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Four: Stoker First Class R. H. Hyland, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (K.12053, H. R. [sic] Hyland. Sto.1., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (K.12053, H. R. [sic] Hyland. Sto.1. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (K.12053, R. H. Hyland. Sto.1. H.M.S. Pembroke.) heavily polished, contact marks and edge bruising, fair to fine (4) £80-£100 --- Robert Henry Hyland was born in Belvedere, Kent, on the 23 May 1891 and joined the Royal Navy on 5 August 1911. Advanced Stoker First Class on 9 August 1912, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Llewellyn, H.M.S. Lavercock and H.M.S. Recruit. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 4 October 1926, he was discharged to pension on 4 August 1933 and died, aged 77, in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, on 1 June 1968.

A fine Great War ‘Delville Wood, August 1916’ D.C.M. and ‘First Day of the battle of the Somme’ M.M. group of five awarded to Corporal Jack Dales, South Staffordshire Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (8891 Cpl. J. Dales. 1/S. Staff: R.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (8891 L. Cpl. J. Dales. 2/S. Staff: R:); 1914 Star (8891 Pte. J. Dales. 1/S. Staff: R.); British War and Victory Medals (8891 Cpl. J. Dales. S. Staff. R.) mounted court style, first two with slack suspensions, tightened or repaired, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine or better (5) £2,000-£2,400 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 25 November 1916: ‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. He held his post almost alone under intense fire, displaying great courage and determination. Later, he set fire to a box of smoke bombs, thus screening the infantry who had been forced to temporarily vacate their position.’ Annotated gazette states: ‘Near Delville Wood, 31 August 1916’. The Battalion War Diary records on 31 October 1916 state: ‘In Camp at Romarin. The following awards have been made during the month for gallantry in the field since 1st July 1916. Distinguished Conduct Medal, No. 8871 Corporal J. Dales.’ The very lengthy entries for the battalion’s action at Delville Wood, 29-31 August 1916, describe in detail the very bitter fighting that took place with the loss of 10 Officers and 265 Other Ranks killed, wounded or missing. The Fighting Strength of the Battalion, going into trenches was approximately 18 Officers, and 700 Other Ranks. M.M. London Gazette 10 August 1916. Awarded for service with the 2nd Battalion in their attack at Mametz on 1 July 1916, when the battalion had 10 officers and about 300 other ranks killed or wounded. ‘Most of our casualties occurred after we had taken Dantzig Alley. During the action the Battalion captured Machine Guns and Automatic Rifles, Portable Telephones, and a great quantity of stores of all kinds.’ Jack Dales served in France and Flanders from 4 October 1914, and is entitled to the 1914 Star with Clasp and the Silver War Badge, being listed as having been wounded twice. Sold with copied research including D.C.M. and Medal Index Cards, gazette notices, and Battalion War Diary entries for June to November 1916.

Five: Petty Officer W. C. Usherwood, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (223506, W. Usherwood, L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (223506 W. C. Usherwood. P.O. R.N.); War Medal 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (223506 W. C. Usherwood, P.O. H.M.S. Hecla.) nearly very fine and better (5) £80-£100 --- William Charles Usherwood was born in Staplehurst, Kent, on 19 August 1887 and attested as a Boy, for the Royal Navy on 17 November 1902 and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Phoenix, H.M.S. Surprise, H.M.S. Dominion and H.M.S. Commonwealth. Advanced Petty Officer on 1 January 1918, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 2 May 1921 whilst serving in H.M.S. Hecla. Shore pensioned on 18 February 1929, he was recalled for service during the Second World War and served in a number of shore establishments before his final discharge on 9 December 1942. He died, aged 76, in Maidstone, Kent, on 14 August 1960. Sold with copied research.

Three: Colonel W. G. Waterfield, C.S.I., Bengal Staff Corps Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Delhi (Lieutt. W. G. Waterfield Sub. Asst. Comy. Genl.) contemporarily re-engraved naming; India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, North West Frontier, Jowaki 1877-8 (Lieut. Colonel W. G. Waterfield Bengal Staff Corps) carriage adapted with unofficial rivets to accommodate second clasp; Afghanistan 1878-80, 2 clasps, Ali Musjid, Peiwar Kotal (Lt. Col. W. G. Waterfield, C.S.I., Bl. S.C., Pol . Off.) mounted as worn on contemporary wearing bar, toned, very fine and better (3) £700-£900 --- William Garrow Waterfield was appointed ensign in the 23rd Bengal Native Infantry in October 1852, and promoted lieutenant in November 1856. He was at Meerut at the outbreak of the Mutiny on 10 May 1857, and was afterwards present at the actions of the Hindun (mentioned in despatches), at the battle of Buddleekeserai, and throughout the siege of Delhi, and was personal assistant to the commissioner of Delhi from September 1857. He served as political officer to the force that marched from Delhi to Jeypore under Major Redmond in pursuit of Tantia Topee and other rebels (Medal and Clasp). Served with the Jowaki Afreedee Expedition in 1877-78 (Medal with Clasp). Served in the Afghan War in 1878-79, and was present at the attack and capture of Ali Musjid, at the storming of the Peiwar Kotal (mentioned in despatches), and the operations in the Khost Valley (C.S.I., and Medal with Two Clasps). Waterfield was trained as a barrister-at-law and held many judicial appointments during his career in India. He was made brevet colonel in October 1882, and retired in November 1888. Colonel Waterfield died at Darsham, Suffolk, on 3 February 1897. Sold with copied record of service and other research but confirmation of North West Frontier clasp not found.

France, Republic, a selection of various French medals, including Commemorative Medal for the Great War; Evaders Medal; Italian Campaign Medal 1943-44; Commemorative Medal for the Second World War, 1 clasp, Defense Passive; National Defence Medal; Medal of Honour for Social Security, gilt, the reverse impressed ‘G. Escrivant 1966’, with gilt palm and rosette on riband; and Order of Saharan Merit, Knight’s breast badge, silver, generally good very fine and better (11) £80-£100

The ‘Burma 1885’ campaign C.B. group of four awarded to Colonel A. A. Le Mesurier, Commanding 2nd Battalion, Liverpool Regiment, The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, fitted with incorrect silver-gilt ribbon buckle; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Captain A. E. Le Mesurier. 1st Btn. 14th Regt.) contemporary engraved naming in the style of Hunt & Roskell; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Coll. A. A. Lemesurier 2d. Bn. L’pool R.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (Captain A. E. Le Mesurier. 1st Btn. 14th Regt.) fitted with replacement scroll suspension, mounted for wearing, the Crimea medals with edge bruising and contact pitting, good fine, otherwise good very fine (4) £2,400-£2,800 --- C.B. (Military) London Gazette 26 November 1886. Andrew Alfred Le Mesurier was born in East Woodhay, Berkshire on 19 January 1837. He entered the Army as an Ensign in the 2nd West Yorkshire Artillery Volunteers on 19 January 1855, and subsequently gained a commission as an Ensign in the 14th Foot, becoming Lieutenant in August 1855. He served in the Crimea with the 14th Foot from 13 August 1855, including the siege and fall of Sebastopol (Medal with Clasp, and Turkish Medal). Promoted to Captain in October 1858, he became Major in August 1877, and brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1880. He took over command of the 2nd Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment as Lieutenant-Colonel on 7 March 1882, and commanded the battalion in the Burma Campaign of 1885. Upon the surrender of King Thibaw at Mandalay in November 1885, Colonel Le Mesurier, with two companies of the Liverpool regiment were charged with escort duties on board the steamer Thooreah which carried the Royal prisoners to Rangoon where, upon arrival, Colonel Le Mesurier was furnished with a receipt for ‘the person of the Prisoner King Theebaw of Mandalay Upper Burmah on the 15th of December 1885 from which date Col. Le Mesurier ceases to be responsible for the above mentioned Prisoner’s safe custody.’ In addition to the medal and clasp, Colonel Le Mesurier was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Companion of the Order of the Bath in recognition of these services. He retired on 20 June 1888 and took up residence at St Saviour, Jersey on the Channel Islands, where he died on 27 April 1894. Sold with copied research including a copy of the receipt given for ‘King Theebaw’.

Pair: Gunner I. W. Rigozzi, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (L-33554 Gnr. I. W. Rigozzi. R.A.) very fine Pair: Private E. Syder, Royal Lancaster Regiment British War and Victory Medals (32155 Pte. E. Syder. R. Lanc. R.) very fine British War Medal 1914-20 (558038 Pte. B. Lavendofsky. Labour Corps.); together with the recipient’s University of London Chess Club Medal (B. Lavendofsky, 1912) very fine (5) £50-£70

Anglo-Boer War Medal 1899-1902 (Burger G. S. Scheepers.) minor edge bruise, nearly extremely fine £140-£180 --- Gerhardus Stephanus Scheepers served with the Heilbron Commando.

