Three: Private W. Terry, Royal West Surrey Regiment, later Middlesex Regiment and Army Service Corps, who was wounded by gun shot to the right foot on 29 October 1915 1914-15 Star (1710 Pte. W. Terry. The Queen’s R.); British War and Victory Medals (1710 Pte. W. Terry. The Queen’s R.) very fine Pair: Private F. Miller, Royal West Surrey Regiment British War and Victory Medals (G-37935 Pte. F. Miller. The Queen’s R.); together with a Royal West Surrey Regiment Prisoners of War ‘Welcome Home’ Medal, unnamed, good very fine (5) £70-£90 --- William Terry was born in 1896 and attested for the Royal West Surrey Regiment on 5 September 1914. He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 July 1915, and was wounded by gun shot to the right foot on 29 October 1915. Returning home, he transferred to the 25th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, on 1 September 1916, and then to the Army Service Corps on 31 March 1917, seeing further service on garrison duty in Singapore. He was discharged on 22 March 1920. Frank Miller attested for the Royal West Surrey Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from after January 1916. Sold with a Honourable Discharge Certificate named to ‘234777 Private Richard G. Mann, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regt.’ dated 25 July 1918. Richard George Mann enlisted on 3 November 1916 and served with the 2nd Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front, prior to being discharged, no longer physically fit for service, on 25 July 1918, being awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold with copied research.
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A Great War ‘Salonika’ A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister Isabella Thomson, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals (Sister I. Thomson.); Greece, Kingdom, Medal for Military Merit, Fourth Class, bronze, generally good very fine (4) £500-£700 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1919: ‘For service in Salonika.’ Greek Medal for Military Merit, 4th Class, London Gazette 26 November 1919. Isabella Thomson was born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, on 5 December 1881, the daughter of a retired Ship’s Master. She took her nursing studies at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary from 1907 to 1910, and applied to join Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve in May 1915. Posted as Nurse to Malta from 25 June 1915 to April 1917, and the 43rd General Hospital at Salonika from April 1917 to October 1918, she was released from service in 1919 in consequence of failing health; her Service Record notes in particular the strain associated with her work in Salonika.
Four: Private F. Clifford, Royal Irish Regiment, later Royal Dublin Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (26213 Pte. D. Clifford. R. Ir: Regt:); British War and Victory Medals (5838 Pte. D. Clifford. R.D. Fus.); Defence Medal, nearly very fine Three: Private C. Gunning, Royal Dublin Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (7682. Pte. C. Gunning. R. Dub. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (7682 Pte. C. Gunning. R.D. Fus.) nearly very fine (7) £100-£140 --- Daniel Clifford attested for the Royal Irish Regiment and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 July 1915. Presumably discharged, he then re-enlisted in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers; consequently he has two Medal Index Cards, and his pair is erroneously named to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. He was demobilised on 11 April 1919. Charles Gunning attested for the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 March 1915. He was discharged on 10 June 1916, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.
Three: Major F. B. Craig, Hampshire Regiment and Machine Gun Corps 1914-15 Star (Lieut. F. B. Craig. Hamps. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. F. B. Craig.) mounted court-style for wear; together with the related miniature awards, nearly extremely fine (3) £80-£100 --- F. B. Craig served with the Hampshire Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 18 February 1915. He saw further service with the Machine Gun Corps, was advanced Major, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold with copied medal index card.
A Great War M.B.E. group of six awarded to Commandant Laura J. Law, St. John Ambulance Brigade and Voluntary Aid Detachment The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919, on lady’s bow riband; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Sister’s) shoulder badge, silver, with heraldic beasts in angles, on lady’s bow riband; Jubilee 1897, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Nursg. Sisr. Miss. L. J. Law.); Coronation 1902, St. John Ambulance Brigade, bronze (L. Law. N.S.); Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Lady Supt. L. J. Law.); Service Medal of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, with four Additional Award Bars (Lady Supt. Miss L. J. Law. 10 July 1908) light contact marks, nearly very fine and better (6) £500-£700 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919. Laura Jessie Law lived at 58 Manville Road, Upper Tooting London, and served as Lady Superintendent of the St John Ambulance Brigade from May 1911. Appointed to Nursing Division No. 10, she was later raised Commandant and placed in charge of Voluntary Aid Detachment No. 86. Further appointed to command the St John Warehouse throughout the Great War, she was later championed by Dame Commander Agnes Jekyll as ‘warmly recommended’ for recognition, receiving the M.B.E. as Secretary of the St John Ambulance Warehouse.
A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Ward Sister Ada A. M. Gibson, Territorial Force Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Sister A. A. M. Gibson.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (S. Nurse A. A. M. Gibson. T.F.N.S.) nearly extremely fine (4) £500-£700 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1919. M.I.D. London Gazette 25 May 1918. Ada Alice Maud Gibson was born in Holloway, London, in 1878, and trained in the Norfolk and Norwich General Hospital from 1899 to 1902. She enrolled as Staff Nurse in the 2nd London General Hospital Unit of the T.F.N.S. on 9 May 1909, and was mobilised on 17 August 1914. Remaining in England for the first few years of the Great War, she finally crossed the Channel to France with No. 53 British General Hospital on 23 April 1917. Raised Sister on 12 August 1918, Gibson was sent to No. 20 Casualty Clearing Station on 6 November 1918, but her time with this unit proved short owing to the Armistice and ill health. Repatriated home aboard the Hospital Ship Jan Breydel, she was admitted to the Prince of Wales Hospital for Officers at Marylebone on 11 March 1919. Recovered, she resumed her civilian nursing career, being recorded in 1921 as a hospital-trained Ward Sister employed at the Jewish Maternity Hospital in Whitechapel. Registering as SRN No. 2946 on 21 April 1922, she finally resigned from the T.F.N.S. on 19 February 1931. Sold with the recipient’s T.F.N.S. cape badge.
Three: Private R. Birt, Royal Dublin Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (18121. Pte. R. Birt. R. Dub. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (18121 Pte. R. Birt. R.D. Fus.) light contact marks, better than very fine (3) £70-£90 --- Richard Birt was born in Howe Bridge, Lancashire, on 6 September 1888, and attested for the Royal Dublin Fusiliers on 6 January 1915. He served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force from 14 March to 10 September 1915, then on the Western Front from 28 March to 9 September 1916. He was discharged, ‘no longer physically fit for War service’, on 15 November 191, having been ‘wounded in his Country’s defence’, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold with the recipient’s original Discharge Certificate; Character Certificate; and card identity disc.
A Great War A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Sister Ethel R. Whittington, Territorial Force Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard & Co. Ltd case of issue; British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18, with integral top riband bar, in card box of issue; France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour, Ministry of the Marine, small gold medal, the reverse officially named ‘Miss Whittington 1908’, gold marks to edge with rosette on riband, in Ch. Marey, Paris, red leather case of issue, extremely fine (3) £200-£240 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, February 2019. A.R.R.C. London Gazette 24 October 1917. Ethel Rose Whittington served during the Great War as a Sister at Moray Lodge Hospital, Camden Hill, London, and was decorated by the King at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 6 April 1918.
Four: Lance-Corporal F. G. Bursey, Hampshire Yeomanry British War and Victory Medals (100029 Pte. F. G. Bursey. Hamps. Yeo.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (100029 Pte. F. G. Bursey. Hamps. Yeo.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (405 L. Cpl. F. G. Bursey. Hants: Yeo.) mounted court-style for wear, light contact marks, very fine (4) £300-£400 --- Frederick G. Bursey attested for the Hampshire Yeomanry on 3 June 1908 and was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 8 of January 1914. He served during the Great War with both the Hampshire Yeomanry and later the Labour Corps, and was discharged due to sickness on 30 May 1919, being awarded a Silver War Badge No. B284293. Sold with copied research.
