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Lot 701

Staffordshire Volunteer Rifle Corps Officer’s Pouch Belt Plate. A fine Officer’s HM Silver (1860) Pouch Belt Plate, crowned laurel wreath with Staffordshire Knot to the centre, with all fixings in place, good condition £180-£220

Lot 703

Staffordshire Volunteer Rifle Corps Arm Badge. A fine 23rd Wolverhampton HM Silver (1878) arm badge, oval back plate with ‘SRV’ and Staffordshire Knot, crossed rifles, and title scrolls ‘Association Shooting Badge’ with a pair of shields reading ‘23’, good condition £220-£260

Lot 71

A Great War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel The Reverend A. F. Inglis, Gurkha Rifles, Kashmiri Infantry and Gilgit Scouts, late South Lancashire Regiment, who having taken Holy Orders served as Chaplain to the North West Railway Battalion, Auxiliary Forces India The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major A. F. Inglis. 1 Kashmir I.S. Infy.); War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal; Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Indian States, Jummoo and Kashmir, War Medal 1914-18, 42mm, silver, the obverse with the heraldic crest of Jummoo and Kashmir with supporters, the reverse inscribed ‘1919 A.D. Awarded for services rendered during the Great War 1914 - 1918,’ unnamed as issued, the last scarce in silver, generally very fine and better, the last scarce in silver (8) £600-£800 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 3 July 1919. The Reverend Alexander Francis Inglis was born at Murree, India, in 1881, the son of Colonel David William Inglis, 35th Sikhs, and was educated at Bedford School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the South Lancashire Regiment in September 1901, he proceed to India and served attached to the 82nd Regiment. He transferred to the Indian Staff Corps the following year, and thence to the 17th Bengal Infantry, attached King George’s Own Gurkha Rifles at Dharmansala, Punjab, in 1904. He was present at the Coronation in 1911 with the Indian Contingent and accompanied the Battalion at the Delhi Durbar, 1911. During the Grear War he served in Chitral and Gilgit as Military Assistant and Commandant Scouts 1914-17., before proceeding to Egypt as Senior Special Service Officer, 1st Kashmir Imperial Service Infantry, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and commanded the battalion in the line in Palestine. He participated in the final attack on Nablus with the 30th Brigade, and for his services he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 5 June 1919) and created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Following the war Inglis took up a staff appointment as Commanding Officer at Dharamsala, in the Jullundur Brigade Area of Lahore, and retired on ill health grounds in 1922, being granted the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He trained for the clergy and attended the Bishop’s College, Cheshunt and was ordained, becoming deacon in 1932, and priest in 1933. He was Chaplain to St. Andrew and St. Oswald, Lahore, and Military Chaplain of St. Martin, Delhi Encampments, and was Chaplain, North West Railway Battalion, A.F.I. in 1937, until 1944. He was confirmed as Honorary Chaplain to the Forces 1946.

Lot 715

Infantry Badges. A selection of Infantry badges including Wiltshire Victorian Officer’s silver & gilt Forage cap badge, lugs repaired, Kings, Devonshire, King’s Own, West Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Loyal North Lancashire, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry &c.; together with sundry cap and collar badges and shoulder titles, some fixings missing, some copies, generally good condition (lot) £140-£180

Lot 72

A inter-War ‘Mesopotamia and Iraq operations’ O.B.E. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel F. Hartley, Royal Sussex Regiment, attached Labour Directorate Mesopotamia, who was three times Mentioned in Despatches The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major F. Hartley.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Lt. Col. F. Hartley) contact marks and minor edge bruising, nearly very fine (4) £360-£440 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 9 September 1921. M.I.D. London Gazettes 27 August 1918 and 12 January 1920 (both Mesopotamia); 9 September 1921 (Iraq). Frank Hartley was born in 1887 at Douglas, Isle of Man, and resided at Mossley Hill, Liverpool. He attested for the Liverpool Regiment at Liverpool on 11 September 1914 and was posted to the Liverpool City Battalion. He was subsequently commissioned into the Royal Sussex Regiment as a Second Lieutenant on 16 June 1915, and was posted for service with the Stokes Gun Batteries, in Mesopotamia, landing there on 2 May 1916. Promoted Acting Captain, while commanding a Stokes Mortar Battery, in October 1916, he subsequently served as Assistant Director of Labour from September 1917 and was advanced temporary Major in June 1918. He was wounded in action with injuries to the chest and back in August 1918.; recovering, he was promoted Assistant Director of Labour and Acting Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1919. For his services in Mesopotamia and post-War Iraq he was thrice Mentioned in Despatches and was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Hartley was invalided back to the U.K. from Basrah on the S.S. Varela, on account of sickness attributed to malaria in October 1921; however, the combination of having been wounded and recurrent Malaria, led to his mental instability, and as a result was held as an in-patient in the Asylum wing of Netley Hospital. He was discharged due to Chronic Delusional Insanity on 18 April 1922, and was granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient in later life.

Lot 727

German Second World War Afrika Korps and Feldgendermerie Cuff Titles. Bevo type with Afrika Korps in silver weave, shortened with evidence of fitting to a tunic; and Feldgemdarmerie army type Bevo weave grey letter on brown background, full length, unused, good condition (2) £80-£100

Lot 73

An inter-War ‘South Persia operations’ O.B.E. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. B. White, Commanding Officer, 39th King George’s Own, Central India Horse, late 4th Hussars The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1918; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. W. B. White.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (Major W. B. White.) light contact marks, very fine and better (4) £300-£400 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 23 July 1920: ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in South Persia.’ William Blomfield White was born in 1882 and was educated at Harrow. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 4th Hussars in 1901, and was promoted Lieutenant in 1904. He transferred to the Indian Army in 1908, and was promoted Captain in 1910 and appointed a Squadron Commander in the 39th King George’s Own Central India Horse. He was promoted Major in 1916, and temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in 1918, and for his services during the Great War and in the subsequent operations in South Persia he was both Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 23 July 1920) and was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in 1927, and retired 1931. The history of the Central India Horse refers to him as follows: ‘He was essentially a bahadur (a brave man and one of renown), and as such was admired and respected by all the Indian ranks of the regiment.’ Sold with copied research.

Lot 731

German Second World War Black Panzer or Waffen SS Sleeve Insignia. Two items of identical rank, one of higher rank, all silver lace on black backing, good condition (3) £80-£100

Lot 732

German Second World War Army Rank Insignia. Three items of insignia for the light brown herringbone twill uniform. Three M.36 rank insignia, silver and subdued lace on dark green background. Three items of rank insignia on mid war field grey backing material. Three items of insignia on HBT herringbone twill material. Two items of rank lace without any backing. Two separate Oberschutz rank patches, one on HBT material, one of field grey, generally good condition (lot) £60-£80

Lot 735

German Second World War Army and Political Rectangular Belt Buckles. Five buckles, two with RZM tags attached, one large early type rectangular pebbled buckle, one smaller buckle with army type pebbling indicating the rank of General, Army type pebbled buckle in silver, later version, complete with a small packet of four buckle clips, one with double pronged belt fixing system, generally good condition (lot) £100-£140

Lot 749

German Second World War Bahnschutz Insignia. Comprising 3 matched pairs of Bannschutz shoulder boards with 4 singles, all of the singles have the Bannschutz winged wheel insignia with a matching pair, unissued condition of Bannschutz silver on black collar patches; together with a small packet containing 9 mint unissued condition Bannschutz winged wheel sections of the insignia, very good condition (lot) £140-£180

