THE OUTSTANDING AND RARE NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL TO THE CARPENTER OF H.M.S. ENDYMION WHO WAS NOT ONLY PRESENT DURING THE CAPTURE OF THE AMERICAN FRIGATE PRESIDENT BUT ALSO THE DISASTROUS BOAT ACTIONS AGAINST THE FAMED AMERICAN PRIVATEER...
OUTSTANDING RORKES DRIFT DEFENDERS SOUTH AFRICA 1879 MEDAL. POSTHUMOUSLY MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES, HIS DEATH IS RECORDED IN THE CENTRE OF LADY BUTLERS FAMOUS PAINTING
OUTSTANDING AND VERY RARE NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL, TO GENERAL HUGH ARBUTHNOTT KCB, WHO AS A MEMBER OF THE LIGHT COMPANY, 49TH REGT WAS CAPTURED DURING THE HEROIC RAID ON OSTEND 1798, SERVED HELDER 1799, THE BALTIC, PRESENT AT THE NAVAL BATTLE OF...
OUTSTANDING AND RARE 1877 CLASP SOUTH AFRICA 1877-79 PAIR WITH BOXES OF ISSUE AND DISCHARGE LETTER FROM THE FRONTIER LIGHT HORSE, SIGNED BY ZULU WAR VC WINNER CAMMANDANT D’ARCY
A RARE NAVAL OFFICERS MAORI WAR OF 1863-4 AND ZULU WAR CAMPAIGN PAIR. AGED 17, TOOK PART IN THE DISASTROUS ACTION AT GATE PA IN 1864, COMMANDED THE DARING ‘TORPEDO’ EXPEDITION AGAINST THE PERUVIAN IRONCLAD HUASCAR IN 1877...
82ND FOOT OFFICERS MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE 1793. WITH BROWNE’S FLANK BATTALION AT THE BATTLE OF BAROSSA (WOUNDED). COMMANDED THE 82ND IN AMERICA DURING THE 1812 WAR. BREVET PROMOTION OF LIEUT.-COLONEL FOR HIS CONDUCT IN THE REPELLING OF THE ATTACK MADE BY...
NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL AND ORGINAL DOCUMENTS TO JOHN FELTON, SIGNAL MIDSHIPMAN IN H.M.S. VICTORY AT THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR 21ST OCTOBER 1805, WHO IS REPUTED TO HAVE BEEN IN THE VICTORY´S COCKPIT TO WITNESS...
A SUPERB AND VERY SCARCE SOUTH AFRICA 1877-9 TO AN 80th FOOT PRIVATE KILLED IN ACTION AT INTOMBE RIVER 12TH
A VERY RARE AND EMOTIVE MEDAL TO A TROOPER OF THE BUFFALO BORDER GUARD WHO WAS ONE OF THREE MEN FROM THIS SMALL UNIT KILLED WITH NATAL VOLUNTEERS UNDER COLONEL DURNFORD AT THE BATTLE OF ISANDHLWANA 22ND JANUARY 1879
THE VERY RARE AND EMOTIVE OFFICERS SOUTH AFRICA 1879 MEDAL TO QUARTERMASTER GEORGE ERNEST EDWARD MAR HITCHCOCK OF THE NEWCASTLE MOUNTED RIFLES WHI WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT THE BATTLE OF ISANDHLWANA. ONE OF JUST FOUR...
SUPERB MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE, 8 CLASPS, 71ST REGT. SERVED AT THE CAPTURE OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE 1806, THE EXPEDITION TO SOUTH AMERICA, CAPTURE OF BUENOS AIRES 1806 AND SUBSEQUENT CAPTURE AT SURRENDER OF SAME...
AN OUTSTANDING AND RARE 41st FOOT ARMY OF INDIA 1799 WHO DURING THE AMERICAN WAR OF 1812 WAS A MEMBER OF THE LIGHT COMPANY OF THE 41st, THE ONLY COMPANY OF THE REGIMENT TO SERVE AT GREAT BATTLE OF LUNDY’S LANE WHERE HIS COMPANY WAS CONSPICIOUS FOR THEIR...
