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Click here to subscribeA Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Lance-Corporal A. C. Mizon, Army Service Corps Military Medal, G.V.R. (M2-182234 L. Cpl. A. C. Mizon. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (M2-182234 Pte. A. C. Mizon. A.S.C.) mounted for display, good very fine (3) £200-£240 --- M.M. London Gazette 21 August 1917.
The New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal awarded to Brigadier R. Miles, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., Royal New Zealand Artillery New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal, 3rd type, unmarked (Stagg Type C) (Capt. R. Miles. D.S.O. M.C. R.N.Z.A.) impressed naming; together with the recipient’s New Zealand Memorial Cross, G.VI.R. (6191 Brig. R. Miles CBE. DSO. MC. MID.) in case of issue with Prime Minister’s condolence slip, nearly extremely fine (2) £400-£500 --- Reginald Miles was born in Canterbury, New Zealand, in 1892. He served in Gallipoli with the Royal New Zealand Artillery (wounded) and was awarded the M.C. for the Somme 1916 and the D.S.O. for Ploegsteert Wood in April 1918 (wounded, M.I.D.). As a Brigadier, he was again mentioned in despatches for the Middle East in December 1941, being wounded and taken prisoner of war. Together with Brigadier James Harvest, Miles was the highest ranking ‘escaper’ of W.W.II, having evaded capture after escaping from Italy and making his way to Spain late in 1943, where, whilst awaiting repatriation, he committed suicide whilst in a state of depression on 20 October 1943. He was gazetted with both a Bar to his D.S.O. and the C.B.E. in October 1943. Brigadier Reginald Miles, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., is buried in the Municipal Cemetery, Figueras, Spain. Sold with the book Farewell Campo 12, by Brigadier James Hargest, with numerous mentions of Miles and their escape stories; also with the booklet The Long Service Medals awarded in the New Zealand Army 1887-1957, by Captain G. T. Stagg, R.N.Z.A., and full details of Brigadier Miles’ service career.
Six: Company Sergeant Major R. H. Child, Hampshire Regiment, who served during the Russian Intervention, and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for Siberia British War and Victory Medals (193 A.W.O. Cl.2. R. H. Child. Hamps. R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (193 Sjt. R. H. Child Hamps. R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (355093 C.Sjt. R. H. Child 9/Hamps: R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (355093 C.Sjt. (A.C.S. Mjr.) R. H. Child. 9/Hamps. R.) unit officially corrected; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Richard H. Child.) mounted court-style as worn, good very fine (6) £400-£500 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 22 January 1920: ‘For valuable services rendered with the British Forces in Siberia’ Richard H. Child attested for the Hampshire Regiment (Territorial Force) and served with the 9th Battalion during the Russian Intervention in Siberia. Advanced Acting Company Sergeant Major, he was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 23 in February 1920. Sold with copied research.
Pair: Driver C. Collett, Royal Horse Artillery Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Driver Chas Collett, F Tp R. H. Arty); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (569 Driver C. Collett B. Bde. R.H.A.) very fine (2) £220-£260 --- Charles Collett was born in Sandhurst, Gloucestershire. He attested for the Royal Artillery at Gloucester in January 1856, and had his ‘left leg broken by a horse falling on him at Aldershot on 26 November, 1865’ (Service papers refer). Collett was awarded his L.S. & G.C. in January 1876, and was discharged the following year having completed 21 years and 225 days’ service. He became a Chelsea In Pensioner.
Obituaries from The Times. Three Volumes, covering the period 1951-75, edited by William Rees-Mogg, published by Newspaper Archive Developments Ltd., 1978, hardback, with dust jackets, good condition A History of the Peninsular War. Three Volumes, Volume III: September 1809 to December 1810, by Sir Charles Oman, published by Greenhill Books 1996; Volume V: October 1811 to August 1812, by Sir Charles Oman, published by Greenhill Books 1996; Volume VIII: The Biographical Dictionary of British Officers Killed and Wounded 1808-14, by John A. Hall, published by Greenhill Books 1998, all hardback, with dust jackets, good condition The Blitz - Then and Now Three Volumes, edited by Winston Ramsey, published by After the Battle Publications, 1990, hardback, with dust jackets, good condition Together with two scrapbooks containing a plethora of Royal Navy and British and Indian Army Regimental crests &c., as taken from the headers of writing paper, invitations, Christmas cards &c., incomplete but a most comprehensive selection (11) £60-£80
Five: Warrant Officer Class II F. Woodall, Middlesex Regiment 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (6197801 W.O. Cl.2. F. Woodall. 1-8 Midd’x R.) extremely fine (5) £60-£80 --- Frederick Charles Woodall was born on 4 December 1907 and attested for the Middlesex Regiment (Territorial Army) on 23 March 1927. He served with them during the Second World War with the British Expeditionary Force in France from 17 February to 2 June 1940; and again in North West Europe from 22 June 1944. He was awarded his Efficiency Medal on 31 May 1941. Sold together with the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; various named Passes and Identity Cards; two group postcard photographs; and other ephemera.
Five: Captain P. P. H. Ongley, General List, attached to the Psychological Warfare Branch, late Intelligence Corps 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, good very fine and better (5) £100-£140 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, 15 December 2011. M.I.D. London Gazette 23 May 1946: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Mediterranean Theatre.’ Philip Percy Henry Ongley was born in London on 24 November 1911. He enlisted into the Corps of Military Police (T.A.) on 16 May 1940 but was transferred to the Intelligence Corps in July 1940 and then to the Royal Army Service Corps in October 1940. On 26 November 1942 he was posted to the Psychological Warfare Branch, being appointed a Local Staff Sergeant in August 1943. This tiny unit was involved with propaganda amongst other things. On 15 September 1944 he was discharged to a commission, being appointed to an Emergency Commission into the General List as Second Lieutenant permanently attached to the Psychological Warfare Branch. Promoted to War Substantive Lieutenant in March 1945, Acting Captain in June 1945 and Temporary Captain in September 1945, he relinquished his commission on 17 June 1946, and was granted the honorary rank of Captain. Ongley served during the Second World War in North Africa, 26 November 1942-15 September 1944 and with the Central Mediterranean Force, 16 September 1944-12 March 1946. He later settled in Australia, employed as a Company Director and married in Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales. Latterly living at 14 Cliff Street, Watson’s Bay, N.S.W., he died on 30 September 1973. Sold with the recipient’s original M.I.D. certificate, War Office letter to accompany the M.I.D. emblem; War Office letter re relinquishing his commission; medal forwarding slip; Officers’ Release Book; portrait photograph; together with copied Marriage and Death Certificates and other research.
Four: Collar-Maker Corporal G. H. Morris, Royal Engineers South Africa 1877-79, no clasp (9642. Col: Mak: Corpl. G. H. Morris. R.E.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (9642 Artfr. Corpl. G. H. Morris. Fd. Park, R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (9642. Artifr. Corpl. G. H. Morris. R.E.); Khedive’s Star 1882, named in reverse centre (9642 Artfr. Corpl. G. H. Morris. Fd. Park, R.E.) together with a silver A.T.A. (India) medal, this lacking suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine (5) £360-£440 --- George Henry Morris was born in the Parish of St Mary’s, Woolwich, Kent, and enlisted into the Royal Engineers at Aldershot as a Driver on 20 February 1869, aged 21 years 3 months, a collar maker by trade. Appointed Collar-maker in June 1875, he advanced to Collar-maker Corporal in September 1877. He served abroad at the Cape of Good Hope from April 1879 to January 1880, and in Egypt from August to October 1882. Awarded the L.S. & G.C. medal with Gratuity in 1887, he was discharged on 22 February 1890. Sold with copied discharge papers.
An Order of St. John group of five awarded to Captain C. K. Muspratt, Hampshire Regiment, who was Mentioned in Despatches for his services with the British Army of the Black Sea during the Russian Intervention The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, 3rd type, skeletal badge, silver; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. C. K. Muspratt.); Defence Medal; Service Medal of the Order of St John, with one Additional Award Bar (26588. Cps/Off/ C. K. Muspratt. No.2 Dis. S.J.A.B. 1943.) mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, very fine (5) £200-£240 --- Order of St. John, Serving Brother London Gazette 4 January 1949 Colin Knox Muspratt was born in Christchurch, Hampshire, in 1893, and was educated at Sherborne School and New College, Oxford. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment on 29 August 1914, and served with the 2nd/7th Battalion during the Great War in the Middle East, being advanced Captain. For his services during the Russian Intervention whilst attached to the Royal Engineers he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 20 May 1920). Post-War, Muspratt ‘... entered the Malay Civil Service in 1921, but contracted a tropical disease which forced him to resign in 1925, and progressively incapacitated him for the remaining 33 years of his life. He nevertheless kept up, in retirement at Bournemouth, his intellectual pursuits, and interest in public service, including the Scout movement. A keen traveller and archaeologist, he had some 800 slides, made from photographs taken on his travels, with which he lectured in aid of charities, and he was busy up to the end with work for the Church and the St. John Ambulance Association. In the Second World War he did as much as his physical condition allowed in Civil Defence and the Home Guard. He died at Bournemouth on 18 March 1958’ (the recipient’s obituary in The Shirburnian refers). Sold with copied research.
Three: British Constable E. G. B. Please, Palestine Police General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine, Palestine 1945-48 (1578 B/Const. E. G. B. Pleace. Pal. Police.) middle initials and surname officially corrected; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn; together with six silver prize medals from the period 1931-36, all hallmarked, and five named ‘E. Pleace’; and three Rotary International jewels, good very fine (3) £100-£140 --- Edward George Bertram Pleace was born in Tulse Hill, London, on 14 June 1907, and attested for the Royal Artillery (Territorial Army) in 1924, serving in Egypt. He joined the Palestine Police in 1933, and served for 15 years in the Force - a keen sportsman, he distinguished himself at rugby and football, and was several times selected to play for the Force XV. Retiring to the West Country, he served as a Ministry of Transport driving instructor, and later opened his own school of motoring in Pershore. A Founder Member and sometime President of the Pershore Rotary Club, he did in 1976. Sold together with the recipient’s Ministry of Transport Approved Diving Instructor’s Licence, with a photograph of the recipient; and copied research.
Four: Private A. S. Jennings, Hampshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (355188 Pte. A. S. Jennings. Hamps. R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (355 Pte. A. S. Jennings. Hamps .R.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (355188. Pte. A. S. Jennings. 9-Hamps. R.) number officially corrected on last, nearly extremely fine (4) £200-£240 --- Arthur Seymour Jennings was born in 1893 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment on 9 April 1913. He served with the 1st/9th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was demobilised on 5 March 1920. Subsequently joining the Defence Force, he served as a Sergeant with the Motor Transport section of the Royal Army Service Corps, and was discharged on 4 July 1921. He was awarded his Territorial Efficiency Medal per Army Order 51 in February 1922. Sold together with the recipient’s Certificate of Disembodiment on Dembobilisation; Certificate of Identity and Certificate of Employment during the War; Defence Force Discharge Certificate; and two postcard photographs.
