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An interesting Second World War K.B.E., C.B. group of thirteen awarded to Major-General Lord Rennell of Rodd, Royal Artillery, who served with distinction as a Chief of Civil Affairs in the Mediterranean theatre of war 1941-44: as a young Intelligence Officer in Egypt and Palestine in the Great War, he met and befriended Lawrence of Arabia, and was subsequently approached by the Governor of the Bank of England to offer Lawrence the appointment of Secretary to the Bank in 1934 - the latter...
Hammer Price: £6,000
The mounted group of twelve miniature dress medals worn by Major-General Lord Rennell of Rodd, K.B.E., C.B., Royal Artillery, who served with distinction as a Chief of Civil Affairs in the Mediterranean theatre of war 1941-44: as a young Intelligence Officer in Egypt and Palestine in the Great War, he met and befriended Lawrence of Arabia, and was subsequently approached by the Governor of the Bank of England to offer Lawrence the appointment of Secretary to the Bank in 1934 - the latter...
Hammer Price: £620
The important C.M.G., C.B.E. group of fifteen awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel F. G. Peake Pasha, founder of the Arab Legion, late Duke of Wellington’s Regiment and Egyptian Camel Corps, who was most prominent in the ranks of Lawrence of Arabia’s legendary railway raiders - he co-designed the much favoured ‘tulip’ charge that reaped such havoc along the Turkish lines of communication: a fierce character with piercing blue eyes - the code word ‘Thundercloud’ flashed by way of warning...
Hammer Price: £22,000
‘Dawnay was Allenby’s greatest gift to us - greater than thousands of baggage camels ... He married war and rebellion in himself.’ T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, refers. ‘He’s a very perfect person, and when you have met him all will run easily ... He’s Eton and Magdalen, Oxford, and the Guards: and is everything that is absolutely right: and the best of it is that he looks like it, and will look like it in your drawing’. Lawrence commends Major-General A. G....
Hammer Price: £19,000
‘It was my great good fortune to be appointed General Staff Officer to the Arab Forces in the early part of 1918. From then throughout the final phase of the Arab revolt on till Damascus, I worked, travelled, and fought alongside Lawrence. Night after night we lay wrapped in our blankets under the cold stars of the desert. At these times one learns much of a man. Lawrence took the limelight from those of us professional soldiers who were fortunate enough to serve with him, but never once...
Hammer Price: £32,000
‘In Port Sudan we saw two British officers of the Egyptian Army embark for Rabegh. They were to command the Egyptian troops in Hedjaz, and to do their best to help Aziz el Masri organise the Arab Regular Force which was going to end the war from Rabegh. This was my first meeting with Joyce and Davenport, two Englishmen to whom the Arab cause owed the greater part of its foreign debt of gratitude ... Of Davenport’s successes in the south we heard by constant report.’ T. E. Lawrence,...
Hammer Price: £13,000
A Great War O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. G. Rae, Indian Army, who was also mentioned in despatches for his services in the Bikanir Camel Corps in Palestine in 1917-18 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Victory Medals. M.I.D. oak leaf (Maj. J. G. Rae); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Maj. J. G. Rae, 4-6 Raj. Rif.); Defence and...
Hammer Price: £650
An emotive Great War Hedjaz railway operations M.C. group of four awarded to 2nd Lieutenant W. T. Davies, Royal West Surrey Regiment, attached Imperial Camel Corps, late Shropshire Yeomanry, who was decorated for his gallant leadership in the famous raid on Mudowwara Station on 8 August 1918, which place he had earlier reconnoitred with four other officers, the whole attired in Arab dress: undoubtedly known to Lawrence of Arabia, who rode alongside the Camel Corps on many occasions, it seems...
Hammer Price: £5,200
The well-documented and remarkable Second World War M.B.E., Great War M.C. and Bar, D.F.C. group of nine awarded to Wing Commander J. H. Norton, Royal Canadian Air Force, late Essex Yeomanry, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, whose published account of his experiences in the Palestine campaign 1917-18 include frequent mention of personal encounters with Lawrence of Arabia - among them the occasion he flew the great man to a desert rendezvous and his direct part in one of his classic...
Hammer Price: £12,000
A rare Great War Palestine operations M.C. group of six awarded to Wing Commander S. G. Kingsley, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, late Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, who flew operationally in ‘X’ Flight, No. 14 Squadron, in support of Lawrence of Arabia’s forces 1916-17, in which period he was shot down and wounded - so, too, grounded on a patrol by engine trouble, when his Observer managed to keep the enemy at bay with accurate machine-gun fire Military Cross, G.V.R.,...
