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Lot 320
Family Group: A rare ‘Crowned Head’ M.S.M. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant G. T. Gascoyne, Northamptonshire Regiment, late Regimental Sergeant-Major, King’s Royal Rifle Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (2380 C. Sgt. T. Gascoyne, K.R.R.C.) suspension claw reaffixed; 1914-15 Star (R-222 S. Mjr. T. Gascoyne, K.R.Rif.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (R-222 W.O. Cl. I. T. Gascoyne. K.R.R.); Victory Medal 1914-19, erased; Delhi Durbar 1903, silver (2380 C/ Sgt. G. T. Gascoyne. 2nd K.R.Rif) engraved naming, lacking integral riband buckle; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2380 Clr:-Serjt: T. Gascoyne. K.R.R.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd ‘crowned head’ issue (Col. Sjt. T. Gascoyne. K.R.R.C.) edge bruising and contact marks, generally nearly very fine or better, the last rare British War Medal 1914-20 (775 Wkr. P. M. Gascoyne Q.M.A.A.C.) good very fine (8) £1,000-£1,400 --- Only 55 George VI ‘Crowned Head’ M.S.M.s. are believed to have been awarded, all being notified in Army Orders 44 of March and 106 of June, 1942. George Thomas Gascoyne was born in Lambeth, Surrey and using his second Christian name ‘Thomas’ attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps at Winchester on 15 September 1884, aged 18 years. He was promoted Corporal in February 1889, Sergeant in September 1891 and Colour Sergeant in May 1898, serving in the latter rank with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War from 11 September 1899 until 21 July 1900 (medal and 3 clasps). Proceeding to India in January 1903, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with gratuity under Army Order 10 the same month and, in his capacity as the senior non-commissioned officer, he was one of eight 2nd King’s Royal Rifle Corps Recipients of the 1903 Delhi Durbar Medal. In 1905 he elected to extend his army service beyond 21 years and the same year was recommended for the M.S.M. and posted Sergeant Instructor of the 2nd (South) Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps, transferring in 1908 to the Permanent Staff, 10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment from which he was discharged to a pension on 8 February 1914. Gascoyne served during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 July 1915 as Regimental Sergeant-Major with the 11th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps and was discharged to a commission with the Northamptonshire Regiment on 10 November 1915. He was awarded a Silver War Badge as a Lieutenant in the Northamptonshire Regiment. Phyllis Maud Gascoyne, eldest child of the above, was born in Malta on 21 October 1896. She enlisted in Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps on 14 May 1917 and served as a Worker on the Western Front from 1 June 1917 until 9 August 1917. She was discharged on medical grounds on 20 January 1918 and was awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold together with a silver match box engraved ‘H. Gozzett to C/Sgt. Gascoyne. 1902.’
Lot 390
Pair: Chief Motor Mechanic R. A. Clark, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve British War and Victory Medals (M.B. 2320 R. A. Clark. C.M.M. R.N.V.R.) good very fine Pair: Major E. L. Heywood, Middlesex Regiment British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. E. L. Heywood.) edge bruising, nearly very fine Pair: Private W. J. Grey, King’s Royal Rifle Corps and Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals (11561 Pte. W. J. Grey. K.R. Rif. C.) good very fine Pair: Private H. W. Fisk, Rifle Brigade British War and Victory Medals (S-21934 Pte. H. W. Fisk. Rif. Brig.) with named lid of card box of issue; together with the recipient’s daughter’s L.C.C. King’s Medal, 1 clasp, 1919-20 (E. Fisk) nearly extremely fine (9) £120-£160 --- Richard Augustus Clark was born on 14 October 1898 and enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 18 February 1918. He served during the Great War as a Motor Mechanic in various Motor Launches and Coastal Motor Boats, and was promoted Chief Motor Mechanic on 1 November 1918. He was shore demobilised on 14 January 1920, and died in Haringey in 1982. Everard Lemprière Heywood was born on 26 August 1898 , the son of Lieutenant-Colonel C. C. Heywood, Royal Army Medical Corps, and was educated at Haileybury. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment on 29 August 1917, he served with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War in the Balkan theatre of War from 25 January 1918. Remaining in the Army following the cessation of hostilities, was saw further service during the Second World War, and was advanced to Major. He died in 1967. Walter Joseph Grey attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 June 1915 (also entitled to a 1914-15 Star), subsequently transferring to the Machine Gun Corps. Henry William Fisk was born on 25 August 1885 and attested for the Rifle Brigade on 11 December 1915. He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was discharged on 28 August 1917 due to inflammation of the kidneys aggravated by service. He was awarded a Silver War Badge, and died in Bromley on 8 September 1929. The King’s Medal was awarded to the recipient’s daughter, Ellen Fisk. Sold with some original ephemera for the last group, and detailed copied research for all.
