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The oustanding Great War Gallipoli landings V.C. group of five awarded to Petty Officer G. McK. Samson, Royal Naval Reserve, who worked under appalling fire on ‘V’ Beach for longer than any of the other “River Clyde V.Cs”, until, finally, he collapsed, riddled with Turkish machine-gun fire - some reports state in 19 places: the River Clyde’s surgeon later said, “He was in great agony when I saw him, and whether he lived or died I knew he had won the V.C.” Victoria Cross, the...
Hammer Price: £210,000
‘Sergeant “Gentleman Jim” Almonds, one of the “Tobruk Four” was in many ways to the desert born. In this environment he was totally at home. He excelled in the velvet darkness and revelled in the vast emptiness of North Africa. His nickname was apt; six feet and four inches tall, his gentle, quiet and considerate manner hid enormous self-discipline and control which left him cool, efficient and deadly when the situation demanded it ... [He] was held very high in Stirling’s...
Hammer Price: £58,000
The polar exploration group awarded to Commander J. R. F. “Frank” Wild, late Royal Navy and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who, with the exception of Sir Ernest Shackleton, participated in more Antarctic expeditions than any other man British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. F. Wild, R.N.V.R.), in their card box of issue Royal Geographical Society’s Gold Patron’s Medal (Commander Frank Wild, C.B.E., 1924), contained in gold glazed case, in its fitted case of issue Royal...
Hammer Price: £52,000
Russia, Order of the White Eagle, set of insignia by Eduard, St. Petersburg, sash badge, 89 x 61mm., gold and enamel, with workmaster’s, ‘56’ gold and St. Petersburg 1908-17 stamp marks on one talon and manufacturer’s name and other marks on suspension loop, with replacement blue pendalia below crown, centre of cross missing from reverse, details on suspension loop rubbed; breast star; 89mm., silver-gilt and enamel, with manufacturer’s name and St. Petersburg 1896-1908 mark on...
Hammer Price: £50,000
The Napoleonic War Army Gold Cross group awarded to Lieutenant-General Sir John Maclean, K.C.B., The Gordon Highlanders and 27th Inniskilling Regiment of Foot, who received no less than five wounds during his distinguished fighting career (a) The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s breast star by Hamlet, in silver, with gold and enamel appliqué centre, the reverse plate inscribed ‘HAMLET, Goldsmith & Jeweller TO HIS MAJESTY, His Royal Highnefs the...
Hammer Price: £45,000
The outstanding Great War C.B.E., D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold ‘Jacker’ Strode-Jackson, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, attached Rifle Brigade and King’s Royal Rifle Corps, the legendary Olympic record breaker and Gold Medallist, wounded three times, mentioned six times and the second of only seven men to win a fourth D.S.O. in the Great War, by the end of which he was the youngest acting Brigadier in the British Army The Most Excellent Order of the...
Hammer Price: £40,000
The superb Second World War C.G.M., D.F.M. group of six awarded to Squadron Leader G. F. Keen, Royal Air Force, who, having been decorated for his first operational tour, was recommended for the V.C. for his great bravery on the night of 12-13 March 1943, during the raid on the Krupps works at Essen - by his own modest account he was ‘a bit knocked about’ by a direct flak hit that killed his Navigator, while in point of fact his right foot was blown off: one of around just 30 aircrew to...
Hammer Price: £38,000
The Great War D.S.O., D.S.C. and Bar, Second World War O.B.E. group of nine awarded to Group Captain B. D. “Billiken” Hobbs, Royal Canadian Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service, who, in a matter of months, was credited with the confirmed destruction of the Zeppelin L. 43, the sinking of the UC-6 and the probable sinking of another enemy submarine - the whole as a pilot of Large American Seaplanes operating out of Felixstowe’s famous “Spider’s Web”: his family having moved to...
Hammer Price: £26,000
The Great War D.S.C. and Bar, A.F.C. group of six awarded to Group Captain V. Gaskell-Blackburn, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service, who, having participated in the first ever carrier-borne air strike in 1914, spotted for the Severn and Mersey against the Konigsberg in East Africa and was twice decorated for his gallant deeds in the Kut-el-Amara and Ctesiphon operations 1915-16 Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, hallmarks for London 1915; Air Force...
