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Lot 2863

Lot (5) Ladies watches - Silver lot of 5 ladies watches, movements are in working order but accuracy has not been tested - total weight: 227 grams

Lot 2864

Lot (5) Ladies watches - Silver lot of 5 ladies watches, movements are in working order but accuracy has not been tested - total weight: 196 grams

Lot 2865

Pocket Watch J. Auricoste A. Paris - ca. 1890 case: silver 925/1000 – the enamel dial is in a good condition with very little and tiny cracks. The spring is in a good condition, the movement is in a working – this beautiful pocket watch with a rich history - 2 (good) - diameter: 48 mm - glass: plexi - weight: 82.3 gram

Lot 2866

Pocket Watch Fusee, Adam Burdess, Coventry - ca. 1870 case: silver 925/1000 – the dial is in a good condition. The chain is in a good condition, the movement is running well. the small second hand is incomplete - 2 (good) - diameter: 50 mm - glass: plexi - weight: 128.8 grams

Lot 2867

Pocket Watch Verge Fusee 'James Mackie, London' - ca. 1800 inner case: silver 925/1000 -outer case: silver 925/1000 - verge fusee - enamel dial, the dial has been repaired in the center and beneath the 6 hour position. The chain is in a good condition, the movement is in a running condition but runs bad/not at all - 2 (reasonable) - diameter: 54 mm - glass: the mineral is slightly damaged

Lot 2868

Pocket Watch Verge Fusee, London - ca. 1750 inner case: silver 925/1000 – outer case: silver 925/1000 – verge fusee – the enamel dial does show some tiny cracks. the chain is in a good condition, the movement is running reasonable/poor - 2 (good) - diameter: 40 mm - glass: plexi - weight: 60 grams

Lot 2875

Pocket Watch Verge Fusee, 'Will Flint, Ashford' - ca. 1870 case: silver 925/1000 - verge fusee - enamel dial in a good condition, chain in a good condition, the movement is in a running condition but runs bad/not at all - 2 (reasonable) - diameter: 54 mm - glass: plexi

Lot 2881

Omega pocket watch silver - Ladies - ca. 1916 case: 925/1000 silver - manual winding - movement is in working order - 2 (good) - diameter 27 mm - glass: plexi

Lot 2882

Pocket Watch 8 Days Ankergang - ca. 1910 case: silver 800/1000 - 8 days ankergang - the enamel dial is in a reasonable condition. the movement is in a reasonable condition. the case back does not stay closed properly - 2 (good) - diameter: 49 mm - glass: plexi - weigth: 85 grams

Lot 2884

Silver pocketwatch - Men's Pocketwatch - Manual winding - Ca. 1901. condition: defect - materiaal case: silver: 800/1000 - diameter: 47 mm - Length chain: ca. 30 cm - chain is made of silver - hobby object

Lot 2886

Pocket Watch Supra - ca. 1940 case: 800/1000 silver - radium hour marks - the movement is defect - 3 (used) - diameter: 48 mm - glass: plexi - weigth: 67.6 gram

Lot 2887

Pocket Watch Alpina - ca. 1940 case: silver – the dial shows little cracks, the radium partially disappeared. the movement is in working order - 2 (good) - diameter: 50 mm - glass: plexi - weight: 92 grams

Lot 2888

Pocket Watch Regulateur - ca. 1900 case: silver 835/1000 - the movement is in working order - 2 (good) - diameter: 63 mm - glass: plexi - weight: 161.5 grams

Lot 2889

Lot (5) Pocket Watches - Silver lot of 5 men's pocket watches, movements are in working order but accuracy has not been tested - total weight: 371.4 grams

Lot 2890

Lot (5) Pocket Watches - Silver lot of 5 ladies pocket watches, movements are in working order but accuracy has not been tested - total weight: 107.7 grams

Lot 2891

Lot (5) Pocket Watches - Silver lot of 5 men's pocket watches, movements are in working order but accuracy has not been tested - total weight: 341.1 grams

Lot 3187

A bronze casting mould, Dutch, 20th century. Intended for 2 silver coffee spoons. Estimate: € 20 - € 30.

Lot 1

A G.C.V.O. and Boer War D.S.O. group of four awarded to Colonel Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent, K.G., G.C.V.O., 11th Hussars, the last Viceroy of Ireland The Royal Victorian Order, G.C.V.O., Knight Grand Cross set of insignia, comprising sash badge, silver-gilt and enamels, suspension ring a little distressed, and breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamels, fitted with gold pin for wearing, both pieces officially numbered ‘461’, complete with sash in Collingwood, London case of issue, this scuffed and catch broken; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top ribbon bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (Colonel Lord E. B. Talbot, D.S.O.); Coronation 1902, silver; Jubilee 1935, mounted court-style as worn, very fine or better (6) £5,000-£6,000 --- M.V.O. 4th Class, 22 August 1902, for services at the Coronation of the King. G.C.V.O., 3 June 1919, for services as Deputy Earl Marshal of England. Edmund Bernard Talbot (né FitzAlan-Howard), later 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent, K.G., G.C.V.O., D.S.O., was born on 1 June 1855, the second son of the 14th Duke of Norfolk, and educated at the Oratory School, Edgbaston, prior to being commissioned into the 11th Hussars in 1875. Named as the principal beneficiary in the will of Bertram Arthur Talbot, 17th Earl of Shrewsbury provided he took the surname and arms of ‘Talbot’, he duly did so by royal licence in 1876. However, the late earl's distant relatives contested the will, and the peerage and concomitant property were awarded after much litigation to Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 3rd Earl Talbot, leaving Lord Edmund Talbot with only scattered minor lands. Acting as Adjutant of the 11th Hussars from 1881-83, Lord Edmund Talbot served in a similar capacity in the Auxiliary Forces from 1883-88, and was promoted to Major in 1891. In 1894 he was elected MP for Chichester and remained in Parliament until 1921. When war broke out in South Africa he was involved in operations leading to the relief of Kimberley and at Paardeberg, in addition to the actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Diamond Hill, and Colesburg. He was awarded the D.S.O. (London Gazette 19 April 1901) and mentioned in Despatches. On 17 June 1900, he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel although he did not command the 11th Hussars. Returning to politics he held various appointment, as: Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War and India, and between 1905-06 he was Junior Lord of the Treasury and Whip. Also between 1915-21 he was Joint Parliamentary Secretary at the Treasury. He was appointed Deputy Earl Marshal of England in 1917 as his nephew, the 16th Duke of Norfolk, was too young. In 1921 he was Lord Lieutenant and the last Viceroy of Ireland, the first Roman Catholic to hold the post since 1685, but the position only lasted until 1922 when the Irish Free State came into being. In his capacity as Viceroy of Ireland he was appointed as the very last Honorary Grand Master of the Order of Saint Patrick, which Order became obsolete in 1922. In 1925 he was honoured with the appointment of Knight of the Garter. He reverted to his name of FitzAlan in 1921 and was raised to the peerage as the Right Hon. The Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent in the County of Derby. On 5 August 1879, he was married to Lady Mary Bertie, daughter of the Earl of Abingdon. They had two children, a daughter and a son, and lived at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park. Viscount FitzAlan died on 18 May 1947.

