Meritorious Service Medal Groups from the Collection of Ian McInnes
Ian McInnes
Ian McInnes was born in 1937 and served in the Royal Air Force from 1956-58. Afterwards, until retirement, he was the marketing manager of a large retail chain. He remains prominent in local affairs, serving as Metropolitan Councillor and as a J.P. Much of his time is now taken up with Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline, with his wife Alma, in England, Wales and Belarus.
Initially a coin collecotr, he purchased his first medals in the late 1960s, joining the ORders and Medals Research Society. In 2001 he was presented with the Society’s coveted Award of Merit in gold, for his contribution to the ideals of the OMRS.
For many year he has specialised in collecting and researching significant Meritorious Service Medal groups and at one time wrote regular columns for Medal News, Fighting Forces and Military Chest.
His previous are Meritorious Service to Naval Forces (1983); Meritorious Service Medals to Aerial Forces (1984); a Contemptible Little Flying Corps (1991), reprinted in 2002; The Meritorious Service Medal - Immediate Awards 1916-1928 (1992), reprinted 2002; Cotton Town Comrades (1993); The Annuity Meritorious Service Medal 1847-1952 (1995); The Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal 1830-1848 (1995); The Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal 1830-1848 (1995), First Supplement (1999) and the Annuity Meritorious Service Medal 1847-1953, First Supplement (2000).
In preparation are Long and Meritorious Service in the Royal Malta Artillery 1851-1940 and Bute of the Beagle the story of Colour-Sergeant J. A. Bute, a Royal Marine who served on board the Beagle between 1831-36, with Charles Darwin.
Due to be published imminently is the Yeoman of the Guard, including the Body of the Yeoman Warders f the Tower of Lonodn and members of Sovereign’s Body Guard (Extraordinary) 1823-1903, a substantial work incorporating many portrait photographs.
Collection Information
This collection was sold on 26 September 2018.
Other Collections Sold in 2018
- Meritorious Service Medal Groups from the Collection of Ian McInnes
- A Good Group of Specimen Banknotes
- A Group of Banknotes of Iran, the Property of a Gentleman
- British Tokens from the Collection formed by the late Jeffrey Gardiner
- Banknotes of South Africa, the Property of a Gentleman
- A Collection of Gallantry Awards to the South Wales Borderers
- Anglo-Gallic Coins from the Collection of the late Tony Merson
- British Educational Award Medals from the Collection formed by the late T.H. Watts
- The Collection of Irish Ten-Shilling Notes, 1928-68, formed by the late Anthony Lenny
- The Collection of Yorkshire 17th Century Tokens formed by Christopher Street
- Coins and Medals of Malta, the Property of an Officer Brother of the Order of St John
- A Collection of Medals to the 3rd King’s Own Light Dragoons
- The McAlister and Bassage Family Medals
- A Collection of Medals to Second World War Casualties
- A Collection of Long Service Medals to the Essex Regiment formed by Ian Miller
- A Fine Collection of Cavalry Badges
- A Collection of Medals to the 42nd Highlanders and 73rd Foot (Black Watch)
- The Personal Archive of Louis Osman, Goldsmith and Architect
- Medals relating to the Malaya and Korea Campaigns from the Philip Burman Collection
- A Collection of Police Medals
- A Collection of Queen’s South Africa Medals to the Imperial Yeomanry
- A Collection of British Coins, the Property of a Gentleman
- The Collection of Irish Gunmoney formed by Barry Allen
- Irish Pennies of Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III from the Collection of O. Mac Conamhna
- The Collection of Lincolnshire 17th Century Tokens formed by Christopher Street
- A Collection of 18th Century Tokens and Medals, the Property of a Gentleman
- Tickets and Passes of London from the David Young Collection
- A Collection of Queen’s South Africa Medals to Colonial Units
- A Group of Pattern and Specimen Waterloo Medals
- A Collection of Indian Medals
- The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins
- British Copper Coins from the Collection Formed by the Late George Bates
- Milled Coins of Elizabeth I from the Collection Formed by Walter Wilkinson
- The Collection of Greek Coins Formed by the Late Ray Inder
- World Coins from the Collection of the Late John Phillimore
- A Private Collection of Post Medieval Gold Jewellery Discovered in Jamaica, West Indies
- A Collection of Second Afghan War Medals
- A Collection of Queen’s and Khedive’s Sudan Medals
- Meritorious Service Medal Groups from the Collection of Ian McInnes
- 17th Century Tokens from the Collection of Iain Thomson
- The Michael Gietzelt Collection of British and Irish Milled Coins
- The Collection of British Tokens formed by the late Sven Gahlin
- A Collection of High Grade Gold Coins of the United States of America
- A Collection of Short Cross and Long Cross Pennies
- Medals from the Rob Campbell Collection relating to Clevedon, Somerset
- A Collection of Abyssinia Medals
- A Collection of Medals for the South Atlantic Campaign 1982
- The ‘Welsh Marches’ Collection of British Coins
- A Collection of British Milled Coins, the Property of a Gentleman
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