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Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (508010 S.Sjt. G. W. J. Wright. R.A.M.C.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (132934 Bmbr. P. D. Ford. R.G.A.) very fine (2) £70-£90

Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (68 Pte J. Day. 7/Hants: Regt) very fine £80-£100 --- Awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 7 of January 1909.

Pair: Staff Sergeant Farrier R. Chivas, Veterinary Department China 1900, no clasp (St. Serjt:- Farr: R. Chivas. S.V. Dept:); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (Sergt. Farrier R. Chivas. Subte. Vety. Deptt.) minor official correction to rank on LS&GC, toned, nearly extremely fine (2) £300-£400 --- Robert Chivas was born in Ellon, Aberdeen, in 1859 and attested for the Royal Artillery on 20 June 1878. He was advanced Sergeant Farrier on 30 July 1882, and transferred to the Unattached List on 11 June 1891. He was promoted Staff Sergeant Farrier on 1 April 1895, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 10 October 1896. He served with the Subordinate Veterinary Department in Sinho, China, from 29 August 1900 to 16 May 1901, and was discharged on 11 July 1901. Sold with copied research and medal roll extracts.

Three: Sergeant J. Bogie, Royal Artillery, recipient of an Annuity M.S.M. in 1933 Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (5427. Gunr. J. Bogie. 1/1st Bde. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse; (14932 Sergt. J. Bogie. R..); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage head (Sjt. J. Bogie, R.A.) the first nearly very fine, otherwise nearly extremely fine (3) £400-£500 --- John Bogie was born in the Parish of St George’s, Woolwich, and enlisted for the Royal Artillery at Hyderabad, Sind, on 21 June 1875, aged 16 years 1 month. He was awarded the medal for Afghanistan 1877-80, and the L.S. & G.C. medal without gratuity per Army Order 172 of October 1893. He served in India until 29 November 1884 and then at Home until his discharge with ‘exemplary’ character on 22 June 1896. He was awarded the Annuity M.S.M. in 1933 and died at Gowrock, Renfrewshire on 30 October 1941. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research.

Three: Gunner C. A. Taylor, Royal Field Artillery, who died on the Western Front on 17 September 1918 1914-15 Star (L-15116 Gnr: C. A. Taylor. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (L-15116 Gnr. C. A. Taylor. R.A.) nearly extremely fine Pair: Gunner A. J. Bacon, Royal Garrison Artillery British War and Victory Medals (202150 Gnr. A. J. Bacon. R.A.); together with a renamed Military Medal, G.V.R. (202150 Gnr. A. J. Bacon. R.A.); and a renamed Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (7084 Rfn. A. Bacon. 4th. K.R.R.) the last two presumably self-awarded, good very fine (7) £120-£160 --- Cecil Arthur Taylor attested for the Royal Field Artillery and served with ‘C’ Battery, 122nd Brigade, during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 December 1915. He died on 17 September 1918, and is buried in Lebucquiere Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Arthur Bacon served with the Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War post-1916. There is no evidence of his being awarded either a Military Medal or a Queen’s South Africa Medal.

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (29068 Bombr. W. Allen. 8/Div: Cst. Bde. R.A.) very fine £80-£100 --- William Allen was born in 1855 at Oakhampton, Devon, and enlisted on the island of Alderney on 17 October 1870, aged 15. He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal with gratuity in July 1888 after nearly 18 years’ service, this being his sole entitlement. Sold with brief service notes.

A scarce Great War 1917 ‘French theatre’ D.S.M., 1918 ‘Mediterranean theatre’ R.A.F. M.S.M. pair awarded to Chief Mechanic A. E. Crispin, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (F.2519. A. E. Crispin, C.P.O. Mech. R.N.A.S. 1917.); Royal Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (3056 Ch. Mec. A. E. Crispin. D.S.M. R.A.F.) very fine (2) £800-£1,000 --- D.S.M. London Gazette, 1 May 1918. M.S.M. London Gazette, 3 June 1919. (Mediterranean). Only 3 R.A.F. M.S.M. and D.S.M. combinations awarded for the Great War. Arthur Ernest Crispin was born in Mold, Flintshire in May 1886. A Chauffeur by trade, he joined the Royal Navy as a Petty Officer Mechanic in January 1915 and served with the Royal Naval Air Service in the French theatre of War from 1 August 1916 to 6 May 1917. Having advanced to Chief Petty Officer Mechanic, Crispin was posted to Crystal Palace in May 1917, and then to R.N.A.S. Felixstowe in January 1918. He transferred as a Chief Mechanic to the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918, and was posted to the training camp at R.A.F. Spinola, Malta. Crispin continued to serve at Spinola until June 1918, and transferred to the R.A.F. Reserve in March 1919. He died in Westminster, London in June 1947.

Four: Lance-Corporal S. J. Cornelius, Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (25048834 Pte S J Cornelius PWRR); N.A.T.O. Medal 1994, 1 clasp, Kosovo; Iraq 2003-11, no clasp (25048834 LCpl S J Cornelius PWRR); Jubilee 2002, unnamed as issued, the first two mounted court-style as worn, the last two loose; together with the recipient’s two aluminium identity discs, light contact marks to GSM, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4) £300-£400

King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3799 Dvr: D. Hanton. R.F.A.) very fine £40-£50 --- D. Hanton served with the 21st Battery, Royal Field Artillery in South Africa during the Boer War (entitled to a Queen’s South Africa Medal with claps Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, and Belfast).

An inter-War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Assistant Commissary and Lieutenant E. Wilson, Indian Miscellaneous List The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1928; British War Medal 1914-20 (S. Condr. E. C. Wilson. I.M.L.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (Staff Sergt. E. Wilson. I.M.L.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (S. Sgt. E. Wilson. I.M.L.) mounted court-style for display, nearly extremely fine (4) £300-£400 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1929: Assistant Commissary and Lieutenant Ernest Wilson, Indian Miscellaneous List, Superintendent, General Staff Branch, Army Headquarters, India. Ernest Wilson was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for ‘Home Service’ in India during the Great War. He did not qualify for a Victory Medal.

Five: Chief Observer R. G. Stoneham, Royal Observer Corps, late Corporal, Royal Flying Corps, a veteran of the Great War with 27 and 32 Squadrons in France, and who served with Group No. 10 (Exeter), Royal Observer Corps during the Battle of Britain in 1940 British War and Victory Medals (10891. Cpl. R. G. Stoneman. R.A.F.); Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Reginald Stoneman.); Royal Observer Corps Medal, E.II.R., 1st issue (Chief Observer. R. G. Stoneman.) mounted on card for display, generally good very fine (5) £240-£280 --- Reginald George Stoneman was born in North Tawton, Devon in August 1896. He enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps in October 1915, and served throughout the conflict as a Sail Maker/Fabric Worker, advancing to Corporal in November 1917. Stoneman served with the Royal Flying Corps in the France from 16 February 1916, and served with 27 Squadron from the following month until his posting to 32 Squadron in August 1918. He served in Group No. 10 (Exeter), Royal Observer Corps, 20 September 1940 - 18 May 1954 (with his R.O.C. Medal being issued in August of that year).

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (W. O’Neil. Gr. & Dr. 11th Btn. Rl. Arty.) officially impressed naming, polished, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good fine £200-£240 --- William O’Neil was born in the Parish of Stranrear, Wigton, and attested for the Royal Artillery at Ayr on 10 March 1853, aged 18 years 6 months. He served in the Crimea for 2 years 1 month and was ‘wounded slightly at Siege of Sebastopol 19 October 1854.’ He afterwards served in India for 4 years 8 months and was discharged at Dublin on 18 March 1875. ‘Conduct has been “Very Good” and he is in the possession of five Good Conduct Badges, he is also in possession of the Crimean & Turkish War Medals with clasps for Alma, Inkermann & Sebastopol, also the medal for Long Service and Good Conduct with a Gratuity of £5.’ Sold with copied discharge papers.

India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1919-21, North West Frontier 1930-31 (1427 Sepoy Thakar Singh, 1/22/Punjabis); Indian Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (1556 Hav. Wariam Singh, 92/Pjbs.) suspension loose on latter, edge bruising, nearly very fine (2) £60-£80

Three: Corporal E. C. Alder, Imperial Yeomanry, later Hampshire Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (39124 L.Corpl: E. C. Alder. 128th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:); British War Medal 1914-20 (33192 A. Cpl. E. C. Alder. Hamps. R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (33192 Pte. E. C. Alder. Hamps. R.) nearly extremely fine (3) £300-£400 --- Edward Charles Alder was born in Wantage, Berkshire, and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry in 1902, a groom by profession. He served with the 128th Company, Imperial Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons) in South Africa from 1 May to 13 December 1902, and was appointed Lance-Corporal on 10 March 1902. He was discharged at Aldershot on 20 December 1902. He saw further service with both the 11th (Pioneer) and 2nd Battalions, Hampshire Regiment during the Great War.

Six: Sapper A. J. Janse Van Rensburg, South African Engineer Corps 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa Service Medal (37172 A. J. Janse Van Rensburg); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st (bilingual) issue, Union of South Africa (Spr. A. J. Van Rensburg S.A.E.C.) some staining, very fine (6) £120-£160 --- Abraham Johannes Janse Van Rensburg, a Bottle Store Assistant, was born in Middelburg, Transvaal, on 6 January 1920. He attested into the South African Engineer Corps for service during the Second World War on 14 June 1940 and served in North Africa and East Africa. He was discharged on 11 June 1945. Sold together with copy service papers.

Three: Driver W. Palmer, Royal Field Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen, Transvaal, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (77833 Dr. W. Palmer, 5th. Bty: R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (77833 Dvr: W. Palmer. R.F.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (94736 Dvr. W. Palmer. R.A.) light contact marks, very fine (3) £140-£180 --- William Palmer served with the 33rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 November 1914. He was discharged on 5 December 1917, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.

