AN AUCTION OF ORDERS, DECORATIONS, MEDALS AND MILITARIA Live Online Auction With room bidding available at: 16 Bolton Street Mayfair London W1J 8BQ Free live bidding: www.dnw.co.uk Thursday 8th December 2016 at 10:00am AUCTION Monday 21st to Friday 25th November Monday 28th November to Friday 2nd December 16 Bolton Street, Mayfair, London W1J 8BQ strictly by appointment only Monday 5th to Wednesday 7th December 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, Oliver Pepys, Mark Quayle or Pierce Noonan Front Cover: Lot 28 Back Cover: Lot 24 74-644 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 t Q E L J S S Please note: Lots will be sold at a rate of approximately 120 per hour A L M AL P OLD BOND STREET L Groups and Single Decorations for Gallantry.....................................................................................1-90 L ALBERMARLE STREET ST JAMES ST A A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household..............................91-169 M E St James Park Single Orders and Decorations....................................................................................................170-222 H DOVER STREET T Campaign Groups and Pairs ........................................................................................................223-344 A Collection of Medals to the West Yorkshire (14th Foot) and Yorkshire (19th Foot) Regiments...345-473 ET EY STRE Single Campaign Medals .............................................................................................................4 BERKEL oronation and Jubilee Medals ...................................................................................................645-655 C BERKELEY T Long Service Medals ...................................................................................................................656-675 TON S STRAT Miscellaneous .............................................................................................................................676-700 Y d SQUARE L Books ..........................................................................................................................................701-708 ST Green Park T BOLTON DIL E World Orders and Decorations....................................................................................................709-750 A Jubilee lines) E C Militaria.......................................................................................................................................751-850R (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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Telephone enquiries are welcome from 09:00 on the day after the auction. GROUPS AND SINGLE DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY x1 An outstanding Napoleonic Wars group of four awarded to General Sir Henry King, C.B., K.C.H., K.C., Colonel of the 3rd Foot (The Buffs), late 26th Light Dragoons, who, despite losing his right leg whilst on campaign in Egypt, commanded the 82nd Foot with distinction at the battle of Vittoria THE ROYAL GUELPHIC ORDER, K.C.H. (Military) Knight Commander’s breast star by Storr & Mortimer, London, silver, gold and enamels, reverse plate with maker’s name, fitted with gold pin for wearing, central legend lacking two quatrefoil devices with partial loss to letter ‘C’ of ‘Nec’ and first ‘T’ of ‘Terrent’; FIELD OFFICER’S GOLD MEDAL 1808-14, for Vittoria (Lieut. Colonel Henry King) complete with gold ribbon buckle; MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE 1793-1814, 1 clasp, Egypt (Sir H. King, K. C.H. Capt. 26th L. Dgns.); IMPERIAL OTTOMAN ORDER OF THE CRESCENT, K.C., 2nd class breast badge, gold and enamel, of very superior private manufacture, circa 1815, contained within a glazed gold band and fitted with gold swivel suspension as for the Field Officers’ Gold Medal and gold ribbon buckle, original ribbons, the first with enamel chips to wreath, the last with repaired enamel, otherwise generally extremely fine and very rare (4) £24000-28000 Henry King was born in 1778 and was first appointed as a Cornet into the 24th Light Dragoons on 25 March 1794; Lieutenant, 26th Light Dragoons, 12 August 1795; Captain, 26th Light Dragoons, 3 May 1800, which regiment became the 23rd Light Dragoons in 1803; exchanged to 98th Regiment, 7 August 1806; Major, Sicilian Regiment, 5 February 1807; exchanged to 82nd Regiment, 30 April 1807; Lieutenant-Colonel, 82nd Regiment, 4 June 1813; placed on half pay of it, 25 February 1816; brevet Colonel, 27 May 1825. In 1797 Lieutenant King embarked with the 26th Light Dragoons for the West Indies, in the expedition under Sir Ralph Abercromby, and served there for two years; he was present in the attack of Porto Rico, and at the capture of the island of Trinidad. Whilst quartered at Marin, to windward of the island of Martinique, he was ordered in a small Island vessel to St Piers, with a detachment of twenty-six men, to form the guard of the Governor, Sir William Keppel; and, on proceeding to this destination, fell in with a French privateer, off the Diamond Rock, mounting four long nine-pounders, with seventy men on board, which, after a sharp action of twenty minutes, he beat off, having one man killed, and himself wounded in the shoulder: it was afterwards ascertained that the enemy’s loss consisted of ten men killed and fifteen wounded. On arriving at Port Royal, he received for this action, the thanks of the then Commander of the Forces, General Cuyler, and of the Admiral, Sir Edward Harvey. On his return to Europe, he served two years in Portugal, from whence he proceeded with the expedition to Egypt and served in the campaign of 1801, including the action at the landing at Aboukir Bay, siege of the castle, and actions of the 21st March and 9th May at Rahmanie, at which latter he commanded a squadron of the 26th Light Dragoons, and lost his right leg: ‘On the artillery unlimbering, the French opened from several guns such a fire as to force the cavalry to take ground to the right, the first shot having carried off Captain King’s leg, and killed three horses, the second also had struck in the squadron.’ (Wilson’s History of the Expedition to Egypt refers). www.dnw.co.uk GROUPS AND SINGLE DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY After this King served as Major of the 82nd Regiment in the expedition to Walcheren and the siege of Flushing in 1809. He next accompanied the regiment to Gibraltar, and soon after his arrival, was appointed Commandant at Tarifa, where he was not only present at the memorable defence of that important post, but was chiefly instrumental (by his strong representations to General Campbell, to oblige Colonel Skerrett to hold out) in preserving it: he presented to the Council of War a written protest against the abandonment of the place.