Lot 404
Six: Wing Commander C. T. McKnight, Royal Air Force, who died in Iraq in January 1942 British War and Victory Medals (121308 A.C.1 C. T. McKnight. R.A.F.); Jubilee 1935; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (121308 F/Sgt. C. T. McKnight. R.A.F.); Russia, Empire, Order of St Anne, 3rd Class breast badge with swords, bronze-gilt and enamels, these five mounted as worn, with a companion set of five mounted miniatures, all contained in a hinged wooden box with ivorine label inscribed ‘C. T. McKnight’; together with War Medal 1939-45, with named Air Council enclosure (Wing Commander C. T. McKnight), good very fine (6) £600-£800 --- Cyril Thomas McKnight served in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force as an electrician. He received his L.S. & G.C. medal as a Flight-Sergeant in July 1931, and was granted a permanent commission as Flying Officer on 22 April 1936, becoming Flight Lieutenant on 22 April 1939; Squadron Leader, 1 September 1940; Wing Commander, 16 December 1941. Wing Commander C. T. McKnight died on 12 January 1942, and is buried in Basra War Cemetery, Iraq. Note: McKnight is recorded on the latest published roll of White Russian Awards as having received a Silver Medal, rather than the Order of St. Anne 3rd Class.
Lot 736
Boer War Interest, Kipling’s ‘Absent Minded Beggar’ related items: National Commemorative Medal, 1900, medals, unsigned [by F. Bowcher for Spink], wounded but undaunted soldier, rev. Union flag around national flowers, 45mm (8), in silver (2) in fitted cases; in bronze-gilt (2), 1 in damaged fitted case; in white metal (4), 3 in card boxes of issue; 22mm (10), in bronze-gilt with enamelled brooch bar (4), in silver (6), 1 with silver arrow suspension, 1 in card box of issue; an aluminium plaquette by Grueber, obv. ‘Absent Minded Beggar’ image in relief with the words ‘”A gentleman in kharki”’ and ‘Transvaal War’, rev. the Kipling poem, 58 x 39mm; silver vesta case, 55mm x 43mm, featuring the ‘Absent Minded Beggar’ in relief; silver cigarette case, 61mm x 82mm, decoratively engraved to front with image of the ‘Absent Minded Beggar’ and ‘To Colour-Segeant Selby from Captain T. M. Keene’, ‘Boer War 1900-1901’ and ‘A memento of 18 months active service’; The Absent-Minded Beggar, by Rudyard Kipling - the poem on a silk triptych, emblazoned by an image of the poet and “A gentleman in kharki”, approx. dimensions (open) 57 x 28cm.; another triptych of identical design, on paper; a small softback copy of ‘At the End of the Passage’ by Rudyard Kipling, from very fine to extremely fine (24) £300-£400 --- "The Absent-Minded Beggar" is an 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling, set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and often accompanied by an illustration of a wounded but defiant British soldier, "A Gentleman in Kharki", by Richard Caton Woodville. The song was written as part of an appeal by the Daily Mail to raise money for soldiers fighting in the Second Boer War and their families. The fund was the first such charitable effort for a war. Captain T. M. Keene and Colour Sergeant J. P. Selby served during the Boer War with the 1st Volunteer Special Service Company, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Lot 748
The German Luftwaffe Night Fighter’s Salver and Trophy Cups attributed to Knight’s Cross with Oakleaves recipient Leutnant Rudolf Frank, 3rd Night Fighter Wing, who was one of the outstanding German Night-Fighter Aces of the Second World War, with 45 confirmed victories, including five in one day, prior to being killed in action on 27 April 1944 A German Second World War Luftwaffe Night Fighter’s Salver, measuring 225mm in diameter with three legs, engraved ‘ABSCHUSSAELEILIGUNGEN FUR RUDOLF FRANK 1-27’ followed by ‘4.7.41 – 21.1.44’, with either side of the engraving the RAF and Soviet wing insignia, and below the insignia of 1/N.J.G.3 being Frank’s Night Fighter Squadron; together with five German Second World War Luftwaffe Trophy Cups, all marked Abschuss with the appropriate kill number with the date of the kill thus: ‘Abschuss 1, 4.7.41 Wellington,’ ‘Abschuss 4, 26.1.42 Whitley’, ‘Abschuss 7, 14.9.42 Wellington’, ‘Abschuss 14, 4.7.43 Halifax’, ‘Abschuss 23, 18.11.43 Lancaster’, and housed in a later Luftwaffe Honour Goblet box named to the recipient, good condition (6) £1,200-£1,500 --- Rudolf Frank was born in Karlsruhe-Grünwinkel, in what was then the Republic of Baden in the Weimar Republic, on 19 August 1920, and volunteers for the Luftwaffe following the outbreak of the Second World War. Following night-training, he was posted to NachtJagdGeschwader 3 (NJG III, the 3rd Night Fighter Wing) on 5 February 1941. This unit, based at Stuttgart, was equipped with the C-variant of the Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighter, and Frank was paired with Hans-Georg Schierholz as his permanent radio operator. Frank and Schierholz flew their first operational combat mission on 9 May 1941, without success. Their first victory came on the night of 2-4 July 1941, when they intercepted an R.A.F. Wellington bomber 6 miles north of Oldenburg, and shot it down at 00:54. For this achievement, they were both awarded the Iron Cross Second Class. By 13 August 1941 Frank had flown over 20 night-fighter missions, and was awarded the Front Flying Cross of the Luftwaffe for Night Fighters in Bronze, and was promoted to Unteroffizier (Sergeant). He was awarded the Iron Cross First Class on 15 April 1942 and, two months later, the Front Flying Cross of the Luftwaffe for Night Fighters in Silver on 18 June of that year. On 30 June 1942, whilst attacking a Wellington bomber on his 64th mission, his aircraft was hit by defensive fire, and he and Schierholz were forced to bail out. On 28 July 1942 Frank’s group relocated to Rheine in Westphalia, and were re-equipped with the night-fighter variant of the Dornier Do 217. On 14 September 1942 he claimed a Wellington shot down in the vicinity of Osnabrück, but suffering engine problems was forced to make a forced landing himself. He ended 1942 with 7 confirmed victories to his name. Reverting to the Messerschmitt Bf 110, he claimed his first victory in 1943 on 3 March, when he shot down a Short Stirling out of Delmenhorst. After five more victories in the first half of the year, he claimed his 14th victory when he shot down a Halifax bomber north of Antwerp on 4 July 1943, and for his services was awarded the Luftwaffe Honour Goblet on 9 August 1943. Converting to the Junkers Ju 88, he claimed a further three victories in August 1943, and having completed his 100th mission was awarded the Front Flying Cross of the Luftwaffe for Night Fighters in Gold on 18 August 1943. He claimed his 20th victory on 24 September 1943, and having added two more victories in quick succession was awarded the German Cross in Gold on 17 October 1943. He was shot down again over Berlin by an R.A.F. intruder night-fighter on Christmas Eve 1943, but managed to bail out unharmed, and finished the year with 26 confirmed victories. Frank claimed his first victory of 1944, his 27th in total, on 21 January 1944, when he shot down a Lancaster bomber near Magdeburg, and was promoted to Feldwebel (Staff Sergeant) Reverting once more to the Messerschmitt Bf 110 , the following month he achieved ‘Ace-in-a-Day’ status when, between 1:53 and 5:04 a.m., he shot down five Lancaster bombers on their way to attack Leipzig. He claimed another three victories on the night of 25 March, and then on 30-31 March took part in the Luftwaffe’s most successful night of the entire War, when the night-fighter force was credited with the destruction of 132 enemy aircraft, Frank’s personal contribution being a further three: two Lancasters and a Halifax. For his achievements he was promoted Oberfeldwebel (Senior Staff Sergeant), and was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross on 6 April 1944. His 44th victory came on 23 April 1944, when he shot down a Stirling on a minelaying operation over Lolland. On the night of 26-27 April 1944, Frank and Schierholz, together with air mechanic Feldwebel Heinz Schneider, took off in the Messerschmitt Bf 110 from Vechta. Their mission, Frank’s 183rd of the War, was to intercept incoming bombers heading for the Ruhr. Shortly before 2:00 a.m, they spotted and attacked a Lancaster bomber over Eindhoven. The Lancaster, severely hit by cannon fire, exploded, and became Frank’s 45th victory. Debris from the Lancaster tore off the Messerschmitt’s right wing, and Frank lost control of the aircraft. He gave the order to bail out. Schierholz and Schneider parachuted to safety, but Frank failed to get out in time. He was killed when the aircraft crashed at Heeze, 6 miles southeast of Eindhoven. Frank was posthumously promoted Leutnant, backdated to 1 April 1944, and is buried in the German War Cemetery at Venray, with his crew attending his funeral. He was very popular in N.J.G. III, coming from a modest background, being known for taking his small terrier on flight with him, and married one of the female base staff. He was also known for visiting the surviving crews of aircraft which he had shot down over Holland. For his outstanding services during the Second World War, when he claimed 45 victories, all over the Western Front in the nocturnal defence of the Reich, he was posthumously awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oakleaves. Note: The Luftwaffe Trophy Cups were normally given to Luftwaffe pilots as individual unofficial trophies on the shooting down of enemy aircraft.
