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Click here to subscribeRoyal Army Temperance Association Medals. Royal Army Temperance Association Fifteen Year Medal, silver and silver-gilt (3) (RATA.12), all of two-piece construction with the Royal Arms mounted on a large silver shield, one with hallmarks for Birmingham 1912; Twenty Year Medal, silver-gilt and enamel (RATA.13), with ‘R.A.T.A. XX Years’ top riband bar, all unnamed as issued, generally very fine, the last rare (4) £70-£90
Royal Army Temperance Association Medals. Royal Army Temperance Association Nine Year Medal, silver (3) (RATA.9), two with hallmarks for London 1907 and 1909 respectively; Ten Year Medal, silver (RATA.10), one with hallmarks for Birmingham 1906; Twelve Year Medal, silver and enamel (RATA.11), all unnamed as issued, generally very fine (6) £60-£80
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, date clasps unofficially attached (7338 Pte. E. C. L. Graham. Vol. Coy: Oxford: L.I.), with top silver pin brooch, minor edge cut, very fine £120-£160 --- Edwin Charles Laurie Graham was born in 1876, at Oxford. In the 1911 Census he is recorded as a 35 year old cap and hat maker, residing at 87 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford. He died in Oxford in 1962. Sold together with an unattributed newspaper cutting regarding the return of the Oxford Volunteers from the war in South Africa, in which Private Graham is named; and a small portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform wearing his medal.
Four: Lieutenant W. H. M. H. Davies, Indian Navy Punjab 1848-49, 1 clasp, Mooltan (Actg. Master, W. H. Davies, Ind. Flot.) fitted with contemporary swivel-ring arrangement to suspension; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Wm. H. M. H. Davies. Lieutt. “Sesostris”) with an additional swivel-ring scroll suspension with hand fashioned ‘Pegu’ clasp; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Lieut. W. H. M. H. Davies, Indian Navy.) contemporary re-engraved naming; China 1857-60, no clasp (Lieut. W. H. M. H. Davies. H.M.S. Auckland. I N.) all fitted with a variety of silver top-brooch fittings, nearly very fine or better (4) £1,200-£1,600
A fine ‘Hazara 1891’ D.S.O. group of three awarded to Colonel J. Keith, Royal Artillery, who was twice mentioned in despatches, and commanded the Royal Artillery in the Sikkim 1888, Hazara 1891 and Izazai Expeditions Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Captn. J. Keith. R.H.A.); India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Sikkim 1888, Hazara 1891 (Major J. Keith 9/1 N.D. R.A.) mounted for display, generally nearly extremely fine £1,800-£2,200 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 19 November 1891: ‘In recognition of services during the late Hazara Expedition.’ James Keith was born in November 1842, and was the son of William Keith, M.D. He was commissioned from being a Cadet into the Royal Artillery in December 1861. Keith advanced to Captain in April 1875, served with the 1/1 Field Battery, Royal Horse Artillery in Afghanistan 1878-80, and advanced to Major in October 1882. He served as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General R.A., Bengal, March 1882 - March 1887. Keith commanded the Royal Artillery for the Sikkim 1888 (M.I.D.), Hazara 1891 (D.S.O. and M.I.D.) and the Izazai Expeditions. He was presented with his D.S.O. in India in July 1892, and advanced to Colonel in September 1894. He retired in September 1895. Sold with copied research.