Lot 75

A Second War ‘Italy operations’ M.B.E. group of nine awarded to Major A. J. Hill, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, who commanded the 8th Army Recovery Company during the advance through Italy and was Mentioned in Despatches, receiving a further ‘Mention’ for his services in Malaya The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R., with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major L. A. J. Hill. M.B.E. R.E.M.E.); Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (Lieut. L. A. J. Hill. R.E.M.E.) good very fine and better (9) £400-£500 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 20 September 1945: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy.’ The original Recommendation states: ‘Major Hill has commanded the Army Recovery Company since November 1944. During this period, and especially in the early months of 1945, exceptionally severe recovery conditions were encountered, but all difficulties were successfully overcome due to the outstanding leadership and ability of this officer. Eighth Army maintenance routes during the winter of 1944/5 included long stretches of precipitous winding roads through the Appennine Mountains. When these were subjected to ice and snow conditions, the problem of ensuring prompt recovery to avoid road blocks became a very difficult one. Owing to distances and interruption of communications, Major Hill was frequently left to act on his own initiative, and his readiness to turn out under appalling weather conditions in order personally to supervise the most awkward jobs, had an inspiring effect on the morale of recovery crews. The maintenance of constantly clear traffic routes under these circumstances constituted a remarkable achievement. A further example of Major Hill’s exceptional service during this period is the quick improvisation of a special workshop formed out of recovery sections for the purpose of repairing vehicles handed in by formations leaving the Eighth Army. By this means over 120 ‘B’ vehicles were made fit for re-issue in the Army area, which would otherwise had to be evacuated to the base with all the transportation difficulties thus involved. This officer’s outstanding initiative and ability have achieved remarkable results, and his powers of leadership have inspired all those working under his command to give cheerfully of their best under very trying conditions.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 13 January 1944: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 27 April 1951: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Malaya.’ Leslie Arthur John Hill was born on 20 June 1910 and served in the ranks for over fourteen years, and as Warrant Officer for over four years, before being commissioned Second Lieutenant on 20 December 1942. He was advanced Acting Captain on 3 December 1943, and Acting Major on 21 November 1944, being confirmed in the rank of Major on 19 February 1954. He was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1948 and retired on 11 October 1960.

Lot 751

German Second World War Police Insignia. Comprising one pair and six single shoulder boards. Bevo woven Auxiliary Police silver on black overseas cap badge. Police M.43 Bevo woven eagle and cockade set. Police silver on black overseas cap eagle. Green on black Police arm badge with paper glue residue on the reverse side where previously applied to a collectors display board, generally good condition (lot) £100-£140

Lot 759

German Second World War Hitler Youth Shoulder Boards for Winter Blouse. Plain black with blue piping slip-on. Plain black embroidered letter 938 with silver white piping. Plain black with 77 in pink with pink piping, silver tress at base. Plain black with dark green piping, slip-on with silver tress at base. Plain blue with yellow piping and yellow barn number 57. Plain black with yellow 286 rank pip with one rank cord at base lemon yellow piping, generally good condition (lot) £80-£100

Lot 76

A Second War M.B.E. group of three awarded to Major J. G Willetts, Royal Army Service Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure, in card box of issued, addressed to ‘Major J. G. Willetts, 8 The Rise, Kenton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, NE3’; together with the recipient’s Newcastle-upon-Tyne Royal Army Service Corps Association Chairman’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, on neck riband, the Second War campaign medals both later issues, nearly extremely fine (4) £140-£180 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1946. John Gelson Willetts was commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Army Service Corps, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, on 11 April 1923, and was advanced War substantive Captain and temporary Major on 13 November 1941. He relinquished his commission on account of disability on 29 January 1947, and was granted the honorary rank of Major.

Lot 763

German Second World War Hitler Youth and DJ Insignia. Three bullion arm shields for the white jacket of a BDM member, one without number, one with number ‘632’ one with number ‘563’, all silver wire on white backing material with black central swastika. Flieger HJ lozenge, bullion wire on blue. Bevo woven Hitler Youth sleeve or sports vest lozenge, red, white and black. 1st pattern sleeve insignia for Motor HJ members, Bevo woven silver on red and white. Hitler Youth medical orderly, 2nd pattern yellow on dark blue field. Medical orderly life rune, surrounded by oval green and white border, red rune, all Bevo woven with HJ ticket on the reverse side, generally good condition (lot) £200-£240

Lot 77

Family Group: A Second War M.B.E. group of five awarded to Warrant Officer E. H. Robbins, Royal Air Force The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; the M.B.E. accompanied by Buckingham Palace enclosure named to Warrant Officer Edward H. Robbins, M.B.E., R.A.F.; the campaign medals in Air Ministry card box of issue addressed to 215630 W/O Robbins, E. H. Sgt’s Mess, R.A.F., Eastern Avenue, Gloucester, and accompanied by Air Ministry medal issue slip and two part ‘ticker tape’, nearly extremely fine Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Edward William Robbins) in Royal Mint case of issue, nearly extremely fine (6) £200-£240 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1946. M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1945. Edward Henry Robbins served with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and was discharged on 31 March 1949. Edward William Robbins, lately Telephonist, London Telecommunications Region, received the Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement in 1973 (London Gazette 13 November 1973).

Lot 778

A Great War Prussian Observer’s Badge. The Prussian Observer’s Badge, by C. E. Juncker, Berlin, 72mm x 46mm, silver and enamel, with maker’s name and silver marks to reverse, with original pin and hook suspension; together with a related miniature award, in silver an enamel, very good condition (2) £400-£500

Lot 78

A Second War ‘Civil Division’ M.B.E. pair awarded to Observer Lieutenant J. L. Waugh, Royal Observer Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue, ands outer card box, with named Buckingham Palace enclosure; Defence Medal, extremely fine (2) £100-£140 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 9 January 1946.

Lot 784

A German Second World War General Assault Badge. Comprising a nice solid construction General Assault Badge in silver, slight loss of silvered finish to the left hand wing of the eagle, with original pin, hook and hinge; together with a Third Reich DRL badge in bronze, maker marked on the reverse side; and an Eastern Front Medal with its original ribbon, generally good condition (3) £80-£100

Lot 785

A German Second World War General Assault Badge. An Armed Forces General Assault Badge in silver, stamped version, nice condition, non maker marked with its original pin, hook and hinge, generally good condition £60-£80

Lot 786

A German Second World War Tank Destruction Bar. The Bar overall in nice condition, the tank appears to have oxidised black and has been polished giving it a silver appearance and has loose threads where it may have been removed from a tunic. Non magnetic example, very good condition £400-£500

Lot 792

A German Second World War Luftwaffe Bomber Clasp and Insignia. A nice condition early Tombak non-maker marked Luftwaffe bomber flight clasp in gold with rose pendant for 250 missions. Good finish remaining overall. Slight oxidisation to the lower section of the rose pendant with its original pin, hook and hinge; together with a pair of Luftwaffe Hauptmann’s Flight Section collar patches and an unused condition bullion silver wire Luftwaffe cap eagle based on white for the Luftwaffe officer’s white top visor cap, very good condition (4) £300-£400

Lot 794

A German Second World War Luftwaffe Unqualified Air Gunner’s Badge A very difficult to obtain in such nice condition is the Luftwaffe unqualified Air Gunner Badge, ‘Assmann’ marked on the rear of the diving eagle, marked ‘DRGM’ to the black wreath. All of the black finish remaining with the majority of its silver finish to its diving eagle present, with its flat silvered rivets, original pin, hook and hinge, good condition £300-£400

