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A good Victorian C.B. group of three awarded to Major-General W. French, Royal Artillery, who commanded the Royal Artillery of the Kandahar Field Force during the Second Afghan War, 1878-1880 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, gold (18ct., hallmarks for London 1881) and enamel, with integral gold riband buckle, in Garrard, London, case of issue; China 1857-60, 2 clasps, Taku Forts 1860, Pekin 1860 (Capt. W. French, No.3 B. 13th Bde. R. Art.); A...
Hammer Price: £4,200
A scarce Relief of Chitral 1895 C.B. group of three awarded to Major-General H. B. MacCall, King’s Royal Rifle Corps The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamels, complete with swivel-ring bar suspension and ribbon buckle; Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Ens: H. B. Macall. 4/60 Regt.); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (Ltt. Coll: H. B. MacCall 1st Bn. K.R. Rifle Corps) th...
Hammer Price: £3,800
A fine K.H. pair awarded to Major-General John Cox, late 95th Rifles, Colonel of the 88th Foot (Connaught Rangers), who served throughout the Peninsular War and at Waterloo with the 95th (Rifle Brigade), being wounded by a musket ball at Vimiera, in the head at Redinha, a compound fracture of the left arm at the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo while clearing the left breach, and left leg badly fractured (ball lodged) in driving the enemy from the heights of Tarbes The Royal Guelphic Order, K.H....
Hammer Price: £12,000
A fine K.H. Waterloo pair awarded to Colonel James Forlong, 43rd Light Infantry, late 33rd Foot, who was severely wounded in the chest at Waterloo The Royal Guelphic Order, K.H. (Military) Knight’s breast badge, gold and enamels, in its original case of issue, this with weak hinges and lacking one clasp: Waterloo 1815 (Lieut. James Forlong, 33rd Regiment Foot.) fitted with original steel clip and contemporary silver bar suspension, the first lacking crown device from reverse centre, otherw...
Hammer Price: £13,000
A fine C.M.G., C.V.O., Great War O.B.E. group of twelve awarded to Colonel (Bey) A. G. Ingram, Egyptian Police, late Scottish Horse, who was Russell Pasha’s right-hand man in Alexandria - where his dark complexion combined with detective ability, and his willingness to go under cover, helped combat a den of rioters, smugglers and drug traffickers between 1911-15. During the Great War he served with Military Control in Alexandria, and as Military Governor of Beersheba. After the war he transfe...
Hammer Price: £3,000
A fine Great War C.M.G., C.B.E., ‘1917’ D.S.O. group of eleven awarded to Brigadier C. C. Norman, Royal Welsh Fusiliers and Sierra Leone Battalion, West African Frontier Force, who was wounded during the Boer War at Tugela Heights, 24 February 1900, served during the Kissi expedition of 1905, and was severely wounded leading his detachment on the Liberian Frontier, 29 December 1906. Twice wounded during the Great War, he commanded the 15th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, September 1916 - Ja...
Hammer Price: £7,500
A rare Indian Postal Services C.I.E. and triple ‘M.I.D.’ group of four awarded to Major A. J. Hughes, Indian Postal Services and Royal Engineers, who was Mentioned in Despatches for services with the Egyptian and Mesopotamian Expeditionary Forces The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 2nd type breast badge, gold and enamel; 1914-15 Star (A. J. Hughes, Dy. Dir. Postal Deptt.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major A. J. Hughes.) C.I.E. missi...
Hammer Price: £700
An interesting K.C.V.O., C.B.E. group of six awarded to Sir Harry Boyd, Assistant Private Secretary to four successive Secretaries of State, formerly a Private in the Shanghai Volunteers during the Boxer Rebellion The Royal Victorian Order, K.C.V.O., Knight Commander’s neck badge and breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamels, both pieces officially numbered ‘K576’; The Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; China 1900, no clasp (Pte. H....
