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Three: Brevet Colonel H. Mercer, 3rd Dragoon Guards Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State

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Lot 136

Three: Brevet Colonel H. Mercer, 3rd Dragoon Guards Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Major H. Mercer, 3/Drgn: Gds.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Bt. Col. H. Mercer.); Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed, mounted as worn, the first with edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine, otherwise good very fine or better (3) £300-£400 --- Herbert Mercer was born at Sandling Place, Maidstone, Kent, and was educated at Harrow and Cambridge. He was commissioned into the 3rd Dragoon Guards in 1884; served in the South African War in 1901 and 1902, taking part in operations in the Transvaal in May and July 1901; in Orange River Colony February 1901 to 31 May 1902; on the Zululand Frontier of Natal in September and October 1901; and in Cape Colony in February 1901. He was Mentioned in Despatches, and awarded the Queen’s medal with 5 clasps. He completed to command regiment in 1908, retiring that same year. Mercer served in (Northern) Ireland during the Great War as a Security Officer (entitled to B.W.M. only); he was also a Unionist Member of Parliament for the Sudbury Division of West Suffolk 1922-23. He died on 8 February 1944.

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Miniature Medal: Crimea 1854-56, no clasp (J. Swaine Qar. Mr. 2d. Battn. The Rl. Regt.) contemporarily engraved naming, nearl

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Lot 623

Miniature Medal: Crimea 1854-56, no clasp (J. Swaine Qar. Mr. 2d. Battn. The Rl. Regt.) contemporarily engraved naming, nearly extremely fine £100-£140 --- Joseph Swaine was appointed Quartermaster of the 2nd Battalion, 1st (The Royal) Regiment of Foot on 20 November 1846, and landed with the Battalion in the Crimea on 22 April 1855, being present at the siege and fall of Sebastopol (Medal and clasp). Sold with two full-sized War Medals 1939-45, one a Canadian issue in silver; and a full-size Jubilee Medal 1935, on lady’s bow riband.

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The Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Officer’s Helmet Plate 1902-14. An excellent example in silver and

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Lot 746

The Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) Officer’s Helmet Plate 1902-14. An excellent example in silver and gilt, the crowned star back plate with laurel and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground red leather the Prince of Wales’s badge and motto in silver with a gilt coronet, below in silver two maple leaves and a double scroll ‘Central India’, silver title scroll below ‘Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment’, complete with three loop fasteners, mounted in a glazed display frame, good condition £200-£300

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A 1939 Silver Wound Badge in Presentation Packet. A late War type in original factory new condition, but bubbling under the s

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Lot 686

A 1939 Silver Wound Badge in Presentation Packet. A late War type in original factory new condition, but bubbling under the silver-plate. Raised ‘107’ maker’s mark. Pale brown paper packet, front printed in black Gothic lettering ‘Verwundeten Abzeichen Silber’ and maker’s name in black ‘Carl Wild Metallwarenfabrik Hamburg 24’ on back. Badge still in its original tissue paper wrapping. Slight wear to the packet, extremely fine £100-£140

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Russia, Empire, Medal for Zeal, Nicholas II, small silver medal; Medal for Bravery, Fourth Class, silver, the reverse officia

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Lot 658

Russia, Empire, Medal for Zeal, Nicholas II, small silver medal; Medal for Bravery, Fourth Class, silver, the reverse officially numbered ‘309723’, both lacking suspension loops, good very fine (2) £100-£140 --- Sold with various non-Russian Great War period badges and other ephemera.

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A fine C.B. group of four awarded to Colonel W. Adye, Royal Irish Rifles, who was recommended for the V.C. in the Second Afgh

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Lot 52

A fine C.B. group of four awarded to Colonel W. Adye, Royal Irish Rifles, who was recommended for the V.C. in the Second Afghan War and was taken Prisoner of War at Nicholson’s Nek in the Second Boer War - ‘the most humiliating day in British military history since Majuba’ The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 18 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1882, complete with swivel-ring suspension and gold ribbon buckle; Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Kandahar (Lt. W. Adye. Trans. Dep.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (Major W. Adye. R. Irish Rifles); Coronation 1902, silver, white enamel chipped on one arm of C.B., otherwise, good very fine or better (4) £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2005, when sold with a silver-gilt C.B. badge (£3200). Walter Adye was born in November 1858, the son of Major-General Goodson Adye of Milverton, Warwick, and was educated at Leamington College and Sandhurst. Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 83rd Regiment (The Royal Irish Rifles) in January 1878, he was advanced to Lieutenant at the end of the same year, and quickly witnessed active service in the Second Afghan War. Adye was, in fact, detached for special duties, and ‘served throughout the second campaign, firstly as Transport Officer on the Kandahar line, having charge, for six months, of the stations of Dozan and Darwaza in the Boland Pass, and afterwards as Brigade Transport Officer, 1st Division, Kandahar F.F., at Kandahar, where he performed garrison duty throughout the siege. During the retirement of troops from the sortie to Deh Khwaja, he distinguished himself by carrying, under a heavy fire, two of the wounded to places of safety. He was present in the reconnaissance of 31st August, and the battle of Kandahar. He proceeded to India in November 1880, to rejoin his regiment prior to embarkation for Natal. He was recommended by H.E. the Commander-in-Chief, and by General Primrose, for the Victoria Cross’ (Shadbolt refers): Adye actually descended by a rope ladder from the Kabul Gate when sallying out to rescue the second man. Having witnessed further active service - back with his regiment - in the First Boer War 1881, Adye was advanced to Captain in November 1884 and served as Adjutant of the Auxiliary Forces 1885-90. Further promotion followed in March 1893, with his appointment as Major, and by the eve of the Second Boer War he was serving as D.A.A.G. to the Army. He subsequently joined Sir George White’s staff out in Natal at the commencement of hostilities, and quickly made his mark with his senior, being described by him as a ‘capital officer’ who knew ‘every inch of the ground’ - the latter accolade presumably on the back of his earlier experiences in the First Boer War of 1881. Be that as it may, and having witnessed the costly affair at Lombard’s Kop, Adye was instrumental in persuading White to let him take a column to Nicholson’s Nek to protect the west flank of the infantry who were assigned the storming of Pepworth, and to block off the enemy’s line of retreat. In the event, the column was commanded by Adye’s regimental C.O., Lieutenant-Colonel Carleton, which from a career point of view was probably as well, for the whole met with disaster: ‘... From earliest daybreak Boer scouts were reconnoitring, and about 8 o’clock mounted Boers could be seen galloping in small groups to the cover at the reverse of the hill on the west. Later, two strong parties of mounted men took position on the far side of the two hills commanding the kopje from the west. About 9 o’clock these two parties had crowned the hills and opened a heavy fire at short ranges right down upon the plateau. Our men made a plucky attempt to return this fire, but it was impossible; they were under a cross-fire from two directions, flank and rear. The two companies of Gloucesters holding the self-contained ridge were driven from their shelter, and as they crossed the open on the lower plateau were terribly mauled, the men falling in groups. The Boers on the west had not yet declared themselves, but about 200 marksmen climbed to the position which the two companies of Gloucesters had just vacated. These men absolutely raked the plateau, and it was then that the men were ordered to take cover on the steep reverse of the kopje. As soon as the enemy realised this move, the men on the western hill teemed on to the summit and opened upon our men as they lay on the slope. They were absolutely hemmed in, and what had commenced as a skirmish seemed about to become a butchery. The grim order was passed round - “Faugh-a-Ballaghs, fix your bayonets and die like men!” There was the clatter of steel, the moment of suspense, and then the “Cease Fire” sounded. Again and again it sounded, but the Irish Fusiliers were loth to accept the call, and continued firing for many minutes. Then it was unconditional surrender and the men laid down their arms...’ (The Transvaal War refers). Adye was one of 954 officers and men to be taken Prisoner of War that day, a bitter blow to Sir George White, and a day that one historian has described as ‘the most humiliating in British military history since Majuba’: it is said that the officers of the Royal Irish Rifles were ‘so exasperated at the exhibition of the white flag that they set to work and smashed their swords rather than give them up’. Adye was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 8 February 1901 refers) and, on being released, served as D.A.A.G. at Army H.Q. from July 1900 until February 1904. He was advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel in the latter year, when he was appointed a General Staff Officer, and thence to substantive Colonel in October 1907. Appointed C.B. in 1909, he served briefly as Deputy Assistant Inspector of Remounts, Eastern Command, from 1914 until his death in September 1915.

