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A D-Day, Scaled Folding Map 'Defences Creully' Sheet No. 37/18 S.E., stamped 'Top Secret' and dated May 1944, approx 28in x 21in (71cm x 53.5cm). Three linen-backed Military Edition (not to be published), ordnance survey scaled maps (i) East Anglia, 27in x 33in (68.5cm x 84cm), (ii) N.E. London & Epping Forest 27in x 33in (68.5cm x 84cm), (iii) England & Wales, sheet 9 A 42in x 33in (1070cm x 84cm) as used for pre D-day training; a British Army Officer's Sam Browne Belt, stamped 34; British Army issue Binoculars, bino-prism No.2 MkII, No.43639, dated 1942 with broad WD arrow devices; a U.S. Army Medical Department, First Aid Kit, in its waterproof metal container, containing most of original contents, (as issued to British and American DUKWs for D-day landings); and a British Army Service Corps, enamel and chrome-plated car badge, numbered 534 by J.R.G & S. of London. Provenance: Lieutenant Hansell, 536 General Transport Company (DUKWs, 21st Army Brigade, D-Day + 3 (9th June).

A Third Reich ordnance issue NCO's sabel, blade 34" by Alexander Coppel, Solingen, plain bronze stirrup hilt with small waffenamt marks on all parts, the underside of the crosspiece stamped AC/G and number 1959, wire bound black plastic grip, in its black painted scabbard. GC (edge of blade ground, scabbard dented and repainted)

18 RA, corps, etc cap badges, including officer's bronze RA, RFC, Ordnance small, ASC voided, E Sussex Constab. (tarnished), etc; 10 staybrite caps; enamelled Chatham Navy Week pin back and R Sussex sweetheart on MOP; 2 WWI German belt buckles; sundry buttons and other items. Generally GC

A .577" Enfield 3 band percussion rifle, 55" overall, barrel 39" with ordnance proofs and government sale mark, the lock engraved with crowned VR and 1862 Tower, walnut fullstock with regulation mounts, the butt plate tang engraved V/WI/444, single sling swivel, replacement steel ramrod. GWO & Generally GC (worn overall)

