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Lot 472
MILITARY / BRITISH HISTORY INTEREST, a family archive of documents, medals, badges, crests, photograph albums, loose photographs, birth, marriage and death certificates, wills and other ephemera relating largely to the Gibbons Mayne and the Davis / Hancock family, including a 1732 commission from Earl of Leicester, Viscount Lisle appointing Sir Charles Farnaby ‘Captain of the Troop of Horse…’, an 1807 commission creating William Henry Gibbons a Lieutenant, an 1811 commission appointing Jeremiah Gibbons as first Lieutenant ‘to our Fifty Eighth Company of Royal Marines, a 1707 document in Latin relating to William Gibbons, which appear to relate to medicine and learning, seal attached, , an 1846 document granting William Gibbons Mayne licence and authority to perform the office of Curate in the Chapel of St. John’s Ingrow in the parish of Keighley, Yorkshire, an 1851 passport for ‘The Rev. William Gibbons Mayne M.A.’ and his wife, signed by Palmerston, 3rd (West) Kent Rifle Volunteers documents for Lieutenant W.G. Mayne, comprising a commission for Lieutenant dated 2nd January 1882, signed by Queen Victoria, a drill order for the Bromley detachment date February 1882, a certificate of proficiency (Army Form E.571) dated 5th August 1882, together with a badge for the West Kent Rifles, Rev. William Gibbons Mayne appears to have been resident at Magdalene College, Cambridge and ephemera relating to this includes Cambridge University Boat Races cards for 1881 (second day, 14th May) and 1882 (first day, 7th June), a Magdalene College Athletics Sports card for November 1879, with handwritten results and three letters from Gladstone’s 10 Downing Street office relating to the results of votes at the university, dated 1881 x2 and 1882, a sepia photograph of male figures walking in a quadrangle, two small shields with Magdalene’s coat of arms, two Lichfield Cathedral ordination as priest and deacon documents for William Gibbons Mayne, dated 1885 and 1886, eight late 19th century menus, both printed and hand written, five bearing the same coat of arms, five World War I military Christmas cards, various divisions, a set of four George VI World War II medals, a Thomas Fattorini enamelled ARP County Control badge, an A.R.P. badge, a ‘Stafford Bombed Areas Fund’ badge, two early 20th century Women’s Institute ‘For Home & Country’ enamelled badges by Fattorini of Bradford, a Royal Engineers brass badge, an enamelled ‘The Essex Regt’ enamelled badge and another Essex Regt badge, other badges include Royal commemorative, YMCA, Red Cross, pilgrim, a Late Victorian silver ‘Ellen’ brooch, pocket watch keys, a black and white photograph printed on a postcard with inscription verso ‘H.M.T ‘ARAGON’ Torpedoed 3 miles outside Alex. Dec 30th 1917 -Half the people carried were drowned. Can you see me?’, and a small quantity of identity, ration and nursing ephemera relating to Helen C. Mayne’, Helen Charlotte Mayne was the wife of Rev William Gibbons Mayne the younger (1860-1928), ( his forebear, possibly his father was Rev William Gibbons Mayne the elder 1803-1875) the ephemera and photographs largely relate to the families of Rev William Gibbons Mayne the younger and the family of his wife Mrs Helen Mayne, three 19th century framed silhouettes of unknown sitters, one a clergyman (Two boxes and a suitcase), Customers must satisfy themselves prior to sale in regards to conditions and authenticity, viewing is advised, condition reports are available on request
Lot 154
Post WWII British Army Royal Corps Transport stable belt, assorted British Army officers pip badge, brass buttons, buckles, fastenings and buttons and assorted women's work cookery medals, brass padlock, various enamelled badges and a collection of British Army rank slides embroidered RASC and RIASC
Lot 2800
History, Second World War – Churchill (Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, KG, OM, CH, PC, TD, DL, FRS, 1874-1965), The Second World War, 6 vols. London, Cassell, 1948-1954, 1st edn., small 8vo, Vol.1: The Gathering Storm; Vol. 2: Their Finest Hour; Vol. 3: The Grand Alliance; Vol. 4: The Hinge of Fate; Vol. 5: Closing the Ring; Vol. 6: Triumph and Tragedy, printed WSC endpapers and d. w., publisher’s black boards, gilt spine titles, d.ws. worn some with tears; Spears (Maj. Gen. Sir Edward, 1st Bt., KBE, CB, MC 1886-1974), Assignment to Catastrophe, 2 Vols., London, William Heinemann, 1954 (repr. 1954), maps to endpapers, bound red cloth, gilt spine titles; Gallico (Paul), The Snow Goose: a Story of Dunkirk, London, Michael Joseph, 10th impression 1943, 12mo, unpaginated, blue boards with goose in oval cartouche, silvered titles, colour printed d.w.; Montgomery (Field Marshall Bernard Law, Rt. Hon. 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, 1887-1976), Alamein to the River Sangro, Germany, BAOR, privately published, 1st edn., 158pp, large 12mo, map to frontis., blue boards, gilt titles with 8th army badge, spine titles, coloured d.w. mended with tape, top of spine worn, minimal tearing (10)
Lot 14
A WWI Princess Mary gift tin, with cards and pipe in a glazed frame; Army book 136 marked to A.C. Sutton, Major 89th Battn CEF, being a list of personnel with details; a Red cross arm band marked "Medical Service Middle East Forces Protected under Geneva Convention"; a blue armband with cannon badge. GC £60-80
Lot 878
Postcards, Silks, 4 military and patriotic embroidered silk cards, inc. Salvation Army 'Blood & Fire' on badge; ASC above motor car; AVC (Army Veterinary Corps) with horses head either side of badge; and bulldog portrait on flap to centre of Union Jack colours with the caption 'John Bull is Ever Ready' (gd/vg)
Lot 868
Postcards, Silks, 3 military embroidered silks inc. A.S.C (Army Service Corps) with motor car below ASC and 4 flags protruding from the roof; R.F.A (Royal Field Artillery) showing crossed cannons with RFA above and flag each side; A.V.C (Army Veterinary Corps) badge with horses head either side of AVC in wreath and 'Good Luck from France' (mainly gd)
Lot 852
Postcards, Silks, 3 military embroidered regimental silks, inc. York and Lancaster Regt with lion and rose within badge and crown above, A.V.C Army Veterinary Service with seven point star badge with crown above, and South Wales Borderers showing Sphinx to centre of daisy wreath and flags and crown above (gd)
Lot 461
Five: Major J. R. Mottershaw, Postal Section, Royal Engineers, who was Mentioned in Despatches for services in the Middle East 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Army Emergency Reserve Decoration, E.II.R., reverse officially dated 1959, with integral top riband bar, mounted as worn, with OHMS transmission box fro the Second War awards, addressed to ‘J. R. Mottershaw, Esq., 41 Greenhill Drive, Bramley, Leeds’; and the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted, lacquered, extremely fine (5) £120-£160 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 24 June 1943. John Roland Mottershaw was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Postal Section, Royal Engineers, on 6 April 1940, and was advanced Captain on 8 January 1946, and Major on 1 September 1952. He was awarded the Army Emergency Reserve Decoration in 1959 (London Gazette 11 September 1959), and was awarded a second Award Bar in 1963 (London Gazette 19 March 1963). He retired, having reached the age limit, on 1 December 1965, retaining the rank of Major. Sold with a Royal Engineers cap badge and a pair of Royal Engineers cuff-links.
