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The Unique Falklands War ‘Posthumous’ C.G.M. group of four awarded to Staff Sergeant Jim Prescott, 49 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squadron, Royal Engineers, who was decorated for his exceptional gallantry alongside Warrant Officer John Phillips in rendering safe an unexploded bomb aboard H.M.S. Argonaut on 22 May 1982 and in attempting to defuse the following day an unexploded bomb aboard H.M.S. Antelope, which was in a highly volatile condition and which in the event exploded killing...
Hammer Price: £95,000
‘He was handsome, fair-haired, with piercing blue eyes and Nelsonian nose. He walked as if he were permanently on the deck of a ship. He was a daredevil, and his main aim appeared to be to force his way into the German area of the camp and then hack his way out with a metaphorical cutlass.’ Major P. R. “Pat” Reid, M.B.E., M.C., on his fellow escaper “Billie” Stephens in The Colditz Story. ‘By midday we had spread the search net to the 20-mile limit with the word...
Hammer Price: £62,000
The extremely rare insignia of the Royal Victorian Chain bestowed upon Abbas Hilmi II, the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan The Royal Victorian Chain, 1st type (1902-21) Gentleman’s Collar with pendant Badge, the silver-gilt Collar, overall length approximately 59cm, consisting of three Tudor roses, two thistles, two shamrocks and two lotus flowers, representing the heraldic flowers of England, Scotland, Ireland and India respectively, linked together with a double trace of oval link...
Hammer Price: £31,000
The extremely rare and important Great War D.S.O. and Bar group of five awarded to Major A. M. Wilkinson, Royal Air Force, late Hampshire Regiment and Royal Flying Corps, who gained a total of 19 victories in D.H. 2s of No. 24 Squadron and Bristol Fighters of No. 48 Squadron, nine of them in “Bloody April” 1917 and at least four of these in a single day - statistics that made him only second to Albert Ball, V.C., in attaining a double figure score and being awarded a “Double...
Hammer Price: £29,000
The unique and important Great War D.C.M. and Bar group of three awarded to Sergeant F. Johnson, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, who, having claimed four victories as an Air Gunner and Observer in No. 22 Squadron, raised his score to 16 piloting Bristol Fighters of No. 20 and No. 62 Squadrons - more often than not engaging his victims at ranges under 50 yards Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (6391 Cpl. F. Johnson, 22/Sqn. R.F.C.); British War and...
Hammer Price: £28,000
The highly important G.C.B., G.C.V.O., C.M.G., Great War M.C. group of fourteen awarded to the Rt. Hon. Sir Alan “Tommy” Lascelles, late Bedfordshire Yeomanry, whose long and distinguished career as a Private Secretary in the Royal Household encompassed the trials and tribulations of the Abdication in 1936 through to the momentous days of the 1939-45 War, when he was witness to many defining Churchillian episodes and joined H.M. the King on his first visit to Normandy: having then...
Hammer Price: £21,000
A fine Second War ‘Special Forces’ M.M. group of eight awarded to Warrant Officer Richard Higham, 1st Special Air Service Regiment, Special Raiding Squadron and King’s Own Royal Regiment, who won his M.M. for rescuing three of his wounded comrades whilst under heavy machine gun fire during ‘Operation Baytown’, the raid led by the legendary Lieutenant Colonel Blair Mayne to capture the Italian Town and Port of Bagnara on 4 September 1943 - a veteran of S.A.S. operations in Africa,...
Hammer Price: £20,000
A fine Great War Battle of Jutland C.G.M. group of five awarded to Leading Seaman J. S. Watson, Royal Navy, a veteran of the Royal Naval Division who was decorated for his gallant deeds in the severely damaged battleship Malaya Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, G.V.R. (178876 J. S. Watson, Lg. Sea., H.M.S. Malaya, 31 May-1 June 1916); 1914 Star, with clasp (1788776 J. S. Watson, Lg. Sea., Drake Bttn., R.N.D.); British War and Victory Medals (178876 J. S. Watson, L.S., R.N.); France, Croix de...