Eight: Lieutenant D. D. Hall, Canadian Army Medical Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches during the Second World War 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (ZG 9164 D. D. Hall); U.N. Korea 1950-54 (ZG 9164 D. D. Hall); Canadian Forces Decoration, G.VI.R. (Lt. D. D. Hall) mounted as worn, planchet of last detached but present, otherwise very fine (8) £160-£200 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 8 November 1945: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe.’
A selection of Books and Pamphlets on the Imperial Japanese Forces. Including various Handbooks on Japanese Military Forces, published by the War Department, United States Government during the Second World War; a Japanese Military Dictionary; various Periodical Notes on the Japanese Army, published by the War Office during the Second World War; Japanese Army of World War II, by Philip Warner, published by Osprey, 1973, as part of their ‘Men-at-Arms series, 40pp, softback; Japanese Army Handbook 1939-1945, by A. J. Barker, published by Ian Allen Ltd., 1979, 128pp, hardback, with dust jacket; and Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Uniforms and Equipment, in Japanese with an English summary, 336pp, hardback, with dust jacket, generally good condition £60-£80
A rare campaign group of seven awarded to Sergeant Major, later Flight Lieutenant, J. Baxter, Royal Engineers, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, who served in No. 1 Balloon Section, Royal Engineers during the Boer War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, Cape Colony (29281. Cpl. J. Baxter. R.E.) clasps in this order, unofficial rivets between 4th and 5th clasps; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (29281 Corpl: J. Baxter. R.E.); 1914 Star, with clasp (11 Sjt. J. Baxter. R.F.C.) note early number; British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. J. Baxter. R.F.C.); Defence Medal; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (11. Sjt: J. Baxter. R.F.C.) with 2 Aldershot R.E. Challenge Shield Prize medals, both bronze and both engraved to recipient for ‘1906’ and ‘1907’ respectively, contact marks overall, nearly very fine (lot) £1,000-£1,400 --- Saleroom Notice Now sold with a further 2 Balloon Company R.E.shooting medals for 1906 and 1910, both in SILVER, both named and in cases of issue --- James Baxter was born in February 1877, attested for the Royal Engineers in 1896, and was posted for service with the Royal Engineers ballooning unit, the Balloon Section, in August 1899. Shortly thereafter, he witnessed active service in South Africa, serving in No. 3 Field Troop, R.E. from June 1900, which was formed from No. 2 Balloon Section after the relief of Ladysmith, and in No. 1 Balloon Section, until the end of hostilities. Baxter advanced to Sergeant, and was serving with No. 1 Balloon Company on mobilisation of the Air Battalion (awarded L.S. & G.C. in April 1914 - the third L.S. & G.C. to be awarded to a member of the newly formed Aeronautical Service). He served as a Flight Sergeant with 2 Squadron in the French theatre of war from 13 August 1914. Baxter advanced to Sergeant Major, and was awarded his Aero Club Aeronauts’ Certificate No. 98, 12 October 1916. He was also commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps on the same date. Baxter made a safe descent when his balloon (Br balloon 33-11-3) was shot down by the German Ace and Pour Le Merite winner Heinrich Gontermann near Arras, 22 April 1917. He was appointed Acting Flight Lieutenant Royal Air Force (Balloon Section) in April 1918, and is shown in the Air Force Lists as retired Flight Lieutenant (E) in 1937. Baxter died in December 1959. Medals illustrated in A Contemptible Little Flying Corps. Sold with copied research, and photographic images of recipient in uniform.
Four: Acting Lance-Corporal W. T. Shorney, Royal Engineers 1914-15 Star (1735 Spr. W. T. Shorney, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (1735 Spr. W. T. Shorney. R.E.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (518922 Spr. -A L.Cpl.- W. T. Shorney. R.E.); together with bronze prize medal, engraved ‘L/Cpl. W. Shorney 559 Army Tps. Co. R.E., V Corps Tps. R.E. 2nd. L.C. Team 2-7-18’, nearly very fine (5) £70-£90 --- William Shorney attested for the Royal Engineers during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 September 1915, and was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 491 of November 1921, by which time he had transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery.
Six: Captain (Quarter-Master) Arthur Sewter, Royal Army Service Corps, who was mentioned in despatches for Palestine General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine, with M.I.D. oak leaf (S/11218 S/Sjt. A. Sewter. R.A.S.C.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (S-11218 W.O. Cl. II. A Sewter, R.A.S.C.) official correction to one letter of surname, nearly extremely fine (6) £200-£260 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 23 July 1937 (Palestine). Sold with original M.I.D. certificate ‘Operations in Palestine 1936, from the General Officer Commanding, The British Troops in Palestine and Trans Jordan, dated 4th December 1936’; together with Commanding Officer’s certificate for ‘devotion to duty as Chief Clerk, Northern Brigade during the disturbances in Palestine 1936.’ L.S. & G.C. notified in Army Orders October 1938. Arthur Sewter enlisted at Sheffield on 20 May 1920. He served overseas in China, April to December 1927, and from February 1933 to January 1935; Egypt and Palestine January to December 1936; British Expeditionary Force to 6 February 1940, when discharged to a commission; released from active military duty, 5 November 1948, with honorary rank of Captain (Quarter-Master). The group is accompanied by a good selection of original documents, including three photographs, one of him in uniform with two ribbons and M.I.D., another a group photograph taken in Northern Ireland in 1940; various certificates, news cuttings, Identity Card, Certificate of Service, Officers’ Release Book, etc.
Silver War Badge (3), the reverses officially numbered ‘4766; 211931; 482983’, slight attempt to obliterate number to last, otherwise generally very fine (3) £30-£40 --- 7780 Private Albert Edward Nicholls, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, was discharged due to sickness on 23 June 1916 and was awarded Silver War Badge no. 4766. 10736 Quartermaster Sergeant George Ernest Gray, Royal Army Medical Corps, was discharged due to age on 1 May 1917 and was awarded Silver War Badge no. 211931. 10588 Private James Gilchrist, 9th Battalion, Scottish Rifles, was discharged due to sickness on 13 October 1919 and was awarded Silver War Badge no. 482983.
An extremely well-documented group of seven, together with a remarkable archive of photographs and documents, awarded to Major B. R. S. Dalton, Royal Artillery, late Royal Engineers, who served on Special Employment in North Africa during the Second World War in command of the Western Desert Section of the Army Air Photographic Interpretation Unit being twice mentioned in despatches, and continued to serve during the Sicilian and mainland Italian Campaigns; he was later decorated by the Americans for his services as an Instructor 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, in card box of issue with enclosure slip; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (2021630 Sjt. B. R. S. Dalton. R.E.) in named card box of issue; United States of America, Bronze Star, in case of issue; together with 3 M.I.D. oak leaves; riband bar for Africa Star and Efficiency Medal; and named card box of issue for 1st and 2nd clasps for Efficiency Medal, extremely fine (7) £600-£800 --- M.I.D. London Gazettes 24 June 1943 (Middle East); 13 January 1944 (Middle East). United States Bronze Star London Gazette 14 November 1947 - ‘Major (temporary) Bernard Ralph Sparks Dalton (156899), Royal Regiment of Artillery’ The proposed citation states: ‘For exceptionally meritorious service to the Government of the United States in aiding organisation and operation of training at Photo Intelligence Center, Military Intelligence Service thereby assisting in accomplishment of its mission.’ Bernard Ralph Sparks Dalton was born in 1909 in London. He served initially in the Royal Engineers advancing to Sergeant and qualifying for the award of the Efficiency Medal (Territorial) per Army Order No. 29 dated February 1940. He was granted a Regular Army Emergency Commission as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 16 November 1940 and was posted to Heliopolis, Egypt in March 1941. The following month he became the fourth officer to join the newly formed Army Air Photographic Interpretation Unit. Posted to the Advanced Western Desert Force Section on 21 May 1941 under Lieutenant Peter Oldfield (later of the S.A.S.), he took command of this Section the following month. In July, the Western Desert Section joined 285 Wing of the Desert Air Force, whose photographic elements included 2 Squadron R.A.F., 60 Survey Squadron and 1437 Flight Baltimores flying long-range strategic missions. Later the same month, while preparing for Operation Crusader, Dalton was required to present his work to General Auchinleck: ‘I think one of my most treasured memories is of flying down to G.H.Q. Cairo on 25 July 1941 on a Lizzie (Lysander) to show General Auchinleck a selection of annotated air photos and mosaics defining the defences in front of our Army. I shall never forget seeing the General take a magnifying glass in his hand and get down on his hands and knees on the floor of the ‘War Room’ I suppose it was, and gaze earnestly, in the best Sherlock Holmes tradition, at the mosaics spread in front of him and ask searching questions as to how we knew that this was an 88mm and that was a minefield and so on. After spending some time with the General I think he was convinced that air photos had their uses even if they had their limitations.’ (‘History of Army Photographic Interpretation’ - a nine page hand written account by the recipient - with lot) Aside from briefing the C-in-C and supplying Divisions and Corps with information on enemy defences, Dalton also gave sundry details of defences and terrain to the the S.A.S. and L.R.D.G. - on several occasions briefing Randolph Churchill during his period as Liaison Officer with these units. The A.A.P.I.U. joined 451 Squadron R.A.F. for the attack on Bardia on 27-28 December 1941 and continued up and down the Western Desert in 1942, receiving and interpreting photos from the R.A.F., and passing information to intelligence at speed. Dalton was promoted War Substantive Lieutenant on 16 May 1942 and Temporary Captain on Special Employment on 17 December 1942. In January 1943, the unit interpreted the Mareth defences and the following month were at Castel Benito near Tripoli. Dalton was put on the ‘XO’ list in May 1943 for the planning of the invasion of Sicily and Italy and embarked for Malta in July, suffering heavy bombardment - the bombers attracted by an impressive fleet of Royal Navy ships in the harbour and the thousands of troops on the island. Landing at Syracuse, Sicily on 3 August 1943, Dalton’s unit continued to interpret photos under nightly air attack. Six weeks later, having been promoted War Substantive Captain and Temporary Major, Dalton arrived on mainland Italy and was constantly on the move for the rest of the year. His earlier work during the Desert Campaign was recognised by two mentions in despatches. On 3 February 1944, Dalton was posted to the School of Military Intelligence at Matlock Hydro as an Instructor. Two months later he joined the American Photo Interpretation School at Kensington and in July he was posted to the Central Interpretation Unit at R.A.F. Medenham. Dalton’s second clasp to his Efficiency Medal (territorial) was gazetted on 26 May 1950. He relinquished his commission on 19 February 1964, retaining the honorary rank of Major. Sold with the following archive: ‘History of Army Photographic Interpretation’ - a nine page detailed summary of the recipient‘s service, hand written in April 1975; large officially bound folder entitled ‘Italian Ridotttas and Outposts’ containing large quantity of aerial photographs of Italian positions in North Africa in 1941, each with a detailed caption; large quantity of aerial photographs, subjects spanning a wide range of axis positions from 1941 to 1945, these mostly captioned either officially or in pencil, with date - of note is a mosaic of aerial photographs of Heraklion landing ground dated 26 May 1941 taken during the Battle of Crete and a well annotated aerial photograph of Remagen, Germany, the site of the first Allied crossing of the Rhine, showing the Railway Road bridge intact, dated 15 March 1945; a large quantity of reverse captioned photographs taken by Dalton during service in North Africa; folder containing quantity of the recipient’s correspondence, notes and official Intelligence Summaries; folder containing Air Photo Technical Data; a quantity of A.A.I.P.U. wartime maps of regions of North Africa e.g. Bardia, Bay of Salum, Tunis region, French North Africa, Bir Ghirba, Ain-el-Gazala, these mostly dated 1941 and worn to varying degrees; large German map of Libya entitled ‘Verkehrskarte von Nord-Libyen’ dated 1941; a bound folder entitled ‘Wild Flowers collected in Western Desert and Sicily during 1939-45 War’ - this containing a large quantity of well preserved dried and pressed wild flowers each annotated with date and location of collection, many named; a quantity of further documents, letters, papers and booklets relating to the recipient’s service.