Lot 796

Miscellaneous German Second World War Awards. Comprising a War Merit Medal with its ribbon; a West Wall Medal with its ribbon, all finish remaining; a copy of the Spanish Cross for next of kin and a good copy of the NSDAP Blood Order; two early nickel panzer skulls, plus an army white metal breast eagle with its pin, hook and hinge for fitting to the officer’s white summer tunic; and a Hitler Youth lapel pin, black swastika on silver lozenge laid on blue enamel, RZM marked with lapel pin fixing, some copies, overall good condition (lot) £140-£180

Lot 8

Pair: Engine Driver W. Stant, Sudan Military Railway Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Engine Driver W. Stant Sudan Mil: Rly:) rank and unit officially engraved in running script, name re-engraved; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (Engine . Driver W. Stant Sudan Mil Rlys) re-engraved naming, some silver infill over previous naming near suspension claw, generally good very fine (2) £300-£400

Lot 85

A Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister E. L. Earle, Territorial Force Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; British War and Victory Medals (Sister E. L. Earle.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Sister E. L. Earle. T.F.N.S.) mounted for display, generally good very fine or better (4) £700-£900 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 24 October 1917: Sister, 5th Southern General Hospital. Ellen Louisa Earle was born in Hursley, Hampshire. She enrolled in the T.F.N.S. in March 1909, and was mobilised in August 1914. Earle initially served during the Great War as a nurse at the 5th Southern General Hospital (T.F.) Southsea from 1914. She advanced to Sister and served in the French theatre of war from 4 May 1917, including in No. 58 Casualty Clearing Station where she was in charge of Acute and Minor Surgery Wards. After the war she resided at Basing House, Devizes Road, Salisbury, and died in Plymouth, Devon in December 1946. Sold with copied service papers.

Lot 86

An Order of St. John group of three awarded to Henry E. R. Taylor, British Red Cross Society The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, silver and enamel; British War and Victory Medals (H. E. R. Taylor. B.R.C. & St. J.J.) good very fine (3) £100-£140 --- Henry Edward Russell Taylor served in Italy with the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem from 17 November 1916. Sold with copied Medal Index Card and medal roll.

Lot 87

An Order of St. John group of three awarded to Miss Mary C. Coulcher, C.B.E., Lady District Superintendent, St. John Ambulance Association, and Vice-President, Suffolk Branch, British Red Cross Society The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Sister’s) shoulder badge, silver, with heraldic beasts in angles, on lady’s bow riband; Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Lady Supt. M. C. Coulcher.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, with two additional ‘5 Years Service’ bars (Lady Supt. Miss M. C. Coulcher. Ipswich Corps. 1909) contact marks to last, generally very fine (3) £300-£400 --- C.B.E. London Gazette 30 March 1920: Miss Mary Caroline Coulcher, O.B.E., Lady District Superintendent, St. John Ambulance Association, and Vice-President, Suffolk Branch, British Red Cross Society. O.B.E. London Gazette 7 January 1918: Miss Mary Caroline Coulcher, Vice-President and Lady District Superintendent, St. John Ambulance Brigade; Commandant, Broadwater Auxiliary Hospital, Suffolk. Miss Mary Caroline Coulcher was born in Lynn Regis, Suffolk, in 1852, the daughter of the The Reverend George Coulcher, and moved to Ipswich in 1870. She was one of the initial members of the St. John Ambulance Association movement in Ipswich, becoming Hon. Local Secretary of the Ipswich Centre, S.J.A.A., in January 1880, and was appointed to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in 1902. Appointed a Lady Supervisor, St. John Ambulance Brigade, in 1904, she served as a town councillor from 1909 to 1912, and during the Great War was Commandant, Voluntary Aid Detachment, Suffolk 22; Commandant of Broadwater Auxiliary Hospital, Ipswich, from 21 October 1914 to 12 February 1919, and also Commandant of Gippeswych (Isolation) Hospital, Ipswich, from 20 March to 6 September 1915. It was her enthusiasm and financial support that led to the town’s first motorised ambulance. She was also a Vice-President of the British Red Cross Society for Ipswich, and a member of the East Suffolk War Relief Committee Executive. For her services during the Great War she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1918, and was advanced a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1920. She died in Ipswich on 15 June 1925. Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient; and also details of the publicity behind the play Dread Zeppelin, for which she was one of the inspirations, and in which she features.

Lot 96

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. awarded to Corporal T. Foley, 1st Battalion, Liverpool Regiment, for his gallantry at Cuinchy on 25 September 1915 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (9838 Cpl. T. Foley. 1/L’pool Regt.) minor edge bruise, good very fine £600-£800 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 14 January 1916; citation published 11 March 1916: ‘For conspicuous gallantry. Seeing Captain Kerr, R.A.M.C., struggling in with a very severely wounded man, he went over the parapet to his assistance. There was absolutely no cover from the enemy, who were firing from a commanding position barely 70 yards away.’ For his gallantry on the same day, Captain Frank Robinson Kerr, R.A.M.C. was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette 4 November 1915), his citation giving further details: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and splendid devotion to duty at Cuinchy on 25 September 1915. After an unsuccessful attack on the enemy’s trenches, this officer crawled over our parapet and brought in a wounded man from about a dozen yards outside, in full view of the enemy, at a range of only 70 yards. He then went out again for 30 yards, and rescued a man whose thigh had been broken, being fired at the whole time.’ Thomas Foley (alias Thomas McCabe) was born in 1887 and attested for the Liverpool Regiment on 16 February 1907. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 12 August 1914, and for his gallantry at Cuinchy on 25 September 1915 he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. He was wounded by gun shot to the right arm, and was discharged on 21 March 1917, being awarded a Silver War Badge, no. 199,143. He died on 3 May 1927.

