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Lot 691
Renamed and Defective Medals: Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued, this a cast copy, with broken (but present) suspension; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (Pte. R. Williamsson. Rifle Brigade.) rank and name unofficially renamed (the unit correctly named) nearly very fine (2) £50-£70
Lot 403
Three: Private R. McKenzie, Royal Irish Rifles, later Royal Irish Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (10570 Pte. R. Mc Kenzie. R. Ir. Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (10570 Pte. R. Mc Kenzie. R. Ir. Rif.) contact marks, nearly very fine Pair: Private A. Hyndman, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (21089 Pte. A. Hundman. R. Innis. Fus.) very fine (5) £70-£90 --- Robert McKenzie was born in 1896 and attested for the Royal Irish Rifles. He served with them during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 10 July 1915, and was evacuated on the H.M. Hospital Ship Assaye on 8 September 1915. He subsequently transferred to the Royal Irish Fusiliers. Alfred Hyndman was born in 1890 and served with the 10th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers during the Great War. He was discharged on 12 June 1919.
Lot 673
Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (360 Pte. J. Lumsden. 7/R. Hdrs.) good very fine £60-£80 --- John Lumsden was born in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, on 13 March 1879 and attested for the 7th Battalion, Royal Highlanders (Territorial Force) on 9 April 1908. He was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 107 of 1 April 1912, and was advanced Sergeant Cook on 27 October 1920. He does not appear to have served overseas during the Great War, but was awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold with copied attestation and service papers.
Lot 290
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private A. Tannock, 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers Military Medal, G.V.R. (53671 Pte. A. Tannock. 2/R. Sc: Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (53671 Pte. A. Tannock. R.S. Fus.) nearly extremely fine (3) £240-£280 --- M.M. London Gazette 13 November 1918.
Lot 372
Three: Orderly W. R. Richardson, Metropolitan Corps, St John Ambulance Brigade, who died in South Africa Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (51 Ordly: W. R. Richardson, St John Amb: Bde:); St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (51. Pte. W. Richardson Met Corps.); Jubilee 1897, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Private W. Richardson.) good very fine (3) £400-£500 --- Private W. R. Richardson served at No. 6 General Hospital and died of disease at Wynberg, Cape Town, on 30 March 1900.
Lot 423
Pair: Private H. Crates, 14th (1st Birmingham Pals) Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front at High Wood on 21 July 1916 British War and Victory Medals (1509 Pte. H. Crates. R. War. R.) good very fine Pair: Private F. A. Richmond, Suffolk Regiment British War ands Victory Medals (5091 Pte. F. A. Richmond. Suff. R.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘431999’, complete with safety chain, very fine Memorial Plaque (Thomas Wilson) good very fine (5) £100-£140 --- Henry Crates was born in Birmingham and attested there for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He served with the 14th (1st Birmingham Pals) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1916, and was killed in action at High Wood on 21 July 1916 - entering the line on the southern corner of High Wood facing towards Longueval on 20 July, over the next two days the Battalion was ‘cut to pieces by fire from High Wood’, and suffered total casualties of 485. Crates has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France. Frederick Arthur Richmond attested for the Suffolk Regiment and served with the 4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 January 1916 to 12 August 1918. He was discharged due to wounds, and was awarded the Silver War Badge. His address at the time was Lily Farm, Caldecote, Cambridgeshire. There are numerous men with the name Thomas Wilson on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Roll of Honour.
Lot 381
Four: Sergeant J. R. Gregor, Royal Scots and Machine Gun Corps 1914-15 Star (9980 Pte. J. R. Gregor. R. Scots.); British War and Victory Medals (9980. Sjt. J. R. Gregor. R. Scots.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (7808306 Sjt. J. R. Gregor. R. Scots.) mounted as worn, contact marks, the BWM and VM polished and worn, therefore fine and better (4) £80-£100 --- John R. Gregor attested for the Royal Scots and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 December 1914, subsequently transferring to the Machine Gun Corps.
Lot 379
Three: Private A. E. Packer, 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916 - of the 650 other ranks from the Battalion that went over the top that day, just 50 ably answered the roll call that evening 1914 Star (6-555 Pte. A. E. Packer. 2/Middx: R.); British War and Victory Medals (G-555 Pte. A. E. Packer. Midd’x R.) the Star gilded, traces of verdigris, very fine (3) £300-£400 --- Arthur Ernest Packer was born on 16 December 1877, and served with the Plymouth Division, Royal Marine Light Infantry, from 4 June 1896 to September 1898. Subsequently attesting for the Middlesex Regiment, he served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 November 1914, and was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916. On this date the Battalion, as part of the 23rd Brigade, 8th Division, was on the right of the Brigade’s attack up Mash Valley towards Ovillers. Only 1 of the 23 officers that moved forward at zero hour returned un-wounded and among the 650 other ranks that went over the top, just 50 ably answered the roll call that evening. Packer was amongst those killed; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Lot 375
Four: Lieutenant F. R. Underwood, Northamptonshire Yeomanry, who later served as part of the Irish Command during the Irish Civil War 1914 Star, with clasp (140 Sq. Q.M. Sjt. F. R. Underwood. 1/1 North’n Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. F. R. Underwood.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (141 [sic] Sq: S. Mjr: F. R. Underwood. Nth’n: Yeo:) mounted court-style, cleaned and lacquered, good very fine and a scarce combination to the unit (4) £400-£500 --- Frank Roden Underwood was born in West Haddon, Northamptonshire, on the 28 May 1883. A boot manufacturer by profession, he attested for the Northampton Imperial Yeomanry on 19 April 1905, and transferred to the Northamptonshire Yeomanry on 10 April 1908. Promoted Corporal on 29 May 1908, Sergeant on 18 March 1910, and Squadron Quarter Master Sergeant on 23 December 1913, he served with A Squadron, 1st/1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Yeomanry during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 November 1914, and was appointed Squadron Sergeant Major on 18 April 1915. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 1st/3rd Battalion, Northamptonshire Yeomanry, on 5 October 1915, and was promoted Lieutenant on 1 January 1917, serving with the 2nd/1st Battalion in France until August 1917. Underwood subsequently moved to Ballincollig, Cork, and was attached to the 2nd/1st Battalion, Scottish Horse in 1918 in Limerick and later with the Ordnance Corps in 1920 as part of the Irish Command. He resigned his Commission on 24 August 1921. The 1939 Register shows him working as a Commercial Boot Salesman and living in Arnold, Nottinghamshire. He died in Woodthorpe, Nottinghamshire, on 30 March 1954. Sold with a postcard photograph of hte recipient, and copied research.
Lot 263
A Boer War D.C.M. pair awarded to Quartermaster Sergeant R. Thompson, 60th (North Irish Horse (Belfast)) and 50th (Hampshire) Companies, 17th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, who was also Mentioned in Despatches Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (11062 Q.M. Serjt: R. Thompson. 50th. Coy. I.Y.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal (11062 Cpl. R. Thompson. 60th. Coy. 17th. Imp: Yeo:) edge bruise to QSA, good very fine (2) £1,000-£1,400 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 31 October 1902. The original Recommendation states: ‘I consider this N.C.O. the best in the battalion. In addition to his duties of Quartermaster Sergeant he has for some months acted as Supply Officer to the Column. He served with the old 17th Imperial Yeomanry and was a good N.C.O. in the field.’ Robert Thompson attested for the Imperial Yeomanry and embarked for South Africa with the 60th (North Irish Horse (Belfast)) Company, 17th Battalion on 6 April 1900. He was promoted Quartermaster Sergeant, and continued to served with the 17th Battalion in South Africa with the 50th (Hampshire) Company until disembarking back in England n 25 June 1902. For his services during the Boer War he was both Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 29 July 1902) and awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Sold with copied medal roll extracts and other research.
