for 28 days in Auckland from Esk on 30 November 1863. Sold with copy of Entry of Service and page from Description Book of H.M.S. Esk. £200-£250

The rare and important New Zealand medal issued to Able Seaman J. Hay, for service new Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (J. Hay, A.B. H.M.C.S. Victoria) officially impressed naming in later style similar to that for East & West Africa medals, fitted with silver ribbon brooch, suspension claw tightened, very fine and very rare £4000-5000 Ex Corbett Collection, Glendining June 1994. Sold with an old unsigned manuscript note which states, ‘Presented by Wyon Simm of Wellington, a descendant of the Great Wyon family of die sinkers & medalists, March 1938’. hay's medal was issued on 29 March 1888, having been struck from well-used dies, and was one of two medals to this ship sent to the Agent General in New Zealand in that same year. the naval personnel of this vessel constituted the first ever official Australian force to engage in war services and, although 40 men of Her Majesty’s Colonial Steamer Victoria were entitled, only 10 actually received the medal. Of the 10 medals issued, one is known with the dated reverse 1860 to 1861 to Harold Ford, A.B., and is in a private collection in Sydney. The medal to Mate William Horn, also dated 1860 to 1861 was in the Douglas-Morris Collection, sold by DNW in October 1996 for £3,800, and is now in the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. The dated medal issued to George Marey was in the Kuriheka Collection in New Zealand and was auctioned at DNW in June 2006 for £10,000. One is known to William Jones A.B. and has the undated reverse, as have all late issues of the Maori War Medal; this is now in the Australian War Memorial at Canberra, where it forms the nucleus of a ‘Colonial’ collection being put together there. The medal sent to Samuel Smith c/o Department of Defence, Melbourne, in 1905, is apparently lost. With the knowledge of the known medals, it is safe to assume that of the 10 issued, 7 were issued with the dated reverse 1860 to 1861, and three were issued with the undated reverse. Sold with full research and medal roll details. £4000-£5000

Three: Acting Gunner William Wiltshire, Royal Navy china 1842 (William Wiltshire, H.M.S. Alligator); New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1845 to 1846 (W. Wiltshire, Gunrs. Mate, H.M.S. Castor) officially impressed naming; South Africa 1834-53 (W. Wiltshire, Actg. Gunner) light contact marks and minor edge bruising, otherwise very fine or better and a rare combination of medals (3) £2000-2500 139 First China War medals were awarded to H.M.S. Alligator (124 to R.N. and 15 to R.M.). 69 medals were awarded to H.M.S. Castor for the First New Zealand War (4 to R.N. officers, 56 to R.N. ratings, 2 to R.M. officers, and 7 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men), of which 35 are known, including one with the reverse undated and the rest with reverses dated 1845-1846. Wiltshire's medal was issued on 8 December 1870. 143 medals were issued to H.M.S. Hermes for the South Africa Campaign of 1850-53. £2000-£2500

Pair: Midshipman H. H. Garrett, H.E.I.C. Bombay Marine china 1842 (H. H. Garrett, Midn. H.E.I.C.S. Auckland); New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1845 to 1846 (H. H. Garrett, Midmn., H.E.I. Coy’s S. Elphinstone) edge bruise to the first, otherwise very fine and better and very rare (2) £2000-2500 ex Douglas-Morris Collection, DNW October 1996. 56 First China War medals were awarded to the Honourable East India Company’s Steamer Elphinstone. only 6 medals were awarded to the Elphinstone for the First New Zealand War, of which just 2 are known, the other being to Gunner John Simpson of the Bombay Artillery, one of 15 artillerymen who acted as gun-crew on board the ship. Only those crew members who were actually landed and brigaded with the crews of H.M. Ships Castor and North Star qualified for the medal. Garrett's medal was issued on 1 October 1870. horatio Hill Garrett was born in Kent on 30 April 1825, son of Lieutenant Edward Garrett, R.N., and nephew to the Trafalgar veteran Commander Henry Garrett, R.N. He was educated at Greenwich Hospital, which he attended for three years, and entered the Honourable East India Company's Bombay Marine in 1839 as a 'Volunteer' Cadet. He served in the China and New Zealand Wars and was later drowned at sea. £2000-£2500