Lot 69
An Order of St. John group of four awarded to Private J. E. Death, Devonshire Regiment and Order of St. John of Jerusalem The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background; British War Medal 1914-20 (64919 Pte. J. E. Death. Devon R.); Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Service Medal of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, silver, with three Additional Award Bars (3061. Sgt. J. E Death. (Ipswich 1st.) Div. No.10 Dist. S.J.A.B. 1923) very fine and better (4) £120-£160 --- John Ernest Death lived at Lister Road, Ipswich, and initially served on convoy duties with the British Red Cross in his home town. Called up for active service in June 1916, he remained in England with the 2/6th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, and is recorded upon his MIC as entitled to the BWM only. Transferred to the Army Reserve on 10 July 1919, he took employment in Ipswich as an Assistant Elementary Schoolmaster and was later decorated as a Serving Brother in the Order of St John of Jerusalem, as notified in the London Gazette of 3 January 1930.
Lot 856
German Second World War Insignia. Kriegsmarine Officers or Army General’s removable breast eagle for the white summer tunic, all fittings on the reverse side complete, gilt excellent. Kriegsmarine Administration Officers or Army Officers removable breast eagle for the white summer tunic with some slight toning to the silvered finish. Removable breast eagle unidentified, all the finish missing, complete with its fittings on the reverse side. A three leaf Jager badge with three pins on the reverse side for fitting to a piece of headgear. A left hand side-on view badge of a German helmet with Third Reich Armed Forces eagle to the centre, presumably for fitting to a photograph album, good condition (5) £100-£140
Lot 21
A fine ‘Victorian’ R.R.C. group of four awarded to Matron Lenora Maxwell St. John, Indian Army Nursing Service, later British Committee of the French Red Cross and Serbian Relief Fund Royal Red Cross, 1st Class, V.R., silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; British War and Victory Medals (L. Maxwell St. John.); Serbia, Kingdom, Order of St. Sava, Fifth Class, lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt and enamel, Bishop in green robes, minor contact marks and edge nick to BWM, very fine and better (4) £800-£1,000 --- R.R.C. London Gazette 25 July 1899. The Register of the Royal Red Cross, 1883-1994, notes: ‘In recognition of her special devotion and competency in the discharge of her duties and the care bestowed in training British soldiers and Army Hospital Corps attendants in nursing duties.’ Leonora Maxwell St. John (née Muller) was born in Glasgow on 3 July 1862. She was first appointed to the Temporary Army Nursing Service on 12 March 1885 as a replacement for nurses going to Egypt. Admitted to the Permanent Service on 3 July 1887, she later took appointment as Nursing Sister in the Indian Army Nursing Service on 21 February 1888. Promoted Acting Superintendent 21 August 1890, and Lady Superintendent 1 April 1893, she completed two terms of service with the I.A.N.S., ending on 16 March 1899, and was decorated by the Queen at Osborn House on 24 August 1899. In 1903 she married Captain Arthur St. John of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and took the surname Maxwell-St. John. She then served from 1904 to 1914 as a member of the India Office Nursing Board, interviewing candidates for appointment to the I.A.N.S. in London. From 1914 to 1915 she served under the British Committee of the French Red Cross, firstly as Matron of The Auxiliary Military Hospital No. 307, better known as the Anglo-French-American Homeopathic Hospital. Established at Neuilly in a villa on the Boulevard Victor-Hugo in February 1915, it had 40-75 beds and was mostly British staffed. It closed in March, 1916. Maxwell St. John subsequently served with the Serbian Relief Fund in Corfu from 3 June 1916 to 13 September 1916, before crossing to Serbia and witnessing a further year of nursing as Matron of the Serbian Relief Fund Hospital. This latter work was formally recognised by His Majesty The King of Serbia with the award of the Order of St. Sava 5th Class on 31 October 1917: ‘in recognition of services rendered to the Serbian people.’ Sold with extensive copied research including an interesting letter written by the recipient on 12 February 1916 to the Under Secretary of State for India, stating the loss of her R.R.C. decoration during an official hospital visit in France: ‘There was a crush, my cross was wrenched off - probably unintentionally’. She was later informed that a duplicate award could be supplied, on payment of £3. 16s. 6d. Consequently, the R.R.C. decoration in this lot may well be that official replacement.