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The rare Gold Albert Medal group of five awarded to Mr A. T. Shuttleworth, Deputy Conservator of Forests (Bombay District), l

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Lot 68

The rare Gold Albert Medal group of five awarded to Mr A. T. Shuttleworth, Deputy Conservator of Forests (Bombay District), late Indian Navy Albert Medal, 1st Class, for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, gold and enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘No. 14’ and inscribed (Presented in the name of Her Majesty to A. T. Shuttleworth. Wrecks of the “Berwickshire” “Die Vernon” and “Terzah” 1866 and 1867) the reverse of the crown with maker’s cartouche ‘Phillips Cockspur S’, fitted with silver-gilt riband buckle; India General Service 1854-94, 1 clasp, Persia (A. T. Shuttleworth, Captns. Clk. Ferooz S.F.) fitted with silver riband buckle; Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society, gold (Allen Shuttleworth, Esqr. 1867) fitted with silver-gilt riband buckle; Lloyd’s Medal for Saving Life at Sea, 1st large type glazed silver medallion, 73mm (Allen Thornton Shuttleworth Esq. late Indian Navy. 25th September 1867) lacking reverse lunette; Royal Humane Society, large bronze medal (Successful), (Mr A. T. Shuttleworth, 1 August 1866) fitted with bronze riband buckle, generally good very fine (5) £12,000-£16,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Brian Ritchie Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2005. Allen Thornton Shuttleworth, the son of Digby Edward Shuttleworth, Indigo Planter, was born in the Meerpore district of Pubna on 21 October 1839. He was educated under Mr J. Whitely at Woolwich Common and was nominated for the post of Captain’s Clerk in the Indian Navy by Captain John Shepherd on the recommendation of his uncle. Shuttleworth was admitted into the Indian Navy on 12 December 1855, and having taken the oath ‘to be true and faithful to the said Company, and faithfully and truly execute and discharge the trust reposed in me, to the utmost of my skill and power. So Help me God’, he left Gravesend on the Cairngorm on the 24th. In a letter dated ‘31 December off the Isle of Wight’, the captain of the Cairngorm reported that they had commenced their voyage to Bombay. Shuttleworth landed after a four month voyage on 21 April 1856, and was appointed Captain’s Clerk on the 8-gun H.E.I. Company’s Steam Frigate Ferooz. He was then one of twenty-four Captain’s Clerks in the Service and was paid Rs. 50 per month, which if he attained the rank of Captain in 30 to 35 years time could be expected to rise to rise to Rs. 600-800 per month. During the build up to war with Persia in 1856, Commander Rennie of the Ferooz was ordered to sail to Bushire with despatches for the Political Resident. The Ferooz left on 19 September 1856, but on reaching the Persian coast, Commander Rennie was advised to abandon his mission on account of ‘the excited state of the population’. Despite the warning, Rennie resolved to deliver his despatches on shore. C. R. Low, the author of the History of the Indian Navy, who was then a shipmate and contemporary of Shuttleworth’s, later recalled, ‘We remember, being then a Midshipman on board the Ferooz, how this judicious, as well as gallant, officer [Commander Rennie], who had ‘an eye to business’ whenever any fighting was on the tapis, took advantage of this last opportunity of reconnoitring Bushire, to take careful soundings both in going ashore and returning, to be of use in eventualities.’ Having returned to Bombay the Ferooz sailed again for Bushire in late November, this time towing two transports containing men of Major-General Stalker’s division. In the absence of any response to the British ultimatum demanding the Persian withdrawal from Herat, war was declared. The Union flag was hoisted at Kharrack for the first time in sixteen years and a Royal salute fired from the guns of the Ferooz. Offensive operations began in November with the capture of Bushire. Troops were landed at Hallilah Bay under covering fire from eight gun boats, and proceeded to storm fort of Reshire. That night Commander Rennie sent a boat with muffled oars to buoy a fourteen-foot channel off the batteries which next day enabled the Ferooz to take up a position 300 yards closer in shore than the other vessels. In the ensuing action the Ferooz was engaged in a duel with the Persian shore batteries until they were silenced and a breach effected in Bushire’s walls, whereupon the enemy flagstaff was hauled down and the garrison surrendered. The Ferooz then returned to Bombay while Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram led the expeditionary force in land and defeated the Persians at the battle of Khoosh-Ab. Again returning to the Persian Gulf, the Ferooz was next involved in silencing the heavily fortified position at Mohammerah, on the junction of the Karoon and Shatt-ul-Arab, where a Persian Army, thirteen thousand strong, had assembled under the Shahzada. Batteries had been erected of solid earth, twenty feet thick, eighteen feet high, armed with heavy ordnance placed to sweep the entire river at the junction of the Karoon with the Shatt-ul-Arab. An attempt to place a mortar battery on an island failed when the island turned out to be a swamp, but the ingenious Commander Rennie, in defiance of the engineers who said the first shot would smash it, constructed a raft of casks and studding-sail booms, which, armed with two 8-inch and two 5-inch mortars manned by the Bombay Artillery, was towed into position opposite the forts. The ships of war were given the first task of silencing the batteries, which they accomplished at point blank range under heavy fire, then landed parties of seamen to storm the southern and northern forts. To quote General Havelock ‘the gentlemen in blue had it all to themselves, and left us naught to do’. The British loss was only ten killed and thirty wounded, owing largely to Rennie’s ‘happy thought’ of placing trusses in the sides of the Ferooz, from which vast numbers of bullets were shaken out. The bold step of closing at point blank range also took them under the elevation of the Persian guns. Shuttleworth was not actively engaged in the Mutiny, but served in supporting naval operations in the 1800-ton H.E.I.C. Steam Frigate Assaye as Assistant Paymaster. Promoted Paymaster and transferred to the 300-ton Steam-gun boat Clyde in which he served the last three years of his career in the Indian Navy, Shuttleworth next took part in operations against the piratical Waghurs, who, having seized the island fort of Beyt and the fort of Dwarka, were levying large imposts from the pilgrims who came to worship at the great temple dedicated to Krishna. An expedition was mounted including H.M’s 28th Foot, 6th N.I. and a Marine Battalion, accompanied by the Ferooz, Zenobia, Berenice, Victoria, Clyde, Constance and the Lady Falkland. On 5 and 6 October, the fort at Beyt, with earthwork walls 18-40 feet thick and 30-40 feet high, and lofty, massive towers with guns, was under continual bombardment from the naval ships. Troops were landed in an attempt to storm the fort, with boats’ crews and field pieces in support, but failed in the face of heavy fire from the defenders. The Waghurs, however, evacuated the fort soon after dark and it was occupied the next day. To launch the attack on Dwarka, the force then moved to Roopon Bunder, two miles up the coast to the only place where the surf permitted a landing. The beach, however, was covered by the guns of an imposing fort. On the 19th, the Clyde, towing a naval landing party in cutters from the Ferooz, Zenobia and Berenice, opened a bombardment, and successfully put the sailors ashore. Much to the surprise of the Colonel commanding the field force,...

