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Pair: Captain E. H. Hobart, King’s Royal Rifle Corps east and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1897-98 (Lt. & A/Insptr., 9/K.R.R.); Ashanti 1900, no clasp, high relief bust (Captain, 9th K.R.R.C.), mounted on pad for display, some edge bruising and contact marks, very fine and rare (2) £800-1000 captain Hobart, K.R.R.C., is several times mentioned in A History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti by W. W. Claridge (Sold with copied extracts). £800-£1000

Pair: Major L. B. Cumberland, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, a survivor from the Warren Hastings india General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (Lieut., 1st Bn. K.R. Rifle Corps); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Capt., K.R.R.C.) edge bruising, very fine (2) £450-550 louis Bertie Cumberland joined the 60th Rifles in 1890. He served with the Isazai Expedition in 1892 and the Chitral Relief Force under Sir Robert Low in 1895, serving with the 1st Battalion from 30 April to the close of operations. He was a survivor from the troopship Warren Hastings when she ran aground and was wrecked off the Island of Reunion, on 14 January 1897. Serving in the Boer War, he was severely wounded at Amersfort, 8 August 1900 - one of two officers and 11 other ranks to be wounded in the action. He also saw action at Wagon Hill, Laing’s Nek and Lydenburg. He retired in 1906. sold with a copied photograph and research. £450-£550

Pair: Private W. Bant, King’s Royal Rifle Corps india General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (4471 Pte., 1st Bn. K. R. Rifle Corps), official correction to naming; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (4471 Pte., K.R.R.C.), last clasp a copy, mounted as worn; together with a Birmingham Tribute Medal 1899-1902, gilt white metal, unnamed, complete with brooch bar, good very fine and better (3) £450-550 William Bant was born in Birmingham on 7 April 1869. A Brass Founder by occupation, he attested for service with the K.R.R.C. at Birmingham on 7 April 1888, aged 19 years, having previously served with the 4th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. With the 1st Battalion he served in India, November 1890-February 1896, taking part in the Isazai Expedition 1892 and serving in the Chitral Relief Force 1895. He then served in the Boer War, December 1899-April 1901. He was discharged on 17 July 1901 at the termination of his first period of engagement. during his period of service in the Boer War he kept a diary covering the period, 12 December 1899-1 April 1901. The diary, written in a small notebook, 97 x 51mm., in small neat script. The notebook has a repaired leather cover. Sold with a full typescript. Also with copied service papers. ‘8th January 1900. Turned out at half past four, firing going on K.R.R. and R. Bde. are made into camp site. Battalion under Stuart-Wortley inspected by General Lyttleton. Mr Winston Churchill in camp’. ‘27th February 1900. Escort to 4.7ý Naval gun. We hear of Cronje surrender. Cheering all round position. Moved on the heights to cover the right flank of position. Fearful battle this day - Majuba Day - slept by pontoon bridge’. ‘29th May 1900. Skirmished to States Drift. Forded river into Transvaal for the first time. Saw the enemy in the distance. No fighting. Plenty of sport with fowl and pig. One of ours caught an Ostrich - had to hand it to an officer - not allowed to loot - not Tommy’. ‘26th September 1900. Few Boers in the hills, guns shell them out. Stop at mine Mooi River supposed poisoned - did not matter - drank it.’ ‘25th December 1900. Christmas Day. Roast meat and duff and a drop of - oh my dear teetotallers - 3 bottles of lemonade’. £450-£550

Six: Private H. Neville, King’s Royal Rifle Corps ashanti Star 1896, unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (5711 Pte., K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (5711 Pte., K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (3362 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (3352 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.) worn and better, scarce combination to regiment (5) £380-420 Captain W. S. Kays commanded 25 men of the 3rd Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who formed part of the 5th Company of the 250 man strong Special Service Corps who served in the Ashanti Campaign of 1896. Private Neville confirmed as member of that detachment. Sold with copied extracts relating to the K.R.R.C. in that campaign. £380-£420

Six: Captain R. Richards, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, captured at Gheluvelt, 2 November 1914 queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal (9228 Cpl., K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (9228 Corpl., K.R.R.C.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (9228 C. Sjt., 1/K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (9228 Sjt., K.R.R.C.) first two with edge bruising and heavy contact mark, fine; others good very fine and better (6) £400-450 Robert Richards was born on 20 May 1880 and was educated at the Royal Hibernian Military School and attested for the Royal Highlanders in July 1895. Transferred to the K.R.R.C. in 1896, he served in South Africa, May 1900-March 1903; Malta, November 1904-February 1905; Crete, February 1905-February 1906; Egypt, March 1906-February 1909. On the outbreak of war he was Company Sergeant-Major to ‘B’ Company 1st Battalion K.R.R.C. and on 13 August 1914 entered the France/Flanders theatre of war. On 1 October 1914 he was promoted for gallantry in the field to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He was wounded in left shoulder and captured at Gheluvelt, 2 November 1914. Richards was held as a prisoner of war at Crefeld Camp and elsewhere, being promoted to Lieutenant on 10 May 1915 and subsequently advanced to Captain.He retired from Army on 2 November 1921. Postwar he served for some time as a Sergeant Instructor with the Irish Special Constabulary and as a Pay Clerk. In 1927 he applied unsuccessfully to join the Shanghai Police Force. in the 1st Battle of Ypres, ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ Companies of the 1st Battalion K.R.R.C. were surrounded and overwhelmed at Gheluvelt. Some 60 were killed, 419 wounded and 490 taken prisoner during this action. Lieutenant Richards being one of the officers taken. Sold with about 80 copied service papers. Included amongst the papers is his report on the circumstances leading to his capture. In it, he firmly lays the blame on a Captain in the Coldstream Guards, for ordering his men to retire, thus uncovering the K.R.R.C. position. £400-£450

Four: Private G. Clifton, King’s Royal Rifle Corps queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal (1487 Pte., K.R.R.C.); 1914 Star, with clasp (1487 Pte., 2/K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (1487 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.) some edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (4) £200-250 George Clifton was born in Pershore, Worcestershire. A Chimney Sweep by occupation, he enlisted into the K.R.R.C. at Pershore on 3 January 1899, aged 18 years, 9 months. With the 2nd Battalion, he served in South Africa, May-September 1900. Transferred to the Army Reserve in 1911, he was mobilized with the onset of war and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 13 August 1914. He was discharged at the termination of his period of engagement on 2 January 1916. Sold with copied m.i.c. and service papers. With riband bar. £200-£250

Three: Captain F. Walton, M.M., King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who was killed in action at the battle of Flers, 15 September 1916 queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (2538 Corpl., K.R.R.C.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (2538 C.S. Mjr., 2/K.R. Rif. C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt.); together with an erased Victory Medal 1914-19, M.I.D. oak leaf; ‘The J. H. Steward Jewel’ 1911, rev. inscribed, ‘South Eastern District Rifle Association won by Col. Sgt. Walton’, 35 x 33mm., 15ct. gold; Queen Victoria’s Cup Medallion, rev. inscribed, ‘2nd King’s Royal Rifles, Col. Sergt. F. Walton’, 54mm., silver; Henry Whitehead Cup Medallion, rev. inscribed, ‘1st Cheshire Regt. The Henry Whitehead Cup (Cavalry & Infantry) 1913, Col. Sergeant F. Walton, 2nd King’s Royal Rifles’, 44mm., silver, some scratches to Q.S.A., otherwise nearly extremely fine (lot) £300-360 Frederick Walton was born in Hunslet, Leeds, Yorkshire. A Fitter by occupation, he attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 9 January 1900, aged 18 years, 3 months. Posted to the 4th Battalion, he served with the regiment in South Africa, December 1901-December 1902. Then with the 2nd Battalion he served in India, December 1902-February 1910. At the beginning of the Great War he was a Company Sergeant-Major, and went to the France/Flanders theatre of war on 12 August 1914. For gallant conduct he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 17 September 1914), was awarded the Military Medal (London Gazette 22 January 1917) and given a commission in the regiment in April 1915. Serving with the 5th Battalion, he was wounded, suffering a gunshot wound to the back, on 26 May 1915, during the battle of Ypres. returning home, he was for some time an Instructor in Musketry with the 5th battalion at Sheerness. From there he joined the 18th Battalion in March 1916, to which battalion he was appointed Adjutant on 30 March. As a Captain with the 18th battalion he was killed in action at the battle of Flers, 15 September 1916, aged 34 years. He was buried in the Serre Road Cemetery, No.2. He was the eldest son of William H. and Fanny Walton of Beeston Hill, Leeds and husband of Marion Walton of 18A High Street, Godalming. Sold with about 78 copied sheets of service and related papers, together with a quantity of other research including copied photographs. Also with cap badge and riband bar. £300-£360

Pair: Band-Serjeant J. Richards, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, a survivor from the Warren Hastings queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Talana, Defence of Ladysmith, Transvaal (3471 Band-Serjt., K.R.R.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue (3471 Band Sgt., K.R.R.C.), service number corrected, first with edge bruising, good very fine (2) £360-400 Joseph Richards was born in Wellington, Shropshire. He attested for the 60th Rifles as a Boy aged 13 years, 3 months on 22 November 1878. Ranked as a Bandsman in the 1st Battalion in September 1884, he attained the rank of Band-Serjeant in May 1896. He was a survivor from the troopship Warren Hastings when she ran aground and was wrecked off the Island of Reunion, on 14 January 1897. In April 1898 he was awarded his L.S.& G.C. Medal. With the 1st Battalion he served in India, November 1890-January 1897; Mauritius, January 1897-March 1899, and South Africa, March 1899-February 1901. Band-Serjeant Richards was discharged at Cork on 23 August 1901 having completed his second period of engagement. Sold with copied service papers and photograph. £360-£400

Pair: Private W. Perry, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, captured at Farquhar’s farm, 30 October 1899 queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal (8481 Pte., K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (8481 Pte., K.R.R.C.) edge bruising, very fine (2) £160-200 8481 Private W. Perry, 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C., was reported missing in action at the action at Farquhar’s Farm (Lombard’s Kop), 30 October 1899. Having been taken prisoner, he was later repatriated. - information from the King’s Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle (extracts with lot). In the published casualty roll, Private Perry’s service number is listed as ‘4881’. £160-£200