Hammer Price: £3,300
A rare Great War Hedjaz operations M.S.M. group of five awarded to Air Mechanic 1st Class J. F. Wilder, who was also mentioned in despatches for his services as a member of ‘C’ Flight, No. 14 Squadron, which unit famously acted in direct support of Lawrence of Arabia’s early operations 1914-15 Star (8268 A.M. 2 J. F. Wilder, R.F.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (8268 A.M. 1 J. F. Wilder, R.A.F.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (8268 A.M. 1 J. F. Wilder,...
Hammer Price: £1,000
A Great War Red Sea operations group of six awarded to Captain A. G. Warren, Royal Navy, aboard whose command the likes of Lawrence of Arabia and clandestine types from the Arab Bureau took passage - work that won him a rare ‘naval example’ of the Order of El Nahda Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Lieut. A. G. Warren, H.M.S. Blanche); 1914-15 Star (Commr. A. G. Warren, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. A. G. Warren, R.N.; Egypt, Order of the...
Hammer Price: £2,800
The group of six miniature dress medals worn by Captain A. G. Warren, Royal Navy, aboard whose command the likes of Lawrence of Arabia and clandestine types from the Arab Bureau took passage - work that won him a rare ‘naval example’ of the Order of El Nahda Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf ; Egypt, Order of the Nile, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; Hedjaz, Order of El Nahda, silver and enamel, generally very...
Hammer Price: £380
A rare example of the prestigious Lawrence Memorial Medal to a lady missionary and explorer, Miss Mildred Cable, who, among other achievements over three decades in China, crossed the Gobi Desert on no less than five occasions The Royal Central Asian Society’s Lawrence Memorial Medal, silver, obverse, head of Lawrence of Arabia wearing Arabic head dress, reverse, skull and horns of the desert Ibex superimposed on a rayed sun, ‘Lawrence Memorial Medal; Cornua Levat Super Terras’,...
Hammer Price: £1,150
Turkey (Ottoman Empire), Hedjaz Railway Medal 1900, silver, with double-pin riband bar for wearing, very fine £80-100
Hammer Price: £260
Lawrence, T. E., Autographed letter signed ‘TE Shaw’, to Martin Allerdale Grainger, a British subject who had settled in British Columbia, Canada, dated at Cattewater, Plymouth, 10 July 1929, the full text stating: ‘Dear Sir, Very kind of you, but prefer England to anything I’ve ever seen elsewhere. I hope the rubbish in the papers did not take you in: they love so to make a mystery about nothing. The R.A.F. is the pleasantest thing I’ve ever found to do: which is why I do it, only...
Lawrence, T. E., autographed letter signed ‘TE Shaw’, to John Steinman, a Press Officer at the Air Ministry, dated at 14 Barton Street, S.W. 1, 19 September 1929, in which he thanks him for photographs taken at the Schneider Trophy contest at Calshot - ‘The C.O. in that Ramsay-Mac effort is superb. I wouldn’t have missed it for - pence, I suppose I’d better say, in view of my leave-expenses so near!’; and rejoicing in the fact that his leave is over - ‘I write from Plymouth,...
Hammer Price: £950
Hedjaz, first issue stamps on cover, dated 1916, being a 1/2 piaster green and 1 piaster blue, with black ink circular ‘Djedda’ stamp, and ‘Port Said’ circular stamp to reverse of the envelope, this dated ‘6.XI.16’, apparently never sealed and in excellent condition £80-100
Hammer Price: £45
A rare official Grant of Squadron Badge for ‘No. 144 Bomber Squadron’, which unit flew in support of Lawrence’s Arab Northern Army Hand-illuminated badge and motto, as painted by an artist of the College of Arms, dated March 1938, and signed by the Chester Herald and Inspector of Royal Air Force Badges, J. Heaton-Armstrong, and H.M. King George VI, mounted on card, in excellent condition £180-220
Hammer Price: £420
An extremely rare Arab keffiyeh and agal worn by Gunner H. W. Bailey, a member of the Hedjaz Armoured Car Company in 1917-18, together with related documentation comprising a piece of light brown cotton material, approximately 102cm. square and fringed, folded and roughly stitched into a triangle, together with a double circlet of rope in blue and brown cotton, part covered with metallic thread; together with one or two original photographs, one of them depicting Bailey wearing this...
Hammer Price: £1,600
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