Auction Catalogue

23 June 2005

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 646

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£160

The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals attributed to Brigadier W. F. Clemson, D.S.O. & Bar, York and Lancaster Regiment, Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; 1914 Star, with clasp; British war and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Jubilee 1935; Italy, Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, 4th Class, silver-gilt and enamel; France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, bronze palm on ribbon, mounted as worn

The mounted group of six miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant Commander J. E. Mammatt, D.S.C., Royal Navy, Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R.; Naval General Service 1915-62, 2 (slip-on) clasps, Palestine 1936-1939, Minesweeping 1945-7; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; War Medal, mounted as worn

The mounted group of six miniature dress medals attributed to Wing Commander Chambers, Royal Air Force, Order of the British Empire, M.B.E., 2nd type, Military Division; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Air Efficiency Award, E.II.R., with Second Award Bar, mounted as worn

Two other mounted groups of four and three miniature dress medals,
good very fine (26) £70-90

Clemson:
D.S.O.
London Gazette 23 June 1915; Bar London Gazette 19 November 1917; details 22 March 1918; M.I.D. London Gazette 22 June 1915, 1 January 1916, 4 January 1917, 15 May 1917, 11 December 1917.

Mammatt:
D.S.C.
London Gazette 11 November 1941. (H.M.S. Hereward, re. the withdrawal from Greece, 1941). The destroyer Hereward was sunk by Italian aircraft off Crete, 20 May 1941.