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The important and rare Post Captain’s Naval Gold Medal awarded to Admiral of the Red the Hon. Sir Thomas Pakenham, G.C.B., Captain of the 74-gun H.M.S. Invincible at the memorable ‘Glorious First of June 1794’ Naval Small Gold Medal 1794-1815, the reverse engraved in capitals ‘THE HON: THOMAS PAKENHAM CAPTAIN OF H.M.S. THE INVINCIBLE ON THE 1 OF JUNE MDCCXCIV + THE FRENCH FLEET DEFEATED +’, enclosed within plain gold band and glass lunettes, small integral ring for suspension...
Hammer Price: £65,000
The important Army Gold Medal awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel James Hugonin, 4th Dragoons, a distinguished cavalry officer who led the 4th’s left squadron in Le Marchant’s brilliant charge of the Heavy Brigade at Salamanca; by far the most important British cavalry action of the Peninsula war, this charge broke three regiments of French infantry and won the day; Hugonin Commanded his Regiment at the battle of Toulouse and was the youngest of three generations of Hugonins who successively...
Hammer Price: £20,000
The Waterloo Medal awarded to Captain Robert Dudgeon, 1st Foot or Royal Scots, who was severely wounded at Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815 Waterloo 1815 (Capt. Rob. Dudgeon, 3rd. Bat. 1st Foot. or R. Scots.) fitted with replacement steel clip and ring suspension, light contact marks, otherwise better than very fine £6,000-£8,000
Hammer Price: £8,000
An Albert Medal Second Class for Land awarded to Able Seaman J. Ramsay, Royal Navy, for his gallantry in saving the life of a Royal Marine who had fallen onto the tracks just as a train was approaching the platform at Bristol Temple Meads Railway Station on 7 January 1908 Albert Medal, 2nd Class, for Gallantry in Saving Life on Land, bronze and enamel, the reverse officially engraved ‘Presented by His Majesty to John Ramsay, for gallantry in saving life at Temple Meads Railway Station,...
Hammer Price: £6,000
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Amethyst 5 April 1809 (Jas. J. Lamb.) note second initial, nearly extremely fine and scarce £6,000-£8,000
Hammer Price: £5,500
A rare ‘Ruby Mines Expedition 1886’ Gold D.S.O. pair awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel A. L. Barrett, 43rd Gurkha (Rifle) Regiment of Bangal Infantry Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamels, with integral top ribbon brooch bar; India General Service 1854-95, 4 clasps, Naga 1879-80, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89, N.E. Frontier 1891 (Lieut. A. L. Barrett. 43rd Bengal N.I.) naming officially impressed in correct upright capitals, clasps with unofficial wired connections,...
Hammer Price: £5,000
Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Poona (Lieut. A. Cuppage, 65th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, suspension claw re-fixed, edge bruising and contact marks, therefore nearly very fine and rare £4,000-£5,000
The regimentally unique and important ‘West Africa 1898’ D.S.O. group of eleven awarded to Major-General Weir de L. Williams, Hampshire Regiment, a gallant and oft-wounded Channel Islander whose adventurous early career ranged from the North West Frontier of India, through the jungles of West Africa to the South African veldt; during the Great War he landed at Gallipoli from the SS River Clyde and played a prominent role in the bloody fighting at V beach, later holding Brigade and...
Hammer Price: £11,000
A fine post-War C.B.E., ‘Pathfinder Squadron Commander’s’ D.S.O., ‘1940’ D.F.C. and post-war Q.C.B.C. group of ten awarded to Wellington and Stirling pilot Group Captain O. R. Donaldson, Royal Air Force, who flew in at least 34 operational sorties with 115 Squadron between September 1939 - August 1940, before going on to command 7 Squadron, October 1942 - May 1943. Mentioned in Despatches twice for the Second World War, awarded the Q.C.B.C. for his part during a bomb explosion at...
Hammer Price: £6,500
A rare Second War Landing Craft Obstacle Clearance Unit (LCOCU) D.S.M. group of seven awarded to Commando Frogman Petty Officer G. A. Lock in the opposed landings in the South of France as a LCOCU Section Leader; he surveyed the beaches and destroyed underwater obstacles and mines in the Baie de Cavallaire, having performed similar services in the Normandy Landings, and assisted in the rescue of wounded American soldiers whose Landing Craft had been mined and sunk Distinguished Service...
