Pair: Private R. Kerr, Scots Guards British War and Victory Medals (16976 Pte. R. Kerr. S. Gds.) very fine Pair: Private J. Gillies, Scottish Rifles British War and Victory Medals (55970 Pte. J. Gillies. Sco. Rif.) edge bruise to BEM, very fine Pair: Private J. Ireland, Scottish Rifles British War and Victory Medals (37733 Pte. J. Ireland. Sco. Rif.) mounted as worn, good very fine Pair: Private N. E. West, 16th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 13 June 1916 British War and Victory Medals (428056 Pte. N. E. West. 16-Can. Inf.) good very fine (8) £80-£100 --- Norham Eugene West was born in King Williamstown, Cape Colony, South Africa, on 7 June 1897 and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at New Westminster, British Columbia, on 11 March 1915. He served with the 16th Battalion (Manitoba Regiment), Canadian Infantry, during the Great War on the Western Front from 2 March 1916, and was wounded and partially buried by a shell on 25 April 1916. He was killed in action on 13 June 1916 and is buried in Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), Belgium.
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Family Group: Pair: Private W. Vine, Royal Sussex Regiment British War and Victory Medals (4543 Pte. W. Vine. R. Suss. R.) mounted for wear, very fine Pair: Corporal T. C. Vine, Royal Air Force General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Arabian Peninsula; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, contact marks, very fine (4) £120-£160 --- Sold together with silver Royal Sussex regimental boxing medallion and an R.A.F. Bridgnorth football medallion.
Three: Lieutenant E. D. Lunn, South Lancashire Regiment, late Royal West Kent Regiment British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. E. D. Lunn.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lt. E. D. Lunn, S. Lan. R.) ‘2’ before rank on last erased, mounted as worn, contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £80-£100 --- Ernest Donald Lunn attested for the Royal West Kent Regiment and served with them during the Great War on the North West Frontier of India, before being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the South Lancashire Regiment on 31 August 1917. He saw further service during the Third Afghan War; his Medal Index Card indicates that his India General Service Medal should indeed bear the rank ‘Lieutenant’.
Four: Second Lieutenant F. R. Hunt, Royal Flying Corps, later Assam Volunteer Light Horse British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. F. R. Hunt. R.F.C.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, India (Sjt. F. R. Hunt Assam V.L.H. A.F.I) mounted as worn, edge bruising, very fine (4) £160-£200 --- Francis Raimond Hunt was born on 31 October 1898 and enlisted into the Royal Flying Corps on 9 November 1916. Mobilised on 8 March 1917, he was posted to the Royal Flying Corps with the Service No 68960 for flying training. Discharged to a commission on 20 June 1917, he was injured on 4 September 1917 when the Bristol Fighter he was training on flew into the ground and overturned. He survived and was posted to the 48th Squadron R.F.C. in France, where he flew the Bristol Fighter. Hunt was injured on 19 February 1918 when, on returning from escorting a camera/reconnaissance flight, he flipped his Bristol Fighter when attempting to land on a ploughed field near the aerodrome near Flez. He was subsequently evacuated to England and remained there upon recovery. Post-War, Hunt returned to India and tea plantations. He served with the Assam Volunteer Light Horse and in 1935 was awarded the Silver Jubilee Medal as a Sergeant with the A.V.L.H., and the 1939 census records him living in England, a tea planter serving with the A.V.L.H. as a Lieutenant. Sold with the original named Bestowal Document for the Silver Jubilee Medal; and copied research.
Eight: Lieutenant G. R. G. Shipp, 40th Pathans and Indian Army Reserve of Officers British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. G. R. G. Shipp.); Victory Medal, with M.I.D. oak leaves (2. Lieut. G. R. G. Shipp.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (2-Lieut. G. R. G. Shipp, 40 Pathans.); War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., India, with Second Award Bar (Pt. G. R. G. Shipp2 Coy., M.G.C., A.F.I.) mounted as worn, nearly very fine (8) £160-£200 --- M.I.D. unconfirmed.