‘The whole business was horrible, as one never knew who was for or against you. An innocent looking civilian would walk past the barracks, see our position and then go to a house and snipe. The fighting in France I think was infinitely preferable to this and in this others concur.’ (Personal memoir of the Easter Rising by Major G. A. Harris, Dublin University O.T.C.) ‘I do not know how I should have got on without him, he did everything, and was always cheerful and active and never seemed to get tired, though the strain was great. He organised the defence most efficiently...’ (Colonel F. W. Shaw, Commanding 2nd (H.S.) Gn. Bn. R. Irish Regt.) The important and unique inter-War C.B.E. (Civil), 1916 ‘Easter Rising - Defence of Beggars Bush Barracks’ D.S.O., Great War O.B.E. (Military) group of eight awarded to Major and Adjutant G. A. Harris, Dublin University Officer Training Corps, Territorial Force, who led his poorly armed column of above age military reservists - ‘The Gorgeous Wrecks’ - in a week long defence of Beggars Bush Barracks during the 1916 Easter Rising: arranging his veteran volunteers to the best possible advantage and by keeping up a constant fire on all surrounding houses occupied by the rebels, Harris prevented them from making an attack, and ‘bluffed them into thinking the garrison was much larger than it really was.’ Sold with an important archive of related material including the recipient’s unpublished diary of the Defence, written during the siege on ‘Beggars Bush, Dublin’ headed writing paper. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; British War Medal 1914-20 (Major G. A. Harris.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Major G. A. Harris); Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1919, with integral top riband bar, last seven mounted as worn, minor green enamel damage to wreath on DSO, otherwise nearly extremely fine (8) £8,000-£12,000 --- C.B.E. (Civil) London Gazette 3 June 1927: ‘Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland.’ D.S.O. London Gazette 24 January 1917: General citation but awarded in connection with services rendered during the Sinn Fein Rebellion, Dublin, April 1916. O.B.E. (Military) London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with the War.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 25 January 1917: general citation but in connection with services rendered during the Sinn Fein Rebellion, Dublin, April 1916. George Arthur Harris was born in 1879 at Longford, Ireland, into a family with successful business interests and long Ulster associations. He won a scholarship to Trinity College Dublin, where he gained a gold medal in mathematics, played rugby for the 1st XV and assisted in the foundation of the Dublin University Officers’ Training Corps before graduating via open competition to an appointment as a first-class clerk at the Admiralty in London in 1903. The following year he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Prince of Wales’s Own (Civil Service) Rifle Volunteer Corps but, having chosen to return to Dublin, in 1910 he was appointed an officer of the Dublin University Officer Training Corps. Appointed to the command of the Infantry Unit in 1911 and promoted to Major in February 1913, it was in this capacity that Harris was serving on the outbreak of war in 1914. Additionally appointed to the command of the 1st Dublin Battalion Volunteer Training Corps from August 1915, Harris was leading a party of these veteran volunteers on military manoeuvres in the Dublin Hills on 24 April 1916 when he received news that Sinn Fein had risen in Dublin. Easter Rising Following the armed insurrection of around 1800 Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army in Dublin on Monday 24 April 1916, the VTC were ordered to return to Beggars Bush Barracks at once. Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Browning, the senior officer present, split the volunteers into two columns placing the larger party under Harris. These part time reservists, many of them lawyers, doctors and other professional men were mostly above military age - the Irish Rugby Union also had its own contingent. Unofficially termed the ‘Gorgeous Wrecks’, they wore civilian clothes with an armband emblazoned ‘GR’ - Georgius Rex. As a Volunteer Force they had no ammunition and many of their rifles were dummies for training purposes only. Unarmed and militarily ineffective then, this body of men was led back by Harris who recorded his experiences over the following days in his contemporary personal diary of the Easter Rising written on Beggars Bush Dublin headed note paper. Of the journey back to the Barracks, Harris notes: ‘I immediately collected them and marched back via Anglesea Road having a protective screen in front. All went well until I arrived at the corner of Lansdowne Road and Shelbourne Road where I heard from civilians that they heard that the Sinn Feiners were sniping at the Barracks. I sent on two motor cyclists for information and they brought back word from the Barracks that the road was fairly clear. So I ordered the GRs to go up in small parties of four or five. I went on horseback with the foremost parties. As I rode up Haddington Road several shots were fired at me and one man was hit at the Barrack Gate. All the rest of the party got in without further casualty. The wounded man was carried in by Elie and Stranthers of the VTC who displayed great gallantry. The wounded man (Clery) unfortunately died during the night.’ (Harris’ diary refers) Meanwhile, Browning’s smaller party, taking a different route, had run into a rebel ambush at the corner of Haddington and Northumberland Road. Fourteen men were hit, five of them fatally. One of these casualties was Browning, mortally wounded at the head of the column. He was rushed into the Barracks where he died two days later. Major Harris meanwhile had already arrived to find it garrisoned by around twenty seven men of the Catering Corps. He set about organising the defence of the barracks immediately: ‘On getting into Barracks I found that I was senior Officer and took over command. I discovered that there were only about 15 rifles in the Barracks with a lot of disabled and convalescent soldiers, in addition to women and children. The troops with me - about 80 - had only unserviceable rifles for which no ammunition was available. There were large stores of ammunition and it was of the utmost importance to hold the Barracks, as it formed the first link between the city and troops coming from England. I arranged the troops round the wall to the best possible advantage, and by keeping up a constant fire on all surrounding houses occupied by the rebels prevented them from making an attack, and bluffed them into thinking the garrison was much larger than it really was.’ Harris had all the bricked up portholes opened and strategically had the ammunition, food etc. stored in the central block which he proposed to hold as a final post. Sniping continued from houses all around: ‘During the night Colonel Sir Frederick Shaw arrived and took over command, but I was ordered by the Irish Command Headquarters to remain and assist him. The night passed wearily in expectation of attack. All next day we h...
