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A rare and important Regimental Commander’s Gold Cross with four clasps awarded to Colonel The Honourable Sir Robert Le Poer Trench, K.C.B., K.T.S., 74th Regiment (Highlanders) Army Gold Cross 1806-1814, for Buzaco, Fuentes de Onor, Badajoz, Salamanca, 4 clasps, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Toulouse (Lt. Colonel Honble. R. Le Poer Trench) contained in its original silk-lined fitted red leather case of issue, this excessively rare, together with the original leather-bound campaign diary kep...
Hammer Price: £52,000
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 4 clasps, 1 June 1794, St. Vincent, Nile, Trafalgar (Joseph Lenard) suspension claw re-fixed, otherwise good very fine and scarce £4500-5500
Hammer Price: £20,000
Fifteen: His Highness Prince Alexander of Battenberg, Marquess of Carisbrooke, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., Captain in the Grenadier Guards, and Hon. Colonel of the Isle of Wight Volunteers 1914 Star, with clasp (Lieut. Marquess of Carisbrooke, G.C.V.O., G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. Marquess of Carisbrooke); Defence & War Medals; Jubilee 1897, gold; Coronation 1902, silver; Coronation 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953; Russia, Order of St Vl...
Hammer Price: £7,200
The outstanding ‘Li Wo’ incident D.S.O. awarded to Temporary Sub-Lieutenant R. G. G. Staunton, Royal Naval Reserve, who became a Japanese prisoner of war after the incredible action which resulted in the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to his skipper, Lieutenant Thomas Wilkinson, R.N.R. Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., the reverse undated as issued at a Special Investiture at Hong Kong on 30 December 1947, in its D.S. & S. case of issue, extremely fine £4000-5000
Hammer Price: £7,000
A rare and emotive Dunkirk ‘Little Ships’ D.S.M. awarded to Doctor B. A. Smith, Owner and Chargehand of the Motor Boat Constant Nymph Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (B. A. Smith, M. Boat Constant Nymph); 1939-45 Star; Defence & War Medals; Special Constabulary Medal, G.V.R., coinage head (Sergt. Basil A. Smith) mounted as worn, edge bruise to the last, otherwise extremely fine and very rare (4) £3000-4000
Hammer Price: £6,800
A fine Second World War Fighter Ace’s D.F.C. and Bar, A.F.C. and Bar group of eight awarded to Wing Commander R. B. Cole, Nos. 250 and 3 Squadrons, Royal Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse dated 1943, with Second Award Bar, the reverse dated 1945; Air Force Cross, G.VI.R., second issue, the reverse dated 1951, with Second Award Bar, the reverse dated 1955; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; France & Germany Star; Defence & War Medals...
Hammer Price: £6,500
An outstanding ‘Spion Kop’ D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant T. W. J. W. Howard, Thorneycroft’s Mounted Infantry, who was severely wounded in this famous action Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Matabeleland 1893, 1 clasp, Rhodesia 1896 (Trooper, Raaff’s Column); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Ladysmith (Lieut., D.S.O., Th’croft’s M.I.); Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Tpr., Natal Carbinee...
Hammer Price: £6,000
A rare Ashanti 1900 Expedition D.S.O. group of four awarded to Surgeon-Major William Fletcher, Royal Army Medical Corps Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1899 (Surgn. Lieut., Niger C.P. Force); Ashanti 1900, clasp, Kumassi (Surg. Capt., W.A.F.F.) high relief bust; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Aro 1901-1902 (Capt., M.B., D.S.O., R.A.M.C.) high relief bust, the first with small chips to centres, otherwise good ver...
A Great War D.S.C. group of twelve awarded to Air Commodore E. W. Norton, Royal Air Force, late R.N.A.S., a Nieuport Scout Ace with 9 Victories, who later commanded an Armoured Car Company in Iraq and taught King George VI to fly Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Major, R.A.F.) renamed; British War and Victory Medals (Major, R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals, M.I.D.; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Iraq, Active Service Medal; Belgium, Order of the Crown, breast badge in silve...
Hammer Price: £5,500
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Virginie 19 May 1808 (Fred. Withey) edge bruise and a few surface marks, otherwise about very fine and scarce £3000-3500
Hammer Price: £5,200
An extremely rare Empire Gallantry Medal awarded to Coxswain John Howells, Fishguard Lifeboat, and R.N.L.I. Gold Medallist Empire Gallantry Medal, (Civil) G.V.R. (John Howells) extremely fine and extremely rare £2000-2500
Hammer Price: £4,200
A superb Great War and Second War C.B., D.S.C. group of nineteen awarded to Air Marshal Sir Philip Wigglesworth, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, in its Garrard & Co case of issue; Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals (Flt. Lt., R.N.A.S.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; France & Germany Star; Defence & War Medals; U.S...