Three: Private J. W. Price, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, who was wounded in February 1915 and later served with the Royal North Devon Yeomanry 1914-15 Star (13115 Pte. J. W. Price. K.O.Y.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (131115 Pte. J. W. Price. K.O.Y.L.I.) nearly extremely fine Four: Acting Lance-Corporal T. J. Conway, Royal Signals 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, together with Boxing Cup inscribed ‘Tommy Conway, Light Welter Champion, Royal Signals 1940-41’, and original documents including Diary for 1945, Soldier’s Service and Pay Book, Release document, cloth shoulder titles and photograph album covering war and post-war years, the cup with soldered repair, otherwise good very fine Memorial Plaque (2), (Arthur Henry Clark; Charlie Clark) very fine (9) £120-£160 --- Joseph William Price was born in 1898, enlisted into the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry on 2 September 1914, and landed in France on 15 January 1915. Early in February 1915 he received a gunshot wound in the shoulder. He served afterwards with the 2/1st Royal North Devon Yeomanry (No. 57448) and was discharged to Class ‘Z’ Reserve at the Depot of the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry on 17 February 1919. He was awarded the Silver War Badge (No. B/197946), the roll for this showing that he was discharged from ‘West & Cum: Yeo:’ on 17 February 1919. Similarly, his Great War medals are shown on the rolls of the Corps of Hussars and Royal North Devon Yeomanry. Sold with comprehensive research. 3962234 Thomas John Conway was born on 24 April 1921, enlisted into the Royal Signals at Cardiff on 7 March 1939, and embarked in the U.K. for North Africa on 22 December 1942, attached to 5 Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery. He afterwards served in Italy from 8 May 1945 and was transferred to Army Reserve on 23 July 1946. He is also entitled to the Defence Medal, original letter confirming entitlement included, together with named box of issue for Efficiency Medal, Territorial, to which he is also entitled.
Punjab 1848-49, 1 clasp, Chilianwala (Corpl. R. Horsley, 24th. Foot.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £400-£500 --- Robert Horsley attested for the 24th Regiment of Foot and served with them during the Second Sikh War. He was wounded in action at the Battle of Chilianwala on 13 January 1849, and was invalided out of the Army on 4 September 1849, returning to England on 7 February 1850.
Five: Corporal C. A. Ribbick, Royal Hampshire Regiment 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, with two Additional Award Bars (5492548 Dmr. C. A. Ribbick. Hamps. R.) good very fine (5) £70-£90 --- C. A. Ribbick was awarded his Efficiency Medal per Army Order 243 of November 1937, whilst serving as a Drummer with the 4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment; the first Additional Award Bar in September 1942, whilst serving as a Corporal; and the second Additional Award Bar in February 1947, whilst serving as a Corporal in the Royal Hampshire Regiment.
Three: Reverend J. Duncan, Army Chaplains’ Department 1914-15 Star (Rev: J. Duncan. A.C.D.); British War and Victory Medals (Rev. J. Duncan.) good very fine (3) £80-£120 --- The Reverend James Duncan served with the Army Chaplains’ Department during the Great War on the Western Front, attached to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps.
Victory Medal 1914-19 (T-Sister L. K. Robertson A.I.F.) very fine £50-£70 --- Lillian Katherine Robertson was born at New Hebridies, Tasmania, on 4 September 1890. A nursing sister at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, she enlisted there into the Australian Army Nursing Service on 11 May 1917. She embarked at Melbourne in the R.M.S. Mooltan on 12 June 1917, disembarked at Suez on 12 July and was taken on the strength of 14th Australian General Hospital at Abbassia on 25 July 1917. She embarked for England in June 1919 for Non Military employment and returned to Australia per H.T. Orontes in December 1919. Sold with copied record of service.
Four: Lieutenant N. B. Hamilton, 1/94 Russell’s Infantry, late Highland Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. N. B. Hamilton.) with M.I.D. oak leaves; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Lieut. N. B. Hamilton.); Defence Medal, unnamed, very fine (4) £200-£260 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 9 September 1921 (Iraq). Nicol Brown Hamilton was commissioned as Second Lieutenant into the 6th (City of Glasgow) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, on 30 May 1917. He served in Palestine from 21 February 1918, attached to the 5th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and left to go to the Indian Army in September 1918. He served as a Lieutenant in 1/94th Russell’s Infantry in Iraq in 1919-20 and was mentioned in despatches for his services. Sold with commission document as 2nd Lieutenant, dated 18 June 1917, together with several testimonial letters of recommendation and other original documents.
Six: Warrant Officer Class II A. Tull, Hampshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (20039 Sjt. A. Tull. Hamps. R.); British War and Victory Medals (200039 W.O. Cl.2 A. Tull. Hamps. R.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., with an Additional Award Bar (672 C.S. Mjr: A. J. Tull. 4/Hants: R.); Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial (5488966 W.O. Cl.II. A. J. Tull. 4-Hamps. R.) light contact marks, nearly very fine (6) £200-£240 --- Archie J. Tull attested for the Hampshire Regiment, and served with the 4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 March 1915. He was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 64 of 1917, and the Additional Award Bar to it per Army Order 72 of February 1925, in the rank of Warrant Officer Class II. He was awarded his Efficiency Medal (Territorial) per Army Order 154 of August 1936. Sold with copied research, including medal roll extract confirming the award of the Jubilee Medal.
Four: Sergeant F. W. Machin, Royal Horse Artillery 1914 Star, with clasp (49139 A.Bmbr. F. W. Machin. R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals (49139 Cpl. F. W. Machin. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (1025382 Sjt. F. W. Machin. R.A.) very fine (4) £140-£180 --- F. W. Machin attested for the Royal Horse Artillery and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 October 1914. Sold together with a small glazed pendant containing two photographs of the recipient, one in civilian dress, the other in uniform; and a large portrait of the recipient in uniform, mounted in a contemporary wooded glazed frame (total size 660mm x 560mm). Please note that the large portrait in this lot is not suitable for shipping, but can be hand delivered within mainland Britain by prior arrangement with Christopher Mellor-Hill.
A fine Second War C.B., C.B.E., Great War M.C. group of sixteen awarded to Major-General Sir Charles Lane, K.C.I.E., who served in France in 1914 with the 19th Lancers as part of the Indian Expeditionary Force, later commanded the 20th Lancers, and was Representative in India of the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command, 1944-46 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, complete with neck cravat in its Garrard & Co case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, complete with neck cravat; Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914 Star (Lt. C. R. C. Lane, 19/Lncrs.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. C. R. C. Lane.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (Capt. C. R. C. Lane. 20-Lancers.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these last twleve mounted court-style as worn; Poland, Republic, Order of Polonia Restituta, 3rd Class neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, complete with neck cravat; United States of America, Legion of Merit, Commander’s neck badge, gilt and enamels, named on the reverse ‘Major General Charles R. C. Lane, British Army’, complete with neck cravat, earlier medals with contact marks but generally very fine or better (16) £3,000-£4,000 --- K.C.I.E. London Gazette 23 May 1946 (S.E.A.C.). C.B. London Gazette 1 January 1943. C.B.E. London Gazette 5 June 1943 (Persia-Iran Force). M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916. M.I.D. London Gazette 15 May 1917 (France), 5 June 1919 (Egypt), and 19 October 1944. Order of Polonia Restituta awarded 1945. Legion of Merit London Gazette 19 November 1948. Charles Reginald Cambridge Lane was born on 4 December 1890, and educated at Bradfield and R.M.C. Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1910 and served with the Indian Expeditionary Force in France as A.D.C. to Brigade Commander and Divisional Commander from November 1914 to May 1916 (Military Cross, June 1916); G.S.O. 3 in France, May 1916 to December 1917; Brigade Major, France, December 1917 to May 1918, and with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, May 1918 to May 1920, serving in Egypt, Palestine and Syria; D.A.A.G. India, February 1924 to September 1925; G.S.O. 2 India, September 1925 to May 1928, and February 1930 to November 1931; Commanded the 20th Lancers, 1936-38; Area Commander in India, 1940; Deputy Adjutant and Q.M.G., 10th Army, and D.Q.M.G. Bases and Lines of Communication PAIFORCE 1942-43; Commander 303 L. of C. Area, India Command, 1943; Deputy Principal Administration Officer, H.Q. Supreme Allied Command, S.E.A.C. 1943-44; Representative in India of the Supreme Allied Commander, S.E.A.C. 1944-46. Major-General Sir Charles Lane retired from the Indian Army in 1947. He was Principal Regional Officer with the Ministry of Health from 1947 to 1957, and died on 14 September 1962.
Pair: Sergeant M. E. Geeves, Women’s Royal Army Corps General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (W/84787 Sgt. M. E. Greeves. W.R.A.C.); ; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army ((W/84787 Sgt. M. E. Greeves. W.R.A.C.) minor official correction to unit on first, nearly extremely fine (2) £140-£180 --- L.S. & G.C. Army Order 47 of 1960. Mary Edith Greeves (née Oram) was born at Hove, Sussex, on 30 April 1921. She married firstly Frederick L. Anderson in 1940 and then in 1949 she married John D. Greaves/Greeves. She died in Hove on 22 January 1983.
A scarce ‘double issue’ Queens South Africa group of five awarded to Driver J. Taylor, Royal Field Artillery, later Royal Fusiliers Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (83235 Dvr: J. Taylor. 61st. Bty. R.F.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Ladysmith (83235 Dvr: J. Taylor. 66th. Bty. R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (14891 Pte. J. Taylor, R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (14891 Pte. J. Taylor. R. Fus.); together with the recipient’s Army Temperance Association One Year Medal, silver, the name of the movement obliterated from both obverse and reverse, the edge contemporarily engraved ‘Driver John Taylor. R.A.’, contact marks, generally nearly very fine (6) £240-£280 --- John Taylor served with the Royal Field Artillery in South Africa during the Boer War, and with the Royal Field Artillery during the Great War in the East Africa, Nyasaland, and Northern Rhodesia theatre of War from 4 May 1915.