William Woodall (1832-1901) Politician and Philanthropist, of Burslem, Stoke on Trent. A remarkable and extensive collection of letters written to him from around the 1860s to the end of the century, most pasted into ten old albums often accompanied by portrait photographs of the writers, with some loose letters in a small box. Woodall was chairman of the Burslem School Board 1870 to 1880 and the Wedgwood Institute, both bodies advancing the cause of technical education. He sat on royal commissions on technical education (1881-84) and the care of the blind and deaf mutes (1886-89). Woodall was MP for Stoke on Trent 1880-86, and was first representative for Hanley from 1885-1900. He supported home rule, and was chairman of the Central Committee for Women's Suffrage (established in 1872), and tried, unsuccessfully, to push through parliament an amendment which would allow married women to vote. In 1886 Gladstone appointed him Surveyor General of the Ordnance, and from 1892 to 1895 he was financial secretary to the War Office. Most of the letters are of a political nature (Liberal Cabinet and party members), including one from Gladstone proposing his appointment as Surveyor General of the Ordnance. Others cover his time as local MP, and in his official capacity at the Wedgwood Institute in Burslem, where he would invite speakers, often leading people of the day, for example Charles Dickens who politely declines 'to read' in a one page letter with his typical signature flourish. Three letters from William Morris on the other hand, confirm a more favourable response to an invitation by Woodall. The contemporary albums are in rather tired condition, some of covers are detached. Letters or notes in the first album include: W Gladstone, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (2), J G Rogers, Sir John Hibbert, Arthur Peel, Lord Ripon, Lord Granville, etc. Album two: Sir Edward Grey, Robert Hanbury, Lord Dartmouth, George Duke of Cambridge, Lord Curzon, Sir Oliver Lodge, Shaw Lefevre, Richard Temple, Wilson Barrett (Savage Club), Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Gertrude Tennant, poem by Lady Currie (pen name 'Violet Fane'), Fridtjof Nansen signature, etc. Album three: Henry M Stanley photograph with signature below 1891, Harry Furniss, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, T P O'Connor, George Grossmith, Field Marshall Francis Grenfell, Nora Philipps, G Lawson, Richard Temple, George Russell, Princess Louise, Henry Broadhurst, the Bechuana Chiefs' signatures with press cutting (visiting Britain in 1895 to protest against the proposed annexation of their land), Henry Irving, William Martin Conway, Earl of Crewe, G A Henty, Sir Oliver Lodge, Earl of Clarendon, Emily Crawford, etc. Album four: Gladstone (3), Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Sir William Harcourt, Sir Henry Roscoe, Stuart Rendel (several), etc. Album five: Arthur Peel, Lord Wolseley, Thomas Ellis, Ellen Terry, Arthur Collins, Field Marshall Evelyn Wood, Augustus Hare, Kate Greenaway, Philip Morris (artist), Lord Dartmouth, Rudyard Kipling (1890), Lord Crewe, Sir Charles Wyndham Murray, Haddon Chambers (playwright), Henry John Yeend King, Dinah Craik (author), Maud Beerbohm Tree, Sir Lewis Morris (poet), Dorothy Stanley, Campbell-Bannerman, Stanley Baldwin 1931 tls to Mr Howard Figgis, etc. Album six: Gladstone, Charles Dickens 1863, declining to read in Burslem, Garibaldi 1861 from Caprera, John Ruskin 1864 sending four of his works to the Wedgwood Institute library, Lord Granville, Thomas Carlyle 1869 blue pencil note '...the utility of your enterprise will depend mainly on yourÉ in selecting books, on your earnestly and religiously choosing books that are nourishment to the mind of a man, and vigourously rejecting what are poison (by far the more numerous class at present)'*, Samuel Smiles, John Bright, Henri d'Orleans Duc d'Aumale, William Macready (actor, x 2), Mrs Gladstone, The Duke of Devonshire, William Rathbone, John Stuart Mill, Lord Shrewsbury, John Lewis Ricardo MP 8pp als to MacIntyre (at Burslem), Lord Derby 1870, George Goschen, Sir Charles Dilke (2), Henry Stacy Marks (RA), G A Henty, William Fraser Rae, Sir Smith Child, Sir Rowland Hill (1869), etc. *Woodall actively sought books for the Institute Library, a wing of which he paid for. Album seven: Gladstone, appointing him Under Secretary of the War Department (1892), Campbell-Bannerman on the same subject, Lord Wolseley, Lord Crewe (inquiring about a plaque by Louis Solon of Minton), Harry Furniss, the Hon T F Bayard, Lord Dartmouth proposing a visit by Princess Louise to the Potteries to open the School of Art at Burslem, Lord Granville, Marquis of Lorne on the Princess's visit to Burslem, Herbert Gladstone, W St John Brodrick, Frank Topham (artist), Hubert von Herkomer, Arthur Peel, Marcus Stone (RA), Sir Edward Poynter, Ellen Thornycroft Fowler (novelist), Charles Hopwood, Miss Lydia Becker on suffrage and the amendment re married/unmarried women, Lord Dartmouth, Lord Roberts, Sir Luke Fildes, Millicent Duchess of Sutherland, Mary Howitt (author, x 2), Ughtred Kay Shuttleworth, John Toole (actor), Frederick Treves (surgeon), G A Henty (2), E Lynn Linton, Sir L Alma Tadema, Lord Kitchener, Margaret Oliphant (2), Henry M Stanley and Dorothy Stanley, Lord Curzon, etc. Album eight: W St John Brodrick, General Sir Redvers Buller, W S Caine, Campbell-Bannerman, Lord Sutherland, Herbert Gladstone, Philip Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield), T F Bayard, George Duke of Cambridge, Margot Asquith, R W Hanbury, Sir William Harcourt, etc. Album nine: Charles Hopwood, G A Henty, Sir Ralph Knox, E Lynn Linton, Sir George Leveson-Gower, Baron Monkswell, M Oliphant, Hugh Glizean Reid, Sir Wemyss Reid, Lord Roberts, Lord Rosebery, Marcus Stone, Sir Benjamin Stone, Genevieve Ward, Evelyn Wood, Dorothy Stanley, William Howitt (author), 1924 Lloyd George tls to Henry Woodall, etc. Album ten: Lord Iveagh (to Mr Figgis 1917), 2 group photographs of Woodall with four friends, Sir John Lentaigne, John Tenniel, Frederick Barnard, Henry Pettitt, Luke Fildes, George Grossmith, Harry Furniss, Charles Dickens 1863 single page declining to read for the Wedgwood Memorial Committee, Samuel Smiles, Mark Lemon (editor of Punch), John Galsworthy (1927) 'Dear SirÉ' (a short note), Sir Swire Smith, Lucy Baldwin to Mr Figgis 1929 on 10 Downing Street paper, Frances Balfour to Lady Lucy (Baldwin), etc. Small Box of loose letters: William Morris (x 3, on travel arrangements to Burslem), E Lynn Linton, Francis Schnadhorst (founder of the National Liberal Association), Joseph Arch, George W E Russell, M Oliphant, Mary Howitt, Sidney Colvin, Gilbert Redgrave, J P O'Connor, J A Spender (editor of the Westminster Gazette), Louis Solon (with small sketch), etc

GROOME (F H) Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, 6 vols 1886, 8vo, folding maps and plates (some leaves loose, damage to cloth bindings)

Mixed lot of twelve hardback travel/map books and seven Ordnance Survey maps including Muirheads 'Northern Italy' and Baddelley's 'Highlands of Scotland' (19)

Quantity of Ordnance Survey folding Maps, various.

A Military issue Rolex pocket watch white metal case, engraved to the rear with ordnance mark and G.S. MK. II and numbered A.8725, keyless wind, black dial, luminous numerals, together with a silver cased keyless wind open faced pocket watch with stop watch action (2)

Silver and enamel sweet heart brooch Royal Corps Army Ordnance, Indian Army brass and a 1924 Wembley Exhibition medallion

Dame Laura Knight,DBE, RA (1877-1970) BALLERINA signed, dated March 1943 and inscribed R[oyal] O [rdnance] F[actory] Newport, pen and ink, 14 x 13.5cm, unframed Provenance: Drawn by Laura Knight for the father of the present vendor who was eNgaged in war work at the Royal Ordnance Factory in Newport, Monmouthshire. In March 1943 Knight visited the factory to paint a woman at work and the following month her picture of Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring was voted the most popular painting in the RA Exhibition. ++++

Darlington. Heygate & Cameron (Capts.). Ordnance Plan of the Parish of Darlington in the County of Durham, 1856, large folio atlas containing 16 double linen-backed sheets, 1:2500, some dust marking of pages, half calf (worn)

A QUANTITY OF ASSORTED ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS, magazines etc

Early 19th Century 10 bore flintlock service musket, 39" sighted barrel, border engraved lock dated 1810 and engraved with East Indian Company Lion. Full stock, regulation brass mounts, Ordnance proof marks, top of barrel marked with arsenal registration mark, with triangular socket bayonet

