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In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteSouth Atlantic 1982, with rosette (RO2(G) R Marshall D182704L HMS Hermes) mounted as worn, good very fine £400-£500 --- The 28,000-ton aircraft carrier H.M.S. Hermes was launched in 1953 and served during the Falklands War as the flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Sandy Woodward, under the command of Captain L. E. Middleton, D.S.O. Hermes shared in the provision, alongside H.M.S. Invincible, of almost all the air power of the campaign, her operational capacity amounting to 15 Sea Harriers and six Harrier GR3’s, in addition to assorted helicopter types.
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteA Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M., M.M. group of six awarded to Private R. A. Kenney, 78th Battalion, Canadian Infantry Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (874958 Pte. R. A. Kenney. 78/Can: Inf:); Military Medal, G.V.R. (874958 Pte. R. A. Kenney. 78/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals ((874958 Pte. R. A. Kenney. 78-Can. Inf.); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45, these last two unnamed as issued, mounted for display, extremely fine (6) £1,800-£2,200 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 16 November 1918; citation London Gazette 21 December 1918: ‘This man, acting as battalion scout, assisted to locate the bridges over a river under heavy fire. Later, in a counter-attack by the enemy, he with four others worked round their flank and rushed a patrol, killing six out of seven. This man was full of resource and courage.’ M.M. London Gazette 11 December 1918. R. A. Kenney was born in Marringhurst, Manitoba, and served with the 78th Battalion, Canadian Infantry during the Great War. He was wounded on 10 August 1918, and died on 15 April 1954.
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteA Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Second Award Bar group of three awarded to Acting Sergeant F. R. Brunt, 78th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was wounded in the face while winning his M.M. at Passchendaele Ridge in October 1917 Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (148445 Cpl. F. R. Brunt. 78/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals (148445 A. Sjt.. F. R. Brunt. 78-Can. Inf.) mounted for display, nearly extremely fine (3) £800-£1,000 --- Provenance: Ron Penhall Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2006. M.M. London Gazette 13 March 1918. The original recommendation - extracted from Canadian archives - states: ‘For conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty during operations on Passchendaele Ridge from 29 October to 2 November 1917. When all the other N.C.Os had become casualties in the Brigade Tump Line Party this N.C.O. took charge and succeeded in establishing a forward dump under very heavy shell fire. Following the attack he assisted most ably in the evacuation of wounded until he himself became a casualty. He refused to leave his post in spite of his wounds and continued for 12 hours before he was forced to withdraw on account of the severity of his wounds. He displayed marked courage and conspicuous devotion to duty throughout the whole operation and is deserving of the highest praise.’ Bar to M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919. Francis Ralph Blunt was born at Shelton in Staffordshire in August 1882 and enlisted in the 78th Battalion, Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Winnipeg, where he had settled as a farmer, in November 1915. Arriving in the U.K. in May 1916, he was embarked for France with his unit that August, but, as verified by his service record (Canadian archives refer), he had to be evacuated to Queen Mary’s Military Hospital at Whalley, Lancashire, at the end of the year, suffering from trench foot (‘Came out of trenches on 27 November after 7 days in mud and water’). Latterly treated at Woodcote Park Hospital, Epsom, he was discharged in February 1917 and rejoined the 78th Battalion back in the Field in August of that year. Advanced to Corporal on the eve of his M.M.-winning exploits at Passchendaele in late October - early November, he recovered from his wounds - shrapnel injuries to his face - at No. 5 General Hospital at Rouen. Once again, however, he returned to active service, winning a Bar to his M.M. and being advanced to Acting Sergeant in the Field in October 1918. Shortly afterwards recommended for a commission, he returned to the U.K. to attend an O.T.C. unit at Seaford, and was accordingly discharged in the rank of ‘Cadet’ when he returned to Canada in January 1919.
