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58 Items Of Insignia For Iraq 1921-2003display board with good tabulated display of metal badges including brass Staff ... Brass Air Force ... Brass Transport ... Brass Pharmacy ... Brass Ordnance ... Brass Engineers ... Plated Infantry ... Brass Cavalry.  58 items.   Bob Betts' collection.  

United States Ordnance Corps Sergeant's Dress Helmet C1881black felt, single panel crown with rounded peak and rear brim.  Leather edging.  Black patent crown band with brass flaming grenade side mounts.  Brass oak leaf crown mount with brass spike.  Brass American eagle Artillery badge with central, white metal, flaming grenade.  Leather sweatband.  

WW2 Medals And Badgesincluding Atlantic Star ... Defence medal ... 2 x 1939/45 War medals ... Gilt National Sea Training School badge ... 2 x plated National Sea Training School badges ... Gilt and enamel Gravesend Sea School lapel badge ... Bronzed Ordnance cap/collar badge ... Brass Hampshire title.  14 items.

Two British Khaki Drill Jackets And Breechesconsisting light khaki tan, single breasted tunic.  Pleated chest pockets and lower bag pockets, all with buttoned flaps. Brass Lieutenant shoulder rank.  Brass West Yorkshire Reg buttons ... Similar tunic with Indian Army Ordnance Corps buttons ... Fine khaki cord, wide leg breeches.  Lower leg with brass button fastening.  3 items.

A VINTAGE BURROW'S YORKSHIRE COUNTY MAP AND GAZETTEER, ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP, THE LITTLE GOVERNESS BOOK, SMALL LEATHER BOUND NOTEBOOK, ETC

A LARGE QUANTITY OF VINTAGE ORDNANCE SURVEY AND BARTHOLEMEW'S ROAD MAPS, ETC

A Scottish 1857 pattern broadsword for Staff Sergeants of Highland Militia and Volunteer Battalions, blade 29½" x 1¼", by Mole, Birmingham, the ricasso stamped with broad arrow, various ordnance inspector's marks and date "8'03", with regulation pattern basket hilt with fish skin grip and red lining, stamped on the underside "4/0-" over "V/4HLI/4". GC (no scabbard, the hilt has been pitted, cleaned and chrome plated). £150-250

"The Wallace Collection of European Arms & Armour Vols 1 and 2", "English Guns and Rifles" by George; "A History of the Army Ordnance Services" by Forbes in 3 vols. GC £30-40

A 10 bore (.75") Long Land pattern "Brown Bess" flintlock musket, 62" overall, barrel 46" engraved "XX REGt", the breech with ordnance proof marks; rounded slightly banana shaped lock engraved with large crown over "GR" and "FARMER 1758"; walnut fullstock with regulation brass mounts, the escutcheon engraved "III/I", with steel ramrod and sling loops; with its original socket bayonet with leather scabbard, the socket also engraved "III/I". GWO & basically GC (some wear overall, barrel and ramrod moderately pitted, the bayonet rusty with pitting, the scabbard worn and split). £1500-2500

A .56" Tower Long Sea Service flintlock belt pistol, barrel 12" with ordnance proofs, flat lock with double line borders and stamped with crown over "GR", "Tower", and inspector's mark, with regulation pattern brass mounts, brass tipped wooden ramrod, and belt hook. GWO & C (light pitting to barrel and belt hook, dark patina to the lock). £800-1200

Assorted Ordnance Survey maps, road maps, town maps, red books, etc (1 box).

Colby, Major General Thomas Frederick ( 1784-1852) by and after, five folding Ordnance survey maps, 1828 and 1830, backed onto linen, edges tacked with green silk, covering Gloucestershire x 2, Monmouth, Wiltshire going into Dorset, Oxfordshire going into Buckinghamshire, with Mudge Colonel, three folding ordnance survey maps - 1817 - backed onto linen, with green silk tacked edge, covering Hampshire and Berkshire. 8 maps backed with marbled paper sides at the complete fold within a fitted box.

A box of Ordnance Survey maps, 20th century postcards, vintage Cooperative Society Ltd box

A Large Collection of Vintage Roadmaps, Ordnance Survey Maps Etc

A small quantity of books and manuals to include "The Soldiers Language Manual", "Short Vocabulary", Ordnance Survey map and autograph book, and The History of Engineering in Ipswich etc.

