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Click here to subscribeA FINE MIDDLE EASTERN NIELLO AND DAMASCUS SWORD / TULWAR, the blade with quality damascus steel and bearing a silver inlaid crest, niello scabbard and hilt mount, the handle inset with panels of bone, silver inlaid pommel in the form of a tiger's head with knuckle guard, the curving blade 76cm long, overall length 92cm.
Three: Major-General G. B. Michell, 28th Native Infantry, Bengal Army Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Ensign G. Bruce Michell. 9th Lt. Infy.) long hyphen reverse, impressed naming; Punniar Star 1843 (Capt. G. Bruce Michell. 2nd Infy. Gwalior Cont.) contemporary engraved naming in upright serif capitals, fitted with adapted silver Mutiny-style suspension; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Bt. Col. & Comg. Geo. Bruce Michell.) officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine (3) £2,400-£2,800 --- George Bruce Michell was born on 13 September 1805, and was baptised at West Teignmouth in Devon on 2 October 1805, the son of Captain John Taylor Michell of the Royal Navy and Sapphira Seymour (née Baily). On 22 April 1862 he married ‘at the British Consulate Nice, and afterwards at the British Chapel’ Lady Frances Elizabeth Legge, eldest daughter of the 4th Earl of Dartmouth and sister of the 5th Earl. The marriage produced one son, George Baily Michell, who like his father followed a military career. Major-General George Bruce Michell died at Nice on 11 February 1866 ‘after a long a painful illness’, leaving an estate valued at £12,000. The following ‘description of the gallant officer’s eminent services’ appeared in the Army and Navy Gazette (3 March 1866): ‘At an early period of his life he proceeded to India as a cadet in the East India Company’s Bengal Army, and began his military career in the disastrous Burmese war of 1827. His success in the acquisition of the Oriental languages soon led to his appointment as Adjutant to the 9th Regiment of Infantry, at that time under the command of Colonel Paul. While holding that post he attracted the notice of the late Sir Robert Sale, G.C.B., who nominated him Acting Brigade-Major of the Agra force. Thus brought under the public eye, he was selected by the Governor-General to raise an infantry corps for his Highness Jankojee Seindea, and it was the fine organisation of that regiment which gained for Captain Michell the repute which afterwards attached to his name, for ability in forming and disciplining native infantry. Just before entering on the Affghan war it was deemed desirable to send a deputation to the ruler of Lahore, and the present Lord William Osborne was despatched as the chief of it. An interpreter was to be chosen, a person who was master of native Court language. The selected person was Captain Michell, and he received at the hands of Lord Auckland a handsome sword for this service. He commanded a regiment at the battle of Punniar, and during the great mutiny the responsible duty of keeping the high road from Sasseram to Benares was assigned to him, for which he received the marked approval and thanks of Lord Canning. On his retirement he was made a Major-General, and in 1863 [sic] he married Lady Frances Legge, sister of the present Earl of Dartmouth, and leaves issue one son.’
Three: Private J. Spencer, Royal Scots, who was twice wounded, and was killed in action on the Western Front on 7 June 1917 1914-15 Star (23059 Pte. J. Spencer. R. Scots.); British War and Victory Medals (23059 Pte. J. Spencer. R. Scots.) good very fine Pair: Private C. W. Stones, Border Regiment, who was taken Prisoner of War on the Western Front on 11 April 1918 British War and Victory Medals (32342 Pte. C. W. Stones. Bord. R.) nearly extremely fine (5) £100-£140 --- John Spencer attested for the Royal Scots on 2 June 1915 and served with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 2 October 1915. He suffered a gun shot wound to the back on 1 November 1915, and later more severely a gun shot wound to the chest that fractured a rib on 26 July 1916. He transferred to the 11th Battalion and was killed in action on 7 June 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France. Charles William Stones was born in Levenshulme, Lancashire, on 13 March 1898 and attested for the Border Regiment on 10 May 1916. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was taken Prisoner of War at Sailly on 11 April 1918. Repatriated following the cessation of hostilities, he was awarded a Silver War Badge on 23 January 1919.
Five: Private J. R. Walker, Northumberland Fusiliers, later Canadian Forces 1914-15 Star (7-1845 Pte. J. R. Walker. North’d Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (7-1845 Pte. J. R. Walker. North’d Fus.); War Medal 1939-45; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, no clasp, very fine Five: Major A. J. Alfred, Canadian Forces 1939-45 Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Forces Decoration, E.II.R. (Maj A. J. Alfred) mounted as worn, very fine (10) £60-£80
Pair: Private H. Elliott, West Yorkshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (2277 Pte. H. Elliott. W. York: R.) naming double-struck in parts; Victory Medal 1914-19 (2277 Pte. H. Elliott. W. York: R.) good very fine Pair: Private E. Plaster, Northamptonshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (45283 Pte. E. Plaster. North’n R.) very fine Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (4001 Pte. J. Christy L’pool. R.; 358590 Pte. G. F. Silley. L’pool R.; 2197 Pte. J. Barber. Manch. R.) nearly very fine (7) £70-£90 --- Herbert Elliott attested for the West Yorkshire Regiment and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 April 1915. Edward Plaster attested initially for the Royal West Surrey Regiment on 21 July 1916, and after transferring to the Middlesex, Suffolk, and Northamptonshire Regiments, served with the latter during the Great War on the Western Front from 25 March 1917. He transferred to the Labour Corps on 14 May 1917, and was demobilised on 5 March 1919. Jack Christy attested for the Liverpool Regiment ands served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 January 1915. He later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, and was discharged from 118 Company on 18 April 1919, being awarded a Silver War Badge. Gilbert Ferneaux Silley was born in 1892 and attested for the Liverpool Regiment on 9 December 1915. Mobilised on 31 August 1916, he served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 26 April 1917, and was appointed Lance Corporal on 6 August 1918. He transferred Class Z Reserve on 17 October 1919. James Barber attested for the Manchester Regiment and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 December 1914. He later transferred to the Labour Corps. Sold with copied research.
