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Great War 8 Victory Ace’s D.F.M. group to 19 year old Sergeant Observer, 22 Squadron, RAF. A true ‘Ace’ who’s citation credits him with the personal destruction of 5.

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A Great War D.C.M. group of three with Memorial Plaque Sergeant, 18th Battalion, (Bantam Btn.) Highland Light Infantry, Wounded January 1918 and died at Rouen June, 1918. ’Shot at Dawn’ direct connection as platoon sergeant of and primary witness against Pte. Hugh Flynn who deserted moving up to the front line and executed after his capture some weeks later , the contradiction in evidence by the recipient being largely causal.

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Royal Flying Corps D.S.O. 28 Cavalry & RFC A superb award illustrated in ‘Deeds That Thrill The Empire’. His Pilot recommended for the VC in 1915 for the same action, but similarly receiving the DSO. Whilst severely wounded and under attack from an enemy aircraft climbed from seat leaning over to stem the blood flow from his grievously wounded pilot

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Exceptional Great War Distinguished Flying Medal and French Medaille Militaire group Sergeant L.A. Allen, No.2. Naval Squadron, RNAS attached SAAC & 202 Sq. RAF . An Air Gunner/Observer flying D.H.4’s with three victories, (one enemy scout destroyed in flames and two Out of Control, together with his original Logbook, French M.M. Certificate and Honourable Discharge Certificate , two handwritten instruction notebooks on the Vickers Machine Gun and bomb types together with the bullet that critically wounded him whilst their aircraft was attacked by five of the enemy. One of approx 36 RNAS personnel sent to Wallis Bay for service in German South West Africa , in April 1915 attached to the fledgling South African Aviation Corps and their Stars named SAAC before returning to England that October

£7,750.00
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Distinguished Service medal group (GV1) , excellent Merchant Seaman award for the action between Armed Merchant Cruiser (previously RMMV) Caernarvon Castle and the German Raider ‘Thor’, 5 December 1940. Later served Operation Pedestal , the epic Malta convoy (oil tanker Ohio) where aboard and surviving the sinking of MV Wairangi when torpedoed and sunk by enemy torpedo boats

£1,675.00
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An excellent OBE, DSC & Bar, Legion ofHonour group. The DSC for the celebrated Swift & Broke action in April 1917,Lieutenant R.N. Executive Officer and Gunnery Lieutenant of H.M.S. Swift. He displayed great coolness and method in the control of fire which he had very ably organised

£4,950.00
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A scarce Royal Marines single date, Q-Ship Distinguished Service Medal group of 5 decorated for his service during the attack on the Submarine U31

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A good Jutland D.S.M. group of five wounded by an enemy shell penetrated when H.M.S. Calliope’s was hit several times by the German battleship Markgraf

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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’

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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

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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.

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D.C.M. (GV), M.M. & Bar group, 1/8th Manchester Regiment

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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.

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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

£5,500.00
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A Boer War D.S.O. group to Lieutenant Colonel , Paget’s Horse, previously 7th (The Princess Royal’s) Dragoon Guards

£2,600.00
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Second Battle of Sirte’ D.S.M. and ‘Leros 1944’ Second Award Bar group of seven awarded to C.E.R.A., Royal Navy

£5,500.00
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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

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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

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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

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Crimea group with Medaille Militaire, 3 clasp officially impressed medal, 6th Battalion Artillery

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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

£19,500.00
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Edward Medal for Mines, bronze, an unnamed specimen

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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.

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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.”

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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

£2,850.00
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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Indian Police Distinguished Conduct (GV1) An award for gallantry for grappling with a disarming a fanatic armed with a sword

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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

£2,100.00
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Second Award bar to the Military Cross, officially dated 1944

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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

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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

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Sardinian War Medal of Valour, ‘Al Valore Militaire ‘Spedizione D’Orient 1855-56’ Bt. Major, Rl Arty. Very severely wounded at Sebastopol

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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.

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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

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Distinguished Flying Cross (GV1R) second type award 1947-52 officially dated 1951 and a rare example

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D.C.M. (VR) Q.S.A. Relief of Mafeking, Elandslaagte, 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!”

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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)

£19,500.00