Three: Private George A. Cooper, Army Service Corps 1914-15 Star (DM2-118578 Pte. G. A. Cooper. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (DM2-118578 Pte. G. A. Cooper. A.S.C.) mounted as worn, very fine Pair: Private R. H. Richards, Devonshire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (1586 Pte. R. H. Richards. Devon. R.) very fine Pair: Private J. J. Hynes, 15th Battalion, Canadian Infantry British War and Victory Medals (192531 Pte. J. H. Hynes. 15-Can. Inf.) good very fine (7) £70-£90 --- George A. Cooper enlisted as a mechanical transport learner and arrived in France on 25 November 1915. Richard Henry Richards also served with the Somerset Light Infantry (No. 29970) and was disembodied on 24 April 1919. Joseph Harold Hynes was born in Toronto on 24 February 1897, and was a lithograph artist prior to enlisting on 17 August 1915. He served with the 91st Highlanders Canadian Militia and with 15th Canadian Infantry Battalion (48th Highlanders).
Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel A. F. F. Bloomfield, 5th Madras Native Infantry and Golconda Local Corps, who quelled a rebellion in the Godavery District during the Indian Mutiny, and went on to command two further local forces in putting down disturbances between 1858-1862. He was slightly wounded during the last expedition, and received the thanks of the Madras Government on three separate occasions India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Ensign A. F. Bloomfield. 5th Madras N.I.); Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Capt. A. F. Bloomfield, Golconda Local Corps.) light contact marks, otherwise very fine, last scarce to unit (2) £700-£900 --- Alleyne Fitzherbert Fenton Bloomfield was born on 18 June 1832, and was the son of J. C. Bloomfield of Dusseldorf, Germany. He was baptised in Belleek, County Fermanagh, and educated in Dusseldorf and Aix la Chappelle. Bloomfield was appointed Ensign in the Indian Army, 25 May 1850, and arrived in India in September of the same year. He served with the 5th Madras N.I. during the Second Burma War, accompanied the Martaban Column to Tanghoo; and was present in the attack and capture of Gongah and other minor affairs. Bloomfield advanced to Lieutenant, Indian Staff Corps in November 1856. During the Indian Mutiny he was sent on Special Service in command of a detachment of 237 Golconda Sebundies (a local corps of militia) to suppress the disturbance in the Hill Tracts of the Godavery District in 1857-58. A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Godavery District in the Presidency of Madras by Henry Morris, first published London, 1878, gives an account of the operations of the Golconda Sebundies under Bloomfield: ‘This year was, however, marked by far more serious occurrences than an adverse season and increased prices. The anxiety felt throughout Southern India, on account of the great military mutiny in the north, was felt in full proportion in this District... Some apprehension was experienced during the Mohurrum, which that year took place in August, while the result of the deadly struggle in the North-West Province was undecided. Delhi was still untaken, and Lucknow unrelieved.... Kárukonda Subbáreddi was the head man of Koratúru, a village on the Godavery not far from the Gorge. He had been anxious to certain rich widow in marriage for his son; but hearing that she had become the concubine of Sunkaraswámi, the village munsiff or magistrate of Buttayagúdem, he attempted with a large body of his Koi followers to carry her off by force from his protection. Failing in the immediate object of his raid, he plundered the village, and retreated with a quantity of booty and cattle to the village of the widow’s late husband, where he was reinforced by other Reddis [local chiefs] with a considerable number of followers.’ The Acting Head-Assistant Magistrate gathered a force of 70 peons, and advanced to address the situation in the plundered village. Upon their arrival the marauding forces had departed, and they returned to Buttayagúdem having taken a few prisoners for questioning. Early next morning ‘he found that his small party was surrounded by an overwhelming number of hill-men under Subbáreddi and his son, armed with matchlocks and bows and arrows. The peons with him failed to stand their ground. He was consequently compelled to release his prisoners, to surrender the recovered property, and finally to retreat. Sunkaraswámi was carried off by the insurgents, and was taken to the hills, where he was murdered.’ (Ibid) The above was reported to the Collector, and two companies of Sappers and Miners under the command of Captain Rose were sent out in response. The detachment advanced into the hills in order to find and engage the insurgents. They failed to do this over the course of two weeks, and were increasingly beset by jungle fever and engaged in guerilla warfare. As a consequence, ‘the campaign was continued by a Sibbandi or Revenue Corps, which was embodied for that purpose, and placed under the command of Captain Alleyne F. F. Bloomfield. Subbáreddi and seven other ringleaders were captured, and were sentenced to suffer capital punishment... Subbáreddi and Korla Sítárámayya, who had been proved to have been one of the most active and desperate of the leaders in the rebellion, having been convicted of participation in Sunkaraswámi’s murder, as well as the murder of another, were executed at Buttayagúdem, the scene of their crime, on October 7, 1858. Korla Venkata Subbáreddi, half-brother of Sítárámayya, also an active leader, and Guruguntla Kommireddi, who had assisted in the murder of Sunkaraswámi, were hanged at Pólavaram on the same day. On the same occasion Kárukonda Tammireddi, Subbáreddi’s brother, was executed at Tútigunta. He had joined in the rebellion, and had, with his own hand, shot a man who was conveying a message from the camp of the officer commanding the corps.’ (Ibid) After the rebellion had successfully been put down Bloomfield received the thanks of the Madras Government. He commanded a detachment of the Golconda Sebundies later the same year during disturbances in the Golconda Zemindary, and received the thanks of the Madras Government and approbation of His Excellency the Commander in Chief. Bloomfield advanced to Captain, and his force was amalgamated into the new organisation of the Mofussil Police in 1861-62. He was appointed Superintendent of the Godavery District the same year, and commanded the Civil Force sent to quell the disturbances in the Rumpah Country in the Godavery District in 1862. Bloomfield was slightly wounded, and received the thanks of the Madras Government for the third time. Bloomfield advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel in May 1876, and retired in May 1878. During his service he held the appointments of: Adjutant Golconda Sebundies 1855; Commanded Rajahmundry Sebundies 1858; Acting Military Medber Sanitary Commission, December 1864; Acting Cantonment Magistrate, Trichinopoly, April 1865; Superintendent Rajahmundry Central Jail, January 1866; Acting Superintendent of Family Payments, Madras, February 1867; Acting Police Magistrate, Madras, February 1868 and Superintendent Salem Jail, October 1868. Colonel Bloomfield died, 21 April 1915. Sold with copied Cadet papers, Record of Service, medal roll entries, and a modern reprint of A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Godavery District in the Presidency of Madras by Henry Morris, first published London, 1878, which contains a short account of the operations of the Golconda Sebundies under Bloomfield.
Pair: Sergeant A. Downie, 82nd Foot Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (3803 Serjt. A. Downey [sic]. 82nd. Regt.) number, rank, and name unofficially re-engraved; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (3803. Pte. A. Downie, 82nd. Foot) nearly very fine (2) £100-£140 --- Alexander Downie (also listed as Downey) attested for the 82nd Foot (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers), and served with them in India during the Great Sepoy Mutiny, being shown on the medal roll under the name Corporal Alexander Downey as receiving a no clasp medal.
Five: Colonel A. N. Hargreaves, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, who served during the Second World War as a Group Defence Officer with Fighter Command 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. A. N. Hargreaves. R. Lanc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. A. N. Hargreaves.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s related miniature awards, very fine (5) £120-£160 --- Anthony Nevill Hargreaves was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment (Territorial Force) on 15 August 1915, and served with the 1st/5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 November 1915. He was granted a commission in the Regular Army on 3 December 1916, and was promoted Lieutenant on 15 November 1917, and Acting Captain on 15 December 1917. Remaining in the Army following the cessation of hostilities, Hargreaves was appointed Adjutant on 24 March 1928, and was promoted Captain on 1 September 1928, before transferring to the Reserve of Officers on 12 July 1929. Recalled for service during the Second World War, he was appointed General Staff Officer II (Liaison, Aerodrome Defence), No. 19 Coastal Group, Royal Air Force, with the rank of Acting Major, on 9 July 1941, and was subsequently appointed Group Defence Officer (General Staff Officer I), No. 9 Group (Fighter Command), Royal Air Force, with the rank of Acting Lieutenant-Colonel, on 11 June 1942. Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel and appointed temporary Colonel on 6 April 1944, while serving as a Group Defence Officer, No. 11 Group (Fighter Command), Royal Air Force, he was demobilised on 22 August 1945. Hargreaves relinquished his commission on 17 October 1946, and was granted the honorary rank of Colonel. Sold together with the recipient’s two Commission Documents (Territorial Force and Regular Army); two letters regarding his services during the Second World War with the Royal Air Force; War Office letter on the occasion of his retirement; copied statement of service; and various cap badges, buttons, and other ephemera.
A scarce Great War ‘Palestine’ D.C.M. group of five awarded to Regimental Quarter-Master Sergeant W. Bale, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (200174 R.Q.M. Sjt. W. Bale, 1/4 Norf: R.); 1914-15 Star (1991 C.Q.M. Sjt. W. Bale. Norf. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (1991 W.O. Cl. 2. W. Bale. Norf. R.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue, 2 clasps, Long Service 1940, Long Service 1944 (William Bale) mounted as worn, some contact wear, otherwise very fine (5) £1,200-£1,600 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2004. D.C.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919; citation published 11 March 1920: ‘He has served with the battalion since 1915, in Gallipoli, Egypt, Suez Canal Defences, Syria, and Palestine. He has always shown courage and determination in bringing up the battalion’s rations and water to the front line under heavy fire. By his energy and sense of duty he has earned the respect and confidence of all ranks.’ M.I.D. London Gazette 6 July 1917 (Egyptian Expeditionary Force). William Bale was a pre-war territorial from Diss who served in the 1st/4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, as part of the 163rd (Norfolk and Suffolk) Brigade, 54th (East Anglian) Division during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 10 August 1915 - the date that the 54th Division landed at Gallipoli. On 13 August the Battalion took part in an attempt to clear the enemy from an area of small fields, ditches and high hedges that would have proved an obstacle to a further attack on Kuchuk Anafarta Ova - this is the action in which the famous Sandringham Company of their sister Battalion, the 1st/5th Norfolks, disappeared. Fortunately, losses inn the 1st/4th Norfolks were relatively light in this action, their role mainly being in support and suppressing sniper fire. The battalion was evacuated from Anzac on 7-8 December via Mudros to Alexandria where it arrived on 19 December, with an effective strength of about 250. The whole of 1916 was spent in Egypt, training and bringing the battalion back up to strength, whilst being engaged in occupying the defensive positions for the Suez Canal. In February 1917 the 163 Brigade marched across the Sinai Desert to assist in the attack on Palestine. During the First Battle of Gaza, 26-7 March 1917, the brigade advanced to occupy positions on the Sheikh Abbas Ridge to the south of Gaza. The attack on Gaza itself met unexpectedly heavy opposition and was not successful. The brigade’s chief role was in assisting in breaking up Turkish counter attacks and covering the withdrawal of the division. The battalion took turns in defensive positions at Seirat until 17 April, when as part of 163 Brigade they again advanced to capture the Sheikh Abbas ridge, which was achieved with little difficulty. On 18 April, the brigade was to attack about Khirbet-el-Bir, with 1st/4th Norfolks on the left of the brigade’s line, with one tank in support, although that was soon knocked out by an artillery shell. The attack was made across 1,700 yards of undulating country in full view of the Turks and it was found that the preceding artillery barrage had made little impact on the defenders. The attackers were met with intense machine gun and artillery fire and suffered heavily as the attack failed. The 1st/4th Norfolk battalion suffered around 50% casualties, losing 478 officers and men in killed, wounded and missing. The 1st/5th Norfolk battalion suffered similarly and for a time the battalions were combined to form a single composite battalion. From April until October, the battalion was engaged in the usual round of occupying defensive positions, receiving re-inforcements and preparing for the forthcoming offensive. In the early hours of 2 November, the battalion took part in the attack for the third Battle of Gaza, which finally resulted in its capture. The fighting was confused, with heavy casualties resulting from the enemy barrage and by 3.55am they were engaged in heavy hand to hand fighting at El Arish, where they eventually occupied the trenches. The battalion suffered casualties of 131 killed and wounded in this action. On 9 December 1917, Jerusalem surrendered to Allenby, at which date the 1st/4th Norfolks were engaged in a brisk action on the left of the line at Cistern Hill from where they were attacked by the Turks but held their positions, although suffering some 54 casualties. On 15 December, the battalion took part in an attack on Stone Heap Hill which was successfully taken with 78 casualties, with the 1st/5th Norfolks in support. The early part of 1918 was spent in the usual trench routine, with a couple of lively raids carried out by the 1st/4th Norfolks in June. The British line remained practically unchanged running from a few miles north of Jericho, Jerusalem and Jaffa to the sea. In September, Allenby’s final advance began and 54th Division, as part of 21st Corps took part in the Battle of Sharon. The 54th Division’s attack was entirely successful, breaking through the enemy’s defenses, with the 1st/4th Norfolks capturing the village of Bidya. Following the battle, the battalion marched north with the victorious army pursuing the Turks, being in Beirut in the first days of November, from where they were disembarked for Egypt on 28 November 1918. In accordance with the re-numbering of all Territorial Forces in early 1917 Bale’s regimental number was changed from 1991 to 200174. For his services during the Great War he was both Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. He was discharged on 23 March 1919 and was awarded a Silver War Badge. He subsequently served in the Special Constabulary. Sold with copied research.
