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A ‘Northern Ireland’ Special Forces Q.G.M. group of five awarded to Staff Sergeant B. J. Swift, Parachute Regiment Queen’s Gallantry Medal (24099957 S/Sgt. Bernard J Swift, Para); General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland, with 2 M.I.D. oak leaf emblems (24099957 Pte. B. J. Swift. Para.); U.N. Medal, on UNFICYP riband; Accumulated Campaign Service Medal 1994, E.II.R., with three Additional Award Bars (24099957 Cpl B J Swift Para); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue,...
Hammer Price: £24,000
The rare and remarkable Peninsular, Waterloo and Bhurtpoor group of three awarded to Troop-Sergeant-Major John Lakin, 16th Lancers, who was wounded in the leg at Fuentes d’Onor in May 1811, in the side at Burgos in 1812, and was noted in regimental records ‘for distinguished conduct in the field’; he later served as a gamekeeper and gatekeeper at Windsor Great Park, and lived in the reign of four monarchs Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Talavera, Fuentes D’Onor,...
Hammer Price: £18,000
The important and unique inter-War C.B.E. (Civil), 1916 ‘Easter Rising - Defence of Beggars Bush Barracks’ D.S.O., Great War O.B.E. (Military) group of eight awarded to Major and Adjutant G. A. Harris, Dublin University Officer Training Corps, Territorial Force, who led his poorly armed column of above age military reservists - ‘The Gorgeous Wrecks’ - in a week long defence of Beggars Bush Barracks during the 1916 Easter Rising: arranging his veteran volunteers to the best possible...
A rare Kelat-i-Ghilzie group of four awarded to Sepoy Emambux Khan, 43rd Bengal Native Light Infantry Defence of Kelat-i-Ghilzie 1842 (Sepoy Emambux Khan, 43rd regt. N.I.) fitted with steel clip and straight bar suspension; Ghuznee Cabul 1842 (Sepoy Emambux Khan, 43rd regt. N.I.) fitted with steel clip and straight bar suspension; Maharajpoor Star 1843 (Sepoy Emam Bux Khan, 43rd Regt. N.I.) with replacement brass hook suspension, these last three all with naming officially engraved in...
Hammer Price: £17,000
Three: Able Seaman John Duffill, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (John Duffell.); Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (John Duffell. Carps. Crew. “Alligator”) short hyphen reverse, officially engraved naming; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., Anchor obverse (John Duffill A.B. H.M.S. Excellent 27 Years) pierced with rings for suspension, generally good very fine, a very rare group, possibly unique (3) £6,000-£8,000
Hammer Price: £14,000
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Trafalgar (Michael Millard.) nearly extremely fine £6,000-£8,000
Hammer Price: £8,500
A rare Great War A.R.R.C. and M.M. group of five awarded to Acting Sister A. G. Boyd, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel; Military Medal, G.V.R. (A. Sister A. G. Boyd. A.R.R.C. Q.A.I.M.N.S.(R).); 1914-15 Star (S. Nurse. A. G. Boyd. Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); British War and Victory Medals (A. Sister A. G. Boyd.) mounted court-style for display, together with Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. silver cape badge and Overseas...
Hammer Price: £8,000
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Algiers (T. S. Beauchant, 1st Lieut. R.M.) very neat engraved correction to ‘ant, 1st’, otherwise lightly toned, extremely fine £3,000-£4,000
Hammer Price: £7,500
A Great War 1914 ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Major J. E. S. Woodman, Lancashire Fusiliers, late West India Regiment, who was killed in action at Loos in September 1915 whilst attached to the 12th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers; he was personally decorated by H.M. The King on his visit to the front, 2 December 1914 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Ashanti Star 1896,...
