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Four: Acting Sergeant E. Rodd, Hampshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (4-1861 Pte. E. Rodd. Hamps: R.); British War and Victory Med

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 150

Four: Acting Sergeant E. Rodd, Hampshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (4-1861 Pte. E. Rodd. Hamps: R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (200192 A.Sjt. E. Rodd. Hamps. R.); Serbia, Kingdom, Obilich Medal for Bravery, silver, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (4) £300-£400 --- Serbian Obilich Medal for Bravery in silver, London Gazette 15 February 1917: ‘For distinguished service rendered during the course of the campaign.’ Edward Rodd attested for the Hampshire Regiment and served with the 4th Battalion during the Great War in the Hedjaz theatre of war from 25 October 1915. Sold together with the recipient’s riband bar and other ephemera.

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The India General Service Medal awarded to Lieutenant R. A. T. Dury, 11th Bengal Infantry, who was the first officer to be ki

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 293

The India General Service Medal awarded to Lieutenant R. A. T. Dury, 11th Bengal Infantry, who was the first officer to be killed during the Third Burma War, at Minhla on 17 November 1885, and was the inspiration for Kipling’s poem Arithmetic on the Frontier India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Lieutt. R. A. T. Dury 11th. Bl. Infy.) extremely fine £300-£400 --- Robert Ashton Theodore Dury was born on 7 July 1863 and was educated at the United Services College, Westward Ho! Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the South Wales Borderers on 25 August 1883, he transferred to the Indian Army on 28 April 1885, and was ‘with the 11th Bengal Infantry in Burma in 1885; landed with General Norman’s 3rd Brigade and advanced on Minhla Fort. The advance was stopped by a heavy fire from a prepared position in the middle of dense bush; it took some sharp fighting and more than one bayonet charge before the Burmans were driven back upon Minhla by the 11th Bengal Infantry and the 12th Madras Infantry. Lieutenant Dury was killed in the jungle; total casualties were 1 officer and 4 men killed, and 4 officers and 27 men wounded.’ Dury was the first officer killed during the Third Burma War, on 17 November 1885, 11 days after the declaration of War. The poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling had tried unsuccessfully to persuade the editor of the Civil and Military Gazette to send him to Burma to cover the campaign as a journalist, and upon reading the casualty list he remembered that Dury had been a contemporary of his at the United Services College. In a letter to Lionel Dunsterville, Kipling wrote: ‘I tried to go to Burma for the paper but I couldn’t be spared. By the way, did you see that poor Durey [sic] was killed by those swine? There’s £1,800 worth of education gone to smash and a good fellow with it.’ The following year, Kipling would write ‘Arithmetic on the Frontier’, with the third stanza presumably inspired by Dury’s death: ‘A scrimmage in a Border Station A canter down some dark defile Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail. The Crammer’s boast, the Squadron’s pride, Shot like a rabbit in a ride!’ Sold with copied research including an engraved image of the recipient.

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Pair: Private D. H. Ingram, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, later Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 193

Pair: Private D. H. Ingram, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, later Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals (81630 Pte. D. H. Ingram. Notts. & Derby. R.) Pair: Sapper F. Oakley, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (WR-43307 Spr. F. Oakley. R.E.) nearly extremely fine (5) £50-£70 --- David Harold Ingram was born at Ripley and enlisted into the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment. He transferred to the Machine Gun Corps on 20 May 1918, and served with 200th Battalion. Sold with original Certificate of Employment during the war (trained machine gunner), Protection Certificate on discharge 20 December 1918, National Identity Card, Notts and Derby shoulder title and M.G.C. identity disc. Frederick Oakley was born at Bishops Cleeve, Gloucestershire, and attested for Road and Quarry Troops R.E. in June 1918, a section roadman by trade. He served as a Steam Roller Driver with the B.E.F. from 19 July 1918, and was transferred to Class Z Reserve on 10 March 1919. Sold with copied attestation papers.

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Four: Company Quartermaster Sergeant T. G. Lawrence, Rifle Brigade, later Hampshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (4815 Sjt. T. G. L

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 157

Four: Company Quartermaster Sergeant T. G. Lawrence, Rifle Brigade, later Hampshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (4815 Sjt. T. G. Lawrence, Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (4815 C.Sjt. T. G. Lawrence. Rif. Brig.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (24287 C.Q.M. Sjt. T. G. Lawrence. 19/Garr: Bn. Hamps: R.) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (4) £160-£200 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘In recognition of valuable service rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders.’ Thomas George Lawrence attested for the Rifle Brigade and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 July 1915. Transferring to the Hampshire Regiment, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal whilst serving with the 19th Garrison Battalion, and was discharged Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 23 May 1919. Sold with copied research.

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Six: Chief Petty Officer P. C. Gough, Royal Navy Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (R. [sic] C. Gough. Boy 1.

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 87

Six: Chief Petty Officer P. C. Gough, Royal Navy Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (R. [sic] C. Gough. Boy 1. Cl: H.M.S. “Superb”); 1914-15 Star (114028 P. C. Gough, C.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (114028 P. C. Gough. C.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (114028 Percy Gough, P.O. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Hampshire.); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, pitting and contact marks to the pre-Great War awards, these nearly very fine, edge bruise to BWM, otherwise the Great War awards nearly extremely fine (6) £300-£400 --- Percy Clift Gough was born in Canterbury, Kent, on 5 December 1865 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Duncan on 10 December 1880. He entered H.M.S. Superb on 19 August 1882, and was advanced Petty Officer First Class on 1 July 1894. He served in H.M.S. Hampshire from 29 August 1905, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 13 February 1907. Promoted Chief Petty Officer on 28 January 1909, he was shore pensioned on 10 February 1910, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve two days later. Recalled for Great War service on 2 August 1914, Gough served throughout the War in H.M.S. Excellent II and H.M.S. President III, and was shore demobilised on 26 September 1919. Sold with copied record of service.

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Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (3657 Private R. Lisle 1st. Sea Highrs.) Regimentally engraved naming, edge nicks, very f

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 304

Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (3657 Private R. Lisle 1st. Sea Highrs.) Regimentally engraved naming, edge nicks, very fine £80-£120

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Four: Staff Sergeant J. R. Sims, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914 Star, with clasp (4541 Pte. J. R. Sims. R.A.M.C.); British Wa

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 120

Four: Staff Sergeant J. R. Sims, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914 Star, with clasp (4541 Pte. J. R. Sims. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (4541 A.S. Sjt. J. R. Sims. R.A.M.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (7246037 S.Sjt. J. R. Sims. R.A.M.C.) mounted as worn, very fine (4) £100-£140 --- James R. Sims attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 November 1914.

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General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (356175 Pte. F. T. Hartlett. Hamps. R.) nearly extremely fine and rare to unit £3

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 352

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (356175 Pte. F. T. Hartlett. Hamps. R.) nearly extremely fine and rare to unit £300-£400 --- Frank Talbot Hartlett attested for the Hampshire Regiment and served with the 1st/4th Battalion in Kurdistan, attached to the 54th Brigade, Signal Section. Sold with copied medal roll extract, which lists just 5 members of the Hampshire Regiment receiving the clasp Kurdistan.

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Six: Lieutenant J. C. I. Gillett, Royal Berkshire Regiment 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 240

Six: Lieutenant J. C. I. Gillett, Royal Berkshire Regiment 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1977, unnamed as issued; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated 1950 and additionally engraved ‘Lt. J. C. I. Gillett. Rl Berkshire R’, with integral top riband bar, mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, good very fine (6) £140-£180 --- A typed note with the lot states: ‘J. C. I. Gillett, Esq., TD. Born 27 October 1917. St. Paul’s School, Great Western Railway, and Chartered Secretary. Artists’ Rifles 1934-39. Royal Berkshire Regiment, June 1939-46 (5th (Hackney) Battalion 1939-42). Seconded 1942-45 to 1st Battalions of East Yorkshire Regiment, Lincolnshire Regiment, and Somerset Light Infantry. Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, 1946- Wounded, Arakan (Burma) 1944.’

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A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. awarded to Corporal G. T. Bevan, Manchester Regiment and Machine Gun Corps Distinguished

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 51

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. awarded to Corporal G. T. Bevan, Manchester Regiment and Machine Gun Corps Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (2244 L.Cpl. G. T. Bevan. 1/Manch: R.) edge bruise, polished, better than good fine £400-£500 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 14 January 1916; citation published 11 March 1916: ‘For conspicuous gallantry. When the parapet close to a machine gun had been blown down, he exhibited great courage and presence of mind in dismantling the gun and removing it; the whole emplacement being blown up by a high explosive shell a few seconds later.’ George Thomas Bevan attested for the Manchester Regiment and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 August 1914, being awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal whilst attached to the 1st Battalion. He subsequently transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, and ultimately to the Royal Artillery, and was advanced Corporal.

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A Great War 1917 ‘Ypres’ D.C.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant F. Brockbank, Cheshire Regiment, who also received a 39th

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 49

A Great War 1917 ‘Ypres’ D.C.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant F. Brockbank, Cheshire Regiment, who also received a 39th Division Commendation Card Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (267965 Sjt: F. Brockbank. 6/Ches: R. -T.F.) minor official correction to number; British War and Victory Medals (15164 Sjt. F. Brockbank. Ches. R.) with named card box of issue for the campaign medals, extremely fine (3) £800-£1,200 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2005. D.C.M. London Gazette 6 February 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. During the attack on the final objective he took command of his company and handled it with great success. Having reached his objective, he dug in and consolidated in an excellent tactical position, and, in spite of every effort of the enemy to regain it, held it until relieved. He displayed the utmost coolness under heavy shell and machine-gun fire, and by his fearless and cheerful manner set a splendid example to his men.’ The original citation is additionally annotated ‘Shrewsbury Forest, 20 September 1917’. Frank Brockbank attested for the Cheshire Regiment (Territorial Force), and served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. In accordance with the re-numbering of all Territorial Forces in early 1917 his regimental number was changed from 15164 to 267965. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his gallantry at Shrewsbury Forest, east of Ypres, on 20 September 1917. The Battalion War diary gives the following account: ‘The Battalion moved during the evening of 19 September to assembly position on Shrewsbury Forest sector in reserve to 117th Infantry Brigade. The assembly was completed by 2am: two companies being in the forward position and two in reserve to the 17th King’s Royal Rifles. At 7:40am on 20 September one company moved forward to reinforce the 17th K.R.R. holding the Red line, who had suffered heavily from casualties, the second company moving forward shortly afterwards to reinforce the left flank. About this time the Commanding Officer was instructed to proceed to the Ravine to reconnoitre for an opportunity to deliver a counterattack with the remaining companies in reserve. After reconnaissance he reported that the situation did not demand a counterattack, and instructions were then issued to send one company forward in the attack being made by the 41st Division. At 6:30pm the company under Second Lieutenant W. D. Riley advanced with the greatest gallantry under machine gun fire and ultimately captured the objective - the Green line - at 7:10pm. Unfortunately the Division on the left got no further that the Bassevillebeek and the company, after holding on all night, were ultimately obliged to withdraw to re-establish contact with the right flank of the 41st Division.’ For his gallantry Brockbank was also awarded a 39th Division Commendation Card, dated 13 October 1917: ‘The Major-General Commanding the 39th Division wishes to place on record his appreciation of your conspicuous gallantry east of Ypres on 20 September 1917, when you took command of your company and captured and held your objectives despite every effort of the enemy to retake them.’ Sold together with the recipient’s original 39th Division commendation card; and copied research.

