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Noonans Mayfair
Lot 792

German Second World War Metallic and Cloth Insignia. Comprising a Kriegsmarine naval medical cadet sleeve badge. Another identical. Naval engineers trade patch. Naval writer’s sleeve badge. Naval Obermatt white deck uniform rank patch. Army medical sleeve patch. Another medical sleeve patch. Army fireworker’s personnel sleeve patch. Luftwaffe mechanisor’s administrator’s sleeve patch. Obergefreiter sleeve patch, army for the herringbone twill work uniform. LDO paper packet for the Luftwaffe Ground Combat badge. Eastern Front Medal ribbon. A large 5cm SA badge showing an SA man horse riding, pin back suspension. GFP Secret Field Police shoulder board motif in metal. A miniature 16mm SS 8 year Long Service Medal. Hitler Youth membership pin with one red section of the badge enamel broken. Red Cross cap insignia in enamels, pin suspension missing. A 1935 Hitler Youth aluminium award. WWI Iron Cross 2nd class. 1914 War Honour Cross and silver Wound Badge without swastika lapel pin. Miniature Tank Assault Badge with lapel pin fixing missing. Glider qualification badge in blue and white enamels. Shooting Association enamel badge with lapel fixing missing. DAF pin badge with half of a lapel pin present. A German Catholic Association Day badge. A quantity of what is possibly Winters Help Work badges being the shields and coats of arms of areas and towns within Germany, Austria and Northern Italy. Gau Berlin Day badge in plastic without any fitting. 3 Medal ribbon bar motifs all showing the swastika. 2 police badges for fitting to the police bayonet, fittings pins missing, one in silver, one in bronze. Reunification of the Saar tinny corroded without suspension pin. An individually numbered 0846 mission pass for the Fokke Wolf aircraft factory in Bremen. Miniature Hitler Youth proficiency badge with pin missing. A grouping of 4 separate RZM tickets that have been removed from items and mounted on card, 1 is SS that has not been mounted on card. What appears to be a work pass number 174 for a factory (Ruhrstahl AG). A post WWII Polish shield shaped badge 1814 to 1945 Grunwald, Berlin laid on green and maroon ribbon. Third Reich tinny Flugtag Bremen with pin back suspension. Adolf Hitler porcelain Day badge showing the head of Hitler. Italian youth ONB cap badge with all pins fitted, generally good condition (lot) £100-£140

