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The Second War M.M. awarded to Nail Gulrang Shah, 1st Punjab Regiment, for gallantry at Kohima on 18 April 1944: originally recommended for an Immediate Indian Distinguished Service Medal, he never lived to receive his award, dying on 6 May 1944 Military Medal, G.VI.R. (12804 Naik Gulrang Shah, 1 Punjab R.) officially engraved naming, area of erasure after unit, extremely fine £600-800
Hammer Price: £800
The rare Oman ‘Jebel Akhdar Campaign’ M.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant C. T. ‘Taff’ Rees, 45 Commando, Royal Marines, who was one of 63 N.C.O’s. of the Corps to be attached to the Sultan of Oman’s Forces in 1958 to train and lead members of the Trucial State Forces against armed rebel formations, where he gained a unique M.M. to the Royal Marines for his gallantry whilst leading C Company “Special Patrol Section”, Northern Frontier Regiment in a fierce action at Dhala...
Hammer Price: £34,000
A 1941 Second War ‘Coastal Command’ D.F.M. group of four awarded to Hudson Pilot, Pilot Officer G. R. Heppell, 220 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who contributed to the destruction of 2 enemy aircraft, including once when employed as Navigator he ‘fired several bursts from the side guns until a bullet from the enemy aircraft struck a marine distress signal which exploded and started a fire which Sergeant Heppell dived at and managed to extinguish with his helmet.’ He...
Hammer Price: £1,800
A good Second War ‘Lancaster Wireless Operator’s’ D.F.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant, later Flight Lieutenant, G. H. Castell, 207 Squadron, Royal Air Force, who flew in at least 24 operational sorties including his second to Berlin, 18 November 1943, when his aircraft survived a near fatal collision with another ‘friendly’. Despite the Bomb Aimer’s compartment being torn from the aircraft, and the inside being open to sub-zero temperatures the crew managed to nurse the...
Hammer Price: £3,200
A rare North West Frontier ‘Wapiti Air Gunner’s’ A.F.M. group of six awarded to Corporal, later Pilot Officer, D. H. Davis, 60 Squadron, Royal Air Force, who was additionally recommended for the D.F.M. in recognition of his services with 59 Squadron prior to the fall of France. He was commissioned and transferred as an Air Observer to Coastal Command in July 1940, before being killed in action on a Blenheim bomber raid to Cherbourg, 1 August 1940. Air Force Medal, G.VI.R. (562061...
Hammer Price: £4,600
An ‘H.M. Funeral’ R.V.M. group of three awarded to Private P. Lyall, Grenadier Guards Royal Victorian Medal, V.R., bronze, unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (3326 Pte. P. Lyall, Gren: Gds:); Coronation 1902, bronze, the last gilded, scratch marks to obverse of QSA, nearly very fine (3) £240-280
Hammer Price: £440
An ‘H.M. Funeral’ R.V.M. group of nine awarded to Petty Officer L. Clarke, Royal Navy Royal Victorian Medal, G.V.R., silver, unnamed as issued; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, with France and Germany clasp; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (J.111543. L. Clarke. P.O. H.M.S. Pembroke.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, E.II.R. (Leslie Clarke) very fine (9) £300-400
Hammer Price: £550
A Second War Civil Division B.E.M. to Miss Helen Munday, Civil Defence Services, for her work in Berkeley Square and the surrounding area British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (Miss Helen Munday), on lady’s bow riband, in damaged box of issue, extremely fine £200-240
Hammer Price: £320
A Post-War B.E.M. group of six awarded to Chief Petty Officer Writer T. F. Dunbar, Royal Navy, who spent three years as a Prisoner of War following the sinking of H.M.S. Exeter in the Java Sea, March 1942 British Empire Medal, (Military) E.II.R. (C.P.O. Wtr. Thomas F. Dunbar. D/Mx. 49425) partially officially corrected; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (Mx.49426 T. F. Dunbar. C.P.O. Wtr. H.M.S....
A Fine Second War ‘W.A.A.F.’s’ Military Division B.E.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant H. M. Terry, Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, who as a Telephonist, had her gallantry recognised, for remaining at her switchboard during an intense enemy attack on R.A.F. Warmwell, 11 May 1941. She continued to connect urgent calls despite her post being bombed, and having to operate in pitch-black conditions, often only with the aid of a match stick British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R.,...
The C.B., Kenya ‘Mau Mau’ C.B.E., Second War North West Europe 1944 D.S.O. and 1945 Second Award Bar group of thirteen awarded to Major-General the Lord Thurlow, Seaforth Highlanders, who served during the Second War in Palestine, Trans-Jordan, Eritrea, and the Western Desert, before landing with the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders on D-Day, and serving as their Commanding Officer in France. Awarded the D.S.O. for securing a bridgehead across the River Vie in September 1944, he added a...
£8,000–£10,000
A fine C.M.G., C.B.E., Boer War D.S.O. group of nine awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Baron Bentinck, Rifle Brigade The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, subsequently converted for neck wear, with neck riband; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel,...