Lot 264
An extremely rare Boer War D.C.M. awarded to Sergeant-Major, later Lieutenant, R. J. Stallwood, Canadian Scouts, one of only 16 Boer War D.C.M.s awarded to Canadian recipients and the only one named to the Canadian Scouts Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (Serjt:- Maj: R. J. Stallwood. Canadian Scouts) good very fine £2,800-£3,200 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- D.C.M. London Gazette 31 October 1902. Robert Jabez Stallwood was born in Hagersville, Ontario, Canada, in May 1877. He was a Rancher, who enlisted as a Gunner in the Royal Canadian Field Artillery at Kingston, in January 1900. Stallwood initially served during the Second Boer War with ‘C’ (Special Service) Battery, R.C.F.A. (entitled to Q.S.A. with ‘Cape Colony’, ‘Orange Free State’, ‘Transvaal’ and ‘Rhodesia’ clasps). He was discharged to join ‘Howard’s Scouts’ (the Canadian Scouts, under the command of Major A. L. ‘Gat’ Howard, a British Irregular unit predominantly manned by Canadians) 12 December 1900. Stallwood advanced to Sergeant-Major, and was Mentioned in Lord Kitchener's Despatch of 23 June 1902. He was discharged 13 January 1901, only to re-engage for service during the Great War. Stallwood was commissioned Lieutenant in the 228th Canadian Infantry Battalion in March 1916, and embarked for England in February of the following year. He transferred to the 6th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops, and served with them as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the French theatre of war from May 1917. Stallwood returned to Canada in May 1919, and was discharged 15 November 1919. Sold with copied research.
Lot 609
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Canal Zone (22404978 Cpl F G Coleman R Lincoln R) in named card box of issue, toned, extremely fine £120-£160 --- F. G. Coleman attested for the Lincolnshire Regiment in early 1951. The 1st Battalion saw active service in Port Said, being shot at on 21 October 1951 near the Casino Palace Hotel, and in the action at the ‘Sten Can Alley’ in Isamaila. Sold with a photographic image of the recipient.
Lot 511
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (Lt. & Qr. Master M. Lynch 1st. Bn. Hamps. R.) nearly extremely fine £200-£240 --- Michael Lynch was born at Bangalore, India, on 8 September 1852 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment as a Private soldier on 6 May 1871. Advancing through the ranks, he was commissioned Lieutenant (Quartermaster) on 13 May 1885, and served in Burma from 3 November 1888 to 27 January 1891. He was promoted Captain on 13 May 1895, and Major on 1 January 1903. He retired on 5 September 1907, having spent over 21 years soldiering in India. He died at Southsea, Hampshire, on 14 June 1913. Sold with copied record of service and the recipient's obituary from The Hampshire Regimental Journal, which contains a portrait of the recipient.
Lot 672
Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (19 L. Sjt: F. W. Barber. 6/Hants: Regt.); Efficiency Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (22530863 Pte. A. W. Padwick. R. Hamps.) light contact marks to latter, nearly extremely fine (2) £80-£100 --- F. W. Barber was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 11 of 1 January 1913.
Lot 364
Four: Private D. Scott, Royal Highlanders Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (9108 Pte. D. Scott. Vol: Coy. Rl: Highrs:); 1914-15 Star (S-7337. Pte. D. Scott, R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (S-7737 Pte. D. Scott. R. Highrs.) very fine (4) £100-£140 --- David Scott served with the 3rd Volunteer Service Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Highlanders, in South Africa during the Boer War, and then during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 July 1915. He was discharged on 14 December 1918. Sold with copied medal roll extract and medal index card.
Lot 631
Imperial Service Medal (4), G.V.R., Circular issue, 1st ‘coinage head’ issue (Alfred Millar.); G.VI.R., 1st issue (James Prior, M.M.) officially re-impressed; E.II.R., 1st issue (Alfred John Critcher); E.II.R., 2nd issue (Robert Sydney Granger) all in Royal Mint cases of issue; Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (2) (Sub Officer Edward R Hurren; Stat Offr Martin D Davies) first in Royal Mint case of issue, the second in Birmingham Mint case of issue; Corps of Commissionaire’s Badge, silver and enamel, reverse engraved ‘W. S. Graver’, generally good very fine (7) £100-£140
Lot 454
Seven: Sergeant R. Kirk, Coldstream Guards, later Corps of Military Police and 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade, who was reprimanded for shooting down a Luftwaffe plane during the Evacuation at Dunkirk, and later became a Gold Medal winning philatelist General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (2656638. Gdsmn. R. Kirk. C. Gds.) number officially corrected; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted court-style for display; together with the recipient’s Dunkirk Medal, traces of verdigris to F&G Star, otherwise good very fine (8) £180-£220 --- Reginald Kirk, a native of Wincobank, near Sheffield, attested for the Coldstream Guards in 1934 for four years where he took part in the Trooping the Colour and guarding of Buckingham and St James' Palaces and the Tower of London in 1935. His unit had a rare inspection by King Edward VIII at Wellington Barracks. He served with the 3rd Battalion in Palestine in 1936, where he had a painful encounter with a scorpion. Discharged on 12 August 1938, having served in an exemplary manner, he spent a short time at Sheffield Post Office, before he was back in as a reservist in June 1939. At this time the authorities were building up the Corps of Military Police (about a 1000 Guardsmen had joined the Military Police), and Kirk followed, joining them on 2 September 1939, two days before the declaration of the War. Kirk went with the Military Police to Arras with the British Expeditionary Force on 7 September 1939. On 10 May 1940 the Germans cut off Arras and the Channel Ports. On that morning, having heard heavy gunfire, Kirk took a motorbike to escort Staff Officer Colonel Herbert to Brussels, they were stopped at the Belgian border and let through after some arguments, and returned back to Arras later going through towns which were sometimes under fire from dive bombing Stukas. ‘A few days before Dunkirk evacuation, Kirk acted on his own initiative and found himself in trouble. A flight of Stuka dive bombers flew 400 feet over the flat Belgian fields. He had kept his short Lee Enfield Mark III loaded with five rounds, he pointed it an aircraft’s length in front of one of the Stukas and fired all the rounds off at the Luftwaffe Aircraft, he hit it and it crashed into the sea, he was ecstatic but there was no commendation for Reg Kirk, in fact he was quizzed “Who told you to fire on that plane?” by the miserable Sergeant “Tombstone Joe”. He had to produce his Army Book and told “You’ll be on an Army Form B252, a charge sheet”, fortunately for him the Commanding Officer had moved on, and the process of dealing with this simply fizzled away.’ Serving in Italy in 1943 Kirk volunteered for the 2nd Parachute Brigade, to complete the War as a Paratrooper. On one occasion he was photographed as his unit landed in Salonica, Greece in late 1944 by flat bottom landing craft. Demobilised in November 1945, he transferred to the Class Z Reserve on 27 August 1946. Returning to the Sheffield Post Office, Kirk subsequently became a keen philatelist, and built up a good collection of Hong Kong stamps, followed by a collection of covers, envelopes and post-cards carried by vessels of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. At the World Philatelic Exhibition in Stockholm he was awarded a gold medal for his display of P & O covers between 1836 and 1914. Sold with copied research.