The Indian Mutiny medal awarded to Corporal W. G. Morey, who was wounded in action while serving with the Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry; a civilian who rose from a humble draper’s assistant in Tasmania to become a well known adventurer, sportsman, and one of India’s finest exponents of the hazardous sport of ‘Pig-Sticking’ Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Corpl. Wm. Morey, Bengal Yeo. Cavy.) together with contemporary dress miniature, fitted with ribbon brooch buckle, named on the edge ‘Sergt. W. G. Morey B.Y. Cavy.’, nearly extremely fine and scarce (2) £800-£1,000 --- William George Morey was born circa 1837 at Chichester, Sussex, the 8th of 10 sons and 3 daughters to James Morey, a shoemaker, later a relieving officer and his wife Martha (née Bullbeck). After the death of his mother on 8 March 1854, James, with a large portion of the older members of his family, emigrated to Australia. The Hobart Colonial Times, dated 10 October 1854, lists among the new arrivals on the City of Hobart from Melbourne, James Morey senior, sons Charles and Josiah together with their wives, daughter Amelia, and two younger sons William and Walter. James opened a drapery store, assisted by William, but it went into liquidation shortly afterwards. With the family situation tenuous William, seeking adventure, travelled to Melbourne where he boarded the American owned ship Rowena and sailed to Calcutta arriving in October 1855, aged just 17. Papers Past in the New Zealand Archives has an article from the Grey River Argus titled “Incidents of the Indian Mutiny”, dated 14 April 1888, by a certain ‘J.P.’ who relates the following: ‘Previous to my becoming a Govern[ment]-employee I held a situation in a Calcutta house, and among others in the same store was a young man named Fred (sic) Morey. Born and bred in London he had served some time as a draper’s assistant but the spirit of adventure and the desire of seeing foreign countries was too strong within him to allow him to remain as such. As soon as the mutiny broke out he threw up his situation and went up country, where he joined the irregular cavalry. During the period he and I were together I had conceived a friendship for him and he stated when leaving he would correspond with me. Soon after his departure I resigned my situation and went up country and heard no more of him. Some days after the arrival of the Lucknow-wounded Mr Carter, a Calcutta merchant, he told me that Morey was among the wounded in Fort William, and was desirous of seeing me, having called upon him and expressed that wish. I went and saw him more than once and happy to say he afterwards recovered and accepted a situation in the same house that employed him before becoming a sabreur.’ It is unclear if this article was written in 1888 or earlier which may account for the inconsistencies of the text but it is clearly referring to William Morey. The Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry was a melange of incongruous men with little or nothing known of each participant other than their name on a medal roll. Raised as early as 23 July 1857, it consisted of strays, adventurers, merchants, planters, teachers, clerks, seafarers, Eurasians ‘of good character’ and ‘homeless’ British or H.E.I.C. army officers who were without a regiment. The only criteria was the ability to ride a horse which understandably confounded the mariners amongst their number. Interestingly the corps members elected their own Lieutenants. They wore a practical ostentatious uniform of corduroy breeches with knee high boots, loose blue flannel blouses and grey felt helmets enveloped in a huge white pugree, their personal arms comprising a heavy sabre, a light carbine and a formidable revolver. The B.Y.C. joined the operational Sarun Field Force at Chatra on the Nepal border in January 1858, serving under Colonel (later Brigadier, C.B.) Rowcroft. The medal roll shows Morey listed as a Corporal serving in the 2nd Troop. The mutineers gave the B.Y.C. the soubriquet “Shaitan-i-Pultan”, the “Devil’s” or “Satan’s Regiment”, due to the ferocity of their charges. With a lack of mounted units the B.Y.C. protected the flanks of various British columns, sharing the trials of climate, exposure, disease and terrain. The BYC fought in 17 actions during the campaign but perhaps their greatest triumph came at Almorah on 5 March 1858, when they made three successive and successful charges to protect the flanks of the column, while Pearl’s Naval Brigade led the forward assault. They were to perform further good services and charges at Tilga (17 April), Deamureagunj (26 November), Toolsipore (23 December), and Kandi Koti (4 January 1859). The Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry was disbanded in the spring of May 1859. Quite when Morey was wounded is unknown as he does not appear in any official casualty figures. After the mutiny Morey returned to Calcutta and according to ‘J.P.’ returned to his job in a Calcutta trading house. The directories of 1861 and 1863 show Morey working in the Indian silk industry as an assistant in R. Watson & Co’s silk filatures at Surdah and Motehar, and concerns at Rajshahi, West Bengal, later becoming Manager of the Radnagore Silk and Indigo concerns at Panchkoorah, Midnapore in 1873. In 1875 the Bengal Directory shows him as the manager of the Fureedpore silk concern. Morey was to become a leading expert in the silk trade comparing the quality of Indian silk to that produced in Italy. In 1871 William married Frances Sophia daughter of Thomas Tweedie, a deputy magistrate in Bengal, who had inherited large indigo estates from his father. He continued working in West Bengal until 1900 before retiring to Ootacamund (Ooty) in the Nilgiri Hills, living in a house called Sydenham. Here he was to become a well loved member of the Nilgiri and Bangalore community. He died on 7 May 1905, on Ootacamund racetrack riding a horse belonging to his son-in-law Captain Gordon-Price when, between the 3rd furlong and half mile posts, he fell from his horse. He was 68 years of age. One might say that he ‘died in harness’ but racing and hunting were indeed his passions. In 1871 the South Australian Chronicle records that Morey sold 31 horses in Colombo for £906, so it is clear he was trading in Indian and Australian horses, if not breeding them, for many years. He was described as genial and fond of the society of men, and his accounts of the Nilgiri racing and hunting scene for the South India Observer were jovial and racy. He was a wonderful rider and just a year before his death he won a race with his country-bred ‘Kunigal’. However, it was the sport of ‘Pig-Sticking’ that he loved most. Ferocious and dangerous, it was not for the faint hearted. Pig-Sticking in Bengal by Raoul, 1893, devotes his book to the best known exponents of this art including William Morey. Raoul gives dozens of pages to the hunts that relate to Morey ‘whose blood is always up when he sees pigs’. It tells a rollicking yarn of the shikari and hunter against a formidable foe. Raoul also provides us with a full length photograph of Morey. The danger is emphasised in an article from The Queenslander, 6 September 1890, which relates: ‘Mr Morey, a well known planter and sportsman in Bengal, was out hunting lately, on horseback, with his daughter, when a wild boar suddenly sprang from the jungle, and making for Mr Morey, threw over both horse and rider with a severe crash. The brute was on the point of tearing his victim with his formidable tusks, when Miss Morey sprang to the ground and placed herself between him and her father, who had been stunne...

A Crimean War D.C.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant D. Warren, Royal Artillery, who died of consumption in 1858 Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Corpl. D. Warren. R.A.) engraved naming; Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Gunner & Driver D. Warren, Rl. Arty.); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued, pierced with ring suspension, mounted for wear in this order, pawnbroker’s marks to both the Crimea Medal and the DCM, light contact marks, otherwise about very fine (3) £1,000-£1,400 --- Provenance: Glendining’s, July 1953. D.C.M. awarded by Royal Artillery General Regimental Order 23 August 1855. Daniel Warren was born in Bath, Somerset, on 1 April 1836 and attested for the Royal Artillery at Woolwich on 1 September 1848, aged 12 years 5 months. He served with 6 Troop, 12th Battalion in the Crimea from 30 September 1854, and was promoted Bombardier on 1 April 1855, and Corporal on 12 October 1855. For his services in the Crimea he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, together with a Gratuity of £5. Returning from the Crimea he was promoted Sergeant on 17 September 1857, and died of consumption at Shoeburyness on 1 March 1858. Sold with copied research.

A most unusual family group to the three Hamilton brothers, all of whom were killed or died in the Boer War Pair: Lieutenant Alastair Hamilton, Royal Irish Fusiliers, wounded in the action at Pieter’s Hill and later killed by lightning at Machadodorp in December 1902
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (Lieut: A. Hamilton, Rl. Irish Fus:) officially impressed naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt. A. Hamilton. Rl. Irish Fus.) officially engraved naming, extremely fine The Queen’s South Africa Medal awarded to Trooper Kenneth Hamilton, Ceylon Mounted Infantry, who died of enteric fever at Bloemfontein in May 1900
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Driefontein (299 Trpr: K. Hamilton, Ceylon M.I.) officially impressed naming, extremely fine The Queen’s South Africa Medal awarded to Trooper Ernest Hamilton, Bethune’s Mounted Infantry, who was killed in action at Sheeper’s Nek on 20 May 1900
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (631 Tpr: E. Hamilton. Bethune’s M.I.) officially impressed naming, all contained in an attractive contemporary fitted leather breakfront glazed display case with ivorine name labels, extremely fine, the group as a whole very rare (4) £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2012. Lieutenant Alastair Hamilton was wounded in the fierce fighting at Pieter’s Hill on 27 February 1900, the capture of which cleared the way for the relief of Ladysmith by the cavalry the following day. His medals are accompanied by a contemporary hand-written transcript of a letter to his mother, written during the action whilst he lay wounded, describing the attack: ‘My dear Mother
We advanced today about 9 a.m. to take a hill to our front, which we did without much trouble, only losing a few men.
About 5.15 p.m. we advanced to take a small hill to our right which was strongly held. The Dublin Fusiliers being unable to manage it, we had to advance about half a mile over an open space under a heavy fire. A shell burst about ten yards from me and knocked over one of the men, but he was not hurt. We lay down to get our wind and a shell hit the handle of my knob carry and smashed the knob in three places and made a great gravel rush in my wrist, but there was not much blood.
Then we advanced about 700 yards to a small kopie where the D.F’s were. We again rested, then we advanced over another open bit and about half way I was hit in the ankle, at about 6 p.m., and am now lagging behind and am with bullets dropping round me pretty thick. The Company is about 100 yards in front under a stone wall. We were first in, and no one else has gone in passed me, but now they come. I was afraid they were going to give it up, but they are going up splendidly under a heavy fire. I am not 500 yards from the hill it is hard not to be able to go in as I had hoped, but no such luck. I am not in much pain, but hope I shall not have to crawl in, as I do not think the bullet came out as there is only one hole in my boot, so the least movement hurts a bit. We seem to be making a turning movement there are a lot of our men returning on my right under a heavy fire which makes a cross fire for me, I shall not be hit again I feel sure, but the bullets throw dust and stones over me every now and then. I expect you will get a wire tonight, I hope they will only put slight, as I am sure it is not bad. The evening star has just come out, so it will soon be dark, we must be doing well as the firing is not nearly so heavy, but may break out again at any moment. I am very sick at being hit, but must make the best of it. I think we are getting in but I wish I could hear them cheer. Well it is getting dark and the firing less and our men out of sight. I shall soon make tracks and hope soon to fall in with the stretcher bearers so good bye. 7 p.m.’ Alastair Hamilton was killed by lightning at Machadodorp on 5 December 1902. Trooper Kenneth Hamilton, Ceylon Contingent, died of enteric at Bloemfontein on 13 May 1900. Trooper Ernest Hamilton, H Squadron, Bethune’s Mounted Infantry, was killed in action at Sheeper’s Nek on 20 May 1900. There is a marble cross in the cemetery at Machadodorp dedicated to these three brothers:
"In loving memory Alistair Hamilton, late Royal Irish Fusiliers. Killed by lightning Dec. 5th 1902. Aged 28 years.
Also of Ernest. Killed in Action at Vryheid May 20th 1900. Aged 22 years.
Also of Kenneth. Died at Bloemfontein May 16th 1900. Aged 24 years.” This group is also accompanied by a contemporary cutting from the Black and White Budget, or similar, with portrait photographs of “Four Fighting Brothers”. The fourth brother was Sub-Inspector J. Hamilton, Natal Mounted Police. There was a fifth brother, Patrick, a Captain in the Worcestershire Regiment and Royal Flying Corps, who was killed on flying manoeuvres during Military Trials, when his machine fell from some 500 feet in Graveley, near Stevenage, Herts, on 6 September 1912. He was aged 30 years.