Ten: Naik Abdul Rahman, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (10171 L-Nk. Abdul Raman, 125 Baty. R.F.A.) ‘152 Baty’ on VM; General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Iraq, Palestine (10170 Dvr. Abdul Rahman. R.A.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; India Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Indian Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (10170 Nk. Abdul Rahman, R.A.) mounted for wearing, nearly very fine (10) £160-£200

Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (William Hollocombe); 1939-45 Star (2); Africa Star; copy Pacific Star, 1 clasp, Burma; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal (2); War Medal 1939-45; Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (282855 (Dev. B.16) H. Hollocombe. Sto.1. R.F.R.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1918, with bronze palm on riband, verdigris to F&G Star; scratches to obverse field of one DefM; edge nicks to LS&GC, otherwise generally good very fine and better (11) £100-£140

Three: Lieutenant D. McFarlane, Vryburg Volunteers, later 12th Citizens Battery and 10th South African Infantry Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (Lt. D. Mc.Farlane. Vryburg Volunteers.) officially re-impressed naming, suspension claw rivet filed down, and traces of brooch mounting to reverse; 1914-15 Star (Gnr. D. Mc.Farlane 12th Cit. Batt.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Pte. D. Mc.Farlane. 10th S.A.I.) contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine 1914-15 Star (Pte. C. Weber 5th Infantry.) nearly very fine (4) £140-£180

Four: Engine Room Artificer First Class S. B. Wilde, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (270093, S. B. Wilde, E.R.A.1. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (270093. S. B. Wilde. E.R.A.1 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (270093. S. B. Wilde, E.R.A. 1st Cl. H.M.S. Dido.) contact marks, otherwise generally very fine (4) £80-£100 --- Samuel Wilde was born in Conisbrough, Yorkshire, on 21 May 1875 and joined the Royal Navy on 6 March 1900. Advanced Engine Room Artificer First Class on 4 March 1913, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Lark and the depot ship H.M.S. Dido. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 1 February 1915, he was shore pensioned on 16 March 1922. He died, aged 71, in Kirkham, Lancashire, on 12 December 1945.

Queen Alexandra’s Medal to Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Children 1914, bronze, unnamed, complete with integral top brooch bar, edge bruise, very fine £40-£50 --- This medal was given to the approximately 1,300 children, all between the ages of 8 and 13, and selected by the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families’ Association, who were the guests of the Lord Mayor of London at a banquet at the Guildhall on 28 December 1914. The children, all of whose fathers were serving in the fleet or on the Western Front, were additionally given sweets and toys by their esteemed hosts. A number of Pensioners from the Royal Military Hospital at Chelsea also received medals.

The outstanding and extremely rare ‘double long service’ group of three awarded to Regimental Sergeant-Major E. Morel, Royal Wiltshire Imperial Yeomanry, late Life Guards Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (100 Q.M. Sgt. E. Morel, 1st Impl: Yeo:); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (714. Tp. Cpl. Maj: E. Morel. 2nd Life Gds.); Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (232 R.S. Maj: E. Morel. R. Wilts: I.Y.) mounted for display, nearly extremely fine (3) £800-£1,200 --- Approximately 38 Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C. Medals awarded to Royal Wiltshire Imperial Yeomanry. Edward Morel was born in 1854 at East Grinstead, West Sussex, the son of Alfred Morel and Ellen Tate. By family repute his father was the illegitimate child of the union between a Madame Morel of France and William, 3rd Baron de Blaquiere, of Ardkill in the County of Londonderry, who later committed suicide at Norwood in consequence of failing health associated with lithropic disease and smallpox. The 1881 England Census records Morel as married to Sarah Ann and living at the barracks of the Life Guards in Regents Park whilst serving as corporal of horse in the 2nd Battalion. A decade later he is noted as R.M. of 'G' Troop at Rood Ashton (The Annals of the Yeomanry of Wiltshire, refers) and the 1911 Census records the couple living at West Ashton, near Trowbridge, Wiltshire, his occupation described as ‘Army pensioner and storage agent’. He is also father to a 20 year old daughter named Nora. Affectionately known as ‘The Sergeant Major’ in his village and known for his bluff and hearty manner and burly structure and build, Morel died in 1933 having struggled with failing health for two years. His obituary, which was published in The Parade (Trowbridge) Newspaper, adds a little more detail regarding his career: His was an interesting and varied career. As a young man he served for two years in the St. George’s Volunteers, London - for he was a Londoner and in all his years in Wilts never quite lost the accent of the Metropolis. After this he joined the Life Guards, and served in this famous regiment for 15 years, qualifying for the Long Service Medal. On leaving the regular army at the expiration of this period he became attached to the permanent staff of the Royal Wiltshire Imperial Yeomanry, with the rank of sergeant-major, and served the county’s cavalry regiment for twenty-two years, qualifying for another long service medal - a very rare distinction - and retiring with the rank of regimental sergeant major in 1908. He was made the recipient at the annual camp, of a handsome cheque and piece of plate from his comrades of the Yeomanry, Colonel (now Brigadier-General) Palmer making the presentation. When the two companies of the Royal Wilts Imperial Yeomanry were raised at Trowbridge in 1900 for service in the South African War, Sergt.-Major Morel did splendid work in recruiting and training the men, and himself went to the front with them, with the rank of quartermaster sergeant. Though when the Great War came in 1914 he had long passed the age for active service, his heart was always with the forces, and many were the ways in which he served the country’s cause at home. It will be recalled that it was Mr. Morel who provided Trowbridge with its first “Roll of Honour” board, which hung outside the Town Hall until the list became too long to be shown thereon, and a larger one became necessary. After his military service had concluded he settled at West Ashton, carrying on the business as a forage merchant, but finding time for many public duties.’ This was in fact not the first time that details of Morel had appeared in the local press. He regularly wrote home to his wife during his service in South Africa, and details from these letters featured in the Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser. He also provided details of the service of the 1st Wiltshire Yeomanry during the war, which appeared in the Devizes & Wiltshire Gazette, 14 March 1901: ‘The Battalion reached Bloemfontein on 1st May and expected to join Lord Roberts in his advanced to Pretoria. They were turned to the right and sent to Thaba Nchu when they joined General Rubdle’s (8th) Division. They were practically the only cavalry of the Division, and their business was to round up all those commandos who were coming away over the Free State border for Natal. In this Rundle was successful Prinsloo surrendered with 6,000 Boers, although De Wet got away. Then they went to Harrismith anticipating they would soon go home, but instead of that they were sent away for two months trek to round up cattle. With the headquarters it was not thought the 1st Company would see any fighting, but it turned out that they fell in for a lot of sniping and small actions, and were the defenders of Ladybrand. Only a portion of the Wiltshire Yeomanry entered the Transvaal that was when they went to Standerton for supplies. Summing up the work of the Wiltshire Yeomanry, Quarter Master Sergeant Morel thinks they had the maximum of work and hardships and the minimum of glory. They had come in for a lot of sniping and had a number of deaths in that manner but they had not been in a general action, except when Prinsloo surrendered, and the 1st Company in the Defence of Ladybrand.’ Morel suffered from bouts of Enteric Fever, and was invalided home. He died in February 1927: ‘In Morel we found the finest characteristics of an Englishman: Brave as a lion, generous to a degree, and that unselfish and unfailing virtue of always being able to smile, and above all to encourage others to smile, in the face of serious adversity. His glorious record of service to his King and Country is known to all Wiltshire men. In our hearts we may store the one consolation - that were indeed the richer for his friendship, and the poorer for his passing.’ (Obituary refers). Sold with copied research, including several photographic images of recipient in uniform.