Lot 333
Pair: Lieutenant George Cleaveland, Royal Navy, who served as Mate aboard H.M.S. Princess Royal in the varioue operations of the Syrian campaign Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (George Cleaveland.); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, silver, unnamed as issued, good very fine £800-£1,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- George Cleaveland was born on 9 September 1818, and is nephew of Captain Sir Robert Oliver, R.N., K.H. This officer entered the Navy on 25 June 1832, as First-Class Volunteer, on board the Dee steam-vessel, commanded by his uncle, Captain Robert Oliver, in the North Sea; became Midshipman, 27 June 1834, of the Britannia 120, flag-ship of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, in the Mediterranean; and, until July, 1841, continued to serve, on the latter station, on board the Medea steamer, Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, Malabar 74, Captain Sir William Augustus Montagu, and, the last three years as Mate, on board the Princess Charlotte 104, bearing the flag of Sir Robert Stopford, under whom he shared, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, in the various operations of the Syrian campaign. He then joined, at Portsmouth, the Queen 110, fitting for the flag of Sir Edward W. C. R. Owen; and, on 7 February 1842, obtained his commission. His appointments have since been – 18 March 1842, to the Styx steam-vessel, Captain Alexander Thomas Emeric Vidal, employed in surveying the Azores – 8 February 1843, and 28 March 1844, to the Tartarus and Hecate steam surveying-vessels, commanded on the coast of Ireland by Captains Frederick Bullock and James Paterson Bower – and, 4 March 1845, to the Hibernia 104, now flag-ship of Sir William Parker in the Mediterranean. He died on 8 January 1855, at Bromley, Kent, aged 36.
Lot 266
A Great War ‘Loos Crassier, April 1917’ D.C.M. and M.M. group of seven awarded to Colour Sergeant H.G. Emms, York and Lancaster Regiment, which also includes a rare single clasp K.S.A. Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (4821 Sjt: H. G. Emms. 2/Y. & L.R.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (4821 Sjt: H. G. Emms. 2/Y. & L.R.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Relief of Ladysmith, Orange Free State (4821 Corl. H. Emms. 1: Yk: & Lanc: Regt.) top clasp attached with wire connection; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 1 clasp, South Africa 1902 (4821 Pte. H. G. Emms.1/York: & Lanc: Regt.); 1914 Star (4821 Pte. H. G. Emms. 2/York: & Lanc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (4821 C. Sjt.H. G. Emms. York. & Lanc. R.) nearly very fine and better (7) £1,800-£2,200 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 18 July 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Despite heavy casualties, and the absence of any officer, he stuck to his post in a most advanced position. He was subjected to an intense bombardment, and beat off three counter-attacks.’ Annotated gazette states: ‘Loos Crassier.’
 M.M. London Gazette 22 January 1917. 

Henry George Emms was born at Norwich, Norfolk, and attested for the York and Lancaster Regiment on 18 January 1897, aged 19 years 6 months, a clerk by trade. He served in the Boer War with the 1st Battalion and proceeded to South Africa on 13 December 1899. He was wounded by a gun shot to the right forearm at Venters Spruit on 21 January 1900, and invalided to England on 18 March 1900. He returned to South Africa on 9 January 1902 until November of that year, when he proceeded to India. He served with the 2nd Battalion in France and Flanders from 10 September 1914, and was a Prisoner of War in Germany from 21 March 1918, until repatriated on 3 December 1918. Sold with copied research including confirmation of Boer War medals and clasps, Attestation papers and War Diary entries.
Lot 296
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. pair awarded to Private R. McAllister, Royal Highlanders Military Medal, G.V.R. (S.6837. Pte. R. Mc.Allister. 1/R. Hdrs.); British War Medal 1914-20 (S-6837 Pte. R. Mc.Allister. R. Highrs.) contact marks, polished, nearly very fine (2) £180-£220 --- M.M. London Gazette 1 September 1916. Robert McAllister attested for the Royal Highlanders on 19 November 1914 and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 April 1915. He was discharged on 20 December 1917, and was awarded a Silver War Badge No. 290,366.
Lot 399
Three: Private H. Blake, 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, on which date the Battalion suffered over 400 casualties 1914-15 Star (15835 Pte. H Blake. R. Berks: R.); British War and Victory Medals (15835 Pte. H Blake. R. Berks. R.) light contact marks, very fine and better (3) £300-£400 --- Henry Blake attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 February 1915. He was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916. On this date the Battalion, as part of the 25th Brigade, 8th Division, was involved in the attack on Ovillers. Very early in the assault the leading waves met tremendous machine gun and rifle fire, and by 9:00 a.m. over half the battalion had been lost, with the battalion suffering total casualties that day of 437. Blake was amongst those killed; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Lot 382
Three: Private W. Terry, Royal West Surrey Regiment, later Middlesex Regiment and Army Service Corps, who was wounded by gun shot to the right foot on 29 October 1915 1914-15 Star (1710 Pte. W. Terry. The Queen’s R.); British War and Victory Medals (1710 Pte. W. Terry. The Queen’s R.) very fine Pair: Private F. Miller, Royal West Surrey Regiment British War and Victory Medals (G-37935 Pte. F. Miller. The Queen’s R.); together with a Royal West Surrey Regiment Prisoners of War ‘Welcome Home’ Medal, unnamed, good very fine (5) £70-£90 --- William Terry was born in 1896 and attested for the Royal West Surrey Regiment on 5 September 1914. He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 July 1915, and was wounded by gun shot to the right foot on 29 October 1915. Returning home, he transferred to the 25th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, on 1 September 1916, and then to the Army Service Corps on 31 March 1917, seeing further service on garrison duty in Singapore. He was discharged on 22 March 1920. Frank Miller attested for the Royal West Surrey Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from after January 1916. Sold with a Honourable Discharge Certificate named to ‘234777 Private Richard G. Mann, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regt.’ dated 25 July 1918. Richard George Mann enlisted on 3 November 1916 and served with the 2nd Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front, prior to being discharged, no longer physically fit for service, on 25 July 1918, being awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold with copied research.
Lot 95
Five: Reserve Wardmaster J. Stephenson, Royal Navy Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve and St. John of Jerusalem, late Royal Navy Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (595 Ordly: J. Stephenson. St. John Amb: Bde:); St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (595. Pte J. Stephenson Colne Div.); British War Medal 1914-20 (M.9531 J. Stephenson. R. Wdmr. R.N.); Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (633. J. Stephenson, Res: Wardmaster. R.N.A.S.B.R.); Service Medal of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, silver (1st. Off: John Stephenson (Colne Div: S.J.A.B.) 1914.) contact marks to the Boer War medals, nearly very fine and better (5) £400-£500 --- John Stephenson was born in Colne, Lancashire, on 17 June 1877. A former Orderly during the Boer War, he served from 5 August 1914 to 14 April 1919 as Reserve Wardmaster at Chatham Hospital in Kent.