Pair: Private S. Dowell, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, wounded at Blackbush Spruit, 2 December 1901 queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (8832 Pte., K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (8832 Pte., 2-K.R.R.C.), this a late issue, good very fine and better (2) £180-220 Joseph Sydney Dowell was born in Birmingham. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for the K.R.R.C. on 12 November 1894, aged 19 years. With the 2nd Battalion he served in South Africa, April 1897-April 1899; India, April-September 1899, and South Africa, September 1899-January 1902. In the Boer War he was wounded, suffering a gunshot wound to his left hip and buttock at Blackbush Spruit, 2 December 1901. As a result he was invalided to England in January 1902 and was discharged as medically unfit on 30 April 1902. During the Great War he served at ‘Home’, with the K.R.R. Depot, 19 October 1914-9 January 1919. Being discharged as surplus to requirements, his home address was given as ‘30 Shipway Road, Haymills, Birmingham’. Sold with about 45 copied sheets of service papers. £180-£220

Nine: Warrant Officer Class 1 H. Robinson, King’s Royal Rifle Corps 1914 Star, with copy slip-on clasp (10062 L. Cpl., 2/K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (10062 Sjt., K.R. Rif. C.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6837479 W.O.Cl.1, K.R.R.C.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Jubilee 1935 (R.S.M. H. Robinson); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (6837479 W.O. Cl. II, K.R.R.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (6837479 W.O.Cl.1, K.R.R.C.); together with a Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs Medal, rev. inscribed, ‘1931 The Army .22 Rifle Match, R.S.M. Robinson’, bronze, Great War and Long Service medal worn; others good very fine and better (10) £400-450 Harry Robinson was born in 1892 and enlisted into the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. at Winchester on 24 April 1911. During the Great War he served with the B.E.F. in France, 12 August-5 December 1914 and 9 February -24 November 1915, and was then in the Balkans, 25 November 1915-17 December 1918. Postwar he served in India, October 1919-March 1929 and in Palestine, September 1936-March 1937. As a Warrant Officer Class 1 he was discharged on 23 August 1937 on reaching the age limit but re-enlisted during the Second World War. Sold with Regular Army Certificate of Service, copied photograph, research and m.i.c., the latter showing entitlement to the clasp to the 1914 Star. £400-£450

Three: Private C. Hillman, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, killed in action, 23 October 1914 1914 Star, with copy slip-on clasp (5422 Pte., 2/K.R. Rif. C); British War and Victory Medals (5422 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.); Memorial Plaque (Charles Hillman), in card envelope, extremely fine (4) £350-400 Charles Hillman was born in and enlisted at Birmingham. With the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 13 August 1914. With them he was killed in action, in the retreat from Mons, on 23 October 1914. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. sold with original photograph; forwarding slip for the Victory Medal, and a note to accompany the forwarding of Princess Mary’s (Christmas) gift to ‘Mr J. Hillman of Spring Hill, Birmingham’. Also with copied research including m.i.c. £350-£400

Four: Private J. C. Collett, King’s Royal Rifle Corps 1914-15 Star (A-1357 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (A-1357 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.); France, Medaille Militaire, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, obv. re-enamelled; rev. with enamel damage, other medals good very fine (4) £50-70 Private Joseph C. Collett entered the France/Flanders theatre of war with the K.R.R.C. on 8 June 1915. He later served with the Machine Gun Corps and was discharged and awarded the Silver War Badge. Medaille Militaire not confirmed. Sold with copied m.i.c. £50-£70

Four: Sergeant H. Lanning, King’s Royal Rifle Corps 1914-15 Star (Y-246 Sjt., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (Y-246 Sjt., K.R. Rif. C.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Nigeria 1918 (Y/246 Sjt., K.R.R.C.) nearly very fine and better, last rare to regiment (4) £300-360 Serjeant Harry Lanning, K.R.R.C. entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 4 August 1915. He served in East Africa, November 1917-February 1918, and entered Nigeria on 16 March 1918. It is probable he acted as an instructor to the native troops involved in the Abudi War, June/July 1918. Sold with copied m.i.c. and roll extract. £300-£360

Three: Serjeant J. W. Wardle, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, killed in action at Givenchy, 8 February 1916 1914-15 Star (5-4874 Pte., K.R. Rif. C. ); British War and Victory Medals (5-4874 Sjt., K.R. Rif. C.) extremely fine (3) £100-140 John William Wardle was born in and enlisted at Manchester. Serving with the 1st Battalion K.R.R.C. he was killed in action on 8 February 1916, aged 21 years. He was buried in the Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy. He was the son of Jown William and Emily Wardle of Manchester. £100-£140

Pair: Private G. Stripp, King’s Royal Rifle Corps british War and Victory Medals (44509 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.) five: Rifleman G. E. Clifford, King’s Royal Rifle Corps 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, with numeral ‘8’ on ribbon; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed as issued, extremely fine (9) £70-90 Sold with silver medal inscribed, ‘Boxing B.W. Rfn. Stripp, A Coy.’ and ‘Army of Occupation, 18th/60th, Germany 1919’, 38mm., hallmarks for Birmingham 1917; and with an enamelled K.R.R.C. Association lapel badge. george Edward Clifford was born on 25 March 1914. He enlisted in Birmingham in July 1940. With the K.R.R.C. he served in Egypt, October 1940-July 1943; Sicily, July-August 1943, and Italy, August 1943-March 1945. He was discharged on 11 February 1946. Medals confirmed. Sold with the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book containing his discharge certificate. £70-£90

Five: Sergeant A. Chable, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, killed/died in Italy, 26 October 1944 general Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6845596 Rfmn., K.R.R.C.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, contact marks, nearly very fine (5) £200-250 6845596 Serjeant Albert Eric Daniel Chable, 1st Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, was killed/died on 26 October 1944, aged 26 years. He was buried in the Cesena War Cemetery, Forli, Italy. £200-£250

Five: Colour Sergeant W. Phillips, King’s Royal Rifle Corps and M.O.D. Police, captured by the Germans at Calais 1940 general Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6843855 Cpl., K.R.R.C.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (6843855 Sjt., K.R.R.C.), mounted court style for wear; Police Long Service, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Const. William E. Phillips) minor contact marks, good very fine and better (6) £180-220 sergeant William E. Phillips, K.R.R.C., was captured by the Germans at Calais and was held as a prisoner-of-war at Lamsdorf. sold with some biographical details and copied photographs. Also with an ‘Indian Football Association Calcutta’ Medal, silver and enamel, rev. inscribed, ‘1933’. £180-£220

Five: Captain R. V. G. Elwes, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, captured by the Yugoslavs on the ‘Morgan Line’ in early 1947 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, unnamed; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Capt., K.R.R.C.) last with some contact marks, very fine and better (5) £160-200 robin Valentine Gervase Elwes was born on 14 August 1922 and was educated at Ampleforth. He received an emergency commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the K.R.R.C. in April 1942 and was later posted to the 8th Battalion. In August 1944 he saw service with the 2nd Battalion in North-West Europe and a year later he was posted to the 10th Battalion. In the Autumn of 1945 he returned home and joined the 27th holding battalion at Ogbourne St. George, Wiltshire. In January 1947, he joined the 1st Battalion C.M.F., and saw service on the Morgan Line. The line was the unofficial boundary between Italy and Yugoslavia, running north from Trieste. Manned by British troops southwards from the River Vipava, the 1st Battalion K.R.R.C. held a position in the north of the sector, taking position shortly after Christmas 1946. In early 1947, Lieutenant Elwes and a Rifleman Gormley were captured by communist Yugoslav troops whilst investigating a telephone line that crossed the boundary. They were initially bound, roughed-up, interrogated before being cast into the local jail. After three days they were marched out into the deserted countryside and after fearing they might be summarily shot, were at length driven to Ljubljiana in Slovenia where their treatment improved. After three weeks and further interrogation they were returned to the Morgan Line and released into the American sector. This was a time of high tension, added to by political differences, when it was thought the Yugoslavs might forcibly seize adjacent Italian land. in May 1947 Elwes received a regular commission in the rank of Lieutenant. In September he was appointed Staff Captain ‘Q’ H.Q., 86 Area C.M.F. At the end of the year he returned home and joined the Green Jackets Brigade Training Centre at Barton Stacey near Winchester. In February 1948 he returned to the 2nd Battalion M.E.L.F. and in August he returned home to the Rifle Depot. He was promoted to Captain in August 1949. He joined the 1st Battalion B.A.O.R. in June 1951, and in 1952 was appointed to serve on the staff of H.Q. 7th Armoured Division, B.A.O.R. His private life was also not without incident. In 1949 his yacht, the 4 ton sloop Kestrel, ran aground in a gale on sand banks off Dunkirk. He and his wife were fortunate to be able to get ashore to safety. captain Elwes died at the early age of 36 on 10 January 1959. Sold with copied research and photographs, including an article entitled The Morgan Line, 1947, by Major M. P. Lee. £160-£200

Four: Serjeant G. F. Huckle, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, a prisoner-of-war of the Germans 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, with Second Award Bar (6642447 Sjt., K.R.R.C.); together with ‘56th (1st London) Division T.A. Miniature Range’ Medal, bronze, unnamed, in case of issue, extremely fine (5) £120-160 George Frank Huckle enlisted in 1931. Serving with the K.R.R.C. he was captured in North Africa and spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans held in the camp at Lamsdorf. After the war he was repatriated and at the time of his demobilization, was serving with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. sold with original Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Soldier’s Release Book; National Identity Card; medal forwarding slip; German P.O.W. camp money (5 notes); Certificate of Transfer to the Army Reserve; Medical Card; together with cloth shoulder badges, riband bar etc. £120-£160