Lot 861
A German Army Female Signal Helper’s Badge. A scarce badge, 30mm in diameter, green arrow on black background with pin back suspension. Maker marked ‘O’ on the reverse side, which may be the late war marking for Steinhauer & Luck of Ludenscheid (the same markings are found on late war Luftwaffe Flight Bars), minor enamel damage, therefore reasonable condition £50-£70
Lot 673
Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (360 Pte. J. Lumsden. 7/R. Hdrs.) good very fine £60-£80 --- John Lumsden was born in Dollar, Clackmannanshire, on 13 March 1879 and attested for the 7th Battalion, Royal Highlanders (Territorial Force) on 9 April 1908. He was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 107 of 1 April 1912, and was advanced Sergeant Cook on 27 October 1920. He does not appear to have served overseas during the Great War, but was awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold with copied attestation and service papers.
Lot 27
A scarce Inter-War R.R.C. group of four awarded to Senior Nursing Sister Ethel Kelso, Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India, who later served in her early 70s as a Lady Ambulance Driver on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; 1914 Star (Nursing Sister E. Kelso, Q.A.M.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Nursing Sister E. Kelso.) good very fine (4) £600-£800 --- One of only twelve 1914 Stars awarded to nurses of the Indian Service. R.R.C. London Gazette 31 December 1921. M.I.D. London Gazette 22 June 1915. Ethel Kelso was born in Trimulgherry, India, on 8 October 1873, the daughter of Lieutenant John Andrew Kelso of the Royal Artillery, who was shortly afterwards killed in action at the Siege of Peiwar Kotal on 2 December 1878. Educated in Bath at the School for Daughters of the Officers of the Army, she trained as a nurse at Charing Cross Hospital from 1899 to 1902 and remained on the staff as Sister in a male medical ward until 24 January 1904. Interviewed on 3 February 1904 for the Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service for India, she soon found herself bound for Secunderabad aboard the Moldavia. Appointed Nursing Sister, she transferred to Meerut in January 1908 and Ranikhet in July 1908, followed by postings at Mhow and Rawalpindi. On the outbreak of the Great War she was selected as one of 17 Indian Service nurses to go to France, nursing in Marseilles at the Rawalpindi British General Hospital from October 1914. Relocated with the hospital to Wimereux, she was Mentioned in Despatches by Sir John French before returning home to India on 13 December 1915. Taking appointment at Poona in 1916 and Nowshere in April 1918, Kelso was raised Senior Nursing Sister at Mhow on 10 May 1920. A short while later she retired and was awarded the R.R.C., which she received from the King himself at Buckingham Palace on 9 February 1922. Settling in south-west Cornwall, Kelso later served from 15 June 1942 to 9 January 1946 as an Ambulance Officer with the Mullion Nursing Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade; despite the idyllic coastal setting, her life was likely extremely busy with large numbers of air force personnel stationed in her home village and thousands of American G.I.s making preparations for the D-Day landings at Trebah Gardens. Sold with a fine Charing Cross Hospital nursing badge, engraved ‘Ethel Kelso. Dec. 1902.’ to reverse, with copied research.
Lot 192
A poignant ‘Casualty’ British War Medal awarded to Matron Martha S. Farley, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, late Army Nursing Service Reserve, who received the R.R.C. from the hands of King George V but died of illness a short while later British War Medal 1914-20 (Matron M. S. Farley.) re-pinned with suspension loose, multiple edge nicks, good fine to nearly very fine £70-£90 --- R.R.C. London Gazette 24 October 1917. Martha Sabina Farley was born in Drogheda, Ireland, on 24 June 1872. Educated in Drogheda and Dublin, she served as a Nursing Sister during the Boer War and is recorded in 1906 with the Army Nursing Service Reserve in Bloemfontein. Transferred to the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. on 13 July 1916, she served as Matron at Fermoy Military Hospital and was later decorated with the R.R.C. at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 21 November 1917. A few months later she contracted an illness whilst on active service. Sent to Adelaide Hospital, she died on 1 June 1918 and was buried in the Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin. Her effects were later sent to her sister in West Montreal, Canada. Sold with the recipient’s original silver Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. cape badge, hallmarked Birmingham 1915.
Lot 105
Four: Staff Nurse Evelyn M. Aubrey, Territorial Force Nursing Service, who was decorated by the Serbian Authorities for valuable service performed aboard a hospital ship in the Mediterranean 1914-15 Star (S/Nurse E. M. Aubrey. T.F.N.S.); British War and Victory Medals (S.Nurse E. M. Aubrey.); Serbia, Kingdom, Cross of Charity, gilt and enamel, reverse dated 1912 at base of central medallion, good very fine (4) £240-£280 --- Approximately 23 Serbian Crosses of Mercy awarded to the T.F.N.S. during the Great War. Serbian Cross of Mercy London Gazette 7 May 1920. Evelyn Maud Aubrey was born in 1879 and trained as a nurse at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Dover from 1906 to 1909. Employed at the 4th Southern Hospital in Plymouth, she was called up for duty as a Staff Nurse on 13 August 1914 and posted aboard the Hospital Ship Salta. Chartered by the Admiralty in February 1915, the former liner was painted white with wide green stripes and the insignia of the Red Cross, and was soon employed returning wounded soldiers to England from the Western Front. Posted abroad in July 1915, Aubrey was briefly taken on strength at No. 21 General Hospital in Alexandria. She was subsequently transferred aboard the Hospital Ship Devanha which assisted with the evacuation of the Serbian Army to Corsica; for this service Aubrey and 13 other nurses from the Devanha were later awarded the Serbian Cross of Mercy. Returned home to England on 12 October 1916, Aubrey was posted to No. 1 Southern General Hospital at Birmingham. She resigned her post in order to marry on 10 March 1917, but subsequent applications to rejoin the T.F.N.S. were refused as her service had not been totally satisfactory. Undaunted, she then applied to the Scottish Women’s Hospitals without success, reverting instead to service with the British Red Cross Hospital at Netley. Having wed a member of the Colonial Civil Service, she is recorded in 1926 as resident of Bathurst in the Gambia; her husband later retired from the Service, took Holy Orders and became Vicar of Thorverton in Devon. Sold with copied research and the recipient’s T.F.N.S. cape badge.