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Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India 1905-06, small oval silver-gilt medallet; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnam

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Lot 492

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India 1905-06, small oval silver-gilt medallet; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued; Edward Prince of Wales Visit to Bombay 1921, oval bronze medal, the obverse with bust of Edward Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII), surmounted by Prince of Wales’ feathers, the reverse inscribed ‘Visit of His Royal Highness, Bombay, November 1921’, last lacking ring suspension, nearly very fine (3) £140-£180

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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C. (2), V.R., narrow suspension (Geo. Trice. W. R. Cook. H.M.S. Duncan.) impressed naming, surname crudel

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Lot 540

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C. (2), V.R., narrow suspension (Geo. Trice. W. R. Cook. H.M.S. Duncan.) impressed naming, surname crudely corrected, and fitted with a replacement non-swivel suspension; E.II.R., 2nd issue (L.932540 T. Hinchcliffe. P.O. Std. H.M.S. Revenge); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (A2386394 Cpl. N. J. Aldous. R.A.F.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, straight bar suspension (12859. Pte. G. A. Daniel. Liverpool Sth. Div. No4 Dis. S.J.A.B. 1934.) generally good very fine or better (4) £120-£160 --- Sold with copied research.

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An Eastern People’s Silver Award First Class. An extremely rare variation having a deep concave back and wide pin, but with t

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Lot 737

An Eastern People’s Silver Award First Class. An extremely rare variation having a deep concave back and wide pin, but with the pin stamped ‘100 [Rudolf Wachter and Lange, Mittwaida], slight fading to finish, otherwise good condition and extremely rare by this manufacturer £140-£180

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The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, G.C.B. (Military) Knight Grand Cross, breast star, 95mm x 90mm, silver, silver-gilt, a

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Lot 92

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, G.C.B. (Military) Knight Grand Cross, breast star, 95mm x 90mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, with gold retaining pin, unmarked, blue enamel damage to latter part of motto, and minor enamel damage to wreath around central medallion, otherwise good very fine £1,000-£1,400

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An Iron Cross First Class 1939 in Presentation Case. The Iron Cross is probably an early War production, the pin stamped ‘107

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Lot 669

An Iron Cross First Class 1939 in Presentation Case. The Iron Cross is probably an early War production, the pin stamped ‘107’ [Carl Wild, Hamburg - one of the scarcer makers] unissued, and is almost mint apart from some slight tarnishing to the silver rim of the Cross. The case is covered in black artificial leather, with a silver outline of the Cross printed on the flat lid. Inside it is lined on the lower section in white velvet, and white artificial silk in the top section. Very slight marking to the lining, extremely fine £240-£280

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Danish Police Badges. Two Danish Police badges a silver coloured one stamped ‘810’ on the reverse and a heavy die-cast brass

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Lot 767

Danish Police Badges. Two Danish Police badges a silver coloured one stamped ‘810’ on the reverse and a heavy die-cast brass example; together with two interesting Great War period monoplane brooches, one marked ‘Silver England’, the other skilfully depicting the flags of the Allied Nations in multi-coloured enamels, propellor missing on the silver one, otherwise good condition (4) £40-£50

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Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd type, silver (To Gunner Herbert G. Warner R.G.A. For Gallant Servic

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Lot 589

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd type, silver (To Gunner Herbert G. Warner R.G.A. For Gallant Service at Seaforth. 15 July 1911) complete with silver ribbon buckle, edge bruising, otherwise very fine £100-£140 --- ‘For a gallant attempt to save a woman who threw herself into the River Mersey at Seaforth on 15 July 1911.’

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A fine Boer War D.S.O. group of three awarded to Colonel F. R. Twemlow, North Staffordshire Regiment, who commanded the 4th B

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A fine Boer War D.S.O. group of three awarded to Colonel F. R. Twemlow, North Staffordshire Regiment, who commanded the 4th Battalion in South Africa and later at home - and following the outbreak of the Great War, raised the 3/6th Territorial Battalion Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lt. Col. F. R. Twemlow, D.S.O., N. Staff: R.) engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 Lt. Col. F. R. Twemlow. D.S.O. N. Staff. R.) engraved naming, mounted ‘cavalry style’, and housed in a Spink, London, red leather case, about extremely fine (3) £1,600-£2,000 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Provenance: Spink Numismatic Circular, January 1983. D.S.O. London Gazette 27 September 1901: ‘In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa.’ Francis Randle Twemlow was was born at Smallwood, Cheshire, on 20 December 1852, the son of the Reverend Francis Cradock Twemlow of Peatswood, Staffordshire, and was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford. Joining the Militia on 8 August 1874, he served in South Africa during the Boer War from March 1900 to May 1902 - including as Commandant, Fraserburg District, from December 1900 to August 1901, and as Officer Commanding, 4th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, from August 1901 to February 1902 (in the absence of Colonel Mirehouse, C.M.G., on sick leave). For his services in South Africa he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901), and was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. Twemlow was invested with his insignia by H.M. the King on 24 October 1902. Twemlow commanded the 4th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, from 13 December 1905 to 29 August 1908 and was promoted Honorary Colonel on 14 December 1906. Following the outbreak of the Great War he was commissioned to raise a new Territorial Battalion (3/6th North Staffordshire Regiment) on 4 April 1915, and was gazetted to the Territorial Force Reserve on 14 December 1915. Sold with two original letters sent to the recipient from Field Marshal Lord Roberts, V.C., K.G. &c.. The first hand written, dated Sefton House, Sefton Park, Liverpool, 30 January 1906, and reading: ‘Dear Colonel Twemlow, I will, with pleasure, present you at the Levée on the 20th instant. Believe me, yours very truly, Roberts’ With original envelope addressed to ‘Colonel Twemlow, D.S.O., Peatswood, Market Drayton’ The second typed, dated Englemere, Ascot, Berkshire, 5 October 1914, and reading: ‘Dear Colonel Twemlow, Please accept my best thanks for your handsome gift for the use of the Cavalry Reserve Regiments. I hope you may feel rewarded for your generosity by the knowledge that you are facilitating the training of the reinforcements which are needed to support our gallant soldiers at the seat of war. I am, yours very truly, Roberts, F.M.’

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Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (242 Pte. F. Thorp. 5/Essex Regt.); together an Independent Order of Oddfellows,

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Lot 486

Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (242 Pte. F. Thorp. 5/Essex Regt.); together an Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity jewel, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Presented to Bro. F. H. Thorpe [sic]. St Mark’s Lodge 1938, with integral top brooch bar; and a ‘St. Catherine’ brooch bar, toned, very fine £100-£140 --- Frederick Heniker Thorp was born at Maldon in 1876 and was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 75 of 1 April 1910, one of only 41 E.VII.R. Territorial Force Efficiency Medals awarded to the 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment. He died in Maldon in 1953.

