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Four: Captain John Keenan, Royal Dublin Fusiliers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Talana, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, Tugela Heights (4480 Cpl. J. Keenan, Rl. Dublin Fus:) unofficial rivets between top two clasps; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4480 Serjt: J. Keenan. Rl: Dublin Fus:); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, N. Nigeria 1904 (2796 Serjt. J. Keenan. Rl. Dublin Fus.); Army L.S....
Hammer Price: £1,900
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Delhi (Sergt. John Smith, Bengal S & M.) naming officially engraved in fine running script but with some corrections, edge marks, otherwise good very fine £1000-2000
A Boer War D.C.M. group of three awarded to Battery Sergeant Major W. G. Phillips, Royal Field Artillery Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (51398 B: Sjt: Maj: W. G. Phillips. 28th. B: R.F.A.); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (51398 Bty: S-Mjr. W. G. Phillips. 28: B, R.F.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (51398 Bty. Sjt. Mjr. W. G. Phillips. R.F.A.) mounted court style for display purposes, light...
A rare ‘Mohmand 1933 operations’ M.I.D. group of six awarded to Leading Aircraftman., later Flight Lieutenant, T. A. Rowe, 20 Squadron, Royal Air Force India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Mohmand 1933, North West Frontier 1935, M.I.D Oak Leaf (508932. L.A.C. T. A. Rowe. R.A.F.) with unofficial retaining rod between clasps, as issued; India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (508932. Cpl. T. A. Rowe. R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45;...
Portugal, Kingdom, Peninsula War Cross, for 4 Years’ Service, 1st issue with Arabic numerals, gold and enamel, with floreate straight bar suspension, extremely fine £600-800
Hammer Price: £2,000
An unusual and scarce 1923 ‘Chanak Crisis’ O.B.E. group of four awarded to Air Commodore C. T. O’Neill, Royal Air Force Medical Branch and Honorary Physician to the King The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt (hallmarks for London 1919); General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Iraq, N.W. Persia (F/L. C. T. O’Neill. R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaf, mounted as worn, last two with traces of...
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Major R. C. Rome, Royal Field Artillery Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914 Star, with clasp (Lieut: R. C. Rome. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major R. C. Rome.); Coronation 1911; Russia, Order of St Vladimir, 4th Class breast badge with swords, silver-gilt and enamels, unmarked, lacking reverse centre; Russia, Order of St Anne, 4th Class breast badge, bronze-gilt and enamels, marks for Dimitri...
A Great War 1915 ‘French theatre’ M.C. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel O. W. D. Steel, Monmouthshire Regiment and Royal Army Medical Corps Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Capt. O. W. D. Steel. Monmouth. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Lt. Col. O. W. D. Steel.); Territorial Decoration, silver, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1920, with integral top riband bar, mounted as originally worn, generally very fine or better (5) £1200-1600
A good Second War 1943 ‘Immediate’ Sicily M.C. group of eight awarded to Captain D. L. C. Price, Royal Artillery Military Cross, G.VI.R. reverse officially dated 1943, with Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (Lt. D. L. C. Price. R.A.), on Honourable Artillery Company riband, mounted as worn and housed in a...
Badge of the Certificate of Honour, for Nigeria, G.V.R., large oval bronze neck badge, 68mm x 50mm, crown within six pointed star on reverse, nearly very fine £300-400
Ghuznee 1839 (Lieutt. Marmaduke Gwynne. 16th Lancers.) contemporary engraved naming to reverse centre, original suspension, suspension slack, very fine or better £800-1200
Hammer Price: £2,200
A ‘Heavy Brigade’ Crimea Medal awarded to Shoeing Smith C. Lakin, 4th Dragoon Guards, formerly 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaclava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (C. Lakin. 6th Dragoons.) officially impressed naming, additionally engraved ‘No. 856’ and ‘6th D.’ to either side of impressed naming, left hand rivet popped between first two clasps, heavy contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £1400-1800
An interesting and scarce 1919 ‘Pioneering Flight’ A.F.M. group of three awarded to Corporal G. E. West, Royal Air Force and Royal Naval Air Service, for his work during the movement of three entire squadrons’ aircraft flying from France to Egypt - ‘This whole transferring of complete squadrons to ‘foreign shores’ - in particular, the aerial transit by the 0/400 units - had no equivalent precedent in R.A.F. annals, and was to prove a daunting test of the involved aircrews’...
A Great War 1918 ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of six awarded to Private R. W. Black, Norfolk Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (3-7098 Pte. R. Black. 1/Norf: R.); 1914 Star, with clasp (3-7098 Pte. R. Black. 1/Norf: R.); British War and Victory Medals (3-7098 Pte. R. W. Black. Norf. R.); India General Service, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (5764977 Pte. R. W. Black, 2 Bn. Norf. R.) attempted erasure to last letter; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army...