Lot 126
A ‘double-issue’ British War Medal group of three awarded to Nursing Sister Minnie A. Mitchell, British Committee of the French Red Cross, later Canadian Army Medical Corps, who was awarded the rare l’Insigne Special en bronze by the French Authorities on 17 January 1918 British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (M. A. Mitchell.; N.Sister M. A. Mitchell.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (M. A. Mitchell.) generally very fine (3) £200-£240 --- Provenance: Christie’s, March 1990. Minnie Alice Mitchell was born in Durham-Sud, Canada, on 31 October 1880, and came to Britain as a Sister with the British Committee of the French Red Cross. Initially posted to the Johnstone Reckitt French Military Hospital (V.R. 76) from May 1916 to April 1918, she transferred to the Canadian Army Medical Corps and served as Nursing Sister at No. 15 Canadian General Hospital from 24 May 1918 to 12 June 1919. Located on the Astor Estate at Clivedon, the former tennis pavilion and bowling alley became one of the most fully equipped military hospitals in England. Sold with the Insignia in bronze with enamel red cross mounted upon a white riband; the original award certificate to ‘Mademoiselle Minnie Mitchell’ of the General Infirmary, No. 1044, from the French Ministry of War; a fine enamel badge from the Johnstone Reckitt Military Hospital, unnamed; Canadian Honourable Service Badge, No. 24292.; and copied C.A.M.C. service record.
Lot 382
Three: Private W. Terry, Royal West Surrey Regiment, later Middlesex Regiment and Army Service Corps, who was wounded by gun shot to the right foot on 29 October 1915 1914-15 Star (1710 Pte. W. Terry. The Queen’s R.); British War and Victory Medals (1710 Pte. W. Terry. The Queen’s R.) very fine Pair: Private F. Miller, Royal West Surrey Regiment British War and Victory Medals (G-37935 Pte. F. Miller. The Queen’s R.); together with a Royal West Surrey Regiment Prisoners of War ‘Welcome Home’ Medal, unnamed, good very fine (5) £70-£90 --- William Terry was born in 1896 and attested for the Royal West Surrey Regiment on 5 September 1914. He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 July 1915, and was wounded by gun shot to the right foot on 29 October 1915. Returning home, he transferred to the 25th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, on 1 September 1916, and then to the Army Service Corps on 31 March 1917, seeing further service on garrison duty in Singapore. He was discharged on 22 March 1920. Frank Miller attested for the Royal West Surrey Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from after January 1916. Sold with a Honourable Discharge Certificate named to ‘234777 Private Richard G. Mann, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regt.’ dated 25 July 1918. Richard George Mann enlisted on 3 November 1916 and served with the 2nd Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front, prior to being discharged, no longer physically fit for service, on 25 July 1918, being awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold with copied research.
Lot 245
Family Group: An inter-War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Major A. Sommersell, Royal Army Service Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type, breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1927; British War and Victory Medals (S-13431 W.O.Cl.1. A. Summersell. A.S.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (S/13431 1/Cl: S.S. Mjr. A. Summersell. R.A.S.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (S-13431 1/Cl: S.S. Mjr: A. Summersell. A.S.C.) lacquered, good very fine Four: Attributed to Major L. A. Sommersell, Seaforth Highlanders and Royal Army Service Corps 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted, very fine (9) £360-£440 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 8 June 1928: ‘Quartermaster and Captain, Extra Regimentally employed List, Chief Clerk, Headquarters, Eastern Command.’ Alfred Summersell was born at Fareham, Hampshire, on 17 January 1879. He joined the Army Service Corps in 1898 and was, by 1905, a Staff Sergeant and by the outbreak of the war in 1914 he had attained the rank of Staff Sergeant-Major. He served in France from 6 June 1916 and received his L.S. & G.C. medal that same year. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for 21 years’ service in 1919, having been commissioned as Quartermaster and Lieutenant on 1 December 1918, and was Quartermaster and Captain by the time he received the O.B.E. in 1928. He was finally promoted to Major on 1 April 1931, and probably left the Army in 1933. He died at Hove, East Sussex, on 28 February 1958, aged 79. Lewis Albert Summersell was born in Wandsworth, London, on 21 June 1917. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant into the Seaforth Highlanders on 22 October 1940, and joined the 1st Battalion, serving in Malaya, sometime in early 1941. The battalion was attached to the 23rd (Indian) Division in May 1942 and fought in the Burma campaign until the end of the war. Summersell was wounded on 3 April 1944, his rank being recorded as Captain at this time. In January 1945 he was listed as a staff officer performing the role of Intelligence Officer. After the war he joined the Army Service Corps, was promoted to Substantive Captain in June 1946 and Substantive Major in June 1951. In 1952 he is listed as Acting Lieutenant-Colonel but is not mentioned in subsequent army lists. Sold with copied research files for both men.
Lot 716
Germany, Third Reich, Armed Forces 18 Year Long Service Medal, silver, complete with outstretched winged eagle and swastika army motif device on riband; Entry into Czechoslovakia Medal 1938, bronze; together with an Italian Africa Medal; a nice quality tinny heavy quality construction for Gau Westfalen North with its full maker’s name on the reverse side and tinny type suspension; and a Hitler Youth Proficiency Badge with the original owner’s name of ‘E.Keck’ with his Bahn number ‘3/747’ hand etched into the reverse side, very fine (5) £80-£100
Lot 417
Four: Lance-Corporal F. G. Bursey, Hampshire Yeomanry British War and Victory Medals (100029 Pte. F. G. Bursey. Hamps. Yeo.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (100029 Pte. F. G. Bursey. Hamps. Yeo.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (405 L. Cpl. F. G. Bursey. Hants: Yeo.) mounted court-style for wear, light contact marks, very fine (4) £300-£400 --- Frederick G. Bursey attested for the Hampshire Yeomanry on 3 June 1908 and was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 8 of January 1914. He served during the Great War with both the Hampshire Yeomanry and later the Labour Corps, and was discharged due to sickness on 30 May 1919, being awarded a Silver War Badge No. B284293. Sold with copied research.