Lot 10

A post-War O.B.E. group of seven, together with a large number of presentation items, awarded to Deputy Commissioner of Police Mr. P. T. Moor, Royal Hong Kong Police, late Royal Air Force, who over the course of a 34 year career served in all the major branches of the Force, and in all four regions The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, with Toye, Kenning, & Spencer, London, case of issue; Queen’s Police Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue, for Distinguished Service (Peter Thomas Moor. CPM.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Colonila Police Forces Meritorious Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Peter T. Moor. Sen. Supt., Hong King Police.); Colonial Police Forces L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, with two Additional Award Bars (Chief Superintendent P. T. Moor Hong Kong) mounted court-style as worn; together with the recipient’s related miniature awards, these similarly court-mounted as worn; the recipient’s Royal Hong Kong Police Commemorative Medal 1997, silver (SDCP P. T. Moor. OBE, QPM, CPM), together with the related miniature award, in fitted Spink, London case of issue; a commemorative Hong Kong Service Medal, bronze, unnamed as issue in case of issue, together with the related miniature award, the Second War medals all heavily lacquered, with the 1939-45 Star somewhat silvered, generally very fine and better (18) £1,800-£2,200 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 31 December 1980: Peter Thomas Moor, Q.P.M., C.P.M., Deputy Commissioner of Police, Hong Kong. Q.P.M. London Gazette 11 June 1977: Peter Thomas Moor, C.P.M., Assistant Commissioner of Police, Royal Hong Kong Police Force. C.P.M. London Gazette 1 January 1969: Peter Thomas Moor, Senior Superintendent, Hong Kong Police Force. Peter Thomas Moor was born in Jarrow-on-Tyne on on 3 January 1926, and having moved with his family to Staines, upon leaving school joined a firm of insurance brokers as an assistant account. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1943, and after training initially as a pilot-navigator and bomb aimer, he then went through further training, this time as a wireless operator, before being posted to India where he was stationed in Bombay, Delhi, Karachi, Calcutta, and then Bhopal at an R.A.F. radio base. He left the Royal Air Force in 1947 and, because of his radio training, joined the British Post Office for two years as a telecommunications engineer. Arriving in Hong Kong as a probationary Sub-Inspector of police in August 1949, over the next 34 years Moor served in all the major branches of the Force, including Uniform Branch, ClD, Special Branch, Traffic and Marine, as well as serving in all four regions (Hong Kong lsland, Kowloon, the New Territories, and Marine). During his time with the Force, Moor had been the Recruiting Officer for the Hong Kong Government in Pakistan in 1961, and seconded to the Ministry of Overseas Development as Deputy Director of Overseas Police Courses at Hendon for two years from 1963. He was also the Recruiting Officer in Canada in 1973. He was the only officer to command the Auxiliary Police for two separate periods, and was Principal Staff Officer at the Auxiliary Police Headquarters during the 1967 disturbances. Moor commanded Kowloon Police District from 1975 to 1978, and was also chairman of the Hong Kong International Airport Security committee, as well as heading delegations to Thailand, the Philippines, and Australia. He also visited Zambia with General Fursdon from the Ministry of Defence to evaluate the Zambian requirements in regard to their Police Para-military Forces and the re-organisation of the Zambian Police Force. Twice Commended by the Commissioner of Police, Moor was advanced Deputy Commissioner in 1978, and was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1981 New Year’s Honours’ List. He also served briefly as Acting Commissioner of Police Retiring in 1983 to West Sussex, he took an interest in local affairs, being a County Councillor from 1997 to 2009, and serving as Vice-Chairman of West Sussex County Council from 2005 to 2009. He also held various charitable appointments, and was President of the Royal Hong Kong Police Association up until his death. He died on 15 June 2012, aged 86. The Peter Moor Building, at the School of Foundation Training, Hong Kong Police College, is named in his honour, and is the current headquarters of the Hong Kong Police Band. Sold with the Bestowal Document for the O.B.E., this mounted in a glazed display frame; the recipient’s Royal Hong Kong Police cap; and the following presentation items: i) A large Silver Presentation Salver, inscribed ‘Presented to Mr. P. T. Moor, J.P., Senior Superintendent of Police, by the Gazetted and Inspectorate Officers of the Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force as a mark of their esteem, Hong Kong, 1st December 1967’ ii) Silver-plated Presentation Bowl, inscribed ‘Presented to Mr. P. T. Moor, O.B.E., Q.P.M., C.P.M., F.B.I.M., J.P., Deputy Commissioner of Police, by the Officers of the Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force on the occasion of his being awarded the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty the Queen 1981’ iii) Presentation Salver, inscribed ‘Presented to Mr. P. T. Moor, O.B.E., Q.P.M., C.P.M., F.B.I.M., J.P., Deputy Commissioner of Police, by Members of the Shatin Junior Police Call on the occasion of the opening of their Clubhouse, 1.9.1981’ iv) Presentation Salver, inscribed ‘Presented by the Gazetted Officers of the Crime Wing to Mr. P. T. Moor, O.B.E., Q.P.M., C.P.M., F.B.I.M., J.P., Deputy Commissioner of Police, Operations, on his Retirement from the Royal Hong Kong Police 1983’ and engraved with the subscribers’ signatures v) Presentation Salver, inscribed ‘Presented to Mr. P. T. Moor on his Retirement from All Pakistan Police Officers on 9th June 1983’ vi) Presentation Salver, inscribed ‘D/Commr. Peter T. Moor, O.B.E., Q.P.M., C.P.M., F.B.I.M., J.P., Royal Hong Kong Police, with Best Wishes from your Canadian Friends 1983’ vii) Presentation Ewer, complete with interior ice tube, inscribed ‘Presented to Mr. P. T,. Moor, C.P.M., M.B.I.M., J.P., Chief Superintendent of Police, by the R.H.K.A.P. Officers Mess, May 1975’ viii) A pair of identical Presentation Goblets, both inscribed ‘Presented by the Staff of Police Training School 20th April 1974’ ix) Presentation Tankard, inscribed ‘Presented to Mr. P. T. Moor, D.S. S.S.P. on his departure from the Colony by the Officers of S.S.P. Division’ x) Presentation Tankard, inscribed ‘Presented to Mr. P. T. Moor, O.B.E., Q.P.M., C.P.M., F.B.I.M., J.P., Acting Commissioner of Police, on the Occasion of his Retirement from Civil and Administrative Department 23 June 1983’ xi) Presentation Mounted Figurine of a Police Officer, the plinth inscribed ‘Mr. P. T. Moor, O.B.E., Q.P.M., C.P.M., F.B.I.M., J.P., Deputy Commissioner of Police (Ops), Chairman, Joint Emergency Control Committee 1979-1983, from the Members of J.E.C.C.’ xii) Presentation Hong Kong Police Swagger Stick, inscribed ‘P. T. Moor, O.B.E., Q.P.M., C.P.M., F.B.I.M., J.P., Deputy Commissioner of Police’, in fitted case; together with two other Swagger Sticks, one inscribed ‘P. T. Moor, O.B.E., Q.P.M., C.P.M., F.B.I.M., J.P., the other uninscribed. xiii) Two Royal Hong Kong Police Presentation Truncheons, both in fitted cases. Please note that this lot is not suitable for shipping, but can be hand delivered within mainland Britain by prior arrangement with Christopher Mel...