Late 18th/early 19th Century 10 bore flintlock service musket, 39" barrel with Ordnance proof marks. Flat bevelled lock with 'GR' crowned and 'Tower' on tail. Full stocked with brass furniture, stock marked 25 and L-Y 3002 on brass butt cap, together with locking triangular socket bayonet

Baker's Rutlandshire & Ordnance Survey Uppingham

BOX: Ordnance Survey and other Road Maps (Box)

Two Boxes: Maps, Ordnance Survey (Two Boxes)

7 Books, “The Wayside Book" by Gilbert Rumbold, "The Seasons and The Gardeners" by H.E. Bates, "Early English Recipes" engraved by Margaret Webb, "Engravings" by Eric Ravilious, "Monumental Brasses", "Talk of Many Things", and "Ordnance Survey Maps-Isles of Scilly" (7)

Lima 204823A5 BR 47972 The Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Limited Edition 786/850. Together with Lima 204837A6 D819 Goliath, Limited Edition 269/1000. Both mint and boxed with certificates. OO gauge. (2)

Groome, Francis Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland. London, [no date]. New edition, 6 volumes, photo plates, maps and plans, original blue half morocco gilt, t.e.g., some rubbing to edges, some light foxing; and 2 others (8) Provenance: Walter Ballantyne bookplate in each volume.

Two old hunting daggers, lot old ordnance survey maps, ephemera and sundries

Two large local Ordnance Survey volumes, numerous wards and maps, mid 1950's, vinyl bindings

Five boxes of miscellaneous Maps, Ordnance Survey and other Topographical Works.

Military silver brooches: enamelled Third Toronto Regt., enamelled Royal Ordnance Corps, damage to enamel and another, mainly good condition, unless stated (3)

PENZANCE. 10 large scale (1 in 500) Ordnance Survey maps. 1st large scale mapping, thus each 21 1/2ins x 41 1/2ins, surveyed 1875, reprinted 1885-1903, good condition.

ORDNANCE SURVEY. 24 maps, 1 in 10,000, Penzance and Helford River, 1930's-60's; photographic panorama St. Ives and Falmouth; plus measured drawing of a Cornish Beam engine, 1959.

Maps – Ordnance Survey, first edition group of five maps, all sectioned and linen backed, covering parts of Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Somerset and Devon,

Political – Autograph – Spencer Perceval document signed as Chancellor of the Exchequer addressed to the Treasurer of the Ordnance dated April 1807 , regarding Joseph Hunt, Treasurer and Paymaster of the Ordnance who was to receive £40 per year salary, 1.5pp folio, also signed by William Sturges Bourne, Lord of the Treasury and Scott Titchfield. Document in fine condition The signature of Spencer Perceval is the rarest and most sought after of all the British Prime Minister signatures, on account of the fact that he was the only Prime Minister to be assassinated in office, when he was shot dead in 1812

An Early 19th Century Flintlock Service Pistol by J Harding & Son, London, the 21.5cm steel barrel with Borough of London Ordnance marks, the barrel tang engraved with foliage, the signed lock plate with ordnance marks and slide safety, walnut full stock with brass furniture and bag butt, with wooden ramrod.

An Early 19th Century Percussion Cap Service Pistol, the 15cm steel barrel with Board of Ordnance marks, the lock plate with crowned GR and ordnance mark, slide safety, walnut fullstock with brass furniture, steel lanyard ring and swivel ramrod.

JARROLD AND SONS: COUNTIES OF NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK BASED ON THE ORDNANCE SURVEYS, engrd col’d map circa 1881, fdg bkd onto linen, approx 38 ¾” x 36 ½”, orig cl, ptd paper label, soiled

ORDNANCE SURVEY: NORFOLK, Sheets TF74 and TF84, 1961 reprint, fdg bkd onto linen

A Collection of 18th Century and Later Mining Maps and plans from the North of England, on cloth and paper, including a quantity of Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Maps Of Sheffield And Neighbourhood, two sheets, published 1840-1841, spliced and linen-backed, brown cloth covers in a gilt stamped slipcase, approx 70 cm x 120 cms. with ordnance office stamp dated 1851; with two books relating to Derbyshire. (3)

Pair: Captain & Quarter-Master W. Cox, Army Ordnance Department South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (Condr., Ord. Store Dept.); Ashanti Star 1896, edge bruise and light contact marks to first, otherwise very fine or better and a rare combination of awards (2) £700-900 William Cox was born in Ludlow, Shropshire in May 1851 and enlisted in London in August 1870. His subsequent overseas postings were to South Africa, November 1876 to December 1888; Jamaica, March 1889 to August 1892; and Africa (Gold Coast), November 1895 to March 1896. ‘He served with distinction in the Zulu War of 1877 and 1879, and in the Ashanti Expedition of 1895-96, receiving a Medal for the former, and a Star for the latter from the late Queen Victoria. Among his treasured curios was the King of Ashanti’s chair or throne, made of mahogany, seated with leather, and handsomely decorated with gold; and the King’s executioner’s stool or block. The Captain had suffered from attacks of intermittent malarial fever, from which he suffered in Ashanti. For his services in the mobilisation of the troops for South Africa for the war of 1899-1901, Captain Cox was personally thanked by the Duke of Connaught, the late Earl of Airlie, General Stockton and General Douglas’ (local newspaper obituary notice refers). Having been commissioned back in June 1879, Cox was placed on the Retired List in the rank of Captain retired in April 1902, and he died in Ash, Frimley on 13 August 1908, after being stung by a ‘red headed fly ‘whilst fishing in the Basingstoke Canal - a carbuncle formed on his neck and blood poisoning set in causing his death; sold with further research.

