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Lot 365

22nd Foot Order of Merit 1785 (3), gilt for 21 years good conduct; silver for 14 years good conduct; and bronze for 7 years good conduct, all fitted with loops for suspension, very fine or better (3) £300-350

Lot 371

Three: James H. Marsh, Southern Railway St. Johns Ambulance Association Southern Railway St. Johns Ambulance Medal (3) by J.T. & Co., for 21 Years, 9ct. gold (James H. Marsh, 1941) hallmarks for Birmingham 1939, with gilt brooch bar; another, for 14 Years, silver (James Marsh, 1934) hallmarks for Birmingham 1933, ; another, for 7 Years, bronze (James H. Marsh, 1927) extremely fine (3) £160-200

Lot 372

Russian Silver Cigarette Case, 104 x 72 x 18mm. (approx.), outside of hinged lid engraved with Russian double-headed eagle clasping crossed swords and bearing the cypher of Nicholas II, inside of lid inscribed in Russian, a translation reads, On kind and long memory to dear chief a staff captain D. N. Golubinzevu from the lowest grades of 17th aviation group. November 10th, 1915, with stamp marks, with signs that at one time the lid was also fitted with a badge, minor indentations, good condition £150-250

Lot 398

A fine group of twenty-three Orders and Medals awarded to Lieutenant-General Maurice Hector Robert Delvoie, Belgian Army Belgium, Order of Leopold I, Grand Officers breast star with swords, silver, gold and enamel; Order of the Crown, Grand Officers breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, slight enamel damage; Order of Leopold I, Officers breast badge with swords, base gilt metal and enamel, lacking obverse centre, with rosette and A palm on ribbon; Order of the Crown, Officers breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with rosette and A palm on ribbon; Order of Leopold II, Officers breast badge, base gilt metal and enamel, with rosette and crossed swords on ribbon; Croix de Guerre 1914-18, A cypher on reverse, with three A palms on ribbon; Yser Cross 1914; Croix du Feu; Victory Medal 1914-18; War Commemorative Medal 1914-18, with four bars; War Commemorative Medal 1940-45; U.N. Medal, on UNMOGIP ribbon; Belgium, Military Cross, silver-gilt and enamel; Centenary Medal 1930, silver - the twelve medals linked together for display; France, Colonial, Order of the Black Star of Benin, Grand Cross set of insignia, sash badge, silver-gilt and enamel; breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with full sash; France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Commanders neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, enamel loss and damage to centres and wreath, with neck cravat; Czechoslovakia, Order of the White Lion, Grand Officers set of insignia, Civil Division, by Karnet Kysely, Prague, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck cravat; breast star, silver and enamel; U.S.A., Medal of Freedom, with silver palm; France, War Commemorative Medal 1939-45, no clasp; Croix de Guerre 1939, with bronze palm; G.B., 1939-45 Star; France ad Germany Star; Defence and War Medals - the seven medals linked together for display; Commemorative Cross, gilt, inscribed, GÄnÄral Delvoie, Palais du Gouvernement Nancy 8 Juillet 1945; together with a set of 22 miniature dress medals, mounted on two bars, similar to the above (with the addition of the Belgian Evaders Cross); with Belgium, Commemorative Medal 1870-71; Commemorative Medal 1865-1905; together with a mounted set of five miniature dress medals attributed to the Generals wife: Belgium, Order of the Crown, Chevalier, silver and enamel; G.B., 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, generally good very fine except where stated (56) £2500-3000 Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm, citation: Major General Maurice Delvoie, Belgian Army, for exceptionally meritorious achievement which aided the United States in the prosecution of the war against the enemy in Continental Europe, while serving as Belgian Military Attache to the French Government at London and Paris, from July 1943 to April 1946. Major General Delvoie performed his duties in an outstandingly excellent manner. In addition to his normal duties he was extremely active as a liaison officer between Allied Forces dealing with matters pertaining to the repatriation of Belgian prisoners. Furthermore he was of great assistance in co-ordinating the instruction of Belgian officers with that given Americans at United States Officer-Training Center at Fontainebleau. Major General Delvoies great tact, diplomacy, and superior devotion to the allied cause contributed materially to the maintenance of close Belgo-American relations, reflecting high credit upon him and the Allied Armed Forces Maurice Hector Robert Delvoie was born in Antwerp on 21 March 1885. He entered the Belgian Army Cadets School in 1901, becoming a 2nd Lieutenant in the Belgian Infantry in 1904. In 1905 he joined the 3rd Lancers, becoming a Lieutenant in 1912. As a Lieutenant in the cavalry he entered the Great War from the onset and remained at the front for the duration of the conflict, serving in both the cavalry and artillery. At the end of the war Delvoie held the rank of Acting Major, being promoted to that rank in 1922, Lieutenant-Colonel in 1930 and Colonel in 1935. In 1938, Delvoie was posted to the Belgian Embassy in Paris as Military Attache. During 1939-40 he served as the head of the Belgian military mission to the inter-allied commander, being promoted to Major-General in 1939. Following the fall of France, Delvoie escaped to Britain and joined the Belgian Government-in-Exile. He was appointed as an advisor to the Belgian Minister of Defence and also served as Belgian Military Attache and Liaison Officer to General de Gaulle, 1941-44. Amongst his wartime services was to set up and operate an escape route through Spain and Portugal (code name Benoùt) Approximately 200 allied personnel were evacuated through this route. Following the allied invasion and the liberation of the Low Countries, Delvoie returned to Belgium and took charge of the repatriation of Belgian prisoners-of-war and refugees. After the war Delvoie served as Belgian military advisor to the Paris Peace Conference of 1946. Less than a year later he was appointed to head the Belgian delegation to the United Nations Commission for Greece - following the civil war in that country. Delvoie formally retired from the Belgian Army in 1946, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant-General. Was later the Force Commander for UNMOGIP (United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan). Later emigrating to Canada, Lieutenant-General Delvoie died in Montreal on 12 April 1971. With a photograph album containing photographs dating from 1912 to 1946 - mostly of a military nature; a riband bar, and a letter from a member of Delvoies family; together with copied research, including service record and the article, From the Trenches of the First World War to UN Peacekeeping: A Recipient of the Medal of Freedom: Lieutenant-General Maurice Delvoie, by Christopher McCreery.

Lot 400

Egypt, Republic, Liberation of Kuwait Medal 1990-91 2nd Class, silver and enamel, stamp mark on suspension, n.r., good very fine, scarce £90-110

Lot 406

Germany, Empire, Naval Wound Badge, silver grade, hollow type, pin-backed, good very fine £50-70

Lot 409

Germany, Third Reich, N.S.D.A.P. ôBlood Orderö 1923, 2nd striking, silver medal marked 800, reverse numbered, 3465, minor edge bruise, good very fine £1000-1200

Lot 427

A U.S.A group of four awarded to Lieutenant Carter Carnall Mathies, United States Navy U.S.A., China Service Medal 1937-57, Navy issue; National Defense Medal; U.S. Navy Expert Pistol Shot Medal; Brazil, Naval Distinguished Service Medal, silver cross, all unnamed; with a mounted set of four miniature dress medals; together with an identity disk, Mathies, C. C., 545067 USN ôOö Protestant, extremely fine (9) £120-160 Carter Carnall Mathies was born in Wister, Oklahoma, on 5 December 1933. He graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of New Mexico in 1954, and was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. Assigned to the destroyer U.S.S. Kidd in the Pacific Fleet. Awarded the China Service Medal for service on the Kidd off Formosa during the Amoy-Matsu Crisis in 1956. In 1958 he was assigned as an aide to the U.S. Naval Attache to Brazil. Awarded the Brazil Navy Distinguished Service Medal in 1960. Was later posted to the U.S.S. Perkins as Operations Officer; he was discharged in 1962. After his military service he entered the Investment Banking field and was a Senior Vice President with a major international securities firm until his death in 2006. With award document for the Brazil Navy Distinguished Service Medal, named to Capitao Tenete Carter Carnall Mathies and dated 21 December 1960; case of issue for the Brazilian medal, with riband bar, case with paper label, Lt. Carter Carnall Mathies, USN 545067 Navy Distinguished Service Medal by Brazil; with copied commission document appointing Mathies Lieutenant (Junior Grade), 3 December 1956, and copied service record; papers in a Department of the Navy plastic folder..

Lot 430

Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps Part Officers Edwardian Uniform, comprising a fine quality rifle green tunic named to Lieut-Col. J. J. Wright, the tunic embellished with black frogging corded bosses and corded epaulettes, these with the correct rank insignia, the collar complete with blackened silver plated collars featuring a tea plant, the unit title and the motto Unitas Salus Nostra; a fine black leather pouch belt and pouch, the former with ornate plate featuring a crowned circle, Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps, this enclosing the cypher EVIIR all within sprays of tea plant flowers and leaves along the base, Unitas Salus Nostra, the belt complete with plated whistle, chains and lions mask boss; black corded cap lines with the tunic, the whole retailed by Messrs Hobsons, Lexington Street, London, slight stitching faults around the collar otherwise good overall condition £250-350

Lot 431

A Composite Small Sword, the 80.5cm blade of diamond section, the upper fullers with lettering Sebastian Ernane and Evel??te Toledo, solid section shell guards pas dane rings and reeded quillons, the handguard of silver sheet bound with silver herringbone pattern wire, the globular pommel of swept reeded style, the knuckle bow with reeded central section, repair to one of the quillons and the bladed pitted and now plated overall £200-300