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Lot 80

The outstanding and well-documented Second War C.B.E., Great War ‘Cherisy, 1 September 1918’ D.S.O., ‘Canal du Nord, 27 September 1918’ Second Award Bar, and ‘Hill 70, August 1917’ M.C. group of thirteen awarded to Brigadier J. P. Girvan, 15th Canadian Infantry Battalion, the most decorated officer of the 15th (48th Highlanders of Canada) Infantry Battalion in the Great War The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with Second Award Bar, lacking integral top ribbon bar; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (27071 Pte. J. P. Girvan. 15/Can: Inf:; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. J. P. Girvan.); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp, unnamed as issued; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed (Major J. P. Girvan D.S.O. M.C. 48th Highrs. of C.) complete with integral top suspension brooch; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Major J. P. Girvan D.S.O. M.C. 48th Highrs of C.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre 1914 1916, with bronze Palme, silver awards all dark toned from long-term display, generally good very fine and better (13) £6,000-£8,000 --- C.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1946: ‘Brigadier J. P. Girvan, D.S.O., M.C., V.D., Canadian Army.’ D.S.O. London Gazette 1 February 1919: Maj. (A./Lt.-Col.) John Pollands Girvan, M.C., 15th Bn., Can. Inf., 1st C. Ont. R. ‘For conspicuous gallantry opposite Cherisy on 1st September, 1918. He commanded his battalion with the greatest skill and ability, pushing resolutely forward in face of extreme machine-gun fire, and after a personal reconnaissance continuing his advance and capturing and consolidating a position some 6,000 yards in front of the jumping-off line. His courage and leadership were admirable.’ D.S.O. Second Award Bar London Gazette 8 March 1919; citation published 4 October 1919: Maj. (A./Lt.-Col.) John Pollands Girvan, M.C., 15th Bn., Can. Inf., 1st C. Ont. R. ‘For marked gallantry and ability in the attack on Canal du Nord on 27th September, 1918. Crossing the canal on light bridges, and the River Agache by planks, under heavy machine-gun and sniping fire, he pushed on. He personally attacked and captured an enemy machine gun, shooting the gunner and turning the gun on the enemy. He went on and assisted in capturing Chapel Corner and the village of Marquion, and then gained his final objectives. His courage and dash were a fine example to his command.’ M.C. London Gazette 18 October 1917; citation published 7 March 1918: Capt. (A./Maj.) John Pollands Girvan, M.C., Canadian Inf. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Throughout an attack he led his company with the greatest skill and courage, continually going forward into our own barrage at great personal risk in order to check men who were advancing too fast. He directed his men amidst the fiercest shelling, and it was due to his gallant personal example that hostile counter-attacks were fruitless. His reports were invaluable, and it was largely due to him that the enemy were held back from the captured ground.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 16 March 1916. French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 1 May 1917. John ‘Jack’ Pollands Girvan was born born on 28 November 1887, at Kingarth, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. In 1907, he became a clerk in the Civil Service. He was a fine athlete, winning numerous championships as a member of the Argonaut rowing club. He belonged to an active militia when he attested on 14 September 1914, at Valcartier, Quebec. During the Great War, he married Nursing Sister Jean Elizabeth Sword. Girvan sailed on 3 October 1914, with the first contingent, arriving in England on 16 October 1916. On 4 February 1915, the 15th Battalion battalion paraded in light marching order for ‘Inspection & Review’ by H.M. the Kin, followed by the March Past, at North Larkhill camp. The following week, they boarded S.S. Mount Temple, at Avonmouth, on 12 February 1915. After a very rough voyage with high seas, they arrived at St Nazaire, in France, on 15 February 1915. Two days later, they arrived at Hazebrouck in Belgium, moving into billets at Caestre the next day and into billets in Armentieres on 23 February 1915. The 15th Battalion entered the trenches for the first time on 24 February 1915, suffering their first casualty on the night of the 27th. They entered the trenches at Rue Petillon, on 6 March 1915, pulling out three days later. In April 1915, the Canadians moved to the Ypres area and took part in the battle of Kitchener’s Wood (Second Battle of Ypres). The 15th Battalion held the line against the German chlorine gas attack, but suffered heavy casualties. The battalion was at the apex of the Canadian position on 24 April. The 15th Battalion suffered the heaviest casualties of any Canadian unit, with over 647 casualties, being hit by the heaviest of the gas, and was overrun by the Germans. Girvan’s No. 1 Company, was on the extreme right flank of the Battalion’s three forward companies and was very lucky to have survived. In the battle of Festubert, on 15 May 1915, the battalion again suffered heavy casualties. Girvan was promoted to be Sergeant, in the field, ‘A’ Company, 15th Battalion, on 11 June 1915. He was appointed to Temporary Commission, and posted to 15th Battalion on 26 September 1915; granted 5 days leave, 17 October 1915; granted 7 days leave, 5 January 1916; to be Captain, 27 April 1916; granted leave of absence from 25 May to 2 June 1916. On 3 June 1916 the Battalion conducted the first Canadian counter-attack of the war against Observatory Ridge, in opening stages of the battle of Mount Sorrel, again suffering heavy casualties. Now a Major commanding No. 3 Company, he was wounded during the battle of Flers–Courcelette on 24 September 1916, by a bullet wound which penetrated his right chest at the sternum, and travelled down and lodged in abdominal muscle. He was admitted to 2nd Red Cross Hospital, Rouen, on 27 September 1916, and to Yorkhill War Hospital, Glasgow, on 1 October 1916. He was discharged on 18 October 1916, but was declared unfit for service for three months and granted leave to Canada, 21 October 1916 to 21 January 1917. Girvan returned to England in late March of 1917, and was appointed Acting Major on 28 April 1917. Then, awarded the Croix du Guerre, on 1 May 1917. Here he spent several months in Bramshott Camp, Hampshire, where his future wife Jean Sword was undergoing training at the camp hospital, and they undoubtedly spent some time together. Girvan returned back to France where, on 30 July 1917, he was indemnified for loss of kit. He was in command of No. 1 Company leading the forward assault of the 15th Battalion during the battle of Hill 70, and was awarded the Military Cross for this action in which the 15th Battalion assaulted and captured Puits 14 and Bois Hugo as part of the Canadian Corps assault on Hill 70 near Lens, France. The battalion was in the first wave of the assault on the Corps’ exposed and vital left flank. Having secured all their objectives on the morning of 15 August 1917, the battalion defended its position for a day and half against numerous German counter attacks until it was relieved and withdrawn from the line. Girvan was struck off the strength of the 15th Battalion to attend a Command Officers Course at Aldershot on 27 June 1918 for 8 w...

