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Lot 2036
Three pairs of earrings, including two pairs in 18 ct yellow gold, both with post and clip fittings, one pair has brushed and polished finished, with a pair of costume base metal earrings by Norman Hartnell, with post and butterfly fittings Condition Report: 18 ct gross weight 14 grams All earrings in good condition Suitable for pierced ears
Lot 496
A collection of assorted Britains 1:32 scale models, mostly farm, to include 9584 Ford Tractor with Front Loader and Loads, 9511 Helicopter Crop Sprayer, 9532 Farmhand Baler, 9572 Massey Ferguson Trailer, 9519 JCB Loadall, 9832 Post-hole Digger, and a selection of assorted boxed and unboxed accessories including loads and animals. (qty)
Lot 006
A set comprising of a pair of 9ct yellow & white gold oval cut sapphire & diamond stud earrings with post & butterfly fittings, 2.15gm and a matching 18ct yellow & white gold oval cut sapphire & diamond pendant on an 18ct yellow gold 18" chain (the chain has a knot near the clasp), 2.71gm (2).
Lot 031
A matching set comprising of a 9ct 18" yellow gold necklace interspaced with round faceted semi-precious gemstones including amethyst, blue topaz, peridot, citrine, rose quartz & smokey quartz, 3.56gm and a pair of matching 9ct yellow gold drop earrings with post & butterfly fittings (one butterfly missing), length approx. 3cm, 1.46gm, (2).
Lot 113
Three pieces of jewellery by Clogau Gold to include a pair of 9ct yellow & rose gold leaf studs with post & butterfly fittings, 1.47gm, a pair of 9ct yellow & rose gold circular studs with post & butterfly fittings (one butterfly missing), 1.73gm and a 9ct rose gold Celtic pendant with a 9ct yellow gold snake chain (broken), 4.78gm, all in original boxes and two with outer boxes, some labels & leaflets (3).
Lot 125
Frank Wootton (British, 1914-1998)Penny Post at Newmarketsigned 'Wootton' (lower right) oil on canvas 51.1 x 76.5cm (20 1/8 x 30 1/8in).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 238
Victorian Postal Order Type Three, first issued 1892, note sum block now black and this one dated ’97 for 1897 in Caterham Number A51 254064. Postal orders were first originally issued by Post Offices in the reign of Queen Victoria. The Victorian Postal Order type one, first day of issue was 1st January 1881. At this time, each Postal Order was handmade, the name of the issuing office printed in the top corner.Condition report: VF Scarce
Lot 327
Six: Lieutenant-Colonel C. A. Armstrong, Northumberland Fusiliers, who was reported missing in action and mentioned in despatches during the Boer War, and subsequently killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 1 October 1915, whilst commanding the 2nd Battalion. He was shot in the head whilst trying to rally his men for a counter-attack Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Transvaal (Capt: C. A. Armstrong, North’d Fus:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Maj. C. A. Armstrong. Nthld. Fus.); 1914-15 Star (Major C. A. Armstrong North’d Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. C. A. Armstrong); France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, gilt, and enamels, in Arthus Bertrand, Paris, case of issue, with note that it was conferred by President Courbet at Dover in 1910, the first two mounted as worn together with the related pair of mounted miniatures, the former being with 4 clasps including ‘Orange Free State’, minor edge bruising to first two, otherwise nearly extremely fine (8) £1,000-£1,400 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2005. Charles Arthur Armstrong was born in London on 5 May 1873, the only son of Major-General Charles Armstrong, Bengal Staff Corps. He was educated at Sherborne School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (Hon. Queen’s India Cadet), and was gazetted Second Lieutenant to the 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers on 10 October 1894. He was promoted Lieutenant in December 1895; Captain in May 1900; and Brevet Major in Lord Kitchener’s Despatch of 8 April 1902. He served throughout the South African War 1899-1902; took part in the battles of Belmont, Enslin, Modder River, Magersfontein; was Commandant at Kraipan from 27 February 1901, and Adjutant, 5th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry (16th (Worcestershire) Company), June 1901 to May 1902; he took part in the operations in the Transvaal, February 1901 to May 1902. On 24 February 1902, a convoy commanded by Lt-Col W.C. Anderson heading for Klerksdorp, bivouacked on the farm Elandslaagte by the Yzer Spruit. Early the following