Lot 303
A fine Great War 1918 ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Private D. H. Dennis, 2nd Battalion, Leinster Regiment, who was granted a Divisional Citation for his gallantry during the battalion’s attack near Ledeghem on 14 October 1918: ‘the attack was a brilliant success, capturing 14 officers and 249 other ranks, and 11 field guns and 60 machine guns’. For this celebrated action Sergeant John O’Neill and Private Martin Moffat, both the the same battalion, were each awarded the Victoria Cross Military Medal, G.V.R. (4831 Pte. D. H. Dennis. 2/Leins: R.); 1914-15 Star (4831 Pte. D. H. Denness [sic] Leins: R.); British War and Victory Medals (4831 Pte. D. H. Denness [sic] Leins: R.) good very fine (4) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Michael McGoona Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2000. M.M. London Gazette 17 June 1919. Duncan Henry Dennis (also recorded as Denness) was born on 11 September 1895 and attested for the Leinster Regiment at Southampton, where he was employed as a shipyard fitter’s labourer. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 September 1915, and was almost certainly awarded the Military Medal for his gallantry during the Battalion’s celebrated attack near Ledeghem on 14 October 1918, during which both Sergeant John O’Neill and Private Martin Moffat were both awarded the Victoria Cross. The Regimental History gives further details: ‘The attack, despite the appalling fog, which descended on the operations, was a brilliant success, the Battalion alone capturing 14 officers and 249 other ranks, I1 field guns and 60 odd machine guns. It was on this occasion that Sergeant O'Neill and Private Martin Moffat so distinguished themselves - the latter’s feat, in single-handed forcing a house held by the enemy to surrender, after having dashed at the back door through a hail of bullets from rifles and machine guns, is known to the world, as he received the Victoria Cross as his reward a few weeks later. It is not perhaps generally known, but directly afterwards he insisted upon marching back by himself a squad of over 120 prisoners, getting a receipt for the same from the Assistant Provost-Marshal and rejoining his unit that same morning. Sergeant O'Neill received his Victoria Cross for reckless gallantry on the same occasion, together with a repetition a few days later.’ Sold with the recipient’s original 29th Division Divisional Citation card, inscribed ‘For gallant conduct and devotion to duty in the Field on 14th Oct. 1918 near Ledeghem’; and copied research.
Lot 270
A Great War ‘Kut-al-Amara’ D.C.M. awarded to Private J. Donaghey, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, attached 34th Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers, who died on 7 July 1916 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (8883 Pte. J. Donaghey. 1/R. Innis: Fus:) half-hearted attempt to obliterate naming, but naming details all fully legible, good very fine £700-£900 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 22 January 1916: ‘For conspicuous gallantry at Kut-al-Amara (Mesopotamia) on 28 September 1915. He delivered several messages under heavy shell and rifle fire and was constantly engaged in repairing telephone wires under fire.’ James Donaghey was born in Templemore, Co. Londonderry, and attested for the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at Londonderry. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War in the Asiatic theatre of War from 16 November 1914, and was awarded his D.C.M. for gallantry at Kut-al-Amara when attached to the 34th Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers. He died on 7 July 1916, and is buried in Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq. Sold with copied research including various newspaper cuttings announcing the award of the D.C.M.
Lot 430
Pair: Private A. W. Woods, East Surrey Regiment, late Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 20 May 1918 British War and Victory Medals (59082 Pte. A. W. Woods. R. Fus.) with flattened named card box of issue and outer OHMS envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. F. H. Woods, 23 Morley Avenue, Edmonton, N18’; and Record Office enclosure, extremely fine Victory Medal 1914-19 (20824 Pte. W. Mallyon. E. Surr. R.) good very fine (3) £50-£70 --- Alfred William Woods was born in Edmonton, Middlesex, and attested there for service during the Great War on 11 December 1915. Posted initially as a Trooper to 2nd King Edward’s Horse, he transferred to the 6th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers on 8 September 1917, and proceeded to the Western Front on 12 October 1917. He transferred to the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment two days later, on 14 October 1917, and was killed in action on 20 May 1918, whilst attached to the 63rd Anti-Aircraft Section, 12th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. William Mallyon attested for the East Surrey Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War (entitled to a pair), and also on attachment to the 12th A.H.T.D. A.S.C. Sold with copied research.
Lot 416
Four: Private J. G. Cook, Welsh Regiment and Machine Gun Corps, who also served in the Mercantile Marine British War Medal 1914-20 (33950 Pte. J. G. Cook. Welsh R.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Joseph G. Cook); Victory Medal 1914-19 (33950 Pte. J. G. Cook. Welsh R.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (163594 Gnr. J. G. Cook. M.G. Cps.); together with Welsh Regiment and Machine Gun Corps cap badges, good very fine (4) £100-£140 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Joseph George Cook attested for the Welsh Regiment and served with them, and the Mercantile Marine, during the Great War. He saw further service with the Machine Gun Corps (Motors) during the Third Afghan War, and was discharged, Class ‘Z’ Reserve, on 29 January 1920. Sold with copied medal index card and medal roll extract.
Lot 257
A Great War ‘Delville Wood’ M.C. group of six awarded to Major R. G. Kinsey, Highland Light Infantry, later Machine Gun Corps Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse engraved ‘R. G. Kinsey, Lieut. H.L.I. Delville Wood, Somme. July, 1916’; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. R. G. Kinsey. High. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Major R. G. Kinsey.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, good very fine (6) £900-£1,200 --- M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1917: ‘Lt. Reginald George Kinsey, High. L.I., attd. M. Gun. Coy.’ Reginald George Kinsey was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, on 30 December 1914, and served in France from 30 September 1915, and later as Lieutenant from 1 January 1916; Lieutenant, H.L.I. Special Reserve, from 12 February 1917; Captain from 16 March 1917; Temporary Major, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) from 16 February 1917; and eventually Acting Lieutenant-Colonel, M.G.C. (Infantry) while commanding a Battalion from 26 February to 24 March 1919. Sold with copied gazette notices and Medal Index Card.
Lot 128
Four: Nurse Ruth C. Jameson, British Committee of the French Red Cross British War and Victory Medals (R. C. Jameson.); France, Third Republic, Medaille de La Reconnaissance, bronze, unnamed; La Société Francaise de Secours aux Blessés Militaires avec Palme, silver, unnamed as issued, good very fine (4) £200-£240 --- Ruth C. Jameson was born in 1895 and spent her early childhood in Sunninghill and Ascot. Educated at Wycombe Abbey, she was presented as a debutant to King George V and Queen Mary in 1914. Two years later she travelled to Normandy in a successful search for a cure to her mother’s phlebitis; thereafter, when her mother returned, Jameson enrolled into the French Red Cross as a nurse, witnessing initial service at a hospital in Bagnoles de Lorne looking after wounded French soldiers. Returning home to Sunninghill in August 1917, Jameson soon took appointment as a nurse at her local Red Cross Hospital at Sandridge House. A later newspaper report offers an interesting record of this time: ‘One of the earliest women drivers, she also involved herself in the hospital car service, whereby she drove local people to and from London hospitals on a voluntary basis’. In February 1918 she returned to France, this time to a temporary hospital established in the Chateau d’Arc-en-Barrois within sound of the guns of Verdun. The cessation of hostilities saw Jameson embrace travel and what she classed as ‘frivolities’. She later became a founding member of both the Guards Polo Club and the Windsor Horse Show, but the declining health of both parents saw her return to nursing and administrative roles. During the Second World War she acted as a fire watcher, firstly in Silwood Park Tower and secondly in St. Michael’s Church tower in Sunninghill. In 1948, at the age of 53, she decided to embark upon a new career as Hospital Service driver - it would occupy her life for the next quarter of a century. Sold with the original Award Certificate for the second French decoration, to ‘Mademoiselle Ruth C. Jameson’ for service with different formations between 3 September 1916 and 11 August 1918, together with copied research and newspaper articles.
