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A Second War K.B.E., C.B., Great War 1917 ‘French theatre’ M.C. group of fourteen awarded to Major-General Sir Noel G. Holmes, East Yorkshire Regiment, late Royal Irish Regiment, who after being wounded and four times Mentioned in Despatches during the Great War went on to serve as Director of Movements at the War Office, 1940-43, and as Deputy Quarter Master General at the War Office, 1943-46 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empir...
Sold for £3,200
Family Group: A Knight Bachelor’s, Great War D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Colonel Sir Cusack Walton, Royal Engineers, Agent for the North-Western Railway, Lahore, 1924-32, who was four times Mentioned in Despatches during the Great War Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1932, unnamed as issued, red enamel background badly chipped; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gil...
Sold for £1,300
A rare Great War C.I.E. group of eight awarded to Captain H. M. Salmond, Royal Indian Marine, who was Director of Sea Transport in Mesopotamia and later Deputy Director of the Royal Indian Marine; he was on two occasions awarded the Royal Humane Society medal The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamels; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (Lieut. H. M. Salm...
Sold for £1,800
A Second War C.I.E., inter-War O.B.E., ‘Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919’ M.C. group of nine awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. W. L. Harvey, 1st Gurkha Rifles, late Hampshire Regiment and subsequently Indian Political Service The Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamels; The Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) 2nd type; Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘Capt. C. W. L. Harvey 2/1 G.R.’; Britis...
Sold for £3,000
A post-War C.I.E. group of nine awarded to Captain W. R. Shewring, Royal Indian Navy The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel; British War and Victory Medals (Mid. W. R. Shewring. R.N.R.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star, 1 clasp, Burma; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; India Service Medal 1939-45, mounted for display purposes; together with the recip...
Sold for £1,600
A Second War C.B.E., ‘1940’ D.F.C. group of ten awarded to Hampden pilot, Group Captain H. P. Broad, 44 Squadron, Royal Air Force, who gallantly led his formation during an attack on the Tirpitz, 8/9 October 1940. Just over a week later his operational flying was bought to an end after suffering serious injuries during a crash landing returning from a raid. Subsequent postings included on the Air Planning Staff, HQ Combined Operations and on...
Sold for £2,400
A C.B.E. group of six awarded to Engineer Rear-Admiral H. S. Roome, Royal Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; 1914-15 Star (S. Lt. H. S. Roome. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lieut. H. S. Roome. R.N.); Defence and War Medals, together with Boy Scouts Medal of Merit (H. S. Roome 18-5-60) good very fine (7) £600-£800
Sold for £550
A fine post-War 1955 ‘Malaya’ C.B.E. [and pre-War 1937 ‘Palestine’ M.B.E.], 1938 ‘Waziristan’ M.C. and 1940 ‘Retreat to Dunkirk’ Second Award Bar group of eight awarded to Brigadier W. F. Anderson, Royal Engineers, who as part of the rear-guard of the British Expeditionary Force was taken Prisoner of War on 29 May 1940 and held for the remainder of the War at Colditz Castle, where he served as head of the Forgery Department under...
Sold for £7,500
The exceptional Boer War D.S.O., Great War O.B.E. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel R. V. K. Applin, 14th Hussars, formerly a District Officer with the British North Borneo Company during the Syed and Mat Salleh rebellions of 1895-97, one of many interesting chapters in his life to be related in his autobiography Across the Seven Seas: a machine-gun expert who commanded the machine-guns of the 2nd ANZACs at the battles of Messines, Passc...
Sold for £9,000
Family Group: The important and poignant Great War B.E.F. 1914 operations D.S.O. group of five awarded to Captain Hon. J. H. F. Grenfell, 1st Royal Dragoons, the noted war poet whose “Into Battle” received critical acclaim on being published by The Times on his death from wounds in May 1915 and became one of the most anthologized poems of the century - ‘Brother, brother, if this be the last song you shall sing, sing well, for you may not...
Sold for £15,000
An outstanding Great War B.E.F. 1914 operations D.S.O., Irish troubles 1920s O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. L. “Ham” Riley, Rifle Brigade, who was twice wounded in action with the 1st Battalion in the retreat from Mons, services that undoubtedly led to the recommendation for his D.S.O.: wounded for a third time before the War’s end, he nonetheless added the O.B.E. to his accolades for his services with the 2nd Battal...
