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The superb Army Gold Cross group to General Sir Ulysses Bagenal Burgh, G.C.B., K.T.S., Second Lord Downes, 92nd Foot, Aide de Camp and Assistant Military Secretary to the Duke of Wellington throughout the Peninsular War The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, G.C.B. (Military) Knight Grand Cross set of insignia, comprising sash badge, 22 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1814, maker’s mark ‘IN’ for John Northam, and breast star in silver, gold and enamels, enamel damaged on upper re...
Hammer Price: £55,000
A particulary fine, well-documented and poignant Battle of Britain Spitfire ace’s D.F.C. group of four awarded to Flight Lieutenant D. G. Gribble, Royal Air Force, who, having been compelled as a result of combat damage to make a forced-landing on a beach near Dunkirk in May 1940, went on to claim six confirmed victories, besides several probables and damaged, the vast majority of them at the height of the Battle in August 1940, a gallant operational career that is well recorded in the memoir...
Hammer Price: £35,000
The Most Ancient and Noble Order of the Thistle, K.T., Knight’s set of insignia worn by the 5th Marquis of Queensberry (1777-1837), comprising official investiture sash badge, 58 x 41mm, 18 carat gold, hallmarked London 1821, maker’s mark ‘JJE’ for John James Edington, and breast star, 88 x 80mm, silver, gold and enamels, the reverse fitted with gold pin for wearing, complete with original full dress sash with tie ribbon and contained in a later fitted case, extremely fine, an exceptional set...
Hammer Price: £26,000
The rare and emotive South Atlantic pair awarded to Squadron Leader J. W. Glover, Royal Air Force, who was badly injured when his Harrier was downed by enemy fire over Port Howard on 21 May 1982: the only serviceman to be held as a prisoner of war by the Argentinians, he was moved to the mainland for medical treatment, and was finally released into the care of H.M’s Consul in Montevideo on 8 July 1982 - three years later, after making a remarkable recovery from his injuries, he was awarded th...
Hammer Price: £21,000
The Peninsular War pair awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Purvis, 1st Royal Dragoons, later Canadian Fencibles Field Officer’s Gold Medal 1808-14, for Vittoria (Major Chas. Purvis, Rl. Drags.) complete with gold ribbon buckle; Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Fuentes D’Onor, Vittoria, Toulouse (C. Purvis, Capt. 1st Dgns.) extremely fine (2) £12000-15000
Hammer Price: £18,000
An exceptional Light Brigade medal to Private Wilson Firth, 11th Hussars, who was severely wounded at Balaklava and died later at Scutari Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Alma, Balaklava (Wilson Firth. 11th Hussars) officially impressed naming, in its original named card box of issue together with tatty registered envelope addressed to ‘Henry Flather (Father of the late Wilson Firth 11th Hussars)’, the medal dark toned, nearly extremely fine £12000-15000
Hammer Price: £12,000
The superb Great War ‘High Wood’ M.C., ‘Life Saving’ A.M. group of seven awarded to Captain W. L. C. Rathbone, 15th Battalion, London Regiment (Civil Service Rifles), formerly Devonshire Regiment, who was awarded the Albert Medal for great gallantly in disarming a ‘madman’ who had run amok in a trench carrying a loaded rifle with fixed bayonet Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed ‘Captain W. L. C. Rathbone, 15th London Regt., 18th Sept. 1916’; Albert Medal, 2nd Class, for Gallantry in...
An Afghan War D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private John Dennis, 92nd Highlanders, for gallantly saving the life of his officer commanding at the battle of Kandahar during which he was dangerously wounded Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Pte. J. Dennis, 92nd Foot); Afghanistan 1878-80, 3 clasps, Charasia, Kabul, Kandahar (1163 Pte. J. Dennis, 92nd Highrs.); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (1163 Prive. John Dennis 92nd Highlanders); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (1163 Pte. J....
Hammer Price: £9,500
A rare ‘Uganda’ D.S.O group of three awarded to Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. G. Sitwell, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, killed in action at Harts Hill, 24 February 1900 Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; East and Central Africa 1897-991 clasp, Uganda 1897-98 (Capt. C. G. H. Sitwell, Uganda Rif.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (Lt. Col. C. H. G. Sitwell, D.S.O., Rl. Dublin Fus.) extremely fine (3)...