Lot 454

A fine Peninsula War Gold Medal group of four awarded to Major Charles Campbell, C.B., 26th Foot and 3rd Portuguese Regiment, later a Colonel in the 1st Foot (Royal Scots), severely wounded at the assault of St Sebastian Field Officers Gold Medal 1808-14, for Vittoria, 1 clasp, St Sebastian, the clasp a good quality contemporary copy in silver-gilt (Major Charles Campbell) complete with gold ribbon buckle; Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Corunna (C. S. Campbell, C.B. Capt. 26th Foot); Portuguese Peninsular War Cross, for 2 Campaigns, English pattern in silver-gilt with swivel-ring straight bar suspension and gold ribbon buckle; Portuguese Commanders Medal, for 2 actions, circular gold medal, the obverse with two green enamelled lozenges inscribed Vittoria and St Sebastian, reverse plain, with gold swivel-ring straight bar suspension and gold ribbon buckle, good very fine (4) £18000-22000 Charles Stuart Campbell was born in New York, America, on 12 April 1779. He was aged 17 upon his first appointment to the Army on 7 December 1796 as an Ensign in the 26th Foot, being advanced to Lieutenant in December 1797, to Captain in May 1804, and to Brevet Major in September 1813. He served in Canada from 1796 to 1800, and in Egypt in 1801-02. Campbell next served with the 26th Foot in Portugal and Spain in 1808-09, including the battle of Corunna, where he commanded the piquets of his brigade. Later in 1809 he took part in the expedition to Walcheren and the siege of Flushing. Returning to the Peninsula in 1811, Campbell commanded the 3rd Portuguese Regiment at the battle of Vittoria, and also at the siege and assault of St Sebastian, being severely wounded in the thigh at the assault, the ball remaining lodged. He was mentioned in Grahams St Sebastian dispatch, dated Oyarzun, 1 September 1813, and also in Lord Lyndochs dispatch and Marshal Lord Beresfords order of the day. In respect of his wound at St Sebastian he received one years pay and a Pension of ú250, and was appointed a Major by Brevet in the 26th Foot and a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Portuguese Army. Campbell was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in the 26th Foot in 1822, and in the same rank in the 1st Foot (Royal Scots) on 24 January 1829. Created a Companion of the Bath in September 1831, he was placed on Half-pay in October 1838, was promoted to Colonel in November 1841 and to Major-General in June 1854. Campbell died at Reading on 30 August 1854.

Lot 456

Pair: Corporal John Slater, 52nd Foot, one of the small detachment present at the battle of Talavera, wounded in the head at Nivelle, and a Waterloo man Military General Service 1793-1814, 12 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes DOnor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (John Slater, Corpl. 52nd Foot); Waterloo 1815, (Corporal Iohn Slater, 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Light Infantry) contemporary re-engraved naming, fitted with wide silver bar suspension, the first very fine, the second with edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £6000-8000 Ex Hyde Gregg Collection 1877 and Whitaker Collection 1890. Only 2 officers and 24 men of the 52nd received the clasp for Talavera, where they served in the 1st Battalion Detachments. Only 87 medals were issued with 12 clasps including 18 to the 52nd Foot, one other with this combination of clasps. John Slater was born in the Parish of Ilkestone, Derby, and enlisted into the 52nd Foot at Battle, Sussex, on 6 May 1804, for unlimited service, aged twenty. A stocking weaver by profession, he served with the 52nd in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. He was wounded by a musket ball in the head at the battle of Nivelle on 10 November 1813, and was discharged on reduction of the establishment of the regiment, at Uxbridge, on 6 December 1818. According to Daltons Waterloo Roll Call (A Few Waterloo Heroes - p 273) he afterwards exchanged into the 69th. In 1848 Slater claimed his right to the silver war medal with 14 clasps - one clasp more than Wellington obtained - but only got a medal with 12 clasps. He died at Nottingham in 1860. Sold with copy discharge papers.

Lot 458

A Crimean War Naval Brigade Al Valore Militare group of six awarded to Captain J. G. Courtenay-Everard, Royal Navy; his ships mascot Timothy the Tortoise survived until 2004 Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Taku Forts 1858, unnamed as issued; Legion of Honour, Knights breast badge, silver, gold and enamels, fitted with silver ribbon buckle, enamels chipped and damaged; Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class, silver, gold and enamel; Al Valore Militare, Spedizione DOriente 1855 1856 (Lieut. J. G. C. Evered, Nl. Bde.); Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, unnamed, fitted with silver ribbon buckle, unless otherwise stated, good very fine or better and a rare group (6) £3500-4000 Only 30 Al Valore Militare awarded to the Royal Navy for the Crimean War. The citaition states: Served with the Naval Brigade upwards of eight months. Was present at every bombardment except the first, and on one occasion was wounded. John Guy Courtenay Evered was born in 1830 and passed his examination in May 1852. For his services as Senior Mate of the Queen 116, Captain Frederick Thomas Mitchell, in the attack of 17 October 1854 on the sea-defences of Fort Constantine, Sebastopol, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 9 November following (Crimean and Turkish medals, Sebastopol Clasp, Knight of the Legion of Honour, 5th Class Medjidie). He was afterwards employed on shore for eight months in the Naval Brigade in the Crimea as Additional of the Britannia 120 and Royal Albert 121, bearing the flags of Admirals Deans Dundas and Sir Edmund Lyons, and as Lieutenant of his former ship the Queen. He was present at every bombardment of Sebastopol but the first, and was once wounded (awarded the Sardinian Medal for services in the Naval Brigade before Sebastopol). He returned to England in the Queen under the command of Captain Robert Fanshawe Stopford in 1856. From 1857 until 1859 he served in the Princess Charlotte 104, Captain George St. V. King, Fury steamer 6, Captain Charles Thomas Leckie, and Nankin 50, Commodore Hon. Keith Stewart, on the coast of China, where he took part as Lieutenant of Fury in the operations of 1858 including the capture of the Taku Forts (China Medal and Clasp, Taku Forts). He married, 24 August 1859, Gertrude Eliza, only daughter of T. Hay Nembhard, and had at least 8 sons and 2 daughters, with whom he appears to have emigrated to New Zealand, where they settled at Te Puke in about 1880 with a farm of some 200 acres. In 1887, he succeeded his father to the Barford Park estate, near Bridgewater in Somerset, and returned home to take charge. In 1904 he changed his name to Courtenay-Everard, before dying at the age of 100 in 1931. Shortly after his death The Times published an account of his remarkable life called A Centenarians Memories, form which the following extract is taken: During the War with Russia, he served as senior mate of this vessel [Queen] in Crimean waters. He was present in the attack on Fort Constantine, and in other operations, as well as being landed with the Naval Brigade before Sebastopol. It was while he was in the Queen that he was promoted to lieutenant on November 9, 1854, and reappointed to the ship. ôI was given my lieutenants commission,ö he said on one occasion, in an interview, ôfor saving some women from the Cossacks. My captain told me to take two boats and such men as I wanted, and do our best. It was a tough job getting the women away from those rascals. They blazed away at us, and we had to lower the women into our boats by the hair of their heads in some cases. But we brought them safely away.ö Captain Everard used to recall having met Florence Nightingale, ôas good a woman as any living or dead,ö when she one day, with a little band of followers, came up to the battery he commanded. Also sold with a copy of Timothy the Tortoise - The Remarkable Story of the Nations Oldest Pet, by Rory Knight Bruce, which chronicles the life of a tortoise taken from a Portuguese man of war by Captain Evered prior to the Crimean War. Timothy, who later turned out to be female, served with Evered as a ships mascot throughout the wars in the Crimea and China until Evered emigrated to New Zealand in about 1880, when he was passed to Captain Edward Rutherford R.N., finally living out his life at Powderham Castle in Devon where he died in 2004, aged about 160 years. The book also reproduces a small portrait of Everard in later life wearing his medals.

Lot 466

Nine: Lieutenant-Colonel H. G. Maxwell, Indian Army India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Samana 1891, Chin Hills 1892-93 (Ltt. 19th Bl. Lcrs.) clasps soldered together; India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Lieutt., 16th Bl. Cavy.); China 1900, no clasp (Captn., 16th Bl. Lcrs.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col., Remount Serv.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed, mounted court style as worn; France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1915, bronze palm on ribbon; U.S.A., Military Order of the Dragon, bronze and gilt, reverse inscribed (Capt. Hamilton G. Maxwell, 16th Cavalry No. 167) on substitute ribbon, lacking pagoda top bar, these two mounted court style as worn, light contact marks, very fine and better (9). £2000-2400 Hamilton George Maxwell was born on 7 July 1863, the son of Colonel Hamilton Maxwell, late Bengal Staff Corps. After serving briefly in the ranks, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Connaught Rangers on 7 May 1887. In January 1888 he was promoted to a a Lieutenant and appointed to the Indian Army Staff Corps. Ranked as a Squadron Officer with the 16th Bengal Lancers in April 1892, he served on the N.W. Frontier of India, serving in the 1st and 2nd Miranzai expeditions and was Orderly Officer to Brigadier-General Sir W. S. A. Lockhart, K.C.B. in the 1st Miranzai Expedition. He then served in Burma 1892-93 before returning to the N.W. Frontier, 1897-98. Maxwell was promoted to Captain in May 1898 and saw service in the Boxer Rebellion. Further advancement follwed, being promoted Substantive Major of the 16th Cavalry in May 1905 and Squadron Commander and Second in Command of the 16th Cavalry in November 1911. He attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in May 1913 and was employed by the Remount Service in the Great War. Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell retired from the service on 10 January 1920. With copied Queens Indian Cadetship papers and other copied research. Croix de Guerre not confirmed.