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A Great War ‘East Africa’ D.S.O., O.B.E. group of five awarded to Major P. Whiteley, South African Army Pay 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; British War and Bilingual Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Mjr. P. Whiteley.); South Afric...
An important Great War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Brigadier-General H. R. Cumming, late Durham Light Infantry, who was killed in a Sinn Fein ambush during the Anglo-Irish War whilst Commanding the Kerry Brigade, at Clonbanin, Co. Cork, on 6 March 1921 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’...
Sold for £8,500
A Great War ‘Mesopotamian theatre’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Brigadier-General R. N. Dick [C.M.G.], Royal Sussex Regiment, who was M.I.D. for services whilst attached to the King’s African Rifles in Somaliland 1908-10, and served during the Great War on the General Staff of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, during which time he was M.I.D. on 7 separate occasions Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with...
Sold for £1,700
A Great War ‘Salonika’ D.S.O. group of eight awarded to Major C. E. Browning, 8th, late 11th Battalion South Wales Borderers, who was decorated for his gallant command of a night raiding party on ‘Flat Iron Hill’ on 12/13 July 1918 Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar, slight enamel damage and obverse centre depressed; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. C. E. Browning, S. Wales Bord.); British War...
Sold for £1,400
A fine Great War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Major E. G. Clerk, 4th South African Infantry (S.A. Scottish), who served with the Queensland Imperial Bushmen in the Boer War and was severely wounded in the Zulu rebellion of 1906; he assisted Brigadier-General Royston to raise the Natal Light Horse in August 1914 and, after service in German S.W. Africa, landed with the South African Brigade for service in France where he was twice gassed and thr...
Sold for £4,200
An extremely rare ‘Russian Intervention’ D.S.O., ‘Australasian Royal Visit’ M.V.O., Great War ‘Convoy Section’ O.B.E. group of six awarded to Paymaster-Commander J. M. Hodge, Royal Navy Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘286’; The Most Excellent Or...
Sold for £2,800
A scarce inter-War 1937 ‘Waziristan’ D.S.O. group of eight awarded to Brigadier T. H. Angus, 3rd (Rattray’s Sikhs) Battalion, 11th Sikh Regiment, Indian Army, who subsequently commanded the 51st Indian Infantry Brigade in Burma during the Second World War, and was twice Mentioned in Despatches Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. T. H. Angus.); India Ge...
Sold for £1,900
A Great War O.B.E., M.C. group of seven awarded to Brigadier R. M. Airey, Royal Army Service Corps The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1918; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (Major. R. M. Airey. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major R. M. Airey.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, generally goo...
Sold for £750
A Great War ‘Anti-Submarine Work’ O.B.E. group of three awarded to Lieutenant C. S. Thicke, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. S. Thicke. R.N.V.R.) polished, very fine (3) £100-£140
Sold for £220
A scarce ‘South Persia’ O.B.E., Kaisar-I-Hind group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel J. N. Taylor [C.I.E.], Royal Engineers and India Public Works Department, who commanded the Royal Engineers as part of the Bushire Field Force, South Persia, February 1918 - June 1919. He also served as Chief Engineer for Assam The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks fo...
Sold for £1,200
An inter-War O.B.E. pair awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel A. H. White, late Wing Commander, Royal Air Force, late District Commissioner for Zanzibar and Provincial Commissioner for Tanganyika The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; Zanzibar, Order of the Brilliant Star, Sultan Ali II bin Hamud issue (1902-11) Officer’s breast badge, silver-gilt, g...
Sold for £600
An unattributed inter-War O.B.E. group of three The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1928; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, very fine (3) £100-£140
Sold for £120
A Second War 1943 ‘Persia-Iraq operations’ O.B.E. group of three awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel B. P. Baliga, Indian Medical Service The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (Capt. B. P. Baliga.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Malabar 1921-22 (Capt. B. P. Baliga, I.M.S.) both officially renamed, good very fine (3)...
Sold for £240
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