Pair: Mr N. Prowse, Master of the Oxenholme, whose extraordinary life varied from rescuing stricken sailors, meeting Prince Albert and Isambard Brunel, declaring bankruptcy on at least two occasions, and being arrested by the French authorities in Dunkirk under the suspicion of being a Prussian Spy! Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Mr. N. Prowse. “Oxenholme.”) edge bruise; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, both with contemporary silver top-riband buckles, and housed in a custom made Elkington & Co., Liverpool leather case, nearly extremely fine (2) £500-£700 --- Provenance: Spink 1991. Only Masters of Transports received the 1882 medal, making them unique to each of the 105 vessels employed. Nicholas Prowse was the second son of Captain N. Prowse, and was born in Torquay, Devon in June 1825. During his lifetime, Prowse was involved in a number of adventures which featured frequently in the newspapers of Belfast, Bolton, Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, Exeter, Jersey, Liverpool, Sheffield, Swindon and Torquay between 1843-1884. In 1843 he was part of a boat’s crew in Torquay which saved a number of French seaman, as a result of which they were awarded medals by King Louis Philippe I. In 1857, Prowse was appointed chief officer of the Great Eastern steamship - designed by Isambard Brunel. The latter was present with Prowse when she was launched the following year. Prowse was living in Deptford in October 1858, when he was declared bankrupt and placed in debtors prison for London and Middlesex. Remarkably he maintained his position with the Great Eastern, and in September 1859 was present aboard her when an explosion blew open the furnace doors. Prowse was recorded as ‘foremost in rendering assistance to rescue all who were injured below.’ A month later he found himself putting down a mutiny from 30 of the ships’ crew, who had been wilfully disobeying orders. On 19 October 1859, Prince Albert visited the ship and was ‘received on board by Captain Harrison and Mr Prowse, the chief officer.’ Prowse went on to command a number of merchant ships, one of which being the Sheldrake which was involved in a collision with a schooner in July 1870. Three months later, whilst in company with a photographic artist from Liverpool, he was arrested by the French authorities in Dunkirk on the suspicious of both men being Prussian spies. Prowse was declared bankrupt for a second time in 1871, before finding himself as master of the Oxenholme. On 8 August 1882: ‘The Pontoon Troop, Telegraph Troop, and Field Park, numbering 300 Royal Engineers, with an immense number of boats, and a large quantity of telegraph stores and other war material, were embarking yesterday at South West India Docks on board the Oxenholme.’ Prowse died, 22 May 1884: ‘Captain Nicholas Prowse, a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve, died yesterday at his residence in Carisbrooke Road, Walton, at the age of 59. He was well known as the commander of steamships belonging to leading Liverpool companies, and obtained considerable prominence in connection with his successful tow of the disabled Allen liner Sardinian while he was in charge of the Dominion steamer Texas. Mrs Prowse is the artist who painted the portrait of Mr Edward Whitely, M.P., which now hangs in the Liverpool Home for Aged Mariners.’ (Liverpool Mercury, 23 May 1884 refers) Prowse’s wife also painted a portrait of him, an image of which is included in the lot with other copied research.

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (4041917 L.A.C. R. J. Clark. R.A.F.); Defence Medal, contact marks to latter, this very fine; the GSM extremely fine (2) £50-£70

1914-15 Star (K.21273, H. Fox, Sto. 1., R.N.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (K.21240 W. Brett. Sto.2. R.N.; J.17106 G. E. Sellick. A.B. R.N.) heavy digs to last with replacement suspension, therefore fair; the Star fine and the VM to Brett good very fine (3) £80-£100 --- H.M.S. Amphion At the start of the Great War, H.M.S. Amphion was leader of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla in the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, assigned to the Harwich Force, defending the eastern approaches to the English Channel, under the command of Captain Cecil H. Fox. In the morning of 5 August, Amphion and the 3rd Flotilla sortied into the North Sea to patrol the area between Harwich and the Dutch island of Terschelling for German activity. At 10:15 a ship in the black, buff, and yellow colours of the Great Eastern Railway’s steamers that plied between Harwich and the Hook of Holland was spotted. Fox sent the destroyers H.M.S. Lance and H.M.S. Landrail to investigate and shortly afterwards another destroyer reported that a trawler had seen a suspicious ship, ‘throwing things overboard, presumably mines’. H.M.S. Amphion led the flotilla to investigate and observed that the fleeing ship was deploying mines even then. At 10:45, Lance opened fire at a range of 4,400 yards (4,000 m). The target was S.M.S. Königin Luise, a former Hamburg-Heligoland excursion boat that had been converted to an auxiliary minelayer by the Germans. They had planned to mount a pair of 8.8-centimetre (3.5 in) guns on board, but they did not have the time to do so; her only armament was a pair of lighter guns and 180 mines. On the night of 4 August, she had departed Emden and headed into the North Sea to lay mines off the Thames Estuary, which she began to do at dawn. The fire from the destroyers was ineffective until Amphion closed to a range of 7,000 yards and began hitting the German ship at about 11:15. By noon, Königin Luise was sinking and the three British ships rescued 5 officers and 70 ratings. The flotilla proceeded onwards with their patrol until they reached the Dutch coast around 21:00 and turned for home. Fox was uncertain as to the locations of the mines laid by Königin Luise and laid a course that was seven nautical miles west of where he thought the mines were. He guessed wrongly and led his flotilla over the danger area. At 06:35 on 6 August, Amphion struck a mine that detonated underneath her bridge. The explosion set her forecastle on fire and broke the ship's keel. The destroyer H.M.S. Linnet attempted to tow the cruiser, but a deep crack across her upper deck showed that she was hogging badly and Fox ordered his crew to abandon ship. Shortly afterwards, her forward magazine exploded, throwing one 4-inch gun into the air that narrowly missed Linnet. One of Amphion’s shells burst on the deck of the destroyer Lark, killing two of her men and the only German prisoner rescued from the cruiser. Amphion then rapidly sank within 15 minutes of the explosion losing 1 officer and 131 ratings killed in the sinking, plus an unknown number of the crew rescued from Königin Luise. She was the first ship of the Royal Navy to be sunk in the Great War. Harold John Fox was born in Plymouth on 1 July 1893 and attested for the Royal Navy on 10 November 1903. He joined H.M.S. Amphion on 28 April 1914, and was present in her when when she sank on 6 August 1914. He afterwards served in H.M.S. Temeraire, which took part in the Battle of Jutland. Advanced Leading Stoker on 18 January 1919, he was still serving in 1932, in H.M.S. Lucia, when he was taken seriously ill. Admitted to the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Gosport, Hampshire, he died, aged 39, on 21 May 1932 due to general peritonitis. William Brett was born in Exeter on 9 April 1895 and attested for the Royal Navy on 3 November 1913. He joined H.M.S. Amphion on 28 March 1914, and was killed when she struck a mine and sunk on 6 August 1914. He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. George Edward Sellick was born in Topsham, Devon, on 20 April 1896 and attested as a Boy for the Royal Navy on 17 April 1912. He joined H.M.S. Amphion on 20 April 1914, and was present in her when when she sank on 6 August 1914. Sellick was later serving in H.M.S. Brisk, when, on 21 February 1917, about 10 nautical miles from St Catherine’s Point on the Isle of Wight, in thick fog, whilst escorting the chartered troopship S.S. Mendi, which, having arrived at Plymouth from South Africa, was bound for Le Harve, France. The Mendi was carrying 823 men of the 5th Battalion of the South African Native Labour Force, many of whom had never seen the sea and very few of whom could actually swim. In the thick fog the Mendi was accidentally rammed and sunk by the large steamship S.S. Darro which was sailing at high speed in ballast for Argentina. Darro made no attempt to rescue survivors and it did not remain at the scene, although H.M.S. Brisk launched her boats which rescued around 200 men, although 616 South African soldiers and 30 crew members from the Mendi were lost. On 2 October 1917, he had a further lucky escape when Brisk was at sea off the north coast of Ireland to meet and escort convoy H.H. 24, which was inbound from America. After Brisk had joined the escort, the convoy was attacked by the German submarine U-79 which torpedoed the cruiser H.M.S. Drake which later sank with the loss of 19 lives. After this attack, as was normal procedure, the convoy dispersed and the remaining naval and auxiliary escorts including Brisk, were deployed to follow up the dispersed ships, some through Rathlin Sound and others in the North Channel. As the steamship Lugano entered the sound, she was torpedoed and sunk by U-79 and shortly afterwards, while making a sweep of the Sound, Brisk either struck a mine, or was torpedoed. The explosion broke Brisk in two and the bow section sank in the sound, whilst, of the 141 crew members, 32 lives were lost. The stern section remained afloat and was towed to Londonderry and on being fitted with a new bow Brisk later returned to service. He later served in the new destroyer H.M.S. Simoon from 11 March 1918. Post war, he continued to served until his discharge on 19 April 1926 and later died, aged 63, in Exeter in 1959.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, top lugs removed (6365 Spr. A. G. Wilson. 17/Fd: Coy R.E.) a somewhat later issue, heavy contact marks, nearly very fine £70-£90 --- Alexander George Wilson attested for the Royal Engineers and served during the Boer War, when he met and married a Boer woman, deserting his unit in the process. He later applied for the King’s mercy and, having been pardoned, his medal was issued on 24 December 1919.

A miscellaneous selection of World Orders, Decorations, and Medals, including a Greek War Medal 1940-41; various post-Independence Indian Medals; a Korean Enthronement Medal; various Japanese Census Medals; a German Democratic Republic Order of the Red Banner, in box of issue, with award booklet and associated arm band; and various miscellaneous coins, cap badges, and other insignia, including a piece of ‘treasure recovered for the Dutch East Indiaman ‘t Vliegent Hart’, all housed in a decorative wooden box, the lid carved with a representation of an Imperial Mosque, generally very fine (lot) £80-£100

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (7578538 W.O. Cl.2. J. A. Figures. R.A.O.C.) extremely fine £60-£80

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, South Africa 1901, Orange Free State, top clasp loose on riband (12796 Trp F Elston Imp Yeo) a somewhat later issued duplicate medal with fixed suspension, extremely fine £120-£160 --- Fred Elston, a butcher from Credition, Devon, attested for service with the Imperial Yeomanry at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, on 15 February 1900, and served during the Boer War in South Africa from 6 April 1900 to 8 June 1901 with the 71st Company, 18th (Sharphooters) Battalion. He was discharged on 13 June 1901. Sold with copy service papers and copy medal roll extracts, confirming all clasps. The medal roll notes the existence of this duplicate medal.