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Three: Corporal G. R. Stanyer, Machine Gun Corps, late Durham Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (27907Cpl. G. H

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 196

Three: Corporal G. R. Stanyer, Machine Gun Corps, late Durham Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (27907Cpl. G. H. Stanyer. M.G.C.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, 1914 1918, with bronze star, extremely fine (3) £50-£70 --- Croix de Guerre London Gazette 19 June 1919. George Henry Stanyer was born in 1896 and attested on 5 December 1915; to Army Reserve “B” 8 December 1915; mobilised 22 January 1916, 3rd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry (29319 Pte.), transferred to Machine Gun Corps 13 March 1916; served B.E.F. with 122 Company M.G.C. from 16 May 1916; admitted to 38 General Hospital, Camiers, with trench fever 5-18 August 1917; promoted to Corporal 5 November 1918.

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Three: Private W. Barrett, Hampshire Regiment, who was killed in action at Gallipoli on 28 April 1915 1914-15 Star (14716 P

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 151

Three: Private W. Barrett, Hampshire Regiment, who was killed in action at Gallipoli on 28 April 1915 1914-15 Star (14716 Pte. W. Barrett. Hamps: R.); British War and Victory Medals (14716 Pte. W. Barrett. Hamps. R.); Memorial Plaque (William Barrett) nearly extremely fine (4) £100-£140 --- William Barrett was born in Andover, Hampshire, and attested for the Hampshire Regiment a Winchester. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War in Gallipoli from 25 April 1915, and was killed in action on 28 April 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.

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Five: Lieutenant G. S. M. Larder, Devonshire Regiment 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Lieut: G. S. M. Larder. Devon R.); British

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 119

Five: Lieutenant G. S. M. Larder, Devonshire Regiment 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Lieut: G. S. M. Larder. Devon R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lieut. G. S. M. Larder.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, polished and lacquered, nearly very fine (5) £140-£180 --- George Stourton Mainwaring Larder was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment (Special Reserve of Officers) on 6 November 1912, and was promoted Lieutenant on 8 August 1914. He served with the Devonshire Regiment, and subsequently on attachment to the Scottish Rifles, during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 November 1914. M.I.D. unconfirmed.

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Six: Driver D. S. Martin, Royal Signals 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Servi

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 237

Six: Driver D. S. Martin, Royal Signals 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (21005139 Dvr. D. S. Martin. R. Sigs.) mounted as worn, edge nicks and contact marks, very fine (6) £70-£90

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A Great War 1915 ‘Battle of St. Eloi’ D.C.M. group fo four awarded to Corporal H. Berry, 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 48

A Great War 1915 ‘Battle of St. Eloi’ D.C.M. group fo four awarded to Corporal H. Berry, 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (9477 L.Cpl. H. Berry. 1/R. Ir. Regt.); 1914-15 Star (9477 L-Cpl. H. Berry, R. Ir. Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (9477 Cpl. H. Berry. R. Ir. Regt.) mounted as worn, edge bruise to DCM, generally good very fine (4) £800-£1,200 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 1 April 1915: ‘For gallant conduct at St. Eloi on the night of 14-15 February 1915, in rescuing the wounded under a heavy fire, including one wounded man from a ditch full of water.’ Henry Berry attested for the Royal Irish Regiment on 25 March 1908 and served with the 1st Battalion, as part of 82nd Brigade, 27th Division, during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 December 1914 - the Division was formed from regular army units recalled from garrison duty around the Empire, with the 1st Royal Irish Regiment having been recalled from India. The Division was sent to the Ypres sector and it was here that Berry was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his actions at St Eloi on 14-15 February 1915. The Regimental History gives the following account: ‘At 4.15pm on 14 February sudden orders were received for the battalion to move forward at once in support of the Royal Irish Fusiliers who were engaged with the enemy at St. Eloi, the battalion on their left having lost trenches 19 to 22. When A and C Companies, under Major White, reached Voormezeele they were ordered by the Brigade to move up to the Mound, St. Eloi, to be ready to join in a counter attack on Trench 19. B and D companies followed to Voormezeele and thence B company moved up to S.10 by order of the commanding officer. At about 8.45pm Lieutenant Colonel Forbes, Major White and Captain Roche-Kelly (commanding B Company) met at the Mound. Major White stated that he had been ordered by the Brigade to counter attack Trench 19 with A and C Companies (which consisted of 85 men all told). He said that he had personally reconnoitred the ground and that in front of all and parallel to Trench 19, at a distance of about forty to fifty yards, was a deep and muddy ditch with a hedge on the enemy’s side of it. The only means of crossing the ditch was by a plank bridge. He proposed to get the companies across the plank bridge, deploy in rear of the hedge and then rush the position. He asked for support for his attack, as he had only some 85 men. Colonel Forbes ordered Captain Roche-Kelly to bring up B company in support of Major White, while D company was ordered to hold the redoubt just east of St Eloi. Major White got most of C company across the bridge, but before A company had begun to cross the Germans sent up flare lights and star shells and discovered the movement. They at once opened a hot fire, with the result that Major White was killed, Second Lieutenant Anderson died of his wounds, 13 men were killed and 21 wounded - all with the exception of Major White belonging to C company. The machine guns which had been mounted on the Mound were out of action owing to being coated with mud, so no covering fire of any consequence could be opened from that place. As the rear of the column was not getting on, Captain Roche-Kelly went forward to find out what was checking it. On arrival at the head of A company he learnt the state of affairs and returned to the Mound to report to Colonel Forbes, who decided that the attack would have to be postponed until adequate arrangements could be made to organise a counter attack in sufficient strength. Captain Roche-Kelly was ordered to withdraw B company to S 10, and also to get back A and C companies. This was done and these companies reorganised in rear of S10. About 2am on 15 February the 1st Leinsters retook and held Trench 20. At 4am B company was again brought up to St. Eloi to support the attack made from the north east on Trench 19 by the 2nd DCLI and 3rd King’s Royal Rifles. This attack developed about daylight and was entirely successful. About 7am a party from D company, under Lieutenant Pratt, did excellent work in bringing in the wounded and Major White’s body.’ The Division was to take part in all of the major actions of the Second Battle of Ypres in April and May 1915. In November the Division was entrained for Marseille, from where they embarked for the Macedonia front, arriving at Salonika in February 1916. In November 1916, the 1st Royal Irish Regiment was transferred to 30th Brigade, 10th (Irish) Division, with whom they remained for the duration of the war. In August 1917, the Division was transferred to the Palestine front, where it was to remain until the cessation of hostilities. At some point, Berry was transferred to the Labour Corps and given the number 515032, and it was with this unit that he finished the war. He was discharged due to sickness on 26 April 1919 due to sickness and was awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold with copied research.

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‘My Webley .38 was always a very, very close companion.’ Kenya Cowboy by Peter Hewitt. A Mau Mau Operations and Cypriot Eme

