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Heritage: The History of the Rajput Regiment 1778-1947, by M. Ahmad, Rakesh Press, New Delhi, 1989, 382pp., a good detailed history of the regiment, with pull-out maps and index, hardback, with dust jacket, the dust-jacket slightly torn, otherwise good condition Regimental History of the 4th Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifle (Wilde’s), by Major-General Sir A. T. Wilde, K.C.B., C.S.I., Naval & Military Press reprint, 235pp., softback, very good condition The History of the Baluch...
Hammer Price: £50
Valour Triumphs: A History of the Kumaon Regiment, a presentation copy from the Regiment to a former Commanding Officer, Colonel A. T. B. Craig, signed by General A. T. Raina [Colonel of the Regiment], by K. C. Praval, Thomson Press, India, 1976, 442pp., with pull-out maps, list of commanding officers, honours and awards &c., hardback, with dust-jacket, the dust-jacket faded and frayed, otherwise good condition £30-£40
Jubilee 1887, 1 clasp, 1897, Metropolitan Police (PC, W. Masters. J. Divn.) minor edge bruising, good very fine £50-£70
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (294838 Gnr. G. J. Belton. R.A.) suspension slack, very fine £50-£60
Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (H-5684 Sjt: Tlr: P. Darcy. 18/Hrs:) mounted for display, good very fine £30-£40
A large double page hand tinted original The Illustrated London News engraving, depicting the Charge of the 2nd Punjab Cavalry in the Action at Shahjui on 24 October 1879, mounted and framed, very good condition £50-£70
A large single front-page hand tinted original The Illustrated London News engraving, dated 7 August 1880, depicting the last stand of the Troops at Maiwand, 27 July 1880, mounted and framed, very good condition £50-£70
Belgium, Kingdom, Order of Leopold I, an adapted c.1880 Chevalier’s breast badge with ‘élargi’ style crown, silver, gold and enamel, French motto, with custom-made silver suspension and brooch bars, in contemporary fitted case, enamel damage, nearly very fine £40-£60
History of the Corps of Indian Engineers, 1939-47, by Major S. Verma and Major V. K. Anand, Historical Section Ministry of Defence, India, 1974, 490pp., part of the Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War, an exceptionally detailed survey, with pull-out maps and index, hardback, in wrapper, good condition £20-£30
The Military Engineer in India, by Colonel E. W. C. Sandes, D.S.O., M.C., Institute of Royal Engineers, Chatham, 1933, Two volumes, 590pp. and 392pp., a superbly detailed work on the various units of Indian Engineers (Sappers and Miners &c.) from 1660-1935, with excellent detail on the Victorian campaigns and the Great War, with pull-out maps, photographs, and index, hardback, slight scuffing to covers, generally good condition Bengal Sappers 1803-2003, edited by G. Cooper and D....
Five: Acting Sergeant A. J. Hopkins, Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, very fine (5) £40-£60
Four: Lieutenant K. E. Topp, South African Air Force 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially named ‘207150 K. E. Topp.’, with Union Defence Forces enclosure, in original transmission envelope, addressed to ‘Mr. K. E. Topp, 9 Harlestone, 173 Riley Road, Durban, Natal’, good very fine (4) £60-£80
Hammer Price: £55
Four: Attributed to Leading Aircraftman C. W. F. Hitchings, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. J. Hitchins, 15 Islingwood Place, Brighton 7, Sussex’, extremely fine Pair: Attributed to A. Vassallo, Royal Air Force Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, with Air Council enclosure and medal enclosure slip, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘A. Vassallo Esq.,...
Gallant Sepoys and Sowars, by Major W. J. Elliott and Lieutenant-Colonel Knollys, c. 1860, 176pp., a scarce early work detailing the gallantry of Indian soldiers in the Mutiny and in Afghanistan &c., with illustrations and index, hardback, lacking frontispiece, otherwise good condition The Victoria Cross in Afghanistan 1878-80 and how it was won, by Major W. J. Elliott, Dean, London, 1882, 250pp., an interesting and very early “boy’s own” accounts of gallantry in the Second Afghan...
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (3641 Hvldr. Ghulam Hussain. 1-55-Coke’s R.) very fine £40-£50
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (Pesh-2122 Clerk Daya Ram. S. & T. Corps) light contact marks, very fine £40-£50
Pair: Police Constable G. Mockford, Metropolitan Police Coronation 1902, bronze (P.C. G. Mockford. H. Div.); Coronation 1911 (P.C. G. Mockford.) edge nicks, good very fine (2) £40-£50
Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (2) (2036266 Bmbr. E. B. Milligan. R.A.; 2045459. Gnr. C. Tooth. R.A.) nearly very fine or better (2) £40-£50
Pair: 1st Class Air Mechanic L. Freedman, Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (57428 1. A.M. L. Freedman. R.A.F.) in named card boxes of issue, and with opened Air Ministry registered packet, the latter being addressed to ‘Mr L. Freedman, 35 Nathaniel Buildings, Commercial Road, London’, nearly extremely fine (2) £40-£50
Chitral: The Story of a Minor Siege, by Sir George Robertson, K.C.S.I., Methuen, London, 1898, 368pp., an excellent contemporary account of the Chitral siege and relief, with pull-out maps, photographs, and index, hardback, good condition Much Sounding of Bugles: The Siege of Chitral, 1895, by J. Harris, Hutchinson, London, 1975, 245pp., with photographs and index, hardback, with dust jacket, good condition A Narrative of Events in Chitral, Swat and Bajaur, Chitral Campaign, by H. C....
