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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria (18 & 19 July 2018)

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Lot 1

A rare Battle of Maharajpoor C.B. group of three awarded to General Charles Hamilton, Indian Army, who commanded the 2nd Regiment of Grenadiers, Bengal Native Infantry, throughout the Gwalior campaign of 1843-44, and during the Sutlej campaign of 1845-46; the Grenadiers captured two regimental standards at Maharajpoor The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London...

Sold for £6,000

Lot 2

An inter-War C.B., C.B.E. group of seven awarded to Colonel C. H. K. Chauncy, Indian Army, who was three times Mentioned in Despatches for his services during the Great War in Mesopotamia and Egypt The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type ne...

Unsold

Lot 3

A fine Great War K.C.M.G., C.B. group of eight awarded to Surgeon-General Sir Robert S. F. Henderson, Army Medical Services, who served as Director-General of the New Zealand Medical Services 1915-19; an Honorary Physician to H.M. the King, he was also a 19th Century England Rugby International The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, K.C.M.G. Knight Commander’s set of insignia, comprising neck badge, silver-gilt and ename...

Sold for £6,000

Lot 4

An outstanding and well-documented Great War Gallipoli operations C.M.G. group of nine awarded to Brigadier-General T. A. Andrus, North Staffordshire Regiment, a veteran of campaigns in the Sudan and on the North-West Frontier who, having raised the 7th Battalion, took it to Gallipoli, where he was severely wounded in the assault on Sari Bair in August 1915. He subsequently commanded the Battalion in the relief of Kut operations and held a Brigad...

Sold for £4,200

Lot 5

An important C.M.G. pair awarded to Lieutenant Colonel S. Browning-Smith, Medical Officer of Colonel Kelly's force at the relief of Chitral in 1895 The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Waziristan 1901-2 (Surgn. Captn. S. B. Smith 32d Bl. Infy.) mounted for display, very fine (2) £2000-2600

Sold for £3,000

Lot 6

A C.B.E. and Great War D.S.O. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel A. J. H. Sloggett, The Rifle Brigade The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) 2nd type neck badge; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. A. J. H. Sloggett. Rifle: Bde:) the last two clasps contemporary tailor’s cop...

Sold for £2,000

Lot 7

A Second World War ‘Middle East’ C.B.E. and Great War M.C. and Bar group of nine awarded to Brigadier C. G. Bicknell, Royal Artillery, twice decorated as a Subaltern under the age of 21, and later awarded the O.B.E. and C.B.E. for organising Anti-Aircraft Defences in Egypt The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award B...

Sold for £2,200

Lot 8

A Second World War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hevey, Royal Artillery The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. F. Hevey.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, reverse officially dated 1950, with integral top ‘T...

Sold for £260

Lot 9

A Second War Burma operations O.B.E. group of six attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. E. Nash, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army, who served as Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster General of the XII Army in the lead-up to the Japanese surrender and the period immediately following - including having a key role in ‘sending immediate succour to prisoners and internees in Japanese hands... as well as the mounting and despatch of troops to J...

Sold for £200

Lot 10

A post-war O.B.E., ‘1940’ Battle of Britain pilot’s D.F.C. group of six awarded to Sergeant Pilot, later Group Captain, R. C. ‘Dickie’ Haine, Royal Air Force. A Blenheim night-fighter pilot, Haine took part in the first defensive night patrol of the Second War, 4 September 1939, and the first fighter attack of the war on Germany - the successful raid on Borkum seaplane base, 28 November 1939. During the latter he claimed a He. 59 probab...

Sold for £7,000

Lot 11

A Great War M.B.E. group of nine awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Jones, Canadian Army Service Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, hallmarked London 1918 and additionally inscribed ‘Presented to Lieut. W. H. Jones by King George V 26 July 19’; 1914-15 Star (30430 Sjt. W. H. Jones. Can: A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. W. H. Jones.); Canadian War Servic...

Sold for £550

Lot 12

A Great War ‘Military Division’ M.B.E. group of three awarded to Elizabeth Mildred Shillington, Women’s Legion The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type lady’s shoulder badge, silver, hallmarks for 1919, unnamed, mounted ‘bow and tails’; British War and Victory Medals (E. M. Shillington); with three miniature dress medals; an American Committee Medal for the Devastated Regions of France 1...