A Great War Iron Cross group of four Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, unmarked; Third Reich, War Service Cross, Second Class, without swords; Empire, Honour Cross, combatants’ issue with swords; Third Reich, Armed Forces Long Service Medal, for 4 Years’ Service, mounted continental style as worn; together with a Political Leaders cap badge, good very fine (5) £60-£80
Germany, Third Reich, 1 October 1938 Medal, bronze, complete with Prague Castle bar, in embossed case of issue, the upper inner silk marked Deschler & Son, Munich; Faithful Service Medal (2), for 25 Years’ Service, silver and enamel, in embossed card box of issue, maker’s label of Friedrich Keller Oberstein attached to the upper inner lid section; for 40 Years’ Service, gilt and enamel, in embossed case of issue, the upper inner silk marked Deschler & Son, Munich, generally good very fine (3) £100-£140
German Second World War Infantry Assault Badges. Three Infantry Assault Badges, one good condition, non maker marked, solid piece with original pin, hook and hinge, possibly was bronze, wear to the exterior; Infantry Assault Badge maker marked Adolf Scholze complete with original ball type hinge, hook and pin, some discoloration to the face side with minor corrosion to the rifle tip; Infantry Assault Badge, was in silver but finish has gone, solid construction, non maker marked with original pin, hook and hinge, generally good condition (3) £120-£160
Family Group: Pair: Corporal E. Plester, Hampshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (4136 Pte. E. Plester. Hamps. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (4136 Pte. E. Plester. Hamps. R.) good very fine British War Medal 1914-20 (9656 Cpl. W. R. Plester. R. Berks. R.) nearly extremely fine (3) £50-£70 --- Edward Plester attested for the Hampshire Regiment on 8 August 1914 and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 9 June 1915. Later transferring to the 23rd (Garrison) Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, he was discharged on 15 February 1919, and was awarded a Silver War Badge no B.238274. William Robert Plester, brother of the above, was born in North Newington, Oxfordshire, in October 1894 and attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 November 1914, and was killed in action on 29 August 1918. He is buried in Orchard Dump Cemetery, Arleux-en-Gohelle, France. Sold with copied research.
Five: Flight Lieutenant K. M. Gray, 405 (Vancouver) Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, who was killed in action when his Halifax was shot-down over Luxembourg on 10 August 1943 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, mounted for display in a glazed frame together with the recipient’s silver R.C.A.F. Operational Wings; and Birks Memorial Bar ‘F/L K. M. Gray R.C.A.F. Died in his Country’s Service 10 Aug. 1943’, extremely fine (5) £400-£500 --- Kenneth MacGregor Gray was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on 9 July 1914 and enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force on 3 January 1940. Commissioned Pilot Officer on 1 March 1942, he was advanced Flight Lieutenant, and served with 405 (Vancouver) Squadron. He was killed in action when his Halifax HR872, which he was piloting, was shot down by a night fighter at 1:00 a.m. on the night of 9-10 August 1943, and crashed at Awenne, Luxembourg, whilst on a sortie to Mannheim. Eye-witness reports state that he was discovered by a German patrol and during a gun battle was killed along with 10 Germans, although this is unconfirmed. He is buried in Florennes Cemetery, Belgium, alongside the rest of his crew. Sold with copied research including the above-mentioned eyewitness reports, and full details regarding the recipient’s previous sorties, targets of which included Essen, Dortmund (twice), Dusseldorf, Wuppertal, Elberfeld, Cologne (twice), Aachen, Montbeliard, and Hamburg (thrice).
