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India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Mohmand 1933 (3) (12031 Sep. Sham Singh, 3-11 Sikh R.; 11828 Sep. Bakhshish Singh, 3-11 Sikh R.; 10931 Rect. Gurdial Singh, 5-11 Sikh R.), the first with attempted erasure of ‘Sikh’ and the last with re-riveted suspension claw, otherwise generally very fine (3) £80-100
£80–£100
India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, North West Frontier 1930-31, Mohmand 1933 (8739 Sep. Pashaura Singh, 1-11 Sikh R.), minor official correction to unit, wired clasp rivets, a little polished, otherwise very fine £30-40
£30–£40
Notification of Commissions Document, dated, ‘War Office, 7th October 1801’, ‘Gentlemen, His Majesty having signified His Pleasure to me that commissions be presented to Him for the following Gentlemen to be Officers as undermentioned ...’ 22 names follow; the document signed by ‘C. Yorke’, ‘Secretary to the Right Honble. Lord Pelham, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State’, some discoloration and fold marks, generally good condition £30-40
Hammer Price: £20
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
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.,...
The Society of the Golden Cord, Christian Million Newspaper, Medal of Honour, obverse: sailor at the bow of a boat throwing a life-belt to a drowning man, engraved, ‘Joseph Kirkup’; reverse: a knot in the form of a shamrock, ‘Established May 1885’, 32mm., silvered base metal, pierced for suspension, fitted with silver watch chain, edge bruising and buckled, nearly very fine £30-40
General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Kurdistan, Iraq (2252 Sepoy Thaman Singh, 45-Sikhs), good fine £30-40
British War Medal 1914-20 (11952 Pte. G. Morris, Welsh R.) suspension slightly slack, slight edge bruising, very fine £25-35
Hammer Price: £25
School of Military Engineering Fowke’s Medal, obv. high relief uniformed bust of Francis Fowke left; rev. within a stylized wreath of laurel, ‘Memorial Medal established by the officers of Royal Engineers as an Architectural Prize in the Corps’ (No.6311 2nd Corporal H. Osborn, R.E. 1906) 58mm., 7mm. thick, bronze, in case of issue, ref. B.H.M. 2940, Eimer 1581, extremely fine £60-80
School of Military Engineering Haynes Medal 1898, by F. Bowcher, obverse: bust of the officer facing right, ‘Captain A. E. Haynes, R.E., 1861-96’; a bridged chasm in high relief, ‘Field Fortification S.M.E.’ (No.11409 Sapper W. J. Edwardes, R.E., 1903), 56mm., bronze, in fitted case of issue, nearly extremely fine £30-40
School of Military Engineering Haynes Medal 1898, by F. Bowcher, obverse: bust of the officer facing right, ‘Captain A. E. Haynes, R.E., 1861-96’; a bridged chasm in high relief, ‘Field Fortification S.M.E.’ (No.13735 Sapper J. W. Barnett, R.E., 1907), 56mm., bronze, in fitted case, nearly extremely fine £30-40
School of Military Engineering Haynes Medal 1898, by F. Bowcher, obverse: bust of the officer facing right, ‘Captain A. E. Haynes, R.E., 1861-96’; a bridged chasm in high relief, ‘Field Fortification S.M.E.’ (Sapper J. Cavill, 80 Party A. Coy. T.B.R.E.), 56mm., bronze, good very fine £30-40
School of Military Engineering Haynes Medal 1898, by F. Bowcher, obverse: bust of the officer facing right, ‘Captain A. E. Haynes, R.E., 1861-96’; a bridged chasm in high relief, ‘Field Fortification S.M.E.’ (2029385 Spr. A. Slade, 1st Fieldworks 169 Party “A” Coy., R.E.), 56mm., bronze, nearly extremely fine £30-40
School of Military Engineering Haynes Medal 1898, by F. Bowcher, obverse: bust of the officer facing right, ‘Captain A. E. Haynes, R.E., 1861-96’; a bridged chasm in high relief, ‘Field Fortification S.M.E.’ (No.120799 Sapper A. Stewart, 270 Party), 56mm., bronze, good very fine £30-40
School of Military Engineering Haynes Medal 1898, by F. Bowcher, obverse: bust of the officer facing right, ‘Captain A. E. Haynes, R.E., 1861-96’; a bridged chasm in high relief, ‘Field Fortification S.M.E.’ (No.37314 Sapper W. R. Pope, 368 Party), 56mm., bronze, good very fine £30-40
India Independence Medal 1947 (7) (3334256 Sep. Mangal Singh, Sikh R.; 2329660 Sep. Balmant Singh, Sikh R.; 3333656 Sep. Gian Singh, Sikh R.; 3331637 Sep. Teja Singh, Sikh R.; 3334894 Swpr. Sugga, Sikh R.; 3337242 Sep. Lal Singh, Sikh R.; 3338264 L./Nk. Kartar Singh, Sikh R.) very fine and better (7) £25-35
Pair: Havildar Piara Singh, Sikh Regiment Videsh Seva Medal 1960, 1 clasp (in Hindi), Sanyukt Arab Ganarajya (3347338 Hav., Sikh R.); U.N. Medal, U.N.E.F. ribbon, mounted as worn, good very fine (2) £25-35
1st East Riding Artillery Volunteers’ Medal, obv. head of Victoria left; rev. crowned wheel with crossed cannon, ‘Enrolled December 13th 1859, Burlington’, unnamed, 39mm., white metal, pierced with ring suspension, some contact marks, nearly very fine £40-50
Silver Presentation Box, for tobacco ?, by Hamiltons, Calcutta, oval, 96 x 70 x 18mm. (approx.), hallmarks for Chester 1911, lid inscribed, ‘To Capt. G. H. Phillips from some officers of the Black Watch, Jan. 1913’, slight dents, good condition £30-40
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...
