Military Cross
British
War Medal CAPT. A.A. JOHNSON
Victory Medal
CAPT. A.A. JOHNSON (MiD)
India General
Service Medal Malabar 1921-22 LIEUT. A.A. JOHNSON. SUFF.R.
1939-45 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal (MiD)
Alec
Albert Johnson was born 7 May 1897 in East Grinstead and was educated
at Cranleigh. Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant Suffolk Regiment 16 June 1916.
Posted to the 2nd Battalion in France 22 June 1916. Lieutenant January
1917. Slightly wounded 4 April 1917. Acting Captain November 1918.
MiD Gazetted 27 December 1918
MC Gazetted 8 October 1919 (as Lt. (A.Capt). "For conspicuous gallantry
and skilful leadership during operations at Romeries and Escarmin on
23rd October 1918. At a critical period of the attack, when four enemy
field guns were firing at his company with open sights, he rallied his
men, and leading them forward, succeeded in putting the enemy to flight
and capturing all four guns. He pressed on, and reached his final
objective punctually to time, and consolidated the ground won."
Posted to 1st Battalion in India October 1919. Served in the Malabar
Rebellion August 1921 to February 1922. Returned to UK February 1926. Captain October 1927. Posted
to 2nd Battalion in Shanghai January 1928. To India December 1929.
Returned to UK April 1938. Major August 1938.With 1st Battalion to
France 1 October 1939. Invalided and evacuated to UK 26 January 1940.
Lieutenant-Colonel June 1940. To India October 1941. To Singapore 29 January 1942. Captured 15 February 1942 with "rifle shot left wrist."
Mid Gazette 12 September 1946 as a POW. Returned to UK January 1946. He died in 1981 in Deben, Suffolk.
Price: £5000
O.B.E.
(Military)
Military
Cross
British
War Medal CAPT. W.H.H. LINDQUIST.
Victory
Medal CAPT. W.H.H. LINDQUIST.
India
General Service Medal Afghanistan NWF 1919 CAPT. W.H.H. LINDQUIST.
1-1 G.R.
Defence
Medal
War
Medal
William
Herbert Horatio Lindquist was born in Calcutta 10 June 1897, son of
John Horatio Lindquist of the Bengal Pilot Service.
2nd Lieutenant, Indian Army 29 June 1918, from Cadet College, Quetta.
Lieutenant
1 Jan. 1918, 10th Gurkha Rifles but attached to 1st
Gurkha Rifles.
Military
Cross Gazette 8 March 1919 “For great gallantry on the 19
Sept. 1918 at Sabieh. Finding that he had lost touch with the
battalion on his right and that the enemy were about to
counter-attack, he collected the nearest men and charged the enemy
thus breaking up the counter-attack.”
Staff
College Jan. 1927. Staff Captain, Jullundur Brigade 1928. Act.
Lt-Colonel 13 Dec. 1941.
O.B.E.
(Military) Gazette 1 Jan. 1944. Temp. Brigadier 1 May 1944 and Director
of Civil and Services Censorship, Army HQ India.
Deputy
Asst. Adjutant-General 11 Dec. 1945. Retired 1947. Appointed
Cadet Commandant of Dundee and Angus A.C.F. April 1948.
Died
at Carnoustie 6 Sept. 1976.
Price: £2550
Baltic Medal Horatio Lindquist. H.M.Ship Edinburgh. £350
Medal engraved in italic lettering. Father of William Lindquist, Gurkha Rifles (above)
Horatio Lindquist was born in 1840, son of William and Amelia. His father was a member of the Bengal Marine Service.
Joined HMS Edinburgh as Master's Assistant April 1854 and left her in
June 1856; served in the Baltic Campaign (medal confirmed on roll).
Served on HMS Vulture to July 1857, HMS Persian to January 1859 and
then HMS Jane until May 1859. June 1859 awarded his Second Mate
certificate.
