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A Second World War Air Gunner’s D.F.M. group of four awarded to Flight Sergeant R. V. Pooley, No. 50 Squadron, Royal Air Force Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (1267844 F/Sgt. R. V. Pooley, R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal, these last three unnamed as issued, edge bruise, otherwise good very fine (4) £1600-1800
Hammer Price: £2,400
Waterloo 1815 (William Webb, 28th Regiment Foot.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £1800-2200
Pair: Private R. Meek, 21st Lancers, who rode with ‘B’ Squadron in the famous charge at Omdurman, 2 September 1898 Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3450 P’te. R. Meek, 21/L/crs.) note errors in naming; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (3450 Pte. R. Meek, 21st Lcrs.) contact marks, good fine and better (2) £2000-2400
Five: Matron A. Knaggs, Queen Alexandria’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, late Army Nursing Service, who was awarded the R.R.C. for her services in the Boer War and a Bar for her services in the Great War, the latter period including her appointment as Matron of the Hospital Ship Nevasa off Gallipoli 1915-16 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister A. Knaggs); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister A. Knaggs); 1914-15 Star (Matron A. Knaggs,...
A rare ‘North West Frontier 1937’ M.M. group of seven awarded to Warrant Officer Class 2 W. R. Stuckey, South Wales Borderers Military Medal, G.VI.R. (3907289 L. Cpl., 1-S. Wales Bord.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (3907289 Pte., M.M., S. Wales Bord.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army 3907289 W.O. Cl. 2, S.W.B.) minor marks, very fine and better (7) £2000-2600
61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment Officer’s Three Part Shoulder Belt Plate, an extremely fine example of the unique shoulder belt plate worn by the 61st comprising buckle, tip and slide; the buckle in burnished gilt complete with two stud and two hook fasteners, the slide engraved ‘Egypt’ on one side and ‘South Gloucester’ on the other, the hexagonal tip engraved with laurel sprays and ‘LX1’ complete with two small shank fasteners. This conforms closely with Parkyn 241 and...
A fine Boer War C.B., Groom-in-Waiting’s M.V.O. group of seven awarded to Colonel Hon. C. Harbord, Scots Guards, afterwards the 6th Baron Suffield, who was appointed to the command of the 1st Battalion in July 1901, after seeing much action as 2nd-in-Command of the 2nd Battalion: ‘He was beloved by all ranks, and the men would have followed him anywhere. Surely he was the truest and most loyal friend a man could have; absolutely without guile or affectation, and gifted with a keen sense...
Hammer Price: £2,300
King’s Medal for Native Chiefs, G.VI.R., 2nd Class, silver neck badge, complete with silver collar chain, contact marks, nearly very fine £400-500
Hammer Price: £2,200
Sold by Order of the Family H.M.S. Belfast, Gold Medal Struck to Celebrate the Saving of the Ship for the Nation, 1971, obverse, profile of the cruiser with ‘H.M.S. Belfast’ above and the motto ‘Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus’ below; reverse, the ship’s crest with ‘North Cape Russian Convoys Korea D-Day’ around, 39mm., 22 ct., 47.3g., with related certificate of authenticity (No. 001 of a limited edition of 500 in gold), in the name of ‘Lord Fraser of North Cape’, in its...
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, St. Domingo (William Stewart, Gunner.) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine £2600-3000
Waterloo 1815 (Serj. Ronald M’Donald, 3rd Batt. Grenad. Guards) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £2000-2600
Waterloo 1815 (Henry Smith, 23rd Regiment Foot, R.W.F.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, light contact marks, otherwise very fine £1600-1800
Five: Surgeon Hugh O’Hagan, M.D., Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Hugh O’Hagen, Asst. Surgn.); Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Surgeon Hugh O’Hagan, H.M.S. Firebrand) contemporary engraved naming, clasp loose on ribbon as issued; St. Jean d’Acre 1840, silver, unnamed as issued, fitted with straight bar suspension; Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class breast badge, silver, gold and enamels; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, fitted with...
A rare Great War American Navy D.S.M. group of six awarded to Admiral A. E. A. Grant, Royal Navy, who was specially concerned with the production of merchant ships in the Great War to make good the wastage from submarine attack Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Sub. Lieut. A. E. A. Grant, H.M.S. Achilles); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Commr. A. E. A. Grant, R.N., H.M.S. Racoon); British War Medal 1914-20 (R. Adml. A. E. A. Grant); Coronation 1911; United...
