Madras Army Lists. A List of the Officers of the Army, Ordnance, and Medical Departments, serving under the Presidency of Fort St. George, with an index. Compiled for the benefit of the Male Asylum, and printed at the Government Gazette Press, by the boys of the charity Madras, 1st August 1819, 173pp., interleaved with blanks, 22pp index, and 8pp. list of casualties at rear, modern dark blue half calf gilt, incorporating original blue boards, with original title label to upper cover bearing the ownership signature of C. Marriott, boards rubbed and marked, 8vo, together with A List of the Officers of the Army, Ordinance, and Medical Departments, serving under the Presidency of Fort St. George, 1821, text interleaved with blanks, modern dark blue quarter calf gilt, incorporating original blue boards with printed title label to upper cover, and inscription to upper cover 'John Binny Esq., with Messrs. Binny & Co's., Compts. No 25 Upper Winpole Stree, London', covers rubbed and marked, 8vo, plus nine further Madras Army Lists, for 1829, 1836, 1850, 1857, 1859, 1862, 1872, 1877, 1879, all except three bound in modern dark blue or black half calf gilt, (army lists for 1836, 1850, and 1877 bound in contemporary red half calf, generally with some wear), mainly large 8voQTY: (12)NOTE:The Madras Army list for 1829 has a contemporary ownership signature of Captain Burnell Jones of Barnstaple, Devonshire, dated Colombo 30th November 1829, to front endpaper. The 1836 volume has a pencil signature of J. J. Sherwood to front pastedown and endpaper, and contains contemporary ink annotations and corrections to the text, the 1859 volume is inscribed Aggertant-Generals Offices, and dated February 1859 to front blank. The 1862 volume contains a handwritten letter from William Thomas, Superintendent of the Assylum Press, addressed to Colonel J. G. E. B. Henry at Trichinopoly, dated Madras, 10th February 1862. The 1877 volume contains the ownership signature to title-page of J.B. Knocker dated 9/7/77, and with contemporary news cuttings related to Lieutenant Knocker's appointments loosely inserted at front of volume.
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![[MAPS] Seventy-five Ordnance Survey One-Inch folding maps.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9ddec452-64d4-4f1b-b51d-af9e00fdd8ca/48f77edd-20a2-4960-bbec-aff100a54ab4/468x382.jpg)
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A group of Second World War medals and related items awarded to Pte. William Desmond Jessop, R.A.O.C., number 10547440, comprising 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Italy Star and the 1939-45 War Medal, pin badges and cloth badge, Soldier's Service and Pay Book, National Defence Notebook, further documentation including National Service card, Soldier's Release Book Class A, together with photographs from Pte. Jessop's time in Greece and Italy, and Hannes Fehn photo cards of factory work in Hanvover after VE Day. Jessop was drafted into the Army and enlisted in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and later assigned to the Royal Welch 6th Parachute Battalion known as the 'Red Berets,' Jessop served in Greece, North Africa including Tunisia, and Italy.
FOUR BOXES OF METALWARE, TREEN AND SUNDRIES, to include a box of wooden lead working tools including a large bodger, two wooden hammers, ruler, a small carved horn mustard pot, a wooden needle case, Victorian school slate, a collection of vintage ordnance survey maps, a large collection of cigarette cards, a child's wooden sailing boat, a tray of Britains & Elastolin Roman soldiers brass fire dogs, a brass Auto Minimax fire extinguisher, copper chestnut roaster, copper kitchen colander, copper bed warmer, etc. (s.d) (4 boxes + 1 tray)
TWO BOXES OF MAPS AND RAILWAY INTEREST EPHEMERA, a quantity of mainly UK Ordnance Survey maps in folded and sheet form, together with an A G Spalding & Bros poster showing dimensions of sporting venues, a mid 1960s British Railways train transfer, unframed prints of trains and railways, railway blueprints, various educational posters including Britain's Coal Industry, etc (3 boxes) (sd)
British Sealed Pattern of a Belt, Waist, Bandolier Equipment Leather with a buckle and leather loop. The belt is has labels attached dated 1932, 1968 and 1994. Sealed Patterns of every item of uniform and equipment were kept at ordnance depots and used to ensure that everything supplied by manufacturers complied with the sealed pattern.