Three: Corporal E. Thompson, Army Ordnance Corps Ashanti Star 1896; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (2545 Serjt., A.O.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2343 Corpl., A.O.C.), contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise generally very fine and scarce (3) £500-600 Edwin (Thomas) Thompson was born in Woolwich and enlisted in the Ordnance Store Corps in September 1886, aged 19 years. Appointed 2nd Corporal in January 1893, he was present in the Ashanti Expedition from November 1895 until March 1896, when re-embarked for the U.K. Advanced to Corporal in January 1899, Thompson next witnessed active service out in South Africa, where he served from October 1899 until April 1902, and gained further advancement to Sergeant in March 1900. However, following an incident at Cork Harbour in October 1904, he was reduced to Corporal, in which rank he was finally discharged in September 1907; sold with research.

Pair: Store Sergeant W. Williams, Ordnance Department, late Rifle Brigade India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (576 Sergt. W. Williams, 3d Bn. Rif. Bde.) official correction to rank; Tibet 1903-04, no clasp, silver issue (Store Sergt. W. Williams, Ordce. Deptt.) good very fine (2) £350-400.

Four: Conductor T. S. Croce, Indian Ordnance Department, late Royal Field Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (23449 Tptr., R.F.A.) rank re-impressed; British War and Victory Medals (S-Serjt., I.O.D.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (Staff Serjt, I.OD.) first with some edge bruising, very fine and better (4) £140-180 Tom Seymour Croce was born in Dublin. A Telegraph Messenger by occupation, he attested for the Royal Artillery at Woolwich on 25 October 1897, aged 15 years, 6 months. He served initially as a Boy Trumpeter until November 1899 when he was appointed a Trumpeter. With the R.F.A. he served in South Africa, December 1899-October 1901 and was then posted to India, October 1901-June 1918, being ranked as a Gunner in December 1903 and attaining the rank of Serjeant in November 1908. He was transferred as a Staff Serjeant to the I.O.D. in September 1911 and attained the rank of Conductor in April 1923. Conductor Croce died at Netley Hospital on 27 March 1930. Sold with 14 sheets of copied service papers.

A Second World War M.B.E. group of five awarded to Major (Bimbashi) Andrew Cameron Robertson, Sudan Defence Force The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, cross separated from crown suspension; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, all unnamed as issued, mounted court style, good very fine except where stated (5) £60-80 M.B.E. London Gazette 30 December 1941. ‘El Bimbashi, Sudan Defence Force’. Recommendation states: ‘Bimbashi Andrew Cameron Robertson, M.T., S.D.F. attached to S.& O. Dept., S.G.’ [Motor Transport, Sudan Defence Force attached to Stores and Ordnance, Sudan Government]. ‘This officer has rendered meritorious service during the last 6 months having been in entire charge of the M.T. Stores (American type) of all the Imperial forces in the field (Sudan command). With no other officer to assist him and with only a mixed Sudanese and Indian Staff he has earned for his work in this sphere the personal thanks of both Divisional commanders and his services have been of a high order and great value. He was also responsible for the uncasing and preparation and equipping and testing and issue of all new and repaired American type vehicles, and the supply of tyres, parts and accessories for their maintainance by units and advanced repair workshops in the field - British and Indian Armies, S.D.F., K.A.R., W.A.F., S. African, Free French and Belgian, Ethiopian patriotic forces included’. Recommended by the Director of Stores and Ordnance, Sudan Government. M.I.D. London Gazette 13 January 1941 ‘Capt. (temp. Maj.) A. C. Robertson, M.B.E. [General List]’ Sold with W.W.2 medal card forwarding box addressed to ‘Major A. C. Robertson, Tulliemet, Ballinluig, Perthshire, Scotland’, together with forwarding slip. .

