Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

Bombardment of Scarborough 1914, 32mm., bronze, obverse: Arms of Scarborough upon a central shield between views of the coast, ‘Scarborough still Undismayed’, above, three ships bombarding the coast; reverse: ‘Bombardment of Scarborough Non Combatants by the German Fleet, Dec. 16th 1914’, minor edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine £30-40

B.H.M. 4111, Eimer1938, M.H. p.489.

The Yorkshire coastal resort of Scarborough was bombarded by the German battlecruisers Derfflinger and Von der Tann on the night of 15 / 16th December 1914. Some fifty shots were fired, killing 137 men, women and children and wounding another 592. Sold with a commemorative booklet containing plates illustrating the damage to the town.