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‘We in Secunderabad were lucky to have some of the best men in the Indian Medical Service as the head of this hospital, and Colonel MacGregor was one of the finest type. Loved and respected by all, rich and poor, he was extremely kind to the poor patients, and sometimes would help them with money from his own pocket. He would go round the hospital every day except on Sundays and see every patient, even though it was a 250-bedded hospital. He was lovingly called “The Padre” by very many...
Hammer Price: £1,900
A C.I.E. group of six awarded to Brigadier Cameron Macdonald Nicol, Indian Medical Service The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel, in Garrard, London case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Major); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Capt., I.M.S.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these unnamed, medals mounted as worn, good very fine and better (6) £900-1000
Hammer Price: £920
A fine Second World War C.B.E., Great War D.S.C. group of thirteen awarded to Air Vice-Marshal C. W. Nutting, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and Royal Naval Air Service, who, having been decorated for his gallantry as an Observer in the No. 1 Wing at Dunkirk and gained acclaim as an innovator in wireless telegraphy for aircraft, rose to senior rank in the R.A.F. and was awarded the C.B.E. for his services as Assistant Chief of Air Staff in the Directorate of...
Hammer Price: £3,100
A Great War C.B.E. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel A. W. Hazel, a General Staff Officer in the Ministry of Interior, Cairo, who was murdered in the uprising of March 1919 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col. A. W. Hazel); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 3rd Class neck badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Turkey, Order of Medjidie, 3rd...
Hammer Price: £880
An impressive Second World War O.B.E., Great War M.C. group of eleven awarded to Brigadier A. H. Pollock, Indian Army, late the King’s Own - twice wounded in the Great War, he saw extensive action on the North West Frontier between the Wars and added the O.B.E. to his accolades for his services in Somaliland and North Africa in 1940-41 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as...
Hammer Price: £1,600
A civil O.B.E. and rare Gallipoli operations M.C. group of five awarded to Colonel K. Ffrench, South Wales Borderers, who was wounded in the battle of Gully Ravine in June 1915 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, in its Royal Mint case of issue; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (Capt. K. Ffrench, S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major K. Ffrench), these last...
Hammer Price: £3,300
A Second World War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Major-General Patrick Turpin, Royal Army Service Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, these all unnamed, mounted court style for wear; together with a U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps Medallion, 75mm. diameter, 7mm. thick, bronze, reverse inscribed,...
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A Second World War O.B.E. awarded to Chief Engineer T. C. Coles, Technical Training Command, Royal Air Force The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, in its Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine £100-120
Hammer Price: £100
A scarce post-war test pilot’s O.B.E. pair awarded to Lieutenant-Commander A. H. G. Murray, FLeet Air Arm, Royal Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Naval General Service 1915-62, 2 clasps, E.II.R., Malaya, Near East (Lieut. (P.) A. H. G. Murray, R.N.), generally good very fine (2) £600-800
“GCHQ has been by far the most valuable source of intelligence for the British Government ever since it began operating at Bletchley during the last war. British skills in interception and code-breaking are unique.” Denis Healey, House of Commons, 27 February 1984. The important and unique Falklands War “code-breakers” O.B.E. awarded to Miss Maureen Jones, an original member of G.C.H.Q. from Bletchley Park and one of only 26 women honoured for the South Atlantic...
Hammer Price: £1,200
A military M.B.E. group of four awarded to Lieutenant Percy Howard Cocks, Army Educational Corps and Corps of Army Schoolmasters, a recipient of an M.S.M. for Bermuda The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; British War Medal 1914-20 (W.O. Cl. 1, C. of A.S.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (Schoolmaster, C. of A.S.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Schoolmaster, C. of...
Hammer Price: £430
Sold by Order of the Recipient’s Direct Descendants Proceeds to be donated to the Welsh Guards Afghanistan Appeal A fine Second World War North-West Europe operations M.B.E. group of five awarded to Captain P. V. Francombe, 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry (R.A.C.), who was twice wounded in action The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, in its Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War...
Hammer Price: £410
A Second World War M.B.E. group of nine awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Harold “Polly” Parrott, Indian Army, late Somerset Light Infantry The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; British War Medal 1914-20 (8944 Pte., Som. L.I.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (8994 Sgt., 2 Bn. Som. L.I.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War and India Service Medals; Jubilee 1935, these unnamed; Army L.S. &...
Hammer Price: £500
An M.B.E. group of ten awarded to Major G. B. Purves-Smith, King’s Own Scottish Borderers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; General Service 1918-62, E.II.R., 2 clasps, Malaya, Cyprus (Major G. B. Purves-Smith, MBE, KOSB, Duplicate) impressed naming; Korea 1950-53 (Major G. B. Purves-Smith, MBE, KOSB (Duplicate)) engraved naming; U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed;...