Lot 490

Four: Rev. Frederick Wilmot Bennitt, who led the R.A.O.B. Memorial Service at Cardington for the dead of airship R.101 Queens South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (Rev. F. W. Bennitt) with silver brooch bar; R.A.O.B. Jewel, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1932, reverse inscribed, Presented to Bro. The Rev. Frederick Bennitt CP by the Swan Lodge No.6397 Certified on the 21 June 1933, with brooch bar, inscribed, Swan Lodge No.6397; Prize Medallions (2), 57mm., silver, obverse: presentation of a charter to the king, in exergue, Edwardvs Rex Lib. Schol. Brimicham Fvndator A.D. MDLII, reverse: inscribed, in raised letters, Studio Fallente Laborem, Praemium in Gymnasio Meritum, engraved, F. W. Bennitt 1891; another, engraved, F. W. Bennitt 1892, good very fine (4) £500-550 Frerick Wilmot Bennitt was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and gained a B.A. in 1895 and M.A. in 1899. He was ordained a Deacon in 1896 and a Priest in 1897 at Rochester, Kent. He was Curate of St. Margarets, Plumstead, 1896-98 and then of Rugby, 1898-1901 and 1902-03. During the Boer War he served as an Acting Chaplain to the Forces, 1901-02. The Rev. Bennitt was then Curate of Hagbourne, 1903-05 and of Buxton, 1905-06. He then served as Rector of Bletchley, 1906-34 but served in the R.A.M.C. during 1918-19. Bennitt was appointed the Rural Dean of Bletchley, 1923-34, after which he was Vicar of East Peckham, 1934-42 and Curate of Sunninghill, 1943-45. The R.101 was a British rigid airship completed in 1929 as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme. The airship crashed on 5 October 1930 in France on its maiden overseas flight. The R.101 departed its shed at Cardington, Bedfordshire, on 4 October, for a flight to Karachi, British India, with an intended fuel stop at Ismailia, Egypt. However, when travelling at a low altitude in poor weather over France the next day, the R.101 hit the ground near the Beauvais Ridge and burst into flames - 46 of the 54 passengers and crew were killed immediately and 2 others died later in hospital. The loss of 48 dead surpassed that of the Hindenburg disaster of 1937. The tragic loss of the R.101 effectively ended British involvement with rigid airships. A special memorial to the dead of the R.101 was held by the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes in the airships shed at Cardington on Sunday 16 November 1930. The memorial service, led by the Rev. Frederick Bennitt, was attended by some 7,000 R.A.O.B. members, in remembrance of the many victims of the disaster who were members of the Order. With original newspaper cuttings relating to the Memorial Service, including one with a picture of Rev. Bennitt officiating at the service. Also with copied research.

Lot 582

The important G.C.B. and Large Army Gold Medal group awarded to General Sir George Anson, Light Cavalry Brigade Commander, formerly commanding 16th Light Dragoons and later Colonel of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, Governor of Chelsea Hospital, Equerry to the Duke of Kent and Groom of the Bedchamber to Prince Albert The Most Honourable Order of The Bath (Military) G.C.B., breast star in silver, gold and enamels, the reverse backplate inscribed with makers name Rundell Bridge & Co., Jewellers to Their Majesties and all the Royal Family, Ludgate Hill, London, fitted with gold pin, enamel chips to Ich Dien scroll and green wreath and lacking one stalk General Officers Large Gold Medal, for Talavera 1809, 2 clasps, Salamanca, Vittoria (Brigr. General George Anson) complete with all proper gold suspension fittings and full neck cravat Portugal, Royal Order of the Tower and Sword, Knight Commanders set of insignia, comprising large neck badge in solid gold, 67 mm, and a magnificent breast star of large size, 100 mm, in silver, gold and enamels, this with enamel damage to central wreath, one letter of legend lacking and two other letters damaged; together with another superb quality neck badge, 47 mm, in gold and enamels, and a fine period miniature badge in gold and enamels, the large badges with original neck cravats, unless otherwise described, generally good very fine and attractively displayed in an old frame within an oval gilt floral border with inscribed ivorine label (6) £40000-50000 Only 10 General Officers received the Large Army Gold Medal with two clasps, this combination being unique. General Ansons group of medals was first sold by Christies in April 1902. George Anson was born in 1769, second son of George Anson and Mary Vernon, and a nephew of Admiral Lord Anson. He entered the Army as a Cornet in the 16th Light Dragoons on 3 May 1786; he obtained a Lieutenancy in the same corps in 1791, and exchanged into the 20th Light Dragoons, with which regiment he served for five years in Jamaica. In 1792 he obtained a troop in the 20th, and his Majority in December 1794. He exchanged back into the 16th Light Dragoons in September 1797, became Lieutenant-Colonel in the 20th Light Dragoons the same year, and exchanged into the 15th Light Dragoons in September 1798, with whom he served in Holland. In January 1805, he was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the King, and received the rank of Colonel in the Army. In December of the same year he became Lieutenant-Colonel of the 16th Light Dragoons. In 1809, Anson proceeded to Portugal and commanded the 16 Light Dragoons in the advance upon and battle of Oporto on 10th-12th May. On 24 May 1809, he was appointed Brigadier General and given command of a brigade of light cavalry consisting of the 23rd Light Dragoons and the 1st Light Dragoons of the Kings German Legion. Anson commanded the brigade at the Battle of Talavera on 27th and 28th July, and at the Battles of Busaco in 1810, Salamanca in 1812, and Vittoria in 1813, besides various other less important affairs. He received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, on separate occasions, for his services at Talavera, Salamanca, and Vittoria, and received the Gold Medal and two clasps in commemoration of those battles. In May 1813, he was granted a Royal Licence to accept and wear the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword, for the distinguished courage and intrepidity displayed by him in several actions with the enemy in the Peninsula. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Bath on 2 January 1815, and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order on 29 July 1833. Anson became Lieutenant-General in August 1819, Colonel of the 4th Dragoon Guards in February 1827, and a full General in January 1837. Besides taking a seat in the House of Commons as Member for the city of Lichfield, Anson had a long association with the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, and was holding the highest office as Governor when he died on the 4th November, 1849. Anson married in 1800, Frances, daughter of John William Hamilton and the sister of Sir Frederick Hamilton. They had six sons and daughters, of whom Talavera Vernon Anson became an Admiral in the Royal Navy, and Thomas Anson was a first class cricketer. Lady Anson died in 1834, fifteen years before the death of Anson himself. In Who Do You Think You Are? transmitted by the BBC in October 2007, it was discovered that Sir Matthew Pinsent, the multiple gold medal Olympic rower, is a direct descendant of Sir George Anson.

Lot 584

A post-war C.B. and Second World War C.B.E. group of nine awarded to Major-General William Lionel Douglas Veitch, Royal Engineers The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companions neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commanders 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officers 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31, incorrect M.I.D. oak leaf (Lieut., R.E.) official correction to surname; India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt., R.E.); Defence and War Medals (Lt/Col. W. L. D. Veitch, C.B.E., R.E.); Coronation 1953 (Maj/Gen. W. L. D. Veitch, C.B., C.B.E.); Pakistan Independence Medal 1947 (Maj/Gen. W. L. D. Veitch, C.B., C.B.E.), last four with same style naming, the group of nine mounted court style for display, nearly extremely fine (9) £1200-1600 William Lionel Veitch was born in Belhaven, East Lothian, on 21 November 1901. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. On 13 July 1921 he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers and was promoted Lieutenant in July 1923. The following year he joined the Kings Own Sappers and Miners. In 1930 he was posted to the Military Engineering Service as Garrison Engineer of the Wana Road Project at Tanai in Waziristan - gaining the I.G.S. Medal and being mentioned in despatches. Returning to duty with the Sappers and Miners, he was promoted to Captain in July 1932. As Company Commander of No. 5 Field Company he returned to Waziristan in 1937 and was involved in road construction work, for which he was awarded the I.G.S. Medal, was again mentioned in despatches and awarded the O.B.E. With the onset of the Second World War he was Officer in Charge of the Workshops at Roorkee. Soon after he was appointed Commander of the Training Battalion at Roorkee and in 1941 he was posted Commander, R.E. of the 19th Indian Division, then in training in Southern India. In 1942 he was appointed Commandant of No. 1 Engineer Group, Royal Indian Engineers, at Lahore, and during 1944-46 Veitch was Commandant of the Bengal Sappers and Miners and he later became Deputy Chief Engineer, Northern Army, India, which appointment he was holding at the time of the independence of India. After independence he became Deputy Engineer-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army and in 1950 was appointed Engineer-in-Chief with the rank of Major-General. He was forced to retire in 1953 due to ill-health. For his wartime and post-war services he was advanced to the C.B.E. in 1944 and awarded the C.B. in 1952. Major-General Veitch died in Edinburgh on 13 December 1969. With a quantity of copied research.