Lot 774
Germany, Third Reich, Iron Cross 1939, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, silver frame split in angles; War Merit Cross 1939, Second Class breast badge (3), bronze, one with crossed swords, two without; Long Service Medal, Fourth Class, for 4 Years’ Service, silvered, with eagle emblem on riband; Faithful Service Decoration, Second Class, for 25 Years’ service, silver, in card box of issue; Police Long Service Cross, Second Class, for 18 Years’ service, silver, with original embroidered riband; Winter Campaign Medal 1941-42, zinc; Cross of Honour of the German Mother (3), First Class, 2nd type, gilt and enamel (2), one in case of issue; Third Class, 2nd type, bronze and enamel, generally good very fine (11) £140-£180 --- Sold together with a display of Third Reich Badges, some of which are reproductions, comprising Hitler Youth Sports Award Badge dated 1938; Hitler Youth Jugundfest Badge 1937; a Labour Say Badge 1939; a Military Assault Badge; a Gautag Stuttgart Badge June 1937; two N.S.D.A.P. lapel badges; ansd a D.V.G. Westmark Badge.
Lot 118
A Second War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Warrant Officer W. J. Towner, Royal Air Force, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue and outer card box; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (347753. F/Sgt. W. J. S. Towner. R.A.F.) nearly extremely fine (4) £180-£220 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 8 June 1944: Warrant Officer Walter John Towner (347753), Royal Air Force. M.I.D. London Gazettes 24 September 1941 and 11 June 1942.
Lot 119
A post-war M.B.E. group of five awarded to Mr R. E. Manly, Air Traffic Control Officer at London Airport, formerly a Sergeant in the Royal Air Force who flew Spitfires with No. 129 (Mysore) Squadron The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, in its Royal Mint case of issue with instructions for wearing; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, these all unnamed with their named card box of issue addressed to Manly at London Airport, together with the ‘Gundabherunda’ silver medal presented to the pilots of 129 Squadron by the Maharaja of Mysore in 1942, named on the reverse ‘Sgt. R. E. Manly’ and hallmarked Birmingham 1941, in its presentation case, nearly extremely fine (6) £400-£500 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 31 May 1956: ‘Richard Edward Manly, Air Traffic Control Officer II, London Airport.’ The Operations Record Book for No. 129 (Mysore) Squadron for the period January to April, 1942, based at Westhampnett, has the following mentions of Sergeant Manly: Jan. 7 - Sgt. Manly reported for flying duties. Feb. 14 - 2 Spitfires Mark VB, Sgt. Tucker, Sgt. Manly. Scramble to investigate X raid over the Isle of Wight but plot faded and they were recalled. Mar. 12 - 4 Spitfires Mark VB, including Sgt. Manly take off for patrol over damaged Destroyer with escort making for Portsmouth. Mar. 22 - Captain Binstead, the Trade Commissioner for Mysore, Mr Goodchild of the India Office, and Sir Frank Brown of the East India Company visited the squadron, and after lunch with the Station Commander at Chopwyke House proceeded to the Dispersal where after speeches by Capt. Binstead and Sir Frank Brown, the latter presented Mysore Medallions to new pilots and to the 10 Senior N.C.O’s. Mar. 25 - 6 Sections, each of 2 Spitfires Mark VB, including Sgt. Manly, ordered to patrol over Newhaven area to intercept possible enemy Rhubarb but nothing seen to report. Apl. 10 - ... in the evening the Squadron took part in a Rodeo in the Hardelot-Desires area. They provided high cover on the instructions of the Wing Leader, while many dog-fights took place below them, in the course of which the Wing Leader (Wing Commander Robinson) and the C.O. of 340 Squadron were lost. Sgt. Manly of “B” Flight had to return on the way out owing to engine failure and crash landed between Brighton and Lewes, his aircraft being Cat. E. and he himself being severely shaken and bruised. He was post N/E. sick to Tangmere and admitted to Sick Quarters. Sold with relevant copied O.R.B. extracts.
