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Second War ‘Bomb Disposal’ George Medal to Lieutenant Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, for gallantry in rendering mines safe off the west coast of Wales, December 1941. On one occasion [on 11 December 1941], he waded out to a mine in rough seas in winter in an endeavour to prevent it coming ashore, and on another [on 4 December 1941], being forced to detonate a mine, he had only seven minutes in which to scale a cliff 150 feet in height by Jacob’s ladder in order to get clear.
An extremely rare Edward VII Boxer Rebellion D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Commander A. Rowand, Royal Navy, late Royal Indian Marine with QSA, China and AGS Somaliland (RIMS Dalhousie ‘In Command’ and 1914 Star trio (Transport Staff R.N.)
Distinguished Flying Cross (GV) &; Second Award Bar, a superb 20 Victory scout ‘Ace’ all with 84 SE5a Squadron, served with and second only behind Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor V.C. Additionally one of only 8 British ‘Balloon Buster’ Aces. A lovely unmounted group, the recipient being killed shortly after discharge as a result of a motor bike accident
Superb pilot’s DSC group 1917 with three foreign decorations. AM1 in 1914 serving with Samson’s ~Armoured Cars, RNAS to Flt. Comm. (Col in WW2),Whilst on reconnaissance attacked by two enemy scouts both of which the recipient and his observer shot down during which he was three times wounded passing out on landing. Awarded an Order of Leopold with fine citation by the hands of the King of the Belgians in the hospital at la Penne
Edward Medal for Mines, bronze, an unnamed specimen
D.C.M. group, 7th E. Yorks. award for Ancres 23rd/26th August 1918 or assuming command of a company when all officers had fallen casualty and leading them forward to an attack. Later sustained a gunshot wound October, 1918. With original certificate of discharge and character
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Silver Medal, (VR), awarded for the Clovelly Lifeboat Station 1890 (North Devon). One of two lifeboatmen who put out in an open boat in a gale and heavy seas to rescue two men from a capsized boat
D.C.M. (GV), M.M. & Bar group, 1/8th Manchester Regiment
A fine Great War 1918 ‘Battle of Vittorio Veneto’ D.C.M., 1916 ‘Western Front’ M.M. and ‘Italian theatre’ Second Award Bar, M.I.D. group, 10th (Service) Battalion, West Riding Regiment
Distinguished Flying Cross group. Great War ‘Ace’ 60 (SE5a ) Squadron . A true scout pilot ‘Ace’ 5 Victories all destroyed, 2 in flames. Additionally wounded in combat against a pair of German two-seaters, August 1918
1914/15 trio, (MID) Naval L.S.G.C., (HMS Glasgow ), Russia , Cross of St George , 4th Class, present at Battles of Coronel & Falkland Islands, HMS Caradoc, Russia 1918-1919, Mentioned in Despatches, 16/12/1919
Crimea D.C.M. group with 4 clasp Crimea, LSGC group, 11 Hussars. Whilst not a ‘Charger’ was one of 2 orderlies to Dr St. Croix attd 11th Hussars, at Balaklava, both of who received the D.C.M.
Great War D.S.M. and dated second award bar group. The DSM awarded for services with Destroyer Patrol Flotillas aboard HMS Zinnia and covering the period of Zinnia’s participation in the Roger Casement. The bar awarded as gun-layer in a suface action with submarines (U-62)
Distinguished Flying medal group for Tobruk (additionally with Air Crew Europe) rear gunner 104 Sqdn.
Especially fine, Arctic convoy Fleet Air Arm TAG D.S.M. group A/POA, Fleet Air Arm, for the sinking of U-973 by his Fairy Swordfish, off Narvik on 6 March 1944, “As we climbed away to port my rear-gunner Vines gave her 500 rounds of machine gun in her conning tower. It was good shooting.”
Exceptional DSO, MC, Boer War, WW1 group of 13, Imperial Yeomany, 19th Hussars and Grenadier Guards. The one armed C.O of No 2 Company at the Somme. Lost his arm as a result of his horse rolling on him at Zeerust whilst dispatch rider for Colonel Paget, commd. into the 19th Hussars during the Boer War before transf. to the Guards due to lack of front line service as a one armed cavalryman
Cape Matapan’ Immediate D.S.M. group of five awarded, Leading Seaman, R.N., later killed in action during the Dieppe Raid, on 19 August 1942, serving in Landing Craft 145
D.S.O. (GV), M.C. (GV), Italy, Al Valore Militaire in silver, group, 2.Lieut./Major, Liverpool Regiment attd Hampshires for DSO,with two fine citations. Wounded, May, 1917
D.S.O. (GV), M.C. & Bar (GV) Lys, April 1918, For ‘entire disregard of danger’ repeatedly parading along the firing lineduring repeated enemy attacks’ QSA (Lieut. Vol. Co. Cheshire R.), 1914/15 trio (MID) (Capt./Lieut Colonel S. Lancs. Serving with the Volunteer Company in the Boer War, a solicitor prior to the Great War, joined the S.Lancs 1914 serving with the Battalion from 2.Lieut. to Lieutenant Colonel Commanding.
