The Collection of Napoleonic War Medals formed by the late R.W. Gould, M.B.E.
Robert W Gould, MBE (1926 - 2011)
Following service in the Royal West African Frontier Force from 1946 to 1948, Bob Gould joined the Metropolitan Police. He was the first chief instructor of the Met’s Firearms Wing, and maintained that during his career he attended more courses than any other policeman. These included a sniper instructor’s course at the School of Infantry, a month in the Federal Bureau of Investigations Academy in the USA and a body-guarding course with 22 SAS. He retired in 1981.
A natural born collector since the mid-1960s, Bob assembled and dispersed collections of bayonets, model soldiers, military postal history, firearms and, in medals, awards to the Royal Navy, the King’s German Legion and both World War I and World War II gallantry.
Bob was the author of a number of books and articles, including Campaign Medals of the British Army 1815-1972 (published 1972), The Army of India Medal Roll 1799-1826 (1974), Locations of British Cavalry, Infantry and Machine Gun Units 1914-1924 (1977), London’s Armed Police (1986), Mercenaries of the Napoleonic Wars (1995) and Epic Actions of the First World War (1997).
A long-time member of the Orders and Medals Research Society, he listed his interests as military and police history, British medals and dog-walking.
Collection Information
This collection was sold on 27 June 2012.
Other Collections Sold in 2012
- The Collection of Medals to the Wiltshire Regiment formed by the late Michael Hayward
- The John Chidzey Collection
- Militaria and Medals relating to Jamaica and the West Indies
- The Collection of Napoleonic War Medals formed by the late R.W. Gould, M.B.E.
- The Collection of Medals formed by the late Tim Ash
- The Collection of Second World War and Modern Gallantry Awards formed by the late William Oakley
- The Collection of Medals formed by the late Arnold Jackson
- The Bob Blake Collection of Irish Banknotes
- The Peter Stanton Collection of Paper Money of Guernsey
- Roman Coins from the John Quinn Collection
- A fine Collection of Life Saving Awards
- A Collection of British Orders and Decorations, the Property of Gentleman
- A fine Collection of Medals to Members of the Royal Household
- An outstanding Collection of Awards relating to the Order of St John
- The Collection of 19th Century Tokens formed by Frank Gorsler
- The ‘Bellamy’ Collection of English Halfcrowns
- Coins from the Corringham (Essex) Hoard, 2009
- British Coins from the Collection of Dave Elliott
- Anglo-Gallic Coins from the Collection of Arthur M Fitts III
- A Collection of British Hammered Coins
- The Collection of Shillings formed by the late Gerald Sommerville
- Australian Tokens from the Duncan Pennock Collection
- A Good Group of Tokens of German South-West Africa
- A Group of Coins from an 18th-Century American Toll-House
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