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Four: Fleet Paymaster J. S. Place, one of four officers from H.M.S. Barham to be killed in action at the Battle of Jutland Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Ast. Payr., R.N., H.M.S. Monarch); 1914-15 Star (Ft. Payr., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Ft. Payr., R.N.), together with 2nd Cruiser Squadron (South Africa and South America) 1908 Medal, 8 clasps, Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth, Simonstown, Capetown, St. Helena, Rio de Janeiro, Monte Video, and Spink & Son...
Hammer Price: £2,300
A Great War D.C.M. awarded to Lance-Corporal H. Sadd, Royal Marines Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (PO-973 (S) L.Cpl. H. Sadd, 2/R. Marines) polished, otherwise very fine £1200-1500
Four: Sergeant Robert Peak, 3/60th King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who was wounded at Ingogo River in 1881 and at Kassassin in 1882 South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (3028 Cpl. R. Peake, 3/60th Foot); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 3 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, El-Teb-Tamaai (3028 Sergt. R. Peak, 3/K.R. Rif. C.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (3028 Sergt. R. Peak, K.R. Rif. C.); Khedive’s Star 1882, the reverse impressed ‘3 K.R.R.C. 3028’, good very fine (4) £1000-1200
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Navarino, Syria (Edwd. Goodman) a few nicks, otherwise nearly extremely fine £1400-1600
A Great War A.F.C. group of three awarded to Pilot Officer J. L. Horne, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, late Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force Air Force Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.A.F.), very fine and better (3) £1600-1800
Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Talavera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca (John Webber, Serjt., 40th Foot), original riband with cloth “button-hook” for wearing, one or two edge bruises, otherwise good very fine £1200-1400
The C.B., O.B.E. group of twelve awarded to Major-General J. P. Douglas, 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 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, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; The Most Venerable Order of St. John...
A civil C.B., Great War D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Graham Heywood, Bt., who commanded the 1/1 Staffordshire Yeomanry 1916-18 The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1944; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 Star (Major, Staffs. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col. Sir, Bt.); Coronation 1911; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R.,...
Hammer Price: £2,200
A Great War ‘Second Battle of Ypres’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private A. S. Watts, 11th Hussars Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (6726 Pte., 11/Hrs.); 1914 Star, with clasp (6726 Pte., 11/Hrs.); British War and Victory Medals (6726 Pte., 11-Hrs.) very fine, rare to unit (4) £1400-1600
Pair: Friederich Justus, 2nd Line Battalion, King’s German Legion Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive (Friederich Justus, 2nd Line Bn. K.G.L.); Hannover, King’s German Legion Volunteer Medal 1841, unnamed as issued, suspension post neatly re-fixed on the first, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £1800-2200
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Java, St. Sebastian (Robert Cocks) good very fine £1800-2200
Waterloo 1815 (Corp. John Shipley, 2nd Batt. 3rd Reg. Guards), original clip and replacement ring suspension, with ornate silvered slip bar on ribbon, slight edge bruising, minor contact marks, very fine £1200-1400
A rare Great War R.R.C., M.M. group of three to Sister D. A. Laughton, Territorial Force Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with bow ribbon, in Garrard, London case of issue; Military Medal, G.V.R. (Sister, T.F.N.S.); T.F.N.S. Cape Badge, unnamed, about extremely fine (3) £1200-1500
Family group: A Great War Egypt and Palestine operations C.M.G., Serbia and Macedonia operations D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Colonel J. S. Matthew, Army Service Corps, late Volunteer and Territorial Forces, who otherwise gained fame for his part in the early development of cycling and motoring in Scotland The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and...
Hammer Price: £2,100
A scarce Great War U-boat action D.S.C., Lloyd’s Meritorious Service Medal pair awarded to Captain J. R. Godfrey, Mercantile Marine Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., Hallmarks for London 1917, the reverse privately inscribed, ‘Captain John R. Godfrey, S.S. “Enda”, 2nd January 1918’, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; Lloyd’s Medal for Meritorious Services, 3rd type, silver (Captain John R. Godfrey, S.S. “Enda”, 2nd January 1918), in its Wyon case of issue, the second...