Lot 585

The outstanding post-war C.B., Second World War D.S.O., D.S.C. and Bar group of nine awarded to to Rear-Admiral C. T. Jellicoe, a kinsman of Jellicoe of Jutland: the epitome of the gallant destroyer captain, who survived the loss of two commands in the Mediterranean, he added a third decoration to his accolades for his role as Senior Officer Operations in the Duke of York at the destruction of the Scharnhorst in December 1943 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companions neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., 1st issue, the reverse of the suspension bar officially dated 1942; Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar, hallmarks for London 1939, the reverse of the Cross privately inscribed, Comdr. C. T. Jellicoe, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N. and officially dated 1939, the reverse of the Bar similarly dated 1944; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D.oakleaf, these last five privately inscribed, Capt. C. T. Jellicoe, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N.; Coronation 1953, good very fine and better (9) £8000-10000 C.B. London Gazette 9 June 1955. D.S.O. London Gazette 8 September 1942: For gallantry, skill and seamanship in a brilliant action against strong enemy forces, which were driven off and severely damaged. This action resulted in the safe passage to Malta of an important convoy. D.S.C. London Gazette 23 December 1939: For successful actions against enemy submarines. Bar to D.S.C. London Gazette 7 March 1944: For gallantry, devotion to duty and distinguished service on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet during the action in which the Scharnhorst was engaged and sunk. The original recommendation states: He showed a quick and accurate appreciation of events throughout the action which, combined with his sound judgement and careful planning of earlier movements, was of very great assistance to me in bringing the enemy to action in an advantageous position. Mention in despatches London Gazette 17 November 1942: For bravery and devotion to duty while serving in the Mediterranean. The original recommendation states: His coolness and leadership when his ship H.M.S. Jackal was badly damaged by aircraft bombs at about 2000 hours on 11 May 1942. Badly shaken and slightly wounded as he was, with his boiler rooms and one engine room flooded, and a fire spreading from another, he made every effort to save his ship. She was taken in tow at about 0100 hours on 12 May and it was not until 0300 hours that he was reluctantly compelled to report that the situation was hopeless. The good control he maintained throughout was most marked. Christopher Theodore Jellicoe was born at Chailey, near Lewes, Sussex in June 1903, the son of a clergyman, and entered the Royal Navy as Cadet at the R.N.C. Osborne in March 1917, but had not completed his training before the end of hostilities, when he was attending the R.N.C. Dartmouth. D.S.C.: anti-submarine patrols in home waters 1939 Gaining steady advancement between the Wars, Jellicoe was serving in the rank of Commander on the renewal of hostilities in September 1939, when he held command of the destroyer H.M.S. Winchelsea. Deployed at Portland as part of the 11th Destroyer Flotilla, the Winchelsea escorted convoys O.B. 2 and O.B. 3 in September, prior to removing to Western Approaches Command for similar duties. And for his command in these opening months of the War in successful anti-submarine operations, Jellicoe was awarded his first D.S.C., which distinction he received at a Buckingham Palace investiture held on 6 February 1940. D.S.O. and ômentionö: Malta convoys and the Mediterranean 1941-42 A brief period of service having ensued at the Admiralty, Jellicoe assumed command of another destroyer, the Southwold, in 1941, a ship of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla which he also commanded. And it was in this capacity that he won his D.S.O. for great gallantry in Malta convoy MW. 10, part of Operation ôM.G. 1ö, one of the most heavily contested convoys of the War, Jellicoe estimating that on one occasion the escorts and merchantmen were under attack from no less than 60 bombers and nine torpedo-aircraft - and reporting early on in the convoy that he had expended 40% of his 4-inch ammunition after nine successive attacks. Nor were the incoming threats limited to enemy aircraft, Admiral Vian famously leading his force against capital Italian ships and compelling their hasty retreat in what became known as the 2nd Battle of the Sirte. But it was while offering assistance to a crippled merchantman outside Malta harbour on the 25th, that the Southwold met her end, striking a recently laid mine - official Admiralty sources take up the story: Southwold was aiding Breconshire in the Mediterranean when a mine exploded under the engine room. The hull was severely damaged, engine and gearing rooms wrecked, and the upper deck was split over the engine room. Slow flooding of the engine room from the gearing room through bulkhead shaft glands, spread to the after boiler room through a fracture in the bulkhead. Both boiler rooms were shut down and the ship listed slightly to starboard. All lighting was temporarily lost but it was later restored with diesel generators. Whilst in tow, the side plating port and starboard in the vicinity of the engine room split to the upper deck. During the tow an enemy aircraft attacked Southwold and near miss bombs possibly caused further damage and flooding. Southwold settled slowly with considerable sag and an increased list to starboard and was finally abandoned, afterwards sinking. For his own part, at the end of the same month, Jellicoe submitted no less than 16 recommendations for decorations or a mention in despatches for his crew. His own ômentionö followed for like services in the destroyer Jackal in Operation ôM.G. 2ö (London Gazette 17 November 1942 refers), when his ship was again lost to enemy action on 11 May, the Evening Standard reporting: Twice within a month has Commander Jellicoe, nephew of the famous Admiral, had his ship sunk under him. On 26 April it was announced that the Southwold had been lost. Temporarily placed in command of the Jackal, Jellicoe, after a gallant stand against one of the hottest attacks by Nazis in the Mediterranean, had to abandon his ship which was ablaze from stem to stern. Although wounded, the Commander was the last man to leave the destroyer. This was, in fact, the famous occasion on which Jackals consorts Lively and Kipling were also sunk, a episode captured in some spectacular footage (sse Destroyers at War, by Geoffrey Haines). Jackal lost nine crew. Bar to D.S.C.: sinking of the Scharnhorst 1943 Returning home shortly afterwards, Jellicoe was appointed Staff Officer Operations (S.O.O.) to the C.-in-C. Home Fleet in the battleship Duke of York - and was invested with his D.S.O. at a Buckingham Palace investiture held on 15 December 1942. As it transpired, however, his new appointment in the Duke of York would result in yet another encounter with the King, for, famously, in December 1943, as the flagship of Admiral Bruce Fraser, she orchestrated the destruction of the mighty Scharnhorst on 26 December 1943: Meanwhile, the Duke of York with the rest of Admiral Frasers force had been working up from the S.W. and the flagship made contact with the Scharnhorst at 4.15 p.m., by which time darkness had closed in. Shortly afterwards the 14-inch guns of the Duke of York obtained a hit below the water-line and the Scharnhorst turned away to the northward and then eastward with a slight diminution in speed. Admiral Fraser ordered a torpedo attack by the destroyers Savage, Saumarez, Scorpion and Stor. These ships steamed ahead of the raider beyond a point where they could expect any assistance from their heavy consorts, and then turned in and discharged their torpedoes, securing at least three hits. There was an immediate drop in the German battleships speed and the