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The ‘Tirah 1897-98’ D.S.O. group of three awarded to Captain J. A. L. Haldane, Gordon Highlanders, afterwards General Sir Aylmer Haldane, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.S.O., who famously commanded the armoured train at Chieveley when he and Winston Churchill were captured with others and imprisoned in Pretoria from where they each escaped; after the Great War he rose to be G.O.C. in Mesopotamia where he successfully suppressed the Arab Rebellion of 1920-22 - his published writings included How We Escaped from Pretoria (1901) and his autobiography A Soldier’s Saga (1948) Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top ribbon bar, the ribbon additionally fitted with 1st type ‘laurel’ Second and Third Award Bars [to which he is not entitled]; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1894-5 (Capt. J. A. L. Haldane 1st Bn. Gordon Highrs.) naming officially engraved in running script as usual; India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Captn. J. A. L. Haldane 1st Bn. Gord: Highrs.) naming officially engraved in running script as usual, mounted court-style as worn, good very fine (3) £4,000-£6,000 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 20 May 1898: ‘James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane, Captain, Gordon Highlanders. In recognition of services during the recent operations on the North-West Frontier of India.’ The insignia were presented to him by the Queen at Windsor on 25 June 1898. James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane was born on 17 November 1862, only son of the late D. Rutherford Haldane, M.D., and Mrs Haldane. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Wimbledon School, and passed with Honours, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, joining the Gordon Highlanders on 9 September 1882, as Lieutenant. He was Adjutant from 1 September 1888 to 31 January 1892, and became Captain on 8 April 1892. Captain Haldane served with the Waziristan Field Force in 1894-95, as Orderly Officer to Sir William Lockhart, Commanding the Force (Medal with Clasp). He served with the Chitral Relief Force under Sir Robert Low in 1895 with the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders (Medal with Clasp). He was A.D.C. to General Sir William Lockhart, 1896-99, and served in the campaign on the North West Frontier of India under Sir William Lockhart in 1897-98 with the Tirah Expeditionary Force as Deputy Assistant Adjutant Head Quarters Staff, and was present at the actions of Chagra Kotal and Dargai, and at the capture of the Sampagha and Arhanga Passes. Reconnaissance at and around Dwatoi and action of 24 November 1897. Operations against the Khani Khel Chamkanis. Operations in the Bara Valley 7 to 14 December 1897. Operations in the Bazar Valley 25 to 30 December 1897. He was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 5 April 1898); received two Clasps to his India medal, and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. Haldane served in South Africa 1899-1902, with the 2nd Gordon Highlanders, taking part in the operations in Natal in 1899, including the action at Elandslaagte, where he was severely wounded. He was in command of the Chieveley Armoured Train on 15 November 1899, when it was ambushed by the Boers. The incident is chiefly remembered by the fact that Winston Churchill, who was present whilst serving as a newspaper correspondent for The Morning Post, was also taken Prisoner of War that day - his gallant conduct in action and daring escape from captivity captured the public’s imagination, propelled him into Parliament, and set him on the road to becoming Prime Minister. A full account of the incident is recorded in his Autobiography, My Early Life: ‘Nothing looks more formidable and impressive than an armoured train; but nothing is in fact more vulnerable and helpless. It was only necessary to blow up a bridge or culvert to leave the monster stranded, far from home and help, at the mercy of the enemy. This situation did not seem to have occurred to our commander. He decided to put a company of the Dublin Fusiliers and a company of the Durban Light Infantry into an armoured train of six trucks, and add a small six-pounder naval gun with some sailors landed from H.M.S. Terrible, together with a breakdown gang, and to send this considerable portion of his force out to reconnoitre towards Colenso. Captain Haldane was the officer he selected for the duty of commanding this operation. Haldane told me on the night of November 14 of the task which had been set him for the next day and on which he was to start at dawn. He did not conceal his misgivings on the imprudence of the enterprise, but he was of course, like everyone else at the beginning of a war, very keen upon adventure and a brush with the enemy. 'Would I come with him?' He would like it if I did! Out of comradeship, and because I thought it was my duty to gather as much information as I could for the Morning Post, also because I was eager for trouble, I accepted the invitation without demur. The military events which followed are well known and have often been discussed. The armoured train proceeded about fourteen miles towards the enemy and got as far as Chieveley station without a sign of opposition or indeed of life or movement on the broad undulations of the Natal landscape. We stopped for a few moments at Chieveley to report our arrival at this point by telegraph to the General. No sooner had we done this than we saw, on a hill between us and home which overlooked the line at about 600 yards distance, a number of small figures moving about and hurrying forward. Certainly they were Boers. Certainly they were behind us. What would they be doing with the railway line? There was not an instant to lose. We started immediately on our return journey. As we approached the hill, I was standing on a box with my head and shoulders above the steel plating of the rear armoured truck. I saw a cluster of Boers on the crest. Suddenly three wheeled things appeared among them, and instantly bright flashes of light opened and shut ten or twelve times. A huge white ball of smoke sprang into being and tore out into a cone, only as it seemed a few feet above my head. It was shrapnel - the first I had ever seen in war, and very nearly the last! The steel sides of the truck tanged with a patter of bullets. There was a crash from the front of the train, and a series of sharp explosions. The railway line curved round the base of the hill on a steep down gradient, and under the stimulus of the enemy’s fire, as well as of the slope, our pace increased enormously. The Boer artillery (two guns and a pom-pom) had only time for one discharge before we were round the corner out of their sight. It had flashed across my mind that there must be some trap farther on. I was just turning to Haldane to suggest that someone should scramble along the train and make the engine-driver reduce speed, when suddenly there was a tremendous shock, and he and I and all the soldiers in the truck were pitched head over heels on to its floor. The armoured train travelling at not less than forty miles an hour had been thrown off the metals by some obstruction, or by some injury to the line. In our truck no one was seriously hurt, and it took but a few seconds for me to scramble to my feet and look over the top of the armour. The train lay in a valley about 1,200 yards on the homeward side of the enemy’s hill. On the top of this hill were scores of figures running forward and throwing themselves down in the grass, from which there came almost immediately an accurate and heavy rifle fire. The bullets whistled overhead and rang and splattered on the steel plates like a hailstorm. I got down from my perch, and Haldane and I debated what to do. It was agreed that he with the little naval gun and his Dublin Fusiliers in the rear tru...

