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Especially fine D.F.C. ‘Ace’ S.E.5a scout Pilot with 6 victories,1923 M.B.E. 1st type (Military) for night flying test pilot services, air racer and commercial stunt pilot. Lieut. Leslie ‘The Flying Gypsy’ Hamilton. Lost his life in August 1927 during the “1st attempted East-West Atlantic crossing”, attracting a $25,000 prize after Charles Lindbergh had completed the first Atlantic crossing from West-to-East in May the same year. Despite rating their chances at not better than 50% he set out with Freddie Minchin DSO MC with about 42 hours of fuel for an anticipated 37 hour flight , and as passenger, Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, Hamilton’s long term friend, financial backer and owner of the aircraft, who sat behind among spare fuel cans, carrying her hat box, thermos flask and sat upon her wicker chair. Just before take off emptied his pockets of £25 and giving it to his great friend. Freddie West V.C. to give to the mechanics ‘ Besides, he observed, ‘It’s better they have it than the fishes….Goodbye old man’
The superb early Great War 10 Victory Ace Military Cross group of nine to Lieut. later Squadron Leader , Royal Warwick Regiment and 48 Squadron Royal Flying Corps all scored within in “Bloody April 1917”, a time when ‘victories were hard won, his first 7 as Observer to Capt. A.M. Wilkinson, D.S.O. and Bar. (19 Victories). With Wilkinson was one of two damaged aircraft that survived the first offensive patrol of the new Bristol fighter under Leefe-Robinson, V.C., when fallen on by Richtofen’s Flying Circus, Richtofen himself destroying 2 that day. Later served Iraq 1921 (MID). Twice wounded, GSW November, 1915 as Lieut. R. Warwicks and again May, 1917, GSW when with 48 Sqdn
China 1842, Crimea, 2 clasps, Alma , Inkermann, (0fficially impressed), 49th Regt. Killed in action , Quarries, 8 June , 1855. in the failed. Russian counter attack following their capture on the previous day
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
Naval General Service clasp Endymion wh President present as Private , Royal Marines
An emotive M.G.S. 6 clasp to Gunner, Royal Artillery, served before New Orleans in the War of 1812 being grievously wounded by cannon shot resulting in the loss of his right arm and left leg
A good 6 clasp MGS to the 40th Foot to include clasps for the storms at Badajoz and Cuidad Rodrigo, also served in the War of 1812 and a Waterloo man
M.G.S. A particularly rare combination of Egypt, Martinique, Guadaloupe, 13th Foot, also served in the War of 1812
M.G.S. clasp Nive, Corporal , 4th Foot, who lost his right eye from a gun shot wound received in the disastrous assault at the American lines at New Orleans, 8 January 1815
The exceptionally rare combination Army of india, Bhurtpoor & Crimea clasp Sebastopol, Lieut./Lieutenant Colonel 14th Foot
Military General Service, 4 clasps with Barrosa to the 95th. unique clasp combination ,’Many times wounded’ certainly at Barrosa and most likely at Badajoz (assault of Fort Picuina ) prior to the final assault and Tarbes. Served with the 3/95th in America 1814, New orleans
Crimea , 3 clasp, Heavy Brigade , 4th Dragoon Guards, engraved, beautiful condition , good provenance
Waterloo, 1st Regiment Foot Guards , a Light Company man, a Hougoumont defender and wounded, original clip, lovely condition
Waterloo, 3rd. Battn. Grenadier Guards, wounded at Waterloo. original clip& ring, nicely conditioned medal
Number of original warrants (16 in total) as a useful lot,
Order of the British Empire ribbon A useful lot, various grades Older Toye Kenning & Spencer ribbon
WW2 medal ribbon
Crimea 4 Clasps,Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol, Lieutenant & Adjt. 20th Foot. Wounded & horse shot from under him Inkermann and severely wounded, ball through the hip at the storming of the Quarries.
