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The C.B., Kenya ‘Mau Mau’ C.B.E., Second War North West Europe 1944 D.S.O. and 1945 Second Award Bar group of thirteen awarded to Major-General the Lord Thurlow, Seaforth Highlanders, who served during the Second War in Palestine, Trans-Jordan, Eritrea, and the Western Desert, before landing with the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders on D-Day, and serving as their Commanding Officer in France. Awarded the D.S.O. for securing a bridgehead across the River Vie in September 1944, he added a...
£8,000–£10,000
A fine C.M.G., C.B.E., Boer War D.S.O. group of nine awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Baron Bentinck, Rifle Brigade The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, subsequently converted for neck wear, with neck riband; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel,...
Hammer Price: £5,000
The Great War C.M.G., ‘Battle of Loos’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Brigadier-General the Honourable L. J. P. Butler, Irish Guards, who commanded the 2nd Battalion at the Battle of Loos during their first experience of War, September 1915: ‘Jerry did himself well at Loos upon us innocents. We went into it, knowing no more that our own dead what was coming, and Jerry fair lifted us out of it with machine-guns’, an experience where, over five punishing days and nights, the battalion...
Hammer Price: £3,800
Family Group: The C.B.E. attributed to Mai, Lady Kylsant The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 1st type lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; together with an H.M.S. Conway Prize Distribution Medal, gold (9ct., hallmarks for Birmingham 1921), the reverse engraved ‘Prize Distribution Lady Philipps, C.B.E., July 26th. 1921.’, in fitted case of issue, about extremely fine The...
Hammer Price: £440
The unique Sudan ‘Battles of the Atbara and Khartoum’ Royal Cavalry Officer’s D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Major His Serene Highness Prince Francis of Teck, G.C.V.O., 1st Dragoons, and the brother to H.M. Queen Mary Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Jubilee 1887, gold, with 1897 clasp; Coronation 1902, silver; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Capt. H.S.H. Prince Francis of Teck. K.C.V.O. D.S.O. E.A.); Queen’s South Africa...
Hammer Price: £14,000
The mounted group of eight miniature dress medals worn by Major His Serene Highness Prince Francis of Teck, G.C.V.O., 1st Dragoons, and the brother to H.M. Queen Mary Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Jubilee 1887, gold, with 1897 clasp; Coronation 1902, silver; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal; Germany, Saxony, Ernestine House Order, Military Division, 4th Class...
Hammer Price: £1,500
The M.V.O. group of eleven awarded to Captain R. G. Bowes-Lyon, Royal Navy, who, having seen extensive action in the Dardanelles in the battleship Agamemnon 1915-16, and witnessed the destruction of the Zeppelin LZ-85 over Salonika, fought in the Baltic operations of 1919 and held seagoing command in the 1939-45 War: he was a first cousin of H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse...
Hammer Price: £2,000
An O.B.E., M.V.O. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable M. V. B. Brett, Royal Highlanders, late Coldstream Guards, who served as Aide-de-Camp to General Sir John French and married Zena Dare, a star of the stage and screen The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O. Member’s 5th Class breast badge, silver and enamel, un-numbered as...
Hammer Price: £1,300
The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable M. V. B. Brett, Royal Highlanders, late Coldstream Guards, who served as Aide-de-Camp to General Sir John French and married Zena Dare, a star of the stage and screen The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt; The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O. Member’s 5th Class breast badge, silver and enamel; 1914 Star, with clasp; British...
Hammer Price: £300
The Great War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Sybil, the Honourable Mrs. Orpen, British Red Cross Society, and the daughter of Field Marshal the Lord Plumer The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1953; Voluntary Medical Service Medal (The Honble Mrs. Sybil M. Orpen), with five ‘Geneva Cross’ Additional...
Hammer Price: £240
The O.B.E. group of four awarded to Jennet, the Honourable Mrs. David Bruce, French Red Cross and British Red Cross Society The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt, on lady’s bow riband, in Royal Mint case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (J. Rawstorne.); Defence Medal, good very fine and better (4) £140-180
Hammer Price: £500
An early Great War M.C. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel the Earl of Gosford, Coldstream Guards, who was wounded in both the Boer War and in the Great War, and subsequently joined the New York Police Department Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Lieut: A. C. M. B. Lord Acheson. C. Gds:), unofficial rivets between State and date clasps; 1914 Star (Lieut:...
Hammer Price: £2,200
A Great War M.C. group of seven awarded to Captain the Lord Rankeillour, G.C.I.E., Coldstream Guards, a First Class Cricketer and later Member of Parliament for Nuneaton, Treasurer of the Household, and Governor of Madras Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut: A. O. J. Hope. C. Gds:); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. A. O. J. Hope); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, reverse dated ‘1914-1917’,...