D.C.M. 1914 Star & Bar trio, Sgt. K.O.S.B. a fine award for Cuinchy, 12 October, 1914 for taking command of his Company when all the officers had fallen casualty and holding the captured ground. Later died in France 1917
Second World War submariner’s D.S.M. and Second Award Bar group, Chief Petty Officer,Royal Navy who gained his first award for gallant services in H.M.S. Clyde, for the torpedoing of the German battleship Gneisenau in a brilliant action off the Norwegian coast in June 1940, Bar to his D.S.M. for his subsequent gallantry in H.M.S. Unbeaten during a period of 19 war patrols and included the sinking of both U-374 and the Italian submarine Guglielmotti
Distinguished Service medal group with QSA Natal. A particularly fine ‘Q’ ships single date action for the sinking of UC72 which had been responsible for the sinking of 38 Allied ships
D.S.M. group 2. Lieut. R.A.F.(CPO.1 R.N.A.S. on DSM, and later Wing Commander. A scarce East Africa award, 8 Squadron, R.N.A.S.
Indian Police Distinguished Conduct (GV1) An award for gallantry for grappling with a disarming a fanatic armed with a sword
Distinguished Conduct Medal group (Crimea) A fine award to an 18 year old gunner who in the same year was promoted Corporal and Sergeant still aged 19. Enlisted 1848 as Trumpeter, aged 12 . Died aged 21 at Shoeburyness of consuption
A fine Distinguished Service Medal for the surface action between the armed merchant cruiser H.M.S. Alcantara and the German raider Thor in July 1940
C.M.G. Ashanti clasp Kumassi group of four awarded to ‘Private Secretary’ to Colonel Sir James Willcocks, Commanding Ashanti Field Force. He offered his services in any role available due to his long experience and knowledge of the Gold Coast, ostensibly in a civilian roll, often acting in charge of the guides, and being involved in the fighting being awarded one of only two awards of the CMG for the Kumassi campaign
Distinguished Service Order (E11R)
Military Cross, Distinguished Conduct Medal group, both fine awards, 7/Cheshires awarded for Jenlain, battle of Sambre 3-4/11/1918 and thye D.C.M. 1/6 Manchester R. for Gallipoli (Third Krithia)1915, also MID for Gallipoli
Korea war Fleet Air Arm Fairy Firefly (E11R) D.S.C. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant Commander serving aboard H.M. Carrier Glory. Previously served in Swordfish with 813 Squadron during the Second War
D.S.M. & Shipping Federation Meritorious Service Medal (for the same action) group to a young Apprentice for a fine single date action 27 Feb 1917 in a gun duel with a German submarine. He saw Second War service and as convoy Commodore of Convoy AN27 survived the loss of his ship off Crete
Second Award bar to the Military Cross, officially dated 1944
Egypt 1885 D.C.M. ,group of five awarded to Regimental Sergeant-Major, 10th Hussars, & Honorary Captain and Riding Master, 6th Dragoon Guards, for gallantry and coolness under firewhilst attached to the Light Camel Regiment at Abu Klea, 16 February 1885 (action at the wells the day prior to the battle); his D.C.M. was personally presented by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle
Royal Red Cross 1st Class Victoria, to the A.N.S. one of two awards for services during the Sudan Campaign of 1898 and being one of only a total of seven nurses present 1895-99. Originally forwarded for the Khedives Sudan, three including the recipient with clasp but later all considered not to have met the criteria. Together with the Order of St. John this awarded for services in the Boer War. One of 3 awards award for the Sudan operations, 1898, Mentioned in. Despatches for the Boer War, September 1901, gazetted for a second Royal Red Cross, October 1901. Due to regulations not allowing the Order of St John was awarded in it’s place 1902
A Great War C.M.G. ‘Victorian ‘D.S.O.’ group , Lieutenant-Colonel , Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, late commanding Dublin Imperial Yeomanry. An escaped prisoner of war in the Boer War. Mentioned in despatches , (later awarded the DSO for great gallantry when greatly outnumbered in holding off a Boer force and bringing his convoy out despite heavy losses
Order of Merit (Military Division) group, Admiral of the Fleet, Hon Sir Henry Keppel, Captain of H.M.S. Dido during the First China War, capture of the forts at Shanghai and the capture of Chiang Kiang Fu. With Brookes Rajah suppressed the Borneo pirates and the destruction of their forts. Commanded the Rl. Naval Bde. at the siege and fall of Sebastopol, commanded the Squadron at the destruction of the Chinese war junks at the Battle of Fatshan Creek.