Hammer Price: £9,200
Sold by Order of the Direct Descendants of the late Wing Commander N. P. Simmons, D.S.O., D.F.M. The exceptional and well-documented Second World War D.S.O., D.F.M. group of ten awarded to Wing Commander N. P. Simmons, Royal Air Force, one of just 20 men to be awarded this combination of decorations in the last war - having won his D.F.M. for deeds that included ‘literally filling his gun sight’ with the mighty Scharnhorst, and scoring ‘four or five direct hits’, he won an immediate D.S.O....
Hammer Price: £9,000
The rare and outstanding Gordon Relief Expedition D.C.M. group of seven awarded to Regimental Corporal-Major A. White, Royal Horse Guards, attached Heavy Camel Regiment, and afterwards a Yeoman of the Guard: decorated for his ‘perfect coolness under fire ... notably at Abu Klea when he rendered material assistance when the Arabs got into the square’, he received his decoration from the hands of the Queen at Windsor Castle in February 1886: his was the very first D.C.M. awarded to the Royal Ho...
Hammer Price: £8,800
The rare and outstanding Second Afghan War D.C.M. group of nine awarded to Colour-Sergeant W. McDonald, 72nd Highlanders, afterwards Norfolk Regiment and a Yeoman of the Guard: decorated for his bravery in the actions at Bala-Hissar and Takht-i-Shah on 12 December 1879, he received his decoration from the hands of the Queen in a ceremony on the Isle of Wight, but was shortly afterwards severely wounded by a gunshot to his left arm at Tel-el-Kebir - he survived however to be awarded one of the...
The nationally important Order of Merit group of sixteen awarded to Sir Basil Spence (1907-76), the distinguished post-war architect, and architect of Coventry Cathedral The Order of Merit, E.II.R., Civil Division neck badge, gold and enamel, with neck cravat, minor enamel damage; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territo...
Hammer Price: £8,200
An emotive Great War Hejaz railway operations M.C. group of four awarded to 2nd Lieutenant W. T. Davies, Royal West Surrey Regiment, attached Imperial Camel Corps, late Shropshire Yeomanry, who was decorated for his gallant leadership in the famous raid on Mudowwara Station on 8 August 1918, which place he had earlier reconnoitred with four other officers, the whole attired in Arab dress: undoubtedly known to Lawrence of Arabia, who rode alongside the Camel Corps on many occasions, it seems i...
Hammer Price: £8,000
An excessively rare Great War airship pilot’s D.S.C. group of four awarded to Flight Commander W. F. Horner, Royal Naval Air Service, who, having served in the Airship Expeditionary Force in the Aegean 1915-16, was killed on an operational flight in the SSP.4 over the North Sea in December 1917 Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1917; 1914-15 Star (S. Lt., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Flt. Cr., R.N.A.S.), together with original illuminated Memorial Scroll i...
Hammer Price: £7,800
A fine Great War ‘1914’ D.C.M. and Russian Cross of St George group of five awarded to Warrant Officer G. M. Marshall, Middlesex Regiment, later Royal Engineers Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (8702 L. Cpl., 1/Middx. Regt.); 1914 Star, with clasp (L-8702 Pte., 1/Middx. R.); British War and Victory Medals (178467 W.O. Cl. 2, R.E.); Russian Cross of St George, 4th class, reverse officially numbered ‘127200’, good very fine (5) £2000-2500
Hammer Price: £7,200
An extremely rare “crowned-head” D.F.M. group of six awarded to Squadron Leader R. Wright, Royal Air Force, for his part in the Chitral garrison relief operations of 1932 Distinguished Flying Medal, G.V.R., 2nd ‘crowned bust’ issue (363282 Cpl. R. Wright, R.A.F.), officially impressed naming; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (363282 L.A.C., R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals, these two privately inscribed, ‘Sqn. Ldr. R. Wright, D.F.M.’ and ‘J.L.’; Jubilee 1...
