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A Great War St. Quentin September 1918 operations M.M. group of three awarded to Private B. H. Tuckett, 24th Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, a stretcher bearer who continued his gallant work of rescuing the wounded undeterred by incessant machine-gun and shell fire: he was himself wounded or gassed on three separate occasions between October 1917 and September 1918 Military Medal, G.V.R. (6405 Pte. B. H. Tuckett, 24/Aust Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (6405...
Hammer Price: £750
A Great War Hindenburg Line 1918 operations M.M. group of five awarded to Private J. G. Morgan, 30th Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, who displayed conspicuous gallantry in carrying out his duties as a Battalion Runner Military Medal, G.V.R. (4079 Pte. J. G. Morgan, 30/Aust Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (4079 Pte. J. G. Morgan, 30 Bn. A.I.F.); War Medal 1939-45, officially re-impressed ‘32215 J. J. Morgan’; Australian Service Medal 1939-45, officially impre...
Hammer Price: £800
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Private E. S. Sturgis, 26th Battalion Royal Fusiliers Military Medal, G.V.R. (228224 Pte., 26/R. Fus.) good very fine £220-260
Hammer Price: £220
A Great War Jeancourt 1918 operations M.M. group of three awarded to Pte. D. S. Kyle, 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, who was severely wounded in the process of winning his decoration Military Medal, G.V.R. (1118 Pte. D. S. Kyle, 3/Aust. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (1118 Pte. D. S. Kyle, 3 Bn. A.I.F.), polished, thus good fine (3) £600-800
Hammer Price: £1,700
A Great War battle of Messines M.M. group of three awarded to Corporal A. W. Browne, alias ‘A. Cooper’, 42nd Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, who was wounded in the course of winning his decoration Military Medal, G.V.R. (2052 Pte. A. Cooper, 42/Aust. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (2052 Cpl. A. W. Browne, 42 Bn. A.I.F.), good very fine (3) £700-900
A notable Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Corporal W. R. Stevenson, 7th Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, who was wounded on three separate occasions, the last of them necessitating the amputation of his left leg Military Medal, G.V.R. (3268 Cpl. W. R. Stevenson, 7/Aust. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (3268 Cpl. W. R. Stevenson, 22 Bn. A.I.F.), good very fine (3) £800-1000
Hammer Price: £1,300
A poignant Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Private G. Gibson, 7th Battalion Canadian Infantry (1st British Columbia), who suffered the loss of both of his legs after being severely wounded by shellfire near Amiens in August 1918 Military Medal, G.V.R. (524530 Pte. G. Gibson, 7/Br. Col. R.); British War Medal 1914-20, erased naming; Victory Medal 1914-19 (524530 Pte. G. Gibson, 7-Can. Inf.), together with War Amputations of Canada Meritorious Service Medal, silver, unnamed, minor o...
Hammer Price: £1,200
A Great War battle of Amiens 1918 M.M. group of three awarded to Acting Corporal W. C. Evans, 8th Battalion Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment), who was gassed and twice wounded Military Medal, G.V.R. (115520 Pte. - L. Cpl. W. C. Evans, 8/Man. R.); British War and Victory Medals (115520 A. Cpl. W. C. Evans, 8-Can. Inf.), good very fine (3) £400-500
Hammer Price: £950
A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant R. C. Potter, 28th Battalion Canadian Infantry, who was decorated for his gallant deeds during attacks on the enemy positions at Nuns Valley and Cinnebar Trenches in August 1917 Military Medal, G.V.R. (436499 Sjt. R. C. Potter, 28/Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (436499 Sjt. R. C. Potter, 28-Can. Inf.), good very fine (3) £400-500
Hammer Price: £550
A Great War Vimy Ridge operations M.M. group of three awarded to Private D. McDonald, 38th (Ottawa) Battalion Canadian Infantry, who received an immediate award for his gallantry in bringing in wounded on the ridge in April 1917 Military Medal, G.V.R. (410381 Pte. D. McDonald, 38/Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (410381 Pte. D. McDonald, 38-Can. Inf.), generally very fine (3) £800-1000
Hammer Price: £2,400
A rare Second World War M.M. and Bar group of seven awarded to Company Sergeant-Major H. A. Baker, 7th Battalion, Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment: having been first decorated for his gallantry in rescuing a wounded officer in France in May 1940, he added an immediate Bar to his award for his subsequent bravery at Villers Bocage in Normandy on 14 June 1944, when his company became embroiled in a closely fought action with “Tigers” of the much vaunted 2 Panzer Division - six weeks later he...
