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A Great War D.S.M. awarded to Chief Motor Mechanic Preston Hoggan, R.N.V.R., for services in M.L. 413 at the destruction of UB-71 in April 1918 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (MB.2075. P. Hoggan, M. Mech. R.N.V.R. M.L. 413. Mediterranean 21 Apl. 1918) nearly very fine £600-800
Hammer Price: £600
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant P. M. Brisley, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery Military Medal, G.V.R. (41876 Sjt., 2/D.A.C., R.F.A.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (41876 Cpl., R.F.A.) initials given as ‘P.N.’ on this; British War and Victory Medals (41876 Sjt., R.A,) together with three photographs of recipient in later life, some contact wear and a little polished, therefore nearly very fine (4) £400-450
Hammer Price: £450
A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal G. Lee, 8th Battalion, Manchester Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (300408 Cpl., 8/Manch. R.); 1914-15 Star (2418 Pte., Manch. R.); British War and Victory Medals (300408Cpl., Manch. R.) contact wear and edge bruising, generally nearly very fine or better (4) £500-600
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three to Lance-Corporal T. W. Dickerson, Royal Sussex Regiment, late Cambridgeshire Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (G-14942 Pte.-L. Cpl., 9/R. Suss. R.); British War and Victory Medals (4329 Pte., Camb. R.) good very fine and better (3) £260-300
Hammer Price: £400
Family group: A Great War M.M. group of three to Sapper E. G. Hansford, Royal Engineers Military Medal, G.V.R. (546857 Spr., R.E.), note surname spelt ‘Handsford’; British War and Victory Medals (546857) Pair: Stoker W. J. Hansford, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals (K.31475 Sto.1, R.N.) nearly extremely fine (5) £220-260
£220–£260
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. to Acting Corporal J. M. McCormick, Leinster Regiment Military Medal, G.V.R. (2300 Pte. A. Cpl., 2/Leins. R.) slight edge bruise, good very fine £300-400
Hammer Price: £460
A Great War M.M. awarded to Acting Sergeant A. J. Black, 16th Battalion, Tank Corps Military Medal, G.V.R. (200761 Sjt. A. J. Black, 16/Tank C.) fitted with replacement cast copy claw and scroll suspension, the disc bruised, rubbed and very worn overall £200-250
Hammer Price: £380
A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. to Private J. Arthur, 21st Battalion Australian Infantry Military Medal, G.V.R. (4357 Pte., 21/Aust. Inf.) good very fine £600-800
Hammer Price: £880
A Great War ‘Third Battle of Ypres’ M.M. to Lance-Corporal W. S. Touchell, Australian Engineers Military Medal, G.V.R. (10801 L. Cpl., 3/D.S. Coy. Aust. E.). replacement suspension, minor edge bruising, very fine £500-600
Hammer Price: £650
An exceptional Second War ‘North West Europe’ M.M. awarded to Private G. A. Osborne, 2nd Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, who amongst other acts of gallantry personally accounted for two enemy each armed with a bazooka Military Medal, G.VI.R. (4807963 Pte., A. & S. H.); together with a contemporary copy of a photograph of recipient receiving his M.M. from Field Marshal Montgomery, extremely fine £1800-2200
Hammer Price: £4,000
A Second World War M.M. group of the four to Lance-Naik Tayar Din, 14th Punjab Regiment Military Medal, G.VI.R. (13477 L/Nk., 14 Punjab R.), engraved naming; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine (4) £550-650
Hammer Price: £700
An outstanding Second World War immediate D.F.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant B. L. Savill, Royal Air Force, who, in June 1940, though wounded, displayed great courage in an epic return journey from the Ruhr in a badly shot up Whitley which had to be ditched in the sea - such was the resolution and gallantry of all concerned that his entire crew was decorated: subsequently, however, when once more involved in a post-sortie ditching that September, and even though the most strenuous...
Hammer Price: £2,900
A Second World War D.F.M. to Sergeant W. Knox, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (1590748 Sgt., R.A.F.), replacement and defective suspension, sometime brooch mounted ?, some letters re-engraved, edge bruising, good fine £600-800
Hammer Price: £750
A Colonial Police Medal for Gallantry group of three awarded to Inspector H. Boulton, Palestine Police Colonial Police Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, for Gallantry (Sgt., Palestine Police), in Royal Mint case of issue; General Service 1918-622 clasps, Palestine, Palestine 1945-48 (431 T. Asst. Insp. Pal. Police), corrections to rank and initial, second clasp attached by wire; Colonial Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (Brit. Insp. Palestine Police), in Royal Mint case of issue, first...
Hammer Price: £1,800
A Second World War B.E.M. group of seven awarded to Greaser T. Marron, Merchant Navy British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (Thomas Marron); British War and Mercantile Marine Medals (T. Marron); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, North Africa 1942-43 clasp; War Medal 1939-45, extremely fine (7) £220-260
Hammer Price: £300
An unusual B.E.M. group of four awarded to Mr C. E. Thurgood, Premises Officer for B.O.A.C. at London Airport, formerly a member of the Shanghai Municipal Police British Empire Medal (Civil) E.II.R. (Charles Ernest Thurgood); China, Hupei Province, 3rd Anniversary Medal, silver and enamel, the reverse with maker’s cartouche, with top suspension brooch; China, National Revolutionary Army Commemorative Medal, Northern Expedition, gilt and enamel, the reverse with Chinese characters,...