FOUR BOXES OF BOOKS, MAPS AND SUNDRIES, to include a Tunbridge Ware hinged sewing box, width 30cm x depth 22cmx height 13cm, a lockable mahogany writing box with brass handle and fitting, red leather interior, a vintage Cadbury Bros Ltd. hinged biscuit tin, a group of antiquarian books comprising Warne's Model Cookery and Housekeeping book, Plain Home Talk- illustrated, Manners and Rules of Good Society by a member of the aristocracy, , the Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, thirty Landranger ordnance survey maps, atlases, recipe books, gardening books, Rough Guide books, etc. (4 boxes + loose)

SIX BOXES OF BOOKS AND MAPS, containing approximately 110 titles in hardback and paperback format on the subject of British, Continental and Worldwide Geography and Topography which includes many guidebooks and ordnance survey maps (6 boxes)

Various Ordnance Survey maps

Two tubes of posters, Ordnance Survey maps etc

Local interest books, Ordnance Survey maps, Keswick Cumbria Bird Watching etc

Collection of fourteen post WWII Ordnance Survey Military and War Ministry maps, one dated 1976, of UK, Cheveiot Hills, the Borders, North Midlands and Lincolnshire etc, in A4 sized travel wallet (14)

A selection of West Cornwall mining related paperwork and related items including Geevor Tin Mines plan of Prospect East and surrounding areas, two copy Geevor plans for Levant Incline and pumping chamber, a 1908 ordnance survey map of Pendeen, various other ordnance maps of West Cornwall, copy plan of Wheal Owles and a small selection of illustrations of Botallack and Levant Mines

[MAPS] Thirty Ordnance Survey New Popular Edition One-Inch folding maps; together with approximately 148 Ordnance Survey One-Inch folding maps (some duplication); and a further approximately fifty-two assorted folding maps, comprising Bartholomew Half-Inch, Bartholomew Quarter-Inch, Ordnance Survey Landranger, Ordnance Survey Routemaster; and Ordnance Survey Road Maps, (total approximatey 230).

[MAPS] Approximately 136 Ordnance Survey One-Inch folding maps (some duplication); together with forty-three Ordnance Survey New Popular Edition One-Inch folding maps; and forty-six Ordnance Survey Outdoor Leisure 2 1/2 Inch to One Mile folding maps, (total approx. 225).

A 19th Century naval cutlass bearing Indian Ordnance stamps, 88 cm

Cycling Maps: Bacon (G.W. & Co.) Bacon's Cycling Map[s] of Ireland also Showing Railways & Stations, 8 Parts, Index & 7 divisional fold. cold. linen backed maps, Edinburgh (J. Bartholomew) c. 1910, reproduced by Permission from The Ordnance Survey, in orig. full leather container. Fine Set. (1)

Map:  Stanford (Ed.) New Map of Ireland in Counties and Baronies, on the basis of The Ordnance Survey & The Census... Lg. fold. hand coloured linen backed map, fold. 8vo, Lond. n.d. c. 1860, approx. 99.5cms x 79cms (39" x 31"), in orig. cloth slipcase. Both inscribed 'Rosse.' As a map, w.a.f. (1) Provenance:  Birr Castle Estate.

Photographic:  James (Col. Sir Henry), and, de Coursey Scott (Capt. A.) On Photo-Zincography and other Photographic Processes Employed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, Lg. 4to Lond. (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green) 1862. First Edn., 12 full page plts., text & plts. loose in orig. gilt lettered green cloth. (1) Provenance:  Birr Castle Estate

A collection of UK ordnance survey maps

A collection of mainly Ordnance Survey maps along with a WW2 silk map numbered 43 C/D for Holland and France

A vintage lockable metal box along with small collection of vintage ephemera including a Geographia Footpaths map for Reigate area, an Ordnance Survey 1940 Second War Revision, Sheet 45, map of Buxton & Matlock published by the War Office in 1941, a 1943 illustrated souvenir of New York City, a souvenir booklet commemorating the crowning of King George VI and a part filled album of football skills cigarette cards.

Ordnance Survey.- [Ordnance Survey of England and Wales, on the Scale of One Inch to a Mile], 111 map sheets numbered 1 to 110 as per the "original" numbering system, with 68 [NE Norfolk] in 2 parts, engravings, many with original hand-coloured county divisions, each sheet approx. 660 x 980 mm (26 x 38 1/2 in), dissected and mounted on linen, bearing the mapseller's red star label of J. Gardner, sole agent, on verso, minor occasional spotting and surface dirt, folding with green morocco gilt numbered thumb tabs, tab to sheet 100 missing, map sheets 97-110 appear to be from a [?]later edition without hand-colouring, all folding without slipcases, 4to, Colonels Mudge, Colby and others, The Tower, circa 1805-90; together with 4 variant summary publications on the Maps, Plans, and Other Publications of the Ordnance Survey, original paper wrappers, 1875, 1890, 1897, and 1903

A quantity of Ordnance Survey maps including Bartholomew's Channel Islands

XIX Century Ordnance Survey (1853) Collection of Maps, covering areas of Sheffield in bound folder (damaged) (approximately 19).

