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A contemporary coloured print of “Peggy”, the Great War Bull Dog mascot of H.M.S. Iron Duke, from the original drawing by Georgina Shaw Baker, mounted on cardboard, 29cm. by 39cm., corners a little scuffed, otherwise in good condition £40-60
Hammer Price: £45
Edward Prince of Wales Visit to Bombay 1921, oval bronze medal, obv. head of Edward Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII), surmounted by Prince of Wales’ feathers; rev. inscribed, ‘Visit of His Royal Highness, Bombay, November 1921’, ref. Puddester 921.3, very fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £35
Edward Prince of Wales Visit to Patna 1921, circular bronze medal, 41mm., obv. head of Edward Prince of Wales; rev. inscribed, ‘Visit of His Royal Highness, Patna 22nd Dec. 1921’, pierced for suspension, ref. Puddester 921.4, nearly very fine £80-100
Hammer Price: £80
Bethlem Royal Hospital Medico-Psychological Association Medal, silver, oval, obv. inscribed, ‘Florence Rose Dawson’, with buckle on ribbon, in Baddeley Brothers, London case of issue, extremely fine; Royal Free Hospital Nurses League Badge, silver and enamel, hallmarked, unnamed, slight enamel damage, about very fine (2) £60-80
Hammer Price: £100
Earl of Willingdon’s Viceroy Presentation Medal 1931, (M. Rahim Bakhsh, Head Driver Government House Peshawar, April 1932) 51mm., silver, fitted with claw and swivel ring suspension, ref. Puddester 931.1, very fine £100-150
Hammer Price: £130
Royal Horse Artillery Battery Merit Medals, three examples in Sterling Silver ‘G’ Battery 1934 Sgt R Gorton ‘K’ Battery 1930/31 Gunner Bevan ‘K’ Battery 1935/1936 unnamed; together with a 15ct gold and enamel medal for the ‘1/1st Essex HBRGA E.Coast 1914/15 France Belgium 1916/19’ KC cap badge style centre engraved on the reverse ‘VF’ Birmingham 1919; a gold coloured medal internal merit medal for the 1st LVRA (Lanarkshire) presented by Capt J Bruce-Kingsmill RA 1896 and...
Three: W. C. Corben, Southern Railway St. John Ambulance Association Southern Railway St. John Ambulance Association Medal (3), by J.T. & Co., 3 clasps, 21 years, 25 Years, 30 Years (William C. Corben, 1944), silver-gilt, hallmarks for Birmingham 1947; another, 1 clasp, 14 Years (William C. Corben, 1937), silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1936; another, 1 clasp, 7 Years (William Corben, 1930), bronze, minor edge bruising, good very fine and better (3) £70-90
Hammer Price: £95
Royal Canadian Air Force pilot’s flying log book appertaining to Flight Sergeant R. J. Roper, Royal Canadian Air Force, covering the period January 1944 to January 1948, cloth spine detached, otherwise in good condition £60-80
Menu Cards (2), ‘Victory Day 8th June 1946, a Dinner given to the holders of the Victoria Cross by the Directors of the News of the World at the Dorchester Hotel, London, W1’, 228 x 152mm., inside bearing the signatures and entries of a number of V.C. recipients in pencil and ink: ‘R. F. J. Hayward, Lt. Col., V.C., M.C.’; 1st King’s Own R.L. Regt. A. Halton, V.C.’; ‘J. Halliwell, V.C., Lanc. Fusr.’; ‘J. Moyney, V.C., Irish Guards’; ‘Leonard Cheshire, R.A.F.’; ‘Sgt....
A coloured print of a Westland Lysander of No. 161 (Special Duties) Squadron from the painting by S. T. Gleed, signed and dated by Dorothy Pickard, the widow of Group Captain P. C. “Pick” Pickard, D.S.O., D.F.C., on 20 September 1990; together with photocopies of the wartime flying log books of Pickard and his navigator, Flight Lieutenant A. Broadley, D.S.O., D.F.C., D.F.M., up until their death in action in the Amiens raid in February 1944, these bound in blue buckram with gilt titles,...
Hammer Price: £50
A seemingly complete photocopied record of all the operational sorties carried out by Wing Commander A. Warburton, D.S.O., D.F.C. in the 1939-45 War, being copies taken from relevant O.R.Bs for the period September 1940 to October 1943, together with copies of the recommendations for his numerous tally of decorations - one of the great names to emerge from the ranks of the R.A.F., particularly for his work operating out of Malta, he won a Bar to his D.S.O. and 2 Bars to his D.F.C., in...
Hammer Price: £25
A copy Victoria Cross, of better quality than present day specimens and of some age, together with a miniature pin-backed badge of the same, very fine (2) £60-80
Auten, V.C., R.N.R., Lieutenant-Commander Harold, “Q” Boat Adventures, the exploits of the famous mystery ships by a “Q” Boat Commander, Herbert Jenkins Ltd., London, 1919, 289pp.; The Tenedos Times, a monthly journal of the Mediterranean Destroyer Flotilla during the early part of the war, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1917, Vol.I-VII, 144pp., both with original hard back covers, good condition (2) £25-35
Hammer Price: £40
Holiday, Gilbert, Horses & Soldiers, A Collection of Pictures, a subscribed edition published privately by Gale & Polden Ltd, Aldershot [1938], 75 plates from Holiday’s paintings and drawings, including 21 in colour, original grey cloth, good condition £50-70
£50–£70
King, Commander William, The Stick and the Stars, Adventurer’s Club, London, 1958, 192pp.; Warrens, C.E.T. & Benson, J., Will Not We Fear, the story of H.M. Submarine “Seal”, Harrap & Co. Ltd., 228pp., these two hardbound with worn dustcovers; Young, Edward, One of Our Submarines, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 8th impression, 1953, 316pp., hardbound; [H.M.S.O.], His Majesty’s Submarines, 1945, 64pp., booklet, good condition (4) £20-30
Hammer Price: £20
Macdonell, R. & Macaulay, M., A History of the 4th Prince of Wales’s Own Gurkha Rifles, Vol. 1 1857-1937, Blackwood & Sons, 1940, xvi, 433pp.; copy no. 125 of 250; another, Vol. 2, 1857-1937, Blackwood & Sons, 1940, vi, 247pp., with maps, copy no. 125 of 250, these belonging to ‘R. I. Kimble’; Mackay, Col. J. N., A History of the 4th Prince of Wales’s Own Gurkha Rifles, Vol. 3 1938-1948, Blackwood & Sons, 1952, xi, 620, with maps, green cloth with dustcovers, some slight signs of...