Hammer Price: £7,000
Pair: Colour-Sergeant James White, Royal Marines Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Navarino (James White.); New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1845 to 1846 (J. White. C[r]. [Serj]t. R.M., H.M.S. Osprey) officially impressed naming, rank mostly erased on the second with consequent rubbing to remaining naming, contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better and a very rare pair (2) £3,000-£3,600
Hammer Price: £6,500
Four: Lieutenant W. H. M. H. Davies, Indian Navy Punjab 1848-49, 1 clasp, Mooltan (Actg. Master, W. H. Davies, Ind. Flot.) fitted with contemporary swivel-ring arrangement to suspension; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Wm. H. M. H. Davies. Lieutt. “Sesostris”) with an additional swivel-ring scroll suspension with hand fashioned ‘Pegu’ clasp; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Lieut. W. H. M. H. Davies, Indian Navy.) contemporary re-engraved naming; China...
A very rare Second War ‘Normandy’ M.M. and post-War 1946 ‘Java’ Second Award Bar group of five awarded to Corporal W. H. Bartle, Royal Army Medical Corps attached 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion: having been decorated for making repeated journeys into the open to bring in casualties at Bois de Bavent in Normandy on 18 June 1944, he added a Bar to his award for his subsequent gallantry in charge of stretcher bearers when his section was ambushed and pinned down in the open at...
Hammer Price: £6,000
The important Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant T. R. Conning, 2nd Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers, a ‘happy-go-lucky’ subaltern of ‘natural jollity’ who was one of ‘the most popular officers with the men of the Battalion’ - and who appears in much of the literature that emerged from the ranks of his regiment, not least Dunn’s The War the Infantry Knew and Siegfried Sassoon’s Memoirs of an Infantry Officer: a close friend of Sassoon’s, news of his death in...
The White Family Group: Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., Anchor obverse (William White, Sergeant Major Royal Marines 22 Years) unusually never pierced but fitted with rings and silver wire suspension; together with a very fine engine-turned silver presentation snuff box, 72x42mm, the gilt interior hallmarked Birmingham 1824, maker’s mark ‘T.S’, the outer lid with engraved inscription, ‘Presented to Serjeant Major Wm. White by the Non Comd. Officers of the Portsmouth Division of Royal...
Pair: Captain’s Coxswain George Stevens, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Navarino, Syria (Geo. Stevens.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension, dated ‘1848’ below bust (George Stevens. Cap: Cox: H.M.S. Victory. 24 Ys.) light contact marks, otherwise very fine (2) (2) £3,000-£4,000
A Second War 1945 ‘Arakan operations’ M.M. group of five awarded to Gunner S. A. Roast, Royal Artillery, attached No. 1 Commando, for the bloody battle of Hill 170 near Kangaw after which ‘the bodies of 340 of the enemy lay in an area no more than 100 yards square’: his M.M. recommendation contains many similarities to that for the V.C. awarded for the same action to his mortally wounded Troop commander Lieutenant G. A. Knowland Military Medal, G.VI.R. (11268880 Gnr. S. A. Roast....
A good Second War ‘1945’ A.F.C., ‘1943’ D.F.M. group of six awarded to Whitley and Stirling pilot, Flight Lieutenant F. H. J. Ashley, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who flew in at least 45 operational sorties with 102, 51 and 149 Squadrons, and the Thousand Bomber Raids to Cologne and Essen whilst stationed with No. 15 O.T.U. During the course of his service, his crew claimed at least 2 enemy aircraft shot down, and he became a member of the Caterpillar Club when he was forced...
Hammer Price: £5,500
A fine ‘Hazara 1891’ D.S.O. group of three awarded to Colonel J. Keith, Royal Artillery, who was twice mentioned in despatches, and commanded the Royal Artillery in the Sikkim 1888, Hazara 1891 and Izazai Expeditions Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Captn. J. Keith. R.H.A.); India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Sikkim 1888, Hazara 1891 (Major J. Keith 9/1 N.D. R.A.) mounted for display,...