Five: Sergeant J. Hepburn, Seaforth Highlanders, who was wounded on the Western Front on 6 May 1917 India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (9279 Lc. Cpl. J. Hepburn 1st. Bn. Sea. Highrs.); 1914 Star, with clasp (9279 Pte. J. Hepburn. 2/Sea: Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (9279 A. Sjt. J. Hepburn. Sea. Highrs.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver (9279 Pte. J. Hepburn 1st. Bn. Sea. Highrs.) Regimentally engraved naming with minor correction to surname, nearly very fine Pair: Private G. W. Bailey, Northumberland Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 27 March 1918 British War and Victory Medals (60189 Pte. G. W. Bailey. North’d. Fus.) about extremely fine (7) £240-£280 --- James Hepburn attested for the Seaforth Highlanders at Glasgow on 6 November 1905, and served with the 1st Battalion in India from 30 March 1907, and with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 August 1914. Appointed Acting Sergeant on 1 May 1917, he suffered a gun shot wound to the knee on 6 May 1917, and was invalided to the U.K. two days later, transferring to the Royal Defence Corps on 3 October 1917. He latterly served with the Labour Corps, and was demobilised at Invergordon on 6 March 1919 George William Bailey was born in Sheffield and attested for the Northumberland Fusiliers at Pontefract, Yorkshire. He served with the 19th (2nd Tyneside Pioneers) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action during the German Spring Offensive on 27 March 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial. Sold with copied research.
Four: Attributed to Leading Seaman John Flynn, Royal Navy, one of the small detachment who served under Lieutenant H. C. Glynn of H.M.S. Britannnia on the Danube in 1854 and received the Turkish General Service Medal Crimea 1854-55, 2 clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol; China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Canton 1857; Turkish General Service Medal, silver, fitted with a Crimea-type replacement suspension, this rather crude and non-swivelling; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, all unnamed as issued, mounted for display, contact marks, good fine and better (4) £400-£500 --- Provenance: Day Collection 1910 - ‘Purchased by Mr Day from family of recipient, John Flynn, one of the gun-boats crew who obtained the Sultan’s medal for service at the Sulina, mouth of the Danube between 7th July and 19th August 1854.’; Douglas-Morris Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, October 1996. The Turkish General Service medal was awarded to Lieutenant H. C. Glynn of H.M.S. Britannia, and a party of up to 30 seamen, including John Flynn, for participating in the bridging of the Danube at Giurgevo and in manning Turkish gunboats in the vicinity. For further details of these operations see Naval Medals 1793-1856, by Captain K. J. Douglas-Morris, pp 352-362.
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private W. C. Crosby, Royal Army Service Corps Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (M2-115134 Pte. W. C. Crosby. R.A.S.C.); 1914-15 Star (M2-115134. Pte. W. C. Crosby. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (M2-115134 Pte. W. C. Crosby. A.S.C.); together with the recipient’s related miniature awards, these mounted as worn; and a Royal Automobile Club silver medal, E.VII.R. to obverse, the reverse inscribed ‘Awarded to W. C. Crosby, D.C.M., holder of the R.A.C. Driving Certificate for 17 Years continuous service with Miss Ethel Sands of London’, the DCM lightly polished, generally good very fine and better (4) £700-£900 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 1 January 1919; citation published 3 September 1919: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty as driver from February 1918 to September 1918. Throughout this period he has performed a great amount of work in forward areas by night and day and frequently under shell fire. On several occasions he has taken up urgently needed stores to advanced signal stations when roads were being shelled, and had invariably shown the greatest coolness, determination and disregard of danger.’ William C. Crosby attested for the Army Service Corps and served with 37th Division during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 August 1915. The Division took part in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, Arras and Passchendaele in 1917, and the Hindenburg Line and the advance to victory in 1918. Over the course of the war, the division suffered some 30,000 casualties. Crosby was awarded his Distinguished Conduct Medal for his actions during 1918 with 37th Divisional transport - the “M2” prefix on his service number denotes electricians Mechanical Transport 2nd Army, of which 37th Division was a part. He was discharged to Class Z Army Reserve on 1 May 1919. His D.C.M. was one of just 253 awards (and one Bar) to the Army Service Corps during the Great War. Sold with copied research.
