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The important Great War D.S.O. and Bar group of five awarded to Captain B. A. Smart, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service, whose destruction of the Zeppelin L23 in August 1917 - the first such victory achieved by a ship-launched pilot - influenced the Admiralty’s deliberations and advanced the cause of Naval aviation: he went on to add a Bar to his decoration for his part in the Tondern raid in July 1918, when he obtained a direct hit on a Zeppelin shed before making his escape...
Hammer Price: £63,000
A rare D.C.M. and 2 Bar group of five awarded to Sergeant William Logan, 1st and 2nd Royal Highlanders, who was also three times ‘mentioned’ and awarded the Russian Cross of St George Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R., with Second and Third Award Bars (2702 Cpl. W. Logan, 2/R. Hdrs.); 1914 Star, with clasp (2702 Pte. W. Logan, R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (2702 Pte. W. Logan, R. Highrs.) these two unofficially named; Russian Cross of St George,...
Hammer Price: £22,000
Three: Senior Surgeon Edward Simpson, Ordnance Medical Department, with rare double issue Waterloo Medal Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Martinique, Guadaloupe (E. Simpson, Asst. Surgn., Ord. Med. Dept.); Waterloo 1815, 2 unofficial engraved clasps, Martinique, Guadaloupe (Edward Simpson Esq., Surgeon Royal Artillery), with original steel clip and ring suspension; Waterloo 1815 (Edward Simpson, Surgeon, Royal Artillery), with replacement clip and ring suspension, each with...
Hammer Price: £9,800
An extremely rare Edward VII Boxer Rebellion D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Commander A. Rowand, Royal Navy, late Royal Indian Marine Distinguished Service Order, E.VII.R., silver-gilt and enamels; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (Lieut., Rl. Ind. Mar.); China 1900, no clasp (Lieut., R.I.M.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Lieut. in Comd., D.S.O., R.I.M.S. Dalhousie); 1914 Star (Commdr., D.S.O., R.N., Transport Staff), initials ‘G. A.’;...
Hammer Price: £9,500
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, 4 Nov 1805, Implacable 26 Augt 1808 (Thomas Colley) nearly extremely fine £4000-5000
Hammer Price: £8,200
South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (193 Corpl. R. Williams, 1/24th Foot) minor marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine £4000-4500
Hammer Price: £7,800
A superb Second World War Imphal operations M.C. group of six awarded to Captain J. M. “Tim” Carew, Devonshire Regiment, late Parachute Regiment and Gurkha Rifles, who later wrote several well-known military histories: in winning his M.C. with the Gurkhas, Carew led three separate charges against the Japanese on the “Scraggy” feature - and collected as many wounds Military Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1944’; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D....
Hammer Price: £7,500
The exceptional M.B.E., O.B.I., Indian Title Badge group of fifteen awarded to Sardar Bahadur Subadar-Major and Honorary Captain (Honorary Assistant Surgeon) Jit Singh, Indian Subordinate Medical Department The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Order of British India, 1st Class, 1st type neck badge, gold and enamel; Indian Title Badge (2), G.V.R., ‘Sardar Bahadur’, silver-gilt and enamel, rev. inscribed, ‘Sardar...
Hammer Price: £7,200
An exchange George Cross for Malabar 1921-22 awarded to Assistant Surgeon George David Rodriques, Indian Medical Department George Cross, reverse officially engraved (Asst. Surgeon 3rd Cl. George David Rodriques, Indian Medical Dept., 2nd June, 1923), in its Royal Mint case of issue, about extremely fine £4000-5000
Hammer Price: £7,000
Military General Service 1793-1814, 8 clasps, Busaco, Albuhera, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (Fras. Hy. Hart, Lieut. 39th Foot) edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £5000-6000
Hammer Price: £6,800
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Trafalgar (B. Simmonds) minor nicks, otherwise nearly extremely fine £4000-5000
Hammer Price: £6,500
An emotive Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Private W. Hutchinson, 10th Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment, who kept a superb diary recording his exploits on the first day of the Battle of the Somme Military Medal, G.V.R. (32172 Pte., 10/Y. & L. R.) old silver chain soldered to either end of suspension rod, this 66cm long; together with a 9 carat gold half-hunter pocket watch, the inside back cover inscribed ‘The Great War, Presented to Walter Hutchinson by the...