Hammer Price: £7,000
A fine Second World War D.F.C. and Bar group of eight awarded to Wing Commander R. L. Bowes, Royal Air Force, late Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who led No. 44 Squadron in the famous Peenemunde raid in August 1943, when his Lancaster was hit by flak and badly damaged, and afterwards in a strike against Berlin in which his aircraft had an engine put out of action by another hit Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar, the reverse of the Cross officially dated ‘1943’...
Hammer Price: £6,800
An excessively rare Second World War high speed launch rescue operation D.S.C. group of six awarded to Flight Lieutenant B. W. Ahern, Royal Air Force Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., hallmarks for London 1945, reverse officially dated ‘1945’; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, the campaign awards in their original addressed card forwarding box with related condolence slip in the name of ‘Flight Lieutenant B. W. Ahern, D.S.C.’, generally extremely...
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Trafalgar, St. Domingo (James Waters) with original ribbon, toned, good very fine £5000-6000
Hammer Price: £6,500
A fine M.B.E., Second World War D.F.C. group of eight awarded to Wing Commander C. Warren, Royal Air Force, a Battle of Britain fighter pilot who later transferred to Bomber Command: his Spitfire was damaged in a combat off the Isle of Wight in July 1940, but in the following month he shared in the destruction of a Do. 17 off Portland The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dat...
Hammer Price: £6,200
A Great War D.S.M. group of four awarded to Captain A. G. Trussell, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service, awarded for services in the Royal Naval Armoured Car Section in Gallipoli Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (F.1175 (sic) A. G. Trussell, C.P.O. Mech., Arm. Car Sec. R.N.); 1914-15 Star (F.1775 A. G. Trussell, P.O.M., R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. A. J. Trussell, R.A.F.), note variation in service number and initials, naming on B.W.M. offi...
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Trafalgar, Martinique (William Holloway) contained in an old fitted case, edge bruising, otherwise better than very fine £4500-5500
Hammer Price: £6,000
A particularly fine Second World War tank commander’s M.C. and escaper’s Bar group of eight awarded to Major E. E. Tonks, 10th Hussars (Royal Armoured Corps), who, having won his first decoration for ‘courage and determination of the highest order’, when he ‘advanced on foot alone, and with a Bren gun killed or wounded the crew of the anti-tank gun that was holding up the advance’, was taken P.O.W.: having then enjoyed a meeting with Rommel - and a ride in his staff car - he set about enginee...
Hammer Price: £5,800
A Great War O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Major J. E. Arrol-Hunter, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and Armoured Car Squadrons of the Royal Naval Air Service, awarded the Russian Orders of St. Stanislaus and St. Anne for services with the British Armoured Car Squadron in Russia The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919, on 2nd type (military) ribbon; British War Medal 1914...
Hammer Price: £5,500
Pair: Private William Peters, 1st Battalion, 92nd Highlanders, wounded at Waterloo Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (William Peters, 92nd Foot); Waterloo 1815 (William Peters, 1st Bat. 92nd Highlanders) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, the first with small collector’s number ‘825’ impressed by claw, good very fine, the second with some light pitting, very fine (2) £3000-3500
A superb Second World War fall of Singapore operations D.S.M. group of six awarded to Stoker P. A. H. Dunne, Royal Navy, for a motor launch versus Japanese destroyer action of “Li Wo” proportions: few escaped the resultant carnage inflicted by several point-blank hits on H.M.M.L. 311’s hull and upper deck - and those that did had to endure over four years as a P.O.W. of the Japanese, the wounded Dunne among them Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Sto. P. A. H. Dunne, P/KX 132616); 1939-...