Victorian medal ribbon a useful lot
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
Ghuznee Cabul, Gunner, 1st Troop Horse Brigade Bombay Arty. correct script engraved, original steel clip and straight bar suspension
I.G.S 1854 clasp Umbeyla , H.M.s 71st. Regt
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
Distinguished Flying medal group for Tobruk (additionally with Air Crew Europe) Rear Gunner 104 Sqdn.
A superb of 2nd World War, Lieutenant/Trooper North Irish Horse. Military Cross (GVI). Military Medal (GVI). MC for 9/10 Apr. 1945 as first troop across the Senio River and holding the bridgehead, MM whilst in a forward position under fire target marking resulting in the destruction of 2 x Mark V1 tanks and the disablement of several others. Wounded in the winter of 1944/45 by shrapnel left embedded in later life. Rejected a battlefield commission not wishing to change regiments was in due course commissioned into his own unit. Later called to the Bar and as the leading criminal advocate on the northern circuit, his most famous case being lead prosecutor of the 12 defendants in the infamous ‘Handless Corpse’ drug trafficking and murder trial, then the longest and most expensive in British legal history.
N.G.S. Clasp, Hebrus with L’Etoile, Pte Royal Marines, unique name on medal roll. Also landed August to October at the Chesapeake for service in the War of 1812, Patuxtent River 22 August 1814
D.C.M. (GV), M.M. & Bar group, 1/8th Manchester Regiment
Indian Mutiny clasp Delhi, L.S.G.C. (VR) 6th Dragoon Guards, wounded (musket ball) Delhi 13/9/1857
Military General Service. clasp Fort Detroit, Canadian Militia (3rd York ) Volunteered for service under Captain Cameron at the Detroit River 1812, also served at the Battle of Queenston Heights, October, 1812, later taken Prisoner of War at Fort York 27 April, 1813 when taken by storm and sacked by overwhelming American forces
Military General Service clasp Chrystler’s Farm, Canadian Militia ( Voltigueres)
Military General Service clasp Chateauguay, Canadian Militia
Indian Mutiny clasp Defence of Lucknow, Lieutenant, 84th Foot. Mortally wounded 25/9/57 and died of his wounds in the Residency 3 days later
Indian Mutiny clasp Defence of Lucknow, original defender, wounded during the siege (Uncovenanted Civil Service) present with wife and three children, later Suptdt. Raj Press
Naval General Service, 2 clasps, Amethyst Wh. Thetis, (31 clasps) Amethyst 5 April 1809 (27 clasps) unique name on roll, both classic and sanguinary frigate actions. disch. 1815. as unserviceable having previously lost his right leg (very possibly during the the latter capture
Naval General Service, 2 clasps, Stately 22 March 1808, 25 July Boat Service 1809, Pte. Royal Marines, unique name on the roll, for the destruction of the Danish 74-gun Prinds Christian Frederick in March 1808, and in the boats of the Princess Caroline on 25 July 1809, in a brutal engagement with four Russian gun-boats and an armed brig in the gulf of Finland where one of the Russian gun-boats fought to the last with every one of it’s 44 crew killed or wounded
Volunteer Force LSGC (EDV11), Corpl. 1/Wilts. V.R.C.
Indian Mutiny clasp Delhi, 1st 60th Rifles, killed in action 14/9/1857, final assault on Delhi
Sutlej, Lieutenant, 50th Regiment, reverse Moodkee 1845, clasp Ferozeshuhur, (further entitled to Aliwal & Sobraonsince parted from the medal)
Sutlej for Moodkee, 31st Regiment, died of wounds , 23/12/1845 received at Moodkee on the 18th
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’
N.G.S. clasp, Northumberland 22 May 1812, Midshipman, later lieutenant who previously had in 1809 lost a leg in an attack upon a large convoy in the Adriatic
Military General Service, 8 clasps with Badajoz Lieutenant 27th Foot . Also served in North America from 1814 in the 1st Brigade of veterans of the Peninsular War under Major General Robinson and present at Plattsburgh
M.G.S. Albuhera casualty, 28th Foot, 2 clasp, wounded Albuhera , loss of his leg
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
Military General Service clasp Java, 89th Foot
Military General Service clasp Maida , Corporal, 78th
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