Hammer Price: £3,800
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Trafalgar (James Wallin) some light nicks and marks, otherwise good very fine £3000-3500
Hammer Price: £3,700
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (Mid. Hon. I. L. A. Carnegie, R.N. H.M.S. Powerful) toned, good very fine £500-600
Hammer Price: £3,500
A Great War D.S.O. and Bar group of nine awarded to Captain P. R. P. Percival, Royal Navy Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (Lieut., R.N. H.M.S. Muzbee); 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Commr., R.N.); Defence & War Medals; Delhi Durbar 1911 (Lieut., H.M.S. Sphinx. 1911); Legion of Honour, Knight’s breast badge, silver, gilt and enamels, mounted ‘Co...
Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (John Henry Harding, 13th Light Dragoons) regimentally impressed naming, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £1400-1800
Hammer Price: £3,400
An extremely rare Southern Nigeria D.C.M. group of four awarded to Colour-Sergeant A. H. Anderson, The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, attached Southern Nigeria Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (Clr.-Serjt., S. Nigeria Regt.); Ashanti 1900, 1 clasp, Kumassi (Serjt., Rl. Lanc. Regt.) high relief bust; Africa General Service 1902-56, 4 clasps, S. Nigeria, Aro 1901-1902, S. Nigeria 1902-03, S. Nigeria 1904 (Clr.-Serjt., S. Nigeria Regt.) high relief bust, the last two clasp...
Hammer Price: £3,300
An outstanding and rare ‘Immediate’ Second War A.F.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant J. D. Muir, No. 162 Squadron, Royal Air Force, killed in 1943 Air Force Medal, G.VI.R. (1344013 Sgt., R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star, Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, nearly extremely fine (5) £2000-2500
The Most Noble Order of the Garter, a good late Victorian breast star in silver, gold and enamels, the reverse backplate inscribed R. & S. Garrard & Co., Goldsmiths & Jewellers to the Crown, 25 Haymarket, London, fitted with gold pin, good very fine £3000-3500
A Great War D.C.M., M.M. and Bar group of seven awarded to Private J. Schlencker, 4th Middlesex Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (10913 Pte., M.M. 4/Midd’x R.); Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (10913 Pte., 4/Midd’x R.); 1914-15 Star Trio (G-10913 Pte., Midd’x R.); Defence Medal; St John Service Medal (46214 Cpl., London S.J.A.B. 1951) some contact marks but generally good very fine (7) £1800-2200
Hammer Price: £3,100
Seven: Chief Petty Officer P. E. Dealey, Royal Navy East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Lake Nyassa 1893 (Lg. Sean., H.M.S.Adventure); China 1900, no clasp (P.O. 1Cl., H.M.S. Centurion); 1914-15 Star (128969 C.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (128969 C.P.O., R.N.); Coronation 1902, bronze; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (P.O. 1Cl., H.M.S. Excellent) impressed naming, together with his original parchment Certificates of Service (2), and parchment Gunnery and...
Hammer Price: £3,000
South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8-9 (1668 Pte. C. Wickham, 90th Foot) nearly extremely fine and very rare £2500-3000
Hammer Price: £2,900
A rare Edward VII Northern Nigeria D.S.O. group of three awarded to Captain W. H. Browne, Royal Fusiliers Distinguished Service Order, E.VII.R., silver-gilt and enamels, small pin-hole drilled in the arm at 3 o’clock, evidently to facilitate mounting; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1900 (Capt., Rl. Fus.) small pin-holes at 3 and 6 o’clock; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, N. Nigeria 1903 (Capt., Rl. Fus.) some chips to centres of the first, otherwise generally good very f...
Hammer Price: £2,800
A highly unusual Great War D.C.M. group of eight awarded to Captain G. L. McDonnell, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, late Honourable Artillery Company and City of London Imperial Volunteers (7th Middlesex (London Scottish) R.V.) Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (650 C.Q.M. Sjt., P.P. Can. L.I.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (1409 C. Sgt., C.I.V.); 1914-15 Star (650 C.S. Mjr., P.P.C.L.I.); British...
A Great War D.S.O., M.C. and Bar group of eleven awarded to the Reverend C. H. S. Runge, Principal Chaplain to the Union Defence Forces of South Africa 1941-44, late Captain, Middlesex Regiment Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘France Jan. 1917’, with Second Award Bar, the reverse inscribed ‘France Aug. 1918’; 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut., Midd’x. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy...
Hammer Price: £2,500
Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Badajoz, Salamanca (L. M. Bennett, Capt. 4th Foot) light edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £1200-1500
Pair: Private James Callum, 71st Foot Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (James Callum, 71st Foot); Waterloo 1815 (James Calleem, 1st Batt. 71st Reg. Foot) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, the last with two small edge bruises and both with very light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (2) £1200-1500
An exceptional Second World War ‘Western Desert’ M.C. and Bar group of five awarded to Major C. A. Halliday, 11th Hussars, subsequently taken prisoner of war Military Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated ‘1940’, with Second Award Bar, the reverse officially dated ‘1941’; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal; Efficiency Medal, Territorial, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, with long service bar (Lt. (M.C.) 11-H.) mounted as worn, together with companion set of miniatures, two ribbon bars, and for...