He died in Bangalore, India 14 March 1921, his profession shown as "Port Officer".
Military
Cross MAJOR H.F. WATERS. QUEENS WESTMINSTER RIFLES SND MACHINE GUN
CORPS. JAN. 1ST 1917.
Queen's
South Africa Medal Cape Colony/Orange Free State/Transvaal/South
Africa 1901 6558 PTE. H.F. WATERS. VOL. COY. SUFFOLK REGT.
1914/15
Star 2.LIEUT. H.F. WATERS. 16/LOND.R.
British
War Medal MAJOR H.F. WATERS.
Victory
Medal MAJOR H.F. WATERS.
Colonial
Auxiliary Forces Decoration (GRI) LIEUT. H.F. WATERS. M.C. M.S.V.R.
Horace
Frank Waters was born in Cambridge in 1880 and after Grammar School
in Cambridge, attended Battersea Polytechnic. Trainee engineer at
Hayes Sewage Works. Enlisted January 1900. To South Africa February
1900. Returned to UK May 1901. Discharged at his request May 1901.
Spent next years at waterworks in South Africa and Brazil before
returning to UK 1906 when he became a Resident Engineer in
Bedfordshire. Member of the Civil Institution of Engineers. Assistant
to Borough Engineer, Islington, London. Assistant Engineer Public
Works Department, Federated Malay States 1908. Returned to UK and
enlisted into the 16th (County of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment.
Commissioned 26 February 1915 (Sergeant Horace
Frank Waters). To France August 1915. MC Gazetted 29 December 1916.
MIC
address on reverse: Public Works Depot, Kuala Kangar, Perak,
Federated Malay States.
Awarded
the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal September 1923
“Corporal, Malay States Volunteer Regiment.”
1922
appointed 2nd Lieutenant, Malay States Volunteer Regiment.
Awarded
Decoration September 1926 “Lieutenant, Malay States Volunteer
Regiment.” Received
the 1935 Jubilee Medal in Malaya.
He
died in London 14 August 1946.
Price: £2150
O.B.E.
(Military) hallmarked
1914
Star CAPT. D.C. PART. REMOUNT SERV.
Victory
Medal MAJ. D.C. PART (MiD)
British
War Medal MAJ. D.C. PART
Defence
Medal
1953
Coronation Medal
Group mounted in wring order. With matching miniatures.
Dealtry
Charles Part was born 28 Feb. 1882. Educated at Harrow.
Commissioned
21st Lancers 1902. Adjutant, Hertfordshire Yeomanry
Oct. 1911. Captain, General Reserve of Officers 18 Feb. 1914. Arrived
in France 29 September 1914 with the Remounts Service. Temp.
Deputy Assistant Director of Remounts, Indian Cavalry Corps 1915-16. Major
March 1916. Superintendent, Remount Services 11 July 1916. MiD
15 June 1916. O.B.E. Gazette 3 June 1919 for “services in
connection with the war.” Lieutenant-Colonel 16 August 1919.
Became
a well-known horse race owner, his horse Morse Code winning the
Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1938, ending Golden Miller's five year winning streak. Appointed
High Sheriff of Bedfordshire March 1926. Appointed Lieutenant for
the County of Bedford Oct. 1931. Appointed Commanding Officer of 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Home Guard. Appointed Lord Lieutenant of Bedford
1943.Knighted 1957. Died
9 February 1961.
Price: £750
British
War Medal
4CL. A-SGN. J.M. STERLING.
I.M.D.
Victory Medal
A-SGN. J.M. STERLING. I.M.D.
General
Service Medal Iraq/N.W. Persia 4.CL. ASST.SGN. J.M. STERLING.
I.M.D.
1939-45 Star
Italy Star
Defence Medal
War Medal
1937
Coronation Medal
Army
Long Service Good Conduct Medal INDIA 1 CL. ASST. SGN. J.M.
STERLING. I.M.D.
John
McNeish Stirling was born in Madras 24 January 1892.