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 273

‘My Webley .38 was always a very, very close companion.’ Kenya Cowboy by Peter Hewitt. A Mau Mau Operations and Cypriot Emergency campaign pair awarded to Mr P. R. Hewitt, Inspector of Police, Colonial Police Service, the author of Kenyan Cowboy, a vivid account of his experiences during the Mau Mau Uprising: to be sold with two carefully curated photograph albums chronicling the recipient’s periods of service in the Kenyan and Cypriot Emergencies of the fifties Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (I.P. P. R. Hewitt.) minor official correction; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (Inspr. P. R. Hewitt.) together with the recipient’s related miniature awards, both pairs mounted as worn, very fine (2) £800-£1,200 --- Peter Ronald Hewitt was born in Windsor, Berkshire in 1928 and spent his formative years in Reading. Aged eighteen, following an MoD engineering apprenticeship, he was conscripted and served for eight years in the Fleet Air Arm. Kenya - Mau Mau Emergency Upon release from the Royal Navy Hewitt entered the Colonial Police Service, a career change that took him first to Kenya in the autumn of 1953 just as the Mau Mau Emergency was escalating. Within 24 hours of his arrival in Nairobi, he had been sworn in at the Colony Police Headquarters, issued with his .38 Webley revolver and 12 rounds of ammunition and was journeying out for basic training at Gilgil in the heart of the Great Rift Valley with a diverse cast of characters: ‘By early afternoon when we had been collected from our respective hotels with bulging kit-bags of uniform and personal luggage we numbered about twenty. And what a multifarious bunch of recruit sub-inspectors of police we were too. Ex-R.A.F. flying officers, bank clerks, unresolved public school boys, ex-Palestinian Police, retired Indian army officers and inevitably, ex sailors. The Kenya police (during the years 1953-1960 at least) can surely have had no parallels as regards being designated a ‘motley’ force. Though, alas, the only designation it appeared to have earned itself in the press while I awaited confirmation of my appointment in murky fog-bound London was that of ‘millionaire coppers’ or, more amusingly still, ‘Kenya Cowboys’. (Kenya Cowboy - A Police Officer’s Account of the Mau Mau Emergency by Peter Hewitt) After six gruelling weeks at Gilgil, Hewitt then emerged as a newly qualified sub-inspector of police and sent to a forest post in the Lower Rift Valley Province: ‘So, there I was - an uncertain sub-inspector of police in charge of a forest post - with one sergeant and fifteen reserve constables, about one hundred and fifty square miles of Africa to look after and a score of farmsteads to maintain law and order on... I was to spend seventeen months of my tour of duty in Kenya on forest posts. Hermann’s Post was the first of three. I learnt a tremendous amount about not only terrorism and the African askari but also about settlers and farming. The life was unglamorous and tiring. It demanded physical fitness and an even temper. It was a routine that did not displease me particularly and only occasionally did I ever see senior officer. My activity was dictated by whim and fancy, premonition and hunch. At times it was unbearably frustrating, Mau Mau everywhere, their tracks followed for miles, their hideouts located, the mutilated bodies of their victims carried to an ambulance, but few positive contacts. The life was abstemious and frugal. One had to be roused from heavy sleep at a witching hour after midnight to lay an ambush on some farm that had been raided.’ (ibid) But as as the insurgency escalated with increasing assassinations and farm raids so also did the violent contacts between Mau Mau and police. Hewitt’s diary entry for Tuesday, 28 December 1954 - ecclesiastically shown as ‘Innocent’s Day’ starts with: ‘From about 1730 hours today until nightfall I was engaged in a running battle (literally) with some forty or more Mau Mau. I had only six askari with me all of whom I adjudged as having behaved in a most meritorious manner. It was just before 1700 hours that I learned of the burning of a settler’s house some five miles away.’ The entry refers to the burning of the Carnelly Farm and the consequent jungle pursuit of the perpetrating Mau Mau gang into the Cezoroni Gorge. Shortly after this dramatic episode, Hewitt received a letter of appreciation from the local residents for his efforts. Having narrowly avoided assassination by a previously trusted Kikuyu house boy, Hewitt, by now Post Commander at Ol Magogo, found himself in an increasingly bitter struggle against the Mau Mau. Styling themselves as the Kenya Land and Freedom Army, the recruits of this rebel faction had by now been so indoctrinated into a barbaric orgy of bloodletting that as far as the security forces were concerned they were to be regarded as psychotic gangsters: ‘They would be hunted down as wild criminals and had, moreover, as far as the angry settlers were concerned, forfeited any rights to those rules embodied in the Geneva Convention. The benign and benevolent image of the British Crown was, perforce, about to be sullied.’ (ibid) Such was the level of violence (mostly perpetrated against loyal Africans) that Hewitt’s remarkable personal account describes his difficulties in making the distinction between legal slaughter and excusable homicide. Later in the book he recounts the exploitation of Mau Mau traitors in hastening the turning of the tide and his own part in the capture of the self-styled “Field Marshall” Kaniu - one of the three top leaders of Mau Mau - in the Naivasha papyrus swamp during Operation Bullrush - a photo of Hewitt emerging from the swamp with his Mau Mau capture appeared shortly afterwards in the British press. Cyprus Emergency, Nyasaland and Papua New Guinea Hewitt was posted for 4 months (February 1956 to May 1956) to the Colony Police H.Q. at Nairobi but the security forces had all but purged the Mau Mau pestilence from Kenya by the end of 1956 and he was transferred to Cyprus (November 1956 to September 1959) as Police Inspector amidst another reign of terror, bloodshed, hatred and distrust. His arrival coincided with one of Nicosia’s worst gun attacks - the fatal shooting of two police officers and the wounding of a third - on Ledra Street (Murder Mile). Hewitt later commented that there was only one place for any weapons carried by security forces in Ledra Street - in the hand. Succeeding as O.C. of No. 5 Unit in the Mobile Reserve (the militant section of the Cyprus Police), based at Ktima, Paphos, he was constantly in demand by military units during cordon and search operations. Hewitt also undertook many stealth operations, January - February 1957, in the familiar role of hunting out terrorists from their forest hideouts, only the Eoka (Cypriot terrorists) were superior in arms and much better trained than any Mau Mau encountered in Kenya. These stealth groups were composed of 3 or 4 persons only, carrying very little equipment, and expected to live out for anything up to 14 days, charting movement, observing, locating and if possible killing, Eoka. With yet another emergency being declared in one of Britain’s overseas territories, Hewitt was re-appointed and set sail from Cyprus for Nyasaland on 17 September 1959. His police career then concluded with a nine-year spell in the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary. Returning to England in 1972 he took up an appointment with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where a succession of postings took him to diplomatic missions in Sierra Leone, East Berlin, Guyana and Lis...

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Five: Major C. E. V. Sams, Hampshire Regiment, later Royal West African Frontier Force India General Service 1908-35, 1 clas

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Lot 212

Five: Major C. E. V. Sams, Hampshire Regiment, later Royal West African Frontier Force India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (Capt. C. E. V. Sams. Hamps. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Major C. E. V. Sams, Trumpington Hostel, Trumpington, Cambridge’, nearly extremely fine (5) £100-£140 --- Charles Edward V. Sams ‘joined the Hampshire Regiment in 1926, saw service with the 1st Battalion in Indian, on the North West Frontier and also with the Royal West African Frontier Force, 1936-38. He retired in 1948, and died on 16 February 1986, aged 80’ (the recipient’s obituary in the Journal of the Royal Hampshire Regiment, ay 1986 refers).

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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (3), (269940. Ernest Kerkin. Ch. E.R.A. 2 Cl., H.M.S. Inflexible.; 169894 W. R. Run

Dix Noonan Webb

Lot 393

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (3), (269940. Ernest Kerkin. Ch. E.R.A. 2 Cl., H.M.S. Inflexible.; 169894 W. R. Rundle, P.O. H.M.S. Prince George.; 350268 John Stone, Chief Sick Berth Stewd., H.M.S. Vivid.) the first with small official correction to ship, nearly very fine or better (3) £100-£140

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Pair: Second Lieutenant R. H. Chown, Somerset Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (.. Lieut. R. H. Chown.) ‘2.’ er

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Lot 184

Pair: Second Lieutenant R. H. Chown, Somerset Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (.. Lieut. R. H. Chown.) ‘2.’ erased before rank, very fine Pair: Private W. A. J. Allwright, 210th Training Reserve Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (28326 Pte. W. A. J. Allwright. Som. L.I.) with Registered packet and card box of issue, extremely fine Pair: Private J. F. Goverd, Somerset Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (41264 Pte. J. F. Goverd. Som. L.I.) contact marks, nearly very fine Pair: Private John T. Slater, Somerset Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (18770 Pte. J. T. Slater. Som. L.I.) nearly extremely fine Pair: Private L. Williams, Somerset Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (41109 Pte. L. Williams. Som. L.I.) good very fine (10) £140-£180 --- Roland Henry Chown was born in Somerset on 7 February 1890 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 1 May 1918. He arrived in France on 1 October 1918. William Albert James Allwright served in France and was discharged to Z Class Army Reserve on 11 February 1920. Joseph Frank Goverd also served with the Dorsetshire Regiment (No. 20958) and the Royal Fusiliers (No. GS/115061). Sold with copied Medal Index Card. Llewellyn Williams also served with the Royal Berkshire Regiment (No. 48538).

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Family group: A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Lance-Corporal D. Evans, South Wales Borderers Mili

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Lot 62

Family group: A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Lance-Corporal D. Evans, South Wales Borderers Military Medal, G.V.R. (54305 Pte. D. Evans. 9/R.W. Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (61081 Pte. D. Evans. S.W. Bord.) with named card box of issue and registered envelope for M.M., photo in uniform wearing M.M. ribbon, news cutting announcing M.M. for gallantry in France, ribbon bar and various badges, very fine Pair: Gunner J. Evans, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (136575 Gnr. J. Evans. R.A.) with named lid of card box of issue, very fine Four: Private J. Williams, Welsh Regiment 1914 Star, with later slide clasp (5247 Pte. J. Williams. 2/Welsh R.); British War and Victory Medals (5247 Pte. J. Williams. Welsh R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5247 Pte. J. Williams. Welch R.) with original ribbon bar identity tags for Welsh Regiment and Labour Corps, photo in uniform, 3rd Class Certificate of Education, shoulder titles and cap badge, very fine or better (9) £400-£500 --- M.M. London Gazette 16 August 1917. Private J. Williams was the cousin of the brothers D. Evans and J. Evans. Sold with research copied to CD.

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Six: Fireman R. W. Brown, Midland Bank Fire Brigade Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Air Council enclosure, in named car

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Lot 261

Six: Fireman R. W. Brown, Midland Bank Fire Brigade Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Air Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘R. W. Brown, Esq., 25 Princes Avenue, Woodford Green, Essex’; London Private Fire Brigades Association L.S. & G.C., Medal, silver, with ‘5 Years’ clasp, the edge officially numbered ‘96’, with integral top riband bar; together with three Midland Bank Fire Brigade Prize Medals, silver and enamel, one circular badge unnamed; and two star shaped badges, the reverse engraved ‘O.M.D. R. W. Brown Feb. 17th. 1933 17 4/5 secs’ and ‘O.M.D. R. W. Brown Feb. 28th. 1935 17 3/5 secs’, the latter two both with integral top silver riband bars, generally good very fine (6) £100-£140

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A Great War ‘Gallipoli’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Captain (Quartermaster) W. Saunders, Hampshire Regiment, who was twice

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Lot 32

A Great War ‘Gallipoli’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Captain (Quartermaster) W. Saunders, Hampshire Regiment, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse contemporarily engraved ‘Qr. Mr. & Lieut. W. J. Saunders. Hamps. R.’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Johannesburg (3867 Sejt. W. Saunders, 2: Hampshire Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3867 Cr:-Serjt: W. Saunders. Hampshire Regt.); 1914-15 Star (Q.M. & Lieut. W. J. Saunders. Hamps. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Q.M. & Capt. W. J. Saunders.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (3867 S.Mjr: W. J. Saunders. Hants: Regt.) mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted, and both housed in separate Spink, London, leather cases, the Boer War awards polished and somewhat worn, with edge bruise to QSA, therefore nearly very fine, the other awards nearly extremely fine (7) £1,200-£1,600 --- M.C. London Gazette 2 February 1916: ‘For services rendered in connection with military operations in the field.’ The original recommendation states: ‘Military Cross awarded for operations at ANZAC on 21 August 1915 under Brigadier-General Russell, General Officer Commanding New Zealand Mounted Brigade. When all other Officers of the 10th (Service) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment had become casualties, Captain Saunders took Command. He made all the preparations necessary within the Battalion for an attack on the Turkish Trenches, carried out a personal reconnaissance of the ground, obtaining valuable information, and led the Battalion into action.’ William John Saunders was born on 28 June 1874 and joined the Hampshire Regiment at the age of 18, serving with them throughout the Boer War. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 92 of April 1911, he was appointed Quartermaster of the 10th (Service) Battalion at the outbreak of the Great War, and served with them during the Great War at Gallipoli. Promoted Captain in 1917, for his services during the Great War he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 28 January 1916 and 30 January 1919), the first for services at Gallipoli, and the latter for services with the British Salonika Force. He retired from the Army in 1920, and in later life was a prominent member of the British Legion. He died at Hedge End, Hampshire, on 20 November 1943. Sold together with two portrait photographs of the recipient wearing his medals, both mounted in glazed display frames; original signed Recommendation for the Military Cross; various newspaper cuttings; and copied research.

