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Four: Able Seaman R. Fisher, Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine and better (4) £180-220
Hammer Price: £180
Seven: D. L. P. De Treend, British and Commonwealth Forces 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48, naming erased; Occupation of Japan 1945-52 Medal, inscribed ‘D. L. P. De Treend’, good very fine and better (7) £60-80
Hammer Price: £50
Six: W. F. Stamp, Australian Forces 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals; Australia Service Medal 1939-45, all officially inscribed, ‘NX. 35312 W. F. Stamp’, contact marks, generally very fine Pair: C. T. Garner, Australian Forces 1939-45 Star; Australian Service Medal 1939-45, both officially inscribed, ‘420383 C. T. Garner’, the first with one or two scratches to reverse, otherwise good very fine Four: D. Hazelton, Australian Forces 1939-45 Star;...
Hammer Price: £170
Four: Private J.C. Kelly, South African Forces 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal 1939-45, all officially inscribed, ‘C164993 J. C. Kelly’, together with an “On Service” lapel badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘38/368’, very fine or better Five: Rifleman Manbahadur Gurung, 11-Gurkhas Indian Independence Medal 1947, officially inscribed, ‘5550 Rfn. Manbahadur Gurung, 11 G.R.’; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; India Service...
Hammer Price: £75
Five: Captain T. D. Doble, Royal Tank Regiment 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £60-80
Hammer Price: £110
Eight: Lance-Naik Nawab Khan, 16th Punjab Regiment Pakistan, General Service, 1 clasp, Kashmir 1848; Pakistan, Independence 1947 (3834446 L/Nk., 16 Pb. R.); Pakistan, Republic Day 1956; 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals; United Nations Medal, UNTSO ribbon, mounted as worn Six: Naik Zar Khan, 13th Frontier Force Rifles Pakistan, Independence 1947 (3539573 Naik, 13 F.F. Rif.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn Six:...
Hammer Price: £120
Five: Lieutenant J. D. Trewartha, South African Naval Forces and Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal 1939-45, all officially inscribed, ‘587005 J. D. Trewartha’, extremely fine (5) £80-100
Hammer Price: £320
Five: Chief Engine Room Artificer 2 F. V. Stoyle, Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (MX. 46086 C.E.R.A. 2, H.M.S. Drake), together with original set of related tunic ribands showing entitlement to the ‘Pacific’ clasp, mounted as worn, very fine and better (5) £100-120
Hammer Price: £130
Seven: Havildar Abdul Khaliq, 15th Punjab Regiment Pakistan, Independence 1947 (3731811 Hav., 15 P.R.); Pakistan, Republic Day 1956; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; India War Service 1939-45; Coronation 1953, mounted as worn Six: Duffadar Ghulzar Khan, Pakistan Armoured Corps Pakistan, General Service, 1 clasp, Dir-Bajaur 1960-62; Pakistan, Independence 1947 (A-2808 Dfr., P.A.C.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; India War Service 1939-45, mounted as...
Five: Lieutenant J. K. Tizard, Royal Army Medical Corps 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (6087029 S. Sjt., R.A.M.C.), good very fine (5) £80-100
Hammer Price: £150
Six: Private J. A. Barnaby, The Loyals 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (3851256 Pte., 5-Loyal R.), minor official correction to number on the last, generally good very fine (6) £100-120
Six: Warrant Officer Class 2 Alfred England, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, late R.A.C. and Reconnaissance Corps 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army, with Second Award Bar, naming erased; Army Meritorious Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (LS/22782455 W.O. Cl. 2, D.W.R.), good very fine or better, together with Dunkirk 1940 commemorative award (7) £200-250
Hammer Price: £210
Four: Gunner W. E. Eddington, Royal Artillery 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, in original addressed card forwarding box, extremely fine (4) £80-120
Hammer Price: £220
Three: Sergeant H. A. Ward, 1st Worcestershire Regiment, who was killed in action at Elst in Holland in September 1944, during the 43rd Wessex Division’s attempt to relieve the 1st Airborne at Arnhem 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, in original addressed card forwarding box, date stamped 22 April 1949, with Army Council condolence slip in the name of ‘Sgt. H. A. Ward’, extremely fine (3) £140-160
Hammer Price: £290
Four: Flight Lieutenant J. S. Ambler, Royal Air Force 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, in original addressed card forwarding box, extremely fine (4) £20-30
Hammer Price: £55
Six: Lieutenant P. L. Greeff, South African Air Force Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Africa Service Medal, these all officially named (P523 P. L. Greeff); South African Permanent Forces L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (Lt., S.A.A.F.), mounted as worn, good very fine (6) £120-160
Hammer Price: £100
Four: Lady District Officer E. M. Ritson, St. John Ambulance Brigade The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, (Lady) Officer’s breast badge, silvered-base metall and enamel; Defence Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; St. John Service Medal, with 4 Bars (7243 Lady Dis. Offr., No. 6 Dist. Staff, S.J.A.B., 1929), mounted as worn, the first lacking its larger ring suspension loop and the last officially corrected, good very fine (4) £60-80
Hammer Price: £60
Four: N. Finburgh, Special Constabulary, late British Red Cross Society and British National Cadet Association Defence Medal 1939-45; Special Constabulary Long and Faithful Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue, with Bar for ‘Long Service 1945’ (Neville Finburgh); British National Cadet Association, silver medal, hallmarks for Birmingham 1934, with slide-on ‘B.N.C.A.’ clasp, obverse, lion seated before a Union flag, reverse, an eagle and coronet; British Red Cross Society War Service...