A fine Great War A.R.R.C., Dame of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem group of four awarded to Lady Superintendent-in-Chief Mrs. Beatrice H. Dent, The Most Venerable Order of Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem and St. John Ambulance Brigade Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow ribbon; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Dame of Justice, gold and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, on lady’s bow riband; Coronation 1911, Police Ambulance Service (Beatrice Dent.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver (Mrs. Lancelot Dent A.R.R.C. For Conspicuous Service 1927.) good very fine and better (4) £700-£900 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 23 February 1917. Beatrice Holdsworth Dent (née Dimsdale) was born in Kensington on 19 July 1878, the daughter of Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale. A banker by profession, her father would later serve as Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1901 and Member of Parliament for the City of London from 1900 to 1906, becoming 1st Baronet Dimsdale on 24 July 1902. In 1899, Beatrice married underwriter Lancelot Wilkinson Dent. The couple soon became parents to a daughter and Beatrice began to focus more upon her work with The Order of St John of Jerusalem and St John Ambulance Brigade. Appointed Commandant and awarded the A.R.R.C., she was decorated by the King at an investiture held in Buckingham Palace on 25 April 1917. Raised Lady Superintendent-in-Chief of the St John Ambulance Brigade Overseas, she left England in 1927 for a tour of inspection of India. For this work and other conspicuous service she was raised Dame of Justice of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in the London Gazette of 3 January 1928. Relocating to Oxfordshire, she is recorded in 1939 as a member of staff of the Women’s Voluntary Service. She died on 30 September 1967 in Eastbourne.
Pair: Private P. W. Stringer, Northumberland Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (29491 Pte. P. W. Stringer. North’d Fus.); Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘345632’, nearly extremely fine (2) £40-£50 --- Percival Walter Stringer was born in Nottingham on 11 April 1892 and attested for the Northumberland Fusiliers on 7 December 1915. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front, before being discharged suffering from tuberculosis of the lung on 8 March 1918, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. He died in Nottingham on 6 February 1957. Sold with a metal wound stripe; and copied research.
Pair: Private H. Crates, 14th (1st Birmingham Pals) Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front at High Wood on 21 July 1916 British War and Victory Medals (1509 Pte. H. Crates. R. War. R.) good very fine Pair: Private F. A. Richmond, Suffolk Regiment British War ands Victory Medals (5091 Pte. F. A. Richmond. Suff. R.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘431999’, complete with safety chain, very fine Memorial Plaque (Thomas Wilson) good very fine (5) £100-£140 --- Henry Crates was born in Birmingham and attested there for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He served with the 14th (1st Birmingham Pals) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1916, and was killed in action at High Wood on 21 July 1916 - entering the line on the southern corner of High Wood facing towards Longueval on 20 July, over the next two days the Battalion was ‘cut to pieces by fire from High Wood’, and suffered total casualties of 485. Crates has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France. Frederick Arthur Richmond attested for the Suffolk Regiment and served with the 4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 January 1916 to 12 August 1918. He was discharged due to wounds, and was awarded the Silver War Badge. His address at the time was Lily Farm, Caldecote, Cambridgeshire. There are numerous men with the name Thomas Wilson on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Roll of Honour.
An extremely rare Great War A.R.R.C. pair awarded to Lady Superintendent Ellen D. Harris, Indian Army Nursing Service, later Voluntary Aid Detachment, who served alongside a small and hand-picked band of nursing staff during the Black Mountain Expedition Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1888 (Sister E. D. Harris Indian Nursing Service) extremely fine (2) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Brigadier H. Bullock Collection, 1956; Tilling Collection. A.R.R.C. London Gazette 6 August 1919: ‘Miss Ellen Harris, Matron, Blytheswood Auxiliary Hospital, West Byfleet.’ Ellen Dovede Harris trained as a nurse at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London from 1885 to 1888. Registered with the Royal British Nurses Association on 2 May 1890, she was selected by Lady Superintendent Loch from the Staff of St. Bartholomew’s and appointed to the Indian Army Nursing Service as one of the original complement of two Lady Superintendents and twelve Nursing Sisters on 21 February 1888. The following day she sailed for India aboard the Malabar. Arriving in April 1888, Harris and four colleagues were posted to Rawalpindi under Lady Superintendent Loch. Here she served as part of the Black Mountain Expedition, receiving the India General Service Medal with clasp. Tasked with attacking the Pathan tribes of Hassanzais and Akezais, the Expedition represented one of the first major campaigns on the North-West Frontier of India. Advancing into unknown and perilous territory, British casualties soon mounted up, especially following the action at Shingri and further engagements at Towara and Kotkai, the British resorting to burning villages in order to achieve capitulation by the tribal elders. Promoted Deputy Lady Superintendent on 1 October 1891, Harris completed her first term of engagement at Peshawar and returned home in 1893. On 19 December 1894, she offered her resignation with six months’ notice in order to take up the position of Superintendent of Lady Robert’s Nurses. These ladies had charge of the Officer’s Hospital at Muree, giving their services to the Station Hospital at Sialkot in the winter. Remaining in India, Harris is later recorded in 1906 as Lady Superintendent at the English Home, M.A.O. College, Aligarh, a post which she held until the commencement of the Great War. Recalled to England, she ended her impressive nursing career in Surrey at the 45-bed Blythswood Auxiliary Hospital, staffed by local members of the V.A.D.
A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Nurse Isobel M. Guthrie, Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Tempy. Nurse I. M. Guthrie.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Nurse I. M. Guthrie.) very fine (4) £500-£700 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘In recognition of valuable service with the British Forces in Mesopotamia.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 7 February 1919. Isobel Muriel Guthrie was born on 20 August 1893 and initially served in Mesopotamia as a Temporary Nurse on a six-month contract with Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India. Awarded the A.R.R.C. and further mentioned by Lieutenant General W. R. Marshall for ‘gallant and distinguished services in the field’, Guthrie was later posted as Nursing Sister to Basrah in Iraq. Here she met and married Captain Harold S. Digges of the Wiltshire Regiment, the ceremony taking place on 10 March 1921. Sold with the recipient’s original M.I.D. certificate and copied research which notes that she received her decoration in India in the latter half of 1924.
A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Nursing Sister Mabel O. Lindsay, Canadian Army Medical Corps, late Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service for India Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, the obverse privately engraved to obverse ‘Mabel Ogilvie Lindsay June 1918’, on lady’s bow riband; 1914-15 Star (N. Sister M. O. Lindsay. Can: A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (N. Sister M. O. Lindsay) good very fine (4) £400-£500 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 21 June 1918. Mabel Ogilvie Lindsay was born in Edinburgh on 12 July 1881 and completed her nursing studies at the Radcliffe County Hospital in Oxford. She spent the following three years with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Nursing Service for India, before attesting for the Canadian Army Medical Corps Nursing Service on 29 March 1915. Appointed Nursing Sister at No. 16 Canadian General Hospital in Orpington, Kent, she received her A.R.R.C. at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 22 February 1919.
A Great War A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Nursing Sister Alexandra E. Lowe, South African Military Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard & Co. case of issue; British War and Victory Medals, with copy M.I.D. oak leaves (N/Sister. A. E. Lowe.) good very fine and better (3) £400-£500 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919. The original recommendation states: ‘For devotion to duty at Fort Johnston, where she has carried out her duties both day and night as Sister-in-charge.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 31 January 1919. Alexandra Elizabeth Lowe, a professional nurse, was appointed to the South African Military Nursing Service as Nursing Sister on 23 July 1917. Proceeding to Central Africa via Beira on 8 August 1917, she arrived at Zomba for duty at No. 2 Hospital on 19 August 1917. Mentioned in General Hawthorn’s Despatch for ‘excellent services during the period 1 December, 1917, to 31 July, 1918’, Lowe was later decorated for her work at Fort Johnston in Nyasaland. Founded by Sir Harry Johnston in the 1890s to defend the southern tip of Lake Nyasa, the Fort provided barracks for the 1/4th King’s African Rifles during the Great War and offered a staging post for counter-operations against enemy troops under the command of Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. Lowe left Nyasaland in January 1919 and returned home to Pretoria on 4 February 1919. Released from service, she gave her future address as 39 Newbury Road, Durban. Sold with copied research.