Lot 11

A well-documented Second-War ‘Customs and Excise Inspector’s’ I.S.O., Great War M.C. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel D. Lindsay, Northumberland Fusiliers, later Lancashire Fusiliers, who served with the Volunteer Company, Scottish Rifles during the Boer War, and was wounded in action during the Great War The Imperial Service Order, G.VI.R., silver, gold, and enamel, reverse engraved ‘Lt.-Colonel David Lindsay, M.C. 12th. June 1941.’; Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse contemporarily engraved ‘Capt. D. Lindsay.’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (7939 Cpl. D. Lindsay. Vol: Coy. Scot: Rifles.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. D. Lindsay. North’d. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. D. Lindsay.) minor edge bruise to BWM, good very fine or better (6) £1,200-£1,600 --- I.S.O. London Gazette 12 June 1941: David Lindsay, Esq., M.C., Inspector, First Class, Board of Customs and Excise. M.C. London Gazette 17 April 1917: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He went forward through a heavy hostile barrage to the new front line and returned with most valuable information. Later, he took command of a company, and was largely responsible for saving a critical situation.’ David Lindsay was born in Glasgow on 19 October 1878 and in civilian life was employed as an Inland Revenue Officer. Following the outbreak of the Boer War he attested for the Scottish Rifles at Glasgow on 8 March 1900, was promoted Corporal on 8 March 1901, and served in South Africa with the 2nd Volunteer Service Company, attached 2nd Battalion, Scottish Rifles, from 15 March 1901 to 19 May 1902 (also entitled to the two date clasps to his Q.S.A.). He was discharged on 19 May 1902, after 2 years and 80 days’ service. Following the outbreak of the Great War Lindsay was commissioned Lieutenant in the Northumberland Fusiliers on 17 December 1914, was promoted Captain on 1 April 1915, and served with the 16th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 November 1915. He was wounded on the night of 23 December by gun shot to the left thigh, whilst commanding ‘C’ Company, thus being the battalion’s first officer casualty, and was evacuated to England on 31 December 1915. After being discharged from hospital he returned to France on 10 November 1916, and served as a Brigade Intelligence Officer from 23 February to 9 September 1917, being promoted Major on 1 July 1917. He transferred to the Lancashire Fusiliers on 27 February 1918, and served with both the 16th and 15th Battalions for the remainder of the War. For his services during the Great War with the Northumberland Fusiliers he was awarded the Military Cross, and was presented with his M.C. by H.M. the King at Buckingham Palace on 26 September 1918. Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 May 1921, he transferred in this rank to the Reserve of Officers on 31 January 1922. Returning to his civilian job with the Board of Customs and Excise, Lindsay was advanced Inspector, First Class, and was created a Companion of the Imperial Service Order in 1941, being invested with the I.S.O. by H.M. the King at Buckingham Palace on 15 July 1941. He died in Deepdene, Surrey, on 1 October 1961. Sold together with a large quantity of original documentation and letters, including the Bestowal Document for the Imperial Service Order, dated 12 June 1941, together with a copy of the Statutes of the Order; Commission Document appointing the recipient a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Lancashire Fusiliers (Regular Army Reserve of Officers), dated 31 January 1922; Document appointing the recipient a Freeman Citizen of Glasgow; the recipient’s Officer’s Record of Service Blue Book; various War Office and Central Chancery letters regarding his military appointments and the awards and investitures for both the I.S.O. and M.C.; various letters congratulating him on the award of the I.S.O.; a large quantity of postcard and other photographs; and a large quantity of copied research. Sold also with various certificates and ephemera relating to Alan William Lindsay.

Lot 117

Family Group: Three: Private Arthur James Mullins, 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, who was killed in action during the Battle of Gheluvelt on 30 October 1914 1914 Star, with clasp (7608 Pte. A. J. Mullins. 2/ R. Sussex: R.); British War and Victory Medals (L-7608 Pte. A. J. Mullins. R. Suss. R.) nearly extremely fine Five: Sergeant Alfred Jesse Mullins, 491st (Home Counties) Field Company, Royal Engineers (Territorial Force), who was Mentioned in Despatches for services in Italy during the Great War 1914-15 Star (1622 2-Cpl. A. Mullins. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (1622 Cpl. A. Mullins. R.E.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, very fine or better (8) £260-£300 --- Arthur James Mullins was born in 1886 at St George’s Hanover Square, London. He attested for the Royal Sussex Regiment on 21 October 1903 and served with G Company in the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 August 1914. He was killed in action at the Battle of Gheluvelt on 30 October 1914, on which date the battalion was ordered to counter-attack the German positions on the Zandvoorde ridge as part of General Bulfin’s force: over the course of three days’ hard fighting, 29-31 October 1914, the Battalion suffered 405 casualties, and earned for itself the soubriquet ‘The Iron Regiment’. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Sold together with a mounted portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform, 137 mm x 96 mm and an attractive but worn and slightly damaged cutting from the Bexhill Observer, 18 March 1916, entitled ‘Mothers of the Empire’ featuring the recipient’s mother and her four sons who served during the war, each pictured, two of whom had been killed - John Albert (Royal Naval Division) and Arthur James - and two of whom survived - Alfred Jesse and Frederick (Royal Engineers). Alfred Jesse Mullins, the brother of the above, was born in 1891 at Pimlico, London. He served with the 491st (Home Counties) Field Company, Royal Engineers (formerly 2nd Home Counties) during the Great War on the Western Front from 17 May 1915 and was mentioned in General Plumer’s Despatch of 18 April 1918 (London Gazette 30 May 1918) for services in Italy. He was discharged to the Class Z Reserve on 24 May 1919 but saw saw further service in searchlight detachments of the Royal Artillery during the Second World War from September 1939 until June 1942, after which he was posted to the Security Police. Sold together with a quantity of postcard photographs of the recipient in uniform, both Great War and Second World War vintage; photographs of the recipient’s brothers in uniform and other family members; newspaper cuttings and photographs relating to the recipient’s sporting successes, particularly shooting, and a large quantity of other photographs, buttons, badges, medals, silver spoons and ephemera.

