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An Indian Mutiny C.B. pair awarded to Brigadier-General Edward Brice, commanding ‘F’ Troop, Madras Artillery The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1859, makers mark ‘WN’, complete with gold swivel bar suspension and ribbon buckle; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Bt. Major E. Brice, F. Tp. Madras Art.) good very fine £3,000-£3,600
Hammer Price: £2,800
A fine Sudan Campaign C.B. group of nine awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel D. F. Lewis, Cheshire Regiment, late the Buffs; wounded and Mentioned for the Defence of Eshowe in the Zulu Campaign, he was attached to the Egyptian Army, 1886-1900, seeing action during the Mahdist War at Gemaizah, and going on to hold important commands during the reconquest, including during the Dongola Expedition, the Battles of Atbara and Omdurman, for which latter services he received the C.B, and at the decisive...
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A Great War C.B., C.M.G. group of nine awarded to Brigadier-General N. W. Haig, 6th Dragoons, who was four times Mentioned in Despatches, and was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s silver medal for saving life in South Africa during the Boer War The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband, traces of white enamel restoration to tips of points of cross; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George,...
Hammer Price: £3,200
Family group: A C.B., Second War ‘1943’ O.B.E., ‘1942’ D.S.C. group of ten awarded to Rear-Admiral K. St. Barbe Collins, Royal Navy, who was a specialist in Hydrographic Surveying and served as Hydrographer to the Navy, 1955-60 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s, neck badge, silver-gilt enamel, minor white enamel damage, in Collingwood case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type, breast...
Hammer Price: £4,200
A Great War C.M.G. group of five awarded to Mr E. E. N. Macdonell, H.B.M. Consul in Lourenço Marques during the Boer War, and liaison officer with the Portuguese forces in German East Africa during the Great War The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Errol Napier Macdonnell Esq:); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (E. Mac Donell.); Portugal,...
Hammer Price: £900
A C.I.E., gold Kaisar-i-Hind group of four awarded to C. Tindall Esq., Secretary to the Government of Bengal The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel, with neck riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Kaisar-i-Hind, G.V.R., 2nd ‘solid’ type, gold, with integral top riband bar, lacking pin, in case of issue; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), G.V.R....
A ‘Waziristan 1922-23’ C.B.E., Great War D.S.O. and M.C. group of seven awarded to Colonel E. C. Kensington, commanding 3-8th Punjab Regiment The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, complete with full neck riband; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘Capt. E. C. Kensington. 1916); 1914-15 Star (Capt. E. C. Kensington D.S.O....
A fine Second War ‘British Expeditionary Force 1940’ C.B.E., Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O., ‘Gallipoli’ M.C. group of eight awarded to Brigadier A. G. Barry, Lancashire Fusiliers, Machine Gun Corps, and Royal Tank Corps, who was five times Mentioned in Despatches, and died on active service in 1942 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with full neck riband; Distinguished Service Order,...
A Second War C.B.E. group of three awarded to M. Campbell Esq., Shipbuilder and Special Constable The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with full neck riband; Special Constabulary Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Mungo Campbell); Netherlands, Kingdom, Order of Orange-Nassau, Civil Division, Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband and lapel rosette, in damaged case of issue, good very...
Hammer Price: £450
The Great War D.S.O. attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. S. Rendall, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches for the Boer War, and died of wounds in September 1916 at the Thiepval Spur during the Battle of the Somme, whilst commanding the 5th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar, in Garrard, London, case of issue; together with the recipient’s Memorial...
A superb Great War ‘Subalterns’ D.S.O. group of four awarded to Lieutenant G. Mutch, Gordon Highlanders, for his gallantry in leading the attack on the Butte de Warlencourt on 29 January 1917, capturing the vital position, and taking many of the enemy prisoner; subsequently transferring to the Royal Flying Corps, he was killed in action on 6 July 1917 when his aircraft was shot down over France by the German Ace Leutnant Kurt Wolff Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and...
Hammer Price: £3,000
A Great War ‘1918’ D.S.O., ‘1916’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Major E. W. Hughes, 6th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Rifles) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, reverse of suspension bar inscribed ‘London Regiment. 1st January 1918’; Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed ‘Captain Edward William Hughes, 6th Bn. City of London Regt. (T.F.) 3rd June 1916’; 1914-15 Star (Capt. E. W. Hughes. 6/Lond. R.); British War and Victory...
Hammer Price: £2,400
The unique Spanish Civil War Albert Medal and Second World War D.S.O., O.B.E., and Polish Cross Of Valour group of nine awarded to Commander B. G. Scurfield, Royal Navy, who won the Albert Medal when H.M.S. Hardy was blown almost in two by a fascist naval mine in 1937, and the D.S.O. during the Battle of Pantelleria, June 1942, when, as Captain of H.M.S. Bedouin during operation ‘Harpoon’, he led a charge by destroyers escorting a Malta convoy directly towards the 7th Cruiser Division of...