Pair: Private W. White, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, who was killed in action during the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916 British War and Victory Medals (739 Pte. W. White. R. Newf’d R.) generally very fine or better Victory Medal 1914-19 (586 Pte. J. J. Hickey. R. Newf’d R.); together with Memorial Plaque (Alfred Perry) last in card envelope of issue, generally very fine (4) £400-£500 --- Willis White was born in New Harbour, Newfoundland in June 1896. He was a Lumberman by trade, and resided at Comfort Cove, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland. White served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion, Royal Newfoundland Regiment on the Western Front. Private White was killed in action during the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, and is commemorated on the Beaumont-Hamel (Newfoundland) Memorial, Somme, France. The 29th Division included the 1st Battalion of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, as it was then called. The attack on Beaumont-Hamel in July 1916 was the first severe engagement of the regiment, and the most costly. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, no unit suffered heavier losses than the Newfoundland Regiment which had gone into action 801 strong. The roll call the next day revealed that the final figures were 233 killed or dead of wounds, 386 wounded, and 91 missing. Every officer who went forward in the Newfoundland attack was either killed or wounded. For this reason, the government of Newfoundland chose the hill south-west of the village, where the front-line trenches ran at the time of the battle, as the site of their memorial to the soldiers (and also to the sailors) of Newfoundland. John Joseph Hickey was born in Newfoundland, and was the son of Patrick Hickey of 119 Bond Street, St. John’s, Newfoundland. Hickey served during the Great War with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment on the Western Front. Alfred Perry - there are several men of this name listed on the CWGC website, one of whom served as 1273 Private, 1st Battalion, Royal Newfoundland Regiment. The latter was wounded on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, and wounded again later on the Somme leading to both of his legs being amputated. Private Perry died of these wounds on 21 January 1917, and is buried in Guards’ Cemetery, Lesboeufs, France.
Pair: Captain R. Coote, 46th Foot Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Lieut. R. Coote. 46th. Regt.) regimentally impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, a contemporary tailor’s copy by ‘J.B.’ (Captn. R. Coote. 46th. Reg.) engraved naming, the latter fitted with a Crimea-style suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £400-£500 --- Richard Coote was born at Cootehill, Co. Cavan, Ireland, on 13 January 1836 and was commissioned Ensign, by purchase, in the 46th Regiment of Foot on 11 November 1853. He was promoted Lieutenant, by purchase, on 22 September 1854, and served with the Regiment in the Crimea, before going on leave from 18 September 1855. Promoted Captain, by purchase, on 24 August 1858, he exchanged into the 29th Regiment of Foot on 12 October 1860, and then to the 6th Dragoon Guards on 18 March 1862, before retiring on 29 November 1864. Sold with copied research, which indicates that Coote was the owner of the dog ‘Boxer’, who was killed whilst trying to save his master from a shell in the tenches before Sebastopol, and is referenced in Lady Hornby’s book ‘Constantinople During the Crimean War.
Three: Sergeant W. H. James, Royal West Kent Regiment British War Medal 1914-20 (2095 A. Sjt. W. H. James. R. W. Kent. R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (2095 Pte. W. H. James. R. W. Kent. R.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (200539 Cpl. W. H. James, R. W. Kent R.) all with flattened named card boxes of issue, extremely fine (3) £200-£240 --- Entitled to Silver War Badge.
Six: Sepoy Ghulam Mahiudin, 2-8th Punjab Regiment India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (7037 Sep. Ghulam Mahiudin, 2-8 Punjab R.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal; Indian Recruiting Badge, G.VI.R., breast badge, silver and bronze, the reverse officially numbered ‘3860’, with top silver riband bar, generally very fine (6) £60-£80
Nine: Warrant Officer Class III J. R. Prior, Highland Light Infantry India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (3307012 Cpl. J. Prior. H.L.I.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (3307012 L/Sgt. J. Prior. H.L.I.) unofficially renamed and unconfirmed; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (3307012 Sjt. J. Prior. H.L.I.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (3307012 W.O. Cl.3. J. R. Prior. H.L.I.) ‘3’ of rank officially corrected, mounted as worn, generally very fine (9) £180-£220 --- Note: The Highland Light Infantry did not serve on the North West Frontier 1936-37, and the recipient’s entitlement to this medal is both unconfirmed and unlikely.
Four: Second Cook E. R. Sykes, Mercantile Marine, who was Commended for Brave Conduct when the M.V. Pontfield was attacked by enemy aircraft 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf and King’s Commendation for Brave Conduct plastic badge, extremely fine (4) £100-£140 --- King’s Commendation for Brave Conduct London Gazette 2 May 1944: ‘For brave conduct when their ships encountered enemy submarines, aircraft, ships, or mines.’ Edgar Ramsay Sykes was serving as a Second Cook in M.V. Pontfield when he was commended for his brave conduct. Sold with the recipient’s original Commendation for Brave Conduct Certificate; Ministry of War Transport notification letter; Merchant Navy A/A Gunnery Course Certificate of Proficiency; and other ephemera.