The K.B.E. group of eight attributed to Brigadier Sir Duncan Anderson, Chairman of the Federal Power Board of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, who served with the Royal Engineers during the Second World War as Deputy Director of Works on General Eisenhower’s Staff in the North African campaign, and as Director of Works on Field Marshal Alexander’s Staff in the Italy campaign The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Civil) Knight Commander’s 2nd type set of insignia, comprising neck b...
Hammer Price: £1,300
A scarce ‘Southern Rhodesia’ C.B.E., Great War ‘East Africa’ D.S.O. and Bar group of six awarded to Colonel George Parson, British South Africa Police, later Commander of the Armed Forces and Director of Civil Aviation in Rhodesia The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar; 1914-15 Star (Lt. G. Parson B.S.A. Police); British War and Victory Medals, wit...
Hammer Price: £4,400
An important Second War C.B.E., Great War K.P.M. group of ten awarded to Chief Officer B. A. Westbrook, Founder of the Auxiliary Fire Service, formerly of the Calcutta Fire Brigade and Tunbridge Wells Fire Brigade The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband, in Garrard, London case of issue; King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Bernard Anson Westbrook. Ch. Officer, Calcutta F.B., Bengal.) partia...
Hammer Price: £1,600
A Great War C.B.E. group of four awarded to Colonel E. F. Sulivan, East Surrey Regiment, late 67th Foot The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Kabul (2nd Lieut: E. F. Sulivan. 67th Foot), minor official correction between initials and surname; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (Lt: Col: E. F. Sulivan. E. Surrey Rgt:); British War Medal 191...
A ‘1955’ Civil Division C.B.E., Second War Military Division O.B.E. group of five awarded to W. H. Eastwood, M.P., late Wing Commander, Southern Rhodesia Air Force, employed as Minister of Transport, 1958-62, in Sir Roy Welensky’s Federal Government of Rhodesia and Nyasaland The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in Garrard & Co. Ltd. case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Milit...
A Great War O.B.E., Balkan War group of five awarded to Dr. C. J. R. MacFadden, St. John Ambulance Brigade The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt (hallmarks for London 1918); Coronation 1911, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Hon. Surg. C. J. R. McFadden.); St. John Service Medal, with two Additional Award Bars (1335. Dist. Surg: C. J. R. Mac.Faden. M.D. No.1, District. Surgeon. S.J.A.B. 1918.); British Red Cross Society Medal...
Hammer Price: £1,000
A Great War O.B.E. group of four awarded to Surgeon Rear-Admiral R. W. G. Stewart, Royal Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) 1st type, hallmarked London 1918; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer, silver and enamel; British War and Victory Medals (Surg. Commr. R.N.) good very fine (4) £260-300
Hammer Price: £500
An Important and well-documented ‘Italian Front’ O.B.E., Order of St. John and Italian Al Valore Militare group of seven awarded to Mrs Nina A. S. Hollings, Joint Commandant of Red Cross Radiographic Unit No. 4, Italy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type badge, silver-gilt (hallmarks for London 1918), on lady’s bow riband; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s badge, silver and enamel, on lady’s bow riband; Italy, Kingdom, Al Valore Mil...
Hammer Price: £5,500
An O.B.E., Great War ‘Russian Intervention’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Colonel N. S. Henshaw, Royal Engineers The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse privately engraved ‘Capt. N. S. Henshaw’, with replacement ring suspension; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. N. S. Henshaw.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, with top Territoria...
£2,000–£2,400
Family Group: A Second War 1942 ‘Civil’ Division O.B.E. group of four awarded to Master Mariner, Captain H. L. Todd, Merchant Navy, and Dock Master and Pilot at Brighton, Trinidad and Tobago, during the 1930s The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, in Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, 1 clasp, France and Germany; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine Three: attributed to Mrs I. Todd Defence and War...
