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27 & 28 February 2019
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 3 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow, Central India (Corpl. J, Chettle. 2nd Bn. Mily. Train) unofficial rivets, nearly extremely fine £420-£480
Hammer Price: £650
Afghanistan 1878-80, 3 clasps, Peiwar Kotal, Charasia, Kandahar (Captain G. T. Pretyman. R.A.) the obverse a little polished, otherwise good very fine £600-£800
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (T, McGuire. 2nd Bn. Mily. Train) suspension post re-pinned, edge bruising and contact wear, otherwise nearly very fine £380-£420
Hammer Price: £600
17 & 18 July 2019
A Great War 1918 ‘Mesopotamia’ M.B.E., Second War Indian Police Medal group of nine awarded to Lieutenant Colonel M. G. O’Leary, Indian Army, who was three times Mentioned in Despatches The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; Indian Police Medal, G.VI.R., for Distinguished Conduct (M. G. O’Leary M.B.E., L.A. Commandant, Eastern Frontier Rifles. Bengal.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut....
Hunza Nagar Badge 1891, the reverse impressed, ‘Gurney & Son, Woodstock Street, London’, and additionally engraved in Urdu script ‘To a Zealous Soldier’, complete with reverse fitments and split pin for wearing, very fine £400-£500
Hammer Price: £550
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Sapper Jas. Tuckerman, Royal Engrs.) nearly very fine £360-£400
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Delhi, Lucknow (Michl. Cohey. 1st. Eurn. Bengal Fusrs.) good very fine £360-£440
India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Malakand 1897 (1334 Sapper Durugan Q.O. Madras S. & M.) toned, good very fine and rare £500-£600
Four: Lieutenant-Colonel O. H. Eliot, Kashmir Rifles, who served in East Africa with the Punjab Volunteer Maxim Gun Company and was three times Mentioned in Despatches; he later served as District Superintendent of Police, Central Provinces 1914-15 Star (2/Lt. O. H. Eliot, I.A.R.O. Attd. Vol. Max. Gun Co.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. O. H. Eliot.); Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Voltr. O. H. Eliot. Nagpur Voltr. Rfls.) stain to obverse of...
Three: Private J. Darling, 90th Light Infantry Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Defence of Lucknow, Lucknow (J. Darling, 90th. Lt. Infy.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, pierced with ring suspension, light contact marks and minor edge bruising, very fine (3) £600-£800
Hammer Price: £500
A rare Crimea Medal awarded to E. Walkinshaw, Ottoman Medical Service, who died of cholera at the port of Eupatoria, Crimea in August 1855 Crimea 1854-56, 2 clasps, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Dispenser Edwn. Walkinshaw. Ott. Med. Staff.) contemporarily engraved naming, minor edge bruising and contact marks, very fine £300-£400
Pair: Winifred, Lady Willcocks, the wife of General Sir James Willcocks, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., D.S.O. British War Medal (Lady Willcocks.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued, together with a lady’s bow riband from the Delhi Durbar Medal, extremely fine (2) £300-£400
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (W, Tuppin. 2nd Bn. Mily. Train) good very fine £500-£550
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (Sapper Jas. Vercoe, Royal Engrs.) suspension post repaired, edge bruising, nearly very fine £400-£500
Hammer Price: £480
Afghanistan 1878-80, 2 clasps, Charasia, Kabul (Major H, S Marshall, 28th Ben: N:I:) contained in an old hinged-front display box, extremely fine £400-£500
Hammer Price: £440
Eight: Chief Engineer E. J. Davies, Mercantile Marine and Royal Indian Marine, who in the course of an eventful career survived being torpedoed and sunk by enemy submarines in both World Wars. He served during the Great War with the Red Sea Patrol on T. E. Lawrence’s Supply Ship, the Hardinge, and in the Second World War his ship, Vera Radcliffe, was scuttled to become part of the D-Day breakwater complex off Juno Beach British War Medal 1914-20 (Eng. Lt. E. J. Davies. R.I.M.);...
The Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration awarded to Colonel Sir Vivian Gabriel, who had a long, distinguished, and varied career as an Indian Civil Servant, a Volunteer Officer, and finally a Courtier, during which period he amassed a remarkable total of at least 25 orders, decorations, and medals Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse engraved ‘Maj. E. V. Gabriel, 2/17th B.B. & C.I. Rly. Bn. I.D.F.’, good very fine £200-£300
Hammer Price: £420
Six: Lieutenant-Colonel G. K. Gowers, 5th Jats, Indian Army, who was wounded in Java in late 1945 India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (2-Lt. G. K. Gowers. 1-4 Bombay Grs.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46 (Lt. Col. G. K. Gowers. I.A.) good very fine (6) £240-£280
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow (Serjt. Alexr. Ramsey, 13th. Bn. R. Arty.) edge bruising, very fine £400-£500
Hammer Price: £400
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Delhi (Q.M. Serg. Wm. F. Cogan, Ben. Sap. & Miners.) naming officially impressed in a slightly later style, nearly extremely fine £500-£600
Five: Corporal F. J. Grice, Punjab Volunteer Maxim Gun Company 1914-15 Star (No. 1517 Pte. F. J. Grice, Vol. Maxim Gun Coy.); British War Medal 1914-20 (42 Cpl. F. S. [sic] Grice. Vol. Mach. Gun. Coy.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (42 Cpl. F. S. [sic] Grice. Vol. M. G. Coy.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (F. J. Grice Survey Party.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, minor contact marks, good very fine (5) £200-£240
Six: Lieutenant A. W. Filling, 21st (Empress of India’s) Lancers, later Indian Unattached List, who charged with B Squadron at Shabkadr on 5 September 1915, an action that saw the Regiment’s Colonel killed and Private Hull’s gallantry rewarded with the Victoria Cross, and later died while serving with the Royal Pioneer Corps in 1944 1914-15 Star (L-2396. Cpl. A. Filling, 21st. Lrs.); British War and Victory Medals (L-2396 Cpl. A. Filling. 21-Lrs.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45;...
Five: Corporal R. D. Fordham, Lucknow Volunteer Rifles, who served in East Africa with the Punjab Volunteer Maxim Gun Company 1914-15 Star (No. 30 Cpl. R. D. Fordham. Lkn. Vol. Rfls.); British War Medal 1914-20 (30 Cpl. R. D. Fordham. Vol. M.G.C.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (30 Cpl. R. D. Fordham. Vol. M. G. Coy.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Trooper R. D. Fordham, 10 N.T. Coy. I.D.F.) good very fine (5) £200-£240
Hammer Price: £380
Eight: Lieutenant R. L. Herbert, 61st Pioneers, late Punjab Volunteer Maxim Gun Company 1914-15 Star (No. 3677 Sergt. R. L. Herbert. Vol. M. G. Coy.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. L. Herbert.); War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Pte. R. L. Herbert. Cawnpore, A.F.I.); Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., India (Sjt. R. L. Herbert. Cawnpore Rif., A.F.I.) rank officially corrected on last; very fine...
Three: Gunner W. Cowie, Calcutta Artillery Volunteers 1914-15 Star (No. 85 Gnr. W. Cowie. 8/Cal. Fd. Bty.); British War Medal 1914-20 (85 Gnr. W. Cowie. Cal. Vol. Bty.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (85 Gnr. W. Cowie. 8 Cal. Field Bty.); together with a German East Africa silver coin converted into an identity disc, with the reverse erased and impressed ‘85 C.V.B. Gunr. W. Cowie. Pres’; and a hallmarked silver watch-fob, with the initials ‘W.C.’ on one side, and ‘O.G.’ on the other,...
Hammer Price: £360
India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (Comdr. Beg Ali Punyal Levy) official correction to name, slight edge bruising and contact marks, about very fine and rare £200-£300
Four: Sergeant P. C. David, Punjab Volunteer Maxim Gun Company 1914-15 Star (No.3 Srgt. P. C. David, Vol. Mach. Gun Coy.); British War Medal 1914-20 (3 Sgt. P. C. David, Mac. Gun Coy.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (3 Sgt P. C. David. 1 Pjb. Vol. M. G. Co.); Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Sergt. P. C. David, 3/Pjb. Rfls. I.D.F.) lacquered, nearly extremely fine (4) £160-£200
Hammer Price: £320
India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (Mathura Dass. Clark to Inspg: Officer P.I.S. Infy.) edge bruise, otherwise nearly very fine and very scarce £200-£300
Hammer Price: £300
Three: Gunner O. T. Stephenson, Volunteer Artillery Battery 1914-15 Star (No. 21 Gnr. O. T. Stephenson. Vol. Arty. Bty.); British War and Victory Medals (21 Gnr. O. Stephenson. Vol. Arty. Bty.) number corrected on both BWM and VM, very fine and rare to unit (3) £100-£140
Hammer Price: £280
A post-War 1952 O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Colonel R. M. Newton-King, Indian Army, whose long career saw him serve during the Great War in Mesopotamia and as one of the last British officers serving in India after Independence - his O.B.E. was one of the very last Imperial awards given to a member of the Indian Army The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. R. M. Newton...
India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895, the edge inscribed ‘Struck at H.Ms. Mint Calcutta 29th March 1897’, extremely fine and rare £80-£120
Hammer Price: £200
India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Chitral 1895 (Sepoy Dadu (3) Hunza Levy) copy clasp, repaired at one side, otherwise good very fine £140-£180
Hammer Price: £140
Pair: Major J. J. Muir, 1st, late 49th, Madras Native Infantry, who died while serving with the Madras Staff Corps at Bangalore in 1871 Indian General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Ensn. J. J. Muir. 49th. Regt. M.N.I.); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Lt. J. J. Muir, 1st. Madras N. I.) contact marks, very fine (2) £700-£900
£700–£900
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