A fine Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Matron Agnes Midgeley, British Committee of the French Red Cross Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals (A. Midgeley. B.R.C. & St. J.J.); France, Third Republic, Medaille de La Reconnaissance, bronze, unnamed, edge nicks to VM, very fine and better (4) £400-£500 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918. Agnes Midgeley was born in Grimston, Yorkshire, on 20 February 1885, and took her nursing studies at the Anlaby Road Infirmary in Hull from January 1909 to January 1912. Volunteering for service with the British Committee of the French Red Cross at the outbreak of hostilities, she was soon posted as Sister to the Anglo-French Hospital at le Treport. This unit was founded and maintained by the Honourable Lady Murray and initially operated as a 65-bed hospital in a former golf hotel. It was later taken over by the British Red Cross in the summer of 1916 as a hospital for British Officers. It was at around this time that Midgeley’s health began to weaken. After four operations on a septic arm she was evacuated home to England aboard the Hospital Ship Brighton on 25 January 1917. Remaining on sick leave for nearly four months, she returned to her former hospital - now known as No.10 B.R.C.S. - as Matron. Awarded the A.R.R.C. and noted in her Red Cross Record as recommended for the French decoration, she was demobilised on 7 January 1919. Sold with the recipient’s copied Nursing Service Record and an extract from the Journal Officiel, dated 21 December 1919, which offers in the French language a citation to the French award: ‘Miss Midgley (sic) (Agnes) of British nationality, senior nurse in the hospitals of the British Red Cross and the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, diligent work in the important functions of a senior nurse in the service of the sick and injured French people, rendered with a dedication to every moment’; and copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient.
An inter-War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Nursing Sister Leonora C. Hooper, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service, who was heavily engaged in treating wounded servicemen on the First Day of the Gallipoli landings Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; 1914-15 Star (Nursing Sister, L. C. Hooper, Q.A.R.N.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals (N. Sister L. C. Hooper Q.A.R.N.N.S.) very fine and better (4) £400-£500 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1930. Leonora Chamberlain Hooper was born in Carisbrooke, Hampshire, on 24 August 1884. She trained for her nursing certificate at Northampton General Hospital from 1906 to 1909, and entered Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service as a Probationary Nursing Sister at Haslar on 4 September 1912. Transferred to Plymouth on 1 November 1913, she served aboard the Hospital Ship Soudan from 17 August 1914 to 4 September 1915. A converted transport vessel, Soudan played an important role in the Gallipoli Campaign, much of it documented by the S.M.O., Dr. G. Trevor Collingwood, M.V.O., in his publication Notes on the Work of a Naval Hospital Ship at the Dardanelles: ‘The first operations consisted in the destruction and demolition of the forts at the entrance, and between February 25 and March 19, 1915, 137 Naval casualties were received, after which there was a lull, only four wounded being sent on board. The next operations consisted in the landing of the Army supported by the Navy, under a very heavy fire from both sides of the Straits. From April 25 to May 1, 429 wounded were received, 352 Military and 30 Naval Ratings being admitted on the first day. After this, the Army having established a footing ashore, the “Soudan” withdrew to a safer anchorage.’ Returned to Plymouth, Hooper spent a further period of service aboard the Hospital Ship Berbice from 28 February 1917 to 3 March 1918, spending the final months of the Great War back at Haslar. She subsequently registered with the General Nursing Council as SRN No. 9564 on 27 October 1922 and was employed on an overseas tour to Malta in the early 1920s. Transferred to R.N. Sick Quarters at Ganges on 15 February 1928, she was awarded the A.R.R.C. and retired to pension on 15 July 1934. Taking employment as a lady’s companion, she is later recorded in 1939 as a resident of the Isle of Wight and serving as an A.R.P. warden.
The outstanding N.G.S. medal awarded to Captain Thomas Moore, Royal Marines, whose distinguished services with the marines of the Amphion over a period of 8 years gained him three mentions in despatches and the Brevet of Captain; he was senior officer of marines in the action off Lissa, was twice very severely wounded and twice rewarded from the Patriotic Fund Naval General Service 1793-1840, 3 clasps, 28 Aug Boat Service 1809, 28 June Boat Service 1810, Lissa, fitted with a fourth unofficial clasp inscribed ‘Umago’ (Thomas Moore, 1st Lieut. R.M.) fitted with contemporary ribbon and silver ribbon brooch, pin lacking on this, extremely fine and rare £12,000-£15,000 --- Provenance: Sotheby, November 1979 and June 1990; John Goddard Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, November 2015. ‘28 Aug Boat Service 1809’ [15 clasps issued - real date of action 27 August] of which 5 are known, Lieutenant Moore being the only R.M. officer to receive this clasp: David Buchanan, Yeoman of the Sheets; C. G. R. Phillott, Lieutenant R.N. (Royal Naval Museum); Charles H. Ross, Midshipman (Patiala Collection, Sheesh Mahal Museum, India); William Slaughter, Lieutenant R.N. (National Maritime Museum). ‘28 June Boat Service 1810’ [25 clasps issued] - of which 13 are known, including examples in the National Maritime Museum; Royal Naval Museum (2); and the Patiala Collection (Sheesh Mahal Museum, India). ‘Lissa’ [124 clasps issued] - including 3 Royal Marine officers: William S. Knapman, 1st Lieutenant, Volage; John Mears, 2nd Lieutenant, Active; and Thomas Moore, 1st Lieutenant, Amphion. ‘Umago’ - this unofficial, privately added clasp commemorates Captain Moore’s part in the destruction, at the town of that name, of a 2-gun battery and the capture of 4 vessels, loaded with wine, that had been scuttled on 8 June 1813. Thomas Moore joined the Royal Marines as a Second Lieutenant on 14 January 1801; First Lieutenant, 15 August 1805; Captain, 21 November 1810; Barrack-Master, Portsmouth Division, Royal Marines, 16 August 1827, which position he held for upwards of 30 years. Captain Moore’s distinguished and gallant services are thus concisely stated in Major Hart’s Army List for the year 1857: ‘Captain Moore served in H.M.S. Amphion from May 1803 to July 1811; was in the action with and capture of four Spanish frigates off Cape St. Mary’s; action with flotilla of gun-boats in Gibraltar Bay; cutting out a schooner in Corsica; a severe action with a French frigate, and driven on shore under the batteries in the Bay of Rosas in 1808. Served at the taking of Pessara, and capture of large convoys. Commanded the marines at the taking of Cortelazza in 1809, and taking 6 gun-boats. Commanded the marines of the squadron at the taking of Grao and large convoys laden with military stores, after a most sanguinary action with a garrison of French troops at the point of the bayonet, when the whole of the garrison were killed, wounded, or taken prisoners - for this action and previous services he was made Brevet Captain. Present also at the capture of several other towns on the coast of the Adriatic, and destruction of convoys. He was senior officer of marines in the action off Lissa, 13th March 1811. Was twice very severely wounded, and twice rewarded from the Patriotic Fund. He has been in upwards of 30 successful contests with the enemy, and frequently officially mentioned for gallantry. Has received the War Medal with three clasps.’ Mentioned in despatches London Gazette 1809, pp 479-481 (taking of Cortelazza, 27 August 1809). Mentioned in despatches London Gazette 1810 p 319 (taking of Grao, 28 June 1810: ‘It is hard to particularise where all distinguish themselves, but the conduct of Lieutenant Moore, who commanded the Marines... is spoken of in such high terms by all, that I feel it a duty to mention him, and I do it in that confidence of his worth which his exemplary behaviour, during Five Years’ Service together, has long insured him.’). Mentioned in despatches London Gazette 1811 pp 159, 162 (action off Lissa: ‘Captain Moore of the Royal Marines, of this ship, received a wound, but returned to his quarters immediately it was dressed.’). Sold with copied research including gazette extracts mentioned above.