Six: Commander H. B. Beresford, Royal Navy naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (H. B. Beresford, Mate) fitted with silver ribbon buckle, first initial corrected and shown as ‘J. B.’ on the roll; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1846 to 1847 (Lieut. Hy. B. Beresford, H.M.S. Calliope) officially impressed naming; Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Sebastopol, Azoff (H. B. Beresford, Commander, H.M.S. Medina) contemporary engraved naming, clasps loose as issued; St Jean d’Acre 1840, silver, fitted with scroll suspension and silver ribbon buckle; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, fitted with Indian Mutiny suspension; Royal Humane Society, large silver medal (Successful), (Lieut. H. B. Beresford, R.N., H.M.S. Medina 5 July 1855) fitted with swivel-ring and bar suspension, the N.Z. medal extremely fine, otherwise with light contact marks and traces of old lacquer, generally very fine or better (6) £3000-3500 beresford's New Zealand War medal was issued on 14 November 1870. 62 medals were issued to H.M.S. Calliope (13 to R.N. officers, 38 to R.N. ratings, and 11 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) of which 35 are known including one with reverse dated 1846, one with reverse undated, and the rest with reverses dated 1846-1847. henry Barre Beresford was born on 5 July 1816. He entered the Royal Navy as First Class Volunteer on Actaeon in August 1829, and became Midshipman of the Sapphire in May 1835. He was appointed as Mate on the Imogene in South America in 1836, and was present as Mate on the Vanguard in the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria. He was made Lieutenant on 6 June 1842 and posted, the following October, to the Excellent gunnery ship at Portsmouth. In July 1845 he was posted to Calliope, in which vessel he served in the East Indies and off New Zealand, where he was several times personally engaged with the rebel natives, until January 1849, when he returned to England and was paid off. Beresford fell foul of the Admiralty when, on 11 January 1849, he was severely reprimanded for the gross state of discipline on board Calliope. In April 1851, he was posted to Penelope until June 1851, when he was appointed to the command of the Spy brigantine, of 3 guns, on the West Coast of Africa, where he captured two boats full of slaves, and also a Portuguese schooner, which was ultimately returned to her owners, who had to pay the expenses of the suit. Paid off in December 1853, he was next posted, in May 1854 to the Medina steamer of 4 guns, and, in January 1856, to the Peacock gun-boat. In the Medina, Beresford was actively employed in the Black Sea. He accompanied the expedition to Kertck; was engaged in the attack, which lasted an hour and a half, on the fort of Arabat, mounting 30 guns (despatches London Gazette 1855, pp. 2297-8); and was present at the destruction of the stores and of several parts of the town of Taganrog. beresford was awarded the Royal Humane Society's Silver Medal on 19th September 1856 (Case 15,795) for successfully rescuing Private Charles Robinson, R.M., in the following circumstances: ‘On the 5th of February, 1855, a private of Marines, belonging to H.M.S. Medina, accidentally fell overboard into the Bosphorus, off Constantinople; and the weather being very severe, hard frost and snow, and dark, he must have been drowned, having on at the time his great coat, belt, and bayonet; when Lieutenant H. B. Beresford, R.N., who was sitting in his cabin, on hearing the cry, instantly ran on deck, and on being told that the sentry on the gangway had fallen overboard, instantly took off his coat and shoes, and jumped over the gangway into the sea, and swam towards the stern of the ship, where the current, which was very strong, had by this time taken the marine, and succeeded in reaching him; by this time nothing of him was seen above the water except the collar of his coat, which he providentially got hold of, and held him up until a boat came to their assistance, when he was hauled on board in a state of insensibility, and remained in his bed for four or five days, when he recovered.’ He was promoted to Commander on 10 May 1856, and, in October 1860 transferred to Edinburgh, as additional for Coastguard. He became supernumerary in January 1864 and retired on 1 April 1870. Commander Beresford died on 2nd January 1871. £3000-£3500

Three: Paymaster-in-Chief J. C. Alldridge, Royal Navy new Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1847 (J. C. Alldridge, Paymr., H.M.S. Inflexible) officially impressed naming; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, these last two unnamed as issued, very fine and rare (3) £1600-1800 Alldridge's New Zealand War medal was issued on 19 November 1870. Only 20 medals with this reverse date were awarded to the Royal Navy for the Fist New Zealand War (5 to R.N. officers, 9 to R.N. ratings, and 6 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men), all to H.M.S. Inflexible, of which 12 are known, all dated 1847 except for the medal issued to Willoughby Hayward, Sgt. R.M., which is undated but with 1845-47 engraved on the reverse. james Cobbold Alldridge was born on 27 February 1815, and joined H.M.S. Pique as ‘Passed Clerk’ on 18 June 1838. He was promoted Paymaster in May 1848, and Paymaster-in-Chief in June 1870. During his career he served on many ships including Pique, Magnificent, Cornwallis, Satellite, Forester, Malabar, Avon, San Josef, Inflexible, Megaera, Diamond (in the Black Sea), Implacable, Impregnable, Conqueror, Ajax, Formidable, Frederick William, and Valiant. £1600-£1800

Pair: Captain’s Coxswain W. G. Snook, Royal Navy crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (W. G. Snook, H.M.S. Furious) contemporary engraved naming; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1860 to 1861 (W. Snook, Captn. Coxn., H.M.S. Iris) officially impressed naming, the first with contact marks, nearly very fine, the second very fine (2) £500-550 Snook's New Zealand medal was issued on 3 December 1870. 72 medals (10 to R.N. officers, 49 to R.N. ratings, 1 to R.M. officer, and 12 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were awarded to H.M.S. Iris for the Second New Zealand War, of which 34 are known including 3 with reverses dated 1860, 4 with reverses undated, and the rest with reverses dated 1860-1861. william Snook was born on 24 May 1831, at Deptford, Kent. His earlier service records have not been sought but his later record shows him as Late Continuous Service No. 4678 and he was serving in the Coast Guard establishment Hector as Chief Boatman from January 1873 to April 1886, at Holywell and then Northampton until June 1 86, when he was Shore Pensioned. His record is annotated ‘Traced Pension 14.5.86’. £500-£550

