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A Great War ‘Battle of Amiens’ M.C. group of five to Lieutenant A. R. Condor, 7th Dragoon Guards Military Cross, G.V.R. ‘A. R. Condor, 7th Dragoon Guards, France, 1918’; British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Iraq, Kurdistan (Lieut.); Iraq, King Faisal’s War Medal, no clasp, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, generally good very fine (5) £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,900
Three: Colonel P. A. Brown, Madras Fusiliers and Madras Sappers & Miners India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu Lt., 1st Mad. Eur. Regt.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Persia (Lieut., Madras Saprs. & Miners); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Capt., Madras Sappers & Miners) all fitted with contemporary silver ribbon buckles, contact wear and edge bruising, otherwise about very fine or better (3) £800-1000
A poignant Second World War pilot’s D.F.C. group of four awarded to Flight Lieutenant S. H. Alcock, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who was killed in action over Belgium in January 1944: his story is told in Pathfinder Pilot, The Search for Selwyn Alcock, D.F.C. Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated 1944, and privately inscribed, ‘F./Lt. S. H. Alcock, R.A.F.V.R., 83 Sqn. R.A.F., L.G. 13-10-44’; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45,...
Three: Second Lieutenant F. Marsham-Townshend, 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards, who was killed in action at the Rue du Bois on 16 May 1915: One of two officers and eighty Scots Guardsman who ‘fought to the last cartridge’ and whose bodies were subsequently discovered ‘surrounded by heaps of German corpses’ 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut., S. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.) contained in a contemporary leather-covered, glazed display frame, nearly extremely fine (3)
Hammer Price: £2,000
Family group: An emotive Great War group of three awarded to Second Lieutenant R. Burroughes, 1/5th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, who disappeared without trace at Gallipoli on 12 August 1915: the fate of the now famous “Vanished Battalion” was the subject of an acclaimed B.B.C. documentary in 1991 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., Norf. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.), in card boxes of issue, extremely fine (3) Pair: Second Lieutenant S. Burroughes, King’s Royal Rifle...
Waterloo 1815 (William Sutherland, 42nd or R.H. Reg. Infantry) fitted with steel clip and small ring suspension, light scratch to obverse, otherwise good very fine £1200-1500
Waterloo 1815 (John Allan, 1st Batt. 92nd Highlanders) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, light contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise very fine £1200-1500
Arctic Medal 1818-55 (Surgeon C. J. Beverly, R.N.) contemporary engraved naming, fitted with silver ribbon buckle inscribed ‘Arctic’, very fine £600-800
A good Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain A. G. Davidson, 10th (Scottish) Battalion, Liverpool Regiment Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse neatly inscribed ‘Capt., Liverpool Scottish, 3.6.16’, in case of issue; 1914 Star (2975 L. Cpl., 10/L’pool. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); together with corresponding miniatures, extremely fine (8) £800-1000
A well-documented Great War group of three awarded to Sergeant W. Sutherland, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, a pre-war professional footballer for Southend United, Plymouth Argyle F.C. and Chatham F.C.: he was killed in action at Le Cateau in August 1914 1914 Star, with clasp (8260 Sjt., 2/A. & S. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (8260 Sjt., A. & S. Highrs.), together with related Memorial Plaque (William Sutherland), good very fine and better, plaid brooch, glengarry badge...
Hammer Price: £2,100
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (Robt. Henry, 2nd Lieut., R.M.) good very fine £900-1200
Waterloo 1815 (Tr. Serj. Maj. F. Kinkee, 10th Royal Reg. Hussars) fitted with steel clip and ring suspension, good very fine £1800-2200
An early Second World War submariner’s D.S.M., post-war B.E.M. group of eight awarded to Engine Room Artificer 1st Class R. J. Marriott, Royal Navy Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (M. 24898 R. J. Marriott, E.R.A. 1, R.N.), officially re-impressed naming; British Empire Medal (Military) G.VI.R. (E.R.A. Cl. 1 Richard J. Marriott, D.S.M., D./M. 24898); British War Medal 1914-18 (M. 24898 B. Art., R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C.,...
