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Lot 85
First World War British casualty medal trio and death memorial plaque comprising of 1914-15 star, 1914-18 war medal and 1914-19 victory medal impressed to 11996 cpl Samuel Jackson, A company 7th battalion, East Yorkshire regiment who died on the 12th may 1916 aged 22 years old and is buried and commemorated at BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY VIII. A. 111. France. together with pair of brass East Yorkshire regiment shoulder titles and cap badge.
Lot 6
Medal group of 10 to include GRV Army meritorious service medal (swing suspender),1914 star ( Mons 5th August – 22nd November 1914 clasp), British war medal, victory medal with mention in dispatches oak leaf, 1939-45 star, defence medal and 1939-45 war medal, 1935 jubilee medal, 1937 coronation medal, army long service good conduct medal, impressed to S – 5224 T Sub condr W H F Mocker Army Ordinance Corps. Together with 8 miniatures to include Army meritorious service medal, 1914 star with mons clasp, 1914-18 war medal, victory medal with MID oak leaf, 1939-45 star, 1935 jubilee medal and 1937 coronation medal and army long service good conduct medal.
Lot 9
Two sets of medal miniatures to include one group with 2nd type military OBE, 1914-18 war medal, 1914-19 victory medal, 1939-45 star, Burma star, defence medal and 1939-45 war medal with MID oak leaf. Second group comprising of 1914-18 British war medal, 1914-19 victory medal, 1939-45 star, Africa star, defence medal and 1939-45 war medal. Together with further medal miniature of 2nd type military OBE
Lot 19
Queen Victoria, Punjab Medal 1848-1849, with Chilianwala Clasp, impressed to 2867 PTE George Newall, 24th regiment of Foot (Warwickshire). who was present out in India during the Second Sikh War in the Punjab during 1848 to 1849, wounded at the Battle of Chilianwala on 13th January 1849, invilided 28.08.1850 and sent back to England 1st February 1851 - is present on the casualty roll.
Lot 295
Quantity of First World War British medals to include a medal pair comprising of 1914-15 star and 1914-19 victory medal impressed to K.11926 O.J.Dowding STO.1.R.N and a First World War British medal trio comprising 1914-15 star, 1914-18 war medal and 1914-19 victory medal impressed to 1281 Gnr.J.Bremmer R.F.A. (5)
Lot 169
Quantity of medal ribbons and cap badges to include royal Rhodesia regiment with queens crown, blues and royals, south Africa Q service corps K dienst korps, Royal army ordinance corps, Royal military academy, south African air force cap badge, ww2 France and Germany star and king George V silver jubilee medal miniature etc
Lot 346
The Second Afghan War Medal awarded to Sergeant R. Fitzgerald, 66th Foot, who was killed in action at the battle of Maiwand on 27 July 1880 Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1615. Sergt. R. Fitzgerald. 66th Foot.) minor edge bruising, therefore very fine £2,000-£2,400 --- Richard Fitzgerald attested for the 66th Regiment of Foot and served with them in Afghanistan. He was killed in action at the battle of Maiwand on 27 July 1880, ‘one of the grandest examples of heroism in the annals of war’, where the Regiment lost its Colours and 10 officers and 275 other ranks were killed. He was buried on the battle field where he fell, and is commemorated on the ‘Maiwand Lion’ Memorial in Forbury Gardens, Reading.
