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Pair: Able Seaman H. McLaughlin, Royal Navy Korea 1950-53, 1st 'Britt: Omn:' type (C/SSX. 863197 H. McLaughlin A.B. R.N.); United Nations Medal for Korea, suspension loose and bar bent on first, contact marks, good fine (2) £60-80
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A Scarce to Regiment 'Mau Mau' Pair to Lieutenant M.P. Moreton, Royal Irish Fusiliers, A Pioneer of Rallye Sports Ford and An Accomplished Racing Car Driver United Nations Medal for Korea; Africa General Service 1902-56, E.II.R., one clasp, Kenya (2/Lt. M.P. Moreton. R. Ir. F.), minor edge bruise to latter, very fine, with photographic image of recipient (2) £350-400
Footnote: Lieutenant Michael Philip Moreton, a native of Mill Hill, London; commissioned Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers, 27.2.1954; Lieutenant 23.1.1959; 'At 18 years of age I was obliged to do two years' National Service. My ambition to become a Fleet Air Arm pilot was thwarted by colour blindness, but I joined the Middlesex Regiment and was selected for officer training at Canterbury and at Eaton Hall, Cheshire. It was very hard work, but a superb experience and I have never been so fit. When that was over, I wanted to rejoin the Middlesex in Austria (plenty of skiing opportunities), but instead was assigned to the Royal Irish Fusiliers in Korea. That was a bit of a shock, but at least by then the fighting in Korea was over.... In 1954, the country was in a terrible state, twice overrun by the North Koreans and Chinese armies and then rescued by United Nations forces. The first thing we noticed in Pusan was the overpowering smell; the whole city had become a giant shanty town, home to refugees from all over Korea. We travelled by train and truck via Gloster Valley, scene of much bravery during the fighting, to our battalion's camp near the Imjin River, bordering North Korea. My platoon, like all the others, occupied a small hill, of which there were thousands, with well dug-in defences. The opposing forces did much the same so it was a stalemate situation. The next seven months we trained, patrolled the De-Militarised Zone (DMZ), observed the opposition on the other side of the border... Winter was bitterly cold, a north wind blowing from Siberia keeping temperatures down to minus 40 degrees C. From Korea we were sent to Kenya to fight what were described as Mau Mau terrorists.... Out of the train, it was onto army trucks along the only tarmac road in the country, 80 miles north to our camp near Lake Naivasha.... Soon we were patrolling deep into the bamboo forest looking for the Mau Mau, relying on native African trackers to guide us.... I was posted to the King's African Rifles' headquarters at Nakuru, as Motor Transport Officer, responsible for 20 staff and 30 vehicles.... In fact, the country's bumpy, twisty roads were a great opportunity to develop racing skills, and I would happily four wheel drift a one-tonner or Land Rover.'
After his national service had ended Moreton trained as a Car Chassis Engineer, and worked for 23 years at Ford in Product Development and Project Management, at AVO and Motorsport, in the centre of the action creating and managing the majority of the Rallye Sport Fords. After Ford he moved first to TWR, managing the Jaguar XJ220 project, then to Aston Martin Lagonda as acting Operations Director, producing Volante and Vantage supercars, and finally to KBD Design in Essex. Whilst Moreton's technical knowledge increased so too did his racing prowess. Having joined the British Automobile Racing Club he set about racing his MG TA at Silverstone and Goodwood; in later life he wrote Rallye Sport Fords, The Inside Story.
