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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria (17 & 18 May 2016)

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Lot 1

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, Coru...

Sold for £8,000

Lot 2

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...

Sold for £3,400

Lot 3

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 Jeru...

Sold for £5,000

Lot 4

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...

Sold for £3,600

Lot 5

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); E...

Sold for £6,500

Lot 6

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 (En...

Sold for £1,900

Lot 7

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 a...

Sold for £5,000

Lot 8

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. M...

Sold for £6,500

Lot 9

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 se...

Sold for £5,500

Lot 10

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 o...

Sold for £4,800

Lot 11

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 t...

Unsold

Lot 12

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.), Com...

Sold for £5,500

Lot 13

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 iss...

Sold for £1,300

Lot 14

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...

Sold for £2,800

Lot 15

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 thr...

Sold for £3,000

Lot 16

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 chippin...

Sold for £4,800

Lot 17

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...

Sold for £2,000

Lot 18

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.);...

Sold for £1,900

Lot 19

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 engrav...

Sold for £1,200

Lot 20

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.); I...

Sold for £1,200

Lot 21

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,...

Sold for £6,000

Lot 22

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 197...

Unsold

Lot 23

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 b...

Unsold

Lot 24

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 a...

Sold for £1,800

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