Hammer Price: £5,000
The Great War C.M.G., ‘Battle of Loos’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Brigadier-General the Honourable L. J. P. Butler, Irish Guards, who commanded the 2nd Battalion at the Battle of Loos during their first experience of War, September 1915: ‘Jerry did himself well at Loos upon us innocents. We went into it, knowing no more that our own dead what was coming, and Jerry fair lifted us out of it with machine-guns’, an experience where, over five punishing days and nights, the battalion...
Hammer Price: £3,800
Family Group: The C.B.E. attributed to Mai, Lady Kylsant The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 1st type lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; together with an H.M.S. Conway Prize Distribution Medal, gold (9ct., hallmarks for Birmingham 1921), the reverse engraved ‘Prize Distribution Lady Philipps, C.B.E., July 26th. 1921.’, in fitted case of issue, about extremely fine The...
The unique Sudan ‘Battles of the Atbara and Khartoum’ Royal Cavalry Officer’s D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Major His Serene Highness Prince Francis of Teck, G.C.V.O., 1st Dragoons, and the brother to H.M. Queen Mary Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Jubilee 1887, gold, with 1897 clasp; Coronation 1902, silver; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Capt. H.S.H. Prince Francis of Teck. K.C.V.O. D.S.O. E.A.); Queen’s South Africa...
Hammer Price: £14,000
The mounted group of eight miniature dress medals worn by Major His Serene Highness Prince Francis of Teck, G.C.V.O., 1st Dragoons, and the brother to H.M. Queen Mary Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Jubilee 1887, gold, with 1897 clasp; Coronation 1902, silver; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal; Germany, Saxony, Ernestine House Order, Military Division, 4th Class...
Hammer Price: £1,500
The M.V.O. group of eleven awarded to Captain R. G. Bowes-Lyon, Royal Navy, who, having seen extensive action in the Dardanelles in the battleship Agamemnon 1915-16, and witnessed the destruction of the Zeppelin LZ-85 over Salonika, fought in the Baltic operations of 1919 and held seagoing command in the 1939-45 War: he was a first cousin of H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse...
Hammer Price: £2,000
An O.B.E., M.V.O. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable M. V. B. Brett, Royal Highlanders, late Coldstream Guards, who served as Aide-de-Camp to General Sir John French and married Zena Dare, a star of the stage and screen The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O. Member’s 5th Class breast badge, silver and enamel, un-numbered as...
Hammer Price: £1,300
The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable M. V. B. Brett, Royal Highlanders, late Coldstream Guards, who served as Aide-de-Camp to General Sir John French and married Zena Dare, a star of the stage and screen The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt; The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O. Member’s 5th Class breast badge, silver and enamel; 1914 Star, with clasp; British...
Hammer Price: £300
The Great War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Sybil, the Honourable Mrs. Orpen, British Red Cross Society, and the daughter of Field Marshal the Lord Plumer The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1953; Voluntary Medical Service Medal (The Honble Mrs. Sybil M. Orpen), with five ‘Geneva Cross’ Additional...
Hammer Price: £240
The O.B.E. group of four awarded to Jennet, the Honourable Mrs. David Bruce, French Red Cross and British Red Cross Society The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt, on lady’s bow riband, in Royal Mint case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (J. Rawstorne.); Defence Medal, good very fine and better (4) £140-180
Hammer Price: £500
An early Great War M.C. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel the Earl of Gosford, Coldstream Guards, who was wounded in both the Boer War and in the Great War, and subsequently joined the New York Police Department Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Lieut: A. C. M. B. Lord Acheson. C. Gds:), unofficial rivets between State and date clasps; 1914 Star (Lieut:...
Hammer Price: £2,200
A Great War M.C. group of seven awarded to Captain the Lord Rankeillour, G.C.I.E., Coldstream Guards, a First Class Cricketer and later Member of Parliament for Nuneaton, Treasurer of the Household, and Governor of Madras Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut: A. O. J. Hope. C. Gds:); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. A. O. J. Hope); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, reverse dated ‘1914-1917’,...
Hammer Price: £1,600
The historically interesting Great War ‘Salonika’ M.C. group of six awarded to Major E. G. M. Phillips, Black Watch, Comptroller to H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor throughout the Second World War, when he aided the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s evacuation from France in June 1940, met Churchill at Downing Street, caused a stir by using a Royal postcard to write to a friend in Fascist Italy, and reported the murder of Sir Harry Oakes in the Bahamas Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as...
Hammer Price: £1,700
Three: Lieutenant the Honourable A. T. Fitzmaurice, 72nd Highlanders, later Groom of the Bedchamber to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Lieut. A. T. Fitzmaurice, 72nd. Reg) officially impressed naming; Jubilee 1887, silver, unnamed as issued; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (The Honble. A. Fitzmaurice. 72nd. Highdrs.) contemporarily engraved naming, a contemporary tailor’s copy, by ‘J.B.’, swivel-ring suspension, contact marks, nearly very fine...
