A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household

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Lot 91, 8 Dec 16

The C.B., Kenya ‘Mau Mau’ C.B.E., Second War North West Europe 1944 D.S.O. and 1945 Second Award Bar group of thirteen awarded to Major-General the Lord Thurlow, Seaforth Highlanders, who served during the Second War in Palestine, Trans-Jordan, Eritrea, and the Western Desert, before landing with the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders on D-Day, and serving as their Commanding Officer in France. Awarded the D.S.O. for securing a bridgehead acros...

Lot 91, 8 Dec 16

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Lot 92, 8 Dec 16

A fine C.M.G., C.B.E., Boer War D.S.O. group of nine awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Baron Bentinck, Rifle Brigade The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, subsequently converted for neck wear, with neck riband; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband; Distinguished S...

Lot 92, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £5,000

Lot 93, 8 Dec 16

The Great War C.M.G., ‘Battle of Loos’ D.S.O. group of six awarded to Brigadier-General the Honourable L. J. P. Butler, Irish Guards, who commanded the 2nd Battalion at the Battle of Loos during their first experience of War, September 1915: ‘Jerry did himself well at Loos upon us innocents. We went into it, knowing no more that our own dead what was coming, and Jerry fair lifted us out of it with machine-guns’, an experience where, over...

Lot 93, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £3,800

Lot 94, 8 Dec 16

Family Group: The C.B.E. attributed to Mai, Lady Kylsant The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 1st type lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt and enamel, on lady’s bow riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; together with an H.M.S. Conway Prize Distribution Medal, gold (9ct., hallmarks for Birmingham 1921), the reverse engraved ‘Prize Distribution Lady Philipps, C.B.E., July 26th. 1921.’, in fitt...

Lot 94, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £440

Lot 95, 8 Dec 16

The unique Sudan ‘Battles of the Atbara and Khartoum’ Royal Cavalry Officer’s D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Major His Serene Highness Prince Francis of Teck, G.C.V.O., 1st Dragoons, and the brother to H.M. Queen Mary Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Jubilee 1887, gold, with 1897 clasp; Coronation 1902, silver; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (Capt. H.S.H. Prince Francis of Teck. K.C.V.O....

Lot 95, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £14,000

Lot 96, 8 Dec 16

The mounted group of eight miniature dress medals worn by Major His Serene Highness Prince Francis of Teck, G.C.V.O., 1st Dragoons, and the brother to H.M. Queen Mary Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Jubilee 1887, gold, with 1897 clasp; Coronation 1902, silver; Queen’s Sudan 1896-98; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal; Germany, Saxony, Ernesti...

Lot 96, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £1,500

Lot 97, 8 Dec 16

The M.V.O. group of eleven awarded to Captain R. G. Bowes-Lyon, Royal Navy, who, having seen extensive action in the Dardanelles in the battleship Agamemnon 1915-16, and witnessed the destruction of the Zeppelin LZ-85 over Salonika, fought in the Baltic operations of 1919 and held seagoing command in the 1939-45 War: he was a first cousin of H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 4th Class breast ba...

Lot 97, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £2,000

Lot 98, 8 Dec 16

An O.B.E., M.V.O. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable M. V. B. Brett, Royal Highlanders, late Coldstream Guards, who served as Aide-de-Camp to General Sir John French and married Zena Dare, a star of the stage and screen The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O. Member’s 5th Class breast...

Lot 98, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £1,300

Lot 99, 8 Dec 16

The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable M. V. B. Brett, Royal Highlanders, late Coldstream Guards, who served as Aide-de-Camp to General Sir John French and married Zena Dare, a star of the stage and screen The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt; The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O. Member’s 5th Class breast badge, silve...

Lot 99, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £300

Lot 100, 8 Dec 16

The Great War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Sybil, the Honourable Mrs. Orpen, British Red Cross Society, and the daughter of Field Marshal the Lord Plumer The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1953; Voluntary Medical Service Medal (The Honble Mrs. Sybil M. Orpen)...

Lot 100, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £240

Lot 101, 8 Dec 16

The O.B.E. group of four awarded to Jennet, the Honourable Mrs. David Bruce, French Red Cross and British Red Cross Society The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type lady’s shoulder badge, silver-gilt, on lady’s bow riband, in Royal Mint case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (J. Rawstorne.); Defence Medal, good very fine and better (4) £140-180

Lot 101, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £500

Lot 102, 8 Dec 16

An early Great War M.C. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel the Earl of Gosford, Coldstream Guards, who was wounded in both the Boer War and in the Great War, and subsequently joined the New York Police Department Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Lieut: A. C. M. B. Lord Acheson. C. Gds:), unofficial rivets betw...

Lot 102, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £2,200

Lot 103, 8 Dec 16

A Great War M.C. group of seven awarded to Captain the Lord Rankeillour, G.C.I.E., Coldstream Guards, a First Class Cricketer and later Member of Parliament for Nuneaton, Treasurer of the Household, and Governor of Madras Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut: A. O. J. Hope. C. Gds:); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. A. O. J. Hope); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; France, Third Republic, C...