Hammer Price: £3,800
Military General Service 1793-1814, 11 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (T. Ridley, Drummer, 40th Foot.) edge bruising, otherwise very fine £3,000-£4,000
48th Foot Regimental Medal 1819, 38mm, silver, the obverse with crown above ‘48’, ‘1819. Northamptonshire’ below, with ‘Thomas Slater’ inscribed on obverse scroll, the reverse inscribed with 10 actions: ‘Talavera, Albuera, Rodrigo, Badajos, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse’, fitted with a hinged ring and straight silver bar suspender, very fine and rare, and one of Australia’s earliest recognised pieces of silver £3,000-£4,000
Hammer Price: £4,600
A fine 10-clasp Peninsula War medal awarded to Private Robert Beatty, 88th Foot, who was wounded by a gun shot in the left hip at Badajoz, by a sabre wound across his right hand at Salamanca, and by a gun shot near the left elbow at Toulouse Military General Service 1793-1814, 10 clasps, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (Robert Beatty, 88th Foot.) light edge bruising and marks overall, therefore nearly very fine ...
Hammer Price: £7,500
A particularly fine Second World War Mosquito navigator's D.F.M. group of four awarded to Pilot Officer L. J. Etheridge, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who completed 50 sorties over France, Holland and Germany in 1944-45, an action packed tour that included a brace of crash-landings back in England after damage sustained in action - once on one engine with a hung-up 500lb. bomb: so, too, the spectacular daylight raids on the S.S.-occupied Chateau de Fou in August 1944 and S.S. barracks...
Hammer Price: £3,000
Portugal, Kingdom, Order of the Tower and the Sword, 1st (1808-34) type with portrait of D. Joao Prince Regent at centre, Officer’s breast Badge, 42mm, gold and enamel, with gold riband buckle, extremely fine and of the finest quality manufacture, very rare of this high quality £3,000-£4,000
Hammer Price: £13,000
A Second War ‘1945’ D.F.C., ‘1943’ D.F.M. group of seven awarded to Halifax and Lancaster Rear Gunner, Flight Sergeant, later Flight Lieutenant, W. H. Goodridge, Royal Air Force, who flew in at least 91 operational sorties - the majority of which being with 419 (Moose) Squadron, R.C.A.F. and 75 (New Zealand) Squadron Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1945’; Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (635318. F/Sgt. W. H. Goodridge. R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star;...
Hammer Price: £4,200
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Horatio 10 Feby. 1809 (Richd. Plumb.) naming rubbed, otherwise toned, very fine and rare £3,000-£4,000
A fine R.N.L.I. Silver Medal, R.N.L.I. Bronze Medal and Second Service clasp, and Daily Star Gold Award Medal group of three to Helmsman F. Dunster, Hayling Island Lifeboat Station, who over the course of his R.N.L.I. career also received various Letters of Thanks and Appreciation Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Sir William Hillary, silver (Frank Dunster voted 19th January 1993), with uniface ‘double dolphin’ suspension, in case of issue; Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Sir...
£3,000–£4,000
India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Chitral 1895, bronze issue (Bhisti Ala Vaux 14th. Bengal Infy.) about extremely fine, rare £3,000-£4,000
Pair: Sergeant Patrick Neil, 54th Foot Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Egypt (P. Neil, 54th Foot); Waterloo 1815 (Serj. Patrick Neal, 54th Regiment Foot.) fitted with re-affixed steel clip and ring suspension, the second with a heavy edge bruise at 4 o’clock, otherwise very fine, the first nearly extremely fine and a rare pair to the regiment (2) £2,800-£3,400
Hammer Price: £2,400
Pair: Hussar Frederick Stemme, 3rd Hussars, King’s German Legion Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Sahagun & Benevente (F. Stemme, 3rd Hussrs. K.G.L.); Waterloo 1815 (Fredrick Stemme, 3rd Reg. Hussars. K.G.L.) fitted with M.G.S. suspension and plain faced clasp, very fine and better (2) £2,800-£3,400
Hammer Price: £2,800
A Fine 1949 ‘H.M.S. Amethyst Yangtze Incident’ Naval General Service Medal awarded to Able Seaman E. N. Saunders, Royal Navy, who remained aboard H.M.S. Amethyst as part of a skeleton crew of about fifty men throughout its 101 day ordeal; he was a key member of the Damage Control Party which made the repairs that enabled Amethyst’s daring escape and dash to the sea Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Yangtze 1949 (D/SSX.815328 E. Saunders. A.B. R.N.) a few scratches to the...
Hammer Price: £8,500
Romania, Kingdom, Order of Carol I, Grand Cross Star, by Paul Telge, Berlin, 83mm, silver-gilt, maker’s name and silver marks to reverse, with reverse retaining pin, good very fine, scarce £2,600-£3,000
£2,600–£3,000
A Second War campaign group of six attributed to Hurricane, Wildcat and Corsair ‘Fighter Ace’ Lieutenant Commander D. M. Jeram, Fleet Air Arm and 213 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Attached to the latter for the duration of the Battle of Britain, Jeram is accredited with 4 enemy aircraft destroyed, and 2 probably destroyed during the Battle. He added another aircraft destroyed, and a shared destroyed during operations in North Africa, and went on to take part in operations supporting the...