Hammer Price: £240
An O.B.E. group of five awarded to Commander M. C. Clapham, Royal Navy, late Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Malay Peninsula (Commander M. C. Clapham. R.N.); Malaya, Pingat Peringatan Malaysia, silver, mounted as worn, gilt worn on first, light contact marks, otherwise very fine (5) £180-220
Hammer Price: £340
A Great War M.B.E., Order of St. John group of four awarded to Mrs. Mia Lucas, St. John Ambulance Brigade The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type badge, silver (hallmarks for London 1919), with M.I.D. oak leaves on riband [sic]; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Sister’s badge, silver and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Mia Lucas. London May 3rd. 1918’; Coronation 1937; St. John Service Medal, with Four Additional Award Bars (6069 Lady D./Su...
An Inter-War M.B.E. group of ten awarded to Signal Lieutenant C. A. Jezzard, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1928; British War and Victory Medals (S.5-108 C. A. Jezzard, Act. C.Y.S. R.N.V.R.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Christopher Alfred Jezzard); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoratio...
A good Second War ‘Home Guard’ M.B.E., Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Colonel C. F. Morgan, Royal Field Artillery and 71st Lancashire Home Guard Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse privately engraved ‘Lt. C. F. Morgan, B/157. R.F.A. 3rd. June 1918.’; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C. F. Morgan.); Defence Medal; Jubilee 1935; Effi...
Hammer Price: £800
A Second War ‘D- Day and North West Europe’ M.B.E. group of eight awarded to Major C. D. H. Todd, Royal Berkshire Regiment The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, M.I.D. Oak Leaf; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Major. C. D. H. Todd. M.B.E. T.D. R. Berks.); Coronation 1937; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, reverse dated ‘1943’...
A Second War ‘North-West Europe’ M.B.E. group of six awarded to Major E. H. B. Greenfield, Royal Regiment of Artillery The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (Capt: E. H. B. Greenfield. M.B.E. RA.) on H.A.C. riband, mounted court-style, nearly extremely fine (6) £400-500
Hammer Price: £360
A Well Documented Family Group: A ‘1942’ Civil Division M.B.E. pair awarded to Mr. T. Kennett The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver, in Royal Mint case of issue; Defence Medal, extremely fine A Second War ‘Battle of Britain’ Hurricane Pilot’s campaign group of three awarded to Pilot Officer P. Kennett, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who flew operationally with 3 and 605 Squadrons during the Battle. He volunteered for...
Hammer Price: £3,600
The Second War M.B.E. group of five attributed to Chief Commander Isobel Powell, Auxiliary Territorial Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type badge, silver, on lady’s bow riband; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, silver and silver-gilt, reverse officially dated ‘1951’, with top Territorial riband bar, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £300-400
£300–£400
A Military Division M.B.E. group of four awarded to Warrant Officer 2 S. M. Learmouth, Women’s Royal Army Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (W/29531 W.O. Cl. 2. S. M. Learmouth. M.B.E. W.R.A.C.), mounted for wear, with additional Ladies bow riband, Women’s Royal Army Corps cloth insignia and A.T.S. cap badge, light contact marks ov...
Hammer Price: £190
An unusual 1966 ‘services to Nigeria’ M.B.E., Great War group of five awarded to Mrs S. Leith-Ross, British Committee for the French Red Cross, an Anglo-American whose love of France and Nigeria, led to her dedicating her life to benefit of others in those countries across two World Wars. An extraordinary woman, who lived to the age of 95, Leith-Ross established hospitals, founded schools and had 6 books published during the course of her lifetime The Most Excellent Order of the British Em...