A scarce silver Sea Gallantry Medal group of five awarded to Lieutenant T. L. Williams, Royal Naval Reserve, Chief Officer of the S.S. Egremont Castle, who commanded a lifeboat sent to the rescue of the crew of the S.S. Loong Sang during the Hong Kong typhoon of 18 August 1923 Sea Gallantry Medal, G.V.R., silver (Thomas Lloyd Williams, S.S. “Loong Sang”, 18th August 1923.); 1914-15 Star (Lieut. T. L. Williams, R.N.R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. T. L. Williams, R.N.R.); Mercantile Marine War Medal (Thomas L. Williams.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lieut. T. L. Williams, R.N.R.) good very fine (5) £600-£800 --- S.G.M. (Silver) 13 January 1925: Owing to the typhoon which struck the colony of Hong Kong on 18 August 1923, the steamship Loong Sang, of London, dragged her anchors and foundered after colliding with another vessel. Men were observed in the water clinging to wreckage and a boat was got away from the Bowes Castle in charge of Mr. Cropper and manned by the officers and Chinese seamen named. After about five and half hours work in the raging sea and blinding rain, two survivors were picked up. A boat had also been launched from the Hwah Ping in charge of Mr. Lexow, and manned by the officers and men named (and Chinese fireman and cabin boy - names unknown). This boat picked up one survivor and drifted alongside the Egremont Castle. This boat was then sent away in command of Mr. Williams, and a crew consisting of the Chinese ratings from the Egremont Castle in an attempt to rescue further survivors, but as the boat was partly filled with water, little progress could be made, owing to the high sea and violent wind and rain, and despite the efforts of the boat’s crew, they were unable to effect any rescues. Later one of the Egremont Castle’s boats was got away in charge of Mr. Stuart with a crew made up of the four apprentices named and Ge Ling Low, Quartermaster of that vessel, and also the chief, second and third officers, and the three quartermasters named, from the Hwah Ping. This boat succeeded in picking up another survivor. Very great risk was incurred in rendering the services owing to the high sea, violent wind and blinding rain. It is not known how many of the Loong Sang’s crew were on board, but it is stated that the number was about 36, including seven Europeans. Only two Europeans appear to have been saved and about 22 Chinese. The survivors, other than those referred to above, either drifted ashore or were picked up after the typhoon abated. Very great risk was incurred in rendering these services owing to the high sea, violent wind, and blinding rain. The Sea Gallantry Medal in silver was awarded to Thomas Lloyd Williams, Chief Officer, five other European crew members and eight Chinese crew, all of the steamship Egremont of Liverpool; also to John Cropper, chief officer, two other European crew members and four Chinese crew, all of the steamship Bowes Castle of Liverpool (total awards 21, all in silver). The Foreign Services Silver Medal was also awarded to Mr A. Lexow, Chief Officer, two other Russian crew members and four Chinese crew, all of whom formed part of the boat’s crew from the Chinese steamship Hwah Ping

Four: Chief Engine Room Artificer W. G. G. Clark, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (M.730, W. G. G. Clark, E.R.A.2, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.730. W. G. G. Clark. E.R.A.2. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (M.730. W. G. G. Clark. C.E.R.A.1. H.M.S. Constance.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £80-£100 --- William George Garfield Clark was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, on 19 February 1883 and attested for the 34th Company, Imperial Yeomanry on 18 January 1902, but was discharged ‘not likely to become an efficient soldier’ just 67 days later. On the 26 November 1908 he attested for service with the Royal Navy and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Hydra, H.M.S. Dolphin and H.M.S. Adamant. Advanced Chief Engine Room Artificer First Class on 18 July 1929, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in June 1930, before being shore pensioned on 25 November 1930. He died, aged 89, on 25 March 1962. Sold with copied research.

Three: Gunner A. Hudson, Royal Garrison Artillery British War and Victory Medals (29725 Gnr. A. Hudson. R.A.); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, 2nd issue, no clasp (Gr. A. Hudson. R.G.A. 29725) contemporary engraved naming, good very fine (3) £400-£500 --- Arthur Hudson enlisted for the Royal Garrison Artillery on 13 October 1908 and was discharged on 27 February 1919. Sold with copied Medal Index Card which confirms entitlement to pair, ‘Sultan’s Sudan Medal (Medal only)’ and Silver War Badge.

Five: Private T. Chappell, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (3720 Pte. T. Chappell. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Civil Defence Long Service Medal, E.II.R., mounted as worn, contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine Three: Private H. Tanner, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (22398 Pte. H. Tanner. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Henry Tanner) in Royal Mint case of issue, contact marks, generally very fine and better (8) £70-£90 --- Henry Tanner attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with them during the Great War. He later worked as a Blacksmith Fitter with the War Office and was awarded the Imperial Service Medal on his retirement in 1960 (London Gazette 30 September 1960).

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (49th. Bde. 147. Pte. T. Cornelius, 2-7th. Foot) edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £100-£140 --- Thomas Cornelius was born in Colchester, Essex, in 1840 and attested there for the 5th Fusiliers on 16 March 1858. He transferred to the 7th Royal Fusiliers on 7 November 1867, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, with a £5 Gratuity, on 19 June 1877. He was discharged on 13 May 1879, after 21 years and 59 days’ service, of which 12 years had been spent soldiering in India. He subsequently became an officer’s servant at the School of Military Engineering at Gillingham, Kent. Sold with copied service papers and other research.

Imperial Service Medal (4), G.VI.R. (3), 1st issue (2) (George Arthur Over; William Telfer.); 2nd issue (Peter McGeehan); E.II.R., 2nd issue (Alfred Lionel Burrill) all in cases of issue, nearly extremely fine (4) £60-£80 --- Sold with the named Imperial Service Order Certificate for the medal to McGeehan; and a various documents and photographs relating to Burrill as a Royal Naval Reservist during the Second World War.

Four: A Great War ‘Minelaying’ M.S.M. group of four awarded to Chief Engine Room Artificer First Class J. E. A. Harding, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (269402. J. E. A. Harding. CERA.2., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (269402. J. E. A. Harding. CERA.1. R.N.); Royal Naval Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (269402. J. E. A. Harding, C.E.R.A. 1Cl. “Sandfly”. Mine laying. 1 July-11 Nov. 1918) contact marks, traces of lacquer, otherwise good very fine (4) £400-£500 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2012. M.S.M. London Gazette 24 March 1919 James Edward Albert Harding was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire on 10 July 1876. A Fitter by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer Fourth Class on 9 August 1898. He was confirmed in the rank in July 1900 whilst serving in H.M.S. Duke of Wellington. Serving in H.M.S. Hecla between June 1910 and April 1911, he was promoted to Engine Room Artificer First Class in January 1911 and Acting Chief Engine Room Artificer Second Class in April 1911. He was confirmed as Chief Engine Room Artificer Second Class in April 1912 whilst serving in H.M.S. Pathfinder. Harding served in the destroyer H.M.S. Sandfly throughout the Great War, the ship being latterly employed as a minelayer with the 20th Destroyer Flotilla in the North Sea. For his services as Chief Engine Room Artificer First Class aboard the ship in the last months of the war he was awarded the Royal Navy M.S.M. He was demobilised on 6 September 1920.

Four: Captain L. J. Stevens, Kenyan Forces 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Kenya (Capt. L. J. Stevens.) mounted as worn, very fine (4) £70-£90

Family Group: Royal Observer Corps Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (2) (Chief Observer D M Allen; Observer D R Allen) both in card boxes of issue; together with a related miniature award; riband bar; cloth arm badge; and a R.O.C. lapel badge, extremely fine (2) £260-£300 --- Diane Mary Allen joined the Royal Observer Corps as a Women Observer in December 1966, and transferred to 29 Group in July 1975. She was appointed Chief Women Observer in January 1978, and was awarded her Royal Observer Corps Medal in December 1978. David R. Allen, the husband of the above, joined the Royal Observer Corps on 1 November 1963 and served initially as an Observer with 7 Group, before transferring to 29 Group on 1 February 1975. He was awarded his Royal Observer Corps Medal in October 1975, and was appointed Observer Officer on 7 June 1976. Sold with a photograph of Diane Allen being presented with her medal, in which her husband David Allen also features; and other ephemera.

