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Punjab 1848-49, no clasp (Ensign T. C. Merrick, 3rd. Bengal N.I.) minor edge nicks, good very fine £340-£380
£340–£380
Four: Sergeant-Major R. F. Lewis, Chin-Hill Military Police 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal; India Service Medal, all four officially impressed (Sgt-Maj. R. F. Lewis Chin-Hill Mily Police) good very fine (4) £30-£40
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Riband: Five rolls of miniature-width Polish medal riband, for the Polish Cross of Merit; the Polish Cross of Valour; the Polish Cross of Freedom; the Army Medal; and the Polish Cross of Freedom and Industry, all originally 25 metres in length although a small amount used in most cases, very good condition (5) £30-£40
£30–£40
Montenegro, Kingdom, Order of Danilo, Commander’s neck badge, 74mm including crown suspension x 50mm, silver-gilt and enamel, unmarked, good very fine £400-£500
£400–£500
A Rhodesia, ‘Police Cross for Conspicuous Gallantry’ pair awarded to Constable C. Kamupaundi, British South Africa Police and The Support Unit, who was awarded the first of only five P.C.G.’s ever awarded - for his gallantry during a terrorist RPG ambush on his vehicle convoy, 11 February 1975 Rhodesia, Police Cross for Conspicuous Gallantry, unnamed copy; General Service (21149 Const. Kamupaundi) mounted for wear, very fine or better (2) £400-£500
A Great War ‘Kut-al-Amarah’ I.D.S.M. awarded to Naik Indar Singh, 1-66th Punjabis, who was a prisoner of war in Turkey Indian Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (1501 Nk. Indar Singh, 1/66/Pjbs.) very fine £600-£700
£600–£700
Three: Yeoman of the Stores H. Campbell, Royal Navy Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (H. Campbell. Yeo: Stores. H.M.S. “Invincible”) edge bruising; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Henry Campbell, Boatman, H.M. Coast Guard.); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, light pitting overall, therefore generally nearly very fine (3) £260-£300
£260–£300
A German Second World War N.S.K.K. Crash Helmet. A nice condition size 55 NSKK crash helmet unusually without any form of NSKK or SA badge affixed. Mint condition interior. The lining is perfect with its original drawstring. Complete with its neck flap and ear protectors with front strap closure buckle, together with their set of period goggles, the goggles slightly damaged, otherwise extremely good condition £150-£200
£150–£200
A Meritorious Service Medal for service in Ireland awarded to Company Sergeant-Major Joseph Wood, Royal Defence Corps, late Manchester Regiment, who died on 17 February 1919 Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (17975 C.S. Mjr. J. Wood. R.D.C.) good very fine £400-£460
£400–£460
A German Second World War Luftwaffe Combat Belt and Buckle. A good all steel Luftwaffe belt buckle with blue paint finish missing. Maker marked on the reverse side. Complete with its leather tab, which is maker marked and ‘1940’ dated. Combat weight leather belt which is excellent, which is marked ‘Aachen 1942’, good condition £60-£80
£60–£80
A scarce ‘Crowned Head’ Palestine M.M. group of five awarded to Lance-Corporal A. Miller, Seaforth Highlanders, who was wounded at Dunkirk in 1940 and subsequently served as a Sergeant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Military Medal, G.V.R., 2nd ‘crowned head’ issue (2819056 L. Cpl. A. Miller. 1-Seaforth.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (2819056 Pte. A. Miller. Seaforth.) edge bruise; 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, last three privately i...
£4,600–£5,000
The General Service Medal awarded to Rifleman C. J. Watson, Royal Green Jackets, who was shot dead by three I.R.A. gunmen in Londonderry, 19 July 1980 General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (24399929 Rfn. C J Watson RGJ) very fine £600-£800
General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (WG Cdr H Cooper RAF) light scratches to obverse field, otherwise good very fine £120-£160
£120–£160
The Essex Regiment Officer’s Blue Cloth Helmet c. 1902-14, together with its Named Tin, the skull complete with all gilt metal fittings, the frontal plate of crowned star pattern with oak leaf and Garter overlays, in the centre on a ground of black velvet the Sphinx/Egypt, Gibraltar Castle and the motto ‘Montis Insignia Calpe’, title scroll below ‘The Essex Regiment’, the plate is original to the helmet, buff leather sweatband with crimson silk lining and supplier’s label ‘Hebbert & Co., Lond...