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Family group: A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private F. H. Brittain, Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Mi

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Lot 66

Family group: A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private F. H. Brittain, Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) Military Medal, G.V.R. (202938 Pte. F. H. Brittain. 7/Midd’x R.); British War and Victory Medals (7613 Pte. F. H. Brittain. Midd’x R.) good very fine Pair: Deck Hand H. B. Brittain, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary British War and Victory Medals (H. B. Brittain. D.H. M.F.A.) VM officially re-impressed; together with the recipient’s Aluminium identity disc; and a London School Board Queen Victoria Medal for punctual attendance, white metal, the reverse engraved ‘H. Brittain’, with 1896 suspension bar, edge nicks, very fine (7) £300-£400 --- M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919. Frank Horace Brittain attested for the Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) (Territorial Force) at West Hampstead, and served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front.

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A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of four awarded to Second Lieutenant W. H. Parker, Worcestershire Regiment, late Manch

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Lot 33

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of four awarded to Second Lieutenant W. H. Parker, Worcestershire Regiment, late Manchester Regiment, who was killed in action on 26 April 1918 Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2626 Sjt. W. H. Parker. Manch: R.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. W. H. Parker.) good very fine (4) £800-£1,200 --- Saleroom Notice A contemporarily named Military Cross to this Officer, together with his Memorial Plaque and Scroll, is currently held by the Regimental Museum. --- M.C. London Gazette 26 July 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty throughout long operations. When his company commander was killed, he assumed command and maintained his position, covering the withdrawal of troops of other units with great courage and skill, inflicting heavy casualties on the advancing enemy.’ William Harold Parker attested for the Manchester Regiment and served with them during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 24 July 1915. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment on 30 October 1917, and was killed in action on the Western Front on 26 April 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

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A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant C. Hardy, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Milita

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Lot 65

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant C. Hardy, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (203406 Sjt. C. Hardy. 5/Notts: & derby: R.); British War and Victory Medals (20556 Sjt. C. Hardy. Notts. & Derbt. R.) together with related set of mounted miniatures, extremely fine (4) £300-£400 --- M.M. London Gazette 14 May 1919. Sold with copied Medal Index Card.

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Pair: Staff Sergeant R. B. French, Army Service Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free Sta

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Lot 106

Pair: Staff Sergeant R. B. French, Army Service Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (10380 S-Sejt. R. B. French, A.S.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (10380 S.Serjt: R. B. French. A.S.C.) light contact marks, very fine (2) £120-£160

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Pair: Lieutenant Wilfred Hughes, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, attached Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals, wi

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Lot 182

Pair: Lieutenant Wilfred Hughes, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, attached Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lieut. W. Hughes.) mounted for display, sold with original M.I.D. certificate dated 1 November 1918, this mounted on card, distressed at margins and with loss at one corner, medals extremely fine (2) £70-£90 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 30 January 1919: ‘Machine Gun Corps. T/Lt. W. Hughes, (Lt., 3/6th Bn., R. War. R. (T.F.)). Wilfred Hughes enlisted as 2410 Private, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and served in France from March 1915. He was discharged to a commission on 20 November 1915, and served with 3/6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Mentioned in despatches for Salonika for the period 1 March to 1 October, 1918 (Milne’s despatch of 1 November 1918). Also entitled to 1914-15 Star.

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Family group: Three: Bombardier N. A. Kay, South African Heavy Artillery 1914-15 Star (Gnr. N. A. Kay S.A.H.A.); British War

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Lot 169

Family group: Three: Bombardier N. A. Kay, South African Heavy Artillery 1914-15 Star (Gnr. N. A. Kay S.A.H.A.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Bombr. N.A. Kay. S.A.H.A.), with three related miniature awards, good very fine Four: Lieutenant R. A. Kay, 2nd Battalion, Transvaal Scottish, Union Defence Force, who was taken prisoner of war during the attempted break out from Tobruk in June 1942 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially impressed (32490 R. A. Kay), with four related miniature awards and riband bar, all mounted for display on a board, good very fine (lot) (7) £100-£140 --- Noel Arthur Kay resided in Lower Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa. He served during the Great War with the South African Heavy Artillery in German South-West Africa from July 1915. Roy Arthur Kay was the son of the above, and was born in Johannesburg in August 1915 (his father missing his birth through service). Kay was employed as an Articled Clerk-Accountant by Deloitte & Co. prior to being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Union Defence Force in June 1940. He was subsequently posted as Lieutenant to the 2nd Battalion, Transvaal Scottish, and disembarked in Egypt in June 1941. Kay was with the Regiment when it attempted to break out of the Axis cordon surrounding Tobruk, 21 June 1942, ultimately leading to the Garrison’s mass surrender on that date. He was taken prisoner of war by the Italians, and was initially interned at Campo 21 (Chieti). Kay moved to Campo 47 (Modena), before being transferred to Germany and interned at Oflag V-A (Weinburg) for the remainder of the war. Kay was repatriated in August 1945, and discharged in October of the same year. Sold with extensive copied research.

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A Great War 1918 ‘Italian theatre’ D.C.M., 1917 ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Second Award Bar group of four awarded to Acting War

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Lot 41

A Great War 1918 ‘Italian theatre’ D.C.M., 1917 ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Second Award Bar group of four awarded to Acting Warrant Officer Class I F. G. Collis, Hampshire Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (18024 C.S. Mjr: F. G Collis); Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (18024Sjt: F. G. Collis. 15/Hants: R.); British War and Victory Medals (15024 A.W.O. Cl.1 F. G. Collis. Hamps. R.) light contact marks, good very fine (4) £2,400-£2,800 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 3 June 1918; citation published 21 October 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry, devotion to duty and continuous good work for over two years, and especially during various hostile attacks, when he rendered invaluable service in reorganising his company after it had suffered very heavy casualties. The example of his courage and energy greatly inspired all ranks with him.’ M.M. London Gazette 18 June 1917. M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 28 September 1917. Frederick George Collis attested for the Hampshire Regiment in Portsmouth on 8 June 1915, and served with the 15th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and subsequently in Italy. Advanced Acting Warrant Officer Class I, he was discharged on account of wounds on 31 January 1919, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold with copied research.

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Four: Warrant Officer J. W. Pittman, Royal Fusiliers Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (4351 Pte. J. W. Pittman. Ryl: Fus:) re

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Lot 110

Four: Warrant Officer J. W. Pittman, Royal Fusiliers Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (4351 Pte. J. W. Pittman. Ryl: Fus:) renamed and fitted with a contemporary copy clasp; British War and Victory Medals (1044 W.O. Cl. 2. J. W. Pittman. R. Fus.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (4351 Pte. J. W. Pittman. R. Fus.) all contained in a contemporary fitted display case, nearly extremely fine (4) £300-£400 --- Entitlement to Tibet Medal and clasp confirmed. Sold with copied Medal Index Card which also shows service with the Labour Corps.

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Pair: Private E. S. Jones, Manchester Regiment, who died of wounds in Egypt on 10 June 1915 1914-15 Star (1783 Pte. E. S. Jon

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Lot 156

Pair: Private E. S. Jones, Manchester Regiment, who died of wounds in Egypt on 10 June 1915 1914-15 Star (1783 Pte. E. S. Jones. Manch. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (1783 Pte. E. S. Jones. Manch. R.); Memorial Plaque (Edward Samuel Jones) the plaque polished, therefore nearly very fine, otherwise good very fine Pair: Private J. H. Williams, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 9 June 1918 British War and Victory Medals (76057 Pte. J. H. Williams. R.W. Fus.) nearly extremely fine (5) £100-£140 --- Edward Samuel Jones, a native of Rhoscolyn, Holyhead, attested for the Manchester Regiment and served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War in the Egyptian theatre of war from 25 September 1914. He died of wounds in Egypt on 10 June 1915, aged 22, and is buried in Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt. John Henry Williams attested for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and served with the 1st/4th (Denbighshire) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 9 June 1918, aged 41, and is buried in Franvillers Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

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Five: Lieutenant R. Meynell, Supply and Transport Corps 1914-15 Star (Sub. Condr. R. Meynell. S.T.C.); British War and Victo

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Lot 164

Five: Lieutenant R. Meynell, Supply and Transport Corps 1914-15 Star (Sub. Condr. R. Meynell. S.T.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Condr. R. Meynell.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lieut. R. Meynell. S. & T. Corps.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (Sub Condtr R Meynell S. & T. Corps) good very fine (5) £160-£200 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 3 August 1920 (Afghanistan). Robert Meynell was born in 1866; Sub-Conductor 1906; Conductor 1915; Lieutenant and retired 1921. Served 1915-19 with the S. & T. of 9th (Secunderabad) Division.

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A post-War M.B.E. group of five awarded to Captain R. E. Scott, Royal Signals, later Government Communications Headquarters

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Lot 29

A post-War M.B.E. group of five awarded to Captain R. E. Scott, Royal Signals, later Government Communications Headquarters The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s related miniature awards, good very fine (5) £140-£180 --- Sold together with a presentation book of signatures presented to the recipient ‘from his friends and colleagues at G.C.H.Q., the cover of the book embossed ‘R. E. Scott, M.B.E., GCHQ, Sept. 1952 - Oct. 1982’; the recipient's Medical Card; and various badges and cloth insignia.

