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The George Cross (exchange Edward Medal) awarded to Albert Meadows, an Assistant Store Keeper at at the distillery of Messrs. W. & A. Gilbey, Ltd., Camden Town, who made 4 attempts to rescue fellow employees overcome by fumes in a large vat on 18 September 1931 George Cross (Albert John Meadows) very fine £7,000-£9,000
Hammer Price: £7,000
A fine ‘Royal Household’ G.C.V.O., ‘Civil Division’ K.C.B., Crimean War C.B. group of nine awarded to Colonel Sir Robert N. F. Kingscote, Scots Fusilier Guards, later Honorary Colonel, 4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, who served as a Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire, Receiver-General to the Duchy of Cornwall, and Paymaster to the Royal Household and Extra Equerry to H.M. King Edward VII The Royal Victorian Order, G.C.V.O., Knight Grand Cross, set of insignia,...
Hammer Price: £8,500
An inter-War K.C.M.G., Great War D.S.O. group of ten awarded to Colonel Sir William R. Campion, Sussex Regiment, who served as Member of Parliament for Mid Sussex 1910-24, and as Governor of Western Australia 1924-31 The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, K.C.M.G. Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; and breast Star, silver, silver-gilt, gold appliqué, and enamel, with gold retaining pin; The Order of St. John of...
Hammer Price: £5,500
A C.B. group of four awarded to General J. H. E. Dalrymple, Scots Fusilier Guards, who was wounded at the Battle of the Alma, 20 September 1854, and received his Crimea Medal personally from the hands of Queen Victoria The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, gold and enamel, hallmarks for London 1877, with swivel ring and straight bar suspension, with integral gold riband buckle; Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Lt. Col. I....
Hammer Price: £2,600
A Great War C.M.G. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel A. Hosie, Royal Army Medical Corps, who served on the staff of the 9th General Hospital at Bloemfontein in 1900 and later gave evidence before the Royal Commission regarding the care and treatment of the sick and wounded in South African Hospitals The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast badge officially converted for neck wear, silver-gilt and enamel; East and West Africa...
Hammer Price: £1,400
A Great War C.B.E. group of three awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. E. S. Burch, Royal Irish Regiment, Royal Flying Corps, and Royal Air Force, late Middlesex Regiment The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with section of neck riband for display purposes; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (Capt. W....
Hammer Price: £750
A Second War C.B.E., Great War ‘Minesweeping operations’ D.S.C. group of thirteen awarded to Captain E. M. Fall, Royal Naval Reserve, late South African Light Horse, who served in H.M.S. Bellerophon during the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, and commanded the requisitioned Cunard liners Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary during the Second World War, during which he transported over half a million American troops to and from the various theatres of War under hazardous conditions. He was...
A Boer War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant Colonel G. J. Scott, Paget’s Horse, late 7th (The Princess Royal’s) Dragoon Guards Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, green enamel damage, with integral top riband bar; Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Lieut. G. J. Scott. 2/Dn. G...); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal (Capt. C. [sic] J. Scott. D/Sq. Pagets H.);...
Hammer Price: £1,800
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel F. J. Langdon, King's Liverpool Regiment, who was three times Mentioned in Despatches Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major F. J. Langdon); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, Sudan 1899, Gedid (Capt. F. J. Langdon, The King’s (L’pool) Regt.) contemporarily engraved naming; France, Third...
A Second War ‘Italian Operations’ D.S.O. group of eleven awarded to Sherman Tank Commander Major C. V. King, Prince Alfred’s Guard and Southern Rhodesian Forces, late Royal Navy, for his gallantry during the crossing of the Finale in April 1945; he had previously been wounded by shell fire on 3 June 1944 Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., silver-gilt and enamel, reverse officially dated 1945, with integral top riband bar; British War and Victory Medals (J.59714 C. V. King. Boy....