Eight: Captain M. H. Hailes, Railway Transport Establishment and Burma Railways 1914-15 Star (Lieut. M. H. Hailes.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. M. H. Hailes.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937 (M. H. Hailes) privately named; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Pte. M. H. Hailes, Bur. Ry. Bn. A.F.I.); France, Third Republic, Order of the Academic Palms, breast badge, silver and enamels, the last chipped, otherwise good very fine (8) £100-£140 --- Martin Hunter Hailes entered the French theatre as a Lieutenant in the Railway Transport Establishment. Sold with copied Medal Index Card which gives his address as ‘c/o Traffic Manager, Burma Rly. Co. Ltd., Rangoon, Burma’. French award not confirmed.
Five: Acting Bombardier H. R. Mark, Canadian Field Artillery, late Stoker 1st Class, Royal Navy, with whom he served in the relief operations following the earthquake at Messina in Southern Italy in December 1908 1914-15 Star (42353 Gnr: H. R. Mark. Can: Fd: Art:); British War and Victory Medals (42353 A. Bmbr. H. R. Mark. C.F.A.) unit given as ‘C.F.C.’ on Victory Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Robert H. Mark.); Italy, Kingdom, Messina Earthquake 1908, silver, unnamed as issued, together with named enclosure from H.B.M’s. Ambassador at Rome forwarding same to ‘S.S.104,413 H. R. Mark, Sto., 1 cl., H.M.S. “Lancaster”’, good very fine (5) £200-£240
Family Group: Pair: Second Lieutenant J. R. Tarras, Royal Field Artillery, who was killed in action on 3 October 1916 British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. J. R. Tarras.) in named card boxes of issue; Memorial Plaque (John Rae Tarras) with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in card envelope of issue, extremely fine Pair: Nora Tarras, Voluntary Aid Detachment British War and Victory Medals (N. Tarras. V.A.D.) mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s identity bracelet ‘Nora Tarras V.A.D. Pres. Aberdeen 40’; and three British Red Cross Society badges, the first for three years’ service, the reverse numbered ‘2312’, the second a County of Cheshire badge, the reverse named ‘5531 N. Hollis’, nearly extremely fine Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lieut. G. H. Tarras. R.A.F.); together with a School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges, Edinburgh, silver prize medal, the reverse engraved ‘Diseases of Children, awarded to George H. Tarras Summer Session 1922’, in fitted case of issue, extremely fine (lot) £200-£240 --- John Rae Tarras was born in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, the son of Andrew Tarras, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. He served with the 9th Trench Mortar Battery during the Great War on the Western Front from May 1916, and was killed in action by a shell on 16 October 1916. He is buried in Serre Road Cemetery No. 2, France. Eleanor ‘Nora’ Tarras (née Hollis) was born in Fraserburgh on 9 August 1893. She worked as a V.A.D. Nurse in military hospitals in Aberdeen and in France, 1915-19. For the R.N.L.I. medal awarded to Andrew Tarras, see Lot 617.
Pair: Private H. B. Payne, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, later Royal Berkshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (26446 Pte. H. B. Payne. R. War. R.); together with a British Legion lapel badge, good very fine Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (21-1201 Pte. J. W. Brew. North’d Fus; 17747 Pte. W. Ellemor. York. R.; 4396 Pte. J. McIntyre. York. R.) edge bruising and abrasions to last, this fine; the others better (5) £100-£140 --- Henry Burge Payne attested for the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 26 August 1916 and served with them during the Great War, before transferring to the Royal Berkshire Regiment. He was discharged on account of wounds on 24 August 1919, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. John William Brew was born in Sunderland, co. Durham, and attested there for the 21st Battalion (Tyneside Scottish), Northumberland Fusiliers. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front, and died at home on 29 June 1918. He is buried in Sunderland (Bishopwearmouth) Cemetery. William Ellemor was born in Silksworth, co. Durham, and attested for the Yorkshire Regiment at Sunderland. He served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 26 August 1915, and was killed in action on 14 May 1916. He is buried in Tranchee de Mecknes Cemetery, Aix-Noulette, France. James McIntyre attested for the Yorkshire Regiment at Middlesbrough and served with the 4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 23 April 1917; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.
Pair: Private F. Palmer, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (M-271193 Pte. F. Palmer. A.S.C.) good very fine Pair: Private T. I. Sanders, Army Service Corps British War and Victory Medals (A-293808 Pte. T. I. Sanders. A.S.C.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘B52103’, nearly extremely fine Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (M2-097604 Sjt. W. Hutson. A.S.C.; 16176 Pte. J. Potter. A.S.C.) very fine (6) £70-£90 --- Thomas Irvin Sanders attested for the Army Service Corps on 29 January 1917, and served with them during the Great War. He was discharged due to disabilities attributed to War service on 2 December 1918, and was awarded a Silver War Badge. James Potter attested for the Army Service Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 September 1915. He subsequently transferred to the Labour Corps, and was discharged Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 20 March 1919. Sold with copied research.
Pair: Driver J. T. Barnes, Royal Artillery Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (17075, Driv: J. T. Barnes D/1, Bde. R.A.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, both medals fitted with contemporary silver ribbon brooches, light pitting from star, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £100-£140
Pair: Second Lieutenant S. C. Lumb, Royal Flying Corps and General List British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. S. C. Lumb.) very fine (2) £60-£80 --- Stanley Clifford Lumb was commissioned temporary Second Lieutenant for duty with the Royal Flying Corps on 5 August 1916. He served during the Great War in France (his Medal Index Card erroneously giving the date of entry therein as being 11-12-20 [sic]), and was awarded a Silver War Badge.
Four: Lieutenant-Colonel G. S. Ryder, 236th Battalion C.E.F. (New Brunswick Kilties), and 71st York Regiment British War and Victory Medals (Major. G. S. Ryder.); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Lt. Col. G S Ryder York Regt.); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R. (Major G. S. Ryder York Regt) complete with top suspension brooch, toned, good very fine (4) £400-£500 --- George Stewart Ryder was born on 29 November 1891, at St Stephen, New Brunswick. He enlisted into the 236th Overseas Battalion (New Brunswick Kilties) on 22 August 1916, at Fredericton, N.B., an electrician by trade with 10 years’ former service in the 71st York Regiment. Sold with original commission document as Lieutenant in the 71st York Regiment, dated Ottawa 20 August 1913, signed by Arthur Duke of Connaught and Sam Hughes; Past President’s medal, Royal Canadian Legion, gilt and enamels, reverse engraved ‘G. Stewart Ryder. Saint Croix (N.B. #9) 1930’; and hallmarked silver identity bracelet engraved ‘Major G. S. Ryder 236th Bn C of E CEF’; together with copied attestation paper.