Lot 108

A post-War ‘Malaya operations’ G.M. group of three awarded to Police Lieutenant T. A. Charlton, Federation of Malaya Police, late Palestine Police, for his gallantry during a police and military raid on a well defended bandit camp containing several important bandit leaders in the Muar Circle, Johore, in 1950; he was later killed during a terrorist ambush at Penggarang, South Johore, on 5 May 1954 George Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Thomas Albert Charlton) in Royal Mint case of issue; General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine 1945-48, Malaya, second clasp loose as issued (178 B/Const. T. A. Charlton. Pal. Police.); Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, about extremely fine (3) £4,000-£6,000 --- G.M. London Gazette 24 April 1951: Thomas Albert Charlton, Police Lieutenant, Federation of Malaya Police Force. ‘A well defended bandit camp which contained several important bandit leaders was located in the Muar Circle and an operation was launched against it with a Police jungle squad under Police Lieutenant Charlton and one military platoon. The operation involved a difficult approach march through deep swamp and when the attack was made bandit reaction was immediate and fierce. The small military and police force was quickly surrounded by a much larger number of the enemy armed with automatic weapons. The platoon commander and leading men became casualties in the first few minutes and the remainder were pinned to the ground by enemy fire. On realising that the platoon commander was a casualty and the remainder of the platoon was in dire need of assistance, Police Lieutenant Charlton moved in from reserve under heavy fire and brought the men into action most effectively. Showing complete disregard of his personal safety and under still heavier fire he then moved up to the platoon commander and assisted the platoon sergeant in carrying out the commander’s instructions. He remained in action with the platoon for the next three hours during which time he displayed the highest qualities of personal courage, determination and leadership. The conduct of Police Lieutenant Charlton was an inspiration to all ranks of the military and police force.’ Thomas Albert Charlton joined the Federation of Malay Police as a European sergeant on 2 September 1948, having previously served as a British Constable with the Palestine Police, and was appointed a Police Lieutenant on 1 August 1950. He was awarded the George Medal for his gallantry when assisting the 1st Battalion, Cameronians, in cleaning out a bandit camp near Muar in 1950 - when the British officer and some men were surrounded by a strong force of bandits, Charlton brought a Bren gun group to their assistance through heavy fire from Communists in the jungle and snipers in tree tops. Charlton served as part of the Federation of Malay Police’s Coronation Contingent at the Coronation of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Returning to Malaya, he was killed during a terrorist ambush at Penggrang, South Johore, on 5 May 1954. The following report from the High Commissioner stated: ‘At about 1:10 p.m., or 5th May, 1954, in the Penggerang District of Johore a Police “Landrover” in which Police Lieutenant T. A. Charlton, G.M., and six special constables were travelling was ambushed by some fifteen to twenty communist terrorists. The police party had been attached to a Special Operational Volunteer Force Platoon and had finished an operational patrol during the previous evening. They were proceeding to Penggerang from Sungei Bantu for the purpose of re-kitting and resting. The first burst of Fire from the communist terrorists wounded the driver of the Police “Landrover” upon which Police Lieutenant Charlton and the Special Constables alighted from the vehicle to take cover. Two hand-grenades were then thrown by the communist terrorists, one of which exploded and killed Police Lieutenant Charlton instantaneously. The other hand-grenade did not explode. During the enragement three special constables were killed and three others were wounded.’ Charlton is buried in Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore. Sold with the following related items: i) The recipient’s Federation of Malaya Police Swagger Stick used at the Coronation in 1953, with silver top roundall and silver label inscribed ‘Lieut. T. A. Charlton, G.M., Coronation 1953’ ii) A Souvenir booklet of the Commonwealth and Empire Contingents at the Coronation, containing a nominal roll in which the recipient is listed iii) A copy of the book ‘Operation Sharp End, Smashing Terrorism in Malaya 1948-58’, edited by Brian Stewart, C.M.G., in which the recipient’s George Cross citation is published iv) A metal plaque inscribed ‘George Medal awarded to Police Lieut. T. A. Charlton, April 1951 (Malay Police Force). Killed in ambush by Terrorists, 5th May 1954’ v) Various photographs and photographic images of the recipient and his grave; and copied research.

Lot 11

Honourable East India Company Medal for Egypt 1801, silver, with silver loop suspension, a good original striking, good very fine £1,000-£1,400

Lot 115

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Sapper J. Bennett, 79th Field Company, Royal Engineers Military Medal, G.V.R. (16459 Sapr. J. Bennett. 79/F. Coy. R.E.); 1914 Star, with clasp 16459 Sapr: J. Bennett. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (16549 Spr. J., Bennett. R.E.) together with Silver War Badge (No. B134602) good very fine (5) £160-£200 --- M.M. London Gazette 4 February 1918. John Bennett was a native of Colyton, Devon, and served in France from 22 August 1914. Sold with gazette notice and copied Medal Index Card.

Lot 118

A Great War 1917 ‘Boesinghe’ M.M. awarded to Company Sergeant Major F. McCusker, 1st Battalion, Irish Guards Military Medal, G.V.R. (1910 Sjt: F. McCusker. 1/Ir:Gds:) suspension claw re-pinned, now slack, nearly very fine £280-£320 --- M.M. London Gazette 28 September 1917. Frank McCusker enlisted in the Irish Guards in November 1903. He served during the Great War with the Irish Guards in the French theatre of war from 13 August 1914 (entitled to Silver War Badge). Rudyard Kipling’s History of the Irish Guards in the Great War gives: ‘On 27th August [1917] medal ribbons were presented by the General of the 1st Brigade to those who had won honour in the Boesinghe battle, either by their cool-headedness in dealing with “surprise situations” or sheer valour in the face of death or self-devotion to a comrade; for there was every form of bravery to choose from. Lieutenant E. Budd received the bar to his Military Cross, and Sergeant (A/C.S.M.) P. Donohoe (No. 3056), No. 1910 Sergeant (A/C.S.M.) F. McCusker.... Military Medal....’ Sergeant McCusker was discharged in February 1919.

Lot 129

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant A. Beecroft, 1st Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade Military Medal, G.V.R. (45505 Pte. - A. Sjt: - A. Beecroft. Can. M.M.G. M.T. Coy.) minor official correction to unit; 1914-15 Star (45505 Pte A. Beecroft. Can: M.M.G. Bde:); British War and Victory Medals (45505 Pte. A. Beecroft. C.M.G. Bde.) housed in a home-made hinged wooden box, with engraved brass plaque on lid ‘45505 Sjt. A. Beecroft M.M. Canadian M.M.G. Bde. M.T. Coy.’, with portrait photograph of recipient in uniform, named enclosure for M.M. and other ephemera, generally very fine (4) £400-£500 --- M.M. London Gazette 20 August 1919. Arthur Beecroft was born in Stonham, Aspal, Suffolk in August 1888. He emigrated to Canada, was employed as a chauffeur and mechanic, and resided at 86 Seaton Street, Toronto, Ontario. Beecroft served during the Great War with the 1st Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade on the Western Front (entitled to Silver War Badge).

Lot 131

A Great War ‘French theatre’ M.M. group of three awarded to Corporal E. Beaulieu, 22nd Battalion (French Canadian), Canadian Infantry Military Medal, G.V.R. (4040227 Pte. E. Beaulieu. 22/Quebec R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (4040227 A. Cpl. E. Beaulieu. 22-Can. Inf.); Victory Medal 1914-19, last erased, mounted for display, lacquered, very fine (3) £240-£280 --- M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919. Eugene Beaulieu was born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada in August 1891. He was a dentist by occupation, and initially served during the Great War with the 22nd Battalion (French Canadian), Canadian Infantry on the Western Front. Beaulieu was wounded in action on 16 August 1918 (entitled to Silver War Badge). He transferred to the Canadian Army Dental Corps in September 1918, and returned to Canada in May 1919. Sold with copied service papers.

Lot 133

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant F. H. Stanton, who was a Methodist Clergyman prior to the Great War, and served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps before transferring to the 47th Battalion (British Columbia), Canadian Infantry Military Medal, G.V.R. (525257 Sjt F. H. Stanton. 47/W. Ont: R.); British War and Victory Medals (525257 Sjt. F. H. Stanton. 47-Can. Inf.) mounted for wear, ribands frayed, toned, very fine (3) £300-£400 --- M.M. London Gazette 14 May 1919. Frank Herbert Stanton was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in April 1888. He was a Methodist Clergyman prior to the Great War, and he initially served with No. 1 Field Ambulance, Canadian Army Medical Corps. Stanton advanced to Sergeant, and transferred to the 47th Battalion (British Columbia), Canadian Infantry (entitled to Silver War Badge). He died in October 1971.

