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The China Medal 1900 awarded to Lieutenant T. E. Martin-Leake, Royal Engineers, who drowned in a ballooning accident off the Dorset Coast, 28 May 1907 China 1900, no clasp (Lieut. T. E. Martin-Leake, R.E.) suspension re-pinned; together with a Balloon School Royal Engineers Medallion, by A. Fenwick, conjoined busts of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra left, reverse: an airship over the town of Farnborough, 32mm., base silver metal, unnamed, good very fine and better (2) £1200-1500
Hammer Price: £1,700
British Red Cross Society Medal for the Balkan Wars 1912-13, 1 clasp, Turkey, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘John W. Jolly Jnr.’, with ‘Balkan War 1912-13’ brooch bar, in fitted case of issue, extremely fine, scarce £300-400
Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Sahagun & Benevente, Vittoria (Thomas Goodhall, 10th Hussars.) minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £1200-1400
The Peninsula War medal awarded to William Parrott, 40th Regiment, who served in the South American Campaign and the Peninsula, and was severely wounded at Vittoria Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Vimiera, Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Vittoria (William Parrott, 40th Foot) good very fine £1800-2200
A good Second World War D.F.M. awarded to Flight Sergeant J. Blakeley, Royal Air Force, who completed at least 37 operational sorties as an Air Gunner in Halifaxes of No. 578 Squadron: ‘his consistently successful lookout combined with a first class running commentary have enabled his captains on five occasions to outmanoeuvre German fighters’ Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (1523075 F./Sgt. J. Blakeley, R.A.F.), good very fine £1700-1900
Pair: Gunner Patrick Prendergast, 1st (or Leslie’s) Troop Bombay Horse Artillery Ghuznee Cabul 1842 (Gunner Patrick Prendergast, 1st Troop Horse Brigade Bombay Arty.) naming engraved in fine running script, fitted with original steel clip and bar suspension; Hyderabad 1843 (Farr. P. Prendergast, 1st T.H.A.) naming impressed in serif capitals, fitted with original silver clip and bar suspension, contact marks, otherwise very fine and a scarce pair (2) £1800-2200
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Busaco (John Chetham, Capt. 61st Foot) edge bruised and rubbed, polished overall, otherwise nearly very fine £1400-1600
A Great War D.S.C. and R.N.L.I. Medal group of three awarded to Lieutenant A. L. Sanderson, Royal Naval Reserve Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., unnamed, hallmarks for London 1918; British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. A. L. Sanderson, R.N.R.); Royal National Lifeboat Institution, G.V.R., silver (Lieut. A. L. Sanderson, R.N.R., voted 12th January 1917) with double-dolphin suspension, good very fine and better (3) £1500-1800
An inter-war O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Captain R. H. De’Ath, Royal Navy, a Jutland veteran who was awarded the French Legion of Honour and Russian Order of St. Stanislaus The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1932; 1914-15 Star (Lt. R. H. De’Ath, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Commr. R. H. De’Ath, R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; France, Legion of Honour,...
Hammer Price: £1,600
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of four awarded to Captain R. E. Perrett, 1/20th Battalion, London Regiment, formerly 16th (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment, who was wounded and taken prisoner of war during the German Spring Offensive of March 1918 Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2331 Pte., 16-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.) nearly extremely fine (4) £1000-1200
A Great War D.C.M. group of five awarded to Private S. Jones, Coldstream Guards Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (8705 Pte., 1/C. Gds.); 1914 Star (8705 Pte., C. Gds.) rosette on ribbon; British War and Victory Medals (8705 Pte., C. Gds); Coronation 1937, unnamed, mounted as worn, some edge bruising, very fine and better (5) £1200-1500
A brass snuff box of Waterloo interest, the hinged lid engraved, ‘This taken from the pocket of a Prussian Grenadier on the Ground of Waterloo after the Battle, June 23rd 1815’, 51 by 28 by 14mm. approx., traces of repair to hinge, otherwise in good condition £100-150
Waterloo 1815 (William Elwell, 2nd Batt. 59th Reg. Foot.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £1400-1600
Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (John McCarthy, 1st Eur. Regt.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine £1000-1200
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Civil) 1st type set of insignia, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, enamel damage to one arm; breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck cravat, in Garrard, London case of issue; together with related Victory Medal 1914-19 (M. M. Beeton, V.A.D.) generally good very fine (3) £500-600
China 1842 (M. Betson, 1st Cls. Enginr., H.E.I.C.S. Medusa) original straight bar suspension, very fine, rare £800-1000
China 1842 (C. Kensington, Lieutt., 14th Madras Nat. Infantry) original straight bar suspension, minor edge bruising, very fine £800-900
Four: Captain of the Quarter-Deck J. Lee, Royal Navy South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (J. Lee, A.B., H.M.S. Shah); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (J. Lee, A.B., H.M.S. Minotaur); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Jas. Lee, C. Qr. Dk. Men, H.M.S. Vincent), officially impressed naming; Khedive’s Star 1882, the reverse engraved, ‘J. Lee, 1882’, contact marks and edge bruising, good fine and better (4) £700-800
British Red Cross Society Medal for the Balkan Wars 1912-13, 3 clasps, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Servia, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘Woislav M. Petrovitch’, clasps soldered together; with ‘Balkan War 1912-13’ slip bar, good very fine, scarce £500-600
Hammer Price: £1,500
Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Pyrenees, Toulouse (A. Hillman, Drumr., 40th Foot), with silver riband buckle inscribed, ‘Peninsula’ and ‘Waterloo’, the side-carriages between the first and second clasps bent, a little polished, nearly very fine £800-1000
An impressive R.V.M. group of sixteen awarded to Deputy Head Chauffeur Henry Edward Harrison, Royal Mews Royal Victorian Medal, E.II.R., silver, unnamed, in case and card box of issue; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Jubilee 1977, unnamed, in card box of issue; Royal Household Long and Faithful Service Medal, E.II.R., ‘1954-1974, 1 clasp, Thirty Years (Henry Edward Harrison) in case of issue; Italy, Republic, Presidents Medal, silver, in...