Lot 12

A Second War ‘Bomb Disposal’ M.B.E. group of three awarded to Lieutenant (temporary Captain) R. I. Williams, 16 Bomb Disposal Company, Royal Engineers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, with miniature ‘Gallantry’ emblem affixed to riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue, with named Buckingham Palace enclosure; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; together with the recipient’s cloth and bullion Bomb Disposal sleeve badge, nearly extremely fine (3) £400-£500 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 18 June 1946: ‘In recognition of gallant conduct in carrying out hazardous work in a very brave manner.’ The original Recommendation states: ‘Captain Williams has rendered services of exceptional merit in the clearance of defensive minefield in the United Kingdom and the disposal of unexploded enemy bombs. In June 1944, he cleared a minefield near Grimsby containing anti-personnel mines which had been subjected to enemy air attack in the form of Butterfly bombs. Although the presence of unexploded Butterfly bombs greatly added to the already considerable risk of clearance, this officer succeeded by his organisation, leadership, and personal example in clearing the fields without casualties. He was subsequently engaged on the clearance of minefields at various other places and was in all responsible for the successful clearance of approximately 1,700 Type C and 3,000 anti-tank mines. Throughout the whole of this work he displayed courage of the highest order. Following an enemy air raid on Grimsby and Cleethorpes on 14 June 1943, when the vicinity was practically immobilised by between 2,000 and 3,000 Butterfly bombs, this officer personally disposed of 66 of these bombs, some of which were fused to detonate on the slightest movement and had fallen in unstable positions. Captain Williams was later employed as a specialist in X-ray photography of bombs and was called to incidents in all parts of the country where unusual features of booby traps were suspected. Throughout his period of service the example in courage and the cheerful and unhesitating acceptance of personal hazard displayed by this officer has been of the very highest order.’ Ronald Ian Williams commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 5 May 1941 and served with 16 Bomb Disposal Company during the Second World War, being awarded the M.B.E. for his gallantry in Bomb Disposal during the War. Sold together with the recipient’s Freedom of the City of London Certificate; various Central Chancery enclosures; Corporation of London letters of congratulations; and copied research. Note: The Gallantry emblem to the M.B.E. was not instituted until 1957, and was not retrospective; however, it would appear that the recipient, feeling he was entitled to it, added the emblem to this M.B.E. riband.

Lot 125

Six: Orderly W. G. Elcombe, Baltic and Corn Exchange Unit, British Red Cross Society 1914 Star (W. G. Elcombe. B.R.C.S. & O.St.J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (W. G. Elcombe. B.R.C.S. & St.J.J.); B.R.C.S. Medal for War Service, unnamed; B.R.C.S. medal for Prioficiency in First Aid, bronze-gilt and enamels (10521 W. Elcombe); Belgium, Military Decoration, silver medal with swords and dated bar ‘1914-1918’ (6) £140-£180 --- William George Elcombe served with the Baltic and Corn Exchange unit of the British Red Cross Society with the British Expeditionary Force from 10 November 1914. His Medal Index Card indicates that a duplicate 1914 Star was issued in August 1921

Lot 129

Six: Chief Petty Officer Albert Scantlebury, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (133175 A. Scantlebury. C.P.O. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (133175 A. Scantlebury. C.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (133175 Albert Scantlebury, C.P.O. H.M.S. Defence); Naval Good Shooting Medal, E.VII.R. (133175 A. Scantleberry, P.O. 1Cl., H.M.S. New Zealand, 1905. 9.2 In. B.L.); Italy, Kingdom, Messina Earthquake 1908, silver, good very fine (6) £600-£800 --- Messina Earthquake confirmed as having landed from H.M.S. Sutlej for the relief operations.

Lot 13

A post-War M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Warrant Officer Class 1 C. Blair, Royal Army Service Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type, breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (S/57366 W.O. Cl. 1. C. Blair. M.B.E. R.A.S.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (S/57366 W.O. Cl. 1. Blair. M.B.E. R.A.S.C.) last officially renamed, generally very fine (7) £200-£240 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1951. The original recommendation states: ‘This Warrant Officer has been recommended previously for an M.B.E. in the New Years Honours Lists 1950 and 1951 and similarly for the Birthday List 1950. The citations on these occasions were as shown below: New Year 1950: ‘In recommending this Warrant Officer for the award of an M.B.E. I am of the view that it would indeed be difficult to find a case more deserving of consideration in time of peace. He has been employed in A.G.8. since 1 April 1946, and has given outstanding service throughout this period. During the past year in particular he has been subjected to quite abnormal conditions, all of which he has overcome in the most exemplary manner. Owing to reductions in staff the clerical work of the Branch has frequently been at breaking point, but on each occasion by his own personal example, initiative and untiring work Blair has averted a crisis. He has been fighting personal ill-health or illness in his family throughout this period, has been uncomplaining and cheerful and the requirements of the Service have always been put before his own personal problems, acute though they have been. To weld into a happy and hardworking team a mixed staff of military and civil servants, many of whom are over 60, is a remarkable achievement, which reflects the greatest credit on such a young Warrant Officer. Birthday 1950: ‘S.S.M. Blair was most highly recommended for the award of a M.B.E. in the New Years Honours List 1950, in view of his outstanding service over many years, the extremely difficult circumstances under which he fulfilled his task as Chief Clerk, A.G.8. up to August 1949, and the success with which he had welded into a happy and hardworking team the mixed staff of military and civilian clerks comprising the establishment of A.G.8. Since that period he has continued to render outstanding service, and his personal example, initiative and untiring devotion to duty have been maintained at the outstanding level on which the previous recommendation was made. Additionally he has devoted himself to the recreational interests of the personnel at Stanmore outside normal working hours.’ New Year 1951: ‘S.S.M. Blair has continued to deserve the high praise given in these previous citations and I would most strongly recommend that he be given the award in recognition of his outstanding services since 1946.’