Lot 260
A very fine and scarce 12-clasp M.G.S. medal awarded to Private Henry Campbell, who served with the 52nd Foot at Corunna, throughout the Peninsula war in Spain and France, and afterwards at Waterloo Military General Service 1793-1814, 12 clasps, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (Henry Campbell, 52nd Foot.) original ribbon, two minor edge bruises, otherwise good very fine £8,000-£10,000 --- Provenance: Sotheby, February 1921; Needes Collection 1925, sold Glendining, July 1940; Dix Noonan Webb, December 2013 and May 2019. Only 87 medals were issued with 12 clasps including 18 to the 52nd Foot. Henry Campbell was born in the Parish of Donamore, Dungannon, Co. Armagh, and enlisted into the 52nd Foot at Dublin on 10 May 1805, aged 27, a weaver by trade. He served with the 52nd Foot at Corunna, throughout the Peninsula war in Portugal, Spain and France and at the Battle of Waterloo. He was discharged at Dublin on 24 August 1821, on reduction of the establishment of the Regiment, then aged 43. After a period at ‘half time on out Pension’, he enlisted into the Second Royal Veteran Battalion at Newry on 25 December 1821, until discharged at Enniskellen, in consequence of the reduction of the Battalion, on 24 April 1826. At the time of enlisting into the 2nd R.V.B. he gave his place of birth as Tynan, Armagh, but dates of service all tie up as the same man. Having served a total of 22 years 286 days, he was subsequently resident at Londonderry and died on 18 January 1856. Sold with full research including discharge papers for the 52nd and 2nd R.V.B., with full and detailed Muster research.
Lot 198
Four: Private A. G. Armstrong, Royal Sussex Regiment British War and Victory Medals (276 Pte. A. G. Armstrong. R.E.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (6/276 Pte. A. G. Armstrong. R. Suss. R.); Defence Medal, mounted for wear in the incorrect order, the TFWM marked ‘Replacement’, very fine and better (4) £80-£100 --- Albert George Armstrong a pre-War member of the Royal Sussex Regiment, Territorial Force, served in India from 1916 during the Great War with the 2/6th (Cyclist) Battalion. He saw later service in Valdivostock and Siberia during the Russian Civil War, before returning home in February 1919. Sold with copied research.
Lot 451
Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (J. C. Ferrier. V.A.D.; W. E. Power. V.A.D.; D. Vale. V.A.D.) nearly very fine (3) £70-£90 --- Jessie Clark Ferrier served as a Nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 April 1917 to 11 June 1919. Winifred Evelyn Power was born in India in 1893, and later settled with her family in Cheltenham. She served as a Nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 November 1915 to 8 December 1915, and was noted as ‘not sufficiently useful’. She died in 1980. Daisy Vales served as a Nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 August 1918 to 24 April 1919.
Lot 199
Five: Private S. W. Yelland, Hampshire Regiment, later Devonshire Special Constabulary British War and Victory Medals (28999 Pte. W. S. [sic] Yelland. Hamps. R.); War Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Samuel W. Yelland); together with a Hampshire Regiment cap badge and a Devon Special Constable lapel badge, nearly very fine and better Pair: J. W. Hartnell, Devonshire Special Constabulary Defence Medal, with Home Office enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘J. W. Hartnell Esq., “Cherions” Culmstock Road, Hemyock, Cullompton, Devon’; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, 1 clasp, Long Service 1953 (James W. Hartnell.) in named ‘Devonshire’ card box of issue, extremely fine Pair: Mrs Elsie D. Horrell, Civil Defence Defence Medal, with Home Office enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mrs. Elsie D. Horrell, 117 Elborough Street, Southfields, SW18’; Civil Defence Long Service Medal, E.II.R., unnamed as issued, with Home Office enclosure, in Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., Circular issue, 2nd ‘Coronation robes’ issue (Theodore Locke.); Voluntary Medical Service Medal, erased, with British Red Cross Society enclosure named to ‘Mr. Henry Walters, V.A.D. Officer, Dorset’, and dated 1. 1. 1983; together with a selection of British Red Cross Society V.A.D. lapel badges, very fine (lot) £100-£140
Lot 362
India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (71540 Br. Cr. Maker J. M. Greenway No. 1 Mtn. By R.A.) light contact marks, otherwise very fine £100-£140 --- John Mathew Greenway was born in the Parish of Doderell, near Worcester, and enlisted into the Royal Artillery at Hilsea on 16 March 1889, aged 19 years 7 months. He served in India from March 1890 to March 1896, and from February 1898 to January 1910. Having passed the Collar Maker’s course at Cawnpore in September 1893, he was appointed and promoted Bombardier Collar Maker in April 1895, and promoted to Saddler Sergeant on 31 March 1905. He was discharged at Gosport upon termination of his second period of engagement on 15 March 1910. Sold with copied discharge papers which confirm medal for North West Frontier 1897-98, and Good Conduct Medal (with Gratuity) in Army Order 242 of 1907.