Pair: Able Seaman F. C. Moorman, Royal Navy baltic 1854-55 (F. Moorman, A.B. H.M.S. Cossack) contemporary engraved naming; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1860 to 1861 (F. C. Moorman, A.B., H.M.S. Pelorus) officially impressed naming, the first with repaired suspension post, contact marks, otherwise very fine (2) £450-500 Moorman's New Zealand medal was issued on 21 October 1871. 116 medals (11 to R.N. officers, 75 to R.N. ratings, 1 to R.M. officer, and 29 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were issued to H.M.S. Pelorus for the Second New Zealand War, of which 49 are known including one with the reverse undated. francis Charles Moorman was born on 3 August 1838 at St. Heliers, Jersey. He entered the service as Boy 2nd Class in Excellent on 5 November 1853, volunteering for 10 years Continuous Service (No. 6209) commencing from 3 August 1856, his 18th birthday. He transferred to Cossack in October 1854, serving in her until July 1857, being awarded the Baltic Campaign medal and being promoted to Boy 1st Class in June 1855. He then served in Pelorus until December 1862, being promoted to Able Seaman in January 1860 and gaining the Second New Zealand War medal. He again served on Excellent until November 1864, being then transferred to Victoria until September 1866, and promoted in September 1865 to Leading Seaman. He re-engaged in Duke of Wellington in December 1866 for a further 10 years as a Leading Seaman, and served on Adventure until April 1868 as Captain's Crew, before transferring to Tamar where he served as Boatswain's Mate until August 1868. This was followed by service in Duke of Wellington until September 1868. He transferred to the Coast Guard in September 1868 as Boatman until July 1876, and then as Commissioned Boatman until July 1878, when he was pensioned with 3 Good Conduct Badges and 21 years 284 days of pensionable service and almost 25 years of actual service. sold with about 10 copied pages of Continuous Service Engagement, Seaman's Services, and relevant medal rolls for the Baltic and New Zealand medals. £450-£500

Five: Captain of the Mizzen Top John Bruce, Royal Navy, later Commissioned Boatman in the Coast Guard crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1860, unnamed as issued; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1863 to 1864 (J. Bruce, Captn. Mzn. Top, H.M.S. Esk) officially impressed naming; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (John Bruce, Comd. Btmn. H.M. Coast Gd.) engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, the first two with contact marks, very fine, otherwise good very fine or better (5) £800-1000 Bruce's New Zealand War medal was issued on 4 March 1871. 119 medals (16 to R.N. officers, 79 to R.N. ratings, one to R.M. officer, and 23 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were issued to H.M.S. Esk for the Second New Zealand War, of which 48 are known including 4 with undated reverses (all to R.N. ratings) and the rest with reverses dated 1863-1864. john Bruce was born in March 1836 at Buckie, Banffshire. His earlier service records have not been sought but he first enlisted in 1851 and re-engaged for Continuous Service No. 27044 on 2 February 1866 to complete his time. He had seen service in the Crimea as a Boy 1st Class in H.M.S. Furious, in China as an Able Seaman in Actaeon, and in New Zealand as Captain of the Mizzen Top in Esk. He was appointed Commissioned Boatman from 1 January 1873 in the Black Prince, Aurora, and Narcissus, where he was promoted to Chief Boatman in January 1878, and then served in the Hercules and Warrior, before being transferred to Lord Warden and promoted to Chief Boatman in Charge in November 1881. He saw further service in Devastation and finally Iron Duke from which he was Shore Pensioned on 14 January 1891. He obtained the category of Seaman Gunner 2nd Class, which ceased on 31 December 1877. His record is annotated ‘Traced Pension 13.11.1890’. £800-£1000

Three: Gunner’s Mate John Farrell, Royal Navy, later Chief Boatman in the Coast Guard china 1857-60, no clasp, unnamed as issued; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1863 to 1864 (John Farrell, Gr’s Mate, H.M.S. Esk) officially impressed naming; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (J. Farrell, Chf. Boatn. H.M. Coast Guard) impressed naming, together with his Naval officer’s sword by Stillwell & Sons, complete with leather scabbard, and sepia cabinet portrait photograph by Russell of Kirkwall of Farrell in uniform wearing medals, contact marks, otherwise toned, good very fine (4) £700-900 farrell's New Zealand War medal was issued on 2 January 1871. 119 medals (16 to R.N. officers, 79 to R.N. ratings, one to R.M. officer, and 23 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were issued to H.M.S. Esk for the Second New Zealand War, of which 48 are known including 4 with reverses undated (all to R.N. ratings) and the rest with reverses dated 1863-1864. john Farrell was born in 1820 at Bandon, Cork. His earlier service records have not been sought but his later record is annotated for earlier service ‘Traced 89/116’. He served in the Coast Guard as Commissioned Boatman, Trained Man, from 1 January 1873 on the Audacious, Newcastle, Endymion, Iron Duke, Endymion again, and finally the Audacious again from which he was Shore Pensioned on 22 March 1881. His record is additionally annotated ‘Traced P 14.10.1879’ and ‘Traced, Civil Superannuitant’. £700-£900