Lot 448
Pair: Sergeant Drummer R. J. Ford, Suffolk Regiment, later 33rd (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment British War Medal 1914-20 (879061 Sjt. R. J. Ford. 33-Lond. R.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (1827 Sjt: Dmr: R. J. Ford. Suffolk Regt) generally very fine King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3434 Pte F. Ford. Suffolk Regt) edge bruising, nearly very fine (3) £90-£120
Lot 269
A Great War ‘Sanctuary Wood, June 1915’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Corporal R. Gilholme, 4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (2029 L. Cpl. R. Gilholme. 4/North’ld Fus:-T.F.); 1914-15 Star (4-2029 Pte. R. Gilholme. North’d Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (4-2029 Cpl. R. Gilholme. North’d Fus.) nearly extremely fine (4) £1,000-£1,400 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 3 June 1916; citation published 21 June 1916: ‘For conspicuous gallantry on several occasions, notably when, after his trench was much wrecked by the enemy’s bombardment, he knocked out an enemy machine gun which had been placed in the parapet opposite him before it could come into action.’ Annotated gazette states: ‘Sanctuary Wood, June 1915’. Richard Gilholme served with the 4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers in France from 20 April 1915. Sold with copied D.C.M. and Medal Index Cards, gazette notices and War Diary extracts.
Lot 252
A Great War 1918 ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Captain the Rt. Hon. C. Waterhouse, 1st Life Guards, attached Tank Corps, for his gallantry at Rosiéres on 8 August 1918, during which he was twice wounded; he later served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Leicester South Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved ‘Lieut. Charles Waterhouse. 1st. Life Guards, attached Tank Corps.. Rosiéres Aug. 8th 1918.’; 1914 Star, with clasp (2. Lieut: C. Waterhouse. 1/Life Gds:); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. Waterhouse.); Defence Medal; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, generally very fine (7) £1,800-£2,200 --- M.C. London Gazette 2 December 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry during an attack. When his Tank was put out of action on a railway bridge thirty yards from the enemy lines he sent back his crew into safety and then assisted a dismounted troop of cavalry to take the bridge, only retiring when he had been twice wounded. He showed marked courage and devotion to duty.’. The Rt. Hon. Charles Waterhouse was born in Salford, Lancashire, on 1 July 1893 and was educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 1st Life Guards, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 October 1914. Attached to the 6th Battalion, Tank Corps, he was awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry at Rosiéres on 8 August 1918. Post-War, Waterhouse was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Leicester South in 1924, and held the seat until his defeat in the 1945 General Election. He was then re-elected for the new seat of Leicester South-East in 1950, and held that seat until his retirement in 1957. He held various junior ministerial offices, including Comptroller of the Household from 1937 to 1939; Assistant Postmaster-General from 1939 to 1941; and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1941 to 1945. Appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1944, he later served as a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Derbyshire. He died in Sheffield on 2 March 1975. Sold with a brass name plaque, inscribed ‘Captain Charles Waterhouse, P.C. M.C., D.L., J.P.’; and with the following related Family Medals: Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45; Rhodesia, General Service Medal (A174 S/O (A) G. A. Waterhouse); Rhodesia, Police Reserve Faithful Service Medal (5872G F/R A. G. Waterhouse) nearly extremely fine
Lot 385
Three: Private B. Crick, 1/5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment 1914-15 Star (3456 Pte. B. Crick, Suff. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3456 Pte. B. Crick. Suff. R.) generally very fine or better Pair: Private P. G. Clark, Suffolk Regiment British War and Victory Medals (201324 Pte. P. G. Clark. Suff. R.) generally good very fine British War Medal 1914-20 (4131 Pte. T. Cunnell. Suff. R.) good very fine (6) £60-£80 --- Bertie Crick served during the Great War with the 1/5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment in Gallipoli from 2 December 1915.
Lot 160
Four: Sergeant Edith M. Mitchell, Women’s Royal Air Force Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (421290 Sgt. E. M. Moore. W.R.A.F.); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (421290 Sgt. E. M. Mitchell W.R.A.F.) good very fine (4) £100-£140 --- Edith Mary Mitchell (née Moore) was born in 1912 and voluntarily enlisted for home service in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in 1940. She married Flight Sergeant H. D. R. Mitchell on 15 March 1958 in Epping, Essex, and was later awarded the L.S.G.C. Medal in AMO 505 of June 1961.
Lot 347
Five: Ship’s Steward C. R. Wilkins, Royal Navy China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Canton 1857, unnamed as issued, edge cut; South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (C. R. Wilkins, S. Stewd. Gl. Mess, H.M.S. “Euphrates.”); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (C. R. Wilkins. Sh: Stewd. H.M.S. “Euphrates.”); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Chas. Wilkins. Ships Stewd. H.M.S. Euphrates.) engraved naming; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, mounted for display, very fine, scarce combination of awards (5) £800-£1,200 --- Charles Richard Wilkins was born in Landport, Hampshire, in May 1842. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in 1857, and served with H.M.S. Volcano from May 1857 to May 1859. Wilkins advanced to Captain’s Steward in November 1861, and to 1st Class Assistant to Ship’s Steward, General Mess in January 1872. He served with H.M.S. Euphrates between September 1870 and May 1876, and advanced to Ship’s Steward in January 1873. Wilkins returned for service with the Euphrates from December 1876 to August 1881, and then July 1882 to May 1884. After service with H.M.S. Crocodile, Wilkins retired in February 1894 after 37 years’ service. He resided in Portsmouth. Sold with copies service papers and research.
Lot 397
Three: Private R. Colligan, Royal Highlanders, later Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1914-15 Star (S-6914 Pte. R. Colligan. R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (S-6914 Pte. R. Colligan. R. Highrs.) mounted as worn, polished, nearly very fine Pair: Gunner J. G. Dow, Royal Garrison Artillery British War and Victory Medals (4418 Gnr. J. G. Dow. R.A.) very fine Pair: Private D. Currie, Royal Scots Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (41101 Pte. D. Currie. R.S. Fus.) very fine Pair: Private J. McIntyre, Royal Highlanders British War and Victory Medals (S-23261 Pte. J. Mc Intyre. R. Highrs.) very fine (9) £120-£160 --- Robert Colligan attested for the Royal Highlanders and served with the 10th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 September 1915. Subsequently transferring to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, he was discharged Class ‘Z’ on 14 February 1919.
Lot 19
A fine ‘Anglo-Egyptian War’ R.R.C. group of three awarded to Nursing Sister Rebecca Burleigh, Army Nursing Service, later Naval Nursing Service, who was Mentioned in Despatches Royal Red Cross, 1st Class, V.R., silver-gilt, gold, and enamel; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (Nursg. Sister. R. Burleigh.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1884-6, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine (3) £800-£1,000 --- R.R.C. London Gazette 23 October 1885. M.I.D. London Gazette 25 August 1885. Rebecca Burleigh was born in Carrickfergus, Ireland, on 6 December 1845, and entered the Military Nursing Establishment at Netley Hospital on 1 February 1884. Posted to Egypt from 26 March 1884 to 3 June 1884, she embarked for a second period of service aboard the Hospital Ship Ganges on 25 February 1885. Moored off the Port City of Suakin in north-eastern Sudan, Burleigh was soon caring for wounded and sick men, many of whom were struck down by dysentery. Catering to nearly 300 casualties in 90 beds and 200 swinging cots, the work was hot and the facilities basic; hoisted aboard ship, many men succumbed to infection and heat stroke. The valuable work of the nursing staff was later immortalised in a series of engravings entitled ‘With Sir Gerald Graham at Suakim, on the Hospital-Ship “Ganges”’, which were published in The Graphic. Returned home to England in the summer of 1885, Burleigh soon began to suffer from illness herself and was sent on one month’s sick leave. Recovered, she served for almost a year at Chatham from 12 September 1885 to 2 August 1886, before taking up appointment as Nursing Sister with the Naval Nursing Service at Haslar on 4 June 1887. Raised Head Sister on 1 May 1890, she returned to Chatham until discharge on 31 March 1895.