Lot 587

An extremely rare Second World War O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Captain H. H. Golding, Merchant Navy, one of a handful of recipients of the Southern Railway Companys M.S.M - for his gallant deeds as Master of the S.S. Isle of Sark in St. Peter Port, Guernsey in June 1940, when his ship came under attack while embarking evacuees The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire O.B.E. (Civil) Officers 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, in its Royal Mint case of issue; British War Medal 1914-20 (Hervy H. Golding); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Hervy H. Golding); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; War Medal 1939-45; Southern Railway Companys Meritorious Service Medal, silver-gilt, the reverse officially engraved, H. H. Golding, in its fitted Royal Mint case of issue, the Great War awards slightly polished, otherwise generally good very fine and better (7) £4000-5000 O.B.E. London Gazette 3 January 1945. Southern Railway Companys M.S.M.: Delayed the departure of the S.S. Isle of Sark from Guernsey, during intense bombardment of the Island on 28 June 1940, in order that as many passengers as possible might be embarked. The Southern Railway Companys M.S.M. was instituted by the Companys directors soon after the outbreak of hostilities, 18 awards being presented at a ceremony held on 16 August 1940 and thereafter just six further awards. Hervy Hardinge Golding was born in Tongham, near Farnham, Surrey in October 1887, and sailed out of Greenock as an apprentice aboard the Samoena, a threeðmasted ship, and for four years survived the life, sailing and the dreaded Southern Ocean, learning the skills that would one day enable him to join that exclusive society of men ð the Cape Horners (The Evening Echo, Bournemouth, 22 June 1974 refers). Having passed his 2nd Mates examination in London in November 1908 and his 1st Mates examination in Hong Kong in November 1910, Golding was next employed in vessels of the British Steam Navigation Company and Seang Line, trading routes from Rangoon to China. In April 1914, he entered the service of the London & South Western Railway fleet as a 2nd Officer in the Bertha (afterwards merged with the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, and the South Eastern & Chatham Railway companies to form the Southern Railway Company). Actively employed in the Mercantile Marine in the Great War, he was employed on the Southampton-Le Havre run, latterly in the Normannia and Hantonia. And he stayed in the Companys employ for the remainder of his career, his otherwise peaceful voyages to France and the Channel Islands coming to an abrupt end on the renewal of hostilities. Evacuation of Guernsey ð June 1940 On the renewal of hostilities, Golding was in command of the Isle of Jersey, shortly to be refitted as a hospital carrier, but in early 1940 he was given command of the Isle of Sark, which appointment led to his part in the evacuation of the Channel Islands. The ships matter of fact official log entry for 28 June 1940 states: 6.55 p.m., St. Peter Port, Guernsey: At time and place stated, while passengers were beginning to embark, enemy planes appeared and commenced a bombing and machine-gun action on harbour and shipping. A wireless transmission message was transmitted and acknowledged. The attack was maintained for an hour, during which no damage was done to the ship. Vessel sailed for Southampton at 10.15 p.m. according to schedule. A more extensive account of events that evening at St. Peter Port was later published in the Great Western Railway Magazine: On 28 June 1940 enemy bombers attacked in earnest. About 7 oclock in the evening a number came over, flying at about 3,000 feet. Diving lower, they then machine-gunned the jetty and its vicinity, and bombed the harbour very intensely. As it was low tide, the area under the jetty provided reasonably good shelter for those who were able to get there, but casualties were nevertheless considerable. Three of the Companys staff were among the wounded who were taken to a hospital in the Island. The jetty itself was soon ablaze with burning lorries, and at the end of the raid the scene was an inferno, and passage from any one point to another was not an easy matter. It is now clear to the Companys staff that it was high time to leave. There were three vessels in the harbour, which had been kept in steam in readiness for just such an emergency. They each had some guns for defensive action, and had succeeded in keeping hostile aircraft far enough away to prevent any direct hits. The vessels sailed for England at 9.30 p.m. the same evening, the Companys staff, as had already been stated, being on the last boat to leave. Of the 49 Great Western and Southern Railway joint staff at Guernsey, 38 sailed to England, three are known to have been left behind wounded, and eight remain unaccounted for. Most of the wives and families of the men had sailed for England at an earlier date. It is understood that the island of Guernsey was occupied by German troops on Sunday 30 June. And a glowing portrait of Goldings calmness under fire was later published in the Bournemouth Daily Echo, from which the following extract has been taken: The ship had some near misses and there were very heavy casualties among the people on the quay. A large number of lorries caught fire. The bombing and machine-gunning went on for about an hour. The quay was a shambles with 50 killed, 200 wounded and over 100 lorries burning. Many of the women and children passengers were unaccompanied by men, and with the large number of people on the ship and on the quay a panic with grave consequences might easily have commenced. Captain Golding issued orders from the bridge and then walked along the decks keeping everybody as calm as possible. His presence was felt immediately wherever he went, and in my judgment he was largely responsible for the steadiness of the crew, the passengers and the people on the quayside. As soon as he felt the people aboard were steady, he walked across the quayside to telephone to the Naval Authorities, then returned calmly to his bridge, although concentrated machine-gunning and bombing were going on. When the bombing had finished, he had to make important decisions. How many people he would take aboard from the number who were clamouring to come; the best time to leave in view of the fact that he would be unescorted and so on. It must also be remembered that he had a very tired crew. They had been working at top pressure for many weeks. Captain Golding remained on duty the whole of the day as he had on every other day when in Guernsey. During the bombing and afterwards, he was absolutely calm and imperturbable, and tireless in stimulating and encouraging his crew. The Isle of Sark was in fact the final ship to depart St. Peter Port before the German occupation, with 647 passengers embarked, and but for the light A.A. and Lewis gun fire she put up at the attacking Heinkel IIIs, casualties may well have been higher ð on Goldings recommendation, Able Seaman G. Mace, also received the Companys M.S.M. for manning the ships gun on the same occasion. Having been actively employed elsewhere, Golding was not able to attend the first investiture of the Companys M.S.M. in August 1940, but shortly afterwards, he received his award at Southampton from the Docks and Port Manager, in the presence of many officials and staff ð the gathering also included the Flag Officer i./c. Naval Operations, Southampton, the Garrison Commander and the Principal Sea Transport Officer (Southern Railways Journal refers). Golding returned to his old command, the Isle of Jersey, in December 1940, by now a fully fitted-out hospital carrier attached to the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow, and in which capacity he remained in command until the Wars end. During the Normandy landings, the Isle of Jersey steamed south and served off Gold and Juno Beaches, bringing home nearly 2000 patients in a matter of weeks. He was awarded the O.B.E. and returned in triumph to St. Peter Port in October 1945. He finally retired in late 1947, after 33 years with the Southern Railway Fleet, latterly having served as Commodore of the companys Southampton Section ð and having completed 4,800 Channel crossings. He died in December 1982, aged 94 years. SOLD WITH THE FOLLOWING RELATED MEMORABILIA DOCUMENTATION Ordinary Apprentices Certificate of Indenture, dated 9 September 1904, for 4 years to the John Clink Line at Greenock. A privately compiled ships log covering the recipients time in the Samoena circa 1906-08, large cloth bound volume with leather spine. A quantity of competency reports (or ôFlimsiesö) in respect of the recipients pre-Great War service out in the Far East in ships of the British Steam Navigation Company and Seang Line, circa 1910-13, together with a run of related discharge certificates. Certificate of Competency as Master of a Foreign Going Ship, Board of Trade, dated 18 July 1913. Board of Trade correspondence relating to the award of the recipients British War and Mercantile Marine Medals 1914-18, including forwarding letter dated 4 May 1921; together with Ministry of Transport forwarding certificate for his 1939-45 campaign awards. A series of privately compiled ship log books (15), with details of individual voyages, many with Southern Railway label to front cover bearing the recipients name and relevant dates, and covering the periods January 1918 to December 1922; January 1923 to December 1928; 22 June 1927 to 31 August 1929; 2 September 1929 to 23 October 1930; 23 October 1930 to 2 July 1932; 4 July 1932 to 29 May 1934; 29 May 1934 to 3 August 1935; 3 August 1935 to 22 July 1936; 23 July 1936 to 9 August 1937; 10 August 1937 to 11 June 1939 (re. Isle of Jersey); January 1939 to December 1936; 3 November 1937 to 15 April 1939; 12 June 1939 to July 1946; a separate folder entitled Isle of Jersey ð Account of All Movements 24 August 1939 to 11 July 1945; 20 July 1946 to 11 September 1947; and another up to September 1947, but with earlier entries from January 1937; together with Goldings Guernsey and Jersey Pilots log books and notes. Goldings official Dock Permit (No. 21067), for permission to enter Southern Railway Companys docks at Southampton, dated 8 May 1940; and three letters of appreciation from passengers he brought out of St. Peter Port a few weeks later, citing his calmness under fire and the steady conduct of his crew. A fascinating scrap album, with numerous newspaper reports, many dealing with events at St. Peters Port in June 1940, together with some official reports and correspondence, the latter including a letter from the Manager of Southern Railway congratulating Golding on his courage and resource, and Ministry of War Transport letter of notification regarding the award of his O.B.E. The recipients original O.B.E. warrant, dated 1 January 1945, framed and glazed. The recipients Imperial Merchant Service Guild membership certificate, brown leather folder with gilt title His Minister of Shipping Continuous Certificate of Discharge (R218098). A hand-illuminated retirement certificate, the upper inscription reading, We the undersigned Ships Officers of the Marine Department of the Southern Railway at Southampton hereby place on record our esteem and good wishes to Captain H. H. Golding, O.B.E., on his retirement from the service after 43 years at sea and wish him a long and happy enjoyment of his well earned rest, with 50 signatures (some faded), 30cm. by 26cm., framed; together with an assortment of related retirement telegrams and letters. A box containing as large quantity of ôCape Hornersö documentation, membership and otherwise. A file containing assorted letters of condolence and cards (approximately 25); and much further documentation, including pocket diaries, marriage certificate, wills, insurance policies and further family-related papers. PHOTOGRAPHS An image of the Officers and Apprentices of the Samoena, circa 1907, 37cm. by 32cm., framed and glazed; another from same period, or slightly later, by local photographer Chueng Kulan, Amoy, 43cm. by 36cm., framed and glazed; and a pair of smaller group images from his days in the Glengogle in the Far East, both framed; an image of the Isle of Jersey, the mount captioned, H.M. Hospital Ship ôIsle of Jerseyö. Refitted by The Grangemouth Dockyard Co. Ltd, October 1941, 30.5cm. by 25cm., framed and glazed; a display of 14 wartime images, mainly of Isle of Jersey interest, framed and glazed, and two further images of Golding, his ships officers and matrons from the same period, framed and glazed. Photograph albums (8), with several hundred images in total, covering his time in the Far East, 1911-13, with excellent ship views and captioned crew images; inter-war service and various ôfamilyö travel and holiday scenes in the U.K. and abroad, together with a postcard album. A large selection of other photographs, dating from the late Victorian era through to the 1950s (approximately 400 images), quite a few on card mounts, many of nautical interest but others of family subject matter, the former including numerous scenes from the Isle of Jersey in the 1939-45 War. PICTURES A water colour of H.M.H.C. ôIsle of Jerseyö at sea, initialled J. D. A. and dated 1945, 30.5cm. by 20cm., framed and glazed. A water colour depicting a ship in distress approaching rocks, unsigned, 19cm. by 13.5cm., framed and glazed. NAUTICAL MEMORABILIA Captain Goldings sea chest, the exterior green painted, the plain wooden interior with two large and one smaller raised compartments, and the inside of the lid with hand-painted signal flags, rope handles, 87cm. by 43cm. by 39cm. A portable ships compass, by Mahier, Le Havre, in wooden, part-glazed carrying case. A telescope, by Ross, London (No. 47449), retailed by Murray, Calcutta, leather grip. Captain Fields improved parallel rule, antique boxwood, brass hinges; together with a whistle, pocket compass and stop-watch. A selection of ships pennants and flags (5), including large yellow flag emblazoned with an Imperial Chinese dragon, this latter, as described in an accompanying newspaper article, flown from the foremast of his last deep sea command, plying the China Seas and visiting ports all over the Far East. A portable signal kit, by Woolf, Southampton, with individual pockets containing 20 pennants, and lower pockets for burgee, signal book and ensign, the whole contained in a folding brown canvas case, with ties; together with a smaller kit of nine pennants in a white linen container. A selection of items relevant to the ôCape Hornersö, including brass and enamelled car bumper badge, a glass ashtray, two blazer patches and two lapel badges; Merchant Navy ôMNö lapel badge and two similar tie-pins; the recipients silver identity bracelet, inscribed ENN221818 H. H. Golding, Ewshott, Brockenhurst, together with his bullion embroidered cap badge, three similar company badges, and a large quantity of Merchant Navy uniform buttons. A bag containing several expended .303 shell cases and a piece of shrapnel, these latter souvenirs of events at St. Peter Port in 1940. A bullion and embroidered uniform epaulette of Queen Alexandras Royal Naval Nursing Service, mounted on card, with ôH.M.H.C. Isle of Jerseyö inscribed above, and accompanied by five signatures of nursing staff who served in her, dated 1944-45, framed and glazed. A presentation silver salver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1940, with central inscription, To the Captain, September 1947, with ten engraved autographs around, 24.5cm. See lots 219 and 220 for brothers medals.

Lot 590

A Great War M.B.E., M.C. pair awarded to Captain G. W. Duncan, Seaforth Highlanders The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Members 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1918; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued, extremely fine (2) £500-600 M.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918. M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1917. George Wilson Duncan, who was born in January 1895, was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant into the Seaforth Highlanders direct from the Edinburgh University O.T.C. in September 1914, and witnessed active service out in France with the 8th Battalion prior to being invalided home with jaundice in January 1917. He was subsequently employed at the Ministry of National Service War in London and awarded the M.B.E. Sold with original M.B.E. warrant in the name of Captain George Wilson Duncan, M.C. (dated 3 June 1918); mention in despatches certificate in the name of T./Lt. G. W. Duncan, Seaforth Highlanders (dated 30 April 1916); a War Office communication informing the recipient that he was allowed to retain the rank of Captain (dated 18 August 1919); several original photographs dating from the 1940s and 1950s, and assorted Second World War period newspapers and cuttings; together with his daughters Royal Observer Corps Certificate of War Service in the name of Woman Observer Elizabeth Mary Baillie Duncan, and her related cap and lapel badges, in addition to a W.V.S. Civil Defence lapel badge.

Lot 591

A Great War Mesopotamia Operations M.B.E. group of eight awarded to Colonel R. E. Lines, Indian Army, late London Regiment The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Members 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919, on 2nd type military ribbon; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-18 (1070 Pte., 25-Lond. R.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Lieut.); India General Service 1908-35,1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Capt., 4 H. Prs.); War and India Service Medals, these unnamed, mounted as worn, minor contact marks, very fine and better (8) £500-600 M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ... for valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Mesopotamia. Lt., I.A.R.O. R. E. Lines served in the ranks of the 25th Battalion London Regiment, 16 April 1914-5 May 1917. He was granted a commission in the I.A.R.O. in May 1917 and was advanced to Lieutenant in May 1918 and Captain in February 1923. Serving in Mesopotamia, April 1918-August 1921, he was awarded the M.B.E. for war service in that area in June 1919. During September-December 1923 he served in Waziristan with the Hazara Pioneers. Served in the Second World War with the R.I.A.S.C. With a copy of the Farewell Address (3) to Colonel Lines from the Staff and all ranks of No. 9 M.T. Trg. Battalion, dated 20 April 1942; another from the V.C.Os. of the SPCR, dated 5 March 1947; another from the Officers and Staff of the SPCR, dated 8 March 1947. Together with copied gazette extracts and service details.