A rare Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain Ulick de Burgh Browne, the 7th Marquis of Sligo, 2nd Dragoons (the Royal Scots Greys) Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately inscribed, ‘Earl of Altamont’; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. Earl of Altamont); Coronation 1911, privately inscribed, ‘Ulick de Burgh, Viscount Westport’, contact marks, otherwise generally very fine (4) £1800-2200
A Great War ‘Battle of Neuve Chapelle 1915’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private S. C. Climpson, Northamptonshire Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (9359 Pte., 2/North. Regt.); 1914 Star, with clasp (9359 Pte., 2/North’n. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (9359 Pte., North’n. R.) fine and better (4) £1400-1600
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private A. Wolfenden, Lancashire Fusiliers Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (5320 Pte., 19/Lan. Fus), edge bruise; 1914-15 Star (5320 Pte., Lan. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (5320 Pte., Lan. Fus.), mounted as worn, good fine and better (4) £1000-1200
A Great War ‘Battle of Cambrai’ M.M. group of four awarded to Serjeant C. G. Sayers, Tank Corps, late Royal Sussex Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (75417 Sjt., A Bn., Tank Corps); 1914-15 Star (4-153 Cpl., R. Suss. R.); British War and Victory Medals (4738 Sjt., R. Suss. R.) nearly extremely fine (4) £600-800
A superb Second War ‘North Africa’ M.M. group of five awarded to Private W. King, Royal Sussex Regiment Military Medal, G.VI.R. (6396807 R. Suss. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Defence and War Medals, very fine and better (5) £1600-1800
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Copenhagen 1801 (Robt. Humphries) toned good very fine £1400-1600
A rare Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Private 1 C. Knevett, No. 21 Balloon Section, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps Military Medal, G.V.R. (105647 Pte. 1 C. Knevitt, R.A.F.), note slight difference in surname spelling; British War and Victory Medals (105647 Pte. 1 C. Knevett, R.A.F.), generally good very fine (3) £1200-1500
An interesting collection of memorabilia associated with Captain William Leefe Robinson, V.C., the first R.F.C. pilot to bring down a Zeppelin over England, at Cuffley, Hertfordshire on 3 September 1916 A set of dress miniature medals, comprising Victoria Cross; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, believed to have once been in possession of Leefe Robinson’s family Embroidered R.F.C. “Wings”, believed to have been removed from one of Leefe Robinson’s uniform tunics,...
Military General Service 1793-1814, 7 clasps, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (H. McKenzie, 42nd Foot) some edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £1400-1600
A most unusual Great War campaign service group of six awarded to Captain W. P. Townshend, Royal Naval Reserve, a recipient of the Russian Order of St. Anne and the Greek Navy Medal, the latter for his services as Master of the Empress of India in a gallant Bay of Biscay rescue in 1930 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Commr., R.N.R.); Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, G.V.R., silver, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1920; Russian Order of...
The K.B.E. group of nine awarded to Major-General Sir Henry Tidy, Royal Army Medical Corps, Extra Physician to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II and Consulting Physician to the Army The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Military) Knight Commander’s 2nd type set of insignia, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck cravat, in Garrard, London case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Major); War Medal 1939-45;...
The Second World War ‘Malaya’ C.B.E., Great War D.S.O. group of nine awarded to Brigadier C. H. Stringer, Royal Army Medical Corps, a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese 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.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar, slight enamel damage to wreath; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); India General Service...
The C.M.G., C.B.E., M.V.O. group of ten awarded to Brevet Colonel F. V. Willey, Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers), 2nd Baron Barnby The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O. Member’s 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, rev. officially...