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In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websitePair: Sergeant G. Johnston, 1st West India Regiment East and West Africa 1887-1900, 4 clasps, 1887-8, 1892, 1893-94, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (2267. Sergt. G. Johnston. 1/W.I. Rgt.) unofficial rivets between clasps; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (2267 Serg’t, G. Johnson. W. India R.) light contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (2) £500-£700 --- George Johnston was born in the Parish of George Town, Demerara, Jamaica, and enlisted there for the West India Regiment on 1 September 1880, aged 20, a foundry engineer by trade. He was promoted to Corporal in July 1882, appointed Lance-Sergeant in November 1885, and promoted Sergeant on 1 December 1885. He had until that time served continuously in the West Indies but he next served on the West Coast of Africa, from 15 December 1885 to 1 December 1888, taking part in the Yonnie Expedition of 1887-88. Returning to the West Indies in December 1888, he was sent back to the West Coast of Africa in December 1891 and remained there until January 1895. During this period he took part in the expedition to the Toniataba country and the capture of Tambi on 7 April 1892. This was followed by the operations against the Sofas in Sierra Leone 1893-94, and the operations on the Gambia River in February and March 1894, resulting in the capture of Gunjur on 9 March. After another stint at home in Jamaica from January 1895 to November 1897, he returned to the West Coast of Africa once again, for the operations in Sierra Leone in 1888-89. He was discharged at Jamaica on 31 August 1901, on termination of his second period of engagement. Sold with copied discharge papers which confirm all four clasps and his L.S. & G.C. medal which was issued in 1899.
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteRoyal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue (3) (MX.19171 E. A. Lee. E.R.A. 1, H.M.S. Boxer.; JX.151273 R. J. Lewis. P.O. H.M.S. Defiance.; KX.96286 S. Beattie. P.O.S.M. H.M.S. Raleigh.) minor official corrections to first, second partially officially corrected, contact marks, generally very fine and better (3) £100-£140
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In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteRoyal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C. (3), G.V.R., 2nd issue (SS.6663 (Po. B.13229) R. H. J. S. Harling. A.B. R.F.R.); G.VI.R., 1st issue (2) (SSX.12564 (Po. D.127) B. J. Watson. P.O. R.F.R.; J.109118 (Ch. B.24355). C. Lloyd. A/L.S. R.F.R.) minor official correction to surname on second, very fine (3) £100-£140 --- Rowland Harry James Shotter Harling, a photographer from Caterham Valley, Surrey, was born on 1 March 1897. Enlisting in the Royal Navy on 22 November 1915, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Amethyst. Discharged to shore on 22 December 1920, he joined the Royal Fleet Reserve the following day, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 24 October 1931. He died in Eastbourne, Sussex 31 January 1972. Bernard James Watson, a painter’s mate from All Hallows, London, was born on 13 September 1908. He served in the Royal Navy from 17 January 1927 to 16 January 1934, joining the Royal Fleet Reserve the following day. He was recalled for service during the Second War. Charles Lloyd, an Errand Boy from Manchester, was born on 1 July 1907. He served in the Royal Navy from 4 December 1929 to 30 June 1937, joining the Royal Fleet Reserve the following day. Recalled for Second War service, he was invalided on 2 April 1941. His service record notes that he is also entitled to a Naval General Service Medal, with Palestine clasp.
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteLiverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd type, silver (To Mr. Robert Parry. Chief Officer S.S. “Brittany” for Gallant Service On 3rd Oct. 1907.) with silver brooch buckle in its R. C. Oldfield fitted case of issue, good very fine £140-£180
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In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteA rare King Edward VII ‘Royal Souvenir’ attributed to Casiniro Gatto, Warrant Officer of the Royal Bodyguard of King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy, as a memento of his visit to London in November 1903 Oval gold pendant badge with cut-out EVIIR cypher within Garter with motto enamelled in blue, surmounted by crown and small ring for suspension, 40mm x 20mm excluding ring, the reverse set with hinged swivel-mounted gold frame containing reversible hard stones of carnelian and bloodstone, unmarked, in its R. & S. Garrard & Co. fitted red velvet covered presentation case, velvet worn, otherwise in excellent condition and extremely rare £2,200-£2,600 --- Casiniro Gatto, head of the Squadron Carabinieri Guards of King Vittorio Emanuele III, was awarded the Royal Victorian Medal in silver by Kind Edward VII on 30 April 1903, on the occasion of King Edward’s visit to Rome. It is believed that the above ‘Royal Souvenir’ was presented to Gatto by Edward VII on the occasion of the visit to Britain of King Vittorio Emanuele III on 17-21 November 1903. Sold with two group photographic images including Gatto and copied certificate from Ministry of Foreign Affairs allowing Gatto to be awarded the R.V.M.