Lot 228
Royal Ulster Constabulary Service Medal, E.II.R. (R/Const. H Wylie) on 1st type riband, in Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine £200-£240 --- Heather Wylie was born on 10 July 1959 and initially worked as a Belfast shop assistant. She attested for the Royal Ulster Constabulary on 17 November 1977 and served at Station Castlereagh.
Lot 365
Three: Private J. Mills, Leinster Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6151 Pte. J. Mills. Leinster Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (247 Pte. J. Mills. Leins. R.) light scratch to QSA, good very fine (3) £140-£180 --- John Mills attested for the Leinster Regiment and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and then during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 9 July 1915 (also entitled to a 1914-15 Star and a Silver War Badge).
Lot 428
Pair: Private T. Wells, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who was killed in action on 7 June 1917 British War and Victory Medals (30214 Pte. T. Wells. R. Innis. Fus.); Memorial Plaque (Thaddeus Wells) nearly extremely fine (3) £80-£100 --- Thaddeus Wells was born in Richmond, Surrey, and attested for the Rifle Brigade at Fulham. He transferred to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, and served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 7 June 1917 and is buried in La Lairerie Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Lot 41
A Great War A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Sister Ethel R. Whittington, Territorial Force Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard & Co. Ltd case of issue; British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18, with integral top riband bar, in card box of issue; France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour, Ministry of the Marine, small gold medal, the reverse officially named ‘Miss Whittington 1908’, gold marks to edge with rosette on riband, in Ch. Marey, Paris, red leather case of issue, extremely fine (3) £200-£240 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, February 2019. A.R.R.C. London Gazette 24 October 1917. Ethel Rose Whittington served during the Great War as a Sister at Moray Lodge Hospital, Camden Hill, London, and was decorated by the King at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 6 April 1918.
Lot 427
Three: Warrant Officer Class II W. C. Campbell, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (7925 A.W.O. Cl. 2. W. Campbell R. Innis. Fus.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (6972094. W.O. Cl. II. W. C. Campbell R. Innis. Fus.) minor edge bruise to BWM and light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (3) £70-£90
Lot 389
Three: Private F. Webb, Leinster Regiment, late Royal Irish Regiment, who died of wounds on the Western Front from 22 July 1915 1914-15 Star (1070 Pte. F. Webb. R. Ir. R.); British War and Victory Medals (1070 Pte. F. Webb. R. Ir. Regt.); Memorial Plaque (Frederick Webb) in card envelope, very fine (4) £120-£160 --- Frederick Webb attested for the Royal Irish Regiment and served with the 5th Battalion during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 22 July 1915. Transferring to the Leinster Regiment, he saw further service with the 2nd Battalion on the Western Front, and died of wounds on 27 October 1916. He is buried in Barlin Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Lot 94
An exceptionally rare Uganda campaign pair awarded to Miss Gertrude E. Bird, Church Missionary Society, who came to be regarded as the ‘spiritual mother’ of the Ugandan missionaries East and Central Africa 1897-99, 1 clasp, Uganda 1897-98 (Miss. G. E. Bird.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband, extremely fine and extremely rare (2) £1,400-£1,800 --- Provenance: Ulrich Collection 1952. Gertrude Elizabeth Bird was born in 1864 and lived in Balham, London. A former Lady Superintendent of the Young Women’s Christian Association, she joined the Church Missionary Society in 1894 and was trained at ‘The Olives’, being accepted as a missionary on 4 June 1895. To fully appreciate her remarkable life, it would be appropriate to consider the words of Mr. Albert R. Cook, when speaking of her retirement from the Uganda Mission: ‘Miss G. E. Bird was one of the pioneer lady missionaries in Uganda, and had it not been that she had to leave the mission for five years, from 1909-1914 (being perforce kept at home by family circumstances), she would have had the longest term of service of any Uganda missionary. As it is she had thirty-five years of active work in the Mission. Miss Bird joined the missionary staff in 1895, being stationed for a year at Frere Town on the Coast with the idea of learning sufficient Kiswahili during that time, to be a help to the ladies with the porters of the large missionary caravan which it was purposed to send up to Uganda during the following year. There we found her on October 1, 1896, when our party disembarked at Mombasa, and during the trying two months’ wait at the Coast with its heart-breaking delays in getting the caravan together, and the three months’ strenuous march to Uganda that followed, we learnt to admire the equable temper and the quiet courage of Miss Bird. For it must be remembered that it required a great deal of physical endurance as well as patience and cheerfulness for ladies to undertake such a journey in those days. Few things struck the Prince of Wales more during his visit to Uganda in 1928, than the story of their march. The other two ladies who shared her experience in 1896 were Miss Timpson (now Lady Cook) and Miss Bertha Taylor (now Mrs. Harry Maddox). These three, happily all still alive, arrived at Kampala in Feb., 1897, and Miss Bird was located with Miss Pilgrim to Ngogwe in Kyagwe, where she worked under the Rev. G. K. Baskerville... Here, for nearly four years, Miss Bird found a field worthy of her energies and laid the foundation of her wide knowledge of women’s work in Uganda. Located to Namirembe, she became a real power in Christian work. Visiting, teaching the woman or school children, or taking bible classes, and committee meetings occupied a very full life, and yet I think those who knew her most intimately would agree that it was more what she was than even what she did, that was of greatest value. Few have won a more fragrant tribute from Baganda.’ Bird received the East and Central Africa Medal for her part in staffing the hospital at Namirembe during the Sudanese uprising of 1895-96. Alongside other missionaries, she took care of the wounded and sick Waganda tribespeople. Her Jubilee Medal is further confirmed in the records of the Church Missionary Society: ‘Miss Gertrude Elizabeth Bird, Missionary, Uganda’. Exercising a gracious influence throughout her long life, Gertrude E. Bird died on 17 April 1949. Sold with copied research confirming the above.