Ordnance Survey - North YorkshireA collection of original six inch OS maps, comprising Sheets 43 (Greenhow); 44 (Danby); 45 (Egton Bridge); 46 (Fylingdales); 47 (Robin Hoods Bay);48 (Howgill); 49 (West Baugh Fell); 50 (Abbotside); 51 (Swaledale - Askrigg Common); 52 (Grinton - West Bolton); 53 (Downholme - Hawxwell); 54 (Tunstall, Catterick); 55 (Kirby Fleetham); 56 (Northallerton); 57 (Snilesworth); 58 (Fangdale). Surveyed between 1848 and 1854.Southampton: Ordnance Map Office, individually published between 1852 and 1857, sixteen linen-backed maps, each approx 65.5cm x 96cm, scale of 6 inches to the mile (1:10,560). Ex library with usual evidence, centrally bound in library quarter morocco.Other than a little dust marking to margins in places, maps generally VG. No defects found. Usual library evidence to endpapers and binding. Binding rubbed abd bumped..
Ordnance Survey - North YorkshireA collection of twelve original six inch OS maps, comprising Sheets 51 (Swaledale - Askrigg Common); 52 (Grinton - West Bolton); 53 (Downholme - Hawxwell); 54 (Tunstall, Catterick); 66 (Bainbridge - Askrigg); 69 (Patrick Brompton); 82 (Bishopdale - Stalling Busk); 85 (Thornton Watlass - Masham); 98 (Buckden - Litton); 99 (Stonebeck); 100 (Masham Moor). Surveyed between 1847 and 1854.Southampton: Ordnance Map Office, individually published between 1852 and 1857, twelve linen-backed folding maps, each approx 65cm x 97cm and in eight sections, scale of 6 inches to the mile (1:10,560). Boundary line on sheets 100 & 101 lined in red, minimal red annotation to sheet 54, pencil annotation to sheet 53. Marbled paper covers to each map. Housed in black roan gilt folio book-form case with two part hinged spine and head-piece.Occasional light stain (see images). Wear to case.
BACON (George W) New Large Scale Ordnance Atlas of the British Isles with Plans of Towns. With Descriptions, Alphabetical Indexes and Census Tables [of 1881], no date, circa 1885, 4to, with 100 double page colour lithographic maps and town plans, including 4 double sheets 'New Map of London divided into half mile squares & circles', complete as per contents list, title a little stained, maps generally clean with each numbered to upper right corner, original cloth, rebacked
Folding maps. RENDEL (J M) Plan of Docks and Warehouses proposed to be made at Birkenhead, November 1844, hand coloured folding plan by J & C Walker, 62 x 75.5cm, cover detached and rubbed; BACON (G W) Map of England and Wales (North Sheet), circa 1920s, coloured, 64 x 101cm, wallet case; WHITE (W) Map of Suffolk, 1874, 44.5 x 57cm; Colchester district, 1838, cover marked 'Eastern Counties Railway', 64 x 50cm; three Guides to Portsmouth, 1825 (damp and brown stained), 1834, 1850 (toned); Ordnance Survey map of part of Devon between Bude Bay and Bideford Bay, hand coloured, 1813, 66 x 110cm; Ordnance Survey Index Map to England and Wales, 64 x 95cm (9)
SELECTION OF MILITARY REGIMENTAL BADGESincluding The Glasgow Highlanders, Royal Marines, Royal Engineers, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps, West Yorkshire Regiment, Royal Artillery, Grenadier Guards, Worcestershire and Sherwood Forest, Queens Own Highlanders, South Lancashire Regiment, 17/21st Lancers, Royal Flying Corps, Royal Leicestershire Regiment, Royal Scots and many others
A German Third Reich army soldier's personal photograph album, apparently that of an infantryman of Regiment 576, containing studies of military personnel, airfields, occupied eastern territories, aircraft wreckage, military graves, ordnance, troop transports, etc, also a tipped-in Russian language propaganda or similar leaflet
THE CAMEROONS WEST AFRICA, CATALOGUE FOR THE SALE BY AUCTION OF EX-ENEMY PROPERTY NOVEMBER, 1924 in drab boards, Solicitors: Messrs. Burchell, Auctioneers: Hampton & Sons, Without Reserve, No Restriction as to Nationality of Purchasers, By direction of the Custodian of Enemy Properties for H.M. Government... Particulars, Plans and Conditions of sale of the Cacao, Oil Pam & Rubber Plantations of various areas from 200 to 35,000 acres... upon which are Manager's bungalows, Overseers', Artizans' and Labourers houses, Hospitals, Cacao and Rubber curing factories and stores, furniture, tools, etc., banana, sugar and tobacco lands, light railways, rolling stock, locomotices, bridges, machinery and saw mills..., along with a period photograph album and Ordnance Map of Southern Nigeria (1910) (3)Approx. 26 photographs in the album.