Lot 141

The outstanding Second War Honorary ‘Intelligence’ M.B.E. and rare Great War Belgian Pilot’s D.F.M. group of twenty awarded to Capitaine-Commandant C. J. G. J. Delloye, Compagnie des Aviateurs and Aviation Militaire, who served as a Pilot with 2e Escadrille, and racked up in excess of 100 hours of reconnaissance missions over enemy lines during 1918, ‘distinguishing himself by his skill and his dash’ Continuing in service, Delloye was captured in 1940 but escaped to Britain where he was attached to the Royal Air Force as Acting Squadron Leader and served as head of the escape and evasion department of Belgium State Security in London - here he organised the routes and contacts for getting escaped and downed aircrew back to the UK as well working closely with his counterparts in MI9, including Airey Neave, organising the recruitment and cover stories for agents getting in and out of Belgium The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Distinguished Flying Medal, G.V.R. (No 243 Flt Warrant Officer Charles Delloye, Aviation Belge.) on 1st type horizontal striped riband; Belgium, Kingdom, Order of Leopold II, Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, bilingual motto, with neck riband; Order of Leopold, Military Division, Officer’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, French motto, with rosette on riband; Order of the Crown, Officer’s breast badge, gilt and enamel, with rosette and crossed swords emblem on riband; Military Cross, First Class, L.III.R., gilt and enamel, with rosette on riband; Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, with bronze palm emblem on riband; Yser Medal 1914, bronze and enamel; Commemorative Medal for the Great War 1914-18, bronze; Allied Victory Medal 1914-19, bronze; Combat Volunteers Medal 1914-18, bronze; Frontline Fire Service Cross 1914-18, bronze; Evaders Cross, bronze; Volunteer’s Medal 1940-45, bronze; Armed Resistance Medal 1940-45, bronze; Political Prisoner’s Cross 1940-45, silvered and enamel, with riband bar with three stars; Prisoner of War Medal 1940-45, bronze, with five bronze riband bars; Commemorative Medal for the Second World War 1940-45, bronze, with small crown emblem on riband; Medal for Military Fighters of the Second World War 1940-45, bronze; Volunteer’s Medal, bronze, generally good very fine and better (20) £4,600-£5,500 --- Provenance: The Reverend E. Hawkes Field Collection, Glendinings, November 1950 (listed as D.F.M. only, and with an estimate of £15/10/0); J. B. Hayward, 1973. One of just 4 D.F.M.s awarded to Allied airmen during the Great War (3 to Belgians and 1 to a Frenchman). Appointed Honorary M.B.E. 11 November 1946. This for his work as head of the escape and evasion department at the Belge Surete de L’etat, London. These Awards were not Gazetted but are confirmed (WO 373/153/549). D.F.M. London Gazette 19 July 1919 (originally recommended for a M.M.): ‘A pilot who has distinguished himself by his skill and his dash, and who was always to be found ready to start on difficult enterprises. During the Flanders offensive of 1918, his work was largely responsible for successful counter battery work.’ Belgium Croix de Guerre, awarded 4 February 1919: ‘A remarkable pilot for his skill. His courage and his dash. Carried out many very fruitful reconnaissance missions over enemy lines during more than 100 hours of observation flights.’ Emblem for Belgium Croix de Guerre awarded 12 June 1919: ‘Showed much courage and devotion to duty during the Flanders Offensive in 1918.’ Charles Jules Ghislain Joseph Delloye was born in Thorembais les Béguines, Belgium in July 1894. He joined the Belgian military in June 1914 and was on active service with the Compagnie des Aviateurs from 14 August 1914. Delloye was an early member of the Belgian Air Force, being one of just 175 Officers and men being called to service at the start of the War. Initially based at Antwerp, Delloye was one of the defenders of that place in the early days of the War. A huge number of Belgium troops became prisoner when that town fell, the remnants being driven back to the river Yser, where they desperately and successfully attempted to hold the line during October 1914. The defenders of the Yser were later awarded the distinctive Yser medal (Delloye’s confirmed). On 30 October 1914, Delloye was transferred to Service Arriere de L’Aviation at Calais and appears to have stayed there for the next couple of years, the Compagnie des Aviateurs being renamed Aviation Militaire in March 1915. Posted for training as a pilot to the Aviation School at Etampes on 1 January 1917, he was promoted Corporal on 21 April and was posted for operational service as a pilot to 2e Escadrille on 22 July, remaining with this squadron throughout the rest of the War. Great War 2e Escadrille was a Squadron tasked with Artillery and photography work on the Western Front, under the orders of Division d’Armee. The squadron had a nominal strength of 15 aircraft; 11 2-seaters; Spad and Breguets and 4 single seaters; Nieuports and Sopwith Camels. Unlike British, French or German Squadrons, Belgium reconnaissance Squadrons had 4 fighter aircraft as part of 15 aircraft compliment, this for their own protection during missions. This was probably due to the size of the Belgium Air Force during the War, which was a fraction of the size of the other main combatant nations. By the end of the War, Belgium had just 11 Squadrons, of these one was non operational (on paper only), 7 were reconnaissance or bomber Squadrons and 3 were fighter squadrons. A report in September 1918, noted the Belgium squadrons strength at 134 aircraft. Putting this into context, at this time the British had 200 operational Squadrons and nearly 23,000 aircraft. Delloye was advanced to Sergeant on 29 July, to Premier Sergeant on 22 September and Premier Sergeant-Major on 22 November 1917. Promoted Adjutant (senior Warrant Officer) on 22 January 1918, he would fly missions throughout, being mentioned in Orders twice for his gallantry and was one of just 4 Allied airmen to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal by the British (others receiving the MM, DCM, MC etc). In the main, it seems Delloye was a 2-seater pilot, his citations suggest this, as do a number of copy photographs of him in and around 2e Escadrille’s Breguets and Spads. However, there are also several taken in the cockpit of different Nieuports fighters; one in a series of postcards of Belgium aviators during the War (like German Sanke cards). So it seems he flew both fighters and 2-seaters. Delloye’s entry in ‘The Belgian Air Service in the First World War’, notes at least 102 missions during the War. Delloye was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Auxiliary Engineers on 6 January 1919, and transferred to the Infantry in July of the same year. He advanced to Lieutenant, 26 December 1921, and transferred back to the Belgian Air Force as Aircrew in January 1924. Delloye advanced to Capitaine Aviateur on 26 December 1935. Second World War, Escape, Head of Bureau des Evasions and MI9 Still with the Belgian Air Force at the outbreak of the Second War, on 12 May 1940 Delloye moved with his unit to Bordeaux but when France fell, he was taken prisoner. On 16 August 1940, Delloye was returned to occupied Belgium as a prisoner of war and after release was employed in the Ministry of Finance from November 1940. At the end of July 1941 he escaped from occupied Belgium with the intention of joining Belgian forces in the UK but was captured at Leon on 29 December 1941. He was subsequently interned in Valladolid, Spain, 6 January 1942 and Mir...

Lot 142

A post-War ‘Royal Yacht’ service R.V.M. group of seven awarded to Chief Petty Officer (Cook) C. H. Bickley, Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Victorian Medal, E.II.R., silver; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, with Second Award Clasp (LX.21082 C. H. Bickley O.C.1 H.M.S. Emerald) mounted as worn, good very fine (7) £300-£400 --- R.V.M. (Silver 13 June 1959: ‘Charles Henry Bickley, C.P.O., H.M.Y. Britannia.’ Charles Henry Bickley was born on 14 October 1911, at Exeter, Devon. A domestic gardener by trade, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as Officer’s Cook 4th Class on 25 November 1929, serving for over 30 years and rising to the rank of Chief Petty Officer, serving the last 7 years on the Royal Yacht Britannia as Chief Cook. He served on a variety of H.M. Ships and shore bases including the Campbell, Dolphin, Nelson, Victory 2, Boscowen, Glasgow, Pembroke 2, Scout and Dunedin. During WW2 he served on Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) from July 1939 to March 1940; Acheron (destroyer) from March to October 1940; Argus (aircraft carrier) October 1940 to December 1942; Victory December 1942 to March 1943; Emerald (light cruiser) March 1943 to October 1944, receiving his L.S. & G.C. medal in this ship in September 1944; Glenroy (Troop and landing ship) from February to August 1945. Post war he continued to serve on the Vanguard, Anson, Howe, Excellent, Vengeance, Adamant, Bellerophon, Mauritius and the Royal Yacht Britannia from January 1954 to November 1961 and shore pension. He received his Clasp to L.S. & G.C. medal on 13 March 1960. Chief Petty Officer Bickley died in January 1985. Sold with copied research and a group photograph of the crew with the Royal family aboard Britannia.