Pair: Captain of the Main Top William Bridger, Royal Navy, later Commissioned Boatman in the Coast Guard new Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1863 to 1864 (W. Bridger, Captn. Mn. Top, H.M.S. Esk) officially impressed naming; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Wm. Bridger, Comd. Boatmn. H.M. Coast Gd.) engraved naming, both medals fitted with matching silver ribbon brooches, contact marks, therefore nearly very fine (2) £450-500 Ex Corbett Collection, Glendining November 1994. bridger's New Zealand War medal was issued on 2 December 1870. 119 medals (16 to R.N. officers, 79 to R.N. ratings, 1 to R.M. officer, and 23 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were issued to H.M.S. Esk for the Second New Zealand War, of which 48 are known including 4 with undated reverses (all to R.N. ratings) and the rest with reverses dated 1863-1864. william Bridger was born on 3 September 1838, at Hayling, Hampshire. His earlier service records have not been sought but he first enlisted in 1853 and re-engaged in September 1866 for 10 years with C.S. No. 1710. At some stage he transferred to H.M. Coast Guard from which he was pensioned on 28 September 1876. £450-£500

Four: Leading Stoker C. F. Randell, Royal Navy new Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1863 to 1864 (Chas. Randell, O.S., H.M.S. Harrier) officially impressed naming; Abyssinia 1867 (C. Randell A.B. H.M.S. Octavia) suspension repaired; Egypt & Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (C. F. Randell, Lg. Stkr. H.M.S. Monarch); Khedive’s Star 1882, all fitted with matching engraved silver ribbon brooches, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine or better and possibly a unique combination (4) £700-900 Ex Corbett Collection, Glendining November 1994. randell's New Zealand medal was issued on 28 October 1870. 80 medals (10 to R.N. officers, 60 to R.N. ratings, and 10 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were awarded to H.M.S. Harrier for the Second New Zealand War, of which 31 are known including one with the reverse undated and the rest with reverses dated 1863 to 1864. about 1,980 medals were awarded to the Royal Navy for Abyssinia, of which 611 were awarded to H.M.S. Octavia. 582 medals with clasp ‘Alexandria 11th July’ were awarded to H.M.S. Monarch. charles Francis Randell was born on 15 July 1845, at Weymouth, Dorset, and enlisted for 10 years on his 18th birthday on 15 July 1863, with No. 7553a, and re-engaged for another 10 years on 29 August 1873. His Trade on enlistment is noted as 'None'. He was promoted to Leading Stoker and transferred to H.M.S. Nassau in December 1876, and subsequently served in H.M. ships Asia, Excellent, Wye, Audacious, Nassau, Modeste, Juno, Euphrates, and Monarch. His record is annotated ‘Traced P 31.8.1883’ and he was pensioned ashore from H.M.S. Asia on 25 September 1883. £700-£900

Pair: Engineer W. R. Donald, Royal Navy china 1857-60, no clasp, unnamed as issued; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1865 (Wm. R. Donald, Engr., H.M.S. Eclipse) officially impressed naming, very fine (2) £500-550 Donald's New Zealand War medal was issued on 11 July 1874. 75 New Zealand War medals (13 to R.N. officers, 49 to R.N. ratings, and 13 to R.M. N.C.Os. and men) were awarded to H.M.S. Eclipse, of which 34 are known including 11 with reverses dated 1865, one with reverse dated 1864-1866, and 3 with reverses dated 1863-1864. william Robertson Donald was born on 11 January 1828, at Johnstone, Renfrew. He trained in engineering at Messrs. Penn & Co. and passed at Woolwich, being appointed as Assistant Engineer 3rd Class to Blenheim on 12 November 1852, and then to Sidon in November the same year, before being transferred to Fisgard in November 1855. In March 1856 he was promoted to Assistant Engineer 2nd Class, and transferred to Formidable and then Edinburgh in July 1856, before being appointed to the Retribution when she was commissioned in August 1856 to the Pacific and China Station. He served in her during the Second China Wars until paid off to the Portsmouth Cheque in December 1860, where he passed and was promoted to 1st Class Assistant Engineer on 11 January 1861, before being sent to Fisgard for Eclipse in January 1856, and Sheerness for Eclipse May 1861, achieving his rating as Engineer in the same month. Donald was Commissioned to the Eclipse on 27 September 1862, on the Australian Station, and served in her throughout the Second New Zealand War, passing for Acting Chief Engineer in May 1864. He was on the Sheerness Cheque in February 1867, and was discharged from the service at his own request on 11 April 1867. From the reports of his qualifications and character, it appears that he was highly regarded as an Engineer, a good disciplinarian, but irritable and not with a good temper. It seems he did not suffer fools gladly. sold with copy of two pages of service record, list of ships entitled to China 1856 and 1860, and page from Medal Roll for Second China Wars for H.M.S. Retribution. £500-£550

