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A rare Bhurtpoor C.B. group of three awarded to Major-General Cecil Bisshopp, 14th Foot, Aide de Camp to Lieutenant-General Gwynne at Corunna The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1815, maker’s mark ‘IN’ for John Northam, complete with original wide gold swivel-ring suspension and gold ribbon buckle; Military General Service 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Corunna (C. Bisshopp, Capt. 14th Foot); Army of...
Hammer Price: £8,000
A rare Scinde War C.B. pair awarded to Colonel W. T. Whitlie, Bombay Artillery The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1816, fitted with narrow gold swivel-ring suspension and gold ribbon buckle, some enamel loss to wreaths; Meeanee Hyderabad 1843 (Captn. W. T. Whitlie. 2nd Battn. Arty.) fitted with silver clip and bar suspension, reverse with light pitting, nearly very fine, obverse good very fine...
Hammer Price: £3,400
The G.C.B., O. St. J. group of six awarded to General Sir John St. George, Royal Artillery - who commanded the siege train at Sebastopol and was latterly Master Gunner, St. James’s Park The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, G.C.B. (Military) Knight Grand Cross set of insignia, sash badge, silver-gilt and enamel; breast star, silver, gold appliqué and enamel, with gold pin, with full sash, minor enamel damage; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Bailiff set of insignia, neck badge, 51...
Hammer Price: £5,000
The Baltic and Crimean War C.B. group awarded to Admiral Hon. S. T. Carnegie, Royal Navy The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge in gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1815, maker’s mark ‘IN’ for John Northam, with wide swivel-ring suspension and gold ribbon buckle, one replacement Lion embellishment; Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; Spain, Order of St Ferdinand, 3rd class breast...
Hammer Price: £3,600
A fine C.B. and battle of Ginnis gold D.S.O. group of six awarded to Colonel Edward Everett, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamels, small flake to reverse lower arm and some chipping to green enamel wreaths; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Lieut. Edwd. Everett, 79th Highlanders); Egypt & Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, The Nile...
Hammer Price: £6,500
A Victorian C.B. group of six awarded to Colonel Sir Augustus Fitzgeorge, K.C.V.O., C.B., 11th Hussars, late Rifle Brigade The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarked London 1895, fitted with gold swivel-ring suspension and gold ribbon buckles; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, silver and enamel; Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Ens. A. C. F. Fitzgeorge, 1/R. Bde.) officially...
Hammer Price: £1,900
The fine K.C.B., Sudan, Boer War and Great War group awarded to Major-General Sir E. G. T. Bainbridge, East Kent Regiment, who served with the Egyptian Army and in river gunboats during the reconquest, and went on to command the 7th Mounted Infantry during the Boer War, and the 25th Division on the Western Front The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s neck badge and breast star, silver, silver-gilt, gold and enamels; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Bimb: E....
The rare and impressive C.M.G., C.V.O., C.B.E., Sudan D.S.O. group of twenty awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel James Kiero Watson, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who was awarded the D.S.O. for services during the reconquest of Dongola: a close friend of Lord Kitchener, to whom he was A.D.C. in the Sudan and in South Africa, he commanded an advance at Gallipoli in 1915 before retiring as Military Attaché in Cairo The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s...
The rare and impressive K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., Sudan D.S.O. group of eleven awarded to Captain Sir Edward Colpoys Midwinter Pasha, Royal Engineers, one of Kitchener’s “Band of Boys” who helped build the desert railway and was awarded the D.S.O. for the battles of Atbara and Omdurman - he afterwards became Director of Sudan Railways and Steamers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Civil) Knight Commander’s 1st type set of insignia, comprising neck badge and...
Hammer Price: £5,500
A fine Great War K.B.E., Boer War C.B. group of nine awarded to Brigadier-General Sir Robert Bewicke-Copley, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who commanded the 3rd Battalion in the desperate action at Spion Kop The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Military) Knight Commander’s 1st type set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, and breast star, silver, with gilt and enamel centre; The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) breast badge, with...
Hammer Price: £4,800
A fine K.C.B, K.C.M.G. group to The Rt. Hon. Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson, G.C.I.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., a distinguished Civil Servant who held a number of senior appointments in the War Office, was Financial Adviser to Lord Kitchener in South Africa 1901-02 and ended his career as a Financial Member of the Supreme Legislative Council of the Governor-General in India - stepping in to deliver Lord Hardinge’s speech from a blood-stained manuscript on the Peacock Throne in Delhi after he had been...
£4,000–£5,000
A rare Great War Mesopotamia operations C.M.G., inter-war C.I.E., C.V.O. group of nine awarded to Colonel W. W. Chitty, Indian Army, a veteran of the Uganda operations of 1898-1900 who was taken P.O.W. on the fall of Kut in April 1916 The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.), Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire (C.I.E.), Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, in gold and...