The Third Afghan War: Official Account, Government of India, Calcutta, 1926, 174pp., a detailed survey of the operations, with pull-out maps, list of unit formations &c., hardback, a few pages supplied in photocopy, damage to cover, therefore fair condition Crisis on the Frontier: The Third Afghan War and Campaign in Waziristan, 1919-20, B. Robson, Spellmount, 2004, 318pp., a good modern account of the operations, with photographs and index, hardback, with dust-jacket, almost new...
Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War: Post War Occupation Forces, Japan and S.E. Asia, Longman’s for Historical Section of Indian and Pakistan Armies, 1958, 310pp., with pull-out maps, photographs, and index, hardback, in dust-jacket, the dust-jacket torn in parts, otherwise good condition and one of the scarcer books in the “Official History” series £30-£40
The Calcutta Light Horse 1759-1947, author not stated, Gale & Polden 1957, 175pp., with photographs, nominal rolls, and lists of various Regimental competitions and trophies, hardback, cover slightly scuffed but otherwise good condition The Bombay Light Horse and its Successor the Bombay Motor Patrol A.F.I., author not stated, Cranford Press 1966, 47pp., with photographs and nominal rolls for 1914-18 and 1939-45, hardback, good condition and a limited edition of 150 copies (2) £20-£30
A Japanese Order of the Rising Sun attributed to Gunto (Sergeant) Furuya, 9th Field Gun Force, Imperial Japanese Army Japan, Empire, Order of the Rising Sun, Eighth Class breast badge, silver, in original rio-nuri lacquered case of issue, the case somewhat damaged; together with an Army ‘Field’ Saki Bowl, with gold star and 9th Field Gun Force inscription; and a ‘Gunto’ collar rank patch, nearly extremely fine (3) £60-£80
Hammer Price: £60
The History of the Bombay Pioneers, 1777-1933, by Lieutenant-Colonel W. B. P. Tugwell, Sidney Press, London, 1938, 439pp., the standard history of the Corps of Bombay Pioneers until its dissolution, with pull-out maps, photographs, and index, hardback, scuffing to spine but otherwise good condition £30-£40
Korea, Republic, Korean War Participation Medal, 2nd type, bronze; United Nations Korea Medal, Korean issue, mounted as worn, traces of verdigris, nearly very fine (2) £60-£80
Rhodesia, Exemplary Service (Sqn Ldr A. D. Steel) good very fine £80-£100
British and Indian Armies in the East Indies 1685-1935, by A. Harfield, Picton Print, 1984, 411pp., a detailed account, with various medal rolls, of operations involving the Indian Army on the Chinese coast, Perak, Spice Islands &c., with photographs and index, hardback, with dust-jacket, good condition To Guard My People: the History of the Indian Police, by Sir Percival Griffiths, K.B.E., C.I.E., Benn, Bombay, 1971, 430pp.., the standard and detailed history of the Indian Police, with...
German Second World War Flak Insignia. A a single Luftwaffe flak faded red Leutnant’s collar patch; an other ranks Flak Qualification sleeve badge; and a scarce Luftwaffe woman’s flak helpers arm shield, good condition (3) £40-£50
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (2514 Sepoy Gulbant Singh 1-55-Coke’s R.) very fine £40-£50
Coronation 1902, Colony of Natal, 29mm, silver, unnamed as issued, pierced with double ring suspension, minor edge bruising, otherwise nearly extremely fine £60-£80
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (4185512 L.A.C. B. Corrigan. R.A.F.) in named card box of issue; together with the recipient’s two card identity tags, slight marks caused by metallic impurities to obverse, otherwise nearly extremely fine £40-£50
A German Weimar Period Belt and Buckle. A quite scarce buckle of the Weimar period having a one piece pebbled nickel buckle with the motto ‘Gott Mit Uns’ with the Weimar eagle to the centre, fitted to a 102cm length all leather belt which is clearly ‘1935 Neu-Ulm’ marked plus Company mark ‘2/N.91’. The buckle unusually has its original leather tab fitted with a date of ‘1934’ corresponding with the Weimar period, good condition and a scarce combination £70-£90
Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue 4297 Sq. S. Mjr: I. In F. & G. W. S. Chappell. 2/D. Gds.) very fine, scarce to rank £40-£50
Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (24358809 Cpl M Wallace 15/19H) mounted for display, with named card box of issue, good very fine £30-£40
Royal Navy Lieutenant’s full dress pair of epaulettes, of post-1902 design, gold lace with silver lace anchors complete with finial buttons. Retailed by Gieve’s, London and Portsmouth, good condition £40-£60
The Army List of Hodson’s Horse, 1857-1928, compilation of Indian Army List entries (officers) for the regiment at different dates, a Presentation copy to Major H. H. F. Fagan in memory of his service with Hodson’s, Kohat, Christmas 1929, Civil and Military Press, Lahore, 1929, 330pp., hardback, good condition and a useful compilation £20-£30
Greece, Kingdom, War Medal 1940-41, for Land Operations, bronze (10), generally very fine or better (10) £50-£70
King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (968 Pte. Keefe. S. Wales Bord:) attempted filed erasure of surname, otherwise about very fine £30-£40
Hammer Price: £65
Pair: Corporal W. Staniar, Royal Air Force General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (2370945 Act. Cpl. W. Staniar R.A.F.); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (K2370945 S.A.C. W. Staniar. R.A.F.) very fine (2) £70-£90
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