Seven: Major T. Bromage, Royal Canadian Mechanical and Electrical Engineers 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, these five all unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Canada (Armt/S/Sgt T. Bromage RCEME); Canadian Forces Decoration, E.II.R. (Major T. Bromage) mounted as worn, very fine (7) £80-£100
Five: Lieutenant A. Chicoine, Mont Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action on 8 August 1944 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R. (Lieut. A. Chicoine) last in embossed case of issue, extremely fine (6) £100-£140 --- Aurele Chicoine was born at St. Liboire, Quebec, on 15 December 1916 and attested for the Canadian Forces in Montreal on 6 February 1942. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 8 August 1942, and was promoted Lieutenant on 9 October 1942. He was taken on the strength of the Mont Royal Fusiliers on 21 July 1944, and served during the Second World War in North West Europe from 30 July 1944. He was killed in action on 8 August 1944 and is buried in the Canadian War Cemetery, Bretteville-sur-Laize, France. Sold with copied research.
Five: Captain J. A. Bates, Canadian Forces 1939-45 Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, note standard cupro-nickle issue; Canadian Forces Decoration, E.II.R. (Capt. J. A. Bates) good very fine (5) £50-£70
Five: Corporal D. K. Major, Royal Canadian Signals Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, unnamed; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, unnamed; Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (SB 800484 D. K. Major); U.N. Korea 1950-54 (SB 800484 D. K. Major) officially named; Canadian Forces Decoration, E.II.R. (Cpl D K Major) mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £80-£100 --- SB prefix denotes that he enlisted at Toronto. Sold with copied extract from Crawford’s roll.
Pair: Captain M. H. Hailes, 10th Bengal Light Cavalry Cabul 1842 (M. H. Hailes. Captain, 10th Light Cavalry) contemporary engraved naming, fitted with original fitted with steel clip and silver bar suspension; Maharajpoor Star 1843 (Captain M. H. Hailes 10th Regt. Light Cavalry) fitted with contemporary replacement hook and steel bar suspension, both medals fitted with ribbon buckles, nearly extremely fine (2) £1,200-£1,600 --- Martin Hunter Hailes was born at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on 12 January 1810, presumed to be the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Harris W. Hailes, New Brunswick Fencibles. He entered the Bengal Army as a Cadet in 1825, arrived in India in May 1826, and was sent up to Cawnpore to do duty with the 9th Light Cavalry. He was posted as Cornet to the 10th Light Cavalry on 26 September 1826. He was promoted to Lieutenant in February 1829, and to Captain in November 1839. In January 1842 he accompanied the regiment in its march across the Punjab to Peshawar for service in Afghanistan, and he afterwards took part with it in the operations connected with the forcing of the Khyber Pass and the advance to Jellalabad, and in various movements on the Khyber line, as high up as Gandamak, during the campaign of 1842 under General Pollock (Medal). On the return of the Army from Afghanistan, he accompanied the regiment to Meerut, arriving there in February 1843. In the following November he again accompanied the corps on service, and was present with it throughout the Gwalior campaign of 1843-44, including the battle of Maharajpoor (Bronze Star). He returned with the regiment to Meerut in February 1844, and in the autumn of the same year he accompanied it to Nowgong. In January 1846 he was appointed Superintendent of the Remount Depôt at Muttra, and held this post until near the end of the following March, when he proceeded on leave to Agra. On the 30th May following he was reappointed Superintendent of the Remount Depôt, and having moved with it in October from Muttra to Karnal, he continued holding the appointment for more than four years. In May 1850 he proceeded on sick leave to Mussoorie, and at the end of July he was granted permission to proceed to Calcutta, preparatory to applying for leave to sea; but he did not live to reach that place. He died on board the river steamer Sir Frederick Currie, off Berhampore, on 9 October 1850. There is a monumental inscription to his memory in St Luke’s, Jullundur. Captain Hailes had married, at Mhow, on 10 October 1840, Catherine, the fourth daughter of Hugh Bowen, Esq., formerly Captain in the 41st Foot.
The outstanding Indian Mutiny V.C. group of six awarded to Private Patrick Donohoe, 9th Lancers, who at the Battle of Bolondshuhur on 28 September 1857, went to the aid of his severely wounded officer, Lieutenant Robert Blair V.C., bringing him out alive through a mass of enemy cavalry ‘under that rogue Nana’. Donohoe was among a select group, unique to his unit, to be present at all three great military episodes of the rebellion - the Siege of Delhi, the Relief of Lucknow and the final capture of that city. Indeed, the 9th Lancers - ‘the beau ideal of all that British Cavalry ought to be in Oriental countries’, or to the mutineers simply the ‘Delhi Spearmen’ - was rewarded with thirteen V.C.s during the mutiny - a record for a single Victorian Campaign, such was the degree of action witnessed. Following his heroics outside Delhi, Donohoe was himself wounded during the double V.C. action at the Musa Bagh, Lucknow on 19 March 1858 but recovered to undertake the passage home with the Regiment in 1859, by now among a mere handful of comrades to have survived the entirety of its 17 hard years in India - a feat reflected in his ‘grand slam’ of medals and clasps to the ’ninth’ for the period Victoria Cross, reverse of suspension bar engraved ‘Private P Donohoe 9th Lancers’, reverse of Cross engraved ‘28 Sep 1857’; Punniar Star 1843 (Private Patk. Donohoe H.M. 9th or Queen’s Royal Lancers) reverse hook replaced with contemporary silver ring and cast copy ‘V.C.’ suspension bar; Sutlej 1845-46, for Sobraon 1846, no clasp (Patrick Donohoe 9th Lancers); Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Chilianwala, Goojerat (P. Donohoe, 9th Lancers.); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 3 clasps, Delhi, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (Patk. Donohoe, 9th Lancers); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1170 Patk. Donohoe, V.C. 9th Lancers) the earlier medals with edge bruising and contact marks, therefore generally about nearly very fine (6) £140,000-£180,000 --- Provenance: Glendining’s 23 May 1919 [The property of J. Galwey Foley, Esq., J.P., Balintoher House, Nenagh, County Tipperary.] V.C. London Gazette 24 December 1858: ‘For having, at Bolundshahur, on the 28th of September 1857, gone to the support of Lieutenant Blair, who had been severely wounded, and, with a few other men, brought that officer in safety through a large body of the enemy’s cavalry. (Despatch from Major-General Sir James Hope Grant K.C.B., dated 8th April 1858). Patrick Donohoe was born at Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland in 1820 and attested for the 17th Lancers at Dublin on 12 June 1839, giving his trade as ‘coachmaker’. On 1 April 1842, he transferred to the 9th Lancers, then authorized for India where, ‘it was to see, in the short space of seventeen years, more and fiercer fighting, and with more honour and glory, than in the whole of its previous century and a quarter of chequered service.’ (The 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers 1715-1936 by Reynard refers). Disembarking at Calcutta in the late summer of 1842, the regiment was immediately put under orders to march up country to the notoriously undesirable station of Cawnpore; within a month of their arrival on the sub-continent, over eighty of the establishment of 746 all ranks had already died of cholera. In June 1843, of the remaining 597 other ranks in the regiment, half this number were in hospital and such was the severity of heat apoplexy that there were often eight bodies in the mortuary per day. The spell was broken however when war broke out at the end of 1843 against the Mahratta state of Gwalior. Donohoe saw his first action in this campaign, being present at the battle of Punniar on 29 December 1843, and would go on to participate in all the campaigns of the period in which his regiment was represented: in 1845-46, he served in the Sutlej Campaign and was present at Sobroan on 10 February 1846; in the Second Sikh War he was present at the passage of the Chenab at Ramnuggur, and at the battles of Chilianwala and Goojerat. Between the conclusion of the Punjab Wars and the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny, Hope Grant, perhaps the most celebrated and distinguished of all the famous officers who served in the 9th Lancers, rose to effective command, bringing the regiment through his own personal zeal and uprightness to a readiness which was admired by none other than Commander on Chief Napier and which would also soon be tried in the acid test of war. And so in the burning summer of 1857, as the disaffected soldiery of the Bengal Army first mutinied at Meerut, the four squadrons of the 9th Lancers were divided between the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the Delhi Field Force, which, having effected a junction with Brigadier Archdale Wilson’s Meerut Brigade, marched from Ambala toward Delhi under Yule and routed the mutineers at Badli-ki-Serai before immediately advancing to and seizing the Ridge on the 8th June. Of this action General Sir Hope Grant later noted: ‘The 9th Lancers behaved gallantly, charged into the midst of the enemy, captured a 9-pounder which the mutineers were endeavouring to withdraw, turned the gun upon a village where the enemy had taken refuge, and dislodged them from it.’ V.C. Action at Bolunshuhur After three months gruelling service on the Ridge culminating in the Fall of Delhi, the 9th Lancers, now reduced from 500 to 320 men, were detailed to join the Moveable Column under Colonel Edward Geathed which on the 23 September moved out from Delhi to scour the area between the Ganges and the Jumna for mutineers fleeing into Oudh. Early on the morning of the 28 September, the forward elements of the Column arrived at a crossroads, leading in one direction to Boolundshuhur, and in the other to Maolghur. At dawn, gunfire was exchanged between Greathed’s vedettes and rebel skirmishers, and it was soon confirmed that a strong body of the enemy intended to make a stand at Boolundshuhur. The full scale battle which now occurred here was in effect the last major resistance by the Delhi rebels and the 9th Lancers were to win no less than five Victoria Crosses. At the advance of the column, the enemy’s artillery opened fire and the rebel cavalry fell back. The 75th Regiment pushed forward, capturing two 9-pounder guns, and drove off the enemy holding a strong position in the gaol and a walled serai in front of the town. Greathed’s cavalry, comprising the 9th Lancers and Punjab Cavalry detachments under Lieutenants Probyn, Watson and Younghusband, captured a third gun, and then took up the pursuit through the narrow streets of Boolundshuhur. Regarding the 9th Lancers specifically, the Regimental History gives the following account of the Bolundshuhur action: ‘On the 28th, Lieutenant-Colonel Ouvry, riding well ahead of the main body with his cavalry, encountered a rebel brigade strongly entrenched in the village of Bulandshahr. The horse artillery opened fire on the hostile guns, but our infantry showed unusual timidity. "They could not be got,” says Anson, "to look round a corner or to advance in any way.” Ouvry therefore decided to rush the position with his cavalry alone, and, ”forming the 9th Lancers into threes,” he says in his journal, “I ordered them to charge through the main street. I went through with them myself. We passed through a shower of musketry from both sides of the houses. We met with no loss till we got to the other side of the city. There the enemy made a stand for the moment, but the head squadron charging, the rebels took to flight. We had no business to charge into the town, but I know that unless we did so they would have ...
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. group of ten awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel D. C. Wilson, Royal Horse Artillery, who was wounded on the Western Front, and was twice Mentioned in Despatches, the latter for his services in Iraq in 1921 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; 1914 Star (Capt. D. C. Wilson. R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major D. C. Wilson.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Maj. D. C. Wilson. R.A.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major D. C. Wilson.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, reverse dated 1914-1918, with bronze palm on riband, light contact marks to Great War awards, generally good very fine (10) £1,600-£2,000 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918. David Clitheroe Wilson was born on 8 May 1885 and was educated at Harrow. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery on 27 July 1905, he was promoted Lieutenant on 27 July 1908, and served in South Africa from 10 September 1909 to December 1911, and then in India from December 1911. He was promoted Captain on 30 October 1914, and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 November 1914. He was promoted Major on 23 November 1916, and was wounded during his second tour of duty, January 1917 to November 1918. For his services during the Great War he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 14 December 1917) and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. Post-War, Wilson saw further service, first on the North West Frontier of India, and then as a Brigade Major in Iraq and Mesopotamia, being Mentioned in Despatches in the latter campaign (London Gazette 9 September 1921). Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on 3 February 1934, his final posting was to the Hong Kong Station, for which he was awarded the Jubilee Medal in 1935, and he retired on 25 June 1937. He was recalled to service in 1939, and saw further service during the Second World War. He died on 15 January 1962. Sold with copied research. Note: French Croix de Guerre unconfirmed.
