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A Second War C.M.G. and Great War M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Captain A. G. H. Smart, Royal Army Medical Corps and Royal Air Force, who served for many years in the Colonial Medical Service The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with short section of neck riband for display purposes; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London...
Hammer Price: £800
A rare Boer War D.S.O. and Great War Second Award Bar group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel T. E. P. Wickham, Royal Horse Artillery, who was wounded in both the Boer War and the Great War, was five times Mentioned in Despatches, and commanded the 14th Brigade Royal Horse Artillery on the Western Front Distinguished Service Order, V.R., with Second Award Bar, silver-gilt and enamel, minor white enamel damage to lower obverse arm of cross and central medallion slightly loose, with inte...
Hammer Price: £3,400
A Boer War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Major W. J. Venour, 2nd Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, late Egyptian Army, who led three companies in an assault on a kopje stubbornly held by Boers at Pieter’s Hill, 27 February 1900 and on 1 March, as one of the Battalion’s few remaining officers following its bloody Tugela Heights campaign, rode into Ladysmith, two days ahead of the main relieving force; later employed with the West African Frontier Force, his third and final mention was for t...
Hammer Price: £4,000
A good Great War ‘French theatre’ D.S.O., O.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. M. Mackenzie, 13th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Kensingtons), who having served with the 1/13th, commanded 2/13th with distinction in France, Salonika, Macedonia, Egypt and Palestine, February 1916 - April 1918…. ‘Puffing at a cigarette and carelessly swinging his walking-stick, Colonel Mackenzie moved about nonchalantly, making a few joking remarks here and there, and glancing ev...
Hammer Price: £2,600
A fine Great War 1916 ‘Capture of Beaumont-Hamel’ D.S.O. and post-War M.B.E. group of six awarded to Colonel J. J. Robertson, Seaforth Highlanders, who was wounded while leading his company at Festubert in June 1915 and decorated for his gallant command of the 5th Battalion in their successful assault on a stronghold previously regarded, by both British and Germans alike, to be impregnable Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar, obverse ce...
Hammer Price: £1,600
A fine Great War Battalion Commander’s 1917 ‘Western Front’ D.S.O., 1915 ‘Battle of Loos’ M.C. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel N. C. Phillips, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, who, on 25 September 1915 at the Battle of Loos, having been badly gassed earlier in the day, took command of the remnants of the 1st Battalion while still a Captain; his subsequent recommendation for a D.S.O. resulting in the award of his M.C. Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, w...
Hammer Price: £2,200
A Great War 1918 ‘Salonika’ D.S.O., May 1915 ‘2nd Ypres’ M.C. group of six awarded to Brigadier H. C. Ponsonby, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, one of just three officers of the 4th Battalion to survive the Battle of Frezenberg Ridge, 8 May - 10 May 1915; thrice mentioned in despatches, he would go on to further distinguish himself in the Balkans while attached to and in command of the 10th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with tailor'’s...
A superb Great War 1915 ‘2nd Ypres’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Colonel C. W. H. Crichton, 10th Hussars, who, while suffering from enteric fever, was captured by De Wet’s Boers at Sannah’s Post in March 1900; wounded at Zillebeke in October 1914, he was awarded the D.S.O. for his conspicuous gallantry near Ypres on 13 May 1915, where, having taken command of the regiment following the death of the C.O., in a counter-attack ‘he continued to direct operations, giving great encouragement to h...
Hammer Price: £2,000
A scarce Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Colonel S. R. A. Hankey, South Irish Horse and Remount Department, late 3rd Dragoon Guards, who was three times mentioned in despatches Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar, obverse centre loose; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. S. R. A. Hankey, 3/Dgn. Gds.) last two clasps contemporary tailor’s cop...
Hammer Price: £1,900
A Second World War ‘Evacuation from Greece’ D.S.O. group of eleven awarded to Commander F. A. Bond, Royal Naval Reserve, a survivor of the wreck of the Hospital Ship Rohilla in November 1914, he was 63 years old at the time of winning the D.S.O. Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., silver-gilt and enamel, reverse officially dated 1941, with integral top riband bar; Transport 1899-1902, 2 clasps, China 1900, S. Africa 1899-1902 (F. A. Bond.) initials officially corrected; 1914-15 Star (Lie...
Hammer Price: £4,800
A Great War O.B.E. and post-War Order of St. John group of nine awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Fisher, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches for services with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer‘s (Brother’s) breast badge, si...
An unattributed inter-War O.B.E. group of three The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1928; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, very fine (3) £100-£140
Hammer Price: £120
A Second World War O.B.E. and Great War ‘Minelaying’ D.S.C. group of six awarded to Commander J. H. Drummond, Royal Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge; Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., the reverse hallmarked London 1917; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. J. H. Drummond, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Commr. J. H. Drummond. R.N.) these four mounted as worn; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge, silver, gilt and...
Hammer Price: £1,500
A scarce Second War ‘Burma’ operations O.B.E., Korean War United States of America Bronze Star group of nine awarded to Lieutenant Colonel R. C. W. Thomas, Royal West Kent Regiment, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine, S.E. Asia 1945-46 (Lieut. R. C. W. Thomas. R. W. Kent. R.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45...
