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Lieutenant Commander Richard C Witte, U.S. Naval Reserve (retired)
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13 & 14 September 2012
An outstanding Great War Tigris operations D.S.O. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Commander M. Singleton, Royal Navy, who accomplished the remarkable feat in his small armed tug of bringing to surrender a body of about 11 officers and 250 Turkish troops - indeed it was the opinion of the official historian of the campaign that greater daring than Singleton’s cool audacity could hardly be imagined Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. M....
Hammer Price: £3,500
A good Great War battle of Jutland D.S.O. group of five awarded to Captain R. V. Alison, who was decorated for his gallant command of the destroyer Moresby Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; 1914-15 Star (Lt. Commr. R. V. Alison, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Commr. R. V. Alison, R.N.); Coronation 1911, mounted court-style as worn, minor enamel damage to wreaths on the first, otherwise very fine and better (5) £3000-3500
Hammer Price: £5,800
A rare Baltic 1919 operations D.S.O. group of five awarded to Captain R. V. Eyre, Royal Navy, who had earlier been commended for his command of the destroyer H.M.S. Mounsey at Jutland and awarded the Russian Order of St. Anne Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 Star (Lt. Commr. R. V. Eyre, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Commr. R. V. Eyre, R.N.); Russia Order of St. Anne, 3rd Class breast badge, with swords, by Eduard, St. Petersburg, 36 by 36mm.,...
Hammer Price: £2,700
A rare Great War Auxiliary Patrol and North Russia D.S.C. and Bar group of six awarded to Lieutenant E. W. King, Royal Naval Reserve Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, hallmarks for London 1917; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. E. W. King, R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. E. W. King, R.N.R.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Ernest W. King); France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1917, with bronze palm, generally very fine (6) £3000-3500
Hammer Price: £4,200
A rare Great War East Africa operations D.S.C. group of three awarded to Surgeon Lieutenant A. F. R. Wollaston, Royal Navy, a noted explorer, mountaineer and naturalist who was also awarded the Patron’s Gold Medal of Royal Geographical Society: latterly employed as a Tutor at his alma mater, Kings College, Cambridge, he was shot dead in his rooms by a demented undergraduate in June 1930 - Stanley Baldwin, the University’s Chancellor, subsequently describing how Cambridge ‘mourned a...
Hammer Price: £13,000
A fine Great War D.S.C. group of four awarded to Commissioned Gunner H. Turner, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his gallant part in the celebrated ‘Swift and Broke’ action of April 1917, himself firing one of the torpedoes that claimed an enemy destroyer - set ‘to run cold on the surface’ Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1916; 1914-15 Star (Gnr. H. Turner, D.S.C., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Gnr. H. Turner, R.N.), generally very fine (4) ...
Hammer Price: £3,100
A good Great War D.S.C. group of four awarded to Captain W. P. Stocker, Royal Navy, who witnessed extensive action in cruisers, including Jutland, Heligoland Bight and in the Baltic Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. W. P. Stoker, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. W. P. Stocker, R.N.), together with the Ogilvy Medal, in gold, 39mm., as awarded to the top candidate in the R.N’s torpedo course (Lieutenant William Pennell...
Hammer Price: £2,600
An exceptional South Russia operations D.S.C. group of seven awarded to Commander B. J. Littledale, Royal Navy, who served in the Siwash Motor Boat Flotilla Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for 1920; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. B. J. Littledale, R.N.) possibly with officially re-impressed naming; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. B. J. Littledale, R.N.); Russia, St. George Cross for Bravery, silver, 4th class, the reverse officially numbered ‘166 551’; Russia, Order of St....
An exceptional Great War Royal Naval Division operations M.C., C.G.M. group of five awarded to Temporary Lieutenant F. W. Stear, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, late Royal Navy, who was decorated for his gallantry in Anson Battalion in Gallipoli in June 1915 and in Hawke Battalion at Welsh Ridge in December 1917 - having in the interim been invalided with shell-shock: according to Douglas Jerrold, Hawke ‘never had a better company commander’ Military Cross, G.V.R.; Conspicuous...
A rare Great War Falklands 1914 D.S.M. group of six awarded to Chief Petty Officer D. Leighton, Royal Navy, the senior naval rating to be decorated for this action Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (124238 D. Leighton, C.P.O., H.M.S. Kent); China 1900, no clasp (D. Leighton, C.P.O., H.M.S. Humber); 1914-15 Star (124238 D. Leighton, D.S.M., C.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (124238 D. Leighton, C.P.O., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (David Leighton,...
