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Click here to subscribeA .577 'P/56' PERCUSSION CAVALRY CARBINE, dated '1857', with 21in. sighted barrel rifled with three grooves, border engraved dated lock with 'VR' cypher and marked 'TOWER', walnut three-quarter stock (fore-end chipped, some cracks), brass mounts, iron saddle-bar and suspension ring, and iron stirrup ramrod, Ordnance inspection marks.
A FINE .75 P/42 PERCUSSION LANCERS PISTOL, dated '1845', 15 1/4in. overall, with 9in. blued barrel, blued tang, border engraved case-hardened dated lock marked 'TOWER' and with 'VR' cypher, walnut three-quarter stock marked 'WHEELER', brass mounts, stirrup ramrod, and much original finish, numerous Ordnance inspection marks and obsolete / sold out of service mark.
Four: Serjeant G. F. Huckle, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, a prisoner-of-war of the Germans 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, with Second Award Bar (6642447 Sjt., K.R.R.C.); together with ‘56th (1st London) Division T.A. Miniature Range’ Medal, bronze, unnamed, in case of issue, extremely fine (5) £120-160 George Frank Huckle enlisted in 1931. Serving with the K.R.R.C. he was captured in North Africa and spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans held in the camp at Lamsdorf. After the war he was repatriated and at the time of his demobilization, was serving with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. sold with original Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Soldier’s Release Book; National Identity Card; medal forwarding slip; German P.O.W. camp money (5 notes); Certificate of Transfer to the Army Reserve; Medical Card; together with cloth shoulder badges, riband bar etc. £120-£160
Victory Medal 1914-19 (2 Lieut. A. L. Salter) very fine £40-50 Albert Leonard Salter was born in Bath on 2 November 1894 and was educated at Bath Technical and City Secondary School. Employed as a Clerk in the Rates Department, in Bath Town Hall, he enlisted into Army Ordnance Corps on 27 October 1915. on 30 October 1917 he was granted a commission in the 3rd Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Special Reserve), but by 21 March 1918 he was attached to the 2/6th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment. On that date the Germans launched their great ‘Spring Offensive’. The 2/6th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment was one of the battalions in the Hirondelle Valley fighting desperately around Bullecourt. Some units were completely overrun and destroyed, others fought stubbornly to save the village. The offensive lasted a month and the total British casualties were 177,739 killed, wounded and missing. One of those reported missing (later killed in action) was 2nd Lieutenant Salter. Having no known grave his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. Sold with copied service papers, including those from his father requesting further information. £40-£50
Five: Lieutenant-Colonel B. M. Fuller, Army Ordnance Department, late Dorsetshire Regiment and Oxfordshire Imperial Yeomanry queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (7968 Pte., 40th Coy. 10th Impl. Yeo.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt., Dorset Rgt.); 1914 Star (Capt., A.O.D.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.) slight contact marks, very fine and better (5) £300-360 M.I.D. London Gazette 12 January 1918 & 14 June 1918. brian Maitland Fuller was born in Belfast. A Clerk by occupation, he attested for short service with the Imperial Yeomanry at Oxford, aged 23 years, having previously served in the 7th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Regiment. With the Oxfordshire Yeomanry he served in South Africa from 3 February, receiving a commission on 25 October 1900. He served as a Railway Staff Officer, 23 October 1900-23 July 1901. Appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Dorset Regiment in June 1901, he was advanced to Lieutenant in January 1904 and Captain in May 1909. Fuller transferred to the Army Ordnance Department in December 1909. In the Great War he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 20 September 1914; served in Egypt and with the E.E.F., 31 January 1916-24 May 1918, and then returned to France again, 4 July-11 November 1918. He was advanced to Temporary Major in April 1915; Major in September 1915; Acting Lieutenant-Colonel during October 1917-November 1919 and July 1920-May 1922, being promoted to that rank in October 1928. Lieutenant-Colonel Fuller retired from the Army on 26 August 1931. sold with copied service papers, gazette entries and other research. £300-£360
Five: Private W. J. Carr, Army Ordnance Corps, late Imperial Yeomanry queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (32584 Corpl., 101st Coy. Imp. Yeo.); 1914-15 Star (O4998 Pte., A.O.C.); British War and Victory Medals (O4998 Pte., A.O.C.); together with a French, Medaille Militaire, silver, this lacking any enamel, very fine (5) £140-180 Medaille Militaire not confirmed to Carr. £140-£180
Five: Captain E. G. Cordwell, Indian Ordnance Department, late Dorsetshire Regiment queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (4254 Cpl., Dorset Rgt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (4254 Serjt., Dorset Regt.); British War Medal 1914-20 (S-Condr., I.O.D.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (Sub-Condr., I.O.D.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (Store-Serjt., Indian Ordce. Deptt.), last with official correction to unit, edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (5) £260-300 Edwin George Cordwell was born in Chatham, Kent. A Tailor by occupation, he attested for service with the Dorsetshire Regiment at Belfast on 1 December 1893, aged 15 years, 11 months. With the 2nd Battalion Dorset Regiment he served in Gibraltar, October 1896-January 1897; Malta, January 1897-February 1899, and South Africa, October 1899-October 1902. In February 1909, having attained the rank of Sergeant with the Dorsets, he was placed on the Supernumerary List and was employed by the Ordnance Department. In July 1907 he was transferred to the Indian Unattached List for employment as a Store-Sergeant in the Indian Ordnance Department. With the I.O.D. he was promoted to Sub-Conductor in January 1918 and Conductor in August 1922 and served in South Persia, November 1918-September 1919. He was promoted to Assistant Commissary and Lieutenant in November 1929 and Captain and Deputy Commissary in November 1932. Captain Cordwell retired on 31 December 1932. Sold with copied service papers and m.i.c. £260-£300