Lot 134
Five: Chief Petty Officer A. Marriage, Royal Navy Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (A. Marriage. A.B., H.M.S. Thetis.); 1914-15 Star (194339, A. Marriage, L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (194339 A. Marriage. P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (194339 A. Marriage, C.P.O. H.M.S. Orion.) light pitting from Star, generally very fine and better (5) £240-£280 --- Austin Marriage was born in Plaistow, Essex, on 20 September 1881, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 5 July 1897. He served in H.M.S. Thetis from 1 July 1899, being advanced Able Seaman in that ship on 1 January 1901, and was promoted Leading Seaman on 9 March 1905. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. Vindictive from the outbreak of War until 30 June 1916, and was advanced Petty Officer in H.M.S. Furious on 1 November 1918, and Chief Petty Officer in the same ship on 5 March 1919. Serving in H.M.S. Orion from 1 October 1920, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 19 May 1921, and was shore pensioned on 25 September 1921. Sold with copied service papers and other research.
Lot 116
Four: Private W. Wilson, 72nd Highlanders, later Royal Highlanders Afghanistan 1878-80, 3 clasps, Charasia, Kabul, Kandahar (58.B/339 Pte. W. Wilson. 72nd. Highrs.); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (58B/339 Private W. Wilson 72nd. Highlanders); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (1506. Pte. W. Wilson. 1/R. Hrs.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, mounted for wear, pitting and light contact marks, traces of lacquer, nearly very fine (4) £700-£900 --- Sold with copied medal roll extracts.
Lot 583
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (George Soanes. 24. March. 1898.) with integral top riband bar, and housed in Elkington leather damaged case of issue, nearly extremely fine £100-£140 --- R.H.S. Case no. 29,352: ‘On the 24th March 1898, the smack Betsey was driven on shore at Corton, near Lowestoft. Communication was opened with the rocket apparatus, but in taking the crew to land two of them were so exhausted that they fell out of the breeches buoy. Instantly Pye, Soanes and Smith sprang into the boiling surf and succeeded in taking them to shore, together with a third man who had been washed off the wreck.’
Lot 147
An Anglo-Boer War D.T.D. pair awarded to Vechtgeneraal J. N. H. Grobler, Ermelo Kommando Anglo-Boer War Decoration for Loyal Service (Dekoratie voor Troue Dienst) 1899-1902 (V. Genl. J. N. H. Grobler.); Anglo-Boer War Medal 1899-1902 (V. Genl. J. N. H. Grobler.) minor edge bruising, nearly extremely fine (2) £1,800-£2,200 --- Johannes Nicolas Hermanus Grobler was born in Lydenburg on the 27 February 1864, and having settled in Ermelo was appointed District Kommandant in 1899. Under his leadership, the Ermelo Kommando were among the first to cross the Natal Border after the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War. Together with his kommando, Grobler took an active part in the battles at Dundee, Modderspruit, Colenso, Spionkop, Bosrand, and Pietershoogten, amongst many others. From Natal his kommando was sent to the Orange Free State. After the battle of Donkerhoek he was recalled to Ermelo, and after Dalmanutha he returned again to the Highveld, where the decision was made to conduct another raid on Natal. The Ermelo Kommando was also included and deployed to the south, where they were involved at Melmoth, Itala and other consecutive battles. After returning to the Ermelo district on 23 October 1901, Grobler was promoted to Vechtgeneraal. He subsequently took an active part in many smaller battles and skirmishes and had many a narrow escape. His kommando finally downed arms near Ermelo on 9 June 1902. Grobler married Gertruda Uys, with whom he had three children, including Johannes Nicolas Grobler. He died following blood poisoning to his right leg on 18 December 1913; his medals were posthumously presented to his son. Sold with two photographs, the first depicting Grobler’s Kommando; the second the remnants of his farm, the farmhouse having been destroyed under Kitchener’s ‘slash and burn’ policy; copied service papers; and other research, including a photographic image of the recipient. For the medals awarded to the recipient’s son, and other family members, see lots 187, 219, and 443.
