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Sold by Order of the Family ‘The attention of the reader is directed to the endurance of this officer. After a long day’s marching and fighting in the dark, without food and with small numbers, the man who will go on, unshaken and unflinching after he has received a severe and painful wound, has in respect of personal courage few equals and no superior in the world. It is perhaps as high a form of valour to endure as it is to fight. The combination of both is sublime.’ Winston...
Hammer Price: £260,000
Sold by Order of The Recipient “To say that I am full of admiration for your gallantry, courage and initiative is an understatement. You are an outstanding credit to the Mercian Regiment, of which I have the great privilege to be Colonel-in-Chief. You are also an immense credit to this country of ours which is, without doubt, more fortunate than it realises in having such dedicated people as yourself serving in our armed forces.” (Prince Charles in a letter to the recipient, 17...
Hammer Price: £110,000
‘Goering had stepped up to make a radio broadcast on Sunday 31 January 1943 during a weekend of celebrations of Hitler’s accession to power 10 years earlier. Hitler had cried off with a sore throat hours before, so to Goering fell the task, at 11 a.m., of telling the Germans what towering achievements the Reich had made. Flags flew, soldiers gathered to listen, as ordered, communally, and over the airwaves from the headquarters of Grossdeutscher Rundfunk, the state radio station, in...
Hammer Price: £68,000
The highly important Stuart period Lesser George sash badge conferred upon Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, who was elected a Knight of the Garter in October 1712, and, after the death of Queen Anne in 1714 was appointed one of the Lords Justices during the absence of King George I The Most Noble Order of the Garter, K.G., Lesser George sash badge, the central gold and enamelled figure of Saint George mounted on a white horse slaying the dragon with a lance, modelled in the round, surrounded...
Hammer Price: £55,000
The important Rhodesia Pioneer’s campaign group of three awarded to Commander E. C. Tyndale-Biscoe, Royal Navy, who, having been invalided from the R.N. after gallant service in the Naval Brigade in Egypt & the Sudan, was appointed Officer in Command of Machine Guns in the Pioneer Corps - and hoisted the Union Jack at Fort Salisbury on 13 September 1890 - and afterwards commanded the ‘galloping Maxim’ in the Salisbury Horse in the Matabele Rebellion in 1893, in addition to serving in...
Hammer Price: £30,000
The presentation silver matchbox given to Wing Commander R. W. Reynolds, D.S.O., D.F.C., for his part in leading the famous Aarhus Gestapo H.Q. raid in October 1944, Danish hallmarks, the lid with crowned ‘CX’ cypher on red enamelled applique panel with engraved initials ‘R. W. R.’ below, the inside lid with further engraved inscription (in Danish), ‘In Gratitude from Denmark’s Freedom Movement’, 55mm. by 65mm. (including integral latch), good very fine £300-400
Hammer Price: £22,000
Sold by Order of a Direct Descendant ‘It was Geoff Howitt and his operator who won the Squadron’s first victory on Havocs. A waxing moon near to full and the air as clear as crystal made for better sighting - not only for the night fighter, but for the enemy upper and lower rear gunners on the look-out. After the G.C.I. - call sign Cranford - had guided Geoff for some time out to sea, a good blip came up on Reed’s cathode tube, and at 9,000 feet he guided his pilot in from astern,...
Hammer Price: £19,000
‘On the occasion of the wreck of the Birkenhead all ranks, officers and men, acted nobly, each doing his duty to his country and his Queen; the coolest and most heroic, if I must differentiate, being Colonel Seton, commanding the troops, who from the impact was on deck in full regimentals, giving his orders as if on parade, at the last dying like a hero at the post of duty. He set a very inspiring example, conducing to that perfect discipline never surpassed in the annals of our...
Hammer Price: £11,000
The exceptional Second World War path finder pilot’s D.F.C. and Bar, North Africa operations D.F.M. group of seven awarded to Flight Lieutenant A. P. Mountain, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who completed 113 operational sorties, the vast majority of them in Mosquitos of No. 109 Squadron and many of these as marker Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar, the reverse of the Cross officially dated ‘1945’, and the reverse of the Bar ‘1945’; Distinguished...
