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A Second War ‘Swansea Blitz’ G.M. awarded to G. A. Peters, who was employed as a lorry driver for the Swansea Gas Light Company, and was rewarded for his bravery at the top of a flaming gas holder, pierced by an incendiary bomb, 21 February 1941 George Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (George Peters.) in card box of issue, nearly extremely fine £2,800-£3,200
Hammer Price: £4,000
A fine Second World War ‘Bath Blitz’ G.M. pair awarded to Company Sergeant-Major, later Second Lieutenant J. A. Leslie, 6th Somerset (Bath Admiralty) Battalion, Home Guard George Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Coy. Sgt. Major James Adamson Leslie); Defence Medal, unnamed as issued, good very fine (2) £3,000-£3,600
A 1921 Constabulary Medal (Ireland) pair awarded to District Inspector J. Sugrue, Royal Irish Constabulary, for his valour and leadership during an 11 hour battle after a party of 14 policemen under his command had been ambushed by 50 Republicans at Maam, Co. Galway, on 23 April 1921 Constabulary Medal (Ireland), 2nd type, ‘Reward of Merit Royal Irish Constabulary’ (District Inspector James Sugrue 1921) lacking top silver riband bar; Visit to Ireland 1903 (S.. J. Sugrue. R.I.C.)...
The Second Afghan War Medal awarded to Lieutenant Frank Whittuck, 1st Bombay Grenadiers, one of the three officers of the regiment who escaped unscathed from the disaster at Maiwand, where he took part in the stand in the walled garden and was subsequently part of the rearguard during the terrible retreat; he died shortly afterwards, struck down by dysentery whilst on duty on the ramparts of the besieged city of Kandahar Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Lieut. F. Whittuck, Bo. N.I.) good...
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Fort Detroit (Peter Powlass, Warrior.) suspension a little slack, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise better than good fine and rare £3,000-£3,600
The scarce ‘Syria’ and ‘Anchor’ type long service medal pair awarded to Colour-Sergeant Edward Palmer, Royal Marines and Yeoman of the Guard, the only Yeoman to wear the N.G.S. medal Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Edwd. Palmer.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., Anchor obverse (Edward Palmer Color Sergt. Royal Marines H.M.S. Thunderer 22 Years) pierced as issued with ring suspension, very fine (2) £2,000-£2,600
Hammer Price: £4,200
A Second World War ‘Special Operations’ D.S.M. awarded to Petty Officer F. S. Smith, Royal Navy, 15th M.G.B. Flotilla, who was tragically killed when M.G.B. 2002 struck a mine just four days after V.E. Day in May 1945 Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (P.O., F. S. Smith, C/JX. 143074) on original investiture pin, extremely fine £2,400-£3,000
A Second War 1942 ‘immediate’ Malta Spitfire Ace’s D.F.M. group of eight awarded to Pilot Officer L. G. C. De Lara, 249 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (740876. F/Sgt. L. G. C. De Lara R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Plt. Off. L. G. C. De Lara R.A.F.V.R.) mounted for display, good very fine (8) £3,000-£4,000
A K.P.M. group of four awarded to Superintendent J. Lowe, Dublin Metropolitan Police King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (John Lowe. Supt., Dublin Met. Pol.) in case of issue; Visit to Ireland 1900 (Chief Insp. J. Lowe. D.M.P.) with integral top shamrock suspension bar; Visit to Ireland 1903 (Ch. Insp. J. Lowe. D.M.P.) with integral top shamrock suspension bar; Visit to Ireland 1911, unnamed as issued, about extremely fine (4) £700-£900
An Albert Medal Second Class for Sea awarded to Mr. F. Pitts, Chief Officer of the S.S. Pleiades, for gallantry in attempting to save the life of a seaman who had fallen overboard during a gale en-route from Calcutta to London, on 30 May 1881 Albert Medal, 2nd Class, for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, bronze and enamel, reverse officially engraved ‘Presented in the name of Her Majesty to Mr. Francis Pitts Chief Officer of the Steam Ship “Pleiades”, of Liverpool, for his Gallant...
