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Lieutenant Commander Richard C Witte, U.S. Naval Reserve (retired)
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19–21 June 2013
The rare and impressive Great War C.M.G., inter-war Persian Gulf operations C.I.E. group of fifteen awarded to Rear-Admiral H. Boyes, Royal Navy, whose remarkable career spanned a “mention” won with the Naval Brigade during the Boxer Rebellion through to active service in Norway in 1940, between which he lent valuable services ashore in the wake of the Messina earthquake in 1908, commanded the gunboat Thistle off East Africa 1915-18 and participated in the North Russia operations of 1919...
Hammer Price: £5,000
‘About noon Morse came on board the “Queen Elizabeth” for ammunition for the naval machine-guns of the “River Clyde”, which had been provided and manned by the Royal Naval Division; and we learnt from him of the desperate nature of the fighting round the “River Clyde” and the severity of the losses. He told us that the naval casualties included among the killed Lieutenant-Commander Pownall, the commander of the Malta submarine flotilla and depot ship, who had begged me to get...
Hammer Price: £25,000
A rare Great War Mediterranean land operations D.S.M. group of four awarded to Gunner W. G. Stocker, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his part in two raids on Turkish occupied territory around Alexandretta on the Syrian coast in January 1915 - he subsequently died on active service while serving in H.M.S. Cameleon in June 1917 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (220505 W. G. Stocker, P.O., H.M.S. Doris); 1914-15 Star (220505 W. G. Stocker, P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals...
Hammer Price: £1,800
‘The Naval History of Britain contains no page more wonderful than that which records the prowess of her submarines at the Dardanelles.’ Winston Churchill An outstanding Great War submariner’s D.S.M. group of five awarded to Artificer Engineer L. C. Allen, Royal Navy, onetime attached Royal Australian Navy, who was decorated for his gallantry in E. 11’s epic patrols in the Sea of Marmara - patrols that resulted in the destruction of at least 90 enemy vessels and the award of...
Hammer Price: £5,800
A rare Great War East Africa operations D.S.M. group of five awarded to Yeoman of the Signals D. Greenshields, Royal Navy, a long served crew member of the monitor H.M.S. Severn who was present at the sinking of the Konigsberg in July 1915, the hit and run raid on Tanga that August, and in a subsequent action in the Rufiji Delta in which he was wounded - so, too, in the attack on Simba Urange in May 1916, when he was shot at by a concealed German signaller Distinguished Service Medal,...
Hammer Price: £5,200
‘It transpired that Dudley had begun his career as a cadet in the training ship “Worcester” and, like Hope, held a Second Mate’s ticket in the merchant service. As he appeared to have more understanding of discipline than the rest of his staff, Spicer made him his First Lieutenant and issued all his routine orders through him. Dudley, slight of form with fair delicate features, was a bundle of nervous energy, and he took this very seriously. As soon as both the boats were safely on...
Hammer Price: £10,000
A good Great War Eastern Mediterranean operations D.S.C. group of four awarded to Captain K. Edwards, Royal Navy, who was commended for his gallantry at the landing and evacuation of Cape Helles Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1916; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. K. Edwards, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lieut. K. Edwards, R.N.), contact marks and a little polished, otherwise generally very fine (4) £1800-2200
An exceptional Second World War escaper’s O.B.E., Great War Dardanelles D.S.C. group of seven awarded to Commander J. B. Woolley, Royal Navy: having been landed for the attack on the Turkish Orkanieh Battery in February 1915, for which Lieutenant-Commander E. G. “Kipper” Robinson, R.N., was awarded the V.C., he was decorated for his subsequent bravery under a murderous fire in H.M.S. Triumph’s picket boat that April - and, uniquely, added the O.B.E. to his accolades for a remarkable...
Hammer Price: £2,600
A rare Great War Kut operations D.S.C. group of eight awarded to Commander R. D. Merriman, Royal Indian Navy, late Royal Indian Marine, who plied the Tigris in a motor launch and was closely involved in General Townshend’s negotiations to surrender the besieged town in April 1916 Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1918; 1914-15 Star (Lt. R. D. Merriman, R.I.M.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. D. Merriman, R.I.M.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee...
An extremely rare Great War relief of Kut operations D.S.M. awarded to Stoker 1st Class S. Fox, Royal Navy, one of 15 men who volunteered to man the river steamer Julnar on a suicidal mission to get supplies through to Kut in April 1916, an extraordinary episode that resulted in the award of two posthumous V.Cs, a D.S.O., three C.G.Ms and ten D.S.Ms - and the cold-blooded murder of Lieutenant-Commander C. H. Cowley, R.N.V.R., the “Pirate of Basra” Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R....