Lot 592

A Great War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel M. Goodall (formerly Ostrehan), Indian Army The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Members 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt.); Victory Medal 1914-20, M.I.D. oak leaf (Maj.); India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Malabar 1921-22, Waziristan 1921-24 (A/Maj., 1/9/Gurkhas) mounted as worn, last with minor edge bruising, very fine and better (4) £350-400 M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919; The Times 10 January 1919. Ostrehan, Captain Malcolm, Assam Military Police. For services in connection with the war. M.I.D. London Gazette 23 July 1920. Ostrehan, Capt. M., M.B.E., 1/9th Gurkha Rif., I.A. For valuable and distinguished services rendered .... during the period 1st June 1918 to 30th April 1919. Malcolm Ostrehan was born on 18 May 1886. He was first commissioned and arrived in India in January 1905 and was posted to the 1/9th Gurkhas in March 1906, being promoted to Lieutenant in April 1907, Captain in January 1914 and Major in January 1920. Ostrehan served in the Great War as Assistant Commandant of the Assam Military Police, 1914-19 and served at Kukri, 1 October 1918-31 March 1919, for which he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the M.B.E. Major Ostrehan changed his name to Goodwin c.1920. He was seconded to the 39th Royal Garwhal Rifles and then the 82nd Punjabis in 1921 and was Commandant of the 4th Assam Rifles from 1922. Goodall attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1931 and retired from the service in the following month. Lieutenant-Colonel Goodall died in 1974. With copied research.

Lot 595

A Kenya service M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Major W. S. Watson, Royal Armoured Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Members 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (Major, R.A.C.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (Major, M.B.E., R.A.C.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (Lt., R.A.C.) mounted as worn, some contact marks, very fine and better (7) £500-600 M.B.E. London Gazette 27 January 1956. ... in recognition of distinguished services in Kenya during the period 21 April to 20 October, 1955. Recommendation states: Major Watson has served as a District Military Intelligence Officer for the last two years, first at Thomsons Falls, and then at South Nyeri Reserve. As a result of his leadership and devotion to duty, he built up an efficient intelligence organisation in both Districts, which directly contributed to Security Force successes. In South Nyeri Reserve, his organisation has been responsible for the death of over one hundred terrorists, and the capture of twenty-four others. In addition, thirty-nine terrorists have been wounded, and four precision weapons recovered. He has taken part himself in many intelligence operations, some of a hazardous nature. He has maintained excellent relations with the Police, Administration and Army, and has thereby assisted to build up confidence in the Intelligence organisation. With copied gazette and recommendation extracts.

Lot 596

A Great War D.S.O., M.C. group of nine awarded to Major T. B. J. Mahar, Kings Royal Rifle Corps, whose military service encompassed three wars; he later joined the Canadian Army and commanded Lord Strathconas Horse for five years Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, suspension bar inscribed, T. B. J. Mahar, 60th Rifles 1918, complete with top bar; Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, Lieut. T. B. J. Mahar, 60th Rifles, 1915; Queens South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (2282 3rd Cl. Tpr., S.A.C.); Kings South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (2282 3rd Cl. Tpr., S.A.C.) renamed; 1914-15 Star (R-5748 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, no clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, unnamed, mounted together for display, minor contact marks, very fine and better (9) £2200-2600 D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1919. M.C. London Gazette 23 June 1915. M.I.D. London Gazette 22 June 1915; 5 July 1919. Thomas Bertram Joseph Mahar was born in Nova Scotia in 1882. During the Boer War he volunteered for service in the South African Constabulary. On the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 he travelled to Britain and joined the Army as a Private in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Entering France, he was appointed a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant on 27 January 1915, being advanced to Temporary Lieutenant in August 1916, Temporary Captain in October 1916 and Temporary Major in April 1918. He served in France and Flanders, November 1914-February 1916; October 1916-May 1917, and August 1917-November 1918. During the war he was wounded in action. For his services during the war he was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O and M.C. Major Mahar was demobilised in September 1919. Post war he conducted a geological survey and performed other work for the Imperial Government in Central Africa and was later employed in East Africa. Mahar returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1926. There he owned and operated the Halifax Tyre and Rubber Goods Company for a number of years. During the inter-war years he commanded the Strathcona Horse in Calgary for five years and held several staff appointments. In July 1940, then living at 9 College Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Major Mahar of the Royal Army Reserve, rejoined the Army, becoming a Captain in the Royal Canadian Army. He was employed as Officer in Charge, Detention Buildings, Halifax, and was later District Intelligence Officer. In October 1943 he was promoted to Major and appointed Security Officer, Atlantic Command H.Q. Later he was appointed Administration and Training Officer to the No. 6 Reserve Fortress Signals. By 1947 he had become Staff Officer, No. 36 Brigade Group, Halifax. Post-W.W.2 he served as Security Officer attached to H.M.C.S. Dockyard, Halifax, under naval authorities from 1947 until his retirement in 1951. Major Mahar, D.S.O., M.C., whose military service encompassed three wars, died in 1964 and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. With copied research.

Lot 599

An extremely rare Quetta earthquake R.R.C. pair awarded to Staff Nurse G. Lincoln, Indian Military Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold and enamel, on original Ladys bow for wearing; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (S.-Nurse G. Lincoin, I.M.N.S.), note surname spelling, extremely fine (2) £1200-1500 One of just five appointments to the R.R.C. in respect of the Quetta earthquake. R.R.C. London Gazette 19 November 1935: For services rendered in connection with the recent earthquake in Baluchistan. Georgina Lincoln was actually serving as a Staff Nurse at the British Military Hospital in Quetta at the time of the disaster. Situated in the north-west of the Indian Sub-continent, Quetta was first established as a base by Sir Robert Sandeman in the late 1870s, and by the 1930s was an important military centre for conducting operations on the North West Frontier. However, on 31 May 1935, the city was completely destroyed by one of the worlds worst ever earthquakes, a disaster which resulted in some 35,000 casualties - all surviving military and nursing personnel were quickly seconded for rescue work, the climate and the extensive damage making their task a most harrowing one. Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including letters of congratulation on the award of the R.R.C. (3), including one from the Principal Matron, Q.A.I.M.N.S. (You must have had a terrible time there ... ), and the Senior Officer of the Medical Directorate, G.H.Q., India; together with a period photograph of Miss Lincoln being invested with her award by Lieutenant-General Sir W. W. Pitt-Taylor, the G.O.C. of Western Command (India), on 3 May 1936; a related newspaper cutting, and an official movement order for Sister (Mrs.) G. Cox, I.M.N.S., dated 4 October 1946, by which date she had married an Indian Army officer.

Lot 609

An unusual Great War M.C. group of eight awarded to Brevet Major A. Orwin, Manchester Regiment, late Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery (Territorials) Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately inscribed, Lieut. A. Orwin; 1914-15 Star (82265 Spr. A. Orwin, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. (Lieut. A. Orwin); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (Capt. A. Orwin, M.C., Manch. R.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (1663313 Gnr. A. Orwin, (M.C.) R.A.), together with related Italian Altipiani Medal in silver, generally very fine or better (9) £1000-1200 M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919. Arthur Orwin, who was born in August 1891, was a pre-war Territorial who was mobilised as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers in March 1915. He subsequently served in France and Flanders from August 1915 to June 1916, and, having been commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment in November of the latter year, from January to November 1917. Further active service ensued in Italy from November 1917 until the end of hostilities, where he was attached to 7th Divisional Signal Company, R.E. and won the M.C. He had earlier been mentioned in despatches for operations in France (London Gazette 21 December 1917 refers). Having then received a regular commission in the Manchesters in March 1919, Orwin served with the 1st Battalion in Ireland during the troubles, and, following advancement to Captain in February 1927, as Adjutant, Auxiliary Forces of India, during the campaign of Burma 1930-32. Placed on the Retired List in August 1936, he was given the Brevet of Major on the Reserve of Officers in September 1939, on the renewal of hostilities, and served in the U.K. in his old regiment for the duration of the War.

Lot 610

A Great War Salonika operations M.C. group of three awarded to Lieutenant Arthur Mitchell Kirk, Rifle Brigade Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed, in case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); together with a silver identity bracelet, inscribed, A. M. Kirk, C.E., The Rifle Brigade, medals extremely fine (4) £1100-1300 M.C. London Gazette 11 January 1919. T./2nd Lt. Arthur Mitchell Kirk, 4th Bn. Rif. Brig. Salonika For conspicuous gallantry during an attack. He was in command of the left carrying party, which made four separate journeys to the captured position through the enemys barrage. In the first journey he was knocked over by a shell burst, but continued to lead each successive party, and displayed marked courage and coolness. The carrying operations lasted for seven hours. Arthur Mitchell Kirk was born in Macclesfield on 20 March 1891 and was educated at King Edward VI Modern Grammar School, Macclesfield. A Bank Clerk by occupation, he attested for the 7th Battalion Cheshire Regiment at Chester on 15 February 1916. In December 1916 he was posted to the Officers Cadet Battalion, Lichfield, Commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in March 1917, he entered the Salonika theatre of war on 22 July 1917. For his services in Salonika he was awarded the Military Cross in September 1918. Promoted to Lieutenant in January 1919, he later served in South Russia and was treated for Malaria in Tiflis and Batoum, Georgia. Lieutenant Kirk was invalided to the U.K. from Batoum in April 1919. He was released from service on 18 June 1919, relinquishing his temporary commission whilst retaining the rank of Lieutenant. With original London Gazette Supplement for 10 January 1919; a large photograph of the recipient in uniform, in a wooden frame, 420 x 345mm.; a large group photograph of ôBö Company, No. 8 Officer Cadet Battalion, March 1917, in wooden frame, 560 x 345mm.; a letter of congratulations from the London County Westminster & Parrs Bank Ltd, dated 11 October 1918; a War Office letter to accompany the M.C., dated 1 February 1921; together with copied m.i.c., service papers and war diary extracts.