Hammer Price: £2,000
A Battle of Britain pilot’s group of four awarded to Flight Lieutenant D. H. Forrest, who damaged several enemy aircraft in Spitfires of No. 66 Squadron and No. 421 Flight during the period May to December 1940 1939-45 Star, copy clasp, Battle of Britain; Defence and War Medals; Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Fg. Off., R.A.F.V.R.), good very fine and better (4) £800-1000
Family group: A Battle of Britain group of four awarded to Flying Officer D. J. North-Bomford, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, late Royal Air Force, who operated out of Debden in the summer of 1940, his Hurricane being damaged in a combat with Me. 109s off Dover on 18 August 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R., 1st issue (W./O. (742833), R.A.F.V.R.), official but later style engraved naming, extremely fine A Great War and Second World War campaign...
The C.M.G., C.V.O. group of nine awarded to Colonel C. E. Harrison, Grenadier Guards, Honorary Surgeon to King Edward VII The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Royal Victorian Order, C.V.O., Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse numbered, ‘C483’; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-el-Kebir (Surgeon Charles Harrison, 2/Grenr. Gds.); 1914-15 Star (Col.); British War...
The K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G. group of nine awarded to Colonel Sir Lisle Webb, Royal Army Medical Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Civil) Knight Commander’s 1st type set of insignia, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, in Garrards, London case of issue; The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with swivel ring and straight bar suspension and buckle on...
A Great War auxiliary patrol operations D.S.C. group of four awarded to Chief Skipper H. W. Bristow, Royal Naval Reserve Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., Hallmarks for London 1918, the reverse privately inscribed, ‘Presented by His Most Gracious Majesty King George V, Oct. 24th 1918, at Buckingham Palace, to Chief Skipper Walter Horace Bristow, R.N.R.’; 1914-15 Star (WSA. 86 Skr., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (W.S.A. 86 Ch. Skr., R.N.R.), together with his Granton Naval...
Hammer Price: £1,900
Six: Lieutenant W. G. H. Way, Royal Navy, afterwards Mercantile Marine and Royal Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Lieut., R.N., H.M.S. Thrush); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Gambia (Lieutenant, R.N.); 1914-15 Star (60195 A. Sgt., R.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (A. Sjt., R.A.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Wilfrid G. W. Way); Victory Medal (A. Sgt., R.A.), the Great War awards later but official issues, the earlier awards with contact marks and...
A Second World War B.E.M., Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea group of five awarded to Second Steward G. R. Newton, Merchant Navy, who gave up his place in a dingy to assist two wounded men - in spite of the constant and great risk of shark and barracuda attack British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (Second Steward G. R. Newton, S.S. “Corabella”, 30th April 1943); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45; Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea (Second Steward G. R....
A Great War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. Barkley, Royal Army Medical Corps Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, South Africa 1901 (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Surgeon); 1914-15 Star (Major, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.) very fine and better (6) £1200-1400
A Great War M.C. group of three awarded to Lieutenant Campbell Greenhill, 3rd Worcestershire Regiment, killed at the capture of Westhoek in August 1917 Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘Lieut. C. Greenhill, 3rd Worcestershire Regt., 3rd June 1917. Killed in action 10th Augt. 1917’, in case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. Greenhill) extremely fine (3) £1200-1500
Hammer Price: £1,800
Three: Able Seaman F. Redclift, Royal Navy, one of a handful of Naval personnel present at Abu Klea, and father of Albert Redclift Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Boy 1 Cl., H.M.S. Tamar); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (A.B.); Khedive’s Star 1884-6, nearly extremely fine and very rare (3) £900-1100
Three: John Carey, Able Seaman, Royal Navy, later Commissioned Boatman, H.M. Coast Guard Baltic 1854-55 (John Carey, A.B. Cornwallis); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (John Cary, A.B. Shannon); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (John Carey, Commd. Btmn. H.M. Coastguard) impressed naming, good very fine or better (3) £800-1000
Pair: Lieutenant G. N. A. Pollard, Royal Navy Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Midshipman G. N. A. Pollard, Royal Navy) officially impressed naming; Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (Lt. G. N. A. Pollard, R.N. H.M.S. Simoom. 73-74) small test cut to rim of each medal, otherwise good very fine or better (2) £600-800
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