Lot 145

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband; Star, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, with gold retaining pin, minor blue enamel damage to motto on Star, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £1,400-£1,800

Lot 147

The C.M.G. attributed to Captain J. G. C. Allen, a Nigerian Colonial Administrator who served in the Colonial Forces Section of the Intelligence Corps in the Second World War and was Chief of Military Intelligence in Nigeria and Liaison Officer with the Free French Forces in West Africa The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with both full and miniature width neck ribands, in Spink, London, case of issue, minor white enamel damage to St. George’s horse on reverse central medallion, otherwise nearly extremely fine £300-£400 --- C.M.G. London Gazette 2 January 1956. James Godfrey Colquhoun Allen was born at St. Peter Port, Guernsey, in 1904, the son of Dr. and Mrs. J. D. C. Allen, and was educated at Blundell’s School, Tiverton, and at the University of Munich. He commenced service as a Colonial Administrator in the Nigerian Administrative Service in 1926, becoming Assistant District Officer and later District Officer, 1929-45. He was appointed Resident in 1947, and Senior Resident in 1953. He served as the Anglo-French Cameroons Boundary Commissioner 1937-39; as Nigerian Representative with the Free French Douala, 1940; as Chief Censor and Chief of Military Intelligence, Nigeria 1940-41; and as West African Liaison Officer with Free French Forces in Equatorial Africa, 1942-43. He served as Deputy Commissioner of the Colony at Lagos 1946-52; and was Director of Administration for the Nigerian Broadcasting Company, 1957-61. During the Second World War he received a commission as Second Lieutenant in the Nigeria Regiment with seniority, 3 September 1939, and subsequently transferred to the Intelligence Corps, African Colonial Forces Section, being promoted War Substantive Captain on 26 July 1942. He received the 1953 Coronation Medal, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1956. He died in Bath in 1982. His personal papers and memoirs are held by the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Sold with several original letters and telegrams regarding the award of the C.M.G. and letters congratulating James Godfrey Colquhoun Allen on the award; together with a newspaper cutting containing a photograph of the recipient’s investiture by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II.

Lot 148

The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue, nearly extremely fine £300-£400

Lot 149

The C.V.O. insignia attributed to Commodore Hugh Tyrwhitt, Royal Navy, Captain of H.M.S. Renown during the Royal Visit to India in 1905-06 The Royal Victorian Order, C.V.O., Commander’s, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, the reverse officially numbered ‘C 236’, in its Collingwood, London fitted case of issue, good very fine £400-£500 --- Hugh Tyrwhitt was born on 14 July 1856, at Ashwell Thorpe, Norfolk, the 2nd son of Sir Henry Thomas Tyrwhitt, 3rd Baronet and Harriet Wilson, 12th Baroness Berners. He was commissioned a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy in June 1876 and promoted to Lieutenant in February 1881. He served as Flag Lieutenant to the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, served with the Naval Brigade in Sudan and took part in the Nile Expedition to relieve General Charles Gordon in 1884. He was promoted to Commander in June 1893, and to Captain in January 1889. On 19 March 1900 he was appointed Flag Captain of the battleship H.M.S. Renown, flag ship to Admiral Sir John Fisher, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet. Fisher resigned from this position in June 1902 to become Second Sea Lord. Following Fisher’s recommendation, Tyrwhitt was appointed Private Naval Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty in October 1902. In 1905 he was appointed Commodore 2nd Class of the battleship H.M.S. Renown to escort the Prince and Princess of Wales to India. He was made Naval aide-de-camp to the King in 1906, and he died of kidney failure on 26 October 1907, and fittingly was buried at sea. Sold with copied research and original Central Chancery letter confirming that ‘C.V.O. Badge No. 235 was awarded to Captain The Honourable Hugh Tyrwhitt R.N. on the 11th March 1903 on the occasion of the Prince of Wales visit to India.’

Lot 153

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem (4), Officer’s (Brother’s) breast badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, with case; Serving Brother’s breast badge, 1st type (1892-1939) (2), circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background, one lacking ring suspension; Serving Sister’s shoulder badge, 4th type (1974-84), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles flush with the background; Service Medal of the Order of St John (4480. Ldy. Dst. Offr. A. A. Bohm Coulcher. Dist. Staff No. 10 Dst. S.J.A.B. 1925) generally very fine and better (5) £100-£140 --- Sold with three ‘1 S.J.A.B.’ shoulder titles; and two ‘National Hospital Service Reserve’ lapel badges.

Lot 154

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silver and enamel, heraldic beasts in angles flush with background; Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Ethel Louise Blanchard.) in case of issue; Belgium, Kingdom, Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1918, with bronze star emblem on riband, good very fine (4) £60-£80

Lot 156

Pair: Corporal Edward Cope, 2nd Battalion, 95th Foot, who was wounded in the right thigh during the expedition to South America in 1806-07, and severely wounded in the head at Vera heights in October 1813 Military General Service 1793-1814, 7 clasps, Corunna, Busaco, Barrosa, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (E. Cope, 95th Foot, Rifles.); Waterloo 1815 (Corp. Edward Cope, 2nd Batt. 95th Reg. Foot.) fitted with contemporary replacement silver clip and rectangular bar suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (2) £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: G. Dalrymple-White Collection, Glendining’s, July 1946. Edward Cope was born in the Parish of Shendham, near Derby, and enlisted into the 2nd Battalion, 95th Foot, at Newcastle on 24 April 1805, aged 23, for unlimited service. He served a total of 15 years 271 days, including 2 years allowance for Waterloo, and was discharged at Hastings in the rank of Sergeant on 19 January 1819, in consequence of ‘being over the establishment of the corps, and having been severely wounded in the head at Vera Heights, 7 October 1813, and also in the right thigh in South America.’ Sold with copied discharge papers.