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Pair: Private C.R. Thelan, Australian Forces Vietnam 1964-73 (A225957 Thelan C.R.); Vietnam, Republic, South Vietnam Campaign Medal, with 1960 Bar, gilt and enamel, naming on reverse of latter neatly obliterated, good very fine (2) £180-220
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Pair: Gunner A.J. Sheldrake, Royal Artillery Gulf 1990-91, one clasp, 16 Jan to 28 Feb 1991 (24852453 Gnr A J Sheldrake RA); Saudi Arabia, Kingdom, Medal for the Liberation of Kuwait, silvered and gilt, extremely fine, mounted court style for display purposes (2) £140-180
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Three: Police Constable C. Carter, City of London Police Jubilee 1887, with 1897 Bar (PC, 764. C. Carter.); Coronation 1902, bronze (P.C.. C. Carter); Coronation 1911 (P.C.. C. Carter.), good very fine Jubilee (City of London Police) 1897 (J. Foreman.), good very fine, together with a unnamed silver-plated Jubilee (City of London Police) 1897 medal Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Gerald E. Fitzgerald), nearly extremely fine, in named City of London card box of issue City of London Presentation Medallion, bronze-gilt, obverse portrait of Detective Inspector R.J. Child, City of London Police, reverse City of London Coat of Arms, embossed 'In Remembrance of my Retirement after 32 Years Service Retired 25 March 1891', very fine (7) £250-300
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Jubilee 1935 (Maj. E.J. Nettlefold. S.V.C. H.Q. Malaya.), contemporarily engraved in large sans-serif capitals, good very fine £50-70
Footnote: Lieutenant-Colonel Edward John Nettlefold, born Edgbaston, Birmingham, September 1886; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 5th Dragoon Guards, 8.2.1908; promoted Lieutenant, 18.2.1911; served with the 5th Dragoon Guards during the Great War on the Western Front from 15.8.1914 (Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 14.6.1918); promoted Captain, 1.11.1914; appointed Brigade-Major, 22.2.1917; served with the 5th Dragoon Guards in Northern Kurdistan (entitled to General Service Medal with clasp); subsequently appointed Staff Officer to Local Forces, Malaya, and served with the Singapore Volunteer Corps.
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Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., with 'Territorial' scroll suspension (6802557 Sjt. J.B. Perkins. Inns of Court. R.), extremely fine, scarce to unit, with related miniature award £60-80
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Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., with 'Territorial' scroll suspension (2) (2072590. Spr A.G. Beckett. R.E.; 6342949 Sigmn. A.G. May. R. Sigs.), extremely fine, both with named card boxes of issue, and the Soldiers Release Book for Signalman May (2) £70-90
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Miniature Awards: The C.B., Boer War D.S.O. Group of Twelve Attributed to Brigadier-General W.H. Sitwell, Northumberland Fusiliers The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion's (C.B.) Badge, gold and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., gold and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp; Ashanti Star 1896; Sudan 1896-98; Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal; King's South Africa 1901-02, two clasps; 1914 Star; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves; Delhi Durbar 1911; Khedive's Sudan 1896-1908, four clasps, Sudan 1897, The Atbara, Khartoum, Sudan 1899, nearly very fine or better, mounted court-style as originally worn, with a large quantity of newspaper cuttings relating to the recipient's death and funeral, and six slides of the recipient's home, Barmoor Castle (12) £300-400
Footnote: C.B. London Gazette 26.6.1908 Colonel William Henry Sitwell, D.S.O., half-pay.
D.S.O. London Gazette 19.4.1901 Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Silwell, the Northumberland Fusiliers 'In recognition of services in connection with the Campaign in South Africa, 1899-1900.'
