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Sold by Order of the Family An outstanding Second World War bomb disposal George Cross group of eight awarded to Brigadier W. M. Eastman, Royal Army Ordnance Corps: with little relevant training, Eastman and a fellow officer rendered safe some 275 UXBs on Malta in 1940 - ‘Their courage was beyond all praise and it was a miracle that they both remained alive’ George Cross (Lieut. William Marsden Eastman, R.A.O.C., 24th December 1940); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army;...
Hammer Price: £43,000
‘It was my great good fortune to be appointed General Staff Officer to the Arab Forces in the early part of 1918. From then throughout the final phase of the Arab revolt on till Damascus, I worked, travelled, and fought alongside Lawrence. Night after night we lay wrapped in our blankets under the cold stars of the desert. At these times one learns much of a man. Lawrence took the limelight from those of us professional soldiers who were fortunate enough to serve with him, but never once...
Hammer Price: £28,000
The historically important insignia of the Order of Saint Patrick successively worn by Richard, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842), Governor-General of India, by the 6th Earl of Mayo (1822-72), Viceroy of India from 1869 until his assassination in February 1872, and finally by the 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902), third Governor-General of Canada and eighth Viceroy of India The Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, an important set of insignia, circa 1800-10 comprising an...
Hammer Price: £25,000
The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, G.C.S.I., Knight Grand Commander’s set of insignia, comprising sash badge, 110mm x 58mm, the central onyx cameo of a youthful Queen Victoria set within an openwork ornamental border, oval border of gold bearing the motto of the Order ‘Heaven’s Light Our Guide’, surmounted by and pendant from a five-pointed star with small suspension loop, the whole badge and suspension being lavishly set with diamonds; and breast star, 90mm, the body...
A rare Napoleonic Wars Guelphic Medal group of four awarded to Corporal Frederick Armstadt, 1st Hussars, King’s German Legion, for gallantry at the bridge of Gallegos in July 1810 and also at the battle of Toulouse in April 1814 Guelphic Medal for Bravery 1815 (Ferdinand Almstedt, Corporal im 1t. Hus. Rt. K.D.L. zu N’olle) a few letters of naming obscured through contact wear; Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Salamanca, Vittoria,...
Hammer Price: £16,000
A rare Fall of France 1940 D.F.M. group of four awarded to Flight Lieutenant L. S. Pilkington, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who was credited with 5 “kills” as a Hurricane pilot in No. 73 Squadron prior to transferring to Spitfires of No. 111 Squadron and being killed in action on a Channel offensive sweep in September 1941: he was to have been married just six days later Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (741935 Sgt. L. S. Pilkington, R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe...
Hammer Price: £14,000
The rare Companion’s badge of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India bestowed upon Blanche Julia, Dowager Countess of Mayo, in recognition of her term as Vicereine of India 1869-72 The Imperial Order of the Crown of India, oval breast badge, 67mm x 40mm, in gold, the central Royal Cypher set with diamonds, half pearls and turquoises, encircled by a pearl set border, the whole surmounted by an Imperial Crown with red enamelled cap of maintenance, the band set with small emeralds and...
Hammer Price: £13,000
The extremely rare badge of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert bestowed upon Blanche Julia, Dowager Countess of Mayo, upon her appointment as Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria in 1872 The Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, 3rd Class badge (1880-1902) [2nd Class when awarded in 1872], comprising a shell cameo of the conjoined busts of Queen Victoria and Prince Consort, signed J. Ronca of Chelsea, surrounded by a gold border set with twenty half pearls and four diamonds,...
Hammer Price: £12,000
The Sudan Campaign pair to Lieutenant Richard Wolfe, 2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys), killed in action at the battle of Abu Klea Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (Lieut. R. Wolfe, 2nd Dragns.); Khedive’s Star 1884-6, good very fine (2) £6000-7000
Army of India 1799-1826, 4 clasps, Allighur, Battle of Delhi, Laswarree, Battle of Deig (T. Davis, 76th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine and very rare £7000-9000
Hammer Price: £11,000
Waterloo 1815 (Lt. Ja. Stewart Cargil, 1st Batt. 52nd Reg. Foot) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine £3500-4000
Hammer Price: £10,000
Waterloo 1815 (Capt. & Bre. Maj. A. Kuckuck, 3rd Line Batt.) fitted with original steel clip and small ring suspension, together with a fine oval miniature portrait of the recipient in uniform wearing his Waterloo medal, oils on ivory, unsigned; a gilt badge with GRV cypher from his later Hannoverian service; ‘Peacock’s Polite Repository or Pocket Companion’ for 1818, with hand written eulogy to the K.G.L. with reference to their services at Waterloo given by the Duke of Cambridge,...
Hammer Price: £9,500
A superb Great War “balloonatic’s” M.C., D.F.C. group of four awarded to Captain T. G. G. “Blot” Bolitho, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps: in the period May 1916 to June 1917, he completed around 325 operational hours and was four times compelled to take to his parachute: in the words of Goderic Hodges, the author of Memoirs of an Old Balloonatic, Bolitho was ‘perhaps the bravest balloonist of them all’ Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved,...