THREE BOXES AND LOOSE BOOKS AND SUNDRY ITEMS, to include thirty two volumes of Chapman & Hall 'Charles Dickens novels, a 1941 The Herries Chronicle by Hugh Walpole, a collection of eight Beatrix Potter story books, five children's Railway Series 'Thomas The Tank Engine' books by The Rev. W. Awdry, The Nursery Song Book, a 1950's Maudella Fashions And Useful Patterns magazine, twenty two Pathfinder Ordnance Survey maps, two large blue and white Continental style porcelain figures of a boy and girl, a Victorian Singer M.F.C Company sewing machine (3 boxes + loose)
Miss Corner: The History of China and India Pictorial and Descriptive. Dean & Co. no date, C1870 393pp, with 2 folding maps, plus 31 tinted plates (17 for China & 14 for India), plus numerous text illus. Cont. half leather, rubbed; one plate frayed with small loss to edges; Mudge, Col: Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, Sheets: 3,5,6,&9. Folding, linen backed and housed in a cont. leather book box, (2)
A Rogers and Spencer Army model .44Cal. six shot revolver S/No. 4664. One of a 5,000 U.S. Ordnance Contract, November 1864. The last delivered September 1865. Matching S/No. on barrel, cylinder and frame, with Government inspection. Inspector's markings on left hand grip. This fine example has near mint bore and a high percentage of original finish. Presented in a later case with accessories
Navy Office. 1753-1813 Entire letters all with O.H.M.S headings but prepaid in cash, comprising 1753 letter to H.M. Ship "Gibraltar" at Portsmouth concerning a payment to the Ordnance due to a discrepancy in the accounts of provisions provided by the purser or sent to the Victualling Office, endorsed "P.Pd 4d" (but actually paid 3d); 1810 letter to "Capt. Down, Redwing, Mediterranean" endorsed "Navy Office P.P 3/-"; and 1813 letter with unusual printed O.H.M.S heading, "Navy Office / Post Paid (2/2)" and part address, to "Captn Decker, H.M.S Vestal, West Indies" with Paid c.d.s but endorsed "Forwarded by Mr J. Ironmonger". (3).