A good Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of four awarded to Captain W. V. Kay, 20th (‘Pals’) Battalion, Liverpool Regiment Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed ‘Capt., K.L.R., presented at Buckingham Palace 31st August 1918’; 1914-15 Star (14159 Cpl., L’pool. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) heavy contact wear and edge bruising, therefore about good fine (4) £600-800
The mounted group of six miniature dress medals attributed to Field Marshal George Charles Bingham, G.C.B., 3rd Earl of Lucan, Colonel of the 8th Hussars and the 1st Life Guards, in command of the Light and Heavy Cavalry Brigades at Balaklava and wounded in the charge, comprising: Order of the Bath (Military), gold and enamels; Crimea 1854, 1 clasp, Sebastopol; Legion of Honour, 2nd Empire, gold and enamels, lacking reverse centre; Order of the Medjidie, silver, gold and enamel;...
Hammer Price: £2,200
Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Sahagun & Benevente, Vittoria, Orthes, Toulouse (Thomas Smith, 10th Hussars) with original ribbon and named card box of issue, nearly extremely fine £1600-1800
Waterloo 1815 (Trp. Q. Mast. James Giles, 1st or Royal Dragoons) fitted with steel clip and silver bar suspension, nearly very fine £1800-2200
Waterloo 1815 (William Cruickshanks, 1st Bat. 92nd Highlanders) fitted with replacement silver clip and silver wire bar suspension, some edge bruising, otherwise very fine £1400-1800
A fine Great War D.C.M. group of six awarded to Company Sergeant-Major F. W. Bean, 16th Battalion Rifle Brigade, who won his award at the same time as the Victoria Cross of Sergeant W. F. Burman, near Ypres in September 1917 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (7001 C.S. Mjr. F. W. Bean, 16/Rif. Brig.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (I7001 Pte., Rifle Brigade); 1914-15 Star (7001 Cpl., Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory...
An outstanding Union of South Africa M.S.M. and campaign group of nine awarded to Squadron Sergeant-Major F. K. ‘Paddy’ Ryan, South African Mounted Rifles, a Jameson raider and defender of Kimberley Cape of Good Hope General Service 1880-97, 1 clasp, Bechuanaland (Pte., Spl. Pol.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal (531 Corpl., Cape Police) last two clasps loose as issued; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South...
A rare Second World War landing craft operations D.S.M. group of five awarded to Marine J. G. Wingate, Royal Marines, for bravery in the assault on Vibo Valencia on the Italian coast in September 1943 Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Mne. J. G. Wingate, Ply. X. 105671); 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, contact marks, generally good very fine (5) £1600-1800
A fine Great War group of three awarded to Captain H. M. Robertson, Royal Welch Fusiliers, who was killed by a trench mortar bomb in January 1916: a comrade in arms to Dunn and Graves, he is mentioned in both of their memoirs 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.W. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.), contained in an old fitted Spink, London leather case, extremely fine (3) £600-800
Hammer Price: £2,300
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Trafalgar, St. Domingo (Henry Silcock) edge bruises and some rubbing over surname, suspension sometime re-fixed with small drill-hole below reverse claw, therefore possibly mounted at onetime, otherwise better than very fine £2000-2500
Arctic Medal 1875-76 (P. Craig, A.B. H.M.S. Discovery) nearly extremely fine £1500-2000
A Boer War D.C.M. group of five awarded to Lieutenant & Quarter-Master S. H. Williamson, East Lancashire Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Q.M. Sgt. S. H. Williamson, E. Lanc. Rgt.); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (393 Qr. Mr. Sergt., 1st Bn. E. Lanc. Regt.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (393 Q.M. Sgt., E. Lanc. Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South...
Hammer Price: £2,400
A rare and interesting group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Bagnall, Essex Regiment, late Yorkshire Regiment and Political Officer, Uganda Protectorate East and Central Africa 1897-99, 2 clasps, Lubwa’s, Uganda 1897-98 (Capt., 4/Yorks. Regt.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Uganda 1900 (Capt., 4/Yorks. R.); British War Medal 1914-18 (Lt. Col.); Zanzibar, Order of El Aliyeh, 4th class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the last slightly chipped at one or two arm...