Hammer Price: £8,800
A rare Great War Egypt and Palestine operations C.B., C.M.G., Boer War ‘Edward VII’ D.S.O. group of twelve awarded to Major-General Sir Michael Bowman-Manifold, Royal Engineers, whose distinguished career spanned extensive service in the Sudan campaigns 1896-98 as Staff Officer Telegraphs and one of Kitchener’s R.E. “Band of Boys” - and having his horse shot from under at Firket - through to senior command in the Great War as a Director of Signals of both the Mediterranean and...
Hammer Price: £8,500
An extremely rare Second World War Malta convoys D.S.O., M.B.E. group of nine awarded to Captain G. B. Pinkney, Merchant Navy: decorated for his services as Chief Officer and then Master of the Port Chalmers in operations “Halberd” and Pedestal”, his D.S.O. was among the first gazetted to a Merchant Officer following a change of policy by the Admiralty’s Honours & Awards Committee Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse of the suspension...
Hammer Price: £8,000
Croix de Guerre Bestowal Document, to Ordinary Seaman John George Vigor, Royal Navy, dated 9 August 1918, good condition £80-100
Hammer Price: £7,651
Sir Harry Smith’s Medal for Gallantry 1851 (Henry Evans, C.M.R.) fitted with silver clip and bar suspension, good very fine, very rare and one of the finest named examples recorded £6000-8000
Hammer Price: £7,500
An extremely rare Second World War D.S.O. and Bar, inter-war O.B.E. group of ten awarded to Captain G. F. Stevens-Guille, Royal Navy, who won his first D.S.O. for services as Senior Officer of an Escort Group in 1939, and a Bar for his command of the destroyer Codrington at Dunkirk, thereby becoming the Navy’s first “Double D.S.O.” of the War - among those he embarked in the course of operation “Dynamo” was a certain Major-General B. L. Montgomery Distinguished Service Order,...
Hammer Price: £6,800
A fine Omdurman D.C.M. group of seven awarded to Colour-Sergeant Michael Mullen, Royal Irish Fusiliers, for services with the Maxim Gun Detachment during the campaign in the Sudan in 1898 Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Corpl. M. Mullen, R. Ir. Fus. (2nd Sept. 1898)); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (3188 Pte. M. Mullan, 1st Bn. Royal Irish Fuslrs.); Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3188 L/Sgt. M. Mullin, 1/R.I. Fus.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4...
A rare Kelat-i-Ghilzie group of four to Sepoy Emambux Khan, 43rd Bengal Native Light Infantry Defence of Kelat-i-Ghilzie 1842 (Sepoy Emambux Khan, 43rd regt. N.I.) fitted with steel clip and straight bar suspension; Ghuznee Cabul 1842 (Sepoy Emambux Khan, 43rd regt. N.I.) fitted with steel clip and straight bar suspension; Maharajpoor Star 1843 (Sepoy Emam Bux Khan, 43rd Regt. N.I.) with brass hook suspension; Sutlej 1845-46, for Sobraon 1846 (Sepoy Emambux Khan, 43rd L.I.) impressed...
An extremely rare Second World War “Triple D.F.C.” group of six awarded to Squadron Leader R. Van den Bok, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who, having survived a very close encounter with the Scharnhorst during the famous “Channel Dash” in February 1942, and been awarded his first D.F.C., added an immediate Bar for making a successful evasion attempt after being shot down and wounded over Belgium - a Second Bar followed for radio counter-measure operations in Flying Fortresses in...
Hammer Price: £6,500
The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, G.C.S.I., Knight Grand Commander’s collar badge, 110mm x 58mm, gold and enamel with a fine quality central onyx cameo of a youthful Queen Victoria, suspended from a five-pointed silver star with small gold ring for attachment to collar, a particularly good quality early badge, extremely fine and extremely rare £6000-8000
An important Rhodesian pioneer’s C.M.G. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Marshall Hole, onetime Private Secretary to Dr. Leander Jameson, and a friend of Cecil Rhodes, who described him ‘as one of the best and most loyal servants the Charter has had the good fortune to employ’: an acclaimed author, too, he wrote a definitive history of the “Jameson Raid” in addition to his classic - The Making of Rhodesia The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St....
Hammer Price: £6,000
Army of India 1799-1826, 3 clasps, Allighur, Laswarree, Capture of Deig (G. Hunter, 29th Lt. Dragns.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine and rare £5000-6000
A Great War ‘Jutland’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Rear-Admiral H. S. Currey, Royal Navy, Commander and Executive Officer of H.M.S. Marlborough, the only ship to be torpedoed during the battle Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., the edge of the lower arm inscribed ‘H. S. Currey 1916’; 1914-15 Star (Commr. H. S. Currey, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. H. S. Currey, R.N.); Jubilee 1897, silver (H. S. Currey); Russia, Order of St Stanislas, 2nd...