The Waterloo medal awarded to Lieutenant John Coen, 28th Foot, who was slightly wounded at Vittoria in June 1813 and again wounded at Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815 Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. John Coen, 28th Regiment Foot.) fitted with contemporary replacement hinged silver bar suspender engraved on either side “QUATRE BRAS” and “16th JUNE 1815”, the obverse with contact pitting, otherwise better than good fine, the reverse nearly very fine £3,400-£4,000 --- On 16 June 1815 at Quatre Bras the 28th in company with the 1st Royal Scots marched to the support of the hard-pressed 42nd and 44th, forming square and standing firm in a tall field of rye while subject to continuous attacks from French cavalry. Major Llewellyn wrote: ‘The rye in the field was so high, that to see anything beyond our own ranks was almost impossible. The Enemy, even, in attacking our Squares, were obliged to make a daring person desperately ride forwards and plant a flag, as a mark, at the very point of our bayonets. On this they charged, but were invariably repulsed. It fell to the lot of the 28th to bear a leading share in this Action, and I may say they lost none of their former reputation. They were frequently hardly pressed, but never lost their discipline and their self-possession. Once, when threatened on two flanks by what Sir Thomas Picton imagined an overwhelming force, he exclaimed, “28th, remember Egypt.” They cheered and gallantly beat back their assailants, and eventually stood their position.’ Two days later at the Battle of Waterloo the 28th repeatedly displayed both its renowned dash and steadiness when it played a critical part in defeating the first attack of D’Erlon’s French 1st Corps. Wellington’s controversial Waterloo Despatch, written in the night of the 18-19 June, mentioned only one English Infantry Regiment by name – the 28th: ‘The troops of the 5th Division, and those of the Brunswick corps, were long and severely engaged, and conducted themselves with the utmost gallantry. I must particularly mention the 28th, 42nd, 79th, and 92nd Regiments, and the battalion of Hanoverians.’ John Coen was appointed Ensign in the 28th Foot, from the Sligo Militia, on 7 April 1808, and was promoted Lieutenant on 29 January 1810. He served in the Peninsula with the 1/28th from September 1810 to March 1811, and from July 1811 to the end of the war in April 1814. He was present at Tarifa, Barrosa, Cadiz, Almaraz, the retreat from Burgos, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Garris, Orthes, Aire, and Toulouse, being slightly wounded at the battle of Vittoria on 21 June 1813; also in the campaign of 1815 where he was wounded at the battle of Quatre Bras on 16 July 1815. He was still serving as a Lieutenant in 1827 but appears to have left the regiment before 1830 and did not live to claim a medal for his Peninsula service. The medal is accompanied by an old copy of a cover from Lieutenant Coen, then apparently serving with the regiment at Corfu, dated 2 January 1827, addressed to his wife at ‘Millbrook, St Heliers, Jersey
Waterloo 1815 (William Holmes, 42nd or R.H. Reg. Infantry.) fitted with steel clip and contemporary silver bar suspension, solder deposit near obverse clip, overall light contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £2,000-£2,400 --- William Holmes was born in the Parish of Alness, near Tain, Ross-shire, and enlisted into the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment at Fort George, Inverness, on 30 May 1807, aged 20, for unlimited service. He served with the regiment as a Private throughout the Peninsula and at Waterloo and lived to claim the M.G.S. medal for the battles of Busaco, Fuentes d’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes and Toulouse, at which last battle the musters record him as being wounded. He was promoted to Corporal in June 1820 and to Sergeant in November 1821, but reverted to Private in December 1822 and was discharged in that rank at Chatham on 13 January 1830, ‘his constitution being very shaken by rheumatism and infirmities of age.’ Sold with copied discharge papers and full muster search.
A Second War A.R.R.C. group of six awarded to Principal Matron Sheila H. McDowall, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, who was decorated for her work at No. 63 General Hospital in Tobruk Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver and enamel, reverse dated ‘1942’, on lady’s bow riband; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (Sister. S. H. McDowall. Q.A.I.M.N.S.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, nearly extremely fine (6) £700-£900 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 9 September 1942. The original recommendation by the Officer Commanding states: ‘This lady has worked at this hospital for a year. During this period she has always held posts of great responsibility and she deserves the highest credit for her powers of organisation, her nursing ability and her tact. She has fired her juniors with equal enthusiasm for their work. Her own work here is worthy of high reward.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 30 June 1942. Sheila Helen McDowall was born in Pontefract, Yorkshire, on 4 October 1909. She trained as a nurse at Guy’s Hospital in London from 1931 to 1934, being registered SRN No. 72871 on 22 June 1934. Appointed Staff Nurse on probation in the Q.A.I.M.N.S. on 1 May 1937, she was sent to Millbank in London and on to Cambridge Military Hospital at Aldershot in December 1937. Posted overseas to Palestine in November 1938, she was raised Sister and went on to render extensive service at No. 63 General Hospital in Cairo from November 1940. Transferred to Tobruk in April 1942, she was later Mentioned in Despatches and decorated with the A.R.R.C. Returned to England, McDowall received her award at an investiture held by the King at Buckingham Palace in November 1943. She subsequently nursed at hospitals in York and Catterick, before being sent to Accra in West Africa as Principal Matron. Following post-War duties in Johannesburg and Ceylon, McDowall returned home and retired from the service on 6 March 1948. She married Cecil R. Mullins in Winchester in 1956 and died there in March 2001 at the age of 91. Sold with copied research.
China 1842 (John M. Jeffery, Lieut., 98th Regiment Foot.) with small ring affixed to original suspension post and fitted with contemporary replacement silver bar suspension and ribbon buckle, toned, edge bruising and polished, therefore good fine £700-£900 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- John Morton Jeffery was appointed Ensign in the 98th Regiment, by purchase, on 28 June 1836; Lieutenant, by purchase, 22 June 1838; Captain, by purchase, 31 March 1843; Major, by purchase, 1853, and retired the same year by the sale of his commission. On 24 August 1855, he was appointed to a commission as Major in the North York Rifle Regiment of Militia. He died on 5 June 1880, at Bishop Stortford, aged 63. 'The deceased joined the regiment as ensign in June, 1836, and embarked in December, 1841, with headquarters for China, where he served with our expeditionary force, taking part in the attack and capture of Chin Kiang Foo, and the landing before Nanking (medal). He retired from the Army in 1853.’ (Naval & Military Gazette, 16 June 1880, refers).
A Great War M.B.E., Order of St. John group of six awarded to Commandant W. R. Magnus, British Red Cross and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, who ferried large numbers of wounded men between hospitals in London and the Home Counties in his ambulance The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1918; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, silver, with heraldic beasts in angles; Jubilee 1897, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Private W. Magnus); Coronation 1902, St. John Ambulance Brigade, bronze (W. R. Magnus 2nd. Offr.); Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Supt. W. R. Magnus.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, with one Additional Award Bar (Supt. William R. Magnus. July 1911.) nearly very fine and better (6) £300-£400 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918: ‘Chief of the Train Control Section, Great Eastern Railway.’ William Robert Magnus was born in Chipping Hill, Essex, around 1878. A married railway clerk, later Assistant to the London Divisional Superintendant of the Great Eastern Railway (Liverpool Street Station), he is recorded in 1911 and 1921 as a resident of 51, Stanhope Gardens, Ilford. Appointed Commandant in the British Red Cross and Order of St John of Jerusalem in May 1915, Magnus served at Oakwood Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital. His Red Cross index card adds: ‘Mr. William Robert Magnus, 51 Stanhope Gardens, Ilford, Essex. Organised whole of ambulance transport in connection with Ilford Emergency Hospital, also assisted in connection with Oakwood Red Cross Hospital, Chigwell - a total of 84 convoys and 1500 soldiers. In addition 44 journeys were arranged to various London and provincial Hospitals with transfer cases, over 100 wounded were transferred involving journeys varying from 10 to 110 miles. Personally driven car 6000 miles. Air Raid duties of detachment also.’
