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Chiswick Auctions Medals and Militaria 1 Colville Road, London COMPLETE - Lots and images are continually uploaded until W3 8BL Saturday evening. United Kingdom Started 15 Mar 2016 11:00 GMT Lot Description Gènèral Charles Emmanuel Mast (1899-1977), an important French group of medals and awards to Gen. Mast The Chief of Staff of the 1 10th Army Corps, Head of the Algiers Division and 3rd North African Infantry Division. As a Major General he participated in the liberation of North Africa i ...[more] WWI Military Cross medal group awarded to WWII casualty Captain J.R. West , Berks Yeo (Berkshire Yeomanry) and later of 5th 2 Battalion Dorset Home Guard; GV Military Cross, 1914-15 Star, British War and Victory medals and miniatures. Captain West died as a result of friendly fire as he, along with ma ...[more] WWI Military Cross Officer's medal group, awarded to M R Orr Ewing R.F.A. / Royal Artillery, George V Military Cross, 1914 Mons Star, 3 British War, Victory and India General Service Medal, North West Frontier 1930/31 clasp, (RM strike), Orr-Ewing mentioned in dispatches, Lieutenant in 1914 to Major i ...[more] China Republic medal; Cao Kun Inauguration medal 1923, silver gilt with enamel peonies encircling five point star, central photographic 4 image of President Cao Kun, reverse enamel has disc of Army & China 1912-28 flags Chinese Embassy to France bronze medal, 1919, obverse; a blacksmith working in clogs at an anvil, marks B.U, reverse translates 5 'each is the blacksmith of his fate forging one builds of his country', reverse; the same in Chinese, 5.9cm diameter. This was produced for the Paris Peace Conference of 19 ...[more] WWI medal group awarded to a Red Cross volunteer, British War, Victory and Croix de Guerre with certificate for section Sanitaire 6 Anglais No.10 (Verdun) and miniatures, and a free French enamel lapel badge (8) WWII German Imperial mounted group of 3 medals; Iron Cross, Friedrich August Kreuz 2nd class, Cross of Honour with swords and a 7 Kriegs Hilfdienst (War Merit) Cross, a Bremen Haseatic Cross and Austria / Hungary WWI 1914/18 medal. (6). A collection of Russian WWII and other medals, civilian awards, jubilee, labour and veterans, (47) and 4 medal bar, to include; Defence 8 of Leningrad, Stalingrad, Sebastopol, Capture of Berlin, Konigsberg, Liberation of Prague. Enamel awards for Red Banner of Labour, Order of The Badge of Honour, Geo ...[more] WWI 4 medal group of 1914/15 Star, British War & Victory and Royal Navy Long Service and Good Conduct Medal GV awarded to 9 R.M.A. 10534 E.C. Wood Gunner R.M.A. (Royal Marine Artillery). Metropolitan Police medals; 1897 Victoria Jubilee, 1902 Edward VII Coronation, 1911 George V Coronation, all awarded to P.C. T. 10 Wells of P and later Thames Division and a George V cap badge. (4). WWI medals; August 1914 Star, Victory Medal, both possible private engraving and a 1914/18 Medal awarded to Labour Corps Private 11 (3) 12 WWI medal trio awarded to Liverpool Regiment Colour Sergeant, 1914-15 Star, Great War & Victory Medals WWI Officer's 1914 medal trio awarded to Hon. Capt. & R.M. (Riding Master) T.A. Sims, R.F.A. (Artillery), comprising 1914 (Mons) Star, 13 Great War & Victory Medals, rank pips, cap badge and buttons, Sims believed to have died 19.5.15 buried at St Marie Le Havre Merchant Navy WWI pair of medals awarded to Alfred Bineham; British War Medal and Mercantile Marine War Medal, cased, a hand 14 decorated poem to the Chief Engineer, scroll from the master of the SS Hakata Maru and various discharge papers from 1896 Coldstream Guards WWII medal group, awarded to Guardsman A. H. Howe, comprising 1939/45 and France and Germany Stars, 15 1939/45 and Defence Medals and Palestine General Service Medal, cloth badges and identify tags, framed, identity card, cap badge, other ephemera and momentos Military Cross WWII medal group GVI 1945, awarded for gallantry in Italy to Worcestershire Regiment Officer, Francis Anthony John, 16 11147 T/Major, also 1939/45 and Italy Stars, and Defence Medal, silver presentation cigarette box, also included Fusiliers cap badges 1939/45 Medal etc. Operation Manna Chowhound WWII medal group awarded to 'Bomber' Farrow 101 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, 1939/45 Star 17 and Medal, pilots flying and bombing log books, many bombing raids, aborts and flights carried out during the period 1943-46 including notes of being hit by Junkers 88, a variet ...[more] 18 WWI medals awarded to Machine Gun Corps (Tank Regiment), personnel, British War & Victory, Pte Winton & Nicholls. (4), WWII Dutch interest; effects and medals belonging to Navigator H.E. Verran, 320 Dutch Squadron RAF, presentation named and 19 numbered watch, 972XXX, navigator's badge, Free Dutch cap badge, identity tag, 1946 diary and Air Force Association diary 1951, WWII active service testament, 1939/45 and Defenc ...