Five: Warrant Officer Class 2 W. L. Monarch, Royal Engineers and Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (13069248 W.O. Cl.2, R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (13069248 W.O. Cl. 2, R.A.O.C.), mounted as worn, some contact marks, very fine and better (5) £100-120 £100-£120
Pair: Private K. M. Scaife, Royal Army Ordnance Corps gulf 1990-91, 1 clasp, 16 Jan to 28 Feb 1991 (24780628 Pte., RAOC), mounted as worn, with named card box of issue; Kuwait, Liberation of Kuwait 1991, 4th Grade, in case and named card slip box of issue, extremely fine (2) £160-200 £160-£200
Sold by Order of the Family an outstanding Second World War bomb disposal George Cross group of eight awarded to Brigadier W. M. Eastman, Royal Army Ordnance Corps: with little relevant training, Eastman and a fellow officer rendered safe some 275 UXBs on Malta in 1940 - ‘Their courage was beyond all praise and it was a miracle that they both remained alive’ George Cross (Lieut. William Marsden Eastman, R.A.O.C., 24th December 1940); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1953; Jubilee 1977, mounted court-style as worn, lacquered, very fine and bettter (8) £15000-20000 g.C. London Gazette 24 December 1940: ‘For most conspicuous gallantry in carrying out very hazardous work.’ The original recommendation - written in conjunction with that for fellow R.A.O.C. officer, Captain R. L. J. Jones - states: ‘On various dates Lieutenant Eastman, with Captain R. L. J. Jones, R.A.O.C., worked under dangerous and trying conditions and performed acts of considerable gallantry in dealing with large numbers of various unexploded bombs, some of which were in a highly dangerous state and of the German delay type. on one occasion, these officers showed particular gallantry in dealing with an 1100lb. German bomb. Two attempts were made to explode this bomb but it failed to detonate; at the third attempt when it was in a most dangerous state, they succeeded in detonating it. on a second occasion, these officers, assisted by a Master Rigger of H.M. Dockyard, succeeded in removing a 400lb. high explosive Italian unexploded bomb which had been under water for a week in a 20ft. deep well inside a house. This bomb, fused at both ends, was in a dangerous state. It had to be raised to the ground floor by means of a gin, tackle, sling and ropes. This operation was doubly dangerous, as: (a) There was a possibility of the sling slipping while the bomb was being hauled up and (b) The bomb was two and half ft. long, the mouth of the well three ft. one inch wide, and for safety the bomb had to be kept horizontal, if possible, and pulled up thus. Lieutenant Eastman assisted the Master Rigger, guided the bomb from the floor of the well, and Captain Jones went to the top to guide it through the opening. They succeeded in getting the bomb out although there was only a six inch clearance as it came through the mouth of the well.’ William Marsden ‘Bill’ Eastman was born in Brentford in October 1911 and was educated at Uppingham and Cambridge University, but had to leave the latter seat of learning on his father’s death, in order to take over the family dyeing and dry-cleaning business. And it was as a result of his knowledge of chemicals drawn from that business that he was recommended for a commission in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on volunteering shortly before the outbreak of hostilities. Having then attended the Inspecting Ordnance Officer’s course at Bramley, he was embarked for Malta in March 1940. Subsequent events are best summarised by Brigadier Sir John Smyth, V.C., in The Story of the George Cross: ‘At this period of the war in Malta, no expert Royal Engineer Bomb Disposal units had been formed and the job of attending to unexploded bombs and mines dropped on the Island had to be handled by the R.A.O.C. - in fact Jephson Jones and Eastman. They had no great special equipment, no trained staff and very little knowledge of the mechanism of German and Italian missiles. They just had to learn as they went along. they were told that they would have to deal with all unexploded bombs and mines which fell on the Island except those which dropped in the dockyard area and on airfields, which were dealt with by the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. No one imagined - or at any rate no one in Malta had imagined - that Malta would become such a target for the venom, first of the Italian Air Force and then of the Germans. But between 10 June and mid-November 1940, when their job was taken over by a properly constituted and trained R.E. Bomb Disposal unit, Jephson Jones and Eastman dealt with some 275 unexploded bombs. Their courage was beyond all praise and it was a miracle that they both remained alive. they were awarded the George Cross on Christmas Eve 1940 and were given a choice of receiving the decoration immediately from the Governor or waiting until they were posted back to the Middle East or the United Kingdom. They both chose the latter and were invested together by the King at Buckingham Palace in December 1944.’ A number of anecdotes survive from Eastman’s hair-raising sojourn in Malta, one of them recounting the occasion he worked in his shirt-sleeves on a hot day as a UXB was dug out, but then donned his tunic and Sam Browne before returning to diffuse it - when asked why by an onlooker, he replied, ‘If I have to die, I might as well die decent’; while another describes the occasion he journeyed to a UXB site on a motorbike, with his girlfriend, Yvonne Vassallo, along for the ride - she unhesitatingly accepted his invitation to sit on the UXB and steady it as he went about his perilous work! eastman was posted to G.H.Q., Cairo as Chief Ordnance Officer in 1942, but not before carrying out further gallant deeds, a case in point being his ‘clearance’ - over three days - of the valuable cargo of ammunition, kerosene and aviation fuel aboard the merchantman Talabot, which ship was eventually sunk at her moorings in Marsaxlokk harbour; so, too, on a later occasion, his clearance of a cargo of ‘infamous Dutch Anti-tank Mines’ from the holds of no less than seven ships, all the while conscious of the fact a mere 18-inch drop would set-off their hyper-sensitive detonators. remaining in the Regular Army after the War, he was latterly a popular Commandant of the R.A.O.C. Training Centre at Blackdown, and finally retired as Brigadier in 1966. Settling in Malta in the same year, he died at Sliema in April 1980 and is buried in Ta’ Braxia Cemetery; see One Step Further, Those Whose Gallantry Was Rewarded With The George Cross, by Marion Hebblethwaite, for further details. sold with a quantity of original documentation, including four ‘Investiture Day’ photographs and a later portrait, in uniform, as a Brigadier, wearing his Honour & Awards; his Buckingham Palace investiture letter and admittance ticket, dated 12 December 1944; his membership certificate for the Royal Society of St. George, dated 14 May 1942; his M.O.D. retirement letter, dated 19 October 1966; some post-war V.C. & G.C. Association tickets, invitations and programmes, etc., and several newspaper cuttings. £15000-£20000
A Great War D.C.M., M.M. pair awarded to Company Quartermaster Serjeant L. H. Colbran, Army Service Corps distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (M2-079630 C.Q.M. Sjt., A.S.C.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (M2-079630 C.Q.M. Sjt., A.S.C.) slight edge bruising, good very fine (2) £800-1000 D.C.M. London Gazette 3 June 1918; citation, 21 October 1918. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty while in charge of a heavy artillery ration dump during an enemy attack. When ordered to burn his dump, he said he would rather wait to the last minute, and remained for three days after under heavy shell fire, and succeeded in getting all ordnance and other stores away. He issued what rations he had to troops, who, but for him, would have gone without food’. m.M. London Gazette 16 July 1918. lionel Hyde Colbran was born in Bournemouth, Hampshire. A Motor Driver by occupation, he enlisted on 24 April 1915, aged 38 years. With the A.S.C. he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 31 March 1916 and attained the rank of C.Q.M.S. in July 1917. He was mentioned in Haig’s despatch of 26 December 1917 and in 1918 was awarded the D.C.M. and M.M. Colbran was discharged on 12 June 1919. Sold with copied service papers and other research. £800-£1000
New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1847 (Col. Thos. Bernd. Collinson, Ryl. Engrs.) officially impressed naming, toned, extremely fine and probably unique to an Army recipient £1500-2000 Ex Graveson Collection, Glendining March 1989. confirmed on Roll 7681/359 Royal Engineers 'Medals Issued on 25 February 1870', Rank and Name: Colonel Collinson, Thomas Bernard; Rank at the period the Medal was earned: Captain; Record of Service in the Field on which the claim is founded: Engaged against the natives in Cook Straits 1847, Lieut. Col. McCleverty Commanding. Present at the repulse of 400 natives in attack at Wanganui on 19 July 1847.’ Believed to be the only Army recipient of a medal with this date. thomas Bernard Collinson was bom on 18 November 1821, the son of the Rev John Collinson and Amelia King, at Gateshead, County Durham. He entered the Army at the age of 16 years and 8 months in the Cadet Company of the Royal Engineers on 16 June 1838, being promoted Lieutenant in March 1841, Captain in April 1847, Brevet of Major in October 1858, Lieutenant-Colonel in September 1860, Brevet of Colonel in September 1865, Colonel in July 1871, and Hon. Major-General and retired on full pay on 2 August 1873. His service comprised 21 years and 217 days at Home, and 13 years and 195 days Abroad. His Home service included terms at Chatham, Woolwich, on the Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, the Great Exhibition in 1857, and further terms at Woolwich and Chatham, and at Aldershot and Dover. His service abroad included China, New Zealand, Corfu, Malta, two periods in Corfu interspersed with Special Service in Egypt, September to November 1858, and Malta. as a young Lieutenant Collinson left Woolwich on the Honourable East India Company Ship Mount Stewart Elphinstone on 24 May 1843, bound for Hong Kong. There, his principal work was making an exact survey of Hong Kong Island, employing knowledge gained from three years with the Ordnance Survey in England and Ireland. Ambitious to make a perfect map, he utilised the contour system that had recently been developed and adopted in the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, also adding soundings and other nautical information from Admiralty charts by Captain Edward Belcher, R.N., H.M.S. Sulphur (Commander Richard Collinson, R.N., Thomas' brother, also produced Admiralty charts of the China coast). Thomas Collinson was rewarded by the engraving of his map at Ordnance Survey, Southampton, and a compliment from the geographer J. Arrowsmith that it was the most complete map he had ever seen. Collinson's pictorial drawings were of such an admirable standard that Major Aldrich, R.E., used Collinson's work to illustrate his 1846 report on the erection of Ordnance buildings in Hong Kong, published in the Royal Engineer Papers in 1849. on 11 June 1846 Collinson sailed for service in New Zealand embarking in an old teak ship, the Emily Jane (480 tons), bound for Sydney, New South Wales, arriving on 18 August 1846. Upon the continued native attacks in New Zealand it was decided that he had better go, and on 1 September 1846 he departed New South Wales in the aptly named trading brigantine Terror, anchoring at Auckland on 19 September 1846. Collinson recorded in his [unpublished] Journal, ‘left Hong Kong for services in New Zealand. This movement was brought about by some representation at headquarters that I had been long enough in China; and as I had completed the special work I had been sent out for, and as an officer was wanted in New Zealand, there was some reason for it.’ In Auckland he stayed with Captain Henderson, R.A., for several months. The Royal Engineer officer in New Zealand at this time consisted of Captain William Biddlecomb Marlow R.E. and Clerk of Works George Graham R.E., both of whom had recently been exhaustively occupied with Hone Heke's War in the Bay of Islands during 1845-46, and with the Auckland defences. on 22 November 1846, Collinson embarked in the Colonial Brig Victoria to his solitary station in Wellington, where trouble persisted in the Hutt Valley. Ten days after his arrival, on 30 November, he embarked on H.M.S. Calliope, with the whole force, for Wanganui, where Captain Joseph Henry Laye, 58th Regiment, and himself selected a site for a stockade and arranged its construction. In January 1847, having returned to Wellington in a small trading cutter, he organised the construction of barracks, explored the road to Porirua and the Hutt Valley, and returned to Wanganui in February to carry on the construction of defences there. He was present there, on 19 July, in the successful repulse of an attack on the fort, known as the ‘Rutland Stockade’, by some 400 Maori warriors. collinson returned to his station in Wellington in 1848, where duties included a plan for the defence of Wellington, the arrangement and construction of military buildings, and a report on the earthquake that damaged the Paremata Barracks at Porirua. He also made occasional visits to Wanganui and explorations about the local countryside. During his service in New Zealand he made a number of friends in Captain Henderson, R.A., Bishop Selwyn, Sir George Grey, Alfred Domett, William Fox and Tamehana. Dr Andrew Sinclair, the Colonial Secretary and naturalist, had served with his brother Richard on H.M.S. Sulphur. collinson departed New Zealand for Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, in March 1850. During his return to England from May 1850, he wrote two detailed papers on the history of military operations in New Zealand for publication in the Royal Engineer Papers. In April 1869 he advocated in a lecture to the Royal United Service Institute, the formation of one General Military School. In 1889 he edited his brother Sir Richard Collinson's journal for publication: Journal of H.M.S. Enterprise, on the expedition in search of Sir John Franklin's ships by Behring Strait, 1850-55. In 1892-94 he compiled a detailed and illustrated memoir (unpublished) of his work and experiences titled Seven Years Service on the Borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850, Written for the Information and Satisfaction of My Children [Believed to have been sold at auction by Messrs Phillips in November 1970]. major-General Thomas Bernard Collinson died at Ealing, Middlesex, of pneumonia on 1 May 1902. sold with full research including photocopies from Papers Connected with The Duties of the Corps of The Royal Engineers’, Vol. III - New Series, Paper II: Remarks on the Military Operations in New Zealand by Capt. Collinson, Royal Engineers, Parts I, II, and III. £1500-£2000
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Egypt (H. Irvin, R. Arty.) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £600-700 Henry Irvin was born in the Parish of Tremore, County Armagh, and enlisted into the Royal Artillery at the age of eighteen on 21 July 1793. He served 23 years 304 days, including 9 years 70 days as a Sergeant, and was discharged in that rank at Woolwich on 30 April 1817, in consequence of ‘him being unfit for the service from the loss of three fingers of the left hand, the honourable Board of Ordnance have been pleased to place him on the Pension List at one shilling and tenpence halfpenny per diem commencing 1st May 1817.’ Sold with copy discharge papers. £600-£700
India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1887-89, Burma 1889-92 (6802 Pte. J. Blackhurst, 4th Bn. Rif. Brig.) edge bruising, good very fine £140-180 John Henry Blackhurst was born in Handsworth, Birmingham. A Labourer by occupation he attested for the Rifle Brigade on 7 July 1884, aged 19 years. In October 1890 he was transferred to the Ordnance Store Corps. He served in Gibraltar, February 1885-January 1886 and India and Burma, January 1886-January 1890. Blackhurst was transferred to the Army Reserve in July 1891 and discharged on 6 July 1894. Sold with copied service papers and roll extracts. £140-£180
Geological Survey of England and Wales, Cornwall, maps 31 and 32, based on two Ordnance Survey maps of 1813 updated in 1866, London, Edward Stanford, the maps on linen-backed sheets 83 x 151 cm (32 1/2 x 59 1/2 in), 48 sheets, and 66 x 101 cm (26 x 39 1/2 in), 24 sheets, in original slip case 23 x 13 cm (9 x 5 1/4 in)
A good flintlock Eliott Carbine for Light Dragoons, dated 1800, 71.5cm sighted barrel, border engraved bevelled lock stamped with a crown over GR, TOWER across the tail and with Ordnance view and proof stamps, full stocked with regulation brass mounts, the ramrod channel with numerous Ordnance and Stockers marks, the butt dated 1800, steel ramrod and saddle bar.
A Royal Forester's flintlock Light Dragoon service pistol, 25.5cm barrel indistinctly engraved XXXX GD's 4/14, border engraved lock stamped with a crown over GR and TOWER across the tail and with Ordnance mark, full stocked with regulation brass mounts including long eared butt cap and ornate escutcheon engraved 4/14, horn capped wood ramrod. See De Witt Bailey Pattern Dates for British Ordnance Small Arms.
