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A fine Great War Western Front operations V.C. group of four awarded to Lance-Corporal A. Wilkinson, Manchester Regiment, late Royal Scots Greys and Seaforth Highlanders, who, at Marou, in October 1918, having witnessed the demise of four company runners in succession, volunteered to carry the same vital message over 600 yards of exposed ground swept by extremely heavy machine-gun and shell fire - he got through Victoria Cross (43839 Pte. A. Wilkinson, 1/5th Bn. Manch. R. (T.F.); 20 Oct. 1...
Hammer Price: £110,000
The Zulu War medal awarded to Corporal James Bushe, 2nd Battalion 24th Foot, who was wounded in the nose during the defence of Rorke’s Drift, by a bullet which had just killed Private Cole, and mentioned by Chard in his account of the action specially written for Queen Victoria South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1877-8-9 (2350 Lce. Corpl. J. Bushe, 2-24th Foot) minor edge bruises, otherwise good very fine and a rare casualty £18000-22000
Hammer Price: £31,000
The important Great War C.B.E., D.S.O. group of eleven awarded to Major-General A. G. C. Dawnay, Coldstream Guards, who acted as a Liaison Officer between Allenby and “Lawrence of Arabia” and participated in successful desert operations with the latter - according to Lawrence, “Dawnay was Allenby’s greatest gift to us - greater than thousands of baggage camels ... He married war and rebellion in himself”: he was also Lawrence’s senior and a regular soldier to his finger tips, but the former w...
Hammer Price: £22,000
An extremely rare Great War C.G.M., Gallipoli operations D.S.M. group of seven awarded to Acting Leading Seaman A. Lumsden, Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Reserve, who received the former decoration for continuing to man his gun as his ship, the Armed Merchant Cruiser Philadelphian, sank beneath him Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, G.V.R. (218195 A. Lumsden, A.B., English Channel, 19 Feb. 1918); Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (218195 A. Lumsden, A.B., Gallipoli Opns. 1915-6); 1914-15 Star (21...
Hammer Price: £17,000
The K.C.B. and Field Officer’s Gold Medal pair to General Sir George Turner, Royal Artillery The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s set of insignia, neck badge, gold and enamel, hallmarks for London 1862, complete with neck cravat with gold fitments; breast star, silver, gold appliqué and enamel, stamped ‘W.N.’ on reverse, these in R. & S. Garrard, London case of issue; Field Officer’s Gold Medal, for Orthes, 1 clasp, Toulouse (Capt. Geo. Turner, Rl. Ar...
Hammer Price: £15,000
A fine Blitz 1940 bomb disposal operations G.C. awarded to Mr. R. T. Harris, a Staff and Liaison Officer for the Croydon A.R.P. Engineer’s Service: on joining the Royal Engineers in 1942, he was ordered to remove the G.C. riband from his uniform by a senior officer - “We don’t allow civil decorations to be worn in the Army” George Cross (Roy Thomas Harris, A.R.P. Croydon, 17th December 1940), in its Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine and rare £10000-12000
Hammer Price: £14,000
A C.B. group of four awarded to Captain R. C. Allen, Royal Navy, Master of the Resolute during the Arctic expedition of 1850-51 in search of Sir John Franklin The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 18 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1878, fitted with silver-gilt swivel-ring suspension and ribbon buckle; China 1842 (Robert C. Allen, Master, H.M.S. Vixen); Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Arctic 1818-55, unnamed as issued, very fine (4)...
Hammer Price: £11,000
Pair: Sergeant Thomas Henry, 88th Foot Military General Service 1793-1814, 11 clasps, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (T. Henry, Serjt. 88th Foot); 88th Foot Order of Merit, 2nd Class, inscribed with all eleven actions, named on rim either side of the suspension ring (Corpl. Thomas Henry) the first with edge bruising, otherwise very fine (2) £3500-4000
Hammer Price: £10,800
The remarkable Cornelius family group: William Cornelius, Able Seaman, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, 3 clasps, 1 June 1794, 23 June 1795, Trafalgar (William Cornelius) William Cornelius, Petty Officer, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Trafalgar (Wm. Cornelius) renamed in contemporary engraved serif capitals; China 1842 (William Cornelius, Petty Offr. H.M.S. Modeste); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (Wilm. Cornelius, Quar. Mas. H.M.S...