Lot 103, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £1,600

Lot 104, 8 Dec 16

The historically interesting Great War ‘Salonika’ M.C. group of six awarded to Major E. G. M. Phillips, Black Watch, Comptroller to H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor throughout the Second World War, when he aided the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s evacuation from France in June 1940, met Churchill at Downing Street, caused a stir by using a Royal postcard to write to a friend in Fascist Italy, and reported the murder of Sir Harry Oakes in the Baham...

Lot 104, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £1,700

Lot 105, 8 Dec 16

Three: Lieutenant the Honourable A. T. Fitzmaurice, 72nd Highlanders, later Groom of the Bedchamber to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Lieut. A. T. Fitzmaurice, 72nd. Reg) officially impressed naming; Jubilee 1887, silver, unnamed as issued; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue (The Honble. A. Fitzmaurice. 72nd. Highdrs.) contemporarily engraved naming, a contemporary tailor’s copy, by ‘J.B.’, swivel-ring...

Lot 105, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £1,400

Lot 106, 8 Dec 16

Pair: Captain Sir Nicholas Bacon, Bt., 4th Dragoon Guards, Premier Baronet of England Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Capt: N. H. Bacon. 4th. Dn. Gds.) unit officially corrected; Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed as issued, pitting from Star, otherwise very fine (2) £300-340

Lot 106, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £1,700

Lot 107, 8 Dec 16

Five: Major Baron de Teissier, Shropshire Light Infantry, later 8th Hussars, Yorkshire Regiment, and Imperial Yeomanry Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, 2 clasps, Suakin 1885, The Nile 1884-85, clasps mounted in this order with unofficial retaining rod between clasps (Lieut: H. de Teissier, 1/Shrops: L.I.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, third clasp as tailor’...

Lot 107, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £1,300

Lot 108, 8 Dec 16

Six: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Codrington, Bt., 11th Hussars, who was severely wounded at the attack on Wagon Hill, 6 January 1900 whilst serving with the Imperial Light Horse, and subsequently commanded the 1st Motor Machine Gun Brigade during the Great War India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Lieut. W. R. Codrington. 11th. Hussars.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Mafeking, Defence of...

Lot 108, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £1,600

Lot 109, 8 Dec 16

Five: Major the Honourable Gilbert Grosvenor, Rifle Brigade, later King Edward’s Horse and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, Cape Colony (Lieut: Hon. G. Grosvenor, Rifle Bde:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Lt. Hon. G. Grosvenor. Rifle Bde.); 1914-15 Star (Lieut. Hon. G. Grosvenor. K. Edw. H.); British War and Victory Medals (Major Hon. G. Grosvenor.) light contact marks, good very fin...

Lot 109, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £900

Lot 110, 8 Dec 16

Five: Nursing Sister Baroness Bentinck, Red Cross Society Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Miss. A. Burnett-Ramsay, Nursing Sister.) final ‘a’ in surname officially corrected; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Nursing Sister A. Burnett Ramsay.) unofficially renamed; British War and Victory Medals (Baroness A. E. Bentinck.); France, Third Republic, Medal of the Society of Aid to Military Wounded, silver, with original ‘R...

Lot 110, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £650

Lot 111, 8 Dec 16

Six: Captain the Lord Rotherham, 6th Dragoons Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut: S. L. Holland. 6/Drgns.); 1914-15 Star (Capt. Hon. S. L. Holland. 6/Dns.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. Hon. S. L. Holland.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, nearly extremely fine (6) £500-600

Lot 111, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £750

Lot 112, 8 Dec 16

Four: Captain Sir Alexander Napier, Bt., Grenadier Guards, who was twice wounded during the Great War Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (2/Lt: A. L. M. Napier, Gren: Gds:); 1914-15 Star (Capt. Sir A. L. M. Napier. Bt. G. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. Sir A. L. M. Napier. Bt.) mounted court-style as worn, minor edge bruising to QSA, toned, good very fine and better (4) £400-500

Lot 112, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £650

Lot 113, 8 Dec 16

Pair: Lieutenant Sir A. V. F. Seymour, Bt., Lancashire Fusiliers, and Page of Honour to H.M. Queen Victoria Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut. Sir. A. V. F. Seymour. Bt. Lanc. Fus.); Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed as issued, minor edge bruise to first, generally very fine, the QSA better (2) £300-360

Lot 113, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £500

Lot 114, 8 Dec 16

The important group of five awarded to Alice, the Honourable Mrs. George Keppel, British Red Cross Society, the notorious Mistress of King Edward VII, an international Grande Dame, and the great-grandmother of H.R.H. the Duchess of Cornwall 1914 Star (Hon. A. F. Keppel, B.R.C.S. & O.St.J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (The Hon. A. F. Keppel, B.R.C.S. & O.St.J.J.); Coronation 1902, silver; Jubilee 1935, good very fine (5) £2000-3000

Lot 114, 8 Dec 16

Sold for £5,500

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