Various. Collection to include The Artist's Repository and Drawing Magazine, vol 2 only, 1786, folding plates (defective); Cycling Map of Cambridge by Philip; Smith's Reduced Ordnance Map of Peterborough and Environs; CLARK (J W) Cambridge 1893; LEHMANN (R C) In Cambridge Courts, and others, most in poor condition (2 boxes)
A .750 CALIBRE INDIA PATTERN FLINTLOCK MUSKET, DATED 1786 of regulation specifications, the breech stamped with proof and Ordnance marks, rounded lock engraved with 'GR' crowned, 'Tower' and stamped with Ordnance mark, the stock stamped with Ordnance marks and the date (worn, indistinct), steel ramrod, and associated socket bayonet 99cm; 39in barrel Inv. no. F051
A .750 CALIBRE INDIA PATTERN FLINTLOCK MUSKET, DATED 1786 of regulation specifications, the breech stamped with proof and Ordnance marks, rounded lock engraved with 'GR' crowned, 'Tower' and stamped with Ordnance mark, the stock stamped with Ordnance marks and the date, steel ramrod, and associated socket bayonet 99cm; 39in barrel Inv. no. F055
A .750 CALIBRE INDIA PATTERN FLINTLOCK MUSKET, DATED 1786 of regulation specifications, the breech stamped with proof and Ordnance marks, rounded lock engraved with 'GR' crowned, 'Tower' and stamped with Ordnance mark, the stock stamped with Ordnance marks and the date (worn, indistinct), steel ramrod, and associated socket bayonet by Wooley 99cm; 39in barrel Inv. no. F056
A .750 CALIBRE INDIA PATTERN FLINTLOCK MUSKET, DATED 1786 with minor differences to the regulation pattern, the breech stamped with proof and Ordnance marks, rounded lock engraved with 'GR' crowned, 'Tower' and stamped with Ordnance mark, the stock stamped with Ordnance marks and the date, brass mounts including side-plate of earlier type, four ramrod-pipes, steel ramrod, and associated socket bayonet by Gill 99cm; 39in barrel Inv. no. F057
A .750 CALIBRE INDIA PATTERN FLINTLOCK MUSKET BY H. NOCK, DATED 1786 of regulation specifications, the breech stamped with proof and Ordnance marks, signed rounded lock, the stock stamped with Ordnance marks and the date, steel ramrod, and associated socket bayonet by Hadley 99cm; 39in barrel Inv. no. F058
A .577 CALIBRE VICTORIAN SNIDER-ENFIELD MARK III TWO-BAND RIFLE, DATED 1870 of regulation specifications, stamped throughout with Ordnance and War Department markings, dated lock, the stock applied with a band of Turkish ornament around the grip, and complete with its steel clearing rod and contemporary leather sling 82.5cm; 32 1/2in barrel
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
Aintree racecourse architectural and engineering archive, including an architect's model titled AINTREE PADDOCKS, a 1965 housing estate proposal by Arthur Swift and Partners, in a wooden carrying case, 69 by 90cm., 27 by 35 1/2in.; a wide variety of plans and maps of the racecourse, its structures, its services, management logistics and proposals for re-development in the 1960s; ordnance survey maps, policing plans, approach road maps, car parking, aerial photographs and blown up display photographs of the racecourse facilities, some items framed, various sizes, some large items (a qty.)
Folding Maps and Atlases. A box, including Stanford’s Library Map of the World, 1879, with case; Johnston’s West India Islands (1908); Africa, Austria, United States, Ireland, Sweden and Norway by Johnston; South Devon by Edwin Chapple, Ordnance Survey Map in 4 sections with case; and various loose Ordnance Survey type maps
Family group: A Second World War B.E.M. group of six awarded to Flight Sergeant J. S. Pennington, Royal Air Force British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (365560 F./Sgt. Joseph S. Pennington, R.A.F.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (365560 L.A.C., R.A.F.); Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (365560 F./Sgt., R.A.F.), generally good very fine The Great War campaign service group of five awarded to his father, Warrant Officer Class 1 G. Pennington, Army Ordnance Corps 1914-15 Star (02300 Condr., A.O.C.); British War and Victory Medals (02300 W.O. Cl. 1, A.O.C.); Army L.S.& G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (Condtr., Ordce. Dept.); Delhi Durbar 1911, the third with officially re-impressed naming, the last two with severe edge bruising, good fine, the remainder very fine or better (5) The Second World War campaign service group awarded to his brother, Leading Seaman A. J. Pennington, Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Reserve 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue (JX. 138418 Ch. B. 33569 L.S., R.F.R.), minor official correction to number on the last, very fine or better (15) £600-700 B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1943. The original recommendation states: This airman has been in charge of the Maintenance Flight since November 1940, when the Squadron was reformed. It was the first to be re-euipped with Halifax I aircraft and for a long period Flight Sergeant Pennington had done invaluable work in carrying out modifications. He has shown outstanding initiative in solving many of the initial difficulties concerned with a type of aircraft comparatively new to the R.A.F. He has displayed exceptional organising ability and keenness and has been very largely responsible for maintaining the very high degree of serviceability of the aircraft with which the Squadron is equipped. Joseph Squire Pennington, a native of Stroud, Kent, and a confirmed participant in the North West Frontier operations of 1935, is also verified as having been mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 11 June 1942 refers). Alfred John Pennington, Josephs brother, was serving in M.T.B. 784 at the time of being recommended for his "mention" for services against enemy shipping off France in the period June-July 1944, an award that was duly published in the London Gazette of 12 June 1945. The original recommendation states: For outstanding courage, skill and devotion to duty in successful torpedo attacks against heavily armed escort vessels on the nights of 9-10 June 1944 in M.T.B. 681 and on 4-5 July 1944 in M.T.B. 729. This rating, under difficult conditions and heavy gunfire, showed great coolness in getting his torpedoes away, and set a high example to other ratings.