Hammer Price: £5,500
Family group: A rare River Dwina operations D.S.M. group of five awarded to Petty Officer Edward Eves, Royal Navy Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (217536 E. Eves, Ldg. Sea., River Dwina, 1918); 1914-15 Star (217536 E. Eves, L.S., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (217536 E. Eves, L.S., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (217536 Edward Eves, P.O., H.M.S. Victory), contact marks and polished, otherwise nearly very fine The Great War campaign group of four awarded...
Hammer Price: £2,200
An extremely rare Kronstadt raid D.S.M. group of three awarded to Chief Motor Mechanic H. E. Sadler, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who went in to action in Dobson, V.C’s leading boat, Coastal Motor Boat 31 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (M.B. 2499 H. E. Sadler, Ch. M.M., R.N.V.R., “C.M.B. 31”, Cronstadt Harbour, 18 Aug. 1919); British War and Victory Medals (M.B. 2499 H. E. Sadler, C.M.M., R.N.V.R.), minor official corrections to the first, polished, nearly very fine (3) ...
Hammer Price: £7,800
A rare Anglo-Russian Naval Brigade operations D.S.M. group of seven awarded to Colour-Sergeant W. G. Peters, Royal Marines Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (PO/17265 Pte. W. G. Peters, R.M.L.I., Russian Allied Nl. Bde. 13-16 Oct. 1919); British War and Victory Medals (PO. 17265 L. Cpl. W. G. Peters, R.M.L.I.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Royal Marines Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (PO. 17265 C. Sgt. W. G. Peters, D.S.M., 28.2.1951); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R.,...
Family group: An extremely rare Chinese Civil War incident D.S.M. group of seven awarded to Chief Petty Officer J. Baldock, Royal Navy, among those who boarded the captured steamer Wanhsien amidst ‘a hurricane of bullets’ in September 1926 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (J. 108966 J. Baldock, Ord., H.M.S. Kiawo, Wanhsien, 5.9.26); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (J. 108966 J. Baldock, P.O.,...
Hammer Price: £8,200
An exceptional campaign service group of nine awarded to Chief Petty Officer E. H. Watkins, Royal Navy, whose action-packed career included his ship being mined in the Baltic in 1919 and service off Somaliland in 1920: so, too, extended service in the destroyer H.M.S. Electra from her rescue of survivors from the S.S. Athenia in September 1939 up until her own demise in the Java Sea in February 1942 - the interim witnessing her part in the Battle of Narvik, the Bismarck action (when she...
Hammer Price: £2,100
13 December 2007
The polar exploration group awarded to Commander J. R. F. “Frank” Wild, late Royal Navy and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who, with the exception of Sir Ernest Shackleton, participated in more Antarctic expeditions than any other man British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. F. Wild, R.N.V.R.), in their card box of issue Royal Geographical Society’s Gold Patron’s Medal (Commander Frank Wild, C.B.E., 1924), contained in gold glazed case, in its fitted case of issue Royal...
Hammer Price: £52,000
The Great War and Scott Memorial Medal group of four awarded to Chief Petty Officer F. V. Browning, a member of the “Northern Party” in Scott’s last Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 1914-15 Star (206545 F. V. Browning, P.O. 1, R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (206545 F. V. Browning, C.P.O., R.N.), renamed; Victory Medal 1914-19 (206545 F. V. Browning, C.P.O., R.N.); Royal Geographical Society’s Scott Memorial Medal 1910-13, bronze, as issued to the crew of the Terra Nova, the edge...
The Polar Medal awarded to Dr. S. E. Jones, who served with distinction in Mawson’s Expedition 1912-14 Polar Medal 1904, G.V.R., 1st issue, silver, 1 clasp, Antarctic 1912-14 (Dr. S. E. Jones, “Aurora”), good very fine £6000-8000
Hammer Price: £18,000
The Messina Earthquake and Great War group of five awarded to Petty Officer 1st Class B.M. Lock, Royal Navy 1914-15 Star (179180 B. M. Lock, P.O. 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (179180 B. M. Lock, P.O. 1, R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (179180 B. M. Lock, P.O. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Duke of Edinburgh); Italian Messina Earthquake 1908, generally good very fine (5) £350-400
Hammer Price: £350
The S.G.M. awarded to Able Seaman A. W. Stratton, Royal Navy, for his part in the famous Delhi incident of December 1911 Sea Gallantry Medal, G.V.R., bronze (Austin W. Stratton, “Delhi”, 13 Dec. 1911), in its fitted case of issue, polished, thus nearly very fine £400-500
Hammer Price: £380
The Great War D.S.O. and Bar group of five awarded to Commander F. A. P. Williams-Freeman, Royal Navy, who, having won his first D.S.O. for gallantry in the submarine E-6 in the Heligoland Bight in 1914, added a Bar for services ashore during the Asia Minor operations of 1920 - this the last such award to the Navy in respect of actions connected with the Great War Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. F. A. P....