Lot 130

Five: Chief Mechanic W. A. Skinner, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (K.21176, W. A. Skinner, Sto., 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (K.21176 W. A. Skinner. Sto.1 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (K.21176 W. A. Skinner. A/Mech. H.M.S. Renown.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, contact marks, nearly very fine (5) £120-£160 --- William Alfred Skinner was born in Alnwick, Northumberland, on 29 August 1895, and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 13 November 1913. Advanced Stoker 1st Class on 13 November 1914, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Venerable, and was advanced Stoker Petty Officer on 30 November 1924. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 10 February 1929, he was advanced Chief Mechanic on 24 September 1935, was awarded the 1935 Silver Jubilee Medal, and was shore pensioned on 12 November 1935.

Lot 133

Five: Stoker Petty Officer H. Smith, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. Lancaster during the Messina Earthquake rescue operations of 1908 1914-15 Star (307888, H. Smith, S.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (307888 H. Smith. S.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (307888 H. Smith. Sto. 1 H.M.S. Columbine.); Italy, Kingdom, Messina Earthquake Medal 1908, silver, unnamed as issued, edge bruise to last, generally very fine (5) £180-£220 --- Henry Smith, who was born on 1 July 1886 in Bethnal Green, London, entered naval service on 14 October 1904, seeing service in H.M.S. Lancaster in April 1908 to 1911, during which he was awarded the Messina Earthquake Medal by the Italian Government. He spent much of the Great War in patrol boats, before he was invalided from Chatham Naval Hospital in 1925 with tuberculosis.

Lot 143

Four: Cooper’s Crew M. P. Jordan, Royal Navy, who was landed from H.M.S. Sutlej for relief work at Messina in 1908, and died when H.M.S. Amphion struck a mine on 6 August 1914, the first ship of the Royal Navy to be sunk in the First World War 1914-15 Star (346493. M. P. Jordan. Cpr. Cr. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals ((346439 M. P. Jordan. Cpr. Cr. R.N.) note mistake in Offical Number; Italy, Kingdom, Messian Earthquake 1908, silver, edge bruise to the last, otherwise good very fine (4) £300-£400 --- Maurice Paul Jordan was born at Haulbowline, Cork, on 29 June 1889, and joined the Royal Navy as a Cooper at Haulbowline Yard on 30 November 1903. Advanced to Cooper’s Crew on 29 June 1907, he served aboard H.M.S. Sutlej from May 1908 to March 1909 and was landed from the ship to assist in the relief work on the occasion of the earthquake at Messina in December 1908. He joined H.M.S. Amphion on 2 April 1913, and died when the ship struck a mine on 6 August 1914 off the Thames Estuary and sank with the loss of 132 crewmen killed. She was the first ship of the Royal Navy to be sunk in the First World War.

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Five: Acting Bombardier S. E. Davies, Royal Marine Artillery, who was Mentioned in Despatches and decorated for services with the Naval Mission to Serbia at the defence of Belgrade and subsequent retreat of the Serbian Army in 1915 1914-15 Star (R.M.A. 12733. Gr. S. E. Davies.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (R.M.A. 12733 Act. Bomb. S. E. Davies; Serbia, Kingdom, Silver Oblitch Bravery Medal; Serbia, Kingdom, Silver Medal for Military Virtue, generally good very fine and rare (5) £600-£800 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 21 January 1916: ‘For services with the British Naval Mission in Serbia.’ [2 officers and 2 ratings Royal Navy; 2 officers and 2 other ranks R.M.L.I., and 6 Gunners R.M.A.] Samuel Eber Davies was born at Netherton, near Dudley, Worcestershire, on 18 February 1894, and enlisted into the Royal Marine Artillery at Birmingham on 20 October 1894, aged 17 years 8 months. He was promoted to Gunner in January 1913, and was appointed Acting Bombardier in September 1916, after which he was embarked aboard H.M.S. Repulse for the remainder of the war. He was discharged from the Royal Marine Artillery on 5 July 1922. The purpose of the Naval Mission to Serbia was to prevent the Austrian monitors and patrol launches from using the Danube. As the Serbians had no floating forces and were weak in artillery, the Austrian monitors were free to bombard Serbian positions at will. Directly after the re-occupation of Belgrade by the Serbians in December 1914, a party of R.M.L.I. and seamen were sent hither from Malta. This mission was strengthened in February 1915 by the arrival from England of eight 4.7-in, guns, accompanied by eight R.M.A. ratings under Sergeant C. A. Pearce. The eight 4.7's were organised in four batteries of two guns each, the R.M.A. providing the higher numbers of No. 1 Battery, and seamen those of the remainder. The 4.7 batteries were widely separated to command the rivers, only the R.M.A. No. 1 Battery, under Sergeant Pearce, being close to Belgrade itself, its position being on Veliki Vrachar Hill, on the south-east of the city. By 1 October the Austro-Germans had effected a great concentration opposite Belgrade, and on the morning of the 3rd a terrible bombardment was opened. It was estimated that in the first 24 hours some forty-eight thousand shells fell upon the doomed city. No one had better cause to appreciate the magnitude of Belgrade's bombardment than the occupants of No. 1 Battery on Veliki Vrachar Hill. Commanded by a Serbian artillery officer, with another Serbian officer as second-in command, the battery was composed of Sergeant Pearce with a Corporal and four gunners of the Royal Marines, and a small crew of Serbian soldiers to assist with the heavy work. Of the latter Sergeant Pearce said he could not speak too highly. For the first four days the battery reserved its fire, waiting for the first sign of the enemy to attempt to cross the river. On the 7th they could wait no longer, but opened fire on the batteries along the river front, and for the rest of that day carried on an engagement with no less than 24 Austrian guns. The inevitable happened. As soon as the battery opened fire the aeroplanes corrected the range, and the enemy shells, instead of passing overhead, began to fall upon it, slightly wounding Gunners Carter and Davies. They managed to keep up the unequal contest all day long, and most of the next day, until those two guns were all that was left of Belgrade's defences, and nearly the whole of the Austrian artillery was concentrated upon them. Inevitably, on the night of the 7th, the No. 1 gun was put out of action, and on the following day the No. 2 gun suffered a similar fate. In face of heavy fire, the breech blocks and carriers of both guns were stripped, and under cover of darkness the gun detachments retired to a small village a few miles from Belgrade. In all two were killed and fourteen wounded, these remarkably small casualties being attributed to the excellent construction of the battery. Sergeant Pearce and his gallant little team now joined the rapid retreat of the Serbian army which began on the 12th November, in the face of the advancing Austrians and Bulgarians. Reaching Ipek in Montenegro in late November the most difficult part of the journey remained to be made. The way was across the mountains of Albania to Scutari. Winter had set in, the tracks were so bad and so congested with the debris of the Serbian army that all wheeled transport had to be abandoned, and there was in consequence a great shortage of food. On 13 December the men of the batteries reached Podgaritza, on the 15th Scutari, and on the 19th San Giovanni di Medua. Sergeant Pearce was by now ill with dysentery but the remainder of the party were embarked on H.M.S. Dartmouth and proceeded to England, where they arrived on 29 February 1916. Sergeant Pearce and Corporal A. H. Turner were each awarded the D.S.M., and the four Gunners R.M.A. Gunners of No. 1 Battery (including Davies) were all mentioned in despatches for the battle of Belgrade. Pearce was uniquely awarded the Gold Medal for Bravery and the Gold Medal for Military Virtue, the other members of the battery between them being awarded a further 14 Serbian decorations, probably making them the most highly decorated battery in the history of the Royal Marine Artillery. It is interesting to note that on 1 May 1915, a unit of the Scottish Women’s Hospital was attached to the mission, and that, on 21 December 1916, Samuel Davies married a Scottish lass, Williamina Trail, in Glasgow. Sold with research, including copied record of service and copied extracts from Britain’s Sea Soldiers 1914-1918 - Royal Marines in Serbia, both of which confirm the two Serbian awards.

