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Three: Captain J. N. Lalor, Royal Marine Light Infantry and Niger Coast Protectorate Force Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, Suakin 1885, Tofrek (Lieut., R.M.L.I.); East and West Africa 1887-1900, 2 clasps, Benin River 1894, Witu 1890 (Niger Coast Prot.), second clasp loose on ribbon; Khedive’s Star 1884-6, mounted for wear, first with slight pitting, very fine and better, a rare ‘Benin River 1894’ casualty (3) £2000-2500
Hammer Price: £2,400
Five: Leading Seaman W. H. Shingleton, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (J. 1436 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J. 1436 L.S., R.N.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Iraq 1919-1920 (J. 1436 L.S., R.N.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1920 (J. 1436 Lg. Sea., H.M.S. Clio) generally good very fine and extremely rare (5) £1200-1500
Hammer Price: £2,300
A Great War C.M.G., D.S.O. group of ten awarded to Colonel Sir Edward Grogan, Bt., The Rifle Brigade The Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Capt. Sir, Bt. Rifle Bde.); 1914-15 Star (Major Sir, Bt. Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (Col. Sir, Bt.); Coronation 1911; French Croix...
Russia, Order of St. Stanislaus, 1st Class set of insignia by Albert Keibel, St. Petersburg, sash badge, 60 x 60mm., gold and enamel, manufacturer’s initials and double-headed eagle on reverse, 56 zolotniki gold mark for 1865-1896 on eyelet; breast star, 92mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel, manufacturer’s name, double-headed eagle and silver mark on reverse, c.1890, in damaged case of issue, extremely fine (2) £1500-1800
Waterloo 1815 (Capt. W. H. Stopford, Royal Foot Artillery) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, light contact marks and bruise in obverse field, otherwise very fine £1800-2200
A rare inter-War North West Frontier M.C. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. F. S. Langridge, Indian Army Military Cross, G.V.R.; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (2-Lieut., 2-151 Infy.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal; India Service Medal, nearly very fine or better (6) £2000-2500
Military General Service 1793-1814, 8 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (J. Mitchell, Bugle Major, 95th Foot) clasp carriages sometime reconstituted, light contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise very fine, the first clasp scarce to the 95th £1400-1600
Military General Service 1793-1814, 8 clasps, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive (J. Freeth, Lieut. Royal Staff Corps) fitted with silver ribbon buckle, good very fine £1800-2200
Hammer Price: £2,200
5th Royal Irish Lancers, an extremely fine and scarce Edwardian officer’s 1856 pattern chapska, scarlet cloth top, bullion plume boss with green velvet embroidered ground this with gold embroidered EVIIR cypher, frontal gilt plate with silver overlays, KC Royal Arms, the restored honours of the 5th Irish Dragoons and the newly won honour Suakin 1885, complete with lion’s head side ornaments and velvet backed gilt chin chain, accompanying dark green cock’s feather plume, externally the...
An interesting K.C.V.O., C.M.G., O.B.E. group awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Howard Kerr, 11 Hussars, Equerry to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester The Royal Victorian Order, K.C.V.O., neck badge and breast star, silver, silver-gilt, gold and enamels, the set officially numbered ‘K 670’ and contained in its Collingwood case of issue; The Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; The Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) 1st type; British War...
The Egypt and Sudan campaign medal to Major W. H. Atherton, 5th Dragoon Guards, who was killed in action at Abu Klea Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 3 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (Capt. W. H. Atherton, 5th Dn. Gds.) last two clasps with unofficial rivets, good very fine and rare £2000-2500
A fine K.P.M. for gallantry to Sub. Inspector William Bryant, City of London Police, whose close encounter with armed burglars in Houndsditch led to him being seriously wounded and thereafter to the famous Sidney Street Siege King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (William Bryant, Sub.-Inspector), in its case of issue, with gallantry riband, good very fine £1600-1800
Germany, Wurttemberg, Order of Friedrich, Commander’s breast star by Eduard Foehr, Stuttgart, 60 x 60mm., silver, gold and enamel, centre sometime refixed, otherwise good very fine £800-1000
An unusual N.G.S. and Royal Humane Society pair awarded to Commander R. H. Bunbury, Royal Navy, who lost his right arm at the battle of Navarino at the age of only 13 years Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Navarino (R. H. Bunbury, Volr. 1st Class); Royal Humane Society, large silver medal (Lieut., R.N. 1836) both contained in a contemporary fitted case, the lid set with silver escutcheon inscribed with family crest and initials ‘R.H.B.’, extremely fine (2) £2000-2500
A fine Victorian campaign group of seven awarded to Surgeon Major-General Sir John Reade, K.C.B., Rifle Brigade and Army Medical Department Jubilee 1897, silver (Surgn. Maj. Genl., C.B., Hony. Surgn. to the Queen); Coronation 1902, silver; Coronation 1911 (Surgeon Major General Sir, K.C.B., K.H.S.); Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Rifle Brigade) depot impressed naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Asst. Surgn., 2nd Bn. Rifle Bde.); Afghanistan 1878-80,...
