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Three: Chief Petty Officer E. T. Figg, Royal Navy U.N. Korea; Royal Navy Meritorious Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (F.C.P.O. (OPS.) (M.) D181187T R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (JX. 857225 P.O., H.M.S. Sirius), minor contact marks and edge nicks, very fine and better, rare (3) £700-900
£700–£900
An early Great War M.C. and Beaumetz 1918 operations Bar group of four awarded to Major F. T. Hill, Royal Army Medical Corps Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, the reverse privately inscribed, ‘Lieut. F. T. Hill, R.A.M.C., July 9th 1915’; 1914 Star, with clasp (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major), mounted as worn, generally good very fine (4) £1800-2200
£1,800–£2,200
A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Private H. Freeman, 14th Worcestershire Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (29769 Pte. H. Freeman, 14/Worc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (29769 Pte., Worc. R.) small edge bruise to the first, otherwise extremely fine (3) £300-350
£300–£350
Seven: Colour-Sergeant E. Pearce, Royal Sussex Regiment Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (2080 Pte., 1 R. Suss. R.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1888 (..rgt., 2d Bn. R. Suss. R.); India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (.... Colr. Sergt., 2d Bn. Ryl. S... Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue (... C. Sgt., R. Suss. R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 3rd issue, coinage...
£1,600–£1,800
Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Livingstone Gold Medal, by Macgillivray, obv. bust of Livingstone right, ‘David Livingstone’; rev. Angel supporting a torch and olive branch above a three masted vessel moored at an African shore, above, ‘Fiat Lux’ (Let there be Light) (Field Marshal The Right Hon. Viscount Allenby in Recognition of his Services to the Study of Geography in the Nearer East 1926), gold, 63mm., 193.44g., in J. A. Restall, Birmingham case of issue, extremely fine ...
£2,000–£3,000
China 1900, no clasp (Sr. Nursing Sister A. M. Waterhouse), naming officially engraved in running script but with corrections, contact marks, otherwise very fine and extremely rare £1000-1200
£1,000–£1,200
Maharajpoor Star 1843 (Private John Sibley, H.M. 16th Lancers), original hook fitting, good very fine £360-400
£360–£400
Four: Captain C. E. Turner, Royal Air Force, late 11th Worcestershire Regiment 1914-15 Star (Lieut. C. E. Turner, Worc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C. E. Turner, R.A.F.); French Croix de Guerre 1914 1916, with bronze palm, mounted as worn, together with another Great War pair, believed to be related in some manner (282949 3.A.M. W. J. Driver, R.A.F.) nearly extremely fine (6) £200-250
£200–£250
Pair: Private E. W. Fry, Worcestershire Regiment, later Mayor of Gloucester British War and Victory Medals (30544 Pte. E. W. Fry, Worc. R.) mounted as worn, together with Royal Masonic Hospital Jewel, silver, hallmarked London 1950, the reverse inscribed ‘Bro. E. W. Fry, 493’, in its card box of issue, good very fine (3) £60-70
£60–£70
A Second World War ‘N.W. Europe’ M.C. group of six awarded to Captain L. S. Cooper, Royal Army Medical Corps Military Cross, G.VI.R. reverse officially dated ‘1946’; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Capt., M.C., R.A.M.C.) minor edge bruising, good very fine and better (6) £1400-1600
£1,400–£1,600
An original commission warrant appertaining to Wing Commander A. H. Turner, A.F.C., Royal Air Force, late Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, for the rank of Flying Officer, dated 3 February 1948, framed and glazed £20-30
Hammer Price: £15
Churchill, W.S., My Early Life, London, 1947, and others similar (3); Churchill, W.S., The Second World War, 6 vols, 1st edn, London 1948-54, djs; Churchill, W.S., A History of English Speaking Peoples, 4 vols, London, 1956-8; Cosgrave, P., Churchill at War, London, 1974, dj; Gilbert, M., Finest Hour, Winston S. Churchill 1939-1941, London, 1983, dj., generally fine; some with the signature of E.R. Lax (16) £30-50
Chatterton, E.K., The Story of the British Navy, London, 1911; McMurtrie, F.E. (ed), Jane’s Fighting Ships 1946-47, London, 1947; other naval-related books (9), by Tute, Masefield, Dimbleby, etc., generally fine, but first with cancelled library stamps (11) £30-40
Hammer Price: £20
Churchill, Randolph S., Winston S. Churchill, 2 volumes: Youth, 1874-1900; Young Statesman, 1901-1914; Churchill, Randolph S., Winston S. Churchill, 5 volumes: Companion Volume I, Part 1 1874-1896; Part 2 1896-1900; Companion Volume II, Part 1 1901-1907; Part 2 1907-1911; Part 3 1911-1914; Churchill, Randolph S., Into Battle, wartime speeches; Churchill, Winston. S., Frontiers and Wars, signed by Clementine S. Churchill; other Churchill related books and booklets (25), generally good...