Four: Private J. A. Salmon, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, laterRoyal Field Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (5516, Pte. J. A. Salmon, 1/Oxfd. L.I.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5516 Pte. J. A. Salmon. Oxford: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (L-46666 Dvr. J. A. Salmon. R.A.) nearly very fine (4) £160-£200 --- Joseph Albert Salmon was born about 1878, and having attested for the Oxford Light Infantry served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War. He re-enlisted for service in the Great War on 13 October 1915, at Shepherds Bush, London, to serve in the Royal Field Artillery, serving in 4th and 33rd Divisional Ammunition Columns. He was discharged due to sickness on 24 October 1918, and was awarded Silver War Badge No. B23649. Sold with copied research.
Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, E.VII.R. (1729 Pte F. G. Nason. 2/V.B. Oxford L.I.); together with a Banbury Volunteer Fire Brigade Medal, silver, engraved ‘Fire Brigade Competition at Banbury, July 1874, 1st Prize B.V.F.B.’, both with top silver riband buckles, nearly extremely fine (2) £80-£120 --- F. G. Nason was a volunteer Fireman with the Banbury Volunteers and with the team of Lieutenant Chard H. Davis, Creatorex, Robeson, F. Nason (substitute for E. J. Grosby) Bromley, Gilks, and Hadley won a medal for 1st place in 1874 at Banbury. Sold with original score sheet and copied group photograph.
A German Second World War Afrika with Palms Cuff Title. The individual decoration in cuff title form Afrika with palms cuff title, finely machine embroidered lettering with palm tree either side of the central AFRIKA. Minor staining to the short section of the silver edging at the base and staining at one end, constructed in the standard form of material, a felt-like sand coloured band, good condition, rare £200-£240
Royal Army Temperance Association Medals. Royal Army Temperance Association Six Month Medal, bronze (3) (RATA.1) two with monogram at centre; one with bust of Lord Roberts at centre; One Year Medal, silver (RATA.2); together with a smaller example in aluminium; Two Year Medal, silver (RATA.3), hallmarks for Birmingham 1914; Three Year Medal, silver (2) (RATA.4), one with ‘Excelsior’ top riband bar; Four Year Medal, silver and silver-gilt (2), hallmarks for London 1909 and 1910 respectively, all unnamed as issued, generally very fine (10) £70-£90
Army Temperance Association Home Medals. Army Temperance Association Home Award of Merit Medal, silver (ATAH.12), the reverse contemporarily impressed ‘Sergt F. Batten 39th Regt District 1904’, with top riband bar; Award of Merit Medal, silver (ATAH.12(a)), with top riband bar; Queen Victoria Jubilee Medal, silver (ATAH.13), unnamed as issued except where stated, generally very fine, the first two scarce (3) £60-£80
Royal Naval Temperance Society Medals. Royal Naval Temperance Society, Membership Medal, silver (4) (RNTS.1), three with ‘The Victory Medal’ top riband bar, one contemporarily named ‘G. W. Hall. AB. H.M.S. Hercules’; Boys’ Membership Medal, silver (RNTS unclassified), unnamed as issued except where stated, generally very fine (5) £60-£80
A Great War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Chief Boatswain E. H. Wilder, Royal Navy, Assistant to the King’s Harbour Master at Gibraltar throughout the war The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, hallmarked London 1918; British War Medal 1914-20 (Bosn. E. H. Wilder. R.N.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (E. H. Wilder P.O.1. H.M.S. Scout) engraved naming; Italy, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Cavalier’s breast badge, gold and enamels, obverse centre chipped; together with Boy Scout Association silver and enamelled badge, reverse engraved (Presented by Staff for work at Jamboree 1920), and B.S.A. medal for Merit, bronze and enamels, reverse engraved (Presented to E. H. Wilder M.B.E. Jamboree 1920 by Baden Powell C.S. of the W), generally good very fine (4) £400-£500 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 4 June 1918: ‘Chief Boatswain Edward H. Wilder, R.N., Assistant to the King’s Harbour Master, Gibraltar.’ Crown of Italy London Gazette 25 April 1922: ‘Commissioned Boatswain Edward Hunter Wilder, Royal Navy, in recognition of services during the war.’ Edward Hunter Wilder was born at Portsea, Hampshire, on 1 May 1871, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in H.M.S. St Vincent on 26 May 1886. He joined H.M.S. Scout as an Able Seaman on 1 October 1895, and served aboard her until 19 December 1898, being advanced to Leading Seaman in October 1896, to P.O.2 in April 1897, and to Petty Officer 1st Class in November 1897. He was promoted to Acting Boatswain on 1 February 1902, confirmed in that rank one year later, and was promoted to Chief Boatswain on 1 February 1917. He served as Assistant to the King’s Harbour Master at Gibraltar throughout the war and, according to an accompanying letter from his daughter, he ‘took hundreds of prisoners by firing over the bows of ships out in the Straits, to bring them into Harbour and he transported the prisoners to South Barracks... As another point of interest his Sea Scouts caught three German spies at Tarifa during the war.’ He retired with the rank of Lieutenant R.N. on 12 August 1922, and died at Haslar Hospital on 2 September 1930.