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Four: Acting Sergeant W. F. Taylor, 2nd Reserve Regiment of Cavalry, attached Military Mounted Police, who was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the French Medaille Militaire for his services with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1914-15 Star (6359 Cpl. W. F. Taylor. 2-R.R. of Cav.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (6359 A.Sjt. W. F. Taylor. 2.R.R. of Cav.); France, Third Republic, Medaille Militaire, silver, gilt, and enamel, significant enamel damage to last, nearly very fine (4) £300-£400 --- French Medaille Militaire London Gazette 21 May 1917: ‘For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign.’ William Frank Taylor was born in 1886 and attested for the 6th Dragoon Guards on 18 January 1902. He transferred to the 2nd Dragoon Guards on 25 January 1903, and was discharged on termination of his first period of engagement on 17 January 1914. He re-enlisted in the Army Reserve (Section D) on 7 February 1914, was mobilised on 5 August 1914, and was posted to the 2nd Reserve Regiment of Cavalry on 12 August 1914, serving with them during the Great War as part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Egypt from 9 April 1915, being Mentioned in General Sir Archibald Murray’s Despatch of 1 March 1917 (London Gazette 6 July 1917). Attached to the Military Mounted Police, he was further honoured with the award of the French Medaille Militaire, and was appointed Acting Sergeant on 29 April 1916. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 13 February 1919. Sold together with the recipient’s original Mentioned in Despatches and French Medaille Militaire Certificates; original Statement of Service; Certificate of Transfer to the Reserve; Third Class Certificate of Education; Protection Certificate and Certificate of Identity; an original portrait photograph and various group photographs; and various other ephemera and research.

Lot 161

Seven: Acting Captain I. P. Morris, Royal Engineers, late Royal Welsh Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. I. P. Morris. R.E.) in named card box of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. I. P. Morris.) in named card box of issue, with outer OHMS envelope for all Great War campaign awards, addressed to ‘Capt. I. P. Morris. Government Laboratory, Cairo. Egypt.’; War Medal 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure slip in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Capt. I. P. Morris, 20 Endell St., London.’; Belgium, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Knight’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in box of issue; Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, Fourth Class breast badge, by Lattes, Cairo, silver, gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband, in damaged box of issue; Belgium, Kingdom, Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze; together and the recipient’s related group of miniatures (lacking the War Medal 1939-45), these mounted as worn, in Spink, London leather case, extremely fine (7) £400-£500 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 7 July 1919. Belgian Croix de Guerre London Gazette 25 July 1918: ‘For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign.’ Belgian Order of the Crown, Chevalier London Gazette 25 July 1918 ‘For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign.’ Egyptian Order of the Nile, 4th Class London Gazette 22 September 1933: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered.’ Ivor Prys Morris was born in 1890 at Penllwyn, Cardiganshire, Wales and was commissioned Second Lieutenant into the 15th Battalion (1st London Welsh) Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 23 February 1915. He served on the General List during the Great War in France from 18 September 1915 and was promoted Temporary Lieutenant and transferred to the Royal Engineers, Special Brigade on 18 January 1916, receiving further advancement to Acting Captain on 1 October 1917. For his services on the Western Front during the Great War, he was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre and the Belgian Order of The Crown (5th Class). Between the wars, Morris was in the employ of the Egyptian Government, his valuable services being recognised by the award of the Order of the Nile (4th Class). He saw further service during the Second World War as a Lieutenant in the Pioneer Corps from 3 February 1941. Sold together with the recipient’s engraved copper calling card template in paper surround ‘Mr. Ivor P. Morris.’.

Lot 166

Three: Private H. A. Paskins, Royal Sussex Regiment, who died at sea on 19 August 1915 from wounds received at Gallipoli 1914-15 Star (4-2082 Pte. H. A. Paskins. R. Suss: R.); British War and Victory Medals (2082 Pte. H. A. Paskins. R. Suss. R.); together with a football prize medal, silver and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘W.S.F.A. 08-09 H. Paskins.’ minor chip to enamel on last, nearly extremely fine (4) £70-£90 --- Henry Arthur Paskins was born in 1896 at Hove, Sussex and attested for the Royal Sussex Regiment shortly after the outbreak of the Great War. He served with the 1/4th Battalion (Territorial Force) in the Gallipoli theatre of war from 8 August 1915 and died of wounds at sea on 19 August 1915. Buried at sea, he is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.

