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Orders, Decorations and Medals (8 September 2015)

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Lot 1

Sold by Order of a Direct Descendant ‘Robert was one of life’s gentlemen and never told anyone that he was the holder of the George Cross and it was a rare privilege if you got him to mention it in any way. He was a quiet man, kept himself to himself but was always willing to lend a helping hand to anyone who needed it.’ Robert Wild’s nephew, Dennis. The G.C. (Exchange E.G.M.) pair awarded to Robert Wild, who was decorated for...

Sold for £8,500

Lot 2

‘Johnson was 22 years old in 1889 and conformed to a type that Rhodes found particularly appealing. He was handsome, aggressive and self-confident. Although his military career had not taken him beyond the rank of Quarter-Master Sergeant in the Bechuanaland Mounted Police, Rhodes decided that he was just the man to lead a military expedition against one of the most formidable warrior nations in Africa. By the terms of the secret contract drawn...

Sold for £9,500

Lot 3

An inter-war C.M.G. group of five awarded to Colonel R. F. Peel, East Surrey Regiment, late Coldstream Guards: a grand nephew of the famous statesman Sir Robert Peel and himself a Member of Parliament, he latterly served as Governor of St. Helena 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; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Be...

Sold for £1,600

Lot 4

An outstanding ‘Malaya Emergency’ O.B.E. and Airborne Division ‘North-West Europe’ immediate M.C. group of nine awarded to Colonel E. J. O’B. ‘Rip’ Croker, Leicestershire Regiment and Parachute Regiment; ‘he personally killed 3 Germans with his rifle and when a serjeant was wounded he immediately attacked his assailant and killed him with a fighting knife’ The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Offi...

Sold for £5,000

Lot 5

A post-war O.B.E. group of four awarded to Group Captain D. P. Singleton, Royal Air Force 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 1918-62, 1 clasp, Arabian Peninsula (Sqn. Ldr. D. P. Singleton, R.A.F.), good very fine or better (4) £200-250

Sold for £280

Lot 6

An extremely rare West Africa 1892 operations D.S.O. pair awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel R. J. Norris, 1st West India Regiment, who was decorated for his bravery at the storming of Tambi Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 2 clasps, 1892, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (Capt. R. J. Norris, D.S.O., 1/W.I. Rgt.), obverse wreath on the D.S.O. with chipped enamel and the centre-piece recessed and off-cen...

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Lot 7

Family group: ‘He is perfectly cool under fire and is of a cheerful disposition.’ One of Kenneth Badcock’s many glowing statements on Kenneth Badcock’s service record, as penned by Commodore R. Tyrwhitt in 1916. A fine Great War D.S.O., D.S.C. group of eight awarded to Paymaster Captain K. E. Badcock, Royal Navy, who served as Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt’s secretary throughout the war, as a consequence of which he was present...

Sold for £4,200

Lot 8

A Great War D.S.O. group of four attributed to Captain R. C. Dunford, Northumberland Fusiliers, who was recommended for the V.C. on the occasion that he was fatally wounded on the Somme in September 1916 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 Star (Capt. R. C. Dunford, North’d Fus.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Captain R. C. Dunford); renamed; Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt. R. C. Dunford), good very fine (4) £800...

Sold for £1,200

Lot 9

A Great War Salonika D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel F. J. Garland, Royal Army Medical Corps Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., complete with top suspension brooch in its Garrard & Co. Ltd. case of issue; 1914 Star (Capt. F. J. Garland, R.A.M.C.) second initial officially corrected; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col. F. J. Garland.) the last three in their named card boxes of issue; India Genera...

Sold for £1,400

Lot 10

‘The Squadron had several new pilots now, including another American, Nicky Knilans, a droll youngster from Madison, Wisconsin, with precisely the quality of nervelessness that Cheshire wanted in 617. Knilans had already done about twenty trips with 619 Squadron and been in strife on nearly every one of them. Several times on the way to the target he had had engines shot out, and more shells had ripped chunks out of his aircraft, but he had alw...

Sold for £12,000

Lot 11

A Great War anti-U-boat operations D.S.C. group of four attributed to Lieutenant-Commander N. Leslie, Royal Naval Reserve, who was commended for his gallantry on the occasion of the loss of the armed merchant steamer Duke of Albany off the Orkneys in August 1916 - hit by a torpedo from the UB-27, she went down in six minutes Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1917, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; 1914-15 Star, naming...