A large collection of Military cap badges and buttons etc, to include Royal Guernsey Light Infantry; Royal Scots Greys; Army Ordnance Corps; Dorsetshire Regiment; 12e Regiment blindé du Canada; The Buffs; Glamorgan Imperial Yeomanry, etc etc. (70+).

Dapol OO Gauge group of Private Owner Wagons comprising of Atkinson & Son, Taunton Cider, H Stone, Coventry Ordnance Works and others, a number are limited edition with certificates all bar one in Dapol boxes, contents Excellent, some boxes over labelled, generally Good Plus. (17)

ORDNANCE SURVEY AND OTHER MAPS AND ATLASES

John Phillips. 'Figures and Descriptions of the Palaeozoic Fossils of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset; ....... The Ordnance Geological Survey of That District,' first edition, a good copy in original binding, plates, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, London, 1841.

Three maps of Cornwall. William Westcott Rundell (Falmouth). 'Cornwall,' inset map of the Scilly Isles, laid on linen, a rare map of Cornwall, William Rundell does not appear in 'Worms and Baynton Williams British Map Engravers, published by W. Wood, Fore St, Devonport.'Map of the County of Cornwall Divided into Hundreds Containing the District Divisions and Other Local Arrangements,' cloth backed by Edward Stanford, Charing Cross, [circa 1880].Philips New Series of County Maps from the Ordnance Survey: 'Cornwall' by George Philip, circa 1900. (3)

Colonel Sir H. James. 'Domesday Book,' 1859. 'Or the Great Survey of England of William the Conqueror,' facsimile of the part relating to Cornwall, first edition, small folio, 24 pages, original cloth, gilt lettering, very good condition, photo-zinccographed by Her Majesty’s Command at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1859.