AN EXCEPTIONAL AND IMPORTANT ISANDHLWANA SURVIVORS SOUTH AFRICA 1879 AWARDED TO A COLONIAL COMMISSARIAT OFFICER ON DURNFORD’S STAFF WHO WAS WITH THE NATIVE HORSE TROOP THAT DISCOVERED THE ZULU ARMY, REPORTING THIS TO THE CAMP, FOUGHT IN THE LINE WITH THE 24TH...
A SUPERB ‘MARCH OFFENSIVE’ MILITARY CROSS GROUP TO 11 VICTORY FIGHTER ACE CAPTAIN R W CHAPPELL WHO FLEW WITH BOTH 27 AND 41 FIGHTER SQUADRONS DURING WW1. STAYING IN THE AIR FORCE POST WAR HE WAS SECONDED TO THE JAPANESE NAVAL AIR FORCE ONE OF HIS...
AN OUTSTANDING CHATEAUGUAY CLASPED MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE 1793 TO A FRENCH CANADIAN OFFICER WHO SAW A GREAT DEAL OF ACTION DURING THE WAR OF 1812 AND LEFT A RARE ACCOUNT OF HIS SERVICE
THE OUTSTANDING MGS 1793 AND WATERLOO PAIR TO COLONEL CHARLES WOOD WHO AS A YOUNG ENSIGN OF THE 52ND LIGHT INFANTRY WAS WOUNDED AT THEBATTLE OF BUSACO WHILST CARRY THE KING’S COLOURS OF THE REGIMENT SERVED AS ADC TO MAJ GENERAL ‘BLACK BOB...
AN OUTSTANDING NGS 1793 AWARDED TO A OFFICER WHO AFTER SERVING AT HOTHAM’S ACTIONS IN 1795 AND THE BATTLE OF CAPE ST VINCENT in 1797, WAS PRESENT AS SIGNAL MIDSHIPMAN AND ADC ABOARD H.M.S. GOLIATH AT NELSON’s GREAT VICTORY AT THE BATTLE OF THE NILE, 1798...
THE OUTSTANDING 6 CLASP MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE 1793 TO BARON DE LORENTZ A GERMAN WHO IN 1807, AGED JUST 13, JOINED THE 60TH RIFLES AS AN ENSIGN. TRANSFERRING TO THE 7TH FUSILIERS IN 1809, HE WAS WOUNDED AT THE FEARFUL BATTLE OF ALBUHERA, WHERE HIS BATTALION LOST 80%...
AN OUTSTANDING SUTLEJ 1845 TO THE OFFICER WHO COMMANDED THE 3RD LIGHT DRAGOONS DURING THEIR FAMED CHARGES AT THE BATTLE OF FEROZESHUHUR, HAVING HIS HORSE SHOT FROM UNDER HIM. AT SOBRAON HE WAS MENTIONED FOR HIS CONDUCT WHILST COMMANDING...
THE OUTSTANDING HANOVERIAN WATERLOO MEDAL AWARDED TO THE CAPTAIN COMMANDING THE FELDJAGERKORPS AT THE DEFENCE OF HOUGOUMONT DURING WHICH HE WAS WOUNDED. AT ONE POINT HE WAS CAPTURED, ESCAPING ONLY WHEN ONE OF HIS SHARPSHOOTERS ‘AT...
AN OUTSTANDING SECOND WAR HONORARY ‘INTELLIGENCE’ M.B.E. AND EXTREMELY RARE GREAT WAR BELGIUM PILOTS’S D.F.M. GROUP, HE ‘DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF BY HIS SKILL AND HIS DASH’, ONE OF JUST FOUR D.F.M. TO ALLIED PILOTS. CONTINUING IN SERVICE, HE WAS CAPTURED IN 1940 BUT...