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1847 (Col. Thos. Bernd. Collinson, Ryl. Engrs.) officially impressed naming, toned, extremely fine and probably unique to an Army recipient £1500-2000 Ex Graveson Collection, Glendining March 1989. confirmed on Roll 7681/359 Royal Engineers 'Medals Issued on 25 February 1870', Rank and Name: Colonel Collinson, Thomas Bernard; Rank at the period the Medal was earned: Captain; Record of Service in the Field on which the claim is founded: Engaged against the natives in Cook Straits 1847, Lieut. Col. McCleverty Commanding. Present at the repulse of 400 natives in attack at Wanganui on 19 July 1847.’ Believed to be the only Army recipient of a medal with this date. thomas Bernard Collinson was bom on 18 November 1821, the son of the Rev John Collinson and Amelia King, at Gateshead, County Durham. He entered the Army at the age of 16 years and 8 months in the Cadet Company of the Royal Engineers on 16 June 1838, being promoted Lieutenant in March 1841, Captain in April 1847, Brevet of Major in October 1858, Lieutenant-Colonel in September 1860, Brevet of Colonel in September 1865, Colonel in July 1871, and Hon. Major-General and retired on full pay on 2 August 1873. His service comprised 21 years and 217 days at Home, and 13 years and 195 days Abroad. His Home service included terms at Chatham, Woolwich, on the Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, the Great Exhibition in 1857, and further terms at Woolwich and Chatham, and at Aldershot and Dover. His service abroad included China, New Zealand, Corfu, Malta, two periods in Corfu interspersed with Special Service in Egypt, September to November 1858, and Malta. as a young Lieutenant Collinson left Woolwich on the Honourable East India Company Ship Mount Stewart Elphinstone on 24 May 1843, bound for Hong Kong. There, his principal work was making an exact survey of Hong Kong Island, employing knowledge gained from three years with the Ordnance Survey in England and Ireland. Ambitious to make a perfect map, he utilised the contour system that had recently been developed and adopted in the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, also adding soundings and other nautical information from Admiralty charts by Captain Edward Belcher, R.N., H.M.S. Sulphur (Commander Richard Collinson, R.N., Thomas' brother, also produced Admiralty charts of the China coast). Thomas Collinson was rewarded by the engraving of his map at Ordnance Survey, Southampton, and a compliment from the geographer J. Arrowsmith that it was the most complete map he had ever seen. Collinson's pictorial drawings were of such an admirable standard that Major Aldrich, R.E., used Collinson's work to illustrate his 1846 report on the erection of Ordnance buildings in Hong Kong, published in the Royal Engineer Papers in 1849. on 11 June 1846 Collinson sailed for service in New Zealand embarking in an old teak ship, the Emily Jane (480 tons), bound for Sydney, New South Wales, arriving on 18 August 1846. Upon the continued native attacks in New Zealand it was decided that he had better go, and on 1 September 1846 he departed New South Wales in the aptly named trading brigantine Terror, anchoring at Auckland on 19 September 1846. Collinson recorded in his [unpublished] Journal, ‘left Hong Kong for services in New Zealand. This movement was brought about by some representation at headquarters that I had been long enough in China; and as I had completed the special work I had been sent out for, and as an officer was wanted in New Zealand, there was some reason for it.’ In Auckland he stayed with Captain Henderson, R.A., for several months. The Royal Engineer officer in New Zealand at this time consisted of Captain William Biddlecomb Marlow R.E. and Clerk of Works George Graham R.E., both of whom had recently been exhaustively occupied with Hone Heke's War in the Bay of Islands during 1845-46, and with the Auckland defences. on 22 November 1846, Collinson embarked in the Colonial Brig Victoria to his solitary station in Wellington, where trouble persisted in the Hutt Valley. Ten days after his arrival, on 30 November, he embarked on H.M.S. Calliope, with the whole force, for Wanganui, where Captain Joseph Henry Laye, 58th Regiment, and himself selected a site for a stockade and arranged its construction. In January 1847, having returned to Wellington in a small trading cutter, he organised the construction of barracks, explored the road to Porirua and the Hutt Valley, and returned to Wanganui in February to carry on the construction of defences there. He was present there, on 19 July, in the successful repulse of an attack on the fort, known as the ‘Rutland Stockade’, by some 400 Maori warriors. collinson returned to his station in Wellington in 1848, where duties included a plan for the defence of Wellington, the arrangement and construction of military buildings, and a report on the earthquake that damaged the Paremata Barracks at Porirua. He also made occasional visits to Wanganui and explorations about the local countryside. During his service in New Zealand he made a number of friends in Captain Henderson, R.A., Bishop Selwyn, Sir George Grey, Alfred Domett, William Fox and Tamehana. Dr Andrew Sinclair, the Colonial Secretary and naturalist, had served with his brother Richard on H.M.S. Sulphur. collinson departed New Zealand for Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, in March 1850. During his return to England from May 1850, he wrote two detailed papers on the history of military operations in New Zealand for publication in the Royal Engineer Papers. In April 1869 he advocated in a lecture to the Royal United Service Institute, the formation of one General Military School. In 1889 he edited his brother Sir Richard Collinson's journal for publication: Journal of H.M.S. Enterprise, on the expedition in search of Sir John Franklin's ships by Behring Strait, 1850-55. In 1892-94 he compiled a detailed and illustrated memoir (unpublished) of his work and experiences titled Seven Years Service on the Borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850, Written for the Information and Satisfaction of My Children [Believed to have been sold at auction by Messrs Phillips in November 1970]. major-General Thomas Bernard Collinson died at Ealing, Middlesex, of pneumonia on 1 May 1902. sold with full research including photocopies from Papers Connected with The Duties of the Corps of The Royal Engineers’, Vol. III - New Series, Paper II: Remarks on the Military Operations in New Zealand by Capt. Collinson, Royal Engineers, Parts I, II, and III. £1500-£2000