Hammer Price: £3,000
An unattributed Second War ‘Military’ Division O.B.E. group of five The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type, breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted for wear, contact marks, nearly very fine (5) £80-£120
Hammer Price: £140
A post-War ‘Re-occupation of Malaya’ O.B.E., Great War M.C. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel A. W. Wallich, Royal Horse Artillery, who served on the Legislative and Executive Councils of the Federation of Malaya from 1947-49 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. W. Wallich.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals...
A very rare and well-documented post-War ‘Berlin Airlift’ O.B.E., Second War ‘Martin B-26 Marauder operations’ D.F.C., and ‘V.I.P. Flight’ A.F.C. group of ten awarded to Wing Commander H. S. Grimsey, Royal Air Force, late Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who flew in operations in support of the 8th Army in 1942, becoming a member of the Caterpillar Club after bailing out after one such raid, and flying B-26 ‘Widowmakers’ in 1943-44, taking part in over 50 operational sorties; was later assi...
Hammer Price: £3,800
A Great War M.B.E. pair awarded to Commander H. K. N. Thurston, Plymouth Special Constabulary The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1917, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue, 1 clasp ‘The Great War 1914-18’ (Cmdr Hugh K. N. Thurston, M.B.E.); together with a mounted set of corresponding miniature awards, extremely fine (2) £140-£180
Hammer Price: £400
A 1940 M.B.E. group of four awarded to Captain A. E. Bonham, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was three times Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the French Medaille des Epidemies for his service during the Great War The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. A. E. Bonham); France, Third Republic, Medaille des Epidemies, embossed naming (M. A....
Hammer Price: £600
A Second War ‘North West Europe’ M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Captain K. M. Hunt, Royal Corps of Signals The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Capt. K. M. Hint, M.B.E., The Paddock, Duck Lane, Limington, Yeovil’; Coronation 1953, in case of issue; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st i...
Hammer Price: £300
A post-War M.B.E. and Order of St. John group of nine awarded to Commander D. B. Deller, Metropolitan Police, late Royal Field Artillery The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer‘s (Brother’s) breast badge, silver and enamel; 1914-15 Star (L-5245 Dvr: D. B. Deller. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (L-5245 Gnr. D. B. Deller. R.A.); Defence Medal; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953;...
Hammer Price: £550
A post-War M.B.E. group of six awarded to Sister Mary A. Redwood, Territorial Army Nursing Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, with Lady’s Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s Swansea General and Eye Hospital Badge, bronze, the reverse inscribed, ‘3 Mary A. Redwood’, with brooch bar, good very fin...
Hammer Price: £240
An inter-War R.R.C. group of three awarded to Superintending Sister Miss Marguerite M. Abraham, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold and enamel, with lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals (Supt. Sister M. M. Abraham. Q.A.R.N.N.S.) good very fine and better (3) £1,000-£1,400
Hammer Price: £1,000
A rare Second War R.R.C. group of five awarded to Wing Officer Olive Suddaby, Princess Mary’s Royal Air Force Nursing Service, who was Mentioned in Despatches for services in pre-War Palestine Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, reverse officially dated ‘1946’; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Sister O. Suddaby. P.M.R.A.F.N.S.); Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mount...
A Second War 1941 ‘Minesweeping’ D.S.C. group of six awarded to Skipper H. Parrott, H.M.T. T. R. Ferrens, Royal Naval Reserve Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1941’, silver, hallmarks for London 1941, in Garrard & Co. Ltd case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (S.A.2740 P. H. Parratt. [sic] Skr. R.N.R.) minor official correction of surname to BWM; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, last three in card box of issue, with enclosure slip, addres...
Hammer Price: £950
A scarce ‘Korea’ Fleet Air Arm Squadron Commander and Sea Fury pilot’s D.S.C. group of nine to Commander P. B. Stuart, Fleet Air Arm and Royal Navy, who having served at sea during the Second War, commanded 801 Squadron off Korea, November 1952 - May 1953, and flew in at least 89 operational sorties, including reconnaissance and attacks on road and rail targets, carried out from H.M. Carrier Glory Distinguished Service Cross, E.II.R., reverse officially dated ‘1953’, hallmarks for London...
A Great War 1916 ‘French theatre’ M.C., and 1918 ‘Ypres operations’ Second Award Bar group of four awarded to Captain J. A. McKinnell, Seaforth Highlanders, late Private 1/14th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (London Scottish), who was wounded in action whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion on the First Day of the Somme, 1 July 1916, and was attached to the 7th Battalion in 1918, with whom he commanded a company with distinction during the attack on Frezenburg Ridge, 28 Septembe...
A fine and rare Great War 1914 ‘Battle of La Bassée’ M.C. group of four awarded to Captain L. Browne, 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, an Australian who, during the torrid fighting around Neuve Chapelle in October 1914, having found himself the only officer remaining alive and unwounded in the forward companies of his battalion, commanded the remnant for three days before leading a handful of men back to the rear; endeavours which resulted in the award of the Regiment’s first Military Cross...