morning the column set off and after a march of some three kilometres was attacked by a commando under the command of Asst. Cmdt-Gen. J.H. de la Rey. After very strong resistance, the convoy was forced to surrender. British losses were 187 killed and wounded whilst the Boers lost 51 killed and wounded. Major Armstrong was reported missing on 25 February 1902 at Elandslaagte and later re-joined. For his services in the Boer War he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 17 June 1902). Returning to England, at St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, in November 1902, Armstrong married Evelyn Denison, daughter of the late Major General Charles Richards, Indian Army. He was then transferred to the 2nd Battalion, with which he served until October 1913, when he was appointed Adjutant of the Officers’ Training Corps, Queen’s University Belfast (attached General Staff), a post he held until the outbreak of war. Confirmed in the rank of Major on 14 October 1914, he was then appointed to train the 8th Service Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers. He was appointed to the command of the 2nd Battalion in June 1915, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and immediately went out to France. After being at the front for four months, Lieutenant-Colonel Armstrong was fatally shot in the head at the battle of Loos, 1 October 1915, and is buried in the British Cemetery at Vermelles. He is also commemorated in the Sherborne School Roll of Honour and War Memorial. The Fifth in the Great War refers: “Dawn was just breaking, the relief was hurried through, and a party of the relieved troops (1/York & Lancs.), impatient to get back, instead of moving by communication trenches, rashly withdrew across the open. This movement, undoubtedly, was observed by the enemy, to whom it gave the clue to what was in progress. Before the relief had been fully completed, and while the men of the FIFTH were still in process of taking up their positions, the Germans, approaching unseen by South Face, suddenly attacked with bombs. The inner flanks of both "C" and "D" Companies were driven back, and the enemy secured a footing of about one hundred yards in the Hohenzollern and "Big Willie." Further progress of the enemy was checked and a barrier was constructed by each company to protect its flank and contain the enemy; but they found themselves completely separated. On report of the situation reaching Brigade Headquarters, orders were issued that the enemy was to be driven from the position at all costs; but though it was simple enough to issue such orders, the manner in which they should be carried out was quite a different matter. Major Armstrong had gone forward to the scene of the trouble before the orders from the Brigade had reached his headquarters, with the intention of organising a counter-attack, the necessity for which was, in truth, quite obvious. But to form any plan without more accurate knowledge of the general situation than could be obtained from the bottom of a trench was impossible. In order to secure a view of his surroundings, he raised himself above the parapet and was immediately shot through the head and killed. On news of this tragic event reaching Battalion Headquarters, Captain Lamb, to whom command now fell, went forward with 2nd Lieutenant Gilchrist, the Adjutant, to " D " Company's position. He found that already many casualties had been sustained; bombing and counter-bombing were in progress; and considerable confusion reigned in the trench. Any attempt to attack across the open would have been swept away by the fire of machine guns from the enemy's rear positions, and the only hope of dislodging the Germans lay in bombing them from the section of trench in which they had secured a footing.” “During the short time he (Armstrong) was in command of the 2nd Battalion he gained the highest praise and admiration of all, and numerous letters received by his widow tell how much he was beloved, and "that his most excellent work had been appreciated and noted for due reward and promotion, had he but lived through the Battle of Loos." (Roll of Honour, Marquis de Ruvigny refers). Sold with a portrait photograph of recipient in uniform, and a fine leather bound family scrap book embossed with gold design the front cover with the initials ‘J. W. A.’, and the inside cover with ‘James Wells Armstrong’ bookplate. The latter mainly concerning newspaper cuttings related to Lieutenant General J. W. Armstrong, C.B., but also containing other family related material, and a photograph of C. A. Armstrong’s original grave; with copied research.