Lot 58
The unique Great War 'Gibraltar Naval Hospital' R.R.C. and 'Plymouth Naval Hospital' Second Award Bar pair awarded to Head-Sister-in-Chief M. L. Hughes, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel; British War Medal 1914-20 (Hd. Sister M. L. Hughes. Q.A.R.N.N.S.) mounted court-style for display, with lady’s bow riband to the RRC, good very fine; the award of a Second Award Bar to the RRC unique to the QARRNS for the Great War (2) £1,400-£1,800 --- Only 8 Royal Red Crosses First Class and 1 Second Award Bar were awarded to Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service during the Great War. R.R.C. London Gazette 16 December 1916. R.R.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 9 May 1919. Miss Mildred Lloyd Hughes was born at Lampeter, Cardiganshire, on 9 March 1879, and trained at St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, joining Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service on 28 December 1908. Posted initially to Haslar Hospital as a Nursing Sister on 15 September 1909, she was advanced Superintending Sister in 1911, before being posted to Gibraltar Hospital on 14 January 1913. She served in Gibraltar during the first two years of the Great War, where the hospital was, from the start of May 1915 onwards, dealing with the influx of casualties from Gallipoli. For her services dealing with both the administrative and medical needs of the wounded, she was awarded the R.R.C. Following the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula Miss Hughes was posted back to the U.K. in April 1916, and on 22 November 1916 was posted to Plymouth Naval Hospital as Head Sister. For her services at Plymouth Naval Hospital she was awarded the unprecedented Second Award Bar to the R.R.C. After the Great War she continued to serve in this position at Plymouth, being promoted Head-Sister-in-Chief on 14 March 1929. She retired on 9 March 1934 and died in Cheshire in 1962.
Lot 133
A rare campaign service group of nine awarded to Paymaster Captain J. M. L. Cusack, Royal Navy, who was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Russian Order of St. Anne for his services in H.M.S. Yarmouth at the Battle of Jutland, in addition to receiving the Czech War Cross Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Clerk J. M. L. Cusack, H.M.S. Doris); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Jubaland (J. M. L. Cusack, Clerk, R.N., H.M.S. Magicienne); 1914-15 Star (Payr. J. M. L. Cussack, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Payr. Lt. Cr. J. M. L. Cusack, R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Russia, Order of St. Anne, 3rd Class breast badge, with swords, by Eduard, St. Petersburg, 36 x 36mm., gold and enamels, with manufacturer’s name on the reverse, ‘56’ gold mark on eyelet and kokoshnik mark on sword hilts; Czechoslovakia, War Cross, mounted as worn, together with a mounted set of related miniature dress medals, the St Anne in gold but with damage to reverse, and two ribbon bars, all contained in a leather carrying case, generally good very fine (9) £2,000-£2,400 --- James Meade Loughnan Cusack was born in Kilkenny in September 1880 and entered the Royal Navy as an Assistant Clerk in January 1898. Joining H.M.S. Doris a few months later, and having passing his Clerk’s examination, he witnessed active service off South Africa in the Boer War, including time ashore in Cape Colony (Medal & clasp). Next joining the Magicienne, he added a rare Africa General Service Medal for Jubaland to his accolades, and was advanced to Assistant Paymaster in September 1901. By the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, Cusack was serving as a Paymaster in the cruiser Yarmouth, in which capacity he was present at the battle of Jutland. As part of the Third Light Cruiser Squadron, and in the company of her consort Falmouth, she fought