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1860 to 1865 (3253 Gunr. Edwd. Singer, 2nd Batty. Coast Brigde. R.A.) officially impressed naming, fitted with silver ribbon buckle, contact marks, otherwise very fine £350-400 Confirmed on Roll 7681/358: Medals Issued on 19 March 1870 'Nominal Roll of Officers, N.C. Officers and Men of the Late ‘J’ Battery 4th Brigade, Royal Artillery, who claim the War Medal for New Zealand and who are still serving in the Royal Artillery': 2 Battery, Coast Brigade, Gunner Edward Singer, At the period the Medal was earned: Regt. No. 3253, Rank Corporal, Record of Service in the Field on which the claim is founded stating actions etc., '1860 to Feb 1865'. only 3 medals with the 1860 to 1865 dated reverse were awarded to the Royal Artillery. Edward Singer served for nearly the whole of the Second New Zealand War and was promoted to Corporal in February 1865. £350-£400

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1863 to 1864 (5049 Sapr. Edwd. Michael, Ryl. Engrs.) officially impressed naming, nearly very fine £350-400 Only 17 other ranks of the Royal Engineers received the New Zealand medal with these reverse dates. The Muster Rolls confirm that he served in Waikato Campaign 1863-64, and took part in the action at Rangiriri on 20 November 1863. £350-£400

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (1329 Sergt. H. Hitchins, A.H. Corps.) officially engraved naming, nearly very fine £300-350 Sergeant Henry Hitchins is confirmed on the medal roll of Army Hospital Corps. Of the approximate 60 medals issued to this Corps, as few as 6 are known to have been on the market. The Army Hospital Corps was sent to New Zealand in 1861 and detachments based at Auckland were then seconded to Infantry Regiments. It also manned the Military Hospitals established at Auckland, New Plymouth, Napier, and Wanganui, as well as smaller facilities at the front, for example at Tauranga, after Gate Pa. The New Zealand Wars were the first conflicts where the wounded from various regiments were treated at one facility. Prior to this, soldiers were cared for by their own regiment's medical personnel. The last of the Corps left New Zealand in 1870. £300-£350

New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (J. Newland, Taranaki Vol.) locally engraved naming, very fine and an important medal to an original settler of New Plymouth £400-500 John Newland (junior) served seven years and fought at Waireka 28 March 1860, Mahoetahi 6 November 1860, and Kaihiki 11 November 1860. He arrived in New Zealand with his parents John (senior) and Francis, and his siblings Francis Agnes, Susan, and William, landing at New Plymouth on 3 September 1841, from the barque Amelia Thompson (477 tons, 187 passengers), Master William Dawson, having departed from Plymouth, England, on 25 March 1841. She was one of the six ships of the New Plymouth Company before its merger with the New Zealand Company in 1842. John (senior) kept a journal of the voyage (now in the Taranaki Museum - ref The Establishment of the New Plymouth Settlement in New Zealand, 1841-1843, Compiled and Edited by J. Rutherford and W.H. Skinner). Together with George and Henry, the four Newland brothers served with the Prussian mercenary Von Tempsky and in private letters described him as being 'quite, quite mad', and 'not fit to be in charge of men'. sold with research including documents of the Newland family, of whom William, Henry, and George also served in the Taranaki Volunteers; photographs of John, George, and John's parents, also John, and Francis; and service records of all four brothers. £400-£500

Three: Sergeant-Major James Mount, Royal Engineers new Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1860 to 1866 (6099 Sergt. Jas. Mount, Ryl. Engrs.) officially impressed naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (6099 Sergt. Maj. J. Mount, R.E.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (S.Mjr. J. Mount, R.E.) good very fine or better (3) £700-900 Confirmed on the roll for service in the Taranaki campaign 1860-61, including the action at Kaihihi 10th & 11th October 1860, and in the Wanganui campaign 1865-66. His medal issued on 25 February 1870, one of only 14 with this date known. The Royal Engineers served in New Zealand during the period 1860-70 and took part in many sieges and built roads, bridges and blockhouses. Their use of the field telegraph to link posts in the Waikato and Taranaki is one of the earliest recorded on campaign. according to The Annuity Meritorious Service Medal 1847-1953, Ian McInnes, Sergeant Major James Mount's Annuity M.S.M. was awarded circa 1917 and he died shortly thereafter. £700-£900

Five: Sergeant James Quigley, 43rd Foot, late 89th Foot crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (No. 3040 Jas. Quigley, Corpl. 89th Regt.) regimentally impressed naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Jas. Quigley, Sergt. 89th Regt.) naming re-engraved, suspension re-fixed, not shown on roll; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (804 Jas. Quigley, 43rd Regt.) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (Sergt. Jas. Quigley, 89th Regiment); New Zealand Association Royal Veteran Cross, bronze (J. C. Quigley) contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise good fine and better (5) £400-500 James Quigley was born at Ferhard, Tipperary, and enlisted into the 89th Regiment on 19 February 1852. After service in the Crimea and India (but not entitled to Indian Mutiny medal) he transferred into the 43rd. He was discharged at New Plymouth on 29 March 1866, to settle in the Australian Colonies. Sold with copies of various muster lists for the 89th and 43rd Regiments. £400-£500

Three: Sergeant H. R. Kearney, Patea Volunteers, late 1st Madras Fusiliers india General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (H. Kerney, 1st Madras Fusrs.); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Defence of Lucknow, Lucknow (H. Kearney, 1st Madras Fusrs.); New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (Sergt. H. R. Kearney, Patea Vrs.) locally engraved naming, light contact marks, otherwise very fine and a rare combination (3) £800-1000 Ex Corbett Collection, Glendining November 1994. unique New Zealand medal named to this unit. Sold with confirmation. £800-£1000