Distinguished Flying Cross, G.V.R., unnamed, on 1st type ribbon, in John Pinches, London case of issue, nearly extremely fine £1200-1600
Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Barrosa, Vittoria, Toulouse (John Waye, 28th Foot) nearly extremely fine £1000-1200
Three: Major-General A. Templeman, 21st Fusiliers, one of Kinglake’s ‘superb Fusiliers’ who was wounded at Inkermann: of the 400 or so men from his battalion who went into action that day, seven officers, six Sergeants and 114 men were killed or wounded Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Captn., 21st Fusiliers), regimentally impressed naming; France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, silver, gold and enamel; Turkish Crimea...
Five: Lieutenant & Quartermaster William James Evans, Leinster Regiment, late Lancashire Fusiliers - awarded the D.C.M. for Omdurman, 2 September 1898 - committed suicide in Ireland, 27 May 1916 Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (2184 C. Sergt. W. Evans, 2/Lan. Fus.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (2184 C. Sgt. W. Evans, Lanc. Fus.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (2184 Clr. Serjt. W. Evans, Lanc. Fus.); Army L.S. & G.C.,...
Three: Lieutenant-Colonel H. C. H. W. Moffat, Special List, late South Wales Borderers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lt., S. Wales Bdrs.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt., S. Wales Brd.); 1914-15 Star (Capt.) [no unit] first two with edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and better (3) £360-400
A post-war C.I.E., inter-war civil O.B.E. group of ten awarded to Colonel P. H. S. Smith, Indian Medical Service, late Royal Navy The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1914-15 Star (Surg. P. H. S. Smith, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Surg. Lt. P. H. S. Smith, R.N.); India General Service 1908-35, 2...
Hammer Price: £1,400
1895 Pattern Infantry Officer’s Presentation Sword to H. C. E. Westropp, 63rd Regiment, the 82 cm bright blade with single fuller by Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall, London (No. 33474), the plated blade etched with the crown and VR cypher ‘H. C. E. Westropp, 63rd Regt.’ the Royal Arms and the Westropp full achievement of arms, the pierced hand guard with crowned VR cypher. The Patent Solid Hilt with wire bound composition hand grip, the backstrap with engine turned decoration complete with...
Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., 1st issue, silver-gilt and enamel, unnamed, suspension officially bar dated, ‘1945’, complete with brooch bar, in Garrard, London case of issue, minor enamel damage to wreaths, good very fine £800-1000
Pair: Marine 1st Class S. Hudson, Royal Marines General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (Mne P038809C RM); South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (Mne 1 P038809C RM) both in named card boxes of issue, extremely fine (2) £800-900
Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Corunna, Barrosa (George Bould, 28th Foot.) minor marks, otherwise toned, good very fine £800-1000
Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Alma (Capt. Jno. C. Conolly, 23rd Foot) contemporary engraved naming, good very fine £500-600
Three: Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Courage, Royal Welsh Fusiliers - held as a P.O.W. in both wars 1914 Star, with (loose) clasp (Lieut., R.W. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) mounted as worn; together with a mounted set of three miniature dress medals, good very fine (6) £260-300
1822 Pattern Rifle Officer’s Presentation Sword to Captain H.G. Sutton 40th Lancashire (3rd Manchester) Volunteer Corps., the 81.5 cm blade with single fuller by J. & W. Wood, King St., Manchester is etched overall with scrolling foliage crowned VR cypher strung bugle horn and presentation panels ‘Presented To Captain H.G. Sutton By The Members of No. 8 Company 40th L.R. Volunteers On His Promotion As A Token Of Their Most Sincere Regard 28th Day Of February 1874’, on the reverse a...
Hammer Price: £1,300
A Great War O.B.E. group of twelve awarded to Captain H. W. B. Livesay, Royal Indian Marine and Royal Australian Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (Lieutenant, R.I.M.); 1914 Star (Lieut., R.I.M.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt-Comdr., R.I.M.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; War Medal...
A Crimean War D.C.M. awarded to Corporal George W. Hughes, 28th Regiment, who died in the Crimea Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Corpl. Geo. Wm. Hughes. 28th Regt.) minor edge bruises, otherwise nearly extremely fine £1400-1600
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Delhi (Lieut. R, R, Daly. 61st Regt.) light marks overall, otherwise good very fine £600-700
Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (J. Canning. 2nd Dragns.) officially impressed naming, very fine
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Lieut. J. H. Campbell, 71st Highd. L.I.), with ornate silver brooch bar, claw tightened but still slack, very fine, together with an original daguerreotype photograph of recipient in uniform, this is in leather case (2) £600-800
A Boer War civil C.B. pair awarded to Hon. Colonel E. H. Bearcroft, who commanded the 6th (Militia) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment 1901-02 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1901, complete with swivel-ring suspension and riband buckle; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (Colonel E. H. Bearcroft, Worc. Rgt.), mounted as worn and contained in an old...
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