Hammer Price: £1,600
The historically interesting Great War ‘Salonika’ M.C. group of six awarded to Major E. G. M. Phillips, Black Watch, Comptroller to H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor throughout the Second World War, when he aided the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s evacuation from France in June 1940, met Churchill at Downing Street, caused a stir by using a Royal postcard to write to a friend in Fascist Italy, and reported the murder of Sir Harry Oakes in the Bahamas Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as...
Hammer Price: £1,700
Three: Lieutenant the Honourable A. T. Fitzmaurice, 72nd Highlanders, later Groom of the Bedchamber to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Lieut. A. T. Fitzmaurice, 72nd. Reg) officially impressed naming; Jubilee 1887, silver, unnamed as issued; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (The Honble. A. Fitzmaurice. 72nd. Highdrs.) contemporarily engraved naming, a contemporary tailor’s copy, by ‘J.B.’, swivel-ring suspension, contact marks, nearly very fine...
Hammer Price: £1,400
Pair: Captain Sir Nicholas Bacon, Bt., 4th Dragoon Guards, Premier Baronet of England Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Capt: N. H. Bacon. 4th. Dn. Gds.) unit officially corrected; Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, pitting from Star, otherwise very fine (2) £300-340
Five: Major Baron de Teissier, Shropshire Light Infantry, later 8th Hussars, Yorkshire Regiment, and Imperial Yeomanry Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, Suakin 1885, The Nile 1884-85, clasps mounted in this order with unofficial retaining rod between clasps (Lieut: H. de Teissier, 1/Shrops: L.I.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, third clasp as tailor’s copy (Major H. Baron de Teissier, Yorkshire...
Six: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Codrington, Bt., 11th Hussars, who was severely wounded at the attack on Wagon Hill, 6 January 1900 whilst serving with the Imperial Light Horse, and subsequently commanded the 1st Motor Machine Gun Brigade during the Great War India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Lieut. W. R. Codrington. 11th. Hussars.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Mafeking, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Bt:...
Five: Major the Honourable Gilbert Grosvenor, Rifle Brigade, later King Edward’s Horse and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, Cape Colony (Lieut: Hon. G. Grosvenor, Rifle Bde:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt. Hon. G. Grosvenor. Rifle Bde.); 1914-15 Star (Lieut. Hon. G. Grosvenor. K. Edw. H.); British War and Victory Medals (Major Hon. G. Grosvenor.) light contact marks, good very fine (5) £300-400
Hammer Price: £900
Five: Nursing Sister Baroness Bentinck, Red Cross Society Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Miss. A. Burnett-Ramsay, Nursing Sister.) final ‘a’ in surname officially corrected; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Nursing Sister A. Burnett Ramsay.) unofficially renamed; British War and Victory Medals (Baroness A. E. Bentinck.); France, Third Republic, Medal of the Society of Aid to Military Wounded, silver, with original ‘Red Cross’ riband, and top ‘Croix-Rouge...
Hammer Price: £650
Six: Captain the Lord Rotherham, 6th Dragoons Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut: S. L. Holland. 6/Drgns.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. Hon. S. L. Holland. 6/Dns.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. Hon. S. L. Holland.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, nearly extremely fine (6) £500-600
Hammer Price: £750
Four: Captain Sir Alexander Napier, Bt., Grenadier Guards, who was twice wounded during the Great War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (2/Lt: A. L. M. Napier, Gren: Gds:); 1914-15 Star (Capt. Sir A. L. M. Napier. Bt. G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. Sir A. L. M. Napier. Bt.) mounted court-style as worn, minor edge bruising to QSA, toned, good very fine and better (4) £400-500
Pair: Lieutenant Sir A. V. F. Seymour, Bt., Lancashire Fusiliers, and Page of Honour to H.M. Queen Victoria Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut. Sir. A. V. F. Seymour. Bt. Lanc. Fus.); Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed as issued, minor edge bruise to first, generally very fine, the QSA better (2) £300-360
The important group of five awarded to Alice, the Honourable Mrs. George Keppel, British Red Cross Society, the notorious Mistress of King Edward VII, an international Grande Dame, and the great-grandmother of H.R.H. the Duchess of Cornwall 1914 Star (Hon. A. F. Keppel, B.R.C.S. & O.St.J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (The Hon. A. F. Keppel, B.R.C.S. & O.St.J.J.); Coronation 1902, silver; Jubilee 1935, good very fine (5) £2000-3000
Hammer Price: £5,500