Hammer Price: £4,400
A scarce Second Afghan War ‘Deh Khojah’ D.C.M. pair awarded to Private Denis Regan, 2/7th Foot Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (49 Bde./893 Pte. D. Regan. 2/7th Foot. 16th Aug: 1880.); Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Kandahar (893. Pte. D. Regan. 2/7th Foot.) light contact marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £4,000-£5,000
A rare German Second World War Luftwaffe Silver Honour Salver awarded to Knight’s Cross recipient Oberleutnant Wilhelm Kuhlwilm, a Company Commander in Parachute Panzer Grenadier Regiment 3 Hermann Goering, for services at Salerno on 7 September 1943 Luftwaffe Silver Honour Salver, 275mm in diameter, inscribed to ‘Lieutenant Willi Kuhlwilm, AM 7.9.43’, reverse with maker’s mark ‘JOH Wagner & Son’, a beautiful condition piece, with many years of patination evident to the plate,...
The important Peninsula War medal awarded to General Sir Howard Douglas, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., Colonel of the 15th (East Yorkshire) Regiment of Foot, later Governor of New Brunswick and Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Corunna (Sir H. Douglas, Bart. G.C.B. Asst. Qr. Mr. Genl.) contained in an old fitted case, nearly extremely fine £5,000-£6,000
Pair: Major-General C. M. Griffith, 1st Bombay Grenadiers, a Maiwand survivor who took command of the regiment after Colonel Anderson had been severely wounded, and afterwards took part in the defence of Kandahar and subsequent battle of Kandahar Abyssinia 1867 (Captn. C. M. Griffith. Bombay Staff Corps); Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Kandahar (Lieut. Col. C. M. Griffith. Bo. N.I.) both fitted with contemporary silver riband buckles, nearly extremely fine (2) £3,000-£4,000
Hammer Price: £4,600
The Institution of Aeronautical Engineers ‘Sir Charles Wakefield’ Gold Medal for 1932 awarded to Leslie George Frise, B.Sc., F.R.Ae.S., a distinguished aircraft designer at the Bristol Aeroplane Company, for his invention of the Frise Aileron The Institution of Aeronautical Engineers ‘Sir Charles Wakefield Medal’, 18 carat gold, hallmarked Birmingham 1932, 134.69g, 63mm, the reverse inscribed ‘1932. Awarded to L. G. Frise B.Sc.. F.R.Ae.S. for his invention of the Frise...
The outstanding Crimean War D.C.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant-Major John Breeze, 11th Hussars and Yeoman of the Guard, who lost his arm at the battle of Inkermann Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Serjt. John Breeze, 11th Hussars); Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Sergt. John Breeze. 11: Hussars) contemporary engraved naming; Jubilee 1887, bronze, unnamed; Turkish Crimea, British issue, unnamed, the first two with contact marks and edge bruising, and sometime...
Hammer Price: £5,000
An Albert Medal for Land awarded to Second Lieutenant S. M. Reekie, M.M., Royal Fusiliers, for gallantry in saving life following a military training accident at Newmarket on 19 July 1918- he deliberately entered the bomb pit and shielded his pupil from the blast, sustaining significant wounds in the process Albert Medal, 2nd Class, for Gallantry in Saving Life on Land, bronze and enamel, the reverse officially engraved ‘Presented by His Majesty to 2nd. Lieut. Stanley Martin Reekie,...
Russia, Bokhara, Order of the Noble Bokhara, First Class Third Degree Star, by Osipov, St. Petersburg, 73mm, gold (56 zolotniki) and enamel, with assay office mark for St. Petersburg 1865-96 and maker’s mark on reverse, with gold retaining pin, minor chipping to blue enamel, otherwise good very fine, rare £1,000-£1,400
Hampshire Yeomanry Cavalry (Carabiniers), Lieutenant Colonel A. C. Nicholson’s Full Dress Uniform, comprising 1871 pattern plated helmet complete with all gilt metal fittings and fine quality frontal plate, this complete with chamois leather cover and named carrying tin; correct pattern white horse hair plume together with its carrying tin; full dress shoulder belt and pouch hallmarked en-suite Birmingham 1894, the silver pouch with gilt metal mount being St. Edward’s crown over HYC;...