A fine Second War A.R.R.C. group of six attributed to Sister Hilda Cryne, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, who saved the lives of men suffering from smallpox in Algiers Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver and enamel, reverse dated ‘1943’, on lady’s bow riband; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, very fine and better (6) £400-£500 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 16 September 1943. The original recommendation by the Officer Commanding, No. 94 General Hospital, states: ‘During February and March 1943, a number of cases of severe Smallpox were treated in this wing. Only one of the small Nursing Officer staff could be spared for nursing these cases, and Miss Cryne immediately volunteered for this duty. She, assisted by four nursing orderlies, nursed and cared for the patients in the most devoted and unselfish manner - working in tents in cold and very wet weather and under most trying conditions. To her unremitting care some of the worst cases undoubtedly owe their lives. It is a very great pleasure to recommend that an award be made to this Nursing Officer in recognition of, and in appreciation of her most valuable work and outstanding devotion to duty.’ Hilda Cryne lived in Crosby, Lincolnshire, and took her nursing studies at St. Andrew’s Hospital in Bow from 1938 to 1941. Commissioned into Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve as Sister on 7 October 1942, she sailed for North Africa and was taken on the strength of No. 94 General Hospital on 21 December 1942. Remarkably, she was recommended for the A.R.R.C. less than six months after joining the service, a feat commensurate with the high degree of risk associated with the smallpox contagion. A letter which accompanies the lot from the recipient’s brother to the present vendor, dated 12 July 1993, adds: ‘She served in both the Italian and African campaigns. She was blown up in an ambulance in Italy and as a result suffered spinal injuries which confined her to a hospital bed for 3 months... The medal (A.R.R.C.) was presented to her in Rhodesia by the Queen Mother, then the wife of the late King George VI.’ Sold with the original Buckingham Palace named enclose to Miss Hilda Cryne, A.R.R.C., two letters from the recipient’s brother, and copied research including a coloured photograph of her.
A fine Second War A.R.R.C. group of six awarded to Assistant Matron Eva D. Murray, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, who maintained the ‘best Florence Nightingale tradition’ whilst under enemy fire at Anzio Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver and enamel, reverse dated ‘1944’; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine and better (6) £400-£500 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 21 December 1944. The original Recommendation states: ‘On the nights of 14th, 15th and 22nd February, 1944, on the Anzio bridge-head when bombs were bursting all around the Camp, Miss Murray completed tours of all the wards, supervising her patients and Staff with complete disregard for her own personal safety. Her magnificent devotion to duty did much in reassuring the patients and helped to allay their fears which are increased manyfold in bedridden patients. Her administrative and tactful supervision of the Nursing Officers and orderlies of the C.C.S. was excellent, and was in keeping with the best Florence Nightingale tradition. In this way, she did much to encourage the Nursing Staff, as well as improving the morale and comfort of the patients.’ Eva Doris Murray took her nursing studies at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1921 to 1924 and registered as SRN No. 39070 on 18 September 1925. As a pre-War member of Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, she was called up upon the outbreak of the Second World War and sent to No.4 General Hospital at La Baule. Evacuated home aboard Dorsetshire on 17 June 1940, she was raised Senior Sister on 1 January 1943 and posted to North Africa as Sister in Charge of No.2 Casualty Clearing Station. Joining her unit as Damascus, No. 2 C.C.S. soon travelled on to Amiriya, Turi and Anzio on 8 February 1944. Awarded the A.R.R.C. for gallant and distinguished service in Italy, Murray was raised Assistant Matron at No. 94 British General Hospital and was finally released from service around 1946. Sold with original named Buckingham Palace enclosure and copied research.
A Second War A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Nursing Member Beatrice J. Hayward, British Red Cross Society, who was ‘indefatigable’ in her attention to the wounded following an air raid on Gosport, and was later the recipient of a Commander in Chief’s Commendation for a similar event Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver and enamel, reverse dated ‘1945’, on lady’s bow riband; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (3) £400-£500 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1945. The original recommendation states: ‘R.N.H. Haslar. She showed outstanding zeal after an air raid, and was indefatigable in her attention to the injured and in reassuring women personnel in damaged quarters.’ Commander-in-Chief’s Commendation 28 May 1944: ‘For good services after an air raid.’ Beatrice Jane ‘Janie’ Hayward (née Eley) was born in Market Drayton, Shropshire, on 25 January 1920. She married William Thomas Hayward at Gripping in Suffolk in late 1939, but the marriage proved a brief one with the loss of her husband on 5 June 1941 in consequence of the torpedoing of the troop transport Anselm by U-96. Enrolling as a Nursing Member in the British Red Cross, Hayward served with the Sussex V.A.D. at Horsham, before being posted to Haslar on 10 March 1944. Billeted at the W.R.N.S. Quarters on St. Michael’s Road, Portsmouth, she was promoted Nursing Member Grade 1 on 10 June 1944 and awarded the A.R.R.C. six months later. Sold with a fine archive of original documentation, including: letter of notification regarding A.R.R.C. award from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated 4 January 1945; letter of notification from the British Red Cross, dated 1 January 1945, noting her ‘outstanding zeal, patience, and cheerfulness, and for courage and whole-hearted devotion to duty while serving in H.M. Naval Hospitals.’; letter of congratulations from the Chairman of the V.A.D. Standing Committee, dated 2 January 1945; notification slip regarding investiture of A.R.R.C. at Buckingham Palace on 3 July 1945; British Red Cross Society letter of congratulations regarding the award of the Distinguished War Service Certificate, dated 7 March 1945, and corresponding note of congratulations from the Commodore and Officers of the R.N. Barracks, Portsmouth; together with a fine assortment of personal correspondence, including a letter from the B.B.C. inviting Hayward to appear on the programme ‘What’s My Line?’ as a Stock Car Racing Driver - something at which she appears to have excelled.
A post-War A.R.R.C. pair awarded to Head V.A.D. Nursing Member (Naval Hospitals) Mabel Middleton, British Red Cross Society Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver and enamel, reverse dated ‘1947’, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, silver (Miss Mabel Middleton); together with the recipient’s British Red Cross Society Medal with Proficiency in Red Cross Nursing top riband bar, with three additional award bars, Red Cross Nursing 1943, Red Cross Nursing 1944, Red Cross Nursing 1945 (39976 M. Middleton); and British Red Cross Society 3 Years Service Medal, with three additional award bars, unnamed, with card boxes of issue, minor enamel loss to third, good very fine and better (4) £300-£400 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1947. Mabel Middleton joined the British Red Cross Society on 12 June 1940 and received her A.R.R.C. by registered post on 19 July 1947. Sold with the recipient’s original B.R.C.S. Certificate of Membership card, No. A43974, which notes her address as Trent Valley Road, Lichfield, this renewed to reverse until 1960; B.R.C.S. Certificate of Enrolment, Form D (8); two pairs of V.A.D. pin badges, enamel and base metal, by J. R. Gaunt, unworn and in original card boxes, in very good condition.
A fine post-War ‘Burma’ A.R.R.C. group of five awarded to Squadron Officer Eileen M. Knox, Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 2nd issue, silver and enamel, reverse dated ‘1949’; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (Sister E. M. Knox. P.M.R.A.F.N.S.); Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (5) £700-£900 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 9 June 1949. The original recommendation states: ‘This Nursing Sister has been employed on nursing and administrative duties in Burma for the last 12 months, she was appointed Matron to 65 M.F.H., Mingaladon in February 1946, at the time the M.F.H. was converting to a station hospital, and she has remained as Matron since that date. During the period that she has been Matron she has worked untiringly for her patients and staff. In spite of the very adverse conditions existing at Mingaladon, and throughout the Command as a whole, she succeeded rapidly in making the Hospital an efficient unit from the nursing aspect. It was due to the efforts of A/Matron Knox and her staff Nursing Sisters that, although faced with a shortage of both supplies and facilities, the comfort and welfare of the patients was achieved with such success. In addition to her work for the Hospital itself, she exerted a degree of tact and firmness in the organisation of the Sisters Mess which was one of the major factors in maintaining an esprit de corps during the difficult post-war transitional period. A/Matron Knox, as the personality responsible for the high standard of morale and efficiency of her Nursing Sisters, has, by devotion to duty in a trying overseas theatre, contributed considerably to the reputation and prestige of her Nursing Service and of the Royal Air Force.’ Eileen Mary Knox was born in Worthing in 1908. Trained as a nurse at the Royal Free Hospital from 1930 to 1933, she registered as SRN No. 76136 on 15 March 1935. Selected for Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service as Staff Nurse with seniority from 12 January 1937, she was sent to R.A.F. Halton for training and then on to Palestine, qualifying for the GSM with clasp. Raised Sister on 21 January 1938, Knox served with No. 10 R.A.F. General Hospital, before joining No. 60 Mobile Field Hospital at Rangoon on 17 September 1945. Appointed Matron of No. 65 Mobile Field Hospital at Mingaladon in February 1946, her valuable work was later recognised with the award of the A.R.R.C. alongside compatriot Senior Sister Lucie Mary Wainwright. Returning to England, she spent the final couple of years of her career at the R.A.F. Hospital, Cosford, before retiring on 12 January 1951. Sold with original Buckingham Palace award letter and copied research.
