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Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Major & Lt. Col A. P. Bainbridge, 17th Bde. R.A. 1873-4.) nearly very fine £300-£400 --- Anthony Percy Bainbridge was born on 7 June 1839, and received a ‘classical and mathematical’ education at Mr Charles Howard’s, St John’s Wood. He was nominated for a Cadetship in the H.E.I.C. and entered Addiscombe in 1855, being granted a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Madras Artillery on 12 June 1857, and promoted to Lieutenant in August 1858. He was promoted Second Captain in the Royal (late Madras) Artillery in March 1865, to Captain in July 1872 and to Major in August 1872, now serving in 4 Battery, 17 Brigade, with whom he served in the Ashantee campaign of 1873-74 (Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel; Medal). He was confirmed as Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1880 and retired with honorary rank of Major-General on 29 October 1891. Major-General Bainbridge died at Portland Terrace, Southsea, on 25 November 1888, aged 49. Sold with further research including a copy of his Will.

British War Medal 1914-20, bronze issue (20207 Pte. J. Lintse. S.A.N.L.C.) very fine £80-£100

The Waterloo medal awarded to Lieutenant Herman Wolrabe, 1st Light Battalion, King’s German Legion, who was severely wounded at Villafranca on 24 June 1813; slightly wounded before Bayonne on 27 February 1814; severely wounded at a sortie made by the enemy from the citadel of Bayonne on 14 April 1814; and again severely wounded at Waterloo, in defence of La Haye Sainte, 18 June 1815 Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. Herman Wolrabe, 1st Light Batt. K.G.L.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, very fine £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: An Important Collection of Medals to the King’s German Legion, Dix Noonan Webb, April 2003. Herman Wolrabe joined the Legion on 26 March 1811. He served in the Peninsula 1812-13; in Southern France 1813-14; in the Netherlands 1814; the campaign of 1815 and at the battle of Waterloo. He was severely wounded at Villafranca on 24 June 1813; slightly wounded before Bayonne on 27 February 1814; severely wounded at a sortie made by the enemy from the citadel of Bayonne on 14 April 1814; and again severely wounded at Waterloo, in defence of La Haye Sainte. He was placed on Half Pay on 25 October 1815, and died at Pomrau, near Klötze, in Hannover, on 14 February 1820. The farm of La Haye Sainte, located in front of the centre of Wellington’s line, was of crucial tactical importance to both attackers and defenders at Waterloo. French possession of the farm would give them the necessary springboard for the final attack on the Duke’s centre. If the French failed to occupy La Haye Sainte, Wellington’s centre was almost certainly secure. Unlike Hougoumont, whose possession was not critical to either side, La Haye Sainte was vital to both and held the key to the progress of the battle. The farm had a garrison of some 400 men of the 2nd Light Battalion, K.G.L., under Major George Baring, all armed with Baker rifles, who successfully defended the farm from the start of d’Erlon’s attack at around 1.30 p.m. until forced to abandon the post some five hours later. Throughout this time they were subjected to repeated heavy assaults in which the attackers hugely outnumbered the defenders. In the lulls between attacks the farm was under constant fire from skirmishers. Major Baring, having lost in the first attack upon La Haye Sainte, many officers and men in killed and wounded, applied for a re-inforcement, upon which two rifle-armed companies of the 1st Light Battalion under Captains Von Gilsa and Henry Marschalk were sent to his assistance. To these and part of his own (2nd Light) Battalion he gave the defence of the garden, and placed the remainder of his force in the buildings, under the charge of the three officers who had already so gallantly defended them. The combat continued at La Haye Sainte, and the 1st Light Battalion fired with great effect upon the troops which advanced against it from the road, but their loss was considerable, and several officers were wounded. Late in the afternoon, Baring and his men were desperately short of ammunition in the face of a terrific onslaught by the French, and reluctantly Baring gave the order to retire from the yard into the rear garden held by Captains Gilsa and Marschalk. The dwelling house now being in the hands of the enemy, Baring saw that it would be impossible to retain the garden and therefore retired to join two companies of the 1st Light Battalion in the hollow road behind the farm. Here the combat raged again, and many men and officers were struck down: of the 1st Light Battalion, Captain Henry von Marschalk, who throughout the day had exhibited a degree of coolness and bravery that could not be exceeded, was killed; Captain von Gilsa had his right arm shattered; Lieutenants Wolrabe, Leonhardt, Behne, Miniussir; Captain Christian Wynecken, Lieutenants Koester, Gibson, Genzkow, and Adolph Heise were wounded, the first three severely.

