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Meritorious Service Medal Groups from the Collection of Ian McInnes

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This collection was sold in 5 parts:

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Total Lots Found: 52

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Lot 998, 18 Jul 18

The unique and important M.S.M. and campaign group of eight awarded to Warrant Officer W. E. Moore, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, an ‘Early Bird’ in all senses - he was one of the R.F.C.’s first N.C.O.s, and served as the Senior Sergeant Major in the R.F.C. from February 1915, becoming the Senior Warrant Officer in the R.A.F. by both number (5) and length of service (9 December 1889) upon its’ formation. Having served with the B...

Lot 998, 18 Jul 18

Sold for £3,600

Lot 999, 18 Jul 18

A Great War ‘Home Service’ M.S.M. pair awarded to Foreman of Works Sergeant-Major R. C. McGregor, Royal Engineers Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (28974 Q.M. Sjt: R. C. McGregor: R.E.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (28974 F. Of W. S. Mjr - R. C. McGregor. R.E.) mounted as worn, nearly very fine (2) £140-180

Lot 999, 18 Jul 18

Sold for £180

Lot 1000, 18 Jul 18

Pair: Duffadar Sohan Singh, 19th Lancers Indian Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue (802 L-Daf. Sohan Singh, 19 Lrs.); Indian Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R. (6 Dfdr. Sohan Singh, 19 Lrs. I.A.C.) minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine (2) £100-140

Lot 1000, 18 Jul 18

Sold for £160

Lot 1001, 18 Jul 18

Pair: Inspector C. P. Georghiades, Cyprus Police Colonial Police Medal, for Meritorious Service, E.II.R., 1st issue (Insp. Costas Petrou Georghiades, Cyprus Police); Colonial Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (Sgt. Major Costas Georghiades, Cyprus Police) very fine, scarce (2) £300-400

Lot 1001, 18 Jul 18

Sold for £300

Lot 1218, 25 Mar 14

An inter-war military B.E.M. group of nine awarded to Squadron Leader S. E. Birt, Royal Air Force British Empire Medal, (Military) G.VI.R., 1st issue (240395 Flt. Sgt. Stanley E. Birt, R.A.F.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (240395 Cpl., R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Royal Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (240395 Cpl. Clk., R.A.F.); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (240395 Sgt., R....

Lot 1218, 25 Mar 14

Sold for £1,800

Lot 1219, 25 Mar 14

The unique M.G.S. and Army of India group of four awarded to Quartermaster Serjeant William McGowan, 59th, late 27th Regiment Military General Service 1793-1814, 6 clasps, Badajoz, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (W. McGowan, Qr. Mr. Serjt., 27th Foot); Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Bhurtpoor (Color Serjt. W. McGowan, 59th Foot) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming; Army L.S. & G.C., W.IV.R. (?M Gowan, Qr. Master...

Lot 1219, 25 Mar 14

Sold for £11,000

Lot 1220, 25 Mar 14

Seven: Colour-Sergeant E. Pearce, Royal Sussex Regiment Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 2 clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Abu Klea (2080 Pte. G. Pearce, 1/R. Suss. R.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Hazara 1888 (2....rgt. A. Pearce, 2d Bn. R. Suss. R.); India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (4..... Colr. Sergt. A. E. Pearce, 2d Bn. Ryl. S... Regt.), unofficial rivets between clasps, suspe...

Lot 1220, 25 Mar 14

Sold for £2,300

Lot 1221, 25 Mar 14

Four: Serjeant-Major H. T. C. Barnett, Royal Engineers Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 4 clasps, Suakin 1884, El-Teb-Tamaai, The Nile 1884-85, Kirbekan (16758 Sergt., 2d ....); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (16758 Sjt. Mjr., R.E.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small reverse letters (16758 Q.M. Sgt., R.E.); Khedive’s Star, 1882, unnamed, mounted as worn, first pitted, edge bruising, contact marks, fine and b...