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
[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
Afghanistan, People’s Democratic Republic, Medal for Good Conduct in Military Service (20), ‘single star’ type, for 5 years, silver base metal with red enamel centre, mounted ‘Russian’ style on incorrect ribbon, extremely fine (20) £30-40
Greece, Medal of Agricultural Merit 1937 (2), 1st Class gilt; another, 2nd Class, silver; Long Service Medal for N.C.O’s. 1937 (2), 1st Class, gilt metal, on ‘Air Force’ ribbon; another, 2nd Class, silvered metal, on ‘Army’ ribbon, all unnamed, nearly extremely fine (4) £30-40
Pair: Private J. Walsh, 9th Lancers British War and Victory Medals (L-12018 Pte., 9-Lrs.), the first with re-pinned slack suspension, edge bruising, otherwise generally very fine (2) £40-60
Life Saving Medal, engraved cross, rev. inscribed, ‘R.H.S. John Richard Herring for Life Saving on Land and in Water 1909’, 30mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1908, ring suspension, very fine £40-60
British War Medal 1914-20 (Major R. Des C. Stevens) edge bruising and polished, about very fine £30-40
Pair: Sepoy Hazara Singh, 2nd Battalion, 11th Sikh Regiment India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (11005 Sep. Hazara Singh, 2-11 Sikh R.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (11005 Sepoy Hazura Singh, 2-11 Sikh R.), the first with minor official correction to name, contact wear and a little polished, about very fine or better (2) £40-60
Hammer Price: £30
School of Military Engineering Haynes Medal 1898, by F. Bowcher, obverse: bust of the officer facing right, ‘Captain A. E. Haynes, R.E., 1861-96’; a bridged chasm in high relief, ‘Field Fortification S.M.E.’ (Lieut. R. Hamilton, R.E., 1907), attempted erasure of name, 56mm., bronze, in fitted case of issue, good very fine except as stated £40-50
Army Medical School Parkes Memorial Medal, by J.S. & A.B. Wyon, obverse: head facing right, ‘Edmund Alexander Parkes, B.1819 - D.1876’; reverse: laurel wreath, ‘Army Medical School, Hygiene; Parkes Memorial Medal’, (M. Louis Hughes, Winter Session, 1889-90), 51mm., bronze, slight edge bruising to reverse, nearly extremely fine £40-50
Army Medical School Martin Memorial Medal 1876, obverse: shield bearing coat of arms, lion above, ‘In Memory of Sir James Ranald Martin, C.B.’; reverse: ‘Army Medical School, Prize for Military Medicine, Founded 1876’ (Lieutenant G. E. Charles, I.M.S., 1901), 35mm., silver-gilt, slight edge bruising / test marks, good very fine £40-50
Sainya Seva Medal 1960 (4), 1 clasp (in Hindi) Jammoo and Kashmir (3348613 Sep. Sawaran Singh, Sikh R.; 3347458 Hav.-Ck. Kartar Singh, Sikh R.; 3334850 Sep. Joginder Singh, Sikh R.; 3347064 Hav. Bakhtaur Singh, Sikh R.); Videsh Seva Medal 1960, 1 clasp (in Hindi), Sanyukt Arab Ganarajya (3335521 Sep. Harnam Singh, Sikh R.); Raksha Medal 1965 (3339194 Sep. Piara Singh); Sangram Medal 1971 (3342330 Chm. Mewa Singh, Sikh R.) very fine (7) £30-50
U.S.A., Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts (?), Long Service Medal, bronze cross by Tiffany & Co., 44 x 43mm., obv. within a wreath of oak and laurel leaves, ‘7’ and ‘Long and Faithful Service’, rev. stamped ‘341’ and engraved, ‘Capt. Franas W. Bacon, 1885’, complete with bronze brooch bar, ‘Pro Patria et Gloria’, good very fine £40-60
Pair: Able Seaman S. Edmonds, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve British War and Victory Medals (R.6102 A.B., R.N.V.R.) good very fine (2) £40-50
The mounted group of three miniature dress medals attributed to Private E. G. West, Lincolnshire Regiment, Queen’s Sudan 1896-98; Delhi Durbar 1911; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps (loose), Atbara, Omderman 1898 (sic), mounted as worn, first detached, good very fine (3) £30-40
City of Philadelphia Inquirer Hero Award, struck shield-shaped medal, obv, helmeted female figure draped in classical garments holding a spear and holding forth a civic crown above a tall building and coat-of-arms, at her feet, ‘Distinguished Service’; rev. inscription, partly engraved, ‘Inquirer Hero Award awarded to P. J. Corr for Distinguished Service by the City of Philadelphia’, 42 x 35mm., bronze, ring suspension, good very fine £20-30
Life Saving Medal, by Dieges & Clust, obv. within a laurel wreath, two people in open water; rev. inscribed, ‘Jack Coleman rescued Stanley Cookson, Sept-5-1926 Horse Shoe Lake’, 30mm., bronze, ring suspension, very fine £40-60
France, Order of Agricultural Merit, 22 x 17mm., silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with paste stones on the arms and apex, nearly extremely fine £40-60
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