A Great War ‘Civil Division’ M.B.E. group of four awarded to Shipwright Lieutenant Commander J. G. Rogers, Royal Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1918; 1914-15 Star (Ch. Carp. J. G. Rogers. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Shpt. Lt. J. G. Rogers. R.N.) very fine (4) £140-£180 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918: ‘For services in connection with the War.’ James George Rogers was born on 18 February 1865 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Carpenter on 1 October 1899. He served during the Great War as Chief Carpenter, and was specially recommended for promotion for valuable services in structural repairs to damaged destroyers at Harwich, and was advanced Shipwright Lieutenant on 13 September 1918. He retired with the rank of Shipwright Lieutenant Commander on 13 September 1926, and died on 12 February 1950.
A Great War M.B.E. group of six awarded to Paymaster Sub Lieutenant D. W. Abbey, Royal Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; 1914-15 Star (Clk. D. W. Abbey, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Payr. S. Lt. D. W. Abbey. R.N.) mounted court-style in this order, the MBE heavily polished, nearly very fine and better (6) £140-£180 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 11 June 1919: ‘For valuable services as Secretary to Captain (D) of the 3rd and 21st Destroyer Flotillas.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 17 March 1919: ‘For services in destroyers of the Grand Fleet Flotillas between 1 July and 11 November 1918.’
A Great War 1919 ‘Balkan theatre’ M.B.E. group of three awarded to Lieutenant W. D. Pollock, Royal Engineers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. D. W. Pollock.) mounted as worn, minor official correction to BWM, very fine (3) £140-£180 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 12 December 1919: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in the Balkans, and with the Army of the Black Sea.’ Douglas Warren Pollock was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 16 June 1915, and served with them during the Great War in Egypt from February 1916. He was promoted Lieutenant on 29 July 1916, and for his services during the Great War was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
A post-War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Mr A. K. A. Lockie, Head of Plumberwork Section, Ship Drawing Office, late Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue; 1914-15 Star (C.1-2195. A. K. A. Lockie, A.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (C.1-2195 A. K. A. Lockie. A.B. R.N.V.R.) with named card boxes of issue for last three and remains of Registered packet, extremely fine (4) £140-£180 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1962: ‘Archibald King Anderson Lockie, Esq., Head of Plumberwork Section, Ship Drawing Office, Alexander Stephen and Sons, Ltd., Glasgow.’ Sold with various ship photographs and another of Lockie in naval uniform, and a copy of Linthouse News, house magazine of Alexander Stephen and Sons, which gives the following news upon the award of his M.B.E.: ‘We congratulate Mr Archibald Lockie, who has been with the firm for over half a century, on him being awarded the M.B.E. in the New Year Honours List. Mr Lockie started in the years before World War One as an office boy. He then served his time as a drawing office apprentice and is now in charge of the section of the Ship Drawing Office which deals with Piping Arrangements. In this modern era, this is one of the most important parts of a busy office. Mr Lockie is a fine example to his squad in encouraging them to produce neat and accurate work as speedily as possible. In the First World War, Mr Lockie went to sea as a Royal Naval Volunteer Reservist, and in the second he was active in the Yard Ambulance Corps.’
A Great War R.R.C. and Second Award Bar group of four awarded to Matron Gertrude M. Allen, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; 1914 Star (Sister G. M. Allen. Q.A.I.M.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (A. Matron G. M. Allen.) good very fine (4) £1,600-£2,000 --- Provenance: Tony Sabell Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2012. R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1917. R.R.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 3 June 1919. Miss Gertrude Mary Allen was born in Banff, Aberdeenshire, on 15 November 1873, the daughter of a clergyman, and trained at Guy’s Hospital, London. She was appointed a Staff Nurse in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service on 5 September 1904, and was promoted Sister on 21 June 1906. Prior to the outbreak of the Great War she was nursing in South Africa, and following the outbreak of War returned to Europe and served on the Western Front from 28 October 1914. Promoted Acting Matron on 6 January 1916, for her services during the Great War she was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 22 June 1915), and was awarded the Royal Red Cross First Class and a Second Award Bar. Miss Allen was promoted Matron on 17 January 1926, and retired on 15 November 1928, after over 24 years’ service. She died on 18 December 1945. Sold with a large file of copied research.
A Great War ‘Minesweeping operations’ D.S.C. group of six awarded to Lieutenant W. W. Storey, Royal Naval Reserve Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1917, the reverse attractively inscribed ‘1st Lieut. W. W. Storey, R.N.R., Invested Nov. 7th 1917, Buckingham Palace’, with its Garrard & Co, London case of issue; 1914-15 Star (S. Lt. W. W. Storey, R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lieut. W. W. Storey. R.N.R.); France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, 5th Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamels, damage to enamel on several arms; France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1917, with gold star, mounted for display, very fine and better (6) £1,400-£1,800 --- D.S.C. London Gazette 2 July 1917: ‘In recognition of services in Mine-sweeping operations between the 1st July, 1916, and the 31st March, 1917’. The Admiralty recommendation by Vice-Admiral, Dover states: ‘He is the very finest type of Trawler Mine Sweeping Officer I have met. Time after time he has been out in weather, sweeping across to France, in which it appeared no trawler could live.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1917, ‘in recognition of bravery and devotion to duty during minesweeping operations’, and 17 October 1919, ‘for services in the Mine Clearance Force between 1st January and 30th June, 1919’. The Admiralty recommendation by Rear-Admiral, Dover Patrol states: ‘He served as Second-in-Command of the “M” Sweeping Flotilla since the Flotilla was formed in December, 1918, and has been of the utmost assistance to the Senior Officer in every way. On 15 May at his special request he was allowed to take a drifter single-handed over the “M” Sinker area on the West Hinder Bank [off Zeebrugge], before sending a fully manned vessel across.’ Legion of Honour London Gazette 27 July 1919. Croix de Guerre London Gazette 17 October 1919 Wilfrid Walter Storey was born in New Brighton, Cheshire, in March 1892. He served as a Sub-Lieutenant (18 June 1915) and Lieutenant (18 June 1917), R.N.R., based at H.M.S. Attentive III (Dover), engaged in mine-sweeping duties with the Trawler Patrol, Dover Patrol, from July 1915. In the inter-war years he served with the Merchant Service on the Hall Line S.S. City of Baroda and was at one time based at Suez as a Pilot. He was recalled in the Second World War as Temporary Lieutenant, R.N.R., with seniority dated 30 August 1939, but details of his service are not known. He died on 14 August 1961, at Chard, Somerset, aged 69 years. See also Swept Channels, by Captain Taprell Dorling, in which Lieutenant Storey is mentioned (pp 318 & 357) as being the right-hand man of Commander Colin S. Inglis, D.S.O., R.N., who in December 1918 was commanding 16 drifters used for mine clearance off the Belgian coast; Lieutenant W. W. Storey, D.S.C., R.N.R., being said to have had great experience in minesweeping during the war round about Dover and Dunkirk. Sold with bestowal document for the Legion of Honour, dated 1 March 1919, for ‘Dragage du Hâvre’; two M.I.D. certificates, dated as above; Certificate of Competency as Extra Master for Foreign-going Steamships only, dated 23 February 1920; together with Admiralty letter dated 15 September 1924, confirming all gazetted awards, other papers, a small related photograph and tunic ribbon bar.