Military General Service 1793-1814, 13 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (Chas. Stott, Serjt. 36th Ft.) contemporarily re-engraved naming, with original ribbon and otherwise as issued with perfect rivets etc., edge bruise, very fine or better and very rare £800-£1,000 --- Only two 13-clasp M.G.S. medals were issued with this combination of clasps, one to Corporal Henry Backefeld, 1st Hussars K.G.L. (Sold Sotheby, March 1980, and in these rooms in April 2003 and September 2012), the other to Driver John Fitton, Royal Artillery Drivers, who died in September 1848 and whose medal has never appeared on the market. It is most probable that Fitton’s medal was acquired by Sergeant Charles Stott, or perhaps a member of his family, in order to embellish his military history! Discharge papers exist for both men as follows: Charles Stott was born in the Parish of Manchester and enlisted into the 36th Foot at Didsbury, Lancaster, on 22 November 1808, aged fourteen for unlimited service, a cotton spinner by trade. He served 15 years 219 days, not counting 4 years under age, and was discharged at Dublin on 30 April 1828, in consequence of hepatitis. He was admitted to an Out-pension at Chelsea Hospital on 15 May 1828, which he claimed in the Manchester District. According to the Royal Hospital Chelsea Admissions Book he was still living in 1864 when he would have been aged 70, his date of death unknown. John Fitton was born in the Parish of Wrighton, near Oldham, Lancaster, and enlisted into the Royal Artillery Drivers at Manchester in November 1803, aged 18, a weaver by trade. He served 13 years 31 days and was discharged at Woolwich on 31 October 1816, ‘being afflicted with Rheumatism and thereby rendered unfit for further service - is placed upon the Pension List at Nine Pence per Diem commencing 1st November 1816, By Order of the Honorable (sic) Board of Ordnance.’ He claimed his pension in the Manchester District and, more importantly, claimed his Peninsula War medal with 13 Clasps before he died on 14 September 1848, aged 62.
Waterloo 1815 (Robert Bustle, Driver, Royal Horse Artillery.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, light contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £1,400-£1,800 --- Provenance: Needes, November 1898. Served in Major (William) Norman Ramsay’s “H” Troop at Waterloo equipped with 9 pounder cannon. “H” Troop, as it was known at the time was posted from Warley to Canterbury on 11 April 1811, and remained there until 1 April 1815. In June 1815 Brevet Major Norman Ramsay was appointed Commander of the troop upon his predecessor’s promotion and it was Ramsay that would lead “H” Troop at the Battle of Waterloo. Major Ramsay with “H”Troop, as with all the Royal Horse Artillery, did not see action on the first day of the campaign; it was not until the night of 16 June 1815, when Wellington had decided to abandon his position at Quatre-Bras, that the Royal Horse Artillery were brought into the Battle. The 17th June saw, in particular Mercer’s, Bull’s and Ramsay’s Troops, very heavily engaged in delaying the French advance while Wellington broke contact and then re-established himself at Waterloo. By the afternoon the brunt of the fighting fell upon the Light Cavalry Brigade which Ramsay was supporting. It was a hard fight and Ramsay himself was wounded. The French only broke off the action when they ran into the whole of the Duke’s Army at Waterloo. It rained all night of 17th/18th June turning the ground into a quagmire; so marsh-like was the ground that Napoleon had to wait until 1100 hrs before he could begin his assault on the Allied position. His plan was to launch a feint against the Allied right and get Wellington to commit his reserves, and then by a series of mass attacks, heavily supported by artillery, blast a hole through Wellington’s now weakened centre. The Allied Army, broken in half, could then be destroyed again in the Foret de Soignes. It was a plan dependent on mass rather than mobility; unimaginative in conception, its execution was careless. The feint attack against Hougoumont not only failed to fool Wellington, it was allowed to absorb too much of the French Army. The mass attacks against the centre were uncoordinated; infantry and then cavalry were each thrown alone and unsupported against the Allied centre. This was against all accepted practice and the infantry were driven off by artillery fire and shock cavalry action. The cavalry were unable to make much impression on the squares of infantry; when a foothold was gained it was not consolidated. Finally the Imperial Guard was hurled back by the close quarter fire