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A ‘Baltic Service 1919’ O.B.E. group of four to Paymaster Lieutenant Commander G. T. Smyth, Royal Navy, recommended for Good Service at the battle of Jutland The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Asst. Payr., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Payr. Lt., R.N.), mounted as worn, extremely fine (4) £240-280
Hammer Price: £650
Three: Private A. Coleman, Royal Scots Fusiliers 1914 Star (8960 Pte., 2/R. Sc. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (8960 Pte., R.S. Fus.) Three: Serjeant H. Wilson, Liverpool Regiment 1914 Star (1226 Sjt., 10/L’pool. R.); British War and Victory Medals (1226 Sjt., L’pool. R.) nearly extremely fine (6) £160-200
A fine Second World War period M.B.E., long service group of eight awarded to Captain E. T. Crawley, Royal Pioneer Corps, late Royal Fusiliers, and latterly an Assistant Superintendent in the Kenya Police The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (A.S.P. E. T. Crawley); Coronation 1953; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., Regular Army (6447769 Sjt., R....
An M.B.E. group of six to Quartermaster & Captain K. D. Lewis, Welsh Guards The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1953; Army L.S.& G.C., E.II.R., Regular Army (2739311 W.O. Cl.1, W.G.), mounted court style as worn, good very fine (6) £180-220
Afghanistan 1878-80, 3 clasps, Charasia, Kabul, Kandahar (2023 Pte. W. Smith, 92nd Highrs.) contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise generally very fine £800-1000
Four: Lance-Corporal J. T. Gurney, Royal Warwickshire Regiment India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (316 Pte., 1st R. War. R.); 1914 Star, with clasp (316 L. Cpl., R. War. R..); British War and Victory Medals (316 Pte., R. War. R.) extremely fine (4) £340-380
Hammer Price: £640
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. to Acting Lance-Corporal A. G. Nolan, Royal Irish Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (8371 A. L. Cpl., 2/R. Ir. R.) nearly extremely fine £400-500
Hammer Price: £620
Three: Petty Officer H. Bell, Royal Navy, who died on H.M. Submarine E.47, which sank in the North Sea on 20 August 1917 1914-15 Star (J.457 L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.457 P.O., R.N.); Memorial Plaque (Harold Bell), with wall suspension fitting, last very fine; others extremely fine (4) £400-500
Six: Petty Officer W. B. Evans, Royal Navy 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star; Italy star; War Medal 1939-45; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Yangtse 1949 (C/KX.92497 P.O.S.M., R.N.), mounted court style as worn, good very fine (6) £350-400
Four: Brevet Colonel H. G. Sutton, Rifle Brigade, late Indian Army India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Lieut., 27th Madras Infy.); 1914-15 Star (Bt. Col.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Bt. Col.), mounted for display, good very fine (4) £350-400
General Gordon’s Star for the Siege of Khartoum 1884, pewter, good very fine £400-500
Royal Naval Georgian Period Midshipman’s Dirk, a very fine and scarce example, the curved unfullered blade (approx 16.5ins) with a 6-inch fighting point, with remains of blue and gilt decoration, features a crowned ‘GR’ and simple floral decoration, the reverse with trophies of halberds and a cannon barrel, a fine swept quillon with bulbous leaf finials, the shaped ivory hand grip with three-quarter chequered decoration, the gilt backstrap with raised lion’s mask and mane, the...
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Lieut. H. B. Patton, H.Ms. 27th Regt.) nearly extremely fine £240-280
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Ast. Surgn. T. Lowe, Madras Saprs. & Miners) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine £400-450
Pair: Deputy Commissary General Henry Robinson, C.B., Commissariat Department South Africa 1834-53 (Dy. Asst. Comy. Genl. H. Robinson); China 1857-60, no clasp (Ast. Comy. Genl. H. Robinson) officially impressed naming, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine (2) £500-600
Hammer Price: £600
Three: Corporal J. Jordan, 12th Lancers Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (... Pte. John Jordan, ....), engraved naming, heavy edge bruising and contact marks; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (J. Jordan, 12th Lancers); Army L.S.& G.C., V.R., 3rd issue (1598 Corpl., 12th Lancers) first two with edge bruising and contact marks, good fine and better; last with slight edge bruising, very fine (3) £300-360
Pair: Mr W. Fry, Natal Government Railways, late Royal Navy South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (W. R. Fry, Boy 1Cl., H.M.S. Boadicea); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Mr W. Fry, Natal Govt. Rlys.) good very fine (2) £350-400
Family group: Four: Leading Stoker J. Whitebread, Royal Navy Abyssinia 1867 (Cooks Mate, H.M.S. Octavia), suspension refixed; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (Lg. Stkr., H.M.S. Temeraire); Royal Navy L.S.& G.C., V.R. (Stoker, H.M.S. Vestal); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, first with edge bruising and contact marks Four: Able Seaman S. J. S. Whitebread, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (215686 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals...
Family group: Five: Craftsman E. G. C. Cunnington, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, believed to have been a member of the wartime “Jewish Brigade Group” 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (7591935 Cfn., R.E.M.E.), the 1939-45 awards in original addressed card forwarding box, with related Army Council forwarding slip, the last in its original envelope of issue with typed label, together with a rare pair of...