A Second War ‘North West Europe’ O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Colonel J. Marshall, Royal Engineers (Territorial Army), late Manchester Regiment The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. J. Marshall. Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. J. Marshall.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, polished and lacquered, generally very fine (8) £240-£280 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 29 March 1945: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished service in North-West Europe.’ The original recommendation states: ‘This Territorial Army Officer served four and a half years during the last War (1914-18) and, during the last three years of this War, he has been a Regimental Commander for more than two years. After training the 62 LAA Regiment to a very high state of efficiency prior to its conversion, he was appointed to command 124 LAA Regiment. His keenness and devotion to duty was particularly noticeable in the enthusiastic way in which he once again tackled the training problem. He raised his regiment to a point of proficiency which gave excellent results both when engaged for two months against flying bombs on the South Coast of England and during the past two months since the regiment landed in North West Europe. Although an official application was made for his released to return to industry, he determined to bring his unit to the theatre of war and refused to revert to his civil occupation. I have the greatest confidence in his powers of command and initiative. He never spares himself in is constant attention to the care of his men and his equipment. His services are most worthy of recognition. The good work performed by 124 LAA Regiment during the last 6 months is undoubtedly attributable to this officer’s fine leadership and sound organisation.’ James Marshall was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment on 24 December 1914, and served with the 1st/7th Battalion during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 18 May 1915. He was promoted Major, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army) on 5 August 1939, and served throughout the Second World War, being appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1945.
A well documented State of New York Great War Campaign Pair attributed to First Lieutenant W. J. Goldsmith, Ordnance Department, United States Army, together with an associated Mexican Border Service and Great War group of seven miniatures United States of America, State of New York Great War Service Medal 1917-19; State of New York Medal for Faithful State Service in the Field During the World War 1917-1919, reverse impressed ‘4517’, very fine, together with a set of miniature awards: Mexican Border Service Medal 1918; Victory Medal 1914-18 with citation star; Army of Occupation of Germany Medal; State of New York 1916-17 Mexican Border Service Medal; State of New York Medal for Faithful State Service in the Field During the World War 1917-1919; State of New York Great War Service Medal 1917-19; American Legion Medal, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (9) £140-£180 --- Walter Jordan Goldsmith was born on 23 April 1894 in New York City, United States of America. He qualified for the Mexican Border Service Medal for service in the period May 1916 to April 1917 and was enlisted for active service in the United States Army on 23 July 1917. Having been commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army on 23 August 1917, he embarked for France from Hoboken, New Jersey on 26 November and served in France and Belgium during the Great War with the Ordnance Department, American Expeditionary Force. During his final eleven months of service overseas, Goldsmith served at the Main Supply Depot of the Motor Transport Corps. He was promoted First Lieutenant and was honourably discharged at Governor’s Island, New York on 30 August 1919. Goldsmith lived in England in later life and was admitted to the Osborne House King Edward VII’s Convalescent Home for Officers in 1971. He died in Wandsworth, London in 1984. Sold with a folder containing a quantity of photographs, documents and testimonies relating to the recipient’s military service, including a fine portrait photograph, 20cm x 26cm, of the recipient in uniform; the recipient’s original A.E.F. identity card with photograph; 20 loose photographs taken during the recipient’s service during and immediately after the Great War; a family photograph album also containing some family records; the recipient’s leather wallet embossed with his name and containing riband bar; Great War whistle with chain and hook; and other ephemera.
Pair: Private J. Sealey, 7th Foot India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Umbeyla (4606. J. Sealey H,Ms., 1st. Bn., 7th Regt.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (4606 Pte. J. Sealy [sic]. 1st. Bn. 7th. Foot.) engraved naming, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (2) £280-£320
The India General Service Medal awarded to Lieutenant R. A. T. Dury, 11th Bengal Infantry, who was the first officer to be killed during the Third Burma War, at Minhla on 17 November 1885, and was the inspiration for Kipling’s poem Arithmetic on the Frontier India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Lieutt. R. A. T. Dury 11th. Bl. Infy.) extremely fine £300-£400 --- Robert Ashton Theodore Dury was born on 7 July 1863 and was educated at the United Services College, Westward Ho! Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the South Wales Borderers on 25 August 1883, he transferred to the Indian Army on 28 April 1885, and was ‘with the 11th Bengal Infantry in Burma in 1885; landed with General Norman’s 3rd Brigade and advanced on Minhla Fort. The advance was stopped by a heavy fire from a prepared position in the middle of dense bush; it took some sharp fighting and more than one bayonet charge before the Burmans were driven back upon Minhla by the 11th Bengal Infantry and the 12th Madras Infantry. Lieutenant Dury was killed in the jungle; total casualties were 1 officer and 4 men killed, and 4 officers and 27 men wounded.’ Dury was the first officer killed during the Third Burma War, on 17 November 1885, 11 days after the declaration of War. The poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling had tried unsuccessfully to persuade the editor of the Civil and Military Gazette to send him to Burma to cover the campaign as a journalist, and upon reading the casualty list he remembered that Dury had been a contemporary of his at the United Services College. In a letter to Lionel Dunsterville, Kipling wrote: ‘I tried to go to Burma for the paper but I couldn’t be spared. By the way, did you see that poor Durey [sic] was killed by those swine? There’s £1,800 worth of education gone to smash and a good fellow with it.’ The following year, Kipling would write ‘Arithmetic on the Frontier’, with the third stanza presumably inspired by Dury’s death: ‘A scrimmage in a Border Station A canter down some dark defile Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail. The Crammer’s boast, the Squadron’s pride, Shot like a rabbit in a ride!’ Sold with copied research including an engraved image of the recipient.
Four: Company Quartermaster Sergeant T. G. Lawrence, Rifle Brigade, later Hampshire Regiment 1914-15 Star (4815 Sjt. T. G. Lawrence, Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (4815 C.Sjt. T. G. Lawrence. Rif. Brig.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (24287 C.Q.M. Sjt. T. G. Lawrence. 19/Garr: Bn. Hamps: R.) light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (4) £160-£200 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘In recognition of valuable service rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders.’ Thomas George Lawrence attested for the Rifle Brigade and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 July 1915. Transferring to the Hampshire Regiment, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal whilst serving with the 19th Garrison Battalion, and was discharged Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 23 May 1919. Sold with copied research.
A fine Boer War C.B., Great War C.M.G. group of seven awarded to Colonel H. J. W. Jerome, Royal Engineers The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, damage to a number of green wreath leaves on both obverse and reverse; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, minor damage to white enamel, crown set at slight angle from star; Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Ahmed Khel (Lieut. H. J. W. Jerome. R.E.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg (Major. H. J. W. Jerome. R.E.); 1914-15 Star (Bt. Col. H. J. W. Jerome. C.B. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Bt. Col. H. J. W. Jerome.) very fine and better (7) £3,000-£4,000 --- C.B. London Gazette 27 September 1901. C.M.G. London Gazette 23 June 1915. M.I.D. London Gazettes 10 September 1901 (South Africa); 22 June 1915 (France) Henry Joseph Walker Jerome was born on 7 January 1855 in India, of half French and half Irish ancestry. His father was Major-General John Jerome of the 86th Foot. Jerome’s mother, a descendent of Sir Isaac Newton, was from the ancient Newton family of Shropshire. Brought to England at the age of five, he followed the family tradition and passed into Woolwich as a Gentleman Cadet in 1873 at the age of sixteen. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 11 March 1874 and went out to India where he spent several years and served in the Afghan War (1878-80) for two years under Sir Donaldson Stewart being present at the actions of Ahmed Khel and Takht-i-Pul (medal with clasp). Returning to England, Jerome was appointed Instructor of Fortifications at Chatham which post he occupied for two years, and then was placed in command of a Railway Company in England, and later Adjutant of the Volunteer Engineers at Glasgow. Having been advanced Captain in 1885 and Major in 1893, he went out to South Africa, following the outbreak of war, in command of the 9th Field Company R.E. and served with Lord Roberts at Paardeberg and was present at the capture of Cronje. He marched with Lord Roberts from Paardeberg to Pretoria and returned with home with the Field Marshall at the end of 1900, receiving promotion to Lieutenant-Colonel shortly afterwards. For his services during the Boer War he was mentioned in despatches, created a C.B., and awarded the Q.S.A. with 4 clasps. Subsequently, for five years, Jerome was in command of the C.R.E.s at South Aldershot, receiving the Brevet of Colonel in 1904 and retiring in 1907 to Bilton Hall where he led the life of a gentleman farmer and enjoyed considerable success as a breeder and exhibitor of riding horses. On the outbreak of the Great War, Colonel Jerome volunteered his services once more and for four months was engaged in purchasing remounts in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He embarked for France with the C.R.E. Division in January 1915 and served at Ypres, claiming to be one of the first Englishmen to experience poison gas - at Zonnebeke. After five months in France, when his Division came out of the trenches, he returned home and was subsequently mentioned in despatches and created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. In June 1915, he was sent to Newark with Colonel Schreiber to start the Royal Engineers Depot and when the latter left, he was given command. He reached the age limit in 1917 and retired once more to his country home. The Colonel died in Hampshire in 1943. Sold with the following: 12 good quality original photographs including a large group photograph of the R.E. and R.A. Gentleman Cadets (including the recipient) at Woolwich in 1872 with each individual named, a large good quality group portrait photograph of the nine Royal Engineers officers at Kandahar in 1879, each sitter named, including the recipient, large photograph of the British General and his Staff at Kandahar 1979, 2 group portrait photographs of the R.E. officers at Quetta, June 1884, each individual named; forwarding letter for the recipient’s C.B. King’s Sign Manual from Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, dated 18 October 1904; letter written to the recipient from his wife Harriet Jerome, circa 1900; letter containing estimations as to the strength of the various British Army forces in South Africa, written circa 1899 to the recipient from his cousin Lucien Jerome on British Consulate-General, Havana headed paper; letters written by the recipient to his uncle, Major-General H. E. Jerome V.C., (2), the first sent from Camp Paardeberg on the Modder River, dated 2 March 1900 containing descriptions of actions and a sketch of the Paardeberg battlefield, the letter opens ‘My Dear Uncle Henry, Here we are bivouacked leading the toughest and hardest of lives, wild stormy cold wet weather alternating with very hot sunny days and blinding dust storms and some lively fighting thrown in, but we succeeded in capturing or helping to capture Mr Cronje and some 4000 of his followers’, the second letter sent from Pretoria, dated 8 July 1900, contains descriptions of incidents and actions on the subsequent march north to Pretoria. For the recipient’s nephew’s medals, see Lot 21
Four: Staff Sergeant J. R. Sims, Royal Army Medical Corps 1914 Star, with clasp (4541 Pte. J. R. Sims. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (4541 A.S. Sjt. J. R. Sims. R.A.M.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (7246037 S.Sjt. J. R. Sims. R.A.M.C.) mounted as worn, very fine (4) £100-£140 --- James R. Sims attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 5 November 1914.