Lot 249
A Second War Middle East ‘Mersa Matruh’ O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Colonel A. O. Bekenn, Royal Army Medical Corps, who was later Mentioned in Despatches for Burma The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated 1945, with integral top riband bar, mounted for wear, the Stars lightly gilded, good very fine (7) £300-£400 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- O.B.E. London Gazette 1 April 1941: ‘In recognition of distinguished services in the Middle East during the period August 1939 to November 1940.’ The original Recommendation states: ‘Lieutenant-Colonel Bekenn has carried out the duties of Senior Medical Officer Mersa Matruh in addition to command of the Field Ambulance. He has shown energy and devotion to duty to a commendable degree. I attribute the very satisfactory state of the health of the garrison in no small measure to his efforts.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 19 July 1945: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Burma.’ Alexis Oswald Bekenn was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Army) in June 1925, and was advanced Major in August 1939. He served during the Second World War in North Africa, and then in Burma, and was advanced temporary Lieutenant Colonel in August 1941, and temporary Colonel in April 1945. He was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in that latter year (London Gazette 12 April 1945), and retired having reached the age limit on 25 June 1954, being granted the honorary rank of Colonel. Sold with the recipient’s two original commission documents; original M.I.D. Certificate in OHMS transmission envelope, with M.I.D. award notification card and later War Office letter; various photographs, including various of the recipient being presented with the riband for the OBE; and copied research.
Lot 17
A post-War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Warrant Officer Class II Margaret Sutherland, Women’s Royal Army Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (W/24807 W.O.Cl.2. M. Sutherland. M.B.E. W.R.A.C.) good very fine (4) £160-£200 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 5 June 1952. Margaret Sutherland was awarded the M.B.E. whilst serving in the Military Secretary’s Department of the War Office and Ministry of Defence. The Scotsman newspaper of 25 July 1952 further notes that she was a resident of Caithness and received her decoration from the hand of the Queen at an investiture held in the gold State ballroom of Buckingham Palace.
Lot 64
An impressive Order of St. John pair awarded to Sister Flora K. Fitzmaurice, Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve, who risked her own life to save others during a serious typhus outbreak in 1897 The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s shoulder badge, 1st type (1892-1939), silver and enamel, circular badge with white enamel cross with heraldic beasts in angles raised above the background, on lady’s bow riband, the reverse privately engraved ‘Flora Kathleen Fitz Maurice Inniskea Augt. 1897. Conferred Augt. 1898.’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Sister F. K. Fitzmaurice. I.Y. H.P. Staff.) good very fine (2) £300-£400 --- Flora Kathleen Fitzmaurice trained as a nurse at the City of Dublin Nursing Institution and was one of 11 nurses selected from that hospital to nurse the victims of a typhus outbreak on the remote west coast island of Inniskea. Located off the coast of the Belmullet peninsula in County Mayo, the island offered extremely primitive working conditions. An extract from the British Journal of Nursing offers a vivid description: ‘The nurses who first went to the island had to cook both for the patients and for themselves, to wash their own clothes and to do everything that was possible under the circumstances for the patients also. The food was scant and of very bad quality. There were no beds, and when the nurses had done a hard day’s work in all the filth and misery prevailing among the people, they were often unable to cook any food for their own use, and had to go without... They had at one time forty-eight cases of typhus to nurse in the separate huts, and had to visit all of these patients two or three times a day. They made no complaint, but worked on until they both broke down, and both took typhus fever from those whom they were attending.’ Contracting typhus herself, Fitzmaurice was fortunate to survive. She was later decorated with the Order of St John of Jerusalem, the bestowal by the Countess Cadogan at the Vice-regal Lodge offering public recognition to both the individual nurses and the Order of St John, the group citation noting: ‘in recognition of very conspicuous and devoted conduct in the month of June, during an outbreak of virulent typhus fever on the Island of Inniskea on a very wild and barren part of the west coast of Ireland.’ Making a good recovery, Fitzmaurice enrolled in Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve on 2 July 1900, and served on the Staff of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Dreelfontein during the Boer War. Sold with private research and a copied group photograph of the 11 nurses decorated by the Countess Cadogan, the recipient being among their ranks.
Lot 10
A Great War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Chief Commandant Lucy M. K. Pratt-Barlow, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps, later Auxiliary Territorial Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military), Member’s 1st type, Lady’s shoulder badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (D.Ctr. L. M. K. Pratt-Barlow.); War Medal 1939-45 privately named ‘Ch. Cmdt. K. L. M. Pratt-Barlow A.T.S.’, note order of initials, very fine (4) £200-£240 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 7 June 1918. Lucy Marjorie Kathleen Pratt-Barlow (née Fraser) was born on 5 January 1881, the daughter of the British Consulate General of Algiers. She later married Edward Alexander Pratt-Barlow and is recorded in 1908 as living at 7 Lower Grosvenor Place in Belgravia. She served as Deputy Controller in Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps from 12 July 1917 to 19 October 1918, and is later recorded in November 1939 as a Chief Commandant in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Advanced War Substantive Senior Commander on 15 September 1941, she survived the Blitz and retired to Banbury, Oxfordshire. M.I.D. unconfirmed.