Family group: The rare and important Second World War St. Nazaire raid D.S.M. group of seven awarded to Chief Engine Room Artificer Harry Howard, Royal Navy, who was responsible for scuttling H.M.S. Campbeltown after she had rammed the dock gate - and fortunate indeed to make his escape in M.G.B. 314 - a story related by him under the title ‘Stand by to Ram ‘in Carl Olsson’s wartime publication From Hell to Breakfast Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (M. 31976 H. Howard, C.E.R.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (M. 31976 Act. E.R.A. 4, R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage bust (M. 31976 E.R.A. 1, H.M.S. Cairo), together with Boston War Heroes Day Presentation Gold Medal (Mayor Maurice J. Tobin), 10-carat, dated 10 July 1942, the reverse engraved, ‘Harry Howard’, and Mayor of Salt Lake City Presentation Key, dated 23 June 1942, this engraved ‘Chief Artificer Harry Howard’, minor official correction to number on the second, the earlier awards a little polished, but otherwise very fine and better The Second World War campaign group of three awarded to his brother Sergeant J. A. Howard, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, who was taken P.O.W. at Dunkirk 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., Territorial (7599542 Sjt., R.A.O.C.), these extremely fine (12) £20,000-25,000() Only 24 Distinguished Service Medals were awarded for the St. Nazaire raid, the vast majority to men of Coastal Forces, Howard’s award being one of three to the Campbeltown. D.S.M. London Gazette 21 May 1942: ‘For great gallantry, daring and skill in the attack on the German naval base at St. Nazaire.’ The overall movements and events aboard H.M.S. Campbeltown have largely been related in the footnote to the D.S.C. awarded to Warrant Engineer W. H. Locke (see Lot 1197), but luckily for posterity’s sake Harry Howard, a native of Sheffield, later published his own account of the raid in Carl Ollson’s wartime anthology From Hell to Breakfast, from which the following extracts have been taken: ‘At about 1.20 the Engineer Officer, who had been popping up and down from the deck, came to see me in the engine-room and said, ‘Only about ten minutes more. ‘I went into the stokehold for a last look round where men were watching the clock and handling the fuel controls. It was silent here except for the droning of the feed pumps and the roar of the oil burners. I made sure every man knew the handhold he was to cling to when the ‘Stand by to Ram ‘order came through .. By now the ship was shaking, and above the whine of the engines I could hear the sound of gun-fire. In the same instant the telegraph rang full steam ahead, and we pushed in every ounce of steam pressure we had. The old Campbeltown began to tremble till all the footplates were quivering and rattling. ‘Now for it, ‘I thought. My mouth felt a bit dry. Another minute or so, and then the loud speaker blared from the bridge - ‘Stand by to Ram! ‘Each man threw himself at his selected handhold, some at steel ladder rungs, others clasping stanchions. In a flickering glimpse I saw the Engineer Officer wedging his body against one of the side ribs in the engine-room, and then I sprang at the big wheel I had picked. But she struck even as I was leaping, and I was flung a full six yards down the engine-room, hitting a Chief Engineer full in the stomach and nearly knocking him out. All the lights went out, leaving only the blue glimmer of emergency lamps. There was an instant stillness, except for the hell that was now breaking loose on deck. The loud speaker called again: ‘Abandon ship! ‘That was not the order we expected. We had been told that if we jammed the gate properly, the order would be: ‘Finished with main engines. ‘With a sick feeling of disappointment I thought at first we had bounced off the gates (Nobody could know, when we planned this party, whether in fact that might not happen. The specially strengthened bows of the Campbeltown might have given way under the impact). So stopping some of the men who were leaving the stokehold, in case there might have been a slip-up in the order and we might after all still want steam, I rushed up on deck to the bridge to find the Captain. He told me: ‘Get your men up and away to hell out of it. ‘And as I looked forward I saw that I needn’t have asked about that order. The Campbeltown was jammed slap into the lock-gate, nearly at the point where it joined the dock wall. Her bows were buried inside the gate, and she was right on the place aimed for on the sketch plan at the conference two days before. As a piece of masterly navigation on the part of the Captain that was the most wonderful thing I have ever seen in all my years at sea. I had no time to look at more or notice what else was going on around me. And there was plenty. The night had gone crazy with flashes and bangs and whistles from flying metal. I just legged it back to the engine-room and said, ‘It’s all right to come up, and you can get ashore all right from the fo’c’sle head. Beat it, everybody. ‘Then I went to do the final job to which I had been assigned. That was to unbolt the condenser inlet covers and to open the inlets, so that even if the explosive charges failed to go off, the Campbeltown would scuttle and block the channel into the dock and perhaps tear away part of the lock gate as well, as she sank. I had picked a young E.R.A. to do this job with me, and we worked by torchlight in the empty engine-room, because all the lights had now gone out. We worked quickly, but the job did not in fact take long, because I had previously loosened and removed many of the bolts. As I passed through the engine-room to go on deck for the last time I saw a young electrician busy with screwdriver and torch making some adjustments to the switchboard controlling the explosive fuses. He was whistling softly as though he was merely intent on a pleasantly interesting job. I never saw him again .. ‘Back on Campbeltown’s deck, Howard was compelled to get down and crawl amidst bullets and splinters which were rattling against the armour-plate along the rails: ‘It was bright moonlight and there was a vast pandemonium going on. Mixed with the din of their gun-fire I could hear the Campbeltown’s steam escape blowing off .. There were some wounded men being carried along towards the escape ladders and some dead .. Machine-guns were firing tracers towards us from the top of the lock pumping-house. Suddenly the firing stopped as the Commandos got there and wiped out the German crews with grenades .. The fo’c’sle was on fire, but we managed to get ashore by means of one of the bamboo scaling ladders used by the Commandos. I landed on the plank-covered top of the long deep channel slit into the dock wall which was designed to receive the lock gate. I slipped just as I was stepping off on to the level ground, and some ratings caught me. I could see the glare of the searchlights and gun-flashes that they were holding up a badly wounded Commando officer in kilts, and were getting him to rescue boats .. It is a sight I shall always remember; to see the dark forms of the dead and wounded men being carried aloft on the shoulders of their comrades, silhouetted against the glare of burning buildings and explosions, towards the rescue boats .. I had covered about 200 yards when we were challenged near the corner of some buildings. I flicked the answering colour on my signal torch and gave the password. They were two Commandos, placed there as guides to the boat. They had white armbands on, and stood there as calmly as though they were road cops seeing children safely over a school crossing. They waved us on in the right direction. At the boat a young Lieutenant on the bridge was calling out, ‘Come along, come along! ‘and then, ‘Any more for the Skylark? Any more for the Skylark? ‘I checked all my men on boar

