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Books on the War against Japan (11), including: Loong, C. K., The British Battalion Malaya 1941-1942; Chippington, G., Singapore, The Inexcusable Betrayal; Hickey, Col. M., The Unforgettable Army, Slim’s XIV Army in Burma; Wall, D., Kill the Prisoners!; Books on later conflicts (4), including: Gaston, P., The 38th Parallel, The story of the British Army in Korea; Hastings, Max, The Korean War; Hastings, Max, Going to the Wars, good and better condition (15) £35-45
Hammer Price: £60
Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (EA.18127285 Pte. Musee Mbila, K.A.R.) nearly extremely fine £60-80
Alexander Davison’s Medal for The Nile 1798, bronze, unmounted, edge bruising, contact marks, worn £40-60
Pair: Private W. J. Wheat, East Lancashire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (38681 Pte., E. Lan. R.), in damaged card box of issue, extremely fine (2) £50-70
Four: Private J. Sheppard, Leicestershire Regiment 1914-15 Star (5613 Pte., Leic. R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (5613 Pte., Leic. R.); Victory Medal 1914-19, naming erased; Jubilee 1935, together with related I.D. disc, generally good very fine (4) £40-60
Hammer Price: £65
Parachute Maker’s Company Brooches (GQ), in the shape of outstretched wings with central parachute and a figure dependent, the company initials “GQ” near the base of the wings, one in 9ct gold and the other enamelled HM silver both 1989 (Birmingham) and by JR Gaunts & Sons pin backs mint state (2) £40-60
Joslin, E. C., Litherland, A. R. & Simpkin, B.T., British Battles and Medals, Spink, 1988, 299pp., with dustcover; Gordon, Major L. L., British Battles and Medals, 5th edition, Spink, 1979, 437pp., with dustcover; Taprell Dorling, H., Ribbons and Medals, Spink 1974, 359pp., with dustcover; Abbott, P. E. & Tamplin, J. M. A., British Gallantry Awards (2), 1971 edition, 359pp.; 1981 edition, 316pp., both with dustcovers; Drew, Lieut-Gen. Sir Robert, Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services...
McInnes, I., The Annuity Meritorious Service Medal 1847-1953, 1995, 450pp., boards and cased; Sainsbury, Major J. D., For Gallantry in the Performance of Military Duty, 1969, 63pp., card cover; McInnes, I., The Meritorious Service Medal, The Immediate Awards 1916-1928, 1992, 511pp., boards, with dustcover; McInnes, I. & Gregson, J. B., The Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal 1830-1848, 1995, 290pp., number 28 of 300 copies, signed by authors, leather covered boards and cased; McInnes,...
Taprell Dorling, H., Ribbons and Medals, Osprey, 1983, Purves, A. A., The Medals, Decorations & Orders of the Great War 1914-1918; Purves, A. A., The Medals, Decorations & Orders of World War II 1939-1945, these with dustcovers; Mericka, V, Orders and Decorations, 1967, 315pp.; Simenstad, A., Norwegian War Decorations awarded to members of the British Armed Forces, with dustcover; Brough, R., White Russian Awards to British & Commonwealth Servicemen during the Allied Intervention in Russia...
King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (353 Sjt. P. Rae, Transkei Mtd. Rif.) nearly extremely fine £30-40
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5150 Pte. Dirom, Rl. Scots Greys) note lack of initial, later impressed naming, suspension re-fixed, better than good fine £40-50
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (550 Pte. S. Chamberlain, 2nd Bn. Leicestershire Regt.) re-engraved naming in running script, very fine £20-30
India General Service 1908-35 (2), 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (3813 SepoyRahm Ali, 40th Pathans; 4269 Sepoy Sardan Shah, 59th Rifles), both with corrected naming, very fine (2) £40-60
Pair: Private S. W. Eyers, Lancashire Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (282537 Pte., Lan. Fus.) nearly extremely fine (2) £50-70
1914 Star (3615 Pte. T. Roberts, C. Gds.); British War Medal 1914-20 (5-411 W.O. Cl.2, Rif. Brig.); Victory Medals 1945 (2), unofficial, base metal; ‘Gilt Penny’ medal, dated 1896 and inscribed, ‘Mizpah’ and ‘May’, good very fine and better (5) £50-70
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, N.W. Persia (4736736 Pte. W. H. Sims, Y.& L. R.) minor edge bruise, very fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £70
Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Pte. ? Nicholas, 9th Batt. L.T.C.), engraved naming, edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine £80-100
The Yorkshire Hussars, a circular pill box forage cap of stiffened blue cloth with applied silver lace oak-leaf pattern lace and silver bullion purl crown ornament, black leather sweat band and red cloth lining with Messrs Hawkes & Co black stamp, paper label inscribed ‘No 21 Bond’, would appear to be NCO’s quality; Junior Staff Officer’s Cocked Hat of stiffened French Plush overlaid with black oak-leaf braid, a broad black crepe cockade with gold laced panel, gold bullion tassels to...