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1914-15 Star (No. 2723 Pte. Ramasamy, 86.Infy.); British War Medal 1914-20 (6) (Capt. C. W. Eltham.; 203916 Gnr. H. Underwood

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Lot 343

1914-15 Star (No. 2723 Pte. Ramasamy, 86.Infy.); British War Medal 1914-20 (6) (Capt. C. W. Eltham.; 203916 Gnr. H. Underwood. R.A.; 45194 Pte. L. G. C. Turner. The Queen’s R.; 2647 Pte. J. F. Gentry. 13-Lond. R.; 3769 Pte. W. J. Norris. 19-Lond. R.; Abraham Anderson); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Thomas A. Atcheson); Memorial Plaque (Frank Warner) edge bruising, generally nearly very fine and better (9) £100-£140 --- John F. Gentry attested for the London Regiment on 1 September 1914, and served with the 13th Battalion during the Great War. He was discharged on account of sickness on 2 August 1919, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. There are several men with the name Frank Warner listed on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Roll of Honour.

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Four: R. M. Lamb, Canadian Forces Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (D-800683 R. M. Lamb); U.N. Korea 1950-54 (D-800683

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Lot 271

Four: R. M. Lamb, Canadian Forces Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (D-800683 R. M. Lamb); U.N. Korea 1950-54 (D-800683 R. M. Lamb); U.N. Medal, on UNPROFOR riband; Canadian Special Service Medal, 1 clasp, NATO, good very fine (4) £70-£90

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Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War Three Volumes, compiled by Norman L. R. Franks, published by M

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Lot 489

Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War Three Volumes, compiled by Norman L. R. Franks, published by Midland Publishing 2000, Volume 1: Operational Losses 1939-41; Volume 2: Operational Losses 1942-43; Volume 3: Operational Losses 1944-45, softback, good condition Royal Air Force Coastal Command Losses of the Second World War Compiled by Ross McNeill, published by Midland Publications 2003, Volume 1: Aircraft and Crew Losses 1939-41, softback, good condition Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Six Volumes, compiled by W. R. Chorley, published by Midland Counties Publications 1992, Volume 1: Aircraft and Crew Losses 1939-40; Volume 2: Aircraft and Crew Losses 1941; Volume 3: Aircraft and Crew Losses 1942; Volume 4: Aircraft and Crew Losses 1943; Volume 5: Aircraft and Crew Losses 1944; Volume 6: Aircraft and Crew Losses 1945, softback, good condition The Bomber Command War Diaries, an operational reference book 1939-45. Compiled by Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt, Midland publishing 1996, softback, good condition (11) £80-£120

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Five: Chief Petty Officer C. R. Exton, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (J.9008. C.

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Lot 112

Five: Chief Petty Officer C. R. Exton, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (J.9008. C. R. Exton. Ord. Sean. H.M.S. Perseus.); 1914-15 Star (J.9008 C. R. Exton A.B. R.N.) naming extremely faint; British War and Victory Medals (J. 9008 C. R. Exton. L.S. R.N.) BWM suspension claw loose; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (J. 9008 C. R. Exton. P.O. H.M.S. Ark Royal.) polished, therefore fine (5) £160-£200 --- Charles Richard Exton was born in Faversham, Kent in August 1894. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in August 1912, and advanced to Petty Officer in November 1920. Service included with H.M. Ships Perseus, December 1911 - September 1913; Lowestoft (cruiser), June 1915 - December 1917. Exton advanced to Chief Petty Officer May 1934, and was released to Pension in August of the same year. He re-engaged for service in February 1940.

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Seven: R. M. Leckie, Canadian Forces 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadia

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Lot 249

Seven: R. M. Leckie, Canadian Forces 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (SC 850253 R. M. Leckie); U.N. Korea 1950-54 (SC 850253 R. M. Leckie) officially re-impressed, mounted for wear, traces of adhesive to reverse of Korea Medal, otherwise good very fine (7) £80-£120

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A fine Second War Pathfinder’s D.F.C. group of five awarded to Lancaster mid-upper gunner, Flight Lieutenant T. L. Tracey, Ro

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Lot 37

A fine Second War Pathfinder’s D.F.C. group of five awarded to Lancaster mid-upper gunner, Flight Lieutenant T. L. Tracey, Royal Air Force, who flew in at least 63 operational sorties, 29 of which were in Wellingtons with 101 Squadron, including the Thousand Bomber Raid to Cologne, 30 May 1942. After flying one sortie to Essen whilst stationed with an O.T.U., Tracey went on to fly the remainder of his sorties with 7 Squadron, Path Finder Force. Often employed as a Marker Crew, and on occasion as a Master Bomber crew, Tracey’s 2nd tour of operations provided many hair-raising experiences - in particular after returning from a raid on Stuttgart, 28 July 1944, during which Tracey had contributed to shooting down an enemy night fighter, the crew were forced to make an emergency landing at Bradwell Bay with the undercarriage down, engine damage, tyre blown on one wheel and ‘several inches of petrol slopping around in the wireless operator’s area’ Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1944’, in Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany, small traces of verdigris; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, generally good very fine (5) £2,400-£2,800 --- D.F.C. London Gazette 14 November 1944, the original recommendation states: ‘This officer has completed 45 operational sorties of which 15 have been made in Path Finder Force, 13 of them being in a marker crew. As mid-upper gunner he has always displayed great skill. His extreme sense of duty and his application to this task on hand has resulted on several occasions in his evading fighter attacks, and his fine capabilities have been an asset to the crew.’ M.I.D. unconfirmed. Thomas Leslie Tracey joined the Royal Air Force as a Leading Aircraftman, and carried out training as an Air Gunner at No. 8 A.G.S., Evanton from May 1941. After further training at No. 11 O.T.U., Tracey was posted for operational flying with 101 Squadron (Wellingtons), Oakington in September 1941. He flew in at least 29 operational sorties with the Squadron, including: Cherbourg; Emden; Le Havre; Antwerp, 2 October 1941 ‘Left large fires, Little Flak but came back with large shell hole’ (Log Book refers); Cologne (5), including 30 May 1942, the first Thousand Bomber Raid; Frankfurt; Berlin; Hamburg (4), including 14 January 1942 ‘Bombed 1650. Shot up. Nav. wounded’ (Ibid); Brest (2); Dusseldorf; Paris; Lubeck; Essen; Dorgland; Baltic; Bolougne; Frisians; Wilhelmshaven; and Duisberg (2). Tracey was posted to No. 26 O.T.U. at the end of August 1942, and whilst stationed there took part in a raid on Essen, 16 September 1942. He served as an instructor, advanced to Warrant Officer, and then was commissioned Pilot Officer in February 1944. Tracey returned to operational flying as a mid-upper gunner with 7 Squadron (Lancasters), Oakington in July 1944. The Squadron operated as part of No. 8 Group, Path Finder Force, and Tracey was crewed with Squadron Leader R. P. Todd, D.F.C., A.F.C. as his pilot. He flew in at least 33 operational sorties with the Squadron, including: Noyelle en Chaussee; Stuttgart (3); Foret de Nieppe; Foret de L’Isle Adam; Blaye; Foret de Mormal; La Pallice; Foret de Montrichard; Soesterberg; Kiel (3); Sterkrade; Russelheim; Deuf de Ternois; Emden; Le Havre (3); Kamen; Munster; Boulogne; Domburg; Calais (2); Emmerich; Wilhelmshaven; Bochum; and Gelsenkirchen. The three raids on Stuttgart, 24, 25 and 28 July 1944 are recalled by the Navigator R. H. Smith in No. 7 Bomber Squadron RAF in World War II, by T. Docherty: ‘The crew were R. P. Todd, pilot; R. H. Smith, navigator; R. Martin, flight engineer; Stanton, wireless operator; Drinkwater and Tracy [sic], gunners; Grant, bomb aimer and Talbot, radar operator. On the 24, 25 and 28 July 1944 Bomber Command attacked the city of Stuttgart. R. P. Todd’s crew took part in all three attacks. Their duty was to drop marker flares to guide the main force of bombers to the target. The 24th operation took seven hours, thirty minutes, the one of the 25th eight hours, ten minutes; the extra time was due to engine trouble. The aircraft they flew was NE2122:V. For the 28th operation they were again allocated NE122:V. They air tested it for an hour in the afternoon after the engineers had checked it, and took off for Stuttgart at 2240hrs carrying one 4,000 pound bomb and four 1,000 pound target indicators. The Luftwaffe was well prepared to oppose the attacking force, having been warned by the previous two attacks. It was a moonlit night and the German fighters were very active. It was later estimated that about 200 fighters were employed. Sixty-two of the bomber force were lost (which was the third heaviest loss of the war). During the run to the target many air combats and ground fires were seen. The crew of NE122 were briefed to drop their markers visually and to facilitate this they were to locate the small town of Pforzheim which gave a good return on the H2S radar, and there set up a piece of equipment called a ground position indicator (GPI). This threw a spot of light on a target chart. The spot moved along giving the aircraft’s position. The distance to fly was about 15 miles; about four minutes time. During this action the aircraft had to be held straight and level. What happened during the run-in is described in the official combat report... What follows is a first-hand account compiled from the memories of the pilot, the flight engineer and the navigator, Richard Smith: “After setting up the GPI over Pforzheim I was giving the pilot direction instructions. The bomb aimer was lying prone over his bombsight and also pushing out handfuls of window... Suddenly there was an explosion on the starboard side. Also a tremendous racket as the gunners fired their eight Browning machine-guns causing empty .303 cartridges to cascade from the mid-upper turret [Tracey] and rattle against the inside of the fuselage. Also there was a lot of noise over the intercom as the gunners called for evasive action. The aircraft dived violently to starboard and I watched the navigator’s altimeter record a loss of 4,000 feet. The aircraft filled with smoke and the captain gave the order to abandon. My immediate reaction was to grab and fix my parachute and make for the lower escape hatch ready to leave the aircraft as soon as the bomb aimer opened the hatch. We learned later that the hatch could not be opened because the parcels of window were lying across it. The bomb aimer was desperately flinging the parcels out of the way and they were bursting open as he flung them. Suddenly the hatch came open and a blast of freezing air blew through the opening carrying with it masses of strips of tin foil. I was standing in a direct line with the blast and was covered in the stuff. While this was happening the pilot had regained control. The engineer had operated the starboard inner engine fire extinguisher and the captain had cancelled the abandon order. All the crew was still aboard, which fact was probably due to the delay caused by the blocked escape hatch. The Lancaster was settled in straight and level flight, the starboard inner propeller feathered to reduce drag and the crew gradually resumed their stations and regained some of their composure. The bomb load was still aboard and could not then be dropped because the bomb doors could not be opened. We were now some distance away from the target and the position was not known with any accuracy. The important thing was to be heading in the right direction, so a course was set it the westward. The main compass system had gone u/s in the dive, so we were reduced to using th...