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Germany, Third Reich, Iron Cross 1939, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, unmarked, nearly extremely fine £8

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Lot 634

Germany, Third Reich, Iron Cross 1939, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, unmarked, nearly extremely fine £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

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A Luftwaffe Clasp for Reconnaissance Aircraft in Silver in Original Presentation Case. A superb quality early example in fact

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Lot 731

A Luftwaffe Clasp for Reconnaissance Aircraft in Silver in Original Presentation Case. A superb quality early example in factory new condition, silver-plated with bright polished highlights, blued eagle’s head. Wide flat tapering pin. Maker’s mark ‘BSW’ in clover leaf [Bruder Schneider, Wien]. Case covered in blue paper artificial leather, inside the top section is covered in white, the bottom in cream felt. Printed in silver gothic lettering on lid ‘Frontflugspange fur Aufklarer silber’, extremely fine condition £260-£300

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Royal Humane Society, large silver medal (successful) (A. Green, Vit. Ob. Serv. D.D. Soc. Reg. Hvm. 1839) very fine £300-£400

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Lot 579

Royal Humane Society, large silver medal (successful) (A. Green, Vit. Ob. Serv. D.D. Soc. Reg. Hvm. 1839) very fine £300-£400 --- R.H.S. Case no. 13,381: ‘Alfred Green. April 17 1839. Thames off Wapping. Two men thrown out of a barge by collision with steamer [The Comet, Gravesend steamer]. Jumped from steamer into the river and saved them.’ Alfred Green resided at 19 Great George Street, Euston Square, London. Sold with copied research.

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The mounted group of ten miniature dress medals attributed to Major-General (Surgeon) Sir Robert Porter, Royal Army Medical C

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Lot 48

The mounted group of ten miniature dress medals attributed to Major-General (Surgeon) Sir Robert Porter, Royal Army Medical Corps The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s badge, gold and enamel; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s badge, gold and enamel; Ashanti Star 1896; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Elanslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; Belgium, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Officer’s badge, silver-gilt, gold and enamel, with rosette on riband; Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, mounted court-style as worn, good very fine and better (10) £500-£700 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2002. The recipient’s full-sized awards sold in these rooms as part of the Colonel Riddick Collection of Medals to the Medical Services in December 2006. Robert Porter was born in Co. Donegal on 31 January 1858, and educated at Foyle College, Londonderry, Glasgow University and Paris, qualifying as a M.B. at Glasgow in 1879. Entering the Army Medical Department as a Surgeon, and afterwards Surgeon-Captain in February 1881, he was promoted to Surgeon-Major in February 1893. He served in the Ashanti Expedition of 1895-96 for which he received an honourable mention. Next serving in the Boer War, he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel on February 1901, and was present in operations in Natal during 1899, including actions at Elandslaagte and Lombard’s Kop and in the defence of Ladysmith. He served for the remainder of the war in the Transvaal, Orange Free State and Cape Colony. Promoted to Colonel in January 1910, he was briefly placed on Half Pay on 14 January 1914. Restored to Full Pay with the onset of war, Porter served in France and Flanders with the original British Expeditionary Force as Deputy Director of Medical Services, being ranked as Temporary Surgeon-General, Army Medical Staff in November 1914 and Surgeon-General (ranking as Major-General) in February 1915. From 1915 to 1917 he was Director of Medical Services to the Second Army. For his wartime services he was awarded the C.B. in 1916, C.M.G. in 1919, the Belgian Order of the Crown 3rd Class and Croix de Guerre, and was six times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 19 October 1914, 17 February 1915, 22 June 1915, 1 January 1916, 29 May 1917, and 24 December 1917). He was knighted, receiving the K.C.B. in 1921. Major-General Sir Robert Porter died on 27 February 1928, The Times of 28 February giving the following: ‘Sir Robert Porter was one of the distinguished group of “War Doctors” who built up on the Western Front the finest organisation for the relief of the wounded which had ever existed. He came to his great work as Director of Medical Services of the Second Army with a distinguished record and with a reputation for thoroughness in all that he undertook, between the years 1915 and 1917 that reputation was justified’.

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A War Service Cross First Class in Presentation Case. The Cross is in mint as new unissued condition, retaining all original

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Lot 693

A War Service Cross First Class in Presentation Case. The Cross is in mint as new unissued condition, retaining all original bright factory finish. The pin is maker stamped ‘15’ [Friedrich Orth Wien]. The case is also mint, and is covered in black artificial leather, with an outlined image in silver of the Cross printed on the flat lid. Inside it is lined on the lower section in black velvet, and white artificial silk in the top, extremely fine £200-£240

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International, Order of St. George, Grand Cross set of insignia, by S. Johnson, Milan/Rome, comprising sash badge, gilt metal

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Lot 664

International, Order of St. George, Grand Cross set of insignia, by S. Johnson, Milan/Rome, comprising sash badge, gilt metal and enamel; Star, silver, gilt metal and enamel, with maker’s cartouche to reverse; with full sash riband and enamelled lapel rosette, in case of issue, central Cross loose on Star, otherwise good very fine (2) £200-£240 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2007.

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A fine Great War A.R.R.C., Dame of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem group of four awarded to Lady Superintendent

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Lot 65

A fine Great War A.R.R.C., Dame of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem group of four awarded to Lady Superintendent-in-Chief Mrs. Beatrice H. Dent, The Most Venerable Order of Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem and St. John Ambulance Brigade Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow ribbon; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Dame of Justice, gold and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, on lady’s bow riband; Coronation 1911, Police Ambulance Service (Beatrice Dent.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver (Mrs. Lancelot Dent A.R.R.C. For Conspicuous Service 1927.) good very fine and better (4) £500-£700 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 23 February 1917. Beatrice Holdsworth Dent (née Dimsdale) was born in Kensington on 19 July 1878, the daughter of Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale. A banker by profession, her father would later serve as Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1901 and Member of Parliament for the City of London from 1900 to 1906, becoming 1st Baronet Dimsdale on 24 July 1902. In 1899, Beatrice married underwriter Lancelot Wilkinson Dent. The couple soon became parents to a daughter and Beatrice began to focus more upon her work with The Order of St John of Jerusalem and St John Ambulance Brigade. Appointed Commandant and awarded the A.R.R.C., she was decorated by the King at an investiture held in Buckingham Palace on 25 April 1917. Raised Lady Superintendent-in-Chief of the St John Ambulance Brigade Overseas, she left England in 1927 for a tour of inspection of India. For this work and other conspicuous service she was raised Dame of Justice of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in the London Gazette of 3 January 1928. Relocating to Oxfordshire, she is recorded in 1939 as a member of staff of the Women’s Voluntary Service. She died on 30 September 1967 in Eastbourne.

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Pair: Gunner Charles Easter, ‘I’ Troop, Royal Horse Artillery Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebasto

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Lot 111

Pair: Gunner Charles Easter, ‘I’ Troop, Royal Horse Artillery Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Charles Easter. I. Troop. Ryl. Horse Artilly.) Depot impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (C. Easter D.B.B.) pierced and fitted with rings for suspension, both medals fitted with T. B. Bailey Coventry silver ribbon buckles, hallmarked Birmingham 1856, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine or better (2) £300-£400 --- Sold with a small photographic image of the recipient on glass, this affixed to a wooden backing.

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Great Western Railway Medal for 25 Years’ First Aid Efficiency, gold (9ct., 6.64g) and enamel, ‘792 David E. Price 1938’, in

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Lot 609

Great Western Railway Medal for 25 Years’ First Aid Efficiency, gold (9ct., 6.64g) and enamel, ‘792 David E. Price 1938’, in John Taylor, Ely Place, London, case, minor red enamel damage to obverse; Great Western Railway Medal for 15 Years’ First Aid Efficiency, silver-gilt (2), ‘4721 Edward A. Allen 1939’, with 5 Additional Award Bars, for 20, 25, 30, 35, and 40 Years, all numbered ‘4721, the 20 Years bar silver-gilt, the rest silver-gilt and enamel; ‘4572 James A. Griffiths 1945’, last in case of issue, good very fine (3) £100-£140

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Percy Artillery Volunteers, Silver Medal for Merit 1863, with 3 loose clasps ‘For Merit’ each with engraved date on the backs

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Lot 597

Percy Artillery Volunteers, Silver Medal for Merit 1863, with 3 loose clasps ‘For Merit’ each with engraved date on the backstrap ‘1869’, ‘1870’ and ‘1871’, unnamed as issued with original ribbon, small edge bruise, otherwise very fine £80-£100 --- The Percy Volunteers were raised by the Duke of Northumberland and based at Almouth, Northumberland.