Hammer Price: £7,500
The Great War D.S.M. group of five awarded to Leading Seaman A. S. Fletcher, Royal Naval Reserve, who was decorated for his gallant deeds on the occasion of the celebrated engagement between the armed merchant cruiser Carmania and the German armed liner Cap Trafalgar, off Trinidad in September 1914 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (3746 B. A. S. Fletcher, Sean., R.N.R. H.M.S. Carmania); 1914-15 Star (B. 3746 A. S. Fletcher, Smn., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (3746 B. A. S....
Hammer Price: £2,400
The Great War D.S.C. group of six awarded to Commander H. B. Anderson, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his services as a Midshipman in the Cameroons in 1914 - aged 17 years Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1915; 1914-15 Star (Mid. H. B. Anderson, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H. B. Anderson, R.N.); Defence and War Medals, mounted as worn, good very fine and better (6) £3000-3500 D.S.C. London Gazette 1 January 1916: ‘For his services...
Hammer Price: £5,000
The Great War and Second World War group of seven awarded to Commander C. B. Elbrow, who was aboard the Conquest in the Lowestoft raid of April 1915, in which action his ship was hit by five 12-inch shells from Scheer’s cruisers - and suffered 23 killed and 13 wounded 1914-15 Star (Lieut. C. B. Elbrow, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. B. Elbrow, R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; French Croix de Guerre 1914-1917, very fine and better (7) £400-500
Hammer Price: £550
The Great War D.S.C. group of eleven awarded to Captain J. S. Metcalf, Royal Naval Reserve, who was decorated for his gallant command of one of the Triumph’s picket boats during the Gallipoli landings on 24-25 April 1915, in which operation he was wounded in the arm: having then served at Jutland, and added a Spanish decoration to his accolades between the Wars, he was present at the evacuations of Narvik and St. Nazaire in 1940 and lent good service as a Commodore of...
Hammer Price: £8,500
The Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Vice-Admiral C. Seymour, Royal Navy, whose period of command in the destroyer Colne in the Dardanelles 1915-16 witnessed many engagements with the enemy: having lent valuable assistance at the landings in “Anzac Cove”, where ‘the shots were hitting the steel bows of the destroyers with a sound like hail on an iron roof’, the Colne won high praise for her close support of the hard-pressed New Zealanders ashore - so much so that they...
Hammer Price: £6,500
The Great War D.S.C. group of six awarded to Rear-Admiral E. R. Bent, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his gallantry ashore as a Naval Observation Officer in the Gallipoli operations, where he served from the first day of the landings - sometimes atop “Chocolate Hill”: having earlier survived the loss of the Ocean, he went on to be appointed a C.B. on the eve of the 1939-45 War, in which conflict he served as Chief of Staff to the C.-in-Cs Western Approaches and...
The Second World War O.B.E., Great War D.S.M. group of ten awarded to Lieutenant-Commander J. Corby, Royal Navy, who, having been decorated for bravery under fire in the Anzac landings, added an O.B.E. to his accolades in the 1939-45 War, which latter conflict witnessed him making clandestine ordnance trips to Portugal The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge; Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (225290 J. Corby, P.O., Gallipoli...
Hammer Price: £1,500
The Great War group of four awarded to Commander B. G. Drake, Royal Naval Reserve, who, having served ashore in Gallipoli for several weeks, and received a special letter of thanks from General Birdwood, proceeded to lead a succession of highly successful cattle rustling operations on the Anatolian coast in 1916: following one such raid, he was prompted to report, ‘some of the bulls were very fierce and one went mad after being embarked - it was a novel sight’ 1914-15 Star (Lt....
Hammer Price: £600
The Great War C.G.M., Medaille Militaire pair awarded to Chief Petty Officer G. C. P. Rumming, Royal Naval Air Service (Armoured Car Section), who was originally recommended for the V.C. for his magnificent bravery in the landings on ‘V’ beach, Gallipoli in April 1915: having given effective support fire from the River Clyde, he assisted both Commander E. Unwin and Sub. Lieutenant A. W. St. C. Tisdall in bringing in the wounded, his deeds being related to Winston Churchill in a letter...