Four: Corporal K. M. Collins-Stoneman, Royal Signals 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted court-style as worn; together with the recipient’s Soldier’s Release Book, nearly extremely fine Four: Private R. Earnshaw, Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Soldier’s Release Book; and Dunkirk Commemorative Medal, nearly extremely fine (9) £80-£100
Four: Fusilier W. Tharby, Lancashire Fusiliers, who died on 11 August 1943 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in OHMS card transmission box, addressed to ‘Mrs. V. R. Bateman, 20 Henderville St., Littleborough, Lancs.’, extremely fine Four: Private C. E. Emeny, 5th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, who was mortally wounded at Arnhem on 24 September 1944, and died of his wounds on 19 October 1944 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in OHMS card transmission box, addressed to ‘Mrs. M. Emeny, 44 East Court, N. Wembley, Middx’, extremely fine Pair: Captain C. M. Ropner, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who died on 11 May 1945 Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Army Council enclosure, in OHMS card transmission box, addressed to ‘Mrs. D. S. Ropner, Heckley House, Alnwick, Northumberland’, extremely fine (10) £100-£140 --- William Tharby served with the 11th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, and died on 11 August 1943. He is buried in Pembroke Cemetery, Malta. His medals were issued to his sole Legatee, his friend Mrs. V. R. Bateman. Sold with various official letters, including the recipient’s will, which confirms that Mrs. Bateman was Tharby’s sole Executor and Legatee. Cecil Edward Emeny served with the 5th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, and was mortally wounded at Arnhem on 24 September 1944. He died of his wounds in Oxford on 19 October 1944, and is buried in Alperton Cemetery, Middlesex. His medals were issued to his mother, Mrs. Maud Emeny. Cuthbert Maurice Ropner was born at Hartburn, Stockton-on-Tees, on 11 April 1905 and was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served as a Captain in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers during the Second World War, and died on 11 May 1945. He is buried in Alnwick Cemetery, Northumberland. His medals were issued to his wife, Mrs. Dorothea Seymour Ropner. Sold with copied research, including a group photograph presumably featuring Ropner (although not identified).
Five: Leading Aircraftman C. H. Peck, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, unnamed as issued, in named cardboard box of issue with bestowal slip, extremely fine Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (638680 Sgt. E. R. Harrod. R.A.F.) extremely fine (6) £80-£100 --- C. H. Peck attested into the Royal Air Force on 6 May 1941 for service during the Second World War, and was discharged on 14 August 1946. Sold together with R.A.F. service and release book; notebook for workshop and laboratory records; two post-War allied military currency notes; and a miniature Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue.
Six: Flight Lieutenant J. B. Nicholson, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Cadet Forces Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Act. Flt. Lt. J. B. Nicholson. R.A.F.V.R. (T.)) mounted as worn, the last loose, good very fine and better (6) £360-£440 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1941. The original Recommendation, dated 10 August 1940, states: ‘Sergeant Nicholson has proved himself a keen and reliable Wireless operator who has carried out his duties in a reliable most satisfactory manner on 25 operational flights.’ John Bertram Nicolson was born in Gateshead-on-Tyne on 16 May 1915. He joined the RAF in 1935 and was posted to the Wireless School to train as a radio operator. He was posted first to 102 Squadron, then 10 Squadron in Disforth in March 1937, who were flying Whitneys. Serving from the start of the war as a wireless operator air gunner, his first operational sortie was on 8 September 1939 when No. 10 Squadron began its first operation of the War, leaflet-dropping over Germany with the Whitley Mk.IV. He served continually on the squadron until August 1940. On the night of 11-12 June 1940, he took part in raids on the Italian cities of Turin and Genoa. On 8 July 1940, the unit moved to RAF Leeming, Yorkshire. Nicolson flew with several pilots and targets included Berlin and factories deep inside Germany. One of his pilots included Flight Lieutenant Anthony French-Mullen, shot down in July 1940, and who later would be involved in the planning of the ‘Great Escape’ at Stalag Luft 3. In June 1942 Nicholson was selected for pilot training and was commissioned on 19 October 1942 to train in Canada. He entered the Far East theatre in August 1944, where he flew a second tour as a second pilot on Sunderlands under Flight Lieutenant R Levy-Haarscher. In February 1944 the squadron had moved further east to Ceylon to support the Operations in Burma, including supply operations to Chindits and casualty evacuation. In February 1945, a detachment moved to Calcutta to transport freight into Burma and casualties back out, using an inland lake as the Burmese end of the route. In April 1945 the entire squadron moved to Burma and was used to attack Japanese coastal shipping between Malaya and Burma. In December 1945 the squadron finally returned to Singapore, but only for a short period, and in April 1946 it returned to the UK. After the War, Nicholson served in the Cadet Force as part of 1029 Squadron ATC. He finally resigned his commission on 17 November 1966. Sold with copied research including copied Operations Record Book extracts.