Lot 1221, 25 Mar 14

Sold for £900

Lot 1222, 25 Mar 14

Five: Regimental Sergeant-Major W. Robinson, Cameron Highlanders - latterly a Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, The Nile 1884-85 (1053 ..ergt.W.Robinson, 1/C......ighrs.); Coronation 1911, unnamed, suspension repaired; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small reverse letters (....gt. W. Robinson, Cam’n....); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (R.S. Mjr. W. Robinson, Cameron Highrs.);...

Lot 1222, 25 Mar 14

Sold for £1,400

Lot 1223, 25 Mar 14

Six: Warrant Officer Class 2 W. Love, 24th Battalion Australian Imperial Forces, late Royal Highlanders and West African Frontier Force, killed in action, Mont St. Quentin, France, 31 August 1918 East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, 1900 (4758 Serjt., 2nd Black Watch); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, N. Nigeria 4758 Clr.-Serjt., R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (6831 WO2 24-Bn. A.I.F.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (1st C...

Lot 1223, 25 Mar 14

Sold for £2,900

Lot 1224, 25 Mar 14

Six: Warrant Officer Class 2 W. Shearer, Royal Lancaster Regiment, wounded in action on ‘Wynne’s Hill’, during the relief of Ladysmith, 22 February 1900 Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (1543 Co. Sejt., R. Lanc. Regt.); 1914-15 Star (4347 Q.M. Sjt., R. Lanc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (4347 W.O. Cl. 2, R. Lanc. R.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (1543 C. Sjt., Rl. Lanc. Regt.); Army Me...

Lot 1224, 25 Mar 14

Sold for £720

Lot 1225, 25 Mar 14

Eight: Warrant Officer Class 2 S. C. Lindsey, King’s Royal Rifle Corps 1914 Star, with copy clasp (11142 Pte., 1/K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (11142 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue ‘Fid. Def.’ (6837734 W.O. Cl. 2, K.R.R.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (6837734 W.O. Cl. II, K.R.R.C.); Panama, Medal of Solidarity 1917-18, unname...

Lot 1225, 25 Mar 14

Sold for £1,900

Lot 1226, 25 Mar 14

An unusual group of three awarded to Company Quartermaster Serjeant H. T. Blake, Royal Garrison Artillery - awarded both an ‘Immediate’ and an ‘Annuity’ M.S.M. Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (67380 Bty. Q.M. Sjt., R.G.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. 282070 C.Q.M. Sjt., R.G.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue ‘Ind. Imp’ (67380 B.Q.M. Sjt., R.A.) mounted for wear, first two with contact marks, nearly very...

Lot 1226, 25 Mar 14

Sold for £800

Lot 511, 21 Sep 07

An extremely rare Victorian M.S.M. pair awarded to Sergeant-Major J. Gillies, Royal Artillery, ‘almost certainly the last enlisted man to wear his Waterloo Medal in uniform’ at the time of his discharge, aged 67 years, in 1854 Waterloo 1815 (John Gillis, Bombardier, Royal Foot Artillery), with old replacement clip and ring suspension; Army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R. (Serjt. Major John Gillies, Royal Artillery), officially impressed na...

Sold for £4,600

Lot 512, 21 Sep 07

A rare Victorian campaign service and M.S.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant A. McKerrow, 90th Regiment, who was wounded in the attack on the Great Redan in September 1855 and ‘hit by a Tulwar’ blow in the Indian Mutiny - ‘but the gentleman who gave it never gave another as I had the good luck to drop him with a shot through the chest’: and this just one of many fascinating observations to be found in McKerrow’s memoirs, published in...

Sold for £2,300

Lot 513, 21 Sep 07

The rare and outstanding Gordon Relief Expedition D.C.M. group of seven awarded to Regimental Corporal-Major A. White, Royal Horse Guards, attached Heavy Camel Regiment, and afterwards a Yeoman of the Guard: decorated for his ‘perfect coolness under fire ... notably at Abu Klea when he rendered material assistance when the Arabs got into the square’, he received his decoration from the hands of the Queen at Windsor Castle in February 1886: hi...