Pair: Private J. Hughes, 19th Hussars Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 4 clasps, Suakin 1884, El-Teb-Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (1688 Pte., 19th Hussars); Khedive’s Star, 1882, unnamed, mounted for wear, very fine (2) £700-800
Victorian Humane Society, silver, reverse inscribed, ‘Awarded to William George Coleman, 10th May 1878’, good very fine, scarce £500-700
A fine Officer’s Franco-Prussian War Iron Cross group of six Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1870, 2nd Class with 25th Anniversary Oak Leaves; Order of the Red Eagle, 4th type, 4th Class breast badge, silver and enamel, with stippled arms; Officer’s L.S. Cross, for 25 years, bronze-gilt; War Commemorative Medal 1870-71, 5 clasps (39 x 6mm.), Paris, Sedan, Beaumont, Wörth, Weissenburg; Centenary Medal 1897; Saxe-Weimar, Order of the White Falcon, Knight’s Cross 1st Class breast badge,...
A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain C. Thomson, Leicestershire Regiment, attached East Lancashire Regiment, late Highland Light Infantry, who, having been wounded in the German Spring Offensive, was killed in action in September 1918 Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued, in its case of issue; 1914-15 Star (3732 Pte. C. Thomson, High. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. C. Thomson), together with the recipient’s Memorial Plaque 1914-18...
Hammer Price: £2,000
A Great War M.C. group of three awarded to Captain C. D. O’Brien-Butler, 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment, who was killed in action at Wytschaete in June 1917 Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed, in its official case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C. D. O’Brien-Butler.) these two additionally privately inscribed after the name ‘M.C. Rl. I. Regt.’, extremely fine (3) £1000-1200
A Boer War D.C.M. pair awarded to Corporal M. Maher, 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment (5th Battalion Mounted Infantry) Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (3078 Pte., Rl Irish Regt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (3078 Cpl., 1st Rl. Irish Regt.) last clasp attached by wire, mounted as worn, good very fine (2) £2400-2800
A Great War D.C.M., M.M. group of five awarded to Acting Warrant Officer Class 2 C. T. Carpenter, Coldstream Guards Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (13073 Sjt. C. T. Carpenter, 1/C. Gds.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (10073 Sjt. C. T. Carpenter, D.C.M., 1/C. Gds.), note slight difference in number; 1914-15 Star (13073 Pte. C. T. Carpenter, C. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (13073 A.W.O. Cl. 2 C. T. Carpenter, C. Gds.), a little polished, very fine or better (5) ...
A fine St. Eloi 1915 D.C.M. group of four awarded to Corporal H. Berry, 1st Royal Irish Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (9477 L.Cpl. H. Berry. 1/R. Ir. Regt.); 1914-15 Star (9477 L-Cpl. H. Berry, R. Ir. Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (9477 Cpl. H. Berry, R. Ir. Regt.) mounted as worn, very fine (4) £1200-1500
Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Busaco, Albuhera, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nive (Wiliam Isaac, 28th Foot.) minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £1200-1400
A Great War ‘Salonika’ D.S.O. group of eight awarded to Major C. E. Browning, 8th, late 11th Battalion South Wales Borderers Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top brooch bar, slight enamel damage; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, good very fine and better (8) £2000-2400
A civil O.B.E. and a Great War ‘Salonika’ M.C. group of six awarded to Second Lieutenant L. B. Greaves, South Wales Borderers, late Royal Fusiliers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (P.S.2720 Pte., R. Fus.) initial ‘B’ officially corrected; British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Serbia, Order of the White Eagle, 2nd type, 5th Class breast badge with...
The Second Afghan War medal awarded to Private George Anderson, 66th Foot, who was killed in action at the battle of Maiwand, 27 July 1880 Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (1519 Pte. G. Anderson. 66th Foot) extremely fine £2000-2400
A fine First and Second World War group of nine attributed to Korvettenkapitän Paul Schubert, Kriegsmarine, late Imperial German Navy Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, 2nd Class, with 1939 Bar to 1914 Iron Cross, 2nd Class, with prong fittings attached to ribbon; Hamburg, Hanseatic Cross 1914, enamelled; Germany, Cross of Honour 1914-18, combatant’s, bronze; German Empire, South West Africa Campaign Medal, non-combatant’s, silvered metal; Third Reich, War Merit Cross 1939, 2nd Class...