Warrant as Assistant Surgeon 4th Class, Indian Medical Department 20 April 1914.
Assistant Surgeon at Kut Military Hospital, Iraq, 1920. At Post
Hospital, Kangavar, Persia August 1920 and then Post Directorate
Dispensary, Magil, Iraq November 1920.
MRCS and LRCP London 1925.
1930 at Station Hospital, Fort St. George, Madras. 1935 Agency Surgeon,
Koraput, Vizagapatam Agency. 1942 Agency Surgeon, Koraput and
Superintendent of Koraput Jail.
He died in Brighton 20 October 1955.
Price: £495
1914/15 Star LT. E.C. DAVENPORT. I.A.R.O. ATTD. 12/CAVY.
British
War Medal 2-LT. E.C. DAVENPORT.
Victory
Medal 2-LT. E.C. DAVENPORT.
General
Service Medal Iraq CAPT. E.C. DAVENPORT.
India
General Service Medal Waziristan 1921-24 CAPT. E.C. DAVENPORT, 2/2
PUNJAB R.
Defence
Medal
War Medal
1937
Coronation Medal
Special
Constabulary Long Service Medal (GV) SERGT. EDWARD C. DAVENPORT
1914/15 Star not entitled - Star renamed.
Edward Charles Davenport was educated at Dulwich College, London. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant,
Indian Army Reserve of Officers 5 Feb. 1915, attached 12th Cavalry.
Lieutenant Feb. 1916. Attached Army Remount Department (India) June
1917. Captain Feb. 1919. Attached 2nd Punjab Regiment Nov. 1919.
Attached 1/69 Punjabis 1922 and retired same year.
1939 Census shows an Edward Charles Davenport, born 1892, member of the
Stock Exchange and Special Constabulary Transport Division living in
Croydon.
Commissioned Pilot officer (Admin & Special Duties Branch), RFVR
Dec. 1940. Flying Officer Dec. 1941. Flight Lieutenant Jan. 1944.
Placed on Non-Active List 1944.
Price: £475
1914/15 Star 1724 PTE. O.N. SOPER. E. KENT R.
British
War Medal 2 LIEUT. O.N. SOPER.
Victory
Medal 2 LIEUT. O.N. SOPER.
India
General Service Medal Afghanistan NWF1919 2 LIEUT. O.N. SOPER. 2/153
PUNJABIS.
Owen Norman Soper was born in Ashford, Kent in 1897. Enlisted in the
5th Battalion East Kent Regiment and went to Mespotamia 9 December
1915. He was wounded and sent to India to recuperate. Commissioned 2nd
Lieutenant, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, March 1918. Served in
Afghanistan 1919 with the 2nd Battalion 153rd Punjabis. He then joined
the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway as a Chief Engineer. He
returned to the UK in 1948, working for the Ministry of Transport. His
obituary states that he was involved in the 1957 Lewisham train crash.
On the night of 4 December 1957 in thick fog, a train carrying 1500
people was stopped under a bridge when another train, carrying 700
people, smashed into it. 90 people were killed and 107 injured. While
he was not injured, it is said that he suffered severe shock which
affected his health. He died 7 March 1960.
Price: £395
British
War Medal LIEUT. B.H. ANDREW.
Victory
Medal LIEUT. B.H. ANDREW.
India
General Service Medal Afghanistan NWF1919 CAPT. B.H. ANDREW. I.A.R.O.
Bernard Howard Andrew was born 14 September 1887 in Penryn, Cornwall.
4 November 1915 Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 2/4th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in Rawlpindi, India.
MIC shows service in Anden from 27 September 1916.
1939 Cenus he was living in Penryn, Conrwall and was a "Granite Merchant."
He died in Penryn 31 January 1953.
Price: £300
India
General Service Medal Afghanistan NWF 1919/Waziristan 1921-24/Burma
1930-32 2/LT. J.L.G. HARVEY. 5/INFY.