Defective Medals (7): British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (636565 Pte. W. Boomhower. 2-Can. Inf.: 420710 Pte. H. C. Chambers 43-Can. Inf.; 458288 Pte. H. Topping. 60-Can. Inf.); Bilingual Victory Medal 1914-19 (Pte. L. L. Lloyd. 4th S.A.I.); Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (SD17804 J. Coe); U.N. Korea 1950-54 (SE-7633 J. A. R. Demers); Naval General Service 1915-62, E.II.R. (D/MX. 919954 N. D. Raven. Shpt. Art. 3, R.N. (Replacement)) the medals all planchets only; edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise generally good very fine (7) £80-£100 --- Sold with copied service papers.

Six: Private A. Benge, Frontier Light Horse Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (1165 Pte. A. Benge. Frontier Lt. Horse); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1165. Pte. A. Benge. Frontier Lt. Horse.) renamed; British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (No. 35. A. Benge. Special Police.) both renamed; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, both officially impressed ‘213788 A. V. Benge’, the KSA, BWM and VM all renamed; nearly very fine (6) £120-£160

A Great War ‘Evacuation of Gallipoli’ D.S.M. group of five awarded to Chief Stoker J. Widdicombe, Royal Navy Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (146294 J. Widdicombe, Ch. Sto., Gallipoli Opns. 1915-6); 1914-15 Star (146294 J. Widdicombe, C. Sto., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (146294 J. Widdicombe. Ch. Sto. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (146294 John Widdicombe. Ch. Sto. H.M.S. St. George) good very fine and better (5) £1,200-£1,600 --- D.S.M. London Gazette 15 May 1916: ‘In recognition of the services of Petty Officers and men of the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron during the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula in December 1915 to January 1916.’ John Widdicombe was born in Dartmouth, Devon in February 1870 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in August 1888. Having then gained advancement to Chief Stoker in March 1904, he was pensioned ashore in July 1910, when he enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve. Recalled on the outbreak of hostilities, Widdicombe joined the cruiser H.M.S. Europa in June 1915, shortly before she was employed in the Eastern Mediterranean as a flagship at Mudros (and later as a depot ship for destroyers, and other smaller vessels, in the Aegean). Yet soon after his arrival in that theatre of war, he joined the strength of Europa II, the “Stavros beach party”, and it was for services in this capacity at the end of 1915, and in St. George in early 1916, that he was awarded the D.S.M., the latter having taken over as a depot ship for Europa, and accordingly the responsibility for the Stavros party. Widdicombe remained similarly employed until August 1917, was invalided with cerebral thrombosis that November and died in February 1920, while on the books of Vivid. He was buried in Weston Mill Cemetery, Plymouth. Sold with the original Admiralty forwarding letter for his Great War campaign medals, dated 13 January 1922, and addressed to his widow; and copied research.

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C., ‘Gallipoli - Third Battle of Krithia’ D.C.M., group of five awarded to Captain R. Hashim, Cheshire Regiment, late Manchester Regiment, who was also Mentioned in Despatches for his services with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (2478 Pte. R. Hashim. 1/6 Manch: Regt. -T.F.); 1914-15 Star (2478 Pte. R. Hashim. Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. R. Hashim.) mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £2,800-£3,400 --- M.C. London Gazette 19 March 1919: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and good leadership during operations near Jenlain on 3 and 4 November 1918. During an enemy withdrawal, he led his company in pursuit with great skill, and made ground and captured prisoners, pressing forward in advance of the Division on his left. Afterwards under intense shell fire, he re-organised his company, and led them in another attack with complete success.’ D.C.M. London Gazette 15 September 1915: ‘For conspicuous gallantry on 4 June 1915 on the Gallipoli Peninsula [during the Third Battle of Krithia]. He dug a shelter under very heavy fire, for an officer who was dangerously wounded, and then re-joined the firing line.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 5 November 1915. Randolph Hashim was born in Chorlton, Lancashire, in 1885, the son of Khalil Hashim, a Syrian-born Cotton Merchant with his own business, and was educated at Sale High School. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion Cheshire Regiment (Territorial Force) in November 1909, before resigning his commission in January 1914. Attesting for the 1st/6th Battalion Manchester Regiment (Territorial Force) shortly after the outbreak of war as a Private soldier, he landed with the Battalion at ‘V’ and ‘W’ Beaches, Gallipoli, on 6 May 1915. The Third Battle of Krithia, 4 June 1915 The attack began at noon on 4 June 1915, when the last bombardment ended. There was pause in bombardment to pull Ottomans back into trenches who were further decimated there by the renewal of the bombardment. Ottoman losses were around 6,000 on that first day. On the left, the attack of the Indian Brigade was quickly halted except along the Aegean shore where the 1/6th Battalion of the Gurkha Rifles managed to advance. The 14th Battalion of King George’s Own Ferozepore Sikhs Regiment, advancing along the floor of Gully Ravine, were almost wiped out, losing 380 men out of 514 and 80% of their officers. The 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment from the 29th Division, advancing along Fir Tree Spur alongside Gully Ravine, managed to advance but having lost contact with the Sikhs on their left were forced to defend along the bank of the ravine as well as to their front. Elsewhere, the 29th Division advance was held up with heavy casualties by Ottoman strongpoints that had survived the bombardment unscratched. The advance of the 42nd Division was, by Gallipoli standards, very successful, quickly reaching the first objective of the Ottoman trenches and moving beyond to advance a total of 1,000 yards. This attack was made by the 127th (Manchester) Brigade which broke through the Turkish 9th Division defences and captured 217 prisoners. The Royal Naval Division’s advance was led by the 2nd Naval Brigade which managed to reach and capture the Ottoman trenches. When the second wave the Collingwood Battalion attempted to continue the advance, they were caught in enfilade fire from Kereves Dere to the right where the French advance had failed. The battalion, one of the newly arrived reinforcements, was utterly annihilated and was never reformed. Further attempts to reach the second objective were successful, but the position was untenable, so within a couple of hours the Royal Naval Division units had retreated to their starting positions. With the main attack decided success for the 42nd Division in the centre, failure everywhere else Hunter-Weston considered how to deploy his reserves. If he was to exploit the success in the centre, there was the potential to set the Ottoman flanks to flight but also the danger of creating a vulnerable salient. He decided to reinforce the flanks and renew that attack; however, the French insisted they were unable to continue the offensive so any further advances by the Royal Naval Division in Achi Baba Nullah were abandoned. Further attacks along Gully Spur and Gully Ravine failed. At 16:00, Hunter-Weston ordered the troops to dig in and consolidate their positions; however, this coincided with the Ottoman reserves counter-attacking against the Manchester Brigade in the centre. Within one hour, the brigade was under attack from three sides so was eventually ordered to withdraw. By the end of the battle, their new front line was a mere 200-250 yards in front of their start line. For his gallantry during the Third Battle of Krithia, Hashim was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, and was also Mentioned in Despatches by General Sir Ian Hamilton, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranearn Expeditionary Force. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, on 8 September 1915, he subsequently served attached to the 9th Battalion on the Western Front, and was awarded the Military cross for his gallantry during the last week of hostilities. He died in Adlington, Cheshire, in 1942. Sold with a Cheshire Regiment cap badge and copied research.

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (39172 Pte. C. Parker. 137th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:) nearly very fine £80-£100 --- Sold with the planchet only of a Queen’s Sudan Medal 1896-98, contemporarily engraved ‘C. Parker. E.G. Ry.’, with elaborate mount.

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Royalist 29 Decr 1812 (Henry Hackman.) a very minor edge bruise, otherwise good very fine and extremely rare £22,000-£26,000 --- Provenance: Fergus Gowans Collection (1947-71); Christie’s, April 1984. Royalist 29 Decr 1812 [3 clasps issued] - Alexander Brown, coxswain, also with Syria clasp, medal named as gunner (Dix Noonan Webb, February 2016, £38,000); Henry Hackman, able seaman; Lewis Rees, midshipman. Henry Hackman is confirmed on the roll as an able seaman for the capture of La Ruse by the Royalist on 29 December 1812. At 11 p.m. on the night of 29 December 1812, the eighteen-gun brig Royalist, Commander George Downie, cruising in the Channel off Hythe, fell in with, and after a short action captured, the French privateer lugger La Ruse, sixteen guns, with a crew of sixty-five men. The prize had her main mast shot away, and one of her crew killed, and another wounded, before she struck her colours. She was a new vessel on her first cruise and had made no captures. Commander Downie, who was promoted for this action, was killed when in command of a British squadron on Lake Champlain during the battle of Plattsburg in September 1814.