Waterloo 1815 (Corporal James Allen, 1st Regiment Life Guards) fitted with replacement hinged silver bar suspension, obverse with contact wear from contact with cuirass strap, therefore good fine, the reverse better £2,600-£3,000
Hammer Price: £2,600
A Great War C.M.G. group of seven awarded to Captain D. G. Thynne, Royal Navy, who was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Russian Order of St. Stanislas for his services aboard H.M.S. Agincourt at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916 The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 Star (Commr. D. G. Thynne, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. D. G. Thynne. R.N.); Defence and...
Pair: Private Erasmus Rust, 18th Hussars Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Orthes, Toulouse (Erasmus Rust, 18th Hussars.); Waterloo 1815 (Erasmus Rust, 18th Regiment Hussars.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, light contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (2) £2,200-£2,600
Waterloo 1815 (Ely Gladall, 2nd Reg. Life Guards.) fitted with contemporary elaborate silver post and straight bar suspension surmounted by flaming grenade device, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise better than good fine £2,200-£2,600
Hammer Price: £2,000
The rare Relief of Wexford presentation Gold Medal given to Captain James Boyd, Wexford Cavalry, for being the ‘First at the head of his Lieutenant and Eight Privates of his troop to enter the Town on the 21st of June 1798’ Corporation of Wexford presentation gold medal, comprising oval convex and concave plates, approximately 70mm x 55mm, of low carat gold, unmarked, mated together within an oval band, the convex plate with finely engraved inscription: ‘On the 29th of June 1799...
The important ‘Defence of Lucknow’ Indian Mutiny Medal awarded to James Luffman, a 15-year scholar at La Martinière School - a ‘Ragged Fusilier’, one of only two boys wounded during the siege and one of the six senior boys who bore arms Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Defence of Lucknow (James Luffman.) fitted with contemporary silver ribbon brooch; together with the Punjab 1848-49 medal awarded to his father with clasps for Chiliamwala and Goojerat (James Luffman.) this...
Waterloo 1815 (J. Bailes, Coldstr. Guards, 2nd Batt.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine £2,000-£2,600
Military General Service 1793-1814, 7 clasps, Talavera, Fuentes D’Onor, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Toulouse (J. Smith, Serjeant, 14th. Light Dragoons.) edge bruising and small dig to obverse field, otherwise good very fine £2,000-£2,400
The Royal Military College Sandhurst King’s Medal awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Kingsale, D.S.O., Indian Army, late Connaught Rangers, who was five times Mentioned in Despatches King’s Medal, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1902, 48mm, gold (56.69g) (Senior Corporal The Hon: Michael William Robert De Courcy), in Morocco leather fitted case of issue, edge nick, about extremely fine £2,000-£2,400
Waterloo 1815 (Henry Townsend, 1st Batt. 95th Reg. Foot.) fitted with original steel clip and ring suspension, a few very minor edge bruises, otherwise good very fine and better £2,000-£2,400
The Second Afghan War Medal awarded to Private Charles Croft, 66th Foot, who was killed in action at the battle of Maiwand, 27 July 1880 Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (B/274. Pte. C. Croft, 66th. Foot.) light hairline scratches to obverse field, otherwise nearly extremely fine £1,800-£2,200
Hammer Price: £2,200
Portugal, Kingdom, Order of the Tower and the Sword, 1st (1808-34) type, Commander’s breast Star, 83mm, jewel cut silver, with gold and blue enamelled centre, with pin suspension, minor blue enamel damage, otherwise extremely fine and of superb quality £1,800-£2,200
A Household Cavalry Officer’s 1817-32 Pattern Helmet. A scarce example, the silvered skull complete with gilt fittings, laurel spray overlays, the gilt frontal plate with crowned Garter motto, Royal Arms and Prince of Wales Plumes, with battle honours ‘Peninsula, Waterloo’, ornate lions head side ornaments with linked leather lined chin scales and inner leather sweat band, minor service wear, the replacement bearskin crest in poor condition, the helmet itself in good condition for...
Hammer Price: £3,200
A Great War ‘Western Front’ 1918 D.C.M. and ‘Somme’ 1916 M.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant A. Y. Waddell, 2nd Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (8804 Sjt: A. Y. Waddell. M.M. 2/Arg: & Suth’d: Highrs:); Military Medal, G.V.R. (8804 Sjt: A. Waddell. 2/A. & S. Hdrs.); 1914 Star, with clasp (8804 Pte. A. Waddell. 2/A. & S. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (8804 W.O. Cl. 2. A. Y. Waddell. A. & S. Highrs.) medals unmounted,...
Waterloo 1815 (Charles M’Larnon, 3rd Bat. 1st Foot. or R. Scots.) fitted with steel clip and straight bar suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise better than good fine £1,800-£2,200
Hammer Price: £1,700
Waterloo 1815 (Samuel Smith, 3rd Batt. Grenad. Guards.) fitted with contemporary replacement silver post-loop and straight bar suspension, polished and worn, otherwise good fine £1,800-£2,200
Hammer Price: £1,600
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