Five: Major Sir Edward Durand, Bt., 8th Rajputs, Indian Army, late Northumberland Fusiliers and East Surrey Regiment 1914-15 Star (Lt. E. P. M. Durand, 8/ Rajputs.); British War and Victory Medals, with riband-bar M.I.D. oak leaves; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (Capt. E. P. M. Durand Bart. 8 Rajputs.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued, good very fine (5) £280-320
Hammer Price: £420
Four: Major the Marquess of Winchester, Rife Brigade, and the Premier Marquess of England, and the oldest ever member of the House of Lords 1914-15 Star (Major Marquis of Winchester. Rif: Brig:); British War and Victory Medals (Major Marquis of Winchester); Coronation 1911, traces of lacquer, nearly extremely fine (4) £300-400
Three: Lieutenant-Colonel V. F. W. A. Paget, Royal Field Artillery, the great-nephew of Field Marshal Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, who commanded the Cavalry at Waterloo 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col. V. F. W. A. Paget. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. V. F. W. A. Paget.) very fine (3) £140-180
Five: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Jaffray, Bt., 1st Dragoon Guards and Royal Flying Corps, later Warwickshire Yeomanry British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. Sir W. E. Jaffray, Bt.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1935; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, with integral top ‘Territorial’ riband bar, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £200-240
Hammer Price: £600
Pair: Major the Viscount de Vesci, Irish Guards British War and Victory Medals (Major Viscount de Vesci) very fine (2) £60-80
Hammer Price: £550
Pair: Second Lieutenant the Honourable R. J. Hepburne-Scott, Royal Scots British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. P. J. Hepburne-Scott.) good very fine (2) £30-40
Hammer Price: £160
Three: Lieutenant Sir Austin Hudson, Bt., Royal Berkshire Regiment and Guards Machine Gun Regiment, later Member of Parliament for Islington, Hackney, and Lewisham, and Commanding Officer, 1st London Battalion, Home Guard British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. U. M. Hudson.); Defence Medal, nearly extremely fine (3) £50-70
Hammer Price: £340
Four: Major the Lord Lawrence, London Regiment British War and Victory Medals (Major Lord Lawrence); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, light contact marks, good very fine (4) £180-220
Hammer Price: £320
Three: Mary, Lady Le Breton, Voluntary Aid Detachment British War and Victory Medals (M. G. Sawbridge. V.A.D.); Defence Medal, very fine (3) £70-90
Hammer Price: £200
Pair: The Honourable Clare Stuart-Wortley, Voluntary Aid Detachment, and a noted society beauty British War and Victory Medals (The Hon. C. E. Stuart-Wortley. V.A.D.) nearly extremely fine (2) £140-180
Hammer Price: £380
Five: Zena, the Honourable Mrs. Maurice Brett, French Red Cross, and a star of the stage and screen British War and Victory Medals (Hon. Mrs. Z. Brett); Coronation 1911; Jubilee 1935; France, Third Republic, Society for Aid to the Military Wounded Cross 1914-19, silver, with original Red Cross riband, good very fine (5) £800-1000
Family Group: Pair: Captain R. L. Barnard, Royal Engineers British War and Victory Medals (Capt. R. L. Barnard.) BWM partially officially corrected, very fine Three: Driver Eileen, the Honourable Mrs. Barnard, French Red Cross British War and Victory Medals (E. Plunket.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated ‘1914-1918’, with bronze star on riband, good very fine (5) £100-140
Family Group: Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel the Lord Waleran, French Red Cross, late Devon Rifle Volunteers and Grenadier Guards, Member of Parliament for Tiverton and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; a First Class Cricketer, he was 65 when the Great War started British War and Victory Medals (Rt. Hon. Lord W. H. Waleran.) nearly extremely fine Pair: Helena, the Lady Waleran, French Red Cross British War and Victory Medals (Lady H. M. Waleran.) nearly extremely fine (4) £300-400
Hammer Price: £480
Five: Brigadier-General the Earl of Shaftesbury, K.P., G.C.V.O., C.B.E., 10th Hussars and North Irish Horse, who commanded the South Western Mounted Brigade during the Great War, and was later Lord Lieutenant of Dorset and Lord Steward of the Household British War Medal 1914-20 (Brig. Gen. Earl of Shaftesbury.); Coronation 1902, silver; Coronation 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted as worn and housed in a fitted case, good very fine (5) £600-800
Six: Lieutenant-Colonel the Lord Kensington, Corps of Guides Cavalry, Indian Army, late 15th/19th Hussars India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Lieut. Hon. W. Edwardes., 15-19-H.); India General Service 1936-39, 2 clasps, North West Frontier 1936-37, North West Frontier 1937-39, second clasp a tailor’s copy (Capt. Hon’ble W. Edwardes, Guides Cav.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, extremely fine (6) £400-500
Hammer Price: £850
Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Central India (Capt. Hon. H. W. Fitzmaurice, 72nd. Highlanders.) minor bruise and die flaw to edge, nearly extremely fine £500-600
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