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A fine Indian Mutiny ‘Clause 13’ Victoria Cross awarded to Gunner James Park, 1st Troop, 1st Brigade, Bengal Horse Artillery, for gallantry during the Relief of Lucknow in November 1857, following which his fellow gunners elected him for the award of the Victoria Cross - Somewhat unusually for the period, a time when posthumous awards could not be granted, Gunner Park never received his V.C., having died at Lucknow in June 1858, six months prior to his award being announced in the London Gaze...
Hammer Price: £70,000
A fine ‘Chin-Lushai 1889-90’ C.B. group of six awarded to Surgeon Major-General E. C. Markey, Army Medical Department, who served as Principal Medical Officer for the Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90, having already been Mentioned in Despatches for services at Kandahar during the Second Afghan War, and also for services at El Gubat during the Nile Expedition, 1884-85 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, gold and enamel, hallmarks for London 1887...
Hammer Price: £4,800
A Second World War C.B., ‘Mohmand 1933’ operations D.S.O., and Great War M.C. group of thirteen awarded to Major-General A. V. T. Wakely, Royal Engineers The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Capt. A. V. T. Wakely. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col. A. V. T. Wakely); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Mohmand 1...
Hammer Price: £2,800
A Civil C.B. group of four awarded to Surgeon Captain R. W. Branthwaite, 15th London Regiment The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companion’s breast badge, converted for neck wear, hallmarked London 1912; 1914-15 Star (Surg: Capt: R. W. Branthwaite. 15/Lond: R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Surg. Capt. R. W. Branthwaite.) good very fine (4) £400-500
Hammer Price: £650
A fine Great War C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O. group of nine awarded to Air Commodore D. Le G. Pitcher, 4 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, and 39th King George´s Own Central India Horse, ’One of the Pioneers of Flying in India’, who flew with the squadron which ‘on 19th August, 1914, shared R.F.C.’s first reconnaissance in the field with No. 3 Squadron and also in that month recorded what was probably the first aerial engagement with an enemy aircraft. On 31st October, 1914, made what is believed to be...
Hammer Price: £4,200
A rare C.I.E., O.B.E., D.S.C. group of ten awarded to Captain J. N. Metcalfe, Royal Indian Navy, late Lieutenant, Royal Indian Marine, and Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Engineers (Inland Water Transport) The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamels, lacking reverse central plate, in its Garrard & Co case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, the reverse hallmarked Lo...
Hammer Price: £2,200
A K.B.E. and Great War group awarded to Sir Reginald Whitty, late Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Civil) Knight Commander’s 2nd type set of insignia, comprising neck badge and breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamels; 1914-15 Star (Q.M. & Lieut. R. R. Whitty. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Q.M. & Capt. R. R. Whitty.) extremely fine (5) £700-900
Hammer Price: £800
A Great War C.B.E. group of four awarded to Captain J. H. Robertson, Royal Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Midn. J. H. Roberston. H.M.S. Tourmaline.) an impressed later issue; British War 1914-20 (Capt. J. H. Robertson. R.N.); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, medals mounted for wear in chronological order, with mounted miniature awards - t...
Hammer Price: £400
A Second World War C.B.E. and Great War M.C. group of ten awarded to Colonel A. G. Bonn, Royal Engineers, late Canadian Railway Troops The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type neck bade, in its Garrard & Co case of issue; Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star, naming erased; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. G. Bonn.) the War Medal with naming erased; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 195...
Hammer Price: £1,100
A Second War C.B.E. group of eight awarded to Captain H. Jackson, Merchant Navy, Commodore Master, Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company’s Fleet, who when in command of the S.S. Torinia, as part of convoy H.X.72, was torpedoed and sank in the North Atlantic on 21 September 1940 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with miniature width neck riband; British War Medal 1914-20 (Henry Jackson); Mercantile Marine War Meda...
Hammer Price: £1,000
A post-War ‘Civil Division’ C.B.E., Second War ‘Military Division’ O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Colonel H. B. Somerville, Royal Corps of Signals The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband, in ‘D.S. & S.’ case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. H. B. Somerville.); Def...
Hammer Price: £600
A Great War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Shipwright Lieutenant-Commander A. C. Smith, Royal Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1917, crown suspension slightly bent and possibly re-affixed; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Carp. A. C. Smith, R.N., H.M.S. Pearl.); 1914-15 Star (Ch. Carp. A. C. Smith. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Shpt. Lt. A. C. Smith. R.N.) light pitting fro...
Hammer Price: £500
A Great War O.B.E. group of four awarded to Captain W. W. Worthington, Canadian Infantry The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt (hallmarks for London 1919); 1914-15 Star (77446 Cpl. W. W. Worthington. 15/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Capt. W. W. Worthington.) generally very fine or better (4) £180-220
Hammer Price: £360
A scarce O.B.E., K.P.M. group of three awarded to Chief Superintendent J. C. Brundell, Criminal Investigation Department, British South Africa Police - the first officer of the B.S.A. Police to be awarded the K.P.M The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for 1919, note date); King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Supt., C.I.D. And Ch. Immgn. Offr., Capt. J. C. Brundell, Brit. S.A. Pol.); Jubilee 1935, gene...