Hamilton, N., Monty, 3 volumes: The Making of a General 1887-1942; Master of the Battlefield 1942-1944; The Field Marshal 1944-1976, all with d.j.; Montgomery, Field Marshal Viscount, El Alamein to the River Sangro; Normandy to the Baltic; Montgomery, Field Marshal Viscount, A History of Warfare; Joslen, Lieut-Col. H. F., Orders of Battle, Second World War 1939-1945; Hart, Sir Basil L., History of the Second World War, 1980; other W.W.2 related books (8), good condition (15) £30-40
Jacob, J. R., Court Jewelers of the World; Chaffers, W. & Markham, C. A., Hall-Marks on Gold and Silver Plate, London, 1922, 395pp.; Balmer, Major J. L., British and Irish Regimental & Volunteer Medals 1745-1895, Vol. 1, Regular Army; Magor, R. B., African General Service Medals, 1993; Abbott, P. E. & Tamplin, J. M. A., British Gallantry Awards, 1971 edition; Clarke, J. D., Gallantry Medals & Awards of the World; Hibbard, M. G., The Single Bar Q.S.A. - bound typescript; Scott, B. K. C.,...
Johns, Major & Nicolas, Lieut. P. H., The Naval and Military Heroes of Great Britain, London, 1880; Pope, D., The Great Gamble, Nelson at Copenhagen; Keown-Boyd-H., A Good Dusting, The Sudan Campaigns 1883-1899; Ziegler, P., Omdurman; Pakenham, T., The Boer War; Pemberton, W. B., Battles of the Boer War; Wren, J., Great Battles of World War 1; Perkins, R., Operation Paraquat, The Battle for South Georgia; Hastings, Max, Warriors, other books and booklets, mostly military related (17),...
Payne, A. A., A Handbook of British and Foreign Orders, War Medals and Decorations ..., Sheffield, 1911, lxix, 810pp., rebound; Irwin, D. Hastings, War Medals and Decorations ... 1588 to 1910, London, 1910, 536pp.; Johnson, J. C., The Medal Collector; Johnson, S. C., The Medals of Our Fighting Men; Glendining, D. (editor), The Military and Naval Medal Magazine, Vol. II, hardbound; Norman, C. B., Battle Honours of the British Army, London 1911; Harcourt, Col. G. J., Soldiers of the King,...
Younghusband, Col. G. J., The Story of the Guides, Londom, 1909; The Royal Military Calendar or Army Service and Commission Book, 5 volumes, modern reprint; Rudolf, R. de M., Short Histories of the Territorial Regiments of the British Army, cover repaired; [Who’s Who], The Old Public School-Boys: Eton, London 1933, good condition (8) £40-60
[H.M.S.O.], The Air Force List (5), April 1918, facsimile; April 1949, tatty; Spring 1970; Spring 1974; 1983; The Royal Air Force Retired List 1992; Naval and Air Force Honours and Awards, published by J. B. Hayward and Son; Matthews, R. B., The Aviation Pocket-Book for 1917; [H.M.S.O.], Royal Air Force Pocket Book, 1928; Tonbridge School and the Great War of 1914 to 1919, a record of the services of Tonbridgians in the Great War, poor and better (10) £20-30
Johannesburg Peace Medal 1919, bronze; South Africa Next of Kin Brooch 1939-45, bronze, reverse numbered, ‘3084’; South Africa ‘On Service’ Lapel Badge 1939-45, silver base metal, reverse numbered, ‘24 430’; South Africa ‘For Loyal Service’ (Discharge) Lapel Badge, silver base metal, reverse numbered, ‘43 959’; South African Women’s Auxiliary Service Lapel Badge, bronze, reverse numbered, ‘1 189’; very fine and better (5) £30-40
Hammer Price: £25
Edward Prince of Wales Visit to Bombay 1921, oval bronze medal, obv. head of Edward Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII), surmounted by Prince of Wales’ feathers; rev. inscribed, ‘Visit of His Royal Highness, Bombay, November 1921’, ref. Puddester 921.3, very fine £30-50
A quantity of original career photographs and other memorabilia appertaining to Air Vice-Marshal J. B. Russell, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., Royal Air Force, comprising approximately 60 photographs, mainly of the post-war era and including images taken at a “Royal Visit”, but also one or two earlier wartime portraits; together with his original commission warrant for the rank of Acting Pilot Officer, dated 24 May 1935, this last creased but generally in good conditon (Lot) £40-60
A presentation wall plaque of the Central Treaty Organization (Combined Military Planning Staff) appertaining to Group Captain J. A. Hemingway, D.F.C., Royal Air Force, comprising a wooden shield bearing the organization’s crest, with lower wooden plaque and gilt plate, attached by two chains, bearing the inscription, ‘Presented to Group Captain John Allman Hemingway, R.A.F., by the Chief of Staff and Officers of the Combined Military Planning Staff, CENTO, upon Completion of his Tour of...