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Surgn. C. C. Vaid, 11th Bl. Infy.) toned, good very fine £180-220
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Delhi (Asst. Surgn. Chas. Jas. Davenport, 6th Dragn. Gds.) nearly extremely fine £400-450
Family group: A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four to Serjeant W. H. Bradley, 5th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Military Medal, G.V.R. (295040 Pte., 5/Durh. L.I.); 1914-15 Star (2740 Pte., Durh. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2740 Sjt., Durh. L.I.), some scratches to M.M. obv. Three: Private J. T. Bradley, 5th Battalion Durham Light Infantry 1914-15 Star (2538 Pte., Durh. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (5-2538 Pte., Durh. L.I.), mounted as worn,...
A Great War M.M. group of four to Lance-Corporal E. Dinsdale, 5th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Military Medal, G.V.R. (200032 L. Cpl., 5/Durh. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (1436 Pte., Dur. L.I.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (1436 Pte., Durh. L.I.) slight edge bruising, about very fine (4) £350-400
New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (Capt. Paymr. Fredk. Fereday, 68th Foot), with silver slip bar on ribbon, good very fine £350-400
Hammer Price: £580
An interesting archive of documentation and photographs appertaining to General Constantine Dessino, K.C.M.G., Imperial Russian Forces, comprising an impressive array of family photographs, mainly of the 1920s and 1930s (approximately 50), the majority being formal studio portraits, mounted on card, and including several of the General, over the ages, in uniform and wearing his decorations; together with more miscellaneous photographs, unmounted (approximately 30), some of which would appear...
Pair: Private A. Sinclair, 74th Highlanders South Africa 1834-53 (74th Regt.); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Archd. Sinclair, 74th Highlanders) slight edge bruising, very fine and better (2) £340-380
Pair: Dispenser of Medicine W. R. Harris, Madras Medical Subordinate Department Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Defence of Lucknow (Dispenser of Medicine W. R. Harris); Madras Medical Subordinate Department, Government Medal, Assistant Apothecaries, Prize Essay, silver (W. R. Harris) very fine and scarce (2) £500-600
Three: Private A. Page, South Staffordshire Regiment South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1878-9 (582 Pte., 80th Foot); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (382 Pte., 1/S. Staff. R.), note different numbers; Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed, mounted for wear, good very fine and better (3) £350-400
Three: Chief Engineer T. Walmsley, Royal Indian Marine Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (Mr T. Walmsley, I.G.S. Tenasserim); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (Chief Engineer T. Walmsley, R.I.M.S. Hardinge); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, good very fine and better, scarce (3) £350-450
Five: Flight Sergeant A. H. Spencer, Royal Air Force, late Royal Navy, onetime Metropolitan Police, who served as an R.A.F. motor boat Coxswain in the Great War East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin 1897 (Boy 1 Cl., H.M.S. Theseus); China 1900, no clasp (A.B., H.M.S. Arethusa); British War and Victory Medals (217847 F. Sgt., R.A.F.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police issue (P.S.), mounted as worn, occasional edge bruising, generally very fine (5) £400-500
Six: Private T. Fitzpatrick, Royal Highlanders Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (5271 Pte., 2nd Rl. Highldrs.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (5271 Pte., Rl. Highrs.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (5271 Pte., 2/R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (5271 Pte., R. Highrs.); Delhi Durbar 1911 (5271 Pte., R.H.) first two with contact marks, nearly very fine; others extremely fine (6) £200-240
Three: Colour Serjeant J. West, Leinster Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (946 Clr-Serjt., Leinster Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (945 Clr-Serjt., Leinster Regt.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (946 C. Sjt., Lein. R.) good very fine and better (3) £300-400
11th Hussars (Prince Albert’s Own), a very fine boxed set of four solid silver menu holders, hall-marked Sheffield 1924, and featuring the regimental cap badge and clip-on solid rectangular bases, the box with some perishing to the silk lining otherwise excellent condition (4) £280-320
Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1917, unnamed, in Garrard, London case of issue, extremely fine £350-400
Six: Chief Mechanic W. E. Byrne, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service 1914-15 Star (F.4595 P.O.M., R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals (F4595 C.P.O.3, R.N.A.S.); Royal Air Force L.S.& G.C., G.V.R. (204595 Chf. Mech., R.A.F.); Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., 3rd issue (William Edmund Byrne); Jubilee 1935, generally nearly extremely fine (6) £160-200
Four: Corporal R. Tredgold, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, late Durham Light Infantry Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (22771834 Pte., D.L.I.); U.N. Korea; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (22771834 Pte., K.O.Y.L.I.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (22771834 Cpl., K.O.Y.L.I.), mounted as worn, some contact marks, very fine (4) £240-280
Hammer Price: £550
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Kimberley (609 Pte. A. Parker, Cape Police) minor edge bruising, nearly extremely fine £300-350
Worcester Training Ship, The King’s Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue, ‘Admiral’s bust’, by Bertram Mackennal; reverse: ‘Thames Nautical Training College H.M.S. “Worcester”’ (Cyril James Senior, 1928), 44mm., 18ct. gold, 56.76g., in fitted red leather case of issue, Ref: B.H.M. 4370 sim., extremely fine £500-600
Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life, V.R., large, bronze (Robert Wilson wreck of the “Majestic” on the 12th February 1894) good very fine £240-280
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Stephen Fisher, Clerk, R.N.) nearly extremely fine £350-400
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