Hammer Price: £1,200
A Second War ‘Colonial Administrative Service, Cyprus’ O.B.E., Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. and Second Award Bar group of seven awarded to Captain L. S. Greening, West Yorkshire Regiment and Royal Air Force, late London Regiment The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. L. S. Greening. W. York. Regt.); British War and Victory Medals...
Hammer Price: £2,400
Family Group: A Great War Medal of the Order of the British Empire pair awarded to Chief Medical Officer E. B. Turner, Special Constabulary, for his gallantry in searching for and tending to the injured after an air raid on London, 7 March 1918 Medal of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, (Civil), unnamed as issued, in John Pinches, London, case of issue; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., with ‘The Great War 1914-18’ Bar (Sub-Inspr Edward B. Turner); together...
Hammer Price: £1,700
A Great War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Lieutenant J. N. Martin, Royal Army Medical Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type, hallmarked London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. J. N. Martin. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J. N. Martin.) together with companion set of miniatures, all mounted in contemporary frame surmounted by R.A.M.C. badge, extremely fine £140-160
Hammer Price: £240
A Second World War ‘North-West Europe’ M.B.E. group of six awarded to Mechanist Sergeant-Major H. N. Statton, Royal Army Service Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, Territorial, G.VI.R., 1st issue (T/46757 W.O. Cl. 1. H. N. Statton. R.A.S.C.) together with mounted set of miniature medals, good very fine (12) £140-180
Hammer Price: £170
A fascinating and extremely well documented civil division M.B.E. group of six awarded to Flying Officer C. A. Wiard, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who competed for Great Britain in the 4 x 100m relay team at the Berlin Olympics of 1936; before going on to serve during the Second War as second in command of the R.A.F. Seaborne Party for Operation Jubilee - The Dieppe Raid, and in conjunction with the Dutch Underground during the severe winter of 1944-45 The Most Excellent Order of the...
Hammer Price: £1,600
A Knight Bachelor’s Great War D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Colonel Sir Cusack Walton, Royal Engineers, Agent for the North-Western Railway, Lahore 1924-32 Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarked London 1932, red enamel background badly chipped; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., light chipping to both wreaths; 1914-15 Star (Major C. Walton. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col. C. Walton.); France, Legion of H...
Hammer Price: £1,300
A Boer War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Colonel F. B. Lecky, Royal Horse Artillery, who commanded 200 men of the R.H.A. Mounted Infantry with distinction at Boschbult, 31 March 1902 Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Lieut: F. B. Lecky. 1/2. Bde. R.A.) edge bruising; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diam...
Hammer Price: £2,600
A Boer War D.S.O. group of three awarded to Major H. J. V. Phillips, 3rd Battalion, South Wales Borderers Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; Queen’s South Africa 1899-19023 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Capt. H. J. V. Phillips. S. Wales Bord.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Cpt. H. J. V. Phillips. D.S.O. S. W. Bdrs.) mounted ‘Cavalry’ style as worn and contained in a led leather Spink & Son Ltd fit...
Hammer Price: £1,900
A good Boer War D.S.O. group of four awarded to Captain W. Jardine, Imperial Light Horse, late Sergeant-Instructor of Fencing, 19th Hussars, and afterwards a Captain in the Transvaal Mounted Rifles; he was twice wounded and twice mentioned in despatches, for the actions at Reitz and Langburg Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamels, complete with top suspension brooch, this fitted with replacement pin; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Mafeking, Defence...
Hammer Price: £5,500
A Great War D.S.O. and Bar group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. P. Sankey, Royal Engineers Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, silver-gilt and enamel; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein (Lt. C. E. P. Sankey. R.E.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt: C. E. P. Sankey. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col. C. E. P. Sankey.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; French Croix de Guerr...
An important Great War D.S.O., Second World War O.B.E. group of twelve awarded to Colonel J. B. Brady, Southern Rhodesia Forces, late King’s Royal Rifle Corps: he commanded the original “Rhodesian Platoon” of 3rd Battalion, K.R.R.C. in the Great War, founded the Royal Rhodesia Regiment and, by his unopposed motion before the Rhodesian Parliament in August 1939, brought his country into the 1939-45 War in support of Great Britain Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel,...
Hammer Price: £3,200
A Great War ‘Western Front’ 1917 D.S.O. group of six awarded to Second Lieutenant (acting Major) H. Cottee, Royal Field Artillery Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; 1914-15 Star (Capt. H. Cottee. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major H. Cottee.); Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Herbert Cottee) nearly extremely fine (6) £1000-1400
Hammer Price: £1,400
An outstanding Western Front D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant Stephen Feary, Royal Engineers; ‘With two sections he attacked and captured a farm strongly held by the enemy, killing thirty and capturing eighteen, as well as three machine guns. An enemy officer broke his arm with a revolver bullet; he shot the officer and then established his position’ Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., neatly engraved on the edges of the arms ‘Meteren S. Feary 12.4.18’; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. S. F...