Sold for £850

Lot 12

Sold by Order of the Recipient ‘Exposing the ships of the Support Squadron [at Walcheren] had been a deliberate ploy to distract German fire while the Marines landed, and the casualties among the ships were heavy: only seven out of 27 survived unharmed. In March 1945 Smith was surprised, however, to learn from the London Gazette that he had been awarded, posthumously, a mention in despatches “for gallantry and great devotion to duty during...

Sold for £2,800

Lot 13

A Great War M.C. and Bar group of five awarded to Captain W. H. Blackburn, Royal Engineers Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved, ‘Capt. William Henry Blackburn, 1918’; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. W. H. Blackburn, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. W. H. Blackburn); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Capt. W. H. Blackburn), good very fine (5) £1600-1800

Sold for £1,700

Lot 14

A Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Captain F. Ward, Scots Guards, late London Regiment Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914 Star, with clasp (8469 Cpl. F. Ward, 1/5 Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. F. Ward); France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, with bronze star, cleaned, polished and lacquered, nearly very fine or better (5) £1000-1200

Sold for £1,200

Lot 15

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Major G. Lambert, Royal Engineers, who was wounded in the course of winning his decoration Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914 Star, with slide-on clasp (28169 Cpl. G. Lambert, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak palm (Major G. Lambert), good very fine (4) £800-1000

Sold for £1,000

Lot 16

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain H. T. Moll, Tank Corps, late Leinster Regiment Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut. H. T. Moll, Leins. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. T. Moll), good very fine (4) £1000-1200

Sold for £1,300

Lot 17

A Great War M.C. group of seven awarded to Major H. G. Fry, Royal Engineers Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut. H. G. Fry, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major H. G. Fry); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (7) £800-1000

Sold for £900

Lot 18

A Great War M.C. group of six awarded to Acting Captain R. A. Swinton, Royal Field Artillery Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2-Lieut. R. A. Swinton, R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. A. Swinton); Delhi Durbar 1911, copy; France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, with bronze palm, good very fine (6) £800-1000

Sold for £900

Lot 19

A Great War Cambrai 1917 M.C. group of four awarded to 2nd Lieutenant E. G. Parfitt, Royal Field Artillery, who was taken P.O.W. during the German Spring Offensive Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved, ‘E. G. Parfitt, Lieut., R.F.A., Cambrai 1917’; 1914-15 Star (W-84 B.S. Mjr. E. G. Parfitt, R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. E. G. Parfitt), good very fine (4) £800-1000

Sold for £900

Lot 20

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant J. A. Rawlings, Royal Field Artillery, late Army Service Corps Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (T-1597 C.S. Mjr. J. A. Rawlings, A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J. A. Rawlings), lacquered, very fine or better (4) £700-900

Sold for £700

Lot 21

A good Great War observer’s M.C. group of six awarded to Lieutenant B. Head, Royal Air Force, late London Regiment, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers and Royal Flying Corps, who rescued his dangerously wounded pilot from the wreckage of their downed R.E. 8 and brought him safely to our lines Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (1754 Pte. [B.] Head, 12-Lond. R.), initial barely visible owing to light impressing; British War a...

Sold for £2,000

Lot 22

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain R. W. Dixon, Royal Garrison Artillery Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved, ‘Captain R. W. Dixon, 23rd August 1918’; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. R. W. Dixon); Defence Medal 1939-45, very fine and better (4) £700-900

Sold for £750

Lot 23

The Great War ace’s M.C. group of three awarded to Lieutenant A. V. Blenkiron, Royal Flying Corps, late Somerset Light Infantry Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved, ‘2nd Lt. Alfred Victor Blenkiron, R.F.C., Mar. 3 1917’, in its case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Lt. A. V. Blenkoron, R.F.C.), in their ink inscribed card boxes of issue, the last two recent official replacements, good very fine and better (3)...

Sold for £1,600

Lot 24

A Second World War D.F.C. group of four awarded to Squadron Leader I. A. Stewart, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who was decorated for his services in Hampdens of No. 61 Squadron in 1940-41: a veteran of at least six trips to the “Big City”, he was killed in action while piloting a Lancaster of No. 44 Squadron during a strike on Osnabrück in September 1942 Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated ‘1941’ an...

Sold for £1,800

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