Three: Mr E. F. Thomas, C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, District Magistrate of Malabar during the Moplah Rebellion there in 1921-22 British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. E. F. Thomas.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Malabar 1921-22 (E. F. Thomas. Dist. Mgte.); Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Trooper E. F. Thomas. S. Prov. M. Rif. A.F.I.) mounted as worn, toned, nearly extremely fine (3) £500-£700 --- Edward Francis Thomas was born on 30 June 1880, and was educated at St Paul’s School and Trinity College, Oxford. He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1903 and arrived in Madras the following year. Passing through the usual stages of assistant collector and magistrate, he was temporarily attached to the Indian Police; Secretary, Board of Revenue, Madras, 1915; joined Indian Army Reserve and was attached to Army H.Q., India, 1917; collector and district magistrate, Malabar, 1919, and held this position when the Moplah rebellion broke out on 21 August 1921 (created C.I.E. 1922); Director of Industries, Madras, 1922-26; joined Board of Revenue, 1931; First Member Board of Revenue, 1935-38. He was created C.S.I. in 1935 and retired in 1938, living in Durban, South Africa, until his death on 10 August 1954. Sold with extract from The History of the Madras Police covering the significant part played by District Magistrate Thomas during the Moplah rebellion, and specifically with regard to the murder of Assistant Superintendent of Police C. B. Lancaster (whose medal was sold in these rooms on 18 September 2014).

A Great War ‘Western Front’ 1918 D.C.M., M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal John Markinson, 8th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (305208 Cpl. J. Markinson. M.M. 8/W. York: R.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (305208 Cpl. J. Markinson. 8/W. York: R.); British War and Victory Medals (1658 Cpl. J. Markinson. W. York. R.) mounted court-style for display, light contact marks, otherwise very fine (4) £1,600-£2,000 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 18 February 1919; citation published 10 January 1920: ‘On the 20th October, 1918, in the attack near Solesmes, he showed great gallantry and initiative. Before reaching the final objective four of the enemy made a determined resistance on the right flank. He collected a few bombs and rushed the post, killing one, wounding another, and capturing two prisoners. Later he made two reconnaissances under heavy fire and brought back important information.’ M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919. Award of M.M. noted in War Diary on 21 September 1918, to nine men, including Markinson, all of “C” Coy, for gallantry in action. John Markinson was a native of Leeds and served with the 8th West Yorkshire Regiment. He was disembodied on 9 May 1919. Sold with copied research including D.C.M., M.M. and Medal Index Cards, gazette notices, and extracts from Battalion War Diaries.

Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (200203 Sq: S. Mjr. W. M. Fowlis. Ayr: Yeo.) good very fine £100-£140 --- W. M. Fowlis was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 275 of 1 August 1919.

A Great War ‘Russian Intervention’ M.M. group of four awarded to Private T. H. Bonner, No. 1 Special Company, Middlesex Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (15050 Pte. T. H. Bonner. Midd’x R.); 1914-15 Star (L-15050 Pte. T. H. Bonner. Midd’x R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (L.15050 Pte. T. H. Bonnor [sic]. Midd’x R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (L.15050 Pte. T. H. Bonner. Midd’x R.) nearly very fine (4) £600-£800 --- Provenance: J. B. Hayward, October 1975; Jack Webb Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, August 2020. M.M. London Gazette 3 January 1920: ‘For bravery in the Field with the British Forces in North Russia.’ Thomas Henry Bonner attested for the Middlesex Regiment at Kentish Town, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 December 1915. He subsequently served with No. 1 Special Company during the Allied Intervention in North Russia, 1919-20.

Anglo-Boer War Medal 1899-1902 (Burger G. J. F. Beukes.) good very fine £140-£180 --- Gerhardus Johannes F. Beukes served with the Middelburg Commando.

An unusual Second World War O.B.E. group of six awarded to Wing Commander G. W. Houghton, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who was an official R.A.F. war correspondent in the Middle East and afterwards the Officer in Charge of the Public Relations Section of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force in North-West Europe 1944-45: his earlier experiences in the Western Desert are recorded in his book They Flew Through Sand The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, with named card box of issue, addressed to ‘G/Cpt. G. W. Houghton, Spinney Nook, Broadway, Letchworth, Herts.’, mounted court-style as worn, good very fine and better (6) £500-£700 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2010. O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1945. The original Recommendation states: ‘Group Captain G. W. Houghton has been in charge of the Public Relations Section of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force for almost the entire period since the landings in Normandy on ‘D’ Day and has been the greatest assistance in the building up of the Inter-Allied Public Relations Organisation. He has, more recently, been the main link with the Air Ministry on this work, and has personally established an extremely efficient organisation with the units in the field. His tireless work and loyal support, especially during the landings in Normandy, have aided the maintenance of the very standards attained by his section.’ M.I.D. London Gazettes 1 January 1943 (Squadron Leader); 17 September 1943 (Acting Wing Commander). George William Houghton was born in Perth, Scotland in September 1905 and was commissioned as a Pilot Officer in the Administrative and Special Duties Branch of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in April 1940, where his pre-war qualifications as a journalist were quickly put to use. Posted to the Middle East as an official R.A.F. war correspondent, he visited many units and locations in the Western Desert, and came into contact with numerous personalities of the Desert Air Force, “Imshi” Mason among them. He also regularly came under fire during enemy raids. In addition to his powers of observation and gifts as a writer, Houghton was also a competent artist, and a number of his drawings and sketches were reproduced in his popular wartime title They Flew Through Sand - soon after the war he dramatised one of the incidents described in the book for the B.B.C., and the lead actor, Kenneth More (fresh from active service in the Royal Navy) was praised for his performance by the Royal Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. Houghton was twice Mentioned in Despatches for his services in North Africa and had attained the acting rank of Wing Commander by the time he returned home from the Mediterranean theatre. Next employed as Officer in Charge of the Public Relations Section of the Allied Expeditionary Air Force in North-West Europe 1944-45, a role that included him witnessing the Normandy landings, Houghton ended the War in the rank of Acting Group Captain and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He finally relinquished his commission in the R.A.F.V.R. in February 1954, retaining the rank of Group Captain. In later life he was an avid golfer and cartoonist, who drew over 300 cartoons a year, and also wrote over 38 humours books as well as numerous short stories. Sold with the recipient’s two Mentioned in Despatches Certificates in envelope addressed to ‘Wing Commander G. W. Houghton, O.B.E., National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, S.W.1’; the recipient’s passport; a framed and glazed portrait photograph of recipient in uniform; a copied photograph of the recipient in North Africa, 1942; two copies of They Flew Through Sand, The Notes and Sketches of an R.A.F. Officer in the Western Desert, by George W. Houghton, the first the 1942 original; the second a 1991 reprint; a copy of ‘The Adventures of a Gadabout’, by George Houghton; a copy of ‘How to be a Golf Addict’, by George Houghton; and copied research.

1914 Star (9904 Pte. F. J. Mooring. 2/ Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (5711 Pte. P. A. Heady. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) good very fine (2) £80-£100 --- Frederick James Mooring (also recorded as Mooren) was born in Sutton Courtney, Berkshire, in 1891 and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, serving with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 August 1914 (also entitled to a clasp to his 1914 Star). He was killed in action on 25 September 1915, on the first day of the Battle of Loos. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France. Percy Arthur Heady was born in Stewkley, Buckinghamshire and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front before transferring to the Lincolnshire Regiment, and was killed in action whilst serving with the 10th Battalion on 10 June 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

Three: Private J. Gerrard, 21st Lancers, who rode in ‘A’ Squadron, alongside Winston Churchill, in the charge at Omdurman, 2 September 1898 Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3646. Pte. J. Gerrard. 21/L’Crs.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (3646 Pte. Gerrard. 21/Lrs.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (3646 Pte J. Gerrard 21st Lrs) mounted for display, minor edge bruising, generally very fine (3) £3,000-£4,000 --- Provenance: T. Gustard Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2006. J. Gerrard served with the 21st Lancers in the Sudan, and is confirmed as having taken part in the famous Charge at Omdurman as part of “A” squadron commanded by Major H. Finn, with Lieutenant Winston Churchill as one of its Troop Commanders. Gerrard was discharged in April 1914, the same year in which he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal. Sold with copied research, and a photographic image of recipient in a group stood behind Private T. Byrne, V.C.

South Africa Medal for War Service, with City of Durban Civilian Protective Services Certificate named to ‘Althea F. Christian’, and accompanying Mayor’s letter, nearly extremely fine £30-£40 --- Sold with an intriguing embroidered linen square, embroidered with the flags of the United Kingdom and the Union of South Africa in the middle, and the names of various Second War servicemen and personalities around; and the recipient’s First Aid armband.