Hammer Price: £5,800
The rare and important New Zealand medal issued to Able Seaman J. Hay, for service New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (J. Hay, A.B. H.M.C.S. Victoria) officially impressed naming in later style similar to that for East & West Africa medals, fitted with silver ribbon brooch, suspension claw tightened, very fine and very rare £4000-5000
Hammer Price: £5,500
A rare Second World War D.S.C. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant (A.) R. A. Wiltshire, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, a Fleet Air Arm pilot who was decorated for his part in “Operation Dragoon”: he had earlier participated in “Operation Tungsten”, the famous attack on the Tirpitz in April 1944 Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated ‘1945’ and privately engraved, ‘Lieutenant (A.) Reginald Alfred Wiltshire, D.S.C., R.N.V.R.’, hallmarks for...
Hammer Price: £5,200
A rare Second World War D.S.M. awarded to Leading Airman F. R. R. Lowe, Fleet Air Arm, who was killed in the Western Desert in July 1942 Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (FX. 79410 F. R. R. Lowe, L. Airmn.), number and initials officially corrected, otherwise extremely fine £3000-3500
A scarce Omdurman D.C.M. group of eight awarded to Staff Quarter-Master Sergeant John Parsons, Army Service Corps, late Commissariat & Transport Corps Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Sergt. J. Parsons, A.S.C. (2nd Sept. 1898)); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse,1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (4199 P[te.], 11th C[ompy. S. &] T.C.), naming details partially worn through bruising; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (S/4199 Sgt., A.S.C.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony,...
Hammer Price: £5,000
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Gluckstadt 5 Jany 1814 (T. S. Scriven, Midshipman) edge bruise, otherwise very fine £4000-4500
A rare and emotive Second World War Normandy operations M.M. awarded to Lance-Corporal W. H. Short, 2nd (Airborne) Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Regiment, who, having been decorated for leading an assault on an enemy position - Bren gun firing from his hip - was killed in action in the Ardennes in January 1945 Military Medal, G.VI.R. (14209889 L. Cpl. W. H. Short, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.), in its card box of issue, complete with original registered forwarding package, extremely...
Hammer Price: £4,800
A fine posthumous Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. and Bar group of three awarded to Captain C. H. Oakley, 1/22nd Battalion, London Regiment, who was mortally wounded on 2 September 1918 Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); together with memorial plaque (Christopher Herbert Oakley) cleaned and laquered, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4) £2500-3000
Hammer Price: £4,700
Hannover Waterloo 1815 (Lieutenant Carl v. Hinueber, Landw. Bat. Verden) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, minor marks, otherwise good very fine and a rare casualty £2500-3000
Hammer Price: £4,600
Six: Commander H. B. Beresford, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (H. B. Beresford, Mate) fitted with silver ribbon buckle, first initial corrected and shown as ‘J. B.’ on the roll; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1846 to 1847 (Lieut. Hy. B. Beresford, H.M.S. Calliope) officially impressed naming; Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Sebastopol, Azoff (H. B. Beresford, Commander, H.M.S. Medina) contemporary engraved naming, clasps loose as issued; St Jean d’Acre...
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel G. K. Priaulx, 11th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who, having been seriously wounded in 1914 and in 1915, was killed in action leading his battalion, 24 March 1918 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Capt. K.R.R.C.); King’s South...
Hammer Price: £4,400
The group of five medals awarded to Major (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) R. H. W. Brewis, 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, late Oxfordshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action on 18 December 1914 Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Lt., 1/R. War. R.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Major, R. War. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (Lieut., 1st Royal Warwickshire Regt.); Memorial Plaque (Robert Henry...
Sold by Order of a Direct Descendant The Proceeds to Benefit a Regimental Charity A fine Great War C.B., C.M.G., Boer War D.S.O. group of eight awarded to Brigadier-General J. S. Ollivant, Royal Artillery: first decorated for his services in “Chestnut Troop”, R.H.A. and 5th Brigade, R.F.A. in South Africa, he displayed courage of a high order as a Battery Commander at Ypres in October 1914 - in his famous history of that campaign Conan Doyle describes how the village that Ollivant...
Hammer Price: £4,300
A particularly fine Second World War Mosquito navigator's D.F.M. group of four awarded to Pilot Officer L. J. Etheridge, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who completed 50 sorties over France, Holland and Germany in 1944-45, an action packed tour that included a brace of crash-landings back in England after damage sustained in action - once on one-engine with a hung-up 500lb. bomb: so, too, the spectacular daylight raids on the S.S.-occupied Chateau de Fou in August 1944 and S.S. barracks...
Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Nepaul (Lieut. J. Jeffries, 17th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, good very fine £1800-2200
The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, G.C.I.E., Knight Grand Commander’s set of insignia, comprising sash badge in gold and enamels, and breast star in silver, gold and enamel with gold retaining pin, complete with full dress sash, the set contained in its late Victorian R. & S. Garrard & Co case of issue, enamel chips to one red petal and two green leaves of badge, otherwise nearly extremely fine £3500-4000
Hammer Price: £4,200
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