Five: Staff Quartermaster G. Ross, King’s Royal Rifle Corps and Middlesex Regiment, who was recommended for the D.C.M. during the Boer War and was twice Mentioned in Despatches India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (6209 Pte. J. [sic] Ross, 4th Bn. K. Rl. Rif. Corps); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (6209 Corpl. G. Ross, 1st Bn. K.R. Rifle Corps); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Talana, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State,...
Hammer Price: £2,400
A scarce ‘Somaliland 1920’ M.I.D. group of three awarded to Flying Officer, later Flight Lieutenant, E. H. ‘Titch’ Attwood, ‘Z’ Unit, Royal Air Force, who flew on the first raid of the operations against the ‘Mad Mullah’, 21 January 1920, and was forced down to land returning from a raid on the same position the following day. Avoiding capture, Attwood and his Observer ‘managed to march in the heat and over very rough mountainous country to the coast. This they reached...
A superb Great War ‘Battle of Loos’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Company Quarter-Master Sergeant E. Canning, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, for his conspicuous gallantry on 25 September 1915 during the attack on Madagascar Trench, when, after all the officers had been killed or wounded and his Battalion had suffered 650 casualties, he organised and took command of the remnants of the force, with only 46 men being assembled at the end of the day. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, he...
A scarce Inter-War ‘Loe-Agra Operations’ I.D.S.M. group of seven awarded to Naik Farman Ali, 2nd Punjab Regiment, for his gallant conduct during an epic defence of Kila Hari Post, 5-6 April 1935, when a small detachment of his unit was besieged by an unexpected and well organised tribal lashkar of 1,000 Shamozais tribesmen, which threatened to overwhelm the defenders in a series of fiercely contested hand-to-hand attacks that involved revolvers, bayonets, stones and knives over a...
A Second World War ‘withdrawal of troops from Le Havre’ D.S.M. group of five awarded to Boatswain Seymour White, Merchant Navy, for gallantry whilst serving in H.M. Rescue Tug Stalwart Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Boatswain. S. White.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star; War Medal, extremely fine (5) £1800-2200
The important Cabul and Punjab campaign pair to Major Joseph Ferris, 2nd Sikh Local Infantry, who raised and commanded “Ferris’ Jezailchis” and received the C.B. and Dooranee Empire for services in Afghanistan Cabul 1842, unnamed as issued, fitted with original steel clip and bar suspension; Punjab 1848-49, no clasp (Major J. Ferris, C.B. Commg. 2nd Regt. Sikh Local I[nf.]) final part of unit hidden under suspension claw, good very fine (2) £3000-4000
Hammer Price: £2,600
Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Pyrenees, Orthes (E. R. D’Alton, Ensn. Chass. Brit.) fitted with a removable screw-threaded suspension rod to enable the medal to be worn ‘Continental-style’ without the clasps, French import mark on reverse of suspension bar, toned, extremely fine and very rare £2400-3000
Military General Service 1793-1814, 8 clasps, Talavera, Fuentes D’Onor, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (Edward Boyett, 14th Light Dragoons.) edge bruise and contact marks, otherwise toned, very fine £2000-2400
Waterloo 1815 (Colour Serj. B. Robinson, 33rd Regiment Foot.) fitted with original steel clip and small replacement ring suspension, and with a silver ribbon buckle, minor edge bruises, otherwise good very fine £1800-2200
A fine Boer War C.B., Great War C.B.E. group of eight awarded to Colonel E. E. Carr, who commanded the Royal Scots Fusiliers at the Relief of Ladysmith, and was severely wounded at Pieter’s Hill leading his regiment in the final attack The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) breast badge converted for neck wear, silver-gilt and enamels; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) 1st type neck badge; India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab...
The important Indian Mutiny medal awarded to General Thomas Carey, Bengal Native Infantry, attached Quarter Master General’s Department, sole survivor of the ambush and murder of Captain Fletcher Hayes, Lieutenant Barbor and Mr Fayrer; his famous escape is considered among one of the most dramatic incidents of the uprising and is included in all the major narratives of the mutiny. Carey was described by Lord Roberts as the best horseman in the Indian Army Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2...
A scarce ‘Waziristan 1925’ campaign group of five awarded to Sergeant-Major A. E. Attree, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, late Air Battalion, Royal Engineers 1914-15 Star (38 Sjt. A. E. Altree, R.F.C.); British War and Victory Medals (38. S.M.1. A. E. Attrel. R.A.F.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1925 (38. F/Sgt. A. E. Attree. R.A.F.); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (38. S.M.2 A. E. Attree. R.A.F.) note different spellings of surname, suspension claw...