[more] Framed commemorative medals, Battle of Waterloo, silver plate, Pistrucci made for the Waterloo Committee c.1975, 13.2cm diameter, 20 limited edition No. 276, with pamphlet WWI medals, buttons, badges, titles and other WWII military items to include; WWI trio awarded to R.A.M.C. Cpl.Spreadbury mentioned 21 in dispatches with documentation, pair to Middlesex Regt. Private, pair to Able Seaman, Royal Navy with service duty record aboard Impregnable, Cyclops, Jupiter and oth ...[more] WWII Air Force Medal group, George VI awarded to W.O. Palmer RAF, framed collection of photographs, medal, cloth badges, Civil Air 22 Guard and RAF insignia, service books, 5 pilots flying log books covering 1941-1945, flying instructor's books and other items, Palmer covered more than 2,000 flying hou ...[more] WWI medals awarded to East Surrey and Essex Regiment soldiers, 1914 / 1915 Star, Great War (2), and Victory, 1914 Dinant 'Iron' 22A Cross, WWII medals awarded to Private Hunt Surrey Regiment: 1939 / 1945, Defence (2), Africa (1st Army), Italy and 1939 /45 Stars, also a Dunkerque 1940 Medal and 1939 Germ ...[more] Silver plate shell case, Art Deco, teaware, 12lb case hot water jug, 20cwt shell teapot, 6lb milk jug and sugar pot, all with hexagonal 23 bakelite walnut colour handles and a twin handle tray, 40cm long A WWI era military issued open faced pocket watch by H. Williamson Ltd, London, having a black dial, Arabic chapter and sub-seconds, 24 white metal Dennison case with broad arrow and serial no: 22006F to face and case (Note: screw down case) WW2 British Military Home Guard helmets, Light Rescue and others, a gas rattle, cloth badges and shoulder titles in Grenadier and 25 Coldstream Guards, American patches, various army badges and WWI miniatures and King Edward's Horse (The King's Overseas Dominions Regiment) chain mail epanlets. 26 WWI 1914 Christmas tins, Princess Mary, one containing cigarettes and tobacco and a Canadian Regimental silver rifle brooch. (4). 27 Military sun compass (Howard pattern) Mk. II, boxed, truncheon, Broade tool and club hammer. 28 Military postcards, mainly WWI including Bruce Bairnsfather, lace cards, comical and photographic battle weary scenes WWI army equipment; 1917 stamped Sam Browne belt, pair of puttees stamped Fox, c.1907, Tommy helmet and a pair of brown leather 29 boots, probably U.S. mounted issue, high lace (4) The Welch Regiment (The Welch) regimental crockery, made by Doulton bearing gilt regimental crest of Prince of Wales feathers, 40 30 pieces, plates, soup plates, cups, saucers, and jugs WWI compass, brass band, black body and leather case stamped Stokes 1918 Edinburgh and a Worcestershire Regimental walking 31 cane 32 British Army WWII rangefinder No.2 Mk VII, leather covering, approx. 111cm long. Westminster Dragoons crest to silver cigarette box, London 1933, 10.8cm wide, a pewter Victorian mug / jug engraved Criterion, 33 Woolwich, 15.2cm high, another mug awarded by 20 Midx (Middlesex) Artists R.V. (Rifle Volunteers) (the precursor to the Special Air Service) inter company bayonet competitio ...[more] 34 British Army night vision goggles and helmet c.1984, infra red vision, battery pack, 35 WWII British Army dispatch rider;s helmet, 1944 stamp to leather liner with ear muffs. Military books; 43rd Wessex Division at War 1944/45, Handbook of Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and adjacent parts of Greece Admiralty 36 War Staff Intelligence Division 1916, British Campaign in Europe 1914-1918 by Arthur Conan Doyle, other pamphlets and copy maps and posters. 37 WWI brass shell cases, 18 pr, 29.5cm high, WWII brass shell cases 75mm, 35cm high, fuses, buggles and spent ammo clips. Books on British Army head-dress badges, brass badges including RFC, Royal Scots, Navy recipient Victory Medal, assorted 37A propaganda reprint posters and a selection of collectable plates. WWI books on the Somme, Ypres Passchendaele, Red Baron, Tunnellers and many more covering the conflict of the Great War 37B including some Regimental casualty lists. (60+). 37C Two 18lb 'rounds' (shells) fuses and base cases and assorted WWI and other trench art. 37D WWII and other conflicts, books to include Vietnam, Falklands, Weapons, Blitz. (30+), Parachute Regiment silver cap badge, King's Crown, bullion blazer badge, buggle, other items including glider, Royal Marines 38 Commando cloth badges and French Foreign Legion beret badge. British Army cap badges to include SAS, Parachute Regiment, Air Corps, Scottish and Welsh Infantry Regiments, Small Arms, Physical 39 Training Corps. etc (40) 40 WWII British Army field signalling set, complete, and another for spares. 41 WWII British Army Artillery Captain Officer's No.2 dress tunic c/w 9th Army medal ribbon bar. 42 1940 pattern British Army WWII battle dress tunic 1945 issue size 18, and helmet.
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