Hammer Price: £22,000
A superb and rare Second War ‘Arctic Convoys’ D.S.O. group of ten awarded to Commander A. P. Colthurst, Royal Navy, who, in June 1942, while escorting the forty merchantmen of the famous PQ-18 convoy to North Russia, handled the aircraft carrier, H.M.S. Avenger, and employed his aircraft, in the most masterly manner while in the face of relentless attacks by enemy aircraft and submarines – the sky was so thick with enemy aircraft that they were likened to ‘a cloud of phantom...
Hammer Price: £4,600
The outstanding Second World War D.S.O., D.F.C. group of eleven awarded to Major H. C. “Nick” Knilans, United States Army Air Forces, late Royal Canadian Air Force, attached Royal Air Force, who somehow survived a spate of hair-raising sorties in 619 and 617 Squadrons in the period May 1943 to October 1944, the majority of them under Cheshire, V.C. and “Willie” Tait. On being ‘grounded’ after the attack on the Tirpitz in September 1944, he had flown over 50 operational...
Hammer Price: £13,000
A Second War D.S.O. group of eight awarded to Air Commodore G. R. Howie, 216 Squadron, Royal Air Force Distinguished Service Order, G.V.I.R., silver-gilt and enamel, reverse officially dated 1942, with integral top riband bar; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (Sqn. Ldr. G. R. Howie. R.A.F.) officially re-engraved naming; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953; together with the recipient’s related miniature awards,...
Hammer Price: £1,300
A Great War O.B.E. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. A. Lennox-Conyngham, Worcestershire Regiment The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1918; 1914-15 Star (Major W. A. Lennox-Conyngham. Worc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Major W. A. Lennox-Conyngham) good very fine (4)
Hammer Price: £320
A rare ‘Civil Division’ O.B.E. and Central Africa pair awarded to Mr S. H. Fletcher, H.M. Consul at Chinde and Agent there for the Nyasaland Government The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, in its Garrard & Co case of issue; Central Africa 1891-98, 1 clasp, Central Africa 1894-98 (Vol. S. H. Fletcher, Civilian Vols.) officially impressed naming, good very fine and rare (2) £1,200-£1,500
A Second War ‘1941’ O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Colonel R. H. S. Hounsell, Royal Engineers, who served during the Great War as Assistant Director of Military Works, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force from 1918, for which he was M.I.D; and as Deputy Assistant Director of Military Works in India from 1920, for which he was also M.I.D. 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,...
Hammer Price: £480
A Second War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Brigadier J. D. White, Deputy Director-General of Railways, Harbours, and Sea Transport, Union of South Africa, late Royal Highlanders and Durban Reserves The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer‘s (Brother’s) breast badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape...
Hammer Price: £400
A good Second War 1945 ‘Fire Service’ O.B.E., Q.S.F.M. medal group of seven awarded to Chief Officer G. Drury, City of Plymouth Fire Brigade, National Fire Service, a Flight Sergeant Mechanic with the Royal Air During the Great War, he was recognised for his bravery with the award of the M.B.E. whilst serving as Regional Fire Brigades Inspector, South Western Civil Defence H.Q., Bristol, during the Bristol Blitz, 1940-41 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil)...
Hammer Price: £1,800
A ‘Civil Division’ O.B.E. group of four awarded to Captain A. R. Grant, Royal Army Medical Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, in Royal Mint case of issue; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. A. R. Grant. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. A. R. Grant). last three mounted as worn and housed in a fitted case, good very fine and better (4) £180-£220
Hammer Price: £260
An inter-War M.B.E. pair awarded to Superintendent R. Sweeney, Glasgow City Police The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1931; Visit to Scotland 1903 (P.C. R. Sweeney) with integral top thistle suspension bar, good very fine (2) £140-£180
Hammer Price: £300
An inter-War M.B.E., Great War Medal of the Order of the British Empire group of six awarded to Major H. M. Fox, Indian Army Ordnance Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue; Medal of the Order of the British Empire, (Civil), unnamed as issued; British War Medal 1914-20 (5763098 S-Cond. H. M. Fox. A.C. Dept.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (Condr. H....
Hammer Price: £800
A Second War ‘1940’ M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel R. M. Kennard, 12th Lancers, ADC to Colonel H. Lumsden during the fall of France and the Dunkirk evacuation, he also survived the bombing of the Café de Paris club in London during the Blitz, 8/9 March 1941, before going on to command ‘A’ Squadron in Italy during 1944 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence...
Hammer Price: £700
A Second War ‘North West Europe’ M.B.E. group of six awarded to Captain K. M. Hunt, Royal Corps of Signals The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Capt. K. M. Hint, M.B.E., The Paddock, Duck Lane, Limington, Yeovil’; Coronation 1953, in case of issue, the Second War campaign...