Six: Lieutenant J. C. I. Gillett, Royal Berkshire Regiment 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1977, unnamed as issued; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated 1950 and additionally engraved ‘Lt. J. C. I. Gillett. Rl Berkshire R’, with integral top riband bar, mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, good very fine (6) £140-£180 --- A typed note with the lot states: ‘J. C. I. Gillett, Esq., TD. Born 27 October 1917. St. Paul’s School, Great Western Railway, and Chartered Secretary. Artists’ Rifles 1934-39. Royal Berkshire Regiment, June 1939-46 (5th (Hackney) Battalion 1939-42). Seconded 1942-45 to 1st Battalions of East Yorkshire Regiment, Lincolnshire Regiment, and Somerset Light Infantry. Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, 1946- Wounded, Arakan (Burma) 1944.’
Pair: Armourer Quarter-Master Sergeant A. Bruce, Royal Army Ordnance Corps Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (A.839 Ar. Q.M. Sjt. A. Bruce. R.A.O.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (839 Ar: Q.M. Sjt: A. Bruce. A.O.C.); good very fine (2) £180-£220 --- M.S.M. London Gazette 18 October 1916: ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered during the present war.’ The very first list of immediate awards of the M.S.M. Sold with copied M.S.M. Card which shows him attached to 11th Hussars and that a replacement M.S.M. was issued in September 1920.
Three: Corporal G. R. Stanyer, Machine Gun Corps, late Durham Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (27907Cpl. G. H. Stanyer. M.G.C.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, 1914 1918, with bronze star, extremely fine (3) £50-£70 --- Croix de Guerre London Gazette 19 June 1919. George Henry Stanyer was born in 1896 and attested on 5 December 1915; to Army Reserve “B” 8 December 1915; mobilised 22 January 1916, 3rd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry (29319 Pte.), transferred to Machine Gun Corps 13 March 1916; served B.E.F. with 122 Company M.G.C. from 16 May 1916; admitted to 38 General Hospital, Camiers, with trench fever 5-18 August 1917; promoted to Corporal 5 November 1918.
A rare Great War ‘Battle of Margeibra’ D.C.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant W. B. Collier, City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders), attached 9th Company, Imperial Camel Corps; later Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, who was severely wounded, and was Mentioned in Despatches Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (1939 Sjt: W. B. Collier. 1/1City of Lond. Yeo); 1914-15 Star (1939 Pte. W. B. Collier. C. of Lond. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (2. Lieut. W. B. Collier); Defence Medal; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (1939 Sjt. W. B. Collier. C. of Lond Yeo.) mounted as worn, light contact marks, nearly very fine and better, rare to unit (6) £1,800-£2,200 --- One of only 19 D.C.M.s awarded to the Imperial Camel Corps during the Great War. D.C.M. London Gazette 14 November 1916: ‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. He led his men with great courage and determination. He set a fine example of dash and coolness throughout.’ The original citation is additionally annotated ‘Mageibra 7th, 10th & 11th August 1916’. M.I.D. London Gazette 1 December 1916. William Bruce Collier was born in Southampton on 14 August 1887, and was employed as a shipping clerk. He joined the Territorials whilst living in London in 1908 and served initially with the 16th Battalion London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster), before transferring to City of London Yeomanry - Signal Service - in 1912. As a Territorial he volunteered for overseas service on 4 September 1914 and entered the Egyptian theatre of War on 21 April 1915 in the 1/1 Imperial Yeomanry (Rough Riders). He served at Gallipoli from August to October 1915 and subsequently in Palestine, and was promoted Sergeant on 7 December 1915. Collier transferred to the 9th Imperial Camel Corps in March 1916 and given the Regimental number 50792 with the rank of Sergeant. The 9th Camel Company was a British manned Company drawn from the Yeomanry 8th Mounted Brigade. After the break-up of the Imperial Camel Corps on 25 July 1918, the 9th Camel Company remained as a camel formation giving assistance in the Hejaz campaign. On 7 August 1916 he received a severe gun shot would to his right leg during an engagement at Margeibra and it was for his service during this action that he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. General Murray’s Despatch gives the following account: ‘On the morning of 6 August the enemy was found to have retired from Qatia, and, while the cavalry pressed on in pursuit, the infantry moved forward and occupied the line at Rabah-Qatia-Bir el Mamluk. The Australian Light Horse regiments, which had borne the brunt of observing and harassing the enemy’s advance, were given a day’s rest in camp, while the remainder of the cavalry continued the advance. The enemy’s rearguard was found to be occupying his previously prepared position extending across the road and telegraph line between Hod el Reshafat and Hod el Dhaba. Our attempts to turn his flanks by Hod el Negiliat on the north and Hod el Sagia on the south were frustrated by heavy artillery fire. On the same morning the Camel Corps detachment of Smith’s Mobile Column occupied Bir el Mageibra without opposition.Another body of mounted troops also moved to Mageibra in support at Bir el Jafeir. In the afternoon Major J. J. de Knoop, commanding the Camel Corps detachment of this column, reconnoitred towards Hod el Bayud, and reported that a force of the enemy was in occupation of Hod el Muhammam, five miles north-east of Mageibra. Orders for an attack next morning were issued by Colonel Smith. On 7 August the cavalry maintained their action with the enemy’s rearguard, which had fallen back to the line of his first entrenched position running from Oghratina to Hod el Masia, with flanks thrown well out to the north and south. There was continuous fighting throughout the day. On 8 August the enemy was found to have abandoned Oghratina and, by the evening, to have taken up a position covering Bir el Abd, his advanced base. It was here that the enemy made his final stand to cover the evacuation of his camp and stores.Touch was now gained between the cavalry and Smith's Mobile Column, and was maintained from this time onwards. On 9 August the cavalry which had hitherto carried out the pursuit was reinforced. A strong effort was made to encircle both flanks of the enemy at Bir el Abd and cut off his further retreat. Strong opposition was, however, encountered on both flanks, and it was decided to deliver a dismounted attack with the object of driving out the enemy. Our field batteries got close enough to shell effectively the convoys removing stores from the pile at Bir el Abd, but our artillery fire drew a heavy reply from the enemy’s howitzers, which caused some casualties. The enemy, well supported by artillery, fought stubbornly. He made three counter-attacks, all of which were driven back with heavy loss by our rifle and machine-gun fire, and in the evening what appeared to be a general advance by fresh forces was made against our troops. This was also driven back with heavy loss, but the enemy was able to maintain his covering position. During the next two days our cavalry was unable to do more than maintain continuous pressure, but the Mobile Column, which had occupied Bayud on 9 August, continued to menace the enemy wide on his left flank. On 10 August a strong reconnaissance was made against the enemy, who was in strength at Hod el Mushalfat, south-east of Bir el Abd. On 11 August an enemy force with two mountain guns approached Bayud. A sharp action, which commenced at 5.30 a.m., was fought, and in the course of it all the baggage camels and ammunition mules of the enemy detachment were destroyed. Towards the afternoon the enemy evacuated this position and retired on the main body of his rearguard. On the following day patrols from the neighbourhood of Bayud found the country to the east and north all clear. Early on the morning of 12 August it was found that the enemy had retired from Bir el Abd, and, though there was a small encounter with his rear troops about Salmana, the general pursuit stopped at this point, the enemy retiring through Bir el Mazar to el Arish.’ Collier’s wounds were initially treated locally before being evacuated on 2 November 1916, arriving back in England on 20 December 1916. On recovering from his wounds, in August 1917 he was posted to the Royal Field Artillery at Colchester, for officer cadet training. He received his commission on 20 January 1918 and landed at Havre in France on 2 May 1918, being posted to 52nd DAC on 9 May. On 5 October 1918 he was posted to C Battery, 56th Brigade RFA, but only 6 days later on 11 October he was wounded in the neck and evacuated via Boulogne to England. After recovering from wounds Collier was demobilised on 24 January 1919 from 44th Reserve Battery with the rank of Lieutenant. He was awarded the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 507 of 1920, and died in 1959. Sold with a display of various cap badges, rank and unit insignia; and copied reseearch.
