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Pair: Private W. Measures, 78th Highlanders India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Persia (78th Highlanders); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Defence of Lucknow, Lucknow (78th Highlanders), edge bruising, otherwise generally very fine (2) £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,400
Pair: Private William Staden, 11th Hussars Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (William Staden, XI.th. P.A.O. Hussars) regimentally impressed naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (870 W Staden XI PAO Hussars) regimentally impressed naming, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £900-1200
Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Albuhera, Vittoria, Nive, Toulouse (D. Westall, 13th Lt. Dragns.) slight edge bruising and contact marks, very fine £900-1100
Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Vimiera, Vittoria, St. Sebastian (Alexr. Weller, 9th Foot) slight edge bruise, very fine £1000-1200
India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Chitral 1895 (Dresser Pir Bakhsh, S.M. Deptt.) official correction to unit, nearly extremely fine £800-1000
A Great War D.S.O. group of five to Lieutenant-Colonel B. J. G. Woods, Army Service Corps Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with top bar (lacking pin fitting); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., A.S.C.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.) good very fine (5) £1200-1400
A Great War M.C. group of eleven to Major-General W. H. Oxley, Royal Engineers Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, nearly very fine and better (11) £850-950
A good Great War M.C. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel B. G. T. Hawkes, Worcestershire Regiment, who, having survived active service with the 4th Battalion in Gallipoli, was wounded at Delville Wood on the Somme in 1916 with the 2nd Battalion - he was subsequently awarded the M.C. while attached to a Trench Mortar Battery Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., Worc. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); 1939-45 Star; France...
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Orange Free State, Defence of Mafeking, Transvaal (15 Tpr. A. E. Murdoch, Protect. Regt. F.F.) extremely fine £800-1000
China 1842 (E. Roberts, Actg. Master, H.E.I.C.S. Sesostris) good very fine £800-1000
A ‘Thin Red Line’ D.C.M. awarded to Corporal William Sinclair, 93rd Highlanders Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (Corpl. William Sinclair, 93rd Highlanders) suspension soldered and no longer swivels, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good fine £1200-1500
Hammer Price: £1,500
Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Talavera, Albuhera (Stephen Orill, 29th Foot) slight contact marks, very fine £800-1000
Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Corunna, Salamanca, Toulouse (James Robertson, 42nd Foot) slight edge bruising, some contact marks, very fine £700-900
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Basque Roads 1809 (Nicholas Wheeler) good very fine £800-1000
Buttons, British Army, a carded display of officers’ large tunic 1855-81 issues, a very fine and comprehensive collection from 1st Foot to the 109th inclusive, plus the following variants: both 1st Foot, facing pairs to the 5th & 8th Ft, 11th ‘North Devon’ & ‘Regiment’, 21st with and without scalloped edge, both 23rds (the XXIII type possibly a last pattern coatee), both 42nds, 43rd laurels and bugle horn type (with and without rim), three patterns 65th (one of the ‘Tiger’...
A fine Great War escaper’s M.M. group of four awarded to Lieutenant C. L. Y. Jolliffe, Herefordshire Regiment, late Monmouthshire Regiment: having received multiple shrapnel wounds in the action that led to his capture at Ypres on 8 May 1915, he had recovered sufficiently by October 1916 to make a successful bid for freedom Military Medal, G.V.R. (225103 Cpl. C. L. Y. Jolliffe, Mon. R.); 1914-15 Star (906 Cpl., Monmouth. R.); British War and Victory Medals (906 Cpl., Monmouth. R.),...