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteCanadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R. (Sgt. W.O.A.G. R. E. Manser R115267) very fine £60-£80 --- Raymond Earl Manser, Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator Air Gunner) Royal Canadian Air Force, 180 (R.A.F.) Squadron, died on 26 May 1943, aged 21, son of Henry and Lauretta Manser, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; husband of Lillian Ruth Manser (née Dennis), of Toronto. He is buried in Great Bircham (St Mary) Churchyard, Norfolk.
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteThe Royal Warrant Holders Association Medal awarded to the fashion designer Hardy Amies, who rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel while organising sabotage assignments with the Special Operations Executive in Belgium during the Second World War and subsequently built a hugely successful fashion label, his designs finding favour with the young Princess Elizabeth who granted him a Royal Warrant on her accession to the throne Royal Warrant Holders Association Medal, E.II.R., 1977 Silver Jubilee Medal (Hardy Amies) nearly extremely fine £400-£500 --- Edwin Hardy Amies was born on 17 July 1909 at Maida Vale, London and was educated at Latymer Upper School and Brentwood. It was suggested that he should work for a scholarship to Cambridge, but Amies wanted to become a journalist. His father arranged a meeting with R. D. Blumenfeld, the editor of the Daily Express, who told him: ‘We don’t want academics in the journalistic world. We want men of international culture. Send him abroad to learn French and German. Make him work.’ After spending three years in France and Germany - learning the languages and working for a customs agent, an English School and a wall tile factory - Amies returned to England and became a weighing-machine salesman for W & T Avery. It was his mother’s contacts in the fashion world together with his own facility with the written word that secured him his first job in fashion. His vivid description of a dress, written in a letter to a retired French fitter and brought to the attention of the owner of the Mayfair couture house Lachasse, made a strong impression. The wearer of the dress was the owner’s wife. In early 1934, with no previous experience, he succeeded the designer manager, Digby Morton, who had left Lachasse to set up his own house. By the time war intervened, he was designing the whole collection. At the outbreak of the Second World War, with his language experience, Amies was called to serve in the Special Operations Executive. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant from Officer Cadet Training Company on to the British Army General List on 18 May 1940, and was transferred from the General List to the Intelligence Corps on 15 July 1940. Amies suspected that S.O.E.’s commander Major General Colin Gubbins did not regard a dressmaker as suitable military material; but his training report stated: ‘This officer is far tougher both physically and mentally than his rather precious appearance would suggest. He possesses a keen brain and an abundance of shrewd sense. His only handicap is his precious appearance and manner, and these are tending to decrease’. Posted to Belgium, Amies worked with the various Belgian resistance groups and adapted names of fashion accessories for use as code words, while he organised sabotage assignments and arranged for agents to be parachuted with radio equipment behind enemy lines, into the Ardennes. Amies rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, but outraged his superiors in 1944 by engaging famed photographer Lee Miller and setting up a Vogue photo shoot in Belgium after D-Day. In 1946, he was created an Officer of the Belgian Order of the Crown on 17 September 1948 by the prince regent of Belgium. Amies was an integral part of Operation Ratweek, an assassination project developed by the S.O.E. to eliminate double agents and Nazi sympathisers in Belgium. In 2000, a BBC 2 documentary entitled Secret Agent named Amies as one of the men who helped to plan the killing of dozens of Nazi collaborators, but Amies disclaimed all knowledge of the matter. Hardy Amies was quirky, yet conservative; for example, having his British Army uniform tailored on Savile Row. Years later, Hardy recalled that Kim Philby was in his mess; and, on being asked what the infamous spy was like, Hardy quipped, ‘He was always trying to get information out of me, most significantly the name of my tailor.’ On demobilisation, Amies bought the lease of a house in Savile Row, built by Lord Burlington in 1735 and damaged in the Blitz, and set up his own business. It was not long before he was designing clothes for Princess Elizabeth. ‘A very grand lady asked me to make coats and skirts for what she called her “gels”’, he recalled, ‘and they turned out to be ladies-in-waiting to Princess Elizabeth. The Princess saw them and asked me to make clothes for her visit to Canada in 1948.’ His royal warrant dated from her accession to the throne. The Queen wore a Hardy Amies pink silk dress and coat for the Silver Jubilee and a Hardy Amies yellow coat on her 60th birthday. In 1950, recognising a need for cheaper, instantly available clothes, Amies expanded his business by opening a ready-to-wear boutique. He designed uniforms for the police, British Airways, the South African defence force, male nurses at Broadmoor and the staffs of W H Smith, the London Hilton, and Wall’s ice-cream. In 1967, he was commissioned by director Stanley Kubrick to design the costumes for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). In 1973 Amies sold his business to Debenhams, with a view to further expansion, but in 1980 bought it back with the profits of his success with menswear in Canada, Australia, Japan, America and New Zealand (where, he estimated in 1979, 55 per cent of men wore suits in whose design he had a hand). Eventually, he had more than 40 overseas licensees. Handsome, with aquiline features and a full head of hair, Amies was proud of his athletic figure and played tennis well into his eighties. His other principal love was gardening, and he built from scratch an elaborate traditional garden. Hardy Amies was appointed CVO in 1977 and KCVO in 1989. In 2000, Amies sold the house to the Luxury Brands Group and announced his formal retirement. He died at home in 2003, aged 93, and is buried in the village churchyard at Langford, Oxfordshire.