Hammer Price: £18,000
A fine 3-clasp N.G.S. awarded to William Lodwick, a Carpenter in the Royal Navy who was specially mentioned by Lord Cochrane for his services at the defence of Fort Trinidad, Spain, who went on to serve with that great naval hero at Basque Roads, and was later present at the sanguinary action which resulted in the capture of the French frigate Rivoli Naval General Service 1793-1840, 3 clasps, 23 June 1795, Basque Roads 1809, Victorious with Rivoli (William Lodwick, Carpenter) extremely...
Hammer Price: £17,000
An extremely rare Russia 1919 operations D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant E. A. Small, Military Intelligence Services, late South Staffordshire Regiment, one of just five British Army Officers to be awarded the Russian Order of St. George for gallantry during the Intervention: severely wounded in Gallipoli, he was subsequently employed as an agent in France by Military Intelligence and it is probable that his later work with partisans in Russia fell under the same clandestine...
Hammer Price: £15,000
A fine Peninsula War medal awarded to Private Hugh Tucker, 40th Foot, who was wounded above the eye at Badajoz and in the arm at Vittoria, and also served in South and North America and at Waterloo Military General Service 1793-1814, 11 clasps, Vimiera, Talavera, Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, St. Sebastian, Orthes, Toulouse (H. Tucker, 40th Foot) edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £4000-5000
Hammer Price: £13,000
The outstanding K.C.M.G., C.B., C.I.E., D.S.O., M.V.O., O. St. J. group of twenty awarded to Major-General Sir Sydney D’A. Crookshank, Royal Engineers, Director-General of Transportation, France, December 1917-May 1919 and Colonel Commandant, R.E., 1936-41 The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, K.C.M.G. Knight Commander’s set of insignia, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; breast star, silver, gold appliqué and enamel, with gold pin; The Most Honourable Order...
Hammer Price: £12,000
A Crimea War “Thin Red Line” D.C.M. group of three awarded to Private A. Ross, 93rd Highlanders Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Alexr. Ross, 93rd Highlanders); Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (Pte. Alexr. Ross, 93rd Ft.), contemporary engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, Hunt & Roskill die, unnamed, nearly very fine or better (3) £5000-6000
A superb Great War ‘Old Contemptibles’ D.C.M. & Bar, M.M. group of six awarded to Serjeant J. Wood, 1st Battalion, Liverpool Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. and Second Award Bar (8090 Sjt., J. Woods, 1/L’pool R.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (8090 Sjt. J. Woods, 1/L’pool. R.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (7146 Pte. J. E. Wood, S. Lanc. Regt.); 1914 Star, with clasp (8090 Pte. J. Wood, 1/L’pool. R.);...
Hammer Price: £9,500
Japan, Order of the Rising Sun with Pawlonia Flowers, Grand Cordon set of insignia, sash badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with red cabochon centre; breast star, silver-gilt and enamel, with red cabochon centre, reverse inscribed with four Japanese characters, with full and evening sashes, in slightly damaged slip-top lacquer case of issue, complete with cords but lacking internal pad, star with some hairline cracks to white enamel, good very fine and scarce (2) £8000-10000
Hammer Price: £9,200
A very rare Great War Gallipoli operations C.G.M. group of six awarded to Lieutenant F. Pilgrim, Royal Marines, attached Royal Naval Division, afterwards a Major in the Home Guard Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, G.V.R. (PO. 846 S. Act. Cpl. F. Pilgrim, R.M., R.N.D., Gallipoli, 20 Nov. 1915); 1914-15 Star (PO-846-S F. Pilgrim, L. Cpl., R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lt. F. Pilgrim, R.M.L.I.); Defence Medal 1939-45; France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1917, with bronze palm, the fourth...
Hammer Price: £8,500
A fine K. St. J., Second World War D.S.O., Great War M.C. group of eleven awarded to Major R. G. W. Bewicke-Copley, the 5th Lord Cromwell, who, as a Company Commander in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, was severely wounded and taken P.O.W. at the gallant defence of Calais in May 1940 - ‘He was hit by bullets in both arms and in the head, the sight of one eye being badly affected, and yet he remained in command when all the men at his barricade, save himself and two riflemen, were...