The important Second Afghan War medal awarded to Victoria Cross winner Gunner James Collis, “E” Battery “B” Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Kandahar (5085, Gunr. J. Collis, E. Batt: B. Bde. R.H.A.) surface pitting and marks from contact with Victoria Cross, therefore good fine £15,000-£20,000 --- Provenance: ‘An Important Collection of Awards relating to the Battle of Maiwand’ [the property of Philip Kamil of New York], Christie’s, 24 July 1990. V.C. London Gazette 17 May 1881. Maiwand, Afghanistan, 28 July 1880, Gunner James Collis, Royal Horse Artillery. ‘For conspicuous bravery during the retreat from Maiwand to Kandahar when the officer commanding the battery was endeavouring to bring in a limber with wounded men under a cross-fire, in running forward and drawing the enemy's fire on himself, thus taking off their attention from the limber.’ James Collis was born in Cambridge on 19 April 1856. He enlisted into the British Army in 1872, firstly into the 32nd Regiment before joining the Royal Horse Artillery as a Gunner and served in the Second Afghan War with “E” Battery “B” Brigade R.H.A. After the fearful disaster at Maiwand, on 27 July 1880, a retreat was made to Kandahar by the remnant of our force. The road became blocked by masses of fugitives, and the sufferings of the wounded were increased by terrible thirst. The conduct of James Collis was most noticeable, for, time after time, he went into the villages on the road to procure water for them, running the greatest risk in so doing, by reason of the bands of Afghans who hovered around, attacking our disorganised soldiers whenever an opportunity presented itself. His finest act took place at the bend of a road through a narrow defile. A body of Afghan cavalry bore down upon the gun carriage he was guarding and directed a hail of bullets on the wounded, who had been placed upon the limber. In order to draw their attention from the helpless men, Collis sprang to the side of the road and returned the fire of the pursuing horsemen, making himself their target, and by his heroic act the limber was dragged round the bend of the road and the wounded saved. Later on he again distinguished himself by volunteering to carry a message from the beleaguered garrison to General Dewberry, entrenched some distance off. This he successfully accomplished, though fired at by the enemy on both legs of the journey. His Victoria Cross was presented to him on Poona Racecourse by Lord Roberts on 11 July 1881. After being discharged from the army, Collis joined the Bombay Police in India in 1881, rising to the rank of inspector. Furthermore, in March 1882, Collis married Adela Grace Skuse, a widow, in Bombay. In 1884 Collis returned to the UK and in 1887 he re-enlisted in the army, this time joining the Suffolk Regiment. He returned to India in 1888 as part of his service but in 1891 was invalided home suffering from rheumatic fever, returning without his wife. At some point he met - and in 1893 married - Mary Goddard, who was apparently unaware that he had a wife in India. In 1895 his deception was discovered and Collis was convicted of bigamy and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment with hard labour. Later that year his V.C. was declared forfeit for his crime under the original statutes of the Royal Warrant of 1856. However by this point, having already fallen on hard times, Collis had pawned his Victoria Cross for just eight shillings. The decoration was retrieved by police for the same sum of eight shillings from a pawnbroker’s shop for the Crown on the instructions of the Home Office. After leaving prison he settled in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and pursued a number of jobs but in 1914 after the outbreak of the First World War he re-enlisted in the Suffolk Regiment, aged 58, as a drill instructor. Dogged by poor health he was invalided out of the army on medical grounds in August 1917. Collis died at Battersea General Hospital in London on 28 June 1918, aged 62. At his funeral at Wandsworth cemetery, his coffin was draped with the Union Flag and borne on a gun carriage escorted by a military firing party. He was given full military honours but there was no mention of his crime or the forfeiture of the Victoria Cross. His family, who regarded him as a black sheep, did not attend the funeral even though he had three sons in the Army. Nor was there money for a headstone and he was buried in a mass grave for the poor. A headstone was erected over his burial plot in May 1998. Two years later after his death, Collis’s sister Hannah Haylock petitioned the War Office on behalf of the family for the forfeiture to be cancelled. George V was sympathetic to the family’s wishes but Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for War, opposed the reinstatement. He believed that because Collis had pawned his medals he placed little value on them. Furthermore, Churchill noted that the family had not kept in contact with Collis and it was only 25 years later that they had decided to raise their grievance with the authorities. Yet the King and others won the day on the wider issue and Churchill approved amendments to the rules relating to the V.C. which stated that henceforward only “treason, cowardice, felony or any infamous crime” should lead to forfeiture. The King also insisted that Collis’s name should be inscribed, along with all the corps’s other V.C. recipients, on the Royal Artillery Memorial in Woolwich, south-east London. His Victoria Cross first appeared for sale in Colonel Gaskell’s collection at Glendining’s on 23 May 1911. It was next sold at Glendining’s on 10 June 1938, when it was bought by Colonel Oakley. After his death it was owned by his daughter who resold it at Sotheby’s on 21 March 1979, when the V.C. was together with a renamed Afghanistan campaign medal. For the next 34 years, it was held in private ownership until it was purchased by the Ashcroft Trust in 2014 and is now on display at the Imperial War Museum, still with a renamed campaign medal. The original campaign medal awarded to Collis was never the subject of forfeit and was sold at Christie’s in July 1990 as stated above.