Lot 200
The rare and remarkable Peninsular, Waterloo and Bhurtpoor group of three awarded to Troop-Sergeant-Major John Lakin, 16th Lancers, who was wounded in the leg at Fuentes d’Onor in May 1811, in the side at Burgos in 1812, and was noted in regimental records ‘for distinguished conduct in the field’; he later served as a gamekeeper and gatekeeper at Windsor Great Park, and lived in the reign of four monarchs Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Talavera, Fuentes D’Onor, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nive (J. Lakin, T. Serjeant M. 16th Light Dragoons) the clasp for ‘Nive’ mounted upside-down; Waterloo 1815 (Corp. John Laken, 16th or Queen’s Light Drag.) fitted with replacement bar suspension; Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (Troop Serjt. Major J. Lakin, 16th Lancers) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, heavy edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good fine and better (3) £14,000-£18,000 --- Only 10 men of the 16th Light Dragoons got all three of these medals. This is the only known surviving such group apart from the one to Thomas Armstrong held by the regimental museum. Broken groups are known to four others (one of whom also got a L.S. & G.C. medal) and four remain lost/whereabouts unknown. John Lakin was born in the Parish of Sutton, Birmingham, Warwickshire, and enlisted at Birmingham for the 16th Light Dragoons on 19 July 1805, aged 18 years, for unlimited service. He was promoted to Corporal in July 1815, to Sergeant in October 1821, and to Troop Sergeant-Major in July 1824. Discharged at Meerut, India, in October 1827, Lakin returned to England for his final discharge on 22 May 1828, in consequence of ‘being inactive from corpulency’. His discharge papers record that he was ‘wounded in the leg at Fuentes d’Onor, and in the side at Burgos 28 Octr. 1812’, whilst the regimental history of the 16th Light Dragoons records him as having been distinguished in the Peninsula: ‘The following N.C.O.’s and privates were noted for distinguished conduct in the field:- Sergt.-Major Blood, Sergts. Baxter, Drawbridge, Greaves, Malony, Kearney, Blythe, Ashworth, Lincoln, Collins, Jolly, and Lakin; Corporals Cox and Yates; Privates Hurst, Fitzpatrick, Michel, Castans, Arthur, Weedon, Daly, Bulpot, and Pemberton.’ John Lakin died from ‘natural decay’ at Queen Anne’s Lodge, Windsor Great Park, on 23 February 1877. An obituary notice published in The Windsor Gazette & Eton College Journal on 3 March 1877, gave the following information: ‘Sudden Death of a Waterloo Veteran - On Friday last week Mr John Lakin, keeper of the lodge to Queen Anne’s-ride, died suddenly at the advanced age of 89 years. Mr Lakin when a young man joined the 16th Lancers, then commanded by the Earl of Harcourt, and first saw active service in India, for which he received a medal (Bhurtpoor). He fought through the Peninsula campaign under the Duke of Wellington, was present at the crowning victory of Vittoria, at Salamanca, Fuentes D’onor, and the bloody fight of Talavera; and finally he took part in the ever-memorable battle of Waterloo, receiving a sword stab in the leg and a gunshot wound in the side, but he was not placed hors de combat, and fought till the French were utterly routed. The deceased had medals and bars which tell of the glories he participated in. He attained the rank of sergeant-major and at the age of 40 years, in 1828, he was discharged with a pension from the Chelsea Hospital. After leaving the army the deceased came to Windsor, and entered the service of George III, as gamekeeper in the Great Park. As gamekeeper and gatekeeper he served under that monarch, George IV, William IV, and her present gracious Majesty. He was 43 years the keeper of Queen Anne’s-ride lodge, where he died last Friday. Mr Coroner Marlin held an inquest on the body at the Windsor Castle Inn, King’s-road, on Monday. The evidence went to show that the deceased had enjoyed on the whole very good health, and there had been no necessity to call in any medical man for a number of years. On the Thursday he appeared in a better state of health than usual, but when his daughter-in-law went to see him next morning he said he did not feel very well. He took a little breakfast and had beef-tea for dinner. After dinner he said he would try to go to sleep, but when his daughter-in-law went upstairs to see him, between three and four o’clock, she found him dead. Mr Surgeon Pearl was sent for. He stated that he found several marks on his arms and one on his side, but he did not think that they were caused by violence. It was explained by relatives of the deceased that he had to be carried up and down stairs by his son, and he “Tumbled about” a good deal. The Doctor thought Mr Lakin had died from natural decay, and the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.’ And from the Evening Post of 28 February 1877: ‘A WATERLOO VETERAN. Mr John Lakin, a Waterloo veteran, has just died at Queen Anne’s Gate, Windsor Great Park, in his 90th year. He took part in the whole of the Peninsular war with the 16th Lancers, and attained the rank of sergeant-major. He was afterwards appointed by the late Lord Harcourt as keeper in Windsor Great Park, a post he filled until the day of his death - upwards of fifty years. In fact, he was the oldest royal servant of her Majesty. He lived in the reign of four sovereigns, and he had often said with pride that he had addressed them all personally - viz., George III, George IV, William IV, and her Majesty.’