A post-War A.R.R.C., B.E.M. group of five awarded to Head Naval Nursing Auxiliary Jean M. A. Workman, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), E.II.R., silver and enamel, reverse dated ‘1957’; British Empire Medal, (Military) E.II.R. (Miss Jean M. A. Workman. A.R.R.C., Q.A.R.N.N.S.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue (0019 J. M. A. Workman. H.N.N.A. H.M.S. Collingwood.) good very fine (5) £340-£400 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 13 June 1957. B.E.M. London Gazette 2 June 1962. Jean Margaret Allan Workman was born in Kensington in 1902, the daughter of Irish shipbroker Robert A. Workman. Raised by a governess and surrounded by servants at a property in St. John’s Wood, she moved to Hayling Island in the 1930’ and took employment with Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service in Portsmouth. Awarded the A.R.R.C. as Head Voluntary Aid Detachment Nursing Member (Naval Hospitals), she was further recognised with the award of the British Empire Medal in 1962. Retired to 63 St. Thomas’s Avenue, Hayling Island, she died on 14 August 1977.
A post-War A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Colonel Mary J. Clune, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), E.II.R., silver and enamel, reverse dated 1979; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Borneo (Capt. M. J. Clune. QARANC.); Ghana, Republic Day Medal; together with the recipient’s Q.A.R.A.N.C. Cape Badge, silver, hallmarked Birmingham 1950, good very fine and better (4) £240-£280 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 16 June 1979. Mary Josephine Clune was born in the Scariff district of County Galway on 20 January 1934. Trained in Ireland, she was granted a short service commission in the Q.A.R.A.N.C. on 5 February 1958, and was raised Captain on 1 April 1962 whilst employed with the Army of Ghana. Transferred to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers on 5 February 1963, she spent two years serving with the Far East Land Forces at Terendak Hospital in Malaysia, before being appointed Major on 13 September 1968. Transferred to Singapore from 1970 to 1972, and Berlin and Nepal from 1975 to 1978, Clune was appointed Matron of the British Military Hospital in Munster in July 1980 and was raised Lieutenant Colonel on 31 October 1983. Posted to Rinteln in November 1984, she ended her career at Catterick in the rank of Colonel, retiring to pension on 2 April 1988. Sold with copied research which confirms entitlement to the Ghana Republic Day Medal of 1 July 1960 under A.C.I. 241 of 1961, with restrictive permission for wear.
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901, date clasp a tailor’s copy (4653 Cpl. A. R. T. Richards, 41st. Coy. 12th Imp: Yeo:) good very fine £100-£140 --- Anthony Reynell Threlfull Richards was born in London in 1874 and attested for the Imperial Yeomanry at Newport, Isle of Wight, on 8 January 1900, having previously served in the Hampshire Carabineers. He served with the 41st (Hampshire) Company, 12th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War from 31 January 1900 to 8 June 1901, and was discharged on 15 June 1901. He saw further service as a Major with the Hampshire Regiment and Machine Gun Corps during the Great War, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold with copied service papers; medal roll extracts; and other research.
A fine and impressive Order of St. John group of seven awarded to Officer Elsie F. Bell, St. John Ambulance Brigade, late Voluntary Aid Detachment, whose nursing service spanned nearly half a century The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Dame of Grace lady’s shoulder badge, gold and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, on lady’s bow riband; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Sister’s) shoulder badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, on lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals (E. F. Bell. V.A.D.); Defence Medal; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Service Medal of the Order of St John, with four Additional Award Bars (Cty/Supt. E. F. Bell. Derby. S.J.A.B. 1953.) minor white enamel loss to obverse tips of second, very fine and better (7) £400-£500 --- Elsie Ferguson Bell was born in Stafford in 1891, the daughter of Sir John Ferguson Bell of Mickleover, a former Mayor of Derby. A nurse by profession, she served in France with the Voluntary Aid Detachment from 18 October 1916, including postings to No. 25 Stationary Hospital at Rouen, No. 47 General Hospital at Le Treport, No. 2 Stationary Hospital at Abbeville and No. 81 Stationary Hospital in Marseilles. Returned home to Derby, she later nursed in Ward VI of the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, her appointment finally ending on 15 March 1919. Remaining in the Service of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, she is recorded in The Derbyshire Times of 18 June 1943 as a County Cadet Officer for the Nursing Division. A year later she is noted as 1st Lady County Cadet Officer. She was finally invested by Lord Wadhurst in March 1963 as a Dame of the Order of St John, the ceremony taking place at the Grand Priory Church, Clerkenwell, London.
An Order of St. John group of six awarded to District Superintendent of Stores S. B. Piers, St. John Ambulance Brigade The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Brother’s) breast badge, silver, with heraldic beasts in angles; St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (Dist. Supt. of Stores S. B. Piers. No.1 Dist); Jubilee 1897, bronze (Supt. S. B. Piers); Coronation 1902, St. John Ambulance Brigade, bronze (S. B. Piers. Supt. of Stores.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, with five Additional Award Bars (District Supt. of Stores. Shute B Piers 1906.) nearly very fine and better (6) £400-£500 --- Shute Barrington Piers was born in Weymouth on 10 April 1864, the son of Captain Shute Barrington Piers, Royal Navy. A bank cashier and resident of Lewisham, he witnessed extensive service with No. 1 District, St John Ambulance Brigade. He died in Croydon in 1947.
An Order of St. John group of seven awarded to Acting Sergeant C. G. Merritt, St. John Ambulance Association, late 22nd (County of London) Battalion (The Queen’s), London Regiment The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, silver and enamel, heraldic beasts in angles; British War and Victory Medals (4822 A.Sjt. C. G. Merritt. 22-Lond.R.); Defence Medal; Southern Railway St John Ambulance Association Medal, with 7 years top brooch bar, bronze, reverse inscribed ‘Carl G. Merritt 1926.’; Southern Railway St John Ambulance Association Medal, with 14 years top brooch bar, silver, reverse inscribed ‘Carl G. Merritt 1933.’; Southern Railway St John Ambulance Association Medal, 9ct. gold, with 21 years top brooch bar and 40 years additional award bar, the medal reverse inscribed ‘Carl Merritt 1940’ and the bar ‘1959’, minor contact marks to BWM and VM, otherwise good very fine (7) £200-£240 --- Carl George Merritt was born in Wimbledon on 28 October 1896 and served in France with the London Regiment during the Great War. He later devoted over 40 years of his life to the Southern Railway St John Ambulance Association, being recorded as Officer of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in the London Gazette of 7 January 1955. Retired to Dorset, he died in Poole in 1985.
A particularly fine Great War M.B.E. group of five awarded to Miss Ada Crosby, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, who ‘transformed’ the Buekers Hotel in Finsbury Square into a fully functioning 100-bed Auxiliary Hospital The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1916, in Garrard & Co. Ltd. case of issue; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Dame of Grace set of insignia, comprising shoulder badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, in case of issue; Star, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, silver, with three Additional Award Bars (Ada Crosby) good very fine and better (6) £500-£700 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918: ‘Superintendent, Domestic Staff, City of London Auxiliary Hospital, Finsbury Square.’ Ada Crosby was born in 1860, daughter of Sir Thomas Boor Crosby, M.D., L.L.D., F.R.C.S., a prominent London surgeon and Lord Mayor of the City of London from 1911 to 1912. A long standing member of the British Red Cross and Order of St John of Jerusalem, she was appointed Dame of Grace in the London Gazette of 4 March 1913 and was awarded the M.B.E. for her work at the City of London Auxiliary Hospital. A fine contemporary article published in The British Journal of Nursing, titled ‘Care of the Wounded’ and dated 4 September 1915, adds: ‘Miss Crosby, the Commandant, an ex-Lady Mayoress, is there, daily with Miss G. A. Rogers, and in their capable hands a transformation is going on, and a new landmark created at the junction of Finsbury Square and Christopher Street, where all who run may read that the City of London Red Cross Hospital henceforth dominates that pleasant corner.’ Raised Honorary Secretary to the B.R.C.S., Crosby also served as Vice President of Birkbeck College and sat for many years on the St. Pancras Borough Council. The recipient’s obituary published in The Times on 9 October 1948, further notes: ‘Her father was a widower when he was elected Lord Mayor and she filled the role of Lady Mayoress during his term of office with grace and distinction.’