The Second World War C.B. and Great War` D.S.O., M.C. group of ten awarded to Major-General T. N. F. Wilson, King’s Royal Rifle Corps the Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar, obv. centre a little depressed; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Major); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf; Coronation 1953, unnamed, all except first mounted court style as worn; together with a mounted group of ten miniature dress medals, generally good very fine (20) £3000-3500 d.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘Captain, 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps’. m.C. London Gazette 13 February 1917. ‘Lieut. (Acting Captain), K.R.R.C. ‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. He reorganised a few men and led them forward with great gallantry, capturing an enemy trench together with 60 prisoners.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 9 July 1919, 20 December 1940. thomas Needham Furnival Wilson was born on 20 March 1896 and educated at West Downs, Winchester; Winchester College and R.M.C. Sandhurst. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 11 November 1914. Wilson served in the France / Flanders theatre of war, February - May 1915 and October 1915 - November 1918 and was wounded. He was promoted Captain in February 1917 and held the rank of Acting Major in September 1917 and Adjutant, M.G.C., April - September 1918. During the period December 1917 - April 1918 he was employed as an Instructor in the 5th Army Infantry School. For his wartime services he was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, awarded the Military Cross and Mentioned in Despatches. Wilson was employed as G.S.O.3 in the War Office, January 1931 - March 1932, Commander of the Company of Gentleman Cadets, R.M.C., March 1932 - January 1935, D.A.A.G. War Office, February 1936 - January 1938, during which time he received the brevet of Major, January 1932, was promoted Major, July 1932, received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel, January 1936 and was promoted to that rank in August 1938. Commanding the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. during 1938-39, he gained the rank of Colonel in January 1939 and as Acting Brigadier, December 1939 - June 1940 he served as a Brigadier Commanding in the British Expeditionary Force and Northern Command, December 1939 - December 1940 for which he was mentioned in Despatches. wilson served on the General Staff Home Forces, December 1940 - July 1941 and then on the General Staff in Washington, July 1941 - March 1943. During this time he held the rank of Temporary Brigadier, June 1940 - March 1944, Acting Major-General, March 1943 - March 1944 and attained the rank of Temporary Major-General in March 1944. For his wartime servives he was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1946. He retired from the Army with the Honorary rank of Major-General on 1 April 1946 and died on 15 May 1961. sold with the recipient’s commission document appointing him 2nd Lieutenant in the K.R.R.C., dated 11 November 1914; M.I.D. document dated 16 March 1919; D.S.O. bestowal document, dated 3 June 1919; a copy of the D.S.O. statutes; C.B. bestowal document and accompanying letter, dated 10 June 1946; together with copied research and photographs. £3000-£3500

A Great War C.M.G. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. J. Long, King’s Royal Rifle Corps the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, rev. centre slightly depressed; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Lushai 1889-92 (2d Lieut., 4th Bn. K. Rl. Rif. Corps); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, Orange Free State, Cape Colony (Captain, K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Capt., K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (Major, K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed, mounted for wear, first three medals with some contact marks, nearly very fine and better (8) £1200-1400 wilfred James ‘Linger’ Long was born in 1871, the son of Rear-Admiral Samuel Long. He was educated at Winchester. Commissioned into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, he served in the Burmese Expedition of 1891-92, including operations in the Chin Hills with the Lushai column (One company of the 4th Battalion K.R.R.C. present). As a Captain he saw fighting in the Second Boer War, being present in the relief of Ladysmith, the actions at Tugela Heights, Pieter’s Hill, Laing’s Nek, Belfast and Lydenberg. For his services he was twice mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901, 29 July 1902) and awarded the Queen’s medal with six clasps and the King’s medal with two. In the Great War, he commanded the 3rd Battalion K.R.R.C. in Salonika, for which, in 1916, he was awarded the C.M.G. In June 1918 he was placed in command of the 1st Battalion in France, and on 23 June he suffered from the effects of a gas attack at Quesnoy Farm. For his services during the war he was three times mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 22 Jue 1915, 1 January 1916, 21 July 1917) and received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was placed on Retired Pay in 1920. Latterly living at Maytree, Josephine Avenue, Lower Kingswood, Surrey; he died on 24 May 1954. in an obituary, a brother officer wrote, ‘‘Linger’ was a sound and practical soldier. He was never afraid of expressing his opinion, however unpopular, preferably to those in authority over him; and he was usually right. He was never very particular about his appearance or dress, which was rarely according to regulations. ....’Linger’ played no games, never shot, rode very seldom, never seemed particularly genial, yet was always extremely popular, especially with us younger officers. ...’ sold with copied research including several extracts written by Long for the K.R.R.C. Chronicle. £1200-£1400

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel G. K. Priaulx, 11th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who, having been seriously wounded in 1914 and in 1915, was killed in action leading his battalion, 24 March 1918 distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Capt. K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Capt., K.R.R.C.); 1914 Star with clasp (Capt., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.), mounted on pad for display; Memorial Plaque (George Kendall Priaulx), in card envelope, Q.S.A. and K.S.A. with contact marks, very fine; others extremely fine (7) £2400-2800 d.S.O. London Gazette 18 June 1917. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when in command of his battalion. With the utmost confidence and determination he fought his battalion through the village, overcoming all obstacles and gaining his objectives. He set a magnificent example throughout’. m.I.D. London Gazette 10 September 1901, 23 June 1902; 21 December 1917. george Kendall Priaulx was born on 15 September 1877 and educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the 60th Rifles on 22 February 1898 and promoted to Lieutenant on 21 October 1899 and Captain on 22 January 1902. Serving in the Boer War, he was present at the relief of Ladysmith, the battles of Colenso, Spion Kop, Tugela Heights and Laing’s Nek. After peace was declared he served with the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. in India. With the onset of the Great War, he went to France in August 1914 and was dangerously wounded during the battle of the Marne in September 1914. Recovering, he returned to France, and in command of the 2nd Battalion he was again severely wounded at the battle of Loos in September 1915. In 1916, he was in command of the 11th Battalion, which captured the village of Metz and he was present at the operations near Langemarck, CrevecÏur and Cambrai. He was killed in action on 24 March 1918, aged 40 years, at Voyennes in the St. Quentin offensive, being first shot through the shoulder and then killed by a shell. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial. a Staff Officer at the H.Q. 18th Corps wrote, ‘On March 24th, 1918, when we were particularly hard pressed, his Battalion was making a very plucky stand at Voyennes, near St. Quentin; he was hit throught the shoulder and a few minutes later was killed by a shell. I need hardly tell you what a tremendous loss he was to the Division. His Battalion loved him and would have followed him anywhere. A splendid C.O. .... he did not seem to know what fear was’. sold with copied research and copied photographs. £2400-£2800

A Great War O.B.E. group of eleven awarded to Major I. S. C. Rose, Grenadier Guards, late King’s Royal Rifle Corps the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Lieut., K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lieut., K.R.R.C.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Lieut., King’s Rl. Rif.); 1914 Star with clasp (Lieut., G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, these three inscribed (Maj. I. S. C. Rose, Gren Guards); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Ivor Rose), mounted on pad for display, early medals with contact marks, nearly very fine and better (11) £750-850 O.B.E. London Gazette 22 March 1919. m.I.D. London Gazette Not confirmed. ivor Sainte Croix Rose was born on 16 March 1881 and educated at Eton. He was commissioned into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in February 1900 and was promoted to Lieutenant in March 1901. Serving in the Boer War with the 3rd Battalion, he was present at operations in Natal, March-June 1900, including the action at Laing’s Nek, and was in the Transvaal, November 1900-May 1902. He then served in operations in Somaliland, 1902-04, being employed as a Transport Officer to the Somaliland Field Force. In 1907 he was placed on the Reserve. As a Lieutenant in the Special Reserve he was transferred to the Grenadier Guards in August 1908. With the onset of war he ranked as a Temporary Captain in the Grenadier Guards, 16 September-1 November 1914, and was promoted to that rank on 2 November. Serving with the 2nd Battalion, he was wounded in November 1914 during the 1st Battle of Ypres - having to be dug out of a collapsed trench that had been hit by shell-fire. During the battle his ability as a marksman was much appreciated in holding off German snipers. In May 1915, still with the 2nd Battalion, he was serving as Divisional Observation Officer during the Battle of Festubert. He was employed by the Ministry of Munitions in 1917 and retired in 1919. During the Second World War he was re-employed as a Temporary Major with the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, receiving the brevet of Major in September 1939. £750-£850

A Great War M.C. pair awarded to Captain E. A. Rudd, King’s Royal Rifle Corps military Cross, G.V.R., rev, inscribed, ‘Capt. E. A. Rudd, Ypres 1916’; British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt.) nearly extremely fine (2) £400-500 M.C. London Gazette 23 August 1916. For conspicuous gallantry during a raid. He led his party through heavy shell, machine gun and rifle fire both advancing and returning and carried out his attack in a most successful manner’. ernest Albert Rudd was born on 29 August 1880. A Farmer, living at Makemi, Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia, he attested for service in September 1915 with the Rhodesian Platoon of the 6th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Granted a commission in December 1915, he served in France/Flanders with the 11th Battalion K.R.R.C. and was awarded the M.C. for his services on the Ypres Salient during 1916. Details from 11th Battalion records, read ‘On the 13th June 1916, after a discharge of gas, a raid was carried out under Lieut. H. A. Denison and 2nd Lieut. E. A. Rudd on the ‘Mound’, a strong fortified hostile sap running out from their trenches just South of the Potijze Road. ..... On the 10th July the battalion again took an offensive ops. Gas was discharged directly after dark along practically the whole of the Divisional front. Four raiding parties, of two officers and 35 other ranks each, were to have gone over, as soon as the gas ceased, to clean up what was left over the way. However, the battalion on our right unfortunately started a few minutes too early with their gas, and the enemy opposite us were fully prepared when our gas started and manned their parapet with rifles and machine guns throughout. The orders were not to go over unless the gas was effective, which obviously was not. 2nd Lieut. E. A. Rudd and Gilpin, however, got over the ‘Mound’ with their party doing very well. They bombed the enemy back to their front line and returned with several things found there. ...’ In 1917 Lieuteant Rudd was permitted to return to Rhodesia to attend to his farm and family and resigned his commission in 1918. He died on 25 April 1941. Sold with a quantity of service papers. £400-£500

A Boer War ‘Defence of Ladysmith’ D.C.M. group of five awarded to Major J. T. Mitchell, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, a survivor from the Warren Hastings distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (5518 L. Corpl., 1st K.R.R.C.); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (5518 Pte., 1st Bn. K.R. Rifle Corps); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Talana, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (5518 Cpl., K.R.R.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (5518 Sjt., K.R.R.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (5518 Sjt., K.R.R.C.), mounted as worn, in case, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (5) £2000-2500 D.C.M. London Gazette 27 September 1901. james Thompson Mitchell was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A Sailor by occupation, he enlisted into the K.R.R.C. at Dublin on 29 November 1889, aged 14 years. Posted as a Boy in 1889 and as a Bandsman in 1895, he served in India, November 1890-January 1897, and was present in the relief of Chitral operations. He was a survivor from the troopship Warren Hastings when she ran aground and was wrecked off the Island of Reunion, on 14 January 1897. He then served in South Africa, March 1899-September 1902 and was mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.C.M. for his services during the defence of Ladysmith. He was then discharged, having given notice, on 20 May 1911. Latterly a Cadet-Major with the 1st Cadet Battalion K.R.R., he died in December 1943. Sold with copied service papers and other research. £2000-£2500