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Lot 82

A Boer War D.S.O. goup of seven awarded to Major E. V. Jenkins, West Riding Regiment, who afterwards led a punitive expedition against the Kisii tribe in East Africa 1905 Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top ribbon bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal (Lieut. E. V. Jenkins, D.S.O. W. Rid: Rgt:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt. E. V. Jenkins, D.S.O. W. Rid. Rgt.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 2 clasps, East Africa 1905, Nandi 1905-06 (Captain E. V. Jenkins. D.S.O. W. Riding Regt.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt. E. V. Jenkins. D.S.O. W. Rid: R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E. V. Jemkins.) mounted court-style as worn, good very fine or better (7) £2,800-£3,400 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 27 September 1901: ‘Edward Vaughan Jenkins, Lieutenant, West Riding Regiment. In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa.’ Edward Vaughan Jenkins was born at Lucknow on 14 October 1879, son of Lieutenant Colonel Vaughan Jenkins. He was educated at Clifton College and entered the West Riding Regiment on 20 May 1899. He served in the South African War, 1899-1902, being present at the Relief of Kimberley; in the Orange Free State, February to May 1900, including operations at Paardeberg (17 to 26 February); actions at Poplar Grove and Driefontein; in the Transvaal, east and west of Pretoria, August to 29 November 1900, including action at Rhenoster Kop; again in the Transvaal 30 November 1900 to 31 May 1902; was Railway Staff Officer (Despatches London Gazette 10 September 1901; Queen's Medal with four clasps, and King’s Medal with two clasps; Companion of the Distinguished Service Order). He was promoted to Lieutenant on 19 February 1900, and was employed with the King’s African Rifles from 22 April 1902 to 21 April 1912. He was promoted to Captain on 15 April 1904, and served in East Africa, 1905, in command of a punitive expedition which successfully dealt with a revolt of the Kisii in the Kisumu (later Nyanza) Province (Despatches London Gazette 13 March, 1908: ‘For some time the Kisii tribe had been at loggerheads with the Kavirondo, the large tribe which lies between the Victoria Nyanza and the hill country of the Lumbwa and Nandi. The Kavirondo are under regular Government control and looked to the local administration to protect them from the Kisii, who had committed many murders on the border. As the Kisii refused to pay compensation to the Kavirondo for the murders they had committed or to acknowledge our authority His Majesty’s Commissioner decided to send a patrol into their country. The patrol under Captain E. V. Jenkins, D.S.O., 3rd King’s African Rifles, consisted of 4 Officer; 100 rifles, 3rd Battalion, King’s African Rifles; 50 rifles, East Africa Protectorate Police; 150 Masai Levies, with one Maxim gun. The Kisii country was entered on the 1st September, 1905, and thoroughly patrolled in all directions until the 9th October. On three occasions the Kisii attacked the patrol in force and with determination, but were beaten off with loss. The patrol accomplished its work satisfactorily with a cost of six men wounded.’ He afterwards served at Nandi, 1905-06 (Medal with two Clasps). He served in the European War as Captain and later Major in the 2nd Battalion, West Riding Regiment from 15 August 1914. He was promoted to Major on 1 September 1915, and was Assistant Embarkation Staff Officer, Southampton, from 5 February 1919. Major Jenkins married, in 1904, Evelyn Marie, eldest daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Germon, J.P., Norfolk Regiment.

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A Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Commander W. H. Coates, Royal Naval Reserve, who was decorated for services in command of H.M.S. Clacton when she was torpedoed and sunk in August 1916; he afterwards commanded H.M.S. Redbreast until he was killed when she was torpedoed and sunk on 15 July 1917 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top ribbon bar; 1914-15 Star (Commr. W. H. Coates, R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Commr. W. T. Coates. R.N.R.) note error in second initial; Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, E.VII.R., hallmarks for London 1909, mounted for display, extremely fine (5) £1,800-£2,200 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 23 May 1917: ‘In recognition of services in the Destroyer Patrol Flotillas, Armed Boarding Steamers, etc., during the period which ended on the 30th September 1916.’ William Herbert Coates was born at Gosport on 20 April 1865, and joined the Royal Naval Reserve as a Sub-Lieutenant on 15 February 1894. He was promoted to Retired Commander on 20 April 1910. He was recalled for service on the outbreak of war and appointed to command the minesweeper H.M.S. Clacton from 4 December 1914. The Clacton was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine at Chai Aghizi, in the Levant, on 3 August 1916. Coates was commended for his services on this occasion and awarded the D.S.O. His next appointment, in September 1916, was to the command of H.M.S. Redbreast, a Fleet Messenger in the Mediterranean 1915-17 which had been fitted out for Q-ship duties between May and September 1916, but was now returning to fleet messenger services under his command. She rescued survivors from H.M. Troopship Arcadian in April 1917 which was carrying reinforcements for Egypt and had been torpedoed in the Aegean off the island of Melos on the 15th and sunk in only 6 minutes. Redbreast was herself torpedoed and sunk on 15 July 1917, by UC-38 in the Aegean Sea, while on passage from Skros to Doro, with the loss of Commander Coates and forty-one of his crew. He is remembered with honour on the Chatham Naval Memorial.