Hammer Price: £15,000
The oustanding Great War Gallipoli landings V.C. group of five awarded to Petty Officer G. McK. Samson, Royal Naval Reserve, who worked under appalling fire on ‘V’ Beach for longer than any of the other “River Clyde V.Cs”, until, finally, he collapsed, riddled with Turkish machine-gun fire - some reports state in 19 places: the River Clyde’s surgeon later said, “He was in great agony when I saw him, and whether he lived or died I knew he had won the V.C.” Victoria Cross, the...
Hammer Price: £210,000
The Great War D.S.M. group of five awarded to Shipwright 1st Class W. Shepherd, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his gallant deeds in the monitor Severn during her famous clashes with the Konigsberg in the Rufugi Delta in July 1915 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (346098 W. Sheppherd, Shpt. 2 Cl., H.M.S. Severn), note erroneous surname spelling; 1914-15 Star (346098 W. Shepherd, D.S.M., Shpt. 2, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (346098 W. Shepherd, Shpt. 1, R.N.); Royal Navy...
Hammer Price: £6,000
The Great War D.S.C. group of five awarded to Engineer Lieutenant J. M. Dowie, Royal Naval Reserve, who was decorated for his gallant deeds in the Q-Ship Baralong in 1915, when he was present at the destruction of the U-27 and U-41 - the former action famously leading to accusations of cold-blooded murder Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1916, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; Transport Medal 1899-1902, 1 clasp, China 1900 (J. M. Dowie); 1914-15 Star (Eng. Lt....
The Great War D.S.C. group of six awarded to Engineer Commander T. Kerr, the Royal Indian Marine’s first ever D.S.C. recipient, for his gallantry in the armed paddle-steamer Comet, near Kut, in September 1915, on which occasion his senior officer was awarded a posthumous V.C. - one witness said that Turkish bullets pattered on the Comet ‘like raindrops on a window pane’ Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1919; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp,...
The Great War D.S.C. and Bar, A.F.C. group of six awarded to Group Captain V. Gaskell-Blackburn, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service, who, having participated in the first ever carrier-borne air strike in 1914, spotted for the Severn and Mersey against the Konigsberg in East Africa and was twice decorated for his gallant deeds in the Kut-el-Amara and Ctesiphon operations 1915-16 Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, hallmarks for London 1915; Air Force...
Hammer Price: £20,000
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 the late Queen Mother The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse officially numbered...
Hammer Price: £2,000
The Second World War C.B.E., Great War D.S.C. and Bar group of twelve awarded to Air Commodore W. H. Dunn, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service, who was decorated for his gallant services as a pilot in the relief of Kut operations in April 1916 and the East Africa operations later in the same year: having then flown operationally in Waziristan in the early 1920s, he added the C.B.E. to his accolades as C.O. of a Fighter Command Operational Training Group in the 1939-45 The Most...
Hammer Price: £12,000
The Great War D.S.M. awarded to Petty Officer C. Reid, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his services in the armed steam yacht James Fletcher, which vessel claimed at least one U-Boat by ramming Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (116282 C. Reid, P.O. 1 Cl., James Fletcher, Aux. Pat., 1915-6); 1914-15 Star (116282 C. Reid, P.O. 1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (116282 C. Reid, P.O. 1, R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Charles Reid, P.O. 1cl., H.M.S....
Hammer Price: £1,400
The Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Commander F. M. Main, Royal Naval Reserve, who, having been decorated for his services in the armed merchant cruisers Calyx and Alcantara in the period 1914-15, was given special promotion for his deeds in the latter ship’s famous North Sea duel with the German raider Greif in February 1916, ‘an action which savoured of the days of Nelson, the two ships being engaged at point blank range’ - and both sunk Distinguished Service Order,...
Hammer Price: £3,300
The Great War D.S.M. awarded to Able Seaman H. M. Richardson, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his gallant deeds as a 17 year old Boy 1st Class in the famous North Sea duel between the Alcantara and the German raider Greif in February 1916, ‘an action which savoured of the days of Nelson, the two ships being engaged at point blank range’ - and both sunk Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (J. 34229 H. M. Richardson, Boy 1 Cl., H.M.S. Alcantara, 29 Feb. 1916), edge bruising and...
Hammer Price: £1,200
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