Five: Major W. H. McGowan, Royal Garrison Artillery 1914-15 Star (Capt. W. H. Mc.Gowan. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major W. H. Mc.Gowan.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued; Italy, Kingdom, Al Valore Militare, silver, mounted as worn, good very fine and better (5) £240-£280 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 15 August 1917. Italian Al Valore Militare in silver London Gazette 31 August 1917. William Hugh McGowan served with the Royal Garrison Artillery during the Great War in Mesopotamia from August 1915. Entitlement to the Delhi Durbar Medal unconfirmed.

The important and emotive Great War trio to Second Lieutenant Ferdinand Marsham-Townshend, Scots Guards, who was killed in action in the Rue du Bois, near Festubert, 16 May 1915, one of the two officers and eighty Scots Guardsman, who ‘fought to the last cartridge’ and were found dead in the Rue du Bois, surrounded by 200 German corpses - the ‘Immortal Eighty of Festubert’ 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut: F. Marsham-Townshend. S. Gds:); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut: F. Marsham-Townshend.) contained in a contemporary leather-covered, glazed display frame, nearly extremely fine (3) £2,000-£3,000 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, July 2004 (£2000 hammer) Second Lieutenant Ferdinand Marsham-Townshend, who was killed in action on the 16th May 1915, near Festubert, France, and was buried there, was the second son of the Hon. Robert Marsham-Townshend, formerly in the Diplomatic Service, son of the 3rd Earl of Romney, of Frognal, Sidcup, Kent, and his wife, the Hon. Mrs Marsham-Townshend, daughter of the Rev. George Barber Paley, Rector of Freckenham, Suffolk. Second Lieutenant F. Marsham-Townshend was born at 5 Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, London, on the 17th April 1880, and was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree of B.A. in 1903. He received his commission on probation in the Special Reserve of Scots Guards in February 1915, and for active service was attached to the 2nd Battalion of his regiment. Second Lieutenant F. Marsham-Townshend had been at the front for about two months when he was killed. The following account of the fighting on 16 May 1915, was published in a weekly paper: ‘Another episode which sent my mind back to the early days of the war was the heroic stand of the officers and men of the Scots Guards in the sanguinary fighting in the Rue du Bois. Two officers and eighty men of the Scots Guards fought to the last cartridge, and were found dead in the Rue du Bois, surrounded by heaps of German corpses. This was during the fighting at Festubert. This is what Mr Valentine Williams says of these brave fellows: “Soaked by the rain, blackened by the sun, their bodies were not beautiful to look upon; but the German dead spread plentifully around, the empty cartridge cases scattered about, the twisted bayonets and the broken rifles showed the price a Scots Guard sets upon his honour. No monarch ever had a finer lying in state than those eighty guardsman dead amid the long coarse grass of this dreary Flanders plain.”’ Second Lieutenant Marsham-Townshend was one of the two officers referred to. He was a member of the Bachelors’ and Bath Clubs.’ (The Bond of Sacrifice, Volume II refers) He is buried at Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, France. Sold with copied research including Medal Index Card, Battalion War Diary extracts, correspondence file, and a two-part detailed article about the ‘Immortal Eighty of Festubert’ published in the Western Front Association journal Stand To!

Three: Petty Officer H. Rice, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals (150839 H. Rice. P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (150839 Henry Rice, P.O. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Nelson.) very fine (3) £70-£90 --- Henry Rice was born in Holborn, Middlesex, on 13 February 1874 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 13 August 1889. Advanced Petty Officer First Class on 21 October 1903, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 25 February 1907. He was shore pensioned on 12 February 1914, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve the following day, before being recalled for War Service on 2 August 1914, serving in H.M.S. Excellent from 22 July 1916, and later in the Armed Boarding Vessel S.S. Peel Castle. He was shore pensioned on 25 February 1919. Sold with copied record of service and other research.

Five: Temporary Warrant Officer Class II E. T. Evans, Royal Army Service Corps 1914-15 Star (587 S.Q.M. Sjt. E. T. Evans. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (S-477 T.W.O. Cl.2. E. T. Evans. A.S.C.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (S-253574 T.S.S. Mjr: E. T. Evans. R.A.S.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (S/253574 Sq: Q.M. Sjt. E. T. Evans. R.A.S.C.) contact marks, very fine (5) £160-£200 --- Evan Thomas Evans from Pentre, Rhondda, Wales, attested into the Welsh Border Brigade, Army Service Corps, Territorial Force, on 4 June 1908. He served during the Great War in the Egyptian theatre from 14 July 1915. Appointed Temporary Warrant Officer Class II, he was awarded the M.S.M for service at home after the Great War, and his Territorial Force War Medal was awarded within Army Order 178 of 1919. Then living in Treherbet, Rhondda, he was discharged due to sickness on 30 December 1919 and awarded a Silver War Badge, No. 467663.

The Indian Mutiny medal awarded to Assistant Surgeon L. F. Dickson, 2nd Sikh Police Corps, who was also attached ‘in medical charge in the field’ to Shannon’s Naval Brigade, February-September 1858; he afterwards emigrated to Australia but finally settled on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where a nature reserve today bears his name Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Asst. Surgn. L. F. Dickson 2nd Sikh Police Corps) good very fine and rare £1,200-£1,600 --- Lindsay Frederick Dickson was born on 26 October 1834, at Cheltenham, son of the distinguished physician Samuel Dickson later of 28 Bolton Street, Mayfair and his wife, ‘the beauty of Edinburgh’, Eliza, daughter of David Johnston of Overton and niece of Lord Campbell, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland. Samuel, after serving with the 30th Regiment of Foot in Madras for five years, published a book on the tropical diseases of India. His surgery of over 7,000 patients in Cheltenham made him a wealthy man but Samuel Dickson was a controversial physician who, by 1860, at his own expense, produced a monthly hand-written journal, The People’s Medical Enquirer, in which he advanced the cause of Dicksonian truth whilst exposing the errors of others. Samuel waged a long campaign against bloodletting which, he felt, weakened patients and instead he advocated the use of stimulants such as Quinine and alcohol. His lectures on the ‘Fallacies of the Faculty’ and the ‘Chrono-thermal System of Medicine’ were treated by the medical establishment with scepticism and he was ostracised by his peers. While he was not without supporters in England, his chief following was in the United States where the Penn Medical College of Philadelphia was founded to teach his doctrines. Lindsay was educated Aberdeen University, King's College, London, M.R.C.S. 1856 and L.S.A 1856, and St. Andrews, Scotland, M.D. 1857. He was appointed Assistant-Surgeon, 4 August 1857; Surgeon, 4 August 1869; Surgeon-Major, 1 July 1879; Brigade-Surgeon, 27 November 1882, and retired the following year. His Employment and Services in the Field plus additions are as follows: He arrived at Calcutta, 5 December 1857, and was appointed to accompany a detachment of recruits of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fusiliers from Barrackpore to Cawnpore where, on 8 February 1858, he was appointed to the Shannon’s Naval Brigade, being present with it until its departure back to Calcutta in September 1858. He was in medical charge in the field in the absence of Surgeon Flanagan, who had been taken with fever. ‘The Devil's Wind’ by Verney states that the hospital at Lucknow was in such an exposed position that it was relocated to a village 150 yards away. The enemy received information of the move and redirected their fire, whereby two camels were killed by round shot and another went through the building where Dr. Dickson and some staff were operating. On 10 October 1858, he took medical charge of a detachment of recruits, 70 women and 70 children to Allahabad per the flat Mala Ganga arriving at Calcutta on 10 November. On 18 November 1858, he took medical charge of the 2nd Sikh Police Battalion at Bulleah which was engaged in protecting the Gorackpore Frontier towards Nepal. In January 1859 he transferred to 20th Regiment Punjab Infantry, during several expeditions against flying parties of rebels in the Shahabad District. In September 1859 he was placed in medical charge of the 3rd Sikh Cavalry at Tirhoot and accompanied the regiment to Segowlee until forced by illness to go to Dinapore, where he was ordered to England for 15 months on Medical Certificate, returning to India on 9 August 1861. He served 5 years with the Mewar Infantry, with a brief period with the Malwa Bheel Corps; served 2 years, Bengal Artillery; 8 months, Bengal Sappers and Miners; 6 months each with 25th and 28th Bengal Native Infantry; and one year with 13th (Shekhawatti) Native Infantry. He served further various lengths of service in Civil Charge of the districts of Azimgarh, Mymensingh, Nagode and Roorkee. On 15 June 1869, Lindsay Frederick married Charlotte, the daughter of John Kirkpatrick, former Chief Justice of the Legislative Council of the Ionian Islands, and his wife Jean, at Edinburgh. Through her uncle William Kirkpatrick of Malaga, Charlotte was a direct cousin of the future Empress Eugenie. Charlotte bore Lindsay 8 children, although 3 died tragically young. On retirement, after serving for 22 years and 6 days, he sailed with his family to Australia. The Register of the Medical Practitioners for 1885 in the Victorian Police Gazette shows that Dr. Dickson had already registered in Melbourne as early as 7 May 1880. Walch’s Tasmanian Almanac for 1881 shows that he also registered in the town of Bothwell, a remote outpost on the island. Dickson and family remained in Australia for 5 years. In the late 1880s Dickson joined an established community of soldiers’ families who had come from India to settle on Vancouver Island. They were attracted in part by the excellent trout and salmon fishing on Cowichan River and Lake, but also by low property prices. Dickson bought a property on Denman Island and a house in Vancouver, wintering in Santa Cruz, California where he established a medical practice. In 1889 he further purchased the Cowichan Lake Hotel, remotely located on the mouth of the Campbell River. An Angler’s Paradise – Sport fishing and Settler Society on Vancouver Island 1860s-1920s, by Diana Pedersen, gives an atmospheric account of their lives and experiences with Dickson being one of the leading citizens of the community. At Santa Cruz Dickson was exposed to the new pastime of big-game fishing that was sweeping the sporting world. He brought his knowledge of angling for large salmon from Monterey Bay to the Campbell River, where he was considered an authority on tackle and lures, and even patented a reel of his own design at El Paso. In 1903 he created two salmon-angling world records at the Campbell River; the first, confirmed by the The Field magazine, to which Dickson contributed many articles, was for the greatest weight of salmon caught by a rod in one day; 12 Tyee (Chinook) salmon were landed weighing 458 pounds. The second was for the greatest weight of salmon caught by a rod in 16 days of fishing, an impressive 92 Tyee weighing 3,665 pounds. As a respected medical authority, his expertise was sought by provincial and legal health authorities. At the time of a local outbreak of smallpox he was appointed Municipal Health Officer and Public Vaccinator for the Cowichan District. Between 1890 and 1893 he served as medical examiner and testified at inquests in several cases of accidental or unexplained deaths. In October 1891 he rowed 40 miles to Saturna Island to conduct a post mortem examination on a man who had fallen and died during an attack of delirium tremens. His wife Charlotte, who had diabetes and had been ill for some time, died at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Victoria in February 1907, aged 64. Dickson died of throat cancer on 25 April 1908, but not before he had married Elizabeth in October 1907. Both Lindsay and Charlotte were buried in the family plot at Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria. After a 10 year campaign by the Denman Conservancy Association, 134 acres of forested land and foreshore, part of the Lindsay Dickson estate, was purchased by the Province of British Columbia in 2001 and transferred to the Islands Trust Fund. It is now known as the Lindsay Dickson Nature Reserve, making it one of the most pristine unlogged forests in British Columbia. Lot is sold with a comprehensive file of research together with Wills and the service reco...