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Pair: Nursing Sister Bertha Violen, St. John Ambulance Brigade Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Nurs. Sister. B.

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Lot 493

Pair: Nursing Sister Bertha Violen, St. John Ambulance Brigade Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Nurs. Sister. B. Violen.); Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, straight bar suspension, with Additional Award Bar (4869 L/A/Offr. B. Violen. No. 11 W’stow. Div. No. 1 Dis. S.J.A.B. 1925.) mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s St. John Ambulance Association Re-examination Cross, bronze, ‘140732 Bertha Violin [sic]’; and a miniature of the same ‘140732 Bertha Violen’, minor edge bruise, good very fine (4) £80-£100

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Honourable East India Company Medal for the Capture of Rodrigues, Isle of Bourbon & Isle of France 1809-10, silver, a good or

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Lot 266

Honourable East India Company Medal for the Capture of Rodrigues, Isle of Bourbon & Isle of France 1809-10, silver, a good original striking with contemporary silver loop suspension, nearly extremely fine £1,400-£1,800

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A rare and poignant Our Dumb Friends League Medal pair to Army deserter and career-criminal Mr. E. Netley, who sustained seri

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Lot 591

A rare and poignant Our Dumb Friends League Medal pair to Army deserter and career-criminal Mr. E. Netley, who sustained serious injuries whilst out on the prowl one evening at West Croydon railway station, when he attempted to rescue a dog which had strayed onto the tracks. Found unconscious alongside the body of a cream coloured Alsatian which was described in contemporary accounts as a ‘blackened mass’ lying across the live rail, Netley was fortunate to escape with his life Our Dumb Friends League Medal, heart-shaped, silver (Awarded to Mr. Edward Netley. For the courageous rescue of a Dog from a railway track. August 1929.) hallmarks for Birmingham 1927; together with a privately commissioned bronze medal by Vaughton, Birmingham, unnamed as issued, swing mounted, pawnbroker marks to edge of first, scratches to reverse of both, very fine (2) £600-£800 --- Edward Netley was born in Brighton around 1893. A labourer of no fixed abode, he attested for the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment around his eighteenth birthday (10047 Pte. E. Netley) and was soon the subject of a Court Martial at Warley Camp on 22 May 1911, in consequence of desertion. Found guilty, he was released from service. Familiar with dwellings along the London to Brighton railway line, Netley soon caught the attention of the Croydon Borough Bench when charged with stealing furniture from Mr. Arthur Winter who had known him just a few weeks. Out of compassion and seeing Netley with no home and no work, Winter had provided him with lodging and partial board, but was soon dismayed to hear that his goods had been sold in Portobello Road, the shop proprietor believing them to have originated from Netley’s ‘late mother’. The following year, Netley was back before the courts after breaking into his mother’s house at 3, Holland Road, South Norwood. Very much alive, she saw to it that he was sentenced to three month’s hard labour for theft. The outbreak of the Great War saw little change in Netley’s behaviour. Attesting for the 6th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment (18676 Pte. E. Netley), he served in Egypt from 16 November 1915 but was soon in trouble for desertion alongside a pal when back home in England. Wearing the stripes of a Corporal, he pretended to be an escort to his friend when challenged by a policeman. The ruse failed and Netley was transferred to the Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment (64025 Pte. E. Netley). A while later, Netley was charged with obtaining money by false pretences. Appearing in the dock at Croydon Borough Police Court, he described himself as a ‘wounded Private’ of the 3rd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. Wearing the ribbon of the Military Medal, his largesse went further. The Croydon Times of 16 November 1918, adds: ‘Netley told the Bench that he had won the Military Medal and had been wounded four times. He wanted to retrieve his character and would pay back the money. He had been in the army four years. The father said he was sorry his son had not better sense, and hoped the magistrates would deal leniently with him. In reply to Ald. Fox. defendant said he won the Military Medal for capturing a machine gun and seven prisoners.’ Remarkably, Alderman Fox offered Netley ‘one more chance,’ much to the chagrin of his mother. Analysis of Netley’s Army Service Records show that he was indeed wounded, suffering a slight wound in France whilst with the 7th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, and another slight wound to the left hand whilst with the West Yorkshire Regiment. No trace of the award of the MM can be found. Discharged from the Army on 12 September 1919 and issued a Silver War Badge in consequence of disability, Netley forfeited his Great War medals on 23 December 1920 following further convictions for theft and fraud. Remaining in South London for the next nine years, Netley finally caught the attention of the local press for all the right reasons on a summer evening in 1929. Crossing the bridge at West Croydon Railway Station, he ‘heard the cries of a dog’ and leapt over an 8-foot wire security fence, falling 30 feet down the embankment. He then attempted to move the animal by hand, but was electrocuted and knocked unconscious, being found soon thereafter atop the clinker and wooden sleepers. Initially described as an ‘unknown hero’ by the contemporary press on account of Netley carrying no identification about his body, he was later identified at Croydon General Hospital and received considerable praise. Discharged, he travelled south to Brighton and was immediately caught stealing a bicycle. According to the Derby Daily Telegraph, 30 August 1929: ‘In recognition of this act of bravery the justices only sentenced Netley to three months’ hard labour. But for this act the sentence would have been much greater as he had a bad record.’ Awarded the Our Dumb Friends League Medal, it appears that the recipient’s life of poverty and cycle of petty theft continued unabated. Possibly pawned by the recipient, Netley was later admitted to the Kensington and Chelsea workhouse. In 1939, he was further charged at Brentford for having absconded from Isleworth Casual Ward, and fined 5 shillings. Having burned all his bridges with friends and family alike, it appears that his life ended in abject poverty. An article published in The Guardian newspaper describes the life of one man in a London workhouse at this time: ‘I found myself in a small room with other casuals. There were old men and young men; men who smiled and men who sneered; men who stared fixatedly before them and men who talked in low, toneless voices... But they were all men with one thing in common - hunger.’ Sold with copied research.

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Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (171. Q.M. Sergt. T. J. Stokes. York & Lanc: R.) fitted with a top si

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Lot 520

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (171. Q.M. Sergt. T. J. Stokes. York & Lanc: R.) fitted with a top silver brooch pin, nearly extremely fine £70-£90

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Waterloo 1815 (William Ward, Royal Artillery Drivers.) fitted with silver ring fitment and small split ring for suspension, t

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Lot 278

Waterloo 1815 (William Ward, Royal Artillery Drivers.) fitted with silver ring fitment and small split ring for suspension, traces of brooch fitting to obverse, naming very weak, pitted and worn overall, fair to fine £200-£300 --- William Ward served at Waterloo in Major N. Turner’s “A” Troop, Royal Artillery Drivers. He also served in the Peninsula and France and lived to claim the M.G.S. medal with four clasps for Vittoria, Pyrenees, Orthes and Toulouse.

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Four: Private G. Heard, 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment 1914-15 Star (73 Pte. G. Heard. Essex R.); British War and Victory Med

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Lot 482

Four: Private G. Heard, 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment 1914-15 Star (73 Pte. G. Heard. Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (73 Pte. G. Heard. Essex R.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (73 Pte. G. Heard. 5-Essex R.) mounted as worn; together with a R.A.O.B. Jewel, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Presented to Primo George A. Heard. Jan. 14. 1921’, minor edge nicks, very fine (5) £80-£100 --- Provenance: Dix & Webb, March 1996. George A. Heard was born in Wanstead, Essex, in 1891 and attested for the Essex Regiment. He served with the 5th Battalion during the Great War in the Balkan theatre of War from 9 August 1915, and was awarded his Territorial Efficiency Medal per Army Order 305 of August 1922.