King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3241 Pte. A. Sills. Oxford: L. I.) very fine £50-£70 --- Albert Sills, a Labourer from Amersham, Buckinghamshire, was born around June 1873. He attested for the Royal Fusiliers in London on 27 August 1895 and transferred to the Oxfordshire Light Infantry on 3 November 1899. He was embodied and joined the Militia Reserve in January 1900 and served during the Second Boer War in South Africa with the 1st Battalion. Also awarded a Queen’s South Africa Medal with the clasps Cape Colony and Orange Free State, he was discharged around 1903. Sold with copy service record.

Three: Pantryman W. Hollyhock, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary 1914-15 Star (W. Hollyhock, Std., M.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (W. Hollyhock. Ptymn. M.F.A.) good very fine 1914-15 Star (2) (152669. D. Gordon. Ch. Sto., R.N.; 211649, E. J. Page, A.B., R.N.); the first accompanied by the recipient’s Masonic Million Memorial Fund Jewel, silver, the reverse inscribed, ‘Bro. D. Gordon. No. 1424.’; Victory Medal 1914-19 (L.Z. 2269 O. Hinson. A.B. R.N.V.R.) nearly very fine and better (7) £70-£90

Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Barrosa, Vittoria, Pyrenees, St. Sebastian, Orthes, Toulouse (W. Mullins. Gunner, R. Arty.) medal removed from a circular mount and reconstituted, brooch marks to obverse, fine or better £600-£800 --- William Mullin was born in the Parish of Seapatrick, County Down, and was enlisted into the Royal Artillery on 22 March 1809, aged 20, for unlimited service, a weaver by trade. He served in the Peninsula in Owen’s Company, later attached to Trelawney’s Company, 5 Battalion R.A., and was discharged at Woolwich on 31 January 1819, with 12 years 31 days service, including two years for Waterloo (not found on roll). Sold with copied discharge papers.

Thailand, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, 3rd (1941) issue, Officer’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, unmarked, with rosette on riband; Order of the White Elephant, Silver Merit Medal (2); Order of the Crown, Silver Merit Medal, in case of issue; Loyal Medal for 25 Years’ Service, Rama VIII issue, silver; Rama VI Coronation Medal 1911, silver (2); Commemorative Medal for the 150th Anniversary of Bangkok as Capital 1932, silver (2); together with an unidentified Thai medal; and a Laos Medal of the Reign, silver, generally very fine (11) £80-£100

A Great War D.C.M. group of four awarded to Lieutenant D. Shimmin, Royal Field Artillery, later Egyptian Labour Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (89828 Dvr: D. Shimmin. D. Bty: 97/Bde: R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (89828 Dvr. D. Shimmin. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. D. Shimmin.) mounted as worn, edge bruise to DCM, generally very fine and better (4) £600-£800 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 11 March 1916: ‘For conspicuous gallantry in twice traversing an open space under heavy shell-fire in order to fetch stretcher-bearers to assist in moving from a trench an officer and a party of telephonists, all of whom, except himself, had been wounded.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 16 January 1918. Donald Shimmin attested for the Royal Field Artillery and served with the 97th Brigade during the Great War on the Western Front from 9 September 1915. Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Egyptian Labour Corps on 16 March 1917, and was subsequently Mentioned in Despatches and promoted Lieutenant. For the medals awarded to the recipient’s father, see Lot 219.