A fine battle of Inkermann D.C.M. group of four awarded to Colour-Sergeant Charles Walker, 55th Regiment, who was recommended for the Victoria Cross for ‘recapturing one of our Field Guns which was being dragged away by some of the enemy’, and later a Yeoman of the Guard Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Colr-Serjt. C. Walker. 55th Regt.); China 1842 (Charles Walker. 55th Regiment Foot) original suspension; Crimea 1854-55, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (1500 Color Sergt.C....
Hammer Price: £5,500
A Second War ‘1940’ G.M. awarded to Corporal R. J. Farley, 613 (City of Manchester) Squadron, Royal Air Force, for the rescue of a trapped pilot and his air gunner from a flaming Lysander - ‘Farley unhesitatingly ran to his assistance and, plunging his arms into the blazing cockpit, released the legs of the pilot, who was apparently stunned and whose clothes were in flames.’ Both Farley and Aircraftman 1st Class T. W. Coop were awarded the George Medal for their gallantry at...
The Second Afghan War medal awarded to Lieutenant M. B. Salmon, West India Regiment, attached 30th Bombay Native Infantry (Jacob’s Rifles), who distinguished himself at the battle of Maiwand and was recommended for the Victoria Cross for gallantry at Kandahar Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Lt. M. B. Salmon. 30th Bo. N.I.) fitted with a contemporary silver riband buckle, a few minor nicks, otherwise good very fine £4,000-£5,000
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Anholt 27 March 1811, 14 Dec Boat Service 1814 (Benjn. Tubby.) light edge bruising and contact marks overall, otherwise nearly very fine £6,000-£8,000
The Palestine and Second World War campaign group of four awarded to Corporal A. Drongin, Special Air Service (S.A.S.), formerly a Sergeant-Major in the Scots Guards, who died of wounds received in ‘L’ Detachment’s raid on Benghazi in September 1942: recalled by other old comrades as a ‘very hard soldier, with a harsh voice, who would take no nonsense’, and as ‘one of Stirling’s ideal selfless men’, he displayed indomitable courage during his final ordeal, telling the M.O.,...
Hammer Price: £6,000
Military General Service 1793-1814, 11 clasps, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (John Kelly, 88th Foot.) edge bruising and suspension a little slack, otherwise good very fine £5,500-£6,500
Sultan’s Medal for Egypt 1801, 1st Class, gold, 54mm., with original gold chain and hook suspension, nearly extremely fine and very scarce £5,000-£6,000
Hammer Price: £6,500
The Rare Boer War ‘Raised Dates’ Q.S.A. awarded to Private C. W. C. Malet, Lord Strathcona’s Horse, who went to Canada at age 17, was presented with his Q.S.A. by King Edward VII in person, became a Rubber Planter and Government Official in Malaya, and died in July 1944 whilst in Japanese-occupied Singapore Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, reverse with dates in relief ‘1899 1900’, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (635 Pte. C. C. Malet, Ld....
Hammer Price: £7,000
The important Boer War C.B., ‘South Africa Constabulary’ C.M.G., Great War C.B.E., ‘Rhodesia 1896’ D.S.O. group of fifteen awarded to Brigadier-General J. S. Nicholson, 7th Hussars, who raised and commanded the British South Africa Police 1898-1900, commanded 1st Brigade Rhodesian Field Force during the Boer War, was Commandant of the South African Constabulary 1902-05, and Base Commandant, British Armies in France during the Great War The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B....
Hammer Price: £7,500
A superb Great War and Anglo-Irish War D.C.M. group of five awarded to Brigadier-General G. Adamson, Irish Free State Army, late Private, Machine Gun Corps and Leinster Regiment, who was murdered in Athlone in April 1922 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (48507 Pte.-A.L. Cpl. G. Adamson, 10/M.G.C.); 1914-15 Star (4941 Pte. Pte. G. Adamson, Leins. R.); British War and Victory Medals (4941. Pte. G. Adamson. Leins. R.); Ireland, Free State, General Service Medal 1917-21, combatant’s type...