Hammer Price: £5,000
The ‘West Indies’ M.G.S. medal awarded to Captain William Wood, late Paymaster of the 15th Foot, he emigrated to Tasmania with his aristocratic French wife in 1829, where they became the basis for the leading figures in G. B. Lancaster’s colourful novel, Pageant, about early Tasmania Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Martinique, Guadaloupe (W. Wood, Paymr. 15th Foot) minor edge nicks, otherwise nearly extremely fine and rare £3,000-£4,000
An extremely rare ‘East Africa 1917’ I.D.S.M. awarded to Tindal of Lascars Sheik Waz-ud-Din Naqua, Royal Indian Marine, one of only three awards to the R.I.M. in the Great War Indian Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Tindal of Lascars Sheik Waz-ud-Din Naqua, R.I.M.) lacking top suspension bar, extremely fine £1,000-£1,200
Hammer Price: £4,800
The remarkable family group awarded to the three Beal brothers who all served with the 29th Foot at the battles of Ferozeshuhur, Sobraon, Chilianwala and Goojerat, each receiving identical pairs of medals Pair: David Beal, 29th Foot, who died in India in 1852 Sutlej 1845-46, for Ferozeshuhur 1845, 1 clasp, Sobraon (David Beale 29th Regt.); Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Chilianwala, Goojerat (David Beal, 29th Foot.) both with edge bruises and lightly polished, otherwise very fine or...
Hammer Price: £4,600
A scarce Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Service group of three awarded to Master at Arms K. W. Rodgers, Royal Navy General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland, with Q.C.V.S. emblem on ribbon (AB K W Rodgers D140274T RN); South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (AB(M) K W Rodgers D140274T HMS Cardiff) number officially corrected; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (ARPO K W Rodgers D140274T RN) mounted as worn, light contact marks, very fine and better (3) £1,500-£2,000
Hammer Price: £4,400
Waterloo 1815 (Lewis Jennings, 3rd Batt. Grenad. Guards.) fitted with replacement silver clip and straight bar suspension and contained in a fine contemporary fitted case together with a lead musket ball that presumably caused his wound at Waterloo, very fine £3,600-£4,000
A fine ‘Birmingham Blitz’ George Medal pair awarded to John Hadley, Member of an A.R.P. Rescue Party on the occasion of the devastating raid on the B.S.A. Works at Small Heath on the night of 19-20 November 1940 - the original recommendation concludes with the statement that ‘the Regional Commissioner considers that Hadley’s actions deserve the George Cross.’ George Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (John Hadley); Defence Medal, mounted as worn, good very fine (2) £3,000-£4,000
The Peninsula War medal awarded to Drummer Dugald Cameron, 79th Foot, a founder member of the Regiment who was wounded at the battle of Alexandria in 1801 and again at Busaco in 1810; he later emigrated to Australia, where he died at Hinton, near Morpeth, N.S.W. in July 1857 Military General Service 1793-1814, 3 clasps, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor (D. Cameron, 79th Foot.) nearly very fine £1,500-£2,000
Hammer Price: £4,200
Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, Martinique, Guadaloupe (Chas. Haydon, Master’s Mate.) the second clasp re-soldered to side-carriage, otherwise very fine £3,000-£3,600
Four: Jack Nimrod, a West African Krooman, later Tindall (Head Seedie) in the Royal Navy, afterwards Churchwarden of Zanzibar Cathedral Abyssinia 1867 (J. Nimrod Krooman. H.M.S. Daphne) suspension ring flattened; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension, impressed naming (Jack Nimrod, Tindal, H.M.S. Briton); Khedive’s Star 1884, the group mounted in a small glazed display case with label which reads “Medals...
A Great War 1914 ‘posthumous’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Pioneer G. P. Burns, 1st Signal Company, Royal Engineers, who died of wounds on the Western Front in October 1914 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (24070 Pnr: G. P. Burns. 1/S.Co. R.E.); 1914 Star, with clasp (24070 Pnr: G. [sic] Burns. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (24070 Pnr. G. P. Burns. R.E.) generally good very fine (4) £2,400-£2,800
Hammer Price: £4,000
A scarce and poignant Second War A.F.C. and Second Award Bar group of five awarded to Wing Commander S. R. Hinks, Royal Air Force, who initially flew Hudsons with Coastal Command, prior to being employed as an Instructor in Canada. Hinks served with 24 Squadron (King’s Flight), and flew a number of VIP’s during the war, including Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, and the Royal Family. After the war Hinks was employed as a civil pilot in Argentina, and...