Hammer Price: £20,000
The property of a direct descendant The exceptional 1914 D.C.M. and ‘Aubers Ridge’ Dated Bar group of four awarded to Company Sergeant-Major Frederick Shepherd, 1/13th (Kensington) Battalion, The London Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (2084 L. Cpl. F. W. Shepherd, 13/Lond: Regt.-T.F.) with Second Award Bar dated ‘9th MAY 1915’, bar loose on ribbon as issued; 1914 Star (2084 L. Cpl. F. W. Shepherd, 1/13 Lond: R.); British War and Victory Medals (2084 Sjt. F. W....
The Polar Medal awarded to Dr. S. E. Jones, who served with distinction in Mawson’s Expedition 1912-14 Polar Medal 1904, G.V.R., 1st issue, silver, 1 clasp, Antarctic 1912-14 (Dr. S. E. Jones, “Aurora”), good very fine £6000-8000
Hammer Price: £18,000
The Great War D.S.C. group of five awarded to Lieutenant J. C. K. “Shiner” Wright, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was decorated for his magnificent courage as “Jimmy the One” in Percy Dean’s M.L. 282 in the Zeebrugge raid in April 1918: her decks crowded with the dead and dying, she took appalling punishment from point-blank fire, Wright’s own stomach wound being rated as fatal - as a result, at Sir Roger Keyes’ behest, the King was contacted for his approval of an...
Hammer Price: £16,000
The Great War C.G.M., Medaille Militaire pair awarded to Chief Petty Officer G. C. P. Rumming, Royal Naval Air Service (Armoured Car Section), who was originally recommended for the V.C. for his magnificent bravery in the landings on ‘V’ beach, Gallipoli in April 1915: having given effective support fire from the River Clyde, he assisted both Commander E. Unwin and Sub. Lieutenant A. W. St. C. Tisdall in bringing in the wounded, his deeds being related to Winston Churchill in a letter...
Hammer Price: £15,000
The Great War D.S.O. and Bar group of seven awarded to Captain S. H. Simpson, Royal Navy, who was twice decorated for his command of the Q-Ship Cullist from March 1917 to February 1918, a period that included no less than five close encounters with enemy submarines, the last of them resulting in Cullist’s demise Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 Star (Lt. Commr. S. H. Simpson, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak...
Russia, Order of St. Anne, 2nd Class neck badge with swords, 48 x 48mm., gold and enamel, St. Petersburg mark for 1908-17 on sword hilts and ‘56’ gold mark and uncertain manufacturer’s mark on eyelet, in case, extremely fine £2000-2400
The Great War D.S.C. group of six awarded to Engineer Commander T. Kerr, the Royal Indian Marine’s first ever D.S.C. recipient, for his gallantry in the armed paddle-steamer Comet, near Kut, in September 1915, on which occasion his senior officer was awarded a posthumous V.C. - one witness said that Turkish bullets pattered on the Comet ‘like raindrops on a window pane’ Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1919; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp,...
Hammer Price: £13,000
A Light Brigade D.C.M. group of three awarded to Private James Whitechurch, 8th Hussars, who died in the Crimea Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Jas. Whitechurch, 8th Hussars); Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (J. Whitechurch, 8th Dragoons) officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, generally good very fine (3) £14000-18000
The Second World War C.B.E., Great War D.S.C. and Bar group of twelve awarded to Air Commodore W. H. Dunn, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service, who was decorated for his gallant services as a pilot in the relief of Kut operations in April 1916 and the East Africa operations later in the same year: having then flown operationally in Waziristan in the early 1920s, he added the C.B.E. to his accolades as C.O. of a Fighter Command Operational Training Group in the 1939-45 The Most...
Hammer Price: £12,000
The Great War D.S.O. and Second World War Bar group of eight awarded to Captain G. B. Hartford, Royal Navy, who, following a lucky escape from an early demise at Jutland, while in command of the destroyer Marne, won his first distinction for the destruction of the UB-124 in July 1918, and a Bar and a “mention” for sustained leadership and endurance in minesweeping operations in 1940-41 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, officially dated ‘1941’ on reverse,...