A fine Battle of France and Battle of Britain Fighter Ace’s 1940 D.F.C. and 1945 Second Award Bar, ‘Test Pilot’s’ A.F.C. group of eight awarded to Hurricane and Spitfire pilot, Wing Commander P. L. Parrott, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who nearly achieved ‘Ace’ in a day status during his first aerial combats, 10 May 1940. Aged just 19, Parrott went on to fly with 607 (County of Durham) Squadron during the Battle of France, and with 145 Squadron over the beaches of Dunkirk. He was shot up whilst in combat with a He. III over Dunkirk, 26 May 1940, managing to limp home across the Channel and crash land in a field on the south coast. Parrott went on to distinguish himself during the Battle of Britain whilst operating out of the Tangmere Sector, the high point of which being when he shot down 2 enemy aircraft, 8 August 1940, ‘our first view of the convoy near St. Catherine’s Point was of Ju 87’s in their bombing dives. Above the Ju. 87’s were the escorting Bf 109’s and farther to the south-east were two more large formations of enemy aircraft approaching the convoy - a formidable sight. I had already taken part in the Battle for France, and patrolled over Dunkirk during the evacuation, but I had never before seen so many aircraft in the sky at once.’ A remarkable year continued when Parrott’s photograph, taken during the Battle of France, was used for a recruiting poster - thus providing one of the iconic Royal Air Force images of the Second World War, and literally making him the poster boy of the R.A.F. This only being ‘topped’ by Parrott being shot down, whilst serving as a ‘Weaver’ with 605 (County of Warwick) Squadron, 1 December 1940: ‘Looking down, the ground seemed to be coming up remarkably quickly. I was swinging from side to side but had no time to try pulling the shrouds to stop the swing before I slammed into the ground, on about the third downward swing, falling on my right leg and shoulder. I felt half stunned.... I opened my eyes and found I was lying on the grass.... I was at this time not sure whether I was still in this world or had already passed on to the next. I did not really care much either way....’ Parrott flew Spitfires over Sicily and Italy, and commanded 43 and 72 (Basutoland) Squadrons. After the war he was employed as a test pilot, and flew early Vampire and Meteor jets, and in retirement he even managed to have brushes with Colonel Gaddafi and Idi Amin Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1940’, and additionally engraved ‘F/O. P. L. Parrott. September’; with Second Award Bar, reverse officially dated ‘1945’; Air Force Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1952’; 1939-45 Star, 1 clasp, Battle of Britain; Air Crew Europe Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (Wg. Cdr. P. L. Parrott. R.A.F.); Mauritania, Order of Merit, Officer’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in A. Bertrand, Paris case of issue, British awards mounted as originally worn, light contact marks overall, therefore generally nearly very fine or better (lot) £80,000-£120,000 --- D.F.C. London Gazette 22 October 1940: ‘This officer has been continuously engaged in operational flights against the enemy since January, 1940. He has displayed great determination and keenness and has destroyed or severely damaged at least six hostile aircraft.’ D.F.C. Second Award Bar London Gazette 20 March 1945: ‘Squadron Leader Parrott is now engaged on his second tour in the Mediterranean Area. He has also completed a previous tour from England. Since the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross he has completed numerous sorties and has destroyed at least one enemy aircraft. He has led his squadron with skill and determination. During the landing at Anzio, his squadron engaged and drove off a large number of enemy fighter-bomber attacks, contributing materially to the successes achieved by his squadron. In all Squadron Leader Parrott has destroyed at least 6 enemy aircraft.’ A.F.C. London Gazette 1 January 1952. Peter Lawrence Parrott was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in June 1920, and educated at Lord Williams’s Grammar School. After school, ‘I was an office boy in the Bucks County Council offices at the County Hall in Aylesbury. Although officially graded as a ‘junior clerk’ I was still an office boy, and I did not enjoy the work: licking stamps, filling inkwells, addressing envelopes and changing the blotting paper every Monday morning before the senior staff arrived. My elder brother, Tim [see following lot], had already taken a pilot’s short service commission in the Royal Air Force. His life was full of interest, travel, learning new skills and seeing new things. He was also being paid significantly more than my salary of £50 per annum. After eighteen months of the Buckinghamshire County Council at the age of 17 1/2, I was old enough to apply to the Air Ministry for a four-year short service commission and, after exercising considerable persuasiveness on my mother to obtain her consent, I sent in the application.’ (The Pilot In The Poster Peter Parrott, by R. Parrott refers) A Life Less Ordinary - 607 (County of Durham) Squadron and the ‘Weekend Fliers’ Parrott made it through the selection process, and armed with a short service commission carried out his initial flying training at No. 1 E&R F.T.S., Hatfield from June 1938. He was posted to No. 11 F.T.S, Shawbury in September 1938, and after completing his training went to No. 1 Armament Training School at Catfoss, 30 March 1939, towing targets. Parrott was posted as a staff pilot to No. 1 Air Armament School Manby in September 1939. He was then posted to No. 11 Group Fighter Pool at St. Athan on 28 December, converted to Hurricanes and then: ‘With a total of 300 hours flying I was the most experienced pilot of my course and, presumably for this reason, I was selected [January 1940] to fill the one posting for a squadron in France which was part of 11 Group Fighter Pool. I was the envy of my fellow students. Having flown a number of hours in the Henley I would have no problem flying Hurricanes..... We set off at dusk in the pouring rain and reached France in the late evening. Rather surprisingly we were allowed ashore but had to return to the ship by midnight. This must also have been a surprise to the ship’s company as there was no provision for dinner or supper that evening or for breakfast the following morning. However, this was no great loss as I joined forces with a few other people and we made the rounds of the Cherbourg bars that evening and were soon past caring whether we had supper or not. The next morning for related reasons we were not interested in breakfast! I reported to the Railway Transport Officer and told him that I was to report to the No. 607 (County of Durham) Squadron, please where was it and how did I get there. I was pleasantly surprised to find that he had my name on a list and I was told that the squadron was at Vitry-en-Artois. For all that it meant to me it might have been in Timbuktu.... In late afternoon I arrived at Vitry-en-Artois. There was thick snow on the ground and two feeble oil lamps lighted the station. Apart from an elderly stationmaster the place seemed to be deserted. In broken French I enquired the whereabouts of “le RAF” and was directed to a small hotel facing on to the station yard. This had been requisitioned for the Officers’ Mess for the wing head quarters and the two squadrons, No. 607 (County of Durham) Squadron and No...