An Order of St. John group of five awarded to Mrs. Mary Stock, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Sisters) shoulder badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, on lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals (M. Stock.); France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour, Ministry of War for Devouemont Epidemies, silver, reverse embossed ‘Mrs. M. Stocke 1915’; Society for Aid to the Military Wounded Cross 1914-19, silver, with original red cross riband and olive branch, good very fine and better (5) £240-£280 --- Mary Stock served as a Nurse with the British Committee of the French Red Cross during the Great War.
An Order of St. John pair awarded to Leading District Officer A. M. Walker, Order of St. John of Jerusalem The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, silver, with heraldic beasts in angles, in fitted case of issue; Service Medal of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, silver, with three Additional Award Bars (7465 L/Dis Offr. A. M. Walker District Staff No.1 Dis S.J.A.B. 1929.) in H. T. Lamb & Co. fitted case of issue, extremely fine (2) £70-£90
An Order of St. John group of six awarded to Mrs. J. A. Crewe, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Sister’s) shoulder badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (J. A. Crewe. B.R.C.S.); Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with two Additional Award Bars (Mrs. Jessie A. Crewe) mounted as worn, very fine (6) £140-£180
An Order of St. John group of four awarded to Chief Nursing Officer Noreen Hamilton-Wedderburn, St. John Ambulance Brigade The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Sister’s) shoulder badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, on lady’s bow riband; Defence Medal; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Service Medal of the Order of St John, with one Additional Award Bar (45491. Chief/Nsg/Off. Hamilton-Wedderburn. Hqs. S.J.A.B. 1951.) very fine (4) £80-£100 --- Noreen Hamilton-Wedderburn was born in Hanover Square, London, on 29 January 1913, the second daughter of Captain Henry Hamilton-Wedderburn of the Scots Guards. Noted in the Leicester Daily Mercury of 16 June 1952 as Chief Nursing Officer of the St John Ambulance Association in London, she married Colonial Diplomat John Almeric de Courcy Hamilton in June 1960, and died in Fulham on 24 February 1990.
Imperial Service Medal (4), G.V.R., Circular issue, 1st ‘coinage head’ issue (Alfred Millar.); G.VI.R., 1st issue (James Prior, M.M.) officially re-impressed; E.II.R., 1st issue (Alfred John Critcher); E.II.R., 2nd issue (Robert Sydney Granger) all in Royal Mint cases of issue; Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (2) (Sub Officer Edward R Hurren; Stat Offr Martin D Davies) first in Royal Mint case of issue, the second in Birmingham Mint case of issue; Corps of Commissionaire’s Badge, silver and enamel, reverse engraved ‘W. S. Graver’, generally good very fine (7) £100-£140
Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 1st issue, large letter reverse, edge dated (John Hoare, Corporal 12th Regiment Foot. 1842.) impressed naming, with later silver eyelet suspension, edge bruising, nearly very fine £280-£340 --- John Hoare was born in Millstreet, Cork, Ireland. He attested for the 96th Foot at Bandon, Cork in December 1805, and served with the Regiment until December 1818, when he transferred to the 12th Foot. Hoare advanced to Corporal in January 1824, and was discharged in November 1842, having served for 27 years and 315 days. Sold with copied service papers.
An impressive Order of St. John pair awarded to Sister Flora K. Fitzmaurice, Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve, who risked her own life to save others during a serious typhus outbreak in 1897 The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s shoulder badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background, on lady’s bow riband, the reverse privately engraved ‘Flora Kathleen Fitz Maurice Inniskea Augt. 1897. Conferred Augt. 1898.’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Sister F. K. Fitzmaurice. I.Y. H.P. Staff.) good very fine (2) £300-£400 --- Flora Kathleen Fitzmaurice trained as a nurse at the City of Dublin Nursing Institution and was one of 11 nurses selected from that hospital to nurse the victims of a typhus outbreak on the remote west coast island of Inniskea. Located off the coast of the Belmullet peninsula in County Mayo, the island offered extremely primitive working conditions. An extract from the British Journal of Nursing offers a vivid description: ‘The nurses who first went to the island had to cook both for the patients and for themselves, to wash their own clothes and to do everything that was possible under the circumstances for the patients also. The food was scant and of very bad quality. There were no beds, and when the nurses had done a hard day’s work in all the filth and misery prevailing among the people, they were often unable to cook any food for their own use, and had to go without... They had at one time forty-eight cases of typhus to nurse in the separate huts, and had to visit all of these patients two or three times a day. They made no complaint, but worked on until they both broke down, and both took typhus fever from those whom they were attending.’ Contracting typhus herself, Fitzmaurice was fortunate to survive. She was later decorated with the Order of St John of Jerusalem, the bestowal by the Countess Cadogan at the Vice-regal Lodge offering public recognition to both the individual nurses and the Order of St John, the group citation noting: ‘in recognition of very conspicuous and devoted conduct in the month of June, during an outbreak of virulent typhus fever on the Island of Inniskea on a very wild and barren part of the west coast of Ireland.’ Making a good recovery, Fitzmaurice enrolled in Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve on 2 July 1900, and served on the Staff of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Dreelfontein during the Boer War. Sold with private research and a copied group photograph of the 11 nurses decorated by the Countess Cadogan, the recipient being among their ranks.
An Order of St. John group of three awarded to Superintendent H. Allott, St. John Ambulance Brigade The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background; Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Supt. H. Allott.); Service Medal of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, silver (Supt. H. Allott. Batley Div: Dewsbury & Dist. Corps. 1912.) polishing to second, otherwise very fine and better (3) £120-£160 --- Harry Allott was born around 1866 and married Sarah Ann Goddard in Batley, Yorkshire, on 29 March 1902. The Yorkshire Observer of 30 August 1944, offers a little more information: ‘Leeds Death of Mr. Harry Allott. Mr Allott, who has died at his home at Ashton Terrace, Hunslet, Leeds, at the age of 78, was a founder of the Batley Ambulance Brigade and later became its Superintendent. He was also a corps inspector of ambulance stores for the West Riding. He was a captain-quartermaster in the R.A.M.C. in the last war.’
A poignant Great War Order of St. John casualty group of six awarded to Nursing Sister Thelka Bowser, Voluntary Aid Detachment and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, who died at home in St Leonards on Sea after becoming seriously unwell whilst on active service in France The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s shoulder badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background, on lady’s bow riband, engraved to reverse ‘St. John’s Gate, Clerkenwell 1.6.1915 - 19.3.1916’; 1914-15 Star (T. Bowser. V.A.D.); British War and Victory Medals (T. Bowser. V.A.D.); Coronation 1902, St. John Ambulance Brigade, bronze (T. Bowser. N.S.); Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Nurs. Sister T. Bowser.) very fine and better (6) £400-£500 --- Thekla Bowser - sometimes known as Ida Thekla or Lola Thekla - was born in Marylebone in 1877, the daughter of John Carrick Bowser of London. A Serving Sister of the Order of St John since 1902, she nursed with No. 92 (London) District, V.A.D., from 1 June 1915 to 3 February 1916, but became unwell whilst in France. Discharged on 19 March 1916 in consequence of an intestinal obstruction, she was issued Silver War Badge No. 166182 on 23 June 1917. She died a little over a year later on 11 January 1919 and is commemorated upon the Screen Wall of Hastings Cemetery in Sussex. Sold with the recipient’s corresponding miniature award of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, engraved to reverse as per the full-size decoration.