Tibet 1903-04, no clasp (1041 3-Cl. Hospl. Asst. Dayal Singh, I.S.M.D.), later style impressed naming, very fine £120-160 1st Class Sub-Assistant Surgeon Dayal Singh, Indian Subordinate Medical Department, was born on 28 February 1881 and entered the I.S.M.D. in March 1902. He served in the Tibet Expedition and was later awarded the Indian Meritorious Service Medal for his services in Mesopotamia during the Great War. £120-£160

Tibet 1903-04 (2), no clasp, naming erased, nearly very fine; another, a miniature dress medal with clasp, Gyantse, silver, good very fine (2) £50-70 £50-£70

Three: Captain O. H. Galvin, Postal Department tibet 1903-04, no clasp (Postmr. A. O. Galvin, Postal Deptt.), rank re-engraved, ‘Deptt.’ corrected; British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. O. H. Galvin), note different initials, mounted court style for wear, good very fine (2) £300-350 £300-£350

Three: Lieutenant and Quartermaster Serjeant G. H. Manley, London Regiment, late Royal Fusiliers tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (5571 Corpl., 1st Bn. Ryl. Fuslrs.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5571 Q.M. Sjt., R. Fus.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (L-5571 Q.M. Sjt., 5/R. Fus.) together with two contemporary ribbon bars, nearly extremely fine and scarce (3) £850-950 M.S.M. London Gazette 22 February 1919: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with the War.’ G. H. Manley enlisted in November 1896 and was advanced to Lance-Corporal, March 1898; Corporal, April 1902; Lance-Serjeant, December 1904; Serjeant, November 1905; Colour Serjeant, November 1908; Staff Serjeant, November 1911 and Quartermaster Serjeant in 1914. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 2 January 1915 as a Sergeant in the 3rd Battalion London Regiment and was commissioned a Lieutenant and Quartermaster in the 1/3rd Battalion London Regiment on 18 May 1918. Sold with copied m.i.c. £850-£950

The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel M. W. R. de Courcy, Indian Army, 34th Baron Kingsale and Premier Baron of Ireland distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel, complete with top bar; Tibet 1903-04, no clasp; India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Abor 1911-12, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1921-24; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver; Serbia, Order of the White Eagle, 5th Class badge with swords, silver, gold and enamel, mounted court style as worn, in Spink, London leather case, second fine, others very fine and better (7) £300-350 Michael William Robert de Courcy was born on 26 September 1882, the eldest son of Michael Constantine de Courcy, the 33rd Baron Kingsale (created 1223) and Baron of Ringrone. He was educated at Dulwich College; Kelly College, Tavistock, and Sandhurst. In the latter he passed out first and was awarded the King’s Medal and the Anson Memorial Sword. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Connaught Rangers in October 1902. Transferring to the Indian Army in August 1904 and serving with the 32nd Sikh Pioneers, he was promoted to Lieutenant in January 1905; Captain in October 1911 and Major in October 1917. He served in the latter part of the Tibet Expedition, 1904, then in the Abor Expedition, 1911-12, for which he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 16 July 1912). Serving during the Great War, 1915-18, he was Brigade-Major of the 6th Infantry Brigade in Mesopotamia. For his services he was three times mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 19 October 1916, 14 November 1916 and 15 August 1917) and awarded the D.S.O. (London Gazette 25 August 1917) and the Serbian Order of the White Eagle, 5th Class with swords. Major de Courcy then served in the Marri Operations for which he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 18 May 1920), the Afghan War of 1919 for which he was again mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 3 August 1920), and the Waziristan Campaign of 1921-24. In 1922 he was appointed D.A.Q.M.G. Eastern Command, India. He retired from the Indian Army as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1931 and in the same year succeeded his father as the 34th Baron (by some reckonings 29th Baron) Kingsale, Baron of Ringrone and the Premier Baron of Ireland. Baron Kingsale died on 21 October 1965 and was succeeded by his only surviving grandson, John. Sold with some copied research. £300-£350

Alexander Davison’s Medal for The Nile 1798, bronze-gilt, unmounted, contact marks, good very fine£400-450 £400-£450

Waterloo 1815 (Capt. & Bre. Maj. A. Kuckuck, 3rd Line Batt.) fitted with original steel clip and small ring suspension, together with a fine oval miniature portrait of the recipient in uniform wearing his Waterloo medal, oils on ivory, unsigned; a gilt badge with GRV cypher from his later Hannoverian service; ‘Peacock’s Polite Repository or Pocket Companion’ for 1818, with hand written eulogy to the K.G.L. with reference to their services at Waterloo given by the Duke of Cambridge, bound in red leather; a wax seal impression, and a group photograph of officers in the Hannoverian service, the reverse inscription identifying ‘Grandfather Kuckuck-Wahren’, nearly extremely fine £4000-5000 johann Augustin Julius Kuckuck was born in the Kingdom of Hannover in about 1767. He was married at Einbeck on 18 August 1788, and subsequently had five children. He joined the newly formed King’s German Legion on 15 September 1804, being appointed as Captain of a Company to the 3rd Line Battalion, and served in the expedition to Hannover in 1805-06. In 1807 he took part in the expedition to the Baltic, and from 1808 to 1814 he was stationed on the island of Sicily in the Mediterranean. Promoted to Brevet Major in the 3rd Line Battalion in June 1814, he was stationed in the Netherlands during the latter part of that year, and took part in the campaign of 1815 and the battle of Waterloo. He was promoted to substantive Major in the 5th Line Battalion in September 1815 and placed on half-pay on 25 April 1816, upon the reduction of the King’s German Legion. For his services at Waterloo he was awarded the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, 4th Class, and the Hannoverian Wilhelm’s Cross. He was later promoted to Colonel on the half pay by brevet and became Commandant at Hildesheim. Sold with copy statement of service in which he points out that of his three Christian names only August, contracted from Augustin, had ever been inserted in his Commissions, and that he would continue to do the same until further orders; dated Hildesheim, 22 December 1828. £4000-£5000