Lot 241
Pair: Company Sergeant Major G. W. T. Price, 5th Battalion (London Rifle Brigade), London Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 29 August 1918 British War and Victory Medals (1274 W.O. Cl.2. G. W. T. Price. 5-Lond. R.) in named card box of issue, with outer OHMS transmission envelope addressed to ‘Mr. Norman L. T. Price, 28 Warley Road, Brentwood, Essex’; Memorial Plaque (Gerald William Tudor Price) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; Memorial Scroll, ‘Coy. Serjt. Maj. Gerald William Tudor Price, London Regt.’, extremely fine (4) £240-£280 --- Gerald William Tudor Price was born in Forest Gate, London, and prior to the Great War had served for nine years as a Volunteer and Territorial in the London Rifle Brigade, where he was a crack shot. He re-joined the 5th Battalion (London Rifle Brigade), London Regiment in November 1914, was promoted Colour Sergeant Instructor of Musketry, and for three and a half years was kept in England training recruits. He proceeded to France on attachment to the 1st Battalion on 10 May 1918, was promoted Company Sergeant Major, and was killed in action on the Western Front on 29 August 1918, being shot through the head by a sniper whilst in the trenches. He is buried in the Honourable Artillery Company Cemetery, Escoust-St. Mein, France. Sold with the recipient’s silver vesta case, inscribed ‘L.R.B. G. Coy. Pte. C. W. T. Prices 1905’; a London Rifle Brigade Shako badge; named Record office enclosure; a Musketry Instruction Book; copy of ‘The War Record of the Northern Assurance Co. Ltd. 1914-1918’, containing a portrait photograph of the recipient’; Northern Assurance Co. Ltd. card Roll of Honour; and copied research.
Lot 1030
A limited edition silver salver, by Richard Comyns, London 1972, for Crawford & Gilbey Ltd, commemorating the Champion Racehorse, Brigadier Gerard, engraved with an image of the horse with rider, designed by Doris Lindner, 22.8cm diameter, 376g (12.1 troy ozs) gross, with box, certificate and paperwork, No.1208 of 2,000
Lot 624
A Continental silver box: of rectangular outline, the hinged lid decorated with Abraham offering his son Isaac for sacrifice, the sides decorated with rustic figures, 8cm wide, together with a Continental silver circular box, the hinged lid with embossed portrait of a lady, with bacchanalian panels to the sides, 7cm diameter, total weight of silver 191gms, 6.14ozs.
Lot 627
A Victorian coromandel and brass strung travelling toiletry box: the hinged lid enclosing a fitted interior of silver mounted bottles and jars, maker William Neal, London, 1856, with lift-out tray and sprung loaded front frieze drawer, having a mirror plate and stationery pouch to the lid interior, contained in a leather travelling case, 31cm wide.
Lot 908
A George IV silver snuff box, maker Thomas Edwards, London, 1824: of rectangular outline with reeded decoration, 5.25cm long, also a Georgian engraved vinaigrette with pierced grille and a Maltese white metal toothpick box with inset De Rohan coin by Michael Borg, 9cm. long, weighable silver 47gms, 1.51ozs. (3).
Lot 1456
Various badges and trinkets, to include an 'Egypt' Lincolnshire Regiment cap badge, other cap badges, an Elastoplast oil dressings tin case, a pair of Victorian glove stretchers, a wristwatch, cased needle set, a Wembley British Empire Exhibition bud vase, a silver plated salt and pepper pot, various wire flowers, alcohol miniature, and an Agfa box camera, etc. (a quantity)
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