New Zealand Meritorious Service Medal, E.VII.R. (No.678 Regt. Serg. Major George J. Parrell, Royal N.Z. Engineers. (1907)) minor contact marks, very fine, rare £800-1000 This is one of the rarest New Zealand awards, with sources variously quoting 6 or 15 as the number of New Zealand Meritorious Service Medals E.VII.R. issues awarded. George John Parrell was born in the Parish of St. Mary's, London on 16 February 1857. By occupation a Clerk, he enlisted in the Royal Engineers at Westminster on 4 October 1873 and was assigned the service number 12261. He was first posted to Chatham, Kent to carry out his initial training. He received his first Good Conduct Badge after two years service, and was promoted to Lance-Corporal on 29 December 1874, reverting to the rank of Sapper on 20 January 1877. He was posted to Bermuda on 1 November 1877 where he was to spend the next eight years of service, was promoted again to Lance-Corporal on 25 March 1878, gained his second Good Conduct Badge on 6 October 1879, and was promoted to Corporal on 1 July 1880 and Sergeant on 1 March 1885. He also re-engaged while in Bermuda to complete 21 years of service. In December 1885 he and his family took passage to England where he was on home service for about 15 months before returning to Bermuda on 7 April 1887, continuing to serve there for just over a further five years. He was promoted to Company Sergeant-Major, Foreman of Works, and Sergeant-Major, Storekeeper on 26 April 1887. George Parrell was again promoted, to Quarter Master Sergeant, on 1 April 1892 and in June the same year, he and his family returned to England where he was awarded his British Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Also in 1892 Q.M.S. Parrell passed a Submarine Mining Course with a ‘superior’ pass. His last appointment in the British Army appears to have been as a Stores Accountant with the rank of Company Sergeant-Major, Foreman of Works and on 5 October 1893 he was discharged from the Coastal Battalion, Royal Engineers at the expiry of his term of service. As a Pensioner he completed a Submarine Mining Instructor's Course at H.M.S. Vernon on 31 May 1895 and almost immediately took passage with his family to New Zealand on the S.S. Tainui, which left London on 13 June 1895. Sergeant-Major Parrell was enlisted in the New Zealand Permanent Militia as a Submarine Instructor with effect from 13 July 1895, signing his attestation papers at the Permanent Force Depot at Wellington on 10 September 1895. He joined the Torpedo Corps but a few months later transferred to No. 2 Service Company as by then the Torpedo Corps had been disbanded. He was promoted to Regimental Sergeant-Major on 14 October 1898. In 1903, General Orders reported the re-engagement of No. 678 Regimental Sergeant-Major George John Parrell (late Royal Engineers) as Submarine Mining Instructor to the Royal New Zealand Engineers for a period of one year from 1 August 1903. The application for the award of his Meritorious Service Medal was dated 29 May 1907 and the approval dated 14 June and recorded in General Orders 212 of 6th July of the same year. In October 1907, R.S.M. Parrell was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Army Artillery as the R.N.Z.E. had been absorbed in to the Electric Section of the R.N.Z.A. He was appointed Engineer Store Accountant on 17 June 1913 and granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant. This was regularised by the gazetting of the commissioned rank. He was further promoted Quartermaster and Honorary Lieutenant on 17 June 1917. In the meantime he transferred to the New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps on 1 April 1917 on the establishment of that Corps, and was graded Ordnance Officer 3rd Class with rank of Captain and held the appointment of Inspector of Engineers, Electric Light and Defence Vessels Stores. Captain Parrell retired on 30 September 1919 and died in Auckland on 22 July 1936. His British Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal is known to exist and is named to ‘C.S.M. (F. of W.), R. E.’ [Company Sergeant Major (Foreman of Works) Royal Engineers]. With about 30 pages of records from his Defence Force File, New Zealand Gazettes, and General Orders including correspondence concerning his recruitment from England.

Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, New Zealand (2/816 WOI H. B. Bernard, RAE(P)) nearly extremely fine £100-140 An anomalous award of an Army L.S. &. G.C. Medal with ‘New Zealand’ suspension to a member of the Australian military. Army L.S. & G.C. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 30 July 1936. ‘997 Staff Sgt. H. B. Bernard, R. Aust. Engrs.’ Clasp to the Army L.S. & G.C. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 29 May 1952. ‘2/816 W.O. I Henry Bernard Bernard, R. Austr. Engrs. (Perm.)’. Commonwealth of Australia Meritorious Service Medal Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 14 August 1945. ‘NP997 W.O. (Cl.I) Henry Bernard Bernard, R. Aust. Engrs. (Perm.)’. Henry Bernard Bernard was born on 25 December 1890 in London, England. He arrived in Australia in November 1909 aboard the Orsova together with his parents and siblings. A Motor-Fitter by occupation, he enlisted in to the Permanent Military Forces at George's Head on 10 June 1912 and was posted as a Sapper to Fortress Engineers. He was sent to the Royal Military College, Duntroon on 17 April 1916 and thereafter proceeded through the ranks, various postings and re-enlistments until he became Warrant Officer Class One on 1 April 1941. He was assigned to the Sydney Fixed Defences in November 1941. Transferred to the Water Transport Group in February 1943, he was involved in operations in the South West Pacific against the Japanese in the Milne Bay area of Papua New Guinea with postings to various Small Ships Companies and Water Transport Sections before being transferred to the School of Military Engineering, Liverpool on 18 November 1945, to Sydney Fixed Defences in January 1946, to the Interim Army in July 1947, to the Army Vessel Crusader, September 1947-February 1948, from where he was posted to 5th Base Ordnance Depot of the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps. He re-enlisted in to the Australian Regular Army on 14 May 1949 and was discharged as an Honorary Lieutenant on the Retired List on 26 December 1950, aged 60 years and after service of 38.5 years. In addition to the award of the Australian Long Service and Good Conduct Medal and the Australian Meritorious Service Medal, Harry Bernard Bernard was awarded the 1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal and Australian Service Medal, and the Return form Active Service Badge. Sold with copied research.