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. awarded to Sergeant G. W. Colley, King’s Royal Rifle Corps distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (505280 Sjt., ) nearly extremely fine £600-700 D.C.M. London Gazette 2 December 1919. ‘On the 29th September, 1918, at Flot Farm, he was ordered to lead his platoon to clear an enemy position which was enfilading an important crossing of the St. Quentin Canal. With most marked courage and able leadership he captured the position - viz., 1,000 yards of trench. Although his platoon was only forty strong, he not only drove the enemy out of the position, but captured 103 prisoners, including four officers and five machine-guns, three field guns, and numerous trench mortars and other stores. He did magnificent work’. £600-£700

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Second Lieutenant W. H. Benbow, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, attached Royal Berkshire Regiment, late King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who was killed in action, 23 August 1918 military Medal, G.V.R. (Y-964 Sjt., 1/K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (Y964 Pte. (A. Sjt.), K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Memorial Plaque (Walter Harold Benbow), this in card envelope, nearly extremely fine (5) £800-1000 M.M. London Gazette 17 April 1917. walter Harold Benbow was born in Brueton, Somerset, on 10 February 1889 and educated at King Edward’s Grammar School, Camp Hill, Birmingham. A Clerk by occupation, he attested for service on 27 August 1914. With the 1st Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps he served with the B.E.F. in France, 3 August 1915-12 March 1916. Suffering a gun-shot wound to the chest on 7 March 1916, he was evacuated to England and remained there until 15 August 1916. He returned to further service in France, 16 August 1916-31 May 1917 and was awarded the M.M. for bravery in the field during 10/11 March 1917 which resulted in the capture of the Grevillers Trench Line and capture of Bailleul Village. After attaining the rank of Company Quartermaster Sergeant with the K.R.R.C. he was commissioned into the 7th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. Returning once more to France, and attached to the 7th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment, he was killed in action on 23 August 1918, aged 29 years. He was buried in the Bienvillers Military Cemetery. He was the son of Mr H. Stewart Benbow of ‘Chadshunt’, Lyttleton Road, Stechford, Birmingham. Sold with a quantity of copied service papers and other research. £800-£1000

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal F. Whitehouse, King’s Royal Rifle Corps military Medal, G.V.R. (R-14048 Pte., 8/K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (14048 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (R-14048 Cpl., K.R. Rif. C.) some edge bruising, very fine (4) £350-400 M.M. London Gazette 23 August 1916. private Whitehouse was awarded the Military Medal for his work in capturing a crater - the result of a mine under British held trenches, that was exploded by the Germans on 1 July 1916. £350-£400

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Private J. Hobson, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, late Royal Army Medical Corps military Medal, G.V.R. (R-40903 Pte., 4/K.R. Rif. C.), edge additionally engraved, ‘66 Potternewton Lane, Chapel Allerton , Leeds’, nearly extremely fine £200-240 M.M. London Gazette 18 July 1919. james Hobson, from Chapel Allerton, Leeds, entered the Balkan theatre of war on 20 May 1915, as a Private in the R.A.M.C. Subsequently transferring to the K.R.R.C., he was awarded the M.M. for bravery during the advance on the Maubeuge-Avesnes Road during November 1918 - one of the main problems of the advance being the extreme fatigue felt by the men due to the rapid advance and the distance covered. Sold with copied research. £200-£240

A Second World War ‘N.W. Europe’ M.M. group of five awarded to Acting Serjeant E. G. M. Willcocks, King’s Royal Rifle Corps military Medal, G.VI.R. (6850428 A. Sjt., K.R.R.C.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, mounted court style for wear, good very fine and better (5) £1600-1800 m.M. London Gazette 21 June 1945. ‘For gallant and distinguished service in N.W. Europe’. recommendation reads, ‘Throughout this period, from November 1944 to January 1945, during which the Battalion has been almost continuously in the line, Cpl. Willcocks has consistently shown the highest qualities of leadership and courage. His example of cheerfulness and coolness under fire has maintained the spirit and increased the ‘dash’ shown by his section of motor infantry. In particular his conduct at Tongerloo may be mentioned. His platoon was ordered to find out the location of the enemy positions. His platoon commander, two NCOs and one Rfn were badly wounded, the platoon Sgt and one Rfn were killed by Spandau fire. Cpl Willcocks was the only remaining NCO. He held the platoon together by his leadership and completed the task of the platoon. He used the platoon weapons with resource and initiative, and thereby extricated all the wounded. His behaviour on this occasion is in keeping with the standard of conduct which he has reached, and which he may confidently expected to maintain’. willcocks, from Kingsgate, Kent, was serving in the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. at the time. The battalion was part of 4th Armoured Brigade, 8th Corps, 2nd Army. £1600-£1800

A Great War D.C.M. awarded to Acting Corporal R. Smith, Royal Scots distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (3285 A. Cpl., 2/R. Scots) suspension refixed, signs of brooch mounting to rev., edge bruising, about very fine £300-350 D.C.M. London Gazette 1 January 1918; citation 17 April 1918. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He did excellent work on many occasions, and especially after an attack, where he repeatedly searched No Man's Land under machine-gun and rifle fire and brought in many wounded men. By courage, zeal and initiative he undoubtedly saved many lives’. 2nd Battalion Royal Scots were part of 8 Brigade 3 Division. Private Robert Smith landed in France on 2 December 1914 and qualified for the 1914-15 Star, British War and Victory Medals. On 17 February 1920 by ruling of a District Convened Civil Court his D.C.M. was forfeited but this was later restored. Sold with copied m.i.c. and other research. £300-£350

British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (Lt. Col. J. H. Cooke; Major E. P. Donaldson; Bt. Col. J. M. Ransom) good very fine and better (3) £60-80 Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Cooke, 4th Battalion Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. major E. P. Donaldson, Rifle Brigade. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 15th (Service) Battalion Rifle Brigade, 12 January 1915; promoted to Lieutenant, 7 July 1916. In the April 1917 list shown as serving with the Machine Gun Corps. In the December 1918 list shown as an Acting Major, Rifle Brigade, attached to Machine Gun Corps. james Mann Ransom was commissioned into the Royal Marines but transferred to become an officer in the 12th Bombay Native Infantry, Indian Army. He then served in the 114 Mahrattas and was promoted Major in February 1901. He then retired. In November 1914 with the onset of war he was re-employed as a Brevet Colonel and in the August 1916 List he is shown as in command of the 9th (Reserve) Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry based at Pembroke Dock. In April 1917 he is shown as a Brevet Colonel in command of the 48th Battalion K.S.L.I. and Training Reserve. £60-£80

Victory Medal 1914-19 (4) (Lt. Col. J. F. Duncan; Lieut. F. G. B. Hill; Major J. C. Lloyd; Lieut. G. E. Potter), first with M.I.D. oakleaf on ribbon, good very fine and better (4) £120-160 Lieutenant-Colonel Duncan served in the Second Boer War with the City of London Imperial Volunteers (Field Battery). Serving in the Orange River Colony and Transvaal, he saw action at Lindley, Bethlehem and Wittebergen. For his services he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901) and awarded the Queen’s medal with three clasps. During the Great War he served as a Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Artillery, 1914-17, and was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 18 May 1917 and awarded the Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette 4 June 1917). lieutenant F. G. B. Hill, Royal Engineers, awarded the Military Cross (London Gazette 11 May 1918). major J. C. Lloyd, South Wales Borderers, later serving as an Assistant Provost Marshal, was twice mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 20 Decembe.r 1918 and 5 July 1919) and awarded the Military Cross (London Gazette 1 January 1917). lieutenant G. E. Potter, King’s Royal Rifle Corps and Machine Gun Corps, awarded the Military Cross (London Gazette 1 January 1918). £120-£160

Victory Medal 1914-19 (4) (Capt. M. A. Archdale; Capt. W. S. M. Brady; Lieut. C. D. Coulby; Capt. W. J. Cowan) second fine; others good very fine (4) £80-100 Captain M. A. Archdale, R.A.M.C., served in the 3rd Northumberland Field Ambulance. captain W. S. M. Brady, King’s Royal Rifle Corps and Gold Coast Regiment. lieutenant G. D. Coulby, 7th Battalion Notts. & Derby. Regiment, attached Tank Corps. captain W. J. Cowan, two of this name and rank known - R.A.M.C. and Manchester Regiment.. £80-£100

Four: Serjeant William Barton, 16th Foot, late Rifle Brigade indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Bugler, 3rd Bn. Rifle Bde.), suspension tightened but still slack; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (596 Pte., 3 Bn. Rif. Bde.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue (33rd Bde. 627 Corpl., 2-16th Foot); Army Meritorious Service Medal, E.VII.R. (Sjt., 2/16/Foot) first three with edge bruising and contact marks, fine and better, the last nearly extremely fine (4) £700-800 William Barton was born in Canterbury, Kent. A Shoemaker by occupation, he attested for the Rifle Brigade as a Boy, on 21 June 1855, aged 14 years, 6 months. Advanced to Bugler in April 1857, he saw action at the capture of Lucknow, where he suffered a severe wound at Fort Birwa on 21 October 1858. Ranked as a Private from August 1861, he was again in action in the December 1863/January 1864 expedition to Shabkadar. He attained the rank of Colour Serjeant in April 1871. Barton was transferred to the 16th Foot in October 1875, initially reverting to a Private, he regained the rank of Serjeant in January 1877. He was discharged at his own request in March 1880, having served over 17 years in India. He was awarded the M.S.M. with an annuity of £10 in September 1910 and died on 3 November 1912. Sold with copied service papers. £700-£800