Hammer Price: £2,000
A post-War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Group Captain J. F. R. Eales-White, Royal Air Force, late Royal Scots Fusiliers and Machine Gun Corps 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 (Lieut. J. F. R. Eales-White.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £120-£160
Hammer Price: £160
A scarce post-War ‘Civil Division’ O.B.E. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel T. Steers, Royal Engineers and General List, a Chartered Surveyor who was one of the last non-combatant troops to leave the Canal Zone in December 1957 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, General Service 1918-62, 3 clasps, Palestine 1945-48, Near East, Canal Zone,...
Hammer Price: £380
A Great War O.B.E. pair awarded to Lieutenant J. Candy, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his work with sick and injured naval personnel whilst in his mid 70s The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1918; British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. J. Candy. R.N.) mounted court-style for display, good very fine (2) £160-£200
Hammer Price: £190
A Great War M.B.E. group of five awarded to Commander S. G. Gorton, Royal Naval Reserve, late Mercantile Marine The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919, in Garrard, London, case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. S. G. Gorton. R.N.R.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, the Second War medals late issue, in named boxes of issue, extremely fine (5) £180-£220
Hammer Price: £180
An inter-War ‘Civil Division’ M.B.E. and Order of St John group of five awarded to Corps Superintendent (Huddersfield) G. W. Haigh, Order of St John of Jerusalem The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, silver, with heraldic beast in angles; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silver and enamel,...
Hammer Price: £260
A Second War M.B.E. group of three awarded to Flight Lieutenant D. H. Fraser, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who served with the Central Maintenance Unit, Rhodesian Air Training Group, during the Second World War The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, with Royal Mint case of issue, in outer card box; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted for wear, nearly extremely fine (3) £120-£160
Hammer Price: £100
A well-documented post-War ‘Palestine’ M.B.E. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. B. Powell, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, who served in the Army Kinema Section in Palestine, and subsequently as Ordnance Executive Officer with the Control Commission for Germany 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; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp,...
Hammer Price: £360
A post-War M.B.E. group of five awarded to Captain B. Lloyd, Royal Engineers, who served as a Bomb Disposal Officer commanding 49 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squadron in the Falkland Islands from June to September 1982, ‘dealing with a large quantity of unexploded objects including bombs, missiles, rockets and mortars’ The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Northern Ireland...
Hammer Price: £6,000
A Second War ‘Bombardment of the Gothic Line and German Adriatic flank’ D.S.C. group of eight awarded to Commander T. C. Robinson, Royal Navy Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated 1945; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Africa Star; Burma Star, 1 clasp, Pacific; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, together with the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted, and...
Hammer Price: £1,200
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of four awarded to Major R. E. A. Richardson, Royal Garrison Artillery Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. R. E. A. Richardson.); War Medal 1939-45, mounted for wear, good very fine (4) £600-£800
Hammer Price: £600
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Major C. H. Hudson, Seaforth Highlanders, later Chief Officer, Woking Fire Brigade Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse contemporarily engraved ‘Captain C H. Hudson 6th Seaforth Highrs 18th. Septr. 1918.’; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. C. H. Hudson. Sea. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C. H. Hudson.); Defence Medal; Jubilee 1935 (C. H. Hudson.) contemporarily engraved naming; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued,...
Hammer Price: £1,000
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of five awarded to Major P. K. Doyle, Leinster Regiment, later East Surrey Regiment, who was twice wounded Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse privately engraved ‘P. K. Doyle, 22nd March 1918’; British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. P. K. Doyle. M.C. Leinster R.) and additionally stamped ‘Duplicate’; Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt. P. K. Doyle.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted for wear; together with the related miniature awards, these...
Hammer Price: £800
A Great War 1918 ‘Western Front’ M.C., 1917 ‘Attack on Vimy’ M.M. group of six awarded to Lieutenant G. A. Jackson, 7th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was seriously wounded at Amiens on 8 August 1918 whilst serving as the Battalion Scout Officer Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; Military Medal, G.V.R. (116142 Cpl. G. A. Jackson. 7/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G. A. Jackson.); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in...