Defence
Medal
War Medal
John Gaskell Long Harvey was born in 1900. Commissioned 15 April 1919
and attached to 5th Light Infantry, Indian Army. Captain April 1925.
In 1943 he is shown as 2nd Lieutenant (TARO) serving with the Army Cadet Force in Northern Ireland.
He died 31 October 1968.
Price: £295 RESERVED
British
War Medal LIEUT. H. THORNE.
Victory
Medal LIEUT. H. THORNE. (MiD)
Harman
Thorne was born in Barnstaple in 1886 and in 1911 was a Surveyor in
Barnstaple. He enlisted with the 6th Battalion Devonshire Regiment.
Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 30 July 1915, Indian Army Reserve of
Officers. MiD Gazette 27 August 1918. 1939 Cenus he was a Chartered Surveyor and "Army Officer Emergency Reserve." He died 9 September 1962 in Park Lane Nursing Home, Barnstaple.
Price: £150
British
War Medal 2.LT. W.H. MC PHERSON.
India General Service Medal
Afghanistan NWF1919 LT. W.H. MCPHERSON. 5 LT.INFY.
William Hodgson McPherson was born in 1887 in Staveley, Yorkshire but by 1901 he was living in Bishop Auckland, Durham.
Enlisted in the 1st Battalion Durham Light Infantry. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Indian Army 22 July 1918.
Price: £200
British
War Medal LT. H. DAVIES.
Victory
Medal LT. H. DAVIES. (MiD)
India
General Service Medal Afghanistan NWF1919 LIEUT. H. DAVIES, 5 S. &
M.
British
War Medal
LIEUT. W.E. HOWELL.
India General Service Medal
Afghanistan NWF1919 LIEUT. W.E. HOWELL, 31 D.C.O.LCRS.
William Emrys Howell was born 1896 in Llansamlet, Glamorgan.
Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 2nd Dragoon Guards 19 May 1916.
To France December 1917 (entitled to Victory Medal). To Indian Army Reserve of Officers 1 May 1918.
Acting Captain 27 August 1919 while commanding a squadron of the 31st Lancers.
There is a William Emrys Howell working as a veterinary surgeon in London in 1930 and he is still there in 1939.
Price: £225
British
War Medal LIEUT. C.H. SEDGLEY.
Victory Medal LIEUT. C.H.
SEDGLEY.
India
General Service Medal Afghanistan NWF 1919 LIEUT. C.H. SEDGLEY. S. &
T. CORPS.
1939-45
Star
Africa Star 1st Army
War Medal
Charles
Henry Sedgley was born 1891 in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Commissioned
2nd Lt. The King's (Liverpool) Regt 24 Sept. 1915 and
posted to a Reserve Battalion. To France 26 June 1916. Lt. July 1917.
Transferred to the Indian Army Nov. 1917. I.A.R.O. Captain 24
Sept. 1919.
1920 serving with 3/7th Gurkha Rifles. 1939
living in Newcastle and worked as a secretary for a wine merchants.
Lieutenant,
Pioneer Corps 4 Feb. 1941. Pioneer Corps. Captain 12 Feb. 1944. WW2
medals confirmed. He died in Newcastle 6 Dec. 1964.
Price: £300
Queen's
South Africa Medal Orange Free State/Transvaal/South Africa 1901
4906 Pte. J. REID. 13/Hussars. £150
Queen's
South Africa Medal Transvaal/South Africa 1902 4960 L.SERGT. H. TAYLOR. 18TH
HUSSARS. £120
1914/15 Star
4085. SJT. E.L. LARTER. 13TH. HRS.
British
War Medal 4085 SJT. E.L. LARTER. 13TH. HRS.
Victory
Medal 4085 SJT. E.L. LARTER. 13TH. HRS.
Delhi
Durbar 4085 SERGT LARTER. E.L. XIII HUSSARS.