Lot 631
A Rare German Second World War Tiger Tank Afrika Document Grouping. A rare grouping a member of Panzer Abteilung 501, this was a Tiger Tank unit within the 15th Panzer Division, comprising: * Armband Afrika A5 size citation, folded once, slightly ragged edges to Gefreiten Karl Hirt Panzer Abteilung 501, awarded by Heeresgruppe Afrika on the 12 March 1944, pen signed by Major and Unit Commander with over stamp of Panzer Abteilung 215 with whom this soldier was by then serving in Italy * An Infantry Assault Badge citation, single folded, slightly ragged edges awarded to Panzerschutzen Karl Hirt of 1./Panzer-Regiment 8 awarded in Africa 10 October 1942, signed by Captain and Regiment Commander * A head and shoulder portrait of this Gefreiten, postcard size, studio photograph probably taken just after his arrival in Africa as many soldiers did with his plain shoulder boards indicating his rank as a standard schutz, his Afrika Korps cap still in issue colour without being bleached, this particular soldier escaped from North Africa to Italy where he became a driver with Panzer Jager Abteilung 33 * Award document hand written but standard printed for the Wound Badge in black, single folded, dated 4 April 1945 with Panzer Jager Abteilung 33, central eagle and swastika inked out * A single sheet printout creased and slightly stained with details of this soldier being involved in four battles with the English tanks and infantry 12 May to 15 May 1944 in the Pignataro area of Italy * The Drivers’ badge in bronze citation A5 size citation, single folded, inked out eagle and swastika, dated 11 November 1944 * An immediate post-War document with the soldier being held first at a Kriegsmarine centre with the over stamp of Kriegsmarine Kommando Marine Abteilung 252, dated 26 June 1945, the paper includes his awards for war service including the Armband Afrika * The recipient’s discharge certificate from British Occupying Forces * Accompanying document for the French Forces. A highly interesting group to a Tiger Tank member who saw continuous service and survived the Second World War, generally good condition, rare (lot) £400-£500
Lot 251
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private J. Craig, Royal Scots Fusiliers Distinguished Conduct Medal (16990 Pte. J. Craig. 2/R. Sc: Fus:); 1914-15 Star (16990 Pte. J. Craig. R. Sco: Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (16990 Pte. J. Craig. R.S. Fus.) nearly very fine (4) £700-£900 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 12 March 1919; citation published 2 December 1919: ‘During the recent advance east of Ledeghem from 14 to 17 October 1918, he displayed the highest qualities of gallantry, coolness and devotion to duty in the face of heavy enemy machine-gun fire. On 14 October, near Spark Farm, he rushed an enemy machine gun post single handed and bombed the crew who were holding up the advance on the right with their fire. This act was successful in silencing the gun, and he took five prisoners. Immediately afterwards he was wounded. Throughout his conduct was an inspiring example to his comrades.’ James Craig attested for the Royal Scots Fusiliers and served initially with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 18 August 1915. He transferred to the 2nd Battalion, part of 28th Brigade, 9th (Scottish Division and it was while serving with this battalion that he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his actions at Spark Farm, near Ledeghem on 14 October 1918. On 28 September 1918 an allied force commanded by the King of the Belgians attacked on a 20 mile front from Dixmude to Ploegsteert Wood. Ninth Division with 28th Brigade on the right and 26th Brigade on the left attacked in the Broodseinde area and had achieved all of their objectives by 11:45 a.m. On 5 October, 28th Brigade with 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers in reserve attacked and captured the Keiberg Spur. The following day the battalion attacked at Rolleghemcapelle and gained its objective with 130 casualties. Then came the advance from Ledeghem to the Scheldt, the Lys being crossed on 20 October. At the cessation of hostilities on 11 November the battalion was in billets at Cuerne. The Battalion War Diary gives the following account: 13 October 1918: Making up battle equipment and relieved 26th Brigade in left centre, w of Ledeghem: heavy shelling (HE and gas) on way up to line, about 50 casualties, killed, wounded and missing, relief complete midnight. 14 October 1918: Attacked under heavy barrage at 5.30am. Heavy fog delayed operations for about 1 hour near Rolleghemcappelle. Objective reached by about 2pm. Casualties: 2/Lt Clarke, Johnson, Kirk and Ronald wounded : OR 130, killed wounded and missing. Dig in on objective. 15 October 1918: Attack continued by 27th Brigade, 28th Brigade in reserve. Objective west bank of Lys reached in afternoon. Battalion moved in to billets at Capelle St Catherine.’ Sold with copied research.