An unusual Second World War A.F.C. group of five awarded to Wing Commander P. R. May, Royal Air Force, who was killed in action on glider-towing operations over Sicily in July 1943: he had previously served in the Chinese Air Force and been awarded a ‘gold medal’ Air Force Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1941’; 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; U.S.A. Distinguished Flying Cross, unnamed, the first lacquered, good very fine and better (5) £1200-1500
China 1842 (T. V. Anson, Commander, H.M.S. Pylades) very fine £1200-1500
Irish Constabulary Badge of Merit, silver arm badge, 52 x 44mm., unmarked, reverse fitted with four small loops for attachment, an earlier and slightly smaller badge than the following lot, very fine and rare £200-250
Brazil, Empire, Imperial Order of the Rose, neck badge, 55mm., gold and enamel, with gold suspension loop and a neck cravat complete with gold fitments; breast star, 55mm., silver-gilt, gold and enamel, in (slightly damaged) distinctively shaped, green velvet case of issue, the outer lid bearing a gilt crowned ‘P.II’ cypher, minor enamel damage, nearly extremely fine (2) £600-700
Hammer Price: £1,600
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Basque Roads 1809 (Jonathan Cox) very fine £1200-1500
New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (Lieut.-Col. A. A. Chapman, 18th Regt.) good very fine £1200-1500
Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Corunna, Badajoz, Vittoria, St. Sebastian (James Preece, 4th Foot) edge bruising, about very fine £800-1000
Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes (H. Conelly, 11th Foot) some edge bruising, slight contact marks, very fine £1000-1200
Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Talavera, Albuhera, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nive (P. Wilcock, Drumr., 31st Foot) minor edge bruising, nearly extremely fine £800-1000
Hong Kong Plague 1894, silver issue (Private W. H. Tippler, S.L.I.) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good very fine £1000-1200
A Great War ‘Dover Patrol’ D.S.M., ‘Zebrugge’ M.I.D. group of five to Chief Engine Room Artificer W. May, Royal Navy Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (270362 C.E.R.A. 2Cl., “Phœbe” Dover Patrol 1918); 1914-15 Star (270362 E.R.A.1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (270362 C.E.R.A.2, R.N.); Royal Navy L.S.& G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (270362 E.R.A.1Cl., H.M.S. Duke of Edinburgh), mounted as worn, very fine (6) £1000-1200
Military Medal, G.V.R. (4047 Pte. J. Gallagher, 6/Conn. Rang.) extremely fine £400-500
Hammer Price: £1,700
Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (Lieut. G. Chichester, 59th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, suspension re-fixed, edge bruise, otherwise very fine £1200-1400
Sutlej 1845-46, for Moodkee 1845, 2 clasps, Ferozeshuhur, Sobraon (Lieut. J. B. Hawkes, 3rd Lt. Dragns.), with contemporary silver riband buckle, minor contact marks and edge nicks, otherwise very fine £1200-1500
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Defence of Lucknow (J. Whittaker, 32nd L.I.) edge bruise, good very fine £1200-1500
Portugal, Kingdom, Military Order of the Tower and Sword, 1st type, Commanders’s neck badge, 82 x 62mm., gold, unmarked, c.1808-20, good very fine £1200-1600
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 3 clasps, Alexandria 11th July, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (J. Gibbs, Bo’sns. Mte. H.M.S. “Monarch”) light pitting from star, otherwise very fine and scarce £600-800
Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Barrosa, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle (John Rollinson, 82nd Foot) nearly extremely fine £1000-1200
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. for ‘Countermining’ to Private D. Wright, Royal Irish Regiment Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (1782 Pte. D. Wright, 6/R. Ir. Regt.) very fine £1000-1200
New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1845 to 1846 (H. Capon, Captn. F. Top, H.M.S. North Star) officially impressed naming, extremely fine £550-650
New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated (1514. Thos. Welton, 96th Regt.) officially impressed naming, extremely fine and extremely rare £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,800
Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Martinique, Busaco, Albuhera (S. Nicoll, Serjt., 7th Foot) edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £1200-1400
Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Corunna, Barrosa, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Toulouse (Richd. Webber, 28th Foot) edge plugged at 6 o’clock, claw refitted, some edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £700-900
The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamels, hallmarks for London 1815, maker’s initials ‘T. D. [H. D.]’ partially obscured, complete with original wide-type swivel-ring suspension and gold riband buckle, in its Rundell, Bridge & Rundell, London (scuffed) red leather case of issue, rare thus, lacking usual intermediate suspension ring, very slightly chipped in places, good very fine or better £1600-1800
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