Hammer Price: £1,400
Pair: Captain Sir Nicholas Bacon, Bt., 4th Dragoon Guards, Premier Baronet of England Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Capt: N. H. Bacon. 4th. Dn. Gds.) unit officially corrected; Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, pitting from Star, otherwise very fine (2) £300-340
Five: Major Baron de Teissier, Shropshire Light Infantry, later 8th Hussars, Yorkshire Regiment, and Imperial Yeomanry Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, Suakin 1885, The Nile 1884-85, clasps mounted in this order with unofficial retaining rod between clasps (Lieut: H. de Teissier, 1/Shrops: L.I.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, third clasp as tailor’s copy (Major H. Baron de Teissier, Yorkshire...
Six: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Codrington, Bt., 11th Hussars, who was severely wounded at the attack on Wagon Hill, 6 January 1900 whilst serving with the Imperial Light Horse, and subsequently commanded the 1st Motor Machine Gun Brigade during the Great War India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Lieut. W. R. Codrington. 11th. Hussars.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Mafeking, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Bt:...
Five: Major the Honourable Gilbert Grosvenor, Rifle Brigade, later King Edward’s Horse and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, Cape Colony (Lieut: Hon. G. Grosvenor, Rifle Bde:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt. Hon. G. Grosvenor. Rifle Bde.); 1914-15 Star (Lieut. Hon. G. Grosvenor. K. Edw. H.); British War and Victory Medals (Major Hon. G. Grosvenor.) light contact marks, good very fine (5) £300-400
Hammer Price: £900
Five: Nursing Sister Baroness Bentinck, Red Cross Society Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Miss. A. Burnett-Ramsay, Nursing Sister.) final ‘a’ in surname officially corrected; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Nursing Sister A. Burnett Ramsay.) unofficially renamed; British War and Victory Medals (Baroness A. E. Bentinck.); France, Third Republic, Medal of the Society of Aid to Military Wounded, silver, with original ‘Red Cross’ riband, and top ‘Croix-Rouge...
Hammer Price: £650
Six: Captain the Lord Rotherham, 6th Dragoons Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut: S. L. Holland. 6/Drgns.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. Hon. S. L. Holland. 6/Dns.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. Hon. S. L. Holland.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, nearly extremely fine (6) £500-600
Hammer Price: £750
Four: Captain Sir Alexander Napier, Bt., Grenadier Guards, who was twice wounded during the Great War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (2/Lt: A. L. M. Napier, Gren: Gds:); 1914-15 Star (Capt. Sir A. L. M. Napier. Bt. G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. Sir A. L. M. Napier. Bt.) mounted court-style as worn, minor edge bruising to QSA, toned, good very fine and better (4) £400-500
Pair: Lieutenant Sir A. V. F. Seymour, Bt., Lancashire Fusiliers, and Page of Honour to H.M. Queen Victoria Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut. Sir. A. V. F. Seymour. Bt. Lanc. Fus.); Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed as issued, minor edge bruise to first, generally very fine, the QSA better (2) £300-360
The important group of five awarded to Alice, the Honourable Mrs. George Keppel, British Red Cross Society, the notorious Mistress of King Edward VII, an international Grande Dame, and the great-grandmother of H.R.H. the Duchess of Cornwall 1914 Star (Hon. A. F. Keppel, B.R.C.S. & O.St.J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (The Hon. A. F. Keppel, B.R.C.S. & O.St.J.J.); Coronation 1902, silver; Jubilee 1935, good very fine (5) £2000-3000
Hammer Price: £5,500
Five: Major Sir Edward Durand, Bt., 8th Rajputs, Indian Army, late Northumberland Fusiliers and East Surrey Regiment 1914-15 Star (Lt. E. P. M. Durand, 8/ Rajputs.); British War and Victory Medals, with riband-bar M.I.D. oak leaves; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (Capt. E. P. M. Durand Bart. 8 Rajputs.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued, good very fine (5) £280-320
Hammer Price: £420
Four: Major the Marquess of Winchester, Rife Brigade, and the Premier Marquess of England, and the oldest ever member of the House of Lords 1914-15 Star (Major Marquis of Winchester. Rif: Brig:); British War and Victory Medals (Major Marquis of Winchester); Coronation 1911, traces of lacquer, nearly extremely fine (4) £300-400
Three: Lieutenant-Colonel V. F. W. A. Paget, Royal Field Artillery, the great-nephew of Field Marshal Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, who commanded the Cavalry at Waterloo 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col. V. F. W. A. Paget. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. V. F. W. A. Paget.) very fine (3) £140-180
Five: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Jaffray, Bt., 1st Dragoon Guards and Royal Flying Corps, later Warwickshire Yeomanry British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. Sir W. E. Jaffray, Bt.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1935; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, with integral top ‘Territorial’ riband bar, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £200-240
Hammer Price: £600
Pair: Major the Viscount de Vesci, Irish Guards British War and Victory Medals (Major Viscount de Vesci) very fine (2) £60-80
Pair: Second Lieutenant the Honourable R. J. Hepburne-Scott, Royal Scots British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. P. J. Hepburne-Scott.) good very fine (2) £30-40
Hammer Price: £160
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