Five: Corporal E. T. Wood, Royal Fusiliers 1914-15 Star (14821 Pte., R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (14821 Cpl., R. Fus.); Defence; Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Edward T. Wood), mounted as worn, very fine (5) £50-70
Boer War, City of London Imperial Volunteers, ornate card scroll, 76 x 55.5cm. (approx.), listing the officers and men and casualties of the C.I.V., torn for two-thirds of the way down the centre, fair condition £50-70
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Oswald Noel Walmesley) nearly very fine £40-50
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (2) (Robert Stephen Firminger; Harry Rodgers) both cleaned, very fine (2) £60-80
Books on various wars (12), including: Ferrier, Major J. A. & Mrs, The Franco-German War 1870-71, Chatham, 1894; Chamberlin, W. H., The Russian Revolution 1917-21, London, 1935, 2 volumes; Humble, R., Famous Land Battles; Glover, M., Warfare from Waterloo to Mons; Robinson, Maj-Gen. C. W. et al, Wars of the 19th Century; Smurthwaite, D., The Complete Guide to the Battlefields of Britain; Regan, G., The Guiness Book of Military Blunders; other works: history, war poetry, war memoirs, war...
Royal Life Saving Society medals (4), one silver, one in case; Church Lads’ Brigade medals (2); Women’s Own Handicrafts Medal, ‘Mrs E. B. Brooke, Arnside’, 38mm., bronze; Metropolitan Special Constabulary L.S. Medal 1914, bronze; School Attendance medals (6), named; ‘Friendly Society’ medals (4), including R.M.I.G. 1927 Badge, obv. with ‘Prince of Wales’s feathers, silver and enamel; other medals (4), generally very fine (22) £40-50
Victoria Cross, embossed ‘copy’ on reverse, good quality, extremely fine £20-30
Pair: Private H. W. Dixon, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (29322 Pte., D. of Corn L.I.), with accompanying forwarding slip, in (damaged) card box of issue, extremely fine (2) £40-50
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Laing’s Nek (1020 Pte. W. Wilson, 1 Leic. Regt.) reverse of second clasp fitted with brooch bar, very fine £40-60
Five: Petty Officer H. Austin, Royal Fleet Reserve 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star, rosette on ribbon; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Fleet Reserve L.S.& G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue (JX141507, Dev.B.21662 P.O., R.F.R.) extremely fine (8) £80-100
India General Service 1936-39 (3), 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (12076 Sepoy Mumtaz Khan, 2-1 Punjab R.; 81015 L-Naik Feroz Khan, F.C.); 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (14223 Sep. Malikit Singh, 5-8 Punjab R.) first with minor edge bruising, good very fine (3) £60-80
Hammer Price: £75
Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (SF-6270 M. A. Ahearn) good very fine £60-80
Army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R., silvered bronze specimen; General Service 1962, no clasp, marked ‘Specimen’ on edge, extremely fine (2) £50-70
Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (163271 Alfred Fagence, P.O. 1Cl., H.M.S. Charybdis) nearly extremely fine £40-50
Joslin, E. C., Litherland, A. R. & Simpkin, B. T., British Battles and Medals, London, 1988, viii, 299pp., plus colour ribbon chart, with dustcover; plus addendum Spring 1989; Douglas-Morris, K., Naval Medals 1857-1880, London, 1994, xxii, 436pp., blue boards, in slip-case; Creagh, Sir O’Moore and Humphris, E. M., The Distinguished Service Order 1886-1923, Hayward & Son, 1978, parts 1 & 2 in one volume, with cellophane dustcover; Walker, R. W., Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal...
Tamplin, J. M. A., Spink Booklets Nos. 1-12, The Imperial Yeomanry Long Service and Good Conduct Medal; The Militia Long Service and Good Conduct Medal; The Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal; The Volunteer Officers’ Decoration; The Volunteer Long Service Medal; The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration and The India Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration; The Territorial Decoration 1908-1930; The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal; The Territorial...
Canadian Memorial Cross , G.V.R. (401280 Pte. S. Heather); together with an erased 1914-15 Star, the two mounted in an oval glass-fronted case, good very fine (2) £40-50
South Eastern & Chatham Railway St. John Ambulance Association Service Medal, for 7 years, ‘Harry Robins, 1914’, 38mm., bronze, some edge bruising; St. John Ambulance Association East Lancashire War Service Badge, enamelled, numbered; St. John Ambulance Association Re-Examination Badges (4), gilt, silver, bronze (2), all named; Royal British Nursing Association Badge, ‘M. S. Ogilvie Farquharson’, bronze; Kent County Council Hospital Badge, bronze and enamel, unnamed; other nursing...
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (2309 Corpl. H. Harriman, 2d Bn. Leic. R.) probably one-time brooch-mounted, with refixed suspension claw and traces of solder at 11 and 1 o’clock, edge bruising and polished, fine £40-60
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (6680 Pte. A. Owens, 1 Leic. Regt.) edge bruising, very fine £40-60
1914 Star (E. Garland, B.R.C.S. & O. St. J.J.) nearly extremely fine £50-70
Six: Sepoy Amir Gul, Frontier Force Rifles India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Mohmand 1933, North West Frontier 1935 (11977 Sep., 5-12 F.F.R.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (11977 Sepoy, 5-12 F.F.R.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War and India Service Medals; together with a Loyal Service Badge, some contact marks, generally very fine (7) £50-70
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