Russia, Order of St. Vladimir, a fine quality ‘Black’ enamel 1st Class sash badge by Julius Keibel, St. Petersburg, 54 x 54mm., gold and enamel, of flattened form, manufacturer’s initials and 56 zolotniki marks for St. Petersburg on eyelet, c.1870, extremely fine £1600-1800
Hammer Price: £2,100
A rare Second World War P.Q. 17 D.S.M. group of seven awarded to Temporary Acting Leading Seaman J. E. Foster, Royal Navy, who commanded the British gunners aboard the Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship Paulus Potter, a Dutch vessel, until she had to be abandoned on 5 July 1942, the day after the convoy was famously ordered to scatter Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (JX. 189737 J. E. Foster, T./A./L. Smn.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Burma Star, clasp, Pacific; Italy Star; War...
China, Republic, Order of the Golden Grain, 1st Class set of insignia, sash badge, 65mm., silver-gilt and enamel; breast star, 95mm., silver-gilt and enamel, with stamp mark on reverse, complete with full sash ribbon, in slightly damaged lacquer case of issue, good very fine (2) £800-1000
Military General Service 1793-1814, 7 clasps, Barrosa, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (Wm. Haines, Corpl. 95th Foot, Rifles) contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £1000-1200
Waterloo 1815 (Captain H. S. Blankley, 23rd Foot) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, minor edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine £1800-2200
Hammer Price: £2,000
Military General Service 1793-1814, 8 clasps, Talavera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (Z. Car[d]y, 95th Foot, Rifles) one letter of surname rather crudely filed out, otherwise good very fine and very rare £1200-1400
A superb campaign group of five awarded to Major-General F. E. Sotheby, 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Lieut., 2nd Bn. Rifle Bde.); China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Capt., 2nd Bn. Rifle Bde.) impressed naming; Ashantee 1873-74, 1 clasp, Coomassie (Capt. & Bt. Lt. Col., 2nd Bn. Rifle Bde. 73-4); Turkish Crimea, British issue, unnamed, together with companion set of five...
An unusual Great War M.M. group of seven awarded to Sergeant A. W. Johnson, 3rd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, who served with the Rifle Brigade Detachment in the Ashanti Expedition 1895-96 Military Medal, G.V.R. (9771 Sjt., 3/Rif. Bde.); Ashanti Star 1896 (9771 Pte., 2B. R.B.); 1914 Star (9771 Pte., 3/Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (9771 Sjt., Rif. Brig.); Coronation 1911 (9771 Rfn., 1st Bn. Rif. Bde.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (9771 Pte., Rifle Bde.) light contact marks...
Hammer Price: £1,900
Russia, Order of St. Stanislaus, an attractive ‘black enamel’ 2nd Class neck badge with crown, 70 x 45mm., gold and enamel, of flattened form, stamp mark on suspension loop indistinct, late 19th Century, extremely fine £1200-1500
The Great War C.M.G. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel The Earl Cairns, The Rifle Brigade and 5th London Regiment, commanding the London Rifle Brigade in France 1914 The Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (Major Hon. W. D. Cairns, Rifle Brigade); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Lt. Col. Earl Cairns, 5/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals,...