War Medal 1939-45 / Africa Service Medal pairs (4) (234925 R. E. Vermaak; 548499 W. A. Polley; F.262737 P. Ridgeon I.M.; N9944 W. H. Mahlegi), all officially named, good very fine (8) £40-50
Pair: Corporal A. D. Case, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland (23654784 Cpl., R.E.M.E.); Regular Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (23654784 Cpl., R.E.M.E.), very fine and better (2) £80-100
Hammer Price: £160
The important K.C.B., K.C.V.O., K.P.M. group of twelve awarded to Major Sir Frederick Wodehouse, Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, formerly City of London Police and late Royal Artillery, who was the senior police officer present at the famous “Siege of Sidney Street” The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, K.C.B. (Civil) Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1913, and breast star, in silver, with gold and enamel...
Hammer Price: £4,400
A fine Boer War Brigade Commander’s C.B. group of five awarded to Major-General J. E. Boyes, The Gordon Highlanders The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, complete with swivel-ring suspension and riband buckle; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 4 clasps, Tel-El-Kebir, Suakin 1884, El-Teb-Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85 (Maj., 1/Gord. Highrs.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Major-General); Turkish...
Hammer Price: £3,500
An important Jutland C.B. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Collard, R.M., the senior Royal Marine officer afloat during the Battle The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, in silver-gilt and enamels, converted for neck wear; East and Central Africa 1897-99, 1 clasp, Uganda 1897-98 (Capt., R.M.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Capt., R.M.L.I.); King’s South Africa...
Hammer Price: £17,000
A C.M.G., C.I.E. group of eight to Lieutenant-Colonel H. C. Prescott, Inspector-General of the Iraq Police, late South Wales Borderers The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 2nd type breast badge, gold and enamel, lacks brooch bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South...
Hammer Price: £1,600
A fine C.M.G., M.V.O., O.B.E. group of fourteen to Brigadier-General E. B. Cuthbertson, Monmouthshire Regiment, late Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge conversion from a breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 4th Class, silver-gilt and enamel. rev. officially numbered, ‘912’; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military), 2nd...
Hammer Price: £2,100
An impressive Great War C.M.G., M.V.O. group of nine awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Thresher, Rifle Brigade The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O. 4th class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘1019’; 1914 Star (Major, Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Belgian Order of the Crown, Officer’s...
The important G.C.M.G. group of thirteen awarded to Lord John Cadman, 1st Baron of Silverdale, the noted mining and engineering expert who became Chairman of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company - better known today as British Petroleum (B.P.) The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, G.C.M.G., Knight Grand Cross set of insignia, comprising collar chain, silver-gilt and enamel, collar badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with gold and enamel centre, and breast star, silver, with gold...
Hammer Price: £3,600
The G.B.E. group of six awarded to Sir Henry Dale, Kt., ‘one of the greatest physiologists of his time’, a Nobel prize winner and a member of the Order of Merit The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, G.B.E. (Civil) Knight Grand Cross, 2nd type set of insignia, comprising sash badge, silver-gilt and enamel, and breast star, silver, with silver-gilt and enamel centre, with half-length sash, in (slightly damaged) Garrard & Co., London case of issue; Knight Bachelor’s Badge,...
Hammer Price: £2,800
An important “Captain of Industry” family group to the 1st and 2nd Baron Rootes, the famous British motor car manufacturers The G.B.E. group of eight awarded to the Lord William Edward Rootes, 1st Baron of Ramsbury, who served as a Sub. Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the Great War The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, G.B.E. (Civil) Knight Grand Cross, 2nd type set of insignia, comprising sash badge, silver-gilt and enamel, and breast star, silver,...