Ghuznee 1839 (Capt. L. Fyler, H.M. 16th Lancers), engraved in running script on reverse, fitted with a replacement silver mount and straight bar suspension, edge bruising, nearly very fine £1000-1200 Lawrence Fyler entered the 16th Lancers as a Cornet by purchase on 7 September 1826; purchasing the rank of Lieutenant in July 1828, and Captain in February 1834. Captain Fyler served with the 16th Lancers during the campaign in Afghanistan under Lord Keane, including the siege and capture of Ghuznee (Medal). Also at the battle of Maharajpore (Medal), 29 Dec 1843. He served in the 1st Sikh War in 1846 (Medal), including the battles of Buddiwal and Aliwal. At Aliwal he was severely wounded by a musket shot whilst charging with his squadron at a large body of infantry with three guns to their front. His squadron broke through and dispersed them, these being the last of the enemy's infantry which had stood their ground; for this service he received the Brevet rank of Major. He gained the rank of Major by purchase in April 1848 and served in the 2nd Sikh War with the 3rd Light Dragoons (Medal). He then served in the Crimea with the 12th Lancers from 17th May 1855, and was present at the battle of the Tchernaya, siege and fall of Sebastopol (Medal and Clasp, and 5th Class of the Medjide). He received the Brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1854 and was promoted to that rank in July 1857 and attained the rank of Colonel in October 1858. Sold with copied service details. £1000-£1200

China 1842 (P. A. Helpman, Lieut. H.M.S. Columbine), with replacement silver mount and contemporary gold swivel straight bar suspension, with gold buckle and brooch bar, edge bruising, very fine £750-850 Philip Augustus Helpman entered the Royal Navy on 19 July 1821; passed his examination in 1828 and obtained his first commission on 26 March 1839, following service aboard the gig Fair Rosamund and an attack on a pirate brig off Benin. On 3 January 1840 he became an Additional- Lieutenant of the Wellesley, on the East India Station; and on 19 Jan. 1841, was there appointed to the Columbine. He served in the China campaign, where, besides sharing in the actions of May 1841 against Canton, he served on shore in those of March 1842 against Tsekee, and further participated in the attack of 16 June on the batteries at Woosung. For his services in the campaign Helpman was advanced to the rank of Commander on 23 December 1842. On 20 Feb. 1846 he was appointed Coast Guard Inspecting Commander at Sunderland and placed on Retired Pay on 5 February 1858. king John VI of Portugal's Jewel: Portrait Badges Awarded to Officers of H.M. Ships Windsor Castle and Lively for a 'Nasty Occurrence'. Ref K. Douglas-Morris Naval Medals 1793-1856, p. 209 records the names and ranks of all officers aboard H.M. Ships Windsor Castle and Lively on 13 May 1824, and therefore probable recipients of King John VI of Portugal's 'Portrait Badges'. Philip Helpman is shown as Midshipman on the Windsor Castle with a footnote for his entitlement to the China Medal 1842. Whilst the Portuguese Jewel is not known to Helpman, other ‘Portrait Badges’ are known to other Midshipmen on the Windsor Castle and it is therefore possible that Helpman also received one. Sold with copied research. £750-£850

Sir Harry Smith’s Medal for Gallantry 1851 (Henry Evans, C.M.R.) fitted with silver clip and bar suspension, good very fine, very rare and one of the finest named examples recorded £6000-8000 First recorded for sale by Debenhams in July 1898, and in the Day Collection, Sotheby 1913. when the Eighth Kaffir War started in December 1850, Sir Harry Smith was Governor and Commander-in-Chief at the Cape. Early in the campaign he was blockaded in Fort Cox, inland from Kingwilliamstown, by Gaikas under Chief Sandilli. Attempts to relieve the Fort were unsuccessful and the future of the beleaguered garrison appeared none too rosy. But there were wider issues than the survival of the garrison itself. The war had just started, and the fact that the Governor was being cooped up by 'the uncivilised Kaffirs' was adversely affecting the Colony's morale and could only result in the defection of additional tribes. Sir Harry therefore decided to make a break for it, and, escorted by about 250 men of the Cape Mounted Riflemen (a unit which at that time was predominantly Cape Coloured), succeeded in getting through the Kaffir lines, and reached Kingwilliamstown in safety. The story goes that he was so impressed by the showing of the C. M. R. on this side, and by other feats of the Cape Colonial troops during the campaign, that before he was replaced by Sir George Cathcart in April, 1852, he decided to show his high regard for the men under his command by awarding a special medal. £6000-£8000