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Lot 84

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. and M.C. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel R. G. Smithard, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels, with integral top ribbon bar; Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘Capt. R. G. Smithard Shrops L.I.’; 1914-15 Star (Capt. R. G. Smithard. Shrops. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. R. G. Smithard.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. R. G. Smithard. K.S.L.I.) mounted court-style as worn, very fine (6) £2,200-£2,600 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 2 December 1918: ‘Capt. (T./Lt. Col.) Richard Glasse Smithard, M.C., 7th Bn., Shrops. L.I. For conspicuous gallantry and skilful handling of his battalion in the recapture of a position. After personally reconnoitring the line of advance, he got his battalion round a heavily gassed area, and in spite of thick fog successfully gained his objective, thereby materially assisting the advance of the battalion on his right. Two days later, he made a further advance and consolidated his position. It was due to his fine example and fine leadership that the battalion successfully fulfilled its mission.’ M.C. London Gazette 20 October 1916: ‘For conspicuous gallantry as intelligence officer. Prior to our attack he reconnoitred the enemy’s position in front of our line on several occasions. When the attack was held up by wire, he got accurate information of the situation, and, by working across the open to a flank, was able to support bomb and machine gun attacks, which inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, and assisted much in the capture of the position.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 28 December 1918 (France), and 13 March 1925 (Waziristan). Richard Glasse Smithard was born on 11 June 1891, and educated at Ealing Grammar and Emanuel School He served in the ranks for 16 days before being commissioned into the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry as Temporary 2nd Lieutenant on 25 September 1914; Temporary Lieutenant, 19 December 1915; Temporary Captain, 25 September 1915, and proceeded to France the same day; Temporary Major, 1 September 1916; Captain, Shropshire L.I., 1 November 1916; Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding 7th Battalion, Shropshire L.I., 31 May 1918 to 27 June 1919; Waziristan 1921-24, Staff Captain (despatches); Major 1933; died on 4 January 1939.

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A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. E. Williams, 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, attached 10th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels, with integral top ribbon bar; 1914 Star, with clasp (Lieut. W. E. Williams. Midd’x R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. W. E. Williams.) medals contained in an individually fitted case, extremely fine (4) £1,400-£1,800 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 16 September 1918: ‘Captain (Acting Lieutenant-Colonel) Walter Ellis Williams, Middlesex Regiment, attached Cheshire Regiment. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Under very heavy artillery and machine-gun fire he reorganized his battalion, got in touch with troops on either side, and successfully held his position.’ Walter Ellis Williams served in France and Flanders with the 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, from 13 August 1914, but was later employed with the 10th (Service) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, commanding which battalion he won the D.S.O. in 1918.

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A Second War D.S.O. group of five attributed to Acting Lieutenant-Commander N. J. M. Teacher, Royal Navy, who was decorated as Lieutenant in command of H.M.A.S. Stuart, for sinking the Italian submarine Gondar on 30 September 1940; he was afterwards twice mentioned in despatches, was a Lieutenant-Commander in Combined Operation Pilotage Party 3 (COPP 3) and died while carrying out a reconnaissance in Sicily, when he failed to return to his waiting canoe and was presumed drowned Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., silver-gilt and enamel, reverse officially dated ‘1941’, with integral top ribbon bar, this loose and lacking brooch fitment; 1939-45 Star, the reverse privately named ‘Lieut. N. J. M. Teacher D.S.O., R.N. H.M.A.S. “Stuart”’; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43, this loose; War Medal 1939-45, these last three all privately named ‘Atg. Lt. Cmdr. N. J. M. Teacher, D.S.O., R.N.’, mounted for display, nearly extremely fine (5) £1,000-£1,400 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 14 January 1941: ‘For courage, enterprise and devotion to duty in contact with the enemy. - Lieutenant Norman Joseph Macdonald Teacher, Royal Navy, H.M.A.S. Stuart.’ Seedies Roll confirms award for the destruction of the Italian submarine Gondar on 30 September 1940. M.I.D. London Gazette 21 April 1941: ‘Lieutenant, H.M.S. Argus.’ Seedies Roll conforms award for services on the occasion of an explosion aboard H.M.S. Erin, when she was sunk in Gibraltar harbour by a Spanish saboteur, on 18 January 1942. M.I.D. London Gazette 22 September 1942: ‘Lieutenant, H.M.S. Argus.’ Seedies Roll confirms award for Operation Harpoon. Norman Joseph Macdonald Teacher was born in Edinburgh on 6 February 1914, and educated at Sherborne School, As a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy he had already been awarded the D.S.O. before he joined Party Koodoo-Inhuman, the ‘embryonic’ COPP, from September 1942. Reportedly Nigel Cogstoun-Willmott needed the support of Louis Mountbatten in order to secure his services. Teacher was part of the ‘Koodoo’ element that carried out the beach reconnaissance of the ‘Bluff’ area near Oran. When COPP was officially constituted in December 1942, he returned as a Lieutenant-Commander to join COPP 3 as officer in charge. On the night of 28 February-1 March 1943, while carrying out reconnaissance in Sicily, he failed to return to the canoe where Noel Cooper was waiting. He was presumed drowned [as was Noel Cooper who also failed to return] and is commemorated by name on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. According to the book Stealthily by Night: The COPPists, by Ian Trenowden, Teacher provided assault pilotage to Y Beach as part of Party Inhuman during Operation Torch, the North Africa landings. With thanks to the highly recommended online site www.coppsurvey.uk