Army Long
Service Good Conduct Medal (GV) 4085 SJT: E.L. LARTER. 13/HUSSARS
Ernest Louis Larter was born in Gosport, Hampshire in 1883. By 1901 he had enlisted into the 13th Hussars.
Durbar Medal confirmed, with note: "Massed Bands Camp". To France 15 December 1914. Long Service Medal awarded October 1916.
In 1939 he was living in Woking, Surrey and shown as "Clerk, War Office" and "Army Pensioner". He died in 1947.
Price: £345 RESERVED
Army
Long Service Good Conduct Medal (Vic) 19.TROOP SERGT. MAJOR GEO. IVES. 18TH
HUSSARS £150
George Ives was born in London in 1832 and enlisted into the 3rd
Dragoons in May 1851. To the 10th Hussars December 1855. Corporal
December 1857. To 18th Hussars March 1858 (Sergeant).
Service record shows service in the Crimea, but he does not appear on the medal rolls. Discharged 15 August 1876.
Queen's
South Africa Medal Transvaal/South Africa 1901 Lieut. F.E.C.
PILKINGTON, 18/Hrs. £895 RESERVED
Frederick
Ernest Chomley Pilkington was born 8 October 1872 in Dublin. Educated
at Trinity College, Cambridge, MA 1893. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 3rd
Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers 7 April 1897. Transferred to the 18th
Hussars 20 December 1899. Killed
in action 6 October 1901 at Vryheid.
Regimental History: "One troop of the squadron, under Lieut.
Pilkington, had already got into so advanced a position that their
right flank was considered insecure, and the losses they were
sustaining were disproportionate to the result, they were withdrawn,
but had considerable difficulty in getting back.... Lieutenant
Pilkington had been killed during then hottest part of the engagement,
shot through the head whilst gallantly placing his men in he most
forward part of the position to be taken up."
He was buried at Vryheid Cemetery.
Queen's
South Africa Medal Tugela Heights/Relief of Ladysmith 3719 Pte. W.H.
COX.13/Hussars £285
Died
of dysentery 7 June 1900
Queen's
South Africa Medal Tugela Heights / Relief of Ladysmith 5666. Pte.J.
ROCHE. 13/Hussars £285
Died of enteric at Ladysmith 4 May 1900.
Queen's
South Africa Medal Orange Free State/Transvaal/Laings' Nek 4126 Pte:
J.W. FISK. 18/Hrs.
King's South Africa Medal South Africa
1901/South Africa 1902 4126 PTE. J.W. FISK. 18TH HUSSARS
Price: £285
Queen's
South Africa Medal Cape Colony/Paardeberg/Johannesburg 3412 Pte.
P.F. BRADLEY. 18/Hrs.
King's South Africa Medal South Africa 1901/South
Africa 1902 4312 PTE. P.F. BRADLEY. 18TH HUSSARS.
Phillip
Frederick Bradley was born in Dorking, Surrey and enlisted May 1889,
aged 19. India Nov. 1889 to Jan. 1897. To Army Reserve February
1897. Recalled November 1899. South Africa Jan. 1899. Discharged May
1902.
Price: £295
Queen's
South Africa Medal Tugela Heights/Relief of Ladysmith 4147 Pte T.
GIBBS. 13/Hussars. £285
Died
of enteric at Newcastle 10 May 1900.
Queen's
South Africa Medal Orange Free State/Laing's Nek/Belfast/South
Africa 1901 4919 Pte F.S. BROOKS. 18/Hrs. £400
Killed in action 14
December 1901 at Uitgezoht. Top clasp is loose.
India
Medal Punjab Frontier 1897-98 Captain M.S. Wellby 18th
Hussars.
Queen's South Africa Medal Defence of Ladysmith/Orange
Free State/Transvaal/Laing's Nek Capt. M.S. WELLBY. 18/Hussars.