Hammer Price: £1,500
A fine post-war lifesaving M.B.E. group of nine awarded to Skipper W. Imlach of the steam trawler “Loch Awe”, a veteran of active service in the Royal Naval Reserve, who, aged 58 years, displayed ‘very considerable courage and superb seamanship’ in rescuing the crew of a fishing vessel in the Moray Firth ‘in the great storm of January 1953’ The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; 1914-15 Star (S.A. 1345 2 Hd., R.N.R.);...
Hammer Price: £900
A Great War D.S.O. group of five to Lieutenant-Colonel R. L. Galloway, Royal Field Artillery Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R. , silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; 1914-15 Star (Capt., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Major); War Medal 1939-45, mounted as worn; together with a related mounted set of dress miniatures, nearly extremely fine (10) £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,400
A fine Dunkirk D.S.O. and anti-submarine operations D.S.C. group of nine awarded to Captain Jack Bickford, Royal Navy, who died of wounds after his ship, H.M.S. Express, struck a mine off Texel in August 1940 Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., the reverse of the lower suspension bar dated ‘1940’, in its Garrard & Co Ltd case of issue; Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated ‘1940’ and hallmarked London 1938, in its Garrard & Co Ltd case of issue;...
Hammer Price: £9,000
Introduction Bomber Command’s offensive will probably be best remembered for such epic achievements as the “Dambuster” raid in May 1943, or, for that matter, the horrifying “firestorms” it caused at Hamburg just two months later and the equivalent devastation inflicted on Dresden in February 1945. But no less notable was the gallant - but costly - strike made against the enemy’s rocket research establishment at Peenemünde on the night of 17-18 August 1943, when, for the first...
Hammer Price: £64,000
The outstanding Second World War bomber and fighter pilot’s D.S.O. and ‘Triple’ D.F.C. group of seven awarded to Squadron Leader K. F. “Jimmy” Thiele, Royal New Zealand Air Force, one of just 15 aircrew to achieve this combination of gallantry awards in the 1939-45 War: having completed a brace of operational tours in Bomber Command, he flew around 150 sorties in Spitfires and Tempests, gaining two confirmed “kills” before himself falling victim to ground fire over Germany in...
Hammer Price: £18,000
A rare Second World War D.S.O., D.F.C. group of ten awarded to Wing Commander A. H. Burton, Royal Air Force, late Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, a three-tour bomber pilot who never failed ‘to take advantage of any opportunity to attack the enemy with machine-guns from a low altitude’ Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., 1st issue, silver-gilt and enamels, the reverse of the suspension bar officially dated ‘1944’; Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially...
Hammer Price: £4,800
Sold by Order of a Direct Descendant The superb Second World War nightfighter operations D.F.C. and Bar, A.F.C. group of seven awarded to Flight Lieutenant H. “Jake” Jacobs, Royal Air Force, late Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve: as a Navigator-Radio Leader with ‘a very high reputation’, he was “teamed-up” with the famous ace John Braham, with whom he shared in the destruction of at least five enemy aircraft in 1942-43, actions that are vividly described in his hitherto...
Hammer Price: £23,000
A rare Great War U-Boat action D.S.C., Lloyd’s M.S.M. group of four awarded to Captain C. R. King, Mercantile Marine, a retired Lieutenant-Commander, Royal Naval Reserve Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1918, in its Garrard & Co., London case of issue; British War and Mercantile Marine Medals (Charles R. King); Lloyd’s Medal for Meritorious Services (Captain Charles Reginald King, S.S. “Chupra”, 22nd March 1918), lacquered, good very fine or better (4) ...
Hammer Price: £2,200
A Second World War minesweeping operations D.S.C. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Commander R. A. L. Viner, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1942’ and privately engraved ‘Temp. Lieut. R. A. L. Viner, R.N.V.R.’; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, these last four with “Boots-style” impressed naming ‘Lieut.-Commander R. A. L. Viner, D.S.C., R.N.V.R.’, mounted court-style as worn, good...
Hammer Price: £700
A Great War M.C. group of nine to Captain S. T. Pink, South Wales Borderers, late Royal Engineers Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (48555 L. Cpl., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1953, mounted as worn, contact marks, nearly very fine (20) £1000-1200
A Second World War M.C. group of six attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel P. S. Synott, Royal Artillery Military Cross, G.VI.R. reverse officially dated ‘1946’, additionally inscribed, ‘Lt/Colonel P. S. Synott, R.A.’; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1953, last five unnamed as issued, very fine (6) £450-500
Hammer Price: £800
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