Pair: Serjeant D. Marshall, Ordnance Department, late Horse Artillery Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Chilianwala, Goojerat (Gunner David Marshall, 3rd Tp. 2nd Bde. H. Arty.); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Serjt. D. Marshall, Magne. Serjt. Ordce. Dep.) edge bruising, contact marks, good fine and better (2) £420-460
Five: Major G. Watts, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, late Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, these all named (72071 Major G. Watts, R.E.M.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (7579006 W.O. Cl.II, R.A.O.C.) good very fine (5) £70-90 M.I.D. London Gazette 20 December 1940. George Watts was born on 20 September 1893. He was commissioned a Lieutenant in the R.E.M.E. in May 1937, having previously served in the R.A.O.C. 13 years in the ranks, 6 years as a W.O.2, and 2 years as a W.O.1. He served as Acting Captain, February-May 1941; Temporary Captain, May 1941-May 1943; Captain, May 1943; Acting Major, June-September 1944; Temporary Major, September 1944-June 1946. Watts attained the rank of Major in July 1946.
An Indian Police Medal and Kings Police Medal group awarded to Deputy Superintendent J. W. Rourke, Indian Police Indian Police Medal, G.V.R., for Distinguished Conduct (J. W. Rourke, Inspr., Bombay Police); Kings Police Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, for Distinguished Service (J. W. Rourke, Dy. Supdt. of Police, Sind); 1914 Star (Mr J. Rourke, Mily. Accts. Dept.); British War and Victory Medals (J. W. Rourke, M.A.D.), both with an erasure before name; the word Clerk(?) faintly seen on B.W.M.; Jubilee 1935, unnamed; Coronation 1937, unnamed, mounted court style for wear, very fine and better (7) £600-800 Indian Police Medal gazette entry not found. Kings Police Medal 1 January 1944. John William Rourke, Deputy Superintendent of Police, C.I.D., Karachi, Sind. John William Rourke was born on 13 November 1897. He joined the Indian Police on 1 July 1918, having previously held temporary appointments from February 1917. He served in various non-gazetted appointments with the Police Departments of Karachi District; Sind Railways; Sukkur District and Sind C.I.D. His first gazetted appointment was as Police Inspector in the Sind C.I.D., dated 12 April 1926; he subsequently served as Police Inspector at Sukkur on the Sind Railways, April 1927-January 1929 & April 1929-May 1930; at Sukkur Town, January-April 1929, and Karachi, May 1930-September 1932. He was Police Inspector, Karachi C.I.D., from December 1932, and was promoted to Deputy Superintendent of Police in the C.I.D. in August 1934 but transferred to Traffic in April 1935. As a Deputy Superintendent in the Karachi C.I.D. he was awarded the K.P.M. in 1944. Sold with extract from 1914 Star roll which lists Mr J. W. Rourke as amongst the Civilian Subordinates of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, employed at Ordnance, and similarly for the British War and Victory Medals which lists him as T1180 Amt. S. Sgt., R.A.O.C. , and Z Reserve 25.3.19; extracts from Jubilee Medal nominal roll which confirms award to 1640 Rourke, John William, Inspector of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Bombay; extracts from the Coronation Medal nominal roll which confirms award to 201 Rourke, John William, Deputy Superintendent of Police in Sind; extract from the Gazette of India, confirming the K.P.M., and extract from the Directory of Services, Bombay Presidency, 1935. Also with a summary of research undertaken. Note: It is possible that the above 1914 Star trio belonged to another family member - the father?, of the Deputy Superintendent of Police.
Defective group of Eight: Major J. L. Waring, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, late Indian Army Ordnance Corps and late Loyal Regiment British War and Victory Medals (4042 Pte., Loyal R.), renamed; India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (2745339 S. Cdr., I.A.O.C.), renamed; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (2745339 S. Cdr., I.A.O.C.), renamed; together with a mounted set of miniature dress medals, mounted as worn, nearly very fine and better (16) £50-70 Sold with a number of original photographs, together with a damaged envelope, dated July 1953 and bearing the name and address, Major (Ordnance Executive Officer) J. L. Waring, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 28 Command Workshop, R.E., Stores Section, Hilsea, Portsmouth. Waring attained the rank of Major in the R.A.O.C. on 25 March 1949
The superb Army Gold Cross group to General Sir Ulysses Bagenal Burgh, G.C.B., K.T.S., Second Lord Downes, 92nd Foot, Aide de Camp and Assistant Military Secretary to the Duke of Wellington throughout the Peninsular War The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, G.C.B. (Military) Knight Grand Cross set of insignia, comprising sash badge, 22 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1814, makers mark IN for John Northam, and breast star in silver, gold and enamels, enamel damaged on upper reverse arm, otherwise a magnificent set; Army Gold Cross 1806-14, for Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nive, and Toulouse, 1 clasp, Nivelle (Lt. Coll. Ulysses Burgh / Aid de Camp to the / Comr. of the Forces) with additional clasp, Pyrenees, with original gold swivel-ring bar suspension, but lacking intermediary gold suspension ring and usual ribbon fitments; Field Officers Gold Medal 1808-14, for Vittoria (Lt. Coll. U. Burgh, Aid de Camp) lacking gold ribbon buckle; Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes DOnor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca (Lord Downes, K.C.B. Capt. 92nd Foot & A.D.C.); Portugal, Military Order of the Tower and Sword, Knight Commanders set of insignia, comprising neck badge in solid gold, and breast star by Beaugeois, Paris, silver and enamels with gold motto and central device and gold applique tower, together with engraved portrait print of Lord Downes, in uniform wearing decorations, in gilt frame surmounted by Barons Coronet, the whole displayed in an ornate gilt frame, generally good very fine or better (7) £35000-40000 Ulysses Bagenal de Burgh