Lot 174
Pair: Major Ann H. Lively, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (Lt. A. H. Lively. Q.A.R.A.N.C.); General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Malay Peninsula (Capt. A. H. Lively. QARANC.) nearly extremely fine (2) £260-£300 --- Ann Hudson Lively was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 24 March 1932 and trained as a nurse at the High Wycombe and District Group Training School. Registered as SRN No. 230359 on 29 November 1955, she was granted a short-service commission in Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps on 1 February 1956. Promoted Temporary Captain whilst on attachment to the Ghanaian Armer Forces, she was raised Major on 1 February 1968. Awarded the GSM with clasp Malaya for service in the Far East, Lively was later posted on 11 June 1969 to the Military Hospital at Terendak in Malaysia. Retired to pension on 17 October 1972, she died at Spalding, Lincolnshire, on 9 April 2008. Sold with the recipient’s original silver Q.A.R.A.N.C. cape badge, hallmarked Birmingham 1950, and two original letters from the M.O.D., the first a letter of congratulations to Captain Lively at Cambridge Military Hospital for passing her examination to Major, dated 16 December 1966, the second confirming award of the GSM 1962-2007.
Lot 732
A United States of America Silver Star and Purple Heart pair awarded to Master Sergeant John P. Pappas, 2nd Medical Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, who displayed gallantry in action on 23 December 1950 in the vicinity of Sinbul-san, Korea United States of America, Silver Star, gilt with central silver star, machine-engraved ‘John P. Pappas’, slot brooch; Purple Heart, gilt and enamel, slot brooch, unnamed, in case of issue; together with a medical lapel badge, good very fine (2) £200-£240 --- John P. Pappas, United States Army, was awarded the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in connection with military operations against the enemy in Korea, while serving with the 2nd Medical Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, on 23 December 1950. General Orders: Headquarters, 2d Infantry Division, General Orders No. 349 (1951) ‘Master Sergeant John P. Pappas, RA35999845, (then Sergeant), Army Medical Service, a member of Clearing Company, 2d Medical Battalion, 2d Infantry Division, displayed gallantry in action on 23 December 1950 in the vicinity of Sinbul-san, Korea. On that date Sergeant Pappas was attached to a unit of the Republic of Korea Army. The unit was assigned the mission of destroying an enemy guerrilla band disrupting the main supply route from Pusan northward. During the attack the commanding officer was killed, causing disorganization among the men. Sergeant Pappas with complete disregard for his own safety, exposed himself to intense enemy small arms and automatic weapons fire to reorganize the unit to lead the attack in a successful completion of the mission. Through intense enemy fire Sergeant Pappas moved about directing medical care and the evacuation of the wounded. The gallantry displayed by Sergeant Pappas reflects great credit upon himself and the military service.’ Pappas later served in Vietnam.
Lot 147
Four: Major Ann Kirwan, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps, late Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (Capt. A. Kirwan. Q.A.R.A.N.C.); together with the recipient’s Q.A.R.A.N.C. cape badge, silver, hallmarked Birmingham 1950, very fine (4) £160-£200 --- Ann Kirwan was born in Ireland on 12 August 1917 and trained as a nurse at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary from 1936 to 1940. Appointed to a commission in the Q.A.I.M.N.S. Reserve as Sister with seniority from 29 December 1943, she was initially taken on the strength of No. 20 British General Hospital in Watford. Transferred to Killochan Castle, Dorking and Southampton, her Hospital was subsequently sent to Bayeux on 20 June 1944 and on to India on 15 December 1944. Appointed post-War to a permanent commission in the Q.A.R.A.N.C., Kirwan was raised Captain on 29 December 1947 and Major on 29 December 1955.
Lot 11
A Great War M.B.E. group of three awarded to Nurse Heloise Scott-Nicolls, Voluntary Aid Detachment, later Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919, in Garrard & Co. Ltd. case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (H. Scott-Nicolls. V.A.D.) good very fine and better (3) £240-£280 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. Heloise Scott-Nicholls was born in Blackheath in 1891, the daughter of stockbroker Jasper Nicolls. She served as a Nurse in France with No. 140 (Surrey) Voluntary Aid Detachment from 6 October 1916 to 19 April 1917, and was later awarded the M.B.E. as Department Administrator in the Q.M.A.A.C.
Lot 151
Three: Attributed to Major Agnes F. Brown, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps and Territorial Army Nursing Service Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, reverse officially dated 1960, with Second Award Bar dated 1960, with integral top riband bar, good very fine (3) £70-£90 --- Agnes Frances Brown took her nursing studies at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton from 1930 to 1933, registering as SRN No. 70388 on 24 November 1933. She joined the Territorial Army Nursing Service in 1934 and was called up for service at the outbreak of the Second World War. Appointed Sister on 31 May 1941, she served with Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps (T.A.) throughout the War and was advanced Major on 25 December 1953. Sold with the recipient’s General Nursing Council for England and Wales badge, silver and enamel, engraved to reverse ‘A. F. Brown. S.R.N. 70388 24-11-33.’; A Royal Sussex County Hospital badge, enamel and base metal, reverse engraved ‘A. F. Brown 70388’, this with significant enamel damage and lacking catch for affixing wearing pin.
Lot 38
A Great War ‘Balkans theatre’ A.R.R.C. group of four awarded to Sister Mary M. L. Johns, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard & Co. case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Sister M. M. L. Johns.); France, Third Republic, Medaille des Epidemies en argent (M. L. Johns 1919) the case to first a little worn, nearly extremely fine (4) £500-£700 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919. France, Medaille des Epidemies London Gazette 21 July 1919. The French award was initially graded as ‘en vermeil’. The correction appears in the London Gazette of 4 September 1919. Mary Maud Lilian Johns was born in Chester on 17 January 1881, the daughter of a tea and provision merchant. Educated at the Ladies School, Rhyl, she trained as a nurse at the Borough Fever Hospital in Ipswich from 1908 to 1910. She then transferred to the Bethnal Green Infirmary from 1910 to 1913, before engaging in private nursing. Accepted for service with the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. on 30 December 1915, Johns was mobilised on 10 January 1916 and sent to Salonika with No. 49 General Hospital on 20 April 1917. Here she would have been heavily engaged in helping wounded men and those suffering from malaria and other diseases. Transferred to No. 82 General Hospital in Constantinople, she served as part of the Army of the Black Sea from 24 July 1920 to 13 January 1921. Returned home to England, Johns transferred to District Nursing and was selected for the permanent reserve; she was removed in 1934 having failed to report. Sold with the recipient’s Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. cape badge, hallmarked Birmingham 1915.