Hammer Price: £10,000
New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1860 to 1861 (George Marey, Stoker, Colonl. Ship Victoria) officially impressed naming, light contact marks and wear, otherwise very fine and very rare £4000-5000
The Light Brigade charger’s medal awarded to Sergeant John Pyne, 17th Lancers, who was wounded at Balaklava Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Corpl. J. Pyne, 17th Lancers) officially impressed naming, the first and third clasps rather crude by comparison and possibly contemporary copies, light contact marks, otherwise better than very fine £4000-5000
Hammer Price: £9,500
The Peninsula War decorations awarded to Colonel Henry Thornton, C.B., 40th Foot Army Gold Cross 1806-14, for Talavera, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (Lt. Colonel H. Thornton, 40th Foot) fitted with gold ribbon buckle, naming restored, see note below; Field Officer’s Gold Medal 1808-14, for Talavera (Major Henry Thornton); Military General Service 1793-1814, 4 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera, Busaco, Pyrenees (H. Thornton, C.B. Major, 36th Ft.) extremely fine (3) £8000-10000
Hammer Price: £9,000
A fine Great War submariner’s D.S.M. group of five awarded to Chief Engine Room Artificer 2 R. E. Jupp, Royal Navy: decorated for his prominent part in the E. 11’s famous patrol in the Sea of Marmora in May 1915, he was nonetheless reduced from Chief E.R.A. to C.E.R.A. 2 by Nasmith, V.C., for swearing at his No. 1, Lieutenant D’Oyly-Hughes - in normal circumstances Jupp’s punishment might have been far greater, but Nasmith was acutely aware of his value to the E. 11’s operational future Di...
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 3 clasps, Lissa, Pelagosa 29 Novr. 1811, Syria (William Tuckey) scratch in reverse field, otherwise nearly extremely fine £4000-5000
Hammer Price: £8,500
The Defence of Legations medal to Private J. G. Howard, Royal Marine Light Infantry, who was commended for his services at Pekin and received his medal from the King China 1900, 1 clasp, Defence of Legations (Pvte. J. G. Howard, R.M.L.I.) official correction to first initial, otherwise nearly extremely fine £5000-6000
Hammer Price: £8,000
The unique R.N.L.I. Medal and American Cross of Honour pair awarded to Sydney James Harris, Coxswain Superintendent of the Gorleston Lifeboats, in Norfolk, the only man to have been awarded the silver medal five times Royal National Lifeboat Institution, E.VII.R., silver, 4 clasps, Second Service, Third Service, Fourth Service, Fifth Service (Mr Sidney Harris, voted 9th February 1905), rev. of clasps respectively engraved, ‘Voted 14th Dec. 1905’, ‘Voted 11th Nov. 1902’, ‘Voted 12th Sept. 1...
Hammer Price: £7,800
A ‘1920 Irish Troubles’ Constabulary Medal (Ireland) to Constable William Dunphy, Royal Irish Constabulary Constabulary Medal (Ireland), 2nd type, ‘Reward of Merit Royal Irish Constabulary’, reverse inscribed, ‘Constable William Dunphy, 64671, 1920’, with straight bar swivel suspension and silver brooch bar, good very fine £1000-1200
Hammer Price: £7,200
Military General Service 1793-1814, 10 clasps, Martinique, Albuhera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (John Roberts, 23rd Foot) edge bruising, very fine £2500-3000
Hammer Price: £6,800
The Cruys family group: William Cruys, Master at Arms, Royal Navy, late Royal Marines Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (William Cruys); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (William Cruys, Mas. at Arms, H.M.S. Queen 27 Yrs.); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, bronze William H. Cruys, Boatswain, Royal Navy, who won the Sardinian Medal for Bravery with the Naval Brigade at Sebastopol New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated, 1845 to 1846 (W. H. Cruys, A.B. H.M.S. Osprey); Crimea 1...
Hammer Price: £5,500
Waterloo 1815, 3 engraved clasps on ribbon, Waterloo, Genappe, Quatre Bras (Corp. William Kibble, 1st Reg. Dragoon Guards) with replacement silver swivel straight-bar suspension, edge bruising, contact marks, fine £1400-1800
An extremely rare and well-documented Great War Serbian Karageorge group of seven awarded to Chief Master Mechanic W. Jones, Royal Air Force, late “Balloon Section” Royal Engineers, and the 30th entrant on the strength of the newly established Royal Flying Corps: having won a “mention” in October 1914 for services with No. 3 Squadron out in France, he was awarded his Serbian decoration for like services with No. 30 Squadron in Mesopotamia 1915-17 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, C...
Hammer Price: £5,300
Pair: Corporal Alexander Niven, 92nd Highlanders, who was severely wounded in the Peninsula and again at Waterloo Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Fuentes D’Onor, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (A. Niven, Corpl. 92nd Foot); Waterloo 1815 (Corp. Alexander Niven, 1st Bat. 92nd Highlanders) fitted with M.G.S. style suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £3000-3500
Hammer Price: £5,200
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Trafalgar (James Easman) edge bruising and polished, therefore good fine £3500-4000
Four: Captain Francis Stirling, Royal Navy, commander of H.M.S. Thistle, and in command of the Naval Brigade landed from Thistle and Fly during the Perak campaign, later lost with all hands when the training ship Atalanta disappeared without trace off Bermuda in February 1880 Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued; China1857-60, 1 clasp, Canton 1857, unnamed as issued; India General Service 1854-94, 1 clasp, Perak (Comm...
Hammer Price: £4,700
Four: Captain C. K. Purvis, Royal Navy, in command of the ‘armoured train’ in the action at Kassassin when he was severely wounded Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Midshipman C. K. Purvis, H.M.S. Fawn) officially impressed naming; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Alexandria 11th July (Lieut. C. K. Purvis, R.N. H.M.S. “Penelope”); Order of Osmanieh, 4th class breast badge, silver-gilt, gold and enamels; Khedive’s Star 1882, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine a...