A good Second War M.B.E. group of nine awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Busby, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine, Malaya (Capt. J. H. Busby, Bedfs. & Herts. R.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, these four privately engraved, ‘Maj. J. H. Busby’; Korea 1950-53 (Lt. Col. J. H. Busby,...
A Second War M.B.E. group of three awarded to Miss Mable D. Jackson-Barstow, Women’s Voluntary Service, for services to Civil Defence in Weston-super-Mare The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type, lady’s shoulder badge, on lady’s bow riband; Defence Medal, with Home Secretary’s enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Miss M. D. Jackson-Barstow, The Lodge, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset’; Women’s Voluntary Service Medal,...
A post-War ‘Civil Division’ M.B.E. pair attributed to Miss Lilian A. Stroud, Inland Revenue The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type shoulder badge, silver, on lady’s bow riband; Coronation 1953, on lady’s bow riband, very fine (2) £80-£120
Hammer Price: £95
A post-War M.B.E. group of three awarded to F. E. Sawyer Esq., for services to the Fly Fishing Association The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Frank E. Sawyer) nearly extremely fine (3) £100-£140
A scarce post-War M.B.E., Helicopter Pilot’s A.F.C. group of four awarded to Major A. G. Wiles, Army Air Corps, late Sergeant Pilot, Royal Marines, who served with 45 Commando in Aden and Radfan, and as part of Naval Party 8901 on the Falklands - when he was taken hostage by 25 members of the El Condor Group in 1966, an event that was extensively covered in the National Press at the time. Qualifying as a Pilot in 1970, Wiles was attached for service with 660 Squadron, A.A.C., in Northern...
Hammer Price: £6,500
A post-War M.B.E. group of six awarded to Bandmaster W. T. Harrison, Royal Marines, later Superintendent, Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (RMB/X.2548 W. J. [sic] Harrison Musn. R.M.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (RMB/X.2548 Bd/Sgt. W. T. Harrison Musn. R.M.); Papua New Guinea, 10th Anniversary of...
Hammer Price: £1,000
A Great War R.R.C. awarded to Principal Matron C. W. Millar, Territorial Force Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘C. W. Millar, April 1917’, on lady’s bow riband; together with a Territorial Force Nursing Service Cape Badge, silver; and a Territorial Army Nursing Service Cape Badge, silver, extremely fine (3) £260-£300
A post-War R.R.C. group of four awarded to Principal Matron Miss Ada A. E. Burman, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), E.II.R., silver-gilt and enamel, reverse officially dated 1964, on lady’s bow riband, in Collingwood, London, case of issue; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s shoulder badge, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background; Defence and War Medals...
Hammer Price: £1,200
A Second War 1944 ‘Operation Neptune’ D.S.C. and ‘Operation Infatuate’ Second Award Bar pair awarded to Lieutenant Commander A. H. Ballard, Royal Naval Reserve, late Private, Tank Corps. Twice mentioned in despatches for service with anti-submarine trawlers off the coast of Norway in 1940, Ballard went on to serve as Joint Principal Beach Master during Operation Ironclad - the invasion of Madagascar, before being further decorated for service with Assault Group G2 during D-Day, and...
Hammer Price: £2,200
A Second War ‘Battle of Cape Matapan’ D.S.C. group of nine awarded to Lieutenant G. E. Allen, Royal Navy, Gunnery Officer in H.M.S. Warspite during the battle of Calabria in July 1940 when the ship achieved one of the longest range gunnery hits from a moving ship to a moving target in history, hitting Giulio Cesare at a range of approximately 24 km; and also in the same battleship at the battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941 when he was decorated for his ‘efficiency and successful...
Hammer Price: £4,000
A Great War September 1917 ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of three awarded to Captain R. J. Keates, Royal Garrison Artillery, who was killed in action near Albert on 20 August 1918 Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. R. J. Keates.) nearly extremely fine (3) £600-£800
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of five awarded to Major W. H. Turner, 246th (West Riding) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (T.F.) Military Cross, G.V.R, unnamed as issued, in Royal Mint case of issue.; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. W. H. Turner. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Major W. H. Turner.) emblem loose; Defence Medal, with four related miniature awards, and three named card boxes of issue - the Second War box addressed to ‘Mr W. H. Turner, Cherry...
A Great War M.C. Group of four awarded to Captain H. E. Wilson, Liverpool Regiment, later Home Guard Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H. E. Wilson); Defence Medal, minor contact marks otherwise good very fine (4) £500-£700
Hammer Price: £600
A Great War 1915 ‘Hooge’ M.C. group of four awarded to Captain J. P. Palmes, West Yorkshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front, 1 August 1917 Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse engraved ‘Capt. J. P. Palmes 3rd West Yorkshire Regt. August 9. 1915.’, in Royal Mint case of issue; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. J. P. Palmes. W. York. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Capt. J. P. Palmes.) generally good very fine (4) £1,200-£1,600
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