Hammer Price: £480
Mars, Alastair, Unbroken, The Story of a Submarine, Frederick Muller Ltd., London, Third Impression, 224pp.; Mars, Alastair, H.M.S. Thule Intercepts, Elek Books Ltd., London, 1956, 241pp.; Hart, Sydney, Discharged Dead, The wartime adventures of a submarine stoker, White Lion Pub. Ltd., 1976 edition, 208pp.; Robertson, Terence, The Ship with Two Captains, Evans Bros. Lts., London, 192pp., all hard bound, all except second with worn dustcovers, good condition (4) £20-30
Maynard, Major-General Sir C., The Murmansk Venture, Hoddre & Stoughton, London, xii, 322., plus map, red cloth; Hesketh-Prichard, Major H., Sniping in France, Hutchinson & Co., London, 269pp., red boards; [The Pictorial Newspaper Co.], Canada in Khaki, a tribute to the officers and men now serving in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1917, 172pp., illustrated, fairly good and better condition (3) £30-50
Raleigh, Sir Walter / Jones, H.A., The War in the Air, being the Story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force, Hamish Hamilton, London, Vol. 1, xix, 489pp.; Vol. 2, xviii, 508pp., both with maps, original cloth and dustcovers; Smith, P. C., Per Mare Per Terram, A History of the Royal Marines, Balfour Books, 191pp., hardback witrh dustcover; Pollen, Arthur H., The Navy in Battle, Chatto & Windus, London, 1919, xx, 371pp, with diagrams, cloth; Scott, R.N., Captain R. F.,...
Roskill, S. W., The War at Sea 1939-1945, 3 volumes, H.M.S.O. publication, Vol. 1 The Defensive, xxii, 664pp.; Vol. 2 The Period of Balance, xvi, 523pp.; Vol. 3 The Offensive, xv, 413pp., all with plates and maps, green cloth, showing a little wear, good condition (3) £60-80
Tavender, I. T., The Distinguished Flying Medal, a Record of Courage, 1918-1982; The Air Force List 1940, ‘Hayward’ reprint; Webb, J. V., Recipients of Bars to the Military Cross 1916-1920; Services of British Army Officers, 1939-1945, 1999 Savannah reprint; Our Heroes ... Officers of Irish Regiments and of Irish Officers of British Regiments, who have fallen in action, 1914-1916, London Stamp Exchange reprint; List of Casualties in South African Field Force, October 1899-March 1900;...
Hammer Price: £70
Whitton, Lieutenant-Colonel F. E., The History of the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)...., Gale & Polden Ltd., Part II The Old Army, xi, 483pp.; Part II The Great War and the Disbandment of the Regiment, vii, 570pp, original cloth, with (torn) dustcovers, very good condition (2) £40-50
Cross & Cockade Great Britain Journal, of the Society of World War I Aero Historians (90), Vol.1, No.1, 1970-Vol.23, No.4, 1992, good condition (90) £200-300
£200–£300
[Imperial War Graves Commission], Naval Memorials 1939-45, bound in four volumes: Chatham; Portsmouth; Plymouth and Lee-on-Solent, Liverpool, Lowestoft, Died on Shore, an excellent resource, blue boards, very good condition (4) £140-180
Hammer Price: £270
[War Office], Army List (6), January 1903; August 1914; October 1914; December 1914; April 1915; April 1918; August 1921; October 1922; April 1923, hardbound, various bindings, good condition (9) £40-60
Hammer Price: £160
[War Office], Army List (13), October 1930; October 1931; February 1932; July 1932; October 1932; October 1933; October 1934; October 1935; October 1936; October 1937; January 1938; October 1938; Half-Yearly January 1938, this with services, hardbound, various bindings, good condition (13) £35-45
[H.M.S.O.], Army List (10), March 1965; Spring 1968, part 1; Spring 1970, part 1; Spring 1975, part 1; 1980, part 1; 1981, part 1; 1982, part 1; 1985, part 1; 1988, part 1; 1990, first two and last hardbound, others with original paper covers, good condition (10) £20-30
Glendining & Co [London], auction catalogues, 1913-86 (64), including C.A. Watters, S.T. Coulter, K.O.N. Foster, G. Lloyd Palmer, A.C. Montagu, R.L. Birkin, G. Hamilton-Smith I and II, T.K. Mackenzie I and II, C.H. Bennett, E.E. Needes I, II and III, H. Kynaston Gaskell, W. Waite-Sanderson I, II and III, Montagu Wace, A.R. Cattley, etc; Sotheby & Co [London], auction catalogues (19), including R.C. Bentley [83]. A good group, many priced £90-120
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