Hammer Price: £10,000
Sir Harry Smith’s Medal for Gallantry 1851 (Thos. Dicks) fitted with silver clip and ring suspension, good very fine and very rare £4000-5000
Hammer Price: £9,000
The Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Captain J. E. A. Mocatta, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his magnificent bravery and skill in command of the destroyer Nicator at Jutland, where he once engaged the enemy at the suicidal range of 600 yards, under ‘a perfectly hair-raising bombardment’, all the while ‘leaning coolly against the front of the bridge, smoking his pipe, and giving orders to his helmsman’; his immediate senior in the 2nd Division, 13th Destroyer Flotilla,...
The Great War D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Rear-Admiral M. G. B. Legge, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his gallant command of the destroyer Nerissa at Jutland, in which ship, as part of 2nd Division, 13th Destroyer Flotilla, he fought in close proximity to Bingham, V.C. Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 Star (Lt. Commr. M. G. B. Legge, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Commr. M. G. B. Legge, R.N.); Defence and War Medals;...
The Great War D.S.C. group of eleven awarded to Captain J. S. Metcalf, Royal Naval Reserve, who was decorated for his gallant command of one of the Triumph’s picket boats during the Gallipoli landings on 24-25 April 1915, in which operation he was wounded in the arm: having then served at Jutland, and added a Spanish decoration to his accolades between the Wars, he was present at the evacuations of Narvik and St. Nazaire in 1940 and lent good service as a Commodore of...
Hammer Price: £8,500
A rare ‘Matabeleland’ D.C.M. awarded to Trooper J. Lester, Bulawayo Field Force, for the ‘V.C. action’ at Umguza River, 22 April 1896 Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Trooper, Buluwayo (sic) Field Force) extremely fine £3500-4000
Hammer Price: £8,200
The Great War D.S.M. group of five awarded to Chief Petty Officer W. C. R. Griffin, Royal Navy, one of a handful of survivors from the destroyer Shark following her loss at Jutland: tales of that ship’s heroic point blank “last stand” filled the front pages of national press long before the deeds of “Boy Cornwall” were generally known - and her skipper, Loftus Jones, whose shattered leg was dressed by Griffin, was awarded a posthumous V.C. Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R....
Hammer Price: £8,000
The Second World War D.S.O., D.S.C. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Commander H. M. C. Sanders, Royal Naval Reserve, who was killed in action in command of the first of the flower-class corvettes, the Gladiolus, when she was torpedoed and sunk in October 1941: her C.O. from March 1940, he had participated in the destruction of at least two U-Boats in the interim, a gallant wartime career with parallels to the Compass Rose of Cruel Sea fame Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R. 1st...
The Great War D.S.O. and Bar group of five awarded to Commander F. A. P. Williams-Freeman, Royal Navy, who, having won his first D.S.O. for gallantry in the submarine E-6 in the Heligoland Bight in 1914, added a Bar for services ashore during the Asia Minor operations of 1920 - this the last such award to the Navy in respect of actions connected with the Great War Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. F. A. P....
Hammer Price: £7,500
The Second World War D.S.O. and Bar group of three awarded to Captain M. B. Sherwood, Royal Navy, who, having served as a submariner between the Wars, was decorated for his gallantry as C.O. of an anti-submarine trawler flotilla off Norway in 1940, and again for hazardous operations off Greece in the following year: such was the quality of his courage and leadership in the former theatre of war that a fellow officer was moved to observe, ‘all of us in trawlers would have gladly followed...
Hammer Price: £7,200
The Great War D.S.O. and Bar group of nine awarded to Captain P. R. P. Percival, Royal Navy, for his gallant command of the destroyer Morris in the Dover Patrol Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, silver-gilt and enamel; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (Lieut. P. R. P. Percival, R.N., H.M.S. Muzbee); 1914-15 Star (Lieut. P. R. P. Percival, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Commr. P. R. P. Percival, R.N.);...