Hammer Price: £3,800
A Second War ‘Bomber Command’ D.F.C. group of six awarded to Rear Gunner Flight Lieutenant H. W. J. Stewart, Royal Canadian Air Force, who was awarded an Immediate D.F.C. for his gallantry in shooting down a Focke Wulfe 190 and assisting his pilot in evading the attention of no fewer than six enemy fighters in December 1942, and was subsequently killed in action when his Lancaster was shot down during a raid over Berlin on 23 November 1943, on what was his fifth Operational Sortie to the...
Hammer Price: £2,800
A Second War ‘Burma operations’ A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Acting Matron Joyce S. French, Burma Hospital Corps Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.VI.R. 1st issue, silver and enamel; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, both privately engraved ‘J. S. French.’, mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £400-£500
Hammer Price: £300
A Second War Kaiser-I-Hind and Order of St. John group of three awarded to Isabel, Lady Tennant, who previously served during the Great War with the Women's Royal Naval Service, employed as a Decoder in the Intelligence Office at Granton Naval Base Kaisar-I-Hind, G.V.R., 2nd class, 2nd type, silver, with integral top brooch bar; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Commander’s (Sister’s) shoulder badge, silver and enamel, with heraldic beasts in angles, on lady’s bow riband; Service...
Hammer Price: £440
An Order of St. John group of eight awarded to Able Seaman R. A. W. Hayward, Royal Navy The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Brother’s), breast badge, silver and enamel, heraldic beasts in angles; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; Burma Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Service Medal of the Order of St John, silver, straight bar suspension, unnamed, court mounted for wear, very fine (8) £100-£140
Hammer Price: £170
An Order of St John group of three awarded to Monsignor C. J. Campbell, Chaplain-General (Roman Catholic), Canadian Armed Forces The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, silver and enamel; Canada, Special Service Medal, 1 clasp, NATO OTAN; Canadian Forces Decoration, E.II.R., with Second Award Bar (Maj C J Campbell) mounted for display, good very fine (3) £120-£160
Hammer Price: £340
An Order of St John group of five awarded to Lady Superintendent B. Bourke, Children’s Home Division and 1st (Stoke Newington) Nursing Division, St John Ambulance Brigade, who was one of the first eight women to be awarded the Service Medal of the Order The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s shoulder badge, silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, white enamel repair to two arms; Jubilee 1897, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Lady Treasr. Miss. B. Bourke.); Coronation 1902,...
Hammer Price: £500
An Order of St. John group of three awarded to C. E. Hannah The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silver and enamel, the reverse contemporarily engraved ‘C. E. Hannah. 26.7.46’, with miniature emblem on riband; South Africa Medal for War Service (Charles Edward Hannah) contemporarily engraved naming; Service Medal of the Order of St John, with Second Award Bar (2581. C. E. Hannah. S.A.R. & H. Dist. S. Africa. S.J.A.B.O. 1938.) edge bruising to first,...
Hammer Price: £120
A Great War ‘German Spring Offensive’ D.C.M. and ‘Somme 1916’ M.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant S. E. Williams, 18th (Pals) Battalion, Liverpool Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (16883 Sjt: S. E. Williams. M.M. 18/L’pool R.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (18-16883 L. Cpl. S. E. Williams. 18/L’pool. R.; 1914-15 Star (16883 Pte. S. E. Williams. L’pool R.); British War and Victory Medals (16883 Sjt. S. E. Williams. L’pool R.) mounted for display, contact marks and...
Hammer Price: £3,200
Family Group: An outstanding Great War ‘Dewdrop Trench 1916’ D.C.M. and ‘Sensee River 1917’ M.M. group of five awarded to Corporal C. E. Read, 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, who died of wounds in December 1917 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (10444 L. Cpl. C. E. Read. 1/Middx: R.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (10444 Cpl. C. E. Read. 1/Midd’x: R.); 1914-15 Star (G-10444. Pte. C. E. Read, Middx. R.); British War and Victory Medals (G.10444 Cpl. C. E. Read. Midd’x R.)...