A Great War A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Sister L. E. Allee, Territorial Force Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, with lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals (Sister L. E. Allee.) good very fine (3) £1,400-£1,800 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916: ‘For valuable services in connection with the War.’ Laura Evelyn Allée served as a Sister with the Territorial Force Nursing Service during the Great War, and was awarded the A.R.R.C. for services at home, before proceeding to the Western Front on 15 March 1917.
A scarce Great War A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Nursing Sister Miss Henrietta Baumann, South African Medical Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; 1914-15 Star (S/Nurse. H. Baumann. S.A.M.N.S.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (N/Sister H. Baumann.); together with an unofficial Great War Peace Medal, bronze, very fine, scarce to unit (5) £500-£700 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918: ‘In recognition of valuable services with the Armies in the Field.’ One of only 8 A.R.R.C.s awarded to the South African Medical Nursing Service during the Great War. Sold with copied research.
A rare Boer War D.C.M. and Great War ‘Mesopotamia, attack on Dujailah Redoubt March 1916’ Second Award Bar group of eight awarded to Captain W. G. Hudson, 1/6th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R., with Second Award Bar (2208 Serjt: W. G. Hudson. 1st Devon: Regt.); India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (2208 Sergt. W. G. Hudson. 1st Bn. Devon: Regt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Belfast (2208 Sgt. W. G. Hudson, Devon: Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2208 Clr-Serjt: W. G. Hudson. Devon: Regt.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. W. G. Hudson.); Coronation 1911 (2208 Sergt. Mjr. W. G. Hudson 6th Bn. Devon Regt.) privately engraved naming; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2208 C. Sjt: W. G. Hudson. Devon Regt.) medals unmounted, contact marks and minor edge nicks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (8) £7,000-£9,000 --- Provenance: Spink, July 2010. D.C.M. London Gazette 27 September 1901. D.C.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 20 October 1916: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and resource in getting up ammunition and supplies under heavy fire during an action.’ Annotated Gazette states ‘Es Sinn 8.3.16’. M.I.D. London Gazette 10 September 1901; 10 October 1916; 27 August 1918; and 5 June 1919. William George Hudson, was born at Karachi, India (now Pakistan) on 31 May 1870, enlisted into the Devonshire Regiment in November 1888 and served with the Regiment in Egypt until the end of 1892, being promoted to Corporal in December of that year. He arrived in India in January 1893, was promoted to Sergeant in September 1895, and served with the North West Frontier Force in Tirah, July 1897. He served with the Regiment in South Africa from September 1899 to January 1902, and was present at the Defence of Ladysmith, operations in Natal, including the action at Elandslaagte, 21 October 1899, and operations in the Transvaal, including the action at Belfast, 26-27 August 1900 (awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and Mentioned in Despatches). He was posted to the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, in April 1904, and received his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in November 1906. Hudson served with the 6th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment during the Great War in the Mesopotamia Theatre from 5 January 1916 to 11 November 1918, being thrice Mentioned in Despatches and awarded a Bar to his Distinguished Conduct Medal, for the period in which the Battalion was part of the 36th Brigade involved in the unsuccessful attack on the Dujaila redoubt, 8-9 March 1916, as part of the efforts to break the siege of Kut, in which the Brigade suffered 24 per cent casualties. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant, 13 June 1916; appointed Adjutant, 24 August 1916; returned with the unit to India, 3 April 1919, demobilized back in England, 5 November 1919; Captain, 6th Devonshire Regiment Territorial Army Reserve, 26 June 1920; appointed Officer-Commanding Barnstaple Depot, 1920; retired in May 1927, after 38 years’ service. He combined these duties with a post as Physical Education Instructor at Barnstaple Boys’ Grammar School before finally severing his links with the Regiment to become a publican. In the 1930s he was ‘mine host’ at the “Golden Fleece” in Gloucester. Captain Hudson died in Gloucester in 1937. To be sold with the following original related items and documents: 3 Territorial Army Rifle Association prize medals, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1924), reverse engraved ‘Lord Lieutenant’s Challenge Shield 1925 Captain Hudson’; bronze (2), reverses engraved ‘High Sheriff’s Challenge Shield 1925 Captain Hudson’ and ‘Lord Lieutenant’s Challenge Shield 1926/2nd/ 6th Bn Devonshire Regt.’; original commission appointing William George Hudson as 2nd Lieutenant, Territorial Force, dated 13 June 1916; certificate appointing the recipient Quarter Master, Territorial Force, dated 29 June 1920; three Mentioned in Despatches Certificates, dated 24 August 1916 (Lt-Gen. Sir Percy Lake), 15 April 1918 (Lt-Gen. W. R. Marshall), and 7 February 1919 (Lt-Gen. Sir W. R. Marshall); and a fair copy of the recipient’s record of service, together with other copied research.
