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Lot 756
Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Books pertaining to Wing Commander J. G. Calvert, D.F.C., 640 Squadron, Royal Air Force, a Halifax pilot who completed a tour of 33 night time and daylight sorties against some of the most heavily defended enemy targets in the Ruhr valley; post-War, he subsequently flew another 163 sorties during the Berlin Airlift 1948-49 Five Log Books, the first a Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot’s Log Book covering the period 5 September 1942 to 7 June 1948, well-annotated with details of all operational sorties undertaken; the second to fifth the recipient’s post-War Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book covering the periods August 1948 to June 1951; July 1951 to September 1953; September 1953 to December 1958; and May 1959 to March 1965, some pages slightly loose, and the spines damaged and reinforced with sellotape throughout, otherwise good condition (5) £400-£500 --- D.F.C. London Gazette 22 May 1945. The original Recommendation states: ‘On the night of the 2nd February 1945, this Captain was detailed to attack Dusseldorf and during the bombing run his aircraft was attacked by a J.U. 88. In spite of this Flying Officer Calvert was determined to hold the same course, in order to allow the Bomb Aimer to release his bombs on the objective. The decision on the part of the pilot to disregard the danger of fighter attack called for the highest degree of fortitude and determination to successfully conclude his mission. Once again, on the night of the 17th December 1944, the target being Duisburg, this Captain's aircraft was attacked by an enemy night fighter a few miles from the target, and a running fight followed, with the result that the enemy aircraft was claimed as destroyed. Although considerable height was lost during the combat, Flying Officer Calvert settled down to a bombing run and it was not until his bombs had found their objective that the pilot set course for base. The above are but two of the instances where this officer has shown the utmost disregard for his personal safety, placing the satisfactory completion of his mission before all other considerations. He has also led his Squadron on daylight attacks to the most heavily defended Ruhr cities, displaying leadership and courage of the highest order. I therefore have no hesitation in recommending this officer for the non-Immediate award of the Distinguished Flying Cross. Remarks by Station Commander: During his operational tour this Officer has carried out a number of varied and difficult sorties which have included a series of attacks, both by day and by night, on Ruhr targets, and others of equal importance throughout Germany which were vital to the enemy's war effort and where the opposition was powerful. During this time Flying Officer Calvert has displayed consistent flying skill and efficiency of a high order, and his courage and dash have always served as a valuable example to other crews. His fine offensive spirit and operational record fully merit the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross.’ James Gordon Calvert was born in August 1923, and commenced his training at No. 32 E.F.T.S. in Alberta, Canada in September 1942. Returning to the U.K. in October 1943, and having attended further courses, he was posted to No. 640 Squadron, a Halifax unit operating out of Leconfield, Yorkshire, in early October 1944, in which month he completed six sorties, including two strikes against the Krupps works at Essen, a raid on Cologne, and two trips to Holland against enemy gun positions in support of the 1st Canadian Army. Calvert flew another half dozen operations in November, all against German targets, the first to Dusseldorf on the night of the 7th-8th, when his Halifax was coned by searchlights amidst heavy flak - and attacked by a Ju. 88. Bochum having been attacked on the 8th-9th (’Intense flak. Two searchlights’), and Gelsenkirchen on the 9th-10th (’Heavy flak. Saw several a/c go down’), he flew on strikes against Julich, Munster and Sterkrade. In December, after a sortie to Solst, Calvert and his crew were ordered to attack Osnabruck on the night of the 6th-7th, his Flying Log Book once more noting heavy flak - and a feathered port outer engine. Duisburg ten days later proved even more challenging, his Halifax being attacked on four occasions by an enemy night fighter ... ‘Destroyed same. Lost 6,000 feet.’ And a sharp reminder of ever present threat of enemy night fighters came again on the night of 5-6 January 1945, during a raid on Hannover, Calvert noting ‘Bags of N. Fighters. 32 lost on this night’s sortie.’ Luckily his trips to Dortmund, Ludwigshaven and Stuttgart in the same month appear to have been of a smoother nature. February 1945 witnessed Calvert flying several more sorties, including strikes against Mainz, Goch and Wanne Eickel, but it was an attack against Worms on the night of 21st-22nd that proved the highlight, his Flying Log Book noting, ‘Intense searchlight activity. Moderate flak. Saw seven a/c shot down by fighters.’ While in March, the final month of his operational tour, he appears to have enjoyed smoother trips against Hemmingstedt, Homburg and Witten. Tour expired, he was awarded the D.F.C. and posted to Transport Command. Post-war, Calvert joined No. 47 Squadron, a Hastings unit based at Dishforth, in which capacity he flew a remarkable tally of 163 sorties during the Berlin Airlift, between November 1948 and August 1949. He then instructed on Meteors with Flying Training Command, in addition to similar duties on secondment to the Luftwaffe in the early 1960s. Having then been advanced to Wing Commander, and attended the N.A.T.O. Defence College in Rome, he was posted to N.A.T.O’s Southern Europe H.Q. in Naples, from which latter establishment he returned to the UK in 1975; shortly after which, as a result of ill-health, he was placed on the Retired List. Sold with details of the recipient’s operational sorties, taken from the Squadron Operations Book; copied birth and death certificates; various newspaper cuttings; and other ephemera, including a NATO Defense College bronze medallion embossed ‘Wing Commander J. G. Calvert’.