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M., M.M. group of five awarded to Corporal W. Anderson, 1/5th (Sutherland and Caithness Highland) Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (242018 Pte. W. Anderson. 1/5 Sea: Highrs:); Military Medal, G.V.R. (42018 Pte. W. Anderson. 1/5 Sea: Highrs:); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (10357 Pte .W. Anderson 1st. Bn. Sea. Highrs.); British War Medal 1914-20 (10357 Cpl. W. Anderson. Seaforth.);...
Hammer Price: £1,500
A scarce ‘1914 Royal Visit’ Western Front D.C.M. group of six, awarded to Corporal, later Battery Quartermaster Sergeant, W. F. Deag, 60th (Howitzer) Battery, Royal Field Artillery, for his gallant conduct whilst in charge of the Battery telephones between August and November 1914: he was one of only 32 Warrant Officers, N.C.Os., and Men who were personally presented with an unnamed D.C.M. by H.M. King George V at Hazebrouck Railway Station on 3 December 1914 during the Royal Visit to...
A poignant Great War ‘Western Front 1918’ D.C.M. group of three awarded to Scout-Sergeant George Thomson, 1/5th Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who, having been decorated for his gallantry at Beugneux on 29 July 1918, was killed in his battalion’s final action of the War at Anseghem on 31 October Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (241579 Cpl.-A. Sjt: G. Thomson. 1/5 K.O. Sco: Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (241579 A. Sjt. G. Thomson. K.O.S.B.) medals...
£1,400–£1,800
A fine Great War ‘Western Front 1918’ D.C.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant W. H. Taylor, East Surrey Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (31049 L. Sjt: W. H. Taylor. 1/E. Surr. R.); British War and Victory Medals (31049 Sjt. W. H. Taylor E. Surr. R.) together with original registered packet of issue for Great War campaign medals addressed to recipient at ‘Church Road, Merton, Surrey,’ good very fine or better (3) £1,200-£1,600
A Great War ‘Hindenburg Line, September 1918’ D.C.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant N. Wood, 2/4th Battalion, West Riding Regiment, for gallantry in charge of a bombing party at Rumilly Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (266796 Sjt. N. Wood. 2/4 W. Rid. R.); British War and Victory Medals (9266796 Sjt. N. Wood. W. Rid. R.) medals unmounted, nearly very fine (3) £800-£1,000
A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. awarded to Company Sergeant Major A. T. Jeffcock, 11th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 23 March 1918 Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (S-3014 C.S. Mjr: A. T. Jeffcock. 11/Rif: Bde:); Memorial Plaque (Alfred Thomas Jeffcock) good very fine (2) £700-£900
Hammer Price: £700
A scarce 1914 'Battle of Ypres’ D.C.M. group of five awarded to Driver T. Wells, Army Service Corps, attached 5th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, who served in the same bearer company as Lieutenant A. Martin-Leake V.C., and was awarded the D.C.M. for his gallantry on one of the occasions recorded in the official recommendation for the award of Martin-Leake's (then unique) Second Award Bar to his Victoria Cross, both men being noted for their conspicuous gallantry near Zonnebeke...
A very rare ‘Chinese Civil War’ C.G.M. awarded to Able Seaman Clifford Beese, H.M.S. Kiawo, for ‘conspicuous courage amongst the survivors of the boarding party’ who had attempted the rescue of the crews of the steamers Wanhsien and Wanting which had been seized by Chinese troops at the port of Wanhsien on the Yangtze river in September 1926, an action described by one historian as a ‘twentieth-century revival of a Nelsonic manoeuvre’; Beese was amongst the wounded and received...
Hammer Price: £8,000
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