Hammer Price: £8,200
The Zulu War medal to Sergeant John Lines, 2/24th Foot, who was killed at Isandhlwana South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8-9 (2221 Sergt. J. Lines, 2/24th Foot) toned, extremely fine £5000-6000
Hammer Price: £7,800
A scarce pair for the Capture of Java, the First Burma War and the Siege of Bhurtpoor to Colonel Robert Seymour, Bengal Native Infantry Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Java (R. Seymour, Lieut. 6th Bengal Vol. Bn.); Army of India 1799-1826, 2 clasps, Ava, Bhurtpoor (Captn. R. Seymour, 26th N.I.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, good very fine and scarce (2) £4500-5000
A rare Great War Dardanelles C.G.M. group of six awarded to Chief Engine Room Artificer 1st Class J. J. F. Runalls, Royal Navy, who was severely wounded during the famous action to force the Narrows on 18 March 1915 Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, G.V.R. (272059 J. J. F. Runalls, E.R.A. 2nd Cl., H.M.S. Inflexible); 1914-15 Star (272059 J. J. F. Runalls, Act. C.E.R.A. 2, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (272059 J. J. F. Runalls, C.E.R.A. 2, R.N.; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue...
Hammer Price: £7,500
An extremely rare Chinese Civil War incident D.S.M. group of three awarded to Able Seaman W. Kell, Royal Navy, among those who boarded the captured steamer Wanhsien amidst ‘a hurricane of bullets’ in September 1926 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (J. 77349 W. Kell, A.B., H.M.S. Kiawo, Wanhsien, 5.9.26); British War and Victory Medals (J. 77349 W. Kell, Ord., R.N.), edge bruising and contact marks, thus good fine or better (3) £3000-4000
The Zulu War medal to Colour-Sergeant M. C. Keane, Staff Clerk to Colonel John Crealock, who was the only member of the General Staff to be killed at Isandhlwana and whose remains were recently discovered and identified South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Staff Clerk M. C. Keane. Genl. Staff) pawnbroker’s marks in obverse fields, polished, otherwise nearly very fine and extremely rare £6000-8000
Hammer Price: £7,200
Three: Private James Duncan, 42nd Royal Highlanders, wounded at Salamanca and Toulouse Military General Service 1793-1814, 7 clasps, Corunna, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (James Duncan, 42nd Foot); Waterloo 1815 (James Duncan 42nd or R.H. Reg. Infantry) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension; 42nd Foot Medal 1819, silver, Balmer R335a (Js. Duncan) light contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise very fine (3) £4000-5000
The Zulu War medal to Trooper Francis Secretan, Natal Mounted Police, who was killed at Isandhlwana South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Tr. F. Secretan. Natal Md. Police) good very fine and rare £6000-8000
Hammer Price: £6,800
Six: Motor Boatman A. E. Windebank, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who as an Assistant Cook was a survivor from the crew in the Titanic Disaster 1914-15 Star (M.B.442 M.B., R.N.V.R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (M.B.442 M.B., R.N.V.R.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Alfred E. Windebank); Victory Medal 1914-19 (M.B.442 M.B., R.N.V.R.) mounted as worn; U.S.A. West Indies Campaign Medal 1898 (Sampson Medal) (A. Windebank, 3d. Ck.) lacking brooch bar; Spanish Campaign Medal 1898, U.S.N....
A rare and interesting Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Captain J. R. Ramsay, Royal Air Force, late R.E. Balloon Section and Royal Flying Corps, a qualified ‘skilled balloonist’ who was decorated as a Sergeant-Major in the very first list of M.Cs to be gazetted - having come to favourable notice for saving Great Britain’s first military airship - the Nulli Secundus - during a storm in October 1907, he became just the third entrant recorded on the books of the newly established...
Hammer Price: £6,500
The Peninsula and Waterloo pair awarded to Lieutenant Leopold Schultze, 1st Hussars, King’s German Legion Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (L. S. Schultze, Cornet 1st Hussrs. K.G.L.); Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. Leopold Schulze, 1st Reg. Hussars K.G.L.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, good very fine and better (2) £5000-6000
A fine K.C.V.O., C.B.E., O. St. J. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Cecil Bingham Levita, Royal Field Artillery The Royal Victorian Order, K.C.V.O., Knight Commander’s set of insignia, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with gold pin, both pieces officially numbered, ‘543’; Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1973, enamel damage; The Most Excellent Order of the...