Lot 684
Army Temperance Association India Three Year Medal, silver, unnamed; Army Temperance Association Queen Victoria Commemorative Medal, silver, unnamed; a cast Army Temperance Association King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Cross, original naming details on the reverse obscured in the casting process; together with a pre-1901 K.O.Y.L.I. glengarry badge; two K.O.Y.L.I. sweetheart brooches; five 51st Foot/ K.O.Y.L.I. buttons; two items of cloth insignia; and a privately produced identity bracelet, inscribed ‘A. E. Middleton, 2218 K.O.Y.L.I.’, generally very fine (lot) £40-£50 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Albert E. Middleton attested for the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 4 December 1914. He later transferred to the Royal Defence Corps.
Lot 56
A post-War A.R.R.C. group of three awarded to Colonel Mary J. Clune, Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), E.II.R., silver and enamel, reverse dated 1979; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Borneo (Capt. M. J. Clune. QARANC.); Ghana, Republic Day Medal; together with the recipient’s Q.A.R.A.N.C. Cape Badge, silver, hallmarked Birmingham 1950, good very fine and better (4) £240-£280 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 16 June 1979. Mary Josephine Clune was born in the Scariff district of County Galway on 20 January 1934. Trained in Ireland, she was granted a short service commission in the Q.A.R.A.N.C. on 5 February 1958, and was raised Captain on 1 April 1962 whilst employed with the Army of Ghana. Transferred to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers on 5 February 1963, she spent two years serving with the Far East Land Forces at Terendak Hospital in Malaysia, before being appointed Major on 13 September 1968. Transferred to Singapore from 1970 to 1972, and Berlin and Nepal from 1975 to 1978, Clune was appointed Matron of the British Military Hospital in Munster in July 1980 and was raised Lieutenant Colonel on 31 October 1983. Posted to Rinteln in November 1984, she ended her career at Catterick in the rank of Colonel, retiring to pension on 2 April 1988. Sold with copied research which confirms entitlement to the Ghana Republic Day Medal of 1 July 1960 under A.C.I. 241 of 1961, with restrictive permission for wear.
Lot 239
A selection of Great War period Women’s Legion, Auxiliary Territorial Service and Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps cap badges, shoulder titles and pin badges, some missing reverse lugs; together with two card identity discs to V.A.D. Nurse Mabel Vere Lee and one to Q.A.I.M.N.S. Sister Doris Eleanor May Amies; an Ellesmere Commander of the Order of St John of Jerusalem badge, silver and enamel; an Order of St John Priory for Wales Service Badge, engraved to reverse ‘Muriel Williams WA 19001’; various life saving proficiency medals and miniature Service Medals of the Order of St. John; an R.N.L.I. pennant flag; a nurses cape; miscellaneous badges, buttons, and fabric shoulder pips; various photographs and newspaper cuttings; and other ephemera, generally good condition (lot) £50-£70
Lot 440
Eight: Major N. P. Robinson, Pioneer Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches for services in Italy British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. N. P. Robinson.); India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1919-21, Mahsud 1919-20 (Capt. N. P. Robinson. 2-23 Sikh Pnrs.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, the Second War awards all privately engraved ‘123872 Major N. P. Robinson Pioneer Corps’, mounted court-style and housed in a Spink, London, leather case, good very fine and better (8) £240-£280 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 11 January 1945: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy.’ Sold with the recipient’s riband bars; a Royal Artillery cap badge and two Major’s crowns; and some original documents.
Lot 9
A Great War M.B.E. group of four awarded to Miss Margaret E. Waring, British Red Cross and Order of St. John of Jerusalem The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type, lady’s shoulder badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1919; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Miss. M. E. Waring.); British War and Victory Medals (M. E. Waring. B.R.C. & St. J.J.) scratch to observe of QSA, generally very fine and better (4) £300-£400 --- M.B.E. London Gazette 2 November 1920: ‘Miss Margaret Elizabeth Waring. A devoted worker in British hospitals in Boulogne.’ Margaret Elizabeth Waring is recorded on the QSA medal roll as a Staff Worker at the Camp Soldier’s Homes, one of just four ladies listed. The Army Medal roll shows that she served in France from September 1918 to 29 April 1919.
Lot 237
Silver War Badge (2) the reverses officially numbered ‘B162382’; and ‘RN 39810’, with original numbered award card and O.H.M.S. registered envelope of despatch for second, nearly extremely fine (2) £40-£50 --- Marjorie B. Ashley enrolled in Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps on 28 September 1918 and was discharged as medically unfit on 7 April 1919, being awarded the Silver War Badge numbered B162382. Ellen Graeme Harrison was appointed Assistant Principal in the Women’s Royal Naval Service on 15 July 1918. Attached to Headquarters Staff, she worked in the recruiting department and was discharged on 27 February 1919, being awarded the Silver War Badge numbered RN 39810.
Lot 36
A Great War A.R.R.C. group of six awarded to Sister Florence C. Puddicombe, Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Reserve, later Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Royal Red Cross, 2nd Class (A.R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister F. Puddicombe.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, no clasp (Nursing Sister F. Puddicombe.); 1914 Star (Miss F. C. Puddicombe. Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Sister F. C. Puddicombe.) very fine and better (6) £600-£800 --- A.R.R.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918. Florence Catherine Puddicombe was born in St. Aubin, Jersey, on 10 December 1867, and qualified as a nurse at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London in 1894. A founding member of the League of Nurses at St. Bartholomew’s, she joined Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Reserve on 28 March 1900 and served as a Nursing Sister during the Boer War. The roll for the QSA Medal later notes her with the Army Nursing Service Reserve at No. 5 General Hospital in Cape Town. A former Base Hospital, this General Hospital offered 940 beds to sick and wounded servicemen making it one of the largest in operation. Returned home to England, Puddicombe is noted in 1911 as a sick nurse at Felsted School. She later joined the Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. on 1 January 1914, her MIC noting service in France from 12 August 1914 at No. 2 General Hospital. Transferred to No. 14 Stationary Hospital, she received the A.R.R.C. from the hand of the King at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace on 11 December 1919. Released from service at around this time, the recipient’s Nursing Service Record notes her forwarding address as ‘St. Stephen’s Vicarage, Launceston, Cornwall.’ Sold with a Q.A.I.M.N.S.R. cape badge, hallmarked Birmingham 1915.