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An inter-War O.B.E., post-War K.P.F.S.M. group of four awarded to R. Mitchell, Esq., Chief Constable of Kincardineshire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; King’s Police and Fire Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, for Distinguished Service (Robert Mitchell. O.B.E. Chief Const. Kincardineshire Constab.); Jubilee 1935 (Chief Constable R. Mitchell.) contemporarily engraved naming; Coronation 1937 (Chief Constable R. Mitchell, O.B.E.) contemporarily engraved naming, good very fine and better (4) £400-£500 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 11 May 1937: Robert Mitchell, Esq., Chief Constable of Kincardineshire. K.P.F.S.M. London Gazette 12 June 1947: Robert Mitchell, O.B.E., Chief Constable, Kincardineshire Constabulary. Robert Mitchell was born in 1883 and joined the Aberdeenshire Constabulary in July 1902, where he served for five years, latterly as a Clerk in the County Chief Constable’s Office. He transferred to the Ayr Burgh Police in August 1907, and was promoted Sergeant and Court Officer that same year. He was subsequently advanced to Chief Clerk and then Confidential Clerk to the Chief Constable, and was finally promoted Inspector in charge of the uniform branch in February 1923. Mitchell was appointed Chief Constable of Kincardineshire in March 1924, and served in this role for the next 25 years. During his period in charge of the Kincardineshire Constabulary he was responsible for ensuring that the force had their own patrol cars and radio communication, when other forces had been equipped with bicycles. He was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Coronation Honours’ List in 1937, and was awarded the King’s Police and Fire Service Medal in the 1947 Birthday Honours’ List. He retired, following the amalgamation of Kincardineshire into the Scottish North-Eastern Counties Constabulary, in May 1949. Sold with the original Bestowal Document for the O.B.E., in named Central Chancery envelope, together with 10 Downing Street and Central Chancery letters regarding the award and investiture; copies of the recipient’s Application and Testimonials for the positions of Chief Constable of both Ayrshire ands Fife (both applications unsuccessful); a large photograph of the members of the Chief Constables (Scotland) Association 1945; a portrait photograph of the recipient; and other ephemera.

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A post-War M.B.E. group of three awarded to Miss Kathleen J. Reddin, British Red Cross Society and Blood Transfusion Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type lady’s shoulder badge, silver, on lady’s bow riband, in Royal Mint case of issue; Defence Medal; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with six Additional Award Bars (Miss Kathleen J. Reddin) light contact marks, nearly extremely fine (3) £100-£140 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 13 June 1981: Miss Kathleen Joan Reddin, Local Organiser, Clwyd, Blood Transfusion Service. Miss Kathleen Joan Reddin was born in Holywell, Flintshire, in 1922, and died in Liverpool on 27 January 2010

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An extremely rare ‘Sudan Campaign’ R.R.C. and Order of St. John group of four awarded to Superintendent Sarah E. Webb, Army Nursing Service, later Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, who was erroneously awarded the Royal Red Cross First Class a second time - this before Second Award Bars were possible - and was Mentioned in Despatches for her services in the Boer War Royal Red Cross, 1st Class, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Associate’s shoulder badge, silver, with heraldic beasts in angles; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Superintendent S. E. Webb); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Supt. S. E. Webb) cleaned and mounted for display; together with a Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service cape badge this fine, and related miniature cape badge, good very fine (5) £2,400-£2,800 --- R.R.C. London Gazette 15 November 1898: Miss Sarah Emily Webb, Army Nursing Service ‘In recognition of her services in tending the sick and wounded in Egypt, in connection with the recent operations in the Soudan.’ Miss Sarah Emily Webb was born in Ireland on 30 April 1856 and joined the Army Nursing Service at Netley on 1 May 1886. She served with them in Egypt and the Sudan, and was awarded the Royal Red Cross 1st Class for her services in tending the wounded and sick following the Sudan Campaign. As a Superintendent she saw further service in the Boer War, was Mentioned in Lord Roberts’ Despatch (London Gazette 10 September 1901) and was erroneously awarded the Royal Red Cross 1st Class a second time (London Gazette 27 September 1901). As Second Award Bars to the Decoration were not introduced until 1917, Miss Webb was instead created an Honorary Associate of the Order of St. John (London Gazette 26 June 1902). Appointed a Matron in the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service on 17 February 1903, Miss Webb resigned from the service on 17 June 1904. Then aged 44 years, she married Major Andrew Hosie, R.A.M.C., at St. John’s, Waterloo Road, London, on 7 June 1904. After their marriage they made their home at Barsham Lodge, Sandown, Isle of Wight. With the outbreak of war in August 1914 she offered her services and was appointed Matron of Parkhurst Hospital, Isle of Wight - a position she held until her resignation due to ill-health in April 1916. Following on from this she was subsequently awarded the Silver War Badge. She died at her sister’s home at 47 Garville Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin, on 29 July 1944. Sold with a copy of The Tale of a Field Hospital by Sir Frederick Treves; and copied research.