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteThe mounted group of eight miniature dress medals worn by the Great War fighter Ace W. G. ‘Billy’ Barker, VC., D.S.O. and Bar, M.C. and Two Bars, Canadian Mounted Rifles, Royal Flying Corps, and Royal Canadian Air Force, who with three foreign decorations and three Mentioned in Despatches, is the most decorated serviceman in the history of Canada Victoria Cross; Distinguished Service Order, gilt and enamel, with Second Award Bar and integral top riband bar, lacking central medallions; Military Cross, G.V.R., with unofficial Second Award Bar, suspension broken and cross unofficially re-affixed; British War and Victory Medals; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1918, mounted as originally worn on a J. R. Gaunt, Montreal, riband bar, light traces of adhesive to reverse, generally very fine (6) £1,800-£2,200 --- Provenance: Donated by the recipient’s family to Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame Museum. A letter written in August 1995 by Captain Jack Boddington, Curator of Honours at the Museum, states: ‘When received the group of miniature medals was in damaged condition (DSO centre missing and MC suspender broken) and incomplete when compared to Barker’s full sized group, and was therefore relinquished by the Hall of Fame. The Hall Curator has studied the group and has come to the conclusion that when additional medals were to be added (about 1919-20) the damaged condition caused the group to be left as is, and another full group assembled for use by Barker.’ V.C. London Gazette 30 November 1918: ‘On the morning of the 27 October 1918, this officer observed an enemy two-seater over the Foret de Mormal. He attacked this machine and after a short burst it broke up in the air. At the same time a Fokker biplane attacked him, and he was wounded in the right thigh, but managed, despite this, to shoot down the enemy aeroplane in flames. He then found himself in the middle of a large formation of Fokkers who attacked him from all directions, and was again severely wounded in the left thigh, but succeeded in driving down two of the enemy in a spin. He lost consciousness after that, and his machine fell out of control. On recovery, he found himself being again attacked heavily by a large formation, and singling out one machine he deliberately charged and drove it down in flames. During this fight his left elbow was shattered and he again fainted, and on regaining consciousness he found himself still being attacked, but notwithstanding that he was now severely wounded in both legs and his left arm shattered, he dived on the nearest machine and shot it down in flames. Being greatly exhausted, he dived out of the fight to regain our lines, but was met by another formation, which attacked and endeavoured to cut him off, but after a hard fight he succeeded in breaking up this formation and reached our lines, where he crashed on landing. This combat, in which Major Barker destroyed four enemy machines (three of them in flames), brought his total successes to fifty enemy machines destroyed, and is a notable example of the exceptional bravery and disregard of danger which this very gallant officer has always displayed throughout his distinguished career.’ William George ‘Billy’ Barker was born at Dauphin, Manitoba, on 3 November 1894 and attested for the Manitoba Regiment on 1 November 1914, and served on attachment with the Royal Air Force. ‘The value of his services may be measured by the number of decorations and ‘Mentions’ he received - no fewer than twelve - including the Victoria Cross, and French and Italian ones. He began by obtaining the Military Cross for contact patrol at the capture of Beaumont Hamel on 20 November 1916. At the capture of Bullecourt he obtained a Bar to the Military Cross on 9 April 1917, again for contact patrol. He then received the Companionship of the Distinguished Service Order, for destroying enemy aircraft on 5 January 1918. He was awarded a Second Bar to the Military Cross, for destroying enemy aircraft on 24 April 1918; a Bar to the Distinguished Service Order for destroying enemy aircraft on the Western Front, 26 May 1918; the French Croix de Guerre; and the Italian Bronze and Silver Medals for valour for destroying aircraft on the Italian Front. This magnificent record was crowned by the award of the Victoria Cross. He was also three times Mentioned in Despatches.’ (The V.C. and the D.S.O. refers). Barker returned to Canada after the War as Canada’s most decorated serviceman: his ‘haul’ of six British gallantry medals put him level with Mick Manncok and James McCudden, but with his three foreign medals and three Mentions in Despatches, he received a total of 12 awards for gallantry. He was killed in a demonstration flight for the R.C.A.F. at Ottawa on 12 March 1930, aged 35; over 50,000 spectators lined the streets of Toronto for his funeral. Sold together with a signed photograph of the recipient; and an autograph album page signed by the recipient (and several other notable personalities, including the Antarctic explorer Thomas Orde-Lees; the sculptor Kathleen Scott (the widow of Captain Robert Scott, of Antarctic fame); the actor Leslie Faber; the pioneering aviator Herbert G. Brackley; and the Russian Princess Nina and Xenia). Note: Despite being entitled to the 1914-15 Star, for some reason Barker never never wore it, with contemporary photographs of the recipient showing it missing from his chest. it was only after the recipient’s death that his widow, Jean, applied for the Star, prior to donating his medals to the Canadian War Museum.
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteSeven: Warrant Officer Class 1 P. R. C. Miller, Royal Engineers, later Second Lieutenant, Home Guard 1914 Star (6961 Cpl. P. R. C. Miller. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (6961 W.O. Cl.1. P. R. C. Miller. R.E.); Defence Medal; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (WR/125049 T. Supdt.: Clk: P. R. C. Miller. R.E.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (6961 E. C. Sjt: P. R. C. Miller. R.E.); Romania, Kingdom, Medal for Hardihood and Loyalty, bronze, with crossed swords suspension, the crossed swords suspension crudely re-affixed and repaired; together with the recipient’s Royal Engineers Association membership medal, gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘P. R. C. Miller 1964’, light contact marks, generally very fine and better (7) £700-£900 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 1 January 1917. Romanian Medal for Hardihood and Loyalty, First Class London Gazette 24 October 1919 Percy Richard Clarke Miller was born on 6 September 1886 and attested for the Royal Engineers, serving with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 October 1914. Advanced Warrant Officer Class I, for his services during the Great War he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 15 June 1916) and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. Appointed Superintending Clerk on 5 February 1925, he was discharged to pension on 27 June 1936. During the Second World War Miller served in the 9th Hertfordshire Battalion, Eastern Command, Home Guard, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 12 November 1943. Sold with copied research.
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteFive: Lieutenant-Commander R. F. Woods, Royal Naval Reserve 1914-15 Star (Lieut. R. F. Woods. R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Commr. R. F. Woods. R.N.R.); Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarked London 1918; Greece, Kingdom, Order of George I, Bronze Merit Cross, this last mounted with the group to represent his entitlement to an officer’s badge of the Order, nearly extremely fine (5) £140-£180 --- R.N.R. Decoration awarded on 14 May 1919. Order of George I, Officer, conferred by H.M. King of the Hellenes, London Gazette 11 April 1919: awarded for services to Greece by facilitating the work of Greek officials who are in charge of commercial affairs. Richard Frederick Woods was born at Brentwood, Essex, on 28 September 1880, and was appointed Midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve on 23 March 1898; Acting Sub-Lieutenant, 4 April 1904; Sub-Lieutenant, 12 December 1906; Lieutenant, 18 October 1909; Lieutenant-Commander, 18 October 1917; Commander (Retired) 4 April 1921. He was placed on the Retired List (medically unfit) from 3 October 1919, and died in Greece on 30 November 1923 at the Hospital Syra, Grecian Archipelago.