Lot 33
‘Her spirit of fun, which helps Tommy more than anything, was unfailing, however tired she was herself. Men have told me that no one could help feeling happy when Sister Arnold was there . . . To those capable of appreciating her, her unselfishness, her uncomplaining fearless nature, Peggy Arnold will ever remain a blessed memory’. A tribute to Peggy Arnold, published in The Times, 31 March 1916 The rare lady’s Memorial Plaque to Miss Margaret T. Arnold, Voluntary Aid Detachment, who served as a Nurse at No. 16 General Hospital at Le Tréport, and died of double pneumonia on 12 March 1916 Memorial Plaque, ‘She Died for Freedom and Honour’ (Margaret T. Arnold) in card envelope, polished, very fine £3,000-£4,000 --- Margaret ‘Peggy’ Trevenen Arnold was born in 1884, the eldest of four daughters of Edward Arnold, and the great-granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby. In her twenties she became involved with the Passmore Edwards Settlement in Bloomsbury, London; her cousin Mary Ward was the driving force of the settlement, which provided educational, social and health services to the disadvantaged of the area. Over the next ten years, Miss Arnold’s voluntary work at the settlement included running the children’s library, being a manager of the school, and making home visits to families. The 1911 census lists her occupation as a ‘social worker for the London County Council Care Committee’. In 1913 Miss Arnold moved with her family to Chiddingfold, Surrey, and following the outbreak of the Great War she joined the Chiddingfold Emergency Committee, as well as the Surrey branch of the British Red Cross, attending lectures and practical classes. After training as a nurse at Hilders House, Shottermill, Haslemere, a newly-established Red Cross War hospital, she enrolled in the Voluntary Aid Detachment, and served as a Nurse with the 16th General Hospital at Le Tréport, France, from 5 June 1915. The hospital, atop 300-foot cliffs, was ‘entirely under canvas’, although wooden huts were later provided for the nurses’ living quarters. Miss Arnold’s nine months at Le Tréport are vividly chronicled in her diary (which is held by her family), with day-to-day accounts of hospital life with all its panics and lulls, tragedies and camaraderie. The frontline trenches were about 60 miles away in the valley of the Somme, and hospital life was governed by the ebb and flow of war - plus the vagaries of the weather. In October 1915 she wrote that there were days when the ‘fighting [must have] been fearful and we have had convoy after convoy in, and they have been cleared off the next morning to make room for others’. On the ward there were ‘groans, and moans, and shouts, and half-dazed mutterings, and men with trephined heads suddenly sitting bolt upright ... nearly every sheet showing signs of the wound, and face wounds showing pus at the side of their dressing. It was awful, and I really know now what war means’. But there was also the delight of time off with a chance to go shopping in Le Tréport, have a proper bath in an hotel, or to drive into the surrounding countryside. ‘Oh, why is there a war to spoil things!’ (Exploring Surrey’s Past refers). In February 1916, Miss Arnold started nursing in an isolation unit for patients with ‘blue pus’, caused by bacterial infection of wounds or injuries. Possibly as a result of this work she developed double pneumonia and died on 12 March 1916. She is buried in Le Tréport Military Cemetery, France, and is also commemorated on the Chiddingfold War Memorial. A tribute to her appeared in The Times of 31 March, written by someone ‘who witnessed her work and the enormous help and sympathy she gave to our sick and wounded men’. It concludes: ‘Her spirit of fun, which helps Tommy more than anything, was unfailing, however tired she was herself. Men have told me that no one could help feeling happy when Sister Arnold was there... To those capable of appreciating her, her unselfishness, her uncomplaining fearless nature, Peggy Arnold will ever remain a blessed memory’.
Lot 206
SNUFF BOX, SPIRIT FLASK, WALLET & POCKET WATCH, the 19th C. burrwood snuffbox with tortoiseshell lining 9.5cms (w), spirit flask with plated mounts, 13.5cms (h), wallet with silver corners hallmarked for 1902, 13.5cms (h), keywind silver watch with hallmarks for 1867, lever movement signed 'Geo Stromich, Glasgow', 10958, 5cms (diam) (4)Provenance: private collection CardiffComment: lid of snuff loose and old nibbles, wallet leather exterior worn and dinted silver corners, flask generally good, watch not running, dial cracked, seconds hand broken, glass replaced with perspex.
Lot 169
Chinese Qing Dynasty embroidered silk panel decorated with birds amongst flowers, framed, two 19th century copper and brass embossed shot flasks, a brass bell with turned wooden handle, a Dunhill leather cased set of frosted glass spirit flasks and chromed beakers and other items Condition Report The flasks do not show any obvious damage - we have not looked at under UV light, but they appear to be good. The cork stoppers are clean.I have attached images of the carry case which has suffered over the years
Lot 112
Victorian square-section cut glass spirit decanter and faceted stopper, the decanter engraved with numeral 3 above a large four-petalled flowerhead and hobnail pattern, engraved registration numeral to base, 24.5cm high, two 20th century decanters similar and two cut glass engraved bowls, in sizes, the smaller engraved with fuchsia (5)
Lot 501
A collection of 20th Century British and foreign postage stamps to include Royal Mail Mint stamps presentation packs face value approximately £130 to include Rudyard Kipling's Just so Stories, Spirit and Faith, Bridges of London, Jane Austen and Double-Decker Buses amongst other examples. Also to include franked British and foreign hinged stamps within five albums to include France, Germany, British territories, Italy Hungary, China and many more examples.
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Lot 44
Robert Harrop - Doggie People - A set of four Robert Harrop resin figures from the Doggie people range consisting of Black & White Shih TZU Chinese Emperor (DP227B; 1 of 100), Bulldog Footballer 'Spirit of 66' (DP247; 1 of 100), Black & White Chihuahua Mexican Mariachi (DP226B; 1 of 100) and Balldog Footballer 'Three Lions'(DP247S). All figures appear to be in excellent to near mint condition and in near mint but opened boxes. (This does not constitute a guarantee) RG [ba-4]
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