A .577/.450 Martini Henry Mark II Volunteer RifleDated 1887Of regulation pattern, the butt with inset rectangular brass plaque engraved 'Geoffrey W. Warren From W.A.B. Nov. 19th 1920', and with original steel ramrod (steel parts with old surface rust and pitting), Ordnance proof marks 84.5 cm. barrel For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A .577 Snider Two-Band Short Service Rifle Musket For Canada Dated 1869 Of regulation pattern, the bore with light rust patination, lock with crowned date over 'Enfield', the butt stamped with circular arsenal mark on one side, and with 'DC' in a diamond mark for Dominion of Canada above '1' and '101' on the other, and with canvas and leather sling, Ordnance proof marks 77.5 cm. barrel For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Rare .600 (18-Bore) Flintlock Baker Volunteer Rifle By Brander & Potts, 70 Minories, London, Circa 1820 With leaf-sighted barrel (some old light surface rust) rifled with nine grooves and with bayonet bar on the right at the muzzle, flat bevelled lock and ring-neck cock, the former signed in full in capitals, figured full stock with cheek-piece, regulation brass mounts including spur trigger-guard and hinged rectangular patch-box cover, sling loops, and associated brass-mounted wooden ramrod, London proof marks 77 cm. barrel Footnotes: Martin Brander and Thomas Potts are recorded at 70 Minories and Goodman's Yard between 1802 and 1827. They were Contractors to Ordnance between 1815 and 1820 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A 25-Bore Percussion Coastguard PistolDated 1846Of regulation pattern and retaining some old finish, Ordnance view and proof marks 15.2 cm. barrel For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Fine 12-Bore 1842 Pattern Lancer's Percussion Service Pistol Dated 1845 With browned barrel (slightly marked along the top) and tang, dated border engraved case-hardened flat lock with 'V-R' crowned and 'Tower', figured full stock with Board of Ordnance ownership mark, inspector's marks, and stamped with supplier's name 'Wheeler' opposite the lock, regulation brass mounts, stirrup ramrod, and retaining virtually all its original finish, Ordnance view and proof marks 23 cm. barrel Footnotes: Provenance The John Wilmot Collection sold in these Rooms, 25 July 2007, lot 340 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A 25-Bore Flintlock 1801 Pattern Long Sea Service Pistol Early 19th Century Of regulation pattern, the barrel stamped with a crowned '9' at the breech, border engraved lock with 'GR' crowned, 'Tower' across the tail and with a crowned '2' beneath the pan, full stock (some old bruising and repair behind the trigger-guard tang) stamped with Board of Ordnance mark on the apron around the tang and on the right side of the butt, and Ordnance Storekeeper's mark above '10' behind the tail of the lock, regulation brass mounts, belt hook, and brass-tipped ramrod, King's proof marks 30.7 cm. barrel Footnotes: The crowned '2' below the pan indicates that the lock was inspected by a lock viewer of the East India Company For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A 28-Bore Flintlock 1801 Pattern Long Sea Service Pistol Dated 1808(?) Of regulation pattern, the stock stamped with inspector's marks including those in the ramrod channel, indistinctly dated Board of Ordnance ownership mark behind the tail of the lock, belt hook, and brass-tipped ramrod (barrel with some old light pitting and rust patination), small King's proof marks 31 cm. barrel For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Rare 54-Bore Flintlock Tutenag Box-Lock Pocket Pistol By Perry, London, Late 18th Century With turn-off barrel engraved around the breech, border engraved action signed with a foliate scroll issuing from the mouth of a profile head on one side, and inscribed 'LONDON' on a banner against a fantastical bird and foliage on the other, engraved thumbpiece safety-catch also locking the steel (cock repaired), trigger-guard engraved with a panel of overlapping leaves on the bow, and flat-sided butt with silver borders engraved with beadwork and inlaid along each side with a silver panel engraved with graduated foliage, and with a silver martial trophy on the back, Tower private proof marks 5.6 cm. barrel Footnotes: The maker is probably William 2 Perry, uncle of Harvey Walklate Mortimer to whom the latter was apprenticed in 1765 or 1766. It is thought that Perry started his career in West Bromwich and was a gunlock maker to the Board of Ordnance between 1756 and 1758. He is then recorded as a gunmaker and wine importer at 94 Snow Hill, Birmingham between 1784 and 1788. He marked his firearms 'London' Cf. a related pistol by William Grice and sold in these Rooms, Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 29 July 2004, lot 535 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A 25-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pistol By Collumbell, David, London, Circa 1765 With three-stage turn-off cannon barrel numbered '4' at the breech, border engraved action signed on a foliate scroll on one side, sliding trigger-guard safety-catch engraved with a flower-head on the bow, and later figured flat-sided butt with vacant foliate silver escutcheon and grotesque mask cap (some rust patination), Tower private proof marks 13.5 cm. barrel Footnotes: Provenance Sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour, 4 April 2007, lot 419 David Collumbell was appointed Gunmaker to Ordnance in 1756, and to the East Indian Company in 1761 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Flintlock Blunderbuss-Pistol By Memory, London, Circa 1765-70 With two-stage barrel turned and belled at the muzzle, and engraved 'LONDON' within a drop-shaped panel along the breech flat, foliate engraved tang, signed border engraved rounded lock sparsely decorated with foliage on the tail, figured three-quarter stock with apron around the tang, border engraved brass mounts comprising shaped flat bevelled side-plate decorated with foliage, vacant escutcheon, shaped rounded pommel-cap with retaining screw centred on a flower-head, trigger-guard with acorn finial and engraved with a flower-head on the bow, and later horn-tipped ramrod, London proof marks 17.2 cm. barrel Footnotes: Provenance Sold in these Rooms, The John Wilmot Collection, 25 July 2007, lot 408 Michael Memory was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1743 and elected Master in 1774. He was Contractor to Ordnance between 1756-93 and to the East India Company between 1772-98, the year of his death For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A 20-Bore Flintlock Brass-Mounted Pistol With Brass Barrel And Lock By Hawkins, London, Circa 1725 With slightly swamped three-stage barrel signed in capitals along the top of the breech, border engraved tang decorated with foliage, signed border engraved rounded lock (top jaw and screw replaced), moulded figured full stock (fore-end split and chipped at the muzzle, grip broken through and repaired) carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, cast and chased mounts comprising pierced foliate side-plate (rear part replaced), foliate escutcheon retaining traces of owner's monogram, spurred pommel with grotesque mask cap, trigger-guard (tang mostly replaced) with foliate finial, turned baluster ramrod-pipes (forward one replaced), and later ramrod (wear overall), London proof marks and Hawkins's barrelsmith's mark 21 cm. barrel Footnotes: John 2 Hawkins was apprenticed to John Silke, free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1682 and elected Master in 1711 and 1722. He was Gunmaker to Ordnance between 1686 and 1716, and to the Hudson's Bay Company between 1695 and 1726, the year before his death For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Pair Of 22-Bore Flintlock Brass-Mounted Pistols By P. Gandon, London, Circa 1745 With slightly swamped barrels each engraved 'LONDON' along the top of the breech, border engraved tangs each decorated with foliage, border engraved rounded locks each signed in capitals, figured full stocks (minor cracks and old repairs) each with raised apron around the barrel tang, border engraved mounts comprising pierced ribbon side-plates, vacant escutcheons, spurred pommels (one with surface corrosion on one side) each with ovoidal cap engraved with a flower-head centred on the retaining screw, trigger-guards each with a flower-head on the bow, turned baluster ramrod-pipes, and brass-capped ramrods, probably original, each with iron worm (barrels and locks rust patinated), London proof marks and Foreigner's mark (2) 18.5 and 19 cm. barrels Footnotes: The maker is probably Peter 2 Gandon who was apprenticed to his father in 1728. He is recorded as 'Gunmaker, Bond St.' between 1742 and 1745, and was Contractor to Ordnance from 1749 but was cancelled owing to 'his want of Expedition and the indifference of his Workmanship.' He was declared bankrupt in 1754 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Pair: Staff Sergeant G. Mason, Royal Army Ordnance Corps General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Malay Peninsula (22209624 Sgt. G. Mason. RAOC.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (22209624 S. Sgt. G. Mason. RAOC.) light contact marks, good very fine (2) £80-£100