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A Great War ‘Western Front’ R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister Miss Isabel G. Eveleigh, Territorial Force Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; 1914-15 Star (Sister I. G. Eveleigh T.F.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister I. G. Eveleigh) mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s related miniature awards (the Star a 1914 Star); a British Royal Red Cross Society Honorary Life Member’s badge, gilt and enamel, the reverse number ‘71’; and a miniature Territorial Force Nursing Service Tippet cape Badge, generally good very fine (4) £500-£700 --- R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918: ‘In recognition of valuable services with the Armies in France and Flanders.’ Miss Isabel Georgina Eveleigh was born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, on 10 August 1877, where her father was the Station Manager, and trained at King’s College Hospital, London, being subsequently employed as a Nurse at Paddington Infirmary. She joined the Territorial Force Nursing Service in 1911 as an original member of the 2nd London General Hospital, Chelsea. She served during the Great War initially in the Hospital Ship Aquitania from July 1915, before proceeding to the Western Front in March 1916. She served successively at 14 General Hospital, Wimereaux; No. 4 Casualty Clearing Station, Varennes; 83 General Hospital, Boulogne; 72 General Hospital, Trouville; and 8 General Hospital, Rouen. Miss Eveleigh was recommended for the R.R.C. for her services at 83 General Hospital, Rouen, where she served as a Sister and Night Superintendent from 27 June 1917 to 8 April 1918, and would have received great numbers of casualties resulting from the Battle of Messines and Third Ypres. She was demobilised on 3 July 1919, and was presented with her decoration by H.M. The King at Buckingham Palace on 17 December 1919. She died in Horncastle on 17 January 1966. Sold with copied research.

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A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of three awarded to Second Lieutenant R. G. Morison, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘2nd Lieut. R. G. Morison 1st Battn. Herts Regt. T.F.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. R. G. Morison.) mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (3) £500-£700 --- M.C. London Gazette 2 December 1918: ‘2nd Lt. Robert Gordon Morison, 1st Bn., Hert. R. For conspicuous gallantry and good leadership. He led his men in a most determined manner in an attack. When an enemy strong point temporarily held up the advance, he went forward with one man and silenced the machine gun in it until further help arrived and the strong point was captured. He showed marked courage and resource throughout.’ Robert Gordon Morison served with the 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment in France in 1918 and is entitled to the Silver War Badge. Sold with copied gazette entry and Medal Index Card with later annotation ‘Civil conviction. M.C. and medals not forfeited’.

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Lot 106

A pair of Edwardian silver candlesticks, surmounted by scrolling capitals and detachable sconces, garland and swag decoration on stepped plinths, bases loaded, dated 1906, 24cm high

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Lot 107

An Edwardian oval silver bread basket, pierced borders, Sheffield 1908, 34cm, 10ozs

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Lot 109

A collection of seven silver cased seals, varying sizes and subjects framed

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Lot 113

A George III silver wine funnel, Hallmarked for London, maker T.F.; and an unmarked wine funnel of a similar date, AF (2)

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Lot 114

A near pair of 19th Century continental silver table snuff boxes decorated in the Rococo style, London import marks for 1892, 8.5cm wide, approx. 248gms

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Lot 115

A suite of silver plated "Kings" pattern cutlery, comprising eight table knives, eight table forks, eight dessert spoons, eight dessert forks, eight soup spoons, eight tea spoons and twelve fish knives

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Lot 116

An early 20th Century beaten silver plated mantel clock of elongated lobed form, raised on cabriole legs and pad feet, 20cm 

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Lot 119

Five silver bladed fish knives with bone handles; and seven matching forks etc.

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Lot 121

An Edwardian silver sugar shaker of octagonal baluster form, Birmingham 1905,15cm high 

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Lot 122

A George V silver sugar shaker of octagonal baluster form, Birmingham 1931, 17cm high 

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Lot 123

A modern silver baluster sugar shaker, the top with acorn shaped finial, 16cm high, London 1974, 6oz

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Lot 124

A Victorian silver hip flask, with rich foliate engraved decoration monogram and family crest, detachable cup and screw action lid, 12cm long, London 1870. Approximately 148.5grams

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Lot 125

A pair of George V silver pepperettes of octagonal baluster form, the top surmounted by flambé finials, 11.5cm high, London1914

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Lot 126

A small silver bon bon basket with loop handle, London 1923; a continental white metal bon bon basket with swing handle; an Edwardian silver sugar basket with blue glass liner, (chipped); and two other silver examples (5)