Lot 693
A Selection of Books on the Victoria Cross. The Story of the Victoria Cross 1856-1963, by Brigadier Sir John Smyth, Bt., V.C., Frederick Muller, 1963, 596pp, with photographic plates and index, hard-back, with dust jacket, reasonable condition For Valour - The Victoria Cross, Courage in action, by John Percival, Thames Methuen, 1985, 257pp, with photographic plates and index, hard-back, with dust jacket, reasonable condition The Bronze Cross, by Gordon Roe, P. R. Gawthorn Ltd., London, 1945, 124pp, with numerous photographs and index, hard-back, with torn dust-jacket, reasonable condition Valiant Men, Canada’s V.C. and G.C. Winners, by John Swettenham, Hakkert Toronto, 1973, 234pp, with index and photographs, hard-back, with dust-jacket, good condition They Dared Mightily, by Lionel Wigmore, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1963, 317pp, with index and b/w plates, hard-back, with dust jacket, good condition The Victoria Cross, Centenary Exhibition Brochure 1956. The stories of the winning of the Victoria Crosses which were represented in the Centenary Exhibition, Marlborough House, June to July 1956, First Edition, 143pp, with index, paper covers; together with the index of exhibits, very good condition Illustrated Handbook of the Victoria Cross and George Cross, Imperial War Museum 1970, 40pp, with numerous plates, soft-back, good condition For Conspicuous Gallantry, a brief history of the recipients of the V.C. from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, by Nigel McCrery, J. H. Hall & Sons, Derby, 1990, 87pp, with index, soft-back; together with a booklet o nthe four V.C.s awarded to the 6th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, good condition Together with a set of illustrated pictures depicting ‘Heroes of the Victoria Cross’; a facsimile copy of Guy Gibson’s Pilot’s Flying Log Book, including his entry for the Dam’s Raid; and three other books on non-V.C. related matters, good condition (lot) £60-£80
Lot 5
A Great War M.B.E., Order of St. John group of six awarded to Commandant W. R. Magnus, British Red Cross and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, who ferried large numbers of wounded men between hospitals in London and the Home Counties in his ambulance The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1918; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, silver, with heraldic beasts in angles; Jubilee 1897, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Private W. Magnus); Coronation 1902, St. John Ambulance Brigade, bronze (W. R. Magnus 2nd. Offr.); Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Supt. W. R. Magnus.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, with one Additional Award Bar (Supt. William R. Magnus. July 1911.) nearly very fine and better (6) £300-£400 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918: ‘Chief of the Train Control Section, Great Eastern Railway.’ William Robert Magnus was born in Chipping Hill, Essex, around 1878. A married railway clerk, later Assistant to the London Divisional Superintendant of the Great Eastern Railway (Liverpool Street Station), he is recorded in 1911 and 1921 as a resident of 51, Stanhope Gardens, Ilford. Appointed Commandant in the British Red Cross and Order of St John of Jerusalem in May 1915, Magnus served at Oakwood Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital. His Red Cross index card adds: ‘Mr. William Robert Magnus, 51 Stanhope Gardens, Ilford, Essex. Organised whole of ambulance transport in connection with Ilford Emergency Hospital, also assisted in connection with Oakwood Red Cross Hospital, Chigwell - a total of 84 convoys and 1500 soldiers. In addition 44 journeys were arranged to various London and provincial Hospitals with transfer cases, over 100 wounded were transferred involving journeys varying from 10 to 110 miles. Personally driven car 6000 miles. Air Raid duties of detachment also.’
Lot 304
‘Almost a single-handed endeavour of extremely bold pattern, one day these exploits will be disclosed, and they will read stranger than fiction.’ Admiral Christie, Commander of the United States Pacific Submarine Operations, on the success of Operation Jaywick. The historic and important Second War ‘Operation Jaywick’ M.M., ‘Special Operations Executive - Orient Mission’ B.E.M. group of nine awarded to Acting Sergeant, later Major R. G. Morris, Royal Army Medical Corps, attached S.O.E. and Special Operations Australia, who was awarded the Military Medal for his gallantry and distinguished service as Medical Orderly in the MV Krait during her hazardous and highly audacious 48-day 4,000 mile round trip Commando raid, under the Command of Major Ivan Lyon, Gordon Highlanders, on Japanese occupied Singapore Harbour in September 1943, resulting in the sinking and destruction of seven enemy ships totalling 37,000 tons - the deepest surface waterborne penetration behind enemy lines undertaken by special forces in the Second World War. With no uniforms, no identity tags, and flying the Japanese flag, there would only have been one outcome for the crew if they were captured - failure was not an option. Remarkably, Morris had previously been awarded the B.E.M. for his services in the South-West Pacific, almost certainly for his devotion to duty during the Fall of Singapore when, having helped establish an escape route through Sumatra, and with his medical skills to the fore, he tended to the hundreds who came ashore at Durian during the exodus from Singapore in February 1942, before finally evacuating the island with Ivan Lyon in a tale of daring-do, first by sail to Sumatra, then by car across the mountains, before securing passage on the last ship out of Padang Military Medal, G.VI.R. (7264507 A/Sjt. R. G. Morris. R.A.M.C.); British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (7264507 Pte. Ronald George Morris); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (7264507 Sjt. R. G. Morris. M.M. B.E.M. R.A.M.C.); General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Borneo (Lt. R. G. Morris. M.M. B.E.M. RAMC.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (7264507 W.O. Cl.2. R. G. Morris. B.E.M. M.M. R.A.M.C.) mounted court-style as worn, cleaned and lacquered, light contact marks, generally very fine and better (9) £60,000-£80,000 --- M.M. London Gazette 19 September 1946: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the field (to be dated 23 November 1944).’ The Operation Jaywick File at the PRO (ADM 1-16678 gives the following Recommendation: ‘Corporal R. G. Morris, R.A.M.C., and Corporal A. Crilly, A.I.F. These two men were members of the ship’s crew, Corporal Morris the Medical Orderly, and Corporal Crilly as cook. Both performed their duties with great cheerfulness and their bearing throughout was of the highest standard in most trying and hazardous conditions. I recommend that if awards to the above men are approved, their published citation should only state that these awards are for outstanding conduct in the presence of the enemy, but that no fuller citation can be published for reasons of military secrecy.’ Morris’ Military Medal was approved by H.M. the King on 17 May 1944, on the Secret List, with the instruction that it was not to be published in the London Gazette until it had been taken off the Secret List. B.E.M. London Gazette 4 May 1943: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the South West Pacific.’ Ronald George ‘Taffy’ Morris was born at Pentre, in the Rhondda Valley, on Christmas Day 1918, and after leaving school at the age of 14 was employed as a miner. After five years in the South Wales pits he attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps on 30 May 1938, and after Japan entered the War he was recruited as a Medical Orderly to join the Special Operations Executive, Orient Mission, arriving in Singapore on 19 April 1941. Here he met fellow S.O.E. Operative, the charismatic old Harrovian Captain Ivan Lyon, Gordon Highlanders. The pair of them were soon part of an unorthodox group undertaking clandestine missions, training up local groups in the art of sabotage to be undertaken behind enemy lines, as well as establishing an escape route through Sumatra, should the unthinkable happen, and Singapore fall to the Japanese. In early February 1942, Lyon and Morris, together with a handful of other operatives, were ordered to leave Singapore to establish a base on Pulau Durian, one of the handful of small islands between Singapore and Sumatra. Here they acted as a makeshift staging post for the mass exodus out of Singapore, with Morris’ medical skills to the fore, as many who came ashore had severe injuries from Japanese bombing raids. ‘He set about making splints, setting broken bones, stemming bleeding, suturing gashes, and removing shrapnel embedded in flesh. all without anaesthetic.’ (The Tiger’s Revenge, by the recipient’s son, Evan Morris, refers). The work undertaken by the various S.O.E. teams saved hundreds stranded on the islands during this period, and on Durian Lyon and Morris worked tirelessly for days without a break. Then, on 17 February, two small ships arrived at Durian with the bad news. Singapore had fallen. The last of the survivors from Singapore having been evacuated, Morris and Lyon then left themselves in a small sailing vessel, and made their way by boat to the mouth of the Indragiri River, up the river to Rengat, and then across the Sumatran mountains by car, to Padang. Here, Morris, owing to his medical skills, was ordered onto what was the last ship to leave the island, on board the Dutch steamer the S.S. Palopo, bound for Ceylon. Against all odds, the ship made it to Ceylon on 11 March, from where Morris was posted to No. 55 Combined Military Hospital in Colombo. He was advanced Acting Sergeant on 10 July 1942 and, for his gallant and distinguished services in the South West Pacific, was awarded the British Empire Medal. Understandably, given the secretive nature of his work, no citation exists. Lyon, meanwhile, had also made it, via an extraordinary 1,000 mile journey in a fishing ketch, to Ceylon, from where he proceeded by steamer to Bombay. It was from here that he, along with Major Jock Campbell, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, and a 61 year old Australian civilian, Bill Reynolds, conceived an enterprising idea to have their revenge upon the Japanese in Singapore. Operation Jaywick Under the plans hatched by Lyon, Campbell, and Reynolds in Bombay, commandos would travel to Singapore harbour in a vessel disguised as an Asian fishing boat. They would then use collapsible canoes (folboats) to attach limpet mines to Japanese ships. General Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, India, known for his enthusiasm for unconventional warfare, approved the plan. However, given the necessary secrecy required for the operation, and the fact that India was known to harbour an extensive network of Japanese spies, to embark from the sub-Continent was out of the question. Instead, another embarkation point was require, and in July 1942, Lyon set off for Australia to organise the operation. But first he had to secure the services of a key member of his team - Ronald Morris. Flying to Colombo, Lyon attempted to secure Morris’ release from his hospital duties, but his meeting with the Commanding Officer of No. 55 Combined Military Hospital in Colombo for once did not go to plan, and the C.O. refused to agree to Morris’ release. Undaunted, Lyon then flew back to Delhi and, having obtained an official order sanctioning Morris’ release,...