British War Medal 1914-20 (7) (649049 Pte. F. A. Lamoureux 4-C.M.R.; 2085306 A. Cpl. J. D. Keiller C.G.A.; 3060062 Pte. G. W. Stone. E.O.R.; 4040371 Pte. A. Gauthier. Q.R.; 100286 Pte. S. Holloway. M.G.C.; 790137 Spr. W. H. Lawrence. C.E.; 3259796 Pte. A. Severy. N.B.R.) last 2 with broken suspension mounts, otherwise generally very fine (7) £60-£80 --- Frederick Axrer Lamoureux was born in Clarence Creek, Ontario, Canada in December 1893. He served during the Great War with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles on the Western Front, and was wounded in action 5 September 1917, and 28 October 1917.

British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. C. E. V. Daveney); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (17089 A. Sjt. B. W. Frost. 7-Can. Inf.; N. Sister C. G. Green.) generally very fine or better (3) £60-£80 --- Charles Edward Vernon Daveney was born in Gladstone, Queensland, Australia in August 1883. Prior to the Great War he was employed as a Railway Surveyor, and resided in McCloud, California, U.S.A. Daveney initially served as a Private with the 47th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, before being commissioned in No. 1 Tramways Company, Canadian Railway Troops. Benjamin Wilfred Frost was born in Highgate, London in August 1882. He had prior military service of 6 years with the 1st Middlesex Mounted Infantry; and, 104th Regiment, Westminster Fusiliers of Canada. Frost served during the Great War as a Staff Sergeant with the 7th Battalion, Canadian Infantry on the Western Front. He died of wounds received in battle, 13 October 1919, and was buried in Kelowna, British Columbia. C. G. Green was awarded a class B mention in despatches, and died of disease related to service 4 April 1922.

Pair: Private A. Oliver, Royal West Surrey Regiment British War and Victory Medals (13173 Pte. A. Oliver. The Queen’s R.) extremely fine Pair: Private E. F. Snelgrove, Royal West Surrey Regiment British War and Victory Medals (18859 Pte. E. F. Snelgrove. The Queen’s R.) good very fine Pair: Private F. A. Perry, East Surrey Regiment British War and Victory Medals (11070 Pte. F. A. Perry. E. Surr. R.) mounted as worn, polished, nearly very fine Pair: Private S. T. Scott, 6th Battalion, London Regiment British War and Victory Medals (6499 Pte. S. T. Scott. 6-Lond. R.) in named card box of issue, extremely fine Pair: Private H. W. Sharp, 17th Battalion, London Regiment British War and Victory Medals (576849 Pte. H. W. Sharp. 17-Lond. R.) nearly extremely fine British War Medal 1914-20 (G-29923 Pte. R. H. Green. R.W. Kent R.) together with the recipient’s two card identity discs, good very fine (11) £140-£180

A scarce ‘Turkish Contingent’ and Indian Mutiny group of three awarded to Captain T. B. Heathorn, Bombay Artillery Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (Captn. T. B. Heathorn, Turkish Contgt.) contemporary tailor’s copy by ‘J.B’, engraved naming; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidie, 4th Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamel; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Lieut. T. B. Heathorn, Bombay Arty.) mounted as worn in this order on a silver triple-buckle brooch bar, ‘Crescent’ suspension slightly chipped on the second, some light pitting to both campaign medals, otherwise very fine (3) £800-£1,000 --- Thomas Bridges Heathorn was born on 6 September 1830, and attended Addiscombe, 1848-50. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the Army on 9 December 1850, becoming Lieutenant on 10 November 1854, ante-dated to 9 December 1850; 2nd Captain, 19 October 1859; 1st Captain, 14 September 1865. Employed in the Ottoman Dominions with local rank of Captain from 27 March 1855, served in the Crimea with the Turkish Cintingent in Quarter-Maser General’s Department at Kertch (Turkish Medal; 4th Class Medjidie). Served in the Indian Mutiny in 1858 with the Kotah flying column at Oodepore, Central India (Medal with clasp; despatches London Gazette 24 March 1859). Was afterwards appointed Orderly Officer at Addiscombe, 1860, and to the Armament Committee at the War Office, 1865. Captain Heathorn retired on 17 August 1866.

A Great War D.S.M. group of four awarded to Chief Stoker H. C. Tibble, Royal Navy, a long-served submariner decorated for his part in J5 during Operation 'BB', the daring plan to ‘flush out’ enemy submarines near their bases; his submarine had previously had the good fortune to escape a 'blue-on-blue' torpedo from Captain Naismith, later of V.C. fame, during the Cuxhaven Raid on Christmas Day 1914 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (278813. H. C. Tibble, Sto. P.O. Submarine Service 1917.); British War and Victory Medals (278813 H. C. Tibble. Ch. Sto. R.N.) the Victory Medal with officially re-impressed naming; Naval L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (278813. H. C. Tibble, Ch. Sto. H.M.S. Titania.) contact marks, otherwise very fine (4) £1,000-£1,400 --- D.S.M. London Gazette 9 November 1917: ‘For services in submarines in enemy waters.’ Henry Charles Tibble was born at Battersea, London on 14 November 1875, the third son of Andrew and Frances Tibble. He enlisted in the Royal Navy on 22 January 1895, at Portsmouth and saw extensive service aboard a wide range of ships and shore bases, including the cruiser Tauranga which served in Australian waters. Returning home, he joined Drake on a tour of the Caribbean Islands in 1903, before returning to Portsmouth the following year and joining the submarine depot ship Thames on 16 March 1905. From here Tibble commenced an early career in the silent service, transferring to Mercury in 1906 and Vernon, the torpedo school ship at Porchester Creek, on 14 January 1913. On 24 August 1913 he joined Dolphin, the submarine depot and school at Fort Blockhouse, Gosport, before joining depot ship Adamant at Harwich for service in the Submarine D6 on 9 September 1913. The Cuxhaven Raid: A narrow escape As the Christmas Truce took place on parts of the Western Front, Tibble found himself in the thick of the action on Christmas Day 1914 during the Cuxhaven Raid, when combined British air and sea forces attempted to destroy the German Zeppelin base. As part of a line of 11 submarines placed between the surface ships and the German coast, D6 had seen the British seaplanes return and land on the sea. Twice rising to the surface to see if she could help the crews, she firstly had a lucky escape when she was misidentified by Captain Martin Naismith (later Admiral V.C., K.C.B., K.C.M.G.) in the E11, who, mindful of orders to destroy British seaplanes that could not be brought home, focussed his attention upon machine gunning three empty seaplanes instead from the conning tower of his submarine. Rising for a second time, D6 found the German airship L-5 fifty feet directly overhead: 'With machine gun bullets clanging against his hull, he (Lt. Cdr. R. C. Halahan, Captain of D6) quickly submerged and headed for home.' Tibble transferred to Maidstone and again Dolphin, before being appointed to the newly commissioned H7 on 1 July 1915, which had only been completed in Montreal a few days earlier. On 16 February 1916, he joined J5, which was commissioned in May 1916 under the command of C. P. Talbot. It was a pretty inauspicious start; sailing for a patrol off the Dogger Bank on 10 July, J5 had great trouble with depth keeping and on one occasion hit the bottom at 140 feet. On 31 July, she was in collision with H.M.S. Vixen and had to be re-docked at Blyth for repairs to the stem and bow shutters to No. 1 tube. Before the end of 1916, J5 was in dock on three further occasions and during the latter half of the year Commander E. C. Boyle, who had won the V.C. aboard E14 in the Sea of Marmora, assumed command. Operation 'BB' In June 1917, Admiral Beatty, flush with naval intelligence that predicted that a succession of U-boats would pass outward-bound through the North Sea between the 15th and 24th, decided to flood the area around the northern part of Scotland with four flotilla leaders, forty-nine destroyers and seventeen submarines, including J5. The surface ships were deployed in such as way as ‘...to force enemy submarines to dive through certain areas occupied by destroyers so they would be on the surface whilst passing through adjacent areas occupied by our submarines’. During the ten days allocated, 19 German submarines passed through this zone, 12 homeward bound and 7 outward bound; there were 26 sightings and 11 attacks made, eight by destroyers and three by submarines. For J5 and her crew, it had been a relatively quiet period but all that changed on 25 June when the British ships began to return to base and the Germans surfaced; J5 released four torpedoes from 6000 yards range at the conning tower of an enemy submarine. They missed and the Germans replied with the deck gun. On 9 July, through her periscope and in rough seas, J5 fired two torpedoes from 2000 yards at U-86; one hit the fore part of the submarine but failed to detonate. Between 28 July and 21 August 1917, J5 sighted enemy submarines on three further occasions. Returning home, J5 was docked at Newcastle from 9 January to 26 March 1918. In the meantime, three members of the crew were duly honoured for their patrol; Tibble was awarded the D.S.M., Artificer Engineer William James Williams received the D.S.C., and Commander Cecil Ponsonby Talbot received a Bar to his D.S.O. A near fatal error Tibble remained with J5 for the rest of the war and had a lucky escape on 26 May 1918, when her Captain sighted a German submarine on the surface. Altering course, J5’s speed was increased and her deck gun was manned. On closing to 8,000 yards the target was identified as hostile and orders to fire were issued. However, after firing eight rounds, two of which may have been hits, the gun jammed and the J5 dived; she had been running however with the ventilators open, and in haste, these were not shut on diving. Surfacing again with a large bow-up angle and only 500 yards from the U-boat, the J5 was quite unmanageable. There was an estimated 40 tons of seawater in the engine room, chlorine was being given off from the batteries and a flare had been triggered. Luckily, in this moment of extreme vulnerability, the U-boat decided to make off after firing a few ‘desultory and inaccurate’ rounds, perhaps also damaged. Following the conclusion of the Great War, the Admiralty presented the six remaining boats of the ‘J’ Class to the Australian Government. For Tibble, he could be glad of his transfer from D6, which had been sunk by U-73, in June 1918. He was demobilised on 20 January 1919, and eventually discharged from the Submarine Reserve on 10 April 1922. He is also entitled to the 1914-15 Star. Sold with copied service record and other research.