The K.C.M.G. group of nine awarded to Colonel Sir John Buchanan, Royal Army Medical Corps, late Black Watch and Colonial Medical Service; he was the last Chief Medical Officer of the old Colonial Office The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, K.C.M.G. Knight Commander’s set of insignia, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, and breast star, silver, gold appliqué and enamel, contained in an earlier Garrard & Co. case of issue; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight...
Hammer Price: £1,300
The K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G. group of seven awarded to Colonel Sir Charles Arden-Close, Royal Engineers - Director-General of the Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Civil) Knight Commander’s 1st type set of insignia, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companion’s breast badge conversion to a neck badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for...
Hammer Price: £2,800
A D.B.E. group of three attributed to Lady Louisa Belle Cox - for services in Iraq The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, D.B.E. (Civil) Dame Commander’s 1st type set of insignia, breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel; shoulder badge, silver-gilt and enamel, on ‘bow and tails’ ribbon; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, on bow ribbon; British Red Cross Society War Commemorative Medal 1914-18, with top bar, all unnamed, the last three mounted together as worn, with Garrards,...
Hammer Price: £3,000
A fine C.M.G. and ‘Neuve Chapelle 1915’ D.S.O. group of eleven awarded to Brigadier-General C. G. W. Hunter, Royal Engineers, Chief Engineer XII Army Corps The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast badge, converted for neck wear, silver-gilt and enamels, enamel chips to both centres; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels, complete with top suspension brooch, some chipping to wreaths; India General Service 1895-1902,...
A Great War C.M.G., D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. E. Scafe, Devonshire Regiment The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt, gold and enamel, with neck cravat; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with top bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Belfast (Lieut., Devon Rgt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt., Devon Rgt.); 1914-15 Star...
Hammer Price: £2,000
A Great War C.M.G., D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. C. Foryth, Royal Field Artillery The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G. Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt, gold and enamel, in Garrard, London case of issue; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R. , silver-gilt and enamel, with top bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut., R.F.A.); China 1900, no clasp (Lieut., No. 91 Co.,...
A C.I.E. group of five awarded to Captain A. R. Leishman, Assam-Bengal Railway Volunteer Rifles, who for many years was a prominent member of Chittagong’s municipal and business community The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamels; British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. A. R. Leishman); Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed; Indian Volunteer Forces Decoration, G.V.R., the reverse officially engraved ‘Capt. A. R. Leishman, The A.B. Rly. Bn....
Hammer Price: £1,200
The military C.B.E. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir H. B. St. John, K.C.I.E., C.B.E., Indian Political Service, late Rattray’s Sikhs, Indian Army The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Malakand 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (Lieut., 45th Sikhs); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt-Col.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp,...
An outstanding C.B.E., R.R.C. & Bar group of seven awarded to Matron-in-Chief Beatrice Isabel Jones, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service - a recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal, who died in tragic circumstances in Mesopotamia, 14 January 1921 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt and enamel, mounted ‘bow and tails’ in Garrard, London case of issue; Royal Red Cross, 1st...
Hammer Price: £6,000
The outstanding K.C.V.O. and Polar exploration group of seven awarded to the Rt. Rev. W. L. S. Fleming, who served as Chaplain and Geologist to the British Graham Land Expedition, Antarctica, 1934-37, and as a Chaplain in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the 1939-45 War - having then officiated as Bishop of Portsmouth and Norwich, he was appointed Dean of Windsor, Registrar of the Order of the Garter, and Domestic Chaplain to the Queen in 1971, in which latter capacity he officiated at...
£12,000–£15,000
A post-war G.B.E., K.C.M.G. group of eight awarded to Sir Christopher Warner, British Ambassador to Belgium, late Royal Fusiliers: in writing a tribute in The Times, Sir Reginald Leeper described him as ’one of the most English Englishmen I can think of … he proved himself one of the best Ambassadors in the Foreign Service’ The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, G.B.E. (Civil) Knight Grand Cross, 2nd type set of insignia, sash badge, silver-gilt and enamel, breast star,...
£5,000–£6,000
A K.C.B., C.M.G., O.B.E. group of four to Sir David R. Serpell, Civil Servant The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Civil) Knight Commander’s set of insignia, neck badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1958, with neck cravat; breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with gold pin, in Garrard, London case of issue; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt, gold and enamel, with neck cravat, in Garrard,...
Hammer Price: £1,800
A G.B.E. group of eight awarded to Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, G.B.E. (Civil) Knight Grand Cross, 2nd type set of insignia, sash badge, silver-gilt and enamel; breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with full sash, insignia on pad but no case; British War and Victory Medals (21353D. A. E. de la Warr, D.H., R.N.R.); Defence Medal; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, these unnamed; France,...
Hammer Price: £3,800
A unique K.B.E., O. St. J. group of thirteen awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Gibbons, late Scots Guards and R.A.S.C. Motor Transport Volunteers: a notable philanthropist and theatrical agent, he was a Founder and Vice-Chairman of the Automobile Association and once owned the famous London Palladium The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Civil) Knight Commander’s 1st type set of insignia, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; breast star, silver, silver-gilt and...