New Zealand L.S. & G.C., V.R. (No.205 Sergt. Major Robert G. V. Parker, No.1 Service Coy. N.Z.P.M. (1899)) replacement suspension rod, extremely fine, rare £400-500 Just 49 awards were made between 9 July 1898 and 8 September 1903. Robert Parker was born at Headley, Hampshire on 3 October 1855. On 13 June 1876 he married Susannah Mary Dove at Kingston on Thames, and journeyed to the United States of America where his first child, Robert Vining, was born on 2 September 1878 near Worthington, Nobles County, Minnesota. He and his family returned to England where he enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery, January 1879-August 1883. After taking his discharge by purchase he returned to Worthington, Minnesota. Some time afterwards he moved to New Zealand and on 6 May 1885 he attested as a 3rd Class Constable in the Armed Constabulary where he was employed in training men for the artillery. Shortly after his induction he was transferred to Wellington and was appointed Sergeant Major and Instructor and was involved in mounting the first eight-inch breach loading gun and three six-inch guns. When the Defence Act was passed in 1886, separating the military and police functions, he was transferred to the Permanent Militia, retaining the same appointment. In December 1889 he transferred from No.2 (Wellington) Battery to No.4 (Dunedin) Battery. In June 1896 his battery became part of No.1 Company New Zealand Permanent Force. The award of his L.S. & G.C. Medal was approved on 8 November 1899. After the reorganisation of 1892, he was listed as serving in the Royal New Zealand Artillery. In 1904, Parker was recommended for the award of the Meritorious Service Medal and this was presented to him in Dunedin in early 1905 at the Central Battery. On 1 April 1905, Parker was promoted to Regimental Sergeant-Major and on 10 October 1907 was advanced to 2nd Class Master Gunner (Warrant Officer). On 1 June 1911, Warrant Offcer Parker was posted to the Wellington Detachment, Gunnery Section and was permitted to extend his service until 60 years of age. He was appointed Artillery Store Accountant on 17 June 1913 and was later promoted to Honorary Lieutenant with effect from that date; six months later he was posted to Alexandra Barracks Depot, Buckle Street, Wellington. He was promoted to Honorary Captain on 9 March 1917. Parker transferred to the New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps when it was established on 1 April 1917. Captain R.G.V. Parker, Ordnance Officer 3rd Class, was posted to the Retired List with the honorary rank of Major on 30 September 1919. He retired firstly to his home at 47 The Parade, Island Bay, Wellington, and in 1923 he moved to 17 Princess Street, Musselburgh, Dunedin but later moved to Hamilton where he was still residing in 1929. Sold with copied research.

Boyle (J.R.) The Early History of the Town and Port of Hedon, in the East Riding of the County of York, 1895, frontis, plates, t.e.g., half morocco; Sheard (Michael) Records of Batley, 1894, folding maps, plates, cloth; Index to the Ordnance Survey Map of Yorkshire, nd., engraved linen backed folding map in 36 sections, 4 miles to the inch; with four related volumes (7)

Ordnance Survey several hundred flat sheet Ordnance Survey maps of Cumberland and Westmorland, c1960s-1970s, scale 1:2500, single and double sized sheets

Blackmore, H.L., The Armouries of the Tower of London, The Ordnance, HMSO1976; Blackmore, Howard L., A dictionary of London gunmakers 1350-1850, 1986; Brewis, W. Parker, F.S.A., The Bronze Sword in Great Britain, Frederick Hall for the Society of Antiquaries of London 1924; Byam, Michele, Arms & Armour, 1988; Davidson, H.R. Ellis, The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England, 1962; De Gheyn, Jacob, The Exercise of Arms (reprint); Duffy, Christopher, Siege Warfare, The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660, 1979; Elliott and Snowdon Ltd, Autumn exhibition of arms and armour Elliott and Snowdon Limited, October 74; Evans, R.D.C., The Plug Bayonet, 2002; France, John, Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300, 1999; Godoy, Jose-A, and Leydi, Silvio, PARURES TRIOMPHALES Le manierisme dans l'art de l'armure italienne, 2003(?); Laking, Guy Francis, M.V.O., F.S.A., Wallace Collection Catalogues, Oriental Arms and Armour, HMSO 1974 (?); Laking, Sir Guy Francis, Bart, A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries and Cripps-Day, Francis Henry, A Record of Armour Sales 1881-1924, 2000 (6 volumes); Mann, James G., M.A., F.S.A. Wallace Collection Catalogues, European Arms and Armour (Part III) (Gallery V), HMSO 1945; Marquard, Klaus, Eight Centuries of European Knives, Forks and Spoons, 1997; Melegari, Vezio, The Great Military Sieges, 1972; Messenger, Charles, History of the British Army, 1997; Neal, W. Keith and Back, D.H.L., British Gunmakers Messrs Griffin & Tow and W. Bailes 1749-1790, 1989; Neal, W. keith and Back, D.H.L., The Mantons: Gunmakers, 1967; Nicolle, David, Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350, Western Europe and the Crusader States, 1999; Nicolle, David, Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350, Islam, Eastern Europe and Asia, 1999; Nicolle, David, Medieval Warfare Source Book, Christian Europe and its Neighbours, 1998; Nicolle, David, Medieval Warfare Source Book, Warfare in Western Christendom, 1999; Norman, A.V.B., B.A., F.S.A., F.S.A. (Scot), Wallace Collection Catalogues, European Arms and Armour Supplement, HMSO 1986; Peterson, Harold L., The book of the gun, 1970; Revereseau, Jean-Pierre, Armes et armures de la Couronne AU MUSEE DE L'ARMEE, 2004; Ricketts, Howard, Firearms, 1972; Robards, Brooks, The Medieval Knight at War, 1997; Rodgers, William Ledyard, Naval Warfare Under Oars, 4th to 6th Centuries, 1967; Schick, I.T., Battledress, The Uniforms of the World's Great Armies 1700 to the present, 1993; Spiteri, Stephen C., Armoury of the Knights, 2003; Stead, I.M., British Iron Age Swords and Scabbards, 2006; Thomas, Brunos, and Gamber, Ortwin, and Schedelmann, Hans, Arms and Armour, Masterpieces by European Craftsmen from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century, 1964; Wagner, Eduard, Medieval Costume, Armour and Weapons, 2000; Wallace Collection Catalogues, European Arms and Armour (Part I) (Gallery VII), HMSO 1924; Wilson, Frederick, The World's Great Guns, 1983