Memorial Plaque (2) (Frederick William Heasman; William Henry Lunn) both in card envelopes, the latter with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in outer transmission envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. L. A. Lunn, 2 Merrow Road, Guildford, Surrey’; Memorial Scroll ‘Driver Joseph Allen, Royal Field Artillery’, nearly extremely fine (3) £100-£140 --- Frederick William Heasman attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery and served with the Heavy Anti-Aircraft Brigade during the Great War on the Western Front. He died on 25 November 1918, and is buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery, France. Sold with various original documents including Record Office enclosures for both the recipient’s British War Medal and Victory Medal. William Henry Lunn attested for the Royal West Surrey Regiment and served with the 6th Battalion during he Great War on the Western Front. He died on 9 March 1916, and is buried in Dud Corner Cemetery, Loos, France.

A good Second War ‘Southampton Blitz’ B.E.M. pair awarded to Deputy Leader R. S. Parker, Civil Defence Rescue Service, for his gallantry in rescuing a mother and her child from a collapsed house, 18 November 1940 British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (Robert Samuel Parker); Defence Medal, mounted as worn, with flattened card box of issue for the latter, addressed to ‘Mr R. S. Parker, B.E.M., 7 Burlsedon Road, Bitterne, Southampton’, generally good very fine (2) £500-£700 --- B.E.M. London Gazette 10 February 1942: ‘A H.E. bomb demolished a house and fractured a gas main. Two persons were trapped in the wreckage and it was only possible to reach them by driving a vertical shaft. Space was very limited and Parker had to work in an inverted position for over fours hours. During this time he was nearly overcome by coal gas but, after a Doctor in attendance had administered oxygen to him, Parker succeeded in rescuing the victims. He showed courage and determination, persistently refusing relief during the rescue operation.’ The report of the incident provided by the Southampton A.R.P.O. and Controller adds the following detail: ‘R. Parker left Woolston Depot with Rescue Party No. 11 (he was attached to this party at the time) at 02.46 hours on November 18th 1940 for No. 48 Monaughton Road. An H.E. bomb had demolished the house and fractured a gas main. Two persons (a woman and a child) were trapped, and having been located it was decided to reach them by driving a vertical shaft. Working space was very limited and Parker elected to carry out the work himself, and despite the fact that he had to work in an inverted position and was nearly overcome with town gas, he succeeded by sheer perseverance and determination, in rescuing the trapped persons. Throughout the operations Parker persistently refused relief and Dr. Saunders, who was in attendance administered oxygen.’ Statement by Dr. Saunders: ‘A mother and her small child were completely buried by debris following the collapse of their house, an H.E. falling a few yards away. Their rescue was an extremely difficult and complex operation, which Mr Parker carried out with conspicuous skill and perseverance. The patients could only be reached by tunnelling vertically downwards, so that Mr Parker was literally upside down for several hours - the operation was greatly complicated by escaping gas and I was obliged to give continuous oxygen together with morphia injections to the trapped people via the tunnel which Mr Parker created. He had to be similarly treated with oxygen himself but despite numerous offers of rest and replacement by other workers he insisted on completing the rescue work, despite another fact that he was technically off duty for a part of the period. The excellent condition of the patients on rescue was in great part due to Mr Parker’s courage and ingenuity.’ Robert Samuel Parker resided at 7 Burlesdon Road, Bitterne, Southampton, and was a painter by trade. During the Second World War he served as a Deputy Leader, Civil Defence Rescue Service, Southampton. He rescued Mabel Walters and her 2 year old daughter from the rubble of their house, 18 November 1940. Sold with the following original related documents: named Buckingham Palace Investiture invitation, dated 23 March 1942; Letter of congratulation from Regional Commissioner, No. 6 (Southern) Region, dated 13 February 1942; Letter to the same effect from the Air Raid Precautions Controller, dated 16 February 1942; hand written letter of thanks from Mabel Walters to recipient; recipient’s National Registration Identity Card; photographs of recipient, newspaper cuttings and copied research.

Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (67953. Gr. N. Mc.Leod. 37th. Fd. Bty. R.A.) contemporarily engraved naming, nearly extremely fine £200-£240 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, May 2017. D.C.M. London Gazette 27 September 1901. Norman Henry McLeod was born on the Isle of Harris, where a ‘Norman McLeod’ was the father of Harris tweed, and a tailor by trade, attested for the Royal Artillery in 1888, aged 21. He went absent without leave twice in 1889 and was imprisoned for 20 days. In 1895 he qualified as a 'Master Tailor to a battery of Artillery'. He served with 37th Field Battery Royal Field Artillery during the Sudan campaign (Approximately 71 Khedive's Sudan Medals awarded to 37th Field Battery, R.F.A.) and was posted to 65th Battery. He subsequently served with the Artillery in South Africa during the Boer War (entitled to a Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Paardeberg, Driefontein, Cape Colony and South Africa 1901), was promoted Bombardier in April 1900, and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. He was discharged in August 1901 and was admitted as an In-Pensioner at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, in 1944. He died at Hornchurch, Essex, in 1946.

Pair: Battery Sergeant-Major E. Altree, Royal Artillery Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (4577. Bombr. E. Altree. C. Batt: 4th Bde. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (8034 By. Sgt. Maj: E. Altree. R.A.) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £160-£200 --- Edward Eltree attested for the Royal Artillery at Chatham on 14 November 1873, aged 18. He served overseas in India from 14 January 1875 to 20 April 1885, including the campaign in Afghanistan from 8 April 1879 to 20 October 1880. He was discharged at Glasgow on 24 June 1905, with a total service of 31 years 223 days. He was awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal with gratuity per Army Order 116 of 1892. Sold with copied discharge papers which confirm both medals.

A scarce ‘Afghanistan North Frontier 1919’ M.C. group of three awarded to Lieutenant H. A. Kemp-Welch, 1/7th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment (T.F.), attached 263rd Company, Machine Gun Corps Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. H. A. Kemp-Welch.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lieut. H. A. Kemp-Welch, Hamps. R.) together with 3 related miniature awards, the I.G.S. lacking clasp, mounted for wear, generally good very fine (3) £1,200-£1,600 --- M.C. London Gazette 3 August 1920: ‘For valuable services rendered in the Field in the Afghan War, 1919.’ Herbert Annesley Kemp-Welch was the son of John Kemp-Welch of Sopley Park, Christchurch. Kemp-Welch was commissioned in the 1/7th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment (T.F.) and was posted for service with ‘C’ Company to India. He was attached to the Machine Gun Corps in the summer of 1917. Kemp-Welch was attached to the 263rd Company, M.G.C. for service on the North West Frontier (M.C.). In later life he resided at The Homestead, Sopley, Christchurch, and died in December 1975. Sold with copied research.

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 3 clasps, Suakin 1884, El-Teb, The Nile 1884-85 (25418 Gun: T. Madgin, 6/1. Sco: Div: R.A.) edge bruise and light pitting from star, otherwise nearly very fine £240-£280 --- Sold with copied medal roll entries confirming clasps and Khedive’s Star. Madgin is noted as having forfeited his medal ‘man deserted’ and the Star returned. The entry for the Egypt medal is subsequently noted as having been ‘Restored’.

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Private V. Keily, Royal Army Medical Corps Military Medal, G.V.R. (5810 Pte. V. Keily. 12/F.A. R.A.M.C.) good very fine £180-£220 --- M.M. London Gazette 28 January 1918. Valentine Keily served with the 12th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps.