[H.M.S.O.], The Air Force List (10), April 1918, facsimile; January 1919, bound photocopy; January 1938; May 1939; July 1949; April 1960; Spring 1973; Spring 1974; 1983; 1984, various covers, fairly good condition (10) £30-40
R.A.F. Postal First Day, Special Flight and Anniversary Covers (23), some bearing signatures, including: R.A.F. Golden Jubilee First Day Cover 1968 (3); Duxford Spitfires - signed by Peter Townsend; Opening of the R.A.F. Museum, 1972; 60th Anniversary of the Royal Flying Corps, 1972 - First Official Glider Mail; also two ‘Princess Diana commemorative covers; together with official sets of Royal Mint ‘Royal Air Force’ and ‘Gallantry’ postage stamps, very good condition (lot) £40-60
Hammer Price: £30
Elvin, Charles Norton, A Hand-Book of the Orders of Chivalry War Medals & Crosses ...., Dean & Son, London, 1892, with colour plates, rebound, half calf with marbled boards; Steward, W. Augustus, War Medals and Their History, London, xviii, 407pp., with b/w plates, original cloth; Carter, Thomas, War Medals of the British Army and How they were Won, revised by W. H. Long, London, 1893, xv, 653pp., with colour plates, this last with some pages detached, fairly good and better condition (3) ...
India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (02249 Sepoy Sher Khan, 2 Guides) very fine £30-40
Johnston, S. H. F., The History of The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), Volume I, 1689-1910, Gale & Polden, Aldershot, 1957, xvi, 308pp., with maps; Barclay, Brigadier C. N., The History of The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), Volume III, 1933-1946, Sifton Praed, London, xiv., 280pp., with maps, the volumes in matching green cloth with silver titles and badge, good condition (2) £30-40
Werlich, R., Orders and Decorations of All Nations, 1965 edition, Thorpe, A. W. (editor), Burke’s Handbook to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, London, 1921, rebound; Risk, J. C., The History of the Order of the Bath; de la Bere, Brig. Sir I., The Queen’s Orders of Chivalry; Tozer, C. W., The Insignia and Medals of the Most Venerable Order of St. John ... ; Dod’s Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1883; statute booklets (5); Coronation 1953, Administrative Instruction...
The Iron Duke, The Magazine of The Duke of Wellington’s Regt. (West Riding), 30 bound volumes spanning the period 1927-91 (not complete), plus a number of unbound issues up to the year 2004, good condition (lot) £50-100
[H.M.S.O.], Quarterly Army List, June 1922, parts 1 & 2;[H.M.S.O.], Half-Yearly Army List (4), December 1925; December 1927; June 1930; December 1933; [H.M.S.O.], Monthly Army List, April 1932; [H.M.S.O.], Army List 1949, matching blue boards, fairly good condition (8) £30-50
Pair: Private T. Cooper, Royal Marine Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (Po.18397 Pte., R.M.L.I.) slight edge bruise to first, good very fine (2) £20-30
Three: H. Hall, British Forces 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, all unnamed; Rotary Club Medal, bronze and enamel, with top bar, ‘Rotary Club of Teddington’ and card insert, ‘Harry Hall, Opht. Optician’, war medals extremely fine (4) £30-40
Four: Flight Lieutenant K. W. Mortimer, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, contained in original card forwarding box addressed to ‘F./Lt. K. W. Mortimer, 79 Ingleside Road, Kingswood, Bristol’, extremely fine (4) £30-40
Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Militia (1983690 Cpl. A. E. Sidebotham, R.E.) minor official correction to surname, good very fine £40-50
Hammer Price: £35
Plym Tamar Lynher and Tavy Humane Society, bronze, unnamed specimen, extremely fine £20-30
Documents and Photographs mostly of Air Force interest, including: R.A.F.Certificate of Service, to A.C.2 R. Hurst, discharged March 1953; Framed N.A.A.F.I. Testimonial Certificate to R. Hurst for 25 Years Loyal and Valuable Service; R.A.F. Service and Release Book, to Airwoman/Acting Corporal K. Holdsworth, discharged May 1946; Defence of the Realm, Permit Book, to Elsie Hannah Warren, dated 1917; Certificate of Registration booklet with photograph to A. P. de Pauw, Royal Netherlands Air...
British War Medal 1914-20 (60127 Pte. W. Howe, R.W. Fus.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (190224 Gnr. A. C. Handley, R.A.; L-33400 Gnr. E. Sigley, R.A.); National Safety First Association Medal, for 5 Years, silver and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1937, 5 clasps, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942 (R. Brassington) very fine (4) £15-25
British War Medal 1914-20 (F. 8502 T. A. Dunning, A.M. 1, R.N.A.S.) edge nicks, very fine £20-30
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