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Soldiers and Sailors Families Association Medal, 49 x 36mm., silvered metal; Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, Me

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Lot 611

Soldiers and Sailors Families Association Medal, 49 x 36mm., silvered metal; Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, Medal for Zeal, by Kenning, London, 38 x 28mm., silver, reverse inscribed, ‘C. M. Chapman, Queen Alexandra, Sept. 27th 1927’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1919; Naval League Cross, 27 x 27mm., silver and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘Miss Gibbons’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1938, with ‘Special Service’ brooch bar, good very fine and better (3) £80-£100 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, November 2009.

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A Luftwaffe Clasp for Long Range Night Fighter and Ground Attack Aircraft in Silver. A good quality zinc late type. Scarce va

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Lot 728

A Luftwaffe Clasp for Long Range Night Fighter and Ground Attack Aircraft in Silver. A good quality zinc late type. Scarce variant where the bronzed down-pointing winged arrow is held to the body of the Badge by 2 tiny rivets going through a centre horizontal bar. Thin frame, blacked centre wreath. Wide fluted tapering nickel pin, hinge and hook, extremely good condition £200-£240

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Luftwaffe Observer’s Cloth Badges. Two examples, the first an Officer’s cloth type. Silver bullion wire on dark blue felt ver

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Lot 718

Luftwaffe Observer’s Cloth Badges. Two examples, the first an Officer’s cloth type. Silver bullion wire on dark blue felt version for officers. Exceptional quality and about mint unissued condition; the second an other ranks example. Luftwaffe blue felt, with machine-embroidered pale grey Luftwaffe eagle and wreath. Type with padded-out eagle. A tiny moth hole below eagle on later, very good condition (2) £260-£300

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Three: J. H. Marsh, Southern Railway Southern Railway St. John Ambulance Association Service Medal (3), gold (9ct., 11.70g),

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Lot 605

Three: J. H. Marsh, Southern Railway Southern Railway St. John Ambulance Association Service Medal (3), gold (9ct., 11.70g), for 21 Years’ Service ‘James H. Marsh 1941’, with integral top gilt riband bar; silver, for 14 Years’ Service ‘James Marsh 1934’, with integral top silver riband bar; bronze, for 7 Years’ Service ‘James H. Marsh 1927’, with integral top bronze riband bar, good very fine (3) £160-£200 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2009.

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An Iron Cross First Class 1939 in Presentation Case. The Iron Cross is probably an early War production, back stamped ‘L/11’

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Lot 668

An Iron Cross First Class 1939 in Presentation Case. The Iron Cross is probably an early War production, back stamped ‘L/11’ [Wilhelm Deumer, Ludenscheid] below the hook, unissued, and is about factory mint. The case is covered in black artificial leather, with a silver outline of the Cross printed on the flat lid. Inside it is lined on the lower section in white velvet, and white artificial silk in the top. The top section is also printed ‘Wilhelm Deumer K.G. Ludenscheid, case is also about mint, extremely fine £240-£280

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Russia, Empire, Medal for Zeal, Nicholas II, small silver medal, unnamed as issued, on incorrect ‘St. George’ riband, edge br

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Lot 657

Russia, Empire, Medal for Zeal, Nicholas II, small silver medal, unnamed as issued, on incorrect ‘St. George’ riband, edge bruise, very fine £80-£100 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

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Three: Corporal J. W. Ranson, 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment, later Royal West Surrey Regiment and Labour Corps British War a

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Lot 484

Three: Corporal J. W. Ranson, 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment, later Royal West Surrey Regiment and Labour Corps British War and Victory Medals (41619 Sjt. J. W. Ranson. The Queen’s R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (128 Cpl. J. W. Ranson. 5/Essex Regt.) mounted as worn, very fine (3) £120-£160 --- James Walter Ranson was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal in July 1910, one of only 41 E.VII.R. Territorial Force Efficiency Medals awarded to the 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment. He served with the Royal West Surrey Regiment during the Great War, and also with the Labour Corps, being discharged due to sickness on 24 March 1919, and was awarded a Silver War Badge No. B283376. Sold with two Essex Regiment cap badges, Essex shoulder title, and two T5 shoulder titles; three card identity discs, named ‘2447 J W Ranson, CE, 5 Ex’; ‘77407 J W Ranson, CE, 130 Lab Co’; and ‘77407 J Ranson, CE, 130 Lab Co’; and a somewhat damaged Diploma from Braintree Council inscribed ‘Presented to Sergt J W Ranson by the people of Braintree to record their appreciation of his services to our country during the Great War of 1914-18 and to express their heartfelt thanks and gratitude for the devotion and self-sacrifice which made possible the great victory. Signed Rob J Johnson, Chairman, Braintree Urban District Council, Braintree, 15 Dec 1919.’

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Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (A. C. Ford. Ship’s Stewd. H.M.S. Duke of Wellington) impressed naming, with

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Lot 539

Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (A. C. Ford. Ship’s Stewd. H.M.S. Duke of Wellington) impressed naming, with ornate silver top riband bar, mounted on card with portrait photograph of recipient in uniform, good very fine £120-£160 --- Alfred Charles Ford was born in Osmington, Dorset, in April 1848. He joined the Royal Navy as a Ship’s Steward 3rd Class in January 1877, and advanced to Ship’s Steward 1st Class in May 1882. His service included with H.M.S. Duke of Wellington from September 1881 to November 1882, and again from December 1886 until January 1887 (awarded L.S. & G.C. in December 1887). Ford was shore pensioned as a Ship’s Steward Pensioner in September 1889. Sold with copied service papers.

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Coronation 1902, bronze, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1977, Canadian issue, silver, unnamed as

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Lot 491

Coronation 1902, bronze, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1977, Canadian issue, silver, unnamed as issued, in card box of issue; Jubilee 2012, unnamed as issued, in card box of issue, nearly extremely fine (4) £100-£140

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A War Service Cross First Class with Swords Presentation Case and Matching Maker’s Outer Cardboard Box. An almost mint condit

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Lot 696

A War Service Cross First Class with Swords Presentation Case and Matching Maker’s Outer Cardboard Box. An almost mint condition case, covered in black artificial leather, with a solid image in silver of the Cross printed on the flat lid. Inside it is lined on the lower section in black velvet, and white artificial silk in the top. The outer pale cream cardboard box is also about mint and has printed on the top ‘Kriegs Verdienstkreux 1. Klasse mit Schwertern’. On the side is printed the maker’s name ‘Wilhelm Deumer Kom-Ges. Ludenscheid’, case only (no medal), extremely good condition £100-£140

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The French Legion of Honour awarded to Lord Hindley, Director of the Bank of England France, Third Republic, Legion of Honou

