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Three: Troop Sergeant-Major E. Mills, 6th Dragoons, a witness at the famous Court-Martial of Colonel Crawley Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (6th Dragoons), officially impressed naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (47 Troop Serjt. Major, 6th Dragoons), officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (47, 6th Dragoons), old engraved naming, contact marks and edge bruising, good fine or better (3) £1000-1200
Hammer Price: £2,000
Three: Private William Bunting, 22nd Regiment Meeanee Hyderabad 1843 (Wm. Bunting, 22nd Regt.) correct style of engraved naming, fitted with replacement silver clip and bar suspension; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (864 Pte., 1st Bn. - 22nd Foot); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., large letter reverse (Pt., 22d Regt.) the first and last with heavy contact wear, fine only, the last good very fine (3) £400-500
A fine Great War Loos salient M.C. group of three awarded to Captain J. Ritty, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Somme on 9 September 1916 Military Cross, G.V.R., in its case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.), with related Memorial Plaque (John Ritty), extremely fine (4) £1200-1500
A good ‘German Spring Offensive’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant R. Scott, 1st Battalion, Tank Corps, and Northumberland Fusiliers, for the rearguard action at the Bois de Tailles on 26 March 1918 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (76804 L. Cpl., 1/Tank Corps); 1914-15 Star (14625 Pte., North’d. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (14625 Sjt., North’d. Fus) nearly extremely fine (4) £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,900
A good Second War ‘Tobruk’ M.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant J. Lomas, Royal Tank Regiment, taken prisoner of war after the fall of Tobruk Military Medal, G.VI.R. (7883813 Sjt., R. Tank R.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (7883813 Pte., R. Tank C.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; together with a contemporary newspaper cutting, which includes a small picture of recipient, good very fine (5) £800-1000
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Guadaloupe (W. Walsh, Adjt. 6th W.I. Regt.) extremely fine and rare £1000-1200
Waterloo 1815 (William Thompson, 3rd Batt. 1st Foot or R. Scots) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, very fine £1200-1400
The Schomberg family group: Pair: Vice-Admiral C. F. Schomberg, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Lieut., R.N.); St. Jean d’Acre Medal 1840, silver, pierced with ring suspension, China 1842 (Herbert Schomberg, Commander, R.N.), original straight bar suspension, slight edge bruise to reverse, good very fine (3) £1200-1400
Six: Major A. Gardiner, Royal Engineers, attached Lahore Division, Indian Corps, who was killed in action at Givenchy on 20 December 1914: ‘No braver or better soldier fought for England and so nobly died’ The Order of St. John, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silver and enamel, the edge privately engraved, ‘Major A. Gardiner’; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Lt., R.E.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Major, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Khedive’s Sudan...
A “London Blitz” George Medal pair to A.R.P. Warden Percy Blanchard Coleman George Medal, G.VI.R. (Percy Blanchard Coleman); Defence, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, good very fine (2) £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,850
Six: Major B. Croft, 28th London Regiment (The Artists Rifles), who was killed in action on 10 November 1918: he was virtually the last British Army Officer to be killed before the Armistice 1914 Star (Capt., 28/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Major); Coronation 1902; Coronation 1911; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1917, with related Memorial Plaque (Benjamin Croft), generally good very fine and a very rare combination of awards to a Great War casualty...
A fine Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Major W. S. Ponsford, 10th Battalion, Tank Corps, and Royal Field Artillery, formerly Natal Field Artillery, for conspicuous gallantry near Achiet-le-Grand on 21 August 1918 Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed ‘W.S.P., Achiet-le-Grand, 21.3.18’, in damaged case of issue; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Elandslaagte, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (144 Corpl., Natal F. Arty.); British War and Victory...
A superb Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Second Lieutenant H. R. Blaker, 14th Battalion, Tank Corps, formerly 7th Dragoon Guards, for conspicuous gallantry near Preux on 7 November 1918 Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (14089 Pte., 7-D. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.); together with corresponding miniatures, very fine (8) £1200-1500
A fine Scharnhorst action D.S.M. group of nine awarded to Chief Engine Room Artificer F. F. C. Nelmes, Royal Navy, who had earlier won a ‘mention’ for his part in the Battle of Barents Sea Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (C.E.R.A. F. F. C. Nelmes, D./M. 6281); British War and Victory Medals (M. 6281 Act. E.R.A. 4, R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1937; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd...
Hammer Price: £1,800
An exceptional Great War ‘German Spring Offensive’ M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant T. A. Van Zeller, 5th Battalion, Tank Corps, and Lovat’s Scouts, for conspicuous gallantry near Brie on 23 March 1918 Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed ‘2nd Lt., 5th Bn., Tank Corps, Brie, 23.3.18’; 1914-15 Star (2220 L.-Cpl., Lovat’s Scts.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) very fine (4) £1200-1500
An outstanding Second World War B.E.M. group of four awarded to Third Steward J. C. Edmead, Merchant Navy, one of only three survivors out of the 56 men and women who crammed into a damaged lifeboat from the torpedoed City of Cairo: picked up by the German blockade runner Rhakotis after 36 days adrift, Edmead once again had to take to a lifeboat when the Rhakotis was sunk by H.M.S. Scylla three weeks later British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (John Cheetham Edmead); 1939-45...