was born in Dublin on 15 August 1788, the only son of Thomas Burgh, Comptroller-general and Commissioner of the revenue of Ireland. After attending Trinity College, Dublin, Burgh was commissioned as Ensign into the 54th Foot on 31 March 1804, being promoted Lieutenant in the following November and Captain in October 1806. During this period he served at Gibraltar, where he was spared the ravages of yellow fever, and afterwards in the West Indies. In November 1808 he transferred, as a Captain, to the 92nd Highlanders, and went to Portugal as Aide de Camp to Sir John Craddock. On the latters recall home he stayed in Portugal as A.D.C. to Craddocks successor, Sir Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington, a close friend of his fathers. Burgh was also Wellingtons Assistant Military Secretary and remained on his Staff for the remainder of the Peninsular War. Burgh was present at the battle of Talavera, was slightly wounded while at Sir Arthurs side, and was mentioned in his despatch. After the battle of Busaco he carried Wellingtons victory despatch to England and was promoted Major in March 1811. On returning to the Peninsular he took part in the actions of Fuentes DOnoro, El Boden, the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz, and the battle of Salamanca. After Wellingtons triumphal entry intyo Madrid in August 1812, he again carried home a despatch to England and was consequently advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel. Once more back with Wellington, he was at the battles of Vittoria and the Pyrenees, the storming of St Sebastian, the battle of Nivelle, where he had a horse killed under him, the battles of Nive and Toulouse, where he was once again wounded. At the conclusion of hostilities in 1814, Burgh transferred, as Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, to the 1st Foot Guards, and served briefly with his Company at Brussels. For his services in the Peninsular he was made a Knight Commander of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword and, on 2 January 1815, one of the first Knight Commanders of the Bath. He also received the Gold Cross and one clasp for Vittoria, the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, and Toulouse, and, once it became available in 1848, the Military General Service medal with clasps for Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes DOnor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, and Salamanca. In March 1820 he was appointed Surveyor-General of the Ordnance and an Executive Member of the Board of Ordnance, remaining in that post until 1830, when Wellingtons administration came to an end. In addition to his military duties, he served as Member of Parliament for County Carlaw from 1818-26, and for Queensborough from 1826-30. He succeded his second cousin once removed as the 2nd Baron Downes in 1826, the title formerly held by William Downes, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland from 1803-22, and created with special remainder to Ulysses Burgh. Inheriting a substantial residence in County Kildare, he became a representative Irish peer in 1833, but was not poliotically active, although he did support Peel over repeal of the corn laws. He advanced to Major-General in January 1837, and to Lieutenant-General in November 1846. He had been appointed Colonel of the 54th Foot in April 1845, and was then Colonel of the 29th Foot from August 1850 until his death. He was married twice; firstly, in 1815 to Maria, daughter and heir of the late Walter Bagenal of Athy, County Kildare, and thereafter added Bagenal to his name; and secondly, in 1846, to Christopheria, widow of John Willis Fleming and daughter of James Buchanan. In 1848 he was authorized to take the name de Burgh in lieu of Burgh. Downes acted as pallbearer on 28 July 1855, at the funeral of Lord Raglan, Wellingtons military secretary in the Peninsula and more recently commander of British troops in the Crimea. Promoted to General in June 1854, two years later Downes received the Russian Order of St Anne, 2nd Class, and was appointed G.C.B. in May 1860. He died on 26 July 1863 at Bert House, Athy, County Kildare, and with no male heir, the peerage became extinct. Sold with some further research including an original manuscript note, signed by Downes, admitting the bearer to the Gallery of the House of Lords, dated 11 July 1862.
A Second World War East African B.E.M. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant and Quartermaster M. Reat, Royal Signals, attached Sudan Defence Force British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (2312307 R.Q.M.S. Malcolm Reat); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (2312307 Sgln., R. Signals); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (2312307 W.O.Cl.2, B.E.M., R. Sigs.), mounted court style for display, very fine and better (7) £500-600 B.E.M. London Gazette 16 April 1942. ... in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East during the period July, 1941, to October, 1941 ... No.3212307 Company Quarter-Master-Sergeant (acting Warrant Officer Class II (Regimental Quarter-Master-Sergeant) Malcolm Reat, Royal Corps of Signals (attached Sudan Defence Force) (Stockton-on-Tees). B.E.M. recommendation states: During the past year this N.C.O., the senior British N.C.O. in the unit, has been entirely responsible for the M.T. and Technical stores, there being no regular Quartermaster. His task has been rendered more laborious through having to deal with the S.D.F. Ordnance Depot as well as the British. By virtue of his technical trade qualifications and shortage of personnel he has also frequently been called upon to supervise and help in the Instrument Mechanics and Battery Charging Shops. Throughout the whole period he has worked very long hours and by his conscientious devotion to his duty has ensured the smooth flow of stores to sections operating in Eritrea, Abyssinia and Kufra. In particular in the last few months, in addition to his normal work, he has been called upon to produce new War Equipment tables on the reorganisation of this unit. Malcolm Reat was commissioned a Lieutenant and Quartermaster on 8 August 1945 (London Gazette 8 February 1946).