Ashantee 1873-74, no clasp (I. H. Brimacombe, Asst. Paymr. R.N. H.M.S. Tamar. 73 74) good very fine £280-£320
£280–£320
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (J. F. Luckett [sic], Pte. R.M.L.I.) edge bruise, contact marks, very fine £500-£700
23rd (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Regiment Officer’s Shoulder Belt Plate c1840-1855, an extremely fine example, the rectangular gilt back plate with a burnished edge and stippled ground, thereon a fused grenade in burnished gilt the ball bearing a crowned circle, ‘Royal Welch Fusiliers’ enclosing the Prince of Wales’s Badge and Motto over ‘XXIII’. Standard hook and stud fasteners complete with original leather liner, slight buckling to the top corners and minute damage to the bottom right hand cor...
£600–£800
A scarce Army Best Shot Medal Pair awarded to Inspector H. R. Cooke, British South African Police Colonial Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue (3427 Insp. Henry R. Cooke, B.S.A. Police); Army Best Shot, E.II.R. (3427 Insp. H. R. Cooke B.S.A. Police) last lacking dated bar, mounted for wear, 1st very fine, last extremely fine (2) £1,000-£1,400
£1,000–£1,400
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (2792, Pte. G. Eugill, 2/York & Lanc: R.) heavy pitting from Star, edge bruising, therefore fine £100-£140
£100–£140
Pair: Major-General L. H. Sibthorpe, 9th Bombay Native Infantry Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Lieut. H. L. Sibthorpe, 9th Bombay N.I.); Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Lt. Col. L. H. Sibthorpe. 9th Bo. N.I.) both fitted with contemporary silver riband buckles, nearly extremely fine (2) £1,000-£1,400
East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (P. Bell, Ord. H.M.S. Theseus.) good very fine £200-£260
£200–£260
British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (1111 Pte. E. J. Smith, 2/Rif. Bde.) suspension slack, very fine and scarce £500-£700
£500–£700
77th (East Middlesex) Regiment Officer's Pagri Badge c1860-1881. A fine quality cast silver example (58mm) featuring the unit title, numerals and the Prince of Wales's Badge & Motto (granted in 1810), with original retaining pin. The badge is almost certainly of Indian manufacture, where the regiment served 1858-1870 and again 1880-1898, very good condition £140-£200
£140–£200
A large double page hand tinted original The Illustrated London News engraving, dated 16 August 1879, depicting the Death of Major Wigram Battye in the Battle of Futtehabad on 30 April 1879, mounted and framed, very good condition £50-£70
£50–£70
Assorted Military Badges, comprising a die stamped white metal shooting badge featuring a QVC cross rifles Prince of Wales’s badge and the letters EF, a chrome and enamel lapel badge for the Cheshire Corps of Air Raid Wardens, a base metal and enamelled Red Cross badge stated to be WWI period and a reproduction collar badge for the Queen’s Own Corps of Guides, good overall condition (4) £40-£60
£40–£60
British Military Buttons comprising 2nd Life Guards c. 1840 two large examples one officer’s one other ranks, one small and one large KC pattern, Grenadier Guards one George IV large, two Victorian large mounted pattern, Scots Guards five various, 1st Royal Dragoons two QVC large four assorted KC, RHG/D one large, Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrew’s one large gilt mounted c. 1840, a few with wear otherwise good condition (20) £80-£120
£80–£120
India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (Ltt. Coll. S. V. Grodon 23rd Bl. Infy.) naming officially re-engraved, note spelling of surname, good very fine £200-£300
£200–£300
Carnegie Hero Fund Presentation Pocket Watch, silver, with inner cover inscribed, ‘Presented by the Trustees of the Carnegie Hero Fund to P.C. Herbert Archer, Rosyth, Dunfermline, for Heroism in Saving Human Life, 22nd March 1916’, outer cover ornately engraved with ‘CHFT’ (Carnegie Hero Fund Trust) cypher, hallmarks for London 1914, in John Hood, Dunfermline fitted case, internal workings unknown, cypher details worn through polishing, otherwise good condition £240-£280