Montagu
Sinclair Wellby was born in 1866. Educated at Rugby, he was
commissioned into the 18th Hussars in August 1886. Author of "Through
Unknwon Tibet" and "Twixt Sirdar and Menelik. An account of a Year's
Expedition from Zeila to Cairo through Unknown Abyssinia." Wrote "King
Menelek's Dominions and the Country between Lake Gallop and the Nile
Valley" for The Geographical Journal (1900). Served
with the Commissariat Transport Department, Tochi Field Force in India
1897 (medal). Served in the Defence of Ladysmith.
Regimental History: "29 July 1900. Our two squadrons were assigned to
the right and flank, and "B" under Captain Wellby were given advanced
duties to perform. ... Captain Wellby, taking with him Sergeant Butcher
and a few men, proceeded down the Schalk Spruit. Whilst he was engaged
shooting at some Boers, others attacked him. He took up a position in a
kraal and succeeded keeping them at bay until a larger party of some 30
Boers advanced under cover to close range. He bid the men with him to
mount and gallop for their lives whilst he kept off the advancing
Boers. When all his men had cleared, leaping on his horse, he attempted
to follow them, but the Boers were within 10 yards of him. His
indignant refusal to their appeal "hands up", they fired, mortally
wounding him in the stomach."
"On August 5th, at 3.30 am, Captain Wellby died after 48 hours
unconsciousness. He was brought in on August 2nd from a kraal. For the
first few days he seemed to be making fair recovery, but it was
found that he was never out of danger. His funeral was held at
Zandspruit and he was buried near the railway station at 3.30 pm. In
Captain Wellby the regiment lost one of its best officers. His exploits
in travel and exploration are well-known. His loss, the first casualty
among our officers, was not only a loss to the regiment to also a great
one to England."
Pair: £1750
Queen's
South Africa Medal Talana/Defence of Ladysmith/Orange Free State/Laing's Nek/Belfast 4526. Pte. J. TODD. 18/Hrs. £600
Clasps confirmed on roll. Also entitled to King's South Africa Medal.
Queen's
South Africa Medal Orange Free State/Laing's Nek/Belfast 3455. Pte.
W. MANSFIELD. 18/Hrs. £175
Queen's
South Africa Medal Talana/Defence of Ladysmith/Belfast 4533.Corpl:
G.W. MORCAM. 18/Hrs. £695
Wounded at Elands Spruit 10 October 1900.
Queen's
South Africa Medal Transvaal/Cape Colony/South Africa 1901 4387.
Pte: H. MITCHELL. 13/Hrs. £150
Queen's
South Africa Medal Talana/Defence of Ladysmith/Belfast 4615. Pte.
D. KIDD. 18/Hrs. £850
Severley
wounded at Uitkijk 25 January 1901. Mentioned in Despatches (Gazette 7
May 1901): "4615 Private Kidd, 18th Hussars, promoted to Corporal by
Commander-in-Chief."
Queen's
South Africa Medal Natal/Belfast 3711. Pte. C. BARNES. 18/Hrs. £250
Slightly
wounded at Uitkijk 23 January 1901.
Queen's
South Africa Medal Transvaal 5009 CORPL: H. ALDOUS. 18TH
HUSSARS. £285
Died of disease at Middleburg 17 February 1902.
Queen's
South Africa Medal Transvaal 4404. PTE T. CAPPER. 13TH HUSSARS £240
Severley
wounded near Greylingstad 29 April 1901.
Queen's
South Africa Medal Tugela Heights/Relief of
Ladysmith/Transvaal/Laing's Nek/Orange Free State 4105. Pte. A.
WILLIAMS. 13/Hrs.
King's
South Africa Medal South Africa 1901/South Africa 1901 4105 PTE. A. WILLIAMS. 13TH HUSSARS.
British
War Medal LIEUT. A. WILLIAMS.
Victory
Medal LIEUT. A. WILLIAMS. (MiD)
Defence
Medal
India
General Service Medal Northwest Frontier 3440 D. QUINN. H.M.S 32ND
REGT.