Four: Sergeant W. R. Donaldson, Royal Canadian Air Force, who was killed when his Wellington crashed at high speed near Wardington on 8 February 1942 1939-45 Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R. (Sgt. W. R. Donaldson. R-78064) good very fine (5) £180-£220 --- William Robert Donaldson was born in Toronto, Ontario, on 11 April 1919 and enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force on 8 October 1940. Serving with 12 Operational Training Unit, he was killed when his Wellington aircraft X9984 crashed at high speed near Wardington at 02:40 hours on 8 February 1942, whilst on a training flight carrying flares, ammunition, camera, and practice bombs. He is buried alongside his crew in Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey. Sold with copied research.
Pair: B. R. Potter, Canadian Mercantile Marine Pacific Star (Potter B.R M.N.); War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver (Potter B.R. M.N.) The first unofficially named, very fine Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (A-800414 V. L. Gallant); U.N. Korea 1950-54, French language issue (4) (SD-18570 W. J. Allan; 36015 N J Bertrand D-800450 J. M. Legault; SF 11378 K. B. McNeil) planchet only on first medal, first and last letters of surname poorly struck, edge bruises and some staining to UN medals, nearly very fine (7) £100-£140 --- Sold with copy service records for Potter, confirming his Second War entitlement, and copy service records for Legault and McNeil.
Three: Sergeant R. Davies, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire), later Royal Hampshire Regiment General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (23901396 Sgt. R. Davies DERR.); U.N. Medal, on UNFICYP riband; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (23901396 Sgt R Davies R Hamps) extremely fine (3) £80-£100
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Basque Roads 1809 (R. Furze, Midshipman.) nearly very fine £2,000-£2,600 --- Robert Furze is confirmed on the roll as a Midshipman aboard Caesar at Basque Roads. He is also listed in Napoleon and his British Captives by Michael Lewis as a prisoner of war possibly until the end of the war. The Register of British POW’s in France shows that he was born in Plymouth and that he was taken prisoner whilst serving in the frigate Semiramis 36 guns, by the French l’Alert on 10 July 1811. He arrived at the Depot at Verdun on 1 October 1811. A marginal pencil note appears to say ‘Applied at Jo 12 Feby [or July] 1814 with Certif from Clerk of Remand from Bordeaux.’ He does not appear to ever have received a commission.
Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Sahagun & Benevente, Orthes (R. Atkin, 7th Husrs.) small edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £1,200-£1,600 --- Provenance: Sotheby, February 1921; Spink, June 1987. Robert Atkin is noted as having served in Thornhill’s Troop and was not present at Waterloo.