Hammer Price: £3,000
A Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Major G. H. Teall, 1st Lincolnshire Regiment, attached 1/6th Liverpool Regiment Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Capt. G. H. Teall. Linc. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major G. H. Teall.); French Croix de Guerre 1914-1917, with bronze star, mounted court style as worn, nearly extremely fine (5) £1400-1600
Hammer Price: £1,800
A scarce Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Major J. F. Blair, Royal Canadian Dental Corps Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., lacking cypher to reverse centre and top suspension brooch; 1914-15 Star (Capt: J. F. Blair. Can: A.D.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Major J. F. Blair.); Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Lt-Col J. F. Blair, D.S.O.) lacking ‘Canada’ top suspension brooch, lacquered, good very fine (5) £1200-1400
The exceptional and regimentally unique Great War Western Front and Italian theatre M.C. and Two Bar group of seven awarded to Captain, late Regimental Sergeant-Major, Thomas Bluck, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who was also awarded the Medaille Militaire and the Cross of St George, and was the only Warrant Officer recipient of the M.C. to win a Second Bar to his decoration Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second and Third Award Bars; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free...
Hammer Price: £8,000
A Great War M.C. awarded to Lieutenant D. G. Webster, Machine Gun Corps, killed in action 29 September 1918 Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. D. G. Webster) light pitting to Cross, good very fine (3) £500-600
Hammer Price: £750
A Great War Western Front M.C. group of three awarded to Captain M. E. Delafield, Royal Army Medical Corps Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. M. E. Delafield.) together with identity disc, extremely fine (4) £600-700
A Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Captain Harry Cauldwell, Canadian Labour Corps, late Imperial Yeomanry Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2310 Pte. W. Cauldwell, 7th Coy. 4th Imp: Yeo:) note incorrect initial; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. Cauldwell.); Jubilee 1935, contact marks, nearly very fine (5) £600-800
A Second World War ‘North Africa’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel R. J. H. Gaunt, Royal Engineers Military Cross, G.VI.R. reverse officially dated 1943; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, Territorial, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, reverse dated 1951, with two Clasps, one dated 1951, the other undated, mounted as worn, together with R.E. cap badge, good very fine (8) £800-1000
An outstanding and well documented ‘Sicily Landings’ Immediate M.C. group of six awarded to Captain F. Robson, Glider Pilot Regiment, Army Air Corps, who not only successfully landed his glider 250 yards short of the beach, 9 July 1943, but also having swum ashore joined the men of the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, and took part in ‘a crawl through 20’ of barbed wire covered by a pill box... marched 10 miles collecting 3 men of the ATk detachment and 6 of E Coy, and captured 2...
A Second War 1943 Wellington and Lancaster Rear Gunner’s D.F.C., and rare Netherlands Bronze Cross for Arnhem group of six awarded to Gunnery Leader Flight Lieutenant W. R. ‘Bob’ Chalk, Royal Air Force. His first operational sortie was the first 1,000 Bomber Raid to Cologne, 30 May 1942, followed two days later by a trip to Essen, when he shot down a night fighter. Having flown in the daylight raids to Le Creusot and Milan Chalk undertook Special Operations with 299 Squadron to S.O.E. and S.A...
An unusual Second War 1943 ‘Immediate’ D.F.C. group of eight awarded Flight Lieutenant, late Warrant Officer, H. R. Cooke, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who started the war as a Blenheim Air Gunner during the Battle of Britain, and went on to fly in at least 70 operational sorties with Fighter, Bomber and Coastal Commands. Employed as a Rear Gunner in Wellingtons and Whitleys, he ended the war as a Mid Upper Gunner in Lancasters. Cooke shot down an M.E. 109 over Kassel, 22 October 1943,...
A Second World War D.F.C. group of five awarded to Squadron Leader S. L. Cockbain, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who was decorated for his gallantry as a pilot in No. 44 Squadron in March 1944 - already a veteran of a tour of operations in No. 102 Squadron in 1941-42, he was killed in a flying accident in January 1945 Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated ‘1944’ and privately inscribed, ‘S/Ldr. S. L. Cockbain, 44 Sqn., R.A.F.V.R.’; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Eu...
Family Group: An Order of St. John group of five awarded to Chief Surgeon J. B. Wilkinson, St. John Ambulance Brigade The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight of Grace’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge and breast star, silver and enamel, maker’s mark to reverse of star; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Honorary Associate’s breast badge, silver, with embellishments in angles; St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (Chief Surg. J. B. Wilkinson. Oldham Corps.); Jubilee 1935; S...
A Knight of Grace, Boer War and Great War group awarded to Colonel S. M. Smith, C.B., R.A.M.C., Surgeon-in-Chief to the St John Ambulance Brigade in France The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight of Justice, neck badge and breast star, silver and enamel; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901 (Civ. Surgeon S. M. Smith. 3/Bn. Welsh Rgt.); 1914-15 Star (Major S. M. Smith. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Col. S. M. Smith.);...
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