A DUTCH COLONIAL FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY with swamped steel barrel strongly swelling and fluted towards the muzzle, inlaid with fine brass linear patterns and a central foliate panel, English regulation lock stamped with 'GR' crowned, Tower and with Ordnance mark, hardwood full stock (cracks and repairs), boldly carved with flowers on the right of the butt, brass regulation mounts and a pair of steel sling swivels (ramrod and fore-end cap missing) 112cm; 44 1/8in

A .650 CALIBRE 1756 PATTERN LIGHT DRAGOON PISTOL AND A FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, CIRCA 1800 the first with 9in barrel, regulation lock (top-jaw missing), walnut full stock with ordnance stamp, regulation brass mounts including pommel engraved 'SG' and '24'; the second with tapering barrel struck with London proof marks at the breech, engraved flat lock, figured walnut full stock, and later brass trigger-guard engraved with a bouquet (both with surface rust and later ramrods) the first: 38.5cm; 15 1/8in (2)

A collection of silver and medal Athletic medals Including a cased NAAFI for the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, another cased with a satin finish, circa 1920's/30's (11)

A collection of Military badges and buttons For the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, and Berkhidmat Kapada Semura Malaysian regiment, including naval buttons and badges, two bosun whistles and a small collection of coins (a parcel)

A Simmons & Sons Watlington property auction catalogue 1910, two local Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, and an Oxford and District Footpaths, Bridlepaths and Commons Preservation Society map

A Brass Box Sextant by L.Casella, Maker to the Admiralty & Ordnance, London, the silvered scale and vernier with magnified viewing arm, in a stitched leather case.

Groome, F.H. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland. London, [no date], new edition, 8vo, 6 volumes, 36 photographic plates, 38 maps and town plans, original decorative blue cloth gilt some slight rubbing to edges, very clean interiors (6)

James, Sir Henry Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Scotland selected by Sir William Gibson-Craig. Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office, 1868-72, large folio, 3 volumes, additional titles with hand-coloured vignettes heightened with gold, plates, original blue morocco-backed cloth, bindings worn & soiled, contents clean; [Public records] Inquisitionum ad capellam domini regis retornatarum, quae in publicis archivs Scotiae adhuc servantur, 1811-16, 3 volumes, folio, contemporary half calf, worn and scraped, one title loose, occasional spotting (6)

An Inter. Corps Representative Football Match programme featuring the Busby Babes trio of Duncan Edwards, Eddie Coleman and David Pegg, Royal Army Ordnance Corps v Royal Corp of Signals, played at the R.A.O.C. Sports Ground, undated. Duncan Edwards began his compulsory two year stint of National Service after returning from England’s 1955 end of season continental tour. He was allowed to leave his station to play for Manchester United, and played a large number of army games as well. In one season he played nearly 100 matches as a consequence. His Busby Babes team-mates Coleman and Pegg were playing for the opposition, the Royal Corps of Signals, on this day. All of Edwards’s Ordnance Corps team-mates were registered players at Football League clubs, F. Reed (Charlton), R. Morris (Crewe), F. Ball (Coventry), Neale & T Smith & Walmsley (Birmingham), W. Tulip (Newcastle), C. Skinner & K Simcoe (Forest) and F. Kerrigan (Swansea).

A collection of eleven Military Edition Ordnance Survey maps, showing airfields etc, 1930s -1938, 1-12, lacking sheet 5

An Ordnance survey map of the Aldershot Command, 1932, War Office map of North West Europe 1915 and Daily Express map of Europe WW11 (3)

A .65 FLINTLOCK VOLUNTEER BAKER RIFLE, circa 1820, with 30 1/2in. sighted barrel (cleaned bright) rifled with seven grooves and signed 'LONDON' at the breech, bayonet-bar on the right side of the muzzle, border engraved rounded lock (marking removed), walnut three-quarter stock (fore-end repaired, some bruising) with some Ordnance inspection marks behind the trigger-guard and in the ramrod channel, raised cheek-piece, brass mounts, rear iron sling mount (front mount missing), and later iron ramrod, Tower private proof marks.

A .653 PERCUSSION YEOMANRY CAVALRY CARBINE OF 1844, the lock dated '1845', with 20in. tapering sighted barrel, border engraved lock with 'VR' cypher and marked 'TOWER 1845', nipple-guard on brass suspension chain, walnut three-quarter stock (some bruising), brass mounts, iron saddle-bar and suspension ring, and stirrup ramrod, Ordnance inspection marks.