Three: Constable Makore, British South Africa Police Rhodesia, General Service Medal (12689 Const. Makore); Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, with Second Award Bar (12689 Const. Makore); Service Medal of the Order of St. John, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (3) £120-£160

Pair: Private G. E. Gardener, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was taken Prisoner at Kut-al-Amara and subsequently award the M.S.M. for his conduct whilst in captivity 1914-15 Star (9645 Pte. G. E. Gardener. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (9645 Pte. G. E. Gardener. Oxf & Bucks. L.I.) obverse of both medals heavily polished, therefore about fine 1914-15 Star (1579 Pte. A. Adams. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War Medal 1914-20 (143426 Bdr. R. F. C. Watts. R.A.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (10480 PCpl. H. Paul. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); together with an unofficial Occupation of Japan Medal 1946-52 (R.K Watts R.N.) very fine (6) £80-£100 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 30 January 1920. George E. Gardener attested into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry for service during the Great War and served in Mesopotamia with the 1st Battalion from 24 February 1915. He was taken prisoner during the siege of Kut-al-Amara and subsequently awarded the M.S.M. ‘in recognition of devotion to duty and valuable services rendered whilst prisoners of war interned’ (London Gazette 30 January 1920, with the award dated 5 May 1919). Albert Admans attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 1st/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 March 1915. Advanced Sergeant, for his gallantry he was awarded the Military Medal (London Gazette 11 November 1916). He was also awarded the Territorial Efficiency Medal in 1920. Hosea Paul attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served with the 5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 May 1915. For his gallantry during the attack on Hillside Wood, Vis-en-Artois, as part of the Arras offensive, he was awarded the Military Medal (London Gazette 28 July 1917).

Four: Gunner N. Platt, Royal Artillery 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (3450699 Gnr. N. Platt. R.A.) good very fine (4) £50-£70

The Brass River campaign medal awarded to Mr E. Hunt, Niger Coast Protectorate Force East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Brass River 1895 (Mr E. Hunt, Niger C.P. Force.) officially impressed naming, good very fine and rare £700-£900 --- Provenance: J. Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2003. The Brass River operations were essentially a purely naval affair. A few army officers and civilians, however, accompanied the expedition and their medals were issued and authorised by the Admiralty, as shown in the following letter to the Foreign Office, dated 21 August 1896: ‘I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that they have been pleased to award Ashanti Medals and Brass River 1895 Clasps, forwarded herewith to Major A. G. Leonard and Mr E. Hunt of the Niger Coast Protectorate Force, and also to “Africa”, the Head Kroo Boy employed during the operations, for services in connection with the Brass River Expedition.’

A United States of America Vietnam War Bronze Star group of seven awarded to W. H. McGondel, United States Army United States of America, Bronze Star, with bronze oak leaf cluster on riband, unnamed as issued; Air Medal, with bronze ‘V’ and two bronze oak leaf clusters on riband, the reverse officially named ‘William H. McGondel’; Army Commendation Medal, with bronze oak leaf cluster on riband, the reverse officially named ‘William H. McGondel’; National Defense Service Medal, with bronze oak leaf cluster on riband; Vietnam Service Medal, with four bronze stars on riband; Armed Forces Reserve Medal, with silvered ‘X’ on riband; Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, 1 clasp, 1960-, generally good very fine (7) £100-£140 --- Sold together with the recipient’s riband bar for the above awards.

Imperial Service Medal (2), G.V.R., Circular issue, 1st ‘coinage head’ issue (Freddy Hudson) with named Home Office enclosure; G.VI.R., 1st issue (George Gray.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Albert H. Newman); The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s shoulder badge, silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; Service Medal of the Order of St John (Nurs./Off. J. M. Meech. London S.J.A. 1973.) generally good very fine and better (5) £70-£90

Pair: Sergeant Alexander Murdock, 3rd Foot Guards Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Egypt, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria (A. Murdoch, Serjt. 3rd Ft. Gds.); Waterloo 1815 (Serj. Alex. Murdock, 2nd Batt. 3rd Reg. Guards.) fitted with rather crude replacement steel clip and ring suspension, the second with edge bruising and contact pitting, naming weak in parts, therefore fine, the first with light nicks and marks, otherwise good very fine (2) £3,600-£4,400 --- Alexander Murdock was born at ‘Barrynry’ [Barony], Glasgow, and enlisted for the 3rd Foot Guards at Glasgow on 18 August 1800, aged 19, for unlimited service. He served 21 years 85 days, including 2 years for Waterloo, and was discharged in London on 10 November 1819, ‘having Rheumatic Pains’. He had served 9 years 4 months as a private, 5 years 1 month as corporal, and 10 years 10 month in the rank of sergeant, conduct ‘Good.’ Sold with copied discharge papers and M.G.S. medal roll entry confirming all 6 clasps.

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of three awarded to Lance-Corporal W. T. Coote, 1/4th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, for conspicuous gallantry near Thiepval in September 1916, when he went across “No Man’s Land” in broad daylight and full view of the enemy snipers, and brought in several wounded men, who had been lying there for some days Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (4253 L. Cpl. W. T. Coote. 1/4 Y. & L. R. -T.F.); British War and Victory Medals (4253 Pte. W. Coote. York & Lanc. R.); together with Silver War Badge (No. B321200) and accompanying certificate, very fine (4) £1,000-£1,400 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 25 November 1916: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on many occasions, when he went across “No Man’s Land” in broad daylight and full view of the enemy snipers, brought in several wounded men, who had been lying there for some days.’ Annotated gazette states: ‘Near Thiepval 4th-6th September 1916’. The Battalion War Diary for September 1916 suggests that Coote was awarded the D.C.M. ‘for work in raid 13-14/9/16 under Lieut. Christmas’ but the attached report on the raid makes no mention of Coote. Walter T. Coote enlisted on 14 July 1915, and served in France with the 1/4th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, winning the D.C.M. for gallantry near Thiepval on 4-6 September 1916. He later served as a gunner (No. 312744) with Lancs R.G.A. and was discharged on 2 April 1919, aged 31. Sold with copied research including D.C.M. and Medal Index Cards, S.W.B. list, gazette notices and Battalion War Diary entries for September 1916.

Six: Acting Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant J. Walmsley, Manchester Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Belfast (4720 Pte J. Walmsley, Manch: Regt); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4720 Serjt: J. Walmsley. Manch: Regt); British War and Victory Medals (33306 C. Sjt. J. Walmsley. Manch. R.); Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., Circular issue, 2nd ‘Coronation robes’ issue (Joseph Walmsley.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (33306 C.Q.M. Sjt. -A.R.Q.M. Sjt.- J. Walmsley 12/Manch: R.) minor traces of adhesive to obverses, light contact marks and minor edge bruising to the Boer War pair, otherwise generally very fine or better (6) £700-£900 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919. Joseph Walmsley attested for the Manchester Regiment, and served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boar War, and subsequently with the 12th Battalion during the Great War. Initially a Home Defence battalion, the 12th Manchesters took part in the battles of the Somme and at Delville Wood in 1916, continuing through Arras in 1917, the Spring Offensives of 1918, and until the end of the war. For his serves as acting regimental quartermaster sergeant during the Great War he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. Sold with copied research.

Three: Colour Sergeant W. T. Sillence, Hampshire Regiment India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (1250. Corp: W. T. Sillence. 2/Hamps: R.) engraved in upright serif capitals; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (1250 Cr:- Sjt: W. T. Sillence. Vol: Coy. Hants: Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1250 Clr:- Serjt: W. T. Sillence. Hamps: Regt.) light contact marks, good very fine and better (3) £300-£400 --- William Thomas Sillence was born on 22 July 1862 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment on 24 November 1883. He was promoted Corporal on 18 June 1885; Sergeant on 17 January 1889; and Colour Sergeant on 23 April 1894, and served with the 2nd Battalion overseas in India and Burma, and with the Volunteer Company in South Africa during the Boer War from 8 March to 31 July 1902 (entitled to the clasps Transvaal and South Africa 1902 to his Queen’s South Africa Medal - such clasps were issued loose to the Volunteer Company). He was discharged on 23 November 1904, after 21 years’ service, and died in Portsmouth on 20 January 1944; his occupation on his death certificate stating ‘Pensioned Colour Sergeant, Hampshire Regiment, and Pensioned Civilian Clerk, Royal Army Ordnance Corps’.