Hammer Price: £6,400
A rare Palestine 1917 operations D.S.C. group of seven awarded to Commander Sir Melvill Ward, Bt., Royal Navy Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., Hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Commr., R.N.); Defence and War Medals; Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., coinage bust (Cmdt.), the earlier awards mounted as worn, generally good very fine or better (7) £1800-2200
Hammer Price: £6,200
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Nile (Leonard Banton) toned, extremely fine £3500-4000
Hammer Price: £6,000
A Great War Albert Medal group of three awarded to Corporal J. Webb, Royal Army Medical Corps Albert Medal, 2nd Class, for Gallantry in Saving Life on Land (Presented by His Majesty to Corporal James Webb, Royal Army Medical Corps, for gallantry in Saving Life at Cambrin in France on the 2nd January 1916); 1914 Star (2511 Pte., R.A.M.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (2511 Cpl., R.A.M.C.); together with an unnamed Victory Medal 1914-19, nearly extremely fine (4) £4000-5000
A fine Great War M.C. and 2 Bar group of four awarded to Captain R. B. Stewart, M.B., Royal Army Medical Corps, late Royal Scots Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second and Third Award Bars; 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut. R. B. Stewart, R. Scots); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.) good very fine (4) £3000-3500
Hammer Price: £5,500
An extremely rare Second World War clandestine operations M.M. group of five awarded to Lance-Sergeant G. A. Hanson, Royal Signals, a wireless operator in S.O.E’s Force 133 in the Cyclades - indeed the only S.O.E. operative to work on the Island of Naxos for a period of 8 months, where the 650-strong German garrison carried out a relentless round of searches: attired in civilian clothes, and working in a theatre of war where enemy reprisals were swift, brutal and commonplace, the thought...
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, 16 July Boat Service 1806, 24 May Boat Service 1814 (John Dearness) very fine £4000-4500
The C.S.I., C.M.G., D.S.O. group of eleven awarded to Colonel C. W. Profeit, Royal Army Medical Corps The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, C.S.I., Companion’s neck badge, gold, silver and enamel, with cameo centre, surrounding motto embellished with rose diamonds; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; Queen’s South...
An extremely rare Second World War D.S.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant S. J. Holden, 4th Mercantile Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, one of only 51 Army recipients of the D.S.M. in the last war: he was decorated for his command of the guns crews in the S.S. Burdwan during Malta convoy “Operation Harpoon” in June 1942 Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Sgt. S. J. Holden, 4188893, 4th M.A.A. Rgt., R.A.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals,...
Hammer Price: £5,200
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, St. Vincent (Thomas Hills, Volr. 1st Class) minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £2000-2500
The rare Great War A.R.R.C., M.M. group of seven awarded to Matron H. K. Repton, British Red Cross Society Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; Military Medal, G.V.R. (H. K. Repton, Q.A. Hpl.-B.R.C.S.); 1914-15 Star (B.R.C.S. & St. J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (B.R.C.S. & St. J.J.); Q.A.R.A.N.C. Cape Badge, unnamed; France, Medal of Honour, Ministry of War, for Epidemics, 3rd Class, bronze (Miss H. K. Repton, 1917), in case of issue, good very fine...
A rare and impressive Boer War evader’s D.C.M. pair awarded to Private T. Morgan, 18th Hussars who, having made good his escape in a desperate action in Glencoe Pass in October 1899, obtained civilian clothing and convinced the Boers of his neutral status: rejoining his regiment, he was subsequently killed in action alongside his Troop Commander in a gallant stand at Oliphant’s River on 30 July 1901 Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Pte. T. Morgan,18th Hussars); Queen’s South...
Hammer Price: £5,000
An Interesting Collection of ‘Waterloo’ Relics France, First Empire, Legion of Honour, 2nd type, Chevalier’s breast badge, 56 x 37mm., silver, gold and enamel, unmarked, with old ribbon complete with rosette, buckled centres, one section of wreath missing, enamel damage, labelled, ‘Cross & Riband of the Legion of Honour’; together with a good length of old and faded Grand Cross sash ribbon, labelled, ‘The Cordon of the Legeon (sic) of Honor worn by a French General Officer in...
Hammer Price: £4,900
The excessively rare Great War Italy operations and Second World War B.E.F. operations ‘double issue’ M.M. group of eight awarded to Warrant Officer Class 2 J. W. Newton, The Black Watch, late Northumberland Fusiliers and Durham Light Infantry Military Medal, G.V.R. (34726 Cpl.-L. Sjt. J. W. Newton, 10/North’d. Fus.); Military Medal, G.VI.R. (4440338 W.O. Cl. 2 J. W. Newton, Black Watch); British War and Victory Medals (6-3865 Sjt., North’d. Fus.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45;...
