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The Military General Service Medal awarded to Lieutenant E. Finch, 8th Foot, who states he was wounded ‘in America with the 8th Foot in action’ and was twice employed in carrying despatches Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Martinique (Edward Finch, Lieut. 8th Foot.) the ribbon fitted with five contemporary but unofficial silver slide clasps for York, Fort George, Sacket Harbour, Stn. Creek, Niagara, and a silver pin brooch in the form of an arrow believed to denote...
Hammer Price: £8,500
The important Burma and Chin-Lushai campaign medal awarded to Colonel Sir Ronald ‘Mosquito’ Ross, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., late Indian Medical Service, whose discovery of the mosquito cycle in malaria won him the Nobel Prize for Medicine and universal acclaim as one of the greatest benefactors to mankind India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Chin-Lushai 1889-90 (Surgeon R. Ross, 9th Madras Infy.) good very fine £6000-8000
Hammer Price: £9,000
A C.V.O., K.St.J. group of seven awarded to Inspector-General Belgrave Ninnis, Royal Navy, Staff Surgeon aboard the Discovery in Sir George Nares’ expedition to the Arctic in 1875-76, and later Chief Commissioner of the St John Ambulance Brigade The Royal Victorian Order, C.V.O., Commander’s neck badge,silver-gilt and enamels, the reverse officially numbered ‘C540’; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight of Grace, neck badge and breast star, silver-gilt and enamels, the...
Hammer Price: £9,500
The notable ‘Tumbledown rescue’ M.I.D. pair to Scout Helicopter Air Gunner Lance-Corporal J. Rigg, Army Air Corps, for bravery under fire, exemplary devotion to duty and unselfish concern for injured comrades General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24442062 AIRTPR J J Rigg AAC); South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (24442062 LCPL J J Rigg AAC), mounted as originally worn, good very fine or better (2) £7000-9000
Hammer Price: £10,000
An historic pair of Baronet of Nova Scotia Badges awarded to the Musgrave Baronets of Hayton Castle, including General Sir Thomas Musgrave, 7th Bart., who commanded the 40th Foot at the battle of Germantown in October 1777 during the American War of Independence, and was afterwards the last British commandant of New York (i) Baronet’s Badge of Nova Scotia, a late 18th Century badge in gold and enamels, in the form of a crowned shield of two-part riveted construction with hinged...
Hammer Price: £12,000
A rare Great War Albert Medal in Gold for Sea awarded to Mr. A. W. Furneaux, Chief Steward of the S.S. Karonga, for gallantry in risking his life to save the life of a wounded Lascar when his ship was torpedoed, on 28 April 1917, freeing him from the wreckage by means of amputating one of his legs with a clasp knife, and then carrying him to the safety of the lifeboat, where he proceeded to dress the wound - one of only two Albert Medals in Gold for Sea awarded to civilians during the Great...
Hammer Price: £13,000
An outstanding Second World War M.B.E., Great War pilot’s M.C., motor cyclist’s ‘Neuve Chapelle’ 1915 D.C.M. group of seven awarded to Acting Wing Commander R. Chadwick, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, late Royal Engineers, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved, ‘Capt. Reginald Chadwick, R.F.C., 25th Sept. 1916’;...
Hammer Price: £14,000
The important D-Day C.G.M. group of eight awarded to Chief Petty Officer R. H. G. McKinlay, Royal Navy Beach Commando ‘Peter’, for gallantry ashore when, single-handed, he silenced two enemy strong points with hand grenades and afterwards, under fire from snipers, went to the rescue of a wounded man and brought him safely to cover. After the war he became one of the first members of the Fleet Clearance Diving Team, serving with Commander ‘Buster’ Crabb, M.I.6’s ‘Frogman Spy’,...
Hammer Price: £44,000
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