Lot 248A
WWI MEDALS & WOUND BADGE. The Mercantile Marine War Medal, British War Medal & silver Wound Badge named & awarded to John Couch. Provenance: by decent through the family. Note: John Couch was in the Merchant Navy during WWI & later joined the British army. He took part in the battles of the Somme & Verdun. Please note that all items in this auction are previously owned & are offered on behalf of private vendors. If detail on condition is required on any lot(s) PLEASE ASK FOR A CONDITION REPORT BEFORE BIDDING. The absence of a condition report does not imply the lot is perfect.WE CAN SHIP THIS LOT, but NOT if part of a large, multiple lots purchase.
Lot 209
British Army The Lifeguards, Three Cloth Badges Includes 2 x Blazer Badges (Different) plus a Shoulder Badge, also Includes the original mailing envelope from Lidgett & Sons Whitehall London, Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 43
Selection of Sterling Silver Masonic Oddfellows Badges/Jewels, a Vintage Royal Army Medical Corps Sweetheart Badge/Brooch and other masonic assorted pieces. The selection includes an Oddfellows Jewel from Lodge No. 12. with full silver hallmarks for 1877, an engraved 'L.U.F.' Lodge No. 2 Oddfellows Jewel with full silver hallmarks for 1879. It also engraved on the back '-P-P.-Buxton.' Another Oddfellows Jewel has an inscription 'LUF Loyal United Friends Delegate' and inscribed ''Friend in need Committee P.S.P Buxton. G. No. 23 Lodge''. It has a yellow ribbon with a red stripe running either side with full silver hallmarks for 1898. There is another Oddfellows Jewel with crown decoration that has an inscription 'Friend in Need Committee' with engraving on the back 'Presented to P.S.P. Buxton. C. Lodge No. 23 with full silver hallmarks for 1894. There is five Sterling Silver Oddfellows jewels/badges in total. Total gross weight is: 255 grams. There is also two pale blue and white craft master mason apron with pocket (lambskin), one of them is a replacement with a collar jewel and a double sided adhesive disc for apron badge Staffordshire Past Registrar. There is a Masonic Emulation Ritual 1986 pocket book by A Lewis Ltd and The Perfect Ceremonies of Craft Masonry pocket book 1926 by A Lewis, London. There is other masonic Oddfellow's jewels such as 'Dove Lodge' No.8519' a Past Master of the Lodge Jewel engraved on the back 'W.Bro.W.J. BADHAM'. It is enamelled with a dove flying above the land and water. And there is two gold tone staffordshire masonic collar jewels with blue foiling decoration. One has scroll decoration and is a Past Provincial Grand Registrar Collar Jewel and the other is a Provincial Craft Collar Jewel has two wheat sheafs crossed decoration and states 'ASSISTANT' in the banner type cartouche. They both have damage to them. There is another Masonic Apron with embroidered Staffordshire Badge and Collar with Masonic Staffordshire Jewel and three other Masonic Jewels. One of them is a Steward Province of Staffordshire Masonic Samaritan Fund 2002 Enamelled Jewel, a Steward G.C 1990 Enamelled Jewel and a Silver Tone Masonic Jewel that says ''MUSKET PIKE AND DRUM LODGE N. 9906 FOR THE LOVE OF HISTORY''. There is also two pairs of white masonic gloves, some masonic paperwork. All of this Masonic memorabilia comes in a black pvc leather suitcase with initials in gold lettering 'W.J.B.'
Lot 61
A post WWI First World War Imperial German Army Zeppelin badge. Horizontal oval shape with an airship facing left superimposed on a wreath and joined by a bow at the top. Marked for Dresden makers G.H Osang. Note; from a large private collection of militaria. Due to the nature of some items, buyers are reminded for the need to satisfy themselves as to originality / origin / condition prior to bidding, irrespective of any description. No guarantees are implied nor offered and all lots remain sold 'as is'.
Lot 94
WWII Interest - a WWII Second World War medal pair and George VI Imperial Service Medal with Palestine 1945-48, to one 10207 Private K. Mpelo of the APC Army Pioneer Corps. Along with a selection of original photographs, presumably of the recipient, taken during his service. Mpelo was very likely in the REME as several of the photographs show REME personnel. Along with an original plastic 'economy' RAF cap badge and a REME cap badge. Consigned from the family.
Lot 339
A WWII Second World War Third Reich Nazi German Anti Aircraft / Army Flak badge. The badge depicting an 88 mm flak gun with the barrel facing upwards with an oak leaf perimeter jointed at the top by the national Eagle and Swastika. Maker mark to verso. Note; from a large private collection of militaria. Due to the nature of the items, buyers are reminded for the need to satisfy themselves as to condition / originality / authenticity prior to bidding. All lots remains sold strictly 'as is' irrespective of any description.
Lot 270
A WWI First World War Imperial German / Prussian Army pilots badge. The centre of the badge featuring a mono plane surrounded by a wreath joined by a bow to the bottom and Prussian crown to the top. Hollow back. Note; from a large private collection of militaria. Due to the nature of some items, buyers are reminded for the need to satisfy themselves as to originality / origin / condition prior to bidding, irrespective of any description. No guarantees are implied nor offered and all lots remain sold 'as is'.
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