An inter-War M.B.E. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel S. J. Templeton, Royal Engineers, who died in service on 26 February 1947 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1927; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. S. J. Templeton. S.R.E.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. S. J. Templeton.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, the first seven mounted court-style for display, the last loose, generally good very fine (8) £400-£500 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 1 June 1928. Stanley James Templeton was appointed temporary Inspector of Works, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant, on the Staff for Royal Engineer Services on 10 February 1915, ands served with the S.R.E.S. during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 February 1915. Subsequently appointed Surveyor of Works, with the honorary rank of Major, he saw further service during the Second World War. He was due to be placed on retired pay, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, on 28 February 1947, but in the meantime had died in service just two days previously. He is buried under a C.W.G.C. Headstone in Southampton Crematorium. Sold together with the recipient’s Second War Memorial Scroll, ‘Lieutenant-Colonel S. J. Templeton, M.B.E., Corps of Royal Engineers’; Bestowal Document for the M.B.E.; and named Bestowal Certificates for the Jubilee and Coronation Medals.
A rare Great War A.R.R.C. and M.M. group of five awarded to Acting Sister A. G. Boyd, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; Military Medal, G.V.R. (A. Sister A. G. Boyd. A.R.R.C. Q.A.I.M.N.S.(R).); 1914-15 Star (S. Nurse. A. G. Boyd. Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); British War and Victory Medals (A. Sister A. G. Boyd.) mounted court-style for display, together with Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. silver cape badge and Overseas Nursing Association silver recruiting badge with ‘1919’ bar brooch, nearly extremely fine (7) £4,000-£5,000 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 2 May 1916. M.M. London Gazette 4 March 1918: ‘For bravery, coolness and conspicuous devotion displayed in the performance of their duties on occasions when the Casualty Clearing Station has been under hostile shell fire and bombed by enemy aircraft.’ Her Military Medal was awarded for bravery at No. 7 Casualty Clearing Station at Noeux-les-Mines, near Béthune, the original recommendation held by the Imperial War Museum giving a more detailed account: ‘For conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in that during the night of September 12/13th 1917, during very heavy enemy shelling, when pieces of shell were striking the hospital, and one of the personnel was wounded she carried out her duties with the greatest courage and coolness. Her bravery, cheerfulness, and devotion to duty during this horrible night were of the greatest advantage, when the darkness and helplessness of the wounded made many of them seriously alarmed. Her presence of mind and absence of fear gave a much needed confidence to the patients. This is only one of the many dangerous occasions when Miss Boyd has acted up to the highest traditions of the Nursing Service.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 5 May 1916 (Despatch of Sir Ian Hamilton dated 11 December 1915) and 21 June 1916 (Despatch of General Sir John Maxwell, commanding the Forces in Egypt, dated 16 March 1916) this second mention being specifically for her service in hospital ships. Anna Georgina Boyd was born on 23 May 1888 at Newtownhamilton, County Armagh, the daughter of a farmer, and was educated at the Model School, Newry. She trained at the Royal Victoria Hospital from August 1909 to November 1912, and left in October 1913 after a period as a Staff Nurse and Sister in the Rotunda. From then until her enlistment she was engaged in private nursing and midwifery. She was accepted into Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve on 9 July 1915, and disembarked at Alexandria for service at No. 19 General Hospital on 26 November 1915. She later served in hospital ships before transferring to France. She arrived at No. 4 General Hospital, Camiers, on 29 February 1916, and later served in the Hospital Ship Aquitania followed by a month at the Lord Derby Hospital, Warrington, before returning to France and No. 7 Casualty Clearing Station at Noeux-les-Mines. She was promoted acting Sister on 1 August 1917. After a period at No. 46 Stationary Hospital, Etaples, she arrived at No. 38 Casualty Clearing Station where she remained for a year. Her final posting saw a return to No. 4 General Hospital in December 1918, prior to her demobilisation on 14 March 1919. After the war Miss Boyd took her Central Midwives Board certificate at the Lying-In Hopsital and applied to the Overseas Nursing Association, being posted to the Malay States in 1920 (Honours and Awards to Women - The Military Medal by Norman G. Gooding refers). She died in London on 29 January 1957. Sold with original letter of congratulations from the Matron in Chief, B.E.F. upon award of the M.M., and War Office letter advising that all ladies who attend an Investiture at Buckingham Palace to receive the decoration of the Royal Red Cross should afterwards proceed to Marlborough House to see her Majesty. Together with copied research.