of musket and canon. The Royal Horse Artillery was initially deployed in the reserve. “H” Troop were positioned in-between Bull’s and Webber Smith’s Troop along the Hougoumont-Haye Sainte Ridge, behind the feeble cover of stunted hedges. It was a superb enfilade position covering the whole of the Allied centre. From there, early on in the attack on Hougoumont, French Tiraileurs were closely engaged with the Guards defending the chateau. There was fierce combat in the wood next to the chateau and Bull’s Troop was ordered to support the Guards with their 5.5” howitzers. Major Bull fired into the wood but could not see the effect of his fire. Ramsay, who was to Bull’s left, could; he sent runners to Bull to inform him of the effectiveness of his shooting. This is perhaps the first recorded instance of observed and corrected indirect fire. The Duke had only two instructions for his artillery; they were not to engage the enemy batteries but to conserve their ammunition against the French attacks; and they were to retire into the protection of infantry squares when threatened by French cavalry. The battle was so hot that despite the Duke’s precautions the artillery exhausted its field reserves of ammunition and suffered heavy losses. With the attacks on the Allied centre, first the infantry of d’Erlon and then the cavalry of Ney, the artillery was pushed even further forwards over the ridge. “H” Troop suffered very heavily from the fire of mounted sharpshooters who accompanied the cavalry attacks, it was during one of these attacks that Major Ramsay was killed, shot by a sharpshooter. The Troop suffered so badly that by the end of the day, Lieutenant Sandilands was the only officer out of five to be left unwounded. During the final stages of the French cavalry attacks, Bull’s Troop had to dispatch men to help man the guns of “H” Troop. The Troop fought long and hard and helped to break up the final assaults of the French upon La Haye Sainte. Major Norman Ramsay was buried where he fell by his Troop, but his body was later disinterred and reburied in Scotland where it remains today. On completion of the operations in France, “H” Troop returned to England and was posted to Woolwich in 1816. Robert Bustle (Bussell on discharge and pension papers) was born in the Parish of Norwich, Norfolk, and was enlisted into the Royal Horse Artillery at the age of 18 years on 26 October 1793, a labourer by trade. He served in the Horse Artillery for 24 years 156 days, including 2 years for Waterloo, and was discharged at Woolwich, Kent, on 31 March 1816, in consequence of ‘being placed on the Pension List at one shilling and one penny half penny per diem commencing 1 April 1816, by order of the Honble. Board of Ordnance.’ At the ‘Examination of Out-Pensioners who solicit to be admitted In-Pensioners of the Hospital’ held on 25 March 1834, his application was upheld and he was duly admitted as an In-Pensioner on 1 April 1834, then aged 63. Robert Bussell died on 2 February 1842. Sold with copied discharge and pension papers.
Regimental Prize Medallions (8), Eastern Bengal Railway Sporting Medallion (Welfare Week 1936); Officer’s Recreation Club Deolali Medallion; Auxiliary Forces India, The Bangalore Contingent Medallion; I.D.F. (18th Battalion, Bttn. Shooting Club); Madras University Training Corps Medallion (Hockey 1940-41); Bombay Volunteer Artillery Medallion (Wheal Club 1911-12 No. 1 Coy. Gunr. J. Smith); Western Command Small Arms Association India, 63mm; Royal Army Ordnance Corps Medallion, the first seven silver, the last silvered-bronze, generally very fine (8) £80-£100
Regimental Sporting Medallions (14), Northern Ireland District Curragh Challenge Cup 1927 (1st D.L.I. ‘C’ Coy Cpl. J. Gallagy); London Territorial Sprts 1909; Cirty of London (T) A & S A War Memorial Trophy (Football Ravensbourne H A Gough 1927); Ordnance Athletic Recreation Club Cricket (Foremans Cup Runners Up 1020 Erecting & Test J. Harris); RNAS Evanton (2) (Inter Hut Soccer Aug. 1945 Runners Up J. Walton. L.A.F.A.; Football 1946 Winners Dispersal J. Walton L.A.F.A. 12th Man); ACAC (Unit Team Championships J. B. Jarvis 43rd Light Infantry 1932); The Army Football Association (Army v Essex County 1960-61 Referee Captain R. A. Baker R.A.E.C.); United Services Football League (Junior Challenge Cup Winners 1938-39); British Legion Band Society 1927 (Brass Band Contest Winners J. Bell); Military College of Science; 101 Training Reserve Batt.; Mill Hill O.T.C.; Miniature Rifles Society Clubs, all silver and enamelled, the last with solder over naming, generally very fine (14) £100-£140
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