The mounted group of eight miniature dress medals commemorating Captain E. Swales, V.C., D.F.C., South Africa Air Force, comprising: Victoria Cross; Distinguished Flying Cross, E.II.R.; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Africa Service Medal, mounted for wearing and contained in a Royal Mint case of issue, good very fine Together with: A superb silver presentation model of a lancaster bomber, by The Goldsmith’s and Silversmith’s Company,...
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut. D. M. Oliver, Norfolk Rgt.) together with portrait photograph contained in an old bakelite frame, good very fine £1500-1800
Hammer Price: £2,500
Waterloo 1815 (Lieutenant I. J. Moss, 13th Reg. Light Dragoons) fitted with silver ring and steel bar suspension, edge bruising and contact wear, otherwise better than good fine £2000-2500
A fine Great War tunnelling operations M.C. group of six awarded to Major A. S. W. Wood, Royal Engineers: taken P.O.W. with the B.E.F. in 1940, he was twice incarcerated at Colditz between 1941-44, where, no doubt, his former expertise in tunnelling was put to good use Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, with original campaign medal boxes of issue, M.C. forwarding letter and R.E. cap badge, good...
A Great War D.S.M. group of four for the celebrated action between the Armed Merchant Cruisers Carmania and Cap Trafalgar off Trinidad in 1914, awarded to Chief Steward Matthew Green, Merchant Navy Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (M. Green, Ch. Std. H.M.S. Carmania); 1914-15 Star (Ch. Std. M. Green, M.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch. Std. M. Green, M.F.A.) extremely fine (4) £2000-2500
A Second World War Bismarck action D.S.M. group of four awarded to Leading Seaman A. J. Sinker, Royal Navy, an R.D.F. Operator in H.M.S. Suffolk Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (JX. 221851 A. J. Sinker, Ord. Smn., H.M.S. Suffolk); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, the first with one or two edge bruises, otherwise very fine and better (4) £1000-1200
A well documented family group: A fine Second World War Flight Engineer’s D.F.M. group of four awarded to Warrant Officer F. H. Hesketh, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (1852589 F./Sgt. F. H. Hesketh, R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, extremely fine Together with: Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, General Medal, silver, with Second Award Bar engraved ‘Second Service/21st December 1915’ (To P.C....
A superb Great War R.R.C. group of five awarded to Matron M. S. Whitson, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, who served in France with the Liverpool Merchants’ Mobile Hospital 1915-18: an accompanying typescript of her wartime diary provides a unique insight into the daunting task of nursing many thousands of wounded and dying - and of the horrors of coming under enemy bombardment Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold and enamel, the...
Hammer Price: £2,600
Honourable East India Company Medal for Seringapatam 1799, silver, 48mm., Soho Mint, contained in an attractive glazed case, the surround with raised bands of floral decoration and matching integral loop for suspension, and clasp for ‘Seringapatam’, the inner band of the case with contemporary engraved naming ‘Lieut. W. G. Pearse, Artillery’, complete with further ring/loop and bar suspension, extremely fine and most attractive £1500-1800
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, 23 June 1795 (Robert Porter) nearly extremely fine £1400-1600
Waterloo 1815 (Samuel Church, 6th or Inniskilling Drag.) fitted with attractive replacement suspension in the form of a silver scallop shell and hinged silver bar, light edge bruising and contact wear, otherwise about very fine £1800-2200
The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, G.C.B. (Military) Knight Grand Cross, sash badge, silver-gilt and enamels, and breast star, silver, gold and enamel appliqué centre, the set complete with full dress sash in its Garrard & Co. Ltd Military division case of issue, enamels chipped and flaked on green enamel wreaths and blue scrolls, otherwise generally good very fine £1400-1600
Hammer Price: £2,700
A rare Second World War C.B., North West Frontier 1930-31 operations D.S.O., Great War 1914 operations M.C. group of twelve awarded to Major-General C. A. West, Royal Engineers, latterly Assistant Chief of Staff at S.H.A.E.F. The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914 star, with clasp (Lieut., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D....
A Boer War D.C.M. group of five to Serjeant-Major C. Amos, Royal Sussex Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (1181 Serjt-Maj., R. Sussex Regt.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1888 (1181 Lce. Sergt., 2d Bn. Rl. Suss. R.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1181 Sgt-Maj., Rl. Sussex Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (1181 Serjt-Maj., Rl. Sussex Regt.); Army Meritorious...
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