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India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (14 Pte. J. Quirk 2d. Bn. R. Sco. Fus.) suspension claw slightly loose,

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Lot 292

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (14 Pte. J. Quirk 2d. Bn. R. Sco. Fus.) suspension claw slightly loose, otherwise very fine £140-£180 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2003. Sold with copied medal roll extract.

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A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of three awarded to Corporal E. G. Hall, Guards Divisional Signal Company, Royal Eng

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Lot 45

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of three awarded to Corporal E. G. Hall, Guards Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers, late Royal Warwickshire Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (153318 2.Cpl. -A. Cpl.- E. G. Hall. Gds: D.S. Coy. R.E.); 1914-15 Star (14-683 Pte. E. G. Hall, R. War. R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (683 Cpl. E. G. Hall. R. War. R.); together with the recipient’s related miniature awards (including the Victory Medal), good very fine (3) £500-£700 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 5 December 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry during an advance. He went forward with another corporal to establish wireless communication back to brigade headquarters, and though the position was heavily shelled and swept by machine-gun fire, they succeeded, after several attempts, in erecting the wireless, only to have it shot down again. Corporal Hall then accompanied his commanding officer to a new position and established communication. He behaved with marked courage and devotion to duty.’ Eric G. Hall attested for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment at Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 November 1915. Transferring to the Royal Engineers, he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal whilst serving with the Guards Divisional Signal Company, and was discharged Class Z Reserve on 11 June 1919. Sold together with the recipient’s full and miniature width riband bars.

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Fighter Squadrons of the Royal Air Force and their Aircraft. Compiled by John D. R. Rawlings, published by Crecy Books 1993,

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Lot 490

Fighter Squadrons of the Royal Air Force and their Aircraft. Compiled by John D. R. Rawlings, published by Crecy Books 1993, 590pp., hardback, with dust jacket, good condition Bomber Squadrons of the Royal Air Force and their Aircraft. Compiled by Philip J. R. Moyes, published by Purnell Book Services 1976, 399pp., hardback, with dust jacket, good condition The Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm Compiled by Ray Sturtivant and Theo Ballance, published by Air Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1994, 480pp., hardback, very good condition Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939 to 1945 Compiled by Ray Sturtivant with Mick Burrow, published by Air Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1995, 512pp., hardback, very good condition Coastal, Support, and Special Squadrons of the Royal Air Force and their Aircraft Compiled by John D. R. Rawlings, published by Jane’s Publishing 1992, 270pp., hardback, with dust jacket, very good condition Royal Air Force Flying Training and Support Units Compiled by Ray Sturtivant, John Hamlin, and James J. Halley, published by Air Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1997, 368pp., hardback, very good condition Together with copies of British and Empire Warships of the Second World War, by H. T. Lenton; Beneath the Waves - A History of HM Submarien Losses 1904-71, by A. S. Evans; Valiant Wings - Battle and Blenheim Squadrons over France 1940, by Norman Franks; Search, Find and Kill - The R.A.F.’s U-Boat successes in World War Two, by Norman Franks; Twenty-One Squadrons - The History of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force 1925-57, by Leslie Hunt; Military Airfields in the British Isles 1939-45 (Omnibus Edition), compiled by Steve Willis ands Barry Holliss, the majority hardback, with dust jackets, generally good condition (12) £80-£120

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Pair: Sergeant W. F. Medhurst, Gloucestershire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (20312 Sjt. W. F. Medhurst. Glouc. R.)

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Lot 189

Pair: Sergeant W. F. Medhurst, Gloucestershire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (20312 Sjt. W. F. Medhurst. Glouc. R.) good very fine Pair: Private A. T. Purrier, Hampshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (55396 Pte. A. T. Purrier. Hamps. R.) very fine Pair: Private E. Adshead, Wiltshire Regiment, later King’s Shropshire Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (34419 Pte. E. Adshead. Wilts. R.) in named card box of issue; together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘B228115’ and additionally privately named ‘E. Adshead, K.S.L.I.’, in numbered card box of issue; the recipient’s Royal Life Saving Society Swimming Proficiency Medal, bronze, the re verse engraved ‘E. Adshead. Oct. 1905.’, in fitted case of issue; and a Dewsbury Amateur Swimming Club Prize Medal, silver, the obverse engraved ‘Won by E. Adshead, 1905’; together with a gold (9ct?, approx. 6g) and enamel Masonic Jewel, the obverse inscribed ‘Presented by Cœur de Lion Lodge No. 120’, the reverse inscribed ‘Abraham Adshead’, about extremely fine Pair: Private W. A. Banks, Royal Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (87905 Pte. W. A. Banks. R.A.M.C.) nearly very fine (11) £140-£180

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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., Anchor obverse (Henry Mitchell, Boatswains Mate H.M.S. America 22 Years) pierced with small ring and

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Lot 373

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., Anchor obverse (Henry Mitchell, Boatswains Mate H.M.S. America 22 Years) pierced with small ring and secondary larger ring for suspension, edge dig to reverse rim at 9 o’clock, otherwise nearly very fine £1,200-£1,600 --- Provenance: Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996. L.S. & G.C. awarded 17 October 1847, one of the last 20 ‘anchor’ awards before the introduction of the wide suspension type in December 1847. Henry Mitchell joined the service as a Boy 2nd Class aboard H.M.S. Valorous on 21 March 1821, aged 16 years, born Plymouth. On 6 May 1828 he ‘Ran” (deserted) as an A.B. from H.M.S. Rinaldo, a stigma which was no longer to affect his career prospects when his ‘R’ (‘Run’ or ‘Ran’) was officially removed from his service record on 14 October 1846. He achieved Petty Officer status as a Boatswain’s Mate in December 1831 aboard H.M.S. Revenge. No notation was made on his records of ‘M & G’ for his awards in October 1847 while aboard H.M.S. America. He returned to serve aboard H.M.S. Nile as a Bosun’s Mate for two years commencing February 1854, and yet again for three years as a Ship’s Cook aboard H.M.S. Caesar, before being finally discharged in January 1862, when he was once more recommended for a second (?) ‘Medal & Gratuity’ after serving a total of 28 years.

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Three: Lieutenant R. B. Shepherd, Royal Scots, later Labour Corps 1914-15 Star (200412 Pte. R. B. Shepherd. R. Scots.); Brit

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Lot 141

Three: Lieutenant R. B. Shepherd, Royal Scots, later Labour Corps 1914-15 Star (200412 Pte. R. B. Shepherd. R. Scots.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lieut. R. B. Shepherd.); together with the related miniature awards, these mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £70-£90 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1919 Roy B. Shepherd attested for the Royal Scots and served with them during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 8 June 1915. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant, General List, and subsequently served with the Labour Corps, being Mentioned in Despatches for his services in Egypt.

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Five: Private F. Mayhead, Hampshire Regiment, who was three times wounded during the Great War 1914-15 Star (17663 Pte. F. M

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Lot 152

Five: Private F. Mayhead, Hampshire Regiment, who was three times wounded during the Great War 1914-15 Star (17663 Pte. F. Mayhead. Hamps: R.); British War and Victory Medals (17663 Pte. F. Mayhead. Hamps. R.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (5485362 Pte. F. Mayhead, Hamps. R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (5485362 Pte. F. Mayhead. Hamps. R.) edge bruising and contact marks to the Great War awards, these very fine, the GSM and LS&GC extremely fine (5) £160-£200 --- Frank Mayhead attested for the Hampshire Regiment in August 1914, and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War in the Balkans theatre of War from 5 October 1915, where he was engaged in various operations in the Suez Canal zone, and suffered a gun shot wound to the head on 28 December 1915. ‘In 1917 he was drafted to the Western Front, and was wounded in action in the third Battle of Ypres, and again during the Advance in October 1918. Later he returned to England, and in 1920 was serving in Ireland’ (National Roll of the Great War refers). He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in October 1933, and saw further service in pre-War Palestine. Sold with copied research.

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A Great War ‘Palestine 1918’ M.C. group of four awarded to Captain E. J. Smith, 13th London Regiment, late 10th Royal Fusilie

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Lot 35

A Great War ‘Palestine 1918’ M.C. group of four awarded to Captain E. J. Smith, 13th London Regiment, late 10th Royal Fusiliers Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved ‘Captain E. Jeffcoat Smith 13th London Regiment Palestine 1918’; 1914-15 Star (7236 Cpl. E. J. Smith. R. Fus.) naming unofficially re-engraved; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E. J. Smith.) very fine (4) £500-£700 --- M.C. London Gazette 18 July 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led his platoon with great skill and courage, and was amongst the first three to enter the enemy trenches and set a fine example to the whole of the company.’ Eric Jeffcoat Smith served with the 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, in France and Belgium from 31 July 1915 to April 1916. He was appointed to a commission as 2nd Lieutenant, 13th London Regiment on 5 August 1916, and served in France again from September to November 1916; he afterwards served in Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, European Turkey and the Islands of the Aegean Sea, from December 1916 to June 1917; and with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from June 1917 to October 1918.

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Family group: British War Medal 1914-20 (4987 Gnr. R. Searle. R.A.) edge bruise, very fine Five: Ordnance Artificer First C

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Lot 180

Family group: British War Medal 1914-20 (4987 Gnr. R. Searle. R.A.) edge bruise, very fine Five: Ordnance Artificer First Class R. D. Searle, Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue (MX.60468. R. D. Searle. O.A.1. H.M.S. Excellent.) very fine and better (6) £100-£140 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1945: ‘For gallantry or outstanding service in the face of the enemy, or for zeal, patience and cheerfulness in dangerous waters, and for setting an example of whole hearted devotion to duty, upholding the high traditions of the Royal Navy.’ Ralph Douglas Searle was born on 2 November 1919, the son of Gunner Ralph Searle, Royal Garrison Artillery, and was awarded his Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 31 August 1954.

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A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private W. T. Cooper, Royal Fusiliers Military Medal, G.V.R. (G-8

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Lot 60

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private W. T. Cooper, Royal Fusiliers Military Medal, G.V.R. (G-86280 Pte. W. T Cooper. 10/R. Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (GS-86280 Pte. W. T. Cooper R. Fus.) good very fine £240-£280 --- M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919. Wilfred T. Cooper attested for the Royal Fusiliers at Hornsey, Middlesex, and served with the 10th Battalion during the Great War, being awarded the Military Medal. He was discharged on account of sickness on 10 December 1919, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.