Lot 171

Eight: Lieutenant-Colonel G. H. Bell, 27th Punjabis, late King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who died on service during the Great War Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Gemaizah 1888 (2nd Lieut: G. H. Bell. 2/K.O. Sco: Bord:); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1901-2 (Captain G. H. Bell 27th Punjabis); Africa General Service 1902-56, 2 clasps, Somaliland 1902-04, Jidballi (Capt: G. H. Bell. 27/Punjabis); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col. G. H. Bell. 27/Punjabis.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. G. H. Bell.); Khedive’s Star, undated; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued, the first with light pitting from star, otherwise nearly very fine or better (8) £1,400-£1,800 --- George Henry Bell was born on 11 April 1869, the son of George Coates Bell, a Surgeon Major in the Bombay Medical Department. He was educated at Dulwich College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Upon passing out in August 1888 he took up a commission in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers with whom he saw service during the next two years in the Sudan, being present at the action of Gemaizah (Medal with Clasp and bronze star) and also took part in the operations on the Nile in 1889. In 1890 his unit went to India, and a year later he joined the Indian Army as a Lieutenant, first with the 19th Punjabis before, in 1893, switching to the 38th Dogras. During this period he spent much of his service on the North West Frontier, becoming familiar with the small forts that were common there, as well as with the Punjab in general. Fort Sandeman, Mir Ali Khel, and Jamrud made him familiar with the Zhob, Baluchistan, and the Khyber, and, in 1896, he was permanently appointed to the 27th Punjabis, of which regiment he became Adjutant and was later made Captain in 1899. He went with them to Kila Drosh (Chitral), Peshawur, Bannu, and to Kajuri Kach, Jandola, Zam, Tank, and Dera Ghazi Khan. He saw active service in 1901-2 in the Waziristan Campaign (Medal with Clasp), and again in the following two years, as his regiment was sent to the Somaliland, including the action at Jidballi, in which for a time he served as Field Intelligence Officer (Medal with two Clasps). In 1906 the 27th Punjabis returned to the North West Frontier again as Major on the Staff of the 1st Division, Peshawur, at Cherat and Malakand. Rejoining his regiment at at Multan he was once more on the Waziristan borderland in 1908, at Dera Ismail Khan and Shukh Budin; and after an absence of four years the 27th Punjabis returned there in 1912. When war broke out he was commanding a detachment at Fort Jandola. In October 1914 he and his regiment were transferred to Europe, albeit along the way they were also involved in repelling an attack on the Suez Canal. Upon reaching France in August 1915 he was second in command of the regiment during the battle of Loos and was subsequently given command of the 69th Punjabis, who had suffered heavy losses in that action. He subsequently took his new regiment east, serving with them as they fought from the Suez across the Arabian Peninsula in outposts of the Aden Hinterland. In February 1916 he was ordered to Mesopotamia to take command of the 9th Bhopals. Almost immediately after reaching the front line trenches his fine constitution broke down and he was invalided to India and died while on sick leave at Srinagar, Kashmir, on 3 September 1916, his wife, Eva, having joined him from England a week earlier. Sold with pre-Great War ribbon bar and some copied research and photographs. For the recipient’s pre-war group of miniature medals, see Lot 628.

Lot 189

Family Group: Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (1687 Tpr: E. M. Hoops. S.A.C.); together with a silver prize medal, the reverse engraved ‘3rd Prize Boys Championship Race Won by E. M. Hoops.’; and the recipient’s South African War Veterans Association lapel badge, gilt and enamel, toned, good very fine Pair: Staff Nurse E. C. Hoops, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
British War and Victory Medals (S/Nurse E. C. Hoops) surname officially corrected on VM; together with the recipient’s silver identity bracelet, nearly extremely fine (lot) £140-£180 --- Ernest Mostyn Hoops was born in Donegal, Ulster in September 1878, and was the son of a Doctor, and brother of Eilsea Hoops. The family moved to Canada in the 1890’s, and Hoops subsequently resided in South Africa, Argentina and Canada retiring to White Rock - where he died in 1964. Eilsea/Eileen Constance Hoops was born in Wrexham, Wales in 1885. She trained as a nurse in Vancouver, Canada, and served as a Staff Nurse with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 September 1917. After the war she resided in Palo Alto, California, and died in Vancouver General Hospital in February 1963. Sold with a commemorative ‘horseshoe’ brooch badge for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee 1887, silver and enamel; and a commemorative brooch badge for King George VI’s Coronation 1937, bronze-gilt; and copied research including photographic images of both recipients.

Lot 213

Seven: Captain T. H. Johnson, Canadian Corps of Military Staff Clerks, late Lincolnshire Regiment, 7th Hussars, 8th Hussars, and Lord Strathcona’s Horse, who was taken Prisoner of War in March 1918 1914-15 Star (24257 Pte. H. Johnson. 7th Hrs); British War and Victory Medals (24257 Pte. H. Johnson. 8-Hrs.); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, without clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, these both privately engraved ‘Capt. T. H. Johnson’; Permanent Forces of the Empire L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (Q.M.S. (W.O. II) T. H. Johnson C.M.S.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (W.O. Cl. II (QMS) T. H. Johnson CMSC) the Great War awards very fine, the rest better (7) £600-£800 --- Thomas Henry ‘Harry’ Johnson was born at Emo, Port Arlington, Ireland in 1885 and served in the 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment from 1904 to 1907. Following the outbreak of the Great War he joined the Corps of Hussars, and served initially with the 8th Hussars on the Western Front from 17 October 1915, before transferring to the 7th Hussars, and was captured and taken prisoner of war on 22 March 1918, on the second day of the German Spring Offensive, being held at Munster P.O.W. Camp, Germany. Following the Great War Johnson emigrated to Canada joining ‘A’ Squadron Lord Strathcona’s Horse in 1921, and the Corps of Military Staff Clerks in 1922. During the Second World War he was commissioned Lieutenant, C.M.S.C, on 1 June 1942, and Captain on 1 June 1943. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal per General Order 348 of 1945. He was placed on the retired list as medically unfit, on 12 February 1945, and discharged from the C.M.S.C., Lord Strathcona’s Horse, with the rank of Captain. He died at Victoria, British Columbia, on 30 January 1967. Sold with a portrait photograph of the recipient, and extensive paperwork, ephemera, and copied research.

Lot 233

Three: Captain Henry E. Wall, Royal Naval Reserve, holder of the Lloyd’s silver Medal for Saving Life, the Shipwrecked Mariners Society Medal, the Emile Robins Award, and a gold medal from the Canadian Government British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. H. E. Wall. R.N.R.); Mercantile Marine War Medal (Henry E. Wall.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lieut. H. E. Wall. R.N.R.) good very fine (3) £180-£220 --- Henry Edwin Wall was born in Devonport in 1877, and commenced working as a reader’s assistant with The Western Daily Mercury newspaper. The job was not to his taste and he obtained a seagoing apprenticeship. He was lucky to survive his first voyage, aged 16 years, on the barque Cumbrian (sailing ship) when with two anchors down, she was being dragged to the shore. The rescue rocket apparatus was deployed (one newspaper article states he was rescued by the apparatus, another that he remained on the ship). A tug attended in time to rescue the ship from being wrecked. He served for 5 years on the Cumbrian and achieved the rank of 2nd mate before transferring to steam vessels. In 1901 he secured his Master’s Ticket and was serving on the Mira (steel four-masted steamer, built 1901). On 15 December 1902, the Mira was in the North Atlantic, off the Newfoundland Banks, the weather was bad with a moderate gale blowing and a heavy beam sea running. The J. N. Wylde (Canadian schooner) was sighted flying her ensign upside down (the international signal of distress), and on closing it was observed that the top mast and all sail was gone, as was the bowsprit. Her Captain signalled that they were in a bad way with the ship leaking badly, pumps choked, crew crippled and they wished to be taken off. A life boat from the Mira was lowered being skippered by Wall and manned by five of the crew. After several attempts they managed to take off the crew of nine, the master and his wife (and cat). The conditions were so rough and dangerous it took four and a half hours to make three journeys to get all the crew off, some of whom were suffering from frostbite. The rescue lifeboat took some heavy knocks in the process and the Mira’s second life boat was standing by in case the rescue boat required rescuing. Due to the condition of the J. N. Wylde, it was decided to sink her as she was a danger to shipping. Hall returned to the derelict ship, boarded and managed to set it alight to sink the ship. As a result of the rescue effort Captain Hill was awarded the Lloyds Silver Life Saving Medal (1903), The Shipwrecked Mariners Society Medal, the Emile Robins Award for the most meritorious rescue for the year, and also received a gold medal from the Canadian Government. The other members of the boat crew received bronze medals. Shortly after this he was employed by the Great Western Railway Marine Department (Plymouth), mail and passenger service, commanding the tenders Cheshire, Sir Richard Grenville, Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake. He finished as Dockmaster at Plymouth after working for the company some 35 years and retired in 1938. During the Great War, the G.W.R. tenders were employed in the examination service and he captained the Atalanta III which was equipped with powerful salvage pumps. Based at the Isles of Scilly they assisted damaged ships that had been torpedoed or mined. Due to the nature of the work Wall was appointed to a temporary commission as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy Reserve from June 1917 to March 1920. The Atalanta III was involved in the attempted rescue/salvage of the ‘Q’ ship Dunraven which even though torpedoed was attempting to lure the U boat to the surface. Captain Wall died in March 1939. Sold with copied research including R.N.R service record, Great Western Railway Employment Records, 1911 census, 1st mate certificate and various newspaper articles.