Three: Second Lieutenant J. W. Tindell, Royal Field Artillery 1914-15 Star (8180 Cpl. J. W. Tindell. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. J. W. Tindell.) good very fine Pair: Captain F. N. Roberts, Royal Garrison Artillery British War and Victory Medals (Capt. F. N. Roberts.) good very fine Pair: Second Lieutenant H. S. Henderson, Royal Garrison Artillery British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. H. S. Henderson.) very fine Pair: Second Lieutenant A. Singleton, Royal Field Artillery British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. A. Singleton.) very fine British War Medal 1914-20 (2. Lieut. D. Keith) very fine (10) £140-£180 --- Joseph William Tindell attested for the Royal Field Artillery and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 28 November 1915. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery (Special Reserve) on 7 October 1917.

An extremely rare ‘Northern Nigeria 1900’ D.C.M. group of seven awarded to Battery Sergeant-Major J. Heffernan, Royal Artillery, late West African Frontier Force Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (54705 Bty:-Qr:-Mr:-Serjt: J. Heffernan. R.A.); East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1897-98 (Serjt: J. Heffernan. R.F.A.) official correction to last four letters of surname; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, N. Nigeria (54705 B.Q.M. Sgt. J. Heffernan, Royal Field Arty.) naming unofficially re-engraved; British War and Victory Medals (36076 W.O. Cl. 2 J. Heffernan. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (54705 Bty. Sjt. Maj. J. Heffernan. R.G.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (B.S. Mjr. J. Hefferman [sic] D.C.M. R.A.) mounted as worn, light contact marks, good very fine or better (7) £3,000-£4,000 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 25 April 1902: ‘Battery-Quartermaster-Sergeant J. Heffernan, Royal Field Artillery, late West African Frontier Force (Tawari Expedition).’ Army Order 10 January 1903. L.S. & G.C. Army Order 172 of October 1904, with Gratuity. M.S.M. Army Order 227 of December 1941, with Annuity. The following report is taken from the despatch of F. D. Lugard, High Commissioner, to The Rt. Hon. The Secretary of State (London Gazette April 16, 1901): ‘Lieutenant-Colonel Lowry Cole, on the completion of the Mitchi operations, proceeded rapidly from Loko up the Okwa River to join the other two surveys at the rendezvous at Gierko. All three were concentrated there at the beginning of May. On the 9th Colonel Cole marched the whole force against a pagan town named Lemo, who had kidnapped a carrier. The people concerned (Kadaras) are a brave but lawless tribe, who had long defied the power of Zaria and the Fulanis. The town was defended by a 10 feet wall and deep ditch. The gate was breached by fire from the 7-pr. guns, and Colonels Cole and Morland and Captain Abadie charged it, but being unsupported by the troops, who had not apparently been concentrated for the charge, were forced back again. Colonel Cole was severely wounded by a poisoned arrow in the neck, and Colonel Morland took command. Colonel Morland made fresh dispositions, and formed a regular assaulting party 30 strong under Captain Bryan, who was followed by Captain Abadie with a subsection. These stormed the gate and entered the town, which was full of mud-wall enclosures, and where a sustained resistance was offered, the defenders being only slowly driven back to the rear of the town. The casualties among the enemy were very heavy, while those among our troops were Colonel Cole, severely wounded; and Captains Bryan and Abadio and Sergeant-Major Hefferman [sic], slightly wounded; four rank and file killed, nine wounded, as well as one carrier. The troops engaged in this affair were:- Lieutenant-Colonels Cole and Morland. Captains Bryan and Abadie. Lieutenants Dyer and Macarthy-Morough. Colour-Sergeants Hudson and Tucker. Sergeant-Major Hefferman [sic], R.A, and Sergeant Smith, R. A. Drs. Grant and Thompson. One hundred and eighty rank and file, with two Maxims and two 7-prs. Colonel Cole brings forward for special mention the names of Lieutenant-Colonel Morland, Captains Abadio and Bryan, Sergeant-Major Hefferman [sic], and Dr. Thompson (who sucked the poison from Colonel Cole's wound).’ Lugard also submitted a request to the Secretary of State for the Colonies at the Colonial Office, London, seeking promotion for Sergeant Heffernan, dated January 1st, 1901, which stated: ‘I have the honour to submit for your approval the name of Sergeant J. Heffernan R.A., Local Battalion Sergeant Major, for promotion in the R.A. to the rank of Battery Sergeant Major, or of Battery Quartermaster Sergeant. He is reported by the Commandant [W.A.F.F.] as “smart and energetic, has taken part in several expeditions, and in 2 actions has been in sole command of the guns; on one occasion of 3 guns and on this occasion of a section. He was wounded at Limu in May, and mentioned by Your Excellency in your despatch to the Secretary of State. He is one of the original members of this Force and has probably missed promotion in the Royal Artillery owing to his long absence in the Colonial Office.” I had the honour of favourably bringing him to your notice in my despatch, West African Frontier Force No. 99 of July 16th.’ Sold with copied London Gazette despatches and other research.