Three: Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Minto, Medical Staff ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Surgeon, M.B., 1873-4); Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Surgn. Maj., A.M.D.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Surgn. Major, Medl. Staff), mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £800-900 Alexander Minty was born on 13 January 1843 at Kennethmont. He qualified as a M.B. and C.M. in 1864. By Deed Poll he changed his name to ‘Minto’ in November 1872. He was commissioned a Surgeon on the Staff in March 1864, then served with the 90th Foot, September 1868; Staff, December 1869; Rifle Brigade, February 1871, and Staff, February 1872. Minto was advanced to Surgeon-Major in April 1876 and retired on 16 July 1890. In 1893 his rank was altered to that of Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel. Sold with copied details. £800-£900

Pair: Major-General A. F. Terry, King’s Royal Rifle Corps south Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Major A. F. Terry, 3/60th Foot); Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Transkei (Major A. F. Terry, 3rd 60th Rifles) impressed naming, nearly extremely fine and extremely rare (2) £1200-1500 Only 16 Cape of Good Hope General Service medals were awarded to Imperial troops, of which 12 went to the 3rd K.R.R.C., 8 of these with the clasp for Transkei. astley Fellowes Terry was born on 12 May 1840 and was first commissioned into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps as an Ensign on 1 April 1858. He was promoted to Lieutenant in September 1860, Captain in December 1867, and Major in January 1880. He served with the 3rd 60th Rifles in the South African War in 1879, during the Zulu campaign (Medal with clasp), and took part in the operations in East Griqualand in 1880 (Medal with clasp). Promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in July 1881, he became Colonel in July 1885, and retired as Hon. Major-General on 1 July 1887. Major-General Terry, who was a Knight of Grace of St John of Jerusalem, died on 8 December 1926. £1200-£1500

Seven: Serjeant Frederick Brooks, Rand Rifles, late Rifle Brigade queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3213 Pte., 2/R. Bde.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Transvaal (3213 Pte., Rifle Brigade); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (3213 Pte., Rifle Brigade); 1914-15 Star (Pte., Rand Rfls.); British War and Victory Medals (Sjt., Rand Rifles); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine (7) £650-750 frederick Brooks was born in Edmonton, London. A Gardener by occupation and a serving member of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion Middlesex Regiment, he attested for the Rifle Brigade at Hounslow on 6 April 1894, aged 18 years 5 months. Posted to the 2nd Battalion, he served initially in the U.K. and qualified for Mounted Infantry duties on 24 June 1895. He embarked for Malta on 23 September 1897 and from there joined the Nile Expedition, landing in Egypt on 12 July 1897. With the Rifle Brigade he served at the battle of Omdurman, 2 September 1898. The following month he was posted to Crete as a result of the troubles there. On 1 October 1899 he embarked for South Africa where he participated in the defence of Ladysmith. Brooks remained in South Africa after transferring to the Army Reserve on 29 September 1902 and discharge on 5 April 1906. With the onset of the Great War he enlisted into the Rand Rifles and was finally discharged on 11 February 1922. sold with copied ‘Rifle Brigade’ service papers. £650-£750

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel B. M. Fuller, Army Ordnance Department, late Dorsetshire Regiment and Oxfordshire Imperial Yeomanry queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (7968 Pte., 40th Coy. 10th Impl. Yeo.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt., Dorset Rgt.); 1914 Star (Capt., A.O.D.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.) slight contact marks, very fine and better (5) £300-360 M.I.D. London Gazette 12 January 1918 & 14 June 1918. brian Maitland Fuller was born in Belfast. A Clerk by occupation, he attested for short service with the Imperial Yeomanry at Oxford, aged 23 years, having previously served in the 7th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Regiment. With the Oxfordshire Yeomanry he served in South Africa from 3 February, receiving a commission on 25 October 1900. He served as a Railway Staff Officer, 23 October 1900-23 July 1901. Appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Dorset Regiment in June 1901, he was advanced to Lieutenant in January 1904 and Captain in May 1909. Fuller transferred to the Army Ordnance Department in December 1909. In the Great War he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 20 September 1914; served in Egypt and with the E.E.F., 31 January 1916-24 May 1918, and then returned to France again, 4 July-11 November 1918. He was advanced to Temporary Major in April 1915; Major in September 1915; Acting Lieutenant-Colonel during October 1917-November 1919 and July 1920-May 1922, being promoted to that rank in October 1928. Lieutenant-Colonel Fuller retired from the Army on 26 August 1931. sold with copied service papers, gazette entries and other research. £300-£360

Three: Captain S. Hollins-Fisher, Middlesex Regiment, late London Regiment, who died on 28 September 1918 1914 Star, with clasp (2492 Pte. S. H. Fisher, 9/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. S. Hollins-Fisher); Memorial Plaque (Sydney Hollins-Fisher), this fitted on a wooden base for mounting on a wall, extremely fine (4) £500-600 Private Sydney Hollin Fisher, 1st/9th London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles), entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 4 November 1914. He was later commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion Middlesex Regiment and was seconded to serve with the 24th (Garrison) Battalion Rifle Brigade in India. Attaining the rank of Captain, he died on active service on 28 September 1918, aged 27 years, whilst serving with the Sialkot Brigade. His name is commemorated on the Kirkee Memorial. sold with card boxes of issue for the three Great War medals, complete with registered envelope addressed to ‘W. Fisher Esq, 17 Ridley Road, Harlesden, N.W.10’; Memorial Plaque accompanying slip, commemorative scroll and a copy of orders transferring 2nd Lieutenant Hollins-Fisher to Abbottabad, June 1917. Also with copied m.i.c. and other research and a wooden bowl. £500-£600

Three: Private J. H. Sanders, 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade 1914 Star, with clasp (3862 Pte., 1/Rif. Brig.) surname spelt ‘Saunders’ on this medal; British War and Victory Medals (3682 Pte., Rif. Brig.) good very fine (3) £60-80 £60-£80

Three: Private C. R. Balls, Rifle Brigade, killed in action, 25 September 1915 1914 Star (2080 Pte., 2/Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (2080 Pte., Rif. Brig.); Memorial Plaque (Charles Roberts Balls) very fine (5) £350-400 Charles Robert Balls was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and living at Somerleyton, Suffolk, enlisted at Great Yarmouth in 1907. Serving with the 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 7 November 1914. He received a gunshot wound to the buttocks on 14 March 1915. He was killed in action on 25 September 1915, aged 30 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainault, Belgium. He was the son of Charles and Ellen Balls of Somerleyton, Lowestoft. sold with Princess Mary’s Christmas tin (empty) and with copied service papers, war diary extract, m.i.c., etc £350-£400

An exceedingly well-documented and poignant Great War group of three awarded to 2nd Lieutenant W. H. Blades, The Rifle Brigade, late Honourable Artillery Company (Infantry), who was killed in action in May 1917 1914-15 Star (4130 Pte., H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.), in their card forwarding boxes and registered envelope, virtually as issued (3) £2000-3000 William Henry ‘Harry’ Blades was born in September 1897 and was employed as a clerk at a bank in Kensington on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914. Having then considered the merits of whether to apply for a commission, and indeed which regiment to join, he attested in the Honourable Artillery Company (H.A.C.) in August 1915, and was embarked for France as a Private in ‘C’ Company, 3rd H.A.C. Infantry Battalion, at the end of the year. For the first few months his unit was employed on garrison duty at St. Omer, but by the summer of 1916, his letters home reveal service of a more active nature on the Somme: ‘We are getting r ady to spend the next few days in a manner not at all comfortable and free from care. I never knew I was so fond of life until recently, when there seemed a chance of losing it ... It seems absolutely absurd to think so many men should be formed up along the line trying to kill each other; and the sun shining overhead, birds singing and green woods in the distance ... The trench mortars are one of the most worrying inventions. They are fired from the trenches, and go high up into the air, dropping somewhere near the trench. You can see them dropping and have to run up and down dodging them, which might be quite interesting if the things didn’t explode with such force.’ Shortly after these operations, Blades applied for a commission and was despatched to a Cadet School, but fell ill with jaundice. It was not, therefore, until February 1917 that he was finally appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion of his favoured regiment - the Rifle Brigade. And towards the end of the following month, his unit moved up to the front line: ‘Things are not so pleasant now; and in a few hours we shall be in the trenches, some of the many Fritz has presented us with. If they are the same as the villages he has left, he can keep them. I have just seen one of them, and it is as desolate a sight as one can imagine - not a vestige of a building - just a gate or railings here and there ... It is awfully noisy here ... This morning we had a unique and rather touching sight of an aeroplane catching fire. The pilot lived to reach the ground, but gradually the flames gained until the plane shrivelled up and dropped. We could see the pilot throw himself out ... My respect for the Church of England has gone; and with the influence of the War, I have become materialistic - everything is chance. If you and a shell arrive at the same place together, that is chance.’ At long last, for he had not been home to Gateshead since he had been embarked for France at the end of 1915, Blades was given 10 days leave at Easter 1917 - ‘I am glad I had eave,’ he wrote on returning to his unit, ‘It won’t be quite so bad now I have seen everybody I wanted to.’ Just a few days later, on 3 May, he led his men over the top in a dawn attack near Cheresy. On the 7th, his Company Commander, Captain W. A. Crebbin, wrote to his father: ‘It is with great regret that I have to inform you that your son is wounded and missing. Much as I should like to, I’m afraid I can’t give you any hope for his safety. The Battalion went into action on May 3rd and shortly after we advanced your son was wounded: one of my stretcher bearers bound up his wounds but the stretcher bearer informed me that Blades had been grievously wounded and that there was very little chance of his living. the enemy counter attacked us heavily after our advance and we had to return to our original line and we were unable to get further information concerning your son. To be quite candid, though I hate being so, I’m afraid it is hoping against hope to think otherwise than that he has been killed in action. It is the best death that we are allowed out here, to fall at the head of one’s men; but it is those at home who have the biggest part of the war to bear, and their’s is the aftermath to suffer. i was your son’s Company Officer and though I have only taken over the Company recently, I know his loss will be greatly felt. His men looked up to him, loved him and would have done anything for him. His will be a great loss to the company. if I hear anything further concerning Blades I will contact you immediately, but in any case if there is any way in which I can help you, please don’t hesitate to write. I will do my best.’ Harry Blades has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. He was 21 years old. in addition to the archive described below, his awards are also sold with a wonderful biography of some 30,000 words, written by his sister, in which she draws upon some of his correspondence, in addition to many other family sources. Perhaps most moving of all is her account of the occasion that her brother - on his last leave home - confessed that he would never return: ‘He sought her out in the drawing room, where she was sitting alone in the twilight in front of a glowing fire. He walked round the back of the settee and put his hand on her shoulder. As she clasped it in her own, he said slowly and distinctly, ‘I know that I won’t come back. I want you to remember me and tell your children about me.’ The girl felt a lump rise in her throat and the hot tears well up in her eyes. She knew if she tried to speak she would burst into tears, and she must not do that at all costs. She clung to his hand and inclined her head in reply. Her brother waited for a few seconds, and then abruptly strode out of the room ... She felt she had somehow failed him in his hour of need, and that she ought to have been able to give him some words of comfort; but he had spoken with such grave conviction that no words of hers could have dispelled his gloom.’ It was not until September 1984 that she finally made the pilgrimage o see his name on the Arras Memorial. the Archive: (a) An impressive run of postcards, nearly 60, the whole to his family in Gateshead in the period 1913-15, written prior to his volunteering, and detailing his activities in London, not least many visits to the opera, art exhibitions and museums; together with three letters from the same period, with W. Kensington stamp marks, these dated 2 December 1914, 18 July and 21 July 1915. (b) His enlistment form on joining the H.A.C. (Infantry) on 4 August 1915; his Soldiers’ Pay Book (Active Service), with entries ‘In the Field’ covering the period August 1915 to February 1917; his related discharge form on obtaining a commission and official notification for his appointment to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, dated 18 February 1918; together with some miscellaneous souvenirs from his time in France, among them a cinema programme from Rouen Camp, December 1915, a Christmas dinner menu 1916, signed by four Rifle Brigade officers, and detailed annotated maps of trenches and positions, both dating from January 1917, when he was attending a Cadet School for his commission. (c) A quantity of letters home from the H.A.C. Training Camp at Richmond (9), dated between August 1915 and November 1915, and other examples sent from Kensington and Bisley in the same period. (d) A superb run of letters home from France, approximately 60, covering the period December 1915 right through until his death in action in 1917, most of them in ‘On Active Service’ green envelopes and similarly bearing ‘Passed by Field Censor’ stamps, together with a silk embroidered H.A.C. postcard and the occasional field postcard, and, most poignantly, the telegram he sent home reporting his E.T.A. at Gateshead on his last leave, dated 2 April 1917, his last lett