Lot 614

A rare Darfur 1916 operations M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant S. Hart, attached Military Works Department, Egyptian Army Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. S. Hart); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Khedives Sudan 1910-21, 4 clasps, Darfur 1916, Lau Nuer, Nyima 1917-18, Aliab Dinka, unnamed as issued, clasp rivets sewn on the last, good very fine or better (4) £1600-1800 M.C. London Gazette 4 June 1917. Samuel Hart, who was attached to the Egyptian Army, participated in the Darfur operations of 1916, for which he was mentioned in despatches for the military operations from the occupation of El Fasher to the conclusion of hostilities (London Gazette 29 May 1917 refers), and awarded the M.C. He subsequently served in operations against the Lau Nuers and in the Nyima Hills and Nuba Mountains Province 1917-18, and in the operations against the Aliab Dinka 1919-20, and was awarded the Order of the Nile, 4th class (London Gazette 22 April 1921 refers), in addition to qualifying for the above described Khedives Sudan Medal & 4 clasps and a single British War Medal 1914-20; sold with copied MIC entry which also refers to his entitlement to the clasps for ôNyima 1917-18ö and ôAliab Dinkaö.

Lot 3

Honourable East India Company Medal for Ceylon 1795-96, silver, a slightly later striking with rust spots polished out, fitted with silver loop for suspension, very fine £300-400

Lot 8

Honourable East India Company Medal for Nepaul 1814-16, silver, fitted with loop for suspension, reverse showing early stages of die cracking, good very fine £300-400

Lot 9

Honourable East India Company Medal for Burma 1824-26, silver, fitted with steel clip and soldered ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £500-600

Lot 14

Ghuznee 1839, unnamed as issued, fitted with contemporary replacement silver bar suspension, good fine £250-300

Lot 18

Meeanee 1843, unnamed as issued, fitted with steel clip and silver bar suspension, edge bruise and scuff marks, otherwise better than very fine £300-350

Lot 19

Hyderabad 1843 (Lalla Sewpursaud 25th Regt. N.I.) fitted with original German silver bar suspension, this slack, otherwise nearly very fine £350-400

Lot 73

Empress of India 1877, silver, unnamed as issued, good very fine £300-350

Lot 81

Indian Recruiting Badge, G.VI.R., breast badge, silver and bronze, the reverse officially numbered 1955, lacking top suspension brooch, nearly very fine £30-40

Lot 83

Lord Chelmsfords Viceroy Presentation Medal 1916, bronze, 51mm, inscribed on the reverse scroll Sukhlal Singh Dafedar, fitted with silver bar suspension, in fitted case of issue, nearly very fine £80-120 Puddester 916.1

Lot 87

Indian Order of Merit, Military Division, 2nd type (1912-39), 2nd Class, Reward of Valor, silver and enamel, the reverse with central nut fitting and impressed on two lines 2nd Class / Order of Merit and privately named (Soward (sic) Mohamed Hayat 19th Lancers) lacking ribbon buckle, centre re-enamelled in a mid-blue, otherwise very fine £350-400 I.O.M. 2nd Class London Gazette 25 November 1916; G.O. 1151 of 1917: 3483 A-Lance Dafadar Mahomad Hayat, 19th Lancers, attached Machine-Gun Squadron. Stated to be one of two such awards to the regiment for East Africa.

Lot 88

Indian Order of Merit, Military Division, 2nd type (1912-39), 2nd Class, Reward of Valor, silver and enamel, the reverse with central nut fitting and impressed on two lines 2nd Class / Order of Merit, fitted with replacement silver ribbon buckle, centre re-enamelled, nearly very fine £300-350

Lot 89

Indian Order of Merit, Military Divison, 3rd type (1939-45), 2nd Class, Reward of Gallantry, silver and enamel, the reverse with central nut fitting and impressed on two lines 2nd Class / Order of Merit, fitted with replacement silver ribbon buckle, centre chipped, nearly very fine £500-600

Lot 99

A Great War M.B.E. group of three awarded to Deputy Violet Dorothy Agnes Lyon, Queen Marys Army Auxiliary Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Members 1st type breast badge, silver; British War and Victory Medals (A. Adtr., Q.M.A.A.C.) good very fine and better (3) £200-240 M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. Miss Violet Dorothy Agnes Lyon, Deputy Administrator, Q.M.A.A.C.. Violet Dorothy Agnes Lyon was born in Romford, Essex on 31 December 1894, the daughter of Colonel R. H. Lyon. During the Great War she was appointed an Assistant Administrator in the Q.M.A.A.C. in March 1918 and was advanced to Deputy Administrator in March 1919. With the Q.M.A.A.C. she served in Boulogne, France. In October 1918, the Q.M.A.A.C. Controller-in-Chief Florence Leach undertook an inspection of the Corps in France. She recorded her assessment of Miss Lyon as: Miss Lyon is good clerically. She has some idea of organisation and arranged the performance for the Controller-in-Chiefs visit very well. She lacks education. Despite this lack, Miss Lyon was later awarded the M.B.E. for her services in the Great War. Miss Lyon died in Wimbledon on 28 June 1977. With copied Birth and Death Certificates, m.i.c. and other research.

Lot 109

Four: Serjeant William Lyon, Royal Highlanders, severely wounded, February 1915 1914 Star (451 L. Cpl., R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (451 Sjt., R. Highrs.); Delhi Durbar 1911 (451 L. Cpl. W. Lyon, R.H.) good very fine and better (4) £160-200 Lance-Corporal William Lyon, Royal Highlanders (Black Watch), entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 13 August 1914. He was not entitled to a clasp for his 1914 Star. Serjeant Lyon was severely wounded in February 1915 and was as a result discharged on 18 August 1915. He was awarded the Silver War Badge (not with lot). With copied m.i.c.

Lot 129

Victory Medal 1914-19 (15027 Sjt. J. Lyon, E. Lan. R.) nearly extremely fine £30-50 James Albert Lyon was born in Blackburn, Lancaster. An Overlooker by occupation, he attested for service with the East Lancashire Regiment, at Accrington, on 14 September 1914, aged 32 years, 1 month. Posted to the 11th (Accrington Pals) Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment, he attained the rank of Serjeant in March 1915. With the Pals he served in Egypt, December 1915-March 1916, after which the battalion was posted to France. As part of the great Somme Offensive, the 11th Battalion was assigned a position opposite the fortified village of Serre. In the early morning of 1 July 1916, after the British bombardment had lifted, the Accrington Pals began their advance on the village. The bombardments had left the German positions largely intact and the Pals advanced into a murderous hail of artillery and machine-gun fire. Their heroism became the stuff of legend, as 584 out of 720 were simply mown down. Many of them actually reached the German trenches, but had to withdraw when their reinforcements were mown down in turn. The battle for Serre ended in thirty minutes with the village still in German hands. James Lyon survived the attack unscathed but in the evening of 1/2 July was wounded in action, receiving shrapnel/gunshot(?) wound to the left buttock causing a compound fracture to his left leg. Seriously injured, he was invalided to England and was discharged with a pension, being unfit for further military service, in November 1917. He was awarded the Silver War Badge and returned to civil life as an Inspector with the Accrington Gas Works. However, still suffering from his war wounds, he died on 18 February 1919 and was laid to rest in Accrington Cemetery. He was the husband of Edith Lyon of 47 Nutter Road, Accrington. With a quantity of copied research and some copied photographs.

Lot 131

Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5357 S. Mjr. R. Lyon, Ches. R.) slight edge bruise to reverse, nearly very fine £50-70 M.M. London Gazette 17 June 1919. Robert Arthur Lyon joined the 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment in 1896, and remained with the Colours until he was discharged from the Army as medically unfit, in December 1919. He served in India, December 1898-November 1904. With the onset of the Great War, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war as a Company Quartermaster Serjeant on 16 August 1914 but was back in England on 29 August and after a spell of hospital treatment in Sheffield was detailed for duty at the Depot, Chester Castle for a while. He returned to France in September 1915-April 1917 and became Regimental Serjeant-Major of the 1st Battalion. In April 1917 he was posted R.S.M. of the 3rd Battalion in England, and in December 1917, R.S.M. of the 15th Battalion in France. Whilst serving with them he was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in action and was treated for shell concussion in July 1918. He returned to the U.K. in April 1919, was awarded the Army L.S. & G.C. by Army Order 130 of April 1919 and was invalided out of the service in December 1919. With a quantity of copied service papers and other research. In addition to the above, Lyon was awarded the Military Medal; 1914 Star; British War and Victory Medals and Silver War Badge.

Lot 155

St. Jean dAcre 1840, silver, fitted with contemporary bar suspension, good fine £120-140

Lot 198

Hong Kong Plague 1894, silver issue (Private W. Humphreys, S.L.I.) extremely fine £1000-1200 William Humphreys was born in the Parish of Lingden (?), near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. A Labourer by occupation and a member of the 3rd Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry, he attested for service with the Shropshire Light Infantry at Shrewsbury on 9 May 1887, aged 18 years, 3 months. Posted to the 1st Battalion as Private 2321, he served in Malta, September 1888-March 1891; Egypt, March-December 1891, and Hong Kong, December 1891-January 1895. Whilst in Hong Kong he was fined by a Civil Court for Drunkenness and twice imprisoned for a short period for breaking out of barracks when a defaulter; his service papers record his general conduct as difficult. Returning to Britain in January 1895, he was transferred to the Army Reserve and was discharged on 8 May 1899. The Hong Kong Plague Medal was his only medallic award. With copied service papers.