Brigadier-General William Henry Sitwell, C.B., D.S.O., born Benares, India, November 1860, the son of Major F.H.M. Sitwell, Bengal Army; educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Bedfordshire Regiment, January 1880; transferred to the Northumberland Fusiliers, February 1880; served with the Fusiliers in the Second Afghan War; promoted Captain, April 1889; employed as Adjutant to the Bechuanaland Border Police, March 1891 to May 1893, 'he had the questionable distinction of being a prisoner of King Lobengula for some weeks in 1891, and was one of the few, if not the last Englishman, who saw the actual great Matahele war dance.' (The recipient's obituary refers). Employed as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Guernsey, May 1895 to August 1897; served in the Ashanti, December 1895 to February 1896, and took part in the Ashanti Expedition; employed with the Egyptian Army, September 1897 to December 1899, and took part in the Nile Expedition of 1898; severely wounded at Shebalia; took part in the capture of Shendy, and in the Battles of the Atbara and Khartoum (Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 30.9.1898, and promoted Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, November 1898); took part in the Nile Expedition of 1899, where he commanded the 14th Sudanese in the first pursuit of the Khalifa; served during the Boer War, where he commanded the 9th and 10th Mounted Infantry, 3rd Division, January to August 1900, and afterwards raised the 22nd Mounted Infantry and commanded a Column of All Arms, March 1901 to May 1902; present in the operations in the Orange Free State, February to May 1900; operations in the Orange River Colony, May to November 1900; and operations in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, and Cape Colony, November 1900 to May 1902 (Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 16.4.1901, and awarded the Distinguished Service Order). 'Although there is no official account of his D.S.O., it is understood to have been awarded for capturing a hill in the attack on Dewetsdorp in April 1900 two Victoria Crosses being awarded to Colonel Sitwell's command on the same occasion.' (The Distinguished Service Order 1886-1923 refers). Promoted Brevet-Colonel, July 1904; commanded the 4th Northumberland Fusiliers, and subsequently the 2nd East Lancashire Regiment, 1906-08; promoted Colonel, February 1908, and created a Companion of the Bath, June 1908; appointed Assistant Adjutant General, 3rd Lahore Division, March 1909; commanded the Quetta 1st Infantry Brigade, 1913-14; promoted Brigadier-General, November 1913; served during the Great War, and commanded the 34th Infantry Brigade at the landing in Suvla Bay, 6.8.1915. He retired from the Army, March 1918, and died at the ancestral family home of Barmoor Castle, Northumberland, September 1932.
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United States of America, Northern Belle Medal, 64mm, silver, obverse featuring a stricken sailor, clinging to the wreckage of the main mast, the reverse engraved, 'The President of the United States to William Hiller Jr., for his humane, zealous, and successful efforts in rescuing the Master & Crew of the American Ship "Northern Belle" from the perils of the Sea, 1857', surrounded by a wreath, 31 Stars above, American Eagle below, edge bruising, otherwise nearly extremely fine, rare £500-700
Footnote: Wreck of the Northern Belle The Northern Belle, an American transatlantic ship, set out from New York in December 1856, bound for London, and ran aground off the Kent coast in a terrible storm in the early hours of the 5th January 1857. The ship had been cast ashore on a dangerous ledge of rocks below the Foreness Point, at Kingsgate, between Broadstairs and Margate. On seeing the plight of the Northern Belle's crew, the Coastguard sent warning to Broadstairs, and, despite the severe weather conditions, the Mary White and Culmer White lifeboats were hauled overland by horse-drawn trailer, against the blizzard, to a point where they could be safely launched. Whilst these preparations were underway, the lugger Ocean managed to rescue five of the Northern Belle's crew, leaving 23 men still on board the stricken vessel. 'On arrival at the beach the boats were launched, and with a total disregard for their own safety, the crews pulled boldly through the boiling surf and, after making several hazardous trips, saved most of the crew of the stricken vessel. The Mary White, having been dragged across fields of snow, was able to bring off seven of the American crew, and then the Culmer White, having arrived with a fresh crew, made two further journeys, on the first attempt rescuing 14 shipwrecked men, and only then returning to recover the Captain and Pilot.' (The Maritime Heritage of Thanet refers). Cold, wet, and exhausted, but rescued, the American survivors were taken to an inn overlooking the bay, where they were able to 'thaw out before a blazing log fire, in the bar's cosy parlour, where food and hot rum was served and warming blankets given around.' (ibid). The following day, the Mary White, with the crews of both lifeboats aboard, was drawn through the narrow streets of Broadstairs, proudly displaying the American ensign of the Northern Belle. Afterwards, Margate's oldest pub, the 'Waterman's Arms', was renamed the 'Northern Belle', and timber salvaged from the shipwreck was used to renovate the pub - it is still there to this day. In response to the rescue of the crew of the Northern Belle, the President of the United States of America, Franklin Pierce, ordered 25 silver medals to be struck, to be awarded to each of the lifeboat crews, the only known occasion on which such a medal has been awarded to a British lifeboat crew.