An interesting Peninsula War medal awarded to Major-General J. C. Victor, who served with the Royal Engineers in the latter part of the Napoleonic war, and afterwards in Canada under Colonel John By on the construction of the Rideau Canal, and in Tasmania as commander of the Royal Engineers and Director of the Public Works Department, where he left a legacy in Hobart of some fine archicture Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (J. C. Victor, Lieut. R. Engrs.) nearly extremely fine and scarce to this Corps £2,600-£3,000 --- Provenance: Spink, March 1992; Dix Noonan Webb, June 2005. James Conway Victor was born in London on 17 March 1792, and entered the newly created Royal Military College, Sandhurst, as a cadet in 1807. He became a Second Lieutenant in 1810, was promoted to First Lieutenant in 1811, and served in the Peninsular war from 1812 to 1814 - including in the battles of Nive, Orthes and Toulouse. He was promoted to Captain in 1821, and on 10 April 1834 married Anne Dashwood, youngest daughter of Alexander Young of Harburn, Midlothian. In 1831 he was stationed at Bytown in Canada working on the Rideau Canal under Colonel John By, and had risen to the rank of Brigade Major by 1837. After five years in that post he sailed from London with his wife and daughter in the Emily. As commander of the Royal Engineers in Tasmania, on arrival in Hobart Town in November 1842 he was immediately appointed to the Board of Public Works, and with W. P. Kay and Major Sydney Cotton he reported on the water supplies of Hobart and Launceston. A year later the departments of public works and of roads and bridges were amalgamated, and Victor was appointed director, at a salary of £300, in addition to his military duties. After some months, Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Eardley-Wilmot reported that the amalgamation was not working well and the two departments were separated. Victor was offered the directorship of public works at £300, but refused because these civil duties interfered with his military service. Soon afterwards he was asked by Lieutenant-Governor Sir William Denison to superintend the building of Franklin's wharf. Again Victor demurred, but Denison insisted and later interfered with professional details of the work. In July 1847 Victor wrote to his superiors in London, claiming that misrepresentations from Hobart had induced the Colonial Office to sanction the building of a wharf which was neither necessary nor likely to pay; most of all he objected to civil authority demanding his obedience. The letter was sent to the Colonial Office where Earl Grey deplored the unpleasant tone of Victor's complaints and his unusual reluctance to co-operate in colonial works. The affair finished amicably, but in December 1848 Victor sold the furniture of his Hampden Road house and left for England in the Calcutta with his wife and daughter. In 1854 he was promoted Major-General and died in Edinburgh on 4 February 1864. Victor's best memorial in Hobart was some fine architecture. He designed and built the gaol at the barracks, the convict hospital in Campbell Street, and the out-buildings and cottages at Government House.
A fine and rare Naval K.C.B. group of five awarded to Admiral Sir John Kingcome, Royal Navy The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s, set of insignia, comprising neck badge in 18-carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1864, with length of silk neck ribbon and original gold clasp for wearing, and breast star in silver with gold and enamelled appliqué centre, the reverse inscribed ‘R & S. Garrard & Co. Goldsmiths & Jewellers to the Crown, 25, Haymarket London’, and fitted with gold pin for wearing; Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Basque Roads 1809 (John Kingcombe.); Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Captn. J. Kingcome.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming; China 1842 (John Kingcome, Captain, H.M.S. Belleisle.) original suspension; Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued, the first three campaign medals with light contact marks, otherwise very fine, the last good very fine and a rare group (6) £10,000-£14,000 --- John Kingcome was born at Revelstoke, Devon on 14 February 1794, and entered the Royal Navy on 28 May 1808, as 2nd Class Volunteer on board the Emerald 36, Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland, with whom he continued to serve as Midshipman on the Channel, Irish and Cape of Good Hope Stations until December 1813. He was in consequence present at the destruction of the French shipping in Aix Roads in April 1809 and had an opportunity of witnessing the capture of a large number of the enemy’s vessels, armed and otherwise. On leaving Emerald he was received on board the Tigre 74, Captain John Halliday, stationed in the Channel, where he remained until again placed in May 1813 under the order of Captain Maitland, at that time commanding the Goliath 74, on the coast of North America. In July 1814 he became Master’s Mate of the St Lawrence, bearing the broad pendant on Lake Ontario of Sir James Lucas Yeo, who nominated him 9 March 1815, Acting Lieutenant of the Princess Charlotte, Captain Richard O’Connor, an appointment which the Admiralty confirmed by commission dated 1 July in the same year. In October 1815, after having served