Board of Trade Foreign Services Medal for Gallantry in Defence of the British Legation in Japan 1861, silver, the reverse with specially struck inscription ‘Presented by the British Government for Gallantry in Defence of the British Legation. July 6th 1861’, unnamed, in fitted case, extremely fine and scarce £600-800
An Anglo-Boer War D.T.D. pair awarded to Commandant D. J. Jonker, Rouxville Commando Anglo-Boer War Decoration voor Trouwe Dienst 1899-1902 (Komdt D J Jonker.); Anglo-Boer War Medal 1899-1902 (Komdt D J Jonker.); together with the related miniature awards, extremely fine (2) £1800-2200
Three: Lieutenant-Colonel William Davis, 31st Bengal Native Infantry, whose good work with the Military Police during the Indian Mutiny gained him several favourable mentions Maharajpoor Star 1843 (Ensign W. Davis 31st Regt. Native Infantry) fitted with original brass hook and additional ornate silver-gilt suspension bar; Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Chilianwala, Goojerat (Lieut. W. Davis, 31st Bengal N.I.); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Major W. Davis, 31st Regt.) suspension claw slack...
Hammer Price: £2,800
Waterloo 1815 (Henry Smith, 23rd. Regiment Foot, R.W.F.) fitted with replacement clip and ring suspension, minor edge bruising, therefore very fine £1600-2000
Life Guards Officer’s Full Dress Uniform QEC Period. An extremely fine set comprising, plated helmet complete with all gilt metal fittings and frontal plate in gilt metal, silver and enamelled centre, white hair plume, scarlet tunic with gold laced collar and skirt pockets, aiguillettes and shoulder boards, gold laced pouch belt with scarlet flask cord, black plastic faced pouch complete with gilt, silver and enamelled badge, plated back and breast plates complete with fastening straps,...
An interesting C.B. group of eight awarded to Paymaster Rear-Admiral Henry Horniman, Royal Navy The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Paymaster H. Horniman, H.M.S. Barracouta.); 1914-15 Star (Ft. Payr. H. Horniman. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Payr. Commr. H. Horniman. R.N.); Jubilee 1935; France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Fifth Class breast badge, silver,...
A Great War ‘Battle of Jutland’ D.S.M. and Medaille Militaire group of seven awarded to Chief Petty Officer H. E. Fox, R.N., for services aboard H.M.S. Falmouth, which survived the battle but was sunk by U-boats off Flamborough Head a few weeks later Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (165514. H. E. Fox, C.P.O. H.M.S. Falmouth. 31. May, - 1. June, 1916.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (H. E. Fox, P.O. 2nd Cl: H.M.S....
Military General Service 1793-1814, 8 clasps, Talavera, Albuhera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (John Crosby, 48th Foot.) minor marks, otherwise toned, nearly extremely fine £2200-2600
Hammer Price: £3,000
The important ‘South Russia 1920’ C.B.E. group of seven awarded to Group Captain J. O. ‘Joe’ Archer, Royal Air Force, who served as Officer Commanding R.A.F. Forces in South Russia, January - April 1920, having already commanded both the R.A.F. Training Mission and ‘Z’ Flight during the conflict. Archer went on to serve on the North West Frontier, commanding No. 3 Indian Wing, 1926-31, before serving on the Directorate of Operations and Intelligence. The Most Excellent Order...
An extremely rare inter-war M.M. group of four awarded to Warrant Officer G. H. Lewis, Royal Air Force, who was decorated for his bravery as a gunner in H.M. Armoured Car “Avenger” during an action with Kurds at Qara Anjir in May 1924 - one of only 11 M.M’s awarded to the R.A.F. between the Wars Military Medal, G.V.R. (351286 Cpl. G. H. Lewis. 6-Arm. C. Coy. R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Iraq, Active Service Medal, no clasp, generally good very fine (4) £3400-3800
The scarce ‘Garjak Nuer’ campaign group of three awarded to Leading Aircraftman L. Humphries, Royal Air Force, who served as Flying Officer F. A. Giles’ observer when tasked with flying a replacement D.H.9 to ‘H’ Unit, in the Sudan. The epic flight, recorded in Giles’ log book entries from 26 March - 1 April 1920, consisted of eight stages between Helouan and Nasser in the Sudan, some 1,800 miles, which Humphries and his pilot completed in a total flying time of 20 hours and 40...
A good Great War 1918 Handley Page pilot’s D.F.C. group of eight awarded to Captain, later Squadron Leader, A. W. Williams, Royal Air Force and Royal Naval Air Service, late 4th Dragoon Guards and Army Service Corps, for a low-level night raid on Ehrang Railway Junction, 2 September 1918, when he managed to drop four bombs on a moving train from 500 feet, before making several passes over the station and sidings from as low as 90 feet, all whilst under heavy machine-gun...
A rare Second World War Naval Expeditionary Force ‘operation Royal Marine’ D.S.M. group of five awarded to Able Seaman H. G. Howes, Royal Navy, Coxswain of small boats carrying out special mine-laying operations in the river Rhine, part of a plan conceived by Winston Churchill which launched more than 2,300 specially developed ‘fluvial’ mines into the rivers Rhine, Moselle and Meuse during the battle of France, May to June 1940; as Churchill later remarked “the success of the...
Honourable East India Company Medal for Ceylon 1795-96, silver, 50mm, fitted with later silver clip and bar suspension, an extremely rare original striking with no marks from rusted dies, contact marks from wearing, therefore nearly very fine £1400-1800
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