Hammer Price: £8,000
A fine B.E.F. 1940 M.M. group of six awarded to Lance-Sergeant M. Carragher, 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards, who was decorated for his gallantry during the Battle of Boulogne on 23 May 1940, where his behaviour in action against the advancing German army was described as being ‘as cool as if he had been on the Barrack Square’: subsequently commissioned in the Queen’s Regiment, he also served as a Provost Marshal prior to his retirement as a Major Military Medal, G.VI.R. (2716755 L.-Sjt. M. Ca...
Hammer Price: £1,800
A rare and emotive Second World War Defence of Hong Kong M.M. group of seven awarded to Sergeant H. V. Pearse, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (H.K.V.D.F.): a veteran of the Great War who had taken his discharge from the Royal Marines while serving in Tamar in 1923, he was placed in charge of ration parties and made deliveries over a wide area of the Colony - ‘at all times of the day and night and under continued bomb and shell fire’ - many of his lorries being hit in the process Taken P...
Hammer Price: £3,200
A fine Second World War North-West Europe operations M.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant E. E. Hughes, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, who ‘by his personal initiative and daring achieved or made possible the destruction of some 14 enemy vehicles and the infliction of 50 casualties (20 killed, 15 wounded and 15 captured)’ Military Medal, G.VI.R. (4033827 Cpl. E. E. Hughes, K.S.L.I.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st is...
A fine Second World War Italy operations M.M. group of seven awarded to Guardsman T. Murphy, Grenadier Guards, late Merchant Navy, who accounted for six of the enemy at Trimonsuoli in January 1944, prior to being overcome by loss of blood from an arm wound Military Medal G.VI.R. (2623066 Gdmn. T. Murphy, G. Gds.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, edge bruise on the first, generally good very fine (7) £1100-1300
Hammer Price: £2,600
A Second World War Burma operations M.M. group of five awarded to Sepoy Mohd Sarwar, 1st Punjab Regiment, who stormed an enemy position with his Tommy gun in Tiddim district in October 1944 Military Medal, G.VI.R. (19187 Sep. Mohd Sarwar, Punjab R.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal 1939-45, these last four with engraved naming, ‘Sep. Mohd Sarwar, Punjab. R.’, generally very fine or better (5) £550-650
A rare Second World War M.M. group of seven awarded to Corporal L. Majewski, 5th Kresowa Division Field Artillery, who was decorated for his gallantry at Monte Cassino in May 1944 and afterwards in the mobile operations along the Adriatic Poland, Army Active Service Medal; Poland, 5th Kresowa Infantry Division Commemorative Medal 1941-1971; Great Britain, Military Medal, G.VI.R. (Cpl. L. Majewski, Polish Army); 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, together with 5th Kre...
Hammer Price: £3,000
A post-war military M.B.E., Second World War M.M. group of eight awarded to Major E. D. Childes, Rhodesia and Nyasaland Army Service Corps, late Southern Rhodesia Regiment, attached Nigeria Regiment The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Military Medal, G.VI.R. (CR/1247 Mech. S/Sjt. E. D. Childes, S. Rhod. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue...
Hammer Price: £1,900
A fine Second World War North Africa operations M.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant W. Bacon, 2nd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery, attached 9th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, who was originally recommended for a D.C.M. for his close range encounter with enemy armour and artillery at Charruba in January 1942 Military Medal, G.VI.R. (1069150 Sjt. W. Bacon, R.A.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (5) £1100-1300
Hammer Price: £1,400
An outstanding Second World War Normandy operations M.M. group of five awarded to Marine R. Emsley, 4th Special Service Brigade (B Troop) 47 Commando, Royal Marines, who was decorated for his gallantry in the attack on Port-en-Bessin on 7 June 1944, the day following the D-Day landings: Whilst so engaged, ‘a mortar shell exploded, taking out his left eye and filling his body with shrapnel’ but he continued firing his gun and succeeded in rescuing two of his comrades Military Medal, G.VI.R...
Hammer Price: £5,000
An outstanding Second World War D-Day immediate M.M. group of six awarded to Signalman A. M. McGregor, 1st Special Service Brigade (Signal Troop) Royal Corps of Signals, 6th Airborne Division, who was decorated for his gallantry during the landings on Gold Beach on 6 June 1944, when he came ashore in the first wave and received ‘two shrapnel wounds in the head, three bullet wounds in the arm and a shrapnel wound in the leg’: nonetheless he refused to be evacuated and continued to maintain vit...