Family group: three: Private H. Slater, Welsh Regiment, killed in action, Gallipoli, 8 August 1915 1914-15 Star (11890 Pte., Welsh R.); British War and Victory Medals (11890 Pte., Welsh R.) pair: Gunner J. Slater, Royal Garrison Artillery, died of wounds, 7 May 1917 british War and Victory Medals (63175 Gnr., R.A.) extremely fine (8) £140-180 Harry Slater was born and lived in Chearsley, Buckinghamshire and enlisted at Newport, Monmouthshire. Serving with the 8th Battalion Welsh Regiment, he was killed in action in Gallipoli on 8 August 1915, aged 24 years. His name is commemorated on the Helles Memorial. joseph Slater was born in Chearsley, Buckinghamshire and enlisted at Aylesbury. Serving with the 90th Siege Battalion Royal Garrison Artillery, he died of wounds, France/Flanders, on 7 May 1917, aged 20 years. He was buried in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun. harry and Joseph Slater were the sons of Peter and Janet Slater of Rose Cottage, Chearsley, Buckinghamshire. sold with Welsh Regiment shoulder title and Royal Artillery and Rifle Brigade cap badges. £140-£180

Pair: Private T. Theobald, 9th Battalion Rifle Brigade british War and Victory Medals (S-12013 Pte., Rif. Brig.); together with Memorial Plaque (Thomas Theobald) extremely fine (3) £80-100 Thomas Theobald was born in Peckham, Surrey and lived and enlisted at Southend-on-Sea. Serving with the 9th Battalion Rifle Brigade, he was killed in action on 27 February 1917. He was buried in the Faubourg d’Amiens Cemetery in Arras, France. Sold with copy of m.i.c. which shows additional entitlement to 1914-15 Star. £80-£100

Pair: Rifleman A. G. Foster, Rifle Brigade general Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R., 1st issue (23237241 Rfn. A. G. Foster R.B.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya 23237241 Rfn. A. G. Foster R.B.) nearly extremely fine (2) £140-160 £140-£160

Six: Corporal A. J. Woodford, King’s Royal Rifle Corps 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (6898589 Cpl., KRRC), all later issues, extremely fine (lot) £70-90 Lance-Serjeant A. J. Woodford, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, was captured whilst serving in Italy. He was held at Stalag VIIA at Moosburg, having the P.O.W. Number ‘142004’. w.W.2 medals in card box with modern forwarding slip; Efficiency Medal in card box of issue with forwarding slip dated 25 May 1978. Sold with Identity Disk, ‘C.E. Woodford 6898589’, P.O.W. Identity Disk, ‘Stalag VII/A Nr.142004’, and K.R.R.C. cap badge. With copied photograph, copied fragmentary letter to his wife at 25 Salmon Street, Kingsbury, London, N.W.9, dated November 1944, and other copied research. £70-£90

Sold by Order of a Direct Descendant the Proceeds to Benefit a Regimental Charity a fine Great War C.B., C.M.G., Boer War D.S.O. group of eight awarded to Brigadier-General J. S. Ollivant, Royal Artillery: first decorated for his services in ‘Chestnut Troop’, R.H.A. and 5th Brigade, R.F.A. in South Africa, he displayed courage of a high order as a Battery Commander at Ypres in October 1914 - in his famous history of that campaign Conan Doyle describes how the village that Ollivant was defending was ‘furiously assailed’, so much so that when he finally reported back to our lines, everyone was amazed to see him, his battery long since having been written off the Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G. Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast (Capt. & Adjt. J. S. Ollivant, D.S.O., R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt. & Adjt. J. S. Ollivant, D.S.O., R.F.A.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Major J. S. Ollivant, D.S.O., R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Brig. Gen. J. S. Ollivant), the whole contained within an old glazed display frame, the fourth with minor official correction to unit, enamel work slightly chipped in places, generally very fine or better (8) £2500-3000 c.B. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For military operations in France and Flanders.’ C.M.G. London Gazette 1 January 1917: ‘For services rendered in connection with military operations in the Field.’ D.S.O. London Gazette 27 September 1901: ‘In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa’. mention in despatches London Gazette 10 September 1901; 17 February 1915; 4 January, 15 May and 11 December 1917; 20 December 1918 and 5 July 1919. john Spencer Ollivant was born in July 1872, the son of Colonel E. A. Ollivant of Nuthurst, Sussex, and was educated at Rugby and the R.M.A. Woolwich. Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in October 1892, he went out to India at the end of 1904, where, stationed in the Central Provinces with 17th Battery, R.F.A., he was advanced to Lieutenant in October 1895. transferred to ‘A’ Battery, R.H.A. (a.k.a. the ‘Chesnut Troop’), in 1897, he witnessed active service in the same unit in the Boer War, initially with Buller’s relief of Ladysmith column, including the operations of the 5-7 February 1900 and the action at Vaal Kranz, when over 14 days his battery expended 565 rounds in anger. advanced to Captain in April 1900, Ollivant subsequently participated in operations in the Transvaal from June to November of the same year, latterly as Divisional Adjutant, 5th Brigade, R.A., which comprised 63, 64 and 73 Batteries, R.F.A., and in which role he acted until December 1901; so, too, in the Orange River Colony from January to March, and May 1902. He was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901 refers), and awarded the D.S.O., which insignia he received from the King at an investiture in October 1902. having then served again in India, he returned to the U.K. to take up appointment as a Staff Captain at the War Office in October 1904, in which capacity he remained employed until November 1908. Advanced to Major in October of the following year, he assumed command of ‘F’ Battery, R.H.A., in 1911, and took it to France in October 1914. Here, then, the opening chapter to a most gallant and distinguished wartime career, best summarised by a fellow gunner, General Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., who wrote to The Times on Ollivant’s death: ‘It was not till the War that he had the opportunity to single himself out from among his fellows as the born leader, the really high-class gunner, and most gallant officer that he undoubtedly was. It is sufficient to mention his command of ‘F’ Battery, R.H.A., with the 7th Division at the opening of the battle of Ypres. In the village of Kruiseik he was shot out of his O.Ps over and over again, but, half buried in bricks and beams around him, he gave an example of calmness and confidence which had far-reaching effects. He never for one moment relaxed his search for those targets the destruction of which would assist the infantry he was supporting. After the battle he showed me with pride the note he had received from those infantry (the Guards, 20th Brigade) thanking him for the very effective support he had given’. an indication of the ferocity of the fighting at Kruiseik may be gleaned from Conan Doyle’s The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1914, in which he states the village and crossroads were ‘furiously assailed’. No wonder then that Ollivant discovered on his return from the battle that his battery had been ‘written off’ some days ago as destroyed or captured. 2nd Lieutenant T. H. Sebag-Montefiore, one of his subalterns, concluded, ‘This first week of active fighting in which ‘F’ Battery took part was remarkable for the fact that for practically the whole period the front line was never more than 600 yards from the guns and that the Battery was for most of the time under rifle and machine-gun fire’; see Major Tyndale-Biscoe’s history of ‘F’ Battery for full details. mentioned in despatches, Ollivant remained in command of the Battery until appointed C.O. of 35 Brigade, R.F.A., as a Lieutenant-Colonel, in August 1915, the intervening period having seen his guns once more in action at Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert and Givenchy. A few weeks later, he took over 3 Brigade, R.H.A. and, in July 1916, became Brigadier-General, C.R.A. 3rd Division. To begin with his relations with the Divisional G.O.C. were strained, and it was only following the arrival of General (afterwards Field Marshal) Deverell that he was able to put in place vital improvements, among them the policy of making alternative gun positions for each of his batteries. Thus, with the advent of the German Spring Offensive, all of the Division’s guns were moved at short notice, thereby denying the enemy an early opportunity to engage our artillery. In the words of Major Sir Edward Chadwyck-Healey, Bt., M.C., who was then Ollivant’s A.D.C., such tactics proved vital in providing one of the major turning points of the War: ‘The result of this [successful movement of batteries] was that the Third Division became the hinge of the German penetration. South of us there was a complete void until most of the Guards Division was marched across our rear to form a defensive flank to us. I think there is little doubt that if the Third Division had given way, the B.E.F. in France would have been divided in two, one half rolled back on to Calais and Dunkirk, the other left in the air with no communications to the coast except possibly through Le Havre. This feat of the Third Division was widely acclaimed at the time by the High Command, both French and British, and indeed German, and in the Press at home.’ Given the Brevets of Lieutenant-Colonel (London Gazette 18 February 1915 refers) and Colonel (London Gazette 1 January 1918 refers), Ollivant was five more times mentioned in despatches and awarded the C.B. and C.M.G. the General, who possessed ‘a character as straight as the line he took to hounds’, died at his residence in Winchester in October 1937. £2500-£3000