Sold for £460

Lot 13

The well-documented Second World War M.B.E., Great War M.C. and Bar, D.F.C. group of nine awarded to Wing Commander J. H. Norton, Royal Canadian Air Force, late Essex Yeomanry, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, who was decorated for his gallantry in France and later in the Palestine campaign 1917-18, where he was detached for special duties with the Arab forces and placed under the direct command of Colonel T. E. Lawrence at Akabah The M...

Sold for £12,000

Lot 14

A Second World War M.B.E. group of three awarded to Captain L. K. Massey, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, late Army Service Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge; British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. L. K. Massey.) together with A.S.C. brass cap badge, very fine (4) £120-140

Sold for £130

Lot 15

An unattributed Second World War M.B.E. group of seven The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Efficiency Decoration, Territorial, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, reverse officially dated 1950, with two additional long service bars, officially dated 1954 and 1956, all unnamed as...

Sold for £160

Lot 16

An interesting Boer War D.S.O. group of twelve awarded to Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Montgomery-Cuninghame, 10th Bart., The Rifle Brigade, who was wounded at Vaal Krantz and afterwards became an Intelligence officer, a career he pursued throughout and beyond the Great War Distinguished Service Order, V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Capt: Sir T....

Sold for £5,500

Lot 17

A Great War 1916 ‘Mesopotamian theatre’ D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel P. F. Gow, Indian Medical Service, for helping to carry a wounded officer back to safety whilst under fire at Sannaiyat, Iraq, 7 April 1916 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top-riband bar; 1914 Star (Lt. P. F. Gow. I.M.S.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Maj. P. F. Gow.); General Service...

Sold for £1,800

Lot 18

A rare Niger 1897 and Great War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Brigadier-General E. I. de S. Thorpe, Bedfordshire Regiment Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Niger 1897 (Lieut. E. I. De S. Thorpe. Bedf: R.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Major E. I. De S. Thorpe. Bedf: R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Brig. Gen. E. I. De S. Thorpe.); Royal Niger Company Meda...

Sold for £5,500

Lot 19

A Great War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel G. F. Evans, Royal Engineers, who was wounded during the Great War and was four times Mentioned in Despatches Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar, minor red enamel damage to reverse central medallion; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing�...

Sold for £2,200

Lot 20

The Great War D.S.O. attributed to Lieutenant J. P. G. Macleod, 46th (Saskatchewan) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, for conspicuous gallantry at Valenciennes on 1 November 1918, on which occasion his platoon Sergeant, Hugh Cairns, D.C.M., was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., complete with top suspension brooch in its Garrard & Co. Ltd case of issue, some repair to enamel in obverse centre, otherwise extre...

Sold for £1,700

Lot 21

A fine K. St. J., Second World War D.S.O., Great War M.C. group of eleven awarded to Major R. G. W. Bewicke-Copley, the 5th Lord Cromwell, who, as a Company Commander in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, was severely wounded and taken P.O.W. at the gallant defence of Calais in May 1940 - ‘He was hit by bullets in both arms and in the head, the sight of one eye being badly affected, and yet he remained in command when all the men at his barricade,...

Sold for £7,000

Lot 22

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., silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse of suspension bar officially dated ‘1946’, with integral top riband bar, in its Garrard, London, case of issue; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s...

Sold for £2,400

Lot 23

A Great War R.R.C. and Kaisar-i-Hind group of five to Matron Mary L. Harris, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, late Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve Royal Red Cross, 1st class (R.R.C.), G.V.R., silver-gilt, gold and enamel; Kaisar-i-Hind, G.V.R., 2nd Class, 2nd type, silver, with integral top riband bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Nursing Sister M. L. Harris.); King’s South Africa 1901-...

Sold for £950

Lot 24

A fine long service Great War M.C., B.E.M. and M.S.M. group of nine awarded to Warrant Officer W. G. Prescott, Royal Engineers and Royal Signals Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British Empire Medal (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (William G. Prescott, M.C.); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 902 (2374 Sapr. W. G. Prescott. Tel: Bn: R.E.) suspension claw and post repaired wit...

Sold for £1,700

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