Hammer Price: £6,000
A rare Second World War North-West Europe operations M.M. group of five awarded to Company Sergeant-Major A. E. Anscombe, 30 Battalion, Royal Marines, who was decorated for his gallantry during the crossing of the River Maas in infantry assault craft on the night of 23/24 April 1945, a feat accomplished under heavy small arms and mortar fire: the following night, when his Company H.Q. was fired upon by an enemy patrol, Anscombe ‘was the senior rank at H.Q. and took charge immediately. He rall...
The Palestine and Second World War campaign group of four awarded to Corporal A. Drongin, Special Air Service (S.A.S.), formerly a Sergeant-Major in the Scots Guards, who died of wounds received in ‘L’ Detachment’s raid on Benghazi in September 1942: recalled by other old comrades as a ‘very hard soldier, with a harsh voice, who would take no nonsense’, and as ‘one of Stirling’s ideal selfless men’, he displayed indomitable courage during his final ordeal, telling the M.O., “I’m sorry to have...
A rare Second World War Italy operations M.M. group of six awarded to Company Sergeant-Major G. Malcolm, 2nd Special Service Brigade, 40 Commando, Royal Marines, a veteran of the Bismarck action who won an immediate award for his gallantry behind enemy lines in support of the crossing of the Garigliano on 22 January 1944: he single-handedly took out an enemy gun emplacement with grenades, killing two and wounding one of the occupants but was himself mortally wounded the following day Milit...
£5,000–£6,000
A rare Second World War escaper’s M.M. group of five awarded to Warrant Officer A. R. Cottle, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who, having already gained membership of the Goldfish Club, was wounded on the occasion his Beaufighter was downed by Me. 109s off Kalimnos in the Aegean in November 1943: unlike his pilot, he was fortunate to escape the wreckage and was picked up in his dinghy by an E-Boat off Kos - subsequently taken to an Italian convent hospital, he made a successful bid from fr...
Hammer Price: £4,800
An extremely rare Second World War Malaya operations M.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant D. J. MacLean, 2nd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, who was decorated for his gallantry at the battle of Kampar on 2 January 1942 - one of a series of ferocious ‘British Battalion’ rearguard actions fought by him prior to his admission to hospital with wounds 24 hours later: subsequently taken P.O.W. at the fall of Singapore in the following month, his M.M. - one of just five such awards granted to me...
An extremely rare Second World War ‘Home Front’ M.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant G. W. Lancaster, 266 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery, 62nd Regiment, Royal Artillery, who was decorated for gallantry whilst serving with the Preston Battery during the Hull Blitz on the night of 7/8 May 1941- one of just 17 M.Ms awarded for gallantry in the United Kingdom in the last war Military Medal, G.VI.R. (1443631 Bmbr. G. W. Lancaster, R.A.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45;...
A Second World War Burma operations M.M. awarded to Havildar Janak Singh, 17th Dogra Regiment, who stormed an enemy machine-gun post in thick jungle in Paunggi district in June 1945 Military Medal, G.VI.R. (5104 Hav. Janak Singh, Dogra R.), good very fine £550-650
Hammer Price: £600
A rare S.E. Asia operations M.M. pair awarded to Sepoy Mohd Afsar, Frontier Force Rifles Military Medal, G.VI.R. (30908 Sepoy Mohd. Afsar, Frontier Force Rif.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46, unnamed as issued, contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine or better (2) £700-900
A fine Second World War Italy operations M.M group of four awarded to Sepoy Mohd Ditta, 12th Frontier Force Rifles Military Medal, G.VI.R. (24864 Sepoy Mohd Ditta, 12 F.F.R. I.A.); 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine and better (4) £600-700
Hammer Price: £500
A rare post-war Java operations M.M. group of six awarded to Lance-Havildar Fazal Hussain, 6th Rajput Rifles, who, in the face of ‘overwhelming odds’, accounted for 70 Indonesian rebels - dead or wounded - in the storm that erupted at Sourabaja in October 1945, when ‘the bestial scenes that followed in the name of freedom rivalled the vilest moments of the French Revolution’ Military Medal, G.VI.R. (14624 L.-Hav. Fazal Hussain, Raj. Rifs.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; Indi...