Six: Sergeant E. R. Pryer, 1st Hampshire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (T.F.) British War and Victory Medals (974 Bmbr. E. R. Pryer. R.A.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (974 Dvr. E. R. Pryer. R.A.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (861287 Sjt. E. R. Pryer. R.A.) mounted as originally worn, generally very fine (6) £180-£220 --- Edward Richard Pryer was born in Camberwell, London, the son of J. R. Pryer, who was employed as a Political Agent. Pryer resided in Portsmouth, and served during the Great War with the 1st Hampshire Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (T.F.). He died in Hampshire in 1979. Sold with copied research.

Pair: Sergeant S. Jenner, Royal Artillery Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (No. 1433 Sergt. S. Jenner Royal Arty) unit partially officially corrected; Army Meritorious Service Medal, E.VII.R. (Serjt. S. Jenner, R.A.) minor edge bruise to MSM, generally very fine (2) £300-£400 --- Stephen Jenner was born in Brenchley, Kent, in 1834 and served with the Royal Artillery overseas in Malta for one month, Turkey and the Crimea for one year and five months, and in Canada for seven years and two months. He was promoted Bombardier on 16 May 1869, Corporal on 14 November 1870, and Sergeant on 9 October 1871, and was discharged on 3 November 1874, after 21 years and 35 days’ service. On his discharged papers it notes that ‘He is in possession of Medal for the Crimea with clasp for Alma, Inkermann, and Sebastopol, and Turkish War Medal; also a Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct with gratuity of £5.’ Sold with copied discharge papers.

Operational Service Medal 2000, for Afghanistan, 1 clasp, Afghanistan (Mne A G Buchan P063796F RM) in named card box of issue, extremely fine £140-£180

