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A Pikeman’s Pot Helmet, formed of two halves joined by a high turned comb, the deep skull studded with twelve domed rivet heads, no provision for plume-holder, the wide plain sloping brim with plain turned edges, struck with an armourer’s mark. lacking cheek-pieces, brim buckled in several places and pierced with two holes £350-400
Hammer Price: £820
Three: Lance-Corporal W. Humphriss, 11th Hussars Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol (1493, XIth P.A.O. Hussars), regimentally impressed naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1493, 11th Hussars), officially impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (1493, XI P.A.O. Hussars), regimentally impressed naming, the first with refixed suspension claw, heavy contact marks and edge bruising, fine, otherwise nearer very fine (3) £500-600
Ghuznee Cabul 1842 (Gunner George Delaney, 4th Compy. 2nd Battn. Arty.), engraved in running script, original steel clip and straight bar suspension, good very fine £400-500
Four: Able Seaman W. T. Harland, Royal Navy, late Metropolitan Police, who was lost when H.M.S. Aboukir was torpedoed in the North Sea on 22 September 1914 1914-15 Star (226744 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (226744 A.B., R.N.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police issue (P.C.), with related Memorial Plaque (William Thomas Harland), all in card boxes of issue, extremely fine and a very rare combination to a Great War casualty (5) £400-500
New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1845 to 1846 (H. Force, Qr. Mr., H.M.S. Hazard) nearly extremely fine £350-400
Four: Corporal J. Beattie, Royal Highlanders, who was killed in action at Aubers Ridge on 9 May 1915, when a fellow soldier of the 2nd Battalion won a V.C. 1914 Star (822 Cpl., 2/R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (822 Cpl., R. Highrs.); Delhi Durbar 1911 (822 L./Cpl., R.H.), regimentally impressed naming, with related Memorial Plaque (John Beattie), nearly extremely fine (5) £350-400
Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (T. Lodge, Grenadier Gds.), officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine £500-600
A Great War O.B.E. group of five to Squadron Leader H. A. J. Wilson, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Flt. S. Lt., R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Flt. Lt, R.N.A.S.); General Service 1918, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (F/L., R.A.F.), mounted as worn, very fine (5) £350-400
Three: Captain L. FitzMaurice, Somerset Light Infantry, who was killed in action in the Battle of the Ancre on 18 November 1916 1914-15 Star (Lieut., Som. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.), with related Memorial Plaque (Lindsay Fitzmaurice), extremely fine (4) £600-700
A Vimy Ridge operations M.C. group of four awarded to Captain C. W. Jones, Royal Artillery Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse with contemporary engraved inscription, ‘Captain C. W. Jones, 144 Heavy Battery, Vimy Ridge 1917’; 1914-15 Star (2437 Sjt., R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) contact marks, otherwise about very fine or better (4) £500-600
Hammer Price: £800
A Great War M.C. group of three to Captain H. J. Potts, 23rd Battalion London Regiment, late 28th Battalion London Regiment (Artists Rifles) Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.), mounted as worn, good very fine and better (3) £500-600
Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Red River 1870 (Pte. J. Cross, Ont. R.) officially impressed naming, nearly extremely fine and scarce £600-650
Military Medal, G.VI.R. (24714 Sep. Sarwan Singh, F.F. Rif) officially impressed naming, slight contact marks, good very fine £300-400
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Corunna (J. Ellwood, Corpl. 14th Foot) minor edge bruise, otherwise very fine £500-600
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Java (W. Davison, 14th Foot) minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £600-700
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Corunna (R. Sheriff, Serjt. 26th Foot) some edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine £500-600
A Second World War ‘Air-Sea Rescue’ M.B.E. group of eight awarded to Squadron Leader R. Beard, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, late Master Mariner, Mercantile Marine and Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, in its Royal Mint case of issue; British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut., R.N.R.); Mercantile Marine War Medal (Richard Beard); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lieut., R.N.R.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic...