A post-War ‘Civil Division’ M.B.E. group of four awarded to Sergeant S. P. Hardy, South Wales Borderers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (Sgt. S. P. Hardy, S.W.B.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; together with a R.A.O.B. ‘Far East Lodge’ Masonic Jewel, the reverse engraved ‘Bro. S. P. Hardy 9th. Oct. 1934’; and an A.C.C. Medal for Distinguished Service, with 5 Year clasp, the reverse engraved ‘S. P. Hardy 1966’, about extremely fine (6) £180-£220

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1878-9 (2047. Gunr. W. Mc.Nerney. 7th. Bde. R.A.) light scratches to obverse field, otherwise very fine £500-£700 --- William McNerney was born in Cork in 1856 and attested for the Royal Artillery at Guernsey on 9 December 1875, having previously served in the Guernsey Island Militia. He served with the Artillery in South Africa from 16 May 1876 to 1 October 1880; on St. Helena from 2 October 1880 to 7 October 1883; on Mauritius from 8 October 1883 to 19 October 1887, with the remainder of his service being at home. He was discharged, medically unfit, at Woolwich on 11 September 1896, after 20 years and 278 days’ service, and was awarded a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with gratuity per Army Order 52 of 1894. Sold with copied record of service.

The rare Great War ‘East Africa operations’ D.S.M. group of six awarded to Chief Petty Officer 1st Class, later Wing Commander, W. Dickison, 8 Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (272318. W. Dickison, C.P.O. 1Cl. R.N.A.S. E. Africa. 1917.) surname officially corrected; 1914-15 Star (272318 W. Dickison. C.P.O. 3, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. W. Dickison. R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted on card for display, generally very fine (6) £1,800-£2,200 --- D.S.M. London Gazette 16 March 1918. Approximately 10 D.S.M.’s awarded for East Africa during the Great War. William Dickison was born in Jarrow-on-Tyne, County Durham in December 1890. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy in January 1907, and advanced to Engine Room Artificer 4th Class in April 1912. Dickison’s service papers give ‘Air Service from 18 Dec. 1913’, and he advanced to Chief Petty Officer Mechanic in July 1914, and to Chief Petty Officer in January 1915. The activities of the R.N.A.S. in East Africa are splendidly recorded in considerable detail in the Cross and Cockade Journal - a series of 3 articles throughout 2007 entitled R.N.A.S. Operations in German East Africa 1914-1918 by Air Vice-Marshal Peter Dye confirm Dickison’s presence with No. 8 R.N.A.S. Squadron from 22 March 1916 - January 1918. His record of service confirms similar service with H.M. Ships Laconia, Manica and Hyacinth, all vessels operating in that theatre at that time. One item in the diary of events recorded in the above mentioned articles states: “Somewhat violent explosion of petrol down at the hangar this evening. CPO Dickison sustained rather severe burns but was otherwise unhurt. The report was as loud as a canon.” On the formation of the Royal Air Force, 1 April 1918, Dickison’s grade of W.O. 2 saw his automatic commissioning in the rank of Second Lieutenant (Technical Branch). He advanced to Flying Officer in October 1919, and was posted to No. 1 School of Technical Training, Halton in April 1920. Dickison advanced to Flight Lieutenant in October 1927, and was posted for service at R.A.F. Base Malta (202 Squadron, Flying Boats). Subsequent postings included with the Inland Water Transport Unit, Basrah, Iraq in September 1929. Dickison advanced to Squadron Leader in April 1937, and served at the Home Aircraft Depot in the same year. He advanced to Wing Commander in September 1940, and was retired 17 December 1940 (his 50th birthday), only to be re-employed in the same rank the following day. Wing Commander Dickison retired from the Service, 27 December 1944. Sold with copied service papers, and research.

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Delhi, Lucknow (Lieut. H P Bishop 3rd Troop-3rd Bde-Bengal-Arty.) edge bruise and light contact marks, very fine £500-£700 --- Henry Parlett Bishop was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the Bengal Artillery on 13 June 1845, becoming 1st Lieutenant on 30 June 1848; Captain, 27 August 1858; Brevet Major, 28 August 1858; Major, 5 July 1872; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, 15 December 1867; Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 August 1872; Colonel, 1 August 1877; Major-General, retired, 31 December 1878. Major-General Bishop served the Punjab campaign of 1848-49, including the siege and surrender of Mooltan, and battle of Goojerat (Medal with two clasps). Commanded a Troop of Horse Artillery at the siege and capture of Delhi (slightly wounded) with Seaton’s Column, and at capture of Meeangunge, also present at the capture of Bareily (repeatedly mentioned in despatches, Brevet of Major, Medal with two clasps).

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (66484 Gunr. M. Brien No. 2 Mn. By. R.A.) toned and a little polished, nearly very fine £100-£140 --- Michael Brien served with 2 Mountain Battery R.G.A. on two sorties on active service in Burma during January to May 1891, the only Royal Artillery unit engaged (medal with Clasp confirmed in WO 100/75).

A fine Second War ‘Plymouth Blitz’ B.E.M. pair awarded to Auxiliary Fireman W. A. Edgecombe, Plymouth Auxiliary Fire Service, for his gallantry in fighting fire at the Plymouth Corporation Transport Depot during the Luftwaffe raid of 29/30 April 1941 - ‘during these operations, in addition to the men previously referred to being injured, Larson, Peace and Edgecombe suffered considerably from the effect of blast and flying debris, and although complaining of pain, refused to leave their posts until the fires had been extinguished. Auxiliary Fireman Edgecombe at that time was on the point of collapse but refused to go to hospital until he had returned to his Station with the engine. He was then conveyed to hospital, where it was found that the ligaments of his right leg had been severed and an operation was necessary.’ British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (William Albert Edgecombe); Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (Fireman William A. Edgecombe) with flattened named lid of card box of issue; together with the recipient’s St. John Ambulance Association Re-Examination Cross, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘A110449 William A. Edgecombe’, generally good very fine (3) £600-£800 --- B.E.M. London Gazette 22 August 1941 (jointly listed with A. W. Larson and J. F. C. Peace, both of the Plymouth Police Fire Brigade, Edgecombe being an Auxiliary Fireman of the Plymouth Auxiliary Fire Service): ‘Bombs caused several large fires at an Omnibus Depot. Fire Inspector Larson was in charge of the operations which were rendered difficult and dangerous by burning oil and exploding petrol tanks. Larson, Police Fireman Peace and Auxiliary Fireman Edgecombe took up the most dangerous positions and after three hours succeeded in subduing the flames. During the whole of this period high explosive and incendiary bombs were being dropped and the three men suffered considerably from the effect of blast and flying debris but refused to give up. They set a very fine example of fire fighting in conditions where there was great risk of death or injury.’ The report of the incident provided by the Chief Constable and Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade (G. S. Lowe) adds the following detail: ‘On the night of the 29th/30th April, 1941, one of the enemy targets during an Air Raid on Plymouth lasting for nearly four hours, was the Plymouth Corporation Transport Depot situated in the Devonport area. This Depot accommodates the undertaking’s omnibuses, offices, repair plant, etc. Several large fires broke out at this Depot involving a considerable number of Public Service Vehicles, and a large portion of the premises. Fire Inspector Larson, who was in charge of the operations succeeded in preventing the fire spreading, and after three hours had the fire well under control. During the whole of this period, this area was under continuous attack by high explosive and incendiary bombs, in addition to which a number of land mines were dropped. Several firemen were injured during these operations and removed to hospital, water supplies were damaged and the fire operations were rendered more difficult due to the bursting of omnibus tyres, burning oil and exploding petrol tanks. Although the Depot itself was struck several times by high explosive bombs, Larson maintained his efforts to extinguish the fire by his example of courage and coolness in face of great danger. He, together with Police Fireman Peace and Auxiliary Fireman Edgecombe at all times themselves took up the most dangerous positions and continued their work with such effort that the fire was prevented from spreading, with the result that the Offices, a large portion of the Stores and the bulk of rolling stock was saved. During these operations, in addition to the men previously referred to being injured, Larson, Peace and Edgecombe suffered considerably from the effect of blast and flying debris, and although complaining of pain, refused to leave their posts until the fires had been extinguished. Auxiliary Fireman Edgecombe at that time was on the point of collapse but refused to go to hospital until he had returned to his Station with the engine. He was then conveyed to hospital, where it was found that the ligaments of his right leg had been severed and an operation was necessary. I was present at this incident until the fires were brought under control, and was impressed by the outstanding ability and leadership of Fire Inspector Larson and the courage and devotion to duty of Fireman Peace and Auxiliary Fireman Edgecombe. Other firemen present rendered excellent service, but the work of these three men, particularly under such dangerous conditions was outstanding. By their example and high effort, many thousands of pounds worth of transport stock were saved. I have observed the quality of Fire Inspector Larson’s work on previous occasions. He has consistently shown fearlessness in face of danger and perseverance when the position has appeared hopeless, and he has not spared himself in rendering continued service of a very high standard. These three men have set a very fine example of fire fighting under conditions where the risk of death or injury was great.’ William Albert Edgecombe resided at 23 Beatrice Avenue, St. Judas, Plymouth. He was a milkman prior to the war, and joined the Auxiliary Fire Service on 1 September 1939. Edgecombe transferred as a regular fireman to the City of Plymouth Fire Brigade on 1 August 1941. He was forced to retire on medical grounds in November 1963, this being as a consequence of a prolapsed disc condition, which he had accidentally received whilst on fire-fighting duties. Sold with the following original documentation: Letter from the Ministry of Home Service informing recipient of the award of his B.E.M., dated 21 August 1941; letter of reference for recipient provided by the Chief Fire Officer of the City of Plymouth on the occasion of his discharge from the service on medical grounds, dated 8 November 1963; newspaper cuttings, and a photograph of recipient and his family outside of Buckingham Palace investiture. Sold with copied research.

An Order of St. John of Jerusalem and ‘E.II.R.’ military division B.E.M. group of four awarded to Chief Technician E. M. W. Wingrave, Women’s Royal Air Force - a unique combination to the W.R.A.F. The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s, shoulder badge, 1st type (1892-1939), circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background, with white enamel damage; British Empire Medal, (Military) E.II.R. (2004433 Ch. Tech. Etheldreda M. W. Wingrave, W.R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted on card for display, otherwise generally very fine or better (4) £400-£500 --- Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister London Gazette 25 June 1954. B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1955. Etheldreda Marion Wyatt Wingrave was registered as a Nurse in February 1924, having gained her certificate from the Middlesex Hospital, London. In the 1930s she resided at 41a Harrington Road, South Kensington, London, and was employed as a Bio-Physical Assistant under the auspices of the Society of Apothecaries of London to provide electrical treatment and actinotherapy. Wingrave subsequently served as a Chief Technician in the Women’s Royal Air Force.

