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British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Matabeleland 1893, 2 clasps, Rhodesia 1896, Mashonaland 1897 (Lieut. C.V. Williams, Victoria Coln.) extremely fine and rare £500-700
Hammer Price: £1,550
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Piper A. McLeod, 42nd Rl. Highlanders) suspension claw re-fixed, edge bruise, otherwise very fine and rare £1200-1500
Hammer Price: £1,500
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Egypt (L. Kennedy, 42nd Foot) extremely fine £600-700
Hammer Price: £1,450
A good Great War M.C., Al Valore Militare group of five awarded to Captain F. C. Pritchard, Royal Field Artillery Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Defence Medal; Italy Al Valore Militare, in bronze, extremely fine (5) £800-1000
A Great War Destroyer Commander’s D.S.O. group of eight awarded to Rear-Admiral G. H. Knowles, Royal Navy Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Lt. Commr., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Commr., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal; Coronation 1911, mounted as worn, good very fine (8) £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,400
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Gaieta 24 July 1815, Syria (John Vaughan, Boatswain) last letter of Christian name and first three letters of surname engraved, light contact marks, otherwise very fine and a unique combination of clasps £1400-1800
Hammer Price: £1,350
Five: Chief Petty Officer A. C. Mansfield, Royal Navy, later 2nd Class Supervisor, Ashanti Field Force Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (A.B. H.M.S. “Inflexible”); East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Witu August 1893 (C.P.O. H.M.S. Swallow); Ashanti 1900, no clasp (2nd Cl. Supervisor, A.F.F.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Captn. M. Top. H.M.S. Minotaur); Khedive’s Star 1882, contact marks, otherwise about nearly very fine and a very...
A Great War D.S.C. group of five awarded to Captain H. A. Furniss, Royal Naval Air Service, late British Red Cross Society and R.N.V.R. Armoured Cars Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (B.R.C. & St.J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt., R.A.F.); French Croix de Guerre 1914-1917, nearly extremely fine (5) £1000-1200
Hammer Price: £1,300
A good Jutland D.S.M. group of four awarded to Wireman G. J. Ellisdon, H.M.S. Tiger Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (M13438. Wiren. 2Cl. H.M.S. Tiger. 31 May-1 June 1916); 1914-15 Star (M.13438. Ar. Cr. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.13438. Wmn. 1 R.N.) good very fine (4) £700-900
Hammer Price: £1,250
British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Matabeleland 1893 (3583 Pte. J. Armstrong, 1st Batt. R. Highls.) pawnbroker’s mark in obverse field, otherwise nearly extremely fine and scarce £400-500
Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Egypt, Martinique, Guadaloupe (Joseph Hudson, 13th Foot) edge bruise, otherwise good very fine and rare £1000-1200
A very rare ‘Bahr-El-Ghazal Expedition 1900-1901’ presentation silver cigarette case, hallmarked Birmingham 1902, the front of the case inscribed ‘Bahr-El-Ghazal Expedition 1900-1901’, and with finely enamelled Union Jack and Turkish national flags, the back of the case inscribed with five facsimile signatures of the officers and the names of two N.C.O.s in block capitals, very good condition and very rare £600-800
Hammer Price: £1,200
A post-war B.E.M. and Second War D.S.M. group of eight awarded to Chief Electrician H. J. Justice, Royal Navy, for the sinking of the U-187 in January 1943 British Empire Medal (Military) E.II.R. (Ch. Elect., D.S.M., P/MX 803817); Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (JX.128514 T/P.O.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (JX.128514 A.B. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Burma Star; War Medal; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (JX.128514 P.O. H.M.S....
Three: Private Donald M’Kenzie, 42nd Regiment, a volunteer sharpshooter who was awarded the French Medaille Militaire Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Alma, Sebastopol (Donald M’Kenzie, 42nd Regt.) officially impressed naming; French Medaille Militaire, 1st type, lacking enamel to central circlet on reverse; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, generally very fine (3) £800-1000
Russia, Order of St Anne, First Class sash badge, circa 1830, gold and enamels, 50 mm, in the typical style of Pannasch, the reverse with maker’s mark EP under the red enamel, the top ring with St Petersburg hallmark, lacking suspension loop but sewn to its original full dress sash, very small chip to reverse centre, red enamel almost entirely lacking from two obverse arms and one reverse arm, the badge otherwise good very fine and rare £400-600
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Gut of Gibraltar 12 July 1801 (Stephen Knott) very fine £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,150
A fine Somaliland 1940 M.M. group of eight awarded to Colour-Sergeant Harry Robertson, 2nd Battalion, Black Watch Military Medal, G.VI.R. (2754768 Cpl., Black Watch); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (2754768 Pte., Black Watch); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence & War Medals; Korea 1950-53 (2754768 C.Sjt., M.M. B.W.); U.N. Korea, mounted as worn, contact marks, very fine or better (8) £600-700
Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Color Serjt. Alexr. McLellan, Coldstm. Gds.) officially impressed naming, minor hairlines, otherwise nearly extremely fine £600-800
A fine Immediate D.F.M. group of four awarded to Flight Sergeant B. Bolsworth, No. 78 Squadron, Royal Air Force Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (1338939 F/Sgt., R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal, very fine (4) £850-950
Hammer Price: £1,100
A fine 1940 ‘Fort Capuzzo’ M.M. awarded to Corporal L. F. Edmonds, 6th Royal Tank Regiment, later drowned in the Mediterranean when his P.O.W. transport was torpedoed by H.M. Submarine Porpoise Military Medal, G.VI.R. (7886393 Cpl., R. Tank R.) mounted on its original investiture pin, nearly extremely fine £450-550
Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (C. P. Wallace, Lieut. 40th Foot) nearly extremely fine £700-900
A Great War A.F.C. group of three awarded to Captain (Pilot) H. Slingsby, Royal Air Force, who flew with No. 56 Squadron, commanded by the legendary fighter ace Major Jim McCudden, V.C. Air Force Cross, G.V.R. British War and Victory Medals (Capt., R.A.F.) nearly extremely fine (3) £600-800
Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Little, 42nd Regiment Foot) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,050
Royal Marines, an extremely fine and rare officer’s shako plate c1844-1855, the crowned copper gilt back plate with similar overlays being a laurel wreath and scrolls ‘GIBRALTAR’ and ‘PER MARE PER TERRAM’, centrally a silver globe and at the base a silver fouled anchor (KK1087, one star tip with slight fracture and the Globe crudely reaffixed with a nut and bolt otherwise near mint condition £500-700
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Mr. L. C. Duncombe-Jewell “Morning Post”) good very fine £1000-1200
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, 1 June 1794 (John Heraut) better than very fine £1000-1200
Three: Ship’s Cook George Smith, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Geo. Smith); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., Anchor type (George Smith, Ship’s Cook, H.M.S. Excellent. 20 Years); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, bronze but sometime silvered, the last good fine, otherwise good very fine (3) £800-1000
A Great War ‘Salonika’ M.C. group of four awarded to Captain (Pilot) H. J. Scales, No. 47 & 150 Squadrons, Royal Air Force, formerly City of London Yeomanry, killed whilst flying in 1918 Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (2290 Pte., C. of Lond. Yeo.); British war and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.) Victory Medal officially re-impressed; together with related group of three to Lieutenant J. W. H. Scales, Royal Air Force, comprising: 1914-15 Star (2833 Pte., C. of Lond....
A Great War D.S.M. group of five awarded to Chief Petty Officer A. L. Pond, Royal Navy, who served aboard the Penshurst, one of the most successful Q-Ships of the war Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (130926 C.P.O., Patrol Services 1915/6) small official correction to number; 1914-15 Star (130926 C.P.O. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (130926 L.S. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (P.O. 1Cl., H.M.S. Cleopatra) generally good very fine (5) £500-700
Hammer Price: £1,000
Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (J. Isaac, 4th Dragoons) officially impressed, good very fine £1200-1500
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Capt. H. H. Moseley, 42nd Rl. Highlanders) nearly extremely fine £300-400
A rare Anglo Boer-War ‘Distinguished Service Decoration’ group of five awarded to Lieutenant G. H. J. Kruger, Staatsartillerie, later 4th South African Mounted Rifles Anglo-Boer War Dekoratie voor Trouwe Dienst 1899-1902 (Luit.); Anglo-Boer War Medal 1899-1902 (Luit.); 1914-15 Star (Lt., 4th S.A.M.R.); British War and Bi-Lingual Victory Medal (Lt.) B.W.M. officially re-impressed; together with a small gold medal, obverse with arms and ‘Eendragt Maakt Magt’, reverse numbered...
Hammer Price: £980
Four: Captain C. A. French, Royal Irish Regiment, late Imperial Yeomanry, who died of wounds in June 1915 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut., Imp. Yeo.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt., R. Ir. Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) good very fine (4) £500-600
A Great War D.S.O. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel F. C. Dundas, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; 1914 Star, with clasp (Major, A.& S. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.) nearly extremely fine (4) £700-900
A Second World War D.S.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant A. J. Wadley, Royal Marines Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Sgt., R.M. PLY.X.716); 1939-45 Star; France & Germany Star (copy); Defence & War Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf, extremely fine (5) £600-700
Hammer Price: £950
A 1940 Dunkirk operations D.S.M. group of six awarded to Chief Petty Officer L. W. Dagley, Royal Navy Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (JX.127574 A/P.O. H.M.S. Venomous); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Burma Star; War Medal, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (JX.127574 P.O. H.M.S. Defiance) together with original M.I.D. Certificate (Chief P.O., D.S.M., H.M.S. Squirrel, 22 January 1946), Certificates of Service, parchment Hurt Certificate (21 December...
A good Second War ‘Italy’ B.E.M. group of seven awarded to Chief Stoker W. E. McFarlane, Royal Navy British Empire Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Military 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (KX.76763 Ch. Sto., H.M.S. Victory) nearly extremely fine (7) £400-450
Four: Lieutenant-Colonel Earl Cairns, C.M.G., Rifle Brigade and 5th London Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, S.A. 1902 (Major Hon. W. D. Cairns, Rifle Brigade); 1914 Star (Lt. Col. Earl Cairns, 5/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col. Earl Cairns) good very fine (4) £400-500
The Peninsula War Medal awarded to John McLean, 42nd Foot, one of the men who carried Sir John Moore’s body to the grave after Corunna Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Corunna, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (John McLean, 42nd Foot) edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £2000-2500
A Second World War D.S.M. awarded to Acting Able Seaman Francis Aylott, Royal Navy, for bravery while serving in S.S. Southgate on the Russian Convoy PQ15 in May 1942 Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (JX.313523 F. Aylott, A/A.B.) extremely fine £500-600
Hammer Price: £920
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