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A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Private R. W. Thorns, Royal Sussex Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (3475 Pte. R.

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Lot 63

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Private R. W. Thorns, Royal Sussex Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (3475 Pte. R. W. Thorns. 13/R. Suss: R.) suspension claw re-riveted, heavy contact marks and edge bruising, polished, good fine £160-£200 --- M.M. London Gazette 6 January 1917. Ronald W. Thorns attested for the Royal Sussex Regiment, and served with the 13th (3rd South Downs) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front.

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A post-War B.E.M. group of eleven awarded to Regimental Sergeant Major W. Strong, Hampshire Regiment, later School Staff Inst

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Lot 75

A post-War B.E.M. group of eleven awarded to Regimental Sergeant Major W. Strong, Hampshire Regiment, later School Staff Instructor, Eastbourne College British Empire Medal, (Civil) E.II.R. (William Strong); 1914-15 Star (21132 Pte. W. Strong, Hamps. R.); British War and Victory Medals (21132 Cpl. W. Strong. Hamps. R.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (5485428 W.O. Cl.II. W. Strong. Hamps. R.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (5485428 W.O. Cl.II. W. Strong. Hamps. R.); Defence Medal; Jubilee 1935 (5485428 C.S.M. W. Strong. 1. Hamps. R.) contemporarily engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (5485428 W.O. Cl.II. W. Strong. Hamps. R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (5485428 W.O. Cl.2. W. Strong. Hampshire R.); Cadet Forces Medal, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar (R.S.M. W. Strong) mounted court-style as worn; together with the related miniature awards, the IGS an E.VII.R. issue with clasp North West Frontier 1908 and the MSM and Cadet Forces Medal both E.II.R. awards, the Great War awards polished and worn, these nearly very fine, the rest generally nearly extremely fine (11) £600-£800 --- B.E.M. London Gazette 13 June 1957: William Strong, School Staff Instructor, Eastbourne College. William Strong attested for the Hampshire Regiment and served during the Great War in Egypt from 12 December 1915, and subsequently with the 10th Battalion in Macedonia, where he was wounded in 1918. He later served in both the 1st and 2nd Battalions for many years, and was advanced Warrant Officer Class II on 7 July 1932. He was discharged on 28 August 1937, and subsequently served for many years as the Drill Sergeant at Eastbourne College. He died on 18 May 1992, aged 92. Sold with copied research, including various photographic images of the recipient.

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A Great War 1915 ‘Gallipoli’ D.C.M. group of five awarded to Warrant Officer Class II B. P. Bellamy, 6th Battalion, York and

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Lot 52

A Great War 1915 ‘Gallipoli’ D.C.M. group of five awarded to Warrant Officer Class II B. P. Bellamy, 6th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, who was Mentioned in Despatches, and was subsequently gassed and wounded by shrapnel during the Battle of the Somme Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (3-3218 Sjt: B. P. Bellamy. 6/Y. & L.R.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5362 L.Cpl: P. Bellamy.York: & Lanc: Regt.); 1914-15 Star (3-3218. Sgt. P. B. Bellamy, York & Lanc. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (3-3218 W.O. Cl.2. B. P. Bellamy. York & Lanc. R.) mounted court-style, edge bruise to QSA, otherwise very fine and better (5) £1,200-£1,600 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 3 June 1916; citation published 21 June 1916: ‘For consistent good work and for the fine example he has shown to his men.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 13 July 1916: ‘For distinguished and gallant services rendered on the Peninsular of Gallipoli during the period of General Sir Charles Munro’s Command of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.’ Bernard Percy Bellamy was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire on 30 January 1881, and attested for the York and Lancaster Regiment on 22 February 1899. He served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 21 August 1901 until March 1902, and subsequently in India from March 1902 until October 1907. Discharged on 8 October 1913, following the outbreak of the Great War Bellamy was recalled to the colours and was appointed Company Quarter Master Sergeant on 25th August 1914. He served with the 6th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment in the Balkans theatre of War, landing at Mudros on 2 July 1915, before serving at Gallipoli. The Battalion landed at Suvla Bay on the evening of 6 August 1915 and the next day advanced to Lala Baba meeting little opposition, and thence on to Hill 10. On 8 August the battalion advanced to the line Sulajik-Anafartaova and the next day repulsed repeated Turkish counter attacks. By 11 August, the battalion had suffered some 284 casualties in killed, wounded and missing and a further 31 on 12 August moving into positions on Hill 53 (Yilghinburnu). On 18 August the Battalion went into reserve before returning to the line near Chocolate Hill two days later and taking part in an attack on 22 August. The remainder of the battalion’s time at Suvla was a routine of trench warfare, until they were evacuated over 18-19 December 1915. For his services in Gallipoli Bellamy was Mentioned in Despatches and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. After a period in Egypt, Bellamy landed in France on 27 June 1916, and served on the Western Front with the battalion at the Battle of the Somme, where he was gassed on 24 September 1916 and wounded in the knee by shrapnel on the 27 September. At that time, the Battalion was in trenches near Mouquet Farm, near Thiepval. He was evacuated home, leaving France on 1 October and being sent to Horton War Hospital near Epsom, from where he was officially posted to the Depot. He was to remain in the UK for the remainder of the war. Appointed Regimental Sergeant Major on 16 February 1919 he was discharged Class Z Reserve on 9 May 1919. He died in Sheffield in 1944.

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Four: Corporal W. Day, Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) 1914-15 Star (L/12144 Pte. W. Day. Middx. R.); British W

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Lot 155

Four: Corporal W. Day, Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) 1914-15 Star (L/12144 Pte. W. Day. Middx. R.); British War and Victory Medals (L/12144 Cpl. W. Day. Middx R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (6188518 Pte. W. Day. Middx. R.) mounted as worn, all stamped ‘Duplicate’, nearly extremely fine (4) £60-£80 --- W. Day was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 368 of 1926.

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The extremely rare campaign group of four awarded to Major R. J. H. L. Mackenzie, Royal Engineers, a pioneering military aero

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Lot 88

The extremely rare campaign group of four awarded to Major R. J. H. L. Mackenzie, Royal Engineers, a pioneering military aeronaut who ascended in his balloon up to 750 feet for 7 hours as part of a marching column in the Soudan in March 1885 - only the second time that the Balloon Detachment had been sent out on active service, and the first time that it had been present in a campaign where there was fighting. Mackenzie subsequently served as part of the Zhob Field Force under Sir George White, and as the Survey Officer with the Second Miranzai Expedition of 1891, being Mentioned in Despatches for his services during both campaigns Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (Lieut: R. Mackenzie. R.E.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Samana 1891 (Captain R. J. H. L. Mackenzie R.E.); Khedive’s Star, 1884-6, unnamed as issued; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Ronald J. Mackenzie); together with a bronze Confirmation medallion, engraved ‘Ronald Mackensie’ [sic], minor edge nicks, generally good very fine (5) £1,800-£2,200 --- Ronald Joseph Henry Louis Mackenzie was born in Clonmel, Ireland in 1863. He was the son of Major A. C. Mackenzie, and was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in July 1882. Military experiments with balloons began at Woolwich Arsenal in 1878, with the first balloon section presented at Aldershot in 1880. A school of instruction was established in 1883, and Mackenzie became a pioneer of the Balloon Detachment after it was sent out on active service for the first time in 1884, ‘When, in the autumn of 1884, an expedition was sent to Bechuanaland under Sir Charles Warren, expel the filibusters who had raided the territory, to pacificate the country, and to reinstate the natives, a balloon detachment under Major Elsdale and Captain F. C. Trollope, of the Grenadier Guards, attached to the Royal Engineers, was included in the expedition. They took with them in the detachment three balloons, and a staff consisting of fifteen non-commissioned officers and men. There was no fighting. At Mafeking, which was then a native village, it was found that owing to the elevation above sea-level neither of the two smaller balloons had lift enough to raise a man into the air, and that the largest balloon could take up only one observer.... Balloons were used again on active service in the following year, 1885, in the Soudan. A small detachment, under Major Templer with Lieutenant R. J. H. L. Mackenzie, of the Royal Engineers, and nine non-commissioned officers and sappers, accompanied the expeditionary force. The best of the material had been sent to Bechuanaland, so the equipment was very imperfect, but ascents made in a balloon of one of the smaller types at El Teb and Tamai [sic], and elsewhere, proved useful for reconnaissance.’ (War in the Air, by Sir Walter Raleigh and H. A. Jones refers) Further details of the ascents made by Mackenzie are given in the History of the Royal Engineers: ‘The party went with the convoy to McNeil’s Zeriba at El Tofrek. On March 25 the balloon was filled during the previous night so as to be ready to join the convoy square at daybreak. Lt. Mackenzie ascended with instruments etc, complete, and was kept by Major Templar at heights varying from 200 to 400 feet, according to his requirements. He remained in the car for seven hours. It is interesting to record the various messages which passed on this occasion: 1) No enemy in sight for 3 miles around. 2) There is a column of our troops 3 miles off to North-West marching on Hasheen. 3) Camels appear in 2’s and 3’s in line with the highest peak of range, to left of Hasheen. Our own troops moving from Zeriba towards us in square. 4) Small bodies of enemy to our left front 800 yds. off. 5) (In answer to question: what strength?) About 40 to 30 men. 6) Dust rising towards Tamai 3 miles off, also on Trinkitat road some distance. 7) Few of the enemy to left front 800 yds. off, rather more to our left than previous body. Men getting out from bushes and running away towards Tamai. 8) Four men in open space, 800 yds. away, apparently watching balloon.’ Mackenzie’s balloon ventured as high as 750 feet, and was towed by a car in the centre of the marching column for 7 hours between Suakin and Tofrek. He advanced to Captain in September 1890, and was present in the same year with the Zhob Field Force under Sir George White (Mentioned in Despatches). Mackenzie served under Brigadier General Sir William Lockhart as the Survey Officer with the Second Miranzai Expedition of 1891. He was mentioned in the latter’s despatch (London Gazette 15 September 1891) thus: ‘Captain R. J. H. L. Mackenzie, Royal Engineers, has satisfactorily conducted the survey work of the expedition. He has been successful in extending the survey of the Orakzai country to the Tsappar range, south of Tirah, and to the Marghan pass between the Khanki and Kurmana valleys, thus completing the excellent work of Captain Wahab, Royal Engineers, whose name I brought to notice at the end of the last expedition.’ Mackenzie advanced to Major in December 1900. He was placed on half pay due to ill health in December 1903, and retired in August 1906. He served with the Metropolitan Special Constabulary during the Great War. Sold with extensive copied research.