A post-war C.B.E. group of six awarded to Lionel Powys-Jones, Chief Native Commissioner of Southern Rhodesia, late Rhodesia Regiment and King’s Royal Rifle Corps, in which latter regiment he was wounded as a young subaltern in the Great War the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. L. Powys-Jones); Southern Rhodesia Medal for War Service 1939-45; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, surname officially corrected on the third, generally good very fine (6) £600-800 ex A. A. Upfill-Brown collection. c.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1954. lionel Powys-Jones was born in July 1894, the son of Llewellyn Powys-Jones, a Resident Magistrate in Bulawayo, and was educated at Blundell’s School, Tiverton, Victoria College, Jersey and Oriel College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Returning home to Rhodesia, he joined the Native Affairs Department, and in 1916 enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Rhodesia Regiment. Subsequently commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, he was wounded in 1918. back in the service of the Native Affairs Department by 1919, he went on to enjoy a long and distinguished career, ultimately gaining appointment as Secretary for Native Affairs and Chief Native Commissioner in 1947. he had, meanwhile, joined the Southern Rhodesia Volunteers, and attended assorted musketry courses in the period leading upto the 1939-45 War. Placed on the Reserve of Officers in March 1940, he served in a Concession Platoon from August of that year until April 1942, and is a verified recipient of the Southern Rhodesia Medal for War Service, the relevant roll stating, ‘Jones, L., X8610, Army’, which corresponds with his Q. & R. card in the archives in Harare; this award has accordingly been added to his Honours and Awards for display purposes. powys-Jones finally retired in 1954, in which year he was awarded his C.B.E. A keen tennis player who onetime represented Rhodesia, he settled in Somerset West, Cape Province, where he died in November 1966. £600-£800

The Second World War ‘N.W. Europe’ M.B.E. group of ten awarded to Captain W. M. Wilkins, Royal Artillery, late Rifle Brigade the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; British War and Victory Medals (5707 Pte., Rif. Brig.), extremely worn; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (..05993 Sjt., Rif. Brig.), worn; Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, rev. dated ‘1960’; Cadet Forces Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Capt., M.B.E., TD., CCF.), mounted as worn, very fine except where stated (20) £350-400 M.B.E. London Gazette 24 January 1946. ‘Captain (Quartermaster), Royal Regiment of Artillery’. recommendation states: ‘This officer has shown outstanding devotion to duty and his untiring efforts on behalf of the unit during the early stages of the campaign in obtaining all the requirements of the Regt under exceedingly difficult conditions and at a very critical time, were of immense value to the fighting efficiency of the Regt. His efforts were a major factor in keeping all the guns and complex Radar equipment in action in defence of vital installations in the beachhead. Since the Regt moved forward into Germany this officer has on more than one occasion been responsible for uncovering illegal activities by Germans and has shewn initiative, energy and keenness of a high order which have been an inspiration to all with whom he has come into contact’. during the Great War and a period thereafter William M. Wilkins served in the Rifle Brigade. In the Second World War he was awarded the M.B.E. for his services with the 146th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, R.A., part of 80 A.A. Brigade, during the period following the Normandy landings and the later campaign into Germany. Postwar he was appointed to the Brighton Grammar School Contingent of the Junior Training Corps (London Gazette 8 January 1946). In 1947 he was granted the honorary rank of Captain (Quartermaster) in place of the same War Substantive rank which he held (London Gazette 21 February 1947). He was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1960 (London Gazette 19 January 1960). He retired from his post with the Brighton Grammar School Combined Cadet Force in 1970 (London Gazette 13 January 1970). Sold with copied gazette extracts, recommendation and other research. Also with ten prize medallions/medals for shooting, athletics and sports - two enamelled, some named. £350-£400

A fine posthumous Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. and Bar group of three awarded to Captain C. H. Oakley, 1/22nd Battalion, London Regiment, who was mortally wounded on 2 September 1918 military Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); together with memorial plaque (Christopher Herbert Oakley) cleaned and laquered, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4) £2500-3000 m.C. London Gazette 24 September 1918. The following is extracted from the original recommendation for the award of the M.C. which is included with the lot: ‘For most conspicuous gallantry on the night of 17th June 1918, west of Albert, when this officer was in charge of a raiding party. The attack on the left flank was held up by hostile rifle and machine-gun fire. He went forward under heavy fire and coolly reorganised the attacking party with a view to rushing the posts. On receiving information from the right flank that the objective of the raid had been gained, he skilfully withdrew the party. The entire success of the operation was due to his careful preparation beforehand and skillful leading during the operation.’ Bar to M.C. London Gazette 11 January 1919. The following is extracted from the original recommendation for the award of the Bar to the M.C. which is included with the lot: ‘For most conspicuous gallantry and ability on 22nd and 23rd August 1918, during an attack south of Albert. This officer led his company with the utmost skill and daring through a heavy enemy H.E. and machine-gun barrage to their objective, a chalk pit, which he captured unaided in spite of the fact that the tanks detailed to assist in its capture did not arrive. Later in the day the troops on the left were driven back by an enemy counter-attack and his left flank was exposed. He immediately formed a defensive flank with his support platoon and two other platoons. Although at one time his company was nearly surrounded he continued to hold out in spite of most intense enemy enfilade machine-gun fire until reinforcements arrived on the left flank.’ Christopher Herbert Oakley was mortally wounded on 2 September 1918 near Moislans, France and died later that same day, whilst serving with the 1/22nd Battalion, London Regiment. He is buried in Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt, Somme, France. Private Jack Harvey, also of the 22nd London’s gained the award of the V.C. for gallantry in action later that same day. the following extract from a letter written by his commanding officer was published in the Surbiton Times, 27 September 1918: ‘Captain Oakley was killed on September 2nd, having been hit by a bullet at 5:30am., just as his company was advancing to attack. He was conscious for about an hour and died three hours afterwards, while on his way to a casualty clearing station. He had done extremely well in the recent fighting, especially on July 22nd, when his prompt action very much affected the whole course of the operations of the Division. For this he has been recommended for a high award. In reply to an enemy counter-attack, which was made by flanking troops, he formed an advancing flank and thereby enabled the position to be held. He was an ideal soldier - quick, alert, the embodiment of youthful joy and activity. He is sincerely mourned by all ranks.’ Sold with the following original documentation: illuminated memorial scroll; transmission slip for British War and Victory Medals; detailed typed recommendations for the award of both the Military Cross and bar; two illuminated pages from Army Orders announcing the award of his M.C. and bar; congratulatory certificate from General Sir H.S. Rawlinson, Commanding Fourth Army on the award of M.C.; and a quantity of copied research detail. £2500-£3000

A rare 1920 ‘Army of the Black Sea’ M.C. group of four awarded to Major E. U. Grimshaw, Royal Engineers military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (Capt., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Major), mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £1600-2000 M.C. London Gazette 20 October 1920. ‘... in recognition of distinguished services in connection with military operations with the Army of the Black Sea’. ‘On the night of 25/26 March, 1920, when operating near Lefke (Anatolia), this officer was ordered to destroy Lefka Bridge. Although subjected to enemy rifle and machine-gun fire at close range, he gallantly carried out the task alloted to him. Throughout the operation Major Grimshaw set a fine example to his men’. m.I.D. London Gazette 14 January 1921. edmund Usher Grimshaw was born on 3 March 1878 and was educated at St. Edward’s School, Summertown. He was first commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Miliford Haven Division of the Royal Engineers (Militia) in January 1904. In the Great War he entered the Egyptian Theatre of war as a Captain on 3 July 1915. He served in Gallipoli where he was wounded, and in April 1918 was appointed an Acting Major. In July 1918 he commanded 72 Field Company R.E. which accompanied the 39th Brigade to Persia in support of the Dunsterville Mission. The unit was lent to the ‘Persian Lines of Communications’, working in the Hamadan region. In December 1918 the unit was ordered to Baku, after the re-occupation of the Caspian Sea port. Leaving the port in September 1919, the unit proceeded to Batoum on the Black Sea and thence Constantinople for demobilization. Major Grimshaw won his M.C. for destroying the bridge at Lefke (Osmaneli), in Anatolia, on 25/26 March 1920, whilst under fire. This was at a time of the allied intervention in Anatolia and prior to the resumption of hostilities in the struggle for Western Anatolia during the Greco-Turkish War 1919-22. In June 1921 Major Grimshaw was appointed commanding officer of 55 Field Company R.E. Major Grimshaw later lived at Friars Hill, Wicklow, Co. Wicklow - a property he bequeathed to his batman upon his death. The M.C., one of 80 for 1920, is one of only 4 for the ‘Army of the Black Sea’. sold with some copied research. £1600-£2000

A Great War D.C.M., M.M. group of eight awarded to Warrant Officer Class 2 W. Emmens, Royal Signals, late 15th (Bantam) Battalion Cheshire Regiment distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (19901 Pte., 15/Ches. R.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (19901 Pte., 15/Ches. R.); British War and Victory Medals (19901 A. Cpl., Ches. R.); Defence and War Medals; Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (2557110 Sjt., (D.C.M.) (M.M.) R. Signals); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., Territorial (2557110 W.O. Cl. 2, R. Signals), mounted for wear, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (8) £2500-2800 D.C.M. London Gazette 26 January 1918. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When out laying a wire, during an attack, with another N.C.O., they lost direction and met a party of twenty of the enemy with a machine gun, whom they attacked without hesitation, their only weapons being one rifle and a signalling lamp stand. They captured the gun and put it out of action, and brought back two prisoners. They then established communication with the captured position and maintained it, under heavy fire throughout the day, showing great gallantry and determination’. m.M. London Gazette 21 October 1916. w. Emmens came from Leeds. Sold with some copied research. £2500-£2800