Lot 237

British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (332353 S.M. 1 A. Irish, R.A.F.; 10770 Pte. C. West, Essex R.), this last with Corps of Commissionaires badge, silver and enamel, the reverse inscribed, C. West, very fine or better (3) £20-30

Lot 269

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companions breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1898, complete with silver-gilt swivel straight bar suspension and buckle, in Garrard, London case of issue, extremely fine £200-240

Lot 274

The Royal Victorian Order, G.C.V.O., Knight Grand Cross set of insignia, sash badge, silver-gilt and enamel; breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with gold pin, both officially numbered 146 on the reverse, with full sash ribbon, in Collingwood, London case of issue, case a little worn, insignia extremely fine (2) £1100-1300 Ex Spink, 27 July 2000. The insignia was awarded to Lord James Rennell of Rodd, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., P.C., H.M. Diplomatic Service (1858-1941). James Rennell Rodd was born on 9 November 1958 and was educated at Haileybury and Balliol College, Oxford. Entering the Diplomatic Service, he was an AttachÄ in Berlin, 1884; and Athens, 1888; then 2nd Secretary, Rome, 1891, and Paris, 1892. He was then in charge of the British Agency at Zanzibar throughout 1893 and was present at the actions of Pumwani and Jongeni, 1893. The following year he was transferred to Cairo and in 1897 was Special Envoy to King Menelik II. Rodd was the Secretary of the Legation, Cairo, 1894-1901; Councillor of the Embassy at Rome, 1901-04; H.M. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden, 1904-08; and Ambassador to Italy, 1908-19. Post-war he was a British delegate at the League of Nations, 1921-23 and a Member of Parliament, 1928-32. The recipient of many orders, both British and foreign; he was awarded the G.C.V.O. (London Gazette 15 June 1905) for services as H.M. Envoy to Sweden and on the occasion of the marriage of H.R.H. Princess Margaret of Connaught to H.R.H. Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. He was created 1st Baron Rodd in 1933. With some copied research..

Lot 275

The Royal Victorian Order, K.C.V.O., Knight Commanders set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, the reverse officially numbered K65; and breast star, silver, gilt and enamels, the reverse officially numbered 65, complete with neck crevat in its Collingwood & Co case of issue, this also numbered K 65, in need of a good clean, otherwise nearly extremely fine £600-700

Lot 276

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commanders 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, in its Garrard & Co Ltd case of issue, the case scuffed and clasp defective, otherwise extremely fine £180-220

Lot 278

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officers 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, in Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine £80-100

Lot 279

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Members 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine £80-100

Lot 284

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 1st issue, large letter reverse (W. Bacon, Serjeant 33rd Regiment Foot 1838) initial corrected, fitted with silver straight bar suspension, some edge bruising, very fine £150-200

Lot 318

Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal, 1st type, silver (William Hay) lacking brooch bar, substitute ribbon, some edge bruising, good very fine £120-160 William Hay of 186 Stobcross Street, Glasgow, was awarded the Glasgow Bravery Medal on 11 March 1930. He rescued a man from drowning in the River Clyde at Queens Dock on 6 February 1930.

Lot 325

Staff Surgeon William Job Maillard, V.C., Royal Navy A scrap of Naval Victoria Cross ribbon bearing the bronze V.C. emblem, frayed Air Marshal William Avery Bishop, V.C., Royal Flying Corps Riband bar created for display, bearing the ribbons: Victoria Cross, with bronze V.C. emblem; Order of the Bath; Distinguished Service Order, with silver rose; Military Cross; Distinguished Flying Cross, 2nd type ribbon; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with silver Maple leaf emblem; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Efficiency Decoration; France, Legion of Honour; France, Croix de Guerre, W.W.1, with bronze palm, the riband bar on card together with cloth R.A.F. wings and a copied photograph of the recipient in uniform; together with another riband bar created for display purposes, bearing addition ribbons Air Commodore Ferdinand Maurice Felix West, V.C., Royal Air Force Riband bar created for display purposes, bearing the ribbons: Victoria Cross, with bronze V.C. emblem; Order of the British Empire, 2nd issue, military; Military Cross; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. emblem; Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953; Belgium, Order of the Crown; Italy, Order of the Crown; Netherlands, Order of Orange Nassau, mounted on card bearing a photograph of the recipient in uniform Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, V,C., Royal Air Force Loose, short lengths (approx. 30mm.) of ribbon: Victoria Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Distinguished Flying Cross; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1953; Jubilee 1977; together with a photograph signed by the recipient, Leonard Cheshire, varied condition, sold as found (lot) £60-80 Maillard V.C. London Gazette 1 December 1898. Surgeon Maillard, Royal Navy, won the V.C. for his gallant action in Crete on 6 September 1898. With copied research. Bishop V.C. London Gazette 11 August 1917. Captain Bishop, Royal Flying Corps, won the V.C. for his gallant action against enemy aircraft near Cambrai, France, on 2 June 1917. With copied research. West V.C. London Gazette 8 November 1918. Captain West, Royal Air Force, won the V.C. for his gallant action N.E. of Roye, France, on 10 August 1918. With copied obituary cuttings and a copied photograph of the recipient in later life. Cheshire V.C. London Gazette 8 September 1944. Wing Commander Cheshire, Royal Air Force, won the V.C. for his sustained gallant actions over the period 1940-44. With some copied research..

Lot 326

Group Captain Sir Max Aitken, Royal Air Force, D.S.O., D.F.C. Ribbons mounted for display to represent those of the recipient: Distinguished Service Order; Distinguished Flying Cross; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe, with silver rosette; Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. emblem; Czechoslovakia, War Cross 1940; together with a signed photograph of the recipient in uniform Air Vice Marshal D. C. T. Bennett, Royal Air Force, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O. Ribbons mounted for display to represent those of the recipient: Order of the Bath; Order of the British Empire, 2nd issue, military; Distinguished Service Order; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence and War Medals; U.S.S.R. ribbon, mounted on card with a copied photograph of the recipient and two cloth badges Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick William Bowhill, Royal Air Force, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. Ribbons mounted for display to represent those of the recipient: Order of the British Empire, 2nd issue, military; Order of the Bath; Order of St. Michael & St. George; Distinguished Service Order, with silver rosette; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Africa General Service 1902-56; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Foreign ribbon with crossed swords emblem; U.S.A. Legion of Merit, with Commander emblem; Netherlands, Order of Orange Nassau, with Grand Cross rosette; Norway, Order of St. Olaf, with Grand Cross rosette; Poland, Order of Poland Restored, with Grand Cross rosette; mounted on card with a copied photograph of the recipient and signature of the recipient on a separate card, good condition (lot) £70-90 Sir (John William) Max Aitken (1910-85), 2nd Baronet, a fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain, commanded a night fighter squadron, 1941-42, and was a Group Captain commanding Strike Mosquito Wing, Norgegian Waters, 1943. latterly President of Express Newspapers Ltd. Air Vice Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett (1910-86), was the Air Officer Commanding the Pathfinder Force of the R.A.F. Bomber Command, 1939-45. With newspaper obituary. Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill (1880-1960), was an officer in the Merchant Navy, 1896-1912 and in the Great War served in the R.F.C. (Naval Wing), R.N.A.S., and R.A.F. During W.W.2 he was Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, Coastal Command, 1937-41, and Air Officer Commanding Transport Command, 1943-45.

Lot 335

Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, K.T., G.C.B., O.M., D.S.O., Royal Navy Riband bar, pin-backed, bearing the ribbons: Order of the Bath; Distinguished Service Order, with two silver rosettes; Queens South Africa 1899-1902; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19; Coronation 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Belgium, Croix de Guerre, 1914-18; Greece, Medal of Military Merit, with bronze oak leaf emblem, good condition £40-60 Andrew Browne Cunningham was born in 1883. He entered the Royal Navy in 1898 and saw service in the Boer War. For his service in the Great War he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O. and 2 bars. In the Second World War he was C-in-C Mediterranean, 1939-42; Head of the British Admiralty Delegation in Washington, 1942; Naval C.-in-C Expeditionary Force North Africa, 1942; C-in-C Mediterranean, 1943; and First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, 1943-46. Attained the rank of Admiral of the Fleet in 1943. For his many excellent wartime services, he was created Viscount Hyndhope in 1946, a K.T. in 1945; G.C.B. in 1941; and O.M. in 1946 (the Order of the Thistle and Order of Merit are never represented on a riband bar). In addition to his British honours he was awarded a number of high allied honours. With copied research and certified provenance of the riband bar.

Lot 338

Colonel John Herschel Glenn, Jr., United States Marine Corps, the first American to orbit the Earth Ribbons mounted for display, to represent those of the recipient: U.S.A. Distinguished Flying Cross, with silver oak leaf cluster; Air Medal, with three silver and three bronze oak leaf clusters; Navy Unit Commendation ribbon; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; American Campaign Medal; Victory Medal 1945; China Service Medal 1937-57; National Defence Service Medal; South Korean unknown; Korean Service Medal; U.N. Korea Medal; NASA Distinguished Service Medal, these mounted on card, together with a cloth badge and a signed photograph of Glenn, good condition £20-30 With copied biographical details.

Lot 342

Lieutenant-Commander Douglas George Jeffrey, D.S.O., M.B.E., Royal Canadian Navy Riband bar, pin-backed, bearing the ribbons: Distinguished Service Order; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaf; 1939-45 Star; Polar Medal 1904; Royal Naval Reserve Decoration; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with silver Maple Leaf emblem; France, Croix de Guerre, 1914-18; Serbia, Order of the White Eagle; Russia, Order of St. George, good condition £30-50 Douglas George Jeffrey, Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.R., April 1912; Lieutenant, December 1914; Lieutenant-Commander, December 1918. Awarded the D.S.O. (London Gazette 17 November 1917). Post-war he served on the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition, 1921-22, aboard the Quest, the members of which appear not to have qualified for the Polar Medal. During the Second World War he served with the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy, commanding a number of vessels including the Q-Ships Chagford, Arvonian and Pangloss. In later life he was the Conservative Party Agent for Sir Alec Douglas-Home and was awarded the M.B.E. for his political service. With copied research.

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