several duels, scoring some hits on the Lutzow and Derfflinger, and possibly the Seydlitz too; one of these, according to an officer on the bridge, making ‘a topping target and it was very pleasant to see salvo after salvo of our 6-inch hitting her’. Indeed so enthusiastic was the Yarmouth’s gunnery department that new ‘ammunition was sent up the hoists with so much energy as to accumulate a dangerous amount at the top’. In Jellicoe’s subsequent despatch (London Gazette 15 September 1916, refers), Cusack was cited for good services in action and recommended for early promotion. He was duly appointed Staff Paymaster and, later still, awarded his 3rd Class Russian Order of St. Anne ‘for distinguished service rendered at the Battle of Jutland’ (London Gazette 5 June 1917). Moreover, he was awarded the Czechoslovakian War Cross (London Gazette 26 August 1921), an extremely rare accolade in terms of British recipients, let alone an R.N. officer. Cusack ended the Great War as a Paymaster Commander in the cruiser Suffolk. Having then served on the China Station in the gunboat Bee in the mid-1920s, he was placed on the Retired List as a Paymaster Captain in September 1930. Recalled on the renewal of hostilities in September 1939, he served at the R.N.H. Chatham and in H.M.S. Flora, a parent ship at Invergordon. He died in Honiton, Devon in September 1961, aged 80 years. Sold with copied research.
Lot 496
Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, in card box of issue; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, in card box of issue; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal (4), G.V.R., 2nd issue (James Bradbury); G.VI.R., 1st issue (2) (William J. Griffith; Ernest N. Ward); E.II.R., 2nd issue (John W. Metcalfe) good very fine (6) £80-£100
Lot 608
London & North Western Railway St. John Ambulance Association First Aid Examination Medal, English Division, silver and enamel, for 12 Years’ Service (2) ‘G. Hughes 1923; William Sumner 1923’; North Eastern Railway Centre St. John Ambulance Association Cross for Meritorious First Aid Service, bronze, unnamed; British Railways 15 Years’ First Aid Efficiency Medal (2), 1st type, silver and enamel ‘William D. Payne 1952 N.288’; 2nd type, skeletal silver badge ‘N.E.263 William Blyth 1964’, in card box of issue, good very fine (5) £80-£100
Lot 615
A Selection of Medal Clasps. A small miscellaneous selection, comprising: Inkermann, Sebastopol Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (2 - one slightly damaged), Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (2), Tirah 1897-98, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (2), Diamond Hill, Waziristan 1919-21, Mahsud 1919-20, North West Frontier 1930-31, Iraq; together with copy Mooltan and Goojerat; and four top silver riband bars, generally in used condition, with some of the clasps mounted in blocks (lot) £100-£140
Lot 334
Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Ens. A. J. Goldie, 30/Regt.) officially engraved naming, lightly polished, otherwise nearly extremely fine £600-£800 --- 99 medals for 1866 issued to the 30th Regiment, including 17 Officers and 4 late issues. Alexander John Goldie was born on 17 May 1846. He was commissioned Ensign by purchase on 20 June 1865, and Lieutenant by purchase on 14 October 1868. Appointed Instructor of Musketry on 10 August 1872, whilst stationed at Fort Widley (Canada), he was then promoted to Captain on 21 August 1878, and later appointed Adjutant (Captain) Lancashire Rifle Volunteers, and Adjutant (Major), 3rd Lancashire Rifle Volunteers on 1 June 1885. In 1892 Goldie was District Inspector of Musketry at Cork, and retired on half-pay at Lieutenant-Colonel, 30th Regiment, on 17 May 1894. He was made Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel (reserve of officers list) on 23 May 1894. Sold with copied medal roll for the 30th Regiment.