The Queen’s South Africa Medal awarded to Sergeant R. H. Barry, Protectorate Regiment, who died of wounds received in the action at Game Tree Hill, Mafeking on 26 December 1899 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Mafeking (33 Sergt. R. H. Barry, Protectorate Regt.), good very fine £1600-1800
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (6200 Pte. C. V. Thorpe, 2 D. of C. Lt. Infy.) unofficial connection to last clasp; with Cornwall Yeomanry Volunteers Tribute Medal, silver and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘C. V. Thorpe, Special Service Co. South Africa’, ring suspension, ref Hibbard A9; together with three ornate Madras Volunteer Guards shooting badges, pin-backed: bronze, inscribed, ‘3rd Championship Sergt. C. V....
A fine Second World War C.B. group of thirteen awarded to Rear-Admiral C. S. “Hookie” Holland, Royal Navy, who commanded the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Ark Royal in the early stages of the war, when he had the difficult duty of attempting to negotiate the surrender of the French Fleet under Admiral Marcel Gensoul at Oran in July 1940: having then commanded the Signal Department (Wireless and Radar) at the Admiralty, he was advanced to flag rank and commanded the naval forces at the...
A good Great War Western Front D.S.O., Egypt operations O.B.E. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel S. Gubbins, Royal Fusiliers, late 5th Contingent, Victoria Mounted Rifles, who was decorated for his courageous leadership of the 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers in an attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt in March 1916 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge,...
Hammer Price: £1,900
A good Second World War Malta operations D.S.M. and ‘Taranto’ M.I.D. group of seven awarded to Chief Engine Room Artificer Jack Derrick, Royal Navy Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (MX. 47311 J. Derrick, C.E.R.A.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (MX. 47311 J. Derrick, C.E.R.A., H.M.S. Erebus), mounted as worn, good very...
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, 14 March 1795, Copenhagen 1801 (John Johnson.) minor contact marks, otherwise good very fine £1000-1200
A Northwest Europe M.M. group of four awarded to Acting Sergeant J. Cooper, The Rifle Brigade Military Medal, G.VI.R. (6915446 A. Sjt. J. Cooper, Rif Brig.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal, these last three unnamed as issued, good very fine (4) £1000-1200
Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (Leonard Radford, 61st Foot) small edge bruise, otherwise toned, good very fine £1200-1400
China 1842 (J. J. Sargent, Br. Major, 18th R. Irish Reg. Infantry.) replacement German-silver straight bar suspension, good very fine £1000-1200
Hammer Price: £1,800
Four: Captain W. Kemp, Royal Irish Regiment Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Ensign Wm. Kemp, Rl. Irish) engraved naming; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (Captn. Wm. Kemp, 2nd Bn. 18th Foot) impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue,pierced with ring suspension (Capt. W. Kemp, 18th R.I.); Ottoman Empire, Order of Medjidie, 5th Class breast badge, by Hunt & Roskell, late Storr & Mortimer, London, silver, gold and enamel, with additional support hook to reverse, all...
Seven: Subedar-Major Rajpal Rai, O.B.I., 7th Gurkha Rifles, late 1st Gurkha Rifles India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1894-5 (1118 Sepoy Rajpal Rai, 2-1 G.R.), an official replacement / late issue of the Great War period; India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (1118 [Sep]oy Rajpal Rai, 2d Bn. 1st Gurkha [Rifles]), partial loss of naming owing to bruising; Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (1118 Hav. [Raj]pal Rai, 2d Bn. 1st Gurkha...
A Second World War civil C.B., Great War M.C. and bar group of six awarded to Captain G. E. Robinson, Royal Artillery, afterwards a Regional Transport Commissioner for London in the Ministry of War Transport The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt; Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, the reverse of the Cross privately engraved, ‘Capt. G. E. Robinson, R.F.A., 1918’ and the Bar, ‘1918’; British War and Victory Medals,...
China 1900, no clasp (992 Pte. Wang Ji Ting, 1st Chinese Regt.) edge bruising, therefore nearly very fine, rare £300-360
Hammer Price: £1,700
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