D.C.M. & 1914/15 trio, Acting Sergeant, North Somerset Yeomanry, for single-handedly rushing and capturing an enemy machine-gun detachment, one of only 5 awards to the regiment
Sardinian War Medal of Valour, ‘Al Valore Militaire ‘Spedizione D’Orient 1855-56’ Bt. Major, Rl Arty. Very severely wounded at Sebastopol
Distinguished Service Order, (G.V.), silver-gilt and enamel, Military Cross, (G.V.)., Territorial Force War Medal Trio (Denbigh Yeo.), Territorial Decoration, (G.V.). Lieutenant Colonel Denbigh Yeomanry and 24th R.W. Fusiliers (Denbigh Yeo. Battn.)
Second Battle of Sirte’ D.S.M. and ‘Leros 1944’ Second Award Bar group of seven awarded to C.E.R.A., Royal Navy
E11R Distinguished Service Cross group of 10 for Korea, Commander Royal Navy and previously served aboard the destroyer Cossack as Assistant Gunnery Officer at the Altmark incident . Served as Gunnery Officer aboard the Cruiser, H.M.S. Dorsetshire and likely aboard when sunk off Ceylon along with her sister ship ‘Cornwall’ Commanded the frigate Whitesand Bay during the Korean War. Probably for the action when engaged with enemy shore batteries in the Paengyong-do area, early 1953. and additionally awarded the US Legion of Merit for Korea.
Military Cross group, a fine award for Palestine operations 1939, Highland Light Infantry
E11R Military Medal group, Chestnut Troop, R.H.A. award for Aden 1966, for his gallantry during a night attack carried out by a force of at least 80 heavily armed dissidents on the Dhala Garrison, 28/29 March 1966. Regularly exposing himself to mortar and small-arms fire, he led his 2 gun section fearlessly during the 8 hour action. One of 11 awards for this theatre 1964-67
Distinguished Conduct Medal (EDV11) group, Corporal (later W.O. Cl.1) 78th Battery. Perhaps the hardest fought battery of the Boer War especially at Hekpoort. 11 July 1900, when many of the gunners and drivers fell casualty and Captains Gordon and Younger of the Gordons rushing forward to help save the guns won a Victoria Cross and a posthumous V.C. respectively
Distinguished Flying Cross (GV1R) second type award 1947-52 officially dated 1951 and a rare example
D.C.M. (VR) Q.S.A. Relief of Mafeking, Elandslaate, Defence of Ladysmith. Sq. Sergeant Major 5th Drag. Gds & Regimental Sergeant Major. Imperial L.H. Exceptional posthumous award for Hartbeestfontein 22/3/1901, where the recipient was killed in action , a rearguard action later described by the Boer leader Smuts as ‘the most brilliant one I had seen fought by either side during the entire campaign. Both General de la Rey and myself were determined to capture the pom-pom, as well as the ILH” . Additionally commended for Cyferfontein where the ILH came under close range, withering fire from a far numerically superior Boer force, and with mounting casualties with his charger shot in several places and his uniform and saddlery shot though in many places galloped up and down the whole line of ILH, hat in hand, waving the men away, shouting the order: “Retire! Retire!”
D.C.M. group Highland Light Infantry for Ypres 1915, (Victory missing), also entitled to a Russia, Cross of St. George
Boer War Colenso D.S.O. group, Major , King’s Royal Rifle Corps, severely wounded at Colenso when acting as A.D.C. to Major-General Arthur Fitzroy ‘No-Bobs’ Hart, 5th (Irish) Brigade
D.S.O. (GV1), D.F.C. & Bar (GV1), (all immediate awards) A.F.C. (E11R) as test pilot Boscombe Down, with AirEfficiency award. A stunning group by combination and absolute quality of all awards. 105 ops all 21 Sqdn. (Blenheim/Mosquito)
First Day of Loos Military Cross, bar to the Military Cross for Russia, Major R. Warwick Regt.
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