Four: Petty Officer (Telegraphist) S. H. Dawe, Royal Navy, who was killed on 6 August 1914, when H.M.S. Amphion struck a mine off the Thames estuary and sank with the loss of 132 men killed; she was the first ship of the Royal Navy to be sunk in the Great War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (185605 S. H. Dawe, Ord. Sig., H.M.S. Magicienne); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Jubaland (185605 S. H. Dawe, Ord. Sig., H.M.S. Magicienne); Victory Medal 1914-19 ((185605 S. H. Dawe, P.O. Tel. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (185605 S. H. Dawe, P.O. (Tel) H.M.S. Amphion) toned, extremely fine (4) £300-£400 --- Duplicates of the Q.S.A. and A.G.S., and most likely the Naval L.S. & G.C., were issued to his widow on 26 March 1915. Samuel Henry Dawe was born at Aubyn, Devonport, Devon, on 20 March 1880, and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class from Greenwich School on 8 September 1895. He served as Ordinary Signalman aboard Magicienne from November 1897 to June 1901, seeing service off South Africa and Somaliland. He became a Petty Officer (Telegraphist) in November 1907, and joined the newly commissioned scout cruiser Amphion on 2 April 1913. By the start of the War Amphion was leader of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla in the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, assigned to the Harwich Force, defending the eastern approaches to the English Channel, under the command of Captain Cecil H. Fox. In the morning of 5 August, Amphion and the 3rd Flotilla sortied into the North Sea to patrol the area between Harwich and the Dutch island of Terschelling for German activity. At 10:15 a ship in the black, buff, and yellow colours of the Great Eastern Railway's steamers that plied between Harwich and the Hook of Holland was spotted. Fox sent the destroyers Lance and Landrail to investigate and shortly afterwards another destroyer reported that a trawler had seen a suspicious ship, 'throwing things overboard, presumably mines'. Amphion led the flotilla to investigate and observed that the fleeing ship was deploying mines even then. At 10:45, Lance opened fire at a range of 4,400 yards (4,000 m). The target was S.M.S. Königin Luise, a former Hamburg-Heligoland excursion boat that had been converted to an auxiliary minelayer by the Germans. They had planned to mount a pair of 8.8-centimetre (3.5 in) guns on board, but they did not have the time to do so; her only armament was a pair of lighter guns and 180 mines. On the night of 4 August, she had departed Emden and headed into the North Sea to lay mines off the Thames Estuary, which she began to do at dawn. The fire from the destroyers was ineffective until Amphion closed to a range of 7,000 yards and began hitting the German ship at about 11:15. By noon, Königin Luise was sinking and the three British ships rescued 5 officers and 70 ratings. The flotilla proceeded onwards with their patrol until they reached the Dutch coast around 21:00 and turned for home. Fox was uncertain as to the locations of the mines laid by Königin Luise and laid a course that was seven nautical miles west of where he thought the mines were. He guessed wrongly and led his flotilla over the danger area. At 06:35, Amphion struck a mine that detonated underneath her bridge. The explosion set her forecastle on fire and broke the ship's keel. The destroyer Linnet attempted to tow the cruiser, but a deep crack across her upper deck showed that she was hogging badly and Fox ordered his crew to abandon ship. Shortly afterwards, her forward magazine exploded, throwing one 4-inch gun into the air that narrowly missed Linnet. One of Amphion's shells burst on the deck of the destroyer Lark, killing two of her men and the only German prisoner rescued from the cruiser. Amphion then rapidly sank within 15 minutes of the explosion losing 1 officer and 131 ratings killed, including Dawe, in the sinking, plus an unknown number of the crew rescued from Königin Luise. He is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

Four: Bugler E. T. H. Gell, Durban Light Infantry, later Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (705 Bglr: E. T. H. Gell. Durban L.I.); Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Tpr. E. T. H. Gell. Natal Mtd. Rifles.) renamed; 1914-15 Star (8984 Pte. E. T. Gell. R. Innis. Fus.); British War Medal 1914-20 (8984 Pte. E. T. Gell. R. Innis. Fus.) nearly very fine (4) £140-£180

Three: Acting Corporal P. B. Chew, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914 Star (68 Pte. P. B. Chew. R.A.M.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (68 A. Cpl. P. B. Chew. R.A.M.D. [sic]); Victory Medal 1914-19 (68 A. Cpl. P. B. Chew. R.A.M.C.) mounted as worn and housed with shoulder titles and cap badge in a glazed display frame, light contact marks, very fine (3) £140-£180 --- Percival Bradley Chew was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1886 and attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving with them pre-War in Egypt. He served with No. 13 Stationary Hospital on the Western Front during the Great War from 14 October 1914, and was later posted to the Somerset Light Infantry. He died in Stroud in 1953. Sold with a Princess Mary 1914 Christmas tin with reproduction contents; a 1914 Active Service New Testament; various postcards and photographs; a small bag of miscellaneous charms; and copied research.

Five: Sergeant H. S. Sinfield, Royal Engineers, later Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light infantry 1914 Star, with clasp (27559 Sjt. H. S. Sinfield. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (27559. Sjt. H. S. Sinfield. R.E.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (242. Sjt. H. S. Sinfield. Bucks: Bn: Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., Circular issue, 2nd ‘Coronation robes’ issue (Henry Samuel Sinfield) first four mounted as worn, the last loose on original mounting pin, generally very fine and better (5) £140-£180 --- Henry Samuel Sinfield was mobilised for service during the Great War, serving on the Western Front with the Postal Section, Royal Engineers, from 22 August 1914. His entry in The National Roll of the Great War mentions his service during the retreat from Mons and at the Battles of the Marne, Ypres and Givenchy, before he being wounded at Loos in 1915 and invalided home. He returned to his unit in France the following year and served until the end of the war, and afterwards, in the army of occupation in Cologne. Discharged in December 1919, he then worked as a sorting clerk and Telegraphist in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, and was awarded the Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement (London Gazette 24 November 1931). Sold with copied research.

A scarce Great War ‘Salonika’ D.C.M. group of five awarded to Private E. S. D. Moore, Nottinghamshire Yeomanry, for his gallantry and coolness when sent out as a lone decoy to lure into an ambush a patrol of Germany cavalry on 17 April 1916; Moore was mounted on a specially chosen Charger in order to outpace the enemy should an attempt have been made to capture him Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (989 Pte. E. S. D. Moore. Notts: Yeo:); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (735 Pte. E. S. D. Moore. 10th. Notts Coy. Imp: Yeo:); 1914-15 Star (989 Pte. E. S. A. [sic] Moore. Sher. Rang.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (989 Pte. E. S. A. [sic] Moore. Notts. Yeo.) generally good very fine (5) £1,400-£1,800 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 14 November 1916: ‘For gallantry and coolness when sent out to try and lure a party of the enemy into an ambush. He behaved in a remarkably plucky manner when in very close touch with the enemy.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 25 September 1916 (Salonika). Edmund Schneider Dodwell Moore was born at Honington, Lincolnshire, on 22 April 1874, the son of the Reverend Henry Dodwell Moore, Vicar of St Wilfrid’s, Honington, and following the outbreak of the Boer War attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Retford, Nottinghamshire, on 10 January 1900. He served with the 10th (Sherwood Rangers) Company, 3rd Battalion in South Africa from 29 January 1900 to 9 July 1901, and was present at the actions at Lindley and Heartebeestefontein. He was discharged at his own request on 8 August 1901. Following the outbreak of the Great War, Moore re-joined his old unit, the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry; the Sherwood Rangers, along with the South Nottinghamshire Hussars and the Derbyshire Yeomanry formed the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Mounted Brigade and embarked for Egypt in April 1915, first entering the Balkan theatre of War on 8 August 1915. Moore served with them in Gallipoli from August to October 1915 (dismounted), before returning with the unit to Egypt where they were reunited with their horses. They then went to Macedonia (Salonika) in February 1916 where the brigade was re-designated as the 7th Mounted Brigade. It was whilst serving in Salonika that Moore was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his gallant conduct and coolness on 17 April 1917 when he volunteered to act as a lone decoy to lure into an ambush a patrol of German cavalry that had been observed in nearby woods. An accomplished rider, his charger had been specially chosen to outpace the enemy in the event an attempt was made to capture him. In further recognition of his gallant conduct, Moore’s name was brought to notice in General A. J. Murray’s Despatch dated 13 July 1916. The following account of the action was later published in ‘The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry in the Great War 1914-1918’ by Major H. Tallents: ‘At 5 a.m. on 17 April 1916, three Squadrons of German Cavalry came round the end of Lake Doiran towards Pateros, supported by a considerable force of infantry; one of their squadrons came on towards Gola, their right flank patrol passing within a few yards of Sergeant Hethershaw and his troop who were lying concealed in some scrub and had been told not to fire, and approached the position where B Squadron were concealed. We disclosed only a small patrol with Private Moore as its point riding a specially selected horse which would be difficult for the Germans to overtake. The Germans were very cautious and approached our patrol very slowly, while Moore waited for them in the hopes that some at least of the Germans would chase him and be led into the trap; unfortunately they would not do this though they were within speaking distance of him, so after a little conversation with them during which they told him to “go away, you bloody fool” (his remarks to them are not recorded), he rode slowly away to one side leaving the front of B Squadron unmasked. The Germans stood in a bunch looking towards B Squadron’s position and then turned to retire; the moment they did so it was evident that they would not be caught in the trap so B Squadron and the machine-guns opened fire. Unfortunately both the machine-guns - which were about 12 years old - jammed after a few rounds and consequently we only succeeded in wounding seven of their men and seven horses, according to the enemy intelligence reports obtained later’. Following the Armistice Moore returned to farming. A keen huntsman he followed both the Belvoir and Blankney Hunts and latterly maintained several fox coverts. He is recorded in the 1939 Register residing at Brant Broughton where he is described as a retired farmer and ‘Air Raid Warden ARP’ having been appointed Chief ARP Warden, Brandt Broughton. He died in Newark District Hospital following a cycling accident on 27 April 1949. Sold with copied research.