A collection of World War I and other ephemera, to include an album with images with 4th P.S Batt Royal Fusiliers training at Ashtead, No 3 Company, Barrack Huts Clipstone, etc, a typed copy of The Pow-Wow 3rd Batt 1944, with three silhouettes, two Home Guard certificates of proficiency, two bound printed copies of Pow-Wow, a selection of Ordnance maps folded and rolled.

Five: Major F. J. Utting, Indian Ordnance Department 1914-15 Star (Capt. F. J. Utting, I.O.D.); British War and Victory Medals, naming erased on both; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Maj F J Utting Ordnance Deptt); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (Condtr. F. J. Utting Ordce. Deptt.) edge bruising, nearly very fine and better (5) £100-£140 --- Francis James Utting was born on 21 August 1867 and by 1894 was an Officiating Sub-Conductor with the Bengal Ordnance Department at Fezopore. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the Indian Ordnance Department on 8 May 1914, and served during the Great War initially in Persia, and then with the Aden Field Force from 15 July to 26 December 1915, and later in Mesopotamia from 25 April to 14 September 1917. Sold with copied research, including the recipient’s Medal Index Card, which notes that the 1914-15 Star was issued through the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, with the British War ands Victory Medals to be issued in India; consequently it is possible that he never received his British War and Victory Medals.

Pair: Warrant Officer Class I J. Hill, Royal Army Ordnance Corps General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, Radfan, South Arabia, unofficial retaining rod between clasps (22970316 S. Sgt. J. Hill. RAOC.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (22970316 W.O. Cl. 1. J. Hill. RAOC.) nearly extremely fine (2) £100-£140

Five: Warrant Officer Class II W. L. Monarch, Royal Engineers, later 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. W. L. Monarch. R.E.) middle initial officially corrected; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (13069248 W.O. Cl.2. W. L. Monarch. R.A.O.C.) mounted as worn, contact marks, generally good very fine (5) £120-£160