Hammer Price: £780
A fine B.E.M. for Gallantry and Glasgow Bravery Medal pair to Constable I. F. G. Harris, Glasgow Police, for overpowering an armed robber British Empire Medal, (Civil) E.II.R., with oak leaf gallantry emblem (Iain Fleming Gillespie Harris), in Royal Mint case of issue; Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal, 3rd type, 9ct. gold, hallmarks for Edinburgh 1965 (Constable Iain Harris 1970), complete with gold brooch bar, in T. S. Cuthbert, Glasgow case of issue, extremely fine, rare (2) ...
Hammer Price: £1,400
Arctic Medal 1818-55, unnamed as issued, good very fine, with rare forwarding letter £1500-1800
Hammer Price: £4,900
Diary of Lieutenant A. S. F. Davison, Adjutant 99th Regiment, who died at Etshowe, South Africa on 27 March 1879, comprising a printed 17 page diary, containing brief entries made by Davison between 19 October 1878 and 17 March 1879 whilst on campaign in South Africa, with bound in studio portrait of recipient in uniform, the whole bound in full gilt-tooled red leather, some wear to spine, but otherwise in very good condition and presumably one of a very limited number produced as a memorial...
Hammer Price: £800
Waterloo, a rare manuscript ‘eye witness’ poem composed by Sergeant William Grant, 92nd Highlanders, a Waterloo veteran who was subsequently promoted to Sergeant-Major and later commissioned as Ensign & Adjutant in the 92nd, probably unpublished, 8pp, 200 x 125mm, circa 1840, stitched with thread, signed ‘The Song of Waterloo was composed by Serjeant Wm. Grant, 92nd Highlanders’, folded and torn but good condition for age £300-400
Hammer Price: £550
2nd Foot (Queen’s Royals) Long Service Cross, for 10 years service, silver cross with gilt high relief pascal lamb and incised ‘X’; rev. engraved in running script, ‘Queens Royals for Ten Years Meritorious Service to William Moore’, the word ‘Queens’ engraved over an erasure, integral loop and straight bar suspension, with gold buckle on ribbon, ref. H.I. p.240; Balmer 150a, very fine, scarce £200-250
Earl of Elgin’s Viceroy Presentation Medal 1894, silver , 51mm, contained in its [Wyon] fitted presentation case, this scuffed, otherwise extremely fine £150-200
Hammer Price: £290
St John Ambulance Brigade (?), competition medals (2), comprising Alexandra Cross, silver Maltese cross, 58 x 55mm, central female bust with inscription ‘“Alexandra” Cross’ encircled by a wreath, reverse plain, with integral loop and ring suspension; and Ambulance Shield Competition 1895, circular silver medal, central Maltese cross with inscription, encircled by wreath of oak leaves, ring suspension, the reverse hallmarked Birmingham 1901, good very fine (2) £80-100
Hammer Price: £65
Major-General L. A. E. Price-Davies, V.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., King’s Royal Rifle Corps Note Book, bearing the signature, ‘L. Price-Davies, Kings Royal Rifles’, with diary entries in ink written by Price-Davies when in India, between the dates 3 June and 15 August 1899, some pages loose; Photograph Album, of the recipient, containing photographs of the recipient (2); family and friends; at sea, 1898; South Africa 1898-99; India 1899; Malta, 1903; Newspaper Cuttings, in an album,...
Hammer Price: £200
City of London Imperial Volunteers in South Africa Medallion 1899-1902, 76mm., bronze, in (restored) case of issue (Ref. Hibbard A15), extremely fine £80-100
Hammer Price: £80
Prince and Princess of Wales Visit to India 1905-06, 28 x 20mm., silver presentation medalet, very fine £50-70
Hammer Price: £50
H.M.S. New Zealand Medal 1913, Arms of Auckland, ‘The Dominion of New Zealand’; reverse: the battlecruiser H.M.S. New Zealand, ‘To the Officers and Crew of H.M.S. New Zealand 1913’, unnamed, 35mm., silver, about very fine £30-40
Hammer Price: £30
Royal Dublin Fusiliers Medal, obv. Indian elephant, ‘Carnatic Mysore Royal Dublin Fusiliers’; rev. Tiger, ‘Plassey Buxar Spectamur Agendo’ (Capt. R. M. Watson), 32mm., silver, suspension bar, ‘1662-1911’, 1 engraved clasp, ‘Adjutant 12th Feb. 1913 to 1st Jan. 1916’, brooch bar, ‘Old Toughs’, good very fine £100-140
Hammer Price: £340
H.M.A.S. Sydney - S.M.S. Emden Medal, 9 November 1914, silver Mexican Dollar dated ‘1890’ , mounted by W. Kerr, Sydney, good very fine £300-350
Hammer Price: £680
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Ernest Harold Canning) good very fine £100-150
Hammer Price: £320
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Frederick George Hartland), in card envelope, good very fine £40-60
Hammer Price: £55
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Henry Lloyd) very fine £30-40
Hammer Price: £35
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Albert Edward Martin) nearly extremely fine £30-40
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Alfred Gledhill) scratches on reverse, good very fine £30-40
Hammer Price: £85
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Reginald Cooper) good very fine £30-40
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Walter James Cresdee), in card envelope with associated slip, extremely fine £40-60
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (2) (Thomas John Thomas; Hugh Robert Thomas), both in card envelopes, one with associated slip, good very fine (2) £60-80
Hammer Price: £95
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (John Henry Powell), in damaged card envelope, very fine £30-40
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (James Edward Hutton Freeman), fitted within a carved wooden plaque, 303 x 250mm., very fine £100-150
Hammer Price: £240
Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Harold James Thurley) nearly extremely fine £30-40
Hammer Price: £40
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