Hammer Price: £8,000
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Nile (Joshua Office.) light marks to obverse, otherwise good very fine £4,600-£5,000
The South Africa 1877-78 campaign medal awarded to Lieutenant C. A. Erskine, Queenstown Volunteer Contingent, who aferwards served as a Captain in the 2/3rd Battalion, Natal Native Contingent, and was killed in action at Isandhlwana South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8 (Lieut: C. Erskine Queenstown Vol: Contgt.) some scratches to obverse, otherwise nearly extremely fine £6,000-£8,000
Hammer Price: £8,500
A good Albert Medal Second Class for Sea life-saving group of four awarded to Commander C. W. Robinson, Royal Naval Reserve, Third Officer of the S.S. Teutonic, for his great gallantry in attempting to save the life of a lunatic passenger who jumped overboard in St. George’s Channel on the night of 17 April 1895- leaping after him into the sea his efforts at rescue were met with violent resistance, and when picked up was in an exhausted condition, requiring two hours’ continuous exertion...
Hammer Price: £9,000
The Waterloo medal awarded to Sergeant-Major Thomas Baker, Coldstream Guards, who served in Lieutenant-Colonel Macdonnell’s Company and was most probably a defender at Hougoumont; a veteran of Ireland 1799, Cadiz 1800, Egypt 1801, Germany 1805, Copenhagen 1807, and the Peninsula 1811-14, he was appointed to the Yeomen of the Guard for ‘distinguished service’ in 1823 as the very first ‘military’ member of the Guard; in this capacity he attended the funerals of King George IV and...
Hammer Price: £11,000
The unique Great War 1917 ‘Auxiliary Patrol’ D.S.C. and 1919 ‘North Russia Relief Force’ Second Award Bar group of six awarded to Lieutenant E. W. King, Royal Naval Reserve, for his command of the converted hospital paddle steamer Walton Belle in the White Sea on 1 August 1919 during an attempt by armed Russian mutineers to take control of the ship Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, unnamed as issued, silver (hallmarks for London 1917); 1914-15 Star...
Military General Service 1793-1814, 12 clasps, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (Henry Campbell, 52nd Foot.) original ribbon, two minor edge bruises, otherwise good very fine £6,000-£7,000
Pair: Major James Harrison, Rocket Troop, Madras Horse Artillery Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Java (James Harrison, Lieut. Madras H. Arty.); Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Maheidpoor (Lieutt. J. Harrison. H. Arty.) long hyphen reverse, officially engraved naming, toned good very fine and rare (2) £3,000-£3,600
Hammer Price: £12,000
The particularly fine and well documented Light Brigade group of three awarded to Private William Pearson, 17th Lancers, who was severely wounded in the charge at Balaklava and nursed by Florence Nightingale at Scutari hospital Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (Pte. Willm. Pearson. 17th Lans.) contemporary engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Wm. Pearson, 17th Lancers); Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, unnamed, plugged and fitted with scroll suspension,...
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Shannon Wh Chesapeake (James French.) toned, very fine £6,000-£8,000
Hammer Price: £13,000
The Waterloo medal awarded to Lieutenant William Dobbs, 3rd Battalion, 1st Foot (Royal Scots), who was wounded three times in the Peninsula and again at Waterloo, where no other regiment suffered higher casualties amongst its officers, as a percentage, than the Royal Scots, in killed and wounded Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. William Dobbs, 3rd Bat. 1st Foot. or R. Scots.) fitted with original steel clip and silver bar suspension, good very fine £10,000-£12,000
Hammer Price: £14,000
A rare Napoleonic Wars Guelphic Medal group of four awarded to Corporal Frederick Armstadt, 1st Hussars, King’s German Legion, for gallantry in the cavalry action at the bridge of Gallegos in July 1810 and also at the battle of Toulouse in April 1814 Guelphic Medal for Bravery 1815 (Ferdinand Armstedt, Corporal im 1t. Hus. Rt. K.D.L. zu polle), a few letters of naming obscured through contact wear; Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor,...
Hammer Price: £16,000
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