Waterloo 1815 (Lewis Jennings, 3rd Batt. Grenad. Guards.) fitted with replacement silver clip and straight bar suspension and contained in a fine contemporary fitted case together with a lead musket ball that presumably caused his wound at Waterloo, very fine £3,600-£4,000 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2005 and March 2015. Lewis Jennings was born at Leeds, Yorkshire, and was a Framework Knitter by profession. He enlisted into the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, at Cork on 5 May 1812, aged 20, a volunteer from the 3rd West Yorkshire Militia. He served in the Peninsula at the battles of Nivelle and Nive (entitled to M.G.S.), and was in Lieutenant-Colonel Henry D’Oyly’s company at Waterloo, where he was severely wounded in the right knee on the 16th of June. He was discharged on 26 October 1818, on reduction of the Regiment.
Royal Army Temperance Association Medals. Royal Army Temperance Association Award of Merit Medal, silver (RATA.14), the reverse contemporarily impressed ‘Bom. W. Harrison. 46 Co. R.G.A. 1911.’, with top riband bar; Prince of Wales’s Medal, silver and enamel (RATA.15); King Edward VII Coronation Medal 1902, silver (RATA.16); King George V Coronation Medal 1911, silver (RATA.17); King Edward VII Memorial Medal, silver (RAHA.18), one with hallmarks for Birmingham 1914, unnamed as issued except where stated, generally very fine (6) £60-£80
France, Second Republic, Legion of Honour (2), Knight’s breast badge, 56mm including crown suspension x 39mm, silver, gold centre, and enamel, poincon mark to tassel at base of wreath; another, a reduced-size knight’s breast badge, 26mm, silver, gold centre, and enamel, no crown, enamel damage to second, nearly very fine or better (2) £60-£80
A scarce and poignant Second War A.F.C. and Second Award Bar group of five awarded to Wing Commander S. R. Hinks, Royal Air Force, who initially flew Hudsons with Coastal Command, prior to being employed as an Instructor in Canada. Hinks served with 24 Squadron (King’s Flight), and flew a number of VIP’s during the war, including Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, and the Royal Family. After the war Hinks was employed as a civil pilot in Argentina, and flew Eva Peron for the entirety of her tour of Europe in 1947. He was subsequently employed by El-Al Airlines operating out of Israel - and flying a Lockheed 049 Constellation from London to Tel Aviv, via Vienna and Istanbul, strayed into Bulgarian airspace at the height of the Cold War. The passenger aircraft, with a crew of 7 and a passenger list of 51 (including Hinks’ fiancée), was intercepted and shot down by two Bulgarian MiG fighters, 27 July 1955. All of the crew and passengers lost their lives, in what became a major international incident Air Force Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1943’, with Second Award Bar, reverse officially dated ‘1945’; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as originally worn together with an Eva Peron Medal, gold (18ct) and enamel medal, naming embossed in raised letters ‘A L Cap. Stanley R. Hinks’, generally very fine or better, last rare (6) £2,400-£2,800 --- Provenance: Christie’s, November 1982. A.F.C. London Gazette 16 April 1943. The original recommendation states: ‘This officer, an excellent Flying Instructor, has set a very good example to both staff pilots and pupils and has maintained a high standard of flying in his flight. The success of this unit depends to a large extent on successful Hudson conversion training. Flight Lieutenant Hinks, by his outstanding zeal and energy in the performance of his duties, has, to a large degree, been responsible for the high standard of training obtained. In a period of nineteen months this officer has completed 860 flying instructional hours on Hudson conversion training.’ A.F.