The outstanding post-war C.B., “Operation Torch” C.B.E., Bailiff Grand Cross St. John, and White Sea operations 1918 D.S.C. group of twenty to Rear-Admiral Sir Royer Dick, Royal Navy: first seeing action off the Falklands as a Midshipman in H.M.S. Carnarvon, and afterwards at Jutland in the Barham, he won his D.S.C. for command of the gunboat Razlyff in the River Dvina and Tchamova operations in 1918, and served with equal distinction in the 1939-45 War on “ABC” Cunningham’s staff,...
Hammer Price: £9,800
A rare Defence of Legations Military Order of the Dragon pair awarded to Mr L. H. R. Barr, Student Interpreter, H.B.M. Consular Service, who died at sea in 1915 having recently been appointed one of H.Ms. Vice-Consuls in China China 1900, 1 clasp, Defence of Legations (L. H. R. Barr. Consular Service) officially impressed naming; U.S.A., Military Order of the Dragon (Leslie H. R. Barr H.B.M.C.S. No. 1139.) complete with pagoda top suspension brooch and original ribbon, this somewhat...
Hammer Price: £8,500
Sold by Order of the Recipient The exceptionally rare and most probably unique six clasp G.S.M. group of three to Sergeant R. G. ‘Bob’ Walters, ‘A’ Squadron, 22 Special Air Service Regiment, who gained all of his clasps whilst serving with the S.A.S. - A veteran of numerous Special Forces actions his name was entered into the Guinness Book of Records in 1980, when he led a team in a cross-channel ‘HAHO’ (High Altitude High Opening) lateral fall from 25,000 feet wearing...
Hammer Price: £8,200
The outstanding Great war fighter ace’s Italy operations D.F.C. group of three awarded to Flight Lieutenant G. F. M. Apps, Royal Canadian Air Force, late Artist’s Rifles, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force: carrying out his first offensive patrols in Sopwith Camels of No. 66 Squadron in January 1918, he was to remain similarly employed until being wounded by A.A. fire in his right leg in mid-July - a period encompassing well in excess of 100 operational sorties and 10 confirmed...
Hammer Price: £8,000
The extremely rare Malaya operations D.F.M. pair awarded to Acting Corporal T. E. Westbrook, Royal Army Service Corps, who flew in excess of 200 supply dropping sorties in Valettas as an Air Despatch Crew Commander in No. 55 (Air Despatch) Company over a two year period in the mid-1950s Distinguished Flying Medal, E.II.R. (T22971387 A./Cpl. T. E. Westbrook, R.A.S.C.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R., M.I.D. oak leaf (T/22971387 Dvr. T. E. Westbrook, R.A.S.C.), extremely...
Hammer Price: £6,200
South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8-9 (557, Qr. Mr. Sergt. T. Leitch, 1/24th Foot.) toned, nearly extremely fine £7000-9000
Honourable East India Company Medal for the Coorg Rebellion 1837, gold, 3rd class medal as awarded to Parpattigars, 45.29 grams, with integral gold loop for suspension, a rare original medal, one of only 20 awarded in this class, with overall signs of wear, otherwise very fine and very rare £4000-5000
Hammer Price: £6,000
Sir Harry Smith’s Medal for Gallantry 1851 (Thos. Dicks) fitted with silver clip and ring suspension, good very fine and very rare £6000-8000
‘I was at times guilty of some bravado in an effort to draw the cunning enemy, such as sometimes standing in the section truck when passing through a regular ambush point and shouting a challenge in Malay - like a dog baying at the moon! It never worked. And there was a time when I was in charge of a newly-established, section-strength detachment, housed in a wooden Chinese social club hut, fortified at the front only with a rampart of sandbags. The place was called Kangkar Jemuluang,...
A rare Isandhlwana survivor’s South Africa Medal to Trumpeter J. J. Horne, Newcastle Mounted Rifles, shot through the leg he was fortunate to escape the massacre at Fugitive’s Drift and, some 50 years later, related his story to a newspaper reporter South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Trumpt. Horne, Newcastle Md. Rifls.), together with two sporting prize medals awarded to the recipient’s son, Robert Horne, silver, and silver and enamel, named and dated 1901 and 1902, the first with...