Waterloo 1815 (Serj. William Bullock, 2nd Batt. Grenad. Guards) fitted with steel clip and bar suspension, edge bruise and light contact wear, otherwise good very fine £1200-1400
Waterloo 1815 (Corp. William Lovell, 2nd Batt. Grenad. Guards) fitted with later silver clip and bar suspension, the bar with small flaming grenade, light bruising and contact wear, otherwise very fine £1200-1400
Waterloo 1815 (Daniel Fosberry, 2nd Batt. Coldstream Gds.) fitted with silver clip and wide bar suspension, edge bruising and contact wear, otherwise nearly very fine £1200-1400
Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Lacey, 2nd Batt. 30th Reg. Foot) fitted with silver clip and stirrup-ring suspension, minor contact wear, otherwise good very fine £1400-1600
Military General Service 1793-1814, 7 clasps, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Toulouse (Wm. Wilson, 43rd Foot) edge bruising, otherwise very fine £1500-1700
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Martinique (James Runham, Serjt. 63rd Foot) very fine £600-700
A good 1915 operations Great War D.C.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant G. Powley, Royal Artillery, who ‘was wounded by a high explosive shell which burst within two yards of him, but continued his work’: he was killed in action in October 1918 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (26757 Gnr. G. Powley, 26/Hvy. Bty. R.G.A.); 1914 Star, with clasp (26757 Gnr., R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (26757 Sjt., R.A.), together with related Memorial Plaque (George Powley), good very...
Three: Sergeant J. Brookes, Royal Air Force, a veteran of the Northern Kurdistan operations who died in one of 40 Battles downed over Sedan on 14 May 1940 General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Northern Kurdistan (560537 L.A.C., R.A.F.), surname spelt ‘Brooks’; 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45 the first with edge bruise, otherwise generally good very fine and rare (3) £800-1000
A good Great War D.C.M. group of five awarded to Second Lieutenant W. Henman, Somerset Light Infantry, later Gloucestershire Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. 9004 C.S. Mjr., 8/Som. L.I.); 1914 Star, with clasp (9004 Cpl., 1/Som. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (2. Lieut.); War Medal 1939-45, some contact marks, otherwise generally nearly very fine or better (5) £700-800
Hammer Price: £1,700
A ‘Gallipoli’ D.C.M. group of five to Company-Serjeant Major J. Clark, Scottish Rifles Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (969 Sjt., 1/7 Sco. Rif.- T.F.); 1914-15 Star (969 L. Cpl., Sco. Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (969 W.O. Cl.2, Sco. Rif.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (266420 Sjt.- A.C.S. Mjr., 7/Sco. Rif.), mounted for display, good very fine and better (6) £800-1000
Waterloo 1815 (Richard Ahrill, 1st Regiment Life Guards) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, pitted and worn, therefore fine but scarce £1400-1600
Waterloo 1815 (Paymaster Serj. R. White, 7th Regiment Hussars) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, contact wear and pitting to the reverse, otherwise nearly very fine £1000-1200
A fine Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain F. Vans-Agnew, ‘B’ Battalion, Tank Corps, and King Edward’s Horse, for the Battle of Messines on 7 June 1917 Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse neatly inscribed ‘Captain Frank Vans Agnew, Tank Corps, Messines, 6.7.17’; 1914-15 Star (1112 Pte, K. Edw. H.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) nearly extremely fine (4) £1000-1200
A Second World War D.F.M. group of five to Flight Sergeant T. G. P. Cruickshank, Royal Air Force Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (552689F./Sgt., R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence and War Medals, last four all impressed (552689 F/Sgt. T. G. P. Cruickshank, D.F.M., R.A.F.), mounted as worn, good very fine and better (5) £800-1000
A fine Great War M.M. and Bar group of four awarded to Sergeant R. Duffin, ‘C’ Battalion, Tank Corps, and Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps, formerly 10th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, the Bar being awarded for conspicuous gallantry at Arras on 9 April 1917, the very first M.M. Bar won by the Tank Corps Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (S-1467 Cpl., 10/A. & S. Hdrs.); 1914-15 Star (S-1467 Pte., A. & S. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (S-1467 Sjt.,...
A Great War Armentieres 1915 operations D.S.O. group of three awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel L. C. Howard, C.O. of the 8th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, late Royal Artillery: he was killed in action just a week after winning his D.S.O. Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; 1914-15 Star (Major, Som. L.I.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. Col.), enamel wreaths on the first chipped in places, otherwise generally good very fine (3) £600-800
Six: Squadron Leader R. W. Barton, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, late Gloucestershire Regiment, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, who flew 25 sorties in the Great War 1914-15 Star (3422 Pte., Glouc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut., R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals; Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R. (Sqd. Ldr., R.A.F.V.R.), all in card boxes of issue, practically in mint state (6) £600-700
Military Medal, G.VI.R, 2nd issue, reverse inscription erased and stamped ‘For Conspicuous Gallantry’, unnamed specimen, fitted with straight bar suspension; all the following lack suspensions, three are pierced: George Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue, erasure [of the word ‘Specimen’?]; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal (2), G.VI.R., 1st issue, edge marked ‘Specimen only’; another, E.II.R., 2nd issue, edge stamped ‘Specimen’ in small letters; Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R., 1st...
Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Egypt, Martinique (Samuel Griffin, 8th Foot) very fine £1200-1400
Waterloo 1815 (William Chapman, 1st Reg. Dragoon Guards), original steel clip and replacement steel straight bar suspension, slight edge bruising, very fine £1100-1300
Waterloo 1815 (Thomas Kisbie, 1st Reg. Dragoon Guards) fitted with crude steel clip and ring suspension, edge bruising and polished, good fine £1200-1400
Hammer Price: £1,650
Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Corunna, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (Thos. Williams, 23rd Foot) good very fine £1000-1200
Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (H. Burgess, 11th Hussars), officially impressed naming, edge nicks, otherwise good very fine £1000-1200
A Second World War M.M. awarded to Private J. Fullard, Black Watch, who was decorated for services as a P.O.W. Military Medal, G.VI.R. (4456370 Pte. J. Fullard, Black Watch) suspension slack and lacking riband bar, otherwise good very fine £700-900
Hammer Price: £1,600
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