Lot 452
Victory Medal 1914-19 (E. E. F. Tennant) very fine £50-£70 --- Eleonora Elisa Fiaschi Tennant was born in Sydney, Australia, on 18 December 1893. In 1911 she married a merchant banker, Ernest Tennant. She served during the Great War with the French Red Cross and post-War became politically active, unsuccessfully contesting the Silvertown constituency as the Conservative Party candidate at both the 1931 and 1935 general elections. Together with her husband, she formed a friendship with the German ambassador to the U.K., Joachim von Ribbontropp, with her politics becoming increasingly far-right and anti-Semitic; she also became a supporter of General Franco after a visit to Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Post-War, and after a contentious divorce, she returned to Australia where she made a living from farming, before returning to the U.K. She died in Kettering, aged 69, on 11 September 1963.
Lot 620
Renamed Medal: Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 copy clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Kirbekan (Lieut: H. W. Boyce. 19th. Husrs.) renamed; together with a Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs ‘Bell Medal’, bronze, unnamed, light pitting, nearly very fine (2) £60-£80 --- Hugh Wollcombe Boyce was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on 22 March 1861 and was was commissioned Second Lieutenant from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, into the 19th Hussars on 14 January 1880. Promoted Lieutenant on 1 July 1881, he served with the Regiment in Egypt and the Sudan during the Nile Expedition in 1885, before transferring to the 6th Dragoon Guards as a Captain. He fell whilst riding ‘Lady Ava’ in the Free Hunters Steeplechase at Sandown Racecourse on 28 February 1890; kicked in the temple by another horse, he suffered a fracture of the skull, and died of his injuries that night. Sold with copied research.
Lot 124
Seven: Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Stewart, 7th and 13th Rajputs, Indian Army India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (Lieutt. J. A. Stewart, 7th Bl. Infy.); China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (Captn: J. A. Stewart, 7th Rajput.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-14 (Major J. Stewart, I.A. H.M.S. Perseus.); 1914-15 Star (Maj. J. A. Stewart. 13/Rajputs); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt-Col. J. A. Stewart); Delhi Durbar 1911 (Major J. A. Stewart, 7th D.C.O. Rajputs 12-12-1911.) mounted as worn, generally very fine and rare (7) £2,600-£3,000 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 30 June 1916. John Alexander Stewart was born on 5 June 1868, and was first commissioned into the Manchester Regiment on 22 August 1888. He transferred to the Indian Army on 1 June 1893, and was appointed to the 7th Rajputs, with whom he served in the relief of Chitral 1895 (Medal with clasp), the relief of Pekin 1900 (Medal with clasp), and in the operations on the North West Frontier in the Mohmand country 1908 (Medal with clasp). He served aboard H.M.S. Perseus in command of a detachment of 7th Rajputs during the anti-gun running operations in the Persian Gulf from 1909 to 1914, and was thus one of only 17 Army and police officers to receive this Naval medal. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in the 13th Rajputs on 22 August 1914, and commanded the regiment from 17 November 1916 to 5 June 1920, when he retired on attaining 52 years of age. Note: Stewart is also entitled to the medal for ‘North West Frontier 1908’. Sold with an article from the O.M.R.S. Journal on the background to the award of the N.G.S. ‘Persian Gulf’ to certain army and police officers (17 medals awarded) by Major M. C. Spurrier. He confirms Major Stewart as having been borne in H.M.S. Perseus in 1912 and being shown in the Indian army lists of April and July 1912 as being ‘at Jask’.
Lot 627
An Australian Forces pair awarded to Warrant Officer K. H. W. Willert, Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps Australia, Defence Force Service Medal, with clasp (213321 Willert K. H. W.); National Medal (213321 K. H. W. Willert) mounted court style as worn, extremely fine (2) £140-£180 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2009. Kevin Henry Walter Willert was born on 18 September 1942. He enlisted into the Australian Regular Army on 28 September 1959, based at the 1st Recruit Training Battalion, Kapooka, and Infantry Centre, Ingleburn, being allocated to the Australian Infantry Corps. As a Sergeant he was an Instructor at the 1st Recruit Training Centre and attended the Tropical Warfare Advisor’s Course, at Canungra, between May and July 1967. Latterly with the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps at Bandiana. He was discharged on 27 September 1980.
