Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Photograph Album, belonging to Captain Gilman G. Arnitt, inside page lightly inscribed, ‘G. G. Arnitt, Orwell West, St. Andrews’, containing a fascinating selection of photographs, mostly ‘Navy’ related of the period 1914-18, all with captions, including ‘H.M.S. Laconia at Zanzibar 1915’; ‘the Sultan at Zanzibar 1915’; ‘Testing Seaplanes, Niorora Island 1915’; ‘H.M. Monitor “Severn” alongside H.M.S. Laconia” ’; “Koenigsburg” after action with “Mersey” and “Severn” ’ 1915; ‘Guns captured at “Bagamoya” ’; ‘Execution of Native Spys on Matia Island’; ‘Germans executing Natives’; Boat Race with H.M.S. Talbot at Mikandani, G.E.A.’; post-war photographs include three of the boxer Jack Dempsey in 1922, 68 photographs in total, some photographs have deteriorated, album warped, damaged and repaired; together with more recent loose photographs (4) and the booklet, Random Memories, by Rear-Admiral R. E. S. Bidwell, C.B.E., C.D., R.C.N.; inside inscribed, ‘Captain Gilman Arnitt, with the best wishes of the author Roger E. S. Bidwell’, fair condition
£80-100