Note: The number of Stars on the reverse represents the 31 States in the Union at the time of the award.
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China 1842, edge inscribed 'The Master of the Mint to George Forbes, Esqr.', minor edge bruise, nearly extremely fine, scarce £200-300
Footnote: George Forbes, Esq., Appointed Queen's Clerk and Clerk of the Papers at the Royal Mint, March 1840.
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Arctic Medal 1875-76 (Geo; Leggett. Acting Ships Cook. H.M. S. Discovery), nearly extremely fine £1,200-1,600
Footnote: Able Seaman George Leggett, confirmed as serving in H.M.S. <@Footnote italic>Discovery, 'Duplicate medal supplied 10.12.1880'.
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Shanghai Municipal Police Sports Medal, 28th Annual Meet, silver and enamel, unnamed, good very fine Shanghai Russian Regiment Sports Medal, 1934 Meet, bronze and enamel, reverse engraved (in Cyrillic) '1934 First Place Gymnastics Floor Apparatus' and additional inscribed 'M.R.', very fine, together with two related Shanghai Russian Regiment postcards (2) £70-90
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A Superb Quality 1805 Portrait Miniature of Lieutenant A. McNeil, 75th Highlanders, water-colour on ivory wafer, 90mm x 75mm, oval glazed gold frame with open-work gold suspension, the sitter, in uniform, wearing a feather bonnet with tartan surround and a '75' cross belt plate, signed 'J.H. 1805'; a lock of hair displayed in the reverse of the frame with the initial 'M' fashioned with seed pearls mounted on a small blue enamel plaque; together with a later water-colour on card of the original, 140mm x 100mm, glazed and framed (2) £800-1,200
Footnote: Lieutenant Archibald McNeil, Commissioned Ensign, 75th Highlanders, July 1897; promoted Lieutenant, February 1800.
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A Fine Quality c.1810 Portrait Miniature of a Lieutenant in the 92nd Highlanders, water-colour on ivory wafer, 75mm x 65mm, oval glazed gold frame with gold suspension ring, reverse of frame partially enamelled in blue, the initials 'P.W.K.' in gold mounted on a layer of hair is surrounded by a gold mount £400-500
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A Selection of Sandown Park Members' Badges 'Sandown Park Club 1878', oval badge, gilt, reverse embossed 'Members Ten Guinea Pass' and numbered '382' 'Sandown Park Club 1881', circular skeletal badge, gilt, reverse numbered '445' 'Sandown 1882', star shaped badge, gilt, reverse numbered '197' 'Sandown 1883', circular badge, gilt, reverse numbered '67' 'Sandown 1886', 'Eclipse' in centre, circular skeletal badge with crown suspension, gilt and enamel, reverse numbered '1561' 'S 1889', circular skeletal badge, gilt and enamel, reverse numbered '2100' 'Sandown Park Club 1890', oval skeletal badge, gilt and enamel, reverse numbered '1594' 'Sandown Park Club 1891', oval skeletal badge, gilt and enamel, reverse numbered '2402'; undated, Maltese cross with wreath shaped badge with crown suspension, gilt and enamel, reverse numbered '1430', with top riband bar, generally good very fine, with various ribands and cords, the last five all by H. Lewis, Bond Street, London (9) £200-300
Footnote: Sandown Park Racecourse, near Esher, Surrey, opened in 1875. It hosts one Group One flat race each year, the Eclipse Stakes, first run in 1886, and commemorated on the Members' Badge for that year. At the time it was Britain's richest ever race, with a prize fund of £10,000.
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