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 3 April 1945. The original recommendation states: ‘Since joining this Squadron [24 Squadron] as a Flight Commander in July 1944 this officer has completed 191 hrs. flying which includes thirteen overseas flights. He is a most reliable and dependable Flight Commander. In the performance of his duties he has not only proved himself to be most efficient, but also a very capable leader. His interest in, and knowledge of administration has been invaluable to the Squadron. Total flying time in R.A.F.: 2,882,00 hrs. Total last 6 months: 191.15 hrs.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 11 August 1940. Stanley Reginald Hinks was born in North Devon in February 1920, and educated at King Edward VII School, King’s Lynn. He was commissioned in to the Royal Air Force in 1938, and served in Hudsons with Coastal Command, 1939-1941 (M.I.D.). Hinks was posted as an instructor to the first flying training school in Canada, and was based at No. 31 O.T.U., Nova Scotia until 1943. He was subsequently posted to 24 Squadron (King’s Flight), and flew VIP’s in Dakotas: ‘With the King and Princess Elizabeth standing chatting beside him, Squadron Leader Reginald Hinks, of 18, Temple Drive, Nuthall, yesterday [17 July 1945] piloted the Royal plane - a silver Dakota - escorted by two squadrons of Mustangs, to Long Kesh, R.A.F. Station near Belfast, where the King and Queen began their tour of Northern Ireland. Pilot for many V.I.P.s during the war, including Mr Churchill, Mr Attlee, and Field Marshal Sir Alan BrookE - Squadron Leader Hinks took off from Northolt yesterday afternoon at 4.30 with the King and Queen and Princess Elizabeth aboard. The journey took two hours and one minute. It was the second occasion within a month that he has piloted the King and Queen - he flew them home from the Channel Islands in June. “We had a lovely flight,” the Queen told the Duke of Abercorn, Governor of Northern Ireland, who greeted the Royal trio on the airfield. Squadron Leader Hinks actually made history, for it was the first time that a sovereign has travelled to Northern Ireland by air. He was also piloting Princess Elizabeth on her first flight.’ (Newspaper cutting included with lot refers). After the war Hinks was employed as a civil pilot for F.A.M.A., the Argentine airline. As a civil pilot, Hinks flew Eva Peron round Europe on her tour in 1947, and when they reached Buenos Aires on returning, she gave him a present of £150, and presented him to President Peron. Hinks was next employed as a pilot by El-Al Airlines. On 27 July 1955 an El Al Airlines Lockheed 049 Constellation (4X-AKC, flight 426, flying from London to Tel Aviv, via Vienna and Istanbul, strayed into Bulgarian airspace, likely due to strong winds in very bad weather. The crew of the aircraft was Hinks as pilot, First Officer Pini Ben-Porat, Flight Engineer Sidney Chalmers and Radio Operator Raphael Goldman. The aircraft was intercepted in the early morning darkness at 17,500 feet by Bulgarian MiG-15 Fagot fighters, and was shot down near Petrich, Bulgaria. The aircraft crashed near the Strumitza River, close to the Yugoslav and Greek borders in south-western Bulgaria. All fifty-one passengers and seven crew were killed. It caused an international incident at the height of the Cold War, and whilst lost in diplomacy lead to a number of conspiracy theories even to this day. The victims’ remains were transported back to Israel, and buried in a communal grave. A memorial to them was built at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery, Tel Aviv. Sold with the following original documents: M.I.D. Certificate, dated 11 August 1940; photograph of recipient in uniform with Winston Churchill; a newspaper cutting and copied research. Note: Although it is not known exactly how many ‘Peron Medals’ were issued, the fact that the recipient’s name is embossed in raised letters, rather than engraved, would have necessitated a separate die for each medal, and consequently it can be assumed that the medal was sparingly presented.
A German Second World War Hermann Goring Division Cuff Title. A full length unused NCOs version of the Hermann Goring Divisional cuff title. Machine embroidered HERMANN GÖRING with silver grey edges, full length, minor moth nips, never been fitted to a tunic, good condition £160-£200
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