Hammer Price: £1,600
A K.B.E., C.M.G. group of five to Sir Anthony B. Killick, Colonial Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Civil) Knight Commander’s 2nd type set of insignia, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck cravat; breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with pad but no case; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt, gold and enamel, with neck cravat, in Garrard, London case of issue, slight...
A fine Second World War C.I.E., O.B.E. group of eleven awarded to Hon. Colonel H. L. Hopkins, Royal Engineers, late West Yorkshire Regiment, a Great War veteran who distinguished himself in France in 1940 and Greece in 1941, prior to taking up appointment as Deputy Director of Transportation in India The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire,...
Hammer Price: £1,400
A Second World War civil C.B. pair awarded to Sidney Hill Phillips, a senior Civil Servant at the Admiralty The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, good very fine (2) £320-360
Hammer Price: £500
The post-war C.B. and Second World War O.B.E. group of eight attributed to Chaplain of the Fleet, the Rt. Rev. J. Armstrong, Royal Navy - latterly Honorary Chaplain to The Queen and Bishop of Bermuda The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck cravat, in Garrard, London case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic...
Hammer Price: £900
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, K.C.B. (Military) Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, and breast star, silver, with gold, silver-gilt and enamel appliqué centre, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse of the suspension bar officially dated ‘1944’; Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar, hallmarks for London 1947, the reverse of the Cross...
Hammer Price: £26,000
A rare Second World War North Abyssinia 1941 operations D.S.O. group of ten awarded to Major-General B. F. Armstrong, late South African Mounted Rifles and Artillery, who was taken P.O.W. at Sidi Rezegh in November 1941 while serving as C.O. of the 5th S.A. Infantry Brigade - such was the slaughter inflicted on 5th Brigade that the Germans called it Totensonntag or ‘Death Sunday’: notwithstanding a game leg, the Brigadier - ‘a jolly soul’ - made a successful bid for freedom from the...
Hammer Price: £3,300
The good Second War North-West Europe operations D.S.O., pre-war M.B.E. group of eight awarded to Colonel J. Bell, Royal Engineers, who undertook much hazardous mine clearance work Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., 1st issue, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse of suspension bar officially dated ‘1946’, in its Garrard case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, in its Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-1945 Star;...
An outstanding Second World War North-West Europe operations D.S.O. group of six awarded to Major H. J. Walker, Royal Norfolk Regiment, attached Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry: having gained an early “mention” for his daring escape from France in June 1940 - in a fishing boat manned by a handful of survivors from the 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolks, with shovels and butts for oars, the whole under a heavy fire - he was decorated for his gallant part in Operation...
The outstanding Second World War D.S.O., D.F.C., post-war O.B.E., A.F.C. group of twelve awarded to Air Commodore W. J. ‘Wilf’ Burnett, Royal Air Force, a veteran of three operational tours and 62 sorties who rose to senior command in Aden in the 1960s, via Aries Programme polar flights and squadron command in the Suez Crisis in 1956, a remarkable career preserved for posterity in the pages of his son’s biography, The Best of Lives Awarded his D.F.C. for a gallant tour of duty in...
Hammer Price: £13,000
A rare and impressive Great War O.B.E. group of ten awarded to Q.M. & Major J. T. Packard, Royal Army Medical Corps, late Medical Staff Corps, a veteran of the Ashanti Expedition, the Sudan and the Boer War, who was commissioned shortly before his departure to join the B.E.F. in 1914 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; Ashanti Star 1895-96, the reverse privately engraved, ‘J.P.T....
A Great War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel E. W. Goodall, British Red Cross Society and Royal Army Medical Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (E. W. Goodall, B.R.C. & St. J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (E. W. Goodall); Belgium, King Albert Medal, unnamed, mounted as worn; together with a mounted set of five miniature dress medals, nearly...
A Great War O.B.E. group of four to Brevet Colonel W. A. Sparrow, Royal Engineers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, hallmarks for London 1919; British War Medal 1914-20 (Major); Jubilee 1935; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1922, complete with slip-bar, mounted as worn, good very fine and better (4) £300-360
Hammer Price: £420
A Great War O.B.E. group of six awarded to Rev. John Cairns, Army Chaplains Department The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; Coronation 1902, silver; Coronation 1911 (Major J. Cairns, C.F.); Volunteer Officers’ Decoration, E.VII.R., unnamed, hallmarks for London 1904, lacking top bar; Volunteer Force Long Service, V.R. (Chaplain J. Cairns, 4th V.B. R. Scots); Territorial Decoration,...
A rare Java 1945-46 operations O.B.E. group of ten awarded to Brigadier R. C. B. Bristow, Indian Army, whose long and distinguished career is described in his autobiography - Memories of the British Raj: Soldier in India The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1919-21 (2 Lieut. C. R. Bristow, 2-9 G.R.), note initials; India General Service...
Hammer Price: £1,700
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