Lot 303
A good Second War ‘Evacuation to Dunkirk’ 1940 M.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant S. G. Diver, 13th/18th Royal Hussars, who was wounded and taken Prisoner of War in May 1940- he secured his release from captivity by bringing on heart illness ‘by chewing cordite’. Re-joining his unit, he served with them again in North-West Europe, was Mentioned in Despatches, and was killed in action on 19 January 1945 Military Medal, G.VI.R. (406294 Sjt. S. G. Diver. 13/18 H.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, about extremely fine (5) £1,400-£1,800 --- One of only 20 Military Medals awarded to the 13th/18th Royal Hussars during the whole of the Second World War, and the only award for service with the British Expeditionary Force in 1940 (the other 19 all being for service in Normandy and North-West Europe post-D-Day). The Regiment was awarded three Military Crosses and one Military Medal (Diver’s) for service with the British Expeditionary Force in 1940, and suffered approximately 54 casualties during the campaign and withdrawal from Dunkirk. M.M. London Gazette 10 March 1942. The original Recommendation states: ‘On 27 May [1940], during the counter-attack with the Black Watch, he had his tank knocked out by an anti-tank gun. Under heavy machine gun fire he extracted his driver and operator from the disabled tank, although wounded himself. His coolness and bravery got both back to Hospital although the gunner subsequently died. Sergeant Diver was left at Crombeke Hospital and is now prisoner.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 9 August 1945: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished service in North-West Europe.’ Stanley George Diver attested for the 13th/18th Royal Hussars and served with them during the Second World War as part of the British Expeditionary Force. Wounded and taken Prisoner of War, he subsequently managed to negotiated his release. A letter written by one of Diver’s comrades gives the following account: ‘Dibs Diver managed to escape by malingering heart illness by chewing cordite. He managed to convince the Red Cross that he was dying and he was allowed to return to England via Switzerland. The delay in the award of the M.M. occurred because the details were not generally know at the time, and he had been required to supply some of the details himself.’ Re-joining his old unit, Diver served with them again in North-West Europe post-D-Day, being Mentioned in Despatches. He was killed in action during an attack near Waldefeucht on 19 January 1945. The History of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars gives the following account: ‘Meanwhile “C” Squadron on their front ran into stiff resistance shortly after passing the start line on the 19th, and lost five tanks from concealed 88mm guns. Sergeant Diver was killed, but not before he knocked out one S.P. and one tank.’ The exact circumstance of Diver’s death are again summarised by his old comrade: ‘Diver had a premonition that he was going to be killed an when he was, by a single shellburst which exploded over his tank as he climbed out of it in an orchard after a day in action, it appeared that the shell indeed “had his number on it”.’ Diver is buried in Sittard War Cemetery, Holland. Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient.
Lot 239
A post-War M.B.E. group of five awarded to Chief Engineering Officer W. Turnbull, Mercantile Marine The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue; British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (William Turnbull); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. Wm. Turnbull, 190 Prince Consort Road, Gateshead-on-Tyne’, extremely fine (5) £180-£220 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 2 January 1950: William Turnbull, Esq., Chief Engineering Officer, S.S. “Parkwood” (Constantine Steamship Line, Ltd.) William Turnbull was born at Otterburn on 24 December 1883 and served during the Great War as a Second Engineer in the Mercantile Marine. He saw further service in the Second World War, and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1950 New Year’s Honours’ List. He died in 1955. Sold with copied research including various photographic images of the recipient.