Operational Service Medal 2000, for Afghanistan, 1 clasp, Afghanistan (LCpl R P S Walsh PWRR 25212835) mounted court-style as worn, extremely fine £140-£180 --- Robert Patrick S. Walsh attested for the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment c.2006 and served with the 1st Battalion in Afghanistan as part of Task Force Helmand from August 2011 to October 2012. He is mentioned and pictured in the regimental journal Tigers in Touch in September 2010 as being part of the sailing team that won the Tiger Cup.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (818 Tpr: S. B. [sic] Terry. S.A. Lt. Horse) good very fine £160-£200 --- Provenance: The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, May 2011. Sydney Darcy Terry was born in Aldershot. A Clerk by occupation, he had previously served in the 1st Hants Volunteers. During the Boer War he served in the South African Light Horse, 14 November 1899-16 October 1900. Terry attested for the Imperial Yeomanry on 31 January 1901 and was commissioned Lieutenant into the 44th (Suffolk) Company 12th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry on 13 April 1901. Serving until the end of the war, he was also awarded the K.S.A. with two clasps. Sold with copied service papers.

Miniature Medals: A selection of mainly Canadian miniature medals, including Volunteer Medal for Korea (5); Medal for the First Gulf War (9); Centenary Medal 1867-1967 (4); 125th Anniversary Medal 1867-1992 (5); together with various other Commonwealth Independence Medals, generally extremely fine as struck (lot) £60-£80 --- Sold together with a mounted group of five miniature Nepalese medals; and a small selection of miniature lapel rosettes mainly relating to Eastern European Orders of Knighthood.

A rare Second War ‘Invasion of Sicily’ D.S.M. awarded to Bombardier R. L. Gerrish, 6th Regiment, Maritime Royal Artillery, for ‘outstanding leadership and courage under heavy and sustained air-attacks during the landings at Sicily’ whilst serving aboard R.F.A. Ennerdale Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (1687318 Bmbr. R. L. Gerrish. 6th Regt. M.R.A.) officially impressed naming and mounted on original investiture pin, in its case of issue, extremely fine and rare £2,000-£2,400 --- D.S.M. London Gazette 11 January 1944: ‘For outstanding leadership and courage under heavy air-attacks during the landings at Sicily’ - Bombardier Raphael Leonard Gerrish, 1687318, Sixth Regiment, Maritime Royal Artillery.’ One of only two awards under this heading. Raphael Leonard Gerrish was serving aboard the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Ennerdale, a Dale class diesel oil tanker which was taken over by the Admiralty whilst building and completed as Fleet Supply Tanker/Landing Ship Gantry carrying 15 LCM's and with accommodation for 150 military personnel.

Eight: Warrant Officer Class I F. J. Connell, Royal Field Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (62961 B.S. Mjr. F. J. Connell, 79th. Bty: R.F.A.) rank officially corrected; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (62961 B.S. Major. F. J. Connell. R.F.A.); 1914 Star (62961 R.S. Mjr. F. J. Connell. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (62961 W.O. Cl. I. F. J. Connell. R.A.); Defence Medal; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (62961 Bty: Sjt: Maj: F. J. Connell. R.F.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (62961 R.S. Mjr: F. J. Connell. 2/D.A.C. R.F.A.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (8) £400-£500 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1918: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered with the Forces in France during the present War.’ Francis J. Connell served with the 2nd Division Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 August 1914.

British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (Major E. L. Mackenzie.; Major E. P. Freeman.) first with significant dig to obverse field, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £80-£100 --- Edward Leslie Mackenzie was born on 6 May 1870, the son of Major C. G. Mackenzie, 28th Regiment, and was gazetted to the Royal Sussex Regiment on 29 October 1890, becoming Lieutenant on 10 February 1892, and Captain on 4 February 1899. He served with the Regiment during the Boer War in South Africa, taking part in operations in Orange River Colony, from January to 31 May 1902. Severely wounded, he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901); received the Queen’s Medal with four clasps; the King's Medal with two clasps; and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette 27 September 1901). The Insignia of the D.S.O. was presented to him by H.M. King Edward VII on 29 October 1901. He was subsequently employed with the West African Frontier Force from 8 September 1905 to 14 July 1912, and served during the Great War in the Asian theatre of War from 17 August 1915, being promoted Lieutenant-Colonel that same month, and commanding the 1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. He was created a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1919. Eric Payne Freeman attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with them initially during the Great War at home before being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 14th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment in December 1914. He was advanced Captain in October 1915, and proceeded to France with this unit in March 1916. When the commanding officer was killed after the Battle of the Somme in September, he took over command of the battalion and, after reorganising it, served for a time on the Brigade Staff. He rejoined his unit as second in command in November 1916, and shortly afterwards was transferred as Instructor in the 39th Divisional Schools, for which work he was very highly commended by the Divisional Commander. He was then given command of the Reinforcement Camp where he stayed until rejoining his unit in March 1918. He was killed in action on 23 March 1918, during the opening days of the German Spring Offensive, during a rearguard action in front of Péronne. He is buried in Péronne Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Sold with copied research.

Five: Captain and Quarter Master S. Baldwin, 1/5th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Transvaal (4025 Cpl. S. Baldwin, 2nd Hampshire Regt) suspension claw re-pinned and loose; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4025 Serjt: S. Baldwin. Hampshire Regt); British War Medal 1914-20 (Q.M. & Capt. S. Baldwin.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Q.M. & Capt. S. Baldwin. Hamps. R.) officially renamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (4025 C. Sjt: S. Baldwin. Hants: Regt) mounted for wear, first two with edge bruising, nearly very fine, remainder good very fine (5) £200-£240 --- Stephen Baldwin served with the 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment during the Second Boer War, and advanced to Colour Sergeant (awarded L.S. & G.C. in October 1911). He was commissioned Honorary Lieutenant and Quarter Master and was posted in that capacity to the 1/5th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment in August 1914. Baldwin proceeded with the Battalion to India in October 1914, and stayed there for the remainder of the war and the following conflict on the North West Frontier. He advanced to Captain and Quarter Master, and returned to England in November 1919. Sold with copied research.

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (149803 Bmbr: A. H. Hunt. Clerks’ Sec: R.A.) good very fine £100-£140 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2005. M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1918: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered with the Forces in France during the present war’. Albert H. Hunt served with the Clerks’ Section, attached Royal Artillery H.Q., 36th Division during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 November 1915, and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for Devotion. He was discharged on 18 April 1919.

Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (11 Sjt: W. C. Bailey. Hants: Yeo.) edge bruise, very fine £100-£140 --- Awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 163 of July 1910.

An interesting and rare group awarded to Lieutenant Robert Pigou, Bengal Engineers, one of the Engineers at the Cabul Gate during the storming of Ghuznee, who was afterwards killed whilst attempting to reduce a fort in Afghanistan when, having cut his fuse too short, he was blown up and his body thrown a distance of eighty yards by the sudden explosion of the powder bags (a) Ghuznee 1839, unnamed as issued, with original suspension (b) Royal Humane Society, large silver medal (Successful), (R. Pigou Armo. Vit. Ob. Serv. Dono Dat Soc. Reg. Hum. 1836) (c) Georgian silver presentation Snuff Box, hallmarked London 1825, maker’s mark ‘T.E’ for Thomas Edwards, the gilt inner lid with inscription ‘Presented to Ensign Pigou, by the E.I.C. Sappers & Miners, as a humble token of their gratitude in his saving the life of one of their comrades whilst pontoning [sic] on the river Medway on the 27th August, 1835’, the R.H.S. medal with edge bruising and contact marks, therefore nearly very fine, otherwise good very fine (3) £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: Brian Ritchie Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2004; Jack Boddington Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2006. Robert Pigou was the son of Henry Minchin Pigou, B.C.S., of Banwell Castle, Somerset, the Commissioner for Revenue at Jessore, and was born in India on 5 October 1816. He was baptised at Dacca on 13 October of that year, and in due course was sent home to Rugby School. He was nominated for his Cadetship in the Bengal Engineers by P. Muspratt, Esq., at the recommendation of ‘the executors of the late D. Stuart, Esq.,’ and was admitted to the Establishment in August 1830. Between 1833 and 1834 he attended Addiscombe and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 12 December of the latter year. He continued his studies at Chatham, and while there became conspicuous by his gallant conduct in saving the life of one Private Edward Williams on 27 August 1835. His selfless act was reported to the Royal Humane Society by Colonel Pasley in the following terms: ‘Sir, - I beg leave to make known through you the gallant conduct of Mr Pigou, yesterday, in saving a man’s life at Pontoon practice, as reported to me by Captain Alderson, of the Royal Engineers, who was the senior officer present when the circumstances occurred. The East India Company’s sappers and miners were employed at the time, in concert with the Royal sappers and miners, the men of both corps being mixed in each Pontoon, according to custom. Mr Pigou had command of one Pontoon: and in returning to his moorings, on leaving off for the afternoon, Private Edward Williams fell overboard into deep water, the tide running very strong at the time, so that he must have been drowned, but that Mr Pigou, who is an excellent swimmer, immediately plunged in after him, and saved him, all the other Pontoons being at some distance at the time. The man himself could not swim. I have noticed Mr Pigou’s conduct, in order that he may meet with that praise which he deserves; and I have great pleasure in now reporting the circumstance. I remain, C. W. Pasley, Col., R.E.’ The Royal Humane Society’s Silver Medal medal was subsequently voted to Pigou in January 1836 (Morning Chronicle 19 January 1836). Pigou arrived at Fort William in July 1836 and was appointed assistant to Captain Fitzgerald, the Garrison Engineer at Fort William and Civil Architect to the Presidency. He went on to serve in the Canal Department, and to work on the surveys of the Pertraub Kally creek and the Aolabariah Road and Canal. In July 1838, Pigou’s services were brought to the notice of the Governor-General and he was subsequently directed to join the headquarters of the Bengal Sappers and Miners at Delhi on account of his esteemed ‘scientific attainments and high promise’. Later that year he qualified as an Interpreter and was placed at the disposal of Sir William MacNaghten, the scholarly and autocratic Envoy and Minister to the Court of Shah Soojah-ool-Moolk, who was to accompany the Army of the Indus on its circuitous march into Afghanistan, following Lord Auckland’s decision to depose Dost Mohamed. Accordingly Pigou was one of the Bengal Engineer officers under Captain George Thomson, who went ahead of the Army with the 2nd and 3rd Companies of the Sappers and Miners to Rohri to make the necessary preparations for the crossing of the Indus. Under normal circumstances, given trained men, good boats or pontoons, and plenty of material at hand, building a bridge to span the river - which at this point ran in two channels, of 133 and 367 yards, separated by the fortified island of Bukkur - would not be difficult. But Thomson, Pigou and the others were faced with every difficulty. At first only eight boats could be procured and all good timber had to be floated 200 miles downstream from Ferozepore. The Sappers had to make 500 cables of grass and manufacture all the nails they required. None of the young officers had any practical experience of large floating bridges, nor could anyone speak the dialect of the local labourers. Furthermore the current was rapid and floods often endangered the whole structure. Nevertheless, the Indus was bridged successfully and, by 18 February 1839, 38,000 troops and camp followers, 30,000 camels, artillery, and ordnance carriages had crossed easily and safely. After a long and laborious march to Candahar via the sombre defile of the Bolan Pass and the mud village of Quetta, the Army was exhausted; paralysed by its loss of transport animals and on the point of starvation. On 27 June, 7,800 fighting men including the Engineers who had bridged the Indus, plodded on towards Ghuznee, which, unbeknown to MacNaghten, had been heavily fortified by Hyder Khan. The Commander-in-Chief, Sir John Keane, was ill-prepared to lay siege to the fortress and found himself in a desperate quandary. He had no more than a few days’ supplies and was being carefully watched by two large armies of Ghilzai tribesmen. Once again Keane was obliged to seek the advice of his Chief Engineer, Captain Thomson, who suggested blowing in the Cabul Gate. The gate was duly blown at dawn on 23 July by the Explosion Party, led by Captain Peat of the Bombay Engineers, and Lieutenants Durand and MacLeod of the Bengal corps. Pigou, leading some Sappers equipped with two scaling ladders, took part in the assault with the main storming party under Brigadier-General ‘Fighting Bob’ Sale, and was engaged in the hand to hand fight in the gateway. After the capture of Ghuznee, Pigou continued with the Army to Cabul which was entered unopposed on 7 August. In early January 1840, Pigou marched out from the British cantonment at Cabul with a force under Lieutenant-Colonel Orchard to reduce the fort at Pushoot, fifty miles northeast of Jellalabad. He was duly selected to lay the powder by the fort’s inner gate and ignite the charge, being three times obliged to advance to the gateway under a heavy fire. Unfortunately his efforts to flash the train were foiled by a heavy downpour of rain. Nevertheless he was praised in Orchard’s despatch for his gallant and meritorious conduct (Calcutta Gazette 15 February 1841). On 25 January 1841, he was promoted Lieutenant, and the next month took part in the expedition under Brigadier Shelton against the Sangu Khel in the Nazian Valley. On 24 February he made the fatal error of cutting his fuse too short and was unable to make good his retreat before the explosion took place. Brigadier Shelton afterwards reported, ‘A few men held out in two Forts and obliged me to blow open the gates which was effectually accomplished by Lieut. Pigou of the Engineers supported by the Li...