A rare First Boer War 1881 ‘Siege of Potchefstroom’ D.C.M. pair awarded to Driver Alfred Pead, Royal Artillery, for gallantry in rescuing a severely wounded man under heavy fire and successfully bringing him into the fort in safety Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Driv: A. Pead. R.A. 22nd Jany. 1881.); South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (4754. Driv: A. Pead. 5th Bde. R.A.) scroll suspension on the second a little bent, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise about very fine (2) £8,000-£10,000 --- Provenance: City Coins Postal Auction, September 2003. D.C.M. Recommendation submitted to the Queen, 21 September 1882; Royal Artillery Regimental Order No. 59 of December 1882: ‘Her Majesty, on the recommendation of His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding in Chief, has been pleased to approve of the grant of... silver medals (without annuity or gratuity) to the undermentioned men in recognition of gallant conduct performed by them during the investment of Potchefstroom by the Boers, viz.:- No. 10205, Driver R. Gibson, N Battery, 4th Brigade, Royal Artillery. No. 10127, Trumpeter N. H. Martin, N Battery, 4th Brigade, Royal Artillery. No. 16832, Driver A. Pead, T Battery, 1st Brigade, Royal Artillery.’ In a report submitted by Major C. Thornhill, Officer Commanding the Royal Artillery at Potchefstroom, dated 23 March 1881, he records as follows: “Further I have to bring to your attention the conspicuous gallantry of Drivers Gibson and Pead and Trumpter Martin, who on the occasion of the attack on the trenches on the 22nd January went out under the very heavy fire, and at great Personal risk carried in 2 wounded men. In the first instance Dvr. Gibson and Trumpeter Martin carried in Dvr. Walsh N/5 R.A. who I regret to say has since died of his wounds - and in the second instance Dvr. Gibson and Dvr. Pead carried in Private Colvin 2/21st Royal Scots Fus. - Dvr. Gibson thus being present in both instances which occurred within a few moments of each other. These acts speak of themselves without any further comment of mine.” Driver Alfred Pead was subsequently wounded at Potchefstroom on 1 February 1882. The medal was presented by the Queen at Windsor Castle on 8 December 1882, the following report being published in The Ipswich Journal, on 12 December: ‘THE GARRISON - On Friday last, Mr Pead, late driver F Battery 1st Brigade Royal Artillery, and formerly stationed here, received instructions to proceed to Windsor to receive the medal for distinguished conduct in the field, for an act of bravery performed during the late campaign in South Africa. The following is a brief account of the circumstances - In February (sic), 1881, a small detachment of the British Forces of the Royal Artillery and 21st Fusiliers occupied at fort at Potchefstroom. The Boers held a sap not far off and greatly troubled our small detachment. Volunteers were called for to try and dislodge the enemy. Twenty men, under command of Lieut. Hay, 21st Fusiliers, immediately came forward. The attack was on the whole successful. One man was severely wounded when Drivers Pead and Gibson and Trumpeter Martin, under very heavy fire from the enemy, succeeded in bringing the wounded man into the fort in safety. Driver Gibson and Trumpeter Martin shared the honour of each receiving a medal at Windsor. Mr Pead is, we believe, a native of Ipswich.’ Alfred Pead attested for the Royal Artillery on 13 October 1870, aged 19, and was posted to “F” Battery, 18 Brigade. He subsequently transferred to “M” Battery, 2 Brigade (No. 1899) and then to “A” Battery, 5 Brigade on 1 March 1879 (No. 4754); to Cape of Good Hope, 11 March 1879, and joined N/5 Brigade in South Africa, ‘being engaged against the Zulus’. “A” Battery subsequently became “T” Battery, 1 Brigade, and Pead served with this battery during the First Boer War (No. 16832) until invalided from South Africa on 3 June 1881, aboard the mail steamer Castle Duart to Netly Hospital and then to Depot 5 Brigade at Woolwich. On 7 October 1882, Pead was discharged time expired to Ipswich. Note: Awards for gallant and distinguished services during the First Boer War amounted to six V.C.s; one C.B.; four R.R.C.s; one C.G.M., and 20 D.C.M.s. No campaign medal, however, was issued. Sold original cutting from The Ipswich Journal, as quoted above, and with full research including muster details and copies of the relevant War Office records from The National Archives.

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Lieut. S. A. Bazalgette, Royal Arty.) contemporary engraved naming in upright serif capitals, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £220-£260 --- Sidney Augustus Bazalgette was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 1 February 1837, and was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 23 October 1854. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on 7 February 1855, to Captain on 26 January 1862, and was appointed Adjutant on 20 January 1864. He served in the Eastern campaign of 1855, including the siege of Sebastopol and expedition to Kinbourn (Medal with Clasp and Turkish Medal). Captain Bazalgate died in a railway train between Suez and Alexandria on 24 July 1869, whilst returning to England from India.

Operational Service Medal 2000, for Afghanistan, no clasp (Cdr S E Foster RNR) in named ‘Operation Veritas’ card box of issue, extremely fine, rare £400-£500 --- A note with the lot states that Commander S. E. Foster was employed as a Royal Naval Liaison Officer with the United States Navy Central Command.

Eight: Gunner J. R. Murray, Royal Garrison Artillery 1914 Star, with later slide clasp (39804 Gnr: J. R. Murray. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (39804 Gnr. J. R. Murray. R.A.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (1409171 Gnr. J. R. Murray. R.A.); Defence Medal; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (1409171 Gnr. J. R. Murray. R.A.) mounted court style for display, very fine and better (8) £240-£280 --- John R. Murray attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 November 1914.