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Lot 127

A pair of Edwardian silver bon bon dishes of pierced shaped form; and a pair of small modern silver circular Alms type dishes (4)

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Lot 129

A silver framed butter dish with frosted glass liner, Birmingham 1947; and a silver twin handled bon bon dish with pierced body (2)

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Lot 131

A silver pedestal bon bon dish, Birmingham 1928; and a small silver ladle Birmingham 1938 (2)

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Lot 132

A George III silver cream jug, with foliate decoration and reeded borders, London 1800

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Lot 133

A matched miniature silver dolls coffee set, early 20th Century Chester and Birmingham Hallmarks 

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Lot 134

A George III silver tea pot and stand with engraved stylised decoration and vacant cartouche, London 1800, the tea pot with wooden handle and lift, 27cm long overall, 17cm high, the stand raised on four scrolled feet, 17cm long, 21 oz gross (2)

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Lot 135

A George III Scottish silver card tray, having beaded border raised on three ball and claw feet, Edinburgh 1808, 24.5cm dia. 16oz

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Lot 137

A silver handled paper knife

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Lot 138

A silver three piece cruet, the mustard pot and salt complete with blue glass liners, Birmingham 1927/1928; and a white metal spoon

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Lot 140

A late Victorian silver butter knife; and a pair of silver cake forks 

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Lot 141

A Victorian miniature silver tea pot, London 1893, 13cm long overall, 7cm high 

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Lot 142

A stylish continental three piece silver plated hard metal tea set with rosewood fittings

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Lot 143

A collection of seven silver and plated horseshow and regatta trophies, weighable silver approx. 20oz

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Lot 144

A set of five late Victorian silver graduated comports of fluted lobed form, London 1900, 45oz

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Lot 145

A cased silver three piece cruet by Edwin Viner of Sheffield 1946

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Lot 146

A small silver mounted three piece brush set

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Lot 147

An elaborately worked late Victorian silver hand mirror with foliate scrolls and pierced border decoration, a Acanthus terminal handle. Maker Edward Barnard, London 1883

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A George III silver swing handled basket with foliate scroll decoration and central family crest raised on an octagonal pedestal foot. London 1809, makers mark H G, 6 ounces, 14cm long and 17cm high with the handle up

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Lot 152

A set of six Victorian silver rose pattern table forks, makers mark HL, London 1860. 19.5 ounces

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Lot 153

Five Victorian silver rose pattern dessert forks. Hallmarks for London 1860. Makers mark EE & GE. Having family crest to the reverse and three George III/IV matching forks. Makers mark WE & WF, London 1820. 18ounces

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A set of six William IV silver rose pattern table spoons, markers mark WE. 19 ounces

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A set of six William IV silver rose pattern teaspoons, London 1830, makers mark WE. 8 ounces

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Lot 173

A 9ct gold and silver bracelet, set large purple stone, approx. total weight 25gms

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Lot 185

A pearl necklace; a pair of silver ear-rings; and a pair of 14ct gold and topaz ear-rings

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An etched opaque glass trumpet shaped posy vase, raised on silver circular stepped foot, Hallmarked Birmingham 1919, 26cm high 

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Lot 61

A cased set of six each Royal Doulton coffee cups and saucers, having gilt decoration on a green ground; and six silver gilt bean topped coffee spoons

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Lot 127

A Tibetan silver votive butter lamp, 18th/19th century, the ogee bowl is engraved with three panels of Buddhist precious objects amongst lotus leaves with knopped and swept conical foot16.25cm highA pair of rather similar butter lamps can be seen in The Met, New York, accession no: 2019.303.la-c,2a-c.

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Lot 403

J & G Gibbs, London, a percussion cap pistol, early 19th century, with 19cm brass barrel and applied silver mounts and butt capProvenance:Private Collection, Northumberland

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A pair of contemporary assembled collages of shells and corals within urns, 20th century, handcoloured with watercolour and bodycolour, within silver leaf frames93 x 63cm

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Lot 482

A pair of Ottoman iron stirrups, 18th/19th century, with silver damascened foliate decoration and pierced base plates20cm high

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A continental silver plated chatelaine, 19th century, with seven suspended items including a scent bottle, pin cushion and propelling pencil, 28cm; together with a collection of twenty button hooks, mainly Victorian, in silver, brass and treen with one as an owl and one as Mr PunchChatelaine - In fair condition - Thimble case missing the thimble. Tape measure case missing the tape. Propelling pencil jammed. Grizzling to the edge of the glass of the scent bottle. Some wear to the linkage and hinge. Some surface scratching all over, commensurate with use.Button hooks - Most in fair to good condition, with minor dents and dings commensurate with use. The punch head is missing an eye, and is split down one cheek. The brass bullet with obvious dents. Some of the hooks a little rusty. The multi coloured striped hooks with splits and cracks to the decoration.

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Lot 65

A Chinese silver gilt-mounted riding stick, 83cm longThe cane itself is in good condition. the collar is missing between the cane and the silver handle. leather with usual wear comensurate with age and use.

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Lot 67

A horn and silver gilt collared riding crop, 64cm longhandle coming away from socket, natural cracks to the horn stem

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