Lot 88
A Second War B.E.M. awarded to Sergeant Issaka Moshi, West African Artillery British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (GC.12601 Sgt. Issaka Moshi. W.A.A.) edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £100-£140 --- B.E.M. (Military) London Gazette 8 February 1945: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Burma and on the Eastern Frontier of India.’
Lot 51
The C.B. and Naval General Service Medal pair awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Plenderleath, 49th Foot, a Captain in H.M.S. Ardent under Nelson at Copenhagen in 1801 and in command of his Regiment at Stoney Creek and Chrystler’s Farm in 1813 The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamel, hallmarked London 1815, maker’s mark ‘IN’, complete with wide swivel-ring suspension and gold ribbon buckle; Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Copenhagen 1801 (Chas. Plenderleath) the first with minor damage to a few petals of green enamel wreath and a small blemish to one reverse arm, the second lightly lacquered, otherwise extremely fine and very rare (2) £12,000-£16,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Glendining, February 1953 (Lots 133 and 134). The small Army Gold Medal awarded to Plenderleath for the battle of Chrystler’s Farm was formerly in the David Spink Collection and now resides in the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa; Dix Noonan Webb, December 2004. Twenty-three medals were issued to the 49th Foot for Copenhagen, together with two to the Rifles and one to the Artillery. The 49th Foot, under Colonel Brock, together with two companies of the Rifle Corps, and a detachment of Artillery, were embarked aboard various ships of the fleet, under the command of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, with Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson as second-in-command. It was during this engagement that Nelson famously ignored Parker’s signal of recall when, with his glass to his blind eye, he said, ‘I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal.’ Charles Plenderleath served as a Captain in the 49th Foot on board the Ardent 64 at Copenhagen, in which battle she formed one of the squadron under the orders of Lord Nelson, and compelled four of the Danish flotilla, one of which was the Jutland of 60 guns, to surrender. The Ardent received considerable damage, and sustained a loss of 29 men killed and 64 wounded, not counting about 40 others who were rendered hors de combat but who were not included in the casualty returns. Early on the following morning, Lord Nelson went on board the Ardent to thank her commander, Captain Thomas Bertie, officers, and people, for their conduct and exertions on the preceding day. In the American war of 1812-14, Plenderleith for the most part had command of the 49th Foot, including the actions of Stoney Creek and Chrystler’s Farm, in both of which actions he was wounded. The following extracts are taken from an account of Stoney Creek given by Lieutenant James Fitzgibbon, 49th Foot, in a private letter, dated 7 June 1813, to the Rev. James Somerville, of Montreal: ‘Major Plenderleath came immediately after to that portion of the line which I had quitted, and, with the men I had left in charge of a sergeant, and a few others, he rushed forward against the guns and took four of them - two and a tumbril were brought away. The others could not be, our men having bayonetted the horses. Major Plenderleath pushed on with about 20 men, following the main road, the men stabbing every man and horse they met with... This handful of men with Major Plenderleath took at this dash, besides the two generals [Chandler and Winder], five field officers and captains, and above 100 prisoners, and brought them off.’ ‘I am of opinion that, had not Major Plenderleath made the dash he did, the Americans would have kept their ground and our ruin would have been inevitable, but finding our people so far advanced in their centre, they broke and fled in every direction and their fire ceased at a time when our line was, as it were, entirely routed.’ Although the Americans claimed Stoney Creek as a victory, their defeat at Chrystler’s Farm was complete. Plenderleath again commanded the 49th and was again wounded. Five Lieutenants of the 49th were also wounded, as well as five men killed and three sergeants and thirty-four men wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Plenderleath subsequently received a C.B. and the Field Officers’ Gold Medal for the action at Chrystler’s Farm. Lieutenant-Colonel Plenderleath was placed on the Half Pay of the 49th shortly afterwards and saw no further active service. He died in 1854.
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