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Lot 631

The French Legion of Honour awarded to Lord Hindley, Director of the Bank of England France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband, in Arthus Bertrand, Paris case of issue, damage to reverse blue enamel, good very fine £100-£140 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2008 (when sold alongside the recipient’s other honours and awards). John Scott Hindley was born on 24 October 1883, the son of Rev. William Talbot Hindley, M.A., of Eastbourne. He was educated at Weymouth College. During his lifetime he held a number of important positions, being a member of the Coal Controller’s Export Advisory Committee, 1917-18; Commercial Advisor, Mines Department, 1918-38 and 1939-42; Controller-General Ministry of Fuel and Power, 1942-43; Director of the Bank of England, 1931-45; Chairman of Stephenson Clark Ltd., 1938-46; Managing Director of Powell Duffryn Ltd., 1931-46; Chairman, Maris Export and Trading Co. Ltd., 1938-46; Chairman, Finance Corporation for Industry Ltd., 1945-46; Chairman, London Committee of the Combined Productions and Resources Board, 1943-46; Chairman of the National Coal Board, 1946-51; Alderman Ward of Tower, 1924-30; Member of the Committee on Industry and Trade, 1924-29; Master of the Clothworkers Company, 1953-54. For his many services to trade and industry he was granted numerous awards, being Knighted in 1921; created a Baronet in 1927; created a Baron in 1931; awarded the G.B.E. in 1939, and created a Viscount in 1948. In addition he received a number of foreign awards, including the prestigous U.S.A. Medal of Freedom with Gold Palm. Hindley married Vera Westoll in 1909, by whom he had two daughters. Latterly living at Meads Cottage, Rondle Wood, near Liphook, Hampshire, Viscount Hyndley died on 5 January 1963. Sold with a letter from the French Embassy, dated 8 August 1939, with translation, ‘Dear Lord Hyndley, ... The French Government was anxious to recognise officially the great services which you have rendered to the Franco-British economic collaboration on which our public administrations as well as our most important coal firms have always had reason to congratulate themselves. ...’

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Jubilee 1977, Canadian issue, silver, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband, in card box of issue; Confederation of Canada

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Lot 498

Jubilee 1977, Canadian issue, silver, unnamed as issued, on lady’s bow riband, in card box of issue; Confederation of Canada Centenary Medal 1967, unnamed as issued, in case of issue, with separate lady’s bow riband; Canadian Peacekeeping Service Medal, unnamed, extremely fine (3) £60-£80 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---

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Honourable East India Company Medal for Ceylon 1795-96, silver, a good original striking with no evidence of die rust marks o

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Lot 261

Honourable East India Company Medal for Ceylon 1795-96, silver, a good original striking with no evidence of die rust marks or cracks, fitted with silver ‘post’ suspension, very fine and scarce £1,200-£1,600

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The O.B.E. awarded to J. P. Graham, Esq., Director, British Carbonisation Research Association The Most Excellent Order of t

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Lot 96

The O.B.E. awarded to J. P. Graham, Esq., Director, British Carbonisation Research Association The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, in Toye, Kenning, & Spencer, London, case of issue; together with the related miniature award, extremely fine £100-£140 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1978: James Percy Graham, Director, British Carbonisation Research Association. Sold with the recipient’s Bestowal Document for the O.B.E.; 10 Downing Street Letter to the recipient informing him of the award; Central Chancery letter regarding he investiture; a copy of the Statutes of the Order, together with the accompanying Central Chancery letters; and the recipient’s typed account of the investiture.

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The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver, on lady’s bo

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Lot 103

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, extremely fine £80-£100

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Pair: Forewoman Margaret G. Gale, later Lady Cox, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps British War and Victory Medals (2773 Fwm

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Lot 202

Pair: Forewoman Margaret G. Gale, later Lady Cox, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps British War and Victory Medals (2773 Fwm. M. G. Gale. Q.M.A.A.C.) mounted for wear, good very fine (2) £120-£160 --- Margaret Goddard Gale was born in Hornsey, Middlesex, on 15 March 1896. She attested into Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps on 14 August 1917 for service during the Great War, and served on the Western Front from 4 September 1917 to 3 March 1919. She was discharged as being medically unfit on 16 May 1919 and awarded a Silver War Badge, No. 479,898. Post-War in India, Miss Gale married Brigadier Matthew H. Cox, C.I.E., O.B.E., M.C., Indian Army, who was later knighted in 1960 for services in connection with development projects in India. She died in Chichester, West Sussex, in March 1978. Sold with copied research.

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Eastern People’s Awards. Three examples, the first a Gold Award Second Class in Presentation Packet. Standard type, but ring

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Lot 738

Eastern People’s Awards. Three examples, the first a Gold Award Second Class in Presentation Packet. Standard type, but ring stamped ‘100’ [Rudolf Wachter and Lange, Mittwaida]. Brown paper presentation packet, front printed ‘Verdienst Auszeichnung fur Angehorige der Ostvolker 2. Klasse in Gold’; the second another Gold Award Second Class, but a scarce variant, heavier than usual and with a flat back reverse; and the third a Silver Award Second Class with Swords for Bravery, a scarce variant with flat back, extremely good condition, the first rare with manufacturer’s stamp (3) £120-£160

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The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Civil) Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge in silver-gil

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Lot 94

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Civil) Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge in silver-gilt, hallmarked London 1897, and breast star in silver with appliqué centre in silver-gilt and enamel, reverse fitted with gold pin for wearing, complete with neck cravat and silver-gilt fastening clasp in a slightly later Garrard & Co. Ltd fitted case of issue, very fine (2) £800-£1,000

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Imperial Service Medal, E.VII.R., Star issue (John W. Jago) mounted as worn on Elkington silver brooch, small loss of enamel

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Lot 500

Imperial Service Medal, E.VII.R., Star issue (John W. Jago) mounted as worn on Elkington silver brooch, small loss of enamel on outer circlet, otherwise good very fine £70-£90

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Miniature Medals: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type badge, silver; 1914 Sta

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Lot 624

Miniature Medals: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type badge, silver; 1914 Star; 1914-15 Star (3); Royal Humane Society, small silver medal (successful), lacking integral silver riband buckle; Russia, Empire, Order of St. Anne, Military Division, bronze-gilt and enamel, with crossed swords, of Continental manufacture; together with another badge of the Order of St. Anne, Civil Division, but lacking both obverse and reverse central medallions, nearly very fine and better World Orders and Medals (full-sized): Chile, Republic, Star for the Lima Campaign 1882, Third Class, silver, suspension ring crudely re-soldered; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1918; Germany, Wurttemberg, Campaign Medal 1793-1815, bronze, number of campaigns erased from reverse, and suspension ring re-soldered; good fine and better (11) £80-£100 --- Sold with a top ‘bow riband’ bronze brooch.

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Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 1st issue, large letter reverse, edge dated, impressed naming (J. Carter, Gunner Royal Horse Artiller

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Lot 506

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 1st issue, large letter reverse, edge dated, impressed naming (J. Carter, Gunner Royal Horse Artillery. 1840.) fitted with contemporary replacement rings and silver bar suspension, minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £100-£140

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Germany, Third Reich, S.S. Faithful Service Medal, Fourth Class, for 4 Years’ Service, bronze, with standard teardrop suspens

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Lot 640

Germany, Third Reich, S.S. Faithful Service Medal, Fourth Class, for 4 Years’ Service, bronze, with standard teardrop suspension loop, in original broken card box of issue, the detached lid with printed silver SS runic symbol, extremely fine £300-£400

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A Knight’s Cross of the War Service Cross. An excellent quality early example, silver mark 900 and maker’s mark ‘1’ [Deschler

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Lot 691

A Knight’s Cross of the War Service Cross. An excellent quality early example, silver mark 900 and maker’s mark ‘1’ [Deschler and Sohn, Munchen] to base of lower arm, complete with full neck riband, nearly extremely fine £1,200-£1,600 --- Note: Only 137 of the Knight’s Cross without Swords were awarded, although considerably more were manufactured.