The Peninsula War medal awarded to Corporal John Duffy, 50th Foot, who was wounded in the right hip in the action at the Pass of Maya in July 1813; he later emigrated to Australia where he worked and resided in Sydney, and died there in August 1867, “an old and respected colonist” who was buried in the Petersham Cemetery, Sydney Military General Service 1793-1814, 7 clasps, Fuentes D’Onor, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (J. Duffy, Corpl. 50th Foot) nearly...
Hammer Price: £3,600
Four: Captain of the Forecastle James Constant, Royal Navy Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (James Constant.); Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., wide suspension (J. Constant Capt. F. Cle. H.M.S. Lion. 25 Yrs); St. Jean d’Acre 1840, bronze, unnamed as issued, extremely fine (4) £1,600-£2,000
A good Second War ‘Evacuation to Dunkirk’ 1940 M.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant S. G. Diver, 13th/18th Royal Hussars, who was wounded and taken Prisoner of War in May 1940- he secured his release from captivity by bringing on heart illness ‘by chewing cordite’. Re-joining his unit, he served with them again in North-West Europe, was Mentioned in Despatches, and was killed in action on 19 January 1945 Military Medal, G.VI.R. (406294 Sjt. S. G. Diver. 13/18 H.); 1939-45 Star;...
Pair: Petty Officer Medical Assistant N. J. Whiteley, Royal Navy General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Lebanon (POMA N J Whiteley D062139V RN); Royal Navy L.S.& G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (D062139V N J Whiteley POMA HMS Jupiter) nearly extremely fine and scarce (2) £1,200-£1,600
Hammer Price: £3,400
The Honours and Awards Bestowed upon a French Count. France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, Knight’s breast badge, slightly reduced size, 46mm including crown x 33mm, silver, gold, and enamel, with two lapel rosettes; Spain, Kingdom, Order of Charles III, Commander First Class set of insignia, comprising neck badge, 62mm including wreath suspension x 40mm, gold and enamel; Star, 74mm x 69mm, silver and enamel, with Kretly, Paris, maker’s cartouche to reverse; Order of Isabella the...
The Peninsula War medal awarded to Sergeant John Regan, 28th Foot, a veteran of the battle of Waterloo who settled in Australia following his service there with the 28th Foot and ultimate discharge at Parramatta in February 1838 Military General Service 1793-1814, 8 clasps, Busaco, Albuhera, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (John Regan, Serjt. 28th Foot) minor edge bruising, hairlines and surface marks, otherwise very fine £2,600-£3,000
Hammer Price: £3,200
A fine Second War 1943 ‘Tunisia Campaign’ M.M. group of six awarded to Regimental Sergeant Major F. G. Findlay, Royal Army Service Corps, attached No. 6 Commando, who was decorated for his actions at the assault on Djebel Azag, 6 January 1943 Military Medal, G.VI.R. (T/5041667 W.O. Cl.3. F. G. Findley. R.A.S.C.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (6) £3,000-£3,600
Hammer Price: £3,000
New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1845 to 1846 (J. Pearce, Boy 2nd Cl., H.M.S. Osprey) suspension re-fitted, brooch marks to obverse, otherwise very fine and very rare £1,000-£1,200
A fine M.G.S and Army of India pair awarded to Private William Anderson, 11th Light Dragoons, who also served at Waterloo Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Salamanca (W. Anderson, 11th Light Dragoons.); Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (W. Anderson, 11th Lt. Dragns.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (2) £3,600-£4,000
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of six awarded to Company Sergeant Major G. Burnop, 9th (Service) Battalion, Essex Regiment, who was severely wounded in the trenches at Givenchy, 19 December 1915, losing his leg and the use of an eye Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (3-2520 [sic] C.S. Mjr: G. Burnop. 9/Essex: R.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2677 Serjt: G. Burnop. Essex Regt); 1914-15 Star...
Hammer Price: £2,800
A Second War 1942 ‘North Africa’ M.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant R. Miller, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, who was decorated for multiple acts of gallantry during the Western Desert Campaign in June and July 1942 and was subsequently taken P.O.W. following Operation Agreement - the amphibious raid on Tobruk, September 1942 Military Medal, G.VI.R. (4342485 Cpl. R. Miller. R. North’d Fus.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (4342485 Fsr. R. Miller. R. North’d...
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