for some time with Captain Peter Sampson Hambly in the Star sloop, he obtained command of the Confiance schooner on Lake Huron, and from October 1816 until July 1817 he was again employed on Lake Ontario, in the Netley 10, Captain Fraser Brace. His next appointment was 29 July 1822, to the Tees 26, Captains Thomas Coe and Fred Marryat, the former of whom on becoming Senior officer in India, appointed him to the command in 1824 of the Larne sloop at New South Wales. As he was at that time engaged in the Burmese war, he was not able to join her until 15 April 1825. Whilst serving in Larne he conveyed Lady Brisbane (wife of Commodore Sir James Brisbane) and her two daughters from Madras to Penang, and the Archdeacon Scott from Sydney to Van Diemen’s Land. Following this the ship visited New Zealand, Norfolk and Melville Islands, Batavia and Singapore. Being superseded on his return to Madras in the following July, Lieutenant Kingcome was next appointed to the Pandora sloop, under Captain William Clarke Jervoise. From that vessel he removed in 1826 to the Warspite 76, bearing the broad pendant of Sir James Brisbane. Attaining the rank of Commander on 8 January 1828, Captain Kingcome served in that capacity in the Coast Guard from 24 October 1835, until appointed on 18 June 1837 to the Wellesley 74, bearing the flag of Sir F. L. Maitland on the East India Station until 28 June 1838. On 23 October 1841 he was appointed to the Belleisle troop-ship, in which he sailed for China and arrived there in time to witness the closing operations on the Yangtse-Kiang. He paid off the Belleisle at the close of 1843, but rejoined her on 24 March 1846 in command. Commanded the Royal William in February 1854 and was present during the operations in the Baltic in 1854-55. He was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1857, Commander-in-Chief Pacific in October 1862, Vice-Admiral in 1864, retired 1866, and was advanced to Admiral in 1869. He was appointed K.C.B. (Military) on 28 March 1865. Admiral Sir John Kingcome died at Windsor Villas, Plymouth, on 7 August 1871. Sold with the following warrants of appointment and commissions: Warrant of Appointment as K.C.B. together with various accompanying letters from the Herald’s Office, May 1865. Commission as Lieutenant of the Carnatic, July 1815. Commission as Commander of the Cephalus, January 1828. Commission as Commander of the Wellesley, May 1828. Commission as Commander of the Wellesley, June 1837 [upon re-commissioning]. Commission as Captain of the Belleisle, October 1841. Commission as Captain of the Belleisle, March 1846 [upon re-commissioning]. Commission as Captain of the Simoom, February 1852. Commission as Captain of the St George, May 1853. Commission as Captain of the St George, November 1843 [upon re-commissioning]. Commission as Captain of the Royal William, February 1854. Commission as Rear-Admiral, September 1857. Declaration of Naval Assets upon his death. An interesting Warrant of Appointment to his nephew, Commander George B. Williams, R.N., awarding him the ‘Royal Georgian Order of Polynesia’ from Pomare, The Queen of Tahiti, dated Tahiti August 4th, 1843 (at which time he was conducting a circumnavigation of the globe).
Waterloo 1815 (Paul Robertshaw, 2nd Batt. 73rd Reg. Foot.) with re-affixed steel clip and ring suspension, contact wear and edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine and scarce £3,000-£4,000 --- Provenance: Mackenzie Collection, Glendining’s, June-July 1934. Paul Robertshaw enlisted into the 73rd Foot on 19 July 1809. He served in Captain R. Crawford’s No. 5 Company and was wounded at either Quatre Bras or Waterloo. He acted as a hospital servant during August and September 1815, and was discharged on 19 July 1816, having completed his limited period of service.
A fine Great War C.M.G., scarce ‘North West Frontier 1908’ D.S.O. group of eleven awarded to Brigadier-General P. T. Westmorland, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, late Bedfordshire Regiment and West India Regiment, attached Army Pay Department, who served as a Brigade Commander during the Great War, and over the course of his career was three times Mentioned in Despatches for services on three different continents The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt, gold appliqué and enamel, with integral gilt riband buckle; Distinguished Service Order, E.VII.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1893-94 (Capt: P. T. Westmorland. 1/W.I.R.); Ashanti Star 1896, the reverse privately engraved ‘P T W’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Major P. T. Westmoreland [sic], 3/W. India. Rgt.) engraved naming; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Gambia (Major P. T. Westmorland, 3/W. India. Rgt.) engraved naming; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (Major P. T. Westmorland. 1st. R. War. R.) rank officially corrected; 1914-15 Star (Lt: Col: P. T. Westmorland. 19/Lond: R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Brig. Gen. P. T. Westmorland.) minor enamel damage to the first two; light pitting and contact marks to the three VR awards, and minor edge bruising to the AGS, otherwise very fine and better (11) £6,000-£8,000 --- C.M.G. London Gazette 14 January 1916. D.S.O. London Gazette 14 August 1908: ‘In recognition of services in connection with the recent operations against the Zakka Khel and Mohmands.’ Percy Thuillier Westmorland was born on the 25 July 1863, the son of Colonel J. P. Westmorland, Royal Engineers, and the late Rose Julia, eldest daughter of the late General Sir Henry Thuillier, C.S.I., Royal Artillery. He was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned into the Bedfordshire Regiment on 9 September 1882, being promoted Captain on 28 August 1889. He was transferred to the West India Regiment on the 7 December 1892 and was employed with the Army Pay Department from 12 May 1894 to 31 December 1897. Westmorland served on the West Coast of Africa in 1894, with the Expedition of the Gambia against Fodey Silah, for which services he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 4 May 1894). He next saw service with the Ashanti Expedition of 1895-96 and was promoted Major on 22 December 1897. He saw further service in the South Africa during the Boer War 1899-1900 as Staff Officer, Glencoe and in command at St Helena, before proceeding to West Africa in 1901 with the Expedition of Gambia. Transferring to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Westmorland served with the 1st Battalion on the North-West Frontier of India and in 1908 took part in the operations in the Mohmand country, for which service he was again Mentioned in Despatches, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for the action near Matta Mughal Khel on 24 April 1908: ‘While the left column under Colonel Unwin was occupying the attention of the right flank of the Mohmand position, General Anderson's right column was going into action near Matta. Here up to 8,000 tribesman (mainly from the Baezai clan) had constructed a series of strong sangars stretching for about one and a half miles along a line of low foothills. The right column made up of 1150 infantry drawn from six different corps included 300 men from the 1st Royal Warwickshire’s under the command of Major Westmorland. They prepared to advance up the slopes to the west, which were covered with flags and the sangars of the tribesmen who were clearly present in great strength along a front of one and a half miles. Anderson brought forward all of his infantry in line and prepared to attack. The action began at 07.00 and lasted until 10.20. Anderson's orders forbade him from doing anything more than driving the enemy to his right as the dominating feature, he ordered the men of the Warwickshire Regiment under Major Westmorland to seize the knoll and clear it. The general advance had not progressed very far when the tribesmen opened a heavy fire, the Royal Warwicks charged straight on their objective, the small hill, pushing parties up the slopes, then collecting together in an area of dead ground near the crest before rushing the summit with fixed bayonets and taking the hill. Eventually the position was won and the tribesmen fell back into the hills towards the Burjina Pass after having received - and given out - a fair degree of punishment.’ (Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India refers). Westmorland retired from the service on 4 December 1912, but was recalled following the outbreak of the Great War and served initially as Commanding Officer, 19th Battalion, London Regiment on the Western Front from 10 March 1915, and later as Commanding Officer of the 5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. For his services during the Great War he was Mentioned in Despatches for a third time (London Gazette 1 January 1916) and was created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. He saw further service with the Lincolns in Egypt in 1916, before returning to the Western Front as Commanding Officer of the 9th Battalion, Royal Scots, and was promoted Brigade Commander, 151st Infantry Brigade, in September 1916. Following the cessation of hostilities he joined the Territorial Force Reserve, and was latterly employed with the Ministry of Munition. He was one of the 134 descendants of the Rev. C. Cardew, D.D. (1747-1831), Rector of St. Erme, Cornwall, who served in the British forces in the Great War. He died in London on 4 June 1929. Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient. Note: The recipient’s miniature awards were sold in these rooms in September 2008.
A rare Second War ‘Burma Operations’ Immediate D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel R. M. V. “Roddy” Ponsonby, Devonshire Regiment (Reserve of Officers), attached 2nd Nigeria Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force, late Welsh Guards, who won an immediate award for his courage and leadership in a crucial six day action in the Arakan in late 1944
Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse of the suspension bar officially dated ‘1945’; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf, mounted as worn, very fine and better (5) £3,000-£4,000 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 22 March 1945. The original recommendation for an immediate award states: ‘On 16 December 1944, this officer received orders to cross the Kalapanzin, a tidal river 300 yards wide, with his Battalion, and establish a bridgehead across the Saimgdin Chaung, also tidal and 100 yards wide, and some five miles below the Kalapanzin crossing. By nightfall, Lieutenant-Colonel Ponsonby had a bridgehead of two companies across the Saimgdin, in spite of many natural difficulties and accurate enemy shell fire. The enemy reacted strongly to this bridgehead but after two attacks had failed to dislodge them. Lieutenant-Colonel Ponsonby led two companies round the enemy’s flank and although greatly hampered by tidal chaungs and deep mud, succeeded in encircling the enemy who was forced to evacuate his position. It was entirely due to this officer’s personal example, energy, unswerving devotion to duty and determination not to be daunted by obstacles, that he inspired all ranks under him during six critical days to achieve eventual success.’ Roderick Maurice Victor “Roddy” Ponsonby was born in 1900, the seventh son of Colonel Justinian Ponsonby and a cousin of the Earl of Bessborough, and was educated at Wellington. Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant on the Special Reserve of Officers at the end of August 1918, he joined the Welsh Guards on gaining a regular commission in 1920 and served in Egypt. Seconded for service as an Assistant Superintendent, Army Physical Training, in September 1923, Ponsonby rose to be Superintendent of Army Physical Training in London before being placed on the Retired List in the 1930s. Having retained an appointment in the Devonshire Regiment on the Reserve of Officers in the interim, he was recalled on the renewal of hostilities, and by 1944 was Commanding Officer of the 2nd Nigeria Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force, in the Arakan - ‘passing the monsoon high up in the hills above the sources of the Kaladan River in country so wild that an entire British regiment was said to have disappeared there without trace during the war of 1824’ (Colonel Michael Hickey’s The Unforgettable Army refers). Here, then, the setting for Ponsonby’s subsequent award of the D.S.O., for deeds as cited above. A keen horseman and yachtsman, Ponsonby went into the manufacturing business after the War, and died in 1968. His daughter, Joan, exhibited at the Royal Academy. Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including the recipient’s D.S.O. warrant, dated 22 March 1945; his commission warrants for the rank of 2nd Lieutenant (Special Reserve of Officers) dated 22 August 1918, 2nd Lieutenant (Land Forces) dated 19 June 1920, and 2nd Lieutenant (Home Guard), dated 13 November 1952 (this latter with related certificate of service for the period 1952-55); three excellent quality Welsh Guards’ officer group photographs from the 1920s, including the recipient on the occasion of a visit from the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII), and one or two R.W.A.F.F. images from the 1939-45 War; together with two sets of old uniform ribands, three Welsh Guards ceremonial leeks and his R.W.A.F.F. uniform patches.
An early 19th century engraved decanter and stopperof Prussian shape with faceted triple ring neck slice cut shoulder and row of basal flutes, engraved with a brig with a wreath and 'Success to the Sarah & Mary verso R & J Edmond, radial cut stopperheight 24.5cmCondition: Good condition. Minor bloom to base of interior
A group of assorted jewellery a ram pendant marked 'K14'; 9ct gold cross pendant, stamped '9.375'; 9ct gold twist rope ring stamped '375'; 9ct gold elephant ring, stamped '375'; a colourless paste set 9ct gold ring stamped '9.375'; an opal and sapphire chip set 9ct gold ring, stamped '375'; a sapphire and diamond chip 9ct gold ring, stamped '375' and a Continental bull pendant (8)approx weight of marked K14 2g, approx weight of 9ct 14.4g, total approx weight 16.6g, ring sizes O/P, N, R, O, QCondition:
An 18ct gold hardstone signet ring, an 18ct wedding band and a pair of cufflinksfirst oval band agate set engraved with a crest, plain gold shank hallmarked, London, 1918, Brook & Sons and bearing inscription t to M 4th Oct. 1918, second hallmarked Edinburgh, 1916, Mackay 7 Chisholm, engraved with date 4th Oct 1917 and a pair of cufflinks with rectangular engine turned engraved with initials R B, stamped Birks 10K, (3)18ct total weight approx. 11.7g, 10K weight approx. 4gCondition: Fair condition commensurate with age. first Size L/m Second Size J/k
A collection of fountain pensto include De la Rue Onoto the Pen in black with De la Rue nib stamped 14k, together with Conway Stewart, 27 and No 55, R Esterbrook Relief N 22-L , 'Swan' Mabie Todd selffiller, Omas extra, Conway Stewart etc, together with various others, most with nibs stamped 14K, (qty)First length 13.9cm.Condition: Mentioned pens appear to be in good / fair condition. Some of the various other with condition issues, some with cracks, missing caps or clips, damaged levers. Viewing recommended in person
A WWII five medal group awarded to Thomas James Russel Barty Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)formed of 1939-45 star, the Burma Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, on ribbons with dress miniatures, mounted with Uganda Independence Medal, 1962, accompanied by WWI 1914-1918 War Medal awarded to Lieut. R. G. Russel. R.N.V.R., (3)Condition: Fair condition
Technics SU-V620 Class A amplifier with a Technics SL-PD9 MASH 5disc CD player and a pair of Tannoy Mercury M1 Cherry speakers, with R/C, All tested and working. All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order. Not available for in-house P&P
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