Hammer Price: £2,400
An outstanding ‘Neuve-Chapelle’ D.C.M. and Russian Cross of St George group of five awarded to Private J. S. Draycott, Notts. and Derby. Regiment, who was with Private Rivers in the action that won him the Victoria Cross Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (11588 Pte., 1/Notts. & Derby. Regt.); 1914 Star, with clasp (11588 Pte., 1/Notts. & Derby. R.); British War and Victory Medals (11588 Pte., Notts. & Derby. R.); Russian Cross of St George, 4th class, numbered ‘127 205’. together with an a...
An important C.M.G. and Boer War group of ten awarded to Captain the Hon. Sir S. J. Fortescue, G.C.V.O., C.M.G., Royal Navy, Naval A.D.C. to Lord Roberts during the Boer War, Equerry to King George V and King George VI, and Sergeant-at-Arms in the House of Lords The Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., breast badge converted for neck wear, silver-gilt and enamels, in its Garrard & Co case of issue; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 2 clasps, Alexandria 11th July, Suakin 1885 (Lieut. Hon., R...
A Boer War D.S.O. group of three awarded to Major Hon. Harold Fielden, 7th Hussars, Brabant’s Horse, and Prince of Wales’ Light Horse, later Military Secretary to H.E. Governor General of Australia Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (Major, D.S.O., 7/Hus.); Coronation 1902, silver, mounted as worn and contained in a Carrington & Co. fitted carrying case, extrem...
Hammer Price: £2,200
An Egyptian War C.B. group of three awarded to Fleet Surgeon Ingham Hanbury, Royal Navy, Principal Medical Officer to the Royal Marine Battalion in Egypt The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) breast badge, 18 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1880, complete with swivel-ring suspension and gold ribbon buckle in its R. & S. Garrard case of issue; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Fleet Surgn. R.N.); Khedive’s Star 1882, the first with some minor enamel...
A very rare Great War M.B.E., D.C.M. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel R. F. Cole, Indian Army Service Corps, late Mule Corps, taken prisoner at the fall of Kut in April 1916 The Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) 1st type; Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (Sub. Condr., S. & T. Corps.) naming correctly engraved in running script; 1914-15 Star (Sub. Condr., S. & T. Corps.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Condr., S & T.C.); India General Servi...
A fine Birmingham Blitz George Medal group of five awarded to Frederick ‘Sexton’ Blake, an Examiner with the Great Western Railway, and a former R.N. Stoker who had seen service at Jutland and in North Russia during the Great War George Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Frederick Francis Blake); 1914-15 Star (K.18129 Sto. 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Sto. 1, R.N.); Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., coinage head (Sto. 1, R.F.R.) together with his Mine Clearance Service silver b...
Hammer Price: £2,100
A large and bulky group of decorations, diplomas, etc., awarded to Professor Dennis Pritt, Q.C., onetime Labour M.P., prominent in law and politics for over half a century, a controversial figure who played a part in almost every left-wing cause from the Russian Revolution to Vietnam, and from the hunger marches to the pay freeze, comprising numerous Communist bloc awards including the rare Lenin Peace Prize gold medal (1954), Order of Georgi Dimitrov (1964), Star of International Friendship...
A good Second World War ‘North West Europe’ Immediate D.C.M. group of six awarded to Lance-Sergeant C. Boardman, 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.VI.R. (3522635 L. Sjt., E. Lan. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France & Germany Star; Defence & War Medals, good very fine (6) £1800-2200
Hammer Price: £2,000
Four: Lieutenant C. L. Wells, Hampshire Regiment and Colonial Forces Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Wittebergen, Belfast (Lieutenant, Johannesburg M.R.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., J’burg M.R.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, N. Nigeria 1903 (Lieut., 2nd N.N. Regt.); Coronation 1902, silver, the group mounted ‘Cavalry’ style with the Coronation Medal taking precedence, generally good very f...
A rare Second War ‘Western Desert’ M.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant T. A. Oldale, No. 70 Squadron, Royal Air Force Military Medal, G.VI.R. (1360001 Sgt., R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal, nearly extremely fine (4) £1600-1800
Hammer Price: £1,950
An outstanding Second World War Immediate M.M. awarded to Lance-Sergeant Harold Budner, Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers), killed in action in April 1945 Military Medal, G.VI.R. (14275450 L. Sjt., Notts. Yeo.) extremely fine £800-1000
South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8-9 (692 Pte. W. Rice, 2/24th Foot) clasp and carriage buckled, small edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine £1800-2200
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