Hammer Price: £5,800
Pair: Master James Saunders, Royal Navy, who served in two expeditions to the Arctic and was Master of H.M.S. Cruizer during the Opium war of 1842 China 1842 (James Saunders, Master. H.M.S. Cruizer) original straight bar suspension; Arctic 1818-55, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine (2) £2000-2500
The uniquely dated Polar medal awarded to Captain William Johnston, M.N., for many years Commander of the Royal Research Ship John Biscoe for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in the Antarctic Polar Medal 1904, E.II.R., 2nd issue, silver, 1 clasp, Antarctic 1950-61 (Captain William Johnston, M.N.) extremely fine £2500-3000
Hammer Price: £5,500
South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8-9 (1654 Pte. T. Young, 1/24th Foot), some minor marks, otherwise extremely fine £6000-7000
Hammer Price: £5,000
An outstanding ‘Bloody April’ aerial combat M.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant R. E. Tollerfield, No. 11 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, when as Observer and Aerial Gunner he was engaged in a combat with 14 machines of Jasta 11, led by Baron Manfred von Richthofen Military Medal, G.V.R. (1197 Cpl. R. E. Tollerfield, 11/Sqn. R.F.C.); 1914 Star, with clasp (1197 2/A.M. R. E. Tollerfield. R.F.C.); British War and Victory Medals (1197 Sgt. R. E. Tollerfield. R.F.C.) together with scarce...
A rare Korea operations D.F.M. group of eight awarded to Master Navigator K. Jameson, Royal Air Force, who completed a tour of operations in Sunderlands of No. 209 Squadron, a Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance unit Distinguished Flying Medal, E.II.R. (1697306 F. Sgt. K. Jameson, R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (1697306 Sgt. K. Jameson, R.A.F.); Korea 1950-53 (1697306 Sgt. K. Jameson, R.A.F.); U.N. Korea 1950-54; General Service...
Hammer Price: £4,900
Pair: Seaman F. W. Kemp, Royal Naval Reserve, who served as Fireman aboard the relief ship Morning in Scott’s First Antarctic Expedition Polar Medal 1904, E.VII.R., bronze, no clasp (F. Kemp “Morning” 1902-4); Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (C.4003 F. W. Kemp, Sean. 1 Cl, R.N.R.) the first a little polished, otherwise very fine (2) £2500-3000
A fine Battle of Britain and Night Interception Operator’s 1939-45 War campaign group of five awarded to Flight Lieutenant J. C. O. Medworth, Royal Air Force, who, having shared in the destruction of an He. 115 in July 1940, while serving as an Air Gunner in Blenheims of No. 24 Squadron, transferred to the elite No. 85 Squadron under John “Cat’s Eyes” Cunningham and, as a Navigator (Radar) in the unit’s Mosquitos, damaged a Fw. 190 and accounted for the first Me. 410 “Hornet”...
Hammer Price: £4,600
An extremely rare Boer War D.C.M. pair awarded to Lieutenant J. W. Porter, 3rd New South Wales Imperial Bushmen Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (Serjt.-Maj. J. W. Porter, N.S. Wales Cont.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (R. Sjt. Maj. J. W. Porter, N.S. Wales I.B.), one or two edge bruises, otherwise good very fine (2) £3000-3500
A rare Malaya operations D.F.M. group of nine awarded to Master Signaller J. Murray, Royal Air Force, who was decorated for a total of 65 operational sorties in Brigands of No. 84 and Sunderlands of No. 88 Squadrons Distinguished Flying Medal, E.II.R. (1822833 Sgt. J. Murray, R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (1822833 Sgt. J. Murray, R.A.F.); Korea 1950-53 (1822833 Sgt. J. Murray, R.A.F.); Royal Air Force...
Hammer Price: £4,300
A rare Zulu War C.M.G. group of four awarded to Major-General W. P. Collingwood, Royal Scots Fusiliers, late 37th Foot, who commanded the 2nd Brigade of Newdigate’s Division in South Africa in the early summer of 1879: by curious coincidence he was senior officer aboard the steamer Spartan when she was wrecked on the Dog Rocks off the coast of Africa on returning from the Crimea in July 1856, and aboard the steamship City of Paris when she was wrecked on entering Simon’s Bay with the...
A rare Korea operations D.F.C. group of nine awarded to Master Engineer L. G. Ledingham, Royal Air Force, who, having won a “mention” for his protracted services in Sunderlands in the 1939-45 War, was decorated for his gallantry in numerous “Firedog” sorties in No. 209 Squadron Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R. 2nd issue, the reverse officially dated ‘1951’; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp,...