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Persia (M. H. Jones, Midn. Semiramis. S.F.) extremely fine £2500-3000
Hammer Price: £4,400
A C.B. group of nine to Colonel Sir Arthur Davidson, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., King’s Royal Rifle Corps The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, some damage and loss to obverse and reverse central motif, with silver-gilt buckle on ribbon; Jubilee 1897, silver; Coronation 1902, silver; Coronation 1911, silver; Afghanistan 1878-80, 2 clasps, Ahmed Khel, Kandahar (Lieut., 2/60th Foot); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (Lieut., 2/60 Foot); Eg...
Military General Service 1793-1814, 9 clasps, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (Peter Burke, 88th Foot) edge bruising, very fine £2500-3000
Hammer Price: £4,200
A Boer War D.S.O. group of six to Captain H. G. Bryant, Shropshire Light Infantry, who died of wounds on 1 May 1915 Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with brooch bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg (Lieut., 2/Shrop. L.I.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Cpt., D.S.O., Shrop. L.I.); 1914-15 Star (Capt., D.S.O., Shrops. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); together with a mounted set of th...
Hammer Price: £4,100
A fine Great War D.C.M., M.M. and Bar group of four awarded to Sergeant W. A. Nowers, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was thrice decorated for his gallantry as a stretcher bearer on the Western Front in 1918 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (495412 Sjt. W. A. Nowers, M.M., R.A.M.C.); Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (495412 Sjt. W. A. Nowers, 2/2 H.C.F.A., R.A.M.C. - T.F.); British War and Victory Medals (8055 Sjt., R.A.M.C.), generally very fine (4) £2000-2500
Five: Lieutenant W. H. Rason, Royal Navy, killed whilst in command of the gun-boat Plover at the unsuccessful attack on the Peiho Forts in June 1859 India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Hector Rason, Midn. “Fox”); Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Mate W. H. Rason, H.M.S. Leopard) contemporary engraved naming; China 1857-60, 1 clasp, Canton 1857, unnamed as issued, suspension claw loose on this; Turkish Crimea, Sardinian issue, unnamed, fitted...
Hammer Price: £3,900
The C.B. group of five awarded to Major-General H. C. Money, Royal Marine Light Infantry, who distinguished himself in the action at Kassasin when he captured two of the enemy’s Krupp guns The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, complete with ribbon buckle; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Lieut. H. C. Money, R.M.L.I.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Lt. Colonel H. C. Money, R.M.L.I.); C...
An extremely rare Burma Gallantry Medal awarded to Havildar Nangzing San Naw, Burma Regiment Burma Gallantry Medal, G.VI.R. (61325 Havildar Nangzing San Naw, The Burma Regt.), one or two official corrections, contact marks and edge nicks, otherwise very fine £2500-2800
Hammer Price: £3,800
Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Orthes (Dennis Larazy, 88th Foot) some edge bruising, very fine £2000-2500
Hammer Price: £3,700
A Great War D.S.O. group of five to Lieutenant-Colonel W. St. J. S. Davidson, Australian Field Artillery Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; 1914-15 Star (Major W. St. J. S. Davidson, 4 F.A.B. A.I.F.); British War and Victory Medal, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col. W. St. J. S. Davidson, A.I.F.), mounted court style for wear; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Major W. J. S. Davidson, A.F.A., 3rd M.D. 6.10.17...
Hammer Price: £3,400
Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Badajoz, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse (William Moffit, 88th Foot) heavy edge bruising, about very fine £1200-1400
Hammer Price: £3,300
A fine Great War Gallipoli operations M.C. group of nine awarded to Major Sir N. H. P. Whitley, Manchester Regiment, who was awarded the Order of El Nahda for his services in Palestine and Arabia 1916-18, initially as a ‘2nd Class Agent’ attached to the Intelligence Corps and latterly on the Staff of H.Q., Desert Mounted Corps: a talented sportsman who captained the England lacrosse team and represented the U.K. in the Olympics, he was knighted for his subsequent career as a Chief Justice in...
Three: Lieutenant W. C. Reid, Royal Navy Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 3 clasps, Alexandria 11th July, Tel-El-Kebir, The Nile 1884-85 (Lieut. W. C. Reid, R.N. H.M.S. “Monarch”); Order of the Medjidie, 4th clasps breast badge, silver, gold and enamel, some chips to crescent suspension; Khedive’s Star 1882, good very fine (3) £350-400
Hammer Price: £3,200
The Knight Bachelor group of seven to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Humphery, Commanding Officer of the Surrey (Queen Mary’s Regiment) Yeomanry Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, replacement convex reverse with pin-fitting; 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col. Sir, Surr. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (Lt. Col. Sir); Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed; France, Legion of Honour, Officer’s breast badge, gold and enamel, rosette on ribbon; Belgium, O...
New Zealand Cross, in silver and gold, engraved ‘specimen’ in reverse centre, with gold buckle on ribbon, in its original Goldsmiths & Silversmiths, London fitted case, extremely fine and rare £3000-4000
Hammer Price: £3,100
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