Lot 234

Pair: Lieutenant-Commander W. I. Mason, Royal Naval Reserve and Mercantile Marine, who served as Master of the S.S. Clan Graham, which was twice attacked by an enemy submarine during the Great War, for which he received a King’s Commendation and was also awarded the Lloyd’s Medal for Meritorious Service British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (William I. Mason.) in named card boxes of issue, extremely fine (2) £100-£140 --- William Isaac Mason was born at Kirkby-in-Furness, Lancashire, in 1878 and served during the Great War as Master of the Clan Line S.S. Clan Graham - she was attacked by an enemy submarine by gunfire in the Mediterranean on 26 May 1917, and was torpedoed by another submarine in the Mediterranean on 4 March 1918, but on both occasions Mason managed to get the ship to port. For his skill in doing so Captain Mason was awarded the Lloyds Medal for Meritorious Service in silver. As a Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve, Mason’s name was amongst those having been brought to notice of the King, having received an expression of commendation for their services (London Gazette 29 November 1918). He was awarded the Royal Naval Reserve Officers Decoration in 1923 (London Gazette 1 March 1923, and was granted the rank of Commander on retirement. Sold with original named Board of Trade ‘Authority to wear War Medals for the Mercantile Marine’; original letter from the General Register and Record Office of Shipping and Seamen, to Lt. Commander W. I. Mason, R.N.R.; and copied research.

Lot 239

Pair: Trooper B. L. Bell, Household Battalion and Guards Machine Gun Regiment British War and Victory Medals (2799 Tpr. B. L. Bell. Household Bn.) good very fine (2) £60-£80 --- Bertie Leonard Bell was born in Honingham, Norfolk, on 10 February 1897 and attested for the Household Battalion on 2 March 1916. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front, before transferring to the Guards Machine Gun Regiment, and was discharged due to wounds on 2 November 1918, being awarded a Silver War Badge no. B48,469. He died in East Dereham, Norfolk, in September 1981. Sold with a Household Cavalry Battalion cap badge; a Guards Machine Gun Corps cap badge; and copied research.

Lot 250

Pair: Private W. F. Tarleton, Tank Corps British War and Victory Medals (313444 Pte. W. F. Tarleton. Tank Corps.) with forwarding slip and registered packet, extremely fine British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (Capt. W. B. Young. R.A.F.; Lieut. V. R. Blundell.; 11309 Sjt. A. E. Jack. K.R. Rif. C.) number and rank corrected on the last; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, unnamed; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, unnamed, these last two mounted as a pair; Africa Service Medal (242003 F. R. Van Der. Veen) the last nearly very fine, otherwise good very fine or better (8) £50-£70

Lot 254

Pair: Staff Nurse I. M. Buck, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve British War and Victory Medals (S. Nurse I. M. Buck.) together with the recipient’s Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. silver cape badge, nearly extremely fine (3) £80-£100 --- Isabel/Isabella Buck was born in Haggerston, London, in 1883. She served in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve at the London Hospital and on temporary duties on the Hospital Ships Wandilla and Llandovery Castle from 31 August 1916, before going out to Salonika from 15 July 1917, where she served in No. 42 General Hospital. However, having succumbed to sandfly fever and afterwards contracted dysentery and malaria, she was invalided form Salonica in November 1917. She then underwent a long period of transition to England via various military hospitals. In her continuing service declaration her nearest relative is shows as Lieutenant Ralph Buck, R.A.F. She joined the Nursing register in 1922 (No. 5007) and latterly lived at ‘Wandilla’, Earlswood Road, Redhill. She died in 1975. Sold with copied research.

Lot 263

Pair: Private E. O’Shaunessy, 2nd Battalion (Eastern Ontario Regiment), Canadian Infantry and Canadian Labour Battalion, who was wounded and taken prisoner of war after a trench raid on the Western Front, 25 January 1918 British War and Victory Medals (633175 Pte. E. O’Shaughnessy. Can. Labr. Bn.) very fine Pair: Gunner P. C. Thurston, Canadian Field Artillery British War and Victory Medals (1251416. Gnr. P. C. Thurston. C.F.A.) mounted as worn, generally very fine (4) £80-£120 --- Earl O’Shaughnessy was born in Dundas County, Ontario, Canada in April 1897. He initially served with the 154th Battalion, before transferring to the 2nd Battalion (Eastern Ontario Regiment), Canadian Infantry and the Canadian Labour Battalion. O’Shaughnessy was wounded and taken prisoner on 25 January 1918 after an enemy trench raid on the Western Front. He was interned at Limburg an der Lahn, and released 12 December 1918. Perl Clarence Thurston was born in Mulberry, Kansas U.S.A. in August 1883. He served for 2 years with the Wyoming National Guard, prior to service during the Great War with the 3rd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery (entitled to Silver War Badge). He died in Vernon, Canada in March 1964.

Lot 300

Seven: Petty Officer First Class J. W. Harrington, Royal Canadian Navy 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Centenary Medal 1967; Canadian Forces Decoration, E.II.R. (PO 1/c J. W. Harrington.) mounted court-style as worn, all heavily lacquered, generally very fine (7) £100-£140 --- John William Harrington was born in Chatham, Ontario, on 1 April 1925 and served during the Second World War in the Royal Canadian Navy. He appears on the nominal list of personnel in “W” Beach Commando during the Normandy landings, taking over control of Mike Beach, Juno area, in July 1944 and ensuring that a constant flow of vehicles could be maintained on the main motor transport landing beach. Advanced Petty Officer First Class, he was awarded his Canadian Forces Decoration on 15 November 1961. Sold with copied record of service and other research.

Lot 308

Pair: Lance Corporal S. D. Lord, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (SK16706 S. D. Lord); U.N. Korea 1950-54 (SK16706 S. D. Lord) generally good very fine (2) £100-£140 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2013. Stewart David Lord was born on 19 July 1928. A Logger by occupation, he enlisted at Vancouver on 19 June 1952. Served with the 3rd Battalion P.P.C.L.I. in Korea; later served with the 1st Battalion. Discharged at Calgary on 20 June 1955 on completion of his period of engagement. With copied service papers and discharge certificate, and a photographic image of recipient.

Lot 654

A Victorian silver sugar bowl, with an embossed and repousse decoration of flowers, scrolls, etc., Sheffield 1891, 2.42oz.

Lot 655

A George V silver christening cup, with angular wishbone shaped handle, and a domed foot, Sheffield 1926, 2.9oz, 8cm high.

Lot 656

A pair of George III silver spoons, old English pattern, with feathered borders, initialled MC, 18thC, marks indistinct, 3.49oz.

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