Hammer Price: £6,200
China, Empire, Imperial Order of the Double Dragon, 2nd type, 2nd Class, 3rd Grade breast star, 79mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with engraved coral centre stone and smooth coral upper stone, some enamel damage, good very fine £800-1000
Sultan’s Medal for Egypt 1801, 1st Class, gold, 54mm., with original gold hook and chain suspended from a good length of contemporary silk ribbon, a finely executed piece, good very fine and very rare £5000-6000
Hammer Price: £6,000
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Martinique, Guadaloupe (Kilgour Davison, Actg. Lieut. R.N.) small edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £2500-3000
The Waterloo medal awarded to Private Jonathan Taylor, Scots Greys Waterloo 1815 (Jonathan Taylor, 2nd or R.N. Brit. Reg. Drag.) fitted with replacement German-silver hinged bar suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore good fine £5000-6000
Hammer Price: £5,800
The G.C.B., O. St. J. group of six awarded to General Sir John St. George, Royal Artillery - who commanded the siege train at Sebastopol and was latterly Master Gunner, St. James’s Park The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, G.C.B. (Military) Knight Grand Cross set of insignia, sash badge, silver-gilt and enamel; breast star, silver, gold appliqué and enamel, with gold pin, with full sash; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Bailiff set of insignia, neck badge, 51 x 53mm., 18ct. gold...
Hammer Price: £5,500
A Great War M.M. group of six awarded to Serjeant A. Fraser, 10th Battalion Cameron Highlanders and 1st Lovat’s Scouts Military Medal, G.V.R. (223203Sjt., 10/Cam’n. Highrs.); 1914-15 Star (1986 Pte., 1 Lovat’s Scts.); British War and Victory Medals (1986 Sjt., 1-Lovat’s Scts.); Colonial Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (Inspr. A. Fraser, M.M.); St. John Service Medal (989 A. Fraser, Ceylon Police Cps. S.J.A.B.O. 1931) mounted court style for wear, contact marks, fine and...
Hammer Price: £5,200
A scarce Magersfontein D.C.M. pair awarded to Lance-Corporal D. Fraser, Highland Light Infantry Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (4896 L.Corpl: D. Fraser, 1st Highland L.I.) ‘1st’ corrected; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Modder River, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (4896 Cpl. D. Fraser, 1st Highland Lt. Infy.) minor edge bruises, otherwise good very fine (2) £3000-3500
A ‘1920 Irish Troubles’ Constabulary Medal (Ireland) to Constable William Dunphy, Royal Irish Constabulary Constabulary Medal (Ireland), 2nd type, ‘Reward of Merit Royal Irish Constabulary’, reverse inscribed, ‘Constable William Dunphy, 64671, 1920’, with straight bar swivel suspension and silver brooch bar, good very fine £5000-6000
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 9 clasps, 1 June 1794, St. Vincent, Nile, Egypt, Copenhagen 1801, Trafalgar, Algiers, Navarino, Syria ([Fr]om the Master of the Mint to the United Service Institu[tn.]) officially impressed naming, a few letters obscured by suspension claw, clasp carriage bearing a catalogue number in ink, ‘C-18964’, extremely fine £2000-2500
Hammer Price: £5,000
A rare Second World War M.B.E., D.S.C. group of five awarded to Commander N. K. Cambell, Royal Navy, a Fleet Air Arm pilot who was decorated for his gallant deeds in Swordfish operating out of Malta up until his capture after ditching off North Africa in May 1941: his subsequent work in sending back valuable coded messages to the U.K. from assorted P.O.W. camps in Italy and Germany resulted in the award of his M.B.E. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military)...
Hammer Price: £4,800
An impressive R.V.M. group of fourteen awarded to James Thomas Warren, Steward of the Palaces Royal Victorian Medal, E.VII.R., silver (J. T. Warren); Jubilee 1897, silver (J. T. Warren); Coronation 1902, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘J. T. Warren’; Coronation 1911, silver (J. T. Warren); Belgium, Order of the Crown, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Japan, Order of the Sacred Treasure, 6th Class, silver and enamel, enamel damage; Spain, Order of Isabella the...
Hammer Price: £4,600
A most unusual group to the three Hamilton brothers, all of whom were killed or died in the Boer War: Lieutenant Alastair Hamilton, Royal Irish Fusiliers, wounded in the action at Pieter’s Hill and later killed by lightening at Machadodorp Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (Lieut: A. Hamilton, Rl. Irish Fus:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt. A....
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