‘It is over a year since I saw Sergeant Wolton, as he was, but I remember very well that the Station Commander put him on the list because “he has done extremely well already and will do even better if he gets the chance: a particularly good type of sergeant pilot.” He was the cheerful sort of chap I enjoy drawing, though the number of gadgets on his arm made me work overtime! In one respect he is, I think, unique. He baled out into the sea without opening his parachute; he didn't have...
Hammer Price: £4,200
A Second World War night fighter’s campaign group of five awarded to Warrant Officer A. G. V. “Gerry” Holton, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who flew operationally as an Air Gunner in Defiants of No. 141 Squadron during the Battle of Britain and as a Navigator (Radar) in Beaufighters of No. 89 Squadron in the Middle East 1942-43 - including a posting to Malta at the height of the siege 1939-45 Star, clasp, Battle of Britain; Air Crew Europe Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa...
Hammer Price: £4,100
Sold by Order of the Family ‘I have been given the privilege of presenting this cross to you as a token of Her Majesty the Queen Empress’ appreciation of the devotion shown by you to her sick and wounded soldiers in the Hazara campaign of 1888. It has often fallen to my lot to present decorations to English soldiers but, in the very nature of things, they have been chiefly for taking life. The cross that I have now the honour of presenting to you is an emblem of fairer fame, to...
An outstanding father and son M.C. family group: ‘To be at large for thirty-six days before escaping from the country, to have been so frequently seen, sometimes certainly to have aroused suspicion, and yet to have evaded recapture, might perhaps be attributed to Turkish lack of organisation. Our escape from armed villagers; our discovery of wells in the desert, of grain in an abandoned farmhouse, and of water (which just lasted our stay) in the ruined wells on the coast; and finally,...
Hammer Price: £4,000
Five: Colonel Sir Lumley Graham, Bt., 19th Foot, late 41st and 43rd Regiments, who served as A.D.C. to Major-General Eyre in the Crimea, where he was severely wounded before Sebastopol and suffered the loss of his right arm South Africa 1834-53 (Captn. L. Graham, 43rd Regt.); Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Major Lumley Graham, 41st Regt.), old engraved naming; France, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, gold and enamel, several bent arm points and...
Hammer Price: £3,900
The post-war K.B.E., Second World War C.B. group awarded to Air Marshal Sir Francis Fressanges, Royal Air Force, who served as C.-in-C. Far East Air Force, and British Military Adviser to S.E.A.T.O., 1954-57, at the time of the Malaya Emergency: he had earlier commanded No. 95 and No. 210 Squadrons during the Battle of the Atlantic, for which he won a “mention”, and served on attachment to the U.S. Navy, for which he was awarded the Legion of Merit ...
Hammer Price: £3,800
Pair: Private J. Dovey, 21st Lancers, who rode at the charge at Omdurman, 2 September 1898 and with the 16th Lancers, was wounded in action in the Boer War, 23 December 1901 Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (4005 Pte., 21/L’crs.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (4405 Pte., 21st Lcrs.) very fine and better (2) £2000-2400
Hammer Price: £3,500
Sold by Order of a Direct Descendant A ‘Battle of France’ Iron Cross Knight’s Cross group attributed to Oberst Hermann-Eberhard Wildermuth, latterly ‘Fortress Commandant’ of Le Havre Iron Cross 1939, Knight’s Cross, neck badge, unmarked, in plain black fitted case of issue; German Cross in Gold, enamelled, four rivet construction, unmarked, pin-backed; 1939 Clasp to the Iron Cross, 1st Class, unmarked, pin-backed; Iron Cross 1914, 1st Class, reverse marked, ‘800’,...
A most unusual Spanish War 1898, Boer War and Great War group of six awarded to Major S. Norton-Taylor, 10th Canadian Infantry, late 1st Florida Infantry and Imperial Light Horse - who was terribly wounded on 23 October 1915 resulting in the amputation of both legs Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut., I.L.H.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lieut., Imp. Lt. Horse); 1914-15 Star (Lieut.,...
Hammer Price: £3,200
Indian States, Bahawalpur, Order of Abbasia, 1st Class breast star, by Spink, London, 81mm. dia., silver, silver-gilt and enamel, enamel damage to centre, about very fine, scarce £1000-1200
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