Lot 408
Five: Attributed to Flying Officer J. Hawden, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s two card identity tags both impressed ‘174450 J. Hawden RAF CE Offr’, nearly extremely fine (5) £300-£400 --- Jack Hawden enlisted in the Royal Air Force and served during the Second World War as an Air Gunner. He was commissioned Acting Pilot Officer on 25 May 1944, and continued to serve post-War in the Administrative and Special Duties branch on intelligence duties, being advanced Flying Officer.
Lot 483
Family Group: The British War Medals awarded to Mr. W. P. Hancock and Mrs K. G. Hancock, both students of the Bible Training College and Young Men’s Christian Association Volunteers who served in Egypt during the Great War British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (W. P. Hancock; K. G. Hancock.) nearly extremely fine (2) £140-£180 --- William Philip Hancock was born in 1892 in Neath, Glamorgan. In the 1911 Census he is recorded as residing in his parents household at of 2 Bryn Road, Neath. He was sponsored by one of the missionary societies to attend the Oswald Chambers Bible Training College, at Clapham Common, and had as a fellow student Kathleen Ballinger. He joined the Y.M.C.A. at the outbreak of war and spent several months at the Y.M.C.A. refreshment centre at Salisbury Plain. He then served as a volunteer and ‘Y.M.C.A. Secretary’ (being the equivalent of officer rank in the army) in Egypt with the Y.M.C.A. In the meantime Kathleen Ballinger had also volunteered for service in Egypt and they married at Al Qahirah, Cairo Egypt, in 1918. After they married they worked together at Ismailia. The Y.M.C.A. medal roll notes that he was resident at the Y.M.C.A. Red Triangle Club, Carpenter’s Road, Stratford, London, and confirms that he has served in Egypt from 4 December 1915. They worked for some time as missionaries in Persia during the 1920’s. They both emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1929, landing in New York, he stating himself to be a Missionary, and she as housewife, their U.K. address being the Mission Guest House, Selly Oak, Birmingham, subsequently settling in Gustine, Merced, California, where they were still resident in 1930. They returned to the U.K., now with three children, landing at Southampton on the S.S. Mauretania in 1931, stating the family address to be St. Johns Wood Lane, London. William Philip Hancock died at Bath in January 1985. Kathleen Gertrude Hancock, née Ballinger, was born at Aylburton, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, in 1890. In 1911 she is recorded as a shop assistant working in Cheltenham at the Cavendish House store, and was a Boarder in accommodation provided by her employer. After attending the Bible Training College she also volunteered for service with the Y.M.C.A., and departed the U.K. for Egypt in September 1916, arriving in Post Said, Egypt in September 1916. She married William Philip Hancock at Al Qahirah, Cairo Egypt, in 1918. The Y.M.C.A. medal roll confirms that she had served in Egypt from September 1916 to May 1919, and that her address was at 12 Brook Street, Gloucester. She died in Bath, Somerset in 1974. Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the couple with their eldest child.
Lot 266
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. pair awarded to Sergeant J. C. Randall, Postal Section, Royal Engineers, late 24th Middlesex (Post Office) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers Military Medal, G.V.R. (27935 Sjt: J. C. Randall. R.E.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Diamond Hill (548 Pt. J. C. Randall. C.I.V.) with replacement retaining rod; mounted for display purposes along with a 1914-15 [sic] Star (27935 Pte. J. C. Randall. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (27935 Sjt. J. C. Randall R.E.) the Great War campaign medals all modern copies, nearly extremely fine (5) £400-£500 --- Provenance: Jack Webb Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, August 2020. M.M. London Gazette 29 March 1919. John Charles Randall was born in Upper Holloway, London on 20 January 1875. A Post Office sorter, he enlisted into the 24th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers on 23 January 1895 and served as one of their 7 man detachment in South Africa during the Boer War in the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers. He further served in the South African War with the Army Post Office Corps, additionally qualifying for the King’s South Africa Medal with clasps for 1901 and 1902. Following the outbreak of the Great War, Randall served as a Sapper with the Postal Section, Royal Engineers, on the Western Front from 26 September 1914 (entitled to a 1914 Star without clasp, not the 1914-15 Star, with his rank shown as ‘Spr.’, not ‘Pte.’). Advanced to Sergeant, for his gallantry he was awarded the Military Medal. He died in Worthing, Sussex in 1954.
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