£240–£280
Norton Hill Colliery Explosion Relief Fund, Presentation Certificate, 470 x 380 mm., ‘Awarded by the Committee on behalf of the Subscribers to the above Fund to George S. Pollard for Conspicuous Bravery on the occasion of an Explosion at Norton Hill Colliery, on 9th April 1908. This certificate was presented at Midsomer Norton by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales on 23rd June 1909’, contained in wooden glass-fronted frame, good condition and rare £160-£200
£160–£200
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Lissa (John Burns.) unofficially re-impressed naming, nearly very fine £600-£800
War in Afghanistan 1879-80, the personal diary of Major-General Sir Charles M. MacGregor, edited by W. Trousdale, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1985, 226pp., with photographs and index, hardback, with dust-jacket, good condition The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80, by A. Forbes, Darf, London, 1987 [reprint of 1892 edition], 337pp., the account of one of the foremost war correspondents of his day, with photographs and index, hardback, with dust-jacket, very good condition The Go...
£40–£50
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 3 clasps, 4 Novr 1805, Java, St. Sebastian (Henry Jeffery.) light edge bruise and old repair to left hand side of carriage, otherwise nearly extremely fine £5,000-£6,000
£5,000–£6,000
The Queen’s South Africa Medal awarded to Trooper J. W. Gibbs, Protectorate Regiment, who was killed in action at Game Tree Hill, Mafeking, on 26 December 1899 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Mafeking (55 Tpr: J. W. Gibbs. Protect: Regt. F.F.) suspension claw re-rivetted, nearly very fine £1,400-£1,800
£1,400–£1,800
Waterloo 1815 (John Tinsel, 2nd Batt. Coldstream Gds.) fitted with original steel clip and later ring suspension, professional repair to obverse rim affecting lower part of letters of Christian name, otherwise a pleasing very fine £3,000-£4,000
£3,000–£4,000
Waterloo 1815 (Jeremiah Wyne, 2nd Batt. 3rd Reg. Guards.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £3,000-£4,000
New Zealand Cross, in silver and gold, engraved, ‘Specimen’ in upper reverse centre, with gold buckle brooch bar, minor die flaw to gold laurel spray on suspension bar, extremely fine and rare £1,800-£2,200
£1,800–£2,200
The highly emotive Second War Great Escaper’s campaign group of three awarded to Wellington pilot, Squadron Leader T. G. Kirby-Green, Royal Air Force, who had been shot down returning from a raid to Duisburg, 16/17 October 1941, only to be taken POW and imprisoned in the infamous Stalag Luft III at Sagan. Kirby-Green was almost immediately recruited by Roger Bushell (Big-X) on to the camp’s escape committee, where he worked in Arnost Valenta’s intelligence section. On the night of the esc...
Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. Lewis Wm. Fargue, 4th Line Batt. K.G.L.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £4,600-£5,500
£4,600–£5,500
Lord Willingdon’s Medal for Good Recruiting Work, the obverse featuring a stylised Britannia accompanied by a Bengal tiger, 41mm, silver, unnamed as issued, fitted with a claw suspension with small top ring, nearly extremely fine £60-£80
The Royal Engineers Armstrong Memorial Prize Medal awarded to Brigadier W. F. Anderson, [C.B.E., M.C. and Second Award Bar], Royal Engineers, a contemporary of Douglas Bader and David Stirling at Colditz, and a frequent contributor to moments of ingenuity for the Escape Committee. After the Second War he served as Chief Engineer H.Q. Malaya Royal Engineers Armstrong Memorial Prize Medal 1902, by F. Bowcher, obverse: bust of Armstrong facing left, ‘Col. R. Y. Armstrong, C.B., Royal Engineer...
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