Indian
Mutiny Medal Defence of Lucknow D. QUINN. 32ND L.I.
Dennis
Quinn was born in Monagh, Tipperary and enlisted into the 34th Foot
July 1848 (No. 2992). Transferred to the 32nd Foot April 1849 (No.
3440). Service record states: "In Defence of Residency Lucknow from 30 June to 25 Nov. 57; at the Battle of Cawnpore 6 Dec. 1857." He was discharged
January 1860 "allowed to reckon one year additional service on
discharge granted by Her Majesty for defence of Lucknow."
30 June 1857 mutineers arrived
north of Lucknow causing the British troops to move into the Residency
and set up a defensive position (855 British officers
and soldiers, 712 Indians, 153 civilian volunteers, and 1,280 civilians). The first attack was repulsed on 1 July. Around
8,000 sepoys had joined the rebel force. with a mix of modern and old
canons. Several attempts to storm the position were fought off and then
they settled down to a siege. 20 July Major General
Havelock attempted to relieve Lucknow, but a
battle at Unnao reduced his
force to 850 men and he had to withdraw. 18 September
Outram led a force of six British and one Sikh infantry battalions to
Lucknow to attempt a relief. By the time he reached the Residency, the
garrison was reduced to 982 fighting men. But now Havelock's force was
so weak that they could not evacuate the Residency and so the siege
continued. 14
November, Sir Colin Campbell began his relief of Lucknow. Two days
later, after heavy fighting, his force approached the Residency.
19 November the operation to evacuate the Residency began, with the
civilians escorted to Cawnpore.
The first siege had lasted 87 days, the second siege a further 61 days.
During the siege, the Union Jack
was nailed to the flagpole and so flown continually (the custom was
to take it down at dusk). After Luckno was retake, permission was
given for the Union Jackto be flown 24 hours a day on the Residency's
flagpole. The day before India became independent, the flag was
lowered, the flagpole cut down, and the base removed and cemented over,
to prevent any other flag ever being flown there.
Price: £2500
India General Service Medal Northwest Frontier / Bhootan 624 CORPL. P.F. TAYLOR. BENGAL SAPRS & MINERS £350
Militia
Long Service Medal (EdVII) 192 GNR: J. KEEGAN. DUB: CITY R.G.A. MIL. £725
Medal awarded February 1905; only
seven medals to unit. Dublin City Royal Garrison Artillery Militia.
James Keegan was born in Dublin in 1860 and enlisted September 1884. Discharged September 1906.
1939-45 Star
France & Germany
Defence Medal
War Medal
1937 Coronation Medal
Army
Long Service Good Conduct Medal REGULAR ARMY (GVI) 6134492
W.O.CL.III. W.G. WERNHAM. E.SURR:R.
Army Meritorious Service Medal(GVI)
6134492
W.O.CL.I. W.G. WERNHAM. E.SURREY R.
William
George Wernham was born 9 October 1902 in Kingaston, Surrey and enlisted into the East Surrey Regiment 22 July 1920.
Served in Egypt Nov. 1920 to Nov. 1923; Hong Kong Nov. 1923 to Oct. 1926; India Oct. 1926 to Nov. 1937; Awarded 1937 Coronation Medal as Drum Major. Sudan
Nov. 1937 to Jan. 1939. UK 1939-1945 (Copy red book shows no
entitlement to 1939-45 Star or France & Germany Star but he is
wearing them in photograph). MSM 1951 Regimental Sergeant Major.
He was discharged 29 October 1952. Joined the National Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children as an Inspector. He died in 1986 in
Gloucestershire. When the Battalion was in the Sudan they took part in
the making of the film The Four Feathers: "Back from the Sudan. 1st
Battalion East Surrey Regiment. While in camp at Sabaluka Gorge they
cooperated with the producers and artists then on the spot filming
A.E.W. Mason's novel "The Four Feathers".
Price: £500