Hammer Price: £1,000
A rare post-war Far East operations M.M. group of eight awarded to Naik Surat Singh, 1st Kumaon Regiment, who was decorated for his gallant deeds during a run-in with Annamite snipers at Cholon on the River Saigon Military Medal, G.VI.R. (13335 A. Nk. Surat Singh, Hybad. R.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (13335 Sep. Surat Singh, 1-19 Hy’bad R.); 1939-45 Star, the reverse impressed in irregular capitals, ‘13335 Nk. Surat Singh, Kumaon R.’; Africa Star;...
Hammer Price: £900
An extremely rare post-war ‘Indian Partition period’ M.M. awarded to Sepoy Lal Khan, 3/14th Punjab Regiment, attached 1/1st (King George V’s Own) Gurkha Rifles, who was decorated for his gallantry in June 1947, when his piquet came under heavy automatic and rifle fire from a hostile gang - hit in both legs by a burst of three rounds which fractured his right thigh bone in several places, and notwithstanding the pain and profuse bleeding - he dragged himself up a hill where he returned fire an...
A superb Korean War ‘Battle of the Hook’ M.M. group of nine awarded to Regimental Sergeant-Major J. C. ‘Joe’ Jobling, The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, late Green Howards Military Medal, E.II.R., 1st issue (4388113 A./W.O. Cl. 2 J. C. Jobling, Green Howards); India General Service 1936-39, 2 clasps, North West Frontier 1936-37, North West Frontier 1937-39 (4388113 Pte. J. C. Jobling, Green Howard), clasp backstraps removed; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 193...
Hammer Price: £9,000
A rare Second World War D.F.M. and Bar group of five awarded to Flight Sergeant E. Mills, Royal Air Force, a long-served Rear-Gunner in Lancasters of No. 83 (P.F.F.) Squadron who completed in excess of 50 operational sorties in 1942-43, often returning to base in flak damaged aircraft: during one daylight sortie against the heavily defended Krupps Works at Essen in July 1942, his aircraft was badly damaged by flak and reduced to three engines - it was then attacked by two Me. 110s and two Fw....
Hammer Price: £4,600
An outstanding Second World War D.F.M. group of seven awarded to Flight Lieutenant C. F. Fennell, Royal Air Force, who somehow survived the famous suicidal low-level attack on the Dortmund-Ems Canal on the night of 12-13 August 1940, when the ferocity of the flak that greeted the attacking force of five Hampdens blew two of them out of the night sky and severely damaged all of the others: Fennell’s aircraft, which returned to base with one engine ‘reduced to junk’, was the fourth to attack th...
£4,000–£5,000
A Second World War Path Finder’s D.F.M. group of five awarded to Flight Sergeant N. Thorn, Royal Air Force, who was decorated for a tour of operations as a Flight Engineer in Lancasters of No. 156 Squadron in the period August 1944 to April 1945 - namely a total of 43 operational sorties including the ‘firestorm’ attack on Dresden in February 1945 Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (1593865 F./Sgt. N. Thorn, R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, t...
Hammer Price: £2,000
An exceptional Second World War Rear Gunner’s immediate D.F.M. group of four awarded to Flight Sergeant R. H. Payne, No. 227 Squadron, Royal Air Force, who, in the process of abandoning his crippled aircraft one night in in November 1944, saw an enemy fighter moving in for the final kill - ‘although the perspex on both sides of his turret was being smashed and bullets were hitting the door at the back of his turret, Sergeant Payne very gallantly climbed back into his seat and opened fire on t...
Hammer Price: £2,800
A fine Second World War clandestine operations D.F.M. group of six awarded to Flight Lieutenant T. Dickinson, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who carried out 44 sorties as a pilot in No. 148 (Special Duties) Squadron, on one occasion remaining over a D.Z. in occupied territory for two hours, as a consequence of which his return journey had to be completed in semi-daylight: returning to an operational footing in Mosquitos of the Path Finder Force in early 1944, he raised his tally of operat...
An early Second World War D.F.M. awarded to Sergeant E. F. Fry, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, for gallant services as a pilot in Wellingtons of No. 214 Squadron: he subsequently died on active service in February 1941, while serving in No. 142 Squadron Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (741738 Sgt. E. F. Fry, R.A.F.), in its named card box of issue, extremely fine £1700-1900
Hammer Price: £2,200
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