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Four: Lance-Corporal G. Price, Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) 1914-15 Star (13457 Pte. G. Price. S.

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Lot 153

Four: Lance-Corporal G. Price, Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) 1914-15 Star (13457 Pte. G. Price. S. Lan: R.); British War and Victory Medals (13457 Pte. G. Price. S. Lan. R.); Defence Medal, mounted as worn, contact marks, nearly very fine Four: Corporal H. Lloyd, Army Service Corps 1914-15 Star (M2-101692. Pte. H. Lloyd. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (M2-101692 Cpl. H. Lloyd. A.S.C.); Defence Medal, mounted as worn together with an erased Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18, nearly very fine Pair: Private W. Harley, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 24 December 1917 1914-15 Star (241396 Pte. W. Harley. R. Lanc: R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (241396 Pte. W. Harley. R. Lanc. R.) unsuccessful attempt to erase naming details from BWM, nearly very fine Pair: Private A. Wilson, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and Machine Gun Corps 1914-15 Star (1636 Pte. A. Wilson. R. Lanc: R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (1636 Pte. A. Wilson. R. Lanc. R.) good very fine (13) £100-£140 --- Gwyn Price attested for the Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) on 9 September 1914, and served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 September 1915. He was discharged on 24 January 1919, and was awarded a Silver War Badge, no. B111397. Henry Lloyd was born in Liverpool in 1887 and served in the Mercantile Marine. He attested for the Army Service Corps, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 September 1915. He was wounded on 16 August 1917, and was discharged to the Reserve on 16 March 1919. William Harley attested for the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and served with the 1st/5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 3 September 1915. He died of wounds on 24 December 1917, and is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France. Albert Wilson attested for the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 February 1915. He subsequently transferred to the Machine Gun Corps.

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A Great War October 1917 ‘Battle of Poelcappelle’ D.C.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant-Major A. Allerton, 1st/7th Battalio

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Lot 47

A Great War October 1917 ‘Battle of Poelcappelle’ D.C.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant-Major A. Allerton, 1st/7th Battalion (Leeds Rifles), Prince of Wales’s Own West Yorkshire Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (267579 Sjt: -A.S. Mjr:- A. Allerton. 1/7 W. York: R. -T.F.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial retaining rod between state and date clasps (7010 Pte. A. Allerton, Vol: Co: W. Yorks: Regt.) 1914-15 Star (190 Sjt. A. Allerton. W. York: R.); British War and Victory Medals (190 A.W.O. Cl.2. A. Allerton. W. York. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R., with Second Award Bar (190 L.Sjt: A. Allerton. 7/W. York: Regt.) damage to DCM and BWM sustained during an enemy air raid, contact marks and edge bruising, generally nearly very fine and better (6) £1,400-£1,800 --- Formerly held on loan by the Leeds City Museum where they suffered some damage when the Museum received a direct hit from a German bomber in 1941. The medals were released to the recipient’s son in 1983. Provenance: Buckland Dix & Wood, September 1994. D.C.M. London Gazette 28 March 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when in charge of the brigade runners in an attack. His work was carried on night and day, and frequently under heavy shell fire, and it was to a great extent due to him that communication was kept up. He showed great initiative and determination.’ Alfred Allerton attested for the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) in 1899, and served with the 2nd Volunteer Service Company in South Africa during the Boer War from March 1901. Awarded the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal under Army Order 95 of 1911, he subsequently served with the 1st/7th Battalion (Leeds Rifles) during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 April 1915 - the date that the 49th Division moved to France for active service. Discharged on 8 April 1916 upon the termination of his period of engagement, he was immediately recalled to the Colours, this time with the Regimental number 5665, and was appointed Company Sergeant Major. In accordance with the re-numbering of all Territorial Forces in early 1917 his regimental number was changed from 5665 to 267579. Allerton was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his actions on 10 October 1917 west of Passchendaele in what was known as the Battle of Poelcappelle. The 49th Division was the centre of three divisions, 66th on their right and 48th on their left. 146 brigade was the centre brigade of the division; 1/7 Battaalion West Yorkshires the centre battalion of the brigade. The St. Julien Road was behind them and Passchendaele a mile or two ahead. The terrain was a nightmare of mud, shell holes, destroyed equipment and decaying bodies. The march to the jumping off position itself was a triumph of spirit over adversity. The Battalion War Diary gives the following account: ‘The battalion assembled at La Brique at 9am on 8 October and at 5pm stared to move up no 6 track to the assembly position. The night was very dark and rain commenced to fall shortly before 5pm and continued during the night making the march up to Calgary Grange very difficult, many parts of the track being almost impossible to follow; shortly after leaving the St. Julien road it was found that all the trench grids had been removed for a considerable distance. The head of the battalion reached Calgary Grange about midnight and the whole battalion was in position by 3am on 9 October; the men were all very tired. There was a certain amount of shelling on the way up but no casualties occurred until the battalion reached the assembly position. The barrage opened at 5.20am; the troops were all ready and advanced at once; owing however to the broken ground, which was very wet and soft, and to the water in the Stroombeek, the troops did not keep up to the barrage at first, but I think they got up to it again before reaching the first objective. The companies at first kept rather too much to the right in the direction of Peter Pan but they afterward changed direction and passed Yetta Houses at about the proper distance. Battalion HQ moved forward behind the companies and took up a position in shell holes near Calgary Grange. No news was received from companies until Lieutenant Baldwin MC, Officer Commanding left Company, for second objective came back wounded about 7am and said that his company was held up by machine gun fire and sniper fire from the left as soon as they moved forward through the first objective companies; he told me that he had given orders that 2 platoons should move along to deal with this M.G. but they apparently failed to silence this gun. As I got no reports whatever from the companies I went up to the front line myself near Yetta Houses and found that 3 companies were consolidating there with their left about 100 yards from Yetta Houses. The men were too crowded and I gave orders that the men of one company were to be collected and taken to some trenches further in rear. Two officers were left on duty with my right company, but in the other 3 companies all the officers and the greater part of the senior N.C.O.s had become casualties, this made it difficult to obtain really reliable information. Enemy machine guns and snipers in carefully concealed positions were very active; they continued to fire through the barrage and were able to prevent our advance to the second objective owing to the accuracy of their fire and the difficulty of locating their exact positions. A number of the enemy were killed by our rifle and Lewis gun fire and an enemy machine gun firing from the parapet of a trench on the right and enfilading troops advancing on the left was rushed by one man single-handed whereupon the team ran away; as the man found that he could not work the gun he disabled it. During the morning of 9 October Captain Mander with 2 companies of the 1st/4th West Riding Regiment reported to me and at 2pm I sent one of these companies to Yetta Houses to fill the gap between the left of my line and the right of 1st/8th West Yorkshire Regiment. Small counter attacks were attempted by the enemy about 2pm and 6pm but these came to nothing. At 10.30pm on 9 October I received instructions that a company of the 1st/6th Battalion West Riding Regiment would mop up the area between my line and the most advanced posts. Early in the morning of 10 October, the Officer Commanding the 1st/6th Battalion West Riding Regiment mopping-up company reported that his company had covered all the ground up to the post held by my right company; where Lieutenant Moore informed him that he was in the most advanced position of the Battalion; he therefore considered that he had carried out his instructions. During the night of 9-10 October I sent first my Intelligence Officer and afterwards my Regimental Sergeant Major to ascertain the position in the front line, both were wounded however and I had no one else to send at the time. At 6am on 10 October I sent my Signalling Officer up to the front line; he reported that all was quiet and in order. The first companies of the relieving Battalion of the New Zealand Rifles came up about 9pm and relief was completed about midnight. Enemy shelling was heavy throughout the day of 10 October and during the relief and the New Zealand Rifles suffered a good many casualties.’ Allerton received a hand written note from General Goring-Jones (who was by now recuperating from wounds in England) congratulating him on the award: ‘My heartiest congratulations on your well earned D.C.M. I was very glad indeed to hear that you had got it, for I am sure no man ever earned it better...’ Allerton was discharged ...

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Three: Colour-Sergeant James Manley, West Yorkshire Regiment, late 5th Foot Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1778. Pte. J. Man

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Lot 85

Three: Colour-Sergeant James Manley, West Yorkshire Regiment, late 5th Foot Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1778. Pte. J. Manly. 1/5th Fusrs.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (571 Sgt. J. Manley. W. York R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Cr. Sjt. J. Manley. W. York. R.) toned, good very fine (3) £360-£440 --- Date of Annuity M.S.M. not known. James Manley enlisted into the 5th Foot at Banbury on 12 October 1867. He served in India from December 1869 to December 1880, including the campaign in Afghanistan in 1878-80. He transferred to the West Yorkshire Regiment, No. 571, on 12 October 1883. Sold with copied papers.

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Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Bombr John Thomas, F Tp R. H. Arty) nearly very fine £240-£280

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Lot 296

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Bombr John Thomas, F Tp R. H. Arty) nearly very fine £240-£280

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Pair: Private J. Barrett, Hampshire Regiment India General Service 1854-95, 3 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89, Burma 188

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Lot 89

Pair: Private J. Barrett, Hampshire Regiment India General Service 1854-95, 3 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89, Burma 1889-92 (1204. Pte. J. Barrett. 2/Hamps: R.) battalion number officially corrected; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Johannesburg (1204 Pte. J. Barrett, 2nd. Hamps: Regt.) good very fine (2) £300-£400 --- Joseph Barrett was born in Southampton in 1865 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment at Winchester on 30 October 1883, having previously served in the regiment’s 3rd (Militia) Battalion. He served initially with the 2nd Battalion in India and Burma from 9 January 1886, before transferring to the 1st Battalion, and remained overseas until 19 July 1894. He was discharged on 29 October 1895, after 12 years’ service, but subsequently re-enlisted for service in South Africa during the Boer War. Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts for the India General Service Medal, which shows that the medal was issued to the recipient whilst serving with the 1st Battalion, and was presumably originally named thus.

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