Hammer Price: £350
An O. St. J. Knight of Justice group of four awarded to Colonel F. W. Pixley, 1st Cadet Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight of Justice set of insignia (1912-26 type) neck badge, 57mm. dia. and breast star, 57mm., dia., silver-gilt and enamel, in a later case, neck badge with minor enamel damage; Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed; Volunteer Decoration, V.R., unnamed, hallmarks for London 1919, complete with top bar; St. John Service Medal (Colonel...
Hammer Price: £480
‘I can state hundreds of such instances where you proved yourself a Hero and a worthy descendant of the Boys of the Bull dog breed. I hope earnestly that the Government will do something for you. It is your just due. You are young in years, and I know quite well that you will be one of the first to go forth again in the hour of your country's need, prepared to give your life for the honour of the Old Flag.’ A letter to Smith from his ‘affectionate Comrade and old Commanding...
Hammer Price: £4,700
A good Great War D.S.O., M.C. group of nine awarded to Major J. T. Walker, Royal Garrison Artillery, who commanded a Siege Battery in Italy and was also awarded the Al Valore Militare in silver and bronze Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut. J. T. Walker, R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major J. T. Walker); Italy, Al Valore Militare, silver, the reverse engraved, ‘Walker,...
Hammer Price: £3,600
A rare Russian intervention honorary D.S.O. awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel N. Gregoriades, Greek Army Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue, enamel wreaths slightly chipped in places, otherwise good very fine £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,400
A rare Great War D.S.C. group of six awarded to Squadron Leader E. R. Barker, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service, who was decorated for his part in a daring Handley Page 0/100 bomber raid against Zeebrugge in July 1917 - subsequently posted missing, believed drowned, he turned up in an internment camp in Holland Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1914, the reverse privately engraved, ‘E. R. Barker, Zeebrugge, 15-16 July 1917’; British War and Victory...
Hammer Price: £2,900
A Great War Gallipoli operations D.S.C. attributed to Lieutenant E. H. Lamb, Royal Marines, attached Royal Naval Division Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved ‘Lieut. E. H. Lamb, R.M., 1915’, in its worn Garrard & Co. case of issue, good very fine £1200-1400
Hammer Price: £1,800
An exceptional Second World War Norway 1940 operations D.S.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant T. A. McKee, Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy, who, as a young Midshipman (A.), was decorated for several successful strikes in Skuas of 803 Squadron, including the sinking of the Konigsberg, but who was taken P.O.W. following the disastrous attack on the Scharnhorst in Trondheim Fjord a few weeks later, when his Skua was downed by enemy ace Oberleutnant Gordon Gollob: badly wounded and hospitalised,...
Hammer Price: £7,500
A fine Second World War Coastal Forces D.S.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Commander A. S. Bennett, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, a gallant M.L. Flotilla C.O. who distinguished himself off Normandy and in the amphibious landings at Walcheren in November 1944, when he was wounded in the neck - chapters of active service modestly recounted in his published memoir Tide Time Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., hallmarks for London 1943, the reverse officially dated ‘1945’, in...
A Great War M.C. group of six awarded to Captain H. H. Davenport, 10th (1st Gwent) Battalion, South Wales Borderers Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut. H. H. Davenport. S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. H. Davenport); Defence and War Medals, good very fine (5) £800-1000
A rare Great War pilot’s M.C. group of six awarded to Wing Commander H. A. Smith, Royal Air Force, late Coldstream Guards, Middlesex Regiment and and Royal Flying Corps, who, having been decorated for his gallant deeds during numerous bombing sorties, witnessed further action in the Southern Desert, Iraq in 1928 Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (11812 Pte. H. A. Smith, C. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. A. Smith, R.F.C.); General Service 1918-62, 1...
Hammer Price: £2,800
A fine Great War Mesopotamia operations M.C., Burma incident K.P.M. group of five awarded to Major. R. Tilly, Indian Army and onetime Commandant of the Burma Military Police Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately inscribed, ‘Capt. R. Tilly, 123rd Outram’s Rifles, 2nd Nov. 1917’; King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Maj. R. Tilly, M.C., I.A., Commdt., Burma Mil. Pol.); British War and Victory Medals, with oak palm (Maj. R. Tilly); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp,...