Sold for £8,800

Lot 514, 21 Sep 07

The rare and outstanding Second Afghan War D.C.M. group of nine awarded to Colour-Sergeant W. McDonald, 72nd Highlanders, afterwards Norfolk Regiment and a Yeoman of the Guard: decorated for his bravery in the actions at Bala-Hissar and Takht-i-Shah on 12 December 1879, he received his decoration from the hands of the Queen in a ceremony on the Isle of Wight, but was shortly afterwards severely wounded by a gunshot to his left arm at Tel-el-Kebir...

Sold for £8,800

Lot 515, 21 Sep 07

The remarkable Delhi Durbar 1911 R.V.M. group of 15 awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel P. H. Watson, Indian Army, late Bedfordshire Regiment, whose career of 40 or so years with the Colours encompassed active service in India, China, Tibet, Iraq and N.W. Persia, in addition to the Great War, when he was awarded an immediate M.S.M. for services in Mesopotamia India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (6039 Pt...

Sold for £4,500

Lot 516, 21 Sep 07

An impressive inter-war M.B.E. group of twelve awarded to Commissary & Major E. W. Newman, Indian Army, late Dorset Regiment, who was awarded an immediate M.S.M. in 1917 and thrice mentioned in despatches during his long and distinguished career (1895-1944): one of the latter distinctions was for the South Persia operations 1918-19, ‘though he was suffering from an old wound obtained in France’ The Most Excellent Order of the British Empir...

Sold for £800

Lot 517, 21 Sep 07

An exceptional and particularly early Great War M.C. group of nine awarded to Quarter-Master & Captain H. Dugdale, Royal Army Medical Corps, a veteran of the Suakin 1885 and Ashanti 1896 operations who was awarded the M.S.M. in 1936, aged 75 years Military Cross, G.V.R.; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (3931 Sergt., M.S. Corps); Ashanti Star 1896; 1914 Star (Hon. Lieut. & Q.M., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory...

Sold for £3,100

Lot 518, 21 Sep 07

An exceptional Great War M.C., Boer War D.C.M. group of nine awarded to Warrant Officer Class 1 A. F. Watts, Royal Artillery, who was awarded the M.S.M. in 1953, aged 70 years Military Cross, G.V.R..; Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (87933 Sjt. A. F. Watts, 68th(sic) Bty. R.F.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (87933 Sgt. A. F. Watts, 88th Bty. R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02...

Sold for £4,500

Lot 519, 21 Sep 07

An impressive and early Great War D.C.M. group of twelve awarded to Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel and Quarter-Master F. Snow, Manchester Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (888 C.S. Mjr. F. Snow, 2/Manch. R.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (888 Sjt., 2/Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (888 W.O. Cl. 1, Manch. R.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (888 W.O. Cl. 1, Manch. R.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 c...

Sold for £3,200

Lot 520, 21 Sep 07

A rare Second World War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. E. Chater, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, who, having passed a bomb disposal course in London in early 1941, was attached to the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, participated in the Walcheren landings in November 1944 and was awarded the Order of Orange Nassau: then in 1955 he added a “Canada M.S.M.” to his accolades - one of just 29 E.II.R. issues ever granted T...

Sold for £1,700

Lot 521, 21 Sep 07

A rare Second World War prisoner of war’s M.M. group of seven awarded to Warrant Officer 1st Class R. “Ronnie the One” MacDonald, Australian Regular Army, late Cameron Highlanders: having been taken P.O.W. near Abbeville in June 1940, he proved uncompromising in his attitude to his captors and was regularly incarcerated in the “cooler” for persistent escape attempts - he displayed a similar attitude towards the recruits he had to train...

Sold for £3,600

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