Hammer Price: £7,000
The Russian intervention M.B.E., A.M. group of three awarded to Junior Officer S. J. Haines, Mercantile Marine Reserve, the Albert Medal being a unique award for this conflict The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, hallmarks for London 1917; Albert Medal, 2nd Class, for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, the reverse engraved, ‘Awarded by His Majesty to Samuel James Haines, Junior Officer, M.M.R., in Recognition of His Gallantry...
A rare Boxer rebellion ‘Defence of Legations’ group of four awarded to Mr W. P. Kerr, C.M.G., Vice-Consul and Second Chinese Secretary at the British Legation during the siege of Peking, later Consul-General at Tientsin 1917-27 The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast badge converted for neck wear, silver-gilt and enamels, in its R & S Garrard & Co case of issue, both centres with chips to enamel; China 1900, 1 clasp, Defence of...
Hammer Price: £6,800
The Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Vice-Admiral C. Seymour, Royal Navy, whose period of command in the destroyer Colne in the Dardanelles 1915-16 witnessed many engagements with the enemy: having lent valuable assistance at the landings in “Anzac Cove”, where ‘the shots were hitting the steel bows of the destroyers with a sound like hail on an iron roof’, the Colne won high praise for her close support of the hard-pressed New Zealanders ashore - so much so that they...
Hammer Price: £6,500
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Fort Detroit (James Truckell, 41st Foot) minor nicks and contact marks, therefore very fine £3500-4000
A rare Edward VII East African operations D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Major-General L. H. R. Pope-Hennessy, C.B., D.S.O., Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Distinguished Service Order, E.VII.R.; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1897-98 (Lieut. R. P. Hennessy, Oxford L.I.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 5 clasps, Jubaland, Somaliland 1902-04, Nandi 1905-06, East Africa 1905 (a contemporary copy clasp), Somaliland 1908-10 (Lt. L. H. R. Pope-Hennessy, Oxf. L.I.);...
Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Fuentes D’Onor, Salamanca (Fredk. Kellermann, Serjt. Brunswick Oels Lt. Infantry) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £1200-1400
Hammer Price: £6,400
The Second World War D.S.M. group of seven awarded to Petty Officer (Pensioner) W. C. Mudge, Royal Navy, who commanded a 6-inch gun crew aboard the armed merchant cruiser Alcantara at the time of her famous clash with the enemy raider Thor in July 1940 Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (D/227540 W. C. Mudge, P.O., H.M.S. Alcantara); 1914-15 Star (227540 W. C. Mudge, L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (227540 A.B., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, the Great...
Hammer Price: £6,200
A Burma campaign D.C.M. pair awarded to Sergeant William Yole, 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, for gallantry in the Shan Hills in May 1888 Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Corpl. W. Yole, 1st Bn. Rif. Bde. 10th May 1888); India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (1576 Corpl. W. Yole, 1st Bn. Rif. Brig.) cleaned and lacquered, very fine (2) £4000-4500
Pair: Private Paul Roe, 41st Foot Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Fort Detroit (Paul Roe, 41st Foot); Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (P. Roe, 41st Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, the first with edge bruise, good very fine, the second with re-fixed suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good fine (2) £4000-4500
The Great War D.S.M. group of five awarded to Shipwright 1st Class W. Shepherd, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his gallant deeds in the monitor Severn during her famous clashes with the Konigsberg in the Rufugi Delta in July 1915 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (346098 W. Sheppherd, Shpt. 2 Cl., H.M.S. Severn), note erroneous surname spelling; 1914-15 Star (346098 W. Shepherd, D.S.M., Shpt. 2, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (346098 W. Shepherd, Shpt. 1, R.N.); Royal Navy...
Hammer Price: £6,000
The Great War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Captain J. P. Champion, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his gallant leadership of the 2nd Division, 12th Destroyer Flotilla at Jutland, his own command, the Maenad delivering a brace of spirited torpedo attacks: recalled in the 1939-45 War, he attained the rank of Temporary Commodore 2nd Class and added a C.B.E. and “Letter of Appreciation” to his accolades, the latter in respect of “Operation Neptune” Distinguished Service Order,...
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