Hammer Price: £2,000
A Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Quatermaster and Captain William Scott, 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, late Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; British War and Victory Medals (Q,M, & Capt.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (2981 Sjt., M.C., A. & S.H.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (2981 Serjt., A. & S. Hdrs.) mounted for wear, good very fine and better (5) £900-1200
Hammer Price: £1,000
A Great War M.C. group of three awarded to Captain J. Stenson, Royal Garrison Artillery Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Capt. John Stenson’; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) these two mounted as worn, good very fine and better (lot) £700-900
A Great War M.C. group of three awarded to Major Percy Wilson Freeman, 5th Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles, Quebec Regiment Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; British War and Victory Medals (Major); together with an American Red Cross First Aid Medal, bronze, brooch bar inscribed, ‘Won by P. W. Freeman, Capt.’; with a ‘C.E.F.’ lapel badge, bronze and enamel, reverse stamped, ‘397071’, very fine and better (5) £600-800
Hammer Price: £1,500
A unique Third Afghan War Observer’s M.C. group of four awarded to Wing Commander J. E. Truss, Royal Air Force Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. J. E. Truss, R.A.F.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lieut. T. E. Truss, R.A.F.), note first initial, mounted court-style as worn on tatty original wearing bar, somewhat polished, nearly very fine or better (4) £2500-3000
Hammer Price: £2,700
A Great War hospital ship incident M.C. awarded to Captain H. W. Hodgson, Royal Army Medical Corps Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved, ‘H. W. Hodgson, Capt., R.A.M.C., H.M.H.S. Abglia, Torpedoed 17th Nov. 1915’, in its case of issue, extremely fine £400-500
Hammer Price: £720
A fine Great War D.F.C. group of six awarded to Squadron Leader C. L. “Pip” Rayment, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, late Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, a veteran of numerous sorties in D.H. 4s of No. 55 Squadron in the summer of 1918 Distinguished Flying Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately inscribed, ‘Lt. C. L. Rayment, 55 Squadron, R.A.F., July 1918, Awarded While Acting with the Independent Air Force’; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. L. Rayment, R.A.F.);...
Hammer Price: £2,600
A fine Second World War rear-gunner’s D.F.C. group of six awarded to Pilot Officer C. G. Pearse, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, a veteran of over 50 operational sorties, many of them with No. 161 Squadron in support of S.O.E. circuits in Occupied Europe Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated ‘1943’ and the reverse of the upper arm privately inscribed ‘C. G. P.’, in its Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Africa Star; Italy...
Sold by Order of a Direct Descendant Family group: A rare Helicopter pilot’s Malaya operations D.F.C. group of seven awarded to Flight Lieutenant T. Carbis, Royal Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, E.II.R., reverse officially dated ‘1957’, with its Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Malaya, Cyprus, E.II.R. (Flt. Lt. T. Carbis, R.A.F.), officially stamped ‘Replacement’; Coronation 1953; Royal Air Force...
A fine Boer War D.C.M. group of six awarded to Major G. A. M. Praed, 5th Light Infantry, Indian Army, late South Wales Borderers and East Kent Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (5845 Cpl. G. A. M. Praed, 2/E. Kent Regt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal (2nd Lieut., 2/S. Wales Bord.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (2nd Lieut., 2/S. Wales Bord.); Natal 1906, clasp, 1906 (Lt., 5th Light. Inf. Regt....
A rare Great War D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private E. J. Brooker, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who was decorated for his protracted gallantry from the Gallipoli landings to the War’s end - in which period he was twice wounded Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (8982 Pte. E. J. Brooker, 1/R. Innis. Fus.); 1914-15 Star (8982 Pte. E. J. Brooker, R. Innis. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (8982 Pte. E. J. Brooker, R. Innis. Fus.) extremely fine (4) £1200-1500
A Great War D.C.M. group of four awarded to Private William Holliday, 6th Battalion, South Wales Borderers Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (9-16760 Pte. W. Holliday, 6/S. Wales Bord:); 1914-15 Star (16760 Pte. W. Holliday, S. Wales Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (16760 Pte. W. Holliday, S. Wales Bord:) nearly extremely fine (4) £1000-1200
A Great War D.C.M. awarded to Serjeant W. Lumley, 9th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (46727 Sjt., 9/North’d. Fus.) good very fine £600-700
Hammer Price: £650
A Great War D.C.M. awarded to Acting Corporal J. Edwards, 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers, for gallantry near Festubert in December 1914 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (8269 A. Cpl. J. Edwards. 1/S.W. Bord:) nearly very fine £600-700
A rare Great War Gallipoli operations D.C.M. awarded to Private H. Allen, Worcestershire Regiment, who died of wounds in the peninsula in May 1915 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (11891 Pte. H. Allen, 4/Worc. Regt.), obverse polished, nearly very fine £800-1000
Hammer Price: £850
“Send all the pumps you’ve got - the whole bloody world’s on fire.” A Fire Officer’s desperate plea at the height of the London Docks’ “firestorm” on 7 September 1940 A landmark London Blitz G.M. pair awarded to Constable J. E. Fletcher, Port of London Authority Police, who was decorated for his bravery at the Naval magazine in the London Docks at Shadwell on “Black Saturday” the 7th September 1940 - the opening day of Goring’s bomber offensive against Great...
Hammer Price: £4,500
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