The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, G.C.I.E., Knight Grand Commander’s set of insignia, comprising sash badge, 87 x 60mm excluding suspension ring, gold and enamels, and breast star, 91mm, silver, silver-gilt, gold and enamels, complete with full dress sash and contained in its Garrard & Co. Ltd case of issue, near perfect, extremely fine £4000-5000
Hammer Price: £5,100
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, 14 Dec Boat Service 1814 (Richard K. Barnes, Lieut. R.M.) contained in an old but later fitted case, original ribbon, minor handling marks, otherwise brilliant extremely fine £4000-5000
Hammer Price: £5,000
A very rare E.II.R. Malaya operations D.F.C. group of six awarded to Squadron Leader B. H. Walker, Royal Air Force, who completed numerous bombing sorties in No. 148 Squadron’s Lincolns 1954-55 Distinguished Flying Cross, E.II.R., reverse officially dated ‘1955’; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (Flt. Lt. B. H. Walker, R.A.F.), good very fine and better (6) £3000-3500
Hammer Price: £4,700
An extremely rare Victorian M.S.M. pair awarded to Sergeant-Major J. Gillies, Royal Artillery, ‘almost certainly the last enlisted man to wear his Waterloo Medal in uniform’ at the time of his discharge, aged 67 years, in 1854 Waterloo 1815 (John Gillis, Bombardier, Royal Foot Artillery), with old replacement clip and ring suspension; Army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R. (Serjt. Major John Gillies, Royal Artillery), officially impressed naming, both fitted with decorative riband buckles, n...
Hammer Price: £4,600
The superb Egyptian War C.B. group of four awarded to Colonel Denzil Hammill, Gordon Highlanders, who led the 1st Gordons in the charge of the Highland Brigade at Tel-el-Kebir, and again commanded the regiment at the battles of El-Teb and Tamaai, and in the Nile Expedition The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1857, maker’s mark ‘WN’ for William Neale, complete with swivel-ring bar suspension and gold r...
A good Second World War Fall of France 1940 D.C.M. group of six awarded to Warrant Officer Class III J. H. Scanlon, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.VI.R. (4264033 W.O. Cl. III J. H. Scanlon, R. North’d. Fus.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, together with related sporting prize medals (2), silver, one named and dated 1928-29, and three regimental badges, extremely fine (11) £3000-3500
The remarkable Delhi Durbar 1911 R.V.M. group of 15 awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel P. H. Watson, Indian Army, late Bedfordshire Regiment, whose career of 40 or so years with the Colours encompassed active service in India, China, Tibet, Iraq and N.W. Persia, in addition to the Great War, when he was awarded an immediate M.S.M. for services in Mesopotamia India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (6039 Pte., 1st Bedford Regt.); China 1900, no clasp (6...
Hammer Price: £4,500
An exceptional Great War M.C., Boer War D.C.M. group of nine awarded to Warrant Officer Class 1 A. F. Watts, Royal Artillery, who was awarded the M.S.M. in 1953, aged 70 years Military Cross, G.V.R..; Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (87933 Sjt. A. F. Watts, 68th(sic) Bty. R.F.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (87933 Sgt. A. F. Watts, 88th Bty. R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (8...
Waterloo 1815 (Corp. William Clark, 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Foot) with replacement silver straight bar suspension, inscribed, ‘Peninsula’, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine £1400-1800
Arctic Medal 1818-55 (Surgeon C. J. Beverly, R.N.) contemporary engraved naming, fitted with silver ribbon buckle inscribed ‘Arctic’, very fine £1800-2200
Hammer Price: £4,400
The Indian Mutiny Medal awarded to Colour-Sergeant J. Johnson, 32nd Light Infantry, the senior N.C.O. of his regiment massacred at Cawnpore Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Colr. Serjt. J. Johnson, 32nd L.I.) extremely fine £4000-4500
Hammer Price: £4,300
A fine and rare E.II.R. Malaya operations D.C.M. group of seven awarded to Warrant Officer Class 2 Bhaktabahadur Pradhan, 2/7th Gurkha Rifles: ‘This Sergeant has now killed four Communist terrorists himself over the past year’ - two of them in the action for which he was decorated, a jungle firefight in Pahang, and both of them after he had been wounded Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.II.R., 1st issue (21139002 Sgt. Bhaktabahadur Pradhan, 7 G.R.); 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War M...
An extremely rare Second World War Burma operations M.C. group of seven awarded to Squadron Leader A. I. Mitchell, Royal Air Force Regiment, attached Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Regiment Military Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1945’; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (Sqn. Ldr., R.A.F.); Coronation 1953, contact marks, very fine and better (7) £3000-4000
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