AN EXTREMELY RARE CRIMEA 1854 MEDAL AWARDED TO THE FIRST LIEUTENANT OF THE FLAGSHIP, H.M.S. BRITANNIA WHO WAS THE FIRST OFFICER OF THE NAVAL BRIGADE TO BE KILLED DURING THE CRIMEAN WAR WHEN KILLED IN THE TRENCHES BEFORE SEBASTOPOL ON 20 OCTOBER 1854. HE WAS...
AN OUTSTANDING AND HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT CRIMEAN WAR 1ST ROYAL DRAGOONS OFFICERS AND HEAVY BRIGADE CHARGERS MEDALS, PERSONAL WAR DIARY; MAY 1854- OCTOBER 1855, GOLD AN DIAMONDS BROACHED PORTRAIT AND RUSSIAN MEDAL PICKED UP FROM THE BATTLEFIELD...
A SUPERB OFFICERS ARMY OF INDIA FOR LASWAREE AND CAPTURE OF DEIG. ONE OF THE STORMING PARTY AT DEIG WHERE HE WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED BY A MARATHA SABRE AT THE BREACH. A FRIEND OF LIEUT JOHN PESTER (3 CLASP MEDAL), HE IS MENTIONED EXTENSIVELY IN PESTER’S BOOK...
AN OUTSTANDING 6 SQUADRON R.A.F. ‘FLYING CAN-OPENERS’ FIGHTER PILOT’S D.F.M. GROUP AWARDED FOR GALLANTRY IN PERFORMING EXCEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS LOW LEVEL ATTACKS IN HURRICANE MK.IVS EQUIPPED WITH THE ROCKET PROJECTILES. HE HAD PREVIOUSLY FLOWN HURRICANE’S WITH...
THE EXTREMELY RARE SOUTH AFRICA 1877-9 AWARDED TO GUNNER WILLIAM GREEN, N/5 ROYAL ARTILLERY ONE OF 35 IMPERIAL SOLDIERS TO SURVIVE THE BATTLE OF ISANDHLWANA AND ONE OF THE VERY FEW TO BE MENTIONED IN AN ACCOUNT GIVING DETAILS OF HIS ESCAPE
THE OUTSTANDING AND VERY RARE VICTORIAN ROYAL NAVY OFFICER GROUP OF MEDALS, JOURNALS, LETTERS, DOCUMENTS AND TWO LARGE PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS BELONGING TO LIEUTENANT THOMAS FRANCIS ABBOTT, WHO WAS CONSPICUOUS FOR THE IMPORTANT PART HE PLAYED AT...
EMOTIVE AND RARE WATERLOO MEDAL TO OFFICER SERIOUSLY WOUNDED DURING THE DEFENCE OF LA HAYE SAINTE
AN OUTSTANDING AND INCREDIBLY RARE WW1 NEW ZEALAND GALLANTRY GROUP TO A MAORI WHO WAS 3 TIMES WOUNDED. A PRE WAR RUGBY PLAYER WHO TOURED WITH THE FIRST OFFICIAL NEW ZEALAND MAORI TEAM IN 1910-13, HE ALSO PLAYED FOR THE NZEF ‘ALL BLACKS’ TEAM WHO...
AN OUTSTANDING 5 CLASP MGS 1793 TO AN OFFICER OF THE 4TH FOOT, WHO AFTER SERVING IN THE PENINSULAR WAR, WHERE HIS REGIMENT WAS CONSPICUOUS FOR ITS GALLANTRY ON MANY AN OCCASION, SAILED FOR AMERICA, TAKING PART IN THE BATTLE OF BLADENSBURG WHERE...
AN EXTREMLEY RARE ISANDHLWANA SURVIVORS MEDAL TO THE SERGEANT MAJOR OF THE 1ST BATTALION, 1ST REGIMENT NATAL NATIVE CONTINGENT WHO ACCOMPANIED COLONEL DURNFORD’S FORCE TO ISANDHLWANA. THE RECIPIENT LEFT ACCOUNT OF HIS ESCAPE, WHICH SUGGESTS HE WAS...