An Order of St. John group of six awarded to Nurse Mary E. D. Burkitt, Voluntary Aid Detachment, later St. John Ambulance Brigade The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s shoulder badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with with enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background, on lady’s bow riband; 1914-15 Star (M. E. D. Burkitt. V.A.D.); British War and Victory Medals (M. E. D. Burkitt. V.A.D.); Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Nurs. Sister M. E. D. Burkitt.); Service Medal of the Order of St. John, silver, with two Additional Award Bars (6291 A/Sis M. E. D. Burkitt. Balham & Streat. Nsg Divn. No. 11 Ds. S.J.A.B. 1975 [sic]), the unit and incorrect date to last re-engraved, light contact marks, nearly very fine and better (6) £260-£300 --- Mary Emily Dorothea Burkitt was born in Castle Connell, Limerick, Ireland, in 1879. A resident of 8 Woodfield Avenue, Streatham, she attested for the Voluntary Aid Detachment and served with the Order of St John at Moka Hospital in St Malo from 29 October 1914 to March 1915. Returned briefly to England, she embarked for France on 13 May 1915 and served until December 1916 at No. 3 General Hospital at Le Treport. This was followed by a third term as a nurse in France from 20 March 1917 to March 1919, before release from service. Appointed Serving Sister in the St John Ambulance Brigade on 23 June 1939, it seems likely that Burkitt witnessed further service during the Second World War; her home borough of Streatham was particularly hard hit during the London Blitz, with particular emphasis on the railway line. Worse was to come on 3 August 1944, when 12 people were killed by a V1 flying bomb in the Pendle Road area. Surviving the attentions of the Luftwaffe, V1 flying bombs and V2 rockets, Burkitt died on 1 January 1951 at Limes Nursing Home, Streatham Hill.
Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (360 Pte. J. Lumsden. 7/R. Hdrs.) good very fine £60-£80 --- John Lumsden was born in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, on 13 March 1879 and attested for the 7th Battalion, Royal Highlanders (Territorial Force) on 9 April 1908. He was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 107 of 1 April 1912, and was advanced Sergeant Cook on 27 October 1920. He does not appear to have served overseas during the Great War, but was awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold with copied attestation and service papers.
Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (4680295 C.Q.M. Sjt. J. Cuff. 5. K.O.Y.L.I.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (3708038. C/Sjt. R. Pinder. K.O.Y.L.I.) minor official correction to surname; together with an unofficial General Service Cross, silver, the reverse engraved ‘KOYLI. RAC. R. Leary. Sen Dec 1938 - Dec 1950’, in GSC card box of issue, light contact marks to first, very fine and better (3) £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- James Cuff attested for the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and served with the 5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 April 1915. Advanced Company Quartermaster Sergeant, he was awarded his Territorial Efficiency Medal per Army Order 72 of 1925.
National Fire Brigades Union Long Service Medal, silver, unnamed, the edge impressed ‘356’, in case of issue; National Fire Brigades Association Long Service Medal, silver, with 2 ‘Five Years’ clasps, and ‘Twenty Years’ top riband bar, unnamed, the edge impressed ‘2050’; together with a London Fire Brigade lapel badge, silvered and enamel; and a Belgian Civil Decoration, 3rd issue, Silver Cross, on riband for administrative long service, nearly extremely fine (4) £60-£80
Newcastle Volunteers Prize Medal 1806, 46mm, silver, the engraved obverse depicting a figure in Roman costume presenting a volunteer to a seated Britannia, the reverse engraved ‘Prize Medal presd. by Coll. Clennell to Willm. Mountain Right Battn. N.V. Decr. 24 1806’, with ‘England Expects Every Man to do his Duty’ around, indistinct hallmarks to edge, with flat silver loop suspension, edge bruising, otherwise good very fine and rare £200-£240 --- Referenced in Blamer, V.667; and Hastings Irwin p.369 (one of three Newcastle Volunteers Medal, all different, recorded) William Mountain was bon in Swillington, Yorkshire, on 16 January 1778. He is shown in the Muster Lists for the 2nd Company of Newcastle Loyal Volunteers for 1804. Sold with copied research. Note: Owing to the uncertainty that exists with the original provenance and manufacture of some early engraved Regimental and Volunteer Medals, this lot is sold as viewed.
Loyal Clapham Fencibles 1810, a circular engraved medal with stepped border, 51mm, silver (no hallmarks), obverse: above ‘Loyal Clapham Fencibles’ in a scroll with a kneeling riflemen scene, below ‘The Reward of Merit’; reverse: inscribed ‘Private Robert Weymss Best Shot in the Regiment 1806’, with fixed ring suspension and ring, good very fine £100-£140 --- Note: Owing to the uncertainty that exists with the original provenance and manufacture of some early engraved Volunteer Medals, this lot is sold as viewed.
An Order of St. John group of four awarded to Nurse Cynthia M. Owen, Voluntary Aid Detachment and Order of St. John of Jerusalem The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s shoulder badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background, on lady’s bow riband; 1914-15 Star (C. M. Owen. V.A.D.); British War and Victory Medals (C. M. Owen. O. St. J.) very fine and better (4) £160-£200 --- Cynthia M. Owen lived at 73, New Cavendish Street, Marylebone, and initially worked as a Nurse at Gifford House Auxiliary Hospital in Roehampton from 7 November 1914 to 14 July 1915. Sent to St. John’s Gate, Clerkenwell, from 6 September 1915 to 9 October 1915, she served in France at Etaples with No. 96 Division (London) S.J.A.B., from 22 October 1915 to 2 June 1918. British Red Cross records note that she returned home to London on sick leave for two months and was married soon thereafter, becoming Mrs. Morkill. Sold with the recipient’s St John Ambulance Association re-examination cross, silvered, engraved to reverse ‘166406 Cynthia Owen’; St John Ambulance War Service Badge No. 497, with London suspension; and a fine Etaples ‘Xmas 1915’ Order of St John of Jerusalem sweetheart brooch, silver and enamel.
18 Hussars Regimental Medal, a late Victorian piece comprising a uniface struck five-pointed silver star with ball finials, 65mm diameter excluding suspension, unmarked, ‘XVIII HUSSARS’ and motto of the regiment within a Garter and wreath below a crown, two arms bearing battle honours for ‘Peninsula’ and ‘Waterloo’, fitted with swivelling scroll suspension, very fine and rare, apparently unrecorded £140-£180
Army Temperance Association India Three Year Medal, silver, unnamed; Army Temperance Association Queen Victoria Commemorative Medal, silver, unnamed; a cast Army Temperance Association King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Cross, original naming details on the reverse obscured in the casting process; together with a pre-1901 K.O.Y.L.I. glengarry badge; two K.O.Y.L.I. sweetheart brooches; five 51st Foot/ K.O.Y.L.I. buttons; two items of cloth insignia; and a privately produced identity bracelet, inscribed ‘A. E. Middleton, 2218 K.O.Y.L.I.’, generally very fine (lot) £40-£50 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Albert E. Middleton attested for the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 4 December 1914. He later transferred to the Royal Defence Corps.
An Order of St. John group of four awarded to Private J. E. Death, Devonshire Regiment and Order of St. John of Jerusalem The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background; British War Medal 1914-20 (64919 Pte. J. E. Death. Devon R.); Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Service Medal of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, silver, with three Additional Award Bars (3061. Sgt. J. E Death. (Ipswich 1st.) Div. No.10 Dist. S.J.A.B. 1923) very fine and better (4) £120-£160 --- John Ernest Death lived at Lister Road, Ipswich, and initially served on convoy duties with the British Red Cross in his home town. Called up for active service in June 1916, he remained in England with the 2/6th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, and is recorded upon his MIC as entitled to the BWM only. Transferred to the Army Reserve on 10 July 1919, he took employment in Ipswich as an Assistant Elementary Schoolmaster and was later decorated as a Serving Brother in the Order of St John of Jerusalem, as notified in the London Gazette of 3 January 1930.
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