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Distinguished Service Order (E11R)
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
The Important Second War K.B.E., C.B., Great War Royal Flying Corps Pilot’s D.S.O., M.C. as an Observer, three times M.I.D.’s, group of 14 to Air Marshal Sir Bertine Sutton, Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, RFC RAF, Commanding Officer for the R.A.F. in Mohmand 1933. In the rank of Group Captain (MID) Wartime Commander of 22, 23 and 24 Groups
A good Royal Flying Corps 1916 Military Cross and 1914/15 trio (RFC & RAF) France & Italian Front fighter pilot’s group He won the Military Cross whilst a flight leader in an aerial engagement on 17th June 1916, helping to shoot down a hostile machine, In July 1916 he scored one of the first victories with Le Prieur incendiary rockets bringing a Kite Balloon down in flames. Commanded 45 Squadron in Italy July 1918 at a few days after his 21 birthday, and reputedly the youngest Major and Commanding Officer in the Royal Air Force.
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
D.C.M. (GV), M.M. & Bar group, 1/8th Manchester Regiment
Exceptional Conspicuous Gallantry Medal group for the withdrawal from Crete group for gallantry when the destroyer H.M.S. Havock came under heavy air attack on 23 May 1941, he continued to man his gun ‘after having half his back shot away, and refused to be looked at’
Important & superlative early Royal Flying Corps ‘Deeds That Thrill The Empire’ DSO group , OBE. & 1914 Star & Bar trio , Lieut. Somerset L.I. attd R.F.C. /Lieut Col. R.F.C. awarded for dropping a bomb squarely on a troop train in Don Station , March 1915. A founding officer of the Royal Flying Corps – who qualified as a pilot at Brooklands in 1912 . Flew a lengthy and daring reconnaissance in the Battle of Le Cateau 26 August 1914 having earlier. been credited with the first successful bombing being a transport vehicle park: downed by ground fire, he took to a bicycle and a car, and delivered an important intelligence report on reaching his base at midnight. Also credited with flying the first ever photographic reconnaissance sortie – when he took five photographs of enemy positions on the Aisne on 15 September 1914 – and for experimenting in night flying etc. etc.
A superb Boer War D.S.O., with Great War Bar group, Brigadier-General, 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, given an entire page in O’Moore, Creagh and Humphris in “The Distinguished Service Order 1886-1923 for multiple distinguished acts and who was wounded during the Boer War as he rode alongside Jan Smuts himself though by then sadly disarmed. Commanded the Regiment from 1915-18, T/Command of the 7th Cavalry Brigade , July 1918, included the mounted cavalry action at the Amien breakthough, 8 August, 1918 (horse shot from under him). Commanded 6th Cavalry Brigade at the final major Cavalry action of the War, being the charge at Honnechy resulting in it’s capture. Four times MID for the Great war in addition
A Boer War D.S.O. group to Lieutenant Colonel , Paget’s Horse, previously 7th (The Princess Royal’s) Dragoon Guards
D.S.O. group (VR) with East & West Africa 1892, Captain later Lt. Col R.Arty. for services which resulted in the capture of Tambi and Toniataba in 1892
Second Battle of Sirte’ D.S.M. and ‘Leros 1944’ Second Award Bar group of seven awarded to C.E.R.A., Royal Navy
Malta Blockade Runner’s’ D.S.M. awarded to Able Seaman , Merchant Navy, who after his ship was torpedoed in November 1941, endured nine days in an open boat prior to being interned by the Vichy French
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
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
Cameroons 1914-15’ D.S.O. group with QSA & AGS Northern Nigeria 1906, Brigadier-General G. D. Mann, Irish Horse, Imperial Yeomanry, Royal Artillery, attached West African Frontier Force, in command of Artillery in Northern Cameroons 1915, subsequently commanded the Nigerian Brigade in East Africa
Crimea group with Medaille Militaire, 3 clasp officially impressed medal, 6th Battalion Artillery
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
Edward Medal for Mines, bronze, an unnamed specimen
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)
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.”
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
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
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
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
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.)
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 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.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)
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