Lot 167

Three: Second Lieutenant D. C. Maclean, Reserve Brigade, late King’s Royal Rifle Corps 1914-15 Star (R-4963 Cpl. D. C. Maclean. K.R. Rif: C.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. D. C. Maclean.) very fine Three: Corporal F. Hearfield, East Yorkshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (6879 A.Cpl. F. Hearfield. E. York. R.); Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, E.VII.R. (4862 Pte. S. Hearfield. 1/V.B. E. Yorks: Regt.) suspension broken from last; together with an Imperial Service bar, and East Yorkshire Regiment cap badge Pair: Private J. Moston, Cheshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (9268 Pte. J. Moston. Ches. R.) very fine Pair: Private T. McInnes, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 19 May 1915 British War and Victory Medals (S-1857 Pte. T. McInnes. A. & S. Highrs.) very fine 1914-15 Star (Sec/5 Dhoby Anthony.) nearly very fine (11) £120-£160 --- Donald Campbell Maclean attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 July 1915. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant on the Reserve List on 6 May 1917, and subsequently received a Silver War Badge. Thomas McInnes attested for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 May 1915. He was killed in action on 19 May 1915; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Sold together with two unnamed West Essex Regiment of Yeomanry Appointment Documents, one of which is signed ‘George Palmer, Lt. Colonel.’

Lot 170

Four: Lance-Corporal A. J. Gooderham, Highland Light Infantry, later Military Foot Police, who died of disease in India on 13 July 1918 1914-15 Star (10459 Pte. A. J. Gooderham High. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (10459 Pte. A. J. Gooderham. H.L.I.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver (10459 Pte. A. Gooderhams [sic] 1st. H.L.I.) regimentally engraved naming; Memorial Plaque (Arthur John Gooderham) good very fine (5) £140-£180 --- Arthur John Gooderham was born in Walthamstow, London, and attested for the Highland Light Infantry at Stratford, Essex. He served with the 1st Battalion in India, and then during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 November 1914, before transferring to the Military Foot Police and proceeding with them back to India. He died of disease at 44 General Hospital, and is buried in Deolali Government Cemetery, India.

Lot 18

The Order of St John and Boer War group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Jocelyn Charles Gore, 6th Earl of Arran, K.P., P.C., Royal Horse Guards, Lord Mayor of Belfast and Lord Chamberlain to H.M. Queen Mary, one of the last two surviving non-Royal Knights of St Patrick Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, silver and enamel; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (Captain A. J. C. Earl of Arran, R.H.G.); Coronation 1911; Turkey, Order of the Medjidie, 4th class breast badge, silver, gold, and enamels, mounted court-style together with mounted miniatures of the first three and four various ribbon bars, good very fine (4) £2,400-£2,800 --- Provenance: Earl of Arran Collection, Spink, 2003; Dix Noonan Webb, December 2008. Arthur Jocelyn Charles Gore, son of the 5th Earl of Arran and the Hon. Edith, daughter of Viscount Jocelyn, was born in 1868. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Horse Guards, in 1889, becoming Lieutenant in 1892 and Captain in 1895. He was known as Viscount Sudley until 1901, when he succeeded to the Earldom upon the death of his father. He served for a while attached to the Egyptian Cavalry (Order of Medjidie, invalided), and served in South Africa during the Boer War with the Royal Horse Guards (Bt. Major, Queen’s medal 4 clasps). He was subsequently Brigadier Commanding all Officers’ Training Corps in Ireland 1909-12. He was invalided in 1914 and took no active part in the war. During the Second World War he raised and commanded the St Mawes Home Guard. The Earl of Arran was invested a Knight Companion of the Order of St Patrick on 13 December 1909, the fourth member of his family to be so honoured. After partition in 1921, the Earl’s house was one of many to be burnt down and he removed with his family to live in England. At the time of his death, on 19 December 1958, he was one of the last two surviving non-royal Knights of St Patrick.

Lot 199

Pair: Trooper H. Tatton-Sykes, Household Battalion British War and Victory Medals (106 Tpr. H. T. H. Sykes. Household Bn.) mounted for display together with a Royal Warrant Holders Association Medal, V.R., silver-gilt (H. Tatton-Sykes, Committee, 1901) the second with scratching in the fields, otherwise very fine (3) £240-£280

Lot 2

An interesting Knight Bachelor’s group of three awarded to Lieutenant Sir Sydney C. T. Littlewood, Royal Flying Corps, later Chairman of the Legal Aid Committee of the Law Society, who, tasked with delivering a brand new F.E. 2D aircraft to the Western Front on 1 June 1916 on what was his first operational flight, lost his way and inadvertently landed at a German aerodrome, where he was captured and taken Prisoner of War- an episode that was raised and debated in the House of Lords Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. S. C. T. Littlewood. R.A.F.) mounted for display purposes in a display frame, together with a Royal Flying Corps silver and enamel sweetheart’s brooch, good very fine (3) £600-£800 --- Knight Bachelor London Gazette 7 June 1951: Sydney Charles Thomas Littlewood, Esq., Chairman, Legal Aid Committee of the Law Society. Sir Sydney Charles Thomas Littlewood was born at Bournemouth, Hampshire, on 15 December 1895 and following schooling embarked upon legal training. A keen pilot, he gained his Royal Aero Club Certificate (no. 1755) at Hendon on 16 September 1915, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps on 17 May 1916. Whilst waiting for a Squadron posting, the War Office sent a message that two FE pilots were required to ferry planes to Squadrons already in France. There was a misunderstanding somewhere, and the planes to be ferried were not ordinary F.E.’s, but the brand new F.E. 2D. When Littlewood discovered this he pointed this out, explained that he was an inexperienced pilot, and that he was unsure of the way to France, never having been there before. Told that there were no spare pilots available, he was given a map and told to get going. On 31 May 1916 Littlewood and his observer, Lieutenant D. L. Grant, left Farnborough for France. They were reported flying over the Allied lines at Armentieres, before disappearing in the direction of Lille. The plane and the crew were posted missing, but on the evening of 1 June 1916 a German wireless communiqué stated, somewhat sarcastically, that an FE had crossed German lines and had descended undamaged at a German aerodrome near Lille after the pilot had lost his way, and that both the pilot and observer were in the hands of the Germans. The enemy further thanked the British for the aircraft, which they said would be ‘most useful’. Imprisoned as a prisoner of War in Holziminden for the remainder of the War, Littlewood was finally repatriated on 3 January 1919. The whole episode surrounding the loss of Britain’s newest aircraft, in enemy hands barely three hours after it had left the factory, was subsequently debated in the House of Lords. Resuming his legal training on the cessation of hostilities, Littlewood was admitted as a Solicitor in 1922, and served as Senior Partner in the firm of Wilkinson, Howlett & Moorhouse. He was a member of the Council of Law Society from 1940, and served as Chairman of the Legal Aid Committee from 1946 to 1952, receiving a Knighthood for his services in 1951. He was appointed vice President of the Law Society in 1958, and died on 9 September 1967. Sold with a large quantity of copied research, and various photographic images of the recipient.