Hammer Price: £1,800
A Great War 1916 ‘Battle of Loos’ M.C. group of five awarded to Captain J. W. Jack, 173rd Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers, later Lieutenant-Colonel, South African Forces, who was wounded at Loos on 30 June 1916, and subsequently commanded the N.E.R. Battalion during the Second World War Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse contemporarily engraved ‘Capt. John W. Jack, R.E. Loos 1916.’, on original mounting pin, in case of issue; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. K. W. Jack. R.E.); British War and Vict...
A Great War 1917 ‘Western Front’ M.C. pair awarded to Lieutenant J. Bazley-White, West Yorkshire Regiment, late Royal West Kent Regiment, for conspicuous gallantry during the First Battle of Bullecourt on 9 April 1917; he later served in the Home Guard, and died ‘on active service’ during the Battle of Britain Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse contemporarily engraved ‘J. Bazley-White, Lieutenant. 2/7th. West Yorks Regt. Bullecourt, France, April 9th. 1917. August 3rd. 1917.’; Queen’s Mediter...
Hammer Price: £750
A Great War 1917 ‘Western Front’ M.C. awarded to Lieutenant A. G. Butcher, London Regiment and Machine Gun Corps, for his gallantry at Ypres in September 1917 Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse contemporarily engraved ‘Ypres Sept. 1917. Lieut. A. G. Butcher. M.G.C.’ in case of issue, nearly extremely fine £500-£700
A Great War 1917 ‘Salonika operations’ M.C. group of five awarded to Captain F. E. Warran, 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, for his gallantry in extricating his patrol from a night raid when they were set upon by a force of Bulgarian cavalry and infantry near Ada, 15 November 1917 Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. F. E. Warran.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as originally worn, generally very fine (5) £800-£1,20...
Hammer Price: £1,400
A Great War 1917 M.C. attributed to Captain C. E. Jeffrey, Tank Corps, for his gallantry whilst commanding a composite section of 22nd Company, ‘H’ Battalion during the attack on Fontaine, 23 November 1917, as part of the Battle of Cambrai Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse engraved ‘T/Lt. C. E. Jeffery’, mounted on original investiture pin in its Royal Mint case of issue, with newspaper cutting detailing the award stuck to the inside lining of case, good very fine, case a little distressed £...
Hammer Price: £850
A scarce Great War 1918 ‘Warrant Officer’s’ M.C. group of five awarded to Warrant Officer Class I W. Powell, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who was severely wounded at Hermies, France, on 22 March 1918, in the same action in which Sergeant Harold Jackson, of the 7th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, was awarded the Victoria Cross, resulting in the loss of his right leg Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (3188 Pte...
A Great War 1918 ‘Somme - Gauche Wood’ M.C. group of four awarded to Captain D. E. C. Crowther, 8th (Service) Battalion, Rifle Brigade attached 9th (Service) Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, late Private, 19th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (2nd Public Schools), for his gallantry at Villers Guislain on 18 September 1918 Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (6192 Pte D. E. C. Crowther. R. Fus.) attempt to obliterate all details except for initials and...
A Great War 1918 ‘Egyptian Expeditionary Force’ M.C. group of four awarded to Captain T. G. Neale, 22nd Battalion, London Regiment, late Royal West Surrey Regiment Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued, with case of issue; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between second and third clasps (6641 Pte. T. Neale. The Queen’s.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Q.M. & Capt. T. G. Neale.) mount...
A Second World War ‘North Africa’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel R. J. H. Gaunt, Royal Engineers Military Cross, G.VI.R. reverse officially dated 1943; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, Territorial, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, reverse dated 1951, with two Clasps, one G.VI.R. dated 1951, the other E.II.R., undated, mounted as worn, together with R.E. cap badge, good very fine (8) £800-£1,200
Hammer Price: £1,200
An exceptional Second War ‘Spitfire pilot’s’ D.F.C., D.F.M. group of seven awarded to Squadron Leader A. C. Leigh, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, a ‘Battle of Britain’ veteran who had numerous confirmed and probable aerial victories in 1940-41. Shot down over the Channel in 1943, he converted to Mustangs in 1944 and took part in many sorties in support of the D-Day landings, claiming a large number of ground ‘victories’ and being shot down again over St Mere Eglise. After a period of ‘buz...
Hammer Price: £14,000
A fine Second War D.F.C. group of five awarded to Flight Lieutenant M. Wetz, Royal Air Force, a photo reconnaissance Spitfire pilot of 16 Squadron, whose supplying of photographs was instrumental to the planning of the D-Day invasion as well as the breakout into Normandy. In September 1944, flying a pink Spitfire IX, he volunteered for the highly dangerous job of low level dropping of messages to airborne troops who had landed at Nijmegen, and for his services in connection with Operation Mar...
Hammer Price: £4,200
A Second War ‘1944’ D.F.C. group of five awarded Halifax bomb aimer Flight Lieutenant H. V. Taylor, 158 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1944’, in Royal Mint case of issue, with named enclosure slip; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with recipient’s identity tags, two North of England Musical Tournament, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prize Medals, silver, reverse...
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