Pair: Lance-Duffadar Mohammed Sharif Khan, 41st Cavalry, Indian Army British War Medal 1914-20 (2426 Sowar Muhd. Sharif, 15 Lcrs.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (19 L.Dfdr. Mohd. Sharif Khan, 41/Cavy.) mounted together but the medals may be to two different recipients, very fine India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (2) (1087 S.Q.M. Dfdr. Jagir Singh, Probyn’s Horse.; 1411 Sowar Rikab Gul, Scinde Horse.) very fine (4) £70-£90

The General Service Medal for Malaya awarded to Lieutenant P. C. d’A. Cleland, 3rd Hussars, who served as Troop Commander of ‘B’ Squadron, 22 S.A.S. General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (2/Lt. P. C. d’A. Cleland. R.A.C.) mounted as worn, extremely fine £600-£800 --- Patrick Charles d’Aguilar Cleland was born in Hythe, Kent, on 14 March 1933 and was educated at Charterhouse. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant into the Royal Armoured Corps on 10 May 1952 as a National Service officer, before exchanging to a Short Service commission the following year. Posted to the 3rd Hussars, he transferred to the S.A.S. on 25 October 1953, and served as a Troop Commander of ‘B’ Squadron, 22 S.A.S. under Captain A. F. Robertson in Singapore. He reverted to the 3rd Hussars in October 1955 for service with the British Army of the Rhine, before transferring to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers in the rank of Lieutenant on 4 June 1957. He relinquished his commission in March 1964. He later served as the manager of a tea estate in Kericho, Kenya, and died in Surrey on 13 November 1979. Sold with copied record of service and other research.

Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (2), V.R. (4826. Bt. Q. Mr. Sgt. J. R. Cooper. 4/Lan: V.A.) engraved naming; E.VII.R. (3673 L. Sgt: W. H. Paterson. 1/E. Lanark. E.R.V.) impressed naming, mounted on pin for wear, in named cardboard box of issue, very fine or better (2) £80-£100

The Egypt and Sudan Medal awarded to Private F. Howes, 20th Hussars, who was one of four members of the Regiment killed during the cavalry charge at Gemaizah on 20 December 1888 Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Gemaizah 1888 (2680. Pte. F. Howes. 20th. Hussars.) extremely fine and a rare casualty £1,400-£1,800 --- F. Howes attested for the 20th Hussars and was killed in action during the cavalry charge at Gemaizah on 20 December 1888: ‘It was indeed a glorious charge, though marred with grief and pain. For Newton, Thomas, Jordan, Howes, were numbered with the slain. We bore them from the field of strife with tenderness and love. And trusted that their souls had found a resting place above. Then our thoughts returned to Cairo camp, with mottoes and its flowers. With saddened recollections of its gay and festive bowers. We wept for our gallant comrades, as still in death they lay. And in the camp of our beaten foes we spent our Christmas Day.’ (The reflections of Trooper E. L. Wedlake, 20th Hussars, refer). The four men of the 20th Hussars were re-interred in the Khartoum Cemetery of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

A Great War O.B.E. group of six awarded to Quartermaster (Captain) T. Matthews, Royal Horse Artillery The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1917; Ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1897-98 (63674 Serjt: T. Matthews. R.H.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (63674 Sgt. T. Matthews. R.H.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (63674 B. Qr:- Mr:- Seejt: T. Matthews. R.H.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Q.M. & Capt. T. Matthews) mounted as worn on somewhat frayed ribands, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise generally nearly very fine and better (6) £1,000-£1,400 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 7 January 1918. Thomas Matthews attested for the Royal Horse Artillery on 23 November 1886, ‘and served continuously in the R.H.A. from that date to 31 December 1912, a total period of 7 years. His character was exemplary. He served in the Ashanti Expedition of 1895-96; he assisted to raise and train the West African Frontier Force in 1897-98 (medal and clasp, and Mentioned in Despatches); and he served in the South African War from 1899 to 1902 (Queen’s Medal with six clasps, and King’s Medal with two clasps).’ (statement of service refers). Matthew re-joined for Great War service on 6 September 1914, and assisted to train and form the 12th Division Artillery. He was appointed Lieutenant and Quartermaster on 27 January 1915, and was posted to Glasgow. The following year he was posted to 5 ‘C’ Reserve Brigade, R.F.A., at Colchester, and was promoted Captain in 1917. His final appointment was to the School of Instruction, Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery. For his services during the Great War he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 7 January 1917 and 3 June 1919), and was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire. He was demobilised on 1 April 1920. Sold with a photocopied Statement of Service.

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