Lot 20

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private J. Riley, Worcestershire Regiment, for his gallantry in rescuing several wounded comrades under heavy fire at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle on 12 March 1915; severely wounded himself, his left leg was subsequently amputated Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (12877 Pte. J. Riley. 1/Worc: Regt.); 1914 Star (12877 Pte. J. Riley. 1/Worc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (12877 Pte. J. Riley. Worc. R.) mounted as worn, very fine (4) £800-£1,200 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 3 June 1915: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Neuve Chapelle. Whilst advancing with his platoon in the attack he attended to several wounded men at great personal risk. Subsequently he was severely wounded in the head and both legs whilst performing similar acts of gallant conduct.’ John Riley attested for the Worcestershire Regiment at Worcester on 6 January 1912, and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 November 1914. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle on 12 March 1915, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal:The Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War gives the following additional information: ‘Outside the trenches the open ground was littered with dead and wounded. Many of the latter were dragged into safety by brave men who dashed out from the trenches and brought in their stricken comrades in spite of the enemy’s fire. Great bravery was shewn by Privates F. E. Riggs and J. Riley, both of whom, although wounded more than once, continued their work of rescue as long as their strength endured.’ Riley was discharged on account of his wounds on 21 March 1916, ‘no longer physically ft for war service’, and received a Silver War Badge, as well as the following testimonial from Halesowen Rural District Council: ‘The Rural District Council of Halesowen offer to you their heartiest congratulations on your safe return from this terrible War and they wish to place on record their high appreciation of the honour you have done the District by your great bravery which has resulted in you receiving the Distinguished Conduct Medal. You were already a soldier at the commencement of the War and in its early stages were brought from Egypt. In the Battle of Neuve Chapelle on 13 March 1915 you whilst under heavy fire assisted in carrying several wounded soldiers including an Officer to safety until you were so badly wounded yourself that you could not continue the work. You were whilst doing this wounded in several places as a result of which you have lost one of your legs. Having passed through many dangers you have been permitted to return safely though wounded to your home and it will be a life long satisfaction to you to know that you have done your part to help your King and Country in their hour of need We are all proud of you and trust that you will have a long life to enjoy the honour you have so well deserved and obtained.’ Sold with the recipient’s large Honourable Discharge Certificate, this mounted on card; a post card photograph of the recipient; his original Certificate of Service and Discharge; two letters from Halesowen Rural District Council; and copied research.

Lot 206

Pair: Private E. E. Broad, Rifle Brigade British War and Victory Medals (48057 Pte. E. E. Broad. Rif. Brig.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse numbered ‘B343687’; and a metal Wound Stripe; and also a card identity disc assumed to belong to a relative, named ‘2406827 R.A.F. CE Broad’, all mounted for display on a card board along with the original ‘Tom Long’ tobacco tin in which the items were found, good very fine (2) £40-£50 --- Sold with copied research.

Lot 211

Three: Sergeant E. P. Symonds, Military Foot Police British War and Victory Medals (739 Sjt. E. P. Symonds. M.F.P.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (739 Sjt. E. P. Symonds. C. of M.P. -Foot-) good very fine (3) £60-£80 --- Edwin P. Symonds attested for the Military Foot Police on 11 October 1897, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 9 August 1914 (entitled to a 1914 Star). He was discharged on 13 January 1919, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.

Lot 135

A Coalport porcelain Art Deco part tea service, each piece decorated in green and silver with triangular motifs, the handles of triangular form, etc., comprising six cups, milk jug, sugar bowl, four saucers, five side plates and a cake plate.

Lot 153

A collection of ceramics, etc., to include a Belleek vase, Royal Crown Derby cruet, resin dog and a silver plated candlestick, etc.

Lot 159

A maroon tooled leather cigarette box, with silver name to top and escutcheon, with cedar lined interior, 25.5cm wide.

Lot 161

A Victorian cranberry tinted glass claret jug, with engraved silver plated mounts, 20cm high.

Lot 170

An early 20thC Japanese lacquered jewellery cabinet, with a hinged lid above two doors, each with silver plated mounts, decorated with a river landscape enclosing four small drawers, above two short and one long drawer on a plinth, 29cm high, 25cm wide.

Lot 20

A Rudall Carte and Co Limited rosewood piccolo, impressed indistinctly for Oxford Street, London, number 5357, with silver plated mounts in a later fitted case.

Lot 201

A Victorian silver teapot, with part reeded decoration, and ebonised knop and angular handle, Sheffield 1900, 7½ oz all in.

Lot 202

An Elizabeth II cut glass decanter, with silver collar, Birmingham 1979, 36cm high.

Lot 203

A pair of Victorian open silver salts, of floral form with fluted edges, Sheffield 1898, 1¼oz.

Lot 207

A Victorian glass whisky noggin with silver collar, lacking stopper, London 1896, 15cm high.

Lot 209

An Edwardian silver wax holder, London 1906, 1¼oz.

Lot 210

An Edward VII silver topped porcelain scent bottle, depicting a lady with fan and a gentleman playing guitar in country landscape, Birmingham 1903.

Lot 212

A Victorian silver pin wheel, repousse decorated with bird, flowers, scrolls, etc., by S Mordan and Co. Ltd.

Lot 214

Two glass and silver topped scent bottles, to include a George VI cut glass example, Birmingham 1942, another the top cast with scrolls etc., Birmingham 1881, and a continental snuff box, raised with bunches of grapes, vines, leaves etc. (3)

Lot 215

A pair of Elizabeth II salt and pepper shakers, by Carr's Silver, Sheffield 2001, 8cm high, 8¼oz all in.

Lot 216

A glass and silver mounted scent bottle, with conical lid, marks indistinct, 10cm high.

Lot 217

An Art Deco silver plated cigarette case, with engine turned decoration initialled D.R.R.

Lot 218

A George VI silver napkin ring, with engine turned decoration, London 1948, 1oz, and a silver plated christening set, the knife engraved with flowers and the inscription Willie Dale aged 1 year, boxed.

Lot 219

A silver taperstick in mid 18thC style, cast with scrolls, etc., loaded, unmarked, 12.5cm high.

Lot 220

Two small items of silver, to include a heart shaped box, with hinged lid, and a silver scent bottle, both marked 925, ¾oz (2).

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