Lot 346
Pair: Engineer W. R. Donald, Royal Navy China 1857-60, no clasp, unnamed as issued; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1865 (Wm. R. Donald, Engnr., HM,S. Eclipse) officially impressed naming, very fine (2) £1,400-£1,800 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2008. Approximately 24 medals with this reverse date to the Navy, including 3 officers and 8 ratings to the Eclipse. William Robertson Donald was born on 11 January 1828, at Johnstone, Renfrew. He trained in engineering at Messrs. Penn & Co. and passed at Woolwich, being appointed as Assistant Engineer 3rd Class to Blenheim on 12 November 1852, and then to Sidon in November the same year, before being transferred to Fisgard in November 1855. In March 1856 he was promoted to Assistant Engineer 2nd Class, and transferred to Formidable and then Edinburgh in July 1856, before being appointed to the Retribution when she was commissioned in August 1856 to the Pacific and China Station. He served in her during the Second China Wars until paid off to the Portsmouth Cheque in December 1860, where he passed and was promoted to 1st Class Assistant Engineer on 11 January 1861, before being sent to Fisgard for Eclipse in January 1861, and Sheerness for Eclipse in May 1861, achieving his rating as Engineer in the same month. Donald was Commissioned to the Eclipse on 27 September 1862, on the Australian Station, and served in her throughout the Second New Zealand War, passing for Acting Chief Engineer in May 1864. He was on the Sheerness Cheque in February 1867, and was discharged from the service at his own request on 11 April 1867. From the reports of his qualifications and character, it appears that he was highly regarded as an Engineer, a good disciplinarian, but irritable and not with a good temper.
Lot 31
A fine Second War R.R.C. group of seven awarded to Matron Dora G. Grayson, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, late Civil Hospital Reserve Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, reverse dated ‘1942’, on lady’s bow riband; 1914 Star (Miss D. G. Grayson. Civ: Hosp: Res.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister. D. G. Grayson.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, very fine and better (7) £800-£1,000 --- Provenance: Glendinings, September 1988. R.R.C. London Gazette 11 June 1942. Dora Granville Grayson was born in Kendal, Westmorland, on 16 March 1884, the daughter of wine and spirit merchant Oscar Granville Grayson. Educated at the Cheltenham Ladies’ College, she took her nursing studies at The London Hospital from 27 July 1910 to 28 July 1914 and then joined the Civil Hospital Reserve. This unit represented a group of trained nurses from throughout the United Kingdom who were vetted and recommended by their civil hospital matrons, each one willing and able to mobilise with the military nursing services in case of a future war; Grayson was promptly called up and disembarked in France on 8 August 1914, a member of the first party of 38 Civil Hospital Reserve nurses. Initially sent to No. 3 General Hospital at Rouen, Grayson transferred to the Q.A.I.M.N.S. Reserve on 8 November 1914 and was later accepted for the regular service as Staff Nurse in June 1916. Awarded the A.R.R.C. on 1 January 1918, she received her decoration at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 11 September 1918. Raised Sister, she continued to serve in France until the Armistice, latterly at No. 47 General Hospital. Sent to Hong Kong, Aldershot and York, Grayson finally resigned her appointment with effect from 4 July 1924. She returned to nursing during the Second World War and was awarded the R.R.C. as an Assistant Matron. She died on 16 April 1963. Sold with the recipient’s Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. cape badge by J. R. Gaunt, London; Badge of the London Hospital, white metal and enamel, engraved to reverse ‘Dora G. Grayson May 1910-July 1912, July 1914’ by J. Pinches, London; General Nursing Council Registration Badge, silver, engraved to reverse ‘D. G. Grayson S.R.N. 23300 19.10.23.’ by Thomas Fattorini.
Lot 426
Pair: Captain J. Bradford, Royal Irish Regiment, later 2nd Tank Battalion, who was wounded in August 1918, and was Mentioned in Despatches British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lieut. J. Bradford.) good very fine Pair: Private J. J. Barton, Yorkshire Regiment, who died on the Western Front on 13 July 1915 British War and Victory Medals (11325 Pte. J. J. Barton. York. R.) good very fine (4) £80-£100 --- John Bradford, a native of Dublin, was born on 13 November 1882, and attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps on 7 August 1914. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Irish Regiment on 5 October 1915, and served with the 5th Battalion, attached to the 19th Battalion, Welsh Regiment, during the Great War on the Western Front from 10 February 1916. He transferred to the 2nd Tank Battalion as a Workshop Officer on 13 January 1917, and was promoted temporary Lieutenant on 1 May 1917. He was wounded at duty on 11 August 1918, and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 24 December 1917). He relinquished his commission on 1 September 1921, being granted the honorary rank of Captain. Sold with full service papers. John J. Barton attested for the Yorkshire Regiment and served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 July 1915. He died on 17 September 1915, and is buried in Voormezeele Enclosure No. 3, Belgium.
Lot 53
A post-War A.R.R.C. pair awarded to Head V.A.D. Nursing Member (Naval Hospitals) Mabel Middleton, British Red Cross Society Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver and enamel, reverse dated ‘1947’, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, silver (Miss Mabel Middleton); together with the recipient’s British Red Cross Society Medal with Proficiency in Red Cross Nursing top riband bar, with three additional award bars, Red Cross Nursing 1943, Red Cross Nursing 1944, Red Cross Nursing 1945 (39976 M. Middleton); and British Red Cross Society 3 Years Service Medal, with three additional award bars, unnamed, with card boxes of issue, minor enamel loss to third, good very fine and better (4) £300-£400 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1947. Mabel Middleton joined the British Red Cross Society on 12 June 1940 and received her A.R.R.C. by registered post on 19 July 1947. Sold with the recipient’s original B.R.C.S. Certificate of Membership card, No. A43974, which notes her address as Trent Valley Road, Lichfield, this renewed to reverse until 1960; B.R.C.S. Certificate of Enrolment, Form D (8); two pairs of V.A.D. pin badges, enamel and base metal, by J. R. Gaunt, unworn and in original card boxes, in very good condition.
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