A Great War D.C.M., M.M. group of four awarded to Serjeant E. J. West, King’s Royal Rifle Corps distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (R-7339 Cpl., 6/K.R.R.C.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (R-7339 Sjt., D.C.M., 2/K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (R-7339 Sjt., K. R. Rif. C.); together with a set of four miniature dress medals, good very fine (8) £1800-2200 d.C.M. London Gazette 13 February 1917. ‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. He got on to the parapet under heavy fire, and drove back the enemy parties on both sides of the trench. Later, he rallied and led forward a party of men’. m.M. London Gazette 7 October 1918. edward James West was born in 1892. Coming from Staines and a Lino Maker by occupation, he enlisted into the K.R.R.C. on 18 November 1914. Serving with the 6th Battalion K.R.R.C. he was awarded the D.C.M. for conspicuous gallantry on 22 July 1916. Later serving with the 2nd Battalion he was awarded the M.M. for bravery. He was transferred to the Army Reserve on 10 February 1919. After the war he returned to employment with the Staines Lino Company and worked for a total of 48 years with them until his eyesight failed. He came to St. Dunstans in 1954. He died on 28 January 1972 leaving a widow and a married daughter. According to the vendor who purchased these medals directly from the family he was told that the M.M. was awarded for saving men’s lives on the Somme river. sold with copied research; the recipient’s Certificate of Transfer to Reserve; Certificate of Emloyment during the War; handwritten notes re the forwarding of the D.C.M. and M.M. dated 1919; a letter from St. Dunstan’s re. a pension, dated 2 March 1954; St. Dunstan’s Golden Jubilee 1915-65 London Reunion Invitation Card to Mr and Mrs West; together with a Menu, which includes a list of St. Dunstaners (including West) attending; St. Dunstans Review, March 1972 - with obituary; several photographs including two of the recipient in uniform; and one of recipient’s sweetheart whom he later married; also with a K.R.R.C. cap badge and three metal and two cloth badges and a leather wallet. £1800-£2200

Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Albuhera (H. Simmonds, Lieut. & Adjt., 31st Foot) edge bruising, polished and lacquered, otherwise nearly very fine £2400-2800 Ex Debenham’s, 1902. henry Simmonds was born in November 1785 and was appointed an Ensign in the 31st Foot in March 1805. advanced to Lieutenant in the following year, he served in the Peninsula from February 1808 to February 1813, and commanded the 31st’s Light Company at Talavera on 27-28 July 1809, Busaco on 27 September 1810 and Albuhera on 18 May 1811, in addition to being ‘engaged every day during the retreat from Madrid and Salamanca, the retreat to Portugal and subsequent pursuit of Massena from the lines, besides several minor affairs’ (Hart’s refers). Added to which, according to his service record, he was ‘employed with Colonel Sir John Colbourne for 12 days on particular service within the enemy’s lines’ (WO 25/797 refers), an entry that appears under a heading of special acts of ‘gallant or skilful conduct’: so strong evidence indeed of a daring mission into enemy occupied territory. at Albuhera the 2/31st, unlike the other three battalions in Colbourne’s Brigade, just had time to form square and so withstand the sudden and devastating attack of the French cavalry and massed infantry: ‘The word annihilation is rarely justifiable in military history, but it is stated that in five minutes these three of Colborne’s four battalions lost 58 officers out of 80, and 1160 men out of 1568: a very large proportion were killed, Latour Mauburg’s Polish Lancers showing no mercy and slaughtering the wounded. The 2nd Battalion, 31st being, as we have said, slightly in rear and still in column, happily escaped the fate of their brothers-in arms. The French cavalry immediately attacked them, but the little battalion, which only numbered 418 of all ranks, was ably handled by Major L’Estrange, whose men displayed the finest qualities of coolness and discipline. L’Estrange, as quick as a thought, formed square by an original manoeuvre of his own devising, and had no difficulty in withstanding the attack of the French Lancers and Dragoons; and having then cleared his front, moved up to the summit of the hill, where he bore for a considerable time the entire brunt of the French infantry attack ... the conduct of the weak battalion of the 31st, in beating off the sudden attack of an imposing force of cavalry flushed with success, and commanded by one of Napoleon’s finest leaders, received universal praise’. indeed it was the steadfastness and resolution of the 31st that turned the tide of battle against the enemy, but at a price of 155 casualties (or about 40% of those engaged). Simmonds, who must have played a crucial role in his capacity as C.O. Light Company, was advanced to Captain in March 1813. a career soldier, he went on to serve for around 50 years on full pay, finally retiring as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Ceylon Rifle Regiment. £2400-£2800

Pair: Sergeant C. T. Benzoni, Army Hospital Corps, later Acting Under-Secretary for Public Works at Wellington china 1857-60, 2 clasps, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1860 (Ordy. Chas. Thos. Benzoni, Medical Staff Corps) officially impressed naming, the clasps neatly soldered together; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (-ergt. Charles Benzoni, Army Hospital Corps) officially impressed naming, first letter of ‘Sergt.’ obscured by suspension claw, the edge a little rubbed but as issued, both medals contained in their original named card boxes of issue together with War Office registered packet for the second, this addressed to the recipient ‘Care of Colonel Gorton, Inspector of Stores Office, Wellington, New Zealand’, the packet creased and the boxes with some damage, otherwise toned, extremely fine (2) £1000-1200 ‘Few Public Servants past or present can have lived the varied and exciting life of Charles Thomas Benzoni. Born in London in 1835, he was educated at a private school in St. Albans, Hertfordshire. For a time he worked with T. and T. Gates, Bat a d'or et Fabricants, de Baudruche Anglaise, in London. Later he entered the Imperial Service during the Crimean War, and was attached to the Army Medical Department. After that he was a member of Lord Elgin's expedition to China, but was wrecked in the H.M.S. Transit in the Straits of Sunda. Eventually the force was diverted to the Bengal Presidency, consequent on the Indian Mutiny. Benzoni was subsequently employed in China on gun-boat duties on the Canton River. Later he was present at the destruction of the forts at Taku, in the Gulf of Pi-tchi-li. Returning to England he studied in the General Surgery at Aldershot. He volunteered and proceeded to Canada with the Guards and Rifle Brigade. After returning to England he was sent to New Zealand and served with Lieutenant-General Cameron's force in the Waikato campaign. Later he followed mining and journalistic pursuits in Auckland until 1870, when he was appointed Field Quartermaster in the expedition against Te Kooiti in the Patatere district. on 20 January 1870 he commenced duty as Officer in Charge of Stores, Auckland and on 17 October following he became Chief Clerk, Stores Department, Wellington. A leading article in the Evening Post of 27 March 1873 contained rather trenchant criticism of his action in keeping notes about the conduct of one of his officers, the subject of an inquiry. in the latter part of 1872 when immigration activities were handed over from the Public Works to the Crown Lands Department, the first Chief Clerk of the Department, H. J. H. Elliot, was also transferred. On 10 March 1873, Mr Benzoni took up his position. On 22 March 1879, he was promoted to Assistant-Undersecretary. John Knowles, the First Under-Secretary, retired on 31 March 1883, and Benzoni became Acting Under-Secretary. Later that year C. Y. O'Connor, an Inspecting Engineer, who was deputy to W. N. Blair, Engineer-in-Charge of the South Island, was appointed Under-Secretary. In December 1884, Benzoni applied for 6 months leave of absence which was granted from 1 January, but on 5 February he acknowledged a letter dispensing with his services after expiration of his leave of absence. in September 1885 Benzoni was elected a member of the Wellington City Council but resigned in April 1887. The same year he was appointed Clerk of the Friendly Societies' Registry Office and in 1892 he became Deputy-Registrar of the Friendly Societies.’ Ref: By Design, Rosslyn J. Noonan, p. 280, ‘Some Early Public Works Personalities’. £1000-£1200

Photograph Album, containing 25 photographs taken during the Tibet Expedition, the album is inscribed, ‘Photographic views of Tibet taken by Sgt. Rayment 1st Bn. Royal Fusiliers’ and was the property of ‘Gladys Bellamy, 17 Gladstone St., Langley Mill, Notts.’, one photo loose, leather covers worn, leaves discoloured and torn, some photographs faded, rare £400-500 A note from the vendor states that the album was acquired together with the medals of lot 156. all the photographs are identified; captions include: ‘View of Battlefield at ‘Guru’ after the Battle’; ‘On the road to Lhasa 1st Bn. Royal Fusiliers halted on the road near ‘Lake Dockea’’; ‘Village of ‘Niani’ about 8 miles from Gyantse the enemy were found here in force on 26th June and a battle fought’; ‘Gyantse fort, captured on the 6th of July 1904 by a mixed party of Royal Fusiliers and Gurkahs (sic)’; ‘1st Bn. Royal Fusiliers hoisting Union Jack on the highest towers of the captured fort’; ‘General MacDonald watching the firing on the rifle ranges at Lhasa’; Chinese soldiers, the bodyguard of the Chinese Amban at Lhasa’; Grand Llama’s Palace Lhasa, the treaty was signed in the council chamber, the palace contains an image of the god Bhudda 10 ft high’; ‘Condemned Llama who made a murderous assault on Capt. Cooke-Young, I.M.S.’; ‘On the banks of the Bhramaputra, waiting for boats’; ‘Crossing the Bhramaputra ....’ 3760 Sergeant George Rayment, 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers, was awarded the D.C.M. for the attack on Gyantse (London Gazette 2 May 1905). £400-£500

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1887-89, Burma 1889-92 (6802 Pte. J. Blackhurst, 4th Bn. Rif. Brig.) edge bruising, good very fine £140-180 John Henry Blackhurst was born in Handsworth, Birmingham. A Labourer by occupation he attested for the Rifle Brigade on 7 July 1884, aged 19 years. In October 1890 he was transferred to the Ordnance Store Corps. He served in Gibraltar, February 1885-January 1886 and India and Burma, January 1886-January 1890. Blackhurst was transferred to the Army Reserve in July 1891 and discharged on 6 July 1894. Sold with copied service papers and roll extracts. £140-£180

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Pte. E. Birdekin, Queenstown Volr. R. Corps) clasp pierced above the number ‘7’, some edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £180-220 33 ‘1879’ clasps awarded to the Queenstown Volunteer Rifle Corps. £180-£220