Great Britain, Colony of New South Wales, Medal for Bravery in Resisting or Capturing Bushrangers, V.R., bronze-gilt electrotype, truncation embossed ‘Hardy Bros., London’, reverse embossed, ‘Granted for Gallant and Faithful Services’ and inscribed, ‘J. P. (sic) Grenfell, Esq., Crown Lands Commr., 7 Dec. 1866’, with gilt riband buckle on fragmentary ribbon, good very fine, rare £500-600
Portugal, Kingdom, Campaign Cross 1809-14, for 4 years, Portuguese pattern, 34mm., gold and enamel, with swivel bow suspension and a British style gold buckle on ribbon, superb quality, minor enamel damage, nearly extremely fine £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,800
Family group: A Great War M.M. group of four to Corporal F. Joseph, Royal Engineers Military Medal, G.V.R. (6701 2 Cpl., F. Josephs, No. 3 Rly. Coy. R. Ang. R.E.-S.R.); 1914-15 Star (6701 Spr., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (6701 A. Cpl., R.E.) Three: Sapper T. W. Joseph, Royal Engineers 1914-15 Star (6777 Spr., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (6777 Spr., R.E.) Pair: Private E. Joseph, Welsh Regiment British War and Victory Medals (202717 Pte., Welsh...
A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ C.I.E., D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Colonel J. A. Yates, 5th Maharatta Light Infantry, late Rifle Brigade The Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., Rifle Brigade); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Maj.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Major); Delhi...
Hammer Price: £1,700
A C.B.E. and Great War D.S.O. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel A. J. H. Sloggett, The Rifle Brigade The Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) 2nd type neck badge; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., Rifle Bde.) the last two clasps contemporary tailor’s copies; 1914 Star, with copy clasp (Capt., Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory...
A Great War ‘Guillemont’ D.S.O. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Prescott-Westcar, Bt., The Rifle Brigade Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., Rifle Bde.); 1914-15 Star (Capt., Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lt-Col., Rifl Bde.); Defence Medal (Lieut....
Russia, Order of St. George, 4th Class breast badge, 35 x 35mm., gold and enamel, the figure of the Saint on a red enamel field, 56 zolotniki gold mark on eyelet, other marks indistinct, second half of 19th Century, very fine £1000-1200
Matthew Boulton’s Medal for Trafalgar 1805, white metal, the reverse field inscribed ‘Thomas Johnson, Achille’, the medal set in copper-gilt glazed frame with loop for wearing, very fine and scarce £900-1200
Three: Sergeant K. C. Pattison, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, a Spitfire Pilot who was brought down by the return fire of his very first victim, a Dornier 17, at the height of the Battle of Britain 1939-45 Star, clasp, Battle of Britain; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45 nearly extremely fine (3) £1700-1900
A good Great War ‘Salonika’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Cordy Wheeler, 7th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Major, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Defence Medal; Greek Military Cross, 2nd class, with bronze star on ribbon, mounted as worn, together with original Warrant for D.S.O., M.I.D. certificate, dated 9 April 1917 (T/Maj., D.S.O.,...
A Great War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. J. Whitehead, 8th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Post Office Rifles) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Major, 8/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col.) the Victory Medal erased; Coronation 1902, bronze; Volunteer Force Long Service, E.VII.R. (Captain, 24/Middx. V.R.C.) nearly extremely fine £700-900
A Great War D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel T. G. W. Newman, 17th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Poplar & Stepney Rifles) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Major, 17/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col.); Coronation 1902, silver; Volunteer Force Long Service, E.VII.R. (Captain, 15/Middx. V.R.C.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., the reverse hallmarked London 1913 and inscribed ‘The King confers upon Major T. G. W....
Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Vittoria, Pyrenees (Joseph Dornford, Volr. 95th Foot) good very fine £1200-1500
The important ‘Visit to Ireland’ M.V.O. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Rt. Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.B.E., M.V.O., The Rifle Brigade, the first Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand and founder of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., 4th class, silver-gilt, gold and enamels, the reverse not numbered as often found on early awards; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State,...
Hammer Price: £1,600
A fine battle of Assiago Al Valore Militare group of four awarded to Lieutenant L. P. Brown, Royal Garrison Artillery 1914-15 Star (1131 Cpl., R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Al Valore Militare, bronze, unnamed as issued, together with original award certificate with citation, good very fine (4) £500-600
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