Pair: Canonier Ludwig Lathwesen, Hannoverian Artillery, awarded the Guelphic Medal for bravery at Waterloo Hannover Waterloo 1815 (Canonier, Artillerie Regiment) fitted with replacement silver ring suspension; Hannover Medal for Volunteers in the King’s German Legion 1814, unnamed as issued, the first with contact marks, nearly very fine, the second good very fine (2) £400-500
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Corunna (T. Bunting, Serjt. 1st Foot Gds.) nearly extremely fine £500-600
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Toulouse (Edward Brennan, 88th Foot) minor edge bruising, good very fine £500-550
A Back-Plate, shaped to the back, plain turns at neck, arms and flared base, incised line decoration, fittings for shoulder-straps removed, back stamped with inventory marks, good condition £150-200
Seven: Major H. C. S. Chilman, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, late Green Howards 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918, G.VI.R., 3 clasps, Malaya, Cyprus, Brunei (Capt., Green Howards); General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Borneo (Major, R.A.O.C.), mounted as worn, minor contact marks, very fine and better (7) £420-480
Pair: Private David Myles, 78th Highlanders, later 42nd Highlanders India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Persia (78th Highlanders); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (78th Highlanders) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (2) £500-600
Pair: Private J. Roy, Gordon Highlanders Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 5 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, El-Teb-Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85, Kirbekan (1619 Pte. J. Roy, 1/Gord. Highrs.); Khedive’s Star 1882, nearly very fine £600-700
Pair: Captain, The Hon. M. P. Macnaghten, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Gordon Highlanders India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Lieut., 1st Bn. Ryl. Sco. Fus.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut., R. Scots Fus.), mounted as worn, minor contact marks, good very fine (2) £550-650
Hammer Price: £780
A Great War Minesweeping D.S.M. group of seven awarded to Engineman A. E. Arnold, Royal Naval Reserve Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (E.S.3244 A. E. Arnold, Engn. R.N.R.”Donalda” Minesweeping 1917); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; War Medal; Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated 1951, in its Royal Mint case of issue, nearly extremely fine (7) £400-450
Three: Temporary Major T. M. Allison, Gloucestershire Regiment, who, having twice been wounded on the Somme, was killed in action on 30 May 1918 1914-15 Star (Capt., Glouc. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major), with related Memorial Plaque (Thomas McGregor Allison) and original portrait photograph in uniform, all contained in an oak glazed display frame; together with a 1914-18 Services Rendered badge from the City of Sault Saint Marie, Chippewa County,...
Three: Corporal B. Pearce, Cheshire Yeomanry and Shropshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action at Villers Faucon on 7 September 1918 British War and Victory Medals (876 Cpl., Ches. Yeo.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (876 Pte., Ches. Yeo.), with related Memorial Plaque (Bert Pearce), nearly extremely fine (4) £500-600
A well-documented and highly emotive group of three awarded to Private J. Daymond, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, wounded on the “First Day of the Somme”, one of 684 casualties sustained by the 1st Battalion within 40 minutes of going “over the top” into a hail of enemy machine-gun fire: the site of the Newfoundlanders’ sacrifice is today the best preserved trench system on the Somme and boasts the famous Caribou memorial 1914-15 Star (607 Pte., R. Newf’d R.); British War and...
The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s breast star, silver, gold and enamel, backplate inscribed, ‘R. & S. Garrard & Co., Goldsmiths, Jewellers etc to the Queen his Royal Highness Prince Albert and all the Royal Family, Panton Street, London’, with gold pin fitting, c.1850, nearly extremely fine £500-600
Three: Able Seaman A. F. P. Gibson, Royal Navy, a veteran of the Falklands engagement of 1914 who went on to participate in the famous Naval Field Gun Competition at Olympia in 1919 1914-15 Star (J. 9406 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J. 9406 A.B., R.N.), together with related Naval Field Gun Competition Medal, silver, the reverse engraved, ‘Olympia, 1919, A. Gibson, R.N.’, contact marks, generally very fine, the last rare (4) £300-400
Ashantee 1874, proposed design for Ashantee War Medal or Decoration by J. S. Wyon, silver, reverse plain, in its original Wyon fitted presentation case, extremely fine and hitherto unrecorded £300-400
Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Nive (Thos. Pickvance, 84th Foot) minor edge bruising, otherwise nearly extremely fine £600-700
Four: Private E. Kiddell, Rifle Brigade Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (5212 Pte., 2/R. Bde.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal (5212 Pte., Rifle Brigade); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 1 clasp, South Africa 1902 (5212 Pte., Rifle Brigade); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum, unnamed, the first with slack suspension and severe edge bruise, otherwise generally very fine (4) £350-400
Family group: Three: Lance Corporal E. Portlock, 1st Garrison Bn., Royal Warwickshire Regiemnt British War and Victory Medals (13579 Pte., R. War. R.); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, no clasp (13579 Pte., R. War. R.) officially impressed naming Six: Private E. L. Portlock, Australian Forces 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals; Australian War Service Medal, all officially impressed (SX4953 E. L. Portlock) generally good very fine (9) £400-500
A Pikeman’s Pot Helmet, formed in two halves joined by a shallow turned comb, lower skull studded with four domed rivets for attachment of cheek-pieces, no provision for plume-holder, narrow brim with recessed border studded with twenty domed rivets, plain turned edges, lacking cheek-pieces, brim somewhat crushed in one small area, other minor damage £400-450
Three: Private J. Henry, Grenadier Guards Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3397 Pte., 1/Gren. Gds.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Belmont (3397 Pte., Gren. Gds.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (Pte., Gren. Gds.) good very fine (3) £500-600
Hammer Price: £750
A scarce Great War D.S.M. awarded to Sergeant B. Doull, Royal Marine Labour Corps, for gallantry in saving life at Dunkirk in October 1918 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (Deal/9820.(S) Sergt. B. Doull, R.M.L.C. Dunkirk 1 Oct. 1918) partial erasure of ‘L.C.’, otherwise about very fine £600-700
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Martinique (Richard Harwood) light edge bruising and nicks, otherwise better than very fine £600-800
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Guadaloupe (John Archley) edge bruising, nearly very fine £600-800
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