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteFour: Sergeant P. Calleja, King’s Own Malta Regiment of Militia 1914-15 Star (3110 Sjt. P. Calleja. K.O. Malta M.); British War and Victory Medals (3110 A.W.O. Cl. 2. P. Calleja. K.O. Malta M.); Militia L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (3110 Sjt: P. Calleja. 1/K.O. Malta R. of M.) very fine and better (4) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2005. Of around 140 G.V.R. type Militia L.S. & G.C. Medals issued, 50 were awarded to the 1st Battalion, King’s Own Malta Regiment of Militia - Calleja’s award was approved in Army Order 60 of February 1916. Pubblio Calleja was born in the Parish of Pubblio, Floriana, Malta, and originally attested for the Royal Malta Regiment at Valetta in July 1897, aged 19 years. Posted to the 1st Battalion in the following year, he enjoyed a spate of rapid promotion, attaining the rank of Sergeant by June 1905. In the following year he was re-engaged in the King’s Own Malta Regiment of Militia, as a result of which he was mobilised in August 1914. He subsequently witnessed active service in Gallipoli from 26 September to 5 December 1915, and in the Salonika operations from 21 September 1916 until the end of the War, his service record further stating that he attained the rank of Temporary Company Sergeant- Major ‘whilst doing duty with the Maltese Labour Battalion’. He reverted to the rank of Sergeant at the end of the War and was discharged in March 1920.
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteThree: Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant W. K. O’Neill, 15th Hussars and Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals (80736 Sjt. W. J. O’Neill. 15-Hrs.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (537232 Sq. Q.M. Sjt. W. R. O’Neill. 15-19-H.) contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £70-£90
In order to view full details and any additional images for this lot as well as place advanced bids or bid live, please click here to view this lot on the auctioneer's websiteFour: Private W. H. Robinson, Devonshire Regiment and Special Constabulary British War and Victory Medals (1549 Pte. W. H. Robinson. Devon R.); Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, 1 clasp, Long Service 1948 (William H. Robinson) light contact marks, good very fine and better (4) £60-£80 --- Provenance: Bertram Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2004. William Harold Robinson attested for the Devonshire Regiment on 22 May 1912, and served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War in 1916. He was discharged on account of wounds on 12 October 1916, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.
A 17thC oak coffer, with plain two plank top, demi-lune frieze, three front panels with carved lozenges and initials H R 1659, raised on high stiles, 78cm high, 150cm wide, 58cm deep. Provenance: The estate of Miss E. Mary Mackie and by family descent being formerly of The Old Rectory, Elton-on-the-Hill, Nottinghamshire.
GARY BENFIELD (b.1965) MONOCHROME ACRYLIC ON BOARD ?Patience II? Signed, titled to label verso 23? x 31? (58.4cm x 78.8cm) C/R-scratch to image running from the top edge, in between the ears, through the eye and then towards the tip of the nose, the white coating on the frame peeling to the bad edge on all sides
NORMAN JAQUES (1922-2014) TWO COLOUR PRINTS Lakeland Cube, (6/10) 26? x 18? (66cm x 45.7cm) Waterfall, Gordale, Yorkshire 30? x 22? (76.2cm x 55.9cm) Both unsigned, untitled, unmounted and unframed, (2) Provenance- from the artist?s studio of works C/R-both with minor foxing and smudges and print marks to the margins
NORMAN JAQUES (1922-2014) TWO COLOUR PRINTS Morning Mist Ullswater, (8/12) 21? x 25? (53.3cm x 63.5cm) Sunset in the Snow 17 ½? x 21? (44.4cm x 53.3cm) Both unsigned, untitled, unmounted and unframed, (2) Provenance- from the artist?s studio of works C/R-both with smudges and print marks to the margins
NORMAN JAQUES (1922-2014) TWO ARTIST SIGNED ETCHINGS Mid West, USA 17 ½? x 13 ½? (44.4cm x 34.3cm) Abstract with mountains 15 ¼? x 14? (38.7cm x 35.6cm) Both untitled, unmounted and unframed (2) Provenance- from the artist?s studio of works C/R-both with slightly grubby margins and crease to top right corner
NORMAN JAQUES (1922-2014) TWO COLOUR PRINTS?Autumn?, (17/20), Signed Artist Proof ?Fish Tank?, (10/12) 19? x 24? (48.2cm x 61cm) Both unmounted and unframed, (2) Provenance- from the artist?s studio of works C/R-fish tank with a couple of small foxing spots to the margin, both with smudging and print marks to the margins
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