Imperial Japanese Collar Patches and Shoulder Boards. A selection of Second World War era Army collar patches, 13 singles and 5 pairs, from Private to Colonel; 2 single Army civilian collar patches; 4 single and 1 pair of Navy shoulder boards; and 2 single and 4 pairs of collar patches, from Warrant Officer to Captain, all 5 pairs are unissued and still in their cellophane wrappers; together with miscellaneous cloth insignia; good conduct chevrons; and gilt metal cap badges, very good condition (lot) £80-£120
A Great War 1915 ‘Battle of St. Eloi’ D.C.M. group fo four awarded to Corporal H. Berry, 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (9477 L.Cpl. H. Berry. 1/R. Ir. Regt.); 1914-15 Star (9477 L-Cpl. H. Berry, R. Ir. Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (9477 Cpl. H. Berry. R. Ir. Regt.) mounted as worn, edge bruise to DCM, generally good very fine (4) £800-£1,200 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 1 April 1915: ‘For gallant conduct at St. Eloi on the night of 14-15 February 1915, in rescuing the wounded under a heavy fire, including one wounded man from a ditch full of water.’ Henry Berry attested for the Royal Irish Regiment on 25 March 1908 and served with the 1st Battalion, as part of 82nd Brigade, 27th Division, during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 December 1914 - the Division was formed from regular army units recalled from garrison duty around the Empire, with the 1st Royal Irish Regiment having been recalled from India. The Division was sent to the Ypres sector and it was here that Berry was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his actions at St Eloi on 14-15 February 1915. The Regimental History gives the following account: ‘At 4.15pm on 14 February sudden orders were received for the battalion to move forward at once in support of the Royal Irish Fusiliers who were engaged with the enemy at St. Eloi, the battalion on their left having lost trenches 19 to 22. When A and C Companies, under Major White, reached Voormezeele they were ordered by the Brigade to move up to the Mound, St. Eloi, to be ready to join in a counter attack on Trench 19. B and D companies followed to Voormezeele and thence B company moved up to S.10 by order of the commanding officer. At about 8.45pm Lieutenant Colonel Forbes, Major White and Captain Roche-Kelly (commanding B Company) met at the Mound. Major White stated that he had been ordered by the Brigade to counter attack Trench 19 with A and C Companies (which consisted of 85 men all told). He said that he had personally reconnoitred the ground and that in front of all and parallel to Trench 19, at a distance of about forty to fifty yards, was a deep and muddy ditch with a hedge on the enemy’s side of it. The only means of crossing the ditch was by a plank bridge. He proposed to get the companies across the plank bridge, deploy in rear of the hedge and then rush the position. He asked for support for his attack, as he had only some 85 men. Colonel Forbes ordered Captain Roche-Kelly to bring up B company in support of Major White, while D company was ordered to hold the redoubt just east of St Eloi. Major White got most of C company across the bridge, but before A company had begun to cross the Germans sent up flare lights and star shells and discovered the movement. They at once opened a hot fire, with the result that Major White was killed, Second Lieutenant Anderson died of his wounds, 13 men were killed and 21 wounded - all with the exception of Major White belonging to C company. The machine guns which had been mounted on the Mound were out of action owing to being coated with mud, so no covering fire of any consequence could be opened from that place. As the rear of the column was not getting on, Captain Roche-Kelly went forward to find out what was checking it. On arrival at the head of A company he learnt the state of affairs and returned to the Mound to report to Colonel Forbes, who decided that the attack would have to be postponed until adequate arrangements could be made to organise a counter attack in sufficient strength. Captain Roche-Kelly was ordered to withdraw B company to S 10, and also to get back A and C companies. This was done and these companies reorganised in rear of S10. About 2am on 15 February the 1st Leinsters retook and held Trench 20. At 4am B company was again brought up to St. Eloi to support the attack made from the north east on Trench 19 by the 2nd DCLI and 3rd King’s Royal Rifles. This attack developed about daylight and was entirely successful. About 7am a party from D company, under Lieutenant Pratt, did excellent work in bringing in the wounded and Major White’s body.’ The Division was to take part in all of the major actions of the Second Battle of Ypres in April and May 1915. In November the Division was entrained for Marseille, from where they embarked for the Macedonia front, arriving at Salonika in February 1916. In November 1916, the 1st Royal Irish Regiment was transferred to 30th Brigade, 10th (Irish) Division, with whom they remained for the duration of the war. In August 1917, the Division was transferred to the Palestine front, where it was to remain until the cessation of hostilities. At some point, Berry was transferred to the Labour Corps and given the number 515032, and it was with this unit that he finished the war. He was discharged due to sickness on 26 April 1919 due to sickness and was awarded a Silver War Badge. Sold with copied research.
‘My Webley .38 was always a very, very close companion.’ Kenya Cowboy by Peter Hewitt. A Mau Mau Operations and Cypriot Emergency campaign pair awarded to Mr P. R. Hewitt, Inspector of Police, Colonial Police Service, the author of Kenyan Cowboy, a vivid account of his experiences during the Mau Mau Uprising: to be sold with two carefully curated photograph albums chronicling the recipient’s periods of service in the Kenyan and Cypriot Emergencies of the fifties Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (I.P. P. R. Hewitt.) minor official correction; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (Inspr. P. R. Hewitt.) together with the recipient’s related miniature awards, both pairs mounted as worn, very fine (2) £800-£1,200 --- Peter Ronald Hewitt was born in Windsor, Berkshire in 1928 and spent his formative years in Reading. Aged eighteen, following an MoD engineering apprenticeship, he was conscripted and served for eight years in the Fleet Air Arm. Kenya - Mau Mau Emergency Upon release from the Royal Navy Hewitt entered the Colonial Police Service, a career change that took him first to Kenya in the autumn of 1953 just as the Mau Mau Emergency was escalating. Within 24 hours of his arrival in Nairobi, he had been sworn in at the Colony Police Headquarters, issued with his .38 Webley revolver and 12 rounds of ammunition and was journeying out for basic training at Gilgil in the heart of the Great Rift Valley with a diverse cast of characters: ‘By early afternoon when we had been collected from our respective hotels with bulging kit-bags of uniform and personal luggage we numbered about twenty. And what a multifarious bunch of recruit sub-inspectors of police we were too. Ex-R.A.F. flying officers, bank clerks, unresolved public school boys, ex-Palestinian Police, retired Indian army officers and inevitably, ex sailors. The Kenya police (during the years 1953-1960 at least) can surely have had no parallels as regards being designated a ‘motley’ force. Though, alas, the only designation it appeared to have earned itself in the press while I awaited confirmation of my appointment in murky fog-bound London was that of ‘millionaire coppers’ or, more amusingly still, ‘Kenya Cowboys’. (Kenya Cowboy - A Police Officer’s Account of the Mau Mau Emergency by Peter Hewitt) After six gruelling weeks at Gilgil, Hewitt then emerged as a newly qualified sub-inspector of police and sent to a forest post in the Lower Rift Valley Province: ‘So, there I was - an uncertain sub-inspector of police in charge of a forest post - with one sergeant and fifteen reserve constables, about one hundred and fifty square miles of Africa to look after and a score of farmsteads to maintain law and order on... I was to spend seventeen months of my tour of duty in Kenya on forest posts. Hermann’s Post was the first of three. I learnt a tremendous amount about not only terrorism and the African askari but also about settlers and farming. The life was unglamorous and tiring. It demanded physical fitness and an even temper. It was a routine that did not displease me particularly and only occasionally did I ever see senior officer. My activity was dictated by whim and fancy, premonition and hunch. At times it was unbearably frustrating, Mau Mau everywhere, their tracks followed for miles, their hideouts located, the mutilated bodies of their victims carried to an ambulance, but few positive contacts. The life was abstemious and frugal. One had to be roused from heavy sleep at a witching hour after midnight to lay an ambush on some farm that had been raided.’ (ibid) But as as the insurgency escalated with increasing assassinations and farm raids so also did the violent contacts between Mau Mau and police. Hewitt’s diary entry for Tuesday, 28 December 1954 - ecclesiastically shown as ‘Innocent’s Day’ starts with: ‘From about 1730 hours today until nightfall I was engaged in a running battle (literally) with some forty or more Mau Mau. I had only six askari with me all of whom I adjudged as having behaved in a most meritorious manner. It was just before 1700 hours that I learned of the burning of a settler’s house some five miles away.’ The entry refers to the burning of the Carnelly Farm and the consequent jungle pursuit of the perpetrating Mau Mau gang into the Cezoroni Gorge. Shortly after this dramatic episode, Hewitt received a letter of appreciation from the local residents for his efforts. Having narrowly avoided assassination by a previously trusted Kikuyu house boy, Hewitt, by now Post Commander at Ol Magogo, found himself in an increasingly bitter struggle against the Mau Mau. Styling themselves as the Kenya Land and Freedom Army, the recruits of this rebel faction had by now been so indoctrinated into a barbaric orgy of bloodletting that as far as the security forces were concerned they were to be regarded as psychotic gangsters: ‘They would be hunted down as wild criminals and had, moreover, as far as the angry settlers were concerned, forfeited any rights to those rules embodied in the Geneva Convention. The benign and benevolent image of the British Crown was, perforce, about to be sullied.’ (ibid) Such was the level of violence (mostly perpetrated against loyal Africans) that Hewitt’s remarkable personal account describes his difficulties in making the distinction between legal slaughter and excusable homicide. Later in the book he recounts the exploitation of Mau Mau traitors in hastening the turning of the tide and his own part in the capture of the self-styled “Field Marshall” Kaniu - one of the three top leaders of Mau Mau - in the Naivasha papyrus swamp during Operation Bullrush - a photo of Hewitt emerging from the swamp with his Mau Mau capture appeared shortly afterwards in the British press. Cyprus Emergency, Nyasaland and Papua New Guinea Hewitt was posted for 4 months (February 1956 to May 1956) to the Colony Police H.Q. at Nairobi but the security forces had all but purged the Mau Mau pestilence from Kenya by the end of 1956 and he was transferred to Cyprus (November 1956 to September 1959) as Police Inspector amidst another reign of terror, bloodshed, hatred and distrust. His arrival coincided with one of Nicosia’s worst gun attacks - the fatal shooting of two police officers and the wounding of a third - on Ledra Street (Murder Mile). Hewitt later commented that there was only one place for any weapons carried by security forces in Ledra Street - in the hand. Succeeding as O.C. of No. 5 Unit in the Mobile Reserve (the militant section of the Cyprus Police), based at Ktima, Paphos, he was constantly in demand by military units during cordon and search operations. Hewitt also undertook many stealth operations, January - February 1957, in the familiar role of hunting out terrorists from their forest hideouts, only the Eoka (Cypriot terrorists) were superior in arms and much better trained than any Mau Mau encountered in Kenya. These stealth groups were composed of 3 or 4 persons only, carrying very little equipment, and expected to live out for anything up to 14 days, charting movement, observing, locating and if possible killing, Eoka. With yet another emergency being declared in one of Britain’s overseas territories, Hewitt was re-appointed and set sail from Cyprus for Nyasaland on 17 September 1959. His police career then concluded with a nine-year spell in the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary. Returning to England in 1972 he took up an appointment with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where a succession of postings took him to diplomatic missions in Sierra Leone, East Berlin, Guyana and Lis...
Five: Major C. E. V. Sams, Hampshire Regiment, later Royal West African Frontier Force India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (Capt. C. E. V. Sams. Hamps. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Major C. E. V. Sams, Trumpington Hostel, Trumpington, Cambridge’, nearly extremely fine (5) £100-£140 --- Charles Edward V. Sams ‘joined the Hampshire Regiment in 1926, saw service with the 1st Battalion in Indian, on the North West Frontier and also with the Royal West African Frontier Force, 1936-38. He retired in 1948, and died on 16 February 1986, aged 80’ (the recipient’s obituary in the Journal of the Royal Hampshire Regiment, ay 1986 refers).