A rare Second World War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. E. Chater, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, who, having passed a bomb disposal course in London in early 1941, was attached to the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, participated in the Walcheren landings in November 1944 and was awarded the Order of Orange Nassau: then in 1955 he added a "Canada M.S.M." to his accolades - one of just 29 E.II.R. issues ever granted The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Members 2nd type breast badge; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal 1939-45, silver; Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, silver; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., robed bust, Canada (2nd Cl. Mr. Gr. (W.O. Cl. 1, R.C.H.A.); Army Meritorious Service, E.II.R., Canada reverse (P8236 Mr. Gr. (W.O. 1), R.C.A.); The Netherlands, Order of Orange-Nassau, Officers breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, with swords, rosette on riband, mounted as worn, together with an R.C.H.A. badge, the sixth with officially corrected rank and the last with chipped enamel work and one slightly damaged arm point, otherwise generally good very fine (8) £1000-1200 O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1946. Hartley Ernest Chater was born in Toronto in February 1903 and enlisted underage in the Permanent Forces of Canada in June 1919, aged 16 years, his attestation papers noting apparently aged 19. Posted to the Canadian Horse Artillery, he gained steady promotion over the coming years, rising to Battery Sergeant-Major in 1932 and to Quarter-Master Sergeant in the following year, when he was employed on the staff of the Royal Military Academy. Having then been awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in June 1937, he attended a special Master Gunners course in the U.K., and was appointed Master Gunner 1st Class in the following year. The advent of hostilities found him employed as a Regimental Sergeant-Major and he was embarked for England in January 1940, where he was commissioned in the 1st Medium Regiment, R.C.A. that September. Having then passed a bomb disposal course at Regents Park in the New Year, he was advanced to Captain and attached to the 1st Canadian Division Ammunition Column. Again promoted in 1942, to Major, he was in fact a Lieutenant-Colonel (Ordnance Officer 2nd Class) by the time of the North West Europe operations 1944-45, which theatre of operations he visited on several occasions, but never for a sufficient length of time to qualify for the 1939-45 Star. Be that as it may, he was present in the Walcheren operations in November 1944, when he was attached as an Ordnance Officer to 112 L.A.A. Battery, R.C.A. - a rocket unit - and afterwards on secondment to the Hague. He was awarded the O.B.E. and the Order of Orange-Nassau, the latter by Royal Warrant dated 11 November 1946. Finally released back at Montreal in September 1947, Chater returned to the U.K. and settled in Dartford, Kent, where he died in April 1983. In the interim, however, by letter of notification from the Department of National Defence at Ottawa dated 21 July 1955, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal - one of just 29 E.II.R. "Canada M.S.Ms" and the only such example yet noted on the market by Ian McInnes. Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including the recipients O.B.E. warrant, in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, R.C.O.C., the borders trimmed, and related forwarding letter from the Department of Veterans Affairs at Ottawa; his warrant of appointment to the Order of Oranage-Nassau, dated 11 November 1946; and his M.S.M. letter of notification from the Department of National Defence at Ottawa, dated 21 July 1955; together with large file of research compiled from Canadian archives and family sources.
Pair: Captain P. F. B. Hawes, Border Regiment Queens South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut., 1/Border Rgt.); Kings South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Capt., Bord. Rgt.) very fine (2) £240-280 Percy Frederick Brunel Hawes was born on 8 October 1871. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Border Regiment on 21 January 1893 and promoted to Lieutenant on 16 January 1896. He served in the Boer War with the 1st Battalion and took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, April-May 1900; Transvaal, June 1900; the Transvaal east of Pretoria, July 1900; the Transvaal east of Pretoria, July-November 1900, and in other operations in Transvaal from December 1900. On 15 July 1902 he was advanced to Captain. Post-war he qualified on the Linguist Course and Ordnance Course and was attached to the Army Ordnance Department. Placed on Half Pay on 21 July 1908, he retired from the Army as a Captain on 14 August 1914. A contemporary Border Regiment Diary from South Africa describes him as An exceptional character. Brought up in France he was nicknamed "Johnnie". He had a stock of French songs and anecdotes and was good at "al fresco" singsongs. Sold with some copied research.
A collection of silver and metal items to include a Victorian silver, bi colour, bucket design bar brooch, a metal 'Mother' brooch, a Victorian planished silver container, two miniature penknives, two cigarette holders and other items. Thirteen items in total. In fair to good general condition. The silver container is showing wear and tear/some discolouration, measures approximately 6cm, lid flips off and is held in place by links at top, is hallmarked to one side Birmingham 1896 and with maker's mark W V & S. The bar brooch is showing some wear and tear and could do with a clean, hallmarked Birmingham 1893, pin straight but clasp a little bent out of shape, measures 4.7cm. White metal sovereign holder showing considerable wear and the white metal has rubbed off in some places. The cigarette holders could both do with a clean and are showing wear and tear. Miniature penknives appear to be charms, one measures 2.7cm in length 1.2cm. Other items include a brooch fitting for fob watch, a base metal mouse charm, a Coventry Ordnance Works commemorative badge, a possibly Olympic pin badge and a knife bar brooch.
* Prints & engravings. A mixed collection, 19th & 20th century, including topographical chromos. and engravings after Morris, etc., portrait and fashion engravings, sixteen engravings of birds, a browned Morden map of the Smaller British Islands, a defective old series map Ordnance Survey map of the Isle of Wight, several large format prints including a tinted litho. of Bournemouth and a large engravings after George Morland (approx. 150+)
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