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A fine ‘Egypt 1882 campaign’ C.B. group of six awarded to Major-General C. E. Webber, Royal Engineers, who was distinguished

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A fine ‘Egypt 1882 campaign’ C.B. group of six awarded to Major-General C. E. Webber, Royal Engineers, who was distinguished at the capture of Jhansi in April 1858 and was afterwards in charge of Army Telegraphs in South Africa 1879, Egypt 1882, and on the Nile Expedition in 1884-85 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 18 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1881, complete with gold ribbon buckle; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Lieut. C. E. Webber, Royal Engrs.); South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Lt. Col: C. E. Webber. R.E.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, The Nile 1884-85 (Lt. Col: C. E. Webber. R.E.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882; Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, 3rd Class neck badge, 83mm including Star and Crescent suspension x 66mm, silver, gold appliqué, and enamel, with silver mark to obverse and mint mark and silver mark to reverse, minor chipping to enamels on C.B., otherwise toned, good very fine or better (6) £5,000-£7,000 --- Charles Edmund Webber was born in Dublin on 5 September 1838, the son of the Revd T. Webber of Leekfield, Co. Sligo, and his wife, of Kellavil, Athy. After education at private schools and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, he was commissioned lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 20 April 1855. The demands of the Crimean War cut short his professional instruction at Chatham, and he was sent to the Belfast military district, being employed principally on the defences of Lough Swilly. In September 1857 Webber was posted to the 21st company of Royal Engineers at Chatham, which was ordered to India to join the Central India field force commanded by Major-General Sir Hugh Rose. Brigadier C. S. Stuart's 1st brigade, to which Webber's company was attached, marched on Jhansi, which Sir Hugh Rose's column reached by another route. Webber was Mentioned in Despatches for his services on this arduous march. He took part in the Battle of the Betwa River on 1 April, and in the assault of Jhansi on the 3rd, for which he was promoted. Webber took part in the operations attending the capture of Kunch (7 May), of Kalpi (23 May), and of Gwalior (19-20 June). Webber’s distinguished services at the capture of Jhansi on 3 April 1858 are recorded in The History of the Corps of Royal Engineers: ‘Another brilliant episode in this war, so full of heroic incidents, was the capture of Jhansi by the Central India Field Force under Sir Hugh Rose... The city of Jhansi was surrounded by an enceinte wall from 6 to 12 feet thick, and varying in height from 18 to 30 feet, flanked by bastions, in which guns were mounted. The fort which formed the citadel was of granite, from 16 to 20 feet thick, almost impervious to artillery. It was perched on the summit of a rock, and commanded the city. The south was the only side offering any possibility of a successful attack; there the city wall which sprang from the centre of its face ran southward, ending in a mound or mamelon, at which point it changed direction to the east, and made the circuit of the city. This mound was fortified by a strong circular bastion, with a wide and deep ditch. In order to attack the fort with success on the only vulnerable side it was necessary to capture this point, and hold the city wall. Two batteries were established, one on the right where the mound and wall could be taken in reverse, the other on the left whence the enceinte and fort could be battered. As soon as the city wall had been breached near the mound it was decided to assault at that point, and at the same time to attempt an escalade at other places. The 1st Brigade was to storm the breach and to escalade at the Rocket Bastion on its left. The 2nd Brigade was to escalade on the right. Lieutenant Webber, R.E., led the escalading party on the left, and Lieutenant Gossett, R.E., the stormers of the breach. The attack on the right was in two columns, one led by Lieutenants Meiklejohn and Dick of the Bombay Engineers, and the other by Lieutenant Bonus, Bombay Engineers, and Lieutenant Fox, Madras Sappers and Miners. The breach was carried without much difficulty, as a heavy fire had been kept up on it throughout the night; but it was so strongly stockaded that it would not have been readily forced had the garrison made a determined resistance. The left escalading column led by Webber met with more opposition. The wall was here 27 feet high, and loopholed. The enemy had prepared large masses of stone which they pushed over, breaking many rungs of the ladders; they also fired rockets through the loopholes. The two men first in were Lieutenant Dartnell, 86th Regiment, and Lieutenant Webber. The former was severely wounded before Webber could come to his assistance. After a sharp struggle a footing was gained, and the enemy driven from the bastion... Corporal Michael Sleavon, 21st Company, R.E., gained the Victoria Cross during the street fighting on the day of the assault.’ Webber commanded a detachment of engineers which joined a flying column under Captain McMahon, 14th light dragoons, in Central India against Tantia Topi, Man Singh, and Firuz Shah, and was again Mentioned in Despatches. He continued in the field until April 1859, after which he was employed in the public works department, first at Gwalior and afterwards at Allahabad, until he returned to England in May 1860. After service in the Brighton sub-district until October 1861, Webber was until 1866 assistant instructor in military surveying at Woolwich. He was promoted Captain on 1 April 1862. During the latter part of the Austro-Prussian War in 1866 he was attached to the Prussian army to report on the engineering operations and military telegraphs. Various services on special missions abroad followed, with duty at the Curragh camp (1867-9). The 22nd Company of Royal Engineers, of which he was in command at Chatham, was as a temporary expedient lent to the Post Office from 1869 to 1871 to assist in constructing and organizing the telegraph service. In May 1870 Webber took his headquarters to London, the rest of the company being distributed about the country. In 1871 the 34th Company was added to Webber's command and stationed at Inverness. The total strength of the Royal Engineers at that time employed under the Post Office was six officers and 153 non-commissioned officers and men. The mileage both over and under ground constructed and rebuilt in 1871 was more than 1000 line miles and more than 3200 wire miles. Webber, who was promoted Major on 5 July 1872, was director of telegraphs with the southern army in the autumn manoeuvres of that year. In 1874, at his suggestion, the south of England was permanently assigned for the training and exercise of military telegraphists, with five officers and 160 non-commissioned officers and men being employed by the Post Office there. The scheme proved of value both to the army and the Post Office. While employed under the Post Office he, with Colonel Sir Francis Bolton, founded in 1871 the Society of Telegraph Engineers (subsequently the Institution of Telegraph Engineers); he was treasurer and a member of council, and in 1882 was president. Webber's reputation as an expert on military telegraphy was well established when in May 1879 he resumed active military service in the field. Accompanying Sir Garnet Wolseley to South Africa for the Anglo Zulu War, he became Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General on the staff of the inspector-general of the lines of communication. He was stationed at Landmann's Drift. He afterwards took part in the operations against Sekukuni in the Transvaal, and was once again Mentioned in Despatches. Promoted regimental Lieutenant-Colonel on 24 January 1880, Webber on his retu...

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The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case

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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, extremely fine £80-£100

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An Eastern People’s Silver Award First Class with Swords, for Bravery, in its Presentation Case. A mint unissued example, apa

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An Eastern People’s Silver Award First Class with Swords, for Bravery, in its Presentation Case. A mint unissued example, apart from some slight fading to the front and back of the Star, and the rare variation with solid flat back and wide pin. The case is covered in black artificial leather, with a silver image of the Star printed on the flat lid. Inside it is lined on the lower section in black velvet, and white artificial silk in the top section, extremely fine condition £100-£140

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The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, in Royal Mint ca

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

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Pair: Chief Armourer A. Lowton, Royal Navy British War Medal 1914-20 (119568 A. Lowton. Ch. Amr. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.

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Pair: Chief Armourer A. Lowton, Royal Navy British War Medal 1914-20 (119568 A. Lowton. Ch. Amr. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Alfred Lowton, Armourer, H.M.S. Pembroke.) impressed naming; Silver War Badge, reverse officially numbered ‘RN 38364’, very fine (3) £120-£160 --- Alfred Lowton was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, in July 1861. He joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in April 1882, and advanced to Chief Armourer in August 1895. His service included with H.M.S. Pembroke from August 1892 until May 1893 (awarded the L.S. & G.C. in May 1893), and was employed as an Instructor of Mines at H.M.S. Victory during the Great War (BWM being sole entitlement). Sold with recipient’s Marriage Certificate; several photographs of recipient in uniform; a letter from recipient; and copied service papers.

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