Family group: Three: Nursing Sister A. M. Darling, Canadian Army Medical Corps 1914-15 Star (N. Sister A. M. Darling. Can: A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (N. Sister A. M. Darling) Pair: Gunner G. G. Darling, Canadian Field Artillery British War and Victory Medals (338049 Gnr. G. G. Darling. C.F.A.) Pair: Private O. G. Darling, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, who was severely wounded at Vimy Ridge in April 1917, and killed in action in September 1918 British War and Victory Medals (489811 O. G. Darling. P.P.C.L.I.) generally good very fine or better (7) £300-£400 --- Agnes Mary Darling was born on 31 March 1888, daughter of the Rev. M. C. B. and Mrs Agnes Darling, of Palmerston Boulevard, Toronto. A professional nurse, she attested for the Canadian Over-seas Expeditionary Force at Toronto on 7 April 1915. She served overseas with the Canadian Army Medical Corps in England, France and Salonica and was struck off the strength on general demobilisation at Ottawa on 28 September 1920. Gerald Glynn Darling was born on 5 May 1891, son of the Rev. M. C. B. and Mrs Agnes Darling, of Palmerston Boulevard, Toronto. A Clerk by trade with 11 months service in the Militia, he attested for 67th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, at Toronto on 8 December 1916. He served in France from 5 June 1917 and was accidentally injured with a contused knee in September 1918 by a kick from a horse caused by teams in limbers being in collision. He was discharged on demobilisation at Toronto on 28 February 1919. Oswald Gilbert Darling was born on 22 November 1893, son of the Rev. M. C. B. and Mrs Agnes Darling, of Palmerston Boulevard, Toronto. He enlisted into 6th University Company, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry at Toronto on 7 June 1916, and served in France from 17 December 1916. He was severely wounded by a gunshot wound in the right shoulder, arm and back on 10 April 1917, whilst in action at Vimy Ridge. Admitted to No. 13 General Hospital at Boulogne, he was subsequently evacuated to hospital in England. Discharged from convalescent hospital in April 1918, he returned to his unit in France on 18 May 1918, and was killed in action on 28 September 1918. Sold with copied record of service for all three groups.
Pair: Second Lieutenant R. H. Chown, Somerset Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (.. Lieut. R. H. Chown.) ‘2.’ erased before rank, very fine Pair: Private W. A. J. Allwright, 210th Training Reserve Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (28326 Pte. W. A. J. Allwright. Som. L.I.) with Registered packet and card box of issue, extremely fine Pair: Private J. F. Goverd, Somerset Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (41264 Pte. J. F. Goverd. Som. L.I.) contact marks, nearly very fine Pair: Private John T. Slater, Somerset Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (18770 Pte. J. T. Slater. Som. L.I.) nearly extremely fine Pair: Private L. Williams, Somerset Light Infantry British War and Victory Medals (41109 Pte. L. Williams. Som. L.I.) good very fine (10) £140-£180 --- Roland Henry Chown was born in Somerset on 7 February 1890 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 1 May 1918. He arrived in France on 1 October 1918. William Albert James Allwright served in France and was discharged to Z Class Army Reserve on 11 February 1920. Joseph Frank Goverd also served with the Dorsetshire Regiment (No. 20958) and the Royal Fusiliers (No. GS/115061). Sold with copied Medal Index Card. Llewellyn Williams also served with the Royal Berkshire Regiment (No. 48538).
Pair: Corporal G. Whiting, Royal Horse Artillery China 1900, no clasp (87925 Gunner G. Whiting. “B” Battery R.H.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (87925 Cpl. G. Whiting. R.H.A.) mounted for display, remnants of lacquer, minor edge bruising, generally very fine (2) £200-£300 --- George Whiting was born in Barnwood, Gloucestershire. He attested for the Royal Artillery at Woolwich in December 1891, and transferred to ‘B’ Battery, Royal Horse Artillery in October 1894. Whiting advanced to Corporal in January 1908, and was discharged 20 April 1913, after 21 years and 131 days’ service (award L.S. & G.C. in 1910).
Family group: A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Lance-Corporal D. Evans, South Wales Borderers Military Medal, G.V.R. (54305 Pte. D. Evans. 9/R.W. Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (61081 Pte. D. Evans. S.W. Bord.) with named card box of issue and registered envelope for M.M., photo in uniform wearing M.M. ribbon, news cutting announcing M.M. for gallantry in France, ribbon bar and various badges, very fine Pair: Gunner J. Evans, Royal Artillery British War and Victory Medals (136575 Gnr. J. Evans. R.A.) with named lid of card box of issue, very fine Four: Private J. Williams, Welsh Regiment 1914 Star, with later slide clasp (5247 Pte. J. Williams. 2/Welsh R.); British War and Victory Medals (5247 Pte. J. Williams. Welsh R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5247 Pte. J. Williams. Welch R.) with original ribbon bar identity tags for Welsh Regiment and Labour Corps, photo in uniform, 3rd Class Certificate of Education, shoulder titles and cap badge, very fine or better (9) £400-£500 --- M.M. London Gazette 16 August 1917. Private J. Williams was the cousin of the brothers D. Evans and J. Evans. Sold with research copied to CD.
Pair: Worker Jessie A. Pyper, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps British War and Victory Medals (1306 Wkr. J. A. Pyper. Q.M.A.A.C.); together with a British Red Cross Society medal, gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘194. Jessie Pyper.’; British Red Cross Society ‘For Service’ Badge, reverse numbered ‘10497’; and a British Red Cross Society lapel badge, good very fine (5) £60-£80 --- Jessie Anne Pyper attested for Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 July 1917. She was discharged on 1 November 1919.
A Great War ‘Gallipoli’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Captain (Quartermaster) W. Saunders, Hampshire Regiment, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse contemporarily engraved ‘Qr. Mr. & Lieut. W. J. Saunders. Hamps. R.’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Johannesburg (3867 Sejt. W. Saunders, 2: Hampshire Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3867 Cr:-Serjt: W. Saunders. Hampshire Regt.); 1914-15 Star (Q.M. & Lieut. W. J. Saunders. Hamps. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Q.M. & Capt. W. J. Saunders.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (3867 S.Mjr: W. J. Saunders. Hants: Regt.) mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted, and both housed in separate Spink, London, leather cases, the Boer War awards polished and somewhat worn, with edge bruise to QSA, therefore nearly very fine, the other awards nearly extremely fine (7) £1,200-£1,600 --- M.C. London Gazette 2 February 1916: ‘For services rendered in connection with military operations in the field.’ The original recommendation states: ‘Military Cross awarded for operations at ANZAC on 21 August 1915 under Brigadier-General Russell, General Officer Commanding New Zealand Mounted Brigade. When all other Officers of the 10th (Service) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment had become casualties, Captain Saunders took Command. He made all the preparations necessary within the Battalion for an attack on the Turkish Trenches, carried out a personal reconnaissance of the ground, obtaining valuable information, and led the Battalion into action.’ William John Saunders was born on 28 June 1874 and joined the Hampshire Regiment at the age of 18, serving with them throughout the Boer War. Awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 92 of April 1911, he was appointed Quartermaster of the 10th (Service) Battalion at the outbreak of the Great War, and served with them during the Great War at Gallipoli. Promoted Captain in 1917, for his services during the Great War he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 28 January 1916 and 30 January 1919), the first for services at Gallipoli, and the latter for services with the British Salonika Force. He retired from the Army in 1920, and in later life was a prominent member of the British Legion. He died at Hedge End, Hampshire, on 20 November 1943. Sold together with two portrait photographs of the recipient wearing his medals, both mounted in glazed display frames; original signed Recommendation for the Military Cross; various newspaper cuttings; and copied research.
Three: Warrant Officer A. Ward, Army Service Corps, later Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals (T-13876 T.W.O. 2Cl. A. Ward. A.S.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (T-13876 S.Sjt: (R.R.) A. Ward. M.G.C.) the last scarce to unit, good very fine (3) £80-£100 --- L.S. & G.C. Army Order 125 of April 1917. The third of only 104 awards of the L.S. & G.C. medal to M.G.C. Infantry. Sold with a shoulder title and cap badge for each unit, all mounted on card for display
Three: Captain F. Cowie, 79th Carnatic Infantry, Indian Army British War and Victory Medals (Lt. F. Cowie.); General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Iraq, N.W. Persia (Lieut. F. Cowie. 79-Carnatic Inf.) nearly extremely fine (3) £200-£260 --- M.I.D. London Gazette 9 September 1921 (Iraq). Frank Cowie was appointed to the I.A.R.O. as 2nd Lieutenant in March 1917. He trained at the Officers School of Instruction at Ambala. Originally attached to the 88th Infantry he later transferred to the 79th Carnatic Infantry and was mentioned in despatches for services in Iraq.
A very fine early Indian campaign and Crimea ‘Heavy Brigade’ group of five awarded to Sergeant Bernard Shamburg, 3rd Light Dragoons and 4th Dragoon Guards Cabul 1842, with ‘Victoria Regina’ obverse (Bernard Shamberg, 3rd Dragoons.) later officially impressed naming circa 1850; Sutlej 1845-46, for Moodkee 1845, 2 clasps, Ferozeshuhur, Sobraon (Bernard Shamberg, 3rd Dragoons.) later officially impressed naming circa 1850; Punjab 1848-49, 2 clasps, Chilianwala, Goojerat (Corpl. B. Shamburg, 3rd Lt. Dragns.); Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (Sejt. Bernd. Shamburg. 4th Dn. Gds.) contemporary Hunt & Roskell engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, contact wear but generally very fine and very rare (5) £3,000-£4,000 --- Provenance: Sotheby, September 1989. Bernard Shamburg was born in the Parish of Tuam, County Galway, and attested for the 4th Dragoon Guards on 29 September 1832, aged 21 years 2 months, a farmer by trade. He volunteered to the 3rd Light Dragoons on 1 July 1837 (Regtl. No. 605), and subsequently saw service in Afghanistan in 1842, in the Sutlej campaign of 1845-46, and in the Punjab campaign of 1848-49, being present with Pollock’s ‘Avenging Army’ in 1842, and at the battles of Moodkee, Ferozeshuhur, Sobraon, Chilianwala and Goojerat. Returning to his old regiment, the 4th Dragoon Guards on 1 July 1853, and recently promoted to Sergeant, he sailed with his regiment for the Crimea where he was present in the famous charge made by Scarlett’s heavy cavalry at Balaklava on 25 October 1854. Transferred to Scutari just over a month later, Shamburg was sent home on 26 February 1855, and discharged at Sheffield on 28 October 1856. His discharge documents record that ‘His Conduct & Character have been good although three times tried by Court Martial, twice for absence without leave & once for improper conduct as a Non Commissioned Officer.’ The regimental surgeon reported that he was suffering from ‘Rheumatism and general debility. The rheumatism first appeared in the East Indies about 12 years ago - he suffered greatly from it in Autumn of 1854 when in the Crimea - was sent home from the seat of war being crippled by the disease. It has therefore been induced by Military Service.’ Bernard Shamburg appears to have died in early 1877, when his widow received a grant from the Patriotic Fund. Sold with copied discharge papers and other research.
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