Pair: Private J. Beattie, Royal Highlanders Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (1006 Pte. J. Beattie, 1/Rl. Highrs.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1884-6, unnamed as issued, with contemporary silver mounting bar, pin detached, polished, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £100-£140
A Great War ‘Ypres 1915’ D.C.M. awarded to Private W. J. Park, 2nd Battalion, Royal Lancaster Regiment, who later served with the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada and died in service in July 1944 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (10584 Pte. W. J. Park. 2/R. Lanc. Regt.) together with Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal, Canadian issue in silver; and Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R. (K.52772 Pte. W. J. Park) this in case of issue with Ministry of National Defence enclosure named to Mrs E. G. Park, February 1945, the first with edge bruising and polished, good fine, otherwise very fine or better (5) £500-£700 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 1 April 1915: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty near Ypres, on 17th February 1915 when he conveyed a message to the fire trenches, although wounded in the thigh on the way, and then joined in the attack on the German trenches. After the attack he conveyed another message to his Headquarters, and was then taken into the hospital.’ William James Park, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, died on 2 July 1944, and is buried in Limpsfield (St Peter) Churchyard, Surrey. He was the husband of Eleanor Gladys Park, of Limpsfield.
A Second War M.M. group of seven awarded to Staff Sergeant T. Sharp, Canadian Army Medical Corps Military Medal, G.VI.R. (460418 S/Sgt. T. Sharp. 61st Bn.) engraved naming; British War and Victory Medals (460418 S/Sgt. T. Sharp C.A.M.C.); 1939-45 Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, these last four unnamed as issued, light contact marks, otherwise very fine or better (7) £160-£200 --- No record of an M.M. award to this man has been traced, and consequently this lot is therefore sold as found.
An impressive R.V.M. group of twelve awarded to Mr. Gethyn Jones, Stove and Flue Attendant at Buckingham Palace, late Private, Gloucestershire Regiment Royal Victorian Medal, E.II.R., silver, privately engraved ‘Gethyn Jones’, with small correction to surname; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, the Defence and War Medals both privately engraved ‘2061265 Pte. G. Jones 1/Glos.’; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Royal Household Faithful Service Medal, E.II.R., the suspension bar officially dated ‘1937-1957’ and with ‘Thirty Years’ Bar (Gethyn Jones); Luxembourg, Grand Duchy, Medal of the Civil and Military Order of Adolph of Nassau, bronze; Malaysia, Federation, Medal of the Order of the Defender of the Realm, silver; Greece, Kingdom, Medal of the Order of George I, bronze; Persia, Empire, Medal of the Order of the Lion and Sun, silver, mounted court-style as worn, generally good very fine (12) £1,000-£1,400 --- R.V.M. London Gazette 1 January 1968. Gethyn Jones was born at Hafod, Glamorgan in 1907 and entered Royal Service at Buckingham Palace in 1937. Apart from wartime service in the Gloucestershire Regiment (1942-45), including Burma, he remained employed as a Stove and Flue Attendant at the Palace for the remainder of his career.
A Second War B.E.M. group of four awarded to Flight Sergeant J. C. Arrowsmith, 426 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (R.84654 Flt. Sjt. Joseph C. Arrowsmith R.C.A.F.); Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, these last three unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, very fine (4) £200-£240 --- B.E.M. London Gazette 13 June 1946. The recommendation states: ‘Flight Sergeant Arrowsmith enlisted 1st January 1941 and proceeded overseas in October 1942. He was store keeper at No. 426 Squadron, where his excellent work as an equipment Assistant obtained for him a Senior non-commissioned Officer position in the Royal Canadian Air Force Auxiliary Services Warehouse. He has been largely responsible for the excellent system of recording undeliverable parcels and disposing of their contents to Royal Canadian Air Force units throughout the United Kingdom and further afield. In January 1944 he became the Senior non-commissioned officer in charge of the Warehouse where his handling of the staff and maintenance of records has been noteworthy.’ Joseph Camp Arrowsmith was born at St John, New Brunswick, on 21 April 1908. He enlisted on 1 January 1941, and was appointed to No. 1 Equipment Depot, 14 February 1941; to School of Technical Training, 1 March 1941; to No. 119 (B.R.) Squadron, 24 April 1941; to Halifax, 23 June 1941; to No. 6 C.A.G., 15 January 1942; repatriated 6 October 1946, and released on 20 November 1946. British Empire Medal presented on 20 April 1948. Sold with copied research.
The M.B.E. awarded to F. Beer, Esq., Assistant Engineer Inspector, Admiralty The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue, in outer card box and OHMS transmission envelope addressed to ‘Frank Beer, Esq., M.B.E., Lyndale, Lyncombe Vale, Bath, Somerset’, extremely fine £100-£140 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 8 June 1950. Frank Beer was awarded the M.B.E. whilst employed as an Assistant Engineer Inspector in the Engineer-in-Chief’s Department of the Admiralty. He retired in 1953. Sold with named Bestowal Document for the award, in envelope; named Buckingham Palace, Central Chancery, and 10 Downing Street letters regarding the award; a copy of the London Gazette detailing the award; and a portrait photograph of the recipient.
The M.B.E. awarded to H. J. Ludditt, Esq., Head of Security Guard, H.M. Treasury The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Garrard, London, case of issue, extremely fine £100-£140 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 10 June 1977: ‘Headley John Ludditt, Head of Security Guard, H.M. Treasury.’ Sold together with a 1970 copy of the Statutes of the Order; named Central Chancery letter; a book of signatures compiled on the occasion of the recipient’s retirement; and various letters and cards of congratulations on the award.
The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer‘s (Brother’s), breast badge in frosted silver (1926-36), in case of issue; Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, with additional service bar (2704. N. C. Cox. Alberta Dist. S.J.A.B.O. 1939.) in case of issue with cloth shoulder title and two ribbon bars, extremely fine (2) £80-£100
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