British War Medal 1914-20 (910 Pte. H. Bennett. R. Newf’d R.) toned, nearly extremely fine £100-£140 --- Hector Bennett served with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during the Great War, and was killed in action at the Battle of Monchy on 14 April 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Beaumont-Hamel (Newfoundland) Memorial, France.

Pair: Captain H. A. Buller, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. A. Buller) extremely fine Three: Pioneer T. D. Evans, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (39457 Pnr. T. D. Evans. R.E.); Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Thomas David Evans) extremely fine Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Oscar V. W. R. Basham) very fine (6) £80-£100 --- Hugh Algernon Buller was born on 20 August 1887 in Kensington, Middlesex. He was commissioned into the Army Service Corps for service during the Great War, and served on the Western Front from 11 November 1916. Later appointed Captain, he died, aged 49, in Newbury, Berkshire, on 2 August 1937. I.S.M. London Gazette, 17 May 1949. Inspector, Post Office, Maidenhead. Thomas David Evans attested into the Royal Engineers for service during the Great War, transferring to the South Wales Borderers. He later returned to the Royal Engineers. Post-War he worked as an Inspector with the General Post Office. Oscar Vernon William Richard Basham was born in Chiswick, Middlesex, on 8 November 1892. A Master Mariner with the Mercantile Marine, he served during the Great War and was awarded the British War Medal and the Mercantile Marine Medal. He later served during the Second World War in the Pacific, with the Merchant Navy, and was awarded the 1939/45 Star, Pacific Star and War Medal 1939-45. He died on 6 February 1976, aged 83, in Bournemouth, Hampshire.

An interesting Boer War D.C.M. group of three awarded to Corporal J. N. Waugh, Royal Garrison Artillery, attached to the Dhanjibhoy Tonga Train, Supply and Transport Corps Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (91595 Corpl: J. N. Waugh. R.G.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (91595 Serjt: J. W. [sic] Waugh. Supply Trnspt: Cps:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Serjt: J. N. Waugh. S. & T.C.) edge bruise to KSA and light contact marks, generally very fine and better, rare to unit (3) £1,400-£1,800 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 27 September 1901. J. N. Waugh attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery and served in South Africa attached to the Supply and Transport Corps, Punjab Command. He served throughout the campaign with the Dhanjibhoy Tonga Train. Concerning the train Lord Roberts wrote in his Despatch of 31 March 1900: ‘My thanks are due to Khem Bahadur Dhanjibhoy, a Parsee gentleman, long resident in the Punjab, who presented tongas for ambulance purposes. These tongas were horsed and fully equipped with drivers and all necessary gear. They proved most useful.’ As well as being awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal Waugh was also Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 2 April 1901). Sold with copied medal roll extracts and other research.

Waterloo 1815 (A. Bohlmeyer, Driver, King’s Germ. Artillery.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good fine £1,000-£1,400 --- Augustus Bohlmeyer served in No. 4 Foot Company K.G.A. and also received the M.G.S. with 7 clasps, for Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, St Sebastian, Orthes, and Toulouse. Sold with copied medal rolls.

Miniature Clasps and Devices. An extensive supply of miniature medal clasps, mainly post-Second World War, including some scarce clasps such as South Vietnam, Lebanon, and Air Operations Iraq; as well as some earlier clasps, particularly those for the East and West Africa Medal 1887-1900, the Queen’s South Africa Medal 1899-1902, and the Africa General Service Medal 1902-56, as well as some other scarce ‘Africa’ clasps such as Uganda 1897-98 and Khartoum; together with a selection of top riband bars and Second Award Bars for the various Long Service Decorations and Medals; some clasps for miscellaneous medals (including a few scarce examples for the Polar Medal); and a large quantity of riband devices, including rosettes, M.I.D. oak leaves; and miniature emblems of both the V.C. and the G.C., generally good condition (lot) £180-£220

Five: Master Signaller R. Purdy, Royal Air Force, who was shot down, wounded and taken prisoner of war, whilst serving with 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron carrying out a raid on Frankfurt 12/13 September 1941 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (M. Sig. R. Purdy. (922942). R.A.F.); Indian Independence 1947 (922942 Sig. II P. [sic] Purdy, R.A.F.) mounted for display on card, with recipient’s POW Identity Disc for Stalag IX C, generally very fine and last scarce to R.A.F. (5) £600-£800 --- Robert Purdy was born in November 1921, and resided at 16 Newcombe Road, Southbourne, Bournemouth. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force in April 1940, advanced to Sergeant, and was subsequently posted for operational service with 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron (Wellingtons), Marham, Lincolnshire. Purdy’s aircraft, piloted by Sergeant C. F. Dare, R.N.Z.A.F., was shot down whilst carrying out a raid on Frankfurt on 12/13 September 1941. The N.C.O. crew of six were all taken prisoner of war, with Purdy suffering a severe wound to his right leg. He was hospitalised for 9 months, with 5 of them being spent in a Field Hospital at Frankfurt. Purdy was interned at Stalag Luft III, Sagan, June 1942 - June 1943; Stalag Luft VI, Heydekrug, June 1943 - June 1944; and subsequently at Thorn and Fallingbostel. Purdy was forced to take part in the ‘Long March’, with the advance of the Russian forces in April 1945. He survived to be released when the Allies overtook the column of prisoners. Purdy decided to remain in the R.A.F. after the war, and advanced to Master Signaller in September 1953 (awarded L.S. & G.C. in December 1958). Sold with copied research.

Pair: Private K. D. Stephenson, 47th Battalion (British Columbia), Canadian Infantry, who lied about his age and signed up for service aged 16, was found out and discharged, only to sign up again, and be killed in action on the Western Front, 21 October 1918 British War and Victory Medals (2499687 Pte. K. D. Stephenson. 47-Can. Inf.) very fine or better 1914-15 Star (16404 Pte W. J. Bowser. 7/Can: Inf:); British War Medal 1914-20 (2140544 Pte. A. Copeland. B.C.R.) good very fine (4) £100-£140 --- Kenneth Douglas Stephenson was born in Aurora, Ontario, Canada in March 1900. He originally attested 20 November 1916 with the 234th Battalion as a Bugler (Service No. 1024446). Stephenson declared his Date of Birth as 10 March 1900. He was discharged 13 April 1917, as ‘Medically Unfit due to being Under Age’. He Reattested 2 January 1918 in the Railway Construction Depot (Service No. 2499687) and this time declared his Date of Birth as 10 March 1899. Private Stephenson was killed in action whilst serving with the 47th Battalion, Canadian Infantry on the Western Front, 21 October 1918. He is buried in La Sentinelle Communal Cemetery, France. William James Bowser was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in September 1891. He served during the Great War with the 7th Battalion (1st British Columbia), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front. Private Bowser was killed in action, 15 April 1915, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin) Gate Memorial, Belgium. Alfred Copeland was a Native Indian, who was born on the Lillooet Reservation, British Columbia, Canada in November 1892. He served during the Great War with the British Columbia Regiment in the UK. Copeland died at Lillooet, British Columbia in March 1951.