1914-15 Star (2) (18162 Pte. L. Hurford. R. Berks: R.; 18862 Pte. H. S. Radburn. R. Berks. R.) rank and initials double struck on latter; British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (8339 Sjt. A. Illsley. R. Berks. R.; 8446 Pte. J. R. McLean. R. Berks. R.; 3508 Pte. F. H. Russell) generally very fine (5) £100-£140 --- Leonard Hurford attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment for service during the Great War on 27 May 1915 and served with the 8th Battalion on the Western Front from 16 December 1915. Appointed Sergeant, he was discharged, as a consequence of wounds, on 6 March 1919 and awarded a Silver War Badge, No. B186,493. Harry Sidney Radburn attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment for service during the Great War on 19 July 1915 and served with the 5th Battalion on the Western Front from 1 December 1915. Appointed Lance Sergeant, he also served with the 8th Battalion and was discharged, as a consequence of wounds, on 4 July 1919 and awarded a Silver War Badge, No. D248232. Albert Illsley was born in Speen, Berkshire in 1880. He attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment in 1906 and served in India with the 2nd Battalion. He served with his Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 November 1914, before later service with both the 5th and 1st Battalions. On 9 September 1916 the Reading Mercury included his name in a casualty list, as being wounded as a Lance Corporal. Upon his recovery, he was later appointed Sergeant and was awarded the Military Medal (London Gazette, 11 February 1919): on 3 October 1918, The Newbury Weekly News reported: ‘Another Newbury man has won the Military Medal. This time it is Sergt. A. Illsley, 1st Royal Berks. Regt., for deeds of gallantry in the recent push on August 22nd.’ Moste likely Illsley was awarded the M.M. for his actions at Quesnoy Farm, near Rumilly, France. Illsley was killed in action near Rumilly, on 9 October 1918, and is buried in Forenville Military Cemetery, France. James Roderick McLean attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment and served during the Great War, on the Western Front, with the 1st Battalion, from 12 September 1914. He saw later service with the Labour Corps, Somerset Light Infantry and Army Ordnance Corps. Frederick Henry Russell attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment and served during the Great War. He saw later service with the Labour Corps, 8th (Post Office Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment and the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Sold together with two impressed identity discs.

A Second War K.P.F.S.M. for Distinguished Service and Great War ‘Murmansk’ M.S.M. group of eight awarded to Chief Fire Officer E. F. Batchford, Reading Borough Fire Brigade, late Acting Warrant Officer Class II, Royal Army Ordnance Corps King’s Police and Fire Service Medal, G.VI.R., for Distinguished Service (Ernest F. Batchford, Div. Off. 15 (Reading) Fire Force); British War and Victory Medals (01181 A. W. O. Cl. 2. E. F. Batchford. A.O.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (01181 S.Sjt - A. S.Q.M. Sjt - E. F. Batchford. R.A.O.C.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Association of Professional Fire Brigade Officers Long Service Medal (Second Officer E. F. Batchford - 1938.); National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal, with clasps for ‘Twenty Years’ and ‘Five Years’ (4500 Ernest F. Batchford); Defence Medal, mounted for wear in this order, the Defence Medal loose, contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (8) £600-£800 --- K.P.F.S.M. London Gazette, 31 December 1946. M.S.M. London Gazette, 3 October 1919. Ernest Francis Batchford was born in Gloucester on 5 May 1893. A Fireman serving with Gloucester Fire Brigade since 1912, he attested for the Army Ordnance Corps for service during the Great War, and was appointed Acting Company Sergeant Major. His Meritorious Service Medal, awarded for Murmansk, was one of just seven such awards to his Corps. Discharged to the Reserve on 1 October 1919, he moved to Reading Fire Service where, he was later appointed Divisional Fire Officer. His King’s Police and Fire Service Medal was presented to him on 1 April 1947 by Mr. H. A. Benyon, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, at Caversham Fire Station. He died in Reading, Berkshire, aged 72, on 23 June 1965. Sold together with a Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes medal named to the recipient.

Three: Lance-Corporal A. H. Drinkwater, Royal Berkshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (14817 L. Cpl. A. H. Drinkwater. R. Berks. R.); British War and Victory Medals (14817 Pte. A. H. Drinkwater. R. Berks. R.) contact marks, nearly very fine Three: Private A. T. Silvester, Royal Berkshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (18504. Pte. A. T. Silvester. R. Berks. R.); British War and Victory Medals (18504. Pte. A. T. Silvester. R. Berks. R.) very fine Pair: Lance Sergeant P. B. Hood, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front, on 4 March 1917 1914-15 Star (11176 Cpl. P. B. Hood. R. Berks. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (11176 Cpl. P. B. Hood. R. Berks. R.) nearly extremely fine (8) £80-£100 --- Arthur Henry Drinkwater attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment on 7 September 1914, for service during the Great War, and served on the Western Front with the 8th Battalion from 7 August 1915. He was discharged, as a consequence of wounds, on 20 September 1916 and awarded a Silver War Badge, No. 59425. Arthur Thomas Silvester attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 31 September 1915. He later transferred to the Army Ordnance Corps and was discharged ‘Class Z’ on 9 April 1919. Percy Baron Hood was born in Kensington, London around 1879, and attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment for service during the Great War. He served on the Western Front with the 2nd Battalion from 30 May 1915. Appointed Lance Sergeant, he was killed in action on 4 March 1917; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.