Hammer Price: £4,600
Women’s Social and Political Union Hunger Strike Medal, obverse inscribed, ‘Hunger Strike’, the reverse, ‘Caroline Lowder Downing’, silver, 22mm., hallmarks for Birmingham 1912, the reverse of the enamelled suspension bar inscribed, ‘Fed by Force 1/3/12’, and the obverse of the plain silver brooch-bar ‘For Valour’ (and its reverse ‘Toye, 57 Theobalds Rd., London’), original riband, in case of issue, the inside of the lid inscribed in gold lettering, ‘Presented to...
Hammer Price: £4,400
A fine Great War D.S.O. and Bar group of nine awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel T. S. Eves, Royal Army Medical Corps, killed in action, 24 January 1944, when the hospital ship St. David was bombed and sunk by German aircraft off Anzio Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, this engraved on reverse, ‘A/Lt. Col. T. S. Eves, R.A.M.C.’, silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; 1914-15 Star (Capt., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt....
Hammer Price: £4,300
The fine C.B., Second World War C.B.E., inter-war D.S.O. group of fourteen awarded to Major-General S. Arnott, Royal Army Medical Corps The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., suspension bar officially dated ‘1938’, with top bar; 1914 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.);...
A fine Great War M.C. and Bar group of four awarded to Captain G. R. Montague, Cheshire Regiment, late 2nd County of London Yeomanry Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (1833 Pte., 2-Co. of Lond. Y.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.), good very fine (4) £2000-2500
Hammer Price: £4,200
An important Great War group of four awarded to Flying Officer A. Bushfield, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service, who was among the trial crew to make the first flight of a British rigid airship 27 November 1916: he was subsequently killed in the famous R. 101 disaster on 5 October 1930, while embarked in his capacity as an Air Ministry Inspector 1914-15 Star (W.O. 2, R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (W.O. 2, R.N.A.S.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R.,...
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 3 clasps, Alexandria 11th July, The Nile 1884-85, Kirbekan (J. Allen, Gunrs. Mte. H.M.S. “Invincible”) edge bruising and pitting from star, otherwise very fine and extremely rare £1200-1500
The fine O.B.E. and Great War M.C. and Bar group of nine awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Malcolm, Royal Army Medical Corps, mentioned during the Second War for services whilst a Prisoner-of-War of the Japanese The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, unnamed; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf...
The Great War D.S.O. group of ten awarded to Colonel A. N. Fraser, Royal Army Medical Corps, a recipient of the German Red Cross Order, awarded for tending the wounded from the Deutschland, attacked during the Spanish Civil War Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Pte., Vol. Med. S.C.); 1914-15 Star (Capt., R.A.M.C.); British War and...
Hammer Price: £4,100
The rare and important C.H., Knight Bachelor’s Badge, C.B.E., K. St. J. group of ten awarded to Sir Arthur Bryant, the famous historian The Order of the Companions of Honour (C.H.), E.II.R., neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in its John Pinches, London case of issue; Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1954, in its Royal Mint case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) 2nd type neck badge,...
Hammer Price: £4,000
Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Fuentes D’Onor, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees (F. J. Davies, Lieut. 52nd Foot) minor edge bruising, otherwise nearly extremely fine £4000-5000
Women’s Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Margaret T. Arnold) extremely fine £1600-1800
Hammer Price: £3,900
Pair: Private Thomas Hanks, Royal Marines Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (Thos. Hanks); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., Anchor obverse with the rare ‘inverted’ reverse (Thomas Hanks, Late Private Marine, Portsmouth Division, 21 Years) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine (2) £1800-2200
Hammer Price: £3,700
A fine Great War C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. group of eleven awarded to Major-General C. P. Heywood, late Coldstream Guards, who was wounded as a young subaltern in the Boer War and again as C.O. of the 3rd Guards Brigade in the Great War - he went on to win his sixth “mention” in North Russia The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge,...
Hammer Price: £3,600
A most unusual and interesting Knight Bachelor’s Badge, C.V.O., Great War M.C. group of sixteen awarded to Sir Ronald Howe, Deputy Commissioner of C.I.D. 1953-57, late Royal Sussex Regiment Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1956; The Royal Victorian Order, C.V.O., Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse numbered ‘1129’; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.);...
A scarce Great War M.M. and 2 Bar group of four awarded to Sergeant William Parnaby, 37th Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second and Third Award Bars (46547 Cpl. W. Parnaby, 37/Sig. Coy. R.E.); 1914-15 Star (46547 2.Cpl. W. Parnaby, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (46547 Sjt. W. Parnaby, R.E.) good very fine (4) £2000-2500
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