AN AUCTION OF ORDERS, DECORATIONS, MEDALS AND MILITARIA Live Online Auction With room bidding available at: 16 Bolton Street London W1J 8BQ Free live bidding: www.dnw.co.uk Friday 22nd July 2016 at 10:00am AUCTION Monday 11th to Friday 15th July 16 Bolton Street, Mayfair, London W1J 8BQ strictly by appointment only Monday 18th to Thursday 21st July 16 Bolton Street, Mayfair, London W1J 8BQ Public viewing, 9 am to 5 pm VIEWING In sending commissions or making enquiries please contact: Nimrod Dix, David Erskine-Hill, Oliver Pepys or Pierce Noonan Front Cover: Lot 1 Back Cover: Lot 26 ONTENTS C T EE LY L I STR S D E E A N R M A MY A ICC J U R L P Please note: Lots will be sold at a rate of approximately 120 per hour Q t E L J S S A L M .................................................................................................175-337 AL P OLD BOND STREET The Channer Family Medals................................................................................................................1-4 L Groups and Single Decorations for Gallantry ....................................................................................5-55 L ALBERMARLE STREET ST JAMES ST A M A Collection of Gallantry Awards to the Indian Army for the Burma Campaign 1944-45.................56-72 E St James Park A Small Collection of Medals to The Military Police......................................................................73-116 H aign Groups and Pairs ....... DOVER STREET T The Barrett J Carr Collection of Boer War Medals (Part III): The New Zealand Contingent ...........117-174 Camp ET EY STRE Single Campaign Medals .............................................................................................................338-607 BERKEL Single Orders and Decorations....................................................................................................608-627BERKELEY T Long Service, Coronation and Jubilee Medals .............................................................................628-659 TON S STRAT Life Saving Awards ......................................................................................................................660-665 Y d ARE L Miscellaneous .............................................................................................................................666-679SQU Green Park ST T BOLTON DIL World Orders and Decorations ...................................................................................................680-704E A Jubilee lines) E C Militaria ......................................................................................................................................705-722R (Piccadilly, Victoria and T IC 16 Bolton St S S E P ST RG Dix Noonan Webb CLA Green Park LL LL ST T I ON HI E O H M LF N E A H O R I T T S U T I T N T S O S Z N S R O E C L U C HAR C Hyde ParkCorner www.dnw.co.uk Advance Bidding Facility We strongly advise clients to take advantage of our easy to use advance bidding facility which provides bidders with total control over their bids right up to the point that the lot is offered for sale. 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The Channer Family Medals SOLD BY ORDER OF A DIRECT DESCENDANT x1 The unique ‘Perak’ Victoria Cross and ‘Hazara’ C.B. group of four awarded to Major-General G. N. Channer, Indian Army, who was awarded his V.C. for an action on 20 December 1875 whilst serving with the 1st Goorkha Light Infantry - Sent forward on an intelligence gathering operation in command of a small detachment of Gurkhas to reconnoitre a ‘formidable’ enemy stockade, he made an attack on his own initiative, jumping into the stockade and shooting the first Malay dead with his revolver, he succeeded in driving the enemy completely from their position VICTORIA CROSS, reverse of the suspension bar inscribed ‘Captain George N. Channer, Bengal Staff Corps.’, reverse centre of the Cross dated ‘20th December 1875.’; THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 18 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1887, complete with gold swivel-ring bar suspension and gold ribbon buckle; INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1854-94, 4 clasps, Umbeyla, ‘Perak. 1875-6’, ‘Jowaki. 1877-8.’, Hazara 1888 (G. N. Channer, Bengal Staff Corps.) contemporary re-engraved naming, the second and third clasps of fine quality private manufacture; AFGHANISTAN 1878-80, 1 clasp, Peiwar Kotal (Lt. Col. G. N. Channer. V.C. 29th Ben. N.I.) nearly extremely fine (4) £180000-220000 V.C. London Gazette 14 April 1876: ‘Captain (now Brevet-Major) George Nicholas Channer, Bengal Staff Corps. For having, with the greatest gallantry, been the first to jump into the Enemy’s Stockade, to which he had been dispatched with a small party of the 1st Ghoorkha Light Infantry, on the afternoon of the 20th December, 1875, by the Officer commanding the Malacca Column, to procure intelligence as to its strength, position &c. Major Channer got completely in rear of the Enemy’s position, and finding himself so close that he could hear the voices of the men inside, who were cooking at the time, and keeping no look out, he beckoned to his men, and the whole party stole quietly forward to within a few paces of the Stockade. On jumping in, he shot the first man dead with his revolver, and his party then came up, and entered the Stockade, which was of a most formidable nature, surrounded by a bamboo palisade; about seven yards within was a log- house, loop-holed, with two narrow entrances, and trees laid latitudinally, to the thickness of two feet. The Officer commanding reports that if Major Channer, by his foresight, coolness, and intrepidity, had not taken this Stockade, a great loss of life must have occurred, as from the fact of his being unable to bring guns to bear on it, from the steepness of the hill, and the density of the jungle, it must have been taken at the point of the bayonet.’ The following account describes the services in Perak of the third column, comprising the 1st Gurkhas, including the Head-quarters and about two hundred and fifty men, and is taken from the History of the 3rd Queen Alexandra’s Own Gurkha Rifles 1815-1927, by Nigel Woodyatt: ‘The insurrection had spread to Sunghie Ujong in the neighbourhood of Malacca, where Colonel Clay with this force saled from Penang in the S.S. Malda on the 6th December, reaching Malacca two days later. There one hundred men under Captain Rankin were left to protect the place whilst the rest, with some of the Buffs and half a battery of artillery, proceeded to the mouth of the Lookut River, where they disembarked on the 9th December and moved forward to Rassa. The enemy were in the Terrachee Valley and on a very strong position at the Bukit Putoos (pass). It was arranged to divide the little force into two columns: the first, under Lieut.-Colonel Sale- Hill with about one hundred of the 1st Gurkhas and some naval and artillery details, was to march by a circuitous route for the villages of Pantay and Terrachee; the other column, in which were the rest of the 1st Gurkhas, a detachment of the 10th Foot, etc., was to give Colonel Sale-Hill a day’s start to get on his way to the rear of the pass, which would then be attacked in front by Colonel Clay’s column.