Hammer Price: £850
A Military Division M.B.E. group of four awarded to Major D. T. Batson, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Cadet Force The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type, breast badge, silver; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Cadet Forces Medal, G.VI.R., with Second, Third and Fourth Award Bars (2/Lt. D. T. Batson.), mounted as worn, generally very fine (4) £260-300
Hammer Price: £300
The outstanding and rare Cavalryman’s Great War ‘1917’ D.S.O., and ‘Charge at Harbonnieres’ Second Award Bar group of eight awarded to Brigadier-General C. R. Terrot, 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons and 5th Dragoon Guards, who had already distinguished himself during the Boer War, when he ‘galloped after another [Boer] and, after a chase of a mile, shot him dead with his Mauser pistol.’ He led the 5th Dragoon Guards in one of the regiment’s most famous actions - the charge at Harbonnieres, 8 Augu...
The Great War D.S.O., O.B.E. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel S. B. Smith, Royal Army Medical Corps Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt (hallmarks for London 1919); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (Captn. S. B. Smith R.A.M.C.); 1914-15 Star (Major S. B. Smith. R.A.M.C.); British War a...
Hammer Price: £1,500
A scarce and well documented Great War ‘cavalry’ D.S.O. group of ten awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. J. Williams, 1st King’s Dragoon Guards and 1/1 Worcestershire Yeomanry. A veteran of the Boer War, he was taken prisoner at Hammilfontein 14 February 1901, before being appointed Regimental Aide de Camp to Emperor Franz Joseph - Colonel in Chief of the KDG. During the Great War Williams commanded the 1st King’s Dragoon Guards, in France, October 1915 - May 1916; and 1/1 Worcestershire Yeomanr...
Hammer Price: £6,000
An important battle of Jutland D.S.O. group of eleven awarded to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Forbes, G.C.B., Royal Navy, Flag Commander to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe at Jutland, and later Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet during the Norway campaign in 1940 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Commr. C. M. Forbes, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C. M. Forbes. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronati...
A Great War ‘Salonika’ R.R.C. group of three awarded to Matron Elsie E. Harlow, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve Royal Red Cross, 1st Class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, with Garrard, London, case of issue; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (A/Matron. E. E. Harlow) mounted for display, good very fine (3) £600-800
Hammer Price: £750
A Second World War D.S.C. group of five attributed to Lieutenant P. J. W. Davies, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, a gallant Fleet Air Arm pilot who was credited with at least one “kill” while operating in Wildcats off the carrier Campania on Arctic convoys Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated ‘1945’, hallmarks for London 1947, in Garrard, London, case of issue; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, this fitted with r...
A superb Pilot and Observer family group: The well-documented Great War Observer’s M.C. group of four awarded to 2nd Lieutenant T. A. M. S. Lewis, Royal Flying Corps, late Royal Fusiliers and Royal West Kents, who shared in the destruction of several enemy aircraft, including that flown by the famous German ace Leutnant Karl Emil Schafer: his M.C. was an immediate award for bringing down two enemy aircraft on 27 July 1917, when he was ‘severely wounded but continued to work his gun lying o...
Hammer Price: £7,000
A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant G. M. Gahagan, Royal Engineers Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G. M. Gahagan.); Defence Medal, the first three mounted as worn, together with set of tunic ribbons and portrait photograph, nearly extremely fine (4) £900-1200
£900–£1,200
A Great War M.C. group of five to Captain T. W. Morgan, Royal Field Artillery Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut. T. W. Morgan. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. T. W. Morgan.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Thomas Morgan) extremely fine (5) £700-900
Hammer Price: £650
The unique Third Afghan War Observer’s M.C. group of four awarded to Wing Commander J. E. Truss, Royal Air Force Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. J. E. Truss, R.A.F.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lieut. T. [sic] E. Truss, R.A.F.) somewhat polished, nearly very fine or better (4) £2600-3000
A Second World War Burma operations M.C. group of six awarded to Jemadar Kalu Ram, 5th Battalion, (Napier’s), 6th Rajputana Rifles, who won an immediate award for leading a bayonet charge on Rajput Hill in June 1944 Military Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated ‘1944’; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46 (I.O. 45699 Jemdr. Kalu Ram, 5 Bn. Raj. Rif.), very fine and better (6) £800-1000
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