Hammer Price: £4,100
A Great War D.S.O. group of five attributed to Lieutenant-Commander F. W. Craven, Royal Navy, who was decorated for his ‘magnificent courage and seamanship’ in rescuing of some 600 souls from H.M.S. Otranto - many of them American troops and in consequence of which he was also awarded - uniquely - the Army D.S.M.: having then joined the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary as a Detective Inspector, he was killed in an ambush in February 1921 Distinguished Service Order,...
Hammer Price: £1,700
A rare Siberia 1918 operations D.S.O. group of nine awarded to Captain J. Wolfe-Murray, Royal Navy, ‘an amazing Scot who lived for huntin’, shootin’ and fishin’ and, in so far as shootin’ of the active service kind was concerned, won Their Lordships approval for his good work with a Maxim gun during a raid on Sarzeh in the Persian Gulf in 1911 and for his command of H.M.S. Cornwall’s guns in the Falklands action in 1914 - so, too, for his gallant work with Suffolk’s 12-pounders...
Hammer Price: £3,600
A rare Baltic 1919 operations D.S.O. group of six awarded to Commander J. Harrison, Royal Navy Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (Lieut. J. Harrison, R.N., H.M.S. Philomel); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-14 (Lieut. J. Harrison, R.N., H.M.S. Philomel); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Comr. J. Harrison, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Commr. J. Harrison, R.N.), mounted as worn,...
A fine Second World War Malta operations O.B.E., Baltic 1919 operations D.S.C., O. St. J. group of twelve awarded to Captain E. J. F. Price, Royal Navy The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1919, the reverse privately inscribed, ‘Lieut. E. J. F. Price, R.N., “Baltic”, 1919’; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem (O. St. J.), Officer’s breast badge,...
Hammer Price: £2,100
The extremely rare Kronstadt raid D.S.O. group of eleven awarded to Commander L. E. S. Napier, South African Naval Force, late Royal Navy and a founding member of the South African Naval Service, who was wounded and taken prisoner following the loss of his C.M.B. to point-blank fire from the Russian destroyer Gavriil - enduring shocking conditions at Petrograd and Moscow over the coming months, and the threat of ‘Chinese torture’, he was finally exchanged for a Soviet prisoner in April...
Hammer Price: £20,000
An outstanding Chinese Civil War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Commander W. G. Lalor, Royal Naval Reserve, who showed great courage in containing a Chinese boarding party on his command - the S.S. Wanliu - during the “Wanhsien incident”, but who was subsequently wounded and captured by Chinese pirates: by the time ransom money had effected his release, it was necessary to amputate his right foot The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type...
Hammer Price: £3,000
The rare and impressive post-war Palestine operations C.B.E., Second World War Salerno landings D.S.O. group of fifteen awarded to Captain A. T. G. C. Peachey, Royal Navy, an ex-Q-Ship officer and Jutland veteran who commanded the cruiser H.M.S. Delhi at the landings at Oran, Algiers, Sicily, Salerno and Anzio, in addition to the cruiser Enterprise off Normandy, prior to adding the C.B.E. to his accolades for his ‘determination and fearlessness’ during operations off Palestine The...
Hammer Price: £6,000
‘I began to realise that I had a charmed life. For some reason I changed my position at the last minute a couple of paces to port. The bomb dropped. Where I had just been was riddled with large holes. I only got a small graze on my right forearm.’ Forbes recalls one of numerous attacks made on the ill-fated gunboat Grasshopper. The remarkable Second World War fall of Singapore D.S.C. group of eight awarded to Commander I. D. S. Forbes, Royal Navy, who somehow survived the loss of...
Hammer Price: £7,800
A rare Korea operations D.S.C. group of ten awarded to Commander M. W. B. Craig-Waller, Royal Navy, who, having seen much action in the 1939-45 War, including the Altmark incident, was decorated for his gallant command of the frigate H.M.S. Whitesand Bay in 1952-53 Distinguished Service Cross, E.II.R., the reverse officially dated ‘1953’, hallmarks for London 1952; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Burma Star, clasp, Pacific; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; Korea 1950-53...
‘The Crozier Party returned last night after enduring five weeks of the hardest conditions on record. They looked more weather-worn than anyone I have yet seen. Their faces were scarred and wrinkled, their eyes dull, their hands whitened and creased with the constant exposure to damp and cold, yet the scars of frostbite were very few and this evil had never seriously assailed them. The main part of their afflictions arose, and very obviously arose from sheer lack of sleep, and today after...
Hammer Price: £58,000
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